The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1160 - Leftist Protesters Throw Themselves In Front Of A Train On Behalf Of Violent Criminals

Episode Date: May 8, 2023

Today on the Matt Walsh Show, protests over the death of criminal vagrant Jordan Neely continued over the weekend with mobs of leftists actually standing on the tracks to stop the trains from moving. Meanwhile, a panel in California has officially approved reparation payments of up to 1.2 million dollars for black residents. I'll explain how these stories are related. Also, some new polling looks brutal for Biden, and that's according to the mainstream media, so you know it must be bad. And ABC has obtained exclusive and shocking footage of a Ron DeSantis debate prep session. Plus, there were two mass killing attacks over the weekend, but neither fit neatly into the left wing media narrative. In our Daily Cancellation, the woke mob attempts to cancel the children's cartoon "Bluey" for the sin of body shaming. - - - Click here to join the member exclusive portion of my show: https://utm.io/ueSEm  - - -  DailyWire+: Become a DailyWire+ member to gain access to movies, shows, documentaries, and more: https://bit.ly/3JR6n6d  Pre-order your Jeremy's Chocolate here: https://bit.ly/3EQeVag Shop all Jeremy’s Razors products here: https://bit.ly/3xuFD43  Represent the Sweet Baby Gang by shopping my merch here: https://bit.ly/3EbNwyj  - - -  Today’s Sponsors: Helix - 20% OFF all mattress orders + 2 FREE Pillows. www.HelixSleep.com/WALSH Cynch - Download the Cynch app and get your first tank exchange for just $10 with promo code WALSH. Visit http://cynch.com/offer for details. Innovation Refunds - Learn more about Innovation Refunds at https://bit.ly/3LEwYnO.  - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3Rv1VeF  Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3KZC3oA  Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3eBKjiA  Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RQp4rs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today, the Matt Wall Show protests over the death of criminal vagrant Jordan Neely continued over the weekend with mobs of leftists actually standing on the train tracks to stop the trains from moving. Meanwhile, a panel in California has officially approved reparations payments of up to $1.2 million for black residents. I'll explain how these stories are actually related. Also, some new polling looks brutal for Biden, and that's according to the mainstream media, so you know it must be bad. And ABC has obtained exclusive and they say shocking footage of a Ron DeSandis debate prep session. Plus, there were two mass killing attacks over the weekend, but neither fit neatly into the left-wing media narrative. And our daily cancellation, the woke mob attempts to cancel the children's cartoon, Bluey, for the sin of body shaming. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh.

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point, they even jumped down onto the tracks right as a train was arriving at the station. Watch. This presents a bit of a new spin on the famous trolley problem, if you're familiar with that, though some would argue that in this case, there really is no problem. There's no dilemma. We also came very close by the looks of it to seeing a political demonstrator literally touch the third rail, which I'm not saying, I would never say that I wanted to see that happen. I would never say that.

I would never say it. But apparently nobody was harmed, except for all the normal working people who were simply trying to get on with their day and instead found themselves in the middle of a mob with a collective IQ that barely cracks triple digits. One journalist covering the scene caught this interaction between a man, a black man,

trying to get off the train in order to get to work and a group of protesters who took this as some sort of personal affront. Watch. So get another train. Take another train. You're not getting on this trail. Bro, bro, bro, you heard it right now, Lord.

You're not talking to you're not taking an NR trade. You can transfer. And take the NRQ train. You will go and take the NRW for free transfer for, you will not be late for your work for your first. You can find this trail. Yeah, it's a little hard to hear what's being said there, but she's assuring it. Well, take a different train.

You're not going to be late for work. You with your stupid job. That's right, sir. You know, I'm sorry, but these protesters have decided to use the subway system as a platform for their performative, uninformed emotional outburst. And so your job will just have to wait. Your need to provide for yourself must take a back seat to their need to get footage of themselves protesting so they can post it to TikTok. This is life in New York City now. You might be accosted by a psychotic drifter while commuting to your job, or you might be accosted by a mob protesting on behalf of a psychotic drifter while commuting to your job.

Of course, if you are actually killed by a psychotic drifter, as plenty of people in New York City, especially in the subway, are every year, there will be no protests on your behalf. That's just, that's life in the big city. But as the dumb brainless mob carried on being a dumb brainless mob, more information about Neely came to live. light. And it's now abundantly clear based on reports dating back a decade that Neely was a known menace. That's important. He was known. People that took the subway every day in New York knew about this guy, a known menace who had apparently been terrorizing commuters in the subway system for years, which is why he was arrested all those times and yet released back onto the street every time. As the Daily Wire reports, quote, a man who said that he was previously assaulted by Jordan Neleus,

speaking out about his experience in the wake of the untimely death of the 30-year-old. Neely died last week after a U.S. Marine veteran named Daniel Penny and at least two others restrained Neely following alleged threats and erratic behavior on a New York City subway train. Quote, he should have been in some rehab center, said Philemon Castillo Baltazar, speaking of Neely, speaking to New York Daily News, Baltazar said that he was assaulted by Neely while he was waiting for a train back in 2019. He says that he was approached by Neely out of nowhere and punched in the head. He said, quote, I felt a punch to my head.

He didn't say anything. He just hit me. He hit me above my right eye. The assault victim added that Penny shouldn't be punished for his actions. Now, Baltazar's experience sounds similar to another Neely victim who has also spoken out. This is from the New York Post this time. It says, an assault victim of the dangerous homeless man choked to death by a Marine on a northbound F train this week, ripped the city for not forcing her attacker to get the mental health treatment he clearly needs.

Anne Mitchell Tree said she was randomly punched in the head in June 2021 by Jordan Neely inside S.K. Delhi Market on 2nd Avenue in the East Village. The attack caused swelling and substantial pain, but left no permanent damage. After police arrested Neely, Mitchell Tree 65, assumed her aggressor would face charges and psychiatric lockup. And she was sadly mistaken in that case. Now, if you've been following the story, you might hear about Anne Mitchell, and think that, well, this is the case that resulted in the active warrant that was still out for Neely at the time of his death. There was a warrant out for his arrest. But you'd be wrong because Mitchell Tree is 65 years old.

The victim in the other case is 67 years old. Now, it's understandable that you would get them confused as Neely was going around assaulting multiple elderly women. This man was such a horrendous scumbag that when someone refers to the grandmother he brutally assaulted, you have to respond by asking which one. Of course, the race hustlers on the left are pretending, as always, that the violent predatory history of their latest racial martyr is somehow irrelevant. Chief race hustler, Alexander Kesa Cortez, tweeted on Saturday, quote, Watching media give the Brock Turner treatment for the killing of a homeless man has been nauseating.

A person having a record does not excuse killing them. Neither does being poor, sick, or homeless. virtually every one of us is closer to being in neely shoes than we think. Well, speak for yourself, AOC. I can say, and I'm no saint by any measure, but I can say that I am nowhere near the point of walking up to a 65-year-old woman and bashing her over the head. Okay, I'm nowhere near that.

If you personally feel those sorts of inclinations, that's your own issue. As for the claim that his record doesn't excuse killing him, well, you're obviously missing the point, and intentionally so. The point about his violent history is, first of all, that it should at least cause you to refrain from turning this man into a canonized martyr. Even if his killing was unjust, which it wasn't, even if he is a victim, a murder victim, and it's a terrible, terrible thing. Again, I don't concede that. it still would be absurd to pretend that you're deeply mourning the death of a violent predator who apparently contributed nothing but violence and misery to his community. Look, 13,000 people die every hour across the world every day.

Okay, it's a lot of people. It is, at a minimum, totally absurd to have a week of national mourning over the death of a violent criminal who assaulted old ladies. I mean, you can claim that every death is sad in its own way. Maybe that's true. But why have you chosen this one? Lots of people, we don't have to say across the world, lots of people die every day in this country.

There have been plenty of other murder victims just in New York City over the past couple of weeks. And many of those victims had no history of randomly threatening and assaulting pedestrians. So why not choose one of them? Why this guy? Why are you pretending to be sad about the death of the death of the people? Jordan Neely, when we all know that if he'd been killed by some other black homeless guy,

you would say absolutely nothing at all. You would step over his body on the street and keep walking without missing a beat. So why Neely then? Well, we've already answered the question. His death is useful to you. There's also another more practical and immediate reason why his brutal criminal history is relevant. Again, the regular commuters on the suburb. knew him. They knew about his tendency to violence. They knew he was a danger. They knew he was prone to violent outbursts. So there's a very good chance. We don't know if this is true, but there's a very good chance, that the people, multiple people, not just one, who restrained Neely on the train that day, also knew this about him or heard it from somebody else. He said,

oh, that's the guy that, you know. And even if they didn't, it doesn't matter because the fact is that Neely made explicit violent threats. Even if they were responding only to those threats in the moment, With no knowledge of his background, it would still be more than justified. Now, something else happened over the weekend that I think ties into the story, though it may seem on the surface unrelated. NPR reports, quote, California's reparations task force voted Saturday to approve recommendations on how the state may compensate and apologize to black residents for generations of harm caused by discriminatory policies. The nine-member committee, which first convened nearly two years ago, gave final approval at a meeting in Oakland to, a hefty list of proposals that now go to state lawmakers to consider for reparations legislation. U.S. Representative Barbara Lee, who is co-sponsoring a bill in Congress to study restitution

proposals for African Americans at the meeting called on states and federal government to pass reparations legislation, quote, reparations are not only morally justifiable, but they have the potential to address longstanding racial disparities and inequalities, Lee said. The actual payments under this proposal, and it is just a proposal, but if it is enacted, It would be up to $1.2 million each for each eligible black resident. Now, I've already explained why reparations are a ludicrous, unjust, morally incoherent idea. We cannot allow people to cash in on the injustices committed against their ancestors centuries ago. Because if we did that, then everyone, all people on earth, should get a check.

because we all have suffering in our bloodline. We all have persecution in our family tree. Now, which of us are in a better or worse spot because of those historical experiences? It's impossible to say. You especially can't play this game with slavery of all things, given that slavery is a global sin, and there is no race, there is no group, which is innocent of it. Africa, enthusiastically practiced slavery until the late. 20th century. We've talked about this before. An African country is the last country on earth

to legally prohibit slavery. And that didn't happen until 1981. And as for the transatlantic slave trade, it was African nations and tribes that caught and captured and sold the slaves into the transatlantic slave trade. So a black person in America today may be the descendant of slaves. he may also be the descendant of slave traders. He may be both. And many of us are likely both if you go back far enough. How does this relate to Jordan Neely? Well, because one argument, you just heard it there from the Democratic lawmaker,

one argument for reparations is based on the current condition of the black community, the long-standing inequalities, as we're told. As the argument goes, the black community is in worse shape than most other racial groups. by nearly every metric because of this historical legacy of slavery. And these reparations would not only redress the wrong, but they would also help boost the community and then, you know, in a practical way, repair the damage. But practically speaking, this is wrong. You cannot solve a person's problems by just handing them a million dollars.

Look at the tragic history of mega millions lottery winners if you want to learn more about that. Besides, there is a better and more holistic way. to help this community. In fact, I've got two, there's just, just two ideas off the top of my head. Instead of reparations, we could, first of all, stop lionizing and making role models out of the absolute worst members of the black community. Okay.

The left makes heroes out of scumbags of every race. We know that. But at the same time, there's no white George Floyd. There's no white analog for Jordan Neely, which isn't to say that there are no white vagrant scumbag, you know, psychotic criminals going around assaulting people. There are. But none of them are taken and turned into heroes. And on the right, we typically chalk that up to anti-white bias, and it is. But at the same time as a white person, I don't, I wouldn't want mentally ill vagrants and drug-addicted career criminals presented as our martyrs and heroes.

I wouldn't even want that. You know, you tend to become what you admire, and these are the black people that the left puts forward for admiration. Second, one of the best ways to help any community is to put the dangerous people in that community in prison. Better than, we're talking about repairing damage. Well, instead of repairing damage, how about we prevent damage in the first place? And one way that you could do that is by taking guys like Jordan Neely and locking them away. You cannot pretend that you're interested in helping the black community while you insist on making black neighborhoods more dangerous by refusing to prosecute criminals. Simply enforce the law, enact justice on criminals, and things will change for the better almost instantly.

That's my reparations plan. tear down the George Floyd murals, disband the Jordan Neely protests, put criminals in prison. It's not going to solve every problem, but it'll solve a lot of them. And it's a good start. And it's certainly better than a name proposal that the left is currently making. Now let's get to our five headlines. You know, the weather is warming up here in Nashville. Do you know what that means?

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Visit cinch.com slash offer for details. Start with a little bit of political news. You know, if you're like the average person, then your faith in polling is probably, probably depends largely on whether the poll says what you want it to say. That's how most people seem to operate. And this is true on both sides. This is really is a both sides thing. You see it on the right.

You know, a poll comes out and it's, it looks bad for Trump. And then you'll hear a conservative say, well, it's polling. Polling is fake. You trust polls. Moron. And then a poll comes out. It's good for him. look, he's clearly the frontrunner.

So both sides kind of do that. That's why I try to be consistent across the board when it comes to polls. And my general position is that poles are sort of fake. They're all sort of fake, but you can glean something from them if you apply, you know, the grain of salt. So there's an element of fakeness to it, but you can still get to dig a little bit deeper sometimes. You can still find something in it that might tell you. you a little bit about the actual situation in the country. So even with a grain of salt, this poll does not look good for Biden. Here's George Stephanopoulos on it.

President Biden pushing back on questions about his age from Stephanie Rule as he bids for reelection. It's just one of the big challenge you face is now more revealed by our brand new poll. Political director Rick Klein here to break it down. And Rick, this poll is just brutal for President Biden. Absolutely, George. And you talked earlier about that record low approval rating for President Biden. It's actually six points down just since February. And the skepticism over his leadership extends deep inside his own party. Only 36% of Democrats think that their party should nominate Joe Biden for a second term. Fifty-eight percent say they would support someone else or prefer someone else. That's despite the fact that the entire DNC, most of the Democratic

establishment, has rallied behind President Biden. And you're seeing real weaknesses in the coalition that powered Joe Biden to the presidency back in 2020. Biden carried independent. Biden carried independent by 13 points against Donald Trump. He is now trailing Trump by nine points among those same voters. He carried black voters by 75 points in 2020. Now he is up just 35. That may sound like a lot. But the fact of the matter is, in modern politics,

that is not the kind of number that a Democrat needs to be victorious. And then, of course, that does spill over into the head-to-head match up, the hypothetical rematch, Trump versus Biden. Right now, a seven-point edge in our poll from, in Trump leading Biden. And in fact, it's an identical number with Ron DeSantis in a head-to-head that might happen next November. That tells us at this very early stage, George, that this race is shaping up a lot more about the incumbent president, Joe Biden, than it is about any of his challengers. That's one of the litmus tests for polls, at least political polls, I think, is, look, what are the supporters of the guy who's losing in the poll saying about it? And if even they are admitting that it's bad, it's brutal, actually, as we're told, then it's probably pretty bad.

And this one is bad. And it's also part of a, it's also not an aberration. It's part of a consistent theme here. These approval ratings was it 36%. And that, you know, there's a little bit of a historical adjustment you have to make there because these days, like I don't think it's possible. at this point for a president to poll over like 50% in approval rating. But even then, 36% is incredibly low. It's not a surprise either.

People are the economies and shambles, crime running rampant. You can't even take the subway without having to worry about being assaulted by some crazy homeless person. And also, the guy running for reelection will be 82 years old. which I think is a major part of this. The fact that Joe Biden's presidency and his administration have made people's lives worse is the biggest part of it, but also his age has to be a major factor in all this. I would guess that if the situation was exactly the same economically and every other way, but Joe Biden was 10 years younger, his polling number is probably quite a bit better.

shouldn't be, but they would be. The thing you heard at the end there, I think, is key, though, that this is a race shaping up to be about Joe Biden, which is exactly what we want. That's what it should be. You're running against an incumbent. He's been an abysmal failure by every measure. Okay. Nothing is better in the country today than it was when Biden took over. Everything is worse.

And that's what the race has to be about. So whoever it is running against Joe Biden, it will probably be Trump, but, you know, the primary has not even happened yet. Whoever it is, the strategy that they have to use is to make it about Biden. Don't make it about yourself. Make it about him.

More political news, ABC obtained what they're saying is exclusive footage of Ron DeSantis. This is footage that was leaked to ABC, of Ron DeSantis doing debasease doing, bait prep back in, back in 2018. This is part of a theme now. We saw all last week, the exclusive footage that was leaked of Tucker Carlson to media matters. And what were we saying about that footage? It's, well, they keep releasing all this footage of Tucker Carlson. There'll probably be more that comes out because there's like hundreds of hours of footage, probably of off-air footage

of Tucker Carlson. But it all makes him look normal and relatable. There's nothing scandalous there. and it makes them look all the better when you consider that since they have all this footage, they're going to put the worst possible stuff out. They're going to lead with that. If they have something really bad, if they have Tucker Carlson saying or doing something really bad on camera,

that'd be out all right. They're not going to put out a bunch of stuff of him being normal and then three weeks from now say, oh yeah, by the way, we have this. So we can assume that doesn't exist. And now Ron DeSantis is getting similar treatment. So this is, again, ABC touting exclusive footage. It's a big deal. They got this footage of debate prep in 2018. The only way that I could see that they would

have gotten this footage is the only way they could have gotten is someone that was at least at the time on Ronda Sandsis' team gave it to ABC. We don't know who that was, but someone did. And anyway, here's the footage that we're told is supposed to be a big scandal for Ronda Santos. Have the NRA donated to me? I don't think the NRA is quite the boogeyman the Democrats think it is. Do we hit him on guns or does everyone who cares about guns is going to vote for me? Is there any issue upon which you disagree with President Trump? Obviously, there is because I've voted contrary to him in the country.

I have to frame it in a way. It's not going to piss off all his voters. So what I do is I do what I think is right. I support his agenda in terms of what he's been able to do. If I have a disagreement, I talk to him in private. I think when you walk up there, if you have to write in all caps at the top of the pad, like a look. I do the same thing because I have the same personality.

We're both aggressive. Wow. That is a major scandal. So apparently, I can't even believe this. And as formerly a Rod DeSanta supporter, I'm going to have to start rethinking my support from him. because apparently Ron DeSantis engaged in political strategy. Before a debate, he was with his team, and they were strategizing how to best answer questions and how he should present himself.

I mean, I'm speechless. I'm stunned. No politician in the history of politics has ever done this. He's the first one to ever do something as horrific as this. that he has a, not just the political strategy, but apparently he's a team of people around him and it's their job to work on strategy with him. Unbelievable. They're making a lot of the fact that whoever was on, you know, off camera there was saying

to write the word likable at the top of his sheet of notes as he goes into the debate, which the only thing surprising about that maybe is that it's, such useless advice. The fact that a politician is being advised to come off as likable, I think every politician consciously tries to do that. Being told to write it on your sheet of paper is that's really bad advice. It's kind of useless advice. You probably don't need to say it if you're a political advisor.

You don't actually say out loud to your candidate. You know, you should be likable. Oh, I should? You mean, I want people to like me and not hate me. I had no idea. that's the one, if there's anything shocking to come out of that, it's that there's rather redundant advice being given. But other than that, this was Ron DeSantis working out a political strategy.

He didn't, it wasn't like he was sitting there with his advisors planning to lie. Okay, he wasn't saying, oh, these idiots, they'll fall for anything. Let's lie about this. Nothing like that. And again, we can assume that nothing like that exists. okay, on camera, because if it did, it would have come out by now. Especially if there are people on Ronda Stance's team or that used to be on his team that are now willing to take footage like this and leak it to the left wing press. If there were something really bad, if there were really terrible skeletons in his closet, we can be pretty sure we'd see them by now.

All right, moving to this, you know, it was a pretty terrible weekend. Two mass killings, which isn't to say mass shootings, but two mass killings, both in Texas. And in both cases, the alleged assailants are Hispanic, which is relevant only because in both cases, predictably, the media is trying to pin the blame on white supremacy. But neither of the alleged culprits are actually white. So Daily Wire has the first report. Law enforcement officials said the suspect who murdered at least eight people and injured half a dozen more at the Allen premium outlets in Texas was a 33-year-old Latino male, reportedly worked as a security guard. he was wearing a tactical vest, armed with a rifle, a handgun, and had other weapons in his car, according to officials. The FBI raided a home in Northeast Patrol Division of Dallas on Saturday, where the suspect reported lived with his parents. They reportedly needed a translator to speak with the family.

There's footage of this, which I would not recommend watching, but the suspect drives up in a gray Dodge Charger and then gets out of the car and starts spraying bullets. We still don't, there's still no official information on his motive or anything else. He had no serious criminal record and was working as a security guard. Now, that was the shooting. But unfortunately, again, not the only mass killing to happen over the weekend. The other one reported by Fox, the number of people killed when a man crashed his vehicle into a crowd of pedestrians in Brownsville, Texas on Sunday, has risen to eight, police say, and at least 11 have been injured.

The Brownsville Police Department told Fox News that eight victims died at the scene, and at least 11 others have been transported to area hospitals. The driver, the police confirmed as a Hispanic man has been arrested in charge, but investigations are ongoing. They're doing a toxicology report, obviously, and the initial reports from authorities is that this appears to be an intentional attack. And this one, too, there's a lot of video footage that was making the rounds on social media, the kind of footage that if you were on Twitter over the weekend, you would have probably seen some of it whether you wanted to or not, and I certainly didn't want to, but it was right there. You know, you're scrolling by and you see a car plow into a bunch of people and kill them.

This is becoming extremely common on social media now. It was like if you're, if you are a regular social media user and you have been over the last several years, you have certainly seen people die on camera. Like you, you, it's unavoidable that you'll see it at this point. It's becoming so ubiquitous, which I don't think helps anything. I know there are some people that say, well, we need to get this footage out there. People need to see it, so they understand what's going on. But I don't think it helps anything. I think if it does anything, it hurts because it desensitizes people. After a while, when you just see all of this death, I think if anything, it has the effect of desensitizing, which is exactly the opposite of what we want. We still don't know a lot

about either of these incidents. The authorities, again, are saying the car attack was likely intentional. It also seems at least certainly possible that he was high or drunk or something along those lines. It could have been a combination. It could have been drunk and done it on purpose, so we don't know. But assuming it was intentional for a moment, we would have then two targeted intentional mass killings in one weekend. And they don't fit into the neat media narrative. The attackers are non-white. Only one used a gun. Okay, so we had the shooting that happened before the car attack.

And we heard as always from the left. We'll take the guns away, takes the guns away, we'll solve this problem. Then shortly after that, we have eight people killed in the span of, you know, five seconds because someone plowed a car into them. Because it turns out that even if you don't have a gun, we all have access to the these, you know, hundreds, these two-ton metal vehicles that we all, you could drive around 80 miles an hour. So we have, we have access to lots of technology that bad people can use to kill other people, which is why the fundamental question, as I'm always raising, after things

like this. The fundamental question is not how did they do it. Because, again, unfortunately, there are many ways for a bad person to kill lots of people. A gun is only one of the ways they can do it. So that's not the fundamental question. The fundamental question is why? Why are people doing this? If it seems like this is happening more and more, You know, not a weekend goes by that we don't have stories like this. That's certainly how it seems to me. But that's not a reflection that people have more access to these tools of death. People have been driving cars for many decades.

People have had guns for hundreds of years. So that can't be the answer. And anyway, that only answers the how question. The other question is why. Why would somebody want to do this? Most people, millions of Americans have guns and they're not ever going to murder anybody. No inclination to, no desire to. It's not even that they're not doing it because they're afraid they're going to go to jail.

They don't get to that point in their mind because most of us, I have guns. I never have to say to myself, well, if I do this, I'll go to jail. You don't have the inclination. You don't have the desire. Thought would never even occur to you to do that. There's a zero chance of it happening for most people. just as most of us drive cars around every day. There's zero chance that we will intentionally plow into someone and kill them.

So if simply having access to these tools is what causes it, then that doesn't explain why for the vast majority of people who have guns or have knives or have cars, or have any weapon or tool that could be used to kill people, doesn't explain why most of us would never do this, never, never do it. But then there are the people that do. And it seems like there are more people, the proportion of people who are inclined to engage in these murder esprees has gone up. And if that's true, there's still the question of why. And we're not getting to that question. We're not attempting to grapple with it at all. Because there you get to lots of things that the media has

no interest in talking about. The left doesn't want to talk about. You get to things like the collapse of the family, spiritual decay in our culture, you know, the crisis of meaning and purpose, people living these kind of empty lives, all of these things. These are all factors that lead to this. It's not like, you know, if you take this security guard, alleged security security, Guard who committed the mass shooting, if you were to take the guns away from him ahead of time, would that mean that we're safe now? Would it be safe to be around this guy? Would you feel comfortable living next to him? Would you feel comfortable sitting next to him on the subway? Even if he didn't have a gun, would you? Of course not. He's still a homicidal maniac, still an evil person

who has the desire to kill lots of people. Now he just has to be slightly more creative in how he figures out how to do it. So you haven't solved any problem. We're never going to completely solve the problem of human evil, but we can address it, we can mitigate it if we actually start talking about it and dealing with that aspect of the problem, which we don't. All right, the Daily Wires this report, the security guard who shot and killed a shoplifting suspect and self-defense spoke out about the incident on Friday. Michael Earl Wayne Anthony is the security guard at Walgreens in downtown in San Francisco. On April 27th, Anthony shot and killed an alleged shoplifter, later identified as local transgender activist Banco Brown. We talked about this in the opening, I believe,

on Friday. In an interview with the San Francisco standard, Anthony spoke out about the incident and the effects had had on him. Anthony said, I'm still dealing with it, still don't understand, and don't have the time to reflect. It's not like I go through this many times. This is a very life-changing matter. Anthony declined to elaborate on the details of the shooting, According to a Thursday report from the San Francisco standard, police said that Anthony tried to stop Brown from shoplifting. He was still standing inside the store when Brown walked out. Brown then turned around and allegedly spat on Anthony and raised a hand to him. It was at that point that Anthony drew his gun and fired.

It was also at that point that as the DA, San Francisco DA said, it went from a shoplifting incident. Shoplifting is where you just take the merchandise and walk out with it. Shoplifting to robbery because now force is being used. Anthony pointed out that security guards like him are under immense pressure in confrontational situations like that and that it happened very fast. Quote, this is important for more people to be aware of, he said. It was happening too frequently. It's a lot to deal with. It's a lot of pressure.

A person can only take so much. When you're limited to certain options, something will happen. This is talking about being a security guard. It's difficult because you're on your own in more ways than one, he added. Who has my back? Nobody? He said, you're left with no support. It's a frightening feeling with a lot of people.

around you who could do you harm, he added. So we heard on Friday the activists that are calling for the abolition of armed security. They don't want police, and they also don't want armed security. And they don't want a citizen police force, which is the other thing that we were told. Well, get rid of the police. We abolish the police, get rid of them, defund the police, and then we could have citizens, the community, community policing, I think is the phrase. things. The communities can police themselves. That's what happened on the subway in New York, and they weren't too happy about that. So they don't want police.

Then you say, well, can we at least have armed security? No, you can't have security. Okay, well, communities can police themselves. Nope, can't do that either. They're whittling it down to the one, the one single option that they want to leave open to you, which is to sit there and endure whatever a criminal scumbag wants to do. whatever he decides he wants to do, the only option they want to leave open to you is to surrender to that criminal's whims. How are they going to get rid of armed security, though?

Well, they can't, they know that their efforts to abolish and defund the police have basically failed. They're not going to be able to pass a law prohibiting people from individuals from having armed security for their property or prohibiting businesses from having armed security on their premises. They would like to do that, but they're not able to do it.

So what's the way around that? Well, the way around it is to bring things to a point where nobody would want to be an armed security guard because it's not worth the risk. So they can't prevent Walgreens from having armed security, but they can make it so that it's not worth it for anyone to take that job as the security guard, which is also the end-run maneuver they've pulled when it comes to police. Well, we can't defund the police. We can't abolish policing as much as we would like, but we can make it clear that if you take this job, we're going to ruin your life. We're going to put you in an impossible lose-lose situation. Every time you put on the badge, you go outside

and get in your patrol car. We are creating a series of lose-lose situations. Because if there's a crime happening and you don't do anything to stop it, well, then you're negligent. You know, you haven't done your job. If you step in to try to stop it, you could get hurt yourself. Or if you do succeed in stopping it, then that means you're using some kind of force on the criminal. And then we could ruin your life for that. So no matter what happens, you're a police officer, as soon as you encounter, as soon as you're actually face-to-face with a crime, which is the whole reason why your job exists, you lose. And they can do the same thing with armed security.

Yeah, we can have you there kind of as a decorative feature. But the moment that something actually happens, like the reason why your job exists, the moment that happens and you encounter it, you lose. And it's going to be much easier to scare people away from these kind of armed security roles than it is even for police. Because I imagine it pays a lot worse, benefits are a lot worse, and people are going to say, well, why would I do that? I mean, I certainly wouldn't. Would you take a job as an armed security guard out of Walgreens in San Francisco? As this security guard points out, no one has your back.

It's like you're there to not just protect Walgreens, but as we talked about it on Friday. You're also defending the community in a very real sense. Because people in the community need these products that Walgreens sells. And if you don't stop people from stealing them, then Walgreens shuts down. Nobody can have access to them. So you are protecting the community's access to these necessary items. But the community is not going to have your back. So why even take the job?

The other thing is that he talks about the emotional impact that's had on him after killing this Banco Brown person. And that's a very real thing. And it shows you he is the real victim here. When an armed security guard is forced to shoot somebody because they're trying to rob the place, the person who pulled the trigger is the victim of that death. Okay, Banco Brown is not the victim of Banco Brown's death.

Banko Brown brought that on, this is a biological female, I believe, right? Brought that on herself. So she's not the victim. She brought it on herself. You know, the victim of Banco Brown's death is the security guard who was forced to kill her because now he has to deal with that

for the rest of his life. Yeah, he was totally justified. He was right in doing it. We know that. Even the San Francisco DA couldn't figure out a way to put charges on him. So we know that it was extremely justified. But still, if you're a decent person, you don't want to kill anybody. And now you've got to deal with that for the rest of your life. That's the same thing with so many of these police shootings that we see. Real victim and so many of these police shootings, it's the police officer who had to pull the trigger. You know, the violent criminal who created this situation, you're not the victim of that. You created the situation. It's your fault. Now, this other person who didn't want the

situation to be created, now they have to carry the emotional burden of that. It's just like if you break into my house and I have to kill you, which I would, I am now the victim of your death because I don't want to kill anybody. I don't want to have that on. I don't want to have to carry that. So it's all part of the impossible kind of situations that we create for normal law-abiding human beings. All right, let's get to the comment section. Biden's plans to help struggling business owners in the wake of COVID lockdowns were to prioritize black, Latino, Native American, and women-owned businesses. It goes about saying that if the roles were reversed, if Biden had to, you know, said that his plans were to prioritize white

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not a description of a person's state, thus removing personal responsibility. Yeah, I get that that's the intention behind changing the term to make it more passive. But it's still not clear to me how homeless didn't already accomplish that. So that's the thing. And this also shows how the left's their manipulation of language, why it's so effective because what ends up happening is that we end up defending what really is PC language when they come up with even more PC language. So they come up with a PC term to describe something.

And maybe at first there's some pushback, but then eventually it just becomes part of the vernacular. and then they come up with a new terminology to replace that one, and then we defend the most recent PC, not realizing that even that is PC. So homeless as a term, you know, this is not how people used to describe this group of people. They would have used terms like vagrant, drifter,

you know, these kinds of terms, even terms that were much more directly insulting, like bum, you know, things like that. And then we came over this idea of homeless because the concept is there's no judgment being passed. It already sounds pretty sort of passive and neutral, just homeless without a home. Less, homeless. And it already sounds like something that happens to a person, it's not the result of any choices that they made.

Even though in reality, vast majority of cases of homelessness, it is the result of choices that were made, which doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to help these people. It just means that, well, if you want to help people, you want to start by understanding why they're in the position that they're in. And it's important to understand that, no, it's not simply victims of circumstance. It's not simply that, well, they tripped and fell one day and next thing you know, their house was gone, and their house unhoused or homeless. Because if it was that, then, yeah, you could solve the problem by building homes and giving them to the homeless population. And the only argument against that would be one of economics.

But if that could actually solve the problem, okay, if that could solve it, okay, there's a 100% guarantee that you could solve the homeless problem by simply giving homes to all the homeless people. And then that's it. And we're done with homelessness. then even with the enormous financial burden, I would say, well, it's worth it. Okay, let's do that then. Let's figure out a way to do it.

Let's build a bunch of homes, give homes all the homes. But that would not come close to solving the problem. Because when you take someone who is on the street, they're addicted to drugs, and they're Jordan Neely, mentally ill, violent, all this, and you put them in a home, they're going to be back out on the street in about 30 minutes. Okay, the home is going to be destroyed, and they're going to be back out on the street. There's a reason why they ended up out there. There's a reason why, look, if you're living out on the street corner, it would be better.

You could go to some fleabag motel and rent a room for extremely cheap rate. And you would think that if you had a minimum wage job or something, you have enough to at least afford that, it's not a good life, but it's better than being out on the street. They're not going to make those kinds of choices. And in many cases, because they've, you know, if it's a drug addiction situation, and everything goes into the drug. Whatever you give them goes into the drug. You give them a house, goes into the drug. They'll sell the house to buy drugs and they'll be dead.

That's what will happen. So what was the point there? Oh, yes. Well, the term unhoused. So it's homeless already kind of a passive thing. Un-house makes it more passive. And it becomes a real problem. It's not just annoying PC language.

It makes it harder for us to understand the actual cause of this crisis, which means that we cannot solve it. And by the way, if you want, we talked before, but if you want real-world examples of maybe not just giving houses to the homeless, but there have been cities where they've said, well, let's require hotels to house the homeless. That's what we could solve the problem there. Take the homeless, put them in a hotel room, problem solved. Then what ends up happening? The hotel rooms are destroyed, and the people you gave the hotel rooms to end up back on the street the next day. Another comment says, Matt,

I would want to see you defend your idea of restricting transition procedures from adults, aware of consequences of their decision and willing to incur them. I disagree with this and think you can't defend this beyond that you don't like it, that position is very unpopular. Well, maybe an unpopular position, but the unpopular positions are so often the right ones, and that would be the case here as well. I think I have defended it many times. It's a restriction, and I'm not going to go through the whole, you can listen to any show where I've addressed this, but I'm not going to go through the whole case. But the most important thing to remember is that what I would be advocating, it's not a restriction on the individual, the individual trans-identified

person. It's actually a restriction on the medical industry. It's a restriction on the doctors. And the argument is that it is not okay for doctors to do that to a person. It's not okay for a doctor to, in exchange for money, take your money and then mutilate you, even if you want to be mutilated. So this is not a matter of simple personal choice. This is not mutilation. People are are doing in their homes. It's not like a self-castration that's going on in the home. And that I would be in favor of stopping someone for doing that too. Because if someone's going to castrate themselves, they're obviously not mentally well

and for their own sake. So they don't harm themselves. We have to stop it. But we're not talking about that. We're talking about mutilation that is done by some other party to a third party. And this is a restriction on that party that wants to inflict the mutilation and profit from it. and ultimately they're profiting from the mental illness and confusion of people who, yeah, they might be asking, they might literally be asking for it and saying, do this to me. They don't understand what they're asking for.

The fact that they would want it in the first place is evidence enough of their mental unwellness. All right. And finally, Austin says, the World War III or the culture war choice sounds a lot like guns kill kids, not drag queens. I can actually hate that kids are killed with guns and that adults abuse kids. Thank you. Yeah, that's a lot of what these false choices are all about. We heard on Friday the some on the right all of a sudden have decided culture war doesn't matter anymore because we have to avoid World War 3. As if we have to make a choice between those two.

And also as if the conservatives who now have abandoned the culture war, they're dedicating themselves full time now to stopping World War three, which again, if you're a normal, citizen, how exactly you're going to do that? What's your plan to stop World War? I'm worried about World War III, too. I don't want it to happen. Okay? If you're saying, well, I'm not worried about culture war, drag queens. I've got to stop World War III.

Okay, well, go ahead. What are you doing to stop World War III? You're going on some, it was like Mission Impossible? You're going on some global, globe-trotting mission? No, you're not doing anything. You're just sitting in your house doing nothing. So this is an excuse. There's one thing that we can do.

Like we can actually engage with the culture and make a difference in the culture because we're all part of the culture. We all comprise the culture. We can do something there. And you're making an excuse for not doing anything. That's what it holds. I want to talk to you about something I don't usually talk about, except when I'm reading this exact copy three times a week.

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settle for tolerable, which simply means that it's a children's show or film that doesn't engage in left-wing brainwashing and isn't so loud, stupid, admonctious that we can't stand to be in the room when it's on. This is a bar high enough that 99% of all modern children's entertainment cannot hope to clear it, and it whittles the options down considerably so that we can, you know, we can feel pretty safe with whatever few options are left. And one of the options left is a show that listeners of this podcast first alerted me to. It's, it not only clears the not woke, not obnoxious bar, but even manages the extremely

a rare feat of hurtling the actively wholesome and enriching bar, which is way up here. Bluey is a cartoon originally out of Australia about a family of a blue healer dogs. Bluey herself, the older daughter and the family is the main character. But most episodes prominently feature her family members, her younger sister, her mom, and her dad. And the dad is named a bandit in the show. Probably the show's most beloved character. And the show is funny. It's entertaining.

It's clever. And although the characters are anthropomorphic animals, the family dynamics, are pretty realistic and also positive. The dad character especially is a source of comedy, which for most modern entertainment would mean that he's a stupid bumbling oaf and the butt of all the jokes. But that's not the case in the show. Bandit is portrayed as an attentive and engaged father who leads a happy cartoon family. The show is not a work of towering artistic genius. Probably not going to be the kind of thing that people are studying and talking about 500 years from now. That's fine. It's just a wholesome. It's a wholesome.

children show, it's fine, it's good, it's normal. And that's why the woke crowd is absolutely determined to ruin it. Back in, so let's trace this, the history of the woke crowd going after Bluey. It's been a long campaign, a long battle they've been waging. Back in 2021, there's a journalist named Beverly Wang wrote an article for ABC, which is the Australian broadcasting company in this case. And she applauded the show for being, as she says, tender, nuanced and joyful. And yet at the same time, she criticized it for its lack of representation. In an article that I'm 99% sure isn't supposed to be satire, Wang wrote, quote, as a parent of color, I am always conscious of the presence or absence of diverse representation in kids' pop culture, what it means for children,

the conversations we have around that. I sincerely believe you don't have to be other to think about this too. We live in a world where the majority of main characters on children's television are white, where there are more animals than people of color protagonists. populating the pages of children's books? Where are the disabled, queer, poor, gender diverse dogs of color and single-parent dog families in Bluey's Brisbane? If they're in the background, well, let them come forward. Now, the most obvious answer here is that the show does feature dogs of color. The color is blue, hence the name of the show. Does it over-represent the blue-colored community? Does it make blue people feel more welcome and included at the expense of otherizing

those in the audience who might be, you know, pink or green or purple or some other color? Perhaps. But these seem like minor complaints. Does the show fail to include queer and, quote, gender diverse dogs, whatever that means? Again, yes, but that's because the makers of Bluey, you know, made the provocative decision to not turn the show into a vehicle for sexual indoctrination. And thank God for that. As to the lack of poor dogs and single-parent family dogs and disabled.

dogs and dogs with hearing difficulties and dogs with ADHD and dogs with food allergies and illegal immigrant dogs, dogs with sleep apnea, dogs with eczema, etc. These boxes are not checked, but that's because the show is not trying to check boxes. It's just trying to tell a story, a very simple story to children. Given that none of the children in the audience are dogs and none of them have dog parents, none of them will feel represented in the extremely the literal way that the left demands. But that's a good thing, because worthwhile children's entertainment is supposed to activate a child's imagination. You don't want to put a child into a box and then give him a character tailor-made for that box and say, here you go, child, this is your

character. You can relate to him. This is the one assigned to you, so you can relate to this character specifically. Instead, you want a child to use his imagination. and use that to engage with and relate to the characters. For example, right now the fictional characters that resonate the most with my three-year-old daughter are Spider-Man and Elsa from Frozen. And that doesn't mean she's gender fluid, half-boy and half-girl. It means that she's an imaginative toddler, and that's a good thing. But that was only the first woke attack launched against Bluey.

A year later, two Australian academics published an article taking aim at Bandit, the dad character, noting a, quote, darker side to this lovable character, they claim that Bandit, quote, never strays far from reductive stereotypes, bemoaning the fact that he is a, quote, likable roguish male stuck between childhood and adulthood, whose disrespect of authority and rough and ready masculinity reflects Australia's emotional attachment to the working class underdog. The writers also take Bandit to task for incidents of alleged bullying because of the ways that he playfully teases his children in the show, he's bullying them. and they scold the cartoon dog for being, quote, surprisingly conservative when it comes to gender values. In other words, as already established,

the dad character is portrayed as normal, masculine, funny, which is why he's so popular and relatable with the audience and also why leftist weirdo academics are so concerned about him. Fast forward another year to this past week, and we have the next woke assault on a family of fictional cartoon dogs. an episode in season three titled exercise opens with Bandit stepping on a scale in the bathroom and then he says, oh man, I need to do some exercise.

And that's the scene. It's a scene that may seem utterly uncontroversial and unremarkable to you but that's because you're a normal human being. To the left, however, the scene is problematic. And that's how it was described by this alleged child development expert on TikTok who has a PhD by the way. And she wants to explain why we should be very concerned about this scene in Bluey.

Listen. Louis recently screwed up in a pretty big way and it's made a lot of people angry. But basically there's a brand new episode called exercise where at the start, Bandit, Bluey's dad,

grabbed his belly, I'll show your picture here, and kind of just looks at it and like goes to the scale, weighs himself and goes, oh, I need to do exercise. That in and of itself is a really problematic narrative

to have on a children's television show when we know that most girls by their time they're nine, think about dieting, think they're overweight, and really have a problem with body image already. There's a couple ways to solve this problem. The first one is that we're just not that the kids watch the episode. But that's not really going to work because kids are going to see this messaging in many places throughout their lives. So it's actually better to use this episode of a relatively safe children's television show

to start the discussion about body image, about how we're going to be. treat our body about not body positivity or body negativity but body neutrality because the truth is it doesn't matter what your body looks like it matters how it feels and that's the most important thing that we need to teach our children uh not really the point but that uh i never had the vegemite stuff but it could not look less appealing it looks like it basically looks like it's is it like black tar and coffee grinds that you smear on your toast with butter. Body neutrality, she says.

Of course, telling society to be neutral about obesity, it's like telling lifeguards to practice drowning neutrality. Whether somebody is swimming or drowning, it's not up for us to judge. Drowning is just as valid in experience as swimming. Who are we to tell people whether they should be at the surface of the water or beneath it? Just as we should draw no distinctions between a physically fit person and a person who is morbidly obese. Sure, the obese person is literally dying in front of us. It's killing themselves, destroying their bodies, their skeletal structures, their internal organs.

But that's just how they've chosen to live and express themselves and die. Certainly one would want to send the problematic message that being healthy and living a long life is somehow better than being extremely fat and dying of a heart attack when you're 42. This anyway was the argument made by various leftists on TikTok. And in this case, the first two attacks fell flat. This one actually resonated. At least it resonated with the ABC, which decided to cut that scene from. the episode. The issue of this statement, quote, the recent episode of Bluey, exercise, has been republished by the ABC following the decision by the makers of the program. The new version provides

families with the opportunity to manage important conversations in their own way, as the home of Bluey and the ABC supports the decision to re-edit the program, and we have updated the episode on our platforms. BBC Studios will use this revised version for global distribution and also support this decision. Well, that's a relief. Now children who watch that episode of Bluey will not be exposed to any objectionable content, encouraging them to engage in inappropriate behavior, such as, you know, exercising. This is the left's rules for children's entertainment. That's the rule. It cannot be normal. It cannot be wholesome. And it cannot encourage moral or physical improvement. The last rule is the most important to them. And as long as Bluey continues to violate

these rules, it will remain a target. It won't be satisfied until Bluey is rewritten as a show about morbidly obese, gay dogs with body dysmorphia and clinical depression. That's what they want. And if the makers of the show ever succumbed to that pressure, they'll be the ones who are canceled. But for now, it is Bluey's cancelers who are today canceled. Now, I'll do it for this portion of shows. Move over a member's block. You can become a member today by using Code Walsh.

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