The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 715 - The Chauvin Trial Was A Sham. Throw Out The Verdict.

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the trial of Derek Chauvin was the greatest sham in the history of

00:00:04.640 the modern American legal system. We're now learning just how much of a sham it truly was.

00:00:09.000 Today, we'll talk about the juror who apparently lied his way onto the jury in order to, as he says,

00:00:14.280 bring about social change. Also, five headlines, including Jill Biden's, that's Jill Biden's,

00:00:19.200 Dr. Jill Biden, sorry, push for universal free community college. And also the bizarre story

00:00:23.980 of the child who was paddled with a wooden board by her teacher while her mother watched. But now

00:00:29.200 the mother is complaining to the media and saying she didn't want that to happen. And our daily

00:00:32.600 cancellation will have something that will probably make a lot of people very angry. I'm going to

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00:01:59.420 DailyWire or visit MyPillow.com now or call 800-951-7163. It was apparent from the beginning

00:02:08.220 that Derek Chauvin was not going to be given a fair trial in front of an impartial jury of his peers.

00:02:13.480 If there was ever a trial that should have been moved to a different location, this was that trial,

00:02:18.320 but it wasn't moved. And if there was ever a jury that should have been sequestered for the duration,

00:02:22.680 this was that jury, but it was not sequestered. Chauvin was being judged by Minneapolis locals

00:02:27.960 who lived through the protests and riots and who were leaving the court each night and returning to

00:02:33.120 that same community, likely driving past the angry, angry crowds that were threatening to burn down

00:02:38.700 the city if a guilty verdict wasn't returned. To make matters worse and the trial an even more blatant

00:02:44.400 sham, George Floyd's alleged drug dealer who was present at the scene on the day of Floyd's death

00:02:51.460 wasn't required to testify. And most egregiously, there was no mistrial declared after a prominent

00:02:57.280 congresswoman, Maxine Waters, traveled from DC to Minneapolis to demand a guilty verdict in front 0.99

00:03:02.300 of a frothing crowd and call for more confrontation should the jury fail to give her what she wants.

00:03:07.680 It's hard to imagine how a deck could be more unfairly stacked against a defendant.

00:03:14.900 And that's before we've taken into account the apparent BLM activist who maneuvered his way onto

00:03:21.840 the jury. Juror number 52, who we now know as Brandon Mitchell. And we know him that way because he's been

00:03:28.820 all over the media in recent days. Nobody's doxed him. He has come forward himself, been doing a ton of

00:03:34.640 media interviews. He's very eager to tell his story and receive the applause that he evidently feels

00:03:39.240 entitled to. But the part of his story that he has not been quite so eager to discuss is his own

00:03:44.840 recent experience as an activist for the BLM cause. As multiple outlets have reported, including the

00:03:51.060 Daily Wire, Mitchell was photographed in August of 2020 after attending a rally in DC. In the picture,

00:03:57.140 he's wearing a Black Lives Matter hat and a t-shirt that says, get your knee off our necks. 0.86

00:04:02.160 Not very subtle. If this is impartiality, I would hate to see what partiality looks like.

00:04:08.780 Mitchell now claims that he doesn't remember wearing the shirt,

00:04:12.360 okay, and that he only attended the rally because he'd never been to DC.

00:04:16.620 And it was, quote, an opportunity to be around thousands and thousands of Black people.

00:04:22.180 I guess there are no Black people in Minneapolis, or he didn't notice them.

00:04:25.760 He also claimed on his juror questionnaire that he never participated in any protests against

00:04:31.360 police brutality. That's what he said on the questionnaire in order to get on the jury,

00:04:35.960 that he never went to any protests for police brutality anywhere.

00:04:39.160 Well, what about the event in DC? Well, he says that although he attended it in full BLM attire,

00:04:44.780 and it was held in the middle of a summer when protests against alleged police brutality

00:04:48.080 were raging across the country, and it featured speeches from George Floyd's family members,

00:04:53.520 and there were people holding signs that literally said, stop police brutality,

00:04:59.560 still somehow the whole thing had nothing to do with police brutality. That's what he says.

00:05:03.900 It was really just a commemoration and celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.

00:05:09.280 Now, anyone with any level of intelligence might feel that it has been horribly insulted by this

00:05:14.320 excuse. Yet, even if you buy the excuse, you still have Mitchell's own words to contend with.

00:05:22.200 In an interview with the Get Up Morning Show, whatever that is, the former juror number 52 seems to admit

00:05:29.060 repeatedly that he was far from an objective participant in the trial.

00:05:34.500 Straining credulity, he says that he didn't know much of anything about the case prior to showing up for

00:05:39.380 jury duty. Apparently, he suffers from amnesia, at least amnesia about the George Floyd shirt he was

00:05:45.000 pictured wearing, so perhaps this was another flare-up. He heard about it, but then he forgot

00:05:49.020 everything when he showed up for jury duty. But he also says that he saw a small portion of the video

00:05:55.360 depicting Floyd's death, and that after seeing it, he, quote, didn't need to know much else.

00:06:02.360 Let's listen to that.

00:06:03.760 Prior to the case, how much did you know about George Floyd and how he was killed?

00:06:07.700 I don't, I mean, I had seen like a little portion of the video, but I couldn't really watch the video

00:06:12.680 like that just because it wasn't something that I wanted to see so much of, of black men being killed. 1.00

00:06:19.360 I was like, I can't, I can't watch it. So I clicked on it on accident one time and turned it right off. 0.60

00:06:24.180 And that was all I knew, really.

00:06:25.880 Wow.

00:06:26.580 I didn't, I didn't need to know much else, though. I mean, I knew how the video would end, and that was it.

00:06:31.400 You're 31 years old, and I understand you were the only African-American man in the jury pool.

00:06:36.240 Tell us about the other jurors on the panel, if you can.

00:06:40.520 Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I mean, so yeah, I was the only African-American man.

00:06:43.620 There were two other men of African descent.

00:06:47.820 There was also a black female, a mixed lady, and the rest of the cast was white, older.

00:06:56.800 I think it was like maybe five older white women, and then another white guy. 0.99

00:07:02.080 Okay, I'm not quite sure. The last part there, he's the only African-American man, but there were two other males of African descent.

00:07:09.500 Is it, were they not American? Were they not citizens? And yet they were on a jury? I don't understand what that means.

00:07:14.800 But let's forget about that part. He says, I saw a little bit of the video. I didn't need to know much else.

00:07:20.260 Really? Because you're on the jury because you're supposed to want to know what else is going on.

00:07:28.100 Is that the sort of attitude we want from jurors?

00:07:30.760 How impartial can we expect them to be when they've seen only a short sampling of the prosecution's evidence prior to the trial

00:07:36.280 and have already decided that it's all they need to see?

00:07:38.440 Later in the interview, Mitchell confesses that he went into the jury selection process cognizant that it was a, quote, historic moment and a chance to make history.

00:07:49.500 As if that wasn't clear enough, he says that he knew from the gate what it was and what it could be.

00:07:54.420 Now, this part of the interview hasn't gotten a lot of attention. I'm not sure why, because this seems to me to be very significant.

00:08:00.420 Let's listen to that.

00:08:01.060 Did you really understand how important your role was as a juror, especially being the only African-American male on the jury panel?

00:08:11.100 Yeah. So I said, even in my initial interview to the lawyers, that I felt like it was a historic moment

00:08:16.100 and that we would have a chance to make history by being the jurors on that case.

00:08:21.700 So I knew from the gate what it was and what it could be.

00:08:26.920 It was a chance to make history.

00:08:28.820 This is an impartial jury.

00:08:34.580 Somebody on the jury who was there to make history.

00:08:39.100 Offering some closing thoughts to wrap up the conversation, Mitchell advocates jury duty as a chance to, quote,

00:08:45.000 get out there and get into these avenues and get into these rooms to try to spark some change.

00:08:50.140 Here's that part.

00:08:51.520 So what message would you leave to those about saying yes to jury duty?

00:08:55.820 I mean, it's important. If we want to see some change, we want to see some things going differently.

00:09:00.140 We got to get out there and get into these avenues and get into these rooms to try to spark some change.

00:09:05.840 That's one of the things. Jury duty voting, all of those things are things we got to do.

00:09:10.320 Okay. So to review, Brandon Mitchell, a juror on Derek Chauvin's murder trial,

00:09:16.360 had previously attended BLM rallies wearing a George Floyd T-shirt and admits that he saw the jury as a historic chance to bring about social change.

00:09:23.940 He is an activist who used the jury as a forum to advance his agenda.

00:09:28.620 He's saying that. That's not my interpretation. That is what he is saying. He did.

00:09:34.780 In other words, this was not a fair trial. Not close.

00:09:38.660 And that would be the case without the BLM activist on the jury.

00:09:43.080 That's the situation we're in right now.

00:09:44.900 The BLM activist who lied his way onto the jury is icing on the cake. 0.84

00:09:49.340 And with the activist, it becomes, again, one of the worst shams in the history of the modern American legal system. 0.99

00:09:57.360 And I don't think that's an overstatement.

00:09:59.980 The case for a retrial is overwhelming.

00:10:04.480 If this doesn't qualify for a retrial, I can't imagine what would have to happen in a case for it to get one.

00:10:11.700 But does that mean that a retrial will actually be granted? No.

00:10:17.060 Doesn't mean that, you know, just because it should happen doesn't mean that it will.

00:10:20.320 Chauvin was always going to be a sacrificial goat made to pay not just for his own sins, but for the sins of all of white America. 0.77

00:10:27.800 In fact, new reports suggest that the Justice Department was standing by in the courtroom when the verdict was read,

00:10:33.980 ready to arrest Chauvin in the courtroom on the spot and charge him with civil rights violations if he had been acquitted.

00:10:39.780 They were not going to let him get away, even if he was found not guilty.

00:10:45.460 Now, even if you think that Chauvin is guilty, how does this rise to the level of a federal crime?

00:10:51.440 What evidence is there to support that charge?

00:10:55.200 Well, evidence only matters if you care about things like truth, like fairness, like justice.

00:11:01.480 And this case, as we have seen, has never had anything to do with any of those things.

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00:12:29.100 So let's start with Joe Biden.

00:12:31.140 He gave a speech about the covid response yesterday and a couple of a couple of notable things.

00:12:38.980 This one, I'm not really sure if we can call it notable because I don't know what he's trying to say.

00:12:43.520 But he's trying to get something out.

00:12:46.160 And and here's what here's what he landed on.

00:12:49.140 This is what it sounded like.

00:12:50.420 We're going to make it easier than ever to get vaccinated.

00:12:53.060 Visit vaccines dot com dot gov vaccines dot com or text to your text your zip code to four three eight eight two nine four three eight eight two nine.

00:13:08.380 I just love when he when he does the I'm going to repeat or let me be clear.

00:13:14.400 And then what he says next is far less coherent and clear than the thing he said before.

00:13:21.520 Vaccines dot.

00:13:22.440 You know, there's dot something there.

00:13:26.580 There are a couple of different ways you can interpret what he said.

00:13:30.100 It wasn't calm.

00:13:33.280 I'm not going to speculate much, but vaccines dot gum.

00:13:36.120 Maybe it's where you go for for chewing gum.

00:13:40.080 Want to get a pack of chewing gum?

00:13:41.200 You just go to, you know, go to that web address.

00:13:44.080 I don't know.

00:13:44.400 But he also had that was kind of startling.

00:13:47.880 It's always startling when your president is losing his mind on camera, as this guy has been for for a long time now, before he was even elected.

00:13:56.820 This part was startling, too, where he he reveals that death is still coming for us.

00:14:04.260 We can't escape it, he says.

00:14:05.620 Let's listen.

00:14:06.620 You know, there's a lot of misinformation out there.

00:14:08.560 But there's one fact I want every American to know people who are not fully vaccinated can still die every day from covid-19.

00:14:18.900 Look at the folks in your community have gotten vaccinated and are getting back to living their lives, their full lives.

00:14:26.080 Can still die every day.

00:14:29.280 Hopefully they don't die every day.

00:14:31.980 You know, I mean, generally you would hope that you would die only once.

00:14:36.360 That's a rough.

00:14:37.120 That that that's pretty rough.

00:14:39.460 If you could die from covid every day. 0.97

00:14:42.540 Like you already died yesterday and I get to die again today.

00:14:45.580 Or if he means that that people just people in general are going to die every day if they're not vaccinated.

00:14:50.840 I agree with him.

00:14:52.240 And in fact, I will say that he he he's understating the case.

00:14:56.640 It's actually a lot worse than what he just said.

00:15:00.160 In fact.

00:15:02.180 People are going to die every day.

00:15:04.920 No matter what.

00:15:06.120 It's even if they've gotten the vaccine.

00:15:09.540 People are going to die every day.

00:15:11.540 And I go even I go further than that.

00:15:16.960 And I know this seems quite shocking, almost unbelievable, but it is true.

00:15:20.540 Believe me on this, that everybody will die.

00:15:25.180 We're all doomed.

00:15:26.880 We will all die of something.

00:15:28.800 And pretty soon in the grand scheme of things.

00:15:30.700 Yet, you know, the amount of time you have left is measured in in a few decades at most.

00:15:41.460 So he's absolutely correct about that.

00:15:43.580 People are going to die every day.

00:15:45.480 They will.

00:15:46.020 But probably not of covid.

00:15:49.000 That's the thing.

00:15:49.520 Whether you have the vaccine or not, especially if you're a little bit younger, it's it probably it probably will not be covid that gets you.

00:15:58.720 Could be probably won't be.

00:15:59.960 But it'll be something eventually.

00:16:02.560 So thank you for that, Joe Biden.

00:16:04.100 OK, now I'm moving on to this.

00:16:05.780 I want to play this for you.

00:16:06.540 This is this is a totally bizarre story out of Florida.

00:16:10.140 And I think Florida gets a bad rap sometimes.

00:16:12.180 It's not the crazy state, in my opinion. 0.99

00:16:16.420 California is the crazy state. 0.98

00:16:18.320 Oregon is the crazy state. 0.99

00:16:19.700 Even Vermont is the crazy state. 0.83

00:16:22.180 I think Florida is unfairly labeled that way.

00:16:25.900 Although this we're about to play a local news report for you.

00:16:30.300 Every aspect of this is weird.

00:16:35.400 So let's watch what the local news has to say about about this incident here.

00:16:39.600 Let's watch.

00:16:39.900 Finally, you understand what's going on. 0.99

00:16:42.980 Wait, put your butt back out. 0.99

00:16:47.200 Out. 0.99

00:16:47.740 That's a school principal.

00:16:50.720 No, put your hands out.

00:16:52.220 No, no, no, no. 0.88

00:16:54.680 Hitting a six year old with a wooden paddle in front of her mother.

00:17:00.380 The hatred of which she hit my daughter.

00:17:02.100 I mean, it was a hatred that really I've never hit my daughter like she hit her.

00:17:04.880 I never hit her.

00:17:05.620 That's her. 0.88

00:17:05.960 That's the mother speaking.

00:17:06.740 She's speaking in Spanish.

00:17:07.480 I'm reading the subtitles to you.

00:17:08.500 We know the name of the woman with the paddle through a report from the Henry County Sheriff's Office.

00:17:13.820 It says the principal of Central Elementary, Melissa Carter and Cecilia Self, a clerk, are the two women in the video.

00:17:21.020 We tried to reach them through the school district, but were unsuccessful.

00:17:24.880 The child's mother recorded this video.

00:17:27.080 Why didn't she stop the beating? 0.94

00:17:28.340 Mother says if I had done it with my own hand, it would have been bad for me.

00:17:32.840 I don't know.

00:17:34.020 I'd be in jail.

00:17:34.540 Mom told deputies the school called Tuesday, April 13th, saying her daughter damaged the computer.

00:17:40.200 The fee?

00:17:41.360 $50.

00:17:42.300 In the report, mom says the school also mentioned paddling with her and a deputy present.

00:17:47.500 In the report, the mother says she didn't understand the process correctly.

00:17:51.940 Later that day, she went to the school to pay the fee, and they took her into the principal's office.

00:17:57.280 She already had her there.

00:17:59.180 Then the principal started to scream, the mother says.

00:18:02.180 Behaving and taking care of the stuff.

00:18:04.520 You don't keep messing up things.

00:18:07.240 Mom looks around.

00:18:08.580 No cameras.

00:18:09.860 Nerves set in.

00:18:10.940 There are no cameras.

00:18:13.700 What are we doing here in this place?

00:18:14.740 My daughter and I alone.

00:18:16.620 So she did what she thought was her only option.

00:18:20.720 How do I prove if there wasn't a camera?

00:18:22.640 She hid her cell phone in her purse and pressed record.

00:18:27.080 Okay, stop it right here.

00:18:28.180 Pause right here.

00:18:29.680 We're going to cut out of the video right here, but okay.

00:18:33.120 So you get what happened here.

00:18:34.900 The girl got in trouble, six years old, damaged the computer.

00:18:38.280 They sent a note saying that she's going to be paddled for it, and the mother shows up

00:18:44.140 to be present, to be a witness at the paddling, but she didn't want her daughter to be paddled.

00:18:51.520 And rather than step in and prevent it and say, hey, don't hit my kid, she watches it and

00:18:58.360 films it, and this is the reason she's giving.

00:19:01.220 In the subtitles, she says, oh my gosh. 0.98

00:19:05.080 She says, I sacrificed my daughter so all the parents can realize what's happening in

00:19:11.120 this school.

00:19:13.840 So that's why she didn't step in, because she was offering her child up as a sacrifice

00:19:19.160 to raise awareness about the corporal punishment issue at this school.

00:19:26.420 As I said, every part of this story is bizarre.

00:19:31.460 I don't understand exactly what's happening here.

00:19:33.560 Well, with the mother, I think I do understand what's happening.

00:19:37.840 She, as unfortunately parents so often do these days, they see their kids as a chance

00:19:44.140 to go viral and get attention and file a lawsuit.

00:19:48.220 And if I were to speculate, because we can only speculate about somebody's motives.

00:19:53.620 And so in this case, when another adult is going to hit your kid and tells you they're

00:19:59.440 going to, yeah, she says she was confused by the process.

00:20:01.960 It's written down there.

00:20:03.040 Like, we're going to paddle your kid with a wooden board. 0.83

00:20:05.760 That's what we're going to do.

00:20:07.360 What are you confused about here?

00:20:09.140 What do you mean?

00:20:09.600 Well, I'm confused.

00:20:10.020 What do you mean?

00:20:11.960 What do you mean with a wood paddle with a wooden board?

00:20:14.540 Do you mean like metaphorically?

00:20:16.680 What do you mean by that?

00:20:17.760 I think they were actually pretty upfront, it seems, about what they were going to do.

00:20:23.640 Ma'am, we're going to be hitting your kid with this board right here, and you're going 1.00

00:20:28.380 to stand there and watch.

00:20:29.280 Now, if this were me, and I didn't want my child to be hit by another adult, which I wouldn't,

00:20:40.480 and we'll get to that in a second, I'm going to physically intervene, like walk over, and

00:20:46.900 say, you're not going to do that.

00:20:51.260 You would think that's what any parent would do if they actually wanted to stop it.

00:20:54.680 She didn't, so we can, again, only speculate.

00:20:56.500 My speculation is that she saw an opportunity to file a lawsuit. 0.92

00:21:01.160 She says that she sacrificed her daughter so all the parents can realize what's happening

00:21:08.080 in this school.

00:21:09.480 This is like some kind of perverse Christ scenario, sacrificing, the child is sacrificed.

00:21:17.380 But I think she sacrificed her daughter.

00:21:19.560 If I were to, again, just theorize, I would say she sacrificed her daughter to get that 0.99

00:21:24.240 big bag of cash from the lawsuit.

00:21:26.900 So that's the mother part of it.

00:21:28.720 Now, we've got to think about the school.

00:21:31.660 First of all, it seems like this is something that they just do.

00:21:35.240 I didn't know that this existed anywhere in the country still.

00:21:38.460 I'm actually kind of shocked it does.

00:21:40.200 And they do this, and now there's controversy.

00:21:45.540 Like, do you not know that that's how people are going to react?

00:21:50.200 Have you been in our society for any length of time?

00:21:55.240 Have you seen the way things go?

00:21:58.860 You think you can paddle kids with a board at school?

00:22:03.060 And people aren't going to be upset about that?

00:22:06.200 Now, the thing is, you know, the idea of corporal punishment, I think a corporal punishment can

00:22:16.740 have a place in the home.

00:22:19.140 I think that's parents have to make their own parenting decisions.

00:22:23.360 And, you know, children respond differently to different kinds of punishments.

00:22:26.480 I don't think that there's a cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to

00:22:31.360 discipline and punishing.

00:22:33.180 And some methods work for some kids, some methods don't.

00:22:36.780 I mean, there are some kids that you can put them in timeout in a corner, and that's really

00:22:42.060 going to get the message through.

00:22:43.580 And you don't really need to do anything else.

00:22:45.980 There are other kids who, they don't care about that.

00:22:47.940 And you might as well not be doing anything.

00:22:49.900 You put them in a corner, it makes no difference.

00:22:51.900 So kids are different.

00:22:53.460 Kids have different personalities.

00:22:54.720 In the home, you can make your decision about how you want to handle your kid.

00:23:00.500 At school, though, no.

00:23:04.420 I mean, that's what I'll say.

00:23:05.560 Look, I'm old-fashioned on a great many things.

00:23:09.100 And I understand that back in the day, I mean, my own parents will tell me stories

00:23:12.680 about this kind of thing when they went to school.

00:23:17.520 And this is what happened.

00:23:18.320 When kids got out of hand, unruly, you take out the ruler, take out the paddle, and you

00:23:24.320 handle it that way.

00:23:24.960 But my general policy here is if you're, you know, as another adult, you're not going

00:23:36.540 to lay a hand on my kid.

00:23:38.280 Man, simple as that.

00:23:39.260 And really what it comes down to is this is a power and an authority and a tool that I

00:23:48.840 don't trust the school to wield, literally and figuratively.

00:23:54.420 I'm not going to trust the school with that.

00:23:58.060 I think some parents can be trusted with forms of corporal punishment, spanking and so forth, 1.00

00:24:04.560 with their own kid.

00:24:05.620 Am I going to trust the school system?

00:24:07.520 Am I going to trust a public school teacher to be using physical discipline on a child?

00:24:12.140 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:24:16.560 Now, I'm of the opinion that the schools are not parents.

00:24:21.720 Teachers are not parents.

00:24:24.300 Shouldn't act like it.

00:24:25.800 Shouldn't have the authority of a parent.

00:24:28.440 There should be a clear dividing line between parent and teacher.

00:24:36.280 And now you are going way across that line, in my view.

00:24:39.700 So that is simply, again, that is not an authority.

00:24:42.840 That's not a power, not a tool that I would trust the school system with.

00:24:48.280 The government school, entrusting them with the power to hit your child.

00:24:53.360 No, even if it's not a government school system.

00:24:55.400 Private school, same thing.

00:24:57.860 So, what a story there.

00:25:00.080 All right, let's move on.

00:25:02.520 Staying in the realm of education here.

00:25:04.920 Staying in the realm, in fact, of bad ideas in education.

00:25:07.900 Jill Biden, sorry again, that is Dr. Jill Biden, made the case a couple of days ago for free community college.

00:25:15.540 I still have no idea why first ladies are getting involved in advocating for policy at all. 1.00

00:25:22.400 I don't know why.

00:25:23.260 I've never been able to figure that out.

00:25:24.660 Why do we need to hear from them?

00:25:27.020 Why should I care about you?

00:25:28.220 You weren't elected.

00:25:29.700 It's not like you're elected by default or anything like that.

00:25:33.080 You were not elected.

00:25:33.900 But, you know, this is what we do with first ladies. 1.00

00:25:38.200 We send them out, give them their little pet projects to do.

00:25:40.920 And so, free community college, that's one of Jill Biden's pet projects.

00:25:45.040 And this is how she made the case for it.

00:25:48.040 Community college graduates provide more security for their families.

00:25:53.380 They invest in their local schools and businesses.

00:25:57.520 And they bring needed skills to our workforce, helping us to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

00:26:05.180 That's why we need two years of free community college. 1.00

00:26:12.560 Yep.

00:26:13.160 Just more.

00:26:14.100 We just need more free stuff.

00:26:15.680 That's the way to solve our problems.

00:26:18.320 Yeah, they had another.

00:26:19.780 The left, they had another brilliant idea.

00:26:21.620 How do they think of this stuff?

00:26:24.860 It's genius.

00:26:27.000 Every problem.

00:26:28.060 They always stumble on the solution.

00:26:29.860 Free stuff.

00:26:30.780 Give people stuff for free.

00:26:32.100 That'll solve it.

00:26:35.180 No, you know, free college is not the answer.

00:26:38.500 Free community college is not the answer.

00:26:41.200 Student loan forgiveness is not the answer.

00:26:45.600 At least it's not the answer to any question worth asking when it comes to this issue.

00:26:49.640 I'll tell you, the answer, the solution to the problem and the problem, you know, the problem is multifaceted, but the problem of the student debt crisis, the problem of, you know, of kids and young adults being required or feeling like they're required to spend tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars on an education.

00:27:18.020 And just so they can get an entry level job somewhere.

00:27:19.960 But the solution to that problem is not free stuff.

00:27:25.940 It is to move away from this artificial contrived system completely.

00:27:31.680 That's the solution.

00:27:33.000 Because the fact of the matter is, vast majority of jobs in America don't really necessitate a college degree, except artificially.

00:27:46.600 In the vast majority of jobs, you're going to learn how to do the job once you're on the job.

00:27:54.460 There's going to be on-the-job training or something like that.

00:27:57.960 That's the majority of jobs.

00:28:01.760 That includes high-paying jobs.

00:28:04.360 That includes any kind of many different stable careers that you could make a very nice living in.

00:28:12.560 We're not just talking here about, you know, being a cashier at McDonald's or something.

00:28:17.700 That is most jobs.

00:28:23.060 Whether you went to college or not, you got to start entry level.

00:28:30.200 And whether you have that piece of paper or not and all that debt or not, you're going to go into the job not really knowing how to do it.

00:28:37.980 And you're going to have to learn like anybody else.

00:28:40.940 So what does the piece of paper do for you?

00:28:43.000 Well, in a lot of cases, it gets you in the door, but that's artificial.

00:28:46.020 We've decided as a society to require the degree for a lot of jobs, not because it's actually needed, but because we simply decided it.

00:28:56.220 That's the left is always a fan of criticizing what they consider to be artificial constructs.

00:29:03.120 Well, here you go.

00:29:04.800 Here is artificial construct number one.

00:29:06.700 It's maybe the number one example of a damaging, harmful, costly, in more ways than one, artificial construct.

00:29:14.060 That you need to have a college degree, a piece of paper that you spend $90,000, $100,000 on to get an entry level job in a profession that you're going to have to learn on the job anyway.

00:29:25.400 The solution is to move away from that.

00:29:29.820 If we're not going to move away from that, if we're going to continue requiring degrees for no real reason, then the problem is only going to get worse.

00:29:39.360 In fact, you start giving out free college, you start doing some form of student loan forgiveness.

00:29:46.580 Now the pressure to go to school for no reason is increased.

00:29:50.460 And now you're going to have even more careers and occupations and jobs and employers that require the degree, even though it's not really necessary.

00:29:58.460 Yes, obviously there are some lines of work where you need additional formal education.

00:30:06.680 Nobody would deny that.

00:30:08.380 You want to be a doctor.

00:30:09.720 You want to be an engineer.

00:30:11.220 You want to be a lawyer.

00:30:12.700 You want to be an architect.

00:30:14.640 Clearly, there is additional formal education, oftentimes a significant amount of it, not just four years, that you're going to need to get.

00:30:23.420 But you want to get a job, you're going to start in a cubicle somewhere, like entering data into a computer or whatever you're doing.

00:30:33.300 You need a job in marketing or sales or something like that.

00:30:38.020 You don't need a degree for that.

00:30:42.640 But nobody wants to talk about that.

00:30:44.200 No one wants to move away from that system.

00:30:45.520 And I think one of the reasons, and most people recognize, I think, that it's a flawed system, obviously.

00:30:56.320 But I think people don't want to move away from it because they've invested so much in it.

00:31:02.700 And it would feel, like, unfair to them if we started moving away from it.

00:31:05.980 But we have to.

00:31:09.380 All right.

00:31:09.900 A couple of things here from Twitter that I wanted to quickly read.

00:31:15.360 Here's CNN anchor Anna Cabrera has this report. 1.00

00:31:18.660 She says, NYC public schools will have remote learning instead of snow days next year, according to the New York City Department of Education.

00:31:26.700 This was, you know, I worried about this for the kids' sake when we started doing the remote learning thing, that this is what's going to happen.

00:31:34.480 It's going to be the end, because now that schools have decided they can replace education with the computer, which really you can't because it's not going to be a real education.

00:31:43.420 As we've seen, we've got all these kids falling behind because they can't learn that way.

00:31:48.900 Even for adults, it's really difficult to stay engaged and certainly to learn by staring at a computer for seven hours a day and listening to a talking head, you know, spitting words at you.

00:32:02.760 But because school systems have decided that, it means that, you know, you're not going to get days off anymore as kids.

00:32:09.340 So take the snow days away.

00:32:10.500 Yeah, why not?

00:32:10.980 I mean, just take all the childhood joy away.

00:32:14.540 You know, we've done that for the last year, closed down the pet playgrounds, took everything away.

00:32:18.540 Take away, you know, if kids want to go to summer camp, they have to wear a mask and stay socially distanced, the CDC is saying.

00:32:24.240 So let's just take every last childhood joy from these kids.

00:32:29.400 Let's take it away.

00:32:32.760 Because as always, it's not about the kids.

00:32:36.080 It's about us.

00:32:38.200 Right.

00:32:39.700 And also there's this.

00:32:41.240 This is a great vaccine PSA that was posted by the Baltimore City Health Department to Twitter.

00:32:48.540 So you can take a look at this.

00:32:50.520 It's a it's a picture of a woman looking kind of sullen and pouty. 0.71

00:32:53.720 And then there's a guy, presumably her husband, sitting behind her and saying, mimosas with the girls.

00:33:01.260 You still aren't vaxxed, Debra.

00:33:04.540 This is a this is a Baltimore City Health Department.

00:33:07.960 This is how they're pushing vaccines.

00:33:09.760 And I kind of appreciate it.

00:33:12.400 You know, I don't agree with the idea that you have to have a vaccine to go out and have mimosas with the girls.

00:33:18.360 There's no reason why you can't.

00:33:21.960 But I do like how they are.

00:33:24.200 It seems to be advocating here.

00:33:25.780 For traditional, patriarchal, male-led households.

00:33:30.220 That I can appreciate for the Baltimore.

00:33:31.780 I suspect they did it by accident.

00:33:34.180 But still, I appreciate it.

00:33:37.020 And finally, before we move to the comments, here's a report from the Daily Star.

00:33:40.720 It says.

00:33:41.940 Pretty shocking. 0.98

00:33:42.640 It says Hitler liked women peeing on him during sex and was incestuous with his niece, according to a new documentary. 0.97

00:33:51.640 See, I, all I'm going to say is I always knew that this guy was up to no good. 0.95

00:33:59.820 I'd been starting to get a bad feeling about him, but this really confirms it.

00:34:03.700 You just never know.

00:34:04.640 You never know these days.

00:34:05.780 You never know.

00:34:07.320 All right, let's move now to our five comments.

00:34:10.060 Or not five comments.

00:34:11.080 I don't know how many comments we're going to do.

00:34:12.440 I'm mixing up my segments now.

00:34:15.020 This is from Donna says.

00:34:15.900 Hey, Matt, as far as Prince Charming goes, what he did was perfectly legal.

00:34:19.420 If you've ever taken a CPR class, there is something called implied consent, which means if you find someone unconscious, you can start CPR without getting consent.

00:34:27.960 In Snow White's case, she was unconscious and unresponsive.

00:34:30.960 Not only did Prince Charming do nothing wrong, it could have been an open mouth kiss in terms of mouth to mouth.

00:34:36.620 Even worse, he could have touched her chest and still been on the right side of the law.

00:34:41.820 Talking about chest compressions.

00:34:43.300 Well, looks like we've got a rape apologist on our hands here, Donna. 1.00

00:34:49.000 Pretty upsetting from you.

00:34:52.380 You're banned from the show. 0.94

00:34:53.580 You should be ashamed.

00:34:57.180 Another comment says, please tell me you're being sarcastic when you're talking about the Disney movies.

00:35:03.580 No, I never engage.

00:35:05.560 Sarcasm is beneath me.

00:35:07.340 And I would never do that on the show.

00:35:08.620 And so if you listen to the show yesterday, the Daily Cancellation, where I was canceling a whole bunch of Disney movies, not at all sarcastic.

00:35:17.140 Another comment says, your views on marriage are absurd. 0.63

00:35:21.440 Absurd.

00:35:21.960 What were my views on marriage that I expressed?

00:35:23.940 Oh.

00:35:24.080 So my view on marriage, as expressed yesterday, was that you should stay married and stay true to your vows.

00:35:34.800 Bill Gates and his wife are getting divorced after 27 years, when they're both in their mid to late 60s, almost three decades of marriage.

00:35:41.680 They're getting divorced because they want to grow as people individually.

00:35:45.060 They feel like they can't grow together anymore.

00:35:46.540 My view is that you made a vow, a promise, and you should keep it, and you should stay married and work through your problems.

00:35:54.960 And what you're telling me is that not only do you disagree, but you think that's an absurd view.

00:35:59.160 It's an absurd view that married people should keep their promises. 1.00

00:36:05.740 All right.

00:36:07.000 Another one says, pit bulls are designed to be ferocious and overprotective.

00:36:10.100 It's an armament, and to ban them would be an infringement.

00:36:12.700 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:36:14.100 Come on.

00:36:14.620 Now you're going to say pit bulls count as a weapon under the Second Amendment. 0.98

00:36:20.720 But, you know, you can't, like, if that's your argument, it's like there are two different arguments here.

00:36:24.680 One is that they're a weapon just like a gun, and so you have a right to have a pit bull.

00:36:31.380 You have a right to bear pit bulls. 0.98

00:36:33.340 There's that argument.

00:36:34.320 The other argument is that they're actually harmless, and they're cute and cuddly, and there's nothing, you know, and they're not going to hurt you.

00:36:39.880 Like, it kind of seems like you have to choose one argument or the other, and I'm getting both.

00:36:44.120 And I don't quite, can't quite figure out how to put all those together.

00:36:47.640 And finally, Joshua says, talking about my video yesterday, that video is like a conservative ink boomer's wet dream.

00:36:58.940 It's got it all.

00:36:59.800 Everything from a chance to call someone libtard or demon rat to Democrats are the real racist to back the blue to look at this based minority. 0.97

00:37:09.420 This probably is getting hella traction on Facebook.

00:37:13.180 I literally said none of those things in the video.

00:37:15.820 Not one single one of those things did I say.

00:37:19.380 Although I do think we should back the blue.

00:37:21.600 But I didn't use any of those phrases.

00:37:23.320 So that's always my favorite criticism when I'm criticized for things that I didn't say at all.

00:37:28.420 But, you know, try to, I say enough things on a daily basis that you, that if you're looking for a reason to criticize, like try to just choose from the category of things I actually said.

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00:39:24.340 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:39:25.440 Our daily cancellation today has evolved quite a bit, um, or maybe it's more true to say that it has metamorphosed into a beautiful, ill-tempered butterfly.

00:39:38.260 However you want to put it, I had planned today to cancel the CIA for its now infamous woke recruitment ad featuring a female CIA agent who says that she is, quote, 0.57

00:39:48.360 a cisgender millennial, a woman of color, and intersectional.

00:39:52.460 She also says that her existence is not a box-checking exercise, even as she proceeds to check every box she can. 0.99

00:39:59.660 Now all of this is extremely stupid, worse than stupid when you consider that the CIA is recruiting people who'd be better suited teaching gender theory at Portland Community College, 0.99

00:40:08.520 where all the students should attend for free, says Jill Biden. 1.00

00:40:11.400 But the worst part of the ad is when she boasts about her generalized anxiety disorder.

00:40:18.300 This is a, someone working for the CIA who's bragging about the fact that they have anxiety disorder.

00:40:24.720 And she includes it as one of the identity boxes to check.

00:40:28.640 So on her victimhood resume, anxiety disorder is listed right alongside a woman of color and intersectional and all the rest of it. 0.89

00:40:36.460 This is what we've done in our society.

00:40:38.060 We have turned things like anxiety into mental disorders and then made mental disorders trendy.

00:40:43.380 Something that people like this woman quite literally advertise.

00:40:47.740 And that's what sent me off in a different direction.

00:40:50.560 As I thought about it, I became less interested in the CIA ad and more interested in this issue of anxiety and what we in modern culture have made of it.

00:40:59.520 And that's what prompted me to tweet the following thought last night.

00:41:02.060 I said, quote, quoting myself, one of the worst things to happen in modern times is the medicalization of the human condition.

00:41:08.480 Now people who experience anxiety think they're sick.

00:41:10.840 They aren't.

00:41:11.920 Anxiety is a fundamental fact of human existence.

00:41:13.940 It is not a disease.

00:41:15.680 That's what I wrote.

00:41:17.000 That's what I believe.

00:41:18.160 We have set out to medicalize and diseaseify every aspect of the human condition, every difficult emotion, every unpleasant personality trait.

00:41:25.620 That's why the DSM now has something like 300 mental disorders listed and over 50 million adults in this country have been diagnosed with at least one of them.

00:41:34.240 Now, as you might expect, that opinion provoked an intense and almost entirely negative reaction.

00:41:40.800 Almost entirely negative public reaction, I should qualify.

00:41:43.820 I have gotten a lot of private messages from people whispering their agreement with me saying, hey, I agree with you.

00:41:49.200 Atta boy.

00:41:50.160 Thumbs up. 0.97

00:41:50.660 But in public, almost everyone who's chimed in and contributed to the discussion has been of the opinion that I am wrong and not only wrong, but a filthy, worthless piece of human dirt for even daring to say something like this out loud or tweet it out loud.

00:42:03.460 Now I am saying it out loud because the one way to ensure that I keep saying something and keep saying it louder and louder is to demand that I stop saying it.

00:42:12.960 Yes, that is that's that's the maturity level for me.

00:42:16.700 You tell me to stop saying it.

00:42:17.940 I'm going to say it louder.

00:42:18.580 That's the way I work.

00:42:20.660 Now, I'd like to explain my point of view a little bit, but I want to be clear before I do that this explanation is in no way an apology.

00:42:31.400 I don't apologize at all.

00:42:33.820 I'm really happy that I said what I said and I couldn't have been more right about it.

00:42:38.320 And if you're someone who reacts to an honest opinion by screaming and crying and ranting and raving, the problem is you.

00:42:44.340 You, in fact, owe me an apology for being so unreasonable and annoying.

00:42:47.740 So I accept your apology.

00:42:50.480 You are forgiven.

00:42:52.060 Now let's move on to the actual issue.

00:42:54.140 And as far as that goes, a few points I want to make.

00:42:56.340 Number one, I have been accused of stigmatizing mental illness with this opinion.

00:43:01.320 I'm told the same whenever I argue that ADHD is not a real mental illness, which it isn't not a real disorder, which it isn't.

00:43:07.740 But what I'm doing is exactly the opposite of stigmatizing.

00:43:12.840 What I'm saying is that anxiety is an inevitable part of being human.

00:43:16.560 It comes with our consciousness and self-awareness.

00:43:19.140 Stigmatize?

00:43:20.360 No, to stigmatize is to say that it's weird or embarrassing.

00:43:23.040 If anything, calling it a mental disorder is stigmatizing.

00:43:27.720 I'm also not minimizing anxiety.

00:43:29.800 I'm not stigmatizing or minimizing.

00:43:32.140 Just because it comes with being human doesn't mean that it's any less painful, difficult, you know, sometimes overwhelming.

00:43:38.240 Neither am I saying that those struggling with their anxiety shouldn't seek help.

00:43:41.260 Again, just because anxiety is human doesn't mean that we shouldn't, that we should wallow helplessly in it.

00:43:46.700 So I'm not stigmatizing, I'm not minimizing, and I'm not saying that people shouldn't get help.

00:43:51.360 I'm simply arguing that we have made a category error.

00:43:54.780 We have placed anxiety, along with many other human emotions and experiences, like, for example, despair, into a medical box when it doesn't belong there.

00:44:05.940 Two, the idea that anxiety is a fundamental fact of human existence, a defining fact, actually, is not new or bold.

00:44:13.620 I wish I could take credit for having this bold, interesting, new opinion.

00:44:17.400 I don't.

00:44:18.680 Only the last 18 seconds or so did we decide, as a country, as a society, to start treating these things as psychiatric disorders.

00:44:27.720 Prior to the medicalization push, anxiety was a subject for philosophers and theologians and other great minds.

00:44:35.480 This is not an argument from authority.

00:44:37.180 My critics are the ones making arguments from authority.

00:44:39.320 I'll get to that in a minute.

00:44:40.020 But my point is simply that what I'm saying about anxiety has been said, or something very close to it has been said, by many people much smarter than myself and much smarter than you, probably, all throughout history.

00:44:51.100 That doesn't mean that I'm right.

00:44:52.580 But it does mean that if you're shocked by the idea that I present here, if you react to it like it's absurd or outlandish, then I have to suspect that you really haven't thought much about it or read anything about it.

00:45:05.160 If you'd spend any significant time reflecting on anxiety and reading what others have said about it throughout history, then you certainly would have encountered my point of view many times and should not, therefore, be recoiling in shock and horror.

00:45:16.880 However, if you are recoiling in shock and horror, then consider the possibility that you haven't given this topic much thought.

00:45:24.420 Number three, I have been told that I'm not qualified to give my opinion on this subject because I'm not a doctor.

00:45:30.180 But I note with interest that almost all of the people telling me that I'm not qualified because I lack a medical degree also themselves lack a medical degree.

00:45:40.040 Turns out that you don't need a doctor.

00:45:41.460 You don't need to be a doctor to have an opinion.

00:45:43.820 You need to be a doctor to have an opinion that differs from their own. 1.00

00:45:48.380 That is an argument from authority, and it's also ad hoc, childish and stupid. 0.98

00:45:53.840 Besides, my point here, once again, is that this is not a medical issue. 0.97

00:45:58.340 To demand my medical credentials is to beg the question.

00:46:03.900 You're expecting me to abide by your premise, but I'm rejecting your premise.

00:46:08.220 That's the whole point of the argument.

00:46:11.500 Doctors may be experts on medical conditions, but they're not experts on the human condition.

00:46:17.540 I'm not sure that anyone can be an expert on that per se because they can only experience their own humanity and not anybody else's.

00:46:23.720 But I do think that some people are blessed with wisdom that gives them greater insight into the subject than others.

00:46:28.500 I don't think that doctors often have that insight, actually.

00:46:31.300 I think it's a big problem.

00:46:34.000 That doctors know about medical conditions, but they have, it seems often, have very little understanding of human nature and the human condition.

00:46:40.980 So for a greater understanding of that, of human nature and the human condition, for that, you have to look to those great philosophers, theologians, and others mentioned earlier.

00:46:52.040 Four, finally, there's a version of my argument that would garner much wider approval and agreement, I think.

00:47:00.360 If I had simply said that anxiety disorder is over-diagnosed, most people would probably agree.

00:47:08.320 Say the same about ADHD and depression and other similar things.

00:47:12.920 And most people agree.

00:47:14.820 If you say it's over-diagnosed.

00:47:16.620 Even people who have been diagnosed will usually agree, though most of them will say that other people have been misdiagnosed, not themselves.

00:47:26.380 So it's a very odd problem.

00:47:27.680 Apparently, mental disorders are being massively misdiagnosed, but no individual person has been misdiagnosed.

00:47:34.520 Quite a riddle, isn't it?

00:47:36.080 Now, I think we end up here because the general problem is just undeniable.

00:47:40.720 As already mentioned, there are around 300 diagnosable mental disorders and counting.

00:47:47.000 300 different ways that your mind can be considered disordered, sick, diseased.

00:47:53.200 And now 50 million adults and 17 million children have been diagnosed with at least one of them.

00:47:59.660 That doesn't make any intuitive sense.

00:48:01.360 How can so many people be mentally ill?

00:48:05.700 At a certain point, if so many people have disordered minds, doesn't the word disordered begin to lose its meaning?

00:48:13.620 To call something disordered, you have to have some idea of what the proper order is.

00:48:19.980 So what is the properly ordered mind and who has it?

00:48:25.200 Because pretty soon we get to the point where nobody has one.

00:48:27.580 And if everybody has a disorder, then it would seem like nobody does.

00:48:34.120 The word just doesn't mean anything anymore.

00:48:36.900 Now, this problem is apparent, I think, to a lot of people.

00:48:39.600 And yet few people want to really think about why this is happening.

00:48:43.740 How it has happened.

00:48:45.580 How to prevent it from happening.

00:48:47.220 All we're allowed to do, all that most people will allow themselves to do, is look at the problem from 30,000 feet, speak about it in very broad terms, and then ultimately shrug their shoulders and move on and do nothing about it.

00:49:00.900 To get any more specific, to really dig down deep into the issue, is dangerous and upsetting.

00:49:06.280 And it requires you to trample over a whole lot of sacred cows.

00:49:08.800 So, let's trample them. 0.94

00:49:12.480 My view is that mental disorders are wildly overdiagnosed and misdiagnosed because some of the most commonly diagnosed mental disorders do not belong in that category at all.

00:49:24.680 Anxiety is not the only example of this, but it's the one we're discussing today.

00:49:27.880 When you take something like anxiety, which is absolutely essential to the human experience, and you declare that when it's felt to a certain degree or reaches a certain amount, it's disordered and transforms from a human emotion to a mental illness, you have opened up a floodgate that you cannot close.

00:49:50.780 You can say that anxiety is only disordered when it causes problems in this or that area of your life or is experienced for this or that reason or in this or that way or whatever else, but ultimately, these standards are going to always be arbitrary and subjective by definition.

00:50:07.500 It's not like diagnosing a tumor or cardiovascular disease.

00:50:11.640 You're attempting to diagnose the content of someone's consciousness.

00:50:17.300 You are diagnosing a thought process.

00:50:21.560 And yes, anxiety is a thought process.

00:50:22.940 Now, you might say, oh, it has physical causes and so on and so forth.

00:50:25.860 It's a thought.

00:50:28.040 In other words, a non-thinking being cannot be experiencing anxiety.

00:50:33.860 If a person or being is not thinking anything, then it doesn't make any sense to say that they're having anxiety.

00:50:41.460 Anxiety is a thought process.

00:50:43.820 And that's what you're diagnosing.

00:50:45.960 It's a normal thought process.

00:50:47.400 One of the most normal, most fundamental thought processes.

00:50:50.980 When you start slapping medical labels on normal.

00:50:55.020 If painful human thoughts and emotions, eventually you'll have slapped a label on every emotion and every person.

00:51:03.820 And we are well on our way to that point.

00:51:07.000 The only way to stop it is to radically rethink our whole approach to mental illness.

00:51:12.240 We have to start reorganizing the categories in a major way.

00:51:17.220 We have to consider the possibility that not everything which causes pain is a sickness.

00:51:22.740 Not every source of agony is a disorder.

00:51:25.480 If we're not willing to think about that or even to talk about it, then the tide of medicalization and pharmaceutical intervention will continue to rise until everyone is drowning in it.

00:51:38.180 And for that reason today, the CIA is canceled.

00:51:43.600 They weren't going to escape.

00:51:44.880 I was coming back around to them.

00:51:46.720 And so they're still canceled.

00:51:48.040 And, you know, anxiety disorder is also canceled.

00:51:52.480 And we'll leave it there for today.

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