Ep. 707 - Robbed At Gunpoint By Your Guardian Angel
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Democrat politicians and hundreds of others gathered yesterday to mourn Daunte Wright, the violent criminal shot by police last week. During the service, he was literally elevated to the status of a guardian angel. We’ll talk about the whole grotesque display today. Also Five Headlines including a new angle on the Ma'Khia Bryant shooting that absolutely confirms that it was a justified shooting — something that we knew already from the body cam. And a mother speaks out about masking policies at a school board meeting. It was a real truth to power moment. We’ll play that. Also, environmental activists pollute in the name of saving the planet and AOC says that racism is causing climate change.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Democrat politicians and hundreds of others gathered yesterday to mourn Daunte Wright, the violent criminal shot by police last week.
During the funeral service, he was literally elevated to the status of a guardian angel.
We'll talk about the whole grotesque display today.
Also, five headlines, including a new angle on the Micaiah Bryant shooting that Absolutely confirms that it was justified shooting.
Something we already knew from the body cam, but this reinforces it.
And a mother speaks out about masking policies at a school board meeting.
It was a real truth-to-power moment, and it's worth listening to.
We'll play that.
Also, environmental activists pollute in the name of saving the planet, and AOC says that racism is causing climate change.
We'll get into all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
Yesterday, Daunte Wright, who was shot by police after resisting arrest, was laid to rest in Minneapolis.
Hundreds of mourners came from all over the nation, prominent politicians, public figures, other luminaries gathered to pay their respects.
The funeral was nationally televised on multiple of cable news channels, the governor of Minnesota, who also
attended, issued a proclamation calling for a statewide moment of silence in memory of the great
Dante Wright, Saint Dante Wright, the blessed Dante Wright.
The statement from Governor Tim Walz said, quote, "Dante Wright was beloved by his family,
neighbors, and community and had his entire young life ahead of him."
We mourn the loss of Dante Wright, and as a state, we offer our deepest condolences to the Wright family.
We know that this tragedy is connected to the deep, systemic racism in our society that Black people in Minnesota and across the country face every single day.
While nothing can bring Dante Wright back to his loved ones, we must continue to work to enact real, meaningful change at the local, state, and national levels to fight systemic racism so that every person in Minnesota, black, indigenous, brown, or white, can be safe and thrive.
We must be steadfast in our accountability to change from the top to the bottom and not rest until we create a different future for Dante Wright's son and every other child like him.
That was the Governor of Minnesota.
Moment of silence across the whole state for Daunte Wright.
I assume that people die in Minnesota probably every day.
Almost none of them get the statewide moment of silence.
Daunte Wright did.
Now, of course, as we know, Wright's death had nothing to do with racism whatsoever.
It didn't even have a plausible, theoretical connection to racism.
Whatever else you might say about the manner of his demise, you cannot say that he was killed for his race.
Well, you can say that, if you're a shameless, exploitative, opportunistic, lying hack like Governor Tim Walz.
And speaking of shameless, exploitative, opportunistic lying hacks, Al Sharpton was unsurprisingly in attendance.
Sharpton has, in recent years, found his calling in delivering eulogies for violent criminals he didn't know, and no one knew, until they died on camera during an arrest.
The challenge for Sharpton, and most of the other people who spoke at the service, is that, you know, usually in a eulogy, you pay tribute to the many wonderful traits and good deeds of the deceased.
Now, Daunte Wright didn't have many of those, frankly, it seems.
So instead, Sharpton gave a rather lazy stump speech about racism, where he employed a metaphor that was both absurd and dishonest.
Let's listen.
The generation before me, they boycotted in Montgomery against the segregation laws in Alabama.
And they boycotted the bus company. 1955.
They started December 1st.
And for a solid year, they wouldn't ride the bus.
They said it was better to walk in dignity than to ride in shame.
And they broke the facts of Alabama's segregation.
But Dr. King and Dr. Abinanti and Rosa Parks said, we can't stop that.
We've got to have federal law.
And they went their way.
Then some young students, The young folk of that day, they became freedom riders, and others did other things.
And it took nine years, and they got the Civil Rights Act federally.
They made it against federal law, Congresswoman Omar, to discriminate.
Well, we've gone from all of these abuses, from Oscar Grant and Amadou Diallo and others, all the way to Philando Castile right here in Minneapolis area.
We've struggled through all of that, but we are going to now, in his name, in the name of Dante, we're going to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act as federal law.
Now you can tell that he wrote that in about 12 minutes, in about 12 minutes and probably about 12 minutes before the funeral.
You can also tell that he's a soulless phony.
The air freshener reference comes from the claim that Dante Wright was pulled over and arrested because he had air fresheners in his car.
Actually, you know, as we talked about last week, the original claim was that he was shot for having air fresheners.
And that's something that thousands of people believed and repeated.
They didn't see any problem with that at all.
That didn't make them stop and go, wait, what?
Hold on a second.
But like nearly every claim made by activists after nearly every high-profile police shooting, it was completely bogus.
Wright was pulled over for a traffic violation and then arrested because he had a warrant stemming from a violent crime that he'd committed a few months prior.
But that's just the truth.
And what's a little thing like truth to a guy like Sharpton?
Or a woman like Ilhan Omar, who got on stage to offer her own tribute to Saint Dante and to Sharpton himself.
And here's what that sounded like, if you can stomach it.
Assalamu alaikum everyone.
Thank you, Reverend Altshulman, for being here and for that beautiful eulogy.
Most of us in this room, including myself, look at you as a guardian and are blessed to be in your presence.
And may Dante Wright serve as a guardian for all of us.
But as a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, as one of the youngest and newest members of the Congressional Black Caucus, I also have guardians.
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and our chairwoman Joyce Beatty serve as guardians for me and many of my colleagues.
Joyce Beatty was going to be here and speak on our behalf as the chairwoman of our caucus.
But just like we've been visited by tragedy here in Minnesota often, she, in Columbus, Ohio, was visited by a tragedy of a young woman whose life was taken by Columbus police.
Okay.
First of all, she really needs to choose better guardians.
Al Sharpton?
Sheila Jackson Lee?
Those are your guardians?
It's like if you're at the beach and the lifeguards are like piranhas or something.
But Dante Wright will be a guardian for all of us.
So I stand corrected.
He's no mere saint.
He is an angel.
He's a guardian angel.
Ilhan Omar has given him a promotion already.
Well, far be it for me to pick and choose, but I would like to request a different guardian if I could.
I'd really prefer a guardian who's less likely to rob me at gunpoint.
Guardians, in fact, are supposed to protect you from guys like Dante, right?
They're not supposed to be guys like Dante, right?
Unless this is a keep-your-enemies-close kind of guardianship strategy, I don't know.
Now I can tell you one woman who certainly would not want Wright assigned to her as a guardian angel.
That would be the woman who called the police one morning, not long ago, to report that Wright had pointed a gun at her, choked her, and stuffed his hand down her bra to steal her rent money.
That's the crime he was charged with in 2019, when, according to the victim, he came to her house for a party, stayed the night, the next morning, after her roommate gave her money for rent, he pulled a gun out, put his hand around her throat, and demanded all the cash.
She started screaming, eventually he left without any money.
He was arrested, released on bail, violated the terms of his bail by possessing a firearm without a permit, then failed to show up for his court appearance, and finally was apprehended during the traffic stop when he resisted arrest and attempted to flee with a woman in the car.
This is our guardian angel, says Ilhan Omar.
This is the man who was given a statewide moment of silence.
This is the man with the nationally televised funeral.
A man who, if he contributed anything at all to his community, seems to have contributed mostly crime, violence, and misery.
Perhaps he had some good qualities, too.
But on balance, it would seem that this was, let's say, not a very good person.
After all, choking and robbing a woman at gunpoint is not a minor mistake.
It's not a youthful indiscretion.
It reveals a total lack of empathy, an utter absence of concern or compassion for your fellow man.
Does all that necessarily mean that you don't deserve the massive nationally televised funeral attended by famous politicians and accompanied by a statewide moment of silence?
Well, yeah, it does mean that.
This is not a small matter.
You can discover everything you need to know about a culture based on who it chooses to honor.
Cultures that honor great men, not perfect men, but great men, who achieved great things.
Live their lives with dignity and courage.
Help to change the world in positive ways.
Those cultures are vibrant and healthy.
That's the kind of culture you want to live in.
But a culture that honors men who achieved nothing of significance, men of no dignity and no honor, men who are known only because of the way they died, men whose last act on earth was to resist arrest, thereby refusing to accept the just and fair consequences of their own evil deeds, those cultures are decaying husks.
And we are very much in the latter category.
One other thing to think about here.
Another effect of eulogizing Wright in this way is that you wind up dehumanizing him.
The over-the-top honoring of Wright or Floyd or whoever else means that they're not really honored at all.
You can't honor a man's life by pretending that it was something other than what it was.
Whoever was eulogized at the funeral of Dante Wright, it certainly wasn't Dante Wright, was a caricature, a mascot, a logo, a prop.
The Democrat Party, the left, BLM, they came in, took Wright's name, and turned him into whatever they needed him to be.
Ironically, by turning Wright into a saint and an angel, you erase him.
He is replaced by the poster boy that activists and scummy politicians like Ilhan Omar invent for their own purpose.
And those purposes, as we have seen, are quite sinister.
Now let's get to our five headlines.
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All right, good to be back in Nashville.
I was in Austin last night, speaking at UT Austin, and I thought that went very well.
And happy Polkadot Friday, by the way.
I will say, I made the mistake on the plane ride home of coughing.
Just one time.
And it was only because I was drinking something and it went down the wrong pipe, you know?
And so I coughed.
Maybe it was like two coughs in succession.
Kind of healthy coughs, you know?
And that's it.
And of course, everyone looks at me.
Like, they try to be subtle about it, but it's just like, you just feel the stairs, even if it's peripheral.
It's sort of this record scratch moment from the movies, and the music stops, everyone looks.
I would like to live in a world again.
This is my dream.
This is my utopian dream.
I want to live in a world again, where you can cough or sneeze in public, and people won't look at you like you're the guy in the zombie movie who comes home with a bite mark on his arm.
That's the world I want to live in.
Where you don't feel the need to explain, like anytime you coffee you have to explain to people, I don't know, this is, I was just drinking something, that's all it was.
You're safe.
But, you know, I don't know, I don't know if we'll ever live in that world again.
Especially when you've got people, like in Austin, you know, I walked, when I was in Austin I walked maybe two blocks to go to the pharmacy down the street.
And most of the people I saw wearing masks, you know, outside.
Which is not a surprise for Austin.
But wearing masks outside... And, you know, I got in trouble because I tweeted yesterday that I think... Now, I'm not recommending this.
I'm only saying that I think it would be acceptable if you were to respond to someone wearing a mask outside by pointing and laughing at them.
You know, gawk, point, laugh.
I think that would be an acceptable response.
Because wearing a mask outside is psychotic behavior.
It really is.
It's not scientifically justified at all.
That is behavior that should be ostracized.
Stigmatized, which we'll talk more about stigmas in the daily cancellation.
Alright.
So, we'll start with this.
A new angle on the Micaiah Bryant shooting in Columbus, Ohio.
This is from, I believe, a security camera footage from a neighbor.
And now look, the original footage that we saw, Ma'Khia Bryant, again, we know this case, 16-year-old, Columbus, Ohio, police were called because someone had a knife and was trying to stab people, and then they show up and Ma'Khia Bryant has a large knife and what do you know, is trying to stab people.
So the body cam footage is enough right there to vindicate the officer, not only get him off the hook on any criminal charges, but actually to reveal him to be a hero.
He acted heroically in that moment to save somebody's life from a person who was trying to stab them to death.
So we already have enough, but I think this other angle from security camera footage, it's revealing because of what you can hear Micaiah Bryant say.
We'll play this.
It's gonna be a little difficult, we have to bleep it out, so you're not really gonna be able to hear it,
but it's worth anyway to play, so let's play that.
Yeah, really hard to hear, especially there with the bleeps.
But she says, still clear enough, she says, I'm going to stab the F out of you.
B word.
That's what she says.
And so she announces her intention to commit, you know, to commit attempted murder, basically, and then carries out what she just threatened.
It could not be more clear.
She actually says, I'm gonna stab you with a knife, and then tries to stab not one person, two people.
She goes for one woman who's not to the ground, and then a guy comes in behind her and tries to stomp on that woman's face, and then she goes for the second woman, pins her against the car, has the knife out, and is about to plunge it into that person when the cop fired.
This again is It sells it short to say that this was a justified shooting.
I think in a healthy, insane world, we'd be pinning a medal on that cop for his heroism.
All right, we'll have a little bit more about the shooting later on in Five Headlines.
Next, I want to play this.
Here's a good video.
This is a mom in Georgia.
Her name is Courtney Ann Taylor at a Gwinnett County Board of Education meeting.
And she's, you know, they're sending kids to school in Georgia, full school days, you know, in Gwinnett County, but the kids have to wear masks the entire day.
So you're talking six or seven hours a day that these kids are in masks.
Well, Courtney Ann Taylor's had enough of it.
And if you want to know what truth to power sounds like, it sounds like this.
Let's watch.
Every month I come here and I hear the same thing.
Social emotional health.
If you truly mean that, you would end the mask requirement tonight.
Tonight.
This is not March 2020 anymore.
We have three vaccines.
Every adult in the state of Georgia that wants that vaccine is eligible to get it right now.
And every one of us knows that young children are not affected by this virus.
They're not.
And that's a blessing.
But as the adults, what have we done with that blessing?
We've shoved it to the side and we've said, we don't care.
You're still going to wear a mask on your face every day, five and six year olds.
You still can't play together on the playground like normal children, seven and eight year olds.
We don't care.
We're still going to force you to carry a burden that was never yours to carry.
Shame on us.
And I know what I'm going to be met with.
But Ms.
Taylor, the CDC, we did not vote for people at the CDC.
We did elect leaders who do create policy.
We elected the five of you.
We chose you to make difficult decisions for our children.
We chose you to make decisions that would be in our children's best interest.
Enforcing five, six, seven, eight, and nine-year-old little children to cover their noses and their mouths where they breathe for seven hours a day, every day for the last nine months for a virus that you know doesn't affect them.
That is not in their best interest!
It has to stop.
Take these off of our children.
Amazing.
I mean, that really, I love that video.
It's hard to say I love it, given the circumstances and how justifiably upset and outraged that mother is, but that is, as I said, that's truth to power.
You know, that's standing up.
And she's exactly right.
A couple things she said there really resonate.
One is, my six-year-old can't come up here and say this.
And they can't.
The kids can't advocate for themselves.
The teachers, they advocate for themselves.
They have a teacher's union.
Only cares about the interests of the teacher.
Doesn't care at all about the students.
So they can get what they want.
Yeah, all the adults can have their special interest groups and all these kinds of things and we can complain publicly, we can go online, we can do all this.
We can go to these meetings.
But the kids can't.
So what they need are adults who are willing to advocate for them.
And that's, unfortunately, that's a problem.
You know, that's like too much to ask.
In our society today, to have adults that will advocate for children.
Because a lot of adults in this country don't really care about kids.
We kill a million of them a year in the womb, so what does that tell you?
We don't recognize them as people.
So, legally, we don't recognize them as people, at least when they're in the womb.
They're in the earliest stages of life.
So, and that's what this, that's why I've been talking about it myself.
What she says there, this is not their burden to carry.
Hang on, right there.
That's it.
Not their burden to carry.
Whatever else you want to say about all the other COVID measures as they pertain to adults, that should have been our stance from day one.
The fact that, and we knew this almost immediately, this is one of the facts, about COVID that we knew from the beginning and has remained true.
There are a lot of facts that we thought were facts and turned out not to be.
There are other things we didn't know that we found out later.
But one thing we always knew, almost from the beginning, is that this doesn't really affect kids.
They're not at a high risk to be infected by it.
They're not at a high risk to spread it.
Doesn't mean it's impossible, but they're not a high risk category.
They're low risk.
And that is such an incredible blessing because it doesn't have to be that way.
A virus can do whatever a virus is going to do.
This could have gone the opposite.
This could have been a virus that especially affected kids.
Imagine that.
Imagine if it was 500,000 dead children from this.
That's not the way it was.
And so that's a wonderful thing.
So what we could have said is, look, as adults and as we get especially older adults, we've got to be more careful.
These are burdens we have to carry, things we're going to have to do.
But the kids can continue living their lives.
And the other thing we should have said as adults is that, yeah, you know what?
If the kids continue living their lives and they go to school and they go to the playground, they don't have to wear a mask.
There's a little bit of an elevated risk That they'll carry the virus home to an adult and one of us will get sick.
You know what we should have said?
So be it.
That's okay.
I'm willing to take that risk for the sake of the kids.
I would rather not only risk getting COVID, I would rather get COVID, I would rather willingly get it and be infected by it.
If it means that my child can live a normal life.
If it's a choice between taking my child's childhood away for a year and counting, doing that, or protecting myself from the virus, I'll take the virus in that trade.
That should have been the attitude.
It should have been everyone's attitude.
But it wasn't.
And it is a disgrace and a shame that I think we'll have to... I think our generation of adults, we're going to carry this with us into the history books.
You know, when people look back on this absurdity of putting kids in masks, putting caution tape around playgrounds, shutting down the schools for a virus that doesn't even really affect these kids, kicking them off of planes, kicking two-year-olds off of planes for not wearing masks, people in the future are gonna look back on that and say, what a bunch of cowardly, disgusting, ridiculous, So-and-so's, and they'll be right.
In many cases, not in the case of that woman, and a few others.
All right.
Next thing we've got, LeBron James is facing mounting backlash, as they say, for doxing the hero cop who stopped Micaiah Bryant from stabbing someone to death.
And it's gotten so bad, it's so bad for LeBron James, that even OJ Simpson, Now is giving LeBron James ethical lectures.
Even OJ Simpson is a voice of reason here for LeBron.
Here's what OJ had to say about all this.
Hey Twitter world, it's me, yours truly.
Tough morning, listening to all the criticism that LeBron James is getting.
I'm a fan of LeBron.
I admire the work that he's done, how he's helped his community and how he's helped his friends and how he's been fighting all of these social issues, especially that Systemic racism in the legal system and with the police departments around our country, but you can't fight every battle, you know, you can't You got to pick your battles.
I mean, it's a war that must be fought But sometimes you need to take your time and be a little more patient before you comment on some of these Bad incidences that are happening with police departments this one LeBron should have waited I'm a little upset with most of the media Because they showed us edited versions of what took place with the girl with the knife They made it sound as if this was another police officer Overreacting and killing a young black American Well, what I saw when I saw the full thing The police guy had no choice He responded Sure, the police guy didn't have a choice And you know, I mean, in fairness
OJ Simpson is an expert in killing people with knives.
He's kind of a stabbing expert.
Maybe Cable News Channel could bring him on as the stabbing consultant for any stabbing-related news.
And even this guy has a better take on this than LeBron James.
What does that tell you?
Of course, as of right now, LeBron's corporate backers haven't said anything.
The NBA hasn't said anything about this, his sponsors, Nike, etc, etc.
None of them have addressed this at all.
When you've got the most high-profile athlete in the world putting the face of a police officer up there and saying, you're next.
And his only crime, stopping a black woman from being stabbed to death.
All right, let's see.
This is from Mediaite Reports that the U.S.
Senate just passed the COVID-19 hate crimes bill in a bipartisan vote of 94 to 1.
The one outlier in the vote to pass a bill designed to limit the sharp increase in hate crime towards Asian and Pacific Island Americans was Missouri Senator Josh Hawley, whose vote against an anti-Asian or anti-hate crimes bill may one day be viewed as the most Hawleyan act ever.
I don't know why I'm reading the media report on this one.
Anyway, they've got, what I really wanted to get to was the specifics of what this bill is supposed to do.
Josh Hawley was the one guy who voted against it, and he did explain it, and he said that, this was his statement from the office of Senator Hawley, he said, it's too broad.
As a former prosecutor, my view is it's dangerous to simply give the federal government open-ended authority to define a whole new class of federal hate crime incidents.
That's a really reasonable point of view.
The troubling thing for me is not that, I am troubled that he was the only guy to say that, but it's because he's the only one.
Every other Republican should have joined him, in that view.
So, CNN reports on what this bill would do.
The bill would direct the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services to issue guidance raising awareness of hate crimes during the pandemic and to work with agencies to establish online reporting of them.
It directs departments to issue guidance to raise awareness.
What issue have you solved?
It's not proof of anything.
No, it's proof that you can exploit tragedies for political gain.
That's what it proves.
We already knew that, Chuck.
would tell bigots we're going after you.
What issue have you solved?
It's not proof of anything.
No it's proof that you can exploit tragedies for political gain.
That's what it proves.
We already knew that Chuck.
Not a surprise to me.
What have you solved?
In what way does any of this prevent a single hate crime against an Asian person?
Can you explain that?
We've solved it now.
Hey, don't worry, you know.
An Asian woman is stomped outside of a hotel a couple weeks ago.
And so Chuck Schumer is saying, hey, don't worry.
We've issued guidance to raise awareness.
You're welcome.
Accomplishes nothing whatsoever.
It is one big virtue signal from everybody in the Senate, all Republicans included.
Wish I could say I was surprised by that, but I'm not.
Josh Hawley's the only guy saying, come on, this is, you guys know what you're doing, this is pointless.
It is already illegal to commit hate crimes against Asian people, as it should be.
It's already illegal on multiple levels.
If you assault an Asian person because they're Asian, it's illegal because it's assault.
It's illegal because it's a hate crime.
So it's illegal on two levels.
And you've got federal and local authorities coming after you for that.
Why do we need another bill on top of that?
What, reinforcing the fact that it's illegal?
Now it goes from illegal to super illegal?
No, it's not going to do anything.
It doesn't accomplish anything.
But again, it is just the naked exploitation of tragedy by the Senate.
And that's how you know.
See, Chuck Schumer says, well, see, everyone agrees.
That's how you know this is a good... No, it's when everyone agrees, that's how you know it's a really bad bill.
If they can all agree.
Alright, I want to play this for you.
Going back to the Micaiah Bryant shooting, so there have been, of course, a lot of really, really bad takes on this, and both Juan Williams at Fox News and Joy Reid, we'll go to Joy Reid first, they had similar takes on what the cops should have done instead.
Because when you watch the video and you see how fast this all unfolded, and this girl was wielding a knife, And you could say all you want, it's very sad that the girl ended up dead.
It is sad.
It's always sad when someone dies.
But if you're going to blame the cop, you better be able to explain what he could have done differently.
And some people in media have tried.
They've given it a shot to explain what he could have done differently.
So give him credit for trying.
But I think their answers leave something to be desired.
So here's Joy Reid on what the cops should have done instead of shooting Micaiah Bryan.
I mean, it seems to me, in a situation, this is what it looked like to me, and I've looked at the tape and I still can't figure it out.
Shoot the gun in the air, there's a warning, tase a person, shoot them in the leg, shoot them in the behind, you know, stop them somehow, but if the only solution is to kill a teenager, there's something wrong with this.
There's something very, very wrong.
Okay, that's, by the way, that's Joy Behar.
I knew it was someone named Joy with a room temperature IQ.
Getting confused sometimes.
So, yeah, she says, I don't know, just shoot the gun in the air.
That'll stop.
You know, just randomly shoot the gun in a different direction.
Away from the person trying to stab someone.
Juan Williams had basically the same take.
Let's listen to what he has to say.
What does Juan Williams' officer, Juan Williams, do to save the lady's life in pink?
Well, I guess I would shoot the gun, not necessarily at somebody, but maybe shoot the gun and maybe, you know, run at the person and try to disarm them.
I don't know.
I mean... So wait, wait, wait.
You would shoot the gun in the air, like a warning shot?
Well, hopefully to distract or to try to stall or something so I could get, or my partner could get the knife away, I see is what I would say.
Well, I don't know.
I mean, taking someone's life is pretty strong.
I don't either.
I don't either, Jesse.
I mean, Jesse, policing is tough work, but all I'm saying is, you know, I think that that woman with the knife is a danger to society and certainly a danger to the other person, and we want her to stop and be disarmed.
I just also think that killing a human is pretty radical.
I don't think that's a good thing.
But what I see overall here You know, you asked me what I see.
I see people now using this Ohio case, which is messy, as you and I just discussed, to somehow really try to change the subject, you know, from what happened in Minnesota with the Chauvin guilty verdict.
Okay, Juan, so just shut up then.
You don't know.
I don't know what he should do.
Just not something different.
I don't know.
He should make it so that the thing that's happening isn't happening anymore.
And he should do it without killing anyone.
Why is that so hard?
Okay, well give us a specific plan and tell us how it'll work.
I don't have a plan.
I don't know.
Not that.
Something other than that.
Oh, great analysis.
Let's see why you need Juan Williams on, to deliver that kind of analysis.
Killing someone is pretty radical, pretty extreme.
Oh really, Juan?
I didn't realize that.
No, thanks for clearing that up.
I thought cops were supposed to just go out and just kill everybody.
Doesn't matter, you know, just walk down the street, randomly kill people.
They could be criminals, you know, that's what I thought they were supposed to do.
But now you're explaining that it's an extreme step.
Yeah, it is an extreme step.
You're in an extreme situation where a woman, a girl is trying to stab someone to death right in front of you.
That's an extreme situation.
It's a radical situation, I would say.
Trying to stab someone to death in front of a police officer, that's a radical step.
And that's going to be met with a radical response.
Shoot a warning shot?
This, like we, I talked about yesterday.
I tried to explain in detail.
This is not, we don't live in the movies.
Cops don't do that.
You don't, no one should do that.
A lot of reasons.
Number one, what goes up must come down.
It's called gravity.
So you shoot the gun in some other direction.
It's, it, it, you don't know what it's going to end up hitting.
I can tell you this, when you shoot it off in the air, the bullet doesn't evaporate.
Just because you can't see it anymore, doesn't mean it evaporated.
It's still out there somewhere and it might hit something.
Also, why?
She's got the woman pinned.
She has the kitchen knife.
She's winding up.
All she has to do is bring her arm forward.
You shoot a gun in another direction.
Why would that stop her?
Distract her?
That's your goal.
That's what you think you're gonna do.
Distract them.
Okay, well, how about, you know, how about this?
Let's have cops, um, every cop, forget about social workers, every cop should have with them on their team a clown.
And so anytime there's a violent crime in process, you have the clown run out and start doing hijinks.
And the hijinks will distract the criminal, and they'll look over and say, what's that clown over there?
And then they'll get tackled, and you know, with this plan, nobody will ever be killed by the cops again.
Worst case scenario, you give the clown a gun too, and you know, at least then the clown is doing the killing.
I mean, all you can do is joke about it, because this is so...
Words escape me to describe this kind of thing.
And the real answer here is that, you know, these people, they know.
They know that if they were in that situation, they'd probably do the exact same damn thing.
But that's not going to stop them from throwing this police officer under the bus.
All right.
Move on to reading the comments.
Okay, I have one other thing I want to play.
I gotta play this, just because it was Earth Day yesterday.
In fact, I feel bad that it was Earth Day yesterday, and I never acknowledged it.
I never... I didn't realize, so I apologize ahead of time.
I apologize to Mother Earth, to Gaia, for forgetting her birthday.
But it was Earth Day, and the only thing I want to play, I got a few clips, I'm not gonna play all of them, but there were these climate change activists, environmental activists, Extinction Rebellion.
And they were out, all, you know, they were, this was in the UK and the United States, they were in DC.
In DC, they had wheelbarrows full of cow manure, and they marched up in front of, I think it was the White House, and they dumped all their cow manure.
So they're polluting in an effort to save the, here's the eclipse here, okay?
So that's cow manure, they're dumping the cow manure.
So polluting and littering in the name of helping the environment.
Real heroes here.
And you know what's gonna happen?
Some low-wage sanitation worker, could be a racial minority, is gonna have to come in and clean all that crap up.
Literally, clean that crap up.
So well done.
So these privileged white people come in and dump cow manure all over the place, meaning that a low-wage worker's gonna have to come and clean it.
And then, oh yeah, this is the one I wanted to play.
So let's play this.
Here they are, I think this was somewhere, might have been in London.
And Extinction Rebellion, they're smashing windows.
They're doing it in the most pathetic and girliest way I've ever seen.
They've got sledgehammers, but they don't have the strength to simply smash the window with the sledgehammer.
So they're doing it in this very surgical kind of slow way.
And they never successfully smashed it!
They couldn't even smash the window.
Man.
These environmental activists, they're not sending their best.
Look, if you're gonna do that, send someone with some upper body strength.
But of course, what am I talking about?
They're environmental activists, they don't have anyone with upper body strength.
Even the guys couldn't even do one pull-up.
It's a shame, it really is.
But, so they did damage the glass, and so that means that...
We're going to have to make more glass and put it in.
And that's going to help the environment in some way that escapes me.
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This is from A.S.
says, odd how, speaking of Micaiah Bryant, odd how her mom didn't even look that upset while talking about her daughter who just died.
Yeah, you know, listen, I think, I can remember back to Sandy Hook, when the terrible shooting, you know, many children were shot in a mass shooting at a school.
And after that, there were some of the parents were, you know, Might have been that day, but in the days after some parents were talking to the media, and I remember them being criticized because they didn't look sad enough about it.
And that criticism really annoyed me.
Because, you know, first of all, you can't judge someone's grief based on their facial expression.
People process things differently.
They communicate it differently.
And when you're going through something, So devastating as to lose a child.
There's just no way to... If you've never been through it yourself, you really can't make any judgments about parents and how they process it.
That being said, going out in front of cameras within moments, right, and really lying, About your loved one.
That, I don't think, can be justified.
And that is hard for me to understand.
It's hard for me to understand how that would be part of the grieving process.
Now listen, if I had a kid who got themselves shot by the cops because they were in the process of trying to stab someone to death, I would... I'm not going to go out in front of the cameras and throw my kid under the bus and say he was a terrible person.
As a parent, I'm not going to say that.
But I think I can say that what I would do is I wouldn't say anything.
I just, I wouldn't be in front of the cameras.
And if I did end up in front of a camera, I wouldn't claim that my child was an angel.
So it's not so much the look on the face or anything, but it's like in these situations, it's what the families sometimes say.
And so often in these police shootings, the family comes out first and they have a narrative and it turns out to be totally, completely wrong.
Alright, um... Another comment says, responsible parents would have given her the talk about how you only stab people when the police aren't standing right there.
Well... Yeah, it's, it, it... You know, we heard that Micaiah Bryan, uh, I don't know, I don't know who called the cops, and another part of the initial narrative was that she had called the cops.
That seems unlikely to me, because whoever called said that, oh, this person has a knife, and she was the one with the knife.
But if she did, that makes it even worse.
You call the cops, and then they show up, and they're here now, and then you start trying to stab someone?
Hannah says, I've decided to go on a media fast starting Saturday.
I will miss you most, Matt.
Well, then, you know what?
You can't quit.
You're fired.
You're banned from the show.
Look, you can go on a fast from all of the media.
I think it's a great thing to do.
But don't lump me in.
I'm not like them.
Uh, but no, seriously, that's probably a good thing.
First, for your psychological health.
No one else is allowed to do it.
Okay, you're the exception, but probably, you know, it's probably a good idea.
Clint Williams says, Hey Matt, how did you cut your finger whittling an arrow out of a tree branch?
Well, um, yeah, I did mention that in passing yesterday.
So I was, I was, uh, and I was watching my kids and, um, uh, yeah, I mean, I was, I was, Of course, I'm watching my kids.
I'm the father.
But my wife wasn't there, is the point.
And if she was, she probably would have put a stop to this.
Because I was with my kids, and they were saying, oh, daddy, can you make arrows out of tree branches?
And I've never done that before.
So I said, sure.
You know, let me go grab a knife.
And I gave it a shot.
And I was kind of whittling, and the knife came right down into my finger.
Huge, gaping hole.
I was bleeding all over the place.
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I want to get it on the floor.
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What about disinfectant?
Don't worry, I'm just wondering.
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Today for our daily cancellation, we turn again, sad to say, to Slate.
The article tweeted out by the website yesterday has this headline, how Gen Z is using P to de-stigmatize sex online.
Now I'm not going to subject you to many of the details.
All I will say is that according to Slate, there's a subculture on TikTok wherein people with urine fetishes post videos celebrating that fetish.
That's what they say.
Slate is happy that this is de-stigmatizing freaks who get sexual pleasure out of other people's human waste.
And more broadly, they say it's de-stigmatizing discussions and depictions of sex online.
Now, don't worry, I'm not going to play any of the P videos.
That would require me to search for them and watch them myself, and there are some TikTok bridges too far for even me to cross.
Besides, I think we all get the idea, right?
We probably don't need to see it.
What I want to talk about, though, is not urineophilia or whatever we're supposed to call it.
Instead, I want to discuss more broadly the concept of stigma.
You'll notice that the left is constantly fighting to end the stigmas around various proclivities, fetishes, perversions, and so forth.
They look out and see a world where too many things are stigmatized.
Now, I look out and see precisely the opposite.
Because stigmas, in fact, are good things.
And we should have more of them.
In fact, we should add another.
We should stigmatize destigmatization.
Now the first problem with the left's rush to de-stigmatize is that many of the stigmas they seek to destroy don't actually exist anymore and haven't for quite some time.
I mean, de-stigmatize sex online?
Are you serious?
That may have been at least a comprehensible objective in 1994 when people were logging on to AOL 1.0 on their dial-up modems.
But in 2021, sex is the primary focus of the internet.
It seems rather impossible to make sex on the internet less stigmatized than it is.
It's like trying to de-stigmatize, I don't know, Big Macs at McDonald's.
Sex on the internet is not stigmatized, but it should be.
Not because sex is bad.
The point isn't that sex itself should be stigmatized, but sex as public spectacle should be.
Sex where both partners, or all ten partners, or however many, are commodities, products, To be used by each other and the viewer.
Sex without love, without dignity.
That's what should be stigmatized.
See, there are basically, as far as I can tell, two categories of stigma that the left seeks to tear down, or to keep torn down.
One is where they want an objectively bad thing to be accepted and celebrated.
This is where they try to tear down the stigmas around, you know, open relationships, for example.
Which is another way of saying they want to de-stigmatize adultery.
Or they want to get rid of the stigma of abortion, hoping to build a utopian society where women can have their children executed without judgment or shame.
Again, it's arguable whether there really is any stigma surrounding those things anymore, but there should be.
Another version of the de-stigmatizing campaign is When a thing that is not a moral evil, but is a private matter, is pushed into the public square.
Sex, again, sex is a big example here.
Every personal thing really is an example.
These days, people tend to share every aspect of themselves with the whole world, putting the good, the bad, and the ugly on display.
Little remains private.
In fact, there's almost no such thing as a private life anymore.
For a lot of people, there's no, this is what the internet has done.
There's no private life, there's no interior mental life.
Everything you do is broadcast on the internet.
Everything you think is filtered through the internet.
Everything is shared.
And if you ever suggest that someone should keep some of the more intimate details of themselves to themselves, you'll be accused of stigmatizing.
The de-stigmatizing efforts around mental illness are also kind of interesting.
Mental illness is bad in the sense that it's something a person suffers from, but it's not a moral evil.
Obviously, a person with mental illness can't be blamed for it.
In one sense, it seems a worthy goal to break down the stigma surrounding that sort of affliction, but the drive to de-stigmatize becomes always and inevitably a push to celebrate and romanticize and proliferate.
Now we're told that 20% of the country is mentally ill, and the number is rising, which is absurd, of course.
If mental illness is that common, then how can you even call it an illness?
But it's become trendy and normalized, and this is the result.
The overall goal, the stated goal at least, is to break down all traditional stigmas so that we can live as free and unencumbered human beings.
The stigma around obesity is another big example.
Big example, no pun intended.
But now that I think about it, it is intended.
Once all the stigmas are gone and all of our flaws, foibles, and afflictions are celebrated and normalized, we can be happy and content, you know, living without judgment or shame or insecurity.
That's the promise anyway.
And yet it hasn't worked out that way.
You notice that as the stigmas all come down, happiness and contentment have not really increased.
In fact, people have never been as depressed, anxious, and lost as they are right now.
The utopian promises of the left have failed to pan out once again.
Because it turns out that healthy societies have stigmas in order to guide people towards a healthy and properly ordered life.
Stigmas help people understand what's good, what's bad, what's private, what's public.
Now, there can be stigmas worth tearing down sometimes, but when you rip them all down at once and invite everyone to indulge themselves in whatever way they see fit and wherever they see fit, the somewhat ironic result is that people end up paralyzed.
Take away all the fences, and people can go anywhere they want, and they just stand still.
Don't know where to go.
Unsure of what to do, where to go, who to be.
You know, you see a similar thing in marriages with the deconstruction of gender roles.
Kind of a related phenomenon.
It was supposed to be freeing to let husband and wife choose their own roles without any preconceived ideas or stigmas at all.
But this has led to confusion and to failed marriages.
If the husband has no idea about what he's supposed to do or what role he's supposed to fill, and the same for the wife, Then they both end up feeling like they do everything, while accusing the other of doing nothing.
It's not a complementary relationship anymore, but a competitive one.
See, roles, responsibilities, stigmas.
These are all good things, in principle.
There can be bad versions of them.
There are bad stigmas.
We can have ideas about what someone's role is, and we can be wrong about that, so it's worth looking at.
But when you try to get rid of all those things, in principle, as we've discovered, you don't end up with a bunch of happy and content people.
You end up with quite the opposite.
And that's why stigmas are not cancelled today, but de-stigmatizing, that's what's cancelled.
And we will leave it there for the week.
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