The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 870 - Mass Formation Psychosis Is Real And We're All Living Through It

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, is our society experiencing an epidemic of mass psychosis?

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00:01:53.300 You know, one of the most consistent features of our age is that correct ideas are often confirmed

00:01:58.340 by the people who try to debunk them. So if you want to know which ideas are not only right,

00:02:02.860 but the most important and relevant to your life, all you have to do is look for the ones that the

00:02:07.320 so-called experts and self-proclaimed fact-checkers are most vehemently denying. You can almost appreciate

00:02:12.940 the symmetry and simplicity of it. All the things you should believe are the things they're telling

00:02:16.680 you not to believe and trying to punish you for believing. And that brings us to a term that

00:02:20.800 entered the public conscious a couple of weeks ago and which the cultural powers that be have been

00:02:25.360 trying to remove from our conscious ever since. And that is mass formation psychosis. Now, this term

00:02:31.580 did not originate with Joe Rogan's interview of Dr. Robert Malone. Malone himself did not coin it,

00:02:37.560 but he's probably responsible for introducing most people to the concept. During the widely listened

00:02:43.360 to discussion on Rogan's podcast last week, Dr. Malone argued that COVID hysteria among the public

00:02:48.940 could be an example of a kind of mass psychosis event. From basically European intellectual inquiry

00:02:56.700 into what the heck happened in Germany in the 20s and 30s, you know, very intelligent,

00:03:01.940 highly educated population, and they went barking mad. And how did that happen?

00:03:07.560 Um, the answer is mass formation psychosis. When you have a society that has become decoupled from

00:03:15.240 each other and has free floating anxiety in a sense that things don't make sense, we can't understand

00:03:22.300 it. And then their attention gets focused by a leader or a series of events on one small point,

00:03:28.420 just like hypnosis. They literally become hypnotized and can be led anywhere. And one of the aspects of

00:03:36.220 that phenomena is the people that they identify as their leaders, the ones typically that come in

00:03:41.260 and say, you have this pain and I can solve it for you. I and I alone, okay, can fix this problem for

00:03:47.660 you. Okay. Then they will lead, they will follow that person through, it doesn't matter whether they

00:03:52.580 lie to them or whatever. The data are irrelevant. And furthermore, anybody who questions that narrative

00:03:59.740 is to be immediately attacked, they are the other. This is central to mass formation psychosis.

00:04:06.100 And this is what has happened. We had all those conditions. If you remember back before 2019,

00:04:13.180 everybody was complaining, the world doesn't make sense, blah, blah, blah. Um, and we're all isolated

00:04:19.080 from each other. We're all on our little tools. We're not connected socially anymore, except through

00:04:24.520 social media. Um, and then this thing happened and everybody focused on it. That is how mass

00:04:30.780 formation psychosis happens. And that is what's happened here. Now, as if to prove the point shortly

00:04:36.520 after the interview aired, YouTube and Twitter began removing the clips, mentioning mass formation

00:04:41.200 psychosis for a time. If you search the term on Google, it returned no results. When's the last time

00:04:46.400 that happened for anything on Google. Instead, the search would return a note from Google,

00:04:51.180 letting you know that it's looking for reliable sources on the subject and it will update the

00:04:56.180 search results. Once those sources are located, didn't take long for the reliable sources to come

00:05:01.520 along in the form of articles from mass media outlets debunking the concept. But before we get

00:05:06.700 to the alleged debunking, we should note that Malone's interview was not the first time, even recently

00:05:10.580 when the subject of mass formation psychosis was broached on Joe Rogan show. The short time before

00:05:15.560 that, Dr. Peter McCullough brought up the same subject and went into more detail describing the

00:05:20.240 conditions necessary for this phenomenon to occur. We're in what's called a mass formation

00:05:26.740 psychosis. This is very important. I give credit to Dr. Matthias Desmet in the University of Ghent

00:05:34.060 in Belgium. And recently, Dr. Mark McDonald, psychiatrist from L.A. Mark McDonald's got a new book

00:05:39.860 out, The United States of Fear, describing how the mass psychosis developed. What your listeners need to

00:05:45.440 know is a mass psychosis is when there is a groupthink that develops that's so strong that it

00:05:51.300 leads to something horrific. And the examples are these mass suicides that occur in these religious

00:05:55.900 cults. The example is Nazi Germany, when people walk into gas chambers and we're gas, these horrific

00:06:00.840 things. And four elements here is very important, Joe. First, there must be a period of prolonged

00:06:05.960 isolation, lockdowns. Number two, there must be a withdrawal of things taken away from people that

00:06:13.060 they used to enjoy. That's happened. Number three, there must be constant, incessant, free-floating

00:06:18.740 anxiety. All this news cycle, all the deaths and the hospitalizations, more variant mutant strains,

00:06:24.840 everything, people are becoming scared over and over again. And the last thing, number four,

00:06:28.820 the capper. The capper is there must be a single solution offered by an entity in authority. And

00:06:36.700 this case is clear. Worldwide, the solution was vaccination. Don't listen to any of that. Pay no

00:06:42.920 attention to the man behind the curtain. It's all untrue. It's misinformation. Google found its

00:06:47.420 reliable sources, which is why a search of the term will now pull up headlines like this. Quote,

00:06:52.660 so-called mass formation psychosis does not exist, despite what you might have heard on Joe Rogan.

00:06:56.980 And, quote, an anti-vax scientist said mass formation psychosis caused people to follow

00:07:02.020 COVID-19 measures. Psychologists say there's no such thing. And, quote, Joe Rogan, mass formation

00:07:08.360 psychosis and why people really believe unscientific things. And, of course, fact check, no evidence of

00:07:15.400 pandemic mass formation psychosis, say experts speaking to Reuters. Those are the first four headlines

00:07:21.760 that come up in the search results. If you take the time to read the articles in search of the

00:07:26.280 apparently ample amounts of evidence that this phenomenon does not exist, here's what you'll

00:07:30.580 find. On the Independent reports, quote, psychology experts have explained that there is no evidence

00:07:36.520 whatsoever to show that a theory aired on Joe Rogan's podcast about people believing in mainstream

00:07:40.460 ideas around COVID is true. Jay Van Bavel, an assistant professor of psychology at New York

00:07:46.560 University, was among many professors of psychology and neurological science to debunk a concept called

00:07:51.740 mass formation psychosis. Quote, to my knowledge, there's no evidence whatsoever that this concept

00:07:56.480 is true, he told the Associated Press on Sunday, or rather Saturday. And then we have Reuters.

00:08:01.860 They're chiming in and says, mass formation psychosis is not an academic term recognized in

00:08:06.480 the field of psychology, nor is there evidence of any such phenomenon occurring during the COVID-19

00:08:10.760 pandemic, multiple experts in crowd psychology have told Reuters. The phrase does not appear in the

00:08:15.780 American Psychological Association Dictionary of Psychology, nor does it appear in the PsychNet

00:08:20.040 database of published research articles. Numerous psychologists have also told Reuters that such a

00:08:25.080 condition is not officially recognized. I've never heard of this concept. John Drury, professor of

00:08:30.200 social psychology and director of research and knowledge exchange at the University of Sussex,

00:08:33.740 wrote in an email to Reuters. Jay Van Bavel, associate professor of psychology and neural science at New

00:08:38.800 York University, said the term doesn't exist as a real academic concept. And then Business Insider

00:08:44.660 confirms, quote, psychology experts told the Associated Press there's no actual support for Malone's

00:08:49.640 claims. The term mass formation psychosis does not even show up in the American Psychological

00:08:53.580 Association's Dictionary of Psychology. Quote, to my knowledge, there's no evidence whatsoever for

00:08:58.000 this concept. Jay Van Bavel, an assistant professor of psychology and neural science at New York

00:09:02.280 University, told the AP. Also in the UK, John Drury, a social psychologist at the University of Sussex,

00:09:07.280 told the AP the idea of mass formation psychosis is similar to mob mentality or the idea that people

00:09:11.760 in a group will lose self-control and their identities. Concepts, he said, have been discredited by decades of

00:09:17.840 research. Now note how they debunk the concept through appeals to a handful of alleged authorities

00:09:24.680 and always the same authority. So all of these articles are saying that so many psychologists have

00:09:30.260 said that this doesn't exist. And then they all tell us about one guy, Jay Van Bavel. He really seems

00:09:36.220 to get around. I have no idea who he is. He's just some assistant professor of psychology in New York.

00:09:40.640 And yet this random guy is quoted as a definitive authority in literally all of Google's top search

00:09:46.640 results on the subject. Some dude named John Drury earns multiple mentions as well. And of course,

00:09:52.600 the American Psychological Association. They all are quite positive that mass psychosis does not

00:09:58.600 exist, which is probably the first time that any of these people have ever shown any skepticism

00:10:03.940 about any mental illness or, you know, mental phenomenon. Because it's due to the work of the

00:10:11.000 American Psychological Association and guys like Jay Van Bavel that we now have millions of boys in

00:10:17.040 school diagnosed as mentally ill because they get bored during math class. I mean, these people and

00:10:23.100 their ilk are why huge swaths of the American public are addicted to psychotropic medication.

00:10:28.140 They have medicalized and disease-ified almost every aspect of the human condition,

00:10:33.520 every personality trait, every difficult emotion, every inconvenient compulsion or behavior.

00:10:38.140 And now they finally discover restraint and skepticism about a psychological concept

00:10:43.460 because it was mentioned on Joe Rogan's show. This is why the experts, quote unquote,

00:10:50.060 especially the alleged psychological and psychiatric experts, can be totally and absolutely dismissed.

00:10:56.780 And I don't just mean about this subject. I mean, in general, I don't care what any of these

00:11:02.140 people say about anything because most of what they do has no scientific basis. You know, they make

00:11:10.560 philosophical judgments about the human condition. They determine how humans are supposed to think,

00:11:17.120 what they're supposed to do, how they're supposed to be, and then they medicalize everything that

00:11:22.940 falls outside of the norms they've determined. But why should anyone care about their philosophical

00:11:27.760 judgments? Who appointed them experts on the human condition? And why should we trust their

00:11:34.360 appointments? These are questions that are never answered. Now, what about mass formation psychosis?

00:11:41.300 We know what Google and Google's appointed mental health experts have to say, but what is the reality?

00:11:47.400 Well, we know that psychosis occurs when people lose contact with reality. That's the definition.

00:11:52.300 It's an extreme disconnect from reality. That's what psychosis is. And we know that this certainly

00:11:59.040 happens on an individual level. Nobody denies that. The only question is, is it possible for it to

00:12:04.860 happen on a larger scale? Can entire populations or huge portions of a population lose contact with

00:12:12.580 reality all at once and in the same way? Well, the answer is obviously yes. Before we examine whether

00:12:20.760 this is happening today, there's no question that it does happen. It has happened. Therefore,

00:12:25.780 it can happen. You could call the phenomenon whatever you want to call it. Mass formation psychosis is

00:12:31.200 just a label for it. A fine label. A little bit too medicalized for my taste, but it's fine.

00:12:38.080 Whatever label you go with, it's clear that the phenomenon it describes is real. Cults, 0.79

00:12:44.200 as mentioned, mass suicides, witch hunts. These are just a few obvious historical examples.

00:12:53.180 Dr. McCullough identifies four conditions necessary to bring this about. One is isolation,

00:12:57.860 then despair, then anxiety or fear, then an authority figure offering a solution.

00:13:03.880 Again, call that whatever you want, but it is not debatable that historically these factors have come

00:13:09.720 together to produce these kinds of results being described. As mentioned in the clips, Nazi Germany

00:13:14.700 would seem to be an appropriate example. Now, is this what's happening with COVID?

00:13:20.820 Well, just look at the results. Might we say that there's been a disconnect from reality when a mother 0.98

00:13:26.440 locks her teenage son in the trunk of her car because she doesn't want him to give her COVID?

00:13:32.300 What about the people triple vaxxed who walk around outside with masks on? What about the masked woman 1.00

00:13:40.600 I saw a few months ago walking past us while we were hiking in the mountains, in the woods?

00:13:47.480 She's by herself in the woods with a mask on. Is that not psychotic behavior? Is that not a

00:13:55.860 disconnect from reality? People wearing masks alone in their cars? What about those who've cut

00:14:03.960 themselves off from society, locked themselves in their homes for two years, isolated themselves and

00:14:08.480 their children for fear of a virus that poses almost no significant threat to the vast majority

00:14:13.900 of healthy people? Is there a disconnect from reality when people push for mandated vaccines,

00:14:19.980 even though the vaccines don't even stop the spread of the virus? Yes, it's exceedingly clear

00:14:26.520 that the mass amounts of people have lost contact with reality. They are at this point incapable of

00:14:32.780 seeing reality or being reasoned with, and their behavior, if viewed objectively, is psychotic.

00:14:40.300 Everybody would have agreed prior to last year that a healthy person who wears a medical mask all day,

00:14:45.160 every day, is psychotic. I mean, we would have all seen that as paranoid, OCD behavior.

00:14:53.540 Many might view it differently now, but that's only further proof of the mass psychosis itself.

00:15:00.460 In fact, I would take it one step further, because I think we live in an era of mass psychosis,

00:15:09.640 and it didn't begin with COVID. Even if let's pretend China had never invented the virus and 0.64

00:15:16.240 set it loose on the globe, even if that never happened, we could still talk about mass formation

00:15:21.340 psychosis, because we would still live in a society where, for example, millions of people in the span of

00:15:27.040 just a few years came to believe that men can have babies, and millions more were coerced into

00:15:32.800 pretending they believe it, even if they don't. One delusional belief after another enters our

00:15:39.420 culture and spreads with rapid efficiency, often infecting the younger generations first and

00:15:44.260 foremost. Why is that? Well, because the internet, for one thing, is a pipeline for psychosis.

00:15:51.440 It not only spreads the psychotic ideas, but because it's addictive, it takes over people's

00:15:57.160 lives. It isolates them from the real world. Everyone you see walking around with their heads

00:16:03.400 buried in their phone all the time, everywhere, they don't know how to sit in a chair for more

00:16:09.260 than 30 seconds without looking at their phone. These are isolated people. They have isolated

00:16:13.540 themselves in cyberspace, thus fulfilling one of the necessary conditions for mass psychosis.

00:16:23.060 There's other kinds of isolation too, by the way. There's a very real effort in our culture

00:16:29.920 by the powers that be, especially in the education system, the government, to isolate children from

00:16:36.000 their parents, to sever their ties with their family, to break down the heteronormative patriarchal

00:16:45.900 family structure as BLM has declared it wants to do. That is another hallmark of cults. That's what

00:16:55.180 cults do. You start getting involved in a cult, and one of the first things they do is they turn you

00:17:03.080 against your family. For a pretty obvious reason. They can't have you connected to anybody else. They

00:17:09.480 need you to be totally invested in their world and their reality that they are constructing for you.

00:17:16.240 You cannot have any contact. You can't have a foot still in any other world, but their world.

00:17:25.140 And, you know, given that there has been a generalized loss of meaning in our society as materialism and

00:17:30.580 nihilism become the dominant philosophies of the day, the conditions of both despair and anxiety are

00:17:36.220 also met. As for an authority figure offering a solution, there's no shortage of those. All of the

00:17:43.280 teenage girls taking hormone pills and chopping their breasts off are relying on solutions presented 1.00

00:17:49.960 to them by the authority figures they trust. And those authority figures might just be like social

00:17:55.980 media influencers, but for them, that's an authority. So we are a society which has severed itself from

00:18:04.500 reality and from truth, and now which floats untethered in the ether. We are preconditioned for

00:18:13.320 one mass psychotic episode after another. Right now it's COVID hysteria. Eventually it'll be something

00:18:19.080 else. There's no limit. There's no floor. We are in an intellectual and moral free fall,

00:18:27.680 plunging infinitely into the abyss. So happy new year. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:19:44.300 Uh, you know, I'm going through, I gotta, I gotta, I just mentioned this really briefly.

00:19:48.580 So I think it's important for everybody to know that I'm going through a difficult time here at

00:19:52.240 work. I don't mean to bring office drama out in the open like this, but I have to say

00:19:55.600 we recently changed studios. We just, we, we just, we just moved to a different, uh, a different room

00:20:00.260 in the building. But somehow during that switch, I lost, uh, my chair or rather my chair was

00:20:06.260 appropriated. It was stolen. My ex chair, very comfortable chair. It has heating and massage

00:20:11.060 capabilities. I've talked about it before. Uh, it's nowhere to be found. I've looked everywhere

00:20:15.400 for it. I've checked every desk in the building I've asked around. And the, the worst thing is

00:20:20.560 when I ask somebody, you know, where my chair is, they like, they look at me like this is some kind

00:20:24.460 of unimportant problem as if they have more pressing concerns than finding my chair. I asked

00:20:29.800 my producer McKenna yesterday, if she knows where the chair is, she says, ask around. But then three

00:20:34.400 hours later, I don't mean to call her out, but I saw her sitting at her desk working on something

00:20:38.680 else. And I still didn't have my chair. So there's a real problem with priorities. I think around

00:20:43.620 here, here's the, here's the point. You cannot take a man's chair from him because a man forms a 0.99

00:20:49.440 special bond with his chair becomes part of him. Especially if that man is a lazy fat ass like 1.00

00:20:55.580 myself, I feel out of play. I feel disoriented now disturbed. And I know exactly what's happening. 1.00

00:21:00.000 I'll tell you exactly what's happening. Somebody took the chair and they're hiding it until the heat

00:21:04.800 is off, right? Until they think the coast is clear. And then they're going to start fitting,

00:21:08.360 sitting in the chair. But I'll tell you, I'm never going to forget. I will find my chair one way or

00:21:12.800 another. I promise you that. Okay. What are we going to talk about first? Here's Nancy Pelosi. 0.89

00:21:19.400 Here's another really important subject. She's still milking this January 6th thing. And, 0.93

00:21:23.820 and, and she says that, you know, there's January 6th, the, the actual event, but then there's a sort

00:21:30.160 of legislative January 6th, which the Republicans are engaging in by not doing exactly what she wants 0.99

00:21:36.440 them to do all the time. So let's listen. What the Republicans are doing across the country

00:21:42.320 is really a legislative continue continuation of what they did on January 6th, which is to undermine

00:21:49.820 our democracy, to undermine the integrity of our elections, to undermine the, the voting power,

00:21:59.720 which is the essence of a democracy. I think, uh, those eyebrows are basically that that's January

00:22:08.000 6th all over again. Those eyebrows are a bigger tragedy than January 6th, actually. Uh, why I'm

00:22:16.260 going to totally put aside everything she just said, because who cares? I don't understand why people do

00:22:22.380 this. Why do, you know, especially like shallow older women, not all, not all older, but, but 1.00

00:22:29.600 shallow ones like Nancy Pelosi, they seem to think that looking perpetually surprised is somehow a good

00:22:35.380 substitute for looking young. Because when you do that with the fake eyebrows and the Botox and

00:22:41.280 everything, that's all you accomplish. You just, you look like, like, uh, someone just jumped out of

00:22:48.440 the closet naked right in front of you perpetually. That's what, that's always the expression on your,

00:22:53.380 on your face, which is not the same thing as looking younger. Here's an idea for you just,

00:23:00.020 and I, and I say this to men and women, because both, both sexes are guilty in different ways. 0.64

00:23:06.220 When you get, just look old. It's okay to look old when you're old because you are. It's not a secret.

00:23:11.780 Everybody knows that. Everyone knows that Nancy Pelosi is 152 years old. We all, we're all aware of

00:23:18.660 that. So embrace it. Age with dignity. This is all part, you know, this is all, there's many things

00:23:28.900 going on here. Part of it is the, um, the, our, our still, our fear of death, our refusal to acknowledge

00:23:36.000 our own mortality. And that makes it so people are somehow embarrassed to be older. And so they'll

00:23:42.780 do whatever they can. They can't make themselves look young, but they can look like barely even human

00:23:48.200 now. So yeah, I'll look like some sort of lizard creature. And that's better than looking like an

00:23:52.380 old human. It's not just look like an old person. That's fine. That's why I don't, I don't go along

00:24:00.560 with this stupid thing we do in, uh, in our culture where, uh, it's embarrassed. You're not supposed to ask 0.99

00:24:05.160 somebody their age. I do that all the time. I think it's an interesting fact to know about

00:24:09.400 someone. I'll say, Hey, how old are you? And usually, especially if my wife's with me, she'll

00:24:14.600 elbow me. Don't ask that. Why not? How's it embarrassing? So if you're, let's say 72 years

00:24:22.180 old, it's, it's, you're embarrassed that you've been on earth for 72 years. If anything, younger

00:24:27.420 people should be embarrassed that they haven't been around that long, that they're still new around

00:24:33.440 here. They're newbies. That should be the embarrassing thing. If anything, you should 1.00

00:24:36.620 be lying to say that you're older than you really are. I don't get it. Anyway, uh, let's

00:24:43.960 move on to this from USA today. Officers in California saved a pilot who crashed onto a railroad

00:24:51.580 track seconds before a train smashed the wreckage into pieces. On Sunday, a Cessna 172 made an

00:24:57.960 emergency landing around 2 p.m. shortly after takeoff from, um, Whiteman airport, according to

00:25:03.620 the Associated Press, and then landed right on the train tracks. As a train was coming, two officers

00:25:08.480 from the LA police department can be seen on body camera footage, pulling the bloodied pilot to safety

00:25:13.420 moments before the train collided with the aircraft. That is not an overly dramatic description.

00:25:17.940 That's actually what happened. We have the footage here. Let's watch this footage real quick.

00:25:21.000 Okay. So you can see them. This guy's right on the plane train tracks. You got, looks like four

00:25:28.780 officers there and they're taking their lives into their hands because there you go. So I think you

00:25:38.580 can count about five seconds. That is something right out of a movie right there. It's you count

00:25:43.700 about five seconds they had and they could have still, you know, even clearing it after five seconds,

00:25:50.200 it could have been debris that they hit them or anything. So they were taking their lives into

00:25:52.900 their hands to save a complete stranger. And I think that's, it's, it's worth pointing to this

00:26:01.360 video for, I think three reasons. Number one, it's just an incredible video. Uh, number two, this is a

00:26:07.060 great example of actual heroism in a culture where the term heroism, you know, heroic, courageous,

00:26:14.320 all these terms are so often misused and abused and misappropriated. And, uh, we use it to describe,

00:26:21.340 um, uh, you know, a, a teacher who comes out as non-binary to her sixth grade students. 0.82

00:26:27.980 That's, oh, it's heroic. Now that's creepy. This is actually what heroism looks like. You're making a

00:26:37.080 sacrifice. Number one. Um, and you're putting yourself in danger and some kind of danger doesn't

00:26:44.480 always have to be physical danger to be heroic. Could be, you know, you could be taking, uh, you

00:26:48.520 know, intellectual risks or, you know, it could be something like that, but you're taking a real

00:26:52.400 risk for the sake of someone else. That's what courage and heroism looks like. And then the third

00:26:56.660 reason to bring it up is, um, you look at that video and you say, is social, are we still defunding

00:27:01.700 the police? Is that still an idea? We're going to send the social workers in to do that? When's the

00:27:07.880 last time you met a social worker who would do that? A team of a social workers, guidance counselors,

00:27:13.660 therapists. I'll tell you what, we, we defund the police and we send the, uh, the squad of therapists

00:27:19.920 and guidance counselors in. They're going to stand off at a safe distance and counsel that guy in the

00:27:26.580 plane so that he feels better about the fact that he's about to get pancaked by a train.

00:27:32.260 So they're going to provide him mental, they're going to focus on, uh, on, uh, you know, helping

00:27:38.340 him in his mental health in the five seconds before he dies. Now, the reason you need cops

00:27:46.140 is that you need actual people to go into these situations and do what, uh, most people are

00:27:53.160 not willing to do. All right, let's move to this. For months, we've been told that there's

00:27:58.560 no evidence that the vaccine interferes with the, uh, with the, the menstrual cycles of women

00:28:04.480 or of men because men and women both got menstrual cycles. I'm told at least I have to think that in

00:28:11.100 order to be on Twitter. So, uh, here's just an example. Here's good morning America. This is from

00:28:16.640 several weeks ago. I don't know exactly when it's from, but they, they were talking about this,

00:28:20.020 this claim that the vaccines might interfere with menstrual cycles. And they said, ah, it's all

00:28:24.200 misinformation. It's not true. Listen, we're going to turn now to our Dr. Jen Ashton, who has some

00:28:29.380 answers to some of your more pressing medical questions. We'll start with the first one. Dr. Jen,

00:28:34.040 is there a relationship between the vaccines and menstrual cycles? We've definitely talked about

00:28:40.120 this. Oh, we sure have you guys. And this is really spreading like wildfire on social media with

00:28:44.060 zero scientific or medical basis for this. Remember in medicine, every time we talk about a study,

00:28:50.860 a finding, what is the first thing we say? Big difference between association and causation.

00:28:56.900 So yes, women can get the vaccine and then experience changes in their menstrual cycle. 0.55

00:29:01.660 That does not mean that one causes the other. And in fact, if you look at the biology of how these

00:29:07.600 vaccines work, there is zero hormonal interaction. So please let's put that to rest. Yes. This got a

00:29:15.160 lot of attention because a school actually in Florida was telling teachers that they use sighted this

00:29:19.840 as a reason for not being vaccinated. Defies science. So always good to repeat. Thank you,

00:29:24.520 doc. And another one here. By the way, I think I just found my chair. It's right over there.

00:29:32.180 Oh, okay. Anyway, what's, uh, so we just heard there, it was all misinformation. There's no

00:29:40.260 effect on the menstrual cycle. There's no evidence for it. That was then. This is now New York times is

00:29:47.080 New York times this week, a couple of days ago. This is the article shortly after coronavirus

00:29:50.060 vaccines were rolled out about a year ago, women started reporting erratic menstrual cycles after

00:29:54.700 receiving the shots. Some said their periods were late. Others reported heavier bleeding than usual

00:30:00.040 or painful bleeding. There's already some transphobia here. I mean, in this New York times article,

00:30:05.700 they're, they're saying women were reporting erratic menstrual cycles. So I'm personally offended by

00:30:12.220 that, but we'll try to just go through it. Anyway, some post-menopausal women who hadn't had a period 1.00

00:30:18.440 in years, even said that they started menstruating again. A study published on Thursday found that

00:30:23.600 women's menstrual cycles did indeed change following vaccination against the coronavirus. The authors

00:30:29.400 reported that women who were inoculated, inoculated had slightly longer menstrual cycles after receiving

00:30:34.740 the vaccine than those who were not vaccinated. Well, there you go. Are we going to go back now

00:30:40.800 and remove all of those clips online and all the articles and everything claiming that there is

00:30:45.960 not true? It's misinformation? Of course not. Now, the articles that are admitting this now,

00:30:52.300 they hasten to add that, well, it's only slight changes. It's temporary. There's no long-term harm,

00:30:58.520 which might or might not be true. But the problem is number one, how could you possibly know that?

00:31:04.180 Number two, yeah, but you told us before that there was no change. And now you say, well,

00:31:09.340 there's a change, but it's only slight and temporary. How do we know that six months from now,

00:31:14.980 it's not going to be, oh, gee, actually, some of the, sometimes it could cause long-term,

00:31:19.680 lifelong problems. How do we know? You have no credibility. We can't trust anything you say.

00:31:29.380 But we know why they were desperate to shut all this kind of stuff down, because

00:31:33.580 if you're admitting that there are any side effects at all, that there are any potential

00:31:41.640 complications, even my, let's say for the sake of argument that these are only minor complications

00:31:47.900 and that the changes to menstrual cycle are temporary and that's it. Let's say that's true

00:31:55.700 for the sake of argument, which again, we can't possibly know that right now. But even so,

00:32:02.140 that is a, that still qualifies as a complication, a side effect.

00:32:08.680 And what that means is that now there are, when deciding whether or not to get the vaccine,

00:32:14.780 there are actual factors you have to weigh. It's not all a fantasy. This is not all,

00:32:20.060 this is not just people, QAnon conspiracy theorists, who are picking things up from Facebook memes.

00:32:29.420 No, totally reasonable people who are aware of the evidence and the science

00:32:33.540 now have factors to weigh. And you start doing calculations. If you're a woman and you say, 1.00

00:32:44.580 hmm, the vaccine doesn't really stop the spread of the virus, I can still contract it. You know,

00:32:50.980 I'm young and healthy. There's very little risk to me already from the virus, especially now with

00:32:58.100 the Omnicorn going around and that's mild for almost everybody. And then on the other hand,

00:33:03.640 it affects my menstrual cycle and we don't know a lot about that. And they just, they just admitted

00:33:07.480 to it yesterday. So who knows what else is going on? Now you got to weigh all these things. Maybe you

00:33:12.600 decide to still get the vaccine, but it, it's, it would be perfectly reasonable and rational to

00:33:17.480 say, Hey, I don't know if it's worth the risk. It's just, they cannot, the regime cannot admit

00:33:27.640 that there's any rational thought process like that for people who are hesitant about the vaccine.

00:33:36.880 The whole narrative falls apart unless they're all painted as a bunch of wacky conspiracy theorists.

00:33:42.600 Meanwhile, the CEO of Pfizer, uh, made some admissions himself about the vaccine. Again,

00:33:47.200 this is the CEO of Pfizer and let's listen to his anti-vax extremism.

00:33:54.580 Uh, and we know that, um, the three, the two doses of the vaccine offer very limited protection.

00:34:00.020 If any, the three doses with a booster, they offer reasonable protection against hospitalization

00:34:06.740 and deaths, uh, um, against deaths, I think very good, um, and less protection against the infection.

00:34:15.740 Now we are working on a, on a new version of our vaccine, the 1.1, let me put it that way,

00:34:22.620 that, uh, will cover Omicron as well. And, uh, of course, uh, we are waiting to, to have the final results.

00:34:31.340 The vaccine will be ready in March.

00:34:36.440 Huh.

00:34:38.900 Two doses is not enough. It's not going to do anything. It doesn't stop the spread. I mean,

00:34:44.160 these are all things that by now we've heard, we've heard many times, but this is the,

00:34:47.140 it just, just, it, it, it, it cannot be emphasized enough that you now have the CEO of Pfizer saying

00:34:53.020 things that not, but three weeks ago would have got you banned from YouTube and Twitter.

00:34:58.540 And maybe it still will if you're not, you know, if you're not an approved person

00:35:02.800 making these exact same statements. All right, before we get to the comments, I have to,

00:35:06.900 I've mentioned it now in the opening twice. So I have to actually talk about it a little bit.

00:35:11.180 It's from the daily mail, uh, says training goes woke bootcamp for the Navy to include classes on

00:35:17.080 suicide prevention, hazing, racism, and sexual assault after numerous crisis over the past

00:35:22.920 number of years. So the U S Navy said it would expand its eight week bootcamp program to include

00:35:28.200 two more weeks of classes focusing on suicide prevention, sexual assault, hazing, and racism.

00:35:33.700 The change, the first major overhaul in nearly 20 years comes as the Navy grapples with major

00:35:38.760 issues aboard the ships over the years that include failures to address sexual assaults,

00:35:43.200 fires, and deadly collisions, and the rise of extremism within the ranks.

00:35:47.080 Um, uh, rear Admiral Jennifer Couture, who heads the Naval Service Training Command told the

00:35:54.440 Associated Press that the two extra weeks of classes would reinforce the behavior desired in a U S

00:36:00.400 Naval officer. She said, quote, we're telling our recruits, here are all the things that we expect

00:36:05.680 you to do. And here's how we expect you to behave and act. She said, adding that it involves treating

00:36:09.660 people with respect and holding peers accountable. So this is Navy bootcamp. Now teaching about racism,

00:36:18.140 whole treating people with respect. Um, the kind of thing that you would get from a, from a guidance

00:36:26.700 counselor, you know, and now this is, this is what we're doing in the military. You know, I guess I'm

00:36:34.780 old school and old fashioned and, uh, I still believe at least for me, um, as a, as a citizen of the United

00:36:44.300 States relying on the military to protect us. The only thing I care about for people in the military

00:36:50.700 is that they're very good at killing the bad guys. That is really it. At least if I were to make a list 0.97

00:36:59.560 of the qualities that I would think are the most important, that's number one, two, three, four,

00:37:05.600 and five. And then maybe we could list a couple of things underneath that, but that's, that's,

00:37:11.240 that's the top five right there. Good at killing the bad guys. And then when you find out about 0.99

00:37:16.840 the chaos aboard these ships, collisions, fires, and they're telling us themselves, this is, this is

00:37:23.240 happening more often now than it used to. Might that be because we are not emphasizing skill

00:37:32.800 as much as we used to? Of course that's it. But their way of solving that problem is to do

00:37:41.000 more of the thing that caused the problem in the first place. All right, let's get now to the

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00:38:52.220 there. How did you hear about us, Bach? So they know that we sent you.

00:38:54.440 Missanthrope says, would Matt Walsh criticize Ted Cruz more if Cruz had called parents at a school

00:39:01.020 board meeting terrorists for their conservative beliefs? We all know the answer to that question.

00:39:05.620 Shame on Walsh for his lack of consistency and being weak because Knowles and Cruz probably told

00:39:10.600 him to defend Cruz and not cancel the traitor. Well, you're right. Knowles instructed me to defend

00:39:16.800 Ted Cruz. And I said, yes, sir, Mr. Knowles, as you wish. But to answer your question, yes,

00:39:22.760 I would criticize him a lot more if he called parents at school board meetings terrorists.

00:39:27.840 In fact, I would just criticize him. That's a deal breaker without even having to think about it.

00:39:31.980 That's your you're done as far as I'm concerned. That is that's that is irredeemable to call parents

00:39:37.920 at school board meetings terrorists. But I don't react that way to this because the the what you

00:39:45.480 mentioned, calling parents at school board meetings terrorists, that would be a far more egregious

00:39:49.780 and harmful thing to say far more. The January 6th rioters were rioters, and they were also absolute

00:39:58.100 abject morons who did something self-destructive and politically and personally suicidal. 0.99

00:40:05.340 And now we all have to deal with the consequences of that forever as the left exploits it to no end. 1.00

00:40:12.960 I said this at the time when it was happening, that these people are doing something that the rest of

00:40:19.880 us are gonna have to live with forever. Congratulations, guys. You were feeling angry,

00:40:27.320 you were overly emotional, and you wanted to vent your frustration. Now the rest of us have to deal

00:40:32.940 with it forever. Now, that doesn't make them terrorists. It just makes them rioters. And

00:40:42.580 there's certainly a big difference, which is why I would never call them terrorists. And I object to

00:40:47.460 that categorization. And I object to Ted Cruz saying he shouldn't have said it. But they're not on the

00:40:54.860 same playing field as parents who are attending school board meetings to complain about the

00:40:59.020 curriculum. So, you know, yes, we don't want to go, we don't want to adopt the left's playbook,

00:41:09.920 of course, with this and guys start talking about terrorism and insurrection, because that's just

00:41:14.080 not true. It's not factually true. Terrorism has a definition. It's not that. An insurrection has a

00:41:21.040 definition. It's not that. As we've discussed many times, this was not an effort to actually

00:41:27.100 overthrow the US government. There certainly was never any chance of that happening. And that's

00:41:31.600 not actually what these people were intending to do. Pretty clear, because once they got in the

00:41:34.760 building, they just kind of wandered around and took some selfies and left. So, we can make that

00:41:46.040 point. But the two things that you're trying to equate, I find that totally absurd.

00:41:51.820 All right. History and Headline says, how concerned are you that you cannot say honest

00:41:55.260 statements without fear of being banned, harassed, etc.? I'm not very concerned about it, honestly.

00:42:00.880 You can't worry about that. I'm just going to continue saying what is true. And what happens,

00:42:07.900 happens. You can't get to the point. You've got to be smart about it. Because I think being able to

00:42:15.400 use these platforms, these platforms can be a powerful tool. So, you don't want to just jump

00:42:21.080 on a grenade for no reason. You don't want to self-immolate for no reason. So, you want to be

00:42:29.060 a little bit smart in how you navigate these things. But if you get to the point where you

00:42:32.360 abandon the truth entirely, and you say, I'm not going to say the truth anymore because I'll get

00:42:35.420 kicked off the platform. Well, there's no point anymore. There's no point to even having the

00:42:38.480 platform. Or the only point at that point is your own, you know, just your own personal brand,

00:42:44.000 your own profit. And that cannot be our primary concern. LJY says, Matt, why are you still on

00:42:53.160 Twitter? Disappointed you don't just give up the platform. Yeah, I really don't understand this

00:42:58.340 point of view. You're certainly not the only person to say that to me. I really don't understand it.

00:43:03.220 If I'm able to use the left's platform against them, why wouldn't I? Now, as I said, if it gets to

00:43:11.000 a point where you simply cannot use the platform at all while still speaking the truth, well, then

00:43:18.800 forget about it. But as long as it's possible to use these platforms against them and to use it to

00:43:26.600 get the truth out and get the message out and to mobilize people, why wouldn't you do it?

00:43:33.800 I mean, just one example, the the movement at school boards, mobilizing parents at school boards

00:43:42.060 that was organized largely through social media and largely not, you know, not not through the

00:43:47.820 kind of conservative social media platforms, but through the left wing social media platforms like

00:43:51.380 Facebook and Twitter. Now, those platforms didn't like the fact that we were using the platform in

00:43:56.780 that way, but we were able to. So what's the downside? I mean, I'm all about if you want to

00:44:03.120 go use alternative platforms, but but abandoning the most powerful and visible platforms just in

00:44:11.040 protest to me doesn't make any sense because that's what they want you to do. I can tell you Twitter.

00:44:17.140 As far as I'm concerned, not that they're sitting around worried specifically about me all the time,

00:44:21.400 but I but if they had a choice, like they would much prefer for me not to use the platform

00:44:25.400 and people like me. So am I going to give them what they want

00:44:28.940 until they force my hand? No, I'm not going to. Um, pig penis. I don't know what that's supposed 1.00

00:44:38.940 to mean says, thank you for not calling the guy. She or her. It's ridiculous. Well, listen,

00:44:45.260 pig penis. If I ever do that, if I, if you ever hear me using the preferred pronouns, 0.99

00:44:51.980 calling a man, a she, what I want you to do is grab the nearest hammer and beat me with it until 1.00

00:44:59.900 I'm dead. That's what I want. Might be a little bit extreme, but that's at the very least. Stop 1.00

00:45:05.240 listening to my show. Stop taking anything I say seriously. If you ever catch, you won't ever

00:45:09.520 catch me doing that. But if I do, that's like invasion of the body snatchers. My mind is gone.

00:45:14.180 Abandon all hope. Okay. That's how strongly I feel about that. Uh, Tupac, Tupac lives says

00:45:24.420 world's leading children's LGBT author. Dude, that is not funny anymore. You ran that joke into the 0.54

00:45:30.680 ground real quick. Also, that book is not as hilariously clever as you think. Neither are you.

00:45:34.840 First of all, it's extremely funny still for sure. Uh, second, it's not a joke. It's, it's literally

00:45:41.360 just a fact. I am quite literally by definition, the leading LGBT author and voice in the country.

00:45:50.720 I don't know what you want me to tell you. That's just, that's it. And, uh, finally is Matt's

00:45:56.380 background just an image? Well, let's find out. I think so. Yeah, actually it is. It's just a,

00:46:06.400 it's just a screen. This is, this is like the moment in the, in the Truman show where he runs

00:46:11.300 into the horizon and finds out it's just a big giant dome. So I know it's very disheartening

00:46:16.340 for a lot of you. Uh, actually, like I said, we, we changed studios. So, uh, we're building a real

00:46:21.860 one I'm told, but for right now I have a, just a screen behind me. So there are other clues as

00:46:26.940 well. Like that, that banjo back there, we gave that banjo away and yet it appears again. So

00:46:33.960 in fact, what, what we, we, we went away on a Christmas break. And, uh, what I was told was

00:46:39.560 when I get back to the studio, there's gonna be a, like a brand new studio bill is going to be great

00:46:43.380 and wonderful. And I was looking forward to it. And then I got here, you know, starting the new year

00:46:47.340 and I walk in and, uh, Oh no, it's just the old studio, but this time in the form of a sheet.

00:46:51.860 So still waiting on that real one. If you haven't heard of Jonathan Isaac yet, then you might be

00:46:57.400 living under a rock. I mean, get with the time you loser. The NBA star, uh, stood strong with his 0.99

00:47:02.180 values while everyone else kneeled and faced heavy criticism from the media for his views on social

00:47:06.760 issues and vaccines over the past few years, which is why I'm very excited to announce that he's

00:47:11.020 decided to write a book with the daily wire, uh, which is called why I stand Jonathan's book will

00:47:16.080 be about his rise in his basketball career, his journey into faith and his strength of character

00:47:21.840 to stand alone in the face of immense, immense pressure. Check out the teaser.

00:47:26.340 The Orlando magic's 23 year old starting forward is deeply religious and proudly unvaccinated.

00:47:31.440 On Friday, Isaac got attention for choosing not to kneel in unison with his teammates or to wear a

00:47:36.880 black lives matter shirt. My name is Jonathan Isaac. I play for the Orlando magic and I'm writing a book

00:47:43.120 with the daily wire courage does not mean the absence of fear. And in today's day, there are so

00:47:51.760 many things that you can be afraid of facing because of believing what you believe or deciding to stand

00:47:57.280 for what you believe in. And I believe this book gives you a blueprint of my story of how Christ has

00:48:02.640 made the difference in my life from a young kid who struggled with fear, anxiety, uh, self insecurity,

00:48:08.160 to a man willing to stand for what he believes in. Jonathan's book will be one of the first under the

00:48:24.320 daily wires, new publishing arm DW books, and we couldn't be happier to have him on board. The book

00:48:28.480 is available for pre-order now at Amazon. So reserve your copy today. Let's get down to our daily

00:48:33.380 cancellation. Sticking with the theme of mass formation psychosis today, we cancel LA times

00:48:41.820 columnist and somehow Pulitzer prize winning writer, Michael Hiltzik for this piece recently

00:48:48.720 published by the times titled mocking anti-vaxxers COVID deaths is ghoulish. Yes, but may be necessary.

00:48:56.160 Now that title is pretty bad, but it's actually slightly an improvement over the original option.

00:49:01.140 And the URL for the article indicates that it was first posted with this title. Why shouldn't we

00:49:06.400 dance on the graves of anti-vaxxers? Well, anybody, anybody with a soul can immediately think of

00:49:11.840 probably a dozen reasons off the top of the head why you shouldn't do that. But Hiltzik has not been

00:49:16.740 burdened with a human soul, which enabled him to write this quote, among all the ways that COVID-19

00:49:21.440 affects our lives, the pandemic confronts us with a profound moral dilemma. How should we react to the

00:49:27.280 deaths of the unvaccinated? Well, again, that's not a dilemma at all for any morally decent human

00:49:33.020 being. That's a dilemma in the same way that like, should I kill and eat my neighbor is a dilemma.

00:49:39.160 If you find yourself needing to pause for even a moment to consider the question, that's a bad sign

00:49:44.060 for both you and your neighbor. Anyway, Hiltzik continues, on the one hand, a hallmark of civilized

00:49:49.860 thought is the sense that every life is precious. On the other, those who have deliberately flouted sober

00:49:55.040 medical advice by refusing a vaccine known to reduce the risk of serious disease from the virus,

00:49:59.280 including the risk to others, and end up in the hospital of the grave can be viewed as receiving

00:50:03.100 their just desserts. Now, needless to say, though both hate speech and misinformation are ostensibly

00:50:10.160 banned from Twitter, this article and its author have not been removed from the platform, even though

00:50:14.900 it commits both infractions. Not only is he delighting in the death of an entire group of people,

00:50:19.980 which I would call hate speech. I don't know what hate speech is, if it's not that.

00:50:23.860 But he's also making factually incorrect statements about the vaccine.

00:50:28.780 Vaccinated and unvaccinated people both spread the virus, which means that the unvaxxed do not 1.00

00:50:33.980 represent any special or unique risk to others. If they're putting anybody at risk at all, it would

00:50:39.160 be themselves, which frames this entire column in an even more sinister light. Continuing, the issue of

00:50:46.320 how to think about the deaths of the unvaccinated has been thrown into high relief locally by the case

00:50:49.860 of Kelly Earnby, a prominent Orange County Republican and deputy district attorney who advocated against

00:50:54.380 vaccine mandates and died of COVID around New Year's Day unvaccinated. So what then is the proper

00:50:59.180 response to the deaths of anti-vaxxers or other determined foes of public health? First, we must

00:51:03.760 acknowledge that the enemies needing to be stamped out are misinformation, lies, and stupidity being 1.00

00:51:09.580 injected into the fight against COVID. Second, we must view every one of these deaths as a teachable 0.99

00:51:13.960 moment. They demonstrate in the most vivid way imaginable the folly of vaccine refusal and of

00:51:19.580 flouting responsible public health measures. They underscore the dire consequence of turning public

00:51:25.080 health into a partisan football. It may be not a little ghoulish to celebrate or exalt in the deaths

00:51:31.120 of vaccine opponents, and it may be proper to express sympathy and solicitude to those they leave

00:51:35.840 behind. But mockery is not necessarily the wrong reaction to those who publicly mocked anti-COVID

00:51:41.400 measures and encouraged others to follow suit before they perished of the disease, the dangers of

00:51:46.080 which they belittled. There may be no other way to make sure that the lessons of these teachable

00:51:51.140 moments are heard. So now may be a good time to show you what our friend Michael Hiltzik actually

00:51:55.660 looks like. And here he is there in all his glory. As you can see, he's both fat and old. So it's rather

00:52:01.400 a bold move for an elderly, obese man to mock anyone for dying, given that he's likely so near death

00:52:08.000 himself. Also, as the triple chin indicates, he doesn't take his own health nearly as seriously

00:52:12.920 as he pretends. Now, normally, I would say that his exorbitant waste and his surplus of lard and

00:52:17.800 chins is none of my business. But because he's decided that other people's medical decisions are

00:52:23.320 his business, it's fair to treat his medical decisions as a public matter as well. It's what

00:52:28.580 he wants, apparently. Now, perhaps he would want us to mock his death, too, when it comes sooner rather

00:52:34.440 than later. People who die of obesity have their own choices, largely to thank for it.

00:52:39.600 Can we make fun of them? What about promiscuous people who contract STDs? Say a prostitute who 0.99

00:52:45.460 dies of hepatitis. What about people who die from alcohol or drug abuse? Is it necessary for the

00:52:52.920 greater good that we dance on the graves of all these people? I suppose Hiltzik would say no,

00:52:58.220 that's different because the unvaccinated pose a unique danger to others. He would say that 1.00

00:53:03.220 because he's a greasy, disgusting, ugly liar. In reality, as established, the data clearly proves 1.00

00:53:09.680 that the unvaccinated are not special drivers of the pandemic. Everyone is spreading it. 1.00

00:53:14.400 And even if they were primarily responsible for spreading the virus, still to delight in the

00:53:18.640 deaths of ordinary people, mothers and fathers who leave children and spouses behind, would be

00:53:24.440 twisted and evil beyond words. But to gloat over their deaths when their medical decisions had no

00:53:30.040 special impact on anyone but themselves is a whole new level of deranged. It's clear in that case that

00:53:36.620 you take joy in their death and suffering simply because you hate them. And you hate them not because

00:53:42.080 they did anything to you, but because they refuse to comply with your wishes and your demands.

00:53:47.500 They belong to the other group. You know, they behaved in ways that you found foreign and distasteful. 1.00

00:53:53.740 They held opinions that you disagree with. And so you want them dead. You want their families 0.99

00:54:00.240 ripped apart. You want their children to mourn them. Now there's plenty of historical precedent for 0.99

00:54:05.680 this kind of bloodlust towards the out group. And history teaches us that it leads always and every

00:54:11.340 time to extraordinary suffering and misery and violence. Hiltzik has aligned himself with quite

00:54:19.060 literally all of the worst people of history. And he's not alone in that way of thinking,

00:54:24.640 which is the scariest thing of all. And it's why he is today finally canceled. And we'll leave it

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 11, 2022

Ep. 870 - Mass Formation Psychosis Is Real And We're All Living Through It

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