The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 757 - Yes Of Course We Should Legislate Morality

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, many people claim that we should not be legislating morality or

00:00:05.080 forcing our morality on others. I disagree. I think that's exactly what we should do,

00:00:08.800 and I'll explain why today. And our five headlines, Jeff Bezos launches himself into

00:00:12.960 space. The American Academy of Pediatrics calls for children to wear masks as the new school year

00:00:18.180 starts, as we remain stuck in this never-ending time warp. And also new and damning revelations

00:00:23.780 about the state representative of Minnesota who claims he was racially profiled during a traffic

00:00:28.180 stop. And NPR puts out a hit piece on The Daily Wire, and in our daily cancellation, we'll discuss

00:00:33.340 a viral video which shows that some Americans literally don't know what century they're

00:00:38.160 currently living in. All of that and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:06.300 Now, we discussed yesterday the story of the self-proclaimed conservative porn star,

00:02:10.620 quote-unquote, who has found many defenders on the right after she was kicked out of a conference 0.98

00:02:14.600 for conservative high school students. Today, it's apparently consistent with our values to have

00:02:18.740 hardcore porn stars at events for teenagers. In a few years, no doubt, these same conservatives will

00:02:23.400 be insisting that just because someone is in a cannibal sex cult, that shouldn't preclude them 0.93

00:02:28.260 from becoming a youth pastor. Dems are the real cannibal phobes. But I've already said all that 1.00

00:02:34.300 needs to be said on that topic and probably more than needs to be said about it, as is my custom.

00:02:39.240 Instead, I'd like to focus in on and analyze a claim that's been made in relation to this subject,

00:02:44.460 and has also been made, of course, countless times before. The claim that you're familiar with

00:02:49.200 is that we should not be trying to enforce our morality or legislate our morality or impose

00:02:56.060 our morality. Instead, we should be advocates for freedom. We should simply leave people alone and

00:03:01.460 let them live as they choose. You've heard this, I'm sure, over and over again. Maybe you've said

00:03:05.740 it yourself over and over again. Never mind that this really has nothing to do with the porn star at the

00:03:09.760 student conference thing. It doesn't, but that's fine. It's an interesting discussion nonetheless.

00:03:13.580 And it's important because it brings us back to some very fundamental questions.

00:03:18.240 So, should we want to enforce our morality or even legislate our morality, thereby imposing it

00:03:26.840 on other people who may or may not agree with it? The answer is, emphatically, yes, we should.

00:03:33.960 Definitely. So, here's a basic concept, and we can't get anywhere, really, until we've grasped it.

00:03:40.340 All laws are based in morality. Every piece of legislation ever written anywhere on earth for

00:03:50.500 all of time has legislated morality. Every law everywhere always represents an imposition of

00:03:59.600 morality. Everyone who lives in a country governed by laws lives, therefore, in a country where morality

00:04:07.340 is being forced on them. There are no exceptions to this. You cannot escape it. Laws against murder,

00:04:14.660 everyone agrees with those, except if it's murder inside the womb. But laws against murder are based

00:04:21.420 on the belief that murder is evil. If murder was not evil, then it shouldn't be illegal. If murder was

00:04:28.060 good, then we should be allowed to do it. Nothing that is truly good should be illegal. That doesn't mean

00:04:33.140 that all evil things should be illegal, necessarily, but it does mean that only what is evil should be

00:04:39.580 illegal, and all that is good should be legal. Everyone basically agrees with this intuitively

00:04:44.840 until it's pointed out. So, what I just said there, that's how everyone operates. You just assume that

00:04:51.360 until someone says it out loud, and then for some reason, many people become disturbed by the belief

00:04:56.660 that they themselves have always held without fully realizing it. This applies with the really

00:05:02.580 important laws. The big laws, like the laws against murder, goes all the way down to traffic laws.

00:05:07.480 The law requiring you to wear a seatbelt is grounded in the idea that seatbelts protect people from harm,

00:05:12.380 and it's morally good to protect people from harm. Every law either forbids people from doing something

00:05:19.880 or requires them to do something. I can't really think of any law that doesn't do, in effect, one of

00:05:27.200 those things. Why are we forbidding people from doing that thing, whatever it is? Well, because that

00:05:32.180 thing is bad, or so the government claims. Why are we requiring them to do something? Well, because

00:05:38.200 that thing is good, or so the government claims. Obviously, the moral code that informs any given law can be

00:05:44.740 wrong, horribly wrong in some cases, but there must be some kind of moral code. If you dig to the bottom

00:05:50.920 of any law, and you find that there is no moral code or moral claim informing it, then that law

00:05:57.740 should be, then that law by definition would be arbitrary, which would make it tyrannical, and it

00:06:02.360 shouldn't exist. I mean, what would an amoral or non-moral law even be? How would it be justified?

00:06:10.480 What would that look like? What would it sound like? A legislator would say, I'm introducing a

00:06:16.540 bill to make it illegal to wear a red shirt on Tuesdays between three and four o'clock.

00:06:21.580 And the public would say, would ask, why? Why that law? Is it harmful? Is it bad to wear a red

00:06:26.960 shirt during that time? Where is this coming from? No, no, no. It isn't bad, but still, it should be

00:06:32.620 illegal. At least I'm not legislating morality. Even the people who say they don't want the government

00:06:38.900 to legislate morality would have a problem with a law like that precisely because it doesn't

00:06:44.620 legislate morality. Whenever a law is proposed, the first thing everyone wants to know is whether

00:06:51.940 that law has a moral basis. That's like the only thing anyone cares about with any law. That's what

00:06:59.360 every argument about every law is really about. If a law doesn't have a moral basis or if the moral

00:07:06.420 argument for it is not persuasive, then we oppose the law. This is how everyone operates, even as

00:07:12.820 most of us claim that we don't want any laws to be based on morality. And that's because we're very

00:07:18.160 confused. And we haven't taken even 15 seconds to figure out what we actually believe and why we

00:07:24.160 believe it. Now, the way people try to get around this is by saying, well, I don't want laws that are

00:07:30.320 moral or religious. I just want the law to protect my rights. That's all I want. Now, people should be

00:07:35.940 able to do whatever they want as long as they aren't hurting me or taking my rights away.

00:07:41.240 There are a number of serious problems with that logic, starting with the fact that the whole idea

00:07:45.480 of your rights is a religious idea from the start. I hate to tell you. It is, well, I don't hate to

00:07:54.100 tell you, but you might hate to hear it. It is almost entirely based on the belief, human rights, I mean,

00:08:00.480 entirely based on the belief that we are created by a supernatural power and imbued with these human

00:08:06.860 rights during that process. That's what it says in the Declaration of Independence. And that's really

00:08:13.380 the only basis for inherent human rights that anyone has ever come up with. The doctrine of human rights

00:08:20.520 is just that. It's a doctrine. Human rights were not discovered by science. They aren't a fact that can be

00:08:28.000 seen. You can't open up someone's body during an autopsy and say, well, that's where the human rights are

00:08:33.680 right there. Doesn't work that way. They don't exist, human rights, in any physical sense except written in the

00:08:42.240 law. But we all believe or claim to believe that the law doesn't invent the right so much as protect what is

00:08:47.380 already inherently, though invisibly present. If the government invented rights, if the government

00:08:53.680 decided who has rights and who doesn't, then you'd never be able to claim that the government is

00:08:57.400 infringing on your rights because they're the ones who decide. So if you have ever claimed that the

00:09:02.740 government is infringing on your rights, then you are claiming that human rights are this inherent,

00:09:08.700 invisible, supernatural thing, which is a religious idea, a spiritual idea. If you believe in inherent

00:09:20.620 human rights, you are religious. You are. And aside from that, wherever these rights come from, 0.91

00:09:29.820 why exactly shouldn't someone take them away from you? Why shouldn't someone harm you?

00:09:34.760 I don't want anyone to legislate morality. I just don't think you should be hurting me.

00:09:41.320 Well, why not? Why shouldn't I go up and punch you right in the nose? Why shouldn't I shoot you in 1.00

00:09:46.140 the head? Yeah, because it hurts, I imagine. You don't like it. It would make you sad. 1.00

00:09:54.960 And then you'd be dead. Okay, but why should I give a damn about that? Why does that matter? 0.99

00:09:59.540 See, eventually, whether you like it or not, you have to say that your rights should be protected

00:10:06.360 and you should be preserved from physical harm because it's evil to take your rights away or

00:10:12.020 cause you harm. Whatever it is that you think should be legally prohibited, your reason for

00:10:18.080 holding that position is that you think that thing or that act is morally wrong.

00:10:22.500 What is the point here? Is this just semantics? No, this is as far from semantics as it gets.

00:10:32.860 What we're talking about is the nature of law itself. I would call that anything but semantics.

00:10:40.080 And we can't really have a coherent and fruitful conversation about laws unless we all understand

00:10:45.800 what they are and why they exist. That's why we don't have any fruitful conversations or debates

00:10:52.620 in this country at all because no one knows what they believe.

00:10:57.680 We're using a lot of terms, laws, rights, equality. Very few people have stopped to even think about

00:11:03.820 what they're saying or what any of that means or where it comes from.

00:11:07.040 Now, once we do understand these things, once we've all acknowledged that laws are moral constructs 0.85

00:11:14.460 by definition, and we've dispensed with this don't legislate morality silliness, this childish garbage,

00:11:22.620 then we can talk about the morals themselves. Because just because all laws have a moral basis,

00:11:28.320 that doesn't mean all laws are moral. Obviously not. The morals that the laws are rooted in can be wrong,

00:11:35.460 sometimes horrifically, murderously wrong, going back to abortion. The people who argue for the laws 0.52

00:11:45.300 that protect abortion rights, they're making a moral argument for those laws. Saying it's wrong to

00:11:54.440 infringe on a woman's bodily autonomy, so on and so forth. It's just that the moral argument they're

00:12:01.040 making is bad and wrong. See, our criticism of the law, in the case of abortion, for example,

00:12:09.000 is not that it has a moral basis. It's not that, oh, you're imposing morals on me.

00:12:14.380 It's that it has a bad moral basis. We want a law, a system, a country, a society grounded in good morals,

00:12:23.040 correct morals, not bad morals. Not to oversimplify, but that's it. We certainly don't want a country

00:12:30.240 grounded in no morals at all. We're not nihilists. Even most nihilists aren't really nihilists. If

00:12:36.320 they were really nihilists, they would have, they'd be dead by now from suicide. So this is what we have

00:12:41.580 to get around to, especially as conservatives. And it's a simple concept. We are fighting for a moral

00:12:48.380 society, moral laws, moral government. And that's a good thing to fight for. It's nothing to be ashamed

00:12:55.140 of. We should say it out loud and then get to work. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:14:01.540 slash careers. So Jeff Bezos launched himself into space. Today is the second billionaire in a week to do

00:14:09.240 that. Richard Branson was before him. The internet has reacted to this, and I think he launched this

00:14:15.680 morning, and I'm pretty sure he came back down safely. I never did check. I assume if Jeff Bezos

00:14:20.900 had exploded or was drifting off to Jupiter right now, I probably would have seen that in the news.

00:14:27.560 So he launched into space, came back down safely, and the internet has reacted to the news as you'd

00:14:33.620 expect. Lots of people complaining that Bezos is rich. There's a lot of that. Lots of people laughing

00:14:39.660 because the spaceship looks like a penis. Typical thoughtful type of analysis that you anticipate 0.99

00:14:46.600 from social media. And I'm okay with all that. You know, the phallus jokes, the general Jeff Bezos

00:14:52.140 hate, fine. I mean, the ship does look kind of like a penis, and that is sort of funny. And Jeff Bezos 0.99

00:14:57.360 is pretty awful. I'm certainly not a Jeff Bezos apologist or fan. However, what I can't abide are the

00:15:05.900 people acting like. It's insignificant or boring that private individuals are now launching themselves

00:15:12.460 into space. It's a big deal, and it does matter, and it's a good thing, and it's also impressive.

00:15:20.520 As much as I don't like Jeff Bezos, it is impressive that he started this company in his garage

00:15:26.820 30 years ago, and now he's launching himself into space with a rocket ship that he funded with his own

00:15:32.360 money. I mean, I'd call that impressive. We can acknowledge that, can't we?

00:15:41.600 But beyond that, beyond Jeff Bezos himself, you know, this is, it's a good development,

00:15:46.440 and it's exciting to be on the cusp of this. As I explained last week, yes, right now, suborbital

00:15:52.960 space is a playground for billionaires. That's true. That's what it is right now. But many new

00:15:59.200 advancements start that way. There was a time when a basic blender, you know, would have cost you the

00:16:04.120 equivalent of like 500 bucks. There was a time when only rich people had cars or microwaves or TVs,

00:16:11.660 you know, and the list goes on. But that's at the beginning. So we're at the beginning of something,

00:16:16.760 and with the government deciding not to push out into space and explore, because that's the other

00:16:23.900 thing I've heard that, oh, we, you know, we went to the moon decades ago, and now he's just going to

00:16:30.200 suborbital space. What's the big deal? That's not impressive. Well, I, again, I do think it's pretty

00:16:36.720 impressive to go to space at all. It's probably more impressive than anything you've done in your

00:16:39.580 life. Um, but, uh, even, even more than that, you know, the fact that we went to the moon and then

00:16:49.380 just stopped going, well, that's, that's the government. And so now we have private individuals,

00:16:56.020 private actors, um, who are pushing out, innovating and sparking perhaps what will be a new age

00:17:05.520 of discovery and innovation. How is that not exciting to you? I don't get it. Be excited about this.

00:17:15.120 Damn you. Um, and here's, here's the other thing you need. Yeah. Jeff Bezos is, uh, is an a-hole, 1.00

00:17:24.680 but you need rich a-holes to do stuff like this. I mean, history shows us that that's what you need.

00:17:31.360 Elon Musk wants to send people to Mars. Is that, is that insane to do that? Maybe.

00:17:38.300 Maybe. I mean, who would want to go to Mars right now? Even way in the future, there's actually some

00:17:45.440 sort of colony built on Mars. Who would want to go live there in this desolate wasteland where you

00:17:50.940 got to live in a bubble? Who would want to do that? I mean, I don't want to do it. I'm not signing up

00:17:54.200 for it. It's kind of a crazy thing to do. And you could argue all you want that is a massive waste of

00:18:01.580 money. Well, you need, if we want to push new boundaries and explore and discover and, um, expand

00:18:10.900 our horizons in a very little, literal sense, then you need people with lots of money at their disposal

00:18:17.420 who are willing to do things that seem insane and suicidal.

00:18:23.660 That's been the case for explorers and discoverers going back centuries and centuries.

00:18:27.060 And, uh, now you've got billionaires stepping up to do it. And, uh, I got to say, I mean, of all the

00:18:34.460 things they could be spending their money on, I think this is one of the best things they could

00:18:37.480 be spending their money on. I think it was Jeff Bezos also bought, I think he was the billionaire,

00:18:45.100 maybe it was someone else, another billionaire who bought one of the, recently bought one of the

00:18:48.720 biggest yachts in the world with its own pride, with its own backup yacht that goes with it,

00:18:53.420 its own support yacht. And you get a billionaire spending money on stuff like that. Um, which is

00:19:02.060 nothing but pure vanity and nothing more and vanity and luxury. This might be vanity too,

00:19:08.360 but it could take us, you know, in a, in a, in an exciting direction as a species. And so I'm in

00:19:15.000 favor of that. All right. This is from, uh, here's something that I'm not in favor of. This is from NBC.

00:19:20.160 It says everyone older than age two should wear masks, regardless of vaccination status. When

00:19:25.680 schools reopen in the fall, according to updated guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics

00:19:30.500 released on Monday, the leading national pediatrician group said it recommends universal masking

00:19:35.780 because so much of the student population isn't yet eligible for vaccination. It's not clear how

00:19:40.220 quickly that will change or how likely parents will be to get their younger children dosed when the

00:19:44.600 federal government approves shots for kids under 12. Uh, let me be one parent to step up right now and

00:19:49.860 say, even though I'm not sending my kids to public school, uh, my kids also certainly will not be

00:19:55.460 in line to get dosed whenever that possibility opens up for them. I will, we will be respectfully

00:20:02.880 declining. Thank you very much. Oh, you want to inject this, uh, drug into my children's arm to

00:20:08.620 protect them from an illness that poses almost no risks to that to them already. Tempting, but no,

00:20:15.180 thank you. Uh, it continues research consistently shows opening schools in person doesn't generally

00:20:22.080 increase community COVID transmission when masks and other protocols are employed and the emergence

00:20:27.460 of more contagious variants, some of which are linked to more severe outcomes poses a particular threat

00:20:32.340 to people who aren't vaccinated. Uh, and that's why we're going to put the masks on kids over the age of 1.00

00:20:39.500 two. So three-year-olds in preschool are going to be masked. Forget about the studies that have shown

00:20:46.340 that, that, uh, this is doing more harm than good because of all the bacteria and the grossness that's

00:20:51.740 accumulating in these masks. And these kids are breathing in all day to protect them from a virus

00:20:58.960 that once again poses almost no risk to them. And that was the case when this thing was raging out

00:21:04.320 of control and there was no vaccine and, uh, and very little herd immunity at all. That was the case

00:21:09.960 a year ago, a year and a half ago. We knew that there was no reason to shut the schools down or put

00:21:15.400 masks on kids last year. And how much more is that the case now when hundreds of millions of adults

00:21:25.540 have acquired immunity, either from prior infection or from the, from the vaccine?

00:21:30.840 There is no getting around this. It, it, it, it, it is just a fact that the flu poses a greater

00:21:41.980 threat to young kids, especially now than COVID ever has. That is a statistical fact.

00:21:52.680 So if we're putting masks on the kids for COVID, then they should just be wearing masks all the time,

00:21:57.920 everywhere, never ending. And if you, and if you're proposing, if you support masking kids now,

00:22:03.480 you should have been, you should have been arguing for that five years ago, 10 years ago. You should

00:22:08.120 have always been arguing for that. There's no getting around this. And so the people who advocate

00:22:17.080 masking kids, how do they get around it? They, they simply ignore this reality. You can't get them to

00:22:21.880 acknowledge it. You're, you, you can, you can try to beat this into their skulls as much as you 0.90

00:22:29.680 metaphorically, as much as you, as much as you want. There's, there is just a, there's a resistance

00:22:36.860 there. They have their own immunity. They're immune from reason and logic. I've tried this so many

00:22:46.560 times. I'm sure you have also, where they're talking to somebody in person or online and they

00:22:52.000 say, well, we need, we need masks on kids. It's still, it's still out there. They're not vaccinated.

00:22:56.780 Yes, but it poses almost no risk to them. The flu is a greater risk. What don't you understand

00:23:03.860 about you? Grab them by the collar. Why is this so difficult? And it's a blank stare.

00:23:11.400 Their brains have been so warped by the, by the panic porn being pushed on them that they can't,

00:23:20.200 it, it, it doesn't sink in. And it doesn't help when you got guys like Fauci who appeared on CNN

00:23:27.060 yesterday, uh, saying that, uh, the American Academy of Pediatrics telling us to muzzle our

00:23:33.520 three-year-olds. He says it's a, it's a reasonable thing to do. Let's listen to Fauci.

00:23:37.220 Well, I think that's along the same lines as what we've seen with the health authorities

00:23:42.340 in Los Angeles, which in the general population has said the same thing, that when you have

00:23:49.020 a degree of viral dynamics in the community and you have a substantial proportion of the population

00:23:57.540 that is unvaccinated, that you really want to go the extra step, the extra mile to make sure that

00:24:03.460 there's not a lot of transmission, even breakthrough infections among vaccinated individuals. And for

00:24:09.680 that reason, you can understand why the, uh, the American Academy of Pediatrics might want to do

00:24:17.340 that. They just want to be extra safe. I think, you know, it's important. The CDC recommendations

00:24:22.660 may be at variance with that, but in, in, in, in every respect, the CDC always leaves open

00:24:29.260 the flexibility at the part of local agencies, local enterprises, local cities and states to make

00:24:38.080 a judgment call based on the situation on the ground. So I think that the American Academy of

00:24:45.260 Pediatrics, you know, they're a thoughtful group. They analyze the situation. And if they feel that

00:24:49.980 that's the way to go, I think that's reasonable thing to do.

00:24:52.640 Yeah. Pure, pure, pure cowardice from Fauci. You can tell from his answer, I would almost prefer to

00:24:58.620 hear him. Uh, I would prefer not to hear him at all. Let me be clear, but it would be not quite as

00:25:08.160 bad, but still bad if he was more aggressive about it and said, Oh, absolutely. We need to have masks on

00:25:13.720 kids. You know, this is, this is what we need to do. And he was, he was much more direct and aggressive

00:25:18.400 about it, but you could tell from his answer that he knows that the kids don't need to wear masks. He knows

00:25:23.840 that he's just trying the best he can to rationalize what the American Academy of Pediatrics is saying

00:25:29.960 here for no reason other than, you know, there, he thinks they're sort of on the same team. He's going to

00:25:35.840 have their back. He doesn't care about the kids, much less about the truth, but, uh, the American Academy

00:25:41.580 of Pediatrics, maybe, maybe they go to the same cocktail parties, the people there and him, and he doesn't want

00:25:46.940 to upset them. I don't know what the reasoning is, but he knows that there's no reason for this. It's thoughtful.

00:25:56.260 This is a thought, thoughtful and reasonable. No, it's not. It's, it's, it's the opposite of that. This is the

00:26:01.460 opposite of thoughtful because the precedent that you're setting here, what you're, what you're saying is that there

00:26:10.260 needs to be zero risk of COVID. There needs to be zero COVID and zero risk before we can take the

00:26:17.040 masks off. Because right now for kids, especially at the age group we're talking about, the threat is

00:26:24.340 as close to zero as it can get. Can't get much closer without being zero. The threat, especially of

00:26:31.460 severe, uh, reaction to COVID for kids close to zero.

00:26:40.260 Uh, and if that's not good enough, then what you're saying is we need zero risk,

00:26:45.940 which means never take the mask off because there's never going to be zero risk.

00:26:52.680 And even if there was, even if we could eradicate COVID completely, it didn't exist anymore.

00:26:58.140 COVID-19 out is gone, which, which isn't going to happen. That was never really in the cards.

00:27:04.520 It's always going to be there. It's going to be around probably more of a seasonal thing. And there's a

00:27:09.180 vaccine for it now, but even if we could eradicate it, so now there's zero risk of that, but there's,

00:27:16.240 but there's, there's not zero risk of it. There are plenty of other things out there

00:27:20.900 where the risk is above zero. So is this the only risk we're worried about? And once that goes away,

00:27:27.660 we can get, we could get back to normal.

00:27:29.240 If you're saying zero risk of COVID, why just COVID? Why not zero risk of anything else?

00:27:39.300 It doesn't make any logical sense. It's not thoughtful in the slightest. And this is why

00:27:44.620 one of the great casualties, not just of the pandemic, but before that and beyond it is that

00:27:48.940 health authorities, so-called health authorities and the entire medical industry has completely lost

00:27:53.880 both its scientific credibility and its moral standing. It has lost its moral and scientific

00:27:59.240 credibility. Again, that's not only because of COVID. These are the same people who tell us that

00:28:05.320 we should, you know, start giving hormone pills and, uh, gender affirmation surgeries to minors.

00:28:12.140 So they would lose their scientific credibility and moral standing based on that alone.

00:28:17.360 But this is only speeding up that process. Nobody cares what these people have to say anymore.

00:28:21.580 No one's listening except the most deluded people.

00:28:28.940 Everyone else has tuned it out.

00:28:31.760 All right. Uh, moving on an update to a story that we've covered on the show. You may recall

00:28:36.080 representative John Thompson. He's the Minnesota state representative who was pulled over

00:28:40.060 for a traffic violation and then immediately claimed that he was racially profiled. It was a lie.

00:28:44.800 Of course he wasn't. And they released the body cam footage and nothing inappropriate happened in the

00:28:49.100 body cam footage. He committed a violation. They pulled him over. The cop was nice and respectful,

00:28:53.180 even as Thompson was, was belligerent and angry and accusing him of racism. But it also turned out

00:28:58.140 that Thompson had a suspended license, a suspended out of state license. Um, if he doesn't, he doesn't

00:29:04.940 have any license and the license was suspended because he wasn't paying child support payments. So the

00:29:11.180 guy's a deadbeat dad, big surprise there. Um, but, but he doesn't have a license in the state he represents.

00:29:19.060 In fact, as it has developed over the last week or so, it's not clear that he's a resident at all

00:29:24.420 of the state he represents, much less the district. And he's been asked about this. There was a video of

00:29:31.740 someone who saw him at the airport and was saying, you know, representative, are you a resident of your own

00:29:39.680 district? And he wouldn't answer the question. And now this from Fox nine, uh, in St. Paul, it says in searching

00:29:48.740 for state representative, John Thompson's residency, Fox nine has uncovered four cases of domestic violence with

00:29:54.560 allegations that Thompson punched, hit and choked women. According to the police reports from 2003 to 2009, in some

00:30:01.660 cases, the assaults happen in the presence of young children. Questions about Thompson's residency were

00:30:06.160 raised after he was stopped by St. Paul police on July 4th for not having a front license plate. Uh, he

00:30:10.820 accused them of, uh, uh, racial profiling. We know about that. Okay. The domestic violence cases stretch

00:30:15.420 back to 2003 in superior Wisconsin, when Thompson was arrested after he allegedly struck his girlfriend

00:30:20.800 in the face with an open and closed fist. The woman's five-year-old daughter witnessed the assault,

00:30:26.180 which happened in a supermarket parking lot. Thompson's girlfriend said she and her child were

00:30:30.940 homeless and declined to cooperate. Uh, Thompson apparently fled the scene in that case.

00:30:36.980 Thompson allegedly attacked the same girlfriend nearly a year later on in August of 2004 at her

00:30:42.200 apartment. Police arrived after a 911 hangup call. Um, she said that Thompson choked her and then,

00:30:51.100 uh, she said she ran out of the apartment screaming, but Thompson grabbed her and dragged her back to the

00:30:56.500 apartment. She said she tried to escape through a window. She told police Thompson became angry when

00:31:01.900 she dialed 911 from another phone and began hitting her in the head, punching her in the face. And then 1.00

00:31:06.040 then he grabbed her and threw her into the kitchen table, which broke all of her children witness the

00:31:12.160 assault. Um, and then in September, what else do we have here? It's September, 2009. St. Paul police

00:31:19.480 officers responded to a call of domestic violence involving Thompson and two women. Thompson and the

00:31:23.820 women were fighting about a cell phone he received from another girlfriend. It's unclear from the report

00:31:27.880 if it's the girlfriend from the previous case. Uh, during the, that 2009 incident, according to reports,

00:31:33.660 as the yelling escalated, Thompson pulled out his penis in front of his girlfriend and two young 0.99

00:31:38.440 children and said, I'm the man you can all. And then he had some sexually explicit things to say. Um, and 0.99

00:31:45.820 then he, there was another case of domestic violence as well. So this is someone allegedly involved in a,

00:31:51.500 is allegedly a serial domestic abuser. Who's also, who's also exposed himself to children.

00:31:59.460 We know that part of it. The left has no problem with that whatsoever. Um, and they really don't

00:32:03.760 have a problem with the domestic violence either, especially when it comes to these BLM martyrs.

00:32:09.840 It, it, it is, it is really incredible how consistent this is. You know, I always point this out

00:32:16.660 and I can, and continually pointing it out because it keeps happening. These BLM martyrs and John 0.91

00:32:23.160 Thompson tried to be, he wants to be one of them, tried to martyr himself. Um, almost always, it turns

00:32:32.180 out that these are violent abusers of women. And yet again, it's the same thing here and no big

00:32:39.120 surprise, actually, because here's John Thompson before he was elected. This is back in 2020.

00:32:46.840 Before he was elected, standing outside of a white family's house where kids are present,

00:32:52.660 screaming at them for having a blue lives matter sign in their yard. Let's listen to that.

00:32:58.120 Black skin, I mean, I'm a black man being terrorized by this f***ing clansman right here. 1.00

00:33:03.420 We are terrorized by the Grand Wizard. Y'all got the Grand Wizard living in your f***ing 1.00

00:33:08.880 neighborhood. All the clans exist in Hugo, Minnesota. And it's right here. Don't run now. 0.96

00:33:14.340 Don't run now, racist white people. I'm here. Oh yeah, we pull up. We pull the f***ing out. 1.00

00:33:21.800 And we're here. Come on over here with your blue lives matter saying. Blue lives ain't s***ing. 0.77

00:33:27.060 And if people in Hugo don't support black people, f***ing Hugo, Minnesota. 1.00

00:33:31.240 Yeah, he's being terrorized by the family, those women. It's all women out there, including kids. 1.00

00:33:44.440 He's terrorized by them because of what a sign they have in the yard.

00:33:49.000 And after that incident, which went viral, at least locally, he was elected. And not in spite of that.

00:33:58.840 These voters elected him because of that. They want these scumbag pieces of garbage representing 1.00

00:34:06.260 them. That's what they want. And they get exactly, and this is what you get when you elect people like 1.00

00:34:12.060 this. This is exactly what you get. Voters in his district, you absolute morons.

00:34:19.760 You are bad people also for electing someone like that. That is a moral failing to elect someone 1.00

00:34:28.940 like that. You elected him because you liked the way he screamed at white people. What other 0.98

00:34:36.300 qualifications did he bring to the table? He's not even a resident of your district. He doesn't

00:34:41.200 even live with you. But he really liked how he, you know, how he showed those white girls 0.54

00:34:48.240 what's what. This is not, we got to stop acting like voters are, you know, innocent, helpless

00:34:56.840 victims. You went to the polls and voted for this guy. You're not much better than him.

00:35:03.260 Just, this guy's a liar, a fraud, an abuser, a horrible scumbag garbage person. 1.00

00:35:14.060 And yeah, you know, elect him to represent you. Well, he represents you. You want him to represent 1.00

00:35:20.000 you. And so he does. He's garbage. I don't know if the shoe fits. You wanted him representing

00:35:28.020 you. All right, moving on. NPR has, um, exposed the daily wire. This is quite the, uh, quite

00:35:38.940 the expose. So apparently the daily wire of which, uh, I, I may shock you to learn I am

00:35:45.280 employed by the daily wire. Uh, so we do pretty well on Facebook and that's, that's a problem.

00:35:51.900 That's a, that's a big issue that people, people on Facebook like to engage with our content.

00:35:56.700 That's a big problem. And so the NPR has this, uh, article, uh, expose a written by miles

00:36:03.760 parks. And the headline is outrage as a business model, how Ben Shapiro is using Facebook to

00:36:10.120 build an empire. Of course, we're talking about all the irony of the media, uh, the mainstream

00:36:16.800 left-wing media claiming that we're using outrage as a business model. I mean, they, that,

00:36:23.340 they spent the last, why is it that the ratings in the mainstream media and the audience is taking

00:36:29.040 a nosedive right now? Because their whole business model for the last five years has been nothing but

00:36:34.780 outrage over Donald Trump. And now he's not in the scene anymore and they got nothing else to talk

00:36:39.300 about. They have to find some other target for their outrage. And their target in this case is us.

00:36:47.040 Ironically, as they accuse us of doing the exact same thing. This is the same media that sent a

00:36:53.540 lynch mob after some, after some, some, some kids in DC because they were smiling at a native American 0.87

00:37:00.520 man. They made that into a national story and they're worried about outrage being used as a

00:37:07.820 business model. Okay. But here's what miles parks has to say. Uh, the conservative podcast hosts,

00:37:13.120 Ben Shapiro and author's personal Facebook page has more followers in the Washington post and he

00:37:18.040 drives an engagement machine unparalleled by anything else on the world's biggest social

00:37:22.240 networking site. An NPR analysis of social media data found that over the past year,

00:37:27.000 stories published by the site, Shapiro founded the daily wire received more like shares and

00:37:31.600 comments on Facebook than any other news publisher by a wide margin. Even legacy news organizations have

00:37:37.540 broken major stories or produce groundbreaking investigative work, but don't come anywhere close. 0.98

00:37:42.300 Well, sucks for them. What can I say? Daily wire articles with headlines, such as book review proof 0.90

00:37:49.360 that wokeness is projection by nervous racist white woman who can't talk to minorities without 1.00

00:37:53.720 elaborate codes regularly garner tens of thousands of shares for the site. And Shapiro is turning that 0.94

00:37:58.540 Facebook reach into a rapidly expanding cost-efficient media empire. One that experts worry may be further,

00:38:05.100 furthering polarization in the United States. Well, if the experts are worried,

00:38:10.180 then what can you say? It continues. The daily wire has turned anger into an art form and recycled

00:38:18.860 content into a business model. In May, the daily wire generated more Facebook engagement on its

00:38:25.080 articles than the New York times, the Washington post, NBC news, and CNN combined. This, all this is

00:38:30.580 blatantly is jealousy. They are jealous of the traffic we get. And that's, that's all this is. These are like

00:38:39.180 the teenage girls jealous of, of one of the other teenage girls and spreading rumors about her. That's,

00:38:46.060 that's all this comes back to really. This is a mean girls thing. Um, and of course, in reality,

00:38:53.660 in reality, Facebook is doing quite a lot to throttle our traffic and keep our engagement down.

00:39:03.540 Believe you me, Facebook is aware of this problem that, uh, people with unapproved opinions are having

00:39:11.260 some success, you know, uh, interacting with people and, uh, and engaging with people on their platform.

00:39:19.340 And they're, they're, they are taking steps to address it. And that's all. And that really is

00:39:24.460 what this article is, is meant to do. Even though, as far as I read, and honestly, I didn't read the

00:39:29.800 entire thing. Um, I did skim through to see if my own name was mentioned like a narcissist. And, uh,

00:39:37.000 what I'm most offended by is that it wasn't, I mean, I'm spreading hate and outrage too. I don't get a

00:39:43.080 mention. I think that's pretty outrageous, but, um, as far as I could tell, they don't, they don't,

00:39:50.840 they stopped short of directly calling for Facebook to kick us off of their platform,

00:39:55.420 but that is what they're calling for. Very, very thinly veiled. What they're saying to Facebook is,

00:40:01.300 Hey, hint, hint, nudge, nudge. This is a problem. You've got these right wingers that are using your

00:40:08.000 platform and they've got an audience. Maybe someone should do something about that. I don't

00:40:13.420 know. Wink. That's all, that's all this comes back to, but what do they actually have a problem

00:40:19.440 with? I mean, let's, why is it that the daily wire is so successful on Facebook? Is it a conspiracy?

00:40:30.200 Is Facebook going out of their way to help us? Clearly not. That would appear to be the left-wing

00:40:37.420 media. What they're insinuating is that, is that Facebook, what, as a right wing bias is trying to

00:40:44.560 help us, trying to help Ben Shapiro and the daily wire. No, um, we do well on Facebook in spite of

00:40:53.580 Facebook's, you know, algorithm and, and, and the things that they've done, the policy they put in

00:40:58.660 place in spite of that, simply because, and I'll tell you what it is, people like the content.

00:41:07.420 If you can believe it, people enjoy the content we're putting out there. It speaks to them.

00:41:14.460 And so they engage with it. That's our secret sauce. I don't want to give away the whole

00:41:21.520 business model, but that, that really is it. People like it. Um, and, uh, and they engage with it.

00:41:29.680 And that is the media is real problem. I hate to tell you, it's not, it's, it's not us. It's you

00:41:37.880 that they have a problem. They don't think that you should like this kind of content. You should

00:41:43.760 not agree with these kinds of opinions. You should agree with them. And if they can't convince you,

00:41:49.780 then instead what they want to do is knock out all the competitors so that their opinions are the

00:41:54.760 only ones available and you have no choice, but to engage with their opinions and, uh, and to be

00:41:59.800 exposed to their opinions. And maybe if you're exposed to it for long enough, you'll, you'll be

00:42:03.720 beaten down into submission and start agreeing with them. That ultimately is the plan. Uh, and

00:42:10.000 that's why we, uh, we want more people. We want more people so we can spread our outrage and our,

00:42:16.740 and our hatred even more. So you can get a daily wire. Uh, you can become a daily wire subscriber today

00:42:22.260 using coupon code, you mad, you M a D, and you can get 25% off. And that way, if, if the Facebook

00:42:30.660 does take the hint here and try to shut us down, if you're a daily wire subscriber, then you don't

00:42:34.800 have to worry about, you don't have to use Facebook as the gatekeeper to access us. So we would

00:42:39.420 certainly suggest doing that. All right. I got to leave time for this because we have to move on to

00:42:43.080 our reading the YouTube comments. I'm very excited about what we have in store. Um, kind of a special

00:42:49.180 edition of reading the YouTube comments today. Um, it, it, this is something that was brought to my

00:42:56.420 attention. Um, it's a video from YouTube user Sloopy 107. That's Sloopy 107 is a YouTube user

00:43:04.400 who has written what I think is the sweet baby gang anthem. Um, she was inspired by the sweet baby gang

00:43:13.240 to break out into song. We'll play a short clip of it, but make sure to go to her channel. You could see

00:43:18.320 the entire thing. It's certainly worth, worth watching the entire thing. Um, and I wanted to

00:43:22.740 experience this for the first time with all of you, my sweet babies. So I haven't listened to very

00:43:27.740 much of it, but, um, here it is. Let's, let's all listen together.

00:43:31.320 We're the sweet baby gang. God bless America. From sea to shining sea, we're denouncing propaganda.

00:43:47.100 We're the sweet baby gang. We're the truth slate pair. We're the sweet baby gang. Ask why if you dare.

00:43:56.400 We get our five headlines and our daily cancellation. With reality and brevity,

00:44:04.780 we get the news of the nation. From a heart that any abuela would love. Speaking truth while searching

00:44:15.220 for those aliens above. We're the sweet baby gang. We're the sweet baby gang. God bless America.

00:44:24.140 From sea to shining sea, we're denouncing propaganda. We're the sweet baby gang. We're the truth slate pair.

00:44:34.720 We're the sweet baby gang. Ask why if you dare.

00:44:38.360 Discernment, perspective, evidence, and reason. Cringy tick tocks and

00:44:47.240 Psaki's male reasons. The sweet baby gang is no quarter for commies. As far as we're concerned, 1.00

00:44:57.760 you can run home to your mommies.

00:44:59.840 It's beautiful. It's really a tear coming to my eye. That I think is, and I don't want to

00:45:08.780 overstate it, and it's not just because it's about me, but I think you can make an argument

00:45:15.260 that that is the greatest artistic achievement, certainly in modern history, possibly of all

00:45:24.200 time. I don't think anyone has ever picked up a guitar or any musical instrument

00:45:32.580 and used their voice to create music more beautiful, more true and more profound than

00:45:42.220 what you just heard. Absolutely a stunning performance. There's music that will live on

00:45:52.920 in my heart for all time. So, Sloopy107, I do not ban you from the show. You are, what's

00:46:00.840 the opposite of banned? I need something else. I need a pause ignited, canonized, whatever it

00:46:06.820 is. I thank you for sharing that beautiful music with us.

00:46:11.380 As we discussed, NPR is using hyperbolic lies to accuse The Daily Wire of spreading hyperbolic

00:46:18.320 lies and hate and outrage and sadness all across the land. The establishment media tries

00:46:24.120 so hard to dominate every source of information, and when they can't, they're sore losers, mean 0.97

00:46:29.540 girls about it. Unfortunately for NPR and other legacy media, but fortunately for you, we're

00:46:33.820 hitting them again this time on podcast. Daily Wire presents Morning Wire, our daily news podcast

00:46:38.560 that values your time and the truth. Brought to you by Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley

00:46:43.080 and co-host Georgia Howe. Morning Wire will wake you up with the latest developments in politics,

00:46:47.420 sports, culture, and education, all with a heavy emphasis on the facts. It's available right now,

00:46:52.200 so subscribe to Morning Wire on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and everywhere you listen to podcasts

00:46:56.480 so you don't miss a beat. And also, while the White House attempts to censor anything they deem

00:47:01.920 misinformation is, and this is extraordinarily upsetting, it accurately depicts all of the themes

00:47:07.240 in Ben Shapiro's new book, The Authoritarian Moment, which hits bookshelves next Tuesday,

00:47:11.700 July 27th, so it's almost here. And it will be a huge event because Ben will be doing a live

00:47:18.300 stream book signing next Tuesday, so you can pre-order your signed copy now at dailywire.com

00:47:23.420 slash Ben. When you do, you'll be asked to type in a question at checkout, and then maybe

00:47:27.780 he'll answer that question, and you'll certainly get your signed copy. So get your copy at dailywire.com

00:47:33.220 slash Ben right now, so you don't miss out. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:47:36.560 So it seems almost cheap to play this video for a daily cancellation because these things are a

00:47:46.160 dime a dozen, but the fact that they're a dime a dozen is precisely the point. I'm not sure when

00:47:50.880 this was originally filmed. Seems to be recent, but it went viral yesterday. This is conservative

00:47:54.720 commentator Caitlin Bennett doing one of those trusty, always fruitful, dumb guy on the street 1.00

00:47:58.920 interviews. Again, you've seen these a million times, and that's the problem. But this one is perhaps 0.97

00:48:04.440 even worse than you might expect. Just listen.

00:48:07.940 What year did America declare its independence? Girl, July 1st, 1989. What year did Christopher

00:48:17.180 Columbus discover the Americas? Love Christopher, don't know. I mean, I'm done. Don't know. Christopher

00:48:21.880 was in 1976? How many years make up a century? Isn't it a thousand? What year was George W. Bush elected

00:48:29.820 president? The 1800s, I'm assuming? I don't know. Who was the last president of the 1990s?

00:48:41.000 1990s? Oh, uh, I actually have no idea. Nixon? What year was Barack Obama elected president?

00:48:49.240 I don't even know. What century are we currently living in? Let's just go 50th century. I don't know.

00:48:54.600 America was discovered in 1976 and declared independence on July 1st, 1989. Seems like a

00:49:01.680 pretty quick timeline. But then again, we are living in the 50th century. So all that stuff

00:49:05.220 happened, what, like 3,000 years ago? This is, needless to say, some extremely dumb stuff. 0.97

00:49:13.440 You have to try to be this dumb. It must be exhausting to be so overwhelmingly moronic on a 1.00

00:49:18.600 daily basis. Every hour of the day. Can you imagine? If I had to carry this level of stupidity 1.00

00:49:24.640 around with me all the time, I'd collapse and have a heart attack. The coroner would say, 1.00

00:49:28.420 yep, looks like you had a fatal case of the dumbs. Third one this week. It's an epidemic. 0.97

00:49:33.280 Now, all of the necessary qualifiers must be added that these were the dumbest of the dumb 1.00

00:49:37.360 who made it into the clip. Presumably, plenty of people answered the question easily and were 0.99

00:49:42.780 summarily cut from the final edit. But even so, it is way too easy to go out and get content like

00:49:49.720 this. We know that these kinds of videos are the tip of the idiot iceberg. There's been a great 1.00

00:49:55.340 many surveys and polls with larger sample sizes that have come to similar conclusions. Think of

00:49:59.760 that C-SPAN poll a few years ago that found half of Americans can't name one sitting Supreme Court

00:50:05.240 justice. There was a survey in 2019 that found 20% of Americans can't correctly identify a single

00:50:12.040 branch of government. A poll in 2017 showed that almost 40% can't cite any of the rights protected

00:50:18.900 in the First Amendment. The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation gave a basic history exam to

00:50:23.960 41,000 American adults a year or two ago and found that 60% couldn't pass it. Another survey found that

00:50:31.360 almost 40% of Americans think that Benjamin Franklin invented the light bulb. 12% thought Eisenhower was a

00:50:37.480 civil war general. A civil war general, Eisenhower. I could go on and on and on. The point is that

00:50:45.820 stupidity is a national crisis. I believe that it is. And what makes it worse is that there is no 1.00

00:50:52.580 mitigating circumstance to let the stupid people off the hook. No adult with a brain capable of basic 1.00

00:50:59.680 functioning has any cover here. None of them have an excuse because everyone has access to the

00:51:06.640 accumulated knowledge of all mankind right at their fingertips. Everyone can find any information

00:51:13.220 they want. And accessing it is as easy as moving their thumbs across a screen. It's not like it was

00:51:20.340 in, say, 1890 when huge swaths of the population were never taught how to read. And their only source of

00:51:27.320 information about the outside world and current events was maybe at best a weekly newspaper that

00:51:32.480 a lot of them couldn't read. And then whatever scuttlebutt you heard around town, if you were

00:51:37.320 within a day's travel of any kind of town. If they wanted to know something, if there was information

00:51:42.560 that they didn't have that they wanted, there was obviously no search engine with which to find it.

00:51:50.000 Although I would like to interview those same people and ask them, when do you think Google was

00:51:53.920 invented? I don't know, 1573? But if someone back in those days, you know, they couldn't use a search

00:52:03.040 engine. If they wanted to know something, they could ask someone or they could try to find the

00:52:07.320 information in whatever books were accessible. And if the information wasn't there, if nobody around

00:52:13.160 them knew it and it wasn't in a book, then they just weren't ever going to know that thing.

00:52:19.900 They would have to say, well, I guess I'm not going to know that. There were so many things

00:52:25.280 about the world that a person in those days may have wanted to know, but simply could not know

00:52:30.240 because there was no way to acquire the knowledge. Compare that to today. If I want to know, for

00:52:37.840 instance, how many earths can fit in the sun, 1.3 million, or how old the oldest living vertebrate,

00:52:44.900 500-year-old Greenland shark is, or whether the pain in my back is a sign that I'm dying of a rare

00:52:50.100 bone disease? Yes. I can just look it up on the internet and have the answer in the blink of an

00:52:54.020 eye. And yet with this tool, with this vast expanse of knowledge readily available, still we choose

00:53:01.300 dumbness. It's like a guy in the desert collapsing and dying of thirst while wearing a camelback full of 1.00

00:53:08.500 water. It almost doesn't make any sense. So how does this happen? How do we end up snatching

00:53:16.600 imbecility from the jaws of knowledge? Well, part of the blame goes to the school system, 0.99

00:53:21.840 which has utterly failed to do the one thing it is supposed to do, and which we're paying good money

00:53:26.540 for it to do. Part of the blame goes to the media, which muddies the water with lies and half-truths.

00:53:32.440 Part of the blame goes to the internet itself, which offers knowledge, but also offers cheap and

00:53:36.500 constant distraction. It gives you the choice to feed your mind or numb it. Expand your horizons

00:53:44.220 or lose yourself in the fog. Most people, it turns out, prefer the numb and the fog because it's easy

00:53:50.660 and it keeps you from thinking about uncomfortable things like your own mortality, which I believe is

00:53:55.820 the primary motivator that drives our screen addiction in the first place, is that we don't

00:53:59.800 want to think about our mortality. But notice the word choice. The one thing about modern society

00:54:05.980 for all of its flaws is that it offers a lot of choices, more choices than anyone in history

00:54:13.760 ever had. Too many choices, it turns out. But they are choices all the same. Whether you use the

00:54:20.800 internet to make yourself smarter and more interesting, which you can do, or dumber and 1.00

00:54:25.740 duller is a choice. And that's why after partial blame has been doled out this way and that, 0.97

00:54:32.800 the rest, the majority, must fall on the ignoramuses themselves, whose obliviousness and foolishness 0.97

00:54:39.680 is as much a moral failing as an intellectual one. And that's why, and you knew this was coming back 0.96

00:54:45.980 around, because it always does, everyone in that video and all the videos like it should not be

00:54:52.200 allowed to vote. It is a, we make a mockery of ourselves by allowing all of those people to vote.

00:54:59.500 And it's also why, and you definitely knew this was coming, they're all canceled.

00:55:03.620 Well, let's not focus on all those negative things. Let us, let us, let us focus on the song,

00:55:11.800 the Sweet Baby song that is now in all of our hearts as we go about our day. And we'll leave

00:55:17.340 it there for today. We're going to let Sweet Baby play us out? We are. Have a great day, everyone.

00:55:23.280 Godspeed.

00:55:23.680 We're the Sweet Baby Gang, and God bless America.

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The Matt Walsh Show - July 20, 2021

Ep. 757 - Yes Of Course We Should Legislate Morality

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