BLM chooses its latest martyr, but things don t work out as they expect when his female victim shows up at the protest to speak out. The CEO of Starbucks shuts down stores in a number of major cities declaring that America is now unsafe. But is America unsafe, or is it specifically Democrat-controlled cities that are unsafe? And also, Democrats declare that, "We're all going to die" after their latest global warming bill fails to pass. Plus, Marvel fans call for a trigger warning before the new Thor movie that just came out. We'll talk about all that and much more today on the Matt W. W. Show.
00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Wall Show, BLM chooses its latest martyr, but things don't work out as
00:00:04.600they expect when his female victim shows up at the protest to speak out. Also, the CEO of Starbucks
00:00:10.080shuts down stores in a number of major cities, declaring that America is now unsafe. But is
00:00:14.740America unsafe, or is it specifically Democrat-controlled cities that are unsafe? And also,
00:00:19.440Democrats declare that, quote, we're all going to die, direct quote, after their latest global
00:00:24.140warming bill fails to pass. Plus, Marvel fans call for a trigger warning before the new Thor
00:00:29.460movie that just came out. And our daily cancellation, the New York Times, has a report
00:00:33.180about hotness. Not the global warming kind, but the other kind. We'll talk about all that and much
00:00:37.840more today on the Matt Wall Show. The latest inflation numbers are in, and it's not looking
00:00:51.640good, to say the least. We've hit a 40-year high at 9.1% thanks to this genius, brilliant administration.
00:00:58.080Our nation's authorities are now openly admitting to having completely missed the flashing red
00:01:01.860lights of inflation and this administration's failed economic policy as well. Treasury Secretary
00:01:07.000Janet Yellen admitted she was wrong about the path inflation would take, saying, quote,
00:01:11.000there have been unanticipated and large shocks to the economy that have boosted energy and food
00:01:15.700prices and supply bottlenecks that have affected our economy badly that, at the time, I didn't fully
00:01:19.980understand. Well, there you have it. Straight from the horse's mouth. I didn't fully understand. I didn't
00:01:23.560anticipate, she says. Now, I know you're worried about affording basic necessities in the months to
00:01:28.340come. Food, gas, shelter. But she didn't know. It's not her fault. You know? Look, guys, just take
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00:02:15.380your savings with gold. So we've heard that the good guy with a gun is a mythological figure,
00:02:23.840a false narrative. Such a person doesn't exist in real life, we're told, or so the gun-grabbing
00:02:29.420faction claims anyway. In the case of Uvaldi, they're correct. We now know, according to the
00:02:34.280latest report, which came out just over the weekend, that 400 officers, 400, not a typo apparently,
00:02:39.780were on the scene while the shooter was executing elementary school children. This is a small army,
00:02:45.380of heavily armed cops. Not one good guy with a gun among them, though, because they were all
00:02:50.720worthless, spineless, quaking little cowards. But just because good guys with guns don't exist in
00:02:57.780Uvaldi, Texas, apparently, that doesn't mean that they don't exist anywhere else in the country.
00:03:01.740Like in Indiana, for example. As CNN reports, quote,
00:03:04.280A shooting rampage that killed three people and injured two others at an Indiana mall ended after
00:03:09.260an armed witness shot and killed the assailant, police said. Around 6 p.m. local time Sunday,
00:03:14.300multiple people called 911 to report an active shooter at the Greenwood Park Mall. Greenwood
00:03:18.000Police Chief Jim Eisen told reporters, investigators believe the unidentified gunman, an adult male,
00:03:24.060was shot and killed by a lawfully armed 22-year-old man who, quote, observed the shooting in
00:03:28.680progress. According to Eisen, the Greenwood Police Department has trained for a mass shooting
00:03:34.140scenario and has performed multiple mall exercises to prepare for active shooter situations, he said.
00:03:39.040Quote, but I'm going to tell you the real hero of the day is the citizen that was lawfully carrying
00:03:43.120a firearm in the food court and was able to stop the shooter almost as soon as he began, Eisen said.
00:03:49.860But this is a CNN article, which means that there's going to be some narrative
00:03:53.520damage control done also. So immediately after that, we're also told it's rare to have an armed
00:03:59.820bystander attack an active shooter, according to a data analysis published by the New York Times.
00:04:05.420There were at least 433 active shooter attacks in the U.S. from 2020-21. According to the data
00:04:11.380analysis, active shooter attacks were defined as those in which one or more shooters killed or
00:04:16.720attempted to kill multiple unrelated people in a populated place. Of those 433 active shooter cases,
00:04:22.920an armed bystander shot the attacker in 22 of the incidents. In 10 of those, the good guy was a
00:04:28.460security guard or an off-duty police officer, the Times reported. And having more than one armed
00:04:33.740person at the scene who is not a member of law enforcement can create confusion and carry dire
00:04:38.560risks, the reporter found. Now, of course, the statistics that are presented here, they're presented
00:04:44.780in such a way to immediately disqualify dozens or even hundreds of other good guy with a gun scenarios.
00:04:51.780They're only counting so-called active shooters dispatched by armed bystanders. And then they
00:04:58.180qualify that and define that in a very arbitrary way. So they aren't counting incidents like the
00:05:04.560one that occurred just two days ago in St. Louis, where a customer at a gas station shot and killed
00:05:09.940an armed robber who was in the middle of a violent crime spree. The guy had a knife to the throat of
00:05:15.360the cashier. That sort of thing happens frequently, but all such events are magically erased
00:05:22.920through tricks of categorization. And yet, even as CNN presents it, let's just pretend it's only 22.
00:05:32.920That's 22 mass shooters in the last 22 years who have been taken down by armed bystanders. That likely
00:05:39.620means hundreds of lives saved. At least once a year, by CNN's estimate, a mass shooting is thwarted
00:05:46.320by a good guy with a gun. This would seem to be very positive news and reason enough to encourage
00:05:54.360law-abiding and responsible gun owners to exercise their Second Amendment rights as much as possible.
00:06:00.300But as we've learned, there can be no positive news if it contradicts the narrative. That's why the
00:06:06.240reaction to this story on the left has drifted all the way into outright sympathy for the dead mass
00:06:11.540shooter. One viral tweet from a CBS reporter in Indiana can, I think, summarize this sentiment pretty
00:06:17.800well. Justin Kohler tweeted, the term Good Samaritan came from a Bible passage of a man from Samaria who
00:06:24.820stopped on the side of the road to help a man who was injured and ignored. I cannot believe we live in
00:06:30.400a world where the term can equally apply to someone killing someone. My God. Yes, he killed
00:06:38.160someone. What a shameful tragedy. Never mind that the someone in this case was a mass murdering
00:06:44.460psychopath and that the bystander risked his life for the sake of rescuing strangers from the psychopath's
00:06:51.080bloody rampage. That's not enough to earn the Good Samaritan badge, says Justin, and many on the left
00:06:57.840have voiced their agreement with that. But this was not the weekend's only example of the left
00:07:05.420sympathizing with a crazed lunatic gunman. There was another far more egregious case, a case that brings
00:07:12.600us yet another name to add to the rogues gallery of BLM martyrs. On Friday, ambulance chasing parasite
00:07:20.960Ben Chump, or Crump, sorry, a race baiting vulture so totally devoid of integrity that Al Sharpton looks like
00:07:28.040Frederick Douglass by comparison, tweeted the following, quote, this is Tekel Sundberg. Minneapolis, the police
00:07:35.760department killed this smart, loving and artistic 20 year old after an hours long standoff while he was
00:07:42.340experiencing a mental health crisis. We need answers from MPD as to why Tekel's mental health crisis
00:07:49.020became a death sentence, exclamation point. He chooses an accompanying photo of a good old Tekel
00:07:56.260smiling warmly and innocently. He apparently decided not to post a photo like this one, which you can see
00:08:02.060where Sundberg can be seen holding a giant bag of weed and pointing two pistols at the camera. Two pistols in
00:08:09.340one hand, by the way, not good gun safety, just so you know. Credit to Crump, though, for managing to
00:08:14.560find an image of this guy where he's not waving a firearm around. That couldn't have been easy.
00:08:19.380Though on second thought, his hands are cut off in the picture Crump chose. They're cropped out of the
00:08:24.480photo, so we have no idea what he might have been holding actually. But we do know what he was holding
00:08:29.520on the night when police shot and killed him. He was armed and had been in a standoff, as actually
00:08:36.140Crump noted, with police for over six hours. So they tried for six hours to coax him out of the
00:08:42.700apartment building where he had barricaded himself. Finally, a police sniper had a shot and took it,
00:08:49.100judging that he posed an intolerable danger to other people in the building. And they had reason to make
00:08:54.560that assumption because Sundberg had been firing indiscriminately into a neighboring apartment where a
00:09:01.460young mother and her children were present and were cowering in fear, hiding for their lives.
00:09:07.860This is the loving and artistic man that Crump calls for us to mourn. And BLM activists in the city
00:09:15.520were, of course, eager to heed the call. A crowd gathered outside of the scene of the shooting a couple of
00:09:22.240days later on Saturday to lament the death of the psychotic man who attempted to murder a woman and
00:09:29.960her children. And also to protest the police who saved the lives of that woman and her children.
00:09:35.040How dare they? The protesters marched and they held their signs and they chanted in support of their
00:09:41.500new scumbag hero. Everything was going according to plan, as we've seen many times before.
00:09:46.380Until a woman named Arabella Foss Yarbrough threw a wrench in their plans. She's the woman whose
00:09:54.580apartment Sundberg was firing into. And she, of course, is not at all the first female victim of
00:10:00.820a BLM martyr. Far from it. Nearly every BLM martyr has had a history of violently abusing women,
00:10:06.740which is not a coincidence, by the way. But she is the first, as far as I know, to show up and speak
00:10:13.100out publicly. She confronted the crowd about what she experienced and about what their martyr,
00:10:20.440what their hero had done to her and her children. And their response to her speaks volumes. Listen to
00:10:27.140this. You guys are celebrating his life. It was a terror. I'm sure it was a terror. It's not OK. It's not OK. You're
00:10:34.480alive. Shut up. You guys need to just let it go. Grief in silence. It's not OK. This is not a George Floyd
00:10:44.760situation. George Floyd was unarmed. He was unarmed. You're alive. I'm sorry. It is not OK. My kids have to deal
00:10:55.800with this to probably have a mental illness now because they almost lost their life. There's bullet holes in my
00:11:02.100kitchen. Not in you, though. Because he sat in the hallway, watching my move.
00:11:08.520This family wishes this never happened. I wish it never happened. I don't have a place to call home. I can't sleep that night. She's
00:11:16.720obviously going through a moment. This is not OK. This is what they want to show on the TV. This is obviously going through a
00:11:23.020moment. This is not OK. Just go home. Go home. Because none of you guys knocked on that man's door to check his house. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. You're
00:11:34.940getting away from me. Get away. You think it's OK to get him. My kids in the car. My kids in the car. My black kid is in the car. Look at what you're doing for your kids. He tried to kill me in front of my kids. He tried to kill me in front of my kids.
00:11:59.420You're alive, someone in the crowd sarcastically responds.
00:12:08.220She's obviously going through a moment, says a guy with a plethora of chins.
00:12:24.340The crowd of what appears to be mostly middle-aged white people openly scoffs at a young woman who lived through a night of terror as she and her children were forced to dodge bullets in their own home.
00:12:39.040A home they can't go back to, she notes, because it's riddled with bullet holes.
00:12:43.560The crowd of BLM boomers wanted to dismiss and silence the victim of their new hero.
00:12:49.920That's what they wanted to do, but they didn't succeed.
00:12:53.580Because the video went viral, and just like that, soon as that video went viral, the media moved on from the Sundberg story.
00:13:42.420You know, the latest thing I checked, actually, I checked right before I went on the air to see if he has offered any updates on this story.
00:13:48.720Of course, I knew that he wasn't going to retract or apologize, obviously.
00:13:51.740But I wanted to see what he was talking about.
00:13:53.520Well, he's moved on now to tweeting angrily about two black girls who were allegedly snubbed by a racist Sesame Street character at a parade.
00:14:06.520And I'll assume he'll ride that horse until, you know, the Sesame Street character speaks out with his side of the story.
00:14:13.360In the end, it makes you wonder, really, what might have happened had Jacob Blake's rape victim or the victim of George Floyd's home invasion robbery spoken up.
00:14:23.060Now, one can certainly understand why they didn't.
00:14:25.540It takes immense courage to speak up when the mob wants you to stay silent.
00:14:29.440But fortunately, Arabella had that courage and she exposed BLM for what it is and what it's always been.
00:17:46.460There might be some common threads, some similarities.
00:17:49.700You know, when you do the Venn diagram, you might find a lot of some things that fall into that middle bubble there.
00:17:56.940Continues, in a Monday letter to employees, Debbie Stroud and Denise Nelson, both Senior Vice Presidents of U.S. Operations, discussed safety in Starbucks stores, said employees are seeing firsthand the challenges facing our communities.
00:18:08.520Personal safety, racism, lack of access to health care, a growing mental health crisis, rising drug use, and more.
00:18:16.060With stores in thousands of communities across the country, we know these challenges can at times play out within our stores, too.
00:18:23.980And so they're shutting down the stores.
00:18:25.600Now, they throw in racism because they've got to put something in there that's PC.
00:18:29.560I'm surprised they didn't also include climate change.
00:18:32.600Given where some of these things are happening and they're in some warmer climates, they could have just chalked the whole thing up to said, you know, we've got to get out of town because of climate change.
00:18:58.460I don't have to spend too much time on what's going on in the country and how America has become unsafe.
00:19:06.400But you all read the press release the last couple of days about the fact that we are beginning to close stores that are not unprofitable.
00:19:15.640But we're closing stores as a result of the co-creation sessions that we've had.
00:19:21.460Almost 60 now, 25 in the SSE and the rest in the field.
00:19:25.560And we had one yesterday in San Antonio.
00:19:27.100But in all of those sessions, it has shocked me that one of the primary concerns that our retail partners have is their own personal safety.
00:19:40.120And then we heard the stories that go along with it about what happens in our bathrooms.
00:19:46.980The issue of mental illness and the issues of homelessness and the issues of crime.
00:19:52.540And Starbucks is a window into America.
00:20:43.080There are certain areas in America which are extremely unsafe.
00:20:47.840And which I certainly wouldn't be starting any businesses and I wouldn't be moving to them.
00:20:51.180But that's not America as a whole because non-urban areas that are not run by Democrats have not seen any, in most cases, any sizable or crime spike or any crime spike at all.
00:21:07.620Where I am right now, you know, where I've spent the last few weeks, it's a small town America, far away from the nearest big city.
00:21:15.500And people still leave their doors unlocked at night when they go to sleep.
00:22:02.000Like, why don't they have the problem here, but they have it in Los Angeles and they have it in Seattle and they have it in Philadelphia, they have it in Washington, D.C.
00:22:54.240You know, you can't, despite the utopian hopes of some people, you can't just hope on people's, everyone to have a, you know, be good-hearted and good-natured and make their own decision to not behave this way.
00:23:09.900So when you have leadership that is weak, you end up with more of this.
00:23:15.160And then also it's a matter of culture.
00:23:21.360Okay, the still unspeakable reality in these situations, but that is a reality we have to talk about, is that crime is a whole lot worse in predominantly black areas.
00:23:39.320Well, because the family in the black community is totally ravaged, destroyed.
00:23:44.480And in fact, there are predominantly white areas that have horrible crime problems as well.
00:23:51.640If you go to really poor areas in Appalachia, you go to trailer parks that are just drug addiction, meth addiction, just ravage those places too.
00:25:15.240It's leadership in the city, and then it's also leadership in the home.
00:25:18.280So when you have a lack of leadership, of political leadership, and you also have a lack of leadership in the home, kids that are raised in homes where there's no one leading them, there's no example set, then you have total, absolute chaos.
00:25:42.020It says, more Trump voters living in Republican-controlled states said secession would make things better in their states than those who said it would not.
00:25:50.840Respondents to a new Yahoo News YouGov poll were asked, do you think your state would be better off or worse off if it left the United States and became an independent country?
00:25:59.280Among all respondents, more than twice as many said they'd be worse off as those who said things would be better off.
00:26:04.640Well, 15% things would be about the same, and another 24% responded they were not sure.
00:26:09.300But Yahoo News West Coast correspondent Andrew Romano broke down the responses to a more granular level and found people in red states who voted for former President Donald Trump were much more amenable to seceding.
00:26:21.560Quote, red state Donald Trump voters are now more likely to say they'd be personally better off at 33% than worse off at 29% if their state seceded from the U.S. and became an independent country.
00:26:34.480It's a striking rejection of national unity that dramatizes the growing culture war between Democratic and Republican-controlled states on core issues such as guns, abortion, and democracy itself, et cetera, and so forth.
00:26:46.100Now, just a note I want to make about that, that the people responding that they think their life would be, we can assume they mean in the immediate better, you know, if there was a national divorce.
00:27:02.820I think those people are, they are utopianists in their own right, because that's not the case.
00:27:09.460I mean, history is a pretty good guide here, both American history and the history of the world, that when a country breaks apart, whether it's through a civil war or not, and it's pretty rare that you have the, you know, a country breaking apart peacefully.
00:27:25.720In fact, I don't think it's ever happened.
00:27:52.420And there are a lot of problems, too, especially for if you imagine some sort of scenario where things break apart from red states to blue states.
00:28:01.220And it's hard to even imagine how that would work, because it's not like 1861, where the split was kind of right across the middle.
00:28:21.280Just more indication of why breaking a part of the country would not be peaceful, because things would need to realign in a way that just probably could not be done peacefully.
00:28:34.160And then there are problems, too, if you end up in the—however this breaks up, however this ends up getting organized.
00:28:40.320If you're on the—if you're in the red state portion, a lot of—let's just look at the fact that a lot of the majority of the manufacturing in this country happens in blue states, like California.
00:28:52.700Not to mention Silicon Valley, you know, all the people that control the internet are all going to be now in a different country that's hostile to your own.
00:29:08.680And yet, you might—you hear me say this, and you might be like, well, haven't you said that you think a national divorce is the way forward?
00:29:15.780What I'm saying is that I think we're going to reach a point where there's no other choice.
00:29:25.420The ideal scenario, the best-case scenario for everybody, is that the people in this country who've lost their minds and are now living in a separate universe,
00:29:36.580that they come to their senses collectively and rejoin us in reality, where they live a life grounded to some extent in truth and moral decency,
00:29:50.100and we can all unite there in that place and move forward together as a country.
00:42:47.800But if it's true, if Joe Manchin really doomed us all, and at this time it's actually serious, this was our last best chance, it's over now, then okay then.