The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 672 - The Insurrection That Never Was

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media said there would be an insurrection in D.C. yesterday. It

00:00:04.100 never happened. Now they're saying the insurrection will actually be another day and the military has

00:00:08.140 to remain in the city until this new date. Are we starting to sense a pattern here? Also, five

00:00:12.420 headlines, including eBay's ban on the newly offensive Dr. Seuss books, plus the Washington

00:00:17.380 football team decides to get rid of its cheerleaders and BLM is revealed to be one big 0.98

00:00:22.160 grift. What a shock. And in our daily cancellation, we'll talk about one Democratic representative's

00:00:26.020 plan to lower the voting age to 16. Is that a good idea? Definitely not. We'll talk about all

00:00:31.780 that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show. While the United States Capitol was on, quote,

00:00:43.820 high alert yesterday, the National Guard was ready, fencing all in place, security perimeters

00:00:49.020 fortified. The House of Representatives canceled its sessions for the day. This was all done because

00:00:55.860 as the media constantly reminded us in the days leading up to yesterday, March 4th, there

00:01:00.860 was supposed to be a threat of right wing terrorist violence. The right wing MAGA domestic terrorists

00:01:07.620 had threatened to try to overtake the Capitol building on March 4th, we were told. And this

00:01:12.420 was all part of, again, this is what we're told, all part of some plot that, as I understand

00:01:17.100 it, involved the belief that March 4th was the true inauguration day. And on that day, Donald

00:01:22.340 Trump would rise from the ashes to his rightful throne and call on his followers to also rise

00:01:29.300 up in vengeance and destroy his adversaries. Now, the strange thing is that I never heard

00:01:35.180 about this conspiracy theory and this plot from any actual right wingers. I never heard

00:01:40.380 any right winger talk about this. I never saw any right winger post about this. I don't

00:01:45.180 know of any right wingers who know of any right wingers who talked about that or posted

00:01:49.400 about that. This was a far reaching, widely believed conspiracy theory on the right that

00:01:55.520 nobody on the right seemed to be aware of. Very strange. Yet it justified the further

00:02:00.040 military occupation of D.C. and the drama and theatrics of the House of Representatives

00:02:04.280 shutting down in a panic. And then on March 4th came, then March 4th came yesterday and it

00:02:09.840 went and nothing happened. There was, you may have noticed, no attack, no insurrection,

00:02:15.280 nothing. Now this could be because the right wing insurrectionists have invisibility cloaks

00:02:22.800 and actually did invade the Capitol, but nobody saw them. And if the terrorists have that kind

00:02:28.300 of technology, then we're definitely in trouble. I mean, we have to admit, right? But the other

00:02:33.500 possibility, something we should at least consider, is that there was never any plot at all. That

00:02:38.040 this was all an invention, something that existed only in the fevered imagination of the left and

00:02:43.000 the media. I mean, we certainly can't rule out either possibility. I mean, the invisibility cloak

00:02:47.520 thing is technically possible, but I tend to think that the latter is probably the case.

00:02:53.960 There was never any plot. If there were any QAnon people who believe that March 4th was the real

00:02:59.540 inauguration day or whatever, it was a small smattering of them and not nearly enough to justify

00:03:04.640 the continued military occupation of our nation's Capitol. So where do we go from here? There was supposed

00:03:11.200 to be right-wing violence on inauguration day. There was no violence. Then they said that there

00:03:16.080 would be the violence on March 4th and that didn't happen either. The military occupation of DC is

00:03:21.100 starting to remind me of the 15 days to slow the spread thing. Something with a definitive end

00:03:26.420 date originally, but then suddenly becomes ambiguous and endless. They put a certain measure in place for

00:03:32.980 a particular reason. Then when that reason no longer applies, they find another one. And that's why we

00:03:39.440 can't expect the military to go home and the fencing to come down now that another predicted right-wing 0.55

00:03:45.120 insurrection turned out to be a dud. There are reports today that the United States Capitol Police

00:03:50.060 Department has requested an extension of the National Guard presence in the Capitol for another 30 days,

00:03:56.740 or rather 60 days, sorry, another two months. Another two months of the U.S. Capitol under military

00:04:01.700 occupation. Why? For what reason? More threats, of course. But what threats? Well, you heard about the

00:04:09.580 threats on inauguration day that didn't amount to anything. And you heard about the threats on a March

00:04:13.280 4th that didn't amount to anything. Now get ready for the next big thing. The next big hype. March 20th.

00:04:20.780 You're probably going to be hearing a lot about March 20th in the coming days. Not from right-wing

00:04:26.560 insurrectionists or QAnon conspiracy theorists, but from the media allegedly reporting what those other

00:04:32.720 groups are allegedly saying. So here's the Newsweek headline. It says, QAnon theorists switch date to

00:04:41.680 March 20th after no Trump inauguration call the fourth false flag. Then the article goes on to talk

00:04:50.700 about how QAnon people branded March 4th a false flag and never planned to do anything on that day,

00:04:57.000 which again raises the question as to why, you know, why they canceled the House session and they

00:05:02.000 stood on high alert. If now the media is telling us that, oh yeah, well the QAnon people said that

00:05:06.900 March 4th was never a thing. But where does this March 20th date come from? Well, in the Newsweek

00:05:14.100 article, you have to go all the way to the end of that article and then you find this. Here's

00:05:20.680 what it says. Some QAnon supporters seem to rebrand the March 4th conspiracy in the wake of

00:05:27.640 community suspicion. While two individuals affiliated with the false theories simply

00:05:32.140 suggested that Trump's inauguration would take place sometime in the spring, one man identified

00:05:37.320 as Ken told Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel that the former president, quote, will be inaugurated

00:05:43.440 again on March 20th in comments over the weekend. Ken also believes that Trump is still in full command

00:05:49.580 of the military and Biden is acting as president as a ruse while the Pope and others are rounded

00:05:55.040 up, according to Weigel. The upcoming date will mark the 167th anniversary of the Republican Party's

00:06:01.380 founding. Former members of the Whig Party are said to have technically established the GOP during a

00:06:06.920 meeting in Rippon, Wisconsin on March 20th, 1854. Oh yes, March 20th, 1854, the technical founding of the

00:06:16.760 Republican Party. Isn't that a date that all of us right-wingers know so well and care so much

00:06:21.060 about? I talk to conservatives all the time. I say, what are you doing from March 20th? Big day.

00:06:27.640 It's when the Whig Party technically formed the Republican Party. Big stuff. So that's it. 0.75

00:06:34.240 A guy named Ken. Newsweek is pushing in its headline a new date for an insurrection based on something

00:06:42.720 that a guy named Ken told another guy. That's really it. I'm not cherry picking and pulling. No,

00:06:50.760 that's it in the Newsweek article. That's all they got. They got a guy named Ken. They don't even

00:06:55.620 explain anything about Ken. Who is Ken? Is he from a forum? Is he from Reddit? Is he just like,

00:07:03.040 did this Washington Post reporter stumble across this guy on a park bench somewhere?

00:07:08.200 Is it his neighbor, his uncle, his cousin? Just what Ken says. This is how journalism works in

00:07:14.520 the modern age. It works namely by trying to conjure things into reality by reporting them

00:07:20.240 as a reality before they are a reality. The game here is completely transparent.

00:07:26.260 The media wants some kind of violent right-wing demonstration. And so it is itself inventing

00:07:33.800 conspiracy theories that it hopes the right will adopt. And even if the media is ultimately

00:07:39.280 disappointed and the violence never materializes, still the threat, the entirely invented threat,

00:07:44.860 is useful enough on its own. Useful to guys like Congressman Jamal Bowman, who was on MSNBC

00:07:50.380 recently explaining why the city has to remain fortified even after all this. Here's what he says.

00:07:56.260 What do you feel or how do you feel about the decision to extend the security perimeter

00:08:01.380 and the presence of the National Guard at the Capitol?

00:08:05.880 It's something we have to do, unfortunately, because the threat of white nationalists and 0.55

00:08:11.960 white supremacists is real. You know, they are continuing to organize and galvanize

00:08:18.280 across this country. There are many examples of them infiltrating law enforcement across this country.

00:08:24.960 So we have to make sure the Capitol is protected and our elected officials are protected. But we also

00:08:31.380 have to be proactive. You know, we cannot take the threat of white nationalism lightly. You know,

00:08:37.720 over the last several years, they've made their presence felt, whether it's the Tree of Life

00:08:44.560 synagogue shooting, the Christchurch shooting, which happened overseas, as well as the AME church

00:08:51.960 shooting. And then obviously the January 6th insurrection. We have to do everything we can

00:08:56.720 to protect ourselves and protect the Capitol. But we also have to be proactive in dealing with the

00:09:01.320 issue of white nationalism in a very serious way.

00:09:04.780 Did you catch that? We have to do everything we can to protect ourselves.

00:09:09.780 A politician saying that the government has to do everything it can to protect him.

00:09:16.360 Sure. I mean, he's asking to be protected from a non-existent threat. Even so, talk about saying the

00:09:22.380 quiet part out loud. Do everything you can to protect me.

00:09:28.620 No, in fact, Jamal, the government should not do everything it can to protect you.

00:09:34.220 Not at all. There's a whole lot it can do that it shouldn't do. It's doing some of those things right

00:09:41.360 now. Yes, the government can fortify the nation's Capitol and permanently militarize it to protect

00:09:47.200 politicians, to protect itself, but it shouldn't. But this is how Bowman and his Democrat cohorts

00:09:54.100 see it. Do everything to protect him and almost nothing to protect regular American citizens,

00:09:59.900 his constituents, from violent BLM rioting in our cities or from the ordinary everyday violence

00:10:05.200 and bloodshed that wreaks havoc in those same cities. But look, none of this means that our

00:10:12.480 elected representatives lack courage. I don't want you to think that. It would be unfair of me not to

00:10:16.140 make note of Democratic Representative Al Green, who did demonstrate unparalleled courage and heroism

00:10:23.240 yesterday in the midst of the attack by invisible or possibly non-existent insurrections.

00:10:28.360 Here's The Hill with that report.

00:10:31.200 Representative Al Green is sending a message to QAnon and right-wing extremist threats by sitting

00:10:36.340 on the Capitol steps on Thursday, the day authorities warned militia groups were potentially planning

00:10:41.280 another breach of the building. He told The Hill, quote, I want to make a statement to let people

00:10:45.820 know those who would threaten those of us who cherish this freedom that we have here that we refuse to

00:10:50.680 allow those threats to negate our freedom. Capitol Police and the FBI have cautioned that militia groups

00:10:56.060 that took part in the deadly insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th when a group of Trump

00:11:00.700 supporters attempted to disrupt the certification of the Electoral College votes had drafted plans for

00:11:05.940 a second attack on March 4th. Wow. Wow. The bravery. He is sitting on the steps

00:11:13.780 behind a barbed wire fence patrolled by armed National Guardsmen and staring down a crowd that consists of media

00:11:22.580 members and a handful of pedestrians who happen to be walking by. Truly, the world has never seen courage

00:11:29.000 such as this. For this man to sit in what is right now the safest place on Earth, in spite of the alleged

00:11:36.600 threats of a handful of nutty troll accounts on the Internet. Well, I, for one, am stunned.

00:11:43.300 Stunned. Sure, it takes more courage to simply walk down the street in Chicago, a lot more actually,

00:11:49.600 than to do what he did. But still, let's not focus on any of that. Let's focus on him,

00:11:56.180 which is what he wants us to do. Very inspiring, very courageous. And on that positive note,

00:12:02.620 let's move on now to our five headlines. You know, I have to say, I really hate, you know,

00:12:13.040 that I don't like complaining. It's the last thing in the world that I want to do is complain. I

00:12:16.140 especially don't like to complain about here, where I work. It's a little awkward to do.

00:12:20.800 But there are times when I feel I have no other choice. So, you know, I am in this studio here,

00:12:26.060 as you can see, this beautiful studio. And this is also where I work during the day. I just sit here

00:12:31.360 all day working. And it's pretty dark in this in this studio. All we have are the studio lights,

00:12:36.560 which work for the camera. But in reality, it's like really dim and dark in here. So for months,

00:12:40.780 I've just been sitting in the studio in the darkness all day. And until yesterday, I was

00:12:46.980 informed after like three months that hidden behind one of the props back here is a is a light switch

00:12:53.780 that will turn on lights in the whole studio.

00:12:55.800 I've been here for three months. And I just found out that there are lights in the studio that I can

00:13:01.720 turn on. Nobody told me everyone else knew, but no one told me. So every person that I've asked

00:13:06.880 about this, and I've said, I, you know, I didn't know that there were lights I could turn on. Every

00:13:11.060 single person told me, well, we thought you liked just sitting in the dark.

00:13:17.280 And then I thought about it and I realized, okay, that's fair. I can see why you would assume that

00:13:21.460 about me. So maybe, maybe this is my fault, but I take no responsibility. Is it my fault that I never

00:13:28.540 thought to check on the wall for a light switch after three months? No, I refuse to take that

00:13:34.360 responsibility. Okay. Number one from the daily wire, it says internet auction site eBay confirmed

00:13:39.360 Thursday that it is scouring its open auctions for six canceled Dr. Seuss titles, reviewing seller

00:13:45.520 profiles and removing the listings, which the site claims violate its offensive materials policy.

00:13:50.260 On Thursday morning, the daily wire reported that eBay sellers who had listed copies of six

00:13:55.180 Dr. Seuss titles marked as racist and offensive, um, and remove them from publication by Dr. Seuss

00:14:00.940 enterprises. Those are, again, these are the, the banned blacklisted titles. So if you have these,

00:14:06.960 you know, make sure they're under lock and key. Um, if the cops show up to your house asking if you

00:14:12.760 have the, you know, make sure you have them stored somewhere. Um, I don't know if they're going to

00:14:17.580 start serving search warrants, looking for this, but, uh, the, the, the titles are, and to think

00:14:22.000 that I saw it on Mulberry street, if I ran the zoo, McElligott's pool, which I've never even heard

00:14:27.280 of that one. I consider myself a Seuss expert, but I've never heard of that one before on beyond

00:14:31.900 zebra scrambled egg, super, and the cat's quizzer. So anyone on eBay who had been selling those titles,

00:14:41.100 um, now they're not allowed to sell them. They've been removed from eBay too.

00:14:48.120 Now this, this, it's really easy to take issues like this as the left has been doing,

00:14:52.960 the media has been doing and pretending, reducing it down and pretending that it's all about Dr. Seuss.

00:15:03.440 Every time there's a cancel culture type story, what the media wants to do is like,

00:15:06.940 well, what do you care about Dr. Seuss so much? What's the big deal with Dr. Seuss?

00:15:11.100 Whoever it is. If it's Gina Carano, it's like, well, it's just Gina Carano. It's just this one

00:15:15.780 person. Okay. But first of all, that doesn't make it right. Even if it is just the one person,

00:15:21.900 but the second thing is it's not just the one person. This is part of a trend, a very troubling

00:15:27.080 trend. That's the point. That's what we're concerned about. It's not only about Dr. Seuss,

00:15:34.740 as big a fan as I am of his literature. Uh, it's about what it represents.

00:15:41.100 And what it represents here is that, you know, on, on this, this past Monday,

00:15:47.940 you, you could buy Dr. Seuss books on eBay. Uh, it was, it was no problem. Dr. Seuss was

00:15:55.400 simply Dr. Seuss. Then it was decided all at once by the left and the media and the powers,

00:16:02.940 the cultural powers that be that this stuff is all offensive.

00:16:06.680 And within a couple of days, you can't even sell the stuff on eBay anymore.

00:16:12.240 You can't even sell it secondhand.

00:16:15.740 That's the troubling trend where things can happen this suddenly. And in such a sort of

00:16:21.640 coordinated way. Yeah. You should be troubled by that. No matter how you feel about Dr. Seuss,

00:16:28.800 because as I've been pointing out all along, and I think it's a, it's an important thing to point

00:16:35.420 out that these books that are now banned on eBay and have been, we've decided they're offensive.

00:16:42.520 They've been in publication for like 80 years and nobody had a problem.

00:16:47.260 So why now? Why all of a sudden, why all at once do these things have to happen?

00:16:56.020 All right. Number two, this is from ESPN. It says the Washington football team has discontinued

00:17:00.240 its cheerleader program after more than 50 years, replacing it with a co-ed dance squad as part of

00:17:05.300 its rebranding effort. The team had announced last month that the cheerleader program was paused while

00:17:09.920 it decided what direction the rebranding would take. Um, and now I don't even know how to read this

00:17:15.620 whole thing, but they're getting rid of it and replacing it with what a dance squad. So this

00:17:18.920 is, this is an example of, um, you know, uh, this is classic example of corporate woke virtue signaling

00:17:26.440 where they're not really doing anything. What's the difference between a cheerleader squad and a

00:17:33.500 co-ed dance squad? Cheerleader squads already have dudes on them in most of these cases. Like those

00:17:39.020 are the guys that are tossing the cheerleaders in the air and already what they do is dance, right?

00:17:44.220 So what is, it's a distinction without a difference, but you know, throw, throw in another

00:17:50.080 bone to the left. That's what this is about. Corporate virtue signaling. And it's, it's the NFL,

00:17:56.500 um, continuing in, in, in, in little, this is little and bigger ways, uh, continuing to try to

00:18:04.140 appease and appeal to people who are not fans anyway, and will never be.

00:18:09.620 Number three from the daily wire says president, uh, since president Joe Biden took office in

00:18:16.380 January, the partner of justice has been quietly dismissing federal cases against Portland, uh,

00:18:21.260 Portland, Oregon rioters, according to local media. KGW reported Wednesday, federal prosecutors have

00:18:27.220 dismissed more than one third of cases stemming from last summer's violent protests in downtown

00:18:32.800 Portland. When protesters clashed with federal agents, the network reviewed federal court records

00:18:38.480 and found 31 of the 90 protest cases have been dismissed by the U S department of justice,

00:18:43.340 including a mix of misdemeanor and felony charges. Um, some of the most serious charges

00:18:50.000 dropped include four defendants charged with assaulting a federal officer, which is a felony.

00:18:54.700 More than half of the drop charges were dismissed with prejudice, which several former federal

00:18:59.060 prosecutors described as extremely rare. Dismissed with prejudice means the case can't be brought back

00:19:03.180 to court. Uh, the charges all stemmed from confrontations between quote, anti-fascist

00:19:08.480 protesters and special agents, federal government brought in to protect and defend the city's federal

00:19:11.740 courthouse over the summer. So these are people, some of them, uh, charged felony charges of assaulting

00:19:17.760 a federal officer in the process of trying to damage at a minimum damage or take over a federal

00:19:25.880 courthouse. And those charges are being dropped. And yet we still hear this absolute nonsense that

00:19:32.880 somehow, uh, the, the, the, the rioters of the Capitol are getting the kid glove treatment while the

00:19:39.760 BLM and Antifa rioters had, you know, the full force of, uh, of, of, of federal government come

00:19:44.560 down on them. It is exactly the opposite is the case. This is another thing where the left and the

00:19:51.560 media, they, they, you know, we are, we are looking at something with our own eyes and they're telling us

00:19:57.000 that that thing doesn't exist. Don't believe your own lying eyes. There can't be any good reason,

00:20:05.520 especially if you care about maintaining order. If you're worried about insurrections and all these

00:20:10.500 things, what could be the good reason to drop charges on people who assaulted federal officers

00:20:16.900 who are defending a federal court building. Meanwhile, and I think we have this clip, um,

00:20:25.700 you know, there in some cases, the people that went into the Capitol building on January 6th

00:20:31.400 are facing 20 years. They're trying to put 20 years on some of these people.

00:20:36.400 Like for example, the infamous QAnon shaman, who's this, obviously this wacky nutty guy who he was the 1.00

00:20:43.860 guy with the weird, uh, you know, headdress thing that he was wearing. And, um, he was in,

00:20:49.300 you know, one of the people in the Capitol, uh, they're trying to put 20 years on this guy

00:20:54.820 just to get an idea of, of who this guy is and what his intentions were.

00:21:00.140 Well, he was interviewed by CBS yesterday and here's what he said.

00:21:05.500 My actions on January 6th, how would I describe them? Well, I sang a song and that's a part of

00:21:11.720 shamanism. It's about, um, creating positive vibrations in a sacred chamber. I also stopped 0.99

00:21:17.880 people from stealing and vandalizing that sacred space, the Senate. Okay. I actually stopped somebody

00:21:23.360 from stealing muffins out of the, out of the break room. I also said a prayer in that sacred

00:21:28.580 chamber because it was my intention to bring divinity and to bring God back into the Senate.

00:21:34.660 But Jake, legally, you were not allowed to be in what you're calling the sacred chamber.

00:21:39.500 And that is, and that is the one very serious regret that I have was believing that when we

00:21:44.980 were waved in by police officers, that it was acceptable. Okay. So he's, um, in the Capitol

00:21:52.200 building saying a prayer, trying to bring good vibrations. And then, and then we find out some

00:21:59.840 other, some, some of the other dastardly criminals in there, uh, somebody was trying to steal muffins

00:22:03.940 from the break room. I wonder if they're going to put 20 years on that guy. Is that guy going to get

00:22:08.320 the muffin thief? Is he going to get 20 years for that? Quite possibly. Now, obviously we all agree 0.98

00:22:17.400 that they shouldn't have been in there. It's illegal to be in there trespassing and everything. Um,

00:22:22.180 but you hear that guy, does that sound like a dangerous right-wing terrorist? Is that guy a

00:22:30.540 threat to overturn democracy? Was he going to overturn the results of the election? Was that guy,

00:22:36.320 you worried that that guy could have done that? It is hard for me to see how that guy is any more of a

00:22:45.940 threat than, for example, the, uh, BLM or Zantifa people who assaulted federal officers in, in, uh,

00:22:52.760 in Portland and are now having their charges dropped. Explain to me how that guy, the shaman

00:22:57.080 guy with his good vibrations and prayers and trying to guard the, uh, the sacred muffins of the break

00:23:01.620 room. How is he a greater threat than the people assaulting federal officers or the people that burned

00:23:07.160 down and invaded the, uh, police station in Minneapolis or the people who, you know, burned down, uh,

00:23:12.460 apartment buildings and stores and CVSs and, and drug stores and liquor stores. We don't care about

00:23:20.660 any of that, right? I mean, those are just the places where average Americans live and work.

00:23:26.200 Who cares about that? You have a tough time explaining to me how that dude is a bigger threat

00:23:33.200 was ever at any point, a greater threat. Then how about the BLM rioters who, um, assaulted

00:23:42.180 a woman in New York with two by force, beat her over the head with them, caught on video?

00:23:50.200 Who are you more worried about? Who would you be more worried about? Who would you feel more

00:23:55.380 uncomfortable with walking down, you know, the street, come across a rider who beat a woman with

00:24:03.320 a two by four or that dude? Who do you think is a greater threat to you?

00:24:11.000 All right. Number four, Jen Psaki, um, does this thing now where she answers questions, 1.00

00:24:16.340 I guess, from Twitter. And she was asked about how Biden will, will unify the country. We've all

00:24:22.960 wondered this, right? Because we've heard this plan. Democrats are going to unify the country.

00:24:27.560 Um, what is his plan to do it? And she laid out the plan. Let's listen.

00:24:33.180 What is President Biden doing to create unity in our country? This is what the president ran on and

00:24:39.220 what he's focused on every day. It's about his actions every day, uh, his rhetoric, uh, and how

00:24:45.160 we all speak, uh, from this government. And he doesn't look at people or hear their stories based on

00:24:51.360 their political party or what their registration is. He's really in this job because he wants to help

00:24:57.380 all Americans and govern for all Americans. Hopefully that action and that kind of leadership

00:25:02.080 will help unify the country. Okay. So that's it. That's how he's going to do it. Um, I did take

00:25:08.080 notes. So he's going to unify the country through his actions, through his rhetoric and how we all

00:25:13.220 speak from this government. Okay. So there's no plan basically. He's, he's of course there is,

00:25:19.180 he's not going to, he has no plan at all to do any kind of unifying whatsoever. That's,

00:25:22.980 that's what we learned from that. Could there be any, could there, that is the most vague answer

00:25:29.820 I think I've ever heard, um, from a politician or a spokesperson. You're think about it. The

00:25:38.200 question is how, how is he going to do this thing that he says he's going to say he's going to unify

00:25:41.680 what's his plan. And her answer is, well, through his actions, his actions will do it.

00:25:48.140 Yeah. Really his plan to do this is to take actions. Um, and he'll, he'll also be saying

00:25:53.940 things too. So really his plan is to say some things and do some things. That's the plan.

00:26:00.260 Yeah. But what is he going to say and do? It doesn't matter. Things, things, that's what he's

00:26:05.740 going to say and do. All right. Number five, this is from the daily mail says Michael Brown senior

00:26:10.420 is among the black lives matter activists demanding $20 million from the black lives 0.96

00:26:14.900 matter global network foundation after its finances were disclosed for the first time,

00:26:19.340 revealing the group raked in $90 million in donations last year. The nonprofit shared it's

00:26:25.200 the nonprofit, um, shared its financial snapshot with the associated press amid accusations from

00:26:32.220 local chapters that they are not being given any of the money. Brown, whose son, Michael Brown

00:26:36.520 Jr. Was killed by police in Ferguson in 2014 says he and his advocacy group have been shortchanged

00:26:41.440 by the larger BLM organization. Uh, Brown asked in a statement, why hasn't my family's foundation

00:26:47.620 received any assistance from the movement? Who are they giving it to? And what are they doing with it?

00:26:53.080 Um, and this is, this is, uh, there have been, there have been several reports in recent days

00:26:59.180 about local, as, as mentioned in the daily mail report, local BLM chapters that are upset. Yeah.

00:27:05.980 Maybe having a little bit of an awakening moment, maybe where they realize, Oh, this is all, this is

00:27:10.760 all a giant scam that I'm a part of. That's all this is $90 million. What, what?

00:27:20.820 Yes. It's obviously a scam, but I do not have any sympathy for you. If you got basically robbed by

00:27:27.160 BLM because you, you're, you're one of the morons who contributed to that $90 million in donations, 1.00

00:27:33.260 what do you think they're going to do with it? What do you think their plan is? 1.00

00:27:42.460 Like what, what in your, in, in, in, in your best estimation, what did you think they were going to

00:27:49.800 do? It's obviously a scam and if you have money to donate, that's great.

00:27:57.160 So many better give, give to a, an organization that helps, you know, children. I mean, if you

00:28:04.040 really want to give to an organization that, uh, defends the idea that black lives matter,

00:28:08.460 give to a pro-life organization trying to defend black lives in the womb and white lives and all 0.84

00:28:14.460 lives. So no big surprise there. Giant, giant scam. Uh, finally, here's a bonus. This is a New

00:28:21.500 York post report that, um, talking about this new, uh, uh, apparently a new, a new phenomenon now where

00:28:27.260 men, well, it's not that new, but more and more men are wearing makeup now because of, uh, because

00:28:32.320 all our lives have, have migrated to zoom. And so it says when realtor Ben Dixon caught sight of his

00:28:38.400 face during an early morning zoom call with a client in January, he was distracted by what he

00:28:42.660 perceived were bags and discoloration under his eyes. I thought you could do with a little help

00:28:47.640 here. The 42 year old admitted to the post noting how he'd become more bothered by his appearance

00:28:51.880 while working remotely during the pandemic. So like a growing number of dudes who are increasingly

00:28:55.740 horrified by their appearances on countless zoom calls, he consulted a friend with seemingly

00:28:59.680 perfect skin who generously shared his secret concealer for men. More men than ever are now buying

00:29:06.920 makeup resulting in the male side of the industry, experiencing a leap in sales, partly due to the

00:29:12.080 work from home trend. Now I had this, uh, really this kind of existential crisis moment because

00:29:20.680 I saw this report being shared on Twitter about how more and more guys are wearing makeup.

00:29:27.280 And at first I wanted to share it and kind of laugh and say guys wearing makeup, you know,

00:29:32.620 kind of make fun of them. But then I realized that I wear makeup every day

00:29:36.740 because really when you're on camp, but here's the thing it's different when number one, it's

00:29:44.400 different when I do it. Okay. General principle. Uh, number two, when you're on camera, that's the

00:29:49.300 one exception I will make. If you don't, and I resisted the makeup thing for a long time with it,

00:29:53.520 but if you're on camera, you don't wear makeup, you will look like a corpse. I still look like one

00:29:59.340 with the makeup. Imagine if I didn't have it. So I'm going to make an allowance here, at least for

00:30:05.820 myself, if nobody else. All right, let's move on now to reading the YouTube comments. Um,

00:30:11.840 let's see, this is from Nanny Manley says, my comment is totally unrelated to today's show,

00:30:20.580 but I wanted to share a funny dream I had. Matt and his wife were over at my house having dinner

00:30:25.720 with me and my family. I did not consent to you having a dream about me and my wife, by the way,

00:30:31.340 this is a non-consensual dream that I'm a part of. As the dinner went on, someone made a joke.

00:30:38.060 And when Alyssa started to laugh, her face turned into the laughing emoji. Matt unceremoniously

00:30:42.940 canceled her on the spot. When I woke up and remembered the dream, I started laughing and

00:30:47.620 thought how funny it would be if my face turned into laughing emoji too. I need more sleep. Yes,

00:30:54.780 you do. Um, first of all, it sounds horrifying. Second, I have a general policy where I, I, I think

00:31:02.800 I've been clear about this. I, all dream stories are terrible and boring and they're only interesting

00:31:09.180 to the person who is relaying them. So you're banned for the show for that. Sometimes I can make an

00:31:14.800 exception if I'm in the dream, like, okay, I'll listen to it, but no exception here. Um,

00:31:20.620 freak of fitness says who else has pondered about moving out into the woods of an extreme remote

00:31:26.060 location, smash all of our technology and live off the land, a naked and afraid slash alone

00:31:31.360 collaboration, but instead I'll be clothed, not afraid. And I'd have my family with me. Uh, in,

00:31:36.800 in, in all, uh, seriousness, I think that is something we should think about. I think about that every day.

00:31:42.700 There's no, there's no good reason not to do it. Um, I think all of our lives will be better.

00:31:53.140 I think it's a, it's a weird situation for me because I make my living on the internet,

00:31:57.520 but I'm absolutely certain that the internet has been a net negative for mankind.

00:32:04.800 And you who are watching this right now, you would all be way better off

00:32:08.180 if you didn't, if you didn't spend any time on the internet at all.

00:32:13.920 And so much of, so much else of modern technology, maybe you don't need to forsake all modern

00:32:17.540 technology, but if you draft, we all drastically decreased our consumption and use of modern

00:32:23.040 technology, we will be way happier as people. The internet is not making us happy at all.

00:32:29.900 So that's, that is my honest belief. That's how I urge people. Like if you can spend less time on

00:32:34.260 the internet, do it. But at the same time, if you do spend less time on the internet,

00:32:37.240 then we lose money. So there's a conflict of interest there. Um, and finally secret Caucasian 1.00

00:32:43.760 man says, Matt, would you rather be a ninja or a pirate? I got to say the comments kind of lacking

00:32:47.420 today, but of course I'd rather be a ninja. You know, every day we have to talk about companies

00:32:53.300 that are, uh, you know, censoring conservatives, banning conservatives, shutting down speech,

00:32:59.580 all these hopelessly woke leftist companies. Of course we have to talk about them because they're

00:33:04.080 a big problem in society today, but it's nice to also be able to talk about the companies that,

00:33:08.440 um, hold the same values and beliefs as us and are working with us and for us in the culture.

00:33:13.700 And one of those would be 40 days for life. You know, the state of our culture frustrates all of us,

00:33:18.220 you know, politicians lobbying for radical pro abortion legislation, infanticide. Um, and,

00:33:24.660 but where I see the real progress is on the grassroots level in, on the community,

00:33:28.260 the most localized level. And that's what 40 days for life is all about. 40 days for life

00:33:32.280 went from one peaceful prayer vigil in front of a Planned Parenthood in Texas to now a thousand

00:33:36.400 cities, 66 countries, 40 days of prayer, fasting and law abiding vigils have saved 18,003 babies

00:33:43.220 from abortion. They've helped to 211 abortion workers leave their job and have closed 107

00:33:47.840 abortion facilities. So these, this is a group that is saving lives, 18,000 lives, um, that they've

00:33:55.180 saved. Be a part of the beginning of the end of abortion by joining 1 million volunteers and sign up

00:33:59.940 for your location at 40 days for life.com. You can also stay updated on the number one pro-life

00:34:05.060 podcast, 40 days for life. The largest spring campaign ever is happening from February 17th

00:34:09.960 to March 28th. You want to get on board and be a part of that. Don't wait for Washington to heal

00:34:14.620 our culture. Go to work in our neighborhood at 40 days for life.com. And you know, there are so many

00:34:20.540 crazy leftist theories and ideas in some cases, outright lies, uh, in many cases, outright lies

00:34:26.300 floating around out there. And, uh, we spent a lot of time on the daily wire trying to deal with

00:34:30.760 that. Well, Ben Shapiro's new show debunked is all about that. Every Friday, Ben exposes popular

00:34:36.060 fallacies purported by leftist activists and politicians with short mini documentaries that

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00:34:45.600 let's face it, everything's a hot button issue these days. The last one, the first one, in fact,

00:34:50.120 was about minimum wage. Um, and next Ben Shapiro is taking on the subject of unions. Couldn't be a

00:34:56.240 better time with all the craziness from the teachers unions to talk about that. So debunked is now

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00:35:16.100 off and now let's get to our daily cancellation. So today we're going to cancel the most underrated

00:35:23.300 member of the squad, Ayanna Pressley. Uh, I call her underrated because she's easily the craziest 1.00

00:35:27.600 one of the bunch, even more so than AOC or Ilhan Omar. Yeah. She doesn't always get the credit that

00:35:31.800 her craziness deserves demonstrating my point. Here she is on the house floor yesterday, introducing an 0.98

00:35:37.220 amendment to lower the voting age to 16. Here's what she says to immigration reform, to climate change,

00:35:43.680 to the future of work and minimum wage. Our young people are organizing, mobilizing and calling us

00:35:48.980 to action. They are at the forefront of social movements and have more than earned inclusion

00:35:54.160 in our democracy. Mr. Speaker, 16 and 17 year olds, constituents of mine are supporting their families.

00:36:01.540 They are working not for enrichment or to build a resume, but because they have no choice.

00:36:06.180 They are attending school full-time and taking care of loved ones in the midst of the COVID crisis.

00:36:10.460 Young people are contributing both to the labor force and their local economies by paying taxes.

00:36:16.880 And yet they are deprived of the opportunity to exercise their right to vote.

00:36:20.740 Some have questioned the maturity of our youth. I don't. 16 and 17 year olds today possess wisdom

00:36:26.560 and maturity defined by today's challenges, hardships and opportunities. They deserve and demand a

00:36:32.280 government that is accountable to them, a government that values their voices and understands the depth and

00:36:36.800 breadth of their lived experience. There it is. Lived experience. Everyone take a shot.

00:36:42.640 Yes, we must understand the depth of a 16 year olds lived experience.

00:36:47.160 They're people of great wisdom. She says great maturity. Their voices should be heard in our

00:36:51.380 democratic process. They should have a say. And all of these claims will be really super convincing to

00:36:56.420 me. If it weren't for the fact that I was a 16 year old once.

00:37:00.060 And if I had never met any other 16 year olds, then maybe I could find this rosy picture believable.

00:37:06.740 But my experience both with being 16 and being around 16 year olds tells me that no, they are not wise and

00:37:13.200 mature. They are by and large idiots. And I say that with no malice or judgment. I was the biggest idiot of 1.00

00:37:19.360 them all at 16. I very often marvel at the fact that I managed to live through the experience of being 16. 1.00

00:37:24.700 At 16, especially if you're a guy, you will literally risk your life just to amuse your

00:37:31.740 friends. Like just getting a, wow, dude, that was awesome out of your buddies is enough justification

00:37:37.500 to do something that has a 75% chance of killing you. That's the kind of wisdom that a 16 year old

00:37:43.320 has. Okay. It's not nearly the kind of wisdom that I have now as a 34 year old man, when I would

00:37:49.040 never do anything that has a 75% chance of killing me just to make people laugh. It would have to be,

00:37:53.900 it'd have to be no more than a 50% chance. There's also science behind this. You know,

00:37:58.920 your anecdotal experience with teenagers and being a teenager is backed by science.

00:38:03.800 It's not a coincidence that we all have this impression of teenagers as impetuous, impulsive,

00:38:08.220 hormonal, half sane barbarians. Science tells us that the prefrontal cortex, the region of our brain

00:38:13.600 that controls things like logical reasoning, discernment, impulse control, all the things that

00:38:18.400 we would normally relate to wisdom isn't fully developed until the age of 25. So if you like me

00:38:25.760 look back at yourself from the age of like 15 to 24 and think, my God, who was that person? 0.50

00:38:33.460 That person was actually insane. I was an actual lunatic. Well, this is why your executive brain 0.99

00:38:41.720 functions, your capacity to be a reasonable and mature adult were not fully online. Now you might

00:38:49.300 object and say, well, by this logic, instead of lowering the voting age, we should raise it to 25.

00:38:54.080 Is that what you're saying? Yes, exactly. That's precisely what I'm saying. Precisely what we should

00:38:59.180 be doing. The country would not by any measure benefit from having 16 year olds vote. Ayanna Pressley 1.00

00:39:05.540 would benefit because her ideas and policies are so stupid and destructive that most 16 year olds 1.00

00:39:10.560 would find them appealing, but the country would not benefit. It also doesn't benefit from having 1.00

00:39:16.060 18 year olds vote. There is simply no downside to requiring people to grow a little older,

00:39:22.460 become a little wiser, accumulate some more lived experience before they vote. What's the worst that

00:39:28.800 could come from such a policy? What's the worst case scenario? A bunch of kids get their feelings hurt,

00:39:34.180 storm off to their rooms. You won't let me vote? Well, I hate you.

00:39:37.800 I mean, that might happen. I can think of plenty of downside to allowing uninformed and unwise people 0.95

00:39:45.140 to vote. We've been living through that downside for decades. Now, with all that said, I would be

00:39:53.260 willing to consider a compromise here. An intelligent objection to the points I've raised so far is that,

00:40:01.380 sure, most 16 year olds are immature and stupid, but then again, a lot of 36 year olds are too. 0.99

00:40:07.120 There are many 56 year olds who are as ill-equipped for the voting booth as the average 16 year old, 1.00

00:40:12.520 if not more so. That's all true. So my compromise would be this, similar to what I proposed in the

00:40:17.320 past. All voters must take a simple test measuring their basic aptitude and how informed they are.

00:40:24.080 We'll be setting a pretty low bar with the test, starting small, questions like, who is the

00:40:28.760 secretary of state? What does the legislative branch of the government do? Okay, stuff like that.

00:40:33.580 So I say all voters be required to take this test. Any who pass can vote. Any who fail cannot. So if

00:40:40.660 you're 16 and you pass, fine. If you're 62 and you fail, you're out. Now, I'd like to see voting

00:40:46.820 requirements that go far beyond this. I think the requirements should be strict enough that millions

00:40:51.580 of current voters are ruled out. I'd like to see the numbers reduced by about 70 to 80%. That's what

00:40:57.160 I think we should shoot for. I don't think voting should be a big party that everybody is invited to.

00:41:02.200 I think it should be something that only the most informed, most engaged, most productive and mature

00:41:07.280 Americans have the privilege to participate in. I realize this idea is upsetting to a lot of people, but

00:41:13.280 I don't care. And anyway, I'm willing to compromise. I'm willing to lower the bar so that all you have to do

00:41:20.140 is pass a test that any eighth grader should be able to pass. Anyone who does pass it votes. Anyone

00:41:27.380 who doesn't, doesn't. So what do you say, Ayanna Pressley? Can we strike a deal? No, we can't, can we?

00:41:35.180 Because you want the uninformed to vote. You want people who are utterly clueless to file into the 0.99

00:41:41.620 polling stations and drown out the votes of the informed and the engaged citizens. That's the whole

00:41:48.200 reason why you're proposing this change. And that's also the reason, along with a bunch of other

00:41:54.400 reasons, why you're canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching, everybody.

00:42:01.100 Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.

00:42:18.200 Godspeed. Wherever you listen to podcasts, we're there. Also, be sure to check out the other Daily

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00:42:51.280 Hey, everybody. This is Andrew Klavan, host of the Andrew Klavan show. You know,

00:42:54.800 some people are depressed because the Republic is collapsing, the end of days is approaching,

00:42:58.900 and the moon's turned to blood. But on the Andrew Klavan show, that's where the fun just gets started.

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The Matt Walsh Show - March 05, 2021

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