The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 851 - How I Became The Leading LGBT Voice Of My Generation

Episode Date: December 6, 2021

Today on the Matt Walsh Show, I have somehow become the number one LGBT author in the world. This is a twist no one expected. We’ll talk about it today. Also, the parents of the Oxford High School shooter are being charged with manslaughter. Is that the right move or does it set a dangerous precedent for the future? Or could both be true? Plus, Kamala Harris’s henpecked staffers go to increasingly awkward yet hilarious lengths to prove that they’re happy to work for her. And the New York Times says that hotels in New York should be turned into homeless encampments. What could possibly go wrong? A lot, it turns out. Finally in our daily cancellation, Rashida Tlaib makes a pitch for student loan forgiveness but I’ll explain why she is herself personally a perfect example of why there should not be student loan forgiveness.  Sign the petition to stop Biden’s vaccine mandate. Head to dailywire.com/donotcomply I am now a self-acclaimed beloved children’s author. Reserve your copy of my new book here: https://utm.io/ud1Cb  Sign The Petition To Keep Matt Walsh on Saint Louis University Campus: https://bit.ly/3Dzeu1f DW members get special product discounts up to 20% off PLUS access to exclusive Daily Wire merch. Grab your Daily Wire merch here: https://utm.io/udZpp You petitioned, and we heard you. Made for Sweet Babies everywhere: get the official Sweet Baby Gang t-shirt here: https://utm.io/udIX3 Andrew Klavan's latest novel When Christmas Comes is now available on Amazon. Order in time for Christmas: https://utm.io/udW6u Subscribe to Morning Wire, Daily Wire’s new morning news podcast, and get the facts first on the news you need to know: https://utm.io/udyIF 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, I have somehow become the number one LGBT author in the world. This is a twist. No one expected. We'll talk about that today. Also, the parents of the Oxford High School shooter are being charged with manslaughter. Is that the right move or does it set a dangerous precedent for the future? Or could it possibly be, could both be true possibly? Plus, Camilla Harris's henpeck staffers go to increasingly awkward yet hilarious lengths to prove that they're happy to work for her. And the New York Times says that hotels in New York should be turned into homeless encampments. What could possibly go wrong there? A lot, it turns out. in our daily cancellation, Rashida Tili makes a pitch for student loan forgiveness,

but I'll explain why she is herself personally a perfect example of why there should not be student loan forgiveness. All of that. And more today on the Matt Wall Show. Now a quick word from policy genius. You know, if you don't have life insurance yet, you should really, you know, I know people kind of put it off getting life insurance, but it is a responsibility. It's a moral responsibility that you have to the people who depend on you, your loved ones. And the great thing is that if it seems like a daunting task to get life insurance, it's not or with policy genius. All you've got to do is head to policygenius.com and answer a few questions about yourself. In minutes, you can work out how much life insurance

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the literary sensation of 2021. Least of all that I would write it on cardboard. And yet my book, Johnny the Walrus, about a boy who identifies as a walrus and is now available at Johnny thewalriss.com or on Amazon, has taken the world by storm. Critics are hailing it as a masterpiece. I haven't heard any critics say that exactly, but it's safe to assume that they probably have said it. But forget about the critics. Just listen to some of these emails I've received. I've gotten a lot of emails from people who've gotten the book or reacting to the book. Satisfied customers have message to be stunned by the sheer depth and breadth of my trans-wallriss novel. One reader said,

WTF, is this supposed to be serious? Another raved, kind of expensive for a board book, and still another proclaimed, this is the weirdest thing you've done. And another tells me that the book is, quote, funny, but quote, pretty objectionable on a number of levels. See, these are significant accolades. And now we can add another. Johnny the Walrus is the number one bestseller on Amazon's LGBTQ plus book list.

Yes, on Sunday morning, the Lord's Day, a day after we had re-released the book on Amazon, because our first run sold out in less than 24 hours, I awoke to discover that Johnny Walrus had not only been categorized as an LGBT book, but had become the best-selling title in that genre and still is today. As it stands right now, my story about a trans Walrus child

is the number one bestseller in LGBT books, beating out such LGBT hits as The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, badass affirmations, the wit and wisdom of wild women, the gay Christmas romance novel, only one bed, a book called Mr. Naughty and Mr. Nice, and another book called Halle Gay. Now, I never imagined I would beat out Hollagay, but I did.

Just to be very clear about this, because it seems I must emphasize this point. Johnny the Walrus is about a kid who identifies as a walrus, and whose mother takes him to be to the doctor to have him surgically transitioned and gets him Walrus hormone pills, and then eventually tries to drop him off at a zoo to live with other Walrars. This Amazon has decided is an LGBT story. There would seem to be a certain admission being made here. I don't know. And you might even say that by writing a trans Walrus Kids book and not only topping the Amazon charts, but getting the book classified as LGBT, our plan has worked perfectly. You might say that this whole thing is our

trolling masterpiece, our Sistine Chapel of Trolling. That's one interpretation. But it's not the conclusion that I choose to draw from this situation. Personally, I take quite seriously my new status as the leading LGBT voice in the nation. I never expected to be such a prominent member of the community, or to be a member at all, frankly, but I will happily embrace this unexpected role. I can tell you that I solemnly swear that I will faithfully fulfill the obligations of my office. This is not something I take lightly. In other words, to the LGBT lobby, I have to say, I'm the captain now. But fear not, I have big plans for us going forward. You're going to love it.

Or you might not, but I will. And as the leading LGBT author in the world, that's all that really matters, how I feel. Most of all, and this is the real takeaway here, I think. This is the main point. My title is best-selling LGBT children's author means that I am henceforth personally exempt from all criticism. And it's important that you know that, especially if you're in the audience, because there's an obligation that falls to you now. And you have to know the rules. any critiques of me or my opinions or my behavior or my literary work will now be officially

and legally categorized as homophobic hate speech. If you refuse to buy my book Johnny the Walrus or to download my podcast or to come to my birthday parties or to invite me to your birthday parties, then you are guilty of marginalizing an oppressed minority. If I'm censored on social media, or if somehow my book is still banned by Amazon, somehow, it will be gay erasure. Now, you now have a moral obligation to affirm me, agree with me, celebrate me, and especially to purchase my book, which is, need I remind you, a best-selling smash LGBT sensation. Now, those of you who have followed my work for some time know that I have long sought membership in a societally recognized victim group because I covet the power that such membership afford.

Up to this point, I've had to make a do with the fact that I'm a member of the visually impaired community. It's not great as victimization goes, but it's not nothing. Yet, even so, I've discovered that in the victimhood arcade, not many tokens can be won with mere physical impairments. If you want to be rich in oppression, truly wealthy, you have to find your way into the LGBT fold. And now, here I am. I can feel the power coursing through my veins. I am unstoppable. This must be what Spider-Man felt like when you woke up the next morning after getting bit by the spider.

This is a fair warning, then, to all of my critics. I am ineligible for further insults or denunciations. Before you say anything to me or about me, just remind yourself that you're referring to the top LGBT writer in the world. Your criticism is violence. your failure to compliment me would also be violence. These are the rules. I didn't make them, but by God I will enforce them. So by my book, you bigots.

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Here's a real story. And a very interesting case. Horrible case, tragic, sad, you know, terrible. From a legal perspective, it's also pretty complicated. The parents of the Oxford High School shooter have been charged with, involuntary manslaughter after their son killed four people and wounded many others last week during class. Now, before we talk about this decision, let's listen to the DA, Karen McDonald, explain her logic in filing these charges. Now, first she talks about, she talked to the press on

Friday, and the timing of her address to the press, her press conference, also we need to comment on that. We'll do that in a second. So first she explains how they went out and they bought their 15-year-old son, a handgun, apparently. The mother posted about buying the handgun for her son. And then the kid was posing with the gun on social media, referring to it as his beauty that had just been bought. He didn't have the gun in his room. Apparently, it was in his parents' room in an unlocked drawer. And he was caught at school, I think this was the day before, or a couple days before, searching for ammo during school hours. And the parents were notified. with an email and then followed up with a voicemail,

but the parents never responded to that. Okay, so the kids at school, during school hours, looking for ammo, and they tried to get a hold of the parents to tell them about it, and the mom never even called back to respond. Instead, the mother texted her son this message, LOL, I'm not mad. You have to learn not to get caught. Okay, so that was a couple days before the shooting.

And that brings us up to the morning of the shooting, and then we'll let Karen McDonald fill in the rest. On November 30th, 21, the morning of the shooting the next day, Ethan Crumbly's teacher came upon a note on Ethan's desk, which alarmed her to the point that she took a picture of it on her cell phone. The note contained the following. A drawing of a semi-automatic handgun pointing at the words, quote, the thoughts won't stop, help me, end quote.

In another section of the note was a drawing of a bullet, with the following words above that bullet, quote, blood everywhere, end quote. Between the drawing of the gun and the bullet is a drawing of a person who appears to have been shot twice and bleeding. Below that figure is a drawing of a laughing emoji. Further down the drawing are their words, quote, my life is useless, end quote, and to the right of that are the words, quote, the world is dead, end quote. Okay, so that's what he was drawing on the morning of the shooting. And then she continues on talking about the parents were then

summoned to the school, as you might expect. And here's how that went. At the meeting, James and Jennifer Crumbly were shown the drawing and were advised that they were required to get their son into counseling within 48 hours. Both James and Jennifer Crumbly failed to ask their son if he had his gun

with him or where his gun was located and failed to inspect his backpack for the presence of the gun, which he had with him. James and Jennifer Crumbly resisted the idea of then leaving the school at that time, of their son leaving the school at that time. Instead, James and Jennifer Crumbley left the high school without their son. Okay, so they decided to go home, as she explains. After they were just, I mean, I'm, it's hard to wrap your head around that one. You're called to the school.

Your kid has written stuff like that on a piece of paper, and they, say you need to bring your son home and the parents say, well, we don't want to take off work. So they leave and the kid goes back to class and then soon after he's shooting up the school. Let's keep watching. When the news of the active shooter at Oxford High School had been made public, Jennifer Crumbly texted to her son at 1122, I'm sorry, at 122 p.m., quote, Ethan, don't do it." At 1.37 p.m., James Crumbly called 911, reporting that a gun was missing from his house, and he believed his son may be the shooter.

Further investigation revealed that the six-hour nine-millimeter handgun purchased by James Crumbly was stored, unlocked in a drawer in James and Jennifer's bedroom. The gun recovered from the shooter at the school, after the shooting. shooting was the same gun that was purchased by his father, James Crumbly, on November 26, 2021, in the presence of his son. Based upon the foregoing, the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office requested and received authorized, we charged four counts of involuntary manslaughter as to James Crumbly and four counts of involuntary manslaughter as to Jennifer Crumby. Okay. So that's that's the story.

behind why the charges were filed, which is, I think, unprecedented. And I'm not aware of any other case where the parents were charged in a school shooting like this. And that's why I was very apprehensive at first when I heard that they were filing charges against the parents, apprehensive about the precedent of holding parents legally liable for the actions of their kids. And I know to some people, especially non-parents, you might think, well, why shouldn't you? This should happen more often. If your kid goes out and does something terrible, something the worst possible thing like shooting up a school, then clearly you failed miserably as a parent.

You've done something terrible yourself. And so you should be held accountable for that. And oftentimes that's probably the case. If you've got a 15 or 16 year old kid doing something like that, it stands to reason. It's a very good chance that the parents have failed miserably or worse than that. but that's not always the case I mean one of one of the realities of parenting

one of the really scary things about parenting is is that you your control over your child only goes so far and at the end of the day they are agents operating in the world

with free will and especially once you know they leave your home and they become a and they go out into the world, you know, you can't stop them from making horrible decisions. You know, all you're able to do as a parent is influence your child. And if you're doing it the right way and you're, and you're, you are the correct sort of influence, then yeah, I mean, there's, there shouldn't be a situation where they're doing something really horrible like this, especially when they're still kids. But they're, you know, mental illnesses that you have to

account for. And also, again, as they get older and they go out of the house and they become adults, especially, I mean, you know, this is something people even do. If there's someone in their 20s who commits a horrible crime and then the immediate assumption is, oh, they must have been raised wrong. Maybe. It seems like there's a pretty good chance of that, but not necessarily. Because all kinds of things, even if you do everything perfectly as a parent, all kinds of things can still go wrong that you can't control. And one of those things is simply that this is another human being who makes their own choices. Make one bad choice leads to another, leads to another. And before you know it, your kid has fallen down this dark hole and can be very hard to retrieve

them from it. Also, that's one reason why you might worry about the precedent of charging parents in a situation like this. Also, you worry about an activist DA crusade. aiding against gun rights? Is she trying to put the Second Amendment on trial like Binger up in Kenosha? Now, I think there's still room for concern on both counts, especially the second count about putting, you know, about an activist DA, especially because the DA here announced charges against these parents before they had even been brought into custody, which is another unprecedented thing. That's not the way this usually works. You go and arrest them and charge them, and then you go to the media and tell them what you did. But they're still walking around out there free and you're

announcing charges. And apparently they went into hiding and it took about a day to find them. They found them in some industrial park somewhere in Michigan, which is one of the things that happens as a DA when you announce the charges before you arrest the people. So that would give the appearance that she's in this for publicity. Even so. So those are the concerns and everything. Even so, based on this information, the information that she lays out, we can say that the parents at a minimum acted with extraordinary recklessness, at a minimum. And we could probably say something even worse than that. And they obviously also knew that their child was disturbed. I mean, if there's a shooting at your kid's school, God forbid, and your first thought

is that my kid is the one shooting. If your first fear when you hear about the shooting is that your kid is the shooter and not a victim of a shooter, then that obviously shows that you know your child is deeply disturbed. And of course you know that. Of course you know that.

As a parent, you're not going to know everything about your child, especially if they go to public school and they spend so much time out of sight, out of view. There's going to be a lot you don't know about your kid. but if he's the kind of kid capable of doing something like this, you are at a minimum going to know that he's disturbed and he's got serious problems. And yet you go out and buy him a handgun.

Leave it an unlocked drawer. He's taking pictures on social media with it, searching for ammo during school hours, and you laugh about it. And we know that they knew he was disturbed because, first of all, they were told about the drawing and the pictures and everything he wrote. But when they heard about the shooting, she texts don't do it.

She knew it was him. Yeah, this goes beyond parental recklessness. This is, but this goes to involuntary manslaughter. So I think these are the right charges in this case. I hope it doesn't set a precedent, an undue precedent. And I hope the DA doesn't turn this, it doesn't try to turn this into a prosecuting the Second Amendment type of thing. I don't know. We'll find out.

But you have to hold the parents responsible. in a case like this. All right, moving on. There have been reports for months now that everybody hates Camilla Harris at the White House and they want to get rid of her, but they're basically stuck with her because you can't bring her on to the job

purely because of her race and gender and then fire her. You can't do that. It doesn't work that way. So there have been all kinds of extremely forced sounding statements from the White House talking about how much they love Kamala and how much respect they have for her. While the sources are talking behind the scenes

off the record and saying she's terrible and they don't like her. The public face they're putting forward, Jen Pisaki has come out and they've all said, oh, no, she's great, we love her. Kind of similar to the statement you get from NFL owners voicing their faith in the head coach who's Owen 15, two days before they fire him, except again, in this case, they can't do that, they can't fire her. So with Kamala, there's also been a mass exodus of staffers leaving, resigning, and there's been reports like this from Business Insider, and this just came out today.

It says a former Kamala Harris staffer says AIDS have to endure, quote, a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism. The article goes on and says, a major issue that several staffers raised with Harris's refusal to analyze briefing material set forth by employees, was Harris's refusal to analyze briefing material

set forth by employees, which reportedly resulted in her scolding them if she appeared to be unprepared. Quote, it's clear that you're not working with somebody who's willing to do the prep and the work. One former staffer told the newspaper with Kamala, you have to put up with a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism and also her own lack of confidence. So you're constantly sort of propping up a bully, and it's not really clear why.

Former Harris aide Jill Duren left her office in 2013 after five months in the role when she was California's attorney general. He told the post that the turnover in the vice president's office points back to her. He told the newspaper, quote, One of the things we've said in our little text groups among each other is what is the common denominated through all this, and it's her. Who are the next talented people? You're going to bring in and burn through and then have them pretend they're retiring for positive reasons.

And Harris's offices responded to this, by the way, and they've said that, of course, this is sexism and racism. That's where all this is coming from. Now, this is a little tough for me when I read stories like this, because I can completely believe that she's a tyrant. I'm sure she is. But also, we have to keep in mind that her staffers are all a bunch of whiny, millennial lick spittles.

So I'm sure if you tap them on the shoulder and said, hey, your shoes untied. they would say this is soul-destroying criticism. But even so, Camilla is terrible, and yet the four statements of support coming out are really pathetic. But none of them compare to this. Here's a tweet from David Gins, who's a staffer for Camille. He put out this statement today, or a tweet, this is last night. He says, hi, my name is David Gins. I work for Vice President Harris on behalf of the American people as deputy director for operations.

and absolutely love my job, just thought some of you should know. And there's a photo. Now look at this photo. Let's put this photo up. My God. A picture says a thousand words, and so does this one,

except it's just the word pathetic 1,000 times in a row. Look at the expression on his face, staring straight ahead, trying to muster a smile, but there's like this look of fear in his eyes, probably because Camel is just out of frame pointing a gun at his head.

and then look at the photo of Kamala and her husband on the wall. This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen. Who put, first of all, who puts a photo there at all? I'm no interior decorator, my wife will tell you that. But you don't just put a random photograph that big, crammed up against the door, right above like the, it looks like the thermostat or something there. And why that, and why that photo? It looks almost photoshopped into the into the picture.

And who has a photo of their boss and their boss's spouse on the wall? Does Camila require this of all her underlings, maybe? And I also want to point your attention, just one other thing, keep this picture up here because there's one other thing that I've been pondering. So you also notice, I want to point your attention to that circular hole in the desk, right where David Gins is sitting. You see that? I don't want to know what that hole's there for.

This is Camilla Harris. We're talking about the imagination runs wild. But that's the best they could do. They needed to get a staffer on the record posing for a photo, looking happy in his job. And the best they could get is the deputy director of operations, sitting at a desk with a suspicious hole, barely cracking a smile.

Okay. This is from the Daily Wartner. says new details emerged on Sunday about why CNN decided to fire star host Chris Cuomo on Saturday evening as the network conducted an investigation to Cuomo's role in helping his brother, then New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo, navigate a sexual misconduct, navigate a sexual misconduct, navigate a sexual misconduct on Wednesday, that the allegations are ultimately what led to Chris Cuomo being fired from CNN. And so that's why they finally announced that it was official. At first, they suspended him and it was kind of, we were expecting maybe they'd bring him back on like they did with Jeffrey Tuben. But now they're getting rid of him because of sexual misconduct at the workplace. Of course, Jeffrey Tuben also had workplace sexual misconduct when he masturbated in front of his coworkers on Zoom call. But he's got that exception. I'm not sure why.

Increasingly, I've come to believe that Jeffrey Tuben must have compromised. photos or something of someone high up in the CNN food chain. There's got to be some explanation for how he's still there. But Andrew Cuomo is gone, or rather Chris Coma, and Andrew Cuomo. It is the fall of the Cuomo house. And I think with this story, this story is kind of is good because it provides us an example of the distinction between canceling and accountability. The defenders of cancel culture will say that, well, no, we're not canceling people, we're just holding them accountable. But this is what accountability looks like. Okay, this is what someone loses their job and they deserve to lose it and they're being held accountable for what

they've done. That's what this looks like. Because for one thing, okay, he's being punished for things that he's done currently and recently, okay, helping his brother behind the scenes. This workplace sexual misconduct sounds like it was recent. So this is not digging up things from a decade ago or 20 years ago, looking for a reason to get rid of him. These are things that he has done is doing currently. And this is also focused on actions, not words or opinions. Okay, that's another hallmark of cancel culture.

Very often you're getting canceled for things that you've said or opinions you've expressed. And also, again, very often, these are, someone wants to cancel you, the powers that be want to cancel you. So they go looking, they go digging for something. And they find something from 10 years ago that nobody cared about at the time, didn't offend anybody. And they bring it up to light and they conjure up outrage over it. That's not the case here. And the main thing, of course, is that that tells us this is not a canceling, is that he's been given a thousand chances. With cancel culture, there's no forgiveness, of course.

there's no grace, there are no chances, because it's the institutions of power deciding they want to get rid of you, and they'll take the first excuse they can find. Here's an entirely different situation where the institutions of power wanted to keep Chris Cuomo in place, and they were willing to overlook many different forms of misconduct and many different ethical violations until it just was one thing after another, and they had no choice anymore and they had to fire. All right. What else do we got here? Okay, so, you know, I remember when my son was about six and we were driving along and we stopped at an intersection and there was a homeless guy there. And my son said to me, he asked me, he said, Daddy, why do we let people be homeless? That's what he asked. And I said, well, what do you mean? Let? And he said, why don't we all in the world just give the homeless people money and give them a house? There are a lot of houses. And I said to him, stopping such a damn lib, okay? I didn't really say that. What I try to do instead is explain in as simple a way as possible that very often people find themselves in these kinds of unfortunate situations, not because the world necessarily forced them into it, but sometimes because of things going on inside them.

And I said that sadly for a lot of homeless people, they have a problem that can't be totally solved simply by giving them money or giving them a home. but we still do give them money. We give money to the homeless because that's the most we can do as strangers passing by. And it's good to help people to the extent that you can. Anyway, my son had a very simplistic way of looking at the problem because he's a child and that's fine. It's not so fine for adults, though, to continue to look at the problem with the same level of naivete. Which brings us to this, the New York Times, it says, here's their headline. As many New York City hotels sat empty during the pandemic and homelessness

continued to rise, it was a once-in-a-generation chance to convert struggling hotels into affordable housing, but none were converted. So what happened? The article goes on to talk about how all of these empty hotels were just sitting there in New York City, and why don't we put the homeless in there? Simple as that. And it points out that other cities and other states have done exactly that, which is true. This is something that various different localities have tried. They tried it in Tulsa. And TulsaWorld.com just so happened to have a report on the progress of this program in Tulsa.

Reading partway through here starts with a nurse practitioner who worked at the homeless hotel in Tulsa. And it says nurse practitioner Amber Vaux figured she'd be consulted when it came time to decide who would get permanent housing and who wouldn't. As the person in charge of the hotel's health clinic, she'd gotten to know many of the clients and believe she could contribute to the conversation. Much to her surprise and disappointment, those discussions never would. happened. I was the medical provider, she said, at the very least, I should have been involved

in some of these conversations. I didn't even know it was happening until the people had already been told they were being put out, and they would come into my clinic having emotional, mental breakdowns because of how scared they were and begging me to help. Vaux said about 10 to 20 clients a week were being sent back into the streets. In the last month, the hotel was operating, and most were no better prepared for life outside the hotel than they had been when they entered. There was no incentive, she continued. She says, there was no incentive for them to kind of practice skills that would make them more successful once they were on their own, maybe in an apartment, like taking care of properties, showing up for appointments, just communicating with their caseworkers.

It's common knowledge that prostitution and drug use were part of everyday life at the hotel, Vos said, and nothing was done about it. She said, quote, these people were not given the support they needed to be successful anywhere. Addiction ran rampant through there. We had a lot of people confide in us that they had been clean until they got to the hotel, but because the drug situation was so bad there, they relapsed. Then it goes on to many more gritty details about how this hotel operated. And it actually made the situation worse for a lot of the people who checked into the homeless hotel. We got a picture here of what these hotel rooms looked like after the homeless had left them. And there's just garbage shrewing all over the place. And on fairness, my hotel rooms

don't look much better than that once I check out. But they do look a little bit better. So, but at least we could say there were no, from what I understand from this article, there were no meth labs in the building, which is better than the situation in San Francisco where they did this same kind of thing at a motel in San Francisco and the homeless started converting the rooms into meth labs. Now, is this surprising? No. Why? Because people who are chronically homeless. I mean chronically. Not like someone who falls on hard times and the tend to. temporarily find themselves between housing situations or that sort of thing. I mean, chronically homeless. They are that way in the vast majority of cases because they're either drug addicts or they're severely mentally ill or both. It's going to be very rare to have someone who is not addicted to drugs and is mentally competent and yet is living on the sidewalk, you know,

sleeping on a cardboard box for weeks and months on end. because a mentally competent person who's not addicted to drugs, it's not difficult to find some kind of housing. It's not going to be great housing, but you could find something. You know, you get some kind of job. Might not be a great job that pays very well, but you should be able to find some kind of job at fast food or something, and you can afford some sort of housing situation.

So if there are people just living on the street for months and months and years on end, and that tells you that there is something else, going on here internally. Now, does this mean that it's not sad or that we shouldn't try to help people in a situation? No, of course not. It just means that the problem isn't that they don't have homes. That's not the fundamental problem. The problem is deeper than that. The fact, again, is that any non-drug addicted, non-mentally ill person will be able to find some kind of housing. So if they're not, then there's something else going on. And so if you just open up a hotel

and you throw them in there, it's going to fall apart and go to help because now you have a whole lot of mentally ill drug addicts under one roof. So you've got to get to the underlying problems. But of course, in our society and with the left, we're always trying to, we're always engaging with these problems on the surface. You can never go below the surface. We're always, we're dealing with circumstances rather than people. And we want to pretend that anyone who's in a bad circumstance, well, it's the circumstance is what has caused it. We don't want to go deeper than that and look at what's going on internally, the choices that they've made because then we get into what would be called victim blaming or whatever else.

All right. What else do we got here? The Surgeon General has said that this is good news. We can see our families on the holidays under certain conditions. He's made this announcement. Let's play that. But if you do as many things, families did. You get vaccinated and boosted. You use testing judiciously before you gather. You gather in well-ventilated spaces and use masks whenever you can in public indoor spaces. Your risk can be quite low and your holidays can be quite fulfilling. That's what so many families experience this past Thanksgiving. So you wear masks with your family. Get jabbed and boosted. Make sure everyone's jabbed and boosted. Wear masks. You know, socially distanced from one another. And you can have a quite

fulfilling holiday. I don't know. You know, when I think about what makes for a fulfilling holiday experience with family, I think one of the essential aspects of that experience, what makes it fulfilling is that you can like see each other and see each other's faces. You really can't have any kind of fulfilling social interaction when you're both covering your faces. But I guess we have to give thanks to the certain general, at least for giving us permission to celebrate Christmas. So we can do that. But celebrate Christmas as long as you're treating your family preemptively like they're all diseased. And then it'll be fine.

All right. Finally, here's another sort of emperor has no clothes situation, or maybe the emperor is wearing women's clothes, I guess. A trans, this is from the Daily Mail. So is a trans swimmer and senior at the University of Pennsylvania. who previously spent three years competing as a man, is now crushing records in women's events, sparking outrage amid controversy surrounding transgender athletes. You can see the picture there.

There's the man. Formerly named Will, now goes by Leah Thomas, 22, has competed in a number of events recently, including a tri-meat with Cornell and Princeton University's on number of 20th, where the senior blasted UPenn records in the 200-meter and 500-meter freestyle, posting times that beat almost every other female swimmer across America. with a time of 14347 in the 200 meter freestyle, Thomas would have been in line to secure silver medal

at the NCAA women's championships while her, I'm reading it from the article, and this is the, I'm just reading verbatim in the article, while her, quote-unquote, 435-06 in the 500 meter freestyle would have been good enough to win bronze. This is the latest controversy and the ongoing argument over whether trans people should be allowed to compete in sports alongside athletes of the opposite gender,

and they were assigned at birth. Oh, there we go. Let's, okay, can we stop there on that picture for a second? Yeah. That's a woman, folks. That's, that's, we're supposed to believe that's a woman. Why is it a woman? Well, he grew his hair out.

So it makes him a woman. This is probably one of the more egregious. Every case of a male competing against women in female sports is egregious and ridiculous and outrageous and wrong. This one more than most, because this guy, as I said in the article, he competed against men for three years. So he'd been a man his entire life competing.

There he's there. In his former life. Before going through the radical transformation of growing out his hair. There he was. And so for three years. And then in his last year says, you know what? I'm a woman.

I'm going to go over here. and starts dominating. Gold, silver, bronze, record times. And to show you how absurd these kinds of situations are, it's not so much comparing the man's time to the women that he's beating. What you really have to do, and I don't have it in front of me,

but I'll be interested to do this. You take that man's time and compare it to the other men. And what I could guarantee you is, I mean, this guy, he may have held his own against the men. But I guarantee you he wasn't winning gold and silver medals all over the place. He, of course, was not dominating at all, certainly not to the level that he's dominating now. So what you usually have are in these situations, you have male athletes who at best are middling athletes.

The example we've talked about before in Connecticut, where you've got these two guys raced against the girls in high school track, the famous case, now going through the courts. but those were men who barely qualified for state competitions against the men. I mean, they couldn't even get on the track. They go over against the girls and they're, you know, at least in the top three in every race. That's what it always is. It's always middling, mediocre male athletes going over to girls and dominating, which tells you, of course, that what do you know?

There is a dramatic biological difference between the sexes. But also, it continues to be very interesting. that it's always the men in the middle of the pack or the bottom of the pack who discover that they're women. It's never a man at the top of the pack. Has there been one single case of a man who was dominating against the males? He was already top three all the time. And then he discovered he was a woman and went over and raced against the girls? I don't think it's ever happened.

So you might conclude, you might start to suspect. perhaps that there are some mediocre male athletes who are, um, who, who are encouraged, perhaps, to discover a female identity because that's the only way that they can consistently win. And even if it's not, even if that's not the case, I mean, even if this guy, I can't get inside his head, I don't know what his true motivations are. I'm very suspicious of what they might be, but I don't know. Regardless, though, whatever is motivation, are, it's still wrong. And everybody knows it. I mean, you see this guy, like, nobody. Could we put up that picture again of him with the other girl? You see this pick? No one thinks that this is,

no one is looking at this and say, oh yeah, those are, those are both women exactly equal. You know, he's a woman in the exact same way that she is. It makes total sense. It's totally fair to put them on the same team together. nobody thinks that nobody even far on the left they know they don't actually believe this it's not that they've convinced themselves that this makes sense or it's right or it's logical or it makes any scientific or moral sense or that it's justified for them it's all politics it's all ideology

and they simply don't care they don't care about the the logic of it they don't care about the moral and ethical implications they don't care about that but everybody knows. I believe. All right, let's get now to the comment section. Finally, we can talk about American financing. Look, if you own a home and you haven't refinanced, what are you waiting for? Mortgage rates are at historic lows again, which means you could easily drop your rate and your monthly payment. All you got to do is call American financing, America's Home for Home Loans. Take advantage of a free mortgage review. That's right. The review is free, meaning there's no pressure,

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there are only other girls around. My discomfort would skyrocket if there were boys a lot in the restroom with me, especially back when I was a young teenager. Yeah, Jessica, but as we just covered, you don't matter, unfortunately. According to the left, you don't matter. You should matter, but you don't. says the left. Joy Barkis says, I love how the least festive Daily Wire host has the most festive studio.

Yeah, we do. We are finally decorated for Christmas here at the Matt Walsh Studio. And I don't know if you can see and fully appreciate it, of course, but our alien is in the Christmas spirit. He's got the Santa Claus beard on and the Santa Claus hat.

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And yeah, I have been, I've been angling for, we need at least a polka dot shirt. I don't know why you would say we need skinny jeans. I don't wear skinny jeans as we've covered many times. and your band from the show for saying that, by the way. Almost forgot. Sarah says, we need a makeup tutorial from Sean with Matt as the test subject. Now, listen, Sarah, I may be the most prominent LGBT author in the country, but I have my limits. Could I draw the line somewhere?

Okay. Deep Wild Violet says, hospice nurse here. I've heard lots of people say at the end of their life, either that they are happy to have their family around them or that they regret not spending more time with family on vacations, with people they love, I have never heard a patient say they wished they'd have worked more or made more money, regardless of economic class. Yeah, and that's got to be unique insight and perspective that you have. Tragic insight and perspective.

But having never, you know, I've never worked in hospice myself. I've only been around a few people at the end of their lives. But this would seem apparent. And we could see that within ourselves too. Like you can look forward to your own death whenever it comes. Might be tomorrow, it might be in 50 years, whatever. And you already know what sorts of things you're going to regret, what sorts of things you wish you had done more often.

Another great example is, you know, we all spend 15 hours a day on our phones and staring at screens. But I'm pretty sure, and you could correct me if, wrong. You've also probably not had anybody in their last breaths at hospice say that they wish they'd spent more time staring at screens. So we know that. I mean, while we're sitting there for 15 hours look on the phone, you just know that you're going to, that this total waste of time. You're going to regret it. But we can't help ourselves. Gerter says, hey, Matt, I think you'll love the tidbit that not only is it fairly common and normal for a six-year-old to be a Fortnite expert, it's fairly common gamer knowledge that about 90%

of Fortnite experts are under the age of 10. Yeah, I can't remember what that was referring to, but there was, yeah, someone who said that their six-year-old son was a Fortnite expert. There's no reason for that. Okay, now, I understand by most people's, you know, judgment, I'm kind of extreme on this, that I don't plan on my kids playing video games at all. But I do understand that as the kids get a little bit older, and they become teenagers.

It might be more difficult to keep them away from that stuff. And maybe you start introducing some of it. But at the age of six, at the age of six, it's very, very easy to determine what kind of entertainment your kids are going to have access to.

And so that's a choice you have to make. If your kid at six years old or five years old is addicted to video games, like I know so many are, you have made that lifestyle choice for your kid, which doesn't make any sense to me at all. On Thursday, Biden announced his winter COVID plan, and it's apparent that his administration is only going to double down on their authoritarian policies. Not only did Biden announce that he's extending the federal mask mandates for public

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mid-tier squad member Rashida Tili. We last saw Rashida in an interview on Axios explaining why all federal prison inmates, including sex traffickers and child rapists, should be immediately released from prison. The idea she was hawking on the house floor this week, or last week, rather, isn't quite as bad as that, but it's almost as bad.

It's a bit more mainstream anyway, and that is student loan forgiveness. But the interesting thing about Rashida's pitch for student loan forgiveness is that, she is herself a perfect example of why we should not forgive student loans. Listen for yourself. I worked full time Monday through Friday and took weekend classes to get my law degree. And still close to $200,000 in debt.

And I still owe about $70,000. And most of it was interest. Most of it was our own government making money and profit off of me. And guess what? I didn't go to the for-profit entities. I went to legal aid. I worked at the nonprofit organization fighting for the right to breathe clean air,

to fight for the worker that was getting their wage taken and stolen from their employer. I went and worked on immigrant rights and so much more. And all of that to say, we have to stop treating as if folks that are paying for education, as if they bought some bougie car or some big, you know, something beyond. No, they were seeking an education.

Okay, so Rashida Talib wants debt forgiveness, and she complains that she still has 70 grand left on her loan, which was originally $200,000 for her law degree, she says. A degree that she's chosen not to use. She admits that she immediately took that degree that cost her well into six figures to attain and went off to be an activist at a nonprofit. Now she's a politician. Fortunately for her, she makes $175,000 a year in her current job, which raises the question. Why should the taxpayer assume her debt when she earns an income more than double the national? average. The fact that elected representatives earn more than double the national average is a separate issue entirely. I mean, I think that they should get paid. They should get paid the

national average income. That's what I think. For now, though, the point is simply that she chose the most expensive education path possible. Now she rakes in a sizable salary and yet still insists that the taxpayer fulfill her financial obligations for her. The appropriate response to that argument is no. Pay your debts. You don't. damned deadbeat. Now, I'm glad that Rashida Taleb has wanted to make herself the face of this issue because she is the face of it. As an affluent upper class brats with a graduate degree, she does indeed represent a large portion of the people clamoring for debt forgiveness. In fact, people with graduate degrees account for half of all student loan debt. Half. That's because

the average amount of student debt for bachelor degrees is only about $30,000, not insignificant, but manageable. The way that we get to, into trillions of dollars collectively in terms of debt is through all of these people getting master's degrees where the average debt is 70,000, and law degrees and medical degrees where the average debt is 150 and 200,000 respectively. So when you hear about debt forgiveness, just know that half of that money, money that will come from the taxpayer from you, will be going to upper class affluent, highly educated doctors and lawyers and so on. Student debt forgiveness is upper class welfare. That's what it is. Of course, I realize that plenty of people with graduate degrees are not doctors or lawyers. Some of them are not getting paid well at all. The two-year's

master's degree programs are largely useless, an enormous scam. And many people today are walking around with graduate degrees that serve no purpose whatsoever, and there's been no return on investment. Contrary to Leap's claim, they are indeed like basically getting a bougie car. those graduate degrees. They're superfluous, extravagant, useless, showy. At least you can drive cars. You can't do anything with most of these graduate programs. But even so, who should be on the hook to pay for your superfluous and useless graduate degree, you or your neighbor? Really, if we wanted to talk about debt forgiveness for the middle class, for average working class Americans, we'd be forgiving mortgages or credit card debt or car payments. That's the kind of debt

that most people deal with. Most of us don't have a $200,000 slip of paper sitting in a frame and hanging on a wall in our office. Maybe the student debt forgiveness proponents, though, would say, sure, yeah, let's forgive all that debt too. But that only proves that they're a bunch of mental children. They have no understanding of or appreciation for the financial realities of life. They think a magic wand can be waived to solve all these problems, even as the government's magic wand that it waived over the last two years has led to skyrocketing inflation and an economic situation, that's even worse than the one that these measures were supposed to solve in the first place. When it comes down to it, this is again a question of who should be responsible for

the debts that you take on. If you enter into a contract and agree to pay X amount for Y product or Y service, who should be the one to hold up your end of the bargain? And there are only two possible answers to that question. You or everybody else. You might prefer the latter option, everyone else, but it's not justifiable on a logical or moral or financial basis. I'm sorry if you went to get a master's degree so that you could teach the ABCs to first graders. I'm very sorry that such a terrible decision has caused you heartache. I am. But my well of sympathy dries up the moment you turn to the government and ask it to point its guns at me and reach into my wallet to solve your problems. You immediately go from being a sympathetic,

silly figure to a thief. Now, all of that said, I do agree that our approach to higher education is untenable. And that's why I think we need to evaluate that approach rather than simply trying to get rid of the debt while leaving the fundamentally broken system still in place. Okay, so this again, like we talked about with the left, this is just like, solve the homeless crisis by putting all the homeless in hotels. Yet they're still mentally ill drug addicts. So we solve our broken higher education system by just forgiving all the debt, but the system is still broken. The solution to the debt crisis going forward, the way to staunch the bleeding anyway and make sure it doesn't get worse, is to stop sending our kids into four-year institutions by default.

Most of them don't need to be there and won't gain anything of lasting value from the experience. If there was a massive drop-off in enrollment, and we in a massive drop-off in enrollment, and we encouraged our kids to be more discerning about the choice to enroll in college, and we pushed them to explore other options aside from four-year institutions, then many of these problems will begin to sort themselves out. Colleges, for one thing, wouldn't be able to charge a Lamborghini prices for degrees if they had to compete not just with each other, but with the whole array of other options that the world presents, if only people would explore them before signing up for the college path. That's the point that Rashida Talib

ignores, or outright it rejects. She wants to keep the spigot turned on, siphoning millions of kids into the university pipeline whether it will benefit them or not. Only she wants the government to be even more involved in funding and facilitating the whole disastrous system. So as usual, she has it all exactly backwards. And for that, she is canceled.

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