The Matt Walsh Show - June 03, 2021


Ep. 734 - AOC Neglects Her Poor Family Members, Blames Trump


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45 minutes

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167.19185

Word Count

7,658

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616

Misogynist Sentences

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Hate Speech Sentences

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Summary

Alexandria Ocasio-cortez posts pictures of the crumbling shack where her grandmother lives in Puerto Rico. She blames Trump for her grandmother s living conditions, but why isn t she reaching into her own pocket to help? This is kind of symptomatic of a larger problem in our culture, which we ll talk about today on the Matt Walsh Show.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, AOC posts pictures of the crumbling shack where her grandmother lives in Puerto Rico.
00:00:05.760 She blames Trump for her grandmother's living conditions, but why isn't she reaching into her own pocket to help?
00:00:11.200 This is kind of symptomatic of a larger problem in our culture, which we'll talk about.
00:00:14.900 Also, five headlines, including the Fauci emails revealing, well, basically what we already knew, I think,
00:00:20.620 which is that we've been lied to repeatedly.
00:00:22.980 In our daily cancellation, a high school valedictorian went off script during her graduation speech
00:00:27.060 to slam the state of Texas for restricting abortion.
00:00:30.980 There's actually quite a lot to be learned from her remarks on the subject,
00:00:34.160 though not the thing she wants us to learn from them.
00:00:36.480 So we'll talk about that and much more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
00:00:48.080 It's truly been a banner week for champagne socialists.
00:00:52.900 We start with this briefly just because I think it's funny.
00:00:55.620 A famous Twitch streamer named Nicole Sanchez.
00:00:58.740 And one of these days I'll figure out what a Twitch streamer is.
00:01:02.420 She's well known for her videos and posts supporting Bernie Sanders.
00:01:05.880 And she was fond, has been fond of wearing Tax the Rich merchandise.
00:01:10.600 But she uploaded a video to YouTube this week showing off her $2 million apartment.
00:01:15.680 $2 million.
00:01:17.140 If you're thinking there might be some kind of contradiction here,
00:01:19.900 Sanchez explained in another recent video that when she says tax the rich and talks about
00:01:26.300 all the evil rich people, she doesn't really mean all rich people.
00:01:30.260 Don't be silly.
00:01:31.620 I think she presents the distinction pretty eloquently here.
00:01:34.020 Listen.
00:01:34.220 All I'm doing is standing by the beliefs that I started off with and I'm here.
00:01:40.260 So whether I'm making this money or not, I just feel like it's definitely not something
00:01:46.960 to like, I guess like rude about because there's nothing to be rude about.
00:01:50.700 I think when people mean like tax the rich, I think at the end of the day, they do mean
00:01:54.940 like billionaires and people that have insane, unfathomable amounts of wealth.
00:02:01.600 Oh, okay.
00:02:02.780 No, I didn't mean, I meant billionaires, not millionaires.
00:02:06.980 You notice that Bernie Sanders went through the same evolution where he used to always
00:02:11.700 be railing about the millionaires and billionaires.
00:02:15.000 And then he became a millionaire and he kind of shortened it.
00:02:18.760 And now he was worried, worried, worried only about billionaires.
00:02:21.620 So it's funny how that works.
00:02:22.780 Ironically though, in a certain way, the fact that this person, this Nicole Sanchez was
00:02:29.100 able to become rich in the first place is maybe the best argument for socialism that
00:02:33.400 I've ever heard.
00:02:34.600 Still not very good one, but it's the best one.
00:02:37.460 In any case, Sanchez is, is but a lowly foot soldier in the army of wealthy, privileged
00:02:42.000 socialist hypocrites marching at the head of the battalion is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:02:47.620 AOC last heard discussing her PTSD that she suffered when some people trespassed in a
00:02:52.640 building close to the building that she was in, but not in the building she was in, tweeted
00:02:57.160 this out on Wednesday afternoon.
00:02:58.580 She said,
00:02:58.960 Just over a week ago, my abuela fell ill.
00:03:02.460 I went to Puerto Rico to see her my first time in a year because of COVID.
00:03:07.540 This is her home.
00:03:08.820 Hurricane Maria relief hasn't arrived.
00:03:11.060 Trump blocked relief money for Puerto Rico.
00:03:14.140 People are being forced to flee ancestral homes and developers are taking them.
00:03:18.420 Now, you can see in the picture that her abuela's ceiling is falling apart.
00:03:24.100 There's water damage.
00:03:25.880 She appears to have almost no furniture in the home except for one old chair.
00:03:30.460 It's, it's rather a sad sight.
00:03:31.820 She has buckets everywhere to collect the leaking water.
00:03:35.200 Truly squalid conditions.
00:03:36.940 There's no question about that.
00:03:38.080 Now, AOC continued on in a lengthy thread saying, in part, we immediately got to work reaching
00:03:44.460 out to community advocates and leaders and following the money.
00:03:47.980 What's happening to Puerto Ricans is systemic.
00:03:51.440 Much of it can be traced to La Junta, aka the Wall Street connected fiscal control board
00:03:56.120 that the U.S. gave power to over the island.
00:03:59.800 Okay, so her grandmother's ceiling is falling down and she's living in a shack with one chair
00:04:07.220 and buckets all over the ground.
00:04:09.700 And AOC saw this and immediately got to work by reaching out to community advocates.
00:04:17.800 Now, I don't know about you, but if I went to a loved one's house and I saw that pieces
00:04:22.300 of their ceiling were on the floor alongside puddles of water, I wouldn't say, hang on, let me
00:04:29.160 get a community organizer over here.
00:04:32.100 Now, instead of reaching out to advocates and activists, why don't you reach out to,
00:04:35.960 I don't know, Home Depot instead?
00:04:38.620 Why don't you call a repairman?
00:04:40.760 Why don't you give your grandmother some of your own money to solve the problem?
00:04:46.000 Cortez makes at least 180 grand a year, and that's just her congressional salary.
00:04:50.420 She has no children, no dependents.
00:04:53.020 She's a single woman with a six-figure salary.
00:04:55.780 That's not counting whatever other income streams she might have.
00:04:59.440 She could sign a book deal tomorrow for a million dollars if she wanted.
00:05:03.880 She's one of the most famous figures in America, and fame can always be monetized.
00:05:08.480 Whenever she leaves Congress, if she ever does, we can keep our fingers crossed, she'll be making
00:05:14.260 six figures on a single paid speech.
00:05:16.620 The point is, AOC is well off.
00:05:19.280 And not just now, she's set for life.
00:05:21.680 So why isn't she forking over her own money to help her own family?
00:05:27.340 It's a fair question, I think.
00:05:29.820 Now, under normal conditions, I would say that it's none of our business how someone spends
00:05:33.360 their money and whether they're giving their money to their family members in need or not.
00:05:37.780 None of our business.
00:05:38.400 But these are not normal conditions because, for one thing, AOC has many ideas about how
00:05:43.540 we should be spending our money and is more than happy to take our money and spend it how
00:05:47.820 she sees fit.
00:05:49.600 Also, she's the one who brought her grandmother into it.
00:05:52.460 She publicized her grandmother's situation in order to score political points.
00:05:56.500 She used her poor abuela as a cudgel against Trump, who isn't even in office anymore.
00:06:02.000 She introduced this personal situation into the public conversation, which means we're
00:06:06.600 all entitled to share our own opinions about it.
00:06:09.760 This, of course, is something people always do now.
00:06:12.020 In order to make a political point or ideological point or win an argument, they bring up some
00:06:16.420 personal thing.
00:06:18.600 And that's supposed to be an end to the argument because then you're not allowed to respond.
00:06:23.280 Because if you do, they can always say, well, how dare you?
00:06:25.640 This is none of your business.
00:06:26.740 If it's none of my business, why did you bring it up?
00:06:30.300 So I responded to that tweet, and I said, tweeting back to AOC, I said, shameful that
00:06:37.360 you live in luxury while allowing your own grandmother to suffer in these squalid conditions.
00:06:42.680 Fair response, I think.
00:06:44.120 And she responded a short time later, and her response, I thought, was kind of revealing.
00:06:47.160 She said, quote, you don't even have a concept for the role that first-generation, first-born
00:06:52.460 daughters play in their families.
00:06:53.880 My abuela is okay, but instead of only caring for mine and letting others suffer, I'm calling
00:06:59.280 attention to the systemic injustices that you seem totally fine with in having a U.S.
00:07:04.380 colony.
00:07:05.440 Now, notice she didn't say that she was going to help her grandmother.
00:07:09.940 If she planned to help or had helped, it would have been a good time to shut me up by saying,
00:07:14.820 hey, I gave my grandmother 50 grand to fix her roof and buy some furniture.
00:07:17.980 So butt out, jerk.
00:07:20.160 She didn't say that, because it's clear that she is going to wait for the government to
00:07:23.780 fix a problem that she could easily, and with little effort or sacrifice, fix herself.
00:07:30.160 Her concern, she says, is the systemic issue.
00:07:34.360 She's glossed over her own family member's suffering in order to focus on the larger,
00:07:38.640 broader, systemic problem.
00:07:40.620 Rather than solve the one issue she can personally and directly and immediately solve, she'd rather
00:07:47.980 talk about something bigger and vaguer, and which she cannot directly do anything about.
00:07:52.740 And this is exactly the problem, not just with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but with our politics
00:07:58.060 in general and our culture in general.
00:08:00.980 Lots of people tend to stare helplessly at broken things that they could fix through their
00:08:06.300 own effort, but instead they wait around, hoping the fix comes from above.
00:08:10.440 And by above, we mean the government.
00:08:13.100 This is how people have been conditioned.
00:08:16.080 They've been conditioned to see their struggles within a larger and more ambiguous context.
00:08:24.660 Personal issues become systemic issues.
00:08:27.940 What could be a personal fix now requires a government policy or program to address it.
00:08:33.200 You know, in Catholic social teaching, there's a concept that's quite helpful in illuminating,
00:08:38.700 whether you're a Catholic or not.
00:08:39.880 And in fact, there are many such concepts in Catholic social teaching.
00:08:42.980 This one is called subsidiarity.
00:08:44.920 And it's a principle that says that all issues should be handled at the smallest and most localized
00:08:49.840 level possible.
00:08:51.620 No problem should be addressed by a large bureaucratic organization, which could be addressed by a smaller
00:08:57.320 and simpler and more directly connected organization.
00:09:00.720 That isn't to say that nothing should be done by large organizations.
00:09:05.000 It just means that not everything should be done at that level.
00:09:07.900 In fact, most things should not be done at that level.
00:09:11.480 The closest person to the problem should fix it.
00:09:15.440 If you ask me to pass you the salt, I'm not going to call someone in New Mexico to drive
00:09:19.540 over here and come into my house and pick up the salt and give it to you.
00:09:22.820 I'm just going to extend my own arm and hand you the salt.
00:09:25.580 It's quicker, easier, simpler, and a whole lot less expensive that way.
00:09:29.200 So AOC's grandmother, and this is just a good example, has a collapsing sealant and water
00:09:35.600 damage all over her house.
00:09:37.740 She can organize activists to call for more funds to be sent from D.C. to the Puerto Rican
00:09:42.520 government in hopes that it eventually finds its way over to her abuela or, you know, she
00:09:48.080 could do it that way.
00:09:50.400 A process that requires about 15 different steps and takes a long time.
00:09:54.540 Or she can reach into her own pocket, pull out her bank card, pay for the repairs herself.
00:10:01.500 By one method, the problem maybe gets solved within a year or two or three, or maybe not
00:10:08.520 ever.
00:10:10.120 In the other method, the problem is solved immediately and more cheaply.
00:10:15.440 And best of all, she has strengthened her bond with her grandmother by performing this act
00:10:19.700 of love and service for her.
00:10:23.860 It's much more humanizing.
00:10:26.140 One method is direct, relatively cheap, and also spiritually edifying.
00:10:32.580 The other is indirect, expensive, detached, and cold.
00:10:37.000 The problem, you know, is that in our country, we often choose the latter method.
00:10:41.620 And that's exactly how we've gotten where we are today.
00:10:47.420 So help your grandmother, AOC.
00:10:49.500 That's the moral of the story.
00:10:50.860 Let's get now to our five headlines.
00:10:58.040 You know, one of the small joys of parenthood is just seeing the kinds of names and labels
00:11:07.460 that your kids come up with for things as they're sort of like making sense of the world.
00:11:14.060 And that could always be a lot of fun.
00:11:16.200 And so it can be fun, but it's also a little terrifying at times.
00:11:19.160 So I had this experience a couple of days ago.
00:11:22.100 I was at home.
00:11:23.080 We were in the living room at night.
00:11:24.440 And my four-year-old son, who he's always got a ton of energy.
00:11:30.160 He's like a rabid raccoon running around the house at all hours of the day.
00:11:33.840 Just full of energy.
00:11:37.480 But this was, it was getting late.
00:11:38.780 It was like eight o'clock.
00:11:40.320 And he had more energy than usual.
00:11:43.800 And I was trying to figure out what was going on with him.
00:11:46.100 And then he said to me, he said, hey, daddy, guess what?
00:11:48.900 And I said, what?
00:11:50.540 And he said, I found some wild beans.
00:11:56.380 I ate some wild beans.
00:11:57.960 And they've made me strong and crazy.
00:12:00.900 That's what he said.
00:12:01.640 And I thought for a minute, wild beans that you ate that have made you crazy.
00:12:10.640 What the hell did this kid find and eat?
00:12:13.360 And I'm racking my brain now because I'm thinking, was he, did he find, did he eat like poison berries from outside?
00:12:19.260 Did he, was he in the medicine cabinet?
00:12:21.260 This is a four-year-old.
00:12:22.260 He ate something that he considers a wild bean.
00:12:25.920 Did he find like a crack rock and eat it?
00:12:27.980 I don't think so.
00:12:28.520 I don't smoke a lot of crack at the house so that he shouldn't have been able to find that.
00:12:32.640 And then my, but my wife quickly put, pieced it all together and realized that he had somehow invaded our, our, our pantry.
00:12:40.980 And we had a whole bag, I guess, of chocolate covered raisins.
00:12:44.240 And he had ate the entire bag.
00:12:45.620 I don't know how he got up there, where he found them.
00:12:47.140 I didn't even know we had them.
00:12:48.400 He ate the whole bag and then he was on a sugar high.
00:12:50.240 So that was the answer.
00:12:51.740 That could be, with a four-year-old though, that could be anything.
00:12:55.860 Wild beans.
00:12:57.060 And that's just a great, you know, it's just a, it's a, it's a great way of looking at chocolate covered raisins, I suppose.
00:13:03.620 All right, let's go.
00:13:04.680 So, number one here from the Daily Wire, it says, journalists obtained emails from Dr. Anthony Fauci revealed that the bureaucrat said in February 2020 that surgical face masks are not effective for healthy people seeking to resist COVID-19 infection.
00:13:18.960 Fauci has since repeatedly stated the apparent importance of masks in relation to the pandemic.
00:13:23.900 Another email with the subject line, my take on masks from fellow bureaucrat, Andrea Lerner, dated April, 2021, has been nearly completely redacted, sparking some speculation online.
00:13:36.620 Newsweek reported Tuesday on Fauci's email about surgical masks in effectiveness for the healthy, dated February 5th, 2020.
00:13:43.300 It says, in an email on February 5th, 2020, Fauci advised against wearing masks, this is February 5th, 2020, and said that face masks bought in a store would not be effective at protecting against the virus.
00:13:59.440 Fauci wrote, quote, masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected, rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection.
00:14:09.580 He said, quote, continues, the typical mask you buy in the drugstore is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through material.
00:14:19.000 It might, however, provide some slight benefit in keeping out gross droplets if someone coughs or sneezes on you.
00:14:25.580 I do not recommend that you wear a mask, particularly since you are going to a very low risk location.
00:14:31.720 In another, there's another email where he talks about, where he admits that asymptomatic spread is very rare.
00:14:40.200 And these are all emails, again, from over a year ago.
00:14:42.820 And there are a ton of emails.
00:14:44.120 I mean, I'm sure you've heard about the Fauci emails by now, which are being released after a Freedom of Information Act request.
00:14:50.140 I have to tell you that I don't quite, I'm not as into the Fauci email story as others are, which is why I haven't talked about it much on this show.
00:15:00.700 And the only reason is that I'm not learning anything from these emails that I didn't already know.
00:15:08.200 If there's one out there that has some real breaking news, I haven't seen it yet.
00:15:14.240 And that's not to say that this isn't infuriating.
00:15:16.940 It's just that my contempt for Fauci today remains what it's always been, because I always knew that he was telling us one thing, yet believing another.
00:15:34.200 I knew that we were being lied to.
00:15:36.380 That was clear from the beginning.
00:15:37.600 Now, and most of this he actually said publicly.
00:15:45.400 So this, the emails about masks that he was sending in February and March of 2020, advising people personally, oh, you don't need to worry about wearing a mask.
00:15:54.980 These emails are getting a lot of attention, at least getting a lot of attention in conservative media.
00:16:00.360 We'll get to in a second how left-wing media is interpreting these emails.
00:16:04.820 So they're getting a lot of attention.
00:16:06.200 But the thing is, Fauci said this publicly.
00:16:10.200 He's on the record in public telling people that they don't need to wear a mask.
00:16:16.800 That's part of the story here.
00:16:18.840 It's been part of the story.
00:16:20.300 It's been a scandal from the beginning that you had the so-called public health experts, Fauci, the Surgeon General also, infamously sent out a tweet early on screaming at people in all caps, don't wear a mask.
00:16:37.240 And that's what they said.
00:16:39.040 And then all of a sudden, just like that, it went from don't wear a mask.
00:16:45.040 You're an idiot if you wear a mask.
00:16:46.700 In fact, you're selfish if you're going out and buying medical masks.
00:16:50.300 You're hoarding them from people who need them in the health care industry.
00:16:53.860 They went from that to you have to wear a mask all the time, everywhere, whether you have symptoms or not, whether you're sick or not.
00:17:02.180 And if you don't, you're going to kill your grandmother.
00:17:04.920 And this transition happened, I mean, literally overnight.
00:17:09.120 And the explanation we've always been given is that, well, the science evolved.
00:17:17.400 Science evolved.
00:17:18.520 But it did?
00:17:19.880 What science?
00:17:20.840 What scientific breakthrough was there between, like, early February 2020 and April of 2020?
00:17:31.720 In the span of a month or two, what information did we get that told us that rather than not having to wear a mask hardly at all, everyone needs to wear masks everywhere, including outside, including if they're not sick?
00:17:44.380 Look, what science, what data, what information, where is this evolution?
00:17:50.840 Can you show it to us?
00:17:53.640 No, they never can.
00:17:55.180 They never did.
00:17:56.020 And that's because, in my view, the, quote, evolution, when it comes to masks, was not really, it was not a scientific evolution, it was a political evolution.
00:18:06.440 That's my view.
00:18:07.520 It's been my view all along.
00:18:09.400 And I think we knew all of this the entire time.
00:18:13.480 So there, don't get me wrong, there is a scandal here.
00:18:17.280 And Fauci should be fired at a minimum.
00:18:20.280 Um, but I, I, I knew that.
00:18:24.340 I didn't need the emails to tell me that.
00:18:27.960 Now, but the emails, no matter how you slice it, aren't flattering at the very least.
00:18:34.400 Um, unless you're in the left-wing media and you're doing the slicing, because, uh, here's, well, I'll just, I'll just show you this.
00:18:42.080 This is a good taste.
00:18:43.300 This is pretty much all mainstream media.
00:18:44.940 This is, this is how they're dealing with it.
00:18:46.340 Here's Nicole Wallace on MSNBC yesterday, talking to Fauci.
00:18:51.080 And she's, she's like, she could barely contain herself.
00:18:53.480 She's gushing over Fauci.
00:18:55.940 Um, and no change there, I suppose, either.
00:18:58.180 But let's, let's listen to this.
00:19:00.320 You spoke about my emails.
00:19:02.420 You look at my emails.
00:19:03.880 I never, in the emails, said anything derogatory about President Trump.
00:19:10.200 Well, the true mark of someone is if they look good, even when their personal emails come out.
00:19:15.160 So you, you passed the test that very few of us would, would pass.
00:19:18.680 Dr. Anthony Fauci, thank you for spending some time with us today, talking about all of it.
00:19:23.060 We're always grateful to get some of your time.
00:19:25.600 She's like a, she's giggling like a school girl.
00:19:27.780 She can't contain herself.
00:19:30.100 That's the true mark.
00:19:31.240 You, you, you look so good in the emails.
00:19:35.020 It, the, the, the, see the problem with the emails, it's, it's not so much the emails themselves.
00:19:40.080 It's when you compare them to what was being said in public.
00:19:46.540 That's the issue.
00:19:47.960 All right.
00:19:48.380 Um, Naomi Osaka is the world number two tennis player.
00:19:53.360 I admit I never heard of her until this week.
00:19:56.580 She's withdrawn from the French opener, announced that she will step back from tennis after a controversy erupted when she skipped a post-match press conference.
00:20:04.620 Osaka, who won her opening match in the tournament on Sunday, uh, also said she has suffered long bouts of depression since winning the U.S. Open in 2018.
00:20:12.440 The 23-year-old was fined $15,000 for refusing to attend the press conference and was warned that she will face further consequences if she did so again.
00:20:20.080 Under the rules, Osaka must still meet with the media for post-match press conferences upon request.
00:20:25.980 Um, in a statement on social media after her withdrawal, she said, I think now the best thing for the tournament, the other players, and my well-being is that I withdraw so that everyone can get back to focusing on tennis going into Paris.
00:20:36.300 Um, she, uh, let's see.
00:20:38.980 She said, Osaka took to Twitter shortly after she skipped the press conference to say that she sees the press conferences, which have, uh, have to be attended by the winner and loser of a match as kicking a person while they're down.
00:20:52.000 She said, quote, we're all, we're often sat there and asked questions that we've been asked multiple times before, asked questions that bring doubt into our minds.
00:20:59.600 And I'm not, I'm just not going to subject myself to people that doubt me.
00:21:03.160 I've watched many clips of athletes breaking down after a loss in the press room.
00:21:07.340 And I know, uh, you have as well.
00:21:09.400 I believe that whole situation is kicking a person while they're down and I don't understand the reasoning behind it.
00:21:14.260 So now she's, she's, uh, backing away.
00:21:17.300 And she said, she's, she withdrew from the tournament because it, it doesn't, it's, um, harmful to her mental health to have to sit and, um, answer questions, especially after you lose.
00:21:28.160 She doesn't want to be around people who doubt her.
00:21:31.720 She wants to, you know, hide from that.
00:21:34.480 Now, the reason I didn't mention this story at first, because I really don't care.
00:21:39.820 Um, I didn't, like I said, I didn't know who this person was.
00:21:45.520 And if that was all that happened, just, she decides I don't want to be in the tournament.
00:21:50.340 I don't want to answer questions from the press.
00:21:52.820 Who cares?
00:21:53.480 Great.
00:21:53.780 Fine.
00:21:54.780 Uh, and, and I, and I'm not one to sit here and defend the press anyway.
00:21:58.160 And, and their rights to ask questions or to, you know, um, I, I'm not interested in doing that.
00:22:06.060 But the problem is that ever since she made this announcement, she's now being celebrated for her courage.
00:22:15.380 And the final straw for me was yesterday, Hillary Clinton sent out a tweet saying, talking about, uh, this athlete's, what's her name again?
00:22:24.180 Naomi Osaka, Osaka, Osaka, talking about her courage and saying we should celebrate her for her courage.
00:22:30.380 Now that's going overboard.
00:22:32.920 She wants to withdraw from the tournament.
00:22:34.600 Who cares?
00:22:35.320 That's fine.
00:22:35.820 It's her own choice.
00:22:37.780 But let's not pretend that that's courage.
00:22:39.880 That's not courage any more than, uh, LeBron James.
00:22:47.280 NBA playoffs.
00:22:48.280 A couple nights ago, his team was losing badly in, in the fourth quarter.
00:22:51.940 And he storms off the court before the game is over and goes to the locker room.
00:22:56.580 Probably to protect his own mental health.
00:22:58.500 Because if he, if it felt bad, he was kind of sad because they were losing.
00:23:03.340 Never mind the fact that he's a grown man, allegedly world famous athlete, but he doesn't want to sit there and be sad and everything.
00:23:11.820 And it just makes him feel bad.
00:23:13.380 So he went, he went storming off the court, went to the locker room.
00:23:16.940 It's like behavior that as a parent, you would not accept from your children.
00:23:21.880 If they were playing sports.
00:23:23.240 If my son was in basketball and they were losing and he stormed off the court because he was sad, we'd have real problems at home.
00:23:32.840 So I would call this move from Naomi Osaka courageous in the same way that LeBron James is courageous for storming off the court.
00:23:43.060 In the sense that it's, it's not courageous at all.
00:23:47.560 You, to shrink away from a situation that makes you uncomfortable.
00:23:53.240 To avoid discomfort.
00:23:56.920 It may be understandable.
00:23:58.560 It's a human instinct.
00:23:59.620 We all want to do that.
00:24:01.860 But it's not courageous.
00:24:05.480 So you want, so if you want to tell me, let her make her own decisions, respect her decisions.
00:24:11.620 Fine.
00:24:12.080 Cool.
00:24:12.620 Who cares?
00:24:13.880 But if you tell me that we should celebrate it as courage, now there's a problem because that's not courage.
00:24:21.160 That's the opposite of courage.
00:24:23.620 Shrinking away from difficult things.
00:24:28.060 Avoiding discomfort.
00:24:30.300 That's the opposite of courage.
00:24:32.380 Like, by definition.
00:24:33.560 Another thing that I've had on the docket for a couple of days, I want to play this for you.
00:24:39.780 Severe staffing shortages from Fox News.
00:24:42.240 Severe staffing shortages at the San Francisco Police Department, paired with the local prosecutor's criminal first agenda, is creating a dangerous situation on city streets headed into the summer months, according to union president Tony Montoya.
00:24:53.340 After one of his officers left patrolling alone in Chinatown was violently tackled to the ground by a homeless man until bystanders intervened.
00:25:03.440 Now this is, we have the security camera footage.
00:25:06.480 It was released by the union.
00:25:07.540 And you can see there's a homeless man.
00:25:10.740 He was causing, I don't know what he was doing.
00:25:12.480 I think he was, he was harassing people, random people.
00:25:15.200 The cops are called.
00:25:15.940 One cop shows up to the scenes, a female police officer.
00:25:19.360 She tries to arrest him.
00:25:21.540 He tackles her to the ground.
00:25:24.220 And she's now powerless at this point.
00:25:27.360 Because this is a, this is a big guy.
00:25:28.960 He's a large man.
00:25:29.900 And who knows if he's on drugs or whatever.
00:25:33.600 And he's on top of her.
00:25:35.120 And it takes a whole bunch of bystanders intervening to pry him off and maybe save her life.
00:25:42.340 Let's take a look at the, at the video here.
00:25:43.880 We have the security camera footage.
00:25:46.500 I don't have no weapons.
00:25:48.920 No weapons.
00:25:52.440 I don't have no weapons.
00:25:55.460 Yeah, he's definitely, he's obviously on something.
00:25:57.220 He's drunk.
00:25:59.900 Now he's fighting her.
00:26:04.760 And she is completely outmatched.
00:26:09.520 She's a, you know, a woman, small of stature.
00:26:14.060 This guy's on top of her.
00:26:17.080 One bystander intervenes.
00:26:18.720 That's not enough.
00:26:19.380 Another guy comes up.
00:26:21.980 Another guy runs up.
00:26:23.180 And there are four guys.
00:26:29.900 And eventually other police officers show up.
00:26:33.980 All right.
00:26:36.960 So, I mean, that's, we're talking about courage.
00:26:40.900 So there's some real courage, I think, to, to be a bystander.
00:26:44.780 And so often in these situations, we've seen this a million times.
00:26:48.500 Usually something like that, the footage we would see, that was security camera footage.
00:26:54.460 But usually we're not getting security camera footage.
00:26:56.300 We're getting cell phone footage because the bystanders, rather than intervening and doing the right thing, they just sit around filming it.
00:27:02.920 So that they can be the first one to get it on social media and get all those sweet social media likes and hits.
00:27:08.420 But in this case, bystanders did the right thing, got involved, which they should be lauded for that.
00:27:16.400 But there's so much going on here to be analyzed.
00:27:21.520 First of all, when you defund police departments and you have fewer police, this is the kind of thing that happens.
00:27:33.800 Now, if those bystanders had not run in to help her, what would have happened?
00:27:40.020 She could have been killed or she would have been fully justified.
00:27:47.580 And that doesn't mean that she wouldn't end up getting prosecuted for it, by the way.
00:27:50.080 But she would have been fully justified, especially if she didn't have any help.
00:27:52.760 She would have been fully justified in pulling out her gun and just shooting the guy.
00:27:56.960 Because now she's in a fight for her life.
00:27:58.520 She's in mortal danger.
00:27:59.880 She's got this large, intoxicated, crazy guy on top of her.
00:28:04.500 And she's in fear for her life.
00:28:05.960 So she would have been fully justified in pulling out her gun and shooting him.
00:28:08.480 But it didn't go that way, largely because other people intervened.
00:28:13.280 If they weren't there, then that could have gone a fatal direction.
00:28:20.860 Because she's just one police officer there dealing with this.
00:28:24.960 And that's the thing.
00:28:25.680 When you have fewer police officers, there's actually...
00:28:28.680 No, you don't end up with less violence.
00:28:31.460 You end up with more violence in the community because there are fewer people there to enforce the law.
00:28:36.420 But even the interactions with the public and police become more dangerous for everyone involved.
00:28:45.380 Because they don't have backup.
00:28:46.840 They don't have help.
00:28:47.900 They're going to have to more quickly resort to lethal means to defend themselves in situations like this.
00:28:53.920 And then also, you know, we have to mention, we've got the issue of the fact that this is a female police officer by herself patrolling, responding to a call like this.
00:29:08.560 And credit to her.
00:29:09.700 I mean, that takes courage as well.
00:29:11.160 But what's the plan here?
00:29:17.060 This is not...
00:29:17.820 This woman...
00:29:19.720 There are very few suspects, especially men, that this woman would be able to contain and take down on her own.
00:29:26.920 Even if you're a man, even if you're a large, strong man, it still is very difficult to take someone down and contain them when they really don't want to be contained.
00:29:40.320 And especially if they're on drugs.
00:29:43.220 But for a woman, there's almost no chance.
00:29:49.100 Police officers are not ninjas.
00:29:51.880 This is not Kill Bill.
00:29:52.860 They might be trained, but there's almost no chance that that female police officer could have been able to take that guy down.
00:30:05.320 So what's the plan exactly?
00:30:07.240 You send female cops out by themselves.
00:30:11.880 They could be easily overpowered by almost any suspect.
00:30:17.580 It's just disaster waiting to happen.
00:30:19.320 And that could have been a disaster, if not for the courage of the bystanders.
00:30:24.380 All right.
00:30:24.900 Let's move to reading the YouTube comments.
00:30:28.240 This is from BuffGuy1.
00:30:32.800 I don't know if I'm believing the username, though.
00:30:34.480 He says, Matt needs to get rid of the beard.
00:30:36.440 It's run its course.
00:30:38.600 But you know what?
00:30:38.900 You need to get rid of your life.
00:30:40.360 It's run its course.
00:30:43.020 That was a little strong.
00:30:44.320 Maybe a little bit overboard.
00:30:45.980 But I have to defend my beard.
00:30:47.220 You know, when you, I have to speak up in defense for what's right.
00:30:54.660 Let's see.
00:30:55.200 Another comment says, the camera B angle, that's exciting.
00:30:58.960 No, it suddenly takes the storytelling mode from first person looking in the camera to talking off camera like an interview.
00:31:04.280 I've always hated it.
00:31:05.780 Ditch the second camera.
00:31:08.520 You could always rely on the internet for that and comments for that.
00:31:12.940 There are always going to be people who find a reason to criticize.
00:31:15.220 And I do appreciate that.
00:31:16.120 I really do.
00:31:17.260 I don't even mean that sarcastically.
00:31:19.880 As someone who, myself, I'm always looking to criticize everything.
00:31:22.760 I appreciate that you have stepped up to the plate here.
00:31:27.140 Another comment says, you were a kid in the early 90s?
00:31:29.740 Bah, ha, ha, ha.
00:31:30.880 There's hope after all.
00:31:34.260 I have no idea what that means.
00:31:37.340 And Haley Miller says, do you purposely not only pronounce Kamala incorrectly, but also differently each time?
00:31:46.560 I have no idea what you mean.
00:31:48.380 I would never, no, I would never purposely mispronounce Kamala's name.
00:31:56.340 That is very disrespectful and I would never do it.
00:31:58.180 Well, when you think about all the things you want to do this summer as the weather gets warmer, things are opened up, you know, getting your normal life back hopefully.
00:32:08.840 I don't know what your plans are for the summer, but I'm thinking your plan is not to spend time wandering around auto parts stores.
00:32:16.260 And if it's not, that's why you need rockauto.com.
00:32:19.320 Rockauto.com, if you need auto parts, if you've got your car trouble, you need anything for your car, rockauto.com is going to be a much better option than walking into a store, having to answer a bunch of questions.
00:32:30.920 You might not know the answer to all the questions.
00:32:32.100 And then what are you going to find most of the time?
00:32:34.320 They don't have the part.
00:32:35.340 Well, we don't have that part.
00:32:36.200 We've got to order it.
00:32:37.620 Why bother with all that?
00:32:39.180 You just pull out your phone, go to rockauto.com.
00:32:41.660 Always going to find the lowest prices possible.
00:32:44.600 And at the same time, although the catalog is extensive and they've got endless, endless supplies of parts, it's also really easy to navigate and find exactly what you're looking for.
00:32:55.920 So the catalog is unique, easy to navigate, and you could quickly see all the parts available for your vehicle.
00:33:01.520 And you can choose the brand, specifications, and prices you prefer.
00:33:04.380 So go now to rockauto.com right now and see all the parts available for your car or truck.
00:33:09.120 And as always, remember to write Walsh in their How Did You Hear About Us box so they know that we sent you.
00:33:13.740 And if there's one thing we learned about our government over the past year, it's that they hate freedom.
00:33:19.400 I think we probably knew that even before this year began or this past year began.
00:33:24.100 If there's one thing we need to start actively doing, though, it's fighting to keep ours.
00:33:27.720 And that's why you need to pick up Ben Shapiro's new book, The Authoritarian Moment, and prepare yourself for whatever else our almighty rulers have waiting up their sleeves.
00:33:35.780 So if you understand the threat this poses to our future, it's time to read up on the truth in order to stand up to the woke.
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00:33:46.660 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:33:47.840 So yesterday, the name Paxton Smith was trending nationwide on social media and is still trending, last I checked.
00:33:57.840 Before I figured out who this person is and why they've become notable, I saw that such luminaries as Hillary Clinton, once again, and Sarah Silverman and Jessica Valenti,
00:34:06.540 and a bunch of people with pronouns in their bio, were extolling her bravery.
00:34:10.740 And that was enough for me to know that whatever Paxton Smith did, it probably wasn't good.
00:34:16.800 And my instincts were correct.
00:34:18.040 Here's USA Today with the story.
00:34:19.400 It says a high school valedictorian from Texas flipped the script on school officials by using her graduation speech
00:34:24.280 to speak out against the state's newly signed law banning abortions as early as six weeks after conception.
00:34:30.000 Paxton Smith had submitted an entirely different speech on the effect of the media on young minds to school officials
00:34:37.360 for the commencement ceremony at Lake Highlands High School in Dallas on Sunday.
00:34:41.540 But Smith said it was important to use the moment to criticize a controversial abortion law signed by Governor Greg Abbott last month.
00:34:47.920 Smith called the legislation a war on the rights of your mothers, a war on the rights of your sisters, a war on the rights of your daughters.
00:34:53.340 We cannot stay silent, Smith said to the graduating class.
00:34:56.180 Smith was able to finish her speech without interruption.
00:34:58.460 It's not unusual for school officials to intervene when a student deviates from an approved graduation speech.
00:35:03.260 The impromptu speech has prompted the Richardson Independent School District to re-evaluate its set of protocols regarding future student speeches.
00:35:11.880 Well, of course, they weren't going to intervene during this stunt, as they would have if her politics were different.
00:35:18.840 They wouldn't want to be accused of being agents of the patriarchy or whatever.
00:35:22.500 Now, as reluctant as I am to give this stunt any more attention,
00:35:26.040 I do think it's worthwhile to listen to a portion of the girl's pro-abortion diatribe because we can learn from it.
00:35:34.420 We're not learning the things she wants us to learn, but still, I do find it quite instructive.
00:35:39.260 So let's listen now.
00:35:41.380 I have dreams and hopes and ambitions.
00:35:45.420 Every girl graduating today does.
00:35:47.820 And we have spent our entire lives working towards our future.
00:35:53.000 And without our input and without our consent, our control over that future has been stripped away from us.
00:36:00.540 I am terrified that if my contraceptives fail, I am terrified that if I am raped,
00:36:08.860 then my hopes and aspirations and dreams and efforts for my future will no longer matter.
00:36:14.400 I hope that you can feel how gut-wrenching that is.
00:36:19.880 I hope you can feel how dehumanizing it is to have the autonomy over your own body taken away from you.
00:36:27.820 And I cannot give up this platform to promote complacency and peace
00:36:33.740 when there is a war on my body and a war on my rights.
00:36:37.840 A war on my rights, a war on my rights of your mothers, a war on my rights of your sisters,
00:36:44.120 a war on my rights of your daughters.
00:36:47.100 We cannot stay silent.
00:36:50.860 Well, that was all a bunch of muddled garbage.
00:36:54.500 Her reasoning is as morally bankrupt as it is intellectually vacuous.
00:36:58.260 None of the claims she made there were remotely true, but I don't blame her.
00:37:01.180 She's just a kid, 17, 18 years old, high school student.
00:37:03.640 I blame instead the adults in her life and the cultural and political forces in our country
00:37:09.220 that have convinced this young lady that her dreams and hopes and ambitions
00:37:12.580 are dependent on her ability to murder her children.
00:37:17.140 I mean, that's what she believes.
00:37:18.620 And I believe that she really believes that.
00:37:22.080 And I don't really blame her for believing such hideous nonsense
00:37:25.340 as it's what she's been conditioned to believe.
00:37:28.420 So let's think about this just for a moment.
00:37:30.400 Um, Paxton says that her dreams, hopes, and ambitions
00:37:34.260 hinge on her right to dismember any future babies that she might conceive.
00:37:40.400 She says, indeed, that her aspirations for the future will, quote,
00:37:44.320 no longer matter if she's not able to kill a baby after a heartbeat is detected.
00:37:49.320 She needs to have unfettered, unlimited access to any and all child-killing resources
00:37:54.560 or else her life is over and all of her plans for the future are but dust and ash.
00:37:58.940 Now, in order to hold this demented point of view,
00:38:03.780 she must first of all believe that human life in the womb is totally worthless.
00:38:07.820 She must see pregnancy as a sort of zero-sum game.
00:38:11.280 Either she dehumanizes her child or she is dehumanized.
00:38:15.920 If she's forced to treat her child as a human, then she's no longer human.
00:38:21.440 There's only so much humanity to go around, she thinks.
00:38:24.680 There's only room for one human between the two of them.
00:38:27.640 A law that would potentially prevent her from throwing her own children away
00:38:31.520 like so much garbage is a law that deprives her of humanity.
00:38:35.700 That's the way she sees it.
00:38:38.260 And she must also believe that there is no reliable way
00:38:41.260 to prevent the birth of a future baby without abortion.
00:38:44.660 She mentions rape, but far less than 1% of all abortions are due to rape.
00:38:48.540 In 99%, 99 plus percent of cases, babies are conceived through an intentional act by mother and father.
00:38:58.060 And then they're killed because either mother or father or both
00:39:01.900 decide that they don't want to deal with the natural results of that intentional act.
00:39:06.940 Now, I don't know.
00:39:09.240 I'm beginning to see a way to prevent pregnancy that works literally 100% of the time.
00:39:16.440 And you don't have to kill anybody.
00:39:19.180 Third, perhaps most disturbingly,
00:39:21.160 in order to say everything that she just said,
00:39:25.780 Paxton must likewise believe
00:39:28.100 that there is no way for a woman to fulfill her ambitions and chase her dreams
00:39:33.800 once she has a baby.
00:39:36.760 She equates motherhood with death itself.
00:39:41.000 Once you become a mother,
00:39:42.360 your goals, your purpose, your very life are over.
00:39:46.660 And this is not a straw man of what she said.
00:39:48.520 It is literally what she said.
00:39:49.840 Our control over our future has been stripped away from us, she said.
00:39:55.640 My dreams for my future no longer matter.
00:40:00.300 This is the language she's using.
00:40:02.400 And she's being applauded for it.
00:40:05.240 She sees motherhood as the end of all dreams.
00:40:09.020 The disintegration of hope.
00:40:11.480 The crushing of ambition.
00:40:13.640 It is a dreary, miserable, fearful view of the world and life
00:40:19.660 and womanhood.
00:40:21.100 And it's exactly what the abortion industry wants her to believe.
00:40:25.240 Exactly like what people like Hillary Clinton want her to believe
00:40:28.860 and tell her to believe.
00:40:31.100 And it's entirely false.
00:40:34.260 Little does Paxton know,
00:40:36.160 but you don't have to give up any dreams or any goals
00:40:39.460 when you become a mother.
00:40:41.380 You might end up changing your goals
00:40:43.940 because your priorities have changed
00:40:45.420 and become less centered around yourself.
00:40:47.800 But there's no reason why any particular ambition
00:40:50.820 must change or be abandoned.
00:40:53.680 It's true that it can be more difficult, more challenging
00:40:56.440 to do certain things as a parent.
00:40:58.960 But nothing has become impossible
00:41:01.000 that was possible before.
00:41:03.780 In fact, as a parent,
00:41:05.620 far from having your dreams erased,
00:41:07.880 you now have your dreams multiplied.
00:41:10.180 You have additional hopes and plans for the future.
00:41:15.200 I would even say greater hopes and plans.
00:41:18.800 Your designs for your life have expanded,
00:41:22.100 not shrunk.
00:41:24.360 Abortion does not preserve your ability to fulfill your goals.
00:41:28.460 You don't need abortion for that.
00:41:31.100 I mean, you're a strong woman, right?
00:41:32.540 You're a fighter, a go-getter.
00:41:34.680 Isn't that what you would say about yourself?
00:41:38.100 Isn't that what the culture tells you to believe about yourself?
00:41:41.320 Well, it does say that and tell you that.
00:41:44.000 But then it also tells you
00:41:44.980 that you're incapable of achieving your goals
00:41:46.960 and being a mother at the same time.
00:41:48.620 So you have to choose one or the other.
00:41:51.340 One thing must die, your child or your dreams.
00:41:55.740 That's what the culture tells you.
00:41:58.080 That's what feminists tell you.
00:41:59.560 It tells you that you're strong,
00:42:03.320 but then treats you like you're weak.
00:42:06.020 Like you need to pay someone, a man most likely,
00:42:08.800 to kill your child
00:42:10.000 just so that you can be happy and successful in life.
00:42:13.980 This is a message of helplessness,
00:42:16.440 of dependence, of fear.
00:42:20.080 And that's what the abortion industry says to women like Paxton.
00:42:23.360 Be afraid.
00:42:24.420 Be very afraid.
00:42:26.240 Your life is over if you get pregnant.
00:42:27.900 The only way out is through bloodshed.
00:42:31.640 The only way out is through death and destruction.
00:42:35.160 It's a lie.
00:42:37.120 And the worst thing, you know,
00:42:38.700 is to realize what a lie it was
00:42:40.820 only after it's too late.
00:42:43.720 After you've already made the fateful choice
00:42:45.560 and you've given up the one thing
00:42:47.400 you can never get back.
00:42:49.080 Your child.
00:42:51.000 You don't have to give up your career ambitions
00:42:54.200 forever just because you have a kid.
00:42:57.900 That's something you can still have.
00:43:01.280 You give up your child.
00:43:02.600 You can never have your child back.
00:43:05.540 Many women, whether they'll say it publicly or not,
00:43:07.920 and many will say it publicly
00:43:09.360 if only people would listen,
00:43:11.640 have exercised their right to choose,
00:43:13.880 quote unquote,
00:43:14.640 and then lived a little longer
00:43:16.300 and looked at their lives
00:43:17.640 and realized that all they have now
00:43:19.620 that's worth having,
00:43:20.780 they still could have had with a child.
00:43:22.620 But the one thing that was the most worth having,
00:43:26.820 they gave up forever.
00:43:29.580 They killed the greater dream
00:43:31.900 for the sake of the lesser one.
00:43:34.160 It was a choice, yeah, but a false choice.
00:43:36.840 And it can't be undone.
00:43:38.720 That's the path that Paxton
00:43:40.320 is already walking towards.
00:43:42.040 Because she's been brainwashed to believe
00:43:44.380 that her dreams depend on death.
00:43:46.940 And that is a horrible thing.
00:43:52.260 And so all the people
00:43:53.200 who've convinced Paxton Smith of that lie
00:43:55.640 and so many other young women of that same lie
00:43:57.760 are today canceled.
00:44:00.820 And to say that they're canceled,
00:44:01.720 I think, doesn't quite go far enough.
00:44:06.640 But that's it.
00:44:08.660 We'll leave it there for today.
00:44:10.020 Thanks for watching.
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