The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 663 - The New Puritans

Episode Date: February 22, 2021

Today on the Matt Walsh Show, as Disney adds an ‘offensive content’ disclaimer to The Muppets, we’ll discuss how Leftists have become modern Puritans. Also Five Headlines including Fauci’s declaration that we may have to wear masks into 2022, and Kendall Jenner faces claims of cultural appropriation for her new tequila brand. And in our Daily Cancellation, we’ll talk about Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s trip down to Texas to ‘help’ during the winter storm. 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, as Disney adds an offensive content disclaimer to the Muppets, we'll discuss how leftism has become the modern Puritanism. Also, five headlines, including Fauci's declaration that we may have to wear masks into the year 2022. And Kendall Jenner faces claims of cultural appropriation for her new tequila brand. And in her daily cancellation, we'll talk about Alexandria Keza-Cortez's trip down to Texas to, quote, help during the winter storm. All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show. You know, there are a few things that I value more as a parent than the value of a good night's sleep.

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a few years ago. Already movies like the Aristocats, Dumbo, Peter Pan, Lady in the Tramp, the Jungle Book, the Mickey Mouse Club from the 50s, even Aladdin have disclaimers because of their supposedly offensive content. I can only assume that other films must have them, too, like Moulon for its stereotypical depiction of Chinese culture, Pocahontas for the many inaccuracies in the way that it portrays Elizabeth Warren's childhood. Lion King ought to get the disclaimer treatment too for stereotyping the hyena community. The film depicts hyenas as maniacal buffoons laughing about everything. Of course, actual hyenas don't laugh.

The laughing sound is a form of a bark, which they use to signal to the other members of their pack, if they've made a kill or if there's a danger in the area. Lion King both trivializes and otherizes hyenas, not to mention wart hogs, toucans. Indeed, when you're looking for a reason to be offended by old cartoons or even recent cartoons, it's not hard to find them if you're creative enough in your outrage. And it would take some especially creative outrage in the case of the Muppets.

But our culture is, no doubt, up to the challenge. Here's the warning that comes with each episode of that show now. Here's what it says. It says, this program includes negative depictions and or mistreatment of people of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it, and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together. Mestreatment of people.

Well, they're puppets, so I don't know who's really being mistreated. but this, I believe, is the disclaimer they use across the board now. Notice how Disney excuses its decision to continue to profit off of content that it now says is harmful. The company claims that it has this dangerous and offensive material on its platform, not so that it can rake in millions of dollars, but so that it can spark conversation and create a more inclusive future together. I guess sparking conversation and creating an inclusive future is also why they continue to sell merchandise from these shows and films. Yes, that's why you can go to Target in 2021 and buy a Jasmine doll, even though Jasmine is from a film with offensive stereotypes.

And she was voiced in the original cartoon by a white actress, culturally appropriating a role that should have gone to an actual Arabic princess with a pet tiger and a boyfriend who rides a magical carpet around the city with his wacky genie sidekick. it's all for sparking a conversation, you see. And surely, the eight-year-old girl who's given that doll upon receiving it will say to her parents, she'll say, well, thank you for this gift, mother and father. It presents me with an excellent opportunity to reflect on the impact of negative stereotypical portrayals of disadvantaged minority communities. I'm sure that's how it goes. Or maybe not.

See, this is why I have to stop myself short when I'm tempted to accuse the contemporary left of being the new Puritans. In a certain way, it's true. You know, they are. Leftism is a strange, inverted form of Puritanism, at least Puritanism in the modern colloquial sense of the term. Leftists are the ones now who seem to be perpetually offended, fragile, needing advisories and disclaimers and other layers of insulation from content that might traumatize them. I call it a weird and inverted Puritanism because the left has also maintained and plunged deeper into its hedonistic impulses at the same time. So they're this very strange mix of Puritan and hedonist. They still demand that we accept, tolerate, celebrate all forms of sexual indulgence and expression, however strange,

however unnecessarily public it may be. But then they turn around and wither like delicate flowers in the hot son the moment they hear a slightly edgy joke or an opinion that divulges a little bit, or rather, you know, verges a little bit from their own. Or they encounter even a cartoon film made for children, children who apparently were better adjusted and more emotionally stable than themselves. You might say to simplify that they're offended by all of the things that are not offensive and not offended by all the things that actually are. While they wouldn't want children to be exposed to the horror of a Peter Pan cartoon, they see no problem with kids listening to sexually explicit and absurdly degrading songs from Cardi B and the like. It's backwards.

And that's why calling them Puritans seems to sort of fit. But on another level, it doesn't fit at all. What we can say about the actual Puritans of the 16th and 17th centuries, a group that may be admittedly a little hard to define, is that they were, yes, rigid and close-minded. like the modern left, and there's where the comparison lies. But they were also earnest and sincere. They made enormous sacrifices to live by the convictions that they really deeply believed in and felt. The Puritanism of the modern left lacks that sincerity, that conviction, that sacrifice. It's empty at its heart, mostly a put-on, a display, a political performance, a marketing ploy.

The modern Puritanism of the left is in fact perfectly encapsulated by a company like Disney, declaring its own harmless cartoons harmful, and then proceeding to make millions of dollars off of them. See, the thing is, I can respect almost any worldview, to some extent at least, if the people who harbor that view are willing to live by it. And so in a certain way, the crazier the worldview, the more I am forced to respect the conviction of those who abide by it. vegans are completely insane as far as I am concerned. But if you actually live the vegan life and forego the immeasurable joy of meat and dairy products, then I can respect your follow-through.

But when it comes to the woke brigade and the doctrines that lead it to declare something like the Muppets harmful and offensive, there's no follow-through, there's no sacrifice, there's no conviction, there's no substance. It's Puritanism, but only the most hollow and most absurd kind. Now let's get to our five headlines. You know, one of the most underrated aspects of parenting, I think, is that you get to relive things in your childhood. Some of the childhood fun that you would never, you probably wouldn't be able to have. You wouldn't have the opportunity to engage in if you didn't have kids.

So, for example, over the weekend, we took our kids to a trampoline park here in Nashville. And it was a lot of fun. And, you know, I was probably having more fun than the kids bouncing all over on the trampolines. It's just great. The thing is, if you're an adult, it's the kind of thing that you should be able to go and do as an adult. But I think if you're an adult and you don't have kids, you're probably not going to get together with your, like, 30-year-old buddies and go down to the trampoline park. So you have to have kids for that. And so that's what we did.

And it was a lot of fun. But then the other problem is that you're an adult. So I woke up the next morning feeling like I had been trampled by. a herd of goats or something. Just I could barely move from jumping on a trampoline for 30 minutes. And maybe that's why adults stay away from those kinds of things usually. Okay, number one, the media has long since branded Ron DeSantis of failure, of course, in his response to the pandemic. The only problem has been in finding a reason for that branding.

So they've decided that he's a failure, but there's never been a reason to call him a failure because all the evidence, all the facts on the ground, point to DeSantis having the best response or among the best out of all the governors in the state, in the country. But the media can't allow that narrative to take hold. So they've been digging, you know, getting creative as, as they need to, to find some reason to criticize him. So they've got, they know what their conclusion is. The conclusion is that he's been a failure and is in a disaster. Now they just need to find reasons for that conclusion. Speaking of things working backwards, that's the way that they go. kind of like the opposite of the scientific method.

It's the scientific method flipped on its head. NBC News, though, thinks that it's finally found the reason. So here's the report from NBC News. They say Florida's governor was slow to respond to the pandemic and his COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan has been marked by chaos. But critics say he's been quick to recognize the political gold in those precious doses. Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, ignored federal guidelines and prioritized getting senior citizens, one of Florida's most potent voting blocks, vaccinated first.

When Holocaust survivors and Cuban survivors of the Bay of Pigs debacle, revered members of the two other key Florida voting blocks got their first shots, DeSantis made sure he was there for the news conference. And now the governor stands accused of using the COVID-19 vaccine to reward powerful political supporters and developers by setting up pop-up vaccination sites and planned communities they developed and where GOP voters predominate. Okay, so you see what they're saying here. He has prioritized seniors, the elderly, in his vaccine rollout. That's what they're hitting him for.

And it's bad, it's bad to prioritize seniors because a lot of old people are Republican. That is actually what the media is saying now, that we shouldn't prioritize the elderly because too many of them are Republican. When, of course, in reality, we know that, obviously, the elderly are the most susceptible to the virus, by and large, speaking in generalities. And so, obviously, they should be prioritized. So here we're taking, this again is Ron DeSantis

showing the right way to do it. A lot of other states have been disasters. In Florida, they're doing it the right. way. And this is another case where Ron DeSantis' success is being portrayed. It's not just that they're ignoring his success. They're actually flipping it around and saying, no, this is a failure. Meanwhile, more COVID news. Fauci. Dr. Fauci is warning that we may have to keep wearing masks all the way to the year 2022 and beyond. Here he is on CNN talking about it. Listen. You and the president have suggested that we'll approach normality toward the end of the year.

What is normal mean? Do you think Americans will still be wearing masks, for example, in 2022? You know, I think it is possible that that's the case. And again, it really depends on what you mean by normality. Right. That's what I want you to define it. Exactly the way it. No, Dana, it's important because if normality means exactly the way things were be

before we had this happened to us. I mean, I can't predict that. I mean, obviously, I think we're going to have a significant degree of normality beyond the terrible burden that all of us have been through over the last year. That as we get into the fall and the winter by the end of the year, I agree with the president completely that we will be approaching a degree of normality. It may or may not be precisely the way it was in November of 2019. but it'll be much, much better than what we're doing right now.

A few things here. First of all, this is what we're hearing now. Well, it depends on how you define normal. What do you mean by normal? What do we? No, you know what we mean by normal. This kind of bad faith thing where, well, it depends on who knows what normal means. Everyone understands.

Normal is like what it was before. just living a normal human life. And you can walk outside your house and you could go to the store, go to a restaurant. You're not covered in a muzzle. You're not muzzling yourself. Businesses can open up their doors and serve as many people as they can fit inside their building safely, you know, that kind of thing. That's what normal means.

But Fauci is saying, well, we'll see. And that's been his answer all along. We'll see what happens. Maybe, maybe not. And this has been the other thing that we're hearing now. In fact, I think it was an NBC news article. I don't have it in front of me right now. But this is, yeah, NBC New York. They have an article up right now. And what they say, this is the tweet they sent out. It says, you're fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. Now what? Don't expect to shed your mask and get back to normal activities right away. That's going to be a disappointment, if not a shock, to many people. So this is the that we're hearing now. We've started to hear more and more. We hear it from the media. We're hearing it from the so-called health experts where they're saying, even after you get both vaccine doses, you might still have to wear the mask. No, not might. You do still have to wear it.

Socially distance. Nothing changes. Not only is this absurd and wrong, but I could not, if you're trying to discourage people from getting vaccinated, I cannot imagine a better message. for anti-vaxxers, this is like this is a dream come true. If you're an anti-vaxer, it's a dream come true that the ProVax people, this is their message. Yeah, get the vaccine, but nothing will change in your life for the better. Your life will not improve at all, but please go and inject this substance into your body anyway. It's not going to do anything for you, at least as far as you can tell, in the way you live your life. But do it anyway.

that is the worst message you could possibly send if you actually want people to get vaccinated if you want mass vaccination if you want millions and millions of people lining up to get vaccinated and you want to have most of the country vaccinated in the next few months the message should be get the vaccine and you can go back to your daily life now that's what I'm saying if if if that's your goal that should be your message um I personally believe we should be able to back to our daily life regardless of the vaccine. I've been saying that for months. But from the perspective of a pro-vaccine person, that should absolutely be the message. They're undercutting themselves with this. Or we would say they're undercutting their own goals and intentions if we actually

believe that their ultimate goal is to get us back to normal. At a certain point, we have to grapple with the fact that a lot of these people, that's why they're trying to redefine normal or they're getting hazy about what normal even means because they never want to go back to that normal. Is that the case for Fauci? I mean, with Fauci, we're at the point now where either this guy is malevolent or he is simply one of the most incompetent government officials ever in history. Those are the two options. An option that is not available anymore is the one where we say he's been a smashing success. There is no evidence.

Where's the evidence? Can anyone come up with one reason? What's one thing we can point to? If you believe that Fauci's been a success, like, what is your, point to one thing. Give me one reason. One piece of evidence for Fauci's great success. No matter how you slice it, he's presided over a disaster. He can't keep his own excuses, his own story straight.

where's a success? But he is the perfect example. He is, in a lot of ways, the perfect government employee. Because even though he has presided over this disaster, and he contradicts himself every two seconds, and by any measure you look at, he's been a failure, he not only remains employed, but he is, what is it? I think he's the highest paid government employee. It doesn't just remain employed, but he's the highest paid guy, despite being arguably the greatest failure. that's what working in the government gets you.

Now on the other side of it, so that's the negative pessimistic side. On the optimistic side, here's Dr. Gottlieb, who was speaking to CBS over the weekend, and he actually had an optimistic take. Here he is. The numbers, frankly, look good in terms of the infection rate going down, but we are about to cross this morbid milestone of half a million Americans dead. Where are we in this? And should we be optimistic, given the infection decline?

Look, this has taken a tragic toll on the United States, but we should be optimistic, in my view. I think we're going to continue to see infection rates decline into the spring in the summer. Right now, they're falling quite dramatically. I think these trends are likely to continue. The new variants do create new risk. I think B117 creates some risk that we could see a resurgence of infection in certain parts of the country and higher prevalence overall in the spring and the summer than we might have seen without this strain. But it's not going to be enough to reverse these trends at this point.

I think it's too little too late in most parts of the country with rising vaccination rates and also the fact that we've infected about a third of the public. That's enough protective immunity that we're likely to see these trends continue. The risk is really to the fall. And one last point, if you look at the counties in New York and New Jersey that had greater than 45% seroprevalence, meaning that more than 45% of the population was infected going into the winter, they really didn't have much of a winter surge. So once you get to about 40% of the population,

with some form of protective immunity. You don't have hurt immunity, meaning that this won't transfer at all. It will continue to transfer, but it will transfer to a much slower rate. I mean, the reality is that, as you just heard there, infection rates are plummeting. That's what's happening. And you hear that. If you go and seek this information, you want to know what's happening with the infection rates in the country, you can find it when you Google it.

But it's not headline news everywhere the way the bad news is. or was. But it should be. This is great news. Infection rates are plummeting. And they're plummeting even though we're still in the winter. I mean, we were promised back in the fall, if you remember, we were promised a long, we were promised a long, horrible winter and the infection rates would continue to rise. Instead, we're still in the winter. Infection rates are going down markedly, dramatically. And we haven't even gotten to the same. spring yet. I'm going to get into the spring with the warmer weather. I'm going to get that seasonal effect. On top of the fact, more people are going to be vaccinated. And also, just millions of

people have already had the virus. And millions of the majority of those may not even know they had it, but they did. So there's no reason why we cannot. Even from, even if you're not an anti, if you're an anti-lockdown person like I am, then you've wanted us to get back to normal life all along, basically, but even if you're not in that camp, even from a pro-lockdown stance, you should still be saying there's no reason why we can't begin to really get back to normal now. We're getting out on the other side of this thing. That's great news. It's wonderful news.

We can celebrate it. We can all celebrate it together in person. We're not going to hear that from the media that often anyway. All right. Next, Cam Newton, former Patriots quarterback, also former Panthers quarterback, was hosting a football camp for kids. So he invited kids out. He was hosting a camp. And this is a video that went viral yesterday of back and forth he got into with one of the kids there who was heckling Cam Newton. And a lot of people were upset at Cam Newton for his response here. But I don't know. Let's,

let's listen. You ask, free agent. You're a free agent. You're a free agent. You're a free agent. You're a free agent. I'm rich. You're a free agent. I'm rich. You're a free agent. I'm rich. You're a free agent. I'm rich. Why don't you? Let me talk to your dad. Let me talk to your dad. Where's your dad? You're a free agent. You're a free agent. You're a free agent. You're a boy.

Where's your dad? Where's your father? Okay. So the kid is cussing at Cam Newton, taunting him for being a free agent. I don't know. Being a free agent in the NFL sounds like a pretty good deal. He's going to make millions of dollars somewhere. and saying that he's about to be poor,

and then Cam Newton's response is that he's rich. Kind of a dumb response, and then he keeps asking him, where's your dad? People are upset at Cam Newton for that. Now, I'm no Cam Newton defender. I don't really have a general stance on Cam Newton. I don't care that much. But I don't know how you could watch a video like that.

It shows where people's priorities are. I don't know how you could watch a video like that and you side with the kid. In a situation like this, I'm almost always going to take the adult side. What happened to respecting your elders? Forget about the fact that he's an NFL quarterback. We cares about that.

He's an adult. He also invited you out to this camp that he's hosting for you to give you opportunities and you're cussing him out and taunting him. This is how you speak to adults. And if you look at the reaction on social media, a lot of people are saying, how dare you speak to that poor child that way? The kid's lucky that all he did was speak to him. It's lucky you didn't get a, you know, you didn't get a firmer response than that.

This is a kid who has probably not gotten a lot of firm responses from adults in his life, and that's how this happens. All right, number four, this is from The Daily Wire. It says model Kendall Jenner has been accused of cultural appropriation after launching a tequila brand that she claims to have been working on for nearly four years. In an Instagram post, Jenner announced the launch of her tequila brand, which is 818 tequila, which is presumably named after the California area code where, I guess, I don't know, she lives.

Jenner said her tequila brand had already won eight awards, including best eight awards, including some awards at the World Tequila Awards. But the reaction on social media, again, was largely negative. Following her announcement, social media, condemned Jenner for allegedly culturally appropriating Mexican culture. One user accused Jenner of profiting off of Mexican traditions. They said, something about Kendall Jenner making tequila rubs me the wrong way.

like the idea of white celebrities taking from local Mexican artisans and profiting off of our traditions and agriculture business, yet only visit Cabos and Puerto Vallerta for vacation spots, and not to mention profit off of the brown hands that actually plant, grow, harvest, ferment, and distill the agave plants that are used to make it. And other things like that. So she's culturally appropriating from Mexican culture by making it tequila. I really love this story, and I love it only because it reveals, again, how absurd the cultural appropriation claim and concept is. Because in reality, now, I'm no tequila historian, and something tells me that the people saying cultural appropriation also are not tequila historians.

But I am aware, and I think a very quick Google search will confirm this, that tequila is not historically. a purely Mexican innovation. In fact, I believe it was Spanish conquistadors, and maybe someone who knows a little bit more about this, can correct me if I'm wrong. I believe it was Spanish conquistadors who took a version of an alcoholic beverage that was common among the natives,

and they distilled it, and they made what later became known as tequila. And some of the early popularizers of tequila were Spanish aristocrat, aristocrats, almost said aristocrats because I'd Disney on my brain. But some of the early popularizers of tequila were Spanish aristocrats in Mexico. So this is not, that's tequila. It's actually, I guess, who is she appropriating from?

Spain? No, tequila itself is a product of cultural blending. And that's one of the reasons why the cultural appropriation claim doesn't work as a concept. It's absurd. because it's very difficult to look at any form of cuisine, any style of dance, any form of dress, anything, any tradition. It's very difficult to look at that and trace it back and find that it's never been influenced. It's never had any outside influences. almost everything that we have today in the modern world, whether it's a food, it's an alcohol,

whatever it is. It is a product of blending of cultures influencing each other. And that's because cultures can't own, you know, Mexican culture doesn't own tequila. Even if native Mexicans were the ones who innovated it from the beginning, which they weren't. You don't own an alcohol. as a culture. Cultures don't own things. That's not how culture works. And again, you know, appropriating implies that something is being taken from you. That's what it means for something to be appropriated from you. If somebody appropriates $10 from your wallet, they've taken it from you, and now you don't have that $10 anymore. You're out $10. Well, Kendall Jenner making it tequila,

she's not depriving tequila from anyone. She's not taking it away for Mexican culture. There is no Mexican person who can no longer have tequila or produce it or sell it because she's making it. That's just not how it works. All right, five, finally, this is a tweet from Madonna. She says, the patriarchy continues to try to crush my neck with their heavy boots, cut off my life force and take away my voice. Even those who call themselves artists, you know who you are. Death to the patriarchy now and forever.

Hashtag, risk what you value. hashtag value what you risk. Yes, the patriarchy is crushing her neck with their heavy boots. Well, I only want to note that Madonna is worth, I think, $800 million, $850 million. And she's approaching a billion dollars that she's worth. And all I can say is if that's what it means for the patriarchy to crush your neck, then please, I'll lay down the patriarchy crush my neck if it means $850 million. I'll take that for $850 million.

Not a bad deal. That's the thing about oppression in modern American culture. It's a very profitable business. All right, let's go read some of the YouTube comments from the show on Friday. This first is from the username is insert name here, too lazy to come up with his own name, I guess. Says the dumbest thing Ted Cruz did was engage the media and apologize. He's already got a target on his back and he basically just chummed the water. Yeah, I agree with you. I think that was the mistake he made. There's another mistake that he made, which we'll get to in the daily cancellation. But yes, apologizing was certainly a mistake because he didn't do anything wrong. You know, he, I think his initial statement with the, with when that ridiculous controversy first erupted was clumsy and not the right way to go about it. But, you know, him pointing out that he was trying to get his family. He,

He didn't have power either, and it was freezing cold, and so he tried to get his family to warmer temperatures. Nothing wrong with that. That's what any good father would do. Now, for political reasons, which we'll talk about in a second, but for political reasons, maybe the smart move is to bring your family, or to, you know, bring them to the airport, put them on a plane, and then you stay back, even if there's nothing really for you to do staying back. But getting your family out of that situation, if you can, is a smart move. and I think it's what any father with the means would do. This is from Cool Papa J. Magic. There's a great name.

He says, there isn't even a point in talking about the hypocrisy anymore, talking about the left's hypocrisy. I have a woke brother, and I know personally that they do not see their own flaws and or lack of logical consistency. Yeah, I hear this a lot when I point out the double standards, and I'm told that there's no point even pointing it out anymore because it doesn't make a difference. They don't care. and that's true by and large. But the problem is number one, so what else are we going to do? Simply accept it.

If there's a double standard, are we going to accept it, allow it, not say anything, not point it out? Allow them to pretend unopposed that there is no double standard? I think we have to point it out. And also keep in mind that this is the case with people generally,

not just on the left. Most people are stubborn and they're not willing to see the flaws in their thinking. It's not a modern person thing. That's simply a person. That's a human nature thing. So when you present arguments and you stand up and say, okay, there's a double standard here, yeah, most people on the other side who hear you are going to dismiss it because that's how people are.

But you got to hope that there are at least a few people who, even if they don't change their mind right then and there, you plant the seed. You get them thinking about it. And if they have any capacity for critical thinking down the line, maybe that seed sprouts. And they start to realize the truth a little bit. That's why sometimes it can feel so defeating when you're presenting arguments to someone. Because it's very rare, you know, when you're having an argument with anybody, especially a political and ideological argument, it's very rare for someone to say right then

and there, oh, you know what, you're right? I'm going to change my mind. It almost never happens, right? Does that mean that nobody ever changes their mind? people just change their mind. It's not going to be right then there on the spot. It might be that night or a day later, two weeks later, a year later, who knows? You could put them on that path and not know it.

And that's why it's worth it to present the arguments anyway. Jay Moen says, Matt, to consider 18-year-olds are not responsible for their debt because they don't know what they're doing, yet they're allowed to vote for our representatives, is a frightening truth. I totally agree. I'm fully on board with the idea like we talked about last week, that at 18 years old, you got these kids coming out of high school, and they're taking out these massive loans, and they don't really know what they're doing.

And I agree that they don't really know what they're doing, which is why, you know, there should be some reform to the system that allows the banks to give these loans in the first place. But if we can all agree on that point, which just seems we can, then, yeah, why are we allowing, if they're not, if they don't have the psychological equipment, to make these sorts of financial decisions, which obviously they don't, then why are we letting them make decisions about the future of the country?

Raise the voting age. I'm all about that. Raise it to 25, 30, 35. Well, not 35, because I'm not 35 yet, but 25, let's say. And finally, Rusty Dog says, Matt, you use the phrase, iron out the kinks. Come on, man. It's work out the kinks or iron out the wrinkles. You move to Tennessee. Now you're mixing your metaphors like some country bumpkin. Cancel yourself. Well, Rusty Dog, first of all, that bigoted accusation, that stereotypical accusation towards me is not acceptable. And I think Iron Out the Kings is a, in fact, I looked it up and I found a WordPress blog. Someone wrote a blog on WordPress in 2010 giving the etymology of Iron Out the Kings. and they say that Iron Out the Kinks is a perfectly acceptable expression.

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daily cancellation. Late last week, as we covered on this show, Senator Ted Cruz just talked about, came under intense scrutiny and backlash after it was revealed that he had traveled with his family to Cancun during the winter storm disaster in his state. This was a huge controversy for reasons that nobody could ever quite explain. Even after he revised his plans and returned home, the outrage had not quite abated. In fact, the media was tracking Cruz's family. His wife and daughters now in Cancun. A New York Post headline announced, quote, Ted Cruz's family seems soaking up the Cancun sun while Texas shivers. I have to admit, that's pretty outrageous. You know, Ted Cruz's daughters should be back in Texas working to fix the power grid. Damn lazy kids nowadays.

Back in my day, when there was an outage, my parents had me climb up the pole to fix the power lines myself. That had to do without shoes, too. Up hill both ways. But these are softer and more delicate times, I suppose. Anyway, the PR crisis for Cruz became an opportunity for others, like Representative Alexandria Kizio-Cortez, who shortly after Cancungate wet viral, announced that she would be traveling to Texas to help out herself. Totally coincidental timing, I'm sure. As the local ABC affiliate in Houston reported, AOC, quote, toward Houston storm damage. Now, why did a representative from New York need to fly down to a city of a city of a different state

1,600 miles away to tour the storm damage. While the cynical among us might theorize that this was nothing more than a glorified Instagram photo shoot. In fairness, though, she did more than tore the damage.

There's also a video of her lifting packages of water bottles and putting them in people's trunks, which is also nice. But again, the cynical, those darn cynical people might say that the workers and volunteers taking care of the mess down

of Houston really didn't need a high-profile politician from up north to fly down to help pick up water bottles. I mean, there's no practical advantage to her presence there. She brings media, she brings probably extra security, other logistical concerns that vastly outweigh the benefit of having her there to put water bottles in people's trunks and make concerned facial expressions while looking at the storm damage. I just, I doubt that any emergency worker or charity volunteer has ever been in the middle of a crisis and then stopped to look around and said to themselves, you know what we really need here? You know what we need? We need a famous politician trailed by a line of journalists with cameras. That would make everything run smoother. Excema is unpredictable.

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She did help raise money for the storm relief, which is good. but the part where she shows up in person to lift up water bottles on camera, that's where you might suspect that there's more to this than her passion for charity work. At least a cynical person might think that. Let's be fair, though. She didn't just tore the storm damage or put water bottles and trunks. She also, of course, found a microphone and a podium to give a speech. And here's some of that.

You know, we really need to make sure that we're getting food and assistance to people across the state. As was mentioned, here at the food at the Houston. Food Bank, no questions are asked. So you come up and you need help, you do not have to prove a damn thing. Documented or indocumento, you can send an assistance, and you can make here in the Houston Food Bank. If you are documented, undocumented, no matter what your income, no matter your housing status, you can get help here, which is one of the reasons why you are so proud to support the Houston Food Bank because we don't, because we want to help everybody. You need it. We'll be there. Gee, you know, it really looks and sounds like this woman flew down to Texas in the middle of a natural disaster to pose for cameras and deliver a stump speech.

I mean, it's the Houston Food Bank. Do they need a Congresswoman from New York to come and speak for them? Are they not capable of doing that themselves? What she just said there was there no one who actually works at the Food Bank? And no local person that could have gotten on camera and said all that? They need to fly heard in to say that? It looks like she was taking advantage. It looks and sounds that way because that's exactly what she did. This is, after all, the same person who pretended to cry in front of an empty parking lot near the southern border, let's not forget.

It's the same person who claimed that Ted Cruz was trying to kill her, which, by the way, what are you doing going down to Texas? Ted Cruz is there. He didn't leave. You said he's trying to kill you. I guess she's more courage from this woman, taking her life into her hands like that. There's also the same woman who claimed that she had a near-death. experience in the riots, even though the rioters never came near her or entered the building she was in, she has a history of dramatically exploiting crises for political gain. And if you

have any lingering doubts and think that maybe she really went to Texas to perform charity work on camera for entirely benevolent reasons, then consider that communities in her own state, her own city, were devastated over the summer by BLM rioting, and she never showed up to help the victims there, much less give speeches advocating for them. She chose Texas for a reason. By the way, she's also been clear that people shouldn't be traveling during the pandemic, number one, and people actually shouldn't be traveling by plane at all because it's destroying the environment and bringing mankind to the brink of extinction. It's actually causing exactly the kinds of weather events that devastated Texas, according to her. You think this would be all the more reason to not fly to Texas when there is clearly no practical benefit to her physical presence in the state?

But it wasn't about the practical benefit, except in the sense that political benefits are practical. Now, I don't mean to pick on AOC here. She is so transparently opportunistic that it's hard not to pick on her, but it's not like she's the first politician to swoop down into a crisis like this. She wasn't the only politician getting in the way down there in Texas. Even Ted Cruz showed up to carry water bottles around after he got all that guff for trying to leave town. It's a pretty standard political procedure using a natural disaster as a campaign event. Politicians have been doing that forever, of course, but that doesn't make it any better. Ted Cruz had it right the first time.

It's better for these people to just get out of the way than for them to show up for the photo shoot. And that's why AOC is canceled. Am I really canceling her for doing charity work? Yes, I am. Absolutely. Because it's not about the charity at all. And if you don't see that, if you're too dumb to see that, then, well, you're canceled too. And that's going to do it for us today.

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