The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 789 - Leftism Is A Death Cult

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the pro-abortion leftist death cult continues to melt down in

00:00:04.900 spasms of demonic rage over the Texas abortion law. We'll talk about that. Also, a new report

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00:01:49.040 We are now on day two since the Texas law banning abortions after heartbeat is detected went into

00:01:55.220 effect. The pro-abortion legions have certainly not calmed down at all. If anything, they are

00:02:01.320 growing more unhinged and delirious in their frothy, spittle-flecked rage. And the rage is all the

00:02:07.340 more hysterical now because the Supreme Court has officially, as of last night, denied

00:02:11.320 the request from the abortion industry to put a halt to the law, with John Roberts dissenting along

00:02:17.120 with the other liberals, of course. The reaction from the pro-abortion death call, it kind of

00:02:21.520 reminds me of, if you've seen The Exorcist, it reminds me of the last scene in The Exorcist

00:02:25.840 when the priest is drawing the demon out of its host, and she writhes and curses and vomits and

00:02:32.860 everything. That's what it really reminds me of. If for whatever reason you ever had any doubts

00:02:37.820 as to who the bad guys are in our interminable culture war, you need only witness this entire

00:02:45.200 scene. I mean, listen to what these people are saying and what they have been saying over the

00:02:50.420 last 48 hours. Watch how they've been acting, and the truth should be very plain to you. Now,

00:02:55.740 it may seem simplistic to some people when you talk about good guys versus bad guys,

00:02:59.740 and maybe one half of that equation is kind of simplistic. I mean, I know myself and my own

00:03:05.580 flawed nature too well to give myself the label of good guy. Perhaps a guy who is trying pathetically

00:03:12.940 to be good might better fit the bill, but the bad guy line is more clearly drawn, I think.

00:03:18.740 The fact is that one side in this ideological struggle has overseen, facilitated, funded,

00:03:24.020 and committed the serial slaughter of 60 million human beings in less than half a century, and it's

00:03:29.280 not enough for them. Their bloodlust has not been satisfied. They want to see another 60 million killed

00:03:33.940 and another 60 million, and on and on. Any attempt to stop the extermination or even slightly slow it

00:03:40.180 down is met with anger so intense and irrational and shamelessly wicked that the only description that

00:03:47.560 fits in describing it is demonic. I mean, that's the fact of the matter. These are the bad guys.

00:03:54.020 These are always the bad guys, because all throughout history, you know, there have always been people

00:03:59.740 pointing to other groups of people and saying that those people are not real people and don't

00:04:04.920 deserve to be treated as real people. And the ones doing the pointing are always the bad guys.

00:04:11.120 Always. History shows us that. But I don't need to wait until this chapter is in the history books

00:04:17.100 to see who is who and to call these people what they are. And that's why when I see all this panicking

00:04:21.500 over the abortion law from the pro-abortion side. And I hear them screaming. And I hear them say,

00:04:29.460 oh no, they're coming for our abortion rights. I can only respond, yes, you're right. We are coming 0.94

00:04:36.420 for your abortion rights. We want to burn the whole industry down and leave it in ashes. We want to 1.00

00:04:42.440 dance around the smoldering rubble while you cry. That's what we want to do. And you're right also

00:04:51.000 that the tide is turning against you. See, we in the pro-life movement are actually stronger today

00:04:57.560 than we've been in years. And you notice that and it scares you and it should. I'm happy that we scare

00:05:03.820 you. I'm happy that you're so angry and upset. It makes me very happy. Because we speak for the

00:05:10.640 children that you want to slaughter. We give voice to the ones that you want to silence.

00:05:15.780 And we're being heard. We will be heard. Your pathetic, trembling fear is delicious. I love it.

00:05:23.940 Because it means the bad guys are suffering a defeat that they very richly deserve.

00:05:29.780 Now, there are many examples we could examine here of the bad guys reacting to this defeat.

00:05:35.020 We could look, for instance, at Dr. Derek Cass, who put out a frantic thread of tweets urgently

00:05:41.220 recommending that women in Texas get on birth control immediately, which, of course, admits 0.99

00:05:47.440 that abortion is used as a form of birth control. She's saying, well, if we can't have abortion,

00:05:52.980 then make sure you're on the birth control pill. If we can't have that form of birth control,

00:05:58.780 the murderous form, then make sure you're using contraception. This has always been obvious that 0.95

00:06:04.200 it's a form of birth control. But the left rarely admits to it as explicitly and loudly as they have

00:06:08.200 been over the last few days. And then she writes this. She also writes, if you find out you're

00:06:13.220 pregnant and do not want to be, you have very little time to do it. Do not shut down. This will be hard,

00:06:19.140 but you can't delay. Call me. We'll figure this out together. That's very nice and inspiring. Yes,

00:06:26.680 call me and we'll figure out together how to execute your child. But that pales in comparison, 0.94

00:06:33.160 I think, to this. There's another string of tweets. This is from Richard Hananiya, who is the president

00:06:38.580 of some kind of research institute and a Newsweek contributor. And he wrote this this morning. He

00:06:43.900 said, you can't screen for Down syndrome before about 10 weeks and something like 80 percent of

00:06:49.640 Down syndrome fetuses are aborted. If red states ban abortion, we could see a world where they have 0.74

00:06:55.520 five times as many children with Down syndrome and similar numbers of other disabilities.

00:06:59.380 could be outliers in the whole developed world. There are already negative stereotypes of Americans

00:07:05.380 in those states. One can imagine if getting much more, it getting much more extreme. What if they

00:07:10.200 also ban genetic engineering and embryo selection while other places go ahead? Can it get any more

00:07:17.020 clarifying than that? He is openly criticizing the law on the basis that it will allow more Down syndrome

00:07:23.980 people to exist. He even says that the existence of Down syndrome people will perpetuate negative

00:07:30.040 stereotypes about red states. I guess the negative stereotype in this case is that red states don't

00:07:35.080 believe in eugenics. Now, over on cable news, CNN and MSNBC, the reaction has been just as twisted

00:07:41.340 and frantic. There are many clips I could play for you, but I'm going to play just one. There isn't a lot of

00:07:47.420 emotional hysteria in this clip, but it's interesting only because of who is speaking

00:07:52.640 on the issue. Watch this. Here we are on September 1st, the first day since 1973 when a state has been

00:08:03.080 able to ban abortion. 1973 is the year of Roe v. Wade. And the Supreme Court has said nothing. They have 0.78

00:08:10.520 allowed the second most famous opinion of the last hundred years after Brown v. Board of Education

00:08:15.880 to essentially be violated, be overrun, but they haven't even said a word about it, which strikes

00:08:24.840 me as a real blow against the Supreme Court's institutional reputation. It's a famous opinion.

00:08:32.800 You know what else was a famous opinion? Dred Scott. That was a famous opinion. That was established

00:08:39.660 precedent at one time. But yeah, that was Jeffrey Toobin, by the way, who is worried about institutional

00:08:47.960 reputation. Now, of course, you know Jeffrey Toobin as the guy who really wanted his co-workers to,

00:08:54.300 you know, see his point during a Zoom call if you catch my drift. But he's a lot more than a public

00:08:59.840 masturbator. He's got more on his resume than public masturbation. He also, according to reports, 1.00

00:09:04.940 tried to bribe his mistress to abort his love child. And when she refused, he tried to avoid paying

00:09:11.180 child support and she had to bring him to court to get him to pay. So this sad, masturbating, 0.99

00:09:17.360 adulterous, deadbeat lump of lard is the guy that CNN brought on to analyze the Texas abortion law. 1.00

00:09:24.540 Talk about shameless. But that's actually pretty appropriate, I think. Toobin, who, by the way, 0.98

00:09:29.820 should be legally required to keep both hands visible during TV hits, is a perfect representative

00:09:35.040 of abortion proponents generally, and especially male abortion proponents. And they're always the 0.91

00:09:42.700 ones who get to me the most. Maybe just because I'm a man myself. These are the most pathetic

00:09:51.360 specimens on earth, I believe. Because it's a man's calling, it's his vocation to protect and defend 1.00

00:09:58.060 the innocent, especially his own family. But these men would rather kill than fulfill that

00:10:03.740 obligation. And it's worse than that even, because they're not the ones doing it. You know,

00:10:08.380 they're not doing the deed themselves. They turn the other way and let their wives or girlfriends or

00:10:12.040 mistresses carry the physical and emotional burden. They say, okay, go ahead and my child can be killed 0.98

00:10:19.420 and tossed in a dumpster. You can live with guilt for the rest of your days. If it means that my 1.00

00:10:25.040 lifestyle is protected, it's all worth it. And even the men who support abortion and yet have not had

00:10:30.100 any of their own children executed still support it so that they might preserve that option for

00:10:34.540 themselves should they need it in the future. So these are not men at all, in my view. These are

00:10:39.480 more like miserable, slimy little lizards scurrying around. Is that too harsh? I don't think so. I mean, 0.93

00:10:47.180 I have nothing but contempt for men who will not do what they are meant to do as men. You know,

00:10:52.540 a man is supposed to say to the mother of his child, I am here. I will always be here. I will

00:10:56.800 give my life to you and the child. A man who says instead, this child must give his life for me

00:11:04.020 so that I won't be inconvenienced is again, no man at all, not worthy of the name.

00:11:10.620 And this is what's so deeply disturbing. One of the things about abortion, it's that this is such

00:11:16.180 an inversion of the parental instinct. Parents are supposed to sacrifice for their children,

00:11:23.200 not the other way around. One of the greatest examples of this, by the way, and I was thinking

00:11:29.220 about this yesterday, thinking about sort of like the opposite of the Tubins of the world. 0.53

00:11:34.440 One of the greatest examples of how the parent-child relationship is supposed to work was given to us

00:11:38.340 by a guy named Thomas Vanderwood. He's a name you probably don't know. And he died several years ago,

00:11:43.180 and the manner of his death is horrifying and yet beautiful at the same time. Because one Sunday

00:11:48.860 afternoon, his youngest son, who has Down syndrome, someone who shouldn't exist, according to the guy

00:11:53.960 earlier, his youngest son was out in the yard. He fell through a broken cap on a septic tank

00:11:59.320 and into the sewage below. And Tom ran over, jumped into the sewage, and was trying to pull his son out.

00:12:06.000 He couldn't pull him out. So he submerged himself in the sewage so that he could lift his son up

00:12:11.780 above it with his body. And by the time help arrived, a few minutes later, Tom was dead. His

00:12:19.220 son survived. Now, see, that's a man. That's a parent. That's a father. That's someone whose

00:12:26.600 last act on earth was to give his life for his child. He plunged into filth and died horrifically

00:12:33.460 just so that his son could live. Now, Tom was already a great man before he performed this final

00:12:38.540 act. It might not be fair to measure anyone up against him, but even so, you put him up against

00:12:43.480 the tubins of the world, the men and women who hyperventilate over any attempt to restrict their

00:12:49.340 ability to murder their own kids, and they just shrivel into nothingness. It becomes very clear which

00:12:55.340 is the ideal, which path is right, which example we ought to follow. We aren't all going to be martyrs

00:13:00.780 or heroes, of course, but we should be required to fulfill at least our most basic obligation to

00:13:05.980 our children. And that's what the whole debate is really about, more than anything. The question

00:13:12.120 is, I think this is the primary question in the abortion debate, even before we get to personhood

00:13:18.740 or any of these other really fundamental questions, which is not really a question at all because it's

00:13:22.320 clear that the child is a person. But the first question is, should parents be allowed to kill

00:13:28.520 their children instead of caring for them? Is murder an acceptable parenting strategy?

00:13:35.400 The answer to that question, at least in Texas, is, as it should be, no. And in the end,

00:13:40.920 through all of this, we see why the left guards abortion so jealously and panics over anything that

00:13:49.060 threatens it. Because for them, for the people in the death cult, abortion is the holiest sacrament 0.91

00:13:54.360 because it's the final victory of the self over everything else. For people who see no higher

00:14:01.900 good than the advancement of the self, their own self specifically, not really anybody else's self,

00:14:07.580 abortion is not only necessary, but it's even a virtuous act. It's the ultimate triumph, 1.00

00:14:12.640 right? It's a person saying that their own pleasure, their own convenience, their own lifestyle

00:14:17.560 is so sacrosanct that they will spill blood to preserve it. They will sacrifice their own children

00:14:24.040 at the altar of the self. And that's why I call it a death cult. And it's also why we should fight

00:14:32.020 it tooth and nail to the end. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:16:04.880 Okay, so as we continue on the road here, you know, I complained yesterday that I had been put

00:16:11.660 up in a serial killer hotel, which I had. My room was like something out of a horror movie. Filthy, dark,

00:16:16.960 tiny, sinister stains on the walls and bedsheets. A chalk outline of a dead body on the carpet.

00:16:25.760 There was literally, I'm not making this up, a raccoon curled up in the closet and like cockroaches

00:16:32.240 sitting at a table in the corner playing poker, smoking cigarettes. You turn on the faucet and blood

00:16:37.640 comes out. I think I might be blending the actual room with the nightmare I had about the room while

00:16:42.600 I was sleeping in the room. But, you know, you get the idea. Anyway, because of my diva meltdown

00:16:47.520 yesterday on the air, today I've been put up in a luxury suite downtown. And I have to say,

00:16:52.220 I'm still offended and I'm repulsed by this room. First of all, only one of the bathrooms in the

00:16:58.060 room has a hot tub, which is outrageous. No champagne bottles were waiting for me when I

00:17:03.740 showed up here. They don't even have bathrobes, if you can believe it. Not that I'd actually wear a

00:17:09.240 bathrobe that a thousand naked bodies before me have been in, but I'd like to know that there's

00:17:13.500 one there hanging in the closet. Just gives me peace of mind. So just one humiliation after another

00:17:18.940 on the trip, I have been asked to sacrifice so much. I really feel, as I sit in this room right

00:17:23.600 now, I feel connected to the people who were in, like, wagon trains on the Oregon Trail. I think

00:17:31.140 that's the best comparison in a lot of ways. All right. Moving on. So there's one other point,

00:17:39.180 actually, that I want to make on this Texas law, this abortion thing. And it's the point that I'm

00:17:46.080 sure you know I'm going, that I can't resist making. I have to make. Which is that over the

00:17:52.560 last couple of days, we've seen this resurgent. The feminists have come forward again. The feminists 1.00

00:17:59.920 who have kind of receded into the background on the left have fallen out of favor in many ways.

00:18:05.780 But they're now on the forefront. And they're talking about things like women's rights. And this

00:18:12.340 is an attack on women's bodies. And this is a handmaid's tale. I mean, these are misogynists

00:18:19.280 and sexists who are supporting the slobs because they want to control women. Okay, well, you know 0.97

00:18:25.080 what I'm going to say. What is a woman then? What are you talking about? I don't know. Who are these 0.97

00:18:31.840 people you're talking about? Women? What is that? I don't know what you mean. So you can't have it 1.00

00:18:39.320 both ways. You got to pick one lane of crazy or the other. You can't do both here. That doesn't

00:18:46.520 work. Because you've been telling us for years now that women don't exist and that men can get

00:18:52.160 pregnant too. If men can get pregnant too, okay, then how is this an attack on women specifically?

00:19:01.220 If it's an attack on anyone, which it isn't, obviously, you damn psychopaths, we're just trying 1.00

00:19:07.100 to stop people from being killed. But if it's an attack on anyone, it's just like it's an attack 0.99

00:19:10.140 on everyone, right? It's not an attack on anyone specifically. I mean, the Texas abortion law is

00:19:15.380 an attack on me because I could get pregnant, apparently. I've never tried. Don't plan on it,

00:19:24.380 but that's what I'm told. So all of a sudden now we're hearing about this. After years and years,

00:19:32.760 I mean, especially recently, pregnant women, women's bodies, these phrases are not even used

00:19:39.720 anymore. Even by our public health authorities and official documents, they won't talk about

00:19:45.220 pregnant women. And now, so that they can play the identity politics card, now the LGBT and everyone

00:19:55.040 higher up on the victimhood ladder, temporarily they have stepped back and allowed the feminists to 1.00

00:20:01.400 climb that ladder again, just surely out of political convenience. If this is an attack on

00:20:09.680 women, if this is an attempt to control women's bodies, then that means that only women can get 1.00

00:20:18.800 pregnant. Now we're starting to, now we're starting to, okay, well, only women can get pregnant and now 1.00

00:20:26.420 the picture of what a woman is, is starting to come into focus, isn't it? You got to pick one 1.00

00:20:32.280 or the other, it just doesn't work. I'm sorry. All right. This is from the Federalist. It says,

00:20:37.500 nearly half of the nation's children aged five through 11 now qualify as either overweight or

00:20:42.380 obese. According to results of a new study out Friday, researchers from the University of Southern

00:20:47.080 California and the University of Michigan found the proportion of U.S. children aged five, between

00:20:52.900 five and 11 who are overweight and obese on the body mass index rose from just more than

00:20:57.220 36% pre-pandemic to nearly 46% over the course of prolonged classroom closures.

00:21:06.820 Dr. Tim Logeman says school is essential. Kids are eating ultra-processed foods locked in the home

00:21:12.940 and it's making them sicker. A literature review on effective strategies for childhood obesity

00:21:18.000 prevention published in May of last year lends credence to Logeman's claims. According to a team

00:21:24.860 of 19 European researchers who reviewed more than 400 studies from 2000 to January 2015, school-based

00:21:30.980 programs to mitigate childhood obesity were found far more effective than seminars directed at parents

00:21:36.060 to teach healthy living at home. Okay. So there are assumptions here that I don't agree with. And one of

00:21:44.280 one of the assumptions is that parents are incapable of preventing their children from becoming fat.

00:21:53.260 Or the idea that parents need seminars in the first place is more effective than a seminar. Like I don't

00:21:59.960 need, my children are not obese. I don't need any seminar for that. They don't, they don't drink soda

00:22:06.980 hardly at all. We don't have a lot of junk food in the house. And, uh, they, they, we, we, they get

00:22:13.180 plenty of exercise. They run around and play all the time. We're always making sure that they're, we

00:22:17.220 get, we get them off the couch. They don't have phones. They don't sit around the couch all day

00:22:21.280 looking at phones, limit the TV time. And all the rest of the time we say what my parents said to me

00:22:28.160 when I was a kid. And I said, I'm, I'm bored. Well, you can go outside and play, or you could do some

00:22:34.100 chores. What do you think? Well, those are your two options. If you're bored, I'll, I'll help you

00:22:37.420 out. I'll, I'll make sure you're not bored anymore. So I don't need any seminars. I already know that

00:22:42.480 the idea that, uh, that kids need to go to school so that they don't become obese is absurd,

00:22:51.000 but the connection between the lockdowns and obesity is, is pretty obvious. I mean, it's not a

00:22:58.780 coincidence that we've seen a 10% spike in childhood obesity, which was already sky high.

00:23:05.760 I mean, 36%, especially when you consider what it takes to be obese as a child.

00:23:15.840 This should be something that we're all used to seeing obese children walking around and it's very

00:23:20.600 sad to see, but this should be something like you almost never see. This should be seeing an obese

00:23:26.100 child should be like, it should be like, you know, it, it, it, it should be like, it's like

00:23:31.080 spotting a unicorn or something. It should be just something you never see because children are,

00:23:36.840 you know, they've got very active metabolisms naturally and they're very, and they should

00:23:41.480 be active themselves naturally. They've got a ton of energy. It's extremely, and you can control

00:23:47.740 everything they eat. They can, they're not eating anything you don't give to them.

00:23:50.640 You don't want your, you don't want your kid to be obese. Just don't have soda in the house.

00:23:57.480 Don't have junk food and don't let them sit on the couch all day. Boom, done. No more obesity of

00:24:01.800 children. 36% is crazy. 46% is even more crazy. 10% hike. It's clearly, clearly there's a connection,

00:24:10.620 but I would say the connection is less the fact that they're, that they weren't going to school and

00:24:14.180 more of the fact that so many parents kept their kids locked inside. And at the same time,

00:24:18.660 we shut down the playgrounds. But let's, let's never forget that.

00:24:25.600 Even where I lived, you know, they were, they were putting caution tape around playgrounds.

00:24:30.120 Like it's a crime scene. Taking the, uh, the basketball hoops down and basketball courts,

00:24:36.140 taking away the opportunities for kids. And then a lot of crazy parents also didn't want their kids 0.80

00:24:41.060 going outside. They were afraid that their kid walked down the front yard. The coronavirus is going

00:24:44.280 to come in and, uh, you know, assault them. So that's the connection, but there very clearly is

00:24:49.580 a connection. And as we hear about, um, coronavirus among children, and we, we know

00:24:59.020 that it is very rarely severe among kids. They're at much higher risk from, from the flu than they are

00:25:05.860 from COVID. But, but there, there have been some severe reaction. I mean, there are going to be some

00:25:11.700 children who react severely to coronavirus. And I'd be very curious to know how many of the,

00:25:16.740 of those kids were overweight or obese. They're not very forthcoming with that information, but

00:25:22.920 that would be, that would be an interesting thing to know because we know that the obese are

00:25:26.240 especially susceptible to this virus. The obese are especially, especially susceptible. So let's 0.98

00:25:30.520 shut down the parks. Let's shut down the playground. Let's tell people they can't go outside without a 0.99

00:25:33.740 mask on. Makes a lot of sense. All right. Next, Rachel Kirk Connell is the, uh, the bachelor contestant

00:25:40.440 who, if you recall, she was canceled a few months ago because she, uh, uh, there was a, uh, a photo

00:25:46.700 that surfaced of originally on Instagram where she went to an old South themed frat party back in 2018.

00:25:55.880 Why did she go to an old South theme frat party? Well, it could be that she's a neo-Nazi skinhead 1.00

00:26:01.700 Confederate, uh, you know, amalgamation of, of, of all of the terrible things all roll into one. 0.98

00:26:07.760 And she went there to celebrate white supremacy and racism. I mean, that could be it

00:26:12.740 for this ditzy air-headed sorority girl, air-headed. Yeah, she's, she's stupid. I just called her air-headed 1.00

00:26:22.700 this air-headed person. Um, anyway, it could be that, or, or it could be that she went to the party

00:26:30.200 because she wanted to wear the dress and take pictures, you know, as one of the other, but

00:26:33.680 everyone assumed it's because it's, it's more the former and that she wanted to celebrate white 0.91

00:26:37.500 supremacy and racism and she's really a Nazi. And so the picture came out and she was canceled 1.00

00:26:41.820 and, but she's been groveling and apologizing this whole time. Um, mostly groveling and apologizing, 0.90

00:26:49.760 you know, kind of an Instagram post and everything, but now she's hit the interview circuit

00:26:53.720 and she appeared on something called from privilege to progress on Instagram live,

00:27:01.320 which already sounds unbearable, but now let's watch and listen to what she had to say.

00:27:08.660 Let's listen.

00:27:09.660 And I guess that's the first time my eyes opened about, okay, like this is, there's a difference

00:27:15.460 between being not racist and anti-racist because back then, if you would have asked me, like,

00:27:21.000 are you a racist person? I would be like, of course I'm not, you know, like I would never,

00:27:26.920 ever, ever judge someone by their skin color or, you know, be prejudiced towards them or racist

00:27:34.120 towards them. Like that's, that was like, I would have never, ever considered myself that back then.

00:27:41.840 And that was probably the first time I realized like, okay, so there are layers to this.

00:27:46.880 You can obviously be overtly, openly racist, but you can also be, or have like implicit bias

00:27:56.680 and, and, um, these racial tendencies within you that you don't even know about, or you can 0.96

00:28:03.420 be racially ignorant. And that was probably the first time I had realized that. And I think the 0.95

00:28:12.280 peak for me was last summer, um, during the movements after George Floyd, that's when I realized

00:28:18.840 like, okay, I need to do more than just not be racist.

00:28:23.560 So there, there you go. She's, uh, she's learned that there's a difference between racism and anti-racism.

00:28:30.560 I mean, she, she claims that she learned this. So this was, uh, this was a, um,

00:28:34.920 an epiphany that she had before the picture came out. So that's, that's been, and, and part

00:28:42.940 of the epiphany, of course, she kind of, you can see how she throws everything in there. She 1.00

00:28:45.840 throws the whole kitchen sink into it. She talks about racism versus anti-racism. She's

00:28:51.340 acknowledging her privilege. And then she even talks about the martyrdom of blessed George

00:28:57.040 Floyd, hallowed be his name. And she says how that was the final thing that made her confront

00:29:02.440 racism. Just again, continuing to grovel and apologize and say everything that her cultural 0.98

00:29:13.300 overlords demand her to say. And the thing is they'll, they'll sit there. I mean, the people

00:29:18.460 doing this interview, whoever they are, you can see them kind of sitting there and, and,

00:29:26.320 you know, listening and nodding their heads and saying, well, it's very good. You're saying

00:29:30.380 the right things. Yes. Dance puppet dance. Uh, you could see them doing that, but it's

00:29:38.080 not going to change anything. She, she will still be forever and always. According to these

00:29:46.820 people, uh, a racist scumbag that will never change, but she will, she will continue to try. 1.00

00:29:55.240 She's even still apparently with the guy was a Matt Jones. I think the, the bachelor who 0.99

00:30:05.060 they were all competing, competing for. And she won the competition. I don't even know how

00:30:08.640 the bachelor works actually. So I think that's, she, she was competing for the affections of 0.95

00:30:12.740 this guy. I believe his name was Matt Jones and she, she won. And then this whole, and

00:30:16.700 then this whole controversy started and he, he threw her under the bus to her face on live

00:30:22.740 TV, called her a racist, but he was tearing up and crying, claiming that he was emotionally

00:30:31.200 traumatized because his girlfriend went to a party and wore a pretty dress three, four years

00:30:37.180 ago. And she's still with that guy too, doing her penance, hoping that eventually forgiveness

00:30:45.320 will come, but it will never come. You know, that's, that's forgiveness is like a two way

00:30:54.300 street. Not that she has anything to be forgiven for, but there's no, on the other side, there's

00:31:03.200 no willingness at all to forgive. And again, to forgive a thing that there was nothing wrong

00:31:08.400 with in the first place. Yet another, uh, another lesson for us all. This is, you know, when,

00:31:15.640 when, when they come for you and the cancel mob comes from you, as I always say, there's

00:31:19.540 just, there's no reason to apologize. It's not even about being brave. I mean, it's good

00:31:25.760 if you can be brave and have a, and have a backbone, have a spine, if the cancel culture 0.50

00:31:29.580 mob ever comes for you and they'll come for us all eventually. But even if you're not

00:31:35.280 especially brave, there's also kind of a self-preservation thing here. You got to calculate

00:31:42.500 risk and reward, or at least resign yourself to the reality, which is that you're done as

00:31:49.820 far as they're concerned. If you, if you ever want it to be respected or liked or applauded

00:31:54.060 by the people in the mob, it's never going to happen now ever. And that's, that's just how

00:32:01.620 it is. So you might as well accept that. All right. This is from business, uh, insider.

00:32:08.840 It says a McDonald's in Medford, Oregon has a banner out front advertising that it's hiring

00:32:14.860 14 and 15 year old workers. The Biddle road restaurant operator, Heather Coleman told insider,

00:32:20.680 there are always staffing issues, but this is unheard of. She said the situation is unique

00:32:24.780 in her family's 40 year history, operating McDonald's franchises. The young workers have been a blessing

00:32:30.340 in disguise. Coleman said they have the drive and work ethic. They get the technology. They catch on

00:32:36.380 really quickly. She says while raising the minimum wage to $15, didn't bring in as many applicants as

00:32:42.520 she'd hoped opening the doors to 14 and 15 year olds brought in about 25 new applications in two weeks.

00:32:47.580 She said, uh, well, what do you know? We were told it's the, it's gotta be $15 an hour. That's supposedly a

00:32:54.520 living wage because apparently someone who's working part-time running a cash register at

00:33:01.500 McDonald's. That's supposed to be a job, like a career that you can live off of. And they raised

00:33:07.160 the, it's a minute to, uh, they raised the, they do the $15 minimum wage and has no effect. People

00:33:13.900 still aren't interested. Um, instead, no, what, why are they attracting 14 and 15 year olds? One of the

00:33:21.500 reasons is that 14 and 15 year olds aren't getting that sweet unemployment money from, from the, uh,

00:33:26.680 from the government and they weren't directly receiving the stimulus checks.

00:33:33.440 But for whatever reason, and I say that kind of rhetorically, I know the reason, uh, the reaction

00:33:38.820 to this and there are other, and the article goes on, uh, this is a trend now as more and more fast

00:33:43.620 food restaurants, especially are directly advertising themselves to 14 and 15 year olds, putting

00:33:50.460 banners out front saying 14 to 15 year olds, we're hiring, come on in. And this has, uh, been, uh,

00:33:56.860 apparently for some people controversial. They're kind of upset about this. I mean, how, how dare you

00:34:04.040 try, try to advertise to the sweet, innocent children? I mean, they should all be sitting

00:34:10.300 at home on their phones. That's what they should be doing as children. I don't see why is this

00:34:15.940 controversial. I don't see why this should be controversial. I had my first job, my first,

00:34:20.760 I had my first official job working at, uh, it was like a snowball stand. And I think I was making

00:34:26.520 like four and a half dollars an hour or something. I had that job when I was 13 and I had unofficial

00:34:35.040 under the table jobs, mowing lawns before that, probably like from the age of 11, I had some kind

00:34:40.280 of paying job. Certainly by 14 and 15, definitely. So, uh, not only is it okay for McDonald's and

00:34:52.200 fast food restaurants to advertise to 14 and 15 year olds, it's a good thing. They should be doing

00:34:56.480 this for, for two reasons. Number one, it's good for the kids. What's the downside? They're not,

00:35:06.140 they're not working in a coal mine. We're not sending them down to the coal mines. They're not,

00:35:08.760 they're not working, you know, in a factory in the early period of the industrial age

00:35:16.100 where, where factory accidents are happening seven times a day and they're, you know, arms are getting

00:35:22.120 caught in machines and ripped off. That's they're sitting there running a cash register,

00:35:26.240 pouring some salt onto fries and that's it. Maybe they get a little, maybe there's some splash from

00:35:29.780 the grease. They get a little bit burned. I think they'll be okay. So it's good for the kids. It's not

00:35:34.960 bad for them. It's good for them. They're learning work ethic. They're earning a little

00:35:38.740 bit of their own money. Uh, I, I could tell you for sure that as a kid, and this is, there's no

00:35:46.080 contest here at all for me personally, because I went to public school and I also had part-time jobs

00:35:50.780 and, uh, where did I learn the most? In the jobs for sure. That was the best education.

00:36:00.820 You're learning not only generalized sort of work ethic and, and, um, how to show up on time,

00:36:06.600 how to fulfill your responsibilities. Those are really important lessons for kids to learn

00:36:10.360 and other lessons and also lessons that they often don't learn in the public school system.

00:36:14.520 But there are also just some basic skills that you're learning.

00:36:19.660 Running a cash register, you got to do math. At least back in those days, there was, there was some

00:36:23.720 math involved at least. Now it's all, now not quite as much, but, um, still you're kind of, you're,

00:36:28.940 you're applying some of the academic things that you're learning in school in the real world.

00:36:32.500 And so it's all positive. It's a great thing. It's also good for families, especially lower

00:36:38.940 income families. I mean, cause we have this idea that kids like you shouldn't get a job until

00:36:44.780 you're 18 or something. And even then maybe don't get a job. And so in lower income families and

00:36:50.340 really in any family, you have kids who are able-bodied. They could easily get a part-time job

00:36:56.340 and do it and contribute to the household income, at least be able to buy some things

00:37:03.340 for themselves, be contributing members of the family. And, uh, but, but so often they're

00:37:08.960 not because of this absurd idea that some people have that it's, it's wrong for a teenager to

00:37:14.840 work. And then the other point also is that these jobs are, are made for teenagers.

00:37:26.340 That's why the raise the minimum wage thing, the vast majority of people aren't even, aren't on

00:37:31.760 minimum wage. Um, that's a, that's a, that's a relatively small minority of the overall working

00:37:37.320 population. And a great number of them are young. And these are jobs that are not meant to be.

00:37:42.820 It's like, these are not, a minimum wage job is not meant for someone like myself, 35 years old

00:37:49.520 with four kids at home. Because even if they raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, that's still not

00:37:58.860 really going to be enough to fulfill all the obligations that I have. These jobs are made for

00:38:03.720 kids. It's perfect for them because they, they don't have, they don't have a family to support on

00:38:09.800 their own. They don't have kids of their own, hopefully. Uh, they can do these kinds of minimal

00:38:15.280 tasks that are very easy to learn and benefit in the process. It's a great thing. It's a wonderful

00:38:23.160 thing. Okay. Uh, let's move on now to reading. Well, here's this also. I just wanted to show you

00:38:29.860 this is a tweet from a Ford Europe. It says you asked Ford to make the very gay Raptor a reality. 0.76

00:38:38.440 And we heard you. Our real life version made its debut at Cologne pride last week. And it's in all

00:38:44.520 of its rainbow adorned glory. And then you can see, uh, the vehicle there decked out in rainbows.

00:38:52.220 They said that we asked for this and that's why they did it. And they're right. Actually, I, I have,

00:38:59.620 but I, how many times have I said it myself? I've been asking for this. How many times in the show

00:39:03.560 have I said, we got to have the very gay Raptor. So thank you for it. Finally, for doing that. 1.00

00:39:09.580 Okay. That was an important note before we get to our, uh, reading the comments. This is from

00:39:13.400 Lupin's red jacket says reminder. It's not a right. If it tramples the rights of another,

00:39:18.000 in this case, the right to life of which is made abundantly clear in our constitution,

00:39:21.500 that it must be protected just as, just as much as any other. Yeah. Uh, this is where we get into

00:39:26.660 what is a human right. And I think almost everyone has a very vague idea of what a human right

00:39:33.280 is that this, this, this, this goes back to this lies at the foundation of many of our disagreements

00:39:40.080 and debates. Like we can't even agree on what a right actually is. And it, and it is hard to define,

00:39:46.800 but one thing we know for sure is that rights, actual human rights, which are inherent to our human

00:39:56.260 nature are not in conflict with another, with one another. Okay. So it's not a zero sum game with

00:40:04.540 human rights. So if you get, if you find yourself in a position where there's a tension between two

00:40:14.160 rights claims, where if, if one person is able to exercise their rights, it means that another person

00:40:22.760 can't exercise theirs. What that tells you every time is that there's a confusion here about rights

00:40:28.900 is that one or both of these rights claims are not legitimate because when it comes to actual rights,

00:40:39.180 if they're real, then you should be able to exercise them without causing any harm to anybody else.

00:40:46.280 Okay. Moving on. This is from CT. It says, I know you'd be hard pressed ever side with abortion,

00:41:00.740 but you said reproduction should never be forced. Could it be argued then that abortion could be

00:41:05.720 allowed in the case of rape resulting in pregnancy? This argument definitely has a lot of loopholes.

00:41:10.420 Women falsely claim rape. You could argue that it would only be feasible if the rapist is convicted, 0.95

00:41:14.720 but the child should, would be long born or aborted by the time the courts determine culpability.

00:41:20.320 Just curious on your thoughts. Huge fan. Thanks for everything you do. Uh, no, because again,

00:41:24.500 it's already occurred, right? I said that we don't, we don't force reproduction. No one is trying to do

00:41:32.260 that. And yeah, you could say rape is, is that, but that's not a law. I'm talking about legally.

00:41:38.660 There's no legal effort to force women to reproduce as much as we hear that claim in relation 0.99

00:41:44.640 to these abortion laws. Well, that's, that's an entirely different thing because at the time

00:41:48.680 of the abortion, the reproduction has already occurred. Uh, now the rape obviously should not

00:41:54.560 have happened. It's a travesty and injustice. The person responsible should be convicted. And then,

00:42:00.520 uh, and then if I, if they, if I had my way, they immediately be marched up the gallows and hanged

00:42:07.400 in front of the whole town. That's what I think we should do with actual convicted rapists who are

00:42:11.340 guilty. But the forced reproduction at that point has already happened and abortion can't undo that

00:42:19.880 or change it. That's the point. All it can do is create one more victim.

00:42:29.620 Yeah. The rape should not have happened clearly. Um, but this person exists now. This is a person who

00:42:37.760 exists. How do we address the rape or mitigate it in any way by killing that person? 0.99

00:42:49.980 What you're talking about is executing the child for the sins of the father. And that's 0.88

00:42:57.980 atrocious. Um, Stanley says, so glad that Matt isn't just making 90% of his coverage about

00:43:04.860 Afghanistan. Like everybody else in Khan Inc. Yeah. I, you know, I, I said a couple of weeks ago when 0.59

00:43:10.240 I did talk about Afghanistan a little bit, but I started the show when this was first in the news,

00:43:14.880 um, again, anyway. And I said, this is, this is, I'll talk about it, but this is not my area of focus.

00:43:25.320 I, it's not because it's not important. I mean, everybody has certain areas that they focus on and,

00:43:29.540 and have something to contribute on foreign policy is important, but it's not what I focus on. I, I,

00:43:36.880 I tend to focus on the issues that are impacting us right here at home. And they're also the issues

00:43:42.780 that I personally find the most interesting. And I think the most about, and I've read the most about,

00:43:48.440 and therefore feel like I have something to contribute when it comes to them. Uh, another

00:43:52.620 comment says, when you're on the road, do you apply your own makeup? If so, you need to record it.

00:43:57.960 The sweet baby gang would love it. Um, we're not going to talk about

00:44:04.180 what happens with the makeup. We're just not going to discuss it. Okay. We don't, we don't discuss it.

00:44:12.740 We especially don't discuss it in the hotel room, the things that need to be done in order to make

00:44:18.940 sure that the makeup is applied. We don't talk about those things. Um, my producer, Sean actually

00:44:24.480 applies it. That's, that's, that's what he's, he's learning is how to be a makeup artist. Um,

00:44:29.140 and I know that he's quite, he's quite thrilled about that. All right. Uh, Paul says had a dream

00:44:35.240 last night and Matt was in it. We were at a wedding together and he was running around and tape and

00:44:39.940 tapping all the guests and pointing at me and yelling, making fun of my shirt. Then at the

00:44:45.100 reception, I was eating at a booth with Matt and his kids. And every time I tried to put the fork to my

00:44:50.140 mouth, Matt would try and throw food into my mouth. He was laughing until the waiter asked

00:44:54.860 him to stop. Like I said, this was my dream. Not sure why we were in a booth or why I was eating

00:44:59.180 waffles, but I feel like the part about Matt is accurate as foretold. Uh, yeah, Paul, unfortunately

00:45:05.360 I don't have to ban you for the show from the show for this because we don't, we don't talk about

00:45:08.800 dream stories. Dream stories are the, are the most pointless and boring stories you could possibly tell.

00:45:17.100 Your dream is interesting to you, but not, not to anyone else.

00:45:23.640 I will allow it if I'm in the dream selfishly, but even this story, I mean, you lost me halfway

00:45:30.580 through and I just, I completely lost interest. So you're banned. Even though I just, I think I

00:45:35.820 talked about my own dream a few minutes ago, but of course I don't have to abide by my own rules.

00:45:39.840 And finally, Chloe says day one of asking Matt to shave his beard for the lulz.

00:45:47.660 Well, Chloe day one of me telling you that you are obviously, you knew this was coming

00:45:52.000 banned from the show for that. How dare you? Well, as you know, once a month, your favorite

00:45:57.440 daily wire hosts come together to drink a little whiskey, smoke a few cigars and have a lively

00:46:02.380 conversation about the state of the world. Usually everything that's wrong with it. And sometimes it,

00:46:07.900 it devolves into a screaming match, maybe not quite a screaming match, but, but, but close to it.

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00:47:02.240 your email to make sure you don't miss out. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:47:06.940 Today for our daily cancellation, we're going to cancel weddings. Not all weddings, you know,

00:47:14.220 not the sacrament of matrimony, certainly. I'm a big fan of matrimony. So I'm such a big fan that

00:47:18.740 I'm going to try something different and only do it once. You know, if you're really a fan of it,

00:47:23.160 that's what you do. I think more people should get married. When I'm theocratic dictator of the

00:47:28.080 hemisphere, you'll be required to get married before the age of 25 or become a monk or a nun.

00:47:32.740 But these are the kinds of policies that nobody in Washington has the guts to propose.

00:47:37.520 The point is, I think marriage is great, which means that weddings are great. The marriage is

00:47:42.160 great. They're sacred. They're mystical. They're transcendent. What I'm canceling instead are the

00:47:46.860 many elaborate and self-centered forms that modern weddings have taken. I'm canceling especially

00:47:52.540 the dreaded destination weddings. Those are canceled. And what brings this to mind is a recent story in

00:47:58.340 New York Post about a couple that decided, like so many couples before them, that their nuptials

00:48:02.420 were so special and important that a normal wedding somewhere in the continental United States

00:48:08.660 wasn't good enough for them. They needed to travel thousands of miles away to a foreign land.

00:48:14.200 And when guests didn't show up, this couple sent those truant guests a bill. So here's the report.

00:48:20.680 It says,

00:48:20.920 The honeymoon's over for a pair of newlyweds who were so steaming mad at wedding no-shows who 0.93

00:48:25.540 originally RSVP'd yes, that they slapped them with a $240 bill to cover their costs. A now viral

00:48:32.820 photo of the invoice tickled Twitter this week, calling out the no-show, no-call guests and

00:48:38.580 declaring, I don't think I've ever seen a wedding reception invoice before. The bold move, which is

00:48:42.820 sure to seal the fate of that friendship, sparked a heated online debate over whether the couple's

00:48:47.260 missive was tacky or totally justified. The no-shows were given a payment due date of one

00:48:52.560 month from August 18th invoice sent by the once anonymous newlyweds whose resort and spa wedding

00:48:59.600 in Jamaica apparently cost $120 a head per the detailed invoice that many tweeters assumed was

00:49:04.740 fake. Turns out it was not fake. The post tracked down the offenders, Doug Simmons and Deidre McGee,

00:49:09.600 now Simmons. Doug apparently was so proud of himself for this stunt that he posted the bill to his own

00:49:15.600 Facebook. And the invoice said, according to what he posts on Facebook, this invoice is being sent

00:49:20.720 to you because you confirm seats at the wedding reception during the final headcount. Because you

00:49:24.980 didn't call or give us proper notice that you wouldn't be in attendance, this amount is what

00:49:28.340 you owe us for paying for your seats in advance. You can pay via Zelle or PayPal. Please reach out to

00:49:35.220 us and let us know which method of payment works for you. Thank you. And the article continues and says,

00:49:40.360 when reached by the post, the groom admitted that yes, he got a little bit petty, but I'm not some

00:49:43.980 trifling person who's going to bill somebody, even though it's exactly what he did. Simmons,

00:49:48.120 a small business owner in Chicago, stressed that it's not about money. He and his new bride were

00:49:52.140 merely hurt and felt disrespected by the no-shows at their hard-earned dream wedding with more than

00:49:57.100 100 attendees. He said, quote, four times we asked, are you available to come? Can you make it? And they

00:50:02.880 kept saying yes. We had to pay in advance for Jamaica. This was a destination wedding. Okay.

00:50:06.920 Let me explain what happened here, Doug. First of all, nobody on your guest list actually wanted to

00:50:15.800 go. None of them did. Okay. If they wanted to spend money and vacation time on a trip to Jamaica,

00:50:22.560 which most of them didn't, but if they did want to, then they just would, they'd go on a vacation.

00:50:29.660 They'd prefer to do it on their own time to enjoy the trip for themselves and not have all of these

00:50:34.640 assignments that they have once they get there. You're not providing anyone an opportunity to go

00:50:40.040 to Jamaica unless you're paying for all of the airfare and all the lodging and everything for

00:50:44.740 everyone, which I assume you didn't. So this is not an opportunity. Anybody can go to Jamaica whenever

00:50:48.800 they want. It's that, it's that, but if that's how they want to spend their time and money, they can do

00:50:53.520 it on their own. This rather was an assignment that you were giving them. The invitation itself was

00:50:59.420 already a bill. It was, here's all this money that I'm asking you to spend for us. Here's how it goes

00:51:05.200 down. Once those destination wedding blackmail letters go out, a certain portion of your friends

00:51:09.520 and family who would like to celebrate your wedding with you will have to immediately say no because

00:51:14.760 they simply don't have the time and money to go to some far flung tropical location. You will have

00:51:19.480 automatically excluded all friends and family who cannot afford an extravagant trip. And what's more,

00:51:25.400 you make them feel guilty because of your own profligate behavior. And next, a certain portion

00:51:31.360 will get the, get the, you know, the invitation and they'll roll their eyes and they'll show the

00:51:35.140 invitation to their spouse and they'll say, oh man, can you believe this? Jamaica, come on. But 1.00

00:51:40.620 they'll still end up coming at great financial hardship to themselves out of this sense of

00:51:44.020 obligation. Then another portion will agree because they feel forced into it, but they're going to pull

00:51:48.860 out at the last moment because something's come up in their lives that prevents them from going to

00:51:52.120 Jamaica, or maybe simply because they ultimately decided they don't want to do it.

00:51:55.400 And they resent the fact that you put them in this position to begin with. And that's the way it

00:51:59.260 breaks down. And the common thread here is, is that, uh, is that you are imposing yourself

00:52:05.840 on your loved ones and expecting that they will cancel their own summer vacation plans and dedicate

00:52:11.560 that time to celebrating you instead. This is all your fault. Not only do your guests not owe you any

00:52:17.620 money, but you in fact owe all of them a refund and an apology for having a destination wedding.

00:52:21.880 Now, of course, not all egotistical self-seeking destination wedding couples would go so far as

00:52:26.780 to send a bill to the no-shows, but they are all still egotistical and self-seeking. And we

00:52:33.140 shouldn't limit this just to destination weddings. Because for years, the trend has been for engaged

00:52:39.180 couples to treat their weddings as if they're royal monarchs, right? Weddings have become exorbitantly

00:52:44.820 expensive, unnecessarily extravagant, centered more and more around the, the egos of the individuals

00:52:52.860 getting married rather than a respect and reverence for the sanctity of the sacrament that's being

00:52:58.540 performed. Now, it's not that weddings shouldn't be fun. It's that they should be. They ought to be

00:53:04.340 joyous and festive. But our approach to weddings often sucks the joy and festivity out of it.

00:53:10.220 You know, the whole bridezilla stereotype comes from the fact that brides so often in our culture

00:53:16.060 feel that their big day is licensed to be miserable and demanding and self-absorbed. I mean,

00:53:21.380 how did it get to this point? It's no coincidence that weddings are a $50 billion a year industry in

00:53:28.180 a country where divorce is rampant. It may seem kind of like an irony that we, that we make such a big

00:53:34.500 deal out of weddings, but care so little about marriage. But really, it's not ironic at all.

00:53:38.200 It makes sense to see things kind of shake out this way. Lavish and excessive weddings are lavish

00:53:42.800 and excessive because the people involved are inordinately focused on themselves. And people

00:53:48.240 who are inordinately focused on themselves usually do not succeed in relationships, especially not

00:53:53.040 romantic relationships. A person who feels themselves entitled to a day or several days obsessively

00:53:59.660 dedicated to a celebration of the self, no matter the cost and no matter the toll it takes on their

00:54:05.640 families and friends, usually they've arrived at this conclusion because they believe that every

00:54:10.580 other day of their lives should be the same. They think that every day is a celebration of themselves.

00:54:15.940 And this is generally not a good way to start a marriage with this kind of costly, overwrought

00:54:21.120 tribute to your own ego. Especially if you don't even have the decency to hold this carnival of vanity

00:54:27.440 somewhere within the country where you all, you and all of your loved ones actually live.

00:54:31.200 And for that reason, destination weddings are canceled. You'll have to make other plans because

00:54:37.320 I've canceled all of those weddings. Try renting a pavilion, you know, at your local park for 45 bucks.

00:54:44.360 Grill some burgers, some hot dogs, get a few kegs. Your guests will have a blast. Blast, I guarantee.

00:54:50.520 That is the type of wedding celebration and reception I am now assigning to the entire world.

00:54:57.440 It has been decreed. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

00:55:01.660 Have a great day, everyone. Godspeed.

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