Ep. 1448 - The Degenerates Of Hollywood Endorse Kamala, And That Tells You Everything
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, just about every celebrity in the entertainment industry has now come out in favor of Kamala Harris. What does that tell us about her? Also, my new film "Am I Racist?" continues its hot streak at the box office in its second week of release. Even the Hollywood Reporter is now taking notice. And the feds have released a letter from Trump's latest attempted assassin where he puts a hit out on President Trump. Why in the world would they make that public? In our Daily Cancelation, a prominent CNN commentator is called out for hitting on a Republican congresswoman behind the scenes. He attempts to defend himself against the accusation but only makes things worse for himself in the process.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, just about every celebrity in the entertainment industry has now come out in favor of Kamala Harris.
What does that tell us about her?
Also, my new film, Am I Racist, continues its hot streak at the box office in its second week of release.
Even the Hollywood Reporter is now taking notice.
And the feds have released a letter from Trump's latest attempted assassin where he puts out a hit on President Trump.
Why in the world would they make that public?
In our daily cancellation, a prominent CNN commentator ...is called out for hitting on a Republican congresswoman behind the scenes.
He attempts to defend himself against the accusation, but only makes it considerably worse for himself.
We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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There's an inevitable moment in every presidential campaign when the entertainment industry gets together and tells us to vote for the Democrat.
It doesn't matter who the candidate is or who they're running against.
In every case, Hollywood tells us the choice is supposedly between the fascist and whatever candidate Democrats are running.
24 years ago, Al Gore was Touting the endorsements of Kevin Costner, Tom Hanks, Jerry Seinfeld, Sharon Stone, Robert De Niro, Harrison Ford, and so on.
Barack Obama took things to another level, as we all remember, bringing in endorsements from Oprah, throwing concerts featuring Bon Jovi and Mariah Carey.
They all told us that we need to turn the page on the neocon Dick Cheney era of foreign policy because Dick Cheney represented a greater evil than Hitler and Satan combined.
Well, after last week's Oprah infomercial for Kamala Harris, it's clear that it's time for Harris to collect the endorsements that she's apparently entitled to.
Kamala started her campaign with the blessing of Beyoncé and, of course, the luminary known as Meghan the Stallion.
And then there was the Taylor Swift endorsement a week ago.
But with the Oprah infomercial, things really took off, along with representatives from the racially segregated groups Black Women for Harris, White Dudes for Harris.
White women for Harris.
Celebrities like Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep and Bryan Cranston and Chris Rock and Ben Stiller and Jennifer Lopez all hopped on the Zoom call to express their support for Kamala Harris' campaign.
The expected rash of celebrity endorsements is officially pouring in.
What's interesting about these endorsements is that all of these celebrities are now on the side Of Dick Cheney's preferred candidate.
They're also campaigning on behalf of a candidate who was just endorsed by hundreds of former high-ranking national intelligence officials at the CIA and the Pentagon, along with a union affiliated with the IRS.
So these celebrities have gone from raging against the neocon establishment machine to campaigning on behalf of it.
You know, it's like watching a vegan activist get a new job as a Burger King spokesman.
It's not impossible to imagine, but, you know, you'd probably ask yourself, how did that happen exactly?
What are the lucid, rational arguments that celebrities are making in order to justify this massive reversal of everything they once claimed to believe?
Well, a few days ago, the latest celebrity to endorse Kamala Harris, Hayley Williams, who's the lead singer of the band Paramore, Did not provide any lucid rational arguments to support her decision.
Instead, at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas on Friday, she made it clear why Donald Trump has to stand inside a case of bulletproof glass every time he speaks in public now.
Watch.
2025 is Donald Trump's playbook for controlling and punishing women, poor people, people of color, and the LGBTQ plus community.
It is time for all Americans to band together and to finally defeat the Trump agenda.
And the only way to do that is by converting him at the polls.
Do you want to live in a dictatorship?
is by converting him at the polls.
Do you want to live in a dictatorship?
Well, shut up and vote!
Yes!
So this is nothing really new from Hayley Williams, who's been struggling for relevance lately.
The band's not generating hits anymore, so she's lashing out.
A year ago, she attacked all of her fans who supported Ron DeSantis, saying that they're dead to her.
And she, you know, mixed in some profanity for good measure, of course.
And now we have this supposedly spontaneous moment where she rambles like a lunatic about Project 2025 and how Donald Trump hates poor people and the, quote, LGBTQ plus community.
Twenty years ago, when celebrities had public meltdowns like this, You know, they were talking generally about things that were really happening, like the war in Iraq, but now they're on the side of the Defense Department and the IRS Union and the military-industrial complex.
So that means they can't criticize wars anymore.
So instead they're, you know, giving us this delusional stuff about Project 2025 and everything else.
But this particular rant was even more embarrassing than it looks because it wasn't even spontaneous, really.
It was scripted.
Some guy was apparently holding up a piece of paper that Hayley Williams was reading from.
Watch.
Project 2025 is Donald Trump's label for controlling and punishing women, poor people, people of color, the LGBTQ plus community.
The people of color, the LGBTQ plus community.
It is time for all Americans to band together and to finally defeat the Trump agenda.
And the only way to do that is by confronting him, I suppose.
Do you want to live in a dictatorship?
Well, show up and go!
Okay, so literally reading the DNC talking points memo, like print it out and just reading it during your concert.
So she couldn't even speak off the cuff for 30 seconds, just 30 seconds, about why people should vote for Kamala Harris.
You think that if you were the kind of entertainer who wanted to use your concert to promote a political message, then you'd at least, you know, have some of the talking points down, especially when they're pretty simple.
Donald Trump is evil, he's a dictator, he wants to, you know, destroy your rights and all that.
It's, I mean, you should be able to say that without having to read it off a script.
You think you'd be comfortable enough with your beliefs that you could articulate them without needing to read them off a piece of paper, and maybe you'd even have something remotely interesting to say, but None of that happened here.
This has become something of a trend for celebrities who are coming out for Kamala Harris.
A couple weeks ago, the Hulk actor Mark Ruffalo had his own meltdown.
He was specifically upset about Elon Musk because he's one of the few wealthy celebrities who hasn't fallen in line.
Watch.
Elon Musk is such a two-faced turncoat traitor because he was a climate champion and he sold himself out.
For a buck and some power.
Don't follow that guy.
That guy doesn't even have his original accent anymore.
Don't follow him.
Don't listen to him.
We're the ones who we have to believe in.
We're the ones who we're waiting for.
And we're the ones that have to move forward together.
He sold himself out for a buck and some power, says Mark Ruffalo.
It's too bad he didn't elaborate on that point because it doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
Elon Musk is being investigated by numerous federal agencies who want to sanction him and destroy his companies solely because he's allowing people to speak freely on the internet.
His purchase of Twitter appears to have lost him billions of dollars by conservative estimates.
So who exactly did Elon Musk sell out to?
Instead of answering those questions, Ruffalo instructs his audience, don't follow him, don't listen to him.
We're the ones we have to believe in.
We're the ones we're waiting for.
Then he mocks Elon Musk's accent for some reason.
This is a guy whose most noteworthy achievement in life is pretending to be the Hulk.
He doesn't even really pretend to be the Hulk, because when Hulk's on screen, that's CGI, so he's not even doing that.
And he's attacking someone who's built several successful companies in this country.
SpaceX is now rescuing astronauts that the government contractors like Boeing got stranded in space.
They're trying to build colonies on Mars.
Tesla, meanwhile, is an electric car manufacturer that makes the best-selling car in the world.
Especially if you care about carbon emissions, as people like Mark Ruffalo claim to, then you should be very happy about that.
But Mark Ruffalo is not happy because Elon Musk isn't voting for Kamala Harris.
Therefore, he's a traitor.
This is the kind of celebrity endorsement that Harris' campaign is now receiving.
They're even more unhinged than what we're used to, and we're getting a lot of them.
If he counts as a celebrity, which I don't think he really does, but We'll throw him in anyway.
Bill Nye also put out a video endorsing Kamala Harris a couple of days ago.
And while he's a little less vulgar than the Paramore singer and a little less insulting than Mark Ruffalo, it's still pretty hard to watch.
Bill Nye is a 68-year-old man who most adults recognize from his show in the 90s, which was designed for elementary school students.
And yet, Bill Nye is still effectively in character, pushing 70 now.
Still treating his- talking to his audience as if they're still a bunch of children and not- not like millennials, because that's who his audience is now to the extent that he has an audience.
Watch.
Greetings, Bill Nye here.
Vice President Harris knows science rules.
The other guy is a climate change denier.
He said he thinks that sea level rise will create more beachfront property.
But they talk about an ocean that's rising, which will give you slightly more beachfront property if it happens.
That's not how it works.
Look, President Biden and Vice President Harris have made the biggest climate investments in history.
When she's president, Kamala Harris will continue the work to address climate change.
We cannot afford to have a climate change denier back in the White House.
So everybody vote, vote with the climate in mind, and we can change the course of history.
So Bill Nye says, Vice President Harris knows science rules.
And then Kamala Harris' campaign account tweeted out this video with the message, science rules.
So it's like we're back in fifth grade again.
Infantilizing doesn't even really begin to describe it.
Then Bill Nye praises Harris for passing the biggest climate investment ever, which is a reference to the Inflation Reduction Act, a law that, as the name implies, was supposedly about reducing inflation, but which they've now repeatedly admitted was really just a Trojan horse for this climate stuff.
And now they're admitting that it was, you know, just actually printing a ton of money to spend on climate investment.
Which, of course, made inflation worse, which is why Kamala Harris is now talking about price controls.
We're told by Bill Nye, the aging adult man who still pretends that he's talking to children, that a whole bunch of spending is necessary because the climate is changing very quickly and it's all our fault.
That's the assumption that people like Bill Nye have made for a very long time, even though there's no reason to think that it's true.
In fact, there's new evidence that suggests the opposite.
It comes from the journal Science.
Here's how the Washington Post reported On the data a couple days ago, quote, an ambitious effort to understand the Earth's climate over the past 485 million years has revealed a history of wild shifts and far hotter temperatures than scientists previously realized.
The timeline, published Thursday in the journal Science, is the most rigorous reconstruction of Earth's past temperature ever produced, created by combining more than 150,000 pieces of fossil evidence.
With state-of-the-art climate models, it shows the intimate link between carbon dioxide and global temperatures and reveals that the world was in a much warmer state for most of the history of complex animal life.
And then here's the graph that the researchers came up with.
As you can see, according to this model, this planet has previously experienced much warmer temperatures and much more dramatic temperature increases than what we've seen in recent times, after the Industrial Revolution.
We're actually at a relative low point for global average surface temperature right now.
Now, of course, if you ask the Bill Nyes of the world, they'll find a way to spin this data.
They'll tell you that things are getting too hot too quickly and so on.
But as these climate researchers admit, at a minimum, this data was shocking to them.
They had no idea that temperatures were so hot, long before Americans were driving pickup trucks and using gas stoves and all the rest of it.
So you think that maybe some humility would be called for at this point, but we won't get any humility from Bill Nye, nor should we expect any.
After all, this is a science guy who doesn't understand the basic facts of human biology and reproduction, let alone climate, so his endorsement of Kamala Harris is no surprise.
There is a bigger issue here for Kamala Harris.
Even the relatively sane celebrities in her corner still aren't helping her very much.
According to the Financial Times, quote, an ABC News Ipsos poll published on Sunday found that 81% of voters said the endorsement of Kamala Harris by Taylor Swift would make no difference in how they cast their ballots.
Just 6% said it would make them more likely to vote for Harris.
Another 13% said it would make them less likely to support the vice president.
In other words, Taylor Swift's endorsement, if you believe that poll, which was not exactly a poll skewed for conservatives, may have done more harm than good for Kamala Harris.
And if Taylor Swift didn't help, I mean, you can imagine, you know, whether Bill Nye or Mark Ruffalo or Hayley Williams can help.
And there are a few reasons why this might be happening.
But the most obvious explanation is that You know, these celebrities are not respected anymore.
They've become...
Too political, too dumb, too shrill.
They're also not expected to uphold any kind of ethical standards.
In the 1960s, an actor was fired from Perry Mason because the cops found him at a party where they suspected adultery was going on.
And, well, we've come a very long way since then.
Now, according to the government, entertainers like Sean Combs, a.k.a.
Diddy, can engage in widely known criminal conduct for more than a decade before anyone does anything about it.
He could publicly brag about his sex parties and how he hangs out with unsupervised underage children like Justin Bieber and Usher.
And then he could hold a town hall with Kamala Harris about COVID and get a big thank you from her and no one thinks anything of it.
That's because we're now accustomed to the fact that insanely wealthy, out-of-touch degenerates always line up behind the Democrat nominee.
And these celebrities have become so repulsive that their behavior is now a clear and direct reflection on the candidate they're endorsing.
Especially since Kamala Harris is embracing all those endorsements.
Now, to be clear, there are a lot of reasons not to vote for Kamala.
The fact that she's endorsed by a bunch of celebrities isn't at the top of that list, but, I mean, it's on the list.
She is beloved by debauched elitists, not to mention she's favored by all of the most powerful institutions in America.
Is that because she's a middle-class kid who has the best interests of the average American at heart?
Well, that's a question the Kamala Harris campaign would rather you didn't ask, but the more these celebrities weigh in on the presidential race, and the more they angrily read the DNC talking points that are shoved in front of them, the more obvious the answer becomes.
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All right, so our film Am I a Racist just completed its second weekend in the box office.
Still has not gotten a single review from a single mainstream film critic.
But weirdly enough, it has been covered, even covered favorably by a few mainstream outlets.
So this is the strange dynamic that's happening here, where not only do we have this successful film that these critics are ignoring, but In some cases, their publications are not ignoring it, but they just will not, being the critics, review the film as a film.
The Wall Street Journal, for example, has published two op-eds praising the film.
Nothing from their film critic.
Variety had a good piece on the film, at least one.
Nothing from the film critic, though.
And the Hollywood Reporter, of all things, just published This on Friday, not a film review exactly, but a great headline.
The headline is, How Am I Racist Scored the Top Political Doc Opening in 20 Years by Duping DEI Gurus.
Conservative provocateur Matt Walsh's film came out of nowhere to gross $4.5 million in its nationwide box office debut over the September 13-15 weekend, a huge sum for a non-fiction feature.
And by the way, when this piece was published, we actually had to go back and look it up because I didn't think we had the top opening for a political doc in 20 years, but apparently we did.
So it checks out.
That's a rare thing.
I don't think it's ever happened before that a mainstream publication has said something positive related to anything that I've done that I had never even thought of.
Because usually they don't say anything positive at all.
But in this case, it does check out.
And then I'm not going to read the whole piece because that would be rather self-congratulatory, I suppose.
But you can go check it out.
It is an interesting piece.
And it's mainly interesting because I read the whole thing waiting for...
The jab to come, I figured they have to hit you somewhere, even if just symbolically.
Throw in a line like, sure, Walsh is an incorrigible bigot, but, and I was waiting for that, it didn't really come.
The piece mostly just marvels at the success of the film.
Success, by the way, that continued this weekend, so this is after our second weekend in the box office.
Am I Racist is still in the top ten, even after a whole bunch of other films were released, including the new Transformers movie.
We now have, along with the top political doc opening in 20 years, we have our total gross, puts us in the top five for political documentaries in the past 10 years, total gross.
Top documentary of the year, we've earned back three times our production budget, $9 million we've earned so far, budget was $3 million.
And this is the one that's most impressive to me personally, that our box office total puts us In the top 40 now for all documentaries of all time.
And counting.
So we're obviously still in the box office, moving into our third week.
So all those numbers will go up.
But if it ended here after two weeks, we'd have to call it a major win in just about every way.
And I know I've talked a little bit about the challenges of succeeding in the box office.
When you have a documentary that's very difficult to garner any kind of audience for a film, for a non-fiction film, as The Hollywood Reporter notes.
When you have an original film, you know, not like a franchise or a well-known IP, that's an additional challenge.
And when you have a very small budget, it's a very small budget by film industry standards, that's the biggest challenge of all.
Just for example, I was watching MasterChef with my kids over the weekend.
We do cooking shows.
We like the cooking shows.
And there was a trailer for Joker that came on during every commercial break.
Five commercial breaks.
Five times we saw this trailer in a span of 50 minutes.
Okay?
And that's the kind of marketing budget that big studios have.
They're going to make sure that every human in the country has seen the trailer, whether they want to or not, one way or another.
But that costs tens of millions of dollars, if not a hundred million dollars to achieve, and we don't have that, so we've had to come up with more, you might say, lo-fi Gorilla type marketing techniques.
Crashing the DNC was one.
And then on Saturday there was this.
College game day on ESPN.
There were students standing outside during the show holding giant posters of my face from the movie with the man bun wig and all that.
So here are some screenshots of that.
We'll just go through these.
You can see me lurking there in the background.
Just go through some of the pictures so we can all appreciate the... There we are.
There was multiple... My face was right there peeking in between.
A little creepy, but this is my favorite one right here.
This is my favorite.
I'm just sneaking up behind Nick Saban to talk to him about his white privilege.
And now, why are those kids...
Holding those signs?
Did we have something to do with that?
Did we organize that?
Did we intrude into ESPN's shot intentionally just to market our movie in such a crass way?
I mean, did we do that?
I'm not going to say we didn't do that, but I'm not going to say we did.
I can't say.
Nobody, who knows?
Who knows why those kids were holding those signs?
Nobody knows.
Nobody knows the answer to these questions.
It's a mystery.
You know, I end up on CNN.
I was just walking by.
I didn't know there was going to be a camera there.
Or I might not have known.
End up on ESPN.
All I can say is I would, personally, I would never try to hijack their broadcasts unless I had a good reason.
Only for a good cause.
Would I ever do something so self-serving and crass as that?
But that was a lot of fun and we appreciate it.
Let's move to something a little bit less, quite a bit less fun, not fun at all.
And really, I mean, mind-boggling, actually, in all the worst ways.
So this is CNN, this is a CNN article.
Says the man who authorities say sat with a rifle in the trees where Donald Trump was golfing earlier this month in West Palm Beach, Florida, previously wrote a letter stating that this was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, in case that wasn't already clear.
A witness told investigators that Ryan Wesley Ruth had dropped off a book, rather a box, at his home months before, which contained ammunition, a metal pipe, miscellaneous building materials, tools, four phones, and various letters.
One letter addressed to the world Okay.
Said this, this was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, but I failed you.
I tried my best and I gave it all the gumption I could muster.
It's up to you now to finish the job.
I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job.
Trump ended relations with Iran like a child and now the Middle East has unraveled, the letter said.
Okay, this is what the letter said.
And it's, how do we know what the letter said?
Well, because the feds released it to the media.
And so now we know.
Here's what I'm trying to figure out.
This is what I'm wrestling with in my mind, okay?
Because I'm old enough to remember, what, a year and a half ago with the Covenant school shooting.
And you may recall the year that followed, When we were trying to, we wanted to know what was in the manifesto.
And they would never tell us.
And so, finally, we got, not even the entire thing, but we got one journal that was finally, a year later, released by a local news outlet, not even, I don't think officially by the authorities at all.
But for a year, they said, well, we can't release any of this shooter's writings.
And why did they say they can't release it?
Because it would be a danger to the public.
And specifically, they told us that we can't release it because it may inspire other copycats to do the same thing if they could only read what this person said.
And then we finally see the journal a year later.
And we find out that there's nothing in it that could remotely inspire anyone.
It's not a blueprint.
It's not anything.
She's not calling other people to follow suit.
It's just the ramblings of a mentally ill woman.
But they were so worried about the possibility that it would inspire other shooters that they didn't want to release it.
Now we have an attempted assassination of a former president.
A week later, they release a letter that he wrote where he explicitly encourages and even offers to pay for other people to go kill Donald Trump.
And they release that.
So the ramblings of the trans-identified Covenant school shooter Couldn't release it, might inspire other shootings.
This one we can release even though he's directly trying to inspire other shooters and offering, he puts a hit out on the president and they release it.
They publish the hit.
He's putting out basically a Craigslist ad asking someone to shoot President Trump.
And they publish it for him.
If there was ever any doubt about whether or not These people want Trump to be killed?
Well, now there's no doubt in him.
I mean, if you had any doubt up until this moment, you can no longer have any doubt.
I cannot conceive of any legitimate reason to release this unless you actually just want someone to kill him.
And you're not even trying to hide it anymore.
Now, is Ruth going to be in a position where he can actually pay $150,000 to whoever tries next?
$50,000 to whoever tries next?
No.
But if you're the kind of person who would potentially try to kill a presidential candidate, you're probably not thinking that through.
Thank you.
.
So this is enough inspiration for the next crazy person to try.
And they published it.
I mean, I've never seen anything like this.
Like I said, it's mind-boggling.
I mean, you could say it's not very mind-boggling because we know exactly why they're doing it.
But even so, this is just...
We've never seen anything like it.
The guy puts a hit out on President Trump, and they publish it.
When have we ever seen it?
I mean, really, when has this ever happened before?
In any other scenario, if you had any kind of shooter, school shooter, mass shooter, anything like that.
And they had writings where they were explicitly calling for others to follow suit.
Those writings would never see the light of day, and if they ever did, it would be months, years down the line.
A week later?
This is just insane.
I mean, they want him dead.
They just want him dead, and they don't even care if you know it.
All right, let's move to this.
This is from Fox News.
Due south of Denver's homelessness crisis, a Colorado county has nearly eradicated its own unhoused population with a simple message to its citizens.
Handouts don't help.
Throughout Douglas County, there are about 70 signs with the message at intersections and roadways that were once popular hangouts for area panhandlers.
Each sign directs citizens to douglashasheart.org, where they can redirect their donations to the Douglas County Community Foundation. The country took the county took to print media and advertisements online to spread the message through the community. Republican Douglas County Commissioner Abe Layden said of the initiative, quote, the thought dawned on me from a common sense standpoint.
I saw a lot of people like my daughter feeling conflicted at the intersection.
If you see somebody who appears to be down on their luck, it feels bad when you drive by and don't do something.
But the flip side is we all know the stories of those who maybe did not use all the funds they received in the most appropriate way.
Maybe it's going to food.
Maybe it's going to drugs.
You don't know where the money's going.
So they started putting signs up discouraging panhandlers at the intersection.
And they've seen a massive drop in the number of panhandlers.
What do you know?
Between 2022 and 2024, Douglas County saw a steep drop off in people living on its streets from 43 individuals to just six.
Including those sleeping in their cars and in area shelters, numbers decreased from 96 total homeless people to 69 per the count.
And this is probably not all entirely because they put signs up discouraging panhandling or discouraging, you know, residents from giving to panhandlers, but It's also not a coincidence, and it's a fascinating thing, isn't it?
If you stop catering to panhandlers, you get a lot fewer panhandlers.
And this is why, really, you shouldn't be handing money to the homeless at all.
And I've done it.
I used to do it all the time, actually.
But more recently, I've stopped completely.
And the reason that I've stopped completely is simple.
Because if someone is panhandling on a street corner, There's a few things that might explain how they ended up in that position.
The most probable situation, of course, is that they have a drug habit, that they're drug addicts, they're living on the street because they've dedicated their whole lives to their drug of choice.
And obviously, if you give money to somebody like that, they're going to spend it on drugs, so you are just buying their next fentanyl fix for them, or whatever their drug of choice is.
The other possibility is that the person is extremely mentally ill, No, obviously it could be both.
They could be drug addicts and also severely mentally ill.
Their brain has been hopelessly destroyed by drugs.
But again, giving cash to somebody like that is not going to help anything.
But what if this is a person who's not a drug addict and not mentally ill?
Most of the time, that's someone who should be able to get a legitimate job and take care of themselves.
If you are a sober, mentally competent person, and you're standing on a street corner all day, every day, asking for handouts, well, you could use that free time to apply for jobs, and you would certainly get one.
Maybe not a great job.
This probably isn't going to be a pursuit of happiness situation where you come in off the street and land a job as a stockbroker or whatever, but you could definitely get a job in fast food or something.
I mean, anybody can, unless you're totally mentally incompetent due to mental illness or drugs, which again would mean even more so that wads of cash are the last thing you need.
But if you're not in that category, then you should be able to get a job.
And you certainly can't say, well, I don't have the time to put the time in to go and You know, really try to apply for as many jobs as I can.
Well, you obviously do.
You're standing on an intersection with a bucket.
Like, you clearly have a lot of time.
Which means that if a competent person, and I don't think there are many people in this category.
Like, the vast majority of these people are drug addicts.
But if a competent person is panhandling all day, every day, it's because that's a more profitable occupation.
And the solution is to make it unprofitable.
Remove the incentives is the solution.
Finally, we talked about celebrities speaking out on behalf of Kamala Harris.
Here's one that I don't know if he's endorsed Kamala Harris yet.
I'm sure he's voting for her, whether he's endorsed her or not.
But the rapper Macklemore was performing at a concert in Seattle a few days ago, and he had a message, a very inspiring message for the crowd.
Let's listen to this.
Straight up, say it.
I'm not going to stop you.
I'm not going to stop you.
you.
Yeah, f*** America.
So f*** America, he says.
We'd bleep it out, of course, but F-America, only he says the word.
And this type of thing is irritating because obviously we know what this guy's doing.
This is the cheapest kind of shock tactic available to somebody like this.
Macklemore has not had a hit in like 10 years.
He only ever had one hit, and it was whatever that was about, he did a song about thrift shops or Goodwill or something, if I remember correctly.
I think it was this guy.
And then he had a song about gay marriage around the same time, like back in 2012, 2013.
And that's the last time anyone heard from him.
So he's looking to reclaim some sliver of relevance, trying to remind the world that he exists, and he does it by dumping on this country, many such cases.
And I know that most people When it comes to this kind of thing, they say the best response is no response.
We should ignore it.
Don't take the bait.
Just ignore this sad, irrelevant loser.
And I get that.
I understand that attitude.
I understand that approach.
But I don't really agree.
I actually think we need to start going the other way on these sorts of things more aggressively.
We need to start speaking up any time somebody speaks this way about our country.
And we need to say, like, hey, shut up, you ungrateful son of a... I mean, that's what we should say.
Just like if someone stood on stage and cussed out your mother, even if they were doing it because they're starving for attention, would you sit there and say, well, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna dignify that with a response.
No.
He's cussing out your mother.
America is not our mother, but it is our motherland, and we should start thinking of it that way and treating it that way.
Because this lack of gratitude for the country is endemic.
It's a disease.
We've allowed it to fester for far too long.
We're now these mediocre hacks, these absolute talentless nothings, who would have nothing without this country, are trying to maintain relevance by dumping on the country that they owe everything to.
You know, I'm not okay with that.
It makes me angry, and it should.
It should make everyone angry.
I think we've gone way too far in the direction of saying, oh, just ignore it.
No, don't ignore it.
Like, we don't have to spend hours talking about it, but you tell this spoiled little punk to go to hell.
That should be the response.
And that's not the response if someone has criticisms about The country, our culture, our government, certainly.
Any criticism like that, that's valid.
I have those criticisms all the time.
Just like you might have criticisms for your, again, for your own family.
Now, you don't air those criticisms publicly in that case, but if you love your family, if you love your mom, and you see her doing something self-destructive, then of course you're going to speak up about it.
But F America, that's not that.
That's just total disregard, disdain, hatred, lack of gratitude.
And I don't think we should be so tolerant of that kind of messaging, in my opinion.
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It's the springer-ification of the political scene.
Last week, we took another giant leap in that direction, thanks to a public beef that broke out between CNN pundit Michael Eric Dyson and Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace.
It began several days earlier, when Mace was berated during a CNN segment for mispronouncing Kamala Harris's name.
Let's watch that moment again.
That sounds like self-hatred and justification of white supremacy.
And let me just say this, because this congresswoman is a wonderful human being, but when you disrespect Kamala Harris by saying you will call her whatever you want, I know you don't intend it to be that way.
That's the history and legacy of white disregard for the humanity of black people.
So now you're calling me racist.
I didn't say it.
I just said you were racist.
That is BS.
That is complete BS.
You don't have to intend racism to accomplish it.
No, no, no.
You are intending that I am racist.
Your disrespect of Kamala Harris is part and parcel of a tradition of disrespect.
Congresswoman, why can't you just... I'm not calling you a racist, I'm telling you what the practice is racist.
You are.
You are Twenty-five years ago, I became the first woman to graduate from the Citadel, the military college of South Carolina.
I fought my way through it, two million blood, sweat, and tears.
And Kamala Harris...
You said it was for you, Nancy Munchie!
It's come a lot!
You're doing this on purpose, Congresswoman!
You're disrespectful!
If a man put on a sword to walk that stage 25 years ago, she would have said it here.
She would have taken that achievement away from women.
So, not exactly a clash of intellectual heavyweights.
Michael Eric Dyson was calling Nancy Mace racist.
Nancy Mace was denying that she was racist by pointing out that she was the first woman to graduate from the Military College of South Carolina or whatever she said.
Classic case of a Republican trying to defeat a racism charge by throwing her own victim points at it, which is a maneuver that never works and certainly didn't work here.
We all thought that was the end of the feud between Nancy and Michael, or at least we hoped that whether it was the end or not, it would be the last time we had to hear about it.
But late last week during a congressional hearing, Mace submitted text messages that she received from Dyson into the congressional record.
And these were text messages sent by Dyson to Mace after that heated argument you just heard.
Here's Fox News explaining the context for this revelation from Mace.
Quote, Mace entered the text into the congressional record on Thursday as part of a discussion pointing out Democrats who have also mispronounced Harris's first name.
Some of the vice president's backers have suggested her opponents deliberately say her name wrong.
It's pronounced Kamala, not Kamala, as a subtle form of racism.
Now, why was any of the taxpayers' time in Congress being spent on that at all?
Why were they in Congress talking about how to pronounce Kamala Harris's name?
I have no idea.
It isn't explained in the article, and I don't care enough to Google it any further.
Instead, let's just play the clip here.
I'd like to also enter into the record a screenshot of a text message I received from the esteemed professor from Vanderbilt, Michael Eric Dyson, after my CNN interview, begged me for photos.
In this text, he says, after calling me racist on CNN, don't tell anybody, we look good together, and sent me a kissy emoji.
And the guy says I'm gorgeous in all these photos.
I don't think he's that bent out of shape on how anyone pronounces Kamala.
Nancy Mace then tweeted the screenshot of the text exchange.
And as you can see in the screenshot, Dyson sent Mace the photos with a comment that said, shh, don't tell anybody we look good together, laughing emoji, kissing emoji.
She responded, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Then Dyson said, well, your gorgeousness makes the photos, so there's that.
Then there's a smiley, like, blushing emoji.
Now, we should note a few things here.
Dyson is a married man, first of all.
He's now on his third marriage, according to his Wikipedia, and there's no indications that he plans to stop at three.
Second, Dyson is 65 years old and using kissy emojis in text messages.
It is not appropriate for a grown man to use emojis of any kind.
As I've explained many times, emojis are for women and children.
But a kissy emoji is the most egregious one of all.
It's so bad that sending a kissy emoji should create a crisis in your marriage, even if you send it to your own wife.
How can your wife respect a man who sends kissy emojis?
And, of course, sending them to a woman who is not your wife only makes the situation worse, significantly worse, even.
Third, the fact that this sex exchange occurred only hours after these two were screaming at each other on cable news should not be seen as a positive sign that the two sides can put their differences aside or whatever.
Instead, it should tell you that the vast majority of the seemingly contentious political bickering you see on TV is fake.
It's all performance.
These people are the political equivalent of professional wrestlers, or at least they were.
But now Michael Eric Dyson really does hate Nancy Mace.
He was fuming in an Instagram video when he responded to Mace's allegations and he responded to them by confirming them and then digging the hole even deeper.
So I want you to watch as he tries to explain the context of these texts.
Watch.
This is the text exchange.
Uh, I sent her, uh, Abby Phillip, the host of the show suggested we take pictures.
I said, let's take a picture.
She said, Abby said, when you, um, um, post it, then tag me too.
And then, um, we'll have fun.
Cause the whole point was two bipolar opposites, Michael Eric Dyson on one side, Nancy Mace on the other.
So I sent her and she said, great pick.
And I said, shh, don't tell anybody we look good together with a laughing face and a kissy face.
And my point was, shh, don't tell anybody because we are bipolar opposites.
You're on one side of the spectrum and I'm on the other side of the spectrum.
And she said, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Notice how he tries to breeze past the kissy face situation?
There's a laughing face and a kissy face.
Anyway, my point was, hang on, what was that back up on the kissy face?
You sent a kissy face.
How old are you?
Why'd you send a kissy face?
Why is that even in your... I don't even know where to find the kissy face emoji, even if I wanted to send one.
And then he repeatedly declares that he's the bipolar opposite of Nancy Mace.
This man's a college professor who uses the phrase bipolar opposite, apparently unaware that the correct term is polar opposite.
Bipolar opposite would mean that you both suffer from bipolar disorder in opposite ways, which I have no doubt is true, but I don't think that you meant to say that, Michael.
Let's just continue for some reason.
And I said, well, your gorgeousness makes the photo, so there's that.
And I, a little smiley face.
Again, I'm just saying that trying to be nice to her in the belief and the effort that if I'm nice to her, and I prove that we don't have any bitter consequences from our fracas on television, that we can be relatively kind to each other.
And I'm being nice to her.
These are other people that I interacted with recently, my friends.
Some of them.
My friend Allison, I said, nice, you look gorgeous.
Look out, Texas.
Here she comes.
Talking about that.
Nell Painter, a world-renowned historian.
On her Instagram, I posted, after she posted about, she's a Mary Ellen Von Der Heiden Fellow in Letters of the American Academy in Berlin, on, in public, I said gorgeous and brilliant all at once.
A heart with a face that's smiling with hearts and a kissy face, right?
I said keep up the great work.
Then, there is my friend Terry, who I was giving tickets to for the Democratic National Convention.
I said, you know I can if I will.
Everybody and they mama want these tickets for today.
You look gorgeous, as always.
I congratulated her on the interview she did with Kamala Harris.
And then on another interview, saving people of color, saying people of color are eating cats, that's racism.
I was quoting her.
I said, thank you, Dana Bash.
Besides being brilliant and courageous, you also look gorgeous.
And then I put a power hand and a smiley face with hearts.
I ain't hitting on Nancy Mace.
Okay, so he's sending the smiley face with hearts and a kissy face.
What does a smiley face with hearts look like?
I'm trying to find it on my... Oh, that?
Okay, so it's a blushing smiley face with hearts floating around.
This is what a 65-year-old man is sending people.
Is anyone else outraged by that alone?
I'm the only one left.
I'm the only man left in America who understands the problem with emojis.
Every day, it's another man who I thought was on my side on this.
I get a text message, and there's an emoji.
Ten years ago, there were no men sending emojis.
Not a single one.
And now they all do.
It doesn't matter how old they are.
The boomers are doing it.
I mean, they're the worst offenders.
Anyway, just to review, this man is offering all of this information willingly in defense of himself.
His defense is that he's constantly sending kissy face emojis to his female colleagues and calling them gorgeous.
So that's his defense, is that he does it all the time.
He flirts with lots of women, which means he's not really flirting with this woman.
That appears to be his excuse.
But you seem to be confused, Michael.
You're only proving that you're a creepy, weird old man.
Which proves Nancy Mace's point.
It doesn't refute it.
And I say that, by the way, as someone who, you know, in the past has been very critical of the excesses of the Me Too movement.
And there have been many cases of men whose careers were destroyed for innocuous jokes or innocent, if perhaps awkward, compliments.
But sending kissy faces to women you aren't married to and calling them gorgeous is quite obviously well outside the bounds of what would be considered appropriate.
There's never a scenario where a married man should be texting women who aren't his wife and calling them gorgeous, especially not with smiley faces and hearts floating around them.
Though again, he shouldn't be sending the smiley face and heart to anyone at all.
So, Dyson has only further implicated himself here.
He's proved the opposite of what he presumably set out to prove.
Most of all, he's proved again that political discourse in this country is dominated by weird creeps who are also, and we cannot state this strongly enough, very, very dumb.
And that is why Michael Eric Dyson Is today cancelled.
That'll do it for the show today.
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for listening.
Have a great day.
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 left.
I'm trying to learn.
I'm on this journey.
I'm going to sort this out.
I need to go deeper undercover.
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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.
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?
What'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.
