The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 758 - An Epidemic Of Virtue Signaling

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, performative wokeness has reached epidemic levels in this country,

00:00:04.560 and it was on full display yesterday. I'll explain. Also, we have our five headlines,

00:00:08.520 of course, including some updates on that weird story of the supposed right-wing plot to kidnap

00:00:13.680 the governor of Michigan. It appears that this was more of an FBI plot, which the FBI then foiled,

00:00:19.600 which was nice of them. And Prince Harry is once again showing how much he desires privacy

00:00:23.800 by writing an explosive memoir about the royal family, while AOC shows how much she hates

00:00:29.380 capitalism by investing heavily in her online merchandise store. In our Daily Cancellation,

00:00:33.780 we'll talk about the ladies of the U.S. women's soccer team who showed how much they hate their 0.86

00:00:37.620 own country by kneeling before their match last night, and then they lost badly, which is hilarious.

00:00:43.500 All of that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:28.200 You may have noticed that we live in a country, a culture, where almost everyone wants to fashion

00:02:32.660 themselves as heroes and fighters for truth and justice. And yet their form of fighting seems

00:02:37.800 usually to require little effort, and it always amounts to nothing in the end. This is one of the

00:02:42.960 reasons why I'm not worried about a civil war breaking out anytime soon. Many people seem to be

00:02:47.960 worried about this, and we hear, oh, there's going to be a civil war. We're headed towards a civil war.

00:02:52.140 Civil war, yes, we are more divided than we've been since 1860, I think. You could make an argument

00:03:00.700 that we're even more divided than we were then in the lead up to the civil war on a more fundamental

00:03:05.760 level. But there will be no civil war because fighting a civil war requires us to leave our

00:03:11.340 homes and put down our video game controllers and maybe even skip a meal or two. This is more commitment

00:03:17.720 than we're willing to invest in the enterprise. So instead, our society will come apart more slowly,

00:03:22.920 decaying like an old Halloween pumpkin left out in the sun rather than exploding all at once

00:03:28.120 like fireworks. So that's the good news. The perfect mascots for this modern form of lazy bravery are,

00:03:35.840 of course, the Texas Democrats who fled the state in order to temporarily avoid voting on some

00:03:41.740 legislation they disagree with. But in the midst of their boozy vacation in D.C., at least six of

00:03:47.420 the absconded legislators have tested positive for COVID now. What was initially political theater

00:03:53.060 and an excuse for them to abandon their kids and their loveless marriages for a month has now turned

00:03:58.300 into a super spreader event, which is what I think they call it, right? You could argue that they're

00:04:03.900 biological terrorists at this point and should be charged as such and thrown in federal prison. 0.61

00:04:10.040 You could argue that at least. But even as they drink Miller Lite, take selfies and spread their

00:04:17.080 viral loads all over our nation's capital like so much confetti, they still wish to be hailed for

00:04:23.060 their bravery. And they're quite explicit about this. Here's a tweet yesterday from Representative

00:04:28.220 Michelle Beckley. She says, my name is Michelle Beckley. I'm one of the brave Texas Democrats who

00:04:35.100 came to D.C. to fight for voting rights in my state. Now I'm fighting to flip a seat held by an

00:04:41.460 anti-democracy Republican. I have 28,500. Can you help us get to 50,000 followers?

00:04:50.060 Not only is she begging for followers, which is lame enough, but she also calls herself brave.

00:04:55.300 Perhaps the number one way that you can identify a person who is not brave is if they have to tell

00:05:01.040 you that they are. Hi, nice to meet you. I am extremely brave. Yes, deeply courageous and heroic.

00:05:08.780 No, please don't shake my hand. I'm afraid of COVID. We can fist bump. But we're accustomed to this

00:05:14.480 kind of performative virtue signaling from our politicians, especially from Democrats. After all,

00:05:18.940 Democrats were the ones who put on traditional African garb a few months ago and knelt in silence in the

00:05:24.560 U.S. Capitol in order to pay their respects to Blessed Floyd, patron saint of armed robbers.

00:05:30.020 Beckley's tweet was nothing compared to that as far as theater goes and virtue signaling goes.

00:05:36.580 But it's not just politicians who do this. We citizens are guilty ourselves,

00:05:43.140 especially when it comes to the big corporations that most of us pretend to despise.

00:05:49.360 Let's take the events of yesterday, for example. As we covered on the show, Jeff Bezos launched

00:05:56.100 himself into space on a rocket ship that he built with his own money. He returned to Earth a short

00:06:01.720 time later, much to the chagrin of many people on social media who were actively and vocally hoping

00:06:08.780 that he'd make it out of Earth orbit and float off into a black hole or something. The whole spectacle

00:06:13.940 served as an occasion for many people to once again voice their hatred for Bezos and for Amazon and to

00:06:20.820 lament the fact that he has enough money to build rocket ships in the first place. Now, as I said

00:06:26.660 yesterday, I personally think that it's a great thing for these obscenely wealthy billionaires to spend

00:06:31.900 their money on this. That's my hot take. That's my controversial position. It is good for billionaires to be

00:06:39.020 building rocket ships. If it's a choice between building space technology or, you know, a 19 bedroom

00:06:45.840 mansion for their poodles, I'll take the space technology. In fact, I wish Bezos had gotten back

00:06:52.160 to Earth and immediately started building another rocket rather than do what he actually did, which

00:06:57.720 was to immediately announce that he was giving a hundred million dollars to Van Jones. Why give a hundred

00:07:03.980 million dollars to Van Jones? Maybe the lack of oxygen in space caused brain damage and that's why he's

00:07:08.140 doing it. Or maybe the left hates Bezos even as he tries to buy them off. He is in the end a woke

00:07:14.300 leftist himself, like nearly all of the other tech oligarchs in his orbit, literally and figuratively in

00:07:19.720 his orbit now. That doesn't stop most leftists from hating him and his company, just as many on the

00:07:25.860 right hate him as well. The message seems to be that Bezos and Amazon shouldn't have all this money.

00:07:35.480 It's not fair. It's not right. It's bad. How do you get all this money anyway? It must be a policy

00:07:43.920 failure, right? Yes. Billionaires are a policy failure, we're told by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria

00:07:49.900 K. Zercotez. Yes, government policy caused this. We need better policies. That's what made all this

00:07:57.180 happen. Okay, it could be that. Or it could be this. Headline from marketwatch.com says,

00:08:05.340 Amazon Prime member total reaches $142 million in the U.S. with more shoppers opting in for a full

00:08:12.240 year, data shows. Interestingly enough, even as most people seem to hate Amazon and wish that it

00:08:18.720 didn't have all this money to throw around, most people are also choosing to pay the company a monthly

00:08:23.200 subscription fee. In fact, two thirds of American adults are Amazon Prime members, which is an insane

00:08:31.340 figure. And those are just the members of the service. That doesn't count all the people who

00:08:36.860 aren't members and yet still order from Amazon. I wonder if a single person complaining about Amazon

00:08:42.680 and Bezos actually isn't one of their retail customers. Maybe there are a few, but there can't

00:08:48.620 be many. So how did he get all that money? Well, I don't know how to tell you this, but you gave it

00:08:56.540 to him. That's how he got it. He actually said this himself when he got back to earth. Let's play that

00:09:02.780 clip. I also, I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for

00:09:13.040 all this. So seriously for every Amazon customer out there and every Amazon employee, thank you from

00:09:20.340 the bottom of my heart very much. People were very upset about that. Um, and it does come off as sort

00:09:28.620 of a sarcastic and rubbing it in everybody's face, but it's true though. That is actually true. We, as,

00:09:35.840 as Amazon customers, you paid for it. Now we should acknowledge a few things. First, Amazon was

00:09:45.060 given a huge boost by the government this past year. Talk about policy failures when many other,

00:09:50.120 when many other stores were arbitrarily shut down for reasons that could never be scientifically or

00:09:54.480 morally justified. But this just adds to the contradiction as most of the leftist Amazon haters

00:10:00.300 were advocates for those very policies. And they accused you of wanting to kill their

00:10:05.820 grandmothers. If you suggested that, Hey, you know, maybe we shouldn't just allow Amazon and Walmart

00:10:11.980 and target to be the ones serving customers. And at any rate, Amazon had over a hundred million

00:10:19.120 subscribers a year before the lockdowns even started. I doubt there were very, very many people

00:10:24.520 who ordered from Amazon for the first time ever during the lockdowns, maybe a few, but probably not

00:10:28.660 many. The lockdowns gave Amazon an enormously unfair advantage, but they didn't turn Amazon into the

00:10:34.520 ubiquitous force. It is today, obviously. Also, we should know that Amazon makes money other ways

00:10:40.160 through other services, like it's Amazon web services, for instance, but memberships and retail

00:10:44.760 sales account for the lion's share of its revenue. And that is revenue. People choose to give to it.

00:10:53.360 All kinds of excuses can be offered to get around this. I've heard them all. People profess to hate the

00:10:59.240 company and think that it shouldn't have all this money and yet choose to themselves to give it their

00:11:03.560 own money. They can try to rationalize it all they want. They can claim Amazon is effectively a monopoly

00:11:08.460 in the online sales space. They can say that Amazon offers services. Other companies don't. They can say

00:11:13.040 that, uh, you know, they'd have to pay more or wait longer to buy stuff another way. None of this gets

00:11:19.760 around the, the fact or rather around the choice that they're making and do not have to make.

00:11:26.860 Nobody needs Amazon. Amazon is not a necessity. Indeed, you could never order another thing from

00:11:36.700 Amazon ever again. And that sacrifice would have almost no material impact on your life when all

00:11:43.740 is said and done. It would require from you only the smallest of efforts, only the most minimal of

00:11:49.500 investments. It would create only the most minor of inconveniences. And yet that's more than most people

00:11:55.840 are willing to give. They would prefer to continue actively funding this company while complaining

00:12:01.540 that the company should not have the money that they are choosing to give to it. Maybe they really

00:12:08.420 do oppose some of Amazon's business practices, the way it treats its workers, the favors it gets from the

00:12:12.640 government and so on. And they should, they should hate those things, but they like convenient next day

00:12:17.700 delivery more than they hate those things. And that's the issue. The other thing I've heard

00:12:23.180 talking about rationalizations, as I was talking about this on, on Twitter, I heard over and over

00:12:28.540 again, this, this same line, and it comes from a meme that you've probably seen, but the line is,

00:12:33.820 well, yeah, just because I'm a critic of capitalism or Amazon, that doesn't mean that I, that I, that I

00:12:40.100 can't participate in society. Of course I have to participate in society. That phrase participating in

00:12:46.140 society. Well, yeah, you're going to participate in society, but are you telling me that you,

00:12:49.520 you need to use Amazon in order to participate in society? You cannot participate in society

00:12:55.160 without being an Amazon prime member. Is that really what you're telling me?

00:13:02.580 None of what I'm saying amounts to a defense of Amazon and certainly not of Jeff Bezos. I'm also

00:13:06.640 not claiming to be innocent of the charge that I'm leveling at others. I am guilty of choosing to fund

00:13:11.440 companies that I detest and doing it simply for the sake of convenience and maybe to save a buck or

00:13:15.940 two. I've drawn certain lines and I've tried to avoid drawing others. This is a, the game we all

00:13:23.920 play. We are consumers so conditioned in our consumerism that so many of us would actually

00:13:30.020 claim as people have claimed to me that ordering junk from Amazon is a need like water and shelter are

00:13:37.480 needs. But it's not a need. It's a want. And we are very bad at distinguishing between the two.

00:13:51.320 And that ultimately, I think is the problem. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:15:15.120 All right, you know, first of all, you guys know that I don't like to air my dirty laundry on this

00:15:21.740 show. It's too dark and cold in the studio anyway, so we get mildew. That was a dad joke. I apologize

00:15:29.460 for that. Anyway, the point is, I don't like to talk about my personal problems, except when I talk

00:15:35.440 about them all the time. But I do have to say, I'm disturbed by my wife's bigotry towards me as a 0.74

00:15:42.820 disabled American, especially when she publicizes it, as she often does on Twitter.

00:15:50.780 And this is what she tweeted last night when I was sitting right across the room from her,

00:15:54.440 by the way, a couple of nights ago, she tweeted this. I'm concerned about Matt Walsh's outfit

00:15:59.100 tomorrow. He said, well, she tagged my user. She wasn't calling me by my full name. That'd be weird.

00:16:04.640 I'm concerned about Matt's outfit tomorrow. He said, what's wrong with red pants and a green top?

00:16:09.300 Well, one, that combo would make him look like an elf. And two, he's colorblind and the pants are

00:16:13.980 brown and the polo is a lighter green, making him look like Peter Pan or a tree. Now, first of all,

00:16:20.240 to clarify, the only reason we were talking about my outfit is that I asked her to iron my clothes for

00:16:24.520 me. And the only reason I asked her to do that is because I'm bad at ironing. And I've explained

00:16:27.960 there are a lot of household chores I'm just not good at. And I need other people to do them for me.

00:16:32.860 Um, but then she starts mocking my choices, calling me a tree and Peter Pan and everything. 0.87

00:16:37.620 When in fact, I really am colorblind. And this is a, this is an important point. I want you all to

00:16:41.500 know. I am actually colorblind. Um, in fact, I am, I am a member of the, the color vision deficiency

00:16:49.140 community. That's the, that is, that is the real thing we're going by now. CVD color vision deficiency.

00:16:54.020 And this is a real victim group that I belong to. I am an actual victim. I suffer from a disability.

00:17:07.140 Which means that it's hate speech to be criticized, to be mocking me for it.

00:17:12.420 And, and also I, I, I cling to this identity jealously. It's the only victim group I have

00:17:17.720 as a, as a, as a white male. None others are recognized in the mainstream culture, but this

00:17:24.780 one I have. And I want all of you to know that. Before you think about criticizing me at all,

00:17:33.260 realize I'm a victim. I am colorblind. I have no idea. So it, it, it, that's another thing I am,

00:17:39.180 I am often mocked on my own show by my own audience for the things that I choose to wear on this show.

00:17:46.540 Maybe you'll mock me. I don't know what color this is. I don't know, even know what I'm wearing right

00:17:50.480 now. But before you start criticizing me, just know I have no idea. This is, this is part of my

00:17:57.440 disability. All right. Uh, we'll start with this. The Daily Mail actually was, uh, Buzzfeed

00:18:05.100 originally. Buzzfeed doing some real reporting, which they, they, they've, they've done a little bit

00:18:11.540 of that recently. I don't know if I, I don't want to get ahead of my, get over my skis here, but, but

00:18:18.020 it seems like they, they're kind of dipping their toes in real reporting. And so they're doing some

00:18:23.440 real reporting here. Um, and it's, uh, information about that supposed right-wing plot to cup, to

00:18:30.200 kidnap Governor Whitmer of Michigan. You may remember that. And this was Governor Whitmer was, was,

00:18:38.400 was one of the primary, one of the worst, most oppressive, pettiest, most arbitrary tyrants

00:18:44.160 during the COVID lockdowns. She went insane with power, couldn't handle. She, she thought originally 0.81

00:18:52.480 she was just going to be governor of Michigan. That'd be enough power. But then she was given 0.99

00:18:56.540 the powers of an empress and, um, uh, uh, uh, you know, a dictator and she couldn't handle 1.00

00:19:03.160 it. Having that much power, she fell in love with it. Speaking of clinging desperately to

00:19:09.500 things, clinging desperately to that power and getting, getting a lot of, uh, pushback

00:19:14.180 for that had become pretty unpopular. And then in the midst of that, we find out that, uh,

00:19:20.800 there were these dastardly right-wingers who were planning to kidnap her. Um, and, and, and then,

00:19:29.260 and then that kind of made it so, okay, well now you're not allowed to criticize her anymore

00:19:33.780 because all of this criticism, like I just was calling her a dictator. Well, your feet is this

00:19:39.240 hate speech and you're encouraging violence. Look at what you've done. That's the kind of the way this

00:19:43.540 was, this was a spun. But now this, and I'm reading from, uh, the Daily Mail says the FBI has been

00:19:49.740 accused of encouraging and, and assisting a Michigan militia with their alleged plot to

00:19:55.420 kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer with court documents showing the remarkable depth of

00:19:59.940 involvement of multiple informants. Okay. So listen to this. 14 people have been charged so far

00:20:09.400 after an October, 2020 sting operation on the Wolverine Watchman militia. Many of those were

00:20:14.720 arrested at a warehouse of Michigan where they had met, uh, to hand over cash for the purchase of

00:20:20.460 explosives, which they alleged allegedly planned to use in the kidnapping plot. In December, one key

00:20:26.460 player in the case, Ty Garbin entered a guilty plea to kidnap conspiracy charges and faces up to life

00:20:31.620 in prison. A trial date for the rest has been set for October 12th, but their lawyers are arguing that

00:20:37.140 the FBI informants, at least 12 of them, according to a Buzzfeed investigation, went way beyond simply

00:20:43.660 listening and infiltrating and instead actively recruited others to the plot, funded and directed

00:20:49.760 it. They have claimed that without the FBI informant's involvement, there would have been no plot at all.

00:20:56.960 Okay. So 14 people, if I'm, if I'm getting my numbers right here, if I, if I'm reading this correctly,

00:21:02.340 14 people have so far been charged, um, as being involved in this scheme, 12 people were FBI informants

00:21:15.940 the whole time. And it makes you wonder as, as more and more of this comes out is, were any of them

00:21:24.340 not FBI informants? Was it just like one, maybe this, this Ty Garbin guy? Was he the only, was it one

00:21:32.520 guy? Was it 13 FBI informants ganging up to just get this one guy? I don't know.

00:21:42.100 And it's, it's not as though based on the claim here, allegedly based on this report from Buzzfeed,

00:21:48.200 it would seem that, um, that it's, it's, it's not as though they had come up with this plot and the FBI

00:21:57.680 got wind of it. And then they sent in some informants to try to stop it. The informants,

00:22:05.740 again, according to the Buzzfeed investigation, the informants themselves were the ones who recruited

00:22:10.540 people into it, funded it, directed it. So what? It was their plot. What I'm getting from this is that

00:22:18.980 this kidnapping plot was the FBI's plot. They are the ones who, who, who organized it,

00:22:26.140 put it all together, and then they stopped it. So I guess in the end we should, uh, we should

00:22:33.240 congratulate the FBI and thank the FBI for putting a stop to the dastardly plot that they came up with.

00:22:40.540 Kind of easy to stop a plot that is your own plot, but I'm, but I'm grateful that they did stop it.

00:22:49.160 True heroes in the FBI once again.

00:22:53.380 And it makes you wonder too. And we know this is something that the FBI does. Um,

00:22:59.440 not just sending people in undercover, not just having informants, but

00:23:02.720 towing the line of entrapment or, or outright committing outright entrapment, which is what

00:23:09.920 this seems to be. We know the FBI has a habit of that. Um, historically, uh, you start to wonder

00:23:16.880 about the events of January 6th that we're going to find, we're going to find out similar. There

00:23:21.620 are going to be similar revelations a year from now or so about what happened on January 6th,

00:23:27.340 the ringleaders of that, the people who put all that together. I guess we'll see, or maybe we

00:23:35.340 never will see. Next, a report from Reuters. Um, this is kind of some real journalism also. So

00:23:41.660 I'm, I'm continue to be shocked. Uh, this is a, maybe a good day for mainstream journalists. They

00:23:49.560 don't have very many, but here's one. Uh, some Reuters reports, U S representative Alexandria

00:23:53.880 Quezio Cortez became one of America's most prominent progressive Democrats with her calls

00:23:57.480 to tax the wealthy and spend heavily to fight climate change. Now she is investing heavily 0.87

00:24:02.320 in her online store, selling t-shirts, sweatshirts, and other merchandise with her name, AOC initials

00:24:08.220 or slogans, including tax the rich and fight for our future efforts aimed at both fundraising

00:24:13.220 and building the second term lawmakers profile nationally. Uh, her campaign paid political 0.96

00:24:18.000 merchandise firm financial innovations, which operates her online store and supplies merchandise

00:24:22.680 more than $1.4 million in the first six months of 2021. According to campaign disclosures to the

00:24:28.440 FEC late last week, that's more than many lawmakers spent on their entire reelection effort during

00:24:33.080 that period and nearly double her payments made over the prior two years to financial innovations.

00:24:38.840 Um, a Cranston Rhode Island firm that specializes in political merchandise for Democrats, political

00:24:43.680 t-shirts as campaign swag were once again, uh, okay. So I think we get the idea there. She's 1.00

00:24:49.680 spending $1.5 million investing in merchandise that she's then going to sell, including merchandise

00:24:55.440 that ironically says tax the rich. Now, Sean Spicer pointed this out, former White House

00:25:02.520 spokesman, now a Newsmax host, pointed this out on Twitter and AOC responded and pointed out the

00:25:09.120 hypocrisy here that you're a critic of capitalism. You're a socialist, validly so. And here you are

00:25:17.620 engaging in capitalism. What do you know? Turns out you actually like making money. You just don't

00:25:24.520 like it when other people make it. You want to be the one who makes it. AOC responded to the criticism

00:25:30.280 though and said, not sure if you know this, Sean, but transactions aren't capitalism. Capitalism is a

00:25:36.840 system that prioritizes profit at any and all human slash environmental cost. But for what it's worth,

00:25:43.620 our shop is unionized, doesn't operate for profit and funds projects like free tutoring,

00:25:48.580 food programs, and local organizing. Okay. So, so, so that's what it is.

00:25:56.380 Yeah. I would have thought that if you're in, in the free market, making a transaction with somebody

00:26:01.540 else, offering them a good or service in exchange for money, that's a transaction. I would have thought,

00:26:05.960 no, that's exactly what capitalism is actually. That's at the most basic level. That's free market

00:26:12.320 capitalism. I have a go to good or service. I offer it to you. You choose to buy it with your

00:26:17.320 own money. I take your money. I have it now that I'm no economist, but when I think of, of at the

00:26:25.380 most basic level, what a free market capitalism is, that's, that's what it is. But she says, no,

00:26:30.880 no, no, no, no, no. So you can do that. And it's not capitalism because capitalism is a system

00:26:36.440 sort of like that, but it prioritizes profit at any and all human and environmental cost.

00:26:43.220 So she's saying, I am, I am making a profit, but it, but it's, it's, I'm not prioritizing that

00:26:49.160 over everything else. It's only if you prioritize it over everything else that it counts as capitalism,

00:26:53.820 which is just a long way of saying, it all goes back to, um, I can do this, but I don't think

00:27:02.160 other people should. I can trust myself with money, my own money, your money,

00:27:09.740 which I should be given, whether it's because you're buying a t-shirt or I just take it from you.

00:27:16.860 I'm a good person. I can be trusted with money, not the rest of you because you're bad people.

00:27:23.720 Uh, next number three here, page six reports that Prince Harry is writing an explosive memoir

00:27:29.580 memoir about his life and, uh, the Royal family. Uh, so he's got another, he's got, is this,

00:27:37.100 I guess this is, maybe this is his first memoir that he's written. And this is so sad. You know,

00:27:43.100 he's writing this, this big memoir. It's got a big book deal. He's got, he's going to have the book

00:27:47.060 coming out, talking about his life, talking about the expose about the Royal family. Um, he's going

00:27:52.000 to be doing the book tour, doing more and more interviews. And it is so, so sad. Um,

00:27:56.520 because this poor man and his wife, they just want privacy. That's all they want. Will you people

00:28:04.080 leave them alone and let them have their private life? Please. That's all they want. That's why he's

00:28:12.280 putting the book out and he does the Oprah interview and they got the Netflix deal.

00:28:18.280 This, this is their way of, of living a private life.

00:28:22.840 And you should respect that.

00:28:28.080 I guess by not buying the book, that's maybe the best thing you can do. I think that's the best

00:28:32.900 thing you could do in general. Why would you want this damn book? Why would you want to read it? 0.99

00:28:40.400 But, uh, I, I think out of, out of pure respect for the wishes that have been

00:28:46.540 repeatedly articulated by Prince Harry and Megan in many, in many, many interviews,

00:28:56.000 um, for privacy and to be left alone out of respect for that, you should not buy any of the, 0.98

00:29:03.780 these books, not watch any of these stupid interviews, um, not watch any show that they 0.99

00:29:09.780 produce. Cause this is what they want. I guess they want, what they want is the, is, is, is they 1.00

00:29:17.220 want to write the books and not have anyone read it. They want to do the Netflix show and not have

00:29:21.320 anyone watch it. They want to do the Oprah interviews and not have anyone watch that either

00:29:26.340 or hear about it. And I, for one will respect their wishes on that front. And I hope they'll do the

00:29:32.220 same. Uh, we also got to play this Rand Paul and Dr. Fauci were, uh, had another, had another

00:29:41.060 sparring match. And these are always fun to watch. It's fun to watch Fauci. This is the only time.

00:29:48.120 It's why you get so upset when this happens. It's, it's the only time when Fauci is backed into a

00:29:54.380 corner, forced to answer real questions, held accountable. It's the only time because everywhere

00:29:59.020 else he goes, people are worshiping the ground. He walks on, he does a CNN interviews, CNN interviews,

00:30:04.200 he does the MSNBC interviews, and they are head over heels in love with him, practically making out

00:30:10.820 with him on screen. Um, and, uh, the one time where that doesn't happen is when he's facing Congress

00:30:21.700 and only because Rand Paul is there. It wasn't for Rand Paul, you know, these would also be make-out

00:30:27.580 sessions. But, uh, let's, let's watch how this went. If the point that you are making is that the,

00:30:34.800 the, the grant that was funded as a sub award from EcoHealth to Wuhan created SARS-CoV-2,

00:30:43.140 that's where you are getting. Let me finish. We don't know. Well, wait a minute. I can,

00:30:48.040 but all the evidence is pointing that it came from the lab and there will be responsibility for those

00:30:53.200 who funded the lab, including yourself. I totally resent. This committee will allow the witness to

00:30:58.620 respond. I totally resent the lie that you are now propagating, Senator, because if you look at the

00:31:06.340 viruses that were used in the experiments that were given in the annual reports that were published in

00:31:15.160 the literature, it is molecularly impossible. No one's saying those virus caused it. It is

00:31:21.720 molecularly those virus caused the pandemic. What we're alleging is that gain of function research

00:31:26.960 was going on in that lab and NIH funded it. That is not away from it. It meets your definition and

00:31:33.000 you are obfuscating the truth. And you are implying that what we did was responsible for the deaths of

00:31:40.220 individual. I totally resent that. And if anybody is lying here, Senator, it is you.

00:31:48.440 I resent that. I resent it. What he's saying is, is he is lying. Fauci, that is. This is,

00:31:56.500 this all goes back to the issue of did the NIH fund gain of function research in Wuhan? And, and it did.

00:32:03.400 And that's a fact. And it did. And Fauci totally resents that he's being asked about this, that

00:32:11.900 he's being held to account for it. Totally resents it. Now, when this is a big scandal, this is like a

00:32:18.420 big deal. They're funding this kind of research in this lab, which was almost certainly the,

00:32:26.960 the origin of this global pandemic that killed so many people, but he doesn't, he shouldn't have

00:32:33.120 to talk about it. And he knows you got to almost feel for the guy, I guess that yeah, he, everywhere

00:32:38.040 else he goes, everyone is, uh, is, is bowing down before him. And it's this one guy who won't do

00:32:47.120 that. Rand Paul, I guess you don't have to feel for him at all. Um, Rand Paul though, a lot of credits

00:32:53.860 Rand Paul, I mean, if Rand Paul wasn't there, he's, he's seriously, he's the, he's the one

00:32:59.680 lawmaker holding Fauci accountable to his face.

00:33:06.860 All right. Uh, I've had this story for a few days now. I keep meaning to mention it

00:33:11.480 because it's so important. It's from the daily wire. It says after being called out for her

00:33:15.860 inconsistent Spanish accent that apparently misleading the public about her Spanish heritage,

00:33:20.220 Hilaria or Hillary more accurately, Baldwin now says she identifies as culturally fluid,

00:33:27.220 seemingly arguing that she could be culturally fluid if others can be sexually religious and

00:33:31.260 politically fluid too. She posted to Instagram recently, when you are multi, it can feel very

00:33:36.920 hard to belong. You're constantly going back and forth, trying to be more of this or more of that.

00:33:42.460 You feel you have to explain why you are the way you are trying to fit into a world of labels where

00:33:47.740 there might not be one that perfectly defines you. You will never quite fit in because other parts of

00:33:52.920 you shape and influence all of your parts. We need to normalize the fact that we are all unique.

00:33:58.320 Our language, culture, sexual orientations, religions, political beliefs are allowed to be fluid.

00:34:03.840 No two of us are completely alike. And, uh, this is not good enough for lots of people, especially on the

00:34:11.060 left who are kind of mocking this idea of being culturally fluid. When of course,

00:34:19.440 if anything can be fluid, that actually makes some kind of sense.

00:34:27.920 There, there certainly doesn't make some kind of sense. It makes sense. Uh, there is a fluidity to

00:34:33.900 culture. There's no denying that. Cultures change over time. Um, our culture has changed quite a bit

00:34:40.840 and not for the better. Cultures change over time. They influence each other. Uh, one culture kind of

00:34:46.140 bleeds into another. They blend, they mix. If the word fluid has any meaning outside of, outside of the

00:34:55.240 the physical sense of, of, of liquid fluid, um, then this would have to apply. Cultures are fluid.

00:35:05.220 They're not immutable. They don't, they don't stay the same forever. They're not inherent. Um,

00:35:16.360 they're human constructs. All of that is true of culture.

00:35:21.140 Now, and I don't, I don't mean that to suggest that, uh, that, that, you know, we shouldn't want to

00:35:31.260 protect our culture and defend it and try to make it a certain thing and protect it from other kinds

00:35:39.880 of influences. But I'm just talking about the nature of, of culture as opposed to, uh, your sex, 0.98

00:35:49.960 which is not fluid at all, which is inherent, which is not a, which is not a human construct,

00:35:54.940 which you don't determine, which does not blend with anything else. It's just, you are what you are.

00:36:02.900 So in our own extremely stupid culture, the one thing that is fluid, you're not allowed to say 0.99

00:36:08.840 is fluid. And then all these other things, of course, those are the things we're going to pretend 1.00

00:36:12.220 are fluid. Speaking of which, um, here's a, here's a video I want to play for you before we get to

00:36:17.900 reading the YouTube comments. You know, my, my famous question that I'm asking you all the time

00:36:23.100 related to what we were just talking about, uh, which is what is a woman? And for years I've been

00:36:27.060 asking that question, have never received an answer to it. Well, what will play for you now

00:36:32.140 is, is not an answer. It's a non-answer, but at least she knows that she's giving a non-answer.

00:36:40.860 And so I feel like there's a little bit of progress just based on that alone. Let's listen.

00:36:44.580 Okay, can someone help me out with this? Cause I'm confusion. I am a woman. I identify as a

00:36:49.080 woman. I feel comfortable in being a woman. I feel like, what the f*** a woman? Like if someone 1.00

00:36:53.520 asked me, what does being a woman mean to you? I wouldn't have an answer. Don't even try to tell 0.94

00:36:57.300 me that, well, being a woman is being empathetic and kind and compassionate because that could

00:37:00.860 be anybody. Anybody could be those things. Don't even bother being transphobic in my comments

00:37:04.760 saying that, oh, well, being a woman is having a uterus and having kids because no, no, don't even 0.99

00:37:09.740 bother saying that being a woman means having bitties and having a vagine because no, also 0.75

00:37:15.180 no, wrong. So I'll ask the question again, what is a woman? Like, I feel so comfortable

00:37:19.540 identifying as a woman, but is that only because that's just what I've always been? That's

00:37:24.020 what people always told me that I was. So I just went with it. And the thing that's frustrating

00:37:27.660 with this question is that everyone's answer is always, well, it depends on the person.

00:37:31.240 And I get that. I know, but I'm trying to figure it out for myself and I don't know. And

00:37:34.580 I mean, I'm a gender abolitionist. So like abolish gender, you know, but some people feel

00:37:38.280 very validated in their labels and in their gender. So I'm strictly speaking for myself.

00:37:42.220 I don't know what being a woman means to me. Anyone else?

00:37:46.260 Uh, yeah. Well, that's the question, isn't it? What the F is a woman? As she, as she phrases, 1.00

00:37:55.360 not how I phrase it. That's how, that's how she phrases it. Can anyone answer the question?

00:37:59.420 Well, I can. The woman is an adult human female. I have no trouble answering it, but she, at 0.65

00:38:08.300 least she has no answer, but she's one of the only people that I've seen so far that will

00:38:14.940 acknowledge that they don't have an answer and that this is a problem. So she knows that

00:38:22.980 at least is maybe that if I want to be optimistic, maybe that'll plant a seed in her head. It's like,

00:38:33.580 at least you're thinking about it. And that's step one. And that's, that's, that's more of a step

00:38:42.380 than lots of people are willing to take in general. Not that most people aren't willing to think of

00:38:46.000 about anything really. But she realizes there's a problem here. She says, I'm a woman. Uh,

00:38:54.780 I know who and what I am. And yet I have this ideology and my, and my, and my politics, which

00:39:02.120 would say that, uh, that my womanhood has nothing to do with my body. It also has nothing to do with 0.61

00:39:10.700 any of my preferences or personality traits. Because if you say that being a woman is determined

00:39:18.060 by my body, that's transphobic. Don't be transphobic. But if you say that it all has to

00:39:22.820 do with being feminine and being, uh, you know, acting in a quote unquote womanly way, well, that's 1.00

00:39:27.080 anti-feminist and we can't be anti-feminist. So we're left with no, no definition at all.

00:39:33.640 Well, this is a big problem. She realizes that it's a big problem. She's saying that I, that

00:39:40.500 I'm a, I'm a woman, but I don't even, I can't tell you, I don't know what that is.

00:39:47.660 You're right. It is a problem. And I have to tell you something, young lady, uh, there is, 0.63

00:39:54.400 there is no way around it. If you're insisting on clinging on to your self-contradictory,

00:40:01.740 delusional ideological and political beliefs, which are really more like religious beliefs.

00:40:06.740 As long as you hang on to that doctrine, there is, there's no way around this conflict.

00:40:11.300 You're going to be doomed to live this life with an identity that you can't define

00:40:17.780 with an identity that, that, that according to you doesn't exist.

00:40:24.860 No way around it.

00:40:25.860 The only way is to let go of that doctrine, which you can let go of. And it's, it's freedom

00:40:35.600 because rather than having all of these, uh, different contradictory balls that you're

00:40:42.940 trying to juggle in the air, an unfortunate metaphor there for a number of reasons, but

00:40:48.660 still, rather than trying to juggle all of these, these balls, what you can do is you

00:40:53.080 can drop them. This is, this is getting more and more unfortunate as we talk about, uh, but

00:40:59.000 you can, you can drop them and say, I don't, I don't need to do this. I don't need to make

00:41:03.240 this work with that. How do I be, uh, you know, feminist, but also not trans. Forget about 1.00

00:41:08.140 that. You can embrace who you are. You're a woman at, at, and when it comes down to a deep

00:41:15.380 down, I think you, you, you actually do know what that means because you know who you are

00:41:19.080 and that's a good thing. Let go of the delusion, let go of the doctrine,

00:41:26.500 let go of those balls and just be who you are. All right. Read the YouTube comments now. Uh, 0.98

00:41:34.840 and as we do, if you're wondering what reading through, uh, if you're watching through the

00:41:38.080 bicep cam, that is, uh, our little astronaut here is wearing the sweet baby gang t-shirt.

00:41:44.060 So we got one for the miniature astronaut. We don't have one yet for you. Although the

00:41:49.820 sweet baby gang petition is now up to 1200, 1219. So over 1200 signatures, we got, you know,

00:41:57.740 almost, we got 281 to go before the next threshold. That's when we'll be at 1500 signatures on the

00:42:02.760 change.org petition to get these sweet baby gang t-shirts on sale. I don't know what's supposed

00:42:07.300 to happen at 1500, but let's get there anyway in this grassroots movement. All right. Um,

00:42:15.880 username, mostly peaceful says talking about my opening monologue yesterday. This was impressively

00:42:21.420 stupid. This country has thousands of immoral and tyrannical laws. This is what counts as 1.00

00:42:27.020 conservative these days. Someone who thinks the government should force us to do what they think

00:42:31.480 is moral sounds like a leftist. Well, mostly peaceful. It sounds like you, uh, speaking of

00:42:40.520 stupid, it sounds like you were not paying attention to anything I said. You were paying attention enough 1.00

00:42:50.480 to pick up on a few words and phrases here and there. But my basic argument, you completely missed

00:42:57.960 somehow, which I don't know how you managed to miss an argument that I make because I repeat myself

00:43:02.960 so much. I'm sure you've noticed because I want it to be understood. I'll keep repeating it and repeating

00:43:08.480 it. My point, when I talk about how all laws are moral laws, every law that's ever been written is a

00:43:17.580 moral law. You cannot have a law that is not a moral law, or at least to try to imagine a non-moral law

00:43:26.980 is an absurdity. It would be, it would be, what you would end up with is a totally arbitrary law

00:43:32.320 that has no reason to exist. So maybe you can imagine one, but you, but, uh, you certainly

00:43:39.040 wouldn't want a law like that to actually be passed. Um, but when I say that all laws are moral laws,

00:43:44.980 it doesn't mean that they're the correct morals. It doesn't mean I agree. Okay. You can make a moral

00:43:51.740 argument for something. Somebody can make a moral argument. Like I said yesterday, somebody can make

00:43:56.880 a moral argument for, for abortion. You can make a moral argument for abortion. It doesn't mean it's

00:44:02.300 a good argument and it's not a good argument, but all it means, all that means is that you are using,

00:44:09.680 you're trying to use morals. You're, you're, you're using a moral appeal. You're appealing to our

00:44:15.640 moral sense in order to advocate for abortion in that case. To acknowledge that that's what you're

00:44:22.200 doing is not to agree with the argument you're making. And so every law at base is, is a moral

00:44:31.220 law. It doesn't mean they're good. Yes. Oftentimes they're tyrannical. They're immoral. They're evil,

00:44:38.280 evil, but still there is a moral argument at the bottom. And the, whoever introduced that law,

00:44:47.320 advocated it, legislated it, imposed it, whatever, whatever person or group is responsible for that

00:44:55.200 law, it's guaranteed that they were making a moral argument to justify it. Might've been a bad

00:45:04.220 argument, might've been a horrific argument, but it was a moral argument. Is that, is that enough?

00:45:14.540 It, that seems to me in my own ears to be, uh, understandable and coherent. So hopefully now

00:45:19.240 you get what I was saying. Uh, resident wiseacre says 25 years ago, someone who spent all day in

00:45:25.520 the library was called a scholar. Today they're called homeless. Well, that is, that is, I suppose,

00:45:32.060 that was a correct observation, which is a shame. I used to be a big fan of libraries,

00:45:36.800 but the other thing is that libraries are, everything is, it's, it sounds silly to even

00:45:40.400 say what I'm going to say, but I have to, libraries are politicized. Everything is politicized. Now

00:45:45.440 libraries too, where they're bringing in, you know, drag queen story hours and everything.

00:45:52.960 Um, Abby Taylor says, if Matt reads this comment on the show, I'll pre-order Ben's book. And in my

00:45:59.800 question, I'll ask if Matt can sign it instead of Ben and address it to the sweet baby gang.

00:46:04.520 Well, I read your comment, so get to work. This is a win-win for everybody. I helped sell another

00:46:09.780 copy of Ben's book and, uh, maybe he promotes the sweet baby gang. I, I, I doubt that that will

00:46:16.960 happen, but let's give it a shot. It's worth a shot. Um, Bob says, wow, Matt, any more obvious

00:46:26.000 you're trying to get a ticket for Bezos's next trip, maybe on his lap. Aha, ban me. I'll just

00:46:31.240 keep watching. Uh, well, you are banned of course, but no, I, that's actually the last thing I would

00:46:37.340 want. I don't want to get in the rocket ship. I'm fascinated by space, by the idea of it. Uh,

00:46:42.840 as I've been saying, I, I, I love the idea of people building rocket ships and going up into

00:46:46.500 space. I think all that's great. I don't want to do it. I would be way too terrified to actually do it.

00:46:51.680 I don't like getting on an airplane, you know, and flying from Nashville to Baltimore, right? On a

00:46:58.700 two, two hour plane trip. So going 50 miles in the sky or higher is not, uh, not my cup of tea.

00:47:06.520 Although that's, that's not as bad. I, I read a story yesterday as we're all these different

00:47:12.860 companies are getting in, trying to get into the burgeoning space tourism industry, which of

00:47:18.020 course burgeoning among multimillionaires and billionaires, only ones are going to

00:47:21.660 afford it right now. But there's one company they're looking at, at, uh, at doing these space

00:47:25.940 trips in a space balloon, which is like a, a massive high tech hot air balloon, the size of a

00:47:33.620 football field. And you would drift up into space on one of those. That to me is it, that fills me

00:47:38.540 with so much existential dread to even think of doing something like that. So no, thank you, but I'm glad

00:47:44.500 people are doing it. Just like I'm, I'm not going to be on the trip, getting on a, on a, on a ship

00:47:49.160 to go to Mars. But I like the idea of people doing that, especially certain people. If I

00:47:56.600 could select the people and send them to Mars, it'd be even better. I got a lot of people in

00:47:59.700 mind who I would like to send. Um, and AOC Zabuelo says, let there be a competition for the best

00:48:06.860 sweet baby gang song. I think that's an excellent idea. Make your own sweet baby gang song, post

00:48:13.120 it to YouTube and, uh, I'll play them on the show. Let's, and if you can, if you do, and you already

00:48:19.180 know, if you do one with a banjo, you get, you get extra credit. You know, while some people see

00:48:25.580 NPR's latest smear campaign, that's been waged against the daily wire as an attempt at bringing

00:48:29.920 the thought police to our doorstep doorstep. I think there's another way you could look at it as

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00:49:13.420 want to miss Ben Shapiro's new book. When it comes to freedom, America is the world's last hope with

00:49:18.100 lockdown protests, getting increasingly violent in London, citizens and business owners facing prison

00:49:22.260 time for disobeying vaccine passport laws in France. It's become increasingly clear that we have

00:49:27.580 to fight to keep the last free country actually free. And that means standing up to the Biden

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00:50:10.280 Today for our daily cancellation, we begin with some good news for a change. The Philadelphia

00:50:13.800 Inquirer has the story. It says the U.S. women's soccer team opened the Olympics in disastrous fashion,

00:50:19.060 losing 3-0 to longtime rival Sweden. It was the program's worst defeat at a major tournament since

00:50:24.940 2007 and manager Vlatko Andinovsky's first loss since taking the helm in October 2019. And it was

00:50:32.340 no fluke. It was an honest to goodness beating. For all the talk of the U.S. being the tournament's

00:50:36.500 heavy favorite, Sweden was on the front foot from the start and rarely let up. I don't really know

00:50:42.140 what that means. They outshot the Americans by 16 to 13 in the game, including by 10 to 3 in the

00:50:46.020 first half. An American team loaded with past medals, but also the oldest squad in this tournament,

00:50:50.440 looked the latter more than the former. Now, from what I'm hearing, this was almost as embarrassing

00:50:56.580 as the time when they lost to a bunch of adolescent boys. It's almost, it's also almost as hilarious

00:51:02.040 and wonderful, but not quite. I'm not ashamed to tell you that I am actively rooting against

00:51:06.460 U.S. women's soccer. I want them to lose. I want them to be embarrassed badly on the global stage 0.82

00:51:12.600 because they have so thoroughly and intentionally embarrassed us. The Daily Mail reports, quote,

00:51:19.520 The U.S. and Team GB women's football teams were among those who took the knee ahead of their

00:51:27.220 opening matches in the Olympics today. All 22 players took part in the gesture prior to kickoff

00:51:31.860 between four-time Olympics champion the U.S. and Sweden and Tokyo, an hour after Team GB and Chile did

00:51:37.040 likewise in Sapporo. The IOC recently relaxed the rules for protests at the game, softening a

00:51:43.020 longstanding ban on political protests at the global sporting event. Athletes will now be allowed to

00:51:47.100 take a knee before play begins to highlight racial injustice, speak to the media and post online about

00:51:52.020 their views, or wear clothing with a protest slogan at a press conference. So U.S. women's soccer

00:51:58.020 took the knee. As always, none of them can explain why they're kneeling. None of these people have ever

00:52:04.520 been able to offer any cogent explanation as to what exactly they're protesting. And that's because

00:52:10.680 they aren't protesting any particular thing so much as expressing a general disdain for their country.

00:52:15.920 And this stunt comes as no surprise either. These are the same ladies who wore BLM shirts while also 0.59

00:52:21.060 taking a knee during the anthem before a game last year. Led by political activist Megan Rapinoe,

00:52:27.340 they have consistently put their politics front and center and declined to display patriotism in

00:52:32.880 favor of this sort of woke virtue signaling, all while repeatedly declaring their allegiance with an

00:52:38.360 organization, BLM, that is among the most destructive, evil, and depraved to exist in this country in 0.93

00:52:45.680 modern history. These women are not interested in representing the United States. They want to 1.00

00:52:51.720 represent their own ideological interests. They've shown no pride in their country, no allegiance to it.

00:52:56.780 And so I have no pride in them. I want them to lose. That's what they deserve.

00:53:02.320 It's true, of course, that the other women from the other teams knelt also. One set of kneelers

00:53:07.920 losing just means another set wins, unfortunately. But those other women are not supposed to be 1.00

00:53:13.300 representing our country. It's not our country that they make a mockery of. If some morons from Sweden

00:53:19.300 want to kneel, that's Sweden's concern. If morons from the U.S. kneel, it's ours. 1.00

00:53:22.820 This is where we are now, and it's not where I want to be. Even though I'm only vaguely interested 1.00

00:53:29.220 in the Olympics and I'm not at all interested in soccer, I still want to root for our teams and

00:53:34.260 our players. But if you won't stand and show pride in your country, if patriotism is too much to ask

00:53:39.640 for, if this country has blessed you beyond measure and still you put your allegiance to

00:53:44.840 violent Marxist organizations like BLM over your allegiance to the flag, then I am ashamed to share a

00:53:51.380 country with you. And I don't think you deserve to represent us in front of the globe.

00:53:56.840 You know, there's a lot of gaslighting that's gone on with this issue, of course.

00:54:00.260 Those of us who feel this way about it, those of us who are sick to death of the political statements,

00:54:03.960 the kneeling and so on, we're accused of being the ones to politicize sports.

00:54:08.580 And if we celebrate the defeat of athletes who carry on this way, we're accused of being disloyal.

00:54:13.280 But we're not the ones who chose to make sports into an ideological battlefield.

00:54:20.560 And what we're asking for is not much. It really isn't. All we want is for these people to conduct

00:54:28.000 themselves with a little dignity and to display just the faintest hint of gratitude for the country

00:54:33.980 that they live in and represent and which has given them so much. If that's too much to ask for,

00:54:40.260 then it's too much to ask us to root for you. I hope you fail. And I'm glad when you do.

00:54:48.980 And also you're canceled. I will leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

00:54:55.160 Have a great day, everyone. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - July 21, 2021

Ep. 758 - An Epidemic Of Virtue Signaling

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