The Matt Walsh Show - October 18, 2021


Ep. 820 - A Society Overrun By Cowards And Weaklings


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 4 minutes

Words per Minute

176.29709

Word Count

11,357

Sentence Count

726

Misogynist Sentences

16

Hate Speech Sentences

24


Summary

A woman on a train in Philadelphia was sexually assaulted for nearly 10 minutes while bystanders watched and did nothing. Why does that sort of thing happen and why does it appear to be so common these days? Also, the ACLU files an amicus brief in support of compelled speech. And finally, in our daily cancellation, the outrage mob is very upset at me because of some things I said about paternity leave. Will I apologize, or double down?


Transcript

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?
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
00:00:35.260 may surprise you, but probably not at all. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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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
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
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,
00:05:10.840 the bystanders are still a bunch of weak, gutless cowards. Again, if we lived in a serious country,
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
00:05:26.200 and was summarily beaten unconscious by an enraged mob of men. That's the way it should have ended.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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,
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
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
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
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
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,
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
00:38:03.860 China claiming global dominance and securing the ability to annihilate our cities, you're focused
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
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
00:40:09.740 have to get into fights. And also I get, I get way more chicks at the gay bar, man.
00:40:15.780 Uh, okay. What, what bars are you going to Daniel Craig? You know, you're not,
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
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.
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
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?
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
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
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
00:52:35.260 maternity leave, but not for men. Paternity leave is a nice luxury for private companies that can
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
00:55:24.140 mothers. They also need fathers, which is why two women shouldn't be allowed either.
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,
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.
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
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
00:59:55.860 home permanently with their kids so that their kids are not raised by strangers, I'd be called a
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
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
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
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
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
01:03:21.640 for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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