The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 776 - There Are No More Rainbow Flags In Afghanistan

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, President Biden goes into hiding as his Afghan withdrawal plan falls apart.

00:00:05.780 I have quite a lot to say about this subject.

00:00:07.560 And by the end, if I've done my job, I will probably have ticked off everyone on all sides of the issue, which is always fun.

00:00:12.960 Also, the American Academy of Pediatrics gaslights the critics of masking children,

00:00:17.320 while the Surgeon General declares that you do not have the right, don't have the right to share opinions that he deems misinformation.

00:00:23.920 Plus, Tim Tebow made his NFL debut over the weekend, which is proof of racism, according to many people in the sports media.

00:00:30.500 And our daily cancellation, I'll respond to my critics who say that I am a white supremacist conspiracy theorist because of something that I said on my show on Friday.

00:00:38.660 So nothing new there, I suppose. All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:05.740 If you've listened to this show for any length of time, you know that I prefer to focus almost 100% of the time on things happening in this country and to this country,

00:02:16.800 especially those things which may most immediately impact your family and your children.

00:02:21.040 Those kinds of issues serve as the nucleus of this show, and it's not because events across the world are unimportant in the grand scheme.

00:02:28.200 It's just that we can only focus our attention on a limited number of things and solve a limited number of problems.

00:02:33.520 And so I choose those things and problems which are closest to us.

00:02:37.680 As it happens, our own society is in the grip of several crises all at once.

00:02:43.280 Cataclysms, which are only accelerating the fall and decay of our once great civilization.

00:02:50.340 I don't think we have the luxury to spend very much time trying to fix the world's problems,

00:02:54.860 even if it would be otherwise wise and noble to try, which it isn't in my view.

00:03:00.100 Our attention is urgently needed in our own communities and households.

00:03:04.120 We can't afford to take the eye off of that ball.

00:03:06.420 We can't wander off into the wilderness searching for far-off dragons to slay because we have more than enough of them here.

00:03:13.280 Though they may take different forms from what you find elsewhere on Earth.

00:03:16.620 All of that is a long way of saying that the situation in Afghanistan is not the sort of thing I would normally talk about on this show.

00:03:25.240 As you've heard, I'm sure Biden moved to finally withdraw our troops from Afghanistan,

00:03:30.560 but apparently had no real plan for evacuating everybody safely.

00:03:34.280 The Taliban moved in, took over the country in about two days while the Afghan army and government fled into the night like real heroes. 0.99

00:03:41.900 Now, Afghanistan is back in the spot it was in 20 years ago, only it's worse really because the Taliban claims possession of all of the munitions and artillery that we left behind.

00:03:52.940 So with all of that going on, I'm going to make an exception to my normal rule, at least for today, and offer a few comments about all of this.

00:04:00.860 I'm not an expert on Afghanistan, but then again, the experts on Afghanistan, much like the public health experts here in the U.S.,

00:04:08.860 have largely created the very problems that they're supposed to be the experts on solving.

00:04:12.680 So it once again falls to rational people to use common sense to sort through all of this.

00:04:18.280 And that's what I'll try to do now.

00:04:19.380 On that end, three primary points I think need to be made.

00:04:22.580 First of all, there's no question that Biden's withdrawal has been handled so poorly that to use a word like poorly is to pay Biden an undue compliment.

00:04:34.760 The president of the United States, who may or may not be conscious and cognizant right now, who knows,

00:04:39.900 is hunkered down in Camp David and refusing to address the American people or explain his strategy.

00:04:45.140 I mean, last night it was announced that even Biden's press secretary, Psaki, will be MIA for the next week.

00:04:50.620 You know, the people that try to send her an email got a got a form response saying, I'll be back in about a week.

00:04:58.300 Hope there's nothing urgent that you need.

00:05:01.040 The Biden regime is literally in hiding as the U.S. installed Afghan regime surrenders the country to the Taliban and Americans in the country are left stranded.

00:05:10.540 So the only real question now is whether Biden knew that it would go this way and lied.

00:05:16.060 Or if he's really so clueless and mentally degraded at this point that he believed the nonsense he spewed at a press conference just a month ago.

00:05:23.700 Let's listen to that again.

00:05:24.640 This was back in early July.

00:05:28.020 Here's what he said about leaving Afghanistan and how he expected it would go.

00:05:32.840 Let's watch.

00:05:33.260 Is the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan now inevitable?

00:05:38.060 No, it is not.

00:05:39.980 Why?

00:05:41.060 Because you have the Afghan troops have 300,000 well equipped, as well as equipped as any army in the world and an air force against something like 75,000 Taliban.

00:05:56.440 It is not inevitable.

00:05:57.660 Mr. President, thank you very much.

00:06:01.780 Your own intelligence community has assessed that the Afghan government will likely collapse.

00:06:07.080 That is not true.

00:06:08.480 Can you please clarify what they have told you about whether that will happen or not?

00:06:12.940 That is not true.

00:06:14.600 They did not reach that conclusion.

00:06:17.100 So what is the level of confidence that they have that it will not collapse?

00:06:22.960 The Afghan government and leadership has to come together.

00:06:28.280 They clearly have the capacity to sustain the government in place.

00:06:35.820 Yeah, about that.

00:06:38.060 Well, the Afghan government did collapse and the Afghan military didn't even so much as put up a fight. 0.76

00:06:45.140 They came together on the road as they were getting their asses out of there.

00:06:51.620 I'm not sure if a single shot was actually fired in defense of Kabul.

00:06:54.820 It was always clear to all intelligent people that the withdrawal from Afghanistan would play out this way.

00:07:02.580 Biden should have built a plan which accounts for that.

00:07:05.360 But instead, he denied the obvious facts on the ground and planned for a leisurely, peaceful exit.

00:07:10.340 One where, I guess, the Afghan government and military waves goodbye to our troops as they leave and shouts,

00:07:15.600 we'll take care of things here.

00:07:16.860 Y'all have a safe trip home now.

00:07:18.800 The Taliban look on from their caves, decide that it would be rude to move in and undo all of America's hard work over the past two decades.

00:07:26.480 No, we're not going to do that.

00:07:27.360 That would be, you know, that's not fair.

00:07:29.120 That's what Biden imagined, or at least wanted us to imagine.

00:07:33.600 I'm willing to believe that he himself actually did imagine that,

00:07:36.800 given that his brain is operating at 40% capacity at best and was never terribly powerful,

00:07:42.180 even with all of its batteries fully charged.

00:07:45.680 But the people actually running the administration, those who are really in charge of our government,

00:07:49.880 and we don't know exactly who those people are by design,

00:07:52.960 knew that it would be a bloodbath on the way out, and we're apparently okay with that.

00:07:57.620 For this reason, much of the criticism that Biden is sustaining right now is completely justified and 100% warranted.

00:08:04.660 There are even calls for him to resign, which are also warranted,

00:08:07.460 though we should always keep in mind that, you know,

00:08:10.540 what's waiting in the wings will not be, by any stretch of the imagination, an improvement.

00:08:16.140 But second point, with all that said,

00:08:18.540 many of the people on the right and on the left who are complaining about the exit from Afghanistan

00:08:22.720 are upset, apparently, that we are exiting from Afghanistan at all.

00:08:29.040 For these people, the issue is not just the manner of the exit, but the fact of the exit.

00:08:36.000 They believe that even after 20 years, America still owes a debt to Afghanistan and must remain there indefinitely. 0.93

00:08:42.940 And from what I've noticed, by the way, there are a lot of people on this side of the debate

00:08:50.160 who, like, up until a month ago, were claiming to be non-interventionist.

00:08:56.880 There are many Republicans right now, and again, we're leaving it.

00:08:59.280 Yes, yes, it was handled poorly.

00:09:01.420 I got that.

00:09:02.500 Moving on from that discussion,

00:09:03.700 there are many so-called or alleged non-interventionist conservatives

00:09:09.800 who have completely dropped that now.

00:09:13.080 Just like that.

00:09:16.220 You know, Trump made it cool to be a non-interventionist conservative,

00:09:20.320 and so a lot of conservatives, especially in the Republican Party

00:09:22.840 and prominent ones in media, kind of pretended to be that.

00:09:27.980 And now many of them are fully back on board with,

00:09:30.300 no, no, let's stay there forever.

00:09:31.320 I mean, let's literally stay there forever, yes.

00:09:35.860 And many of the people on this side of the debate like to point out

00:09:38.420 that America still has bases in countries like Japan and Germany.

00:09:42.160 I mean, why can't we maintain a presence in Afghanistan as well?

00:09:45.900 Well, these people are incredibly wrong for these reasons.

00:09:50.380 Leaving aside for a moment the way that the withdrawal was handled again,

00:09:54.020 it is inarguably true that there needed to be a withdrawal.

00:09:58.400 Yes, we maintain bases in Japan and Germany.

00:10:00.860 You could make a very compelling argument that we shouldn't have them there either,

00:10:04.180 especially as those countries are more than capable of defending themselves.

00:10:07.640 But there's also a significant difference here.

00:10:10.880 Japan and Germany are countries, actual real nations.

00:10:16.660 Afghanistan is not. 0.99

00:10:18.880 Afghanistan is a medieval third world hell pit with no will to exist on its own accord. 1.00

00:10:24.480 I mean, think about it.

00:10:25.020 We armed and equipped the Afghan military for 20 years.

00:10:28.760 Biden claims that it was 300,000 strong.

00:10:31.860 That figure is probably false like everything else, Biden says.

00:10:34.740 But let's use it for the sake of argument.

00:10:36.200 I mean, it was certainly large at any rate.

00:10:38.320 It was a large army, much larger than the Taliban forces.

00:10:41.640 And yet the Afghan army, after 20 years of training, folded in two days to a gang of 7th century terrorists who they outnumbered three to one.

00:10:52.520 The army and the government surrendered, gave up, abandoned ship immediately without even a symbolic attempt at fighting back.

00:11:01.600 Not so much as firing a shot in most cases.

00:11:06.300 They just left.

00:11:07.960 What does that tell us?

00:11:09.340 It tells us that Afghanistan is a country that we built, but we built it like a deck of cards. 0.99

00:11:15.920 It needs our constant presence, our sacrifice and blood and treasure simply to exist.

00:11:22.140 The whole country is like the highway system in Afghanistan that we spent billions constructing.

00:11:27.200 Did you know that you spent billions on building highways in Afghanistan?

00:11:30.280 You did.

00:11:32.160 And then the Afghan government and the Afghan people, they let it fall immediately into disrepair.

00:11:37.420 It's now crumbled and largely unusable because the people we built it for refused to maintain it.

00:11:43.860 And that's the story of Afghanistan.

00:11:45.940 It has always been the story.

00:11:49.280 Forcing this country on people who don't want it, have no interest in it.

00:11:55.760 Here's a point that few people will make, but I will, even if it sounds harsh.

00:11:58.880 I want you to look at this footage from the Kabul airport.

00:12:03.780 Here it is here.

00:12:04.580 People are fleeing.

00:12:06.900 You've got fleeing Afghans trying to climb onto the evacuation plane as it speeds down the runway, which, by the way, is not a good plan of action.

00:12:17.460 Apparently, some of them actually, you can see them.

00:12:19.000 They jumped on.

00:12:20.800 You can see them holding to the side of the plane while it was taking off and then fell to their deaths as the plane took off, which, of course, that's how that was going to work out.

00:12:30.240 Now, it's a tragic scene, surely, but it's tragic in more than just the obvious way.

00:12:36.580 Because what else do you notice about this crowd?

00:12:40.240 What do you see?

00:12:42.340 Or more specifically, what do you not see?

00:12:45.400 Women. 0.81

00:12:47.100 Children.

00:12:48.520 These are almost all men. 0.82

00:12:50.740 And you can look at any of the footage of these, you know, stampeding hordes of people trying to get out of Afghanistan. 0.56

00:13:00.080 Look at any of the footage.

00:13:01.580 And you're going to see predominantly, almost exclusively men, mostly of fighting age from the looks of it.

00:13:07.480 I mean, these aren't elderly men sprinting down the airport runway.

00:13:11.980 So mostly young men scrambling to leave just as the army left.

00:13:15.880 First, can I ask the impolite question, why aren't these men fighting for their country?

00:13:24.340 We're not going to be guilted now into accepting thousands of them as refugees, not concerned that there could easily be Taliban hiding in their midst.

00:13:32.000 But more to the point, men of Afghanistan do not seem willing to fight to protect the families of Afghanistan.

00:13:38.700 And yet, our men should?

00:13:43.580 Our young men should die on Afghanistan soil to do what Afghan men will not do? 1.00

00:13:51.380 Refuse to do?

00:13:54.340 It bears repeating over and over again.

00:13:56.620 The Afghan army and the Afghan men, they were not defeated.

00:14:01.380 They just gave up.

00:14:02.820 Right away.

00:14:03.860 That's it.

00:14:05.340 This is what it comes down to.

00:14:06.560 We cannot hold into existence a country which does not want to exist.

00:14:13.220 We cannot task ourselves with the responsibility of sustaining nations which lack the willpower to sustain themselves.

00:14:21.900 We especially can't do that while our own nation struggles in its own way to exist.

00:14:28.420 And that brings me to the third point.

00:14:31.160 Maybe you remember this tweet from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul just two months ago.

00:14:36.100 This is what they were tweeting.

00:14:38.040 Says,

00:14:38.480 The month of June is recognized as LGBTI Pride Month.

00:14:42.320 The United States respects the dignity and equality of LGBTI people and celebrates their contributions to the society.

00:14:48.860 We remain committed to supporting civil rights of minorities, including LGBTI persons.

00:14:53.840 This is what our ruling class has become.

00:14:57.960 This is the kind of empire they seek to build.

00:15:00.700 This is what they want to export out into the world. 0.68

00:15:03.780 When they're not at home chasing down, you know, other terror threats like anti-maskers and old ladies who trespassed in the capital.

00:15:10.660 And when they're not on TV preaching about racial diversity and cultural sensitivity.

00:15:16.540 I mean, one seriously wonders whether our military left copies of White Fragility and, you know, I am jazz at the embassy for the Taliban when they took over. 0.99

00:15:25.160 I wouldn't be surprised if that was the plan.

00:15:26.880 I would not be surprised.

00:15:27.840 The point is that even if you're a fan of nation building and colonization, and that's what we did in Afghanistan.

00:15:35.200 If you support what we did in Afghanistan and you want to see more of it, you are by definition a colonizer. 0.97

00:15:41.640 But even if you like the idea, in theory, the fact is that our government and our military, as it is currently run and constructed, is not capable of building and sustaining a global empire.

00:15:56.660 A government waving rainbow flags and a military indoctrinated into LGBT and critical race theory propaganda cannot be an imperial force, even if it wants to be. 0.81

00:16:07.620 Most of the people defending American imperialism abroad seem to want to pretend that we're still the country we were a hundred years ago.

00:16:17.020 We're not.

00:16:20.840 And that brings us back to where we started.

00:16:24.020 Back at home.

00:16:25.540 In the throes of our own crisis.

00:16:27.640 Our own struggle to simply exist.

00:16:31.000 A struggle that calls for all hands on deck.

00:16:34.520 Let the Afghans fight for Afghanistan. 0.99

00:16:38.280 If they will not, it will fall.

00:16:41.180 Already has.

00:16:41.960 Because they didn't.

00:16:44.760 Just as if we don't fight for our own country, so will it.

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00:18:04.440 Before we get back to the arguably more important stuff, can I just get your opinion on something real quick?

00:18:11.880 Yet again, I am being attacked and persecuted for the crime of being a fashion innovator.

00:18:17.780 So I walked out of our bedroom on Friday night getting ready to go on Tucker Carlson's show.

00:18:22.040 Sorry to name drop, but that's me.

00:18:23.360 That's the context.

00:18:24.460 And anyway, this is what I was wearing.

00:18:25.960 You can see it there.

00:18:26.500 I've got the, um, uh, I'm looking fly as the kids would say.

00:18:31.040 Dare I say fly AF.

00:18:33.440 Whatever that means.

00:18:35.020 I know what it means.

00:18:36.020 Um, I've got the tan shirt, tan pants, a little bit of the Kim Jong-un aesthetic going on.

00:18:40.940 Maybe a little, maybe like a park ranger chasing down Yogi Bear.

00:18:44.240 I don't know.

00:18:44.880 Um, but my wife said I look like an Oompa Loompa.

00:18:46.840 And she just starts laughing hysterically and takes a picture and post it online to shame me. 1.00

00:18:51.040 Apparently wearing tan and tan is the ultimate fashion crime. 0.83

00:18:54.180 I don't know.

00:18:55.940 Um, so you tell me who's in the right here. 0.55

00:18:57.820 My wife, the cyber bully. 1.00

00:19:00.200 And this is, this is cyber bullying and it's not a joke.

00:19:04.340 Or, or me, the fashion pioneer and style icon.

00:19:08.260 Um, just tell me your honest opinion.

00:19:11.340 I, I'm confident in my position here.

00:19:13.260 That's why I throw myself at the mercy of the court.

00:19:15.920 Because I know, I know the truth.

00:19:19.320 That is, who's, we had this whole discussion about matching.

00:19:23.120 Like, what do you mean?

00:19:23.900 Oh, it doesn't, it, it, you're supposed to match your clothes, right?

00:19:26.720 Well, it matches.

00:19:27.340 It's like literally the same color.

00:19:28.820 How does that not count as matching?

00:19:30.580 Doesn't make any sense.

00:19:31.960 All right.

00:19:32.460 Um, there has perhaps not been, as we move on here, we talked about the experts and how

00:19:40.300 the experts in every area are, can be discarded, um, can be, can be disregarded and discarded.

00:19:48.360 But there's perhaps not been any public health organization, which has beclowned itself more

00:19:53.440 in the past few years than the American Academy of Pediatrics.

00:19:56.760 And I know you might say, well, what about the, uh, the CDC?

00:20:00.700 What about, you know, uh, the NIH or the, or, or who, or, you know, literally all of them.

00:20:07.580 I mean, they've all done a terrible job and that's true, but so there's a lot of competition

00:20:11.560 for this title, but the AAP, the American Academy of Pediatrics, they stand apart, I

00:20:16.300 think, because they deal specifically with kids and they've done so much harm to kids,

00:20:21.740 not just in regards to COVID, although that also, but also with endorsing trans affirming

00:20:26.700 healthcare and all that kind of stuff over the last few years.

00:20:28.760 So here's the latest, um, from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

00:20:34.780 They tweeted this out a few days ago, talking about masking and it's a whole long thread.

00:20:39.140 I'll read through some of this.

00:20:41.640 This is a, this is like a masterclass in gaslighting.

00:20:46.000 If you're wondering what gaslighting looks like, this is it.

00:20:48.980 They say school is starting and masks can be especially important for children younger

00:20:54.120 than age 12 who are not eligible for the COVID vaccines.

00:20:56.900 Here's some real talk about masks as kids are hashtag back together this fall.

00:21:02.360 Research shows that schools where children or adults are consistently masked are effective

00:21:06.540 in preventing the transmission of COVID-19.

00:21:09.220 COVID remains a serious threat to children's health.

00:21:11.740 Universal masking can help make in-person learning safe this fall.

00:21:15.120 We want our children back to school in person, but many students will not yet be eligible

00:21:20.000 to get COVID-19 vaccines.

00:21:21.480 Masks are an important layer of protection.

00:21:24.000 Face masks do not reduce oxygen intake.

00:21:27.040 Carbondioxide molecules are very tiny, even smaller than respiratory droplets.

00:21:30.460 They cannot be trapped by breathable materials like cloth or disposable masks.

00:21:33.940 And then they say,

00:21:34.460 Babies and young children study faces, so you may worry that having masked caregivers would

00:21:40.240 harm children's language development.

00:21:42.480 There are no studies to support this concern.

00:21:46.340 Young children will use other clues like gestures and tone of voice.

00:21:50.280 Okay.

00:21:50.980 So, like I said, gaslighting dictionary definition here.

00:21:54.540 That's what's going on.

00:21:56.400 And specifically two areas.

00:21:58.600 First of all, they say that research shows that schools where children and adults are

00:22:08.120 consistently masked are effective in preventing the transmission of COVID-19.

00:22:13.180 You know what they're not telling you about?

00:22:15.660 What about the schools where they didn't mask?

00:22:20.120 Okay.

00:22:20.320 So, their claim is that, oh, well, you know, we can look at schools where they masked last

00:22:25.260 year and there wasn't a lot of COVID spread, and so that proves that the masks work.

00:22:30.400 What about when you compare that to the schools that didn't wear them?

00:22:35.380 Because we know that kids are very unlikely to contract or spread COVID-19, much less to

00:22:42.020 have a severe reaction to it.

00:22:44.720 So, the fact that they're kids, that's already doing a large part of the work here.

00:22:52.380 They're not going to tell you that, though.

00:22:53.600 They're not going to give you that comparison.

00:22:55.820 All they're going to show you is, here's a school that had masks on.

00:22:59.200 Look at that.

00:22:59.700 The virus didn't spread.

00:23:00.880 They're not going to show you the other school over here in a different state that didn't

00:23:04.980 have masks and also didn't have much viral spread.

00:23:10.400 But that is nothing compared to the final claim, which is that, well, you may be worried

00:23:16.580 that you're depriving young children of the ability to see the faces of their teachers

00:23:22.380 and caregivers, and that's going to hurt language development.

00:23:26.540 That's a point that I have made many times.

00:23:28.380 I made it in my school board speech, and I've made it before, and others have made it.

00:23:33.080 And they say, oh, no, no, don't worry about that.

00:23:35.000 There are no studies to support that concern.

00:23:39.120 Yeah, I believe that that is true.

00:23:41.160 There are no studies to support that concern.

00:23:43.440 Do you know why there are no studies?

00:23:44.460 Because prior to right now, nobody would have even considered studying that.

00:23:54.680 Prior to right now, nobody would have thought, well, let's do a study to see if children can

00:24:00.340 learn when their teachers are wearing masks.

00:24:04.320 Let's put masks on all the kids and see if they can still learn to read.

00:24:07.320 That study hasn't been done.

00:24:10.980 No one's done it because no one was crazy enough to try it until right now.

00:24:15.400 It wasn't an issue that was anywhere on the radar for anyone.

00:24:21.780 Even though there were, as I've said so many times now, and will continue saying, even though

00:24:27.260 there were transmissible diseases out there, like the flu, which is a greater danger to kids

00:24:32.300 than COVID, nobody ever considered masking.

00:24:36.040 And that's why there are no studies.

00:24:41.780 So anytime you hear, well, there are no studies to support this, all that tells you, if it's

00:24:47.820 true, which I wouldn't believe anything these people say on the surface.

00:24:53.540 I wouldn't take any of it at face value.

00:24:56.140 But pretending that it is true, in this case, I believe there are no studies, but that is

00:24:59.440 only because there was no cause to do a study like that.

00:25:02.900 And also, you know what else?

00:25:07.040 It's so obvious that of course it will affect language development, that that's yet another

00:25:13.300 reason why it was never studied before.

00:25:15.860 Now we're going to get the real world study because we're using our kids.

00:25:22.380 Our kids are the study objects now.

00:25:25.000 They are the lab rats that we're studying.

00:25:27.440 They're the guinea pigs. 0.98

00:25:28.540 So we're going to see.

00:25:32.860 We're going to see what happens when you put kids in masks for some of these kids. 0.62

00:25:38.500 This will now be their second year of being masked.

00:25:42.480 You know, take kids in there at the young age when they're really starting to read at like

00:25:46.220 five.

00:25:47.040 Let's see what happens.

00:25:47.720 Take thousands of kids at the age of five, put them in masks until they're seven or eight

00:25:52.660 and put their teachers in masks too and see how well they learn to read and compare that

00:25:57.280 to kids in the past who didn't have that hurdle to get over.

00:26:01.760 I guarantee you we're going to discover that it causes serious, severe problems in terms

00:26:11.060 of language development guaranteed because the AAP, they even acknowledge that young children

00:26:19.340 use faces and they say, well, but they can use other cues.

00:26:24.920 Well, you know, that's, it's fine.

00:26:26.160 They have other cues when they have the face to go on.

00:26:30.200 They also have those other cues.

00:26:31.460 And so they have all of these things together.

00:26:33.100 You know, learning to read is hard.

00:26:34.640 It's it, it doesn't, it doesn't come automatically to kids.

00:26:38.160 It's a difficult thing to do.

00:26:41.060 So we want to give them all of the tools in the toolbox.

00:26:46.580 You're taking one of the most essential tools out of the equation and saying, yeah, they'll

00:26:50.940 figure it out.

00:26:55.280 They might, that doesn't mean they're not going to be harmed in the process.

00:27:01.360 So we'll get that study.

00:27:02.860 Yeah.

00:27:04.960 But we can know for sure the American Academy of Pediatrics, they're never going to come

00:27:08.880 back around and say, Hey, uh, we really got that one wrong.

00:27:11.380 Turns out, turns out.

00:27:13.040 Yeah.

00:27:13.220 When you, when you, when you put everyone in masks for years and then expect kids to learn

00:27:18.200 how to read and enunciate words when they can't see the teacher, uh, actually enunciating

00:27:22.200 the words, it turns out that causes real problems.

00:27:24.240 Well, we got that wrong.

00:27:24.960 Sorry about that.

00:27:27.160 They will never do that.

00:27:28.860 Never.

00:27:29.180 They will never admit their wrong.

00:27:35.400 If you contradict them or disagree with them, you're spreading misinformation.

00:27:40.780 And then when they change their mind and start saying the opposite of what they were saying

00:27:44.400 before, uh, you're still spreading misinformation.

00:27:50.160 And you don't have the right to do that as the surgeon general who was on cable news over

00:27:56.260 the weekend explained, he said he was on CNN and he said, you, you simply do not have the

00:28:02.260 right to propagate anything that he considers to be misinformation.

00:28:07.200 Let's listen to that.

00:28:09.080 Journalists and the media have an incredibly important role and responsibility in preventing

00:28:14.180 the spread of misinformation.

00:28:15.200 And while we all have the right to make our own choices, we don't have the right to irresponsibly

00:28:20.240 spread misinformation.

00:28:22.040 And look, I believe in my conversations with, uh, media outlets that this doesn't have to

00:28:27.100 be a partisan issue.

00:28:28.780 I've had many conversations with folks across the political spectrum in terms of journalists

00:28:33.560 who absolutely want to do the right thing in terms of getting accurate information out

00:28:37.380 to the public.

00:28:38.020 So this doesn't have to be partisan, but what we do need, uh, journalists and media organizations

00:28:42.760 to look deeply at are their current practices.

00:28:45.640 We need them first of all, to make sure, uh, that they are putting forward credible sources,

00:28:50.440 uh, when they do their interviews and when they push out coverage, we need them to make

00:28:54.220 sure that they are providing context also, not just for example, reporting on a side effect,

00:28:59.380 but making sure people understand that that side effect might be incredibly rare.

00:29:03.080 Uh, did you notice two quick points to make here?

00:29:07.280 I don't know if you noticed, uh, when he was talking about credible sources, he says, we

00:29:14.100 got, we, we, we have to make sure that the credible sources are being used.

00:29:19.760 And then CNN flashes up on the screen, some headlines, examples of, uh, of, of good, good

00:29:25.240 media outlets that use credible sources.

00:29:27.500 And what's the one thing that all of those quote unquote credible sources have in common?

00:29:32.120 They're government sources, the CDC and the white house.

00:29:34.600 Here's an example of a credible source, the government, that that's, that's what the

00:29:41.040 government is saying.

00:29:41.580 A credible source is us.

00:29:43.180 Anything outside of us is not a credible source.

00:29:48.120 And they're at the point now of saying, uh, not just that you're being irresponsible and

00:29:54.600 you're being a very bad person and all of these other things.

00:29:57.420 If you, uh, you know, articulate positions that they disagree with that he, he is now

00:30:04.580 saying you do not have the right to do it.

00:30:06.720 You don't have the right to spread misinformation.

00:30:11.700 And that of course is incorrect.

00:30:13.740 You absolutely do.

00:30:15.460 Yeah.

00:30:15.900 I have the right.

00:30:17.760 I have the constitutional right to spread what you consider to be misinformation.

00:30:23.240 And that's the really important part here.

00:30:28.880 What you consider to be, if you're in the government, the surgeon general, what he considers

00:30:34.840 to be misinformation.

00:30:35.820 I have the right to say that and to spread it far and wide.

00:30:40.160 This is, uh, this is convincing to a lot of people, I think.

00:30:48.640 This is how easily fooled a lot of people are.

00:30:53.540 The government could say, well, of course you have free speech rights.

00:30:56.340 You can, you can say whatever you want.

00:30:59.180 But, but of course, to say things that are incorrect, well, that's, that's irresponsible.

00:31:02.800 You could get people killed.

00:31:03.560 And, and how do you know what's correct and incorrect?

00:31:07.680 Well, we'll tell you.

00:31:08.760 So you have the right to say whatever you want.

00:31:11.020 You have free speech.

00:31:12.000 We are a free country.

00:31:13.560 God bless America.

00:31:16.040 But, but obviously only if you're saying correct things.

00:31:22.500 Don't worry about trying to figure out if what you're saying is correct or incorrect.

00:31:25.540 We'll tell you.

00:31:27.100 We'll give you the approved list of things that are, that are correct, that you can say

00:31:30.880 on any given subject and you can say those things.

00:31:34.480 And you know what?

00:31:35.080 You can say those things all you want.

00:31:37.520 When it comes to COVID, here's a list of five things that you can say.

00:31:41.600 And we're so generous that you, you could say those five things a hundred times each

00:31:46.000 a day, if you want to.

00:31:46.860 In fact, we encourage it.

00:31:49.380 You have the right to say everything on that page, on that list of five things.

00:31:56.180 But anything outside of that, that doesn't, that doesn't even count as speech.

00:31:58.600 That's just, that's really a terrorist attack, if anything.

00:32:00.880 As always, it doesn't even disturb me all that much to hear this kind of nonsense from

00:32:12.280 bureaucrats and government officials, because I expect it from them.

00:32:17.340 Of course, people in government are going to try to pull this, these sorts of stunts.

00:32:22.800 Of course they are.

00:32:23.640 I know that they're always going to be looking for ways to increase their power and authority

00:32:31.660 and to shut down opposition.

00:32:33.500 I realized that because I understand the mentality of the sorts of people who get into this line

00:32:38.820 of work in the first place.

00:32:39.700 Most of the people who are in government, in these positions of authority, whether elected 0.98

00:32:45.920 or in the bureaucracy, the reason that they're there is because of their psychotic, sociopathic 0.90

00:32:51.360 desire and need to control people. 0.81

00:32:53.440 That's why they're there.

00:32:54.200 It's not the case for all of them, but most of them.

00:32:58.680 And it's, it's a big inherent problem.

00:33:00.660 There's no real way around it.

00:33:01.960 That most of the people who desire to do these kinds of jobs, it's for reasons that are less

00:33:07.640 than magnanimous.

00:33:10.280 Doesn't mean they're all, they all go into this to become supervillains, but it's just,

00:33:13.560 it's self-centered and self-serving.

00:33:16.260 They believe that they should be in control of other people.

00:33:18.920 They, they know how you should live your life and they want to be in a position to guide

00:33:26.140 you down that path against your will, if necessary, for your own sake.

00:33:29.320 That's what they believe.

00:33:29.900 That's why they're in that position.

00:33:30.740 So I know that.

00:33:35.900 And if you allow them, they'll, they'll, this is what they'll do.

00:33:40.320 What disturbs me are all the normal people who fall for this.

00:33:45.700 Who hear a government official say, yeah, you have the right to say everything unless

00:33:48.800 we call it misinformation, in which case you can't say it, obviously, because that's

00:33:51.480 a terrorist attack and that's, you're, you're hurting people.

00:33:54.440 What disturbs me are all the people that hear that and think, well, it makes sense.

00:33:57.080 Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

00:34:00.740 All right.

00:34:03.480 Let's go to some NFL news.

00:34:05.120 Tim Tebow made his in-game debut for the Jags during their preseason game, played a few

00:34:12.340 snaps.

00:34:12.860 Not much happened.

00:34:14.300 But then the leftists in sports media came rushing in with more of this.

00:34:18.220 So here is a dead spin reporter.

00:34:21.220 Chuck Mody says, Tim Tebow is playing in the NFL.

00:34:25.060 Colin Kaepernick, Eric Reid, Kenny Stills are blackballed from the NFL.

00:34:28.540 Tell me again how black lives matter, Roger Goodell, who's the commissioner of the, of 1.00

00:34:32.340 the NFL.

00:34:33.300 Now, personally, I, by the way, I have no problem with people attacking Roger Goodell.

00:34:37.060 It's fine with me.

00:34:39.440 Roger Goodell has done all he can.

00:34:41.100 It's the same story, you know, over and over again.

00:34:43.900 He's done all he can to appease the woke mob and they still hate his guts. 1.00

00:34:48.740 So he deserves to be eaten alive by them as he is. 0.99

00:34:51.800 But this is going to be the story. 0.99

00:34:54.580 You know what?

00:34:55.140 I root for, this is what, this is what's hard for me, especially as a football fan and a

00:34:59.100 Tebow fan.

00:34:59.480 Cause I like Tim Tebow.

00:35:00.320 He's an easy guy to root for.

00:35:01.420 He's easy to root for because he's a, he, he works hard.

00:35:07.120 He's a humble guy.

00:35:08.420 He just wants to contribute to the team.

00:35:11.300 And it's easy to root for people like that.

00:35:13.820 So I want to see him succeed.

00:35:15.080 I think it'd be great.

00:35:16.520 I don't think it's likely, but if Tim Tebow could go out at the age of 33, playing a position

00:35:20.740 he's never played before and have a decent year, you know, catch 40 balls or something

00:35:25.380 and score four or five touchdowns, that would be, that'd be an amazing story.

00:35:30.000 And it would be a lot of fun.

00:35:33.300 So I hope it happens.

00:35:34.660 And it also, it'll piss off the right people, which is also fun.

00:35:39.660 But then we're going to have to hear stuff like this incessantly throughout the entire

00:35:44.740 season.

00:35:46.120 Every time Tim Tebow is seen on camera doing anything, you're going to get people in media

00:35:53.060 doing this routine.

00:35:54.420 Well, this is Tim Tebow.

00:35:55.320 Why isn't, why isn't Colin Kaepernick out there?

00:35:57.420 Do you know why Colin Kaepernick is not playing tight end for the Jacksonville Jaguars for

00:36:03.260 a veteran minimum salary, which is what Tim Tebow is doing, trying out in training camp

00:36:09.080 with no guarantee that he'll even make the team.

00:36:11.380 Do you know why Colin Kaepernick isn't doing that?

00:36:13.220 Because he doesn't want to do that.

00:36:15.760 He has no interest in doing that.

00:36:18.160 Tim Tebow, this goes back to his humility and what makes him easy to root for.

00:36:22.520 He's also patriotic and he loves his country.

00:36:25.860 That's another thing that we like to see from our athletes and we rarely do these days.

00:36:30.320 But he is trying out in training camp, knowing that he could get cut from the team.

00:36:39.320 He's going to get paid the minimum salary, which is still a nice salary, but it's not

00:36:43.080 the, you know, tens of millions that other players are getting.

00:36:47.360 And he's playing a position.

00:36:51.020 He's trying to fit in at any other position because he knows he's not going to make the

00:36:54.640 team as a quarterback because he's not good enough and he's not.

00:36:58.920 Colin Kaepernick was never willing to do that.

00:37:02.300 Colin Kaepernick, even at this point, wants to be a starting quarterback

00:37:06.740 for an NFL franchise and get paid starting quarterback money.

00:37:12.680 That's what he wants.

00:37:14.000 He wants to waltz onto the field, be given the starting job, get paid a bunch of money.

00:37:20.240 And if you're, if you're the coach of a team and he's on your squad and you don't give him

00:37:25.440 that position, you know, he's going to call, he's going to accuse you of racism and start

00:37:29.300 protesting on the sidelines and turn half of your locker room against you.

00:37:33.440 All while he also is not a good quarterback.

00:37:38.240 He wasn't good when he left five or six years ago.

00:37:41.300 He's not going to be better now, older and having not played for half a decade.

00:37:47.860 So just so you know, if you don't follow football and you see this kind of thing,

00:37:51.500 we're going to see a lot of it.

00:37:53.600 That is why.

00:37:54.380 That's why Kaepernick is not out there doing what Tebow is doing because he doesn't want

00:37:58.040 to do what Tebow is doing.

00:37:59.080 And who can really blame him? 0.99

00:38:00.120 He's making hundreds of millions just sitting on his butt complaining. 0.77

00:38:08.380 He's, he's a bigger star now and is far wealthier than he ever was as a, as an athlete.

00:38:14.940 So why would he want to do this?

00:38:17.240 He would be taking a significant pay cut if he were to go and do what Tim Tebow is doing

00:38:22.100 right now.

00:38:24.360 So it's kind of a double-edged sword.

00:38:25.760 Yeah, I want to root for Tebow, but then it's, I'm going to be seriously annoyed by

00:38:30.220 all the Kaepernick stuff.

00:38:32.720 In the end though, it's still on balance.

00:38:36.120 I think Tebow still, we have to, we have to root for him.

00:38:38.460 So, uh, but I, I, I don't necessarily like his chances of making the team just because

00:38:43.020 he is a 33 year old man playing a position that he's never played before.

00:38:46.080 But, all right, let's, uh, move on now to reading the YouTube comments.

00:38:53.140 Um, Mike says as a registered nurse, I'm sick of the nurses are heroes BS.

00:38:59.080 If as a nurse, you need that level of validation, I question your ability to do the job competently.

00:39:04.560 A lot of, uh, comments like this and messages I've gotten from nurses who are saying the same

00:39:08.940 thing that they're tired of this also of the constant over the top praise of nurses and 0.55

00:39:14.880 they're all heroes.

00:39:17.360 And I can see how people who are nurses would get tired of that because number one thing,

00:39:22.020 number one, it's annoying and infantilizing and patronizing, but also if you're a nurse,

00:39:28.280 then you work with other nurses and you know better than anyone that it's just like any other

00:39:33.840 job.

00:39:34.320 And you work with plenty of people who are terrible at their job and don't deserve this

00:39:39.300 kind of praise that they're automatically getting because we're giving it to everybody. 0.99

00:39:42.740 Um, hot crap. 0.97

00:39:47.620 Great name says Matt's ads are the best by far. 0.99

00:39:50.960 I know he hates doing them, which makes it hilarious. 0.99

00:39:53.800 Sir, this claim is itself hot crap. 0.97

00:39:55.820 I love all of my advertisers. 0.99

00:39:57.600 There is nothing I enjoy more than reading the ads.

00:40:00.780 And I don't know why you would accuse me of that.

00:40:02.340 I take offense to that personally.

00:40:04.020 It's my greatest joy and passion in life is reading the ads.

00:40:06.860 I look forward to it.

00:40:07.700 It's what gets me up in the morning, knowing that I can get in here and tell you about all

00:40:12.840 of our great sponsors.

00:40:13.700 And then you would accuse me of this.

00:40:16.700 It's not right.

00:40:17.720 It is not right.

00:40:19.940 You're banned from the show.

00:40:21.360 Needless to say, lightweight jive says, uh, he's talking about young people with no ambition.

00:40:25.800 He says they don't have the desire coupled with overbearing helicopter parents that try to live

00:40:30.460 their life for them and would never let them take risks, uh, et cetera.

00:40:36.480 Yeah.

00:40:37.000 You know, the, the taking risks thing I think is a, is a big part of this.

00:40:40.380 As we talk about, um, this, this lack of ambition in a lot of young people, they don't

00:40:46.300 have the desire to get out there and, you know, live their own lives and be independent.

00:40:50.040 Um, and yeah, big, that, that, that's, that's something that parents should do and specifically

00:40:57.100 fathers.

00:40:58.180 This, this is a, this is a special role.

00:41:00.540 It's not that mothers can't do it, but this is a thing that fathers are especially equipped

00:41:05.260 to do in my view.

00:41:07.320 And that is to, um, help their kids take safe and reasonable risks.

00:41:14.920 You know, of different types, because there are different kinds of risks.

00:41:20.440 There are physical risks, you know, go climb the tree and yeah, you could fall out.

00:41:24.180 And I mean, you know, you, you could even seriously hurt yourself, but it's a, it's a

00:41:27.960 reasonable risk, especially as the kid is younger, I'm here, you know, and if you do fall, I'll

00:41:32.060 catch you and we're not going to let you, you know, I'll point you to the right tree to

00:41:34.900 climb.

00:41:35.200 Don't climb that one because the branches are too thin, that kind of thing.

00:41:38.120 So there's, there's the physical risks.

00:41:39.520 Um, especially as kids get older, there's kind of the intellectual risks, the moral risks

00:41:47.760 to go out and defend your principles, to express your point of view, knowing they might get

00:41:56.640 shouted down.

00:41:57.300 People might laugh at you.

00:41:58.200 People are going to disagree with you.

00:42:00.240 And, um, again, mothers can do that too, but I think that fathers are especially useful

00:42:07.080 in this regard, teaching their kids how to take risks, encouraging them to take risks.

00:42:14.080 Um, and a lot of kids grow up without any fathers in the house at all.

00:42:19.500 And, uh, even many of the fathers who are physically present, aren't really present in

00:42:25.400 any other sense of the word.

00:42:27.260 And they're not teaching their kids that.

00:42:30.300 And then what you end up with is either, cause it could go either way or it could be a combination.

00:42:34.700 Well, you end up either with kids who are terrified of taking any risks at all and want to stay

00:42:42.520 in their homes and not leave, staying on their, on their phones and playing video games, doing

00:42:48.400 low risk activities, uh, conforming themselves entirely with their peer culture, doing and

00:42:55.340 saying whatever everyone else is doing.

00:42:57.000 So you have a lot of that.

00:43:00.240 And you also have kids who are so desperate to take risks, but have never been taught how

00:43:04.920 to take risks.

00:43:05.680 And so they go out and, and, and, and take the wrong kinds of risks.

00:43:10.300 Like the kind of risk that a, you know, 17 year old teenage boy might take when he's driving

00:43:16.960 down the road at two o'clock in the morning at 95 miles an hour, hits a tree and dies like

00:43:22.280 that kind of risk, right?

00:43:23.900 The wrong kind of risk.

00:43:26.220 That's what, that's what we end up with.

00:43:27.340 We end up with a lot of, uh, a lot of young people who are allergic to all sorts of risks.

00:43:33.040 Then you have others that are, that are taking reckless, very unsafe, the wrong kinds of risks,

00:43:36.980 self-destructive risks.

00:43:40.580 And that's why you need parents, especially fathers to kind of guide between some guide a

00:43:45.180 path between those two extremes.

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00:43:53.800 Yes.

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00:45:09.000 You know, if you listen to the show on Friday, you would have heard a brief segment about halfway

00:45:17.440 in where we discussed a recent census report, which shows that the white population in this

00:45:21.820 country has declined for the first time in American history.

00:45:24.640 Whites have dipped below 60% of the overall population, another first. 0.98

00:45:29.000 And among young Americans, racial minorities are now the majority.

00:45:31.980 Um, now I say we discussed the report, but really we discussed more so the reaction to

00:45:36.940 the report, which was positively rapturous on the left.

00:45:39.940 The most blatant example was Jennifer Rubin with the Washington Post who exclaimed that the

00:45:44.440 diminishing number of whites is fabulous news. 1.00

00:45:48.140 And elsewhere, the celebration was couched in more sanitized language, but was nonetheless apparent.

00:45:52.860 So take this article from a guy named Peniel Joseph with CNN who scolded the white people

00:46:01.040 who are worried about the census data, labeling them all white supremacists to include Tucker

00:46:04.840 Carlson, of course.

00:46:06.240 And Joseph then wrote, and yet America's changing demographics tell a different, more inspiring

00:46:11.040 story.

00:46:11.840 Rather than a narrative of white decline, what if we saw in this data, the increasing numbers 0.96

00:46:16.380 of racially blended families and mixed race children and understood, and understood them

00:46:20.100 as signs of a more racially diverse, economically just, and culturally rich future.

00:46:25.180 Now it is, he says, inspiring for there to be fewer white people around. 0.99

00:46:29.120 It is more just and more culturally rich, he says, which is obviously to say that a whiter 0.99

00:46:34.900 country would be culturally impoverished and less just.

00:46:39.420 This is how the left has generally framed it.

00:46:41.980 To be a less white country, by their telling, is to be a manifestly better country. 0.99

00:46:48.000 That's why they celebrate the decline of the white population. 0.97

00:46:50.620 It's why they actively seek to facilitate that decline in terms of percentages by inviting

00:46:56.640 unchecked immigration across the southern border.

00:46:59.300 It's why they're very concerned about making sure that white people have less institutional 0.74

00:47:03.440 power and are really clear about that.

00:47:06.460 That's what they want to do.

00:47:07.500 They put policies like affirmative action into place to achieve that end.

00:47:10.800 Now I said on Friday that although this is all obviously true, and they don't make any

00:47:15.640 attempt to hide it, even so you're not allowed to point out that any of this is happening.

00:47:20.000 If you do, you'll be accused of engaging in the allegedly white supremacist replacement

00:47:25.520 theory.

00:47:26.700 I also predicted during that segment that Media Matters would post that same segment and

00:47:31.700 accuse me of advancing white supremacist conspiracy theories.

00:47:34.000 Well, like a prophet of old, I had correctly predicted the future once again.

00:47:37.880 So later that day, after that segment aired, Media Matters published this.

00:47:41.720 They say, on YouTube, Daily Wire host embraces white nationalist conspiracy theory.

00:47:46.080 Now, our friends at Media Matters are nothing if not predictable, but it wasn't just them.

00:47:51.940 A woman named Robin Panashia over at the Wonkette blog posted an article titled,

00:47:56.920 Matt Walsh Scared We Are Secretly Trying to Replace Him and All Other White People. 1.00

00:48:01.920 Then she goes on,

00:48:02.660 Many years ago, when we were all so much more innocent, the only people who believed in the

00:48:06.940 great replacement theory were neo-Nazis.

00:48:09.280 And when you tell normal people about this, even normal people who were themselves kind of

00:48:13.360 racist, they would be pretty surprised that it was a thing, mostly because of how it sounds 0.98

00:48:18.680 ridiculous and also is, in fact, ridiculous. 0.99

00:48:21.460 But Matt Walsh doesn't think that only rabid white supremacists should be able to indulge 1.00

00:48:25.080 themselves in absurd racist fantasies in which they are the truest victims. 0.84

00:48:29.160 He wants tactful suit-wearing white supremacists to have that opportunity as well.

00:48:33.280 Why limit oneself, really?

00:48:34.960 Now, I'll take a quick step to the side here to say that I'm not worried about this lady or 0.88

00:48:40.560 media matters calling me a white supremacist. That term has no meaning.

00:48:45.320 I'm sure Robin would call the barista at Starbucks a white supremacist if he misspelled her name on 1.00

00:48:49.900 her cup, which, by the way, they probably do all the time, incidentally, because her parents

00:48:53.860 injected an unnecessary Y into her name, a move that doomed her to a life of writing whiny,

00:48:59.340 poorly constructed blog posts like this one. The point is that these people find white supremacy 0.51

00:49:03.760 around every corner and in every crack and crevice of the earth. To them, I'm a white supremacist

00:49:08.300 because I exist and I'm white and I lapse sometimes into the nasty habit of expressing my own opinions

00:49:15.020 rather than their opinions. So the label could not be more irrelevant to me. With that said,

00:49:20.400 I do take exception to the claim that I am tactful and wear suits. Those latter accusations are

00:49:26.060 entirely without basis, I assure you. In any case, reading a bit more here, after extensively quoting

00:49:31.280 me, Robin writes, quote, whenever anyone says you can't talk about this, they rarely mean that

00:49:36.940 no one can talk about it. They just mean that if they talk about it in the way they're talking

00:49:40.080 about it, people will think they're super racist, which is a very fair conclusion to reach almost 1.00

00:49:44.080 any time Matt Walsh's mouth is open and he's not just saying things about women. We're letting

00:49:48.920 people into America to escape bad conditions in their home countries. It's not for the purpose of 0.97

00:49:53.600 replacing white people. No white people are being murdered in the process of immigration happening. 0.71

00:49:58.800 Well, that's kind of news to me. As far as universities and positions of power go,

00:50:03.020 no, these can't all be for white people. That's not white genocide. That's just sharing.

00:50:07.940 White people are not entitled to have all of the positions of power. It's not replacement. 1.00

00:50:11.780 It is making things more fair. If one does think that white people do have that intrinsic right, 0.83

00:50:17.480 then they are in fact white supremacists. Oppressors have always seen those they sought to oppress as

00:50:23.100 a threat. This is nothing new. The best way to preserve an unjust hierarchy is by convincing those at

00:50:27.500 the top and the middle that if those on the bottom get any power, they'll turn around and do some

00:50:31.680 oppressing themselves if only as an act of revenge. Now, so it's a review in case you're lost at this

00:50:38.420 point. It is a racist conspiracy theory to say that white people are being replaced. That's not

00:50:44.480 happening at all. It's completely false. How dare you? At the same time, there is a racial hierarchy

00:50:50.620 in this country and white people are at the top of it and are by their nature oppressive. And it's 0.79

00:50:55.000 therefore important to, well, replace them with non-white people. Indeed, the people complaining 0.99

00:51:00.360 about being replaced are racist for not wanting to be replaced and also for claiming that they are

00:51:05.060 being replaced because they're totally aren't being replaced, even though they are and it's good

00:51:08.640 and they should like it, but it's not happening. Make sense? No? Well, of course not. Because the

00:51:14.440 incoherence is entirely by design. Now, back in realityville, there is no racial hierarchy. That's

00:51:20.780 not what this is about. The hierarchy exists in the imagination of women with unnecessary whys in their 1.00

00:51:26.520 names. The point, the real point, is simply that, at least partly as a result of deliberate policy

00:51:33.580 choices and the actions of our most powerful cultural institutions, the overall percentage of

00:51:39.420 white people in the country and of white people admitted into universities and placed in positions

00:51:43.020 of power and so on, is being reduced. And non-white people are being placed into those vacated areas. 1.00

00:51:50.420 I think you could really call that replacement, but if you don't like replacement, that's fine.

00:51:56.400 Let's put that to the side. How about a different R word? How about reduction? Can I call it white 1.00

00:52:02.620 reduction? Nobody can deny that there is a significant amount of white reduction taking place, both in the 0.99

00:52:09.180 population and especially institutionally. Now, so we're talking about white reduction. 0.91

00:52:15.760 The question, is it good to celebrate this? And to answer that question, all we need to do is imagine how

00:52:27.960 it would sound for someone to celebrate the reduction of any other race of people. What if I was to react to

00:52:35.600 news about a reduction in the black population by describing it as fabulous? Now, you'll argue that it's different

00:52:42.980 because black people are in the minority, but why should that make it different? The point is that

00:52:47.360 minority or majority, we should not treat any race as a pestilence that needs to be cured.

00:52:54.440 You know, to treat any race as a problem to be solved, a plague to be contained, is unimaginably, 0.83

00:53:01.560 unspeakably racist. And if you're really getting hung up on the minority aspect of this, then fine.

00:53:06.700 Imagine that I were to celebrate the reduction of the majority race in any non-white foreign country. 0.99

00:53:13.920 So let's take any non-white foreign country where non-white people hold all of the systemic power. 1.00

00:53:20.120 And then imagine that I were to tell you that this majority race is being supplanted by a minority 1.00

00:53:24.620 race and that this is great news. Now, you would surmise that I'm obviously racist against the 0.99

00:53:31.960 majority race. You would ask me questions like, well, why are you celebrating that exactly? I mean,

00:53:36.640 what's wrong with that race being the majority? Why have you decided that it shouldn't be? Why is 0.51

00:53:40.400 it a problem? What are you so excited about? What don't you like about these people?

00:53:45.720 And if I responded that the majority race is naturally oppressive and inherently bigoted, 1.00

00:53:50.400 and that's why there needs to be less of them, you would only become firmer in your conclusion 0.93

00:53:55.560 that I am nothing but a ranting, raving, drooling bigot. And you would be right in that case.

00:54:01.960 And that's the point. Okay. White people are not entitled to positions of power. That's true. 0.80

00:54:09.660 And nobody is saying they are. That's not the point. Here's what I'm saying about white people. 0.82

00:54:16.000 Here's my radical statement. And Media Matters, here's the part that I want you to clip.

00:54:21.860 Because you're basically my PR team at this point. I tell you to clip something and post it and you do,

00:54:25.900 which is great. So clip this one. Here's what I'm saying about white people. This is my 0.94

00:54:31.580 extreme, extreme claim. White people have the same moral worth as anyone else and are therefore 0.99

00:54:40.680 entitled to the same respect. So any language that would sound horrifically racist when applied to

00:54:46.580 other races is just as horrifically racist when applied to whites. That's what I'm saying. 0.56

00:54:52.820 I am the one advocating for equality here. Treating all races the same. With moral worth.

00:55:03.700 And we don't talk about them like they're diseases to be reduced and contained.

00:55:08.460 Robin and Media Matters, they're the ones who want to treat white people as a special case,

00:55:12.960 if only for negative reasons. And that is why they are today, certainly,

00:55:17.600 canceled. And we'll leave it there. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day,

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The Matt Walsh Show - August 16, 2021

Ep. 776 - There Are No More Rainbow Flags In Afghanistan

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