The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 788 - Leftists Weep And Wail Because Fewer Babies Will Die In Texas

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, our good friend Kristi Noem wrote an op-ed explaining what she

00:00:04.720 thinks conservatism means and what conservatives should stand for. Her ideas in this regard are

00:00:09.400 pretty standard for Republicans. They're also wrong. I'll explain why in five headlines,

00:00:13.380 including the Texas abortion bill, effectively banning most abortions in the state,

00:00:17.940 went into effect this morning. It's a wonderful moment and significant progress in the right

00:00:22.520 direction. But leftists, as you can imagine, are quite upset that fewer babies will be dying.

00:00:26.820 We'll talk about that. Plus, Joe Biden gives another address to the nation to defend his

00:00:31.660 catastrophic failures in Afghanistan. Every time he tries to defend himself, he only looks worse.

00:00:36.600 And the L.A. Unified School District sent out its COVID guidelines for the school year,

00:00:41.760 and they're as deranged as you might expect. In fact, they might be a little bit more deranged

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00:02:10.480 every conservative I've ever spoken to has. And the first is what exactly he should do about the fact

00:02:17.100 that he lives in a collapsing civilization that is run on every level by people who hate his guts and

00:02:21.900 stand opposed to everything he believes in and who wish that he was dead. The second question

00:02:26.680 every conservative has is what exactly is a conservative anyway? And it's always seemed

00:02:32.140 apparent to me now more than ever that we're not going to be able to come up with a satisfactory

00:02:36.240 answer to the first question until we've answered the second. Because any conservative response to our

00:02:41.440 cultural decline, any plan of action, any battle strategy must begin with figuring out who's on your

00:02:47.700 side, what your side is, and crucially, what exactly you're fighting for. Because following

00:02:54.660 the culture war today feels a little bit like you're watching a fight scene in a movie, you know,

00:02:59.120 a bad modern action movie. The camera is shaking and moving around quickly. The lighting and the

00:03:04.220 outfits tend to blend everything together. And it's impossible to tell who is fighting who and who the

00:03:08.800 good guys are. And you leave the film with a headache and little idea about what you just watched or why.

00:03:13.540 Disorienting is the word. And it certainly applies to our culture as well. So my dear friend,

00:03:18.500 Governor Kristi Noem, just wrote a piece for the Washington Times, which I think puts this problem

00:03:22.460 in sharp relief, which is why it's worth talking about. And she represents one form of conservatism,

00:03:26.840 a common form, though in a sort of obscure and misshapen form, the wrong form in my view,

00:03:32.940 and the form that has presided over the cultural and civilizational decline that I just mentioned.

00:03:39.120 It's the form which has achieved nothing, has no victories to its name at all,

00:03:44.580 has suffered one defeat after another for decades on end. And she's taken upon herself to become a

00:03:49.440 champion for this form of conservatism. And her op-ed in the Times is, I think, almost laughably

00:03:56.120 absurd on a number of levels, but it's worth responding to in some detail. So she obviously

00:04:00.820 wrote this partially to defend herself from recent criticisms from people like myself, but also to

00:04:04.740 promote her vision, her tired, failed vision for the future of conservatism. So let's check it out.

00:04:10.360 She writes, quote, you can't be a constitutional conservative only when it suits you. We are now

00:04:14.700 seeing a battle in the Republican Party between the populist wing and the traditional limited

00:04:18.780 government conservatism. Some so-called conservatives want to regulate businesses to prevent them from

00:04:23.820 acquiring a COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment. Still, my beliefs do not allow me to waive

00:04:28.520 the constitution because I disagree with the private business. It is human nature to want to wield power,

00:04:33.420 and a crisis adds to that impulse. As an emergency unfolds, many will insist that somebody should do

00:04:39.220 something, and governments eager to pass laws and hire people with weapons to enforce them step in.

00:04:45.200 It's up to pro-liberty conservatives to stand on principle and to stand up to government mandates.

00:04:51.460 Now, she's correct that somebody do something, that attitude is dangerous, and I've talked about that

00:04:57.620 many times. There are lots of people who, when a crisis hits, they just cling on to the nearest

00:05:04.300 government official, and they say, save us, do something, dear God, just do something, anything.

00:05:09.980 This is a bad instinct, and she's right to criticize it. So that part is good. But we already detect some

00:05:16.160 warning signs that things are about to go off the rails here, intellectually speaking, because she says

00:05:20.520 that it's human nature to want to wield power, and maybe she's right about that. But then again,

00:05:26.220 if you're the governor of a state, or if you're a legislator, or if you've been elected to the

00:05:31.320 government, wielding power is exactly what you should be doing. Now, don't wield power for power's

00:05:36.780 sake. Don't wield it for the wrong reasons or in the wrong way or to the wrong ends. But you should

00:05:41.560 be wielding power. That's why you're there. That's why you've been put in that position. The problem

00:05:46.440 with Republicans is that it's not that they're discerning and restrained and thoughtful in the way

00:05:51.680 that they wield power. It's that they don't want to wield it at all. So we'll keep reading to see

00:05:57.280 where this goes. She says, to be clear, I don't think businesses should require a COVID-19 vaccine

00:06:01.180 as a condition of employment. I also believe that government is too big, and mandates are not a

00:06:05.320 conservative tool enforcing the behavior of its citizens. Since when did the Republican Party

00:06:10.200 become the party of big government and social engineering, using government power to force behavior?

00:06:15.540 Once we, as a people, open the door to increased government power to put mandates on businesses,

00:06:20.540 expect a Pandora's box of liberal mandates to hit in the future that touch on faith,

00:06:25.160 the right to keep and bear arms, and the expanding list of genders the left has invented.

00:06:29.400 William F. Buckley once referred to the growth of government as creeping socialism.

00:06:33.540 We're seeing aversion today with both Republicans and Democrats calling on the government to mandate

00:06:37.000 behavior they find acceptable. Even if I agree with a new mandate, the mandate limits freedom and

00:06:41.520 sets a precedent for even more mandates, taxes, spending, and expansion of government,

00:06:44.880 into the daily lives of average Americans who just want to be left alone.

00:06:48.280 I'm reminded of a famous Reagan quote. The most terrifying words in the English language are,

00:06:52.600 I'm from the government and I'm here to help. Conservatives see that liberals are trying to

00:06:56.400 use this crisis to expand the size and scope of government at every level. On everything from

00:07:00.920 mandates to spending, the left wants more government. Conservatives must stand on principle

00:07:04.300 and oppose big government in all its forms. Now, all of these are pretty standard Republican

00:07:09.600 talking points. Nothing shocking or egregious here. And we're used to hearing Republicans say,

00:07:14.720 we've heard this for years and years and years. Kind of your basic stump speech. But that's

00:07:20.720 precisely the problem, right? More specifically, I think I see three problems here. So let's go

00:07:26.180 through them. Number one, she says that if Republicans use power to mandate behavior,

00:07:32.120 then we can expect a Pandora's box of liberal mandates that deal with gun rights and gender and 0.94

00:07:38.660 all that stuff to happen in the future. But this is not a prediction of what will happen in the future.

00:07:43.660 This is a description of what is happening right now. Liberals are already doing all of those

00:07:48.620 things. They're doing them even though the Republican Party has hardly wielded any power at all,

00:07:53.580 even when it owned both houses of Congress and the presidency. They didn't do anything.

00:07:58.620 The past a few mild tax cuts, that's all they did.

00:08:02.660 And we're constantly warned that if Republicans start playing hardball and actually, you know,

00:08:06.600 making laws and trying to put their agenda into action, then Democrats might start doing the same

00:08:13.540 as if Democrats are waiting on permission from Republicans to advance their own cause.

00:08:18.100 And yet Democrats are already doing that and have been doing it. While Republicans sit on their hands

00:08:23.840 and say, oh, you know, we can't cross that line because if we do, Democrats will do the thing they're

00:08:29.260 currently doing right now and have always been doing. It doesn't really make any sense.

00:08:33.080 Second, she says that conservatives must oppose big government in all its forms.

00:08:40.120 Now, it sounds almost like heresy for me as a conservative to

00:08:43.400 disagree with that or criticize that notion.

00:08:48.160 But I think we should stop and think about this. What does this even mean?

00:08:55.140 You know, we're so used to hearing Republicans rail against big government

00:08:58.400 that we don't stop to ask what they mean anymore, but we should. So what do they mean?

00:09:05.660 No Republican administration in living memory has made any serious effort to actually shrink the

00:09:11.200 size of government. None of them have. I mean, Trump certainly didn't. George Bush obviously didn't.

00:09:18.260 I mean, you'd have to go back many decades to find a Republican

00:09:20.440 who arguably put a plan like that into action or at least tried.

00:09:24.600 Most of them have actively expanded it. So Republicans pay lip service to this idea,

00:09:31.760 but we never know exactly what they mean because none of them try to put it into action.

00:09:35.780 None of them, which is a common theme here. And maybe part of the problem and part of the reason

00:09:41.780 why they don't abide by these small government motto is that the motto itself is vague and sort of,

00:09:47.780 you know, arbitrary. Is the problem with government that it is simply too big?

00:09:54.040 Is there just too much of it to go around? Is it as simple as that?

00:09:57.580 Or is the problem that our government points its power in the wrong direction

00:10:01.580 and does the wrong things and has the wrong priorities?

00:10:06.160 I mean, ask yourself this. If Democrats get their way and manage to push through a law

00:10:09.580 that provides federal civil rights protections on the basis of gender identity,

00:10:15.340 the equal rights or the equality law is what they're trying to push through.

00:10:22.540 And it's in the Senate right now, meaning that all bathrooms and sports teams

00:10:26.540 and female facilities across the country must be open to men. 1.00

00:10:30.640 Will this be an example of a government that is merely too big?

00:10:34.720 Or will it be an example of a government that no matter how big or small it is,

00:10:39.900 is fundamentally corrupt and run by radical left-wing ideologues?

00:10:46.040 I mean, the answer could be both, of course, but the big government thing distracts from the real

00:10:50.800 problem and it turns what could be a pointed criticism and a useful criticism into something

00:10:55.300 vague and ill-defined. The effect of all this generalized sort of big government talk,

00:11:00.360 talk from people who, again, have never done a single thing ever to actually shrink the size of

00:11:06.320 government. The effect is that now, if you advocate for the government to do anything,

00:11:11.580 if you push for any law or any policy of any kind, you're accused of advancing big government.

00:11:19.280 There are even some so-called conservatives, and we'll talk more about this in a minute,

00:11:23.120 who will accuse you of big government if you say that we should restrict or ban abortion.

00:11:31.360 That's expanding government. We can't do that. 0.90

00:11:35.480 Third point, finally, Noam says that mandates are not a conservative tool,

00:11:39.340 and that we must not put mandates on businesses. On Twitter, when sharing this article, she actually

00:11:44.720 said that we should not be in the business of forcing behavior of any kind onto people.

00:11:51.900 We should not be in the business of forcing behavior of any kind onto people.

00:11:55.880 Wait, what? We shouldn't force any behavior? No mandates at all? Is that why we oppose mask

00:12:05.360 mandates simply because they are a mandate? That's not my problem with them. I take issue with the

00:12:11.220 substance of the mask mandate and many other mandates, not with the simple fact that it is a

00:12:17.080 mandate. So this is all quite incoherent, I think. The fact is that any law of any kind,

00:12:22.340 good law or bad law, must necessarily force behavior onto people. Now, I know that I'll be

00:12:29.180 told that, well, the good laws are the ones that prohibit behavior rather than mandating behavior.

00:12:34.840 Now, I'm not sure why prohibiting is automatically better or more valid than mandating.

00:12:39.700 We're expected to sort of just agree with that underlying assumption, but I'm not sure that I do.

00:12:45.360 And anyway, the bigger issue is that every prohibition, every single one, is also a mandate.

00:12:52.200 For example, if you're prohibited from driving over 75 on the highway, then you're mandated to drive 75

00:12:59.260 or lower. If you're prohibited from neglecting your children, then you're mandated to care for them.

00:13:05.720 If you're prohibited from murder, you're mandated to not murder. If you're prohibited from driving

00:13:13.720 drunk, then you're mandated to drive sober. If as conservatives, we want to prohibit abortion, 0.94

00:13:19.620 which we do, then we want to mandate that mothers give birth to their children, unless the child dies 0.98

00:13:25.760 tragically through miscarriage, obviously. These are not semantics. I mean, this is a fundamental

00:13:30.500 and essential point about the nature of law and its purpose. So many establishment Republican types

00:13:36.680 advocate for, in the way that they speak about these issues, it's like they're advocating for this

00:13:41.180 kind of anarcho-libertarianism. Well, we can't force any behavior. We shouldn't mandate anything.

00:13:49.220 Even though they're not really anarchists or libertarians. But that's the language that they

00:13:54.140 use. It's just lazy. And it confuses conservatives. And it adds to this environment where conservatives

00:14:03.260 don't even know what we are or what we stand for. The argument that we shouldn't force any behavior

00:14:08.480 of any kind is silly, if not completely insane. And it's obvious that nobody who says such a thing

00:14:12.640 really believes it. But they make the argument anyway, because it allows them to sidestep the

00:14:17.060 discussion that they're afraid to have. Yes, of course, government should both prohibit and mandate

00:14:23.040 certain behavior. What kind of behavior? And why? Well, this is a simple question. It's also

00:14:31.400 the central question in this debate. And it's time that we start actually thinking and talking about

00:14:37.400 it. And speaking of mandating and prohibiting behavior, we'll have more to talk about with that

00:14:41.820 when we discuss the Texas abortion law that just went into effect, which will be next in our five

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00:16:00.800 All right. Well, we're on the road this week, as you can see. And as you have also seen,

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00:17:04.060 only place around here that has any food. So we went to the gas station and had a delicious dinner.

00:17:09.180 You know, and you compare that like when if Ben Shapiro is on the road, he's broadcasting from

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00:17:20.720 Meanwhile, I'm sleeping on like a mattress on the floor covered in bedbugs.

00:17:25.620 It's great. It is really wonderful. Okay, so some good news, some more good news to start from

00:17:32.860 the New York Post. It says a strict new measure that essentially bans abortion in Texas went into

00:17:37.220 effect at midnight despite protests and lawsuits against the harsh mandate. This is the New York

00:17:42.620 Post language anyway, a harsh mandate. The law prohibits women from getting an abortion after

00:17:47.220 a fetal heartbeat can be detected and give citizens the right to take legal action against doctors

00:17:52.360 or anyone else who helps a woman terminate a pregnancy. Most women who get an abortion in 0.99

00:17:56.920 the Lone Star State are at least six weeks pregnant and will now be unable to receive the procedure

00:18:01.240 according to Planned Parenthood and Whole Woman's Health. The Texas bill differs from other similar

00:18:05.760 heartbeat laws nationwide because it bars authorities from enforcing the ban and allows anyone else to take

00:18:11.220 legal action. Under the measure, anyone who successfully sues a doctor or accomplice would

00:18:16.060 be entitled to at least $10,000, which critics claim will flood the courts with opportunistic legal

00:18:20.260 cases. And yes, people who are opportunistically trying to stop babies from being killed, very

00:18:26.360 opportunistic of them. The wide-ranging provision allows suits against patients, nurses, counselors,

00:18:32.020 or even someone who drove a patient to an appointment. So that's the law that went into effect.

00:18:37.080 There was a mad dash by the pro-abortion, pro-death, pro-baby-killing side to stop it,

00:18:43.440 and they weren't able to. And now the left is absolutely panicking over this. As you can imagine,

00:18:49.200 the ACLU, which is supposed to be the Civil Liberties Institute, they're supposed to stand for

00:18:53.860 liberty. And you would think the most fundamental and basic liberty is that to live, the right to life.

00:19:01.980 Because if you don't have the right to life, the ability to live, then all of your other rights would

00:19:05.920 seem to be sort of null and void. But they're very pro-baby-killing. And so they sent out a whole

00:19:12.160 series of tweets. They said, the Supreme Court has not responded to our emergency request to block

00:19:18.500 Texas's radical new six-week abortion ban. The law now takes effect. Access to almost all abortion 0.52

00:19:24.760 has just been cut off for millions of people. The impact will be immediate and devastating.

00:19:29.380 And these are the words I've seen the left using in response to this bill, which is expected.

00:19:36.820 Devastating, tragic, unjust, infuriating. Nancy Pelosi called the law a catastrophe.

00:19:46.300 A catastrophe. Catastrophic. Because, because fewer babies will be killed. That's what they're upset

00:19:53.640 about. It's catastrophic that now we're going to allow more children to live. 0.99

00:20:01.420 Cori Bush sent out this tweet. She says, I'm thinking about the black, brown, low-income, 0.99

00:20:06.900 queer, and young folks in Texas, the folks this abortion health care bill, health care ban will 0.99

00:20:12.000 disproportionately harm. Wealthy white folks will have the means to access abortion. Our communities

00:20:17.200 won't. Now, I'm not sure how an abortion ban will disproportionately affect quote-unquote queer folks.

00:20:24.820 I don't know how that works exactly. But this is the only tune that Cori Bush knows. And so she just

00:20:32.460 hums it every single time. No matter what the issue is, it's always going to be, well, this

00:20:36.780 disproportionately impacts these people. Now, does it disproportionately impact the black community?

00:20:47.200 In a sense, yeah. But what is the disproportionate impact?

00:20:53.200 Because there is a, because a disproportionate number of black children are aborted. That's true. 1.00

00:21:01.640 And so now the disproportionate impact is that more black people will be allowed to live. 0.98

00:21:08.660 Okay. There will be more black people in Texas now than there would be without this bill. This bill 1.00

00:21:15.220 will have the direct and immediate effect of ensuring, among other things, along with saving so many

00:21:22.780 other babies. But since she brings up these protected classes, it will also have the immediate effect of 0.99

00:21:29.520 ensuring that more black people will live in Texas. And Cori Bush, as a black woman, is opposed to that. 0.99

00:21:36.380 Whichever, if you're opposed to it, then come out and say it. Just come out and say it. I want these black 1.00

00:21:45.380 children who are going to live now, I think they should be dead. I think that they should not be allowed to 1.00

00:21:51.620 continue existing. Come out and say it if that's your opinion, because that is your opinion.

00:21:55.640 Um, now is, is this law in Texas? Is it in keeping with Roe v. Wade? Supreme Court's going to weigh in on

00:22:05.500 that. And I don't have a whole lot of confidence in what their decision is going to be. I have

00:22:11.600 confidence in maybe two of the, uh, of the justices on the Supreme Court, Thomas and Alito, when it comes

00:22:18.420 to this issue on the rest, I don't, I don't, I don't know. But does it violate Roe v. Wade? My answer

00:22:27.120 is who cares? I don't care if it does. Roe is imaginary. Okay. It, it, it, they located the right

00:22:36.560 to abortion in invisible ink in the constitution, or they may as well have. The Roe v. Wade decision may

00:22:46.080 as well have said, well, a, uh, a, a fairy came into our chambers and sprinkled pixie dust 0.91

00:22:53.260 on the constitution and invisible words suddenly were made apparent that said, do you have a right

00:23:01.200 to an abortion? They, that may as well have been the decision because it is that absurd.

00:23:06.320 Has no basis in reality whatsoever. I mean, again, they, they, they located the right to

00:23:16.380 abortion constitutionally within the constitutional right to privacy, which is not a constitutional

00:23:23.860 right. So there's nothing in the constitution that says right to privacy. And that's what they

00:23:29.380 based the right to abortion in. And even that's not in there. So this is the right to abortion is,

00:23:35.060 is two degrees removed from the constitution. It's grounded in constitutional language that

00:23:42.100 does not exist itself. So it's a horrible decision that even if you're an honest pro-abortion person,

00:23:49.960 which is a category of people that I'm not sure actually exists, just as the right to abortion

00:23:55.180 doesn't exist. But if you were, then, then you should, even you should say, yeah, I think that

00:24:00.540 abortion is good or whatever. I'm in favor of it, but, uh, there's no right to it in the constitution. 0.52

00:24:08.800 A couple of the points here, as we see the left panicking over this bill in Texas,

00:24:14.680 now that more children will be allowed to live. Um, I've got to make this point again for the

00:24:20.840 millionth time, but it's so important because what we're hearing over and over again, and what

00:24:27.100 you'll continue to hear is that this bill is an attack. It's an assault on reproductive rights. 0.98

00:24:34.060 Well, I have to continue to emphasize that it's not an assault on reproductive rights 0.77

00:24:38.760 because, because this has nothing to do with reproduction. Abortion has absolutely nothing 0.98

00:24:46.500 to do with reproduction. Reproduction is a separate issue. Do I think that women have reproductive rights? 1.00

00:24:57.380 Of course. I will say this right now with, without, without any hesitation at all. No woman anywhere 1.00

00:25:06.000 on earth should be forced to reproduce. Absolutely not. I mean, the thought is, is atrocious. It's

00:25:14.080 horrifying. The idea that any woman would be forced to reproduce. The good news is that that's not 1.00

00:25:19.820 happening in America anywhere. Okay. Now with abortion, what happens is you are killing a human being 0.85

00:25:30.520 who has already been produced. Reproduction. Birth is not reproduction. When a woman gives birth to a 0.99

00:25:40.860 child, this is basic biology that I know is lost on a lot of people these days, especially on the left.

00:25:45.220 Basic biology. Birth is not the reproductive act. Okay. Reproduction is conception. That is when a 0.63

00:25:55.280 separate and distinct entity with its own DNA comes into existence. That is reproduction. This,

00:26:02.260 this being, this entity has been produced in that moment. Now you can call that, uh, this being anything,

00:26:09.920 the correct thing would be human. Baby works also person, all those work, but you can even use a

00:26:17.400 euphemism like fetus. Fetus just means offspring in Latin. So sure it's, it's offspring, whatever label

00:26:24.320 you want to put, whatever, whatever, whatever word you want to use, that being exists and has been

00:26:30.120 produced in that moment. Uh, nobody should be forced to conceive, but once conception has happened,

00:26:38.780 the being now exists, anything you do after that is after reproduction, it is too late to prevent the

00:26:45.980 reproduction of that person. If you are preventing a, an already produced human from being born,

00:26:57.060 you are not preventing that human being from being reproduced. 0.99

00:27:00.740 Any more than if I shoot you in the head before you walk out your front door in the morning, 0.99

00:27:08.020 I haven't stopped you from being reproduced. I have just stopped you from changing locations. 0.99

00:27:14.320 I have stopped you from emerging from one location into another location. I've maybe stopped you from

00:27:20.440 becoming visible to people outside, but I can't shoot you in the head and then say, Hey man, 0.88

00:27:27.440 this is my reproductive rights. Uh, one other point real, again, really basic.

00:27:37.540 If the government does not have the authority or the right to pass a law like this,

00:27:43.400 if the state government in Texas doesn't have the authority or the right to pass a law saying

00:27:48.560 that you can't kill, you cannot kill human beings that have heartbeats, then government should not exist.

00:27:55.140 There's no argument that I can think of or that I've ever heard that would explain, you know,

00:28:03.660 why we should have a government at all. And yet not one that will protect the most innocent and

00:28:10.440 vulnerable among us. Like that is the most, if, if, if government has any role, then that would be

00:28:16.320 their most fundamental and basic and primary role to protect the most innocent and vulnerable.

00:28:25.340 People could not protect themselves. People who, uh, if, if, if the government does not step in and

00:28:33.680 pass laws protecting them, then, then there's, then, then that's it. Then they'll be killed. 0.91

00:28:40.200 If the government is not in the business of doing that, then it shouldn't be in the business of doing 0.98

00:28:45.140 anything. If it doesn't have authority and power in that realm, then I don't see how or why I should

00:28:51.960 have authority or power in any realm. So God bless, uh, Texas and, uh, thank God for all the babies that 0.58

00:29:00.060 will now be granted the, I won't even say we'll be granted the gift of, of life because they're,

00:29:06.820 they're already living before the abortion happens. As we discussed, we'll be granted the gift of

00:29:11.220 continuing life and the ability to fully, you know, explore their own potential as human beings.

00:29:17.940 Uh, until a judge comes in and blocks the bill anyway. Okay. So Joe Biden again, addressed the

00:29:24.600 nation yesterday about, I was going to, I was about to say last night about Afghanistan, but he never

00:29:29.740 speaks at night, you know, which is a little bit suspicious as a, not really suspicious at all.

00:29:34.880 In fact, as a, as a man struggling with dementia, very publicly and very obviously, um, he's not,

00:29:39.900 he can't speak past about six o'clock in the evening. So he was supposed to speak, I think

00:29:44.780 around three or four, he was late again. He's always late for a guy who likes to check his watch.

00:29:48.980 He sure is late quite a lot, but, um, here he is starting with this talking about how, uh, this

00:29:55.680 evacuation was actually an enormous success. Let's watch.

00:29:58.540 Last night in Kabul, the United States ended 20 years of war in Afghanistan, the longest war in

00:30:08.140 American history. We completed one of the biggest airlifts in history with more than 120,000 people

00:30:16.220 evacuated to safety. That number is more than double what most experts thought were possible.

00:30:22.220 No nation, no nation has ever done anything like it in all of history. The only, the United States

00:30:30.060 had the capacity and the will and ability to do it. And we did it today. The extraordinary success of

00:30:36.900 this mission was due to the incredible skill, bravely and selfless courage of the United States

00:30:43.600 military and our diplomats and intelligence professionals for weeks. They risked their lives to get American

00:30:50.980 citizens, Afghans who helped us, citizens of our allies and partners and others on board planes and

00:30:58.580 out of the country. And they did it facing a crush of enormous crowds seeking to leave the country.

00:31:06.000 The guy can't even speak. It's always hard to listen to him, but Joe Biden, he did it in that speech.

00:31:12.360 Um, I mean, that was that, that part right there, that 60 second segment was him bragging about how it

00:31:18.020 was a huge success because they were able to get all these people out. And he doesn't, he doesn't,

00:31:22.260 you know, he's, he doesn't want to dwell on the fact that, yeah, we got a hundred thousand Afghans

00:31:26.820 out, Afghan citizens. There are still Americans being left behind. He talks about the bravery and

00:31:33.580 skill of the people on the ground, our troops on the ground who were doing all of this. And yeah,

00:31:38.780 they had immense bravery. Um, they're not the problem. You don't need to defend their bravery and

00:31:45.360 skill. We, we all acknowledge that the issue is you. Okay. And the brass, the Pentagon and military

00:31:55.460 leaders. Okay. You know, the guys who, before all this were happening, they were talking about how,

00:32:02.640 you know, white privilege is, is the greatest threat that the globe faces and so on.

00:32:07.760 That's who we're, that's who we're criticizing, not the people on the ground, but he, he shifts

00:32:17.260 constantly between saying that this was a great success. It was an enormous success. Uh, this is

00:32:24.620 like Dunkirk. This was a, this was just an incredible feat of human engineering and technical brilliance and

00:32:32.080 so on. And also this is all my predecessor's fault. So his, he, he blames Trump and then also brags that

00:32:40.980 it's a great success. So his point is his argument is this great, enormous, huge success is all the

00:32:49.460 fault of Donald Trump. It doesn't get any more coherent than that. Uh, because next he starts

00:32:55.660 talking about, um, or addressing the criticism from lots of people, myself included. Every, I think

00:33:02.400 everyone has had this criticism, which is why didn't you evacuate the Americans first? And here he tries 0.99

00:33:07.700 to explain why I take responsibility for the decision. Now, some say we should have started mass

00:33:16.700 evacuation sooner. And couldn't this have been done in a more orderly manner? I respectfully

00:33:25.080 disagree. Imagine if we've begun evacuations in June or July, bringing in thousands of American 1.00

00:33:33.420 troops and evacuating more than 120,000 people in the middle of a civil war.

00:33:41.220 There still would have been a rush to the airport, a breakdown in confidence and control of the

00:33:47.220 government. And it still would have been very difficult and dangerous mission. The bottom line is

00:33:54.340 there is no evacuation evacuation from the end of a war that you can run without the kinds of

00:34:03.400 complexities, challenges, threats we faced. None. Yeah, man, there's no easy way to do this

00:34:10.520 evacuation. You know, it's a hard thing to do these evacuations. He says, uh, that's really his

00:34:17.580 answer. This is a written speech. Okay. This is not him off the cuff. We know that that goes off the

00:34:21.580 rails very, very easily. This is, but this is a written speech. He's still reading from the

00:34:24.560 teleprompter and he was late showing up there. They were working on the speech at the last minute,

00:34:29.600 trying to get it exactly right. Coming up with some kind of response to the criticism that,

00:34:36.260 Hey, you could have gotten the Americans out first. And his answer to that is, Hey man, I disagree. I

00:34:42.780 mean, if we did it that way, it still could have gone bad. That was his answer. It, yeah,

00:34:50.660 this went terribly, even though it was a great success. Um, but if we had done it the way that

00:34:56.880 seems like it would have made a lot more sense, it still could have not been great.

00:35:03.200 That's really his answer, which is to say he has no answer at all. That should put to rest. If you had

00:35:08.080 any, you know, if somehow you had any notion in your head, maybe there are some things you don't

00:35:13.080 know about. And there's like a reason why they had to do it this way there. They, a good reason.

00:35:18.320 Well, he would have told us what the good reason is. And there wasn't one as it's clear now.

00:35:23.240 Okay. A couple of other things also, a couple of the things from the Biden administration. Uh,

00:35:26.680 I thought this was kind of interesting. This is a warning from the state department.

00:35:29.960 It says Afghanistan travel advisory level four, do not travel to Afghanistan due to civil unrest,

00:35:36.020 armed conflict, crime, terrorism, kidnapping, and COVID-19 travel to all areas of Afghanistan is

00:35:43.120 unsafe. Terry, you can get your head cut off. Um, you could be enslaved, sold into sex slavery, 0.99

00:35:51.400 tortured, thrown into prison, uh, for the rest of your life down in a cave somewhere. And also you 0.99

00:35:58.560 could get COVID. So this is like, if it was a travel advisory level four, do not launch yourself

00:36:04.040 directly into the sun due to a certain fiery death and a gigantic flaming ball of lethal gas.

00:36:09.720 Also the UV rays will make your skin wrinkly. Travel to all areas of the sun is unsafe. Um,

00:36:17.120 there's also this from the, uh, from the CDC. Okay. Now I don't want to seem like I'm just

00:36:26.960 getting a ticky tack here with my criticisms of the CDC, but this is a tweet from the CDC

00:36:34.760 talking to people who have lost power because of the, of the hurricane says, have you lost power?

00:36:40.300 When in doubt, throw it out, throw away perishable refrigerated foods like meat, seafood, milk,

00:36:45.900 and eggs. If the power is out for more than four hours, learn, learn more food safety tips for power

00:36:51.540 outages. And then there's a link to it. Now I just read that because it just shows how the CDC,

00:36:57.140 they, these idiots really cannot do anything right. They really can't even something basic like food 1.00

00:37:05.560 safety tips, which I guess I can see why the CDC would chime in on that. There are illnesses you can

00:37:12.860 get from unsafe food. Okay. So this is sort of within their purview. Fine. They can't even get that

00:37:18.660 right. Throw away your food after four hours, all of your food in your refrigerator. No, please. I

00:37:25.820 beg you, if you lost power, you're probably not listening to this right now if you did, but, um,

00:37:32.220 do not throw away all the food in your refrigerator. Just keep the door shut and the food will last for,

00:37:38.360 for many, many more hours than that. Even days potentially, if you keep the door shut,

00:37:43.960 okay, your food, your, your refrigerator is a cooler. Even without power, it keeps the cool air

00:37:50.380 in. You could even do other things like if you still have ice in your, uh, in your freezer,

00:37:56.120 then you, or if you got some ice before the power went out, you could put bags of ice in the refrigerator.

00:38:02.480 Functions as a cooler, keeps things cold. So please do not do that. The CDC would have people

00:38:08.540 after a couple hours, yeah, got to throw away all the food. And now I'm going to starve, I guess,

00:38:13.320 because I just threw all my food away for no reason. These absolute morons. Speaking of morons, 1.00

00:38:20.140 I got to mention this briefly as well. The LA, uh, County Unified School District 1.00

00:38:27.040 has put their COVID guidelines into place now that the school year started.

00:38:32.200 And this is, I want to read to you some of an email from an LA school district union representative

00:38:37.120 to teachers. This is an email that somebody sent to me from, uh, an LA, uh, teachers union rep

00:38:45.520 explaining, you know, the guidelines and what they're supposed to do. So let me read some of

00:38:49.300 this. Okay. It says, um, this is why it is so critical to continue safety practices like properly

00:38:57.580 wearing a mask. Please make sure that the mask covers your mouth and nose. I've observed a number

00:39:02.900 of our colleagues ignoring this and walking around with gator masks or face masks that barely

00:39:07.800 cover their mouths, let alone their nose. Even if you're vaccinated, breakthrough cases and the

00:39:12.500 Delta variant are still a risk. While vaccinated individuals reportedly experienced very mild

00:39:16.540 symptoms, they may still act as a carrier for the infection. Wearing masks improperly puts colleagues

00:39:21.420 and students at risk. Further, it indicates to students that they don't have to wear the mask

00:39:25.640 properly either. Now this is not the really crazy part, but it's still crazy.

00:39:28.480 I mean, the claim that a vaccinated person who's wearing a mask, but just has their nose sticking

00:39:37.020 out is a threat to other people. So if you're vaccinated and you're wearing a mask and only

00:39:42.720 your nose is, uh, is, is out. And then there's another person who's wearing a mask also. And let's

00:39:47.560 say they're also vaccinated, or even if they're not, the risk is what? That you just through breathing

00:39:53.720 normally through your nostrils, that the nostril air from the vaccinated person is going to infect 0.75

00:40:02.400 someone else who's wearing a mask. Is there any evidence that that has happened? Even once

00:40:12.000 any evidence that that has ever happened? I'd like to know. The email goes on further. Since the mask

00:40:19.800 mandate is a state and district directive, you may be subject to disciplinary action. If you are not

00:40:23.700 wearing the mask appropriately, and since mask wearing is part of the negotiated side letter,

00:40:28.020 you will get no relief from the union. So this is the one thing. I mean, this teacher's unions,

00:40:33.960 they'll defend teachers to the hilt on anything. You could have rapist teachers, teachers who are 0.96

00:40:40.300 sexually abusing their students and the teacher's union will come to their defense. But if you're, 0.99

00:40:45.640 if you're not wearing your mask appropriately, that's where they're not going to defend you. Hey,

00:40:49.760 you're on your own sucker. Sorry. This is when it really gets crazy. Speaking of students, 1.00

00:40:55.340 please insist that students always wear masks and step outside if they need to drink water. Be sure

00:41:00.600 to wash hands often for 20 seconds and sanitize your hands, your hands when you can't wash. Finally,

00:41:05.540 maintain at much, as much distance from students and colleagues as possible and avoid unnecessary

00:41:10.600 gatherings like eating lunch together. Also keep your HVAC system running all day in order to filter the

00:41:17.080 air and leave doors and windows open when possible. Even if there's construction noise outside.

00:41:26.300 First of all, so I guess, I guess we're not worried about climate change anymore.

00:41:29.940 You need to crank the HVAC system with all the doors and windows open.

00:41:35.920 So you're really, you're really taxing that system, churning a lot of CO2 in the air. So we're not

00:41:40.240 worried about that anymore. You got doors open with construction noise and jackhammers outside. Who cares if

00:41:45.260 you're, if the kids can even hear what you're saying. And if, if a kid needs to just take a drink of

00:41:52.280 water, uh, they got to go outside of the classroom to do it. Because a child who is already at a very

00:42:01.860 low risk to contract or spread COVID, if they just take their mask down for 10 seconds to take a swig of

00:42:08.260 water in those 10 seconds while they're swigging water, they could infect the people around them.

00:42:15.980 Again, is there any evidence that that has ever happened or could even, or could reasonably

00:42:23.320 theoretically happen? Any evidence of that? No, none at all. And they're still going with the wash your

00:42:29.440 hands all the time, which, yeah, I mean, washing your hands in a norm, washing hands is just good

00:42:33.380 practice in general, but we're still, you know, wash your hands constantly, sanitize all the surface.

00:42:39.320 Even though we know that COVID is, is airborne, it is not really spread primarily, uh, through,

00:42:47.640 through surface contact. It's very rarely spread that way as far as we know,

00:42:52.400 but that doesn't matter. We're just going to pretend that's not the case.

00:42:56.940 All of the, have you noticed the COVID safety guidelines, they haven't changed in 18 months.

00:43:03.380 No matter what else we learn about the virus, the safety guidelines stay exactly the same.

00:43:09.160 They do not respond to the science at all, but these are the pro science people, of course. All

00:43:14.720 right. Uh, go now to read the YouTube comments. Um, this, uh, says it's a shame Matt show doesn't

00:43:22.060 last longer because he's a perfect white noise machine for my week old baby Mabel. She goes right 1.00

00:43:27.080 to sleep when Matt starts talking newest member of SBG and probably the sweetest. Well,

00:43:31.920 she's not paying attention to my show. Uh, so she's banned from the show. So are you.

00:43:39.300 Well, congratulations on the birth of your child. Uh, C Warvold says, Matt, every time I watch a video

00:43:45.740 of yours, I realize how wonderful and gifted an orator you are. Every video so far without fail

00:43:50.460 leads me to feeling like I've experienced an hour's worth of content before you even get to your

00:43:54.400 five headlines. Thank you for sharing your talents with the, with the wider world.

00:43:57.980 But is that a compliment or was that a passive aggressive insult so that the show you're saying

00:44:03.980 every show after 10 minutes feels like it's been an hour. The show drags on is what you're trying

00:44:09.120 to tell me. You, sir, are banned from the show. How dare you? Uh, yo mama's boo says, I don't give a

00:44:16.440 damn if you're in a crappy hotel room. I'd much rather be able to see my sweet daddy Walsh rather than 0.98

00:44:20.660 just be able to hear him. Don't ever leave us again. Oh, you thought the hotel room yesterday was

00:44:26.560 crappy. You ain't seen nothing yet. We're just getting worse and worse. Um, and by, by like

00:44:33.600 Friday, I will be in a cave. I'll be in a cave in Afghanistan doing the show. Uh, the other

00:44:38.020 one says day five of asking for Matt's thoughts on pineapple on pizza. Well, I really don't

00:44:43.140 have, I know this is one of those controversies. I don't have strong feelings on it. Part of this

00:44:48.040 just goes to my, my gluttonous instincts. I'll like eat anything. So I'm not crazy about the

00:44:54.020 pineapple on the pizza, but it's pizza. So you put pizza in front of me, I'll eat it.

00:44:57.380 I don't even really care what's on it. It's pizza as far as I'm concerned. Um, and finally,

00:45:03.620 Paul says the irony of people first syntax is that it employs relative clause construction,

00:45:08.920 the function of which is to establish a defining statement by declaring a general category term

00:45:13.900 superordinate, which is then restricted by excluding everything that falls outside of

00:45:18.080 the subordinate predicate phrase. In short, it's exclusive and restrictive.

00:45:24.960 Yeah, I was going to say that myself. Thank you, Paul. That's exactly my point.

00:45:30.380 Whatever the hell you just said, you know, once a month, uh, hosts of the daily wire come together

00:45:35.180 for a backstage for some lighthearted debate and sometimes not so lighthearted debate as you saw

00:45:40.220 at the last debate, but the last up backstage, but it was certainly a really interesting and,

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00:45:49.420 our backstage in October is going to be staged a little bit differently. Instead of just tuning

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00:46:25.240 September 3rd. So mark your calendar and make sure you don't miss out. Now let's get to our daily

00:46:29.820 cancellation. So we've talked rather extensively on this show about the supposed eviction crisis that

00:46:37.960 we've been promised for some time. And it's because of this supposed crisis that Democrats,

00:46:43.620 of course, according to Democrats anyway, the CDC must be allowed to continue forbidding landlords

00:46:48.920 from evicting tenants who don't pay their rent. Nevermind that the CDC doesn't have that authority.

00:46:53.460 Nevermind that the policy deeply infringes on the basic human rights of property owners.

00:46:57.080 We must, they say, allow these people to remain in homes and apartments they aren't paying for.

00:47:01.940 And we must allow this indefinitely, no matter what. Now I confess that I haven't been persuaded

00:47:08.720 by these arguments up until now, because all of that changed with a report just published in

00:47:16.900 The Hill, which I, which I read yesterday. Here's the headline. Nearly half of LGBT renters behind on 1.00

00:47:22.360 rent fear eviction in next two months. And this is credited to research, by the way, it says nearly

00:47:28.460 half of LGBT renters behind on rent fear eviction in the next two months, colon research. Well, who could 1.00

00:47:33.980 dispute that if research has declared it? The research has spoken. But in any case, I, for one, will

00:47:40.720 completely abandon my views on this issue now that I know that some gay people are impacted. I had no idea.

00:47:47.520 Now, here I was opposing a destructive and insane and oppressive government policy. And then The Hill comes

00:47:53.520 in and says, well, yeah, but the policy will help some gay people. Well, okay, then nevermind. I stand 0.99

00:48:00.320 corrected. If gay people will be helped, please take all of my private property rights. Take away the gun 1.00

00:48:07.460 rights too, and free speech. Take away my very life if you're, if it will help, if that will be beneficial

00:48:14.280 to some gay people. I submit to the desires of our LGBT masters. Do what you will, my lords. I'm sorry for 1.00

00:48:22.860 having defied you. This anyway is the reaction that we're expected to have, I guess. Here's the

00:48:27.820 article. It says about half of LGBT U.S. renters who are behind on their payments fear eviction in

00:48:33.000 the next two months, according to research released by the University of California, Los Angeles's

00:48:36.520 Williams Institute. The Williams Institute compiled a brief examining housing stability during the

00:48:42.480 coronavirus pandemic using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Pulse survey. The research found that

00:48:46.920 19% of LGBT respondents said that they are behind on rent. Of those, 47% said that they fear

00:48:51.960 eviction in the next two months. The findings from the survey come after the Supreme Court last week

00:48:55.940 blocked an eviction freeze put in place by the Biden administration to shield financially vulnerable

00:48:59.660 Americans during the pandemic. Well, did anybody explain this to the Supreme Court? Did anyone present

00:49:05.540 this powerful legal argument that the eviction freeze is good because some gay people might be 1.00

00:49:10.600 evicted without it? Was this legal case laid out to the justices? It should be if it hasn't been.

00:49:16.620 Some more from the article says,

00:49:19.220 William Institute researchers also found that 41% of LGBT respondents rent their homes compared to 25%

00:49:25.300 of their straight cisgender counterparts. About 39% of LGBT people owned a house with a mortgage or a loan

00:49:30.520 compared to almost 48% of non-LGBT people. In addition, more LGBT people of color, 47%,

00:49:37.520 rent their homes compared to 37% of white LGBT respondents. 51% of LGBT people of color said that

00:49:43.760 they feared eviction in the next two months compared to 38% of white LGBT people, 47% of non-LGBT people

00:49:49.980 of color, and 46% of white non-LGBT people. The Williams Institute's brief concluded that a key

00:49:56.000 component of a person's housing stability is whether they own or rent. LGBT people, and specifically those

00:50:01.420 of color, are more likely to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. A study released by the Williams

00:50:06.520 Institute in February found that LGBT people of color were two times more likely to contract COVID-19

00:50:12.420 compared to their straight white counterparts. Well, geez, now I'm against COVID too, on second 0.88

00:50:20.540 thought. I mean, now that you've told me that, I'm opposed to COVID. I had no idea that my race and

00:50:26.440 sexual orientation afforded me immunity from the virus. And now, frankly, I feel the ethical

00:50:32.580 responsibility to go out and get infected on purpose and to infect many other straight white people 0.85

00:50:38.340 as well, just to kind of even out the score a little bit. Since we're keeping score, apparently.

00:50:45.880 Now, if it seems like I'm just heaping sarcastic scorn here and offering nothing else, you're exactly

00:50:50.500 right. Because this kind of intersectional madness, that's what it deserves. Just our scorn and ridicule

00:50:57.920 and sarcasm. There is no way to engage with it honestly or coherently anyway, because it's not put

00:51:04.060 forward honestly or coherently. Just starting with the first sentence, it says, about half of LGBT

00:51:10.040 people behind on their rent fear eviction. Well, yeah, and? That's not the same thing as saying

00:51:16.740 that half of LGBT people, period, fear eviction. It's to say that half of the people who are behind

00:51:23.660 on their rent fear it. But shouldn't everyone who hasn't paid their rent fear eviction? I mean,

00:51:29.440 shouldn't the number be like 100%? This is like saying that half of LGBT people who are currently

00:51:36.920 speeding down the road without a seatbelt fear a fatal car accident. Well, yeah, but that's good.

00:51:43.940 It's not good that they're speeding down the road, you know, recklessly, but it's at least good that

00:51:50.600 they're aware of the consequences and they're mildly concerned about it. So I have more questions about

00:51:56.400 the other half, really. Also, you could easily flip this around and you could phrase it the other way

00:52:01.860 and you could say nearly 100% of LGBT people who pay their rent do not fear eviction. So that's awesome.

00:52:11.180 Looks like everything is fine after all. But here I am doing exactly what I said I wouldn't do and we

00:52:16.280 shouldn't do, engaging with the argument, because there's nothing really to engage with here. The sexual

00:52:21.960 orientation of people who haven't paid their rent is of absolutely no consequence or relevance at all.

00:52:28.960 There's no reason to even talk about it. The wrongness or rightness of the eviction moratorium would not

00:52:36.000 change one iota if 100% of all LGBT people would be evicted without it. Why should it? I mean, do the 1.00

00:52:45.320 moral or legal facts change depending on what identity group the affected people belong to?

00:52:52.900 Well, yes, that's exactly what the people who do this kind of research and blast it out in their

00:52:57.740 headlines want us to think. The point for them is really twofold. One, we're supposed to abandon

00:53:04.840 our position at the behest of a protected class of people. You know, they say, oh, you're, you're,

00:53:11.220 you want to get rid of the eviction moratorium. Well, did you know that if we do that, there might

00:53:16.920 be some LGBT people who are evicted and we're supposed to say, well, nevermind. And two, the main

00:53:24.240 thing here is that this now enables the eviction moratorium advocates to claim that abolishing the

00:53:30.960 eviction moratorium is homophobic and an anti-gay conspiracy. That's the setup. That's actually what

00:53:38.760 they're doing here. So look for that talking point to be rolled out shortly if it hasn't been already.

00:53:44.560 Like clockwork, entirely predictable, but no less insidious, not to mention ridiculous and annoying 0.96

00:53:50.220 and insane. And for that reason, the Hill today is, of course, canceled. And we'll leave it there

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The Matt Walsh Show - September 01, 2021

Ep. 788 - Leftists Weep And Wail Because Fewer Babies Will Die In Texas

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