The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 875 - A Generation Of Psychological Abuse Victims

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, we're told that there is a mental illness epidemic among kids,

00:00:04.200 which can be attributed to the pandemic. But that's a lie and a very nefarious one. And I'll

00:00:08.380 explain why today. Also, the Supreme Court killed the vaccine mandate, but some companies are

00:00:11.900 enforcing the mandate anyway. How should we respond to that as consumers? And a clip of Biden

00:00:16.980 saying that George Floyd's death had a greater impact on the world than Martin Luther King's

00:00:23.020 death. He's right, actually, but not for the reason he thinks. Plus, a woman drives her car

00:00:26.800 into a river by accident and then takes a selfie while the vehicle sinks below the surface.

00:00:31.020 It's an image that perfectly encapsulates modern Western culture. We'll talk about that and much

00:00:35.680 more today on the Matt Wall Show. As you all know and have seen, true masculinity in our culture is

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00:01:54.760 Knicks game last night alongside 20,000 of his fellow fans, as is the case with almost all

00:02:00.200 professional sporting events in the country. Nobody was wearing a mask in the whole building.

00:02:05.220 This morning, though, every school-aged child in New York City and across the state wore masks in

00:02:11.880 class and in the bus on their way to class and outside at recess or during gym. Young children

00:02:19.300 wore masks while they tried to learn how to read. They wore masks to speech therapy. They wore masks

00:02:24.880 for hours at a time like they do every day. Millions of children around the country are, of course, in

00:02:30.200 this position. In some schools, they're forced to eat lunch outside sitting on the cold ground in

00:02:35.380 freezing temperatures for their health and safety, you understand. They spent the previous year locked in

00:02:40.900 their homes attending school through a computer screen and learn nothing in the process. Many

00:02:45.740 adults who run these school systems want to send them back to that, and maybe it doesn't matter.

00:02:50.160 It's hard to say that the current arrangement is much of an improvement anyway. Children are, as we

00:02:55.280 know, the least susceptible to COVID and have been from the start. The current variant isn't a serious

00:03:01.180 threat to almost anybody except the most elderly, frail, or sick. That's why adults don't worry very much 0.99

00:03:06.040 about packing themselves into a stadium, 70,000 at a time, and spending hours together maskless.

00:03:12.020 And they shouldn't worry. Yet their kids, far less vulnerable to the disease than themselves,

00:03:17.300 have been wearing masks for so long that a lot of these kids don't even know what their

00:03:21.360 friends' faces look like anymore. Now, there have been many reports in recent weeks about the mental

00:03:27.700 illness crisis among these kids. A recent report in The Hill tells us that, quote, officials and experts

00:03:33.880 have sounded the alarm over the state of children's mental health. The American Academy of Pediatrics,

00:03:39.020 the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Children's Hospital Association

00:03:43.700 declared a national emergency for children's mental health in October, shortly after the back-to-school

00:03:48.120 season. But AACAP President Warren U. Key said that the situation has gotten worse since the

00:03:54.820 declaration, with the scope being even larger than we imagined, quote-unquote. Children's hospitals

00:03:59.420 recorded almost 38% more emergency department visits for mental health cases, and nearly

00:04:03.600 54% more suicide and self-injury cases in the third quarter of 2021 compared to 2020,

00:04:09.200 according to the Children's Hospital Association. So that's what's happening. What can we do about

00:04:14.460 it? Well, according to the article, quote, advocates and experts are calling for more support and

00:04:18.760 recognition for both those struggling with mental illness and behavioral health professionals.

00:04:25.080 Now, NPR adds the caveat that, quote, the rise in children's mental health symptoms

00:04:29.160 didn't start with this school year. Recent studies show that the pandemic exacerbated an already growing

00:04:35.380 crisis in youth mental health. And there's an article in the American Psychological Association

00:04:39.580 website warning us that, quote, after two full years of the COVID-19 pandemic, we're now faced with

00:04:44.960 a situation where, quote, mental illness is at an all-time high. Further, we're told, according to a survey,

00:04:51.960 quote, 71% of parents said the pandemic had taken a toll on their child's mental health and 69% said

00:04:58.340 the pandemic was the worst thing to happen to their child. A national survey of 3,300 high schoolers

00:05:04.180 conducted in spring 2020 found close to a third of students felt unhappy and depressed, much more

00:05:09.940 than usual. That must be mental illness, right? See, this seems to be the consensus, at least in the media

00:05:16.700 and among healthcare professionals. The pandemic has caused an epidemic of mental illness, especially

00:05:24.080 among kids. That's what we're told. Or at least it has made worse an epidemic that was raging long

00:05:29.720 before. But both of these conclusions are wrong and wrong in very important ways. First of all, the pandemic

00:05:39.020 has not done any of this, okay? It's not the pandemic's fault. The pandemic itself has been quite mild

00:05:46.640 for kids. We can blame COVID for our children's mental health problem about as much as we can

00:05:52.440 blame the flu for our children's mental health problems. It's not the virus that has created these

00:05:59.640 issues. It's our response to the virus. It's what the adults have done in response to it. You know,

00:06:08.440 if a boy is locked in a closet for three weeks because his paranoid, delusional mother wants to keep

00:06:13.500 him safe from the invisible monsters in the house, we can't blame her son's physical state on the

00:06:19.020 invisible monsters. Whether the monsters exist or not, it's clear that the mother's actions are the 0.94

00:06:24.620 immediate cause of the child's condition. Now, you might say this analogy is not fair because a child

00:06:30.060 is more likely to be killed by COVID than by invisible monsters, and you're right. But the statistical

00:06:35.780 likelihood that any individual child should be killed or seriously hurt by COVID is so vanishingly small

00:06:41.080 that for most kids, the comparison hits very close to the mark. The point is that kids are suffering

00:06:46.900 at the hands of the adult authority figures in their lives. You can blame COVID for plenty of things,

00:06:54.280 but not this. Second, this is not mental illness, okay? Children who are depressed or anxious

00:07:04.260 or stressed out or angry or some combination of all these things are responding rationally and

00:07:12.420 justifiably to the circumstances they have been put in. It is perfectly natural for a child to be

00:07:19.900 depressed if he's ripped out of his normal life, forced to walk around in a mask all day like some

00:07:24.660 kind of contagious leopard, deprived of healthy forms of recreation, isolated, not even able to see his

00:07:32.160 friends' faces or show his own. Calling his depression mental illness is like starving him for a month

00:07:38.880 and then accusing him of having an eating disorder. What else is he going to do but starve if you won't

00:07:44.700 feed him? What else is he going to do but plunge into despair if you've removed all sources of hope and joy

00:07:50.900 from his life? Kids are being psychologically abused, okay? They're being fed a steady diet of fear and

00:07:59.000 paranoia. They're being conditioned to treat fresh air like it's toxic. So if you notice changes to a

00:08:08.040 child's emotional and mental state amid all of this, it's not because they have a mental illness or a 0.89

00:08:13.960 brain disease. It's because they're humans. And this is how humans respond when they're subjected to

00:08:20.740 this kind of torture. If anything, we should be concerned about the children who are unfazed by the

00:08:26.820 circumstances. We should be more worried about the kids who are not depressed. I mean, it's terrible

00:08:33.200 to think of the child who cries as he's physically abused by his alcoholic father. It's even worse to

00:08:39.220 think of the child who does not cry because he's gotten used to the treatment. The abuse has settled

00:08:46.120 into his psyche deep down. He thinks he deserves it. So the parents who brag that their children handle

00:08:53.900 isolation and masking without complaint, oh, my kids are doing just fine. They're really bragging

00:09:01.720 that their children have been broken. Their spirits have been so thoroughly crushed that they can't

00:09:08.140 conceive of a better life and therefore don't desire one. The health professionals, so-called, who clamor

00:09:16.740 about a mental illness scourge among kids, they're the same ones who support and advocate for the 0.99

00:09:23.360 policies that are causing the problem. And so the mental illness label is a cover for them.

00:09:30.540 They're hiding behind it so that they're not held accountable. You know, they throw up their hands

00:09:37.060 and say, well, I don't know what's going on. There's just a lot of mental illness going around,

00:09:40.160 apparently. That's not ill. What's ill or irrational or diseased about being extremely upset and stressed

00:09:51.040 out when your life is destroyed as a child? What this means is that the totally justified and 1.00

00:10:00.040 well-warranted despair, stress, and anxiety felt by these kids will be treated as the problem itself.

00:10:07.300 The kids will be counseled and then drugged and then sent right back into the same soul-killing

00:10:12.920 environment. It's like prescribing someone diet pills and then handing them a McDonald's coupon on the

00:10:19.200 way out the door. So you're chopping away at the branches while watering the roots.

00:10:25.560 You're causing the problem that you're pretending to solve. And the kids are left with the mess that

00:10:31.660 you make, as always. Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:10:42.440 So our top headline today, the most important news of the week, month, year, possibly decade,

00:10:46.500 is that I'm going to be on Dr. Phil. I was already on the show, actually. We recorded the episode.

00:10:51.120 It hasn't aired yet. It's going to air tomorrow. I don't know what time, whatever time they air.

00:10:56.200 And tomorrow, Wednesday is when it's going to air. They dropped a brief little promo for the episode

00:11:01.660 yesterday. I think this gives you a good taste, gives you the flavor of what you'll experience when

00:11:08.340 the full episode comes out. So let's watch that.

00:11:09.780 Now, you know, there's always a risk when you go on a show like this and it's pre-recorded.

00:11:40.760 Because, you know, it's live. That's one thing. It's out there. Everybody sees it. With pre-recorded,

00:11:45.280 you're kind of at the mercy, especially when you signed all the release forms and everything. And

00:11:48.520 basically, if you read the pages and nobody ever does, they're telling you that, like, we could

00:11:53.080 shop this up in a million different ways and do what we want with it. And you can't do anything

00:11:56.720 about it. So there's a certain risk involved. It's calculated risk. I'm not too worried about it.

00:12:02.240 I think the editing will be fair. And I also think it's worth, because I've, you know, I put

00:12:08.500 this, I posted this promo yesterday and most people are saying they're excited to watch the

00:12:13.000 episode. I have gotten some people messaging me and saying, well, you know, why would you

00:12:19.640 go on a network like this? Why would you be a part of this in the first place? I think

00:12:26.300 it's more than worth it to go into the lion's den. That's what we have to be willing to do.

00:12:31.940 You know, it's these kinds of conversations, the way that everything is sort of segregated right

00:12:39.240 now, is that when it comes to something like gender, you know, if you're watching network TV,

00:12:46.920 you're going to see one perspective on it without it really being challenged. And if you want to get

00:12:54.200 the other perspective, which is the truth, the rational, sane perspective, you got to go seek

00:12:58.780 it out by going to the Daily Wire or, well, the Daily Wire and maybe a couple other outlets can

00:13:06.000 give you that. But you got to go find it. And then everything's in its own little corner. The

00:13:10.700 problem is that the left corner, well, it's not really a corner. They have the entire house. And

00:13:15.160 then as it stands right now on the right, we have the corners. And so we stay in our little corner and

00:13:20.580 we don't venture outside of that much of the time. Now we, that's a problem. We need to go,

00:13:26.800 if you want to reach people who are not going to seek you out in your corner, then you have to go

00:13:32.880 and find them and actually challenge these ideas. So that's what I tried to do. And, you know,

00:13:38.680 sitting across from the bearded man in the dress and that sort of thing, it was a lively conversation.

00:13:45.640 I'll put it that way. All right. So the Supreme Court killed the private employer vax mandate,

00:13:50.140 as we talked about on Friday, but that doesn't mean that there are no more private employer vax

00:13:56.440 mandates because now some employers can, are choosing to keep them anyway, even though they

00:14:00.560 have no excuse to, no reason to, they have no reason to because they're not being forced to do

00:14:04.780 it. Also because there's no, as we've discussed, there's no rational scientific basis for it when

00:14:10.180 we know that vaxed and unvaxed alike spread the virus. So there's just no, there's, there's,

00:14:15.300 there's nothing to grab onto here in terms of a reason for a vax mandate. You have no foundation

00:14:22.840 for it, but employers are doing it anyway. And Elijah Schaefer is a great podcast over host over

00:14:29.760 at the blaze has this screenshot reportedly from an email from Carhart to, to their employees.

00:14:37.200 And this is what it says. It's gone viral today. It says Carhart associates. Uh, many of you have

00:14:42.560 asked how the recent Supreme court decision on the OSHA mandate for large employers will impact our

00:14:48.120 associates. So we want to provide some clarity. The ruling does not change Carhart's mandatory

00:14:53.200 vaccination program, which went into effect on January 4th. As you know, we have extended the

00:14:56.960 vaccination deadline for both RCV and Madisonville associates to February 15th. This date also remains

00:15:03.780 in effect. We put workplace safety at the very top of our priority list and the Supreme court's recent

00:15:09.120 ruling doesn't impact that core value. We in the medical community continue to believe vaccines are

00:15:15.140 necessary to ensure a safe working environment for every associate and even perhaps their

00:15:19.220 households, which doesn't make any sense at all. Of course. So Carhartt, they're still going to have

00:15:23.940 their vaccine mandate. Um, here's what I'll say about this. I think these companies need to be held

00:15:32.040 accountable for this, but who holds them accountable? Well, the consumers need to do it. So I put the onus

00:15:42.480 on us primarily as consumers on myself. I have been a Carhartt customer in the past

00:15:49.400 as an avid fan of Bass Pro Shops. You know, you go there and you're going to find plenty of Carhartt.

00:15:55.420 Um, that's where I put the onus. So I think that, and I do that much more than I put the onus on the

00:16:04.760 employees. And this is an important point because I think sometimes we're a little bit too blithe and

00:16:09.280 casual about just declaring that employees should quit under these circumstances. I hear that a lot.

00:16:14.640 I hear that in conservative media, for example, well, you should just quit.

00:16:20.300 That's really easy to say. I mean, it's easy for me to say, we don't have a vaccine mandate here.

00:16:25.740 Our, our employer is one of the ones that went to Supreme court to fight this. So I don't have to

00:16:30.180 worry about it. Um, I'm getting a paycheck and I'm feeding my kids and I'm bringing, you know,

00:16:35.160 the bacon home to my family. So it doesn't, so it's, it's, I'm good. So it's really easy for me

00:16:41.300 to sit here and say, well, you should quit your job. You out there watching this right now, just

00:16:44.580 quit, quit right now today. Go home and explain it to your wife later. Uh, you'll be fine. 0.87

00:16:53.960 Now, if you can quit your job, then great. Then, uh, you know, if you can, and you decide to quit your

00:17:00.440 job in protest of something like this, to stand up for your rights, then I think that's fantastic. I think

00:17:04.780 it's at, I admire that, but I know that I'm a father. I have a family and that's my first

00:17:11.440 responsibility. And I put that responsibility over everything and everyone really. I mean,

00:17:19.060 over conservatism, over Liberty, over my country, I'll choose my family over my country. I'll choose

00:17:25.140 it over literally everything and everyone except God himself. That those are my values. And what that

00:17:32.260 means is that if I'm in this position, if I was put in the same position, let's say someone a Carhartt's

00:17:37.160 in, I'm not going to leave my job in a huff all at once and make my children go hungry.

00:17:45.420 Might be, that might be what you want me to do for your own sake, but it's not what I'm going to do

00:17:50.280 because I have my family and I care about them more than I care about you. And I care about them

00:17:55.360 more than I care about your values. So what I would need to do if I was in this position and I

00:18:02.440 wanted to leave and I would want to leave, but I would need to secure another job first.

00:18:07.640 And that takes time. It's not something that I can afford to do, just leaving the job all at once,

00:18:13.640 going out in a blaze of glory to prove a point. That's not fair to my kids. Okay. So I can go home

00:18:20.100 feeling good and I can say to my kids, well, I took a stand today and well, that's great, dad,

00:18:25.000 but how are we going to eat tonight? That's my first responsibility is to make sure my kids are

00:18:29.560 eating, not to make a point about vaccine mandates. Not that the point isn't important,

00:18:36.560 but it's not as important as my duty as a father. So does that mean that we should just lay down?

00:18:43.520 Am I advocating that? Not at all. I'm putting the onus on the consumer because as consumers,

00:18:50.100 we could crush this. We have that ability much more than the employees do. Because the other

00:18:58.140 thing is, as an employee, you quit. Again, I admired if you decide to do that, but if you do,

00:19:02.980 they're just going to, they're going to replace you. They're going to find someone who will cooperate

00:19:07.340 with the vaccine mandate and they'll just replace you and that's it. And continue doing what they want

00:19:11.500 to do. You can't replace consumers though, or at least they're a lot harder to replace.

00:19:20.100 So as consumers, if we say to Carhartt, you know, rather than pointing to the employees who have

00:19:28.960 families to feed and saying, you all should quit, just quit. How about we make the decision not to

00:19:36.000 buy Carhartt until they reverse this tyrannical, senseless, irrational, immoral mandate? Because

00:19:44.700 here's the great thing. We have nothing at stake. We don't sacrifice anything. I mean, literally

00:19:50.040 nothing. You sacrifice Carhartt. Okay. Just buy a jacket from a different company. You're not going

00:19:54.960 to freeze to death. You'll find some company that doesn't have a vaccine made it where you can buy

00:19:58.340 a jacket. Plus you probably already have 15 of them in your closet anyway. So we could do that,

00:20:06.800 but here's what we do as consumers. You know, we sit back and say, all you should quit. And then we

00:20:13.800 continue to patronize these same companies. We could bring these companies to their knees

00:20:21.320 by using the power we have as consumers and it costs us nothing to do. So think about the sacrifice of

00:20:30.140 leaving your job when you have a family to feed versus the sacrifice of just not buying crap from

00:20:37.580 one company and buying it from another instead. Who's making the greater sacrifice? Who should we

00:20:42.900 be pointing to and expecting them to, you know, expecting more from?

00:20:52.320 So that's what, that's what gets me. I, um, especially a company like Carhartt, I mean, they're,

00:20:58.600 I would guess the majority of their employees are going to be more of the conservative blue collar

00:21:06.500 sort of persuasion. Okay. There's not a lot of, um, prissy leftists in, in, uh, in Los Angeles

00:21:14.980 or San Francisco or Manhattan walking around in Carhartt. So we could put an end to this. We could.

00:21:23.880 If we choose not to, then that's our fault. Don't blame the employees for that.

00:21:28.600 All right. Yesterday was, um, MLK day. Lots of Democrats, of course, using MLK to promote their

00:21:35.360 agenda. But this clip from Biden, which actually is from like a year ago, uh, went viral again,

00:21:41.020 as people were kind of reminiscing about it. And Biden is, is criticized for saying what he says

00:21:45.380 here. It's a brief clip. He's criticized for this. A lot of people on the right, of course,

00:21:48.660 criticizing him, but, um, I, I actually agree with him. Let's, let's play the clip.

00:21:53.060 But even Dr. King's assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd's death had.

00:22:11.560 And like I said, a lot of people on the right, very upset about this and, uh, upset anew and

00:22:15.980 criticizing him saying this is a horrible thing to say. He's actually 100% right.

00:22:22.960 Now, if you look at the full context and the point he's trying to make about it, he's not right.

00:22:28.040 Because he's not just saying that the death had a greater impact. He's also justifying. He thinks

00:22:33.520 that it ought to have had a better impact, a greater impact. And when it comes to the ought to,

00:22:39.180 he's obviously wrong about that. But as an observation, he's 100% right. Like undeniably

00:22:45.600 that George Floyd's death had a greater, um, immediate global impact than MLK's death.

00:22:56.040 Now, MLK's life, of course, had a much greater impact than George Floyd's life did.

00:23:02.280 George Floyd, Floyd's life had no impact on society except a negative one,

00:23:06.420 had a bad impact for his community that he victimized for the woman that he robbed at gunpoint

00:23:11.240 when he forced his way into her house. I mean, it had a bad impact for them.

00:23:15.120 But beyond that, it had no impact at all. I mean, his life was inconsequential.

00:23:19.060 He was a, he was a, a violent scumbag criminal. 0.99

00:23:24.240 And that's how I'll always describe anyone who forces their way into a woman's house and points 1.00

00:23:29.340 a gun at them. They're all scumbags, right? So life, life is, is one thing. Life had a greater impact, 1.00

00:23:34.860 but death, absolutely. George Floyd's death had a greater impact. And that only speaks

00:23:39.740 to how insane the reaction to George Floyd's death was. In fact, it would be hard to think of,

00:23:47.620 if you were to, to, to make a list of all of the prominent people who've been, who've died

00:23:53.460 over the last century, and, and we're going to rank whose death, who the deaths that had the

00:24:01.340 greatest impact, George Floyd is in the top three, probably.

00:24:07.700 I mean, you probably got JFK. And then I think George Floyd's probably number two.

00:24:15.140 And you might even be able to make an argument for putting him at number one.

00:24:17.800 When you consider just the way that society, the, the, the, the meltdown, I mean, the literal

00:24:24.780 meltdown that occurred across society and the way that things were reshuffled and, and flipped on

00:24:31.620 their heads, everything's upside down and backwards. That's because George Floyd died.

00:24:36.540 I mean, let's start with the fact that, um, dozens of cities across the country were in flames for

00:24:43.080 months and we're still dealing with the effects of that. I mean, a total breakdown of law and order.

00:24:48.740 We'll, we'll start with that. So the impact was negative from his death. It was completely

00:24:56.320 maniacal and irrational and insane, but did it have a greater impact? Yeah. In fact, I think what the

00:25:07.840 point he makes there, that's the point that we should be making as conservatives. We, we shouldn't

00:25:11.840 be disagreeing with that. We should be pointing that out because of how crazy it, it only illustrates

00:25:20.360 how crazy the reaction was. All right. Um, let's see what else do we got here? The Michigan

00:25:30.220 Democratic party put this out on a Facebook. Do we have this here? Okay. So they put this on Facebook.

00:25:36.520 Um, and it said, not sure where this parent should control what is taught in schools because

00:25:42.060 they're, they are, our kids is originating, but parents do have the option to choose to send

00:25:46.760 their kids to a hand selected private school at their own expense of this is what they desire.

00:25:50.980 The purpose of a public public education in a public school is not to teach kids only what

00:25:55.640 parents want them to be taught is to teach them what society needs them to know.

00:26:00.880 The client of the public school is not the parent, but the entire community, the public.

00:26:08.680 Now the Michigan democratic party, they put that up because these people never learn. I mean,

00:26:15.020 we're going into midterm elections and the Democrat party was eviscerated in Virginia because of this

00:26:24.840 kind of thing. And these idiots never learn, which is great that they never learn. I mean, 1.00

00:26:29.780 I'm happy that they don't learn. I, I, I hope that this is the, um, that this is their motto going

00:26:35.120 forward into the midterms. I would love to see that because it guarantees that every election where

00:26:42.280 they, where this is what they do, they're going to lose. Um, but the Michigan democratic party,

00:26:51.520 they actually took that down and, uh, and issued a very rare apology from anybody on the left

00:26:56.920 saying, Oh no, no, no, no. We, we believe in parental rights. Of course we do,

00:27:00.580 but, but they don't. And you know, this, this right there, that is a reflection of what they

00:27:10.380 actually think. Um, even if they apologize for it after the fact, because of the reaction to it,

00:27:15.740 of course, if it had not been for that reaction, they would have just kept it up.

00:27:18.880 We know that it's also, of course, not at all true. I say the purpose of public education in

00:27:25.040 the public school is, uh, is to teach them what society needs them to know as if society is kind

00:27:30.920 of like this, um, this monolith, this organism declaring what kids need to know, but it's not

00:27:40.220 society. No, it is very specifically the government. This is why I always try, you know,

00:27:47.320 we say public school because everybody knows what you mean, but really we should be using

00:27:51.180 words like government school, state run school, the left. They're very smart about, about the use

00:28:01.980 of language. They do this very effectively. The only difference is that for them, when they're

00:28:08.700 adjusting the way that they use language, they're doing it in a dishonest way because they want to

00:28:13.700 mislead you. Here, this is about, we should be adjusting our language, um, in order to, to make

00:28:20.680 me the meaning more clear in order to be more honest about what, what, what, uh, we're referring

00:28:27.080 to, which is why this is something I think we should all do for now and just stop saying public

00:28:31.640 school, stop saying it. It's, that's not really what it is. Public schools, because it's not about

00:28:38.000 the pub, the public, generally speaking, doesn't run the schools and it, and the schools in fact do

00:28:45.300 not reflect what the public wants the kids to know. Even if it did, by the way, that wouldn't

00:28:54.760 matter to me as a parent. I mean, I don't give a damn what the public wants my kids to know or what

00:29:00.500 the public needs my kids to know. I don't care what society, even if I could know what society

00:29:06.820 thinks or wants my kids to be taught, it doesn't make a difference to me. I mean, I'll tell society

00:29:12.940 to piss off the way that I'll tell the government, but as it stands, no, these are not, these are not

00:29:16.780 society schools. These are government schools. So let's call them that. Let's just, we can all pledge

00:29:21.580 from this moment forward, stop saying public school, government school, state run school. That's what they

00:29:26.620 are. And so it reflects what the government wants your kids to know. And that's a really important

00:29:37.140 point that we should always emphasize. This is from Axios. It says, Donald Trump is trashing Ron

00:29:45.460 DeSantis in private as an ingrate with a dull personality and no realistic chance of beating

00:29:50.960 him in a potential 2024 showdown. According to sources who've recently talked to the former

00:29:55.260 president about the Florida governor. Um, and then it's, uh, that's pretty much all the

00:29:59.720 article goes on for a while, but that's pretty much the entire report. Now, of course, there's

00:30:07.000 always a grain of salt when you hear anonymous sources and everything like that from the corporate

00:30:12.360 media in general, but especially in reference to, uh, to president Trump in this case. I mean,

00:30:20.360 there's, there's, there's nothing about it that raises a red flag for me. That makes me think

00:30:23.320 it's not true. I'm not going to sit here and say, Oh, Donald Trump would never say that

00:30:27.540 about a potential opponent. That's what the Donald Trump I know would sort of never insult

00:30:33.040 a potential political opponent. Um, that doesn't surprise me. I tend to believe it. And Trump

00:30:39.960 has already started a little bit gingerly by his standards. Anyway, he's never, you know,

00:30:45.080 he could never be too delicate when it comes to criticism, but he has started relatively delicately

00:30:50.460 diplomatically, um, to kind of criticize Ron DeSantis without, without naming names.

00:30:56.560 Now, just a couple of days ago, he was, uh, doing another interview where he started,

00:31:00.760 where he started criticizing Republicans who haven't publicized their vaccine status,

00:31:05.800 which is a total leftist talking point, by the way, that is a leftist talking point

00:31:10.740 that you have a responsibility for some reason to tell people what your vaccine status is,

00:31:16.140 whether you've been vaccinated or not, but we don't need to rely on anonymous sources to tell

00:31:21.460 us that Trump said that we, he's on tape saying it multiple times. He's been saying this frequently

00:31:25.980 in, in, uh, in recent weeks. And he even said that it's cowardly, it's cowardly for Republicans, 0.94

00:31:32.920 uh, who, if they don't announce and advertise whether they've been vaccinated or not,

00:31:38.040 that would appear to me to be pretty clearly a thinly veiled attack on Ron DeSantis.

00:31:47.500 It's also again, off base, not true. And a leftist talking point, it's none of your damn 0.99

00:31:53.780 business. It's nobody's business. Whether Ron DeSantis has been vaccinated, nobody, nobody's 0.99

00:31:59.180 business, whether you've been vaccinated, whether I've been vaccinated, none of your business.

00:32:02.320 You don't owe that to anybody. You don't owe your, your medical records. Um, so I think we're

00:32:12.940 going to see this. It's going to be, it's going to be more explicit in the months ahead. I mean,

00:32:16.600 I would give it like a month maybe before Donald Trump is naming names and, uh, coming after Ron

00:32:23.400 DeSantis and coming after him hard because that's how Trump operates. He doesn't know how to do it any

00:32:27.580 other way. And this is my fear, you know, that, um, I mean, I believe without it, without a shadow

00:32:34.300 of a doubt that Ron DeSantis would be a much more formidable general election opponent for the

00:32:41.740 Democrats and also a better president. Um, and he's proven that with the way that he governs.

00:32:47.460 And let's start with the fact that Ron DeSantis did not hand his state over to the COVID cartel.

00:32:53.100 Donald Trump did that with the country. He handed the country over to Fauci.

00:32:56.740 You make all excuses you want. Oh, he learned his lesson. He's still learning. He's a 78 year old

00:33:01.220 man. Don't tell me we've got to elect him again. Cause he learned his lesson. And you know, he tried,

00:33:05.460 he'll do better next time. That's not good enough. The country's at stake. All I know is that with two

00:33:14.760 potential candidates, we've got one who handed his, um, his government over to the COVID cartel and one

00:33:20.360 who didn't. I'm going to take the guy who didn't. I'm not going to take the guy who did hoping that he

00:33:25.000 doesn't do it again. So I think Ron DeSantis would make a better president and a better general

00:33:30.880 election, um, opponent, but I don't see him winning primaries. And one of the reasons is that Donald

00:33:38.480 Trump will try to destroy this man, not just say, Oh, I disagree with some of his views or I think I'd

00:33:46.440 be, but you know, I really respect Ron DeSantis. He's a great guy, great governor, everything. But,

00:33:50.520 uh, but, uh, uh, you know, I, I think I, I think you should elect me for this and that reason.

00:33:56.560 Now, if that's the way that Trump approached it, then it's not the end of the world. I mean,

00:33:59.920 Trump wins and then we could still have Ron, Ron DeSantis will survive to fight again.

00:34:04.400 And maybe he's the president in 2028, but Trump doesn't do that. He's going to try to rip you to

00:34:11.400 shreds and destroy you forever, which by the way is a, is a, is a nice approach when you're going 0.76

00:34:17.180 after your actual enemies. But he does this with allies. He does this with, um, people who are

00:34:25.040 important to the cause. And so that's my fear that this will happen with Ron DeSantis. He'll just be

00:34:32.160 ripped, ripped apart. And, um, it'll be the early extinction of his political career, at least on a

00:34:40.020 national scale. All right, let's play this quickly before we get to the comments, a moment of awakening

00:34:45.600 on TikTok. We play a lot of, uh, a lot of confusion, a lot of delusion on TikTok and we play that for

00:34:50.940 you. But here, this video went viral of somebody just beginning to realize how screwed they really

00:34:56.000 are. A red pill moment, as the kids would say. Let's listen. No, I seriously think about this 0.98

00:35:00.940 every single day and I'm sorry if I sound stupid. If somebody has $500 and they've already paid taxes 0.92

00:35:07.700 on it and they give it to me. So now just because it goes from them to me, I also have to pay taxes

00:35:13.740 on it, even though they, they just did. And then not only that, but anytime I spend one of those $500,

00:35:22.160 I'm going to also pay another tax fee on whatever item I'm buying. And then whoever I bought the item

00:35:29.080 from will have to pay taxes on the money they just earned from what I bought. So like, if a,

00:35:37.540 so every single dollar, like if a dollar is a hundred cents, hold on,

00:35:48.960 just forget it. No, don't forget it. You're almost there. You were almost there. You're putting

00:35:59.040 it together. She's on the precipice. And then she got confused and said, nevermind. But I know it's

00:36:05.000 scary. It's scary to think about the fact that, uh, every dollar is taxed down to about like 30 cents

00:36:11.000 probably, but that's true. Every dollar you make is taxed 50 different ways. Everything, I mean,

00:36:20.420 every, everything you do is every time you turn on a light, it's, it's taxed. Every time you drive

00:36:25.080 your car, it's taxed. So you buy, you go to the grocery store, it's taxed. I mean, you're taxed on

00:36:28.240 the way to the grocery store when you're, when you're using gasoline in your car, you're taxed.

00:36:32.040 Everything you buy at the grocery store is taxed. I mean, just, just like think about your average

00:36:38.460 day or just the process of, um, uh, you know, running errands or something. And how many times

00:36:45.740 you're taxed? You get up in the morning, you turn on the lights, you're taxed. You go take a shower,

00:36:52.440 you run in the water, you're taxed. You go eat breakfast on all the stuff that you're taxed on.

00:36:57.000 You know, all the food is you're taxed on. Then you walk outside, you get in your car, you're,

00:37:01.720 you go to the gas station, tax, tax, tax, tax. You go to the store, you're taxing all that.

00:37:06.480 You go to your job and every dollar that you earn is taxed. In fact, the government is going to take

00:37:13.100 the money is going to, is going to dip their hands into your paycheck and take what they want

00:37:18.380 before you even see your paycheck. So they'll, the government will come in and they'll take their

00:37:22.560 bit and then they'll give you the leftovers. So you don't even get a paycheck. You get the

00:37:28.120 leftovers after the government is taken. And then sometimes they'll take more than they're owed

00:37:31.480 and they'll just hold onto it with no interest. And they'll give it back to you at the end of the year

00:37:35.080 and say, Oh, sorry, we took too much. Uh, but no interest on that. But of course, though,

00:37:40.260 if you owe us money and you don't give it to us on time, you're going to owe interest.

00:37:44.880 But if we owe you money and we don't give it to you on time, then we don't pay any interest.

00:37:50.760 And most people will get their, their tax refund at the end of the year and they'll celebrate.

00:37:54.280 Oh, free money. Yay. I'll go buy a TV. That's your money. You ignoramus.

00:37:59.560 This is not something to be happy about. That could have been, you could have invested that. 0.99

00:38:05.320 Even if you put it in a savings account, it's going to earn more interest than you get from

00:38:08.980 the government. Put it under a mattress, you'd be better off. So that's right. Um, now, and then,

00:38:17.340 and then you consider that the founding fathers, uh, you know, we, we, we don't want to go with the,

00:38:24.780 with the old, uh, elementary school version of the revolutionary war and simplify it too much.

00:38:29.180 Uh, there were many factors playing into it, but they were certainly, we, we could say at the very

00:38:33.760 least, uh, one of the, one of the, uh, leading factors was a tax on tea. That's one of the things

00:38:40.600 that, uh, that helped propel us towards the revolutionary war and the formation of this country.

00:38:47.060 So our founding fathers, they didn't even want to pay a tax on tea.

00:38:49.480 I mean, we, we pay taxes on tea these days and, and like literally everything else.

00:38:59.140 And, uh, that's, that is, I think that's one of the ultimate red pills to, to realize that

00:39:04.160 you go from there. Well, that's, that's the question. Let's get to the comment section.

00:39:11.960 So we did unveil a brilliant, innovative new, uh, portion of the show yesterday where we are going

00:39:27.640 to accept video comments as well as just your standard boring written comments. You go to

00:39:32.860 dailywire.com slash sweet baby comments and submit your video comments. We got a couple just to get

00:39:37.460 started and, uh, let's watch. Hey, Matt. So one time in college, they gave us an example of voter

00:39:46.540 suppression and it was a news story of a 95 year old black lady in a wheelchair who couldn't find a 1.00

00:39:56.140 ride to the voting booths. And that was apparently an example of racial suppression. So, uh, even at the

00:40:06.380 time as a highly indoctrinated liberal, I was like, what? So that's the only example they ever gave

00:40:13.340 me. And so there's one for you. Okay. There's one. I mean, that reminds me of the other week when I

00:40:19.120 went, I wanted to order, um, Chinese food on Uber eats, but the Chinese place that I wanted to order

00:40:24.920 from, um, it was, I was outside of the delivery area. And so, and that was a case of meal suppression.

00:40:30.940 I was actually, I was being starved. In fact, it was a violation of the Geneva convention,

00:40:36.060 actually. So human rights violation, because if I cannot, if I cannot conveniently be given the food

00:40:44.260 that I want, then in effect, I'm being starved to death. And that's what happens when you equate

00:40:49.160 inconvenience with a violation of rights. So you can't get a ride somewhere. That's an inconvenience.

00:40:55.900 No one's taking your rights away. And, and by the way, do you know whose responsibility? It's not,

00:41:02.200 it's not, um, the government's responsibility to make sure that everybody has a ride to the voting

00:41:07.380 booth on election day. That's not the government's responsibility. Okay. You know whose responsibility

00:41:13.740 that is? Well, if 95 year old woman, I'm certainly not going to say that it's her responsibility to get 1.00

00:41:18.460 into a car and drive. I, I am fully in support of 95 year old women not driving, but that's your 1.00

00:41:25.960 family. Your family should be doing that. So we have families for it. It's not the government's job.

00:41:33.440 And, uh, we got one more. Let's watch this.

00:41:36.260 I think we should all be obliged to say SBG for life or sweet baby gang for life at the end of every

00:41:42.340 video comment. I think if we don't, we should be banned SBG for life. I like your idea. It's good

00:41:50.220 to get these ideas out. Um, kind of brainstorming, but I would also say that, um, you know, that's a

00:41:56.940 good way to end the video, but you want to begin. And this is a, I think a policy I'm going to put in

00:42:01.140 place, begin your video comment by stating your pronouns. Uh, so I made an exception on the first

00:42:06.900 day, but no more after that, because you know, you know, me, this is a progressive show and I need

00:42:13.020 to know how to address all the commenter commenters. All right. This is from time. My shoe. As we go to

00:42:18.640 the boring written comments, yuck, uh, says Matt, since every American making minimum wage is rich by

00:42:25.040 world standards, does that mean we're all doomed from the perspective perspective of Matthew, Matthew 19,

00:42:29.920 24. Also, does it reflect insanely bad on a pastor that's wealthy, even if his wealth is only from

00:42:36.760 his books, even if he's generous? Yeah. I think, um, the fact that we're all rich by rich, rich by

00:42:44.980 historical standards. I mean, most of us are, um, we have, we have wealth beyond the wildest

00:42:49.740 imagination of, uh, almost everyone that's lived on earth up until now. And I think that that means

00:42:56.240 that we should certainly all be a lot more generous than we are because almost all of us have excess

00:43:01.000 wealth and a lot of it, in fact. And I think there are many people that would hear that,

00:43:06.760 and they would talk about, I don't have excess wealth speak for yourself. Well, when you consider

00:43:10.760 how much money you waste, how much money we all waste and are able to waste and still survive,

00:43:20.200 that's, that speaks to excess wealth. And, um, and that's, we should be generous with that a lot more

00:43:26.560 than, than probably all of us are. I mean, we call, we could all stand to be more generous. And I think

00:43:30.560 the thing that we do is we kind of rationalize and we say, well, you know, I want to, I want to start

00:43:35.200 giving more to charity. I want to start being more generous, more charitable. Uh, there are all

00:43:38.840 these causes out there that I want to contribute to, but, uh, I'll start doing that when I, and then

00:43:43.640 you set this kind of goalposts for yourself. You say, well, when I get to this point financially,

00:43:47.040 then I'll do that. And then you, and then you, you get to that point and you say, oh yeah, I really

00:43:50.740 don't have it in the budget. So once I get to this point, because as you're, as you make more money,

00:43:56.500 you end up with more expenses and you end up developing more expensive tastes as well, you sort

00:44:03.560 of expect more luxury and comfort in your life. And so you just start, you end up spending all of

00:44:08.660 that excess and not giving it away. So I would agree with you there. And, um, as far as pastors

00:44:13.600 who are, um, obscenely wealthy, does it reflect poorly on them? Yeah, of course it does. Being a pastor

00:44:21.040 is not supposed to be a, um, a position that makes you rich. There's just, there's, if you're

00:44:30.500 looking for a justification in the gospel for pastors becoming rich from their preaching and

00:44:36.560 writing books also is preaching. So you're not going to find it. Um, history and headline

00:44:45.520 says, what should, what should be criminalized, but currently isn't? Well, that's, that's a

00:44:52.240 question I got to start with at the beginning of the show, because I could spend the entire

00:44:54.980 show on it. I mean, what should be criminalized that isn't my list is, uh, is a mile long. I mean,

00:45:01.600 well, of course, leaving your shopping cart in the parking lot, obviously, uh, chewing with your

00:45:05.560 mouth open, calling a meeting when you could just send an email or making a phone call when you

00:45:10.340 could have just sent a text message, uh, that should all be criminalized. Small talk,

00:45:15.100 obviously, um, bumper stickers, all bumper stickers. They're all annoying and should be,

00:45:21.060 and should be prohibited. We don't sell bumper stickers, do we, in our store? Well, if we do,

00:45:27.740 then all bumper stickers, except for those should be criminalized. So that's just a very brief list.

00:45:32.300 David says, Matt, what was your reaction to Elon Musk name dropping you? I have no idea what you're

00:45:37.620 talking about, but if anyone could fill in the blanks on that, I'd be interested to know.

00:45:41.160 Um, Jonathan Swank says, sorry, Matt, but my soul is the one thing I will not sell you. Well,

00:45:47.840 then you're not a committed enough member of the sweet baby gang. You got to choose your soul or the

00:45:52.320 sweet baby gang. Okay. Or your band. Um, and, uh, tip Bia says, Matt, stay at home. Moms don't pay 1.00

00:46:01.220 federal income tax. So your own wife wouldn't qualify to vote under your proposed rules for voting. 1.00

00:46:06.340 Shouldn't conservatives be encouraging mothers to stay home with their children instead of penalizing

00:46:09.780 them for it. That's why I said households, um, taxpaying households, not individuals.

00:46:16.540 You know, I think you can make an argument. I mean, my, my proposal all along is let's start with

00:46:20.740 the very brief 10 questions, civics quiz before voting. And if we could put that in place, then

00:46:25.660 I'll, I'll be happy for now. I mean, that would be a great improvement already, but in an ideal

00:46:31.500 scenario, yeah, I think you could start looking at, um, only taxpaying households.

00:46:35.080 Though some might argue that each household only has one vote decided by the incomer.

00:46:42.820 Some might argue for that. I'm not, I'm not saying I argue for it. I'm saying some do. Okay.

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00:48:27.900 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:48:31.000 Our cancellation begins with a woman in Canada who found herself stranded in the middle of a frozen

00:48:37.880 river standing on top of her car as it sunk into the depths below. Uh, nobody quite knows why she

00:48:44.400 was driving on the river in the first place. Many jokes about female drivers might be made here, 1.00

00:48:49.300 but I condemn those crass and sexist attempts at humor. Just because one woman drives on a frozen 0.98

00:48:56.120 river, that doesn't mean that all women are bad drivers. Every woman in the world has earned 1.00

00:49:00.860 that distinction through her own efforts. Besides, we don't actually know if this is a woman based 0.94

00:49:05.500 on that picture. Uh, it's not totally clear. We can only assume she's a woman because, you know,

00:49:11.280 her car's in the river. In any case, as a picture taken at the scene shows the unnamed woman,

00:49:16.540 as she stood on the hood of her sinking car, did have the presence of mind to take a selfie.

00:49:21.240 Hashtag oops. Hashtag thin ice. Uh, if the photo of, uh, of, uh, six Marines raising the flag on Iwo

00:49:27.920 Jima captures and defines the greatest generation, then I think this photo of a woman smiling for the

00:49:33.120 camera while her car sinks into the ice captures and defines ours. If I had to explain modern Western

00:49:40.720 culture to someone who, to an alien who just visited from Mars, and I, I only had one picture

00:49:46.180 to do it, it would probably be this one. So the point is she's not anomalous. Her first instinct,

00:49:52.500 even in a moment when her very life is in danger, was to document the event with her freight, with

00:49:58.420 her face front and center so that if she manages to survive, she can at least cash in for a few 0.98

00:50:03.120 dozen likes and shares. A risk well worth taking, I guess. And this is where the selfie obsession

00:50:09.540 ultimately leads. And that's why today I'm, I'm, I'm canceling not just this woman. I mean, 0.99

00:50:14.020 she's done a pretty good job of canceling herself, but all selfies. In fact, to paraphrase Donald

00:50:19.080 Trump, I am calling for a moratorium on selfies until we figure out what the hell is going on.

00:50:24.480 Now it's hard for those in the younger generations to believe, but there was a time

00:50:27.840 before selfies. There was a time before people carried cameras around in their pockets everywhere

00:50:33.180 they went. You know, that was a time when like you had cameras, but you would have to specifically

00:50:38.540 bring it because you thought you might need it. And back in those ancient times, if you had an

00:50:43.220 experience or an event occurred, or you witnessed something notable, usually your choice most of

00:50:50.520 the time was to simply experience it in the moment, to store it in your memory inside an organ called

00:50:56.740 your brain. And if you wanted someone else to know about this event or occurrence, you would be

00:51:01.040 forced to simply tell them about it using actual words, if you can believe it. And all of this changed

00:51:06.360 with the advent of the cell phone. Before the selfie craze took hold, there was the documentation

00:51:10.520 craze. Every semi-notable and entirely unnotable event had to be freeze-framed and shared. All of

00:51:17.940 modern civilization began to experience their lives through these little lenses so that they could look

00:51:23.480 back and remember that time when they were only sort of there to see it in real life.

00:51:28.020 We were in this period, the documentation era, before it had fully transitioned to the selfie era,

00:51:32.920 when my wife and I went on our honeymoon to Jamaica aboard a cruise ship. And I remember one evening on

00:51:37.880 the ship leaving Jamaica, standing on the deck, watching the sunset over the ocean with the island,

00:51:42.320 you know, in the distance. And I recall the breeze and the sound of the water crashing against the

00:51:47.180 hull and the smell of the ocean and the pizza buffet and the sweaty, obese sun lotion bodies all around 0.96

00:51:54.020 wafting through the air. I remember the cocktail in my hand and the dread of realizing that I'd be

00:51:59.660 getting a bill for all these drinks once we got back to Miami and that all of our wedding money would

00:52:03.540 go to pay for the drinks. It was a moment of many different layers, like all moments, but I lived

00:52:07.920 every layer. I lived that moment because there may never be another like it. I wanted to be in it.

00:52:12.080 I wanted to be present for it. But all around us, the throngs of the other passengers all stood

00:52:16.620 watching the sunset, but watching it through their camera, hoping to get the picturesque shot of the

00:52:23.100 sun sinking below the horizon. It was a moment as big as the ocean itself, but these people all

00:52:28.060 experienced it through a two inch screen. And for what? Why? To get a picture of a sunset?

00:52:33.300 There are a million of those online. Google image search, ocean sunset. Look at all the pictures.

00:52:38.520 Nobody cares. Nobody cares about a picture of a sunset. Pictures of sunsets are a dime a dozen,

00:52:43.220 worthless. Actual sunsets, those are priceless. But these people sacrifice the actual sunset

00:52:48.900 in order to get a copy of a fake one. And for what, I ask? For likes? For the sake of making your

00:52:55.240 friends jealous? Well, they'll be jealous for a second, but then they'll move on because they

00:52:58.420 don't care that much. Nobody cares. So put your camera away and be here. Just be with us now.

00:53:04.300 There's only one now. This is all you get. Don't you people understand? I wanted to scream that,

00:53:09.460 but I didn't. I just ranted to my wife later and she went to sleep thinking, God help me,

00:53:14.700 I'm married a crazy person, which is the same thing she's thought before going to bed probably every

00:53:18.200 night since for the past 10 years. But it's only gotten worse since then. The world, I mean, 0.58

00:53:23.020 not my marriage. Of course, we still obsessively document everything, but our egomania, unchecked

00:53:28.980 and encouraged, has begun to consume the world around us. Because now we're mostly interested

00:53:34.160 in documenting ourselves, our faces, our bodies, us. We take a thousand pictures a day and 999 of them

00:53:41.660 are of us. We experience life with our back turned to it. Think about that. We turn our back to the

00:53:48.000 world so we can capture the sunset or the mountains or the tiger at the zoo or our car sinking into the

00:53:53.720 ice, complemented by our smiling mugs. These things aren't significant enough on their own,

00:53:59.300 apparently. It's not enough to simply document them. No, we need them documented with ourselves

00:54:03.380 at the forefront. It's bad enough to live each moment through a small screen. It's even worse

00:54:08.600 to live it through a screen turned into a mirror where the event becomes mere background

00:54:13.680 for our facial expressions. So there are two categories of selfies. One is one that you take

00:54:19.040 when there's nothing special going on. You're sitting in a Starbucks and suddenly beset by the

00:54:23.060 narcissistic impulse to capture another image of yourself to add to a catalog that now numbers

00:54:28.300 in the tens of thousands. In that case, the picture is useless. I mean, why do you need to

00:54:32.140 capture the moment? Are you really going to go back and reminisce about the, you know, the Tuesday

00:54:36.660 afternoon when you drank a latte at a Starbucks in Cincinnati? The other category of selfie is the one

00:54:42.100 taken when there is something special happening, some event worth noting, some sight worth seeing, 0.95

00:54:46.640 in which case you're ruining the picture by including your ugly face in it. Imagine the 0.99

00:54:51.860 narcissism it requires to make a, you know, you're on, you're a tourist or something, and you make the 1.00

00:54:58.000 Grand Canyon into the mirror backdrop for another picture of your stupid head. Many people have fallen 1.00

00:55:04.660 to their deaths at canyons, cliffs, volcanoes, because they were so focused on framing themselves in a

00:55:10.300 picture. They forgot about the existence of gravity. They died to take a picture that nobody cares to

00:55:16.340 even see. This is what people need to understand. Nobody cares to see your selfies. Nobody. You can

00:55:23.740 take pictures of your face all day long. Nobody cares. Nobody wants to see it. I know you want them

00:55:28.340 to want to. You want everyone to care because you're you, and that's your face, and the very you-ness

00:55:33.620 of you ought to be of great concern to everybody in the universe, but it's not. You have people in your

00:55:38.500 life who care about you and who want to, who know you and love you and want you to be happy,

00:55:42.680 and they might even be interested in the things that happen in your life, but they especially

00:55:46.180 don't care about your selfies because they know what you look like. The rest of us are strangers,

00:55:50.660 and your selfie is only another egoistic declaration amid a torrential downpour of them,

00:55:55.340 another grinning mugshot and a never-ending collage of pointless self-portraits. It's meaningless to us,

00:56:01.360 and it's meaningless to you. I think the world would be a better place if we all stopped taking

00:56:06.360 pictures of ourselves because then we'd be living at least. If we pulled the cameras away from our

00:56:11.160 faces and the phones, we'd be able to find meaning in things, a meaning that extends quite a bit

00:56:17.320 beyond, hey, this will get a bunch of comments on Instagram. We've all had the experience of like

00:56:22.220 sitting next to a booth full of women at a restaurant who spend no less than half an hour, 1.00

00:56:27.280 sometimes longer, taking pictures of themselves and each other. Precious time with friends wasted

00:56:31.920 by a compulsive need to get extensive footage of the encounter. Capturing memories of the time

00:56:37.460 when they spent the whole time capturing memories. It's a tragedy. It's also really annoying. And that

00:56:43.720 ultimately is why today this woman, but also all selfies, are canceled. And we'll leave it there for

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 18, 2022

Ep. 875 - A Generation Of Psychological Abuse Victims

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