The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 823 - The Spoiled, Privileged Brats Who Wish They Were Oppressed

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the LGBT Netflix employees finally held their big walkout yesterday

00:00:04.540 to protest Dave Chappelle and biological science. Only it wasn't big, just a small assortment of

00:00:09.140 people gathered for the demonstration. Many on the right think that the pathetic turnout was a 0.96

00:00:13.320 failure and an embarrassment for the left, but I think they're missing the point completely. 0.96

00:00:17.320 We'll talk about that. Also, the State Department celebrates National Pronouns Day, which is a thing

00:00:21.960 now. And Donald Trump launches his own social media platform. Is it on its way to wild success

00:00:26.860 or doomed to failure? Plus, the WNBA holds a parade in Chicago yesterday, and you have to see the

00:00:31.860 footage to really appreciate it. In our daily cancellation, I must cancel a Republican

00:00:35.360 candidate for a political ad. You've got to be careful watching as it may cause a fatal case

00:00:40.120 of the cringe. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:43.460 So yesterday, after much media buildup and extraordinary hype, a small collection of

00:00:58.600 LGBT Netflix employees and their supporters rallied outside of Netflix headquarters in protest of a

00:01:04.100 comedy special. A few dozen people showed up with a ratio of about three reporters to every one

00:01:09.720 protester. It was reminiscent of a Joe Biden rally, both in terms of crowd size and demographic.

00:01:15.000 Netflix itself has over 12,000 employees. Of those 12,000, maybe 12 participated in the walkout.

00:01:21.620 And those 12 had significant support from not only the media, but Hollywood. Various trans and

00:01:26.280 trans-affirming celebrities released statements and videos throwing their weight behind the protesters.

00:01:32.720 Elliot Page, formerly Ellen Page, the Wachowski sisters, formerly the Wachowski brothers,

00:01:38.600 Wanda Sykes, formerly Wanda Sykes, all along with many other celebrities to voice their support for 0.99

00:01:45.360 the Netflix employees who were offended because Dave Chappelle said that women have vaginas. 0.97

00:01:49.940 There were more obscure supporters on the scene as well. The Daily Beast gives us this story, 0.98

00:01:55.280 quote, comedian Seven Graham, who is intersex, trans-mask, non-binary, and uses he, they pronouns,

00:02:03.960 was in attendance at the protest, telling the Daily Beast they felt the special crossed the line.

00:02:08.580 Quote, I actually found myself crying watching this special because it says some very difficult,

00:02:13.520 very painful, very untrue things about who trans people are. Graham said, this special will be used 1.00

00:02:18.960 by people to fuel that transphobia that has a very real world effect for trans people. As soon as I

00:02:25.300 heard that trans employees were speaking out and amazing activists like Ashley Marie Preston were

00:02:30.080 stepping up and organizing this demonstration, I knew that I had to go. Fellow protester Nick Bewick

00:02:35.680 agreed, says, I was angry for days and I'm a fan of Dave Chappelle. I've been a fan since 2003. I've seen

00:02:42.360 every single one of his episodes. I've seen every single special. Sticks and Stones kind of touched upon a few

00:02:47.520 things, but it didn't really bother me as bad. This seemed gratuitously aimed at us and it wasn't

00:02:52.180 funny. It was gratuitously mean. It was gratuitously not funny. It was just self-glorification,

00:02:57.940 self-masturbation. I'm rich and famous. Let me spew out all the things that I think as if he was some

00:03:03.020 sort of messiah. I think he got it twisted. So many people worship him and he's so out of touch.

00:03:09.300 Yeah, who do you think you are, Dave Chappelle, giving your opinion like that? Who do you think you are?

00:03:12.780 Some kind of messiah? You must have a messianic complex if you would dare give your opinion

00:03:19.820 or tell jokes at a comedy special. See, I'm trying as hard as I can to picture a professed comedian

00:03:28.460 sitting in his living room, watching a Dave Chappelle stand-up special and weeping.

00:03:35.260 And I'm just having trouble conjuring that image. We have to keep in mind that the people in this

00:03:40.660 assembly are, shall we say, special. And so, for example, just to put an image with the lining,

00:03:46.060 let me play a clip of one of the protesters explaining why he or they or whatever showed

00:03:53.120 up on Wednesday. Watch this. Yeah, my name is David Huggard. I'm a non-binary individual.

00:03:58.140 I also go by the persona of Eureka O'Hara, which has been debuted on Repulse Drag Race,

00:04:03.100 uh, Season 9, 10, All-Star 6, and HBO's We're Here.

00:04:07.120 Okay, can I, uh, first name you gave me, can we spell that for you?

00:04:10.260 David, D-A-V-I-D-H-U-G-G-A-R-D, and then Eureka, E-U-R-E-K-A-O-H-A-R-A.

00:04:17.640 Amazing. So, I mean, firstly, I mean, like, why is it so important to be out here today?

00:04:21.460 Yeah, no, it's important to be out here today because we have to stand in solidarity with each other.

00:04:25.700 Obviously, uh, Ashley Marie Preston is a great advocate and a huge sister of mine,

00:04:30.680 um, also a trans woman. As a non-binary person, we as trans people and non-binary people aren't

00:04:36.160 getting visibility or respect in the entertainment industry to begin with. And to have something

00:04:41.400 like Dave Stupel's special not be noted that it's promoting discrimination and hate conversation

00:04:47.160 is very, um, hurtful to the activism and the cause that we're trying to progress ourselves in the

00:04:52.700 industry. Well, it's good to see Brian Stelter getting involved in the community. But remember,

00:04:56.620 this is someone we're supposed to listen to and take seriously. Eureka O'Hara deserves our attention

00:05:03.580 and our respect. Also remember, they're not visible enough, even though 14 of them walked

00:05:08.620 around carrying signs for an hour and they made it into the headlines of every major news publication.

00:05:14.000 But still, not visible enough. And we need to make, we need, we need to make sure we're not having

00:05:18.380 hate conversations, says Mr. Eureka. So we've progressed past hate speech and now it's hate

00:05:26.240 conversation. Some conversations themselves are hateful. To simply talk about certain subjects

00:05:32.340 is now an act of hate. That's what the activists are trying to tell us. And it explains why they

00:05:37.260 responded violently to a quote unquote counter protester who showed up yesterday with a provocative

00:05:42.660 and offensive sign that said, we like Dave and jokes are funny. That may seem like the most innocuous

00:05:50.120 and innocent statement ever written on a sign in the whole history of signs, but that's not how the

00:05:55.620 LGBT activists viewed it. Let's see how they responded.

00:06:14.080 Now again, remember the sign says, we like jokes. They're angrily tearing it up.

00:06:20.000 He's got a weapon. He's got a weapon. He's got a weapon.

00:06:29.460 Oh, do you want me to drop my weapon? Yes.

00:06:32.460 There's my weapon.

00:06:33.460 We're not trying to have anything to talk to you. I'm not to talk to anything.

00:06:39.460 Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me.

00:06:43.640 Okay. So to recap, he stood there peacefully with a sign that said jokes are funny.

00:07:14.180 They accosted him, tore his sign apart, started shouting that he had a weapon and, uh, which is

00:07:20.160 a great thing to do because there are cops all around and they're shouting, he has a weapon. 0.94

00:07:24.060 I mean, you know, as far as they're concerned, they'd be fine getting the guy killed. They don't

00:07:27.460 care. And that really is true. By the way, they're shouting, he's got a weapon because he's holding

00:07:33.420 the stick that the sign was attached to that they just destroyed. And if a cop pulled out a gun

00:07:37.940 and just shot him there on the spot, they'd be happy. They really would be. And then they got in 0.91

00:07:44.920 his face and they tried to shove him, you know, out of the protest, but don't worry. The media made

00:07:48.480 sure to report this incident fairly. Here's Variety. Um, here's their headline. At times,

00:07:54.140 the Netflix walkout situation threatened to devolve as counter protesters pushed against trans

00:07:59.900 speakers. That's the media's framing, doing everything they can, as always, to earn the enemy of the

00:08:05.760 people moniker that, uh, that Trump gave them. Now let's think about the privilege on display here.

00:08:13.940 The LGBT people at this protest belong to the most pampered, coddled, uh, celebrated, elevated,

00:08:23.020 and disproportionately visible demographic in America. Some of them apparently also work for

00:08:29.200 Netflix, one of the richest and most powerful corporations in the world. They live in Silicon

00:08:34.040 Valley, employed by a fortune 500 company. They are applauded and worshiped just for existing.

00:08:39.940 They are the very definition of privilege. And yet they pretend to be victimized over a comedy special.

00:08:45.080 One guy tells one joke they don't like, and it's a national emergency. Everybody can bow before them,

00:08:50.560 lay palms before their feet as they walk, follow them around cheering and fawning over them. And if one

00:08:56.460 person, just one says anything mildly critical or makes a joke at their expense, they will collapse into a

00:09:03.220 puddle and demand an FBI investigation and they'll get it. They'll get what they want because they

00:09:09.280 always do. And that's why the small size of the protest is not an embarrassment for them. I mean,

00:09:16.220 we can make fun of it. We can laugh it off, but they aren't ashamed. Why should they be ashamed?

00:09:21.200 The crowd size is a symbol of power. The crowd displays its power by being small.

00:09:30.760 Think about it. If you could go by yourself and stand outside of a major corporation's headquarters

00:09:35.620 with a sign demanding that they take some sort of action at your behest and it worked and you got

00:09:41.780 what you wanted, would that image of you standing there alone, a crowd of one, be embarrassing?

00:09:47.040 No, quite the opposite. We console ourselves with reassurances that these people are in the

00:09:53.140 minority and they are, but they run everything and they get exactly what they want every single 0.95

00:09:58.620 time. And it's not so reassuring when you look at it like that. So I hope you can see by now.

00:10:05.880 And if you listen to the show, you must see it because I'm hammering on the point all the time,

00:10:09.360 but I hope you can see that this stuff is not just about gender or sexuality. It's certainly not

00:10:15.480 about Dave Chappelle. What we're living through is a giant social experiment. It's the biggest social

00:10:22.280 experiment in world history. And what the experimenters are trying to find out is this.

00:10:28.480 Can a vocal and powerful minority alter the majority's perception of reality, not simply

00:10:34.180 influence their opinions or convince them to adopt a new position, but fundamentally change their very

00:10:39.860 perception of reality itself. Primarily by screaming, threatening, and cajoling them.

00:10:47.120 Can the human instinct for self-preservation, the natural desire to avoid confrontation,

00:10:52.500 can these be exploited to such an extent that millions or billions of people can be made to not

00:10:57.400 only tacitly tolerate a bizarre idea, but to actually over time, believe it themselves.

00:11:03.140 You know, if they, in the minority, act like a statement of basic truth is wildly offensive,

00:11:11.340 dangerous, harmful, it's going to get people killed. If they do that, and they do it often

00:11:18.060 enough, can they not only convince millions of people to keep quiet, but eventually can they

00:11:22.420 convince those timid masses to really believe that the truth is offensive and that it being

00:11:29.040 offensive makes it somehow not actually true? That's the experiment we're all living through

00:11:36.380 right now. Those are the questions that the social engineers are trying to answer. And so far,

00:11:43.560 sad to say, the answer for many people has been yes. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:13:04.720 You know, guys, I really hate being proved right. That's one of the themes of this show. I'm proved

00:13:10.900 right so often, but I wish it wasn't this way. I don't want to be right about the things that I say.

00:13:15.060 I just am. And that happened again this week when I discussed a few days ago, you know, the issue of

00:13:20.260 pilots on planes who give their passengers too much information. Remember, I said, you know, you don't need

00:13:24.960 to tell us what's going on up there. Just get us from point A to point B. None of the people on the

00:13:29.180 plane, none of the passengers, we don't know how it works. Any additional information you give us

00:13:33.280 because we lack the base of knowledge to process and understand that information is just going to

00:13:39.260 add to our anxiety and our fear. So as if to prove me right, as if to illustrate my point, we were at

00:13:45.420 the airport yesterday in Grand Rapids getting ready to leave and head home. But today, as you can see,

00:13:51.080 we're still in a hotel. We're still here in Grand Rapids. And that's because the plane broke.

00:13:55.420 Unfortunately, it broke before we boarded it. And we couldn't get another flight that night because

00:14:00.340 apparently Grand Rapids is in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. And there's one flight coming and

00:14:05.200 leaving per month or something. So we had to cancel the flight entirely. We had to rebook on another

00:14:09.520 airline for today. And by the way, the only direct flight that we could find was on an airline called

00:14:15.280 Allegiant, which I don't even think I'd ever heard of before yesterday. And so we'll be boarding that

00:14:20.440 flight today. And I made the mistake of looking up Allegiant safety record this morning. And it's

00:14:25.100 not great is all I can say. It's just, it's not good. Allegiant is a budget airline below spirit.

00:14:33.160 Okay. Allegiant planes, they don't even have wings. They actually just roll down the windows and they

00:14:37.460 have their passenger, the passengers stick their arms out and flap up and down. You know,

00:14:41.680 it's like the modern version of the Roman galley ship. Flight attendants walk up and down the aisle

00:14:46.580 with whips. Flap faster. Flap. Anyway, that's all beside the point. The point is that while we were

00:14:52.440 at the gate, before we rebooked, the gate agent on the intercom, got on the intercom and said this,

00:14:58.480 and this is a direct quote. I swear to you, this is what he said. He said, sorry for the delay,

00:15:03.640 ladies and gentlemen, we're having mechanical issues with the plane. They're going to shut the plane off

00:15:07.900 and turn it back on and hope the issue disappears. That is exactly what he said.

00:15:14.260 As if the plane runs on windows 98, he might as well have said that, you know,

00:15:17.900 they're going to hit control alt delete and just see what happens. Turn it off and back on again.

00:15:23.600 Maybe next pull out the cartridge and blow on it. I don't know. How is that the solution? That's the

00:15:28.660 way I fix all technical issues, but I'm a moron. That can't actually be the way the world works. 0.96

00:15:34.880 That can't be what commercial airline pilots do. You're telling me that they're just as confused

00:15:41.520 and mystified as the rest of us. They're looking at the problem and going, I got nothing. I don't

00:15:46.900 know. Just turn it off. Turn it on again. We'll see. These planes are up in the air and parent,

00:15:51.260 apparently nobody knows they're up in the air and no one knows how they got there or what they're

00:15:55.620 doing. That's, that's the way I'm interpreting this. No one has any idea what's going on.

00:15:59.800 Hope the issue disappears. Wouldn't you want to know where the issue went?

00:16:04.880 And if it's likely to return, is that what the pilots are doing up in that mysterious little

00:16:11.380 room? The co-pilot says to the pilot, Hey, you know, there's a, there's a blinking red light here

00:16:14.720 with a skull and crossbones and it's saying danger, danger. What should we do about it?

00:16:18.000 Yeah. I don't know. Turn it off back on again. Sure. It'll be fine. My God, we're doomed. We are

00:16:24.360 doomed. Nope. No one. That's, that's the lesson kids. You have to understand this. This is a,

00:16:28.740 this is a, one of the realities of life that you realize as an adult and you're horrified when you

00:16:33.160 realize it, but no one has any idea what they're doing anywhere with anything. Everyone is clueless

00:16:39.840 and we're just walking around blind and that is life. All right. So speaking of clueless,

00:16:47.020 the state department has an important message for the people of the earth. And here's the message

00:16:54.600 they tweeted out yesterday. It says today on international pronouns day, we share why many

00:17:00.360 people list pronouns on their email and social media profiles, read more here. And then if

00:17:06.900 you click and it goes to share.america.gov. So this is a government website shared by the

00:17:13.500 state department. And there's a whole article about, about pronouns. It says, I'll read some

00:17:21.500 of it. It says in the United States, it's becoming increasingly common for people to share their

00:17:25.020 pronouns. Third person, personal pronouns are used to describe a person or people in English,

00:17:29.220 American grammar as the subject, as the object, or the possessive. These pronouns include the

00:17:34.320 gender neutral, they, them, theirs, words that traditionally refer to a plural number, but that

00:17:38.480 today are used by some individuals who identify as gender non-binary or who prefer not to share

00:17:42.960 gender information. Other pronouns include the feminine, she, her, hers, and the masculine, he, him,

00:17:47.800 his. Some people are pioneering gender neutral pronouns, such as z, z, z, zers.

00:17:52.900 This is a government website. This is a government website. This is the state department

00:17:58.420 putting z, z, zers, zers out into the world, officially endorsing it. 1.00

00:18:09.460 And then, I don't need to keep reading this. I can't keep reading it. I'll have, I'll, my, I'll have an

00:18:13.800 aneurysm if I do. I have to tell you, when I, when I, when I encounter this kind of, this kind of

00:18:20.280 thing, of course, my first reaction is just sheer embarrassment that this is the U.S. State Department

00:18:28.120 ostensibly supposed to represent us, represent the United States of America, and this is what

00:18:33.880 they're exporting out into the world. And this is what, this is, this is, this is a, an intentional

00:18:39.980 act. I mean, this goes beyond merely pandering to the left.

00:18:47.240 This is the religion that our government right now is exporting into the world. This is the ideology.

00:18:55.980 It's a religion of self-creation, of self-worship, a religion that rejects truth as a category,

00:19:05.380 rejects truth as a category, not just has a different idea about truth or has a different

00:19:12.560 idea about what is true and what isn't, but rejects it as a tragic, as a category. There

00:19:17.800 is no truth. What is truth? As Pontius Pilate said, say, in a way is the Pontius Pilate religion.

00:19:28.000 Now, what is truth? The truth is whatever you make it, whatever you decide that it is.

00:19:31.400 And this is what the United States of America, this is what they want the United States of

00:19:39.020 America to represent on earth. We used to talk about how we wanted the U.S. to represent

00:19:47.480 freedom to all the peoples of the earth. Perhaps we should have been more specific because now

00:19:54.460 we represent freedom from reality, freedom from truth, freedom from moral decency.

00:20:01.400 Freedom from even biological realities, biological science. Freedom from our own bodies.

00:20:11.900 That's what we represent. But when I see this, along with feeling embarrassed,

00:20:15.880 I also can't help but every time it makes me mad and angry at the right. I mean, yeah, at the left,

00:20:28.100 but it's fruitless, it's pointless, it's redundant at this point to be angry at the left. Of course,

00:20:33.900 I am, but even more so at the right. Because maybe ultimately there was nothing we could have done

00:20:42.960 about this, about this slide into madness. Even if we had all been on the ball about it from the

00:20:48.400 beginning, it may have still ended up this way. I don't know. But the fact is that so many people on

00:20:55.640 the right for years were just whistling past the graveyard with this stuff. And they would say about

00:21:01.100 the pronoun issue, oh, who cares about that? Just call people what they want. Why are you so focused 0.71

00:21:06.960 on this? Why are you talking about it? This is a small issue. This is a side show. This is a

00:21:10.500 distraction. For years and years, that's what I heard. I don't hear it anymore. I mean, I've been

00:21:21.080 on these issues, as you know, from day one. And for years, the criticism I would get from people on

00:21:29.360 the right is these issues don't matter. It doesn't make a difference. This is superficial.

00:21:35.140 This is a phase. It'll go away. Why are you paying attention to it? Just don't pay attention to it,

00:21:41.060 and it'll go away. Right? Like Jurassic Park with the T-Rex. Don't move. Its vision is based on

00:21:48.000 movement. Stand there still, and it will walk past you. For years, that's what I heard. And I don't

00:21:55.320 hear it anymore. Because even the dumbest, most clueless, most oblivious, muddled-brained people 1.00

00:22:06.700 on the right, even they, even the ones in that category are starting to see that, oh, wow, 1.00

00:22:12.180 this is a big deal. This is a war on truth. I mean, we are marching into total lunacy and madness.

00:22:22.260 And there is no end in sight. And it, oh, it actually matters. Who would have thought?

00:22:32.340 But it's kind of too late now.

00:22:36.020 Like, if this is your wake-up call that the State Department

00:22:38.480 is celebrating International Pronouns Day and talking about Z-Zim-Zers, 1.00

00:22:45.960 you know, if you thought this was a phase and it would just go away, it's a silly childhood thing,

00:22:50.900 you know, and now the State Department is promoting it. And if this is your wake-up call,

00:22:57.900 we'll say it's too late.

00:23:02.260 Okay. From ABC News. It says,

00:23:07.600 silenced by many major platforms, former President Donald Trump is launching his own social media app,

00:23:13.440 Trump Media and Technology Group and Digital World Acquisition Group, which is already listed

00:23:17.360 on the NASDAQ, have entered into a merger to form a new company, chaired by the former president,

00:23:22.460 according to a press release. Trump says the group will form a rival to the Liberal Media Consortium,

00:23:28.420 in which its first step will be launching a new social media platform called Truth Social.

00:23:36.360 And truth is all in caps. I'm not sure if that's supposed to be an acronym or something, but

00:23:39.400 a better version will be available to invited guests in November, according to a release.

00:23:43.400 Trump said in a statement, we live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter,

00:23:47.900 yet your favorite American president has been silenced. According to the release,

00:23:51.400 the company was formed using a special purpose acquisition company, yada, yada, yada, et cetera.

00:23:55.800 So Truth Social is going to be the, going to be the platform and it'll join, you know,

00:24:04.740 Parler and Gab and some of the other alternative social media platforms founded by people on the right.

00:24:13.400 Now, I don't know if it'll be successful or not. I hope it is, right? I think it would be great to

00:24:20.080 have competition for Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and to have a platform where, you know,

00:24:29.420 there actually is free speech and it's not controlled by ideologues on the left and all of that kind of

00:24:36.540 stuff. I mean, I think it'll be great. So I would root for it, but I'm very skeptical

00:24:42.000 about Trump's social media platform. I'm skeptical of all the right wing, you know, social media

00:24:49.940 platforms. And there are three reasons. One is that so far, you know, most of these alternative

00:24:57.320 platforms, there's no innovation. Like there's nothing really interesting happening, technically

00:25:04.420 speaking, with the sites and you go to it and the sites look like, and they feel like

00:25:09.820 knockoffs. This is the problem that on the right, we've had in many areas of the culture

00:25:21.800 where we're trying to come up with responses to what they're doing on the left, but we end

00:25:26.160 up just imitating what they're doing on the left.

00:25:29.060 And then the result is something that's, it's just, it's not as interesting. It's not as cool

00:25:36.660 to the average user or someone in the audience. I mean, look at, this has been the fatal flaw

00:25:44.480 of Christian rock music since its inception. That there really isn't any innovation going

00:25:51.120 on. It's just, let's try to sound like that kind of music over there. We're going to base

00:25:55.940 our whole style and everything off of that. We're going to be the, you know, we're going

00:25:59.960 to be the Christian version of that. And so in these right-wing media platforms, social

00:26:04.760 media platforms, I guess they go into it saying, let's be the right-wing version of Twitter.

00:26:10.880 And you do that, you're already doomed because you're not going to be a better Twitter than

00:26:14.880 Twitter. Twitter has been doing this for over a decade. They've got billions and billions

00:26:20.580 of dollars. They've been extremely successful. You're not going to be a better Twitter than

00:26:23.940 Twitter. You have to do something completely different. And usually that's not the way

00:26:28.820 it goes. And so it's not a success. The other problem is that, you know, echo chambers are

00:26:34.280 boring. I've used some of these platforms and it's kind of like, I'm there, everybody agrees

00:26:39.320 with me. And it's kind of like, I, I guess it's, it's nice to be around people that you agree

00:26:45.580 with, but especially someone like me, I like to mix it up a little bit. I like to know that

00:26:50.720 I'm going to say something and people who don't agree with me are going to see it.

00:26:54.980 And you, you take that element out of it and it's not nearly as fun. And then, but then

00:26:58.360 the third, here's the big thing. This is the big and most important thing. And this is why

00:27:03.960 I say to conservatives say, Oh, I'm done with Twitter. I'm done with Facebook. I'm, I'm,

00:27:07.060 I'm, I'm done. I'm logging off. And then they, they ask me why, why haven't you, why are you

00:27:12.940 still using it? Well, because I can use Twitter to try and drive the conversation and to, and

00:27:24.680 to bring attention to issues and to ideas and to things that the media does wants to bury.

00:27:32.020 So that that's a function of Twitter. And I've used it that way successfully. Many times,

00:27:38.260 many people on the right half to drive the conversation, to bring things to the forefront

00:27:43.340 that would not be at the forefront. Look at what's happening with school boards across the country

00:27:47.880 right now. You think that this would be happening without, without the, the, the unwitting help of

00:27:54.640 Twitter and Facebook? No, it wouldn't be. Do you think we could have organized a movement like that

00:28:01.000 on, um, you know, parlor or, or one of these right-wing social media platforms? No,

00:28:06.440 because you're, you're only, you're with your own people. It doesn't have,

00:28:12.520 doesn't have the same cultural purchase. It's very insular. And so you can do that. You can

00:28:19.160 actually have talk about social media influencers. You can actually have influence by using these

00:28:24.600 platforms, um, and driving cultural conversations. And that just doesn't, you know, there are no

00:28:30.180 influencers on these other right-wing platforms. There isn't, I mean, there, there are influencers who

00:28:35.860 are influencers on, on the major platforms and then they go over there, but those platforms

00:28:42.080 haven't, um, haven't birthed their own influencers. So that's a problem. It doesn't mean that we

00:28:49.200 shouldn't try, but I think it's important to have those issues in mind and try to address those

00:28:54.920 problems with whatever platform you're trying to develop. All right. So let's go, where else are we

00:29:00.900 going? Okay. This is great. Um, the WNBA team, Chicago Sky won the WNBA championship a few days

00:29:08.240 ago. Now, normally this is where you might expect that I'm going to make a bunch of jokes

00:29:14.860 about how nobody watches the WNBA and how, you know, I didn't even know that the championship

00:29:20.560 happened or even that the WNBA had championships at all. I figured they probably didn't keep score,

00:29:26.080 you know, but, um, I'm not saying that I'm not going to joke about that. And I'm not going to

00:29:30.980 make any comments about the Chicago sky and how it sounds like a brand of girly $11 wine that they

00:29:35.380 serve at baby showers. I'm not going to make any comments like that. You know, I'm not going to

00:29:40.400 talk about how the dunk contest at the WNBA all-star game is more like horseshoes where they score

00:29:46.660 based on who gets the closest. Um, I'm not doing that. Those are jokes I'm not making because I'm not

00:29:53.220 a rude person and I'm not a sexist and they play their hearts out. And before you claim that nobody

00:30:00.640 goes to the games, consider the fact that most of these players have parents and they have aunts and

00:30:04.300 uncles and I'm sure their families are supportive and they come to these games. Okay. And that really

00:30:09.300 adds up. So anyway, all that to lead into this, uh, let's play this. This is a footage of the Chicago

00:30:16.660 cloud victory parade. I saw this footage yesterday and I really felt it's, it's the saddest thing I've ever

00:30:22.440 seen. Imagine throwing a parade in the middle of downtown Chicago and nobody shows up. You thought

00:30:31.140 that, that Joe Biden rallies were the saddest thing, but this somehow tops even that. I think

00:30:36.480 Joe Biden could have, could have a parade. He could throw a parade and he would probably get a better

00:30:39.960 turnout, but this is, I'm not making fun of it. This is not me making fun of it. I I'm, this is me

00:30:45.300 expressing sympathy. I mean, they, this is so sad. They should build a monument in the middle of Chicago

00:30:50.560 to this parade where future generations can come and weep and wail before it. It is, it's

00:30:57.220 a tragedy. We will all remember the day, October 20th, 2021. Where were you when the Chicago sky

00:31:05.480 victory parade took place and nobody came? Uh, poor, poor ladies, but you know, you see that 1.00

00:31:13.500 kind of turnout, they have a championship. No one even knows the championship happened, but

00:31:18.540 WNBA players, they should be paid the same as, uh, as, as NBA players. They should, they should get 0.55

00:31:24.680 the same, right? They get, they get 15 people to their games. They got two people at the parade.

00:31:32.800 Both just happened to be walking their dogs and they stopped and looked at it and they should be

00:31:37.520 paid exactly the same as NBA players. Keep that in mind because that, that is a, that's what equity

00:31:41.480 and inclusion is all about. All right. Let's, uh, so I wanted to play, I wanted to not play,

00:31:47.700 but I want to show you this as well. This is from Christopher Lamb. He's a Rome correspondent for,

00:31:53.180 uh, media outlet called the tablet, uh, reporting on, uh, a sermon or a speech delivered by Pope Francis

00:32:01.180 and Pope Francis is, was, uh, giving some, some credit, some props to the George Floyd,

00:32:07.020 the BLM protesters, always very topical and on the ball is Pope Francis. And so he's chiming in on

00:32:13.740 this, you know, two years later. And he says of the BLM movement in response to George Floyd,

00:32:20.680 where there was rioting and violence all across the country, terrorizing cities for six months.

00:32:26.880 He says, this movement did not pass by on the other side of the road when it saw the injury to

00:32:33.000 human dignity caused by an abuse of power. Yes. The BLM movement is concerned with the, uh, with

00:32:41.780 protecting the dignity of the human person. That's right. Pope Francis. And that's what they,

00:32:49.320 that's really what they were standing for. I think is, is human dignity.

00:32:54.720 That's why you, you know, run into a CVS and steal everything you can run out with an armful of

00:32:59.920 merchandise and burn the place down on your way out. That's, that's your way of saying

00:33:03.600 that human dignity and human life is very important.

00:33:08.700 I really think this Pope's pontificate has been, it's been good and useful

00:33:12.900 in one sense, only in how it's served to sort of symbolize and encapsulate, um, all of the problems

00:33:21.760 with the church in modern times. It kind of, it all can be boiled down to this. Not that Pope Francis

00:33:27.540 is causing all of those problems because these problems, um, predate him.

00:33:34.040 And in many ways he is a, well, he is certainly more a symptom of, of the problems than a cause of

00:33:39.620 them, but he does, he does kind of symbolize that it's everything that's wrong with the church

00:33:45.060 in, in, in the West in modern times with church leadership, hopelessly out of touch,

00:33:52.940 uh, afraid to take real moral stands on issues that matter.

00:34:02.820 Not at all in, in connection with, you know, the lives of real human beings, the people that

00:34:10.620 come and sit in the pews, not concerned about, not, not, not aware of, of, of the issues that

00:34:17.000 these people are dealing with every single day. Now, this is not the case in, in, in every

00:34:23.740 church, but in a great many of them, you know, I've had this experience many times attending

00:34:30.860 churches all across the country, you know, in many of the States I've visited. And oftentimes

00:34:36.400 you go into those churches and you sit down in the pews and, um, it, it, it should be, it

00:34:43.880 should for, for one thing, be a respite from all of the madness out in the culture, because

00:34:48.820 you're coming in there after a week, another week spent in this decaying, uh, culture, 1.00

00:34:57.540 another week spent as a parent trying to shield your, your kids from the corruption and the

00:35:03.320 perversion, um, that, that threatens them and threatens their innocence. And you come in

00:35:08.900 kind of battered and broken and you sit down in the pew and it should be for one, a respite

00:35:14.400 and a rest from all of that. And it should be inspiring and motivating, um, preparing

00:35:24.600 you to, to go back to battle because that's what it is as Christians in the culture. We

00:35:28.740 are, we are in, in a state of constant spiritual battle and that's not new. I mean, that's, that

00:35:35.740 has always been the case. We've, we've known that you read it in the gospels. This is what

00:35:38.700 we're promised is, is that we will be, um, in, in a battle until, until the end times

00:35:43.720 when the battle is finally won and over. And that's the good thing is that we've, we've

00:35:47.640 read the last page of the book. We know how the story ends, but in the meantime, um, it's,

00:35:52.340 it is going to be a real, a real battle. Um, but that battle has, has, has taken an, you

00:36:00.340 know, an extra profound, I think, uh, toll on us in recent times and we're losing the

00:36:05.580 battle culturally. So we're sort of the guerrilla warriors. Now we're not on the most powerful

00:36:11.240 side. Uh, we don't have all of these levers of power. So we're more, this has become a

00:36:16.400 kind of spiritual guerrilla warfare. And the point is in, in that environment, given what

00:36:22.320 we're dealing with, you go into church and you want to hear the priest or the pastor get

00:36:27.380 up there and you want to know that he understands that that's the environment you are in as the

00:36:34.600 faithful. And you want to hear something that speaks to that and that it's useful and that

00:36:40.100 will equip you spiritually for the next week of battles. And very often you don't hear any

00:36:46.740 of that. You hear something that sounds like, you know, at best, it sounds like a seminar

00:36:56.880 on teamwork that you might hear from an HR representative at your work or, or you, you

00:37:04.100 hear more of the madness and lunacy that you already got in the culture. It's not the case

00:37:09.980 everywhere. There are churches where there's that are certainly an exception, but unfortunately

00:37:13.100 they are an exception. Okay. Finally. So Katie Couric has, uh, she's been out, out of the spotlight

00:37:18.720 for, for a while. Uh, but apparently she's still alive and kicking, which is good. And she's

00:37:23.880 got a book coming out and it's, I guess it's a tell all memoir where she throws all of her

00:37:28.600 former colleagues under the bus, which is always a fun time. And she was, uh, giving a, she was,

00:37:33.480 she was doing an interview on NBC or ABC or whatever it was. And I thought it was interesting

00:37:38.720 that first she talks about sexism in the news industry and how she, she encountered a lot

00:37:43.360 of sexism and how, how sexism oppresses and suppresses women. And you know, it deprives them 1.00

00:37:49.600 of opportunities and everything. So you knew that there was going to be that claim. But

00:37:53.940 then at another point in this interview, and I guess in the book as well, she talks about

00:37:59.040 her own, as a woman, her own relationship with her female colleagues and, um, how, how,

00:38:05.480 how far she went to help them. And, uh, apparently not very far at all. Listen to this.

00:38:11.080 Well, let's talk about that because you talked openly about female mentorship. You said you were,

00:38:17.220 you had your own insecurities, you know, you felt like you had to protect your turf.

00:38:21.680 Those were your words. Yeah. Are you, I mean, do you regret that now? I mean,

00:38:25.860 what's your perspective on it now? You said, um, I was less welcoming when charismatic female 1.00

00:38:31.180 correspondents entered my spear. There were only a few coveted spots for women. I felt like I had 1.00

00:38:35.560 to protect my turf. Yeah. I mean, I think that's brutally honest, you know, I think that I have

00:38:40.560 mentored scores of women, um, many of who still work on this show and in the control room.

00:38:46.420 Hi ladies. But, um, you know, I think that when there are very few jobs for women and men are

00:38:53.840 making decisions, not necessarily based on, you know, the right criteria that sometimes you do get

00:39:01.680 insecure and sometimes you do get territorial. I think it's human nature. I think anyone in a

00:39:06.860 high profile position, uh, in a coveted spot. And I think even outside the TV industry, both women

00:39:13.320 and men have felt that occasionally, I just was honest enough to admit it. I think.

00:39:18.740 And to be clear, did you ever actively try to sabotage another female on-air correspondent?

00:39:24.180 Never, never, never. I think I just wish that maybe I had extended myself more and shown people

00:39:29.540 the rope, but ropes a little bit more. But I think when people are outwardly kind of vying for your job,

00:39:36.000 it is hard to be generous. I think. I love that. She, she says in the book that, well,

00:39:41.800 you know, I didn't really want to help out charismatic and talented females. I felt threatened

00:39:46.640 by them, but I did mentor a lot of other women, like the ones in the control room. Hi ladies. 1.00

00:39:53.120 Of course saying that, well, they're not charismatic and talented, so they didn't threaten me at all.

00:39:56.980 Um, but this is, of course she tries to disperse the blame out to, and you always love when people

00:40:04.580 do this, they say, well, yeah, I did this, but everyone does this. No, not everyone. There are

00:40:09.880 people who are, who are perfectly willing to mentor others and don't feel threatened by everybody else

00:40:13.640 in their industry. That's kind of a you thing, but it, it does show this, um, reality that, that does

00:40:21.220 go beyond Katie Couric, but that doesn't often enter the conversation when we talk about the

00:40:27.520 resistance, allegedly that women face in the corporate world or in media or whatever industry.

00:40:33.420 And we're told that, um, they don't get the same opportunities and that they, you know,

00:40:36.720 they have this, this extra, these extra roadblocks that are thrown in front of them.

00:40:40.340 And that is always attributed to sexism as Katie Couric does in the book and earlier in the interview.

00:40:44.740 But then she says that she herself as a woman felt threatened by other women and didn't want to help them out.

00:40:51.220 Which you, in honest moments, you hear from women a lot that oftentimes the most resistance 1.00

00:41:01.800 and the most hostility that they experience at work is from other women, not from men.

00:41:08.920 But Katie Couric wants to have it both ways. And she said, yeah, it's sexism, but at the same time, 1.00

00:41:15.980 yeah, what it's a, it's a sexist industry. And so I, I guess I made my way to the top and, uh,

00:41:21.220 I don't want to help anyone else get there. There are only a few spots. That's the way she

00:41:25.300 rationalizes it. But I think the truth is pretty obvious. Okay. Let's now read the comments.

00:41:30.060 Never gets old. Those sweet, sweet sounds of the Sweet Baby Gang anthem. It never gets old. Not to me anyway.

00:41:51.320 Gareth says, with Matt traveling so much, I'm extra careful to return my cart just in case he's lurking

00:41:57.580 in the parking lot somewhere. And that's good. That's fear. That's what I want you to feel.

00:42:01.800 I want you to feel like there's a, there is an eye watching over you, an ever watchful eye watching,

00:42:08.140 especially when you're in the parking lot. And you know something there is, even if it's not me,

00:42:13.240 God is watching. He sees every single shopping cart you've ever left in the parking lot.

00:42:20.940 And you will answer for that in this life or the next. So help me God. Uh, Daniel Pack says,

00:42:28.820 Matt, Morning Wire is the only podcast that values your time and the truth. Me, but I'm listening to

00:42:34.480 your podcast right now. Well, yeah, but as, as we've established in many of the ads we do on the show,

00:42:39.040 you shouldn't be listening to this podcast. There are better podcasts. The Morning Wire values your

00:42:43.420 time and the truth. I don't value, I value the truth, but I don't value your time. So I don't,

00:42:47.440 I don't have both. I do care about the truth, but your time is not important to me, which is why I'll

00:42:51.580 ramble on, you know, about shopping carts or, uh, about urinals for, for 17 minutes. Uh, so there

00:42:57.700 are better podcasts than you could, the Jordan, um, the Jordan, the, uh, the Jordan show, my guy,

00:43:03.260 Jordan, another, another great show that you could listen to. Be Cozy says,

00:43:08.320 I can't believe Matt's talking about ZOCs, zookeepers of color, but ignoring the larger 0.99

00:43:14.080 marginalized BISOC community. I guess that'd be black indigenous zookeepers of color. Uh, yeah, 1.00

00:43:21.960 I guess I should have mentioned them as well. Um, and when you say that, I realized that

00:43:26.980 both BIPOC and BISOC sound like maybe an antidepressant or a Star Trek character, one or the other.

00:43:37.480 Um, Pet Uspy says, hair's looking a little rowdy today, Matt. That hotel life is rough,

00:43:46.000 I guess. First of all, stop body shaming. Second of all, um, this is one of the sacrifices I have

00:43:52.280 to make. It's one of the trials and tribulations that I face is that I don't, uh, they don't send

00:43:57.520 a stylist and a makeup artist with me. And so I got to make do, I got to rough it much. You know,

00:44:01.600 I really feel connected in, in, when I'm traveling to the pioneers on the Oregon trail. Um, uh, the,

00:44:08.400 the pioneers, you know, for, forging West, uh, having nothing but their clothes on their back

00:44:14.420 and whatever they could fit into their wagons. And I, I feel, I, I feel connected to that because

00:44:18.260 I have to travel with no makeup artist, no stylist.

00:44:27.520 It's tough, but I get through it. Um, another comment says, I actually do enjoy the food at

00:44:32.980 Hooters. I know I sound like the guy who said, the guys who say they read Playboy for the articles,

00:44:37.400 but the wings at Hooters are above average, certainly better than Applebee's or Chili's. Well,

00:44:41.820 you know that I'm not a hater of Applebee's or Chili's. I've said that before. I think, um,

00:44:47.720 it's a solid option. You know what you're going to get. I don't have this, this elitist mentality

00:44:52.440 about chain restaurants. However, still, as far as the wings go, saying Hooters has better wings

00:45:00.000 than Applebee's or Chili's. That's like saying, it's like walking into somebody's apartment and

00:45:03.280 saying, oh, wow, this is way nicer than living in a tent made out of trash bags under a bridge.

00:45:07.920 Um, Daniel says, Matt doesn't realize he's a celebrity. Now, if I saw him in a bathroom,

00:45:14.400 I'd totally say hi and ask for an autograph. Obviously not before he washed his hands. And

00:45:18.640 then I would, um, sue you for sexual harassment because that is sexual harassment. And that,

00:45:22.720 that I think is where we need to go with this conversation as it evolves. That, um, speaking

00:45:28.180 to another man in a restroom is a form of, I, I think it's a form of sexual harassment. And, uh,

00:45:36.060 at least that is how I'm going to interpret it right now from now on, which really makes it

00:45:42.820 much weirder and more awkward. Uh, Mike says, Matt's missing a trick. The only thing to do with

00:45:48.680 a commercial flight is to sleep through the whole horrible experience. Can't imagine anything more

00:45:52.980 certain to snooze-ify than an airline info pack. Challenge yourself to get past page three awake.

00:45:59.460 Um, yeah, I can't sleep on planes. I don't understand the people that do that. I can't sleep

00:46:04.740 in airports. I can't, I, you see people in airports that are sprawled out on the ground.

00:46:12.380 I mean, I was in air at this national airport the other day on our way here before we got stuck and

00:46:17.580 stranded here. There were people, there weren't a lot of seats in the national airport. It's kind

00:46:22.100 of cramped there and not the greatest airport. I have to say I like Nashville, but the airport could

00:46:25.100 do some work. And there are people sprawled out just on the ground in the hallway sleeping. And

00:46:31.000 you, you're going to, you are going to allow yourself to sink into unconsciousness around

00:46:38.700 hordes of strangers, people you don't know. And you're going to have, have your body laying there

00:46:47.660 unconscious. I can't, I can't do that. That, that, that requires a certain amount of trust

00:46:53.320 in, in other people who you don't know that I just don't have.

00:46:58.760 And finally, John says the one time I was sitting in the exit row in a plane, I actually read the

00:47:02.380 info just out of curiosity about what it was. Matt's being self-conscious. Come on, man, grow a pair

00:47:06.980 and stop worrying about people's opinions like a little girl. I, I think, I think it's the other

00:47:11.640 way around as men. We, you know, this is, this is a stereotype, but it's true. We don't, we don't

00:47:16.540 read directions. We don't ask for directions. I mean, that part's, we have GPS now, so we don't have

00:47:21.680 shame about asking GPS for directions. But as far as read, like reading instructions or assembling

00:47:26.900 something, you get something from Ikea, we, you know, we always say, well, we could just do it

00:47:30.520 ourselves. So that's, that's the way I look at it with the exit row. I don't know what I'm supposed

00:47:34.720 to do, but if the plane goes down, first of all, we're all probably going to die anyway. So it will

00:47:39.660 be a non-issue, but if somehow we do survive, I'll figure it out when we're in the moment and then

00:47:45.960 we'll all die because of that, because I'm unprepared. So that's, that's the way a true man

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00:49:32.960 and leave a five-star review if you like what you hear. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:49:41.500 Some of you will not like the daily cancellation today. It's okay if you don't like it.

00:49:45.620 You're banned from the show, of course, if you refuse to applaud everything that I do and say,

00:49:48.900 but we can part ways on amicable terms, even so. And the reason you might not like it is that today

00:49:54.640 is going to be another case of friendly fire. I have to criticize someone who is ostensibly on my side,

00:50:01.120 and there are those on my side who don't approve of criticism, which is pointed back in this

00:50:04.780 direction. They say that we should all be on the same team and we should focus our critical energy

00:50:08.720 outward, not inward. But anybody who's ever actually been on a team knows that some of the

00:50:13.500 harshest and most useful criticism you'll receive is from your teammates. After all, they're the ones

00:50:18.760 who want you to improve. They have a stake in your improvement. That's the way teams work. A team which

00:50:25.080 refuses to engage in self-criticism is a team that loses. And so I say all of that talking about teams.

00:50:31.120 But the subject of my criticism today is a politician. And I hesitate really to say that

00:50:35.280 any politician is on my team. At least I won't trust that any politician is a real teammate until

00:50:40.080 they've proven it. And after they've proven it, they have to continue to prove it and prove it some

00:50:44.900 more every day. A politician has to earn my trust. And even after they've earned it, I still don't trust

00:50:50.440 them. So with all that in mind, we turn to Michelle Fiore. She's a Republican candidate for governor in 1.00

00:50:56.220 Nevada. Now, I don't know anything about Michelle Fiore. She might make a tremendous governor or she 1.00

00:51:02.020 might not. I don't know. All I know is what I learned in the ad that I'm about to play. I certainly

00:51:07.800 agree with the positions she lays out in the ad. I like the positions. I hate everything else about

00:51:14.820 the ad. Take a look.

00:51:16.340 I'm Michelle Fiore, and I'm running for governor. I spent my whole life fighting the establishment.

00:51:29.540 I was the first female majority leader in Nevada Assembly and one of the first electeds to endorse

00:51:34.900 Donald J. Trump. And you better believe I was attacked for it. Washington Post called me a

00:51:42.620 gun-toting calendar girl. And Politico Magazine said that I was the Lady Trump, and I don't care.

00:51:50.520 We need outsiders, fighters, not the same old boring, moderate, compromised, blue blazer politicians.

00:51:56.920 Let's start with a three-shot plan. Ban vaccine mandates, ban critical race theory, and stop voter 0.65

00:52:07.320 fraud. The Joe Biden administration is coming after me. I'm Michelle Fiore, and I'm ready for the fight.

00:52:17.440 Now, admittedly, it does seem that she keeps abreast of the issues. But aside from that, I mean,

00:52:22.060 this is everything I hate about GOP political ads. It's like a greatest hits of Republican cringe.

00:52:28.540 She pulls up with a pickup truck with a Trump 2024 sticker on the back. In fact, she mentions Trump

00:52:32.920 three times in a one-minute ad, as if her positive feelings about Donald Trump are her primary

00:52:37.820 qualification for the governorship. And then we got the generic twangy guitar riff in the background,

00:52:42.800 and she struts through the desert in an extremely impractical red dress and leather jacket 0.99

00:52:47.820 combination with the gun strapped to her hip. She hits all the talking points that are about as

00:52:53.140 generic as the guitar riff. Did you know she's an outsider and a fighter and not the same old 0.59

00:52:57.820 politician? Fascinating. A truly groundbreaking claim. I mean, this is the first time I've ever

00:53:02.800 heard something like that in a political ad. I should also mention that I've been frozen in a

00:53:06.540 cryogenic vault since 1732. Maybe that's why I've never heard it. Michelle then pulls out, you know,

00:53:11.900 the sidearm and shoots some beer bottles. Though noticeably, we don't actually see her hitting the 0.99

00:53:16.140 bottles. The camera cuts away right before the trigger press. And at the end, her name comes up

00:53:21.060 on the screen in flaming letters in a style that makes you think her last name is Fieri, not Fiori.

00:53:27.680 The idea behind an ad like this, of course, is that it's supposed to make us right-wingers feel

00:53:32.700 like she's one of us. She gets us. She's down with the cause. But instead, it just feels lame as hell.

00:53:38.800 The very epitome of trying too hard. And the ultimate effect is the opposite of what's intended.

00:53:43.920 Rather than feeling like she's one of us, it feels more like she's an outsider.

00:53:49.020 You know, not in the way she wants us to think she's an outsider. And it's trying to sort of ape 0.59

00:53:53.320 our style and speech and mannerisms. It feels like she went to Party City and picked up an average

00:53:58.700 Joe or Jane conservative costume. Really, it feels exactly as it is. Like she paid a lot of money to

00:54:04.160 some PR firm so that someone who's never held a gun or been inside a pickup truck could tell her how

00:54:10.000 to connect with people who do live that way based on surveys and other data points.

00:54:15.360 Truly, I can't think of anything less authentic than a political ad that looks and sounds like a

00:54:20.680 truck commercial. Watching it, I half expected her to tell us that she got the highest customer

00:54:25.400 satisfaction award from J.D. Power & Associates. That's how contrived it all seemed.

00:54:31.500 From the ad, I don't know who the real Michelle Fiore is. All I see is some corny Frankenstein 1.00

00:54:35.800 constructed by a focus group. Nothing real here. You might as well cut out all the superfluous stuff

00:54:41.580 and just stand in front of the camera shouting, guns, trucks, freedom, Trump, explosions, Trump,

00:54:46.540 fire, Trump, guitar. That's all the ad contains anyway. The rest is just connective tissue meant

00:54:52.300 to hold all the pandering and bumper sticker sloganeering together. It's cheesy is what I'm

00:54:57.260 trying to say. And it's fake and it's hollow. And worst of all, it's patronizing. This is the kind of

00:55:01.860 ad that I would make if I was running for political office and if I believe that my voting base was 1.00

00:55:07.300 comprised of shallow, dimwitted, easily impressed morons. All gimmick, no substance. Now granted, 1.00

00:55:14.620 one can only expect so much from a political advertisement. But the problem is that the all

00:55:19.560 gimmick, no substance thing, that's all we've ever gotten from the GOP as a whole for 30 years.

00:55:24.860 The ad is supposed to make me think that Michelle is different from your average Republican politician, 1.00

00:55:28.840 but instead it puts her right in line with all the rest of them. Because this is what they all do.

00:55:34.420 This is what they all give us. If you want to impress me, present something that makes me think

00:55:39.000 you're something more than a pandering puppet who thinks folksiness is an acceptable substitute for

00:55:43.940 authenticity. All of this, and we haven't even mentioned the worst infraction, the beer bottles

00:55:50.820 she shot or someone shot were still full of beer. At least drink the beer before you destroy the

00:55:57.800 bottles. For God's sake, have some respect. That alone is enough reason, though there are plenty

00:56:03.920 more, to say to Michelle Fiore, unfortunately, you are canceled. And we'll leave it there for today.

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Ep. 823 - The Spoiled, Privileged Brats Who Wish They Were Oppressed

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