The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 820 - A Society Overrun By Cowards And Weaklings

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a woman on a train in Philadelphia was sexually assaulted for nearly

00:00:04.260 10 minutes while bystanders watched and did nothing. Why does that sort of thing happen and

00:00:09.060 why does it appear to be so common these days? We'll talk about that. Also, the ACLU files an

00:00:12.920 amicus brief in support of compelled speech. There was a time when the ACLU defended free

00:00:17.940 speech. Times have changed, though, and Kamala Harris is campaigning in churches now. How can

00:00:22.380 she walk in the door without bursting into flames? Also, isn't it illegal to campaign in churches? 1.00

00:00:26.520 And finally, in our daily cancellation, the outrage mob is very upset at me because of

00:00:30.760 some things I said about paternity leave. Will I apologize today or double down? The answer 0.68

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00:02:02.620 learn more. So we begin with a horrific story out of Philadelphia. A woman sitting on the train at 10

00:02:08.200 p.m. on Wednesday night was sexually assaulted by a homeless man. The rapist named Fiston Nagoy sat 0.83

00:02:14.600 down next to the victim, tried to touch her several times. She tried to stop him. She pushed back, at

00:02:19.500 which point he became more aggressive and started ripping her clothes off. And this attack went on

00:02:24.380 for eight minutes. The train was not empty aside from those two. There were other people there. There

00:02:29.960 were other riders in the same car, bystanders, bystanders who watched a rape unfold over the course of

00:02:36.080 nearly 10 minutes. And not one of them stepped in to help the woman. Now, there are some reports

00:02:41.020 that at least a few of the onlookers pulled out their phones and recorded. Police haven't confirmed

00:02:45.200 that detail, but they have confirmed that a rape occurred in full view of a crowd of people. And

00:02:49.840 none of them lifted a finger to help. And they aren't mincing words about the spectators in this

00:02:53.780 case. From the New York Times, it says, quote, I'm appalled by those who did nothing to help this

00:02:58.860 woman. Timothy Bernhardt, the superintendent of the Upper Derby Township Police Department, said on Sunday,

00:03:03.060 anybody that was on that train has to look in the mirror and ask why they didn't intervene or why

00:03:07.700 they didn't do something. Mr. Nogoy, 35, was charged with rape, sexual assault, and aggravated

00:03:12.920 indecent assault without consent, among other crimes, court records show. The authorities said

00:03:16.560 that he was homeless and was not armed during the attack. Several passengers were in the train car,

00:03:21.020 but Mr. Bernhardt declined to say how many. Investigators were still working on it to determine

00:03:25.160 the exact number. He said, he said, while there were not dozens of people in the car at the time,

00:03:29.940 there were enough that, quote, collectively, they could have gotten together and done something.

00:03:34.360 Bystanders on the train who failed to intervene could be criminally charged if they recorded the

00:03:38.140 attack, Mr. Bernhardt said. Now, a few things should be said at the outset. First, the primary

00:03:43.340 villain in this case is not the group of useless bystanders, but the perpetrator. And that shouldn't

00:03:48.500 need to be said, but I say it anyway, because these days, the people who commit these evil acts tend to

00:03:52.540 be tacitly let off the hook, lost in the shuffle as we debate the circumstances around the act.

00:03:58.920 And what sorts of things could have been done to stop it? And who should have done whatever those

00:04:03.100 things are? The rapist is the one responsible in a serious country would ensure that he never sees

00:04:07.600 the outside of a prison cell ever again in his life. But we don't live in that kind of country.

00:04:11.400 And Philadelphia is not that kind of city. Violent crimes are at record levels in Philly right now,

00:04:16.780 as the DAs in Philadelphia and in the surrounding districts. This crime will be prosecuted by Jack

00:04:21.780 Stolsteimer in Delaware County, right outside the city. They're all progressive ideologues who were

00:04:27.360 elected to their positions with the help of George Soros. Now, this is not a conspiracy theory,

00:04:32.520 as the media likes to portray any mention of Soros. The minute you mention him, that is a conspiracy

00:04:37.120 theory, as if he's a fictional character. He's not. It is a confirmed fact that the billionaire,

00:04:43.660 the left-wing billionaire, took an interest in Philadelphia district attorney races a few years

00:04:48.220 ago, and he poured millions of dollars into electing his preferred candidates.

00:04:51.960 Now, the city is a brutal, violent hellscape even more than it was before. All this to say that the

00:04:58.840 rapist, homeless, and a black man checking several of the victim boxes will likely be out on the street 1.00

00:05:05.380 again in no time. And we'll return to that point in just a moment. With all that said, of course, 0.98

00:05:10.840 the bystanders are still a bunch of weak, gutless cowards. Again, if we lived in a serious country, 0.99

00:05:16.340 the rapist would not have walked out of there. Instead of this infuriating and sickening story,

00:05:20.740 we should be reading about the inspiring tale of a scumbag who attempted to lay one hand on a woman 1.00

00:05:26.200 and was summarily beaten unconscious by an enraged mob of men. That's the way it should have ended. 0.99

00:05:32.000 But again, that's not the kind of country we live in. And so these kinds of stories very rarely end

00:05:37.240 that way. We know that violent crimes are often committed in view of onlookers who could step in

00:05:43.180 and help but choose not to. And we know that because so often, as they allegedly did in this case,

00:05:47.140 the onlookers elect instead to record the crime on their phones. And that's how we know about it.

00:05:52.740 Yet this problem predates smartphones. We've known about the so-called bystander effect

00:05:57.240 for a long time, and many famous cases have been documented through the years.

00:06:01.260 There's always the potential in these kinds of situations for bystanders to freeze up,

00:06:06.440 fail to act, hoping that somebody else will take care of the problem.

00:06:09.840 The tendency is so much a part of the human condition that it made it into the Gospels 2,000 years ago

00:06:14.200 with the parable of the Good Samaritan. You know, the sole person who stops to help a man

00:06:19.060 who was beaten by bandits and left for dead on the side of the road. It is unfortunately a tale

00:06:23.880 as old as time, or at least as old as the human race. This is no excuse for the people in the crowd

00:06:29.060 who fail to do the right thing. It's just a matter of understanding how deeply embedded this problem

00:06:33.940 is. Though even so, anecdotal evidence, like all these videos that we see all the time,

00:06:40.840 would seem to suggest that the bystander effect is worse now, more prevalent than ever before.

00:06:46.180 People are less willing to put their necks out, less eager to do the right thing,

00:06:50.380 when doing the right thing might put them in jeopardy.

00:06:53.700 And they have, it would seem, far less shame about their own cowardice.

00:06:58.660 Why is that? I think that's the important question.

00:07:02.280 Well, there are many contributing factors, but let's start with the fact that,

00:07:06.040 unlike years past, the system now actively discourages people from intervening.

00:07:12.960 I was somewhat annoyed to read those comments from the local authorities condemning the onlookers,

00:07:18.180 even though I agree with the condemnation, I agree with what they said, but this is partially

00:07:24.480 the fault of those local authorities. This is partially their fault. With far-left DAs in office

00:07:31.340 all across the country, and especially all over the Philadelphia area, there's no telling what

00:07:36.380 would happen to somebody if they used physical force to neutralize an attacker. And that's the

00:07:41.800 case even if you're defending just yourself. You're defending someone else, getting involved in a

00:07:46.800 situation that you were not immediately involved in. Who knows? I mean, if a good Samaritan had

00:07:52.520 stepped up and given the perpetrator the beatdown that he so desperately deserved,

00:07:56.600 it's not hard to imagine that that same good Samaritan might face assault charges the next day.

00:08:03.500 Might end up being smeared by the media as a racist vigilante.

00:08:08.140 This is the exact dilemma that police officers all over the nation face every single day,

00:08:12.500 and it's their job and their express legal obligation and authority to intervene.

00:08:18.100 How much worse could the blowback be for somebody who doesn't have that express obligation or

00:08:22.800 authority? Whereas in years past, a good Samaritan had to only weigh the risk to his own physical

00:08:28.660 safety before getting involved, now he knows that even if he survives the encounter, his life may

00:08:34.420 still be over after the fact, depending on how it all plays out, and also depending quite significantly

00:08:39.200 on the racial demographics involved. Now, this again is not to provide any excuses for anybody.

00:08:44.920 We're called to take risks, sometimes very significant risks, if we wish to be decent men.

00:08:52.080 I'm only pointing out that the systems running this country actively discourage and punish decency.

00:08:59.560 And besides, many people don't wish to be decent men in the first place. You know, as children,

00:09:04.840 we're conditioned from a young age to regard questions of moral decency as superfluous or even

00:09:10.460 oppressive. The message we absorb from our culture is that our own physical and psychological well-being

00:09:16.480 should come before everything and everybody else. So we sneer at moral decency and we actively punish

00:09:25.560 it. And then we stand back in shock and horror to find that people are not decent. I mean, look at

00:09:32.100 the police officer in the Micaiah Bryant shooting. He stepped in to stop a girl from getting stabbed to

00:09:39.440 death. And next thing you know, people are calling for his head. LeBron James is tweeting out a picture

00:09:46.360 of him trying to rile up a mob to go in and do who knows what to him. That's the way it goes now.

00:09:56.100 And it reminds me of one of the greatest lines from one of C.S. Lewis's greatest books, The Abolition of

00:10:01.380 Man, which if you've never read, you should. Writing 80 years ago, though it might as well have been

00:10:06.080 yesterday. Lewis says, quote, in a sort of ghastly simplicity, we remove the organ and demand the

00:10:12.000 function. We make men without chess and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and

00:10:18.620 are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful. 0.98

00:10:25.360 And that's us. Our culture campaigns against virtue and punishes the virtuous. You can't even go to

00:10:33.300 church anymore to hear a defense of virtue. We have purposefully created a society of hollow people,

00:10:40.800 men without chess. And we're surprised by the results. We shouldn't be. Now let's get to our

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00:12:03.560 Okay. So the ACLU used to be an organization that would defend, I mean, they had, they have

00:12:11.580 civil liberties right in their name and they used to defend free speech. That's what, that's

00:12:16.180 what they did. And we talked about this before. I mean, how there, there was a time when the

00:12:23.300 ACLU was so militant in their defense of free speech that they would defend KKK members.

00:12:32.180 They would defend not mean actual Nazis. Okay. They would defend actual neo-Nazis and defend

00:12:39.600 their free speech. Those times are long gone because there's a case, uh, in Loudoun County.

00:12:47.300 I mean, Loudoun County has become the kind of epicenter of many of these battles in the

00:12:52.760 school system with critical race theory and with gender theory. So as you've heard from

00:12:57.600 me on this show, um, part of that, that policy in Loudoun County where they're opening up the

00:13:03.240 bathrooms, um, to, to allow boys into girls' bathrooms, even though a girl was allegedly 1.00

00:13:11.460 raped inside of a bathroom by a boy, uh, only just last semester in May. But this is a policy

00:13:18.720 that doesn't just affect bathrooms and sports teams. Also very significantly, it requires teachers

00:13:25.200 to use the preferred pronouns of, um, to use the preferred pronouns of whatever, you know,

00:13:33.820 of the students, whatever they say their pronoun is, the teachers have to use it. So this is compelled

00:13:39.000 speech. And it's not just compelled, compelled speech is bad in and of itself, but what are they

00:13:48.400 being, what is the compelled speech? What are they being compelled to affirm? They're being compelled

00:13:54.060 to affirm a falsehood as a condition of further employment and not further employment in the

00:14:02.820 private sector, but in a school run by the government. So to have a job in this government

00:14:11.380 building, you have to be willing to affirm falsehoods. A boy says, refer to me as a girl.

00:14:19.380 That is a confirmed absolute falsehood. And the policy says you have to affirm it or you're gone.

00:14:27.060 So this is, this case is making its way, um, through the court system. And now we have this

00:14:33.400 from the ACLU of Virginia. It says, breaking three teachers in Loudoun County are going to court

00:14:39.760 simply because they don't want to use trans and non-binary students' pronouns. We and partners

00:14:45.380 filed an amicus brief to tell the court, refusing to use a student's pronouns because of who they are

00:14:51.040 is discrimination. And then they have their amicus brief. Um, so they're getting out of,

00:15:00.100 going out of their way to involve themselves in this case, to be on the side of compelling people

00:15:05.340 to say things. This isn't, this is no matter how else you feel about it. This is without a

00:15:13.380 question, an anti-free speech perspective. Even if you think that you should use the preferred

00:15:22.280 pronouns that someone asks you to use or demands that you use normally, even if that's your position,

00:15:28.620 you can't pretend if you're trying to force people to do that, you can't pretend that you're on the

00:15:35.440 side of free speech. You're not, this is, this is compelled speech. And by the way, on the preferred

00:15:40.460 pronouns thing, I just want to read this to you related to preferred pronouns. Here's an article

00:15:45.840 from, uh, an entertainment website called Uproxx that I saw someone shared on, uh, on Twitter or

00:15:51.360 something. And it jumped out at me just because of the headline. The headline was so confusing

00:15:54.200 and I stopped for a second. I was trying to make sense of it. So this is, this is a story and I'll

00:16:01.000 read like just a paragraph from this story in this entertainment website about, um, Halsey, who I guess

00:16:06.720 is some kind of pop star. And I also take from context clues that Halsey identifies as non-binary

00:16:12.960 and her pronouns are she and they. So that's the thing you could do now. You know, it's, it's not just

00:16:21.360 that you can choose to identify as multiple people by identifying as they, them, you can actually

00:16:27.360 identify as both a single person and multiple people. How do you put all that together in a

00:16:34.960 sentence? If you're talking about someone, well, here's Uproxx. It says it's been about three months

00:16:39.760 since Halsey gave birth to their first child. And in the day since she has been open about the start

00:16:45.180 of her parenthood journey. In early August, they showed off photos of their postpartum stretch marks.

00:16:51.560 And later that month, she shared her frustrations with how some in the music industry handled her

00:16:56.000 pregnancy. Now Halsey is once again pulling the curtain back this time on their Saturday Night Live

00:17:02.000 performance and what their body looks like now. This is a total nonsense. If you had no,

00:17:10.100 no prior knowledge of any of this pronoun stuff and you read that paragraph, you just have simply have

00:17:18.760 no idea what's being said. Halsey, is that, is that a, is that a person? Is that a, some sort of

00:17:24.080 collective? Is that a group? Are we talking about two distinct individuals? Where in the span of one

00:17:33.380 sentence we can change from there to she? But this is, if you are a teacher in Loudoun County,

00:17:42.380 this is the kind of total nonsense that you must affirm or lose your job. And the ACLU is fully on

00:17:51.540 board with that. This makes it, how do you teach? If you're in Loudoun County and you're a English

00:17:59.920 teacher and you get to the section on grammar, how do you teach grammar anymore? It, you can't,

00:18:06.780 it's impossible because this abides by no coherence. It's, it's not that we've changed the rules of

00:18:15.340 grammar or the rules of grammar have evolved or any, they're out the window. There, there, there aren't

00:18:21.360 any rules at all. This doesn't, you couldn't come up with a new set of rules to explain what is

00:18:28.980 happening in that paragraph I just read. Now grammar and language, it becomes totally shapeless

00:18:37.340 and formless. And each person decides for themselves what a word means and what the rules of grammar

00:18:46.880 are. And that's a problem, you know, because the whole point of language in a, in a human society,

00:18:55.460 the whole point of language is for a means of communication between people. Okay. So this is

00:19:04.180 a way of language is, it's a way of conveying a message to somebody else, conveying meaning.

00:19:12.900 And in order to do that, the reason why we had in the past, anyway, we've had laws,

00:19:17.420 rules of grammar. And the reason why there've been these, you know, shared definitions and words

00:19:22.980 have things, things called definitions that we all understand. The reason for that is that there

00:19:26.600 have to be these shared ground rules in order for me to understand what the hell you're trying to tell

00:19:32.540 me. Now we were making communication virtually impossible. All right, next, let's go to Barry Weiss.

00:19:42.680 She was, uh, on with Brian Stelter. And I thought that this was an interesting exchange

00:19:50.020 as she's trying her best as a Barry Weiss, by the way, is not as far as I know, any kind of right

00:19:56.800 wing conservative. I imagine her politics are probably pretty liberal, but she's got some basic 0.60

00:20:04.460 common sense. And if you have basic common sense, you're going to be exiled from the left wing,

00:20:08.740 no matter what your politics are. That's what's happened with Barry Weiss. And, uh, so here she

00:20:12.660 is as a person with common sense, trying to speak to, uh, Brian Stelter, somebody with, with no

00:20:17.780 common sense whatsoever. And here's how that exchange went. You write, there are tens of

00:20:22.620 millions of Americans who aren't on the hard left or the hard right who feel the world has gone mad.

00:20:28.120 So in what ways has the world gone mad? Well, you know, when you have the chief reporter on the

00:20:35.160 beat of COVID for the New York times, talking about how questioning or pursuing the question

00:20:40.240 of the lab leak is racist, the world has gone mad. When you're not able to say out loud and in public

00:20:46.480 that there are differences between men and women, the world has gone mad. When we're not allowed to 0.99

00:20:51.540 acknowledge that rioting is rioting and it is bad and that silence is not violence, but violence

00:20:58.300 is violence. The world has gone mad. When we're not able to say that Hunter Biden's laptop is a story

00:21:04.800 worth pursuing, the world has gone mad. When in the name of progress, young school children as young

00:21:12.140 as kindergarten are being separated in public schools because of their race. And that is called 0.83

00:21:17.880 progress rather than segregation. The world has gone mad. There are dozens of examples that I could

00:21:24.160 share with, with you and with your viewers. And you often say, you say, you know, knows this and

00:21:28.400 you say, we're not allowed, we're not able. Who's the people stopping the conversation? Who are they?

00:21:34.800 Um, people let work at networks, frankly, like the one I'm speaking on right now, who try and claim

00:21:42.720 that, you know, it was, it was racist to investigate the lab leak theory. It was, I mean, let's just

00:21:49.060 take an example. But I'm just saying that when you say allowed, I just think it's a provocative thing

00:21:52.600 you say. You say, you say, we're not allowed to talk about these things, but they're all over the

00:21:56.920 internet. I can Google them. I can find them everywhere. I've heard about every story you mentioned.

00:22:00.340 So I'm just suggesting, of course, people are allowed to cover whatever they want to cover.

00:22:04.680 But you and I both know, and it would be delusional to claim otherwise, that touching your finger

00:22:10.100 to an increasing number of subjects that have been deemed third rail by the mainstream institutions

00:22:16.200 and increasingly by some of the tech companies will lead to reputational damage, perhaps you losing

00:22:21.960 your job, um, your children sometimes being demonized as well. And so what happens is a kind

00:22:28.260 of internal self-censorship. This is something that I saw over and over again when I was at the New York

00:22:33.600 Times.

00:22:34.440 This is this weaselly kind of trick that, uh, these people pull people like Brian Stelter,

00:22:42.140 where you've got Barry Weiss describing the situation in our culture. It's undeniable if you're an

00:22:50.040 honest and rational person. All of that is obviously the case. And then he says, what do you mean you're

00:22:56.460 not able, you're not allowed to say these things? Well, what do you mean? I've, I hear people say

00:23:02.360 these things all the time. I go on the internet and find people making these points. What do you mean

00:23:05.480 not allowed to? Hey, you're, you're, you're perfectly free. What are you, you're perfectly free to say any

00:23:11.660 of these things that you want? He says, right. As, as there's a gun to your head, like a, like a man

00:23:21.560 coming in with putting a gun to your head, telling you to do something and then saying, well, you, I

00:23:26.360 mean, you're perfectly free to do what you want. If you don't do what I want, then I'm going to shoot 1.00

00:23:31.440 you, but you're perfectly free to do it. Uh, that that's the trick they pull. It's just like 0.99

00:23:41.480 when we say that someone's been canceled, someone like Barry Weiss, who has been canceled. And then

00:23:48.480 the response from the corporate media and their lackeys is always canceled. I, I've, I can still

00:23:57.260 find them. What do you mean canceled? No, they still have a platform. So they might not have a

00:24:02.280 platform on any of the big tech, but I could find them somewhere on the internet. If I looked for

00:24:05.400 them and look, they did a Fox news hit, they're not canceled. Uh, yeah. When we say canceled, we don't

00:24:15.220 mean that a person has been physically killed. Although eventually perhaps we'll get to that point,

00:24:20.580 but you've, you, when their job is taken away, their reputation is, has been left in tatters.

00:24:31.220 They've been smeared. They've been lied about. That's the point.

00:24:37.600 So that's what Brian Stelter is saying. He's like, say, yeah, you know, if you don't agree with me

00:24:42.480 and with the system, we're going to ruin your life. We're going to take everything from you.

00:24:48.860 We're going to try to take anything, everything from you. If we can, we're going to try to get,

00:24:53.180 get you kicked off of every single platform that we can, which is most of them now.

00:25:00.120 Uh, but you'll still be alive at the end of it. So we haven't really taken away your free speech

00:25:05.180 or anything. We haven't, we haven't really taken anything from you and we certainly haven't taken

00:25:08.360 your power to choose. What a weasel. Uh, speaking of which from the daily wire, it says Democrat 0.97

00:25:17.640 Vice President Kamala Harris is set to deliver a video message to congregants in about, in more

00:25:22.860 than 300 black churches across Virginia, urging them to vote for Democrat gubernatorial candidate

00:25:27.240 Terry McAuliffe in November's election. Um, CNN first reported the story, noting that the video

00:25:33.000 message would go out between Sunday and election day. And we have, so this is a video message again,

00:25:38.220 that's going to be played in churches, in black churches in Virginia. And let's, uh, let's first

00:25:45.600 listen to the message and then we'll, we'll talk about it. Terry McAuliffe has a long track record

00:25:50.760 of getting things done for the people of Virginia. When he was governor in the wake of the recession,

00:25:57.000 you'll remember he brought 200,000 jobs to Virginia. Incomes went up and unemployment went

00:26:03.840 down in every city and County in the state. And now Terry McAuliffe is stepping up again with a clear

00:26:12.820 vision about how to rebuild Virginia's economy for the future, to raise the minimum wage, to make

00:26:20.960 health care more affordable, to give every child a world-class education. Virginians, you deserve a

00:26:30.100 leader who has a vision of what is possible and the experience to realize that vision.

00:26:36.800 Huh? Okay. So this was, I wanted to play a part of that. I want to play part of that. Cause obviously

00:26:44.520 I, I hate myself and I want to subject myself to that punishment and you as well. But also we

00:26:49.720 want to hear is, is this really an explicit, are they finding a way to get around the IRS rules here?

00:26:56.560 Or, or is this an explicit endorsement, explicit campaigning by the vice president in a church

00:27:03.900 for a candidate? And it's the latter. I mean, this is explicit vote for this guy type of stuff.

00:27:10.160 Well, Byron York, uh, of the Washington Examiner, he helpfully tweets this out from the IRS.

00:27:18.360 Here are their rules for this kind of thing. And it says under the IRS code, uh, all IRC section 501 C3

00:27:26.700 organizations, including churches and religious organizations are absolutely prohibited from

00:27:30.300 directly or indirectly participating in or intervening in any political campaign on behalf of any

00:27:35.740 candidate for elective public office contributions to political campaign funds or public statements

00:27:40.780 of position made by, or on behalf of the organization in favor of any candidate for public office, clearly

00:27:46.920 violate the prohibition against political campaign activity. Violation of this, of this prohibition may

00:27:51.800 result in denial or revocation of tax exempt status and the imposition of an excise tax.

00:27:56.780 Pretty clear there. This is directly intervening for a political candidate. That's what's happening

00:28:05.680 here. Now say what you want about these IRS rules, uh, pro or con, that's what the rules are.

00:28:18.080 And we damn sure know that if something like this was happening in the reverse on behalf of conservatives,

00:28:25.000 the, the, the, or a Republican candidate by conservative politician, you know, the cries would be,

00:28:31.380 would be deafening, uh, from the left to have the IRS go after that church and everybody involved in it.

00:28:40.340 That's not going to happen in this case though, because you know, we, we live as we have reviewed,

00:28:47.000 we live in a lawless country and all of these laws, none of them apply to everybody, especially when

00:28:54.720 it comes to the IRS. Maybe, maybe, maybe the IRS will, will surprise me though, with their integrity.

00:29:02.680 I can't even say without laughing. Maybe they'll surprise me with their integrity and their,

00:29:06.100 in their, uh, consistency and actually go after these churches and Kamala Harris.

00:29:12.860 You know, we'll, we'll see. I really, I really don't have my hopes up. Um, here's someone who

00:29:18.740 does have integrity though. This is a nice, this is a nice palate cleanser here. A state trooper

00:29:23.020 in, uh, Washington state, even though it's a sad story in many ways, it's also inspiring as this is

00:29:28.040 somebody who, who will do the right thing. We've talked about, uh, you know, the cowards who sit back

00:29:34.180 and are afraid to intervene or afraid to do the right thing, afraid to take a risk.

00:29:38.560 Um, then you have people on the extreme other end of that spectrum who are willing to risk everything,

00:29:46.120 give up everything. And that was the case for a state trooper in Washington state who, uh, left the job

00:29:51.400 over vaccine mandates. And we have here his final, uh, sign-off and his message, especially for the

00:29:59.080 governor of the state. Let's listen.

00:30:00.260 This is my final sign-off. Um, after 22 years of serving the citizens of the state of Washington,

00:30:06.580 um, being asked to leave because I am dirty. Um, numerous fatalities, um, injuries, I've worked

00:30:14.280 sick. I've played sick. Um, we buried lots of friends over these years. I'd like to thank you

00:30:20.980 guys. I'd like to thank the, um, citizens of Yakima County, as well as my fellow officers within the

00:30:27.760 valley. Without you guys, I wouldn't have been very successful and you've kept me safe and got

00:30:32.160 me home to my family every night. Um, thank you for that. Um, wish I could say more, but, um, this is

00:30:40.700 it. So state 1034, this is the last time you'll hear me in a state patrol car and Jay Ansley can kiss

00:30:47.000 very well said, uh, especially at the end there. And it's, uh, it's a, it's a, it's a sad story. Like

00:30:59.760 I said, it's also inspiring that there are people, I mean, this is no, obviously this is no small

00:31:06.980 thing to give up your job, your livelihood, something that you've poured 20 years of your

00:31:11.420 life into. Um, that's a, that's a real sacrifice. You know, these days we're so used to seeing people

00:31:22.980 celebrated for taking political and ideological stands. And then when you look, you see that

00:31:29.600 they're not risking anything. They're not putting anything on the line. Right. Very different

00:31:35.260 situation here, but it really worries me also. This is why the vaccine mandates among, uh, public

00:31:42.860 officials, police officers, especially in the military, you know, the vaccine mandates there

00:31:50.320 worry me more than maybe anywhere else because it's an infringement on Liberty, obviously,

00:31:58.820 but also because this is one more thing kind of smoking out the good people, the people with

00:32:10.120 integrity, because no matter where you stand on vaccines, it doesn't matter. Uh, you could be

00:32:20.140 fully in favor of the vaccine. You could think the COVID vaccine is the greatest thing ever.

00:32:23.160 And I, this, this particular trooper, I don't, I don't know where he stands on it on the, on the

00:32:29.680 issue of the vaccine itself. That's doesn't even make a difference. This is about, this is about

00:32:35.760 opposing tyranny. So, uh, with vaccine mandates in law enforcement and in the military, and you see

00:32:44.900 people who are doing things like this and they're stepping down and they're leaving, which is a very

00:32:48.680 courageous thing to do, but it's one more thing where we're driving out the people in these positions

00:32:56.580 who most oppose tyranny and who have the most integrity. I'm not saying the people that remain

00:33:04.960 in the military or, or, or in law enforcement have no integrity. Okay. I, and I can't, we, we have no

00:33:12.600 vaccine mandate here at the daily wire, as you've probably heard. If there was one, no, I can't sit

00:33:20.640 here and say for sure what, what I give up my job, what I give up my livelihood. I got four kids to, to

00:33:25.360 feed. You can't really know what you would do in that situation until you're in it. And people who decide

00:33:31.840 to stay in because they got to take care of their family, I get that. But there are those who are willing

00:33:38.720 to go all the way who have, who have above average sort of courage and integrity. And so what we're

00:33:44.640 doing is we're, we're, we're driving all of them out. And given what these positions are, uh, that's,

00:33:54.400 that's pretty troubling. I mean, who's going to be left at the end? Uh, speaking of people that remain

00:34:04.640 in the military. Well, let me start with this little context. This is from the New York post, not about

00:34:11.180 our military, but you know, over in China, it says China tested a nuclear capable hypersonic missile in

00:34:16.260 August that circled the globe before speeding towards its target. The test shows China has advanced space 0.93

00:34:21.320 capability that caught us intelligence by surprise. Citing five people familiar with the test. The report

00:34:27.680 said the Chinese military launched a rocket that carried a hypersonic glide vehicle, which flew through

00:34:32.540 low orbit space before cruising toward its target. It missed the target by about 2000 miles, but shows

00:34:38.960 China's astounding progress on hypersonic weapons. Um, the U S Russia and China have all been working on

00:34:44.500 hypersonic weapons. Russia tested one such missile in July. The U S plans to outfit all the Navy's

00:34:50.020 destroyers with these missiles, which can travel five times faster than the speed of sound. So according to

00:34:54.900 the report, China has these hypersonic missiles that are nuclear capable. And so those can fly in low

00:35:00.640 earth orbit, you know, around the globe and then land on their target, or at least get, you know,

00:35:06.480 even 24 miles away. If it's a nuclear weapon, that's close enough to inflict a massive carnage,

00:35:12.080 carnage, obviously. So China's doing that. Supposedly U S officials were stunned and surprised by

00:35:17.500 they didn't, they didn't see it coming. I don't know if that's true or not, but it wouldn't surprise me.

00:35:22.120 And what's our military up to? At least the people who are, are leading our military.

00:35:26.560 Well, here's a tweet from who is this? This is, this is major general Joe Clybourne. Um,

00:35:34.800 and she tweeted over the weekend, a picture of, uh, of herself at her desk,

00:35:43.260 shoes off, feet up on the desk. And she's got the pedicure, uh, toenails there that you can see. 1.00

00:35:49.160 And she tweets, she says, why the army thinks a French manicure is an obnoxious color compared to

00:35:56.620 the civilian world, which views it as an understated yet professional look is beyond me,

00:36:01.360 but I have to be in uniform tomorrow. So here we are. It looked nice while it lasted.

00:36:07.700 All you can do, all you can do is laugh about it. I don't know what the other option is besides

00:36:12.560 weeping openly on camera, which I can't do. Um, although maybe if I did, they, they'd make me

00:36:19.820 a general in the army at this point. While, while, while China's testing nuclear hypersonic missiles,

00:36:28.200 we've got a major general tweeting complaints about the fact that she can't have the nail, 1.00

00:36:33.020 the nail color that she wants when she's on the job.

00:36:35.200 Not a great argument. I got to tell you, she's not representing female leadership 1.00

00:36:43.140 in the military very well here. So there was a, there were, there were, there were people making

00:36:48.700 this point and righteously and rightfully mocking her for this major general tweeting complaints

00:36:56.220 because she can't have a French manicure when she's, when she's on the job, she was getting mocked 0.86

00:37:01.400 for this. And, uh, she finally responded to all the mockery with a series of tweets.

00:37:05.600 She says, number one, I'm a woman. Actually, she wrote, I'm a women, W M E N, which maybe

00:37:12.680 she does identify as multiple women. You never know these days. She says, I'm a women in the 0.71

00:37:16.420 army, get over it. Two, I worry and take daily action on a lot of things, including prioritizing

00:37:21.780 our soldiers and airmen. Three, I have a professional civilian career. I balance with military obligations

00:37:27.080 and a lot of God and country time, like 700,000 other reserve component troops. Um, four, if you

00:37:33.100 think we'd lose a war because women are in the army or wear nail polish, wake up, rethink what 1.00

00:37:38.540 excluding 51% of the population does to our national strategy, especially when only one in 10 are able

00:37:43.200 to serve. Women earn their place rightfully to wear our great nation's uniform. No major general, 1.00

00:37:48.940 it's not that we're going to lose a war because of nail polish. We're going to lose a war because of

00:37:54.040 you and people like you. Totally incompetent, focused on all the wrong things. While you have 0.99

00:38:03.860 China claiming global dominance and securing the ability to annihilate our cities, you're focused 1.00

00:38:11.320 on your nail color. That's why we're going to lose a war. Not because of the nails, just so you

00:38:18.660 understand. All right. Finally, Daniel Craig was on a Sirius XM radio show where he, uh, explained

00:38:25.500 why apparently he goes to gay, he says he's not gay, but he goes to gay bars. And I was just kind

00:38:31.900 of scratching my head over this. Here, here's the answer. Here's, here's why he says he goes to gay

00:38:36.220 bars instead of, uh, you know, straight bars. Let's listen. I've been going to gay bars for as long

00:38:44.260 as I can remember. And one of the reasons, because I don't get into fights in gay bars that often.

00:38:51.940 Right. No, no. We didn't get into a fight that night. Yeah. No, we didn't get into a fight that

00:38:56.140 night. And, um, because the aggressive swinging in hetero bars, I just got very sick of as a kid,

00:39:04.960 because it was like, I, I just, I don't want to get, I don't want to end up even in a punch up. And I did,

00:39:10.540 I, that would happen quite a lot. Right. And it would just be a good place to go. Everybody was

00:39:17.640 chilled. Everybody, you didn't really have to sort of state your sexuality. Right. It was okay. And it

00:39:25.340 was a very safe place to be. Yeah. And I could meet girls there because there were a lot of girls who were 1.00

00:39:29.460 there for exactly the same reason why I was there. Right. Completely. So I was, it was kind of, you know,

00:39:33.580 it was an ulterior motive. Oh, I bet there was an ulterior motive, Daniel Craig. This,

00:39:40.040 this to me sounds like a desperate rationalization. Yeah. I mean, I don't know, but that's what it's

00:39:48.460 that. That's how I, that's how I read it here. It sounds like, you know, someone saw him in the gay

00:39:54.120 bar and he's saying, Oh no, no, no, I, I, no, I go to the gay bar. Cause if I go to the, those other bars,

00:40:00.660 I'm going to be beating people up, I can't go into a bar without getting into a fight.

00:40:04.340 I got women swarming me. It's a, you know, no, I, I just go to the gay bar because I don't want to 1.00

00:40:09.740 have to get into fights. And also I get, I get way more chicks at the gay bar, man. 0.98

00:40:15.780 Uh, okay. What, what bars are you going to Daniel Craig? You know, you're not, 0.98

00:40:19.980 you're not actually James Bond. You know that, right? So what bars are you going to? You can't

00:40:25.060 walk into a non-gay bar without getting into a fight. I don't know. I mean, maybe I'm, maybe I'm 1.00

00:40:31.980 just going to, I'm going to the right bars and maybe the wrong ones. I don't know. I kind of want

00:40:35.000 to go to these other bars that Daniel Craig is talking about where you walk in there and as soon

00:40:40.420 as you walk in the door, you know, you give the, you show your ID to the bouncer and then just someone

00:40:44.260 punches you in the face right away. Just the fight starts right away. I've been to many bars in my time.

00:40:49.820 I've never been in a single fist fight at a bar. I think I've seen like one, maybe.

00:40:57.400 I don't know. I don't know if I buy it, Daniel Craig, but that's your own concern. I suppose.

00:41:04.120 Let's now read the comments.

00:41:05.600 Who's rocking polka dot and flannel shirts without shame? Do you know their name?

00:41:15.680 They're the sweet baby gang.

00:41:19.820 This is from M. She says, Lizzo is the perfect example of the emperor isn't wearing clothes.

00:41:27.620 Yeah. A bunch of people in the comments made that connection about, uh, Lizzo wearing a see-through

00:41:32.380 dress to Cardi B's birthday party, uh, completely nude under underneath. And, you know, I was talking

00:41:38.740 about how everyone pretends that it's this beautiful site when nobody really thinks that. And, uh, I don't

00:41:44.320 know how I didn't, I don't know how I didn't make that connection. That was a failure on my part.

00:41:48.300 This, this is literally the emperor wears no, no, uh, no clothes. That's what this is. That, that, that parable

00:41:56.040 brought to life is what Lizzo was doing there. Walking around basically naked. And, and of course I knew

00:42:03.460 they're going to do this. They put the picture up. You know what? But that's, that's a beautiful site.

00:42:08.180 I'm told. Put the picture up again, put it up again, actually for everyone. That's beautiful.

00:42:16.680 If you don't find that beautiful, then you are a bigot and probably a racist.

00:42:21.820 That's what I'm told anyway. Okay. You can take it off. Uh, Travis says Lizzo's dress clearly

00:42:29.520 draws inspiration from a whale being caught up in a fishing net. Travis, once again, every once in

00:42:38.840 a while, someone leaves a comment that I find personally offensive. We don't make jokes like

00:42:46.900 that on this show. Certainly no fat shaming, not going to be allowed. That has not, that is not

00:42:55.900 funny. Travis, you're banned from the show. How dare you, sir? Um, let's see. Sort of the same says my

00:43:07.640 husband and I would be divorced today if he had stayed home for two months or more or, or more

00:43:12.060 after every one of our four children had been born. He was needed at work, but I had everything

00:43:15.860 under control at home. A week might've, might've been nice, especially since I had four high risk

00:43:19.580 pregnancies, but more than a week would have driven me crazy. Today we are in our sixties and he works

00:43:24.020 from home and things are fine because I don't have to worry about taking care of a newborn and my

00:43:29.380 husband. But I don't want to jump ahead because this is what our daily cancellation is going to deal

00:43:33.300 with. But yeah, as we talked about paternity leave briefly on the show on Friday, uh, I, I, I do,

00:43:41.260 I do also have this question. I mean, all these, and I've heard, and we'll, we'll get into this in a

00:43:44.800 minute, but heard from a lot of guys over the, over the weekend, um, and women too, talking about

00:43:52.000 the kind of paternity leave that they get or their husbands get. There was one person that told me that

00:43:57.300 there is a woman said that her husband got four months, four months of paternity leave.

00:44:03.300 For their first child. So there were no other children. So four months for one baby.

00:44:12.960 What the hell are you doing for four months? For two parents to take care of one baby. 0.99

00:44:22.800 And if you, if you need that, like if you need two parents home 24 seven to take care of one

00:44:30.460 immobile baby, how, how are you going to function once that baby gets older? And if you have a second

00:44:37.360 kid, you're doomed. Well, yeah, I'm jumping ahead. Like I said, we'll get to that later.

00:44:43.200 Uh, Scott says, Matt, you've missed something in the PC box checking for Tolkien's new film.

00:44:48.720 As of last year, those boxes must be checked. If the film is going to be considered for certain

00:44:52.860 awards, I do agree with whoever in solidarity with you and the SPG, I would be boycotting the film.

00:44:57.660 Uh, yeah, I wouldn't even call it a boycott. I'm not even saying I'm going to boycott the

00:45:02.500 Hobbit. It's not a matter of boycott. It's just simply, I have no interest in it. I mean,

00:45:08.840 a boy, a boycott is a real boycott and effective boycott is where you're a potential customer

00:45:16.380 and you actually want to use the good or the service or whatever it is, but you're choosing

00:45:23.660 not to, because you're trying to make, you're trying to send a message or make some sort of

00:45:26.360 point. What I'm saying is I simply have no interest. The minute the PC box checking starts

00:45:33.400 and you're right that that's the, the Academy's made of these rules now where if you want to

00:45:37.360 be eligible for awards, you have to do this, uh, giving even more incentive, but whatever's

00:45:43.420 behind it, the moment I see that I have no interest. It takes me out of the story.

00:45:48.080 And so it's not, it's not a hard decision for me to make. Uh, Alexander says they have

00:45:56.620 to put music behind the advertisement to make it seem like Madison Sear and not at all internally

00:46:00.380 making fun of it. Ha ha. I don't know. I don't know what you mean. I love all, I love and cherish

00:46:05.240 all of our sponsors. Let me tell you something. Even if they didn't pay me to advertise their

00:46:12.500 products, I still would. That's how deeply I love all of our sponsors. Don't take that

00:46:20.860 literally sponsors. You still have to pay me. Uh, Dan says, Matt is atheism dead. It seems

00:46:25.220 like the new atheist movement is dead. At least when you say, uh, yeah, this is, this is kind

00:46:31.640 of a weird thing that I, that I've been hearing a lot recently from, uh, from some Christians 1.00

00:46:36.820 that, uh, atheism is dead or the new atheism movement is dead. Those are two different things,

00:46:42.800 by the way, there's atheism and then there's the so-called new atheist movement. And that was back,

00:46:46.340 you know, 15 years ago. It started with, uh, with, uh, um, you know, Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins

00:46:52.280 and Christopher Hitchens and those guys. And they all, they all put out these anti-God books all in

00:46:56.880 the span of like five years. And they were the, whatever they call the four horsemen of atheism or

00:47:00.780 something. And it became, and it was called the new atheist movement. And that's dead. I mean,

00:47:04.800 that's gone. Um, and you don't, you don't see atheist books being released every, every month.

00:47:14.220 And we went through a period where it seemed like 12 times a year, there was another atheist book

00:47:19.220 coming out, talking about how God isn't, doesn't exist and all this kind of stuff. So you don't see

00:47:23.160 that anymore. Does that mean that atheism is dead? No, not at all. I think that that's a, that's a nice

00:47:28.420 fantasy. That's a nice bedtime story that maybe we as Christians like to tell ourselves, we can sleep

00:47:32.800 easy at night, but I don't think it's true at all. In fact, you could look at this from the other

00:47:39.860 direction entirely and say that it's actually in some ways a bad sign that we don't have all these

00:47:46.480 atheists who are out arguing for atheism anymore. And they're not releasing books all the time.

00:47:51.160 it's a bad sign perhaps because it's not needed. Okay. That before they were trying to,

00:48:02.160 you know, uh, undermine, subvert what they considered to be a religious culture.

00:48:10.440 Although at the time when they were doing this, we, we were not actually a religious culture even

00:48:15.820 then, but that's how they saw it. Now I think you kind of look around and you say, well, it's,

00:48:21.420 it's, it's already a godless secular culture. What is there to argue for? 0.86

00:48:25.780 No reason to put out an atheist book and most of the people already agree

00:48:28.740 or, or maybe even worse, they just, they don't care.

00:48:32.440 I think the vast majority of people in our culture today probably don't really care that much about

00:48:37.800 the question, which is even worse situation to be in. So that's, that's probably how I would take

00:48:45.320 it. Um, not that they've lost, but perhaps as it stands right now, they've kind of won because we

00:48:50.720 live in a, we live in a secular culture. If you're looking for the, for the, uh, silver lining, you came

00:48:57.220 to the wrong place. You know, when I was a little kid, gift giving occasions were pretty easy

00:49:01.940 because people would like my parents would spend a lot of money buying me gifts. And all I had to do

00:49:06.480 was just draw something on a piece of paper and give it to them. And they would pretend that it

00:49:11.360 was the most amazing and beautiful thing that I've ever seen. I can't get away with that anymore. I

00:49:14.820 mean, I couldn't, I couldn't just scribble something on a piece of paper and hand it to my parents on a,

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00:50:54.080 our daily cancellation. So it's time for another reverse cancellation. The outrage mob pulled up

00:51:03.600 in their clown car again and spent yet another weekend screaming at me online. This time they 0.92

00:51:08.580 were upset, very, very upset, I should say, um, about some comments that I made about paternity

00:51:15.460 leave. Now, uh, of all the, of all the times that these, you know, gabbling hyenas have tried to

00:51:23.280 cancel me, I have to say this is, this is maybe one of the weirdest times. So for a little background

00:51:27.200 last, last week, as we discussed on the show, it was revealed that transportation secretary Pete

00:51:31.860 Buttigieg has been on paternity leave for two months after adopting twin twins with his husband.

00:51:36.860 Um, while he was gone, the nation descended into a supply chain crisis with cargo ships,

00:51:41.920 log jammed in U S ports and store shelves empty. As we head into the holiday season,

00:51:47.120 Buttigieg decided that that would be a good time to take an eight week paid vacation.

00:51:51.560 Now let's be very careful here, not to suggest that the situation would be better if Buttigieg was

00:51:57.600 around. It wouldn't be. He's incompetent and useless and unqualified for every job he's ever had.

00:52:02.700 If even if he was around, he'd only be staring at the problem impotently or else he'd be dutifully 1.00

00:52:07.560 working to make it worse. So nobody is begging Buttigieg to come back to work and save us.

00:52:13.040 We're merely pointing out that in principle, the guy who heads up the department of transportation

00:52:17.640 should not disappear for two months while the country faces the worst

00:52:21.180 transportation related crisis in decades. Crisis or no crisis though. It's absurd for any public employee

00:52:28.760 paid on taxpayer dime to be given that much time off. Now you can make an argument for women on 1.00

00:52:35.260 maternity leave, but not for men. Paternity leave is a nice luxury for private companies that can 0.99

00:52:41.600 afford it. The U S government is not a private company. It's a public institution, deeply in debt,

00:52:47.020 failing in just about every way and everywhere. So this is not a time and not the place for those

00:52:52.860 kinds of luxuries. But that's, that's the somewhat safer point to make, right? You are in a much more

00:52:59.660 hazardous place. You are in more hazardous waters when you go away from that. And instead you start

00:53:06.800 saying mildly critical things about paternity leave in general as a concept. And that's what I

00:53:13.000 discovered when I tweeted this on Friday. I said, the thing about paternity leave is that there isn't

00:53:17.120 much for dad to do when the baby is a newborn, especially if mom is breastfeeding. His main role 0.98

00:53:21.540 is to take care of mom as she recovers. But of course that doesn't apply to Buttigieg who is,

00:53:26.220 so I'm not sure why he needs paternity leave at all. That's what I said. And that was enough to 0.55

00:53:32.360 provoke three days of sustained outrage. Here's yet another thing that you could say to almost any

00:53:38.280 group of people in real life and everybody would just nod their heads. But if you make the same

00:53:43.040 common sense observation in front of the left-wing internet rage mob, they'll be sent into demonic

00:53:48.320 vomitous spasms. So over the weekend, thousands and thousands of people, many of them verified accounts,

00:53:54.420 media personalities, and so on, have fluttered around, screeching like bats, yelling at me that 0.99

00:53:59.360 I'm a deadbeat dad, I'm a terrible husband, I'm a sexist, I'm a monster, I'm a supervillain. 1.00

00:54:03.180 How dare you? How could you? Wait, what are we mad about again? And yet, amid all of the howling and 1.00

00:54:09.700 squawking, none of these shrieking banshees have bothered to explain how or why I was actually wrong

00:54:16.920 about what I said. Notice, I did not say that nobody should ever have any kind of paternity leave.

00:54:24.780 If you work for a private company, they can do what they want. I took off three or four days for

00:54:30.040 my kids. If you want to call that paternity leave, that's fine. I also didn't say that there's nothing

00:54:34.980 at all for a man to do for his family after a child is born. I said that as far as caring for the

00:54:39.800 newborn himself, most of that is going to be done by the mother. She, in most cases, will be feeding 0.88

00:54:45.980 the child. The child also needs and wants his mother's presence, his mother's touch, her voice.

00:54:53.080 The father should be interacting with the baby also, obviously, but the infant is far more focused on his

00:54:58.200 mother at that age and needs his mother more. There is no mother in the Buttigieg household, but that

00:55:05.640 doesn't change the point here. Babies need their mothers, which is why two men shouldn't be allowed 1.00

00:55:11.400 to adopt babies in the first place. And the outrage mob can now start a secondary campaign over that

00:55:16.760 comment. But I'll say it again. Two men should not be allowed to adopt babies because babies need 1.00

00:55:24.140 mothers. They also need fathers, which is why two women shouldn't be allowed either. 1.00

00:55:29.140 But in a normal situation, there is a mom and a dad. And in those early stages, the mom is the star

00:55:38.360 of the show, as far as the baby is concerned. The dad plays more of an auxiliary role. Post-birth,

00:55:44.780 as I said, his most important role is to care for his wife, who has just performed the physically

00:55:49.100 taxing act of childbirth. There's nothing controversial about this, or there shouldn't be.

00:55:54.180 It's just how things work, and it's fine. It's funny that so many people have shouted at me,

00:55:59.280 tears in their eyes, insisting that, no, you know, there's a lot for the man to do for the baby.

00:56:05.660 And then they list those things, and they say, oh, you could change diapers, you could give bottles,

00:56:09.960 you could rock the baby to sleep. One guy, Mark Siner, who's a lawyer and an author, he tweeted at me,

00:56:15.980 he's one of the many white knights who wrote in to, you know, let all the women know that I'm a bad

00:56:21.600 guy, but they're not bad. And he said that, you know, he, unlike myself, he's a great dad,

00:56:27.480 and he's a wonderful husband. And after his child was born, he was very involved. This is what he

00:56:32.600 tweeted. He said, one of the ludicrous, one of the most ludicrous tweets I've read in my life, 0.95

00:56:37.400 this takes the cake as the looniest. Not sure what kind of dad Matt Walsh is, but I'll take my version. 0.95

00:56:43.740 24-7 singing, reading, cuddling, bottle feeding to two newborn twins. And I'm sure glad that Pete

00:56:50.940 Buttigieg is doing the same. But 24-7 singing and cuddling, something tells me that was a bit of

00:56:58.080 an exaggeration. I hope for his wife's sake that it was. But you see how he makes my point for me

00:57:03.060 accidentally, singing, reading, cuddling. In other words, not a lot. Okay, these are not time-consuming

00:57:09.780 tasks. These are not tasks that you need to take two months off of work to perform. These are mostly

00:57:15.120 things a dad can do and should do while still working to provide for his family. I read to my

00:57:21.620 kids every night. Every single day I read to my kids. And I also work. If I were to list the tasks

00:57:27.540 that I must perform for my kids who are now older, between the ages of two and eight, it would be much

00:57:34.100 more extensive. In fact, I could hardly list the tasks at all, as the job of parenting older kids

00:57:39.760 is so all-encompassing. Newborns are immobile. They sleep like 18 hours a day. They have only two

00:57:47.900 basic physical needs, sleep and eat. So if they're crying, it's because they want to do one of those

00:57:53.460 things or because they need to be burped. And this is why newborns are so much easier, especially for

00:57:57.840 dads. And I have never in my life met an actual flesh and blood human being in real life who would

00:58:04.680 disagree with that assessment. I mean, this is something that as parents we talk about all the time with

00:58:08.160 other parents. What's the hardest phase of parenting? What's the most difficult time to be

00:58:13.640 a parent? Nobody ever says newborn. No one says that unless all they have is a newborn. Talk to any

00:58:21.840 parent with kids who are, I don't know, two or older. None of them are going to say that the newborn

00:58:29.420 phase is the hardest. None. And this is why the whole concept of paternity leave makes no sense.

00:58:36.420 If the idea is to give dads time off so that they can care for their kids and bond with them,

00:58:42.780 why would the leave kick in right after birth when most of the dad-involved care and bonding

00:58:47.620 will happen later? Infancy is precisely when there is the least for the dad to do and the least

00:58:53.780 opportunity for bonding. I didn't say none and no, the least. So why isn't anybody advocating for

00:59:00.280 a paternity leave that starts with the child's first birthday, let's say?

00:59:03.940 The answer to that question is also the answer to why everyone got mad at me in the first place

00:59:10.140 and also why the left feels so strongly about paternity leave. I mean, keep in mind,

00:59:15.660 the people now claiming that this is absolutely critical for both mom and dad to be home immediately

00:59:20.820 after birth will also insist that both mom and dad can go to work in a few months and have nannies and 0.97

00:59:27.080 daycare centers raise their kids and there will be no detrimental effects at all.

00:59:32.280 So like for the first month or two of the baby's birth, you've got all these leftists say,

00:59:37.500 oh, so we got to have both parents. Oh, it's so important. So important.

00:59:41.820 And then you ship the kids off to daycare for the rest of their childhoods. And we're supposed to

00:59:46.740 believe that that's perfectly fine. I mean, if I were to say that more women should consider staying 1.00

00:59:55.860 home permanently with their kids so that their kids are not raised by strangers, I'd be called a 0.98

01:00:02.160 sexist. And yet if I raise a complaint about paternity leave, not even a complaint, but a mild

01:00:08.760 criticism, it's a horrible thing because those babies, they need both parents there. What do you

01:00:15.380 think the needs end at two months? You idiots. What do you think happens at two months? That's so 1.00

01:00:20.400 magical. We got to have the, oh yeah, Buttigieg's kids. They, they, uh, they, they, they need

01:00:28.260 Buttigieg there for two, for two months. After that, who cares? Throw, you know, throw them out in the 1.00

01:00:36.780 woods and let the squirrels raise them. Since when do these people give a damn about parents being

01:00:41.840 involved with their kids at all? I mean, they, they, they, they think parents are domestic

01:00:45.400 terrorists just for showing up to school board meetings for God's sake. So, so since, since when

01:00:50.860 do they care? Well, the answer is this, the answer is sex differences. Okay. That's what explains this 0.56

01:00:59.580 weird reaction. Namely their denial of sex differences. Their problem with my position on paternity

01:01:07.720 leave is that I am acknowledging the inherent differences between mother and father. That's it.

01:01:14.840 That's what it comes down to. That I would dare suggest that there is a difference between mom and

01:01:21.780 dad and that kids interact with mom and dad differently and that they need different things

01:01:31.200 from mom and dad. And that God forbid mom and dad have different roles in a child's life.

01:01:39.400 For me to suggest that is beyond the pale. That, that is the, that is the, the, the thing you're not

01:01:46.500 allowed to say. That is the unmentionable, right? So that's what it all comes down to. That's what

01:01:54.260 they're actually upset about. They don't care about parents taking care of their kids. They think

01:02:00.260 parents are totally expendable. They think that they think the government school system should

01:02:04.740 start raising the kids at by the age of three. No, the only thing they care about is denying that

01:02:13.200 there is any difference between the sexes, but as much as they want to deny it, it is true.

01:02:19.580 The dad plays a different role, just as important ultimately, but different.

01:02:26.080 And so when I talk about dads going to work and you know, what I've heard from the left all weekend

01:02:34.180 is, oh, so you're saying dad should be a deadbeat. They, they, they shouldn't do anything for their

01:02:38.460 kids. No, you idiots working for your family and providing for them is not nothing. So I was home 1.00

01:02:49.360 for, I don't know, like I said, a few days after my kids were born. Then I went to work

01:02:53.000 and I made money, which I brought home to them to put a roof over their head and to put food in

01:03:00.220 their mouths. That's not nothing. That's an important role. It's not exactly the same role

01:03:06.240 that my, that my wife plays. It's different and that's okay. That's good. Okay. And you're all canceled.

01:03:15.080 Uh, so I'm glad we got that out of the way now. We'll leave it there for today. Thanks

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The Matt Walsh Show - October 18, 2021

Ep. 820 - A Society Overrun By Cowards And Weaklings

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