Ep. 730 - The Truth Is Hurtful
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USA Today commits the most egregious form of Orwellian speech manipulation that we ve seen yet. Also, a new study shows that mask mandates did absolutely nothing to slow the spread of COVID. And a white journalist is put on the spot in an interview when asked if he likes being white.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, USA Today commits the most egregious form of Orwellian speech
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manipulation that I think maybe we've seen yet. You have to hear it to believe it. And we'll talk
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about that in a second. Also, five headlines, including a new study which seems to show that
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mask mandates did absolutely nothing to slow the spread of COVID. Who would have thought?
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And a white journalist is put on the spot in an interview when he's asked what he likes about
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being white. It's an interesting exchange. We'll play that today. Also, a new proposal from Maxine
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Waters to give down payment assistance to Americans to help them buy their first homes. But of course,
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not all Americans will get help, especially not white Americans. We'll talk about that
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and much more today on the Matt Wall Show. Chelsea Mitchell is a name that you may or may not know.
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She would be a household name if we lived in a country and a culture where strong and brave
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women were actually celebrated. We are told, of course, that such women are celebrated. We're
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instructed to celebrate them. But it turns out that there's only a very specific type of female
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bravery that we're supposed to recognize and honor. In fact, according to our cultural overlords,
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the most honorable act of female bravery is that which is committed by males. Trans women,
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quote unquote, are the most acclaimed sort of women in the country today. And they aren't really
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women at all. Real women take a backseat. And real women who oppose the intrusion of so-called
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trans women, quote unquote, aren't simply sent to the back. They're kicked off of the bus entirely.
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That's been the case for Chelsea Mitchell, who, along with three other female athletes,
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is suing the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference for allowing males to compete
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against them. You may have heard of this case. Almost everyone in the country today would claim
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to stand for the rights of women, right? Everybody would say that. But few have had the courage to
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remain standing when push really comes to shove. Mitchell and her fellow plaintiffs are among the few
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who are actually standing up for women. And they have all of our cultural institutions,
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especially the media, stacked against them. That point was made abundantly clear this week after
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Mitchell wrote an op-ed for USA Today, where she's making her case, making her case against males
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competing against females in sports. Now, the fact that USA Today would even publish that article in
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the first place may seem like an encouraging sign. But that encouraging sign quickly turned creepy and
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Orwellian. Before we get there, let's read some of what Mitchell wrote in her editorial. Or I should
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say this was her original editorial as it first appeared. This is what she says.
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Quote, it's February 2020. I'm crouched at the starting line of the high school girls 55 meter
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indoor race. This should be one of the best days of my life. I'm running in the state championship and
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I'm ranked the fastest high school female in the 55 meter dash in the state. I should be feeling
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confident. I should know that I have a strong shot at winning. Instead, all I can think about is how all my
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training, everything I've done to maximize my performance might not be enough simply because
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there's a runner on the line with an enormous physical advantage, a male body. I won that race
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and I'm grateful. But time after time, I have lost. I've lost four women's state championship titles,
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two all New England awards, and numerous other spots on the podium to male runners. I was bumped to third
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place in the 55 meter dash in 2019 behind two male runners. With every loss, it gets harder and harder
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to try to try again. That's a devastating experience. It tells me that I'm not good
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enough, that my body isn't good enough. No matter how hard I work, I'm like, I'm unlikely, unlikely to
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succeed because I'm a woman. That experience is why three of my fellow female athletes and I filed a
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lawsuit last year with Alliance Defending Freedom Against Freedom against the Connecticut
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Interscholastic Athletic Conference because girls and women shouldn't be stripped of their right to
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fair competition. Okay. Now, everything that she's written here so far is factually correct, morally
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correct, inarguable, inarguable, I would say. She is a woman. She was forced to compete against
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people who are not women. They had unfair advantages because of their male bodies. Through those unfair
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advantages, she was robbed of the achievements that she had earned. This is an utterly unassisted
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and undeniable point. She also describes, and I want to read this because she talks about how bad
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the situation has gotten. It's actually worse than I even realized. She says, quote, the CIAC allows
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biological males to compete in girls and women's sports. As a result, two males began racing in girls
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track in 2017. In the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons alone, these males took 15 women's state track
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championship titles, titles held in 2016 by nine different girls, and more than 85 opportunities
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to participate in higher level competitions that belong to female track athletes. That's because
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males have massive physical advantages. Their bodies are simply bigger and stronger on average
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than female bodies. It's obvious to every single girl on the track. All right, 15 titles.
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Two males took 15 titles that before had been split between nine different girls.
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And these are males who, we should remember, wouldn't have even made it onto the track in a
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championship meet against other males. These were mediocre, unimpressive male athletes who couldn't
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hack it against the boys, and yet they dominated against the girls. And by the way, we can't see inside
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their minds. We don't know their motivation, but I'm going to guess, I'm going to speculate
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that this is not a coincidence. It's not a coincidence that they found that they were
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mediocre and they couldn't really compete against the boys. And then they discover their female
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identity. Well, what do you know? What a, what a fortunate coincidence. Can't compete against the
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guys. Turns out I'm a girl. Well, here we go. I don't know, but I'm going to say probably not
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a coincidence. And why do they have that advantage? Well, because the male body confers enormous
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advantages in athletic competitions against females with female bodies, which are the only
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kinds of females that exist. Chelsea Mitchell's point is that no matter how these boys identify,
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no matter how they feel, no matter their perception of themselves, the biological facts remain.
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And all that matters in a track meet are the facts, especially the biological facts, the physical facts.
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That's one of the great things about running as a sport. I, I ran track when I was in high school.
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And one of the things I like about it is that it's, it's, it's mano y mano, very, very simple.
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Can I get to the finish line before you? That's all it comes down to. All that matters are the
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physical facts. Am I stronger than you? Am I faster? Do I have more endurance?
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And we're going to find out because whoever crosses the finish line first, that's the answer.
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What doesn't really matter are your feelings. So if you have a biological advantage over somebody
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else on the track, that advantage is not offset by your feelings or your self-perception.
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And that's the case that Mitchell makes or made anyway in USA Today. That was until trans activists
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read her piece and realizing that they could make no intellectual argument against it, resorted to
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their favorite tactic, which is silencing the opposition. And they, they especially enjoy silencing
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women. I mean, no, no, nobody, no group in America more aggressively silences women than trans activists.
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It's not even close. But, um, if they want to silence women, they can't do that without the
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acquiescence of cowards in positions of power. So they complained that the article hurt their feelings
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and USA Today with little resistance on their part or pushback summarily changed the article after
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publication and without notifying the author that they were doing it, they just changed it in order
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to remove all, quote, hurtful language from it. Now, as you recall, let's go back again.
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Read this one little paragraph again. In the original article, as written by Chelsea Mitchell,
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which was originally published in USA Today, this is what it said. Again, quote, instead,
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all I can think about is how all my training, everything I've done to maximize my performance
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might not be enough simply because there's a runner on the line with an enormous physical
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advantage. Remember that? Okay. After USA Today made post-publication editorial changes to appease
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radical trans activists, it now says, instead, all I can think about is how all my training,
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everything I've done to maximize my performance might not be enough simply because there's a
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transgender runner on the line with an enormous physical advantage. You spot the difference? Kind of
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hard to miss. They removed the word male. Whereas before she says that the runner had the advantage
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of a male body. Now it simply says that the transgender runner had an advantage. What kind
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of advantage? Well, who knows? Maybe he was wearing more comfortable socks that day. Maybe she ate a
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cheeseburger before the race and he didn't. All mention of the specific type of advantage has been
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erased. Indeed, USA Today removed the word male from the entire article and didn't even acknowledge
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that they'd done it, aside from an editor's note apologizing for their hurtful language.
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And in this case, the hurtful language, again, was scientifically correct language.
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And it was also the entire point of the article. Mitchell's original piece says the word male 10 times.
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Every other sentence practically contains the word male because that's the entire point and premise.
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There is no argument against trans runners in female sports except for the fact that they're male.
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That's it. There's no other argument. That's the only one and it's all you need.
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In fact, the argument has nothing to do with the fact that they're trans.
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That's irrelevant. Their self-trans is self-perception.
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Their self-perception is irrelevant. The whole point, the only point, the point is that they are male.
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USA Today decided that it's happy to publish her argument as long as her argument doesn't contain
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her actual argument. This is quite clearly, to my mind, one of the most egregious and outlandish cases
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of media bias and Orwellian speech manipulation that we've yet seen. And it really matters.
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This is more than just some dumb thing that we can roll our eyes about and say,
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oh, there's the silly mainstream media up to its old tricks again.
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Now, this is the kind of thing that influences people. The goal is pretty clear. It's to make
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it seem as though the people who are opposed to males in female sports or female locker rooms
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are really just opposed to trans people. And we hear this kind of, um, this is the way the media
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presents it all the time. The only difference is that usually they don't, they don't make a change
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post-publication. In most cases, the original thing they publish is going to be framed exactly like
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the edited version of Chelsea Mitchell's piece, where they say things like, and you see all kinds
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of headlines like this, that, uh, you know, uh, conservatives are opposed to trans people in
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sports, or there's a bill being passed in Texas or, or wherever, uh, uh, that, that, that, um,
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will ban trans people from sports. That's not the case. That's not the case at all. It's,
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it's not about trans. Um, the average oblivious American who reads that, okay, they're going to
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read that and think, well, what's the problem here? Who cares if the other runner is trans?
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When in reality, it's Chelsea Mitchell who doesn't care if they're trans.
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They can identify as however they want. It's the biological reality that matters.
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And the goal of the left with a big assist from the media is to erase that biological reality.
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Now, in truth, they can never actually erase a reality. Biology will remain biology, no matter
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what anyone says about it or feels in relation to it, but they can create a society that fundamentally
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fails to recognize or is hostile to reality. And unfortunately, towards that end, they are
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succeeding. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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Well, I don't know if you tuned into backstage last night, we had our backstage, uh, monthly backstage
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show. And fortunately, I think for the first hour, it was, uh, you know, it was a lot of boring stuff
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about things happening on the globe, on the, on the earth. Who cares about that? But all that anyone
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really cares about is what's happening in outer space. We're going to talk about the space aliens.
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So finally, we did talk about the space aliens. If you didn't watch, well, you know what? If you
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didn't watch the episode, um, I would say you, you don't even really need to watch it because
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what I can tell you is that many people are saying, many people are saying that, um, I utterly demolished
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everybody else on the subject of aliens. And I was outnumbered.
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Clavin turns out is, is he's sort of alien curious. Um, he's alien questioning. He's open
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to it. Alien fluid maybe, but Ben, Jeremy, Michael, very anti-alien. And so I was really
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there. And the other thing that many people are saying, and who's saying this again, many
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people. The other thing many people are saying is that, um, they were stunned, frankly, by
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my bravery, um, as a marginalized identity, as an, as a, as a, as an alien believing American
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ABA ABBA is what we call ourselves. I've decided. Um, so as the only ABBA on the stage of marginalized
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identity and in a, in an, in an unsafe environment, but, uh, I, I did, I wiped the floor. I think I, I
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basically proved not only that aliens exist in the universe, but that they are visiting earth.
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And as I said, you, you don't need to even watch it. I would say don't watch it because there's no
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point. Just take my word for it. Actually, after the, uh, the show concluded, and I shouldn't even
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be talking about this, but the other three, Ben, Jeremy, Michael, they were, they were, they, they
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were leaving in tears. Um, and they were saying that they were afraid that I embarrassed them
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because my arguments were so good in comparison to their weak arguments.
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And, uh, so it was a pretty emotional moment. No need to confirm any of what I'm saying right
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now. Just trust me on this. All right. Um, and, uh, let's go. Number one from, from town hall.
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This is, uh, this should be like breaking news, even though it's not a surprise perhaps to, to many
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of us. It says new findings reported Tuesday in a university of Louisville study challenge.
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What has been the prevailing belief that mask mandates are necessary to slow the spread of the
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Wuhan coronavirus. The study notes that 80% of us States mandated masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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And while mandates induced greater mask compliance, they didn't predict lower growth rates when
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community spread was low or high. Um, among other things, the study conducted using data from the CDC
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covering multiple seasons reports that mask mandates and use are not associated with lower
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COVID spread among us States. Quote, uh, our findings do not support the hypothesis that
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transmissions rates decrease with greater public mask use. Um, researchers stated that masks may
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promote social cohesion as rallying symbols during a pandemic, but risk compensation can also occur
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because, uh, because, um, um, okay, let me read here from quoting from the actual study.
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Now it says prolonged mask use around four hours a day promotes facial alkalinization.
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And I certainly know what that means and inadvertently encourages dehydration, which in turn can enhance
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barrier breakdown and bacterial infection risk. British clinicians have reported masks to increase
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headaches and sweating and decrease cognitive precision survey bias. Notwithstanding these, uh,
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are associated with medical errors by obscuring nonverbal communication. Masks interfere with
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social learning and children. Likewise, masks can, uh, distort verbal speech and remove visual cues
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to the detriment of individuals with hearing loss. Uh, and then it goes on from there. Um, in summary,
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okay, I'll continue reading a little bit mask mandates and use for poor predictors of COVID-19 spread
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in us States. Case growth was independent of mandates at low and high rates of community spread.
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And mask use did not predict case growth during the summer or fall winter waves. Uh, strengths of our
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study include using two mask metrics to evaluate association with COVID-19 growth rates, et cetera,
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and so forth. This is, this is what the study says. This is what the research says. Um, I, who knows,
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maybe YouTube will still ban this episode because I'm just reading what the study says,
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but this is what I, what I keep going back to it. It it's good to get the scientific data.
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And I'm glad that finally we're getting some studies and we're getting some, some, some science
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on some of these issues. But at the same time, this is a, this is common sense. This was common sense
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to a lot of us. Things like forcing people to wear masks all day for hours at a time. Most of us to
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begin with, we knew that, you know, medical masks were never designed or never intended for that kind
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of use to be an everyday accessory that you just put on your face all day and walk around everywhere
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with just as a common sense judgment before looking at any data. People with common sense should know
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that there are going to be problems there. Yeah, you're going to have dehydration. It's going to,
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it's going to make you hotter. It's, it's, uh, it doesn't seem very sanitary. You have germs and sweat
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and everything. And it also, and for, and for kids, taking aside even all the physical problems,
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it seems there are psychological and emotional problems, especially for children, forcing them
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to wear masks all the time, depriving them of the ability to see the faces of other people.
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It creates social problems, even among adults, trying to communicate with people and you can't
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even see their faces, faces. And all the while, you know, um, the, what, what we're being told is
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that putting this piece of cloth on your face is going to provide you significant protection
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against these microscopic, um, you know, this, this microscopic virus. I don't know. Again, common
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sense, there would seem to be some serious questions that you might ask about, about that,
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but you weren't allowed to ask the questions. You're not allowed to make common sense judgments.
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You have to wait until the experts tell you now with the masking thing, we know with, uh, the Wuhan lab
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in China, finally, the experts and the media who all of them consider themselves to be experts.
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They're finally telling us that, Oh, it's okay. It's okay. Now you're, you're allowed to draw this
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connection. You're allowed to speculate about what seems like the very real and likely possibility
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that this came from a lab in China. You're allowed to do that for the last year. You weren't allowed to do
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that because we hadn't told you yet that you're allowed to have that opinion, but now we've decided
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that you're allowed to have that opinion. Will we get to that point with masks? I don't know.
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Um, I, I, I kind of, in my, in my head, I kind of go back and forth on this.
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Are masks here to stay at least in some places in America forever? That seems very, very likely,
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very possible. Um, or, you know, it's also just as possible, I suppose that the media,
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who knows, they could do it tomorrow or next month. They could just decide that, Oh, you know what?
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Nevermind. You're not supposed to wear masks anymore. And in fact, they could decide all of
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a sudden that not only are you not supposed to wear them, but if you do wear them, um, you're a
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maniac, you're anti-science and all of this. It's all, but it's all up to them. They decide
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and we follow along. The main thing though, the main lesson is do not use your own brain.
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Don't try to sort through these things on your own. Don't look at the data and draw your own
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conclusions. Don't listen to what they're saying and try to point to holes in their logic. Don't do
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any of that. Just be a good and cooperative little boy or girl or whatever and, uh, and do as you're
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told. All right. Number two, journalist, Chris Ruffo, who's been on the, uh, critical race theory
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beat for last year or two. And it's done, I think easily one of the most important journalists in
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America. Now that's kind of a low bar because there, there aren't very many journalists at all
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that are doing real journalism, but he's one of the ones doing real journalism, especially when it
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comes to critical race theory. Uh, he was invited on a show with Mark Lamont Hill. I'm not sure what
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show this is black news tonight. Okay. That's the name of the show on, I don't know what network,
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but anyway, at the end of the interview, there's what I think is a really interesting exchange. So
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let's, uh, let's just start watching this. And if I were to say to you right now, Christopher,
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what do you like about being white? What would you say? I don't know. I, again,
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again, it's such an amorphous term. It's like a census term or a, uh, can you, can you, can
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you, can you indulge me for one? It just, we're running out of time. Indulge me for a minute. I
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understand you see it as, as all these things, but you surely recognize that the world sees you
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as white. You know, the world reads you as white. And if you were to ask me some things I like about
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being black, I could talk about cultural norms. I could talk about tradition. I could talk about
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the kind of commonalities I feel around the diaspora. If I were to ask you what, particularly if you're
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saying whiteness is a thing that is being constructed as negative and shouldn't be name, name,
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name something positive that you like about being white. Well, sure. I, I, you know, I'll, I'll answer
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with a, with a thing there. There's a lot of documents that are floating around public schools
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that say things like, uh, timeliness showing up on time is a white supremacist value or a white value,
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white dominant value, things like rationality, things like the enlightenment, things like, uh, you
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know, uh, uh, objectivity. And, uh, these are very strange things to be ascribed to a racial identity.
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My view is that these are actually should be ascribed to every individual human being,
00:25:19.280
every individual human being, regardless of whatever racial category we impose on them.
00:25:23.660
That doesn't answer the question. No, you're, you're telling, you're, you're telling me you're
00:25:28.940
making strong men about things that are ascribed to whiteness that you think are wrongfully ascribed
00:25:32.340
to whiteness. I'm saying if whiteness isn't a negative thing and there's something that you
00:25:35.460
actually, and that whiteness actually shouldn't be constructed as all negative name, something
00:25:39.020
positive about being, that you believe is positive about being white.
00:25:44.040
Again, I don't buy into the framework that the world can be reduced into these metaphysical
00:25:48.340
categories of whiteness and blackness. I think that's wrong. I think we should look at people
00:25:52.360
as individuals. I think we should celebrate, uh, different people's accomplishments. And,
00:25:56.380
uh, again, I think the idea you, you mentioned Ignatieff, Ignatieff says the goal is to quote,
00:26:00.880
abolish the white race. Um, in any other context, this would be interpreted as a near genocidal slur.
00:26:07.360
I don't buy into it. The reason I'm not going to answer your question is I reject that
00:26:11.420
categorization. I think of myself as an individual human being, uh, with my own capabilities. And I
00:26:16.440
would hope that we could both judge each other as individuals, uh, and, uh, come to common values
00:26:20.880
on that basis. Okay. So it seems like a lot of people on the right, this, this video is being shared
00:26:27.740
yesterday, kind of went viral. In fact, Mark Lamont Hill is quite proud of this exchange and he's the
00:26:32.520
one who, who, who originally put it on Twitter. I don't know if very many people would have seen it
00:26:37.360
had he not. And a lot of people on the right were upset about the question and we're saying that
00:26:43.920
it's kind of a racist question, which, which it is, um, because of, of what's being implied
00:26:51.100
kind of in a vacuum, just saying, well, what do you like about being white? And that's not
00:26:55.920
necessarily a racist question, but the implication, the insinuation from, uh, Mark Lamont Hill is that
00:27:01.460
it's bad to be white. So you could almost, it, it's what he was really asking is what could you
00:27:08.780
possibly like about being white, which is a racist question, but, um, it's also a smart strategy.
00:27:16.460
It's a smart tactic. And it's the kind of thing you're going to step into the ring with someone
00:27:20.700
like, like Hill, you have to be prepared for that. And I, and I, and I thought Chris Ruffo handled it,
00:27:26.080
handled it well. I thought he handled it really well. I'm not saying he wasn't prepared,
00:27:28.680
but it is, it's, it's a, it is a clever trick for Mark Lamont Hill because what's the point?
00:27:36.380
Well, the point is if, if you refuse to answer what you like about being white,
00:27:43.300
then Hill can say, you've proved his point that, well, you can't even, you're white. You can't even
00:27:49.020
say anything you like about being white. Apparently being white's a bad thing. But if you answer the
00:27:53.740
question and say, well, here's, I'll give you a list. Here's 20 things I love about being white.
00:27:58.160
Now you're a white supremacist. And, uh, and people, and, and Hill knows that this is what
00:28:04.440
would happen. People are going to come in and they're going to, they're going to, they'll take
00:28:07.740
the question out, but that, cause context doesn't matter. We know that, especially with the racial,
00:28:12.720
uh, the race hustlers, context never matters, whether it's a police shooting or anything else.
00:28:17.800
So it just creates almost like this mean template for people to come in, take the question aside,
00:28:23.740
get rid of all the context, and then take just that 20 second clip, which starts with you saying,
00:28:30.560
yeah, what I like about being white is X, Y, Z. And then that lives forever in infamy, uh, on the
00:28:36.840
internet as proof that you're a white supremacist. So that's the trick. That's the ploy. It's a clever
00:28:42.360
one. It's pretty despicable, but it's also clever as a, as just a strategy. Um, I think what,
00:28:51.020
what Chris Ruffo is doing there, he's rejecting the framework. He's saying, I'm not going to play
00:28:56.360
that game with you. Perfectly good way of doing it. Um, and one other strategy though,
00:29:03.240
could be to, to turn it around. If you can put the other guy on the defensive
00:29:10.480
and you could ask, you could say to Mark Lamont Hill, well, what do you, why are you asking me
00:29:16.880
that question? That's a really strange question to ask. I mean, can, can you name anything good
00:29:23.940
about being white? Are you assuming that there's nothing good about being white? White is who I am
00:29:29.700
part of my identity. It's who it's part of who I am. Are you saying there's nothing good about that
00:29:36.820
part of my identity? Can you name anything good about being white? I would like to see how he
00:29:47.220
would handle that because maybe he could list a few things. You know, he, he, if he lists a couple
00:29:53.400
of, uh, of, of positive things, which he probably wouldn't, then you could say, okay, yeah, I mean,
00:29:56.820
that's what I like about being white too, but he probably wouldn't be able to do that. No,
00:30:01.840
he wouldn't be willing to. And so now you've put him in a position where he's saying, well,
00:30:06.880
I don't see anything good about being white, which of course is incredibly racist. So all
00:30:12.300
you're doing is proving that he's a racist, that he can't see anything good. That's why
00:30:15.980
he's asking the question. Again, what's implied and not said is what could you possibly like
00:30:23.080
about being white? So that's another way of doing it is to, is to, is to flip it around
00:30:29.200
or, you know, a third option. Um, Mark Lamont Hill said, if you ask me what I like about being
00:30:38.760
black, I would say, uh, cultural norms, tradition, heritage, but you could, you could easily say,
00:30:45.340
okay, well, that's what I like about being white. Or, I mean, unless you're going to tell me that
00:30:49.760
only white people aren't allowed to like those things about themselves. Are you saying that you're
00:30:55.560
allowed to, to like culture, tradition, your, your heritage as a person feeling proud of your
00:31:03.140
ancestors and where you came from? Are you saying that you're allowed to be proud of that and happy
00:31:08.940
about that and like that? And I'm not. So there's a, there's a number of different ways to go about
00:31:16.260
it. I think that, uh, Chris to Rufo handled it pretty well. Um, but you just know, of course,
00:31:22.940
it's not an honest question. It's this, this is not, this is not an attempt to really understand
00:31:28.400
at all. This is an attempt to trap and you know, that going in. All right. Um, number three. Okay.
00:31:38.260
I got to read. This is from the Sunday express. I hate to go back to UFOs. Actually, I don't,
00:31:41.880
but I just want to read this to you very briefly. It says that I don't even know what the Sunday
00:31:46.240
express is. Let's just assume they're a reputable news source. The U S Navy has picked up sonar
00:31:52.900
data showing mysterious fast moving objects underwater that cannot be explained by experts
00:31:59.240
or current technology. Washington examiner's Tom Rogan said the U S Navy has the data to prove
00:32:03.620
the bizarre encounters. Some of these encounters could be included in the U S government task
00:32:07.560
force, which is preparing to brief, uh, Congress on its UFO findings next month. This comes amid
00:32:13.540
a flurry of footage showing bizarre encounters between U S pilots and Navy officers and unexplainable
00:32:18.160
objects. So now we've got, uh, unidentified, unidentified flying objects, but that's not
00:32:23.180
this cause they're underwater. So I guess unidentified swimming objects, the U S O. Well, that acronym
00:32:29.300
is already taken, but now you have, um, objects underwater as well that are unexplained.
00:32:36.240
And, you know, we, we do know very little about our oceans or what's happening down there.
00:32:43.120
Could there be civilizations living under the ocean? It's possible. Here's, here's probably,
00:32:51.780
that's probably not the case at all. Um, so I'm not quite ready to come out as a believer in Aquaman,
00:32:58.460
but I will say, and I think someone, someone brought this up in the YouTube comments yesterday,
00:33:03.040
the thing about civilizations under the ocean, but it is, here's, here's what you talk about the oceans
00:33:09.340
and we live on the earth alongside the ocean. And yet we know very little about it. So much of it is
00:33:16.560
unexplored. That probably doesn't mean that there's Atlantis down there somewhere, but it's fascinating
00:33:23.500
to think about just how little we know. And, um, and that explains, if anyone's wondering, that is my
00:33:29.500
personal fascination with UFOs and aliens and everything. Uh, just because we, we know so little
00:33:35.740
about outer space. I mean, we, we, we know you could fill a thimble really with what we know about
00:33:42.400
it in comparison to how vast of an expanse it actually is. I mean, it's essentially infinite
00:33:48.620
for all intents and purposes. Uh, and that to me is, uh, is, is just fascinating to think, to think
00:33:55.040
of the possibilities. And I don't understand how people could be, could fail to be fascinated by that
00:34:01.260
or bored by the discussion. Um, all right. Number four, this, uh, photo has been floating around for
00:34:10.000
a couple of days. I just want to show this to you. The website pop crave shared a photo of Ellen page,
00:34:15.300
now Elliot page. Um, and here's the picture you haven't seen. Um, there's Elliot page shirtless
00:34:24.340
breasts removed. Uh, there's been some speculation that there are some ab implants going on there.
00:34:30.160
I think there might be something to that speculation, but putting that aside, I don't
00:34:34.340
know. You see a photo like this, we're supposed to applaud this, but it's, it's, it's, it's, it's
00:34:41.920
actually intensely sad and disturbing. I mean, this is a person that has totally rejected
00:34:49.420
themselves. This is self mutilation. You know, applauding a picture like this, it is no different
00:34:59.620
from seeing an emaciated anorexic and applauding that and say, Oh, doesn't she look fantastic?
00:35:08.180
She looks beautiful. She's, uh, she looks exactly how she wants to look. She's living her truth,
00:35:14.140
living out her identity. Yeah. She's destroying her body, but, uh, it's a beautiful thing.
00:35:22.200
In fact, I don't have to, that's not even really a hypothetical. We're, we're already doing that with
00:35:27.220
not with, maybe not anorexics, but people who are morbidly obese. It's the same kind of thing.
00:35:31.460
We see a morbidly obese person destroying themselves
00:35:34.940
and, uh, we're supposed to applaud it. And it's the same sort of thing here.
00:35:48.340
foreclosed entire biological functions permanently. And we're meant to applaud that.
00:35:58.080
That, uh, that, uh, that I, I certainly could never do.
00:36:01.980
I, I, I, I find it sad and I'm, I'm moved with a pity. Honestly, when I see photos like that,
00:36:07.220
I don't understand how you could have any other reaction.
00:36:12.660
All right. Finally, a number five, I mentioned this briefly a few days ago. We never got to it,
00:36:17.200
but it's, this is from Buzzfeed. It says in a national effort to get through to horny,
00:36:22.340
but vaccinate vaccine hesitant Americans. The white house announced Friday that it is joining
00:36:26.920
forces with dating apps to encourage people to get their COVID-19 vaccines so that, so that they
00:36:31.780
can go forth and F freely this summer. This is a, that's not the language from the white house,
00:36:38.360
but this is the language in a Buzzfeed news article. I want to talk about where what's happened with
00:36:45.120
American journalism. There you go. Vaccinated users on Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, and Badoo. I
00:36:51.360
haven't even heard of most of these apps. Well, Tinder, I know about Bumble, Hinge.
00:36:56.480
They'll have access to some premium features for free. OkCupid, Chispa, BLK, and Match are giving
00:37:04.000
out a free boost to those who've been vaccinated so that their profiles are more likely to be seen
00:37:07.680
first. Plenty of Fish is also offering free credits to vaccinated members for its live streaming
00:37:12.880
feature. Uh, and so the idea is to get people, you know, a lot of these, I guess, are, are not so
00:37:18.560
much apps people use to find other individuals to have relationships with, but, uh, more just hookup
00:37:24.320
apps. So I guess, and that's really the good news here is that, um, when you're, when you're hooking
00:37:31.640
up with random strangers that you meet on a, on an app and you just learned their name an hour ago
00:37:38.220
and already you're in bed with them. Yeah. The good thing is that the only disease
00:37:43.020
or negative outcome you ever had to worry about was COVID. And so now I guess we're hearing from
00:37:49.360
the white house, just get that COVID vaccine, throw caution to the wind again. What could possibly go
00:37:55.140
wrong except for everything as we've seen in society over the last several decades. All right,
00:38:01.400
let's move now to reading the YouTube comments. Um, major Tom Fisher says, holy crap, I think I might
00:38:07.900
actually be slightly moderately, maybe intrigued a tiny bit by the WNBA. If there are six foot,
00:38:14.200
eight inch women in it, where the heck do you find women that tall? Yeah, that is, that is pretty
00:38:23.260
fascinating in a way, but the thing is they still can't dunk, which is kind of sad. Unidentified,
00:38:29.700
unidentifiable reviewer says Matt Walsh react to the Menendez brothers trial case. It's all over
00:38:35.120
tick tock. I see this a lot in the comments where people are trying to get me to talk about something.
00:38:40.500
And, uh, and so they, they always mention as a qualifier, Oh, you know, they're talking about
00:38:45.420
this on tick tock because they know my tick tock obsession. So if you want to get me to talk about
00:38:50.020
it, all you have to do is mention that the cool kids are talking about it on tick tock. And it worked
00:38:53.940
here too. I don't know a lot. I I'm, I'm, I'm vaguely aware there's something going on, going on with
00:38:58.700
this. And there's some sort of on internet trend. The men, so I guess I really shouldn't be talking
00:39:04.500
about it at all. Uh, because I don't, I know almost nothing about it. I do know the Menendez
00:39:09.080
brothers. They were 30 years ago or something. It was a famous case of these brothers who I think
00:39:14.820
were both teenagers at the time. Maybe one was in his early twenties and they, uh, they killed their
00:39:19.240
parents in a horrific and brutal crime, including, I think they shot their, their, their mother
00:39:26.320
multiple times with like a shotgun. And, uh, they went to jail forever, no possibility of parole.
00:39:34.320
Um, and what we were told by prosecutors is that they had done this in order to collect life
00:39:40.080
insurance from their parents. Cause their parents were really wealthy. So this is all a, this is all
00:39:43.960
a plot to make money off their parents. Um, and now sort of randomly two or three decades later,
00:39:52.180
I think people on Tik TOK are kind of reopening this case, at least online in their own way. Uh,
00:39:59.240
and, and, uh, saying that these brothers should be freed from, from prison, not because they were
00:40:04.340
innocent, but because they claim that, um, the Menendez brothers were being sexually abused.
00:40:10.260
And so that this was them sort of in an act of self-defense or after years of abuse, uh, they,
00:40:15.260
they just had enough of it. And I don't know if that's true or not. I don't know anything about it.
00:40:18.820
If it were true, let's just say, I mean, hypothetically, and I have no idea if that's
00:40:25.200
the case, if this is the case here, if it were true, I'm talking in a hypothetical case,
00:40:28.800
you've got kids who were sexually abused by their parents for years.
00:40:34.120
And finally, after years of this, they killed their parents. Um, yes, I would, I would not give
00:40:40.980
someone in that case life in prison without parole. I'd be looking at more of like a manslaughter
00:40:46.920
or charge or something. Is that the case here? I have, I have no clue at all. So that is my
00:40:51.980
analysis. I hope it lived up to your expectations. I'm sure that it didn't. Um, and finally,
00:40:58.880
another comment says the Holocaust isn't even the greatest atrocity of the 20th century.
00:41:03.180
Mao's cultural revolution and Stalin's purges slash gulags come to mind throughout history.
00:41:08.120
There have been many events worse than the Holocaust. Genghis Khan and his crew were responsible
00:41:11.720
for so many deaths that the global temperature dropped. Like there's, there's no, you get to a
00:41:17.560
certain level of atrocity and there's no point in ranking them. Okay. When you get to, people do
00:41:23.980
this sometimes who, who was the greater villain of the 20th century, Stalin or Hitler? Um, Stalin
00:41:31.300
is responsible for more deaths. I think that's pretty inarguable, but who's more evil. They're equal
00:41:37.280
in like as, as evil as a person can possibly be. They both reached that level. They both plunged,
00:41:44.620
plunged to that depth. I think we could say, um, though it is, it is funny that, that, um,
00:41:53.460
if you, I think if you compared something, when you talked about how Marjorie Taylor Greene got into
00:41:58.460
so much trouble because she made a Holocaust analogy, even though the left, they make Holocaust and Hitler
00:42:02.920
analogies all the time. But if you compare something to almost any other historical atrocity,
00:42:07.840
even probably more recent ones, you're not going to get the same outraged reaction as you would with
00:42:13.640
a Holocaust analogy. If you're someone on the right. And again, if you're on the left,
00:42:17.600
then you can get, you can say whatever you want. But I think a lot of this comes down simply to
00:42:21.900
historical ignorance. Um, and that's one of the reasons why people always go right to the Holocaust
00:42:28.140
analogy, the Hitler analogy. It's not anti-Semitism that, that charge doesn't even make any sense,
00:42:33.780
but this, this comes simply from, I think in most, in a lot of cases, historical ignorance.
00:42:40.740
The Holocaust is, is one of the only historical events that people these days, especially who've
00:42:47.940
been through the public school system actually know anything about. And even with that, I mean,
00:42:52.240
these are not experts on world war two, but they know in broad strokes that this happened and that
00:42:58.400
it was a terrible thing. Um, and I think that's why Hitler comes up so much, even in cases when
00:43:05.420
they're, you know, depending on the point trying to be made, there might be another historical villain
00:43:09.800
who's a bread, who's a better analog, but most people don't know about those other people.
00:43:16.100
I don't think you can overstate the historical ignorance in America today. It's a big problem.
00:43:24.340
You see all these man on the street interviews, which are really funny and we could all have fun
00:43:28.360
with them where you go to a college campus and you, and you, you know, you have a camera phone
00:43:34.320
or a microphone and a camera, a camera phone. And, uh, you know, you ask college students questions
00:43:41.180
like, what century did the civil war happen in? And they have no idea. And we all laugh about that.
00:43:48.720
And it is funny, but it's also terrifying. You have an entire generations of Americans who know
00:43:54.840
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Today for our daily cancellation, Maxine Waters enters the ring. It may seem surprising that
00:45:57.600
Maxine Waters has been canceled. I think maybe only once or twice in this segment.
00:46:01.540
She could of course be canceled every day and that explains why she rarely is. It'd be
00:46:05.660
sort of redundant to cancel her every time she deserves it. We have to pick our spots.
00:46:10.080
The thing about representative Maxine Waters is that she is equal parts stupid, evil, and
00:46:13.920
racist. And this can make it especially difficult to figure out whether any particular thing she
00:46:18.600
does or says or policy she proposes was motivated more by her stupidity, her wickedness, or her
00:46:24.080
racism. Often it's an equal and equitable mix of all three. I think that's probably the case
00:46:28.780
here. Waters has proposed a plan to give Americans some help in making a down payment on their
00:46:35.720
first homes. This may or may not sound like a good idea to you at first blush, but before
00:46:41.380
you draw any conclusions, you have to remember this is Maxine Waters we're talking about here.
00:46:45.960
This is the modern Democrat party we're talking about. Their plans to help Americans are never
00:46:51.240
plans to help all Americans. That's why as a Politico headline puts it, the real purpose of
00:46:56.700
this proposal is to, quote, close the racial wealth gap. Of course, everything is always
00:47:02.920
racial for these people. Just as there's only ever six degrees of separation between any
00:47:07.300
Hollywood actor and Kevin Bacon, there's only ever at least or most two degrees of separation
00:47:12.960
between any Democratic policy proposal and their racial obsessions. It always comes back to that.
00:47:18.040
Always. So let's read now from the Politico article to get the gist of this plan.
00:47:22.680
It says a $10 billion proposal by House Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters would give homebuyers
00:47:29.440
up to $25,000 for a down payment. President Joe Biden's top housing official, HUD Secretary
00:47:34.320
Marsha Fudge, which is just a great name for a bureaucrat, says such assistance is a priority
00:47:41.740
for the administration. Okay, pausing there for a second. $10 billion. Well, what's $10 billion
00:47:47.900
between friends? There are reports this morning that Biden is about to unveil a $6 trillion budget.
00:47:54.740
$6 trillion. Now, as Ben pointed out on Twitter, $6 trillion is actually $12 trillion when you factor
00:48:01.840
in the COVID stimulus, his family's plan, et cetera. That's all of the proposed spending in just six
00:48:09.360
months. He's proposing an average of $2 trillion a month he has proposed on average. By the end of
00:48:17.420
his tenure at this rate, he'll have spent, I don't know, what, $96 trillion if my math is right, which
00:48:23.160
it probably isn't. Either way, the fact remains, these are astronomical amounts of money. These are
00:48:28.380
such large amounts of money that you can't even really call them amounts of money. These numbers
00:48:34.300
are so large, they effectively don't exist. There's no way to conceptualize them. Biden is spending
00:48:41.380
money as if there is no such thing as money. I would say he's spending money like it grows on
00:48:46.060
trees, but we'd need more trees than exist on earth to harvest this much. So $10 billion, that is
00:48:51.840
pocket change, I suppose. But even so, it's a terrible plan for reasons that should already be
00:48:57.440
clear, but will only become clearer as we keep reading. It says Waters' plan has triggered concern in
00:49:02.640
the mortgage industry that, because it would require lenders to identify and direct aid to
00:49:06.700
first-generation buyers, those whose parents don't own homes. And by the way, I have no idea how they
00:49:12.520
would even identify that group, and they don't really have any idea how they would either. There
00:49:18.160
isn't some database out there, as far as I know, of Americans who've never bought homes before.
00:49:26.080
Anyway, and it would also direct aid to socially and economically disadvantaged groups.
00:49:30.600
The move is also stirring broader criticism about how much it would help buyers and whether it would
00:49:35.720
even put them at risk. Quote, we are simply providing first-generation homebuyers, largely
00:49:39.740
people of color, what white first-time homebuyers have been receiving for years in the form of
00:49:43.540
the daddy down payment loan, family assistance that is almost never repaid, said David Dworkin,
00:49:50.240
president and CEO of the National Housing Conference and Advocacy Group. The plan with the most
00:49:54.700
traction, the $10 billion proposal in a housing infrastructure bill by Waters, would give state housing
00:49:59.500
finance agencies grants to award up to $20,000 in down payment assistance to first-generation
00:50:04.540
homebuyers below a certain income threshold and up to $25,000 if the homebuyer is from a socially
00:50:09.200
and economically disadvantaged group. Waters' bill includes the provision alongside massive
00:50:13.560
investments in public housing and the National Housing Trust Fund. The bill defines socially
00:50:17.440
disadvantaged homebuyers who would require or who would qualify for larger credit as individuals
00:50:22.100
identifying as black, Hispanic, Native American, or Asian American. But quote, such presumption may be
00:50:29.600
rebutted with credible evidence to the contrary, according to a discussion draft of the legislation.
00:50:35.700
So there it is. If you didn't know any better and you hear someone say that they want to help the
00:50:40.440
socially disadvantaged, you might think that sounds like a fine idea. But then you learn that socially
00:50:46.040
disadvantaged is just a slightly more sanitized way of saying anyone who isn't white. The plan here isn't
00:50:53.600
so much to help black people or minorities, it's to not help white people. They are, after all, the only
00:50:59.960
group left off the list. Even Asians are on the list of socially disadvantaged, but Asians have a higher
00:51:05.660
median household income than whites in this country. Asians are doing better than white people and by a pretty
00:51:12.420
significant margin. Whites are, in fact, more, quote, disadvantaged than Asians. The fact that they qualify,
00:51:21.420
that Asians qualify for assistance and white people don't, proves, if it wasn't clear already, that the real
00:51:26.540
point here is simply to exclude whites because they're white. It's racist and illegal. The Constitution guarantees
00:51:35.700
equal protection under the law, regardless of race. Laws that dole out perks based on race
00:51:41.940
while leaving whites in the cold are unconstitutional by definition. Now, the argument that activists give
00:51:47.940
for this racist plan, as you heard, is that white people have been getting help from their parents on
00:51:53.480
their down payments. And so it's only fair if black people get help from the government. The problem with
00:51:57.840
that argument is, first of all, not all white people have parents who give them money to make down
00:52:03.160
payments. Mine didn't. I've bought three homes. I don't own three homes, but we've moved, you know,
00:52:10.240
three times in the last four years and I bought homes in each place. I didn't get any help on any
00:52:15.140
of those down payments. And besides, here's a concept that more people need to understand.
00:52:21.940
The government is not your daddy. There are plenty of things that parents do or can do,
00:52:27.920
which the government can't do or shouldn't do. And anyway, whatever the government is doing,
00:52:33.640
it is racist and illegal to favor certain groups based on race while excluding others on the same
00:52:39.940
basis. Aside from the racial component, though, the whole idea of down payment assistance from the
00:52:45.580
government is catastrophically awful on its own merits, even the race stuff aside. A pretty good
00:52:52.760
general principle is this. If you can't afford to make a down payment on a home, then you can't afford
00:53:00.340
the home. If you need 25 grand from daddy government in order to afford even just the down payment,
00:53:06.220
how are you going to pay your mortgage going forward? What about utilities? HOA fees, if you
00:53:11.660
have, will you have money to fix a leaky pipe or a broken HVAC unit? Many expenses come with
00:53:17.960
homeownership. Believe me, we're going through that right now as people just recently bought a home.
00:53:23.720
Throwing people into homes they can't afford all in the name of racial equity is a disaster waiting to
00:53:28.500
happen, especially now as the housing market is challenging enough for buyers. It's very hard to
00:53:33.560
find a house right now. Again, I know what I'm talking about because the demand is through the
00:53:37.120
roof and the houses that are available are all more expensive, expensive than they'd be in a normal
00:53:42.000
market. And they're getting more expensive every day. Now throw a bunch of homeowners or potential
00:53:46.740
homeowners with a check from the government into the mix. And you just made it harder for buyers,
00:53:51.740
not easier, more expensive, not more affordable. It's a bad idea on every level. Foolish,
00:53:58.960
short-sighted, ridiculous, also racist. Exactly what we've come to expect from Maxine Waters and
00:54:06.180
friends. And that is why she is today, of course, canceled, as she is every other day, whether I say it
00:54:13.680
or not specifically. And we'll leave it there. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.
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