The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 253 - A Democratic Congresswoman Shows Where Her Loyalties Really Lie

Episode Date: May 6, 2019

Today on the show, a United States congresswoman sides with terrorists and refers to “our Palestinian people.” I think the statement warrants an investigation and I'll explain why. Also, a Democra...tic state rep harasses an elderly pro life woman and records himself doing it. And I'll answer your emails. Date: 05-06-2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a United States Congresswoman sides with terrorists and refers to, and I quote, our Palestinian people, our. Now, I think that that statement warrants an investigation, and I'll explain why. Also, a Democratic state representative harasses an elderly pro-life woman, and he's so proud of himself for this that he recorded it and posted it online. So we'll play a clip of that and talk about it. And I'll answer your emails today on the Matt Wall Show. So did you guys hear about this? You heard about the Kentucky Derby controversy, right?
Starting point is 00:00:37 If you didn't hear about it, let me explain. And now I should say, I know nothing about horse racing whatsoever. I watch, I'll watch the Belmont if there's a triple crown at stake. So I watch maybe three and a half minutes of horse racing per decade or so. But still, I can, you know, I can read headlines. And so if you read headlines, that makes you an expert these days if you didn't know. So I'm an expert based on the headlines I've read. And so let me explain this to you. Here's what happened. This one horse won the race, right? The first horse won. But then they were like, oh, no, the first horse didn't win. The second horse won. And so the second horse was like, oh, sweet. And but the first horse said, no, that's, that's BS, man. And a lot of people, a lot of other people said, oh, no, I disagree with this. And then, but then some other people also said, no, I agree. I think it's the right call. And then there were other people who said, I can see both sides of it. And, um,
Starting point is 00:01:30 And that's what that's, that's the gist of it. Sorry to get technical on you. You know, the horse racing industry, we tend to forget that novices don't know all the minutiae, so we'll kind of speak technically. So I apologize. Hopefully I didn't lose you there in explaining it. So there you go. That was my horse racing commentary for the day.
Starting point is 00:01:48 Check back tomorrow for some more. Well, we've got a lot we need to talk about today. But before we get there, you know, it's summer. And the only thing more annoying than the winning horse at the Kentucky Derby having his victory stolen from him is, flies and other insects that are buzzing around your home. And, you know, when you think about flies, who knows where a fly was last? Well, you can think about where flies tend to, tend to hover like garbage and that sort of thing. And then if one lands on your food, on your hamburger, now you've got a piece of all that stuff in your hamburger. So that's pretty disgusting.
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Starting point is 00:03:54 at Israel, at civilian targets in Israel over the weekend. Many of them were intercepted. Many of the rockets were, but many of them also hit. Israel responded. And as Israel responded to the attack, some Democrats in Congress, as you have come to expect, came out in support of the terrorists who fired the rockets initially. Now, you could probably guess who the people are who came out in support of the terrorists. The first one is Il-Hun. Omar, who tweeted and said, how many more protesters must be shot, rockets must be fired, and little kids must be killed until the endless cycle of violence ends. Well, if you want to know how many rockets, you know, how many more rockets have to be fired, well, then maybe ask the people who
Starting point is 00:04:39 fired the rockets in the first place. She says, the status quo of occupation and humanitarian crisis in Gaza is unsustainable. Only real justice can bring about security and lasting peace. But to me, that was not nearly as concerning as the tweet that was sent by Rashida Taleb, Congresswoman from Michigan, and she's an American congresswoman, allegedly. Here's what she said. Now listen to this. She said, when will the world stop dehumanizing our Palestinian people who just want to be free? Headlines like this. She's reacting to a headline in the New York Times. and I think it was the New York Times. Headlines like this and framing it in this way
Starting point is 00:05:29 just feeds into the continued lack of responsibility on Israel who unjustly oppress and target Palestinian children and families. All right, let me, I'll go back to that first sentence because that's really the only sentence that matters here. She says, when will the world stop dehumanizing our Palestinian people who just want to be free? What?
Starting point is 00:05:52 our Palestinian people our now we're told that it's a racist smear to accuse Muslim politicians of dual loyalty
Starting point is 00:06:05 and I agree that if you were to it would be a smear to accuse a Muslim politician of dual loyalty just because she's a Muslim that would be a smear but if she advertises
Starting point is 00:06:19 her dual loyalty if she comes out in says it, which is what she just did here, our Palestinian people, well, then it's not a smear, it's just an observation. That's all. And actually, you know, maybe I should back up for a minute because, no, I don't think that Talab has dual loyalty because there's no evidence at all that she's loyal to America in the first place. So I think I'm more accusing her of having sole loyalty to her Palestinian people. That's what she just said. She said, well, they're my people. This is, I mean, that is really, really concerning.
Starting point is 00:06:56 You know, it's, it's, I don't think it's like a matter of semantics here. Yeah, it's just one word, but that's a really important word. Because that is a word that expresses who your loyalties lie with, and who you identify yourself with. And I don't think it's too much to ask that if you're a politician in America and you're a representative of American citizens, whenever you refer to our people, you should be talking about Americans or even more specifically
Starting point is 00:07:28 the American citizens who elected you and who you represent. I think she needs to be investigated for this. And I'm serious. If she was a civilian, I mean, it would be one thing. There are plenty of idiots on Twitter who are cheering on terrorists
Starting point is 00:07:44 and they're allowed to do that. I think it's vile and stupid, but they're allowed to do it. If you're a member of the U.S. Congress and you're referring to non-Americans as your people, that raises some very serious questions. Your sole loyalty as a representative, as a member of the U.S. government, needs to be with America. I mean, do you think someone could get a job like at the NSA if they went around saying stuff like this? Do you think if in, if in, if in, if in
Starting point is 00:08:21 the interview process at the NSA, you were to refer to my Palestinian people, you think you'd get the job? No, there's no way. If you're working at the NSA, they want to be very, very sure that your sole and only loyalty is to this country. I think it should be the same thing with politicians who are making the laws, the ones who are in charge of things. And before anyone accuses me of racism, though I don't really care if you do because that label has lost all meaning these days. But I would say the same thing for anyone who referred to another people or another country as their people. So find me an example. I know when I was talking about this earlier this morning, there were people saying, well,
Starting point is 00:09:13 What about all the politicians who are, you know, who side with Israel? Okay, well, find me an example of a Jewish politician in America talking about our Israeli people or my Israeli people. And I would have a huge problem with that too. Okay, I would have a huge problem with that. But I don't think you're going to find that, actually. Now, if you can find an example of it, then let me know. But I'm not aware of any example. Someone argued to me that in context, well, Taleb, she refers to the world, and then she says,
Starting point is 00:09:54 our Palestinian people. So maybe she was speaking from a global perspective, and she was saying, like, we're all one people, we're all each other's people, or whatever. Maybe that's what she was saying. I still have a problem with American politicians speaking that way in these global terms, as if as if the distinction of countries doesn't matter. That troubles me also because, again, you're an American, you're a representative of the American government.
Starting point is 00:10:22 And so I think you need to understand those distinctions and respect them. But that's not what's happening here. It's clearly not what she's saying. That's not what she means. She's talking about herself personally. In fact, in her bio, she identifies herself as a Palestinian-American. and so it's no wonder that she puts the Palestinian first, and we see how that works now. But if that is what she meant, if she meant it in a global way, well, does that mean that Trump
Starting point is 00:10:51 could talk about our Russian people? Can you imagine? How do you think that would go over? How do you think it would go over if Trump said out a tweet saying, talking about our Russian people? How would the left react to that? They would, I mean, they would all act. They would, literally explode, I think, with rage. There would be actual explosions happening across the country if that were to happen. So, so, so, so no, obviously this is a problem. It really is. And we cannot be so cowed by the racism charges that we refuse to speak up about something like this.
Starting point is 00:11:28 It is not okay for the, for a representative of the United States Congress to identify her people as people who do not live here. It's just not okay. That is extremely concerning, to say the least. All right. Speaking of concerning videos and or concerning things, and speaking of loyalties lying elsewhere, I should say, there's a watchdog, a watchdog group called the Middle East Media Research Institute. And they posted a video over the weekend, not their own video, but they posted it to bring it to our attention. It's from a recent event at the Muslim American Society Islamic Center in Philadelphia. And during this event, there's a bunch of children. Well, let me just show you.
Starting point is 00:12:20 I'll just show you. We'll talk about it after. Look at this. Okay, now if you're listening on sounding on their own and you didn't have the benefit of subtitles and you didn't understand the language, then let me read the Middle East Media Research Institute's description of this video from their YouTube page, which describes what was going on there.
Starting point is 00:14:28 On April 22nd, 2019, the Muslim American Society Islamic Center in Philadelphia uploaded a video of an Umah Day celebration to its Facebook page in which young children wearing Palestinian scarves saying, this is what they were saying. Glorious steeds call us and lead us to the Al-Axar Mosque. The blood of martyrs protect us. Take us, oh, ships, until we reach our shores and crush the treacherous ones. Flow, oh, rivers of martyrs. A young girl read a poem praising martyrs who sacrificed their lives for Palestine, and she asked,
Starting point is 00:15:03 Will Jerusalem be a hotbed for cowards? Another young girl read, will we defend Palestine with our bodies? We will chop off their heads. We will liberate the sorrowful and exalted Al-Axar Mosque. We will subject them to eternal torture. So there you go. That's what's happening in America, folks. I, you know, I, when I was a kid, I went to Christian events.
Starting point is 00:15:30 Like, I'd go to Sunday school, vacation Bible school I would go to. And, you know, what we would do is we would learn Bible stories. We would maybe draw a picture of Noah's Ark. We would sing songs like Jesus loves me, this I know for the Bible tells me. We would do pageants. We never recited poems about chopping off the heads of martyrs. And we never talked about crushing the treacherous ones, subjecting people to eternal torture.
Starting point is 00:16:07 So that was, I guess it's just a difference of style. You know, I don't know. And by the way, a totally coincidental difference, right? It's just so happens that this is an Islamic society where they've got kids singing about cutting off people's heads. and just you never find that with Christian groups. But it's just a coincidence. Like, we can't draw any conclusions whatsoever about the different religions
Starting point is 00:16:34 because they're exactly the same. They're totally equal. And how dare you think otherwise? All right. Here's another, we'll just keep it going here. Here's another disturbing video to play for you on a slightly different note, but only slightly different, not that different actually. Brian Sims is a state representative in Pennsylvania.
Starting point is 00:16:56 somehow. He describes himself in his Twitter bio as LGBTQ activist, state representative, civil rights attorney, college football captain, bearded, RuPaul's drag race fanatic, and Little Mermaid enthusiast. And notice how he puts LGBTQ activist before state representative. So just like Talib is a Palestinian before she's an American, well, he's an LGBTQ activist before he's a state representative. And so the Little Mermaid fan, he decided that he wanted to harass and intimidate an elderly woman and film himself doing it.
Starting point is 00:17:35 And this goes on for, now what I'm going to show you here, I'm not going to show you the whole video. The actual video goes on for like eight minutes of this person harassing an elderly woman. I'm just going to show you a clip of it. Here it is. Hi, everyone.
Starting point is 00:17:51 Representative Brian Sims here, and I'm once again out in, in front of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania. It's not only in my district, it's the most heavily protested Planned Parenthood. I believe in the country and today's protester. Now, she is an old white lady who's gonna try to avoid showing you her face.
Starting point is 00:18:11 But the same laws, luckily, that protect her from being out here, also protect me from showing you who she is. And so my hope is, is that you'll donate $100 for every extra hour that this woman is out here, telling people what's right for their bodies. So I have a couple questions for you, ma'am. How many children have you clothed today?
Starting point is 00:18:31 I'm sorry, I missed your answer. How many children have you clothed today? How about how many children have you put shoes on their feet today? Have you fed any children today? Or have you just stood out in front of a Planned Parenthood, shaming people for something that they have a constitutional right to do. Huh? If you hear about the children, you can pray at home for children.
Starting point is 00:18:51 It's probably the same place that you could feed a child. But you're not. Instead, you're out here shaming people for something that they have a constitutional right to do. Who would have thought that an old white lady would be out in front of a Planned Parenthood, telling people what's right for their bodies. Shame on you. Shame on you for hiding your face at the same time that you're shaming other people. Again, the same laws that protect me, protect you, and that's okay. You're allowed to be out here. That doesn't mean that you have a moral right to be out here. Shame on you. What you're doing here is disgusting. This is wrong. You have no business being. out here. Hi, everybody. Thank you for being here. Yep. Disgusting. Okay, so the
Starting point is 00:19:32 The Little Mermaid there is doing a few interesting things. First, he's sticking a camera in a woman's face and literally shaming her on the internet while accusing her of shaming people. He actually, he actually says, right, he says, shaming. on you for shaming. You're shaming people. Shame on you. I'm sure he's too stupid to appreciate the irony, but you and I can appreciate it. Anyway, also, he keeps going on about clothing and feeding children. Well, there's a very good chance that this woman, who is both brave and dignified, by the way, in her response, and that's how it is the entire video. She just, she doesn't run away, but she doesn't engage with him. She just stands there. And so I think a very,
Starting point is 00:20:24 very brave and strong woman, much stronger than this person. This despicable, cowardly punk. Anyway, but there's a very good chance that she is quite charitable in her private life. I would be willing to bet that she gives a lot to charity and that she has done a lot to help kids. I'd be willing to bet that because that's the case with pro-lifers. despite what you hear from pro pro bores. Oh, pro-lifers, they only care about babies before they're born. That is such utter nonsense.
Starting point is 00:21:02 I mean, pro-lifers are constantly doing things for children. It shouldn't surprise you to learn that pro-lifers love kids. They love human beings. They love life. That's why we're pro-life. So this whole thing about, oh, you only care about babies. As soon as they're born, you just leave them. That's just total nigh.
Starting point is 00:21:27 There's no evidence for that that is based on nothing. That is just an empty accusation. It's something that pro-abortion people say because it makes them feel more comfortable. It's what they want to believe. It would make them feel more comfortable about their own evil, sick, disgusting viewpoints if they could convince themselves
Starting point is 00:21:45 that, oh, yeah, these people over here, they don't really care about people. They're just pretending. Well, why, I mean, why do you, what do you think that woman is there doing? Why do you think that this elderly woman decided to get up on a Saturday morning and go to this? What do you think motivates that? You really think it's because she, what, she, it's hate for, she hates women.
Starting point is 00:22:07 She is a woman. So she's there because she hates women. Now, you know, if someone doesn't care, you know, if it's true that pro-lifers don't really care about life, they don't care about babies, they don't care about women, But you know what they would do? They would do nothing. They would just stay at their home. You don't get up on a Saturday morning and go to a clinic and subject yourself to that if you don't actually care. That's why they're there.
Starting point is 00:22:34 They don't get anything out of this. The people who are at clinics, what do you think they get out of it personally? They're not making money off of it. They're subjected to harassment. So they don't enjoy that. there's nothing in it for them. They're only doing it because they believe that babies are being killed and they think that that shouldn't happen.
Starting point is 00:22:58 So that's why they're there. Don't project you as a pro-a-boy as an empty soulless evil apologists for murder, don't project that onto other people. Just because you don't care, just because you don't give a crap about other people, which is obviously the case with this coward, just because you don't. don't care doesn't mean that's not something that everybody feels that way. Yes, you are self-absorbed and selfish and all you care about is yourself. That's clear. But that's not the case for everybody. There are people who actually care about other humans and that's why pro-lifers go to these
Starting point is 00:23:32 clinics. But all of that is beside the point. Because the idea that we can't oppose the murder of a group of people unless we are also feeding and adopting those people. But, you're also feeding and adopting those people is just ridiculous. Am I not allowed to oppose the killing of the homeless unless I've worked at a soup kitchen? So if someone proposed that we should go and just eradicate all of the homeless, put them down like dogs in order to get rid of the homeless problem, and I stood up and said, no, I'm opposed to that. Would you say, well, I don't see you working at soup kitchens? Pipe down. Can I not oppose the murder of toddlers unless I've adopted a toddler? You know, Andrea Yates, drowned her five kids in the bathtub, her born children. I'm opposed to that. I think that's horrible.
Starting point is 00:24:30 Are you going to say, oh, well, I didn't see you stepping up to adopt those kids? So shut your mouth. It's such an absolutely idiotic talking point. And if you use that talking point, you're either a moron or you're lying. It's just there is no in-between option. There's no third option. You either know that it's a stupid talking point and you're using it because it's ready. meat for for dumb pro-abortion people or you're just really really stupid that you can't see the problem with that and how that line of thinking means that we are not you you really can't oppose the murder of anyone because what you're saying is unless you personally are stepping up to take care of this person for their whole life you cannot be opposed to their murder which means that
Starting point is 00:25:23 you know there are seven billion people in the world i cannot take care of of almost any of them. Like, I don't have the resources to get. I only have the resources to care for a very, very, very, very small number of those people. And all of those people happen to live in my house right now. So what you're saying is, I can't be opposed to the murder of any of the rest of them. Genocide, whatever. I can't, because I, you know, what, I'm not stepping up to care for them. So I guess, yeah, go ahead and kill them. You know, I can't take care. Whoever you are watching this, if you're pro-abortion, I can't take care of you. I don't have the money for it. Or the interest, frankly, you know, so I guess
Starting point is 00:25:58 I can't be opposed to people killing you. I guess you know, yeah, go ahead. Someone can just go ahead and kill you and I can't say anything about it because, you know, I'm not here giving you any money, right? But mostly the big takeaway here is that is that once again, the pro-abortion side
Starting point is 00:26:15 is, as always, vicious, hostile, shaming, bullying, despicable. While the pro-life side is peaceful and non-confrontational. And that's the way it is, like 95% of the time. It's almost always that way. Every once in a while, you'll see the rolls reversed, but not very often. And that's all it is. All right.
Starting point is 00:26:45 There was a report in the daily, well, maybe we'll do that tomorrow. There was, so maybe you've heard the latest thing, the latest trend is, is, I think they call it soligamy. Yeah, celigamy. Like solo. It's when you marry yourself, when you fall in love with yourself and marry yourself. And that's the latest trend. So there was an article in a British publication written by a woman who married herself. After, shockingly, two of her marriages fell through. So she got divorced twice. Her marriages weren't working. And then she goes and marries herself. I wonder why those marriages didn't work out. It's a huge mystery, right? The kind of person who's so self-obsessed that they would marry themselves. I wonder why it didn't work in a merit.
Starting point is 00:27:39 Anyway, well, maybe we'll talk about that tomorrow. There's more to be said about it. But I want to get to emails, especially because the first one I think is very important. This is from, and Matt Walshow at gmail.com is the email address. Matt Walshow at gmail.com. This is from Anna. And I got several emails like this, so just reading one. It says, Matt, I'd really enjoy your insight on how Christians should react to
Starting point is 00:28:03 the death of Rachel Held Evans. Obviously, any death is heartbreaking and we should mourn with those who mourn. But I find some of the comments by Christian leaders to be intriguing in the sense that they seem to be glorifying her. It just feels very confusing. I always appreciate and trust your insight. So if you didn't hear the news, over the weekend, Rachel Held Evans, a prominent, well-known, liberal Christian writer died, and she died very suddenly, unexpectedly after, I think she had a reaction to some medicine that she was given for an infection. Kind of just routine. She went to the hospital for an infection and seemed like a routine thing.
Starting point is 00:28:42 They gave her some medicine and it led to swelling in the brain and she died. In fact, she sent a tweet when she first checked into the hospital, saying, oh, I'm in the hospital. And she was joking around about how she was going to miss Game of Thrones. And so to her, it was just a normal, no big deal. And then it just was a freak occurrence. And then she ended up dying. She was 37 years old.
Starting point is 00:29:09 She had a husband and two young children. Very, very sad. Now, I will say that she was, I feel like I have to say, because it's kind of the elephant in the room, if you're familiar with both of us, then you probably know that she was a critic of mine. I was a critic of hers. Critic is probably understating it.
Starting point is 00:29:27 We were harsh towards each other. very harsh. And we were at polar opposite extreme ends of things. And so we were both very critical of each other. And maybe that's why I got a lot of these emails this weekend asking what my reaction is or how should we react to it. And I appreciate the email. I appreciate the question. But to me, the answer is obvious.
Starting point is 00:29:54 how should we react to the sudden death of a 37-year-old mother of two with sympathy and with mourning and with sadness that's all it is an incredibly sad thing and I mourn her loss I mourn for her family I pray for them and we don't need to say anything other than that that's all we need to say there have been some Christians, not the majority by any means, but some who decided to take the opportunity of Rachel's death to express their opposition to her theological views. There are Christians who, it seems to me, and not just because of this, but there are other examples as well, there are Christians who have forgotten how to just be human. no one is saying that you have to suddenly agree with all of her theological points of view just because she tragically passed away. Obviously not. If you disagreed before, you still disagree. And so everyone knows that. That doesn't change. But when the woman just died and her children
Starting point is 00:31:06 are still by her bedside saying goodbye and she hasn't even been buried yet, this is not the time for criticism. this is not a forum or a stage upon which you need to stand and express your theological disputes with this woman it's and i know that the emailer wasn't saying that i'm not i'm not talking to her i'm speaking generally so just be a human being be a human being for god's sake that that's all why is that so much for us sometimes if you're not you're not you're feel the need to say more than just, I mourn for her, I'm sorry for her family, I'll pray for them. If you feel like you want to say more than that, if you feel like more needs to be said, more pontificating needs to be done, and it really doesn't. But if you feel that need,
Starting point is 00:32:04 then rather than giving a theological lecture, maybe think about and talk about mortality and death. That's what I've been thinking about this weekend. You know, here's a Here was a young and healthy woman living her life, making plans for the future, going about things day-to-day, like all of us, and thinking about the TV show she's going to watch. Like we all do. You're looking forward to these little things and just living your life. And suddenly, just by some freak occurrence, she's gone, and that's it. And that's the end. And that's going to happen to all of us one day.
Starting point is 00:32:38 I mean, one day you're going to eat your last meal. One day you will say, I love you to your children for the last time. One day you'll fill up your gas tank for the last time. You'll tie your shoes for the last time. You'll look at a bird for the last time. I mean, all these things. And you probably won't know that it's the last time that you're doing those things when you're doing them. To you, it will just be Tuesday.
Starting point is 00:33:03 It'll just be a normal day. And that fact should mean something to us, shouldn't it? It should cause us to live differently, to cherish life. to do more with life, to care less about stupid things and more about important things? Because we all know that if we are fortunate enough to have some warning before our death and we're conscious and on our deathbed, we all know that in that moment we're going to look back on so much of what we did with our life and regret it and feel like so much of that was a waste. And we're going to look back on so many of the things that we cared about and worried about and all that.
Starting point is 00:33:57 We're going to say, how stupid was I for worrying about that? It doesn't matter. So we all know that this epiphany will occur to us, yet for some reason we can't live that way now. And that's the thing, except for momentarily. So maybe there's a death, you're thinking about it, and in that moment, when you reflect on this stuff, it does affect that change. But then we revert back to our old ways of living and thinking, and we go about our day as if we're immortal, as if death can't come for us at any time. So, I don't know, maybe think about that. Or just be sorry and mourn and express your sympathy and leave it at that.
Starting point is 00:34:44 All right. This is from Jennifer says, I'm a relatively new listener, but your show is now my favorite on the Daily Wire. I'm a fellow Catholic. I wanted to get your perspective on something that has been bothering me my whole life. As a churchgoer,
Starting point is 00:35:01 what are your thoughts on people who bring loud, obnoxious, and distracting children to Mass? For example, this past Good Friday during the evening service, there was a mother sitting across from me whose toddler son would shout, bah, every 10 seconds,
Starting point is 00:35:13 during the entire first reading. She made no effort to try and quiet the child. Then during the liturgy of the Eucharist, she proceeded to let her child crawl back and forth across the pew in front of her and then would flip the kid up and around in the air, playing with it. Playing with it. Well, him. It is a little strong. She barely paid any attention to the service and made my experience of mass much less spiritual than I had hoped. I would like to think that when I become a parent one day, I will immediately get up and step out if my child becomes disruptive in church. As a father of three children, what do you do in these situations? Yeah,
Starting point is 00:35:46 This is a tough one with kids at church. And now I will say, and I'm not trying to put myself on pedestal here, it's just for me as a parent, I am hyper aware of my kids' behavior and their impact on people around them. And if they're being a distraction, I'm hyper aware of that. And so in church, the moment they start making noise, I'm taking them out. I'm taking to the back and I'll bring them back in if I can calm them down. But I'm not going to ignore them.
Starting point is 00:36:22 And it's the same. If I'm in a restaurant and the five-year-olds now are fine in restaurants, but two or three years old is a tough age for a restaurant. And so when we're all there as a family, if our two-year-old is having a hard time and he's crying or screaming or making a lot of noise, I will pick him up and I'll bring him outside and try to calm him down. that's and that's how I operate as a parent so when I because the way I look at it is yeah this is my kid but he's not everyone else's kid and so there are certain things that in annoyances that I have to deal
Starting point is 00:37:01 with as the parent of this child but that doesn't mean that everyone should have to deal with it so that's that's how I've always tried to operate and so I kind of feel the same way you do Jennifer, when I see these parents who, um, their kids are just being a total distraction and a disruption and these parents like, they don't even notice, I don't understand. As a parent, I do not understand that. I can't. I, in some ways, I almost admire. I'm almost, well, I don't admire it. I'm jealous of it. I wish I could be that oblivious of my child. And I wish that I could care so little about how annoying he is being to those around him. Um, so I don't understand it, but, but, Some parents are that way.
Starting point is 00:37:44 And so I don't think that's the right thing. You need to, as a parent, you need to keep other people around you in mind and realize that, yeah, you might be saying, well, I don't want to have to get up and leave church because then I'm going to miss out or I'm at a restaurant. I don't want to have to, I'm with my family. I don't want to have to get up and leave the restaurant.
Starting point is 00:38:04 Well, yeah, but that's your kid. That's your responsibility. You can't say, well, look, I don't want to be inconvenient, so everyone else is going to have to deal with it. No, that's the wrong thing. It's your child. That's your responsibility. I've got my own kids to deal with.
Starting point is 00:38:18 I shouldn't have to deal with yours. So this is a pretty simple thing. Everyone deal with your own kid. Don't make me deal with him. So that's on the one side, right? If your kid is really being a disruption and a distraction, then you need to deal with him. Get him out of the situation.
Starting point is 00:38:35 Stop forcing everyone else to have to endure it because that's not fair. On the other hand, we also have to be, as a society, welcoming to children and tolerant up to a point with the fact that they are kids. And there are some non-parents who, I mean, the minute you walk into a restaurant with your family and your young kids, they're giving you dirty looks. And sometimes I'll be at church and we'll have all the kids sitting there. and one of the kids will make like one little noise or they'll talk for two seconds and already there's someone behind me
Starting point is 00:39:16 whipping their head back and giving a dirty look. So that's not right either. On the other end of the spectrum, that's not right. We do need to have some tolerance and patience with kids. And it's only up to a point because if a kid is being so distracting and disruptive that it's making it impossible for you to do what you came there to do, to appreciate the church service or to enjoy your dinner,
Starting point is 00:39:47 well, then, yeah, the parent needs to do something. But you can't be completely intolerant of kids because they're part of society too. They're different from us. They operate differently. They are a little bit louder. They're a little bit more rambunctious. That's just how they are.
Starting point is 00:40:06 kids, that's just the way it is. And so we need to be understanding of that as well. And the last thing I'll say is if you're in a situation, if a parent's in a situation with a kid who's being loud and crying and be disruptive, but it's a situation where they really cannot take the kid out. So let's say an airplane, for instance, well then it really does fall on everyone else to just kind of deal with it and be patient and be nice about it because there's nothing the parent can do. And I've been in situations with, you know, we've taken our kids on planes plenty of times. Usually it goes fine. And we come prepared.
Starting point is 00:40:49 Like, we've got snacks. We've got toys. We've got everything we can to try to just bribe them to keep them silent, at least for that plane ride. We try not to operate that way as parents generally, but in a plane, it's whatever you've got to do to keep them quiet, do it. right? But there's been a few times when one of the kids just is having a bad time and they start freaking out and screaming and trust me, as the parent, I feel way more stressed out by it than you do, even though I know it's annoying for everybody else, but there's nothing I can do. I can't take them out or 30,000 feet in the air. I'm doing everything I can to keep them quiet. It's not working.
Starting point is 00:41:26 Sometimes that just happens with kids. Sometimes kids, they just need to get out of their system. they want to cry, they're going to cry. Sometimes there's nothing you can do to stop it. And so that's what I really need everyone else to just bear with me and sort of be on my team, even though you don't know me or the kid. So that's how I would parse that. Finally, let's see, from toxic white male, Matt Walsh, it's inappropriate to call naysayers of the Sandy Hook shooting,
Starting point is 00:41:54 morons and brain-dead idiots when you haven't had all the facts and evidence presented to you. and it's evident through your arrogance on the entire subject that you haven't. With that said, I do respect your opinion. However, I challenge you to watch the documentary. We need to talk about Sandy Hook on YouTube, which is a very detailed and thorough investigation about the entire Sandy Hook Massacre. Comprised of multiple YouTubers and private investigators, if it doesn't change your mind even just a little bit,
Starting point is 00:42:17 I will personally donate $10 to your PayPal slash Patreon. And if it doesn't, I'll still donate, but if it doesn't, ask yourself this after you watch it, is the ruling class and the deep state capable of, orchestrating a false flag like a Sandy Hook, even if you believe it really happened. P.S., and when Alex Jones changed his tune and said that Sandy Hook really did happen, it confirmed the fraud that is Alex Jones. All right, yeah, I mentioned this.
Starting point is 00:42:44 I don't even remember what the context was, but I mentioned this last week, the Sandy Hook conspiracy. And as I've said many times, it is a conspiracy believed by brain dead idiots and morons. and a conspiracy that was that was invented and spread by people who are worse than idiots people who knew what they were doing and were exploiting a tragedy for publicity do I regret using language that harsh
Starting point is 00:43:13 no I don't at all I stand by it 100% I mean this was a tragedy where dozens of five and six year old children were murdered. And I can't, to this day, probably of all the tragedies that have happened in American history, or at least all the tragedies that have happened while I've been alive, all the kind of national tragedies, including 9-11. None of them affected me the way that Sandy Hook did and still does.
Starting point is 00:43:47 Even though many more people died on 9-11, so the death toll was much greater. Just the specific targeting of five- and six-year-old kids. It was just And I For the parents I cannot You're great at protecting your data But lots of places could still expose you to identity theft
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Starting point is 00:44:43 And how do you go on? How do you live? I just can't even comprehend it. So to have people taking this very real, tragedy and turning it into some sort of cinematic story, turning it into some kind of game, what is other secret agents and things happening. You know what? The best thing I could say about someone who does that is that you're stupid. And there are worse things I can say. Just stop. There are parents who's five and six year old kids were shot in the head and killed.
Starting point is 00:45:26 And all you can think is, oh, it's a conspiracy. Let's talk about the conspiracy. There was never any basis whatsoever to claim that that was a conspiracy. None. And I've seen, every time I talk about this, you have the Sandy Hook nutters who come and say, well, look at all this evidence. I've looked at the evidence. There's none. There is no evidence.
Starting point is 00:45:44 There never was any. This was just in, you just came up with it in your head. And your whole thing is, well, could they pull it off? Could they do it? A lot of people could do a lot of things. It doesn't mean that there's any evidence that it actually happened. just oh they could have oh they could have so that means that they did those two things don't don't you understand that's not the same just because you can come up with a scenario
Starting point is 00:46:11 wherein it's possible that a certain thing could have happened that doesn't mean that it actually did happen to claim that something like that happened you would need real solid evidence you have none zero no evidence and The little bits of evidence that you do have, it doesn't even make it. Not only is it invented and false, but it doesn't even make any sense. Like one of the pieces of evidence that these Sandy Hook Nuttors would use is they'll say, they'll take a picture of one of the children who died. And then they'll find a similar looking girl who was, I think in this case,
Starting point is 00:46:52 it was one of the girls who died. And then they found a similar looking girl who appeared at some event with Barack Obama. and oh, it's a crisis actor. You see? Look, she didn't really die. It's a crisis actor. First of all, not the same girl. And it's really obvious from the picture.
Starting point is 00:47:10 Second of all, are you telling me that this brilliant, devious government that could orchestrate this fake shooting for no apparent reason? that they could do that, but they wouldn't think to get a different crisis actor. Like, they would actually reuse the same person. So they're so brilliant that they can pull off this whole staged hoax and fool almost everyone. Yet they're also so stupid that they leave these obvious breadcrumbs that any person on YouTube can find and point to it. It's a, you see, clearly it's a hoax. it just makes no sense whatsoever. And all the pieces of evidence are just like that.
Starting point is 00:48:04 Where, number one, that's not true. But second, even if it were true, it's not true, but if it were, then that would mean that this government, that these people are so incompetent and foolish, that there's no way they could have pulled this off in the first place. So you're trying to do both. You're saying, on one hand, they're brilliant, devious, evil, you know, geniuses. On the other hand, they're complete incompetent. Oh, the other one was, they said, oh,
Starting point is 00:48:31 you see, there's this, if you look on Google, there was a story published about the shooting before the shooting happened. Look at that. Look at the Google timestamp. Well, number one, timestamps on Google are very often wrong. Happens all the time where an article is published, but then the timestamp says it was published like a day before. It's just a wrong time. Number two, Why would they do that? If they're staging this hoax, why would they publish the article before it even happened? And what? You're saying, so the New York Times is in on it too, by the way?
Starting point is 00:49:06 So this is a far-reaching, this is a conspiracy involving that they were able to recruit thousands of people across federal, local, state governments, media, everyone's involved. Yet they're so stupid that they would publish the article before it even happened. You see, you see the problem there? So when you see something like that and you say, oh, the timestamp is a day before or whatever, there are two possible explanations. One is that this is a conspiracy involving thousands of people branching across local state, federal government, and many different media outlets. And it's a conspiracy involving all these people, yet they're so dumb that for some reason they would decide to publish the article beforehand. that's that's one explanation or the other explanation is that
Starting point is 00:49:58 timestamps are wrong all the time and so this is just an example of that which which explanation do you think is most plausible what's the explanation that just makes the most sense so anyway I'm not going to continue on that but yeah
Starting point is 00:50:17 I have nothing but contempt for that whole conspiracy theory I mean when you're taking pictures of dead children and you're accusing them of being actors. I mean, as, look, if I alienate all of the Sandy Hook Nutter's and they'd want nothing, then great. I'm fine alienated. Please, if you're that kind of person, I'm perfectly fine with you not watching the show or reading anything that I write. I really do not want to appeal to those
Starting point is 00:50:45 kinds of people. So, thanks for the email anyway. And we'll leave it there. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Godspeed. Hey, everybody's Andrew Claven, host of the Andrew Claven show. You know, If you're on the right, the big story's happening right now, the economy, Venezuela, maybe Israel. But if you're on the left, the big story is the story itself, the narrative, who controls it, and how to silence anyone who disagrees. I'm Andrew Claven. We'll talk about it on the Andrew Clavin show.

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