The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 574 - A Civic Duty To Hate The IRS

Episode Date: September 29, 2020

Today on the Matt Walsh Show, many on the Left have been nobly sermonizing about our civic duty to pay taxes. But they have a very strange and inconsistent view on civic duties and obligations. Also Five Headlines including the media’s continued attempts to smear Amy Coney Barrett on the basis that she’s a Bible believing Christian. Plus the push to lower the voting age to 16. That’s a terrible idea for so many reasons it’s difficult to count them all. And in our Daily Cancellation, we will be canceling grown men who use emojis. I have discovered that this is an issue of national interest and importance. If you like The Matt Walsh Show, become a member TODAY with promo code: WALSH and enjoy the exclusive benefits for 10% off at https://www.dailywire.com/walsh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today on the Matt Wall show, many on the left have been nobly sermonizing about our civic duty to pay taxes, but they have a very strange and inconsistent view on civic duties and obligations. We'll talk about that today. Also, five headlines, including the media's continued attempts to smear Amy Coney Barrett on the basis that she's a Bible-believing Christian. Imagine that. Plus, the push to lower the voting age to 16. That's a terrible idea for so many reasons. It's difficult to count them all, but we'll try. And in our daily cancellation, we will be canceling grown men who use a I have discovered that this is an issue of national interest and importance, and we will talk about that today, all of that on the way. But first, let's talk about our latest sponsor, Thinker. You know, it's important to read. I really believe that if you become the sort of person who just binge watches TV and scrolls social media all day, you'll become dumber. And I know that when I go through a phase where I'm not reading much and just watching a lot of TV, I can feel myself getting dumber by the minute. And I don't have a lot of brain power to spare in the first place, as you know. So this is a crisis situation.

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You know, the media has their back. They could just come up with any old excuse to not do the debate. But any excuse, I think, would be better than sending their dementia-riddled candidate into a debate against an opponent who will not follow any predictable script. So it's just the worst possible combination if you're Joe Biden's team. And yet, that's what's going to happen.

Now, we can expect, of course, that the issue of Trump's taxes will figure significantly into the discussion tonight. It was designed that way. That's why the Times published it when it did. The media, again, of course, is a propaganda wing of the Democrat Party and is always looking to help their side any way they can. And that's what this whole tax thing is about. Now, as we prepared to hear a lot about the taxes tonight, I have a couple of other. points I want to make on this manufactured controversy and the reaction to it especially. I already argued yesterday that Trump legally avoiding taxes, that is simply making sure that he

doesn't pay more than is legally required to pay, is not a scandal, not even close to a scandal. It is, if anything, sort of the opposite of a scandal for a man to ensure that the government gets not one dime more than it claims to be owed. But I noticed two things in the reaction to this story. First, it's obvious that there are many Americans who don't hate the IRS enough. Now, to the sane and well-adjusted, it seems almost impossible to believe that such a group could exist. People not hating the IRS is like people not hating the idea of being trampled to death by a rampaging moose. I mean, aren't we all proud members of the anti-getting our brains stomped out by large hooved animals camp?

But apparently we don't all value our brains or our money in the same way. In the discussion about the massive scandal of Trump legally avoiding paying more taxes than he owes, many people have reacted with shock and horror at those of us who are quite in favor of citizens paying as little as they can and not a penny more. These people speak nobly of our civic duty to pay taxes, and they profess that they have no resentment about chipping in their share. Paying taxes is fun, they come pariously close to saying. This is perverse.

There are ads in the personal section on Craigslist that are less pathetic and weird than this. I know we aren't supposed to kink shame, but if your kink is paying taxes, well, you need to seek counseling. Yet, we know the real reason that so many in our country don't experience the appropriate levels of rage when it comes to taxes, rage that should be all the more fiery and righteous, given the fact that the government absorbs over three, $3 trillion a year in taxes and wastes an enormous portion of it. The reason this doesn't induce the rage that it should is that many of the people who seem basically okay with it actually don't pay income tax. At least they don't actively pay it. The taxes come out of their paycheck automatically. Withheld is the term quite painless and easy. And then come tax time, they actually

get some of that money back or all of it back. So for the average American, the only direct experience they have with the IRS is when the IRS is giving, quote unquote, them money. Of course, it's their own money. They're being given back. Money that was taken, held, paid back without interest. But even so, psychologically, emotionally, it feels like a belated Christmas bonus. This is all by design. This is why the withholding system, I believe, is one of the most sinister and dastardly and brilliant schemes ever devised by the government, because it allows them to take, as I said, trillions and trillions of dollars from the American people, squandering billions every year, squandering billions of our money, money that you could use to buy your child a pair of shoes that he needs or save for a new home or go on a

much-needed vacation or anything else, whether the government takes instead and essentially incinerates. But it can do this without causing an uproar or a revolution or even any real heartburn in most people simply by helping itself to your paycheck first and then giving you the leftovers. In fact, it can even turn tax time into a happy occasion by giving some of the money at Pilford back to you. This is why if there's any real red pill moment in American life, it's when you get into a line of work where not all or perhaps none of your taxes are withheld. When you actually have to write physical checks to the government, when you feel the loss, when you see it, and then come tax time if you underestimated your taxes throughout the year, you have to pay even

more, this is the awakening. This is the realization. You begin to realize just how much the government is actually taking and how little you are getting in return on your investment. And you begin to make calculations and you say to yourself, man, if I didn't have to write this check to the IRS right now, I could do this or that, I could buy this, I could save for that. It's real now. Taxes are real and you start to understand your relationship to the government. You understand what that relationship actually is. It is one where you give and give and give and give and give and give and give and give, and then you give some more. It's very one-sided. And then every pothole you drive over and every piece of pork added to a bill becomes a personal affront to you. Because you say,

what the hell am I paying for? Where is the return of my investment? What are you people doing with my money? And that's exactly how you should feel. It's how our founders felt. And it's why this country exists in the first place. But it's not how the government wants you to feel, and they have successfully ensured that many of us don't. Second point. And this is related to the first. My Daily Wire colleague, Emily Zanati, made this observation.

I wish I had thought of it first, to be honest. And frankly, I'm a little offended that I wasn't given the opportunity to think of it first. But at any rate, responding to a tweet from a guy who says, real patriots pay taxes, gross, which is exactly the argument that King George made to the colonism. by the way, so we know what side this guy is on. But Emily says, I suppose if you believe this, you should also believe that real patriots should repay their student loans in full,

since that's the money they owe the government, but I suspect that's going to be a tough sell. This is a great point, because the same people who speak solemnly of our obligation to pay our taxes, our civic duty, our responsibility to give what we owe, these very same people, almost all of them, would say that the college grads,

you know, have taken out loans, shouldn't have to repay those loans. As it has done with many other words, the left has twisted the concept of obligation and distorted it until it's no longer recognizable. In what sense is paying taxes and obligation? Well, it's illegal, in a legal sense, you have to pay them because if you don't, you'll go to jail.

It's a pretty good reason to pay them. It's why I pay them. I have no choice. I'm legally required. What about student loans, though? Well, you are legally required to pay those back, too. So there is a legal obligation, but only in this case it has the extra moral weight of being an obligation that you personally accepted and entered into. Chose.

Nobody chose the obligation of paying taxes. The government just tells you what the taxes are, whether you like it or not. And if you don't pay it, they're going to take it by force. They could throw you in jail. They could take your house, whatever they want. But with student loans, you will. agree to the terms. You don't have to agree. You can say no. You can decline to take on the obligation. Yet somehow for the left, this obligation that is willingly entered into somehow has less

moral weight than the obligation that is thrust upon you against your will at gunpoint. So this is their idea of civic duty. And then we could add into that, by the way, that they don't consider it much of an infringement or a denial of your civic duty if you go loot and riot and burn down stores and steel stuff, that also is perfectly in keeping with your civic duties. So these concepts and words have been all twisted to hell and back. And that, of course, is part of the point. What they want is people to be confused about what their duties are, what their obligations are, and what moral weight all of these things have.

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as the head of the family. Former members of the group call people of praise, called people of praise, say it teaches that wives must submit to the will of their husbands. Federal appeals judge Amy Cota Barrett has not commented publicly about her own or her family's involvement and so on and so forth. But Barrett 48 grew up in New Orleans and a family deeply connected to the organization as recently as 2017. She served as a trustee at the People of Praise affiliated Trinity Schools Incorporated. People of Praise is a religious community based in charismatic Catholicism, a movement that grew out of the influence of Pentecost. Pentecostalism, which emphasizes a personal relationship with Jesus.

Barrett's affiliation with a conservative religious group that elevates the role of men has drawn particular scrutiny given that she would be filling the high court seat held by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a feminist icon. Barrett, by contrast, is being held by religious conservatives as an ideological heir to the late Justice Scalia. Okay. Well, so she belongs to a group that says that wives should submit to their husbands. horrifying, horrifying stuff. But just so you know, the actual name of this cucky, fringe, far-right group is Christians who believe in the Bible. Okay, that's the actual name.

Because, well, all Christians who believe in the Bible believe this, because it's in the Bible. This is where you see how the media, obviously, they hate Christians, obviously, but they have difficulty smearing Christians effectively because they don't know anything. anything about Christianity. They're very biblically illiterate. I bet whoever wrote this AP article, for example, didn't know that the Bible specifically says wives submit to your husbands, Ephesians 522. One of my favorite verses, by the way, and one that I will often cite to my wife if we're, say, arguing over what movie to watch on a Friday night. Then I got to pull out the Bible and say, says it right here. St. Paul, what can I tell you? Okay, it's not me. It's

He's telling you. But the media doesn't know that. That's why they don't, nowhere in the article has even mentioned that, oh, this is how they interpret the Bible verse, or not that there's any other way to interpret it, because they just don't know that. By the way, devout Catholic, quote-unquote, devout Catholic, Joe Biden, what about him? He also believes this, right? If he really is a devout Catholic, which he isn't, because he's pro-abortion, you can't be devout Catholic and pro-abortion. But let's just pretend for a moment, as the media wants us to pretend that he's devout Catholic, well, in that case, then he believes this too. And if we had a real news media, they would ask him about this. They would say, hey, Joe, what do you feel about this? Ephesians 522? Do you think wives should submit to their husbands?

I would love to see the way that he wiggles himself out of that. But he's not going to be put in that position because he's not going to be asked about it. Number two, Tucker Carlson had this report last night. Take a listen. More and more lawmakers are calling for a nationwide rule on wearing face coverings. Senator Diane Feinstein has written to federal agencies asking for a mandatory mask policy, both in the air and on public transit. Well, that was news footage from June, just this June, when California Senator Diane Feinstein wrote a letter to the FAA demanding everyone wear masks and airports. Feinstein wrote that we need a mandatory mask policy for all airport and airline employees.

and passengers, end quote. Feinstein claimed the agency had, quote, sowed confusion among passengers about whether masks are necessary. But they are necessary, says Diane Feinstein. Not wearing him is very dangerous, given the coronavirus. Well, given that, today, this show exclusively attained photographs of,

and this is going to rock your world, Diane Feinstein in a private terminal at Dulles Airport, an FBO, as they say, in private aviation, on Friday. in the photographs, Feinstein came in seen smiling without a mask on. One might even say she's so in confusion about whether or not masks are necessary. So there you go. You know what annoys me about these kinds of things, aside from the obvious, is the reaction from the public who treat some in the public would treat this sort of thing

as a cheap gotcha tactic, you know, criticizing Feinstein for not wearing a mask, Pelosi for breaking the lockdown rules, Mayor Lightfoot, de Blasio, et cetera. So many have done it. But the attitude from some citizens, namely ones with partisan bias in favor of the party that keeps doing this, the reaction is to go, oh, come on, you know, it's not that big of a deal. But it is a big deal. It's a very big deal. Because these people have brought our country to a standstill, have decimated the economy, have torn the Constitution to shreds, imposing all these rules and laws on the basis that they're doing it to save lives. but their behavior reveals that they don't really believe their own reasoning. They don't believe the reasons that they are giving for any of this, which raises an obvious question. Why are they really doing it?

If they don't believe it, then why are they doing it? Once again, going back to the first point, if we had a real news media, this would be a question that would be asked. Number three, Daily Wire reports, transgender inmates in California will now be housed according to their gender. identity, thanks to a new law, signed Saturday by Governor Gavin Newsom. The law states that prison officers must privately ask inmates going through the intake process if they identify as transgender, non-binary, or intersex. Okay, so every inmate who comes in is going to have to be

asked now. Are you non-binary? If the inmate indicates one of those identities, they will be allowed to request a move to the facility that houses their preferred gender. My gosh. This is There is a caveat to the new law, however. If the state has management or security concerns, it will provide a written explanation of why it denied an inmate the chance to be housed according to his or her gender identity. This exception is not included because the state believes men will claim to be women in order to harm female inmates, but because it believes male inmates will attack biological women who identify as men. Okay, well, I mean, what can possibly go wrong here?

So now, according to this, it sounds like, they're going to ask each inmate. So, you know, what could go wrong when you go up to an inmate and say, hey, by the way, you go up to a male inmate, biologically male? Hey, are you actually a woman? Because if you are, you can go over to the woman's prison. Just let us know. Hey, honor system.

Oh, but that will never be exploited, right? You see again how this just, how the, for all of the, the talk we hear about on the left and Democrats, are they care so much about women's rights and protecting women, they don't give a damn. They don't give the slightest damn. At least when women's rights, their actual rights, okay, are put up against the LGBT agenda,

because there is this hierarchy, this intersectional hierarchy, this victimhood hierarchy that we've talked about. And women are really pretty low on the hierarchy scale. LGBT, they're above them. So their concerns and their desires come first. So we're going to throw their safety out the window, their privacy out the window. And if you know, you got a bunch of male prisoners that say, oh, yeah, sure, I'm a female. Yeah.

In fact, I woke up yesterday and realized I was a female, as it turns out. So, yeah, go ahead and send me over to the women's prison. Number four, NPR reports, young adults are known for taking to the streets and protests. now there's a youth-driven push to bring more of them to the ballot box. Tyler O'Kiki, a 19-year-old activist, is among those who champion lowering the voting age from 18 to 16. O'Kiki is working to increase the number of eligible voters in the country's most diverse generation

and amplify their voices on decisions that will affect their future. And then it goes on from there talking about his efforts to lower the voting age to 16. There's, of course, absolutely no good reason to even consider lowering the voting age to 16 or lowering it at all to any age, if anything, we should be raising it. The only reason why it's being considered is that it would help Democrats, which is not a good reason unless you are a Democrat,

and then I can see why you'd be in favor of it. But in reality, objectively, our republic cannot at all be helped by this. The last thing we need are more people who are ignorant and non-contributing filing into the voting booth. That's the last thing we do. We don't need more of them. If you're 16 years old, and I say this, and anyone who's over the age of 16, you know this too, because you have had the experience of being 16, would you say at 16 that you were really in touch, like you understood what was happening in the country, you had a really solid perspective, and you were a real contributing member of society, you were emotionally and mentally mature, would you say that about yourself at the age of 16? Because if you would, then all that tells me is that you haven't grown at all from the age of 16,

which means that you probably shouldn't be able to vote now, whatever age you are. But anyone who's done any growing, any maturing, which maybe is a dwindling minority, we can look back at ourselves at 16 and say, no, don't give, you're going to give that person the right to vote? Are you crazy? Now, raise the voting age to 25, raise it to 35. Well, I'm not 35 yet, so don't do that. Just raise it, raise it, raise it, so right where I'm at. And then as I get older, we can keep raising it along with me.

That's the way the law should work. Number five, important report from the Daily Mirror. A group of parrots at a zoo had to be put back into isolation when they all started swearing at customers after coming out of quarantine. The five African gray parrots were adopted by Lincolnshire Wild Life Park on August 15th and put into a room together, but it appears they use their time in isolation teaching each other foul language, which left Park staff in hysterics,

but swift action had to be taken when they started using obscenities with guests. Steve Nichols, CEO at the Frisney Park, said the birds were put in a timeout, but admitted over the last 25 years, he's taken in many parents, parrots that have sometimes had a bit of blue language. He told Lincolnshire Live,

every now and then you'll get one that swears, and it's always funny. We always find it very comical when they do swear at you. But then he continues that the problem is that now they are swearing at guests, and there's a concern that, especially with children coming back to the zoo,

they're going to start swearing at the kids, be very traumatizing to get cussed out by a parrot. And so now they're isolating the parrots, and they're actually going to break them up and put the parrots with more responsible. Each of the five bad parents, delinquent parents, pet parrots, will go with one of the responsible parents, and then hopefully there will be some,

speaking of maturing, they'll learn to mature that way. A very disturbing report, around and a pretty serious infringement on free speech. I don't remember anything in the Constitution saying that you can't swear at guests at a zoo. I don't seem to recall that in there. Of course, this is a British zoo, and these are parrots, but I don't see how that is any relevance to the legal case I'm making here. And besides, you can't blame them for swearing. I'd be a little salty, too, if I was locked in a zoo. And if I was a parrot. frankly as well.

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All right, let's get to the Daily Cancellation. So today our daily cancellation deals with one of the crucial issues facing our country and indeed all of Western civilization. And that would be emojis. Specifically, male-induced emojis, or M-I-E, as they are called in the medical field. Last night, I was actually trending. I was trending nationwide on Twitter. And you can see the photographic evidence right here. Trending nationwide and also hundreds and hundreds of infuriated private messages because of something I said about emojis.

Now, you might say that this is a reflection of the fact that we live in the dumbest, most frivolous and utterly decadent culture in world history, where even in the midst of crisis, a guy's tweet about emojis manages to grab hold of the country's attention. But I prefer to think that I was trending because I'm just a really important and brilliant guy. Tomato, tomato, you can interpret it however you like. Whatever the reason, here was the tweet that brought the world to a halt. I said, every day I see more grown adult men using emojis. There is no excuse for this. emojis are for children and women. Do you think your great grandfather would have been caught dead using emojis if the internet existed back then? Have some self-respect for God's sake.

Lest you doubt that I, lest you doubt that I am kind and merciful, I did make this allowance. I said, gifts are okay, though. Memes are a case-by-case basis. Okay? Now, so those are the rules. Now, before I elaborate here, let's go through some of the responses to this tweet

about emojis. As I said, many, many, very angry people. Let's take a look at a few. John Pavlovitz says, well, I hear my great-grandfather wasn't big on insecure dude-brough misogynist, so he'd laugh at Matt Walsh for his transparent overcompensation and point out that his Christianity is short one Jesus. And then he called Matt a fragile, tiny clown. Tom Thoing chimes in, Alexa, show me what the most

pathetic, toxic masculinity looks like. Gibson-John's, with a totally normal and sane response to a tweet about emojis, which has since been deleted, but it said, masculinity is a disease. Again, that was a response to what I said about emojis. James Fell, once again, very He says, I've never used emojis. As a professional writer, I don't like them, but instead prefer to challenge my vocabulary. That being said,

this sanctimonious sack of otter snot. What a brainless festering knuckle. Eat excrement and expire early, Matt. Okay, telling me to die because of what I said about emojis. Nothing overblown about that. Then Alan Zilberman comments with a bunch of poop emojis. David Lauer is one of many to leave the middle finger emoji. Kela says,

Children and women, ugh. Some sexism and toxic masculinity all rolled up into one. Seth Abramson is in on the action. He comments that this comment is stupid beyond belief as well as misogynistic goes without saying to anyone who reads my feed. But as a separate point, every comment I've ever received from a male Trumpist had an emoji in it, which makes Trumpist Matt Walsh saying this truly mind-blowing. Yes, I'm a Trumpist now, sure. Okay. Jake Wilson with the middle finger emoji says,

you manage to be homophobic and misogynistic in one joke. So it's homophobic to make fun of emojis now. Apparently emojis are an integral part of gay culture. According to Jake Wilson, anyway, you learn something new every day. And then a lot of this kind of thing in the private messages, as you can see, telling me to eat excrement, calling me a bigot, bigoted against emojis. The pro emoji guys seem to have a real thing about eating excrement. I don't know.

I guess we can dig into the psychology behind that some other time. And then Mike Williams says, men are so fragile on this site. And the crazy thing is, he's apparently talking about me and not talking about all the grown men hysterically crying because I made fun of their little pictures. Now I have a few things to say here.

Okay. First I start with, and I don't often do this, as you know, but I start with an apology. After reading all of these responses and really getting a sense for how people are affected, feeling, feeling about it, how it affected them. I'd like to apologize that I said emojis are for women and children. I should have mentioned that they're also for illiterates. So I apologize for that oversight. Second point, to the people who are angry that I lumped women and children together,

all I have to say is this. If you're a woman and you want to be lumped in with children when the ship is sinking, giving you that VIP pass to the front of the lifeboat line, then you have to put up with being lumped together in these sorts of insulting generalizations. That's the price of admission. I think it's a pretty good deal, I have to say. I'd take it if the ship was sinking and someone said, okay, you can get off with the children, but that means we get to make fun of you later. Fine. Third point. The real reason, though, that I will allow emojis for children is that we cannot expect more sophisticated communication from them. You know, if you're at the age where you still read books with pictures, then it's okay to type with pictures too. I allow them for women,

because along with the fact that they don't have to drown on the Titanic, they also are more aesthetically inclined. They like to make things look pretty and pleasing to the eye. Women are also more exuberant and emotional. emojis are useful to this end, though only within reason. I will not allow them for men because men don't have any of these excuses. As men, we communicate our meaning plainly and without the frills. You shouldn't need the assistance of smiley faces.

You should be able to convey your message by using words, in the form of complete sentences. You know, I think of emojis much the same way I think of ketchup. Ketchup, which is also, by the way, only for women and children. If you feel like your ketchup, like you need ketchup for your French fries,

that only tells me that your French fries are not well-seasoned. If you feel like you need emojis for your sentences, that only tells me that your sentences are not well-season. That is, you have not done a sufficient job of expressing yourself through the use of actual language.

You have not the vocabulary to season your written expressions with language that creatively conveys your meaning. I think what we're witnessing in modern times is the collapse of language. The collapse. That's why people say, you know, they need the emoji so that others will know their tone and their meaning when they text or email or post something on social media. They don't have the ability to get their point across in an effective way. So they need little signs, little drawings that essentially say, me happy, me like. That's what every smiley face emoji says, by the way.

To translate it into language, it would be me happy, or me sad, or me laughing, you funny. Emoges are quite literally the language of the caveman. In fact, many of the responses to my point cited in defense of emojis cave paintings. Responses like this with a photo of some cave paintings, which is supposed to prove that emojis are an acceptable form of communication for modern civilized man. But this is like trying to dispel the idea that pop music is degenerated. by arguing that they played in strip clubs. Your argument against my point actually illustrates my point precisely. Yes, prehistoric man before the invention of sophisticated written language did use a form of emoji

when they were scrawling messages on the wall of a cave. But we should no more seek to emulate the caveman's communication style than his medical practices or his hygiene routine. We have graduated beyond those crude forms. A return to them is not a good sign. In this case, with writing and language, it's a sign that people are losing their ability to convey meaning through the written word. That is not a positive development. And so, emojis are cancelled. All men who use them are canceled. Everyone who jumped on the Twitter dog pile is canceled.

Or to express this in a way you'll understand, you bad, you stupid. You not write good. You canceled. I hope that clarifies things. Tune in tomorrow because I'll have another 10-minute explanation as to why men also are not allowed to use exclamation points. I could do a whole series on punctuation as well. We'll get to that later.

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