The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 795 - A Bunch Of Pitiful, Desperate Perverts Begging For Attention

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the VMAs were last night. It was vulgar and debauched and also boring

00:00:04.980 and nobody cared about it. I think there's an important lesson in that, which I'll explain

00:00:08.200 today. Also, George Bush gave a speech on 9-11, which has the left celebrating him. Bush went from

00:00:13.320 Hitler incarnate to one of the good ones. What does that tell us? And white liberals keep calling

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00:01:59.620 charitymobile.com and mention offer code Walsh. So the VMAs aired on MTV on Sunday night. I know what

00:02:06.040 you're thinking. Wait, the VMAs are still a thing? And I know what else you're thinking. Wait, MTV is

00:02:10.880 still a thing? I was just as surprised as you on both counts. I only know that this event occurred

00:02:15.800 last night because I read through dozens of news articles every morning as part of my job.

00:02:20.660 And in my scavenging, I stumbled across a few articles listing the winners of the 2021 VMAs.

00:02:27.820 If you're curious, and you probably aren't, the winner for video of the year was Montero by Lil Nas X,

00:02:34.960 the one where he twerks on Satan. MTV giving its highest award to a video where a gay man 0.94

00:02:40.560 Dry Hump Satan is probably the least surprising development of the year. Justin Bieber won Artist

00:02:46.100 of the Year, his 27th straight win in that category, I assume. The trophy for best collaboration

00:02:52.500 went to Doja Cat featuring SZA, S-Z-A. I have no idea who those people are or even how many people

00:03:01.000 they are, but apparently one of them came on stage dressed like some kind of nightmarish sea

00:03:06.800 cucumber. So that was interesting. But the most shocking thing, there, there, there she is.

00:03:12.360 That is a, that's Doja Cat. Is that Doja Cat or SZA? I don't know. Looks like maybe, uh,

00:03:18.720 maybe one of those worms from the movie Tremors. But the most shocking thing about that outfit is

00:03:25.000 that it covers more than 3% of her body. Many of the other celebrities, I'm assuming Doja Cat is a 1.00

00:03:31.680 celebrity, decided to show up in see-through outfits, thongs, and so on and so on. The performances 0.98

00:03:37.580 on stage were, in keeping with that theme, a woman named Chloe writhed around on stage, twerking, 1.00

00:03:44.580 slapping her butt in front of a giant blinking sign that said, booty so big. Now that was downright 0.98

00:03:50.660 subtle in comparison to somebody named Normani, who sang her hit song, Wild Side, I'm assuming it's a hit

00:03:57.360 song, while rubbing herself against another woman who was strapped to a bondage board. Meanwhile,

00:04:02.940 Lil Nas X strutted the red carpet doing some cross-dressing, some sort of pantsuit slash dress 1.00

00:04:08.700 combination. And there was no shortage of, uh, of politics to punctuate the debauchery. Sidney

00:04:13.520 Lopper, who evidently is still alive, took to the stage to present an award and then rant about

00:04:18.260 abortion rights. And speaking of the elderly community, Madonna was also on the scene. She walked

00:04:24.200 onto the stage wearing a giant coat and then dramatically, uh, stripped the coat off to

00:04:29.740 reveal the skimpy leather dominatrix outfit and thong underneath. I'm not going to show you the

00:04:34.800 thong part. Uh, I'll, I'll have some mercy on you, but there's, there's the outfit. Now this is when you 0.98

00:04:40.300 know that it's time to put Nana in a home. You can make the argument that even allowing her to wander

00:04:46.640 on stage looking like that is a form of, of elder abuse. She even looks kind of, you see there in

00:04:53.460 the, in, especially in the picture on the right, she looks kind of dazed and confused. She doesn't know 0.98

00:04:58.600 where she is. She has that sort of uncertain facial expression that Joe Biden has made famous. We can

00:05:06.140 only pray that Biden doesn't ever appear in front of cameras dressed in a similar way. But at this point,

00:05:11.140 anything is possible. And now I've just pictured Biden in that outfit in my head and I want to cry.

00:05:16.440 And yet in a certain way, um, I'm glad that Madonna showed up and stripped off her clothes

00:05:21.820 because there's something sort of profound and emblematic about it. Here she is an old woman

00:05:29.580 having long since run out of things to say and ways to shock and offend reduced to simply

00:05:36.860 stripping on camera in her late nineties, begging for our attention. It's not offensive so much as 0.66

00:05:45.840 sad and pitiful, dull. You don't want to yell at her about it. You want to give her a coat and a bowl

00:05:53.120 of soup and pat her on the head and say, it's okay. You don't have to do this anymore. Grandma, sit down.

00:05:58.760 You'll be all right. Let's put, let's, let's just watch some TV. Murder, she wrote is on, I think.

00:06:04.100 Now, Madonna in that way is a good representative of the whole event and of the broader pop culture

00:06:11.480 that she helped to create. There was last night, plenty of debauchery and perversion and nudity 0.99

00:06:17.080 and all kinds of desperate sexual attention seeking. And none of it managed to make any waves

00:06:21.920 at all. The VMA's ratings have been collapsing for years. Nobody cares. You only know about any of

00:06:28.600 this because I'm telling you. And I only, I only know about it because I read a couple of articles

00:06:31.980 just so that I can make the point that I'm making right now. Madonna was relevant back during a time

00:06:38.300 when pop artists could simply wear revealing outfits and sing about sex. And, um, that was

00:06:44.840 enough to create controversy and, uh, drive publicity. You know, she could roll around on stage in a wedding 1.00

00:06:52.500 outfit, singing about losing her virginity. And that was a big moment. That was revolutionary. Wow.

00:06:59.100 But now pop stars can hump each other in bondage gear while singing graphically about their genitals 1.00

00:07:06.480 and it goes unnoticed. They have to go to greater and greater extremes to generate the sort of hype 0.60

00:07:12.780 that Madonna could once attract with a fraction of the effort. Now, Lil Nas X, speaking of him, got

00:07:19.160 some of the attention that he hopelessly yearns for when he made that twerking Satan video. But that

00:07:24.420 controversy doubt died down pretty quickly and everybody moved on. And that's why he has to

00:07:28.500 dream up new degeneracies every week just to stay within the vicinity of the limelight. Last week,

00:07:33.760 he was posing for pictures while wearing a fake pregnancy baby bump. And, uh, and that was supposed

00:07:41.320 to be a thing, but even that's pretty boring and standard these days, especially in a culture where

00:07:47.340 millions of people actually believe that men can literally get pregnant. There was a time when it 0.88

00:07:53.600 was considered revolutionary and rebellious to be a vile, vulgar pervert. The perverts were rebelling 0.99

00:08:01.640 against a culture that rightly disapproved of that behavior. They were seeking to tear down moral

00:08:07.060 standards and structures that they claimed were oppressive and restricting and they succeeded.

00:08:12.020 The perverts won. But the thing about staging a revolution and winning is that now you are the man,

00:08:19.080 you're the system, you're the very institution of power that you once sought to destroy.

00:08:24.860 So you stage the revolution and you win. Now you have to take over and run these things that you

00:08:29.440 were just five seconds ago trying to tear down. So now the vulgar perverts aren't rebelling against

00:08:35.020 anything at all. Madonna is old enough to be the grandmother of most of the rest of the people she 0.88

00:08:39.900 shared the stage with. That means that as they were bumping and grinding and showing their asses and 0.99

00:08:44.860 shouting, look at me, look at me. They were behaving exactly as a woman their grandmother's age once 1.00

00:08:50.740 behaved and still does. There's nothing revolutionary or shocking about it. It's mainstream. It's

00:08:56.880 acceptable. It's boring. It's empty. It's feeble. It's pathetic. Of course, this kind of stuff has

00:09:03.400 always been empty, feeble, and pathetic. It was empty, feeble, and pathetic back when Madonna was doing 0.99

00:09:07.560 it 30 years ago and everybody thought it was revolutionary. But decades ago, people made the mistake of 0.97

00:09:13.200 thinking that artists, quote unquote, who showed their butts and sang about sex were doing something 0.97

00:09:17.820 brilliant and significant simply because it was rebellious. Now that it's no longer rebellious, 0.78

00:09:24.460 the shine has worn off and it's easy to look at it and think, wow, these people really just have

00:09:28.700 nothing at all to say. I'm bored. What else is on? This is perhaps the most underrated aspect of living

00:09:36.780 in a morally decayed culture. Because if you didn't know any better and you weren't living in such a

00:09:44.460 culture and you thought about it, you might think, well, that could be fun at least. That's not. It's

00:09:52.660 quite boring. I mean, it's many other things as well, but it's certainly boring. As it turns out, evil has a

00:09:59.340 rather bland flavor. Now, the good news is that amid all of this dull, hollow decadence, virtue becomes

00:10:06.900 exciting and rebellious. I mean, pop stars can spread their legs and take off their clothes and

00:10:11.620 scream about their right to kill babies. And none of that is remotely revolutionary or brave. But if one 0.68

00:10:16.580 of them had appeared on stage to speak in defense of the unborn or to promote chastity and modesty

00:10:22.280 or even to defend something like patriotism, that would have been truly shocking and required real

00:10:29.140 courage. It would have been a revolutionary act. None of them have the spine for that or the value

00:10:35.860 system, so it didn't happen. Yet the fact remains that the moral code these people fight against

00:10:40.960 is the moral code of today's true cultural revolutionaries. We are now the guerrilla warriors

00:10:47.820 fighting against powerful institutions who despise us and seek to destroy and oppress us.

00:10:53.260 It's not a good situation to be in. I would not prefer it if I was given the choice.

00:10:59.340 But it does provide an opportunity to connect with people, especially young people,

00:11:03.120 who naturally desire to rebel against systems of power. So we can say to them, join us. That's our

00:11:10.920 side. The rebels. We're the rebels. Or you can join the naked grandma on stage to defend the boring 1.00

00:11:20.060 status quo. Now let's get to our five headlines. If you're a pro-lifer and you are firm in that position

00:11:34.200 and you know that you believe in protecting babies from being murdered in the womb, but you haven't

00:11:42.380 thought deeply about some of these issues and you haven't equipped yourself with all the arguments

00:11:46.280 necessary, if that's the category that you fall into, then maybe it's been tough over the last

00:11:51.500 couple of weeks as abortion has been back in the news because of the Texas law banning abortion.

00:11:56.040 And maybe you found yourself in conversations with pro-abortion people.

00:11:58.800 Maybe they've thrown some arguments out at you. You know we're wrong, but you don't exactly have

00:12:03.860 the language to navigate through it and sift through all of the nonsense. And if that's the

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00:12:26.240 worked with everybody. People on the fence, abortion supporters, even Planned Parenthood workers

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00:12:41.640 40 Days for Life at 40daysforlife.com. Okay, so I got to say just a quick note here. I'm speaking of

00:12:52.620 decadence and decaying cultures. I am very glad to be back from all the traveling we've done over the last 1.00

00:13:01.540 couple of weeks. And we've been in, I don't know, six or seven different cities. And I could not be happier

00:13:09.180 to be home because the cities that we've been to, it's not like I've, you know, it's not like it's my first

00:13:15.480 time going to some of these places. But most recently we were in New York. And my God, it is

00:13:23.140 just a garbage dump. Who could choose to live in these places? Gross, just gross, gray, dull, 0.99

00:13:33.800 everything smells everywhere you go. This is the case in New York. This is definitely the case in 0.99

00:13:40.320 Los Angeles, San Francisco. Everywhere you go, it's, it smells like urine and weed everywhere.

00:13:50.920 And just crackheads walking around the street everywhere you go.

00:13:56.380 And then, and then to top it off, everything is, is, you know, three times as expensive. 0.85

00:14:00.440 So that's, that's the reward you get for living amid all of this misery and despair and garbage and crime.

00:14:12.100 Every time I go, and I've always felt this way about, you know, these bigger cities, especially New York.

00:14:18.060 Hadn't been there in a while. This was my first time back in, in a few years. It's way worse than I remember.

00:14:23.780 And I've always thought this, and especially now, I think, how could anyone prefer this?

00:14:32.560 If you think, oh, I love living in New York, it's, it's gotta be because you've never been anywhere else.

00:14:39.780 There's no way that a, that a human being, that a psychologically stable person, and maybe that's

00:14:46.000 the qualifier here that, that, that matters, but there's no way that a psychologically healthy person

00:14:49.760 could actually prefer that over living in a place where you have grass and trees and space

00:14:57.860 and privacy and quiet and you, and the smell of like nature and, you know, fresh air

00:15:07.720 rather than urine and fecal matter.

00:15:13.640 There's no way someone could look at that and say, no, I, I prefer,

00:15:15.800 I prefer, I prefer the dystopian hellscape. That's, that's, that's what I prefer to be.

00:15:21.960 Horrible. You got to get out of these cities if you live there.

00:15:23.980 You, you really don't know. If you're still there, I have to assume you literally don't know

00:15:27.320 what you're missing. All right. Um, let's go here. Number one, President Bush speaking at the,

00:15:33.780 the Flight 93 Memorial in Pennsylvania, of course, the 20th anniversary of 9-11 was on Saturday

00:15:39.020 and he was giving a speech. He made a comparison between the 9-11 terrorists

00:15:45.420 and violent extremists at home. Comments that almost everyone has assumed were referring to

00:15:52.180 January 6th and Trump supporters, but here he is. Let's listen.

00:15:56.180 And we have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come not only across borders,

00:16:02.240 but from violence that gathers within. There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists

00:16:10.360 abroad and violent extremists at home. But in their disdainful pluralism, in their disregard for human

00:16:18.360 life, in their determination to defile national symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit.

00:16:26.780 And it is our continuing duty to confront them. Now, you know, I saw the conversation on social

00:16:34.900 media and some of the headlines that Bush had used his speech to attack, you know, to mention January

00:16:40.380 6th, the attack Trump supporters. Uh, and then I listened to it and I, I didn't actually, I was

00:16:46.820 expecting him based on the commentary. I was expecting that he would directly mention that and he didn't.

00:16:52.280 That's all, that's all he said. Uh, the assumption is that he meant that as a slam

00:16:57.140 on the right, basically, which maybe he did. I don't know. I mean, it's, it's, it's possible he wasn't

00:17:02.780 referring to, to them, but that's the assumption. That's certainly the assumption that the left and

00:17:08.900 the media has jumped to here. And so they're, they're hailing this speech as courageous and so

00:17:15.160 important and everything. And this is, this is part and parcel of what we've seen when it comes to, uh, to

00:17:20.380 George Bush over the last, uh, over the last four or five years specifically. Once there wasn't a

00:17:27.460 whole lot of this during Obama's tenure. Um, but once Donald Trump was in there, suddenly there was

00:17:35.660 this newfound respect that, uh, the media had for, for George Bush. And it can be easy to forget.

00:17:43.780 And in fact, depending on how old you are, if you're younger, you may not remember some of this.

00:17:49.060 Uh, you may not remember very vividly, but I do. The way that the media talked about Donald Trump

00:17:56.600 for four years, they said the same things about, about George Bush. It was maybe, it was a little

00:18:05.780 bit more intense against Trump, but really not that much more because when you're comparing the

00:18:12.460 president to Hitler and saying he's a genocidal dictator, it's, it, it's hard to have stronger

00:18:18.960 or more strident criticism than that. And they were saying that about George Bush for eight years,

00:18:24.180 they said that. And now, uh, and now they, and now they respect him and they said, well, gee,

00:18:30.480 that Bush, he wasn't, he wasn't so, he wasn't so bad, was he? And so it may seem impossible to you

00:18:37.460 now. You may not be able to even fathom this, but there will come a time and it may not be that far

00:18:42.960 off when they're going to be doing the same thing with, with Donald Trump. I know it seems there's

00:18:49.160 no way given everything they've done to Trump and said about him over the last half a decade,

00:18:56.800 but there will come a time when they're going to say, in fact, we're already starting to hear that a

00:19:02.820 little bit. We, we, we played the clip, I think it was a couple of weeks ago. Someone on some cable

00:19:08.760 news channel said, well, when you compare Trump to a DeSantis, I mean, DeSantis, Trump is not so bad

00:19:14.380 compared to DeSantis. So whoever the most recent guy, whatever, whatever Republican is in office

00:19:21.640 or whichever Republican, uh, there, they consider to be the biggest threat. Then all other Republicans

00:19:28.360 in comparison to that one are, you know, we're, we're, we're, we're innocent to comparison.

00:19:36.980 So that will happen. And, and all that means is that, you know, we say that the left respects Bush

00:19:42.900 now or whatever. It's, it's not respect. It's not love. It's not admiration. Uh, it's, of course,

00:19:48.320 it's not sincere. It's just that Bush is now useful to them. It's a useful comparison for them to draw.

00:19:55.640 And when he criticizes Trump or Trump supporters, whether explicitly or not, that's even more

00:20:02.780 useful. So they will quote, respect you when they feel that they can use you. And that's what they're

00:20:08.420 doing with Bush now. And meanwhile, I wish that, uh, honestly, I don't, I don't know why Bush is being

00:20:14.920 invited to speak at any 9-11 memorial. Uh, I don't want to hear from George Bush.

00:20:22.760 He, one of the most disastrous presidencies in American history was George Bush's presidency.

00:20:34.860 I mean, the, the, the irony here is that

00:20:37.360 many of the criticisms, not the overblown dramatic, he's Hitler, you know, all that, not that,

00:20:46.040 but there are plenty of criticisms levied against George Bush during his tenure by the media that

00:20:52.440 they were, they were right about. And now they're the ones haven't been proven, proven right on the,

00:21:00.820 on that. Not that you can give him credit for it because he's a Republican. So they're going to

00:21:04.640 criticize him and it's a broken clock thing. It just so happens that they're going to be correct

00:21:08.940 sometimes. Um, especially because there are plenty of bad Republicans out there,

00:21:13.200 but now they're, they're the ones going back on that and say, Oh, George, but that George Bush,

00:21:18.920 he's a lovable guy. Look, he does it. He does his watercolor paintings. Look at this cute old man,

00:21:25.340 George Bush. All right. The, uh, the surgeon general on CNN is now saying that actually businesses

00:21:33.840 are relieved that they're being forced to mandate vaccines. It's a, there's nothing to complain

00:21:39.200 about here. Businesses are, are happy that they're being saddled with this mandate, according to the

00:21:44.100 surgeon general. The requirements that we just heard about are one part of that, but they're

00:21:49.040 only one part of that includes also measures to increase our testing capacity to shore up our

00:21:53.720 hospitals and healthcare systems, which are struggling with Delta. But what the president and what all of us

00:21:58.520 have said as public health leaders from the earliest part of this pandemic is that we have to use

00:22:03.320 every lever of government. Uh, and we all in the private sector have to do everything we can to

00:22:08.480 tackle this virus. The requirements of president announced are an example of that. Uh, earlier in

00:22:14.020 the summer, uh, the president had announced requirements for federal workers, uh, to attest

00:22:18.380 to vaccination. And this is another step in that direction. Not only will federal workers now be

00:22:22.820 required, uh, to vaccinate with an exemption for medical or religious purposes, but also, you know,

00:22:29.180 healthcare systems that do business with Medicare and Medicaid, 17 million healthcare

00:22:33.280 workers will be required. 80 million, uh, business, uh, workers who have, uh, you know, a hundred

00:22:38.440 employees or more will also now be required, uh, you know, under the OSHA rule, uh, which is a process

00:22:44.560 to either get vaccinated or to get tested regularly. So the key thing to understand, Dana, is number one,

00:22:50.280 the data tells us that these requirements work to increase vaccinations. Number two, a lot of businesses

00:22:55.380 are actually relieved that these are going into place. And we've heard a lot of feedback from the

00:22:59.900 business round table and others that this will help create safer workplaces. But finally, Dana,

00:23:04.480 keep this in mind. This is what we've got to do to get to the next phase of this pandemic response

00:23:09.260 so that we can get through this and get back to normal. It sounds ridiculous. And it is, 0.93

00:23:16.060 except that you could, you could qualify it this way. He, there's, there's one, one qualification

00:23:21.100 he forgot to mention. Forgot on purpose. I'm sure. Uh, what he just said is probably true of big,

00:23:29.460 like big businesses, mega corporations. They probably are relieved because it takes the problem

00:23:36.440 out of their hands and now they can force the, uh, the vaccine on their employees without having to

00:23:42.560 worry about getting sued or anything. It just, it just takes it out of their hands. And now, uh,

00:23:46.740 allows, allows the government to solve that problem and they're big so they can deal with

00:23:52.220 the turnover. If they lose a bunch of employees, they can deal with that. Uh, they have the capacity

00:23:57.860 to deal with it. Small businesses, it's a different story. They don't have the capacity

00:24:05.720 to enforce these mandates. When you drive employees away, they don't have, they don't have the capacity

00:24:13.340 for that. Um, to, to pay the, what is it? $1,400 per, per violation that they're going to have to

00:24:22.780 pay. Um, so this, this, again, this is, this is something that affects small businesses. Big

00:24:31.260 businesses are fine. Small businesses are the ones that carry the bag on this. There's just, there's

00:24:38.840 never been, we've never seen anything like this, this conspiracy by the most powerful in our society

00:24:47.080 to utterly destroy small businesses. That's the other thing you see when you travel around the

00:24:55.280 country as I, as I have done, uh, not just in the last couple of weeks, but over the last year and a

00:25:00.140 half and everywhere you go, everywhere you go, you got the Walmarts and the targets and McDonald's

00:25:08.280 and they're all doing fine. But you find shuttered, smaller businesses, boutique type shops,

00:25:16.580 smaller restaurants, everywhere, shut down. And it doesn't matter where you are, smaller towns,

00:25:25.000 bigger cities. And you, and you talk to the locals, they all have the same story. Oh, that place over

00:25:30.920 there used to be a great, great place. We all used to, you know, and now it's gone. Shut down during

00:25:36.700 COVID hasn't come back. But all, you know, meanwhile, the government's handing money out

00:25:46.340 to people, uh, welfare payments, hand over fist. So the money was there to spend. It's just all that

00:25:54.360 money is going to, uh, the consumers have the money and they're spending it. It's just, it's going to

00:25:58.600 Amazon and it's going to Walmart. This is a conspiracy to destroy small business and it has

00:26:07.040 worked. We've never seen anything like it before. Uh, still on the COVID, uh, topic. Here's Fauci

00:26:13.140 on a podcast called skim this. That's the podcast. Never heard of it. Uh, advocating for vaccine

00:26:19.360 mandates for kids and for air travelers. I think this is the first time he's been this explicit about

00:26:24.380 it. Here he is. If we get the overwhelming proportion of the population vaccinated,

00:26:29.220 we will get to herd immunity. If we do it in the next six months, it will happen in the next six

00:26:33.760 months. If we do it in the next two months, it'll happen in the next two months. I would support that

00:26:38.820 if you want to get on a plane and travel with other people that you should be vaccinated. When you

00:26:43.440 hear us say, should you mandate vaccination for children to be able to attend school? Some people

00:26:51.280 say, Oh my goodness, that would be terrible to do that. But we already do that and have been doing

00:26:58.060 that for decades and decades. I don't know what school you went to, but the school that I went to,

00:27:05.040 you had to be vaccinated for measles, mumps, rubella, polio, or otherwise you couldn't go to school.

00:27:12.020 So it is not something new. I have to say again, kids are already vaccinated against COVID.

00:27:19.920 You know, you know what their vaccine is called? It's not Pfizer or Moderna. It's called their

00:27:26.660 immune system. Their immune system provides kids better protection than what is provided by the

00:27:36.680 vaccine to adults. So a child who is unvaccinated is less likely to get seriously sick than a vaccinated

00:27:47.440 adult. That is how significant this protection is for kids that is given to them by their own

00:27:55.620 biology, by their own immune system, by their bodies. So they're already vaccinated. And that's

00:28:02.340 the difference. We're going to keep hearing the same point over and over again. Well, we have these

00:28:06.600 other vaccine requirements. Not all vaccines are the, are the same. First of all, with some of

00:28:15.680 these other vaccines, all of the other vaccines that he just mentioned, they've been around a lot

00:28:20.100 longer. So we know more about them, about the side effects, about the long-term effects.

00:28:26.060 If there are any negative long-term effects to the vaccine for kids, if there are, how could we

00:28:34.800 possibly know that until years down the line from now? There'd just be no way to know that for sure.

00:28:42.180 But more to the point, those other diseases that he mentioned are especially hard on kids.

00:28:54.320 And that's why you could make compelling argument for inoculating kids against them. COVID is not.

00:29:02.140 Thank God it's not. It's something we could breathe. We should be breathing a sigh of relief about. I have

00:29:12.580 this entire time as a parent, I am extremely thankful. You know what? If COVID was as dangerous to kids

00:29:23.440 as the media pretends that it is,

00:29:26.100 if that was true, if it was actually as dangerous as they're saying that it is for kids,

00:29:33.060 then my, my own personal calculus would completely change.

00:29:40.820 Because I do believe as a society, we have a special obligation to protect kids.

00:29:46.920 I mean, I believe that.

00:29:50.520 A lot of these people in the media who are pretending to be concerned about kids,

00:29:53.560 because when it comes to anything else, they're not, they're not, they don't care about protecting

00:29:57.060 kids. But I think that's true.

00:30:01.360 So if this kid, if, if, if this virus was affecting

00:30:04.580 kids the way that it affects, say, the elderly,

00:30:08.120 then that would probably entirely change my approach to it.

00:30:14.460 But it's not.

00:30:16.320 And that's a great thing.

00:30:17.580 All right. Um, a white LA times writer by the name of Jean Guerrero had some thoughts about Larry

00:30:26.340 elder, which, uh, she decided to share on, on CNN. And we we've, we've, we've heard this exact line

00:30:33.860 many times and they're pretty shameless about it, but here it is. Let's listen.

00:30:39.300 He's essentially been running his campaign on Fox news and on right-wing media outlets. Um, he he's

00:30:45.240 refused to talk to large, you know, to, to nonpartisan and media outlets and to journalists

00:30:51.800 who are critical of him, uh, has refused to answer difficult questions, often uses, uh, the few

00:30:57.240 interviews that he does give as an opportunity to give a performance on, on social media, uh, you know,

00:31:03.000 denouncing those journalists and, um, playing the, the victim. Um, but he has been able to reach the,

00:31:09.780 the minority of voters in California who embrace his, his white supremacist worldview. Um, and you

00:31:16.520 know, he's, he's co-opted this line by my fellow columnist, uh, from, from the headline, you know,

00:31:22.120 calling him the black face of white supremacy, but he refuses to engage with the actual substance

00:31:27.960 of our reporting. You know, the idea that he, his, I, his, um, views were shaped by a well-known

00:31:34.240 white supremacist named Jared Taylor, who he repeatedly quoted in early writings, um, that he

00:31:39.280 plans to reverse all of the state's progress on immigrant rights and racial justice. Um, and that 0.99

00:31:44.780 he poses a very real threat to communities of color for all of the reasons that we've reported it in the 0.96

00:31:49.840 past. Just a, just another example of, of how white supremacy has become this doesn't, of course,

00:31:56.800 doesn't mean anything at all. It's this religious, it's this religious idea. Um, this sin that, you

00:32:04.560 know, it's, it, it actually goes beyond white people. If you have the wrong ideology, then you're

00:32:10.000 automatically a white supremacist. And it's important to remember this too, because, um, you have to kind

00:32:16.640 of adjust the equation on the, on the, uh, the victim hierarchy, the victim pyramid that I've talked

00:32:22.580 about before. We know there's a, a hierarchy of victimhood on the left. And, uh, and there's always

00:32:30.080 this jockeying for position that goes on and the, the group at the top tends to change over time.

00:32:37.320 Uh, it could change even on a monthly basis as there's this struggle to who's going to be the,

00:32:41.700 the Uber victim. And as it stands right now, top of the victimhood pyramid, the victimhood hierarchy

00:32:49.380 are, uh, trans people and specifically, uh, trans people of color. They're the very, 0.96

00:32:55.480 you, you cannot get more victim-y than that. They're the very, very top. Um, and then as you

00:33:01.040 go, as you go down the ladder, there's really no one challenging trans people right now for top

00:33:07.260 victim spot. So they're pretty comfortable. They might not be there forever, but they're pretty

00:33:11.820 comfortable at that spot right now. Um, and then as you go down the ladder for the different victim

00:33:16.820 groups, that's where the positions tend to change. I think it's pretty interesting, but that said,

00:33:23.600 there is the ideological qualification here, which is really important.

00:33:29.780 So normally Larry Elder as a black man would be a pretty high up on the victim hierarchy, 0.89

00:33:35.660 like above women. There was a time not long ago, and that's why I say things change during the Me Too

00:33:41.440 movement. The women had their time in the sun as the Uber victims, and they were at the very top, 0.80

00:33:46.080 probably even above trans, uh, and now they've fallen precipitously.

00:33:53.060 So, you know, normally you would say, and we know that on the victimhood pyramid,

00:33:59.140 the criticism can only go down. Okay. Someone who's a lower on the hierarchy as a victim cannot

00:34:05.540 criticize anyone above them. Trans people at the top, they can criticize everybody. Criticism can only 0.99

00:34:11.680 go downhill, right? Um, so normally a white woman attacking a black man this way would not be 1.00

00:34:21.380 acceptable, but that's where the ideological qualification comes in because he's a conservative. 0.82

00:34:27.560 None of this counts. Conservatives are at the very, very, very bottom of the, of the ladder.

00:34:32.480 And once you get down there, races, identity, none of that matters. They're all white supremacists. 0.99

00:34:39.520 They're all Nazis. That's all. So that's the way, that's the way this, uh, that equation works. 1.00

00:34:44.720 All right. This is from, uh, scottrasmussen.com says 57% of democratic voters believe supporters

00:34:51.040 of Donald Trump are a serious threat to the nation. A Scott Rasmussen national survey found that 56% of

00:34:56.400 those in president Biden's party also consider the unvaccinated a serious threat. That's a higher level

00:35:01.080 of concern than Democrats expressed about the Taliban. 44% see it as a serious threat, China

00:35:06.160 or Russia. Uh, so Trump supporters are greater threat than the Taliban and, uh, Russia. And I,

00:35:13.520 I give that, um, as context, which brings us to, to this, a point that Bill Maher made on his show

00:35:22.380 last night. And of course it's upset a lot of people, which Bill Maher to his credit is willing

00:35:27.380 to do. He's willing to upset people on the left. And here he is explaining why he often

00:35:31.260 criticizes the left, but he says something about the, uh, the black national anthem, which

00:35:35.560 they're now singing before football games. They sang it before opening day on Thursday

00:35:39.000 night. Uh, and he has some thoughts on that, that, that some people on the left are upset

00:35:43.520 about, but let's listen.

00:35:44.660 People say to me sometimes like, boy, you know, you go after the left a lot these days. Why? I'm

00:35:49.980 like, because you're embarrassing me. That's why I'm going after the left in a way you never did

00:35:56.560 before because you're inverting things that I am not going to give up on being liberal. This is what

00:36:03.300 these teachers are talking about that, that you're taking children and making them hyper aware of race

00:36:08.980 in a way they wouldn't otherwise be. I mean, I saw last night on the football game, uh, Alicia Keys

00:36:15.460 saying lift every voice and sing, which now I hear is called the black national anthem. Now, maybe we

00:36:21.840 should get rid of our national anthem, but I think we should have one national anthem. I think when you

00:36:27.080 go down a road where you're having two different national anthems, colleges sometimes now have many of

00:36:33.520 them have different graduation ceremonies for black and white separate dorms. This is what I mean.

00:36:40.600 Segregation. You've inverted the idea. We're going back to that under a different name.

00:36:49.160 Now the points he raises there are, are good points. And I'd like to agree with it that we

00:36:53.680 shouldn't have two national anthems. You know, we should have, I don't agree with this point that

00:36:57.720 we should get rid of the, maybe we could get rid of the national anthem that we, the real national

00:37:01.440 anthem, but we should only have one. Um, I think, I think our national anthem, the national anthem is,

00:37:08.040 uh, is, is good. I'm, I'm, I'm happy with it. Uh, it's worked for us and I think it could continue

00:37:16.640 to work, but his point that, uh, well, you know, we should just have one because we're one nation.

00:37:23.440 I wish that was true, but it's really not. I mean, if anything, uh, we should have 50 different

00:37:36.260 national anthems at this point because we're so fractured and broken. I mean, there, there is not

00:37:43.320 one united country anymore. So the fact that we're now having multiple national anthems, that is a

00:37:51.620 reflection of a reality. I don't like it. I wish it was not the reality. I very much wish that it

00:37:57.300 wasn't, but it is, you know, that's, that's something that I struggled with on, uh, on Saturday

00:38:05.860 as well with national, with the 9-11 anniversary. And I just had to stay offline and not watch any news

00:38:15.580 or anything because when I hear people in these moments still talking about, Hey, you know, this

00:38:22.840 is a, we think back to that day. This is why we need to come together as a country, just like we did

00:38:28.540 on nine 12, right after nine 11. And there was unity. And I, yeah, we all talk about that. I remember it

00:38:32.700 too. I can remember that period of time, which in reality was probably only a few months, but there

00:38:41.640 was definitely a period of time when there felt, when it felt like we were united as a country.

00:38:48.520 That's what it seemed like. Most of the fighting and everything had been put to the side.

00:38:53.900 But now when we talk about that, I mean, it just sounds sort of sad and pathetic. It sounds to me 0.94

00:39:01.620 like someone, some broken old person reminiscing when they were in their prime in high school and how

00:39:09.140 they were the football, you know, they were the quarterback and captain of the football team.

00:39:14.840 Now those were the good old days. Yeah, maybe they were, but they were long gone now and they're

00:39:21.240 never coming back. You know, if something like nine 11 were to happen, it's something really like nine 0.81

00:39:28.160 11, not January 6th, which was not nine 11, but something actually similar to nine 11 or worse were

00:39:33.460 to happen. Now we wouldn't have that nine 12 effect. There wouldn't even be six minutes of unity,

00:39:41.460 not even close to it. We're not a one country anymore. And that's why the Scott Rasmussen poll Democrat

00:39:54.460 voters consider Republicans to be the greatest threat to them. Doesn't surprise me either.

00:40:03.620 Those are the kind of poll numbers you see in a country that has come apart at the seams. That

00:40:08.040 is not one united country anymore. Because as I always talk about unity, you cannot have unity for

00:40:17.260 its own sake. That's why the unity on right after nine 11 didn't last. It was nice. It was emotionally

00:40:25.920 cathartic and, and it felt sort of emotionally healing, but it didn't last because it wasn't real.

00:40:35.200 It was kind of unity for its own sake. Nice in the moment, but what, what are we actually unifying

00:40:41.840 around? There has to be some kind of unifying principle. Now in many other countries across

00:40:47.680 the world, um, they have a shared heritage. They have, they have, uh, you know, in many countries,

00:40:55.940 they have shared religion, shared race, racial identity. You know, that's, that's the case for

00:41:02.060 many countries across the world. That's never really been the case in our country.

00:41:05.420 country. So what do we unite around?

00:41:11.820 If not any of that, then it would have to be unity around shared principles and shared

00:41:18.840 values, which is a nice idea to have a country united around something like that. These higher

00:41:27.760 ideals. And there was a time when we were, but we're not anymore.

00:41:31.220 Does we all, we all love freedom? No, we don't. We all have a shared, uh, passion for human

00:41:41.760 rights. No, we don't. We're united around our sense of equality. I don't even know what

00:41:47.200 equality is. We certainly don't have a quality of law quality anywhere else doesn't exist.

00:41:56.520 So we are many nations. And I thought the same thing going back to when I was some of these

00:42:00.700 other cities that I, that I've kind of touring and looking at in horror and thinking, how can

00:42:05.260 people live like this? I don't recognize this. I don't want any part of this. And I can't relate

00:42:15.020 on any level to someone who's like, this is, this is their ideal society. So where do we go from

00:42:23.860 there? Uh, I don't know. I think eventually we, we go into pieces.

00:42:31.940 Fun thought. Let's get now to our reading the YouTube comment section and, um, we'll start

00:42:36.660 with this. Let's, it's been pretty heavy. Let's get, let's have some good news. I think now we

00:42:40.440 finally have some good news and, um, I can announce after a week of, of buildup, I can announce the winner

00:42:48.120 of the sweet baby gang anthem contest. And the winner is Walsh's Anthem by Joshua Wathen. I thought

00:42:55.040 all five contestants were phenomenal. And I, I want to thank them all deeply and sincerely from

00:43:03.440 the bottom of my heart, uh, because I know the, the, the talent that they put into those songs and

00:43:08.540 those videos and the emotional energy. I feel that emotional energy as well. Uh, so thank you for that.

00:43:15.540 And all of them were wonderful, but I thought, I do think that this song is a deserving winner and

00:43:19.600 let's all, for the first time now on the Matt Wall show, experience that song together. Here it is.

00:43:24.740 Who makes a Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage? Who's to blame? It's a sweet baby gang.

00:43:52.940 Who's rocking polka dot and flannel shirts without shame. Do you know their name? They're the

00:44:05.180 sweet baby gang. Now there's no more crying. Ain't got time for your leftist tears. If you're a man,

00:44:14.220 it's required that you grow a bit. Hey, we're the sweet baby gang.

00:44:22.620 This theocratic fascist dictatorship is on its way. Daily cancellations are the law and order of

00:44:29.500 the day. We're the sweet baby gang. This theocratic fascist dictatorship is on its way. Daily cancellations are the

00:44:42.060 law and order of the day. We're the sweet baby gang.

00:44:47.500 Well, there it is. And get used to that song because you're going to hear it every single day

00:44:58.060 now. That is our anthem. I don't know. I don't know the national anthem. We have a bunch of different

00:45:05.180 national anthems now. That is our anthem. And we will all stand with our hands on our hearts and

00:45:11.080 listen to that whenever it plays. And I expect you to do that, by the way, every time I play that song

00:45:14.080 now. I don't want any Kaepernicks. There's not going to be any Kaepernicks in the in the SBG gang.

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00:46:34.720 of fat people? It's not like it's hard to run from them. Brandon, that's not acceptable. That's

00:46:43.220 juvenile. It's not funny. How dare you, Brandon? We don't partake in those kind of juvenile insults

00:46:52.500 on this show. We don't do that. I'm not going to ban you from the show, though, for it. Maybe it gives

00:46:59.740 you an idea of my real feelings. Veronica says, since we're becoming a dictatorship anyway, can we

00:47:03.780 just have Matt take over and rule with an iron rod? At least his rule would be logical. I totally

00:47:09.620 agree, Veronica. Thank you. Big Boy says, Matt, I was a submariner. We didn't dress formally just to

00:47:14.760 be locked in a metal tube. I'm going to just wear normal clothes on an airplane. Don't be silly.

00:47:20.360 As long as you're presentable and hygienic, who cares? Well, maybe we don't have to go all the way to 0.99

00:47:27.820 formal clothing, but it's more about the environment. It's like the message that that

00:47:32.100 sends to people. Okay. It's not that I necessarily have any objection to sitting next to someone who's

00:47:39.780 wearing jeans, but the point of the dress code on the airplane is, yeah, number one, to stop people

00:47:47.240 from wearing pajama pants, stop them from wearing sandals, even shorts. Okay. I don't want you in

00:47:54.920 shorts sitting right next to me on the plane. I've got your, your hairy, sweaty leg is rubbing 0.91

00:48:00.280 up against mine. I don't want any part of that. So that's one reason for the dress code, but also 0.91

00:48:05.140 it's about sending a message of the kind of environment. It's about kind of classing up the

00:48:09.800 environment. And I think it makes people, when you dress nicer, you behave better psychologically.

00:48:16.280 I don't know if that's actually true, but it's my theory.

00:48:24.260 OJH says, I don't know, Matt, I'm 25 and your planned evening sounds ideal to me too. Maybe it's

00:48:29.280 just an introvert thing, not an aging thing. However, although, although General So's chicken

00:48:32.840 is my dish of choice at Chinese places too, I recommend Indian or Thai takeout next time you

00:48:37.760 want to change it up. Once you're on the phone with the Indian place, it's too late to wuss out and 1.00

00:48:42.600 order the general again. Yeah, I agree with you that it is a, that's kind of how I guess you could

00:48:48.400 define whether you're an introvert or not. The evening that I had planned for myself that I

00:48:52.600 mentioned on Friday, had the whole, had the, you know, had the night to myself, my kids and wife

00:48:57.740 weren't there. And my idea anyway, was just to order food and sit in a chair and read a book and

00:49:02.420 that's, and go to bed early. That was like my, that, that to me would have been the ideal night.

00:49:06.060 And if that sounds ideal to you, it's a pretty, that's a pretty good indication of, uh, of introversion,

00:49:09.940 which is not the same thing as shyness. A lot of people don't understand that.

00:49:13.000 Not the same thing as being shy. It's just about where do you, where do you find your energy?

00:49:16.700 You know, what's, what's the most ideal setting to you? All right. Andrew Shelley says, Matt,

00:49:21.640 as the head of the household, you should take a leaf out of the leftist playbook and begin

00:49:24.760 indoctrinating your children into the SBG, get t-shirts, um, baby grows, et cetera, for them,

00:49:31.500 SBG forever. That would cause problems you cannot imagine in my house. Uh, so as it stands right now,

00:49:37.620 my children have not been indoctrinated into the sweet baby gang cult. I mean, one of the reasons is that

00:49:41.980 it would feel very weird to me to show my kids, uh, you know, like a shirt of, of me in a,

00:49:47.500 in a diaper so that there's something, I think psychologically for them, that wouldn't be the

00:49:50.920 healthiest thing. Um, and maybe when you think about it, if I wouldn't even want to show this

00:49:57.080 shirt to my kids, should we be selling it? Is this whole thing just way too bizarre? I mean,

00:50:02.340 that you might arrive at that conclusion. I don't know, but I've told you how my wife feels about it. So

00:50:07.740 that would cause a civil war in the house. If I tried to, if I tried to do that, I'm not ready

00:50:12.680 for that yet. I'm not ready to have that battle yet. Maybe one day. And now we get to do our daily

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00:52:18.780 cancellation. I said last week that it's troubling to see all of these people, most recently Howard Stern,

00:52:27.680 who are now marching under the banner of F your freedom. Some members of the COVID cult are now

00:52:32.820 quite open and shameless about their opposition to freedom. They're explicitly calling for your

00:52:36.820 freedoms to be abridged or destroyed, and they want you to be oppressed in this way for their

00:52:42.480 own sake, and they're very clear about that. Now, I said this is a disturbing development in our

00:52:46.360 culture. Of course, there's nothing new about the fact that many people don't really care about

00:52:50.220 freedom at all. What's new, arguably, is that so many people are willing to admit to it,

00:52:54.360 to come out and say, F your freedom. And I still think that this marks a new and terrifying stage

00:53:00.840 in our societal decay. But I must say that the F your freedom crowd annoys me a little bit less

00:53:06.700 than the people who are still pretending that they support vaccine mandates and masking laws

00:53:12.180 for the sake of freedom. This has been especially common talking point on cable news. For example,

00:53:18.180 New York Times health reporter Cheryl Stolberg appeared on MSNBC this weekend to argue that, in fact,

00:53:22.540 we are not taking away your rights by forcing a drug into your body. Rather,

00:53:27.560 by not taking the drug, you are depriving her of her rights.

00:53:32.120 I'm sorry to be to be coarse about this, but there are hundreds of thousands of people who are

00:53:38.140 dead because they did not take the vaccine. What I mean, the science is playing out before our eyes.

00:53:45.520 Right. So a couple of things about what the governor said. First of all, in an infectious disease

00:53:49.740 outbreak, getting vaccinated is not a personal choice. It's not. It's something that we do for

00:53:56.140 the community. And this has been long upheld with legal precedent. Second of all, the governors who are

00:54:01.360 complaining about Biden's mandate failed to note that he, in fact, gave businesses an out. Their

00:54:07.040 employees can opt for mandatory weekly testing. And third, he talked about, well, there's a long history

00:54:14.960 with those other vaccines. Well, how do you think we got that long history? We got that long history

00:54:19.920 because the vaccines were mandated. And she was not the only one at The New York Times to strike this

00:54:25.700 chord. David Leonhardt made the exact same argument. Listen to this. I mean, there are two ways to think

00:54:31.660 about freedom, right? One is, does someone have the freedom not to get a vaccine shot? That's a legitimate

00:54:37.320 question. The other is, do we as Americans have the freedom to go out and know that we are less

00:54:44.500 vulnerable to a deadly virus? That is also a form of freedom. And that's why I think that the sort of

00:54:50.280 pro-freedom case for vaccine mandates is actually stronger than the anti-freedom case. Americans deserve

00:54:57.300 the freedom to go to school without fear. They deserve the freedom to go to school without health risks.

00:55:02.280 They deserve the ability to go to football games and go to Broadway plays. And the long history of

00:55:07.440 vaccine mandates shows two things. They make a lot of people mad, or at least a small percentage that

00:55:12.620 often translate to a lot of people in a big country. And they save lives. And I think that is the likely

00:55:18.240 effect of these vaccine mandates. They are going to push a whole bunch of people who weren't getting

00:55:22.560 vaccinated before to do it, because otherwise their lives are going to be really inconvenient.

00:55:26.860 And they're going to save lives.

00:55:28.100 Okay, let me answer the first question for you, David. Do we as Americans have the freedom to go

00:55:34.340 out and know that we are less vulnerable to a deadly disease? No, we don't have that freedom.

00:55:40.180 We don't have that right. In Sheryl Stolberg's phrase to not get killed by an infectious disease,

00:55:46.060 that right doesn't exist. That is not a right that exists. It can't exist. You don't have the right to

00:55:51.440 be free from infectious diseases for the same reason that you don't have the right to be free from

00:55:55.560 osteoporosis, or asteroids, or shark attacks. These are all risks that come with being mortal

00:56:01.920 creatures living within a natural reality that we cannot control. If infectious diseases infringe

00:56:09.240 on your rights, what or who is doing the infringing? Granted, a person who intentionally infects you with

00:56:14.480 a disease, intentionally, may be reasonably accused of infringing on your rights. Just as you could say

00:56:19.980 that your rights are infringed if somebody physically throws you into a shark tank. But aside from direct

00:56:25.820 and intentional acts of biological terrorism, sickness and disease are an inextricable part of

00:56:31.080 life. To say that you have a right to be free from these risks is to say that you have a right to be

00:56:36.560 free from the basic facts of reality. You may as well jump out of a window on the basis that you have

00:56:42.560 the right to be free from gravity. This confusion is probably why, and this is going to sound maybe

00:56:50.520 surprising, we should all stop talking about the right to life. Or talk about it at least in a qualified

00:56:56.900 and more specific way. Even in the pro-life movement. Now this is going to seem like heresy, but in fact

00:57:03.720 you don't have any sort of universal inherent right to life. To say that you have an absolute

00:57:11.660 right to life is to say that whenever you die, no matter how you die, it's an infringement on that

00:57:17.740 right. The problem with abortion is not that the baby has a right to never die. Nobody has that right,

00:57:25.720 of course. The problem is that the parents and the abortionist do not have the right to intentionally

00:57:31.280 destroy human life. What's more, the parents have a positive duty, a positive responsibility

00:57:37.160 to care for their child. Abortion is a rejection of that responsibility through an act which no

00:57:44.140 person has the right to perform. That's why I've long said that. I think when we talk about the pro-life

00:57:50.300 case against abortion, we could talk about rights, but we should really be talking more about

00:57:57.220 responsibility. Do parents have a responsibility to their children or not? They do. And that's a better

00:58:09.920 and more precise and more clarifying way to speak about the right to life. The right to life,

00:58:14.540 shouted as a broad and unqualified mantra with no other specifications to it, tends to lead people to

00:58:20.440 the conclusion that even nature itself owes them immortality, but you're owed no such thing.

00:58:27.460 It's not my job to make sure that you don't get sick. Okay. I was not born with that obligation.

00:58:35.080 That's not a responsibility that I have to you as a stranger to make sure you never get sick.

00:58:41.340 You're not owed that. The world doesn't owe you that. You're not owed safety either or the feeling of

00:58:48.860 safety. Because that's something that the David Leonhart said, well, do we have the, should we

00:58:56.060 have the freedom to know? And he may as well have said to feel that when we go out, we're going to

00:59:01.780 be safe from infectious diseases. And that's really what they're talking about. The right, the freedom

00:59:08.420 to feel safe. But that's not something that you're owed either. None of that comes with the package when

00:59:16.080 you enter into this world. It's not on the brochure. And if it was on the brochure, the brochure lied to

00:59:21.520 you. You need to get a new travel agent. The good news though, is that you can take whatever precautions

00:59:27.240 you want on your own accord of your own will and volition. To grant you freedom from COVID is not my

00:59:36.320 job. It's not the world's job. It's not your neighbor's job. It's not the government's job.

00:59:43.000 But it was supposed to be the vaccine's job.

00:59:49.160 Okay. No, I don't get the vaccine to protect you. Just as you didn't get the vaccine to protect me.

00:59:56.440 You get it for yourself. It's supposed to grant you protection.

00:59:59.940 protection. And if you really believe in the vaccine and you trust it and you trust the science

01:00:08.080 behind the vaccine, then you have already granted yourself that protection. Not because you have a

01:00:13.120 right to it, but just because it was available to you. And that's a precaution that you chose to take.

01:00:17.640 And that is your responsibility, not anybody else's. And so for that reason, those two people on CNN

01:00:27.760 and everybody else talking about their right to be free from COVID or free from infectious disease,

01:00:33.140 they are all today, of course, finally canceled. And we'll leave it there. Thanks for watching.

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