The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 707 - Robbed At Gunpoint By Your Guardian Angel

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Democrat politicians and hundreds of others gathered yesterday to mourn

00:00:05.400 Dante Wright, the violent criminal shot by police last week. During the funeral service, he was

00:00:10.120 literally elevated to the status of a guardian angel. We'll talk about the whole grotesque

00:00:14.660 display today. Also, five headlines, including a new angle on the Micaiah Bryant shooting that

00:00:19.960 absolutely confirms that it was justified shooting. Something we already knew from the body cam,

00:00:24.180 but this reinforces it. And a mother speaks out about masking policies at a school board meeting.

00:00:29.120 It was a real truth to power moment, and it's worth listening to. We'll play that. Also,

00:00:33.520 environmental activists pollute in the name of saving the planet. And AOC says that racism

00:00:38.560 is causing climate change. We'll get into all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:49.700 Well, there was no golden casket this time, but it was a scene otherwise reminiscent of George

00:00:55.500 Floyd's funeral and summary canonization last year. Yesterday, Dante Wright, who was shot by police

00:01:00.920 after resisting arrest, was laid to rest in Minneapolis. Hundreds of mourners came from all

00:01:05.900 over the nation. Prominent politicians, public figures, other luminaries gathered to pay their

00:01:10.920 respects. The funeral was nationally televised on multiple cable news channels. The governor of

00:01:19.020 Minnesota, who also attended, issued a proclamation calling for a statewide moment of silence in memory

00:01:24.960 of the great Dante Wright, Saint Dante Wright, the blessed Dante Wright. The statement from Governor

00:01:30.480 Tim Walz said, quote, Dante Wright was beloved by his family, neighbors, and community and had his entire

00:01:36.900 young life ahead of him. We mourn the loss of Dante Wright, and as a state, we offer our deepest

00:01:41.200 condolences to the Wright family. We know that this tragedy is connected to the deep systemic racism in

00:01:46.560 our society that black people in Minnesota and across the country face every single day. While

00:01:50.520 nothing can bring Dante Wright back to his loved ones, we must continue to work to enact real

00:01:54.840 meaningful change at the local, state, national levels to fight systemic racism so that every

00:01:59.620 person in Minnesota, black, indigenous, brown, or white, can be safe and thrive. We must be steadfast

00:02:04.840 in our accountability to change from the top to the bottom and not rest until we create a different

00:02:10.700 future for Dante Wright's son and every other child like him. That was the governor of

00:02:16.540 Minnesota. Moment of silence across the whole state for Dante Wright. I assume that people die

00:02:24.260 in Minnesota probably every day. Almost none of them get the statewide moment of silence. Dante Wright

00:02:32.020 did. Now, of course, as we know, Wright's death had nothing to do with racism whatsoever. It didn't even

00:02:38.860 have a plausible theoretical connection to racism. Whatever else you might say about the manner of his

00:02:44.220 demise, you cannot say that he was killed for his race. Well, you can say that if you're a shameless, 0.98

00:02:50.440 exploitative, opportunistic, lying hack like Governor Tim Walz. And speaking of shameless, 0.99

00:02:56.200 exploitative, opportunistic, lying hacks, Al Sharpton was unsurprisingly in attendance. Sharpton has, 0.97

00:03:01.240 in recent years, found his calling in delivering eulogies for violent criminals he didn't know

00:03:06.540 and no one knew until they died on camera during an arrest. The challenge for Sharpton and most of the

00:03:11.740 other people who spoke at the service is that, you know, usually in a eulogy, you pay tribute to the

00:03:17.220 many wonderful traits and good deeds of the deceased. Now, Dante Wright didn't have many of those,

00:03:23.720 frankly, it seems. So instead, Sharpton gave a rather lazy stump speech about racism where he employed a

00:03:29.540 metaphor that was both absurd and dishonest. Let's listen.

00:03:33.020 The generation before me, they boycotted in Montgomery against the segregation laws in Alabama.

00:03:43.800 And they boycotted the bus company. 1955, they started December 1st. And for a solid year,

00:03:54.240 they wouldn't ride the bus. They said it was better to walk in dignity than to ride in shame.

00:04:03.720 And they broke the backs of Alabama's segregation. But Dr. King and Dr. Abinat and Rosa Parks said,

00:04:11.720 we can't stop that. We've got to have federal law. And they went their way. Then some young students,

00:04:18.900 the young foreman that day, they became freedom riders. And others did other things. And it took

00:04:25.220 nine years. And they got the Civil Rights Act federally. They made it against federal law,

00:04:32.580 Congresswoman Omar, to discriminate. Well, we've gone from all of these abuses, from Oscar Grant and

00:04:41.740 Amadou Diallo and others, all the way to Fernando Castillo right here in Minneapolis area.

00:04:50.220 We've struggled through all of that. But we are going to now, in his name, in the name of Dante,

00:04:57.760 we're going to pass the George Floyd Justice Interleasing Act as federal law.

00:05:05.980 Now, you could tell that he wrote that in about 12 minutes, in about 12 minutes,

00:05:09.900 and probably about 12 minutes before the funeral. You can also tell that he's a soulless phony. 0.96

00:05:15.080 The air freshener reference comes from the claim that Dante Wright was pulled over and arrested

00:05:19.220 because he had air fresheners in his car. Actually, you know, as we talked about last week,

00:05:22.540 the original claim was that he was shot for having air fresheners. And that's something that

00:05:29.120 thousands of people believed and repeated. They didn't see any problem with that at all.

00:05:35.980 That didn't make them stop and go, what? Hold on a second.

00:05:39.900 But like nearly every claim made by activists after nearly every high-profile police shooting,

00:05:45.420 it was completely bogus. Wright was pulled over for a traffic violation and then arrested because

00:05:48.940 he had a warrant stemming from a violent crime that he'd committed a few months prior.

00:05:52.920 But that's just the truth. And what's a little thing like truth to a guy like Sharpton?

00:05:57.680 Or a woman like Ilhan Omar, who got on stage to offer her own tribute to St. Dante

00:06:03.800 and to Sharpton himself. And here's what that sounded like, if you can stomach it.

00:06:09.580 As-salamu alaykum, everyone.

00:06:12.840 Thank you, Reverend Al Sharpton, for being here and for that beautiful eulogy.

00:06:20.980 Most of us in this room, including myself, look at you as a guardian and are blessed to be in your

00:06:31.320 presence. And may Dante Wright serve as a guardian for all of us. But as a member of the Congressional

00:06:41.000 Black Caucus, as one of the youngest and newest members of the Congressional Black Caucus, I also

00:06:48.220 have guardians. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and our chairwoman, Joyce Beatty, serve as guardians

00:06:57.820 for me and many of my colleagues. Joyce Beatty was going to be here and speak on our behalf as the

00:07:06.280 chairwoman of our caucus. But just like we've been visited by tragedy here in Minnesota often,

00:07:14.440 she in Columbus, Ohio, was visited by a tragedy of a young woman whose life was taken by Columbus

00:07:23.460 police.

00:07:24.720 Okay. First of all, she really needs to choose better guardians. Al Sharpton, Sheila Jackson Lee.

00:07:31.080 Those are your guardians. That's like if you're at the beach and the lifeguards are like piranhas or

00:07:39.040 something. But Dante Wright will be a guardian for all of us. So I stand corrected. He's no mere saint.

00:07:45.960 He is an angel. He's a guardian angel. Ilhan Omar has given him a promotion already.

00:07:53.060 Well, far be it for me to pick and choose. But I would like to request a different guardian if I could.

00:08:01.660 I'd really prefer a guardian who's less likely to rob me at gunpoint. Guardians, in fact, are supposed to protect

00:08:07.900 you from guys like Dante Wright. They're not supposed to be guys like Dante Wright. Unless this is a keep your

00:08:13.320 enemies close kind of guardianship strategy. I don't know. Now, I can tell you one woman who certainly would not want 0.65

00:08:18.620 Wright assigned to her as a guardian angel. That would be the woman who called the police one morning,

00:08:22.980 not long ago, to report that Wright had pointed a gun at her, choked her, and stuffed his hand down

00:08:27.380 her bra to steal her rent money. That's the crime he was charged with in 2019, when, according to the

00:08:32.320 victim, he came to her house for a party, stayed the night. The next morning, after her roommate gave

00:08:36.140 her money for rent, he pulled a gun out, put his hand around her throat, and demanded all the cash. 0.63

00:08:41.980 She started screaming. Eventually, he left without any money. He was arrested, released on bail, violated the

00:08:46.860 terms of his bail by possessing a firearm without a permit, then failed to show up for his court appearance,

00:08:50.920 and finally was apprehended during the traffic stop when he resisted arrest and attempted to flee

00:08:54.360 with a woman in the car. This is our guardian angel, says Ilhan Omar. This is the man who was given a

00:09:02.220 statewide moment of silence. This is the man who, with the nationally televised funeral, a man who,

00:09:09.620 if he contributed anything at all to his community, seems to have contributed mostly crime, violence,

00:09:14.180 and misery. Perhaps he had some good qualities, too. But on balance, it would seem that this was,

00:09:20.200 let's say, not a very good person. After all, choking and robbing a woman at gunpoint is not a

00:09:25.860 minor mistake. It's not a youthful indiscretion. It reveals a total lack of empathy, an utter absence

00:09:32.700 of concern or compassion for your fellow man. Does all that necessarily mean that you don't deserve

00:09:40.280 the massive nationally televised funeral attended by famous politicians and accompanied by a statewide

00:09:44.780 moment of silence? Well, yeah, it does mean that. This is not a small matter. You can discover

00:09:52.720 everything you need to know about a culture based on who it chooses to honor. Cultures that honor great

00:09:59.120 men, not perfect men, but great men, who achieved great things, live their lives with dignity and

00:10:06.660 courage, help to change the world in positive ways. Those cultures are vibrant and healthy.

00:10:13.660 That's the kind of culture you want to live in. But a culture that honors men who achieved

00:10:17.660 nothing of significance, men of no dignity and no honor, men who are known only because of the way

00:10:22.040 they died, men whose last act on earth was to resist arrest, thereby refusing to accept the just

00:10:27.900 and fair consequences of their own evil deeds. Those cultures are decaying husks. And we are very much 1.00

00:10:34.120 in the latter category. One other thing to think about here. Another effect of eulogizing Wright in

00:10:43.640 this way is that you wind up dehumanizing him. The over-the-top honoring of Wright or Floyd or whoever

00:10:53.040 else means that they're not really honored at all. You can't honor a man's life by pretending that it was

00:11:01.180 something other than what it was. Whoever was eulogized at the funeral of Dante Wright, it

00:11:06.820 certainly wasn't Dante Wright, was a caricature, a mascot, a logo, a prop. The Democrat party,

00:11:14.080 the left, BLM, they came in, took Wright's name, and turned him into whatever they needed him to be.

00:11:19.780 Ironically, by turning Wright into a saint and an angel, you erase him. He is replaced by the poster

00:11:27.580 boy that activists and scummy politicians like Ilhan Omar invent for their own purpose.

00:11:35.000 And those purposes, as we have seen, are quite sinister.

00:11:39.140 Now, let's get to our five headlines.

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00:13:17.900 Nashville. I was in Austin last night, speaking at UT Austin, and I thought that went very well.

00:13:26.180 Um, and happy Pokedop Friday, by the way. But I will say on the plane, I made the mistake

00:13:34.760 on the plane ride home of coughing just one time. And it was only because I was drinking something

00:13:41.780 and it went down the wrong pipe, you know? And so I coughed. Maybe it was like two coughs in

00:13:47.280 succession, kind of healthy coughs, you know? And that's it. And of course, everyone looks at me.

00:13:54.660 Like, they try to be subtle about it, but it's just like, you just feel the stairs,

00:13:59.140 even if it's peripheral. It's sort of this record scratch moment from the movies and the music stops

00:14:03.960 where everyone looks. I would like to live in a world again. This is my dream. This is my utopian

00:14:11.080 dream. I want to live in a world again where you can cough or sneeze in public and people won't look

00:14:18.260 at you like you're the guy in the zombie movie who comes home with a bite mark on his arm.

00:14:22.500 That's the world I want to live in. Where you don't feel the need to explain. Like,

00:14:27.920 anytime you cough, you have to explain to people. I don't know. This is just, I was just drinking

00:14:32.000 something. That's all it was. You're safe. But, you know, I don't know. I don't know if we'll ever

00:14:38.420 live in that world again. Especially when you've got people like in Austin. You know, I walked,

00:14:48.340 when I was in Austin, I walked maybe two blocks to go to the pharmacy down the street.

00:14:54.700 And most of the people I saw wearing masks, you know, outside, which is not a surprise for Austin.

00:15:01.660 But wearing masks. And, you know, I got in trouble because I tweeted yesterday that I think,

00:15:07.820 now I'm not recommending this. I'm only saying that I think it would be acceptable

00:15:11.720 if you were to respond to someone wearing a mask outside by pointing and laughing at them.

00:15:19.040 You know, gawk, point, laugh. I think that would be an acceptable response.

00:15:23.240 Because wearing a mask outside is psychotic behavior. It really is. It's not scientifically

00:15:30.100 justified at all. That is behavior that should be ostracized. Stigmatized, which we'll talk more

00:15:38.220 about stigmas in the daily cancellation. All right. So we'll start with this. A new angle

00:15:44.440 on the Micaiah Bryant shooting in Columbus, Ohio. This is from, I believe, a security camera footage

00:15:51.880 from a neighbor. And now look, the original footage that we saw, Micaiah Bryant, again,

00:15:59.180 you know, we know this case, 16-year-old Columbus, Ohio. Police were called because someone had a knife

00:16:06.820 and was trying to stab people. And then they show up and Micaiah Bryant has a large knife. And what

00:16:11.560 do you know is trying to stab people? So the body cam footage is enough right there to vindicate the

00:16:16.600 officer, not only get him off the hook on any criminal charges, but actually to reveal him to

00:16:21.260 be a hero. He acted heroically in that moment to save somebody's life from a person who was trying to

00:16:27.000 stab them to death. So we already have enough, but I think this other angle from the security camera

00:16:31.960 footage, it's revealing because of what you can hear Micaiah Bryant say, we'll play this.

00:16:40.040 It's going to be a little difficult. We have to bleep it out. So you're not really going to be able

00:16:42.760 to hear it, but it's worth anyway to play. So let's, let's play that.

00:16:46.140 Um, yeah, really hard to hear, especially there with, with the bleeps, but she says still clear

00:17:11.940 enough. She says, I'm going to stab the F out of you B word. That's what she says. And, uh, so she, 0.99

00:17:21.000 she announces her intention to commit, uh, you know, to, to, uh, uh, commit attempted murder basically,

00:17:30.780 and then carries out what she just threatened. It could not be more clear. She actually says,

00:17:38.020 I'm going to stab you with a knife and then tries to stab not, not one person, two people. 0.96

00:17:44.160 She goes for one woman who's not to the ground. And then a guy comes in behind her and tries to 1.00

00:17:50.240 stomp on that woman's face. And then she goes for the second woman, pins her against the car, 1.00

00:17:55.040 has the knife out and is about to plunge it into that, into that person. Um, when the cop,

00:18:00.540 when the cop fired, this again is, it, it, it, it sells it short to say that this was a justified

00:18:09.240 shooting. I think in a, in a, in a healthy, insane world, we'd be pinning a medal on that cop

00:18:17.320 for his heroism. All right. We'll have a little bit more about the shooting later on in five headlines.

00:18:24.980 Um, next I want to play this. Here's a good video. This is a mom in Georgia. Her name is

00:18:31.420 Courtney and Taylor at a Gwinnett County board of education meeting. And she's, you know, they,

00:18:38.640 they're sending kids to school in Georgia, full school days, um, you know, uh, in, in Gwinnett

00:18:44.980 County, but the kids have to wear masks the entire day. So you're talking six or seven hours a day

00:18:51.720 that these kids are in masks. Well, Courtney Ann Taylor's had enough of it. And if you want to

00:18:57.280 know what truth to power sounds like, it sounds like this. Let's watch. Every month I come here

00:19:02.220 and I hear the same thing, social emotional health. If you truly mean that you would end the mask

00:19:09.380 requirement tonight, tonight, this is not March, 2020 anymore. We have three vaccines. Every adult in

00:19:18.520 state of Georgia that wants that vaccine is eligible to get it right now. And every one of us knows that

00:19:23.060 young children are not affected by this virus. They're not. And that's a blessing. But as the

00:19:28.760 adults, what have we done with that blessing? We've shoved it to the side and we've said, we don't

00:19:32.900 care. You're still going to wear a mask on your face every day, five and six year olds. You still

00:19:37.540 can't play together on the playground like normal children, seven and eight year olds. We don't care.

00:19:41.720 We're still going to force you to carry a burden that was never yours to carry. Shame on us.

00:19:49.580 And I know what I'm going to be met with. But Ms. Taylor, the CDC, we did not vote for people at the

00:19:55.820 CDC. We did elect leaders who do create policy. We elected the five of you. We chose you to make

00:20:03.960 difficult decisions for our children. We chose you to make decisions that would be in our children's

00:20:08.340 best interest and forcing five, six, seven, eight and nine year old little children to cover their

00:20:14.080 noses and their mouths where they breathe for seven hours a day, every day for the last nine

00:20:19.920 months for a virus that, you know, doesn't affect them. That is not in their best interest.

00:20:26.300 It has to stop. Take these off of our children. 0.99

00:20:32.700 Amazing. I mean, that really I love that video. It's hard to say I love it, given this what

00:20:38.160 the circumstances and how justifiably upset and outraged that mother is. But that is, as I said,

00:20:46.000 that's truth, truth to power. You know, it's that's standing up and she's exactly right. A couple

00:20:52.280 of things she said that really resonate. One is my six year old can't come up here and say this.

00:20:58.900 And they can't. The kids can't advocate for themselves. The teachers, they advocate for

00:21:03.540 themselves. They have a teacher's union. Only cares about the interests of the teacher. Doesn't

00:21:08.780 care at all about, about, about the students. So they can get what they want. Um, yeah, all,

00:21:16.040 all the adults can have their special interest groups and all these kinds of things. And we can,

00:21:19.660 and we can complain publicly. We can go online. We can all do all this. We can go to these meetings,

00:21:25.240 but the kids can't. So what they need, um, are adults who are willing to advocate for them.

00:21:37.240 And that's, unfortunately, that's a, that's a problem. You know, that's like too much to ask

00:21:43.020 in our society today to have adults that were advocate for children. There's a lot of adults

00:21:48.640 in this country. Don't really care about kids when we kill a million of them a year in the womb. So 0.99

00:21:52.540 what does that tell you? Do we don't recognize them as, as people? So legally we don't recognize

00:22:00.480 them as people, at least when they're in the womb, they're in the earliest stages of life. So,

00:22:04.640 and that's what this, that's why I've been talking about it myself.

00:22:10.980 What she says there, this is not their burden to carry. I got right there. That's it. Not their

00:22:16.520 burden to carry. Whatever else you want to say about all the other COVID measures as

00:22:22.520 they pertain to adults. That should have been our stance from day one.

00:22:30.260 You know, the fact that, and we, we knew this almost immediately. This is one of the facts

00:22:35.260 about COVID that we knew from the beginning and has remained true. There are a lot of facts that

00:22:40.340 we thought were facts and turned out not to be. There are other things we didn't know that we found

00:22:44.160 out later, but, but one thing we always knew almost from the beginning is that this doesn't really

00:22:50.120 affect kids. They're not at a high risk to be infected by it. They're not at a, at a, at a high

00:22:57.380 risk to spread it. It doesn't mean it's impossible, but they're not a high risk category. They're low

00:23:02.560 risk. And that is such an incredible blessing because it doesn't have to be that way. A virus can

00:23:10.620 do whatever virus is going to do this. You know, this could have gone the opposite. This could have

00:23:14.780 been a virus that especially affected kids. Imagine that. Imagine if it was 500,000 dead children

00:23:23.620 from this. That's not the way it was. And so that's a, that's a wonderful thing. So what we

00:23:30.420 could have said is look as adults and as we get, especially older adults, we got to be more careful.

00:23:35.040 These are, these are burdens we have to carry things. We're going to have to do. Um, but the

00:23:39.220 kids can continue living their lives. And the other thing we should have said as adults is that,

00:23:45.100 yeah, you know what? If the kids continue living their lives and they go to school and they go to

00:23:48.820 the playground and they don't have to wear a mask, um, there's a little bit of an elevated risk

00:23:54.340 that they'll carry the virus home to an adult and one of us will get sick.

00:23:59.500 But you know what we should have said? So be it. That's okay. I'm, I'm willing to take that risk

00:24:03.980 for the sake of the kids. I would rather not only risk getting COVID. I would rather get COVID.

00:24:13.000 I would rather willingly get it and be infected by it. If it means that my child can live a normal

00:24:18.640 life. If it's a choice between taking my child's childhood away for a year and counting,

00:24:25.540 you know, doing that or protecting myself from the virus. You know, I'll, I'll take the virus in that,

00:24:33.260 in that trait. That should have been the attitude. It should have been everyone's attitude,

00:24:38.560 but it wasn't. And that's, it is a, it is a disgrace and a shame that I think we'll have to,

00:24:43.760 um, I think we're our generation of adults. We're going to carry this with us into the history books.

00:24:52.280 You know, when, when, when people look back on this, on this absurdity of putting kids in masks,

00:24:58.340 putting caution tape around playgrounds, shutting down the schools for a virus. It doesn't even

00:25:03.160 really affect these kids. Kicking them off of planes, kicking two-year-olds off of planes for

00:25:10.440 not wearing masks. People in the future are going to look back on that and say, what a bunch of

00:25:16.260 cowardly, disgusting, ridiculous so-and-sos. And they'll be right. In many cases, not in the case of 1.00

00:25:26.440 that woman and a few others. All right. Next thing we've got, uh, LeBron James is facing mounting

00:25:34.800 backlash, as they say, for doxing the hero cop who, uh, stopped Micaiah Bryant from stabbing someone to

00:25:40.320 death. And it's gotten so bad. It's so bad for LeBron James that even OJ Simpson now is giving LeBron

00:25:50.120 James ethical lectures. Even OJ Simpson is a voice of reason here for LeBron. Here's what OJ had to

00:25:57.440 say about all this. Hey, Twitter world is me. Yours truly tough morning. Listening to all the

00:26:02.400 criticism that LeBron James is getting. Um, I'm a fan of LeBron. I admire the work that he's done,

00:26:10.700 how he's helped his community and how he's helped his friends. Uh, and I, he's been fighting all of

00:26:16.000 these social issues, especially that of systemic racism and the legal system and with the police

00:26:22.060 departments around our country, but you can't fight every battle. You know, you can't, uh, you

00:26:28.520 got to pick your battles. I mean, it's a war that must be fought, but sometimes you need to take your

00:26:34.300 time and be a little more patient before you comment on some of these, um, um, bad incidents that are

00:26:41.500 happening with police departments. Uh, this one, uh, LeBron should have waited. Uh, I'm a little

00:26:47.760 upset with most of the media because they showed us edited versions of what took place with the girl

00:26:54.260 with the knife. They made it sound as if this was another police officer, uh, overreacting and killing

00:27:01.960 a young black American. Well, from what I saw when I saw the whole thing, the police, um, guy had no

00:27:09.820 choice. He responded. Sure. The police guy didn't have a choice. And you know, I mean, in fairness,

00:27:16.920 OJ Simpson is, uh, you know, an expert in, um, killing people with knives. So it's kind of,

00:27:24.040 kind of a stabbing expert, but he maybe, he could maybe be, maybe cable news channel could bring him

00:27:28.800 on as the, the stabbing consultant for any, any stabbing related news. And even this guy, uh, is,

00:27:37.020 is, is, has a better take on this than LeBron James. What does that tell you? Of course, uh,

00:27:44.140 as of right now, LeBron's corporate backers haven't said anything. The NBA hasn't said anything

00:27:50.300 about this, his sponsors, Nike, et cetera, et cetera. Uh, none of them have, have addressed this at all.

00:27:57.940 When, when you've got the most high profile athlete in the world,

00:28:03.080 putting the face of a police officer up there and saying, you're next 0.96

00:28:08.780 and his only crime stopping a black woman from being stabbed to death. 0.99

00:28:18.200 All right, let's see. This is from a media reports that the U S Senate just passed the COVID-19 hate 0.84

00:28:25.360 crimes bill in a bipartisan vote of 94 to one. The one outlier in the vote to pass a bill designed to

00:28:31.880 limit the sharp increase in hate crime towards, uh, Asian and Pacific Island Americans was Missouri

00:28:36.840 Senator Josh Hawley, whose vote against an anti-Asian or anti-hate crimes bill may one day be viewed as

00:28:44.160 the most Hawleyan act ever. I don't know why I'm reading the media report on this one. Anyway, um,

00:28:49.000 they've got, what I really wanted to get to was the specifics of what this bill is supposed to do.

00:28:52.800 Okay. Josh Hawley was the one guy voted against it and he did explain it. And he said that, um,

00:28:58.420 this was his statement from the office of Senator Hawley. He said, it's too broad as a former

00:29:03.180 prosecutor. My view is it's dangerous to simply give the federal government open-ended authority

00:29:07.480 to define a whole new class of federal hate crime incidents. That's a really reasonable point of 1.00

00:29:13.500 view. Um, it's the troubling thing for me is not that I am troubled that he was the only guy to say

00:29:20.120 that, but it's because he's the only one. Every other Republican should have joined him in that view.

00:29:25.800 So CNN reports on what this bill would do. Um, the bill would direct the departments of justice

00:29:32.080 and health and human services to issue guidance, raising awareness of hate crimes during the

00:29:37.800 pandemic and to work with agencies to establish online reporting of them. So it's, it directs

00:29:44.800 departments to issue guidance, to raise awareness. Senator majority leader, Chuck Schumer said Thursday,

00:29:52.620 the bill is proof that the Senate can work to solve important issues and would tell bigots

00:29:57.320 we're going after you. What issue have you solved? It's not proof of anything. No, it's proof that you

00:30:06.320 can exploit tragedies for political gain. That's what it proves. We already knew that Chuck, not a surprise

00:30:13.440 to me. What, what have you solved? In what way does any of this prevent a single hate crime against

00:30:22.880 an Asian person? Can you explain that? Uh, we've solved it now. Hey, don't worry. You know,

00:30:29.460 an Asian woman is stomped outside of a hotel a couple of weeks ago. And so Chuck Schumer is saying,

00:30:38.200 hey, don't worry, we've issued guidance to raise awareness. You're welcome.

00:30:46.880 Accomplishes nothing whatsoever. It is a one big virtue signal from everybody in the Senate,

00:30:53.600 all Republicans included. Wish I could say I was surprised by that, but I'm not.

00:30:59.500 Josh Hawley is the only guy saying, come on, this is, you guys know what you're doing. This is pointless.

00:31:03.660 It is already illegal to commit hate crimes against Asian people, as it should be. It's already illegal 1.00

00:31:15.180 on multiple levels. If you assault an Asian person because they're Asian, it's illegal because it's 0.95

00:31:24.100 assault. It's illegal because it's a hate crime. So it's illegal on two levels. And you've got

00:31:33.000 federal and, um, and local authorities coming after you for that. What, why do we need another

00:31:39.460 bill on top of that? What, reinforcing the fact that it's illegal? Now it goes from illegal to super

00:31:45.600 illegal. No, it's not going to do anything. It doesn't accomplish anything. But again, it's, um,

00:31:50.600 it's, it is just the, the, the naked exploitation of, of tragedy by, by the Senate. And that's how you

00:31:56.800 know. See, Chuck Schumer says, well, see, everyone agrees. That's how you know this is good. No,

00:32:00.300 it's when everyone agrees. That's how, you know, it's a really bad bill. If they can all agree.

00:32:06.440 All right. I want to play this for you. Uh, going back to the Makaya Bryant shooting.

00:32:10.620 So there, there have been, of course, a lot of really, really bad takes on this.

00:32:14.860 And, um, both Juan Williams and Fox News and Joy Reed, we'll go to Joy Reed first. Uh, they,

00:32:22.540 they had, they had similar takes on what the cop should have done instead. Because when you watch

00:32:28.840 the video and, and you see how fast this all unfolded and this woman was, this, this girl was

00:32:34.280 wielding a knife and you could say all you want. It's very sad that the girl ended up dead. It is

00:32:40.140 sad. It's always sad when someone dies. But if you're going to blame the cop, you better be able

00:32:46.180 to explain what he could have done differently. And, uh, some, some people in media have tried,

00:32:53.580 they've given it a shot to explain what he could have done differently. And, uh, so give, give them

00:32:57.540 credit for trying, but I think their answers leave something to be desired. So here's Joy Reed on what

00:33:04.240 the cop should have done instead of shooting Makaya Bryant. I mean, it seems to me in a situation,

00:33:10.040 this is what it looked like to me. And I've looked at the tape and I still can't figure it out.

00:33:13.580 Um, shoot the gun in the air. There's a warning, tase a person, shoot them in the leg, shoot them in 1.00

00:33:20.440 the behind, you know, stop them somehow. But if the only solution is to kill the teenager, 1.00

00:33:28.540 there's something wrong with this. There's something very, very wrong. Um, okay. That's by the way, 0.99

00:33:35.000 that's Joy Behar. I knew it was someone named Joy with a room temperature IQ. Um, get him confused

00:33:41.600 sometimes. So yeah, she says, uh, yeah, I don't know. I would just, uh, shoot the gun in the air.

00:33:47.980 That'll stop, you know, just randomly shoot the gun in a different direction 0.99

00:33:52.800 away from the person trying to stab someone.

00:33:58.340 Juan Williams had basically the same take. Let's listen to what he has to say.

00:34:02.480 What does Juan Williams officer, Juan Williams do to save the lady's life in pink? 1.00

00:34:11.540 Well, I guess I would shoot the gun, not necessarily at somebody, but maybe shoot the 0.98

00:34:15.760 gun and maybe, you know, run at the person and try to disarm them. Like, I don't know. I mean, 1.00

00:34:21.140 so wait, wait, wait, you would shoot the gun in the air, like a warning shot?

00:34:24.080 Not, well, hopefully to distract or to try to stall or something so I could get,

00:34:30.740 or my partner could get the knife away. I see is what I was saying. Well, I don't know. I mean,

00:34:35.500 taking someone's life is pretty strong. I don't either. I don't either, Jesse. I mean, Jesse,

00:34:40.920 policing is tough work. Um, but all I'm saying is, you know, I think, I think that that woman with a 1.00

00:34:48.040 knife is a danger to society. It's certainly a danger to the other person. And we want her to 1.00

00:34:52.980 stop and be disarmed. I just, I just also think that killing a human is pretty radical. I don't 0.98

00:34:59.420 think that's a good thing, but what I see overall here, you know, you asked me what I see. I see

00:35:05.040 people now using this Ohio case, which is messy as you and I just discussed to somehow really try to

00:35:12.100 change the subject, you know, from what happened in Minnesota with the Chauvin, uh, guilty verdict.

00:35:18.700 Okay, Juan. So just shut up then. You don't know. I don't know what he should do. It's just not 0.96

00:35:25.820 something different. I don't know. He should make it so that the thing that's happening isn't

00:35:31.440 happening anymore. What's, and he should do without killing anyone. Why is that so hard?

00:35:36.760 Okay. Well, give us a specific plan and tell us how it works. I don't have a plan. I don't know.

00:35:41.300 Not that. Something other than that. Oh, great analysis. Let's see why you need Juan Williams on

00:35:48.520 to deliver that kind of analysis. Killing someone is pretty radical, pretty extreme.

00:35:54.660 Oh, really? Juan? Yeah. I didn't realize that. No, well, thanks for, thanks for clearing that up.

00:36:01.360 I thought cops were supposed to just go out and just kill everybody.

00:36:03.680 Doesn't matter. You know, just walk down the street, randomly kill people. 1.00

00:36:08.580 They could be criminals. You know, that's what I thought they were supposed to do. But now you're 0.98

00:36:10.940 explaining that it's a, it's an extreme step. Yeah, it is an extreme step. You're in an extreme

00:36:16.980 situation where a woman, a girl is trying to stab someone to death right in front of you. That's an

00:36:24.520 extreme situation. It's a radical situation. I would say trying to stab someone to death in front of a

00:36:30.680 police officer. That's a radical step. And that's going to be met with a radical response. 0.99

00:36:37.960 Shoot a warning shot? This, like we, I talked about yesterday. I tried to explain in detail. This is

00:36:45.180 not, we don't live in the movies. Cops don't do that. You don't, no one should do that.

00:36:52.560 A lot of reasons. Number one, what goes up must come down. It's called gravity.

00:36:56.760 So you shoot the gun in some other direction. It's, it, it, you don't know what it's going to

00:37:01.840 end up hitting. I can tell you this, when you shoot it off in the air, the gun, the bullet doesn't

00:37:07.320 evaporate just because you can't see it anymore. It doesn't mean it evaporated. It's still out there

00:37:12.080 somewhere and it might hit something. Um, also why she's got the, the woman pinned. She has the, 1.00

00:37:20.840 the kitchen knife. She's, she's, you know, she's winding up. All she has to do is bring her arm

00:37:29.320 forward. You shoot a gun in another direction. Why would that stop her? Distract her? That's your

00:37:38.340 goal. That's what you think you're going to do. Distract them. Okay. Well, how about, you know,

00:37:44.320 how about this? Let's have cops. Um, every cop, forget about social workers. Every cop should 1.00

00:37:50.080 have with them on their team, a clown. And so anytime there's a violent crime in process, 0.97

00:37:55.860 you have the clown run out and start and start doing hijinks and the hijinks will distract the 0.67

00:38:01.340 criminal and they'll look over and say, well, what's that, what's that clown over there? And 0.91

00:38:05.120 then they'll get tackled. And, uh, and you know, with this plan, nobody will ever be killed by the

00:38:09.760 cops again. Worst case scenario, you give the clown a gun too. And you know, at least then the clown is 0.98

00:38:17.120 doing the killing. I mean, all you can do is joke about it because this is, this is so 0.96

00:38:22.680 words escape me to describe this kind of thing. And the real answer here is that, you know, these people,

00:38:32.820 they know, they know that if they were in that situation, they'd probably do the exact same damn

00:38:42.780 thing, but that's not going to stop them from, from throwing this police officer under the bus.

00:38:51.100 All right, let's, uh, move on to reading the comments. I had, okay. I had one other thing I

00:38:56.940 want to play. I got to play this just because it was, it was earth day yesterday. In fact, I feel bad that

00:39:01.280 it was earth day yesterday and I never acknowledged it. Um, I never, I didn't, it wasn't, I didn't

00:39:07.880 realize. So I apologize ahead of time. I apologize to mother earth, to Gaia for forgetting her birthday,

00:39:13.120 but it was earth day. And the only thing I want to play, I got a few clips, I'm going to play all of

00:39:17.920 them, but there were these climate change activists, the environmental activists, extinction

00:39:22.800 rebellion. And they were out, um, all, you know, they were, this was in the UK and the United States.

00:39:30.500 They were in DC in DC. They, they had wheelbarrows full of cow manure and they marched up in front

00:39:36.680 of, uh, I think it was the white house and they dumped all their cow manure. So they're polluting

00:39:40.720 in an effort to save that. Here's, here's the eclipse here. Okay. So that's cow manure. They're

00:39:46.480 dumping the cow manure. So polluting and littering in the name of helping the environment

00:39:54.060 real heroes here. And you know what's going to happen? Some low wage sanitation worker

00:40:02.760 could be a racial minority is going to have to come in and clean all that crap up. Literally 1.00

00:40:07.580 clean that, clean that crap up. So well done. So these priests privileged white people come in 0.95

00:40:12.260 and dump cow manure all over the place. Meaning that a low wage worker is going to have to come 1.00

00:40:17.880 and clean it. And then, oh yeah, this is the one I wanted to play. So let's play this. Here's,

00:40:21.740 here they are. I think this was somewhere, it might've been in London and extinction rebellion.

00:40:27.300 They're smashing windows, but they're doing it in the most pathetic and girliest way I've ever seen. 1.00

00:40:36.000 Like they, they've got sledgehammers, but they don't have the strength. They don't have the 0.98

00:40:39.760 strength to simply smash the window with the sledgehammer. So they're doing in this,

00:40:44.380 in this very surgical kind of slow way.

00:40:50.000 And they never, they never successfully smashed it.

00:40:53.320 They couldn't, they couldn't even smash the window, man.

00:40:58.140 These environmental activists, they're not sending their best.

00:41:00.720 Look, if you're going to do that, send someone with some upper body strength.

00:41:05.140 But of course, what am I talking about? It's their environmental activists. They don't have

00:41:07.800 anyone with upper body strength.

00:41:08.680 Even the guys couldn't even do one pull-up. It's, it's a shame. It really is.

00:41:16.400 But, um, so they, they did damage the glass. And so that means that

00:41:19.920 we're going to have to make more glass and put it in. And that's going to help the environment

00:41:25.040 in some way that escapes me.

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00:42:48.360 This is, this is from, um, AS says odd how speaking of Makaya Bryant, odd how her mom didn't even look

00:42:56.580 that upset while talking about her daughter who just died. Yeah. You know, listen, I, I think I can

00:43:03.240 remember back to Sandy hook, um, when the terrible shooting, you know, um, many children were, were shot

00:43:11.100 in a mass shooting at a school. And after that, there were some of the parents were, you know,

00:43:19.180 you know, it might've been that day, but in the days after some parents were talking to the media

00:43:23.640 and I remember them being criticized because they didn't look sad enough about it.

00:43:28.660 And that criticism really annoyed me because, you know, first of all, you can't judge someone's grief

00:43:36.380 based on their facial expression. People process things differently. Um, they communicate it

00:43:42.200 differently. And when you're going through something so devastating as to lose a child,

00:43:49.280 there there's, there's just no way to, if you've never been through it yourself, you really can't

00:43:55.080 make any judgments about parents who, and how they process it. That being said, um,

00:44:01.440 the going out in front of cameras within moments, right. And really lying about your loved one

00:44:18.660 that I don't think can be justified. And that is hard for me to understand.

00:44:24.260 It's hard for me to understand how that would be part of the grieving process. Now, listen,

00:44:27.300 if I had a kid who got themselves shot by the cops because they were in the process of trying to

00:44:34.580 stab someone to death, uh, I would, I'm not going to go out in front of the cameras and throw my kid

00:44:40.180 under the bus and say he was a terrible person as, as a parent, I'm not going to say that, 0.97

00:44:44.380 but I think I can say that what I would do is I wouldn't say anything. I just, I wouldn't be in

00:44:50.620 front of the cameras. And if I did end up in front of a camera, I wouldn't claim that my child was an

00:44:55.700 angel. So it's not so much the, the look on the face or anything, but it's like in these situations,

00:45:04.060 it's what the families sometimes say. And so often in these police shootings,

00:45:09.900 the family comes out first and they have a narrative and it turns out to be totally, completely wrong.

00:45:17.900 All right. Um,

00:45:18.900 another comment says responsible parents would have given her the talk about how you only stab

00:45:25.520 people when the police aren't standing right there. Well, yeah, it's, it, it, you know,

00:45:31.780 we heard that Micaiah Bryan, uh, I don't know, I don't know who called the cops. And another part of

00:45:37.120 the initial narrative was that she had called the cops. Uh, that seems unlikely to me because whoever

00:45:41.860 called said that, Oh, this person has a knife and she was the one with the knife. But if she did,

00:45:46.480 that makes it like even worse that you call the cops and then they show up and they're here now.

00:45:50.420 And then you start trying to stab someone. Um, Hannah says, I've decided to go on a media fast

00:45:57.080 starting Saturday. I will miss you most, Matt. Well then you know what? You can't quit. You're

00:46:04.060 fired. You're banned from the show. Media. Look, you can go on a fast from all of the media. I think

00:46:09.140 it's a great thing to do, but don't, don't lump me in. I'm not like them. Uh, but no, seriously,

00:46:15.840 that's probably a good thing. First for your psychological health. No one else is allowed

00:46:18.400 to do it. Okay. You're the, you're the exception, but probably, you know, it's probably a good

00:46:21.640 idea. Clint Williams says, Hey Matt, how did you cut your finger whittling an arrow out of a tree

00:46:26.100 branch? Well, um, yeah, I did mention that in passing yesterday. So I was, I was, uh, and I was

00:46:30.300 watching my kids and, um, uh, yeah, I mean, I was, I was, of course I'm watching my kids. I'm,

00:46:36.800 I'm the father, but my wife wasn't there is the point. And, uh, and if she was,

00:46:41.020 she probably would have put a stop to this because I was with my kids and they were saying, Oh daddy,

00:46:45.380 can you make arrows out of tree branches? And, um, I've never done that before. So I said, sure,

00:46:51.340 you know, let me go grab a knife. And I, and I gave it a shot and I was kind of whittling and the,

00:46:56.060 the knife came right down into my finger. It's huge gaping hole. I was bleeding all over the place.

00:47:02.400 And as I'm blood gushing out and I'm trying, like, I'm trying to contain the blood. I want to get it on

00:47:08.400 the floor and I'm looking around and I'm texting my wife, trying to be subtle about it.

00:47:15.260 Saying like, Hey, Hey, what's, where are the band-aids by any chance? And she told me,

00:47:19.280 I said, what about gauze? What about disinfectant? Don't worry. I just, I'm just wondering,

00:47:24.180 I'm trying to do an inventory. But anyway, as I'm looking around for everything to bandage my,

00:47:27.940 uh, my finger that I almost cut off, uh, that's when my son starts asking me if he can have a snack.

00:47:33.620 So you could tell how concerned he was. It was a smart move though, because of course I said,

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00:49:48.620 Now let's get to our daily cancellation. Today for our daily cancellation, we turn again,

00:49:54.760 sad to say to slate. Uh, the article tweeted out by the website yesterday has this headline,

00:49:59.880 how Gen Z is using P to destigmatize sex online. Now I'm not going to subject you to

00:50:07.760 many of the details. All I will say is that according to slate, there's a subculture on

00:50:12.500 TikTok where in people with urine fetishes post videos celebrating that fetish. That's what they 0.57

00:50:17.300 destigmatizing. Slate is happy that this is destigmatizing freaks who get sexual pleasure 0.97

00:50:21.520 out of other people's human waste. And more broadly, they say it's destigmatizing discussions

00:50:26.560 and depictions of sex online. Now don't worry. I'm not going to play any of the P videos that

00:50:31.280 would require me to search for them and watch them myself. And there are some TikTok bridges

00:50:35.580 too far for even me to cross. Besides, I think we all get the idea, right? We probably don't

00:50:39.320 need to see it. What I want to talk about though is not urine ophelia or whatever we're supposed

00:50:44.100 to call it. Instead, I want to discuss more broadly the concept of stigma. You'll notice

00:50:50.160 that the left is constantly fighting to end the stigmas around various proclivities, fetishes,

00:50:55.340 perversions, and so forth. They look out and see a world where too many things are stigmatized.

00:51:01.000 Now I look out and see precisely the opposite because stigmas in fact are good things and we 1.00

00:51:07.220 should have more of them. In fact, we should add another. We should stigmatize destigmatization.

00:51:14.860 Now the first problem with the left's rush to destigmatize is that many of the stigmas they

00:51:18.580 seek to destroy don't actually exist anymore. They haven't for quite some time. I mean,

00:51:23.200 destigmatize sex online? Are you serious? That may have been at least a comprehensible objective in 1994

00:51:31.080 when people were logging on to AOL 1.0 on their dial-up modems. But in 2021, sex is the primary

00:51:39.500 focus of the internet. It seems rather impossible to make sex on the internet less stigmatized than

00:51:45.660 it is. It's like trying to destigmatize, I don't know, Big Macs at McDonald's. Sex on the internet is

00:51:52.280 not stigmatized, but it should be. Not because sex is bad. The point isn't that sex itself should be

00:51:58.620 stigmatized. But sex as public spectacle should be. Sex where both partners or all 10 partners or

00:52:05.900 however many are commodities, products to be used by each other and the viewer. Sex without love,

00:52:13.940 without dignity. That's what should be stigmatized. See, there are basically, as far as I can tell,

00:52:19.260 two categories of stigma that the left seeks to tear down or to keep torn down. One is where they want

00:52:26.360 an objectively bad thing to be accepted and celebrated. This is where they try to tear down

00:52:30.360 the stigmas around, you know, open relationships, for example, which is another way of saying they 0.96

00:52:34.100 want to destigmatize adultery. Or they want to get rid of the stigma of abortion, hoping to build a

00:52:39.740 utopian society where women can have their children executed without judgment or shame. Again, it's 0.95

00:52:44.860 arguable whether there really is any stigma surrounding those things anymore, but there should be.

00:52:48.980 Another version of the destigmatizing campaign is when a thing that is not a moral evil,

00:52:56.760 but is a private matter, is pushed into the public square. Sex, again, sex is a big example here.

00:53:05.020 Every personal thing really is an example. These days, people tend to share every aspect of

00:53:09.320 themselves with the whole world, putting the good, the bad, and the ugly on display. Little remains

00:53:13.760 private. In fact, there's almost no such thing as a private life anymore. For a lot of people,

00:53:19.540 there's no, this is what the internet has done. There's no private life. There's no interior

00:53:23.600 mental life. Everything you do is broadcast on the internet. Everything you think is filtered through

00:53:30.760 the internet. Everything is shared. And if you ever suggest that someone should keep some of the more

00:53:36.480 intimate details of themselves to themselves, you'll be accused of stigmatizing. The destigmatizing

00:53:43.160 efforts around mental illness are also kind of interesting. Mental illness is bad in the sense 0.96

00:53:50.100 that it's something a person suffers from, but it's not a moral evil. Obviously, a person with mental

00:53:54.840 illness can't be blamed for it. In one sense, it seems a worthy goal to break down the stigma

00:53:58.560 surrounding that sort of affliction. But the drive to destigmatize becomes always and inevitably

00:54:04.460 a push to celebrate and romanticize and proliferate. Now we're told that 20% of the country is mentally

00:54:12.260 ill and the number is rising, which is absurd, of course. If mental illness is that common,

00:54:18.600 then how can you even call it an illness? But it's become trendy and normalized, and this is the result.

00:54:24.260 The overall goal, the stated goal at least, is to break down all traditional stigmas 0.96

00:54:28.480 so that we can live as free and unencumbered human beings. The stigma around obesity is another big

00:54:36.280 example. Big example, no pun intended, but now they think about it is intended. Once all the

00:54:44.860 stigmas are gone and all of our flaws, foibles, and afflictions are celebrated and normalized,

00:54:48.880 we can be happy and content, you know, living without judgment or shame or insecurity. That's

00:54:52.860 the promise anyway. And yet it hasn't worked out that way. You notice that as the stigmas all come

00:54:59.120 down, happiness and contentment have not really increased. In fact, people have never been as

00:55:06.000 depressed, anxious, and lost as they are right now. The utopian promises of the left have failed

00:55:11.940 to pan out once again, because it turns out that healthy societies have stigmas in order to guide

00:55:18.680 people towards a healthy and properly ordered life. Stigmas help people understand what's good,

00:55:25.220 what's bad, what's private, what's public. Now there can be stigmas worth tearing down sometimes,

00:55:30.700 but when you rip them all down at once and invite everyone to indulge themselves in whatever way they

00:55:36.540 see fit and wherever they see fit, the somewhat ironic result is that people end up paralyzed.

00:55:43.820 Take away all the fences and people can go anywhere they want and they just stand still,

00:55:48.280 don't know where to go, unsure of what to do, where to go, who to be. You know, you see a similar

00:55:53.080 thing in marriages with the deconstruction of gender roles, kind of a related phenomenon. It was 0.94

00:55:57.620 supposed to be freeing to let husband and wife choose their own roles without any preconceived

00:56:01.880 ideas or stigmas at all. But this has led to confusion and to failed marriages. If the husband

00:56:07.340 has no idea about what he's supposed to do or what role he's supposed to fill, and the same for the wife,

00:56:13.060 then they both end up feeling like they do everything while accusing the other of doing nothing.

00:56:18.660 It's not a complementary relationship anymore, but a competitive one.

00:56:25.200 See, roles, responsibilities, stigmas. These are all good things in principle.

00:56:32.940 There can be bad versions of them. There are bad stigmas. We can have ideas about what someone's

00:56:38.660 role is and we can be wrong about that. So it's worth looking at. But when you try to get rid of all

00:56:44.120 those things in principle, as we've discovered, you don't end up with a bunch of happy and content

00:56:52.260 people. You end up with quite the opposite. And that's why stigmas are not canceled today. But

00:56:58.220 de-stigmatizing, that's what's canceled. And we will leave it there for the week.

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