Ep. 1428 - My Incredible Journey Of Self-Discovery At The DNC
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Show you the footage also today on the show. Also, Oprah gave a speech last night where she explained that the American dream depends on our ability to kill our own children. Plus, the media proclaims that Democrats have figured out how to win the white rural vote. And all it takes is a camo hat. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.

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This week, I was deeply honored to attend the Democrat National Convention in Chicago. Now, before I tell you about my experiences, I want to dispel one rumor right away. There are some who assume that I only went to the DNC to shamelessly promote my new film, Am I Racist?, which premieres September 13th. Tickets are on sale now at amiracist.com.

These people think that the entire thing was one big stunt, that I went to the DNC knowing that the left would get angry and start complaining about it on social media, thereby unwittingly helping me to advertise my film. The whole point was to generate headlines like this in the Daily Mail. Matt Walsh enrages Democrats by crashing DNC in white dudes for Kamala Harris disguise. An article that includes a lengthy description of the film along with a link to the trailer. That's how some people see this, as some kind of

low-rent gimmick to raise awareness about my film, Am I Racist? Tickets on sale now at amiracist.com. Admittedly, if that was my plan, then we'd have to say that it worked tremendously well. We sold a lot of tickets because of it, and every leftist who complained about my presence at the convention was falling directly into the trap.

If there was a trap, but there wasn't because that was not my plan. I want to be very clear at the outset that I would never dream of doing anything like that. I have too much respect for our glorious democracy to make a mockery of a political convention by using it to promote a movie.

Even a movie like Am I Racist, which premieres September 13th, tickets on sale at amiracist.com. This whole thing had nothing at all to do with my film, Am I Racist, premiering September 13th, tickets on sale at amiracist.com. So now that we've put that to rest, I'd like instead to explain why I really did attend the DNC and what I learned there. Because the honest truth is that I went to the event as part of my ongoing journey of self-discovery. And that's a journey that begins in the movie, but certainly doesn't end there.

I wanted to learn how to be a better anti-racist, a better citizen, a better human being. And what better place to do that than a convention with a baby killing bus right out front? Now, I realize, of course, that elephant in the room here, no pun intended, that I am not a popular figure in Democratic circles. I would go so far as to say that many of these people have a negative view of me.

But I also knew that Democrats value tolerance above all. They embrace diversity. They have a welcoming and loving attitude towards everyone. And I took great solace in that. And I knew that I would be greeted with the same spirit, a spirit of joy and welcoming, especially because I was attending the event in my man bun and my white dudes for Harris shirt, which was my way of signaling that I'm a member of the tribe. I'm a safe person to have in their safe space.

But this wasn't just about bettering myself, I should say. I also wanted to alert the attendees to one of the greatest dangers lurking in the world today, Project 2025. Now, everybody's heard of Project 2025 at this point, but nobody really knows what it is. And the people at the DNC especially don't know what it is, which is why I brought some literature to educate them on the subject. And we'll have more on that in a few minutes. But first, I'll show you the wonderful conversation that I had with somebody shortly after I arrived at the convention on our first day.

And this was a lovely woman with pink hair and a COVID mask. We dialogued about many important issues, including racial justice. I thought it was a great conversation. Here's a quick snippet of that.

So are you part of partisan? Well, we're partisan for the truth. Right. I like that. Partisan for the truth. That's that's even I'm wearing a Kamala Harris hat. Right. I know. It's not partisan, but I'm advocating for her. It's like a nonpartisan way. Yeah, exactly. Because if you're not if you don't vote for Kamala Harris and Trump gets in, these policies get implemented. That's all we got to stop Trump. Kamala is going to get in. You know, it's good. It's going to happen. But.

- Fingers crossed. - Right, fingers crossed. But if she doesn't, again, they're gonna continue to try pushing.

But racial justice is the particular focus of mine. Is that important to you in your personal life? To decolonize, decenter your whiteness? Hands down. Absolutely. In everything you do, you have to think about... How do you do that on a daily basis? You get up in the morning, you're decentering. First of all, who has access? Who's at the table? And who's in the room? I'm going to go a little overboard. Yeah, go. Let's hear it. Let's hear it. If I walk into a room and there are people of color in the room, I want to literally not be in the center of the room. Uh-huh.

Yep. So I'm walking around the edges of the room. Just so I'm not, not everyone goes that far. I'm super committed to it. I mean, I walk in a room, I'm white, but I'm also an anti-Zionist Jew of Ukrainian descent. I'm also a lesbian. I also, you know, identify as a dyke. So like all those things. You got a couple more.

But you know, but I don't think I say points be able couple more points, right? Well, no, no But you have a say and also if you're not fighting for reproductive justice as a man, especially as a straight man That's some work to do right? Yeah, I'll ground this place. There's too many white people Yeah, too many what a lot of black women who are organizing and

But then the white people are walking through. Right, because the black women set it up, the white people show up. But this is an elite scenario here. I mean, it is. It's just like anybody can come, but really, can they? Do they feel like they're welcome? I don't want to be on camera.

Well, it was great talking to you. All right. Yeah, you too. You too. Take it easy. Thank you. We'll do the shake then. Well, yeah, because you put the mask. I don't want to. All right. We'll do that. Yeah. All right. All right. Take care. Great discussion. We seem to be on the same page. Left on good terms. And I was excited to walk around the convention, talk to many more people, many of them also wearing pink hair and COVID masks. But unfortunately, after talking to one person, having completely civil and intelligent conversation, you just saw it.

And even, dare I say, becoming best friends. I was nonetheless reported to security and escorted from the building and told that I'm banned for the rest of the week just because of that conversation. So I've been requested to escort you out and ask you to leave. And in the process, we're going to need your wristband back as well. Why are they kicking me out?

The people running the event is requesting that. So this is an event run by the organization and they want you out. And they didn't give a reason? What's that? They didn't give a reason? They only gave me a reason. All right. I wasn't causing a scene. It was very, very friendly. I understand. Anything you want to say? All right. Cool.

Let's go head escort him out. I got my, I got the t-shirt for the event. I understand. So, all right. The end of the premises and we also need your wristbands back too. So we're able to come back tomorrow or is this a one day thing? I'm gonna defund the police until they're calling the police, huh? All right guys, they're requesting you don't come back for the rest of the week at this location, all right? For the whole week? The whole week. And they didn't say what I did wrong?

They don't need to. All right. Have a good day. Please don't come back. Have a good day. Please don't come back. What did I do to deserve that treatment? I came to learn and grow as a person and an ally. Instead, I was thrown out into the cold. And why did they treat me like that? What did I do wrong? What were they trying to tell me? You know, they said, please don't come back. But I knew that there must be a deeper message. I thought about it. And I realized that don't come back

must have meant don't go back to who you were before. Don't become your old self again. They weren't saying don't come back physically to the convention. They were speaking metaphorically, poetically, I realized. So later that night, I did go back. Only this time, I had learned a valuable lesson. If you wanna be welcomed in left-wing spaces, it's important to not talk to anyone or express any point of view at all at any point. And I knew that everything would be fine if I just walked on the convention floor and

blended in with the crowd. In fact, you can see here in the footage that I'm not causing any trouble. I'm just not talking to anyone. I'm not creating a scene. I'm walking around, sitting, listening, applauding. Everything was fine. Everything was going well. But then as I was venturing around and taking in the sights, I may have accidentally, entirely unintentionally, through no fault of my own, stumbled right into the middle of a CNN interview with Senator Chuck Schumer. Watch.

What's your response when Trump takes credit on that?

Trump takes credit for so many things he doesn't do and gets the blame for a lot of things he does do. He's lost his bearings, as we can see, day by day. Senator Chuck Schumer, I know you've got a lot to do on the convention floor. Thank you for taking the time to talk to us. Anderson, back to you. Thanks very much, Scott. I interrupted you. So I know you might see me walking in the direction of the live shot, plotting right through it, staring at the camera, then turning around and walking back in the same direction and turning around and walking backwards.

through the shot again for a third time. And you see that and you think that this was some ridiculous, immature, intentional attempt to photobomb Chuck Schumer. And frankly, I'm offended by the mere suggestion. First of all, I'm in the media. I'm a professional, okay? I would never photobomb anyone. Second, once again, I'm there to learn. Third, I've never been on the convention floor before. I didn't know where I was. I was confused. I didn't know where to go, okay? So that was happening there. Now, regardless, this clip made its way to Twitter. And I

Next thing you know, other people on the convention floor were taking pictures and posting angrily about my presence. A reporter from Bulwark approached and asked if I was Matt Walsh. And he recounts this exchange in an article on the site, quote,

Walsh regularly dons a similar disguise to film gotcha moments for his documentaries lampooning progressives. For that reason, it wasn't difficult to recognize him even on the crowded convention floor. I asked him if he was Matt Walsh. No, I'm not, he said after a wide-eyed look. When I followed up with, I know it's you, he replied, that man is dead. I'm a new man now. Now, I can confirm that that is an accurate quote. And it was true. I was a new man. The security guard told me not to go back to my old ways, to change myself, to be transformed.

He didn't say that exactly, but that was his point, right? That's what he was trying to say. And so I took it to heart. Nonetheless, next thing you know, I was trending on Twitter on a night that was supposed to be Michelle and Barack's big night, which is really embarrassing for me. And lots of angry tweets were posted like this one. Fam, Matt Walsh is at the Dem convention posing as a delegate. Do not talk to him. Call him out. Tell security if you can. Please reshare to spread the word. Hate monger, fake, loser.

Now, there were hundreds of other tweets along these lines, and the Democrats were frantically warning each other about me. They were on the lookout. My man bun was suddenly like the dorsal fin in Jaws. I was the monster from the deep, swimming through the crowd of people. And they were on edge. They were nervous. They were very unhappy to have me there. And the outrage continued on social media long into the night, well after the event had concluded for the evening. And I have to tell you that I don't usually get this vulnerable on the show, but

I left that night feeling defeated. All I wanted to do was learn and evolve and become a better ally. I didn't want any attention. It's the last thing that I wanted. And I didn't want to cause any problems. Again, I certainly didn't want to draw attention to myself, or least of all my movie, Am I Racist, premiering September 13th. Tickets on sale at amiracist.com. So I didn't sleep much that night. I was tossing and turning, struggling with feelings of rejection.

Would I ever be accepted as an ally? Would these people ever welcome me into their fold? That's what I was asking myself. Well, the next morning, I knew what I had to do. I'd already been kicked out and banned from the premises once. I'd been caught accidentally on national TV. I was trending. People were angry. They didn't want me there. That was clear. And I was going to respect that. I was not going to go back to the convention. So...

Instead, my whole team went back and they dressed in Kamala Harris gear, got new wristbands because the old ones have been confiscated by security, and spent the afternoon handing out hundreds of flyers to the people at the convention. I knew that I couldn't be there in person, but I still needed to get the message out. That's how committed I was. I needed to warn the convention attendees about the radical Project 2025 agenda.

They might not welcome me, but I still care about them. I am concerned for their safety. So I had to let them know the truth about Project 2025 one way or another. Now, I have been able to hand out a bunch of the cards myself, as you can see here the day before. But I wanted my team to pass out hundreds more. I said, go and get these circulate hundreds of get them, get them circulating all throughout the entire convention. Get a card in every person's hand. That's how important this is.

And the cards all had a simple message, which was visit project2025.com to learn the truth about Trump's radical plans for America. In fact, one of my producers, Ben, who also appears in the movie, Am I Racist? premiering September 13th, had a chance to give a card to Don Lemon and was even interviewed about the website by Don. Watch.

Now, I want you all to go to Project2025.com yourself to read all of this important information. But for your edification, I'll tell you what's on the site. And you can see it here. It's beautifully designed. This is cutting-edge graphic design. The most beautiful website ever.

that you'd ever find in 1997. And right in the middle of the page is a trailer for my new film, Am I Racist?, premiering September 13th. From there, you can click a link to find out about our next meeting, which takes you to a page to buy tickets for the film. If you click where it says, make a DEI for INS, it will also take you to a page to buy tickets. Most of the links actually just take you to a page to buy tickets. Although, if you click the audio link on the site, it takes you here.

Sorry, I don't know what that was. That's some sort of mistake. That's a technical. That's supposed to also be a page to buy tickets. I don't know why that's there. Anyway, you get the idea. It's all there, and it all promotes my movie. And you might argue that this has nothing to do with Project 2025. But I would disagree, because the best way to fight Project 2025, whatever the hell it is,

is to see my movie, Am I Racist? premiering September 13th. So my journey at the DNC may have been rough at certain points. There were some speed bumps along the way, as there always is when you're learning. But in the end, I think we all came to understand each other. We grew together, we became better people. And now I know one simple truth, and it's the same truth that everyone at the DNC now knows too.

that Am I Racist premieres September 13th and tickets are on sale at miracist.com or project2025.com. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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Josh Shapiro during his speech last night watch will we be a nation defined by chaos and extremism or will we choose a path of decency honor and continued progress Kamala Harris while she has spent her entire career making progress

Donald Trump, a man with no guardrails, wants to take away our rights and our freedoms. And listen, while he cloaks himself in the blanket of freedom, what he's offering isn't freedom at all. Because hear me on this, it's not freedom to tell our children what books they're allowed to read. No, it's not.

And it's not freedom to tell women what they can do with their bodies. And hear me on this, it sure as hell isn't freedom to say you can go vote, but he gets to pick the winner. That's not freedom. But you know what? You know what, Democrats? We are the party of real freedom. Hear me on this. Hear me on this.

Kamala Harris does the same thing now. She picked up the same, hear me now, hear me on this. It really is creepy how Democrats simultaneously pick up certain words and phrases all at once and use it incessantly. And that seems to be one example. Of course, the most prominent example is the weird thing. All at once, they all started running around calling everything weird. And they all use that word now. I mean, all of them.

Anything that they don't agree with is automatically weird. A month ago, none of them use that word in a pejorative way. And now they all do all the time. And that level of programming, it's just disturbing. I mean, it's, in fact, there was a booth at the, just to show you like how far this goes. They had this in merch. The weird, like the weird branding is part of their merch at the DNC. There was a booth that was selling stickers that said so weird merch.

And it didn't even make any sense. Like, it's a sticker. Are you using that sticker to accuse other people of being weird? I assume you're getting the sticker and putting it somewhere on your clothing or on your apparel somewhere. So are you calling yourself weird? Or has weird gone back to being a good thing again? I don't know. And the programming switch can happen at any time. That's not really the point. The point from that clip is Josh Shapiro's examples of freedom—speaking of weird—

And he says it's not freedom to tell our children what books they're allowed to read. Now, as you know, this is in reality, Josh Shapiro defending gay pornography in schools. Because what he's directly referring to is the attempt by Republicans to get gay porn out of schools. And so that means that this creep wants gay pornography in schools. That's what he's saying. And also, everyone in the crowd knows that also. So they are explicitly, very directly, intentionally,

applauding gay pornography in schools. That's an applaud line now at the DNC. And when he says we don't have freedom unless children have access to, really, we don't have freedom if children don't have access to sexually explicit material, especially homosexual material in school. That's what this degenerate is saying. But let's even if we can,

Put that to the side. I mean, it's hard to do because if you are someone who believes that gay porn should be in the schools, you should be on a watch list somewhere. You should be on the sex offender registry. You should not be a governor of a state. I wouldn't let my kids around you. It's not safe to have children around you if that is your opinion. Let's try to put that to the side and ignore the fact that he's defending gay porn in schools. And let's just take the statement at face value.

It's not freedom to tell our children what books they're allowed to read. What? I mean, do you not tell your children what books they can read? Would you allow your children to read any book they want? Okay, if your eight-year-old picks up Fifty Shades of Grey, are you going to let them read it? If you would let them read it, then you're guilty of parental neglect at a minimum. If you aren't letting them, then what, you hate freedom? Children...

Don't have absolute freedom or anything close to it I mean adults don't have absolute freedom either but children have even less We tell our children what to do where to go what not to do where not to go what to say what not to say This is called parenting. Hey Josh. Do you let your kids cuss in your house? Would you let them go around cussing so you hate freedom? It's not freedom to tell a child what he's not allowed to say. Is that your position you moron?

I don't even know if Josh Shapiro has kids, I hope he doesn't. Given his position on giving gay pornography to kids, I hope he doesn't have kids. I'm worried for his kids in that case. But if he does, do they have total freedom in your home? They can just do whatever they want? Or do you have rules, strict rules about here's what you can say, here's what you can't say. Here's behavior that's allowed, here's what's not allowed. If you break those rules, here are the punishments. So talking about freedom like it's an absolute,

People should just have the ability to literally do whatever they want all the time. Talking about it in that way is asinine because nobody actually believes in that. Talking about it with kids is even more asinine. And I'm saying all this because I'm sort of like assuming maybe naively that it's self-evidently absurd to everyone that you don't give your kids total freedom to do whatever they want.

But then I also realized that for a lot of these leftists, they are horrible parents and they probably essentially do allow their kids to do everything they want, which is why their kids grow up to be horrible people. All right, Oprah also spoke last night and during the speech she revealed something very painful and powerful, which is that she too is a victim. From the redwood forest, love those redwoods, to the Gulf Stream waters.

I've seen racism and sexism and income inequality and division. I've not only seen it at times, I've been on the receiving end of it. Now, Oprah is worth $3 billion, just so you know. She's one of the richest people in the country. And her story, her story is actually inspirational. She was born to, I think, an unmarried mother who was a maid. And her father was a coal miner or something like that. And

She was raised in poverty. She went on to become one of the richest people in the country as a black woman. And that kind of thing is just not possible anywhere else in the world. It is definitive proof of a lot of things and mainly that there isn't any kind of conspiracy keeping racial minorities down. Because if there was, if we lived in not only an anti-black racist culture, but even a misogynistic, sexist, patriarchal culture or whatever, it's

patriarchal in the pejorative way that they mean it. If that was the case, then being black, a woman, and poor would mean definitely that you could never be anything but poor. It would be impossible to make it all the way to the heights that Oprah has made it. And it's not even like she just made some good investments or something and became a billionaire. I mean, she has made a lot of investments, but what got her to that

her way to becoming one of the richest people in the country is as a media personality. Because she was so appealing and resonated so much with so many people in the country, in this supposedly racist country of ours. But rather than celebrate that fact and be grateful for it, Oprah goes on about how America is racist and sexist, of course. But that was not the worst part of her speech by a mile. The worst part was this, listen. Over the last couple of nights,

We have all seen brave people walk onto this stage and share their most private pain. Amanda and Josh, Caitlin, Hadley, they told us their stories of rape and incest and near-death experiences from having the state deny them the abortion that their doctor explained was medically necessary.

And they've told us these things for one reason, and that is to keep what happened to them from happening to anybody else. Because if you do not have autonomy over this, over this, if you cannot control when and how you choose to bring your children into this world and how they are raised and supported, there is no American dream. Now, really listen to what she's saying there. Listen to it and think about what she's saying.

She's saying the American dream is dead if you can't kill your child. The murder of children is what keeps the American dream alive. I mean, this is pure savagery. This is like the Aztecs making human sacrifices to appease the God. This is Aztec levels of barbarism. It is unthinkably, inconceivably evil. And it's coming from one of the most mainstream voices in the country. Probably the mainstream voice in the country is what this is coming from.

And, you know, she says that you should choose how and when to bring your children into the world. I totally agree. But once you're, once you have conceived of them, they're already in the world. An unborn child is in the world. Where else would he be? He's not on Jupiter. He's not hanging out on Pluto somewhere. He doesn't exist in some kind of alternate dimension. He isn't a fictional character. He's in the world. He's on earth, right? So he's in the world already. Um,

And also, of course, abortion has nothing to do with bodily autonomy. The question is not whether you can control your own body. It's whether you should be able to exercise absolute total control over the body of your child, even to the point of destroying your child's body and ending his life intentionally. That is the question. And anyone who says that

Well, yes, the answer is yes to that because that's all under the purview of the woman's bodily autonomy because the child is entirely dependent on the mother for survival. Well, that's a problem because children continue to be entirely dependent on their mother for survival for months, if not years, after they're born. So if you can claim bodily autonomy to that extent,

Where if someone depends on you for their survival, you can just kill them. Well, then you've justified abortion after birth. You've justified post-birth abortions well into infancy, but probably until the age of 18, if not longer. Because the fact is that children are entirely dependent on their parents for survival for years and years and years. And that dependency is a claim that

on the parents, every aspect of the parents life to include their body. My children are dependent on me and my wife for survival. And in order for us to keep them alive, that is a claim that they are making on our entire lives. And we live our lives through our bodies. So also our bodies, I have to earn money

To feed my kids and pay for the house and all that kind of stuff. And I do all of that. I'm not some floating mind out in space. I have to go everywhere with my body, like everything I do, right? Just like anybody else. Which means that as a parent, the concept of total bodily autonomy is just, it's meaningless. It doesn't mean anything. What we understand is,

for children, at least once they're born, is that as a parent, you have a responsibility to the child. And you must fulfill that responsibility, no matter how you feel about it. And if you don't fulfill it, then you'll go to jail. If you just decide, I'm not gonna feed my kids anymore because it's a strain on me and I don't wanna do it, and you just don't feed them, you'll go to prison for that. If you were to decide,

It's a strain on me to feed my kids, and so I'm gonna kill them, so I don't have to do it anymore. You're definitely going to prison. And why is that? I mean, even leaving direct murder aside, let's just say that you said, I'm my own person. I have my body, I have my life. No one has a right to it. I shouldn't be told what to do. And so I'm not gonna feed my kids anymore. And I'm not gonna provide a house for them anymore. And then your kids starve to death or die of exposure out in the cold.

You go to jail. Everyone agrees that you should go to jail for that. Why is that? Well, because what we understand is that the fact that that is your child means that you have a responsibility to your child that is unique. You don't have that kind of responsibility to anybody else. If a child down the street tragically dies of starvation or of exposure or of abuse, you don't go to jail for that. Now, if you knew that was happening, you should try to do something about it. But you're not going to go to jail for that.

Sadly, children are malnourished all over the world all the time and you're not criminally liable for any of that. But you are for your own child. And why? Because as a society, we recognize you have a unique, special responsibility to your own child. And that responsibility comes before your ideas about your own rights. You do not have the right to not fulfill that responsibility. We all say that about parents.

And yet we want to carve out this special exception, except, well, but unless they're not born yet, in which case, go ahead and kill them. Makes no sense. It's totally incoherent. It's completely indefensible, logically. It just is not defensible. Now, there was one highlight from Oprah's speech. And if you're listening to the audio podcast, you're going to miss this entirely. But for those watching on video, it's a special moment. Here it is.

To a childless cat lady. That cameraman was ready. He spotted the most childless, most cat lady, childless cat lady in the audience. And as soon as Oprah mentioned it, he was right on her. J.D. Vance is attacking childless cat ladies. Cut to one particular woman in the stands. J.D. Vance out here attacking miserable, lonely, bitter, childless cat lady spinsters. Then that woman shows up.

And then her looking around after it cuts to her, like me, who is it talking about me? It's just, I mean, it's comedic perfection. It really is. The comedic timing of all of that is tremendous. So I really appreciated that.

Let's take a look at this. Daily Wire has this, some good news. Former President Donald Trump's campaign indicated on Tuesday that he'd be making, that he would make performing transgender surgeries on minors without parental consent a felony. The promise appeared in Trump's prepared remarks for his Tuesday rally at the Livingston County Sheriff's Department in Howell, Michigan. Excerpts of his prepared remarks were released by his campaign ahead of the event. Trump's remarks said, and to protect our children from sexual mutilation, we will make it a felony for any medical professional to perform surgery on a minor child.

without parental consent. Members of the Trump campaign shared the news about the former president's vow on social media. Big news posted Caroline Leavitt, the campaign's national press secretary. Trump's remarks also said that he would be asking for the death penalty for child rapists and child traffickers. Now, this is good. Certainly, death penalty for child rapists and child traffickers, of course. It's crazy that that isn't already a mandatory sentence for anybody convicted of that crime.

And it's good to pass a law making it a felony to perform these sexual mutilation surgeries on minors without parental consent. But I do have to say, and I know I'll be accused of being nitpicky here, but child mutilation should be illegal without or with parental consent. Actually, the parental consent is irrelevant to the point entirely. It's actually got nothing to do with parental consent.

Sterilizing, butchering, castrating a child, whether you're doing it surgically or medically, is horrifically evil, is never okay, is always going to be one of the worst forms of abuse that you could possibly inflict on a child. And that's the case whether the parents want to do it or not. It doesn't matter if the parent consents to it. And we should also note here that

In the vast majority of cases where this sort of thing is happening to kids, the parents do consent to it. Now, there might be some cases where parents don't consent to it and it happens. But in 99% of cases, when this is happening, the parents are on board with it, tragically on board with it. So if you make that stipulation without parental consent, then it ends up not applying to the vast majority of cases where this is actually happening.

So I would suggest that if Trump wins and we get to the point of actually trying to pass this law to make it a felony, it's not nitpicky. It's very important that we take out the parental consent stipulation. Very important. And because this is not, you might say, well, let's take the small victories when we can get them.

But as I said, it's like this, if you add that stipulation in there, that little caveat, what you've done is you have actually legally protected the vast majority of cases where children are being treated this way. So, and it kind of like, it sort of misses the point that again, parental consent is irrelevant. It doesn't matter whether parents consent to it. Who cares what the parent says?

It's just like anything else, like any other form of abuse. We don't ask whether the parents were okay with it. In many cases of abuse, the parents are directly inflicting it. So they obviously consented to it, but that doesn't mean anything to us. In fact, if anything, it just makes it worse, right? The fact that the parents go along with it, that doesn't make it better, it makes it worse. If a child is viciously abused, it's a terrible, evil thing no matter what. But I think we would all agree that like,

A child at a daycare center who is abused at a daycare center, physically abused in some way at a daycare center without the parent's knowledge. It's a terrible, awful, evil thing. Is it better because the parent wasn't involved? If the parent is inflicting that abuse, that makes it even more evil because you're the parent. You're supposed to be protecting your child. You should be the last one inflicting any harm on the child.

So I don't think we should carve out these exceptions at all. And not only should we not carve out the exception, but it's a felony to do this to a kid. It should be great. Who are we charging with a felony? I would say if this procedure is performed on a child, you charge the so-called medical professionals who did it. You also charge the parents. You charge if...

If this is a situation where divorced parents and one parent is against it, doesn't want it to happen, you don't charge that parent. If both parents, whatever parents are going along with it, are facilitating this, are bringing the kid to the hospital to have this abuse inflicted on him, those parents should be charged with a felony and should go to prison for it. So I think that's a very important stipulation. You guys have to see me light this thing so you know that

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If Am I Racist is playing at a theater near you, head to amiracist.com and buy your advance tickets today. Let's get this movie into every theater across the country by September 13th. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. After the third night of the DNC, it's now clear that Democrats aren't interested in talking about policy, probably because they know that price controls and higher taxes aren't particularly popular.

So they spent most of their time talking about things like skin color and gender instead. They've gone all in on identity politics. And if that wasn't clear enough, after the racially segregated conferences that opened the convention, it became pretty self-evident around the fifth time that Oprah got a standing ovation last night for announcing that Kamala Harris would be our first black woman president.

The message was as superficial as possible, and Democrats repeated it often. We were expecting all that, you know, going into the DNC. Anyone who's paid any attention to the Democrat Party over the last few decades could have seen that coming. But even given those extremely low expectations, there was still no way to predict just how superficial and inane things would get when it came time for Democrats to attempt an appeal to a demographic group that they've demonized at every opportunity. And that would be rural voters who are mostly white.

As much as Democrats would rather not have to appeal to these voters, the fact is they simply can't ignore them. Something like a quarter of Pennsylvania's residents live in a rural county, for example, and states like Pennsylvania will probably decide the election. So how did Democrats, the party of superficial identity politics, make their pitch to these voters that they clearly disdain? How do Democrats pretend to respect these voters and understand their values and their political views? Well, I hope you're sitting down because this is pretty tremendous stuff.

To great fanfare, Democrats rolled out a camo hat on their official merch store. And then Kamala Harris's stepdaughter put it on. So here's the hat in all its glory. Look at that. And if you're a voter out in the country right now, you're swept off your feet by this. You can't believe it. That's it. So take a good long look at that. That's the Democrats' grand plan to reach out and connect with country folk. And predictably, the media was absolutely floored by this. They think it's the single most brilliant strategic move

Of the entire convention, maybe of our political lives. Now that you can buy a camo hat on the DNC's website, there's just no way that rural voters will ever consider voting for Donald Trump. Here's Rolling Stone to explain, quote, the cherry on top appeared in the form of a Harris Walls camouflage baseball hat released a few weeks ago. It sold out instantly.

It's country artists like Jason Aldean who appeared at the Republican National Convention and engages in the working man sport of country club golf with former President Trump, who liked to own this sort of symbolism. His 2019 album, Nine, even contained a song called Camouflage Hat. That's the genius work of this one small bit of Harris Wall's merch. The hat reclaims the rural and southern identity that mainstream Democrats have long ignored.

all with the power of one nifty little cap. Ella Emhoff proudly wore hers last night, while Walls displayed his own, also camouflaged, Jason Isbell hat backstage. Yes, selling a camo hat is a stroke of, quote, genius. Rolling Stone thinks this is the key to winning back the hearts and minds of rural voters. As if folks out in the country are, you know, like sitting around saying to each other, wow, did you see Kamala Harris's stepdaughter with that camo hat?

She totally gets us. We should vote for her. Now, it's tempting to think that this is an insult of some kind or some kind of in-joke. But again, Democrats need royal voters to win the White House. They can't really afford to antagonize them just flagrantly. So it stands to reason that this is indeed the kind of thing that they believe that these kind of voters will love. That's why the corporate press is trying to sell this message so desperately.

This is how superficial Democrats have become as a party. This is what end-stage identity politics looks like. Now, to be fair, as Rolling Stone eagerly pointed out, the hat was accompanied by some other ways to appeal to these voters. And in this case, it was a couple of singers who opened the DNC, Jason Isbell and Mickey Guyton.

Quoting from Rolling Stone, "It's hard not to feel like this is a new understanding from the DNC, that liberals aren't just listening to streaming pop hits and that Southern folks, Appalachian residents and small town people in general who listen to country and roots music often believe in things like basic human rights too. It seems like the Democrats are intent on further filling that messaging gap when it came to the musical choices of Guyton and Isbell. There's a significance to picking these two."

Yes, rural voters love Jason Isbell and Mickey Guyton, as we all know. In particular, these voters are notoriously fond of Isbell's song, White Man's World, which includes this line. Of course.

When they're not rocking out to that land acknowledgement posing as a song, rural voters are enjoying Mickey Guyton's song Black Like Me, which features lines like this one. If you think we live in the land of the free, you should try to be black like me. Now to Democrats, these songs and a camo hat are all you need to lock up this vote. Rural voters love to be lectured about how racist they are while they're wearing their camo hat. This is unironically what the Kamala Harris campaign believes.

As Rolling Stone put it, quote, somehow it's the Democrats who are the ones pushing beyond stereotype and finally getting it. Now, as with everything else from these people, it's just total projection. From its inception, Kamala Harris's campaign has advanced one stereotype about these voters after another. And that has continued through the DNC. Last night in a 17-minute speech, Tim Walz managed to once again attack J.D. Vance for attending Yale.

Because apparently that's something that, I don't know, small town voters are incapable of doing. And this is an attack line that we've heard again and again from Tim Walz in particular. Listen to this. Look, folks, in the heartland and in Nebraska and in Minnesota, we don't need a Yale educated philosophy major backed by billionaire venture capitalists to tell us who we are. We know who we are. We know who our neighbors are.

That angst that J.D. Vance talks about in Hillbilly Elegy, none of my hillbilly cousins went to Yale and none of them went on to be venture capitalists or whatever. It's not who people really are. I had 24 kids in my high school class and none of them went to Yale. OK, so going to Ivy League is bad now. Just make sure to fill that in. That's that's that's the latest update. That's the latest update to the Democrat programming is that suddenly going to Ivy League is bad.

Means you're out of touch. I mean, I'll take that deal. Fine, okay. If we were gonna apply it across the board, which of course we're not. So Tim Walls, who joined a Harvard-affiliated teaching program during one of his dozens of trips to China, because that's something that folks out in the country, they're taking trips to China all the time. Go to the heartland. Go to a small town in the heartland and ask the people there about how many trips to China have they taken?

They'll all say like at least 10. But anyway, this is the guy who's attacking JD Vance for growing up poor, then working his way into a competitive school and getting a well paying job. That's an attack line now. This guy started out poor and then became successful. What's up with that folks? The folks that I know back home, none of them, they would never dream of being successful.

Because that's not something that rural voters are supposed to do, according to the Kamala Harris campaign. They're supposed to put on their camo hats and listen to music about how they're white supremacists instead. This is apparently Democrats' plan for winning the votes of millions of these voters all across the country, including critical swing states. According to our bettors in the media, this strategy is what genius looks like.

But in reality, it's the inevitable result of identity politics brain rots. It's the result of leftists coming to really believe that everyone is as superficial and patronizing as they are. And I think there's a very good chance that it will backfire in November. And until then, Kamala Harris's plan to lock up the rural vote with a camo hat and everybody in the media who thinks that this hat is somehow a stroke of genius are all today canceled.

That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.

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