The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 708 - Electing A Trans Governor To Own The Libs

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, many Republicans rejoice as Caitlyn Jenner runs for governor.

00:00:05.220 They're very excited about the prospect of a Republican transgender governor,

00:00:08.420 but can the right defeat the left by fully embracing and accepting its fundamental claims

00:00:13.000 about gender? Consider me skeptical. Also, five headlines, including the family of Micaiah

00:00:17.120 Bryant calling for police reform. A Democrat representative admits to emotionally abusing

00:00:22.220 her daughter and terrorizing her over thoughts of impending doom because of climate change.

00:00:26.480 The Oscars announced the winners, but nobody's ever heard of any of them. And a new study reveals

00:00:30.880 that the six foot social distancing guideline is totally arbitrary and baseless. They tell us

00:00:36.100 now after a year, all of that and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:46.300 So it was announced on Friday that Caitlyn Jenner would be running as a Republican for governor of 0.73

00:00:51.380 California. Reading now from a CNN article announcing the big news, it says, quote,

00:00:55.820 Jenner, a longtime Republican, filed paperwork in Los Angeles County and announced her intent

00:01:00.460 on her website. Again, I'm reading from the article on CNN. This is their language, not mine.

00:01:05.840 Her bid is one of the most high profile campaigns by a transgender person in the country.

00:01:10.400 California has been my home for nearly 50 years. I came here because I knew that anyone,

00:01:14.160 regardless of their background or station in life, could turn their dreams into reality,

00:01:17.320 Jenner said in news release. But for the past decade, we have seen the glimmer of the golden state

00:01:21.540 reduced by one party rule that places politics over progress and special interests over people.

00:01:27.840 Sacramento needs an honest leader with a clear vision.

00:01:33.200 Jenner, who described herself in the announcement as a disruptor and denounced Newsom's impact on the

00:01:37.680 golden state, began exploring an entry into politics early this year and has been working

00:01:41.500 with a close group of GOP strategists to lay the groundwork for her gubernatorial bid. 0.74

00:01:46.220 All right. So it goes on to explain that some of some members of Trump's team are now working

00:01:51.680 with Jenner. Also, some former Romney advisors are on board. Romney and Trump famously hate each

00:01:58.100 other. But it's nice to see that the two sides can come together for the sake of giving America

00:02:02.420 its first transgender governor. This is the kind of project that the modern Republican Party can

00:02:06.560 work together to achieve. They can't do literally anything else, no matter how much power you give

00:02:12.160 them. But this they can do. Well, they can't even do this, actually, because he almost certainly isn't

00:02:17.160 going to win. So they're either going to fail at this. As far as qualifications to hold elected

00:02:21.840 office, Jenner has none to speak of. He also has almost no qualifications to be considered a

00:02:26.980 conservative. We're talking about conservative here only in the sense of supporting tax cuts and

00:02:32.900 using phrases like the free market and fiscal responsibility. Enough of the special interests.

00:02:39.020 But when you go even just an inch below the surface, Jenner is, of course, nearly as liberal as

00:02:46.040 any other liberal in California. The only good thing that can be said about Jenner's run for

00:02:50.700 governor is that it doesn't really matter who the governor of California is. The state is a disaster

00:02:55.160 zone, a parasitic lump affixing itself to the rest of the country. And that won't change whether the

00:03:00.720 governor is an outright left-wing liberal, a Democrat, or a left-wing Democrat masquerading as a

00:03:05.980 milquetoast Republican. The result is the same. That's why the real significance of Jenner's run

00:03:12.080 is how it's been received by those on the right and what that reception says about contemporary

00:03:18.760 conservatism. From what I've seen, many self-professed conservatives have celebrated the

00:03:25.060 news, believing apparently that having a prominent trans Republican on the team will enhance our cultural

00:03:31.120 credentials. The idea is that we can play the left's own game and beat them at it. It's only days until

00:03:37.540 we start hearing Republicans say things like, see, Democrats are the real transphobes. Ha, got you now,

00:03:44.440 libs. In the process, many conservatives have fully adopted the language rules of the left,

00:03:51.800 making sure, for instance, to use female pronouns when referring to Jenner, who is, by the way, a male.

00:03:57.040 One example, a small right-wing account on Twitter put out a tweet with a picture of Nikki Haley

00:04:02.560 and Caitlyn Jenner standing next to each other and said that the photo illustrates the downfall of the

00:04:08.380 GOP. Dean Cain responded saying that the tweet was funny and he was laughing at it. Nikki Haley

00:04:16.560 herself responded to Cain with this. Interesting. I don't find it funny. Caitlyn came to see me at the

00:04:23.520 U.N. and I appreciated her conservative views. I will continue to think that the Republican Party is one of

00:04:28.860 conservative views by all people, regardless of their demographics. To me, that's not funny. It's

00:04:34.720 America. Now, I agree with the last part, at least. This isn't funny. I mean, maybe it's a little funny.

00:04:42.160 There's, of course, some delicious irony in the idea that the first female governor of California could be a white 0.86

00:04:48.220 male Republican. And if Jenner's run was embraced solely in that spirit, in the spirit of trolling,

00:04:56.320 I could almost support it. But that's not what's going on here, at least not among prominent people

00:05:05.300 on the right, those in positions of power and influence. Nikki Haley isn't trolling anyone.

00:05:10.020 The Republican advisers in Jenner's orbit aren't trolling. And that's why I find it necessary to make

00:05:16.060 two points here. Two really important points. Putting aside the trolling element of this, because

00:05:21.660 again, I know that's going to be the response. Oh, isn't it funny? I get it. Yeah, that's kind of

00:05:26.760 funny. But there are two things that are more important. Number one, language matters. The left

00:05:36.360 realizes this, and they've always realized it. That's why they spend so much time controlling and

00:05:42.380 policing language. We're so dumb that we've always chalked this up to leftists being a bunch of

00:05:48.180 over-emotional snowflakes. That's not it. The emotional snowflake stuff is a tactic and an effective

00:05:55.960 one. The point is to shape what people think by shaping the words they use, because that's how our

00:06:03.860 minds work. Now, when you use the word she, in reference to a man, like Jenner, you are agreeing

00:06:13.220 with the proposition that the person you're referencing is a woman. That's what you're saying.

00:06:19.040 When you say she, what you're communicating is that the person you're talking about is a woman.

00:06:25.040 Now, you may not believe that yourself, but you're saying it. You're lying. You are participating in the

00:06:33.260 lie. You are, in fact, participating in the entire lie of left-wing gender theory. You are adopting and

00:06:40.220 agreeing with all of it. Through that one simple word, she, you have just conceded the left's entire

00:06:48.580 agenda with respect to gender and sex. And by conceding that, you've conceded essentially everything,

00:06:56.780 because gender theory rests on the philosophical premise of relativism. 0.91

00:07:00.740 But, you know, there's no objective truth. Truth is whatever I feel it is, whatever I think it is.

00:07:07.280 That's gender theory. If a man feels like he's a woman, thinks he's a woman, then he's a woman. 1.00

00:07:14.500 That, that can't be true unless relativism is true. Of course, as we know, relativism can't be true

00:07:21.300 because the whole point of relativism is that nothing is really true. Yet, if you say relativism is true,

00:07:25.700 then you are defeating relativism just simply by saying that. But whatever. The point is,

00:07:32.240 relativism serves as the foundation of the left's basic ideas and doctrines, all of them.

00:07:38.980 By using the words they tell you to use, you give up the whole game. You give it all up.

00:07:45.520 If you think I'm making too much of it, then consider again why they make so much of it.

00:07:53.060 Why is it so important to them that you use certain words?

00:07:57.140 And we can't even use the, oh, it's polite excuse. Now, I don't think it's actually polite

00:08:05.220 to tell a lie, to participate in a lie, to participate in a person's delusion. I don't

00:08:11.360 think that that's, that that's polite at all. But most of the time we're talking about occasions

00:08:16.280 when you're referring to someone, but they're not there. You're, you're, you're talking about them

00:08:21.800 when they're not even around. Polite. There's no, there's no courtesy there.

00:08:30.400 But even in that case, especially in that case, the left makes it very clear. This is the word

00:08:37.780 you're supposed to use. Why do they care so much? Well, this is why it's not because they're emotional.

00:08:44.600 It's because they know that if you can control the words people are using, you control the ideas

00:08:53.980 that people have, you control reality. But this has been the, the conservative, this has been

00:09:00.420 conservatism MO for a long time. Conservatives think they can concede all of the most fundamental

00:09:05.840 points, adopt the left's whole philosophical framework, and yet still win in the long run

00:09:11.120 by electing Republicans who will cut taxes and talk about limited government. It doesn't work.

00:09:16.880 It's never worked. It cannot ever work. Second point, you can't beat the left at its own game.

00:09:27.820 Okay. Leftists aren't thrown for a loop by the fact that there's a trans Republican.

00:09:33.220 All these dummy conservatives saying, ah, see, we got them now. What are they going to do this time?

00:09:38.820 We got them backed into a corner. We got it. There's a trans Republican. 0.97

00:09:44.220 They, they, they have no problem simply saying that Jenner doesn't count, that he's a traitor to

00:09:49.200 the cause, that he has internalized transphobia or whatever. They've got plenty of things. They've

00:09:55.920 got plenty of stock answers in these kinds of situations. Now it might be fun for a while when

00:10:02.100 the campaign gets going to accuse Democrats of being transphobic if they criticize gender,

00:10:07.200 but Jenner, but that tactic doesn't actually work or achieve anything. 0.94

00:10:11.940 Now, conservatives often try the same thing with race. Democrats accuse Republicans of being white

00:10:16.080 supremacists. And so Republicans ever lacking in imagination respond by saying, no, we aren't.

00:10:21.600 You guys are the real white supremacists. It's an easy response, but it achieves nothing.

00:10:28.700 And I'll tell you why. Because you cannot beat someone at a game they invented where the rules can be

00:10:37.760 changed by the inventors at any time. It's impossible. This is their game. They own it.

00:10:47.880 They make the rules. And the number one rule is you can't win. That's the number one rule.

00:10:57.160 No matter what you do or say, if you choose to play that game with them, you cannot win.

00:11:02.560 So when it comes to anything, but now we're talking about gender theory, the left's ideas about gender.

00:11:10.680 If you decide to dive in and say, all right, I'll play this game.

00:11:14.920 I'll show you how it's done. No, you lose.

00:11:19.540 You've adopted their whole framework. You've agreed with their underlying premise.

00:11:22.980 You lose. You lose. We lose. Everything.

00:11:29.540 If there is any winning at this point, it's by refusing to play that game.

00:11:36.200 And one way to refuse to play the game is by using words in the way that they're supposed to be used.

00:11:44.040 Conveying truth when you speak.

00:11:47.600 That's what we should be doing.

00:11:51.060 Refuse to play the game.

00:11:52.980 All right. Let's get now to our five headlines.

00:12:02.980 You know, one of the great pleasures of parenthood is listening to your kids have conversations,

00:12:08.940 at least at a certain age. And I mean conversations, not when they're bickering and fighting and that

00:12:12.420 sort of thing, because they do a lot of that. But sometimes you'll catch them just having normal

00:12:16.680 sort, as normal as they can, conversations, which can be really funny. So on Saturday,

00:12:22.520 I had the boys, uh, seven-year-old son, my four-year-old son in the truck with me. We were

00:12:27.140 driving to, I don't know where I can't remember now, but they had this long discussion slash debate

00:12:32.520 about how it is that, that people who are currently dead can be seen on TV.

00:12:39.580 My oldest son had just recently learned, um, because we were watching something and I remember

00:12:48.160 what we were watching, but, but he, he, and there was an actor on TV and he was, he was asking me

00:12:51.900 about that person. I said, Oh, he's, he's a, that person's dead. And you could just see the wheels

00:12:56.640 turning in my son's mind. Cause he's like, wait, dead. I'm looking at him right there.

00:12:59.240 So they were debating this. How is it possible? And what they settled on, the answer they settled

00:13:04.520 on is that anytime you see a dead person on television, that's a robot. And so the people

00:13:13.080 who make movies, they have some sort of laboratory where they go and they create robots of the dead

00:13:17.260 people. So the dead people can keep appearing in movies and TV. Good answer. You know, it's a

00:13:23.220 working your way through a problem, not coming to the right conclusion, but that's, it's this

00:13:26.820 critical thinking in its earliest stages. And this is another one of those times where the kid

00:13:31.880 version of reality is so much cooler than the real version. Now I feel kind of bad because one day

00:13:37.280 they're going to realize that, no, it's not, it's not quite that cool or nor nearly as cool as that,

00:13:41.580 unfortunately. All right. Number one, CNN, um, reports on what exactly led to the altercation

00:13:47.780 with Micaiah Bryant, where she tried to, um, stab someone to death.

00:13:54.000 And I think this was the, this was the news on, uh, I'm pretty sure we already had this news on

00:14:00.900 Friday. We already knew this, but Micaiah Bryant, uh, and two other young women argued over a messy 0.87

00:14:05.580 house and unmade bed before a fight that ended with the fatal police shooting of the black teenager.

00:14:13.060 Um, so the, the story we were getting all of last week, right, was that someone had come,

00:14:20.220 she was defending her life. Someone had come to jump her or something like that. And she was defending

00:14:24.340 herself. Well, we, we knew from the, from the footage that that wasn't true. Um, and now we know

00:14:31.680 it's this, according to people who were there, that, uh, some, some other, some, some former foster

00:14:40.260 kids had come and they were getting into an argument. They were accusing Micaiah Bryant of, of, uh,

00:14:45.380 not, of not making her bed and of not being neat. And so apparently she grabbed a butcher knife and 0.93

00:14:53.820 tried to stab them to death for that. And the way that CNN and the media presents this, it's as if

00:15:01.460 they think it makes Micaiah Bryant more sympathetic and the police less sympathetic, but I don't think

00:15:08.960 that's the case at all. Now, again, as I, as I've said all last week, you know, when a, when a 16 year

00:15:16.820 old kid and they are a kid at 16, I believe that's why I don't want to let lower the voting age to 16.

00:15:24.440 Unlike the left, you know, whether or not a 16 year old counts as a kid really depends on the situation.

00:15:29.580 For me, 16 year old is a kid. So the 16 year old kid is at the point where you accuse them of

00:15:38.440 not making their bed properly and they try to stab you to death.

00:15:44.140 Well, that says a lot, not just about them, but people around them. A lot of that blame.

00:15:51.880 If you've got a 16 year old kid who flies into a homicidal rage over anything, but especially over

00:15:57.060 that, uh, that's a statement about their family life, parenting. It's not a statement about the

00:16:03.920 cops, but mostly about the parents. And speaking of which ABC news has a story about, um, Bryant's

00:16:12.160 family and their calls for, you know, Bryant's family is now coming out and they're calling for

00:16:17.060 their, they're weighing legal action, of course. And, uh, I'm sure they're thinking about what

00:16:22.080 lawsuits they can, they can file, but also they're calling for reform to the police. That's what

00:16:26.720 they're thinking here. But obviously our daughter tried to stab someone to death over an argument

00:16:33.120 over a messy room. And that means that the police need to be reformed. So here's a story from ABC

00:16:37.800 news tonight, growing cries to reevaluate police use of force policies in the wake of the shooting

00:16:44.680 death of Ohio, 16 year old Micaiah Bryant. We've recently had shooting after shooting after shooting.

00:16:50.240 So maybe the training's wrong. Protesters hitting the streets again today, the fifth straight day

00:16:56.440 since the shooting happened. Bryant's family telling me the police need to change.

00:17:03.880 They have the power right now to put some changes in the book, regardless of the situation,

00:17:10.140 we have to be able to do better and protecting, uh, life. This week, the Columbus division of police

00:17:16.260 released body camera footage of the incident. Get down, get down. Officer Nicholas reared and firing

00:17:23.020 four shots as Bryant appears to lunge at the woman in pink with a knife. She had a knife. She just went 0.93

00:17:29.060 at her. Columbus officers are authorized to fire their weapons. If there's a deadly threat,

00:17:34.300 an independent investigation is now underway to determine whether the shooting was justified.

00:17:39.560 Fast facts cannot come at the expense of complete accurate facts. But while we push for answers

00:17:48.160 and transparency and accountability, we can't lose sight of the history of trauma and pain in our black

00:17:55.600 community. Yeah, we actually, with this story, we can lose sight of that. We can. It's got nothing to do

00:18:04.760 with anything. So even, even a lot of the people who have the, basically the right perspective on this

00:18:13.020 particular case, which of course the right perspective is that the cops did, cop did nothing wrong and is a hero

00:18:19.020 for, uh, saving someone's life is about to be stabbed to death. But even the people who are, who are many of the

00:18:24.400 people who are basically there, most of them still feel the need to throw in something like you just heard

00:18:31.320 there. Yeah, the cop didn't do anything wrong, but we, you know, we can't, we can't lose sight of the

00:18:36.000 overall issue of systemic racism and the trauma and pain of the black community.

00:18:42.740 Now we could talk about systemic racism and whether that exists, which it doesn't another time, but for

00:18:50.160 this issue, we can actually lose sight of all of that because it's got nothing to do with anything.

00:18:56.080 This was an isolated circumstance wherein a police officer walked onto a scene and like five seconds

00:19:06.320 later, faster than that, probably there was a woman trying to stab people to death. And so he responded.

00:19:14.440 He's not stopping to think about the trauma and pain of the black community. He's not thinking about 1.00

00:19:18.200 systemic racism. He's responding to the situation.

00:19:20.920 And as far as trauma and pain goes, having one or two people stabbed to death in the broad daylight

00:19:29.080 out in their driveway, I would say there might be some trauma and pain to come from that.

00:19:35.900 Meanwhile, just, just to show you how, if you didn't already realize how absurd the,

00:19:42.840 the anti-police people in order to make their case,

00:19:46.500 most of the time they're not even going to give you the numbers. They're not going to give you the

00:19:51.320 statistics at all. Um, it's going to be all emotion all the time, you know, because when you

00:19:58.020 look at the numbers, of course, there's, there's no evidence at all that, uh, there's a problem of

00:20:04.260 racist cops out there executing black people, but we're told that it doesn't matter if the stats

00:20:08.880 don't show it. I, I feel like, you know, black American feels as though this is the reality. 0.98

00:20:14.660 And so it is. Usually that's how they deal with the statistics is by not looking at them at all.

00:20:20.760 But if they do look at the statistics, then they're going to have to take them wildly out of context.

00:20:24.880 And, and, uh, so here's an example, Matthew Dowd pundit, uh, tweeted this a couple of days ago over

00:20:32.000 the weekend. He says over the last 20 years, the average number of officers killed in the line of

00:20:37.200 duty is 65 per year. The average number of civilian killings by officers is 1100 per year.

00:20:44.840 So tell me again, who is under greater threat living their lives?

00:20:52.280 So, okay, 65 a year versus, uh, versus 1100. So clearly the answer is the civilians are under a

00:21:00.380 greater threat. If you're an idiot and you don't stop to think about this for

00:21:06.860 even two seconds, maybe that argument is convincing. But then when you do stop and

00:21:14.540 think, you think, well, wait a second, huh? Aren't there a lot more civilians than there

00:21:20.920 are police officers? Like a lot more. How many civilians do we have in this country? How many,

00:21:27.460 how many citizens overall do we have in this country? 330 million or so.

00:21:31.820 Are there also 330 million police officers? Is there one police officer for every civilian?

00:21:40.780 No, it's, you got 330 million give or take citizens, not counting illegal aliens,

00:21:47.340 and then 1100 per year killed by cops. Okay. And then you've got how many police officers?

00:21:55.080 I don't have the number in front of me, but it's, I think it's total like 600,000 or something.

00:22:04.600 Um, actually I do have the number in front of me. Okay. 700,000, around 700,000 cops total in the

00:22:10.680 country. So then you run the numbers on that. And what you have, um, percent killed by cops among

00:22:17.300 citizens is 0.0003%. Whereas among cops, it's 0.009%. Small percentage in both, very small percentage

00:22:28.320 in both cases, thankfully. But in terms of percentages and the numbers we're dealing with,

00:22:36.500 0.009 is significantly higher than 0.0003. So to answer Matthew Dowd's question, who's under a

00:22:43.500 greater threat living their lives? Well, the cops. And that of course, isn't even taking into account

00:22:49.520 the circumstances around which those 1100 people are killed. When you do look at those circumstances,

00:22:57.620 you, you discover that in almost all of those cases, it's a pretty straightforward situation

00:23:02.560 where you had a, a, a suspect, a violent criminal trying to kill a police officer,

00:23:07.560 most of the time by firing guns at them, shooting at them, and then they get shot in the process.

00:23:13.500 But that's how bad that's, that's how, you know, baseless the, the anti-cop position is

00:23:24.040 that even if you take context out of it and you pretend for a moment that all 1100 people killed

00:23:32.100 by cops in a year, all of them were unarmed and, uh, and totally innocent, which is not even close

00:23:40.080 to true. But even if you pretended that was true, the numbers still wouldn't support the kind of

00:23:47.320 epidemic that they're, uh, claiming, at least in terms of percentages. All right. Um, number two,

00:23:54.680 the Oscars were last night, didn't watch a single second of it. And, uh, if, if you did, I don't know

00:24:03.060 why you don't value your own time more than that. If you didn't, then you probably don't care who won,

00:24:07.220 but I'll tell you anyway, we'll go through it. We'll go through the list of, uh, at least a few

00:24:11.780 of the winners here. Actor in a leading role, Anthony Hopkins, one for the father. Never heard

00:24:18.080 of that. I've heard of Anthony Hopkins, never heard of the father. Actor in a supporting role. Um,

00:24:23.500 the winner was Daniel Kaluuya for Judas and the Black Messiah. I heard about that when it was nominated.

00:24:30.640 Don't know anything else about it. Um, actress in a leading role is Francis McDormand for Nomadland.

00:24:37.800 I've heard of that. I haven't, nobody has seen it. No one actually knows what happens in that movie

00:24:41.320 because nobody's seen it. Actress in a supporting role, Yoo Jung Yoon in a movie called Minari.

00:24:49.780 I have no idea. I have no idea what any of that means. Um, animated feature film, Soul,

00:24:55.640 one. That's the Pixar movie. I do know that one. Cinematography. The winner was Mank.

00:25:02.700 No one has seen any of these. Documentary. Okay. The winner for the documentary was My Octopus

00:25:08.900 Teacher, which is a documentary, um, as it sounds there about an octopus. That one I have seen,

00:25:14.160 and that is pretty excellent. I have to say a little bit strange. You know, I, I think octopuses

00:25:21.020 are, are fascinating creatures and I'm, I'm big into nature documentaries. So especially about marine

00:25:27.680 life. So I did enjoy that. The relationship that the guy forms with the octopus is a, is a,

00:25:34.460 it's a little intense, you know, it's more intense than you would think a relationship between a man

00:25:41.500 and octopus would be. But, but overall, really fascinating. That's the, of all of the, the nominees

00:25:48.460 and winners. The only one that I've really heard of and seen is the documentary about the octopus.

00:25:53.860 Great. Um, that, you know, the criticism here is that while the Oscars these days,

00:26:01.920 they only nominate these kinds of artsy movies that nobody's seen and it's very elitist and,

00:26:06.400 you know, they're not nominating the movies that everyone watches and likes.

00:26:11.140 And I agree with that criticism to an extent, but we also have to, in fairness to the Oscars,

00:26:17.020 the other problem is that all of the big movies that everybody watches, all of the big tentpole

00:26:21.740 blockbusters, all of them now are franchise films and superhero movies. And almost all of those movies

00:26:28.980 are total garbage and certainly don't deserve to win any awards whatsoever.

00:26:36.000 So the problem is that just a lot of really bad movies are coming out, whether they're the

00:26:39.560 blockbusters or the artsy movies that only five people have seen. All right, number three,

00:26:43.760 this is pretty horrifying. Here's representative Katie Porter talking to a great, a Greta Thunberg.

00:26:49.220 And I'm not sure why she's talking to Greta Thunberg, but she is. And she reveals how she

00:26:53.760 Porter is emotionally and psychologically abusing her own daughter. Let's listen to this.

00:26:59.040 I told my nine-year-old daughter that I was going to be speaking with you. And I said,

00:27:02.680 what do you think about the climate change, climate change? And she said,

00:27:06.480 the earth is on fire and we're all going to die soon. And I asked her how that made her feel. And

00:27:13.940 she said it made her feel angry. What should I tell my daughter and how should I help her and the

00:27:21.660 youngest generation bear the emotional toll of the actions that we're taking, fossil fuel companies

00:27:29.900 are taking to destroy our planet? Well, thank you for a question. That's a big, big question. And I

00:27:41.460 know that there are many young people who feel angry and sad because of all the things that some people

00:27:49.140 are doing. Okay, shut up, Greta. Let me answer that. Can I jump in here? Let me actually answer that

00:27:53.940 question for Representative Porter. What do you tell your daughter when she says she's afraid because

00:28:00.280 the earth is on fire and everyone's going to die? Well, you lunatic, you tell her that that's not true

00:28:08.840 and she's going to be okay. That's what you tell a child when they're afraid, especially when they're

00:28:15.440 afraid of something that legitimately isn't true. There's nothing to think about. It would be like if I

00:28:23.480 went into my daughter's room at night because she's crying and I say, what's wrong? And she tells

00:28:30.800 me, daddy, there's monsters under the bed. What if I were to respond? Oh, there's monsters under your

00:28:36.400 bed? How does that make you feel? It makes me feel really scared. Yeah, it is scary. Well, anyway,

00:28:44.720 I'm going to hit the sack. See you later. Good luck with the monsters. No, what you tell your daughter

00:28:50.180 is? No, there's no monsters. I'll go look. I'll go check. I'll fight the monsters if there's any.

00:28:54.840 Oh, no, there's no monsters. You're okay. Everything will be fine. Daddy's here. You'll be okay.

00:29:03.440 I mean, the fear that the earth is on fire and that we're all going to die of climate change

00:29:07.740 is as ludicrous as the fear that there are monsters under the bed. But you can't blame a child for having

00:29:13.800 ludicrous fears. They're children. And if you've told them this, then what else are they supposed to

00:29:19.000 think? I mean, unfortunately, Katie Porter's parents, or rather children, have Katie Porter as a parent.

00:29:27.280 And sadly, they're going to believe whatever Katie Porter tells them.

00:29:31.580 It's not until they're older and they're out of the house where they can start to realize that

00:29:35.460 their mother was an abusive lunatic, psychologically manipulating them.

00:29:40.760 The earth is on fire. Come on. You know what? I have a lot of fears for my own children,

00:29:49.720 which I talk about all the time. I worry very much about the world that they're going to live in. I

00:29:54.840 worry about the culture they're going to live in. I worry about the country that we're leaving for

00:29:58.600 them. I worry about all of those things. But I am not worried that climate change is going to kill

00:30:05.200 them. Not anywhere on my list of worries. They'll be perfectly fine as far as that goes.

00:30:13.200 As far as everything else, I don't know.

00:30:18.020 But you know what? Even my valid worries and concerns, I'm not telling my kids about that.

00:30:26.520 There are a lot of really real things out there in the world to be worried about.

00:30:33.660 You know, there are a lot of things out there in the world that could harm my kids, could kill them,

00:30:38.680 God forbid, could corrupt them, could all kinds of things, could ruin their lives. I mean,

00:30:45.500 there's a lot of terrible things that could happen to them. That's the reality.

00:30:48.880 I'm not telling them that. They don't know about almost any of it because they don't need to know

00:30:57.940 right now. They're with me and my wife. We're there to protect them.

00:31:06.640 Eventually, we won't be. So over time, you start to introduce them to some of these realities. But

00:31:10.600 at the age of six, seven, eight, no need. You can protect them from those realities. And you can

00:31:19.620 protect them from the realities as a parent. And you can especially protect them from things that

00:31:24.060 are not a reality. Such as the concern that climate change is going to destroy the earth because it's

00:31:30.080 not. All right. Speaking of things that are not a reality, this is from the New York Post. It says

00:31:37.440 social distancing inside at 60 feet is no safer than at six feet. And exposure time indoors is

00:31:44.980 actually far more important, according to a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

00:31:49.160 in a report that challenges widely accepted COVID-19 prevention guidelines. Researchers say

00:31:53.860 there's little benefit to health officials' six-foot rule, especially when wearing masks inside.

00:32:00.120 MIT engineering professor Martin Bazant said the distancing isn't helping you that much,

00:32:05.420 and it's also giving you a false sense of security because you're as safe at six feet as you are at

00:32:09.500 60 feet if you're indoors. Everyone in that space is at roughly the same risk, actually.

00:32:16.440 During the study, researchers calculated exposure risk to the virus based on factors such as amount

00:32:21.940 of time spent inside, air filtration and circulation, according to the study. They also looked at factors

00:32:27.820 such as mask use, immunization, and respiratory activities such as breathing, eating, and speaking.

00:32:32.540 And it's an interesting article. You could go and read the whole thing.

00:32:38.760 So what they're saying, six foot, that's not based on anything. You're six feet away from someone

00:32:46.720 or 60 feet, basically the same thing. And I think that was obvious to a lot of us from the beginning

00:32:55.300 because they just pulled the six foot rule out of thin air. And so why did they decide on six feet?

00:33:03.480 Well, because that was as far as they felt they could enforce.

00:33:10.080 That's all it was. It was an enforcement calculation.

00:33:14.040 Now, whether there was any good reason to be enforcing anything at all, that wasn't considered.

00:33:21.460 It was just decided that, OK, we need to separate people and let's come up with a distance that we

00:33:27.780 think we can reasonably try to enforce.

00:33:29.760 And of course, for them, reasonable includes shutting down the whole economy, destroying

00:33:38.160 thousands of businesses in one fell swoop. For them, that's a reasonable thing that they can do,

00:33:43.100 and they did.

00:33:46.460 But of course they did. Of course there was no science behind it.

00:33:49.000 They came up with this rule on the spot early on. I mean, what kind of studies did anyone think

00:33:59.540 they could have done at that point?

00:34:03.900 You know, the irony here is, as it says in the article, the real kicker is exposure time.

00:34:11.000 It's how much time are you spending inside with someone who's infected?

00:34:15.560 No matter how close you are to them.

00:34:19.640 So if you have an infected person in your family and you're in your home and you're inside with 0.80

00:34:25.960 them all hours of the day, then there's a really good chance you're going to get sick, no matter

00:34:29.500 how close you are to them. And what that means is that rather than all of these cities and states

00:34:38.760 shutting down their parks, shutting down their playgrounds,

00:34:41.560 you know, telling you that if you want to go walk the dog, you can only be out for seven and a half

00:34:47.860 minutes and you got to go back inside. Rather than doing that, they should have been telling

00:34:53.260 people, no, get outside as much as possible. Go out to the park, open up the parks, build more parks

00:34:58.280 for people, if anything. That's what should have been done. But instead they forced everyone to stay

00:35:06.040 inside, which increased exposure time and then people got each other sick. Brilliant, brilliant

00:35:11.320 strategy. All right. Finally, this is a tweet from Senator Schumer. He says, excited to be watching

00:35:18.480 the Oscars with an ice cold plant-based beer. Thanks, Joe Biden. Now, I'm not sure what this is referring

00:35:24.760 to. This must be some kind of attempt at a joke referencing some dumb thing or another. I don't know.

00:35:29.620 Obviously, all beer is plant-based, first of all. A meat-based beer sounds kind of interesting, but

00:35:35.200 not the kind of thing you'd probably want to, you know, maybe you'd try that one, a bacon-based beer.

00:35:40.180 I don't know if that exists. I'd try it. Not your everyday sipper kind of beer. But my problem is,

00:35:45.460 look at this picture here. He's in a wooden chair, sitting two feet from the screen,

00:35:52.540 holding the beer like it's the first time he's ever held a beer in his life.

00:35:54.800 This is what happens. And he's watching the Oscars, of all things. Who sits in a chair like

00:36:01.500 that? You're lounging at night. You're watching TV. You're sitting in a wooden chair right next to

00:36:06.160 the screen. This is what happens when these half-humanoid automatons that we've elected to 0.99

00:36:13.400 office, when they try to act like real people, this is what you end up with, is this.

00:36:21.020 Well done. I guess he thinks he's dunking on conservatives there. I'm not sure how or why,

00:36:26.620 but there it is. Well done, Chuck Schumer. All right, let's move on to reading the YouTube

00:36:30.980 comments. This is from Eugene, says, love you, brother. This black American is all about personal 1.00

00:36:35.400 accountability. Yeah, if we're going to talk about LeBron James is out there shouting,

00:36:40.920 accountability, accountability. I think accountability is a great idea. I think we need more of that.

00:36:46.120 I agree with you, Eugene. Personal accountability, first and foremost. Well, personal accountability

00:36:52.100 and another P word, parental accountability. Those are the two forms of accountability that we need.

00:37:00.120 Another comment says, I actually saw an arrest playing out today. The one being arrested appeared

00:37:04.040 to be a black man. He didn't resist, answered all the cops' questions, and what do you know? He

00:37:08.140 wasn't shot. It's crazy how it almost always works out that way. You're being arrested because you

00:37:17.820 committed a crime or you're suspected of committing a crime. You don't resist arrest. You fight the

00:37:24.560 charge in court. You'll live to tell the tale in almost every case, black or white. Another comment,

00:37:32.660 we live in an era of narcissistic nature. We've emboldened this idea of me first, and now we have

00:37:37.660 multiple generations that believe the lie that they are uniquely important. That young girl was never

00:37:42.680 taught that you have to respect authority, whether you like it or not. Yeah, Micaiah Bryant, obviously not

00:37:49.100 taught to respect authority, but the greater problem is that it doesn't seem like Micaiah Bryant was taught

00:37:54.980 anything at all from a parenting perspective. It doesn't seem like there was really any parental

00:37:59.020 influence. She was in foster care, after all, and her mother is living and apparently lives down the

00:38:03.860 street. So she wasn't taught how to respect authority. She wasn't taught anything, and that's 0.78

00:38:10.120 how you end up with a 16-year-old trying to stab someone to death over a fight over, you know, who

00:38:14.180 makes the bed. Another says, we have grown to love the polka dot shirt, Matt. Well, then that means I

00:38:22.900 have to stop wearing it. You're not supposed to love it. You're supposed to grow to hate it more

00:38:28.880 and more with each passing week. That's the punishment.

00:38:37.140 This is kind of like, I'm going through what I go through with my kids

00:38:39.840 now, where your kids get to a certain age where sending them to their room isn't really a punishment

00:38:45.340 anymore, because it just gives them a break and kind of gives them some time to themselves and

00:38:49.380 they can play with their toys. I'm thinking of different punishment, I guess. But no, I'm still

00:38:54.900 going to wear the polka dot shirt. I said a year and I'm going to do it. Finally, another comment

00:38:59.420 says, hey, Matt, I'm a travel nurse on assignment in Austin, Texas right now. I came to UT to hear you

00:39:04.680 speak and unfortunately was one of the many with a ticket who couldn't get in due to the COVID

00:39:08.240 restrictions. I was upset but ultimately laughed at the irony of not being let in to hear you speak

00:39:13.280 due to COVID. I wasn't nearly as upset as the guy in front of me who drove from Houston to hear you.

00:39:17.260 So looking forward to hopefully catching you speak in the future. Yeah, I feel terrible about

00:39:22.180 that. I heard a lot of these stories after I was done. You know, I was speaking at UT Austin last

00:39:27.800 week and I'm giving my speech blissfully unaware of what's going out in the hallway. And apparently

00:39:34.360 there were lots of people that were that came out, had tickets, were turned away by the university

00:39:41.040 because of COVID restrictions. And just because what the university decided is that speaking of

00:39:47.200 arbitrary guidelines, you know, we know six feet is arbitrary. They also decided that only 99 people

00:39:52.560 could be a part of the event. 99 was the cap. Couldn't go beyond 99 people. Because we all know,

00:39:59.000 right? As long as you don't get into triple digits, once you get the triple digits, that's when COVID

00:40:03.500 activates and everyone's going to get sick. But to give you an idea of how ridiculous this was, 99

00:40:13.020 people. And what that meant was you could only have 99 people participate in the event, no matter where

00:40:21.300 they were on the campus. So for example, we had a really big open room right next to us where we could

00:40:30.660 have had some overflow capacity, but that would count against the 99. So if you had, if there were 99

00:40:37.680 people in the room and one person sitting in a 300 person room next door, watching it on a TV screen

00:40:46.520 or listening to it, that would be above the limit, according to the university, even though they're

00:40:51.780 in the next room. So those were the rules. I apologize to all the people that got turned away.

00:40:57.660 They really do. I hope we can get to a point soon enough where we can just do events and not have to

00:41:03.200 worry about this anymore. Quick word now from Charity Mobile. We're about to talk about, in the daily

00:41:07.540 cancellation, yet another woke company and why we should probably consider, you know, not giving our

00:41:14.520 money to all these companies that hate our guts. And if we're taking our money away from the

00:41:19.100 companies that hate us, how about giving that money, some of it, to companies that actually support us in

00:41:23.540 the culture like Charity Mobile. One company that certainly fits the description here is Charity

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00:41:52.440 love the service, and you will love it. And by the way, they've got live customer service based right

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00:42:16.300 Well, another high-energy episode of Candace is coming at you this Friday. This week,

00:42:19.800 Candace hosts political commentator and interviewer Dave Rubin, where they'll, of course,

00:42:24.660 going to have a lot to discuss, including the recall election of California Governor Gavin Newsom

00:42:28.540 and his new opponent, Caitlyn Jenner. You can subscribe now and stream Candace live on Fridays at 9 p.m.

00:42:34.620 Eastern, 8 p.m. Central, only on Daily Wire. And get 25% off a new membership with code

00:42:39.280 Candace at dailywire.com slash subscribe. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:42:47.000 Today for our daily cancellation, we turn to a viral article in the Orlando Sentinel. The piece

00:42:51.880 is written by guest contributor Jonathan Van Boskirk with the headline, I love Disney World,

00:42:57.760 but wokeness is ruining the experience. And it begins this way. He says, my family and I have

00:43:03.080 been loyal Disney customers for decades. We vacation at Disney World every year. We take a Disney cruise

00:43:07.300 every year or two. Consequently, we spend way too much money in Orlando. Unfortunately, I'm strongly

00:43:12.180 rethinking our commitment to Disney and thus Orlando. The more Disney moves away from the values and vision

00:43:17.280 of Walt Disney, the less Disney World means to me. Disney is forgetting that guest immersion is at

00:43:21.720 the core of its business model. When I stand in Galaxy's Edge or Fantasyland, I know I'm in a theme

00:43:28.260 park, but through immersion and my willingness to set the real world aside, something magical happens.

00:43:33.240 That spell is broken when the immersive experience is shattered by the real world.

00:43:36.660 And boy, has Disney been breaking the immersion. Okay, now already we have a problem because

00:43:43.000 a grown man is describing Disney World as magical. It's arguable whether a grown man ought to be

00:43:49.480 calling anything magical, unless the thing is literally magical, like if you stumble across a lamp with

00:43:53.900 an actual genie inside it or something, then you could call that magical. But certainly, that sort of

00:43:58.820 sentiment should not be applied to a theme park. I've been to plenty of theme parks, and at this point

00:44:04.380 in my life, they do not put me under any sort of spell. If I'm immersed in anything, it's the

00:44:09.540 thought of how much damned money I'm spending for the privilege of standing in a series of long lines

00:44:13.860 while listening to kids, to kids, other people's and my own, whine about the line, the heat, they want

00:44:19.640 a snack, et cetera, et cetera. As I said, this article went viral, and most people are criticizing the

00:44:25.020 writer, but not for the reason that I'm criticizing him. I take issue with Mr. Van Boskirk primarily

00:44:31.640 because adult men shouldn't like Disney World so much, or at all. And I've made this point before, and I've been

00:44:38.240 told by other adult men that I'm nothing but a curmudgeon for saying this because Disney World is the

00:44:43.840 happiest place on earth. And how could I hate the happiest place on earth? Now, I am indeed a curmudgeon,

00:44:48.980 but even so, a place that trademarks itself as the happiest place on earth and charges you hundreds of dollars

00:44:55.460 to experience that happiness is certain to be anything but the happiest place on earth.

00:45:01.340 For me, it's not like I don't have any happy place. For me, the happiest place on earth for me

00:45:06.180 is a quiet lake at 6 a.m. with a coffee mug and a fishing rod. Second happiest is the same lake 12

00:45:13.900 hours later with a beer instead of a coffee. For me, that's the happiest. It's quiet, it's free,

00:45:18.380 it's peaceful. The idea of trading that in for a theme park is repugnant to me on a deep and visceral

00:45:26.040 level. No way. That's my problem with this article. That's my problem with it. Everyone

00:45:32.280 else seems to be taking issue with this part where he writes, quote, recently Disney announced that

00:45:37.900 cast members are now permitted to display tattoos, wear inclusive uniforms, and display inclusive

00:45:43.220 haircuts. Disney did all of this in the name of allowing cast members to express themselves.

00:45:48.960 The problem is I'm not traveling across the country and paying thousands of dollars to watch

00:45:52.880 someone I don't know express themselves. I am there for the immersion and the fantasy,

00:45:58.880 not the reality of a stranger's self-expression. I do not begrudge these people their individuality,

00:46:03.980 and I wish them well in their personal lives, but I don't get to express my individuality at my

00:46:08.360 place of business. What's next? Is Disney going to end the rule barring onstage cell phone use by

00:46:13.700 cast members as an infringement on self-expression? Now, people are mocking the writer for this passage,

00:46:19.640 but he's actually 100% correct about this part of it. I personally have no stake in the uniform

00:46:24.640 requirements for Disney princesses, but as a neutral third party, I can say, yes, this is stupid.

00:46:31.880 If your job is to pretend to be the Little Mermaid or whoever, then that's your job.

00:46:37.060 Nobody cares about your self-expression. Nobody goes to Disney and pays all that money to see,

00:46:42.080 you know, Sarah Johnson from Lakeland, Florida express herself. They're not going for that.

00:46:47.780 They want to see the Little Mermaid. That's why they're there.

00:46:52.120 Why they go to see the Little Mermaid is a different question. Why grown men go to see the Little

00:46:56.580 Mermaid is definitely a whole separate question, but that's what they're doing. That's what they want. 1.00

00:47:01.660 And your job is to give them what they want. It'd be like if I worked at McDonald's and I decided that

00:47:06.120 I was going to personally change the recipe of the Big Mac in order to express myself.

00:47:11.300 If I said, you know, I just, I'm giving out these Big Macs all day and I just can't,

00:47:15.300 I can't communicate my inner feelings through this Big Mac recipe. I'm going to change it.

00:47:21.200 See, the problem is that the people in the drive-thru line, they're not there to get

00:47:24.760 Matt Walsh's twist on the Big Mac. They're there for the Big Mac, the same Big Mac they've always had.

00:47:31.300 And my job is to give them that. Again, there's the same question as to why anyone would want that

00:47:35.960 product. But if you work there, it's not your place to be asking those questions.

00:47:41.340 It is not to reason why, it is but to do and die. That wisdom from the Charge of the Light Brigade

00:47:47.220 applies both to military units and Disney World employees, in my mind. So on this point, I agree

00:47:52.980 with Mr. Van Boskirk. He continues, more broadly, like many corporations, Disney has been politicizing

00:48:00.960 its business. Disney is in the process of taking the woke scalpel to the jungle cruise. Traitor Sam

00:48:06.460 is out because he might offend certain people. Every grown-up in the room realizes that Traitor Sam

00:48:11.620 is not a representation of reality and is meant as a funny and silly caricature. It's no more based

00:48:16.840 in racism than every Disney caricature of an out-of-touch white American dad.

00:48:20.660 Side note, no, grown-ups don't know who Traitor Sam is. That's the grown-up perspective on this. But

00:48:26.980 anyway, the next time I ride Jungle Cruise, I will not be thinking about the gloriously entertaining

00:48:32.740 puns of the skippers. I will be thinking about Disney's political agenda. That's a mood killer.

00:48:38.420 Disney proclaims that Splash Mountain must change because of its association with Song of the South.

00:48:44.120 Disney owns Splash Mountain, so it can do what it wants. But if Disney screams at the top of its

00:48:48.800 corporate voice, which is pretty loud, that it's changing it to appease a certain political point

00:48:53.080 of view, now every time I look at that ride, I am thinking about politics. The same with Pirates of

00:48:57.640 the Caribbean. Disney has made significant changes to Pirates of the Caribbean over the years. Whether

00:49:02.040 Disney caved to political pressure or really thought the alterations were necessary is irrelevant.

00:49:07.200 Finally, it concludes with this.

00:49:09.260 Disney World is going to lose us as customers if it continues down this path.

00:49:12.680 I don't want to have Disney World taken away from us because Disney cares more about politics than

00:49:17.480 happy guests. Disney, please return to the values and vision of Walt. The customer experience should

00:49:23.260 be the core of your business model. Immersion should not be sacrificed on the altar of political

00:49:27.600 correctness and appeasing the Twitter mob. Okay. Now, I join the writer in opposing the

00:49:36.360 wokeification and PCification of pop culture. I agree with the general sentiment, though again,

00:49:42.280 you wouldn't have this problem if you were out on the lake like a man. But this man and every other

00:49:49.220 conservative needs to understand something. Disney, like so many other companies, hates your guts.

00:49:57.860 That is not going to change. Disney hates you, despises you. It will gladly take your money.

00:50:07.560 If you insist on pushing your money into its hand, if you continue to empty your wallet right into

00:50:12.420 Disney's grubby paws, it'll be happy to oblige. They'll put their hands out and say, go ahead,

00:50:17.060 give me all your money. But it hates you. And giving Disney your money begrudgingly,

00:50:23.220 scowling and complaining while you do it, that doesn't accomplish anything. Money is money.

00:50:29.100 You don't achieve anything by saying, gosh darn it, Disney, I'm not happy with you. I'm really

00:50:33.900 miffed about this. Oh, how much was that? $646? Okay, here you go. Anyway, I am so displeased with

00:50:39.480 you, Disney. That message just lacks a certain weight, I guess. The only thing that will make a

00:50:47.220 difference, make a dent, is if you withhold your money completely. Again, Disney hates the majority

00:50:54.520 of its customers. If all of those customers said, okay, we'll screw you too then, and took their money

00:51:01.400 elsewhere, things would change. But if you aren't willing to do that, then there's no point in

00:51:06.300 complaining. So we have to make a decision. Okay, it's decision time. Either we can shut up and be

00:51:15.060 good and cooperative little consumers, and open our mouths, and consume whatever they serve to us,

00:51:22.520 whatever heaping pile of toxic sludge they put in front of our faces. We can just dive right in.

00:51:30.040 Or we can be discerning and intentional in how we spend our money.

00:51:34.880 You know, those are the choices. If we choose the former, then we might as well stop whining and go

00:51:38.980 with the flow. Whichever the case, it's time to choose. Door one or door two.

00:51:45.440 The writer of this article seems to want to have it both ways, and so he is canceled.

00:51:50.260 Also, a lot of his critics are canceled for disagreeing with his correct points.

00:51:54.040 They disagreed with him for the wrong reasons, and so they're canceled. And Disney is canceled too.

00:51:59.680 And the Disney princesses with tattoos also canceled. Everyone is canceled, as it should be.

00:52:05.920 And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.

00:52:10.600 Godspeed.

00:52:40.600 Mattis Glover and Robert Sterling. Our technical director is Austin Stevens. Production manager,

00:52:45.580 Pavel Vodosky. The show is edited by Sasha Tolmachov. Our audio is mixed by Mike Coromina.

00:52:51.200 Hair and makeup is done by Nika Geneva. And our production coordinator is McKenna Waters.

00:52:55.880 The Matt Wall Show is a Daily Wire production. Copyright Daily Wire 2021.

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The Matt Walsh Show - April 26, 2021

Ep. 708 - Electing A Trans Governor To Own The Libs

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