Ep. 1441 - Diversity Killed His Son, But He Wishes A White Man Did It?
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the father of a child killed by an illegal immigrant is now speaking up to denounce the conservative politicians and activists who are outraged over his son's death. We're the bad guys, somehow. Also, Trump says he might not do another debate with Kamala. I agree that he shouldn't. I'll explain. And Joe Biden dons a Trump hat. Is an endorsement next? Finally, Will Ferrell is the latest comedian to apologize for some of his old jokes.
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One of the many lies you'll often hear about multiculturalism is that it's an ideology of tolerance.
We are a melting pot.
Diversity is our strength.
We're stronger together.
And so on.
Now, nobody really believes any of that, at least of all the proponents of multiculturalism.
In reality, as Thomas Soule has pointed out, multiculturalism is an ideology that tolerates every culture except one, which is Western culture.
When it comes to Western culture, no level of hatred or self-loathing is beyond the pale.
Anyone who belongs to this disfavored culture must apologize repeatedly for his own existence.
We must grovel at every opportunity on account of our skin color and ethnicity.
And ultimately, a person from this culture must turn on his own family and sacrifice them at the altar of multiculturalism.
That's exactly what happened on Tuesday at a city commission meeting in the town of Springfield, Ohio.
Now in the past few days, as you're probably aware, Springfield has found itself in the center of a national political firestorm after several residents reported that animals are being sacrificed and in some cases eaten by the tens of thousands of Haitian nationals that have flooded into town in the past four years.
And despite what ABC News says, there is clear merit to these claims.
The Daily Wire is on the ground in Springfield where we found evidence that the heads and carcasses of slaughtered pigs are being left out in public.
As disturbing as this is, all of the talk about animals obscures a more important point, which is that human beings are being killed as well.
One of them, as I mentioned earlier this week, was an 11-year-old boy named Aidan Clark.
He was killed, and more than a dozen other students were seriously injured, last year by a Haitian national who crossed the center line and crashed into a school bus on the first day of school.
This Haitian national was on the roads illegally.
His driver's license was from Mexico.
Now, on Tuesday, the father of Aiden Clark addressed the national coverage of his son's death, and here's what he said.
Listen.
We felt it would be in our best interest to be here after recent comments.
You know, I wish that my son, Aiden Clark, was killed by a 60-year-old white man.
I bet you never thought anyone would ever say something so blunt.
But if that guy killed my 11-year-old son, the incessant group of hate-spewing people would leave us alone.
The last thing that we need is to have the worst day of our lives violently and constantly shoved in our faces.
But even that's not good enough for them.
They take it one step further.
They make it seem as though our wonderful Aiden appreciates your hate.
That we should follow their hate.
And look what you've done to us.
We have to get up here and beg them to stop.
Using Aiden as a political tool is, to say the least, reprehensible for any political purpose.
And speaking of morally bankrupt, politicians Bernie Moreno, Chip Roy, J.D.
Vance, and Donald Trump, they have spoken my son's name and used his death for political gain.
This needs to stop now.
They can vomit all the hate they want about illegal immigrants, the border crisis, and even untrue claims about fluffy pets being ravaged and eaten by community members.
However, they are not allowed, nor have they ever been allowed to mention Aiden Clark from Springfield, Ohio.
I will listen to them one more time to hear their apologies.
To clear the air, my son, Aiden Clark, was not murdered.
He was accidentally killed by an immigrant from Haiti.
In order to live like Aiden, you need to accept everyone, choose to shine, make the difference, lead the way, and be the inspiration.
Now, before I go any further, I'll say this.
Losing a child is the single worst thing that can happen to a person.
It's the greatest pain a human being can experience.
That's why, as a father, I almost never criticize people who've gone through something like that.
I don't criticize them for how they grieve.
I don't criticize them for what they say in the aftermath, usually.
It's a horror so unthinkable that there's just no way to know how a person will react.
There's no way for you to know how you would react in that situation.
But after that, after the remarks we just heard, Unfortunately, I feel compelled to say something because, for one thing, this man is slandering people, people like myself, mentioning by name, you know, Donald Trump and J.D.
Vance and other high-profile politicians, slandering people who have spoken up for his son.
He's attributing false motives to us.
He's labeling us racist and hateful and so on.
He's also claiming that No one, including politicians, has the right to even mention his son's name, that we somehow need permission to talk about it.
We don't.
None of that is true.
And we have a right to correct the record, especially since this man is now using his son's death to make a political statement, and it's a false statement, it's a harmful statement.
It's a statement that if people listen to him, more kids are going to die.
If he has his way, more parents are going to be grieving.
So we need to speak up because this is a matter of national importance.
And also it's just the morally right thing to do to correct the record when somebody is lying, lying like this guy is.
So, I'm going to repeat what the father of Aiden Clark just said.
He said, quote, I wish that my son Aiden Clark was killed by a 60-year-old white man.
That was the line that he wrote down, prepared, and then delivered.
I mean, even just writing, just the first part, I wish that my son was killed.
No, there's no conceivable, valid reason to ever write that line down or say it.
There's no context where that isn't incredibly demented and twisted.
He didn't say that he wished his son was never killed.
Instead, he said that he wished his son was killed by somebody else.
So that other people wouldn't draw any unapproved conclusions.
His comments only go to show that white guilt is a sickness.
I mean, this man is infected in his brain.
This is an infection that has burrowed deep into his mind and soul.
Someone needs to talk to this guy and get, like, this is...
He's got to live with what he just said there for the rest of his life.
And he doesn't realize how disgusting and repugnant it is.
And it's so deep in his soul that even the death of a child did not shake him free of this.
I can't comprehend how a thought like this even enters your head.
A man kills your child and your wish is that a man of a different race had killed him?
That a man of your own race had killed him?
How does that thought even occur to you?
Now, I would certainly expect that you would wish that a Haitian immigrant hadn't killed your son, but because you would wish that nobody had.
But to wish that someone else had killed him is incomprehensibly deranged.
Now his implication, if you want to be as charitable as possible, is that the tens of thousands of Haitians that have moved into Springfield are safe drivers.
They're just as safe as the American citizens who have been living there for generations, supposedly.
But everyone living in Springfield knows that's not true.
The journalist Taylor Hansen is in Springfield.
He just reported that, quote, every resident I've talked to is scared of driving and they're dealing with increased insurance rates due to unlicensed and uninsured Haitian drivers causing multiple accidents on a daily basis.
There's no punishment taking place for Haitian drivers without insurance, but if an American citizen does it, they can have their license suspended.
Hanson also put together a compilation of some of the car crashes he's seen involving Haitians in Springfield.
Here's just some of them.
Whose car?
Who did this?
You did this?
Yeah man, this is the third wreck today.
We gotta do something about this.
We need a...
Anthony has to fight for the mayor.
This is the third time this has happened today.
It's the third time.
[BLANK_AUDIO]
Anthony Vermeer.
[BLANK_AUDIO]
This is the fourth wreck today.
This is the fourth car collision.
Oh, this is the fourth wreck involving the New Americans.
How did this happen?
So this is what's happening in Springfield.
It's all predictable.
When you increase the size of a town by one-third and all of the new arrivals are from a dysfunctional hellhole like Haiti, and you got a lot of people that don't even have a license to be on the road in the first place, like they never even took a driver's test in this country, well, you're going to get a lot of bad drivers who don't obey the rules of the road.
It's common sense.
And some of those bad drivers are going to kill children on their way to school.
And you know, one thing that could come out of the horrible tragedy of Aiden's death is if awareness is raised about this problem in Springfield, and then maybe fewer people will die.
But Aiden Clark's father doesn't want fewer people to die.
Because of his own ideology, he doesn't want that awareness to be spread.
Now, it's understandable that Aiden Clark's father is angry.
I would be unfathomably angry if I was in his shoes.
But his anger is directed at the only people who have expressed any concern over his son's death.
He attacks the only people who actually care that his son is dead.
Hey, you know, Kamala Harris doesn't care at all that your son's dead.
Does that bother you?
She couldn't care less.
She wants to put more people in the country, more of the kinds of people who killed your son.
She wants more of those in the country.
Oh, but that doesn't upset you, does it?
You know, it seems to me that after suffering such a tragedy, most of your anger would be reserved for the man who actually killed your son.
Instead, you're defending him.
Well, he didn't, let's be clear, he didn't murder my son.
Yeah, he did.
He's not supposed to be in this country.
He's not supposed to be on the road.
He's on the road illegally.
Yeah, he murdered your son.
You're less angry at the guy who killed your son than you are at politicians who you don't like.
You're sick.
You are sick.
I mean that, like, with all concern for your well-being.
And the rest of the anger that you have should be directed at the politicians who let that guy into the country.
If he hadn't been allowed in, if our immigration system was functional, if our borders were enforced, your son would be alive.
You know, the terrible racist right-wingers that you hate so much?
Guess what?
If we had our way, your son would be alive.
If we were in charge, we had our way.
If Donald Trump was in charge and he had his way, your son would be living today.
But we're the problem.
It's not just this father who thinks like this.
I watched some more of this Springfield City Commission meeting.
The whole thing resembled a struggle session where no one felt that they could speak their minds.
They all had to affirm virtues of multiculturalism.
For example, you might remember this woman who spoke a few days ago about her experiences in Springfield.
This clip went viral at the time for obvious reasons.
Here's some of it.
I'm done with what I'm seeing.
It is so unsafe in my neighborhood anymore.
I have the homeless that we're trying to camp out, and I have made concessions with them, and I try to help them the best I can to keep them from trying to squat on my property.
But it is so unsafe.
I have men that cannot speak English in my front yard screaming at me, throwing mattresses in my front yard, throwing trash in my front yard, and I can't I look at me, I weigh 95 pounds, I couldn't defend myself if I had to.
My husband is elderly and last night after living in this home for 45 years, he said, Noel, guess what?
It's time to pack up and move.
He said, we can't do this anymore.
He said, it's killing both of us mentally.
So she's understandably frustrated.
She's clearly telling the truth about her firsthand experiences.
She's very emotional about it.
Her life is being destroyed.
Her community is being destroyed.
And she's deeply, deeply devastated by that.
A lot of people shared that clip.
I shared it.
With all compassion for this woman and what she's going through.
And yet here was that same woman on Tuesday.
Listen.
I did not mean to bring any ill will to my city.
Everybody knows at this point who I am and I'm not really comfortable with that.
I try to keep to myself and that's not what I wanted was for this to happen.
I did not mean to bring any ill will to the city.
All right.
I'm just saying that I did not mean to bring any ill will.
And about the ducks and the cats, I'm the crazy cat lady in my town.
And I'm not missing any.
Everybody's present and accounted for.
And if they were coming up out of our park with geese or ducks, I would be one of the first people to see it.
I'm telling you, it's not happening.
So stop with all that.
That's what I want to say.
And thank you, Ms.
Tackett, because you spoke to me like I had some sense last Wednesday.
I've got the courage to stand back up here again today.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you very much.
[BLANK_AUDIO]
I mean really, with an attitude like you deserve to lose your community with an attitude like this.
I still don't think you should, because I believe in controlling the border and national sovereignty.
So I'll still speak out about it, but if you don't even have the gumption to stand by your own words, when you're justifiably angry that your community is being destroyed and you feel the need to come back around and rationalize it, then like, How is it that some of us who don't even live there care more about your community than you do?
That's the frustrating thing.
You don't have to apologize for caring about your own well-being and the well-being of your community.
You don't need to apologize for that.
You should care about that.
So now, after her comments generate outrage, appropriate justified outrage, she's backtracking.
Now that they make Democrats and the ideology of multiculturalism look bad, she's apologetic.
She doesn't say that she lied before.
She just recognized now that what she said was inconvenient for the ideology she's required to hold.
And she wants to stay in the good graces of, you know, the people who run her community, I guess.
And so she didn't mean to bring any ill will.
And again, the whole city council, the whole council meeting went like this.
One speaker after another affirming the values of diversity.
Here's another.
The parents of the little boy that died, they broke me down.
They said, stop the hate, and that's what we need to do.
This city's going backwards, not forward.
My mother's an immigrant.
I love the diversity.
We gotta learn.
They're not going nowhere.
I mean, when have you ever told immigrants to get away, leave?
It's not going to happen.
So we've got to move forward and stop the negativity.
Yeah, your community is being destroyed right in front of you.
Everything you've built, everything people before you in your community built is being taken away from you.
And yet the most important message for you is that we love diversity and let's stop the negativity.
It's like watching somebody with Stockholm Syndrome.
That's why I used the word sick before.
That's like a mental sickness.
And it's a very similar kind of mental sickness.
She knows that the huge influx of Haitians has caused problems for Springfield.
She heard all the residents saying so just a few days ago.
But then she implies that, you know, there's no use complaining about it because no one's ever going to remove all these people.
No one in power is going to send these foreign nationals back where they came from.
So she might as well smile and hold back tears and pretend that diversity is strengthening Springfield.
This is the essence of multiculturalism as it's being applied in the United States.
It's not an ideology of tolerance or empowerment.
It's an ideology with one goal, which is the destruction of Western culture.
Which means the destruction of the communities that you live in.
It means making your life actively worse.
And if you live in Springfield, you know that this stuff has made your life actively worse.
You all know it.
Everybody lives there.
You all know it.
And if this city council meeting in Springfield on Tuesday is any indication, a lot of American citizens, even those who have suffered unimaginable horrors as a result of multiculturalism, are perfectly fine with that.
Or at least, they're pretending to be.
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ABC News reports that former President Donald Trump has begun to shut down the possibility of a second debate against Vice President Kamala Harris after debating her Tuesday night, claiming he doesn't need to debate her again because he won the debate.
Trump told ABC News late Tuesday, well, she wants a second debate because she lost tonight very badly.
So we'll think about that, but she immediately called for a second.
And then later on, he was talking to Hannity and he said the same kind of thing.
He's going to think about another debate.
We're looking at it, but when you win, you don't really necessarily have to do it a second time.
So we'll see.
But we had, I thought we had a great debate last night.
I just don't know.
We'll think about it.
I think Trump is on the right track here.
I may be in the minority among conservatives, or maybe I'm not, I don't know.
But I think that Trump should not do a second debate.
And I think he should just say that he's not doing it.
I don't think that we should do this thing of being coy about it, and hey, we'll think about it, and I don't know.
I know that Trump is a showman, so he likes to drag these kinds of things out, and will he or won't he, you know, very reality TV-esque.
I think in this case, it makes you look like you're waffling and it could make you look like you're weak or scared.
So it's better to just say no.
Whatever your answer is, just give it and say, look, obviously here's my answer to this and stick to it.
And, but I agree that you can't walk into another three-on-one cage match situation.
It would be totally ridiculous, politically suicidal, really, to volunteer to be ganged up on again.
That would never happen in the reverse.
Kamala Harris, of course, her campaign would never, she would never want to, and her campaign would never in a million years allow her to walk into a situation where they know that there's going to be two moderators who are against her actively and trying to embarrass her the entire way.
Not ever going to happen.
It's like signing up for a boxing match where the ref is being paid by the other guy.
And you know it, and yet you go, no, it's not, you're not gonna do that.
And not because you're scared of the guy, but because it's just, why would I, it's completely rigged.
I'm not gonna take part in my own, you know, I'm not gonna allow you to screw me over and volunteer for it.
So, if you were to agree to it, if Trump was to agree to a debate, it would have to be somewhere other than mainstream corporate media.
Well, it could be on Fox.
Um, better yet, you could do it somewhere totally outside of the cable news box.
You know, I would push for a, you know, an unmoderated debate would be great.
Um, I've been saying that forever.
I'm not the only one, but I'd love to see a debate where, okay, it's two hours and we've got four topics.
And we're going to do 30 minutes on each topic.
So if there's a moderator, that's the only thing the moderator is doing is just,
okay, here's the first topic, go.
And once we get to about 30 minutes, I'll throw the next topic at you.
And that's all that I'm doing as the moderator.
I'm not doing anything else.
I think that would be interesting.
Doing a debate on Joe Rogan, or, you know, if you want to bring this into the 21st century and go on one of these podcasts, and it doesn't have to be an official kind of traditionally formatted debate, but just have both candidates sit there and talk to Joe for two and a half hours, that would be very revealing.
It would tell us way more than any of these kind of stuffy, formatted, scripted debates on a news channel.
But Kamala's never going to agree to that, obviously.
She's only going to agree to a traditional moderated debate.
And I don't think Trump should willingly walk into that again.
It won't be fair.
It'll be rigged.
And look, I mean, this part I know it will be in the minority, but it's not a great format for Trump.
He had some great debate performances in 2016, but he hasn't had a great one since then.
I mean, there was the Biden one in this cycle, but, you know, Biden was decaying on screen.
He has dementia.
And so, I mean, he would have lost if he was debating nobody, right?
Not to take anything away from Trump, but that's just, you know, we know that.
So it's hard to count that.
And you got to go back then to 2016.
In 2016, it was so unorthodox.
Nobody ever seen anything like this, the way that Trump approaches these things.
It was so bewildering for his opponents, both in the primaries, especially in the primaries, but even in the general election that He kind of knocked his opponents back on their heels and they never figured out.
That was the whole story of 2016.
That they, versus primary opponents especially, you know, they got fed to the wolves completely.
They had no idea what they were getting themselves into.
And then Hillary too, they just never figured out how to approach this.
Trump's been in politics now for almost a decade.
The shock factor and the novelty is worn off completely, as it would for anybody.
I mean, you've been doing this for 10 years.
Which means that now, if you want to win the debates, if you want to win one of these kind of old-fashioned, standard political debates, you've got to kind of win it the old-fashioned way.
Which means a disciplined performance, giving clean, crisp answers, staying relentlessly on message.
Right?
That's what it means to be good at one of those kinds of debates.
It's a particular skill set, especially when you know you've got the moderators against you.
But even if the moderators were playing it relatively fairly, if you take out 2016 as kind of an outlier, We're sort of back into what it's always been, which is it's a particular skill set to succeed in one of those debates.
Because it's not even really a debate.
That's the point.
You're not really debating.
Kamala Harris did not debate Donald Trump.
The moderators debated Trump more than Kamala did.
The only thing Kamala did was she went in there and she had a whole bunch of scripts.
She had her script memorized.
And she did a good job of memorizing it.
And she had her talking points and she just stuck to them.
You know, she stuck to them the whole way.
And she gave pretty concise, for her especially, pretty concise, crisp answers.
And she put out a whole bunch of soundbites out there that could circulate, and that's the game.
That's how you win these debates.
Trump's style is much more freewheeling and kind of word association, stream of consciousness.
And these kinds of debates, that style doesn't work.
You end up with what we saw, which is kind of like you're going around in circles and You hit a couple of good points, you have a couple good moments, but then you keep talking and you sort of step on your own good moments.
It's a style that works really well for, say, his rallies.
I think it would work.
That's why I say, if he could sit down with Joe Rogan, if it would be Kamala, Trump, and Rogan, I'd give advantage Trump all day for that.
Because that is in Trump's wheelhouse.
We're having a freewheeling guy.
We're having a freewheeling conversation.
And Trump can hang in there.
He's not going to get flustered.
He's always got something to say.
Now Kamala, it's not being, you know, it's not like, oh, you have 60 seconds, go.
It's a conversation.
So now Kamala has to try to get a word in edgewise.
She'd have difficulty doing that.
She has to try to keep up and follow, you know, kind of follow the leader as Trump is talking.
And I think she would, it would be a disaster for her.
But again, that's why she's not going to do that.
She's not ever going to.
So that's where we're at.
You have two candidates who could not be more opposite, both ideologically but also stylistically.
And Kamala is not going to walk into a scenario where it doesn't play to her strengths.
She's not ever going to do it.
Trump, to his credit, he's been willing to walk into scenarios that don't play to his strengths as much.
But I think now you've done it.
We don't need to do that again.
For the same reason that she's not going to do it.
So if she's not going to do it, why do you do it?
And so I think you just leave that be.
And you don't need to say no, because it's not like you're scared.
You're saying, yeah, I'd be happy to talk to you again.
Here are the scenarios where I would be willing to talk to you.
And by the way, I want to talk to you in places where It's the opposite of being scared here.
It's like, I want to actually be able to have a conversation.
I don't want you to have all these guardrails and protections by the moderator.
Right?
I want to take the training wheels off and have a real discussion.
And I think, honestly, the more I think about it, I think Trump should come back and propose exactly that.
He should propose exactly, let's sit down with Joe Rogan.
You and me.
She's not ever going to do it.
But then no one can accuse him of being scared, doesn't want to talk to her.
He said, let's talk for three hours.
What do you say?
All right.
Biden was visiting firefighters in Pennsylvania yesterday, and an image came out of that meeting that was so bizarre that I thought it was AI, and I didn't believe it was real.
And the image is him wearing a Trump hat.
You've probably seen this circulating online.
Yeah, the first time I saw it, I thought it must be AI.
There's no way this guy put on a Trump hat.
Because why would he do that?
I mean, this is optics 101.
Everyone knows as a politician that you have to be very careful about the hats that you wear in general.
I mean, for a long time, the rule, kind of the unspoken, unofficial rule for politicians is that you just don't wear hats.
Now Trump, obviously, is one of the many unspoken rules that he just discarded to his benefit.
And so he brought hats back for politicians.
That's one of the things that he did.
One of the ways he changed things was you can wear hats again.
But you got to be careful about the hat that you're wearing.
And one of the things that made the Make America Great Again hat so Genius is that great branding, very noticeable.
It's red and it's got that message on there.
Very simple message.
Everyone can see it.
What you don't do is put on your opponent's merchandise.
That you don't do.
I don't even know if we can call that an unspoken rule because it's more like that.
It's so obvious that you wouldn't even think it need to be a rule unspoken or spoken.
But apparently it was.
So here's the full clip.
Here's the full context that led to Biden putting on the Trump hat.
Pat, watch.
I'm slow.
You're an old fart.
You're an old fart.
Yeah, I know, man.
I'm an old guy.
And you're an old fart.
I know you wouldn't know about that.
About what?
About being old.
Oh, I know.
All right.
I'm a young-timer.
It reminds me of the guys I grew up with.
There was always one in the neighborhood.
Well, I'm the only one.
There you go, man.
I need that hat.
You want my autograph?
Hell no.
You know my name.
Come on.
I ain't going that far.
Yeah.
I said you would do a selfie.
There you go!
Okay. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey.
I'm proud of you now.
Just remember, no eating dogs and cats.
(audience laughing)
Hey, they're good.
Thank you.
They're good, Kentucky Fried Chicken.
I hope you like the pizza.
You guys pick the best again.
I didn't know where this was.
(audience laughing)
Okay, so it's a pretty amazing clip for a number of reasons.
Really, the first thing is that you actually see glimmers of what made Biden, even though he's been a terrible person
his whole life and his whole career, he's a terrible guy, but you see glimmers
of what made him an effective politician back in the day, back before he lost his mind.
Um...
This kind of retail politics thing where he's just kind of, you know, out talking to people and in this case in an environment
with people who obviously don't really like him and uh he doesn't come off as nervous or
scared or anything or awkward he's just kind of natural in that environment um in the same
kind of way that trump is there was a video that's going viral
I don't know if it was going viral, but there was a video of Trump recently.
Nothing remarkable happens, but it's just him kind of working through the crowd, talking to supporters at some event.
I don't know.
But you can kind of see Trump's very good at this.
He's very good at that especially.
Just kind of walk through the crowd, having really brief little 30-second interactions with people, going on to the next person.
Looks very natural, very comfortable.
You can see there that Biden has that in him, used to have that, now he's lost his mind.
Kamala Harris does not.
Kamala Harris is the opposite of that.
Completely fake, stilted, awkward, incapable of having a normal human interaction with anybody.
So, there's that.
If you want to give him credit for anything, it's that.
But it's also amazing because of the way, first of all, the way that Biden is being treated.
By the guy that he's talking to?
That guy just doesn't care at all.
He's talking to the President of the United States.
Doesn't care.
Calls him an old fart multiple times.
You know, he's calling the President an old fart.
And you know, at a different time, in a different era, I would object to that.
Because I would say, hey, even if you disagree with the President, you should show him respect.
He's the President of the United States.
Right?
You should, when it comes to introduce himself, you should stand up.
If that guy, I don't know if I put my foot in his mouth, maybe he can't stand or something.
Assuming he's not disabled and he's able to stand.
You should stand up and you should show him respect.
You don't call the president an old fart.
That's what I would have said in a different time.
Because the office of the presidency deserves respect.
Even if the guy himself is terrible.
As Biden is.
But the problem is that the office has been so incredibly diminished by the people who have held it, by the people in power.
I mean, Joe Biden isn't even really the president.
He's a sad, pathetic, disgraced, and disgraceful, deceitful, decrepit, broken-down man who's been on vacation for most of his term, doesn't know where he is, what he's doing.
And the whole thing is such a joke.
That there's no way to respect it.
All of the respectableness has been drained out of the thing.
So yeah, now it's like he deserves to be scoffed at and called an old fart because the whole thing's such a joke.
And that's not something that we did.
These firefighters in Pennsylvania, they didn't do that.
It's not their fault.
It's the elites, the people in power.
They have taken these, not just the office of the presidency, but the, you know, The leadership positions that they hold and they have made a disgrace of it.
I mean, we, uh, there've been multiple incidents recently.
We've played on the show of some of the arguments that have broken out on Capitol Hill during congressional hearings and stuff like that.
And you've got, and it's like a waffle house.
You've got these people yelling and cussing at each other and just, it's just, they are not carrying themselves.
They are not treating their own office.
With any dignity whatsoever.
So, and after a while, you know, if you have a person who comes through and holds the office and sort of acts in a disgraceful way, and you have that every once in a while, that's one thing.
But it's just now, there's no dignity to the ruling class at all.
No dignity.
They have no reverence for their own position.
They have reverence for themselves, but not for the offices that they hold.
And certainly not for the country that they're supposed to be serving.
And so that's what they've done.
They've drained what was respectable and dignified out of these offices.
So now we have no respect for them, and we really shouldn't anymore.
But the most jarring and hilarious thing, of course, is to see Biden put the Trump hat on.
There are a few ways to interpret that.
One way is to say that Biden is, of course, demented and has no idea where he is or what he's doing or who he is.
And that's true.
But it's also true that Biden hates Kamala.
You know, he's bitter and angry.
He's resentful.
And I'm guessing that he wants Kamala to lose.
How could he not want her to lose?
Right?
I don't have any... I'm not claiming that I have some kind of insider information.
I don't.
But I know how people work.
And I know that just based on how people work, it's basically impossible that he doesn't want her to lose.
Just imagine, put yourself in his shoes for a minute.
If you were at your job, let's say, and you're mentoring somebody, some up-and-comer, right?
And then the person that you're mentoring goes to your boss, And gets you fired, and then takes your job, and gets the promotion that you were supposed to get, there's no way that you'd be sitting on the sidelines rooting for that person to thrive and succeed.
I don't care if you're the most humble and empathetic and selfless person in the world, which Biden is none of those things.
But even then, there's no way that you would want the decision to fire you to be vindicated.
Because if that person succeeds, then all of a sudden it's like, well, I guess they were right to fire you.
You don't want your successor to achieve the thing that they thought you couldn't achieve, which is why they got rid of you for that person.
So he definitely hates her, he's definitely rooting against her, and it wouldn't surprise me if that's why he wore the hat.
It wouldn't surprise me if at some level he actually means it.
Maybe Biden will campaign for Trump.
That's the one.
Everyone's waiting.
What's the final surprise?
There's got to be one.
This has been the most bizarre, unexpected, and surprising political season, certainly of my lifetime.
And we've seen some weird ones.
When you look at the things that have happened, just even in the last couple of months, I mean, multiple historically unprecedented or, you know, virtually unprecedented events have happened.
So I think everyone is thinking there's got to be one last thing.
Right?
The people that are scripting this season of the show, they must have one last surprise.
You can't stack all your big surprises early on in the season.
You've got to have something saved for, you know, episode 9 or episode 10.
And what will it be?
And I'll tell you what, if I'm scripting this thing out, that's how I end it.
I've got Biden a couple weeks before the election coming out on stage to campaign for Trump.
It's never gonna happen in a million years, but you gotta admit that that would be quite an ending to this thing.
That would be, it wouldn't get better than that.
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A few days ago, I played a trailer from the upcoming Will Ferrell documentary on
Netflix called Will & Harper.
It's about a road trip that Will Ferrell apparently took with Harper Steele after Harper, a former head writer at SNL, announced that he's actually a woman.
It's never explained why a road trip was necessary or appropriate under those circumstances, That's the premise.
His friend suddenly says he's really a woman, and so they hop in a car and start driving.
And the film looks about as terrible as you'd expect.
At one point, Will Ferrell says, hey, are you a worse driver now that you're a woman?
And then they chuckle, and then the scene keeps going.
And Harper Steele says, yes, actually.
And then they laugh even more.
So it really subverts your expectations.
And by the way, that's as edgy as the humor will get, I guarantee you, in this thing.
That's it right there.
That was their one edgy joke.
Right, they're really going up on the line there.
Made a joke about women drivers.
Wow, these guys.
Really taking a risk with their comedy.
So, a film like this raises a lot of questions.
They're not the questions the filmmakers were hoping to raise, but it does raise them nonetheless.
And one of the big questions is why Will Ferrell and a lot of other comedians like him suddenly decided to stop making funny and entertaining movies.
It happened around a decade ago for reasons that remain unexplained, although there are
theories that one might have.
But the fact is we went from old school and stepbrothers to melodramatic road trips about
Will Ferrell's friend deciding that he wants to wear dresses.
So what exactly happened?
And is there any remaining chance that Will Ferrell will one day in the future once again
make a movie that qualifies as a comedy?
Well, in a recent interview, Will Ferrell himself answered that last question with a resounding no.
And he did that by disavowing some of his old comedy for being insensitive.
And he did it in a way that's both humiliating and confusing at the same time.
Variety reports, quote, Will Ferrell is no longer interested in performing in drag for laughs during an interview on the New York Times' The Interview podcast.
Alongside his longtime friend and former SNL head writer Harper Steele, Farrell had expressed a bit of regret over the Janet Reno's Fantasies sketch from season 23 of the sketch comedy show.
The sketch featured Farrell in drag as the eponymous Attorney General, with his appearance dressing up as a woman being used for laughs.
That's something I wouldn't choose to do now, Farrell said when the Times noted the character hits a false note now.
And then Harper Steele adds this quote, I understand the laugh is a drag laugh.
It's, hey, look at this guy in a dress and that's funny.
It's absolutely not funny.
It's absolutely a way that we should be able to live in the world.
A few things about this.
First of all, there is no one on the planet who in the year 2024 was thinking about the Janet Reno's fantasies sketch from season 23 of the Saturday Night Live.
We're talking about a sketch from a season that aired 27 years ago.
Not even professional trans activists who are paid to get offended were talking about that.
Even the biggest fans of SNL on the planet, assuming they still exist, were not talking about that.
If you pull up these sketches on YouTube, there's barely any views, but just so you know which sketches we're talking about, here's a brief clip of one of them.
Work, work, work.
If I'd known being Attorney General was this hard, I would have stayed in Florida.
But just think, Simba.
Only 41 more White House videotapes, and then we can watch Harriet the Spy.
There he is, Simba, Bill Clinton.
And he's having coffee with a bunch of Chinese people.
So you get the idea.
Will Ferrell's doing an impression of Janet Reno, who was Attorney General at the time, and people apparently thought the impression was amusing because SNL had a whole series of sketches like this.
Here's one where Will Ferrell as Janet Reno was hosting awkward dance parties in her home, and it was supposed to be funny because she takes herself extremely seriously, so she's not the kind of person you'd expect to host a dance party in her basement.
You know, that's just to explain the joke.
That's the joke.
This is what they call irony.
It's a common tool of comedians, which Will Ferrell is not anymore, but anyway, here it is.
And now from the home of the Attorney General of the United States, it's time for Janet Reno's Dance Party.
Hi, I'm Janet Reno.
Welcome to Janet Reno's Dance Party, coming to you live from my basement.
Say, I really like dancing to that song.
So the joke in these sketches is pretty clear, even if they're not exactly topical anymore, but... In SNL, they're not even really making fun of the idea of a man dressing as a woman, they're mocking Giannarino's demeanor.
And the way they did that was by casting a man to play Giannarino.
It's sort of like how SNL cast a woman to play Ted Cruz very recently.
Which, interestingly enough, did not trigger any outrage cycle at all.
And nobody said that that was somehow offensive to trans... quote-unquote trans men, or anything.
But it's supposed to be humorous because the audience thinks that the impression is accurate, and that's it.
What's changed, of course, is that back in 1997, no one seriously thought that a man transformed into a woman simply by putting on a wig and some makeup.
That wouldn't have even occurred to a single man or woman in the audience.
And so, back then, it was a punchline.
In fact, there was quite a lot of cross-dressing that went on in 90s comedies.
Whether it's on SNL or in films, you know, Mrs. Doubtfire, one famous example.
And the reason why this was done in comedy is that it was understood that it's inherently ridiculous for a man to dress like a woman, so it's just a cheap way to get laughs.
So if there was any criticism, Right?
Of the cross-dressing in film and comedies back then, if there was any reason to criticize it, it was really just that it was just cheap.
It's like putting on a funny wig to get a laugh.
Who would ever try to get a laugh out of putting on a funny wig in a film?
I can't imagine.
But anyway, gender ideology has taken over now, and so all that changes, and now we have to take this inherently ridiculous thing seriously.
And now that Will Ferrell's friend wants to pretend that he's a woman 30 years later, he has to go back and disavow the sketch.
It's retroactively not funny.
Right?
Now they're doing the meme where they're crossing their arms and staring at their own material and saying, that's not funny.
Not funny.
Doing that to themselves.
Because they need to tear down anything that might remind people of a time not too long ago when the world wasn't completely insane and used to recognize ridiculous things as ridiculous.
When this is the standard, you can't have comedy.
It's just not possible.
When you have to bow to the demands of pathological narcissists, people who object to sketches from the 90s that no one's talking about anymore, then comedy is more trouble than it's worth.
And Farrell knows that, presumably, but he's made enough money, so he's a political activist now apologizing for his previous sins back when he was a comedian.
There's a lot of that going around.
The cast members of Friends, another show from the 90s that no one had a problem with at the time, some of them are now disavowing their own show.
Us Weekly reports, quote, while Adam Goldberg looks back at his time on Friends with fondness, He also recognizes criticisms the show has received in the 30 years since it's first premiered.
In terms of diversity, looking back, it seems insane, Goldberg stated in an interview with The Independent.
I've heard black people speak about this, and it's like, you never expected to see yourself, so when you didn't, it was not a surprise you ended up identifying to characters irrespective of their race.
In other words, Friends was too white.
Never mind the fact that in the real world, people don't go out and recruit token diversity candidates to round out their friend group.
There's nothing unrealistic about, you know, a few white people being friends.
There's nothing wrong with that, one would think.
People don't choose the members of their social circles based on racial quotas.
That would be insane, to use Adam Goldberg's words.
No, obviously there are about a million reasons why a group of friends might be racially homogenous and that have nothing to do whatsoever with racism.
But in Hollywood, the only explanation for the existence of a group of people who are mostly white is that racism occurred somewhere.
Therefore, we apparently need token diversity characters in every single show, whether it's fantasy or sci-fi or sitcom like Friends.
And more than that, we need to apologize for all previous shows and films that don't align with this new racial obsession.
Goldberg's co-star Jennifer Aniston made a similar observation not too long ago, quote, There's a whole generation of people, kids, who are now going back to episodes of Friends and find them offensive.
Aniston, who starred as Rachel Green, told AFP in March 2023,
"There were things that were never intentional, and others, well,
we should have thought it through, but I don't think there was a sensitivity like there is now."
Without addressing specific storylines and characters, Aniston, 55, noted that it's become
tricky for comedians to make certain jokes.
In the past, you could joke about a bigot and have a laugh.
That was hysterical.
It was about educating people on how ridiculous people were, she said.
And now, we're not allowed to do that.
Everybody needs funny.
The world needs humor.
We can't take ourselves too seriously, especially in the United States.
Everyone is far too divided."
Of course, the fact that people are Divided is describing the symptom, not the underlying problem.
We are divided between people who understand human biology and people who think that a dress can transform a man into a woman.
We are divided between people who understand that sometimes friend groups happen to be white, and people who insist that every friend group must consist of a token minority or two.
That's really a division between sanity and insanity, and the people in the latter group have a lot more power in Hollywood at the moment.
To restate, now we're not allowed to do that, Jennifer Aniston said.
All that's allowed apparently is garbage like Will & Harper, a documentary featuring aging ex-comedians lecturing us about transgenderism as they drive around randomly for no discernible purpose.
This is supposedly what progress looks like.
But in reality, it's just cowardice and narcissism.
It's the reason we don't have any mainstream comedy films on the level of old school anymore.
And that is why Will Ferrell and all the other comedians who are disavowing their old work because they're too weak to stand up for themselves are today cancelled.
That'll do it for the show today.
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for listening.
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Godspeed.
Growing up, I never thought much about race.
It never really seemed to matter that much, at least not to me.
Am I racist?
I would really appreciate it if you— I'm trying to learn.
I'm on this journey.
If I'm gonna sort this out, I need to go deeper undercover.
Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert.
Here's my certification.
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.
I'm going 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.
