The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 794 - The Decaying Old Tyrant Must Be Defied

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, President Biden attempts one of the most tyrannical power grabs

00:00:04.440 in the history of the presidency, issuing a vaccine mandate that affects 100 million Americans

00:00:08.800 potentially. I'll have plenty to say about that today. Also, on the same day that the president

00:00:12.400 tried to force 100 million Americans to inject a substance into their body, Kamala Harris got 0.99

00:00:17.380 in front of cameras to speak about the need for bodily autonomy. So there seems to be a bit of

00:00:21.360 a disconnect there. And the left comes to the defense of a death row inmates claiming that

00:00:26.340 pro-lifers are hypocrites if they don't do the same. Is it true that pro-lifers have an obligation

00:00:31.600 to oppose the death penalty? We'll talk about that. Plus, a woman says that she's the victim

00:00:35.840 of fat phobia and racism because she was kicked off a plane for not wearing a shirt. We'll try 0.98

00:00:41.880 to sort through that important controversy today, along with much more on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:06.060 you. You know, for four years, we were warned incessantly that President Donald Trump was a

00:02:13.020 vicious, power-mad tyrant, a fascist dictator. He was Hitler incarnate, an authoritarian megalomaniac, 0.99

00:02:21.840 et cetera. You know, we heard this over and over and over again for four years. Meanwhile, in reality,

00:02:26.580 Trump was, you could argue, among the least tyrannical presidents we've ever had.

00:02:31.500 And whether you like him or you don't like him, you should be able to agree with that.

00:02:37.740 Because in fact, one of his greatest flaws, in my opinion, was his reluctance to use the

00:02:43.320 legitimate authority of his office in order to enact his agenda. So his flaw was on the other end

00:02:49.640 of that spectrum entirely. Trump was no autocrat at all. He was something close to the opposite of that.

00:02:55.940 Uh, no. We had to elect Joe Biden, this frail, decrepit, old Mr. Magoo with a moldy cantaloupe

00:03:04.420 for a brain, to see what autocracy really looks like. This is what it looks like. So at around 5pm 0.80

00:03:10.020 yesterday, only an hour before his bedtime, Biden stood in front of cameras and unveiled his plan

00:03:16.400 to defeat COVID. Now, I should say he unveiled his latest plan to defeat COVID. He's already

00:03:22.400 implemented several other plans, which apparently came to nothing. You may recall when he first

00:03:27.460 entered office and he said that he was going to vanquish the virus in 100 days. Originally,

00:03:33.580 it was supposed to be 15 days. And, and, you know, then a year later, we were still in the 15 day

00:03:37.880 period. And he said, well, nevermind. It's going to be a hundred days and a hundred days. We're going

00:03:41.720 to be through this. We're going to be, we're going to defeat it. July 4th is the, is the time.

00:03:46.200 But a hundred days, 15 days came and went a hundred days came and went the virus is still

00:03:52.100 with us. And that is because the virus will always be with us. We live in a world where COVID-19

00:03:59.560 exists and will likely always exist. And all we can do is learn how to live alongside it.

00:04:09.560 That's the reality, but it's a reality that nobody in a position of authority will publicly

00:04:13.920 admit. There's too much power, too much power to be gained in the, the promise of eradicating the

00:04:20.020 virus, even if it's a false promise. And that promise creates for the tyrant, this kind of

00:04:25.880 perfect mixture of false hope and also fear, which is a very potent recipe, a recipe that's far too

00:04:34.220 alluring for a guy like Joe Biden. That's what brings us to his latest COVID action plan. The

00:04:40.240 president began last night by expressing his frustration with the Americans who have chosen

00:04:45.820 not to get the vaccine. Listen, even as the Delta variant 19 has COVID-19 has been hitting this

00:04:54.100 country hard, we have the tools to combat the virus. If we can come together as a country and use those

00:05:01.240 tools, if we raise our vaccination rate, protect ourselves and others with masking, expanded testing

00:05:07.940 and identify people who are infected, we can and we will turn the tide on COVID-19.

00:05:16.480 It'll take a lot of hard work. It's going to take some time. Many of us are frustrated with the

00:05:23.080 nearly 80 million Americans who are still not vaccinated, even though the vaccine is safe,

00:05:30.300 effective and free.

00:05:31.340 He's a very angry man, Joe Biden is. That's always been an underrated aspect of Joe Biden,

00:05:37.660 just how angry he is. And not only because of his old age and dementia, but he's always been like

00:05:45.200 this, actually. And that really, it's coming through more and more, just how angry he is at everybody,

00:05:51.980 and especially at Americans. Or he says frustrated. He's frustrated with us. Why is he frustrated?

00:05:59.880 Well, because he says, unvaccinated Americans, the unclean, the lepers, are posing a threat to 1.00

00:06:07.960 vaccinated people. Here he is explaining that.

00:06:10.740 The bottom line, we're going to protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated co-workers.

00:06:17.280 We're going to reduce the spread of COVID-19 by increasing the share of the workforce that is

00:06:23.120 vaccinated in businesses all across America. My plan will extend the vaccination requirements

00:06:29.660 that I previously issued in the health care field.

00:06:34.360 Now, we're going to circle back, as his White House likes to say, we're going to circle back

00:06:37.960 to that point in just a moment. We're going to circle back to all of this stuff. But I want to

00:06:41.220 run through some of these clips. First, let's listen as Supreme Leader Biden explains exactly how he

00:06:47.300 plans to force this drug into 100 million arms.

00:06:51.020 We must increase vaccinations among the unvaccinated with new vaccination requirements.

00:06:58.380 Of the nearly 80 million eligible Americans who have not gotten vaccinated,

00:07:03.000 many said they were waiting for approval from the Food and Drug Administration, the FDA.

00:07:08.380 Well, last month, the FDA granted that approval.

00:07:10.940 So the time for waiting is over. This summer, we made progress through the combination of vaccine

00:07:18.120 requirements and incentives, as well as the FDA approval. Four million more people got their first

00:07:25.960 shot in August than they did in July. But we need to do more. This is not about freedom or personal

00:07:33.560 choice. It's about protecting yourself and those around you, the people you work with, the people

00:07:41.280 you care about, the people you love. My job as president is to protect all Americans. So tonight,

00:07:50.560 I'm announcing that the Department of Labor is developing an emergency rule to require all employers

00:07:57.900 with 100 or more employees that together employ over 80 million workers to ensure their workforces

00:08:06.940 are fully vaccinated or show a negative test at least once a week.

00:08:13.780 And then finally, what about governors who believe in, you know, silly things like

00:08:19.180 states' rights and may attempt to defy Biden's royal edicts? Well, he says

00:08:26.380 he's simply going to get them out of the way. Listen, if they'll not help, if these governors

00:08:33.640 won't help us beat the pandemic, I'll use my power as president to get them out of the way.

00:08:39.420 Doesn't explain how he's going to get them out of the way. He's just going to get them out of the

00:08:42.900 way because they don't matter. States' rights, that doesn't matter to him at all. Now, the president

00:08:48.240 also called for more kids to get vaccinated, and he said he was going to double the fines for

00:08:53.300 travelers on airplanes who don't wear masks. Initially, again, he said we'd have to mask for

00:08:58.780 100 days of his presidency, but we're way past 100 days now, and he's not only not taking the masks

00:09:06.640 away, but he's doubling the fines for people who don't wear them. If it's not obvious by now that

00:09:13.160 the time frames these people give us mean nothing at all, and that they only give us the time frames

00:09:19.220 because they still refuse to come out and say, it's going to be like this forever, get used to it,

00:09:24.440 then I don't know what else to say if that's not obvious by now. Well, I can think of a few

00:09:28.960 additional things to say about all of this. So let's go through them. Let's go through all these

00:09:32.920 points. Number one, all of this makes no sense if the vaccine works, right? Biden says that the

00:09:44.460 unvaccinated are putting the vaccinated in harm's way. His message seems to be the vaccines work

00:09:50.460 and you should trust them, but if you don't get the vaccine, then vaccinated people will get sick

00:09:55.660 and die, and it will be your fault. So get the vaccine because it works and because other people

00:10:01.660 are vaccinated, and they'll die if you don't get vaccinated too, even though the vaccine works

00:10:05.860 and is effective. And that's why you should get it. So you don't kill other people who are vaccinated.

00:10:15.060 The messaging seems a little bit confused, to say the least. Now, you can't make this any less

00:10:20.420 confused by simply saying that, well, the vaccine isn't 100% effective. We know that it's not 100%

00:10:27.240 effective. No vaccine is 100% effective. But if the unvaccinated still pose such a significant 0.98

00:10:35.620 threat to the vaccinated that these kinds of sweeping, unheard of, unprecedented, economy-crushing

00:10:42.440 policies are necessary, then that would seem to indicate that the vaccine isn't just imperfect.

00:10:48.080 It's not just not 100%, but it's in fact nearly worthless. I'm not saying it's worthless.

00:10:55.620 I'm saying that the Biden administration is sending the message that the vaccines are worthless.

00:11:03.020 The fact is this. If the vaccine provides significant protection to the vaccinated,

00:11:09.860 then you can't justify mandates in the name of protecting the vaccinated because they're

00:11:14.700 already protected. But if the vaccine does not provide significant protection, or if we don't

00:11:21.760 know whether it provides significant protection, then you also can't justify the mandates because

00:11:26.340 you're mandating a significantly ineffective drug. There's no way around this problem.

00:11:34.180 So Biden just ignores it. That's his way around it. He also ignores something else.

00:11:40.720 My second point is he's ignoring, continuing to ignore, natural immunity. We're not taking that

00:11:47.960 into account at all. The people in charge of containing the virus have remained committed

00:11:52.360 to pretending that natural immunity doesn't exist, that it's some kind of conspiracy theory.

00:11:58.780 The research shows very clearly that prior infection brings robust immunity, maybe more robust than the

00:12:07.100 vaccine, which means that millions of unvaccinated people are potentially more immune and therefore

00:12:14.980 less of a public health threat, quote unquote, than vaccinated people. This is not a small point.

00:12:24.500 You know, if you're a vaccinated person and you're feeling high and mighty and looking at the

00:12:28.540 unvaccinated people and saying, oh, you're causing all these problems, you're a danger.

00:12:34.300 For millions of the people in that unvaccinated category, there's a very good chance you are a 1.00

00:12:40.840 greater threat than them if they have natural immunity. Again, it's not a small point. This

00:12:48.380 mandate forces the vaccine on millions of people who, according to the best available science,

00:12:55.260 don't need it. That's not to say all of the unvaccinated people have natural immunity.

00:13:01.200 But logic would tell us that millions of them do. It is forcing an unnecessary drug, therefore,

00:13:11.580 into the bodies of people who, again, don't need it according to the science. If anyone still has any

00:13:17.860 doubt about, you know, all of this being really just a plot to control people and not about protecting

00:13:23.320 people, this point right here should cure you of any doubts. There is no reason to ignore natural

00:13:31.160 immunity, no good public health reason, other than the fact that, from the government's perspective,

00:13:36.060 there's no control, there's no power to be gained from natural immunity, and that's why they ignore it.

00:13:41.880 Also, the unvaccinated slash vaccinated dynamic, the simple separation of the two groups with no

00:13:48.120 further nuances or considerations creates the perfect kind of tribalistic villainization for

00:13:55.060 our leaders to exploit. Joe Biden last night, if you watched that speech, and you saw some of it in

00:14:01.580 the clips that we played there, he showed more anger and disgust towards the unvaccinated than he ever

00:14:09.960 showed towards the Taliban. Listen to these people talk about the Taliban. We played the Secretary of

00:14:16.640 State yesterday saying, yeah, their background is a little bit troubling, or they have a challenging

00:14:23.200 background. We want them to be more inclusive. Compare that to what they're saying about unvaccinated

00:14:33.060 people, because he has set the unvaccinated up as the fall guys. Everything's their fault. 1.00

00:14:40.120 They're to blame for everything. He's not the first tyrant to do this. This is a tactic

00:14:46.620 common to all tyrants throughout history, which brings us to the third and most important point,

00:14:53.440 I think. Number three, Biden does not have the authority to do almost any of this. Despite what

00:15:02.720 his actions imply, he is not king. He's not a holy emperor. He's a politician, and this is still the

00:15:09.720 United States of America. He knows he doesn't have the authority, just as he knew he didn't have the

00:15:14.960 authority when he extended the eviction moratorium. He said he didn't have the authority, but he did

00:15:19.020 it anyway. Everyone's asking, what's his legal justification? What's his constitutional

00:15:23.700 justification for doing this? Well, I'll tell you what his legal and constitutional justification is.

00:15:31.520 It's that he can do it because he wants to do it, and he can do it, and he will do it,

00:15:38.260 and what are you going to do about it? That's his legal argument. That's the justification,

00:15:44.340 and it's important to understand that. It's important to understand that because the only

00:15:49.140 remedy here is defiance. Americans have to look back at these petty despots and say, no,

00:15:57.960 we won't comply. Arrest us all. Send the army in and shut down all these businesses that are not 0.90

00:16:06.480 enforcing your vaccine mandate. We're calling your bluff. This is a time to choose. This is a time

00:16:15.940 for drawing lines. It's a time to say no. The word no has left our vocabulary in this culture in recent

00:16:24.160 years. We have to reintroduce it now. Civil disobedience, refusal, say no. That's the only

00:16:32.600 way forward. For too long, we've been waiting for permission to be free people in a free country.

00:16:41.520 We've been sitting back and waiting for our rulers to tell us, okay, you can be free now.

00:16:48.400 But it doesn't work that way. If you want to have a free country, you grant your own permission.

00:16:56.240 That's how it works. And we have to realize that now before it's too late. Now let's get to our five

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00:18:19.200 it right. Well, I'll start with this just to show you how little respect these people have for our

00:18:25.420 intelligence. Mere hours before Biden announced his vaccine mandate, forcing a drug into the bodies of

00:18:33.140 100 million people all at once. Here's what Kamala Harris was saying. Listen to this.

00:18:39.460 The president and I are unequivocal in our support of Roe v. Wade and the constitutionality

00:18:47.220 of Roe v. Wade and the right of women to make decisions for themselves with whomever they choose 0.84

00:18:56.460 about their own bodies. And needless to say, the right of women to make decisions about their own 1.00

00:19:15.060 bodies is their decision. It is their body. These people are totally shameless. This was

00:19:23.840 the same day. This was a couple of hours before Joe Biden got up there and said,

00:19:28.940 you have to take the vaccine or we're going to take your job away from you. We're going to take

00:19:32.640 everything from you. She's saying, uh, and, and as always very eloquent from Kamala Harris,

00:19:40.740 by the way, she says the right of women to make decisions about their own bodies is not negotiable. 0.88

00:19:44.960 The right of women to make decisions about their own bodies is their decision. It's their body. 1.00

00:19:49.160 Okay. The right to make a decision is their decision. That clarifies that, but you have

00:19:58.600 the right to make decisions with your own body. They are advancing that at the same time.

00:20:07.160 You know, it's, it's not even like there's a separation here of, um, well, we talked about

00:20:14.580 the abortion thing last month and now we're talking about vaccine mandates and forget about

00:20:19.020 what we said a month ago. We're used to seeing that from Democrats and from the left, but in

00:20:24.960 this case, they're doing it at the same time. You have the right to make decisions with your,

00:20:31.100 about your own body. Uh, but here's this drug, even if you don't need it, put it into your body.

00:20:41.540 There is no way to make that not a, a blatant contradiction,

00:20:46.600 especially because the right to make decisions with your own body,

00:20:54.100 that is an argument that, that only applies to, to the vaccine issue and not the abortion issue.

00:21:06.160 Because as I've said a million times with abortion, the point is you're not, it's, it's, 0.79

00:21:10.640 it's not your body. You're making a decision about

00:21:13.580 you're making a decision to destroy, to directly intentionally destroy someone else's body.

00:21:22.040 This is a, you are acting upon someone else's body and destroying it. So it's not about your body.

00:21:33.260 But with the vaccine, it is, it's the only body directly affected is your own.

00:21:43.460 So that applies, that logic actually applies. The bodily autonomy argument

00:21:47.420 is a bad argument in many of the contexts that the left uses it, especially abortion. It just doesn't

00:21:55.200 apply at all to abortion. But here's one area, probably the, the, the primary area where it

00:22:05.600 actually does apply, just to vaccines. And I know what the response is. I know the response is,

00:22:13.000 yeah, but if you don't get the vaccine, then, uh, then you know, you could get someone else sick.

00:22:19.520 Well, even if, even if that's true, like if we're again, pretending, or if we're

00:22:24.760 just ignoring the issue of national, natural immunity.

00:22:32.860 And if we're doing this weird thing where we want to force the vaccine, but at the same time,

00:22:36.220 we're acting like the vaccine doesn't work at all. So that you're, you still pose a threat to

00:22:39.840 vaccinated people. Even putting all of that craziness aside, it's still indirect. Okay. By, 0.97

00:22:49.040 by not getting a vaccine, you are not directly murdering anybody.

00:22:56.780 I know that that's the way that people in power have been talking about this issue for a year and

00:23:02.460 a half now, that to not get the vaccine or to walk out of your side without, outside without a mask on,

00:23:09.840 it's tantamount to directly killing someone, but it's not. Okay. You're not directly harming anyone.

00:23:18.420 That's not your intention in doing it. You know, even if someone is harmed, it there's,

00:23:25.840 there's many degrees of separation as opposed to abortion where it is a direct act upon someone else's 0.87

00:23:36.040 body to destroy it. That difference is not insignificant. It really matters.

00:23:45.360 All right. Let's, uh, move to, since we're on the pro-life issue, a death row inmate named,

00:23:51.260 um, John Ramirez had his execution halted by the Supreme court on Wednesday night because

00:23:56.940 he claimed that his religious freedom was violated. If his pastor was not able to lay hands on him as he

00:24:03.720 was being executed, which apparently is not something that they allow in Texas. I think

00:24:07.360 they allow, I don't know what the rule is exactly, but they allow the pastor in there, but no one is

00:24:12.020 allowed to make physical contact with the, uh, with the condemned as they are being executed.

00:24:18.360 But he said, this is a violation of his religious liberty. So the Supreme court came in and they

00:24:21.580 halted it and this is going to go through the courts again. And then, you know, um, uh, but before the

00:24:26.160 halt was announced, lots of Democrats on social media were once again, claiming that pro-lifers

00:24:33.080 are not really pro-life if they won't stick up for guys like John Ramirez. So here's one example.

00:24:38.340 This is a tweet from a guy named Dan green, who is a, he's the, he's the national communications

00:24:43.080 director for something called Democrats for life. These are Democrats who actually consider

00:24:50.120 themselves to be pro-life and yet they remain in the Democrat party, which is, which is it's like

00:24:59.660 calling yourself a Satanist for Jesus. It doesn't make any sense at all, but, um, this apparently is

00:25:06.020 a group that exists and probably has about five people in it. Here's what he tweeted. He said

00:25:10.000 within a week of an abortion ban in Texas going into effect, governor Abbott is killing John Ramirez

00:25:15.100 on death row tonight. The last request of John for his pastor to hold him as he dies. That request

00:25:21.140 was denied. None of this makes sense. We need a consistent life ethic. Uh, I, I agree. We need

00:25:29.920 a consistent life ethic. Let me tell you what the consistent ethic is. And it's actually very simple.

00:25:37.380 It is always wrong, always immoral and should always be illegal to directly and intentionally destroy

00:25:49.980 innocent human life. You need all of those qualifications. All of those qualifications are

00:26:00.660 important. Uh, I mean, obviously we can't say it's always wrong to destroy human life, period.

00:26:07.360 Because that would mean that you can't even self-defense is wrong. You can't shoot. If someone

00:26:12.120 breaks in your house, tries to shoot you in the head, you can't defend yourself. That would mean

00:26:16.000 that all, all war, all war is bad. Every single war that's ever been fought on every side was, was

00:26:21.500 wrong. Um, and that doesn't make any sense. So that's why you need these kinds of qualifications.

00:26:29.600 You also directly and intentionally is an, is an important part of this too. Um,

00:26:35.640 you know, every time you get into a vehicle, there's the chance that you could in indirectly

00:26:43.860 and unintentionally kill someone. Even being sober, you could still just by driving down the road,

00:26:51.200 someone could run out in front of your car and you kill them. You're driving down the road. Someone

00:26:56.240 runs in front of your car. You accidentally kill them. Are you a murderer now? Should you go to jail? 0.99

00:27:01.120 Of course not. So that's why the pro-life ethic needs all of those qualifications. They're very

00:27:09.520 important. What about John Ramirez? Well, what did he do to get himself on death row? He stabbed a

00:27:19.700 convenience store clerk to death 29 times, stabbed him 29 times and killed him and stole a dollar and

00:27:25.640 25 cents. So this is, this is a man who, who butchered another man, stabbed him 29 times for less than

00:27:34.120 $2. Now, what I would say to, uh, Dan Green and any other Democrat who advances this talking point,

00:27:44.840 but I thought you're pro-life, but you're, you're in favor of capital punishment.

00:27:49.180 If you can find an unborn baby who's guilty of stabbing someone 29 times and killing them, 0.97

00:27:57.160 then maybe this comparison will begin to make sense.

00:28:02.160 But I don't think you're going to find that because all unborn babies are by definition,

00:28:08.620 innocent. They've done nothing. They haven't harmed anyone.

00:28:12.180 They are the most innocent human beings on the planet. They haven't had the opportunity

00:28:21.420 to, to make any bad choices or to intentionally harm anybody.

00:28:27.220 So that's the difference.

00:28:29.380 You know, this comparison, like acting like you can't, like you don't see any substantive difference

00:28:40.020 between a baby and a murderer who stabbed someone to death 29 times.

00:28:48.540 I'm not sure I even believe it. I'm not sure that I believe that you don't see the difference.

00:28:52.260 And this is another example where it actually works the other way, just like the bodily autonomy

00:28:59.740 argument. You know, that, that works for vaccines. It doesn't work. It actually works against the

00:29:06.380 pro-abortion side because what about the bodily autonomy of the unborn baby who you're destroying? 0.98

00:29:13.940 So with this, when the Democrats raise the, you know, the, the supposed pro-life hypocrisy on

00:29:19.900 capital punishment, the hypocrisy goes the other way. They're the ones who have a contradiction that

00:29:26.000 they need to explain. You know, it doesn't trouble me at all to say that I am not in favor of executing

00:29:36.280 babies in the womb, but I am in favor of executing convicted murderers. That's my position for a lot of

00:29:44.320 pro-life people. Not all that's our position, but for most Democrats, uh, their position is the only

00:29:54.540 people that they're in favor of executing are unborn babies. They're saying don't execute the criminal,

00:30:02.260 but execute the unborn baby. So who, whose position is more inconsistent, which, which position needs,

00:30:11.100 uh, needs further justification and explanation? The position that we should only execute convicted murderers

00:30:19.480 or the position that we should only execute unborn babies? All right. Uh, this is from the New York Post. 0.88

00:30:27.400 It says a woman who claims she was booted from a plane because her stomach was showing says that she was

00:30:32.380 actually discriminated against for being a fat tattooed mixed-raced woman. Uh, Fairbanks, Alaska resident, 1.00

00:30:38.900 Ray Lynn Howard, 33, alleges she was harassed by Alaska airline staffers on Friday. In turn,

00:30:44.120 she did what people do these days to state her case. She took to TikTok to post a now viral video

00:30:48.500 originally shared via her fat trophy wife account on Friday. The clip has, um, speaking of a 0.71

00:30:55.980 contradiction in terms, the clip has since racked up 1.3 million views and more than 180,000 likes as

00:31:01.920 of Monday morning. In the footage, Howard can be seen getting escorted off of a flight by police officers

00:31:05.820 who proceeded to question her about the incident. Uh, she said, quote, throughout my life as a fat

00:31:10.940 person, I've had to deal with fat phobia, especially growing up in the Midwest, but not to this degree.

00:31:16.620 Um, she said, I felt like I was being discriminated against for being a fat tattooed mixed-raced woman,

00:31:21.560 which in turn left me full of emotions like anger, disappointment, helplessness, humiliation,

00:31:27.260 confusion. Okay. Now she recorded her conversation with, I think it was the TSA officer, which

00:31:34.240 apparently that, that, that, that's something they'll let you do. Well, they let her do it 0.74

00:31:38.180 anyway. She pulled out her phone. She's sitting in the room, just talking to the TSA officer,

00:31:43.380 pulls out her phone, starts recording. And, um, here's how that conversation went.

00:31:47.480 So, so what happened on the, on the flight? I was harassed about my outfit. Okay. I put my shirt

00:31:55.480 back on. Okay. So you did have it off? Yeah. At one point. I had this on. Sports bra. They asked

00:32:01.440 me to put my shirt on. Okay. Put the shirt back on. And then they approached me again. Okay. Saying

00:32:07.520 that I can't wear this. My stomach is showing and it's inappropriate. Okay. And I said, I'm covered

00:32:14.680 up. I'm fine. And she just kept going. And I said, if you're going to kick me off, like

00:32:20.120 then kick me off. I've done what you've asked me to do. I want you to leave me alone. That

00:32:25.840 was the third time they approached me about my outfit, about wearing this outfit. Yeah.

00:32:32.900 Okay. So she was, she was wearing her, her bra on the plane, just her bra. She, she, she

00:32:39.140 boarded the plane in her underwear and then was shocked when they asked her to get off

00:32:46.760 of the plane. Get off the plane. Why? I'm just sitting here in my underwear. This is, this

00:32:52.840 is a fat phobia. She says, can we go back? I mean, we've got all these rules on the plane

00:33:00.320 already. Um, and you have to wear the damn mask and everything else. Here's one rule 0.99

00:33:08.840 that I would actually be in favor of. Let's, let us, let's, let us take the stupid masks 1.00

00:33:12.920 off. But, um, a rule that I'd be in favor of if, if the airlines chose to impose it would 0.99

00:33:19.360 be a, a much stricter. I mean, they have dress codes, but how many, a much stricter one. If

00:33:24.440 I was in favor, if I was running an airline, I think I'd go back, you know, you think about

00:33:29.980 like the 1960s and seventies, they used to dress, they used to wear their Sundays best

00:33:35.420 to get on an airplane, which kind of makes sense because it's a, it's an event, right?

00:33:40.720 You're, you're flying through the sky. This is, this is a, you know, should be a great event

00:33:45.400 in your life, no matter how often you do it. You're able to travel, you know, 35,000 feet

00:33:53.740 in the sky. And we, we, we become so jaded and, and, you know, cynical about it. We're

00:33:59.420 so used to it that we don't stop to think of how incredible it is. So it actually makes

00:34:04.640 sense. And the other reason it makes sense to, to, to dress more formally on a plane

00:34:10.000 is because you're, you're locked in this metal tube with other people. And so you should make

00:34:18.840 even more of an effort to be presentable. Yeah, it's probably true. No one else on the

00:34:26.440 plane wants to look at you in your underwear. You can, you can, you can call that fat phobia

00:34:29.540 all you want, call what you want, but they shouldn't have to be locked in a plane with

00:34:35.260 you for three and a half hours in this small condensed area. So let's go back to that for

00:34:42.100 doing all the rules. Anyway, how about you have to dress for certainly no, no sports bras,

00:34:47.640 um, but also no pajamas. Okay. No flip-flops. I shouldn't have to sit here on the plane with

00:34:59.040 you an inch from me. And I got to stare at your hairy feet the entire time. That's not 1.00

00:35:03.700 okay either. No flip-flops, you know, make formal, formal attire is what should be required

00:35:09.700 on the plans in my opinion. All right. CNN is very upset about the voter ID law in Texas

00:35:15.720 that just went into effect this week. And here is a CNN. They say, Justin, Texas Republican

00:35:23.520 governor, Greg Abbott has signed into law a bill that bans 24 hour and drive-through voting

00:35:27.740 imposes new hurdles on mail-in ballots and empowers partisan poll watchers. And then they, they list

00:35:33.740 again, what the bill does. And so here's in this, we're supposed to be upset about this. They're

00:35:40.300 listing it because this, this is supposed to be something that we find outrageous. Um, okay.

00:35:45.480 Again, bans 24 hour and drive-through voting, new vote by mail ID mandates, bans officials from

00:35:53.580 mailing unsolicited mail-in ballot applications, empowers poll watchers, new requirements for assisting

00:36:01.800 voters, monthly voter roll checks. All of that makes a lot of sense to me. What, what part of

00:36:12.400 that is a problem? And when it comes to the ID, once again, we've got to go back to the contradictions

00:36:22.020 here. It's, it's supposed to be some kind of oppressive, impossible requirement to tell people

00:36:33.700 that they have to get an ID to vote, you know, once every four years or once every two years of

00:36:41.400 the vote in the midterms to tell someone that, Hey, if you want to vote in the next presidential

00:36:45.920 election, you got four years, three years at this point, you have, you have three years to, to get an

00:36:52.680 ID and figure that out. And, um, and here on the day of voting, here are the rules that we're putting in

00:36:58.640 place. Pretty, very, very simple and easy rules. And that's supposed to be impossible for people.

00:37:10.020 We're actually excluding people from voting just by putting those rules in place.

00:37:15.920 And yet it's not oppressive. It's not, um, onerous to tell people that they have to go to,

00:37:24.920 if they make an appointment, go to Walgreens, get a drug injected into them

00:37:29.080 in order to even have a job. And Hey, by the way, do you, do you need, uh, an ID

00:37:39.260 to get the vaccine? I'm pretty sure you do. Especially if they're going to, if they're

00:37:46.600 giving you a vaccine card and you're getting the vaccine passport, they need to know who you are

00:37:51.140 and you're going to have to be able to verify who you are. So you can require an ID for the vaccine

00:38:00.020 and then require the vaccine just to, just to go to your job every day.

00:38:05.920 Or you have to get tested once a week to go to your job.

00:38:08.440 But if you have to have that same exact ID to go vote three years from now, that's a problem.

00:38:20.240 Obviously it makes no sense at all. Okay. One other clip I want to play before we get, uh,

00:38:23.980 before we move on to reading the YouTube comments, this is a, you know, you know,

00:38:28.360 we love playing the TikTok videos here. And this is a fun one. Um, because we have, you know,

00:38:35.660 the crazy TikTok videos, the rant videos, people in their car. This is another fun category of

00:38:42.000 TikTok video because this is the fictional storytelling genre of TikTok videos. Let's

00:38:47.340 listen. You guys, we just got home from the park. You're not going to believe what happened as I was

00:38:51.440 about to leave. So Everly's playing in the mulch pit. While she's playing in there, she made friends

00:38:55.400 with a little boy. He's black. Who cares? They're happy. I'm not thinking anything of it. This other mom

00:39:00.580 comes and sits down on the bench next to me. The mom is white. She says to me, oh my gosh,

00:39:04.980 is that your daughter? She's so cute. I said, yep. She then leans in closer to me and goes, 0.90

00:39:09.300 you know, she's playing with a black boy. I was like, and, and then she was like, oh, no reason.

00:39:17.440 There's just a lot of kids here. And I'm surprised that's who she's playing with.

00:39:20.720 Why is that surprising to you? It gets worse. I was like, she can play with whoever she wants. 1.00

00:39:25.740 We're not racist. She says, I'm not racist either. She says her biggest hope is one day her

00:39:30.320 grandchildren grow up to look kind of like her. That's your biggest hope for your daughter?

00:39:34.600 I, you know what? Of all of the things that have happened in the world, that one

00:39:41.340 certainly is in the category of things that happen. I, I, I believe that. I believe every

00:39:47.720 part of that story. Okay. I know I started by saying this is a fictional storytelling genre.

00:39:52.080 I should not have said that. That story sounded very credible to me. I don't know about you.

00:39:59.720 Haven't we all had these experiences on playgrounds? 0.92

00:40:03.340 Are you just sitting there and some racist white person comes up? Says, what are all these black 0.95

00:40:08.140 children doing on the playground? Get out of here. Haven't we all experienced that? 1.00

00:40:14.320 Oh no. I mean, literally none of us ever have. It just never happens at all.

00:40:18.240 Uh, can you at least put, put some effort into your, into your fake stories, you know, sit

00:40:27.420 down, do a little storyboarding, give a little, a little bit of nuance and character and flavor

00:40:34.820 to these, to these, uh, to these fake racists that you're making up. Give them a little bit

00:40:39.160 of a backstory. I don't know if you want us to believe it, but this just goes to show once

00:40:45.660 again, when we get these, these racism hoax hoaxes, which this certainly is, um, the, the good 1.00

00:40:52.900 thing, the good sign is that these people are making up these stories have never met a racist

00:40:58.580 person. So they have no idea what a racist person sounds like, or what would, what's, what's a,

00:41:04.260 what's a, what's a credible story you could tell about a racist person. They've never met one.

00:41:09.060 So they have no idea. And they're, they're getting this all from, from movies, but that's,

00:41:12.320 that's a good thing. It shows how uncommon racism actually is in this country. Much to

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00:42:38.080 from Jabari says, you guys ever wonder what Matt's wife thinks of the Sweet Daddy Walsh 0.96

00:42:43.660 title? I mean, on the one hand, it's weird, but on the other, his wife likes ridiculing

00:42:48.960 him. Well, she does, but I can tell you right now, she is, I think I've already shared with

00:42:55.900 you the very distressing and troubling fact that my wife is not a member of the Sweet

00:43:01.420 Baby Gang. I've invited her into the gang. I've said, hey, honey, come be a part of the

00:43:09.420 gang. And she does. She just, she just laughs at me. And she says, here's the word that she's

00:43:15.880 used so many times with the Sweet Baby Gang. Creepy. If you can believe it. If you can believe

00:43:24.020 it, my wife thinks that it's creepy for strangers to be calling me Sweet Daddy. I don't understand

00:43:30.200 it. Women. I mean, it's, it's impossible to understand. Nathan says, Matt, I was very

00:43:36.320 disappointed when I tried the discount code SBG and Sweet Baby Gang and still had to pay

00:43:42.620 $40 for this t-shirt. You filthy, greedy cabos. Is it really $40? Is that how much it costs? 0.99

00:43:48.280 Well, hey, is it actually $40? Look, it, it, it, we're starting a cult here. Okay. And this

00:43:57.920 is part of, it's, it's expensive on the ground floor. You think it's going to be, that's, that's

00:44:03.460 cheap compared to Scientology. You think you can walk into the Scientology building and get

00:44:09.460 to square one of becoming a Scientologist for just 40 bucks? I think that's a deep discount

00:44:16.020 when you think about it. Let's see. William says, Robert E. Lee was a highly respected

00:44:25.860 military officer before, during, and after the war by both cultures of North and South. He was

00:44:30.180 not a secessionist. In fact, when he offered a position of general over all armies in the North

00:44:34.400 by Lincoln, Lee's daughter reported how distressed and sleepless Lee was in making the decision over

00:44:40.260 the period of two weeks. Lee also expressed his desire to see an end to slavery, yet it has become

00:44:45.660 his face that is the poster of slavery in America. The absolute hubris and ignorance of these people 0.91

00:44:51.620 tearing down statues is astounding. Yeah, that's like what we talked about yesterday, especially

00:44:57.500 when it comes to somebody like Robert E. Lee. People refuse to view that, to view him or anyone

00:45:07.640 at that period, within the context of their time. I mean, you have to keep in mind, it's the mid-19th

00:45:18.160 century, which means that nobody on the planet has racial views that would be acceptable to us today.

00:45:30.820 Nobody. Nobody. That goes for the abolitionists. That goes for Abraham Lincoln, who famously was in

00:45:39.340 favor of shipping all the slaves back to Africa, who famously said that he's not in favor of racial

00:45:46.840 equality between the races. It's not just white people in America either. You go across the entire

00:45:54.220 world. Nobody at that period of time would have had racial views that would seem acceptable to us

00:46:03.840 today in the year 2021. Never mind their views on so many other topics, like gender, for example.

00:46:13.560 So that's one part of the context, important context. Again, the point of the context is not to say

00:46:22.720 that objectively evil things were not evil. This is not moral relativism. Slavery was still a great

00:46:29.460 evil. It was a great evil in America. It was a great evil across the globe, and as it was practiced

00:46:35.360 across the globe for thousands of years, it was always evil. That's not the point. The point is about

00:46:40.380 understanding context, and also if we're trying to, and this is really impossible to do, and this is up to

00:46:49.840 God to do, but if we're trying to, after the fact, assess the personal moral culpability of any

00:46:56.380 individual, that's when things like historical context come into play. So that's part of the

00:47:02.960 context. The other part of the context, as you point out, William, is that he was from Virginia.

00:47:10.060 That was his home. Again, hard for us to understand this or see it this way as modern Americans,

00:47:16.320 but back in those days, especially in the South, they thought of, you know, their country was their

00:47:22.880 state. They considered, if you were from Virginia, consider yourself a Virginian first. That's not a

00:47:29.660 wrong way of looking at it. It's just a different way of looking at it. That's how they saw it.

00:47:34.760 So this was his home. This is where his family lived. It's where his sons lived.

00:47:39.120 He was given the opportunity to, you know, lead the armies, to lead the army in the North,

00:47:47.800 but he knew that he would be marching against his own home and taking up arms against his own family

00:47:56.000 and probably his own sons. Maybe we can at least understand how that's like an agonizing decision

00:48:02.020 for a person to make. And then when you put them squarely within the context of mid-19th century

00:48:09.700 America, is it really that hard to understand how a person would make the decision to fight

00:48:16.340 alongside their families rather than against them?

00:48:22.360 But no, historical context is not allowed at all, as we've discovered.

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00:51:09.120 your t-shirt today. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:51:16.900 You know, I had this experience this past week, and perhaps you can relate. I had the house to

00:51:20.600 myself because my wife and kids were out of town for a couple days. And I had deliberated over it

00:51:27.240 for a little while and decided exactly how I wanted to spend my free time that night. And my plan,

00:51:33.540 it was an exciting plan. It was this. I was going to pour a glass of whiskey. I was going to sit in our

00:51:37.940 comfortable leather chair, and I was going to read a book. And that's what I was going to do with my

00:51:41.260 time. That was my whole plan. And for dinner, I was feeling a little bit adventurous. So I decided

00:51:46.120 instead of ordering my customary General Tso's chicken from the local Chinese place, I was going

00:51:51.400 to order another dish from the local Chinese place along with the General Tso's. But then when it came

00:51:56.460 time to order, I kind of chickened out and I ended up just getting two of the General Tso's chickens,

00:51:59.940 which was way too much food, by the way, for one person to eat. Anyway, that was about all the

00:52:05.060 excitement that I thought I could handle. So after eating way too much food and reading and

00:52:08.680 drinking whiskey, I figured I'd get to bed at a reasonable hour, say 1030. That again was the

00:52:12.780 plan. Now, I realized that for younger people, everything I'm saying right now sounds horrifically

00:52:18.880 depressing. You can't believe that you'll ever be as boring as me. Like I have a night to myself,

00:52:24.460 and this is what I wanted to do. But everybody in their mid-30s or older hears my agenda for the

00:52:29.200 night and thinks, wow, that does sound like a lovely evening. And it would have indeed been lovely

00:52:33.000 if I had stuck to the plan. But instead, after I ordered my food, I got to looking at my phone.

00:52:40.820 And after my phone had cannibalized, you know, you pick up your phone, you start looking at it.

00:52:44.420 And next thing you know, it's an hour and a half later. After it cannibalized the portion of the

00:52:48.880 night, I decided that, well, I'm too tired to read, so I better just watch something instead.

00:52:53.060 But then I started browsing through the options and there are way too many options. And I just wasted

00:52:57.060 another portion of my time trying to find something to watch. Finally, I decided to watch,

00:53:00.580 you know, the same episode of The Office that I've already seen 95 times that I watched a couple more

00:53:05.880 episodes and I went to bed. What could have been a relaxing but mentally and spiritually enriching

00:53:13.200 night had been, in the end, like so many nights before it, sacrificed on the altar of the glowing

00:53:20.560 screen. What did I get in exchange for this trade? Did I get an enjoyable night? Well, that would be

00:53:28.780 something. But it's hard to say that aimlessly scrolling your phone or mindlessly flipping

00:53:34.540 through the options on Netflix is enjoyable. You know, it's hard to say that there's real joy

00:53:39.100 to be found in watching some kind of content simply because it is content. I certainly didn't

00:53:44.920 gain edification or enrichment of any kind. I'm not even sure that I could say that I gained

00:53:49.780 relaxation. Relaxation was the night that I had already planned, but then abandoned.

00:53:53.520 So, I say all this as kind of a way to lead up to this study in The Sun, which was just released,

00:54:00.520 finding that the average adult will spend 100 days of their life deciding what TV show or movie to

00:54:06.960 watch. That's 100 days cumulatively will be spent, you know, just clicking through the options on

00:54:14.720 Netflix. That's the cumulative amount of time. It doesn't count all the thousands of hours spent

00:54:20.560 actually watching whatever you eventually select. Now, I'm always a little bit skeptical

00:54:24.180 of studies that purport to tell you ahead of time how many hours you'll spend of your life doing this

00:54:29.180 or that. But 100 days in this case seems about right because there are other statistics too.

00:54:34.600 Some of them are a little bit more familiar to us and they kind of put the problem into greater

00:54:38.660 perspective. According to some of the most recent tabulations that I've read, Americans spend about

00:54:43.440 two and a half hours a day just on social media. The average time spent watching TV is about four or

00:54:50.340 five hours. Overall, then you've got to factor in video games, movies, porn for a lot of people.

00:54:56.560 American adults stare at screens for 10 hours a day. 10 hours. Which does not sound like an

00:55:04.320 exaggeration. It sounds, anything may be an underestimate. For kids under 12, it's about

00:55:09.280 four to six hours a day. Again, sounds like an underestimate, if anything. When you consider that

00:55:13.900 the average adult sleeps for seven or eight hours a night, that leaves only about six hours of waking

00:55:18.840 time not spent staring at screens. Our lives have become completely consumed by these devices. The

00:55:24.800 entirety of our existence, just about, has been condensed down into these little boxes like the

00:55:29.920 one that I'm looking at right now and that you're looking at. Now, people have been sounding the

00:55:35.100 alarm about exorbitant screen time for years, for decades, really. Before the internet existed,

00:55:40.340 there were people warning that our lives have become dominated by screens, by TV screens in that

00:55:44.520 case. And we're so used to hearing these warnings that we tend to shrug them off. In fact, oftentimes,

00:55:50.320 we look at the people who were panicking over TV decades ago and we laugh at them like they were

00:55:55.160 chicken littles. So we say, see, what were you guys so worried about? Everything turned out fine.

00:55:58.820 But it didn't turn out fine. And we do the same thing with people like in the fifties who were

00:56:05.160 warning about pop culture and pop music and rock music and where that would lead. And now we look

00:56:11.440 at them and we say, look at this, this is so quaint and ridiculous. They were worried about Elvis. 0.96

00:56:17.540 Well, no, but they were right. Look at pop culture today. They were exactly right.

00:56:23.520 With TV, it's the same thing. You know, it didn't turn out fine. They were right.

00:56:26.780 More right than they knew. They saw the pattern, but probably didn't expect that within just a few

00:56:31.060 years, the average American would spend nearly every waking hour of every day looking at a screen.

00:56:36.020 And the physical effects of this are significant. All of this screen time leads to obesity,

00:56:41.220 neck and back problems, sleep problems, inability to focus, depression, anxiety, on and on and on.

00:56:47.600 We live in a world of fat, misshapen hunchbacks, thanks largely to screens. And yet,

00:56:54.960 the physical ramifications are not the most disturbing aspect of this. Not even the depression

00:57:02.940 or the anxiety that comes from a life lived inside this box. The most disturbing thing is what drives

00:57:08.240 us to constantly stare at the box in the first place. As I said at the beginning, it's not really

00:57:14.860 enjoyment or edification. I mean, that might be the reason why you watch one particular thing,

00:57:21.020 like this show, for example. That's a good thing to watch. But what is it that drives us to stare

00:57:27.280 constantly at screens as a default, even when there's nothing worth staring at? Even when we're

00:57:33.640 not really enjoying it? What drives you to sit there in front of your TV and like search desperately

00:57:40.340 for something? There's not even anything you feel like watching. You're trying to find something,

00:57:44.700 anything to watch. Why would we spend all that time searching desperately for just some kind of

00:57:51.120 content to consume? It's one thing if there's a particular piece of content you know you want and

00:57:55.700 you want it for a particular reason and you seek it out and you watch it. But why are we always

00:57:59.500 seeking content? Why is there this overriding impulse to keep looking? I think the main thing people seek

00:58:06.100 from the screen is stupefaction. It's sort of a mental numbing agent, an escape from thought.

00:58:17.720 We become reliant on the screens because for us it's too taxing to think and to reflect and to

00:58:24.100 develop a real and authentic interior life. The internet and the screens have become a replacement

00:58:29.920 for our interior life. That's why people reflexively just put all of their lives on the internet. All of

00:58:36.580 their thoughts and pictures and everything. They just throw it all out there on the internet.

00:58:40.840 Whereas in the past they would have stored many of those things inside themselves because their

00:58:45.480 interior life was located within their minds. But now it's all on the internet. We become reliant on

00:58:52.840 the screens because it's better than it's a replacement for that. And maybe it's too scary

00:59:00.800 also to think. That's why we've become a nation of zombies. I think it's one of the reasons why

00:59:06.220 COVID has hit us so hard psychologically. We have been hiding behind the screens for so long,

00:59:12.420 shrinking away from difficult thoughts, not reflecting on anything really, especially not thoughts about

00:59:18.580 mortality until something rushed onto the scene that our screens wouldn't hide us from. So what am I

00:59:26.600 canceling? I guess I'm canceling your phone and your TV and all of your screens and all of you and also

00:59:34.420 me. Except this show. That's not canceled. This is a good thing to watch. Or any Daily Wire content,

00:59:42.220 of course. That's all different. So we will end this on that inspiring note of blatant and self-serving

00:59:50.400 hypocrisy. There's another reason why I am also canceled in this particular cancellation. We'll

00:59:56.820 leave it there. Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks for listening. Go out this weekend and do

01:00:00.340 something other than look at your screens. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - September 10, 2021

Ep. 794 - The Decaying Old Tyrant Must Be Defied

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