The Matt Walsh Show - September 02, 2021


Ep. 789 - Leftism Is A Death Cult


Episode Stats

Length

56 minutes

Words per Minute

177.21556

Word Count

9,935

Sentence Count

677

Misogynist Sentences

19

Hate Speech Sentences

24


Summary

The pro-abortion leftist death cult continues to melt down in spasms of demonic rage over the Texas abortion law. Also, a new report says that half of the nation s children are overweight or obese. And the Bachelor contestant, canceled a few months ago for going to an Old South themed frat party, has hit the interview circuit for her apology tour. Plus, fast food restaurants are so desperate for workers that they are now advertising openings for 14 and 15-year-olds.


Transcript

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
00:00:08.960 says that half of the nation's children are overweight or obese. I wonder if keeping them
00:00:13.460 cooped up inside for a year and a half could have something to do with that. And the Bachelor
00:00:16.720 contestant, canceled a few months ago for going to an Old South-themed frat party, has hit the
00:00:22.760 interview circuit for her apology tour, and it's incredibly embarrassing to watch, as you might
00:00:26.980 expect. Plus, fast food restaurants are so desperate for workers that they're now advertising openings
00:00:31.440 for 14 and 15-year-olds. Some people are upset about this, apparently, but I think it's a good
00:00:35.400 thing. We'll talk about that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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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
00:04:36.420 for your abortion rights. We want to burn the whole industry down and leave it in ashes. We want to
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
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
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,
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
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
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,
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,
00:09:17.360 adulterous, deadbeat lump of lard is the guy that CNN brought on to analyze the Texas abortion law.
00:09:24.540 Talk about shameless. But that's actually pretty appropriate, I think. Toobin, who, by the way,
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
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
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
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
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,
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.
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
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,
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
00:20:18.800 pregnant. Now we're starting to, now we're starting to, okay, well, only women can get pregnant and now
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
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
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
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
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
00:26:01.700 Confederate, uh, you know, amalgamation of, of, of all of the terrible things all roll into one.
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
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
00:26:37.500 supremacy and racism and she's really a Nazi. And so the picture came out and she was canceled
00:26:41.820 and, but she's been groveling and apologizing this whole time. Um, mostly groveling and apologizing,
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
00:28:03.420 be racially ignorant. And that was probably the first time I had realized that. And I think the
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
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
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.
00:29:55.240 She's even still apparently with the guy was a Matt Jones. I think the, the bachelor who
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
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
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.
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.
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,
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
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?
00:42:49.980 What you're talking about is executing the child for the sins of the father. And that's
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
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
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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
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
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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