The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 895 - We Must Defend The Biden Administration’s Perverted Values

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Biden administration has said that American families

00:00:03.440 will have to bear the cost of defending Ukraine against Russia. Why should we have to bear that

00:00:08.160 cost? Because we have to defend our values overseas, they say. But whose values and what

00:00:13.000 values? We'll talk about all that today. Also, the Supreme Court will decide whether a web designer

00:00:16.960 has the right to refuse to make wedding announcements for a same-sex wedding.

00:00:20.700 And the sponsors of that so-called don't say gay bill in Florida have started to buckle under

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00:02:04.080 Up until this point, I think it's safe to assume that you had never spent one second of your life

00:02:09.860 thinking about Ukraine or worrying about who controls the different regions of it. It's not that

00:02:15.980 you're callous or apathetic. It's just that you're a finite being, limited by both time and space,

00:02:21.520 and so you're naturally most concerned with the things happening closest to you. Countries are

00:02:26.860 fighting all over the globe in various ways. Factions are at war with one another all over the place.

00:02:31.860 Land being taken, claimed, reclaimed. Are you supposed to have an opinion about all of those conflicts?

00:02:38.520 Are you supposed to take a side? Maybe there are people fighting over something in Botswana

00:02:43.360 right now or Zambia or wherever else, but you don't even bother to check because if there is a

00:02:49.600 fight happening in those places, it's not your fight. Now, this again is not cruel disregard for

00:02:55.160 the suffering of others. It's rather a lack of mental, emotional, and physical resources.

00:03:01.140 You can only be so many places at once. You can only care about so many things at once.

00:03:05.060 It's also a matter of priorities. You are loyal first and foremost to your family and your community,

00:03:10.400 your country. That is your realm of interest, your sphere of influence. That's what's been given to

00:03:18.080 you to care for and help protect. But now, in an instant, out of nowhere, the powers that be in

00:03:26.000 your country are telling you that you should care very much about Ukraine. It is indeed now your

00:03:31.680 responsibility to care about the suffering of the Ukrainian people, you're told. How could you

00:03:37.240 abandon them in their time of need? You are tied to them by spiritual bonds that you've just now been

00:03:43.640 made aware of and which require you to care about their circumstances, even as you're allowed to

00:03:48.580 continue not thinking much at all about the circumstances of people in Botswana or Zambia or

00:03:53.060 Bolivia or Uzbekistan or Nigeria or even Afghanistan now. That last country was supposed to matter deeply to 0.99

00:04:00.900 you for the last 20 years, but now it's not supposed to matter at all. Nobody could quite explain why it

00:04:06.640 should have mattered before or why it shouldn't matter now if it did matter before, but you're

00:04:11.140 required to stand still and let the conveyor belt take you to the next destination. Don't ask any

00:04:16.500 questions because now it's all about Ukraine. You are allowed to spend every second of your life up

00:04:23.080 until now not caring about that country, not ever thinking about it ever, but today, today you must care

00:04:30.840 deeply. You must be willing to sacrifice anything for its sake. And if you don't, if you commit the

00:04:37.600 sin of feeling the same way about Ukraine as you felt yesterday and every day before that, then you're 1.00

00:04:42.860 a despicable traitor. You're treasonous scum. You should be arrested and shot or maybe just shot. 1.00

00:04:48.880 Why bother with the arrest? Russia is moving into some regions of Ukraine that you know nothing about. 1.00

00:04:55.680 You never, you never been there. You don't know what they look like. You don't know anything about

00:04:59.900 them, but Putin claims that the people in those regions want him there. Ukraine says that's not

00:05:05.420 true. Our government and the media also say that it isn't true. Now you have no way of knowing for

00:05:10.320 sure how true it is or isn't, but your patriotic duty allegedly is to simply believe whatever distilled

00:05:16.520 version of a complex geopolitical issue you happen to hear on CNN. If you fail to believe it,

00:05:22.360 or if you even ask for more information in regards to it, you are again, a traitor.

00:05:28.600 I mean, if you ask a simple question, like when, when Putin says, oh, well, they want us there.

00:05:32.360 And you say, uh, do they, I mean, do we know that they don't? Even that question makes you a traitor.

00:05:38.320 You can't ask it. Who are you to ask questions like that? President Biden spoke to the nation

00:05:44.220 yesterday and, uh, managed to be rambling and meandering, even though he only spoke for 10 minutes

00:05:49.220 and didn't take any questions of the parts of his speech, which were intelligible amid all of the

00:05:54.040 drunken dementia, riddled slurring and stuttering. This perhaps was the most important. Biden said that

00:05:59.900 there will be costs that your family will have to bear for the sake of Ukraine. Listen.

00:06:06.140 Defending freedom will have cost for us as well. And here at home, we need to be honest about that.

00:06:13.440 But as we will do, but as we do this, I'm going to take robust action to make sure the pain of our

00:06:20.440 sanctions is targeted at a Russian economy, not ours. Now you might point out the gas prices were

00:06:27.200 already high. That's true, but it's a fact that the administration hopes you forget. And most people

00:06:31.740 probably will forget it as we're all like the guy in Memento with a memory that resets itself every 45

00:06:36.140 minutes. But from here forward, every bad thing happening in our country will be because of the

00:06:41.720 Ukraine crisis and thus because of Russia and Putin. CBS News got the memo and published this

00:06:47.100 headline this morning. Here's the headline. The U.S. economy has been hit with increased gas prices,

00:06:52.120 inflation and supply chain issues due to the Ukraine crisis. Now, sure, we had increased gas prices,

00:06:59.520 inflation and supply chain issues last month and the month before that and before that and before that

00:07:04.860 and before that and before that. But it turns out that all of those problems were caused by the

00:07:08.880 things that Putin is doing right now. He's more dangerous than we thought. Apparently, he has a

00:07:14.340 time machine too. But even if the administration plays this game, it's still true that our involvement

00:07:20.680 in the Ukraine crisis, which is only really a crisis because we've chosen to treat it as one,

00:07:25.840 will come with a cost. And it'll be a cost primarily paid by you and by me and our families,

00:07:31.620 not Joe Biden. If this does escalate to a full-scale war, that'll be another cost paid exclusively by

00:07:38.460 us and not by the ones who caused the war. This raises another important question. Why should

00:07:46.800 we have to pay any cost at all? Why should my family be forced to suffer any consequences

00:07:55.000 whatsoever or make any sacrifices whatsoever for Ukraine? Now, I ask this question sincerely,

00:08:03.980 by the way. It's not rhetorical. I mean, unlike most pundits and everybody else on social media,

00:08:09.420 I'm not pretending to be an expert on the Russia-Ukraine conflict just because it's the

00:08:14.140 thing that's happening right now in the news cycle. My focus and interest and area of study

00:08:19.300 is our culture, the things happening in our country, the state of our own society. So I admit

00:08:25.600 to knowing very little about Ukraine, which puts me in the same boat as almost everybody else

00:08:29.140 talking about the topic, even if most of the rest of them won't admit that they don't know

00:08:32.420 anything about it. So I'm willing to believe that there might be, theoretically, some valid

00:08:38.240 national security reason to involve ourselves in the Ukraine situation. That's the only reason

00:08:44.020 why I would ever support our involvement. Our government, I contend, should be exclusively

00:08:47.960 focused on serving and protecting our people. Nobody else's. That's their only job. It has no

00:08:53.740 other job. But events overseas can, of course, hypothetically affect us in direct and significant

00:08:59.400 ways, forcing us to inject ourselves into the middle of something like this. I mean, that's

00:09:03.700 possible. And so I ask, not rhetorically, why should we care about this? How does the fate

00:09:12.120 of the contested regions in Ukraine directly and personally impact my family and your family?

00:09:19.500 How is our security directly at stake here? And as to whatever actions we're taking now or will take

00:09:28.320 in the future, how do they make us safer and help us thrive? I don't want to know how they make

00:09:34.980 Ukrainians safer or help them thrive. I don't really care about that. I want to know about us

00:09:40.700 because that's what matters to me as an American.

00:09:44.340 It's a good question and one that the people in charge must answer. If they can't answer it or

00:09:51.860 won't answer it, then we have to draw our own conclusions. As it happens, a reporter at the

00:09:57.520 White House briefing yesterday did ask this very question. He asked Jen Psaki, why Americans should

00:10:03.560 have to bear any cost for the sake of Ukrainian sovereignty? I mean, how do you make that sales pitch?

00:10:09.280 How do you tell American families who are already hurting from all of these things that they have

00:10:16.260 to hurt more now for Ukrainian sovereignty? What does that have to do with us? Here was the answer.

00:10:26.580 Well, I think what hopefully the American people who are tuning into this or have been tuning into

00:10:31.660 this will see is that the president of the United States and his entire national security apparatus

00:10:37.480 have been rallying the world and standing up against the efforts of Russia to invade and

00:10:41.940 take and carve out a chunk of another country for their own. And that is the world is standing 0.62

00:10:48.260 with the United States against the actions of President Putin. Now, why does that matter? I realize

00:10:53.060 that's what you're asking me. Why does that matter to the American people? That should matter because

00:10:57.220 that is a fundamental value that we as a country stand up for and we stand up against that type of action.

00:11:05.340 That goes back to World War II and we have repeatedly throughout history been leaders in the world

00:11:12.320 in rallying support for any efforts to seize territory from another country. When the president

00:11:20.120 spoke to the American people last week, it was very important to him to be very direct and clear

00:11:25.960 and straightforward with them about what this could mean as we looked to what the impact of an

00:11:31.540 invasion could mean and also what the impact of sanctions could mean. And the fact that standing

00:11:36.520 up for values is not without cost, including in this case. Well, there you have it. The White House

00:11:44.460 doesn't even pretend that American families are somehow at risk because of Putin's actions in Ukraine.

00:11:50.760 If they if that was the case and if they could make that case, they would have made it.

00:11:54.200 That's the strongest case. They don't even pretend that our involvement is to protect and defend our

00:12:01.360 own people. They say that this is about standing up for values, which is the same justification given

00:12:06.840 for every bad and disastrous conflict we've involved ourselves in for the last several decades.

00:12:12.180 We have to stand for values. But what values? The value that says no country should ever invade

00:12:20.360 another country. How is that a value? There are, again, invasions and incursions and conflicts

00:12:26.580 all over the globe, everywhere, all the time. Do our values stipulate that we have to play referee

00:12:32.380 in all of those disputes? And I have to ask who appointed us referee anyway? What right do we have

00:12:40.260 to assume that role, especially since we've been known to do plenty of invading ourselves?

00:12:44.420 No, that can't be the value. So what is it? What values are we supposedly fighting for? Is it the

00:12:51.620 value of freedom? Well, what is freedom? Our government is run by people who think freedom

00:12:57.660 includes the mass slaughter of infants. To them, we have to kill 60 million babies for freedom. That's 0.98

00:13:04.400 freedom. They think freedom must sometimes involve shutting down thousands of private businesses by

00:13:09.720 force, closing up churches, forcing kids to wear muzzles for two years in a row. 0.99

00:13:14.420 That's their idea of freedom. They believe in the kind of freedom that includes chemically

00:13:18.580 castrating 11-year-old boys. Freedom for them might also involve censoring unsafe political opinions.

00:13:26.860 They believe in the kind of freedom that has turned our cities into crime-infested wastelands.

00:13:32.000 Is that the kind of freedom that we now want to export overseas?

00:13:35.040 Is that what we're out there defending so valiantly? See, the we must defend our values thing was always

00:13:43.260 foolish, but now it's also foolish, but as well incoherent. Because how can we, quote-unquote, 0.96

00:13:50.400 defend our, quote-unquote, values when we don't share any values? What's this our values stuff?

00:13:57.920 Speak for yourself, Pisaki. I don't have any of your values. We have no values in common at all. None. 1.00

00:14:06.640 The Biden administration just hired a drag queen BDSM dog fetishist to help run our energy policy. 1.00

00:14:13.300 Is that another of the values that we have to defend? As far as they're concerned, it is.

00:14:18.380 CRT, gender ideology, racism, anti-Christian, anti-tradition, anti-human. These are their values.

00:14:25.960 I don't just not share them. I hate those values. I am at war against those values.

00:14:35.040 And now they want me and all the rest of us to go to war in defense of values that we detest? 0.98

00:14:41.200 They call for our loyalty and fidelity after years spent treating us like scum 0.99

00:14:44.980 and labeling us domestic terrorists? And they expect us to just go along. 0.98

00:14:52.180 Well, they're in for a rude awakening. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:16:12.100 also courageously, fighting for my life because I have another cold that I'm dealing with. It's not

00:16:16.860 COVID, though I didn't take a test. So, you know, who really knows? But as always for me, my colds all

00:16:23.140 concentrate in the throat. These are the only symptoms I ever get, just a sore throat, which is

00:16:26.920 great because I talk for a living. But my kids are to blame for this as always, you know, because

00:16:32.820 they're constantly bringing disease into the house. They're just vectors of disease or little

00:16:36.480 Petri dishes that you have in your house all the time. And that's one of the many reasons why I

00:16:42.480 wasn't going to panic over COVID and never did because, you know, I couldn't have panicked even

00:16:47.960 if I wanted to. I don't know how any parent could because kids are so disease infested and germy

00:16:53.960 that you just have to learn to live with it and accept it. You just, you get kind of, you get used to it.

00:16:58.460 They're going to be bringing all kinds of exotic diseases into the house and you just, you know,

00:17:02.560 it's going to happen and you, uh, and you live with it. There's no other way to function.

00:17:06.640 So this latest thing I got from my two-year-old and I know the exact moment that I contracted.

00:17:12.340 I know when I got it. Um, because it was the moment that she leaned in to tell me a secret,

00:17:17.940 like leaned in directly face to face and then proceeded to cough right in my face, point blank range.

00:17:24.740 I could like, I could feel the particles, the cold virus particles going up my nose and infecting

00:17:30.660 me right in that moment. And the secret, by the way, wasn't, it wasn't even a good secret and it

00:17:36.920 never is with kids because she came over and said, daddy, a secret. And I said, okay, what's your

00:17:42.340 secret? And then, and then first thing right in my face. And then I saw a cow in my womb room.

00:17:51.280 She saw a cow in her room. That's what, that was the secret, which first of all,

00:17:55.560 if there was a cow in your room, why are we keeping it a secret? And second, you're totally

00:17:59.360 full of it. I guarantee there was no cow. Fact check on that misleading, more sources needed,

00:18:06.160 not worth getting sick over. All right. Let's, um, before we move on from Ukraine, I wanted to check

00:18:13.060 in and I think this, this is worthy of being the top headline for us today in the five headlines.

00:18:17.840 I want to check in with a voice of reason on the Ukraine subject. Uh, someone who I think we were

00:18:24.260 all kind of waiting and like, I've already, I've already said it, you know, I, I don't know a whole

00:18:28.200 lot about, about the issue myself and most people don't. And so we're waiting for voices of authority,

00:18:34.140 people who know what they're talking about and are very well read and have studied this subject.

00:18:38.940 We're waiting for them to kind of, uh, you know, guide us, give us a little bit of guidance.

00:18:43.040 And finally yesterday, we got that. Listen to this. The phone is not hacked. It's really me.

00:18:48.460 I actually want to say a lot of things, but I'm just going to mind my business because

00:18:51.880 sometimes I feel like I have such a big platform that if I say, if I don't say the right things,

00:18:58.020 I might get killed, but I'm really not on NATO side. I'm really not in Russian side.

00:19:03.240 I'm actually in the citizen side because at the end of the day, the world is having a crisis right now.

00:19:08.480 There's inflation, not only in America, but everywhere in the world. It's really hard to

00:19:13.640 get, um, the economy back up. There is so much shipments and embarkments backed up. China's

00:19:21.820 not really messing with us. So a lot of things are behind. A lot of goods are behind and this

00:19:26.800 shit just made it way more complicated. So I'm just really annoyed by this. And I really wish that 0.98

00:19:31.180 all world leaders right now just really come with a logical conclusion, but whatever.

00:19:41.080 I mean, she raises some good points. Uh, as she says, so, so much shipments and embarkments

00:19:45.360 backed up. Um, I don't know. I'm not sure if those are even words, but, uh, and China's not

00:19:51.140 really messing with us. She points out, I mean, you could say that they are kind of messing with us

00:19:54.120 and that they unleashed a virus on the world that killed 5 million people. You know, they kind of

00:19:58.340 messed with us that way. But, um, either way, that's, that's her, uh, that's her take. And you 1.00

00:20:04.040 know what, that is what I'll say about it at least is that it is at least as coherent and meaningful

00:20:12.240 as anything we've heard from the Biden administration about this issue. That actually made more, I'm not

00:20:18.480 going to say it made a lot of sense, but it made more sense comparatively than, uh, than the clip we

00:20:23.140 played of Jen Psaki saying that we have to, we have to get involved for our values.

00:20:32.280 So, you know, whose, whose side are you going to take Cardi B or Jen Psaki? Those are the only

00:20:38.880 two sides available. I'm afraid. Okay. This is from the wall street journal. It says the Supreme

00:20:42.200 court said Tuesday, it would consider whether a Colorado website designer had a first amendment

00:20:47.600 right to refuse to produce same sex wedding announcements, which is the latest clash between

00:20:52.340 LGBT and religious rights. Since its landmark 2015 decision, extending marriage rights to

00:20:57.340 same sex couples, the high court has moved cautiously in carving out constitutional exemptions

00:21:00.920 for organizations, business owners opposed to those rights. Last June, the justice decided

00:21:04.740 that a Catholic foster service agency receiving city funding was entitled to turn away same sex

00:21:08.400 couples, despite local laws prohibiting such discrimination. The decision was based,

00:21:12.840 however, on the court's own reading of Philadelphia's fair practices, ordinances, and its contract

00:21:16.860 with Catholic social services rather than broad constitutional principles. Um, the court has yet

00:21:21.840 to rule squarely as to whose rights the LGBT communities or religious conservatives must

00:21:27.140 yield when they directly conflict. The Colorado case granted Tuesday to be argued in the court's

00:21:32.980 next term and likely decided by June, 2023, uh, suggest the justice may be ready to address that issue.

00:21:39.840 So there's also the masterpiece cake shop case, which is, was also out of Colorado. And there's a reason

00:21:46.840 why all these cases are coming out of Colorado because the Colorado, whatever they call it,

00:21:50.020 their equal rights or the human rights commission, whatever, or welding and name they give to it,

00:21:53.720 but they've been on this campaign for years now to seek out any Christian business owners in their

00:22:00.540 state and, and punish them, put them out of business. Um, and it's oftentimes very, oftentimes very

00:22:07.780 targeted, very intentional. You know, uh, Jack Phillips over at masterpiece cake shop,

00:22:13.220 there's been this targeted effort to take him down. There's, there's, we, we, we know for a fact,

00:22:19.140 I mean, there was a, uh, transgender person who went to Jack Phillips in Colorado a couple of years

00:22:25.900 ago and said they wanted a, a, um, he wanted a cake to celebrate his gender transition,

00:22:31.920 a gender transition cake, because that's a thing now. Well, it's not really a thing, but, but this guy

00:22:37.280 invented it because he wanted to entrap Jack Phillips. And so that's the kind of thing going on.

00:22:42.960 Um, is that what happened here? I, you know, I don't really know. I'm not sure. Um, but one way

00:22:50.000 or another, you know, same sex couple wanted, um, wedding announcements. And this web designer said,

00:22:59.140 well, I, you know, I can't do that because that means that I'm in some ways I'm, I am directly

00:23:05.560 promoting. I mean, I'm, I'm advertising a same sex wedding and that's against my religion. I can't do 1.00

00:23:10.580 it. Um, that's why this is very different. Okay. Although these, these sorts of things are always

00:23:18.740 conflated. This is not the same thing as, um, as, uh, say a restaurant putting a sign out, out front

00:23:27.080 saying no gays allowed. Okay. That's, that's a different sort of refusing of service. Not the same

00:23:34.700 thing. Because in this case, the web designer didn't say, oh, I can't do any work for, for gay

00:23:41.780 people. If you're a gay person, I'm not going to, I can't be involved with you. That's not what was 1.00

00:23:45.460 said. Okay. This is not a, um, discrimination quote unquote against individuals. This is just a

00:23:53.820 particular sort of service that I cannot provide. I can make announcements for various different things.

00:24:01.600 I, I, but an announcement for a same sex wedding, that's just something that I don't provide. I

00:24:07.240 don't do that. And really her, her reasons for not doing it shouldn't even matter. She's the

00:24:14.420 business owner. Um, if she doesn't want to do this, if she doesn't want to associate herself with 0.98

00:24:21.720 that, then that, that should be it. This is, this is not only a matter of free speech, right? It's also

00:24:26.340 a matter of, and also of course, freedom of religion, but it's also a matter of freedom

00:24:30.180 of association, which is the very freedom that the gay rights side has hinged, you know,

00:24:38.940 the right to gay marriage on is freedom of association. Well, does a business owner not 0.98

00:24:44.860 also have that same freedom to decide who they're going to associate with and particularly what

00:24:49.980 services they want associated with them and you open up the floodgates and, and, uh, and present

00:24:58.600 a lot of extra questions. If you say, Oh yeah, well we can, we can force you to make wedding

00:25:04.060 announcements for a same sex wedding. What if there's, you know, we could, we could all think

00:25:10.300 of all kinds of different types of events that a person, a business owner might not want to

00:25:16.120 be associated with for one reason or another. Are they not allowed to make those kinds of

00:25:21.260 determinations now? Now in the wall street journal article, it says that this is a case,

00:25:27.540 um, where that the court has to rule on where we're weighing the LGBT community's rights against

00:25:35.260 religious conservatives rights. And as they put it, um, which when these rights directly conflict,

00:25:41.780 which rights have to yield to the other? Well, you know, this leads to the question of just like

00:25:50.540 we asked in the opening, when we talk about freedom, what do you mean by that? And we have

00:25:55.320 to go overseas and defend freedom. Well, I need you to tell me what you mean. What do you mean when

00:26:00.540 you say freedom? Because we are not working with shared definitions when it comes to any of these

00:26:06.640 words. That is very clear by now. So the same question comes with, uh, with rights. What do

00:26:13.020 you mean by rights, human rights? Because if, if the idea of human rights means anything, if it's coherent

00:26:18.360 at all, then it would seem to me that they can't really conflict. If there appears to be a conflict

00:26:27.540 where you have one right claim against another right claim and, and one has to supersede the other,

00:26:35.160 one has to yield so the other can be asserted. If that's happening, I think that's a pretty good

00:26:39.960 indication that we have a misconception about what rights are and that one or both of these rights

00:26:46.660 claims are false because our human rights are supposed to be embedded. They're supposed to be

00:26:53.280 natural. They're supposed to be inherent to us as human beings, which means that they should not

00:27:00.760 constantly be bumping into each other and causing all these kinds of conflicts.

00:27:05.480 If there is this sort of conflict, then that would seem to indicate that we're,

00:27:09.520 we have a misapprehension about what rights are.

00:27:14.700 And that misapprehension is pretty obvious here.

00:27:17.740 Is this, uh, the LGBT community's rights up against religious conservatives' rights? No.

00:27:21.840 Because as far as the LGBT community goes, their, their rights are not at stake here.

00:27:29.120 What, what right is at stake exactly? What right is being infringed upon?

00:27:35.480 For the business owner, we know what the rights are. It's pretty clear. Freedom of speech.

00:27:39.600 You know, Kent, uh, making a wedding announcement is a form of speech. So if you, if that speech can be

00:27:46.440 compelled by law, then it's hard to say you have freedom of speech. So your right to freedom of

00:27:51.160 speech is at stake. If you could be compelled by law to do something that directly conflicts with

00:27:56.460 your religious beliefs, then your right to religious liberty is at stake. And if you could

00:28:00.500 be compelled by law to associate with something or with people you don't want to associate with,

00:28:05.260 then, uh, then your right to freedom of association is at stake. So it's very clear on that side where

00:28:11.200 the right claim comes in. But for the LGBT community, what right are we talking about?

00:28:16.440 Your right to wedding announcements. And even if there was a right to wedding announcements,

00:28:21.160 which I don't, you know, I don't see that enumerated anywhere. Um, I don't know where

00:28:25.700 that right comes from. Is that a God given right that God did imbue us all with the inherent natural

00:28:30.480 right to wedding announcements. But even if you have that right somehow, well, by no means is that

00:28:39.880 right being infringed upon or taken away or even significantly interfered with. If one

00:28:46.160 person, one business owner says, Oh, I don't want to make those announcements

00:28:49.480 because there are dozens of other places you can go to get the exact same thing made.

00:28:57.720 And I guarantee for the same price probably.

00:29:02.300 So if there is some sort of right to wedding announcements, that's, that's not at stake here.

00:29:05.880 You can still go, you go anywhere else.

00:29:07.360 And I think that's what a normal and decent person would do.

00:29:13.360 You know, if you want to get announced announcements made for some kind of event and a business owner

00:29:17.280 says, Hey, listen, I, I just, I don't believe in this and I I'm sorry, but I can't make, I can't,

00:29:22.900 I can't be a part of this as a, as a, just a decent adult. The correct response is okay,

00:29:29.800 well, I'll find somewhere else, but then to go to the government and say, no, no, no,

00:29:34.480 I want you to force them. They don't want to be involved, but I want you to force them to be

00:29:39.540 involved. Well, why can't you go to any of these places over here? No, no. Cause I, I want this

00:29:44.360 person. They said they don't want me and now I want them. That makes you a child.

00:29:51.840 That's, that's narcissism in, on steroids.

00:29:57.840 So there's no right. What is the right exactly? That's at stake for the LGBT community. 0.99

00:30:05.420 If, um, the Supreme court says that, Oh yeah, they, this business owner has the right to

00:30:10.020 not make those wedding announcements. Does that mean that no, um, same sex couple ever again,

00:30:16.340 we'll be able to get wedding announcements made. Are we worried about that happening?

00:30:24.500 I, if that is your concern, then I can just tell you that that is certainly not going to happen.

00:30:30.000 Um, and this is also the, one of the, um, inherent contradictions on the gay rights side, because,

00:30:36.740 um, on, on one hand, they, we, we are constantly told by LGBT activists that the kind of anti-gay

00:30:46.340 marriage side, the, uh, you know, belief in quote unquote traditional marriage, which I don't really

00:30:52.180 like that qualification of traditional. Um, because what you call traditional marriage,

00:30:56.460 I just say that is marriage by definition, but regardless, they would say that, you know,

00:31:01.220 the, the belief in, in quote unquote traditional marriage, um, that is a, it's a, you know, it's, 0.95

00:31:07.600 you're, you're like a dinosaur. If you, if you still stand by that, you're far outnumbered,

00:31:13.000 you're way on the fringes, you're a wacky fringe, right wing, whatever. That's what they say.

00:31:19.560 But then at the same time, they say that if the Supreme court doesn't force Christian,

00:31:25.920 Christian business owners to do business with same sex couples for same sex weddings,

00:31:29.140 then, uh, the next thing, you know, uh, no same sex couple will ever be able to do business anywhere 0.83

00:31:34.340 ever again. Because although this is, this is a fringe, wacky dinosaur view, apparently all the

00:31:41.140 business owners in America are just waiting for the opportunity there. They're waiting for the

00:31:45.460 Supreme court to give them the go ahead so they could put the, you know, no gaze allowed sign up

00:31:49.760 on the window. Well, which is it? Choose a lane is what I would say. All right. Uh, this is an

00:31:59.260 update from the Washington examiner. I think a rather unfortunate update. It says a Florida lawmaker

00:32:04.780 withdrew a proposed amendment Tuesday that would require schools to notify parents of their children's

00:32:10.500 sexual orientation as part of a larger and highly controversial bill that would bar schools from

00:32:14.300 discussing sexual orientation with students. Well, gender identity and sexual orientation with

00:32:19.220 elementary school students is an important detail to add in there. Um, Joe Harding, a representative

00:32:24.900 in the Florida state house filed the amendment last week, seeking to add it to the so-called don't say

00:32:29.260 gay bill that has garnered significant national attention. Uh, the amendment would have required 1.00

00:32:33.860 schools, uh, school officials to inform a student's parents within six weeks. If their child tells the

00:32:38.280 school, they have a non straight sexual orientation, but now it has been a withdrawn.

00:32:44.300 Two lawsuits have been filed in recent months after two separate public schools orchestrated

00:32:49.940 gender transitions for students who express gender dysphoria without notifying the student's

00:32:54.860 parents. And that, by the way, is one of the reasons why this amendment was added. And it's a

00:32:59.520 reason why the amendment should stay in there. My only problem with the amendment, the only thing that

00:33:03.800 makes it outrageous and offensive to me is that the schools were given six weeks to tell the

00:33:08.340 parents. Now I don't want, not six weeks. How about like six minutes? There should be no time,

00:33:16.740 there should be no time elapsing between when the school finds out some intimate detail about my

00:33:23.080 children and they tell me that should be immediate. Like not, not, not, not six days, certainly not six

00:33:31.180 weeks. You tell me right away because it's my right to know because it's my child, not your child. It's

00:33:38.260 mine. Uh, and that's why the amendment should stay in there. So it's, it's quite disappointing that it

00:33:45.580 was, that it was taken out. And, uh, this kind of sends the message that, oh, okay, well actually

00:33:51.060 schools do have the right to keep secrets with kids and not just, not just any secrets, but secrets

00:33:58.720 of a sexual nature. Schools are allowed to, you know, just because the school knows this, uh, really

00:34:08.600 important detail about your child doesn't mean they have to tell you because that's what we're

00:34:14.680 talking about here. Again, this is, this was the amendment never required that schools sit down

00:34:20.680 and, um, start interrogating the kids. Okay. We're not talking about waterboarding or something to

00:34:26.700 find out what their sexual orientation is. No, the whole point of the bill is to say that you should

00:34:32.120 not be having those conversations with elementary school students. It's none of your damn business. 0.99

00:34:36.860 It's not appropriate. But if you do happen to find out some important information about a child, 0.98

00:34:45.100 their parents ought to know there shouldn't be any information about a child, you know, about like

00:34:52.620 a nine-year-old that all of his friends in school know, and that even the adults in the school know,

00:34:58.840 but the parents don't really, there should be any information like that. Nothing. There should

00:35:05.520 be no details like that, especially when it comes to anything of a sexual nature.

00:35:11.000 But that amendment was taken out, unfortunately. All right. This is from the New York Post. We got to

00:35:16.620 cover this because, you know, I like these stories. Alien hunters were left stunned after a bulging

00:35:21.280 triangle UFO was filmed lurking over a major city for two hours. The unusual object was spotted prowling

00:35:28.120 the skies of Islamabad in broad daylight by an extraterrestrial enthusiast. Um, so it was there for two

00:35:35.080 hours. Let's take a look at the video here. We have the video. It's just sitting there.

00:35:41.000 Do we get, does it zoom in at all? Let's see. Can we get a zoom in? Okay. Well, it kind of,

00:35:51.280 it looks like a, a smudge on the camera. Like, oh, it's moving around a little bit.

00:35:54.520 It's quite, quite amazing, isn't it? I mean, it's definitely, look, it's definitely something. There is

00:36:04.320 something in the sky. There is a, some sort of object. No, I can't see anything at all.

00:36:11.520 I mean, zoom. I should have looked at this footage before we played it on the show.

00:36:15.480 Should I? Okay. Well,

00:36:19.800 well, I'm convinced. I mean, what else could that be besides?

00:36:27.300 I mean, in fairness, I could think of like 10 other things that could be, but

00:36:30.020 going through the list of options, as I always say, the alien option is, 0.55

00:36:36.580 we have to agree at least the most exciting and the most interesting. So it's what I choose to

00:36:40.880 believe. All right. That's enough of that. Does it get any? Okay. I was expecting to zoom in a

00:36:47.480 little bit more. I was expecting it to zoom in and then you see the little green hand poke out the

00:36:51.960 window and wave. That's what I was expecting. Have yet to see footage that compelling, but still pretty,

00:36:56.820 I mean, look, there's an, here's, here's, let's just summarize it. There's an object in the sky.

00:37:03.400 No doubt about that. Nobody knows what the, it's unidentified.

00:37:12.280 Therefore aliens. I rest my case. All right. One other thing. So a couple of days ago, 0.99

00:37:17.760 a basketball game between Michigan and Wisconsin got a little bit heated.

00:37:22.160 Michigan was, was losing the game by a large margin, but towards the end, Michigan's coach,

00:37:29.180 Juwan Howard felt that the other team was kind of like running up the score and being unsportsmanlike.

00:37:35.680 I think they called it, you know, they were winning. They're going to win the games only a few seconds

00:37:38.360 left. And then Wisconsin, they called a timeout. And so they're running up the score. And so he was

00:37:46.920 upset about that. And his way of communicating his feelings was to slap one of the other coaches

00:37:51.960 in the face. I mean, it wasn't quite that direct. There was an altercation. There was an exchange of

00:37:57.420 words. And then Howard slapped the guy. So we have the footage. Let's play some of this footage here.

00:38:03.620 You see the one coach who said, you know, they're yelling at each other because he's saying, look,

00:38:08.020 you're being mean to me. I don't like, you're being super mean.

00:38:11.240 And then the other, the other guy jumps into says, no, you're the mean one. You're the mean one.

00:38:17.680 And then slap right in the face. Yeah. These are the coaches, by the way, acting that way. So look 0.97

00:38:24.940 after that, Howard, um, the coach who slapped the other coach was suspended just five games and given,

00:38:32.540 I think a $40,000 fine, which is relatively minor, you know, for, for, for these guys, a pretty light

00:38:37.980 penalty. And so I was initially torn on this because on the one hand, you're a grown man,

00:38:43.340 you're a coach, you're supposed to be a role model. And, uh, you're, you're, you know, you're

00:38:47.520 taking care, you, you have your team as kids basically, I mean, college kids. And so you're

00:38:52.580 supposed to be setting a good example. And here you are getting into a slap fight after the game.

00:38:56.140 On the other hand, you know, I actually think we tend to get a little bit too bent out of shape

00:39:00.440 about guys getting rough with each other, especially in the context of sports. Um, this is how dudes

00:39:05.440 settle differences. Sometimes we tend to express our anger in a more physical way.

00:39:09.700 And, uh, I don't think that should be such a big deal. A little tussle, no reason for it to be a

00:39:14.840 breaking news scandal. Ultimately though, I think you have to penalize them because, you know, when

00:39:19.920 you balance everything out, he did get into a physical fight with another coach in the middle

00:39:25.000 of the game. But so that's, that's kind of my take on the whole situation. But then the left-wing

00:39:30.400 media got to work and here was the headline from Deadspin. When it comes to Juwan Howard and

00:39:35.420 Greg Gard, who's the other coach, why is the black coach the only one suspended when the white coach

00:39:40.560 started it? Now, to be clear, the black coach smacked the guy and only was suspended for five

00:39:47.200 games. It's about as light as the penalty could really be. I mean, five games, you could easily

00:39:54.380 make, if you want to take it here, which, which is not where I would take it. It's not my decision

00:39:59.600 to take it in the racial direction. But if you're going to take it there, you could easily make the 0.59

00:40:04.560 case that his race helped him, if anything. Because just imagine for a second if the races

00:40:10.300 were reversed. I mean, imagine if the footage is a white coach slapping a black coach across the 0.97

00:40:18.600 face. I mean, Brian Flores would file a lawsuit over that. And he's, he doesn't even play, he's not 0.98

00:40:26.340 even in basketball. He's in the NFL. There'd be lawsuits over that probably. And, and we'd hear all

00:40:32.160 about the, you know, systemic racism and everything. Imagine the dead spin. I mean, this, they're able

00:40:37.260 to make this kind of headline when it's the black coach slapping the white coach. Now think about 0.97

00:40:41.260 what the dead spin headline is. If it's the white coach slapping the back, black coach. 0.99

00:40:46.240 But you almost have to admire it. I mean, they, that's the thing about the left is that they 0.94

00:40:49.500 always stay on message, no matter what. Black coach slaps a white coach. In reality, race has 0.99

00:40:56.180 nothing to do with it whatsoever. These are just two guys who got, who got, you know, are taking the

00:41:00.160 game way too seriously and they started fighting. But on the left, they always stay on message,

00:41:05.540 stay on the narrative. You have to admire it. Maybe not admire it, but respect it a little bit,

00:41:11.180 I guess. Let's get now to our comment section.

00:41:13.360 Who makes a Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage? Who's to blame? It's a sweet baby gang.

00:41:24.860 All right. Uh, deliwire.com slash sweet baby comments. If you want to leave a video comment,

00:41:33.880 we've got a couple of those. Let's, uh, start with clip nine. 0.95

00:41:38.620 Hey, what's up? It's your boy gibberish here. Uh, just witnessed a cart fly across the parking lot.

00:41:44.120 Uh, I'm at target right now, but I'm not going to go get it because I'm in Cleveland and, uh,

00:41:49.780 you get robbed like every 10 minutes here if you step out of your car. So yeah, that cart's on its

00:41:54.980 own now. Uh, if it hits someone, not a problem of mine. Uh, I just put one away the other day.

00:42:01.040 I have a video of that, but yeah, that cart's staying where it is. So not in Cleveland, not

00:42:09.660 getting them there. So SPG for life, but I'm sure I'm banned. So thank you.

00:42:13.600 Well, you, you are banned of course. And this is your guilty conscience. Why else would you feel

00:42:20.320 the need to let me know about this? You're trying to justify something you know, isn't right.

00:42:25.560 All that is needed for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing. Remember that gibberish. 1.00

00:42:30.180 Remember that. Let's play the next one. Hey there, Matt Walsh with the daily wire here.

00:42:36.520 Good to see you. Sweet baby gang for life. I'll see you Monday. Tune in. Okay. So that guy's

00:42:42.660 supposed to look like me, I guess. Is that the idea? He's got a beard and glasses. Like

00:42:46.100 every single person who has a beard and glasses. Now I'm always told, Oh, he looks just like

00:42:49.540 you. There's probably millions of people with beards and glasses. It's not that distinctive

00:42:54.060 of a trait. I mean, I could see the resentment. You know what he looks like? He is, um, try

00:43:00.200 to put my finger on. He's, he's like a combination of me and a Roy from the office. If me and Roy

00:43:07.980 from the office, you know, Pam's boyfriend, if me and Roy from the office had a baby, it would

00:43:12.180 be that guy. So this is the origin story maybe of the sweet baby from the sweet baby gang

00:43:18.140 logo. It's quite a horrifying, gorgeous story. Not a movie you want to see. I guarantee you

00:43:21.760 that. Um, let's see. Scott Allison says, if I had a daughter at a science camp and a biological

00:43:26.560 male identifying as they them shared a room, they would soon identify as patient 457 in ICU

00:43:32.380 ward. Um, well, that's the appropriate response. And as always with these kinds of stories, you

00:43:36.780 have to ask the question of where are the dads, even in the news clip that we played yesterday

00:43:42.660 from this story, uh, parents speaking out about the fact that they're, you know, they sent their

00:43:47.860 10 year old daughters off to a science camp and then they come home and find out that, that adult

00:43:52.660 male counselors were, were, were bunking with them, having slumber parties with these, uh, with

00:43:57.400 these little girls. And yeah, we were told parents are speaking out about it, except that all the

00:44:02.220 parents in the news clip were all the moms. Where are the dads exactly? Very good question.

00:44:10.880 Uh, Danielle says sexuality should not be discussed or taught at any age in school. Now tolerance,

00:44:16.800 acceptance and non-bullying, no matter your sexual preference or gender identity has been and is in

00:44:21.780 force and should be, but that's completely different than actively teaching it. Um, let kids be kids.

00:44:28.460 They should learn that there is much more to personality slash lifestyle than your gender 0.98

00:44:31.960 slash sexuality. I'm only going to disagree with you, Danielle, because I don't think that

00:44:37.160 tolerance and acceptance should be taught or enforced either. You know, uh, because then the

00:44:44.740 questions are like, what are we tolerating exactly? Why are we tolerating that? And acceptance is a

00:44:52.740 whole other level. Who decides what we're supposed to accept and why? These are all moral claims and

00:45:00.400 moral judgments. And you as a public school teacher, that's not your job, you know, to moralize

00:45:09.760 and to kind of impose your own moral view of the world onto kids. Now it's not your job. It's not

00:45:17.540 why anybody sends their kids to public school. You know, parents send their kids to public school

00:45:21.240 thinking that they're going to get naively thinking they're going to get just a basic academic

00:45:24.640 education. Uh, so it's not your job. It is also inevitable that the lessons being taught to kids

00:45:32.220 will be wrapped up in a moral worldview. Um, but that doesn't make it. Okay. All right. Let's see

00:45:40.200 what else we got. Joshua says, I think you're wrong on Ukraine. We should be willing for full scale war. 0.97

00:45:46.760 We learned in the last two world wars. If you ignore dictators, they'll keep conquering until someone

00:45:51.240 stops them. Either we stop Russia now or we'll have world war three later. You want a world war 0.99

00:45:58.020 ignoring this is how you get it. Okay. See, Joshua, I appreciate at least that you're trying to make

00:46:05.240 some kind of national security based argument for why we should get involved. Um, so you're,

00:46:12.680 you're on the right track. You're trying to make the right kind of argument. I just don't find the

00:46:17.540 argument compelling because it's actually not an argument. It's just an assertion. What you're saying

00:46:22.420 is, uh, we, we let Putin take over Ukraine. Next thing you know, world war three. Well, you got to

00:46:27.900 connect those dots for me. Okay. Cause it's like step one, Putin takes over Ukraine. And then down here,

00:46:35.540 like step 10 is world war three, but I need to know steps two through nine. You got to fill in that.

00:46:40.600 How does that work? I mean, are you suggesting that Putin takes over Ukraine and then keeps going?

00:46:47.800 And next thing, you know, he's trying to invade the United States and take us over too. Is,

00:46:52.340 is that your concern? Well, I don't know, but you have to explain that to me because I have,

00:46:58.080 I have heard this from plenty of, at least on, um, you know, as far as the Biden administration,

00:47:03.480 they're still talking about, we have to defend our values and so on and so forth.

00:47:06.380 But when it comes to the peanut gallery online, most of them, you know, you're hearing a lot

00:47:11.200 about, well, it's, it'll be world war three. He's going to take over the world and all this kind 0.98

00:47:14.440 of stuff. But you've got to, got to flesh that out a little bit more because I don't find it

00:47:18.760 terribly convincing. Um, Diana says, I don't agree that parents have the right to know their child's

00:47:25.160 sexual orientation. That's creepy. And if the students who are outed do end up being abused or

00:47:30.580 kicked out, that would be horrible. So it's creepy for a parent to know their child. You find that to

00:47:40.880 be, I hope you're not a parent yourself, Diana, with that kind of attitude. That's creepy. You want

00:47:45.940 to, you want to understand and know your child. That's, that's creepy. Now, if you're using some

00:47:51.540 sort of mind reading device to do it, then, uh, maybe I'll agree that that, that might be creepy,

00:47:57.840 but no, in this case, it's just, you know what the mind reading device is? It's, you should

00:48:02.940 be told information about your child that other people already know. So what we're talking

00:48:10.000 about here is a child has quote unquote, come out at school and, um, their friends know it

00:48:16.940 and the teachers know it. Everybody knows it, but should the, should the parents be the one

00:48:23.360 group that does not know this information about the kid. I would say the creepy thing is when

00:48:30.060 everyone has this information about a child's, you know, sexuality and the parents do not. They're

00:48:37.900 the only ones that are cut out of it. There's just, here's a general rule of thumb. There's never

00:48:45.240 a good non-creepy reason for an adult to want to keep these kinds of secrets with a child away from

00:48:55.840 the parents. Uh, let's see. John says, you aren't giving the animal bill of rights comments are a

00:49:03.020 fair shake here. Animals that are in captivity by humans aren't able to freely live. However,

00:49:07.400 suits them best. Non-pets on the streets are owed nothing because they're, they aren't being forced

00:49:12.180 into captivity. Pets you force into your home are owed a life equal to the potential top quality

00:49:17.060 they could achieve on their own. Life on the streets is probably far more miserable than a

00:49:21.260 mediocre pet owner offers their pets, but it's kind of a dumb straw man to make the comparison between 0.98

00:49:26.220 the two in the way that you did. Okay. So they, they're owed a life equal to the potential quality 0.99

00:49:31.960 they could achieve on their own. So you mean that they should eat once every four days,

00:49:37.140 uh, sleep out in the cold and the rain, be infested with ticks and parasites live about six years and

00:49:44.060 then die miserably when their corpses are consumed by ants and crows because that's the life they would

00:49:50.800 lead on their own. That's the life of a wild animal forced into captivity. That's, that's how you think

00:49:57.400 of domestic domesticated dogs and cats. No, it's not forced into captivity. They're not our slaves.

00:50:03.540 They don't do anything. This is not forced labor. Most of these, they just sit around all day.

00:50:10.180 We have elevated these animals to the status of, of animal royalty, like animal celebrities.

00:50:18.240 So if a dog complains, it's like, that's like when, when Lady Gaga complained about being too famous.

00:50:22.900 It's just, it's not, especially compared to what everyone else is going through, compared to what

00:50:27.080 other animals are going through. You got it easy. You got it made in the shade, literally.

00:50:29.820 And, and this also raises the, the, the question, we go back to the question of rights and we don't

00:50:36.140 have time to get into all of it, but, but although they have the right to do this, they have, where

00:50:40.240 are you, says who, what, where do animals derive their, their rights from exactly? Where are those

00:50:46.280 enumerated? Philosophical question that we don't have time to get into right now. You know, something

00:50:52.160 about the daily wire is we're constantly getting bigger. We're constantly growing every day. We, we hire

00:50:56.800 five new people, it seems like, and you can see for yourself how much we're growing, how much we got

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00:54:39.340 Well, I felt like canceling feminists again today, one of my favorite pastimes. And initially, 1.00

00:54:44.380 I thought I'd cancel them for this. According to ESPN, quote,

00:54:46.880 players from the United States women's national team have settled their class action equal pay

00:54:52.040 lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation for a total of $24 million. The USSF has also committed

00:54:58.440 to providing an equal rate of pay going forward for the women's and men's national teams in all

00:55:03.220 friendlies and tournaments, including the World Cup. The issue of World Cup bonuses had long been a

00:55:07.600 point of contention for the players. Quote from Megan Rapinoe, she says, there's no real justice in this

00:55:13.840 other than this never happening again. With the settlement of the working conditions and this

00:55:17.620 settlement, which is contingent upon a CBA that will have equal pay going forward, there's no other

00:55:21.980 way to look at it than just a monumental win for women's sports and women's soccer in particular.

00:55:27.740 Okay, so female soccer players will now get equal pay. Something that if they didn't have it before, 1.00

00:55:32.740 it was probably because nobody cares about women's soccer. It's a simple economic explanation. It's the 1.00

00:55:39.000 same thing that explains why WNBA players make $3 an hour, while NBA players make $3 million an hour. 0.99

00:55:45.540 I might be slightly exaggerating the pay scales there, but the point is that the NBA has lots

00:55:49.760 of fans, whether it should or not, while nobody has ever actually seen a WNBA game. Like, nobody has.

00:55:55.580 There's actually a lively philosophical debate about whether or not the WNBA even technically exists,

00:56:01.080 given how little interest there is in it. Women's soccer, for its part, has two strikes against it. 1.00

00:56:06.400 One, soccer. Two, women's. Although I suppose I should be grateful that female athletes have 1.00

00:56:12.220 finally achieved equal pay right in time for the men to take over. And that really is the greatest

00:56:17.880 absurdity here, because these liberal female athletes are celebrating this great victory for 1.00

00:56:22.840 women's sports, even as women's sports has effectively ceased to exist. And that's, I think,

00:56:29.100 worthy of its own cancellation, if not for this. At the 11th hour, the Women's March has swooped in to 1.00

00:56:35.120 claim the canceled title for itself, playing the gender card on a different topic, but just as

00:56:40.280 absurdly. The Women's March official account on Twitter tweeted this, quote, women hold $929 billion

00:56:47.260 in student debt, two thirds of the nation's entire $1.7 trillion student debt load. This is a gender 1.00

00:56:54.080 justice issue. POTUS cancel student debt and put an end to this crisis. Okay, where to begin?

00:57:02.920 First of all, $929 billion is not two thirds of $1.7 trillion. It's a little more than half,

00:57:11.660 about 55%, give or take, which is considerably less than two thirds. If women are having trouble 0.86

00:57:16.940 getting into college, I think we just discovered why. Except, in fact, they aren't having trouble

00:57:21.220 getting into college. Women get into college more often than men. They account for almost 60% of

00:57:26.580 university enrollment. If they also have the lion's share of debt, that would explain why. More women 1.00

00:57:32.700 in college equals more women with college debt. Pretty logical. But 60% enrollment against 55% of 1.00

00:57:40.300 debt actually means that each individual woman, on average, is carrying less of the debt burden 1.00

00:57:45.740 than each individual man. Men are the ones paying more than their fair share, if that's how you want

00:57:51.980 to look at it. Although it's not how you ought to look at it, because the only share that each should

00:57:57.240 pay is the share they agreed to pay when they willingly took out their loans. Does that make

00:58:03.240 it a fair share? Probably not. I mean, not fair in any kind of objectively ethical sense. The fact is

00:58:10.280 that most people agree to pay way too much for an education that's worth way too little. If you spent six

00:58:16.200 figures on a degree in queer art history or whatever, thinking that it would somehow pay itself back in

00:58:21.800 five years, given the overwhelming market demand for queer art historians, I can't say that you paid

00:58:26.700 a fair price. The fair price would have been zero dollars, which is quite a bit less than what you're

00:58:33.120 on the hook for. But it's still your debt. It isn't anybody else's. It's yours. So all this talk about

00:58:41.320 relief and forgiveness, it obscures the point. The government cannot snap its mighty fingers and make

00:58:46.580 the debt go away. That's not going to happen. No plan has been presented that would or could

00:58:51.500 accomplish such a thing. Somebody has to pay your debts. The debt you agreed to while purchasing the

00:58:58.840 product you wanted and will keep has to be paid. The only question is this, who should pay it? You or

00:59:06.400 someone else? I don't see how you could offer any sound argument for the latter. Even if you can convince

00:59:11.780 me that the debt is unfair and predatory and you were taken advantage of, I might agree with all

00:59:18.360 of that, but it still seems clear that the fairest of the unfair remedies is for the person who took

00:59:22.700 out the loan to pay it. Because if it's unfair that you have to pay your loans, it's certainly many

00:59:27.740 times more unfair that I should have to pay your loans or anybody else. Besides, whatever possible

00:59:33.700 argument could be made for loan forgiveness would clearly apply just as much to any other form of

00:59:38.460 debt. Mortgage, car, credit card, etc. If you're struggling with student debt and you're handed a

00:59:43.680 get out of jail free card and I didn't go to college, but I'm struggling to pay my mortgage,

00:59:48.380 should I not be offered the same deal? If your debt is a public emergency, why isn't my debt also

00:59:54.360 a public emergency? Now it's true that I can file for bankruptcy, but bankruptcy isn't free and it ain't

01:00:00.040 fun. And I'm probably going to lose a lot of my stuff in the process. You don't have to declare

01:00:04.700 bankruptcy under any student loan forgiveness plan I've seen. Why should I have to take that step?

01:00:09.720 What makes you special? What happened to equality under the law? In fact, you know, I really can't

01:00:15.500 take any loan forgiveness plan seriously that doesn't require at a minimum the college grad who

01:00:21.020 wants forgiveness must declare bankruptcy and also forfeit their college degree. Nobody can take

01:00:27.800 away what they learned, especially because most of them didn't learn anything, but the degree can be

01:00:31.880 rescinded and that should be a necessary part of so-called forgiveness. You didn't pay for it,

01:00:35.700 you got to give it back. Call it a refund instead of forgiveness. Now I still wouldn't support even

01:00:41.240 that plan, but it's at least a serious plan and makes some attempt at being fair. But this is all

01:00:47.240 academic, pun intended. The feminists over at the Women's March aren't making a case for student loan 1.00

01:00:51.720 forgiveness. They're making a case for gender justice, whatever that is. Only because they didn't pay 1.00

01:00:56.860 attention in any of their math classes, they don't realize that the gender disparity on this issue, 0.54

01:01:01.400 as with most other issues, cuts in their favor. So they're wrong about women being specially victimized

01:01:07.560 by student loans and they're wrong about the student loan issue in general. They're wrong in

01:01:11.860 every way from every angle. Other than that, ladies, great point. Also, you're canceled. 0.98

01:01:18.220 And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 23, 2022

Ep. 895 - We Must Defend The Biden Administration’s Perverted Values

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