The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 768 - Tyrannical Biden Administration Abolishes Private Property Rights

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the CDC has extended the eviction moratorium, once again,

00:00:04.540 forbidding property owners from evicting tenants who don't pay their rent. Biden admits that this

00:00:09.640 isn't constitutional and he has no authority to do what he's doing, and yet he does it anyway.

00:00:13.880 This is what it's like to live in a lawless country. We'll talk about that. Also, we have

00:00:16.520 our five headlines. The New York attorney general releases her report detailing Governor Cuomo's

00:00:21.420 serial sexual harassment. But I'm still mostly concerned about the fact that Cuomo killed

00:00:26.060 thousands of elderly people. That, to me, seems like the bigger deal. Plus, the NIH director says

00:00:31.540 that parents should wear masks in their homes to protect their children and later backtracks.

00:00:37.120 And in our Daily Cancellation, we'll talk about the rapper who's in the middle of a PR crisis

00:00:40.360 because of his comments that he made about gay people. Yet this rapper says many more objectionable

00:00:45.680 things in his songs, and few people seem to have a problem with that. We'll discuss that

00:00:49.260 confusing contradiction and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:56.060 Well, you may not realize this, but it's not fun to feel sick. I don't know if you've ever

00:01:05.580 experienced that in your life. I have. I wouldn't recommend it necessarily. And if you don't like

00:01:10.700 feeling sick, then Relief Band is for you. Relief Band is the number one FDA-cleared anti-nausea

00:01:16.000 wristband that's been clinically proven to quickly relieve and effectively prevent nausea and vomiting

00:01:20.860 associated with motion sickness, which is the scourge that I deal with, anxiety, migraine,

00:01:27.140 hangover, morning sickness, chemotherapy, and so much more. The product is 100% drug-free,

00:01:31.740 non-drowsy, and provides all natural relief with zero side effects for as long as needed.

00:01:36.960 The great thing is that this technology was originally developed in hospitals decades ago

00:01:40.720 and for a while was only available to patients in hospitals. But now, through Relief Band,

00:01:45.160 it's available to the masses. And what it does is it stimulates a nerve in the wrist that travels to

00:01:51.200 the part of your brain that controls nausea, and then it blocks the signal your brain is sending to

00:01:55.580 your stomach telling you that you are sick. In short, nausea is never the reason to miss out

00:01:59.980 on life's important moments. Right now, Relief Band has an exclusive offer just for Matt Walsh

00:02:03.480 listeners. If you go to ReliefBand.com, use promo code Walsh, you'll receive 20% off plus free shipping

00:02:07.480 and a no-questions-asked 30-day money-back guarantee. So head to R-E-L-I-E-F-B-A-N-D.com 0.68

00:02:13.080 and use our promo code Walsh for 20% off. If the last 18 months have taught us anything,

00:02:19.200 it's that we live in a fundamentally lawless country. The law is dead in America. We have

00:02:25.200 laws, certainly. Lots of them. More laws than any nation has ever had, I'm sure. New bills are all

00:02:32.600 like war and peace, both because they're over a thousand pages and because nobody's actually read

00:02:36.540 them. Our problem is not then a scarcity of laws. This is not a problem of quantity. The problem is

00:02:42.980 there is no foundational underlying law which everyone, including our leaders, recognize and

00:02:48.880 abide by. All of these new laws and policies spring forth out of the imagination of politicians

00:02:54.160 and unelected bureaucrats. They're not meant to serve any greater purpose except the political and 0.87

00:02:59.640 ideological needs of the ruling class. And this state of affairs would be quite bad, but not as bad as it

00:03:05.940 actually is if these arbitrary edicts were enforced equally, but they're not. Winners and losers are

00:03:12.980 chosen by that same ruling class. If they decide they can wave their scepters and excuse certain

00:03:18.600 groups of people from the duty to obey even the most basic and universal laws, as we all witnessed 0.93

00:03:24.060 when bloodthirsty mobs rioted and looted in our cities for months, and few in that crowd have faced any

00:03:30.020 legal penalties for it. Of course, I say there is no foundational underlying law which everyone must

00:03:35.900 abide by, but I mean that in a practical sense. That law does exist in theory and it's called the

00:03:42.080 Constitution, but the Constitution is just a document. It's not a deity. It doesn't possess the supernatural

00:03:49.160 ability to enforce itself. Those in power must choose to heed it. If they don't, then it may as well not

00:03:58.420 exist. See, we can scream, that's unconstitutional, all we want, but the people in power simply shrug

00:04:04.760 their shoulders and respond, yeah, so what? What are you going to do about it? And that's where we are

00:04:10.220 now and where we were yesterday when the CDC extended its eviction moratorium for another two months.

00:04:16.300 Now, this moratorium was initially put in place last September as the CDC stood upon its mighty perch

00:04:22.680 on Mount Olympus and declared that property owners are not allowed to evict tenants from their

00:04:28.020 property even if those tenants refuse to pay. The CDC, of course, has absolutely no actual authority

00:04:34.960 whatsoever to set housing policy. In fact, if you look at the CDC's website and you read its mission

00:04:40.920 statement, here's what it says. CDC works 24-7 to protect America from health, safety, and security

00:04:46.440 threats both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad or chronic or acute, curable or

00:04:52.040 preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do

00:04:57.440 the same. Now, they're clearly doing a very bad job at all of that, but you'll notice that even in

00:05:04.040 their own description of themselves and what they do, they don't say anything about housing policy.

00:05:10.320 Be that as it may, they made the policy anyway. And it expired over the weekend and the White House

00:05:15.440 admitted, after it expired, that the executive branch does not have the authority to extend it. Biden

00:05:21.780 said this and then called on the legislator to act, said they're going to have to be the ones to do it.

00:05:27.740 We can't do it. And by the way, it's arguable, dubious. In fact, I would say right now, even Congress

00:05:33.780 doesn't really have the constitutional authority to declare that all landlords across the entire

00:05:41.200 country cannot evict any tenants, tenants. But Congress didn't act. And so Biden said, okay,

00:05:50.720 nevermind, we'll go ahead and do the thing that I just admitted we don't have the authority to do.

00:05:56.560 And the moratorium was extended on a limited basis, we're told. Oh, it's limited this time,

00:06:01.760 except that it still applies to 90% of the population. That's what counts as limited in

00:06:07.620 the federal government's eyes. 90%. The extended moratorium also comes with criminal penalties for

00:06:15.040 any property owner who dares to kick out a squatter from their property. A reporter from Business

00:06:20.320 Insider reports, quote, the new 60-day CDC eviction moratorium carries steep criminal penalties for

00:06:26.740 individual landlords who break the law. Potential $100,000 fine and one year in jail if eviction doesn't

00:06:32.680 result in death. Up to $250,000 fine and one year in jail if evicted person dies.

00:06:39.940 And what do we even mean by that? Like it's eviction that results in death? I mean, if you evict

00:06:45.900 someone by throwing them out the 10th story window, then I can see how that's an eviction that results

00:06:50.420 in death. But if you evict someone because they're not paying and then later on they die, how is that

00:06:56.440 your fault? And how do we even, is it if I evict you and then you die tomorrow, that's my fault? What

00:07:02.860 if you die six months from now? And let's back up even further. Breaks the law? What law? No law

00:07:15.200 has been passed. Is the CDC now a legislative entity? Apparently we're supposed to believe that it is.

00:07:22.080 They're passing laws now. Now Biden, for his part, admitted in a press conference last night

00:07:28.340 that the moratorium is probably not constitutional and will probably get struck down in court.

00:07:33.660 But the good news, he says, is that it will take a while before that happens. And there's a lot of

00:07:38.220 power grabbing we can do in the meantime. Let's listen. The bulk of the constitutional scholarship says

00:07:45.860 that it's not likely to pass constitutional muster. Number one. But there are several key scholars

00:07:54.820 who think that it may and it's worth the effort. But the present, you could not, the courts already

00:08:02.660 ruled on the present eviction moratorium. So I think what you're going to see, and I look, I want to make

00:08:10.120 it clear. I told you I would not tell the Justice Department or the medical experts, the scientists

00:08:16.380 what they should say or do. So I don't want to get ahead. The CDC has to make this. I asked the CDC

00:08:22.980 to go back and consider other options that may be available to them. You're going to hear from them

00:08:30.260 what those other options are. I have been informed they're about to make a judgment as the potential

00:08:37.640 other options. Whether that option will pass constitutional measure with this administration,

00:08:46.460 I can't tell you. I don't know. There are a few scholars who say it will and others who say it's not

00:08:54.400 likely to. But at a minimum, by the time it gets litigated, it will probably give some additional time

00:09:02.080 while we're getting that $45 billion out to people who are, in fact, behind in the rent and don't have the money.

00:09:10.880 Okay, let me just interpret what, translate what Mr. Magoo is saying here.

00:09:15.500 The President of the United States is admitting openly that he is engaging in an unconstitutional power grab

00:09:21.400 that almost certainly will not pass muster in the courts.

00:09:24.340 Only he says, well, by the time the courts can do anything about it, it'll be too late.

00:09:32.360 Now, he's far from the first president to engage in an unconstitutional power grab.

00:09:36.840 I mean, they all have, going back decades and decades and decades.

00:09:41.580 But what is arguably unusual is that he should be so forthright about it.

00:09:47.780 Once again, the message is, yeah, this is unconstitutional.

00:09:51.040 You know, what are you peons going to do about it?

00:09:54.540 Well, we know who isn't going to do anything about it, Republicans.

00:09:58.160 As the President of the United States engages in this unprecedented, unconstitutional power grab,

00:10:03.300 admitting again that it is unconstitutional, Republicans have very little to say about it.

00:10:08.780 The CDC has assumed the power to write legislation and has removed property rights from millions of

00:10:15.360 Americans in the process. Property rights. One of the most fundamental rights you can have.

00:10:22.100 If you don't have property rights, then you don't have rights. You do not live in a free country.

00:10:27.160 There is no such thing as a free country where you don't have property rights.

00:10:32.840 And this is happening in our trusty conservatives, quote unquote, in the Republican Party can hardly be

00:10:36.920 bothered to vocally object to it, saying almost nothing about it.

00:10:41.580 Now, perhaps if this was happening in Cuba or the Middle East, Republicans would be a little bit

00:10:46.260 more upset. But the rights of actual Americans seem to not really be a priority of either party.

00:10:54.600 Speaking of those actual Americans, you know, the law, the Constitution, our basic property rights

00:11:01.140 are all being set on fire for the sake of protecting millions of renters who allegedly can't pay their

00:11:07.840 rent, except that those renters live in a country with millions of open jobs and have collectively

00:11:15.680 received billions of dollars in assistance already just in the past year. Sorry, not billions,

00:11:23.060 trillions. Trillions of dollars in assistance have been passed and is available.

00:11:29.580 And the checks have been cut and have been sent to these people.

00:11:36.340 And we're supposed to believe that millions of them still can't pay their rent.

00:11:41.260 Sorry, no, I don't buy it. Not for a second.

00:11:45.700 If they haven't paid their rent in a year, it's because they've chosen not to.

00:11:52.200 It's because they've chosen not to.

00:11:53.840 They have decided to steal. And yes, if you've been living in a rented property for a year

00:12:01.540 or almost a year now and haven't paid a dime towards it, you're stealing.

00:12:10.420 And they're doing it because they know that the federal government will assist them in the

00:12:13.880 appropriation of someone else's property. What is happening here is that private property is being

00:12:19.720 taken, appropriated, and given to other parties as essentially a form of welfare.

00:12:28.940 As for the landlords, though they are painted as some shadowy group of wealthy, evil land barons,

00:12:34.640 the fact is that a great number of them are middle-class individual investors.

00:12:39.700 They're experiencing real suffering and hardship, which has been caused not by a virus

00:12:43.580 or any act of God, but by a combination of the government who believe that they are God

00:12:48.800 and greedy, mooching tenants. Many of these people are on the brink or already over it.

00:12:55.420 So just as an example, let me share with you a couple of stories.

00:12:58.120 A number of property owners with rental properties have messaged me as I've been talking about this

00:13:03.380 over the last few days to tell me what they've been going through. And the media isn't going to

00:13:07.620 tell you these stories. So let me just read a couple, okay?

00:13:11.300 And these are representative. These are not extreme outlying things. This is what thousands

00:13:18.480 and thousands of people are going through right now. So let me read a couple. Here's one.

00:13:22.400 My wife and I own two houses, our home we live in and a previous home that we decided to rent out.

00:13:27.100 We got a tenant in at the end of last year and received the first two months rent. After that,

00:13:30.800 he kept giving me excuses for not paying. Then suddenly he changed his phone number and wouldn't

00:13:35.020 contact me. I went to the house multiple times over the next month and it appeared abandoned.

00:13:38.880 I went through the proper steps, even getting state legislatures looking at loopholes in the

00:13:43.120 moratorium. But because the tenant wouldn't make contact with me to confirm he was abandoning the

00:13:48.500 property, I wasn't allowed to evict him. The state of Minnesota has a rental assistance program to

00:13:53.380 help with this, but because the tenant wasn't communicating, I wasn't eligible for support.

00:13:57.980 You see, apparently they would pay him if I wouldn't cooperate on the application, but they won't pay me

00:14:02.860 if he doesn't cooperate. Makes sense, right? Shortly after this, the utilities were allowed to be shut

00:14:07.860 off. But now that it was summer, I needed the AC to run so that it wouldn't destroy the interior of

00:14:12.100 the house. So now we're paying the mortgage and the utilities on a house we don't live in. It's

00:14:16.260 been seven months. Now that the moratorium has ended, I was legally required to email the tenant

00:14:20.680 who, again, hasn't lived in my house in months to let him know that he was being evicted. But he

00:14:26.060 replied that he would like to apply for assistance from the state. And now I am legally required to go

00:14:30.580 through that process. We are now waiting on the state to pay me back rent, but there's no guarantee

00:14:34.900 we will receive that money. It's tough to pay two mortgages, two utilities, and take care of two

00:14:39.800 houses. By the way, the rent slash mortgage are over $1,000 a month. And there's a lot in there

00:14:47.560 that's important, but one important point, and I've heard this from many people in this position,

00:14:52.620 that if you're hearing, oh, well, the landlords can get rental assistance or there's assistance for

00:14:56.300 them, there are a lot of loopholes you have to go through and a lot of contingencies. And one thing

00:15:01.320 I'm hearing over and over again is that if you're a landlord and you want to get paid back, your

00:15:05.980 tenants have to cooperate with that and help you out. And if they don't, then you're out of luck.

00:15:13.140 Here's another. It says, I lost my job when COVID hit. My wife wasn't working as we just had our

00:15:17.040 third child. I was not entitled to welfare due to assets, a rental property with a mortgage of $500,000.

00:15:22.320 When the tenants sent a letter stating that they had received advice that they did not have to pay rent

00:15:26.040 and we could not kick them out. In the meantime, the tenants were now making more money than they were

00:15:30.540 when they started renting. I dread the damage I'm up for when we finally get them out in October this

00:15:35.700 year, as they have not let the agent inspect since COVID hit. I have felt close to the brink.

00:15:42.000 And one more, it says, I'm working all the overtime I can so I can still pay the mortgage on my rental

00:15:46.480 property so they can live there for free. I don't think that they lost their jobs either. They're just

00:15:51.760 gaming the system. I have a couple of friends in the same situation. There are many, many more stories

00:15:58.320 where these come from. Many thousands more. This is real suffering brought on by real tyranny

00:16:04.840 from an oppressive government, which recognizes no law outside of itself. No limit, except its own

00:16:12.600 imagination. Which brings us back to where we started. There is no law in this country anymore,

00:16:20.320 but there is a government and it's simply doing whatever it wants. Now let's get to our five

00:16:28.040 headlines. Well, given the subject to begin the show today about our tyrannical overlords and their

00:16:39.780 lawlessness, there couldn't be a better time to tell you about Ben Shapiro's latest book. If you

00:16:43.360 haven't heard us talk about it yet, The Authoritarian Moment, which does a deep dive into the history of

00:16:48.120 authoritarianism and how it's creeping into our own government and most importantly, what you can

00:16:51.920 do to stop it. So it's time to learn how to say no to this tyrannical government. The Authoritarian

00:16:57.040 Moment is now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or any other major bookseller. So get your copy now.

00:17:01.980 Again, that's The Authoritarian Moment on sale today. So my wife and kids, quick update from the

00:17:08.520 homestead. My wife and kids are currently in the midst of a full-on pressure campaign to convince me

00:17:16.920 to get a dog. And the thing is, we talked about the dog thing. You know, I'm obviously not a dog

00:17:24.780 person, to put it mildly. I think that is a well-established fact, but I could maybe be convinced

00:17:31.060 to consider a dog that would be good with the kids and like a good companion for the kids.

00:17:36.980 Because the kids, of course, like all kids, they love dogs. But most importantly, a guard dog,

00:17:42.760 right? So because I don't really, I'm not a big dog guy, but lots of, I don't really like dogs,

00:17:48.620 but lots of people really don't like me. Really, really don't like me. So we have security concerns

00:17:54.540 in my family. And I've already put in place plenty of security measures, of course, but having a big

00:17:59.640 scary dog that's, you know, protective and all of that, from everything I've heard, that's kind of

00:18:04.320 like the second best security thing you can have aside from owning a gun. Might even be in some cases

00:18:09.800 better than the gun, though really, you know, there's no reason why you have to choose between

00:18:13.400 the two. But in terms of just like dissuading someone from even making an attempt in the first

00:18:17.520 place. So I'm thinking about that, I'm considering it. And then my wife ends up going to a shelter

00:18:22.860 with the kids yesterday and starts frantically texting me pictures of all of these different

00:18:29.280 dogs. And some of them are small and old and lethargic. She was trying at one point to convince

00:18:34.660 me to adopt like this 12-year-old miniature corgi looking thing. What the hell is that thing going

00:18:41.120 to, what is it going to guard? A Lego house? And, you know, and she says, oh, look at all these dogs.

00:18:49.900 They're cute. Well, these cute dogs. Well, okay. Yeah, they're cute. But if I'm going to have a dog in

00:18:57.300 the house, it needs to do a lot more than be cute. Okay. It has to serve some purpose other than being

00:19:04.540 cute. We already have cute in the house. The kids are cute. We've got the cute quotient covered.

00:19:13.200 Like I'm not getting up at five o'clock in the morning or whatever to take this thing for a walk

00:19:17.300 and consoling myself by saying, well, at least it's cute. I could maybe console myself by the thought

00:19:24.500 that the dog is helping my wife and kids be safe and feel safe. You know, I'm willing to invest in

00:19:30.960 that. I'm just not willing to invest in cute. You got to do better than cute. I mean, cute isn't

00:19:35.060 even good enough for my kids. My daughter can't get out of doing chores by saying, well, but daddy, 1.00

00:19:40.900 I'm cute. Okay. Well, yeah, get upstairs and clean your room. Be cute cleaning your room. That's the 0.97

00:19:46.700 cutest thing you could do right now. So that's, uh, it's my mistake for opening the door in the

00:19:56.120 first place. I never should have done that. I never should have entertained the possibility of a dog.

00:20:00.100 And, uh, and this is where we are now. Okay. Um, number one, the New York attorney general announced

00:20:06.580 yesterday that after an investigation, it has been determined that governor Cuomo is a serial sexual

00:20:13.260 harasser, which I think we already kind of knew, but they did a full investigation and, uh, did a

00:20:17.700 press conference release the whole report. Here is the attorney general describing some of their

00:20:22.220 findings. Let's watch. The independent investigation has concluded that governor Andrew Cuomo sexually

00:20:30.460 harassed multiple women and in doing so violated federal and state law. Specifically, the investigation

00:20:39.080 found that governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed current and former New York state employees

00:20:46.600 by engaging in unwelcome and non-consensual touching and making numerous offensive comments of a suggestive

00:20:54.720 and sexual nature that created a hostile work environment for women. The investigators independently

00:21:03.520 corroborated and substantiated these facts through interviews and evidence, including contemporaneous

00:21:12.000 notes and communications. This evidence will be made available to the public along with the report.

00:21:20.880 Okay. He created a, a hostile work environment for, uh, for women. He was, sounds like he's just sort of a,

00:21:27.980 a pig and a jerk to women. And there's the whole report was released. You could read the entire 1.00

00:21:33.340 report if for some reason you want to. Now, governor Cuomo is not apologizing. He is not backing down an

00:21:40.360 inch. Uh, people, uh, it seems that, you know, there, there are plenty of conservatives, social media

00:21:47.960 that were kind of celebrating and say, Oh, he's going down. He's going down for this. He might, I'm not

00:21:53.400 ready to say that he won't, but I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't put all my money on it. Okay. I

00:21:58.960 wouldn't, I wouldn't bet my life savings on this actually bringing Andrew Cuomo down because at the

00:22:04.700 end of the day, even if, even if everyone seems to be turning on him right now, the media is turning

00:22:09.440 on him. His fellow Democrats in New York are, he is still at the end of the day, a Democrat.

00:22:18.240 And even for Andrew Cuomo, that, uh, provide, that is a force field that can protect you from almost

00:22:25.540 anything. And that's why he's taking this approach rather than apologizing. He, uh, held a, you know,

00:22:31.220 he, he, he spoke to the media afterwards, had a televised address, did not apologize,

00:22:37.760 basically accused all these women of lying. And then he also explained, uh, he explained much of

00:22:43.780 this away by claiming that, well, he gropes and manhandles everyone, not just attractive women.

00:22:50.140 And that's supposed to make it all better. Let's listen to some of, uh, Andrew Cuomo here.

00:22:53.500 I do it with everyone, black and white, young and old, straight and LGBTQ, powerful people,

00:23:11.600 friends, strangers, people who I meet on the street. After the event, the woman told the press

00:23:21.380 that she took offense at the gesture. And for that, I apologize. Another woman stated that I kissed

00:23:31.200 her on the forehead at our Christmas party. And that I said, ciao Bella. Now I don't remember doing

00:23:40.220 it, but I'm sure that I did. I do kiss people on the forehead. I do kiss people on the cheek.

00:23:48.780 I do kiss people on the hand. I do embrace people. I do hug people, men and women. I do on occasion

00:24:01.460 say, ciao Bella. On occasion, I do slip and say, sweetheart or darling or honey. I do banter with

00:24:13.420 people. I do tell jokes, some better than others. I am the same person in public as I am in private.

00:24:24.620 Yeah, well, that's part of, that's part of the problem there, uh, Cuomo, because you're a horrible 0.96

00:24:29.640 person in public. So, Hey guys, I'm horrible in public. What'd you expect? I mean, that is in some 0.61

00:24:37.040 ways a kind of oddly powerful argument, I suppose, but this, this is, this is his response. And if

00:24:42.740 you're just listening to the audio podcast, you might've missed the slideshow that he assembled

00:24:47.060 and put together where he was talking about all the people that he gropes. And then there was a

00:24:51.000 slideshow of him groping, uh, people of all different races, ethnicities, creeds, and so on.

00:24:56.860 Look, I grope everyone. Okay. And no one is safe from me. I'll, I'll, I will, I will grope and touch

00:25:02.720 anyone black, white, young, old, the postman, the cashier at home Depot, the disabled humans, 0.99

00:25:11.060 animals. If space aliens landed here, I would grope them too in a heartbeat. It's what I do. 0.91

00:25:19.120 That's his defense. Uh, and it was surprisingly not very convincing or compelling to a lot of people,

00:25:24.940 though, again, it doesn't mean that he's actually going to, uh, suffer any real consequence for this

00:25:29.220 whatsoever. And he's obviously not going to step down himself. His, his, uh, he's, he's wagering

00:25:34.920 on the fact that he's a Democrat and he can ride this one out. And he's probably right about that.

00:25:40.420 Now, as far as the accusations themselves, I did read a little bit of the report and, um, at least

00:25:45.280 some of the sort of summary summaries of the, of the findings and some of what he's accused of doing

00:25:50.660 is clearly, clearly goes beyond being merely inappropriate. Uh, he's accused in some cases of

00:26:00.000 grabbing women under, underneath their shirts and so on. There's like sex, that is sexual assault. 0.74

00:26:05.640 Um, that goes beyond sexual harassment. That's, that's the accusation anyway, but then it is also

00:26:12.900 odd when, when you have claims like that, okay, that's sexual harassment or rather that's sexual

00:26:19.860 assault. But then in the report, they also include things like, uh, he, he, he has, he referred to

00:26:29.560 some women as single mamas and at another point called them mingle mamas, whatever, whatever that 1.00

00:26:36.720 means. Uh, he said at one point he was talking to some female assistant or something. And he said

00:26:41.320 that, uh, he really wants to take a woman on a motorcycle ride into the mountains. I don't know if

00:26:47.600 that's some kind of euphemism or if he actually just literally just wants to go to the mountains

00:26:51.240 on a motorcycle, whatever it is, but those kinds of calling someone a single mama, uh, that's kind

00:26:57.380 of weird. I mean, arguably inappropriate if they're your employee, but it's not illegal. I wouldn't even

00:27:04.640 call that sexual harassment. In fact, I would, I would not call that sexual harassment. So you're

00:27:09.800 kind of lumping that stuff in with what would be if, if it actually happened straight up, straightforward

00:27:18.440 sexual assault. Um, and so that raises some questions though. I don't doubt that the guy's a 1.00

00:27:26.340 creep and yet I put all this to the side because all of this pales in comparison to the fact that Andrew 0.92

00:27:38.160 Cuomo killed thousands of elderly people and he did kill them. He consigned them to their death.

00:27:46.600 He signed their death warrants. Okay. He locked them in nursing homes with people that he knew to be 0.99

00:27:55.180 infected by this virus that primarily kills the elderly in nursing homes. Okay. He, he locked them

00:28:03.180 in a room with a, with a, with a, with a, with a bomb and lit the fuse. So it's, it's hard for me to

00:28:11.720 care about sexual harassment complaints. It's hard for me to muster any real outrage about this

00:28:19.140 given that he, again, killed thousands of elderly people. When I think of, of Andrew Cuomo and the

00:28:27.780 terrible things that he's done, that will, to me, always be the first thing that comes to mind. And I don't

00:28:34.360 really need to think about anything else. So if he does go down for, for this, the sexual harassment,

00:28:41.920 what, what, what will it say about our culture that this is what brings him down?

00:28:48.960 That he could murder thousands of elderly people and suffer no consequence for it. Remember this

00:28:56.300 was known. The nursing home scandal was known when he was still, um, being hailed as a hero across the

00:29:07.760 country, especially by the media. And he got the big book deal and he went on a book tour and you had

00:29:14.440 people in the media, even men like Trevor Noah describing themselves as Cuomo sexuals that

00:29:20.900 happened after we knew about him condemning thousands of elderly people to a horrible death.

00:29:29.080 So he suffered no consequence for that at all. And that might be understating. And in fact,

00:29:32.780 he was celebrated for that. Um, and then it comes out that he made inappropriate comments to women in

00:29:39.520 the workplace and made an uncomfortable workplace environment for women as the attorney general 1.00

00:29:44.340 says. And that's the thing that makes people go, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. Hang on a second.

00:29:51.780 This crosses a line here. Hold on. Wait a second. Okay. You kill, you kill, uh, thousands of elderly 0.92

00:29:58.780 people. That's one thing we can overlook that, but you called a woman, a single mama. No, sir. We can't 0.99

00:30:06.500 accept that is totally demented and deranged that this is the thing.

00:30:14.340 Now I know you could say, well, they're both bad and we could be upset about both.

00:30:21.700 Yes, they're both bad, but one is on a totally different plane. When you're talking about mass

00:30:28.740 murder, as opposed to what is mostly inappropriate comments. Now there were again, a few accusations of

00:30:37.040 actual physical contact being made, but most of the accusations are about inappropriate comments.

00:30:42.340 And this is being called a sexual harassment scandal after all, even by the media.

00:30:50.020 So you've got inappropriate comments down here. And then up here, you've got mass murder. Yeah,

00:30:54.240 they're both bad, but, but I can't make equal space in my heart to be equally outraged by both.

00:31:04.340 I'm so outraged by the mass murder that it doesn't, the sexual harassment claim it's, it's,

00:31:12.340 there's, there's no room for that in terms of, of, of my outrage.

00:31:18.200 You know, uh, John Wayne Gacy murdered dozens of young men.

00:31:27.260 And when I think about John Wayne Gacy, that's what comes to mind. That's like all I need to know

00:31:31.500 about him. It may be true. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if you told me that he was also rude

00:31:37.220 to his next door neighbor and made inappropriate comments, but it would just seem weird if you said,

00:31:41.940 hey, John Wayne Gacy. Yeah. He, he, uh, he murdered, you know, 30 young men. He also made

00:31:47.660 inappropriate comments to his next door neighbor and we could be upset about both. You know,

00:31:51.900 we can, but how can you even put those two things in the same sentence is my question.

00:32:02.680 All right, let's move on. Here's something good. Something that will cheer you up,

00:32:05.540 really cheer you up. Okay. This is actually good. This is a Tamara Mensah stock. Who's our Olympic gold

00:32:10.540 medal winning women's wrestler. And, uh, after her big win, she was talking to the media and we know

00:32:16.380 what, what we very often get from these Olympic athletes. When they win, they use it as an

00:32:21.280 opportunity to complain about America, to complain about everything. They're, you know, they're,

00:32:24.960 they're, they've won a medal, but they're so upset. Um, but this woman, Tamara has taken a very

00:32:31.240 different approach and just listen to this. Of course I surprised myself. It's by the grace of

00:32:35.680 God, I'm able to even move my feet. Like I just leave it in his hands and I pray that all the

00:32:40.520 practice that the hell that my freaking coaches put me through pays off. And every single time it 0.94

00:32:45.680 does. And I get better and better. And it's so weird that there is no cap to the limit that I can

00:32:50.500 do. And I'm, I'm excited to see what, what I have next. Last question for you. That American flag

00:32:56.940 around your shoulders looks pretty good. How does that feel to represent your country like this?

00:33:00.940 It feels amazing. I love representing the U S I freaking love living there. I love it.

00:33:07.600 And I'm so happy I get to represent U S A. Okay. There's an Olympic athlete we could actually

00:33:17.260 root for. We found one, at least there might be a few others. And that's wonderful. You know,

00:33:22.760 that is just gratitude is such an appealing characteristic. Um, and, and humility is such

00:33:30.780 an appealing characteristic. And you think about the women's USA soccer team, Megan Rapinoe. 0.79

00:33:38.220 Compare the two. Megan Rapinoe is such an unappealing sort of viscerally disgusting person 1.00

00:33:47.440 because she said all the success in the world and she has no gratitude, no humility. All she does is 0.97

00:33:54.520 complain. All the money she makes, it's not enough. I don't make as much as the men. 1.00

00:33:57.940 Yeah. Well, well, people watch men's soccer. They don't care about women's soccer. Nobody cares 0.96

00:34:03.180 about this. They don't watch it. Yeah. I still want the same amount of money. So all she can do is

00:34:07.080 complain. It's just so disgusting and unappealing and no one wants, and you compare that to, um,

00:34:12.580 to this woman again, Tamara Mensah stock. And there's a woman you just, you want to root for her. You want 0.98

00:34:19.200 her to succeed. Um, I, I don't, I don't care at all about women's wrestling. I have to admit, 1.00

00:34:25.140 but I want her to succeed. This is the one and only women's wrestler that, uh, that I actually 0.97

00:34:31.700 care about it. I'm, and I'm happy for her success because of that humility and that gratitude. And,

00:34:36.560 um, and, but it's, it's also sad in another way that, that, um, this is, is now rare,

00:34:45.280 not to take anything away from her at all, but, you know, 10 years ago or 20 years ago

00:34:54.640 to have an athlete saying everything she said there, we would all be happy about it. And we

00:35:00.640 would say, well, that's, that's great. We're very happy for them, but it wouldn't get the kind of

00:35:05.120 attention. At least, you know, this is getting a lot of attention from at least conservatives and

00:35:08.700 just normal people. The media is not paying a lot of attention. They're not going to extol her 0.70

00:35:13.400 and praise her the way that they do losers like Megan Rapp, you know, or, you know, uh, or someone 1.00

00:35:21.460 like, uh, uh, Simone Biles, but in the public anyway, she's getting a lot of attention, a lot

00:35:27.020 of praise. You go back 20 years or something, or even more recently than that. And, uh, yeah,

00:35:31.340 people would be very happy, but it's, but like most athletes would have responded that way,

00:35:35.020 especially in the Olympic stage. You go back not that long ago. And this is like what every

00:35:40.980 American Olympic athlete was saying. And now it is so rare and so refreshing that it's,

00:35:49.080 you know, it's like you watch that kind of gratitude. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a drink

00:35:52.960 of, of cold water in a desert and it feels very refreshing. So that's the sad part of, but even

00:35:58.880 so, um, great to see that from, uh, Tamara Mensah-Stock. Okay. A couple other things we have

00:36:05.880 to mention, uh, what do we got? So the director of the NIH, Francis Collins claimed yesterday that

00:36:11.160 vaccinated parents must wear masks at home with their kids. That's what he said. Now I'll play 1.00

00:36:18.400 this for you. And later on he would backtrack and kind of imply that he didn't really say that, but

00:36:22.120 you listen to this and you tell me if, if, if that's what you're picking up from this. Let's

00:36:26.820 listen. Uh, you have heard those stories coming out of Louisiana pediatric ICUs where there are kids

00:36:34.780 as young as a few months old who are sick from this. That is rare. Certainly younger people are

00:36:39.760 less likely to fall ill, but anybody who tries to tell you, ah, you don't have to worry about it.

00:36:43.980 If you're a young, healthy person, there's many counter examples all around us now. Well, so yeah,

00:36:49.400 you do need to think about it. And that's the reason why the recommendations are for kids under 12,

00:36:55.860 that they avoid being in places where they might get infected, which means recommendations of mask

00:37:01.020 wearing in schools and that at home, uh, parents of unvaccinated kids should be thoughtful about this.

00:37:07.040 And the recommendation is to wear masks there as well. I know that's uncomfortable. I know it seems

00:37:12.420 weird, but it is the best way to protect your kids. Okay. He said at home, the recommendation is to

00:37:20.920 wear masks there as well. I know that's weird. It's uncomfortable. No, no, no. Uh, Francis, it's not

00:37:28.600 weird or uncomfortable. Well, it is, but I would prefer to use a word like psychotic. It is psychotic,

00:37:36.400 uh, to, to suggest that or to do it. Cause what you're saying is, you know, wear the mask in public,

00:37:46.320 wear it at home. So wear the mask all the time, every waking moment. And maybe even,

00:37:52.680 even when you're sleeping, wear the mask all the time. That's what he suggested. Now he went after

00:37:59.880 the backlash to this people reacting the way any rational person should to that kind of suggestion

00:38:05.480 that you should be wearing medical masks all the time, including in your own home. Uh, he came back

00:38:10.020 around and said, well, I, I bungled the messaging a little bit. I didn't really mean that. What do you

00:38:14.120 mean? You didn't mean that. That's exactly what you said. It was not a slip of the tongue.

00:38:19.400 It was a very deliberate statement. And he even acknowledges that it's weird, but yet he said it.

00:38:29.280 So this wasn't, this wasn't an intentional thing.

00:38:33.580 And because the public reacted to it the way they did, um, that's why the NIH backed off of it.

00:38:40.800 If there had not been that reaction, then they would have just stuck with that. Yeah. Wear the mask

00:38:44.400 at home, which only goes to show, you know, we talk about living in a lawless country and we are,

00:38:52.160 but so much of the lawlessness from the government requires the willing participation and cooperation

00:38:59.460 and acquiescence of the public. If the public says, absolutely not, I am just not going to do this.

00:39:07.640 If, if everyone together gets together and says that, what are you going to do? Arrest all of us?

00:39:13.820 You start passing the mask, passing the mask mandates. Um, we're not doing it. It's not going

00:39:18.600 to do it. Put us all in jail. Go ahead. If we all were to say that, or even most of us,

00:39:25.820 then a lot of this stuff goes away because it has to, it requires us to participate and cooperate.

00:39:32.380 All right. Um, I also want to, more COVID news while we're on the subject. This is, here's this

00:39:38.860 from the Hill. It says, New York city will require proof of vaccination for workers and customers who

00:39:42.700 want to participate in indoor activities, including dining in restaurants, working out in gyms

00:39:47.380 and attending theater performance performances, according to mayor Bill de Blasio. Uh, Bill de

00:39:52.040 Blasio, uh, gave a press conference talking about this new measure and let's listen to that.

00:39:57.440 So today I announced a new approach, which we're calling the key to NYC pass the key to New York

00:40:05.620 city. When you hear those words, I want you to imagine the notion that because someone's vaccinated,

00:40:12.440 they can do all the amazing things that are available in this city. This is a miraculous

00:40:18.220 place for literally full of wonders. And if you're vaccinated, all that's going to open up to you.

00:40:23.940 You'll have the key. You can open the door, but if you're unvaccinated, unfortunately you will not 1.00

00:40:28.860 be able to participate in many things. That's the point we're trying to get across. It's time for

00:40:32.820 people to see vaccination as literally necessary to living a good and full and healthy life.

00:40:38.380 The key to NYC pass will be a first in the nation approach. It will require vaccination for workers 0.98

00:40:46.860 and customers in indoor dining, in indoor fitness facilities, indoor entertainment facilities.

00:40:53.760 This is going to be a requirement. The only way to patronize these establishments indoors will be

00:41:00.320 if you're vaccinated, at least one dose. The same for folks in terms of work. They'll need at least

00:41:06.080 one dose. This is crucial because we know that this will encourage a lot more vaccination. We've seen it

00:41:13.940 already. He really does look like Gumby and Rex Ryan had a baby, doesn't he?

00:41:23.840 And this, the way that they, you want to talk about lawless tyranny and it just makes it all the worse

00:41:32.160 in a lot of ways that it's approach. He's talking to us like he's a preschool teacher and we're his,

00:41:40.400 his, we're his students. And he's saying now you got to follow the rules or you won't be able to go

00:41:46.700 to recess. You want to go to recess. You got to follow the rules.

00:41:53.300 Taking away our privileges.

00:41:57.040 Only the privileges here are just participating in society.

00:42:02.120 Going out in public and participating in society. That is a,

00:42:04.840 that is a privilege that the mayor can just take away from you. Can't do that anymore.

00:42:12.220 And the wording is very revealing because he says that, you know, we want you to see it

00:42:16.880 as if getting a vaccine is a key to living a health, a good and healthy life.

00:42:25.040 Which isn't the same thing as saying that getting the vaccine actually is the key to a good and healthy

00:42:29.200 life. That's not the claim he's making.

00:42:31.500 He's saying that we're, we're going to artificially set it up so that you can't live a good and

00:42:39.620 enjoyable life without the vaccine.

00:42:43.760 Which, which is, which is an interesting way of putting it.

00:42:48.760 And none of this stuff is, if mayor Bill de Blasio actually believes himself that the vaccines work,

00:42:55.140 then none of this would be necessary. Putting aside whether he has the authority to do this,

00:42:58.760 which he doesn't because he's not actually a dictator. He's a, he's a mayor. He's not an

00:43:03.660 emperor. Okay. He's not an Egyptian Pharaoh. He's, he's the mayor of a city in, in what's supposed

00:43:09.280 to be a free country. But if he really believed that the vaccine worked, then what's, what is the

00:43:15.020 point of any of this? Then you get the vaccine, you, you're, you know, you'll, you'll be healthy

00:43:20.060 and you'll be relatively safe, at least as far as the COVID goes, no matter what anybody else does.

00:43:24.240 But instead he says, the only way to keep everyone safe is if the unvaccinated people 1.00

00:43:30.820 are forced to stay in their homes, locked in there, are cast off into leper colonies. 1.00

00:43:39.600 That is an odd approach. If you actually believe in the efficacy of the vaccines. All right,

00:43:42.900 moving now to reading the YouTube comments. This is from John. He says, Hey Matt, just the other day

00:43:46.020 in Savannah, I witnessed a similar panhandle stunt in a parking garage on the back of their car.

00:43:50.140 They had written about to pop the question. Will you buy me a drink? Disgusting. That kind of gives

00:43:55.740 away that you're going to pop the question. Doesn't it? You've written it on the windshield

00:43:58.980 of your car. All right. Gothic serpent says, Matt, dude, you really need to start being a little

00:44:07.540 more diversified, man. I really like you, but you spend way too much time talking about transsexuals 1.00

00:44:12.060 and way too much time on individual freaks that at the end of the day, really don't warrant you

00:44:15.160 spending so much over time over analyzing. There's so much important things going on and you

00:44:18.820 literally never address other matters. I'm not saying the stuff that you've been talking about

00:44:22.800 isn't warranted. I really feel like you're selling yourself and your fans a little bit short.

00:44:27.440 And as you are truly incredibly intelligent and well thought out guy, I think we all would be

00:44:30.900 better off if you may be opined about other matters as well. Literally never address other

00:44:36.820 matters. I never do. Well, just off the top of my head this week, we're three days into the week.

00:44:42.180 I've talked about what the eviction moratorium, masks, vaccines, people who panhandle on their cash

00:44:46.760 app accounts, Costco, dogs, COVID in Florida, Andrew Cuomo, the Babylon Bee, cyberbullying me,

00:44:53.460 pushysty, the Olympics, childhood indoctrination, critical race theory, euthanasia, laws governing

00:44:58.380 HIV exposure in Illinois. That's a partial list of all the things I've talked about in three days.

00:45:04.060 I talk about like eight or nine different topics a day. Okay. But yeah, I mean, other than that,

00:45:09.600 other than all of that, I literally have only talked about transsexuals. It's the only thing I've 0.99

00:45:13.040 talked about. Now, is it true that I talk about the war on gender a lot? Yeah. I mean, every show

00:45:20.160 you listen to has certain topics that they go back to and return to frequently. For a lot of

00:45:24.340 conservative shows, you're going to hear them talk about Joe Biden every day. For four years among

00:45:28.560 conservatives and liberals, if you listen to a talk show or watch something on cable news,

00:45:33.480 like the only thing they talked about, I mean, literally almost the only thing was Donald Trump

00:45:36.800 for four years. So, um, and some shows, uh, these days are going to talk a lot about CRT or,

00:45:43.780 or socialism. And that's going to be a theme they return to. I talk, I talk about all those things

00:45:48.600 because they're important, but the gender stuff is a persistent theme because I think it's quite

00:45:54.340 possibly the most important and consequential thing happening in our culture today. And most people

00:46:00.460 won't talk about it, or at least won't talk about it as directly as I will.

00:46:06.900 And, um, so that's why I do it. And that's not going to change ever. So you could decide if you

00:46:10.760 want to keep listening or not. That's up to you. Frankly, I don't care that much. Maybe I should,

00:46:15.840 but I don't. Um, Maximilian says Matt balances pride and humility just perfectly. Well, you're right.

00:46:23.620 That is just one of my many talents. Um, and, uh, red copperfield says homeowners make money by sitting

00:46:32.120 on their rent is a money that goes nowhere. Uh, it's not an investment. Well, right. That's, I don't

00:46:41.320 know if this is supposed to be, uh, you know, if you're trying to make a point about landlords and

00:46:45.340 this is supposed to be supportive of landlords or not, but you are correct though, that if you're a

00:46:51.300 homeowner, you, you accrue equity just by owning a home. It's an investment, which is why in most,

00:46:59.140 the vast majority of people renting right now probably should not be renting. If you know that

00:47:05.420 you're going to be in a place very temporarily, then yeah, renting makes sense. But if you're in

00:47:10.940 a place and you, and you are planning to be there for a while, it just doesn't make any sense to rent.

00:47:16.160 You're going to have to, well, right now, I guess you could live there. You could, you know,

00:47:19.900 if you, if you're a moocher and a thief and you don't mind being that, then you could rent somewhere 0.98

00:47:23.760 and not even pay. But under normal circumstances, you got to pay either way. The question is, 0.78

00:47:29.840 do you want to pay someone else's mortgage or pay off your own? And then you get to have the equity

00:47:37.320 and you get to own the thing when it comes down to it. That's really the question. I think obviously

00:47:41.920 the latter is the better option. You know, for some reason, people seem to love watching a group of

00:47:48.640 guys get together backstage, smoke cigars, drink whiskey, talk about the state of the world. And

00:47:54.260 because people seem to love it, we thought it'd be extra cool if you would join us. Well, they

00:47:59.820 thought it'd be cool if you'd join us. They didn't ask my opinion. That's why we're giving away a trip

00:48:03.820 for two to come hang with the Daily Wire host backstage here at our Nashville studio, where you

00:48:07.640 can meet us, tour the studios and offices, get a great swag bag of merch and watch us debate on the

00:48:12.420 show live. But you're going to want to hurry because this is your last chance. So if you're not a

00:48:17.580 member yet, head to dailywire.com slash backstage and enter code backstage in at checkout for 25%

00:48:23.300 off your membership and you get automatically entered to win one of the coolest trips you'll

00:48:27.300 ever take. And remember, if you do come, don't look me in the eye and don't speak to me. Also,

00:48:31.880 our newest podcast Morning Wire has been hovering at the top of the charts on Apple and Spotify since

00:48:36.120 its release. And it's pretty clear why, because it's the only daily news podcast that values your time

00:48:40.780 and the truth. And while we're working overtime to bring you the news you need to know,

00:48:44.760 we need your help to keep the facts trending towards number one. So subscribe now to Morning

00:48:49.800 Wire on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts and leave a five-star review if you like

00:48:54.700 what you hear. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. So the rapper DaBaby has, I can't even say his name

00:49:04.580 without laughing. The rapper DaBaby, I don't know how to emphasize DaBaby, DaBaby. The rapper DaBaby has

00:49:13.440 found himself in the middle of a full-blown PR crisis stemming from comments he made at a concert

00:49:18.680 recently. And by the way, please don't confuse DaBaby with Lil Baby or Say DaBaby or Bad Baby. These are all

00:49:25.920 different people, different babies, I think. DaBaby is the one who's in trouble now because he used

00:49:31.340 anti-gay slurs during a concert in Miami recently. At one point during the show, he called for people

00:49:38.380 who don't have HIV to put their cell phone lights up. Now, if you haven't been to a concert since 2005,

00:49:44.120 just so you know, the cell phone light has replaced the lighter. So, you know, you put that up like

00:49:48.460 people used to put lighters up at concerts. He also called for men who haven't performed certain

00:49:51.900 sexual acts on other men in the parking lot to put their cell phone lights up. It isn't clear why he

00:49:56.360 said this or why he brought it up, but it would appear to be some kind of joke that he made.

00:50:01.600 And the joke did not land. Quickly, other artists came out and condemned DaBaby. Young artists like

00:50:08.120 Dua Lipa, whoever that is. I don't know. I can't even say these people's names.

00:50:13.840 And old artists like Elton John and Madonna also came out. Many others spoke out to chastise DaBaby 0.80

00:50:18.920 and put him in timeout like so many babies before him. And then the financial penalties really kicked in.

00:50:24.700 Lollapalooza dropped him from their lineup. iHeartRadio Festival dropped him. He was dumped

00:50:30.540 by Austin City Limits and the Governor's Ball. He was banned from performing at his cousin's birthday

00:50:35.900 party. The point is he quickly became persona non grata across the music industry. Now, DaBaby tried

00:50:43.120 to satiate the mob by addressing the situation on Instagram in the immediate aftermath. His remarks

00:50:49.100 were, and we'll play them for you. I think you'll agree. They're quite eloquent and worth listening to.

00:50:54.700 Let's listen.

00:50:55.100 We *** internet *** one time and I'm gonna get back to giving my love to my fans. See

00:51:00.940 what I'm saying? Because what me and my fans do at the live show, it don't concern you *** on

00:51:06.300 the internet or you *** on the internet. It's not your business. You know what I'm saying?

00:51:11.340 Like what I do at a live show is for the audience at the live show. It'll never translate correctly to

00:51:18.220 somebody looking at a little five, six second clip from that *** crib on their phone. It just don't work like

00:51:28.940 that. Like, you know, because regardless of what you *** talking about out of the internet and

00:51:34.460 twisted up my *** word, me and all my fans at the show, the gay ones and the straight ones, we

00:51:41.340 turned the *** up. I'm talking about my boy that was at the front of the stage left over there by

00:51:45.500 where I jumped at. Ask him. He got clips all on his *** the whole night was recording. We would turn the

00:51:50.620 whole night. My boy had the crop top on, front row. Yeah, out there in that jungle, in that water.

00:51:57.580 Yeah, he out there. He's standing on the rail. God damn, I'm cutting up. He knows the words.

00:52:01.420 I saw him. I'm, I'm wrapping them *** with him.

00:52:07.420 Indeed. It is not your business. And he raises a good point. I mean, there was a guy with a crop

00:52:15.100 top in the front row and he was turned. What else do you want? The guy with the crop top was turned. So,

00:52:21.820 it's not your business. End of discussion. Except it was not the end of discussion. Shockingly,

00:52:28.060 the statement that he released there didn't do anything to quell the outrage. So he tried again

00:52:33.180 with a written statement and full apology. I'll read this statement to you. And I don't know,

00:52:38.620 it just sounds a little bit different from what we just heard there in Instagram. But I don't know,

00:52:44.540 you tell me. He said, this is what was the statement that was published from DaBaby.

00:52:49.100 Social media moves so fast that people want to demolish you before you even have the opportunity

00:52:53.180 to grow, educate, and learn from your mistakes. As a man who has made his own way from very

00:52:57.900 difficult circumstances, having people I know publicly working against me, knowing that what

00:53:01.740 I needed was an education on these topics and guidance has been challenging. I appreciate the

00:53:06.540 many people who came to me with kindness, who reached out to me privately to offer wisdom,

00:53:10.460 education, and resources. That's what I needed. And it was received. I want to apologize to the

00:53:15.980 LGBTQ plus community for the hurtful and triggering comments I made. Again, 1.00

00:53:20.860 I apologize for my misinformed comments about HIV slash AIDS. And I know education on this is

00:53:26.620 important. Love to all. God bless. Now, if I know DaBaby, and I don't know him, but still,

00:53:34.940 you know, I don't think he wrote that. I'm guessing he is not the one who wrote the phrase,

00:53:38.860 I apologize to the LGBTQ plus community for the hurtful and triggering comments.

00:53:43.580 But whoever wrote it, it was not enough. DaBaby has crossed a line that you can't cross these

00:53:50.780 days, which is interesting because it's not as though those comments about gay people were the

00:53:55.820 first objectionable things he's ever said in his life. His songs, you know, the songs that these

00:54:01.340 music festivals have hired him to come and perform are each a succession of one objectionable statement

00:54:07.900 after another. In fact, those songs, the songs that again, the music festivals hired him to perform,

00:54:14.460 and then banned him from performing, contain statements and ideas that are far more outrageous

00:54:20.220 and offensive than anything he said about HIV or gay people. He actively promotes murder, drug dealing, 0.96

00:54:26.780 violent crime of all sorts, the objectification and murder of women, among other things.

00:54:30.860 Just one verse on one song will likely contain all of these things. For example,

00:54:37.340 one of his biggest singles is a song called Suge, which is an homage to Suge Knight, who's the

00:54:42.460 murderous former CEO of Death Row Records, who's now serving time in a maximum security prison for

00:54:48.460 running a guy down in his car and killing him. And the song lives up to its namesake. I'll play a quick

00:54:53.900 clip just to give you an idea of, uh, of what this guy is all about. Let's, let's play this.

00:54:59.260 Packing the mail, it's gone. She like, I smell cologne. I just found a deal, I'm on. Yeah, yeah.

00:55:06.620 I go where I want, good. Play if you want, let's do it. I'm a young CEO, Suge. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:55:12.700 The first s*** to play on my body is s***. I just checked my balance, I probably pull up to your 0.96

00:55:16.380 hood and come buy me a s***. No cap. You know that your hoe told you that s*** crazy. Don't think that 1.00

00:55:19.840 she lied to your s***. Get caught with your s*** when I'm popping them both. Now they hot just like 1.00

00:55:23.160 Bobby and Whitney. Say I'm the GOAT. Act like I don't know. S*** and I'm obviously winning. Don't make me go hit the

00:55:27.920 bang. Take out a hundred to show you our pockets is different. I'm out with your s*** and I only

00:55:31.720 want knowledge. She got a little mileage. I'm chilling. You disrespect me and I beat your s*** up all in 0.98

00:55:35.500 front of your partners and children. I'm the type that let s*** think that I'm broke until I pop out 1.00

00:55:39.240 with a million. Take 20k and put that on your head and make one of your partners come kill you. Say 1.00

00:55:43.360 s*** with me and he gotta grow up. Cause this s*** gotta be kidding. This s*** can't fit in my pocket. I got it. 0.98

00:55:48.080 Like I hit the lottery. I'm slapping s*** out of s***. No talking. I don't like to argue with s***. Don't. Ain't gonna be no more laughing. 1.00

00:55:53.620 You see me whip out cause I'm gonna be the shot me and s***. Okay. I don't follow no s*** on IG but all of your 0.99

00:55:57.680 s***. They following s***. And that s*** ain't gonna shoot s*** with that gun. He just pulled it out in his 0.99

00:56:01.700 picture. S***. Truly a masterpiece. And you know the editors love me when I send them stuff like that. 0.99

00:56:11.040 Here you go guys. Spend the next 15 hours editing this to get all the cuss words out. If you weren't

00:56:17.160 able to understand anything there let me run through some of the highlights. Here's what he says.

00:56:22.080 The first n-word play. I'm a body in n-word. I just checked my balance. I'll probably pull up to your hood

00:56:27.560 get caught with your a** with and I'm popping them both. You disrespect me and I'll beat your a** up 1.00

00:56:32.640 in front of your partners and children. Take 20k and put that on your head and make one of your 1.00

00:56:36.900 partners come kill you. Etc. And so forth. Now to review it in just the first verse of one song 1.00

00:56:43.680 he's killing someone then killing someone else along with that guy's girlfriend. Then he's

00:56:48.420 assaulting someone in front of their children and then he's putting a hit out on someone else. 0.78

00:56:51.460 And later in that song he blows someone's head off, shoots somebody in front of their 0.99

00:56:56.420 grandmother and has sex with various a** and a**. In his words not mine. He also said that he also 1.00

00:57:03.880 seems to brag about having sex with a girl in grade school saying that he pulls up after school to 0.99

00:57:09.540 teach her some a**. Now I hope I'm not misinterpreting but I can only assume he's not bragging about giving 0.99

00:57:14.960 actual math lessons. Now um DaBaby is is not any different from the average rapper but does that

00:57:21.860 make it okay to openly romanticize death and slaughter and sexual violence? And if you're

00:57:28.000 upset about derogatory comments about LGBT people, which means you're taking what this guy says

00:57:32.680 seriously, you're holding him to a certain standard in his speech, then why wouldn't you be upset about

00:57:37.220 literally everything else he's ever said in any of his songs? Just consider the absolute absurdity of a

00:57:44.120 DaBaby fan singing along as he talks about shooting hoes in the face and then going, whoa, whoa, whoa, 0.99

00:57:49.440 whoa. Hey, don't be insensitive to LGBT people, DaBaby. Come on, have some class, young man. 0.95

00:57:56.620 Please understand something. I am not equating his song lyrics with what he said about gay people and

00:58:01.380 AIDS. I would never do that. They're not the same. Because the song lyrics are a thousand times worse.

00:58:08.240 They are worse not only in their content, but in their effect. You know, the violent crime problem

00:58:14.400 in our cities is largely driven by young men who grew up without fathers in the home. Those young

00:58:19.480 men look to guys like DaBaby as role models. These rappers are are are the only male role models that

00:58:27.860 many of these kids have. So when these role models are standing in front of them and explicitly saying,

00:58:33.480 hey, it's cool to shoot and kill people if you have a beef with them, or even if you don't. 0.99

00:58:39.160 That has an impact that resonates. It's not a coincidence that probably close to 100% of the 0.99

00:58:45.600 murderers arrested in the city in, you know, in any given city, listen to rap music. I bet we could

00:58:50.920 comb through every penitentiary in the country, in the country and find like two classical music fans,

00:58:57.040 if that many. It's not a matter of rap music directly causing violent crime. We're talking

00:59:05.220 about influence. The messages that you pump into your eardrums every day will influence you. Of

00:59:12.940 course they will. And the messages from guys like DaBaby are not just negative, not just bad,

00:59:18.780 but they're almost absurdly evil, cartoonishly cruel. Only the people influenced by them don't see

00:59:26.400 them as cartoonish, and the rappers themselves don't see it as cartoonish. Only well-adjusted

00:59:31.900 adults can hear these kinds of songs and find them laughably ridiculous. 0.98

00:59:37.700 The rap fans who were upset about DaBaby's comments about gay people will probably hear what 0.90

00:59:43.160 I'm saying right now and scoff, insisting that lyrics are just words and they don't mean anything,

00:59:47.720 they don't have any real impact. And yet when it comes to the comments about gay people,

00:59:52.020 they certainly do think it matters, and it does mean something, and it does have an impact.

00:59:56.400 So for them, some words are violence, and yet words that literally and directly encourage

01:00:01.920 violence are harmless. It's completely backwards and incoherent, and lying at the heart of all

01:00:08.060 this is a demented and vacuous moral code which excuses nearly all evil, applauds nearly all sin,

01:00:15.540 except when it upsets a member of the protected class. It's a kind of elitism,

01:00:19.140 except far more morally vacuous than normal elitism. And for all of those reasons,

01:00:26.720 the mob, which is selectively outraged at DaBaby, is today canceled. And DaBaby is canceled too.

01:00:36.720 But not even because of what he said about gay people. I'm more concerned, again, about the

01:00:43.440 fact that he's going around encouraging people to kill each other. That to me seems like the bigger

01:00:48.840 issue. So all those people are canceled today. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for

01:00:52.960 watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.

01:01:00.820 Well, if you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe. And if you want to help spread the

01:01:04.340 word, please give us a five-star review. Also, tell your friends to subscribe as well. We're available

01:01:09.040 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you listen to podcasts. We're there. Also, be sure to check out

01:01:13.680 the other Daily Wire podcasts, including The Ben Shapiro Show, Michael Knowles Show, The Andrew

01:01:17.520 Klavan Show. Thanks for listening. The Matt Walsh Show is produced by Sean Hampton, executive producer

01:01:22.880 Jeremy Boring. Our supervising producer is Mathis Glover. Our technical director is Austin Stevens,

01:01:29.200 production manager Pavel Vadosky. The show is edited by Sasha Tolmachov. Our audio is mixed by Mike

01:01:35.020 Coromina. Hair and makeup is done by Nika Geneva. And our production coordinator is McKenna Waters.

01:01:40.680 The Matt Walsh Show is a Daily Wire production, copyright Daily Wire 2021.

01:01:44.180 John Bickley here, Daily Wire editor-in-chief.

01:01:46.620 Wake up every morning with our new show, Morning Wire. On today's episode,

01:01:51.080 New York's attorney general finds that Governor Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women,

01:01:55.500 New York City issues a citywide proof-of-vaccination mandate, and whistleblowers expose more troubling

01:02:01.160 developments at the border. Join us and get the facts first on the news you need to know with our show,

01:02:06.120 Morning Wire.

The Matt Walsh Show - August 04, 2021

Ep. 768 - Tyrannical Biden Administration Abolishes Private Property Rights

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript