The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 851 - How I Became The Leading LGBT Voice Of My Generation

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, I have somehow become the number one LGBT author in the world.

00:00:04.840 This is a twist no one expected. We'll talk about that today.

00:00:07.480 Also, the parents of the Oxford High School shooter are being charged with manslaughter.

00:00:11.440 Is that the right move or does it set a dangerous precedent for the future?

00:00:14.200 Or could it possibly be, could both be true possibly?

00:00:16.860 Plus, Kamala Harris's henpeck staffers go to increasingly awkward yet hilarious lengths 0.96

00:00:21.240 to prove that they're happy to work for her.

00:00:23.640 And the New York Times says that hotels in New York should be turned into homeless encampments.

00:00:27.280 What could possibly go wrong there?

00:00:28.520 A lot, it turns out. Finally, in our daily cancellation, Rashida Tlaib makes a pitch for student loan forgiveness. 1.00

00:00:33.800 But I'll explain why she is herself personally a perfect example of why there should not be student loan forgiveness. 0.97

00:00:39.400 All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:55.760 Well, I never imagined that I would be responsible for writing the literary sensation of 2021.

00:02:02.560 Least of all that I would write it on cardboard.

00:02:05.060 And yet my book, Johnny the Walrus, about a boy who identifies as a walrus and is now available at johnnythewalrus.com or on Amazon, has taken the world by storm.

00:02:12.860 Critics are hailing it as a masterpiece.

00:02:14.600 I haven't heard any critics say that exactly, but it's safe to assume that they probably have said it.

00:02:20.680 But forget about the critics.

00:02:21.680 Just listen to some of these emails I've received.

00:02:23.880 I've gotten a lot of emails from people who've gotten the book or reacting to the book.

00:02:27.880 Satisfied customers have messaged me, stunned by the sheer depth and breadth of my trans walrus novel.

00:02:33.020 One reader said, WTF, is this supposed to be serious?

00:02:37.340 Another raved, kind of expensive for a board book.

00:02:40.020 And still another proclaimed, this is the weirdest thing you've done.

00:02:43.460 And another tells me that the book is, quote, funny, but, quote, pretty objectionable on a number of levels.

00:02:48.380 See, these are significant accolades.

00:02:50.240 And now we can add another.

00:02:52.040 Johnny the Walrus is the number one bestseller on Amazon's LGBTQ plus book list.

00:02:57.620 Yes, on Sunday morning, the Lord's Day, a day after we had re-released the book on Amazon because our first run sold out in less than 24 hours,

00:03:07.260 I awoke to discover that Johnny the Walrus had not only been categorized as an LGBT book,

00:03:11.880 but had become the best-selling title in that genre and still is today.

00:03:16.560 As it stands right now, my story about a trans walrus child is the number one bestseller in LGBT books,

00:03:22.100 beating out such LGBT hits as The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, 0.98

00:03:27.120 Badass Affirmations, The Wit and Wisdom of Wild Women, 0.89

00:03:30.680 the gay Christmas romance novel Only One Bed,

00:03:33.820 a book called Mr. Naughty and Mr. Nice, 0.52

00:03:36.620 and another book called Holla Gay.

00:03:39.620 Now, I never imagined I would beat out Holla Gay, but I did. 0.98

00:03:43.040 Just to be very clear about this, because it seems I must emphasize this point.

00:03:47.180 Johnny the Walrus is about a kid who identifies as a walrus,

00:03:49.460 and his mother takes him to the doctor to have him surgically transitioned,

00:03:53.340 and gets him walrus hormone pills,

00:03:55.620 and then eventually tries to drop him off at a zoo to live with other walruses.

00:03:58.740 This, Amazon has decided, is an LGBT story. 0.94

00:04:02.880 There would seem to be a certain admission being made here, I don't know.

00:04:07.280 And you might even say that by writing a trans walrus kids book,

00:04:10.520 and not only topping the Amazon charts, but getting the book classified as LGBT,

00:04:14.660 our plan has worked perfectly.

00:04:16.100 You might say that this whole thing is our trolling masterpiece,

00:04:19.700 our Sistine Chapel of trolling.

00:04:21.940 That's one interpretation.

00:04:24.140 But it's not the conclusion that I choose to draw from this situation.

00:04:28.400 Personally, I take quite seriously my new status as the leading LGBT voice in the nation.

00:04:35.500 I never expected to be such a prominent member of the community,

00:04:38.680 or to be a member at all, frankly.

00:04:42.280 But I will happily embrace this unexpected role.

00:04:46.300 I can tell you that I solemnly swear that I will faithfully fulfill the obligations of my office.

00:04:52.620 This is not something I take lightly.

00:04:55.260 In other words, to the LGBT lobby, I have to say,

00:04:58.000 I'm the captain now.

00:05:00.040 But fear not, I have big plans for us going forward.

00:05:02.340 You're going to love it.

00:05:03.820 Or you might not, but I will.

00:05:04.880 And as the leading LGBT author in the world, that's all that really matters.

00:05:08.840 How I feel.

00:05:10.140 Most of all, and this is the real takeaway here, I think.

00:05:13.380 This is the main point.

00:05:15.480 My title as best-selling LGBT children's author means that I am henceforth personally exempt from all criticism.

00:05:22.140 And it's important that you know that, especially if you're in the audience,

00:05:24.160 because there's an obligation that falls to you now.

00:05:26.640 And you have to know the rules.

00:05:27.780 Any critiques of me or my opinions or my behavior or my literary work will now be officially and legally categorized as homophobic hate speech.

00:05:39.140 If you refuse to buy my book, Johnny the Walrus, or to download my podcast, or to come to my birthday parties,

00:05:45.520 or to invite me to your birthday parties, then you are guilty of marginalizing an oppressed minority.

00:05:49.920 If I'm censored on social media, or if somehow my book is still banned by Amazon, somehow, it will be gay erasure. 0.79

00:06:00.240 Now, you now have a moral obligation to affirm me, agree with me, celebrate me, and especially to purchase my book,

00:06:07.820 which is, need I remind you, a best-selling smash LGBT sensation.

00:06:11.820 Now, those of you who have followed my work for some time know that I have long sought membership in a societally recognized victim group

00:06:19.780 because I covet the power that such membership affords.

00:06:22.600 Up to this point, I've had to make ado with the fact that I'm a member of the visually impaired community.

00:06:27.640 It's not great, as victimization goes, but it's not nothing.

00:06:32.340 Yet, even so, I've discovered that in the victimhood arcade, not many tokens can be won with mere physical impairments.

00:06:38.900 If you want to be rich in oppression, truly wealthy, you have to find your way into the LGBT fold. 1.00

00:06:47.260 And now, here I am.

00:06:49.780 I can feel the power coursing through my veins.

00:06:53.240 I am unstoppable.

00:06:55.340 This must be what Spider-Man felt like when he woke up the next morning after getting bit by the spider.

00:07:01.440 This is a fair warning, then, to all of my critics.

00:07:04.060 I am ineligible for further insults or denunciations.

00:07:07.000 Friends, before you say anything to me or about me, just remind yourself that you are referring to the top LGBT writer in the world.

00:07:15.460 Your criticism is violence.

00:07:17.920 Your failure to compliment me would also be violence.

00:07:22.120 These are the rules.

00:07:23.720 I didn't make them, but by God, I will enforce them.

00:07:28.120 So buy my book, you bigots.

00:07:30.320 Now, let's get to our five headlines.

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00:08:51.720 Okay.

00:08:52.400 All right.

00:08:53.100 Everyone else is starting their shows with real news and that's what I start with.

00:08:57.000 But, you know, that's what you get on the Matt Walsh show.

00:08:58.720 That's what sets us apart.

00:08:59.980 For better or worse, perhaps worse.

00:09:02.320 Here's a real story.

00:09:04.540 And a very interesting case.

00:09:07.160 Horrible case.

00:09:08.280 Tragic.

00:09:08.880 Sad.

00:09:09.520 You know, terrible.

00:09:10.240 From a legal perspective, it's also pretty complicated.

00:09:14.580 The parents of the Oxford high school shooter have been charged with involuntary manslaughter after their son killed four people and wounded many others last week during class.

00:09:24.980 Now, before we talk about this decision, let's listen to the DA, Karen McDonald, explain her logic in filing these charges.

00:09:31.640 Now, first she talks about, she talked to the press on Friday and the timing of her address to the press, her press conference.

00:09:41.860 Also, we need to comment on that.

00:09:43.540 We'll do that in a second.

00:09:44.400 But, so first she explains how they went out and they bought their 15-year-old son a handgun, apparently.

00:09:50.460 Um, the mother posted about buying the handgun for her son.

00:09:56.280 And then the kid was posing with the gun on social media, referring to it as his beauty that had just been bought.

00:10:03.940 He didn't have the gun in his room, apparently.

00:10:05.900 It was in his parents' room in an unlocked drawer.

00:10:07.680 And, um, he was caught at school, I think this was the day before, or a couple days before, searching for ammo during school hours.

00:10:16.720 And the parents were notified with an email and then followed up with a voicemail, but the parents never responded to that.

00:10:23.360 Okay, so the kid's at school during school hours looking for ammo, and they tried to get a hold of the parents to tell him about it, and the mom never even called back to respond.

00:10:33.540 Instead, the mother texted her son this message, LOL, I'm not mad, you have to learn not to get caught.

00:10:42.220 Okay, so that was a couple days before the shooting.

00:10:44.240 And that brings us up to the morning of the shooting, and then we'll let Karen McDonald fill in the rest.

00:10:50.060 On November 30th, 21, the morning of the shooting, the next day, Ethan Crumbly's teacher came upon a note on Ethan's desk,

00:10:57.940 which alarmed her to the point that she took a picture of it on her cell phone.

00:11:01.720 The note contained the following, a drawing of a semi-automatic handgun pointing at the words, quote,

00:11:08.580 the thoughts won't stop, help me, end quote.

00:11:11.540 In another section of the note was a drawing of a bullet with the following words above that bullet, quote, blood everywhere, end quote.

00:11:19.460 Between the drawing of the gun and the bullet is a drawing of a person who appears to have been shot twice and bleeding.

00:11:25.380 Below that figure is a drawing of a laughing emoji.

00:11:27.960 Further down the drawing are the words, quote, my life is useless, end quote.

00:11:32.660 And to the right of that are the words, quote, the world is dead, end quote.

00:11:37.200 Okay, so that's what he was drawing on the morning of the shooting.

00:11:41.700 And then she continues on talking about the parents were then summoned to the school, as you might expect.

00:11:48.600 And here's how that went.

00:11:50.900 At the meeting, James and Jennifer Crumbly were shown the drawing and were advised that they were required to get their son into counseling within 48 hours.

00:11:59.300 Both James and Jennifer Crumbly failed to ask their son if he had his gun with him or where his gun was located and failed to inspect his backpack for the presence of the gun, which he had with him.

00:12:14.060 James and Jennifer Crumbly resisted the idea of then leaving the school at that time, of their son leaving the school at that time.

00:12:23.060 Instead, James and Jennifer Crumbly left the high school without their son.

00:12:25.880 Okay, so they decide to go home, as she explains.

00:12:32.100 After they were just, I mean, I'm, it's hard to wrap your head around that one.

00:12:36.640 You're called to the school.

00:12:39.080 Your kid has written stuff like that on a piece of paper.

00:12:42.700 And they say, you need to bring your son home.

00:12:45.380 And the parents say, well, we don't want to take off work.

00:12:48.700 So they leave and the kid goes back to class.

00:12:51.400 And then soon after, he's shooting up the school.

00:12:56.300 Let's keep watching.

00:12:58.120 When the news of the active shooter at Oxford High School had been made public,

00:13:02.560 Jennifer Crumbly texted to her son at 11.22, I'm sorry, at 1.22 p.m., quote,

00:13:10.240 Ethan, don't do it, end quote.

00:13:13.680 At 1.37 p.m., James Crumbly called 911 reporting that a gun was missing from his house

00:13:21.880 and he believed his son may be the shooter.

00:13:25.980 Further investigation revealed that the 6-hour 9-millimeter handgun purchased by James Crumbly

00:13:31.260 was stored unlocked in a drawer in James and Jennifer's bedroom.

00:13:37.440 The gun recovered from the shooter at the school after the shooting was the same gun

00:13:42.440 that was purchased by his father, James Crumbly, on November 26, 2021, in the presence of his son.

00:13:49.620 Based upon the foregoing, the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office requested and received authorized

00:13:58.060 we charge four counts of involuntary manslaughter as to James Crumbly

00:14:02.700 and four counts of involuntary manslaughter as to Jennifer Crumbly.

00:14:06.300 Okay, so that's the story behind why the charges were filed, which is, I think, unprecedented.

00:14:16.660 I'm not aware of any other case where the parents were charged in a school shooting like this.

00:14:21.700 And that's why I was very apprehensive at first when I heard that they were filing charges against the parents.

00:14:27.120 Apprehensive about the precedent of holding parents legally liable for the actions of their kids.

00:14:33.480 And I know to some people, especially non-parents, you might think, well, why shouldn't you?

00:14:38.420 You know, this should happen more often.

00:14:39.620 If your kid goes out and does something terrible, something, the worst possible thing,

00:14:44.580 like shooting up a school, then clearly you failed miserably as a parent.

00:14:48.280 You've done something terrible yourself, and so you should be held accountable for that.

00:14:54.600 And oftentimes that's probably the case.

00:14:59.200 If you've got a 15 or 16-year-old kid doing something like that,

00:15:02.080 it stands to reason, it's a very good chance that the parents have failed miserably or worse than that.

00:15:10.040 But that's not always the case.

00:15:13.200 I mean, one of the realities of parenting, one of the really scary things about parenting,

00:15:17.960 is that your control over your child only goes so far.

00:15:29.720 And at the end of the day, they are agents operating in the world with free will.

00:15:35.060 And especially once, you know, they leave your home and they become adults and they go out into the world.

00:15:41.320 You know, you can't stop them from making horrible decisions.

00:15:47.580 You know, all you're able to do as a parent is influence your child.

00:15:50.820 And if you're doing it the right way and you're and you're you are the correct sort of influence,

00:15:57.380 then, yeah, I mean, there's there should there shouldn't be a situation where they're doing something really horrible like this,

00:16:03.940 especially when they're still kids.

00:16:04.880 But they're, you know, mental illnesses that you have to account for. 0.67

00:16:11.200 And also, again, as they as they get older and they go out of the house and they become adults, especially.

00:16:16.700 I mean.

00:16:18.700 You know, this is something people even do if there's someone in their in their 20s who commits a horrible crime.

00:16:23.980 And then the immediate assumption is, oh, they must have been raised wrong.

00:16:27.340 Maybe.

00:16:28.880 Seems like there's a pretty good chance of that, but not necessarily.

00:16:33.600 Because all kinds of things, even if you do everything perfectly as a parent,

00:16:37.800 all kinds of things can still go wrong that you can't control.

00:16:43.220 And one of those things is simply that this is another human being who makes their own choices.

00:16:48.600 Make one bad choice leads to another leads to another.

00:16:50.940 And before you know it, your kid has fallen down this dark hole and can be very hard to retrieve them from it.

00:17:01.620 Also, that's that's one reason why you might be you might worry about the precedent of charging parents in a situation like this.

00:17:07.940 Also, you worry about an activist D.A. crusading against gun rights.

00:17:13.260 Is she trying to put the Second Amendment on trial like binger up in Kenosha? 0.71

00:17:17.580 Now, I think there's still room for concern on both counts, especially the second count about putting, you know, about an activist D.A.

00:17:26.580 Especially because the D.A. here announced charges against these parents before they had even been brought into custody.

00:17:33.580 Which is another unprecedented thing.

00:17:35.300 That's not the way this usually works.

00:17:37.400 You go and arrest them and charge them and then you go to the media and tell them what you did.

00:17:43.100 But they're still walking around out there free and you're announcing charges.

00:17:49.660 And apparently they went into hiding and it took about a day to find them.

00:17:52.460 And they found them in some industrial park somewhere in Michigan.

00:17:56.000 Which is one of the things that happens as a D.A. when you announce the charges before you before you arrest the people.

00:18:01.460 So, that would give the appearance that she's in this for publicity.

00:18:07.100 Even so.

00:18:07.880 So, those are the concerns and everything.

00:18:10.180 Even so, based on this information, the information that she lays out, we can say that the parents at a minimum acted with extraordinary recklessness.

00:18:20.220 At a minimum.

00:18:20.740 And we could probably say something even worse than that.

00:18:30.020 And they obviously also knew that their child was disturbed.

00:18:34.500 I mean, if there's a shooting at your kid's school, God forbid, and your first thought is that my kid is the one shooting.

00:18:43.080 If your first fear when you hear about the shooting is that your kid is the shooter and not a victim of a shooter.

00:18:51.380 Then that obviously shows that you know your child is deeply disturbed.

00:18:55.020 And of course you know that.

00:18:57.440 Of course you know that.

00:19:00.080 As a parent, you're not going to know everything about your child.

00:19:02.400 Especially if they go to public school and they spend so much time out of sight, out of view.

00:19:09.020 There's going to be a lot you don't know about your kid.

00:19:10.540 But if he's the kind of kid capable of doing something like this, you are at a minimum going to know that he's disturbed and he's got serious problems.

00:19:21.520 And yet you go out and buy him a handgun.

00:19:25.060 Leave it in an unlocked drawer.

00:19:27.880 He's taking pictures on social media with it.

00:19:32.020 Searching for ammo during school hours.

00:19:35.280 And you laugh about it.

00:19:36.740 And we know that they knew he was disturbed because, first of all, they were told about the drawing and the pictures and everything he wrote.

00:19:46.960 But when they heard about the shooting, she texts, don't do it.

00:19:49.320 She knew it was him.

00:19:49.940 Yeah, this goes beyond parental recklessness.

00:19:56.640 This goes to involuntary manslaughter.

00:19:59.160 So I think these are the right charges in this case.

00:20:00.900 I hope it doesn't set a precedent, an undue precedent.

00:20:10.080 And I hope the DA doesn't turn this, doesn't try to turn this into prosecuting the Second Amendment type of thing.

00:20:15.920 I don't know.

00:20:16.440 We'll find out.

00:20:17.040 But you have to hold the parents responsible in a case like this.

00:20:21.560 All right.

00:20:22.060 Moving on.

00:20:22.500 There have been reports for months now that everybody hates Kamala Harris at the White House and they want to get rid of her. 1.00

00:20:28.960 But they're basically stuck with her because you can't bring her on to the job purely because of her race and gender and then fire her. 1.00

00:20:35.400 You can't do that.

00:20:36.000 It doesn't work that way.

00:20:37.240 So there have been all kinds of extremely forced sounding statements from the White House talking about how much they love Kamala and how much respect they have for her.

00:20:45.180 So while the sources are talking behind the scenes off the record and saying she's terrible and they don't like her, the public face they're putting forward, Jen Psaki, has come out and they've all said, oh, no, she's great.

00:20:56.400 We love her.

00:20:57.540 Kind of similar to the statement you get from NFL owners voicing their faith in the head coach who's 0-15 two days before they fire him.

00:21:04.780 Except, again, in this case, they can't do that.

00:21:06.620 They can't fire her. 0.99

00:21:08.120 So with Kamala, there's also been a mass exodus of staffers leaving, resigning.

00:21:13.280 And there's been reports like this from Business Insider, and this just came out today.

00:21:17.540 It says, a former Kamala Harris staffer says aides have to endure, quote, a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism.

00:21:24.240 The article goes on and says, a major issue that several staffers raised with Harris's refusal to analyze briefing materials set forth by employees was Harris's refusal to analyze briefing materials set forth by employees, which reportedly resulted in her scolding them if she appeared to be unprepared. 0.94

00:21:38.280 Unprepared. Quote, it's clear that you're not working with somebody who's willing to do the prep and the work.

00:21:44.720 One former staffer told the newspaper with Kamala, you have to put up with a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism and also her own lack of confidence. 0.97

00:21:51.480 So you're constantly sort of propping up a bully, and it's not really clear why.

00:21:56.320 Former Harris aide Jill Duren left her office in 2013 after five months in the role when she was California's attorney general. 0.70

00:22:06.640 He told the Post that the turnover in the vice president's office points back to her.

00:22:11.120 He told the newspaper, quote, one of the things we've said in our little text groups among each other is what is the common denominator through all this?

00:22:17.960 And it's her. Who are the next talented people you're going to bring in and burn through and then have them pretend they're retiring for positive reasons?

00:22:24.820 And Harris's office has responded to this, by the way, and they've said that, of course, this is sexism and racism.

00:22:29.280 That's where all this is coming from.

00:22:30.880 Now, this is a little tough for me when I read stories like this, because I can completely believe that she's a tyrant. 1.00

00:22:35.420 I'm sure she is. But also we have to keep in mind that her staffers are all a bunch of whiny millennial lick spittles. 1.00

00:22:42.620 So I'm sure if you tap them on the shoulder and said, hey, your shoes untied, they would say this is soul destroying criticism. 0.99

00:22:51.160 But even so, Camila is terrible. And yet the four statements of support coming out are really pathetic, but none of them compare to this. 0.98

00:23:01.900 Here's a tweet from David Gins, who's a staffer for Camila. 0.56

00:23:07.840 He put out this statement today or a tweet. This is last night.

00:23:11.300 He says, hi, my name is David Gins. I work for Vice President Harris on behalf of the American people as deputy director for operations and absolutely love my job.

00:23:19.620 Just thought some of you should know. And there's a photo.

00:23:23.320 Now, look at this photo. Let's put this photo up. My God.

00:23:30.260 A picture says a thousand words and so does this one, except it's just the word pathetic one thousand times in a row. 0.97

00:23:35.900 Look at the expression on his face, staring straight ahead, trying to muster a smile. 0.97

00:23:41.000 But there's like this look of fear in his eyes, probably because Camila is just out of frame, pointing a gun at his head.

00:23:45.580 And then and then look at the photo of Camila and her husband on the wall.

00:23:51.340 This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen.

00:23:53.640 Who put first of all, who puts a photo there at all?

00:23:57.160 I'm no interior decorator. My wife will tell you that.

00:23:59.640 But you don't just put a random photograph that big, crammed up against the door.

00:24:07.520 Right above like the looks like the thermostat or something there.

00:24:10.560 And why that and why that photo?

00:24:16.320 It looks almost photoshopped into the into the picture.

00:24:20.360 And who has a photo of their boss and their boss's spouse on the wall?

00:24:25.580 Does Camila require this of all her underlings, maybe? 1.00

00:24:29.240 And I also want to point your attention. Just one other thing.

00:24:31.220 Keep this picture up here because there's one other thing that I've been.

00:24:35.160 I've been pondering.

00:24:36.160 So you also notice I want to point your attention to that circular hole in the desk right where David Ginn's is sitting.

00:24:43.840 You see that?

00:24:45.740 I don't want to know what that hole is there for.

00:24:49.020 This is Camila Harris. We're talking about.

00:24:52.220 The imagination runs wild.

00:24:55.340 But that's that's the best they could do.

00:24:58.680 They needed to get a staffer on the record posing for a photo, looking looking happy in his job.

00:25:03.860 And the best they could get is the deputy director of operations, sitting at a desk with a suspicious hole.

00:25:11.900 Barely cracking a smile.

00:25:13.320 OK, this is from The Daily Wire.

00:25:15.920 It says new details emerged on Sunday about why CNN decided to fire star host Chris Cuomo on Saturday evening as the network conducted an investigation into Cuomo's role in helping his brother,

00:25:24.620 then New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo, navigate a sexual misconduct scandal.

00:25:28.140 Deborah S. Katz, a left wing attorney, said in a statement on Sunday that she is representing a client who claims that Chris Cuomo engaged in serious sexual misconduct against her at the network.

00:25:38.600 Katz said she notified CNN of the allegations on Wednesday that the allegations are ultimately what led to Chris Cuomo being fired from CNN.

00:25:44.420 And so that's why they finally announced that it was official.

00:25:50.280 At first, they suspended him and it was kind of we were expecting maybe they'd bring him back on like they did with Jeffrey Toobin.

00:25:56.980 But now they're getting rid of him because of sexual misconduct at the workplace. 0.55

00:26:00.860 Of course, Jeffrey Toobin also had workplace sexual misconduct when he masturbated in front of his coworkers on Zoom call. 0.91

00:26:06.960 But he's got that exception. I'm not sure why.

00:26:11.800 Increasingly, I've come to believe that Jeffrey Toobin must have compromising photos or something of someone high up in the CNN food chain.

00:26:20.200 There's got to be some explanation for how he's still there.

00:26:23.000 But Andrew Cuomo is gone.

00:26:24.780 Or rather, Chris Cuomo and Andrew Cuomo.

00:26:26.740 It is the fall of the Cuomo house.

00:26:28.420 And I think with this story, this story is kind of a is is is good because it provides us an example of the distinction between canceling and accountability.

00:26:43.860 The defenders of cancel culture will say that, well, no, we're not canceling people.

00:26:49.480 We're just holding them accountable.

00:26:52.560 But this is what accountability looks like.

00:26:55.820 OK, this is what someone loses their job and they deserve to lose it.

00:27:00.000 And they're being held accountable for what they've done.

00:27:02.040 That's what this looks like.

00:27:04.120 Because for one thing.

00:27:06.520 OK, he's being punished for things that he's done currently and recently.

00:27:13.060 OK, helping his brother behind the scenes.

00:27:15.860 This this workplace sexual misconduct sounds like it was recent.

00:27:19.580 So this is not digging up things from a decade ago or 20 years ago.

00:27:23.300 Looking for a reason to get rid of him.

00:27:26.640 These are things that he has done is doing currently.

00:27:31.180 And this is also focused on actions, not words or opinions.

00:27:37.120 OK, that's another hallmark of cancel culture.

00:27:39.880 Very often you're getting canceled for things that you've said or opinions you've expressed.

00:27:44.240 And also, again, very often these are someone wants to cancel you.

00:27:48.180 The powers that be want to cancel you.

00:27:49.720 So they go looking, they go digging for something.

00:27:53.440 And they find something from 10 years ago that nobody cared about at the time, didn't offend anybody.

00:27:57.240 And they bring it up to light and they conjure up outrage over it.

00:28:01.760 That's not the case here.

00:28:03.280 And the main thing, of course, is that that tells us this is not a canceling is that he's he's been given a thousand chances.

00:28:09.360 With cancel culture, there's no forgiveness, of course, there's no grace.

00:28:13.960 There are no chances.

00:28:17.600 Because it's the institutions of power deciding they want to get rid of you and they'll take the first excuse they can find.

00:28:23.860 Here's an entirely different situation where the institutions of power wanted to keep Chris Cuomo in place.

00:28:32.300 And they were willing to overlook many different forms of misconduct and many different ethical violations until it just it was one thing after another.

00:28:40.020 And they had no choice anymore.

00:28:41.500 And they had to fire.

00:28:43.420 All right.

00:28:44.360 What else do we got here?

00:28:45.300 OK, so, you know, I remember when my son was about six and we were we were driving along and we stopped at an intersection and there was a homeless guy there.

00:28:54.820 And my son said to me, he asked me, he said, Daddy, why do we let people be homeless?

00:29:00.100 That's what he asked.

00:29:01.400 And and I said, well, what do you mean let?

00:29:03.960 And he said, well, why don't we all in the world just give give give the homeless people money and give them a house?

00:29:10.600 There are a lot of houses. 0.99

00:29:12.600 And I said to him, stopping such a damn lib. 0.99

00:29:14.960 OK, I didn't really say that. 0.98

00:29:17.160 What I try to do is instead is explain in as simple a way as possible that very often people find themselves in these kinds of unfortunate situations, not because the world necessarily forced them into it, but sometimes because of things going on inside them.

00:29:31.560 And I said that sadly for a lot of homeless people, they have a problem that can't be totally solved simply by giving them money or giving them a home.

00:29:39.800 But we still do give them the money.

00:29:41.860 We give money to the homeless because that's the most we can do as strangers passing by.

00:29:46.880 And it's good to help people to the extent that you can.

00:29:50.000 Anyway, my son had a very simplistic way of looking at the problem because he's a child and that's fine.

00:29:53.640 It's not so fine for adults, though, to continue to look at the problem with the same level of naivete, which brings us to this.

00:30:03.060 The New York Times, it says here's their headline.

00:30:06.460 As many New York City hotels sat empty during the pandemic and homelessness continued to rise,

00:30:10.720 it was a once in a generation chance to convert struggling hotels into affordable housing, but none were converted.

00:30:17.040 So what happened?

00:30:18.600 The article goes on to talk about how all of these empty hotels were just sitting there in New York City.

00:30:23.840 And why don't we put the homeless in there? 1.00

00:30:26.480 Simple as that.

00:30:28.080 And it points out that other cities and other states have done exactly that, which is true.

00:30:32.780 This is something that various different localities have tried.

00:30:35.800 They tried it in Tulsa and TulsaWorld.com just so happened to have a report on the progress of this program in Tulsa.

00:30:44.640 Reading partway through here starts with a nurse practitioner who worked at the homeless hotel in Tulsa.

00:30:51.040 And it says nurse practitioner Amber Vo figured she'd be consulted when it came time to decide who would get permanent housing and who wouldn't. 1.00

00:30:58.400 As the person in charge of the hotel's health clinic, she'd gotten to know many of the clients and believe she could contribute to the conversation.

00:31:04.760 Much to her surprise and disappointment, those discussions never happened.

00:31:08.280 I was the medical provider, she said.

00:31:09.640 At the very least, I should have been involved in some of these conversations.

00:31:12.460 I didn't even know it was happening until the people had already been told they were being put out.

00:31:16.320 And they would come into my clinic having emotional mental breakdowns because of how scared they were and begging me to help.

00:31:21.780 Vo said about 10 to 20 clients a week were being sent back into the streets.

00:31:24.880 In the last month, the hotel was operating.

00:31:26.800 And most were no better prepared for life outside the hotel than they had been when they entered.

00:31:31.700 There was no incentive, she continues.

00:31:33.420 She says there were no there was no incentive for them to kind of practice skills that would make them more successful once they were on their own.

00:31:38.840 Maybe in an apartment, like taking care of property, showing up for appointments, just communicating with their caseworkers.

00:31:43.880 It's common knowledge that prostitution and drug use were part of everyday life at the hotel, Vo said, and nothing was done about it.

00:31:50.980 She said, quote, these people were not given the support they needed to be successful anywhere.

00:31:54.680 Addiction ran rampant through through there.

00:31:56.600 We had a lot of people confide in us that they had been clean until they got to the hotel.

00:32:00.800 But because the drug situation was so bad there, they relapsed.

00:32:05.280 Then it goes on to many more gritty details about how this hotel operated.

00:32:10.880 And it actually made the situation worse for a lot of the people who checked into the homeless hotel.

00:32:16.800 We got a picture here of what these hotel rooms looked like after the homeless had left them.

00:32:22.180 And there's just garbage shrewd all over the place.

00:32:28.180 And in fairness, my hotel rooms don't look much better than that once I check out.

00:32:31.980 But they do look a little bit better.

00:32:34.180 So.

00:32:35.740 But at least we could say there were no from what I understand from this article, there were no meth labs in the building.

00:32:41.420 And which is better than the situation in San Francisco where they did the same kind of thing at a motel in San Francisco.

00:32:47.980 And the homeless started converting the rooms into meth labs.

00:32:51.960 Now, is this surprising?

00:32:54.100 No.

00:32:55.100 Why?

00:32:56.260 Because people who are chronically homeless.

00:32:59.200 I mean, chronically.

00:33:00.460 Not like someone who falls on hard times and temporarily find themselves between housing situations or that sort of thing.

00:33:07.660 I mean, chronically homeless.

00:33:09.800 They are that way in the vast majority of cases because they're either drug addicts or they're severely mentally ill or both.

00:33:17.980 But it's going to be very rare to have someone who is not addicted to drugs and is mentally competent and yet is living on the sidewalk, you know, sleeping on a cardboard box for weeks and months on end.

00:33:34.800 Because a mentally competent person who is not addicted to drugs, you know, it's not difficult to find some kind of housing.

00:33:43.820 It's not going to be great housing, but you could find something.

00:33:47.800 You know, you get some kind of job.

00:33:49.440 It might not be a great job that pays very well, but you should be able to find some kind of job at fast food or something.

00:33:54.300 And you can afford some sort of housing situation.

00:33:56.500 So, if there are people just living on the street for months and months and years on end, then that tells you that there is something else going on here internally.

00:34:07.160 Now, does this mean that it's not sad or that we shouldn't try to help people in a situation?

00:34:11.600 No, of course not.

00:34:12.700 It just means that the problem isn't that they don't have homes.

00:34:16.640 That's not the fundamental problem.

00:34:18.080 The problem is deeper than that.

00:34:19.280 The fact, again, is that any non-drug addicted, non-mentally ill person will be able to find some kind of housing.

00:34:27.220 So, if they're not, then there's something else going on.

00:34:29.780 And so, if you just open up a hotel and you throw them in there, it's going to fall apart and go to hell. 0.99

00:34:36.820 Because now you have a whole lot of mentally ill drug addicts under one roof. 0.97

00:34:41.840 So, you've got to get to the underlying problems.

00:34:44.280 But, of course, in our society and with the left, we're always trying to, we're always engaging with these problems on the surface.

00:34:56.440 You can never go below the surface.

00:34:59.260 We're always, we're dealing with circumstances rather than people.

00:35:03.800 And we want to pretend that anyone who's in a bad circumstance, well, it's, it's, the circumstance is what has caused it.

00:35:16.680 We don't want to go deeper than that and look at what's going on internally, the choices that they've made, because then we get into what, what would be called victim blaming or whatever else.

00:35:27.960 All right.

00:35:28.760 What else do we got here?

00:35:29.780 The Surgeon General has said that, so this is good news, we can see our families on the holidays under certain conditions.

00:35:37.160 He's made this announcement.

00:35:38.760 Let's, let's play that.

00:35:40.460 But if you do, as many families did, you get vaccinated and boosted, you use testing judiciously before you gather, you gather in well-ventilated spaces and use masks whenever you can in public indoor spaces.

00:35:50.600 Your risk can be quite low and your holidays can be quite fulfilling.

00:35:53.900 That's what so many families experienced this past Thanksgiving.

00:35:56.180 So you wear masks with your family, get, get, uh, jabbed and boosted, make sure everyone's jabbed and boosted, wear masks, you know, socially distanced from one another.

00:36:09.340 And you can have a quite fulfilling holiday.

00:36:12.820 I don't know.

00:36:13.840 You know, when I think about what makes for a fulfilling holiday experience with family, I think one of the, one of the essential aspects of that, uh, of that experience, what makes it fulfilling is that you can like see each other and see each other's faces.

00:36:29.200 You really can't have any kind of fulfilling social interaction when you're both covering your faces, but I guess we have to give thanks to the certain general, at least for giving us permission to celebrate Christmas.

00:36:45.680 So we, we, we can do that, but, um, celebrate Christmas as long as you're treating your family preemptively, like they're all diseased.

00:36:52.380 And then it'll be fine.

00:36:55.060 All right.

00:36:55.720 Finally, here's a, another sort of emperor has no clothes situation, or maybe the emperor is wearing women's clothes, I guess. 0.73

00:37:04.000 Um, a trans, this is from the Daily Mail.

00:37:05.720 This is a trans swimmer and senior at the University of Pennsylvania who previously spent three years competing as a man is now crushing records in women's events, sparking outrage amid controversy surrounding transgender athletes.

00:37:17.500 Uh, you can see the picture there.

00:37:19.060 There's, there's the man formerly named Will now goes by Leah Thomas, 22 has competed in a number of events recently, including a tri meet with Cornell and Princeton universities on November 20th, where the senior blasted UPenn records in the 200 meter and 500 meter freestyle posting times that beat almost every other female swimmer across America.

00:37:39.520 Uh, with a time of, uh, 143, 47 in the 200 meter freestyle, Thomas would have been in line to secure silver medal at the NCAA women's championships. 1.00

00:37:51.340 While, while her, I'm reading from the article and this is the, I'm just reading verbatim in the article.

00:37:56.120 While her, quote unquote, 435-06 in the 500 meter freestyle would have been good enough to win bronze. 0.80

00:38:03.180 Um, this is the latest controversy in the ongoing argument over whether trans people should be allowed to compete in sports alongside athletes of the opposite gender when they were assigned at birth.

00:38:11.380 Oh, there we go.

00:38:11.820 Let's, let's, okay.

00:38:12.560 Can we stop there on that picture for a second?

00:38:15.840 Yeah.

00:38:17.660 That's a woman, folks. 1.00

00:38:19.340 That's, that's, we're supposed to believe that's a woman. 1.00

00:38:21.580 Why is it a woman? 1.00

00:38:22.420 Well, he grew his hair out.

00:38:23.540 That's what makes him a woman, a woman. 0.97

00:38:28.080 This is probably one of the more egregious, all, every case of a male competing against women in female sports is egregious and, and ridiculous and outrageous and wrong. 0.56

00:38:38.480 Uh, this one more than most because this guy, as I said in the article, he competed against men for three years.

00:38:48.320 So, he'd been a man his entire life, competing against, there he is there, in his former life, before going through the radical transformation of growing out his hair.

00:39:01.520 Uh, there, there he was.

00:39:02.660 And, uh, so for, for three years.

00:39:08.620 And then in his last year says, you know what?

00:39:10.800 Uh, I'm a woman.

00:39:11.480 I'm going to go over here.

00:39:13.940 And starts dominating gold, silver, bronze record times.

00:39:18.500 And, and to, to show you how absurd these kinds of situations are, it's not so much comparing the man's time to the women that he's beating.

00:39:31.260 What you really have to do, and I don't have it in front of me, but I'll be interested to do this.

00:39:34.900 You, you, you take that man's time and compare it to the other men.

00:39:38.260 And what I can guarantee you is, I mean, this guy, he may have held his own against, uh, against the men, but I can guarantee you he wasn't winning gold and silver medals all over the place.

00:39:50.680 Okay.

00:39:51.120 He wasn't, he, of course, was not dominating at all.

00:39:54.140 Certainly not, not to the level that he's dominating now.

00:39:56.840 So, what you usually have are, uh, in these situations, you have male athletes who, at best, are middling athletes.

00:40:04.300 The example we've talked about before in Connecticut, where you've got these, uh, these two guys raced against the girls in high school track, the famous case now going through the courts.

00:40:13.300 But those were, those were men who barely qualified for state competitions against the men.

00:40:18.340 I mean, they couldn't even get on the track.

00:40:19.600 They go over against the girls and they're, you know, at least in the top three in every race.

00:40:26.760 That's what, that's what it always is.

00:40:28.300 It's always middling, mediocre male athletes going over to girls and dominating.

00:40:34.300 Which tells you, of course, that, that, that, what do you know?

00:40:39.180 There is a, there is a dramatic biological difference between the sexes.

00:40:44.960 But also, it, it continues to be very interesting that it's always the men in the middle of the pack or the bottom of the pack who discover that they're women.

00:40:56.820 It's never a man at the top of the pack.

00:40:58.400 Has there been one single case of a man who was dominating against the males?

00:41:06.020 He was already top three all the time.

00:41:09.220 And then he discovered he was a woman and went over and raced against the girls.

00:41:14.340 I don't think it's ever happened.

00:41:15.440 So, you might, you might conclude, you might start to suspect, perhaps, that there are some mediocre male athletes who are, who, who are encouraged, perhaps, to discover a female identity because that's the only way that they can consistently win.

00:41:39.140 And even if it's not, even if, even if that's not the case, I mean, even if this guy, I can't get inside his head, I don't know what his true motivations are.

00:41:46.580 I'm very suspicious of what they might be, but I don't know.

00:41:51.480 Regardless, though, whatever his motivations are, it's, it's still wrong.

00:41:55.540 And everybody knows it.

00:41:58.160 I mean, you see this guy, like, nobody.

00:42:01.780 Can we put up that picture again of, of him with the other girl?

00:42:04.080 Well, you see this pic, no one thinks that this is, no one is looking at this and say, oh yeah, those are, those are, those are both women. 0.99

00:42:14.300 Exactly equal.

00:42:15.980 You know, he's a woman in the exact same way that she is.

00:42:19.000 It makes total sense.

00:42:20.260 It's totally fair to put them on the same team together.

00:42:23.760 Nobody thinks that.

00:42:25.600 Nobody.

00:42:27.360 Even far on the left, they know.

00:42:29.880 They don't actually believe this.

00:42:34.080 It's not that they've convinced themselves that this makes sense, or it's right, or it's logical, or it makes any scientific or moral sense, or that it's justified.

00:42:45.300 For them, it's all politics, it's all ideology.

00:42:48.800 And they simply don't care.

00:42:50.140 They don't care about the illogic of it.

00:42:52.920 They don't care about the moral and ethical implications of it.

00:42:54.920 They don't care about that.

00:42:58.660 But everybody knows.

00:43:00.220 I think, I believe.

00:43:01.620 All right, let's get now to the comment section.

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00:44:15.760 Jessica Jones says, having to deal with periods and period products is awkward enough when there are only other girls around. 1.00

00:44:21.520 My discomfort would skyrocket if there were boys a lot in the restroom with me, especially back when I was a young teenager.

00:44:25.940 Yeah, Jessica, but as we just covered, you don't matter, unfortunately.

00:44:33.120 According to the left, you don't matter.

00:44:36.360 You should matter, but you don't, says the left.

00:44:42.020 Joy Barkas says, I love how the least festive Daily Wire host has the most festive studio.

00:44:49.060 Yeah, we do.

00:44:49.740 We are finally decorated for Christmas here at the Matt Walsh studio.

00:44:52.780 And I don't know if you can see and fully appreciate, of course, but our alien is in the Christmas spirit.

00:44:58.240 He's got the Santa Claus beard on and the Santa Claus hat.

00:45:03.460 Daniel B says, Matt, love seeing you.

00:45:06.280 Love to see you repping your own swag.

00:45:08.600 I was waiting for it and you delivered.

00:45:10.260 It may be so, if I may be so bold, I think there needs to be some merch allowed to us.

00:45:15.660 Some Matt Walsh skinny jeans and polka dotted shirts.

00:45:19.260 Just a thought.

00:45:20.100 Love the show.

00:45:21.520 Well, we will always be adding new swag to the Swag Shack, which you can go to dailywire.com slash shop.

00:45:28.160 And yeah, I have been, I've been angling for, we need at least a polka dot shirt.

00:45:33.800 I don't know why you would say we need skinny jeans.

00:45:35.560 I don't wear skinny jeans as we've covered many times.

00:45:37.940 And you're banned from the show for saying that, by the way.

00:45:40.160 Almost forgot.

00:45:40.620 Um, Sarah says, we need a makeup tutorial from Sean with Matt as the test subject.

00:45:48.220 Now, listen, Sarah, I may be the most prominent LGBT author in the country, but I have my limits.

00:45:53.120 But I draw the line somewhere.

00:45:54.320 Okay.

00:45:55.540 Uh, deep wild violet says hospice nurse here.

00:45:58.200 I've heard lots of people say at the end of their life, either that they are happy to have their family around them or that they regret not spending more time with family on vacations with people they love, et cetera.

00:46:07.440 I have never heard a patient say they wished they'd have worked more or made more money, regardless of economic class.

00:46:17.280 Yeah.

00:46:17.840 And that's got to be unique insight that in perspective that you have tragic insight in perspective, but having never, you know, I've never worked in hospice myself.

00:46:28.120 I've only been around a few people at the end of their lives, but, um, this would seem apparent and we could see that within ourselves too.

00:46:39.380 Like you can look forward to your own death whenever it comes, might be tomorrow, might be in 50 years, whatever.

00:46:46.380 And you already know what sorts of things you're going to regret, what sorts of things you wish you had done more often.

00:46:54.700 Yeah.

00:46:54.900 Another great example is, um, you know, we all spend 15 hours a day on our phones and staring at screens, but I'm pretty sure, and you can correct me if I'm wrong.

00:47:05.780 You've also probably not had anybody, uh, in their, in their last breaths at hospice say that they wish they'd spent more time staring at screens.

00:47:13.400 So we know that, I mean, while we're sitting there for 15 hours, look on the phone, you just know that you're going to, that this total waste of time.

00:47:21.120 You're going to regret it, but we can't help ourselves.

00:47:24.960 Um, Gerter says, Hey Matt, I think you'll love that the tidbit that not only is it fairly common and normal for a six year old to be a Fortnite expert, it's fairly common gamer knowledge that about 90% of Fortnite experts are under the age of 10.

00:47:38.140 Um, yeah, I don't, I don't, I can't remember what that was referring to, but there was someone who, who said that their six year old son was a Fortnite expert.

00:47:47.920 Um, there's no reason for that.

00:47:54.300 Okay.

00:47:54.800 Now I, I understand by most people's, you know, judgment, I'm, I'm kind of extreme on this.

00:48:01.440 Um, that I don't plan on my kids playing video games at all, but I, but I, but I do understand that as the kids get a little bit older and they become teenagers, it might be more difficult to keep them away from that stuff.

00:48:13.400 And, um, you know, maybe you start introducing some of, but, but at the age of six,

00:48:18.340 at the age of six, it's, it's very, very easy to determine what kind of entertainment your kids are going to have access to.

00:48:27.640 And so that's a choice you have to make.

00:48:31.200 If your kid at six years old or five years old is addicted to video games, like I know so many are, you've chosen, you have made that lifestyle choice for your kid.

00:48:43.460 Which doesn't make any sense to me at all.

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00:50:33.360 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:50:37.500 Today we cancel, probably not for the first time, mid-tier squad member Rashida Tlaib.

00:50:43.360 We last saw Rashida in an interview on Axios explaining why all federal prison inmates, including sex traffickers and child rapists, should be immediately released from prison.

00:50:52.000 The idea she was hawking on the House floor this week isn't, or last week rather, isn't quite as bad as that, but it's almost as bad.

00:50:59.000 It's a bit more mainstream anyway, and that is student loan forgiveness.

00:51:02.680 But the interesting thing about Rashida's pitch for student loan forgiveness is that she is herself a perfect example of why we should not forgive student loans.

00:51:11.540 Listen for yourself.

00:51:12.380 I worked full time, Monday through Friday, and took weekend classes to get my law degree, and still close to $200,000 in debt.

00:51:23.260 And I still owe about $70,000.

00:51:27.180 And most of it was interest.

00:51:29.340 Most of it was our own government making money and profit off of me.

00:51:32.740 And guess what?

00:51:34.360 I didn't go to the for-profit entities.

00:51:36.540 I went to legal aid.

00:51:38.200 I worked at the nonprofit organization fighting for, you know, the right to breathe clean air, to fight for the worker that was getting their wage, you know, taken and stolen from their employer.

00:51:47.920 I went and worked on immigrant rights and so much more.

00:51:51.160 And all of that to say, we have to stop treating as if folks that are paying for education, as if they bought some bougie car or some big, you know, something beyond.

00:52:01.860 No, they were seeking an education.

00:52:05.920 Okay, so Rashida Tlaib wants debt forgiveness, and she complains that she still has $70,000 left on her loan, which was originally $200,000 for her law degree, she says. 0.99

00:52:14.540 A degree that she's chosen not to use, she admits that she immediately took that degree that cost her well into six figures to attain and went off to be an activist at a nonprofit.

00:52:23.840 Now she's a politician. 1.00

00:52:26.160 Fortunately for her, she makes $175,000 a year in her current job, which raises the question, why should the taxpayer assume her debt when she earns an income more than double the national average?

00:52:37.560 The fact that elected representatives earn more than double the national average is a separate issue entirely.

00:52:41.900 I mean, I think that they should get paid, they should get paid the national average income.

00:52:46.260 That's what I think.

00:52:48.360 For now, though, the point is simply that she chose the most expensive education path possible.

00:52:53.640 Now she rakes in a sizable salary and yet still insists that the taxpayer fulfill her financial obligations for her. 1.00

00:53:01.060 The appropriate response to that argument is no. 1.00

00:53:05.000 Pay your debts, you damned deadbeat. 0.99

00:53:07.020 Now, I'm glad that Rashida Tlaib has wanted to make herself the face of this issue because she is the face of it. 0.99

00:53:13.820 As an affluent upper class brat with a graduate degree, she does indeed represent a large portion of the people clamoring for debt forgiveness.

00:53:22.160 In fact, people with graduate degrees account for half of all student loan debt.

00:53:27.500 Half.

00:53:28.020 That's because the average amount of student debt for bachelor degrees is only about $30,000.

00:53:33.620 Not insignificant, but manageable.

00:53:35.740 The way that we get into trillions of dollars collectively in terms of debt is through all of these people getting master's degrees where the average debt is $70,000.

00:53:45.000 And law degrees and medical degrees where the average debt is $150,000 and $200,000 respectively.

00:53:48.800 So when you hear about debt forgiveness, just know that half of that money, money that will come from the taxpayer, from you, will be going to upper class, affluent, highly educated doctors and lawyers and so on.

00:54:01.260 Student debt forgiveness is upper class welfare.

00:54:04.040 That's what it is.

00:54:05.720 Of course, I realize that plenty of people with graduate degrees are not doctors or lawyers.

00:54:09.740 Some of them are not getting paid well at all.

00:54:13.540 The two-year master's degree programs are largely useless.

00:54:17.620 An enormous scam.

00:54:19.740 And many people today are walking around with graduate degrees that serve no purpose whatsoever and there's been no return on investment.

00:54:26.780 Contrary to Salib's claim, they are indeed like basically getting a bougie car, those graduate degrees.

00:54:33.980 They're superfluous, extravagant, useless, showy.

00:54:36.980 At least you can drive cars.

00:54:39.760 You can't do anything with most of these graduate programs. 0.89

00:54:42.280 But even so, who should be on the hook to pay for your superfluous and useless graduate degree?

00:54:47.600 You or your neighbor?

00:54:49.700 Really, if we wanted to talk about debt forgiveness for the middle class, for average working class Americans, we'd be forgiving mortgages or credit card debt or car payments.

00:54:58.340 That's the kind of debt that most people deal with.

00:55:00.900 Most of us don't have a $200,000 slip of paper sitting in a frame and hanging on a wall in our office.

00:55:05.620 Maybe the student debt forgiveness proponents, though, would say, sure, yeah, let's forgive all that debt, too. 0.95

00:55:11.440 But that only proves that they're a bunch of mental children. 0.90

00:55:15.420 They have no understanding of or appreciation for the financial realities of life. 0.52

00:55:19.280 They think a magic wand can be waived to solve all these problems, even as the government's magic wand that it waived over the last two years has led to skyrocketing inflation and an economic situation that's even worse than the one that these measures were supposed to solve in the first place.

00:55:32.820 When it comes down to it, this is, again, a question of who should be responsible for the debts that you take on.

00:55:42.380 If you enter into a contract and agree to pay X amount for Y product or Y service, who should be the one to hold up your end of the bargain?

00:55:51.380 And there are only two possible answers to that question, you or everybody else.

00:55:57.940 You might prefer the latter option, everyone else, but it's not justifiable on a logical or moral or financial basis.

00:56:05.500 I'm sorry if you went to a master's to get a master's degree so that you could teach the ABCs to first graders.

00:56:12.720 I'm very sorry that such a terrible decision has caused you heartache.

00:56:16.220 I am.

00:56:17.320 But my well of sympathy dries up the moment you turn to the government and ask it to point its guns at me and reach into my wallet to solve your problems. 0.99

00:56:26.400 You immediately go from being a sympathetic yet silly figure to a thief. 0.91

00:56:30.600 Now, all of that said, I do agree that our approach to higher education is untenable. 0.89

00:56:36.680 And that's why I think we need to evaluate that approach rather than simply trying to get rid of the debt while leaving the fundamentally broken system still in place.

00:56:46.120 Okay, so this, again, like we talked about with the left, this is just like solve the homeless crisis by putting all the homeless in hotels. 0.71

00:56:54.140 Yet they're still mentally ill drug addicts.

00:56:55.900 So we solve our broken higher education system by just forgiving all the debt, but the system is still broken.

00:57:04.000 The solution to the debt crisis going forward, the way to staunch the bleeding anyway and make sure it doesn't get worse,

00:57:09.620 is to stop sending our kids into four-year institutions by default.

00:57:15.320 Most of them don't need to be there and won't gain anything of lasting value from the experience.

00:57:20.240 If there was a massive drop-off in enrollment, and we encouraged our kids to be more discerning about the choice to enroll in college,

00:57:29.660 and we pushed them to explore other options aside from four-year institutions,

00:57:33.680 then many of these problems would begin to sort themselves out.

00:57:37.640 Colleges, for one thing, wouldn't be able to charge Lamborghini prices for degrees if they had to compete not just with each other,

00:57:44.840 but with the whole array of other options that the world presents.

00:57:47.700 If only people would explore them before signing up for the college path.

00:57:53.040 That's the point that Rashida Tlaib ignores, or outright it rejects.

00:57:57.700 She wants to keep the spigot turned on, siphoning millions of kids into the university pipeline, 1.00

00:58:03.680 whether it will benefit them or not.

00:58:06.180 Only she wants the government to be even more involved in funding and facilitating the whole disastrous system. 0.90

00:58:12.140 So, as usual, she has it all exactly backwards.

00:58:15.780 And for that, she is canceled.

00:58:19.360 And we'll leave it there for today.

00:58:20.920 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - December 06, 2021

Ep. 851 - How I Became The Leading LGBT Voice Of My Generation

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