The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 959 - Biden Immediately Exploits And Politicizes Another School Shooting

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, horrific tragedy strikes in Texas as Democrats immediately exploit

00:00:04.800 dead children to score political points. I have a lot to say about all this, and I'll say it today.

00:00:08.760 Also, Nancy Pelosi finally responds to the archbishop who banned her from taking communion.

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00:01:53.500 Well, all mass shootings are tragedies, of course, especially school shootings, but an attack on an

00:01:58.800 elementary school reaches the deepest levels of demonic depravity. If you're a parent of elementary

00:02:04.060 school age children, as I am, you can't help but imagine yourself in the position that so many parents

00:02:09.080 in Uvalde, Texas are in today. And it's enough to take your breath away. Unthinkable, unspeakable,

00:02:13.900 horrific. The body count last I saw is 21. That's two adults and 19 kids, mostly in second,

00:02:19.380 third, and fourth grade. They were slaughtered by an 18-year-old piece of human filth who walked

00:02:26.360 into Robb Elementary School yesterday, barricaded the doors, and walked into a classroom and started 0.98

00:02:31.360 just killing everybody in the room. The AP is reporting that the shooter was finally taken down

00:02:36.700 by a heroic border patrol agent who rushed into the building without backup as they're reporting it. 0.95

00:02:41.380 We can only hope that the shooter suffered before he died and went to burn in hell for all eternity.

00:02:47.640 An event as shocking and terrible as this could be a moment of unity for the nation. It would be 0.98

00:02:54.660 fleeting, of course. It would not last very long, but at least for a time, however brief,

00:03:00.800 you would hope that we could come together in grief and mourning over children whose lives were taken,

00:03:05.840 and also the many more children whose lives are now forever altered by the horrors that

00:03:10.460 they witnessed. It could be time for some real soul searching. I mean, actual soul searching,

00:03:15.720 as in searching our souls to figure out what the hell has gone so wrong in our society.

00:03:21.700 But a symptom of our peculiar national soul sickness is that we don't have moments like this,

00:03:27.340 and we certainly don't engage in any real introspection ever. Our leaders helped to make

00:03:34.500 sure of that, which is why President Biden addressed the nation in primetime last night,

00:03:39.540 spent all of about two minutes expressing his sorrow over the 19 murdered children,

00:03:44.180 and then launched into a political stump speech about the gun lobby and Republicans,

00:03:48.600 and that's how he spent the remainder of his remarks. Listen.

00:03:51.340 As a nation, we have to ask, when in God's name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?

00:04:00.160 When in God's name we do what we all know in our gut needs to be done?

00:04:07.480 It's been 3,448 days, 10 years since I stood up at a high school in Connecticut,

00:04:17.620 a grade school in Connecticut, where another gun massacred 26 people, including 20 first-graders

00:04:24.540 at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Since then, there have been over 900 incidents

00:04:31.380 of gun fires reported on school grounds. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida,

00:04:40.300 Santa Fe High School in Texas, Oxford High School in Michigan. The list goes on and on, and the list grows.

00:04:47.320 When it includes mass shootings at places like movie theaters, houses of worship. As we saw just 10

00:04:55.280 days ago, the grocery store in Buffalo, New York. I am sick and tired of it. We have to act.

00:05:05.020 And don't tell me we can't have an impact on this carnage.

00:05:09.060 I spent my career as a senator and a vice president working to pass common-sense gun laws.

00:05:18.900 We can and won't prevent every tragedy, but we know they work. And the gun manufacturers have

00:05:25.000 spent two decades aggressively marking assault weapons, which make them the most and largest

00:05:29.700 profit. For God's sake, we have to have the courage to stand up to the industry.

00:05:34.800 Now, words cannot express how sickening that performance was. Instead of trying to unite the

00:05:44.760 nation in our grief, Biden chose politics. The bodies hadn't even all been identified yet. They

00:05:50.360 were still taking DNA swabs from parents so they could match them to the victims. And Biden was

00:05:56.060 already taking pot shots at his favorite political targets. Not to mention rambling off the cuff and

00:06:01.420 repeating himself as always. We're being led by an incoherent, incompetent fool who also happens 1.00

00:06:07.580 to be a very, very deeply bad man. Of course, the entire Democrat party and almost all the corporate 1.00

00:06:14.300 media has taken this same cue. Now, the shooter is Hispanic, attacking a predominantly Hispanic school.

00:06:20.100 So there's no useful racial narrative for the vultures to exploit. And that means they go right to

00:06:25.060 gun control. And that's been the story since last night because they've decided to make it the story.

00:06:29.020 This morning, Michael Moore was on MSNBC ranting about repealing the Second Amendment,

00:06:33.220 just like repealing it outright. That's how far they'll go in exploiting tragedy.

00:06:39.320 But just as they are standing on the bodies of dead children to make their political points,

00:06:45.740 they're also stepping over the facts, ignoring them completely. Because the fact of the matter is that

00:06:51.540 none of the recent mass shootings would have been prevented by any of the quote unquote common

00:06:56.800 sense gun control regulations Democrats like Biden are proposing. None of them.

00:07:02.540 Another fact is that these shootings happen everywhere, regardless of the law. As much as

00:07:08.020 the left likes to pretend that the gun laws are the same everywhere in the country, that's not the

00:07:11.900 case. Many states and cities already have strict gun laws. Other places have more relaxed laws.

00:07:17.340 If the law is to blame here, then we should observe that all of the shootings are happening

00:07:21.560 in places with relaxed laws. But that's not what we observe. In fact, the majority of gun violence

00:07:28.180 happens in blue states and blue cities with strict laws. Texas, of course, has more respect for the

00:07:34.480 Second Amendment than almost any other state in the union. And yet the shooter in Uvalde still had to

00:07:39.800 break myriad laws to commit the horrific crime that he committed. Would a few more laws have made a

00:07:45.260 difference? Which laws exactly would have made a difference? Red flag laws? Will they have those up in

00:07:49.980 New York? Yet a shooter with a history of violence and making threats, exactly the kind of guy that

00:07:56.220 red flag laws are supposed to stop, still managed to slaughter people at a grocery store? They've got 1.00

00:08:02.680 gun control and red flag laws in New York, and it still happened. So what laws then? Laws supposedly

00:08:09.980 limiting the types of guns available for purchase? Well, even if you can stop people from buying whatever

00:08:16.740 type of gun you ban, you can't stop them from modifying the legal guns to make them function

00:08:22.300 more like the banned ones, which is precisely what many mass shooters, including the one in Buffalo,

00:08:26.900 do. Also, a shooter with a simple handgun and enough ammo can inflict horrendous carnage if he's

00:08:34.860 attacking defenseless people in a gun-free zone. The type of gun just doesn't seem to matter all that much.

00:08:41.780 You could take away every gun, and that still wouldn't stop the attacks. The terrorist in

00:08:48.360 Waukesha just used his car instead of a gun. The worst school attack in U.S. history happened in 1927.

00:08:56.440 45 people died. Not one gun was fired because the killer used explosives. So what laws? What law will

00:09:05.700 stop this? Universal background checks? That's what NBA coach Steve Kerr called for last night in the

00:09:12.740 wake of the shooting. Listen to this. Men, are we going to do something? I'm tired. I'm so tired of

00:09:22.040 getting up here and offering condolences to the devastated families that are out there. I'm so

00:09:29.540 tired of the, excuse me, I'm sorry. I'm tired of the moments of silence. Enough. There's 50 senators

00:09:38.200 right now who refuse to vote on HRA, which is a background check rule that the House passed a

00:09:45.440 couple of years ago. It's been sitting there for two years. And there's a reason they won't vote on

00:09:50.000 it, to hold on to power. So I ask you, Mitch McConnell, I ask all of you senators who refuse to do

00:09:56.860 anything about the violence in school shootings and supermarket shootings. I ask you, are you going

00:10:03.000 to put your own desire for power ahead of the lives of our children? How will background checks

00:10:12.500 stop someone without a criminal record from purchasing a firearm? How? Now, there's no

00:10:20.220 indication as far as we know that the shooter in Texas had a criminal record. You know, very often mass

00:10:26.520 shooters have no history of crime up until the moment where they decide to murder dozens of

00:10:30.800 people. But a background check isn't going to tell you what people are going to do in the future.

00:10:36.380 Okay, it's not a future check. It's a background check. And if there's no criminal history,

00:10:41.500 there's nothing in the background, then what is it supposed to do? What does it achieve?

00:10:47.160 On the other hand, gun violence in our cities, the sort of violence that kills the most people in

00:10:51.340 this country every year, hands down, is often carried out by people with criminal records. Sure.

00:10:56.580 But they don't purchase their guns legally. So there's no law that could make their possession

00:11:01.560 and use of a firearm any more illegal than it already is. So again, what law would stop this?

00:11:08.720 Now, I'm not arguing that there's nothing at all we can do. I'm not saying that. There are some

00:11:14.560 things. One thing in particular would be a good starting point. Put armed and trained security

00:11:19.160 in every school in America. Armed and trained security in every school in America.

00:11:27.420 We have the budget for it. We could send $40 billion to Ukraine. You're telling me we don't

00:11:30.900 have the money to put security in our own schools for our own kids? We got billions of dollars

00:11:36.240 apparently laying around. We could just send it off to, I mean, not just Ukraine. We're shipping

00:11:39.580 money to dozens and dozens of countries all across the world. Now, we could worry about securing

00:11:47.380 Ukraine with $40 billion. How far would $40 billion go? How many schools in America could

00:11:54.520 we fully and completely protect with armed and trained security with $40 billion?

00:12:01.800 Now, this is not a foolproof plan. Nothing is. But it's a whole lot better than having no security.

00:12:08.120 Now, it's not clear, as far as I'm aware, if the school in Texas had security or what sort of

00:12:12.180 security it had had, if any. But regardless, there was an armed good guy on the scene very quickly.

00:12:17.380 20 children were still killed. It would have been even worse, a lot worse,

00:12:22.120 if the good guy with the gun had not been there or had arrived five minutes later, even.

00:12:29.240 Obviously, our kids are safer in school if the schools are secured. Obviously.

00:12:34.820 We have armed security at airports. We have them at stadiums for football games. We have armed security

00:12:42.760 in most government buildings. Congress has armed security. The president has armed security. If you

00:12:47.780 go to the DMV or the social security office, you'll find at least one armed security guard there to

00:12:53.120 protect and defend what? Documents? License plates? We have armed security to protect everything we

00:13:00.120 deem important and even some things that don't seem all that important. And yet, there are people

00:13:04.700 who don't want our kids to be protected. It's mind-boggling. We just heard from Steve Kerr.

00:13:10.160 He's pounding on the table with tears in his eyes, calling for someone to do something.

00:13:13.860 Do something! He's shouting in this theatrical performance. And I do call it that. I'm sorry.

00:13:19.420 I don't take his tears seriously. I don't think they're genuine. And I'll tell you why. Because two

00:13:24.380 years ago, Kerr joined in protesting against armed police officers at school in Oakland.

00:13:30.220 So he's in tears over kids getting shot and killed, yet he doesn't want security in those

00:13:36.680 schools? What? He wants someone to do something, unless that something involves actually actively

00:13:44.180 protecting our children. Let me ask you, Steve Kerr, okay? If a guy with a gun is going to a school to

00:13:52.200 kill kids, is it better for there to be security guards on campus or not? Are you going to suggest

00:13:58.180 it's actually better if there's nobody there? That is insane. That doesn't make any sense.

00:14:06.740 So what's the argument against it? And whatever your stupid argument against securing the schools 1.00

00:14:11.320 and protecting our children is, why do you never make the same argument in relation to any of the 1.00

00:14:15.700 other buildings that are guarded 24-7 by security? Are congressmen more important than our kids?

00:14:20.260 There was one riots where a bunch of unarmed yahoos invaded the Capitol building, and they responded 1.00

00:14:27.660 by locking the whole city down for months like Fort Knox. And even now, they've got like armies of

00:14:33.960 security surrounding that building, and it'll be like that forever. But a decades-long string of

00:14:40.820 massacres at school, including two of the deadliest at elementary schools, and that's still not enough to

00:14:45.680 get everybody on board and agreeing that schools need security. Like everything else we can argue

00:14:51.380 about. But how is that not the first thing we do? Do the people opposing such efforts actually want

00:15:01.240 kids to die so they can use their deaths for political gain? Do they actually want our kids to

00:15:07.780 be sitting ducks? I don't want to think that anyone would think that way, but I cannot fathom any

00:15:15.480 other explanation. But this brings us to a final point, though certainly not the least important

00:15:23.360 point. Speaking of that decades-long string of massacres, why? Why is this happening?

00:15:33.880 You know, this is yet another reason why the gun control narrative falls apart. Americans have owned

00:15:39.780 guns since forever, since the Second Amendment was ratified, since before that. And yet, these kinds of

00:15:44.460 attacks seem to be far more common now than they were in the past. Now, you can look in the statistics,

00:15:48.940 and oftentimes people will do that, and they'll try to debunk, and they'll say, well, no, technically,

00:15:53.120 you know, schools weren't any safer in the 90s than they are now, and everything. And, you know,

00:15:58.160 if you look at violence in general and everything, and you average it all out, there may be some truth

00:16:02.420 to that. But also, you know, it's like we're not imagining things, right? I mean, I can remember

00:16:06.600 going to school myself in the 90s, and there were, there was the one big incident that we all remember,

00:16:13.280 Columbine, and the reason why we all remember that 20-plus years later is because at the time when it

00:16:18.000 happened, it was unimaginable. It's like unheard of. And it's just, it's not unheard of anymore.

00:16:25.320 So it certainly seems like these sorts of things are happening much more often than they used to.

00:16:35.080 I mean, talk to your parents, depending on how old you are. I talked to my parents. They went to

00:16:38.860 school, you know, going to schools in the 60s. Was it like every year there's a, there's a massacre at

00:16:45.880 school? No. So, so, so why? Like, why is this happening? And here's the question that we somehow

00:16:57.340 never ask, which is the why. Before we ask how a mass shooter got his hands on the gun he used to

00:17:06.260 commit his crime, or even how he was able to access the school grounds in order to commit his crime,

00:17:10.160 shouldn't we ask why he wanted to do that in the first place? Isn't that the first question? Why

00:17:19.540 would anyone, no matter how many guns he has available to him, why would anyone want to do

00:17:26.380 that? What's gone wrong inside his mind and his soul? Whatever plan you devise to prevent a murderous

00:17:34.460 demon from killing innocent people, it will be at best a Band-Aid. I fully admit that armed security at

00:17:40.100 school is a Band-Aid solution. It's a necessary Band-Aid. It's a Band-Aid that will save lives,

00:17:44.780 but it is a Band-Aid. It doesn't get to the core of the problem. The core of the problem is that the

00:17:51.520 murderous demon exists, that he is a murderous demon in the first place, that such a person was produced.

00:18:01.500 There is a terrible spiritual sickness permeating our society. We seem to be producing a lot of these

00:18:12.060 kinds of people. Evil has a deep foothold here. We scratch at the surface of the problem.

00:18:19.580 We never look beneath. If ever we did, we would find certain themes emerging. Now, I don't know

00:18:27.220 anything about this scumbag in Texas. Most of his backstory has yet to be reported as far as I have 0.99

00:18:33.360 seen, but I can predict certain biographical details. I can just predict this. He didn't

00:18:40.760 have a stable home life. He spent most of his life online staring at screens, isolated from other flesh

00:18:47.160 and blood humans. He almost certainly didn't have any friends or very many. Probably didn't have a

00:18:54.780 girlfriend. He didn't have much or any moral or spiritual formation. He was empty, nihilistic,

00:19:02.100 despairing. He had no purpose or direction. This is the case for almost all of the mass shooters.

00:19:07.560 That's why I can predict it. And if this was not the case for him, he's an outlier, but it almost

00:19:12.960 certainly is. This is also the case, by the way, for almost all the violent criminals in our cities.

00:19:20.720 All this applies to them, too. This is what ties them all together. See, it's not a, we like to

00:19:25.580 think of like these are two completely different kinds of things. All the violence in the cities,

00:19:29.620 people are dying every single day, randomly shot to death on street corners, and then the mass

00:19:34.100 shootings at schools and in other places. And we like to, well, these are two, they're not two

00:19:38.300 completely different categories of things. They're actually very similar.

00:19:44.660 And this is the thing that ties them all together. It's the actual source of the crisis.

00:19:50.560 It's what makes, it's what makes the sorts of people who do these sorts of things.

00:19:58.300 The people who we try to contain or control with laws, but no law in itself can make a man safe

00:20:05.100 if he is corrupt and evil to his core. You know, if he's the kind of man who would want to do

00:20:12.600 something like this, he's never going to be safe. You're never going to be safe around him.

00:20:18.760 The real solution is one that makes war against that evil, right? The evil down there at the core.

00:20:27.180 And we are not serious about addressing the problem until we resolve to address that problem.

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00:22:09.280 Well, Nancy Pelosi has finally responded about being banned from communion by her archbishop.

00:22:17.020 Her first response was reportedly to, and not surprisingly, to just ignore him. And she was told not to

00:22:22.700 receive communion, but she's in D.C. And so she went and received it anyway. But here she is on MSNBC

00:22:29.180 giving a longer, I was going to say a more thoughtful, certainly not thoughtful at all,

00:22:34.500 a longer, anyway, verbal response to this. And let's listen.

00:22:39.920 What's so sad about it, and as you're speaking, I'm thinking of some of the discussions I've had

00:22:45.760 with other members of Congress over time. And what is important for women to know and families to know

00:22:51.700 that this is not just about terminating a pregnancy? So these same people are against

00:22:58.460 contraception, family planning, in vitro fertilization. It's a blanket thing. And they use

00:23:06.400 abortion as the front man for it while they try to undo so much. That's what they tried to do in the 0.82

00:23:14.140 Affordable Care Act, which didn't have anything about terminating an abortion, a pregnancy. So let's 0.97

00:23:21.100 just say that, you know, I wonder about death penalty, which I am opposed to. So is the church. But they

00:23:28.520 take no action against people who may not share their view. Thank you for referencing the Gospel of

00:23:34.980 Matthew, Matthew, which is sort of the agenda of the church that is rejected by many who side with

00:23:43.740 them on terminating a pregnancy. So we just have to be prayerful. We have to be respectful. I come from

00:23:50.460 a largely pro-life Italian-American Catholic family. So I respect people's views about that. But I don't 0.70

00:23:59.080 respect us foisting it on to others. She mentions the Gospel of Matthew. I'm glad that she brought

00:24:07.460 that up because there's another very unfortunately relevant passage in the Gospel of Matthew. The entire

00:24:14.560 thing is actually quite relevant. The entire Bible is quite relevant to everything going on in our

00:24:18.240 lives. But one passage in particular, Matthew 18, 6, you know, for anyone who harms one of these

00:24:27.100 little ones, it would be better for that person if a millstone was hung around his neck and he was

00:24:32.200 tossed into the sea. So how about that from the Gospel of Matthew, Nancy Pelosi? I mean, according

00:24:39.520 to the Gospel of Matthew, you would be better off with a millstone around your neck drowning in the

00:24:43.840 sea. That's not me talking. That's Jesus Christ talking. Tell me what part, now I can point to that

00:24:50.360 in the Gospel of Matthew and many other parts of it, like the entire Gospel that condemns people who

00:25:03.020 harm children. So show me the part of the Gospel of Matthew that endorses it. Can you show me that?

00:25:14.020 Show me the part. I'll give you any of the Gospels, actually. Find me the passage in the Gospels,

00:25:19.820 where Jesus says something that leads you to the conclusion that he wants you to kill children. 0.97

00:25:28.400 So when God, as we are told in Jeremiah, forms a child in the womb, you know, he knows the child 0.98

00:25:40.060 from the moment that child is stitched together in the womb. And then stitches the child together,

00:25:48.500 forms the child together in the womb of his mother. Where is the indication in the Bible,

00:25:54.480 anywhere in the Bible, that God actually wants you to kill that living being that he formed in the

00:26:02.180 womb? Can you find that? I'd like to know. She mentions the death penalty, and of course,

00:26:10.120 she totally misrepresents the situation there. You know, the death penalty is actually, but that's 0.76

00:26:15.200 another thing. I'm glad that she brought it up. Because the death penalty is, that's not a clear

00:26:19.880 cut. She says, oh, the church is against the death penalty. No, historically, the church is not against

00:26:23.840 the death penalty. In fact, historically, the church has been in favor, explicitly in favor of

00:26:30.040 the death penalty in certain circumstances. Now, Pope Francis, this most recent pope, doesn't like the death

00:26:38.280 penalty. And he made some changes very recently to the catechism, which were quite controversial,

00:26:43.040 to say the least. And there's a whole lot of debate about what he put in there with regards to the

00:26:48.780 death penalty, whether he even had the authority to put it in there and to phrase it the way that

00:26:53.780 he did. Talking about, I don't remember the exact phrasing, but talking about the death penalty,

00:26:58.700 like as if it's an intrinsic evil. And he didn't say that. And this is always the case with Pope Francis.

00:27:03.840 This is why, this is one of the reasons why his pontificate has been so damned frustrating. Again,

00:27:09.480 an understatement. But he's just constantly confusing everyone about everything. Like

00:27:14.420 nothing he says is clear. So we're just sitting around, he'll say something or write something,

00:27:18.400 and everyone's sitting around debating. What the hell does that mean? Because he's never clear about

00:27:21.940 it. And so with his proclamations about the death penalty, he didn't come out directly and say it's

00:27:27.620 an intrinsic evil, but he kind of indicated that. But at the same time, you can't say that

00:27:32.260 because the church has explicitly in the past endorsed that kind of penalty for certain crimes.

00:27:41.060 So you're saying the church endorsed intrinsic evil in the past? Well, you can't say that.

00:27:46.100 So with the death penalty, I think where this leads us is that it is at a minimum controversial,

00:27:54.820 and people have come down on either side of it, of the issue. With abortion, that's not the case.

00:28:04.380 There's zero controversy. It has been from the beginning forbidden. There's nobody of any

00:28:14.640 credibility or any real authority on the other side of the issue. And that's one of the reasons for that

00:28:21.940 is that there's no coherent argument you can actually make. There's no coherent argument on

00:28:26.680 any level you can make in favor of abortion. There's certainly no coherent moral argument you

00:28:30.440 can make. And even more so if you're trying to make a theological argument. There are plenty of

00:28:36.920 theological arguments you can make in favor of the death penalty, including, let's start with the

00:28:42.720 fact that God himself in the Old Testament prescribes it. I mean, God himself says,

00:28:48.000 prescribes the death penalty for certain crimes. He does. So from, and I get if you're not religious, 0.97

00:28:55.500 if you don't believe in the Bible, that doesn't mean anything to you, fine. But we're talking,

00:28:58.180 this is a religious conversation right now, what we're talking about. Nancy Pelosi, that's,

00:29:01.940 she's making claims on those grounds. 1.00

00:29:03.960 All right. Georgia primaries yesterday, Brian Kemp was the clear victor there for,

00:29:16.500 he'll be the Republican candidate once again for governor. And then Stacey Abrams will be the 0.79

00:29:22.280 Democrat candidate. And she's almost certainly going to lose. And because she's almost certainly

00:29:27.700 going to lose again, that's one of the reasons why she passed a claim ahead of time that the votes 1.00

00:29:34.460 are rigged and that there's, you know, and everything else. And that rigged in a different

00:29:40.240 way, right? She says it's rigged because we're suppressing votes and we're keeping, like the people

00:29:44.540 that would vote for her are being kept home somehow. And she's making that claim just like everybody on

00:29:51.120 the left is, especially after Georgia passed its election integrity and voter ID laws, except that

00:29:55.820 here's the problem for her, that for the primaries, this yesterday, there was record turnout.

00:30:04.500 We'd never seen anything like it in Georgia. So this was after laws were passed, we're supposed

00:30:08.960 to be suppressing the vote and then you have record turnout. Well, does that have the effect of kind of

00:30:14.360 disconfirming her claim about votes being suppressed? She says, no, listen.

00:30:19.060 The question about voter suppression and voter turnout is causation without correlation.

00:30:26.720 We, I'm sorry, you can make mistakes even when you know what you're talking about.

00:30:30.720 It's correlation without causation. We know that increased turnout has nothing to do with suppressing.

00:30:37.800 Has nothing to do with it. Suppressing, by the way, means that when you're like,

00:30:41.680 you're stopping something from happening, you're mitigating it, minimizing it, that's what suppression

00:30:48.280 is. And there's no correlation. So there's no correlation between voter suppression and the

00:30:56.280 number of people who vote. So theoretically, right, 100% of eligible voters could vote and she could 0.99

00:31:04.840 still claim that they're being suppressed. What? What? What do you mean then by suppressed? If everybody

00:31:13.120 is voting, and it might not be everybody in Georgia, but it's record numbers, more people voting after

00:31:23.020 these supposed voter suppression policies are put in place, then what do you even mean when you say

00:31:29.040 suppression? What, what, what are you talking about? Well, the answer is that voter suppression, just

00:31:35.800 like systemic racism, just like everything else you hear from Democrats, it's a, it's an unfalsifiable

00:31:41.520 theory, right? There's nothing that can happen that will have the effect of falsifying it. Nothing.

00:31:50.580 No matter what happens, climate change, another example, unfalsifiable, no matter what happens,

00:31:55.920 it confirms. Okay. Famously, that's why they changed it from global warming to climate change,

00:32:01.600 because it's like, that makes it, that makes it by definition unfalsifiable because any change in

00:32:06.580 the climate, anything that happens in the climate, it confirms climate change. Because look at that,

00:32:10.980 it's changing. Systemic racism. They say that America is horribly systemically racist. It doesn't

00:32:19.080 matter what happens. We can, we can elect a black president and that has no, um, bearing on systemic

00:32:30.320 racism because it's unfalsifiable. And one of the, you know, here's how you know, and by the way,

00:32:37.600 the unfalsifiable theory is, uh, is by its nature, an invalid theory. Okay. That means it's just something

00:32:44.840 arbitrary. It's, it's something ad hoc. It's something you made up. Um, it's like, uh, it's

00:32:53.460 like trying to play a game with little kids that like a game that they've made up. You've ever tried

00:32:59.320 to play with, with, with little kids, some kind of game, play this game with me. And they're just

00:33:03.420 like making up the rules as they go along. So it's impossible for you to win. And that's what the

00:33:10.740 left does. No matter what happens, they change the rules. They change the definitions. Everything

00:33:15.720 is, uh, unfalsifiable. And you know, it's an unfalsifiable theory because all you have to do

00:33:20.020 is ask them when it comes to systemic racism. Just, you know, next time you're talking to someone

00:33:25.340 on the left about this, ask them what, what, what do you, what needs to happen? Like what needs to

00:33:31.200 happen to prove to you that there is no systemic racism against black people? And the answer is gonna 1.00

00:33:38.620 mean nothing. And if nothing can disprove a theory, then that means that nothing has proven

00:33:45.840 it either. That means that this is a theory which exists entirely apart from evidence.

00:33:55.420 And one of the reasons that they do this is that they also want, uh, they, nothing can ever

00:34:01.560 get better, right? Because they always want to have the victim claim, which means that they call

00:34:09.480 themselves progressives and they're, they're supposedly working towards some utopia, but you

00:34:15.080 can, you can never get there. There can never be any improvement. So even after we have a black 1.00

00:34:22.280 president, you know, after that it's, we'll hear from the left that actually racism is worse than it's 0.74

00:34:28.360 ever been. Not only has it not gotten better, but it's actually worse. Uh, speaking of things being

00:34:36.460 the worst, another highlight from Abrams, who's, uh, again, running for governor of Georgia, but she

00:34:43.420 has a very low opinion of Georgia. Let's hear that. I am tired of hearing about being the best state in

00:34:49.840 the country to do business when we are the worst state in the country to live. When you're number 48 for

00:34:54.980 mental health, when you're number one from maternal mortality, when you have an incarceration rate

00:35:01.840 that's on the rise and wages that are on the decline, then you're not the number one place

00:35:06.480 to do, to live in the United States, but we can get there. Gwinnett. The worst place she wants to 0.95

00:35:13.340 run for vote for me. This is the worst place ever vote for me. This is one of the reasons why she's 1.00

00:35:18.260 going to lose again and then cry that she didn't really lose. I mean, cause she didn't lose the first

00:35:21.620 time. She says she's governor right now, actually, uh, the worst place to live. And one of the,

00:35:29.660 she says a ranking of 48, what was it? 48th in mental health. I don't know where she got,

00:35:34.360 I actually looked it up to say like, where, what ranking are you basing this on? And how exactly

00:35:39.400 do you rank mental health? What is, how do you rank the mental health of everybody in a state

00:35:45.220 and then compare it to other States? That's totally meaningless. But, um, this is why Democrats

00:35:56.480 are terrible leaders is because they hate, you know, you, you can't effectively lead anything.

00:36:03.480 If you hate the thing you're leading, right? You can't be an effective leader in an institution.

00:36:09.100 If you hate the institution, if you work for a company and you hate the company, then you're

00:36:13.360 going to be a terrible manager. If you're put in a position of leadership and even worse,

00:36:18.000 if you hate the people also in the company, if you hate the people you're leading, which Democrats

00:36:23.640 do, um, then you're going to be a terrible leader. You have to have some kind of affection for the

00:36:30.580 institutions that you're leading, but you're not gonna be able to lead effectively within those

00:36:35.260 institutions. And for that, this is why all these cities are falling apart that are led by

00:36:42.960 Democrats. They hate these cities and they hate everybody in them. I want to move to this.

00:36:49.680 Kamala Harris is, um, trying out a new version of the, it takes a village cliche. Let's hear that.

00:36:56.740 You know, when we talk about our children, I know for this group, we all believe that when we talk

00:37:01.040 about the children of the community, they are a children of the community. The children of the

00:37:07.840 community are the children of the community. Okay. And what she means by that, of course,

00:37:13.760 is like they, these are children that belong, uh, to the community. It takes a village, right? They're

00:37:21.040 not just your children. They belong to everybody. But we know that that is, that is false. We also

00:37:27.980 know, and we also know when they say that, when they say community, what they mean is the government.

00:37:32.920 That's always what they mean. That's why I would say they call it public school. I always,

00:37:39.660 that's why I always say it's government school. Forget about public. Be very clear about what,

00:37:44.360 what is meant here. And that's what they mean always is the government is in charge. You know,

00:37:51.400 you know, one of the reasons why, why that's, why that's not true. You know, why they're my kids

00:37:55.640 and I'm going to be in charge of them and I'm caring for them and I'm not going to entrust them to

00:38:00.040 the community, quote unquote. And I wouldn't, even if by the community, you actually meant the

00:38:05.840 community, I still wouldn't entrust my children to the community. And that there, there are many

00:38:11.940 reasons for that. But one of the big ones is that I love my kids and you don't, right?

00:38:21.340 The government doesn't love my kids. Even the community, even if you live in the best community

00:38:27.800 in the world, they're not going to love my kids, at least the way that I do. They might in a kind of

00:38:32.100 a general, if you're a generous kind of person and you're a good Christian, you're going to have

00:38:37.440 love for people in a sense that you want what's best for people in this kind of general sort of way

00:38:42.580 and in a way of being a charitable, a kind of a charitable love.

00:38:49.080 But you're not going to love my kids in the way that I do.

00:38:52.760 You're not going to be invested in their well-being as I am.

00:39:02.580 As invested in making sure that not only they are safe, but that they grow into being good people.

00:39:11.040 Like I would die for that. I would die for my kids. I would die to ensure that they grow into

00:39:15.120 good people. That's, that's, I would give my life to that. And I am, and so is my wife.

00:39:18.980 And that's the kind of investment I have in my kids. And that's why they're my kids.

00:39:26.100 You send them off to public school. There's, there's, there's no love there. They're just,

00:39:29.580 they're a number. They're a, a warm body in a chair, right? They're just, they're kind of,

00:39:37.520 they're, they become a statistic. And the schools want to make sure that as many graduate as possible

00:39:44.280 because it's a better statistics. They want to send as many as possible off to the, uh, off to

00:39:48.600 the university system because that's better statistics. And so everything is, it just

00:39:52.540 becomes statistical. It's a statistical reality. My kids are not statistics to me. They're human

00:39:57.140 beings. They're my kids. I know them. You don't. And that's why I am equipped to care for them in a

00:40:04.200 way that nobody else is. All right. Okay. One other thing I want to read before we get to the comment

00:40:13.520 section, and I'm going to read this. You're going to listen to it, whether you like it or not.

00:40:21.220 This is from the Daily Wire. It says, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,

00:40:25.980 something weird is going on in the universe. You're just going to sit and listen to this.

00:40:31.640 NASA made the determination by examining evidence gleaned from the Hubble Space Telescope deep in

00:40:36.920 space, which has measured the speed at which the universe is currently expanding, which is much

00:40:40.400 faster than the speed of the expansion of the Big Bang. Uh, NASA writes, the cause of this

00:40:46.800 discrepancy remains a mystery, but Hubble data encompassing a variety of cosmic objects that

00:40:52.020 serve as distance markers support the idea that something weird is going on, possibly involving

00:40:57.360 brand new physics. So this is actual, this is the scientific language from NASA. Something weird's

00:41:03.520 going on. Something weird's going on here. That's scientific length, but it is, it's interesting.

00:41:07.760 And that's why I'm going to continue reading it. Scientists had assumed that gravity would slow

00:41:12.880 down the universe's expansion over time. Dr. Kathy Romer of the Dark Energy Survey told the Daily

00:41:18.400 Mail, the universe is not only expanding, but it's expanding faster and faster as time goes by.

00:41:23.500 What we expect is that the expansion would get slower and slower as time goes by, because it has

00:41:26.980 been nearly 14 billion years since the Big Bang. 14 billion years, okay? It's a long time.

00:41:31.820 That's an interesting length of time, I would even say. NASA explains, when NASA conceived of a large

00:41:38.040 telescope in the 1970s, one of the primary justifications for the expense and extraordinary

00:41:41.400 technical effort was to be able to resolve, um, cepheids, stars that brighten and dim periodically

00:41:47.500 seen inside our Milky Way and external galaxies. Using these stars discovered by astronomer

00:41:52.860 Henrietta Swan-Levitt in 1912, scientists measured distances in the universe. They then used exploding

00:41:58.820 stars called type la supernovae to measure greater distances. Using both approaches, scientists could

00:42:05.620 estimate the Hubble constant, named after scientist Edwin Hubble, a value that can estimate the age of

00:42:10.940 the universe by measuring the expansion rate. But some of these calculations are breaking down as a

00:42:14.660 point, and so they're just confused by it, right? This interesting fact about space that I'm telling you,

00:42:22.820 you go tell your friends about it, all right? We got through it together.

00:42:28.820 Let's get now to the comment section.

00:42:30.060 Who makes a Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage?

00:42:36.180 Who's to blame? It's a sweet baby gang. 0.97

00:42:43.360 Cool Papa J Magic says, I so appreciate Matt for sticking with the grooming nonsense,

00:42:47.660 even when the news cycle keeps moving. This is the issue along with abortion. This is the hill to die on.

00:42:52.160 Yeah, I generally have disdain for the news cycle. I'm not going to, I don't, maybe you've probably

00:42:58.440 noticed by now. I don't, this show is not ruled by the news cycle. Now, there can be things happening

00:43:05.800 in the news that everyone in the news is talking about that actually is worth talking about, like

00:43:10.060 such as today. But generally speaking, I don't make a, it's, it's, I don't rely on the media to tell me

00:43:15.940 what's important and what I should talk about on this show. Just one correction though. When you say

00:43:21.720 this is the hill to die on, I agree in a sense, but also, you know, I ain't dying on this hill.

00:43:26.660 Okay. That's, they are figuratively, right? This is, this is, that's my only problem with this.

00:43:33.740 Is this the hill you're going to die on thing? And of course we know the people that say that,

00:43:38.180 I get accused of this all the time. I hear this from, from, from people, especially other

00:43:40.940 conservatives. Are you really going to die on this hill? Is this the hill you're going to die on? 0.96

00:43:43.520 And the people that say that, it's, they never, like whatever hill you're on, they say,

00:43:49.060 oh, it's not worth dying for. But then they never find a hill worth dying on as far as they're

00:43:53.260 concerned. They just keep, they keep surrendering hill after hill after hill until there are no

00:43:58.740 hills left. And yeah, I think that there are plenty of, of these hills worth dying on, but I also don't

00:44:05.480 plan on dying on the hill. I think, and when it comes to the, to the grooming thing, gender ideology, 0.80

00:44:10.720 you know, that particular hill, uh, that's a hill we can actually win. So let's see. Arthur says,

00:44:19.120 before you do any serious business with any company, check and see if they have a chief

00:44:23.200 diversity officer. Totally agree with you. Only caveat is that, um, I have been pushing to be the

00:44:31.220 chief diversity. Well, I'd like to be a chief diversity officer of the daily wire. We don't

00:44:34.440 have one, but that's a, that's a position that I, that I am would very much like to take on. Um,

00:44:39.900 and if not that I've also been pushing to be chief diversity officer of Twitter, if Elon Musk takes

00:44:45.360 over. So there are a couple of exceptions to that, but generally I think you're right.

00:44:51.480 Reese says on the issue of the Jackie Robinson comparison, I think it's not just what is said,

00:44:55.980 but also how it said Asians are a protected class. Now go, go call one of them, Jackie Chan.

00:45:01.160 It would be disrespectful. Okay. Um, the difference though, is that if there's an Asian person 1.00

00:45:07.760 who says, well, I'm the new Jackie Chan. And then you say, okay, Jackie, that's not racist. That's

00:45:14.440 your, you're not making fun of them based on race or ethnicity. You're making fun of what they just 0.57

00:45:19.300 said. And what such was the case with the baseball player who called the guy, Jackie, Jackie, because

00:45:24.460 he had called himself Jackie Robinson. Selena says, Hey Matt, I took a break from your videos about

00:45:29.180 eight months ago and I'm just checking in today on all the things that I missed and wow, the liberals

00:45:32.880 have gotten worse. I'm a Republican on your side and I can't believe all this stuff. I'm a former

00:45:36.780 teacher. I'm watching all the things about schools. I heard about it in the news, but thanks for

00:45:40.560 showing all this and opening our minds. I'm in a liberal state and everyone around me is liberal

00:45:43.840 and are okay with these kinds of things. It's clearly just the devil's work trying to ruin this

00:45:48.160 world. Well, Selena, if you have taken a break for eight months, then you may have forgotten some of

00:45:53.440 the rules around here, but by all rights, by admitting to me that you have not listened to

00:45:58.540 the show for eight months. I mean, what could you possibly be doing for the last eight months?

00:46:02.000 That's more important than this. By all rights, you should be banned from the show now,

00:46:06.400 but I'm feeling generous today. So as long as you promise not to leave us again and not to leave

00:46:11.700 the sweet baby gang again, I'll let you stay. But thanks for listening. Well, you guys know how much I love

00:46:17.240 animals? Walruses, for example, big supporter there. Pandas, not so much. So of course, with

00:46:22.660 monkeypox taking over the headlines, I've been devastated by all the stigma being placed on our

00:46:27.200 tree-frolicking friends. And in that devastation, I've had precious little time to gather the facts

00:46:32.480 about monkeypox, but rather than turn to someone like Bill Gates for the answers, I think I'd rather

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00:46:47.680 You may remember Dr. Malone from his interview with Joe Rogan, his speeches also at the anti-mandate

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00:47:26.900 slash subscribe today. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:47:29.200 Our cancellation today deals with something that I think is real and not a parody, but of course,

00:47:40.140 these days you can never be sure. I always have in the back of my mind the possibility that

00:47:43.960 everything happening in our culture right now is one giant practical joke. You know, I'm waiting for

00:47:47.600 someone to bust into the room at any moment, point to the hidden cameras, and explain that my entire

00:47:51.900 life up to this point has been the most elaborate prank in history, which is wishful thinking, but I have

00:47:56.680 to hold on to any hope, however faint. And it's better than accepting that this is real. Watch.

00:48:04.120 Okay, this is the fatness spectrum. A small fat is a size 18 and lower, 1x or 2x. I'm a 4x, 5x.

00:48:12.440 I'm a size 26, sometimes 28. I am the super fat you say I'm speaking over.

00:48:21.160 Just to make sure we're all on the same page here, what we just witnessed in that video is a morbidly

00:48:26.660 obese woman responding to the charge that she's not fat enough to have full fat credibility in the 1.00

00:48:33.840 fat community. She's accused of being a small fat as opposed to a super fat. But she explains that 1.00

00:48:40.280 according to the fatness spectrum, she actually is a super fat and thus has the authority to speak 1.00

00:48:45.380 about fat issues. According to the fat spectrum she provides, there are four categories of fats,

00:48:50.920 small fat, mid fat, super fat, and infinifat. Okay, now infinifat sounds like some kind of magical

00:48:59.820 crystal that a fat person might go on a quest to obtain so they can become the greatest and most

00:49:04.460 powerful fat in the world. And that's only sort of what it means. In reality, an infinifat is someone

00:49:09.340 who wears size 6x clothing. Basically, if you have to go to a truck stop, weigh station to find out your

00:49:15.820 weight, then you're an infinifat. And you're also going to be dead very soon. That's the bad news.

00:49:21.900 The good news is that for the remainder of your life, you have enormous credibility in the fat

00:49:25.780 community. And I do mean enormous. Now, I did some research into the fatness spectrum to confirm that

00:49:32.120 this is a real thing. And by real, I mean a fake thing that was really made up by real people. And to

00:49:36.420 that question, I can say, sadly, yes, affirmative. It is. In my research, the first thing I stumbled

00:49:41.320 across was this article on the website Bustle in 2015, in which a woman wrestles with an identity

00:49:48.200 crisis after being accused of insufficient obesity. She writes, after spending a little over two

00:49:54.000 decades associating my body with fatness, I never would have imagined that I'd be classed as not fat

00:49:59.300 or as a small fat by anyone's standards. Yet when I discovered the body positivity movement and immersed

00:50:04.460 myself into blogging, it felt like small fat was the first thing a lot of humans saw. You see, within fat

00:50:10.140 acceptance bubbles on the internet, there's one body type that often receives a bit of flack.

00:50:14.220 The small fat is essentially someone who might identify as fat or plus size, but who simultaneously

00:50:18.800 fits into a smaller size on the plus size spectrum. The small fat is likely allotted some amount of thin

00:50:24.280 privilege, with others sometimes deeming it a body type not fat enough to self-identify as such.

00:50:31.260 Now, from what I understand, this is why the fat gang has an initiation ritual where you're forced to

00:50:36.880 free base pixie sticks. And anyone who refuses is revealed to be an undercover small fat and is

00:50:42.500 then immediately killed. Fortunately, Teen Vogue, the ultimate authority in insane bullcrap, has 1.00

00:50:48.700 written a helpful explainer about the fat spectrum. In their Ask a Fat Girl column, they explain,

00:50:54.960 these are designations on the spectrum of fatness, a set of terms created by and for the fat community

00:50:59.920 to self-identify one's size. These size categories aren't universally agreed upon. Folks can identify

00:51:06.200 however they please, but serve as a general outline for where one falls on the spectrum of fat privilege.

00:51:11.980 Those who fall on the smaller end of the size spectrum are afforded more privileges than those 0.97

00:51:15.900 on the opposite end. The further you go on the larger side of the spectrum, the more likely a person is

00:51:20.040 to face discrimination, institutional sizeism, be denied medical care, face trouble accessing public

00:51:25.820 spaces, and more. Within the fat community, these designations allow for a shorthand when sharing

00:51:30.200 information. For instance, if I'm in need of a new pair of jeans, I can ask a Facebook group,

00:51:35.160 I'm a mid-fat looking for some new wide-leg jeans. Any suggestions? That way, those who respond know what

00:51:41.400 general category of store I would be able to fit in. What store I would be able to fit in?

00:51:48.240 We're going real infinite fat here. I got to know. I need to, I got to go shopping and I got to know

00:51:53.760 what store I can fit in. Will I fit in Walmart? If you're, if you're so fat that you don't fit in

00:52:00.480 a Walmart, then that, that's not, that's like, I don't know. That's not infinite fat. That's beyond,

00:52:03.820 what's, what's beyond infinite fat? Galactic fat? I don't know. By the way, the categories of fatness

00:52:13.220 are referred to as fatigories. Like, unironically, that's what they call them. I didn't make that up.

00:52:19.220 Fatigories. Incidentally, that's the term I've always used to group fast food restaurants,

00:52:23.740 together. I have different fatigories for fast food. Arby's is in the highest ranking fatigory

00:52:28.520 because if you try to, if you tried like a super size me experiment and ate only Arby's for a month,

00:52:33.740 you'd gain 600 pounds and then your bowels would explode. That's also why Arby's is the best fast

00:52:39.240 food restaurant, but also, by the way, in any case, what can we take away from all of this?

00:52:46.600 Well, nothing new, but there are two things worth considering. Once again, I think first,

00:52:50.160 we see the modern leftist obsessive and compulsive need to label themselves.

00:52:55.340 Now, when I was growing up, it was cool to declare yourself independent of all labels. People would

00:52:59.720 say, well, I don't really believe in labels. I don't do labels. And this was kind of silly,

00:53:04.880 but it at least superficially encouraged people to form distinct and independent personalities.

00:53:10.940 Right? It was kind of a strike against conformity. Of course, the problem was that most of the people

00:53:16.900 that went around talking about how they're nonconformist and they don't believe in conformity,

00:53:20.440 those are the people that conformed the most. But in theory, again, superficially, it's a good

00:53:28.360 thing, I guess, to encourage people not to conform just for the sake of conforming. But now on the left

00:53:33.780 and among the younger generations in general, people have fled all the way to the other extreme,

00:53:39.080 relentlessly inventing new categories and fatigories to hide themselves in. The labels stand in place of,

00:53:46.680 identity or personality. It's like a weird sort of credentialism. But these credentials are even

00:53:52.780 more meaningless and arbitrary than the credentials of a traditional credentialist.

00:53:57.060 Second, of course, these are people who, along with giving up on developing real human personalities

00:54:02.360 and identities, have also given up on success, improvement, self-betterment. Fat acceptance,

00:54:08.420 like so many other types of acceptance, is a form of despair. They clamor for the highest victim status,

00:54:15.880 competing with each other over who's oppressed the most, or really who is oppressing themselves the

00:54:19.500 most by eating themselves to death the quickest. And they do this because they don't even desire to

00:54:25.880 live successful and joyful lives. Pity and affirmation is all they seek. That's why we,

00:54:32.100 acceptance, acceptance. I mean, what a weak, meager, kind of pitiful

00:54:36.560 thing that is to want out of life. That's all you want? Just acceptance?

00:54:41.400 acceptance? You don't want more than that? You're not setting your sights any higher than

00:54:48.260 that? I just want to be accepted. But this is the only pleasure that they've ever known.

00:54:54.160 Pity, affirmation. Or the only pleasure they ever want to know. Well, that and eating.

00:54:59.940 And they look for nothing more in life. It is sad, pathetic, quite depressing. And that is why 0.99

00:55:07.360 super fats, small fats, mid fats, infinite fats, and the whole fatness spectrum, all of that today

00:55:14.620 is canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a

00:55:19.040 great day. Godspeed.

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