The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 663 - The New Puritans

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, as Disney adds an offensive content disclaimer to The Muppets,

00:00:04.760 we'll discuss how leftism has become the modern puritanism. Also, five headlines including

00:00:09.620 Fauci's declaration that we may have to wear masks into the year 2022. And Kendall Jenner

00:00:15.920 faces claims of cultural appropriation for her new tequila brand. And in her daily cancellation,

00:00:20.620 we'll talk about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's trip down to Texas to, quote, help during the winter

00:00:26.100 storm. All of that and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:27.240 promo code dailywire. If you're keeping a list of every new thing that suddenly becomes offensive,

00:02:33.460 well, you're probably pretty busy. That's a project which doesn't allow much time for anything else in

00:02:37.640 your life. A running tally of offensive things would be like, kind of like the U.S. debt clock. If

00:02:42.400 you go to usdebtclock.org and it goes up by about a hundred thousand every second or something like

00:02:48.380 that, the offensive thing list may not grow quite that rapidly, but it's getting there.

00:02:52.860 Here's the latest. The Muppets. The Muppets are now problematic. It was revealed recently that

00:02:59.680 Disney Plus, which just added the Muppets to its streaming lineup, has a disclaimer attached to the

00:03:04.940 beginning of each episode. The Disney disclaimer, of course, is not a new concept. They've been doing

00:03:09.500 this ever since they launched their streaming service a few years ago. Already movies like

00:03:14.600 The Aristocats, Dumbo, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, The Jungle Book, The Mickey Mouse Club from the

00:03:21.100 fifties. Even Aladdin have disclaimers because of their supposedly offensive content. I can only assume

00:03:26.360 that other films must have them too, like Mulan for its stereotypical depiction of Chinese culture,

00:03:32.040 Pocahontas for the many inaccuracies in the way that it portrays Elizabeth Warren's childhood.

00:03:37.760 Lion King ought to get the disclaimer treatment too for stereotyping the hyena community. 1.00

00:03:43.540 The film depicts hyenas as maniacal buffoons laughing about everything. Of course, actual

00:03:49.700 hyenas don't laugh. The laughing sound is a form of a bark, which they use to signal to the other 0.99

00:03:54.800 members of their pack if they've made a kill or if there's a danger in the area. Lion King both

00:04:01.200 trivializes and otherizes hyenas, not to mention warthogs, toucans. Indeed, when you're looking for

00:04:07.220 a reason to be offended by old cartoons or even recent cartoons, it's not hard to find them if you're

00:04:11.560 creative enough in your outrage. And it would take some especially creative outrage in the

00:04:15.980 case of the Muppets. But our culture is no doubt up to the challenge. Here's the warning that comes

00:04:21.740 with each episode of that show now. Here's what it says. It says,

00:04:26.640 This program includes negative depictions and or mistreatment of people or cultures.

00:04:33.760 These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content,

00:04:39.160 we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it, and spark conversation to create a more

00:04:44.660 inclusive future together. Mistreatment of people. Well, they're puppets, so I don't know who's really

00:04:51.980 being mistreated. But this, I believe, is the disclaimer they use across the board now. Notice

00:04:58.040 how Disney excuses its decision to continue to profit off of content that it now says is harmful.

00:05:05.680 The company claims that it has this dangerous and offensive material on its platform, not so that it

00:05:12.140 can rake in millions of dollars, but so that it can spark conversation and create a more inclusive

00:05:18.740 future together. I guess sparking conversation and creating an inclusive future is also why they

00:05:24.540 continue to sell merchandise from these shows and films. Yes, that's why you can go to Target in 2021

00:05:30.020 and buy a Jasmine doll, even though Jasmine is from a film with offensive stereotypes and she was voiced

00:05:37.220 in the original cartoon by a white actress culturally appropriating a role that should have gone to an

00:05:41.840 actual Arabic princess with a pet tiger and a boyfriend who rides a magical carpet around the city

00:05:46.660 with his wacky genie sidekick. It's all for sparking a conversation, you see. And surely the eight-year-old

00:05:53.340 girl who's given that doll upon receiving it will say to her parents, she'll say, well, thank you for

00:06:01.480 this gift, mother and father. It presents me with an excellent opportunity to reflect on the impact of

00:06:05.560 negative stereotypical portrayals of disadvantaged minority communities. I'm sure that's how it goes.

00:06:10.980 Or maybe not. See, this is why I have to stop myself short when I'm tempted to accuse the

00:06:17.720 contemporary left of being the new Puritans. In a certain way, it's true. You know, they are. 1.00

00:06:23.480 Leftism is a strange inverted form of Puritanism, at least Puritanism in the modern colloquial sense of

00:06:30.600 the term. Leftists are the ones now who seem to be perpetually offended, fragile, needing advisories

00:06:38.240 and disclaimers and other layers of insulation from content that might traumatize them.

00:06:43.160 I call it a weird and inverted Puritanism because the left has also maintained and plunged deeper

00:06:49.220 into its hedonistic impulses at the same time. So they're this very strange mix of Puritan

00:06:56.560 and hedonist. They still demand that we accept, tolerate, celebrate all forms of sexual indulgence

00:07:05.260 and expression, however strange, however unnecessarily public it may be. But then they turn around and

00:07:12.320 wither like delicate flowers in the hot sun the moment they hear a slightly edgy joke

00:07:16.740 or an opinion that divulges a little bit, or rather, you know, verges a little bit from their own.

00:07:22.820 Or they encounter even a cartoon film made for children. Children who apparently were better

00:07:28.620 adjusted and more emotionally stable than themselves. You might say to simplify that they're offended

00:07:35.040 by all of the things that are not offensive and not offended by all of the things that actually

00:07:39.700 are. While they wouldn't want children to be exposed to the horror of a Peter Pan cartoon,

00:07:45.300 they see no problem with kids listening to sexually explicit and absurdly degrading songs from Cardi B

00:07:51.200 and the like. It's backwards. And that's why calling them Puritans seems to sort of fit. But on 0.89

00:07:57.580 another level, it doesn't fit at all. What we can say about the actual Puritans of the 16th and 17th

00:08:04.400 centuries, a group that may be admittedly a little hard to define, is that they were, yes, rigid and

00:08:10.840 close-minded like the modern left. And there's where the comparison lies. But they were also earnest

00:08:17.480 and sincere. They made enormous sacrifices to live by the convictions that they really deeply believed

00:08:26.260 in and felt. The Puritanism of the modern left lacks that sincerity, that conviction, that sacrifice.

00:08:34.120 It's empty at its heart. Mostly a put-on, a display, a political performance, a marketing ploy.

00:08:41.500 The modern Puritanism of the left is, in fact, perfectly encapsulated by a company like Disney

00:08:46.480 declaring its own harmless cartoons harmful and then proceeding to make millions of dollars off of them.

00:08:52.460 See, the thing is, I can respect almost any worldview, to some extent at least,

00:08:59.040 if the people who harbor that view are willing to live by it. And so, in a certain way, the crazier

00:09:05.480 the worldview, the more I am forced to respect the conviction of those who abide by it. Vegans are

00:09:11.100 completely insane as far as I'm concerned. But if you actually live the vegan life and forego the 0.91

00:09:16.940 immeasurable joy of meat and dairy products, then I can respect your follow-through. But when it comes

00:09:23.620 to the woke brigade and the doctrines that lead it to declare something like the Muppets harmful and

00:09:28.560 offensive, there's no follow-through. There's no sacrifice. There's no conviction. There's no

00:09:32.380 substance. It's Puritanism, but only the most hollow and most absurd kind. Now let's get to our five 0.95

00:09:41.220 headlines. You know, one of the most underrated aspects of parenting, I think, is that you get to

00:09:54.240 relive things in your childhood, some of the childhood fun that you would never, you probably

00:10:00.580 wouldn't be able to have. You wouldn't have the opportunity to engage in if you didn't have kids.

00:10:04.480 So, for example, over the weekend, we took our kids to a trampoline park here in Nashville,

00:10:10.480 and it was a lot of fun. And, you know, I was probably having more fun than the kids bouncing

00:10:16.220 all over on the trampolines. It's just great. The thing is, if you're an adult, it's the kind of

00:10:21.300 thing that you should be able to go and do as an adult. But I think if you're an adult and you don't

00:10:24.900 have kids, you're probably not going to get together with your, like, 30-year-old buddies and go down to

00:10:29.500 the trampoline park. So you have to have kids for that. And so that's what we did. And it was a lot

00:10:35.060 of fun. But then the other problem is that you're an adult. So I woke up the next morning feeling like

00:10:40.960 I had been trampled by a herd of goats or something. Just, I could barely move from jumping on a trampoline

00:10:48.040 for 30 minutes. And maybe that's why adults stay away from those kinds of things usually.

00:10:54.260 Okay. Number one, the media has long since branded Ron DeSantis a failure, of course,

00:11:00.480 in his response to the pandemic. The only problem has been in finding a reason for that branding.

00:11:05.820 So they've decided that he's a failure, but there's never been a reason to call him a failure because

00:11:10.120 all of the evidence, all the facts on the ground point to DeSantis having the best response or among

00:11:16.000 the best out of all the governors in the state, in the country. But the media can't allow that

00:11:20.260 narrative to take hold. So they've been digging, you know, getting creative as they need to,

00:11:26.420 to find some reason to criticize him. So they've got, they know what their conclusion is. The

00:11:33.320 conclusion is that he's been a failure and is in a disaster. Now they just need to find reasons for

00:11:38.940 that conclusion. Speaking of things working backwards, that's the way that they go. Kind of

00:11:44.100 like the opposite of the scientific method. It's the scientific method flipped on its head. NBC News,

00:11:49.980 though, thinks that it's finally found the reason. So here's the report from NBC News. They say,

00:11:56.360 Florida's governor was slow to respond to the pandemic and his COVID-19 vaccine distribution

00:12:00.700 plan has been marked by chaos. But critics say he's been quick to recognize the political gold

00:12:06.200 in those precious doses. Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, ignored federal guidelines and

00:12:11.140 prioritized getting senior citizens, one of Florida's most potent voting blocks, vaccinated first.

00:12:17.020 When Holocaust survivors and Cuban survivors of the Bay of Pigs debacle, revered members of the two

00:12:24.260 other key Florida voting blocks, got their first shots, DeSantis made sure he was there for the news

00:12:29.780 conference. And now the governor stands accused of using the COVID-19 vaccine to reward political,

00:12:35.440 powerful political supporters and developers by setting up pop-up vaccination sites in planned

00:12:40.480 communities they developed and where GOP voters predominate. Okay. So you see what they're

00:12:47.660 saying here? He has prioritized seniors, the elderly in his vaccine rollout. That's what they're hitting 1.00

00:12:56.440 him for. And it's bad. It's bad to prioritize seniors because a lot of old people are Republican.

00:13:03.740 That is actually what the media is saying that we shouldn't prioritize the elderly, uh, because

00:13:09.500 too many of them are Republican. When of course, in reality, we know that obviously the elderly are 0.55

00:13:17.140 the most susceptible to the virus by and large, uh, speaking in, in generalities. And so obviously

00:13:23.380 they should be prioritized. So here we're taking this again is, is Ron DeSantis showing the right

00:13:32.280 way to do it. A lot of other States have been disasters in, in Florida. They're doing it the

00:13:37.880 right way. And this is another case where Ron DeSantis, his success is being portrayed. It's not

00:13:44.120 just that they're ignoring his success. They're actually flipping it around and saying, no, this

00:13:48.040 is a failure. Meanwhile, more COVID news, Fauci, um, Dr. Fauci is warning that we may have to keep

00:13:56.720 wearing masks all the way to the year 2022 and beyond. Here he is on CNN talking about it.

00:14:03.320 Listen, you and the president have suggested that we'll approach normality toward the end of the

00:14:09.080 year. What does normal mean? Do you think Americans will still be wearing masks, for example, in 2022?

00:14:16.620 You know, I think it is possible that that's the case. And again, it really depends on what you mean

00:14:23.120 by normality. Right. That's what I want you to define it. Exactly the way. No, Dana, it's important

00:14:30.300 because if normality means exactly the way things were before we had this happen to us. I mean, I

00:14:38.660 can't predict that. I mean, obviously, I think we're going to have a significant degree of normality

00:14:44.180 beyond what the terrible burden that all of us have been through over the last year that as we get

00:14:51.760 into the fall and the winter, by the end of the year, I agree with the president completely that

00:14:57.600 we will be approaching a degree of normality. It may or may not be precisely the way it was

00:15:02.900 in November of 2019, but it'll be much, much better than what we're doing right now.

00:15:08.840 Uh, a few things here. First of all, this is what we're hearing now. Well, it depends on how you define

00:15:17.040 normal. What do you mean by normal? What do we, no, you know what we mean by normal.

00:15:23.700 This kind of bad faith thing where, well, it depends on who knows what normal means.

00:15:29.560 No, everyone understands normal is like what it was before just living a normal human life. And you

00:15:36.200 could walk outside your house and you could go to the store, go to a restaurant. You're not covered in a,

00:15:40.240 in a, in a, in a muzzle. You're not muzzling yourself. Um, businesses can open up their doors and

00:15:46.900 serve as many people as they can fit inside their building safely. You know, that kind of thing.

00:15:52.240 That's what normal means. And, but, but Fauci is saying, well, we'll see. And that's been his

00:15:59.500 answer all along. We'll, we'll see what happens. Maybe, maybe not. And this has been the other thing

00:16:05.140 that, um, we're hearing now. In fact, I think it was an NBC news article. I didn't have it. I don't

00:16:09.860 have it in front of me right now, but, um, this is yeah. NBC, New York, they have an article up

00:16:16.020 right now. And, uh, what they, they, they say, this is, this is the tweet they sent out. It says

00:16:21.360 you're fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. Now what don't expect to shed your mask and get

00:16:26.560 back to normal activities right away. That's going to be a disappointment, if not a shock to many

00:16:31.100 people. So this is the message that we're hearing now. We've started to hear more and more. We hear it

00:16:36.400 in the media. We're hearing it from the so-called health experts where they're saying, even after

00:16:41.820 you get both vaccine doses, you might still have to wear the mask. No, not, not might. You do still

00:16:48.180 have to wear it socially distance all, nothing changes. Not only is this absurd and wrong,

00:16:55.520 but I could not, if you're trying to discourage people from getting vaccinated, I cannot imagine a

00:17:01.900 better message for, for anti-vaxxers. This is like a, this is a dream come true. If you're an

00:17:09.480 anti-vaxxer, it's a dream come true that the pro-vax people, this is their message is yeah,

00:17:14.740 get the vaccine, but nothing will change in your life for the better. Your life will not improve at

00:17:19.940 all, but please go and inject this substance into your body. Anyway, it's not going to do anything for 0.90

00:17:25.640 you, at least as far as you can tell in the way you live your life, but do it anyway. That is the

00:17:32.080 worst message you could possibly send. If you actually want people to get vaccinated, if you

00:17:38.080 want mass vaccination, if you want millions and millions of people lining up to get vaccinated,

00:17:43.420 and you want to have most of the country vaccinated in the next few months, the message should be,

00:17:47.380 get the vaccine and you can go back to your daily life. Now that's what I'm saying. If, if,

00:17:53.280 if that's your goal, that should be your message. Um, I personally believe we should be able to get

00:17:59.960 back to our daily life regardless of the vaccine. I've been saying that for months, but from the

00:18:05.600 perfect perspective of a pro vaccine person, that should absolutely be the message. They're

00:18:11.320 undercutting themselves with this, or we would say they're undercutting their own, you know,

00:18:18.260 goals and intentions. If we actually believe that their ultimate goal is to get us back

00:18:23.260 to normal. At a certain point, we have to grapple with the fact that, um, a lot of these people,

00:18:29.400 that's why they're trying to redefine normal, or they're getting hazy about what normal even means

00:18:35.460 because they never want to go back to that normal.

00:18:40.840 Is that the case for Fauci? I mean, with Fauci, it's, we're at the point now where either this guy

00:18:46.400 is malevolent, um, or he is simply one of the most incompetent government officials 0.72

00:18:54.540 ever in history. Those are the two options. 0.83

00:19:00.580 Well, an option that is not available anymore is the one where we say he's been a smashing success.

00:19:05.640 There is no evidence. Where's the evidence? Can anyone come up with one reason? One, what's one

00:19:11.840 thing we can point to? If you believe that Fauci has been a success, like what is your, what point

00:19:16.920 to one thing? Give me one reason, one piece of evidence for Fauci's great success.

00:19:23.280 No matter how you slice it, he's presided over a disaster. He can't keep his own excuses,

00:19:27.960 his own story straight. Where's the success? But he is the perfect example. He is in a lot of ways,

00:19:34.560 the perfect government employee. Because even though he has presided over this disaster and

00:19:40.220 he's, and he contradicts himself every two seconds, um, and by any measure you look at,

00:19:45.320 he's been a failure. He not only remains employed, but he is, what is he? I think he's the highest

00:19:49.940 paid government employee. He doesn't just remain employed, but he's the highest paid guy.

00:19:56.740 Despite being arguably the greatest failure. That's what working in the government gets you.

00:20:01.680 Now on the other side of it, um, so that's the negative pessimistic side on the optimistic side.

00:20:07.180 Here's Dr. Gottlieb who was speaking to CBS over the weekend and he actually had, uh, uh, an optimistic

00:20:12.700 take. Here he is. Listen. The numbers frankly look good in terms of the infection rate going down,

00:20:18.340 but we are about to cross this morbid, uh, milestone of half a million Americans dead.

00:20:24.500 Where are we in this? Um, and should we be optimistic given the infection decline?

00:20:33.880 Look, this has taken a tragic toll on the United States, but we should be optimistic in my view.

00:20:38.640 I think we're going to continue to see infection rates decline into the spring and the summer.

00:20:42.420 Um, right now they're falling quite dramatically. I think these trends are likely to continue. The

00:20:46.180 new variants do create new risk. I think B.1.1.7 creates some risk that we could see

00:20:50.360 a resurgence of infection in certain parts of the country and higher prevalence overall in the

00:20:54.700 spring and the summer than we might've seen without this strain, but it's not going to be

00:20:58.020 enough to reverse these trends at this point. I think it's too little, too late in most parts of

00:21:01.600 the country, um, with rising vaccination rates and also the fact that we've infected about a third of

00:21:06.820 the public, that's enough protective immunity that we're likely to see these trends continue.

00:21:10.500 The risk is really to the fall. And one last point, if you look at the counties in New York and

00:21:14.720 New Jersey that had greater than 45% seroprevalence, meaning that 40, more than 45% of the population

00:21:20.140 was infected going into the winter, they really didn't have much of a winter surge. So once you

00:21:25.060 get to about 40% of the population with some form of protective immunity, you don't have herd immunity,

00:21:30.140 meaning that this won't transfer at all. It will continue to transfer, but it will transfer at a

00:21:34.020 much slower rate. I mean, the reality is that, uh, as you just heard there, infection rates are

00:21:40.240 plummeting. That's what's happening. Um, and it's, you hear that if you go, if you go and seek

00:21:47.860 this information, you want to know what's happening with the infection rates in the country, you can,

00:21:51.880 you can find it when you Google it, but it's not headline news everywhere the way the bad news is,

00:21:56.780 uh, or was, but it should be. This is great news. Infection rates are plummeting and they're

00:22:04.040 plummeting even though we're still in the winter. I mean, we were promised back in the fall. If you

00:22:08.780 remember, we were promised, uh, a long, we were promised the, a long, horrible winter and, and

00:22:15.500 the rate of the infection rates would, would continue to rise. And, um, instead we're still

00:22:21.040 in the winter. Infection rates are going down markedly, dramatically, and we haven't even gotten

00:22:26.740 to the spring yet. And we're gonna get into the spring with the warmer weather. And we're gonna get

00:22:31.740 that seasonal effect on top of the fact, more people are getting vaccinated. And also just millions

00:22:36.180 of people have already had the virus and millions of the majority of those may not even know they

00:22:42.100 had it, but they did. So there's, there's no reason why we cannot, even from, you know, even if

00:22:50.000 you're not an anti, you know, if you're an anti-lockdown person like I am, then you've wanted us to get

00:22:54.220 back to normal life all along basically. But even if you're not in that camp, even from a pro-lockdown

00:23:00.080 stance, you should still be saying there's no reason why we can't begin to really get back to normal

00:23:05.500 now. We're getting out on the other side of this thing. That's great news. It's wonderful news.

00:23:10.700 We can celebrate it. We can all celebrate it together in person, but you're not going to hear

00:23:16.240 that from the media, uh, that often anyway. All right. Next Cam Newton, former Patriots quarterback,

00:23:22.200 also former Panthers quarterback was hosting a football camp for kids. So he invited kids out.

00:23:28.180 He's hosting a camp. And this is a video that went viral yesterday of it, uh, uh, back and forth.

00:23:34.700 He got into with one of the kids there who was heck heckling Cam Newton. And a lot of people were

00:23:39.260 upset at Cam Newton for his response here, but I don't know. Let's, let's listen.

00:23:43.080 Okay.

00:23:44.080 Okay.

00:23:45.080 Okay. So the kid is,

00:23:50.080 Okay. So the kid is, is cussing at Cam Newton, taunting him for being a free agent.

00:23:57.080 I don't know. Being a free agent in the NFL sounds like a pretty good deal. He's going to make millions

00:24:24.160 of dollars somewhere. Um, and, uh, and saying that he's about to be poor. And then Cam Newton's

00:24:28.560 response is that he's rich, kind of a dumb response. And then he keeps asking him, where's 0.84

00:24:32.400 your dad? People are upset at Cam Newton for that. Now I'm no Cam Newton defender. I don't really have

00:24:39.060 a general stance on Cam Newton. I don't care that much, but I don't know how you could watch a video

00:24:43.420 like that. It shows where people's priorities are, but I could watch a video like that and you side

00:24:48.400 with the kid. And in a, in a situation like this, I'm almost always going to take the adult side.

00:24:55.400 What happened to respecting your elders? This, forget about the fact that he's an NFL quarterback.

00:24:59.800 Who cares about that? He's an adult. He also invited you out to this camp that he's hosting for

00:25:04.160 you to give you opportunities and you're cussing him out and taunting him. This is how you speak to

00:25:11.220 adults. And if you look at the, at the reaction on social media, a lot of people are saying,

00:25:18.360 how dare you speak to that poor child that way? No, the kid's lucky that all he did was speak to

00:25:23.960 him. It's lucky he didn't get a, you know, he didn't get a firmer response than that.

00:25:31.020 This is a kid who has probably not gotten a lot of firm responses from adults in his life. And that's

00:25:35.220 how this, this happens. All right. Number four, this is from the daily wire. It says model Kendall

00:25:39.500 Jenner has been accused of cultural appropriation after launching a tequila brand that she claims

00:25:44.660 to have been working on for nearly four years. In an Instagram post, Jenner announced the launch

00:25:48.360 of her tequila brand, which is 818 tequila, which is presumably named after the California area code

00:25:53.820 where I guess, I don't know, she lives. Jenner, Jenner said her tequila brand had already won eight

00:25:58.580 awards, including best, um, uh, eight awards, including at the, some awards at the world tequila

00:26:04.080 awards. And, uh, but the reaction on social media again was largely negative following her announcement.

00:26:11.320 Social media condemned Jenner for allegedly culturally appropriating Mexican culture. One user accused

00:26:17.000 Jenner of profiting off of Mexican traditions. Uh, they said something about Kendall Jenner making tequila 0.52

00:26:23.100 rubs me the wrong way. Like the idea of white celebrities taking from local Mexican artisans and

00:26:29.080 profiting off of our traditions and agriculture business yet only visit Cabos and Puerto, uh,

00:26:34.600 Puerto Vallarta for vacation spots. And not to mention profit off of the brown hands that actually 1.00

00:26:40.180 plant, grow, harvest, ferment, and distill the agave plants that are used to make it, uh, and other

00:26:46.220 things like that. So she's culturally appropriating from Mexican culture by making it tequila. No, I, I,

00:26:51.900 I really love this story and I love it only because it reveals again, how absurd the cultural 0.99

00:26:58.880 appropriation claim and concept is because in reality. Now I'm, I'm no tequila historian and

00:27:06.760 something tells me that the people saying cultural appropriation also are not tequila historians,

00:27:11.320 but, um, I am aware. And I think a very quick Google search will confirm this, that tequila is not

00:27:19.440 historically a purely Mexican, uh, innovation. In fact, I believe it was Spanish conquistadors and 0.97

00:27:27.660 maybe someone who knows a little bit more about this can correct me if I'm wrong. I believe it was

00:27:31.420 Spanish conquistadors who took a version of a, um, of an alcoholic beverage that was common among the

00:27:38.040 natives and they distilled it and they, they made what later become, became known as tequila.

00:27:44.960 And some of the early popularizers of tequila were Spanish aristocrats, aristocrats,

00:27:51.400 almost said aristocats because I had Disney in my brain, but some of the early popularizers of tequila

00:27:56.560 were Spanish aristocrats in, in Mexico. So this is not, that's tequila. It's actually, I guess,

00:28:02.380 who is she appropriating from Spain? No, tequila itself is a product of cultural blending.

00:28:12.320 And that's one of the reasons why the cultural appropriation claim doesn't work as a concept.

00:28:19.680 It's absurd because it's very difficult to look at any form of, uh, cuisine, any, you know, style of

00:28:30.420 dance, any, uh, any form of, of dress, anything, any tradition. It's very difficult to look at that

00:28:38.840 and, and trace it back and find that it's never been influenced. It's never had any outside influences.

00:28:46.520 Almost everything that we have today in the modern, in the modern world, whether it's a food,

00:28:51.860 it's an alcohol, whatever it is. Um, it is a product of blending of culture, cultures influencing each

00:28:59.220 other. And that's because cultures can't own, you know, Mexican culture doesn't own tequila. 0.99

00:29:07.280 Even if native Mexicans were the ones who, who, who innovated it from the beginning, which they 1.00

00:29:14.060 weren't, you don't own an alcohol as a culture. Cultures don't own things. That's not how culture

00:29:20.380 works. And again, you know, appropriating implies that something is being taken from you. That's

00:29:29.000 what it means for something to be appropriated from you. If somebody appropriates $10 from your

00:29:34.120 wallet, they've taken it from you. And now you don't have that $10 anymore. You're out 10 bucks.

00:29:39.980 Well, Kendall Jenner making a tequila. She's not depriving tequila from anyone. She's not taking it 1.00

00:29:45.980 away from Mexican culture. There is no Mexican person who can no longer have tequila or produce

00:29:51.700 it or sell it because she's making it. That's just not how it works. All right. Five. Finally,

00:29:57.340 this is a tweet from Madonna. She says, the patriarchy continues to, to try to crush my neck

00:30:03.100 with their heavy boots, cut off my life force and take away my voice. Even those who call themselves 0.99

00:30:08.560 artists, you know who you are. Death to the patriarchy now and forever. Hashtag risk what you

00:30:15.260 value. Hashtag value what you risk. Yes. The patriarchy is crushing her neck with their heavy

00:30:24.340 boots. Well, I only want to note that Madonna is worth, I think, $800 million, $850 million.

00:30:34.860 And she's approaching a billion dollars that she's worth. And all I can say is if that's what it means

00:30:40.680 for the patriarchy to crush your neck, then please, I'll, I'll lay down the patriarchy and crush my 0.98

00:30:45.200 neck. If it means $850 million, I'll take that for $850 million. Not a bad deal. That's the thing 0.84

00:30:53.360 about oppression in a, in modern American culture. It's a very profitable business. All right, let's

00:31:00.540 go read some of the YouTube comments from the show on Friday. This first is from the username is

00:31:05.840 insert name here. Too lazy to come up with his own name, I guess. Says the dumbest thing Ted Cruz did

00:31:10.480 was engage the media and apologize. He's already got a target on his back and he basically just 0.98

00:31:15.180 chummed the water. Yeah, I agree with you. I think that was the mistake he made. There's another mistake

00:31:20.940 that he made, which we'll get to in the daily cancellation, but yes, apologizing was, was certainly

00:31:25.720 a mistake because he didn't do anything wrong. You know, he, he, I think his, his initial statement

00:31:33.560 with the, with, when that ridiculous controversy first erupted was clumsy and not the right way to go

00:31:40.280 about it. Um, but you know, him pointing out that he was trying to get his family, he, he didn't have

00:31:48.580 power either and it was freezing cold. And so he's trying to get his family to warmer temperatures.

00:31:54.020 What? Nothing wrong with that. That's what any good father would do now for, for political reasons,

00:32:00.780 which we'll talk about in a second, but for political reasons, maybe the smart move is to bring

00:32:04.840 your family or, or to, you know, bring them to the airport, put them on a plane and then you stay back.

00:32:09.200 Even if there's nothing really for you to do staying back, but getting your, your family out 0.65

00:32:14.780 of that situation, if you can is a smart move. And I think it's what any, any father with the means

00:32:21.880 would do. This is from cool Papa J magic. There's a great name. He says, there isn't even a point in

00:32:28.560 talking about the hypocrisy anymore. Talking about the left's hypocrisy. I have a woke brother and I know 0.95

00:32:33.180 personally that they do not see their own flaws and or lack of logical consistency. Yeah. Um,

00:32:40.320 I hear this a lot when I point out the double standards and I'm told that there's no point

00:32:43.840 even pointing it out anymore because it doesn't make a difference. They don't care. And that's true

00:32:48.220 by and large, but the problem is number one. So what, what else are we going to do? Simply accept it.

00:32:56.600 If there's a double standard, are we going to accept it, allow it, not say anything, not point

00:33:01.780 it out, allow them to pretend unopposed that there is no double standard. Now I think we have

00:33:10.240 to point it out and also keep in mind that, um, this is the case with people generally, not just

00:33:15.740 on the left. Most people are stubborn and they're not willing to see the flaws in their thinking.

00:33:19.960 It's not a modern person thing. That's, that's simply a person. That's a human nature thing.

00:33:26.220 So when you present arguments and you stand up and say, okay, there's a double standard here.

00:33:30.240 Yeah. Most people on the other side who hear you are going to dismiss it because that's how people

00:33:35.280 are, but you got to hope that there are at least a few people who, even if they don't change their

00:33:43.560 mind right then and there, you plant the seed, you get them thinking about it.

00:33:48.520 And if they're, if they have any capacity for critical thinking down the line, maybe that's,

00:33:54.560 that seed sprouts and, um, and, uh, they, they start to realize the truth a little bit.

00:34:01.960 That's why sometimes it can feel so defeating when you're presenting arguments to someone

00:34:05.360 because it's very rare, you know, when you're having an argument with anybody,

00:34:09.180 uh, especially a political and ideological argument, it's very rare for someone to say

00:34:13.580 right then and there, oh, you know what? You're right. I'm going to change my mind. It almost

00:34:16.640 never happens, right? Does that mean that nobody ever changes their mind? Well, people just change

00:34:21.700 their mind. It just, it's not going to be right then there on the spot. It might be that night

00:34:26.840 or a day later, two weeks later, a year later, who knows, but you could put them on that path

00:34:32.360 and not know it. And that's why it's worth it to present the arguments anyway. Um, Jay Moen says,

00:34:40.040 Matt, to consider 18 year olds are not responsible for their debt because they don't know what they're 0.79

00:34:44.080 doing yet. They're allowed to vote for our representatives is a frightening truth.

00:34:48.280 I totally agree. Yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm fully on board with the idea. Like we talked about last

00:34:53.360 week that at 18 years old, you got these kids come out of high school and they're taking out

00:34:57.600 these massive loans and they don't really know what they're doing. Uh, and I, I agree that they

00:35:02.280 don't really know what they're doing, which is why, you know, there should be some reform to the

00:35:06.360 system that allows the banks to give these loans in the first place. But if we can all agree on that

00:35:11.360 point, which it seems we can, then yeah, why are we allowing, if, if, if they're not, if, if they

00:35:16.720 don't have the psychological equipment to make these sorts of financial decisions, which obviously

00:35:23.700 they don't, then why are we letting them make decisions about the future of the country?

00:35:29.000 Raise the voting age. I'm all about that. Raise it to 25, 30, 0.79

00:35:31.840 35. Well, not 35 cause I'm not 35 yet, but 25, let's say. Um, and finally, rusty dog says, Matt,

00:35:41.940 you use the phrase iron out the kinks. Come on, man. It's workout the kinks or iron out the wrinkles. 0.99

00:35:49.260 You moved to Tennessee. Now you're mixing your metaphors like some country bumpkin cancel yourself.

00:35:54.800 Well, rusty dog, first of all, that bigoted accusation, that stereotypical accusation towards

00:36:02.100 me is not acceptable. And I think iron out the kinks is a, in fact, I looked it up and I found a

00:36:08.580 WordPress blog. Someone wrote a blog on WordPress in 2010, giving the, uh, the, the etymology of iron

00:36:17.500 out the kinks. And they say that iron out the kinks is a perfectly acceptable expression. So says the 0.99

00:36:23.640 person who wrote this WordPress blog in 2010. So you are canceled and also banned from the show.

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00:38:14.780 again. Also want to invite you to join us this Wednesday, February 24th for the, um,

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00:38:32.080 You can join us Wednesday as we talk through this and much more and other news. We've also got a new

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00:39:25.100 Late last week, as we covered on this show, Senator Ted Cruz just talked about came under intense

00:39:29.440 scrutiny and backlash after it was revealed that he had traveled with his family to Cancun during the

00:39:34.560 winter storm disaster in his state. This was a huge controversy for reasons that nobody could

00:39:38.800 ever quite explain. Even after he revised his plans and returned home, the outrage had not quite

00:39:43.740 abated. Uh, in fact, the media was tracking Cruz's family, his wife and daughters now in Cancun. A

00:39:49.420 New York post headline announced quote, Ted Cruz's family seen soaking up the Cancun sun while Texas

00:39:54.800 shivers. I have to admit that's pretty outrageous. You know, Ted Cruz's daughters should be back in Texas

00:40:00.940 working to fix the power grid. Damn lazy kids nowadays. Back in my day, when there was an 1.00

00:40:06.200 outage, my parents had me climb up the pole to fix the power lines myself. That had to do without

00:40:11.420 shoes too. Uphill both ways. But these are softer and more delicate times, I suppose. Anyway, the PR

00:40:18.080 crisis for Cruz became an opportunity for others like representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who shortly 0.59

00:40:23.940 after Cancun gate went viral, uh, announced that she would be traveling to Texas to help out herself.

00:40:30.640 Totally coincidental timing. I'm sure as the local ABC affiliate in Houston reported AOC quote toward

00:40:37.560 Houston storm damage. Now, why did a representative from New York need to fly down to a city, a different

00:40:46.020 state, 1600 miles away to tour the storm damage. While the cynical among us might theorize that this

00:40:53.720 was nothing more than a glorified Instagram photo shoot. In fairness, though, she did more than tour

00:40:59.100 the damage. There's also video of her lifting packages of water bottles and, uh, putting them in

00:41:05.440 people's trunks, which is also nice. But again, the cynical, those darn cynical people might say that 0.98

00:41:13.040 the workers and volunteers taking care of the mess down at Houston really didn't need a high-profile 0.97

00:41:17.780 politician from up north to fly down to help pick up water bottles. I mean, there's no practical

00:41:23.780 advantage to her presence there. She brings media, she brings probably extra security, other logistical 1.00

00:41:30.800 concerns that vastly outweigh the benefit of having her there to put water bottles in people's trunks

00:41:36.000 and make concerned facial expressions while looking at the storm damage. I just, I doubt that any

00:41:42.020 emergency worker or charity volunteer has ever been in the middle of a crisis and then stopped to look

00:41:46.740 around and said to themselves, you know what we really need here? You know what we need? We need

00:41:50.060 a famous politician trailed by a line of journalists with cameras. That would make everything run

00:41:55.080 smoother. If AOC really wanted to provide extra manpower, she could have delegated. She could have

00:42:00.900 sent some people down or helped to recruit locals. She did help raise money for the storm relief,

00:42:07.060 which is good. But the part where she shows up in person to lift up water bottles on camera, that's where 0.90

00:42:14.200 you might suspect that there's more to this than her passion for charity work. At least a cynical person

00:42:20.620 might think that. Let's be fair, though. She didn't just tour the storm damage or put water bottles in trunks. 0.94

00:42:25.540 She also, of course, found a microphone and a podium to give a speech. And here's some of that. 0.96

00:42:30.680 You know, we really need to make sure that we're getting food and assistance to people across the

00:42:34.920 state. As was mentioned here at the Houston Food Bank, no questions are asked. So you come up

00:42:41.740 and you need help. You do not have to prove a damn thing. Documentado or indocumentado, 0.95

00:42:47.560 in the Houston Food Bank, if you are documented, undocumented, no matter what your income,

00:42:55.580 no matter your housing status, you can get help here, which is one of the reasons why we are so

00:43:00.080 proud to support the Houston Food Bank, because we don't because we want to help everybody. You

00:43:05.900 need it. We'll be there. Gee, you know, it really looks and sounds like this woman flew down to Texas 0.98

00:43:12.860 in the middle of a natural disaster to pose for cameras and deliver a stump speech. I mean,

00:43:17.260 it's the Houston Food Bank. Do they need a congresswoman from New York to come and speak 0.99

00:43:23.800 for them? Are they not capable of doing that themselves? What she just said there, was there

00:43:28.920 no one who actually works at the food bank and no local person that could have gotten on camera

00:43:33.200 and said all that? They need to fly her in to say that? It looks like she was taking advantage. 1.00

00:43:40.680 It looks and sounds that way because that's exactly what she did. This is, after all, the same person

00:43:45.020 who pretended to cry in front of an empty parking lot near the southern border, let's not forget.

00:43:48.440 It's the same person who claimed that Ted Cruz was trying to kill her, which, by the way,

00:43:53.820 what are you doing going down to Texas? Ted Cruz is there. He didn't leave. He said he's trying

00:43:58.500 to kill you. I guess she's more courage from this woman, taking her life into her hands like that. 0.99

00:44:06.700 This is also the same woman who claimed that she had a near-death experience in the riots,

00:44:10.280 even though the rioters never came near her or entered the building she was in. She has a history

00:44:15.340 of dramatically exploiting crises for political gain. And if you have any lingering doubts and think

00:44:20.560 that maybe she really went to Texas to perform charity work on camera for entirely benevolent

00:44:24.860 reasons, then consider that communities in her own state, her own city, were devastated over the

00:44:29.780 summer by BLM rioting, and she never showed up to help the victims there, much less give speeches

00:44:34.520 advocating for them. She chose Texas for a reason. By the way, she's also been clear that people

00:44:42.380 shouldn't be traveling during the pandemic, number one, and people actually shouldn't be traveling

00:44:46.980 by plane at all because it's destroying the environment and bringing mankind to the brink

00:44:50.920 of extinction. It's actually causing exactly the kinds of weather events that devastated Texas,

00:44:58.060 according to her. You think this would be all the more reason to not fly to Texas when there's

00:45:03.320 clearly no practical benefit to her physical presence in the state. But it wasn't about the

00:45:10.260 practical benefit, except in the sense that political benefits are practical. Now, I don't

00:45:15.640 mean to pick on AOC here. She is so transparently opportunistic that it's hard not to pick on her, 1.00

00:45:20.860 but it's not like she's the first politician to swoop down into a crisis like this. She wasn't the

00:45:26.020 only politician getting in the way down there in Texas. Even Ted Cruz showed up to carry water

00:45:31.500 bottles around after he got all that guff for trying to leave town. It's a pretty standard

00:45:35.020 political procedure, using a natural disaster as a campaign event. Politicians have been doing that

00:45:40.200 forever, of course, but that doesn't make it any better. Ted Cruz had it right the first time.

00:45:45.540 It's better for these people to just get out of the way than for them to show up for the photo

00:45:50.960 shoot. And that's why AOC is canceled. Am I really canceling her for doing charity work? Yes, I am.

00:46:00.160 Absolutely. Because it's not about the charity at all. And if you don't see that, if you're too dumb

00:46:06.420 to see that, then, well, you're canceled too. And that's going to do it for us today. Thanks for 0.99

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 22, 2021

Ep. 663 - The New Puritans

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