The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 809 - Killing Your Children Is A Loving Act, According To Democrats

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, Democrats and abortion supporters ranted, raved, and cried

00:00:04.360 during a committee hearing on the Texas abortion law yesterday. We'll talk about that. Also,

00:00:07.620 the National School Board Association is asking the Biden administration's help in fighting back

00:00:11.760 against the, quote, domestic terrorists who are saying mean things to them during school board

00:00:15.940 meetings. And a Republican congressman says some brave and necessary things about the family and

00:00:20.820 responsibility during a hearing yesterday. And plus, Demi Lovato has an encounter with aliens,

00:00:25.960 and a New York Times op-ed argues that divorce is an act of, quote, radical self-love. We'll discuss

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00:01:54.300 That again is LifeLock.com slash Walsh for 25% off. Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee held a

00:02:01.440 hearing about the Texas abortion law. Now, I have been reliably informed that outsiders should not 1.00

00:02:07.220 get involved in the local politics of states where they don't live. I solved that problem, of course,

00:02:13.360 as you know, by moving to Virginia so that I could speak at a school board in Virginia.

00:02:16.540 And yet, so far as I know, none of the Democrats in Congress yesterday delivering tearful and angry

00:02:21.760 speeches about the Texas abortion law have actually bothered to move there first. That's because, as

00:02:26.580 we've seen, the outside agitator rule only ever applies to conservatives. I am allegedly not affected

00:02:31.960 by Loudoun County policies, which means I should not have involved myself in Loudoun County issues.

00:02:36.580 And yet Democrats from other states who are not affected by Texas laws can still involve themselves

00:02:41.540 in Texas issues. Those are the rules, as we have seen. And those rules freed up the Democrats for

00:02:47.460 the sickening and theatrical spectacle yesterday. One Democrat after another, along with abortionists 0.99

00:02:53.360 and others who were called in to testify, took turns in the spotlight, extolling the beauty and

00:02:59.440 wonder of dismembering babies. They were effusive in their praise of abortion, which is, for them,

00:03:04.440 the highest sacrament, the Holy of Holies, the most sacred of sacred rituals. One of the abortionists 1.00

00:03:09.640 called to testify actually made this point pretty clear. Listen.

00:03:14.640 SB8 has not only caused a near total abortion ban in Texas, it has made it extremely dangerous to be

00:03:21.280 pregnant in Texas, where our maternal morbidity and mortality rate is already unconscionably high,

00:03:28.680 especially for black women and pregnant people of color. Texas deserves better. 0.99

00:03:35.720 I know firsthand that abortion saves lives. For the thousands of people I've cared for,

00:03:41.560 abortion is a blessing. Abortion is an act of love. Abortion is freedom. We need federal protection now.

00:03:48.500 We need laws that elevate science and evidence and recognize the dignity and autonomy of people

00:03:53.480 accessing care. What a ghoul. What an absolute demon. She says abortion is a blessing. It's an 1.00

00:04:00.280 act of love. Freedom. But love for who, exactly? Freedom from what? Well, love for oneself, presumably.

00:04:08.640 And freedom from your child, from your responsibilities. She's correct, at least in one sense.

00:04:13.420 Abortion is an act of self-love. It is, in some ways, the ultimate act of self-love because you are

00:04:19.080 prioritizing your own comfort, convenience, and lifestyle above all else, above even your own

00:04:24.140 child. We'll have more on this concept of self-love in the daily cancellation at the end of the show.

00:04:29.000 Abortion is the high sacrament of leftism because leftism is a religion of the self. It is the worship

00:04:33.100 of the self, which is to say that it is Satanism. So there's a certain truth there. But as for the

00:04:38.500 freedom, that's illusory at best. A woman can kill her child to be free of the responsibilities of 1.00

00:04:44.000 parenthood, but she'll never really be free. Abortion kills the child. It doesn't erase the 1.00

00:04:49.100 fact that the child ever existed. It doesn't turn the clock back. So while she's free from the

00:04:54.620 responsibilities of motherhood, she will have substituted the strain of those responsibilities 1.00

00:04:58.900 with the crushing burden of guilt, heartbreak, and grief for the rest of her life. Even women who are

00:05:06.140 pro-abortion and post-abortive will admit to this, and yet they speak of freedom. It's not freedom.

00:05:12.800 It is rather trading one burden for another. And the new burden is much worse than the one you

00:05:17.900 were trying to escape. And then there was the ancient feminist Gloria Steinem, who testified 1.00

00:05:22.880 by video, apparently streaming via camcorder from the year 1994. And Steinem used her time to point

00:05:29.480 out that, hey, you know, Hitler also banned abortion. Coincidence? She thinks not.

00:05:35.180 That's why what's happening in Texas is not only a local issue or a women's issue. It's a step 0.67

00:05:42.540 against democracy, which allows us to control our own bodies and our own voices. Remember,

00:05:51.500 when Hitler was elected, and he was elected, his very first official act was to padlock the family 0.96

00:05:59.860 planning clinics and declare abortion a crime against the state. Mussolini did exactly the same 0.83

00:06:08.940 thing. Because they knew that controlling reproduction and nationalizing women's bodies 1.00

00:06:16.880 is the first step in a controlling state, an all-controlling state. The huge majority of

00:06:26.020 American women stand for democracy and in opposition to Texas Senate Bill 8. We do not want to have our 1.00

00:06:35.720 bodies nationalized. So Texas making its own laws is an attack on democracy, but Congress trying to

00:06:43.160 erase or undermine those laws from the federal position is not. But she says Hitler banned abortion.

00:06:53.680 And I guess that means that pro-lifers are Nazis. Of course, Hitler was also a conservationist. 0.60

00:06:58.480 He was also an environmentalist, which means that they're all Nazis too. And Hitler confiscated guns, 0.71

00:07:02.860 which makes the gun control crowd Nazis. Hitler also sometimes, from what I understand,

00:07:06.980 would eat cereal for breakfast. This casts sinister new light on anybody who's ever had a

00:07:11.580 bowl of fruity pebbles. As for Hitler's abortion policy, Steinem is leaving out an important detail.

00:07:17.900 Hitler banned abortion for ethnic Germans. He didn't want babies of the master race to be killed, 0.84

00:07:25.060 but he felt very different about babies of the undesirable races. For them, 1.00

00:07:30.120 he encouraged abortion or even mandated it. You see, Hitler believed in eugenics. So did Margaret 0.80

00:07:35.380 Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. The Hitler abortion comparison cuts against the pro-abortion

00:07:40.700 crowd because they, in fact, share many of his attitudes towards the procedure. Consider the fact

00:07:46.420 that Hitler and pro-abortion people in America in the year 2021 have the exact same attitude about

00:07:51.500 disabled babies in the womb. The vast majority of Down syndrome babies are aborted. In some Western

00:07:56.920 countries, Down syndrome people have been almost entirely exterminated. Hitler had the same approach 0.99

00:08:02.440 to the same group of people. He looks up from hell to the pro-abortion lobby and nods in approval.

00:08:08.320 No doubt looking forward to the day when the people in that lobby will be joining him. Speaking of which,

00:08:13.300 Ayanna Pressley shared her thoughts at the hearing as well. And one thing you know about her, 0.97

00:08:16.980 and you got to give her credit for this, she always stays on message. Listen.

00:08:19.960 These misguided bans will not actually prevent all abortions. They simply put safe and necessary

00:08:27.960 abortion care out of reach for our most vulnerable, specifically our lowest-income sisters, our queer,

00:08:34.020 trans, and non-binary siblings, black, Latinx, AAPI, immigrants, disabled, and indigenous folks.

00:08:41.980 And none of this is happenstance. It is precise. Like the roots of the anti-abortion movement,

00:08:47.920 these bans are rooted in patriarchy and white supremacy.

00:08:51.540 Always on message. Yes, queer, trans, and non-binary people are especially hurt by

00:08:56.680 anti-abortion laws. This claim is never explained, mostly because it is abject nonsense. 0.53

00:09:03.880 But Ayanna Pressley simply cannot give her opinion on any subject or talk about anything at all 0.97

00:09:09.420 without giving this list of special protected identities. I'm sure she's in like the drive-thru

00:09:14.220 line at Wendy's going, yes, I, along with the members of the trans, non-binary, queer,

00:09:18.080 indigenous, BIPOC, polyamorous, and Latinx communities, would like to order a Frosty.

00:09:23.120 So you want a Frosty for all those people or just yourself? I'm confused.

00:09:26.140 But out of everyone, Rashida Tlaib probably won the Oscar for best actress at the hearing yesterday.

00:09:31.940 Tlaib has taken on in recent times more of sort of the Ringo position in the squad,

00:09:36.600 the forgotten member. She doesn't get the same press. That used to be the case for Ayanna Pressley, 0.99

00:09:40.880 but it seems there's been a reshuffling within the squad, which is really interesting,

00:09:44.800 leaving Rashida Tlaib out on the outskirts. And I think she tried to rectify that yesterday. 0.93

00:09:49.700 Listen to this.

00:09:51.180 You know, I grew up in the most beautiful blackest city in the country, where 85% of the city of

00:09:57.080 Detroit is black and it's beautiful. And black mothers are the ones who told my mother to raise 1.00

00:10:00.980 her voice when she had that heavy immigrant accent at parent meetings. And, you know, I'm sitting

00:10:06.720 or listening to people pretending, disingenuously, honestly, that they actually care about the lives

00:10:13.120 of my black neighbors. I always get emotional about this because I cannot believe that my 1.00

00:10:19.320 colleagues, who didn't even vote for the George Floyd Justice for Policing Act, are talking about

00:10:24.280 the fact that Planned Parenthood, which I believe is literally one of the only healthcare places

00:10:30.000 institutions like cities like mine. The fact that we have some of the worst infant mortality rates in

00:10:38.420 the country among black children. We can't even get them to one years old. It's like, why aren't we 0.99

00:10:44.220 spending the same energy, doctor, in saving those lives, getting them to one year? How come when I was

00:10:50.120 in the Michigan legislature, they spent so much time on this that they never wanted to talk about that

00:10:54.620 single mother that we needed to make sure that she had the wraparound services? 1.00

00:10:58.000 Okay, first of all, I can't take you seriously if you start by claiming Detroit is beautiful.

00:11:03.820 Detroit is about as beautiful as a highway rest stop bathroom. As for the rest of it, Tlaib says

00:11:08.240 she's worried about infant mortality. She wants to make sure that we get babies to one year old. 1.00

00:11:13.600 And the best way to do that is to kill them intentionally in the womb, apparently. 0.99

00:11:17.560 This is the kind of argumentation you get from that side. Here's just a little bit more from Tlaib. 0.99

00:11:22.480 You know, this is about controlling women in our country, period. Stop pretending it's anything but. 0.99

00:11:30.240 You know, what's so distressful about all of this is the fact that it's not just Texas,

00:11:34.760 chairwoman, you know this. This is literally opening the floodgates to the possibility that

00:11:40.400 we are actually going to see our country punish and criminalize abortion,

00:11:47.440 criminalize women, making a very difficult decision. It would be funny if it weren't so 0.66

00:11:53.340 gross to watch these ranting, scowling women pretend that there's some higher, nobler reason 1.00

00:12:00.400 for their rage. This is about controlling women, they shout. Which even if that were the case, 1.00

00:12:05.680 these megalomaniacs have no problem controlling people, women or otherwise, when it comes to most 1.00

00:12:10.260 any other issue. They even have no problem making decisions about a woman's body, as we've seen 0.97

00:12:14.860 with the vaccine and the mask mandates. But of course, it isn't true. And they know that. It

00:12:21.200 has nothing to do with controlling women. They know that also. They understand, and as was said

00:12:27.420 early on, you know, this is about the elevation of the self. This is about putting the self above

00:12:33.880 all things. And the more these people talk, the more hearings they give, I think the better it is for

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00:13:57.980 You know, I think I'm usually pretty low maintenance, but there have been a couple of

00:14:02.300 incidents recently where I've had these, I don't know, prima donna moments, I guess.

00:14:08.140 Like last night heading to my speaking event here in Memphis, security came to pick me up

00:14:12.880 and I realized I forgot to pack a tie. And I was the keynote speaker at a fundraising banquet.

00:14:17.600 So I asked them to take me somewhere like on the way so that I could get one. And we went to a

00:14:22.220 Walmart because, you know, that's, I mean, that's of course really, really classy. But it was the

00:14:26.220 closest thing nearby to the venue. And the security guy was with me and we're walking

00:14:30.060 through Walmart and we're walking around the men's section. And apparently they don't sell

00:14:33.500 ties at Walmart. That's, that was a revelation for me. So then they said, there's a men's

00:14:37.200 warehouse nearby. And I said, okay, let's go to the men's warehouse. And we were already late at this

00:14:40.820 point. And a security guy came in with me and we went into the men's warehouse. I had to ask him

00:14:46.040 what color my shirt was and he helped me match a tie. And finally I bought one and we're late to the

00:14:51.780 event at this point. And I missed, there was supposed to be a meet and greet and I missed it.

00:14:55.060 And we had to do it after because I was getting the tie. But then as we, as we pulled up, I looked

00:15:00.680 and I realized that it was a more casual event than I thought. And so I said, nevermind, I'm not

00:15:05.280 going to wear the tie. And so it was all of that. And I didn't even wear it. And you know, so you have

00:15:10.440 little moments like that, but I think, I think for the most part, I'm pretty, still pretty low

00:15:15.500 maintenance guy. All right. So we've been playing a lot of clips from this, from this hearing

00:15:20.820 from the bad guys. And I don't mean to oversimplify it, but I mean, it really is that

00:15:26.980 simple. They're just, they're the bad guys. And when, when, when this is what you're, you're

00:15:30.700 standing for and this is what you're, this is what you're enraged about is that we're going

00:15:35.100 to be killing fewer babies than you're, that's the bad guy side. And there's a very clear line

00:15:39.220 that we can draw there. So we played some of the bad guy clips. There's one of the clip I wanted

00:15:43.860 to play for you and I'm saving it for here because representative Burgess Owens, he's on

00:15:48.540 the good side. He, uh, in the midst of all of this lunacy, he interjected with, I'm trying to

00:15:57.380 stop myself from using the phrase truth bombs because I hate that phrase, but I'll allow it 1.00

00:16:03.140 here. Just this one time is the only time you'll ever hear me say it because I think these really

00:16:07.900 are, if anything qualifies as a truth bomb, then, then this actually is. Listen to what he has to say.

00:16:12.420 I think we're going to ever get to resolving the issues we're having in the black community. 1.00

00:16:18.000 We got to be honest, my friends. Uh, we just heard that, uh, a pushback on the fact that we're

00:16:24.800 getting black men in the black community, not doing their job. Well, let me give you the facts 1.00

00:16:28.360 real quick. First of all, when I, when I was growing up in the sixties, we led the country and

00:16:33.540 men committed to marriage over 70%. Black women could, could, could rely on getting married more

00:16:39.880 than white women until white women until 1970. We now have between 70 to 80% of black fathers who

00:16:47.200 desert their families. And we're not willing to be honest about that. We're not willing to, to say

00:16:52.920 that these, these guys need to man up. Maybe when we start telling, maybe we start telling our, our

00:16:59.340 kids that they're being nothing but whiners, weas and wimps. If men cannot take care of their own 0.99

00:17:04.540 kids, that might be a good start. I reject the words of this gentleman. Mr. Chairman, I call for

00:17:10.480 order. I call for order. We, we right now, the facts are in. Mr. Big says the time. The facts are in.

00:17:17.320 Facts. Black fathers, 70 to 80% are deserting their families. You talk to, talk to these black 1.00

00:17:23.740 single women out there and see what they think about this. We sit in this little bubble where 1.00

00:17:27.860 we're living the life. We were married, many of us, and we cannot be honest about what's

00:17:33.520 happening in our urban communities. While these kids are growing up with no fathers, no example.

00:17:38.060 Do we have solutions? At the end of the day, there's a reason why our kids are being led toward

00:17:43.660 these, this, these options of hopelessness. And for us to sit here in 2021, no, not right now. I'm sorry.

00:17:50.880 Let me just finish. To sit here in 2021 and not point out the fact that we have fatherless homes.

00:17:58.180 We have 70 to 80%. These are the facts, my friends. 70, 80% will not marry the mothers of their 1.00

00:18:04.460 children and instead would probably try to convince them so they, to dissolve them from their issues 0.93

00:18:09.920 to go and get an abortion. We've lost 20 million black babies over the last 40 years. 40% of my race 1.00

00:18:18.600 has been exterminated because we don't have men. Yeah. I wanted, I wanted to play as much of that

00:18:24.100 clip as I could. It wasn't even the whole, the whole thing. It goes on for a few minutes. And, uh,

00:18:27.520 I think it's, I think it's great. It, it, two things are great about it and very instructive and revealing.

00:18:33.020 Uh, the one is what he's saying, but also you hear the woman, I'm not even sure which, which

00:18:38.300 congresswoman that is, but frantically trying to cut in. It's, I object to this language that's being used.

00:18:45.160 He, he actually says, well, we got to take responsibility, care for our families. I

00:18:49.500 object to that language. This is offensive. I can't believe what's being said. Can I, can I,

00:18:55.420 are you finished? Can I, can I, they're, they're so terrified to have that conversation. They don't

00:19:00.940 want to have this conversation at all about taking responsibility for yourself and your own families.

00:19:06.640 They don't want to talk about the state of the family in the black community and across the country

00:19:12.400 and how that ties into all of our problems. Every single problem that we're having, societally

00:19:19.540 speaking, every single one can be traced, uh, in large part back to the collapse of the family.

00:19:28.640 This, this is no great secret and it shouldn't require any courage to point it out.

00:19:35.000 And I shouldn't be so impressed that there's a, someone in Congress making this point because it's

00:19:42.520 so obvious. You, you can't have a society without the family. You know, we've got, we've got thousands

00:19:53.340 of years of history to look at with human civilization. And we can look out throughout the world and

00:20:00.860 throughout history to every single civilization that's ever existed on the planet, every human

00:20:05.160 civilization. And there's never been one that has tried to do it without the family structure

00:20:12.160 at the foundation of it. It can't happen. You can't do it because that, that is, that is the

00:20:21.200 fundamental building block for, for everything else. Everything else rests upon the family.

00:20:26.520 And if you abandon the family, there's, there's nothing else that can come in and sufficiently

00:20:32.780 take its place. That's the experiment that we are conducting right now, especially in the cities.

00:20:41.480 Can we get rid of the family, say we don't need the family and have the government come in and,

00:20:46.080 and, uh, and take over that responsibility. You know, we don't need, we don't need fathers to be the

00:20:51.380 breadwinners and the providers and the protectors. The government could, we can do that. We can put them

00:20:55.240 on the social programs and put them on the welfare programs. Um, and we, you know, we have a bunch

00:20:59.980 of cops there and, and, you know, so we, we will fill all with provider protector. We fill all those

00:21:04.040 roles as the government. So we have watched this experiment play out in the cities for decades

00:21:14.560 and to put it mildly, it has not worked. I mean, it's been a catastrophe. It has been an apocalyptic

00:21:22.580 catastrophe. That's why when you walk through cities today, it looks like a literal apocalyptic

00:21:28.140 wasteland you're walking through. And all, all that you're seeing there, that is the debris

00:21:34.120 of the nuclear family, which has collapsed in the cities and also across the country, increasingly.

00:21:45.580 Fatherless homes are a problem, uh, across the country. People are abandoning marriage, 0.98

00:21:50.820 abandoning nuclear family. I mean, this is, this is a social trend that you find everywhere.

00:21:57.480 Um, now the fact that this is happening and the consequences of it are inescapable

00:22:05.040 and the Democrats know that. And so they're, they're only, there's nothing they could say in

00:22:11.700 response to it. So instead they just try to ignore it and they, they always deflect and say,

00:22:17.540 let's look over there. Look at the, let's look at the, no, no, no, no, no. We don't need to talk

00:22:20.260 about, let's talk about guns. Let's, let's talk. If there's, if there are, you know, young men in the

00:22:25.100 cities running around shooting each other for no reason, uh, let's talk about how they got their

00:22:31.340 hands on those guns. That's the problem. Let's not discuss why those young men would want to behave

00:22:38.880 that way in the first place. What went so horribly wrong in their upbringing, in their home lives

00:22:45.520 that if they have guns, they're just going to go out and shoot each other for no reason.

00:22:52.600 Let's not talk about that part of it. No, no, no. Let's just discuss the gun. So that's what

00:22:55.520 Democrats want to do. And if someone sits there, especially some Burgess Owens, Burgess Owens,

00:22:59.660 a black man, uh, if, if he sits there and talks about this, they get very angry and they, 0.53

00:23:05.240 they don't want to discuss it. And that tells you everything you need to know. In fact, at one

00:23:10.360 point, I think she actually said, she said something like, well, what are your solutions?

00:23:13.660 You're not, you're not coming up with any solutions. Yeah, he is. He gave the solution.

00:23:21.540 That's the solution was take fathers, take care of your families. 1.00

00:23:28.300 You know, when you have kids get married, preferably before you have the kids,

00:23:32.980 but worst case after, if that's what, if that's what you need to do and, uh, and then, and, and,

00:23:40.140 and stay with your kids and raise them. That's the solution. Have kids, a woman, a man have kids. 1.00

00:23:48.960 They stay in the same house and they raise those kids. That's the solution. If you're saying, well,

00:23:58.040 give us a solution besides that, let's not do that. And think of a different solution.

00:24:04.200 There isn't one, there is no other solution. There is no plan B because they've been looking

00:24:09.400 for a plan B for decades and they haven't found one. So if we're giving up on the family, then we're,

00:24:14.460 then we just, we've given up on society. We've given up on civilization. There's no point in even

00:24:18.000 talking about any of this stuff. Just forget about it. There's no point. We've given up,

00:24:22.700 let it all collapse and we'll, we'll all live in the ruins, I guess.

00:24:27.980 If you want a real solution, it has to begin there. Yeah. There are other things we can do.

00:24:33.820 It's not like if we have a strong nuclear family in, in, uh, in America that we're going to live

00:24:39.180 in a utopia, there's still going to be other problems we have to fix, but we've got to start

00:24:42.520 there. Have kids, stay at home with them. If we're ruling that out, if you're not going to do that,

00:24:50.560 then, then there's no hope. Then we are hopeless at that point. So it's this or it's nothing.

00:24:58.520 All right. Here's a CBS report about the national school board association asking for Biden's help

00:25:03.860 to stop the domestic terrorists. That's their phrase. Um, the domestic terrorist attacks against

00:25:09.300 them, otherwise known as parents giving their opinions at school board meetings. Here's that

00:25:15.840 report. School board officials are calling for help tonight following increasingly violent incidents

00:25:25.840 like this in Minnesota, a man complimenting school board members during a debate over masks,

00:25:31.480 who's then charged by an unmasked man writing to president Biden, the national school boards

00:25:38.040 association asked for help investigating the violent incidents and suggested the FBI monitor threats to

00:25:45.200 board members likening these heinous actions to domestic terrorism. The impact of the pandemic

00:25:50.560 on public schools is creating this, all this heightened rhetoric around the nation. And

00:25:54.700 unfortunately, in some places it's leading to threats and actual incidents of violence.

00:26:00.760 Former Nevada school board member, Kurt Thigpen said that he resigned after the constant harassment over

00:26:07.320 email, phone and social media made him think about suicide. He cited the January 6th insurrection as a

00:26:14.500 trigger for the unruly behavior. They were coming after me and my colleagues consistently every day

00:26:21.860 through multiple mediums. They saw me as a target for their hate. The White House responding today to

00:26:29.280 the school board letter saying that they're looking at what more the administration can do.

00:26:34.680 Obviously these threats to school board members is horrible. They're doing their jobs.

00:26:39.140 Obviously local police are still going to have a presence at these very contentious, sometimes violent school

00:26:46.500 board meetings. But what school officials nationwide want is for the feds to provide some level of

00:26:53.020 intel that will give them some sense of what kind of threats are heading their way.

00:26:57.620 Yeah, we keep hearing about the heinous, heinous actions at these school board meetings.

00:27:02.920 Violence, domestic terrorism. And then they show us clips. I mean, I'm assuming they're showing us

00:27:09.900 the worst of it. If there's something worse, they would have showed us that. And the clips for the

00:27:16.060 most part, it's like people yelling and getting upset. And every once in a while, all these school

00:27:23.720 board meetings across the country, there have been a couple of cases of minor scuffles breaking out

00:27:29.340 that are broken up and no one is seriously injured. So this is, this is, that, as far as violence goes,

00:27:38.800 that's it. A couple of minor scuffles, that's it. That's the end of that. And, and by the way,

00:27:44.820 it's, it's not as though this is entirely on the part of the conservative parents, which is what we're

00:27:49.180 supposed to take away from this. As you know, I have been to some of these meetings and very often

00:27:56.400 there are people on the other side as well. And then that's where, that's where the arguing and

00:28:00.200 shouting comes from. So a couple of minor scuffles, no one's seriously injured. And then

00:28:05.700 outside of that, it's, it's mostly just people getting upset and, uh, you know, maybe raising

00:28:12.060 their voices a little bit. And this is a, this is a domestic terrorist crisis. We, we, we can't have

00:28:19.520 that. Well, the real crisis here is that these people on these school boards that are, that have

00:28:25.500 been so accustomed for years, they've had such a great job where they get to go in and they go to

00:28:30.440 their meetings and, and, and really no one in the public shows up and nobody cares. And they set the

00:28:34.920 policies and they do exactly what they want and they're uncontested. And, um, they have an enormous

00:28:41.360 amount of power in setting education policy in their districts, deciding what kids are going to be

00:28:47.640 taught, how they're going to be treated, this enormous power they have. And for years, it's

00:28:52.980 like nobody noticed that they had this power. And finally people are noticing and they're saying,

00:28:59.100 wow, you know what? There's people on those boards. They, they, uh, they have a significant

00:29:05.960 amount of control over my kids and my family. Really? I think I want to have a say in this.

00:29:12.760 People are, the public is noticing they're going to public meetings and this is, this, this is a crisis

00:29:19.640 because these school boards, they can't, they cannot defend their policies. They can't argue

00:29:28.040 in favor of them. So all they can do is just label you, say you're a domestic terrorist. And now they're

00:29:34.600 going to the Biden administration. And next thing, you know, we're going to have, um, uh, federal

00:29:40.860 involvement in school boards. And yet again, I got to go back and, and to, to, to the irony here,

00:29:47.220 uh, and the hypocrisy of, uh, uh, you know, I go to Loudoun County school board and I'm interfering.

00:29:52.340 Now the school boards themselves are going to the federal government and saying, please interfere.

00:29:59.420 So while they're, while they're telling the outsiders, the agitators don't come,

00:30:04.320 they are the ones going and getting outsiders and saying, please come here

00:30:07.820 and stop these, these mean people from, uh, saying all these, these horrible things about us.

00:30:18.400 I'm sorry. I, I just don't have any sympathy. I don't want to hear about, oh, we, we got this,

00:30:23.040 we've got death threats. We've got everything for number one. Like I always say with death threats,

00:30:27.980 I, I don't, I don't believe it until you, until you show me the receipts on that. Everyone's always

00:30:32.640 claiming every time someone, you know, is, is, is being criticized in public. We always get these

00:30:38.880 claims. Oh, there's so many death threats, death threats coming all over the place. I just don't

00:30:42.960 buy it until you like show it to me that you're actually getting those death threats or I don't

00:30:46.180 believe it. I think there are a lot of people just claiming they get death threats. Um, and even if you

00:30:52.280 are that, that I get death threats as well. I know what that's like. It's not fun. I've experienced that.

00:30:57.760 Uh, but even if you get death threats, that's not good. I don't know proof of that,

00:31:03.900 but it doesn't suddenly vindicate whatever you were doing that upset people.

00:31:12.700 All right. Um, what else we got here? Oh, this is really important. We got it. We got to cover this.

00:31:17.800 So Demi Lovato, as you know, I'm a big fan of Demi Lovato, uh, who mostly, I think she,

00:31:24.660 what is she non-binary now? Or no, she pansexual or no lesbian, but she's, or she was lesbian and 1.00

00:31:30.580 then, and then went pansexual. And most recently she's non-binary. So she's been going through this,

00:31:35.160 uh, this little bit of transformation. And, um, now she has also come out as a believer in aliens.

00:31:43.540 And so this brings together, it's like two of my worlds are colliding Demi Lovato, aliens.

00:31:49.740 She's, she even has a show now, I think, where she goes on, on the hunt for, for aliens.

00:31:55.220 And here she is on the E! News channel talking about her own experiences with, uh, space aliens.

00:32:00.120 Very interesting. Listen.

00:32:02.300 Do you believe in UFOs?

00:32:04.320 Uh, kind of.

00:32:05.240 Well, Demi Lovato does in her news show, Unidentified with Demi Lovato.

00:32:10.980 Demi drags their sister and best friend into the woods to hunt for the unexplained.

00:32:15.620 And they told Aaron all about it.

00:32:18.340 What is that? Look at that! Oh my goodness. Wait, this is so grossy.

00:32:23.700 Convince us why we should watch the show. We laughed a lot and we saw some really interesting

00:32:29.620 things that we catch on camera. I just have a curiosity about this topic that I've always,

00:32:34.740 I've always, I've always had. And, um, and so I wanted to find out for myself.

00:32:40.100 Say hi to night vision.

00:32:41.300 Hi, night vision.

00:32:42.580 And you two were pretty skeptical at first. What was the turning point for you?

00:32:47.300 Yeah, I mean, I identified as a non-believer coming in and I would say I'm definitely a lot

00:32:52.740 less of a skeptic than I was before.

00:32:54.340 With all this UFO stuff, like, you know, being open and being ready to accept it helps.

00:33:00.100 And I think we were. And I think that shows.

00:33:02.660 And Demi, you had an encounter before shooting the show.

00:33:05.700 Can you please give us the details on that experience?

00:33:08.260 We went out into the desert in Joshua Tree and I basically saw like this blue orb that,

00:33:16.180 was about 50 feet away, um, maybe less. And it was just, it was kind of like floating above the

00:33:24.420 ground, just like 10 or 15 feet, but was keeping its distance from me. And I don't know, it just,

00:33:30.420 um, it was really, it was a really beautiful and incredible experience.

00:33:34.980 Yeah. I think those might've been the drugs that you were taking, but no,

00:33:37.940 actually, no, I, I believe, listen, I believe you, Demi Levi, I believe you on this.

00:33:45.540 Uh, some of the other claims you've made about yourself, I, I find a little bit hard to believe,

00:33:50.100 like that you're both, both man and woman all, all, all at once contained within one person.

00:33:56.260 That part I'm not sure about, but aliens, I believe, I believe you. I hear you. You are valid.

00:34:03.140 And I, I just, I buy it. And I say that mostly unironically. There, there are too many people

00:34:11.860 who have had these experiences. And how do you, how do you explain it all? I mean, I guess,

00:34:18.660 you know, there, there are a lot of, a lot of potential explanations, but none of them as

00:34:23.860 interesting as the explanation that we're being visited by, uh, space aliens. Why do they keep

00:34:29.060 coming here in their, in their orbs and then leaving? It's just coming a long way and then

00:34:34.820 leaving. And then they just, they keep coming. You'd think whatever they were looking for,

00:34:37.540 they would have found by now and realize that this is not where they want to be.

00:34:41.380 So I can't explain any of that. I mean, in Demi Lovato's case, I guess I can't explain it.

00:34:49.380 If these, uh, these aliens came all this way, many light years, and they're, they're about to land on

00:34:55.100 earth. And the first people they see are Demi Lovato and her crew. You can't really blame them for

00:35:02.820 saying, nevermind guys, we made a mistake. Let's get out of here. Let's go check out Jupiter instead.

00:35:06.820 All right. Let's, uh, okay. One other thing, I think, before we get to comments, uh,

00:35:14.420 let's see this from the daily wire says former tonight show host, Jay Leno knows comedy having

00:35:19.960 started in standup way back in the early 1970s. But Leno says the recent emergence of cancel culture

00:35:24.520 has changed the rules of comedy during an appearance this week on the people everyday

00:35:29.620 podcast. The 71 year old comedian said that those who hope to succeed nowadays will have to adapt.

00:35:33.920 Uh, Leno said, I think it's like any other thing. You either change or die in football.

00:35:39.660 You have certain rules. And when the rules change, if you don't conform to them, you're out of the

00:35:43.440 game. Leno said sexist, racist, and homophobic jokes were once considered okay, but all that has

00:35:49.060 changed. Now everybody has a voice. He said, you have to change the material to the times you live in.

00:35:54.540 My attitude is, look, these are the new rules. You want to adapt. If you don't, fine,

00:35:59.100 don't get up and tell jokes then. This is really kind of amazing to hear from a comedian. He said,

00:36:07.040 he's, he's, he's openly saying that if you want to be a comedian, you have to conform and follow the

00:36:13.120 rules. Now, silly me, I thought that the point of, of comedy was exactly the opposite of that.

00:36:20.680 Especially if you're in the business of being a standup comedian.

00:36:27.020 Your, your job is to find all of the societal rules and the things that people are conforming to.

00:36:35.260 And you break those rules on purpose. You point out the absurdity of them.

00:36:41.180 That might not be the, the, the, the single thing that comedy does, but it's one of comedy's most

00:36:46.240 important functions. And I think it's actually, it is an important thing for society. We need that.

00:36:53.740 I actually believe that comedians have performed a valuable service in our country, in the past

00:37:02.300 anyway, by pointing to finding these, uh, these sacred cows, these elephants in the room that nobody

00:37:10.660 talks about and pointing to the elephant and saying, look at that elephant. Isn't that funny? Like that,

00:37:14.420 that we, you need that in society, I think. And you're also holding powerful people accountable.

00:37:20.760 Uh, but now we have comedians saying, oh, no, no, no, here are the rules. You don't want to follow

00:37:25.780 the rules and conform. They just don't tell any jokes. All right, let's get now to reading the

00:37:31.780 comments, uh, and let's play the song first.

00:37:34.880 Uh, almost forgot the song, but I didn't. This is knit girl says, if we are so influenced by the

00:37:57.820 pictures of a no name person on Instagram, that companies will pay thousands. Uh, so that said

00:38:03.320 person will peddle their shampoo on their feed. And I think it's safe to say that as a culture,

00:38:07.480 we're influenced by the content we consume. We canceled our Netflix subscription last November

00:38:11.340 and subscribe to DW with that money. Good, good choice. Uh, I've encouraged several others in my

00:38:17.640 little circle to do the same little by little. This is a response, I guess, to our conversation we had

00:38:21.820 about, uh, the squid game show on Netflix right now, the most popular show on Netflix. Uh, there are

00:38:27.840 some other perspectives on that though. Joshua Gibbon says, I think that article about squid game

00:38:32.240 was completely over the top. It's nowhere near that focused on gore as it implies. Saw is far

00:38:38.340 worse. It might not be your cup of cup of tea or your cup of key. Totally fine, but I won't really

00:38:44.300 call squid game torture porn. It doesn't really focus on the gore though. It does have it. And

00:38:48.340 it's general point is that these things are bad. The focus in squid game is on the characters. The

00:38:51.880 gore is incidental, exactly like you described in saving private Ryan and Hanky Hankerson says,

00:38:56.620 I respectfully disagree with your interpretation of squid game. I've only seen the first episode so far,

00:39:00.340 but it's clear just from that episode that the game and the violence in the, in the game is framed

00:39:04.240 as an extreme product of the social slash economic dysfunction endemic in North and Korea. The Korean 0.92

00:39:09.900 economy is a highly competitive world with a handful of big winners and a large number of distraught

00:39:13.960 losers. The series is a clever critique of that reality. I think you should watch the first episode,

00:39:18.380 then come back to the, to the show and let viewers know what you think. Okay. Yeah, I haven't watched it.

00:39:24.360 I have no interest in watching it. Um, I mean, this idea that you can't make any judgment calls

00:39:29.820 about a show or a movie without watching it, I think is ridiculous. I mean, there, there,

00:39:33.860 there are certainly things where, uh, there are plenty of movies and shows where you can kind of

00:39:39.660 understand the basic gist without actually having to watch it. Um, I mean, I've never watched

00:39:44.260 the bachelor, but I, I, I, I think I'm, I'm pretty safe in making some assumptions about that show,

00:39:51.560 which is why I don't watch it. Um, as for this, I mean, this idea that it's a parody of social and

00:39:59.720 economic, uh, situation in, in, in Korea and across and across the world, maybe it is. I'm

00:40:07.260 skeptical because I heard that exact same rationalization with, uh, what was that movie

00:40:11.280 that came out and won all the Oscars? Um, it was a parasite. Yeah, I think that was the one. 0.93

00:40:17.580 And I heard the same exact thing, like a very violent movie. And, uh, there are, there are

00:40:23.160 scenes that might seem gratuitous, but it's actually, it's, it's this, this really clever,

00:40:29.440 uh, critique of social inequality. And it's a, it's a comment on the class system and class

00:40:36.440 structures. And I watched the movie with that in mind. And no, it's not. It's just a, it's,

00:40:43.920 if you, if you, if you, you could try to turn any movie into that if you want to,

00:40:49.100 but I didn't see it with parasite. I thought that movie was pretty bad.

00:40:53.760 And with this maybe, but, but I'm skeptical. I mean, again, the point with violence

00:40:59.040 in a, in a, in a, in a film is, you know, is it a necessary part of the story?

00:41:07.940 And like, that's why I use saving private Ryan is one of many examples, but in a movie like that,

00:41:14.140 if you're going to tell a story about things that happen in war, if you're going to tell a war

00:41:19.540 story, then violence is a necessary part of that. You take violence out of that and you might as well

00:41:24.240 not tell the story. You can't tell a story without the violence because it's a part of it. And I think

00:41:28.480 we can all agree that there are plenty of stories worth telling, um, that have happened in, uh, in the

00:41:33.200 context of war. So that's obviously the case there. Um, and you just have to ask yourself that with

00:41:40.800 this, with this show or any other, is this violence part of the story? Is it moving the

00:41:45.220 story forward? Is it, is it an important and necessary element or is it just something for

00:41:51.200 us to gawk at? Is the violence and end in itself in the film or in the show where, where at least part

00:41:59.760 of the entertainment value is simply watching the violence itself play out? There's a lot

00:42:03.820 of that. Of course, there are a lot of shows like that, a lot of movies like that. Not all

00:42:09.160 of them are over the top gory, but I think violence in that context, no matter how gory it is, you

00:42:16.800 know, can, can be a problem. It's, I think it, it, that's when it qualifies as gratuitous.

00:42:22.380 Um, okay. I mean, it's the same thing with like sexual content in a, in a, in a film. I mean,

00:42:30.720 we can all agree that, that romance and love, these are important parts of stories sometimes,

00:42:36.480 but very, very often the filmmakers go far beyond that and they show you things, uh, that were not

00:42:44.560 necessary for the story at all. And the only reason they're putting that in there is for this,

00:42:49.260 is for us to just gawk at. So, all right. Uh, Parva says the great thing about dating apps is

00:42:57.240 that as a person who approaches people in person, I have almost no competition. Well, you're right

00:43:02.120 about that because it's like nobody does that anymore. So yeah, I guess the field is open for

00:43:07.060 you. It's a good strategy. Uh, JK says, Hey Matt, what airline do you normally fly with? Whichever

00:43:12.440 one gets me there the fastest and is, has the best prices. I, I don't have any loyalty to any

00:43:18.980 airline because they're all pretty terrible. Um, there was a time when maybe you would say

00:43:23.060 Southwest is sort of different, but I think Southwest, especially with the masking stuff

00:43:26.260 in recent, uh, in recent months has kind of fallen off. So at this point there's, they're all equally

00:43:31.640 as abysmal. So there's no point in even getting that particular about it. And finally, Dan says,

00:43:37.620 you can't really blame Jada Pinkett Smith for what she did. She didn't want to do it. 0.98

00:43:41.220 But she cheated against her will. Dan, there are some who would ban you from the show for that,

00:43:48.800 but I will not because I appreciate a good pun, sir. So thank you for that. I can still remember

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00:44:05.100 you would open up and you would flip through it. And there would be like, you'd put physical

00:44:08.180 pictures inside it. And that's just one of the antiquated forms of technology we used to use

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00:45:06.160 Let's get now to our daily cancellation.

00:45:12.240 There are days when it's hard to find something to cancel. Well, that's not exactly true. I mean,

00:45:16.400 there are always millions of options, but today the cancellation presents itself to me,

00:45:19.740 taking the decision out of my hands entirely. I have no choice but to cancel this. This is an op-ed

00:45:24.300 just published in the New York Times, written by a professor at the University of San Francisco

00:45:28.160 School of Law named Laura Malzone. And the title is Divorce Can Be an Act of Radical Self-Love. 1.00

00:45:36.560 The professor begins, I used to believe that divorce is a terrible thing, particularly when

00:45:40.420 children are involved. Growing up, I absorbed cultural tropes about absent fathers and efficiency

00:45:44.940 apartments, mothers struggling to support themselves, and awful step-parents and unwanted 1.00

00:45:48.740 step-siblings. To this day, divorce is portrayed as precarious and grim. Well, yes, it is portrayed

00:45:54.260 that way because it is that way. But the professor says that she has had a revelation. She sees it

00:46:00.320 differently now. She continues, but I've learned that divorce can also be an act of radical self-love

00:46:05.240 that leaves the whole family better off. My divorce nearly seven years ago freed me from a relationship

00:46:09.840 that was crushing my spirit. It freed my children, then five and three, from growing up in a profoundly

00:46:14.820 unhealthy environment. And then, amid all of the disingenuous rationalizations, she says something

00:46:21.520 shockingly honest. She says, quote, there was no emotional or physical abuse in our home. There was

00:46:27.240 no absence of love. I was in love with my husband when we got divorced. Part of me is in love with him

00:46:32.560 still. I suspect that will always be the case. Even now, after everything, when he walks into the room,

00:46:37.360 my stomach drops the same way it does before the roller coaster comes down. I divorced my husband,

00:46:42.300 not because I didn't love him. I divorced him because I loved myself more. Now, I want to focus

00:46:48.640 on that last sentence there. But first, let's just read how she wraps all this up first. She writes,

00:46:53.460 quote, talking to the subset who are divorced, I found a common theme, even a sisterhood. Divorce is

00:46:59.200 painful and heartbreaking, but it can also be liberating, pointing the way toward a different

00:47:02.860 life that leaves everyone better off, including the children. I no longer think of divorce as shameful

00:47:07.200 or feel sorry for people who tell me that they have decided to end their marriages. There are many ways a

00:47:11.700 family can be broken. Sometimes the healthiest decision is to remove the cracking shell of

00:47:16.060 the nuclear family before the shards embed themselves in the precious little people nestled

00:47:20.160 inside. My divorce spared my children that pain and let me live the life that I was meant to.

00:47:25.540 I view that as an accomplishment. Now, in between that final paragraph and the bit about loving

00:47:31.260 herself more, she explains that the reason for the divorce was her own refusal to put her marriage

00:47:36.820 and family before her career. She was always primarily focused on her job, even when she was

00:47:42.960 at home. And she doesn't say that in a reflective or remorseful way. She's proud of the ways that she

00:47:48.660 neglected her children and her spouse. And she's even prouder of wrecking her marriage and destroying 0.98

00:47:52.900 her family. This is all an accomplishment, she says. She claims, as these people always do,

00:47:57.620 that it's been better for the kids. And you can tell that she doesn't really believe that.

00:48:01.960 It doesn't care anyway. You know, she doesn't love her kids all that much. At least she doesn't 0.98

00:48:06.520 love them as much as she loves herself. She makes that clear. Her kids barely figure into the story

00:48:10.920 at all. She simply waves them away with a few lines about how they're doing well and they're super happy

00:48:15.700 about this broken home situation. Divorced people will often tell this kind of story about how the

00:48:21.040 kids are better off. What they mean is that the kids have adapted. They've made the best of the

00:48:27.740 circumstances and they've internalized a lot of the pain and trauma of what you've done to them.

00:48:33.020 That's the kind of better off we're talking about. Often I'll hear, and the author makes a similar

00:48:37.660 case, that, hey, the kids are better off with divorced parents than with parents who are miserable

00:48:41.540 and angry and fighting all the time and creating an emotionally and psychologically tumultuous

00:48:45.600 environment at home. Okay, but why are those the two options? I mean, yeah, if you say to the kids,

00:48:52.440 listen, you can either have divorced parents or you can have parents who are awful to each other every day

00:48:56.480 and screaming at each other and pitting you guys against each other. You know, if you present those

00:49:01.260 options, maybe lots of kids would choose the former. But what about the option where mom and dad grow up

00:49:06.520 a little and stop thinking about themselves so much and go out and get the counseling they need

00:49:12.120 and fight for their family and their marriage and stay together that way? Why has that been taken

00:49:17.400 off the table? And if you've taken it off the table, stop saying the kids are better off.

00:49:21.420 They're better off, arguably, between these two false and bad options you've given them.

00:49:30.180 But this woman has enough honesty and self-awareness to admit the truth. She loves herself more.

00:49:35.500 She doesn't say it like it's an omission. She's proud of it. She has the wrong view of her own

00:49:41.500 radical self-love, but she has at least identified the real point. She loves herself more. And indeed,

00:49:46.160 no marriage can work that way. No family can function when the people who are supposed to be keeping it

00:49:50.240 together are primarily focused on their own comfort and well-being. Marriage is the radical 0.97

00:49:54.560 giving of the self to another. It is a radical act of love, outward love. You cannot give yourself to

00:50:01.160 another while prioritizing yourself over the other, as this woman has discovered. Now, I say that she's

00:50:06.180 right to identify her self-love as the source of her marital disintegration, but really, self-love

00:50:10.540 probably isn't the right term. You know, it's a bit of an oxymoron, if anything. Love, after all,

00:50:14.460 is a choice. It's a thing you do. It's an act of sacrifice. Affection is a feeling. Love is an

00:50:21.240 activity. So, how can you really love yourself sacrificially? How can you sacrifice for yourself?

00:50:27.860 If it's for yourself, then it's not a sacrifice, by definition. It seems that when people talk about

00:50:32.880 loving themselves, what they mean is either conjuring warm feelings about themselves, which is not love,

00:50:38.240 or they mean simply putting themselves first before everyone else, which is just selfishness.

00:50:43.820 The word love doesn't belong in either scenario. Love is inherently outward. It goes out from within

00:50:50.000 to lift up and elevate the other. Love that goes out and comes back like a boomerang to elevate the

00:50:55.700 lover herself is, again, selfishness. So, let's not sully a noble word like love by associating it with

00:51:01.660 that. So, this woman has chosen selfishness over love, over her family, over her marriage. She claims to be 0.59

00:51:07.720 happy with a choice for now, and maybe she is for now, but if she has any sort of conscience at all,

00:51:14.500 that she already has at least some quiet moments, home alone, after work, where the loneliness sets in,

00:51:19.560 she feels deeply isolated by her own selfishness, wonders what any of this striving and effort and

00:51:24.620 career ambition is really worth when she's doing it just for herself. Those moments will become more

00:51:29.760 frequent, less quiet as she grows older and older, and she'll no doubt find other people to blame,

00:51:35.080 but that's not going to change anything, or relieve her misery. And I know that it will play out this

00:51:40.480 way because it always does. It's inevitable. When people prioritize themselves above all else,

00:51:45.840 when they live lives of selfishness, they eventually get exactly what they wanted.

00:51:50.320 Just themselves, alone, isolated. No one to love or be loved by. It's how the story always ends.

00:51:57.460 And that's why it's better to choose love, real love, outward sacrificial love. That's also why

00:52:02.940 the writer of this article, Laura Belzone, is today canceled. And that'll do it for us today

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The Matt Walsh Show - October 01, 2021

Ep. 809 - Killing Your Children Is A Loving Act, According To Democrats

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