Today on the Matt Walsh CarCast, we take a look at yesterday s January 6th festivities, and compare it to the Black Friday riots of 2020 to see if we can determine which was worse. Also, Nancy Pelosi tells one of the most egregious lies we ve heard from a politician in quite some time, and Russia has a plan to stop pedophiles from going to the Arctic.
00:01:24.960And I know from experience, in fact, last night I was putting my seven-year-old pan-gender child Sundance down to bed, and as I was turning off the light, they looked at me right in the eye and they said, Matt, we're on a first-name basis, of course.
00:01:38.840They said, Matt, what happens if there's another January 6th?
00:01:46.540And I paused for a moment, and I thought about it, and then I looked them right back in the eye and I said, my sweet child, democracy is already dead.
00:01:59.960And they burst into tears, and so did I, and we just held each other and sobbed for hours.
00:02:06.480It was a terrible moment, but also a beautiful moment in a certain way.
00:02:10.580In any case, yesterday was January 6th, as you were probably reminded, one or two or maybe, you know, 97 times.
00:02:18.120It's kind of difficult to transition into a more straightforward conversation about this topic when I decided to lead off with a fake story about my pan-gender child named Sundance.
00:02:27.480But we're already off to the races, so let's just keep going.
00:02:30.440Now, the central point I want to make here is actually not about January 6th at all.
00:02:36.760But before we get to that point, I do have to review, I feel like I must review, a few of the cringiest episodes yesterday during the left's January 6th festivities.
00:02:46.040It was destined already to be the most insufferable day in American history, and I think it certainly lived up to that billing.
00:02:52.320So kicking off right away with Kamala Harris delivering a somber address in remembrance of that day,
00:02:59.060while drawing direct comparisons between a bunch of dummies trespassing in the Capitol and Pearl Harbor.
00:04:47.360And we also need to not be afraid to call it the Trump insurrection of January 6th, because in the end, all roads to what went wrong that day lead to Donald Trump's ill behavior, his anti-democratic stance.
00:05:01.820Well, now that we have that base covered with all of the overwrought historical analogies, what we need next are, of course, the inspirational musical performances.
00:05:19.280Unfortunately, Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of Hamilton, they were on hand, well, they were on Zoom anyway, not wearing masks, which I thought was very reckless.
00:05:29.480And they were there to serenade members of Congress with a rendition of whatever the hell this song is.
00:05:59.480And that was followed, of course, finally, by the requisite candlelight vigil and the somber, and this time masked,
00:07:08.080It doesn't actually mean, using the Lord's name in vain, that doesn't actually mean using a phrase like damn.
00:07:12.520In fact, God does damn things, and there's nothing wrong necessarily with pointing that out.
00:07:18.040If I were to say that I'm tired of damned gender theory being taught in schools, which I am, and it is, that's not taking the Lord's name in vain because gender theory is a damned and damnable thing.
00:07:33.260But there we have people singing the name of God in an empty and manipulative way, purely for theatrics to score political points.
00:07:44.780That's what taking his name in vain sounds like, okay?
00:07:55.760January 6, 2021 was a time when a group of useful idiots did something very stupid, something that had zero chance of producing any positive result whatsoever, positive for them anyway.
00:08:09.680There was nothing positive that could possibly come out of it for them, them personally, politically, anything.
00:08:18.260And in doing that, those useful idiots provided ammunition to the left, which the left will never stop using, ever.
00:08:29.140In fact, as annoying as all of this pageantry is, it's almost pointless to complain about it.
00:08:35.340Because of course the left is going to do this.
00:08:38.500Sure, the whole routine is cynical and absurd, but what else do you expect them to do?
00:08:43.680A bunch of right-wing dummies rioted at the Capitol, do we expect the left to say, hey, you know what?
00:08:50.420Let's not make a big deal out of this.
00:09:16.680It might not be honest or right morally, but it's smart politics.
00:09:22.720And that's what they're doing with January 6th.
00:09:25.840That's why when I look at what's happened and how the narrative has formed, and I look at what happened yesterday,
00:09:31.460I'm not nearly as angry at the Democrats as I am at the Republicans.
00:09:37.760Democrats, again, are using the ammunition that they've been given.
00:09:42.020The hapless Republicans will whine about it, but rather than whining, they should be doing the exact same thing with the BLM riots.
00:09:49.920All of the time that the Democrats spend talking about January 6th, Republicans should be spending the exact same amount of time talking about the BLM riots.
00:10:01.620And in that case, it would not be dishonest or cynical, because unlike January 6th, the BLM riots of 2020 were, in fact, an assault on our way of life, our civilization, our democracy, if you like.
00:15:58.220The sun will take care of it eventually.
00:16:00.160Now, the claim that, because when I got here last year for the first winter in Nashville, and it snowed, and the roads were unusable for a week and a half.
00:16:54.880I mean, we could start with, you know, I'm sure they have diversity consultants and equity consultants and everything, and tolerance and inclusion experts and everything.
00:17:06.760They've got them on the budget, I'm sure.
00:17:08.300So, let's start there, get rid of them, get rid of all the diversity consultants, and replace them with plows and salt trucks, and we can start there.
00:17:15.260So, that's the negative part of the snow.
00:17:19.680The good part is that I did frolic and play in the snow yesterday, joyously, as I promised.
00:21:05.520And even more tragic now that their deaths are being exploited by people like Nancy Pelosi and the media.
00:21:13.600This is a connection, of course, that the media made right away when they heard that, you know, three weeks later, someone who was a Capitol Police officer died of suicide.
00:21:20.880And all the headlines were just drawing this connection.
00:21:24.480That, well, clearly he killed himself because he was traumatized by January 6th.
00:22:45.000And there's also, there's no evidence that the suicides had anything to do with January 6th.
00:22:51.540But there are some very good reasons to assume that the two things are not connected.
00:22:56.500And the number one reason is that, again, police officers across the country were subject to violence from rioters for months and months on end.
00:23:11.240And there has not been a suicide epidemic across the country with officers who were dealing with rioters.
00:23:17.120And so when you look at these two cases, what you see are outliers.
00:23:22.160And then the most logical assumption is that, well, they had other things going on in their lives and in their minds that led to this tragic outcome.
00:23:31.060And then what's the fourth name they mentioned?
00:25:34.920Lies conceived and spread for profit and power.
00:25:39.760We must be absolutely clear about what is true and what is a lie.
00:25:46.960He can't accept he lost, even though that's what 93 United States senators, his own attorney general, his own vice president, governors and state officials in every battleground state have all said.
00:26:40.820But see, this is this is all losing game anyway that I said we shouldn't play.
00:26:44.880And here I am ranting and raving about it.
00:26:48.720It's a it's a losing game when when, you know, when the left wants to talk about January 6th.
00:26:55.980And then instead on the right, we spend all of our time talking about why we're not going to talk about January 6th, because then we are still talking about it.
00:27:25.980OK, so from the Daily Mail, it says Russia is to toughen its child sex laws this month to automatically jail repeat pedophiles for life in harsh polar prisons.
00:27:36.760Monsters who sexually abuse children should serve their sentences in hard labor penal colonies in the Arctic, where they could be forced to work in Siberian mines.
00:27:44.780The country's parliamentary speaker said the new legislation is being pushed through after a horrific case this week of a girl five years old who was abducted by a pedophile repeat offender and then raped and stabbed.
00:27:55.960And so in Russia, and so in Russia, this is how they respond, they say, we know what, we're going to take these pedophiles now, ship them off to the Arctic and use them as slave labor in Arctic mines until they, until they die.
00:28:07.740This is justice, by the way, this is what justice looks like, you might define justice as as proportional consequences for your actions.
00:28:18.740It's also the most compassionate, I think it's compassionate to victims of these crimes where the perpetrators are given a consequence that is proportional to the crime.
00:28:32.300It is compassionate to society because we're removing these dangerous people from it.
00:28:40.260And even if you're concerned about compassion for the offenders themselves, it's actually the most compassionate for them because it's a punishment.
00:28:48.260This is the only chance at any kind of redemption or repentance.
00:28:51.900I take a very dim view of, of, of, of, of, you know, the chance that, that any sex offender or pedophile could ever, you know, be reformed.
00:29:04.320I don't know that that's even possible, but we have to believe that repentance at least is possible for everybody, at least theoretically.
00:29:11.400And if there's any chance of any kind of repentance, um, it would require for anybody, you know, whatever you've done, if you're, if you're ever going to truly repent of it, that, that requires you to confront your sin in, in, in, in, confront the, the, the true severity of it.
00:29:30.160And if you've done something like that, then the only way to force this confrontation is with a punishment, with an extremely harsh punishment.
00:29:39.800You can't really be sorry for a sin if you, if you are not, uh, if you're not, if you're not going to face what you've done and punishments like this force people to face, uh, that's, I think it's also true for the death penalty as well.
00:29:55.160You know, some people say we can't have the death penalty because in fact, that's, this is one of the so-called Christian arguments against the death penalty is that, uh, you know, if you have the death penalty, then you, you have removed, you've, you've potentially, uh, taken away an opportunity for someone to,
00:30:09.380to have experienced repentance and, and, and therefore redemption and to have a conversion experience because if you kill them, then, then that, that kind of cuts that short.
00:30:16.620But I think the opposite is true because first of all, it's not like we're taking these people that condemned people and marching them out back as soon as they've been convicted and, um, you know, hanging them from the gallows.
00:30:26.700I think there'd be something to be said for that approach, but that's not what we do.
00:30:29.780So, so they've got years and years, sometimes decades in prison, um, and that should be plenty of time for redemption and repentance.
00:30:38.300But when, you know, when you're given a date of your death and you're told you're, you are going to be executed because of what you've done,
00:30:47.860then that is a very good opportunity to actually confront, confront the severity of your sin, the darkness of it.
00:30:56.940And, um, because now you're also confronting your mortality and then maybe there can be some repentance.
00:31:02.420Okay. Now, by the way, compare this approach to sex offenders and pedophiles, compare this to, um, the, to what we do.
00:31:10.940So here's another article. This was published yesterday by the New York post. It says subway pitch man turned convicted, convicted pedophile.
00:31:17.680Jared Fogle has finally showed some remorse for his crimes, but not really, if you keep reading, but it's more about what happened to him than what he did.
00:31:26.320So that's not remorse at all. Um, quote, I really royally screwed up to wind up where I am.
00:31:32.520The father of two wrote in a handwritten letter dated November 7th, 2021. I was selfish and entitled Fogle, who prosecutors said,
00:31:39.620had 400 child porn videos in his possession, pleaded guilty in August, 2015 to a child pornography charge and paying for sex with an underage girl after traveling from Indiana to New York city.
00:31:51.840And so 400 child porn videos, um, attempting to rape a child. He says, Oh, I, uh, I really, I really, I really screwed up on that one.
00:32:01.640This is the first time that Fogle now 44 has spoken out about his life behind bars. He wrote that he is inspired by a line from the movie, the Shawshank redemption.
00:32:08.680He says, quote, something like you can either get busy living or get busy dying when you're sent to prison.
00:32:14.560I've done everything I can to get busy living and make the most of this unwanted experience.
00:32:20.320Fogle who wrote that he thinks that he thinks quote about all the people I've let down every single day, especially my, my family has a son and a daughter now 11 and nine.
00:32:29.200Um, and, uh, then he goes on to talk about his prison diet. He says that he tries to avoid junk food.
00:32:34.240He says he snacks on granola bars and protein bars. He says, quote, I feel really good physically and mentally.
00:32:40.840He says that he exercises a lot. Quote, I run four to five miles every day. I'm the most healthy and in shape I've ever been.
00:32:48.900Um, he says that he, he likes to watch TV. Um, he spends his free time watching college and NFL football.
00:32:55.100And he says that, uh, the weekends really fly by. And so he's really not having a bad time at the end of the day.
00:33:02.160So this is how we, this is a pedophile, at least an attempted child rapist.
00:33:08.100That's, but that's the incident we know about that he got caught. Um, it seems very unlikely that that's the only one.
00:33:16.660So try to rape a child, um, child, hundreds and hundreds of videos of, of, of child pornography.
00:33:23.200And this is how we, rather than shipping them off to him off to a polar, to an Arctic penal colony.
00:33:28.840He's, uh, in prison. He's snacking on granola bars. He's hanging out. He's watching TV.
00:33:35.020And though he says he has, he says that there's repentance, that he's sorry.
00:33:40.280It's very clear that he's not sorry at all.
00:33:43.180Um, he's sorry for letting down his family.
00:33:47.100Okay. That's, that's like what you might say if you get a DUI or something like that.
00:33:50.580Um, but he has not been forced to confront the severity of his crimes, because this is what we do with these kinds of criminals.
00:33:59.460To let them just hang out in prison for a few years, watch a lot of TV.
00:34:03.520Um, and then, uh, and then they could go about their business.
00:34:06.460All right. Here's something that's been making the rounds online.
00:34:09.960Um, the video is actually a couple of years old, but it's supposed to show what online shopping in the metaverse might look like.
00:34:16.140And this is what we have. This is what, you know, we can look forward to this, I guess.
00:34:18.980This is what we have to look forward to. Here's, uh, here's what online shopping in, in a virtual reality Walmart will be like.
00:34:27.140Great. Looks like you need a good wine pairing. Take a look to your right.
00:34:36.340Your age has already been pre-verified through your profile, so no need to wait for an ID check.
00:34:41.400Just place the item in your cart whenever you're ready.
00:34:48.980I'm getting a notification from your connected smart fridge.
00:35:00.960It looks like you already have a full gallon of milk at home.
00:39:35.980It says a former 90 Day Fiance star has made a staggering $38,000 a week from selling her farts in a jar.
00:39:44.220But now she's revealed that she was rushed to the hospital.
00:39:46.660Stephanie Mato recently shed light on her unusual stream of income, explaining how she utilized her $260,000 strong following as her customer base to sell her pungent product.
00:39:57.640But now she says that after a medical incident, she has to get out of the business entirely.
00:40:03.340It says she may have squeezed out one too many as the reality star had to make a hospital dash.
00:40:08.540She told Jam Press, quote, I thought I was having a stroke and that these were my final moments.
00:40:14.260She recalled how she consumed three protein shakes and a huge bowl of black bean soup in one day before feeling that something, quote, was not right with a pressure in her stomach that moved up through her body.
00:40:25.460She thought she was having a heart attack and now her doctors have advised her to stop doing this.
00:42:59.060Kids are faking having Tourette's, autism, bipolar, personality disorders.
00:43:02.760I have to wonder if parents had any knowledge about what their children do on social media, whether half of this would disappear overnight if they did.
00:43:57.440So go to dailywire.com slash do not comply and sign the petition now.
00:44:01.120Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:44:06.740So today we're going to have a quick cancellation so that I don't freeze to death out here.
00:44:11.240It's about 10 degrees outside and I'm somewhat regretting my decision to record a podcast in a car.
00:44:16.960But, you know, this is at least better than the old days of the CarCast when sometimes it was summer.
00:44:21.080You know, if it was summer and I would be out in the car when it's 90 degrees and I'm baking alive on camera.
00:44:27.240So for both safety and comfort, I would recommend that if you're considering podcasting from your car, wait for mild weather conditions.
00:44:36.060Better yet, don't podcast from your car at all because this is just kind of weird on top of it all.
00:44:40.200But anyway, today I'm going to cancel country star Morgan Wallen.
00:44:44.280Now, Wallen, you probably recall, was canceled several months ago after a neighbor secretly recorded him as he was outside his house drunk.
00:44:53.180And he used the N-word once in a joking way towards his white friend.
00:44:58.900And the video of this drunken banter was sent to the media and then they took the opportunity to try and ruin Wallen's life and career because why not?
00:45:10.340It says, despite being banned by award shows, suspended by his label, dropped by his agent,
00:45:15.000and having his songs pulled from radio stations and music streaming platforms, Morgan Wallen has still managed to score 2021's top album in any genre, according to Billboard's year-end report.
00:45:25.860To the shock of the music industry, fans stood by him after his cancellation and Dangerous, the double album, which had been released only weeks before, continued to climb the charts.
00:45:35.040Now that the end-of-year tallies have come in, Billboard reported Wallen's record wrapped up the year with 3.2 million equivalent album units earned in the U.S.
00:45:45.000Most of that total was derived from streaming downloads of the album's list of 30 songs.
00:45:49.180The outlet also noted that Dangerous is the first country album to top the yearly chart since Taylor Swift's 2009 release, Fearless.
00:45:56.240Okay, so they tried to cancel him, but instead Wallen turned around and simply became the best-selling recording artist in all genres over the past year.