The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 644 - Extortion By The Teachers Unions

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, teachers unions are demanding to be put to the front of the vaccine

00:00:04.120 line in order to resume classes. But now that they've gotten the vaccine, they're still refusing

00:00:08.840 to go back to work. We'll talk about that. Also, five headlines, including the Biden administration

00:00:12.060 announcing that the military will pay for sex change operations. Again, hooray. This is supposed 0.78

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00:02:24.640 dailywire. Our society, you know, has always hailed teachers as heroes, selfless, noble, courageous

00:02:31.420 educators and caretakers of our children. The teaching profession was one of the few we were

00:02:36.080 supposed to celebrate unquestioningly. Teachers were one of only a few professional groups.

00:02:40.440 We were meant to applaud simply for existing. Now, this attitude towards really any profession

00:02:46.040 at all was and is and has always been wrongheaded. Nobody is a hero merely for working in a certain

00:02:52.780 occupation. I don't care what the occupation is because they're getting paid. Whatever the line

00:02:58.000 of work is, most people get into it because it's something they think they can do and they want to

00:03:02.880 do. And they think they can make money doing it. It's not a bad reason to take on a job by any means.

00:03:07.320 It's also not heroic. I mean, it's sort of a morally neutral motivation most of the time.

00:03:13.020 Doing something because you want to do it and you think you're good at it doesn't make you a martyr

00:03:17.660 or a saint. Doesn't make you a bad person either. Just makes you a person like the rest of us.

00:03:22.100 So there are good teachers, plenty of them, even heroic teachers. I've known some. But they aren't

00:03:27.920 good or heroic simply for being teachers. And that's the distinction to keep in mind.

00:03:32.280 The problem with adopting a romanticized view of any profession is that it makes it impossible to

00:03:38.660 hold the people in that profession accountable or to criticize them when they deserve it.

00:03:43.800 This is exactly why this romanticized idea was cultivated in the first place. It becomes

00:03:49.380 especially problematic when we're talking about people who work so closely with and have such an

00:03:53.620 influence over our children. This should be cause for extra scrutiny, more accountability,

00:03:59.580 louder criticism when warranted because the consequence of turning a blind eye or ignoring

00:04:05.100 the bad things when your children are concerned could be catastrophic. The teachers unions have

00:04:11.900 made this situation so much worse, but worse, but both by framing any criticism of teachers as an attack

00:04:18.100 on the teaching profession, haranguing the public into turning that blind eye and ignoring the neglect or

00:04:23.720 abuse of our children in the school system, which does happen and has always happened. And also by

00:04:29.140 fiercely protecting the bad teachers while demanding ever more considerations and benefits and perks

00:04:34.120 for all teachers, irrespective of their job performance. The whole situation is quite a mess,

00:04:39.960 to put it mildly. And that mess has been thrown into much sharper relief over the past nearly,

00:04:44.980 what, a year now when schools across the country have been shut down. It was of course known almost

00:04:49.600 from the beginning, as we've talked about many times on the show, that there was no real reason to have

00:04:54.040 schools shut down at all, as children are not likely to contract or spread the virus. It became even

00:05:00.520 clearer as time went on that the consequences of having the schools shut down and trying to replace

00:05:07.540 them with Skype and Zoom sessions were dire. We talked yesterday about the child suicide epidemic in one

00:05:13.240 of the largest school districts in the country, prompting a renewed push for classes to resume in person in

00:05:17.920 that district. And yet still, the teachers unions and many teachers themselves, though certainly not all,

00:05:24.680 have demanded that schools stay shut, education be damned, the children be damned, goalposts keep 0.53

00:05:31.620 moving. And there's no end to this process of goalposts shifting, as we have learned. Here's how bad it's 0.96

00:05:37.840 gotten. The Washington Post has an editorial, an appropriately critical, even fiery editorial,

00:05:43.520 about the teachers union in Fairfax County and everything that teachers union is doing to avoid

00:05:49.500 going back to work. Let me read a bit. This is written by Rory Cooper, who's a parent to three

00:05:53.700 students in the district. It says, quote, the Fairfax County school system demanded and then

00:05:58.640 received high priority placement for teachers and administrators to be vaccinated against the

00:06:02.780 coronavirus. Those vaccines began a week ago. And according to the Fairfax County public school

00:06:07.920 superintendent, Scott Brabrand, yes, his name is Brabrand. Anyway, 5,000 teachers have received

00:06:15.940 their first dose and an additional 22,000 teachers are registered to receive their first dose soon.

00:06:20.640 And yet, having jumped to the front of the vaccine line, Brabrand, the FCPS school board and the,

00:06:27.740 I can't even say the last name without laughing. You know, I should be in public school myself.

00:06:31.700 Um, and the FCPS school board and the teachers union are delaying opening schools. That raises

00:06:39.140 the question of why they have the priority placement to begin with and whether these vaccinations should

00:06:44.900 be immediately halted so that high risk individuals or public servants who have been working outside of

00:06:48.860 their homes for the entirety of the year have access. Okay. So let's not, um, understate what's

00:06:55.180 happened here. The teachers union engaged in a form of extortion, really holding the education

00:07:00.800 system hostage so that they themselves could get to the front of the vaccine line, butting in front of

00:07:07.140 the elderly people, sick people, other high risk people. Keep in mind that the average age of a

00:07:13.940 teacher in the U S is 42. About 15% of teachers are under 30, under 30. So these by and large are not

00:07:24.680 high risk people. Many of them have little to worry about. Even if they get sick, if you're 27,

00:07:30.800 even if you're a teacher and you get sick, you're probably going to be fine. So the statistics tell

00:07:36.820 us yet they were put to the front of the line. And after being given what they want, they still

00:07:43.120 refuse to go to work. And when I say they, I mean the union, you know, we have to keep in mind again,

00:07:48.340 that there are plenty of individual teachers who oppose this and vocally. So though not enough are

00:07:52.960 being vocal to my mind, but it gets worse. Listen to this at the January 21st school board meeting,

00:07:59.480 Fairfax education association, present Kimberly Adams said she received her first vaccine dose

00:08:05.200 on January 14th, two days ahead of the scheduled start for school personnel. She has said that her

00:08:10.820 union would not support a return to full-time education, even in the fall, the fall as in

00:08:17.760 September, 2021, nine months after she was vaccinated. The union says that all students must also be

00:08:24.480 vaccinated. Adams also wants 14 days of zero community spread. Yes. She now wants the students

00:08:32.760 to be vaccinated too. But kids again are a very, very low risk group. Also, and this seems like a

00:08:37.420 relevant problem, a little bit of a logistical issue here. There aren't any vaccines currently

00:08:42.140 available for kids under 10 or rather under 14 actually. And her demand for two weeks of zero

00:08:49.060 spread is a demand for schools to never resume ever. And yet these people still want to get paid,

00:08:55.560 have been getting paid. They're demanding front of the line for the vaccine, full pay, full benefits,

00:09:02.880 but without having to do their job for a year now and counting. This is quite simply one of the

00:09:10.380 greatest displays of cowardice and selfishness I have ever witnessed. And if you think I'm exaggerating,

00:09:15.620 remember again, that children are not learning anything through zoom class, listen to the

00:09:21.100 teachers themselves. They'll tell you. So the kids, their education is being stunted. And meanwhile,

00:09:25.540 they're increasingly falling into depression and suicide. The teachers unions look at this

00:09:30.700 and just shrug their shoulders. The only thing they care about, the only thing period at all

00:09:37.360 is that they personally get the most amount of money and the most amount of benefits for doing the

00:09:43.120 least amount of work possible. And that has always been the concern of the teachers union always.

00:09:48.700 And don't expect anybody in the current administration to speak up forcefully against

00:09:51.800 this. It's the, uh, the Chicago's teachers union is also refusing to return to work, even though a

00:09:57.120 plan was put in place to open schools again. So the city wants to open the schools, but the teachers

00:10:01.520 union saying, we're not going to go, they're stamping their feet and saying they're not going to go back

00:10:05.100 to the schools because they're too afraid. President Biden was asked about this yesterday and had a

00:10:09.400 chance to stand up for, you know, the kids and for the education system. But instead here was his

00:10:14.940 answer. Right now, the Chicago teachers union has refused. They've defined an order to return to

00:10:20.400 in-person classing for in-person classrooms because of a lack of vaccinations. Do you believe,

00:10:27.580 sir, that teachers should return to schools now? I believe we should make school classrooms

00:10:35.260 safe and secure for the students, for the teachers and for the, the help that's in those schools,

00:10:45.540 maintaining the facilities. We need new ventilation systems in those schools. We need testing for

00:10:53.060 people coming in and out of the classes. We need testing for teachers as well as students.

00:10:59.300 And we need the capacity, the capacity to know that in fact, the, the sick of the circumstance in the

00:11:07.040 school is safe and secure for everyone. For example, there's no reason why the clear guidance

00:11:15.520 will be that every school should be thoroughly sanitized from the, from the laboratories to the

00:11:22.320 hallways. And so this is about making, and none of the school districts that I'm aware of,

00:11:27.400 there may be some public school districts have insisted that all those pieces be in place.

00:11:33.760 Yep. There's his answer. What, what, what talk about cowardice? That's the theme here. What an

00:11:38.700 absolute coward. He had a chance to stand up. I mean, Democrats are terrified of teachers unions. 1.00

00:11:45.080 We know that. Uh, he had a chance to stand up and say, listen, get back to work. The kids need you

00:11:51.040 stop whining and get back to work. Instead, he talks about new ventilation, new ventilation systems

00:11:58.840 in all of the schools in the whole country. Why do they all even need it? What else do you want?

00:12:07.800 Maybe we should demolish all the schools and just rebuild them from scratch just to be safe.

00:12:11.740 You know, there could be some leftover, um, viruses in there or, or, or, you know, you never know.

00:12:16.020 There could be a virus hiding somewhere under a floor tile. So let's just, let's just demolish them all.

00:12:21.040 Or better yet, demolish them all and not rebuild them because, you know, we might as well if they

00:12:25.580 aren't being used. The upshot here is that school will not return this year for millions of kids and

00:12:32.960 probably not in the fall either. When all is said and done, millions of kids might end up missing

00:12:39.060 two years of their education. Missing one year is now the best case scenario. Think about that.

00:12:47.420 Now for any kid whose parents took over and homeschooled, they won't have missed anything.

00:12:54.440 In fact, they're going to be better off, but most parents aren't doing that. Um, there are many

00:13:01.520 parents who, who can't do it because they still have to work. Uh, and so those kids, millions of

00:13:08.820 them are simply going without, and that will now continue indefinitely because of the, the,

00:13:16.500 the chronic, unadulterated cowardice, self-interest, callousness, and laziness of the teachers unions

00:13:23.820 and many of its members. It's as simple as that. Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:13:29.180 Yeah, I just, this isn't one of the headlines, but I just read, uh, that the, the CEO of Delta

00:13:40.080 airlines is saying that they're going to ban, they're ramping up, um, they're banning

00:13:46.400 system and they're gonna be banning a lot more passengers. And he says, any passengers who refuse

00:13:52.680 to display basic civility will be banned. And you know, it kind of sounds like, okay, now you're just

00:13:57.800 going to ban everybody because who in America at this point would fall, would actually displays

00:14:03.560 basic civility. But I'm actually, I'm in favor of this. Now the problem is when, when airlines talk

00:14:07.740 about banning people these days, it's all about the masks and I'm not in favor of that. But if you

00:14:11.840 were to take this logic and apply it, you know, across the board, I'm totally in favor of that. 0.99

00:14:16.640 I mean, the basic idea of banning people from planes for acting like jerks, fine with me. And I'll give 0.98

00:14:21.980 you one example. I was just on a plane. I mentioned yesterday, we were traveling over the weekend

00:14:25.320 and I was on a plane and, um, uh, fully packed flight. So I guess we're forgetting about the

00:14:32.860 coronavirus thing now. Of course you have to be socially distanced to get on the plane as we know,

00:14:38.500 but then you get on the plane and you're just packed in like sardines. Um, and there's someone

00:14:42.940 sitting next to me in the middle seat. And so here's, here's the kind of person that you ban,

00:14:46.860 I think. And if I'm, if I'm setting the rules for an airline, this is what I'm doing.

00:14:51.280 When you're sitting in the middle seat, a lot of times there's controversy over

00:14:54.700 who gets the armrests. Well, I'll tell you right now. And I'm surprised so many people don't realize

00:15:00.340 this. When you're in the middle seat, you get no armrests. You have no right to any space at all.

00:15:07.800 You are an imposition on the people around you. And when you're sitting down in the middle seat and

00:15:13.340 you have to kind of do that awkward thing where you say, Oh, can I sit there? Is anybody sitting there?

00:15:15.920 And you feel like both the person in the aisle and the, and the, and the, uh, window seat is

00:15:20.320 looking at you and judging you and hating you for being there. That's right. They are. And they do

00:15:24.620 hate you for being there. So all you're allowed to do in the middle seat, this is all you can do.

00:15:28.520 You sit still, do not move, do not speak, do not eat. Don't put your tray table down. Don't get on

00:15:37.680 your laptop. Don't even read. Cause that involves moving your elbows. This is all you do the entire time.

00:15:42.480 Just like this. Do not move. I don't care if it's six hours. Anyone who doesn't follow that rule

00:15:49.860 should be banned. So that's the first thing I would do. Middle seat. Yeah. Middle seat. You have,

00:15:55.120 you are basically less of a person. You have, you have no constitutional rights, no rights of any kind

00:16:00.280 because you're sitting in the middle seat. I'll send that memo to Delta. Maybe they could think about

00:16:05.360 that policy or just get rid of the middle seats entirely. I think maybe that might be the better

00:16:08.920 situation. All right. So, um, number one, the white house announced that it will be continuing

00:16:14.180 Trump's travel restrictions. Now this is interesting. We have two things we'll play for

00:16:19.160 you. They announced they're going to continue the travel restrictions. And these are, as we recall,

00:16:25.740 travel restrictions that Biden himself called xenophobic before we play that clip. Um, here,

00:16:30.440 here we are at the white house press conference announcing these continued travel restrictions that

00:16:34.580 are supposedly xenophobic. Let's listen. This proclamation is part of the Biden administration's

00:16:39.040 whole of government, decisive and science driven response to the COVID-19 pandemic of particular

00:16:45.940 note on advice of our administration's medical and COVID team. President Biden has decided to

00:16:51.840 maintain the restrictions previously in place for the European Shenzhen area, the United Kingdom,

00:16:59.280 Republican Republic of Ireland and Brazil with the pandemic worsening and more

00:17:04.560 contagious variants, contagious variants spreading. This isn't the time to be lifting restrictions

00:17:10.300 on international travel. And in light of the contagious variant, uh, B one three, five, one

00:17:16.720 South Africa has been added to the restricted list. Additionally, beginning tomorrow, international

00:17:22.480 travelers to the United States must provide proof of a negative test within three days of travel

00:17:28.520 to airlines prior to departure. The president is taking these steps on the advice of his COVID-19

00:17:34.560 and medical team. My God, the xenophobia and racism here. It's traumatizing to me on a,

00:17:42.520 on a personal level. It really is. That's difficult to listen to. At least that's what Joe Biden said.

00:17:49.160 He, he, he tweeted it, um, a few months ago when president Trump announced, uh, travel bans from China,

00:17:57.940 uh, Joe Biden said it was xenophobic. And that was brought up at this same press conference. The answer,

00:18:04.900 um, to this objection was not very convincing, but, uh, I don't know. You, you can decide for yourself.

00:18:09.420 Here it is. When president Trump was imposing travel restrictions in March, specifically on China,

00:18:15.180 then candidate Biden called it xenophobic and fear mongering. So now president Biden is putting

00:18:23.100 travel restrictions on people coming in from other countries. What word do we use to describe that?

00:18:28.660 Well, I don't think that's quite a fair articulation. Uh, president has been clear that he felt the

00:18:34.160 Muslim ban was xenophobic. He overturned the Muslim ban. Uh, he also though has, uh, supported, um, and he

00:18:41.740 himself even before, or we did, I should say even before he was inaugurated, steps, uh, travel restrictions

00:18:47.160 in order to keep the American people safe, uh, to ensure that, uh, we are getting the pandemic

00:18:52.380 under control. That's been part of his policy, but he was critical of the former president for

00:18:56.920 having a policy that was not more comprehensive than travel restrictions. And he conveyed at the

00:19:01.980 time and more recently, the importance of having a multifaceted approach, mask wearing, vaccine

00:19:07.800 distribution, funding in order to, uh, get a hundred million shots in the arms of Americans in the

00:19:12.920 first hundred days, not just travel restrictions. Okay. What does the so-called Muslim ban have to

00:19:18.900 do with anything? Well, it has nothing to do with it at all. That's just, that's just a deflection.

00:19:21.880 So this is, this is obviously nonsense and this is what you find. It's, it's very, it's very easy,

00:19:26.400 uh, when you're the candidate to look at really common sense policies, like we're in the middle of

00:19:33.380 a global pandemic. So you start putting travel restrictions in place and it's easy to throw words

00:19:38.360 like bigot and xenophobia, but then you get into office and these are the things that you have to do.

00:19:42.920 Um, from the daily wires, as president Joe Biden repealed a Trump era executive order,

00:19:49.120 barring people who identify as transgenders from serving in the military in most cases,

00:19:52.520 as well as preventing military funding from paying for sex reassignment surgeries,

00:19:56.960 big quotes around sex reassignment surgery, of course, because there is actually no way

00:20:01.180 to reassign your sex. It's a, you can, you can, you can mutilate your genitalia, but in no sense

00:20:07.320 whatsoever do you have now a, a new sex. Anyway, uh, it says Biden's executive order, 0.98

00:20:11.900 which the white house announced on Monday morning rescinds one Trump, uh, one that Trump issued

00:20:16.280 in 2017 implemented in 2019. The white house said allowing all qualified Americans to serve

00:20:21.520 their country in uniform is better for the military and better for the country because an inclusive

00:20:25.700 force is a more effective force. Simply put, it's the right thing to do and is in our national

00:20:31.260 interest. The white house also said, um, this question of how to enable all qualified Americans

00:20:37.420 to serve in the military is easily answered by recognizing our core values. America is stronger

00:20:43.320 at home and around the world when it is inclusive. And they also said that diversity. So they said

00:20:48.720 diversity and inclusivity are our core values. Well, first of all, that's not the case at all.

00:20:56.860 So we can talk about this on a, on a general nationwide level, but speaking specifically

00:21:04.400 about the military. Now I never served. So anyone has been in the military, especially if you served

00:21:09.020 in combat, correct me if I'm wrong, right? But, uh, so go ahead and correct me if I'm wrong, but

00:21:16.400 when you're on the battlefield, simple diversity isn't going to do you much good, right? There's probably 1.00

00:21:26.080 not a time on the battlefield when you're in a situation you say, oh, thank God it's diverse. Thank

00:21:32.720 God we have a diverse fighting force right now. Unless we're talking about a, uh, you know, a diversity 1.00

00:21:37.720 of weaponry or something like that, but we're talking about diversity in the way that they mean

00:21:40.800 it here. Once again, if, if I'm wrong, tell me it's just hard for me to envision a scenario where

00:21:47.360 that would happen. And the reason it's hard for me to envision a scenario is that there's really

00:21:51.500 no scenario in life. When that works in any institution, there's no scenario where any

00:21:57.320 institution is better at doing its job simply because of diversity or because of inclusion in

00:22:04.240 and of itself, diversity in and of itself, inclusion in and of itself. These are not virtues.

00:22:10.800 It depends on who you're including, why you're including them, what you are including them into.

00:22:19.780 And especially with the military where it's supposed to be right about uniform, uniformity,

00:22:25.780 one fighting force working together to accomplish a mission. It's not about the individual.

00:22:32.340 So any, any, any focus on the individual, on an individual's desires and whatever else,

00:22:42.120 orientations, um, that's not going to help you in the accomplishment of your mission.

00:22:48.480 And that's not even the case anywhere else in any other institution. I would, I would imagine it's

00:22:51.940 especially the case in the military. No diversity. I know that it's, it's heresy these days to say it,

00:22:58.160 but diversity is not a virtue in and of itself. You know, we have to think about what, what are we

00:23:07.780 including people into and what's the, what's the purpose of that inclusion? What is our objective?

00:23:13.840 And when it comes to, as we talked about, I think we talked about, yes, uh, last week,

00:23:20.700 multiculturalism, this is, you know, it's basically the same thing. These are synonyms.

00:23:25.080 The problem with multiculturalism, what's the problem with multiculturalism? Well,

00:23:28.240 with what we have multiculturalism within a country, within a society, it means that you have

00:23:32.760 no shared culture, which is to say the country has no real culture at all. It's just a mishmash of

00:23:38.780 different cultures, all living in the same general area, but there's no shared sense of purpose,

00:23:44.540 no shared sense of identity. And that of course is, is the plan. That's, that's the point for the

00:23:50.380 left. That's what they're trying to do. Um, number three, our article in the New York times,

00:23:54.920 and I'll just give you the headline. It says two masks are the new mask. Double masking is a sensible

00:24:01.160 and easy way to lower your risk. When you have to spend more time around others in a taxi,

00:24:05.740 on a train or plane or at an inauguration. Um, and on this, so now this is, this is not just

00:24:12.260 the New York times. This is because there's a new push last few days. Dr. Fauci came out and

00:24:17.960 endorsed double masking and said that, yeah, well, it's better than wearing one. Speaking of being

00:24:24.440 on a plane, I was actually sitting near someone who was wearing, they're wearing at least two masks.

00:24:28.760 It kind of looked like maybe there were three. I saw somebody else in the airport, they had,

00:24:32.940 they had two masks and the visor on. And yeah, so two masks is better than one. You know,

00:24:39.860 what's even better than two masks. Listen, listen to this idea. Brilliant strategy, three masks.

00:24:46.700 Why not? See, when there's, when there's no limiting principle, when it comes to masks,

00:24:51.900 then why not wear, why not wear two? Why not require two? If it's really going to make people safer,

00:24:57.640 it's going to save lives. Maybe we should insist on it. You can't go anywhere. You can't go to the

00:25:02.320 grocery store unless you wear two masks or three. There's no limiting principle. It doesn't,

00:25:08.140 there's, there's, there's no, there's no, this doesn't end anywhere. Because if the idea behind

00:25:13.160 masks has always been, if the, if the justification for masks has always been, what does the justification

00:25:18.920 always been? It's been that, um, it's no big deal to wear it, supposedly. Uh, you know, it's no,

00:25:25.500 no skin off your nose and, uh, it'll make you safer. So, and if, if that's true and if that's

00:25:32.280 enough reason to mandate it, then we might as well just mandate it forever. Two masks,

00:25:36.460 three masks, whatever's necessary. Number four from the New York post, it says humans could live

00:25:40.800 on giant orbs floating in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter within the next 15 years.

00:25:47.640 This seems like big news to me. I don't know. That's the claim made by top scientist,

00:25:52.460 Dr. Pekka, um, John Hunan, who says millions of people couldn't have it in mega city in space by

00:25:58.760 2026. That's not 15 years or like five years. Uh, John Hunan and astrophysicists at the Finnish

00:26:05.560 meteorological Institute, uh, described his vision in a research paper published this month. He laid

00:26:10.220 out the blueprint for floating mega satellites around the, um, Dorf planet series, which lies

00:26:16.720 roughly 325 million miles from earth. Um, and he says that this is something we could do the next

00:26:22.920 few years and what people will do. They would live in these, these floating satellites and then they

00:26:29.060 would, they would mine series. And I guess some of the other asteroids, they would mine them for

00:26:33.260 resources and then bring it back to their floating cities. A few problems with this. One is that I think

00:26:38.760 it would take like eight or nine years even to get out there to begin with, which is going to make

00:26:43.520 the process of building these floating cities kind of hard. Also who in the hell, you know,

00:26:48.160 you hear about these plans. Oh, we'll set up, we'll set up a colony on Mars. I kind of like that idea,

00:26:54.080 but okay, we'll go, we'll be in the asteroid belt. Who would volunteer for this? Who would volunteer

00:27:00.400 to go live forever floating in the black abyss with asteroids flying past you at all times, just waiting 0.96

00:27:08.300 to smash into you and kill everybody. Who would, who would ever sign up for that? Unless we set it

00:27:14.160 up as a prison colony, which is that idea. I kind of like just take people the worst kinds, especially

00:27:20.580 as we're getting rid of the death penalty. So we can't just banish them out into space. Now that idea

00:27:24.400 I like number five from the Hill says Anheuser-Busch will not advertise its Budweiser products during this

00:27:30.260 year's Superbowl for the first time since 1983. Instead, putting that money toward promoting

00:27:35.240 vaccination awareness. This according to the company, which they announced this week,

00:27:39.520 the company will retain four minutes of ad time for its other brands, which include Michelob Ultra

00:27:43.840 and Bud Light, according to the Associated Press. Uh, that's the, speaking of heroes. So they're not,

00:27:51.820 they're not going to, they're not going to advertise Budweiser, but they, they're still going to

00:27:54.800 advertise their other brands, but then the money that would have went to the Budweiser ad, they're

00:27:58.560 going to, they're going to put towards vaccination awareness. A couple of things about this. Number one,

00:28:02.260 who exactly at this point is not aware of the vaccine? What exactly does vaccination awareness

00:28:12.080 consist of? I think we all know about it by now. And also just, just to be clear, uh, the reason

00:28:19.020 why, and they're not the only brand that's doing this or say, they're, they're saying, Oh, we're not

00:28:22.040 going to, we're not going to advertise during the Superbowl. We've decided we don't want to do that.

00:28:26.020 But the real reason they're not doing it is because the ratings of the Superbowl are expected to be

00:28:30.420 way down. And so they've decided it's just not worth the money, which I totally understand,

00:28:34.900 but stop trying to dress it up as some noble thing they're doing. Um, finally, this is kind

00:28:39.160 of a bonus thing I wanted to play for you. I've had it for a few days. I wanted to play, you know,

00:28:41.820 the girl who did that, uh, that bad slam poetry at the inauguration. Um, she also has no surprise 1.00

00:28:50.780 here. I'm sure this is the reason she was selected. She has, she, she did a couple of years

00:28:55.500 ago, a slam poetry performance where she was celebrating abortion. And, uh, I thought this

00:29:00.800 would be a treat for all of us just to listen to some poetry. So here we go.

00:29:04.500 Eight reasons to stand up today against abortion bans in the United States.

00:29:09.980 One, let's get this straight. When the penalty for rape is less than the penalty for abortion 0.90

00:29:15.580 after the rape, you know, this isn't about caring for women and girls. It's about controlling them. 0.58

00:29:21.860 Two, through forcing them into motherhood before they're ready, these bans steadily sustain the 1.00

00:29:27.980 patriarchy, but also chain families in poverty and maintain economic inequality. Three, pregnancy 0.54

00:29:34.940 is a private and personal decision and should not require the permission of any politician.

00:29:42.500 Okay. Three is enough. She goes on. She goes on to, to, to eight. Yeah. Point number one,

00:29:48.900 by the way. What was it? The, the penalty for, uh, abortion is worse than the penalty for rape.

00:29:57.440 What? These are the kinds of claims that pro-abortion people make all the time.

00:30:02.920 Totally untethered from reality. Oh, you know, you go to prison longer for getting abortion than you do 0.99

00:30:08.700 for, for, for rape. What are you talking about? That's not even remotely true. There's,

00:30:15.000 there is no legal penalty for abortion in case you haven't noticed Roe v. Wade is still in effect.

00:30:20.540 I wish it weren't in effect, but it is. And I don't expect that to change anytime soon. So that's,

00:30:25.860 that's just, that's her first point. That's point number one. And it's a total fantasy.

00:30:30.580 It has no bearing whatsoever on reality, no relationship to reality.

00:30:36.160 And then the rest is, I, I, how is this poetry? Someone explain it to me. I already admitted last

00:30:42.360 week. I'm a, I'm a Philistine. I don't, I don't know anything about, about art. I admit that, but I

00:30:46.280 hear this. It doesn't rhyme at all. There's no real rhythm. You're, you're just, you've, you've

00:30:52.680 written down your little editorial about abortion and you're, you're speaking it, moving your hands

00:30:59.060 around a lot. And that's all you're doing. You're just moving your hands and speaking,

00:31:03.100 which I do that. I'm a hand talker. So I guess I'm also a poet. You didn't know, you didn't know

00:31:08.920 that when you listen to this show, you're, you're listening to poetry, poetry in motion.

00:31:13.480 Well, as we've been telling you, you know, Daily Wire, we're on a mission and that mission is to

00:31:17.960 fight to take back the culture. And one big part of that, um, effort is starts with entertainment,

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00:31:57.080 is that the audience loves it. That's why it has a 93% fresh rating in Rotten Tomatoes

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00:32:16.080 off. Let's get now to our daily cancellation. Today, we're going to cancel everybody involved

00:32:23.540 in making this happen on Twitter. Yesterday, Kaepernick was trending and Twitter provided

00:32:29.520 this explanation or context, they would say for the trend. They said, as Tom Brady makes

00:32:35.820 his way to another Superbowl, some football fans are pointing out that the quarterback's

00:32:39.560 politics, i.e. his friendship with Donald Trump, haven't derailed his career in the way

00:32:44.000 that Colin Kaepernick's peaceful protest of police violence did, arguably leading to his

00:32:48.640 exit from the NFL. Okay, now just to give additional context to Twitter's context, the people making

00:32:55.340 that claim are not football fans. A football fan knows that comparing Colin Kaepernick to

00:33:01.100 Tom Brady is like, well, it's like comparing Colin Kaepernick to Tom Brady. There's no analogy

00:33:06.960 I can draw that would be more absurd than that. And as if to illustrate my point that the people

00:33:11.320 making this comparison cannot really be football fans, here's a woman called Samantha Polino and 0.71

00:33:16.840 she says in her bio that she dances on Broadway and she also gives her pronouns. Now, I don't want

00:33:22.680 to stereotype, but my immediate assumption would be that Samantha the Broadway dancer with pronouns

00:33:27.720 in her bio probably isn't a football expert, I would guess. And my suspicions are potentially

00:33:34.680 confirmed by this. She says, quote, as we approach another Tom Brady Super Bowl, let's remember he's

00:33:40.840 friends with Trump and has endorsed Republicans in their policies. While one of the greatest

00:33:45.200 quarterbacks of our generation, Colin Kaepernick, had his career derailed for kneeling during the

00:33:51.080 anthem. Hashtag hypocrisy. Samantha, you're not doing your gender any favors with statements like 0.96

00:33:58.640 that. One of the greatest quarterbacks of our generation, Colin Kaepernick. This is true in the

00:34:05.860 same sense that Pete Davidson is one of our greatest thespians and Eric Swalwell is our greatest

00:34:11.840 statesman, which is to say it's not true in any sense at all. So I can't believe I have to do this,

00:34:18.740 but let me just give you some of the numbers here, especially maybe if you're not a football fan

00:34:23.780 and you hear a claim like this, just I'll give you a few numbers you can throw out there

00:34:28.420 to correct the record. Colin Kaepernick had a career completions percentage of 59.8,

00:34:35.060 which is not very good, with 72 touchdowns against 30 in their interception. In his final three seasons,

00:34:42.760 he went 8-8, then 2-6, then 1-10 as a starter, and was eventually benched for Blaine Gabbert,

00:34:49.140 which is the football equivalent of losing an arm wrestling match to your niece. 1.00

00:34:53.780 All that said, he did have some historic moments on the football field, like when he threw two

00:34:57.900 pick sixes in a row on the first two drives of the game against the Cardinals in 2015.

00:35:03.300 Very few QBs have ever done that. In fact, I think he might be the only one to start a game. His

00:35:08.420 first two throws were intercepted for touchdowns. Now, let's consider Tom Brady. Tom Brady has never

00:35:16.800 had a losing season in 21 years. He has six Super Bowl rings, 10 Super Bowl appearances. He owns the

00:35:23.200 record for the most playoff wins, most playoff completions, most playoff passing touchdowns,

00:35:27.260 like 50 other records. He left New England at the age of 43, went to a previously mediocre Tampa Bay

00:35:33.840 team, and immediately brought them to a Super Bowl too. I don't like saying it or admitting it,

00:35:39.100 but he is the undisputed greatest football player of all time, and there is no other credible candidate

00:35:44.560 for that position, period. He has won as many NFC championships as Brees and Rodgers, and he's been

00:35:50.760 in the conference for one year, and he was 43, again. So this guy is the Michael Jordan of football,

00:35:56.740 only better because Jordan played on a different team in his 40s and didn't have this kind of

00:36:00.600 success at all. So, if you're wondering, that is why Tom Brady has a career and Colin Kaepernick

00:36:07.580 doesn't. One of them is mediocre by every conceivable statistical measure, while the other

00:36:12.420 is the greatest of all time by every conceivable statistical measure. So, just a slight difference,

00:36:17.520 a slight difference between greatest of all time and not very good. But a worldview that doesn't

00:36:26.220 recognize merit or take it into account and fundamentally denies that merit should have

00:36:30.660 anything to do with success is bound to have some really, really bad sports takes,

00:36:36.520 as this proves, and as, in fact, ESPN proves every single day. Now, with that said, it is true that

00:36:46.140 Kaepernick's politics, his protest, played a factor in his not having a job in the NFL for the past five

00:36:52.520 years. I mean, absolutely. I think sometimes conservatives make a mistake in denying this,

00:36:57.980 where they try to say, oh, it had nothing to do with it. No, it did have something to do with it. It is

00:37:01.380 true that Kaepernick was essentially blackballed by the league. It's also true that there are people

00:37:08.960 in the league now who are probably worse than him. There are quarterbacks in the league right now that

00:37:14.320 are probably second and third string quarterbacks, but there are second and third string quarterbacks

00:37:18.220 in the league right now who are not much better than him, possibly worse.

00:37:24.860 But he still deserved it. He deserves to be blackballed by the league. He deserves

00:37:31.360 to not have a job in the league. There are two very good reasons for that. The first is that he

00:37:36.180 doesn't seem to really want a job in the NFL all that much, or at least he doesn't want it enough

00:37:41.080 to cool it with the fake freedom fighter routine. The second, if we could put the first to the side for

00:37:45.020 a moment, the second is that his mouth and his antics consistently write checks that his skills

00:37:52.020 cannot cash. This is actually a good lesson for all of us because you can in life, and especially

00:37:57.500 in your career, be as big of a jerk as your skills and therefore your value will compensate for. 1.00

00:38:04.660 Now, it's better not to be a jerk at all, but if you're going to be a jerk, 1.00

00:38:08.120 you better calibrate your jerkiness so that it doesn't exceed your talent. 1.00

00:38:13.300 That's the equation. That's the calculation you always have to make. Tom Brady could basically be as

00:38:18.920 awful as he wants to be because he's going to come in, he's going to bring your team to a Super

00:38:22.860 Bowl single-handedly. So he can kind of be however he wants. But even with that being the case,

00:38:27.760 he's really not that much of a jerk at all. And though he's accused of being political, 0.98

00:38:32.480 he's not political at all either. It's revealing how being friends with someone, Donald Trump in

00:38:39.040 this case, is construed as a political statement by the left. But whatever Brady's politics are,

00:38:44.280 he's not taking the field in a MAGA hat or doing anything else on the field to call attention to

00:38:49.720 his political viewpoints. He goes onto the field and he plays the game and that's it.

00:38:54.120 So the calculation for Brady is very simple. He's a team player. He doesn't bring any unwanted

00:38:59.500 attention to himself or to his team. He's insanely great. Oh, and he takes less money in his contract

00:39:07.420 than he has to so that his teams can spend money elsewhere to bring in other good players.

00:39:11.580 That makes him about the most uncontroversial and obvious hiring decision imaginable.

00:39:18.340 He has made it so that for his team, he represents all upside in every area.

00:39:26.180 Again, there's a good lesson for us in our own careers, even if we're not professional athletes.

00:39:30.140 The goal is to be all upside or at least to have enough upside to overshadow your downside.

00:39:35.340 You want to be net upside, right? What about Kaepernick? Well, here we have almost

00:39:41.020 exactly the reverse situation. He's a second string caliber player at best, doesn't have a

00:39:48.000 winning pedigree, turns the ball over a lot. He's not a great passer. On top of all that,

00:39:51.920 he brings a circus of media attention and political attention, which he both craves and cultivates on

00:39:56.640 purpose. He's a divisive presence. And you know, as an owner or a coach, that if you bring him in,

00:40:03.960 he's going to accuse you of racism should you put him on the bench or cut him due to his poor

00:40:07.740 performance. You also know that there are dozens of guys in the league who could bring you the same

00:40:12.060 kind of production as a player, but with none of the same headache. So this is another no-brainer.

00:40:18.000 Whereas Tom Brady is net upside, Kaep is net downside. Whatever meager upside he has as a 1.00

00:40:24.420 player is vastly outweighed by the drama he brings with him. That's why he doesn't have a job,

00:40:30.220 doesn't deserve a job. Though, you know, if you're concerned, there's no need to worry about him

00:40:35.760 starving to death. Fortunately, he's getting paid millions of dollars by Nike and a bunch

00:40:39.780 of other corporations to walk around scowling and calling people racist. Hell of a job if you can

00:40:44.680 get it. And when it comes to that job, scowling and calling people racist, his abilities are

00:40:50.000 undeniable. He isn't quite the Tom Brady of race hustling. That title probably still belongs to

00:40:55.240 Sharpton, but he's well on his way. We'll give him credit for that. As a football player, though,

00:41:00.160 his career is dead and richly deserves to be. And anyone who doesn't understand that is canceled.

00:41:09.680 And anyone who tries to make any point about football without ever having actually watched a

00:41:14.960 game is also very much canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching,

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 26, 2021

Ep. 644 - Extortion By The Teachers Unions

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