The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 831 - A Triumphant Moment For All Of Us Virginians

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Republican Glenn Youngkin pulled out a stunning victory last night.

00:00:03.600 We'll talk about the lessons that can be learned from it, and we'll revel in the hilarious media meltdown that happened today as well.

00:00:08.540 Also, the mother of the boy who raped a girl in Loudoun County has finally spoken out.

00:00:12.160 Her comments are revealing, but perhaps not in the way she intends.

00:00:15.000 Plus, the Kyle Rittenhouse trial kicks off. We'll discuss that.

00:00:17.660 And finally, is it cruel and callous for parents to kick their adult children out of their homes and force them to live on their own?

00:00:23.760 That's what many people seem to think, and we'll talk about that today and so much more on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:30.000 Truly, in all of my many long hours as a Virginia resident, I've never been so proud.

00:00:42.660 Ever since I first came out as a trans-Virginian, I have dreamed of a day like this.

00:00:47.140 My greatest hope now is that others will be inspired to live their own truth loudly and boldly.

00:00:52.060 And the truth in Virginia last night, as you've heard by now, is that Republican Glenn Youngkin did pull out the upset victory over Terry McAuliffe.

00:00:58.040 It wasn't even all that close in the end, with Youngkin winning by three or four points, which may as well be a landslide, considering that Biden won the state by 10 points a year ago.

00:01:08.280 So this was a massive swing, a tectonic shift, an earthquake, and especially cataclysmic for Democrats when you consider that the swing didn't even happen over the course of an entire year or half a year.

00:01:19.580 Only a couple of months ago, Youngkin was down significantly in the polls and running a standard default GOP beltway type campaign.

00:01:29.080 Then things changed, and we'll talk about those changes and what they mean.

00:01:33.280 But before we do that, before we discuss the reality on the ground, let's check in with McAuliffe's PR team in the corporate media, who are all, as expected, not taking this very well.

00:01:42.780 The good news for Republicans is that the Democrats are steadfastly determined to learn all of the wrong lessons and to stick to their original assumptions and preconceived notions and strategies no matter the results.

00:01:54.560 And to that end, tearful cable news personalities, mascara running down their faces, men and women, filling our leftist tears tumblers to overflowing, tried desperately to comfort themselves by playing the greatest hits.

00:02:07.340 Two hits specifically.

00:02:08.740 And the first is that somehow, you know, this is still all about Trump.

00:02:13.020 Here's Nicole Wallace about that on MSNBC. 0.99

00:02:16.400 I think we know the answer to some of this.

00:02:18.780 I watched Glenn Youngkin's interviews on Fox News, and he did nothing that Claire's, he did not.

00:02:23.360 I mean, he worshipped at the altar of Donald Trump on Fox News.

00:02:27.680 He flew an insurrection flag at his rallies.

00:02:30.220 He simply didn't. 0.98

00:02:31.700 He played dumb about a Zoom rally. 0.99

00:02:34.900 He did not really put much distance between himself and Donald Trump on the big lie or the deadly insurrection in which police officers were maimed by flagpoles. 0.98

00:02:45.080 So I think that the real ominous thing is that critical race theory, which isn't real, turned the suburbs 15 points to the Trump insurrection endorsed Republican.

00:03:02.540 What do Democrats do about that? 0.97

00:03:04.440 Worshipped at the altar of Donald Trump.

00:03:08.000 He did that apparently by mentioning Trump's name like twice in a year.

00:03:12.220 He didn't campaign with Trump.

00:03:14.300 He didn't talk about Trump.

00:03:16.400 Youngkin treated Trump as mostly irrelevant to the concerns of Virginia voters because he is.

00:03:22.200 He's the former president of the United States.

00:03:24.120 Parents in Virginia, voters in Virginia are not going about their days thinking constantly about the former president, worried about him, longing for him.

00:03:34.780 They're thinking about their own families, their kids, their communities, their country.

00:03:38.020 The people who think about Trump the most are leftists in politics and media.

00:03:42.640 Trump is the star in their solar system.

00:03:45.020 They orbit around him.

00:03:46.800 They don't know how to talk about anything but him.

00:03:50.400 They certainly don't know how to campaign against anything but him.

00:03:53.200 That's all McAuliffe could manage.

00:03:55.440 Youngkin mentioned Trump like twice in a year.

00:03:58.500 McAuliffe mentioned him twice per sentence.

00:04:01.100 And we see how that strategy worked out.

00:04:02.720 But we'll get back to that in a minute.

00:04:04.040 I'm not done reveling in the pain of my enemies yet. 0.85

00:04:06.520 The other major theme from the media is that Virginia voters are all racist for voting against McAuliffe, who is white, by the way. 0.88

00:04:15.160 I mean, surely, why else would a person vote against Terry McAuliffe other than anti-black racism?

00:04:21.040 Here's Kirsten Powers on CNN.

00:04:23.220 There was all of this, you know, talking about critical race theory and representing it as if it was happening in elementary school, which, of course, is not even being taught there.

00:04:34.500 But there were a lot of these hot-button cultural issues, I think, that Youngkin was really able to use to his advantage.

00:04:44.600 I don't think that that's right because I think it was misrepresented.

00:04:47.740 But this is now, I think, also the Republican playbook, is to use these issues to scare people, basically, a feeling out of control, you know, that everything's out of control with their children and they need to be protected from these people with this demagogues and this agenda, right?

00:05:04.160 Yeah.

00:05:04.360 Let's be clear.

00:05:05.100 Some of it was dog whistle.

00:05:07.160 Yeah.

00:05:07.500 Right.

00:05:07.740 Some of it was dog whistle racism.

00:05:11.380 A thousand percent.

00:05:11.960 That's their favorite term is dog whistle. 0.99

00:05:16.520 If you're even using the phrase dog whistle at this point, that's a dog whistle that you're a moron because dog whistle doesn't mean what they think it means. 0.99

00:05:25.820 And for them, you know, this is dog whistle racism because it's the Republicans who are obsessed with race, they claim. 0.99

00:05:34.500 Joy Reid on MSNBC, she expectedly agrees.

00:05:39.180 That the coronavirus or that the virus was a very low salience to many voters.

00:05:45.060 It was education, which is code for white parents don't like the idea of teaching about race.

00:05:51.600 And I mean, unfortunately, race is just the most palpable tool in the toolkit used to be of the Democratic Party back in the day when there were Dixiecrats and now of the Republican Party.

00:06:01.260 It just is powerful.

00:06:03.360 Race is a palpable tool. 0.95

00:06:05.160 That's true.

00:06:05.740 I mean, nobody knows that better than Joy Reid.

00:06:07.540 Without the tool of race, she'd be working as a cashier at Bath and Body Works. 0.99

00:06:12.080 The only reason she's famous and earning a hefty paycheck with a major media company is that she's a black woman who plays the race card. 1.00

00:06:18.020 That's the only reason. 0.92

00:06:18.940 That's that's why they have her on the payroll. 1.00

00:06:20.840 She has no other insight to offer nothing else to bring to the table.

00:06:24.420 Have you ever heard Joy Reid say anything interesting?

00:06:27.940 Have you ever heard her make a point that was not about race where you went, well, it's an interesting point.

00:06:34.060 That's all these people that you see that they're on camera.

00:06:36.720 They get paid millions of dollars to be on camera every single day talking and they never say anything that's even remotely interesting.

00:06:44.660 So she's got nothing else to bring to the table.

00:06:48.640 Race is a palpable tool. 0.95

00:06:50.160 All right.

00:06:51.780 And again, no one knows that better than her.

00:06:54.720 Nia Malika Henderson on CNN.

00:06:56.380 She knows, too, from experience that race is a palpable tool. 0.99

00:06:59.880 Here's her take on the situation.

00:07:01.400 I think we also see the enduring power of the culture wars and the Republicans are better at playing this game because it's essentially white identity politics that works for Republicans.

00:07:13.960 We saw it in 2016 and we're seeing it in some of these races now, particularly in the McAuliffe race with the CRT issue and education.

00:07:25.120 Republicans are playing identity politics, she says.

00:07:27.640 Democrats and the media set half the cities in the country on fire for six months by convincing people that police officers were out hunting and killing black men.

00:07:37.100 And yet Republicans are the ones cynically exploiting racial tensions and anxieties. 0.59

00:07:41.020 Sure thing.

00:07:42.900 And yet all of this crying and panicking still was not as embarrassing as the reaction from McAuliffe himself, who took to the stage late in the night for a concession speech, which was noticeably lacking in any kind of actual concession.

00:07:53.480 He has since conceded this morning.

00:07:55.700 He sent out a statement conceding.

00:07:57.640 But when he gave his speech, he refused to do that.

00:08:00.280 And then while leaving the stage, we could play this.

00:08:02.940 As you can see, he began dancing.

00:08:08.580 That's what he is doing.

00:08:10.980 And he also appears to be wearing lipstick.

00:08:13.000 I don't know.

00:08:13.320 Is it possible to zoom in?

00:08:14.220 We probably can't.

00:08:15.100 But he's wearing lipstick.

00:08:17.820 Am I?

00:08:18.320 I know that I'm colorblind.

00:08:20.060 Do my eyes deceive me?

00:08:24.520 Or is this man not wearing lipstick?

00:08:26.220 He put on lipstick and he went out and danced on stage.

00:08:28.480 I mean, Yunkin broke this guy.

00:08:31.440 Either that he was maybe he was eating a great popsicle before giving a speech.

00:08:35.480 Maybe he was drowning his sorrows with boxed wine.

00:08:38.260 Maybe he was doing all of those things together.

00:08:40.020 Having the popsicle, drinking wine, putting on lipstick, crying.

00:08:43.580 We all have our coping mechanisms, I suppose.

00:08:47.240 But all that aside, extracting ourselves from the realm of delusion, reentering realityville.

00:08:52.080 What are the actual takeaways from last night?

00:08:54.340 I think there are many, but let's talk about two.

00:08:57.300 One, I'm not one to gloat, but we moved the needle here at The Daily Wire.

00:09:01.940 I think our rally in Loudoun County helped to bring a national spotlight to the education issue in Virginia.

00:09:06.800 Immobilized people.

00:09:07.520 Then our investigative reporting, which blew the lid off of the sexual abuse cover-up in Loudoun County schools.

00:09:12.460 So we're making a difference here.

00:09:14.200 And when I say we, I don't just mean people employed by The Daily Wire.

00:09:17.040 None of what we're doing would make a difference if we were just talking to ourselves.

00:09:21.300 This was a team effort between us and you in the audience with a big and unintentional assist from the Loudoun County School Board.

00:09:27.080 We've got to thank them also.

00:09:28.460 None of this would have happened without their indispensable contributions.

00:09:31.920 So I guess I lied on second thought.

00:09:33.680 I am one to gloat.

00:09:35.840 As conservatives, we've had plenty of losses to sulk over.

00:09:39.260 So you have to celebrate the wins, too.

00:09:40.840 And this was a major win.

00:09:42.040 And it wouldn't have happened without us.

00:09:43.460 If you're a Daily Wire fan, even better, a member.

00:09:45.800 You're truly a part of something special.

00:09:47.820 You're part of a mission.

00:09:48.400 And we're getting results.

00:09:50.380 These are results.

00:09:52.300 Two, as I've been preaching all month and for years before that, the culture war matters.

00:09:58.580 The culture war is the war.

00:10:02.380 Politics is but one battlefield, one engagement within that broader struggle.

00:10:07.800 Political victories and political defeats, they happen within the context of culture.

00:10:12.220 And despite what you just heard from that cable news talking head about Republicans being good at fighting culture wars, for a very long time, the opposite has been the case.

00:10:23.020 I hope that is true.

00:10:23.520 I hope that is true now and will be even more true in the future.

00:10:29.700 But historically, that has not been true.

00:10:32.920 Republicans retreated from the culture war and the culture itself, surrendering it piece by piece to the left, giving up on the war, but hoping to squeak out a few victories now and again on the political battlefield.

00:10:43.960 The problem with that strategy is that even if you achieve those victories, which you will inevitably as the political pendulum tends to swing one way and then another.

00:10:52.080 So no matter what's happening with the culture, Republicans are going to win some Democrats are going to win some.

00:10:57.400 But even when it swings your way, the supposedly conservative political leaders are leading within the context of a culture owned by the left.

00:11:05.360 This means that any imprint left by a Republican president or governor will be like a footprint in the sand during low tide.

00:11:12.220 It's only going to get washed away and soon it will be as though nobody had walked there at all.

00:11:17.380 You won't be able to tell the difference.

00:11:18.560 I mean, look at Donald Trump at nearly everything that that that he accomplished through four years was erased in like an hour of the Biden administration.

00:11:31.760 OK, Joe Biden was able to erase all of that by snapping his fingers.

00:11:37.420 And by his second day in office.

00:11:41.520 Trump, it was as if Trump never existed.

00:11:43.620 Now, he still exists because they talk about him all the time.

00:11:45.920 But in terms of policies, of, you know, actual tangible things, achievements, all of that wiped away.

00:11:58.200 That's because you can't stop the tide of culture.

00:12:01.640 The only hope is to win the culture.

00:12:05.060 We're still very far from achieving that goal, but that is the goal.

00:12:08.760 It has to be.

00:12:10.160 Or else we might as well give up now.

00:12:11.860 I mean, if that's not the goal, if the goal is not to win the culture.

00:12:16.360 Then what's the point?

00:12:18.740 Give up.

00:12:20.360 Every man for yourself.

00:12:22.140 Go flee into the mountains, flee into the forests.

00:12:25.460 Board the first Elon Musk rocket ship to Mars.

00:12:28.660 I mean, if we're giving up on the culture.

00:12:31.080 So it never made any sense when you heard these conservatives say, oh, let's not worry about the culture war.

00:12:35.880 So you're saying let's not worry about anything then.

00:12:38.220 Why are you, what are we talking about then?

00:12:42.740 What do you think you're fighting for if you're not fighting for the culture?

00:12:47.540 But if you are fighting the real fight, the fight for culture, it has to start with education.

00:12:52.200 And education was, of course, the issue in Virginia.

00:12:58.200 It didn't start out that way, but that's what it became.

00:13:00.380 Why is education the first thing you got to talk about when we're talking about culture?

00:13:05.600 Because you can have, again, all of the Republican elected leaders you want.

00:13:09.080 If 50 million children are still going to left-wing indoctrination camps every day where they're subjected to relentless social conditioning and left-wing religious proselytization, it's not going to matter much in the end.

00:13:20.060 So the fight for culture, which, again, is the fight, has to begin in the education system.

00:13:29.820 And this was, hopefully, what we're looking at is the beginning of something.

00:13:36.480 This is, as much as we can gloat in our victories and it's fun to do, we'd make a big mistake if we said, well, there we go.

00:13:43.700 We won that one.

00:13:44.440 Let's move on to the next battle.

00:13:45.560 I mean, if the ultimate goal in terms of education is to retake the education system and to fundamentally transform it into something where it is no longer a left-wing indoctrination camp, then there is a lot of work still to be done.

00:14:02.620 I mean, essentially what we're talking about, this is not about, well, we reform the system.

00:14:07.100 This would have to be a total dismantling of the system and then rebuilding it into something entirely different.

00:14:20.060 Those are the ultimate goals.

00:14:22.200 So there's still a lot of work yet to be done.

00:14:25.020 But this is a big victory and we can enjoy that at least for a day.

00:14:28.040 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:14:29.300 We'll see you next time.

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00:16:10.760 So the other thing I want to mention as well, and this hasn't really made it into the analysis for most of the pundits, both on the left and right,

00:16:21.840 but I thought that there was very interesting polling data, looking at the exit polls, and what is it that motivated voters?

00:16:28.060 And we know that, I mean, I was looking at a chart in the New York Times that shows every single, showing which counties were more Republican than they were during the presidential election or more Democrat.

00:16:44.140 And every single one, it's a red arrow to the right.

00:16:47.260 I mean, every single county, every single county in Virginia, more Republican than it was in 2020.

00:16:54.080 And so you had a lot of swing voters and even some Democrats who decided not to vote for the Democrat this time around. 0.97

00:17:00.940 You look at the exit poll, I saw one interesting data point, 43% said they didn't want to vote for the Democrat because they were grossed out that Joe Biden shit his pants. 0.76

00:17:10.260 And I thought that was a really fascinating tidbit.

00:17:14.960 And I know I said that we shouldn't be talking about this anymore.

00:17:18.840 And I still feel that way.

00:17:20.500 But at the same time, you know, is it a, is it, here's all I'm asking.

00:17:25.780 It's just a question. 0.98

00:17:27.900 Is it a coincidence that Joe Biden shit his pants in front of the Pope? 0.95

00:17:33.020 And then only a few days later, Democrats lose big in a major election. 0.72

00:17:39.280 Are we really going to say that's totally coincidence?

00:17:41.660 And I think education, I think all these things are important, but he did poop his pants, allegedly.

00:17:46.060 It's not funny, but I'm just throwing it out there.

00:17:52.080 It's just a question I'm asking it and then we'll move on.

00:17:54.680 One other thing here is we, as we move on to the headlines, you know, we're told that Glenn Young can win one because of racism.

00:18:03.520 And there are a lot of white supremacists, all these, all these parents, a bunch of white supremacists.

00:18:09.980 And that's why they voted for Glenn Young can.

00:18:12.400 Because this, this is a, this is a strategy that's really going to work going into 2022, the midterms going and then going into 2024.

00:18:20.300 I mean, the Democrats, they tried calling parents domestic terrorists.

00:18:25.860 Terry McAuliffe came out and said, parents, it's none of your business.

00:18:29.120 What happens in the schools?

00:18:30.260 Let, let, let the teachers decide.

00:18:31.660 They had major backlash against that. 0.99

00:18:36.540 And now they're simply going to double down on it and say, yeah, you're a bunch of racist white supremacists. 0.95

00:18:41.460 But that's interesting because the lieutenant governor is a woman by the name of Winsome Sears. 1.00

00:18:47.880 And she's a black woman. 1.00

00:18:50.400 She's the first black lieutenant governor in Virginia. 0.99

00:18:54.700 And this is the woman that a bunch of white supremacist racists voted for. 1.00

00:18:58.420 Now, she got up last night to speak and all those racists in the audience, they were, you know, oddly enough, I don't know if they all had their eyes closed or what. 0.86

00:19:07.640 It was kind of dark.

00:19:08.440 You know, I don't know what it is. 0.97

00:19:11.680 They didn't notice that she was a black woman because they were all cheering for her, even though they're a bunch of racists. 0.80

00:19:16.380 But let's listen to a little bit of Winsome Sears last night.

00:19:22.420 We're going to have safer neighborhoods, safer communities, and our children are going to get a good education.

00:19:33.060 Because education lifted my father out of poverty, education lifted me out of poverty, education will lift us all out of poverty because we we must have marketable skills so that our children cannot just survive, but they will thrive.

00:19:56.840 And they will create generational wealth.

00:20:00.740 That's what this is about.

00:20:09.180 I'm going to finish up.

00:20:11.340 We love you, too.

00:20:17.680 It's a historic night.

00:20:19.460 Yes, it is.

00:20:20.100 But I didn't run to make history.

00:20:22.000 I just wanted to leave it better than I found it.

00:20:24.840 You know, she is actually a talented and charismatic speaker.

00:20:30.840 And there aren't very many of those in the Republican Party.

00:20:34.340 There aren't many, very many of those in politics in general or in life.

00:20:38.320 It's that's a it's a rare it's a rare talent.

00:20:40.740 But the Republican Party has been has been really hurting for those for those types of politicians who can get up there and just kind of speak and sound natural, not sound scripted.

00:20:51.580 And have a have a have a have a natural kind of charisma to she really has that. 1.00

00:20:55.660 So I think as a star in the making here, we'll be seeing a lot more from Winsome Sears, who, again, is beloved by the white supremacists in the audience, cheering, shouting they love her.

00:21:06.480 How could that be?

00:21:09.020 Well, you know, here's how it really happens is because the media, when the media gets around to acknowledging the existence of Winsome Sears, which they haven't done, they they they right now, the strategy is we're not going to talk about this woman at all.

00:21:23.260 So, but eventually, especially if she gets more and more high profile, they're going to have to acknowledge her.

00:21:31.120 And when they do, they're going to say, well, she is she's technically black, but really, she's a part of the she's a part of the structures of whiteness or whatever nonsense. 0.56

00:21:41.140 So she's she's white in spirit, if not in terms of skin pigment.

00:21:47.320 That's what they'll say.

00:21:48.900 Now, all of that said, of course, making this a racial thing is absurd.

00:21:55.340 And it would be absurd no matter what, especially absurd when the guy who lost is white as well. 0.91

00:22:02.740 But making this a racial thing is absurd, saying that it's, you know, tying this to racism is, of course, completely ridiculous. 0.94

00:22:08.520 This is part of the Democrat Tourette syndrome. 0.82

00:22:11.560 They don't it's this just it's instinctive.

00:22:14.080 Everything.

00:22:15.040 Anytime something doesn't go the way they like is racism, racism.

00:22:18.760 They can't you know, they're stuck in traffic and they're in their cars shouting racism.

00:22:23.280 Racism did this. 0.99

00:22:25.460 That's all ridiculous. 0.97

00:22:27.540 However. 0.95

00:22:30.300 The claim that part of the story here is, quote unquote, white backlash.

00:22:35.240 That's not entirely false.

00:22:40.580 There is an element of so-called white backlash in that.

00:22:44.840 It turns out white parents aren't really crazy about sending their kids to school so that they can learn that they are evil, that they're inherently bigoted, that they are the inheritors of generational guilt for things that they didn't do.

00:23:03.420 OK, so, yeah, it turns out white people aren't a lot of white people aren't crazy about that.

00:23:10.460 It turns out that a lot of white people don't like being cast as the villains.

00:23:15.160 Don't like being degraded and insulted.

00:23:19.520 So is that part of the story?

00:23:21.420 Sure.

00:23:22.180 That's part of it.

00:23:22.960 And there's nothing strange about that.

00:23:30.500 There's nothing outrageous about it.

00:23:31.940 There's certainly nothing racist about it. 1.00

00:23:33.480 But from the left's perspective, you know, they think they should be able to shout at white people, say you're all a bunch of scumbags and villains. 1.00

00:23:43.200 And say, you know, send your kids to us and we're going to tell them the same thing. 0.99

00:23:48.400 Send your scummy demon offsprings to us so we can tell them all about how they're inherently racist and that nobody can be racist against them. 1.00

00:23:57.740 And that's somehow they have to apologize simply for existing all of their, you know, their ancestors are all scumbags as well or worse. 0.98

00:24:13.840 So a lot of things they should tell that they should say that to us. 0.96

00:24:17.100 And our response should be, OK, yes.

00:24:19.080 Yes, sir.

00:24:20.540 Yes, ma'am.

00:24:21.220 However you identify.

00:24:22.000 And we bow our heads in shame and go along.

00:24:26.180 And if and if we dare say, you know what, I'm not.

00:24:28.540 No, I'm not crazy about that.

00:24:30.240 I don't agree.

00:24:33.200 Then they start shouting white backlash.

00:24:35.220 The white people are upset.

00:24:36.940 Well, yeah.

00:24:39.140 Yes, you're correct about that part of it.

00:24:42.540 All right.

00:24:43.100 Next, the Daily Mail has an exclusive interview with the mother of the teen boy in Loudoun County who raped the girl in the bathroom.

00:24:50.520 Obviously, a story that was pivotal, I think, in this election and in the overall movement to reclaim our education system.

00:24:59.380 But we haven't heard from anyone in this boy's family until now.

00:25:03.620 The Daily Mail tracked this woman down.

00:25:06.280 And let me read a little bit about what she had to say.

00:25:09.500 And she's defending her son and claiming that this has all been twisted and blown out of proportion and everything.

00:25:16.140 But here's some of what she says.

00:25:17.380 It says the mother of the 15-year-old boy who dressed in a skirt and raped a female classmate in the girl's bathroom and was then charged with sexually assaulting another girl months later says her son doesn't identify as a female.

00:25:26.980 And it wasn't just some disguise to slip into the girl's bathroom. 0.98

00:25:30.300 Speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail, the mother who asked not to be identified for the sake of her underage son defended his actions as that of a heterosexual hormonal teen who, in the case of the rape, had consensual sex with the girl twice before.

00:25:41.900 However, totally irrelevant to the question of whether or not this was rape, which she has been found guilty of, by the way.

00:25:53.300 She declared, quote, he's a 15-year-old boy that wanted to have sex in the bathroom with somebody that was willing.

00:25:58.320 And they're just twisting this just enough to make it a political hot-button issue.

00:26:01.700 What a lovely woman this mother is. 0.98

00:26:03.020 Well, he wanted to have sex with someone who was willing, but she wasn't willing, it turned out, and so he did it anyway. 0.97

00:26:10.160 Can you blame the poor boy? 0.93

00:26:12.840 That's what we're getting from the mother.

00:26:15.780 The story exploded when Scott Smith, the father of the rape victim, was dragged out of a school board meeting with a bloodied mouth on June 22nd.

00:26:21.520 So we know about that background.

00:26:24.960 Getting a little bit more from the mother.

00:26:28.200 It says, despite his androgynous style and declaration that he's pansexual, the boy's mother insisted he isn't the gender-fluid boogeyman in a culture war about transgender policies.

00:26:37.760 She explained he would wear a skirt one day and then the next day.

00:26:40.420 He would wear jeans and a t-shirt, a polo, or hoodie.

00:26:42.820 He was trying to find himself, and that involved all kinds of styles.

00:26:46.260 I believe he was doing it because it gave him attention that he desperately needed and sought.

00:26:49.460 At the same time, she concedes her son is deeply troubled, acknowledging his extensive history of misbehavior that included sending nude photos of himself to a girl in fifth grade.

00:26:57.980 She doesn't clarify if this is something he did in fifth grade or he sent.

00:27:02.540 I assume from what she's saying that in fifth grade he did this.

00:27:06.300 I'm not sure.

00:27:07.520 She reached her own breaking point with him in early October when he phoned her from the juvenile detention center following his second arrest.

00:27:14.960 The mom says, he asked me how I was doing, and I said, I'm broken, I'm shattered, you shattered me.

00:27:19.720 Do you have any idea what you've done to me, what you've done to your family?

00:27:22.500 And his response was, no, what did I do?

00:27:25.820 She said that she had been his primary point of contact with his dad living in New Jersey.

00:27:31.720 At that point, I was like, you know what?

00:27:33.460 I love you.

00:27:33.960 I always will.

00:27:34.480 I will do everything I can to always be there for you in any capacity possible.

00:27:37.800 But I told him, you need to call your father from now on.

00:27:40.540 Do not call me.

00:27:41.360 I need to heal.

00:27:42.040 I need you to figure this out for yourself.

00:27:44.140 And she goes on to talk about how the father showed up to the juvenile court appearance.

00:27:53.720 And she was upset about that.

00:27:55.720 And she gets more into the family drama.

00:27:57.880 And a lot of details that we don't really need isn't relevant.

00:28:00.620 I think there are a few things here to point out.

00:28:07.320 The first is that nobody ever claimed, certainly the Daily Wire in our investigative reporting, we never claimed that the boy was transgender.

00:28:15.700 We said he was wearing a skirt on the day of the assault, which is true. 1.00

00:28:22.520 And in terms of how he identifies, we never said anything about that.

00:28:26.960 It doesn't matter.

00:28:27.980 It doesn't make a difference.

00:28:30.340 So he identifies as pansexual or gender fluid or whatever, according to her.

00:28:34.400 Changes by the day.

00:28:35.220 He's trying to find himself.

00:28:38.180 She says. 0.95

00:28:38.820 And apparently raping a girl in the bathroom was part of his journey of self-discovery from the way that she's putting it.

00:28:46.660 But that's not relevant at all. 0.62

00:28:48.800 That's not the point.

00:28:52.380 You know, how does this tie into the bathroom policies, the transgender bathroom policies?

00:28:59.920 How do we make this connection?

00:29:01.920 Well, we didn't make that connection.

00:29:04.540 I didn't.

00:29:05.440 The Daily Wire didn't.

00:29:06.260 That wasn't in the investigative reporting on this.

00:29:10.820 You know who made the connection?

00:29:12.120 The Loudoun County School Board.

00:29:13.940 They're the ones who did it.

00:29:16.520 Because they lied about this and tried to cover it up.

00:29:19.720 And they did that because at the same time, when this was all happening, they were trying to push through the transgender bathroom policies to allow boys into the girls' room. 0.60

00:29:29.840 So they are the ones who said, well, gee, we really want to pass this transgender policy.

00:29:36.380 And the fact that a girl was just brutally raped inside of one of our bathrooms is pretty inconvenient to that, even if the boy didn't identify as transgender. 0.92

00:29:44.160 So we're going to pretend it never happened. 0.88

00:29:46.180 And we're going to lie right to the face of the father of the victim.

00:29:50.320 And then when he gets arrested for reacting in an angry way, like any father would, we're going to paint them as a domestic terrorist.

00:29:57.580 So they're the ones who drew this connection.

00:30:02.580 Is this assault related to the bathroom policies?

00:30:07.660 Yes, because the Loudoun County School Board made it that way.

00:30:13.960 Because a big part of the scandal here, you know, a terrible thing happening at a school, you know, someone falling victim to a terrible violent crime.

00:30:23.040 That is a terrible crime.

00:30:25.800 It's not immediately an institutional scandal.

00:30:29.760 The institutional scandal happens with the cover-up.

00:30:32.480 And they did the cover-up because of the bathroom policies. 1.00

00:30:35.480 That's how it all ties together.

00:30:38.520 And also it's related in another way.

00:30:41.160 That, you know, even if the bathroom policies were not the reason why that boy was in the bathroom,

00:30:47.980 this event in the bathroom only illustrates, for those who need it illustrated,

00:30:55.420 why it's a really bad idea to combine boys and girls in bathrooms.

00:30:59.600 No matter how they identify.

00:31:01.760 It doesn't make a difference.

00:31:03.920 Because no matter how a boy identifies, he's still a boy.

00:31:07.660 Biologically.

00:31:10.040 And he doesn't belong in a bathroom with girls. 0.99

00:31:13.160 Nothing good can come of it.

00:31:16.220 This is what we saw in Loudoun County is like the worst case scenario that can come from it.

00:31:21.080 And it will happen more.

00:31:22.080 It's just a matter of statistics.

00:31:26.020 This is mathematics here.

00:31:29.040 The more you combine boys and girls in high schools and bathrooms, the more likely, the more opportunities there are for sexual assaults.

00:31:37.400 So this is an example as to why it's a bad idea to combine them in that way.

00:31:47.660 And there's something else, too.

00:31:48.680 You know, the other thing we take from this is that this boy, by the mother's admission, came from a chaotic home life.

00:31:55.680 Father not in the home.

00:31:57.760 I could have told you that.

00:32:01.340 You know, I mean, that's something, not knowing anything about this boy at all.

00:32:07.000 Only knowing what he did.

00:32:08.680 Only knowing that he's wearing a skirt. 1.00

00:32:10.100 And that he raped a girl. 0.99

00:32:12.860 I could have told you right then and there he doesn't have a father in the house. 0.98

00:32:16.000 In fact, I could have told you that without even the rape, the boy wearing the skirt, pretty good indication there's no father in the home.

00:32:25.460 And even if he's in the home, he's not present.

00:32:28.780 He's not a real influence in the home.

00:32:31.620 Combine those two things together and, yeah, it's almost certain the father's not there and he's not.

00:32:36.080 So he comes from a chaotic home life.

00:32:40.100 With no guidance.

00:32:41.480 I mean, the mother's talking about, yeah, he's trying to find himself.

00:32:43.680 He's gender fluid one day.

00:32:45.000 He's pansexual.

00:32:45.740 The next he's wearing a skirt. 0.83

00:32:46.620 He's wearing jeans.

00:32:47.180 He's wearing a hoodie, whatever.

00:32:50.920 He's begging for attention.

00:32:54.100 Trying to find himself.

00:32:55.220 Yeah, well, that's where you need a parent, especially a father.

00:32:58.960 If this is a boy we're talking about, you need a father there to say, son, this isn't what boys do.

00:33:06.540 Okay?

00:33:07.120 You're a boy.

00:33:08.600 Here's how boys are supposed to act.

00:33:10.440 Boys don't wear skirts. 1.00

00:33:12.480 Okay?

00:33:13.260 This is not what boys do.

00:33:15.800 Boys don't.

00:33:16.600 This isn't how boys dress.

00:33:18.760 That's not how boys behave.

00:33:22.160 Need a father there to impart those kinds of lessons.

00:33:26.880 And if he's not there, or even if he is there, but he refuses to impart those lessons, then it's not going to head anywhere good.

00:33:33.320 And that's what we saw here.

00:33:34.980 All right.

00:33:35.260 Next, the Kyle Rittenhouse trial has started.

00:33:37.820 The prosecution made its opening statement, which is that, you know, the prosecution, their opening argument, their point here is that Kyle Rittenhouse was there and that he killed some guys.

00:33:50.520 And nobody disputes that.

00:33:52.740 But that's basically their whole case.

00:33:54.220 He was there and he killed people.

00:33:56.560 Right.

00:33:57.980 No one denies that.

00:33:59.120 The question is, why did he kill those people?

00:34:04.780 Was it self-defense or not?

00:34:06.120 And that's the defense's argument, as presented in their opening arguments.

00:34:09.760 And as they'll lay out, you know, as the case proceeds, their argument is that there's video.

00:34:15.400 And you can watch the video.

00:34:17.880 And so we know exactly what happened.

00:34:19.700 And the video conclusively proves that Kyle Rittenhouse was defending himself.

00:34:23.600 He was being attacked by violent, murderous, crazed mobs of people.

00:34:31.680 And he had no choice but to defend himself.

00:34:34.100 And on that end, human events obtained never before seen footage.

00:34:38.540 Somehow we have never seen this footage before.

00:34:41.060 This is apparently from, I guess, an FBI surveillance drone, which was there on that night.

00:34:46.860 And the FBI has had this footage and we have not seen it until now.

00:34:51.280 But let's play this footage here.

00:34:53.980 So actually, before we play it.

00:34:55.140 So this is, there were two incidents, two shootings.

00:35:01.020 This is the first one where Rosenbaum was shot.

00:35:05.320 And so it's a little bit hard to see what's going on here.

00:35:07.540 But you see, if you're watching this video, you can see on the top left corner, Rosenbaum is pursuing Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:35:16.700 And let's play the video now.

00:35:19.280 So the top left corner, you see Rosenbaum and Rittenhouse.

00:35:27.840 Rittenhouse is running away.

00:35:30.160 Rosenbaum's pursuing him.

00:35:31.120 At the very last minute, you can see Kyle Rittenhouse is forced to turn around and fire.

00:35:40.280 In fact, there was Rosen, and that we hadn't seen.

00:35:43.280 We had seen in the previous, all the other footage we'd seen so far, it was Rosenbaum pursuing Rittenhouse.

00:35:49.860 So we knew that was happening.

00:35:50.900 But then, from the vantage point of the video evidence we had up until this point, they went behind some cars, and then we hear gunshots ring out, and we don't know exactly what happened.

00:36:01.760 And so you could speculate, well, maybe Rosenbaum gave up and stopped and put his hands up and said, never mind, I'm not going to hurt you.

00:36:09.800 You could speculate about that or claim that.

00:36:11.820 Well, now we see it on video.

00:36:13.120 Now, he was pursuing him, and he had stated his intention. 0.97

00:36:18.520 He wanted to kill this guy. 0.89

00:36:21.760 Rittenhouse tried to get away.

00:36:23.280 Rosenbaum was gaining ground at the very last minute.

00:36:27.780 He turned around and shot while being pursued.

00:36:33.220 Rosenbaum didn't give up, didn't try to walk away and get shot in the back while he's walking away.

00:36:36.900 That didn't happen.

00:36:37.460 So this is, and then in the other video footage that we've seen of the second shooting, that couldn't be more clear.

00:36:48.240 And in both cases, what you have is Kyle Rittenhouse trying to get away.

00:36:55.100 He's trying to run away.

00:36:57.320 They're coming after him.

00:36:59.600 And they have, through their behavior and their own words, they've made very clear what their intentions are.

00:37:04.560 And only at the last minute does Kyle Rittenhouse open fire.

00:37:10.420 Because the other option would have been, okay, let this mob, these violent people descend upon me and just hope they don't kill me.

00:37:19.460 I know some of them are armed.

00:37:24.160 You know, even if they're not, they could still do great damage to me.

00:37:28.020 They could even kill me. 0.99

00:37:28.760 They could take my gun and shoot me with it. 0.99

00:37:30.100 Like, you know, the only other option was either pull the trigger or not and let them descend upon you and just hope that the damage they inflict on you isn't too severe.

00:37:40.440 But you are not legally required to take that kind of risk.

00:37:46.480 All right.

00:37:47.340 Let's see.

00:37:47.920 One other.

00:37:50.040 I've got a bunch of other things I haven't even talked about yet.

00:37:52.020 I do have to mention this case, though.

00:37:55.320 This is from NBC.

00:37:56.320 It says, a Washington state father killed his daughter's 19-year-old boyfriend for selling her into a sex trafficking ring, according to police.

00:38:03.620 The boyfriend's remains were discovered in the trunk of an abandoned car on East Everett Avenue in Spokane last month, police said in a press conference.

00:38:11.200 Investigators believe the victim was killed in November 2020.

00:38:13.160 The girl's father, John Eisenman, 60, was charged with first-degree murders being held on a million-dollar bail.

00:38:19.920 So police said that Eisenman learned in October 2020 that his juvenile daughter had been sex trafficked in the Seattle area and obtained information that her boyfriend was responsible, according to the press release.

00:38:30.320 Eisenman was able to rescue his daughter and get her back to her home that same month.

00:38:37.260 When the father learned that his daughter's boyfriend was going to be at a location in Airway Heights, Eisenman drove there and waited for the 19-year-old to arrive.

00:38:44.760 During that encounter, Eisenman abducted the victim, tying him up and placing him in the trunk of a vehicle.

00:38:49.120 Eisenman subsequently assaulted the victim by hitting him in the head with a cinder block and then stabbed him repeatedly, causing his death.

00:38:55.020 After the homicide, Eisenman drove the vehicle to a remote area and abandoned the car with the body still inside.

00:39:02.220 Unironically, this is father of the year.

00:39:05.420 Put me on that jury and I will sentence him to a round of applause and free beer for life.

00:39:11.680 And I say that without any hint of irony whatsoever.

00:39:15.640 Assuming everything we just heard is true.

00:39:17.240 I mean, assuming these details are all accurate.

00:39:19.780 It's possible that they're not.

00:39:21.060 But on the assumption that this is all true, I would certainly hope that there's no jury in America, even in Washington state, that would convict this man and send him to prison.

00:39:35.420 I mean, they might feel like they have to convict him of something, you know, slap on the wrist at worst.

00:39:42.100 Naughty, naughty.

00:39:42.760 Don't do that next time.

00:39:44.600 Send him on his way.

00:39:45.260 But in reality, this is, this is, according to the details, this is a good father doing what a father should do.

00:39:52.140 And doing what, you know, what most fathers probably wouldn't do or great many fathers wouldn't, but not because they have a moral problem with it, just because they're worried, you know, they're worried about their own livelihood and they don't want to go to jail.

00:40:02.560 But I can tell you one thing for sure. 0.97

00:40:05.380 Any father, if their daughter is, is sex trafficked, any father would want to track down the sex trafficker and kill him. 0.99

00:40:15.140 And any, any father would feel and would be totally justified in doing so.

00:40:20.400 It's just that if they wouldn't, it's just because they don't want to go to prison, which is, you know, which is not a, not an irrational concern either.

00:40:27.800 I mean, think about what this guy did.

00:40:30.340 According to the report, this is from the police.

00:40:33.080 It's not even the defense attorney making this claim. 0.95

00:40:35.440 This is the police saying that his daughter was made into a sex slave. 0.99

00:40:43.600 He goes and rescues him, her from sex slavery, gets her to safety, finds out who did it, tracks the guy down, beats him with a cinder block and stabs him to death. 0.87

00:40:54.900 This is, they, they, they literally made a movie about that.

00:40:59.300 That's Liam Neeson in Taken.

00:41:01.980 And yeah, that's just a movie.

00:41:03.200 But if you've seen it, like nobody watches that movie.

00:41:05.640 Everyone, you watch that movie and you're rooting for Liam Neeson.

00:41:09.640 I feel the same way about it here.

00:41:11.200 Um, that's, that is the correct fatherly response to your daughter being sex trafficked. 1.00

00:41:20.260 And the world is a better place today without that scumbag. 1.00

00:41:23.440 With him stabbed to death and stuffed in a trunk, the world is a much better place. 1.00

00:41:27.220 So congratulations to that man.

00:41:29.100 And, uh, I hope he has a, you know, uh, I hope his father's day gift next year is, is getting off on all charges because that's what he deserves.

00:41:38.660 All right.

00:41:39.000 Now let's get to our comment section.

00:41:40.300 Who's rocking polka dot and flannel shirts without shame?

00:41:46.420 Do you know their name?

00:41:50.340 They're the sweet baby gang.

00:41:53.440 Yeah, I did call this segment, the comment section, not reading the comments anymore.

00:41:58.420 So that's slight.

00:41:59.040 See, that's, that's the branding genius that sets this show apart from all others.

00:42:04.160 That slight tweak there.

00:42:05.880 Most people wouldn't think of that.

00:42:07.200 Call it the comment section instead.

00:42:08.800 We had seven three hour sessions with marketing to come up with that change.

00:42:12.360 Okay.

00:42:12.500 Um, all right.

00:42:13.840 420 snack time says Matt is a fishing enthusiast yet complains like a chick that baseball is boring.

00:42:20.040 Why am I not surprised a skinny jean wearing hipster like Matt dislikes a classic American sport like baseball?

00:42:25.900 Well, you're banned for that, obviously.

00:42:28.480 Um, but also fishing is not a spectator sport.

00:42:32.740 Okay.

00:42:34.180 Well, it's not true.

00:42:35.000 I actually do sit and watch people.

00:42:36.800 I'll watch YouTube videos of people fishing for two hours.

00:42:39.160 So, uh, but, but, so I have to abandon that line of logic and I'm just going to move on to the next comment.

00:42:43.980 You're still banned from the show though.

00:42:45.860 Not getting out of this.

00:42:46.740 Joseph says, Matt, my local pizza place in Pennsylvania promises that they'll deliver in 45 minutes and routinely comes in 20.

00:42:54.040 I think you're stretching to make a point.

00:42:55.560 The issue is right, but you moved to the middle of nowhere, Tennessee. 1.00

00:42:58.480 Suck it up. 0.99

00:42:59.820 Joseph, I live in Nashville. 1.00

00:43:01.860 You're banned from the show too.

00:43:03.900 We're on a roll today, guys.

00:43:05.640 Y'all want to get banned?

00:43:06.520 Is that what you want?

00:43:08.460 David says, I like baseball more than football because I prefer my sports to not stop every eight seconds for 30 seconds.

00:43:14.600 While people adjust themselves by five yards and try the exact same thing over and over again.

00:43:19.500 I also like baseball more than basketball because a good defense should be able to prevent a bad offense from scoring.

00:43:25.380 Plus, unlike sports with timers, every play in baseball, in a baseball game matters.

00:43:30.420 Each player can make a difference.

00:43:31.760 And most of all, you don't have to memorize 18,000 different fouls and keep track of 40 moving objects just to understand why everybody stopped playing, but the timer is still going.

00:43:40.020 So, what I take from this, David, is that much like a woman, you're not able to understand the football game as you're watching. 1.00

00:43:48.500 Maybe you've never sat and watched a football game with another man who can explain it to you.

00:43:54.060 And I understand that because, you know, no man wants to explain the game of football to another man while he's trying to watch football.

00:44:00.920 So, I think that's the situation you're in.

00:44:02.220 But in terms of the game not stopping, are you kidding me?

00:44:06.380 Baseball?

00:44:07.440 The whole game is a stoppage.

00:44:09.380 Like, the whole game is stopped all the time.

00:44:12.460 Yeah, football is less exciting in between the plays.

00:44:17.080 Okay, but in baseball, that's the whole game.

00:44:19.900 The whole game is about as exciting as the moment in between plays on a football field.

00:44:24.800 So, you're banned from the show, too.

00:44:30.020 David, another David, says,

00:44:31.960 As a former addict of the worst kind, I get sick of hearing addiction is not a choice, it's a disease.

00:44:37.540 We've all known since elementary school that doing drugs is addictive and we shouldn't do it.

00:44:40.860 And yet, every day, people choose to do them for the first time, the second time, the third time, 20th time, and so on.

00:44:44.420 So, yes, you choose addiction.

00:44:46.120 And if you truly want to stop, you will.

00:44:48.580 It'll be one of the hardest things you've ever done.

00:44:50.180 And you will struggle and stumble.

00:44:51.860 But if you truly want to change, you will.

00:44:53.880 People do it every single day and they'll continue to do so while others continue to choose drugs.

00:44:58.840 Yeah, I largely agree with you, David.

00:45:00.280 And that's why I also don't like this.

00:45:04.400 I've talked many times about the diseaseification of human behavior,

00:45:09.660 turning every destructive human behavior into the symptom of a disease.

00:45:16.460 Every difficult human emotion becomes a disease.

00:45:19.020 Everything is medicalized.

00:45:20.640 And so, we do the same thing with addiction.

00:45:21.700 We say it's a disease.

00:45:24.040 And maybe if you want to define the word disease in a very broad way,

00:45:28.580 I mean, you could find a way to define the word disease where addiction would qualify,

00:45:32.280 but then the word disease really doesn't mean anything anymore.

00:45:37.080 And, yeah, it's also an important point that, yeah, no one wakes up one day and says,

00:45:43.840 I want to be addicted to drugs and then goes out and tries to become addicted.

00:45:46.860 Nobody does that.

00:45:47.640 Just like there are many morbidly obese people out there, but nobody says, I want to be morbidly obese and I'm going to go pursue that.

00:45:57.220 There might be some weirdos who, you know, who have TikTok accounts or something that do operate that way.

00:46:02.440 But for the most part, no.

00:46:04.780 So, you don't choose obesity in that sense, but you do choose the behavior that you know will cause obesity.

00:46:12.620 And so, it is a choice in that sense, which is really the only sense that matters.

00:46:19.200 And, yes, we could say the same thing with addiction.

00:46:22.260 You don't, your choice was not, you were not pursuing addiction,

00:46:26.900 but you did engage in a behavior that you knew would very likely cause addiction.

00:46:31.700 That is an important point.

00:46:34.420 Okay.

00:46:36.140 Daryl says, Matt, as much as I like you and Michael Knowles,

00:46:38.980 I can't help but think that all the Daily Wire is just controlled opposition.

00:46:42.020 Ben Shapiro feels like a vax-pushing traitor.

00:46:44.120 He probably hangs with Hillary Clinton or Bill Gates.

00:46:47.040 You're actually right about this.

00:46:48.880 I'm not supposed to talk about it.

00:46:50.860 But Ben and Hillary are, I mean, they're best friends.

00:46:54.380 Every time I see Ben, all he ever does is blab about hanging out with Hillary.

00:46:59.300 Oh, me and Hillary went mini-golfing yesterday.

00:47:00.940 It was so fun.

00:47:02.220 He doesn't shut up about it.

00:47:03.060 I mean, they're best friends.

00:47:04.180 She's here.

00:47:05.160 Hillary Clinton's here in the office a lot, in fact, hanging out. 0.79

00:47:07.840 So, yeah, it is kind of an uncomfortable and awkward situation.

00:47:10.680 I'm glad that you pointed that out.

00:47:12.300 Let's see.

00:47:14.860 Finally, do we have a finally?

00:47:17.680 Okay.

00:47:17.980 Eric says, unfortunately, I don't expect any Supreme Court will ever overthrow Roe v. Wade,

00:47:22.380 no matter how many conservative justices are on the Supreme Court.

00:47:27.300 Regarding Kavanaugh and Barrett, because of the major controversy surrounding their nominations,

00:47:31.320 I really think they're going out of their way to appear as if they aren't Trump's lackeys

00:47:34.580 and aren't conservative ideologues.

00:47:36.920 Unfortunately, the justices appointed by Democrats never seem to worry about how they're viewed.

00:47:40.100 I pray that Kavanaugh and Barrett will eventually start acting like conservatives.

00:47:42.560 Justice Roberts is beyond a lost cause.

00:47:44.360 He's a full-blown liberal.

00:47:45.620 Yeah, well, the thing is with Kavanaugh, you know, if you looked at his judicial record,

00:47:52.660 to find out that he leans more liberal, you know, left of center, that's not terribly shocking.

00:48:02.320 With Barrett, there were red flags.

00:48:04.980 I mean, there were indications.

00:48:05.780 But I was certainly fooled.

00:48:11.160 Overall, it is a surprising turn of events.

00:48:15.940 And you would hope the whole idea behind having Supreme Court justices with lifetime appointments

00:48:22.400 is that they're not swayed by politics.

00:48:26.000 They're not running for re-election.

00:48:28.100 They're going to be in that position for the rest of their lives if they want to be.

00:48:31.300 They don't need to worry about getting a job somewhere else.

00:48:35.200 And so they're supposed to look at cases and make the right decision without any political concerns whatsoever

00:48:40.800 because who cares what the public thinks?

00:48:42.420 You're not subject to them.

00:48:43.420 You're not up.

00:48:44.060 This isn't up for a vote.

00:48:47.520 There are plenty of downsides to that arrangement, to the lifetime appointment arrangement.

00:48:53.680 This is supposed to be the major upside.

00:48:56.360 But as you point out, that upside has evaporated.

00:49:01.300 Because it does seem as though Roberts, Kavanaugh, even Barrett now,

00:49:05.460 they are very concerned about how they're viewed.

00:49:08.040 It is as if they are running for office.

00:49:13.400 So the whole idea behind a lifetime appointment has been basically negated.

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00:50:44.660 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:50:45.940 Today we have another reverse cancellation.

00:50:51.980 We'll once again be canceling the outrage mob, except for a change of pace.

00:50:55.740 I am not the target of the mob that's getting canceled.

00:50:58.120 Instead, a few days ago, the social media masses were very upset at conservative commentator and radio host Jesse Kelly,

00:51:03.540 who, while discussing his approach to parenting, tweeted this.

00:51:07.300 He says, my sons are both getting excited about, are getting kicked out of my home when they graduate high school.

00:51:13.040 They know this.

00:51:14.060 I've told them their whole lives.

00:51:15.240 Go fly, little birdie.

00:51:16.380 It's my job to make sure they know how.

00:51:18.740 So he's kicking his sons out of his home once they're legal adults.

00:51:21.700 Now, plenty on the left developed severe tummy aches over this, and they responded with angry comments,

00:51:27.660 calling him a terrible and mean father, explaining why it's a parent's responsibility to care for their poor, helpless children,

00:51:33.160 well into adulthood, if need be.

00:51:36.380 And I'm sure many of the commenters were themselves, are themselves, helpless children in their mid-20s or 30s

00:51:42.920 who still rely on mommy and daddy for room and board and to buy them Lunchables and juice boxes. 0.81

00:51:47.300 But the far more fascinating reaction came from some on the right,

00:51:51.420 who also criticized Kelly's parenting plan, but from a slightly different angle.

00:51:55.920 Now, they're not part of the outrage mob, but I'm going to focus more on them instead because they're more interesting.

00:52:01.220 Saurabh Amari, well-known conservative writer and author, was one of the people to take issue with this.

00:52:05.480 He responded and said, quote,

00:52:07.420 When I was younger, I disdained the intergenerational living that was a part of even my uber-westernized family's ethos.

00:52:14.380 I struck out on my own as quickly as I could.

00:52:16.720 Now, at 36, I see that the Iranian ethos as a treasure for the young, the middle-aged, and elderly.

00:52:22.120 Now, many other responses were along this line, arguing that it's actually a traditional and family-first mentality

00:52:28.760 which encourages adult children to stay at home with their parents.

00:52:31.620 Thus, they would say, the most conservative thing is to support this setup.

00:52:35.900 It's actually a leftist view to turn your nose up at the proverbial adult living in his parents' basement.

00:52:41.920 That's what they argue.

00:52:43.100 And they're correct that throughout history, this has been the standard approach.

00:52:48.100 Still is in many cultures.

00:52:49.920 But this comparison ignores some major differences between the typical adult living at home in America in 2021

00:52:55.520 and the historical version of the same arrangement.

00:52:58.720 Two big ones to consider.

00:53:00.940 First, historically, a man may have stayed with his parents until marriage,

00:53:04.800 but he also got married much younger.

00:53:07.000 In 1950, the average age of marriage for a man was 22.

00:53:11.120 Now it's 30.

00:53:12.680 That's a difference of nearly a decade.

00:53:15.660 That's a difference of your entire 20s, just about.

00:53:19.120 Second, historically, men were learning basic survival skills

00:53:22.540 and how to be a provider while living at home.

00:53:26.660 They were not only learning those skills, but they were applying them.

00:53:30.580 Part of the reason that families stayed together through multiple generations

00:53:33.280 is that they needed all those hands on deck to keep the household running, 0.98

00:53:37.000 keep food on the table, logs in the fireplace, and so on.

00:53:40.140 That's not often the case now.

00:53:42.400 These days, young adults tend to whittle away their 20s on selfish pursuits,

00:53:45.880 saving money so they can blow it on consumer electronics or whatever other toys they enjoy.

00:53:50.480 They aren't working in the fields or chopping wood.

00:53:53.080 Not in the vast majority of cases, anyway.

00:53:55.800 Young adults aren't staying at home, working hard for their families,

00:53:58.860 learning and developing their survival skills

00:54:00.640 while preparing to get married sometime before their 25th birthday.

00:54:03.320 Instead, often, they're at home, drifting aimlessly,

00:54:07.000 spending lots of time staring at various screens that their parents paid for,

00:54:11.260 developing no survival skills at all, no skills of any kind,

00:54:14.780 until one day when they're approaching middle age,

00:54:17.520 they finally stumble into marriage, or maybe not.

00:54:20.640 Maybe they never do.

00:54:22.000 The intergenerational setup in our culture has helped to create

00:54:25.320 an extended, nearly eternal adolescence.

00:54:29.120 But historically, that wasn't a problem.

00:54:30.780 In fact, historically, there was no extended adolescence

00:54:33.640 because there was no adolescence at all.

00:54:36.440 Adolescence itself is a modern invention.

00:54:39.040 There's a reason why most major religions have their coming into adulthood, 0.99

00:54:42.360 their coming-of-age induction ceremonies,

00:54:44.640 at the age of 13 or 15 or 16.

00:54:47.700 Same for tribal societies.

00:54:50.240 You know, they all have this coming-of-age moment,

00:54:51.980 and it's in the teenage years.

00:54:54.620 That's because a child didn't transition slowly into adulthood historically,

00:54:59.960 but instead went right from childhood to adulthood.

00:55:02.960 There were two categories of people, adults and children,

00:55:06.420 not three, children, adolescents, and adults.

00:55:10.080 So that back then, a 22-year-old man living at home with his parents

00:55:14.220 was indeed a man, and had been for almost a decade already.

00:55:19.100 That's just not how it works anymore in this country.

00:55:21.860 Not in most cases.

00:55:23.340 If it's different for you and your family,

00:55:25.040 if you actually do have your boys out working the fields and chopping the wood,

00:55:28.620 then more power to you.

00:55:30.360 But the average Western family in modern times

00:55:32.340 lives a far easier and more painless existence,

00:55:35.280 and they have a lot less to do

00:55:36.660 as most of the hard things have become mechanized and automated.

00:55:40.780 What this means is that if you want your children,

00:55:43.060 especially your boys, to learn how to survive in the world,

00:55:45.700 to develop real skills, to eventually become competent providers,

00:55:48.820 it's often necessary to kick them out of your comfortable little nest

00:55:52.420 and have them go build their own.

00:55:55.040 Now, it's not like you're dropping them out of a helicopter into the Amazon

00:55:58.040 with nothing but a machete and a single jug of water.

00:56:00.840 You're just sending them to go live in a studio apartment across town or wherever.

00:56:05.760 This might be the only way for them to learn the kinds of lessons

00:56:08.440 that young men of earlier eras learned at much younger ages.

00:56:11.860 There are many facets to adult life in the modern world

00:56:16.680 that you can't really understand or know how to navigate

00:56:20.040 until they become a part of your life.

00:56:22.820 So you could talk to your kids about what it's like to pay bills,

00:56:25.700 balance a budget, prioritize spending, and all that.

00:56:28.680 You can talk to them about any of that

00:56:30.880 while they're still suckling from the metaphorical teat,

00:56:34.060 but it's not likely to sink in unless they're forced to do it themselves.

00:56:36.740 The fact is that we live in a culture populated by millions 0.96

00:56:40.720 of terminally incompetent, helpless, childish men 0.96

00:56:44.200 who, in terms of life skills, are barely above potty training level. 0.74

00:56:48.520 And that's because, for them, life skills have been, at best,

00:56:51.740 a theoretical concept.

00:56:53.940 But you can't develop a skill in theory.

00:56:56.840 Nobody ever became a great pitcher by reading books about it.

00:56:59.780 You have to pick up the ball and start throwing it.

00:57:02.120 And the modern man isn't going to learn how to be a man

00:57:04.480 while sitting on a beanbag chair and playing Call of Duty

00:57:06.900 in his, you know, in his parents' basement on his parents' TV.

00:57:10.420 He's got to go out and live it, whether he wants to or not.

00:57:14.260 I had to go through that learning curve myself.

00:57:16.400 It wasn't easy.

00:57:17.520 I had to learn most of the lessons the hard way.

00:57:19.420 Apparently, you know, one lesson I learned is that

00:57:21.380 if you don't pay your electric bill, they'll cut off your electricity

00:57:23.700 and you're going to have some very cold nights in January.

00:57:26.180 And if you don't save money from each paycheck

00:57:27.880 and then a big expense hits that you weren't expecting,

00:57:30.320 like a car, you know, you have a car problem or something,

00:57:32.720 you might be living off of hot dogs and ramen noodles for a while

00:57:35.400 and you're going to be pretty hungry.

00:57:37.700 I learned all that and much more.

00:57:39.980 Now I provide for a family of six and they don't go hungry

00:57:42.660 and they don't freeze at night.

00:57:45.100 I did so they don't have to

00:57:46.940 until the time comes for them to go out into the big scary world

00:57:50.340 and confront the same harsh realities that I did.

00:57:52.880 That's the way it goes now.

00:57:54.020 It has to go that way.

00:57:55.480 Unless we want to revert back to an agrarian society, 1.00

00:57:57.860 you know, work in the fields and milk in the cows.

00:58:00.120 Not a terrible plan, actually, but in the meantime,

00:58:03.100 if we're not doing that, you'll probably have to force your kids

00:58:05.400 to become adults the hard way.

00:58:07.920 And so today, Jesse Kelly is not canceled.

00:58:10.080 His cancelers are canceled.

00:58:11.900 And if they were my kids, they'd all be sent to bed without dinner tonight.

00:58:15.780 And tomorrow they'd be out looking for new lodging arrangements.

00:58:19.620 And we'll leave it there for today.

00:58:21.240 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

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The Matt Walsh Show - November 03, 2021

Ep. 831 - A Triumphant Moment For All Of Us Virginians

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