The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1309 - Why The Criminal Justice System Gave Up On Punishing Criminals

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, we know that the criminal justice system has basically collapsed and given up on actually punishing crime, but where and why did this collapse begin?

00:00:07.640 We'll talk about a certain document from the DOJ that helps to answer that question, even though most people have never heard about it.

00:00:12.900 Also, the Biden administration is now shutting down Native American museum exhibits for fear that they might be offensive to Native Americans.

00:00:19.480 Jay-Z wins an award at the Grammys and spends his thank you speech complaining and giving horrible life advice.

00:00:24.120 Plus, a racial justice advocate explains why it's racist to expect black people to show up on time.

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00:02:03.780 We've talked a lot on the show about the collapse of the criminal justice system.

00:02:07.440 The very concept of criminal justice, of enacting justice and punishing crime has been destroyed.

00:02:12.800 But very few people ever take the time to trace the roots of our current state of lawlessness back to its origins.

00:02:19.260 And the thing is, you don't need to trace the roots very far.

00:02:22.260 At least, maybe not all the way back to its very origins, because you'd have to go all the way back to the fall of man.

00:02:26.700 But you could go back only a few years and it starts to tell you the story of how we ended up where we are now.

00:02:33.280 There's a reason why we now live in a country governed by people who don't believe in simply enforcing the law and punishing lawbreakers.

00:02:41.100 These are people who are operating according to certain particularly crazy beliefs.

00:02:46.660 And one of those beliefs, as we briefly talked about yesterday, is that deterrence doesn't exist.

00:02:51.880 Effectively, you cannot deter crime by punishing it.

00:02:55.960 That's the insane idea that began in our institutions of higher learning,

00:03:00.900 the sort of insane idea that can only begin in those institutions,

00:03:04.440 and filtered its way down from there, as these ideas always do.

00:03:08.040 Now, it began with the claim first made years ago that the death penalty doesn't deter crime.

00:03:14.300 You're probably familiar with this. You've heard it before.

00:03:16.680 And now, this claim is always false for reasons we'll touch on later.

00:03:19.300 But whatever you think of the death penalty, the implication underlying the deterrence argument

00:03:23.780 was never going to stop at the death penalty.

00:03:26.100 It was always going to go far beyond that.

00:03:28.220 And indeed, we've seen that progression in recent years.

00:03:30.560 It's no longer, well, the death penalty is pointless because people don't consider those consequences when they commit crime.

00:03:35.780 Instead, the argument we're hearing today is all harsh punishment is pointless

00:03:40.220 because people don't consider any consequences when they commit crime.

00:03:44.540 This is the intellectual origin of the soft-on-crime approach to law enforcement

00:03:49.100 that we're seeing in every major American city in the country right now.

00:03:53.160 And several years ago, this approach was adopted by the Obama DOJ without any fanfare whatsoever.

00:03:57.320 In May of 2016, the National Institute of Justice, which is the research arm of the DOJ,

00:04:02.640 published a document entitled Five Things About Deterrence.

00:04:06.440 You've almost certainly never heard of this document,

00:04:08.680 but it is essentially the modern manifesto of the anti-incarceration movement in the United States.

00:04:15.380 It applies the reasoning of anti-death penalty advocates to all forms of crime and to all punishment.

00:04:21.980 So for that reason, it's a truly remarkable document that, even though you haven't heard of, you should.

00:04:28.320 So we're going to go through it today.

00:04:30.960 Here are the five things about deterrence that the memo highlights and then expands upon.

00:04:35.100 Number one, the certainty of being caught is a vastly more powerful deterrent than the punishment.

00:04:41.840 In other words, according to the DOJ,

00:04:44.400 criminals are primarily worried about whether the cops are going to arrest them.

00:04:48.180 They're not worried about how long they're going to have to stay in prison.

00:04:51.020 The only thing they care about is whether or not they're going to get arrested.

00:04:53.860 The question that apparently never occurred to the DOJ is,

00:04:56.960 if the punishments aren't severe, then why would the certainty of being caught deter anyone?

00:05:02.920 Why would criminals care if they're going to be caught if they know ahead of time that they won't be punished?

00:05:07.620 The whole reason that being caught is scary is that you will be punished.

00:05:10.860 But if you aren't going to be punished, then being caught is not a scary prospect anymore.

00:05:15.820 Again, we're seeing this play out in cities across the country.

00:05:18.080 Sure, the criminals are caught sometimes, but it doesn't matter to them because they aren't punished.

00:05:23.440 And they're back on the street a day later committing more crimes.

00:05:26.820 So the argument from the DOJ, which is the very first thing on the memo,

00:05:31.640 all that matters is whether you catch them.

00:05:33.720 It doesn't matter whether you punish them.

00:05:36.460 This is what the DOJ is saying.

00:05:38.300 And it's like saying that home invaders are deterred by guns,

00:05:43.480 but it doesn't matter if it's a Glock or a super soaker.

00:05:47.020 Just as long as it's a gun.

00:05:48.220 That's all that matters. 0.99

00:05:50.360 Will it kill them? 0.98

00:05:51.400 Will it make them a little wet?

00:05:52.420 That doesn't, that's not factored in.

00:05:55.340 It makes no sense.

00:05:57.100 The DOJ's manifesto doesn't bother to expand on this point in any way.

00:06:00.680 It just, it just says, quote, research shows clearly that the chance of being caught is a vastly more effective deterrent than even draconian punishment.

00:06:09.940 So there you have it.

00:06:11.300 Research shows that punishment doesn't work.

00:06:14.800 Research.

00:06:16.020 What kind of research?

00:06:17.220 Well, they don't say, at least not in that paragraph.

00:06:18.960 Buried in the fine print on the page is a citation to an article by a public policy professor named Daniel Nagin at Carnegie Mellon University.

00:06:27.400 Now, this is the primary paper the DOJ relies on, along with a couple of others.

00:06:33.340 Apparently, Nagin has done the research, and he's realized that criminals don't really care about punishment.

00:06:39.480 They only care about being caught.

00:06:41.220 But whether or not they're punished after being caught, they don't care about that.

00:06:45.100 I looked around to see if Nagin actually thinks this, and if so, what his logic is.

00:06:49.820 I came across this clip from many years ago, which I'm going to play primarily because it's kind of hilarious.

00:06:54.640 I want you to watch as a local news team breaks the news that, according to Daniel Nagin's first groundbreaking finding,

00:07:00.640 when you have more police officers, criminals tend to commit less crime.

00:07:05.060 The news station interviews then a couple of random people who say that, you know, that pretty much checks out.

00:07:10.780 This is one of the best examples of research telling us something that's incredibly obvious to a comical degree.

00:07:16.140 But buried in this report, if you listen carefully, is Nagin's second theory, which the DOJ finds so compelling.

00:07:25.000 Watch.

00:07:26.520 Now, that event raises a larger question.

00:07:28.700 Is more police presence a deterrent to people who commit serious crimes?

00:07:32.680 That's what research done by one criminologist in Pennsylvania is suggesting tonight.

00:07:37.440 Jerry Askin is here now with that story.

00:07:39.040 Jerry.

00:07:39.800 Hey, Kim and Calvin.

00:07:40.420 Here is research done by Professor Daniel Nagin.

00:07:42.560 And today at the event for National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, we asked Sheriff Hemming and many others about the research.

00:07:49.580 Carnegie Mellon University professor Daniel Nagin is convinced of his findings that better police presence will reduce crime.

00:07:56.340 If the police are properly deployed, that their presence can have a very substantial deterrent effect.

00:08:06.100 In other words, stopping crimes before they happen is more effective than the threat of a lot of prison time.

00:08:11.840 There's little evidence that making punishments even more severe than they already are has an incremental deterrent effect.

00:08:19.300 Ron Powell is a pastor at a church on Dotson Avenue, and he agrees with the research.

00:08:24.020 Because when police are close by, they are less likely to commit any crimes.

00:08:29.180 Most crimes are done undercover.

00:08:30.600 The city of Chattanooga, it's growing its budget to bring in at least 40 more officers by next spring or summer.

00:08:37.120 They must first finish their academy and field training before hitting the streets.

00:08:41.980 Ebony Moore is ready to see more officers and believes it will deter criminals. 0.99

00:08:46.360 Yeah, they would definitely be more fearful.

00:08:47.840 They would know, they would be more aware of their surroundings and more aware of everything they're doing.

00:08:52.280 And if I had a police officer on every block, you're going to find it safer than if I had none.

00:08:56.880 So the reporter holds up the stack of papers.

00:08:59.560 Here's the research.

00:09:00.620 It shows that more police means less crime.

00:09:03.560 And then you cut to two local residents and the sheriff who say, yeah.

00:09:07.640 Yeah, you think?

00:09:09.040 Apparently, being a professor at Carnegie Mellon, I guess, isn't what it used to be.

00:09:13.480 Random people off the street think that your research is incredibly obvious, because it is.

00:09:17.840 But, you know, they still get the big research grants and everything to go and compile all this paperwork telling us what everybody already knows.

00:09:23.820 But the key part of that segment, for our purposes, is what Daniel Nagin says in the clip.

00:09:28.160 He reports that, quote, there's little evidence that making punishments even more severe than they already are has an incremental effect.

00:09:35.680 Right away, that's actually a different argument from the one that DOJ is making.

00:09:39.360 The DOJ said flat out that, quote, draconian punishments don't deter crime.

00:09:43.300 But the argument that this Carnegie Mellon professor is advancing in that clip is that if you make our existing punishments more severe, then they won't deter crime all that much additionally, which are really two different arguments.

00:09:57.180 And this little inconsistency confused me enough to look up Nagin's actual paper, the one the DOJ cites in its manifesto on deterrence.

00:10:04.220 And in that article, you'll find two claims.

00:10:07.920 The first one is the idea he outlines in the video clip that, quote, there's little evidence that increases in the length of the already long prison sentences yield general deterrence effects that are sufficiently large to justify their social and economic costs.

00:10:20.320 In other words, he's saying that existing prison sentences are a sufficient deterrent and we don't need to make them longer.

00:10:26.600 But afterwards in the paper, Nagin goes on and says pretty much what the DOJ claims.

00:10:30.360 He says, quote, I have concluded there is little evidence of a specific deterrent effect arising from the experience of imprisonment compared with the experience of non-custodial sanctions such as probation.

00:10:40.560 It's clear that lengthy prison sentences cannot be justified on a deterrence-based crime prevention basis.

00:10:48.320 Now, those claims don't follow at all.

00:10:50.000 His starting point is that we don't need to make prison sentences longer.

00:10:53.020 And somehow, without showing his work, he ends up with a declaration that criminals don't really care about their punishments and whether they're apprehended, as though apprehension without punishment matters to anyone.

00:11:04.640 So we might as well just sentence everyone to probation.

00:11:07.660 Like, that's what he's saying.

00:11:08.520 It doesn't make a difference whether you give them probation or you send them to prison.

00:11:12.020 It's going to have the same effect. 0.99

00:11:14.800 The technical term for this kind of argument from an academic perspective is that it's garbage.

00:11:19.400 It's a clearly absurd claim, but it's the basis for the DOJ's entire argument against deterrence.

00:11:28.020 This is the document that the DOJ cites to justify its policy of releasing as many criminals as possible, or at least criminals who share the DOJ's politics.

00:11:35.780 You know, those are the ones that they tend to prefer.

00:11:39.360 So it's hard to overemphasize just how truly bizarre and incredible this is, but it gets weirder.

00:11:44.340 So, citing Nagin's research, the DOJ goes on to claim that, quote,

00:11:49.200 sending an individual convicted of a crime to prison isn't a very effective way to deter crime.

00:11:54.900 Again, that's a direct quote from a document produced by the DOJ in 2016.

00:12:00.040 Sending an individual convicted of a crime to prison isn't a very effective way to deter crime.

00:12:05.920 And they're saying that because some random Carnegie Mellon professor wrote it down a few years earlier.

00:12:10.800 Again, they don't really clarify this point.

00:12:14.480 Here's the extent of the DOJ's explanation to a point that's like, should be shocking coming from the DOJ.

00:12:20.820 Prison doesn't deter crime at all?

00:12:22.980 Like, prisons are pointless?

00:12:25.860 Quote,

00:12:26.220 Now, if this is true, it's an argument for giving out even longer sentences, not shorter ones.

00:12:50.440 In fact, this is a solid reason to be much more generous in handing out life sentences.

00:12:55.460 Because if you give a life sentence and actually make it a life sentence,

00:12:59.000 meaning that the person isn't released after 25 years or whatever, but they're really there for the rest of their lives,

00:13:04.080 then the deterrence issue, at least for that individual, is a moot point.

00:13:08.480 He's gone.

00:13:09.380 He's off the street for good.

00:13:11.160 But the DOJ doesn't mention this possibility in the memo at all.

00:13:14.140 They don't mention that, well, you could just do that.

00:13:16.960 Instead, they go the opposite way.

00:13:18.020 They conclude that we should let people out of jail sooner.

00:13:22.040 Like, after just telling us that jail only makes criminals more dangerous,

00:13:25.220 well, we should just have the sentences be shorter.

00:13:28.260 The rest of the DOJ document continues along these lines.

00:13:30.920 The third bullet point in the DOJ's document says, quote,

00:13:34.200 Police deter crime by increasing the perception that criminals will be caught and punished.

00:13:38.560 This was the earth-shattering revelation that shocked those news reporters.

00:13:42.420 Number four, increasing the severity of punishment does little to deter crime.

00:13:46.140 And number five, there's no proof that the death penalty deters criminals.

00:13:50.580 Now, those latter two bullet points contradict everything we know about the human condition.

00:13:55.700 Obviously, longer, harsher prison sentences deter more crime.

00:14:00.200 This is a basic fact of human psychology.

00:14:03.180 People are less likely to do something if the consequences are very bad.

00:14:09.700 And the worse the consequences are, the less likely they are to do them.

00:14:13.720 Now, that doesn't mean that nobody will do the bad thing.

00:14:17.140 It doesn't mean that everybody will respond to incentives like a rational person.

00:14:21.020 It just means fewer people will do it.

00:14:23.960 And it's impossible for a reasonable person to deny this because it is, again, a basic fact of human behavior.

00:14:29.800 Well-established over the course of thousands of years of human civilization.

00:14:33.360 In fact, it may be one of the best established facts of human behavior.

00:14:38.080 That's why they have no way of disproving it.

00:14:40.860 All they have are a bunch of, you know, some random studies done by quack sociologists or whatever,

00:14:45.100 which are supposed to outweigh the collective experience of all mankind for the past 10,000 years.

00:14:52.280 And by the way, these random studies contradict the random studies I cited earlier,

00:14:55.840 the one that CBS News reported back in 2007.

00:14:59.240 And that's a cue that it's a good idea to ignore all these studies and just use common sense.

00:15:04.300 The DOJ is stacking a handful of research papers against the totality of human experience.

00:15:11.520 And they expect us to believe the research papers instead.

00:15:15.380 Which is also how they come up with the ridiculous proposition that the death penalty doesn't deter crime.

00:15:21.560 And this is something that people have cited and said this as fact for years now. 0.97

00:15:27.560 And it's completely ridiculous. 0.99

00:15:29.400 Obviously, people are less likely to do something if you kill them for doing it. 0.95

00:15:36.160 Like the idea that that's going to have no impact on whether people do it. 0.99

00:15:40.760 But you can kill them for doing it or not killing it. 0.85

00:15:42.780 And the rate of that thing being done will stay the same. 1.00

00:15:46.920 It's insane. 0.81

00:15:48.640 It's like psychotic.

00:15:50.840 But people just say this like it's a fact.

00:15:52.960 Now, if the death penalty in its current form is less effective as a deterrence than it has been in the past,

00:16:02.100 which isn't to say that it's not a deterrence at all,

00:16:04.720 that's only because we put so much time in between conviction and punishment

00:16:09.100 so that the punishment loses a lot of its societal impact, though not all of it.

00:16:15.660 And again, the DOJ's arguments are all assuming that deterrence is somehow the only relevant goal.

00:16:20.300 But long prison sentences have another important goal, which is incapacitation.

00:16:26.680 You know, they remove the violent criminal from the public so they can't hurt anybody else.

00:16:31.620 Later on in the document, the DOJ does briefly touch on that goal, the goal of incapacitation.

00:16:36.740 And here's what they say.

00:16:37.360 Quote,

00:16:37.500 This is how the DOJ views criminal justice.

00:17:02.160 They actually say that sending criminals to prison for a long time might be pointless

00:17:07.880 because they'll grow out of being criminals anyway.

00:17:12.600 They'll grow out of it.

00:17:14.280 You know, the carjackers and murderers and armed robbers, they'll grow out of it.

00:17:17.860 It's just a phase.

00:17:18.440 It's a phase.

00:17:19.160 Just a phase.

00:17:20.500 Boys will be boys.

00:17:21.280 This is the type of thinking that is directing the Justice Department from the very top.

00:17:28.460 Directing the justice system from the very top.

00:17:31.260 And the mental rot goes all the way down from there.

00:17:34.420 But the DOJ does make one point that makes sense, which is that it's impossible to say

00:17:38.860 which criminals are likely to reoffend and which criminals are likely to age out,

00:17:43.220 quote, unquote, of a life of crime.

00:17:44.400 That's true.

00:17:45.500 Really, it's impossible to conduct a fully accurate study of deterrence.

00:17:49.200 Like, there's no way to fully quantify the number of people who would have committed a crime

00:17:56.500 had the punishments been softer, or the number who did commit one because the punishments were too soft.

00:18:03.060 Like, this would require not only self-reported data, which is notoriously unreliable,

00:18:07.080 but also a person's speculation about their theoretical mental states in some other possible universe.

00:18:15.520 There's just no way to compile that into a statistic and call it science.

00:18:19.200 So we ultimately have to fall back on the whole history of human society and our own basic common-sense intuition

00:18:28.320 about how human beings operate and what sort of things incentivize and disincentivize them.

00:18:34.820 And all of that points back to a simple and straightforward conclusion.

00:18:38.600 If you want less crime, you have one choice.

00:18:43.760 It's the choice that academics and, quote, unquote, public health experts and politicians

00:18:47.760 have avoided making for decades now.

00:18:50.180 You have to punish criminals, and you have to punish them severely.

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00:19:54.280 Here's a story that caught my attention from the post-millennial and reading now of the article.

00:20:02.320 The Biden administration has issued new federal regulations that mandate museums to get consent

00:20:08.500 from Native American groups before displaying or performing research on cultural items.

00:20:14.500 The New York Times reports that the rule is part of the National Park Service new regulations

00:20:18.260 for the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act and provide a step-by-step roadmap with specific timelines

00:20:24.460 for museums and federal agencies to facilitate disposition or repatriation.

00:20:29.420 These regulations have caused the Museum of Natural History, founded by President Teddy Roosevelt,

00:20:33.280 to close two major exhibit halls that house Native American artifacts and objects on the eastern woodlands

00:20:39.620 and the Great Plains.

00:20:40.560 The new rules offer systematic processes through which museums and federal agencies must defer

00:20:47.760 to the Native American traditional knowledge of lineal descendants, Indian tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations.

00:20:54.900 This went into effect on January 12th.

00:20:57.360 In taking the drastic action, Museum President Sean Decatur sent a letter to staff explaining

00:21:04.440 why that research and information would no longer be available to museum visitors.

00:21:08.480 The halls we're closing are artifacts of an era when museums such as ours did not respect the values, perspectives,

00:21:15.780 and indeed shared humanity of indigenous peoples.

00:21:19.160 Actions that may feel sudden to some may seem long overdue to others.

00:21:23.840 10,000 feet of exhibition space will be closed to the public because of this plan to stop showing Native American art

00:21:29.900 and artifact out of concern that sharing the history of Native Americans would be offensive to Native Americans.

00:21:34.940 Decatur said that some objects may never come back on display, but he said that others may after they get clearance

00:21:42.360 from the Native Americans or whatever.

00:21:46.060 Let's just track this.

00:21:47.960 Let's go through the timeline here, okay?

00:21:50.420 It began with the mascots, right?

00:21:52.960 We're told that we can't use Native American imagery or mascots or references or names or whatever for sports teams

00:21:59.900 because that's offensive to Native Americans somehow.

00:22:03.220 We need their permission, right?

00:22:04.540 We need their permission to have mascots that have something to do with Native Americans.

00:22:09.880 Now, we still have not applied that to anybody else.

00:22:13.100 Nobody's asked for my permission as a person of Irish descent for Notre Dame to continue calling itself the Fighting Irish

00:22:21.000 and to have the drunken leprechaun Irish guy mascot.

00:22:25.820 Nobody's asked me about it.

00:22:26.880 Lucky Charms, no one's asked me about that.

00:22:28.980 As far as I know, nobody's consulted any person of Irish descent about that.

00:22:32.620 But Native Americans, they're special.

00:22:37.500 You know, they're put in a special category and we need to treat them with kid gloves and something that is fine for everybody else

00:22:45.020 is not okay for them because of how special they are.

00:22:48.600 So we ended up getting rid of most of those mascots and team names.

00:22:53.520 Okay.

00:22:55.060 And notice every step along the way, as always, they say that, well, it's just this.

00:22:58.700 This is all we're going to do.

00:23:00.060 You know, we just want to get rid of the mascots.

00:23:01.860 It's offensive.

00:23:02.820 And then we'll stop.

00:23:03.840 That's it.

00:23:04.360 It's just that's all we got to do.

00:23:05.380 So, like, don't make a big deal out of it.

00:23:06.860 They want to change redskins because it's offensive and they want to call it something else.

00:23:11.240 They want to change it to the lamest name ever conceived.

00:23:14.620 It's fine.

00:23:15.460 But don't make a big deal because it's just that.

00:23:17.140 It's just a mascot.

00:23:18.060 What do you care about the mascot so much?

00:23:20.780 Well, then they quickly moved over to other depictions of Native Americans.

00:23:24.640 We had to take the Native woman off of the Land O'Lakes box of butter. 1.00

00:23:29.500 Like, we had to get rid of Native imagery in all of these kind of commercial areas, even where it's not cartoonish or funny.

00:23:38.320 It's not supposed to be a joke.

00:23:41.080 Land O'Lakes butter, it was literally just a depiction of a Native American woman just, like, sitting there.

00:23:47.860 There was nothing offensive about it.

00:23:49.640 It wasn't cartoonish.

00:23:50.460 It wasn't a caricature.

00:23:52.060 But even there, just the depiction itself is offensive.

00:23:58.800 Now, I want you to think about this for a second.

00:24:01.560 Okay.

00:24:03.560 Where else have you heard of anything like this?

00:24:06.420 Where it's now offensive to simply just depict, in any context, someone else.

00:24:13.560 Really, this is, we have turned Native Americans into these, like, deity-like creatures. 1.00

00:24:20.040 So, we are adopting the same reverence for Native Americans that Muslims have for the Prophet Muhammad.

00:24:28.460 So, it's just like in Islam.

00:24:30.080 You don't, there are no depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.

00:24:34.740 It's, we're doing the same thing with Native Americans. 0.91

00:24:37.700 There are no depictions.

00:24:38.620 We can't, you can't depict them.

00:24:40.000 These are sacred, these are sacred beings.

00:24:43.260 These are sacred beings.

00:24:44.560 And to depict them at all is, is, is crass and exploitative.

00:24:49.480 What, does that apply to, like, other people?

00:24:52.460 Well, no.

00:24:53.300 So, okay, so you, you can't have the Native American on the butter box, but you can have anybody, like, if it was just a white woman, it'd be fine? 0.81

00:24:59.980 Well, yeah, of course.

00:25:02.560 But, but why is that fine?

00:25:03.660 I thought you just said it's exploitation.

00:25:05.700 So, it's only exploitation for them.

00:25:07.400 Because they're special, you see.

00:25:09.680 And that was all bad enough.

00:25:11.160 But, but that, you know, of course, the left argued, that's it.

00:25:14.860 That's all we're doing.

00:25:16.220 You know, you can't do mascots.

00:25:18.400 We're not going to really explain why.

00:25:19.560 It doesn't make sense.

00:25:20.760 You can't have them in any kind of commercial depiction.

00:25:24.100 Again, we can't explain why, but just go with us.

00:25:26.420 We stopped there.

00:25:27.320 That's it.

00:25:27.800 That's the end of it.

00:25:28.480 Okay, well, now we've moved to museum exhibits, okay?

00:25:34.240 Now they're saying you can't even have Native American references and depictions and artifacts in museums.

00:25:43.540 The one place where they always said, well, of course they're, of course they're, obviously.

00:25:50.760 It's not like we're going to start taking them out of museums.

00:25:53.520 Well, now they're taking them out of museums, too.

00:25:55.440 Like, these are places that exist to preserve history.

00:26:01.680 And somehow to preserve the history of Native societies is offensive to them.

00:26:06.360 Or at least we need to get their permission.

00:26:08.760 Whose permission exactly?

00:26:10.140 Whose permission are we getting?

00:26:11.080 Tell me.

00:26:11.700 What special communal board or individual decides whether, they talked about the Great Plains.

00:26:17.620 Great Plains artifacts can't be displayed.

00:26:22.500 And again, by the way, we're not just talking about, like, you go to the Smithsonian and they have wax figures and that sort of thing.

00:26:31.960 And these displays of Native... 0.63

00:26:34.180 They're not just saying you can't have that, because that'd be crazy enough.

00:26:37.160 They're saying just artifacts.

00:26:38.180 Like, if there was an arrowhead, a 180-year-old arrowhead from the Comanche tribe that they found on the Great Plains, you can't even show that.

00:26:53.080 Why?

00:26:53.720 Because you didn't get permission.

00:26:54.620 From who?

00:26:55.660 From the guy who died 180 years ago, whose arrowhead it was?

00:26:59.060 Whose permission are you asking?

00:27:01.000 Well, you've got to get permission from some Native person. 1.00

00:27:02.880 You've got to find some woman working in a cubicle, some, like, middle-aged woman working in a cubicle in Iowa somewhere with Native ancestry. 1.00

00:27:17.580 We had to get her permission.

00:27:19.040 Who the hell cares about her permission?

00:27:20.660 She doesn't own it.

00:27:21.460 She has no relationship to it.

00:27:23.900 Now, if you have a family heirloom in your house that has been passed down through the generations, yes, you own that.

00:27:32.880 And I would be very much against the Smithsonian barging into your home and taking your family heirloom.

00:27:40.620 I'd be very opposed to it.

00:27:43.160 But that's not what these are.

00:27:46.040 These are artifacts that have been found and they've been given to the museum.

00:27:49.800 And now, it's like, we're saying that random people, because they can supposedly trace their heritage back to people related to that, or they get to decide if anyone gets to look at it, okay?

00:28:03.560 And aside from the question of ownership, since when do we allow ethnic groups to have absolute say on how their own history is told? 0.94

00:28:15.760 And I ask that question, and these days, I think the question itself will seem, like, absurd to some very stupid people, because they'll say, well, of course we should have let them decide. 0.93

00:28:22.840 But no, that's not how it works. 0.85

00:28:26.540 History is not owned, okay?

00:28:28.780 You don't own the history of your own ethnicity. 0.70

00:28:32.260 You don't own that.

00:28:33.460 It's a thing that happened.

00:28:35.540 You don't get to take ownership of it.

00:28:37.840 Anyone else can talk about it.

00:28:39.280 They can write about it.

00:28:40.720 They can give their own perspective on it.

00:28:42.580 They can research it. 0.98

00:28:43.600 It's not an object that you own, you lunatics. 0.94

00:28:49.520 Whatever happened, happened. 0.98

00:28:52.840 Okay?

00:28:54.120 Nobody owns history.

00:28:57.520 You don't get to decide what we say about it, or remember about it, or what artifacts we get to look at, just because you had an ancestor 200 years ago tied to that history, supposedly.

00:29:07.220 And the really absurd thing is, you know, they usually say, as the saying usually goes, that the winner gets to write the history book, right?

00:29:17.400 Well, we have flipped that completely on its head, because the Indian tribes lost. 0.54

00:29:23.500 They lost the Indian Wars.

00:29:25.300 I mean, they lost one battle after another, just nothing but taking Ls, frankly.

00:29:29.340 Like, it was hundreds of years of losing.

00:29:31.960 And they were conquered.

00:29:33.800 And they lost.

00:29:34.980 And now we've decided that the losers get to have total control over how their own history is told. 0.89

00:29:44.540 This is the price we're supposed to pay for the unforgivable white sin of bringing civilization to the new world. 1.00

00:29:52.500 Because we were supposed to be pleading forgiveness for the fact that we don't all currently live in a world that's 3,000 years in the past, that people are still getting scalped, right?

00:30:03.620 And your mother and your daughter could be kidnapped and enslaved by a raiding party at any time.

00:30:10.620 Because that's the world that the Indians all lived in, every single one of them. 0.97

00:30:13.980 Every single one of them, okay, lived in a violent, brutal, warfaring society.

00:30:20.260 And our great sin is making sure that we don't live in that world anymore.

00:30:28.100 Like, the fact that we all live in a world that none of us would want to live in.

00:30:32.840 None of us would want that, okay?

00:30:35.920 And so we're supposed to be distraught with guilt over that.

00:30:43.260 The sin that Western civilization committed by not holding itself back and leaving this entire hemisphere alone forever.

00:30:52.880 I mean, this entire hemisphere was about 5,000 years in the past.

00:30:56.640 It was living about 5,000 years behind pretty much the whole rest of the world.

00:31:04.180 And the implication is that the whole rest of the world was supposed to just kind of sit there and wait.

00:31:10.060 Say, hang on, guys, we'll let them catch up.

00:31:12.260 No, no, no, don't go over there.

00:31:13.600 Don't, no, don't, that whole, whole thing, they don't, they own all of it.

00:31:17.060 Everything on that side of the Atlantic, they own everything.

00:31:19.140 We can't go over there.

00:31:20.420 The whole thing.

00:31:22.260 They're about 5,000 years behind.

00:31:23.580 Let them get about 5,000 years.

00:31:24.460 They'll catch up.

00:31:24.880 They'll be fine.

00:31:26.540 That's what people, that is basically the claim now.

00:31:29.640 And it's so crazy that you can't even hardly put it into words, even though I've been putting it into words for a long time.

00:31:37.620 So, and now, for that sin, we've lost the right to look at Indian artifacts in museums.

00:31:45.000 You know, and the last thing that I'll say here is that if there are artifacts or exhibits that deal with a certain ethnic group,

00:32:02.580 and the people in that ethnic group don't want us to see it, that's all the more reason why we should. 1.00

00:32:11.500 Because, like, not only should we not give ethnic groups, like, the veto power over what museums say about them and their history,

00:32:20.920 but actually, if they want to veto it, that's all the more reason why, like, that's the most important thing we should see in the museum, actually.

00:32:27.520 So, if there are Indian groups coming in and saying, oh, no, no, we don't want that, you can't show that, that we can't. 0.97

00:32:35.060 No, everyone needs to see that, whatever it is.

00:32:37.420 Like, whatever it is you're embarrassed about, we should all see it.

00:32:41.060 Because you don't get to do that.

00:32:42.640 You don't get to go in selectively and say, man, I don't like that part of our history.

00:32:46.760 You're not allowed to talk about that now.

00:32:50.900 And, of course, the ultimate effect here, ironically, is that Native Americans are just being completely erased.

00:32:55.000 While we hear so much about representation and visibility, we're actually simply erasing Native Americans from the culture completely.

00:33:04.680 And we're doing it at the behest of Native American activists who are asking to be erased. 0.94

00:33:10.920 Think about it.

00:33:11.680 A decade ago, right, a decade ago, Indians were, like, a hundred times more visible in our culture than they are today.

00:33:19.680 It took this age of representation and visibility to make them invisible.

00:33:26.360 And to do all of that, again, in the name of tolerance.

00:33:29.760 Tolerance for the very people whose likeness and history we are throwing into a giant black hole to be eradicated and forgotten.

00:33:38.380 It is amazing.

00:33:41.320 And, of course, I say all that with a certain amount of willful naivete because what I actually realize is happening is that they're not just erasing the history and then leaving a blank space.

00:33:53.400 No, the point of erasing it and not letting us talk about it or see it or see it in a museum is so that you can then recreate a different history.

00:34:01.840 So the whole, like, the noble savage myth, this sort of, like, idea of Natives that you find in the Pocahontas movie in the 90s, right, totally, a total cartoon, no bearing on reality.

00:34:16.000 But that's what they want.

00:34:17.380 They want to create that. 0.59

00:34:19.560 So I know what they're embarrassed about in the museums.

00:34:22.040 Like, all evidence that this was a primitive, violent world when it was dominated by Native tribes. 1.00

00:34:31.300 They don't want any evidence of that.

00:34:33.600 They don't want you to know that.

00:34:35.020 You're not supposed to know that.

00:34:36.500 And they want to get rid of all that.

00:34:39.040 I want to mention this, too.

00:34:39.760 This is from CNN.

00:34:43.060 And this is from CNN.

00:34:45.420 But last week, headlines like this were everywhere, reporting the same alleged fact.

00:34:49.920 Here's the headline.

00:34:52.160 Nearly 65,000 pregnancies from rape have occurred in states with abortion bans, according to a new study.

00:34:59.580 Okay.

00:34:59.780 65,000 pregnancies from rape have occurred in states with abortion bans.

00:35:04.040 And again, these were, headlines were all over the place, reporting this exact study.

00:35:10.160 Reading a little bit.

00:35:11.760 Tens of thousands of pregnancies have resulted from rape in states where abortion is not a legal option, researchers estimated in a new study.

00:35:17.700 In the study published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers from Planned Parenthood resound research for reproductive health and academic institutions across the U.S.

00:35:26.720 used a combination of federal surveys on crime and sexual violence to estimate that there were about 520,000 rapes that led to 64,565 pregnancies in the time since abortion bans have been enacted in 14 states, ranging by state from 4 to 18 months ago.

00:35:42.580 So, this is research done in part by Planned Parenthood.

00:35:48.520 I mean, right there, you could just stop.

00:35:50.220 Like, any news organization that cites as fact a study on abortion done by Planned Parenthood, an organization that has hundreds of millions of dollars on the line.

00:36:04.580 Okay, they have, they have, they stand to make hundreds of millions of dollars every year from abortion.

00:36:13.420 And any news organization that uncritically reports on a study from them should be ignored forever.

00:36:20.580 And of course, we already know that CNN should be ignored for a lot of other reasons, but, but it gets worse than that, right?

00:36:27.560 So, but that's the story, 65,000 pregnancies from rape in states that have outlawed abortion, according to the study.

00:36:33.840 And you know what I say about studies.

00:36:36.600 Basically, at this point, I would say that nearly every study that makes it into a mainstream media headline is bogus.

00:36:43.760 There might be exceptions to that, but it's pretty safe to assume that if you see any headline that ends with the words, study says, or according to new study, just ignore it.

00:36:55.280 You can just ignore it.

00:36:56.360 And 99% of the time, you'll, you'll, you'll have done the right thing.

00:37:02.240 And this one, especially, that's the case, which you should already realize because number one, it has to do with abortion.

00:37:09.420 And the media is incapable of being even vaguely honest about that subject.

00:37:15.140 And number two, how in the world would they even know this?

00:37:18.640 I mean, how would they know the precise number of pregnancies from rape in these states?

00:37:26.060 Where did they get these numbers?

00:37:27.160 How could they possibly have these numbers?

00:37:29.540 And have them so soon, especially?

00:37:32.240 Well, I'll tell you where they got them.

00:37:34.860 They made them up.

00:37:36.600 I mean, they, they actually just made up the numbers.

00:37:39.040 That's what they did.

00:37:39.540 They simply did something they call a study and the study consisted of inventing numbers and using those invented numbers to invent more numbers.

00:37:49.620 That's the study.

00:37:52.000 And a number of people have looked at, looked into this and exposed the hoax, which again, has been reported by every major media outlet.

00:37:58.620 Michael J. New in the National Review has a very good write-up about it.

00:38:01.640 So you could go read his piece if you want.

00:38:03.360 But the basic point is this, first, the author of this study isn't basing it on actual hard data about rapes and conceptions in those states.

00:38:13.960 Instead, he's looking at general figures and just extrapolating how many rapes and conceptions probably took place in those states during this time, theoretically.

00:38:24.200 But in order to get to 65,000, he needs to use the highest estimates possible.

00:38:28.620 So he starts by using a CDC survey from 2016 that said that 1.4 million women were forcibly raped in that 12-month time span.

00:38:38.220 Now, the problem is that that number is 10 times higher than FBI statistics and three or four times higher than the DOJ's statistics on that same subject.

00:38:50.340 And as the National Review explains, you know, you have a number of different estimates.

00:38:56.520 One of them is 10 times higher.

00:39:00.060 And this study decides to reach for the highest one.

00:39:04.840 Why do they reach for the highest estimate?

00:39:06.420 Well, because it's the highest.

00:39:08.280 And this is a study funded by Planned Parenthood.

00:39:10.420 They already know what conclusion they want to draw.

00:39:15.500 Like, there's zero chance that Planned Parenthood would fund a study on this subject.

00:39:20.380 And then the result of the study would be, oh, you know what?

00:39:23.440 Actually, there have not been that many rapes or conceptions because of rape.

00:39:27.560 But that result, that cannot be the result.

00:39:31.180 You go into the study knowing, funded by Planned Parenthood, that can't be the result.

00:39:36.260 It has to be that there have been tens of thousands of rapes because that's the result they want. 1.00

00:39:41.680 And that's the methodology.

00:39:45.180 The actual methodology is, well, comb through and look for the highest figure you can from any source available and assume that it's true.

00:39:54.080 So what's next after that?

00:39:55.200 Well, we need to know.

00:39:57.300 So you've got your estimate of the number of rapes.

00:40:00.260 We need to know how many of these theoretical rapes resulted in conception. 1.00

00:40:03.320 So the study takes this 1.4 million figure, which is a very high estimate from the CDC in 2016, contradicts what other government agencies have estimated.

00:40:15.180 And from there, the study estimates that 12.5% of rapes result in conception, which is also the highest available estimate.

00:40:24.000 And it's much higher.

00:40:25.360 It's about more than twice as high as what other research has said.

00:40:30.520 The other research has put the figure at about 5%, which is also probably high.

00:40:36.440 And so from these two arbitrarily chosen, very high estimates, he then declares that 65,000 pregnancies from rape have happened in states with abortions.

00:40:46.860 Which, by the way, if these numbers are true, that would mean, as this debunking article explains,

00:40:54.500 it would mean that if you extrapolate from there, and you have that many rapes and that many result in conception,

00:41:01.420 it would mean that 10% of all abortions nationwide prior to Roe were due to rape.

00:41:07.780 But the Guttmacher Institute, which is a pro-abortion institute, says that only 1% of all abortions are due to rape.

00:41:14.040 So according to the Guttmacher Institute's own figures, this study has multiplied the number of pregnancies from rape by about 10 times.

00:41:24.620 So what does all this mean?

00:41:26.420 It means that, like, there's no news here.

00:41:29.740 The study isn't even a study.

00:41:30.880 It's just bad math that somebody scrawled on the back of a napkin.

00:41:34.340 It is a dubious assumption built on a series of other dubious assumptions.

00:41:38.120 And yet the media reports it, as fact, with no skepticism.

00:41:47.480 And that's the way that news works now.

00:41:49.900 And why nobody trusts it.

00:41:51.700 Okay, finally I wanted to mention this.

00:41:52.880 The Grammys happened a couple nights ago. 0.95

00:41:54.880 And apparently, all things considered, I guess, I didn't watch it, but it looks like it wasn't a bad,

00:42:01.680 wasn't a terrible show as these things go.

00:42:03.880 They actually had some real musical performances, I think.

00:42:06.520 And as far as I saw on the clip circulating, it actually was like a relatively decent display of actual musical talent at the Grammys, it seems like.

00:42:15.900 Which is pretty shocking.

00:42:17.940 Still not going to watch it, but, you know, credit where it's due.

00:42:21.860 There was one embarrassing moment, though, which came to us courtesy of Jay-Z.

00:42:27.300 He received some kind of Lifetime Achievement Award or something.

00:42:31.360 And when he got up to receive it, he took the time to complain, of course, as one does when they win an award.

00:42:38.920 And here's what he said.

00:42:40.340 I don't want to embarrass this young lady, but she has more Grammys than everyone and never won album of the year.

00:42:46.960 So even by your own metrics, that doesn't work.

00:42:51.060 Think about that.

00:42:52.620 The most Grammys never won album of the year.

00:42:55.360 That doesn't work.

00:42:57.380 You know, some of you, some of you going to go home tonight and feel like you've been robbed.

00:43:02.200 Some of you made it, Rob.

00:43:08.980 Some of you don't belong in the category.

00:43:13.660 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:43:15.920 No, when I get nervous, I tell the truth.

00:43:20.900 But outside of that.

00:43:23.940 What a great guy.

00:43:26.920 Up there, he's winning, I think it was a Lifetime Achievement Award or something along those lines.

00:43:32.200 And he takes his time to complain and then randomly insult the other people that have been nominated for awards.

00:43:42.600 These are just like, these are, these are just the worst people in the world.

00:43:46.780 You know, you turn on these shows and you see, these are just the worst human beings that the world has to offer.

00:43:52.840 And, yeah, they're winning accolades.

00:43:59.040 So Beyonce has won like 30 Grammys or something like that.

00:44:02.140 I think a little bit more than 30.

00:44:04.040 More than anyone.

00:44:05.640 And yet he still complains that she hasn't won more.

00:44:08.700 She's still being persecuted because although she's won more than anyone

00:44:11.660 and probably didn't deserve any of them,

00:44:14.780 she hasn't won album of the year.

00:44:16.660 And so she's still put upon.

00:44:19.000 Still persecuted.

00:44:20.620 The most Grammys out of anyone.

00:44:22.560 Not enough.

00:44:23.420 Not enough adulation.

00:44:26.180 Not enough admiration.

00:44:27.040 Not enough recognition.

00:44:29.460 It's just funny when they keep trying to do this with Beyonce in particular.

00:44:33.260 They are determined to turn her into a victim somehow.

00:44:37.300 This mega wealthy superstar celebrity who's won more award recognition than any musical artist in history.

00:44:43.700 I mean, really think about that.

00:44:44.700 There have been, I mean, there are a lot of terrible musicians these days that are not even really musicians.

00:44:51.380 But you think about all the true geniuses that we've seen in the music industry over the last 70 years or so.

00:44:57.820 And Beyonce has won more than any of them.

00:45:03.360 But it's not enough.

00:45:04.620 Still complaining.

00:45:06.620 Kind of amazing.

00:45:08.640 But then Jay-Z keeps talking and he says something as he continues.

00:45:13.560 After he's done complaining and insulting people, he gets into a little effort to be inspiring.

00:45:19.600 And what he says there, I think, sort of shows what the problem is.

00:45:24.580 What the real problem is.

00:45:25.560 So watch this.

00:45:26.300 But outside of that, outside of that, you know, you got to keep showing up.

00:45:30.960 And forget the Grammys for a second.

00:45:32.320 Just in life.

00:45:34.080 As my daughter sits and stares at me, nervous as I am.

00:45:39.760 Just in life, you got to keep showing up.

00:45:42.420 Just keep showing up.

00:45:43.940 Forget the Grammys.

00:45:44.720 You got to keep showing up.

00:45:46.720 Until they give you all those accolades you feel you deserve.

00:45:50.740 Until they call you chairman.

00:45:52.740 Until they call you a genius.

00:45:54.600 Until they call you the...

00:45:55.700 Okay, so he says, keep showing up.

00:45:57.440 Keep trying.

00:45:58.260 Until they give you the accolades you feel you deserve.

00:46:00.860 Until they call you a genius.

00:46:03.220 So notice the mentality there.

00:46:05.300 It's not keep showing up.

00:46:06.780 Keep working hard until you've achieved something meaningful in the world.

00:46:09.620 That's not what he's saying.

00:46:10.980 It's keep showing up until they give you recognition.

00:46:14.480 Like, keep pursuing those ego strokes until your ego has been stroked enough.

00:46:19.420 Now, this mentality may have driven Jay-Z to become very successful, financially anyway, and ridiculously wealthy.

00:46:27.800 I think he's like a billionaire now or something.

00:46:30.080 But this is terrible advice for pretty much everybody else.

00:46:34.400 Because if you're driven by a need for recognition, most likely you'll never achieve anything.

00:46:43.960 Think about how passive that is, too.

00:46:46.080 Keep going until they, until they give you what you deserve.

00:46:49.260 Until they recognize.

00:46:50.360 Who's they?

00:46:51.960 It's like they.

00:46:52.940 It's like other people out there have the key to your happiness.

00:46:56.600 And you've got to keep proving yourself to them until they give you.

00:47:00.460 Until they unlock.

00:47:01.260 Until they use the key and unlock your happiness for you.

00:47:06.300 And the thing is that that is what motivates a lot of people.

00:47:11.240 And every once in a while, you'll have somebody motivated that way who does succeed enormously.

00:47:16.780 But most people won't.

00:47:19.080 And if that's what drives you, most likely it will drive you right into a ditch.

00:47:23.540 And you'll never get past.

00:47:25.000 You won't get past the first mile, right?

00:47:27.940 You'll barely even drive out of your driveway before you're in a ditch.

00:47:30.900 If that's what drives you.

00:47:33.160 And I encounter people like this all the time in my business, as you might imagine.

00:47:37.700 Who have this obsessive need to be recognized and credited and applauded.

00:47:43.480 Give me the credit.

00:47:44.500 Give me the recognition.

00:47:45.760 Not just people in front of the camera, either.

00:47:47.300 I mean, at every level of the business, you run into this.

00:47:49.660 And naturally, any kind of business where you are around cameras and TVs and stuff, it's going to attract that kind of mentality even more.

00:47:59.540 And here's the thing.

00:48:00.700 The vast majority of the people I meet who are like this, I need credit.

00:48:06.300 I need recognition.

00:48:07.100 I need to be applauded.

00:48:08.080 I need this.

00:48:08.600 Vast majority are not successful and probably never will be because their motivations are all entirely wrong.

00:48:17.820 If you want to achieve anything worthwhile in life, you have to find a way to forget as much as possible about recognition.

00:48:24.000 Not worry about that.

00:48:26.960 Not worry about who gets the credit.

00:48:29.220 Right?

00:48:29.760 And pursue greatness because it's greatness.

00:48:35.760 You see all the time you see people who are basically on the first rung of the ladder or haven't even made it on the first rung yet.

00:48:43.840 And they're down there screaming, recognize me.

00:48:47.300 Where's my credit?

00:48:49.080 Why aren't you saying nice things about me?

00:48:51.320 Give me applause.

00:48:52.220 And they're going to be there whining forever.

00:48:55.500 They're stuck in this paralysis that their need for approval has put them in.

00:49:02.700 Now, again, there will be exceptions.

00:49:04.520 Jay-Z, extremely rich.

00:49:06.760 But not a key to success for most people.

00:49:10.040 And the thing is, even if you do succeed with that mentality, as Jay-Z has just showed you, you still won't be happy.

00:49:17.620 So you might be an exception, and maybe this obsessive need to be recognized does actually.

00:49:23.760 Because the other thing is, if on top of that you also have enormous skill and talent and all that, and an ability to focus obsessively on what you want in life, you might still succeed.

00:49:36.300 But you'll just, you'll never be happy.

00:49:40.360 You will never be happy.

00:49:42.340 Because he and his wife have been called geniuses many times, unduly.

00:49:48.420 Unfortunately, they've been given every accolade, every award, every crown you can give someone.

00:49:56.340 They've been given all of it.

00:49:58.700 And it's still not enough.

00:50:01.060 Still whining.

00:50:02.760 Still just whining.

00:50:05.880 Not happy.

00:50:06.940 That's where it leads.

00:50:07.880 Let's get to, was Walsh wrong?

00:50:15.180 Luke says, I love that Trump never built the wall.

00:50:17.780 Mexico never paid for it.

00:50:19.120 Republicans still insist it suddenly just fell over when Joe Brandon got elected.

00:50:23.360 But Trump won, and no one seems to notice they're always campaigning on a lie that they'll solve a crisis they need to campaign on.

00:50:31.760 You were, I don't disagree with some of that.

00:50:36.880 He didn't build the wall.

00:50:38.080 Of course, Mexico didn't pay for it.

00:50:39.940 And that's true. 1.00

00:50:42.780 If the implication of your statement is that we should vote for Trump, but there's no point in voting for him, then I think that's very stupid. 0.99

00:50:49.760 Now, yeah, he didn't build the wall. 0.99

00:50:52.680 I mean, there was some of the wall that was built, but not anywhere close.

00:50:55.940 You know, we were told big, beautiful wall across the entire border.

00:50:58.100 Mexico will pay for it.

00:50:58.860 Didn't happen.

00:51:02.200 And that's true.

00:51:03.840 It's true that it didn't happen.

00:51:06.880 If you're, if, if what you're, if your conclusion from that fact is that, well, I might as well not vote for Trump. 0.99

00:51:14.800 Well, then that's incredibly dumb. 0.92

00:51:17.520 Because although there's reason to have low confidence that it will get done if Trump is reelected. 0.91

00:51:26.900 If he's not, and Biden is elected, and those are the only two options, there's zero chance that happens.

00:51:33.680 In fact, in fact, with Biden, it's the opposite, where he will go, as we've seen, and tear down existing border structures and not replace them with anything.

00:51:42.320 So Biden will actively prevent the border from being enforced.

00:51:45.980 And that we know for a fact.

00:51:50.220 With Trump, you know, the excuse for Trump that you so often hear is that he tried and they blocked him.

00:51:56.820 And he got blocked at every turn and they, and he tried.

00:51:59.880 And that's the excuse generally given for, for everything.

00:52:03.920 And it's, it's, it's sort of true.

00:52:09.220 Like, he was blocked.

00:52:11.080 It's not good enough.

00:52:12.660 I don't accept that excuse.

00:52:14.820 Like, I don't even accept that excuse for the most part from my own kids.

00:52:18.820 You know, when I, when I give them a task or they promise to do something and I tried.

00:52:22.840 Like, no, you need to do it.

00:52:25.020 You need to do it.

00:52:26.280 Um, I, I definitely don't accept that from presidents.

00:52:29.880 I don't accept it from adults in general.

00:52:31.800 And I don't accept it from presidents.

00:52:33.660 It's like, trying does not help us.

00:52:36.420 I don't care about your trying.

00:52:37.840 Does nothing for me.

00:52:38.880 Doesn't help.

00:52:40.220 Uh, you need to just do it.

00:52:41.740 You need to find a way to do it.

00:52:43.940 So that's my attitude about those excuses.

00:52:45.840 I don't find them compelling.

00:52:46.860 I don't find them convincing.

00:52:49.620 But, um, the other option is someone who there's not even going to be an attempt.

00:52:57.720 Like, we know what that's going to be.

00:52:59.880 Uh, in this case, the, the best we can hope for is to send the message to the Trump administration

00:53:07.660 this time around that, that failure is not an option.

00:53:10.960 We're not going to accept any excuse.

00:53:14.540 You know, do I have confidence that most people will take that approach and be that firm and

00:53:19.640 that harsh and, and, and we'll say, listen, no excuses.

00:53:22.380 I don't want to hear you tried.

00:53:23.840 You got to do it.

00:53:26.200 Do I have confidence that people will say that?

00:53:27.780 I don't.

00:53:28.160 But this is the, this is the situation that we're in.

00:53:33.020 I don't know what else to say.

00:53:36.000 Brian Krasentine, Krasentine says, tell me exactly what you want Biden to do this very

00:53:40.780 moment.

00:53:41.260 Don't just tell me secure the border or deport immigrants.

00:53:43.480 Like what actual changes do you want him to make?

00:53:45.440 Note that it has to be legal.

00:53:46.920 What do you mean?

00:53:49.680 Don't tell you secure the border or deport immigrants.

00:53:52.380 That's what I want him to do.

00:53:53.560 Tell me what you want Biden to do, except for these two things that he obviously needs

00:53:56.980 to do and isn't.

00:53:58.180 Except for that, except for the two things that will solve the problem.

00:54:02.480 Except for solving the problem.

00:54:03.860 What do you want Biden to do to solve the problem?

00:54:06.160 Uh, I don't know.

00:54:07.560 Nothing except for that.

00:54:08.720 Nothing, I guess.

00:54:09.400 Yes, secure the border and deport immigrants. 1.00

00:54:13.640 Do, do, enforce the laws that are currently on the books.

00:54:17.980 Um, in fact, we, you could start by just before we even get to enforce the border and deport

00:54:24.080 immigrants, stop actively preventing the border from being enforced. 0.99

00:54:29.600 Stop actively tearing down, uh, uh, barriers on the border as the Biden administration is doing.

00:54:37.660 So the thing that he's doing right now, he could stop doing that.

00:54:40.440 That's one thing.

00:54:42.000 And then the other two things that you mentioned that for some reason you've ruled out ahead of time,

00:54:46.260 uh, that those are the answers.

00:54:50.000 And finally, Matt, the great Christian, again, calling for asylum seekers to be expelled from the country, 0.90

00:54:54.860 just as Jesus would have wanted.

00:54:56.940 Um, yes.

00:54:59.600 I mean, I know you say that sarcastically, but that's basically correct. 0.99

00:55:02.060 Wait, the great Christian, I never called myself a great Christian.

00:55:05.060 Um, but the other part of it, would Jesus want us to, uh, enforce the border and deport illegal immigrants? 0.82

00:55:15.420 Yes.

00:55:17.100 Because it's the law and it's a good and just and moral law.

00:55:21.980 And when we don't enforce a good and just and moral law, people suffer greatly.

00:55:26.020 And, and so would Jesus want, does Jesus want us to enforce what are good and just and moral laws

00:55:35.480 for the sake of public order and the well-being of our citizens and our families and our children?

00:55:41.740 Does Jesus want that?

00:55:43.280 Yes.

00:55:43.580 Of course.

00:55:45.360 Of course.

00:55:47.560 Good point.

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00:56:39.020 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:56:47.280 Libs of TikTok dug up another good one for us.

00:56:49.880 This time it's a self-described racial justice advocate named Ali Henney,

00:56:53.860 who apparently has been hired to give workshops on anti-racism in the past.

00:56:57.640 And in a video which has gone viral this week, Henney explains how punctuality is a feature of white culture 0.58

00:57:02.940 and it's racist for white people to expect that non-white people will show up on time to things.

00:57:08.560 Listen.

00:57:08.900 As a racial justice advocate, I'm often invited to give talks or to do workshops where I talk to white people about race.

00:57:15.860 A big part of my practice is to offer real-life stories, examples, that type of thing,

00:57:19.740 that help white people to be able to identify white supremacy in everyday life.

00:57:23.320 My husband's family is white and I often use the cultural differences between my family and his family

00:57:27.340 as a way to help white people see their whiteness.

00:57:30.060 There's one example that I use that always gets a ton of pushback.

00:57:33.740 My husband and I were late to our first Thanksgiving with his family.

00:57:37.340 I say late because it started at 12, we got there at 1210,

00:57:41.100 but whenever we got there at 1210, everybody was already sat down and eating.

00:57:44.580 I didn't know that.

00:57:45.820 I use this illustration to point out that different cultures have different understandings of time,

00:57:50.040 lateness, and what it means to be polite.

00:57:52.060 Without fail, a white person will push back and say that lateness is impolite.

00:57:55.240 I always use this as a teachable moment.

00:57:57.820 I usually ask a series of pointed questions that challenge their assumptions.

00:58:01.260 Sometimes it takes a lot of work.

00:58:02.580 But by the end, they're able to identify how white cultural dominance works in this one small area of life,

00:58:06.820 which opens the door for them to start peeling the onion.

00:58:11.180 Oh, she didn't know that.

00:58:12.280 She didn't know that if something starts at 12 and you get there 10 minutes after the thing starts, you're late.

00:58:17.560 Now, you might think that this is just the dictionary definition of late.

00:58:20.820 You might wonder what she could have imagined late means if it doesn't apply to a circumstance

00:58:25.460 where she is arriving to a thing after the thing has already started.

00:58:29.820 Had she never encountered the word late before?

00:58:32.140 Did she not?

00:58:32.560 Was she unfamiliar with the concept?

00:58:34.120 Had she lived her whole life and never been introduced to the concept of being late?

00:58:39.180 She says she had a different concept of time.

00:58:41.580 But what is her concept?

00:58:42.860 Now, it's true that time is relative in the sense that you can have a gravitational time dilation effect

00:58:48.860 where time slows down as the force of gravity grows stronger.

00:58:52.100 But I don't think Einstein's theory of relativity ever suggested that time is relative

00:58:56.960 depending on the culture you grew up in.

00:59:00.420 But before we expand on that idea, let's listen to the racial justice advocates follow-up video

00:59:05.540 where she responds to some of the criticism she has heard against this idea.

00:59:11.120 Listen.

00:59:12.620 Hey, this is my own comment and is in reference to the video that I did about punctuality and white culture.

00:59:17.100 I'm pretty sure if you tap it, it'll take you back to the original video.

00:59:19.820 But I wanted to expand on this a little bit.

00:59:21.780 Specifically, I wanted to challenge white people to expand their thinking on this topic.

00:59:25.280 The most common type of comment that I saw in the original video was some version of

00:59:28.300 I'm white and I'm always late.

00:59:29.960 I don't think that people were trying to refute the premise of the original video,

00:59:33.040 but I do think that white people were trying to distance themselves from this particular feature of white culture.

00:59:37.280 Here's where I want y'all to dig a little bit deeper.

00:59:39.800 This is something that I notice white people do a lot whenever we talk about whiteness. 0.92

00:59:43.040 There's an acknowledgment that a certain type of whiteness exists, but also an attempt to say,

00:59:47.400 oh, no, I'm not that type of white person.

00:59:49.580 Here's the problem with that.

00:59:51.020 A lot of times whenever you try to distance yourself from an aspect of whiteness, 0.82

00:59:54.180 you're actually reinforcing that aspect of whiteness.

00:59:56.760 So going back to the original example,

00:59:58.860 when you say that you're white, you're still operating under dominant culture constructs of time and punctuality.

01:00:03.800 You're still being white about it.

01:00:05.480 Here's what you missed.

01:00:06.240 There are people who view the world very differently from you.

01:00:08.860 And so you have to train your brain to be able to see things from a different perspective. 0.95

01:00:11.780 You know, this is something that I notice black people do a lot. 0.98

01:00:15.500 That's why I really want to challenge black people to dig a little bit deeper. 1.00

01:00:18.820 I need you black people to listen and learn from me about how you should be behaving. 0.97

01:00:23.780 Because, you know, really, you're being a little black about it right now. 0.98

01:00:27.740 See, it sounds bad when I speak that way to black people, 0.95

01:00:30.940 and it's no different when this woman speaks the same way to white people. 0.92

01:00:35.740 Okay?

01:00:36.100 It's just exactly the same thing.

01:00:38.440 Like, we don't need your lectures, especially when you're scolding us for objectively positive traits

01:00:44.620 like timeliness and punctuality, which is an unintentional compliment that plenty of us don't actually deserve anyway.

01:00:51.940 But this idea that basic etiquette and politeness and professionalism are constructs of whiteness or white culture is pervasive.

01:00:58.040 We can't even give this woman credit for having the originality to come up with something so wacky on her own. 0.83

01:01:02.520 And she's just repeating the sort of drivel that she's picked up from the anti-racist racket.

01:01:06.780 You probably remember that infamous chart put together by the Smithsonian claiming that things like hard work

01:01:12.000 and professionalism are white constructs.

01:01:15.020 The museum took that chart down in embarrassment after people noticed it

01:01:17.660 and reacted the way normal people react to insane things like that.

01:01:21.080 But the idea hasn't gone away.

01:01:22.720 In fact, just a few months ago, Time Magazine published an interview with someone named Leah Goodridge,

01:01:27.580 who's the author of a UCLA Law Review article titled Professionalism as a Racial Construct.

01:01:33.860 And the claim is that standards of professionalism, of which timeliness and punctuality are usually a part,

01:01:39.580 are thinly veiled excuses to be racist.

01:01:42.380 So, you know, our friend Allie Henney didn't make this up. 0.99

01:01:45.760 She's not innovative enough to come up with her own ways to be dumb. 1.00

01:01:48.800 Instead, she's parroting the dumbness she's heard elsewhere. 1.00

01:01:52.480 But that doesn't make it any less dumb, of course. 0.99

01:01:54.900 And the first problem with the race hustlers' claim that punctuality is a feature of white culture 0.99

01:01:58.600 is that in most other circumstances, race hustlers tell us that white people don't have a culture.

01:02:04.920 Just a few days ago, at the start of Black History Month, Twitter was full of these anti-racist types

01:02:09.980 informing us that white people don't get a History Month or any other specific cultural recognition

01:02:14.940 because whiteness is not a culture.

01:02:17.140 That's what they say.

01:02:18.200 Kasim Rashid, who's a left-wing activist who's currently running for Congress,

01:02:21.680 announced that, quote, there's no such thing as white culture.

01:02:25.500 He said that, you know, there can be Italian culture and French culture and Irish culture and so on,

01:02:29.320 but not white culture.

01:02:31.180 Now, of course, if that's true of white people, then it's just as true of black people. 0.93

01:02:36.220 White is an umbrella that includes many different people from many different countries,

01:02:39.880 separated by hundreds or even thousands of miles.

01:02:42.500 Black is also an umbrella that includes many different people from many different countries,

01:02:47.960 separated by hundreds or even thousands of miles.

01:02:50.520 So people can have different opinions about whether it makes sense to talk about the culture

01:02:56.320 of an entire race of people, regardless of their nation of origin.

01:02:59.580 But wherever you land on that question, the answer has to apply to white and black equally.

01:03:07.500 But left-wing race activists answer this question like they answer every question,

01:03:11.440 depending on the ideological needs of the moment.

01:03:14.260 And for somebody like Allie Henney, white people have a culture when it comes time to scold them 0.65

01:03:19.840 for a perceived flaw, but white people definitely do not have a culture in the sense of something 0.96

01:03:24.800 that should be celebrated and preserved. 0.99

01:03:26.680 In fact, I feel quite sure that she would cringe in horror if a white person ever said to her

01:03:31.880 that we should preserve and celebrate white culture.

01:03:36.180 In that case, she would say white culture doesn't exist. 0.90

01:03:38.740 You can't even preserve it.

01:03:39.580 So white culture only exists when we're criticizing it. 0.85

01:03:44.620 In other words, white is not a culture unless you need white to be a culture 1.00

01:03:50.100 for the purpose of lecturing white people. 0.91

01:03:53.120 Yet, if we are apparently recognizing white as a culture for the purpose of this discussion,

01:03:58.660 I would not personally include punctuality as a unique feature of it.

01:04:03.200 As much as I appreciate the compliment, nobody I work with would be able to stomach my hypocrisy

01:04:08.420 if I said, oh yeah, we white folks, we're always on time.

01:04:11.320 Always.

01:04:11.760 That's one thing about us white folks.

01:04:13.040 We're never late.

01:04:14.600 I haven't been on time to record my show, for example, one single day since approximately 2019.

01:04:19.480 And I'm not even joking.

01:04:20.940 Now, although I do appreciate the excuse that this TikTok racial justice advocate has now given me,

01:04:26.360 if anybody complains that I'm late, I can now accuse them of upholding white supremacy.

01:04:30.640 I'd never thought of that before.

01:04:32.200 But come to think of it, I think she's right.

01:04:34.280 Indeed, my chronic lateness is really just my own personal effort to de-center my whiteness.

01:04:42.120 So if anybody complains about it, I can say, well, excuse me for de-centering my whiteness.

01:04:48.580 And really, anyone who does complain about it is essentially, for all intents and purposes,

01:04:53.000 morally speaking, Adolf Hitler. 0.55

01:04:54.940 That is the inevitable conclusion that we must draw.

01:04:58.860 Either that or the expectation that you show up on time is simply a basic standard of conduct

01:05:02.920 that applies to everybody.

01:05:04.360 And if you fall short of that standard, it's not because you're unfamiliar with the customs of white people,

01:05:10.040 but rather because of your own personal shortcomings.

01:05:13.180 Now, I can see why Ali may prefer the latter option.

01:05:19.360 May not prefer the latter option, I should say, and the one about the shortcomings.

01:05:23.320 I don't prefer it either.

01:05:25.460 But at least I have the courage to admit my own shortcomings,

01:05:28.500 even if I won't do anything to correct them.

01:05:30.720 But that much cannot be said about Ali Henney, the racial justice advocate.

01:05:36.880 And that is why she is today canceled.

01:05:39.940 That'll do it for the show today.

01:05:40.760 Thanks for watching.

01:05:41.240 Thanks for listening.

01:05:41.840 Have a great day.

01:05:43.000 Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 06, 2024

Ep. 1309 - Why The Criminal Justice System Gave Up On Punishing Criminals

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