Tag: Matt Walsh

I mean… yeah

I must say, though so much else is falling apart around us, the particular falling apart of right-wing media of late has been kind of pleasing to watch. Most recently we’ve had the quite peculiar spectacle of Alex Jones challenging Tim Pool to a boxing match, and we’ve also had Ben Shapiro turning on Tucker Carlson, and the whole bullshit with Candace Owens has been unto itself for a while now. It’s been great watching these shitheads carry on almost like leftists.

But Benji Bear versus Malsh Walsh is an interesting new wrinkle, cos the latter is still part of the former’s Daily Wire setup; this isn’t rival organisations going at each other, this is some internecine shit. Per the video by Rashad Crenshaw, Malsh went on the socials raving about postpartum depression not being a thing and Shapiro hit back on his own show basically saying “actually it IS a thing and fuck anyone who says otherwise”. And, you know, this is kind of inherently funny coming from Ben after the “wet-ass p-word” debacle, from a man who apparently believes that a woman getting wet Down There is actually a bad thing, but at the same time this is, frankly, Ben Shapiro acknowledging women do suffer from something Malsh Walsh refuses to believe in because Wammen, Am I Right?, and let’s acknowledge that’s good.

Walsh, of course, is possibly the most revolting specimen to still be publishing under Shapiro’s banner, and one of the most hate-filled on the right in general; there’s another… interesting video here by Youtuber Mickey Atkins in which she covers Malsh going after her specifically while looking at a broader rant about people going “no contact” with their parents, because, obviously, how DARE people set boundaries and so forth, and the mental health industry hasn’t developed anything new in over a century except make families break up, and HEY I’m Malsh Walsh and not a licensed professional but I don’t really believe most so-called “abuse” actually is that, and you might be pissy at your folks when you were a child and yeah they had flaws but as an adult you should realise how good they were, not cut them off, etc. The latter point was particularly striking; it felt like a pre-emptive threat to his own numerous children to forgive his own failures as a parent, which I suspect are many and varied, saying “I might be a misogynistic racist cunt but you WILL love me, and I will send you to HELL before I ever send you to therapy, which I could do with even more than you probably will”…

Whither Walsh, therefore? Cos I can’t see him taking this reproach from Shapiro lightly… someone reckons in the comments he’ll go full Nick Fuentes, but Crenshaw in the video says Matty actually can’t afford to go independent cos those numerous children I mentioned aren’t going to feed themselves just yet. I feel, though, like the relationship is tenuous enough that he’s going to go too far right even for Shapiro… Walsh is already an overt racist about black people but a carefully quiet antisemite, and I suspect that sooner rather than later he’ll come out as a loud and explicit one. I can even imagine how it’ll happen: Walsh will add to his filmography with a new “documentary” called Am I Jewish?, and Shapiro will be down with it cos he has, you know, form in answering that question negatively about Jews he dislikes, but then at the end of the film Walsh will declare him the “wrong” sort of Jew for some reason and Ben will be all “FFFFFUUUUUUU GOY BASTARD” and that’ll be that…

O fuckwit, why art thou?

I have no idea if Christopher Nolan’s film of the Odyssey is any good or not (obviously, cos no one’s seen the thing yet) but it’s already pissing off the right people:

Elon Musk is facing backlash after he went on another online crusade against Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated forthcoming film The Odyssey.
Nolan confirmed in a recent interview that Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o will play dual roles as both Helen of Troy and her sister Clytemnestra in his adaptation of Homer’s epic, slated for a July release.
The casting news sparked swarms of racially charged and misogynistic posts directed at the 12 Years a Slave star, with many people pointing out that Helen of Troy was renowned in Greek mythology as the most beautiful woman in the world.
Right-wing commentator Matt Walsh claimed in an unfounded X post that “not one person on the planet actually thinks that Lupita Nyong’o is ‘the most beautiful woman in the world,’” and added, “Christopher Nolan knows that he would be called racist if he gave ‘the most beautiful woman’ role to a white woman. Nolan is technically talented but a coward. Too afraid to do anything that even slightly challenges the spirit of the age.”
Musk, 54, responded to the post by simply saying: “True.”

I do find it a little odd that this article (and, to be sure, others on the theme) picks up on Edolf reposting Malsh Walsh being a racist rather than Malsh himself, but I suppose more people know who Edolf is… they’re also not happy about Elliot Page being in the film, apparently as the ghost of Achilles, because there’s no transgender people in classical mythology so there shouldn’t be any in films about classical myths either… But, obviously the point is that the story of the Odyssey IS a myth, and they’re getting worked up about people who never existed in the first place. Odysseus moves through a literal world of gods and monsters; the Cyclopes, Scylla and Charybdis, the Sirens, the Laestrygonians, Circe transforming his crew into pigs, Calypso, Zeus, Aeolus, Athena, all of that is apparently fine for these shitheads… and instead for them the most unbelievable thing about this film is that a white character—who, again, never existed—could be played by a black woman. I can’t help but feel that if Nolan had cast a brown-eyed white brunette, Malsh and Tim Polio and Edolf and all these other cunts would have no problem with her not matching the traditional description of Helen either…

EDIT Friday afternoon:

The new “normal”

It’s been kind of amusing to see the Democrats leaning recently into the idea that there’s something basically strange about the Republicans… Minnesota governor Tim Walz seems to have kicked it off in a TV interview and the Harris campaign quickly picked up on it:

“Old and quite weird” indeed. The Republicans aren’t particularly happy at being picked on like this:

Is there a Democrat equivalent of this dickhead?

And, to be sure, it’s really not the most refined political argument, but then again the Republicans don’t have much in their armoury either that’s better. “Ron DeSanctimonious” was about as sophisticated as Trump got, and someone probably had to come up with it for him. And, as someone says in that Politico piece, people understand Trump being weird better than they understand “an existential threat to democracy”. The latter is, of course, still correct, but “weird” certainly does hit harder in a way.

And let’s face it, THIS shit IS weird. There isn’t any other way to fairly describe whatever the fuck this is if it’s not meant to be some sort of parody of the cult’s iconography. Cos on the face of it, it’s so deranged it looks like it has to be parodic, and indeed I thought it had to be when I first looked at it when someone posted it on Bluesky. But then I saw Tim Pool’s name at the top of the post. Yes, Grim Fool posted this monstrosity (obviously didn’t create it, though, cos that would’ve required him to have talent). I couldn’t believe that either and thought someone must have photoshopped it… no, they didn’t, I went to Tim’s Twitter and, well, that’s exactly what I found there. And Tim is incapable of irony, so he posted this thing with a straight face. Fuck me dead. These people have no sense of their own absurdity.

I mean, look at this silly old chud here. There was a bunch of people like him at the recent Republican convention at which Drumpf appeared with a frankly unnecessarily large bandage covering his putative war wound from that shooting, whereupon it became like a badge for other people there. This is not normal. Weird is the word. I don’t see John Fetterman’s admirers having strokes as a sign of support for him, for example. And see this fuckwit too:

Well, at least her father probably wasn’t a leader in the fucking Ku Klux Klan, which is rather more than can be said for Rod Dreher’s dad. Also, I wonder if she ever published private pictures from a teenage girl’s private Instagram in a major magazine while accusing said girl unjustly of sexually harrassing other girls at her school, cos Rod DEFINITELY did that. That’s clearly weird behaviour on his part. People with normal moral compasses know better than that.

Obviously the left has been kind of tut-tutty about the “weird” thing, too, like the clown I saw harrumphing on Mastodon the other day about how everyone laughing at the couch-fucking thing distracts us from realising that J. Divans (saw him called that on Twitter today and thought it was FUCKING MARVELLOUS) is in fact a monstrous human being… Jesus FUCK, you idiot, NO ONE who’s paying attention thinks Vance isn’t a piece of shit, we know exactly what he thinks. Piss off with your indignation, let the rest of us laugh at the cunt like he deserves. Make him look stupid. Make him look weird.

But the choice of the term “weird” has also drawn some criticism on the grounds of ableism or something like that, which I understand a little better. By the same token, I also understand the arguments I’ve seen some make that the Left deploying “weird” like this gets in the way of the Right defining themselves as “normality”, and about the distinction between “good weird” and “bad weird”… but the latter does kind of assume people’s willingness to actually make it, and I did see someone (wish I could recall who) say something about how what we should really be calling them isn’t so much weird as creepy…

…and, frankly, Malsh Walsh here makes a good argument for that. Let’s face it: the idea that he expresses here (a girl raped by her father should have to give birth so the father’s crime will be discovered) is not only weird and illogical, it’s FUCKING MONSTROUS. Not only is Walsh full of shit, he’s being actively evil here. And I can see why some are saying we should be emphasising their badness more than their oddness, and frankly that’s a line of thought I’m increasingly coming round to myself…

…and the authors of this astounding bit of work have latched onto that aspect of the whole thing; this is profoundly disquieting, nailing the essential unpleasantness of these people, and it’s one of the best political ads I’ve ever seen. The casting is just brilliant, and the SWEAT… oh gods, the SWEAT. I think the increasing amount of sweat is a good way to finally round this post off.

Matt doesn’t get “getting us”

Malsh Walsh wasn’t happy with that Superbowl ad either:

Now, though I said yesterday I’ve read the NT in full, I admittedly couldn’t have told you exactly where in the Bible the story of Jesus washing his disciples’ feet happened, but I knew that it did, and a very quick search soon pointed me to the gospel of John, chapter 13 thereof:

When he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

I even took that translation specifically from the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition, so a good Catholic like Matt should find it theologically acceptable. Of course, a good Catholic like Matt wouldn’t be calling the foot washing thing “heretical bullshit” cos he would not only know it’s in the Bible, but it’s a particularly Catholic thing:

The point Jesus was trying to make is already spelled out in the Scriptures, and needs little interpretation. We are to serve our neighbors, even if it means we must do things we might not like to do. Even if the work is dirty or hard, or even if we think it beneath us, we must still do our work. After all, Jesus Himself, the Son of God, washed the feet of His disciples. And we are no greater than Jesus, so surely we too should do the same.
In church, the foot washing ceremony is an important call for all people that they too should be willing to serve others. In the Catholic Church, this is called the Holy Thursday Mandatum, and the rite takes place after the homily. Members of the congregation are chosen to sit and have their feet washed by the priest, who plays the role of Christ. One by one, the priest will wash the participant’s feet with a basin and a towel.
Allow us to be explicit in stating the significance of this ceremony. It is a reminder that we are of the Body of Christ and as such, and His followers, we too are called to serve others in a spirit of humility. And we are to do so, even if we do not feel the desire to do so. As Christians, this is our duty.

And, obviously, this is what the self-described (ironically or not) “theocratic fascist” Walsh actually considers heretical bullshit. Fundamentally, Walsh is incapable of living up to that spirit of humility, cos it would require him to accept others, and there’s an awful lot of people out there that Malsh Walsh hates, particularly if you’re gay and even more so if you’re transgender, and he’s had issues with people that are female, non-white, etc. And all the other people who are OK with those people, obviously. I mean… you really don’t have to love or even like everyone on Earth, which I certainly don’t (you may have noticed) and I’m fairly sure no one actually does.

But at its core I think the whole foot-washing story is basically about acknowledging common humanity even with people you don’t necessarily like as such, which I don’t think is a bad thing… insofar as I have a philosophy, it’s that you shouldn’t be an arsehole unnecessarily; you don’t have to like everyone but if they haven’t done anything to warrant you being a prick to them, then don’t do it. Malsh Walsh, obviously, has warranted it several times over, and that makes him fair game, so as long as he insists on doing it, I similarly insist on doing this sort of thing…

Matt Walsh: Massive Wanker

Maybe a BIT harsh, but equally maybe not?

Self-described “theocratic fascist” Malsh Walsh is an appalling human being even by the limited standards of rhe modern American right. For example:

You have to love that sort of hair-splitting terminology-wrangling, whereby it’s technically not pedophilia because the victims are over a certain age, so it’s really hebephilia or ephebophilia, which makes ALL THE DIFFERENCE SOMEHOW. And in any case it’s pooves that are the actual issue. The quality of abuse is indeed strained…

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Matt Walsh is right for once! (sort of)

In the wake of the latest US school shooting, self-described theocratic fascist Matt Walsh actually got it kind of right:

Cherish this stopped-clock moment, for it may never come again

I for one couldn’t agree more. There is a demonic evil in the US, and it’s made up of the NRA, the politicians who’ve sold their souls to them, and America’s general psychotic gun culture… oh, wait, that’s not what Matt meant? Of course not, this is Matt Walsh we’re talking about, a man who hates… well, pretty much everything the Daily Wire will pay him to hate (he had a recent headscratcher of a video about asexuality, which is one of those things that I just don’t understand why some people find so objectionable), but he has a particular hard-on for transphobia. And, by all indications, the shooter this time was a trans person. So when Matt Walsh talks about demonic evil, he’s not talking about the gun that ended the lives of those kids and their teachers, he’s talking about the trans person wielding the gun. An entire piece of shit. I don’t wish death upon people as a rule, but Matt Walsh is on record saying he would rather kill himself than be the parent of a trans child, and frankly I want one of his kids to turn out trans just to see whether or not he carries that out…