The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 824 - A Generation Descends Into Mass Psychosis

00:00:00.000 An entire generation of kids appear to be suffering from a kind of mass psychosis.

00:00:03.540 This seems like a problem that deserves more attention than it's getting.

00:00:05.980 Also, megalomaniac Joe Biden brags that he's restored the soul of our nation.

00:00:10.420 And Merrick Garland is asked why he sent the FBI after parents at school board meetings,

00:00:13.840 and his reason is less than sufficient.

00:00:15.880 And how many undercover feds were at the January 6th riot?

00:00:18.840 Were they the ones who encouraged the crowd to enter the Capitol?

00:00:21.560 The evidence is piling up.

00:00:22.640 We'll discuss all of that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.

00:00:30.000 You know, just because people are loud and obnoxious, it doesn't mean that they're right.

00:00:38.580 In fact, oftentimes it works the other way around.

00:00:40.700 And that's certainly the case for quote-unquote pro-choicers who are very loud,

00:00:44.460 very relentless in all of their talking points, but they're also very wrong.

00:00:49.140 But sometimes because there are so many talking points and so many arguments they throw at you,

00:00:51.900 it can be hard to parse through all of it and sift through it and figure out what to say and when to say it.

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00:01:36.860 There's been a lot of talk about pronouns this week.

00:01:39.640 First, with the ACLU valiantly defending the Loudoun County school system's right

00:01:44.080 to force teachers to use the preferred pronouns of students.

00:01:47.240 And then with the State Department urging us all to join in celebrating International Pronouns Day.

00:01:51.920 And as I said yesterday, it seems that it's finally becoming apparent to most people on the right

00:01:56.740 that this pronoun issue is not the sideshow that many once thought it was.

00:02:03.760 I mean, it is, for one thing, an attack on our fundamental human liberties.

00:02:08.000 The worst kind of attack, in fact.

00:02:09.860 The problem with the pronoun policy in Loudoun County and with similar policies that are being adopted

00:02:13.860 and will soon be adopted in other localities around the country,

00:02:17.620 it's not simply that speech is being compelled, but specifically that false speech is being compelled.

00:02:25.180 I mean, you can only have freedom, real freedom, in truth.

00:02:29.220 Which is why any attack on real freedom is also an attack on truth.

00:02:34.000 And these are the implications.

00:02:35.640 And I think, I hope, that that's now obvious to most people on the right.

00:02:40.300 But I also hope that anyone who was slow on the uptake,

00:02:44.280 you know, those who took a while to understand the real threat

00:02:46.840 that all of this seemingly bizarre, infringed stuff poses to our society,

00:02:51.120 I hope they won't make the same mistake with the clips that I'm going to play for you now.

00:02:55.980 Because here we have two more contributions to society from TikTok.

00:02:59.980 Both videos feature young people, teenagers,

00:03:02.400 taking the preferred pronoun concept to seemingly new extremes.

00:03:08.080 In this first one, we find out that some of these kids are actually identifying as inanimate objects.

00:03:13.060 Listen.

00:03:14.280 Hello.

00:03:15.640 I am Dahl.

00:03:17.220 I am one of our object alters.

00:03:20.120 When I front, I find it very difficult to remember things that the body requires,

00:03:26.060 such as how to move, how to blink, how to breathe, and how to speak.

00:03:32.920 For the purpose of filming this video, I have Meredith co-conscious with me,

00:03:38.780 so that I will not mess up.

00:03:40.320 However, this is the third take, the first two, I forgot to breathe and or speak.

00:03:49.020 I hope this helps you learn.

00:03:50.860 Now, Dahl here has not invented the Dahl pronoun concept.

00:04:00.560 In fact, a handy resource is the website PronounE.xyz,

00:04:04.940 which lists and explains all of the different alternative pronouns currently in existence.

00:04:09.160 And there are a lot of them, pages and pages, hundreds and hundreds.

00:04:14.160 From the very first page, you can see that if you go there, it's apparently popular now to identify as an emoji.

00:04:19.920 Many of the pronouns aren't words at all, but pictures.

00:04:22.420 Other pronouns include poison, poisons, poisons, and poison-self.

00:04:29.360 I assume those are Big Pharma's pronouns.

00:04:31.320 Please respect them.

00:04:32.580 Also, fae, fairy, fair, fairies, fairy-self.

00:04:36.480 Kitty, kitties, kitty-self.

00:04:39.200 Stars, star, star-self.

00:04:41.720 And slows, sloths, sloth-self.

00:04:44.380 And on and on. 0.93

00:04:45.880 There's also dem, demon, demons, demon-self.

00:04:49.160 And if you're wondering what a self-identifying demon looks like, well, you're in luck.

00:04:55.600 Hi, my name's Jasper. I use they pronouns.

00:04:58.600 Hi, my name's Liana. I use they demon pronouns. 0.97

00:05:01.680 This video is how to use our pronouns.

00:05:06.060 So, we're going to basically present three sentences.

00:05:09.540 One of them is going to have one pronoun, the other one's going to have the other pronoun, 0.64

00:05:13.040 and then the last one is going to have both pronouns interchanged.

00:05:15.540 So, Liana uses they, them pronouns and demon pronouns.

00:05:20.760 So, the first sentence would be,

00:05:22.540 Liana is my partner, they are cute, and I am theirs.

00:05:25.920 I love them very much, and I hope they love themselves too.

00:05:29.260 For the demon pronouns, it would be,

00:05:31.680 Liana is my partner, Dean is cute, and I belong to Dean.

00:05:35.260 I love demon very much, and I hope Dean loves demon-self too.

00:05:39.400 Then, interchanging the two would be, Liana is my partner, they are cute, and I am Dean's.

00:05:48.360 I love demon very much, and I hope they love demon-self too.

00:05:55.280 She's going to be a linguistics professor. 0.76

00:05:58.100 This is what grammar, teaching language and grammar, that's what it's going to be pretty soon.

00:06:04.720 And there is something very on the nose about this.

00:06:08.340 In fact, in the Gospels, when Jesus encountered demon-possessed people,

00:06:12.540 they would sometimes go by they, them pronouns,

00:06:15.000 because there was more than one demon infesting the person,

00:06:18.140 and so we may be able to draw some connections and analogies here.

00:06:22.160 But I'm afraid that a lot of people on the sane side of the ideological spectrum

00:06:27.520 might see this sort of thing and make the same mistake they made with gender ideology more broadly,

00:06:32.200 assuming that it's kind of this weird and wacky phase,

00:06:35.760 and it's not anything widespread or serious or worth our attention.

00:06:40.080 Why are we even paying attention?

00:06:41.600 This is just TikTok. Who cares?

00:06:44.580 And in saner times, you know, in a culture that hadn't already sunk below the surface

00:06:48.140 and into the icy depths of full-on insanity,

00:06:50.940 that would probably be the right reaction.

00:06:52.900 After all, demon-self over there is really just a goth kid trying to be edgy, right? 0.73

00:06:57.760 We had those when I was a teenager.

00:06:58.880 The only difference is that now TikTok exists,

00:07:01.820 so they have this unfortunate vehicle to publicize and advertise these embarrassing phases.

00:07:07.180 Except that's not the only difference.

00:07:10.460 The other difference, and it's a big one,

00:07:12.880 is that we now live in a society that validates, legitimizes,

00:07:16.920 and encourages these alternative identities.

00:07:20.440 Now, when I was a kid, the adults would tell the goth kids

00:07:24.320 that they were going through a phase,

00:07:25.820 they need to snap out of it,

00:07:27.540 or they're never going to be able to get a job or a girlfriend, right?

00:07:31.080 That's what the adults used to say to kids going through these kinds of phases.

00:07:35.100 Now the adults stand off on the sideline in cheerleader uniforms and pom-poms,

00:07:39.140 sometimes literally cheering the kids on in their delusions.

00:07:43.760 What would otherwise be a phase,

00:07:46.640 what would be something that makes them look back in a few years and cringe,

00:07:50.460 now becomes an identity.

00:07:53.460 The meaningless is transformed into the meaningful.

00:07:58.560 The effect is that a generation of kids,

00:08:02.280 soon to be multiple generations,

00:08:04.180 have been plunged into mass psychosis.

00:08:08.180 We are not merely validating mental illness,

00:08:10.840 but creating it.

00:08:12.280 What would be a phase instead becomes the kernel of a debilitating lifelong identity crisis.

00:08:22.740 And our culture is there with the water cans,

00:08:25.540 making sure that those seeds are germinated.

00:08:28.840 There's not going to be any awakening moment for these kids,

00:08:32.160 or at least there need not be.

00:08:34.220 I hope there is,

00:08:35.240 but there's nothing that would cause that to happen

00:08:37.460 because we used to say,

00:08:38.380 well, wait until you get into the real world,

00:08:41.240 and that'll be a wake-up call

00:08:42.760 because the real world doesn't work like this.

00:08:45.740 But there is no real world anymore,

00:08:47.900 not according to the people who run our society.

00:08:51.240 There is no reality.

00:08:53.240 Everything's subjective.

00:08:54.220 Everything is malleable.

00:08:55.820 Nothing is solid.

00:08:56.640 There's no firm ground to stand on.

00:09:00.040 Mass psychosis.

00:09:02.160 A generation driven into madness

00:09:04.760 before they're old enough to drive a car.

00:09:08.380 That's what we're facing.

00:09:11.320 Nothing less.

00:09:13.540 And I think we need to start treating this

00:09:15.140 like the major problem that it clearly is.

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00:10:34.760 All right,

00:10:35.240 well,

00:10:35.640 if you're watching the show,

00:10:36.980 you can see,

00:10:37.880 if you're not,

00:10:38.420 you're missing out

00:10:38.920 because things are pretty festive in here

00:10:40.560 just in time for Halloween.

00:10:43.480 And before we left,

00:10:45.080 you know,

00:10:45.220 I was talking to the production team

00:10:46.260 and I said,

00:10:46.780 yeah,

00:10:47.720 we can maybe put,

00:10:48.660 maybe put a mask

00:10:49.460 on the alien back there.

00:10:51.140 Something subtle

00:10:51.920 to acknowledge,

00:10:54.580 something subtle

00:10:55.180 and tasteful for Halloween.

00:10:56.520 And then I come back

00:10:57.480 and there's just been

00:10:58.480 a Halloween explosion

00:10:59.520 in the studio,

00:11:00.560 but it looks great.

00:11:01.240 And now I think

00:11:02.560 somehow

00:11:03.340 we have the most

00:11:05.620 festive

00:11:06.220 show

00:11:08.020 on the Daily Wire.

00:11:09.440 I don't know how it worked out that way,

00:11:10.520 but it did.

00:11:12.000 And also,

00:11:12.900 by the way,

00:11:13.360 different subject,

00:11:14.140 but as you notice,

00:11:16.400 I am actually physically here.

00:11:18.100 I'm not dead

00:11:18.660 much to the chagrin

00:11:19.580 of many people out there I know.

00:11:21.480 I was worried about that.

00:11:22.960 I expressed my concerns

00:11:24.140 after the whole mishap

00:11:25.580 with the plane.

00:11:26.140 We got stranded,

00:11:26.720 had to get on Allegiant

00:11:28.220 an airline

00:11:29.800 that I didn't know existed

00:11:31.800 and not even,

00:11:34.480 more like a third-rate airline

00:11:35.840 and the engines

00:11:38.440 are like hamster wheels.

00:11:40.460 Actually,

00:11:41.000 everyone,

00:11:41.620 it was kind of fun.

00:11:42.160 We all were sitting in there.

00:11:43.060 We had our own pedals.

00:11:44.280 We had to keep pedaling

00:11:44.860 the whole time

00:11:45.240 to keep the engine running.

00:11:46.320 But we did make it home.

00:11:47.980 And while I was on the plane,

00:11:49.120 I was in the exit row

00:11:49.900 and there's been this discussion

00:11:51.800 the whole week

00:11:52.800 about the mystery

00:11:54.140 of the exit row.

00:11:55.040 or maybe it was only

00:11:56.260 a mystery to me.

00:11:57.760 But I ended up

00:11:58.520 in the exit row again

00:11:59.280 and this time I actually did.

00:12:02.260 I worked up the courage

00:12:04.080 to pick up the pamphlet

00:12:05.280 and actually read

00:12:07.120 what we're supposed to do

00:12:08.380 in the exit row.

00:12:09.720 And now I know

00:12:10.800 that actually your responsibility

00:12:13.240 is to simply open the door

00:12:14.800 and get out.

00:12:16.040 That's it.

00:12:16.600 That's what,

00:12:17.080 so when they say,

00:12:18.000 are you ready and able

00:12:18.820 to help in an emergency?

00:12:19.820 What they're really saying is

00:12:20.680 you get to be the first ones

00:12:21.620 out of this thing.

00:12:22.380 Just open the door and leave.

00:12:23.420 That's your whole,

00:12:24.500 that's your responsibility.

00:12:27.260 Which is kind of nice.

00:12:29.300 But now it makes me feel

00:12:30.600 less courageous

00:12:31.360 when I'm sitting there

00:12:32.800 and we get the speech

00:12:33.720 and then they ask the question,

00:12:34.800 are you ready

00:12:35.280 and willing to help?

00:12:36.700 And I can say,

00:12:37.620 yes, I am here.

00:12:38.820 And now I know

00:12:39.400 that I'm really just volunteering

00:12:40.400 to be the only one

00:12:41.200 who doesn't burn to death.

00:12:44.040 I don't know why

00:12:44.700 they don't upgrade.

00:12:45.420 I don't know why

00:12:45.900 they don't sell it.

00:12:46.500 Well, they do sell an upgrade

00:12:47.380 on the exit row

00:12:48.680 because of the leg room.

00:12:51.340 But I don't know why

00:12:53.760 the airlines

00:12:56.020 don't start selling upgrades

00:12:57.480 based on,

00:12:58.400 you know,

00:12:59.700 who's least likely

00:13:01.220 to die in an accident

00:13:02.580 depending on where

00:13:03.160 you're sitting in the plane.

00:13:05.160 So, you know,

00:13:05.960 if you want a 10%

00:13:07.300 decreased risk of death,

00:13:09.980 then you could sit here

00:13:11.000 for a $45 upgrade.

00:13:13.760 All right,

00:13:14.420 let's start with this

00:13:15.400 from Joe Biden.

00:13:16.500 He had a town hall

00:13:17.660 with Anderson Cooper

00:13:18.720 on CNN yesterday

00:13:21.220 and a few bizarre moments

00:13:24.700 that we come to expect

00:13:25.620 from Biden.

00:13:28.120 But we're not going to worry

00:13:29.700 about any of that.

00:13:30.440 Instead, I want to play this.

00:13:31.440 Here he is talking about

00:13:32.760 the vaccine mandates

00:13:34.140 and what led him

00:13:35.440 to finally issue them.

00:13:37.140 Listen.

00:13:38.560 As many as one

00:13:40.020 in three emergency responders

00:13:42.060 in some cities

00:13:42.820 like Chicago, Los Angeles,

00:13:44.400 right here in Baltimore,

00:13:45.340 are refusing to comply

00:13:46.600 with city vaccine mandates.

00:13:49.460 I'm wondering

00:13:49.920 where you stand on that.

00:13:51.060 Should police officers,

00:13:52.360 emergency responders

00:13:53.240 be mandated

00:13:54.780 to get vaccines?

00:13:56.020 And if not,

00:13:56.580 should they be

00:13:57.280 stay at home

00:13:58.400 or let go?

00:13:59.500 Yes and yes.

00:14:02.580 By the way,

00:14:03.660 by the way,

00:14:07.640 I waited until

00:14:09.400 July

00:14:11.420 to talk about mandating

00:14:13.380 because I tried

00:14:14.380 everything else possible.

00:14:15.840 the mandates

00:14:17.200 are working.

00:14:18.760 All the stuff

00:14:19.320 about people leaving

00:14:20.440 and people,

00:14:21.880 goodness,

00:14:22.360 you have everyone

00:14:23.680 from United Airlines

00:14:24.900 to spirit.

00:14:25.540 All these airlines,

00:14:26.660 we're not going to get

00:14:27.440 all 96,

00:14:29.500 97% of the people

00:14:30.740 have gotten the vaccine.

00:14:32.300 All the talk

00:14:33.100 about all these folks

00:14:34.320 who are going to leave

00:14:34.880 the military

00:14:35.540 if they're mandated.

00:14:37.240 Not true.

00:14:37.860 You got about

00:14:38.240 a 90 some percent

00:14:39.360 vaccination rate.

00:14:41.220 I mean,

00:14:41.460 so there's a,

00:14:42.180 the idea is

00:14:43.280 that,

00:14:44.440 look,

00:14:45.920 the two things

00:14:47.500 that concern me,

00:14:49.000 one are those

00:14:50.440 who just try to make

00:14:51.320 this a political issue.

00:14:52.720 Freedom.

00:14:53.960 I have the freedom 1.00

00:14:54.840 to kill you 1.00

00:14:55.580 with my COVID. 1.00

00:14:57.840 No,

00:14:58.060 I mean,

00:14:58.240 come on.

00:14:58.880 Freedom.

00:15:01.180 Number one.

00:15:02.260 Number two,

00:15:03.860 the second one

00:15:04.700 is that,

00:15:05.560 you know,

00:15:06.360 the gross misinformation

00:15:07.880 that's out there.

00:15:08.900 That is a truly

00:15:11.340 horrifying clip.

00:15:12.340 It really is.

00:15:14.620 I know we're a little

00:15:15.380 bit numb to it by now,

00:15:16.600 but the two things

00:15:18.500 that happened in that clip

00:15:19.280 that maybe,

00:15:21.820 maybe at some point

00:15:23.300 in the not too distant past

00:15:24.500 you would have,

00:15:25.000 would have been unthinkable.

00:15:26.040 You couldn't have imagined

00:15:26.920 this.

00:15:30.380 Coming from a 0.61

00:15:31.200 United States president

00:15:32.140 in public

00:15:33.440 at a town hall meeting.

00:15:34.480 Two things.

00:15:35.460 Number one,

00:15:35.840 he laughs at freedom.

00:15:37.160 He has no

00:15:39.140 rebuttal

00:15:40.920 to the freedom argument.

00:15:42.300 He says,

00:15:42.680 yeah,

00:15:42.800 people are talking

00:15:43.340 about freedom.

00:15:44.460 I mean,

00:15:44.800 come on,

00:15:45.480 freedom.

00:15:47.360 And he laughs

00:15:48.300 and the crowd laughs.

00:15:51.640 That is his rebuttal

00:15:53.040 to the freedom argument

00:15:54.040 is simply to

00:15:55.400 shrug it off.

00:15:56.500 Freedom.

00:15:57.080 Who needs it? 0.71

00:16:00.440 That's a,

00:16:01.100 that's a,

00:16:01.540 that's a,

00:16:02.120 that's a punchline.

00:16:04.260 Freedom is a punchline.

00:16:07.160 To Joe Biden.

00:16:09.620 And the brain dead seals, 0.56

00:16:11.620 clapping seals

00:16:12.380 in that audience.

00:16:14.220 And then

00:16:14.900 he also

00:16:15.860 has an applause line

00:16:17.220 for firing

00:16:19.640 police officers

00:16:20.720 and first responders.

00:16:23.380 Should police officers

00:16:24.460 and first responders

00:16:25.100 be,

00:16:25.400 be fired?

00:16:26.540 Yes.

00:16:27.300 Yeah.

00:16:27.660 Woohoo.

00:16:28.900 Yeah.

00:16:29.340 Get rid of them. 0.98

00:16:29.880 Fire them. 0.99

00:16:33.060 Man, 0.98

00:16:33.500 we have come

00:16:33.900 a long way down

00:16:34.940 from,

00:16:36.340 in many ways,

00:16:37.420 but this is one

00:16:39.060 of the most pronounced.

00:16:39.860 You think about

00:16:40.280 right after 9-11,

00:16:42.940 everyone talks about

00:16:43.740 how united

00:16:45.000 the country was

00:16:45.740 in those,

00:16:46.080 in those early days

00:16:47.600 after 9-11.

00:16:48.380 And,

00:16:48.560 and much of that

00:16:49.380 was sort of

00:16:49.960 an illusion

00:16:51.400 as we,

00:16:51.960 as we discovered.

00:16:53.520 But another big thing,

00:16:54.760 and this lasted

00:16:55.500 for years,

00:16:56.160 it was kind of

00:16:57.060 celebrating

00:16:58.340 first responders

00:16:59.280 and police officers

00:17:00.420 and,

00:17:01.240 you know,

00:17:01.320 the people

00:17:01.580 that were there

00:17:02.100 on the scene

00:17:02.720 and many of them

00:17:04.160 died and sacrificed

00:17:04.980 their lives.

00:17:06.420 So we've gone

00:17:07.220 from that

00:17:07.780 in 20 years

00:17:08.600 to applaud,

00:17:10.020 a United States

00:17:10.940 president talking

00:17:11.780 about firing

00:17:12.440 first responders

00:17:13.200 and it gets

00:17:13.720 applause

00:17:14.440 in the audience.

00:17:18.620 And let's not

00:17:19.500 overlook

00:17:19.940 what he's saying

00:17:20.900 about the mandates,

00:17:21.740 which is,

00:17:22.480 hey,

00:17:22.600 I gave you a chance

00:17:23.700 with your precious

00:17:25.100 little freedom.

00:17:26.020 I gave you a chance

00:17:27.320 to do what I wanted

00:17:28.300 you to do

00:17:28.840 and you didn't do it.

00:17:30.420 And I ran

00:17:31.020 out of patience

00:17:31.560 and so I forced

00:17:32.280 you to do it.

00:17:36.020 Things have gone

00:17:36.740 very wrong

00:17:37.280 in this country,

00:17:38.280 not only when

00:17:40.320 those sorts of

00:17:41.380 policies can be

00:17:42.000 put in place,

00:17:43.060 but when politicians

00:17:44.900 feel comfortable

00:17:46.100 talking to us

00:17:47.660 that way.

00:17:50.700 There have always

00:17:51.480 been politicians

00:17:52.140 who,

00:17:53.420 and presidents,

00:17:54.760 who have

00:17:55.720 supported

00:17:56.860 tyrannical policies,

00:17:58.140 have wanted to

00:17:59.140 abridge

00:18:00.140 and infringe

00:18:01.560 upon our

00:18:02.100 freedoms

00:18:02.520 and so on.

00:18:03.260 That's always

00:18:03.900 exist.

00:18:04.320 There are always

00:18:05.000 politicians like that.

00:18:07.680 There have always

00:18:08.460 been presidents

00:18:09.000 like that.

00:18:10.000 The difference,

00:18:10.680 though,

00:18:10.900 is that in times

00:18:11.820 past,

00:18:13.000 they would at

00:18:14.860 least feel

00:18:15.540 the need

00:18:16.260 to

00:18:17.300 use

00:18:20.060 euphemisms

00:18:20.900 and

00:18:23.360 and to

00:18:23.520 couch

00:18:24.040 their

00:18:24.520 infringement

00:18:25.220 on freedom

00:18:25.900 in the

00:18:26.480 language

00:18:26.860 of

00:18:27.300 freedom.

00:18:29.660 To pull

00:18:30.260 the bait

00:18:30.600 and switch.

00:18:31.240 And there's

00:18:31.500 plenty of

00:18:31.980 baiting and

00:18:32.900 switching going

00:18:33.520 on,

00:18:33.940 but when it

00:18:34.240 comes to

00:18:34.620 this,

00:18:35.280 to the

00:18:35.500 infringement

00:18:35.860 on freedom,

00:18:36.240 they're at a

00:18:36.560 point now

00:18:36.940 where they

00:18:37.160 say,

00:18:37.440 well,

00:18:37.600 who needs

00:18:38.120 freedom?

00:18:38.400 I gave

00:18:40.640 you a chance,

00:18:41.100 you didn't do

00:18:41.380 what I wanted

00:18:41.860 and so I'm

00:18:42.600 going to

00:18:42.760 force you.

00:18:46.380 The fact

00:18:47.040 that they

00:18:47.420 feel comfortable

00:18:48.640 talking to us

00:18:49.440 that way,

00:18:51.040 that means

00:18:53.200 things have

00:18:53.540 gone wrong

00:18:53.980 with us,

00:18:55.600 we the

00:18:55.980 people,

00:18:57.640 that we

00:18:58.240 tolerate this

00:18:59.080 kind of

00:18:59.540 attitude,

00:19:00.940 this kind

00:19:02.020 of language

00:19:02.660 from politicians

00:19:03.720 who are

00:19:04.000 supposed to be

00:19:04.420 working for

00:19:04.900 us.

00:19:05.180 And in

00:19:10.900 that same

00:19:11.320 vein,

00:19:11.780 here's a

00:19:12.180 tweet from

00:19:12.660 Joe Biden,

00:19:13.320 which he put

00:19:14.040 out yesterday.

00:19:15.280 It says,

00:19:16.500 I ran for

00:19:17.020 president for

00:19:17.580 three reasons.

00:19:18.560 To restore

00:19:19.520 the soul

00:19:20.280 and decency

00:19:21.120 of our

00:19:21.580 country,

00:19:22.420 to rebuild

00:19:23.600 our economy

00:19:24.360 from the

00:19:24.860 bottom up

00:19:25.400 and the

00:19:26.260 middle out,

00:19:27.040 and to help

00:19:28.260 unite our

00:19:28.720 country.

00:19:29.980 We're on

00:19:30.620 the right

00:19:30.960 track,

00:19:31.480 but there's

00:19:31.780 still work

00:19:32.280 to be done.

00:19:33.580 Now,

00:19:33.840 never mind

00:19:34.180 the fact that

00:19:34.640 none of

00:19:35.020 these things

00:19:35.380 have happened

00:19:35.900 and everything

00:19:37.480 is objectively

00:19:39.060 measurably

00:19:39.920 worse now

00:19:40.800 than it was

00:19:41.240 when Biden

00:19:41.620 took off.

00:19:42.000 It's impressive.

00:19:43.280 It's actually

00:19:43.660 exceeded,

00:19:46.300 for many

00:19:47.600 of us,

00:19:47.900 our worst

00:19:48.280 expectations

00:19:48.980 of what

00:19:49.420 Joe Biden

00:19:49.900 could do

00:19:51.320 to this

00:19:51.660 country in

00:19:52.160 the span

00:19:52.600 of less

00:19:53.040 than a

00:19:53.360 year.

00:19:55.120 I mean,

00:19:55.540 I didn't

00:19:55.760 have a lot

00:19:56.240 of hope.

00:19:56.640 I expected,

00:19:58.060 I thought

00:19:58.800 it would be

00:19:59.200 bad,

00:19:59.880 but what

00:20:00.440 we're looking

00:20:00.820 at right

00:20:01.220 now in

00:20:01.720 less than

00:20:02.160 a year,

00:20:02.560 the

00:20:05.140 efficiency

00:20:06.100 with which

00:20:06.760 he's been

00:20:07.120 able to

00:20:08.020 destroy

00:20:10.100 our

00:20:10.460 countries,

00:20:10.980 that has

00:20:11.520 been

00:20:11.660 impressive.

00:20:13.380 But,

00:20:13.600 yeah,

00:20:13.720 never mind

00:20:14.040 the fact

00:20:14.240 that none

00:20:14.480 of this

00:20:14.660 has happened,

00:20:15.420 rebuilding

00:20:15.880 our economy.

00:20:20.740 The shelves

00:20:21.580 at the

00:20:21.840 grocery store

00:20:22.320 are empty.

00:20:24.520 Gas price

00:20:25.280 is way

00:20:25.600 up.

00:20:25.820 I mean,

00:20:26.040 people are

00:20:26.960 poorer now.

00:20:28.400 Living is

00:20:28.860 more expensive.

00:20:31.020 On and

00:20:31.600 on.

00:20:33.440 But even

00:20:34.060 aside from

00:20:34.520 that,

00:20:35.360 Iran

00:20:35.580 ran for

00:20:35.900 president

00:20:36.220 to restore

00:20:37.180 the soul

00:20:38.220 and decency

00:20:39.160 of our

00:20:39.560 country.

00:20:42.080 That's how,

00:20:42.960 so you,

00:20:44.120 as one

00:20:44.920 individual,

00:20:45.380 as a

00:20:45.940 single

00:20:46.180 man,

00:20:47.480 you have

00:20:48.540 this

00:20:49.380 spiritual

00:20:50.200 ability

00:20:51.000 to restore

00:20:52.380 our soul

00:20:53.340 and decency.

00:20:56.040 If we're

00:20:57.300 really,

00:20:57.760 you know,

00:20:58.020 if we really

00:20:58.620 want to prove

00:20:59.120 that we're a

00:20:59.520 decent country,

00:21:01.080 elect me.

00:21:02.640 That means

00:21:03.480 we're decent.

00:21:04.540 We're not

00:21:05.200 electing me,

00:21:05.740 that's just

00:21:06.140 plain indecent.

00:21:10.620 Once again,

00:21:11.660 politicians should

00:21:12.440 not feel

00:21:12.880 comfortable

00:21:13.260 talking this

00:21:13.980 way.

00:21:14.920 All right,

00:21:17.840 next we have

00:21:18.240 Attorney General

00:21:18.880 Merrick Garland.

00:21:19.720 He testified

00:21:20.160 in front of

00:21:20.580 the House

00:21:20.860 Judiciary

00:21:21.280 Committee.

00:21:21.960 A number

00:21:22.420 of important

00:21:22.860 subjects were

00:21:23.380 covered and

00:21:23.780 we're going

00:21:23.980 to play a

00:21:24.400 few clips

00:21:24.800 for you.

00:21:25.300 But first,

00:21:25.800 here's Garland

00:21:26.360 explaining why

00:21:28.460 he sent the

00:21:29.100 FBI after

00:21:30.100 parents at

00:21:30.720 school boards.

00:21:31.240 Well,

00:21:31.340 we already

00:21:31.620 know the

00:21:32.140 claimed reason

00:21:32.960 is that

00:21:33.700 school boards

00:21:34.280 were under

00:21:34.660 attack from

00:21:35.380 violent parents

00:21:36.260 and there

00:21:36.520 have been

00:21:36.740 threats and

00:21:37.160 there have

00:21:37.300 been all

00:21:37.460 this kind

00:21:37.660 of stuff.

00:21:38.560 And the

00:21:39.000 question being

00:21:39.440 posed to

00:21:39.840 him is,

00:21:41.860 did you have

00:21:42.920 information?

00:21:43.540 Do you

00:21:43.900 actually have

00:21:44.480 intelligence

00:21:45.120 suggesting that

00:21:47.220 this was a

00:21:47.740 widespread problem

00:21:48.780 of violent

00:21:49.540 parents and

00:21:50.220 threats and

00:21:50.740 everything?

00:21:52.000 Where did you

00:21:52.860 get this from?

00:21:53.960 And here's what

00:21:54.600 Merrick Garland

00:21:55.160 says.

00:21:56.440 First sentence

00:21:57.040 of your memo,

00:21:57.780 very first sentence,

00:21:58.640 you said,

00:21:59.020 in recent months

00:21:59.660 there's been a

00:22:00.140 disturbing spike in

00:22:00.940 harassment,

00:22:01.340 intimidation,

00:22:01.800 threats of

00:22:02.120 violence.

00:22:02.740 Yes.

00:22:03.080 When did you

00:22:03.460 first review the

00:22:04.360 data showing this

00:22:05.360 so-called disturbing

00:22:06.280 uptick?

00:22:07.480 So I read the

00:22:08.540 letter and we

00:22:09.700 have been seeing

00:22:10.520 over time

00:22:11.500 threats.

00:22:12.100 Whoa, whoa, whoa,

00:22:12.560 whoa.

00:22:12.780 I didn't ask you.

00:22:13.480 So you read the

00:22:14.200 letter, that's your

00:22:15.080 source?

00:22:16.000 So let me be

00:22:17.020 clear, this is not

00:22:18.480 a prosecution or

00:22:19.740 an investigation.

00:22:19.880 Is there some

00:22:20.280 study, some

00:22:20.920 effort, some

00:22:21.400 investigation someone

00:22:22.300 did that said

00:22:22.820 there's been a

00:22:23.300 disturbing uptick or

00:22:24.200 you just take the

00:22:24.860 words of the

00:22:25.240 National School

00:22:25.720 Board Association?

00:22:27.040 The National School

00:22:27.920 Board Association,

00:22:29.060 which represents

00:22:29.920 thousands of

00:22:30.640 school boards and

00:22:31.320 school board members,

00:22:32.220 says that there are

00:22:33.100 these kind of

00:22:33.700 threats.

00:22:34.760 When we read in the

00:22:35.480 newspapers, reports

00:22:36.560 of threats of

00:22:37.340 violence, when that

00:22:38.720 is in the context

00:22:39.720 of threats of

00:22:40.360 violence.

00:22:40.540 The source for

00:22:41.440 this, for the

00:22:42.420 very first line in

00:22:43.320 your mouth.

00:22:44.040 The time of the

00:22:44.500 gentleman has

00:22:45.140 expired.

00:22:45.880 The time of the

00:22:46.920 gentleman has

00:22:47.480 expired, Mr.

00:22:48.600 Deutsch.

00:22:51.100 Amazing.

00:22:52.300 Not really amazing

00:22:53.240 at all, but again,

00:22:54.540 just admitting it

00:22:55.600 out loud.

00:22:56.000 So that's the

00:22:56.360 theme here.

00:22:57.980 What information

00:22:58.780 did he have?

00:22:59.340 No information.

00:23:00.180 All he had, and

00:23:01.380 the reason why he's

00:23:01.940 sending the FBI

00:23:02.600 after school board,

00:23:03.900 after parents and

00:23:05.020 school board meetings,

00:23:05.480 is because he got a

00:23:07.520 letter from the

00:23:08.260 school board

00:23:08.560 association claiming

00:23:09.980 that this was

00:23:10.680 happening, and then

00:23:11.900 also he read it in

00:23:12.920 the newspaper.

00:23:15.980 This is the

00:23:16.620 attorney general of

00:23:17.400 the United States

00:23:17.980 telling us that the

00:23:19.120 newspaper reports and

00:23:21.080 one letter from the

00:23:22.360 school board

00:23:22.720 association claiming

00:23:24.180 that there were all

00:23:25.340 these threats was

00:23:25.920 enough for him to

00:23:26.820 mobilize the FBI to

00:23:28.720 treat this like some

00:23:29.440 sort of national

00:23:31.420 security emergency.

00:23:32.600 see.

00:23:35.880 Well, that only

00:23:36.760 confirms what I've

00:23:37.600 been saying all

00:23:38.200 along, which is

00:23:40.380 that this is all,

00:23:41.240 this is, this is

00:23:41.880 imaginary.

00:23:44.940 There has been, I

00:23:45.840 mean, if there were

00:23:46.740 actual examples of

00:23:48.920 real violence at

00:23:50.240 school board meetings,

00:23:51.340 Merrick Garland would

00:23:52.020 have mentioned

00:23:52.840 those, would have

00:23:54.580 really helped this

00:23:55.140 case.

00:23:57.220 But there's been

00:23:57.960 basically none.

00:23:59.140 There's been, there

00:23:59.820 has been essentially no

00:24:00.920 violence at school board

00:24:01.700 meetings.

00:24:02.320 The one example that

00:24:03.940 he knows he can't use

00:24:04.900 anymore, he certainly

00:24:06.460 didn't want to bring

00:24:07.000 this up and give, and

00:24:07.900 give, um, give his 0.99

00:24:10.840 interrogators a chance

00:24:12.040 to, to talk about it.

00:24:14.240 But the one example

00:24:15.140 was Scott Smith,

00:24:17.720 Loudoun County, who

00:24:20.000 wasn't even violent,

00:24:21.160 but he got upset

00:24:22.140 because his daughter had 0.96

00:24:24.280 been raped in a 0.79

00:24:25.040 Loudoun County school and 0.99

00:24:25.940 they were lying to his

00:24:26.740 face about it.

00:24:29.540 That's the one example

00:24:30.580 of violence, which

00:24:31.440 wasn't even violence.

00:24:33.440 That's out the window

00:24:34.240 now.

00:24:34.740 They can't talk about

00:24:35.680 that now.

00:24:36.900 And so what else is

00:24:37.880 there?

00:24:38.200 Nothing.

00:24:42.140 There have been

00:24:43.000 parents raising their

00:24:44.360 voices at, that's

00:24:45.960 what's happened.

00:24:47.700 And I will admit that

00:24:48.800 that's true.

00:24:49.820 There have been a lot,

00:24:50.320 I, I have been one of

00:24:51.420 them.

00:24:51.600 I have done it myself.

00:24:52.960 There have been a lot

00:24:53.760 of us at school board

00:24:54.340 meetings raising our

00:24:55.320 voices and yelling a

00:24:56.440 little bit.

00:24:56.820 And that's why we

00:24:58.660 need the FBI to

00:24:59.600 investigate.

00:25:03.300 As far as the

00:25:04.100 threats, I mean, I,

00:25:05.380 again, if he had, if

00:25:06.220 he had actual

00:25:06.760 information, if he

00:25:07.420 had looked into this

00:25:08.160 himself, if the FBI

00:25:08.940 looked into it and

00:25:09.960 they had found that

00:25:12.060 there are actually,

00:25:12.780 you know, hundreds or

00:25:14.000 even dozens of

00:25:14.800 examples of serious

00:25:17.380 death threats against

00:25:18.320 school board members,

00:25:19.500 then he would have

00:25:20.120 told us that.

00:25:23.100 The fact that he

00:25:23.800 doesn't is, is, you

00:25:24.980 know, that, that, that

00:25:25.620 tells, that tells us

00:25:26.380 what we need to

00:25:26.840 know.

00:25:29.600 I mean, I said from

00:25:30.380 the beginning, I don't

00:25:31.160 buy it.

00:25:31.500 I'm sorry.

00:25:32.620 These school, these, all

00:25:33.360 these school board

00:25:33.900 members say, I'm getting

00:25:34.680 death threats.

00:25:36.380 I don't, I, I don't

00:25:37.780 believe you.

00:25:41.660 There may, there may be

00:25:42.620 a few cases where, where

00:25:43.700 it actually has

00:25:44.380 happened.

00:25:46.680 That's more than

00:25:47.480 possible.

00:25:49.700 It's happened to me

00:25:50.400 many times.

00:25:51.400 So I certainly know that

00:25:52.320 there are people out

00:25:52.840 there who will send

00:25:53.340 death threats.

00:25:55.520 But I'm not just, I'm

00:25:56.580 not going to take your

00:25:57.380 word for it.

00:25:57.840 I don't take your

00:25:58.640 word for it.

00:25:59.320 I don't believe you

00:26:00.260 unless you prove it.

00:26:04.820 Because you, you

00:26:05.600 have a, there could be

00:26:08.260 a very obvious ulterior

00:26:09.380 motive in claiming that

00:26:11.100 you are getting death

00:26:12.100 threats and playing the

00:26:12.860 victim.

00:26:16.140 And so that means I

00:26:16.840 just can't take your

00:26:17.380 word for it.

00:26:17.860 Show it, show us.

00:26:23.240 That wasn't the only

00:26:24.040 important subject that

00:26:24.800 was brought up though.

00:26:25.980 There's also this

00:26:26.900 Congressman Massey

00:26:28.720 confronted Merrick

00:26:30.260 Garland about January

00:26:32.080 6th.

00:26:32.780 And specifically the

00:26:33.520 question about whether

00:26:34.200 there were feds in the 1.00

00:26:35.580 crowd deliberately

00:26:37.320 instigating the crowd

00:26:38.460 to enter the Capitol

00:26:40.420 building.

00:26:40.880 We know that this is

00:26:41.860 something that they, the

00:26:44.100 feds like to do. 1.00

00:26:45.480 They like to encourage

00:26:46.900 people to commit crimes

00:26:48.280 so that they can then

00:26:49.220 prosecute those crimes.

00:26:51.420 And he played a video

00:26:52.260 which I guess we'll

00:26:52.920 play this video first.

00:26:53.900 The video features some

00:26:55.360 guy over the course of

00:26:58.120 you know, more than a

00:26:59.040 day down in DC, like in

00:27:01.080 the night leading up to

00:27:02.300 January 6th, the night of

00:27:03.780 January 5th and then on

00:27:05.160 January 6th, there's this

00:27:06.000 one guy who is all over

00:27:08.320 the place trying to convince

00:27:09.680 the crowd to go into the

00:27:10.620 Capitol.

00:27:12.300 And you also note when we

00:27:13.560 want, we play this video,

00:27:14.700 how does the crowd react?

00:27:16.040 You know, they don't want

00:27:19.200 to, but this one guy is

00:27:20.400 saying, let's do it even if

00:27:21.580 we get arrested.

00:27:23.360 And there's a, there's a

00:27:24.520 theory online.

00:27:26.480 I mean, I don't know who

00:27:27.100 this guy is, but the theory

00:27:29.020 is among some people, I

00:27:30.240 think a pretty credible one

00:27:31.300 is that this guy is a 0.54

00:27:32.520 federal agent or an asset.

00:27:35.060 This is a video that

00:27:36.220 Thomas, that Congressman

00:27:37.440 Massey played for

00:27:38.240 America.

00:27:38.600 Let's play the video first.

00:27:39.400 Here it is.

00:27:41.020 In fact, tomorrow, I don't

00:27:43.860 even like to say it because

00:27:44.740 I'll be arrested.

00:27:45.420 Well, let's not say it.

00:27:46.240 We need, we need to go,

00:27:48.080 I'll say it.

00:27:48.840 All right.

00:27:49.300 We need to go in to the

00:27:52.060 Capitol.

00:27:53.280 Let's go!

00:27:55.200 I'm going to put it out

00:27:56.320 there.

00:27:56.540 I'm probably going to go to

00:27:57.260 jail.

00:27:58.520 Tomorrow, we need to go into

00:28:00.880 the Capitol.

00:28:02.360 Into the Capitol.

00:28:03.500 What?

00:28:08.180 Peacefully.

00:28:08.940 Fed, Fed, Fed, Fed,

00:28:11.100 Fed, Fed, Fed, Fed,

00:28:14.160 Fed, Fed, Fed, Fed.

00:28:16.300 Okay, folks,

00:28:17.880 we're up to the war.

00:28:18.860 As soon as the president

00:28:19.800 has done speaking, we go to

00:28:21.300 the Capitol.

00:28:22.380 The Capitol is this

00:28:23.520 direction.

00:28:25.120 We are going to the Capitol

00:28:28.540 where our problems are.

00:28:31.300 It's that direction.

00:28:32.460 Okay, so you see there, one guy who has not been, I don't think he's been officially identified, but what we know is that he has not been, that guy was on camera all over the place saying, let's go to the Capitol, even if we get arrested, acknowledging that he knows it's a crime, trying to get the crowd to do it.

00:28:53.980 He hasn't been arrested and charged with anything yet. In fact, some of the people in the crowd who were saying no and calling him a Fed, they've been arrested and charged, but not him.

00:29:06.660 What does that tell you? Well, that was the question that Congressman Massey had for Merrick Garland. Let's listen to that.

00:29:11.460 All right, you have those images there, and they're captioned. They were from January 5th and January 6th.

00:29:20.820 As far as we can determine, the individual who was saying he'll probably go to jail, he'll probably be arrested, but they need to go into the Capitol the next day, is then the next day directing people to the Capitol.

00:29:34.380 And as far as we can find, this individual has not been charged with anything. You said this is one of the most sweeping investigations in history. Have you seen that video, or those frames from that video?

00:29:47.580 So, as I said at the outset, one of the norms of the Justice Department is to not comment on impending investigations, and particularly not to comment about particular scenes or particular individuals.

00:30:02.060 Okay, I was hoping today to give you an opportunity to put to rest the concerns that people have, that there were federal agents or assets of the federal government present on January 5th and January 6th.

00:30:15.360 Can you tell us, without talking about particular incidents or particular videos, how many agents or assets of the federal government were present on January 6th, whether they agitated to go into the Capitol, and if any of them did?

00:30:28.340 So, I'm not going to violate this norm of the rule of law. I'm not going to comment on an investigation that's ongoing.

00:30:37.260 So, that's a yes. That's a yes. Because if the answer was no, if there were no federal agents trying to rile the crowd up, then he would have no problem saying, no, of course that didn't happen. What are you talking about?

00:30:47.220 There's no reason. I'm not going to violate the rule of law. The rule of law says you can't, if there were no federal agents in that crowd, the rule of law says you can't tell us that?

00:30:58.700 What law is that exactly?

00:30:59.940 Pretty clear, pretty clear what happened here.

00:31:06.920 You know, a giant setup.

00:31:10.840 And now they're arresting, you know, the guy with the buffalo hat or the guy who took the podium and walked out with it.

00:31:17.920 Every time I see Merrick Garland, he is the, you know, if you were to look up the term banality of evil in the dictionary, you would see Merrick Garland.

00:31:28.700 And this kind of empty, dull, you know, just straight faced, emotionless person.

00:31:45.020 Nothing immediately objectionable about them, but then you listen to what he's saying and what he's doing and it becomes clear.

00:31:52.960 And also, by the way, Congressman Massey there, bringing up a very important point, getting a chance here to cross-examine the attorney general.

00:32:04.520 Congressman Massey is, and you know how I feel about politicians in general and about Republicans.

00:32:09.880 I'm not a big fan of very many of them.

00:32:13.620 I'm pretty harsh on all of them.

00:32:15.880 It takes a lot for me to be impressed by a politician, but Congressman Massey is one of the few good ones.

00:32:21.580 I don't agree with him.

00:32:22.340 He's more, he's more libertarian than I am.

00:32:24.200 So I don't agree with him on every single issue, but he's a talented and skilled politician.

00:32:31.580 And, and a, a, a, a real valuable defender of the conservative cause.

00:32:38.560 And someone who's, who's actually trying to, to root out corruption in DC and putting his own career and reputation on the line and doing so.

00:32:48.120 He's a valuable one.

00:32:49.080 He's, he's one we need.

00:32:51.580 And he's also one, and you might not want to hear this, but he's, he's one Trump, when he was in office, tried to run Massey out of town.

00:33:00.460 Trump tried to get Massey out of office because what, what did Congressman Massey do wrong?

00:33:07.140 Well, he just, he wasn't person.

00:33:09.100 He didn't show enough personal deference to Donald Trump as an individual.

00:33:12.860 And that's why Trump hated Massey and wanted him gone.

00:33:17.020 Even though he's one of the best Republicans we have in Congress.

00:33:19.740 One of the few good ones.

00:33:21.120 Trump wanted him out.

00:33:21.840 Because Trump's flaw as a leader, his biggest flaw, and this is important to remember as we get into 2024.

00:33:30.360 His biggest flaw as a leader, his fatal flaw is that for him, when it comes to hiring people and deciding who to elevate and who to support.

00:33:40.680 The number one qualification, as far as Trump is concerned, is, is how they feel about him personally.

00:33:47.220 Which means that a lot of really, he tried to run a lot of really talented and valuable conservatives out of town while hiring a lot of establishment swamp snakes and rats because they flattered him.

00:34:00.180 As a fatal leadership flaw.

00:34:02.340 I mean, you have to be able to recognize the talent and value of people, even the ones who don't personally like you that much.

00:34:12.040 You have to be able to set that aside, especially when we've got a country to save here.

00:34:18.800 Something to keep in mind.

00:34:20.560 And that is a flaw that, as far as we can tell, Ron DeSantis does not share.

00:34:25.380 Which is why it's DeSantis 2024 all the way, as far as I'm concerned.

00:34:28.500 All right, this is from Fox News.

00:34:29.800 This is a big, big update on a story that many people have been following.

00:34:34.140 The FBI on Thursday confirmed, confirmed that remains recovered from a nature preserve or park in Florida on Wednesday were Florida fugitive Brian Laundries.

00:34:45.800 The comparison of dental records confirmed the 23-year-old's identity, according to the FBI.

00:34:49.860 Laundries' former fiancee, Gabby Petito, turned up dead near a Wyoming campsite the couple shared in late August.

00:34:55.040 And now, and of course, as you know, there's been this manhunt that's been going on for weeks.

00:35:01.300 And finally, they recovered remains and they belong to Brian Laundries.

00:35:04.860 I guess we still don't know exactly what happened to him.

00:35:08.940 They're going to do, you know, they'll do the autopsy and all that kind of stuff.

00:35:14.120 And they'll figure that out.

00:35:16.440 Seems, was this he that he committed suicide?

00:35:19.980 Or did something else happen to him?

00:35:21.520 Was he attacked by alligators?

00:35:22.740 I mean, who knows?

00:35:24.080 I will say, though, and I haven't followed this story very closely, but, you know, the news yesterday was that the FBI, they were going to Brian Laundries' house to let his parents know that they'd recovered the remains of their son.

00:35:41.180 And so, you know, their son is dead.

00:35:42.980 And I hear that, and I do feel a fair amount of sympathy for Brian Laundries' family and for his parents.

00:35:53.100 What I don't quite understand is, in the media and online, just the incredible amount of venom that's been directed at the parents of Brian Laundries.

00:36:05.620 I don't quite understand that.

00:36:09.780 I'm not even the most sympathetic guy in the world.

00:36:12.540 So if I, if you, if you discover that I'm being more sympathetic than you about something, then you need to look at yourself in the mirror, because that shouldn't be the way, the way it works.

00:36:23.300 So I feel sympathy for the parents.

00:36:24.760 I don't understand.

00:36:25.680 They, they, they have been turned into public enemy number one.

00:36:28.440 They've, they've, they've been, you know, the media has, has been camped out at their house for weeks, following them everywhere.

00:36:34.840 Everyone hates them.

00:36:37.780 I don't, you know, I don't quite get it.

00:36:40.560 Unless there's some sort of theory that they were involved somehow in the killing of Gabby Petito.

00:36:46.280 Well, if that was the case, then that would change my, then my sympathy would go out the window.

00:36:50.220 But I don't think there's any indication of that.

00:36:51.880 I don't think that's even a theory that's on the table.

00:36:55.860 It's not their fault.

00:36:57.180 I guess there's this, this inclination when someone does something horrible to blame the parents and to say, well, you obviously went, something went terribly wrong in the way you raised this person.

00:37:08.200 And that could be the case, but not necessarily.

00:37:12.220 You know, we, we raise our kids and this is something that we, as parents, we remain very cognizant of.

00:37:17.240 And it's something that keeps us up at night sometimes is just the reality that our kids are human beings and with their own conscious life and, and, and their own will and everything.

00:37:29.820 And they make their, and they can make their own choices.

00:37:32.620 And so what keeps you up at night is the realization that you could raise your children perfectly.

00:37:39.040 I mean, you could do everything right or almost, I mean, no one can do everything right, but you could do almost everything right.

00:37:46.300 And, and you could love your kids and do what you think is best for them and instill in them the proper moral values.

00:37:54.340 And they could still go out into the world and become horrible, monstrous people and do terrible things that could still happen because they still have free will.

00:38:05.080 And when it does, it's not fair to put that on the parents.

00:38:09.560 And now you think about the situation that parents are in, their child is a killer.

00:38:16.700 And now he's dead.

00:38:18.660 So they've got guilt as, as well as mourning.

00:38:21.580 And they probably feel that they can't really mourn their son in the, in the normal way.

00:38:25.260 Like they don't have the right to because of this horrible thing he did.

00:38:29.060 And, uh, I don't know.

00:38:30.520 So it's just, it's the worst thing in the world, uh, you know, as, as a parent, I mean, you would think the worst thing in the world as a parent is to lose your child.

00:38:36.600 And that is the worst thing in the world.

00:38:37.880 But, um, one degree, even worse than that is when you sort of lose your child spiritually and you lose your child's soul because they commit some hideous evil act and then they die.

00:38:52.400 And that's, it's just unthinkable as a parent.

00:38:56.640 It's like, that's, that is the ultimate nightmare.

00:38:58.780 I would much rather be dead than have that happen to my kids or have my kids.

00:39:04.640 I would choose death over that in a second. 0.96

00:39:07.640 It's the worst thing.

00:39:08.960 And so I do feel some sympathy for them.

00:39:11.660 I don't really understand why others don't, but okay.

00:39:14.780 What else do we got here?

00:39:16.780 Here's someone else I have sympathy for.

00:39:18.140 Okay.

00:39:18.520 This is, this is a, this is the sympathy show.

00:39:20.580 This is the show.

00:39:21.960 Things are go, we got, we've got the Halloween decorations.

00:39:24.000 Things are a little bit topsy-turvy and bizarre.

00:39:25.740 And so I have sympathy for this person also, a teacher in Riverside, California has been suspended for insensitivity to native Americans.

00:39:35.080 And this stems from an incident in class where she was apparently trying to teach the kids, uh, a mnemonic device for trigonometry.

00:39:43.100 So Katoa, um, which is something I'm not going to try to get in.

00:39:48.840 I could explain it to you cause I'm a, I'm a trigonometry expert.

00:39:52.060 I'm a bit of a mathematician myself.

00:39:53.960 So I'm not going to explain it cause you probably wouldn't understand, but it's a mnemonic device.

00:39:57.760 It's supposed to help with, with trigonometry.

00:39:59.880 And this was her method of kind of ingrained, you know, drilling that into the kids' heads. 0.99

00:40:05.300 Let's, let's watch this.

00:40:06.300 So Katoa, So Katoa, So Katoa, So Katoa, So Katoa.

00:40:19.300 So Katoa, So Katoa, So Katoa, So Katoa.

00:40:25.100 So Katoa, So Katoa, So Katoa.

00:40:30.960 Suka! 0.79

00:40:37.960 I'll get to go home.

00:40:42.960 And I get all of my feathers.

00:40:46.960 Suka! 0.79

00:40:49.960 Suka! 0.79

00:40:51.960 Suka! 0.79

00:40:53.960 Suka! 0.79

00:40:55.960 Suka! 0.79

00:40:57.960 Okay. So listen, that's, that's not the method I would choose. If for some reason I was hired

00:41:14.300 to teach trigonometry, uh, to high school kids, I probably wouldn't do that. But in, in her defense,

00:41:22.160 you will never forget Sokotoa. Will you, you will remember, I don't even know what it is, but,

00:41:28.700 but I will always remember Sokotoa. And it does kind of sound like an Indian chief, doesn't it?

00:41:35.660 So this is what it's about. It's, it's finding outside the box, thinking of ways to get kids to

00:41:42.420 remember the material. And so I'm going to defend her on that basis. But unfortunately she has been

00:41:48.660 suspended and not even, it's not, it's not that she's been suspended because it's suspected that

00:41:54.660 she had a mental breakdown in the middle of class. Uh, no, it's because of insensitivity to Native

00:41:59.420 Americans. Here's the statement from the Riverside Unified School District. It says a recording of

00:42:04.660 one of our teachers has been widely circulated on social media. These behaviors are completely

00:42:09.120 unacceptable and are offensive depiction of the vast and expansive Native American cultures and

00:42:14.200 practices. Her actions do not represent the values of our district. The teacher has been

00:42:18.880 placed on leave while the district conducts an investigation. Um, and this was originally, I think

00:42:26.600 this, this, uh, video was recorded by a Native American student who, according to the person who

00:42:33.340 posted it initially felt that this, that this, uh, performance by the teacher was an act of violence

00:42:38.720 against him. Now you could say there was an act of violence against all of our eardrums in a certain

00:42:44.020 way. But of course the idea, the idea that this is a somehow offensive to Native Americans is, is

00:42:51.480 absurd. It was supposed to just be a silly way of getting kids to, to remember it. And they will

00:42:59.640 none of those kids, none of those kids will ever forget Sokotoa. They might forget everything else

00:43:06.700 they've learned in school. They won't forget that. And she's suspended for it. I, I personally find it,

00:43:13.240 uh, outrageous. All right, let's read the comments.

00:43:18.040 Who's rocking polka dot and flannel shirts without shame? Do you know their name?

00:43:26.940 They're the sweet baby gang.

00:43:31.420 Uh, oh yeah, before we read the comments, I, I almost forgot about this also. This is from a tweet from the

00:43:36.000 DCist, um, news organization that covers news in DC. And there's a picture there of the, uh, of the,

00:43:44.900 of the capital of DC and, uh, drowned by, by water. And it says, imagine seeing the Lincoln Memorial

00:43:52.220 surrounded by churning Potomac waters or only being able to access the Pentagon by boat. This is what DC

00:43:59.160 might look like if the world continues its current greenhouse gas emission levels. And I saw this and I

00:44:05.540 thought, well, that's, that's, um, wow, that's incredible. And that's why I decided to leave my

00:44:12.240 car idling all day while I'm at work. I mean, you're, you're telling me another benefit of global,

00:44:18.040 global warming is that we get to wash DC into the sea.

00:44:24.280 With drowning Washington, DC, that's, that's supposed to be a, what a downside.

00:44:29.240 It also looks kind of fun. I mean, imagine that you, you gotta take a little boat, a little ferry

00:44:35.720 to get to the, um, Lincoln Memorial Island there. Looks fun. Okay. This is from a sweet mama G says,

00:44:43.760 I would rather hitchhike with a sign that says I'm an orphan. No one will look for me than fly a 0.98

00:44:47.980 legion. Also, Michelle Fiore was my assembly woman in Vegas. She actually would make a great governor. 1.00

00:44:53.800 She was on the front lines with the Bundy ranch. If you remember that she opposed Harry Reed's ban

00:44:58.760 on raw milk because his son got a tummy ache from it. And she often holds open houses at her house

00:45:03.720 for the community to have discussions about local issues. She's extremely involved with the community

00:45:08.220 in Vegas. Um, I'll take your word for it. I don't know. Like I said, I don't know anything about her.

00:45:14.100 Um, it's just a bad, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a bad ad is my point. It's a very bad advertisement

00:45:19.980 for a politician because what you're telling me about her is that she's a serious person 1.00

00:45:27.700 who has achieved real things and, um, is a, is a, is a real asset for the conservative cause and

00:45:38.040 for the people of, of Nevada. That's what you're saying. But I didn't, that's not what I got from

00:45:44.380 the advertisement. What I got from the advertisement is that this is a ridiculous, shallow person 1.00

00:45:52.240 who has nothing to say other than the most basic and stereotypical talking points. 0.98

00:45:59.380 So not a good ad. Uh, this is from for Roars dragon. Matt's pivoting between I'm always,

00:46:09.340 I'm always right. My opinion should be iron law for all men. And my podcast is a pathetic waste of 0.99

00:46:14.880 time really throws me off balance. Well, I don't see why I can't be both. Isn't it possible that 0.83

00:46:23.040 I'm always right. And my podcast is a pathetic waste of time. I think it is. That's what I'm 0.96

00:46:29.300 going with. That's how I thread that needle. Um, Sean says as someone whose job it is to work on

00:46:35.420 airplanes, I can tell you, Matt, that this actually is very common. A lot of technology in

00:46:38.920 airplanes is about as old as an N64 and turning it off and on again, usually does solve most of the

00:46:44.500 problems. If something breaks, it only needs to work once for someone to sign off, sign it off as

00:46:49.460 fixed. Was this supposed to make me feel better about flying? It probably wasn't. You're trying to,

00:46:56.280 this, this is what you think I need in my life is more anxiety. So something's broken and then it

00:47:02.600 works once. And then they say, well, let's take it up 35,000 feet. See if this holds.

00:47:08.920 Sean, you're banned from the show. I blame you for this.

00:47:14.520 Um, Joshua says, Hey Matt, huge fan. Quick question.

00:47:19.460 How would you persuade your fiance into taking your last name for marriage? If she were opposed to

00:47:24.360 doing so, should it be a deal breaker or red flag? If she doesn't love the show almost as much as you

00:47:30.940 love advertising your sponsors. Well, then you must really, really love it. And, um, is it a deal

00:47:36.840 breaker? If your fiance doesn't want to take your last name? Uh, yes, it, uh, it is a deal breaker.

00:47:43.920 Um, it's, it is a red flag. It's beyond a red flag. It's a deal breaker. I would say

00:47:47.940 because the whole point as when you get married is that now you are becoming one, you're becoming

00:47:56.300 unified one family. And so if you're planning on marrying a woman and she's saying, I don't want 0.99

00:48:04.880 to take your name. What she's saying is I don't want to be completely unified to you. I don't really

00:48:11.880 want to be one family unit. You know, I want to maintain this division. I want there to be this

00:48:20.400 sort of line that separates us. A name is not a small thing as, as human beings and having a last

00:48:31.880 name as a family. It's one of the things that ties you together, that identifies you as a family,

00:48:37.680 as a family unit, not multiple little units. Okay. As a family, you want to be one unit, a home,

00:48:45.540 not like an apartment complex where you're all in the same building, but you've got different,

00:48:48.980 your own little units and your own little, um, separate lives divided by walls and everything.

00:48:54.340 So yeah, I would say that that's a, that's a deal breaker. It doesn't mean you can't marry her,

00:48:59.940 but it should be like, we're, this isn't happening unless, unless you, you agree that we're going to

00:49:05.240 have, we're going to share a name. We're going to be one family. I mean, I would say the same about,

00:49:10.060 uh, if, if I was getting ready to marry somebody and they said they wanted to have different bank

00:49:14.560 accounts and bank accounts aren't even as profoundly important as names. Um, but once again, that,

00:49:24.900 that to me shows that you want to maintain divisions. You don't really want to be unified.

00:49:31.000 You don't want to become as one. You want to be two separate people, have your own account,

00:49:35.160 your own, uh, you know, and so I would see that also as a, as a, as a deal breaker. Um, Claire says,

00:49:45.940 Matt, how come you don't just bring your, my pillow with you when you travel, you talk about

00:49:50.960 how bad you miss it when you're away from home. So when it just makes sense to take it with you.

00:49:55.500 Well, because I'm a man and men don't travel with pillows. That's my, let's say my wife does that. 1.00

00:49:59.660 My, this is why anytime we go somewhere in a car, we go on a, like a week vacation and, and half of

00:50:06.840 the car is packed to the brim with pillows because all the kids and my wife, they got to bring their

00:50:11.420 own fluffy everything. Men don't do that. Even though I miss my, my pillow dearly. Uh, but it

00:50:20.820 just makes it all the sweeter when I, when I finally get home to it. Well, maybe you heard the news that,

00:50:25.340 uh, Disney has ousted one of their talented sports reporters from ESPN named Alison Williams.

00:50:30.900 Alison is a college football and basketball reporter who had been with ESPN since 2011

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00:50:40.240 is forcing its employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine or face termination. And Alison chose to

00:50:45.060 wait while she tries to have a child. Sure. The CDC claims the vaccines are safe for pregnant women, 1.00

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00:51:48.800 review if you like what you hear. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:51:56.680 So today I have a somewhat belated reverse cancellation. Earlier in the week, I said that

00:52:01.240 two men should not be allowed to adopt babies, just as two women shouldn't be allowed to adopt babies 1.00

00:52:05.360 either. And I don't think single people should be allowed to adopt babies, by the way. I believe that 1.00

00:52:09.400 every baby deserves and needs both a mom and a dad. And that's what the law should stipulate. Now,

00:52:14.540 as you may recall, this all came up during the paternity leave debate. You may also recall that

00:52:18.740 when I made that statement about gay adoption, I predicted that media matters would try to hit

00:52:23.500 me for it. And mere hours later, my prophecy was fulfilled. The left-wing activist group pulled

00:52:28.320 the clip, posted it to their site and their social media pages. And soon some LGBT news sites had picked

00:52:34.100 it up as well. You know, I just sort of ignored them and the outrage fizzled out in about 12 hours.

00:52:39.340 And that's what happens with most outrage when it's ignored. As much as I love to intentionally

00:52:43.580 antagonize my cancelers, I have to say there's something especially satisfying and also hilarious

00:52:48.740 allowing them to scream impotently into the void while you go about your day as if they don't

00:52:52.980 exist. I should probably adopt that gratifying approach more often than I do. The problem is

00:52:58.740 that I just enjoy arguing too much. And that's why I can't let this week end without circling back

00:53:04.080 Misaki-style to say a few more things on this topic. Now, to help frame this discussion, we'll use the

00:53:10.340 hit piece published by the gay news site LGBTQ Nation. And it says, quote,

00:53:15.640 Matt Walsh, a right-wing blowhard with the conservative website The Daily Wire,

00:53:19.840 has criticized Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for taking paternity leave to help his

00:53:23.400 husband raise their adopted newborn twins. Walsh said that it was absurd, a luxury, for public

00:53:28.280 employees like Buttigieg to receive two months off to care for their children on the taxpayer dime

00:53:32.260 because the U.S. is deeply in debt and facing a transportation crisis. But then he showed his

00:53:36.980 true concern, gays raising kids. Walsh said, quote, babies need their mothers, which is why two men 0.99

00:53:43.680 shouldn't be allowed to adopt babies in the first place. Repeating a decades-old anti-LGBTQ line

00:53:50.280 that every child deserves a mother and a father. He continued, the outrage mob can now start a

00:53:55.660 secondary campaign over that comment. But I'll say it again, two men should not be allowed to adopt 1.00

00:53:59.500 babies because babies need mothers and fathers. They also need fathers, which is why two women 1.00

00:54:04.220 shouldn't be allowed either. Not only is Walsh repeating lies used by anti-LGBTQ organizations around

00:54:11.040 the world, but he's also wrong. Numerous studies have shown that same-sex couples raise children

00:54:16.140 just as healthy as mixed-gender parents. Also, he's inadvertently arguing that single parents

00:54:20.900 shouldn't be allowed to raise kids either. No, I'm not. I'm saying single parents shouldn't be 1.00

00:54:26.800 allowed to adopt kids. And there's nothing inadvertent about that. The article goes on

00:54:31.820 for a little while longer before finishing with this. As for Walsh, he recently rented a home in

00:54:36.560 Loudoun County, Virginia, just so he could speak against the county school district's pro-transgender

00:54:40.820 student policies. So it's hardly surprising to hear anti-LGBT speaking points dribbling out of

00:54:47.760 his mouth. Now, I take exception to this. Talking points don't dribble out of my mouth. I think a

00:54:54.180 term like spewed or spouted or ejected or disgorged would be more appropriate. And aside from that, I think

00:55:00.940 there are a few more important points to be made on this topic of gay adoption. The first is that

00:55:06.320 advocates for gay adoption will always assure us that studies have vindicated their position. You

00:55:12.660 heard it again in the article I just read. People these days, they think that any discussion can be

00:55:16.620 ended, any argument can be won by quickly scanning Google for a study that allegedly supports whatever

00:55:23.280 preconceived notion they have in their head. Well, they don't bother doing what nobody ever seems to do

00:55:28.200 is actually read the studies they cite. And that's a problem because as it turns out, literally anyone

00:55:34.640 can do a study and engineer it to prove literally any proposition. There are no laws governing how

00:55:40.720 studies are conducted or what methods have to be used. I could go out right now and conduct a study

00:55:46.800 to prove that pigs can fly. But you'd have to read the study to find out that when I say pigs can fly,

00:55:53.400 what I really mean is that if you launch them from a catapult, they'll travel through the air a certain

00:55:57.640 distance before splattering all over the ground. The point is that methodology is important.

00:56:03.440 Methodology matters. And so when you actually take the time to read the studies that are cited in

00:56:08.760 support of gay adoption, what you'll find is that the methodology is almost as ludicrous and arbitrary 0.98

00:56:14.540 as hurling pigs through the air with a catapult. For one thing, most of the studies rely on self-reported 0.98

00:56:21.640 data from the parents. Okay. So the researchers ask gay parents how their kids are doing emotionally,

00:56:27.440 how they're doing psychologically, and so on. And this is obviously going to lead to some biased

00:56:32.740 answers, especially because oftentimes these are not blind studies. The participants know that the

00:56:38.920 researchers are studying gay parenting, which means they have a vested interest in giving a certain

00:56:43.300 answer, which means they're probably not going to say, oh, gee, my kids are doing pretty poorly. 0.75

00:56:47.920 I think I'm really screwing them up. Furthermore, these studies don't pull from random and representative

00:56:54.420 samples of the population. Many of the studies focus on high-income lesbian mothers who can afford 0.70

00:57:00.920 IVF treatments. The sample sizes, along with being not random, not representative, and not blind,

00:57:07.260 are also very small most of the time. And then there's perhaps the biggest problem of all.

00:57:12.160 So to claim that children do not suffer any detrimental effects from being raised by same-sex 1.00

00:57:17.800 parents, you would need to track a very large, socioeconomically diverse sample size for a long

00:57:24.640 period of time. As parents, we don't really know how our parenting has panned out until our kids are

00:57:31.360 adults. But gay adoption has not been legal and widespread enough for long enough to have that

00:57:37.500 kind of data. So it's the same thing you run into when LGBT activists claim that puberty blockers

00:57:42.860 don't cause any long-term ill effects in kids. Well, how could they possibly know that? We didn't

00:57:48.400 start dosing large numbers of physically healthy kids with this stuff until the last few years.

00:57:52.880 You're just assuming it won't cause long-term damage. You believe it won't. You want us to

00:57:58.520 believe it won't. But you don't know that because you can't know it. This is why we must use

00:58:05.300 other resources aside from academic studies to parse this question. Resources like common sense.

00:58:11.600 Resources like the history of the human race. Precedent. Also biological science. So taking all

00:58:19.660 those things into account, here's what we can say. All children have a mother and a father. That's how

00:58:26.620 nature set it up. Now, I believe, and nearly everybody in the entire world everywhere believed

00:58:31.240 until 12 seconds ago, that the mother and father roles are important and distinct and not expendable.

00:58:39.380 Children need both parents. Some children will be deprived of what they need because of death or

00:58:44.820 divorce. But the point is that it is a deprivation. They can survive it. They might even thrive in spite

00:58:51.400 of it, but it will be in spite of it. Every child should be raised by a mother and a father.

00:58:57.080 The cruel reality of life is that not every child will have that, even though they should

00:59:01.720 have it. But as a society, we should do what we can to ensure that as many children have it as

00:59:07.100 possible. As it happens, there are millions of man-woman couples waiting in line to adopt babies 0.97

00:59:12.520 as we speak. Every baby could go to a loving home and be given the gift of a mother and a father.

00:59:17.460 There's no good reason to deprive them of that gift. The only reason is that some gay couples want 1.00

00:59:23.200 to adopt and it would cause them emotional pain if they were prohibited from doing so.

00:59:27.400 My contention is that the needs of the child should come before the emotional desires of the adults

00:59:32.840 in this case. So let's flip this around. If you're a proponent of same-sex adoption,

00:59:39.080 you clearly believe that either the mother or the father role or both are expendable.

00:59:44.920 In taking that position, you are asserting something that is radically contrary to everything

00:59:50.080 we've observed as human beings through the course of human civilization. You are making an extreme

00:59:54.800 claim. I would even say a bigoted claim because you are ruthlessly negating the value and importance

01:00:00.900 of mothers and fathers. The burden of proof in this situation falls on you. But of course,

01:00:07.340 the only way to prove that mothers and fathers really are expendable, as you believe, is to forge

01:00:11.400 ahead as though they are and then check back in 50 years to see if you were right. That is,

01:00:17.720 in fact, the course we've chosen in our society. We've chosen through this issue and many others

01:00:23.560 to treat kids as lab rats, to take them and verge off in a radically different direction

01:00:33.980 and give them a life and an existence and a world that is totally severed from the life,

01:00:42.280 existence and world that all of the rest of us lived in. And we're just going to do this

01:00:47.300 and see if it works. It won't. And there's no good reason to try.

01:00:55.400 And that's the point. And that's why I must take these, I must resurrect this cancellation

01:01:05.200 attempt of me and say to the cancelers that no, in fact, you are canceled. And that'll do it for us

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The Matt Walsh Show - October 22, 2021

Ep. 824 - A Generation Descends Into Mass Psychosis

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