The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 685 - Arab Man Commits Massacre. Media Changes Subject To Gun Control

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the media scrambles to change the narrative after the mass killer in 0.74

00:00:04.040 Boulder turns out to be an Arab man who killed white people. Also, five headlines, including

00:00:07.720 the U.S. senator who announced her intentions to only vote to confirm nominees of a certain race.

00:00:12.620 And a man finds shrimp tails in his box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. What's the lesson we

00:00:16.400 can learn from that story? There is a lesson. I'll tell you what it is. Finally, in our daily

00:00:19.640 cancellation, we'll deal with the claim made by a Democratic senator and many others that buying a

00:00:23.860 gun is somehow easier than voting. Is that true at all? Talk about that and much more today on

00:00:28.700 the Matt Walsh Show. When the horrific news first broke about the mass shooting in Boulder,

00:00:40.340 Colorado yesterday, which left 10 people at a King Soopers grocery store dead, the media settled on

00:00:46.920 the narrative before the victims' bodies had even been put into body bags. This was another bloody

00:00:51.980 rampage carried out by a racist white male. Now, I say another because the shooting last week in 0.99

00:00:57.340 Atlanta, which left eight victims dead, has not been officially categorized as a race-based hate

00:01:03.860 crime by law enforcement. But that hasn't stopped the media and the Democrat Party, as we've discussed,

00:01:08.560 from insisting that it could be nothing but a race-based hate crime. They arrived at that

00:01:13.060 conclusion in spite of the fact that the shooter himself said his motive was sexual rage, not racial

00:01:18.100 animus. Now, in the case of Boulder, they arrived at a similar conclusion in spite of the fact that we

00:01:23.780 had at that point absolutely no information about the shooter or his motives at all. And they had

00:01:29.940 already determined that it must be a white guy. Caleb Hall has compiled a thread of leftists. You

00:01:36.400 can go look at his account on Twitter. It's worth looking at. A thread of leftists in media and

00:01:40.340 politics who declared the Boulder shooter was a white male. Many, many, many, dozens said this.

00:01:46.860 Mina Harris, who's a lawyer and also a niece to Kamala Harris, went so far as to say that white men 0.99

00:01:53.800 are the greatest terrorist threat to our country. Many prominent members of the left echoed this 0.97

00:02:00.240 sentiment. And then, of course, the narrative collapsed. Authorities, after taking a suspiciously

00:02:04.820 long time to tell us the name of the killer, announced that he is a 21-year-old immigrant from

00:02:10.700 Syria. Now, some on the left continued to cling on to the violent white male talking point, announcing

00:02:18.480 that Syrians now basically count as white, apparently. Famous race baiter Tariq Nasheed explained that

00:02:24.840 Syrians are, quote, legally, politically, and socially white. This, along with being abject nonsense, 1.00

00:02:31.760 is especially ironic given the fact that these same people are quick to remind us, and recently have 0.94

00:02:37.660 been especially quick to remind us that Jesus was not white. Well, which is it? Are Middle Eastern men 1.00

00:02:43.560 white or not? I suppose the answer is that they're brown when they do good things, such as heal the 0.99

00:02:50.260 sick and redeem mankind, and white when they do bad things, such as murder lots of people. And this is 0.99

00:02:55.400 critical race theory in a nutshell, of course. The leftists who were willing to acknowledge that they

00:03:01.980 were wrong in their initial statements about the shooter's race mostly excuse themselves on the 0.96

00:03:06.780 basis that white men commit the majority of mass shootings. Tay Anderson, who describes himself in

00:03:12.140 his bio as a community organizer and Denver school board director, no surprise there, justified his

00:03:18.500 own false assumptions along those lines, writing, quote, yesterday I assumed that the shooter involved

00:03:23.720 was a white male. I was wrong. Over the last decade, a majority of these horrendous acts have been white 0.87

00:03:29.520 men, but I still refuse to give this murder notoriety. Our attention must be on the victims and the

00:03:34.980 Boulder community. How magnanimous. How magnanimous and generous of him to say that. The attention

00:03:40.200 should be on the victims. He decided that after he found out who the killer was, then he decided,

00:03:46.380 you know what, we should talk about the victims instead. Now, by the way, this isn't even necessarily

00:03:51.480 true, what he just said about white males committing the majority of mass shootings. The term mass 0.56

00:03:56.620 shooting is hopelessly vague and intentionally so. It's generally defined according to the political needs

00:04:02.460 of whoever is using the term. In their mass shooting database, Mother Jones defines mass shootings as,

00:04:11.460 quote, indiscriminate rampages in public places resulting in four or more victims killed.

00:04:17.580 Now, look at all the qualifiers on that. Why does it have to be indiscriminate? And what do we mean by

00:04:24.840 indiscriminate? And why only in a public place? And why four victims and not five or two or three?

00:04:31.180 Why do they all have to die in order for it to count as a mass shooting? If somebody goes in,

00:04:35.680 sprays bullets, and hits 15 people and only kills two, that's not a mass shooting?

00:04:39.940 Well, apparently not. Not by this definition. So these are all arbitrary guidelines. And according

00:04:45.240 to those arbitrary guidelines, indeed, white men are most often the culprits of that kind of mass 0.97

00:04:52.020 shooting. Though even by those highly selective and random standards, white men don't commit more than 0.94

00:04:58.140 their representative share of mass shootings when you look at their overall, the overall population

00:05:03.200 percentages and so forth. But if we define mass shooting simply as a shooting where more than one

00:05:08.560 person is shot, the picture changes dramatically. And if we do the most reasonable and worthwhile thing

00:05:15.640 and focus on all homicides rather than giving undue emphasis to one particular and uncommon form of 0.99

00:05:22.180 homicide, we'll find that the majority of those crimes are committed not by white men, but by black 0.99

00:05:27.180 men. Would it be okay then for me to make the blanket assumption that every homicide is done by black 0.99

00:05:33.380 men until I'm given specific information to the contrary? No. If there was just any story about

00:05:40.940 someone being murdered, someone's murdered when a liquor store was robbed. If I were to tweet out and

00:05:47.440 say, ah, must be a black guy, I'd be called racist for that. Yeah, this is exactly what the left did 0.54

00:05:54.580 in this case and then justified it, said, yeah, I made a racial assumption. Of course, I'll be told

00:06:00.360 that such assumptions in my case are racist, even though the people calling racial assumptions based

00:06:06.400 on statistical generalities racist in that case are the same ones who make those kinds of assumptions

00:06:10.920 and justify them when it comes to mass shootings or quote unquote mass shootings. Now, this is how the

00:06:17.440 double standard works. It's also why the race of the victims in yesterday's shootings has not been

00:06:23.580 judged relevant by the media or our political leaders. After the Atlanta shooting, there were

00:06:29.520 marches to quote, stop anti-Asian hate. I'm not really sure how a march is going to, I don't know

00:06:36.420 exactly what a march against hate is supposed to accomplish, but we had those. There were demands

00:06:41.440 for hate crime charges to be filed, media editorials about the whiteness pandemic. Representative Judy

00:06:48.460 Chu, we played this clip a couple days ago of California, said on ABC News that she knows in

00:06:53.000 her heart and in her mind that the shooting was a hate crime. And she knows that simply because a

00:06:58.120 majority of the victims were Asian and the shooter was white. By that standard, if we were allowed to

00:07:04.440 apply the same standard, it must be concluded that yesterday's terrible crime was an anti-white hate

00:07:09.600 crime. In that case, all 10 victims were white and the perpetrator, despite desperate claims to the

00:07:15.440 contrary, was a non-white Arab man. Why should we not be calling for hate crime charges here? Why should 0.95

00:07:21.400 we not be organizing stop anti-white hate rallies? It's true that we don't know the killer's motive at

00:07:29.640 this point, but when has that ever stopped the race baiters? It's only stopped them in this case.

00:07:37.200 After gearing up to make this shooting into yet another story about race, they shamelessly pivoted

00:07:42.420 as soon as they heard the name of the killer, and now they wish to discuss issues like mental health

00:07:47.360 and gun violence instead. It was considered insensitive and even racist to blame mental illness

00:07:53.600 for the Atlanta shooting, because that would be to let the killer off the hook. It would be to

00:07:57.840 distract from the matter of his alleged racism, we were told. You'll notice that last week CNN

00:08:04.560 featured no segments like the discussion this morning, where host Allison Camerata questioned

00:08:10.220 why the gun shop owner who sold the boulder shooter his weapon didn't first conduct a psychological

00:08:16.160 examination. That was her question. Let's listen to that. Why in case in terms of making change,

00:08:23.000 since it seems intractable at the national level, why don't we go to gun shop owners and say,

00:08:30.720 do you think that this 21-year-old who comes in and wants an AR-15 style weapon, do you think that

00:08:36.560 he looks like he's going hunting with this weapon? Did you ask him, by the way, do you ever think that

00:08:42.480 people are chasing you? Do you ever hear voices saying that people are coming for you? Do they ever

00:08:47.120 ask questions like that? Because this guy, it sounds like, according to his family, would have answered yes.

00:08:51.680 The short answer is, in our society, we don't ask those questions. We don't demand of gun shops that

00:08:59.760 they ask those questions. We have a perspective in America that there is a right to buy a weapon

00:09:08.180 absent some compelling and obvious circumstances, and gun shops don't ask those questions. And it's

00:09:16.500 very, very painful. Now, sane people can identify many legal and logistical problems with such a plan.

00:09:24.760 It's also interesting that the left demands greater scrutiny and oversight for an adult who wants to buy a gun

00:09:29.640 than a child who wants to get a sex change. But this is all part of the twisted story of modern leftism.

00:09:35.340 Double standards, contradictions. They present themselves in rapid succession.

00:09:40.120 And we're supposed to just go along with the program. Don't comment on it. Cooperate with the

00:09:45.840 ever-shifting narrative. Never stop to question any of it. Let's get now to our five headlines.

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00:11:07.640 Yeah. By the way, I have gotten your messages, your emails. Many, many people have sent me the

00:11:15.260 stories, including the Daily Wire yesterday, about how we're now told that beards make face

00:11:23.520 masks less effective. So I've gotten all those. And my, you know, I don't know if people sending

00:11:28.840 me this, they're trying to convince me to shave the beard, just more anti-beard bigotry. I'm sure

00:11:34.080 that's what it is. But I think, first of all, yes, I already knew that. Of course, every time I put

00:11:39.480 the face mask on, I know that, look, this is not, it's not doing much because I got all the beard

00:11:43.520 here and I'm sure the virus can still navigate its way up because I'm not exactly getting an

00:11:49.460 airtight seal here. So I'm plenty aware of that. This is why I've said all along, or at least thought

00:11:55.920 all along, that I should get a medical exemption from wearing a mask because I'm bearded. That's

00:12:02.940 the way I look at it. Now let's go number one here. So we, as mentioned, of course, the left is

00:12:11.160 making this particular shooting a story about gun control. And you did hear, you heard a little bit

00:12:18.860 of that last week, but not as much. And the reason is that they wanted to focus on the racial aspect.

00:12:24.980 They wanted that to be the main story. And they also didn't want to talk about mental illness

00:12:29.980 last week, because that would be, they would think, as I said, that would seem to, if the guy's crazy,

00:12:40.660 then it's not really a matter of racism. Or if he is racist, if you're crazy and racist, 0.99

00:12:45.800 then you can't really be blamed for your racism because you're crazy. They don't really want to 1.00

00:12:49.840 talk about it then. They didn't want to talk about it this, this week. So Joe Biden announced

00:12:56.120 yesterday what he wants to do about gun control. And here's, here's his plan. Let's listen.

00:13:03.680 This is the one thing I do know enough to say on is in terms of what's happened there.

00:13:08.160 While we're still waiting for more information regarding the shooter, his motive, the weapons he

00:13:13.380 used, the guns, the magazines, the weapons, the modifications that apparently have taken place

00:13:18.080 to those weapons that are involved here, I don't need to wait another minute, let alone an hour,

00:13:25.780 to take common sense steps that will save the lives in the future and to urge my colleagues

00:13:31.580 in the House and Senate to act. We can ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines

00:13:37.860 in this country once again. I got that done when I was a senator. It passed. It was law for the

00:13:45.460 longest time. And it brought down these mass killings. We should do it again. We can close

00:13:53.240 the loopholes in our background check system, including the Charleston loophole. That's one of

00:13:58.400 the best tools we have right now to prevent gun violence.

00:14:02.180 Yeah, a lot of problems there. The first one is, I don't know what an assault weapon is.

00:14:08.100 I'm not sure. That's still, no one has quite made clear what you mean by assault weapon. What

00:14:14.160 is that supposed to mean? And that's why, in fact, when you hear the statement, when you hear a

00:14:19.900 statement that there was a mass shooting committed with an assault weapon, that doesn't really tell

00:14:27.120 you anything. That tells you almost nothing about what actually happened in the shooting, what kind

00:14:32.900 of weapon was used, how many people died, motive. There's no, really no, there's a basic, an all but

00:14:42.300 meaningless statement to say that because those two terms can mean anything. And here's what assault

00:14:50.660 weapon means. It means a weapon is an assault weapon. If it is a weapon that Democrats right

00:14:58.240 now are trying to ban. Why are they trying to ban it? Because it's an assault weapon. Why are they

00:15:04.800 calling it an assault weapon? Because they want to ban it. And so we go around and around in circles

00:15:08.260 like that. In reality, though, that term has no objective meaning whatsoever. And that's a real

00:15:17.380 problem. Now, in more political news, Senator Duckworth, Senator Tammy Duckworth, I really think

00:15:28.160 one of the most vile and repulsive people in the Senate. She's a really bad person and a terrible 1.00

00:15:37.860 incompetent goon. And she should be expelled from the Senate for, I think, probably several reasons. 1.00

00:15:44.100 But here's number one. This is the only reason I need to give you. This is a report. This is from

00:15:47.980 Chad Pergram is a Fox News reporter. He says, reporting from the pool, Democratic Illinois

00:15:55.460 Senator Duckworth talking about the effort to get more diverse nominees out of Joe Biden. She says,

00:16:01.620 I'm a no vote on the floor on all non-diversity nominees. You know, this is her talking again. You 0.80

00:16:08.820 know, I will vote for racial minorities and I will vote for LGBTQ, but anybody else I'm not voting for. 1.00

00:16:18.520 Okay. That's what we call that. That's called racism. Of course. Now, when you say I want diverse

00:16:24.200 nominees, but that's another way of saying, I don't want white people. That's all she's saying. I don't

00:16:30.540 want straight white people. That's what I don't want. Of course, in reality, to call someone, 0.99

00:16:37.380 oh, that's not a diverse person. I want a diverse person. White person. What does that mean? How can 0.83

00:16:43.900 a person be diverse in and of themselves? Again, a word with no meaning. It just means whatever they

00:16:51.340 want it to mean in the given moment. And in this case, it's, it's, it is a very thinly veiled way

00:16:56.440 of saying, I don't want to vote for white people. I'm a non-white person. I don't like white people 0.70

00:17:02.020 and I don't want to vote for them. Flat out racism. And she's free to be a racist, 1.00

00:17:07.480 bigoted scumbag. All she wants to be, but that should not be acceptable in the Senate. She should 1.00

00:17:13.480 be expelled from the Senate for that. And the Republicans, if they had any backbone, they'd

00:17:18.600 be calling for that right now. We need to have hearings. We need to do whatever we can. She needs 1.00

00:17:23.320 to be gone. We cannot have people in the Senate who are going to stand up and announce ahead of time

00:17:28.440 that they're racist against a certain race. And they're not going to approve of anybody who is

00:17:32.280 that race. Obviously we can't. And it goes without saying that if this was a white Republican 0.71

00:17:38.740 saying, you know, I'm, I'm not interested in a nominee who isn't white. I want to stick with my 1.00

00:17:46.260 own people. And, uh, if they're not white, I'm not interested in them. And if they're not straight, 0.97

00:17:50.840 I don't want any gay nominees. So if they're not a white straight person, I don't want them. 1.00

00:17:54.560 If a Republican were to say that, and of course you can't, you can't imagine a politician saying

00:17:58.980 that they never would, but it would be, it would be it nuclear. You cannot even conceive

00:18:08.220 of the nuclear meltdown that would happen on the part of the media and the Democrat party.

00:18:14.860 And they would not stop until that person was gone. Should be the same damn thing here. It is 0.97

00:18:21.220 just as bigoted and racist and disgusting. But meanwhile, this same person, she's, she's concerned 0.99

00:18:28.800 about, um, racial hatred while she exhibits that hatred and encourages it and wants to vote based

00:18:37.620 on it. She's, she's, she's concerned about it too. She wants to, she wants to make sure that we get

00:18:42.020 rid of, uh, uh, of, of racial hatred, specifically anti-Asian hatred. So here she is talking about the

00:18:47.700 effort to, um, get an anti-Asian hate crime bill passed. Here she is. Let's listen.

00:18:54.280 The president on Friday endorsed, uh, a bill. I know you are a co-sponsor of, uh, of called the

00:19:00.060 COVID-19 hate crimes act. Um, all the co-sponsors are Democrats. Do you have any pledges from Republicans

00:19:06.960 to sign on?

00:19:07.980 We don't at this time. And it's astonishing to me. I mean, the house passed a bill that actually,

00:19:13.840 um, can, it was a resolution against hate crimes against Asian Americans tied to COVID. Uh, and

00:19:19.880 you know, we have actually Republicans who voted against it and Mitch McConnell at the time,

00:19:23.760 because Republicans were in charge, wouldn't even let us vote on it in the Senate. I mean,

00:19:27.680 how, where can you be that you would not be willing to vote on a bill that would condemn

00:19:32.560 violence against any group of Americans? Well, she's, she's scandalized. How could

00:19:37.980 anyone exhibit that kind of bigotry? Except for me, of course, only she's allowed to be 1.00

00:19:44.420 a bigot. I wish she would just come out and say that I'd almost respect it. I'd respect

00:19:48.680 the honesty. At least if she came out and said, listen, I'm, I am a flaming bigot, but, but

00:19:53.420 no one else is allowed to. I I'm allowed to be, but nobody else can. Yeah. Let's, let's

00:19:59.420 get a, a, a hate crime, an anti-Asian COVID hate crime bill. What? So, okay. So, so it's

00:20:07.600 already illegal to commit a hate crime against an Asian person. In fact, it's illegal two

00:20:13.260 times over. If you were to assault an Asian person, it's illegal because it's assault and

00:20:20.260 then it's a federal hate crime because it's race-based. So it's illegal twice. And now they

00:20:25.420 want to make it illegal three times. Let's add another law on top of it. Let's make it 1.00

00:20:30.280 illegal three times over. And if that's not enough, let's make it, let's pass another

00:20:33.900 bill. Let's just, let's just keep passing bills until anytime someone does that, they've

00:20:40.720 committed 20 crimes instead of one. You know what? If you, we could get rid of all of this

00:20:47.400 nonsense because you really only need to make an act illegal once. It only has to be illegal

00:20:52.500 once. But if you're, if you, if you're saying to yourself, oh, well, there's not enough,

00:20:57.360 uh, it's still not dissuading people, you know, there's people are still doing it. Uh,

00:21:03.540 this is a, this is a more serious crime. Okay. Well then if you want to make the penalties

00:21:07.700 harsher, I'm all about that. Not just for anti-Asian assault, but if you want to make the penalty 0.65

00:21:15.500 harsher for assault, for example, someone who goes up and assaults a random innocent, um,

00:21:22.720 pedestrian walking down the street or whatever it is. And we've seen, we see cases like that all

00:21:27.220 over the place. Asians being targeted, white people being targeted, black people. Um, if, 0.79

00:21:32.560 if you, if you're saying that those crimes are not, um, treated harshly enough by the justice system,

00:21:40.860 I agree with you. I think the person that does something like that should go to jail for,

00:21:46.320 put them in jail for 30 years for all I care. There was that case in Baltimore, which we,

00:21:51.720 we haven't heard anything about. I don't know if there's been any update on it, but there was a

00:21:55.140 case of the, um, we had the video that we played months ago of white guy walking down the street.

00:22:01.040 Uh, someone runs up, black guy runs up behind him with a, with a brick and bashes him over the head,

00:22:05.500 runs away. We have, we heard almost nothing about that when it happened. We've heard

00:22:10.800 no update on that case, but if they found that guy, or if they do find him, how much jail time

00:22:17.920 is he going to get? I mean, a couple of years at most, I'd say, put that guy, put that scumbag 0.99

00:22:25.300 in jail for 50 years, put him in jail for the rest of his life. I mean, that is someone we don't need 0.99

00:22:29.340 in society. Like we don't need you. If you're doing something like that, we don't need you.

00:22:33.960 You're gone. One strike, you're out. I never want to see outside of a prison cell ever again.

00:22:39.240 I'm fine with that. Whoever the victim is, white, black, Asian doesn't matter. 0.93

00:22:46.220 Um, but that's not what they want though. You know, cause, and they don't care about the white 0.93

00:22:49.860 guy getting bashed with a brick. They don't, they give a damn about that. This is all just 0.99

00:22:54.860 political posturing because when it comes down to it, these people, this is not the tough on crime

00:22:59.040 party. If they were, I'd be right along with them. So you want to get tough on crime? You want to put

00:23:05.120 these violent dirt bags in jail for a long, I'm with you. Let's do it. All right. Number two, 0.96

00:23:13.460 there's, um, in unintentionally horrifying article in the Brown daily Herald, which is Brown

00:23:19.560 university's new newspaper about the, um, and this is about their new online system for reporting

00:23:25.540 sexual harassment and assault online anonymous. What could go wrong? The article says the title

00:23:33.740 nine office introduced a new method of reporting incidents of sexual harassment, sexual violence,

00:23:38.680 or gender-based discrimination on its website. The online sexual violence and gender harassment

00:23:44.300 incident reporting form aims to provide an easy mechanism to report incidents. Um, this according

00:23:51.460 to the title nine program officer, Renee Davis, the form allows students to report descriptions of

00:23:56.860 incidents, concerns, and involved persons, such as alleged aggressors, harmed individuals and

00:24:02.020 witnesses, as well as the desired response from the title nine office. Students can also opt to make

00:24:07.660 their reports anonymous. So you can, you can implicate somebody in a crime. Uh, you can tell the

00:24:19.060 school what punishment you want for that alleged perpetrator. And you could do all this anonymously

00:24:24.860 so that the person being accused doesn't even know who's accusing them has no right supposed to

00:24:31.780 have the right to face your accuser in court. None of that out the window. That's at Brown university

00:24:37.380 anonymous online reporting of crimes.

00:24:42.240 And then, and then the second part of that is that the person accused of course goes into the kangaroo

00:24:50.140 court, the, the, the rape tribunal or whatever, and is summarily punished. No evidence. I mean, think

00:24:57.620 about that. Not if you're, if you're a man being, and this is all, it's all going to mostly be men

00:25:03.080 accused anyway, as we know. And that's the point here, but you're being accused of something. No

00:25:10.520 evidence is brought to bear and you don't even know who's accusing you and you get kicked out of

00:25:16.860 school, labeled a rapist for the rest of your life. Yet another reason to be very careful about sending

00:25:25.060 your kids off to college, especially your sons. Let's see. This is a story that gets more and more

00:25:32.400 bizarre. Okay. A guy says that he found shrimp tails in his cinnamon toast crunch. Now, and I was

00:25:42.520 reading this story that every, every sentence it gets, it gets weirder and weirder. So I guess he had

00:25:48.480 already, he, he ate a bowl of cinnamon toast crunch and then he was pouring more because he was going

00:25:55.560 to eat another bowl and the shrimp tails fell out of the box. And this guy, first of all, is apparently

00:26:03.560 the husband of the woman who played Topanga on Boy Meets World, because why not? And also his other

00:26:09.960 box of cereal evidently had dental floss in it. And there was a hole in the, in the bag and then it

00:26:17.320 was taped over and there was dental floss in it, which really whoever did this, I mean, I feel bad

00:26:23.200 for this guy. Believe me, I would, I would be traumatized for the rest of my life, but it's kind

00:26:29.000 of brilliant in an evil way. Cause if you could think of like, what are the two worst things you

00:26:35.000 could find in a box of cinnamon toast crunch? That's probably it. Shrimp and dental floss. It's

00:26:40.720 hard to think of something worse than that. And then he contacted the company and originally the

00:26:46.640 cinnamon toast, I guess it's Kellogg's. I don't know. Well, I don't want to implicate

00:26:50.420 them. Whoever makes cinnamon toast crunch, they originally, they said that the shrimp

00:26:55.100 tails only looked like shrimp tails. So this was a little bit of like spilled milk situation

00:26:59.040 where it can look however you want. They said, no, it's not a shrimp tail. It is a, it is clumps

00:27:03.120 of cinnamon that is congealed together and taken the form of a shrimp, which, which, you

00:27:09.620 know, if I was a cinnamon toast crunch customer, I wouldn't feel a lot better about

00:27:13.540 that, that the cinnamon can do that. I, it wouldn't make me feel much better, but then

00:27:20.540 he says, no, it's really shrimp. And, uh, apparently now they're backpedaling and they're trying

00:27:24.020 to figure out what it was. I mean, in fairness to them, this could have been, if it's not

00:27:28.660 all a hoax, this could have been something that happened in the grocery store. That would

00:27:31.700 be my first guess that someone in the grocery store did this. I don't know, but here's the

00:27:38.440 lesson for, I said, there's a lesson we can learn from this. And here's the lesson.

00:27:40.860 This is what you get, um, for being an adult who eats cinnamon toast crunch. That is a children's

00:27:50.660 cereal. Like if you're over the age of say 15, you shouldn't be eating it in the first

00:27:57.060 place. So yes, this is me victim blaming. You get what you deserve. That, that, that's

00:28:03.860 the lesson there. Really as an adult, you shouldn't be eating cereal at all. It's arguable

00:28:11.280 whether adults should be eating breakfast, frankly. Um, but certainly not cinnamon toast

00:28:16.840 crunch. If you got, if you're going with, with, with breakfast cereal, if you got to

00:28:21.480 do that as an adult, you got to go bland. This is what adults do. Shredded wheat, raisin

00:28:27.420 bran. Okay. That's what we eat as adults. It's penance for our sins. Uh, finally, I have

00:28:35.040 to do this. You know, I, I, I have no choice, but to do this. I don't want to do it. I have

00:28:39.500 to do it. We have another video of some middle-aged liberal woman on Tik TOK singing a song that 1.00

00:28:47.160 she made up. Um, this one about the stimulus package. And every time I play this stuff on

00:28:54.260 the show, people get mad at me and I want you to know, I have no choice. You know,

00:28:58.940 I feel that it's my obligation, or at least if I have suffered through this, then I feel

00:29:05.140 as though for your own good, you should as well. I hope that makes it better, but here's

00:29:10.460 the song. Listen, look at this stuff. Isn't it neat? Competent leaders getting us back on

00:29:18.560 our feet. The American rescue plan. It has almost everything. A year into this mess, recovery

00:29:30.040 unfolds. How many wonders can one rescue plan? This is Little Mermaid, I think, right? Reading

00:29:35.980 it over, you'd think. Really? If I know my Disney films. No Republicans voted for this thing.

00:29:42.340 It's got direct relief to American families. It's got a path to reopen our schools. Cost of 0.81

00:29:51.000 childcare? Tax credits, baby. It's like they care. It's a big deal. Mental illness is a serious

00:30:01.060 problem. Imagine the neighbors looking out their window and seeing this happening.

00:30:10.900 I want to go, want to go out dancing, having convos with those. What are they called again?

00:30:18.780 Oh yeah, friends. Okay. Turn this off. Turn this off. Turn it off. Who put this on? Oh my gosh.

00:30:30.560 And who, there's someone behind the camera. Who is behind, who is doing this to this poor disturbed

00:30:37.940 woman? Like someone in that family. I don't know if it's the husband or a child. It's probably one of

00:30:45.140 the kids. You know, whoever it is. Your mother comes to you and says, listen, I wrote this song

00:30:52.200 about the stimulus package. It's kind of, it's based on a Little Mermaid song. I wanted to perform it

00:30:57.300 and then put it online. Will you, will you film? If you love your mother, there's no way you say yes

00:31:03.340 to that. No, you, you go, you, you take her to therapy. You take her to counseling. You say, mom,

00:31:10.520 listen, I know it's been a tough time. There are people who can help you. Let's get in the car.

00:31:13.520 Let's go talk to some people. Okay. It's going to be fine. We don't need to do this.

00:31:18.860 That's who I'm angry with. I mean, I am angry at the family members who allow these women to do this. 0.91

00:31:28.020 If you have a middle-aged woman in your, in, in your family, this is what, and she wants to, 0.96

00:31:32.800 to make a TikTok video with a song she made up under no certain, maybe pretend you're filming.

00:31:38.400 If she really insists, take out the phone and say, okay, mom, go ahead. Wow. This is a great song.

00:31:44.440 Yeah. I'll post this online. Oh my goodness. All right. Uh, let's, uh, let's move on to reading

00:31:51.700 the YouTube comments. This is from Bobby backs. He says, I switched from Gillette to Harry's

00:31:57.740 because of their wokeness. Now I guess I have to grow a beard. Yeah. Well that's that. See,

00:32:01.480 that's it. Gillette, Gillette went woke. Harry's went woke. All of the razor blade companies are

00:32:07.200 going woke and that's all the more reason, all the more incentive. You grow a beard. You don't have to

00:32:12.100 worry about this anymore. Uh, another comment says when I was three, I would go into my mom's

00:32:16.460 closet and put on her high heels because I thought they were funny. I'm glad I wasn't

00:32:20.960 manipulated into thinking that my, that that's my real identity forced to cross-dress and eventually

00:32:25.600 injected with puberty blockers. Yeah. I hear this all the time from, from adults, at least the

00:32:32.060 reasonable ones, the rational, insane ones saying, man, I can't all, all of the crazy stuff that I said

00:32:37.740 when I was a kid, all the things I pretended that I was, all the claims I made when I was a child.

00:32:43.820 I'm so glad my parents weren't insane enough to take that seriously.

00:32:49.240 Um, another comment says, dude, your whole rant about trans kids is so correct. Kids don't know 1.00

00:32:54.560 what they mean because they have a limited vocabulary and don't know which words to use when they express

00:32:58.680 how they feel about things because they don't understand their emotions yet. That's the most true

00:33:03.060 statement I've ever heard. And it's honestly a statement that should go without saying, yeah,

00:33:07.340 it should, uh, it should, if you, if you understand, this is not on my part, some sort of deep insight

00:33:12.540 into child psychology. This is basic, basic level insight into child psychology that you don't even

00:33:17.780 need to be a parent to have this insight because you were a kid yourself at one time. And if you can

00:33:22.100 remember, if you can remember back to that at all, you know, you can remember being a child who

00:33:28.080 believed all kinds of crazy things as a kid. Um, Mike Dutton says, I'm a terrible person. Can't

00:33:39.320 stop laughing at the term fat community. Yes, I'm fat, but that doesn't make you a terrible person.

00:33:45.600 That makes you a normal person because the term fat community is absurd. This is one. This is a, 0.68

00:33:52.000 another thing you notice is how this word talk about words that, that, um, are vague and meaningless.

00:33:58.640 Now community is another one. Everything is a community. Now a fat community. Well, what exactly

00:34:05.560 is the, the only thing, if you're, if you're overweight, if you're obese, um, the only thing

00:34:10.720 that you necessarily have in common with the other members of the obese community is that you all

00:34:16.440 eat too much, uh, relative to the amount of calories you burn. That's how you lose weight.

00:34:24.240 Now, look, I understand there are conditions, there are disabilities people can have and all that, but

00:34:29.180 vast majority of cases, if you're gaining weight, it's not complicated. It's not a mystery.

00:34:37.920 You're gaining weight because you're eating more than you're burning.

00:34:41.080 That's it. In fact, I, I just read a, there was a survey done and I, I, I find this hard to believe

00:34:50.200 that, but the survey claimed that, um, the majority of Americans gained weight during the, uh, during the,

00:34:56.660 the COVID lockdowns. Now that part is easy to believe, but then they claim that, you know,

00:35:00.960 the average weight gain was like, I think it was like 20 pounds or more than that. Uh, that seems a

00:35:06.580 little bit hard to believe, but the point is people are gaining weight. That's totally believable

00:35:09.980 during the lockdowns. Why are they gaining weight? Did everyone develop a thyroid condition?

00:35:15.440 No, it's because they weren't moving around as much and they were eating more and you gain weight.

00:35:23.480 Does that make you a part of a community, a community of, of like-minded people? No,

00:35:29.940 just, you all share the same vice. And by the way, it's a vice that we all share to some degree or

00:35:35.000 another. I mean, we all commit the, uh, sin of eating too much, at least sometimes.

00:35:39.980 Um, and finally, Walsh is probably my favorite daily wire commentator guy rivaled only by Knowles.

00:35:47.200 Shame. He doesn't even have his own Wikipedia page. That's true. I don't. And I've complained

00:35:52.100 about that before. I should probably complain about it more because it's a serious problem

00:35:56.100 in my life. And I think for, for, I think you would agree in your own as well.

00:35:59.120 This is how, this is some of the persecution I suffer.

00:36:04.580 That I've been giving my opinion online for years and I still don't want a Wikipedia page.

00:36:09.940 No one tell me I'm privileged. Okay. I don't even have a Wikipedia page.

00:36:16.680 We've been talking about the attack on gun rights today, and we'll have more to say about that coming

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00:38:36.880 here, now let's get to our daily cancellation. You know, one of, one of the favorite strategies

00:38:44.460 of the gun grabber is to compare the alleged ease of purchasing a firearm to the alleged

00:38:49.920 difficulty of performing some random other task. Often you'll hear it formulated this way. They'll

00:38:55.300 say in America, it's easier to do X than it is to vote. We really have our priorities screwed up.

00:39:00.820 President Obama was famously fond of this particular Mad Lib. On more than one occasion,

00:39:05.540 he filled in the blank with book, claiming that it's harder somehow to obtain a book than to obtain

00:39:10.880 a shotgun. This may be true if the book you're trying to obtain is one that the left has already

00:39:16.580 banned or burned. But as long as you're not trying to buy some forbidden text like Dr. Seuss's

00:39:22.660 McElligott's Pool, it's quite easy to buy books. You can even get them for free at the library. I mean,

00:39:28.780 in most cases, kids as young as six can obtain a library card. Check out all the books they want.

00:39:32.800 No questions asked. As I said, there are many versions of this buying a gun is easier than

00:39:38.400 such and such formulation. Yesterday, Senator Alex Padilla of California was one of several

00:39:42.780 Democrats to put a familiar spin on this old yarn. Echoing a Washington Post editorial published a

00:39:48.240 few days ago, he claimed that buying a gun is easier than voting. Let's listen.

00:39:54.780 You know, for most states, the age required to legally purchase a rifle.

00:39:59.500 And the age required to cast a ballot are both 18. However, there's some shocking disparities in

00:40:09.400 legal state requirements for obtaining a weapon versus casting a ballot. In 25 states, voters must

00:40:19.420 be registered and have specific forms of ID in order to cast a ballot. But those same states allow people

00:40:26.720 to buy rifles without permits and require no background checks for some sales. Additionally,

00:40:34.320 in a majority of states, new voters are able to obtain a rifle quicker than they're able to cast their

00:40:42.640 first ballot. It seems to me that we have our priorities entirely backwards when it comes

00:40:48.640 to this. When we make it easier to buy a gun than we do to cast a ballot.

00:40:56.960 Priorities are way out of whack according to this thing I just made up. We should note that PolitiFact

00:41:02.800 has previously fact-checked this claim and determined that it's true. They said it's true. But if you're

00:41:08.640 not convinced of the truth of a claim simply because a website with fact in its name says that it's true,

00:41:13.080 it may be necessary to take a closer look. And you don't need to look very long or hard to discover

00:41:18.760 that what we're dealing with here is anything but a fact. It is rather a gross and absurd 0.81

00:41:23.000 fabrication and one that quickly evaporates on closer inspection. First, let's consider the process

00:41:29.000 of voting. Okay. All right. If you want to vote and you're a legal adult, the only thing standing

00:41:35.460 between you and the ballot box is the requirement that you register ahead of time, which you can even do

00:41:40.540 on the same day that you cast the ballot in many states. You can also accomplish this task online.

00:41:45.500 Requires no money. No additional hoops must be jumped through or obstacles navigated. You must

00:41:51.200 only provide proof that you're a resident of the state in which you'll be voting. And that'll be the

00:41:56.060 end of it. As for voting itself, you can do it through the mail from the comfort of your own home.

00:42:00.620 You can do it early. You can do it on election day. There's nothing difficult or confusing about

00:42:05.160 voting. Any legal adult, providing they're not a convicted felon, though even that's not going to

00:42:09.180 permanently rule you out in most states, can vote. There's quite literally nothing standing in your

00:42:15.260 way when you want to vote. It's free. It's easy. The only prerequisite is that you might have to

00:42:22.580 provide minimal proof that you're voting in the right state. Voting is so easy that 155 million people

00:42:29.900 successfully completed the task in 2020. It could be said without exaggeration that literally every

00:42:36.940 single person who wanted to do it and was eligible to do it did it. How can a thing be any easier than

00:42:45.060 that? What about purchasing a firearm? Well, the first thing that purchasing a firearm requires is

00:42:51.340 money. That alone makes obtaining a firearm more difficult than voting. We could end our comparison

00:42:57.940 right there. One is free. One is not. One is a free activity that any legal adult can engage in.

00:43:03.240 The other is an activity that requires money. End of discussion right there.

00:43:07.980 But the differences extend far beyond that. There are a great many laws governing who can buy a firearm,

00:43:14.100 what kind of firearm they can buy, where they can buy it, where they can carry it, what they can do

00:43:19.660 with it, when and where they can do the things they can do with it, etc. It's true that it's generally

00:43:24.920 easier to purchase some guns than others. So the laws aren't the same for every gun, but that's the

00:43:30.880 point. The prospective gun owner must first navigate the red tape and research the laws to

00:43:35.480 figure out which gun he can buy and how he's supposed to buy it. No such process is necessary

00:43:41.720 for voting. Many states require waiting periods before buying a gun. Some states require waiting

00:43:47.260 periods for all guns. You can buy some guns online, but the guns that you do buy online have to be shipped

00:43:53.220 to a licensed dealer. No sort of equivalent red tape exists for voting online. Again, there really is not

00:43:58.980 red tape at all for voting except the most basic and easily navigated requirements. Anyone can do it.

00:44:07.180 If you fulfill those really basic requirements, you can do it. This is not the case for buying a gun.

00:44:15.200 You can also lose your right to a gun much easier than you can lose your right to vote. Federal law

00:44:20.900 prohibits felons from obtaining firearms. No such federal law excludes felons from voting.

00:44:25.160 You can even lose your rights for being dishonorably discharged from the military for a host of other

00:44:31.360 reasons. There's no comparison here. Voting is simple. It's free. It's easy. Buying a gun is expensive

00:44:41.220 and complicated and may even be impossible depending on who you are and what gun you want to buy and where

00:44:46.360 you live. Voting is much easier than buying a gun. Much easier. But, and this is where I might lose

00:44:55.120 you, it shouldn't be. See, I wish the Democratic fable was true. I hear them say stuff like this and I

00:45:03.740 think, man, if only. I wish the situation was reversed. I wish they were telling the truth.

00:45:10.140 Gun ownership is, after all, a more important and more essential right than voting.

00:45:16.540 More people should own a gun than vote. And it should be easier to do. Voting is not really a

00:45:22.660 human right at all. You want to know the truth? It's not a human right. It is a privilege granted

00:45:27.700 to us and a privilege that should be reserved for those who are the most qualified to do it.

00:45:31.960 That's voting. The ability to defend yourself and your family is fundamental. It has to be fundamental.

00:45:37.760 If you can't preserve your own life, then you can't do anything else. Certainly, you can't vote.

00:45:44.660 Well, I mean, in some cases, maybe you still can vote even if you don't preserve your own life.

00:45:50.600 We all have the God-given right to ensure our own safety and that of our loved ones.

00:45:56.420 But determining the political course of the nation is something different.

00:45:59.660 It's not fundamental and it should not be opened up to any warm body or even cold body in some cases.

00:46:07.280 There ought to be tests. There ought to be requirements for voting that rule out millions 0.99

00:46:12.240 of current voters who are not equipped to take part in the process and have no business involving

00:46:16.440 themselves in it. That's the way it should be. But that's not the way it is.

00:46:22.640 So even though I wish that this fable was true, this fantasy land that the Democrats have

00:46:31.300 concocted in their heads, I wish it, this is the one time where I wish it was actually a reality,

00:46:37.980 but it's not. Not even close. Not remotely close.

00:46:41.840 And so, for that reason, they, of course, are all, once again, canceled.

00:46:48.260 And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.

00:46:52.500 Godspeed.

00:47:11.840 The Matt Wall Show is produced by Sean Hampton, executive producer, Jeremy Boring. Our supervising

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