Ep. 1435 - Another Day, Another Pathetic Race Hoax. You Won’t Believe This One
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, racial pandering on the Left has somehow managed to reach new lows in the last week. We'll discuss. Also, the media continues to smear Donald Trump for honoring fallen service members while Biden sat on the beach and couldn't be bothered. Trump clarifies his stance on a pro-abortion measure in Florida. And The New York Times encourages you to ditch your air conditioning for the sake of the climate.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, racial pandering on the left has somehow managed to reach new lows in the last week, we'll discuss.
Also, the media continues to smear Donald Trump for honoring fallen service members while Biden sat on the beach and couldn't be bothered.
Trump clarifies his stance on a pro-abortion measure in Florida.
The New York Times encourages you to ditch your air conditioning for the sake of the climate.
We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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When the demand for racism far exceeds the supply, the inevitable result is that you get race hoaxes.
And there are now so many race hoaxes in this country that we have entire genres of race hoaxes to catalog.
There's the Jussie Smollett style hoax where you fake a racist attack.
There's the Graffiti style race hoax where you spray-paint something
racist on a wall or a car or something like that.
Of course, there's the restaurant receipt style race hoax where somebody leaves a racist message on a receipt.
One of the more prominent racist receipt hoaxes is the one that happened at the salt grass steakhouse a few years back
when a customer supposedly wrote the words
"We don't tip terrorists" on his receipt because the waiter looked like he was from the Middle East or something and
the waiter put out a social media post saying that the receipt is a
proof that a racism is alive and well.
This is racism and this hatred still exists, he posted on Instagram.
The restaurant immediately announced it was banning the customer for life because the waiter obviously wouldn't lie about something like that, only for the waiter to eventually admit what every sane person already knew, which is that he fabricated the whole thing.
These race hoaxes are so predictable that you'd be forgiven for believing that innovation is truly dead in the race hoax industry.
Race hoaxes have become...
It seems a lot like iPhones.
There's no real variation from year to year.
You just keep getting the same thing over and over and over again, and that's true for the most part.
But there was one very notable recent exception to this general rule, and it comes to us from Charles County, Maryland.
For the first time in recorded history, we have a twist on the restaurant receipt race hoax.
The spin is that in this case, the receipt isn't actually being faked by anyone.
It's a 100% accurate receipt, according to all parties involved.
So in that sense, this is something of an upgrade over the typical genre standbys that we're all used to.
Unfortunately, in every other respect, This is still one of the dumbest race hoaxes to ever occur in this country.
It's so extraordinarily low IQ and insulting to the intelligence of everybody involved that it defies comprehension as to why a single news station anywhere would cover this complete non-story, except maybe to laugh at it.
But some news outlets, both national and local, did cover the story and covered it with a straight face.
Here's one of those stations.
A Charles County man is outraged after he placed a drive-thru order at Chick-fil-A and he says a worker printed a racist name on the label.
Our Amy Cho has that story you will only see here on News 4.
When Marquis Manzago got his food from the La Plata Chick-fil-A drive-thru last Friday, he was shocked to see this printed on the label.
The word monkeys instead of his name.
It was devastating because it just set me back, you know, years.
You know, as a black male, we've gone through a lot and it just kind of, it's a constant reminder.
Just when you think you're healing from a situation, someone opens that wound back up.
Van Zego says he went inside to complain and a manager and the store owner later apologized to him.
Van Zego says the owner told him he wouldn't fire the employee involved because the employee was a minor and said he misheard the name.
Van Zego says he placed the order face to face, not through a microphone because the worker was standing outside in the drive-thru line.
I think that they could have been handled a lot differently.
I definitely think that the employee should have been terminated on the spot.
It's unfortunate that he might end up losing his job, but that happens.
He needs to learn from this.
Vanzago says he's hired an attorney and he's considering filing a federal lawsuit against Chick-fil-A for discrimination.
I won't be going back to that Chick-fil-A any longer.
Racism is still alive.
Racism is still alive, he says, pretending to be upset.
He's been set back years by this.
He saw writing on a receipt.
He saw the word monkeys on a receipt, and he can barely sleep at night.
He's incapacitated.
He's lying on the ground in his house in the fetal position, unable to cope with having seen the word monkeys.
By the way, this is similar to what the saltgrass waiter said a couple of years ago, too.
Of course, the irony is that if racism were still alive, as they say, they wouldn't need to make it up.
We're supposed to think that these hoaxers are really angry that racism is still alive, but of course the opposite is true.
They want racism to exist so badly that they're willing to invent it.
That guy got that receipt.
And again, by all accounts, it seems like that really was printed on the receipt.
But he got that and he read it, and we all know he was so excited when he read that.
It was the greatest day of his life, when some kid accidentally misheard him and put monkeys on the receipt.
Greatest thing that's ever happened to this guy.
He is so excited.
He just had the dollar signs in his eyes and everything.
So, the hope is that the race hoax will follow the familiar pattern, that's always the hoaxer's hope.
First, the social media outrage, followed by the termination of the allegedly offending party, followed by a big payout, followed by them taking their place alongside the great civil rights heroes of our time, men like George Floyd and Michael Brown.
And they're not quite sure how to react when that pattern doesn't play out.
Notice in the video that the man assumes that the teenage employee will be fired, even though Chick-fil-A has already said that he won't be.
He says, well, it's sad he might have to lose his job, but he needs to learn a lesson.
It's as if he can't process the fact that he's being told that no, the Chick-fil-A employee didn't actually suffer any kind of consequence, nor should he.
Nevertheless, the man says he's thinking about filing a federal lawsuit against Chick-fil-A because that receipt was just devastating.
Devastating.
He's never going back to that Chick-fil-A ever again.
Because apparently the equivalent of the KKK has taken over that Chick-fil-A.
Whenever they see a black customer, they just write monkey on the receipt.
You know, because that's how racist they are at this particular Chick-fil-A.
That's the narrative that the media is reporting without any pushback whatsoever, even though it's extremely obvious that this was a misunderstanding on the part of the employee.
The guy's name is Marquis.
Which does sound very close to monkeys, Marquis, monkeys.
I mean, it sounds similar.
Now, if his name was like Bob or Larry or something, and someone says they misheard it as monkeys, you know, then he'd have a little bit more of a case.
Then you could maybe convince someone that this was a malicious attempt to communicate some racist message to this customer for some reason.
Maybe you could convince someone that this employee was just willing to sacrifice his livelihood for the sake of putting a racist message on a receipt.
When in reality, by the way, I feel bad for this kid.
Of course, he's the only one to feel bad for.
Put yourself in his shoes.
He's working the drive-thru.
Guy comes up, places his order.
The kid asks, what name can I put on it?
And the guy said something that like, and he hears it as monkeys, but what's he going to do now?
Because he doesn't, he's probably thinking to himself, well, I can't, I can't ask.
I can't say monkeys.
Was that the name?
He can't say that.
So now he's like probably frantically going through his mind thinking like, what's a name that sounds similar to monkeys that I could just put on here?
And he can't think of anything.
So he just puts it on there.
So this guy either said Marquis, or maybe he might have even, for all we know, this guy actually said monkeys in the drive-thru lane.
And this is all just some big setup.
Who knows?
But whatever, the employee thought that he heard monkeys.
That's what we know for sure.
And we can be pretty sure of all that, because the alternative makes no sense whatsoever.
The Chick-fil-A is in Maryland.
This drive-thru employee probably serves dozens of black customers a day.
Does he call all of them racial slurs, or did he just randomly select this guy for no particular reason?
Did he wake up and decide, you know what?
Today's the day.
Today's the day I'm gonna go ahead and make this, the rest of my life will be about this moment.
I'm gonna call a guy, a black guy, a monkey.
And I'm gonna put it in writing.
Is there a single person who actually believes that that's a plausible scenario?
And yet the media uncritically reports on the customer's trauma.
Then he makes his pitch for a lawsuit, which is really a shakedown.
He's essentially telling Chick-fil-A to pay up, or he's going to smear them as much as possible.
If you watch the video, this guy recorded it in the Chick-fil-A, which I won't play because it's painful to listen to, but he immediately demands that the employee loses his job, and then he promises to make the clip go viral.
So he went directly into making threats as soon as he saw an opportunity.
He had the lawyer on the phone as soon as he possibly could.
So this is inexcusable behavior on the part of the customer, obviously.
But it's also predictable.
This is the kind of response that a lot of people will have when everyone in the media is telling them at every opportunity that they're a victim because of their skin color.
It's what happens when some people are bombarded with lies about how oppressed they are.
And that's happening constantly, right out in the open.
The other day, for example, The actor and singer Tyrese had a conversation with the race hustling ambulance chaser Ben Crump.
And Tyrese made a claim that's clearly false and also clearly designed to stoke as much racial animosity and resentment as possible.
And of course, Ben Crump, the alleged lawyer, just sits and agrees with it.
But this is really an extraordinary claim.
I want you to listen to this.
Here it is.
President Biden and Kamala Harris signed an Asian hate crime bill, which makes it beyond illegal to ever purposely and maliciously do anything to anybody in the Asian community.
And there was a spike in crimes and Criminal behavior in and around COVID, allegedly and specifically motivated by Trump.
And so everybody, they start treating Asians, beating them, killing them, shooting them, stabbing them, hurting them.
And then he gets into the White House.
He skips over every black and brown Mexican and Latino that have been getting killed like flies, and he makes it a law.
Asian hate crime bill is signed into law.
So rather you're a police officer or a regular civilian, if you wake up on a Wednesday and say, he's Asian, a woman or a man, let's go do something bad to them, which God forbid, whatever happened again, But it is a crime bill that was signed into law that protects Asians at all costs.
Where is that same law to be signed into law when it comes to black and brown people?
Because what you're doing is, President Biden and Kamala Harris, what you're doing is you're saying that black and brown people will continue to be disposable.
So, Tyrese claims bizarrely that there are no hate crime laws protecting black and brown people.
Never mind that every hate crime law protects those groups, and most of them were written specifically to protect those groups.
Just last week, Kamala was once again promoting the Anti-Lynching Act the Biden administration signed into law a couple of years ago.
That was yet another hate crime bill written specifically to protect black people from a form of violence that, by the way, none of them have suffered in at least 40 years.
Also, as I covered last week, lynching is already illegal about three times over, so they made it illegal a fourth time.
As to the specific legislation that Tyrese is talking about, he's wrong about that too.
There was no bill that only punishes anti-Asian hate crimes.
The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which is apparently what he's referring to, applied to all forms of hate crime.
It just made it easier to report and catalog these incidents.
And a lot of people pointed this out online, so it's not a particularly convincing lie either.
And as I've discussed before, this is all a moot point anyway, because hate crimes shouldn't be an actual category of crime.
For one thing, a lot of crimes committed against other people typically involve some form of hatred, so we don't need a special category for certain kinds of hatred.
And for another thing, hate crimes aren't prosecuted or reported with any kind of consistency.
Those are Legitimate complaints you can make about hate crime legislation, but the idea that they don't protect black and brown people is just complete nonsense.
In the Ahmaud Arbery case, after the state secured the murder convictions, the feds went back and prosecuted those defendants for hate crimes because of racist text messages they had sent before the murder about someone other than Ahmaud Arbery.
It was an entirely separate prosecution.
They got guilty pleas and then additional life sentences because of it.
But apparently those hate crime laws don't exist, according to Tyrese and Ben Crump.
This is the same kind of race hustling that Barack Obama specialized in, but these people aren't anywhere near as good at it.
Look the camera in the eye and wag his finger and say whatever he wanted.
He could convince a lot of people that hate crime laws only protect white people if he wanted to, but Tyrese and Ben Crump aren't so gifted.
They're not anywhere near as coherent, so their pandering is just too obvious.
In fact, right now there aren't many prominent members of the Democrat Party who are capable of pulling off the Obama-style hustle.
Kamala Harris certainly isn't capable of it.
Even in scripted moments, pretty much the only kinds of moments that her handlers will allow her to have, even in those moments she can't do it.
So take a look at these two clips from Kamala Harris events.
This is just yesterday.
One is in Detroit, and the other is in Pennsylvania.
And they're just a few hours apart.
So, see if you can notice any differences.
You better thank a union member for the five-day work week.
You better thank a union member for sick leave.
You better thank a union member for paid leave.
You better thank a union member for vacation time.
Thank unions for sick leave.
Thank unions for paid family leave.
Thank unions for your vacation time.
You better thank a union member.
You better thank a union member for vacation time.
It sounds just as authentic when I do it.
Maybe even more.
I think I sound a little bit more authentic than Kamala Harris does.
I can pull that off better than she could.
You better thank a union member.
You better thank a union member.
You got to get that kind of, there's a little flow to it that she's trying to do.
And we're used to seeing this kind of thing.
And so obviously the Detroit speech, she's once again trying to sound urban, but instead ends up sounding like foghorn leghorn.
She's trying to connect with black voters by changing her accent and tone.
But ironically, she winds up sounding a little bit like a plantation owner in the antebellum South.
Meanwhile, in the Pennsylvania clip, she just sounds completely different.
And Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and Bill Clinton did this kind of thing all the time, but they at least waited a few days before dropping their accents.
They didn't leave the urban environment and immediately start speaking normally again.
And you usually don't get the exact same lines that you can compare side by side that way.
So this may be the single worst attempt at quote-unquote code switching, or whatever you want to call it, that has ever been attempted.
But Kamala attempted it anyway.
So whatever this is, whether it's desperation or incompetence or both, it's a clear sign that the Democrats aren't going to change their tactics just because they don't have the talent to pull it off.
They still have no problem being completely shameless in their attempts to divide this country along racial lines.
So that means the media will continue to tell us that innocuous restaurant receipts are racist.
Ben Crump will nod along as an actor lies about hate crimes.
And Kamala Harris will do everything she can to prevent people from realizing that she grew up in a wealthy neighborhood in Montreal.
Put it all together, and it's clear that the left's racial pandering is now so overt that it manages to insult the intelligence of the people that they're pandering to.
This is inevitably what happens when the demand for racism outstrips the supply.
You get hoax after hoax after hoax.
And eventually the hoaxes start looking a bit too familiar and a bit too obvious.
That's what we're seeing now.
The fraud is clearer than it's ever been.
And if Kamala Harris made anything clear yesterday, it's that she's incapable of hiding it.
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Daily Wire reports Gold Star families who lost their sons and
daughters during the Biden-Harris administration's disastrous
withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 released a joint statement and
individual statements over the weekend slamming Vice President
Kamala Harris over a political attack that she made against former President Donald Trump that was filled with false
statements.
Harris attacked Trump on Saturday for visiting Arlington National Cemetery to pay his respects to the 13 U.S.
service members who died during the withdrawal, which was approved by Harris.
The family has released a joint statement saying that they personally invited Trump to attend the event at ANC and that they were appalled by her attacks on social media, saying that she disgracefully twisted this sacred moment into a political ploy.
They said, quote, Reading the statement, Vice President Harris bears responsibility for the deaths of our sons and daughters.
Despite our multiple requests for a meeting to discuss the loss of our loved ones, Vice President Harris has repeatedly ignored us, showing a complete lack of empathy and accountability.
This refusal to face the consequences of her administration's decisions is a deep betrayal to us as Gold Star families.
President Trump, on the other hand, has been the only Commander-in-Chief to consistently recognize the heroism of our children.
His attendance at Arlington was not for political gain, but to stand with us, to grieve with us, and to honor the legacy of those who gave everything for this nation.
His leadership during his time in office was strong, and we have no doubt that if he were still Commander-in-Chief, our children would be alive today.
So that's what they have to say about it, and of course, they're correct about the whole thing, but They're fundamentally correct that Harris is accusing Trump of using the Arlington National Cemetery as a political prop, when in fact, that's exactly what she's doing.
He didn't turn it into a political issue.
He was just there.
Okay?
They made the fact that he was there into a political issue.
So they are the ones, of course, who are politicizing it.
And there were also a bunch of, as the article said, a bunch of individual statements from Gold Star families responding to this contrived controversy that Kamala Harris' campaign has cooked up.
So here's, we'll watch one of those statements.
Here it is.
Vice President Harris, my name is Steve Nakooey.
I'm the father of Lance Corporal Kareem M. Nakooey.
And your administration killed my son.
Deliberately in exchange for political theatrics so you could have a final day of the evacuation coincide with September 11th.
Ignoring the advice of your generals, the Doha Agreement, and countless other veterans and members of Congress.
Denying the safety of the Afghans and the servicemen and women.
Your choice to play politics in 2021 killed 170 Afghans, 13 U.S.
service members, and wounded 45 of our service members, as well as countless Afghans.
You are not at Dover for the dignified transfer.
At no time have you reached out to me to offer your condolences, to offer thank you for Karim's sacrifice and service.
Not once have you honored him by saying his name, so I said it for you.
You have disparaged all 13 who have lost their lives as well as their families, exhibiting your lack of gratitude by your silence.
I agree with you on one thing, that a person like you should never and will never stand behind the seal of presidency.
You are a DEI vice president, and contrary to our kids, the worst that America has to offer.
I will pray for you, that God has mercy on your soul.
So this should really be the scandal.
Biden got those service members killed, he ignored the families, didn't show up to the dignified transfer, didn't show up to the ceremony at Arlington, hasn't contacted them, doesn't care, and yet Trump is the villain of this story somehow.
So I really have to wonder what the Kamala campaign is seeing in their internal polling that has made them this desperate.
Because they're obviously worried, so they're playing this card relentlessly.
And I wonder, I've seen this speculation on Twitter, and I think there's probably truth to it.
You have to wonder if their internals are showing that Kamala is way underwater with veterans and the military vote.
And my guess is that the veteran vote is strongly against Kamala, partly because she's a communist.
And people in the military generally don't approve of communism.
And partly because her running mate is a fraud who committed stolen valor.
And so those two factors together will make you pretty unpopular with many people in the
military and many people who are ex-military and veterans.
So most likely, if I had to guess, they've seen that, they're worried about it, and this
is their way of trying to counteract it.
With this PSYOP, trying to convince everyone that Trump somehow disrespected the military
by showing up to Arlington and being filmed there.
Even though as we talked about last week, presidents and presidential candidates are
filmed at Arlington all the time.
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It has never been an issue, ever, until right now.
Biden was filmed there.
Obama was.
Bush was.
Clinton was.
On and on and on.
I mean, Biden put Arlington in campaign ads.
They had images of Biden at Arlington.
They had images from Arlington that Biden put into campaign ads.
But this is the game with Trump.
It's always been their game plan.
It's this constant gaslighting, trying to convince us that we should be shocked and scandalized by things that are normal.
They take something normal Trump has done and they shout, this is unprecedented.
Nobody's ever done this before in history.
We've never seen anything like this.
And every time they do that, your first reaction is to think, wait, no, but I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure like every president has done that.
What do you, haven't I seen this a million times?
But they want you to ignore your first reaction, ignore your gut-level reaction, ignore your BS detector, and conjure up within yourself somehow some kind of outrage at Trump for doing something that doesn't even seem wrong to you, because it isn't wrong.
That's what they want.
Moving on to Biden, who's back from his three-week vacation.
I mean, well, he's not back in the White House.
This guy hasn't been in the White House in like a month, okay?
And he takes a three-week vacation.
He's done in January.
He's done forever in politics.
You got a couple of months left.
You could take the rest of your life.
However short it may be, God forbid, will be a vacation starting in January.
You can't wait until then before taking off and going to the beach.
You can spend the rest of your life on the beach starting in January.
But he can't wait, so he's been there.
And yesterday, though, he returned from the beach and he went to give a speech in Pittsburgh.
He's out campaigning now.
And it only took about 15 seconds in his speech in Pittsburgh last night to show that Biden certainly did not reclaim any of his mental faculties during his hiatus.
Listen.
You'll no longer be the manufacturing capital of the world.
Where the hell is that written?
We are the greatest manufacturing city or county in the world.
State in the world.
City in the world.
We're going to remain that way.
He says, we are the greatest manufacturing city in the world, county in the world, state in the world, city in the world.
What's so amazing about, and it's like there's no point in even dissecting these Biden, he's done.
I mean, his mind is gone.
So it's just, it's finished.
He's completely gone.
And we know that, but this one stands out because it, he runs through every level of Social organization except country.
He's searching for country.
He hits every other level of government except that one.
He hits city, county, state, and then he's about to get it.
It took him three tries.
He got city, county, state.
Last one is country.
That's what you're looking for.
But he circles back to city.
His brain is like, it precludes him from saying the one word that he wants to say.
This guy's mind is a vacuum at this point.
It's an abyss.
It's a black hole.
And this guy is still allegedly running the country.
All right.
I also wanted to mention, this is important to talk about.
Well, it's not very important, but I'll still talk about it.
J.D.
Vance is often accused, unfairly I think, accused of being an awkward guy.
And you see these clips floating around of Vance on the campaign trail, having interactions with people, and the social media peanut gallery sneers and snickers about it, claiming that Vance is just
this awkward dude with no riz, as the kids would say.
But as with most criticisms of Vance, I think it's completely unfair.
In fact, I've watched these videos.
I think he's pretty smooth and natural on the campaign trail.
He's better than I thought he would be.
So I've been impressed.
It's just that he gets blamed.
He gets blamed.
So I want to show you this because it's symptomatic of the issue with J.D.
Vance.
He gets blamed for stuff like this.
Here's the latest viral video allegedly showing J.D.
Vance being awkward and weird.
It's a quick little clip.
Let's watch it and see who's to blame in this interaction.
Let's see.
Good to see you.
First time here?
First time here.
Okay.
Thank you for coming.
Of course.
That was quick.
You may have missed it.
Play the clip one more time.
It's very important to dissect this.
Play it one more time.
Okay.
See?
So this clip's all over Twitter right now.
People are saying, see, this guy's so awkward.
Who's to blame for that?
He goes in for the handshake, the woman goes for the fist bump, and so he kind of like awkwardly shakes her balled up fist, and then withdraws, and then goes for the fist bump because that's what she's trying to do.
She looks at his hand with the fist bump and just keeps her hands in her pocket.
Like, what?
How can you blame him for that?
He went in for the handshake with an old woman.
Who would ever think that an old white woman would do the fist bump?
He wasn't ready for that.
You see an old white woman, you think it's either going to be a handshake or a hug.
Those are the only two.
What other greeting would there be with granny over here?
He never expected that she would go for the fist bump.
And then he tries to switch it.
Who does that?
What kind of sociopath?
Like, first of all, you've switched the greeting mid-stream, and then he tries to correct and you don't even humor him?
You leave him hanging?
This is why, and this is really what is important to me.
When someone, the rule here, and it should be, if I was in charge, this is a legal, I mean, I would put the force of law behind it.
When someone initiates a greeting, you go with whatever type of greeting they have initiated.
Okay, so I can't stand when people do this.
If someone goes in for the handshake, you shake their hand.
You don't try to switch it to a fist bump.
If the fist bump is so important to you, then you have to initiate.
You waited too long.
You can't do that.
If somebody goes for the fist bump, on the other hand, you don't try to change it to a handshake.
If somebody goes for a hug, I'm not a big hugger, but... If someone goes for a hug, you don't, like, awkwardly try to put your hand in between.
You just do the hug.
You suck it up and do the hug, okay?
This is crazy that people don't... If they go in for a kiss on the lips, you know what?
You pucker up and give the kiss.
I'm kidding about that last one.
I draw the line at the kiss.
Okay, if someone goes for the kiss, that's too intimate, so then that really is on them because they went too far.
But really, greetings, it should be a handshake in most circumstances.
A fist bump is like, I mean, really, we should just get rid of the fist bump as a greeting at all, between strangers especially.
Okay, if this is like your buddies or something, whatever, but a fist bump Between strangers who are adults?
And you're doing a fist bump?
So really, we should just get rid of that as a greeting.
But handshake, there are circumstances where a hug, even between strangers, can be the correct etiquette.
Again, I say that as not a big hugger.
And then if you want to throw a fist bump, those are the three.
But when somebody initiates one of those, If they initiate a high five, then you reciprocate.
Drives me crazy.
Drives me crazy.
I don't know, I don't understand how people do this.
Okay.
Yeah, I'd put, I mean, if it were up to me, that woman's going to prison for that.
That's, that's, and I'm not, look, I'm not unreasonable, I'm not saying I'd put her in, Not even prison.
You know what?
I wouldn't even put her in prison.
I'll correct that.
I'd put her in jail.
So I'm not saying we put her in prison for five years for that.
But I think that's worth 30 days in jail.
Because this is, I guarantee this woman is old.
She's been doing that her whole life.
Ruining normal social interactions by being unnecessarily weird about it.
And not just going with the flow.
Right?
I guarantee she's been doing that forever.
And someone's got to put a stop to it.
All right, what else we got here?
Last week we talked about this Amendment 4 issue in Florida.
Amendment 4 will overturn Florida's abortion restrictions and actually make abortion legal through every stage of pregnancy up until birth.
And Trump was asked whether he would vote in favor of this radical pro-abortion amendment, because he's a resident of Florida.
And the first time he was asked, he didn't give an answer, but seemed to sort of indicate that maybe he would support it, although it wasn't clear.
And we talked about that on Friday.
And then later in the day, I think it was the same day, he finally gave this clarification.
Let's listen.
Disagreed with that right from the early primaries when I heard about it.
I just disagreed with it.
At the same time, the Democrats are radical because the nine months is just a ridiculous situation that where you can do an abortion in the ninth month.
And you know, some of the states like Minnesota and other states have it where you can actually execute the baby after birth.
And all of that stuff is unacceptable.
So I'll be voting no for that reason.
Okay, there you go.
That's the right answer.
It's an easy answer to give.
It would have been great if he had given that answer the first time.
Because it is easy.
You know, you just pivot back to left-wing extremism.
It's not this, I've been, you know, I've been shouting this into a megaphone now incessantly for months, really years.
During my career, but the pro-life issue.
I don't care.
I understand.
Oh, the polls, the polls say that most Americans are.
OK, stop being a little pansy.
I understand the poll.
You don't have to be afraid.
And I say this as a general comment to conservatives in general.
You don't need to be afraid of the issue just because the polls say this or that.
Who are we that we're afraid?
The way that conservatives, especially in this election cycle, are treating the abortion issue.
They're just terrified of it.
Petrified.
Ashamed.
They're embarrassed.
We are opposed to the murder of babies.
What are you embarrassed about?
Why would you be ashamed of that?
And it's not difficult.
It is actually not a difficult issue to talk about or navigate around.
And I say this for the umpteenth time, I'll repeat, I'm not expecting, because even though we shouldn't be afraid of what the polls say, I understand the polls are a reality, and if you're running for office, especially national office, you have to deal with that reality.
And I'm not expecting.
I don't expect candidates for national office to go jump on a grenade and blow up their campaign for no reason.
I'm not expecting them to go out of their way to take positions that are wildly unpopular and that might actually sink their campaign, which is why I don't expect Trump to come out and say, That, for example, he wants to pass a law banning abortion from birth at the federal level.
I would like to see that law.
There's a very good argument for that law.
In fact, the only good argument is because it's a human rights issue, and so it is a constitutional issue, but I don't expect that.
And I want these candidates to actually be elected, right?
You can't do anything if they're not elected.
So, you know, you got it.
So there's a certain amount of pragmatism.
You have to be practical.
I get all that.
But even acknowledging that, and acknowledging that there are sensitivities you have to work around, and you can't just run into this issue like a bull in a china shop, as I tend to do, and I also get that I have the luxury of approaching issues that way because I'm not running for office.
But with all that established, it's still a really easy issue to deal with.
Because they are the ones who are supporting the murder of children, and so they are the ones who have all of these You know, pitfalls, all of these booby traps that are laid out there that they could fall into at any moment when talking about this issue.
That's why they have to constantly use euphemisms all the time.
They are the ones who should be terrified of this issue.
And if you approach it the right way and you're smart about it, they will be terrified of it.
There's a way for Trump, Kamala Harris is going into this debate next week.
Obviously, you know, planning probably to hit Trump on abortion over and over and over again.
But it would not be difficult for Trump to handle it in a way where suddenly this thing that Kamala Harris wanted to talk about for the entire debate, she doesn't want to talk about it anymore.
It wouldn't be hard to do.
You can steer this conversation because there's, as I've said a million times, there's a narrow lane.
That the Democrats want to walk on this issue.
There's a narrow lane.
They want to be in that lane.
And as long as they're in that lane, yeah, they're very comfortable there.
They want to talk about it.
They feel like it's a winner for them.
But it's so narrow, it's not even a lane.
It's like a tightrope that they have to walk.
So it just takes a slight nudge to knock them off balance.
And suddenly they're falling into an abyss where they don't want to be.
Um, not hard to get them there.
And all that means is pivot back to their extremism.
They want to murder babies until, uh, through every stage of pregnancy.
Pivot back to the fundamental questions on this issue.
Questions like, well, what, when, do, do people, when is a person a person?
Is a baby not a person until the moment it emerges from the birth canal?
Why would that be the case?
I mean, if you have a firm position on this, you think abortion should be legal through every stage of pregnancy, then you must have an answer as to whether or not the child is a person.
And they can't answer that.
They can't answer that.
She's not gonna say, If Trump has the wits and the wherewithal to just turn to her and say, listen Kamala, we're talking about this issue.
I'm fine talking about it, but can we just get down to the, let's get down to the brass tacks on this thing first.
At what point is a baby a person?
Like, isn't that what we're talking about?
Can you answer that question first?
She's not gonna, she will not answer that question.
And that's a problem because, well, she'll say something.
Obama famously said it's above his pay grade.
She'll say something like that.
She'll say, well, many people have different opinions on this.
It's impossible to know.
Well, wait a second.
So you're saying you don't know if the baby is a person.
And so even in your version of events, you might be supporting the murder of people.
So you don't know if the baby's a person, and your answer is kill the baby anyway?
I mean, before you kill something, shouldn't you at least be, shouldn't you at least figure
out what it is?
Basic question.
Trump goes that route, it's a winner, I guarantee.
He can annihilate her on this issue, embarrass her.
But you can't be afraid of it.
You can't be afraid of it.
There's no reason to be afraid.
It's like I tell when I'm out with my sons and we're throwing a ball around.
And I throw the ball at them.
I say, they want to flinch and look away from the ball and catch it.
I say, don't be afraid of the ball.
Don't be afraid of it.
It's not going to hurt you.
It might hit your head and you'll be fine.
Don't be afraid of the ball.
Well, when you're talking about this issue, don't be afraid of the ball.
Don't be afraid of it.
Right?
You're throwing this thing back and forth.
Don't be afraid of it.
There's nothing to be afraid of.
Lean into it.
And if you're willing to do that, you can win the argument very easily.
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Now listeners of this show know that I am often a critic of modern Western civilization.
I criticize it not because I hate it or want to leave, but because I love it and plan to stay here until I die.
Raise my children here, just as my children will raise their own children, and so on and so on.
What troubles me about our society is the degradation, the moral chaos, the signs of collapse and decay, and that's where I focus my criticisms.
But there are others who hate Western civilization for all of the good things about it.
They are the authors of the degradation, chaos, and collapse that I just mentioned.
They criticize Western civilization because they despise it, just as they despise civilization itself.
And that explains the relatively recent rise of the anti-air conditioning movement, which is, of course, an outgrowth of the climate hysteria that has gripped hold of some of the most impressionable and gullible portions of our society.
This weekend, an author named Stan Cox submitted another entry into the burgeoning anti-AC genre with an op-ed in the New York Times titled, I Swore Off Air Conditioning, and You Can Too.
Well, yes, Stan, we can swear it off.
But why in God's name would we want to?
That's the question he needs to answer, and let's see if he does.
Quote, "Whenever people ask me how my wife and I have endured 25 Kansas summers almost entirely without air
conditioning, I like to say we do it because air conditioning makes it
too hot outside.
We're not aesthetics, Luddites, or misers. We just want to keep living comfortably indoors and out."
Now a quick side note here.
It's funny that Stan rules out from the start that his anti-AC position is due to him being an ascetic, luddite, or miser.
Because those would all be the only legitimate reasons to not use air conditioning.
At least they're the closest thing to legitimate.
So if you have decided to practice asceticism, and you are swearing off earthly pleasures and physical comforts as part of some kind of You know, a severe spiritual discipline, and you're sweating your ass off in your own living room all summer long as part of that process, well, I can respect that.
I'm not coming over to visit, especially not anytime between the months of May and October, but I respect your commitment.
But those are not the reasons why Stan has rejected his air conditioning unit.
Those are rarely the reasons why the anti-AC people reject it.
So let's continue.
Quote, our bodies have grown so accustomed to climate-controlled indoor spaces centered at chilly 69 degrees that anything else can feel unbearable.
And the greenhouse gases created by the roughly 90% of American households that own AC ...mean that running them even in balmy temperatures is making the climate crisis worse.
Our species evolved biologically and culturally under wildly varying climatic conditions, and we haven't lost that ability to adapt.
Research suggests that when we spend more time in warm or hot summer weather, we could start feeling comfortable at temperatures that once felt insufferable.
To keep us going through the rest of the summer, we rely on electric fans, which consume only about 2% of the energy needed to air condition one room.
They're not only free of the refrigerants that amplify air conditioning's contribution to global warming, they can also save you money.
So this is about stopping climate change, as always.
This is why Stan and his family willingly choose to live inside an oven.
But they do have some alternative methods for keeping cool.
He tells us, quote, We also kept other appliances and devices turned off as much as possible because they, too, generate heat.
Dishwashers are trouble putting out heat and humidity.
We don't have one.
We can't unplug the refrigerator, of course, but we keep ours set for just under 40 degrees, the highest safe temperature, according to the FDA.
And we dry our laundry in the clothesline out back.
When it gets too hot, we lightly spray water on our arms, legs, and faces.
The water helps dissipate a lot of heat.
A quick cold shower or a little time spent with that All-American favorite, the lawn sprinkler, also can bring relief.
So this is what Stan is reduced to.
Spraying himself with a water bottle like he's a misbehaving cat.
Running through the sprinkler just to stave off the heat exhaustion.
And to make matters worse, he also deprives himself of a dishwasher and a washing machine.
He has rejected... He's rejected perhaps the three greatest household inventions.
And he's rejected them for the dumbest imaginable reason.
Not like a cool reason, like he's Amish.
Or even a practical reason, like if he was broke.
But for the sake of the climate.
The stupidest, lamest, least practical reason of all.
And look, I take this sort of thing personally, I admit, because I am a lifelong diehard fan of air conditioning.
I am basically the president of air conditioning's fan club.
No pun intended.
There are few technological advances in human history that have been as beneficial as air conditioning.
It has undoubtedly saved millions of lives over the years.
There's actually been studies done on this.
For instance, in the year 2019 alone, according to one study, air conditioning was responsible for saving nearly 200,000 lives.
It's not difficult to see how that would be the case, but even aside from the lives saved, the perhaps less urgent but still profoundly important point is that it makes life markedly more enjoyable for hundreds of millions of people.
Few inventions have increased quality of life as significantly as air conditioning has.
It's an invention so great that, unlike so many other almost as great inventions, it's nearly impossible to take for granted.
So I admit that whenever I open my refrigerator or I get into my car, I am not always consciously grateful for the fact that refrigerators and cars exist, even though I am grateful.
But every time I walk into an air-conditioned building on a hot day, I always think to myself, my God, I'm so glad air conditioning exists.
In fact, the lack of air conditioning is the first reason that I would never want to take a time machine back to the distant past.
Where they didn't have air conditioning.
Well, that's the second reason, I guess.
The first reason is that time machines don't exist.
But the point is that air conditioning is wonderful.
And that's exactly why people like Stan, leftists, want to discourage you from using it.
This is an ideology committed to making your life more miserable.
It actively seeks to remove joy from existence.
Now it does this at deeper and more serious levels, demolishing the family, faith, tradition, national identity, all of these being sources of meaning and therefore fulfillment and therefore happiness.
But this agenda is enacted closer to the surface too.
Don't eat meat, it says.
Don't own your own home.
Don't drive.
Don't use gas stoves.
Turn off your air conditioning.
As I said, if these forms of self-denial were being recommended as a means of discovering some greater spiritual truth through suffering and deprivation, I could respect it.
I wouldn't do it, but I'd respect it.
Except that's not what's happening here.
This is the worst kind of suffering.
This is suffering without meaning, without purpose.
Misery for misery's sake.
It's like being an ascetic without the asceticism.
Instead it's being replaced with some vague idea that these sacrifices will save the climate or something.
But it's not going to do anything for the climate one way or another.
And it's not really intended to.
This is an anti-human agenda.
Environmentalism is just its glossy cover.
Underneath all of that is a seething hatred for humanity itself.
And that's why Stan really turns off his air conditioning and enjoins you to do the same.
And it's why you shouldn't.
And it's also why Stan is, today, cancelled.
That'll do it for the show today.
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for listening.
Talk to you tomorrow.
Have a great day.
Godspeed.
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It never really seemed to matter that much, at least not to me.
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What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.
There's more for you in this field.
Is America inherently racist?
The word inherent is challenging there.
You want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument?
America is racist to its bones.
So inherently?
Yeah.
This country is a piece of...
White.
Folks.
White.
Trash.
White supremacy.
White woman.
White boy.
Is there a black person around here?
There's a black person right here.
Does he not exist?
Hi, Robin.
Hi.
What's your name?
I'm Matt.
I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.
