Today on the Matt Walsh Show, nearly 20 percent of America's restaurants have closed permanently because of the lockdowns and another 10,000 will be added to the list soon. The government has intentionally decimated one of our most important industries. How can anyone feel anything less than rage over this? Also Five Headlines including the Democrats setting to work to enact their radical pro-abortion agenda, and an Israeli scientist makes a stunning revelation involving space aliens and something called the Galactic Federation. Plus we will cancel an anti-gun mall Santa.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, nearly 20% of America's restaurants have closed permanently because of the lockdowns, and another 10,000 will be added to the list soon, we're told.
So the government has intentionally decimated one of our most important industries.
How can anyone feel anything less than rage over this?
Also, five headlines, including the Democrats setting to work to enact their radical pro-abortion agenda, of course.
An Israeli scientist makes a stunning revelation involving space aliens and something called the Galactic Federation.
You're going to want to hear about this if you haven't yet.
Big news.
Plus, we will cancel an anti-gun mall Santa and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
Matt Wall Show.
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So Time magazine's latest issue echoes the hyperbole found all over social media by dubbing 2020, quote, the worst
year ever.
I think most of the people who say this don't mean it literally.
I hope, anyway, they don't mean it literally.
2020, obviously, is not the worst year ever.
I mean, any of the years in the late 14th century, when the Black Plague was in the process of wiping out half of Europe's population, were probably quite a bit worse than this one.
Or, say, 1862, when over 20,000 people were killed in one day in just one battle of the Civil War.
That was Antietam.
That year was, I'm guessing, much more challenging than this one.
The same goes for 1861, 1863, 1864, or any of the years leading up to and preceding the Civil War.
In fact, I bet if you were transported to any year prior to our modern age, anywhere on earth, you would, within hours, be begging for the comfort and tranquility of America circa the year of our Lord 2020.
I'm not sure what exactly was happening in, say, 1648 or 1234 or 1705, but I do know that the nights were cold, survival was hard, people probably didn't smell very good, your children, not all of them, probably would live to adulthood, and you would probably be dead before 50.
So, no.
2020 is not the worst year ever, not even close to it.
And it's important to establish that fact, because if we lose our sense of perspective, then we will not be able to rationally evaluate our situation and make good and coherent choices.
In fact, it is this lack of perspective, this inability to rationally evaluate, that has contributed greatly towards making 2020, if not the worst year ever, at least a bad year, and perhaps the worst in several decades.
It's what has scared people into submitting to tyranny from the government.
And as far as that goes, I think we can say without melodrama or hyperbole that what the government has done over the past several months has been oppressive, tyrannical, and capricious to an extent unprecedented in our lifetimes at least.
This may not be the worst year literally in history, but some of what has happened, we have never seen before.
And it is very terrible indeed.
On that end, here's the latest, a report from CNN reporting some real and important news for a change.
I don't know if their normal editors are on vacation or what to let this slip through, but here's what the article says.
It says about 17% of America's restaurants have already permanently closed this year, with thousands more on the brink, according to a new report.
The National Restaurant Association is publicly pleading with Congress to pass new stimulus to help the industry that has been damaged by the pandemic.
The group said Monday that 10,000 restaurants could close in the next three weeks, in addition to the 110,000 that have already shuttered in 2020.
Now, just to stop for a moment here, to really think about this, because you become numb to these numbers after a while.
110,000 restaurants have closed this year.
110,000 restaurants have closed this year.
110,000.
110,000.
If I had told you in December of 2019 that in the following year,
over 100,000 restaurants would be closed, first of all, you wouldn't have believed me.
Second, if you did believe me, you would think that I was describing some kind of sudden economic apocalypse, some sort of act of God coming out of the sky, out of the blue, to destroy an entire industry in one fell swoop.
And you would be wrong in that assumption.
This has been an intentional, deliberate, targeted act, decision, by our elected leaders.
Now, a little bit more from CNN, it says, The group released results from a survey of 6,000 restaurant operators, revealing that 87% of full-service restaurants reported an average 36% drop in revenue, and 83% expect sales to be even worse over the next three months as the virus continues to lash the United States.
Sean Kennedy, executive vice president of the group, said, in short, the restaurant industry simply cannot wait for relief any longer.
He advocates for a, quote, true compromise between the competing Democrat and Republican proposals, and hopes for a larger stimulus package in 2021 under the incoming Biden administration.
CNN Business' dashboard tracking America's recovery shows a steep drop in restaurant reservations, down 70% during the pandemic.
They recovered in September, have fallen once again.
A bipartisan stimulus proposal could be unveiled this week.
It's unclear if the extension of the Paycheck Protection Program, which the group wants, will be included.
Now, I said that CNN was reporting real news for a change, but they can't help themselves, of course.
As usual, the media reports that even acknowledge the devastation will always blame, lay the blame on the virus.
They lay the blame of the economic devastation on the virus.
Well, the virus and Donald Trump.
Notice it says that the situation with restaurants will get even worse as the virus continues to lash the United States.
But it's not the virus doing this.
The virus hasn't closed one single restaurant.
Our response to the virus has done that.
The distinction really matters because it's not as though this was unavoidable.
It's not as though a virus had to demolish the restaurant industry and put hundreds of thousands of people just from that industry alone out of work.
There were other ways of responding, but we, and by we I mean they, the politicians, the bureaucrats, chose this way.
They did this, not the virus.
Economically, anyway, they are the ones lashing the United States, not the virus.
And now we're told that the only solution is to rely on the people who caused the problem to begin with.
We have to beg them to hammer out a deal and pass a stimulus.
That's the solution.
Which, yes, they do need to hammer out a deal and pass a stimulus.
If they're going to put millions of people out of work and shut down millions of businesses, it's their responsibility to offer some kind of compensation.
But this is a Band-Aid at best, not a solution.
It's not what will save the restaurant industry or any other industry from full collapse.
It's not what will save our economy or reclaim our country or win back the rights we've forfeited.
The only way to really reclaim what has been taken is simply to take it back.
Not to ask for it to be given back, but to take it.
Business owners should just open their businesses, no matter what the restrictions and ordinances say.
No matter what Gavin Newsom or Andrew Cuomo thinks about it.
Flip on the open sign, unlock the door, start doing business again.
Churches should open their doors, invite their congregations in, not waiting for permission from the mayor or the sheriff or even their bishop, if we're talking about a Catholic church.
People who want to walk down the street without a mask should simply walk down the street without a mask.
This is how America became a free country in the first place.
If you're waiting for the government to give you permission to be free, you've already lost.
The only way is to say, I am free, I'm an American, and this is what I'm going to do.
Try and stop me.
And maybe they will try and stop you.
Maybe they won't.
If enough people join you, they won't be able to stop you.
If people don't join you, then even so, at least you can know that you did the right thing.
The American thing.
You didn't take the tyranny lying down.
You chose, at least, to be free.
Now let's get to our five headlines.
So a report here from Breitbart as the Democrats get to work on enacting their extreme pro-abortion
agenda.
It says, on Tuesday at 10 a.m., House Democrats, led by Connecticut Representative Rosa DeLauro, will convene a hearing, well, did convene now a hearing, that will ignite their extreme abortion agenda, including their goal of repealing the Hyde Amendment and forcing American taxpayers to fund abortions.
DeLauro tweeted, the Hyde Amendment is a discriminatory policy and one that is routinely considered every year as a legislative rider, but we are in a moment to reckon with the norm.
The hearing of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies is titled, The Impact on Women Seeking an Abortion But Are Denied Because of an Inability to Pay.
Delores said, Because of Hyde, too many are hostages to their geography.
In the coming Congress, the House Spending Bill will not include it.
Then it goes on from there.
The Hyde Amendment, again, is, as is referenced there, it prevents the federal government from funding abortions.
And now, we already, by the way, fund abortions, effectively speaking, because we fund Planned Parenthood to the tune of $500 billion.
Well, maybe we'll get there soon.
$500 million a year.
And, of course, we're told, oh, that money isn't used to fund abortions.
That's separate money.
Well, money is fungible, okay?
You pour it into the bucket.
I mean, you could pour water into one side of a bucket, and then some more water to a different side.
It's going to be hard to say which water is which, right?
It all kind of mixes together, and it's the same thing with money.
So, we already do, but this is something that would allow the government to explicitly fund abortion without even pretending that they're not.
And this, of course, we know is the Democrats' agenda.
And I can tell you one thing.
If the Republicans lose the Senate, I mean, if these con artists down in Georgia that are telling Republicans not to vote, if they get their way, and the Republicans lose the Senate, then... I mean, we're looking at, of course, left-wing radicalism across the board, but in the abortion industry in particular, they are coming in with a vengeance on the abortion issue.
They feel like they have to pay us back for the fact that Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed.
And this is why it is so infuriating to me that the Republicans had a chance.
You know, they had the House, the Senate and the White House for two years, 2016 to 2018.
They had a chance to make real progress.
And they didn't do anything, really, effectively, in the end.
Number two, if you want to be thoroughly sickened, here's a clip of New York Governor Cuomo and Virus Czar Anthony Fauci flirting.
Listen to this.
Maybe we enlist you.
I'll do it with you.
We'll do an ad telling New Yorkers it's safe to take the vaccine.
To, you know, put us together.
We're like the modern-day De Niro and Pacino.
You can be whichever you want.
You can be the De Niro or Pacino.
Fauci and Cuomo, I'll give you a front boy.
Who do you want to be, De Niro or Pacino?
Which one do you want to be?
I love them both!
I love them both!
I don't want to insult one or the other.
If I say one, I don't want to hurt the feelings of the other.
Who's the politician?
So funny, these guys.
Couple of jokers.
Having a lot of fun with it.
This is what gets me about Cuomo, is just how flippant he is.
He's been this entire time.
He's having a great time.
I mean, Andrew Cuomo is having a great time with the coronavirus.
He's selling books.
He's giving speeches.
He's doing his press conferences.
He's joking around with Anthony Fauci.
He's going on doing segments with his brother on CNN.
They're making jokes about his big ears with the big prop Q-tip.
He's just having a hell of a time.
While he pretends to be taking it seriously, which of course he isn't.
Number three, this is from the New York Post.
It says, a mom of three who was cleared of knowingly having sex with a boy who was only 14 now plans to capitalize on her notoriety by peddling images and videos on a raunchy website, according to a report.
Taya Vincent is her name.
She says she's thinking of starting up an OnlyFans account.
Now, Taya Vincent and OnlyFans is a subscription site where people go for pornography, basically.
Taya Vincent, 32 years old, admitted to initiating sex with a 14-year-old boy after inviting him and his buddy into her home.
This is in the UK.
Now, the mom insisted she thought that he was 16, which is the legal age of consent in the UK.
She had told the Gloucester Crown Court, I think it's pronounced Gloucester, or is it Gloucester?
I don't know.
That it was only after they were finished in bed that the youngster panicked and confessed his tender age, but Vincent was ultimately cleared after the court was told how the boy had lied about his age, so they put the fault on the kid.
And now she goes free, and she's thinking of starting an OnlyFans account.
And a couple of things here.
First of all, as usual with the reporting on these stories, and of course you notice this, Whenever it's a woman, particularly if it's an attractive woman, who, quote, has sex with a child, that's how it's reported.
It's reported as, oh, she had sex with a 14-year-old.
Or even sometimes you'll see the phrase, sex romp.
I remember seeing that recently.
I think it was actually a Fox News headline.
It was a woman had a sex romp with one of her students, a teacher.
No, this is not a sex romp.
This is not having sex.
This is rape.
That's what we call it.
And if she was a man, that's how it would be reported.
So, and that's the other thing we see here, of course, is this enduring double standard when it comes to these kinds of issues.
That people just, the courts don't take it as seriously.
I mean, you reverse the genders here.
Let's say this was a 32-year-old man having sex with a 14-year-old girl.
He'd be in prison.
He wouldn't be starting any, you know, he wouldn't be going into porn.
And speaking of being flippant, people wouldn't be as flippant in response to it.
Even the most supposedly enlightened feminists, they still have this double standard.
No one can explain why.
Why is it not as big of a deal for a woman to do this to a boy?
I think it's as big of a deal.
I don't see any difference.
But the reaction from the public is, when the teachers do it, That's why we have, there is a real epidemic in the public school system of teachers assaulting, sexually assaulting students.
But it doesn't get the same kind of attention as, say, the epidemic that we had in the Catholic Church.
Part of that, of course, is the media hates the Catholic Church, but loves the public school system, so they're trying to protect it.
But also a big part of it is that a lot of the high-profile cases of teachers sexually assaulting their students, it's female teachers doing it.
And the public just says, I don't know, not as big of a deal.
No one can explain why.
I would say regardless of gender, if you're an adult sexually preying upon a child, you're a scumbag equally, man or woman.
That is my controversial take on that.
Number four, here are two mostly unrelated headlines.
I'm just going to read the headlines to you, see if you can pick up on sort of the game they're playing here.
First, this is from the AP.
It says, coronavirus pandemic has led to an unprecedented surge of children and teens and psychiatric crisis that's straining an already stretched hospital system.
So we see here again, the same thing that CNN did with the economic crisis and restaurants being shut down.
Saying the coronavirus pandemic has caused this unprecedented surge.
No, it's not the coronavirus pandemic doing that.
It's that we're taking these kids... I'll tell you what it's doing.
We're taking these kids, we're locking them in their homes.
They're not going to school, they're not seeing their friends.
You know, they can't even go to a playground for some reason.
Even now, you go to a... I saw a playground recently.
It was... It was... There was caution tape wrapped around it.
Is there any...
Indication, any evidence that playgrounds are vectors of transmission?
I don't think so.
So we're not letting them get outside the house, we're locking them in.
And also we're scaring the hell out of them.
Making them wear masks everywhere.
I mean, they don't understand what's happening, especially the younger kids.
That's why you have a psychiatric crisis.
Again, it's the response, it's not the virus itself.
And then here's one, here's a good one from The Hill.
This is a headline from The Hill.
It says, mostly white crowd gathers outside of home of black Ohio councilwoman to protest public health order.
Mostly white crowd.
So we've heard of the mostly peaceful crowd.
Now here's the mostly white crowd.
And so these were anti-lockdown protesters who were protesting someone who was pushing a lockdown.
But here's what the media does, because, I'll tell you what, they would love it if these anti-lockdown protesters would be violent.
They would love that.
And they're really disappointed that none of these protests never turn violent.
Because these are mostly conservatives, and conservatives don't engage in political violence.
That's a left-wing thing, it's not a conservative thing.
So, because they're not getting the violence they want, instead they said, well, we'll just go to Plan B here, smear them as racist.
Call it a mostly white crowd.
Point out the racial dynamic.
Of course, they don't go anywhere with it.
They don't then say, you know, explicitly accuse these people of being racist because they don't have to.
It's the old dog whistle that we're always told about.
Number five, finally, this is huge news.
I'm glad we could finally get to this.
Listen to this report.
This is also from the New York Post.
If you haven't heard this, I feel like this really matters.
I don't know.
It says, space aliens have reached an agreement with the U.S.
government to stay mum on the experiments they conduct on Earth, as well as their secret base on Mars, until mankind is ready to accept them.
This according to the former head of Israel's space program, which he claimed in an interview with the Jerusalem Post, or rather the Jewish Press, I should say.
The Jewish press goes on to unspool the tangled web, which claims the involvement of President
Trump and interplanetary diplomacy.
It says Trump was on the verge of revealing the alien's existence, but the aliens in the
Galactic Federation are saying, wait, let people calm down first.
He said they don't want to start mass hysteria.
They want to first make us sane and understanding.
And so it's a really interesting point.
You can go to the Jewish Press and read that.
I would recommend reading the whole report.
It's actually very extensive, and they go into great detail.
From this guy, what's his name?
I didn't even give you his name.
It's important to know.
Chaim Ished.
I mean, this is a former high-ranking guy.
I mean, a scientist.
Saying there's a galactic federation, aliens have been to Earth, they're here right now, Donald Trump knows about it, wanted to tell us, Apparently Donald Trump is in communication with the Galactic Federation.
I don't know if there's a special room down in the White House where, you know, there's a big TV screen and he can have like Zoom calls with the Galactic Federation somewhere out in the galaxy.
But he was going to tell us and the Galactic Federation said, no, no, no, they're not ready.
Don't tell them.
I'll tell you what.
I choose to believe this.
There's no reason to believe it.
It's pretty clear this guy just is going insane, but I choose to believe it and assimilate it into my worldview.
And because of that, my life just got like 35% more interesting.
And also I got 35% crazier, but I think that's a trade worth making.
As somebody pointed out on Twitter, I think the least believable part of this I mean, there are a few parts of it that maybe strain credulity a little bit.
The least believable part, by far, is that Donald Trump knows about aliens and hasn't told us, was able to keep his mouth shut about it.
That's the part, I mean, I'm almost, you could almost buy all of it, even the Galactic Federation part, until you get to that, and you say, nah, there's no way.
Trump, to his credit, Trump, if he knew about aliens, you know he would tell us.
And that is also, for me, maybe the most disappointing thing about Trump's presidency, is that it basically confirms that the government doesn't know about aliens, because Trump would have told us, for sure.
He would have at least hinted at it, very strongly, as he would say.
And also, another side note, this does sound a little bit like Scientology, doesn't it?
Galactic Federation?
Isn't that a Scientology thing?
So Tom Cruise, John Travolta, they were right all along.
All right, before we get to our daily cancellation, one other thing, kind of a bonus story here.
You know, I'm a critic of Hollywood.
I tend to hate most of the movies and shows that it produces.
But I have to say, this new trailer, which just came out, I'm very hyped about this.
I think this has the makings, potentially, of a true cinematic classic, in my view, and one that will stand the test of time, I'm sure.
And it gives us all something to look forward to.
Here's the trailer.
Watch this.
What the hell are you doing?
You don't answer my proposal, and now you're not answering my call.
I think I'm falling for the new chef.
Jessica is falling for Harlan.
The cook?
Leave Jessica alone and skip town.
He has a secret recipe that's gonna change the world.
Harlan claims to have some secret recipe.
A secret recipe?
Spare me.
We all have our secrets.
If you marry my daughter, I promise there'll be more long weekends in your future.
Mom, I have to tell you something.
We have a problem.
Secrets out, chicken man.
I'll take care of this.
You're ruining everything!
Just kill him already!
Who the hell are you?
Harlan Sanders, the new chef.
Mario Lopez is Colonel Sanders in a recipe for seduction.
Wow.
Premieres at noon, of course.
Lifetime.
Premiering in the middle of the week at noon.
So if you don't have a job, that gives you something to look forward to.
I think this is great.
Kind of an origin story for Colonel Sanders.
I'd like to see the origin story of Arby next, which of course is the best fast food restaurant, hands down.
So, I mean, a lot of crap coming out of Hollywood, but that's something that we can look forward to anyway.
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Now, let's get to our daily cancellation.
Today, I'm canceling Santa Claus, at least one iteration of Santa Claus.
I'm hoping, hoping that this Santa is not the real Santa.
The one I'm canceling, an imposter, we might assume, was at a mall somewhere in the country when he appeared to dash a young boy's Christmas dreams to tragic effect.
Listen.
What do you want for Christmas?
What?
Nope, no guns.
Nope, not even a Nerf gun.
Nope.
If your dad wants to get it for you, that's fine, but I can't bring it to you.
What else would you like?
Lots of other toys.
There's Legos, there's bicycles, there's cars and trucks.
What do you think?
What do you think?
It's okay.
It's okay, we're dead.
So the boy wants a Nerf gun for Christmas.
What boy doesn't want a Nerf gun for Christmas?
And Santa says, no, can't bring you guns, even Nerf guns.
From the way he phrases it, it does make you wonder whether this guy actually thinks he really is Santa.
He starts talking to the boy about what he can bring, trying to give other options.
He doesn't seem to realize that, in fact, he's not Santa.
The real Santa has no anti-gun bias, as evidenced by the fact that I got toy guns for Christmas every year as a child.
Also, the real Santa is 1700 years old.
You'd think he's far too old at this point to have gone woke on us, you know, already.
Now, this Santa, then, is just a guy in a red suit.
And his job is to listen to the child's request, Answer in a vague affirmative, oh, I'll talk to my elves about that or whatever, and then take a picture.
That's his entire job.
It's his job just to do that.
His job is not to deliver lectures or start telling the kid what he can and can't have for Christmas.
The parents waiting in line aren't paying all that money for a Christmas present consult with a guy in a red suit.
They're paying for smiles and Christmas cheers and a picture.
A picture that is already weird enough this year because Santa has to sit six feet away, as you saw in the video clip there.
So that in the picture, you know, you have the kid in the foreground and then some random fat dude hovering in the background, smiling weirdly.
Trust me, we've already done this with our kids, at my wife's insistence.
The picture comes out as bizarre and unnerving as it sounds.
And everyone has to wear masks, at least the Santa one we did.
Santa's wearing masks, the kids have to wear masks.
So everybody's masked, you can't see anyone's smile.
Santa's just sort of vaguely in the distance, back there.
And everyone's just standing there, masked.
It's the creepiest, weirdest thing.
But speaking of the parents, you have to wonder why none of them stepped up to put this man in his place.
Why didn't any of them go over and tell him to know his role and shut his mouth?
To quote a man who has also recently been cancelled on this show.
Well, it goes back to what we discussed yesterday during this segment.
People stand by meekly and just film everything or take pictures, becoming passive observers in situations where they should be active participants.
A mall Santa is being a bully to a young child.
There are not many times in life when you can yell at Santa and not be the jerk in the situation, but this was one such occasion, and all of the adults in the vicinity apparently squandered it.
Somehow.
So they're cancelled too.
As for the mall Santa, he sadly is not alone in apparently thinking that there's something wrong or troubling about boys playing with toy guns.
This is a common hang-up that people have, and increasingly so, in our confused and anti-male society.
It goes along with the general hang-up about boys being aggressive, rough, violent.
Everywhere a boy turns, he's met by forces wishing to domesticate and feminize him.
Now, on the list of those threats, A mall Santa doesn't quite make the top ten, but it's a sad statement that the efforts are so pervasive at this point as to encompass even mall Santas.
Here's the reality.
Boys have a natural aggression, a natural tendency towards violence.
This is good.
It's who they are.
It's who they were made to be.
Now, you can't let those tendencies develop entirely on their own.
All children must learn to be civilized, but you also can't suppress them or treat them as symptomatic of some kind of disease.
The goal is to harness a boy's innate aggressiveness.
Part of that process, an important part, maybe even the most important part for a kid, is through play.
The boy pretends to be a superhero.
He pretends to be a soldier, a police officer, a cowboy.
Toy guns will often be involved in these kinds of games.
He's learning that violence can be good, which is true.
It can.
But it has to be violence in service of good.
To protect and defend.
Heroic violence.
Sports also play a crucial role here.
Now, on the other hand, if a kid gets caught up in, you know, movies, shows, games that are overly gory and nihilistic and not appropriate for his age, and is too exposed to that and fascinated by it, then he's going to start to learn the wrong things about violence, have the wrong relationship with violence, and that can have a very detrimental effect on his growth.
And that's why the goal is always to embrace who the child is, help him to harness his innate tendencies, and to guide him in the right direction, which means, yes, let him play with Nerf guns.
Now, perhaps I've delivered a more serious analysis of the Mall Santa video than was necessary.
But even so, the point remains.
It is good for boys to have Nerf guns.
And even better nowadays, because it means they're going to be on their feet, moving around, physically playing, rather than sitting on a couch and moving only their thumbs.
So, for that reason, the Mall Santa is cancelled.
And really, all Mall Santas are cancelled this year, because a socially distanced Santa is just not the same, it turns out.
All of the adults in that video are canceled.
The only one not canceled is the child, who I hope still gets his Nerf gun in the end.
That's going to do it for us today.
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