The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 805 - The power of victimhood

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, cancel culture claims another victim, this time a random woman 0.94

00:00:04.240 at a dog park, has her whole life destroyed after an out-of-context video goes viral. Also,

00:00:08.980 Liz Cheney comes out for trans rights, Biden tells blatant lies about Border Patrol,

00:00:13.800 and the media wonders why so many people with COVID symptoms are testing negative for the

00:00:17.920 virus. I have a theory about that. Plus, the Loudoun County School Board tried to stop me

00:00:21.740 from speaking at their next meeting by changing the rules, but I may have found a workaround.

00:00:25.680 And in our daily cancellation, we will cancel the female James Bond before she even exists. 1.00

00:00:31.340 All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:10.860 that we have. Okay. I can remember, speaking of being in high school, the bullies that I went to

00:02:18.580 school with, you know, the real life schoolyard bully was never quite as one-dimensional and

00:02:24.280 cartoonishly villainous as he was portrayed in shows and movies that we watched back then. 0.99

00:02:28.700 But he was still a jerk, right? And as I recall, bullies were pretty straightforward. They would 0.99

00:02:33.080 impose themselves on those who are weaker and taunt and belittle them because it gave them, the

00:02:39.540 bullies, personal satisfaction. And probably because they were trying to assuage their own damaged

00:02:43.660 egos and enhance their own sense of self-worth and so on. But the message from the bully was,

00:02:50.060 I'm strong, you're weak, and that makes me better than you. The bully would try to hurt his victim's

00:02:57.180 feelings or hurt him physically. And if he succeeded, then he won, at least in his mind. That's why the

00:03:02.880 best response to a bully back then was to try to beat him at his own game, to cause him the exact sort

00:03:08.360 of hurt that he wanted to cause you. If you succeeded, then the bully was vanquished, at least for a time.

00:03:12.740 If you punched the bully in the nose and made him run off crying, then you won because you had asserted

00:03:18.600 your dominance over him. He had made a fool of himself and cried in front of everybody. And this was 0.99

00:03:24.260 a source of shame. That's the way that it used to work. It wasn't great. It wasn't a great position

00:03:30.120 to be in. Bullying is never a good thing. It was a little bit messy at times. But I have to say, lately I've

00:03:36.780 been pining for the simplicity and the coherence of those days, how bullying used to work. Because

00:03:43.340 now things are flipped on their head. The bullies are all, you know, sort of modeling themselves after

00:03:48.280 that scene in Fight Club where Edward Norton gets revenge on his boss by beating the hell out of

00:03:54.200 himself in the boss's office. So the bully now asserts his dominance, assuages his ego, enhances his own

00:04:01.220 self-worth by manufacturing ways in which he has been hurt by his victim. Bullying today is far more

00:04:09.280 passive-aggressive, manipulative, and psychologically twisted than the simple days of, you know, calling

00:04:16.860 somebody a name, shoving them into a locker to let them know that you're more powerful than them.

00:04:20.840 Now the bullies assert their power by pretending that their victim is asserting power over them.

00:04:27.980 They gain power by affecting powerlessness. When I was younger, it would have been embarrassing for

00:04:34.700 anyone, especially a guy, to admit that he had his feelings hurt. Now there's a contest over who had

00:04:41.080 their feelings hurt the most. You know, it used to be if you said, I got my feelings hurt, everybody would

00:04:47.500 point and laugh at you. It's like, you got your feelings hurt, you loser. Now instead of responding 1.00

00:04:52.680 that way, everybody says, no, no, no, I have my feelings hurt even more than you.

00:04:58.720 Neither response is great, but what we're doing now is worse. This is how modern cancer culture

00:05:05.720 works, of course. We saw a perfect example of this over the weekend when a guy by the name of

00:05:10.520 Frederick Joseph, who's a black man and also an author, and I'll tell you more about his book in a

00:05:14.860 moment because it is relevant here. He sent out a string of tweets claiming that he had been accosted

00:05:19.600 by a white woman in a dog park in Brooklyn. He tweeted, quote, at the dog park in Brooklyn with

00:05:24.920 my fiance and this white woman was threatening to call police and told us to stay in our hood

00:05:29.220 because she had our dog confused with another dog who had been barking loudly. So I started recording

00:05:34.300 and she tried to slap the phone out of my hand. He then posted the video, of course, but naturally the

00:05:39.380 video cuts on right after all of this allegedly happened. Let's watch it here. Check it out.

00:05:45.120 Stay in our hood. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm going to invite everyone. Stay in our

00:05:50.560 hood. Stay in our hood. That's what I'm sorry. What? Stay in our hood. Stay in our hood. 0.98

00:05:57.120 You just told us to leave the dog park and stay in our hood. Oh my God. Did you just say that's

00:06:02.340 me? That's funny. I'm sorry. You were right here. Watch this entire thing. Did she just not

00:06:09.920 stand here? Tell us to stay in our hood. She did. She just told you just told us. So what do we know

00:06:16.160 from that video? Um, well, nothing at all. We don't know the context. We don't know what was said

00:06:20.920 before the video cuts on. We don't know what precipitated the interaction or even what the

00:06:26.000 interaction was. We don't know if she said what he claims she said or why she said it. If she did,

00:06:31.820 if she did in fact say anything, we don't know anything. We have only this out of context video

00:06:36.780 featuring a group of people that none of us have ever heard of. And we have the word of Mr.

00:06:41.760 Frederick Joseph, a word which must be taken with a rather large portion of salt, given that Frederick

00:06:48.040 Joseph is the author of a book called the black friend on being a better white person on being a

00:06:55.580 better white person. Now I don't need to read the book to know that it's a racist screed for the same

00:07:02.020 reason that Frederick Joseph wouldn't have to read a book by me about being a better black

00:07:06.720 person to declare that it's racist. So this guy's a professional race baiter who's in the business

00:07:13.160 of telling white people how to be better. And he just so happens to find himself in this situation

00:07:19.420 with an allegedly racist white woman. I mean, you might almost think that this anti white race 0.91

00:07:25.200 baiting bigot may have engineered this situation to play out exactly as it did. Who knows? But Joseph 0.84

00:07:31.800 wasn't satisfied to simply put the video up and leave it at that. Of course, he then proceeds to

00:07:36.400 dig up this woman's name and other pictures of her and post them online. Also, he even posts the name

00:07:43.020 of her dog. For some reason, he posts the town where she lives and then he finds out where she works

00:07:50.660 or worked, I should say. And he posts that information. And then he personally contacts her boss

00:07:57.220 by the name of Derek Anderson at a company called Bevy to try and get her fired. And obviously he

00:08:03.560 succeeds. So within hours of the original out of context 15 second video being posted, the woman has

00:08:09.840 lost her job, lost her reputation, her privacy, probably most of her friends given where she lives.

00:08:17.960 Derek Anderson, her former boss, tweeted this.

00:08:20.200 Uh, Bevy has zero tolerance for discriminatory behavior of any kind. Yesterday, an employee engaged

00:08:26.860 in behavior contrary to our values and has been terminated. We apologize deeply to all involved.

00:08:33.120 Now, how does he know what sort of behavior she engaged in? There couldn't have been enough time to

00:08:38.080 actually investigate the situation thoroughly. I mean, we don't know, but that doesn't matter. All he knows

00:08:44.420 is that Frederick Joseph says that his feelings were hurt and that's all the information he needs.

00:08:50.200 Now, for his part, for his part, uh, after randomly ruining the stranger's life for no reason,

00:08:55.760 Frederick Joseph posted a follow-up video encouraging everybody, white people namely,

00:09:00.840 to, uh, learn the right lessons from this incident. Watch this.

00:09:05.040 So I was just told, um, that Bevy has terminated Emma Sarli after her racist attack against my fiance and I

00:09:13.280 in the dog park. And while it's unfortunate, um, that she had to lose her job, um, I do think that

00:09:19.780 this brings up an important conversation about, uh, accountability, um, especially in a country

00:09:24.880 where, um, black and brown people, um, marginalized people as a whole have seen so little of it,

00:09:30.580 um, oftentimes, right. Um, you know, having to bear the burden of racism, sexism, homophobia,

00:09:37.180 et cetera. Um, I think that it's important that people know that there are consequences,

00:09:41.240 consequences, uh, for their actions. Right. And I don't think that it's, um, up to victims to have

00:09:47.360 to coddle, um, you know, people who are engaging in abuse. Um, you know, when I woke up yesterday

00:09:53.920 morning, um, I didn't expect to have to be a part of this, um, conversation. Um, I didn't expect to go

00:10:00.080 to the dog park as a black person, um, and have to receive, um, you know, racism. Uh, you know,

00:10:06.760 so while again, it is unfortunate what happened, I hope that, you know, Emma learns from this. I hope

00:10:12.100 that, um, other people learn from this who engage in abusive, racist, um, and destructive behavior,

00:10:19.280 because ultimately, um, whether Emma lost her job or not, doesn't take away the trauma that my

00:10:24.880 fiance and I have, it doesn't take away, um, the feeling of, um, feeling like anything, um, racist

00:10:31.580 can happen anywhere. So, uh, I don't think that people should be coddled. Um, and I do think that

00:10:36.560 consequences are important. So hopefully this is a learning lesson for everybody. A learning lesson.

00:10:42.560 So the rule maintains here, the rule I've told you about anytime someone says they've done or said

00:10:47.440 something in order to start a conversation, they're always full of it. 100% of the time.

00:10:52.580 And here yet again, well, it brings up an important conversation. It's unfortunate. She had to lose

00:10:58.080 her job. She had to lose her job. It's unfortunate after I have deliberately made sure that she loses 0.89

00:11:06.060 her job after I spent my weekend trying to make sure that this woman lost her job. It's unfortunate 0.99

00:11:12.820 that it happened. It had to happen. It's just how the stars aligned. You know, it's fate. What could I do

00:11:19.020 about it? Well, it turns out I could do a lot to make sure she loses her job because that's what I 1.00

00:11:23.460 spent my weekend doing. He says he was traumatized. He's traumatized by this little white woman at a

00:11:31.400 dog park. When, when I was a kid, you know, if a guy had, had claimed to have been traumatized

00:11:42.300 by, by, by, by words that someone else had said, much less words that a girl has said to you,

00:11:50.800 you'd be mocked ruthlessly. Then you're going to suffer real trauma. That that's, that's the kind of

00:11:57.980 social sin in going around saying, I was traumatized by those words you said to me.

00:12:04.080 That would stay with you forever. You know, if you said that in third grade,

00:12:09.920 10 years later, people would still be talking about it and making fun of you for it.

00:12:15.200 But this is how bullying works now. This is the, this is the, the power of victimhood.

00:12:24.380 The bully asserts his power by affecting powerlessness,

00:12:29.160 by claiming that he is the one who is traumatized while he at least tries to cause trauma to other

00:12:38.460 people. I would say that's, that's real trauma when you, when you have the, the internet lynch

00:12:45.520 mob coming after you, you lose your job and everything else. And I say all this knowing by

00:12:50.620 the way, that this, this woman, um, I'm going to assume a pretty good chance that she is

00:12:58.680 a leftist herself given where just based on where she lives alone.

00:13:06.340 And, and you, so you might say, this is another example of the left eating its own.

00:13:10.800 Perhaps so, but it's still a problem because it's yet again, the bully asserting the power

00:13:19.240 of victimhood. It's just not possible to have a functioning society this way.

00:13:25.100 You know, it was one thing when the strong used to subjugate the weak by imposing their strength.

00:13:33.920 Now they subjugate the weak by pretending to be weaker.

00:13:38.980 Which in the end we find out is a much worse situation. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:15:05.960 this, uh, Loudoun County rally we've got coming up on September 28th. That's, uh, tomorrow. We're

00:15:13.260 going to be in, in Loudoun County, uh, at, uh, 4 PM in Ashburn, Virginia, right outside of the,

00:15:19.660 uh, the school board building. And, you know, I shared with you how they changed the rules at

00:15:26.000 the last minute. I'm sure it was entirely coincidental. I had announced my plans to come

00:15:32.660 speak at the, I'm going to speak at the rally. They can't stop that from happening. That's all

00:15:36.360 that was always going to happen. Um, but also I was going to go to go in and speak and deliver

00:15:42.280 some thoughts to the actual school board. And they started changing, they started changing things.

00:15:46.340 They, uh, they shortened the speaking time to a minute. So they did that. They also moved up the

00:15:51.720 speaking time. We, you know, so that it, so that it would, so that it would overlap with the rally.

00:15:55.760 So we had to push the rally back to four o'clock instead of doing five o'clock. Uh, so they did all

00:15:59.280 that that was expected. And then at the very last minute, they say, Oh, you know what? We've, uh,

00:16:03.480 we've just decided a new rule here where you have to be a resident of Loudoun County in order to speak

00:16:08.960 at the Loudoun County school board meeting. Uh, and you have to prove your residence with an ID or a

00:16:15.120 lease agreement or, you know, mortgage statement or utility bill or something. Um, now we, we know why

00:16:24.080 they made this change, but you have to think about it. They're trying to exclude me. Okay. It's,

00:16:29.800 that's pretty clear. Unless it's all, this is one big coincidence. We think about who else they've

00:16:35.040 excluded, by the way, you know, with a rule like this, this means that, um, if you're a grandparent,

00:16:41.340 uncle, aunt, you know, relative of a, of a child in the school district, and you want to speak on

00:16:47.860 their behalf, because as a family member, you're concerned about what's happening. You can't speak.

00:16:51.660 You're excluded. Not to mention, as we reviewed last week, all of these schools get federal funding,

00:17:01.060 which means that all of us in the country are funding, are personally funding every single school.

00:17:09.120 Uh, we all have a stake in it. All of our money is attending all of these schools,

00:17:14.040 which means that we should have a say. So anyway, as they made this, um, this coincidental change to

00:17:20.400 require for this meeting, people to be residents. I also, and this is really incidental and just,

00:17:27.540 it's really is a coincidence. And I, and I, I'd actually been thinking about this for a while that,

00:17:32.140 um, I would love to have a place in Loudoun County. I've been thinking about this and I finally decided

00:17:37.520 to pull the trigger last week, you know, right after Loudoun County made their announcement.

00:17:42.800 And so now I'm going to be leasing, um, a home in Loudoun County. I did find, um, a, a homeowner

00:17:49.860 there, property owner who was willing to give me a very competitive rate. And so I'm very excited

00:17:54.900 that now I, and I'll, and I'll have the lease agreement, which I will present, um, while I'm

00:18:00.040 walking into the school board meeting tomorrow. So I'm very excited about that. I am a Virginia

00:18:04.000 resident. I'm really excited. I'm a proud Virginian. Um, and I couldn't be happier about

00:18:12.180 that. So I'll see you at the school board meeting tomorrow. All right, let's start with this.

00:18:17.920 Liz Cheney was, uh, she of course is the Democrats and the media's favorite Republican. And we'll see

00:18:24.400 why here. She was being interviewed on 60 minutes and they, they got into the issue, uh, you know,

00:18:29.120 into social issues, cultural issues. And here's what Liz Cheney had to say. 1.00

00:18:35.000 Your sister's gay. She's married. She has children. And in 2013, you came out against same-sex marriage 0.99

00:18:43.360 while your father went the other way. And it was looked upon as courageous when he did that.

00:18:50.960 How do you defend what you did? I was wrong. Um, I was wrong. Uh, I love my sister very much.

00:18:59.120 Uh, I, uh, uh, uh, love, uh, her family very much. Uh, and, uh, and, and I was wrong. It's a,

00:19:08.160 it's a very personal issue and very personal for my family. I, uh, believe that my dad was right.

00:19:15.540 And my sister and I have had that conversation. Wow. I was not expecting that.

00:19:22.040 You know, this, this, this is an issue that, um, we have to recognize, uh, you know, as, as human beings,

00:19:30.900 that we need to work against discrimination, uh, of all kinds, uh, in our country, in our state.

00:19:38.880 We were at, at an event a few nights ago and, and, uh, there was a young woman who said she doesn't feel

00:19:44.720 safe, uh, sometimes, uh, because she's transgender and nobody should feel unsafe. Freedom means freedom 0.97

00:19:52.680 for everybody. Okay. None of that meant anything at all. Uh, it did sound like she said human beings,

00:20:00.320 like a green bean. That's beside the point, but, uh, none of that. That's just, that's just a far

00:20:07.040 left claptrap is all, all that is. I just don't believe it's starting with the issue of, of same

00:20:13.800 sex marriage. You know, you'll notice she wasn't, she says, Oh, I was wrong about that. I've changed

00:20:20.140 my mind. There's this follow-up question that amazingly you never hear in the media,

00:20:27.580 but you think it'd be any normal person's follow-up, which is, Oh, why? Why did you change your mind

00:20:34.340 about this? Why did you initially believe that marriage is between a man and a woman and what

00:20:42.520 made you change your mind? And what do you think marriage is now? So you believed marriage is a,

00:20:50.200 is an institution, which by definition, because that was always the argument for the advocates of

00:20:58.840 quote unquote, traditional marriage. The argument was never that, uh, it should be illegal for gay

00:21:07.020 men to get married or for lesbians to get married. That was never the argument. The argument is that

00:21:12.620 marriage is a particular thing. It has a definition. It serves a certain function in society. And that is

00:21:19.840 the function that the function is supposed to be to serve as the basis for, uh, the family and the

00:21:25.760 family itself is the, is the cornerstone of society of, of, of human civilization of the

00:21:33.100 civilization of all human beings. Um, that was the argument. You know, it's not that gay people 1.00

00:21:42.440 should be prevented from getting married. It's that they can't because marriage isn't that. That's not

00:21:50.600 a marriage is. Marriage is, it has a few defining features. One of them is that it is a fundamentally

00:22:00.040 in principle procreative union. Okay. There are couples who can't conceive because of, because of

00:22:10.040 illness or, or birth defect or whatever, but that does not change what marriage is in principle.

00:22:17.340 And it just doesn't change the fact that the heterosexual union is in principle, um, a procreative 0.95

00:22:26.440 union. So that was the argument. Um, and you know, I, I think it was a pretty good argument.

00:22:33.820 I still stand by that argument personally. And, you know, unlike people like Liz Cheney and so,

00:22:40.840 and so many other alleged conservatives and Republicans, I feel better. I feel even more

00:22:47.300 sure of the arguments I made defending quote unquote traditional marriage years ago today than I did

00:22:53.640 even then. What we've seen happen in the intervening years has only reinforced my belief

00:23:00.960 in what marriage actually is. And part of that is because we've seen exactly the slippery slope that

00:23:10.160 we predicted has played out by what would happen in society, especially with the institution of

00:23:16.680 marriage, when you get rid of this, of this definition. So that has reinforced my views,

00:23:21.580 but also because here we are years later when the pro-gay marriage side has, has won the argument.

00:23:28.240 I mean, they've certainly won the argument, um, in society anyway, there's no doubt about that.

00:23:32.140 They've won it culturally, but years later, they still haven't told us what marriage is now.

00:23:41.420 All they said was, Oh no, it's not a procreative union between man and woman. 0.99

00:23:47.880 And so we've been waiting around to find out, okay, uh, what, then what is it now? What is it

00:23:53.080 exactly? What is marriage? Why do we have it? Why do we need it? And, and so who, who should be

00:24:03.200 included in it? Well, you know, you think gay couples, anybody else. And if we are now limiting

00:24:12.160 this to, you know, um, heterosexual adult single couples, you know, two people and now, and we've

00:24:21.640 expanded it also to be gay couples. Can we expand it beyond that? If not, why not? What is it?

00:24:29.100 They've never come up with an answer because there isn't one. If marriage is not the foundation for

00:24:37.420 the family, if it's not a procreative union between, between man and woman, then it's,

00:24:42.300 then it's not anything. Then there's no reason to redefine it. It's just nothing.

00:24:45.760 Then it's just people that have decided that they want to live with each other. Okay.

00:24:54.620 There's no reason to call that anything special. There's no reason to treat it specially.

00:25:00.540 There's no reason to put any limitations on it whatsoever.

00:25:06.160 You know, that's the, that's what we had been saying back before gay marriage became the law of 0.88

00:25:13.180 the land. And that argument has been proven correct. So that's what I would say about it.

00:25:21.740 I would love to hear from Liz Cheney or any of these other Republicans that have had a change of

00:25:25.220 heart, why they had the change of heart. They thought marriage was a particular thing 10 years ago.

00:25:32.140 They don't think it's that thing anymore. Why? And what would they say it is now?

00:25:35.640 We don't get that answer. And then she also throws in the, uh, the transgender bit as well. 1.00

00:25:43.600 And why is this really happening? I mean, what's the real answer? If you were to get her real answer,

00:25:48.360 if you were to ask and get the real answer, real answer is that she never had any opinion about

00:25:53.100 marriage. She doesn't care about that. She doesn't care about any of these issues. She's a politician 1.00

00:25:59.140 saying what she thinks she needs to say. That of course is the real and sort of boring answer,

00:26:03.180 but that's the fact. And so she'll adopt the most far left positions that she needs to. And now

00:26:10.820 she's also doing it with, uh, transgenderism as well. Wasn't even asked about that. Throws that in 0.99

00:26:16.080 also. Um, and if you want to understand how, how deep the rot goes in the Republican party. So that's

00:26:26.740 Liz Cheney for you, who is a leftist. And that's my issue with her. A lot of Republicans, 0.99

00:26:33.080 a lot of conservatives don't like her because she doesn't like Trump. I don't really care about

00:26:36.700 that. I don't think people are defined based on their opinion of a guy. I don't care who the guy

00:26:42.940 is. And that includes Donald Trump. I'm not defining anyone or making any sweeping judgments about them

00:26:50.460 based on their opinion of a guy, especially a politician. I mean, I'm sympathetic to anyone

00:26:55.760 who hates a politician. I don't care who the politician is. There are good reasons to hate

00:27:00.120 every single one of them. So that's not my problem. My problem is that she's a leftist.

00:27:06.160 My problem is what you just heard in that one minute clip there.

00:27:11.480 So she's, she's a persona non grata in the Republican party. Uh, she gets kicked out of 0.99

00:27:17.700 her position of leadership and in her place goes Elise Stefanik, who has the endorsement of Donald

00:27:25.240 Trump. And is Elise Stefanik any better? No, Stefanik voted for the Equality Act two years ago. 1.00

00:27:34.560 The Equality Act, which would impose among other things, the trans agenda on a federal level across

00:27:40.200 the entire country. I mean, open up every single bathroom, sports team, locker room, all of it across

00:27:45.840 the country, federally. It would erase religious liberty. It would be the final erasure of that's

00:27:52.920 out the window, not to mention basic truth, biology, common sense, all of that's out the window from

00:27:58.180 the Equality Act. I mean, this is, uh, I think it would be an exaggeration to say the most radically

00:28:03.620 far left piece of legislation ever written is the Equality Act. And Elise Stefanik voted for it.

00:28:09.740 And she has the endorsement of Donald Trump and she, and she's the one who replaces Liz Cheney. 0.86

00:28:18.060 The conservatives are sat, there's plenty of conservatives. So good, good. We got Stefanik

00:28:21.840 in there instead of that dastardly Liz Cheney. She's worse. The only difference is that she 1.00

00:28:27.140 pretends to like Trump. That another reason why we can't let, you know, when we're deciding who the

00:28:36.080 leaders of the conservative movement are going to be, who the leaders of the Republican party are

00:28:40.300 going to be. We can't let Donald Trump be the centerpiece of that. It can't be that we're

00:28:48.460 deciding it based on what, what these people say about this guy, Donald Trump. Because if you decide

00:28:54.500 it based on that, you end up with a person in leadership who voted for the Equality Act, but just

00:28:59.500 so happens to say nice things about Trump. It's a total disaster. I mean, the, the rot is, is goes

00:29:06.860 all the way to the core, goes down to the roots of the Republican party. I don't think there's any

00:29:11.580 salvaging it probably. All right. Um, let's move on some clips over on CNN that we got to play.

00:29:18.460 Uh, I'm look, I'm no economics expert. You know that. So maybe I'm the one who's clueless here. It's

00:29:23.540 possible, but I want you to listen to this Washington post reporter on CNN with Brian Stelter.

00:29:28.380 And you tell me if this makes, um, any sense at all. But in fact, the bill itself will not cost

00:29:35.480 $3.5 trillion in the sense that it will be entirely, or at least partly paid for. So the

00:29:40.440 actual cost in terms of deficits will be smaller than that, perhaps even zero. Although I think

00:29:44.980 that's unlikely and it's not even, um, you know, fully spending. It's not really right to call it a

00:29:49.640 $3.5 trillion spending bill because there's probably about a trillion dollars of tax cuts in it too.

00:29:54.300 Uh, what? So she's talking about the $3.5 trillion spending bill.

00:30:03.240 And she says that it's not really spending because it won't be paid with debt. It's going to be,

00:30:09.920 it's all going to be paid for. That's not actually true, but let's leave that totally to the side.

00:30:15.080 Her argument is that if you, if you buy something and pay for it up front, it's free. That's what

00:30:24.820 she just said. This is a Washington post reporter on CNN. Of course, there's no follow-up on that.

00:30:29.400 She wasn't challenged. Stelter didn't, didn't stop and say, well, wait a second. What?

00:30:34.860 So what she's saying is that if you go to Costco and you buy one of their TVs for a drastically reduced

00:30:44.960 price, you know, and you, and you pay with cash up or you pay with a debit card up front, then it's

00:30:51.140 free. Um, I bought this TV on my debit card for $600. Therefore the TV was free.

00:30:59.260 Um, what can you say about that? It makes, that's just not, I don't, I don't even have to be an,

00:31:09.680 at an economics 101 level to know that's, this isn't, this isn't economics at all. This is basic

00:31:15.180 logic here. That's not how it works. If you paid for it, then you're paying for it. If it's a $3.5

00:31:21.920 trillion spending bill, then that's how much money it costs. Even if it doesn't add to the, uh,

00:31:27.880 to the deficit at all, which of course it will. Let's play a little bit more from Brian Stelter

00:31:34.040 because why not? He also had Nicole Hannah Jones on, um, and, uh, he asks her, you know, he's

00:31:40.360 throwing some real hard balls at her, asking her some tough questions. Let's listen to that.

00:31:45.320 But is this just the white lash in another form, Nicole? Just, you know, some white Americans afraid

00:31:50.660 to deal with the reality. So they don't want to hear it. So they try to ban it. And then someday

00:31:54.700 their kids are going to laugh it off. I mean, I don't know. I think that this is a, a particularly

00:32:01.300 dangerous moment because there's one thing to, um, have right-wing media saying they don't just,

00:32:07.340 they don't like the 1619 project. They don't agree with the 1619 project, but it's quite something

00:32:11.800 else to have, uh, politicians from state legislators down to school boards actually making, uh, prohibitions

00:32:18.840 against teaching a work of American journalism or really any of these other texts. The fact that we are

00:32:24.560 all talking about, uh, this, this fake controversy called critical race theory really speaks to how

00:32:30.440 successful, uh, the, the public, uh, propaganda campaign has been. I don't think it's just about,

00:32:37.260 you know, scared white parents. It's about a politician savvy, savvily stoking racial resentment

00:32:44.580 in response, I think, to the global protest last year, um, in order to divide Americans from each other.

00:32:50.360 Uh, first of all, pet, pet peeve here. I hate it when we change words like this in a, in a, in a

00:32:58.300 totally unnecessary way. So he says, is this a white lash against the 1619 project?

00:33:03.940 What do you need? Why, why do you have to put white in there? Do you think the real, 0.90

00:33:08.480 the original word is black lash? White is not the opposite of it's backlash and white is not the 0.73

00:33:14.460 opposite of back. Why can't it just be a backlash from white people? White lash. So you've got white 0.74

00:33:22.600 lash and black lash is what's going on, I guess. Um, and then, and then of course, everything she 0.99

00:33:29.400 said about the 1619 project is, is nonsense, but this is a good example of, uh, of what the left

00:33:34.860 does. And they're, it's very effective where they take something that at the very least you'd think

00:33:41.580 they'd have to admit is controversial. They're trying to take CRT, critical race theory. Um,

00:33:47.260 these radical ideas of race, um, about race idea, you know, they, they say that these ideas,

00:33:55.360 oh, they're only in the higher academic and this, these are just theories that people are batting

00:34:00.200 around in law school and all that kind of stuff. Um, and that used to be the case.

00:34:05.760 These used to be ideas and theories that, uh, you had to go into university and find them

00:34:15.640 and involve yourself in these subjects in order to encounter them. That used to be true,

00:34:20.940 but it's not anymore because it's filtering on down into not just grade school, but into every

00:34:27.120 facet of society. And this is a, an intentional, this is not organic. This is an intentional thing

00:34:34.800 that is happening. It's being engineered. There are people advocating for it saying,

00:34:39.700 let's take these ideas about race and let's inject them into every corner of society, especially into

00:34:46.560 grade schools. Now, at the very least you would think that the people who are advocating this

00:34:52.260 would have to admit that this, look, this is a radical change we're doing. We know that this is,

00:34:58.060 this is a dramatic shift. We understand that it's controversial, but here's our argument for it.

00:35:02.860 Here's why we want to do it. We know it might be a little bit startling, but here's why we want to

00:35:07.960 do it. They're not doing that. They make the radical shift. They impose it on us. They don't

00:35:16.180 really give a choice. And then as soon as it's done, they act like you're the crazy one. You're 0.96

00:35:22.340 the radical one for, for objecting. They're not going to admit that their radicalism is radicalism at

00:35:30.100 all. It's always the people objecting who are the radicals. One other clip to play. This is Joe

00:35:38.100 Biden on Friday keeping the whip gate going, but he actually takes it one step further. We heard the

00:35:47.980 lie about how border patrol agents were whipping people, whipping Haitian immigrants. That was a

00:35:53.080 total lie. It didn't happen. It never happened. He goes further than that. Even let's listen to what

00:35:58.020 he says. You said on the campaign trail that you were going to restore the moral standing of the

00:36:03.200 U.S., that you were going to immediately end Trump's assault on the dignity of immigrant communities.

00:36:09.000 Given what we saw at the border this week, have you failed in that promise? And this is happening

00:36:13.640 under your watch. Do you take responsibility for the chaos that's unfolding? Of course I take

00:36:18.140 responsibility. I'm president, but it was horrible what to see, as you saw. To see people treated like

00:36:23.580 they did. Horses barely running them over, people being strapped. It's outrageous. I promise you,

00:36:29.500 those people will pay. They will be an investigation underway now, and there will be consequences.

00:36:35.940 There will be consequences. It's an embarrassment, but it's beyond an embarrassment. It's dangerous.

00:36:41.760 It's wrong. It sends the wrong message around the world. It sends the wrong message at home.

00:36:46.760 It's simply not who we are. Yeah, you're right. That's not who we are, because that didn't happen.

00:36:53.020 I don't know what being strapped means. People being strapped. Is that an expression from his

00:36:58.280 childhood in 1832? I don't know. But horses running people over, that wasn't even a part of

00:37:05.280 the original talking point. He added that one in. So the Border Patrol agents are down there running the

00:37:12.260 Haitian immigrants over with their horses, galloping through, running them down, trampling them into 1.00

00:37:17.580 the dust. That's what he's telling us now. He just added that in there. And once again, no follow-up 0.94

00:37:25.160 from the media. Nobody's saying, wait, they ran them over with horses, you say. Where did that happen?

00:37:30.460 That's an interesting detail. It doesn't matter. I think it's simply make things up. Makes no difference.

00:37:37.920 The Border Patrol agents are down there running them over with horses. There was one guy,

00:37:41.380 jumped off the horse. He picked up a Haitian immigrant, body slammed him. This is not who we 1.00

00:37:47.640 are. No relation to the truth whatsoever and no concern with the truth. Finally, here's a headline

00:37:58.300 from the Daily Mail that I thought was interesting. It says, why are so many suffering dreadful COVID

00:38:02.800 symptoms but still testing negative? Sarah Vine was convinced she had it, but countless tests said

00:38:07.920 otherwise. And she's far from alone. So what is going on? Now reading a little bit here, I don't

00:38:14.540 know who Sarah Vine is. Maybe we'll find out. A nasty dry cough, sniffles, and a thumping headache,

00:38:20.660 burning muscle pain. And if you didn't feel miserable enough, everything you eat tastes like dust.

00:38:25.440 It's a list of symptoms that the British public have become all too familiar with over the past 18

00:38:29.900 months. Classic COVID or is it? A fortnight ago, Mail on Sunday columnist Sarah Vine, this is what I

00:38:36.580 love about British media, by the way. They use terms like fortnight. They just drop that in there

00:38:41.120 with no explanation. Of course, every American reader goes, what's a fortnight again? How many

00:38:47.080 nights ago is that? Four? I don't think so. A fortnight ago, Mail on Sunday columnist Sarah Vine wrote

00:38:53.580 about how she had been battling exactly this combination of ailments, but multiple tests, both the gold

00:38:58.740 standard PCR and rapid lateral flows, had come back negative. Speaking on our medical minefield

00:39:04.500 podcast, the 54-year-old mother of two described the phenomenon as spooky. She said, quote, it's so

00:39:11.100 very weird. I don't really get ill. And when I do, it doesn't tend to stop me doing things. But this

00:39:15.980 really stopped me in my tracks. And it seems Sarah isn't alone. Her original revelation triggered a

00:39:20.520 deluge of letters from readers suffering in the same way and equally desperate for answers about their

00:39:25.660 mystery illness. Some, like 23-year-old Molly Whitaker, have been suffering, like Sarah, with

00:39:31.300 lingering symptoms. It started with a continuous cough, loss of taste and smell, and a slight

00:39:35.400 temperature. I've done multiple COVID tests, PCR, all negative. I'm now three weeks later on a course

00:39:42.420 of antibiotics, but they're not helping. Another reader, Marie Morgan, wrote, I've never felt so ill

00:39:47.740 in my life. For three weeks, I experienced high temperatures, prolonged bouts of deep cold and

00:39:51.660 shivering. But at night, the sweats were so bad, I completely soaked two or three times.

00:39:55.800 And then on and on and on. Okay. All of these people, mostly women, complaining of these symptoms.

00:40:02.720 And they're saying it's spooky. It's weird. They have these COVID symptoms, but the tests come back

00:40:08.180 negative. What we're meant to take from this is that the COVID is far more widespread than we're even

00:40:14.980 being told. And even if the tests come back negative, you probably still have it. I think

00:40:21.760 that's the implication here. At least that's what we're supposed to take away from. I have another

00:40:28.080 theory, though. Let me see if I can clear this up. This spooky mystery. Here it is. That COVID symptoms

00:40:37.820 are also the symptoms for the common cold. And for the flu. And for literally dozens of other viruses.

00:40:47.900 I mean, probably any virus you can name, actually, causes at least some of the COVID symptoms.

00:40:57.300 That's because COVID symptoms are extremely broad. Okay. So when you get a headache and you have a

00:41:06.580 stuffy nose, or you have a cough, those aren't COVID symptoms. Those are just illness symptoms.

00:41:17.300 Not, maybe I simplify it and summarize it. And I'll do it this way. Not everything is COVID.

00:41:25.960 May shock you to learn that. There are still lots of other illnesses out there, and it's not all COVID.

00:41:32.000 We now live for a world where we're trying to get rid of binaries, at least in some areas. It's

00:41:41.260 interesting that now we live in this binary where, you know, if you're sick, you either have COVID or

00:41:49.500 you have COVID-like symptoms. And those are the only two options. It's kind of amazing. This is an

00:41:57.800 entire article in a major publication talking about how people with the cold, how it's spooky that some

00:42:05.280 women have a cold. Ooh, spooky. All right. Let's move on now to reading the comments. 1.00

00:42:14.020 Who's rockin' polka dot and flannel shirts without shame? Do you know their name? They're the sweet baby gang.

00:42:28.160 All right. Um, this is from Ultra Galaxyify.

00:42:34.280 On the subject of culture, I agree with Matt on everything except for one thing. A culture can only

00:42:40.300 be destroyed when the people are either killed off or completely forget it. The destroyed monuments

00:42:44.800 and textbooks that tell us our history are certainly important in preserving our past,

00:42:48.780 which is an important component of any culture, but it won't outright kill it. The only way to do

00:42:53.040 that is to kill slash brainwash the people, which the far left is trying like hell to do, especially 1.00

00:42:57.500 the latter. Uh, yeah, destroying the monuments doesn't, that's not what, what, um, kills the 0.97

00:43:04.080 culture that in and of itself doesn't erase history. Um, that is speaking of symptoms. That's a,

00:43:11.180 that's a symptom of the culture being destroyed and being replaced by not a new culture, but an

00:43:18.180 anti-culture. That's also brings us back to the issue of marriage. Get rid of the definition of

00:43:27.020 marriage, but don't replace it with a new one. It's not like we have now a new idea about marriage.

00:43:32.420 Instead, we just, marriage is nothing. We don't have any ideas about it. Um, Vanessa says the public

00:43:40.300 school is becoming a brave new world education. Yeah, I, I think that's the right, more, more than a

00:43:47.280 1984 Orwellian thing. I think the public school and our culture in general more closely resembles

00:43:54.180 a brave new world. Um, I've always thought that Huxley got nailed it a little bit better than

00:43:59.980 Orwell did. Uh, Mike says, pretty sure I saw Matt screaming and running out of an auto parts store

00:44:05.280 the other day. Couldn't catch him to get an autograph. Sweet daddy Walsh is fast. It's true.

00:44:09.740 This happens to me all the time, which is why I always have my phone on me so I can go to rockauto.com.

00:44:17.560 Uh, Lone Star Carl says, I'd forgive Matt for leaving a shopping cart out, but I will burn my

00:44:21.800 SBG shirt if I catch him jogging outside with a mask on. Well, you would never see that, but if you

00:44:27.020 did, but you have my permission to walk up to me and smack me right in the face. In fact, you have 1.00

00:44:33.220 my permission to do that to anyone wearing a mask while jogging outside. Just kidding.

00:44:40.020 Sort of. Helena says, yesterday was my sister's birthday and she, who's not a member of SBG said to

00:44:45.640 me, you have to explain the sweet baby gang to me because it's my birthday. So I tried and it didn't go

00:44:51.520 so well. And this is why I keep, I hear, I hear this from people all the time. They tell me about

00:44:57.240 the awkward situations they've been put in because they tried to explain the sweet baby gang. We don't

00:45:01.760 explain it. We don't talk about it. It just is. And we leave it be. That's all. Um, and Don Smith says

00:45:10.000 in my school, Bethesda high school in Maryland, I'm sometimes the only one who stands for the pledge

00:45:14.880 of allegiance. It's terrible. Uh, yeah, I, I, I hear this a lot from kids now. I mean, this is a,

00:45:21.600 this is another difference between now when I, now I can remember going to school and the pledge

00:45:25.440 in some classes, there'd be a couple of kids who didn't stand for it. And usually it was an issue

00:45:30.500 because the teachers would say, you got to stand for the pledge. And there's, there'd be this tension.

00:45:35.400 But now from what I'm hearing increasingly, it's, it's completely flipped.

00:45:40.080 And you've got a couple that made me stand for the pledge and everybody else sits,

00:45:44.740 which is obviously not a good sign about our culture. And I say that even though,

00:45:49.360 you know, I'm an, I'm an advocate for the pledge because of what it represents

00:45:55.120 and having kids being in a country where most kids won't even stand for it. That's not a good sign.

00:46:04.980 But in a perfect world, I wish that we could have a conversation about the pledge and the words

00:46:09.020 that it actually contains because, you know, I, I have been, and it seems almost academic now,

00:46:14.180 but I'm sort of, I've been a critic of, of the way that the pledge is written only because

00:46:18.600 there's the one word in the pledge, um, indivisible, right? The, the, the idea that this,

00:46:26.520 that the country is indivisible, that's actually not true. And it's important to note that it's not

00:46:32.420 true. The country is divisible. The states are not bound together forever, eternally.

00:46:37.080 Um, they are supposed to, we are supposed to have state's rights. And I believe you should have

00:46:44.240 the right in a union. If it's a real union, you should have the right to terminate it if you want

00:46:48.920 to. And if the people of the state choose that. So I'm not a fan of the indivisible line there,

00:46:55.120 but we're not at a point where we can even have a conversation like that. Um, when most people won't

00:47:00.200 stand in, you know, I think the kids who aren't standing, it's not because they're advocates of

00:47:03.740 states' rights. I think I could probably assume that. The good news is that this new text, this

00:47:08.980 new, uh, Texas law banning abortion after six weeks will save a lot of lives. It's also driving

00:47:14.640 the left insane, which is kind of fun to watch. But, um, the other part of this, the bad news

00:47:19.980 sometimes is that, uh, for, for some people, when this topic of abortion comes up, even people who

00:47:24.400 are pro-life, they're not always prepared to engage with it and engage with the arguments

00:47:28.880 and represent their side. Well, which is why, uh, the new book, what to say when the complete

00:47:34.560 new guide to discussing abortion was written and you got to check it out. It's also why I chose to

00:47:38.500 write the forward for the book because I found it very useful. Even as someone who talks about

00:47:42.020 these issues every single day, I've argued with many people about it. I still found the book to

00:47:46.080 be very useful. Since it's released, it has been already a number one Amazon new release and a number

00:47:50.740 two Amazon bestseller. And it's already on its second printing. It's an easy book to use,

00:47:54.480 tells you what to say, what not to say. And it's proven arguments have worked with everybody,

00:47:59.060 including, uh, former work people who've worked in the abortion industry, including

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00:48:38.320 listen to podcasts and leave a five-star review if you like what you hear. Now let's get to our daily

00:48:42.360 cancellation. You know, if you're still a fan of any Hollywood film franchise, now would be a good

00:48:51.000 time to abandon ship. I mean, the problem with Hollywood franchises is, first of all, almost

00:48:56.300 all of them are lifeless and redundant as they exist only to perpetuate and profit off of the

00:49:00.900 brand. Of course, all movies are supposed to make money, but the difference is that franchises like

00:49:05.020 Marvel and Star Wars and others have no purpose beyond that. The next installment in the series

00:49:11.900 doesn't come into being because someone really wants to tell the story and convinces a studio to sign

00:49:18.000 on. Rather, the next installment is the result of people sitting around in a room and saying,

00:49:22.340 you know, we need to wring another 90 minutes out of this. Anyone got any ideas? As far as I'm

00:49:27.700 concerned, that's reason enough to stop watching these glorified cash grabs. The other is that every

00:49:32.840 single one of them has gone or will go woke. In fact, at this point, somewhat incredibly,

00:49:40.400 woke-ification comes before profitability on a studio's list of concerns. The films exist to keep the

00:49:46.420 brand relevant and make money off of them, yes. That's the motivation which spurs them into being.

00:49:50.800 That's why they're conceived. But the first priority upon conception is to make sure that the script is

00:49:55.200 orthodox and in keeping with the prevailing doctrines of the day. They'll actually sacrifice

00:49:59.960 some of the profits in order to do this. So in summary, before you sit down to watch any new

00:50:04.220 installment in any Hollywood franchise, you know from the start that it will be cynical left-wing

00:50:08.500 agitprop, which was made only to increase the studio's profits and brand awareness and to

00:50:13.220 propagate deranged leftist values. Any entertainment value outside of all that will

00:50:18.460 be an accidental byproduct. And of course, if you wish to be entertained, you must first assume the

00:50:24.460 mentality of a person with room temperature IQ and no standards or self-respect. And this mental

00:50:30.300 maneuver proves to be pretty easy for some people, probably because they don't have to assume that

00:50:34.820 mentality so much as they already have it going in. But these are all just things to keep in mind as

00:50:39.740 the new James Bond movie is set to release next week. I have no specific information confirming

00:50:44.100 this, but I can already guarantee that it will be the wokest James Bond film in the history of the

00:50:50.100 franchise. It couldn't exist in the year 2021 if it weren't. There have been some indications,

00:50:55.800 though, like the actress who plays the new Bond girl announced that her character will be the most

00:51:00.560 badass Bond girl in history. Of course, nobody watches James Bond hoping to see a badass Bond girl.

00:51:07.180 They want James Bond to be badass. The Bond girl is supposed to be pretty. That's really her only

00:51:12.000 job. At least it was her only job back before wokeness became the overriding priority. Indeed, 0.95

00:51:17.440 the push now is to turn the entire Bond franchise into a girl power vehicle. Lately, the cries have

00:51:24.840 been deafening from the media anyway, not so much from the movie going public, for a female James Bond.

00:51:31.280 With Daniel Craig leaving the role after this next film, it seems inevitable that the character will

00:51:36.920 finally undergo this gender transition. And many outlets have been publishing articles listing

00:51:41.520 helpful suggestions for which actress might be suitable to fill James Bond's shoes. Vogue,

00:51:47.160 for example, says that Cate Blanchett, Victoria Beckham, or Emily Blunt might be perfect for the

00:51:54.600 role. Yes, because when I think of someone who might be credibly portrayed as a kick-ass action hero who

00:52:00.720 can beat up a room full of bad guys and then drive away in their fancy sports car and make it to the

00:52:05.300 villain's lair just in time to vanquish him and foil his dastardly plot, when I think about that,

00:52:10.900 my mind immediately turns to Cate Blanchett. But this is the problem with female action heroes in 1.00

00:52:18.600 general. For all I know, Daniel Craig and Keanu Reeves and The Rock and even Liam Neeson might be big

00:52:25.840 softies who punch like girls in real life, but they have at least a screen presence and an aura 1.00

00:52:32.200 that makes them seem like the kinds of guys you wouldn't want to mess with.

00:52:37.120 Does any female actress really have that quality? Charlize Theron played an elite spy and assassin in 1.00

00:52:44.260 the movie Atomic Blonde a few years ago. Would anyone actually be worried if Charlize Theron was mad at

00:52:51.520 them in real life? Is anyone going to run away and say, I hope Charlize Theron doesn't beat me up?

00:52:56.500 Does Charlize Theron have any natural intimidation factor? Does Gal Gadot? Does Brie Larson?

00:53:04.740 See, this is the problem. Most female action movies come with this natural silliness factor. 1.00

00:53:12.880 And there's a certain silliness to all action films, but the ones that Reeves and Neeson and

00:53:16.820 Craig star in tend to also reach, sometimes successfully, sometimes not, for a certain dark

00:53:21.980 and gritty and serious tone. But you can't often do that with the female-led films. They all have to 0.99

00:53:27.940 be cartoons in the end, because when it comes down to it, you're still watching a hot 100-pound

00:53:32.840 supermodel do her best Jason Statham impression. And it's just kind of funny. Daniel Craig was asked

00:53:39.600 this question about whether there should be a female James Bond, and he said no. But he made sure to

00:53:44.600 qualify his answer by saying that there ought to be new franchises just as good as James Bond,

00:53:49.220 and similar to James Bond, built around female action stars. He argues that women deserve their 0.98

00:53:54.220 own heroes, rather than constantly appropriating already existing male heroes. And he's on the

00:53:59.600 right track with that answer, but he's missing something. And even if he's not missing this,

00:54:04.560 he would never say it out loud anyway. And it's this. Yes, there should be films about female heroes. 0.99

00:54:11.140 Yes, they should have their own films, rather than simply taking male characters and giving them

00:54:15.540 sex reassignments. But these women heroes should also be heroic in womanly ways. 1.00

00:54:24.600 Okay, rather than having female protagonists who are heroically masculine, why not female

00:54:30.300 protagonists who are heroically feminine? Not all heroism involves beating people up and driving

00:54:36.800 cars really fast. In fact, in real life, the vast majority of heroic acts don't include any of

00:54:42.860 that, unfortunately. I have known many heroic women in my life, and none of them, so far as I know,

00:54:50.320 have ever thrown a punch at all, which is good because they probably break their wrists if they did.

00:54:55.120 Physical courage is but one type. There's also moral courage, emotional courage, intellectual courage,

00:55:03.140 and all of these types of courage come wrapped up in what I would call maternal courage.

00:55:07.480 A good mother, like my wife, for example, shows courage every day, even though she may go her

00:55:12.980 whole life and never have to dropkick any assassin or defuse any bomb. Now, I realize that it's harder

00:55:19.700 to make a compelling film that showcases the quieter, less physical forms of courage, but these are the

00:55:27.180 very kinds of courage that society looks to women to exhibit and provide. Which means that if we really 0.61

00:55:33.700 want women represented on screen as female heroes, and not merely as female heroes pretending to be 0.86

00:55:40.740 male heroes, then it might be time to start investing in scripts and stories that have a little more

00:55:46.920 depth and a little more nuance. And that's why before she even exists, I have to today cancel

00:55:56.600 the female James Bond or Jane Bond or whatever we're going to call her. 0.99

00:56:00.400 And that'll do it for us today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.

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The Matt Walsh Show - September 27, 2021

Ep. 805 - The power of victimhood

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