The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1315 - We Need To Respect Black Culture By Getting Rid Of Laws, Says MSNBC

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a new MSNBC special about race in America claims that we can solve

00:00:04.340 crime overnight by simply getting rid of the legal concept of crime. This is how we respect

00:00:09.760 black culture, we're told. Also, the head of the Department of Homeland Security has been impeached

00:00:13.860 in an unprecedented but highly warranted move. A Democrat congresswoman calls for a $50 minimum 1.00

00:00:19.000 wage, and students at Harvard inspire the world with a 12-hour hunger strike. All of that and

00:00:24.180 more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:59.220 One pattern that has emerged over the past four presidential elections ever since Barack Obama

00:02:03.640 is that the national conversation as directed by the media shifts back to race right around the time

00:02:09.840 that the primaries are wrapping up. And of course, the primaries are still happening on the GOP side,

00:02:14.260 technically, if you count Nikki Haley as a real presidential candidate. But if you realize that

00:02:18.700 she is at this point simply running to be the next overpaid CNN contributor, you understand the

00:02:23.300 primaries ended weeks ago, which means that it's now time for the race cycle to begin anew.

00:02:29.180 And right on cue, MSNBC released a new special this month called Black Men in America, The Road to

00:02:35.200 2024. Now, based on the title and based on the timing and based on the fact that it's MSNBC,

00:02:40.900 you might assume that the show automatically is going to consist of a bunch of mindless race 1.00

00:02:45.980 baiting. You might make the presumption without seeing a single second of it. You might just

00:02:50.960 write it off without giving it a chance under the assumption that it's going to be nothing but 1.00

00:02:54.840 idiotic, dimwitted, racial grievance mongering. You might assume all of that. And you would, 1.00

00:03:02.100 of course, be entirely correct. Yet, as you'll see in the clip that I'm about to show you,

00:03:06.700 it still manages to limbo its way under the incredibly low bar that you have already set for

00:03:12.920 it in your mind, which is, which is quite a feat. Watch.

00:03:18.900 We can get rid of all the crime in America overnight, just like that. And people ask how

00:03:24.820 Attorney Crump changed the definition of crime. Of course, if you get to define what conduct

00:03:31.180 is going to be made criminal, you can predict who the criminal is going to be.

00:03:35.620 It sounds like we are criminal, though. Our existence is criminal.

00:03:38.700 No, no, no. They made the laws that were.

00:03:40.120 They made the laws to criminalize our culture.

00:03:42.280 To fit us.

00:03:42.840 Black culture. 0.59

00:03:44.080 I mean, and so when I think of Eric Gordon, I always think of stuff like that.

00:03:47.740 Moose is cigarettes.

00:03:48.840 I did nothing. We sit here the whole time. Why not business?

00:03:52.920 What are you telling you?

00:03:53.420 I watched you.

00:03:54.440 Who about you threw up? Who got to sell cigarettes to?

00:03:56.100 Don't touch me, please. 0.99

00:03:57.100 Black, touch me. 1.00

00:03:58.020 You got to lose his life. 1.00

00:04:01.960 Yeah. And then George Floyd was trying to buy cigarettes and so forth. So you have to

00:04:07.380 think about the profiling things that they come up with, the profilers for. Pre-test your

00:04:12.680 reasons. And it happens every day, Al. They will come and say, you can't wear baggy pants.

00:04:18.460 Make that a crime.

00:04:19.880 You can't have milk cartons in your yard. Make that a crime. 1.00

00:04:24.540 Now, as you can see, that's Ben Crump pretending to shoot pool with Al Sharpton. In other words,

00:04:29.960 it's the neo-Al Sharpton with the old Al Sharpton. It's like broadband Al Sharpton with dial-up Al

00:04:36.080 Sharpton. And Ben Crump is what happens when you clone Al Sharpton, but you remove his hair and the

00:04:42.160 three brain cells that he had, and you end up with Ben Crump. Because that's the thing you notice

00:04:48.060 about Crump, is that he is objectively speaking, and I say this in a medical sense. I don't mean this

00:04:53.080 as an insult. It's just, it's a, like a medical term. He's a moron. In fact, his, his very existence

00:04:58.880 single-handedly and ironically disproves systemic racism. Because there's simply no way that a black

00:05:06.520 guy this aggressively mediocre, this consistently unimpressive, this simple-minded and ridiculous 1.00

00:05:14.020 could ever achieve the success he's achieved in a country that was systemically racist against black 1.00

00:05:19.160 guys. Now, sure, even in a country with systemic racism, you could still end up with brilliant and

00:05:24.300 innovative people who managed to succeed in spite of it. So the existence of successful black people 1.00

00:05:29.840 doesn't in and of itself disprove systemic racism. You know, a million other things disprove it,

00:05:35.220 but, but not that. But Ben Crump specifically, I mean, this guy, you want to tell me this guy

00:05:41.860 rose to the top despite having the entire system arrayed against him?

00:05:45.900 No. I mean, obviously the truth is quite the opposite. The system favors guys like Crump,

00:05:51.420 which is the only reason anyone knows his name. By all rights, the pinnacle of this dude's career

00:05:56.280 should have been like a position no higher than shift manager at Wendy's with no disrespect intended 0.75

00:06:01.140 to shift managers at Wendy's. The point is that his wealth and success is entirely a product

00:06:05.760 of a system designed to move mediocre halfwits like himself to the front. And as if to prove my point, 0.98

00:06:13.100 what does he say? Well, what's the great insight that he offers the world? Well,

00:06:18.640 he says that we can get rid of all the crime in America overnight by changing the definition of

00:06:25.340 crime. Now he's right. Of course, technically crime is a legal designation. If you stop applying that

00:06:34.520 legal designation to things, then it will not be applied to things anymore. And therefore you will

00:06:39.800 have gotten rid of the designation. Stop calling murder, robbery, and rape crimes. And just like

00:06:47.880 that, presto chango, the crimes of murder, robbery, and rape have disappeared. This is evidently what

00:06:54.360 Crump, a guy with a law degree somehow wants to see happen. Of course, the problem is that by getting

00:07:01.500 rid of the crimes of murder, robbery, and rape, you have not gotten rid of the actions of murder,

00:07:07.360 robbery, and rape. People are still being murdered, robbed, and raped. In fact, at an even higher rate

00:07:12.420 now, most likely, but it doesn't count in the books. You know, the assailants aren't being

00:07:17.140 brought to justice. The victims have nowhere to turn for redress. All the bad things are still

00:07:21.600 happening, but the law is covering its eyes and plugging its ears and pretending that it's not

00:07:25.560 happening. And that's what happens when you get rid of crime, as Crump suggests. And in fact,

00:07:32.320 we don't even need to speak of this theoretically. Every major city in America has adopted a strategy

00:07:37.020 like this to one degree or another. Every major city, thanks in large part to Soros-funded Marxist

00:07:41.860 DAs, has decided to reduce crime by not fighting it. They've decided to create fewer criminals

00:07:49.640 by not calling the criminals criminals. As a result, most of these places are unlivable

00:07:55.200 hellscapes, which is not a problem for Ben Crump, whose firm rakes in tens of millions of dollars a year.

00:08:00.480 So he's not living in these crime-infested sewers that ambulance-chasing con artists like

00:08:06.220 himself have helped to create. Now, Crump then goes on to claim that laws, any law, I guess,

00:08:13.460 has the effect of criminalizing black culture, he says. He gives the example of Eric Garner,

00:08:19.160 who died, as you'll remember, one of the, not the first, but one of the first BLM martyrs.

00:08:26.820 And he just died while police attempted to take him into custody for selling loose cigarettes.

00:08:31.620 Now, the law against loose cigarettes, it's not as important as, or essential as laws against

00:08:37.380 murder and robbery. But the policy does make perfect sense. You aren't allowed to buy a pack of

00:08:45.420 cigarettes from the convenience store and then stand outside that convenience store selling each

00:08:51.000 individual cigarette to people walking by on the street. Why can't you do that? Well,

00:08:55.560 that's not very fair to the convenience store, for one thing. And for another, there are all kinds of

00:09:00.300 additional laws governing the sale of tobacco products, laws that cannot be enforced if people

00:09:05.040 are allowed to walk around hawking individual cigarettes on the street corner. Now, it's not the most

00:09:11.400 important law, but it is a law, and it's a law that makes plenty of sense. The question in this case

00:09:17.840 is why Eric Garner couldn't just follow the law. Like, why can't you just follow? It's not hard.

00:09:26.480 Most of us have no problem following that law. It's not a difficult law to follow. It's not onerous.

00:09:31.940 Is it black culture, quote unquote, to simply disregard whatever law you personally find 0.97

00:09:36.520 inconvenient? That seems to be the claim that Ben Crump is making. But all that is irrelevant

00:09:41.660 anyway, because Garner didn't die because he sold loose cigarettes. Cops, despite how it's always

00:09:48.160 framed, cops did not show up and stage a public execution as a penalty for selling loosies, as

00:09:56.060 they're called. No, they tried to arrest him because he's committing a crime, and their job as police

00:10:01.680 is to enforce the law. That's it. And he resisted, and in the struggle, he lost his life. Why resist?

00:10:09.920 What's that going to achieve? What possible good can come from it? Even if you disagree with the law

00:10:15.820 that you broke. Even if you didn't break a law. Even if you're being falsely accused. Even if you're

00:10:22.940 completely innocent. Okay? No matter the situation, how does resisting arrest help your case? What good

00:10:31.100 will it do for you? Like, what is the plan? Walk me through the steps. Step one, resist arrest.

00:10:40.620 Step two, unknown. Step three, you get to go home and have a pleasant day. All right, I guess that's

00:10:47.700 the thought process, right, for all these BLM martyrs. What is the second step, though? We really

00:10:53.120 got to fill in the blank there. Can Ben Crump explain that? What is it that you think will happen

00:10:57.980 at step number two that will lead to step number three? Now that you've started with step one,

00:11:03.360 which is resisting arrest? What should it be? Did Eric Garner think that if he declined to be

00:11:09.380 arrested, the cops would just say, oh, so you don't want to be arrested? Oh, you'd prefer not to be

00:11:16.240 arrested this particular afternoon? Well, never mind then, good sir. Please be on your way. Our apologies.

00:11:20.700 Was that the idea? Well, we know the answer. There was no thought process behind it. He didn't have

00:11:27.080 any ideas at all. He just was acting in a totally thoughtless, self-destructive manner, responding to

00:11:32.660 a situation in a way that was guaranteed to make the situation worse, no matter what. Like, no matter

00:11:37.560 what happens, even if you don't die in the process, the result will be worse than it would have been

00:11:43.060 if you had just complied. So making the situation worse intentionally, is that black culture, 1.00

00:11:50.500 according to Crump? Crump also mentions George Floyd. He says that Floyd was another man arrested

00:11:55.580 for participating in black culture. What was the culture in that case? Floyd was trying to pass off

00:12:02.340 a forged $20 bill. I mean, this is what a, this is what a, just a liar this guy, this is what a dumb 1.00

00:12:08.820 liar, Ben Crump is. They said, well, George Floyd was just trying to buy cigarettes. Yeah, with a forged 1.00

00:12:14.100 $20 bill. Like, that was the problem. It's not that he was buying a cigarette. They weren't showing up.

00:12:20.780 He didn't go to buy a cigarette, and then the convenience store called the cops and said, hey,

00:12:25.040 someone just came and bought a cigarette. Go arrest him. That's not a crime. You're allowed to do that.

00:12:31.180 But using forged money is a crime. Shouldn't it be? Like, should we be okay with that?

00:12:37.820 Should we just get rid of the laws against forged dollar bills? So you can go in with monopoly money

00:12:44.620 and buy something, and no one's going to stop you? So is that black culture using forged dollars? 0.99

00:12:53.980 Is that the black culture he's talking about? He was overdosing on fentanyl. Is that black culture? 1.00

00:12:59.820 Now, I'm not asking these questions rhetorically. I would really like to hear Crump's answer.

00:13:04.320 I'd like to hear the answer from any of these race baiters who talk about black culture.

00:13:10.060 What is it? I'd like to know what you consider black culture to be.

00:13:15.120 Now, I wouldn't personally call any of that black culture, but I will say that if it was black culture, 0.97

00:13:21.120 then guess what? The culture needs to change. Okay? If your culture, as Ben Crump seems to think,

00:13:27.900 let's just go with Ben Crump's argument for a minute. This is what he's saying.

00:13:30.540 He's saying that all these things are black culture. Committing crimes, using drugs, overdosing, 0.95

00:13:38.540 resisting arrest, going out of your way to make your life more difficult,

00:13:43.560 being insanely self-destructive all the time. It's his argument that that is black culture. 1.00

00:13:50.800 Okay, well then, what I would say to that is that if that is black culture, then your culture is 0.96

00:13:58.880 deeply flawed. It is terminally sick, and it needs to change. You see, the law doesn't need to change 0.99

00:14:08.840 to accommodate your culture. Your culture needs to accommodate the fact that it exists in a civilized

00:14:15.520 society with laws. That is the job of you and your culture to accommodate. We don't need to get rid

00:14:23.300 of all the laws and make exceptions and say, oh, you know what? Actually, you don't have to get

00:14:27.740 arrested if you don't want to, and thereby invite the collapse of civilization itself just for your

00:14:34.440 culture. Your culture needs to get with the program, if that is what your culture is. Now, naturally,

00:14:40.380 Crump only talks about the laws against loose cigarettes and milk cartons and baggy pants,

00:14:46.520 he mentions, as if anyone is actually being arrested for having baggy pants. When's the

00:14:51.300 last time that happened? He completely ignores the obvious fact that black men are arrested every day 0.96

00:14:56.680 in every city in America for committing actual violent crimes. Okay, young black men are not landing 1.00

00:15:02.580 in prison because of their milk cartons. Okay, there's not a lot of people that are in the prison

00:15:06.780 yard right now. Oh, what'd you do? How'd you get here? Ah, milk cartons. Yep, too many milk cartons

00:15:12.160 in the yard. Got 10 to 15 for that one. Hard time. No, that's not what's happening. But Crump,

00:15:19.680 of course, doesn't want to acknowledge that because he's a liar and he's evil and he doesn't care how 1.00

00:15:26.160 many people die or how many black men get themselves killed by making the worst possible 1.00

00:15:32.180 decisions. He doesn't care about any of that as long as he can personally profit off of it. 0.99

00:15:38.920 Now, I began this by saying that Crump is stupid and he certainly is. Just like Al Sharpton is stupid, 1.00

00:15:45.640 many of these race baiters are just very, very dumb. And you can't listen to them talk for more 1.00

00:15:49.960 than five seconds without arriving at that conclusion. It's inevitable. But like any other

00:15:54.720 race baiter, he also knows exactly what he's doing. He pretends to speak up for black culture, 0.93

00:16:00.380 whatever he thinks that is exactly, while at the same time doing everything he can to make black 1.00

00:16:06.940 communities more dangerous, poorer, bleaker, more miserable. Okay, it's not the white man 1.00

00:16:14.440 keeping black communities down. It's men like Ben Crump and he deserves to be held accountable for it. 1.00

00:16:24.120 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:17:37.100 Okay, it's good to be another fun show where my voice sounds like a dying toad or something,

00:17:42.120 even more than it usually does. And, you know, it's like a bi-monthly tradition at this point,

00:17:48.560 which is a consequence of having six kids. Having a large family is a great joy. I highly recommend it.

00:17:56.520 So there are some challenges that come with it. And one is that, you know, when you have six kids,

00:18:03.680 it's like, it is like opening a Wuhan virus lab in your living room. It's just a constant petri dish

00:18:11.640 for every disease that kids love to bring into the house. So that's one of the challenges. But you know

00:18:17.100 it's, there's, there's, there's downsides to everything in life. I think it's a small price

00:18:22.880 to pay ultimately. So last night, the House of Representatives voted to impeach the Secretary

00:18:28.820 of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas. And he became the first sitting cabinet secretary to be

00:18:34.840 impeached in the history of the United States. So this is a big deal. You know, this is, this is

00:18:42.160 actually a historic political event. And it maybe doesn't feel like that for one thing,

00:18:49.060 because the media doesn't have a lot of interest in talking about this. But, but also because

00:18:53.900 that we read it, we're at a clip right now where there are historic political events happening

00:18:59.680 every three or four weeks. You know, we've got former presidents being indicted and all to try

00:19:07.100 and send him to prison. So it's like, we have reached a point in history where there's unprecedented

00:19:13.060 things happening a lot, which by the way, is not a good sign. Okay. It's maybe a little bit more

00:19:19.720 boring when you don't have a lot of unprecedented political events and just things are going on as

00:19:25.040 normal. And it's kind of as it's always been a little bit more boring that way, but that's a sign

00:19:30.080 of stability, which is what you want. Okay. You actually don't want your, uh, the political

00:19:37.840 landscape to be, to be very interesting. That's a bad. Now it's good for the media. It's good for if

00:19:44.580 you're, if you, you know, are, are in my, in my business. So it's actually not a good sign or a good

00:19:49.540 thing when there are interesting, fascinating, unprecedented political events happening all the

00:19:55.140 time, uh, as, as advantageous as it is for the media. And even in my business gives us a lot to

00:20:00.940 talk about, but I'd much prefer for it to be the other way. You know, you think back to the nineties

00:20:05.000 and, um, the big political scandal, of course, of the nineties, the thing that was that the most

00:20:12.220 fascinating political event of the nineties, uh, certainly the latter half of the nineties was

00:20:16.320 Monica Lewinsky. And, but you look back on that now, it's like quaint by comparison that, that wouldn't

00:20:22.280 even, that's the same thing happened again. It wouldn't, it would not get that level of attention.

00:20:28.060 Um, and again, not a great sign. So, uh, he's being impeached and the charges, uh, willful and

00:20:36.280 systemic refusal to comply with the law and breaching the public trust. And now if you read the Washington

00:20:42.480 post or you watch CNN, you'll hear that this impeachment is futile. Um, a two thirds super

00:20:47.660 majority, the Democrat controlled Senate is needed to convict Mayorkas. And of course that isn't

00:20:54.480 going to happen. So just like the two Trump impeachments, this will ultimately die in the

00:20:58.520 Senate. And, and that's, of course it's true. It's, he's not actually going to be convicted,

00:21:03.060 but there's a big difference between Trump's impeachment trials and the upcoming trial of

00:21:09.420 Mayorkas. And it's that, uh, Mayorkas's trial isn't really about him. Like the, the point

00:21:17.560 of the exercise, it's not a, it's not to prevent him from running for office or anything like that.

00:21:22.460 I don't think we're too worried about that. Um, now he's the one named in the impeachment,

00:21:26.580 but Mayorkas's trial will inevitably focus on the Biden administration and their broader effort to

00:21:33.780 facilitate a foreign invasion. That's what it's about. This is a policy that has flooded hospitals.

00:21:40.600 You know, it's, uh, totally destroyed American sovereignty. Um, it's cost thousands of American

00:21:48.460 lives, gang violence, drug trafficking, human trafficking, uh, which, which is to say nothing

00:21:56.040 of all the job opportunities that have been stolen and everything else, which is why, you know,

00:22:01.420 an impeachment trial done right can answer some really important questions. And that's why I think

00:22:07.460 that this is, I think it's smart politically, uh, for the statement that it makes. And I also think

00:22:13.900 that it, again, answers questions that need to be answered. And you could say, by the way, you could

00:22:19.460 say that, well, we shouldn't just be impeaching people to make a political statement. We shouldn't

00:22:23.980 be impeaching someone if we know that they can't be convicted. It's a waste of time. It's a waste of

00:22:28.440 taxpayer dollars to do it sort of symbolically as a statement is, uh, we shouldn't be doing that.

00:22:33.620 So you could say that, but unfortunately, no matter how you might feel about that,

00:22:40.280 that particular toothpaste has, is out of the tube and, uh, and it's not going back in

00:22:45.200 because this is the precedent that the Democrats set with, with Donald Trump. This is the game. This

00:22:53.160 is how they decided that this is how the game is played. And so if you're on the other side,

00:22:59.020 you have two choices. One is you can let them operate by their own set of rules and you can

00:23:05.020 give them that advantage, right? So it's like, you could sit down and play monopoly with them

00:23:09.640 and, and you can play by the rules of monopoly while, while they say, while they just make up their

00:23:18.120 own rules, you know, and they say, well, I could take money from the bank whenever I want, or, you

00:23:22.640 know, I don't have to go to jail when it says land on go to go directly to jail. No, for me,

00:23:26.140 I don't have to do that. Oh, for me, you know, instead of getting $200 every time I pass go,

00:23:31.360 um, I get, I get $200 every time I pass around a turn. So I get $200 four times around the board.

00:23:39.260 Those are the rules for me. So, so if you're playing monopoly, let's just say with someone

00:23:45.860 like that, you can either, uh, continue respecting the rules and let them just make up their own

00:23:54.080 rules. And then you'll definitely lose. And the whole thing is pointless. It's like, you're not

00:23:59.060 even playing monopoly anymore because they've decided not to play by the rules. So this, whatever

00:24:02.640 this is, it's not even monopoly. That's their choice. Um, so you could do that and just volunteer

00:24:09.380 to lose, or you could say, okay, well, if those are the rules that you've made up, then I'm going

00:24:15.660 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 1.00

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, 0.55

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 1.00

00:29:30.300 boys competition. So he wants, this is a boy competing against girls. He's an inch higher than any other 0.83

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.66

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. 1.00

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 0.58

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 0.98

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 0.70

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 0.97

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 0.91

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. 0.68

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,

00:46:31.000 and, uh, you're getting paid minimum wage,

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. 0.55

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 0.99

00:47:43.420 and everyone else is screwed too. Maybe that makes you feel better because everyone else is in a bad 0.99

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

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00:50:04.640 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, 0.94

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, 0.93

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 0.62

00:52:11.460 invade and conquer all of Europe, then that would certainly affect us. I think we could say that 0.98

00:52:18.740 if the whole European continent is conquered by Russia, you know, certainly changes the balance 0.78

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 0.94

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 0.98

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 1.00

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. 0.93

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, 0.99

00:54:23.820 but there is a difference between our government spending money, uh, ostensibly on in America 1.00

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, 1.00

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. 0.94

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 0.99

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 0.92

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

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01:00:18.400 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 0.96

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.

01:01:52.160 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, 1.00

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

01:04:34.220 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 0.94

01:04:41.120 article says. Quote, 19 students at Brown began the strike, which is originally indefinite,

01:04:45.780 on February 2nd, ahead of the Brown Corporation's planned meetings beginning February 8th.

01:04:51.160 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

01:05:48.040 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.

01:09:15.980 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Godspeed.

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