The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 754 - When The Left Eats Itself

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left continues to eat itself as a gay rights organization that 1.00

00:00:04.820 had been around for 50 years voluntarily dissolves and disbands after BLM criticized it.

00:00:10.460 This is a convoluted but also instructive, not to mention hilarious story, and we'll talk about it

00:00:14.400 today. Also, five headlines, including Olivia Rodrigo's trip to the White House to promote

00:00:18.460 vaccines, raising the question for many people, who is Olivia Rodrigo? And speaking of BLM,

00:00:23.900 they have finally spoken out about the situation in Cuba in order to defend the Cuban government,

00:00:28.860 of course. And a state representative in Minnesota says that he was racially profiled

00:00:32.220 during a traffic stop, but the body cam footage shows something else entirely.

00:00:36.580 And in our daily cancellation, we will wade into the murky, confused, and toxic waters

00:00:40.900 of abortion TikTok. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:12.380 satisfaction from, somewhat sick satisfaction perhaps, but satisfaction nonetheless, are stories

00:02:17.740 of the left turning on itself and its adherents devouring each other as they are prone to do.

00:02:23.280 We've seen this phenomenon many times, and I think it might be interesting and useful to try and figure

00:02:27.480 out why this happens exactly. But before we do that, let's look at the latest example. And it's a,

00:02:32.900 it's a rather glorious example, I must say. Boston Pride is the group that organizes the city's Pride

00:02:39.380 Parade and other gay activities in the city. It's important to note that this organization has been

00:02:44.980 around and active for 50 years. Okay. They, so presumably one of the oldest, you know, gay rights

00:02:53.520 organizations, I would assume, in the country. They've been major significant players in the gay

00:03:00.780 rights world. And yet recently they'd had come under fire from within their own ranks. A growing

00:03:06.720 number of LGBT activists decided that Boston Pride is racist because there are too many white people

00:03:13.080 running the organization and too many white people attending the events. Now I have no interest in at 1.00

00:03:19.400 all in defending Boston Pride, but I do feel compelled to point out that Boston Pride would naturally tend to

00:03:25.760 be white simply because Boston, the city is predominantly white. Unlike many other cities 0.96

00:03:31.440 today, like say Baltimore, which is a 62% black in Boston, the majority of residents are white.

00:03:37.460 Just so happens. Making it not so shocking or scandalous that a majority of Boston Pride attendees

00:03:43.360 are white. There are many other scandalous things that happen at those events, no doubt, 1.00

00:03:47.700 but that isn't one of them. Nonetheless, you can't have too many white people, as we have learned,

00:03:52.640 or too many, quote, cisgender people, which was another problem apparently. And that's why local

00:03:57.560 activists this past year, after attacking Boston Pride as racist and even transphobic,

00:04:04.160 decided to boycott the traditional event, the traditional Pride event that had been going on

00:04:08.220 for 50 years, and hold their own. So this past month on June 12th, 12th, and you may have missed

00:04:14.780 this, I'm sorry if you did, but they had their first annual trans resistance march and vigil,

00:04:19.360 led by, they said, queer and trans people of color. An article posted to boston.com last month

00:04:26.160 explains the reasoning for this competing event. It says, queer, trans, and black indigenous people

00:04:31.740 of color, BIPOC activists, have been calling on Boston Pride to make changes since at least 2015,

00:04:37.280 when Black Lives Matter demanded the organization diversify the board, allow BIPOC activists control 0.87

00:04:43.320 of black and Latino Pride events, and re-examine corporate sponsorships, among other things. Last summer,

00:04:48.240 numerous Boston Pride volunteers resigned after the organization allegedly removed a statement

00:04:53.180 supporting Black Lives Matter from a newsletter and called for all board members to step down in

00:04:57.520 place of more representative leadership. According to the Boston Globe, Boston Pride's six members

00:05:02.960 board has no black members, two Latino members, and one transgender member. Quote, my experience in

00:05:09.820 working with the board is they experience community voices as antagonistic, as opposed to thinking

00:05:16.360 these are our people. This according to Joe Triglio, who resigned from the Boston Pride communications

00:05:22.340 team, telling the Globe, quote, they treat that as some sort of attack as opposed to what it is,

00:05:27.260 people asking them to serve their needs and interests. Only one transgender board member out of six?

00:05:34.120 Outrageous. Now, we know, of course, that trans people comprise far less than one percent of the 1.00

00:05:39.260 population, but they must, in any case, comprise at least 50 percent of every organization, board, committee,

00:05:47.380 panel, and television show cast. How can that even be possible? I mean, how can you take so few trans 1.00

00:05:53.880 people and spread them so widely and visibly? Well, that's your problem. Figure it out. You have to be like

00:06:01.840 Jesus, multiplying the loaves and fishes. Multiply the trans. You got to figure out a way to do it. 1.00

00:06:08.160 Whatever you need to do, get it done. The point is simply that this tiny fraction of the population

00:06:13.400 must be seen everywhere all the time without exception. And Boston Pride, they failed in that

00:06:19.860 regard, just as they failed by allowing too many white people to participate. And that's what ultimately

00:06:25.740 led to this. As NBC reports today, after 50 years, Boston Pride is disbanding and dissolving itself

00:06:31.460 in shame for the sin of being too white and also too not trans. This, according to NBC, it says,

00:06:39.140 quote, Boston Pride, the organization that has organized the city's Pride celebrations for 50

00:06:43.120 years, has announced it is shutting down. The dissolution, announced Friday afternoon in a

00:06:47.780 statement on the group's website, comes after the reportedly all-white board of directors has faced

00:06:52.680 ongoing accusations of ignoring racial minorities and transgender people. It is clear to us that our

00:06:58.340 community needs and wants change without the involvement of Boston Pride, the board said in its

00:07:02.740 statement. We have heard the concerns of the QTBIBOC community and others, the QTBIPOC community and others.

00:07:11.800 The statement continued, referring to queer and transgender people of color. We care too much to stand in the 1.00

00:07:16.440 way. Therefore, Boston Pride is dissolving. There will be no further events or programming planned, and the board is

00:07:21.760 taking steps to close down the organization. The board said the decision, quote, was made with a heavy heart

00:07:26.720 out of love and hope for a better future. Now, you might be thinking, this is hilarious and great.

00:07:35.400 Bunch of left-wing gay activists just nuked their own organization for no reason at all. What's not to love? 0.97

00:07:41.660 And you're right. It is indeed hilarious and great. But aside from pointing and laughing, it might, as I said,

00:07:45.880 be instructive to talk about why this sort of thing happens. Because it happens a lot. And to that end,

00:07:54.180 I think there are three factors to consider. The first is this, very simply. BLM exercises complete and

00:08:02.880 total power on the left, and they know it. Nobody on that side of the ideological divide will oppose them

00:08:09.760 or whisper the slightest objection, even as BLM swoops in and eviscerates its own allies for no

00:08:17.160 discernible reason. Leftists have already set the precedent that opposing Black Lives Matter,

00:08:22.940 the organization, means opposing Black Lives Matter, the concept. Now, usually, the left can violate its

00:08:30.500 own precedents at will. One standard for us, another standard for them. But this is one that even they

00:08:37.940 have to abide by. Even they can't get away with violating this standard. Two, there's the victim

00:08:44.520 hierarchy. Now, as we know by now, victimhood is power on the left, which means that there is a

00:08:50.100 constant struggle within its own ranks to claim the status of uber-victim. That's why the top spot on

00:08:57.160 the victim pyramid has changed hands several times over the years, especially in recent years, as one group

00:09:02.000 and then another plants its flag there. As it stands right now, the coveted territory belongs

00:09:07.760 to BIPOC, as they now call themselves, Black and Indigenous people of color. But it's not enough 0.85

00:09:12.780 to be just Black or Indigenous. The top of the top, the ultimate power spot, belongs to those who can

00:09:19.340 add additional identities, especially sexualized identities, which has given rise to now QTBIPOC,

00:09:25.900 or Queer and Trans Black Indigenous People of Color. Boston Pride was a mere LGBT organization.

00:09:33.140 They didn't make a move to innovate and become a QTBIPOC, LGBT organization, and as such,

00:09:41.100 have been left in the dust. A tragic tale as old as time. Three, I think most importantly,

00:09:48.520 and the most fundamental reason why you see the left eat itself in this way so often,

00:09:53.220 is that the entire ideology is intensely and almost solely self-focused. There cannot be any true

00:10:04.700 community. As much as they talk about community, and they have so many different communities,

00:10:11.060 and they talk about things like being an ally or allyship, that can't exist. Camaraderie, loyalty,

00:10:19.240 none of that exists. Because they're all looking constantly back within themselves. I mean,

00:10:25.180 to be a member of a real community, to have real camaraderie and loyalty, you have to look

00:10:31.080 outward. You have to be concerned about something other than just yourself. But they aren't. That's

00:10:39.820 the defining feature of leftism. It's an ideology, a religion of the self. That is what it is at its

00:10:47.720 core, at its base. And it's how they come up with all these new self-identities, and why they believe

00:10:52.860 the whole world should cooperate with and affirm whatever new identities they invent. It's how we

00:10:57.320 end up with, here's the latest, it's how we end up with nonsense like this. Watch.

00:11:02.860 So, I'm not an expert or an authority on what neuroqueer means, but to simplify it and make it

00:11:09.000 easier for you to understand, it's essentially, on a base level, it's kind of where your neurodivergent

00:11:15.400 identity and your queer identity, how they interact and intersect. This also extends to your other

00:11:21.380 identities, such as your race, your socioeconomic class, your ethnicity, etc. And how those things

00:11:28.760 also interact and intersect with your neurodivergence and your queerness. And some ways that some people

00:11:34.600 may practice being neuroqueer can range from theoretical thought experiments to social justice

00:11:41.100 work methods. A good example may be something like deciding to represent your gender identity

00:11:47.700 in an intentionally queer way as a way to subvert hegemonic ideas of gender performance. It is a 0.91

00:11:54.700 fairly new term, so it is very fluid and the possibilities are endless. Oh, well, okay. Subvert

00:12:02.180 hegemonic ideas of gender performance, she says, with piercings in her cheek. Now, indeed, though,

00:12:10.080 the possibilities are endless, as she says. Neuroqueer, why not? Just another identity to add to the list? 0.99

00:12:17.560 Nothing you just heard there. There was not a coherent sentence uttered throughout that whole 56 seconds.

00:12:22.920 Um, this, though, is what happens. This is another identity invented by someone who spends almost all 0.95

00:12:31.680 of her time staring back into the abyss of her own ego. According to her religion, the leftist religion,

00:12:38.720 which is also our state religion, by the way, nothing matters so much as how you feel. And it's not just

00:12:45.180 how you feel. It's not the thing that I think people on the right get wrong. The left, they're always,

00:12:51.220 they're so sensitive, they're focused on their feelings. Well, let's be more specific. It's not

00:12:55.780 how you feel. It's about how you feel about yourself, your feelings about yourself. Everything

00:13:01.440 comes back to yourself. Now, in a weird way, this is what makes leftism alluring and powerful,

00:13:08.600 especially when it comes to kids and teenagers. It's one of the reasons why so many kids and teenagers

00:13:14.040 gravitate in that direction, because they tend already to be self-focused. Everyone has that,

00:13:21.220 that capacity, that inclination, that instinct towards, uh, egotism and narcissism. But it's

00:13:29.560 also what makes leftism dysfunctional and volatile and prone to self-sabotage. And although all of this

00:13:35.820 is very bad for the country and our future as a civilization and our species, it is also sometimes,

00:13:41.780 at least, as is the case with this Boston Pride story, extremely funny. Now let's get to our five

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00:15:02.540 All right. So first of all, Olivia Rodrigo was, um, at the white house yesterday. And, uh, one

00:15:14.580 question I've seen a lot in relation to this, and she was there to talk about vaccines. We'll play

00:15:19.480 the clip in a second. If you're wondering what Olivia Rodrigo's opinion is on vaccines.

00:15:24.480 Um, but one question that's popped up a lot in relation to this is, uh, is who the hell is Olivia

00:15:29.260 Rodrigo? And I'm, I'm, you know, usually I'm like everyone else. And this is how, one of the ways

00:15:34.560 I know that I'm old. I mean, I've been old since I was born, really. I was born this way. Um, but

00:15:40.300 one of the ways I know that I'm old is that I don't know so many famous people that I, that I have no

00:15:46.280 idea who they are anymore. Uh, Olivia Rodrigo, I do know who she is because we did a YouTube video

00:15:51.160 about her reviewing one of her, um, one of her great, one of her great songs. I mean, I use the word

00:15:56.300 great very loosely here. Um, so I know that she's a pop star. I can tell you that this is how in

00:16:02.200 touch I am with the youth. This one, I know she's a pop star. I think she originated with a, was a

00:16:08.260 TikTok or like an Instagram or something. And then she made, or was that, was that somebody else

00:16:11.660 I'm thinking of, or was she at Disney? She came either Disney or TikTok. That's, that's kind of the

00:16:16.840 farm team for the pop stars these days. And, um, anyway, so she was at the white house and first,

00:16:23.660 can we just show the clip here? She is walking in. I just want to show you this picture of her 1.00

00:16:28.880 walking into the white house in those, uh, shoes there. I don't, I don't even know how you move 0.69

00:16:35.880 in those shoes. I also didn't realize that those shoes were, were back in style, these platform

00:16:39.600 shoes. I thought that was like, so that's back in style now, I guess. It's also been reported. Um,

00:16:45.640 Jack Posobiec reported on Twitter that Jill Biden, there's a little bit of contention now in the

00:16:52.360 white house because Jill Biden, Dr. Jill Biden, I should say, excuse me, thought apparently,

00:16:58.320 according to anonymous sources, thought that Olivia Rodrigo's shoes were not appropriate for the 1.00

00:17:03.240 event. And I just think if she did say that rushing to the defense of Olivia Rodrigo here as a big fan of

00:17:12.340 hers, I mean that coming from Jill Biden of all people, who are you to talk? Might I remind you of

00:17:20.020 that dress that she wore a few weeks ago? Looked like it was stitched together from various like

00:17:27.200 drapery around, around the white house. They just tore, they just tore curtains down in drapes 0.96

00:17:31.820 around the white house and just stitched it together. Some schizophrenic person stitched it 0.76

00:17:37.260 together and put it on her. And she has the audacity to accuse people of lacking a fashion sense. 1.00

00:17:44.620 Anyway, that's not really the important part. The important part is Olivia Rodrigo was there

00:17:48.080 to tell us about vaccines. And here she is. It's important to have conversations with friends

00:17:53.540 and family members, encouraging all communities to get vaccinated and actually get to a vaccination

00:17:58.180 site, which you can do more easily than ever before, given how many sites we have and how easy

00:18:02.860 it is to find them at vaccines.gov. Well, there it is. Olivia Rodrigo has spoken. So

00:18:10.080 they're going door to door. They're bribing you. They're, they're beating you over the head, perhaps

00:18:16.840 literally in some cases, um, doing everything they can. And if you're still not convinced, well, here's

00:18:23.520 Olivia Rodrigo, pop star. And if that doesn't convince you, I don't know what will. They had

00:18:30.580 juvenile, vaxxed that ass up. I mean, what else do they have to do to get you to put this substance 0.99

00:18:38.480 into your body? All right. Next, uh, black lives matter. Speaking of which they put out a statement

00:18:46.840 finally on the situation down in Cuba and they had been, uh, basically silent about it until now.

00:18:55.480 And the statement is rather lengthy. I'm not going to read the entire thing, but it will shock you to,

00:19:01.300 to, to learn that, uh, black lives matter. They've looked at what's happening down in Cuba.

00:19:06.760 People protesting the tyranny of the communist government and black lives matter has decided 1.00

00:19:13.740 they know who's at fault. Uh, America is at fault. It's our fault. It's our government, not theirs.

00:19:20.620 So this is their statement in part. It says black lives matter condemns the U S federal government's

00:19:26.020 inhumane treatment of Cubans and, uh, not the, not the Cuban government.

00:19:30.880 According to reports, I mean, they're, they're right now killing protesters.

00:19:39.260 Black lives matter speaking up and saying we condemn the inhumane treatment of these protesters

00:19:43.480 by the U S federal government. Uh, this cruel and inhumane policy instituted with the explicit

00:19:51.320 intention of destabilizing the country and undermining Cubans right to choose their own 1.00

00:19:55.800 government is at the heart of Cuba's current crisis. Since 1962, this United States has forced

00:20:01.180 pain and suffering on the people of Cuba by cutting off food, medicine, and supplies, costing the

00:20:05.660 tiny Island nation an estimated $130 billion. Without that money, it is harder for Cuba to acquire

00:20:11.220 medical equipment needed to develop its own COVID-19 vaccines and equipment for food production.

00:20:15.720 This comes in spite of the country's strong medical care and history of lending doctors and nurses

00:20:20.080 to disasters around the world. The people of Cuba are being punished by the U S government

00:20:25.780 being murdered by their own government. But, but no, the real punishment is from us because the

00:20:31.840 country has maintained its commitment to sovereignty and self-determination. This is, uh, not just attacking

00:20:39.340 the United States. This is a full throated defense of the communist Cuban government. Nevermind that

00:20:48.840 much of what's being said here is just factually wrong. Simply not true much of it, but it's a

00:20:56.320 defense of, of the Cuban. And of course it is. What else are they going to say? They're a communist

00:21:02.180 organization, avowedly so. And they also have no problem. They don't have any problem with violence.

00:21:12.440 Clearly doesn't bother them that people are being killed. They certainly don't value human life.

00:21:17.880 All they care is about the, the, is about power, their own power number first and foremost,

00:21:26.000 and the end ideological goal. That's all they care about. Now I have noticed, um,

00:21:35.320 there's, there's been a lot of criticism of black lives matter for this statement, which is good. 1.00

00:21:40.820 They deserve to be criticized for it. I've even noticed some conservatives, conservative commentators

00:21:45.620 and so on, uh, coming out pretty strong against black lives matter for this again, well-deserved 1.00

00:21:51.660 fine. But some of those, some of those commentators, as far as I could tell, this is the first time

00:21:58.200 they've come out strong against black lives matter. You know, I'm old enough to remember like, 1.00

00:22:05.020 I don't know, nine months ago, up to nine months ago, or even more recently, where if you criticize

00:22:12.840 black lives matter and call them what they are, an extremist communist organization, a terrorist 0.99

00:22:20.080 organization, many different, many descriptions would fit the bill here, but you, you'd be attacked 0.80

00:22:26.240 as racist, not just by the left, but even by some people on the right.

00:22:30.360 You know, this is what frustrates me. It's one of the reasons why black lives matter got to this 1.00

00:22:41.240 point of being as powerful as they are because for years, they've, they've been doing this for a

00:22:47.140 while now, going back to Ferguson and even slightly before that. And for years, people on the right,

00:22:57.520 many of them either kept silent, refused to criticize them or would actively defend them.

00:23:05.680 No, they're just concerned with racial justice. Meanwhile, BLM from its inception, this is why 0.50

00:23:13.360 there is no excuse for people that were that oblivious. In fact, I don't believe that they

00:23:17.840 were that oblivious. I think they were just cowardly. But from their inception, this has been a, 0.99

00:23:24.360 an organization drenched in blood and violence and deception. Violence and deception has been their

00:23:34.840 MO from, from the beginning. And it took, uh, it took years for, for it to be sort of a mainstream

00:23:49.140 thing on, on, among conservatives to openly criticize BLM. And that's pathetic. And now, 0.98

00:23:56.200 finally, this appears to be the last straw for, for a lot of people, which great. Why did it take

00:24:00.820 you so long? Let's move here. So the freedom fighters, as they're being called now are still

00:24:07.320 in DC. Those are the Texas Democrats who fled the state. Uh, and now they're being branded anyway,

00:24:13.360 by Amy Klobuchar as freedom fighters. And she said this almost with a straight face. She almost

00:24:19.060 accomplished saying it with a straight face. Here's, uh, Klobuchar.

00:24:21.760 We stand here, uh, with these, uh, people of courage, uh, with, uh, freedom fighters, uh, who

00:24:29.200 came to Washington DC, uh, to seek salvation because they are not going to be able to get back

00:24:38.000 governor of Texas, uh, to protect the voting rights of the people of Texas. We know that. Uh,

00:24:43.600 in fact, instead of trying to make it easier for people to vote, uh, the governor and the

00:24:50.780 Republicans in the legislature has done everything to make it harder, including, uh, threatening these

00:24:56.660 legislators over and over again. And they are standing their ground just as we are standing our

00:25:02.300 ground. Freedom fighters seeking salvation. Uh, of course that's nauseating. And, and I, you know,

00:25:12.620 I, I said when there's, when all this first started a few days ago, that, uh, it's hard for me to even

00:25:18.800 be angry at the Texas Democrats for doing this because they're doing the kind of thing that I wish

00:25:27.660 Republicans would do far more often, which is playing hard ball and, uh, and, and using the

00:25:36.040 power that you have and also absolutely refusing to give the other side anything. That's the thing 0.66

00:25:43.460 about Democrats. They are not going to give you an inch. They will not give you anything at all.

00:25:52.080 Um, and that's, what's happening here with these, with these Democrats. It doesn't make them heroes

00:25:56.700 at all. Of course. Right. They went there. They're taking a, you know, a vacation paid for by the

00:26:03.780 taxpayers. They got their Miller light and they're on this little jaunt in DC and they're being

00:26:08.860 celebrated and hailed as heroes everywhere they go, which means they're not heroes, but I, it's hard

00:26:16.940 for me to be mad at them for doing it for that reason. I know that most conservatives are pretty upset

00:26:21.000 about it. And I'm saying to myself, all right, I get the play. I understand the play. It's a smart

00:26:27.460 play, I guess, but they, they do have the advantage of course that they've got the whole media on their

00:26:36.180 side. They have the whole establishment on their side. They've got all of our cultural institutions

00:26:41.600 on their side and you have to remember that as well. So I, I am constantly criticizing Republicans

00:26:49.220 and I'll continue to criticize them for compromising way too much. And by compromising, it's not even

00:26:55.440 really a compromise usually when Republicans do it, because a compromise means, uh, I give up some

00:26:59.940 of the stuff that I, that I want and you give up some of the stuff that you want. And then we meet in

00:27:03.340 the middle. But with the, with the Republicans, the compromise is I'll give up everything and get

00:27:08.480 nothing and just let you do whatever you want. But you also have to keep in mind not to excuse

00:27:14.560 Republicans at all. Um, they don't have all of our cultural institutions on their side the way

00:27:19.740 the Democrats do. So it's a lot easier for the Democrats to do this kind of thing.

00:27:25.600 And all that to say, it doesn't make any of this any less nauseating to hear them hailed as freedom

00:27:32.020 fighters seeking salvation. And speaking of nauseating, I, I, I, I cannot let you escape having

00:27:40.480 to listen to this. Uh, this was a couple of days ago, all those same Texas Democrats were out in

00:27:46.480 front of the Capitol and they, uh, spontaneously broke out into song and it's, it's way worse than

00:27:52.420 you even could imagine that it would be. Let's listen. I turn it back over to you for the questions

00:27:58.900 and, uh, thank you very much for all that you and all of your colleagues are doing here today.

00:28:04.860 Thank you. Thank you, Ms. T. Thank you, members of Congress. Uh, we'll take a few questions.

00:28:34.840 Oh my gosh. They sound like a bucket of cats falling over a waterfall or something.

00:28:46.700 That is one of the worst musical performances I've ever heard. I feel kind of bad for the two

00:28:53.380 guys in the front there because they didn't know that was going to happen. You could tell they didn't

00:28:56.780 know that was going to happen. And now they're stuck having to sing and they're, and they're the

00:29:00.360 ones right in front of the microphone. And you can tell they're doing the lip sync thing a little

00:29:05.180 bit. Um, but this is, they, they, they, well, they're, they're freedom fighters singing. We shall

00:29:12.620 overcome. It's a, it's a very awkward performance. Let's just say that they're putting in here

00:29:19.280 playing the part of quote freedom fighters, but they don't have to play it convincingly because again,

00:29:25.300 they got the media on their side. All right, next state representative John Thompson of Minnesota

00:29:30.900 was, um, pulled over a couple of weeks ago, um, in St. Paul and surprise, surprise. He immediately

00:29:42.220 decided that he was, uh, racially profiled. And I don't know how well we can hear this, but here he

00:29:48.340 is at, he was at, he was, uh, he was pulled over. This was on, I don't know, July 5th or 6th. And,

00:29:53.340 uh, and then a few days later he attended a memorial for Philando Castile. And that is where I think he

00:29:58.500 first shared his, his harrowing tale of being racially profiled supposedly by the police. Let's

00:30:04.080 listen to that.

00:30:05.080 It should be a profile for me too. Uh, in fact, I was just pulled over Saturday,

00:30:08.700 you know, pretext will stop it. You know, you don't have a front license plate. Yeah. I got a

00:30:14.360 ticket for my license. Anyway, I thought we weren't doing pretext with stops here in this state.

00:30:20.420 Listen, but we are, just so we clear. You're getting driving while black tickets here in this

00:30:26.180 state, mess back in St. Paul. Um, you know, so let's just call it what it is. That's right.

00:30:31.360 Yeah. But they turned deadly. You know, these, these traffic stops turned deadly, you know,

00:30:36.640 cause I'm in my car with this baseball hat, you know, and you can't tell I'm the state representative

00:30:41.660 of John Thompson. Neither should I have to, to, to change my clothes. That's right. That part.

00:30:46.180 Listen. Yo, I'm a, I'm a Minnesota state representative. I'm a lawmaker here. I can wear what I want to

00:30:52.000 wear. That's right. I don't have to be profiled. That part. Ridiculous. Yo. And it was, by the way,

00:30:56.880 there's a sergeant here in St. Paul. Wait. Okay. So he was pulled over, um, as you heard him

00:31:04.060 described there, uh, saying it was a pretextual stop and, uh, basically racially profiled. They're

00:31:12.100 just looking for an excuse because they saw, according to him, they saw a black man in a car

00:31:15.240 with a hat on and they said, uh, let's, let's pull him over. I guess his, his claim, what's being

00:31:21.560 claimed here is that what cops, every time they see a black guy in a car, they just automatically pull

00:31:25.920 him over. Cause there's, there's a problem there because, you know, if, if that's how

00:31:34.260 you operated as a police officer in St. Paul, you'd never be able to do anything else aside 0.95

00:31:39.980 from just pull over black drivers. It's, it's just kind of an absurd claim. Now he got pulled 0.84

00:31:46.640 over because he didn't have a front license plate. You're supposed to have a front license

00:31:50.560 plate. Um, you could say it's a ticky tack thing to get pulled over for that. Okay.

00:31:55.920 Maybe it is. We see, we could have a conversation about cops pulling people over on ticky tack

00:32:03.160 things. You know, you get pulled over given a ticket cause your, you know, headlight is

00:32:09.980 out or something. There's an argument for that as well, because that's a safety issue, but

00:32:14.040 we could talk about that. We, police officers spending far too much time on this kind of

00:32:19.440 thing. Are there more important things they could be doing? Are there other things that

00:32:23.900 they themselves would probably prefer to be doing? So that's a, that's a perfectly reasonable

00:32:30.220 conversation. The problem is that the, that conversation gets totally drowned out by all

00:32:37.740 of the racial rhetoric because it has to become a racial issue. Nevermind the fact that I myself

00:32:45.700 have gotten pulled over because if I've gotten pulled over for that exact reason, actually not

00:32:50.960 having a front license plate, depending on the state you're in, um, you know, in, in Tennessee,

00:32:56.700 you don't have to have front license plate, but depending on the state you're in, that's,

00:32:59.820 you're supposed to have one. I've been pulled over for that. And yeah, it was kind of annoying.

00:33:04.480 Why are you bothering me about this? Does it really matter? Who even cares if I have a front

00:33:08.920 license plate, but it's the law, the cops enforcing it. I was respectful. That was it. It was,

00:33:16.820 the interaction was over in, in five minutes and I went about my day.

00:33:22.760 I didn't try to escalate it into something else because I didn't want it to turn into anything

00:33:27.800 else. I just wanted to get back to my day. That's it. I didn't want this to be a thing,

00:33:32.120 but representative John Thompson decided to make it into a thing. And, uh, and then there was a big

00:33:39.000 controversy around this. And finally, St. Paul police chief, Todd Axtell, uh, he decided to fight back.

00:33:45.800 And, you know, he said, he said he was going to look into it and he did. And then he came out and

00:33:50.880 said that this, the whole stop was by the books. It was completely fine. Nothing inappropriate

00:33:56.280 happened at all. And he was pulled over because he didn't have the front license plate. And then

00:34:00.200 they found out that he was driving on a suspended license as well. Um, and then they also, and the

00:34:07.220 police chief not only explained this, but he demand, he is now demanding an apology from the state

00:34:12.840 representative, which is exactly, see going on the offense. That is the, that's the right approach.

00:34:20.120 It's one thing to be defensive and say, Hey, gee, we looked into it. And no, I don't think that the,

00:34:24.060 uh, our officer did anything wrong. That's one thing you got to go a step further and say, no,

00:34:30.060 nothing wrong. There was nothing bad that happened here. You know, it, okay. You're defaming this

00:34:35.560 person. You need to apologize. You're the bad guy here. That's what the police chief is doing to

00:34:40.840 his credit. He also released the body cam footage and, uh, the whole thing, it's, it's raw footage,

00:34:45.780 like 15 minutes long. Nothing of note happens except for at the very end when representative,

00:34:52.820 um, Thompson starts claiming to the police officer that he's being racially profiled. Here's what

00:34:58.560 happened there.

00:34:59.120 What did you pull me over again, man? No front plate. And then the way you took off from the light

00:35:04.420 back there. I'm too old to run from the police, man. You profiled me because you looked me dead in

00:35:08.840 the face and I got a ticket for driving while black. You pulled me over because you saw a black face in 1.00

00:35:13.080 this car, brother. And you, I know, there's no way in here I'm taking off with you behind me.

00:35:17.660 You looked at me in this car. You looked in this car and busted, you turned and got behind my car.

00:35:22.040 And that's the reason why you, I know, I know. But what, what I'm saying is what you're doing is wrong

00:35:26.480 to black men and you need to stop that. Thank you so much. But this ticket means nothing to me. No, 1.00

00:35:30.980 no, no, no. I'm going to, I'm going to always have a great day. What I'm saying to you is stop racially 0.84

00:35:34.800 profiling black men in their cars, sir. Stop doing that. Yes, you were. Yes, you were. Yes, 0.99

00:35:39.740 you were. You saw a black man driving in this car. It don't make no difference. You pulled me over 0.99

00:35:45.880 because you're profiling me. There's no way he could be convinced otherwise, because what we're

00:35:51.120 told now is, this is where we're at. According to BLM and guys like Representative Thompson there,

00:35:59.600 anytime a police officer pulls over a black person, it's racial profiling. Doesn't matter

00:36:05.580 the reason. Every single time. You know, it's, it's an unfalsifiable claim. He's waving the ticket

00:36:13.520 around saying, see, you're taking me for, for driving while black. No, I did. I, the ticket is

00:36:17.360 for not having a front license plate. I've given out a lot of tickets for that, the white and black

00:36:21.280 people. You don't like that law or that rule. Take it up with your legislator. You are a legislator.

00:36:27.420 Maybe you should pass a law or something. If you don't like that rule.

00:36:31.800 That's, that's the great irony here that I almost missed until just right now.

00:36:37.180 A lot of times the problem that you think you have with the police, it's not with the police.

00:36:42.100 It's with the people making these laws. If you don't want the police enforcing these laws,

00:36:47.120 take it up with the people who made them. Cops are not, are not lawmakers. They're law enforcers.

00:36:57.540 And so if you don't think that there's ever an appropriate time for a police officer to pull

00:37:02.000 a black man over on a, on a, on a charge like that, and that charge shouldn't exist.

00:37:08.080 All right. Finally, I wanted to mention this very briefly. Um, if we have time USA today story here,

00:37:19.000 uh, I don't think there's ever been a time when lots of people in media have been freaking out

00:37:23.760 about some gun related thing. And I find myself agreeing with them, but today is the exception

00:37:28.740 and I'm not freaking out, I should say. So it's not full agreement, but I agree with the criticism.

00:37:32.460 I have to say there's, so there's first time for everything. So here's, here's the, um, the thing

00:37:36.100 that has prompted the backlash, much of it from the anti-gun crowd. And it's a gun. It's a real

00:37:41.700 gun. You can see the picture there, a real functional gun made to look like a Lego toy.

00:37:46.880 So here's a story from USA today. They say a Utah based gun company faces backlash this week

00:37:51.020 after selling a Glock handgun, a handgun casing that transforms the weapon to look like a children's

00:37:56.700 Lego toy. The gun company Culper Precision agreed to remove the product from its website and not make

00:38:01.520 or sell anything like this in the future. After Lego reached out, according to a statement from

00:38:05.240 Lego to USA Today, the Block 19 kick, which, uh, borrows from Lego's characteristic red, blue,

00:38:10.940 and yellow brick design debuted last week with a website set website page touting it as a, as super

00:38:16.720 fun. The site said, quote, this is just one small way to break the rhetoric from anti-gun folks and

00:38:22.120 draw attention to the fact that the shooting sports, that the shooting sport is super fun. Um, here's

00:38:29.940 the thing. Guns are fun. Shooting is fun. 30 rounds full auto is fun. And, uh, this was supposed

00:38:38.620 to, this was supposed to what break the rhetoric from the anti-gun crowd. No, you've just given

00:38:43.940 them ammunition, so to speak in an almost literal way. This, this, this, this will really show the

00:38:51.560 anti-gun crowd. What's what? And then a few days later, you're taking the thing off in shame. Yeah,

00:38:59.200 this is a stupid and horrible idea. Um, and I don't need to give you the whole disclaimer about 1.00

00:39:04.420 how I'm a gun owner and a second amendment absolutist and all of that because I am, and you already know

00:39:09.620 that, but it's in part because I'm a gun owner and I take this stuff seriously that I hate this so

00:39:13.960 much. First of all, guns are not toys. Okay. Yeah. It's fun to go shoot. Shooting is a fun hobby.

00:39:20.820 Collecting guns is fun. All that stuff is fun. Nothing wrong with that stuff being fun. It's

00:39:24.760 still not a toy though. Um, it's a weapon and yes, it's up to you to practice good gun safety,

00:39:31.380 keep your weapons locked up and all of that out of reach of children, but to go out of your way to

00:39:36.180 intentionally make a gun enticing to small children, to intentionally purposefully make it

00:39:41.600 look like a toy to kids. That's inexcusable. And there's no reason to do it. The only reason to

00:39:46.640 do it is, is, um, it looks cool. And it doesn't, by the way, it looks gaudy and hideous, but looking

00:39:52.800 cool doesn't outweigh the downside, which is pretty severe. And by the way, speaking of police officers,

00:39:58.960 if gun, if gun companies were to go in this direction and start making guns that look like this,

00:40:04.020 now you've just made a cop's job a thousand times harder.

00:40:07.580 And now you've put them in an even more impossible situation and you put a lot of

00:40:14.780 potentially innocent people in danger, including kids. So horrible idea. And I'm glad they took it

00:40:18.780 down. All right, let's move on now to reading the YouTube comments. Um,

00:40:23.580 let's see. Uh, go here first. Free T spirit says, uh, referring to the, he's referring to the video of

00:40:34.040 the man trying to breastfeed, which we played yesterday. So this is a thousand percent disgusting 0.99

00:40:38.000 and child abuse. I've just thrown up in my own mouth. It is disgusting and child abuse, but I have 0.98

00:40:43.780 to say, um, not to play semantics here, but I'm interested in your use of the word own. I've just

00:40:50.860 thrown up in my own mouth. In who, in who else's mouth would you throw up in? I guess is my question.

00:40:58.280 Don't answer that. Rod Royal says IPAs are for the pretentious Miller light actually tastes great.

00:41:06.660 It doesn't taste like anything. What do you mean? It tastes great. I don't get this. This thing you

00:41:11.480 hear from people. I it's a pretentious to drink an IPA. So flavor is pretentious. Beer is supposed

00:41:17.600 to have flavor. That's why it exists. So it's pretentious for a thing to actually perform its

00:41:22.400 intended function. You're saying, is it pretentious for a car to start when you turn the ignition?

00:41:29.920 Do you get mad when your car starts and you say, man, this thing is so pretentious.

00:41:34.820 Calm down car. What are you trying to prove here?

00:41:38.760 That's why beer exists. At least it's one of the reasons. That's why I drink it. Cause it tastes

00:41:42.760 great. Miller light. It's not even that it tastes bad. It has no taste at all.

00:41:46.320 Um, Spencer says small families are not happier in any way. I was an only child. My parents were

00:41:55.300 not happy and I was pretty lonely. I have made it one of my most important life goals to have at

00:41:59.080 least three kids. I have one already and we'll have another two if possible. Megan and Harry can

00:42:02.820 go to hell. Uh, yeah, I, I, I look any size family can be happy, but the idea that you maximize 0.99

00:42:10.620 happiness in a family by having fewer kids, uh, is absurd. And finally, Scott says day 100 of begging

00:42:20.440 Matt to play the banjo for us. Well, Scott, I know I did promise. I do. I remember my promises

00:42:26.280 and I know I promised, and you've been putting this in the comments for a hundred days. And I promised

00:42:30.500 a while ago that if you keep this going for a hundred days, I will play the banjo.

00:42:35.120 And I am a man of my word. I have a few moments. We are running a little bit behind, but, um,

00:42:42.600 I have a few moments. So I can now play you a little ditty on the banjo as an avid banjo player

00:42:51.040 myself. I do this all the time that all the offices here are constantly filled with the noise of me,

00:42:56.560 the beautiful sounds of me playing the banjo because I'm such an avid banjo player. Um,

00:43:01.040 but before I play, I just got to make sure I get this thing tuned. Like I said, we only have a

00:43:07.000 couple of a moment or two, but I'll just, let me get this thing tuned and then I'll play something

00:43:10.080 for you. Just got to make sure. I obviously know how to tune a banjo because I play banjo so often.

00:43:17.080 Okay. I think that's tuned. Um, and then you just want to, you want to tap on it,

00:43:22.180 make sure there's nothing inside it, like any small animals. No. Okay.

00:43:27.220 Okay. Just give it a sniff, make sure it's still good. You know, it hasn't been left out in the sun

00:43:34.620 or anything. And, uh, let me just get it tuned real quick again. Just gonna make sure I tune it.

00:43:41.620 Um, cause I, look, I made a promise. I'm going to, I'm going to keep my promise. Okay. I think it's tuned.

00:43:49.020 Um, yeah, feels right. Let me tune it again.

00:43:58.940 All right. And, uh, uh, well, yeah, actually it's, we, we just ran out of time. I'm sorry. I, uh,

00:44:06.080 I only had a few moments and we just ran out of time. I got to move on to the next segment. I really,

00:44:10.600 I really wanted to play it. I was going to play it. Uh, it was my plan, but we just ran out of time.

00:44:16.000 Um, I think that qualifies though, as keeping my promises, which I always do. You know, if Candace

00:44:22.500 frequents anything, it's the trending sidebar on Twitter and her own show, uh, which is good that

00:44:28.260 she frequents her own show. You know, I've, I've found generally, you want to make sure that you're

00:44:31.760 frequenting your shows. I'm just reading the copy. That's what they told me to say. And I'm saying it.

00:44:35.820 I'm a parrot. I just read what's put in front of me, whether she's calling Donald Trump, uh, or joking

00:44:40.100 with Adam Carolla or sitting down with MMA fighter Benil Darish to discuss the Marxist ideology his family

00:44:45.200 is fleeing from. You can be sure any time spent watching Candace is time well spent. She will be

00:44:50.460 there. She'll be frequenting, but she'll also be offering her opinions, which are always very

00:44:53.580 interesting. Her latest episode dropped this week. So if you haven't tuned in yet, I highly recommend

00:44:57.580 that you do. You can watch Candace live every day or rather every Tuesday at 9 p.m. Eastern, 8 p.m.

00:45:02.280 Central only on dailywire.com slash Candace. Uh, I don't know about you, but, uh, I for one love

00:45:08.620 my freedom, even though I'm an authoritarian theocratic fascist, I enjoy my own freedom.

00:45:14.740 At least, uh, I in no way intend to allow an authoritarian dictator to take it from me and

00:45:19.260 to replace it with baseless lockdown measures or the indoctrination of my children into a leftist

00:45:23.220 cult and neither should you. And that's why Ben Shapiro wrote the authoritarian moment, because

00:45:27.880 if we want to shut down this ideology that, that, uh, precedes an authoritarian government,

00:45:33.700 we need to help every American understand as much as they can about how we reach this point.

00:45:38.640 And then really importantly, how we can actually fight back. What can we do going forward? So unless

00:45:43.540 you want to live under an authoritarian regime intent on decreasing your freedom and increasing

00:45:47.500 their power, it's time to start fighting back, get the authoritarian moment. Uh, and you can do that

00:45:52.100 by pre-ordering on Amazon now or Barnes and Noble or at any other major bookseller, uh, to get your copy.

00:45:57.780 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:46:03.700 You know, we have on the show reviewed many different types of TikTok videos, which, uh,

00:46:07.380 I'm sure you've noticed and are grateful for, but the one genre we haven't spent much time on

00:46:11.960 is abortion TikTok. It's mostly for my own sanity and emotional health that I've avoided

00:46:15.960 wading into these waters. And yet I find that I can no longer avoid it, especially as I so often

00:46:20.740 see these videos posted on Twitter or Facebook by people who sincerely believe that some sort of

00:46:25.500 brilliant and unanswerable argument has been presented. So for our daily cancellation today,

00:46:30.580 we're going to play some of these clips and respond to them. Now, there are many abortion

00:46:35.460 related videos on the platform where women simply brag about their own abortions and pretend to think

00:46:40.940 that it's funny that they've just murdered their own child. Those are horrifying and sad and

00:46:45.840 infuriating and evil, but there isn't much else to say about them and certainly no reason to play them.

00:46:51.240 It's no mystery why a woman might react that way to her abortion. It's a rationalization. 0.97

00:46:55.960 It's a defense mechanism. These are women who've done a horrible thing and they know they've done 1.00

00:47:00.980 a horrible thing at some level. They know it. And now they're overcompensating because people who

00:47:05.400 are happy about the decisions they make don't have to make videos convincing strangers that they're

00:47:10.680 happy about their decisions as a general rule. Now, it may be true that some of these women have 1.00

00:47:15.020 successfully deluded themselves, but that only lasts so long. The fact is, despite what lies the

00:47:19.480 abortion industry tells, abortion is not the undoing of a pregnancy. It's not a reset or reverse button

00:47:27.040 allowing you to go back to being a happy, carefree, childless person. In pregnancy, you become a mother.

00:47:34.380 In abortion, you become the mother of a dead child. So there's a loss. There's an absence.

00:47:40.640 And you will feel it eventually. That's a fact.

00:47:43.080 So all of the videos you see, I'm so happy about it. These are people who have deluded

00:47:51.460 themselves and that's all that is. Let's move on to the actual arguments. We're going to play a few

00:47:56.300 videos here of people on TikTok presenting their best arguments for abortion. And let's start with

00:48:03.640 this one. If a 16 year old wanted to adopt a child, the government wouldn't allow it. She isn't done with

00:48:11.320 her education. She isn't financially stable yet. And she isn't a legal adult. But if she gets pregnant, 1.00

00:48:19.980 the government can ban her from getting an abortion. How is that logical? 0.95

00:48:26.940 A few issues here. First of all, 16 year olds are not banned from getting abortions. So the whole

00:48:34.280 premise of this argument is wrong. They're not. 16 year olds can get abortions, unfortunately. 0.99

00:48:41.320 They can get abortions. Though in some states they need parental consent. In other states,

00:48:44.760 they don't need parental consent at all. They can just walk in and get the abortion. 1.00

00:48:47.900 So no need to worry, ma'am. Your dreams have come true. Teenage girls can kill their babies 1.00

00:48:52.060 and are killing their babies. So your utopia is a reality. Congratulations. 1.00

00:48:57.500 Let's pretend that you're correct for a moment. Let's pretend that 16 year olds can't adopt,

00:49:03.760 which they can't, and also can't get abortions. And you think there's some kind of conflict between

00:49:09.560 these two propositions. You ask how this would be logical. Well, let me tell you. Because the common

00:49:16.640 thread is one of mental competence, maturity. A 16 year old isn't mentally competent enough to adopt.

00:49:23.200 She also isn't mentally competent enough to make the decision to take someone's life. 1.00

00:49:27.460 That's a bit of a misnomer because nobody should be able to do that. There's no level of mental

00:49:32.880 competence that should permit you to kill a baby. Even so, abortion is a choice which has a profound

00:49:39.040 impact on two lives, at least. Her own as the mother and the life of her child, which she is ending.

00:49:47.980 I would call that a profound impact. Is a 16 year old old enough to analyze those ramifications and

00:49:53.920 make a properly informed choice? No. But then if she doesn't have the abortion, she'll be a mother, 1.00

00:50:00.020 you say. So what about that? No, you're wrong. She's already a mother, as we have previously

00:50:07.560 established. She's a mother at conception. The human has been conceived. That's done. That part is over, 0.84

00:50:14.060 completed, fulfilled. The question is what to do about this child or with this child.

00:50:20.080 You say she isn't old enough to care for the child. So what? She's old enough to kill it? 0.98

00:50:26.500 I say that's insane and morally grotesque and evil and also illogical.

00:50:32.000 Instead, we could try to find someone who can care for the child if she can't.

00:50:37.960 And by the way, we hear about the kids who are up for adoption and they can't find anyone to adopt

00:50:46.380 them. And okay, well, it sounds so easy. You put the child up for adoption, put the baby up for

00:50:50.560 adoption. Then they're just going to be in the system forever and no one's going to adopt them.

00:50:54.160 That's not true. Okay. Now it is true, sadly and tragically, that older kids who end up in the

00:51:02.120 system, oftentimes it's very difficult to find a family that will take them in. That's a terrible

00:51:07.060 thing. That is not the case for babies. There is a waiting list, a million miles long of families

00:51:15.840 waiting to adopt babies. So a 16 year old can't, has a baby, can't care for the baby. You put that

00:51:26.620 child up for adoption and he will be adopted by a loving family very quickly. One other thought

00:51:34.620 though, you don't think 16 year olds are old enough to be parents. Okay. Are they old enough

00:51:38.880 to choose their gender? What do you think about that? I think I already know your answer. Let's 0.86

00:51:44.120 watch another and see if these arguments get any better. Let's talk about abortion and specifically

00:51:49.660 the heartbeat bill. When someone gets in an accident and they're considered brain dead, no one considers

00:51:54.660 it morally wrong to pull that person's plug or end their life. Because although that person has a

00:51:59.800 beating heart, they aren't a conscious being. They have no brain activity. Here's another example.

00:52:04.620 Why do most people not consider it morally wrong to kill an insect, but do consider it morally wrong

00:52:10.160 to kill a cat or a dog? They both have beating hearts. The difference between the two is level

00:52:15.780 of consciousness. A dog is very aware of its existence and creates relationships with the

00:52:20.880 things around them. Whereas an insect just lives off of instinct. They aren't aware that they exist.

00:52:25.360 They just do. The thing I'm really confused about is why all of a sudden when it comes to abortion,

00:52:29.800 we allow a beating heart to signify life. When in all other aspects of our life,

00:52:34.360 a beating heart doesn't mean anything. What matters is level of consciousness. And a fetus

00:52:39.440 in the first trimester does not have consciousness. I don't know where to begin here. She's built a 0.68

00:52:45.680 tower of false assumptions and baseless assertions, all resting on a false premise taped up with red

00:52:50.740 herrings and non sequiturs. So let's run through some things very quickly. Number one, you have no idea

00:52:55.660 how much consciousness a quote fetus possesses. Number two, you have no idea if a dog is aware of its

00:53:00.880 existence. I doubt that it is personally. Does a dog have an eye concept? Is it aware of itself

00:53:07.240 as an eye, a self? Can a dog think to itself and can it think, oh, I am doing this? I am doing that?

00:53:17.860 I doubt it. We could debate that, but nobody really knows. Number three, you say heartbeat doesn't matter

00:53:22.760 in any other area of life. Really? So it's all about consciousness? So you're arguing that it should

00:53:26.760 be considered morally permissible to kill anything that is not conscious or that we assume isn't

00:53:31.960 conscious? Okay, then, well, how would you feel if I went and chopped down a hundred trees for no 0.89

00:53:35.920 reason? Let's start with that. What if I captured a thousand eagles and shot them all and threw their

00:53:41.000 bodies in a dumpster? How would that rub you? Are eagles more conscious than unborn children? I don't 1.00

00:53:46.660 think so. Four, if consciousness is the measure of worth, then what about levels of consciousness

00:53:52.200 among and within born humans? Consciousness is not one set thing. There are degrees of it.

00:54:01.420 A one-year-old is conscious, but certainly is less aware than a 10-year-old. Does a 10-year-old then

00:54:07.560 possess more moral worth? What about a 30-year-old as compared to an 85-year-old dementia patient?

00:54:12.320 So you've created this scale of worth, this way of measuring things, and I don't think you've

00:54:16.360 thought about where it leads, or maybe you have, which is even worse. Number five, here's a big one,

00:54:21.480 important point. Even if I agreed with your whole premise and all of your assertions, which I don't,

00:54:26.380 you've got a major problem. The unborn child, unlike the brain-dead person or the insect,

00:54:30.960 is only in this limited conscious state temporarily. We know that he will soon have more consciousness.

00:54:38.200 He is headed towards that point with every passing second, inevitably, if you leave him to his own

00:54:42.960 devices. So what if we knew, take the brain-dead person, what if we knew that person would wake up

00:54:51.540 in three weeks? Still okay to kill them? See, that's the real analogy here. A person with limited 0.99

00:54:58.660 mental functioning who we know, for a fact, will soon have full mental functioning. In any other

00:55:04.980 context, would you say that it's okay to exploit that limited window of reduced consciousness and kill

00:55:09.760 the person? Hey, he's not conscious right now. Let's kill him. But that's bad news for anyone

00:55:16.780 who's ever, I don't know, gone to sleep. Let's try one more video.

00:55:23.600 Do conservatives realize that by banning abortion, their taxes are going to go up by a lot?

00:55:31.620 Rich women will always have access to abortion, no matter what the law is. They will always be able 1.00

00:55:36.860 to get it. So forcing poor women to have children that they cannot afford, even in the cases of rape

00:55:44.100 and incest, means the state has to pay for it, meaning your tax dollars. Romania's welfare system 0.81

00:55:51.780 completely collapsed when they banned abortion in the 70s. And at that time, their population was

00:55:57.760 about 20 million. Texas has a population of 29 million.

00:56:04.200 Wow. Mic drop. Mind blown. Taxes will go up? Do I realize that taxes will go up if abortion is 1.00

00:56:12.800 banned? Here's a better question. Do I give a damn? See, I'm not sure if your assumptions are

00:56:19.180 actually true or not, that taxes will go up. But if they are, who cares? Do you realize that the whole

00:56:24.940 point of the pro-life cause, the whole argument we're making is that human life has objective

00:56:28.400 and inherent value? Our point is that a human's value is not contingent on how convenient that

00:56:33.420 life is to those around it. If we believe that, we'd be pro-abortion like you, but we don't. So we're

00:56:38.740 not. So if taxes go up because abortion is banned, okay, I don't like paying taxes, but I'm not going to

00:56:46.040 support mass slaughter and genocide just to avoid it. I mean, we could also reduce our taxes by just

00:56:53.840 killing everybody on welfare right now. How does that strike you? See, I'm not a murderous sociopath 0.95

00:57:02.260 who reduces human life down to a matter of mere dollars and cents. That's not my gig. That's not my

00:57:08.000 stance. It's yours, remember? So speak for yourself. Or better yet, stop speaking because you and the rest

00:57:16.180 of abortion TikTok are today absolutely canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for

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The Matt Walsh Show - July 15, 2021

Ep. 754 - When The Left Eats Itself

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