The war in American history continues, and now it s moved way beyond simply removing statues of Confederate generals. We ll discuss the latest on that front today. Also, including Democrats in Texas leaving the state in order to prevent the passage of legislation they oppose, and will the Biden administration be fact checking your text messages? A new report makes that claim. And, in our daily cancellation, we ll talk about an article in a scientific journal claiming that geology is racist. And the reason they give for this claim is so insane and stupid that it may actually succeed in shocking you.
00:00:00.000Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the war in American history continues and now it's moved way beyond simply removing statues of Confederate generals.
00:00:06.520We'll discuss the latest on that front today. Also, five headlines, including Democrats in Texas leaving the state in order to prevent the passage of bills they oppose.
00:00:14.320These are the same people who complain about obstructionism usually. And will the Biden administration be fact checking your text messages?
00:00:19.780A new report makes that claim. Also, in our daily cancellation, we'll talk about an article in a scientific journal claiming that geology is racist.
00:00:26.940And the reason they give for this claim is so unbelievably insane and stupid that it may actually succeed in shocking you.
00:00:33.680We'll find out all of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
00:00:45.840After a very long buildup, the town of Charlottesville, Virginia, finally removed the statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson this past weekend.
00:00:54.280And in the midst of the mindless statue toppling craze that has infected our country for several years, this event was all but inevitable.
00:01:03.880According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group I normally would not cite as any sort of authority or reference at all, but whose numbers here are probably basically reliable.
00:01:12.780A total of 168 Confederate symbols were torn down and removed in the year 2020 alone, including 94 monuments.
00:01:22.200Now, virtually all of these statues were removed following the death of George Floyd.
00:01:26.880Nobody's ever offered a coherent explanation as to why the death of a violent felon and drug addict who was resisting arrest should have precipitated a reevaluation of anything, let alone historical monuments.
00:01:38.620I mean, what precisely is the connection between George Floyd's demise and a statue of a Confederate general?
00:01:46.880It's even less clear how the mad rush to eliminate these statues represents cultural progress.
00:01:52.480A sign that we had made progress and had healed the deep wounds from the Civil War was that many Americans could remember and recognize men who fought on both sides.
00:02:02.680We were able to view it with a mature and nuanced perspective in the light of historical context.
00:02:09.260The fact that we are less able to do that today as we are further away from the event itself,
00:02:16.580the fact that we can't even bear to see an image of any man who lived in and fought for the South would seem to indicate that we've gone backwards, not forwards.
00:02:24.420You know, it's a mark of maturity and growth when a married couple can talk civilly or even laugh about old arguments they've had or past offenses that they caused one another.
00:02:35.700But if they find that suddenly those old arguments and offenses are becoming the source of contention yet again,
00:02:41.420that's a sign that their relationship has regressed, not progressed.
00:02:46.560But Lee and Jackson were not the only historical figures to be toppled in Charlottesville over the weekend.
00:02:50.880On the same day, the city council convened in an emergency meeting, quote unquote, with only 20 minutes notice
00:02:58.080and decided to tear down a beautiful statue of the great explorers Lewis and Clark,
00:03:02.580which had been proudly standing in its spot on Main Street in Charlottesville for over 100 years.
00:03:08.660Now the priceless work of art has been removed from view with no specific plans for where it may go or what might happen to it.
00:03:16.560Now, what did the statue do to deserve this fate?
00:04:52.700The guide Sacagawea is at their side, a little to the rear, so that she shall not compete too much in the composition with Lewis and Clark.
00:04:59.560Remember, this was supposed to be a statue of Lewis and Clark.
00:05:22.680By the artist's interpretation, Lewis and Clark, as the leaders of the expedition, were focused on the long view, you know, the ultimate goal.
00:05:29.400While Sacagawea, as the 16-year-old guide, tracker, and translator, was concentrating on the immediate surroundings.
00:05:35.220It's very clear that the artist, who made a point, again, of including Sacagawea, even though she was not in the original plans for the monument,
00:05:42.680did not intend to insult her by memorializing her.
00:11:16.880That is more bravery than has ever been exhibited or will ever be exhibited by any of the morons and the cowards and infantile babies who are tearing these statues down.
00:11:28.860Every single historical figure that they have torn down, all of them, more important, have contributed more to society than any of those losers ever will.
00:13:04.440It's how everyone operated at that time.
00:13:07.800And yet it's been decided that white men are the villains of history and the villains of the present day.
00:13:15.020And what that means is that no white man in history is allowed to be honored or remembered or celebrated.
00:13:21.480It's not a coincidence that nearly every single statue or monument that's been toppled over the past year or two has been a depiction of a white man.
00:13:27.820It's not like there aren't other kinds of statues out there.
00:13:40.780Now, that isn't to say that they won't eventually, the mob, I'm not saying they won't eventually move on to other targets once all of the white men of history have been thrown on the incinerator.
00:14:09.000This is, after all, as I have said, a war on American history in its entirety.
00:14:14.960And it is the inevitable result of critical race theory, the result of a narrative of history that casts all of our historical triumphs as moral failures, all of our heroes as bullies and tyrants, and all of our sources of pride as sources of shame.
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00:15:58.300I don't know if I'd call this headline news, but my wife saw this while running errands just here in town.
00:16:07.300So if you're watching the video podcast, you've got to take a look at this car.
00:16:12.940I don't know what the deal is with this, but it's covered in green fur and baby dolls and stuffed horses.
00:16:18.300This is maybe among the top five most terrifying things I've ever seen in my life.
00:16:25.040And I want to be careful because I say that the owner of this car lives somewhere around us.
00:16:29.740So I don't want to upset whoever that is.
00:16:33.520But, and in fairness, they may have just accidentally crashed into a serial killer's basement and ended up with all that stuff all over the car.
00:16:58.740I got to get used to the fact that I drive a pickup now and I'm in Tennessee.
00:17:03.060So anytime I park and go into a store, if I don't, in my, if I don't like take a picture of where I'm parked, as soon as I walk out into the parking lot, I'm, I'm lost.
00:17:13.620It's, it's a, it's a bewildering sight because all of the cars in a parking lot look exactly like mine.
00:17:18.860So I'm just walking through with my key, you know, seeing which one will set the alarm off.
00:17:23.300You don't have to worry about that with this car.
00:17:56.980Well, first, well, thank you for the question, because he's very focused on this speech tomorrow, one that he himself wanted to deliver.
00:18:05.060He'll lay out the moral case for why denying the right to vote is a form of suppression and a form of silencing.
00:18:10.620And how he will use, he will redouble his commitment to using every tool at his disposal to continue to fight to protect the fundamental right of Americans to vote against the onslaught of voter suppression laws based on a dangerous and discredited conspiracy theory that culminated in assault on our Capitol.
00:18:28.040He'll call out the greatest irony of the big lie is that no election in our history has met such a high standard with over 80 judges, including those appointed by his predecessor, throwing out all challenges.
00:18:38.580He'll also decry efforts to strip the right to vote as authoritarian and anti-American and stand up against the notion that politicians should be allowed to choose their voters or to subvert our system by replacing independent election authorities with partisan ones.
00:18:53.640And he will highlight the work of the administration against this, the necessity of passing the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and how we need to work together with civil rights organizations to build as broad a turnout and voter education system to overcome the worst challenge to our democracy since the Civil War.
00:19:10.960The worst challenge to our democracy since the Civil War. So apparently the January 6th, quote unquote, insurrection has been demoted. It is no longer the worst thing that's happened since the Civil War. I thought that it was. That's what we've been told. But now it's, I know, it's these voting rights laws or laws that are meant to deny people the right to vote, which, look, the term gaslighting is used far too often, just like the word grifter is used far too often in the
00:19:40.960in discourse today. But it really does apply. It's just one long stream of gaslighting from her. Anytime we hear from the Democrats about the voting rights issue, this, this, these laws to deny voting rights. There are no such laws being passed anywhere. Nobody is attempting to do that. Those laws do not exist.
00:20:04.100And as I always remind you, I say this as someone who would support those kinds of laws if they did exist. I wish they did. Every time I hear Democrats say, there's this law in this state that want to deny people the right to vote, I get my hopes up. I say, really? Thank God, finally. I'm moving to that state. And then I look into the law and it's like, no, okay, you just have to have a photocopy of your ID. That's it.
00:20:32.760Because in reality, there actually isn't any universal God-given right to vote. It's not inherent to our humanity to have this right to participate in the democratic process. It's not.
00:20:54.300Which is why already we deny lots of people the right to vote. If you're a felon, you're denied the right to vote. If you're under the age of 18, as it stands right now, anyway, you're denied the right to vote.
00:21:06.580That's a lot of people. So we can't claim that it's a universal right and, you know, inherent to us as God-given.
00:21:13.000And it's something that you have to qualify for and it can be taken away. That's already the system everywhere or nearly everywhere.
00:21:24.580The question is only, should we have, should there be more of an effort, you know, to protect the voting process by making sure that the people who are participating in it are qualified to participate?
00:21:50.020I say yes. And I say that that is protect. If you really value the right to vote, who are the people who really value the right to vote, who really cherish it, who really take it seriously?
00:22:03.860We hear so much about the right to vote is a sacred, it's a sacred right. I personally wouldn't call it sacred, but I think my position, if it is sacred, protects that sanctity.
00:22:16.520More than the people who say, oh yeah, let anyone do it. Open up the floodgates, just let anyone vote. Doesn't matter.
00:22:23.500They could be, you know, whatever. They've been in a Cheeto and Netflix-induced coma for the last four years.
00:22:30.140Just shake them awake, carry them in the cradle position over to the polls and just dump them in a voting booth and say, yeah, but, you know, hit one of them. Hit a name, Randall. It doesn't matter.
00:22:44.040That's how you protect the sanctity of voting rights that way?
00:22:47.380I don't think so, but I am taking a position that almost no one else takes, at least among elected Republicans. There's not any that I'm aware of. I've not heard any elected Republican suggest that we should actually start actively and purposefully excluding people from the voting booth.
00:23:11.760I wish elected Republicans would advocate that, but they're not.
00:23:19.140In fact, and we're going to talk more about this in a minute, but I guess we'll go ahead and talk about it now, as a matter of fact.
00:23:25.940I think what you're hearing from Republicans on voting rights is quite the opposite of that.
00:23:32.360Governor Greg Abbott, he was on Fox News last night, and he was talking about the Texas Democrats who have fled the state to prevent not only legislation on voting rights, but many other issues as well.
00:23:52.360He was talking about them, and then he gets into the issue of voter suppression and who are the real voter suppressors in this country, and here's what he says. Let's listen.
00:24:03.100But, Laura, I have to point this out. The thesis that they are operating under is completely false because what the Texas law does doesn't hinder anybody's ability to vote.
00:24:11.960In fact, interestingly, what Texas is seeking to do is to add additional hours to vote.
00:24:19.280Texas has 12 days of early voting and the hours of which will be expanded, and we will ensure that hours are expanded on Election Day also, so their entire thesis is completely wrong.
00:24:29.280And compare early voting in Texas with early voting that we have in Delaware.
00:24:33.780Texas has 12 days of early voting. Delaware has zero days of early voting.
00:24:38.620Why am I picking on Delaware? Because that is where the president himself voted in the last election.
00:24:44.820And if anybody wants to talk about voter suppression, they should be talking about Delaware, not Texas.
00:24:51.380Yeah, the Dems are the true vote suppressors.
00:24:55.680That old thing for Republicans. That is what we're getting from Republicans.
00:24:59.560It's true what he just said, that Republicans are actually, they're trying to expand it.
00:25:04.360They're, you know, in Texas, they're, you know, provide more hours to go vote, expanding early voting and all that kind of thing.
00:25:10.800That's what you're getting from Republicans.
00:25:14.200They actually agree with the Democrats on this issue, while the Democrats accuse them of not agreeing.
00:25:20.940And the Republicans' response, as always, is to say, no, no, no, we do agree. We do agree. I promise.
00:25:25.280We should be expanding the hours of voting, expanding early voting.
00:25:32.620I don't want to hear Republicans brag about, oh, we've got more early voting than Delaware does.
00:25:39.860There should be no early voting at all.
00:25:42.560You have election day, voting day. Go and vote on that day.
00:25:50.300And if we're talking about a presidential election, you've got four years to plan for it.
00:25:56.140Everyone knows what day it's going to be. We all know. There's no surprise.
00:25:59.620When it comes time for the 2024 presidential election, we all know when that vote is going to be.
00:26:04.020And you know where you have to go, depending on where you live, to cast your vote.
00:26:08.140You're telling me you can't schedule the time with this much notice?
00:26:15.160That's the way it should be, but we are heading in the opposite direction.
00:26:20.340So, as always, when it comes to voting and how easy it should be,
00:26:25.320really, Republican Democrats are basically on the same side with only just slight differences.
00:26:31.640Now, speaking of the Democrat lawmakers leaving the state, reading now from the Daily Wire,
00:26:39.140it says, Texas Democrat lawmakers absconded from the state on Monday in a theatrical fashion
00:26:42.820as they subverted democracy by denying the legislature a quorum needed to approve bills
00:26:47.440in Governor Greg Abbott's special session agenda.
00:26:52.040Quote, private planes carry more than 50 Democrats.
00:26:55.660There they are there on their private plane.
00:26:57.260They left Austin for Dulles International Airport mid-afternoon, skipping town just days before the Texas House of Representatives.
00:27:03.940It was expected to give early approval to sweeping new voter integrity laws in the special legislative session,
00:28:51.120If there was any underlying reason for the rule saying we have to wear the mask, then they'd be wearing the mask voluntarily on a private plane.
00:30:53.320All of this fossil fuel they're burning?
00:30:55.080A lot of hypocrisy, a lot of double standards.
00:31:00.000But, as always, the double standard and hypocrisy is part of the point.
00:31:04.480Because that's the power that they have.
00:31:06.840That's the message that they're sending.
00:31:08.220And in a certain way, you know, it's, it's, even though there's so much hypocrisy and it's a double standard, and this is nothing but a self-congratulatory, ridiculous stunt.
00:31:21.420And, and I despise Democrats with my whole soul, even in spite of that, it's hard for me to get very angry at them about this.
00:31:33.980Because this is the kind of thing I wish Republicans would do.
00:31:40.020This, this is Democrats saying, you know what, we're not going to go along with you at all.
00:31:43.800Even when we legally have to, even like, even when it seems we have no power here at all, we still, we're not going to give you a damn inch.
00:31:53.840We're not, we're going to give you nothing.
00:32:01.320And I wish Republicans would have the same attitude.
00:32:03.040Now, granted, it's easier to do that when you have the media on your side, because we know if it was Republicans doing this, all the headlines would be Republican fugitives obstructing democracy.
00:32:17.780There'd be 57 headlines just about the fact that they're not wearing masks on the plane.
00:32:56.120Uh, the Biden administration is casting conservative opponents of his COVID, of its COVID-19 vaccine campaign as dangerous and extreme, adopting a more aggressive political posture in an attempt to maneuver through the public health conundrum.
00:33:24.020We'll put, we'll see if it pays off, but it continues.
00:33:26.240The White House has decided to hit back harder on misinformation, quote unquote, misinformation and scare tactics after Republican lawmakers and conservative activists pledged to fight the administration's stated plans to go door to door to increase vaccination rates.
00:33:37.920The pushback will include directly calling out social media platforms and conservative news shows that promote such tactics.
00:33:45.840Uh, Biden-allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are also planning to engage fact checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media and text messages.
00:34:04.700The goal is to ensure that people who have, uh, who may have difficulty getting a vaccination because of issues like transportation, see those barriers lessened or removed entirely.
00:34:13.420Now, I don't know, call me crazy, but it seems as though they're saying that the DNC is going to be colluding with fact checkers to monitor our private text messages.
00:34:32.940All in an effort to, uh, head off misinformation.
00:34:43.420If the DNC is checking in on your text messages, maybe your emails, whatever, it's all for your own good.
00:34:52.360If the NSA is doing it, it's all for your own good.
00:34:55.900Because there might be dangerous extremists out there who are trying to, uh, you know, talk to you and, and, and convince you of things.
00:35:02.200And you're too stupid, of course, just like I, and we're all too stupid to be able to practice discernment.
00:35:09.080And that's why we need big brother who can swoop in and, uh, and save the day.
00:35:14.420Now, how is, so I, I saw this report in Politico and then I was Googling to see if there's been other headlines about this and there hasn't been anything.
00:38:06.400If someone can't figure out how to make a copy of their ID, I'm not sure I want them voting anyway, she finishes.
00:38:13.640Yeah, well, that's one of the great reasons for the voter ID laws, I think.
00:38:21.280Because I would love to have the voting test where we just test your basic knowledge on civics, on American history, and that sort of thing.
00:38:29.440Can you make it to like a fifth grade level?
00:38:44.060If you can't, then you're definitely someone we don't need.
00:38:47.280Even if you're not trying to commit voter fraud.
00:38:51.640If you're so insanely incompetent and stupid that you can't figure that out, then I agree with you.
00:38:58.080I don't think we need you in the voting booth.
00:39:00.040Another comment says, I don't think we should be using the phrase identifies as because it implies that this is a thing someone can do legitimately.
00:39:08.740I would use the terms say they are or perhaps even pretends to be.
00:39:12.540This is more direct and to the point if we're trying to maintain truth, legitimacy of language, and a baseline reality.
00:46:37.640Access implies that individuals can obtain the resources they need to safely pursue their scientific endeavors.
00:46:44.160Regardless of location, instrumentation, site accessibility, and their identity.
00:46:49.460Historically, access has been limited to mostly able-bodied white cisgender heterosexual men.
00:46:55.380As the geosciences strive to be more accessible,
00:46:57.860The community must recognize that BIPOC and other marginalized geoscientists are not always safe in geoscience spaces.
00:47:15.480Because, for example, holding objects, for example, a rock hammer, has been viewed as suspicious and continues to be used as a reason to call the police on black people,
00:47:27.760which can lead to the death of black individuals entirely because of racial profiling and an unjustified fear of black people.
00:47:38.000Geology is racist because black people are afraid of holding hammers.
00:47:44.940This makes me, among other things, feel bad for the black cashier who rang up my items at Home Depot last week.
00:47:50.620I mean, imagine the psychological trauma he must suffer on a daily basis.
00:47:53.820And why are black people afraid of hammers?
00:47:56.900Well, because if they hold one, somebody might call the cops, and then the cops will come and shoot them.
00:48:04.400In fact, this is a problem, we're told, with all physical objects in general.
00:48:08.260According to the paper, any activity that requires holding an object of any kind can be construed as racist because of how it endangers black lives.
00:48:16.760You might not have known this, but if you have ever worked at, say, the concession stand at a movie theater,
00:48:20.860and you handed a black customer his large bucket of popcorn after he paid for it, you just put his life in jeopardy.
00:48:29.500Somebody should have come and smacked that popcorn out of your hands and said, no, don't do that.
00:48:54.780Now, you may ask many questions, such as, has there ever been a case?
00:49:03.300Has there ever been a case ever in history, even once, of a black geologist being shot by the cops for using a hammer to break open some rocks?
00:49:13.840The paper would seem to indicate that this is an epidemic.
00:49:16.940I'm just wondering, has it ever happened at all at any point?
00:49:22.360Since the inception of the field of geology, has any geologist of any color or race been killed by the police in the course of their duty for using a hammer?
00:49:35.600And by the way, if geology excludes black people because of how it requires the use of hammers, what about the construction field?
00:49:44.660If people of color avoid geology because they don't want to risk their lives by holding objects, what are they doing in construction?
00:49:52.020I mean, in that field, white people are underrepresented.
00:49:54.080Almost 20% of construction workers are Hispanic and 12% are black, which is proportional with the general population.
00:50:01.140If anyone was going to be shot for using a hammer on the job, you'd think it'd be construction workers who oftentimes are working in cities and populated areas.
00:50:10.020Not geologists out chipping away at some limestone in the desert somewhere.
00:50:14.060But here I am replying rational thought to what is wholly irrational.
00:50:20.740The leftist religion dictates that everything, everywhere, must be racist.
00:50:25.920And it's up to them to, you know, fill in the blanks and explain the hows and whys.
00:50:30.340And in fairness to them, it's not easy to find racism in geology of all things.
00:50:34.520And this is basically the best they could do.
00:50:36.800It was an admirable attempt, we must say.