The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1551 - Gavin Newsom Starts His 2028 Campaign With Painfully Obvious Lies

Episode Date: March 7, 2025

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The summer of 2024 was one of those whirlwinds of breaking news and total chaos where everything blends together. Over time, dates from that period get mixed up and transposed just because of so many things were happening all at once. So it could be useful to take a step back and think about the timeline a little bit. For example, you might not remember that when Joe Biden officially announced that he was not running for president, it took just a couple of hours for the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, to make his own announcement. Newsom declared in no uncertain terms that he would not make a bid for the presidency. Instead, he threw his full endorsement behind Kamala Harris, one of the least appealing and most uncharismatic candidates the Democrats have

ever nominated to high office. If you understand Gavin Newsom as the extremely calculating politician that he is, this kind of quick, knee-jerk decision-making raises a few questions. After all, it was an extraordinary move by Newsom for a couple of reasons. First of all, most of the most important figures in the Democrat Party like Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi did not endorse Kamala Harris on the same day that Joe Biden was forced out. It took Obama nearly a week to come around to the idea. And secondly, of course, Gavin Newsom was correctly seen as a far more talented politician than Kamala. It was almost certainly, almost certain to outperform her in every swing state. So why would he take himself out of the running so quickly? Well,

if there's any doubt about Newsom's intentions, we don't have to wonder anymore. or Gavin Newsom will run for president in 2028. He determined a long time ago that it's better to run on his own rather than try to defend a record as unpopular and destructive as Joe Biden's. And Newsom will challenge the Republican candidate, most likely J.D. Vance, using a platform of faux moderation rather than any kind of principle. Newsom's plan is to stake out an untenable, inauthentic middle ground on the theory that voters will come to see the Trump

administration as too inflexible and extreme on the issues. And we don't have to guess about this. In case you haven't heard, Gavin Newsom has just launched his own podcast. It's a show that makes the game plan pretty clear. One of Newsom's first guest was Charlie Kirk, who proceeded to press Newsom on some of his party's most unpopular positions. And here's one of the most important moments from the show, for example. Watch how Newsom responds when Charlie brings up the fundamental insanity of forcing women to compete against men in sports. So, like, you right now should come out and be like, you know what, the young man who's about to win the state championship

and the long jump in female sports, that shouldn't happen. You as the governor should step out and say no. No, and I appreciate. But, like, would you do something like that? Would you say no men in female sports? Well, I think it's an issue of fairness. I completely agree with you on that. So that's easy to call out the unfairness of that.

There's also humility and grace that, you know, that these poor people are more likely to commit suicide, have anxiety and depression. And the way that people talk down to vulnerable communities is an issue that I have a hard time with as well. So both things I can hold in my hand. How can we address this issue with the kind of decency that I think is inherent in you, but not always expressed?

Now, it's a pretty incredible surrender, even if Newsom doesn't admit that he's surrendering. He is. He suggests that it's profoundly unfair, for a man to compete in women's sports, as any sane person must agree. But then he still tries to find some kind of middle ground with the bit about how we have to have grace for self-identified trans people because, quote, they're more likely to commit suicide, which is just classic Newsom double speak. He's not actually committing to any particular position. He's not saying anything

that suggests that he'll comply with any of Trump's orders on gender ideology, nor is Newsom saying anything relevant to men like James Younger who just lost custody of his child because Newsom declared California a sanctuary state for child sex changes. Instead, Newsom is using language that he thinks will resonate with conservatives invoking the idea of grace without committing to any actual position. But it falls flat because it's a non-sequitur. The concept of grace has nothing to do with affirming delusions. And that's the central question here. Either we are giving in to the false claims of self-identified trans people, or we're siding with reality and sanity. Having grace to Democrats has always meant giving into falsehood. It means forcing women and girls to endure

humiliation and even brain damage in some cases for the benefit of narcissistic men. Now, in this interview, rather than committing to an answer, Newsom is using a common rhetorical tactic among Democrats. It's a tactic that Obama, who's clearly Newsom's mentor, perfected long ago. Newsom is essentially saying incorrectly that conservatives are offering a false choice. He's saying that we don't really need to choose between affirming reality or affirming falsehood. He's suggesting that somehow we can do both without really explaining how that's possible. It's reminiscent of a line from Obama's inaugural address all the way back in 2009 when Obama said, quote, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.

Obama wanted to pretend that defending this country from terrorists didn't involve making uncomfortable decisions about, say, the rights of al-Qaeda terrorists in Guantanamo Bay. But during his term, Obama went on to make those decisions, and he did it because in the real world, you actually have to make choices. Now, on the other hand, in speeches and in podcasts, you can pretend that there are no hard choices. Although, of course, in the case of the trans issue, this is not a hard choice. Men should not compete against women or be affirmed as women, period, no matter what. I mean, it's not difficult. To be clear about this, Newsom is not merely a slick talker. He's not just someone who will use rhetorical tricks to avoid committing to anything.

He will also lie unapologetically and pathologically. Later on in this podcast, Charlie brings up Newsom's record as governor of California. Specifically, Charlie mentions Newsom's decision to sign a law that enables school teachers to hide students so-called gender identity from their parents. And watch out Newsom, who now claims that he's concerned about the fairness of men playing in women's sports, watch how he explains this law. You signed a law where school districts can't even tell parents if their kids are trans. Not true. Okay. Then they can.

They just can't get fired for not doing that. And it wasn't just trans. They can't get fired for not. They were, the law was explicit, said, you can't be fired for not snitching on a kid, not just for being trans, for being gay. And my point is, how in the hell. But shouldn't the parents know? But is telling parents snitching?

No, the teachers themselves have the right. The law does it, they can do that. They can do that. We're not saying you can't do that. We're saying you shouldn't be fired if you choose not to say Johnny was talking about, you know, liking some other boy or something. So Newsom is claiming that the law merely protects the rights of teachers to keep information to themselves. So if a teacher notices that a student is using they-them pronouns or identifying as a non-binary furry, then the law allows the teacher to remain silent and hide that information from the parents.

That's what Newsom is saying. It's not forcing them to keep silent, but it's allowing them to. And of course, even if that were true, it would still be an outrageous piece of legislation. Under no circumstances, should teachers be allowed to hide any relevant information from parents, including the fact that their child is demonstrating the symptoms of a serious mental health condition, like gender dysphoria. But just as a factual matter, the law is, Newsom signed actually goes a lot further than that. You could pull up materials directly from the California legislature and the California Attorney General, which explain the law in detail. This is also what the state of California under Gavin Newsom is arguing in court. Quoting from the California legislature,

quote, students have a constitutional right to privacy when it comes to sensitive information about them. Under existing law, school staff are prohibited from outing students unless they have the students consent or are required to, in a limited set of circumstance, under state or federal law. The Safety Act is necessary now because there has been a significant increase in policies and actions targeting LGBTQ plus students and the school personnel support them. Some of these policies would require school staff to out students to their parents and guardians in violation of existing law. Close quote. In other words, they're passing this law because they believe that children have an affirmative constitutional right to keep information hidden from their parents.

It's a violation of a child's constitutional rights for their parents to know information about them. That's what the law is claiming, which is total madness, by the way. And if Gavin Newsom didn't believe this, he wouldn't have signed the law. And he would instruct his attorney general to stop saying this in court. but instead he's trying to have it both ways. He's telling Charlie that teachers don't have to hide anything from parents, and at the same time, the state of California says children have a constitutional right to hide their alleged gender identity from their parents.

And that constitutional right, of course, can be enforced against teachers. Now, I'll play some more clips from this interview in a second, but first I need to show you how the Democrats leader in the House responded to Newsom's answer here. This is yet another illustration that Newsom is clearly going to be the party's nominee in four years. Newsom is the only prominent member of the party who's capable of articulating a coherent sentence. Even if the sentences are pathological lies, he can at least articulate them. For comparison, here is Hakeem Jeffers. I want to ask about California Governor Gavin Newsom's comments saying that Democrats weren't the wrong for allowing transgender athletes to compete in female and girls' sports.

What is your response to that after Democrats had opposed the women and girls in sports? I haven't seen his comments. What Democrats opposed was unleashing sexual predators on girls throughout the United States of America. What? I mean, it's not even worth dissecting what the dollar store Obama was saying there. It just, it makes no sense. Just an incoherent, what is it, that has incoherent answer. It's a totally incoherent, unintelligible answer to the question.

And say what you will about Newsom, but he doesn't really have this problem. When Newsom is confronted with a question he doesn't want to answer, he has an ability to kind of worm his way out of it. And when you, you know, if you're a Democrat politician, like that's a skill you have to have because most of your party's positions are insane and you can't defend them. And so you have to be able to not defend them in a way that sounds like, you know, you're giving a coherent answer. So consider this exchange from the podcast. Charlie asks Newsom why he was able to clean up San Francisco for the arrival of China's president a couple of years ago, but not for American citizens. And I'm going to play Newsom's response followed by his comments back in 2023 in response to a similar question. Why is it you were able to clean it up for Xi Jinping? Oh, that was you guys.

That was the dumbest thing I've ever heard of my mom. By the way, you guys weaponized that. I saw them on 25 things. It was the most ridiculous. That was, you know what? I will happily, happily revert back to your counterpoint as as clean as Gigi P. In this case, weaponized.

Can I get the Gigi Pinks? It was ridiculous. Give me a break. All due respect. I saw a beautiful picture of San Francisco that looked like Singapore. By the way. And then Gigi Ping leaves and the walking dead come back. By the way, it was A PAC who had dozens and dozens of foreign leaders.

And California is not San Francisco, but I'm the governor of California, not the mayor of San Francisco. But I just want to understand. Why isn't that we had to clean it up? 20 years ago. But you have to admit, it's emblematic of something that if enough important people show up, it can get clean. I know folks say, oh, they're just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming in a town. That's true because it's true. But it's also true for months and months and months prior to APEC, we've been having different conversations.

Now, when he's talking to Charlie Kirk at 2025, Newsom says that he's not the mayor of San Francisco, just the governor of the state. So how can you hold him responsible for the level of filth in the city? But just two years earlier, Newsom came out and admitted that, yeah, he made sure San Francisco was clean for the Chinese president. So this is utter shamelessness, and it's why Newsom is the most effective candidate that Democrats can run in four years. He has no reservations at all about lying at every available opportunity. And he can lie pretty smoothly, unlike somebody like Kamala Harris, for example. And it's difficult to kind of pin him down on anything because he just snakes his way out of it.

And at the same time, Nusel understands that if Democrats are going to win another election, they need to rethink the way they communicate with voters, particularly young voters. He's the only mainstream Democrat has come up with a new media strategy that is at all intelligible. Watch. And it's by no coincidence that out of the long-form podcasting genres, the top 10, eight of them are conservator or center-right. Rogan, Megan Kelly, Theo Vaughn, the Paul brothers, our program, Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh. There's a singular one on the left, which is Pod Save America, which is just like a bunch of Obama bros agreeing with each other for 90 minutes and saying that we're not very smart. And, you know, and so anyway, but I appreciate.

No, but objective truth, right? I mean, you just dominate this media. I think you talked about it the other day. A lot of folks were talking about that Carville article where he talked about... Roll over and play dead? Roll over, in essence, he said that. I think it was a strategic retreat, right?

That we need to come back. Trump's starting to float. His numbers are getting soft. This was even before the tariff issues, etc. And then come back and strike went hot. And immediately, no BS thought about you, who's just 24-7 flooding the zone, owning this space, every day,

a convert, every day picking up one, two, 10,000 folks continuing the momentum coming out of this damn election. And then I'm thinking about, we're going to stand back and watch you run circles around us for six months, the next two or three years, waiting for the moment to finally strike. Struck me as not necessarily the best advice. Now, this is the opposite of the Kamala Harris approach, which was to hide from Joe Rogan and do a handful of hits on MSNBC and other, you know, mainstream media outlets. And from a strategic perspective, it's a much better approach than whatever every other Democrat is doing. It's a lot smarter than holding up a paddle in Congress or interrupting the president or, you know, vomiting out random words like Hakeem Jeffries.

And Newsom, uniquely, is pretty good at it. The lawyer Laura Powell just unearthed this interview from a few years ago. It shows Newsom explaining his leadership philosophy. And about midway through, he references an essay from George Orwell called Shooting an Elephant. Watch. Whatever team you're involved in business, baseball, sports at the time, did you lead then? I was never the, I was the captain only by default. What do you mean? Like best player?

Yeah, I just became sort of in that, but it wasn't the guy seeking that. You weren't. I never pledged at a attorney. And never when I was on the board of supervisors tried to become president of the board. It's not my thing. But let's say you're in college and everybody wants to go get somebody to eat. Are you the guy that's like, we're going here? No.

I'm the guy in the back of the classroom still. See, I don't think that that doesn't... No, I believe you because you're sitting here, but you don't seem like that guy to me. No, because I think, you know, there's a great old book about shooting an elephant, and the author says, and it's his own life experience of how he was a soldier,

and he was forced to do something he didn't want to do, and he said, I put a mask on, and my face grew into it. I see. And it makes sense. Sort of the mask you live in, that you become. You know, you, and so all of a sudden, you start in these positions, you start absorbing these new responsibilities and roles, and you have a more collaborative mindset, but increasingly people are looking, no, you have to make a decision. I'll tell you, there was, you want clarity on that, was all the stuff we all had to suffer through with COVID, right?

I know, I know. I'm quite literally, at the end of the, you're the one making the decision. You don't get to scapegoat abdicate, and that's on you. So you ultimately, again, it's like anything in life, more reps. More responsibility, and it's just iteration, iteration. Now, as Newsom understands the metaphor, you put a mask on, a fake persona, and then you wrap your actual persona, you warp your actual persona to match it. And this is the Gavin Newsom origin story, in a sense.

It's a window into how he sees his political career. It's not about authenticity. It's not about good governance about making sure that Los Angeles doesn't burn to the ground or that women aren't assaulted during sporting competitions or any of that. Instead, it's about adopting a fake persona and then just making it work. And that's a strategy that's clearly served Newsom well up until this point in his career. But it's not going to work anymore. In the context of gender ideology in particular, the approach falls apart completely.

So going back to the very beginning of this and his answer on the trans issue, which everyone is saying is, you know, he's kind of moderating his position in a way he is, but it's moderating it into incoherence. because the trans issue is all or nothing. Either trans ideology is true and a person's gender is fluid and determined by their self-perception or it's not true and a person's gender, their sex is a biological reality that cannot be changed. And if the former is the case, if it's true, then there's nothing unfair about having trans, quote unquote trans women in women's sports if gender ideology is true. If the latter is the case, and general ideology is not true, then quote, unquote, trans women are not women, therefore, and should not be treated as women or recognized as women in any context at all ever. Why? Because they're not. But as this interview with Charlie Kirk makes clear, Newsom is trying to have his cake and eat it too. You know, this is the untenable middle ground Democrats will try to stake out over the next few years on this issue, just like they're going to try to shoot for a fake middle ground on so many other issues. And Newsom is going to lead this effort for the Democrat Party. And the good news, though, is that it won't last. It can't last. This is no ideology that depends on fraud and meaningless platitudes and that is standing on this kind of incoherent ground can last for very long. People can see through the lies far more easily than Gavin Newsom seems to think. You may not realize that now, but relatively soon, say in about four years,

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Okay, let's start off with some good old-fashioned cringe for you. the post-Millennial reports, author and influencer Solhi Jessica Wu, also known as the Bento Box Queen, posted a video on Wednesday featuring female Democrat House lawmakers in a Choose Your Fighter-style video, denoting the pros and cons of each fighter. The video features Democrat representatives, Alexandria Kesea Gordez, Lauren Underwood, Catherine Clark, Judy Chu, Jasmine Crockett, Susie Lee, and showcases two facts about the lawmakers and one so-called negative thing as they bob up and down with their fist. raise like a video game character posing on a character selection screen. So that's the premise of the video that I kind of have to describe in case you're listening to the audio podcast because this you won't be able to. Fortunately for you, you won't, you're not going to see the visuals here. But let's just take a look at this cringe fest. Starting a business can seem like a daunting task unless you have a partner like Shopify. They have the tools you need to start and grow your business. From designing a website,

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Yeah, I wouldn't choose any of those fighters, honestly. Can I get some more options, please? Are those the only ones? Can I get some fighters that look like they've thrown a punch, or at least some fighters that look like they've seen someone throw a punch would be preferable to me. Obviously, that was incredibly embarrassing and lame. I don't know who it's supposed to be for, you know. And that's always the case with these lame politician viral videos that almost always come from Democrats now.

Who is it for? What audience is supposed to be impressed by this? I'm not really sure. But this kind of thing does show us a few things. First of all, it's unsurious. It's very unsurious. Which is a problem because all of these people that you saw in the video would tell us and have told us that fascism, you know, has come to America. That they're part of the resistance.

They were wearing shirts at the State of the Union that said resistance on them. So they're part of the resistance. What are they resisting? They're resisting a fascist dictator who is worse than Hitler. That's what they tell us. They are fighting back against a mortal threat to our democracy. And a threat to the whole human race, really, they would say. But then next thing you know, they're making cheesy TikTok videos.

So which is it? Am I supposed to be terrified? Or is this all one big joke? You know, imagine if this was 1942. and we were at war against actual Hitler, and imagine that TikTok existed back then, do we think any American leaders, any politicians, any statesmen would be making jokey little choose-your-fighter TikToks about it?

Probably not. And the other thing, of course, is that this is just really uncool. You know, it's lame and corny and not cool. It's not funny, except maybe in a way they don't intend. It's a laugh at them, not with them sort of thing. And we've talked a lot about the problems the Democrat Party faces right now, all the kind of ideological problems. But this is politically probably their biggest problem right now,

is that they're just, they're lame. Like, that's my analysis. That is my searing insight into the, Democrat Party is that right now it's super lame. And that really is its biggest problem. Now, Republicans used to be, and this is one of the big shifts, Republicans used to be far and away the lamest, corneous, most uncool party. And sure, there are still plenty of lame, corny, uncool Republicans, don't get me wrong. And neither party can be called cool necessarily. But Democrats have a much higher quotient of lameness and uncoolness right now, much higher.

In fact. And meanwhile, you know, Trump has one of the coolest moments in American political history. Surviving an assassination attempt. Blood, you know, pouring down his face, raising his fist in the air saying fight, fight, fight. I don't, you know, I don't care where you stand on the political spectrum. I don't care who you are. You just can't deny that that's one of the most badass things any American political leader has ever done. That's top three at least, all time.

like all-time coolest things any American political leader has ever done, that's at least in the top three. And you can't expect Democrats to match that. And the other thing too about Trump is that he obviously very badass when you survive an assassination attempt and respond the way he did. But really everything he does is an authenticity to it. being, he's just kind of being himself, which means that even the things that would seem like they'd be super lame really aren't. Like, take for example, the Trump dance. You know, Trump, the Trump dance, which he performs to YMCA. So we've got, we've got a combination of things here that are not cool. The YMCA song itself, nobody would call that cool. The Trump dance, which is,

I mean, he's not much of a dancer, we could say. And then he's doing that dance to the YMCA. It's not even the right dance. He's, like, made up his own dance. And yet, you know, it becomes its own viral trend because he's just, he doesn't, he's not trying to be cool. It's just his, you know, it's his own authentic, quirky self. And so this thing that should be really lame is actually kind of cool.

So what do the Democrats have to me? match any of that. What's the last, what's the last cool thing a Democrat did? Who's the coolest Democrat right now? Like, can you name a Democrat who is not completely lame and corny? Can you name one? I can't. And that is their big problem right now. It's their biggest problem among many. New York Post says this. One of the NASA astronauts trapped on the international space station said he believes Elon Musk claimed that the Biden administration rejected the SpaceX CEOs offered to help bring the team home. Barry Butch Wilmore made the comment Tuesday during an in-orbit press conference with fellow castaway Sunita Williams, nine months after the Boeing Starliner

capsule malfunction left the pair stuck on the ISS. He was asked about this and he seemed to confirm it. Let's listen to that moment. Our next question is from Aaron Gregg with the Washington Post. Hi, everyone. Thanks for doing this. So my question relates. to Elon Musk has said that he made the offer to bring you guys back earlier and that it was denied. My first question is, is that true? And if so, what would that have looked like? Was he offering to make another flight, push seats on another flight? Could you give us some background there?

I can only say that Mr. Musk, what he says is absolutely factual. We have no information on that, though whatsoever. What was offered, what was not offered, who it was offered to, how that process is went. That's information that we simply don't have. So I believe him. I don't know all those details, and I don't think any of us really can give you the answer that maybe that you would be hoping for.

So what Musk says is 100% factual. That's according to one of the astronauts there, trapped on the space station for nine months. Nine months, my God. Can you imagine that? That's, what, 270 days or so, which is actually about 4,000 days technically, because the space station orbits the Earth 16 times in 1 24-hour period.

So technically their day lasts for 90 minutes. But either way, nine months, nine months in a craft that has about 5,000 square feet of living space, which is quite spacious for a house, but when you're trapped in it for nine months and you can't leave, you can't go for a walk, you can't drive to the store or anything else. I'm sure it becomes very cramped. More to the point, Elon said that he could have rescued them from the space station months ago, and the Biden administration turned them down. And of course, Elon, when he made this claim, was fact-checked for it. And the fact-checkers rated it false.

And he was accused of lying. But now we have one of the astronauts confirming it, saying it was 100% factual. And it's obvious. Of course it's factual. Like, of course the administration would rather keep astronauts stranded in space than let Elon save them. of course. And I say, of course, not because it's the right decision, you know, but because that's how they operate. I mean, these are the same people who infamously now chose to sit on their hands and not applaud a pediatric cancer survivor

because they didn't want to agree with Trump about something. They didn't even want to agree with Trump that cancer is bad and it's good that this child survived it. Even that statement, they didn't want to agree with it because Trump said it. So that's the level of pettiness we're dealing with. And after their performance at the joint session speech, it is now completely believable. I mean, it was before, but even more so now that, yeah, the Democrats would stop Elon from rescuing these astronauts because they don't want to give him the win. That's a big win for Elon Musk and for SpaceX.

It would be an indictment of the Biden administration and of the federal federal. government, and they would rather, they would rather those astronauts die. I mean, and that would be an easy, you understand, like, that's an easy choice for the Democrats, for the Biden regime. If it was an emergency and, like, something was going catastrophically wrong and they needed to evacuate the astronauts in the next few days, or they would die, the Biden regime would have happily just let them die rather than allow Musk to save them. They wouldn't have to think about it. They would have to think about there'd be no deliberation, there'd be no, they're not, you know, they're not going to lose any sleep over it. But trading in a couple people's lives just for the sake of, just for politics, yeah, like, absolutely, they would do that.

No doubt about it. If there was an asteroid headed towards Earth, which, in fact, there might be, I think if they said 2032, there might be, there's like a 3% chance that an asteroid that's the size of a school bus or something, maybe a little bit bigger, hits the Earth. And if it hits a city, it's going to be like a nuclear, worse than a nuclear explosion. But I guess we're not going to worry about that right now. But anyway, if there was an asteroid headed towards Earth and Elon and SpaceX had the ability to go up like Armageddon's style, right, and land Bruce Willis and Steve Buscemi on it and blow the asteroid up and save Earth, the Democrats would rather just have the asteroid hit. then let Elon do that. And again, there'd be nothing for them to think about. If it was, okay, on one hand, Elon Musk can get a win, or we can let 50 million people die, every elected Democrat in the country would say, oh yeah, well, just 50 million people. We don't need them anyway.

Earth is too overpopulated as it is. So that's the kind of, that's what we're dealing with. Those are the kinds of people we're dealing with. It's been a little while since we have. a cultural appropriation controversy, but here we are again. This is a streamer by the name of, I don't know her name, but she's being confronted by a black woman on video here, this video that went viral, for wearing braids. Let's see it. That's ugly as we wear that shit. It's braids. Take that shit out now. Are you real?

Take that out now. Okay, what's your problem? Take that out now. But take that shit out now. Take that. Just ugly, though. Why? I just look at your hair.

It doesn't look back. Desh ugly. We stopped following us. Very eloquent, as we would expect. And so she's saying, take the braids out because it's cultural appropriation. Now, you know, cultural appropriation, obviously, a nonsense concept. I don't need to explain that to you. I have made the case many times.

I also think it's funny when there's a cultural appropriation outburst over braids of all things. Does anyone actually think that black people invented braids? What kind of understanding of human history? What level of misunderstanding of human history do you need to have to think that black people invented braiding your hair? Like no one else figured out thousands of years of human existence, nobody figured out how to do a braid until they saw black people do it. Does anyone really think that? Well, whether you think it or not, white people have been braiding their hair for thousands of years.

I mean, the Vikings were braiding their hair back in the year 900. And they didn't invent it either. I mean, there's really no way to say who invented it, but it's been, as far as we know, for as long as there have been people, there have been people, there's been braids. Okay, it's not, this was one of those things. They probably discovered braiding before they discovered, you know, the wheel. which in fact we know that's the case too because in Native American tribes

they had they had braided hair but they didn't have the wheel so they didn't have a written language so this is like this is pretty early on right in the in the process of the development of human civilization so you know I don't think there's no way to determine which race invented braids but probably white people have a more credible claim to that if you want to get into that context, or that contest rather. We do certainly,

we certainly know that if the cultural appropriation game was played equally, it would not work out well for most races. Because we know for a fact, I mean, we don't know who invented braids. I don't think any one person invented it. We do know for a fact, though, that, like, a white person invented jeans, sneakers, airplanes, cars, air conditioning, you know, phones, the internet, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So those were invented for sure by white people, and we're a part of white culture, basically,

before anyone else adopted them. So if different races get to sort of claim ownership of the stuff that they originated, well, again, I mean, that's a contest that doesn't work out well for most people. And even going back to the hairstyles, as many people on the internet have pointed out in response to this video, Beyonce was just at the, what was it, the Grammys a few weeks ago with straight blonde hair. And she clearly has whitened her skin. Okay, so she is in fact actually trying to look white, or at least whiter. How is that not cultural appropriation? We've got Beyonce running around looking like Dolly Parton.

And somehow that doesn't count as appropriation. It's pretty ridiculous. Of course, fortunately for Beyonce, cultural appropriation is just gibberish. It doesn't mean anything. That's not how it works. But this is another one of those things that if the left wants to keep this up, have at it.

Keep it going, definitely. Keep it going all the way to the midterms, the next presidential election. Great stuff. You may remember the Alaskan Airlines flight attendant who was fired for twerking on a plane a few weeks ago. Well, Inside Edition interviewed her this week, and she says that it was unfair. It was very unfair that she was fired just for the sin of twerking. She's the flight attendant who's twerking cost her dream job. I didn't think that, you know, being so happy can turn into something like this.

Nell Dialla was having a great time dancing and twerking in the aisle on an empty plane before an early morning flight. I decided to just take advantage of the moment to wake myself up and kind of get myself like hyped up for my day, basically. She posted the video on TikTok along with the caption, What's wrong with a little twerk before work? But after the video went viral, she said, She says Alaska Airlines fired her. What did they say to you? They just said that I broke their social media policy. Nell had only been on the job for six months.

She says she was twerking to celebrate the end of her probationary period. Why did you decide to post the video? And I was really proud of myself that I came so far. I just didn't think that my video and my posts in the way I was dancing would be deemed as inappropriate. So how did you feel in that? meeting when they told you you lost your job. I put on such a proud face every time I stepped on that plane.

And for them to terminate me without giving me a chance, it just was unfair. Twerking cost her her dream job. Happens to the best of us. I'm sure you've been in the situation before. Right there in the interview, they say, we'd like to offer you the job. And then you start celebratory twerking. just because you're happy, they're giving you the job, and then they say, actually, never mind.

And it happens to the best of us. So apparently celebratory happy twerking isn't allowed on the job anymore. I thought this was America, but I guess not. Next thing you know, they're going to tell us that angry twerking is not allowed either. What if you're in a meeting or something, and they announce some kind of new policy that you disagree with? Does this mean you can't express your frustration by standing on the chair? and twerking angrily while staring at your boss right in the eyes and twerking in a very angry fashion? Is that not allowed either? How are you supposed to express your disagreement?

How am I supposed to say, I don't agree with that if you're telling me that twerking's off the table? So no happy twerking, no angry twerking. Sad twerking, can we do that? I hope we can at least do that. I assume we can. You know, what if you just lost a loved one? You're at the funeral. You're overcome with grief. Can you twerk in a mournful way to express your sadness? I would hope. I don't know how else to express it. But that's the way things are now with this anti-twerking crusade that's happening.

So, you know, I feel bad for this woman. It's unfair. She's right. It's very unfair. I mean, and there's nothing inappropriate about a flight attendant twerking, dancing, having a great time. Personally, when I'm on a flight, The thing that I look for in my flight crew is, well, I look for two things. Number one, do they know how to have fun?

That's the first thing I want to know. Does this look like a fun bunch of people? I want to know that about the flight attendant. I want to know about the pilot. Is this a fun bunch or not? Because I don't want to be on that plane if they're not having a good time. And second, are they good dancers? That's the other thing I want to know.

So, in fact, just the other day, we were, and this is true, we were coming home from D.C. It was some of the worst turbulence I've ever experienced. It was quite terrifying, in fact. And I just remember thinking to myself, as the plane was violently shaking up and down, that I have no idea if this flight crew knows how to dance at all. And that made me feel pretty vulnerable, pretty unsafe. So anyway, I'm on this woman's side. I hope that she gets another job and can twerk until her heart is content.

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in my 50s when I'm really not even 40. Anyway, here's a little suit fashion advice. wear the brown belt black shoes and keep coat buttoned while standing up and walking around, this is from traveling experience. Well, that wouldn't see, not every, people don't, you don't understand the full gravity of my fashion dilemma because I couldn't do that because I was going to be standing and sitting a lot during, you know, we're going into the effectively a state of the union address. And so I'm going to do it a lot of standing up, a lot of standing ovations. And so what am I going to, every time I stand, I'm going to button the jacket.

You know, to hide the belt. That's not going to work. So, you know, so I'd have to keep the belt open. And then everyone would be able to see that, and I didn't know if I'd end up on camera or not. Turns out we were on camera like four or five times. And just imagine, imagine if my brown belt and black shoes had made it on the camera. That'd be a national scandal that I'd have to deal with for the rest of my life. Did your wife see your shoes before you walked out? And if she did, why did she let you?

Well, I was in D.C. My wife was home in Nashville. So I do rely on my wife to be my stylist. But when I don't have her with me, I have to navigate these challenging waters on my own. If I ever am somehow dressed in a stylish way, it's only because my wife has arranged that. Every once in a while, In fact, just the other day, I don't remember what I was wearing, but I was wearing just something. I thought it was a normal thing. I just was wearing like some kind of shirt with some kind of jacket. And I came home from work and my wife saw me and she said, wow, that's really stylish. Who told you to wear that?

And I said, no one told me to wear it. What am I a child? You know, I just accidentally, I accidentally looked kind of good. I didn't mean to, apparently. I absolutely adore Matt. I think he's brilliant, super intelligent, and very reasonable. Well, I agree. I have to say. I don't know. I agree with you. However, I think he's very cheap. Based on what I've heard him say over the years and now his shoe situation, to me, it goes beyond basic frugality. I wonder if his wife and kids wear underwear from Walmart and toiletries from Dollar Tree while he makes so much money. Come on, Matt, throw those scuff boots away and buy some new and elegant ones. Well, not my wife and kids as much, but I wear clothes from Walmart. Sure.

You know, I have some Walmart jeans that I'll wear. They're fine jeans. They're fine. They're just jeans. I'll get T-shirts. No reason to spend more. Like, I'll get a pack of T-shirts from Walmart. You can get like a pack of different colored T-shirts, five or six in a pack for $20.

Great deal. What am I going to go spend $50 on a T-shirt? It's a T-shirt. You know, his clothes are clothes. So nothing wrong with it. Matt, if they confiscated phones, why was Pocahontas on hers the entire time? Yeah, they confiscated all of our phones before we went in, but then the Dems were on their phones the entire time. So, yeah, that was a bit irritating.

A bunch of comments all on the same theme here, though. I'll read a few. Petition for Matt Walsh to start an anime review channel. I need a Matt Walsh anime review channel immediately. If you did anime reviews, I'd watch every single one of them. Matt does anime reviews would be a beautiful rabbit hole of him changing his mind. Matt's starting an anime review channel is what his audience desperately needs. Please do us the honor of blessing us with the vast anime knowledge and expertise you have would be great entertainment. You know, yeah, you guys say you want that.

You say you want that, but I don't think you really do. My producers were trying to sell me on this yesterday, but I can't do it. First of all, it would require me to watch anime, which you. which makes this a non-starter to begin with. And for another thing, I'm not going to like the anime. Okay, so this fantasy that you all have, that, oh, just get mad to watch this one anime, he's going to be an anime believer. This will be the thing.

No, you, how can you, after all this time that we've all spent together, it amazes me that anyone could still underestimate my stubbornness. Okay, if I say that I'm not going to like something, I will not like it. You know, it's just, it's the same thing with like, with pets. You know, I'm not a big pet guy. I think I made that clear. But my kids love having pets. My wife loves the pets.

And so everyone always says, well, you know, once, yeah, you say you don't want pets and then you'll have a pet in the house and you'll bond with it and you'll be, it'll be your favorite. Nope, doesn't happen. I don't hate them, but like it's, it's, it's, it never happens. I said I don't like it and I don't like it. So if I declare I don't like something, I will not like it until the day that I die. I can live to be 500 years old. And on my 500th birthday, I will still not like that thing, whatever it is. So what will happen is that if I do anime reviews, it will just be me dumping on anime relentlessly.

And, you know, which means I'm going to have anime fans constantly crying. Which, okay, now I'm starting to talk myself into it a little bit. That's because that would be a lot of fun. That's not so much of a downside, the more that I think about it. So we'll put that in the... We'll deliberate on that one a bit. The Daily Wire continues to fight. This time, we're taking on one of the woke left's greatest accomplishments, quote-unquote,

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but the fight is not over with your support. When we fight, we win. Now let's get to our daily conference. cancellation. The other day we discussed some of the latest rhetorical exploits of Jasmine Crockett, a member of Congress from Texas who, in an attempt to demonstrate her outstanding intellectual credentials, once bragged about receiving an honorary degree from a college that no one had ever heard of. Crockett demands to be taken seriously at all times, even though she's easily one of the least serious, least literate members of Congress. And to that end, at every available opportunity,

she'll go out of her way to remind you of her many achievements. For example, did you know that Jasmine Crockett technically holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and something called the Civil Air Patrol, did you know that she regularly keeps her houseplants alive for more than a month? She's bragged about that. Did you know that she holds the record for selling the most Girl Scout cookies on her block back in 2004? Now, if you didn't know any of this, then you probably don't listen to Jasmine Crockett enough, which of course means that you're a white supremacist. But it turns out that even among Crockett's most devoted fans, like myself, there's one talent that she possesses that up until now, nobody really noticed. And that is Jasmine Crockett's most closely held secret, but it's now all out in the open.

And the secret is this, as it happens, she is one of the most talented, quote, unquote, code switchers in the Democrat Party. She's kind of a savant, really. And if you're not familiar with the term, a code switcher is another name for a fraud. This is just a name that the left uses to legitimize someone who's a total phoning. It means that you use ghetto speak in some context, usually when you're talking to black people, and then you use a normal voice in every other context. That's code switching, as they call it. And it's a real art form. Now, I don't want to get ahead of myself. The Democrat Party is a certifiable who's who of code switchers from Hillary Clinton to Kamala Harris to random state lawmakers

you've probably never heard of. So for the purpose of this segment, I'm going to play the new viral footage of Jasmine Crockett's code switching. And then later on, we're going to compare her to some of the other heavy hitters of the Democrat Party. But for now, here's footage of Jasmine from before she went to Congress, interspersed with footage of her new accent. And this was unearthed by a podcaster named Kyle Serafin. Here it is. First of all, it's good to see you in the new year.

You know, no one could have told me that when I went down to Austin, now looks like a little bit over a year ago, that I would be running for Congress. It's just not what my plan was. But what I've always decided is that I would step up when there was a need. Listen, he up there, he's doing all kinds of nonsense. And let me just be real. And we weren't going to sit for that.

We wouldn't. You know. But when she called me and said, I think it's time for me to retire. And you're the one that I believe should take my seat. I really was kind of caught off guard. I didn't anticipate that. If anyone knows anything about the congresswoman, they know. We showed up, and if he had some sense, then maybe we would have been about that life.

But y'all know he ain't got no sense. So please give some love. This took a little bit of coordinating to do for sure. We got some cool shirts. You know, the congressional seat is over four times as large as my house seat. And I was just starting to get into the rhythm of doing constituent services and things like that. We got Madam Williams, who just happens to have the honorary seat. even honorary because she holding it down, y'all.

But the legend himself, John Lewis, that is the seat in which she currently serves. So she honored his legacy. This is the message that she wanted to send today. Now, when I saw this clip, I went looking for news stories about any unfortunate mishaps that might have befallen Jasmine Crockett since her arrival in Washington. I asked multiple AI programs, whether she had been poisoned by the Russians or maybe struck by a falling piano or something like that. I tried my hardest to find some benign explanation for this footage, but in the end, I came up with nothing. This is a change that Jasmine underwent

all on her own. But as impressive as this footage is, it's also a little unsettling. It really makes you doubt your preconceptions. It's the kind of thing that makes you wonder whether Jasmine Crocket is faking more than just her accent. You have to wonder if maybe she's faking the whole being extremely dumb thing as well. Maybe Jasmine is constantly embarrassing herself in public as some kind of political tactic or as part of some elaborate performance art. You know, maybe she actually has an IQ above 95. If so, it's extremely clear that she is a very committed to the bit. Jasmine is a method actor on par with like Marlon Brando. But this is par for the course in the Democrat Party, as I mentioned. Here's one of my favorite examples of this kind of thing,

of all time. And this is someone local, so maybe this is why I'm a bit biased. But it's a Tennessee lawmaker by the name of Justin Pearson. You might remember this guy because he was expelled briefly from the Tennessee State House for staging an insurrection after the Covenant School shooting, which he tried to turn into a platform to make an anti-gun statement. And Pearson imagined that this stunt would propel him into the national spotlight, into national stardom. Unfortunately, everyone sort of forgot he existed after about two days. But for our purposes, the point is that Pearson attended a leafy liberal arts college in Maine, where tuition runs over $60,000 a year. Then after he led his his

interaction, he started sounding a lot, you know, very different from how he sounded in Maine. Let's watch that again. Justin J. Pearson, and I'm running for president of BSG. There are a few reasons that we're running this campaign this year. One has to do with representation. How can we represent all voices in a conversation? I want to do this by partnering with organizations from the Putin Democrats to the Putin Republicans.

I want to bring together different voices, dissenting voices, voices that may be more liberal or more conservative in order that we can reach a point of sort of the radical middle. Seems like the NRA and gun lobbyists might win. But oh, that was good news for us. I don't know how long this Saturday in the state of Tennessee might last. But oh, we have good news, folks. We've got good news that Sunday always comes. That's a great one.

I don't know. That's a really good one. That's an all-time classic. But if you put that up against Jasmine Crockett, it's kind of a tough call. Who is more pathetic when you really get down to it? On the one hand, Pearson is obviously overdoing the MLK bit. The hairstyle gets him some bonus points also. Jasmine, on the hand, she holds a higher office.

You could make the case that she's fooled more people for a lot longer. But let's keep going. As we all know, both Jasmine and Justin Pearson have very stiff competition from Hillary Clinton in the competition for best code switcher of all time in the Democrat Party. least the most pitiful and embarrassing. When we say best, that's what we mean in this context. So here she was back at 2008. This is another classic. And when she was, you know, campaigning against Barack Obama, let's relive this one. I don't feel no way's tired. I come too far. Nobody would be easy to leave me. I don't feel no ways tired, which I think means.

that she does feel tired? If she doesn't feel no ways tired, I don't feel no ways tired, then that means I do feel some ways tired. I think it's kind of a riddle, but it's also the most egregious code switch in modern political history. She's held the throne for more than a decade. Frankly, it's hard to see how Jasmine Crockett or Justin Pearson could possibly beat that. Hillary is the gold standard for this kind of thing. And that's what we're not. why when Kamala Harris started using her fake accents, everyone compared them to Hillary. You know, everyone knows Hillary is the goat of hysterically fake black accents. And here was Kamala's attempt in case you need a reminder.

Remember for paid leave or for vacation time? You know what? Here, hold on. Here's the thing. The courts are going to handle that. We're going to beat them in November. We'll beat him in November. We'll handle that.

I love you back. I forgot about the Puerto Rican one at the end. That was good. Now, as embarrassing as it is, it just, it makes you pine for the real thing. It's a cheap imitation of Hillary and the black church. Like everything else Kamala did, it was an inauthentic, paired down retread of the greats. At least Jasmine Crockett's code switch has the element of surprise. When Kamala Harris tried to pull this, no one was shocked or stunned in any way. Instead, people, you know, just laughed. And this, this is, I guess, the ranking then. In the annals of Democrat Party code switchers, that is frauds, total frauds and phonies, we have Hillary Clinton,

then Jasmine Crockett, then Kamal Harris. And even though this newly unearthed footage adds a bit of excitement, the fact remains that Jasmine Crockett still isn't that special or interesting, even in terms of code switching. There's just not much to celebrate here. It's bad, but it doesn't even have the distinction of being the worst we've ever seen. And that is why Jasmine Crockett is today finally canceled. But I'll do it forward to the show today and this week. Have a great weekend. Talk to you on Monday.

Godspeed.