The Matt Walsh Show - May 27, 2021


Ep. 730 - The Truth Is Hurtful


Episode Stats

Length

55 minutes

Words per Minute

172.4223

Word Count

9,543

Sentence Count

608

Misogynist Sentences

19

Hate Speech Sentences

40


Summary

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.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, USA Today commits the most egregious form of Orwellian speech
00:00:06.040 manipulation that I think maybe we've seen yet. You have to hear it to believe it. And we'll talk
00:00:11.520 about that in a second. Also, five headlines, including a new study which seems to show that
00:00:15.780 mask mandates did absolutely nothing to slow the spread of COVID. Who would have thought?
00:00:20.740 And a white journalist is put on the spot in an interview when he's asked what he likes about
00:00:25.720 being white. It's an interesting exchange. We'll play that today. Also, a new proposal from Maxine
00:00:30.320 Waters to give down payment assistance to Americans to help them buy their first homes. But of course,
00:00:36.160 not all Americans will get help, especially not white Americans. We'll talk about that
00:00:39.660 and much more today on the Matt Wall Show. Chelsea Mitchell is a name that you may or may not know.
00:00:54.580 She would be a household name if we lived in a country and a culture where strong and brave
00:00:59.080 women were actually celebrated. We are told, of course, that such women are celebrated. We're
00:01:03.960 instructed to celebrate them. But it turns out that there's only a very specific type of female
00:01:09.500 bravery that we're supposed to recognize and honor. In fact, according to our cultural overlords,
00:01:14.940 the most honorable act of female bravery is that which is committed by males. Trans women,
00:01:21.320 quote unquote, are the most acclaimed sort of women in the country today. And they aren't really
00:01:26.060 women at all. Real women take a backseat. And real women who oppose the intrusion of so-called
00:01:32.140 trans women, quote unquote, aren't simply sent to the back. They're kicked off of the bus entirely.
00:01:37.380 That's been the case for Chelsea Mitchell, who, along with three other female athletes,
00:01:40.660 is suing the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference for allowing males to compete
00:01:47.080 against them. You may have heard of this case. Almost everyone in the country today would claim
00:01:52.620 to stand for the rights of women, right? Everybody would say that. But few have had the courage to
00:01:58.580 remain standing when push really comes to shove. Mitchell and her fellow plaintiffs are among the few
00:02:04.420 who are actually standing up for women. And they have all of our cultural institutions,
00:02:09.580 especially the media, stacked against them. That point was made abundantly clear this week after
00:02:13.880 Mitchell wrote an op-ed for USA Today, where she's making her case, making her case against males
00:02:20.140 competing against females in sports. Now, the fact that USA Today would even publish that article in
00:02:25.320 the first place may seem like an encouraging sign. But that encouraging sign quickly turned creepy and
00:02:31.560 Orwellian. Before we get there, let's read some of what Mitchell wrote in her editorial. Or I should
00:02:37.380 say this was her original editorial as it first appeared. This is what she says.
00:02:44.640 Quote, it's February 2020. I'm crouched at the starting line of the high school girls 55 meter
00:02:50.940 indoor race. This should be one of the best days of my life. I'm running in the state championship and
00:02:55.860 I'm ranked the fastest high school female in the 55 meter dash in the state. I should be feeling
00:03:00.600 confident. I should know that I have a strong shot at winning. Instead, all I can think about is how all my
00:03:06.100 training, everything I've done to maximize my performance might not be enough simply because
00:03:11.060 there's a runner on the line with an enormous physical advantage, a male body. I won that race
00:03:16.740 and I'm grateful. But time after time, I have lost. I've lost four women's state championship titles,
00:03:23.540 two all New England awards, and numerous other spots on the podium to male runners. I was bumped to third
00:03:28.180 place in the 55 meter dash in 2019 behind two male runners. With every loss, it gets harder and harder
00:03:33.580 to try to try again. That's a devastating experience. It tells me that I'm not good
00:03:38.200 enough, that my body isn't good enough. No matter how hard I work, I'm like, I'm unlikely, unlikely to
00:03:43.920 succeed because I'm a woman. That experience is why three of my fellow female athletes and I filed a
00:03:49.400 lawsuit last year with Alliance Defending Freedom Against Freedom against the Connecticut
00:03:53.500 Interscholastic Athletic Conference because girls and women shouldn't be stripped of their right to
00:03:58.300 fair competition. Okay. Now, everything that she's written here so far is factually correct, morally
00:04:06.720 correct, inarguable, inarguable, I would say. She is a woman. She was forced to compete against
00:04:13.600 people who are not women. They had unfair advantages because of their male bodies. Through those unfair
00:04:20.720 advantages, she was robbed of the achievements that she had earned. This is an utterly unassisted
00:04:28.280 and undeniable point. She also describes, and I want to read this because she talks about how bad
00:04:36.180 the situation has gotten. It's actually worse than I even realized. She says, quote, the CIAC allows
00:04:43.720 biological males to compete in girls and women's sports. As a result, two males began racing in girls
00:04:49.940 track in 2017. In the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons alone, these males took 15 women's state track
00:04:57.960 championship titles, titles held in 2016 by nine different girls, and more than 85 opportunities
00:05:04.020 to participate in higher level competitions that belong to female track athletes. That's because
00:05:09.160 males have massive physical advantages. Their bodies are simply bigger and stronger on average
00:05:13.860 than female bodies. It's obvious to every single girl on the track. All right, 15 titles.
00:05:20.280 Two males took 15 titles that before had been split between nine different girls.
00:05:27.380 And these are males who, we should remember, wouldn't have even made it onto the track in a
00:05:33.280 championship meet against other males. These were mediocre, unimpressive male athletes who couldn't
00:05:40.080 hack it against the boys, and yet they dominated against the girls. And by the way, we can't see inside
00:05:45.980 their minds. We don't know their motivation, but I'm going to guess, I'm going to speculate
00:05:50.480 that this is not a coincidence. It's not a coincidence that they found that they were
00:05:55.520 mediocre and they couldn't really compete against the boys. And then they discover their female
00:06:01.140 identity. Well, what do you know? What a, what a fortunate coincidence. Can't compete against the
00:06:06.500 guys. Turns out I'm a girl. Well, here we go. I don't know, but I'm going to say probably not
00:06:13.760 a coincidence. And why do they have that advantage? Well, because the male body confers enormous
00:06:20.360 advantages in athletic competitions against females with female bodies, which are the only
00:06:25.000 kinds of females that exist. Chelsea Mitchell's point is that no matter how these boys identify,
00:06:31.380 no matter how they feel, no matter their perception of themselves, the biological facts remain.
00:06:38.280 And all that matters in a track meet are the facts, especially the biological facts, the physical facts.
00:06:47.880 That's one of the great things about running as a sport. I, I ran track when I was in high school.
00:06:54.000 And one of the things I like about it is that it's, it's, it's mano y mano, very, very simple.
00:07:01.320 Can I get to the finish line before you? That's all it comes down to. All that matters are the
00:07:07.300 physical facts. Am I stronger than you? Am I faster? Do I have more endurance?
00:07:13.280 And we're going to find out because whoever crosses the finish line first, that's the answer.
00:07:19.660 What doesn't really matter are your feelings. So if you have a biological advantage over somebody
00:07:26.200 else on the track, that advantage is not offset by your feelings or your self-perception.
00:07:31.300 And that's the case that Mitchell makes or made anyway in USA Today. That was until trans activists
00:07:37.800 read her piece and realizing that they could make no intellectual argument against it, resorted to
00:07:43.080 their favorite tactic, which is silencing the opposition. And they, they especially enjoy silencing
00:07:48.180 women. I mean, no, no, nobody, no group in America more aggressively silences women than trans activists.
00:07:59.600 It's not even close. But, um, if they want to silence women, they can't do that without the
00:08:06.660 acquiescence of cowards in positions of power. So they complained that the article hurt their feelings
00:08:11.980 and USA Today with little resistance on their part or pushback summarily changed the article after
00:08:18.260 publication and without notifying the author that they were doing it, they just changed it in order
00:08:24.420 to remove all, quote, hurtful language from it. Now, as you recall, let's go back again.
00:08:31.080 Read this one little paragraph again. In the original article, as written by Chelsea Mitchell,
00:08:36.400 which was originally published in USA Today, this is what it said. Again, quote, instead,
00:08:41.980 all I can think about is how all my training, everything I've done to maximize my performance
00:08:45.660 might not be enough simply because there's a runner on the line with an enormous physical
00:08:49.960 advantage. Remember that? Okay. After USA Today made post-publication editorial changes to appease
00:08:57.620 radical trans activists, it now says, instead, all I can think about is how all my training,
00:09:03.940 everything I've done to maximize my performance might not be enough simply because there's a
00:09:08.620 transgender runner on the line with an enormous physical advantage. You spot the difference? Kind of
00:09:14.060 hard to miss. They removed the word male. Whereas before she says that the runner had the advantage
00:09:20.380 of a male body. Now it simply says that the transgender runner had an advantage. What kind
00:09:28.220 of advantage? Well, who knows? Maybe he was wearing more comfortable socks that day. Maybe she ate a
00:09:33.440 cheeseburger before the race and he didn't. All mention of the specific type of advantage has been
00:09:39.940 erased. Indeed, USA Today removed the word male from the entire article and didn't even acknowledge
00:09:47.000 that they'd done it, aside from an editor's note apologizing for their hurtful language.
00:09:53.720 And in this case, the hurtful language, again, was scientifically correct language.
00:10:00.140 And it was also the entire point of the article. Mitchell's original piece says the word male 10 times.
00:10:09.120 Every other sentence practically contains the word male because that's the entire point and premise.
00:10:17.180 There is no argument against trans runners in female sports except for the fact that they're male.
00:10:26.100 That's it. There's no other argument. That's the only one and it's all you need.
00:10:31.040 In fact, the argument has nothing to do with the fact that they're trans.
00:10:37.000 That's irrelevant. Their self-trans is self-perception.
00:10:43.260 Their self-perception is irrelevant. The whole point, the only point, the point is that they are male.
00:10:50.080 USA Today decided that it's happy to publish her argument as long as her argument doesn't contain
00:10:57.160 her actual argument. This is quite clearly, to my mind, one of the most egregious and outlandish cases
00:11:04.480 of media bias and Orwellian speech manipulation that we've yet seen. And it really matters.
00:11:12.220 This is more than just some dumb thing that we can roll our eyes about and say,
00:11:16.180 oh, there's the silly mainstream media up to its old tricks again.
00:11:19.100 Now, this is the kind of thing that influences people. The goal is pretty clear. It's to make
00:11:26.340 it seem as though the people who are opposed to males in female sports or female locker rooms
00:11:31.380 are really just opposed to trans people. And we hear this kind of, um, this is the way the media
00:11:38.540 presents it all the time. The only difference is that usually they don't, they don't make a change
00:11:41.740 post-publication. In most cases, the original thing they publish is going to be framed exactly like
00:11:47.140 the edited version of Chelsea Mitchell's piece, where they say things like, and you see all kinds
00:11:52.220 of headlines like this, that, uh, you know, uh, conservatives are opposed to trans people in
00:11:57.140 sports, or there's a bill being passed in Texas or, or wherever, uh, uh, that, that, that, um,
00:12:04.000 will ban trans people from sports. That's not the case. That's not the case at all. It's,
00:12:10.800 it's not about trans. Um, the average oblivious American who reads that, okay, they're going to
00:12:18.860 read that and think, well, what's the problem here? Who cares if the other runner is trans?
00:12:24.240 When in reality, it's Chelsea Mitchell who doesn't care if they're trans.
00:12:29.440 They can identify as however they want. It's the biological reality that matters.
00:12:35.960 And the goal of the left with a big assist from the media is to erase that biological reality.
00:12:44.320 Now, in truth, they can never actually erase a reality. Biology will remain biology, no matter
00:12:52.060 what anyone says about it or feels in relation to it, but they can create a society that fundamentally
00:12:57.460 fails to recognize or is hostile to reality. And unfortunately, towards that end, they are
00:13:04.880 succeeding. Now let's get to our five headlines.
00:13:15.340 Well, as we just, I think made, made clear, um, in the opening there, this, the, the country's
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00:14:36.160 Well, I don't know if you tuned into backstage last night, we had our backstage, uh, monthly backstage
00:14:41.340 show. And fortunately, I think for the first hour, it was, uh, you know, it was a lot of boring stuff
00:14:49.620 about things happening on the globe, on the, on the earth. Who cares about that? But all that anyone
00:14:55.340 really cares about is what's happening in outer space. We're going to talk about the space aliens.
00:14:59.360 So finally, we did talk about the space aliens. If you didn't watch, well, you know what? If you
00:15:03.660 didn't watch the episode, um, I would say you, you don't even really need to watch it because
00:15:09.040 what I can tell you is that many people are saying, many people are saying that, um, I utterly demolished
00:15:17.440 everybody else on the subject of aliens. And I was outnumbered.
00:15:21.200 Clavin turns out is, is he's sort of alien curious. Um, he's alien questioning. He's open
00:15:29.540 to it. Alien fluid maybe, but Ben, Jeremy, Michael, very anti-alien. And so I was really
00:15:39.380 there. And the other thing that many people are saying, and who's saying this again, many
00:15:42.800 people. The other thing many people are saying is that, um, they were stunned, frankly, by
00:15:48.940 my bravery, um, as a marginalized identity, as an, as a, as a, as an alien believing American
00:15:55.320 ABA ABBA is what we call ourselves. I've decided. Um, so as the only ABBA on the stage of marginalized
00:16:02.120 identity and in a, in an, in an unsafe environment, but, uh, I, I did, I wiped the floor. I think I, I
00:16:11.540 basically proved not only that aliens exist in the universe, but that they are visiting earth.
00:16:19.680 And as I said, you, you don't need to even watch it. I would say don't watch it because there's no
00:16:26.140 point. Just take my word for it. Actually, after the, uh, the show concluded, and I shouldn't even
00:16:34.780 be talking about this, but the other three, Ben, Jeremy, Michael, they were, they were, they, they
00:16:40.100 were leaving in tears. Um, and they were saying that they were afraid that I embarrassed them
00:16:44.180 because my arguments were so good in comparison to their weak arguments.
00:16:49.860 And, uh, so it was a pretty emotional moment. No need to confirm any of what I'm saying right
00:16:55.240 now. Just trust me on this. All right. Um, and, uh, let's go. Number one from, from town hall.
00:17:04.880 This is, uh, this should be like breaking news, even though it's not a surprise perhaps to, to many
00:17:10.740 of us. It says new findings reported Tuesday in a university of Louisville study challenge.
00:17:15.880 What has been the prevailing belief that mask mandates are necessary to slow the spread of the
00:17:21.400 Wuhan coronavirus. The study notes that 80% of us States mandated masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:17:27.700 And while mandates induced greater mask compliance, they didn't predict lower growth rates when
00:17:34.020 community spread was low or high. Um, among other things, the study conducted using data from the CDC
00:17:39.780 covering multiple seasons reports that mask mandates and use are not associated with lower
00:17:45.480 COVID spread among us States. Quote, uh, our findings do not support the hypothesis that
00:17:53.680 transmissions rates decrease with greater public mask use. Um, researchers stated that masks may
00:18:00.000 promote social cohesion as rallying symbols during a pandemic, but risk compensation can also occur
00:18:06.740 because, uh, because, um, um, okay, let me read here from quoting from the actual study.
00:18:12.740 Now it says prolonged mask use around four hours a day promotes facial alkalinization.
00:18:24.440 And I certainly know what that means and inadvertently encourages dehydration, which in turn can enhance
00:18:29.960 barrier breakdown and bacterial infection risk. British clinicians have reported masks to increase
00:18:35.780 headaches and sweating and decrease cognitive precision survey bias. Notwithstanding these, uh,
00:18:41.740 are associated with medical errors by obscuring nonverbal communication. Masks interfere with
00:18:46.140 social learning and children. Likewise, masks can, uh, distort verbal speech and remove visual cues
00:18:52.420 to the detriment of individuals with hearing loss. Uh, and then it goes on from there. Um, in summary,
00:18:59.680 okay, I'll continue reading a little bit mask mandates and use for poor predictors of COVID-19 spread
00:19:04.220 in us States. Case growth was independent of mandates at low and high rates of community spread.
00:19:08.900 And mask use did not predict case growth during the summer or fall winter waves. Uh, strengths of our
00:19:15.080 study include using two mask metrics to evaluate association with COVID-19 growth rates, et cetera,
00:19:20.020 and so forth. This is, this is what the study says. This is what the research says. Um, I, who knows,
00:19:27.340 maybe YouTube will still ban this episode because I'm just reading what the study says,
00:19:30.440 but this is what I, what I keep going back to it. It it's good to get the scientific data.
00:19:38.240 And I'm glad that finally we're getting some studies and we're getting some, some, some science
00:19:41.920 on some of these issues. But at the same time, this is a, this is common sense. This was common sense
00:19:49.940 to a lot of us. Things like forcing people to wear masks all day for hours at a time. Most of us to
00:20:02.500 begin with, we knew that, you know, medical masks were never designed or never intended for that kind
00:20:09.680 of use to be an everyday accessory that you just put on your face all day and walk around everywhere
00:20:16.260 with just as a common sense judgment before looking at any data. People with common sense should know
00:20:25.860 that there are going to be problems there. Yeah, you're going to have dehydration. It's going to,
00:20:29.740 it's going to make you hotter. It's, it's, uh, it doesn't seem very sanitary. You have germs and sweat
00:20:36.620 and everything. And it also, and for, and for kids, taking aside even all the physical problems,
00:20:45.080 it seems there are psychological and emotional problems, especially for children, forcing them
00:20:51.100 to wear masks all the time, depriving them of the ability to see the faces of other people.
00:20:58.980 It creates social problems, even among adults, trying to communicate with people and you can't
00:21:03.360 even see their faces, faces. And all the while, you know, um, the, what, what we're being told is
00:21:12.760 that putting this piece of cloth on your face is going to provide you significant protection
00:21:18.860 against these microscopic, um, you know, this, this microscopic virus. I don't know. Again, common
00:21:26.640 sense, there would seem to be some serious questions that you might ask about, about that,
00:21:32.780 but you weren't allowed to ask the questions. You're not allowed to make common sense judgments.
00:21:38.540 You have to wait until the experts tell you now with the masking thing, we know with, uh, the Wuhan lab
00:21:47.760 in China, finally, the experts and the media who all of them consider themselves to be experts.
00:21:53.460 They're finally telling us that, Oh, it's okay. It's okay. Now you're, you're allowed to draw this
00:21:57.060 connection. You're allowed to speculate about what seems like the very real and likely possibility
00:22:01.980 that this came from a lab in China. You're allowed to do that for the last year. You weren't allowed to do
00:22:05.820 that because we hadn't told you yet that you're allowed to have that opinion, but now we've decided
00:22:10.780 that you're allowed to have that opinion. Will we get to that point with masks? I don't know.
00:22:19.520 Um, I, I, I kind of, in my, in my head, I kind of go back and forth on this.
00:22:24.620 Are masks here to stay at least in some places in America forever? That seems very, very likely,
00:22:30.580 very possible. Um, or, you know, it's also just as possible, I suppose that the media,
00:22:37.300 who knows, they could do it tomorrow or next month. They could just decide that, Oh, you know what?
00:22:43.060 Nevermind. You're not supposed to wear masks anymore. And in fact, they could decide all of
00:22:49.700 a sudden that not only are you not supposed to wear them, but if you do wear them, um, you're a
00:22:53.940 maniac, you're anti-science and all of this. It's all, but it's all up to them. They decide
00:23:00.840 and we follow along. The main thing though, the main lesson is do not use your own brain.
00:23:08.480 Don't try to sort through these things on your own. Don't look at the data and draw your own
00:23:13.840 conclusions. Don't listen to what they're saying and try to point to holes in their logic. Don't do
00:23:21.280 any of that. Just be a good and cooperative little boy or girl or whatever and, uh, and do as you're
00:23:29.420 told. All right. Number two, journalist, Chris Ruffo, who's been on the, uh, critical race theory
00:23:36.060 beat for last year or two. And it's done, I think easily one of the most important journalists in
00:23:43.440 America. Now that's kind of a low bar because there, there aren't very many journalists at all
00:23:47.120 that are doing real journalism, but he's one of the ones doing real journalism, especially when it
00:23:50.840 comes to critical race theory. Uh, he was invited on a show with Mark Lamont Hill. I'm not sure what
00:23:57.220 show this is black news tonight. Okay. That's the name of the show on, I don't know what network,
00:24:02.380 but anyway, at the end of the interview, there's what I think is a really interesting exchange. So
00:24:08.220 let's, uh, let's just start watching this. And if I were to say to you right now, Christopher,
00:24:12.040 what do you like about being white? What would you say? I don't know. I, again,
00:24:18.360 again, it's such an amorphous term. It's like a census term or a, uh, can you, can you, can
00:24:22.840 you, can you indulge me for one? It just, we're running out of time. Indulge me for a minute. I
00:24:27.340 understand you see it as, as all these things, but you surely recognize that the world sees you
00:24:31.460 as white. You know, the world reads you as white. And if you were to ask me some things I like about
00:24:35.260 being black, I could talk about cultural norms. I could talk about tradition. I could talk about
00:24:38.900 the kind of commonalities I feel around the diaspora. If I were to ask you what, particularly if you're
00:24:42.820 saying whiteness is a thing that is being constructed as negative and shouldn't be name, name,
00:24:46.880 name something positive that you like about being white. Well, sure. I, I, you know, I'll, I'll answer
00:24:52.620 with a, with a thing there. There's a lot of documents that are floating around public schools
00:24:57.500 that say things like, uh, timeliness showing up on time is a white supremacist value or a white value,
00:25:03.360 white dominant value, things like rationality, things like the enlightenment, things like, uh, you
00:25:08.620 know, uh, uh, objectivity. And, uh, these are very strange things to be ascribed to a racial identity.
00:25:14.940 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.
00:35:41.300 A woman who has chopped off parts of her body,
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 nothing about their own history and are then are very easily manipulated. As we've seen,
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00:45:48.660 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:45:53.800 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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