Ep. 1315 - We Need To Respect Black Culture By Getting Rid Of Laws, Says MSNBC
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A new MSNBC special about race in America claims that we can solve crime overnight by simply getting rid of the legal concept of crime. This is how we respect Black culture, we're told. Also, the head of the Department of Homeland Security has been impeached in an unprecedented but highly warranted move, a Democrat congresswoman calls for a $50 minimum wage, and students at Harvard inspire the world with a 12-hour hunger strike.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, a new MSNBC special about race in America claims that we can solve
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crime overnight by simply getting rid of the legal concept of crime. This is how we respect
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black culture, we're told. Also, the head of the Department of Homeland Security has been impeached
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in an unprecedented but highly warranted move. A Democrat congresswoman calls for a $50 minimum
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wage, and students at Harvard inspire the world with a 12-hour hunger strike. All of that and
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One pattern that has emerged over the past four presidential elections ever since Barack Obama
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is that the national conversation as directed by the media shifts back to race right around the time
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that the primaries are wrapping up. And of course, the primaries are still happening on the GOP side,
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technically, if you count Nikki Haley as a real presidential candidate. But if you realize that
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she is at this point simply running to be the next overpaid CNN contributor, you understand the
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primaries ended weeks ago, which means that it's now time for the race cycle to begin anew.
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And right on cue, MSNBC released a new special this month called Black Men in America, The Road to
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2024. Now, based on the title and based on the timing and based on the fact that it's MSNBC,
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you might assume that the show automatically is going to consist of a bunch of mindless race
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baiting. You might make the presumption without seeing a single second of it. You might just
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write it off without giving it a chance under the assumption that it's going to be nothing but
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idiotic, dimwitted, racial grievance mongering. You might assume all of that. And you would,
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of course, be entirely correct. Yet, as you'll see in the clip that I'm about to show you,
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it still manages to limbo its way under the incredibly low bar that you have already set for
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it in your mind, which is, which is quite a feat. Watch.
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We can get rid of all the crime in America overnight, just like that. And people ask how
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Attorney Crump changed the definition of crime. Of course, if you get to define what conduct
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is going to be made criminal, you can predict who the criminal is going to be.
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It sounds like we are criminal, though. Our existence is criminal.
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I mean, and so when I think of Eric Gordon, I always think of stuff like that.
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I did nothing. We sit here the whole time. Why not business?
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Who about you threw up? Who got to sell cigarettes to?
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Yeah. And then George Floyd was trying to buy cigarettes and so forth. So you have to
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think about the profiling things that they come up with, the profilers for. Pre-test your
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reasons. And it happens every day, Al. They will come and say, you can't wear baggy pants.
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You can't have milk cartons in your yard. Make that a crime.
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Now, as you can see, that's Ben Crump pretending to shoot pool with Al Sharpton. In other words,
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it's the neo-Al Sharpton with the old Al Sharpton. It's like broadband Al Sharpton with dial-up Al
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Sharpton. And Ben Crump is what happens when you clone Al Sharpton, but you remove his hair and the
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three brain cells that he had, and you end up with Ben Crump. Because that's the thing you notice
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about Crump, is that he is objectively speaking, and I say this in a medical sense. I don't mean this
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as an insult. It's just, it's a, like a medical term. He's a moron. In fact, his, his very existence
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single-handedly and ironically disproves systemic racism. Because there's simply no way that a black
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guy this aggressively mediocre, this consistently unimpressive, this simple-minded and ridiculous
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could ever achieve the success he's achieved in a country that was systemically racist against black
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guys. Now, sure, even in a country with systemic racism, you could still end up with brilliant and
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innovative people who managed to succeed in spite of it. So the existence of successful black people
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doesn't in and of itself disprove systemic racism. You know, a million other things disprove it,
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but, but not that. But Ben Crump specifically, I mean, this guy, you want to tell me this guy
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rose to the top despite having the entire system arrayed against him?
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No. I mean, obviously the truth is quite the opposite. The system favors guys like Crump,
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which is the only reason anyone knows his name. By all rights, the pinnacle of this dude's career
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should have been like a position no higher than shift manager at Wendy's with no disrespect intended
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to shift managers at Wendy's. The point is that his wealth and success is entirely a product
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of a system designed to move mediocre halfwits like himself to the front. And as if to prove my point,
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what does he say? Well, what's the great insight that he offers the world? Well,
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he says that we can get rid of all the crime in America overnight by changing the definition of
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crime. Now he's right. Of course, technically crime is a legal designation. If you stop applying that
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legal designation to things, then it will not be applied to things anymore. And therefore you will
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have gotten rid of the designation. Stop calling murder, robbery, and rape crimes. And just like
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that, presto chango, the crimes of murder, robbery, and rape have disappeared. This is evidently what
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Crump, a guy with a law degree somehow wants to see happen. Of course, the problem is that by getting
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rid of the crimes of murder, robbery, and rape, you have not gotten rid of the actions of murder,
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robbery, and rape. People are still being murdered, robbed, and raped. In fact, at an even higher rate
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now, most likely, but it doesn't count in the books. You know, the assailants aren't being
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brought to justice. The victims have nowhere to turn for redress. All the bad things are still
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happening, but the law is covering its eyes and plugging its ears and pretending that it's not
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happening. And that's what happens when you get rid of crime, as Crump suggests. And in fact,
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we don't even need to speak of this theoretically. Every major city in America has adopted a strategy
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like this to one degree or another. Every major city, thanks in large part to Soros-funded Marxist
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DAs, has decided to reduce crime by not fighting it. They've decided to create fewer criminals
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by not calling the criminals criminals. As a result, most of these places are unlivable
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hellscapes, which is not a problem for Ben Crump, whose firm rakes in tens of millions of dollars a year.
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So he's not living in these crime-infested sewers that ambulance-chasing con artists like
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himself have helped to create. Now, Crump then goes on to claim that laws, any law, I guess,
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has the effect of criminalizing black culture, he says. He gives the example of Eric Garner,
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who died, as you'll remember, one of the, not the first, but one of the first BLM martyrs.
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And he just died while police attempted to take him into custody for selling loose cigarettes.
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Now, the law against loose cigarettes, it's not as important as, or essential as laws against
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murder and robbery. But the policy does make perfect sense. You aren't allowed to buy a pack of
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cigarettes from the convenience store and then stand outside that convenience store selling each
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individual cigarette to people walking by on the street. Why can't you do that? Well,
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that's not very fair to the convenience store, for one thing. And for another, there are all kinds of
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additional laws governing the sale of tobacco products, laws that cannot be enforced if people
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are allowed to walk around hawking individual cigarettes on the street corner. Now, it's not the most
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important law, but it is a law, and it's a law that makes plenty of sense. The question in this case
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is why Eric Garner couldn't just follow the law. Like, why can't you just follow? It's not hard.
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Most of us have no problem following that law. It's not a difficult law to follow. It's not onerous.
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Is it black culture, quote unquote, to simply disregard whatever law you personally find
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inconvenient? That seems to be the claim that Ben Crump is making. But all that is irrelevant
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anyway, because Garner didn't die because he sold loose cigarettes. Cops, despite how it's always
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framed, cops did not show up and stage a public execution as a penalty for selling loosies, as
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they're called. No, they tried to arrest him because he's committing a crime, and their job as police
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is to enforce the law. That's it. And he resisted, and in the struggle, he lost his life. Why resist?
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What's that going to achieve? What possible good can come from it? Even if you disagree with the law
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that you broke. Even if you didn't break a law. Even if you're being falsely accused. Even if you're
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completely innocent. Okay? No matter the situation, how does resisting arrest help your case? What good
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will it do for you? Like, what is the plan? Walk me through the steps. Step one, resist arrest.
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Step two, unknown. Step three, you get to go home and have a pleasant day. All right, I guess that's
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the thought process, right, for all these BLM martyrs. What is the second step, though? We really
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got to fill in the blank there. Can Ben Crump explain that? What is it that you think will happen
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at step number two that will lead to step number three? Now that you've started with step one,
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which is resisting arrest? What should it be? Did Eric Garner think that if he declined to be
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arrested, the cops would just say, oh, so you don't want to be arrested? Oh, you'd prefer not to be
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arrested this particular afternoon? Well, never mind then, good sir. Please be on your way. Our apologies.
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Was that the idea? Well, we know the answer. There was no thought process behind it. He didn't have
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any ideas at all. He just was acting in a totally thoughtless, self-destructive manner, responding to
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a situation in a way that was guaranteed to make the situation worse, no matter what. Like, no matter
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what happens, even if you don't die in the process, the result will be worse than it would have been
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if you had just complied. So making the situation worse intentionally, is that black culture,
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according to Crump? Crump also mentions George Floyd. He says that Floyd was another man arrested
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for participating in black culture. What was the culture in that case? Floyd was trying to pass off
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a forged $20 bill. I mean, this is what a, this is what a, just a liar this guy, this is what a dumb
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liar, Ben Crump is. They said, well, George Floyd was just trying to buy cigarettes. Yeah, with a forged
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$20 bill. Like, that was the problem. It's not that he was buying a cigarette. They weren't showing up.
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He didn't go to buy a cigarette, and then the convenience store called the cops and said, hey,
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someone just came and bought a cigarette. Go arrest him. That's not a crime. You're allowed to do that.
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But using forged money is a crime. Shouldn't it be? Like, should we be okay with that?
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Should we just get rid of the laws against forged dollar bills? So you can go in with monopoly money
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and buy something, and no one's going to stop you? So is that black culture using forged dollars?
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Is that the black culture he's talking about? He was overdosing on fentanyl. Is that black culture?
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Now, I'm not asking these questions rhetorically. I would really like to hear Crump's answer.
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I'd like to hear the answer from any of these race baiters who talk about black culture.
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What is it? I'd like to know what you consider black culture to be.
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Now, I wouldn't personally call any of that black culture, but I will say that if it was black culture,
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then guess what? The culture needs to change. Okay? If your culture, as Ben Crump seems to think,
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let's just go with Ben Crump's argument for a minute. This is what he's saying.
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He's saying that all these things are black culture. Committing crimes, using drugs, overdosing,
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resisting arrest, going out of your way to make your life more difficult,
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being insanely self-destructive all the time. It's his argument that that is black culture.
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Okay, well then, what I would say to that is that if that is black culture, then your culture is
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deeply flawed. It is terminally sick, and it needs to change. You see, the law doesn't need to change
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to accommodate your culture. Your culture needs to accommodate the fact that it exists in a civilized
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society with laws. That is the job of you and your culture to accommodate. We don't need to get rid
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of all the laws and make exceptions and say, oh, you know what? Actually, you don't have to get
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arrested if you don't want to, and thereby invite the collapse of civilization itself just for your
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culture. Your culture needs to get with the program, if that is what your culture is. Now, naturally,
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Crump only talks about the laws against loose cigarettes and milk cartons and baggy pants,
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he mentions, as if anyone is actually being arrested for having baggy pants. When's the
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last time that happened? He completely ignores the obvious fact that black men are arrested every day
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in every city in America for committing actual violent crimes. Okay, young black men are not landing
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in prison because of their milk cartons. Okay, there's not a lot of people that are in the prison
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yard right now. Oh, what'd you do? How'd you get here? Ah, milk cartons. Yep, too many milk cartons
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in the yard. Got 10 to 15 for that one. Hard time. No, that's not what's happening. But Crump,
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of course, doesn't want to acknowledge that because he's a liar and he's evil and he doesn't care how
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many people die or how many black men get themselves killed by making the worst possible
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decisions. He doesn't care about any of that as long as he can personally profit off of it.
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Now, I began this by saying that Crump is stupid and he certainly is. Just like Al Sharpton is stupid,
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many of these race baiters are just very, very dumb. And you can't listen to them talk for more
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than five seconds without arriving at that conclusion. It's inevitable. But like any other
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race baiter, he also knows exactly what he's doing. He pretends to speak up for black culture,
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whatever he thinks that is exactly, while at the same time doing everything he can to make black
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communities more dangerous, poorer, bleaker, more miserable. Okay, it's not the white man
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keeping black communities down. It's men like Ben Crump and he deserves to be held accountable for it.
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Okay, it's good to be another fun show where my voice sounds like a dying toad or something,
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even more than it usually does. And, you know, it's like a bi-monthly tradition at this point,
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which is a consequence of having six kids. Having a large family is a great joy. I highly recommend it.
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So there are some challenges that come with it. And one is that, you know, when you have six kids,
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it's like, it is like opening a Wuhan virus lab in your living room. It's just a constant petri dish
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for every disease that kids love to bring into the house. So that's one of the challenges. But you know
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it's, there's, there's, there's downsides to everything in life. I think it's a small price
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to pay ultimately. So last night, the House of Representatives voted to impeach the Secretary
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of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas. And he became the first sitting cabinet secretary to be
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impeached in the history of the United States. So this is a big deal. You know, this is, this is
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actually a historic political event. And it maybe doesn't feel like that for one thing,
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because the media doesn't have a lot of interest in talking about this. But, but also because
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that we read it, we're at a clip right now where there are historic political events happening
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every three or four weeks. You know, we've got former presidents being indicted and all to try
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and send him to prison. So it's like, we have reached a point in history where there's unprecedented
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things happening a lot, which by the way, is not a good sign. Okay. It's maybe a little bit more
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boring when you don't have a lot of unprecedented political events and just things are going on as
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normal. And it's kind of as it's always been a little bit more boring that way, but that's a sign
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of stability, which is what you want. Okay. You actually don't want your, uh, the political
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landscape to be, to be very interesting. That's a bad. Now it's good for the media. It's good for if
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you're, if you, you know, are, are in my, in my business. So it's actually not a good sign or a good
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thing when there are interesting, fascinating, unprecedented political events happening all the
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time, uh, as, as advantageous as it is for the media. And even in my business gives us a lot to
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talk about, but I'd much prefer for it to be the other way. You know, you think back to the nineties
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and, um, the big political scandal, of course, of the nineties, the thing that was that the most
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fascinating political event of the nineties, uh, certainly the latter half of the nineties was
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Monica Lewinsky. And, but you look back on that now, it's like quaint by comparison that, that wouldn't
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even, that's the same thing happened again. It wouldn't, it would not get that level of attention.
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Um, and again, not a great sign. So, uh, he's being impeached and the charges, uh, willful and
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systemic refusal to comply with the law and breaching the public trust. And now if you read the Washington
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post or you watch CNN, you'll hear that this impeachment is futile. Um, a two thirds super
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majority, the Democrat controlled Senate is needed to convict Mayorkas. And of course that isn't
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going to happen. So just like the two Trump impeachments, this will ultimately die in the
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Senate. And, and that's, of course it's true. It's, he's not actually going to be convicted,
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but there's a big difference between Trump's impeachment trials and the upcoming trial of
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Mayorkas. And it's that, uh, Mayorkas's trial isn't really about him. Like the, the point
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of the exercise, it's not a, it's not to prevent him from running for office or anything like that.
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I don't think we're too worried about that. Um, now he's the one named in the impeachment,
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but Mayorkas's trial will inevitably focus on the Biden administration and their broader effort to
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facilitate a foreign invasion. That's what it's about. This is a policy that has flooded hospitals.
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You know, it's, uh, totally destroyed American sovereignty. Um, it's cost thousands of American
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lives, gang violence, drug trafficking, human trafficking, uh, which, which is to say nothing
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of all the job opportunities that have been stolen and everything else, which is why, you know,
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an impeachment trial done right can answer some really important questions. And that's why I think
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that this is, I think it's smart politically, uh, for the statement that it makes. And I also think
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that it, again, answers questions that need to be answered. And you could say, by the way, you could
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say that, well, we shouldn't just be impeaching people to make a political statement. We shouldn't
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be impeaching someone if we know that they can't be convicted. It's a waste of time. It's a waste of
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taxpayer dollars to do it sort of symbolically as a statement is, uh, we shouldn't be doing that.
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So you could say that, but unfortunately, no matter how you might feel about that,
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that particular toothpaste has, is out of the tube and, uh, and it's not going back in
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because this is the precedent that the Democrats set with, with Donald Trump. This is the game. This
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is how they decided that this is how the game is played. And so if you're on the other side,
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you have two choices. One is you can let them operate by their own set of rules and you can
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give them that advantage, right? So it's like, you could sit down and play monopoly with them
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and, and you can play by the rules of monopoly while, while they say, while they just make up their
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own rules, you know, and they say, well, I could take money from the bank whenever I want, or, you
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know, I don't have to go to jail when it says land on go to go directly to jail. No, for me,
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I don't have to do that. Oh, for me, you know, instead of getting $200 every time I pass go,
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um, I get, I get $200 every time I pass around a turn. So I get $200 four times around the board.
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Those are the rules for me. So, so if you're playing monopoly, let's just say with someone
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like that, you can either, uh, continue respecting the rules and let them just make up their own
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rules. And then you'll definitely lose. And the whole thing is pointless. It's like, you're not
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even playing monopoly anymore because they've decided not to play by the rules. So this, whatever
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this is, it's not even monopoly. That's their choice. Um, so you could do that and just volunteer
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to lose, or you could say, okay, well, if those are the rules that you've made up, then I'm going
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to take advantage of those too. Now, of course, in that, in my monopoly scenario, the real option
00:24:22.980
would be just stop playing. They're not going to play. It's a game's point. That's not going to play.
00:24:26.980
Unfortunately, in the monopoly, uh, board that is, that is American politics, not playing isn't an
00:24:33.420
option. So you can't not play. You got to play. And so now you're stuck with follow the rules while
00:24:40.040
they break them. And then you automatically lose every time, no matter what, or they make up rules
00:24:45.760
for themselves. And you say, okay, if those are your rules, they're mine too. And I think that option
00:24:50.960
is obvious. It's the only, it's, it's really the only choice. And so this is what impeachment is now.
00:24:58.820
Now, if I had my way about it, I prefer if it wasn't, I wish that we could rewind the,
00:25:02.700
if I could rewind the clock. Um, I'd like to go back to a time when impeachment is a very,
00:25:09.980
very rare occurrence. And it only happens when an actual crime has been committed.
00:25:15.460
And, and, and I would even say, even then I would say if I had my way about it,
00:25:21.160
uh, you only go through with the impeachment if you know that there's some reasonable chance of
00:25:27.720
actually getting a conviction. So if I could rewind the clock and flip a switch and make things happen
00:25:35.380
the way that I want, then that's what I would do. But I can't, you know, I can't, uh, and none of us
00:25:42.240
can. Uh, so we're here, we're in the world that the Democrats have decided to set up. And so this is
00:25:49.260
the rules that they've set up and they'll be held to them too. It's the way it goes. Uh, does that
00:25:56.020
mean that there's going to be impeachments for every presidential administration from here on out?
00:26:01.580
Probably that's what it means. Either the president or cabinet officials are getting impeached probably
00:26:09.420
for, for every administration till kingdom come. Wish it wasn't that way. But, um, the only other
00:26:19.140
option is that every Republican administration gets impeached and none of the Democrat ones do.
00:26:24.660
Well, that obviously is, is just not acceptable. We can't, we can't allow that. So going back to the
00:26:30.860
questions that, um, could be answered through this trial, because again, this is not just symbolic.
00:26:36.560
There, there's actually a function here. Who exactly was Mayorkas taking orders from?
00:26:42.540
Uh, what have they said in private about Joe Biden's stated goal of permanently changing the
00:26:47.560
demographics of this country? What have they been doing with the $120 billion that taxpayers are
00:26:52.960
giving DHS every year? Why, for example, is DHS sending hundreds of millions of dollars to NGOs
00:27:00.740
that help illegals get into the country. All of this information could be explored by, uh, GOP
00:27:08.800
impeachment managers and committee chairs with, uh, with expanded subpoena powers. Um, they'll be
00:27:13.740
able to investigate all this. They'll be able to investigate, uh, also why federal border patrol agents
00:27:19.260
were captured on camera cutting razor wire with, with heavy machinery to let the illegals in the
00:27:27.140
country. And then even giving them fist bumps as they entered the country. Uh, the impeachment
00:27:31.540
managers can look into why by administration abruptly reduced the number of questions that
00:27:36.900
border guards are able to ask illegal immigrants, uh, when they come in from, from China specifically.
00:27:44.260
Um, you know, all of these kinds of questions can be explored and they must be. Um,
00:27:51.280
and that's, what's going to happen now that he's being impeached.
00:27:57.120
Uh, and on top of that, you know, you can make an argument about, did he commit an actual crime?
00:28:05.580
Uh, with Trump, there's no crime committed nor even alleged to go through with the impeachment.
00:28:13.240
In my Orkis's case, you could easily make the argument that I would find very compelling that
00:28:18.300
that this is negligence to the point of actually being a crime.
00:28:24.620
It's not just refusing to enforce the law is actively undermining it as part of an overall plot
00:28:33.360
to destroy American sovereignty and import voters for your political party.
00:28:40.420
I mean, there's, there's a bunch of crimes tied up in all of that.
00:28:43.640
So I guess what this comes down to is that probably even if the Democrats hadn't set this precedent
00:28:52.140
that every administration is getting impeached, someone's getting impeached, whether it's the
00:28:55.940
president or cabinet official, even if they hadn't set this precedent, there still would be grounds
00:29:00.140
in this case. All right. Daily Wire has this report. A boy who was a high school sophomore took
00:29:04.960
first place in the girls high jump competition at the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic
00:29:10.260
Association Indoor Track and Field Championship. Mayel Jacquez, who celebrated as a female competitor,
00:29:17.780
failed, failed to jump to match his winning jump, jumped five foot two inches, which was one inch
00:29:23.660
higher than any girl. But this is important part, roughly a foot lower than the winning jump in the
00:29:30.300
boys competition. So he wants, this is a boy competing against girls. He's an inch higher than any other
00:29:37.580
girl, a foot lower than the winning jump in the boys competition, which in the high jump, a foot is
00:29:46.180
an enormous, you know, length. Twelve time All-American swimmer Riley Gaines slammed Jacquez's parents
00:29:54.880
posting on X. How could the parents of this boy allow their son to cheat? And why don't the parents of the
00:30:02.180
girls stand up and say no for their daughters? The country is full of failing, gutless mothers and
00:30:07.100
fathers. And she's exactly right. The question from Riley Gaines is a good one. It's one that many of
00:30:15.020
us have been asking for years. I know I certainly have. Where are the parents? You know, it's at the
00:30:21.280
point now where if you are the parent of a female athlete, now, yeah, the parent, the parents of the
00:30:26.120
boy who's doing this, they're the worst. They're the absolute, they should not be allowing this
00:30:30.640
under any circumstance. Um, and you know, if you're, if you have a child who falls into the gender
00:30:40.160
cult, um, and not by your doing, you know, much to your chagrin, this happens because the kid goes
00:30:49.220
to public school and gets sucked into the cult. Many cases of this happening for sure. And as I've
00:30:54.780
always said, I, I have a, an immense amount of sympathy for parents whose kids are brainwashed
00:30:59.700
in that way. It's, it's heart wrenching, but when you go along with it and you go along with it,
00:31:09.580
even to go along with it at all is deeply evil as a parent to go along with it to this extent
00:31:14.820
is, uh, is, is all, it's all the worst. So, uh, those parents are awful clearly,
00:31:20.480
but if you are the parent of a female athlete and you allow a male competitor to sabotage
00:31:28.180
her game or her match or race or whatever it is, and you don't say anything and you don't do
00:31:34.440
anything, then the whole thing is your fault. Like it's on you now. So at this, at this match,
00:31:41.680
when they're doing the high jump, you know, and all these parents presumably are there and watching,
00:31:47.400
I didn't read any story unless I missed it, unless I didn't see it. I didn't read any story of,
00:31:53.960
of any parent walking up and confronting any of the officials, causing any kind of scene.
00:32:01.620
You know, as far as I know, most of them were on the sidelines cheering on.
00:32:07.260
Maybe some of them did begrudgingly. I'm sure they all did begrudgingly.
00:32:10.580
And, uh, but as far as I know, nobody made any real effort to put a stop to this. Now I know that
00:32:19.080
people don't like to make a fuss. You know, they don't like to be confrontational. They don't like
00:32:23.540
to cause a scene. I get all of that. And that's an aspect of human nature that trans activists have
00:32:28.160
been able to exploit because people are generally polite and they are generally non-confrontational
00:32:33.460
in real life. Now on the internet, it's a different matter, but in real life, the vast majority of
00:32:37.440
people are much more subdued and they actually don't like to be the center of attention. Like
00:32:42.080
most people, they don't in real life. They don't, um, they certainly don't like confrontation.
00:32:47.820
Most people, trans activists, on the other hand, they don't have that problem because they're
00:32:52.080
narcissists. So they're raging narcissists. All of the trans activists are without exception.
00:32:56.840
So they think that they're the main characters of the world. And if they walk into a situation,
00:33:01.800
they have no problem saying, Hey, this is all about me guys. Look at me because,
00:33:04.860
because they think that they're the protagonists of the whole story of the human race.
00:33:08.760
So for them causing a scene, being the center of attention is second nature for normal people,
00:33:13.720
though, it, it, it's not like that. But if you're a normal person, you need to just get over that
00:33:21.000
or, or some of it, your allergy, uh, to confrontation, your aversion, you need to get over it in this
00:33:29.660
kind of circumstance, especially when your kids are concerned. This should be an easy exception.
00:33:36.300
You know, I know, I mean, it may surprise you to learn this, but I don't like being the center
00:33:42.180
of attention either, which may seem odd given what, given what I do for a living. But when I'm out
00:33:46.320
living my life, I just want to go about my day. I just want to be a normal person. I don't,
00:33:50.840
I don't want to have the spotlight on me when I'm going about doing my normal things. Um, I'm also,
00:33:56.820
I'm not looking for drama. That's the last thing that I want when I, when I'm going about my daily
00:34:00.880
life, I don't want to have any dramatic incidents occur. I'd rather just go do my thing and,
00:34:05.180
and, uh, keep to myself. And that's how I want to be. But, you know, if my kids are being abused,
00:34:14.040
that's a different story. And when a man is invading your daughter's sport or her locker room or both,
00:34:20.420
because they come together, uh, she's being directly abused and that should flip a switch in your mind.
00:34:25.720
It should shift you into another gear and you should automatically be ready to stand up and
00:34:31.020
say, no, hell no, absolutely not. You know, I don't like causing a scene usually, but I'm going
00:34:36.180
to make an exception in this case. This, this cannot be allowed to happen. I'm not going to sit here and
00:34:40.140
tolerate this. I'm not going to sit here and cheer and act like this is normal. Like, I'm not going to
00:34:44.720
let you do this to my daughter and sit there and applaud. I'm not going to do it. And some parents
00:34:51.680
have responded that way to their credit. Uh, some parents have spoken up, but, but not nearly
00:34:58.260
enough, not even close to enough, especially when we know again, that, that every single parent,
00:35:04.960
I don't care what they say. I don't care what claim they might make. I don't care what side of
00:35:09.420
the aisle they're on politically. I don't even care what they would say if a pollster or surveyor were
00:35:15.320
to ask them, you know, give them a survey. I don't know. How do you feel about trans athletes and
00:35:19.460
sports and a certain, especially if they're liberal, a certain number of them will say,
00:35:22.960
uh, in fact, most of them will probably will probably say, Oh yeah, I fully support it.
00:35:26.840
I don't care about any of that because they're lying. And what I know for a fact is that every
00:35:31.600
single parent of a, of a, of a girl, you know, uh, any, any parent who has a daughter does not want
00:35:38.820
the boy in a locker room, boy in the bathroom, boy in the sport. None of them do. None of them want
00:35:43.700
that. They all know that it's, that it's completely wrong. They know that it's insane.
00:35:47.020
They know that it doesn't make any sense. This is one of the, the deeply frustrating,
00:35:51.980
one of the many deeply frustrating things about this whole issue is that almost every, you know,
00:35:56.380
those of us who have been arguing against the trans agenda, all we've been doing for years
00:36:02.460
is saying what everyone already knows is true. All the people we're arguing against,
00:36:07.420
they all know that it's true too. So it's often, it's just, that's the frustration. It's like,
00:36:11.160
I'm arguing with you and I'm, and I'm making my point. You and I both know that what I'm saying
00:36:16.580
is true. What, why are we even doing this? Why are we pretending? You know, this is wrong.
00:36:20.940
You see that the, the boy running down the track or doing the high jump. You know, that's not really
00:36:26.120
a girl. You know, that of course, you know that. Um, so given that everybody knows that it's wrong,
00:36:35.040
given that nobody really needs to be convinced actually, um, the number of parents who speak up,
00:36:41.500
the number of parents who try to do anything about it, the number of parents who, uh, who, who
00:36:46.280
have any kind of protest at all that they offer, uh, that number is, is just vanishingly small and
00:36:56.120
it's, it's pathetically small. Uh, and so I think Riley Gaines gutless is a good way to describe a lot
00:37:02.820
of these parents. All right. Um, Fox 40 says minimum wage is a topic that draws a lot of
00:37:09.480
attention, especially in California, a state that has one of the highest minimum wages in the United
00:37:12.800
States in a debate Monday night, representative Barbara Lee defended her previous advocacy
00:37:17.440
for a $50 minimum wage. Uh, here's the clip. Let's watch. You're calling for a $50 an hour federal
00:37:25.660
minimum wage. That's seven times the current national minimum wage of 725 an hour. Can you explain how
00:37:31.940
that would be economically sustainable for small businesses? You have 60 seconds.
00:37:37.340
First, let me say I, um, owned and ran a small business for, um, 11 years. I created hundreds of
00:37:44.160
jobs, benefits, retirement benefits, also healthcare benefits. I know what worker productivity means,
00:37:52.680
and that means that you have to make sure that your employees are taken care of and have a living
00:37:58.140
wage. In the Bay Area, uh, I believe it was the United Way came out with a report that, uh, very
00:38:05.460
recently, $127,000 for a family of four is just barely enough to get by. Another survey very recently,
00:38:15.580
$104,000 for a family of one, barely enough to get by, low income because of the affordability crisis.
00:38:22.540
And so just do the math, just do the math. Of course, we have national, uh, minimum wages that
00:38:29.180
we need to raise to a living wage. You're talking about 20, $25 fine, but I have got to be focused on
00:38:35.200
what California needs and what the affordability factor is when we calculate this wage.
00:38:40.980
Okay. $50 minimum wage, uh, is what she's asking for. Sure. Why not? You know, why not, uh, $50?
00:38:49.180
Why not a hundred dollars? Why not a thousand? Let's do a thousand dollars, a thousand dollar
00:38:52.260
minimum wage. Uh, you know, once, once we get to 50, it's, there's really no reason to not continue
00:38:58.560
making it a million, making it a million dollar minimum wage. Okay. Pay people a million dollars
00:39:02.960
now. We could all be billionaires before long. Uh, wouldn't that be great? Wouldn't that be
00:39:06.900
fantastic? Of course, you know, we're all billionaires. And so if you want to go and buy,
00:39:11.600
uh, a roll of paper towels, towels or something, it's going to cost you $70 trillion. But, uh, you
00:39:17.580
know, still, at least we all have all that money. And this is how you solve the affordability crisis,
00:39:21.740
right? There's a crisis where things cost too much money. Things are not affordable. And the way you
00:39:26.160
solve it is by vastly increasing the cost of doing business for every business in your state.
00:39:31.720
Okay. You like seven X their costs. And that's how you make things, the cost of things go down.
00:39:39.240
That's the math. Barbara Lee's math is about as fuzzy, as fuzzy and imaginary as, as the white guy
00:39:46.240
who supposedly harassed her on the elevator in the Capitol building a few weeks ago, if you recall,
00:39:50.020
she's the same person. So her, her math skills exist in the same way that that guy exists because
00:39:56.080
they don't. Now, you know, this is obviously completely insane, uh, raise the minimum wage
00:40:01.760
to $50. And that's just the end of California. That would be the end of the state because every
00:40:07.440
business would have to leave and it would be the end of commerce in the state. And if you don't have
00:40:11.040
commerce in the state of any kind, then you just don't have a state. Like no one can live there.
00:40:14.420
It can't exist anymore. So maybe that's a silver lining. You know, maybe that's, maybe that,
00:40:18.600
maybe we should just go ahead and do it and put California out of its misery and we can all,
00:40:22.480
you know, move on. Um, and, and maybe that's the way we do it. But if you don't want to,
00:40:29.320
if you don't want to just destroy the state completely and finally put the final nail in
00:40:32.680
its coffin, it's a terrible idea. But anytime, you know, anytime the subject of minimum wage comes
00:40:38.080
up, it's important to remember that the whole topic is a red herring. It, the whole thing is
00:40:46.220
irrelevant. Now, yes, I agree that it's difficult to support yourself on a minimum wage.
00:40:51.880
I've done it. So I know that it's hard. You know, it's, it's very difficult and it's even
00:40:59.040
harder. It's not basically impossible these days to support a family on minimum wage.
00:41:04.300
You know, you, you basically, it's, it's essentially impossible. You can't do it.
00:41:09.540
Um, you can support yourself. I mean, it's very, very difficult, but it's, you can do that. It is
00:41:14.860
possible a family. No, you just can't. It's not enough money, but, but here's the thing.
00:41:20.340
I mean, the minimum wage, that's not what it's for. That is not the point of minimum wage. It's
00:41:26.420
not why it exists. Minimum wage jobs don't exist for that. Raising minimum wage. You know what it's
00:41:34.100
like? It's a bit like, it's a bit like trying to invent training wheels for bicycles that would
00:41:40.300
allow a child to go 30 miles an hour on the bike. Okay. That's what it's like. It defeats the whole
00:41:46.040
purpose of the training wheels. If he's ready to go that fast, it's long past time to take the
00:41:51.360
training wheels off. Okay. The whole point of training wheels, it's the assumption that the
00:41:56.200
kid can't go even a mile an hour on the bike. It's like, so the training wheels are designed for
00:42:01.180
that. Um, so you don't need faster training wheels. You just need to have no training wheels,
00:42:07.160
take them off. Same with minimum wage, minimum wage. It's like a, these are the training wheels
00:42:13.300
of, of income levels. Um, you don't need a higher minimum wage. You just need to not be
00:42:19.440
on minimum wage anymore. You need to graduate beyond minimum wage. Minimum wage is not for
00:42:27.060
adults with houses and kids and car payments. It's not for that. So when we're saying to ourselves,
00:42:34.580
well, even on $15 an hour, there's no way that an adult could have a mortgage and pay for the car
00:42:39.460
and have a kid. It's impossible. It's not a living wage. Yes, you're damn right. Of course it's not.
00:42:44.600
It's not for that. That's not what it's for. It's not why it exists. Minimum wage is for teenagers.
00:42:50.600
It's for college students working part-time. It's for high school students. Um, you're not supposed
00:42:55.440
to camp out on minimum wage and try to build your life on it. Yes, of course you can't, but, but that's
00:43:02.780
why you don't stay there and earning $50 an hour is, is more than possible. I mean, it's, it's a,
00:43:10.420
a, it's a, it's a great goal to have, especially if you're starting at minimum wage and it's entirely
00:43:16.500
feasible. I mean, there are many different paths you could take in life. There are many different
00:43:20.100
careers you could go, uh, you could explore. Uh, many of them don't even require, certainly don't
00:43:25.300
require college degrees and, and you could end up making $50 an hour. You know, it's, it's not
00:43:31.640
outside the realm of possibility at all, but, but you can't make that while staying on the
00:43:37.660
minimum wage job. It's just not standing, uh, at a drive-thru or, or standing behind the cash
00:43:45.500
register, you know, at, at Wendy's, we've already picked on Wendy's, so we'll do it again. Standing
00:43:50.840
behind the cash register at Wendy's and somebody comes in and says, Oh, I want a number one, please.
00:43:57.000
Medium diet Coke. And then you press it in and you know, you do, you take, you swipe the card,
00:44:00.820
you hand them the, that's not, that is not supposed to be a career just doing that. It just
00:44:08.700
isn't. And that action of typing the thing in, swiping the card and handing a bag of food to
00:44:15.960
somebody is not worth $50 an hour by any metric. Like in no possible universe is that worth $50 an
00:44:24.340
hour. It just, it isn't. It's a job that has almost already been entirely replaced by automation.
00:44:30.500
Most of the job can be done already. McDonald's has the automated, you know, the screens that you
00:44:34.540
can press when you go in that are smudged with fingerprints and it's disgusting. But then again,
00:44:38.780
the whole experience is disgusting. So who cares? So already it's like, it's, it's half of the job
00:44:43.300
could be replaced with a screen and pretty soon, pretty soon the whole job will be replaced.
00:44:46.900
Um, so it's not, it's not for that. It's not, it's, you're not supposed to build a career on it,
00:44:52.300
which isn't to say that you can't build a career in, in the restaurant industry, the food industry.
00:44:58.700
Of course you can. Um, it's not even to say that you can't build a career in fast food. You could
00:45:02.960
do that too. You can work your way up. You could become a manager, assistant manager, general manager,
00:45:07.140
you know, you could go to the corporate side. Um, it's certainly not to say that you can't, uh,
00:45:12.580
create a career in, in customer service. Like there are plenty of there. You could have a,
00:45:16.600
have a quite a respectable and noble career, but the minimum wage job itself is not supposed to be
00:45:26.820
the career. And this is where I'm, I'm always accused of being cruel and callous and out of
00:45:32.380
touch and everything else. Uh, even though, as I said, you know, people can say that all they want,
00:45:37.960
you're out of touch. You have no idea. All right, that's, that's fine. I guess you know more about my
00:45:42.120
own personal history than I do. I don't know. I, I, I guess I, I should listen, wait for
00:45:46.480
internet comments to tell me about what my own biography is, because as far as I'm aware of my
00:45:50.880
own biography, biography, I've done all these kinds of jobs. That's where I started. I know what it's
00:45:56.340
like. I get it. And I also know that, you know, it's not that hard to graduate above minimum wage.
00:46:09.880
It, it, it just requires, especially when you become, now, if you're 15 years old, it's going to
00:46:16.360
be more difficult. But if you're not, if you're older, if you're an adult, you should be able to
00:46:22.960
launch yourself off of that launching pad pretty quickly. Um, and so if you're 26 years old and,
00:46:33.540
you should look to see if the problem is with you a little bit.
00:46:39.820
And, and I know that these are all things we're not supposed to say anymore. We're not supposed to
00:46:42.860
say when people, when people complain, the only thing we're supposed to do is say, well, yeah,
00:46:46.360
your life's terrible. It's horrible. It should change. Everything should change for you. I feel
00:46:50.120
so bad for you. I know it's the only thing we're supposed to say. You're not supposed to put any
00:46:52.920
onus on the individual at all. I understand that, but, um, I don't, maybe you've noticed I don't
00:46:57.320
respect those rules. And, um, so don't want to get paid minimum wage. I totally get it.
00:47:05.280
I wouldn't want to either. So go out and earn more than that. Um, that that's the solution.
00:47:14.420
It's the only solution that's available. Or, you know, the other option is that you could say,
00:47:20.160
well, I don't want, you know, no, I don't want to, it's too hard. Uh, I think that minimum wage
00:47:24.680
should be increased to $50 an hour. Well, okay, well then let's just do that and destroy everything.
00:47:29.420
That's the other option is just to destroy everything. And then in the end, you're still
00:47:33.740
where exactly where you are right now. We could just completely ruin the economy
00:47:37.560
in the name of being compassionate towards you and being gentle. And then you are still screwed
00:47:43.420
and everyone else is screwed too. Maybe that makes you feel better because everyone else is in a bad
00:47:48.340
spot also. Is that the plan? I guess so. Misery loves company, I suppose. It's just that that's not
00:47:55.020
a very good economic philosophy is my take on it. Let's get to was Walsh wrong.
00:48:03.740
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slash Walsh. First comment says, while I agree with much of your foreign policy take, part of me
00:50:09.620
feels complete isolationism is not the correct approach either. The tax money, the amount is
00:50:14.020
all ridiculous. Yes, but if we don't intervene in world wars or we let the Soviets run wild,
00:50:19.960
how much different is our world? Well, that's a good question. How much different is our world if
00:50:26.800
we're not intervening in everything all the time? Very good question. Hard to say because we're
00:50:31.360
speaking theoretically because we do intervene in everything all the time. I will say it's hard
00:50:35.880
to imagine how it's much worse. Another way of looking at it is now that we have decades and
00:50:41.760
decades of this interventionist approach to foreign policy, what is the evidence that it's made the
00:50:49.240
world a better place at all? What's the evidence that it's made America? I mean, forget about the world
00:50:52.780
for a second. First priority is, where is the evidence that it's put the United States of
00:50:57.700
America in a better position? Where's the evidence that it's made us more prosperous?
00:51:03.000
That it has aided in the well-being and prosperity of American families? Is there any evidence of that?
00:51:13.480
Trillions of dollars in debt, you know, inflation, sky high, we don't have to run through the whole
00:51:17.460
thing. I think we know that it's a pretty rough position that we're in. So how has this worked?
00:51:27.920
How has this made the country any better? I guess you could always speculate that, well, yeah, it's
00:51:32.780
pretty bad, but it'd be even worse if we weren't shipping billions and billions of dollars off to
00:51:38.880
foreign countries and getting involved in every conflict and all the rest of it. You could say that,
00:51:42.400
but I think the speculation is on your end and there's not a lot of evidence for it.
00:51:50.000
As far as what happens if we let the quote unquote Soviets, as you call them, run wild,
00:51:54.760
how much different is our world in that case? Well, I think our world, you and I in America living our
00:52:02.760
lives would be really not much different at all. You know, now, yeah, if Russia went on to try to
00:52:11.460
invade and conquer all of Europe, then that would certainly affect us. I think we could say that
00:52:18.740
if the whole European continent is conquered by Russia, you know, certainly changes the balance
00:52:25.280
of things in a way that will affect all of us. But that's not going to happen. That is not the
00:52:30.680
intention. There's no evidence that ever was the intention. You know, the idea that if we didn't,
00:52:37.980
if he's not stopped in Ukraine, eventually Putin would marching into France or something is just
00:52:42.320
ridiculous. Um, he has certain pieces of land that he wants in Eastern Europe and, uh, whether he has
00:52:50.880
them or not, I think does it, how does it affect our lives? Like not at all. I just don't think it
00:52:55.460
does. I don't think it, I don't think you would, you know, I, I, here's what I would say. Let me put it
00:53:01.260
this way. Um, if we didn't have 24 hour cable news and we didn't have the internet and, uh, you know,
00:53:09.140
maybe we have newspapers, but many people don't read them or have access to it. Like basically if
00:53:13.320
we were in the spot, we were in before the invention of modern media and, uh, Putin conquered
00:53:19.260
Ukraine, took the whole thing. And that's all Russia now. Uh, I think that you would never know
00:53:27.180
it. You would, nothing in your life would change, right? There'd be no, you know, you could find out
00:53:32.940
10 years later that, oh, you know, Putin, he actually conquered Ukraine and you would say, oh,
00:53:36.140
he did. I didn't know nothing in my life changed at all. I had no clue. Uh, so apparently whatever
00:53:41.680
happens in Ukraine has zero impact on me or my family. Um, all right. This is silly. You're
00:53:50.700
allowed to be for or against foreign aid, but we are a Republic. And this is how all taxation and
00:53:54.480
all spending works. We never get a direct say. We get to elect representatives. Silly point.
00:54:01.020
Someone else says you're high. We provide foreign aid because it's in America's self-interest.
00:54:04.900
This is obvious. You just don't agree with the assessment of America's interests.
00:54:08.400
vote harder next time. Um, first of all, I don't know what to say to you other than, you know,
00:54:18.140
you're either too stupid to understand the point or you're pretending not to understand it,
00:54:23.820
but there is a difference between our government spending money, uh, ostensibly on in America
00:54:33.740
on, on things that will benefit Americans. Now they do waste a lot of money,
00:54:38.400
a lot of this money goes off into the bureaucracy and just disappears as far as we're concerned.
00:54:44.340
So yes, but in principle, there's a difference between our government spending the money in
00:54:52.000
America and our government sending the money to another government 4,000 miles away for them to
00:55:01.120
spend on their own people. Like, I don't know how to explain that difference other than to just say
00:55:08.360
that. It's quite, one is a foreign country. This is our country. Those are foreign citizens,
00:55:15.300
our citizens. Like these are different things. Okay. And that's what we're talking about. And
00:55:20.380
that's also why I say it's taxation without representation because once that money goes to
00:55:26.160
that foreign country, we have no control, no say over how it's spent and we do not benefit from it.
00:55:33.760
It's not for us. Now I know you could say, well, this is all America's interests.
00:55:39.600
Yes. Okay. That, yes, that is the line from the politicians and the bureaucrats.
00:55:45.620
Do you believe it? Do you actually still believe it? Have you been living in this country all this
00:55:51.840
time? I don't know how old you are. Maybe you're five years old. That's why you're so naive.
00:55:55.820
But if you're an adult, are you really an adult in the United States of America in the year of our
00:56:02.060
Lord, 2024? And you still believe that this is all in our interest? Really? I mean, you know,
00:56:10.660
I just pulled up this list out of, just for, out of interest. The top recipients of foreign aid. So
00:56:18.460
the most recent thing we have is for 2022, top recipients of foreign aid. Top, in 2022,
00:56:24.100
top recipient was Ukraine, about $12 billion. Then Israel, $3 billion. Ethiopia, $2 billion.
00:56:31.800
And then we've got a bunch of people that are in the $1 billion range. Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt,
00:56:35.300
Jordan, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Kenya, Congo, Sudan, Syria, Uganda. All a little over a
00:56:45.300
billion or a little under. How did you, let me ask anyone that just left one of those comments.
00:56:50.020
Let's just take Nigeria, about $1.1 billion. How did you benefit from that?
00:56:59.980
You say America's interests. Well, America's interest means the interest of Americans.
00:57:05.480
You're an American. So what did that do for you? The fact that Nigeria got a billion dollars.
00:57:11.580
How did it make your life any better? Can you articulate at all, other than just at a blind
00:57:17.580
faith saying, it's in our interests. They have told us it's in our interests. It's for us.
00:57:23.840
Like, this is, this is a Scientology cult level stuff. I can't explain it, but we have been told
00:57:31.760
that it's in our interests. Or maybe you can't explain it. So explain to me, Nigeria getting a
00:57:38.040
billion dollars. How does that help you? How does it help your family? How does it help your
00:57:42.140
neighbors? How does it help your community? Can you look around at your community and say,
00:57:46.420
you know, we're in a better spot today because Nigeria got a billion dollars in 2022.
00:57:50.340
You can't say it's absurd. It's an absurd thing to even claim and you know it.
00:57:54.520
So we get rid of all the foreign aid to everybody. It doesn't hurt you at all. Yeah,
00:58:00.140
it may hurt a lot of these foreign countries. It may. It certainly hurt a lot of the wealthy
00:58:05.480
politicians and corrupt politicians in those countries who take that foreign aid and waste
00:58:09.140
it and squander it. But, you know, it may also even, you know, the average citizen of Nigeria may
00:58:16.680
be harmed by not having that foreign aid. Well, that's Nigeria's problem, isn't it? They're not
00:58:24.860
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cancellation. You know, there have been so many humiliating stories out of Harvard in just the
01:00:28.500
past few weeks that it's difficult to keep track of them all. First, a bunch of student groups signed
01:00:32.860
a petition defending a terrorist attack. And then the university's DEI president was exposed as a
01:00:37.840
serial plagiarist and had to resign in disgrace. Not to be outdone, a few weeks later, Harvard's head
01:00:42.560
of DEI was also proven to be a plagiarist. Harvard just ignored that story because by that point,
01:00:47.580
they realized half of their faculty is probably plagiarizing all the time. And this all happened
01:00:52.280
shortly after Harvard's affirmative action policy was struck down by the Supreme Court in a landmark
01:00:57.200
case that revealed Harvard's systemic discrimination against white and Asian applicants for the past
01:01:01.380
several decades. Given this background, if you were a student at Harvard, it would seem logical to
01:01:08.500
lay low for a little bit. To the extent that Harvard's reputation could possibly get any worse,
01:01:13.160
you don't want to contribute to that decline. You don't want to have a new round of media
01:01:17.560
scrutiny of Harvard, along with all the jokes and mockery that all that inevitably entails.
01:01:23.340
But Harvard's students are taking a very different approach. They are evidently committed
01:01:27.320
to decolonizing Harvard, by which I mean completely destroying it and leaving nothing
01:01:32.760
behind whatsoever. Which, you know, fine, if that's what they want to do. That's the leading
01:01:38.880
theory at the moment for why Harvard's student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, just ran this headline.
01:01:43.660
Quote, more than 30 Harvard students hunger strike for 12 hours in solidarity with brown protesters.
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That's right. We're told that more than 30 Harvard students did not eat for a grand total of 12 hours.
01:02:00.220
Outside of Harvard, you know, this is called skipping lunch or like eating a late breakfast.
01:02:05.640
And some people have joked that this is just intermittent fasting, really. But the truth is,
01:02:09.380
it's not even that. Intermittent fasting usually involves going without a meal for longer than 12
01:02:14.680
hours. It could be 16 hours or longer than that. So this is a hunger strike that doesn't quite rise
01:02:20.480
to the level of fasting for weight loss. Yet even still, at Harvard, this is a breathtaking act of
01:02:26.260
solidarity with the deeply oppressed students at another Ivy League university, Brown, where the cost
01:02:31.460
of attendance is more than $80,000 a year. You know, we're all supposed to be very impressed that
01:02:36.800
these Harvard students claim that they didn't eat three square meals for one day. And it was supposed
01:02:42.260
to be very inspirational to those other Ivy League students who were also on a hunger strike. Now,
01:02:46.780
here's how the story in the Crimson covers a strike. Quote, more than 30 pro-Palestinian Harvard
01:02:52.860
students participated in a 12-hour hunger strike Friday in solidarity with 17 students at Brown University
01:02:58.400
who refused to eat for eight days to pressure the Brown Corporation to divest from Israel.
01:03:03.980
Of course, it's not in my nature to be cynical in any way, as you know. But even so, this paragraph
01:03:09.460
did raise my eyebrows a little bit. According to the Harvard Crimson, 17 students at Brown didn't eat
01:03:17.680
for eight days because they're mad at Israel or whatever. Now, admittedly, not eating for eight
01:03:22.820
days, that's impressive. That's more impressive than skipping one meal. Eight days, that's legit.
01:03:27.660
That's a legit hunger strike. We're not talking about skipping a meal. We're talking about a real
01:03:34.440
fast. But of course, we don't have any proof that this actually happened. It's just a claim that the
01:03:39.720
Brown students are making, which means it's almost certainly a lie. I mean, obviously,
01:03:43.620
anyone can just claim that they've been hunger striking for eight days. I could tell you right
01:03:48.160
now that I've been on a hunger strike since last April. You can't prove me wrong, unless you happen
01:03:52.860
to be behind me in line at Chipotle last night, but the rest of you can't prove it. Even so,
01:03:59.360
I do love the idea of these Harvard students joining an alleged eight-day hunger strike in
01:04:05.200
solidarity, but only maintaining their solidarity strike for 12 hours. They skip lunch while these
01:04:14.080
other students are supposedly starving themselves. So it's like if somebody is self-immolating as an act
01:04:20.640
of protest, they're setting themselves on fire. And you go up and stand next to them and say,
01:04:25.140
I stand with you in solidarity. And then you give yourself, I don't know, a mild burn by
01:04:29.080
dipping your pinky finger in hot tea. It's the thought that counts, I suppose, but
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probably would have been better to just do nothing at that point.
01:04:37.880
And what about those students at Brown? How did their strike end? Well, here's what the Crimson
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article says. Quote, 19 students at Brown began the strike, which is originally indefinite,
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on February 2nd, ahead of the Brown Corporation's planned meetings beginning February 8th.
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The students intended to strike until the Brown Corporation considered a resolution
01:04:54.440
to divest from companies which profit from human rights abuses in Palestine.
01:04:59.000
But they ended the strike after Brown University President Christina H. Paxson
01:05:03.260
denied their request, citing now-obsolete demands. Well, that's a little embarrassing.
01:05:10.780
They starved themselves for eight days in order to force Brown University to comply with their
01:05:14.880
demands. But then Brown University just said, uh, nah, sorry, no. And so they ended it awkwardly.
01:05:22.500
The article continues, the 17 students ended their strike at 5 p.m. on February 9th, along with
01:05:27.020
Harvard demonstrators and more than 200 other Brown students who fasted for 32 hours in solidarity.
01:05:32.580
Quote, to send solidarity to Brown Divest Coalition for their incredible hunger strike, 30-plus Harvard
01:05:38.280
students committed to a day-long hunger strike to prove to the university corporations that we will
01:05:42.500
not back down. The Harvard undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Coalition wrote in an Instagram post on
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Friday. So they wanted to prove they wouldn't back down, but of course they did back down.
01:05:53.800
This is one of the problems with the hunger strike, because if you're not prepared to go all the way,
01:05:57.960
if you aren't ready to actually starve yourself to death, then the whole thing is meaningless.
01:06:02.800
Because then your threat is not, well, you all better do what I do, do what I want, or I'm going to die.
01:06:10.580
Which, even that threat is not, I mean, that's not the best leverage to use against somebody.
01:06:15.400
You're threatening, you know, that's your own peril. You're putting yourself at peril,
01:06:20.820
in peril to try to get someone else to do something. And I think very often the other person's going to
01:06:24.740
say, well, okay, I mean, I hope you don't starve yourself to death, but that's your choice.
01:06:30.580
It's not going to affect what I do. That's not even the threat. Instead, the threat is,
01:06:34.960
you all better do what I want, or else I'm going to have to end this protest without getting any
01:06:39.200
concessions, and then I'll be really embarrassed. You better do what I want, or I'm going to be very
01:06:44.360
embarrassed. I'm not sure why either blackmail strategy should be successful, but the second
01:06:49.080
one is especially impotent. Now, granted, to be completely fair, by the standards of left-wing
01:06:53.920
activists, 12 hours is still pretty impressive. You may remember last summer when a Texas
01:06:59.440
congressman named Greg Kassar made the bold decision to go on an eight-hour thirst strike
01:07:06.020
in protest of an alleged law in Texas that was eliminating water breaks for construction workers.
01:07:11.180
And I think we talked about this at the time, but it was a lot of fun. Let's just revisit that
01:07:15.340
episode again. Congressman Greg Kassar is holding the thirst strike for workers' rights
01:07:22.280
on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. I'm on thirst strike all day today, meaning no food, no water,
01:07:29.220
and no breaks off the Capitol steps in the sun and in the rain to push back against Governor Abbott,
01:07:35.280
taking water breaks away from Texas workers in this historic heat wave. The Austin area congressman
01:07:41.120
wants OSHA to establish federally mandated heat protections for workers. We call on and push the
01:07:47.520
Biden administration to solve this once and for all and put in a federal heat standard.
01:07:51.820
Kassar was joined in Washington, D.C. by union leaders from Texas and across the country.
01:07:58.760
Now, politically, this eight-hour thirst strike didn't accomplish anything, but it did give us
01:08:02.500
this enduring image of a pained Greg Kassar getting his vitals checked by a nurse on the Capitol steps,
01:08:08.460
which was a lot of fun. And this is a photo that the congressman tweeted out, by the way. He was proud
01:08:12.520
of this moment. He was proud he went eight hours without drinking water, something that nobody has
01:08:16.460
ever done, except for when everyone in the world does it every night while they're sleeping. But it
01:08:21.540
wasn't for the fact that, you know, this was the least impressive political demonstration of all
01:08:24.700
time. It would actually be pretty impressive. Not that it matters, by the way, but the reason for
01:08:28.920
Greg Kassar's strike was totally fabricated, obviously. And you should know that without even looking into
01:08:35.560
it, just like Texas did not pass a law eliminating water breaks. Why would they do that? If you really
01:08:42.400
see your political opponents as actual cartoon villains, then maybe you would believe that.
01:08:47.640
But they didn't. In fact, they didn't pass a law that says anything about water breaks at all.
01:08:51.940
So the whole thing was completely made up. But that's okay, because Greg Kassar's water strike
01:08:55.400
wasn't about the non-existent law. It was about Greg Kassar. It was an opportunity for him to virtue signal,
01:09:01.100
which is, of course, the primary motivating factor behind virtually all left-wing activism.
01:09:06.280
Especially hunger strikes. It's all about the individual showing off. And that is why
01:09:10.700
hunger strikes, all of them, are today canceled. That's going to do it for the show today.
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Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Godspeed.