The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 863 - The Left’s Twisted Celebration Of Narcissism And Self-Mutilation

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, New York Magazine published a celebratory profile about a woman who violently mutilated her own body, and the story only gets worse from there.

00:00:08.180 Also, Joe Biden addresses the nation about the threat of the extremely mild Omnicorn variant.

00:00:13.120 Bill Gates moves the goalposts on vaccines in hopes that nobody notices.

00:00:16.620 And the woman who created Sex and the City has regrets about her lifestyle choices, and then apparently regrets expressing those regrets.

00:00:23.900 And a Lutheran pastor delivers a homily in drag.

00:00:26.640 And then in our daily cancellation, we will ask and answer an important question.

00:00:30.620 What are the worst Christmas songs and movies?

00:00:33.000 The answers may surprise you.

00:00:34.340 All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:52.800 So, take my hand now and follow me down this rabbit hole.

00:01:56.360 It's going to take us to some dark and horrifying places, but there are lessons to be learned along the way.

00:02:01.080 And we begin in the present day with a journalist who now goes by the name Gabrielle Mack and identifies as a man, though she is a biological female.

00:02:10.640 Gabrielle is featured on the cover of the latest issue of New York Magazine in a story which she penned herself titled, My Penis, Myself.

00:02:20.100 I didn't need a penis to be a man, we're told on the cover, but I needed one to be myself.

00:02:25.140 Now, the article goes into graphic, gory detail about Gabrielle's quest to surgically masculinize herself in order to vaguely approximate the appearance of a biological male.

00:02:37.280 I'll read only as much of the piece as is needed to get the point across.

00:02:41.200 I will tell you that the first line is this.

00:02:44.860 On the day that I heard my penis would be huge, I sobbed.

00:02:49.140 That's the first line.

00:02:51.140 Yes, I mean, what man cannot relate to that experience?

00:02:53.240 You know, you're actually a man if you select your penis out of a catalog rather than simply, you know, being born with one.

00:02:59.280 The article goes from there and it gets more bizarre and certainly a lot more nauseating.

00:03:03.080 Here's a few morsels and I'm kind of choosing bits somewhat at random, but here they are.

00:03:08.300 At one point she says, I could not have gotten my boobs cut off fast enough.

00:03:12.220 And I spent weeks before my 2019 hysterectomy up late in bed, hot and sleepless, fantasizing about the moment the medical waste disposal team at UC San Francisco would batch incinerate my uterus,

00:03:24.600 which swirled with dysphoria like nausea from the depths of my soul.

00:03:28.620 But just as you might feel an automatic no if a doctor offered to cut one of your healthy arms off for you,

00:03:33.420 When I thought about cauterizing, excising, and sewing closed my vagina, my whole body cringed.

00:03:39.720 Wrong.

00:03:41.460 Well, yeah, that is certainly wrong.

00:03:43.740 At another point we're told,

00:03:44.680 The whole process is constant body horror,

00:03:48.560 Berrien, a nurse said at one point,

00:03:50.800 after he told me that the penis tip discoloration I was worried about might just be tissue that's dying off, which is also fine.

00:03:58.060 And this was a recovery with no complications that required surgery.

00:04:00.900 The overall proportion of phalloplasties, that's what they call the surgery where they make a fake penis,

00:04:06.360 that needs surgical revision while lower for some surgeons, including mine, is about one in two.

00:04:11.720 The highest number of corrective follow-up surgeries needed by anyone I know personally is 12.

00:04:19.700 So did you get that?

00:04:20.300 One in two of these surgeries has to be corrected.

00:04:24.020 And there are people who have 12 corrective surgeries.

00:04:27.260 Well, that's totally normal, right?

00:04:29.060 12 corrective surgeries?

00:04:31.340 She also talks about the controversy over this procedure, even within the trans community.

00:04:36.260 She says phalloplasty in general, it was clear, it was hard for people to accept.

00:04:40.220 Well, I will love you no matter what, sweetie, a cis female best friend of mine said when I told her I was transitioning years before.

00:04:48.040 Quote, as long as you don't get a d**k.

00:04:50.480 One flatly demanded, don't get a d**k.

00:04:53.140 It was another transmasculine person I used to know said,

00:04:55.980 disgusting, insane to want, and to have a surgeon make a sensate phallus out of your arm or leg or somewhere

00:05:01.860 and franken-stitch it to your body to go so far out of your way to opt into a tool, perhaps the tool, of so much suffering, is wrong, she said.

00:05:10.600 Most transmasculine people didn't get one.

00:05:13.400 The seminal print transmask magazine was named after not getting one.

00:05:18.300 It's called Original Plumbing.

00:05:19.460 I saw transmasculine support groups shut down and go silent more than once when someone brought up the procedure.

00:05:25.400 And later, when I was that someone, I was twice invited to leave with other people who might want to talk about that.

00:05:32.380 Now, so she doesn't hide from the fact that this procedure is dangerous,

00:05:37.340 where they make a fake penis and they stitch it to your body.

00:05:40.860 In fact, the procedure kills people.

00:05:42.320 But that also seems to be a potential perk from her perspective.

00:05:47.220 She says,

00:05:48.140 It has happened at least once that someone did die from the procedure.

00:05:52.460 I was fully ready to, by which I mean I just spent nearly the last of my savings,

00:05:57.120 which I'd burned navigating the social, medical, legal, extreme, mind, F-s**t show of transitioning on a burial plot just in case.

00:06:08.100 So she bought herself a burial plot before the procedure.

00:06:10.400 Again, totally normal.

00:06:13.300 One of the nodding heads in the group belonged to a non-binary white person who was still horizontal in recovery from having had a week prior the worst happened,

00:06:21.720 which was that after their procedure, in which all the fat and skin had been stripped from their left forearm,

00:06:27.140 from wrist to nearly elbow, along with major nerves and artery and veins,

00:06:31.520 and then shaped into a tube and connected in careful layers to skin and blood vessels and nerves in their pelvis,

00:06:36.920 their new penis had failed.

00:06:38.980 It died.

00:06:40.160 On them.

00:06:40.620 But here they were, already getting ready for their surgeons to harvest a whole other part of their body within a month with zero hesitation.

00:06:47.900 Because those three days they'd had their penis, they said, before being rushed into an eight-hour surgery that couldn't save it,

00:06:54.120 the feeling of it, even just for one moment, even still bloody and painful and packed with stitches, made it all worth it.

00:07:02.240 Now, if this all sounds totally insane, then get a load of this line.

00:07:08.020 She says,

00:07:08.520 But when penis is self, as penis is a gift to self, it's a gift to, to others.

00:07:14.660 Hmm.

00:07:17.420 My penis is a gift to others, she says.

00:07:20.740 There's an interesting pickup line I guess you could try.

00:07:24.580 And yet, penis is self is the more revealing phrase here.

00:07:27.840 Because she sees the self as being contained within a sex organ.

00:07:33.040 Penis is self.

00:07:34.240 That might be, if I had to pick any three words to sum up the leftist ideology, it might be that.

00:07:45.300 Yourself is contained by your sex organs, or in this case, an artificial sex organ.

00:07:49.880 A sex organ constructed from flesh hacked off of your own body.

00:07:53.340 Now, this is probably a good time to show you the picture, if you haven't seen this.

00:07:57.880 If there could possibly be a good time for that.

00:08:00.120 Here's the cover of the magazine with Gabrielle Mack.

00:08:04.580 And you see her in her underwear with a huge hole dug out of her thigh there.

00:08:09.680 You can see that in the thigh.

00:08:11.800 But you also notice something else.

00:08:13.300 The sad thing here.

00:08:14.160 If we can select just one sad thing from this tragic, grotesque spectacle.

00:08:19.940 And that is that she still doesn't look at all like a man.

00:08:23.340 Right?

00:08:23.980 She has wide hips.

00:08:25.160 Kind of an hourglass figure.

00:08:27.660 She's very small and petite.

00:08:30.360 Now, she doesn't look like a woman, certainly.

00:08:32.500 But neither does she look like a man.

00:08:34.660 She's in sort of a gender purgatory.

00:08:37.860 What we find is that we can reject the gift of our own physical selves by mutilating our bodies.

00:08:45.480 But what we cannot do is create a new self.

00:08:48.580 You know, when it comes to ourselves, we have only the power to maintain or destroy, not to create.

00:08:57.300 If you choose to destroy yourself, you'll be left with this.

00:09:03.580 Which is what all trans people who get surgeries are left with.

00:09:08.400 You're left living in a prison of your own making.

00:09:11.600 Stuck like that forever.

00:09:12.760 But I told you this story gets darker.

00:09:17.180 And it does.

00:09:19.100 Gabrielle Mack has extensive experience doing violence to herself.

00:09:22.340 In fact, back in 2011, when she was still a journalist named Mack McClelland and still identified as a woman,

00:09:29.080 she wrote an article for Good Magazine where she describes staging her own violent rape.

00:09:34.160 Now, McClelland wrote at the time that she met a woman in Haiti.

00:09:38.440 When she was in Haiti, you know, I think she was working for Mother Jones and she was a journalist in Haiti, stationed there.

00:09:45.560 And a year prior to this, so 2010, she was in Haiti and she met a woman who had been gang raped by a group of men.

00:09:54.840 Now, this experience of meeting this woman supposedly caused trauma for her, for McClelland.

00:09:59.940 She was the one who had the trauma.

00:10:01.120 And after talking it over with her therapist, as she explains in this article she wrote,

00:10:05.640 the two decided that the best way to overcome this trauma would be to stage her own rape.

00:10:10.620 And so she enlisted a helpful friend to have violent sex with her while suffocating and beating her.

00:10:16.460 And she went through it.

00:10:17.780 And she says the experience was cathartic and healing.

00:10:20.940 Now, what this tells us, first and foremost, is that McClelland is a deeply disturbed, mentally ill person.

00:10:27.580 And we would have known that even without her background of therapeutically raping herself.

00:10:32.600 But that detail drives the point home, I think.

00:10:35.860 But then again, I think mentally ill is kind of too broad a category to be useful here.

00:10:41.240 More specifically, we should say that McClelland suffers from a very potent and very toxic mix of psychotic narcissism and self-loathing.

00:10:50.260 And those two things not only can go hand in hand, but almost always do.

00:10:56.380 She's a narcissist because she's totally obsessed with herself.

00:11:00.640 She can't think about anything but herself.

00:11:03.820 That's all she thinks about.

00:11:05.100 That's all she writes about.

00:11:07.720 A woman in Haiti was gang raped.

00:11:09.840 And somehow that became a story about her and her own trauma.

00:11:15.980 She fetishized someone else's rape and then wrote about it proudly in a magazine.

00:11:22.220 This is such a perfectly narcissistic move that it ought to be included as an example of the word in the dictionary.

00:11:28.460 But she also hates herself.

00:11:30.480 That's why she wanted to be beaten and brutalized.

00:11:32.380 She's turned on by the idea of someone abusing her because she despises her, herself.

00:11:40.240 She says that the fake rape was a successful form of therapy and she was healed from the experience.

00:11:46.360 Not surprisingly, that turns out to be untrue.

00:11:49.740 Because she spiraled from there, spinning around in circles of self-loathing and narcissism

00:11:54.320 until she committed the ultimate act of self-hating narcissism by mutilating her body

00:11:58.840 and attempting to construct a brand new self out of the pieces.

00:12:03.640 You know, constructing a self out of the pieces of the old self.

00:12:06.780 Like her body was nothing but a box of Legos or a potato head doll.

00:12:11.140 She sees the self not as a complete and coherent thing, but as fragmentary.

00:12:15.780 A collection of arbitrary parts, each meaningless in its own right,

00:12:19.140 adding up to a whole, which is also meaningless.

00:12:22.540 Of course, there's a very serious logical problem with all of this.

00:12:25.560 I mean, many logical problems, but here's one.

00:12:27.700 We're told that gender is meaningless anyway.

00:12:31.640 We're told that penises have nothing at all to do with manhood.

00:12:34.920 We're told that a penis is only arbitrarily associated with being a man.

00:12:39.620 It has no actual bearing on the matter.

00:12:42.500 So, what's the point of the operation?

00:12:46.840 Isn't getting a penis in that case like getting a beak or feathers

00:12:50.300 or having three additional fingers attached to your left hand?

00:12:53.620 It's a totally random and unnecessary bodily addition,

00:12:57.720 which has no inherent meaning whatsoever.

00:13:01.040 That's what gender theory tells us.

00:13:03.680 And yet, gender theory also propels women to chop off their breasts

00:13:06.600 and have fake penises attached to their crotches in an effort to be men.

00:13:09.580 It's totally confused.

00:13:11.300 And that's by design.

00:13:12.420 Can any thinking human look at this disturbed person

00:13:17.620 and listen to her story

00:13:19.680 and conclude that sex change surgery is what she needed?

00:13:24.640 Should it not be clear that her sickness is in the mind, not the body?

00:13:28.500 Isn't that obvious for everyone who seeks out these kinds of procedures?

00:13:36.080 It is, of course, but the argument starts to feel futile

00:13:38.660 when you realize that the people pushing this kind of Frankenstein butchery

00:13:42.580 aren't making any sincere attempt to help the mentally afflicted people who seek it out.

00:13:48.600 They aren't worried about the logical problems, much less the moral problems.

00:13:53.060 It is, in the end, all about destruction.

00:13:55.440 So when I sit here and say this is destruction,

00:13:59.300 what they say is, well, yeah, thanks for noticing.

00:14:04.080 Destruction of the so-called gender binary.

00:14:07.020 Destruction of truth, of science.

00:14:10.560 Destruction of beauty.

00:14:13.480 Destruction of society, of civilization.

00:14:17.460 And it all begins at the most fundamental level

00:14:21.080 with the destruction of the self,

00:14:24.140 which is what we have here.

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00:15:43.060 So we're going through a little bit of a tough time at home.

00:15:47.440 My wife took our two-year-old daughter to get her first haircut yesterday.

00:15:52.580 And she ended up with a mullet.

00:15:55.220 Like a full-on, I mean, full-on mullet is what she ended up with.

00:16:00.160 Which is to be expected, I guess, when you take a two-year-old girl to sports clips.

00:16:04.400 And apparently my wife told me, you know, when I saw the haircut, she said they were giving out free cuts at sports clips.

00:16:11.300 Like for free.

00:16:12.480 There's a reason why, I mean, you get what you pay for, right?

00:16:15.180 And I think that's true not always in life, but in certain areas.

00:16:18.840 And it's true definitely with haircuts and hotel rooms.

00:16:22.180 Those are like maybe the two areas where you get what you pay for.

00:16:26.560 And she told me that.

00:16:27.600 I'm like, that's something I would do.

00:16:29.500 Bring the girls for a free haircut at sports clips.

00:16:32.200 And so this is what we ended up with.

00:16:35.080 They just, they mulleted her without asking.

00:16:38.660 And I found out when my wife sent a picture of our daughter to a group text with her sister and her mom and my brother-in-law.

00:16:46.060 And my wife was pretty devastated by it.

00:16:48.580 And all I did was send Joe Dirt gifts because that's what she looks like.

00:16:53.800 I don't know what else to do.

00:16:54.860 But we're picking up the pieces now and moving on with a daughter who looks like the Tiger King.

00:17:03.600 Nothing you could do now.

00:17:04.520 I mean, you could shave it all off, go with the buzz cut.

00:17:06.660 I'm not sure.

00:17:08.000 Though I am told that I guess mullets are in now.

00:17:10.860 I mean, it's a trendy thing.

00:17:12.040 I guess that's why they assumed at sports clips that that's what you want.

00:17:14.700 All right.

00:17:17.700 We'll start with this.

00:17:18.660 Biden gave his speech about Omnicorn yesterday.

00:17:22.600 And let's tune in and watch a little bit of that.

00:17:26.000 And again, to folks who are not vaccinated, you may think you're putting only yourself at risk.

00:17:32.480 But it's your choice.

00:17:34.660 Your choice is not just a choice about you.

00:17:37.640 It affects other people.

00:17:38.540 You're putting other people at risk, your loved ones, your friends, neighbors, strangers you run into.

00:17:46.780 And your choice can be the difference between life or death.

00:17:51.100 The longer the virus is around, the more likely variants form.

00:17:56.720 It may be deadlier than the ones that have come before.

00:17:59.980 Let me say again and again and again and again, please get vaccinated.

00:18:05.460 It's the only responsible thing to do.

00:18:09.700 Those who are not vaccinated are causing hospitals to overrun, become overrun again.

00:18:15.800 I just spoke to the governor of New York.

00:18:18.960 Every COVID-19 hospital means someone with a heart attack, cancer, or other serious illness may not get that bed and that life-saving care they need in the hospital.

00:18:30.460 Look, let me give it to you straight again.

00:18:32.360 Omicron is serious, potentially deadly business for unvaccinated people.

00:18:38.920 Okay.

00:18:39.760 First of all, where do we even begin?

00:18:42.100 We heard from the CEO that runs the organization, which runs like dozens of hospitals in New York yesterday.

00:18:51.020 And he said that they're at like 10% capacity with hospitals, rather.

00:18:59.100 It's not a problem.

00:19:00.180 Everything's fine as far as hospital capacity goes.

00:19:03.780 So that's a lie from Biden.

00:19:07.180 But then we have this, as he says, he's, well, I'm going to shoot it to you straight again.

00:19:10.560 He's shooting it straight.

00:19:11.640 But they say a different thing every day.

00:19:15.300 And so, again, we run into this problem where he says, get the vaccine because that's going to protect other people.

00:19:25.340 And if it's protecting other people, then that means, right, that supposedly, that the vaccine is stopping the spread of the virus.

00:19:35.100 If it's about protecting other people.

00:19:36.640 And yet, if it stops the spread of the virus, and it stops you from contracting the virus, then why do you have to worry about protecting people who are already vaccinated?

00:19:49.100 Why is it my job to protect a vaccinated person?

00:19:55.240 That's what the vaccine is supposed to do.

00:19:58.180 If it actually stops the spread of the virus.

00:20:00.860 But then again, if it doesn't stop the spread of the virus, then getting the vaccine makes almost no difference in terms of protecting other people.

00:20:11.560 Because whether you're vaccinated or not, you're still spreading it.

00:20:16.740 They still, they cannot be honest about it.

00:20:21.340 And just say, listen, if you're in a high risk group, especially, here's what the vaccine will do for you.

00:20:28.600 It's not going to stop the spread, but it might make the illness less severe.

00:20:35.000 That's what it's going to do.

00:20:37.760 But, you know, you could spread it whether you're vaccinated or not.

00:20:42.540 But fortunately, Omnicorn is very mild and is a cold.

00:20:46.680 That's basically what it is for most people for all intents and purposes.

00:20:50.760 They can't say that, but they are starting to shift the goalposts a little bit.

00:20:54.200 So here's Bill Gates with a thread on Twitter yesterday talking about Omnicorn.

00:21:00.360 And he says, just when it seemed like life would return to normal, we could be entering the worst part of the pandemic now, he claims.

00:21:07.740 Omnicorn will hit home for all of us.

00:21:10.300 Close friends of mine now have it.

00:21:11.880 And I've canceled most of my holiday plans.

00:21:14.080 I bet you have.

00:21:15.360 Omnicorn is spreading faster than any virus in history.

00:21:17.780 It will soon be in every country in the world.

00:21:19.420 The big unknown is how sick Omnicorn makes you.

00:21:23.120 We need to take it seriously until we know more about it.

00:21:25.440 Even if it's only half as severe as Delta, it will be the worst surge we have seen so far because it's so infectious.

00:21:31.360 In the meantime, we all have to look out for each other, especially the most vulnerable, whether they live down the street or in another country.

00:21:37.700 That means wearing masks, avoiding big indoor gatherings and getting vaccinated.

00:21:41.660 Getting a booster gives the best protection.

00:21:43.840 And then here's this.

00:21:44.540 There will be more breakthrough cases in people who are vaxxed, which sounds concerning, but it's purely a factor of how many people are vaxxed and how fast this variant is spreading.

00:21:55.020 Vaccines are designed to prevent people from getting seriously ill or dying and are doing that well.

00:22:02.920 Okay, that is a straight up lie.

00:22:06.820 That's not why the vaccines were designed.

00:22:08.820 They were not specifically designed to prevent people from getting seriously ill.

00:22:16.620 They were designed and they were sold as preventing people from getting sick.

00:22:23.540 That's what they were designed to do.

00:22:25.460 That's how they were sold originally.

00:22:27.680 That's how people like Bill Gates sold them.

00:22:29.440 That's why we call, that's why, you know, early on, and he uses the phrase here again, but we haven't heard it quite as often recently.

00:22:38.000 But early on, especially when we heard about people still getting sick with the vaccine, they called it a breakthrough case.

00:22:44.800 Bill Gates wants to hang on to that language, but you don't hear that phrase very often anymore.

00:22:52.440 Because everyone's contracting it, whether they're vaxxed or not.

00:22:54.940 So this is a giant shift of the goalposts, and again, we're supposed to not notice.

00:23:01.780 Oh, the vaccines all along, all they were meant to do was just prevent serious illness.

00:23:09.360 Which they do prevent serious illness.

00:23:11.220 So you could say that.

00:23:13.440 You could say the vaccines prevent serious illness.

00:23:15.140 Okay, great.

00:23:16.400 But to try to pretend that that was merely, solely the point and the design of the vaccines from the beginning is not true.

00:23:29.480 But they can't be honest.

00:23:30.700 They'll never be honest.

00:23:32.420 Mayor Lightfoot in Chicago is the latest Democrat mayor to institute segregation policies.

00:23:38.140 And here's what she says.

00:23:39.720 We didn't want it to get to this point, but given the situation we find ourselves in, we have no choice.

00:23:46.260 Beginning January 3rd, you must show proof you are fully vaxxed to enter bars, restaurants, fitness centers, and entertainment recreational venues where food and drink are served.

00:23:56.560 Then she says, to put it simply, if you've been living vaccine-free, your time is up.

00:24:02.280 If you wish to live life as with the ease to do things you love, you must be vaxxed.

00:24:07.500 This health order may pose an inconvenience to the unvaccinated, and in fact, it is inconvenient by design.

00:24:15.800 Yet again, a little bit of honesty pokes through.

00:24:20.160 You know, you've got to wade through a whole bunch of BS to get to the little glimmers of honesty.

00:24:25.520 And we get something here.

00:24:26.780 We get a little bit of honesty here where she says, that's what this is really about.

00:24:30.480 It's about inconveniencing unvaccinated people.

00:24:34.300 And she's right about that.

00:24:35.180 Well, not so much inconveniencing.

00:24:37.340 Being excluded from all aspects of society, being told that you cannot publicly participate in society, that's a lot more than an inconvenience.

00:24:47.300 I mean, just think about how the left reacted when one gay couple in one town in Colorado were not able to get one type of cake from one bakery.

00:25:02.800 Was that a mere inconvenience?

00:25:07.800 No, this was, in fact, the phrases that they were using, this was exclusion from society.

00:25:12.340 They weren't able to participate in society.

00:25:14.180 It was oppression, persecution.

00:25:16.460 We need a Supreme Court case about it.

00:25:20.960 Because one gay couple couldn't get one type of cake from one little bakery in one town in Colorado.

00:25:27.080 There were, like, 50 other bakeries they could have gone to within a 10-mile radius and gotten everything they wanted.

00:25:35.500 And, in fact, within that one bakery, they could have gotten any cake they wanted.

00:25:40.860 They just couldn't get that.

00:25:41.920 No, they were not able to get a custom cake for this particular event, which was a gay wedding.

00:25:48.940 I don't think Lori Lightfoot, if she chimed in on that, was going to call that an inconvenience.

00:25:55.500 No, that is exclusion from society if you're a gay couple.

00:25:58.740 And yet, being told that not only can you not get a cake from a bakery, you can't even walk into any bakery in the city, and you also can't walk into any other place in the city.

00:26:09.520 That's a mere inconvenience, right?

00:26:14.120 So that's not the honest part.

00:26:15.860 The honest part is at least that she's admitting, in so many words, that this isn't actually about keeping people safe.

00:26:23.900 It is about punishing unvaccinated people.

00:26:29.500 Unvaccinated people are not complying.

00:26:31.280 And that is very distressing and infuriating to Emperor Lightfoot and her fellow despots.

00:26:43.100 And so they're going to punish you for it.

00:26:45.720 That's what it's all about.

00:26:47.340 All right.

00:26:47.860 Let's go to a different mayor.

00:26:49.280 This is incoming New York Mayor Eric Adams.

00:26:51.560 He gave a press conference yesterday and defended his position on putting inmates in solitary confinement.

00:26:57.280 So people on the left have been going after him for this because he is actually, despite being a Democrat, basically a law and order Democrat.

00:27:07.080 There are very few of them that exist anymore.

00:27:09.760 He is one.

00:27:11.900 And here he is addressing that.

00:27:15.720 And the Democrats on the left, they don't really like what he had to say here.

00:27:19.320 We'll talk about that in a minute.

00:27:20.200 Let's listen.

00:27:20.880 For people to continue to say Eric supports solitary confinement, that is just a lie.

00:27:28.880 I support punitive segregation.

00:27:31.900 I am not going to be in a city where dangerous people assault innocent people, go to jail and assault more people.

00:27:41.900 You cannot have a jail system where someone sexually assault a staffer slash an inmate and then say, it is all right.

00:27:54.020 I'm going to give you an iPad and just hug you and say, don't do it again.

00:27:58.380 No.

00:27:59.340 If you are violent, you must be removed from population so that you don't inflict violence on other people.

00:28:08.780 That's clear.

00:28:09.500 If you want to work as a partner, call me.

00:28:13.100 Hear my understandings and my belief.

00:28:16.400 The one thing that's different from everyone that signed a letter and Eric Adams, I wore a bulletproof vest for 22 years and protected the people of this city.

00:28:26.100 And when you do that, then you have the right to question me on safety and public safety matters.

00:28:32.780 I think I know a little something about this.

00:28:36.320 I'm going to protect my correction officers.

00:28:38.380 I'm going to protect the inmates that are serving time.

00:28:41.580 And I'm not going to allow violent people to do violence and think they can do it without being held accountable.

00:28:48.380 And we can do it in a humane fashion.

00:28:51.180 And if anyone wants to talk to me about that, don't write a letter.

00:28:56.380 Call me and speak with me.

00:28:58.680 That is how we're going to resolve this.

00:29:01.020 There's a body of people that are coming into the city council.

00:29:04.240 They have no desire in moving our city forward.

00:29:07.840 Their desire is to be disruptive.

00:29:10.320 What I am going to do, I'm going to ignore them.

00:29:14.540 I'm going to stay committed, undistracted.

00:29:17.280 And I'm going to grind.

00:29:18.700 If they like it or not, I'm the mayor.

00:29:21.040 What a change of pace from Bill de Blasio to that guy.

00:29:24.700 Unfortunately, he's in the wrong party.

00:29:26.920 I mean, I don't know what his other views are.

00:29:28.500 I assume that to get elected as a Democrat in the year 2021, I have to assume that he's got plenty of crazy left-wing views on other subjects.

00:29:38.800 But he's still in the wrong party because everything he said there was totally rational.

00:29:45.540 It made complete sense.

00:29:48.320 If you have violent people in prison who are violent within the prison itself, then to punish them for that and also to protect everybody else, you have to be able to segregate them.

00:30:03.100 Of course.

00:30:03.940 But you're trying to communicate this to people who are, in principle, irrational.

00:30:15.440 They reject rationality in principle.

00:30:20.220 Everything is emotion-based.

00:30:24.860 Which is why they're in favor of segregating non-vaccinated people who are law-abiding citizens.

00:30:34.900 We could segregate them from every aspect of society.

00:30:38.200 But they're not in favor of segregating violent rapists who are in jail and are raping people in jail.

00:30:46.840 No, to segregate them within the prison is a human rights violation.

00:30:51.500 This is the cognitive dissonance.

00:30:56.260 These are the competing, conflicting, schizophrenic views held by people on the left and trying to communicate them, especially if you're on their side.

00:31:06.400 There's no hope.

00:31:07.180 But the one thing especially that folks on the left didn't like that he said there, and there were Chris Hayes and MSNBC was taking issue with this and lots of Democrats were.

00:31:16.640 But he said, you know, if you wear a badge, then you have the right to criticize me on this.

00:31:22.660 Now, I agreed with everything he says in that clip.

00:31:27.400 I don't agree with that part.

00:31:30.600 I don't think he meant it literally.

00:31:32.720 But if you're an elected representative, then anybody has the right to criticize you.

00:31:36.600 And you don't have to, you know, work in the government or become a police officer to earn the right to criticize policies that your elected representatives, you know, put in place.

00:31:49.360 It's a similar thing that when you hear sometimes if there's a debate about foreign policy and whether we should go to war or send our troops here or there.

00:31:56.860 And sometimes you hear people say, well, you didn't even serve.

00:31:59.100 So what are you talking about this?

00:32:00.100 No, I don't need to sign up for the military to earn the right to criticize government policy.

00:32:10.220 That's not how it works in America.

00:32:12.100 I don't think he meant it literally.

00:32:15.020 But that's not correct.

00:32:16.760 But it also is interesting, though.

00:32:19.400 Because what he just said there, is that not a version of trust the experts?

00:32:25.780 Isn't this, how is that any different from what we hear from the left all the time about,

00:32:29.560 well, you can't criticize Fauci if you're not a scientist, as if he is one?

00:32:35.220 Trust the experts.

00:32:37.900 You have no experience in this.

00:32:41.440 You know, you're not paid to do science.

00:32:43.880 You're not a scientist.

00:32:46.020 So isn't that basically what he just said?

00:32:49.340 He is an expert on law enforcement, on prison policy.

00:32:55.700 Having worked in the field for so many years, he's an expert.

00:32:59.560 But, yeah, they don't like it as much when you apply it to law enforcement.

00:33:06.220 Trust the experts when it comes to law enforcement issues.

00:33:09.340 They're not ready to do that.

00:33:12.700 No, you have to have a PhD in order to earn the right to criticize Dr. Fauci.

00:33:20.620 And even if you have a PhD and you criticize them, which many PhDs have, well, then that's only evidence that you never deserve the PhD to begin with.

00:33:28.780 But to even potentially have the right, you have to have a PhD.

00:33:31.020 But to criticize law enforcement officers, no, you don't need to have any experience.

00:33:34.720 I mean, you know, the person best equipped to do that is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or someone like that.

00:33:40.260 Interesting how that works.

00:33:43.780 So Jack Posobiec shared this a few days ago.

00:33:46.320 It's an article from 2019 about the woman who created Sex and the City and how she feels now.

00:33:52.500 And this is relevant again because they've got the new Sex and the City spinoff series or whatever on HBO.

00:33:58.260 And it's ultra, ultra woke, obviously.

00:34:02.240 But Candace Bushnell is the woman who created the book that this is based on.

00:34:07.420 And here's what she said in 2019.

00:34:09.240 This is from, I think this is from the Daily Mail.

00:34:12.020 It says, her bestselling book and the racy TV series it inspired taught a generation of women that they could have it all.

00:34:19.280 But Sex and the City creator Candace Bushnell, 60, has admitted that she regrets choosing a career over having children as she is now truly alone.

00:34:27.400 The former sex columnist, who is worth around $18 million, told the Sunday Times,

00:34:34.420 when I was in my 30s and 40s, I didn't think about it.

00:34:36.780 Then I got divorced.

00:34:37.880 And when I was in my 50s, I started to see the impact of not having children and of truly being alone.

00:34:43.360 I do see that people with children have an anchor in a way that people who have no kids don't.

00:34:49.180 So that's interesting.

00:34:49.820 That's what she said in 2019.

00:34:51.920 Jack shared this.

00:34:53.220 And then Candace Bushnell responded to that a couple days ago to Jack Posobiec.

00:35:01.160 She said, why are you retweeting this old story?

00:35:03.520 As a matter of fact, I don't regret not having children.

00:35:06.240 I celebrate it and I encourage other women to do the same.

00:35:09.620 Come see my new show, Is There Still Sex and the City?,

00:35:12.820 which just got a rave review in the New York Times.

00:35:14.940 She expressed regret about not having kids, but now she regrets expressing that regret

00:35:25.800 and is going back on that, which is really a shame.

00:35:32.900 Because, of course, we know the truth.

00:35:35.620 We know she was right before.

00:35:37.240 Of course you regret it.

00:35:38.380 There's just no way that you could be now in your 50s and 60s and happy that you're alone.

00:35:48.680 Human beings don't work that way.

00:35:52.380 Being like in solitude, alone, having no one in your life who really loves you or cares about you,

00:36:00.640 especially because you've divorced your husband.

00:36:03.080 So you have no spouse, you have no kids.

00:36:06.740 I don't know.

00:36:07.500 Maybe she might have siblings or something or cousins.

00:36:09.980 Maybe she has other family.

00:36:12.600 But they're not invested in you.

00:36:16.460 They just don't care about you in the same way that a spouse does, that your children do.

00:36:23.360 And it's also not just about you.

00:36:25.400 It's not simply that you don't have people caring about you in that way.

00:36:29.180 It's also that you don't have anyone to care about in that way yourself.

00:36:35.300 The show is actually quite profound.

00:36:36.780 She put it in 2019.

00:36:38.580 And now she's going back on it because she's got it.

00:36:40.420 Why is she going back on it?

00:36:41.500 Because she has another Sex and the City related show that she wants to sell.

00:36:46.340 It's really pathetic on a number of levels.

00:36:49.120 But what she said in 2019 was pretty profound.

00:36:51.100 She says that when people don't have children, don't have an anchor.

00:36:56.400 You know, it's something that anchors you, like, to this world and gives you a sense of purpose and grounds you in a certain way.

00:37:06.360 And you don't have that.

00:37:07.740 It's true.

00:37:09.240 As I said, you also don't have, it's also about having this outlet.

00:37:12.580 Having people to care about, to pour yourself into, people to love in that special way that parents love their children and that spouses are supposed to love each other.

00:37:26.300 There's just no way that you could get to your 60s and feel great about not having that.

00:37:36.960 And so we get these little, again, little glimmers of honesty.

00:37:39.840 And then, and then, but now she's saying, oh, oops, I was accidentally honest about that.

00:37:43.920 Never mind.

00:37:45.300 All right.

00:37:45.560 The Post Millennial reports this.

00:37:46.820 It says, a Lutheran pastor in Chicago offered drag prayer time for children.

00:37:50.700 Aaron Musser, who was ordained this summer, donned a blonde wig, white dress, and makeup to share in worship with the children in his parish.

00:37:59.240 This is St. Luke's Lutheran Church of Logan Square.

00:38:02.260 And they publicized the event on Facebook.

00:38:04.160 They're very proud of it.

00:38:05.660 Let's, let's take a look at some of this.

00:38:09.760 Go ahead and play.

00:38:10.820 So with many other exhortations, John proclaimed the good news to the people.

00:38:16.760 The gospel of the Lord.

00:38:18.380 Praise to you, O Christ.

00:38:19.880 You may be seated.

00:38:21.380 And I'd like to invite any children or people who would like to see a picture book that I will be showing on the iPad here.

00:38:28.240 Anyone who'd like a closer view of that to come up and sit.

00:38:31.600 I'm sure I said that's all about that.

00:38:33.940 Come up and sit somewhere on the ground here.

00:38:35.900 I have an awesome story to share with you today.

00:38:38.120 I'm really excited to share it with you.

00:38:40.780 I have a question.

00:38:41.480 First, though, have any of you ever seen a drag queen?

00:38:44.420 No.

00:38:44.900 No.

00:38:46.340 No.

00:38:46.640 Is this, so this is everybody's first time they're ever seeing a drag queen?

00:38:49.980 Well, hello.

00:38:51.320 I am also a boy most of the time when I'm here.

00:38:55.680 But today, I...

00:38:56.900 Here is a story to read today.

00:39:02.480 Yes.

00:39:03.120 Beautiful.

00:39:03.480 So, the story that I want to share with you today is called Joy.

00:39:08.740 Okay.

00:39:12.060 No surprise there.

00:39:13.120 Female pastors at the church.

00:39:14.420 You got two female pastors and a guy in drag.

00:39:16.620 And that's what's going on at that Lutheran church.

00:39:19.980 Hey, what is there to criticize?

00:39:22.080 It's just a grown man playing out his sexual fantasies at church in front of a bunch of kids.

00:39:27.600 That's what this is, by the way.

00:39:28.940 I mean, drag and all this kind of stuff.

00:39:32.280 These are men who, like, this is their sexual fetish, is wearing women's clothes.

00:39:38.740 Um, and if that's your thing that you do in the privacy of your own home, it's really weird.

00:39:47.640 But you can do that in privacy of your own home.

00:39:49.680 Nobody's going to know.

00:39:50.580 And I'm quite happy not knowing.

00:39:53.720 Like, I have no interest.

00:39:54.900 I'm not going into anyone's home performing checks to see if they're wearing women's clothes or not.

00:39:59.920 I'm not doing that.

00:40:00.500 So, you want to be in your home doing that, you can.

00:40:04.400 No one can stop you.

00:40:05.080 But, you want to play that out in public, it's a different story.

00:40:10.240 And you want to involve children in your sexual fantasy.

00:40:14.080 Well, no, that's really a different story.

00:40:16.460 Because that's pedophilic.

00:40:18.420 That's child sexual abuse.

00:40:19.820 You should go to prison for it, obviously.

00:40:21.120 Um, this would be a perfect time.

00:40:27.020 I mean, if there was anyone in that church who was not a degenerate freak lunatic, um, which, of course, there isn't.

00:40:33.700 Because they wouldn't be in that church if they were.

00:40:36.520 But if there was just one normal person there, this would be a great time for, to hearken back to the Gospels.

00:40:43.060 And, uh, Jesus Christ overturning the tables in the temple.

00:40:49.040 Um, because as much as we're told, and for decades now, we've got this false impression of Jesus as this peacenik, hippie kind of guy who's just hanging around all the time.

00:40:58.660 And, uh, you know, non-aggressive, telling everyone, hey, chill out, man.

00:41:05.320 Kind of like presenting Jesus as if he's like the big Lebowski or something.

00:41:10.000 As much as that is the impression we're given, that's actually not the Jesus that is portrayed in the Gospel.

00:41:15.260 Um, and, uh, that Jesus was, uh, very passionate about, of course, you know, especially about protecting children, protecting the vulnerable, about the truth.

00:41:31.420 Jesus is truth and the life.

00:41:34.160 Um, but, but on top of that, also aggressive at times.

00:41:40.580 He was hostile towards sin, hostile towards evil, and aggressive, and even violent on at least one occasion.

00:41:50.020 Because the turning over of the tables in the temple was a violent act.

00:41:55.900 In fact, we're told in one of the stories that he fashions a whip.

00:41:59.800 And it's interesting that it says he fashions it, not even like he grabbed one, but he actually, he took a little bit of time.

00:42:03.700 So there's premeditation here of, of, like, making this weapon and using it against people.

00:42:11.060 Causing physical pain to them.

00:42:13.380 Well, we can assume to be whipped.

00:42:17.280 So this would have been a great time for a little bit of a, uh, turning over the tables in the temple approach.

00:42:23.880 But, unfortunately, all the people there are complicit and are also groomers of children.

00:42:28.020 Um, so that's why that didn't happen.

00:42:30.000 All right.

00:42:31.400 One other story here from The Guardian that says,

00:42:34.200 Harry Potter's favorite sport, Quidditch, is to receive a new name in the U.S., in part because its leaders are critical of the controversial views of the fictional Wizards creator, J.K. Rowling, which the U.S. leagues have called anti-trans.

00:42:47.640 And I, I only, I just read this headline and I'm, I'm reading it now for the first time.

00:42:54.480 And this only stands out to me because, yeah, it's, it's completely absurd that all these Harry Potter fans that are trying to excise J.K. Rowling from her own creation.

00:43:03.400 Like, none of this would exist without her.

00:43:06.200 But also, so there are actual people who, who play Quidditch, the Harry Potter game.

00:43:14.020 How much of a dork can you possibly be that you're not only a Harry Potter fan, but you, you spend your free time playing, like, it's a bunch of nerds running around on broomsticks.

00:43:24.240 And, uh, but they're, they have standards, though.

00:43:32.360 You know, it's a little, some self-respect, and that's why we can't, we can't allow J.K. Rowling to be associated with this, even though she created all this.

00:43:38.000 Right, makes sense.

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00:44:40.460 Okay, let's get now to the comment section.

00:44:42.180 So before we get to the comments, I was just giving this present from the crew.

00:44:58.140 Sean McKenna, the rest of the Matt Walsh show team has given me a present, which I'm very flattered.

00:45:06.640 I'm also slightly afraid of what could pop out at me.

00:45:11.260 So we'll see.

00:45:12.040 All right.

00:45:16.120 I'm also very bad at receiving gifts.

00:45:18.420 So now I'm doing this on camera, but we'll...

00:45:24.420 Oh, wow.

00:45:33.380 I have waited.

00:45:37.060 This is my Nintendo 64.

00:45:38.420 I have waited for like 20 years for this gift.

00:45:41.900 Hold on.

00:45:45.400 I'm actually excited about this.

00:45:47.220 Can I bring this home?

00:45:49.740 Is this just a bit or can I actually bring this home?

00:45:52.760 You can take it home.

00:45:53.960 I can bring it home?

00:45:54.480 Okay.

00:45:55.980 And Mortal Kombat.

00:45:57.100 This is from Jacob, the PA, who I slaughtered in the latest version of Mortal Kombat.

00:46:03.180 So I guess he wants to play me again on the...

00:46:04.980 But I'm even better at this because this one I know.

00:46:07.720 You know, we've been doing these videos where...

00:46:09.720 Thank you so much.

00:46:10.300 You know, I am deeply touched by this.

00:46:14.120 And we've been...

00:46:15.160 Hopefully I didn't just break it.

00:46:17.000 We've been doing these videos where I play video games.

00:46:20.580 And, you know, I'm actually not as terrible as you might think, but I've shared the story

00:46:23.880 that when I was a kid, like in fifth grade, I wanted a Nintendo 64 for Christmas.

00:46:31.480 And I was told by my parents that, you know, I was going to get it.

00:46:35.260 And then Christmas morning, I open it up and it's a Super Nintendo.

00:46:38.500 It's like the old model.

00:46:41.980 And then I go to school the next day.

00:46:44.440 And I had already bragged to all my friends I was getting an N64.

00:46:47.500 And they said, well, how's that N64?

00:46:49.260 And so I lied.

00:46:50.400 And I lived this lie for years where I was pretending that I had an N64.

00:46:55.260 Until finally, you know, and I even...

00:46:57.380 Like they wanted to come over and play it.

00:46:58.540 I had to stave them off.

00:47:00.280 Until finally the whole ruse was up.

00:47:02.100 And I've lived with that shame ever since.

00:47:03.620 So now, finally, I have this.

00:47:05.060 And I'm deeply, deeply grateful for that.

00:47:07.800 All right.

00:47:09.140 Let's get now to the comments.

00:47:10.280 Okay.

00:47:11.220 Van Pasterman says, could getting the Omicron variant actually be good for those who had

00:47:16.380 not gotten the original COVID?

00:47:18.640 In my mind, if it is a lesser COVID, then could it, in essence, be acting like a real vaccine

00:47:23.380 in that it helps you build some immunity?

00:47:25.620 Am I way off on this type of thinking?

00:47:28.120 No, you're not way off on this thinking at all.

00:47:29.540 That makes a lot of sense.

00:47:32.620 But you're not an expert, neither am I.

00:47:34.340 So that's a common sense judgment that you and I can make.

00:47:38.320 But because we don't have PhDs, we're not allowed to make it.

00:47:42.000 We have to wait for the people with the PhDs to, like, seven months from now, to say the

00:47:47.740 thing that we've been saying all along.

00:47:49.340 And then it's valid.

00:47:53.720 C Squared says, I agree with Matt on the giving guys gifts thing.

00:47:57.580 I get my uncle the same thing every year, chocolate and slippers.

00:48:00.580 The one year I decided to change it up, he was disappointed he didn't get slippers.

00:48:04.920 Yeah, just give him what he wants.

00:48:06.780 Although, so a new pair of slippers every year?

00:48:10.140 So what, he's got like 50 pairs of slippers now?

00:48:11.720 I'm not hating on it.

00:48:13.060 I'm not.

00:48:13.560 I mean, I am a little bit, but we'll move on.

00:48:18.980 Kayla says, Matt, I told my husband what you said about gifts for husbands and told him

00:48:23.400 that you explained that guys don't care about the thought behind a gift.

00:48:27.280 I then asked him what he wanted for Christmas and he responded, a bunch of thoughts.

00:48:31.900 So thanks for that.

00:48:33.320 I don't know if he's a dad yet, but that is, he's ready to be a father.

00:48:36.300 I can tell you by that dad humor.

00:48:39.460 Top notch.

00:48:40.340 Top shelf.

00:48:40.740 All right, and let's go now.

00:48:44.880 So then some other comments, but a whole bunch of pit bull comments, as you can imagine.

00:48:49.280 So we'll read a few of these.

00:48:50.580 This is from Erica says, I was attacked by a pit bull years ago when I was babysitting.

00:48:54.660 The kids and I were outside playing and this dog bolted from a yard across the street and

00:48:58.460 lunged at one of the kids I was watching.

00:49:00.180 I was able to push her away from the dog and then it started attacking me.

00:49:02.720 A good Samaritan neighbor came over, got the kids away, then tried to yank the dog off

00:49:06.420 of me.

00:49:06.600 He was a strong, athletic young male who worked as a firefighter and he still struggled to

00:49:10.940 get this dog off because pit bulls are so strong, especially while attacking.

00:49:15.160 That alone should tell you that they aren't safe.

00:49:17.340 I'm a small woman and I don't know what would have happened if he hadn't stepped in.

00:49:20.540 Thankfully, the kids were not injured at all.

00:49:22.120 I needed surgery and still deal with the injuries that I sustained.

00:49:26.120 Dwight says, Matt, regarding the pit bull, as an animal control officer, everything you

00:49:29.980 said about the dog is 100% correct.

00:49:32.140 This doesn't happen every year.

00:49:33.200 This happens every day.

00:49:34.140 The media just picks up a few here and there.

00:49:36.180 PSA, if you live in an apartment or condo, there is absolutely zero reason for you to

00:49:39.600 own a pit bull, German shepherd, or husky.

00:49:41.660 Get a chihuahua.

00:49:43.660 Ethan says, Matt, as much as I agree with you about human lives mattering more than animal

00:49:47.140 lives, you kind of just shirked off the low number of pit bull mullings by using emotional

00:49:51.680 appeal and graphic descriptive language.

00:49:53.780 The same tactic, which you discredit, that people use to try and pass draconian COVID measures.

00:49:58.940 207 years is vanishingly small.

00:50:00.740 You could probably find similar numbers for far more mundane things.

00:50:04.140 Blidgey says, the pit bull was a rescue dog that historically been abused and had a history

00:50:12.060 of violent behavior as a result of the abuse.

00:50:14.040 That isn't evidence of a problem with the breed, but a problem with animal abuse.

00:50:17.760 Pit bulls are favored among dog fighters.

00:50:19.520 As a result, many of them are raised in violent abusive environments until the fighting rings

00:50:23.340 are shut down.

00:50:24.520 I agree with Walsh on many things, but I find it a bit disturbing how quickly Walsh jumps right

00:50:27.960 on the bandwagon of wanting the government to ban you from owning things that he disagrees with,

00:50:32.460 viewing things he disagrees with, et cetera.

00:50:34.840 And comparing a pit bull to a lion, please.

00:50:36.800 That's the exact same argument the hyperventilating, hand-wringing gun grabbers use when they compare

00:50:41.620 small arms to nukes and fighter jets.

00:50:45.900 Hendy says, love your show.

00:50:47.180 You said 44 people died in Africa, but there's no need to panic.

00:50:49.920 Yet one woman gets attacked by a dog, and now I need to put down my pit bull?

00:50:54.520 Makes no sense.

00:50:55.940 And there are different breeds of pit bulls as well, some of which are more aggressive than others.

00:50:59.100 Okay, so I chose the more reasonable pro-pit bull responses.

00:51:05.220 There were lots of unreasonable ones.

00:51:07.000 One pit bull owner actually issued me a veiled, very thinly veiled death threat over it.

00:51:13.420 And I did post a screenshot of that to Twitter, so you know that I'm not being like the squad

00:51:17.640 here and making up death threats.

00:51:19.700 In any case, let's just review a few of the points here in response to both the reasonable

00:51:24.460 and unreasonable pit bull owners.

00:51:26.640 And by the way, the fact that pit bull owners freak out like psychotic lunatics when you

00:51:31.320 criticize pit bulls, that doesn't really dissuade me in my view about pit bulls, I have to tell you.

00:51:36.920 So, first of all, statistically, it is a fact that pit bulls are responsible for a hugely

00:51:43.260 disproportionate number of maulings and killings.

00:51:47.080 Hugely disproportionate.

00:51:47.840 There are hundreds of dog breeds out there, and yet, well, way more than half of the serious

00:51:54.360 maulings and killings are done by pit bulls.

00:51:57.100 They might not bite the most, and so this is the deflection mechanism used by the pit bull

00:52:01.200 apologists.

00:52:02.420 They'll pull up the data on dog bites, and they'll say, look at that, pit bulls are way

00:52:06.720 down there towards the bottom.

00:52:09.200 Yeah, you might have smaller dogs that will nip at your hand or whatever, and that counts

00:52:12.200 as a dog bite.

00:52:13.320 But that's not the point.

00:52:16.660 When pit bulls bite, it's a very different story, and they do a lot of damage.

00:52:20.980 So, the vast majority of people killed by dogs are killed by pit bulls.

00:52:24.460 That's a fact.

00:52:25.160 That's 100% a fact.

00:52:26.820 And many hundreds of people have died that way, including many children.

00:52:30.760 Second, you don't have to tell me, oh, blame the, you know, don't blame the dog.

00:52:35.180 I don't blame the dog.

00:52:36.340 It's a dog.

00:52:37.320 I don't blame the dog.

00:52:38.400 Dogs are not moral animals making moral choices.

00:52:41.120 That's the point.

00:52:43.360 That's my point.

00:52:44.660 I'm not mad at the dog.

00:52:46.080 It does what it is bred to do, what it's programmed to do biologically.

00:52:49.760 And that's why it doesn't belong in neighborhoods and communities.

00:52:53.380 I would also say that you shouldn't keep, like, an elephant in your backyard if you live in

00:52:57.900 a townhouse in the city.

00:53:00.160 Is that because I hate elephants?

00:53:01.720 Do I blame elephants?

00:53:02.680 No, it's just that that wouldn't be an appropriate place to keep an animal of that type.

00:53:07.560 It's not safe for you.

00:53:08.700 It's not safe for your neighbors.

00:53:09.940 It's not good for the elephant, right?

00:53:12.800 Third, when you hear it's the owner's fault, not the animals.

00:53:17.480 Okay, again, maybe that's true much of the time.

00:53:20.420 But that proves my point again, because these are potentially very, very dangerous animals,

00:53:27.100 uniquely dangerous in ways that many other dog breeds are not.

00:53:30.260 And they require specialized care.

00:53:33.180 But any old moron can buy one and keep them in any kind of home or neighborhood.

00:53:40.040 Right?

00:53:40.480 And there are plenty of good pit bull owners that have pit bulls that freak out because

00:53:46.180 it is ultimately an animal.

00:53:49.260 And you can't really know what's going on inside the animal's mind or what's going to

00:53:52.560 trigger it.

00:53:53.020 You can't actually know that.

00:53:54.320 But even if all of the good pit bull owners had good pit bulls, the fact is that that's

00:54:00.560 just not the way it works.

00:54:03.060 Anyone can go and get a pit bull.

00:54:04.340 There are no requirements.

00:54:05.880 There are no, you know, there are very few laws.

00:54:08.160 Maybe in some communities, you know, they might have rules in place, but most do not.

00:54:16.900 And fourth, this argument that it's just like guns, that's absurd, because as we talked

00:54:21.280 about yesterday, you have a constitutional right to bear arms.

00:54:24.160 It's the Second Amendment.

00:54:24.840 There's no constitutional right to bear pit bulls or to bear animals.

00:54:29.060 Okay, there's not a constitutional right to animal ownership.

00:54:33.140 And also, guns are inanimate objects.

00:54:36.300 Okay, so there it is all about the user.

00:54:42.560 That's not the case with a dog.

00:54:43.880 A dog is a creature, a conscious being that can do things and does do things on its own.

00:54:51.800 You can exercise influence over the creature.

00:54:56.060 And that's what training is all about.

00:54:58.480 And you can control them if you have them gated in or you have them on a leash.

00:55:03.720 But that's it.

00:55:04.500 It's really all about influence.

00:55:05.780 It's influence and deterrence, which is not the case with a gun.

00:55:11.340 It's not that a gun won't kill anybody if you influence it.

00:55:17.100 It's not about influence.

00:55:18.320 It's about it's fully control with a gun.

00:55:19.940 And then fifth, the fifth point is, again, you still have not explained what pressing need or reason there is to have pit bulls or to breed them or to sell them or to keep them in communities.

00:55:35.560 I've explained my reason for not.

00:55:38.000 My reason is pretty simple, that hundreds of people get mauled and killed by them, including children, and that's not good.

00:55:44.900 And these dogs are disproportionately responsible for those kinds of things.

00:55:48.000 So I think those dogs shouldn't be allowed in communities.

00:55:49.760 That's my reason.

00:55:51.880 But what you have not explained is that in spite of that, we still need to have these kind of dogs in communities.

00:55:57.880 Because why?

00:55:59.120 I know you like them.

00:56:03.380 You'd prefer it.

00:56:04.100 But why do we need that?

00:56:06.660 What is the real downside to not allowing it?

00:56:09.560 That's what I don't understand.

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00:58:33.400 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:58:36.000 So this is our last show before the holiday, so I wanted to do some sort of a Christmas-themed cancellation.

00:58:43.460 This is what I do when I'm in the holiday spirit.

00:58:44.820 I cancel things.

00:58:46.140 And I thought about going through a list of Christmas songs that should be canceled, but I realized there wasn't much to say.

00:58:53.440 It's simply a fact that the worst Christmas song of all time, the worst song of all time, period, and the one that deserves to be canceled beyond any other,

00:59:00.120 and the song which it ought to be a capital crime to play is Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney.

00:59:04.500 There are, of course, other Christmas songs that deserve to be recognized as the rancid ear poison that they are.

00:59:09.920 Feliz Navidad, All I Want for Christmas Is You, Mary Did You Know, to name a few.

00:59:13.820 But none of them hold an advent candle to Wonderful Christmastime.

00:59:17.080 Now, I was trapped in an Uber last week with a driver who had the heat turned up to 87, even though it was in the 70s outside,

00:59:24.040 and the windows were rolled up, and he was blasting Feliz Navidad while various foul and ominous odors emanated from his person.

00:59:31.320 And he drove in a stop-and-start fashion, seemingly designed to make me vomit, especially because I didn't have my relief band with me.

00:59:36.920 And yet, I would prefer that whole experience, including Feliz Navidad, to ever hearing Wonderful Christmastime again.

00:59:45.080 Wonderful Christmastime is the laziest song ever written by any member of the Beatles,

00:59:48.880 which is saying something, because John Lennon is responsible for Imagine.

00:59:53.020 It reminds me of, you know, the kind of, like, Christmas song you might scribble hastily onto a sheet of lined paper

00:59:57.540 if you had an assignment in sixth grade to write a Christmas song and forgot about it until three minutes before it was due.

01:00:02.940 And then you go, oh, shoot, I forgot to write one.

01:00:04.640 Okay, Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime.

01:00:08.700 Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime.

01:00:10.400 Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime.

01:00:12.320 There you go.

01:00:12.840 Except if you handed that in to your teacher, you'd get an F, and she'd send a note home to your parents.

01:00:19.640 Instead, Paul McCartney writes it and makes a billion dollars because every department store in the world

01:00:24.640 agrees to play that song exclusively on loop from November 1st until mid-January.

01:00:30.080 Now, I'm not being totally fair.

01:00:31.480 Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime aren't the only lyrics.

01:00:34.260 There are also verses like this one.

01:00:36.240 The moon is right, the spirit's up, we're here tonight, and that's enough.

01:00:39.820 Now, I'm not sure what the moon is right even means or why he's evoking imagery of moons and nighttime for Christmas.

01:00:46.600 But that's downright poetic compared to this verse.

01:00:49.600 The choir of children sing their song.

01:00:51.700 They practiced all year long.

01:00:53.540 Ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-oo-oo.

01:01:01.500 They practiced that all year long?

01:01:03.980 Really?

01:01:04.940 That's a shame.

01:01:06.360 All in all, it's an atrocious song.

01:01:07.860 But I said this cancellation wasn't about the song, and yet here I am.

01:01:11.120 What I want to do instead is list what I think are the top two Christmas movies

01:01:14.500 and then two Christmas movies that many people have in their top two,

01:01:18.920 but which are, in fact, in reality canceled.

01:01:20.960 So we'll do that.

01:01:22.160 Starting with the canceled Christmas movies.

01:01:24.460 We'll go through these quickly.

01:01:25.240 First, this isn't really one movie.

01:01:27.860 It's like every Christmas movie that has been made at any point in the last 30 years.

01:01:31.480 There has not been a great one or even a good one.

01:01:34.060 Most of them have been downright horrendous, such as Jim Carrey's Grinch Who Stole Christmas,

01:01:37.960 which qualifies as a human rights violation, I think, under the Geneva Convention.

01:01:41.620 I tried to watch that with my kids a couple days ago, and I became very sad and distraught

01:01:47.420 as I thought about how Jesus must feel.

01:01:50.220 It's his birthday, and this is how we're celebrating it?

01:01:53.120 With a movie that manages to be dull and tedious, but also feel like an acid trip at the same time?

01:01:58.080 But of all the Christmas movies released during the past three decades,

01:02:01.600 I think probably Elf is the top of the heap.

01:02:05.480 Like, the best.

01:02:06.820 But that only speaks to the sad quality of the heap.

01:02:09.760 On its own merits, Elf is garbage also.

01:02:12.440 It's at best a funny, like, five-minute skit,

01:02:15.080 but unfortunately the runtime is 90 minutes,

01:02:17.200 which is basically every Will Ferrell movie ever.

01:02:20.060 Will Ferrell comedies fall into that common mold of comedy

01:02:22.120 where the story is front-heavy with lots of gags that are kind of amusing,

01:02:26.100 but then in the back half, they realize that they need to have some kind of plot

01:02:28.760 and conflict and resolution,

01:02:30.220 so they jam all of that in in a perfunctory fashion,

01:02:33.060 and the jokes disappear and the whole thing just sputters to a halt.

01:02:35.240 So that movie is canceled.

01:02:37.060 Also, we're canceling Home Alone.

01:02:39.260 Now, it has enough Christmas cheer to qualify as a good Christmas movie,

01:02:42.860 but I can never get past the fact that the parents

01:02:44.780 never thought to call a neighbor

01:02:47.180 and have them come over and check on the kid.

01:02:49.980 And actually, even better,

01:02:51.480 why didn't they call the house themselves?

01:02:54.380 Now, I know you'll tell me,

01:02:55.920 and I've heard this excuse many times,

01:02:57.540 that the phone lines were down so they couldn't call.

01:02:59.920 But if that's true, then answer me this.

01:03:02.560 How did Kevin call and order a pizza later on in the same film?

01:03:07.460 Explain that to me.

01:03:09.080 How did he order the pizza if the phone lines were down?

01:03:13.100 These are the kind of plot holes that ruin a movie.

01:03:15.900 And I've tried to explain this to my kids.

01:03:17.380 I've had this exact argument with them.

01:03:19.480 And they just, they, you know,

01:03:22.460 they can't wrap their heads around it.

01:03:25.260 Also, speaking of my kids,

01:03:27.120 they saw Home Alone for the first time three years ago.

01:03:29.640 And they spent the following year

01:03:32.220 randomly booby-trapping parts of our house,

01:03:34.780 to include my son once taking a nail out of the garage

01:03:37.920 and putting its sharp end up in the middle of the kitchen floor,

01:03:41.700 where I almost stepped on it.

01:03:43.320 And when I yelled at him about it,

01:03:44.480 he told me that he was booby-trapping it for burglars,

01:03:46.700 like in Home Alone.

01:03:47.900 And I said, it's the middle of the day,

01:03:50.060 and we're all home.

01:03:51.400 Okay, the chances of maiming a member of the family

01:03:53.500 instead of a burglar are extremely high

01:03:55.720 in these circumstances.

01:03:57.280 So I told him to take the nail out to the garage,

01:03:59.100 which he did.

01:04:00.400 But then he put it up,

01:04:01.460 he put it on the floor in the garage

01:04:02.980 with the sharp end up,

01:04:04.380 where I nearly stepped on it again

01:04:06.220 when I was taking the garbage out.

01:04:08.460 So Home Alone is canceled too for that.

01:04:10.740 But what are the best?

01:04:11.500 I don't want to end on just a negative note.

01:04:13.200 So what are the best two Christmas movies of all time?

01:04:16.460 I think that's an easy choice.

01:04:17.280 Number two is A Christmas Story.

01:04:19.460 The movie is infinitely rewatchable.

01:04:21.300 It's charming.

01:04:21.840 It's funny.

01:04:22.220 The whole story revolves around Christmas.

01:04:25.540 It's also appropriate for the whole family,

01:04:27.400 though it isn't corny or grating.

01:04:29.660 And so that makes it a great Christmas movie.

01:04:31.080 But it would be the best Christmas film of all time,

01:04:33.840 if not for The Lord of the Rings,

01:04:35.880 The Fellowship of the Rings,

01:04:37.360 specifically the first one,

01:04:38.880 which is the number one Christmas movie ever made.

01:04:42.160 You know, every year there's this cliched

01:04:43.620 and boring discourse around the question

01:04:45.700 of whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie.

01:04:47.600 It is.

01:04:48.800 But what we should be talking about

01:04:50.120 is the fact that Lord of the Rings

01:04:51.300 is a Christmas movie.

01:04:52.760 How do I know this?

01:04:53.800 Well, for one, I feel it in my bones.

01:04:55.400 It's part of my lived experience.

01:04:56.960 Two, The Fellowship starts its quest

01:04:58.960 to destroy the ring on December 25th.

01:05:01.000 That's a fact.

01:05:01.620 Go watch the movie again.

01:05:02.940 Three, there are elves.

01:05:04.620 They don't make toys,

01:05:05.480 but they have pointy ears.

01:05:06.560 Four, one of the main protagonists

01:05:07.680 is a magical old man with a white beard.

01:05:09.680 Five, snow is prominently featured

01:05:11.240 in no less than three scenes of the film.

01:05:13.040 So we have elves,

01:05:13.940 a guy in white beard,

01:05:14.760 snow, and December 25th.

01:05:16.600 So it's a Christmas movie

01:05:17.580 through and through it, folks.

01:05:18.820 And the best one of all time, in fact.

01:05:21.020 So Lord of the Rings is not canceled,

01:05:22.540 but Elf, Home Alone,

01:05:23.620 and Wonderful Christmastime are.

01:05:26.760 There you go.

01:05:28.280 This may not have been

01:05:29.380 the most important daily cancellation

01:05:30.500 I've ever done,

01:05:31.140 but that's what you're getting

01:05:32.320 because it's my last show

01:05:33.120 before the break.

01:05:34.340 Take what you get and be grateful.

01:05:36.260 Beggars can't be choosers,

01:05:37.620 even on Christmas.

01:05:39.060 And we'll leave it there.

01:05:39.980 Merry Christmas.

01:05:41.320 Have a great holiday.

01:05:42.720 See you on the other side.

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The Matt Walsh Show - December 22, 2021

Ep. 863 - The Left’s Twisted Celebration Of Narcissism And Self-Mutilation

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