Ep. 820 - A Society Overrun By Cowards And Weaklings
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a woman on a train in Philadelphia was sexually assaulted for nearly 10 minutes while bystanders watched and did nothing. Why does this sort of thing happen, and why does it appear to be so common these days? Also, the ACLU files an amicus brief in support of compelled speech. There was a time when the ACLU defended free speech. Times have changed. And Kamala Harris is campaigning in churches. How can she walk in the door without bursting into flames? Also, isn’t it illegal to campaign in churches? And finally, in our Daily Cancellation, the outrage mob is very upset at me because of some things I said about paternity leave. Will I apologize today, or double down? The answer may surprise you. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, a woman on a train in Philadelphia was sexually assaulted for nearly 10 minutes while bystanders watched and did nothing.
Why does that sort of thing happen and why does it appear to be so common these days?
We'll talk about that also.
The ACLU files an amicus brief in support of compelled speech.
There was a time when The ACLU defended free speech, times have changed though, and Kamala Harris is campaigning in churches now.
How can she walk in the door without bursting into flames?
Also, isn't it illegal to campaign in churches?
And finally, in our daily cancellation, the outrage mob is very upset at me because of some things I said about paternity leave.
Will I apologize today or double down?
The answer may surprise you, but probably not at all.
All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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So we begin with a horrific story out of Philadelphia.
A woman sitting on the train at 10 p.m.
on Wednesday night was sexually assaulted by a homeless man.
The rapist named Fiston Ngoi sat down next to the victim, tried to touch her several times.
She tried to stop him.
She pushed back, at which point he became more aggressive and started ripping her clothes off.
And this attack went on for eight minutes.
The train was not empty, aside from those two.
There were other people there.
There were other riders in the same car, bystanders who watched a rape unfold over the course of nearly 10 minutes.
And not one of them stepped in to help the woman.
Now, there are some reports that at least a few of the onlookers pulled out their phones and recorded.
Police haven't confirmed that detail, but they have confirmed that a rape occurred in full view of a crowd of people, and none of them lifted a finger to help.
And they aren't mincing words about the spectators in this case.
From the New York Times, it says, quote, I'm appalled by those who did nothing to help this woman, Timothy Bernhardt, the superintendent of the Upper Derby Township Police Department said on Sunday.
Anybody that was on that train has to look in the mirror and ask why they didn't intervene or why they didn't do something.
Mr. Ngoi, 35, was charged with rape, sexual assault, and aggravated indecent assault without consent, among other crimes, court records show.
The authorities said that he was homeless and was not armed during the attack.
Several passengers were in the train car, but Mr. Bernhard declined to say how many.
Investigators were still working on it to determine the exact number.
He said, while there were not dozens of people in the car at the time, there were enough that, quote, collectively, they could have gotten together and done something.
Bystanders on the train who failed to intervene could be criminally charged if they recorded the attack, Mr. Bernhard said.
Now, a few things should be said at the outset.
First, the primary villain in this case is not the group of useless bystanders, but the perpetrator.
And that shouldn't need to be said, but I say it anyway because these days the people who commit these evil acts tend to be tacitly let off the hook, lost in a shuffle as we debate the circumstances around the act, and what sorts of things could have been done to stop it, and who should have done whatever those things are.
The rapist is the one responsible, and a serious country would ensure that he never sees the outside of a prison cell ever again in his life.
But we don't live in that kind of country, and Philadelphia is not that kind of city.
Violent crimes are at record levels in Philly right now.
As the DAs in Philadelphia and in the surrounding districts, this crime will be prosecuted by Jack Stolzheimer in Delaware County, right outside the city.
They're all progressive ideologues who were elected to their positions with the help of George Soros.
Now, this is not a conspiracy theory, as the media likes to portray any mention of Soros.
The minute you mention him, it's a conspiracy theory, as if he's a fictional character.
He's not.
It is a confirmed fact that the billionaire, the left-wing billionaire, took an interest in Philadelphia district attorney races a few years ago, and he poured millions of dollars into electing his preferred candidates.
Now, the city is a brutal, violent hellscape, even more than it was before.
All this to say that the rapist, Homeless and a black man checking several of the victim boxes will likely be out on the street again in no time.
And we'll return to that point in just a moment.
With all that said, of course, the bystanders are still a bunch of weak, gutless cowards.
Again, if we lived in a serious country, the rapists would not have walked out of there.
Instead of this infuriating and sickening story, we should be reading about the inspiring tale of a scumbag who attempted to lay one hand on a woman and was summarily beaten unconscious by an enraged mob of men.
That's the way it should have ended.
But again, that's not the kind of country we live in, and so these kinds of stories very rarely end that way.
We know that violent crimes are often committed in view of onlookers who could step in and help but choose not to.
And we know that because so often, as they allegedly did in this case, the onlookers elect instead to record the crime on their phones.
And that's how we know about it.
Yet this problem predates smartphones.
We've known about the so-called bystander effect for a long time, and many famous cases have been documented through the years.
There's always the potential in these kinds of situations for bystanders to freeze up, fail to act, hoping that somebody else will take care of the problem.
The tendency is so much a part of the human condition that it made it into the Gospels 2,000 years ago with the parable of the Good Samaritan.
You know, the sole person who stops to help a man who was beaten by bandits and left for dead on the side of the road.
It is unfortunately a tale as old as time, or at least as old as the human race.
This is no excuse for the people in the crowd who fail to do the right thing.
It's just a matter of understanding how deeply embedded this problem is.
Though, even so, Anecdotal evidence, like all these videos that we see all the time, would seem to suggest that the bystander effect is worse now, more prevalent than ever before.
People are less willing to put their necks out, less eager to do the right thing, when doing the right thing might put them in jeopardy.
And they have, it would seem, far less shame about their own cowardice.
Why is that?
I think that's the important question.
Well, there are many contributing factors, but let's start with the fact that, unlike years past, the system now actively discourages people from intervening.
I was somewhat annoyed to read those comments from the local authorities condemning the onlookers, even though I agree with the condemnation, I agree with what they said, but this is partially the fault of those local authorities.
This is partially their fault.
With far-left DAs in office all across the country, and especially all over the Philadelphia area, there's no telling what would happen to somebody if they used physical force to neutralize an attacker.
And that's the case even if you're defending just yourself.
You're defending someone else getting involved in a situation that you were not immediately involved in.
Who knows?
I mean, if a good Samaritan had stepped up and given the perpetrator the beatdown that he so desperately deserved, It's not hard to imagine that that same good Samaritan might face assault charges the next day.
Might end up being smeared by the media as a racist vigilante.
This is the exact dilemma that police officers all over the nation face every single day.
And it's their job and their express legal obligation and authority to intervene.
How much worse could the blowback be for somebody who doesn't have that express obligation or authority?
Whereas in years past, a good Samaritan had to only weigh the risk to his own physical safety before getting involved, now he knows that even if he survives the encounter, his life may still be over after the fact, depending on how it all plays out, and also depending quite significantly on the racial demographics involved.
Now, this again is not to provide any excuses for anybody.
We're called to take risks, sometimes very significant risks, if we wish to be decent men.
I'm only pointing out that the systems running this country actively discourage and punish decency.
And besides, many people don't wish to be decent men in the first place.
As children, we're conditioned from a young age to regard questions of moral decency as superfluous or even oppressive.
The message we absorb from our culture is that our own physical and psychological well-being should come before everything and everybody else.
So we sneer at moral decency and we actively punish it.
And then we stand back in shock and horror to find that people are not decent.
I mean, look at the police officer in the Micaiah Bryant shooting.
He stepped in to stop a girl from getting stabbed to death.
And next thing you know, people are calling for his head.
LeBron James is tweeting out a picture of him, trying to rile up a mob to go and do who knows what to him.
That's the way it goes now.
And it reminds me of one of the greatest lines from one of C.S.
Lewis's greatest books, The Abolition of Man, which if you've never read, you should.
Writing 80 years ago, though it might as well have been yesterday, Lewis says, quote, in a sort of ghastly simplicity, we remove the organ and demand the function.
We make men without chess and expect of them virtue and enterprise.
We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
And that's us.
Our culture campaigns against virtue and punishes the virtuous.
You can't even go to church anymore to hear a defense of virtue.
We have purposefully created a society of hollow people, men without chess, And we're surprised by the results.
We shouldn't be.
Now let's get to our five headlines.
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Okay, so the ACLU used to be an organization that would defend... I mean, they have civil liberties right in their name.
And they used to defend free speech.
That's what they did.
And we talked about this before.
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Okay. So the ACLU used to be an organization that would defend, I mean, they had, they
have civil liberties right in their name and they used to defend free speech. That's what,
that's what they did. And we talked about this before. I mean, how, there, there was
a time when the ACLU was so militant in their defense of free speech that they would defend,
and KKK members.
They would defend actual Nazis.
They would defend actual neo-Nazis and defend their free speech.
Those times are long gone.
Because there's a case in Loudoun County.
I mean, Loudoun County has become the kind of epicenter of many of these battles in the school system with critical race theory and with gender theory.
So, as you've heard from me on this show, part of that policy in Loudoun County, where they're opening up the bathrooms to allow boys into girls' bathrooms, even though A girl was allegedly raped inside of a bathroom by a boy only just last semester in May.
But this is a policy that doesn't just affect bathrooms and sports teams.
Also, very significantly, it requires teachers to use the preferred pronouns of the students.
Whatever they say their pronoun is, the teachers have to use it.
So this is compelled speech.
And it's not just compelling.
Compelled speech is bad in and of itself.
But what is the compelled speech?
What are they being compelled to affirm?
They're being compelled to affirm a falsehood as a condition of further employment.
And not further employment in the private sector, but in a school run by the government.
So to have a job in this government building, you have to be willing to affirm falsehoods.
A boy says, refer to me as a girl, that is a confirmed absolute falsehood.
And the policy says, you have to affirm it or you're gone.
So this case is making its way through the court system.
And now we have this from the ACLU of Virginia.
It says, breaking, three teachers in Loudoun County are going to court simply because they don't want to use trans and non-binary students' pronouns.
We and partners filed an amicus brief to tell the court refusing to use a student's pronouns because of who they are is discrimination.
And then they have their amicus brief.
So they're going out of their way to involve themselves in this case, to be on the side of compelling people To say things.
This is, no matter how else you feel about it, this is without a question an anti-free speech perspective.
Even if you think that you should use the preferred pronouns that someone asks you to use or demands that you use normally, even if that's your position.
You can't pretend, if you're trying to force people to do that, you can't pretend that you're on the side of free speech.
You're not.
This is compelled speech.
And by the way, on the preferred pronouns thing, I just want to read this to you, related to preferred pronouns.
Here's an article from an entertainment website called Uproxx, that I saw someone shared on Twitter or something, and it jumped out at me just because of the headline.
The headline was so confusing.
And I stopped for a second, I was trying to make sense of it.
So this is a story, and I'll read just a paragraph from this story in this entertainment website, about Halsey, who I guess is some kind of pop star.
And I also take from context clues that Halsey identifies as non-binary, and her pronouns are she and they.
So that's a thing you could do now.
It's not just that you can choose to identify as multiple people by identifying as they-them.
You can actually identify as both a single person and multiple people.
How do you put all that together in a sentence if you're talking about someone?
Well, here's Uproxx.
It says, it's been about three months since Halsey gave birth to their first child, and in a day since, she has been open about the start of her parenthood journey.
In early August, they showed off photos of their postpartum stretch marks.
And later that month, she shared her frustrations with how some in the music industry handled her pregnancy.
Now Halsey is once again pulling the curtain back, this time on their Saturday Night Live performance and what their body looks like now.
This is total nonsense.
If you had no prior knowledge of any of this pronoun stuff, and you read that paragraph, you just simply have no idea what's being said.
Halsey, is that a person?
Is that some sort of collective?
Is that a group?
Are we talking about two distinct individuals?
Where in the span of one sentence, we can change from there to she?
But this is, if you are a teacher in Loudoun County, this is the kind of total nonsense that you must affirm or lose your job.
And the ACLU is fully on board with that.
This makes it, how do you teach?
If you're in Loudoun County and you're an English teacher and you get to the section on grammar, how do you teach grammar anymore?
You can't, it's impossible.
Because this abides by no coherent... It's not that we've changed the rules of grammar, or the rules of grammar have evolved, or any... They're out the window.
There aren't any rules at all.
This doesn't... You couldn't come up with a new set of rules to explain what is happening in that paragraph I just read.
Now grammar and language, it becomes totally shapeless and formless.
And each person decides for themselves what a word means and what the rules of grammar are.
And that's a problem, you know, because the whole point of language in a human society, the whole point of language is for a means of communication between people.
Okay, so this is a way of language, it's a way of conveying a message to somebody else.
Conveying meaning.
And in order to do that, the reason why we had in the past anyway, we've had laws, rules of grammar.
And the reason why there've been these, you know, shared definitions and words have things, things called definitions that we all understand.
The reason for that is that there have to be these shared ground rules in order for me to understand what the hell you're trying to tell me.
Now we were making communication virtually impossible.
Alright, next let's go to Barry Weiss.
She was on with Brian Stelter, and I thought that this was an interesting exchange, as she's trying her best as a... Barry Weiss, by the way, is not, as far as I know, any kind of right-wing conservative.
I imagine her politics are probably pretty liberal.
But she's got some basic common sense.
And if you have basic common sense, you're going to be exiled from the left wing, no matter what your politics are.
That's what's happened with Barry Weiss.
And so here she is, this person with common sense, trying to speak to Brian Stelter, somebody with no common sense whatsoever.
And here's how that exchange went.
You write, there are tens of millions of Americans who aren't on the hard left or the hard right who feel the world has gone mad.
So in what ways has the world gone mad?
Well, you know, when you have the chief reporter on the beat of COVID for the New York Times talking about how questioning or pursuing the question of the lab leak is racist, the world has gone mad.
When you're not able to say out loud and in public that there are differences between men and women, the world has gone mad.
When we're not allowed to acknowledge that rioting is rioting and it is bad, and that silence is not violence but violence is violence, the world has gone mad.
When we're not able to say that Hunter Biden's laptop is a story worth pursuing, the world has gone mad.
When, in the name of progress, young school children, as young as kindergarten, are being separated in public schools because of their race, and that is called progress rather than segregation, The world has gone mad.
There are dozens of examples that I could share with you and with your viewers.
And you often say, you say aloud.
Everyone sort of knows this.
You say we're not allowed, we're not able.
It's the chasm between.
Who's the people stopping the conversation?
Who are they?
People that work at networks, frankly, like the one I'm speaking on right now, who try and claim that it was racist to investigate the lab leak theory.
Who said that at CNN?
But I'm just saying, when you say allowed, I just think it's a provocative thing to say.
You say, we're not allowed to talk about these things, but they're all over the internet.
I can Google them, I can find them everywhere.
I've heard about every story you mentioned.
So I'm just suggesting, of course people are allowed to cover whatever they want to cover.
But you and I both know, and it would be delusional to claim otherwise, that touching your finger to an increasing number of subjects that have been deemed third rail by the mainstream institutions and increasingly by some of the tech companies will lead to reputational damage, perhaps you losing your job, your children sometimes being demonized as well.
And so what happens is a kind of internal self-censorship.
This is something that I saw over and over again when I was at the New York Times.
This is this Weasley kind of trick that these people pull, people like Brian Stelter.
You've got Barry Weiss describing the situation in our culture.
It's undeniable if you're an honest and rational person.
All of that is obviously the case.
And then he says, what do you mean you're not able, you're not allowed to say these things?
What do you mean?
I hear people say these things all the time.
I can go on the internet and find people making these points.
What do you mean not allowed to?
You're perfectly free to say any of these things that you want.
He says, right, as there's a gun to your head.
Like a man coming in, putting a gun to your head, telling you to do something, and then saying, I mean, you're perfectly free to do what you want.
If you don't do what I want, then I'm going to shoot you, but you're perfectly free to do it.
That's the trick they pull.
It's just like when we say that someone's been cancelled.
Someone like Barry Weiss, who has been cancelled.
And then the response from the corporate media and their lackeys is always, what?
Cancelled?
I can still find them.
What do you mean, cancelled?
Oh, they still have a platform.
They might not have a platform on any of the big tech, but I could find them somewhere on the internet if I looked for them.
And look, they did a Fox News hit.
They're not cancelled.
Yeah, when we say cancelled, we don't mean that a person has been physically killed, although eventually perhaps we'll get to that point.
But, when their job is taken away, their reputation has been left in tatters, they've been smeared, they've been lied about, that's the point.
So that's what Brian Stelter is saying.
He's saying, yeah, you know, if you don't agree with me and with the system, we're going to ruin your life.
We're going to take everything from you.
We're going to try to take everything from you if we can.
We're going to try to get you kicked off of every single platform that we can, which is most of them now.
But you'll still be alive at the end of it, so we haven't really taken away your free speech or anything.
We haven't really taken anything from you.
And we certainly haven't taken your power to choose.
What a weasel.
Speaking of which, from the Daily Wire, it says, Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris is set to deliver a video message to congregants in more than 300 black churches across Virginia, urging them to vote for Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe in November's election.
Um, CNN for support of the story, noting that the video message would go out between Sunday and election day.
And we have, so this is a video message again, that's going to be played in churches, in black churches in Virginia.
And let's, uh, let's first listen to the message and then we'll, we'll talk about it.
Terry McAuliffe has a long track record of getting things done for the people of Virginia.
When he was governor, in the wake of the recession, you'll remember, he brought 200,000 jobs to Virginia.
Incomes went up and unemployment went down in every city and county in the state.
And now, Terry McAuliffe is stepping up again with a clear vision about how to rebuild Virginia's economy for the future.
to raise the minimum wage, to make health care more affordable, to give every child a world-class education.
Virginians, you deserve a leader who has a vision of what is possible and the experience to realize that vision.
Huh.
Okay, so this was... I wanted to play a part of that.
I wanted to play part of that because obviously I hate myself and I want to subject myself to that punishment and you as well.
But also, we want to hear, is this really an explicit, are they finding a way to get around the IRS rules here?
Or is this an explicit endorsement, explicit campaigning by the vice president in a church for a candidate?
And it's the latter.
I mean, this is explicit vote for this guy type of stuff.
Well, Byron York of the Washington Examiner, he helpfully tweets this out from the IRS.
Here are their rules for this kind of thing.
It says, under the IRS code, all IRC Section 501c3 organizations, including churches and religious organizations, are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in or intervening in any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for elective public office.
Contributions to political campaign funds or public statements of position made by or on behalf of the organization in favor of any candidate for public office clearly violate the prohibition against political campaign activity.
Violation of this prohibition may result in denial or revocation of tax-exempt status and the imposition of an excise tax.
Pretty clear there.
This is directly intervening for a political candidate.
That's what's happening here.
Now, say what you want about these IRS rules, pro or con, that's what the rules are.
And we damn sure know that if something like this was happening in the reverse on behalf of conservatives or a Republican candidate by a conservative politician, you know the cries would be deafening from the left to have the IRS go after That church and everybody involved in it.
That's not going to happen in this case, though, because.
You know, we we live.
As we have reviewed, we live in a lawless country and all of these laws, none of them apply to everybody, especially when it comes to the IRS.
Maybe the IRS will surprise me though with their integrity.
I can't even say it without laughing.
Maybe they'll surprise me with their integrity and their consistency and actually go after these churches and Kamala Harris.
We'll see.
I really don't have my hopes up.
Here's someone who does have integrity though.
This is a nice palate cleanser here.
A state trooper in Washington state, even though it's a sad story in many ways, it's also inspiring as this is somebody who will do the right thing.
We've talked about the cowards who sit back and are afraid to intervene, afraid to do the right thing, afraid to take a risk.
Then you have people on the extreme other end of that spectrum.
Who are willing to risk everything, give up everything.
That was the case for a state trooper in Washington state who left the job over vaccine mandates.
And we have here his final sign off and his message, especially for the governor of the state.
Let's listen.
This is my final sign off after 22 years of serving the citizens of the state of Washington.
I'm being asked to leave because I am dirty.
Numerous fatalities, injuries.
I've worked sick.
I've played sick.
We've buried lots of friends over these years.
I'd like to thank you guys.
I'd like to thank the Citizens of Yakima County, as well as my fellow officers within the valley.
Without you guys, I wouldn't have been very successful, and you've kept me safe and got me home to my family every night.
Thank you for that.
Wish I could say more, but this is it.
So, State 1034, this is the last time you'll hear me in a state patrol car.
And Jay Inslee can kiss my a**.
Very well said.
Especially at the end there.
And it's a, it's a, it's a sad story.
Like I said, it's also inspiring that there are people, I mean, this is no, obviously this is no small thing to give up your job, your livelihood, something that you've poured 20 years of your life into.
Um, that's a, that's a real sacrifice.
You know, these days we're so used to seeing people celebrated for taking political and ideological stands, and then when you look, you see that they're not risking anything, they're not putting anything on the line, right?
Very different situation here.
But it really worries me also.
This is why the vaccine mandates among public officials, police officers, especially in the military, you know, The vaccine mandates there worry me more than maybe anywhere else.
Because it's an infringement on liberty, obviously.
But also because this is one more thing kind of smoking out the good people.
The people with integrity.
Because no matter where you stand on vaccines, it doesn't matter.
You could be fully in favor of the vaccine.
You could think the COVID vaccine is the greatest thing ever.
And this particular trooper, I don't know where he stands on it.
On the issue of the vaccine itself, that doesn't even make a difference.
This is about opposing tyranny.
So, with vaccine mandates in law enforcement and in the military, and you see people who are doing things like this and they're stepping down and they're leaving, It's a very courageous thing to do.
But it's one more thing where we're driving out the people in these positions who most oppose tyranny and who have the most integrity.
I'm not saying the people that remain in the military or in law enforcement have no integrity.
OK, and I can't.
We have no vaccine mandate here at The Daily Wire, as you've probably heard.
If there was one, I can't sit here and say for sure, would I give up my job?
Would I give up my livelihood?
I got four kids to feed.
You can't really know what you would do in that situation until you're in it.
And people who decide to stay in because they got to take care of their family, I get that.
But there are those who are willing to go all the way, who have above average sort of courage and integrity.
And so what we're doing is we're driving all of them out.
And given what these positions are, that's pretty troubling.
I mean, who's going to be left at the end?
Speaking of people that remain in the military, well, let me start with this, a little context.
This is from the New York Post.
Not about our military, but over in China.
It says, China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August that circled the globe before speeding towards its target.
The test shows China has advanced space capability that caught US intelligence by surprise.
Citing five people familiar with the test, the report said the Chinese military launched a rocket that carried a hypersonic glide vehicle, which flew through low-orbit space before cruising toward its target.
It missed the target by about two dozen miles, But shows China's astounding progress on hypersonic weapons.
The U.S., Russia, and China have all been working on hypersonic weapons.
Russia tested one such missile in July.
The U.S.
plans to outfit all the Navy's destroyers with these missiles, which can travel five times faster than the speed of sound.
So according to the report, China has these hypersonic missiles that are nuclear capable, and so those can fly in low Earth orbit, you know, around the globe, and then land on their target, or at least get, you know, even 24 miles away, if it's a nuclear weapon, that's close enough to inflict massive carnage, obviously.
So China's doing that.
Supposedly, U.S.
officials were stunned and surprised by it.
They didn't see it coming.
I don't know if that's true or not, but it wouldn't surprise me.
And what's our military up to?
At least the people who are leading our military.
But here's a tweet from... Who is this?
This is Major General Jo Clyburn.
And she tweeted, over the weekend, a picture of herself at her desk, shoes off, feet up on the desk, and she's got the pedicured toenails there that you can see, and She tweets, she says, why the army thinks a French manicure is an obnoxious color compared to the civilian world, which views it as an understated yet professional look is beyond me, but I have to be in uniform tomorrow.
So here we are.
It looked nice while it lasted.
All you can do, all you can do is laugh about it.
I don't know what the other option is besides weeping openly on camera, which I can't do.
Um, Although maybe if I did, they'd make me a general in the army at this point.
While China is testing nuclear hypersonic missiles, we've got a major general tweeting complaints about the fact that she can't have the nail color that she wants when she's on the job.
Not a great argument, I gotta tell you.
She's not representing female leadership in the military very well here.
So there were people making this point and righteously and rightfully mocking her for this.
Major General tweeting complaints because she can't have a French manicure when she's on the job.
She was getting mocked for this and she finally responded to all the mockery with a series of tweets.
She says, number one, I'm a woman.
Actually, she wrote, I'm a women.
W-M-E-N.
Which maybe she does identify as multiple women.
You never know these days.
She says, I'm a woman in the army.
Get over it.
Two, I worry and take daily action on a lot of things, including prioritizing our soldiers and airmen.
Three, I have a professional civilian career I balance with military obligations and a lot of God and country time, like 700,000 other reserve component troops.
Four, if you think we'd lose a war because women are in the army or wear nail polish, wake up.
Rethink what excluding 51% of the population does to our national strategy, especially when only 1 in 10 are able to serve.
Women earn their place, rightfully, to wear our great nation's uniform.
No, Major General.
It's not that we're going to lose a war because of nail polish.
We're going to lose a war because of you and people like you.
Totally incompetent, focused on all the wrong things, While you have China claiming global dominance and securing the ability to annihilate our cities, you're focused on your nail color.
That's why we're gonna lose a war.
Not because of the nails, just so you understand.
All right, finally, Daniel Craig was on a Sirius XM radio show where he explained why, apparently he goes to gay, he says he's not gay, but he goes to gay bars.
I was just kind of scratching my head over this. Here's the answer. Here's why he says he goes to
gay bars instead of, you know, straight bars. Let's listen.
I've been going to gay bars for as long as I can remember.
And one of the reasons, because I don't get into fights that often.
We didn't get into a fight that night.
No, we didn't get into a fight that night.
Because the aggressive swinging in hetero bars, I just got very sick of as a kid.
Because it was like, I don't want to end up in a punch-up.
And I did.
That would happen quite a lot.
And it would just be a good place to go.
Everybody was chilled.
Everybody, you didn't really have to sort of state your sexuality.
It was okay.
And it was a very safe place to be.
And I could meet girls there because there were a lot of girls there for exactly the same reason I was there.
So it was kind of, you know, it was an ulterior motive.
Oh, I bet there was an ulterior motive.
Daniel Craig.
This to me sounds like desperate rationalization.
I mean, I don't know, but that's how I read it here.
It sounds like, you know, someone saw him in the gay bar and he's saying, oh, no, no, no, I go to the gay bar because if I go to those other bars, I'm going to end up beating people up.
I can't go into a bar without getting into a fight.
I got women swarming me.
It's, you know, No, I just go to the gay bar because I don't want to have to get into fights.
And also, I get way more chicks at the gay bar, man.
Okay, what bars are you going to, Daniel Craig?
You know, you're not actually James Bond.
You know that, right?
So, what bars are you going to?
You can't walk into a non-gay bar without getting into a fight.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm just going to the right bars.
Maybe the wrong ones.
I don't know.
I kind of want to go to these other bars.
That Daniel Craig is talking about, where you walk in there, and as soon as you walk in the door, you know, you give the... You show your ID to the bouncer, and then just someone punches you in the face right away.
The fight starts right away.
Been to many bars in my time.
I've never been in a single fistfight at a bar.
I think I've seen like one, maybe?
I don't know.
I don't know if I'd buy it, Daniel Craig, but... That's your own concern, I suppose.
Let's now read the comments.
This is from M. She says, Lizzo is the perfect example of the emperor isn't wearing clothes.
Yeah, a bunch of people in the comments made that connection about Lizzo wearing a see-through dress to Cardi B's birthday party.
Completely nude underneath and, you know, I was talking about how everyone pretends that it's this beautiful sight when nobody really thinks that.
And I don't know how I didn't... I don't know how I didn't make that connection.
That was a failure on my part.
This is literally the emperor wears no clothes.
That's what this is.
That parable brought to life.
Is what Lizzo was doing there.
Walking around basically naked.
And of course I knew they're gonna do this.
They put the picture up.
You know what, but that's a beautiful sight, I'm told.
Put the picture up again.
Put it up again, actually.
That's beautiful.
If you don't find that beautiful, then you are a bigot.
And probably a racist.
That's what I'm told anyway.
Okay, you can take it off.
Travis says, Lizzo's dress clearly draws inspiration from a whale being caught up in a fishing net.
Travis, Once again, every once in a while someone leaves a comment that I find personally offensive.
We don't make jokes like that on this show.
Certainly no fat shaming.
Not gonna be allowed.
That is not... That is not funny, Travis.
You're banned from the show.
How dare you, sir?
Let's see.
SortOfTheSame says, My husband and I would be divorced today if he had stayed home for two months or more or more after every one of our four children had been born.
He was needed at work, but I had everything under control at home.
A week might have been nice, especially since I had four high-risk pregnancies, but more than a week would have driven me crazy.
Today we are in our 60s and he works from home and things are fine because I don't have to worry about taking care of a newborn and my husband.
I don't want to jump ahead because this is what our daily cancellation is going to deal with, but Yeah, as we talked about paternity leave briefly on the show on Friday, I do also have this question.
I mean, all these, and I've heard, and we'll get into this in a minute, but I've heard from a lot of guys over the weekend, and women too, talking about the kind of paternity leave that they get or their husbands get.
There's one person that told me that there is a woman said that her husband got four months, four months of paternity leave.
For their first child, so there were no other children.
So, four months for one baby.
What the hell are you doing for four months?
For two parents to take care of one baby?
And if you need that, like if you need two parents home 24-7 to take care of one immobile baby, How are you going to function once that baby gets older?
If you have a second kid, you're doomed!
I'm jumping ahead, like I said.
We'll get to that later.
Scott says, Matt, you've missed something in the PC box checking for Tolkien's new film.
As of last year, those boxes must be checked if the film is going to be considered for certain awards.
I do agree with you, however.
In solidarity with you and the SPG, I would be boycotting the film.
Uh, yeah, I wouldn't even call it a boycott.
I'm not even saying I'm going to boycott The Hobbit.
It's not a matter of boycott.
It's just simply I have no interest in it.
I mean, a boy, a boycott is a real boycott.
An effective boycott is where you're a potential customer and you actually want to use the good or the service or whatever it is, but you're choosing not to because you're trying to make, you're trying to send a message or make some sort of point.
What I'm saying is, I simply have no interest.
The minute the PC box checking starts, and you're right, the academy's made of these rules now, where if you want to be eligible for a reward, you have to do this.
Giving even more incentive.
But whatever's behind it, the moment I see that, I have no interest.
It takes me out of the story.
And so it's not a hard decision for me to make.
Uh, Alexander says they have to put music behind the advertisement to make it seem like Matt is sincere and not at all internally making fun of it.
Ha ha.
I don't know.
I don't know what you mean.
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Let me tell you something.
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Dan says, Matt, is atheism dead?
It seems like the new atheist movement is dead at least.
Wouldn't you say?
Yeah, this is kind of a weird thing that I've been hearing a lot recently from some Christians that atheism is dead or the New Atheism Movement is dead.
Those are two different things, by the way.
There's atheism and then there's the so-called New Atheist Movement and that was back, you know, 15 years ago.
It started with Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens and those guys.
And they all put out these anti-God books all in the span of like five years, and they were the, whatever they called it, the Four Horsemen of Atheism or something.
And it became, and it was called the New Atheist Movement, and that's dead.
I mean, that's gone.
And you don't see atheist books being released every month.
We went through a period where it seemed like 12 times a year there was another atheist book coming out talking about how God doesn't exist and all this kind of stuff.
So you don't see that anymore.
Does that mean that atheism is dead?
No, not at all.
I think that that's a nice fantasy.
That's a nice bedtime story that maybe we as Christians like to tell ourselves so we can sleep easy at night, but I don't think it's true at all.
In fact, You could look at this from the other direction entirely and say that it's actually in some ways a bad sign that we don't have all these atheists who are out arguing for atheism anymore and they're not releasing books all the time.
It's a bad sign, perhaps, because it's not needed.
Before, they were trying to undermine, subvert, What they considered to be a religious culture.
Although at the time when they were doing this, we were not actually a religious culture even then.
But that's how they saw it.
Now I think you kind of look around and you say, well, it's already a godless secular culture.
What is there to argue for?
No reason to put out an atheist book and most of the people already agree.
Or maybe even worse, they just don't care.
I think the vast majority of people in our culture today probably don't really care that much about the question, which is an even worse situation to be in.
So that's probably how I would take it.
Not that they've lost, but perhaps as it stands right now, they've kind of won because we live in a secular culture.
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Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
So it's time for another reverse cancellation.
The outrage mob pulled up in their clown car again and spent yet another weekend screaming at me online.
This time they were upset.
Very, very upset, I should say, about some comments that I made about paternity leave.
Now, uh, Of all the times that these, you know, gabbling hyenas have tried to cancel me, I have to say this is maybe one of the weirdest times.
So for a little background, last week, as we discussed on the show, it was revealed that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has been on paternity leave for two months after adopting twins with his husband.
While he was gone, the nation descended into a supply chain crisis with cargo ships log-jammed in U.S.
ports and store shelves empty as we head into the holiday season.
Buttigieg decided that that would be a good time to take an eight-week paid vacation.
Now, let's be very careful here not to suggest That the situation would be better if Buttigieg was around.
It wouldn't be.
He's incompetent and useless and unqualified for every job he's ever had.
Even if he was around, he'd only be staring at the problem impotently, or else he'd be dutifully working to make it worse.
So nobody is begging Buttigieg to come back to work and save us.
We're merely pointing out that, in principle, the guy who heads up the Department of Transportation should not disappear for two months while the country faces the worst transportation-related crisis in decades.
Crisis or no crisis, though, it's absurd for any public employee paid on taxpayer dime to be given that much time off.
Now, you can make an argument for women on maternity leave, but not for men.
Paternity leave is a nice luxury for private companies that can afford it.
The U.S.
government is not a private company.
It's a public institution deeply in debt, failing in just about every way and everywhere.
So this is not a time and not the place for those kinds of luxuries.
But that's the somewhat safer point to make, right?
You are in a much more hazardous place, you are in more hazardous waters, when you go away from that, and instead you start saying mildly critical things about paternity leave in general as a concept.
And that's what I discovered when I tweeted this on Friday.
I said, the thing about paternity leave is that there isn't much for dad to do when the baby is a newborn, especially if mom is breastfeeding.
His main role is to take care of mom as she recovers, but of course, that doesn't apply to Buttigieg, who is, so I'm not sure why he needs paternity leave at all.
That's what I said.
And that was enough to provoke three days of sustained outrage.
Here's yet another thing that you could say to almost any group of people in real life, and everybody would just nod their heads.
But if you make the same common sense observation in front of the left-wing internet rage mob, they'll be sent into demonic, vomitous spasms.
So over the weekend, thousands and thousands of people, many of them verified accounts, media personalities and so on, have fluttered around, screeching like bats, yelling at me that I'm a deadbeat dad, I'm a terrible husband, I'm a sexist, I'm a monster, I'm a supervillain.
How dare you?
How could you?
Wait, what are we mad about again?
And yet, amid all of the howling and squawking, none of these shrieking banshees have bothered to explain how or why I was actually wrong about what I said.
Notice, I did not say that nobody should ever have any kind of paternity leave.
If you work for a private company, they can do what they want.
I took off three or four days for my kids.
If you want to call that paternity leave, that's fine.
I also didn't say that there's nothing at all for a man to do for his family after a child is born.
I said that as far as caring for the newborn himself, most of that is going to be done by the mother.
She, in most cases, will be feeding the child.
The child also needs and wants his mother's presence, his mother's touch, her voice.
The father should be interacting with the baby also, obviously, but the infant is far more focused on his mother at that age and needs his mother more.
There is no mother in the Buttigieg household.
But that doesn't change the point here.
Babies need their mothers.
Which is why two men shouldn't be allowed to adopt babies in the first place.
And the outrage mob can now start a secondary campaign over that comment.
But I'll say it again.
Two men should not be allowed to adopt babies.
Because babies need mothers.
They also need fathers, which is why two women shouldn't be allowed either.
But in a normal situation, there is a mom and a dad.
And in those early stages, the mom is the star of the show, as far as the baby is concerned.
The dad plays more of an auxiliary role.
Post-birth, as I said, his most important role is to care for his wife, who has just performed the physically taxing act of childbirth.
There's nothing controversial about this, or there shouldn't be.
It's just how things work, and it's fine.
It's funny that so many people have shouted at me, tears in their eyes, insisting that, no, you know, there's a lot for the man to do for the baby.
And then they list those things, and they say, oh, you could change diapers, you could give bottles, you could rock the baby to sleep.
One guy, Mark Siner, who's a lawyer and an author, he tweeted at me.
He's one of the many white knights who wrote in to let all the women know that I'm a bad guy, but they're not bad.
And he said that he, unlike myself, he's a great dad, and he's a wonderful husband.
And after his child was born, he was very involved.
This is what he tweeted.
He said, one of the most ludicrous tweets I've read in my life, this takes the cake as the looniest.
Not sure what kind of dad Matt Walsh is, but I'll take my version.
24-7 singing, reading, cuddling, bottle feeding to two newborn twins.
And I'm sure glad that Pete Buttigieg is doing the same.
But 24-7 singing and cuddling?
Something tells me that was a bit of an exaggeration.
I hope for his wife's sake that it was.
But you see how he makes my point for me accidentally?
Singing, reading, cuddling?
In other words, not a lot.
Okay, these are not time-consuming tasks.
These are not tasks that you need to take two months off of work to perform.
These are mostly things that dad can do and should do while still working to provide for his family.
I read to my kids every night.
Every single day I read to my kids.
And I also work.
If I were to list the tasks that I must perform for my kids who are now older, between the ages of two and eight, it would be much more extensive.
In fact, I could hardly list the tasks at all, as the job of parenting older kids is so all-encompassing.
Newborns are immobile.
They sleep like 18 hours a day.
They have only two basic physical needs, sleep and eat.
So if they're crying, it's because they want to do one of those things or because they need to be burped.
And this is why newborns are so much easier, especially for dads.
And I have never in my life met an actual flesh-and-blood human being in real life who would disagree with that assessment.
I mean, this is something that as parents we talk about all the time with other parents.
What's the hardest phase of parenting?
What's the most difficult time, you know, to be a parent?
Nobody ever says newborn.
No one says that.
Unless all they have is a newborn.
Talk to any parent with kids who are, I don't know, Two or older, none of them are going to say that the newborn face is the artist.
None.
And this is why the whole concept of paternity leave makes no sense.
If the idea is to give dads time off so they can care for their kids and bond with them, why would the leave kick in right after birth when most of the dad-involved care and bonding will happen later?
Infancy is precisely when there is the least for the dad to do and the least opportunity for bonding.
I didn't say none and no, the least.
So why isn't anybody advocating for paternity leave that starts with the child's first birthday, let's say?
The answer to that question is also the answer to why everyone got mad at me in the first place.
And also why the left feels so strongly about it.
Paternity leave.
I mean, keep in mind, the people now claiming that this is absolutely critical for both mom and dad to be home immediately after birth will also insist that both mom and dad can go to work in a few months and have nannies and daycare centers raise their kids, and there will be no detrimental effects at all.
So, like, for the first month or two of the baby's birth, you've got all these leftists saying, oh, we've got to have both parents, oh, it's so important, so important.
And then you ship the kids off to daycare for the rest of their childhoods, and we're supposed to believe that that's perfectly fine?
I mean, if I were to say that more women should consider staying home permanently with their kids, so that their kids are not raised by strangers, I'd be called a sexist!
And yet, if I raise a complaint about paternity leave, not even a complaint, but a mild criticism, It's a horrible thing, cause kid- those babies, they need both parents there.
What do you think, the needs end at two months, you idiots?
What do you think happens at two months that's so magical?
We gotta have the- oh yeah, the- Buttigieg's kids, they- they uh- they need Buttigieg there for two months.
After that, yeah, who cares.
Throw- you know, throw them out in the woods and let the squirrels raise them.
Since when do these people give a damn about parents being involved with their kids at all?
I mean, they think parents are domestic terrorists just for showing up to school board meetings, for God's sake.
So since when do they care?
Well, the answer is this.
The answer is sex differences.
Okay?
That's what explains this weird reaction.
Namely, their denial of sex differences.
Their problem with my position on paternity leave is that I am acknowledging the inherent differences between mother and father.
That's it.
That's what it comes down to.
That I would dare suggest that there is a difference between mom and dad, and that kids interact with mom and dad differently, and that they need different things from mom and dad.
And that, God forbid, mom and dad have different roles in the child's life.
For me to suggest that is beyond the pale.
That is the thing you're not allowed to say.
That is the unmentionable, right?
So that's what it all comes down to.
That's what they're actually upset about.
They don't care about parents taking care of their kids.
They think parents are totally expendable.
They think the government school system should start raising the kids by the age of three.
No.
The only thing they care about is denying that there is any difference between the sexes.
But as much as they want to deny it, it is true.
The dad plays a different role.
Just as important.
Ultimately.
But different.
And so, when I talk about dads going to work, And, you know, what I've heard from the left all weekend is, oh, so you're saying that dad should be a deadbeat.
They shouldn't do anything for their kids.
No.
You idiots.
Working for your family and providing for them is not nothing.
So I was home for, I don't know, like I said, a few days after my kids were born.
Then I went to work.
And I made money, which I brought home to them.
To put a roof over their head and to put food in their mouths.
That's not nothing.
That's an important role.
It's not exactly the same role that my wife plays.
It's different.
And that's okay.
That's good.
Okay.
And you're all canceled.
So I'm glad we got that out of the way now.
We'll leave it there for today.
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