The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1324 - Haiti Descends Into Chaos As Our Borders Remain Wide Open

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, violent gangs have taken control of the country of Haiti.

00:00:03.760 This is a very bad time for our borders to be wide open.

00:00:06.620 We'll discuss also in one of the most insane moves we've seen from an insane president,

00:00:10.420 President Biden apologized over the weekend for calling Lakin Reilly's killer illegal.

00:00:15.020 Plus, Robert De Niro offers a terrifying dystopian vision of the future if Donald Trump is reelected.

00:00:19.860 And thousands of kids called their congressional representatives last week,

00:00:22.540 panicked over a bill that would supposedly ban TikTok,

00:00:25.380 which only goes to show why we should ban TikTok.

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00:01:56.080 Well, the news out of Haiti the past few weeks has not been very good.

00:01:59.760 And this should come as no great surprise, as the news out of Haiti has not been very good for the past, oh, 200 years or so.

00:02:05.560 It is, of course, one of the most miserable and destitute places in the world.

00:02:09.240 60% of the country lives below the poverty line.

00:02:11.860 Average life expectancy is under 65.

00:02:13.740 I could go on listing depressing statistics, but that's probably not necessary.

00:02:18.080 And yet, somehow recently, life in Haiti has gotten even worse.

00:02:22.180 The situation has sunk below Haiti's already extremely low baseline.

00:02:26.820 If you lived in the country, you would right now be pining for the old days when you were merely miserable, starving, and destitute.

00:02:34.480 Because that was far better than what's happening now.

00:02:36.940 What's happening now is that the Haitian government, to the extent that it ever existed, has collapsed.

00:02:41.880 Violent gangs have taken over the country, are prowling the streets, executing people at random.

00:02:46.980 The Washington Post describes the scene, quote,

00:02:49.220 On a ride through the gang-controlled streets of Haiti's capital on Friday, past an improvised barricade, the motorcycle taxi reached a crossroad.

00:02:58.560 First came the smell of something burning.

00:03:00.980 Then the sight, a corpse, charred black, lying in the middle of the street, its bones and feet sticking out of a pile of ash.

00:03:06.900 The night before, Jimmy Barsicot, a carpenter who lives nearby, heard two gunshots.

00:03:12.000 Peering carefully out his window, checking his watch, it was 8.24 p.m., he saw two men drive away, leaving the body behind, not far from a university administration's office and one of Haiti's largest telecommunications companies.

00:03:23.740 A few hours later, he said, the men returned and burned the remains.

00:03:26.200 The streets of Port-au-Prince reek with the stench of the dead.

00:03:29.700 It's a grisly new marker of the violence and dysfunction in this beleaguered Caribbean nation of 11 million people. 0.99

00:03:34.860 In the absence of a functioning state, violent armed gangs have taken control of more than 80% of the capital, according to the United Nations.

00:03:41.380 Gunfire crackles at all hours.

00:03:43.100 Residents who dare leave their homes stumble across bodies that have been left where they fell.

00:03:47.880 Port-au-Prince reached a high of 92 degrees on Friday.

00:03:50.480 The smell of decaying corpses, human rights activists say, has driven some people from their homes.

00:03:56.940 So it's a terrible picture, and it will only get worse.

00:03:59.940 And it only gets worse the more you look.

00:04:02.260 Consider the guy who has now seized control of the country, a notorious gang leader who goes by the moniker Barbecue,

00:04:09.020 and who has launched a war against the remnants of the Haitian government while attacking prisons and freeing thousands of violent criminals in order to then recruit them into his gang.

00:04:17.720 And if you're assuming that, you know, there must be some horrific reason why the Haitian warlord has been nicknamed Barbecue, you're right. 0.98

00:04:27.020 That's exactly what you think.

00:04:28.020 Reportedly, he earned the nickname due to his habit of setting people on fire.

00:04:32.180 In fact, Barbecue has been basically the de facto leader of Haiti for a while now.

00:04:36.580 And this is in spite of the fact that nearly a year and a half ago, the UN leveled sanctions on Barbecue.

00:04:42.480 As NBC News reported at the time, it was a move that was supposed to bring about, quote, more peaceful days.

00:04:48.820 Watch.

00:04:50.380 Now, the United Nations Security Council also weighing in, their eyes set on Jimmy Chetessier, also known as Barbecue,

00:04:58.320 over the role his G9 gang has played in a blockade of Haiti's principal fuel terminal. 0.74

00:05:03.440 A move that has dried up fuel supplies as the country already suffers from a water shortage due to a cholera outbreak that's putting 1.2 million children at risk.

00:05:15.120 Schools are closed, hospitals are closed, and farmers are having trouble bringing their goods to the market.

00:05:19.740 The United States stepping up and targeting those in support of gangs, leading to visa sanctions on 11 people so far.

00:05:27.220 And China saying it supports the UN's plan to sanction gang leaders.

00:05:32.940 A move that could perhaps be a step toward more peaceful days.

00:05:39.220 Well, that didn't work out, shockingly.

00:05:41.620 These sternly worded letters to the third world gang leader named Barbecue somehow didn't have any noticeable effect.

00:05:48.080 Barbecue did not listen to the UN's press conferences or read their letters and say,

00:05:52.420 gee, you know what, these folks are right, I should stop brutalizing innocent people.

00:05:55.660 I hadn't really thought of it like that.

00:05:57.900 That was not his response, which no doubt came as a shock to the UN.

00:06:02.160 And now things have gotten so bad that according to reports circulating all over social media,

00:06:06.360 the violent gangs terrorizing Haiti have even resorted to cannibalism.

00:06:10.600 That's the thing about Haiti. 0.79

00:06:12.040 If it's proven anything over the past couple centuries, it's proven that a bad situation can always get worse.

00:06:16.540 And the worst situation can get even worse than that.

00:06:19.580 Unfortunately for us here in the United States,

00:06:21.460 Haiti is a violent, war-torn, failed state that happens to sit not very far from our own borders, 0.75

00:06:27.960 which means that we have already been taking in thousands of illegal Haitian migrants every year,

00:06:33.800 and those numbers are only going to go up.

00:06:35.700 How many of the illegal Haitian migrants are members of the brutal gangs terrorizing their country?

00:06:41.000 How many are escaped prisoners?

00:06:43.500 Remember, again, the prisons have been emptied.

00:06:47.200 How many of them are ending up in our country?

00:06:50.240 And now we must even ask, apparently, how many are cannibals?

00:06:54.580 These are questions that the Biden administration certainly won't concern itself with and hasn't concerned itself with.

00:07:00.420 We'll be called to open our arms to the downtrodden Haitians, 1.00

00:07:03.840 even if that means our arms will be chopped off and eaten for breakfast.

00:07:07.300 But that's not the point we're focusing on right now.

00:07:10.500 As important as the point is, there's something else that should be mentioned.

00:07:14.960 Because instead, recent events in Haiti have prompted a bit of a trip down memory lane

00:07:19.600 for some conservatives on social media who have reminded us about one of the many frivolous media-invented controversies

00:07:26.380 of the first Trump administration.

00:07:27.780 You may recall that way back in 2018, the left became outraged and deeply offended 0.99

00:07:32.680 when it was reported that President Trump had referred to Haiti as a shithole or crap hole, 0.99

00:07:38.420 as I will call it, so that we don't have to keep bleeping it. 0.98

00:07:40.660 According to reports at the time, Trump referred to Haiti and other third-world countries 0.97

00:07:44.140 as crap holes during a discussion with his advisors on immigration. 0.94

00:07:49.880 And it was one of the many times when Trump reportedly said something 0.99

00:07:53.400 that every normal American either has already said or would say. 0.99

00:07:58.360 And certainly no normal person, if they heard someone in their everyday life call Haiti a crap hole, 0.98

00:08:03.380 would respond with shock and horror. 0.96

00:08:06.040 You know, they wouldn't say, well, how could you say that about Haiti?

00:08:08.020 It's a wonderful place.

00:08:09.980 That's not how any normal person would respond.

00:08:12.020 But the media is not comprised of normal people,

00:08:15.020 which is why there was a lengthy outrage cycle, 0.90

00:08:17.740 which was over-the-top and histrionic even by the left's current standards.

00:08:22.520 The media proceeded to spend several days defending the beauty and majesty of the great nation of Haiti.

00:08:29.740 There were many headlines like this from Mother Jones. 0.98

00:08:32.720 Quote, despite it all, Haiti is still not a crap hole. 0.98

00:08:36.500 And this from the Washington Post. 1.00

00:08:38.320 This is how ignorant you have to be to call Haiti a crap hole. 1.00

00:08:42.040 By the way, the title of the Washington Post article that I just read at the start of the monologue 1.00

00:08:46.100 is Haitians shot dead in street and there's no one to take away the corpses. 0.64

00:08:51.360 What a difference a few years make. 0.99

00:08:54.240 I wonder, well, can we call Haiti a crap hole now? 1.00

00:08:57.460 Or would that still be ignorant, according to the Washington Post? 0.99

00:09:02.080 But back to 2018, where this became a subject of discussion and condemnation,

00:09:05.640 not just among the left-wing news outlets,

00:09:08.560 but of course also on the late-night alleged comedy shows as well.

00:09:12.620 Here was, for example, Stephen Colbert registering his profound objections.

00:09:18.660 Listen.

00:09:18.800 This afternoon, he was meeting with lawmakers to discuss immigration policy.

00:09:23.800 Several of these lawmakers suggested lifting restrictions for immigrants from Haiti,

00:09:27.800 El Salvador, and various African countries.

00:09:30.600 Trump reportedly said, 0.97

00:09:31.780 Why are we having all these people from f***hole countries come here? 1.00

00:09:38.060 Sir, they're not f***hole countries. 0.98

00:09:41.780 For one, Donald Trump isn't their president. 0.98

00:09:46.520 Stop.

00:09:47.660 Am I right about that?

00:09:51.060 You got him.

00:09:51.960 Yes, amen.

00:09:52.720 Donald Trump isn't the president of Haiti. 0.68

00:09:54.220 Instead, the de facto president of Haiti is a genocidal warlord named Barbecue. 0.74

00:09:59.900 And he's so much better than Donald Trump.

00:10:01.280 After all, Donald Trump will use vulgar language that hurts your feelings. 0.99

00:10:04.920 Barbecue will hack you into pieces and throw your mangled body into a bonfire, 0.99

00:10:09.660 which I'm sure we can all agree is greatly preferable to having our feelings hurt. 0.96

00:10:14.660 But Colbert wasn't the only late-night host sticking up for Haiti.

00:10:17.940 Conan O'Brien was on the case as well.

00:10:20.160 I was in a meeting last week to discuss immigration policy. 0.96

00:10:24.040 You all know President Trump referred to Haiti and African countries as f***hole countries. 0.96

00:10:30.120 And a lot of people, yeah, thought this was, it's a children's show here now. 0.98

00:10:34.840 Thought this was crude, disrespectful.

00:10:37.060 A lot of people saying this is borderline racist, if not racist.

00:10:40.540 It's pretty racist.

00:10:41.540 Want me to lose borderline?

00:10:42.720 I think you can lose borderline.

00:10:44.500 I'm going to keep it in for now.

00:10:45.880 All right.

00:10:46.080 Anyway, according to witnesses at the meeting,

00:10:48.360 the president singled out the country of Haiti, in particular saying,

00:10:52.340 why do we need more Haitians? 1.00

00:10:54.240 Take them out. 0.98

00:10:55.260 That is apparently a quote.

00:10:57.040 Now, I have no idea what the president has against the people of Haiti,

00:11:00.880 but if the president doesn't like them, they must be lovely people.

00:11:04.680 They really, I mean, it's just...

00:11:07.360 Hilarious jokes.

00:11:12.400 I mean, such a long setup to get to the lamest punchline you can possibly imagine.

00:11:18.240 But lovely people.

00:11:19.640 Absolutely lovely people.

00:11:20.660 Even the cannibals. 1.00

00:11:21.520 They're the loveliest cannibals the world has ever seen.

00:11:24.120 And Conan didn't stop there.

00:11:25.180 He then embarked on a campaign to defend Haiti's reputation.

00:11:29.620 It was a campaign that even had its own merchandise.

00:11:31.880 Watch.

00:11:32.120 This past Saturday, we aired our Conan in Haiti special.

00:11:36.660 And while we were in Haiti, we offered Haitians their own version of Make America Great Again hats. 1.00

00:11:43.600 It's a hat that says, Haiti is great already.

00:11:46.220 We offered it to them and they were quite happy to have it.

00:11:48.320 People really liked the slogan.

00:11:51.320 In Haiti.

00:11:52.260 They liked it so much so that Omaze.com is now exclusively offering this Haiti is great already t-shirt

00:12:02.760 to raise money for two amazing charities that help Haiti and the Haitian people,

00:12:07.960 JPHRO and Artists for Peace and Justice.

00:12:11.640 So go to Omaze.com slash Haiti to buy this great t-shirt and help out the people of Haiti.

00:12:18.080 It really does make a difference.

00:12:19.120 Just imagine walking down the street with no context and seeing somebody wearing that shirt.

00:12:25.460 Haiti is great.

00:12:26.520 Haiti?

00:12:27.440 Haiti is great already.

00:12:29.780 And, you know, just as a general rule here, if you can make a difference for a whole country

00:12:34.100 by selling t-shirts, that's a pretty good indication that it is not, by any reasonable metric, a great country.

00:12:41.460 A second general rule is this.

00:12:42.940 If a country is a failed state stricken by mass poverty and run by criminal gangs led by a guy named Barbecue,

00:12:49.120 it's not a great country.

00:12:50.780 It's not a great country now.

00:12:52.020 It wasn't a great country back then.

00:12:54.380 Despite the claims of leftists who are so determined to oppose Donald Trump on every single point that they were

00:12:59.800 even baited into pretending that Haiti is a utopian paradise, it is not.

00:13:04.700 My dream is that if Trump wins in 2024, the first thing he'll do is declare that it's not a good idea to get into a rocket ship

00:13:13.240 and fly directly into the sun so that maybe Stephen Colbert will try to prove him wrong on that point, too.

00:13:18.760 Oh, yeah?

00:13:19.460 You think the sun isn't a good place to visit?

00:13:21.560 At least Donald Trump isn't president of the sun.

00:13:24.920 Colbert will declare moments before being incinerated.

00:13:27.420 Now, not to belabor a point that normal people don't need explained in the first place,

00:13:31.540 but no, Haiti is not a great country. 0.74

00:13:35.320 It's an awful country, an awful place. 0.88

00:13:38.100 There's nothing great about it.

00:13:39.900 Like, not now, not historically.

00:13:42.420 Just a terrible, terrible place.

00:13:45.240 The word great in this context may have some ambiguity to it.

00:13:51.420 People can define great in different ways, but at the most basic level, a great country is one where its people are generally able to thrive and prosper.

00:14:01.500 Great can mean more than that, but it must mean at least that.

00:14:05.560 It is incoherent to describe a country where almost nobody prospers as great. 0.99

00:14:11.320 It is much more coherent to describe such a country as a crap hole. 0.97

00:14:15.940 Indeed, you can usually detect the crap hole countries and distinguish them from the great countries. 0.98

00:14:21.420 Because people from the crap hole countries are always trying to get into the great countries. 1.00

00:14:27.120 It never goes the other way around. 0.98

00:14:28.700 There has never been, ever, a flood of illegal immigrants from the U.S. going into Haiti.

00:14:36.680 That has never happened.

00:14:38.300 The flood has always gone the other way.

00:14:41.440 And of course, that brings us back to the most important point in all of this.

00:14:45.320 The end result, the self-fulfilling prophecy, we might say, which is that America becomes less great the more it allows unchecked immigration from the very not great countries. 0.99

00:14:59.900 We are not a crap hole like Haiti, but import enough of Haiti into this country, and we might eventually get there. 1.00

00:15:08.380 Then we will be the utopia that Stephen Colbert and Conan O'Brien dream of. 0.97

00:15:16.000 Then maybe they'll wear America's great already hats and walk proudly down the street in that attire before they are descended upon by the cannibal hordes and promptly consumed. 0.89

00:15:26.960 Because that's what greatness is to them, apparently.

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00:16:27.260 Well, you may recall that during the State of the Union address on Thursday, President Biden finally said the name of Lakin Riley, the American woman who was killed by an illegal immigrant, except that he didn't actually say her name because he called her Lincoln Riley. 0.85

00:16:42.220 This is one of those times when Biden's dementia, I think, kind of works in his favor because everybody just assumes that he botched the name because he's a senile brain damaged vegetable.

00:16:55.400 But in reality, although he is a senile brain damaged vegetable, he also just doesn't care at all about this or about Lakin Riley or about her family.

00:17:05.380 And he can't be bothered to say her name correctly.

00:17:08.460 So even if this was 20 years ago and he still had his mental faculties about him, it probably would have had the same result.

00:17:15.600 There would have been the same flub.

00:17:17.520 Well, Biden gave an interview to NBC on Saturday where he was asked about this moment.

00:17:24.320 And he actually apologized.

00:17:26.580 He did apologize.

00:17:28.160 Except the only problem is that the apology was not for the way that he disrespected Lakin Riley and her family.

00:17:34.560 Instead, he apologized for disrespecting the killer.

00:17:38.540 Listen.

00:17:39.760 I noticed the look of surprise on your face when you walked into the chamber and you saw Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.

00:17:46.420 It was priceless.

00:17:47.700 You feigned shock at seeing her.

00:17:50.240 But during your response to her heckling of you, you used the word illegal when talking about the man who allegedly killed Lakin Riley.

00:17:59.520 An undocumented person.

00:18:01.380 And I shouldn't have used illegal.

00:18:02.740 I shouldn't have.

00:18:03.020 It's undocumented.

00:18:03.720 And look, when I spoke about the difference between Trump and me, one of the things I talked about in the border was that his, the way he talks about vermin, the way he talks about these people polluting the blood.

00:18:14.480 I talked about what I'm not going to do, what I won't do.

00:18:17.260 I'm not going to treat any, any, any of these people with disrespect.

00:18:21.680 Look, they built the country.

00:18:23.280 The reason our economy is growing.

00:18:25.080 We have to control the border and more orderly flow.

00:18:27.820 But I don't share his view at all.

00:18:30.220 So you, you, you regret using that word.

00:18:32.620 Yes.

00:18:34.720 Um, so he regrets using the word.

00:18:37.660 He regrets calling the illegal killer illegal, uh, which, I mean, this is obviously deranged.

00:18:42.820 It's morally atrocious.

00:18:43.980 It's monstrous, psychotic, um, many words to describe it.

00:18:49.540 But I'm glad that, that, that Biden is going around saying this kind of stuff out loud, as horrifying as it is, um, because it's good that voters see it and hear it.

00:18:58.940 And now it's just up to you as a voter to decide.

00:19:01.920 Do you want a president who apologizes for using insulting language about a murderer?

00:19:06.800 Not even insulting language, actually, just, just accurate language.

00:19:10.280 It's, it's, it's, it's neutral language.

00:19:12.320 It's a description.

00:19:14.020 Illegal immigrant is not even a value judgment.

00:19:16.900 It is an accurate description of who they are and their status in this country.

00:19:21.460 They're immigrants who came here illegally, hence illegal immigrant. 1.00

00:19:25.800 But do you want a president who is, at any rate, principally concerned with the feelings of murderous scumbags who break into our country and kill our citizens? 0.99

00:19:36.000 Is that what you want? 0.96

00:19:38.760 I mean, with this sort of thing, Biden reveals himself to have priorities that just don't align with the vast majority of the country.

00:19:45.660 I mean, I would, I would venture, I guess, like 99% of the country.

00:19:49.300 Because only the farthest left, most out of touch psychopaths will hear that an illegal immigrant killed an American woman and immediately think, oh, that's terrible.

00:20:02.420 Don't call him illegal.

00:20:04.300 That, that, the number of people who actually think that way.

00:20:07.060 Now, the number of people who pretend to think that way is even larger.

00:20:09.460 But the number of people who really think that way is, is, is, uh, vanishingly small.

00:20:16.500 It's a, it's a thought process shared by only the most extreme, most fringe, most lunatic elements of the far left.

00:20:22.700 And the more that Biden advertises his loyalty to those elements, the better, as far as I'm concerned.

00:20:30.360 Um, one other point, it should be noted that, you know, the bit where he apologized to Lakin Riley's murderer was, was, was not even the most deranged thing that he said in that 45 second clip.

00:20:38.640 But somehow it got significantly worse in the, like, three-sentence span that, that, that, that we heard there.

00:20:44.960 Because he also claimed that illegal immigrants, like the guy who killed Lakin Riley, uh, built the country.

00:20:53.920 Which is not remotely true.

00:20:56.140 It doesn't come close to anything resembling the truth.

00:21:00.200 It is absolute nonsense.

00:21:01.760 They did not build the country.

00:21:03.100 They are not building the country.

00:21:04.360 Illegal immigrants, um, are, are not building anything. 1.00

00:21:09.940 And one way you know that is, like, if you were to round up all the illegal immigrants and ship them out of the country, as we should do, things would not fall apart without them. 1.00

00:21:19.000 Okay, we wouldn't look around and say, oh, you know, we're, we're, we're stuck.

00:21:22.080 Now, quite the opposite, actually.

00:21:24.780 And that's because they come here not to build the country, but to benefit from what has already been built. 0.55

00:21:31.800 None of these people are coming here saying, oh, we want to help America.

00:21:36.340 We want to help, we want to help, uh, build America.

00:21:39.340 None of them are saying, not a single one.

00:21:42.420 They, they come to take advantage of the things that have been established without them.

00:21:47.040 Without their help.

00:21:49.520 Um, they don't come here to help.

00:21:52.000 They come here to be helped.

00:21:53.740 And, and, and you could tell that, by the way, because, uh, you can tell it because it's obvious.

00:22:01.280 But also, despite all the, you know, everything we hear about, oh, they build the country.

00:22:07.340 When somebody like Donald Trump asks the question, why do we need more Haitians?

00:22:13.100 You know, the left, they never respond by saying, well, here's why we need them.

00:22:16.480 No, instead they get, they, they, they, they just get upset and they start, and they start crying about it.

00:22:24.020 So which is it?

00:22:25.760 Like, are they here to build the country or are they here, uh, because it's, it's our moral duty

00:22:32.720 to offer assistance to the entire third world, you know, anyone from the third world who wants to come here?

00:22:38.880 Which is it?

00:22:39.580 Can't really be both.

00:22:40.600 But, you know, when you, when you phrase it as directly and bluntly as Trump did,

00:22:47.940 this stuff about them building the country kind of fades away.

00:22:52.760 Because they know the answer to the question, why do we need more Haitians? 1.00

00:22:55.680 The answer is we don't.

00:22:56.940 Like, obviously we don't.

00:22:58.220 Okay.

00:22:58.820 There's, you know, you're not going to look around the country right now and look at any problem that

00:23:02.560 we're facing and say, you know what would solve that problem?

00:23:05.340 Uh, more immigrants from Haiti. 1.00

00:23:08.300 No one's saying that.

00:23:09.340 Name me one problem in this country that could be solved by, by importing, you know, a thousand 0.99

00:23:14.340 more Haitians.

00:23:15.500 You can't.

00:23:17.560 Uh, and that's the point that Donald Trump was making.

00:23:19.900 And actually that, that question, why do we need them?

00:23:25.020 That's a, that is the question that every American leader should be asking themselves

00:23:29.580 when it comes to immigration.

00:23:30.580 Because the most important thing is our needs as American, and if you're an American political

00:23:36.740 leader, you should be focused on what we need first.

00:23:40.000 Not what Haiti needs.

00:23:42.220 Okay.

00:23:42.680 Not what Guatemala needs, but what we need.

00:23:46.740 And if there are people in Haiti who need us, but we don't need them in this country, that 0.99

00:23:52.060 is, then that, that's the, that is the first consideration that has to be, that has to

00:23:57.720 be, uh, thought of.

00:24:01.400 Um, because you're supposed to be a leader of our country, of our country, and you're supposed

00:24:07.980 to have our needs first.

00:24:12.200 Um, you know, uh, I think, and that's all, again, pretty obvious, and it can't even be

00:24:18.600 disputed, which is why what I just said about why do we need Haitians here, like even that 1.00

00:24:24.200 will probably be clipped, and it'll end up on Twitter or something, and people will call

00:24:26.880 me racist or whatever.

00:24:28.280 But when that happens, which it will, I want you to go and look at the comments, and you'll

00:24:33.680 notice that nobody is going to actually try to answer the question.

00:24:38.040 They didn't answer it when Trump asked it.

00:24:39.420 If I repeat it, they're not going to answer it.

00:24:41.480 They won't, because they know we don't need any Haitian immigrants in this country. 1.00

00:24:46.680 Um, so what they'll try to do is they'll go historic, right?

00:24:51.180 They'll go, they'll make the historical argument, and they'll say that, well, um, well, you know,

00:24:56.040 American and European pioneers, uh, they were illegal immigrants, and they built the country.

00:25:00.920 Well, for one thing, you can't illegally migrate into a country that doesn't exist, and when

00:25:06.880 they came here, the, the American and European, uh, settlers and pioneers, there was no country.

00:25:12.120 This was an untamed wilderness dotted with warring primitive tribes who, uh, never established

00:25:18.380 any country or civilization of their own.

00:25:20.920 Um, the pioneers didn't break the law coming here because there were no laws.

00:25:24.640 And, and for another thing, when they came here, they did proceed to build civilization.

00:25:32.180 They established through their own sweat and blood and toil, the foundation of the world

00:25:36.180 we live in today.

00:25:37.020 That is not the case for modern illegals. 0.95

00:25:39.780 They aren't building this, our civilization.

00:25:43.040 They aren't establishing it.

00:25:44.200 It's already, that's already happened.

00:25:46.320 They aren't pioneers forging ahead into the great unknown to build a civilization from scratch.

00:25:51.360 They would have no idea how to build a civilization.

00:25:54.280 If they could, they'd stay in their own countries and build those countries. 0.92

00:25:59.040 That's the other point here.

00:26:01.320 Like the, the, the, the early pioneers and settlers in this country came from civilization,

00:26:07.260 from a thriving and functioning civilization.

00:26:10.440 They came here and they built a new one.

00:26:14.120 Um, where, as now, the illegal immigrants and many of the legal ones come from decaying, 1.00

00:26:21.920 dying, dead, non-existent civilizations without the skills to build a civilization.

00:26:28.160 Because if they, because that's the whole reason why the civil, their country that they're

00:26:31.220 leaving, that's the whole reason it has fallen apart is because the people there don't know

00:26:34.920 how to build a country and maintain it.

00:26:38.360 They don't have those skills.

00:26:39.400 If they did again, they would stay there and do it.

00:26:45.740 And they flee their own nation because they'd rather come here than do the work of making 1.00

00:26:49.420 their own countries prosperous, which, uh, you know, is just a, it's just a factual observation.

00:26:56.180 Do I understand it?

00:26:57.380 Sure.

00:26:58.620 I mean, if I lived in Haiti, I want to get the hell out of there too. 1.00

00:27:03.380 You know, because, because, but that's because if I lived in Haiti, I would be thinking primarily

00:27:06.700 about my own needs and the needs of my family.

00:27:09.400 Which is understandable for me to have that as my top priority, but our country should

00:27:14.840 not have my own personal needs as a priority over the needs of, of, of the country.

00:27:21.320 Um, so all this stuff about illegal immigrants are the, you know, the, the, the, they're the 1.00

00:27:27.420 backbone, the backbone of our country.

00:27:30.120 No.

00:27:31.640 Again, if that was true, they'd be serving as the backbone of their own country.

00:27:34.300 I mean, this country already has a backbone and it's not them.

00:27:40.740 And, uh, and in fact, the more illegals that we bring here, they are a burden that we carry. 1.00

00:27:46.220 They are a strain on the backbone.

00:27:48.440 They are not the backbone.

00:27:49.500 Okay.

00:27:52.500 The Oscars, uh, were last night.

00:27:54.660 Oppenheimer won everything, I guess, apparently.

00:27:57.360 Um, actually from what I could see, almost all the winners in the major categories were

00:28:01.260 white males.

00:28:02.740 Um, it seems so there's going to be hell to pay for that one. 0.99

00:28:06.220 That's for sure.

00:28:07.140 I don't, there, there seems to be, there was a major oversight over at the diversity

00:28:11.420 committee for the Oscars.

00:28:12.480 I don't know what happened, but we're gonna have to clean house over there and start over.

00:28:15.860 Uh, this cannot be allowed to stand and I'm sure there'll be many think pieces that probably

00:28:19.260 have already been published in the coming days, uh, making that very clear that this

00:28:23.140 is just totally unacceptable.

00:28:25.160 But the other shocker of the night was that I guess they made it through nearly the entire

00:28:29.860 show without anyone, uh, performatively denouncing Donald Trump.

00:28:34.920 In fact, I think Trump, I didn't watch the show, but I think Trump was not mentioned at

00:28:39.060 all.

00:28:39.380 Um, and they almost made it to the end with that unprecedented streak intact until Jimmy

00:28:47.760 Kimmel, the host of the show, uh, stepped in and put an end to it.

00:28:51.480 Let's watch.

00:28:52.960 You know, this, this, doing this show is not about me.

00:28:57.020 I appreciate you having me.

00:28:58.940 It's really about you and, uh, Emma and all these great actors and actresses and filmmakers.

00:29:04.160 But, uh, I was told we have like an extra minute and, um, I'm really proud of something.

00:29:09.340 Uh, I was wondering if I could share it with you.

00:29:12.300 I just got a review and, um...

00:29:15.160 Has there ever been a worse host than Jimmy Kimmel at the Oscars?

00:29:21.780 His opening was that of a less than average person trying too hard to be something which

00:29:25.940 he is not and never can be.

00:29:27.520 Get rid of Kimmel and perhaps replace him with another washed up but cheap ABC talent,

00:29:33.740 George Slopanopoulos.

00:29:35.380 He would make everybody on stage look bigger, stronger, and more glamorous.

00:29:40.100 Blah, blah, blah.

00:29:41.280 Make America great again.

00:29:48.980 Okay, now.

00:29:50.780 See if you can guess which former president just posted that on Shrevelds.

00:29:55.580 Anyone?

00:29:57.900 No?

00:29:59.280 Well, thank you, President Trump.

00:30:02.180 Thank you for watching.

00:30:03.380 I'm surprised you're still watching.

00:30:04.580 Isn't it past your jail time?

00:30:05.980 Yep, had to get the, uh, Trump mention in there. 1.00

00:30:22.940 It's sort of amazing that these people are this stupid. 1.00

00:30:25.780 I mean, we're almost 10 years into the Trump political era and, uh, they still have no clue 1.00

00:30:31.000 how to oppose him.

00:30:32.580 They come from the same world that Trump comes from, right?

00:30:35.880 They're in the same business that Trump, uh, was in.

00:30:38.820 And, and yet they're totally clueless about how he operates.

00:30:44.140 Which, of course, is a, but that's a reflection of their own self-aware, of their own lack of

00:30:48.560 self-awareness.

00:30:49.960 Um, because if they had any self-awareness and they would know how they operate and then

00:30:53.580 they would be able to extrapolate that, well, okay, Trump can operate the same way.

00:30:56.680 He's from the same world and, um, but they don't have any self-awareness.

00:31:01.900 So, because, because really if they wanted to stick it to Donald Trump, right, if they

00:31:05.680 wanted to land a blow, uh, well, I mean, there's not much of a, a blow they could land at the

00:31:11.400 Oscars, but to whatever extent that they could land one, the way to do it would be to just

00:31:15.940 not mention him at all.

00:31:17.320 Okay.

00:31:17.680 To treat him as totally irrelevant and, and to have an entire Hollywood event that lasts

00:31:24.060 for seven and a half hours, however long the Oscars were, and Donald Trump is not mentioned

00:31:29.000 one time, not even alluded to, like he doesn't exist.

00:31:33.200 Okay.

00:31:34.100 Uh, that if, you know, if, if it's important to you as Jimmy Kimmel or any of these people

00:31:40.660 at the Oscars, if it's important to you to, you know, as I said, really, uh, get, get a,

00:31:47.500 get a, uh, a hit on Trump, then that's what you would do, but they can't bring themselves

00:31:52.920 to do that.

00:31:53.320 They just can't, they have to talk about them.

00:31:54.780 And speaking of which, Robert De Niro was on with a Bill Maher the night, the night before

00:31:58.700 the Oscars, where he spent several minutes talking about, uh, the ways that Trump hurts

00:32:05.520 his feelings.

00:32:06.620 And that's not even my like sarcastic way of describing what Robert De Niro said.

00:32:13.520 Those, those are almost exactly the words that he uses.

00:32:16.700 Let's listen.

00:32:17.420 So why is Trump winning?

00:32:20.200 I mean, the poll, the New York Times poll this week came out, and maybe this will change

00:32:23.520 it with the State of the Union address, but it was, but Trump was beating him rather soundly.

00:32:27.880 It was quite a warning light, 48 to 43, also winning way more among women, women than he 1.00

00:32:34.380 had before, winning outright Latinos.

00:32:36.620 What, what do you attribute that to?

00:32:38.920 I don't know.

00:32:40.380 I just don't want to feel the way I did, and many, many of us don't, after the election

00:32:48.060 in 19, in 2016, uh, where we couldn't believe that it happened.

00:32:54.380 The guy is a total monster, and, uh, anybody, I don't understand it. 0.99

00:33:00.800 The, I guess they get behind that kind of logic, they want to f*** with people, screw 1.00

00:33:05.860 them, because they're unhappy about something. 1.00

00:33:07.960 He's such a mean, nasty, hateful person. 0.97

00:33:11.660 I, I, I never pay, play him as an actor, because he's, I can't see any good in him. 0.97

00:33:18.340 But, so, it is interesting, he's asked for, uh, although not surprising, he's asked for

00:33:24.640 an analysis of, and I don't know why you'd care about Robert De Niro's analysis of anything

00:33:29.660 political or anything at all, really, but he's asked for an analysis of, uh, a political

00:33:33.940 analysis of Donald Trump.

00:33:35.160 Like, the question was, why is he winning right now?

00:33:36.940 He's, he's gaining with women voters and so on.

00:33:40.180 Um, and De Niro says, his answer is, well, I don't know, I just don't want to feel, I don't

00:33:44.780 want to feel bad anymore.

00:33:45.640 That was his actual, this is like a man in his 80s, and this is, this is the, the, the

00:33:51.880 maturity of his worldview.

00:33:53.740 When you ask him, well, why is this happening?

00:33:55.360 I don't know, I just don't want to feel, it makes me feel bad, and I don't like it.

00:33:58.800 That's his answer.

00:34:00.580 Um, and then he goes on to, to say he can't see any good in Donald Trump, he just, there's 1.00

00:34:06.120 nothing good in him, he's a mean, hateful, nasty person. 0.98

00:34:09.160 Uh, where again, he's, he's, that is not even an analysis of Donald Trump, but it is, as 0.98

00:34:13.780 he admits, it's a, it's an analysis of, it's a reflection of Robert De Niro's own feelings,

00:34:18.920 just talking about his own feelings.

00:34:21.380 Um, and so it's, it's no surprise that because he can't get out of his own feelings and that's

00:34:27.420 all he can talk about, that even as a, as an opponent of Donald Trump, like he doesn't,

00:34:33.640 it, it, it goes back to Jimmy Kimmel.

00:34:35.320 He doesn't understand the, the, the effective ways or the potentially effective ways to critical,

00:34:43.380 to criticize Donald Trump.

00:34:45.000 Uh, you know, there's this idea that, well, there's no effective line of attack on, on

00:34:49.680 Trump.

00:34:50.060 There's nothing that was like, you could criticize anybody, right?

00:34:53.300 I mean, there's criticisms that land on anybody, but the problem is that these people are so 0.99

00:34:58.000 dumb and, and they're, they're so caught in their own egos that they can't see the obvious. 0.99

00:35:06.740 And so here we are 2024. 0.99

00:35:09.540 So it's 2015, all over again, 2016, all over again, all they can do is talk about, he's so,

00:35:15.820 he's so mean, he's such a mean person.

00:35:18.860 It's like, and nobody cares about that.

00:35:21.540 Everybody hears that.

00:35:22.660 Like, there is no one who is going to not vote for Donald Trump on that basis that they

00:35:29.340 find him to be mean, right?

00:35:30.960 Or very few people who will be motivated by that.

00:35:33.860 Because most people hear that and they think either, okay, he's mean, I don't care.

00:35:39.120 Like, what do I need?

00:35:39.980 So he's a, why do I need him?

00:35:41.360 Wait, I need him to be nice.

00:35:42.200 I don't need him to be nice.

00:35:43.260 It doesn't matter to me.

00:35:44.080 They either think that or they think, okay, good.

00:35:47.380 Well, we need someone who's mean, who's in there, who's going to clean up, clean things 0.99

00:35:49.960 up.

00:35:50.180 Um, so you're not hurting him and if anything, you're helping him by describing him in those

00:35:58.560 terms and these people can't stop themselves and he continues and here he is going on to,

00:36:03.040 to offer a dystopian view of the future, uh, under Donald Trump.

00:36:08.480 And also this dystopian view of the future requires us to forget the fact that Donald Trump was

00:36:15.880 actually in office from 2016 to 2020.

00:36:18.140 And so we can think back and we know how that went, but if we ignore that and pretend

00:36:23.800 it never happened, uh, here's what the future under Donald Trump will look like.

00:36:29.500 Nothing at all, nothing redeemable in him.

00:36:33.020 Um, and we have to, and whoever the people are who want to vote for him and there look

00:36:37.440 like intelligent peoples around there.

00:36:39.320 And so for some reason it can't be, it cannot be if he is, he wins the election, he, you won't

00:36:48.520 be on the show anymore.

00:36:50.020 He'll come looking for me.

00:36:51.580 He'll, there'll, there'll be, there'll be things that happen that none of us can imagine.

00:36:58.740 Um, that's what happens in that kind of a dictatorship, which is what he says.

00:37:03.280 Let's believe him.

00:37:04.200 Take him at his word.

00:37:05.340 I did from the beginning.

00:37:06.420 Yeah.

00:37:06.760 I mean, I said from the very beginning, this guy is never going to concede power and he

00:37:11.100 still hasn't.

00:37:11.960 No, he still hasn't.

00:37:12.800 He just admitted, admitted he lost the last election and he advertises that he will go

00:37:17.340 on.

00:37:17.720 He thinks he says he's been cheated out of one term.

00:37:20.040 So maybe we should get rid of the only a president only gets two terms thing. 0.98

00:37:24.660 Okay.

00:37:25.020 First of all, even if Trump was a, uh, violent, um, warlord dictator, even if Trump was, was,

00:37:31.440 you know, the second coming of barbecue, uh, he, he, I don't think he would bother going

00:37:36.180 after Robert De Niro.

00:37:37.460 Like nobody cares what Robert De Niro says.

00:37:40.340 Uh, I don't even think that Trump does, but we see again, the total cluelessness of these

00:37:44.860 people.

00:37:45.400 And, uh, and this is not performance by the way.

00:37:47.580 I think that Robert De Niro really is worried that Trump will come into office and turn into

00:37:52.520 a dictator who hunts down his political enemies and enacts retribution on them and all the

00:37:56.600 rest of it.

00:37:56.960 I, you know, I don't, I mean, that could go either way.

00:38:00.280 Maybe this is all, uh, melodrama, but I, I actually think he's that deluded.

00:38:04.700 I think these people are that deluded and they really do believe it.

00:38:07.340 Meanwhile, the reality is that Trump was, and will probably be again, the least dictatorial

00:38:14.220 president we've had in decades, maybe ever.

00:38:17.520 I mean, you can make an argument forever is the least dictatorial president we've ever had.

00:38:22.520 In fact, as I've argued many times, Trump's greatest flaw is that he's, he's too far over

00:38:30.620 on the other end of the spectrum.

00:38:32.540 There's like the dictator, you know, and then the opposite of that is like, he's all the

00:38:36.860 way at the opposite end, actually too much.

00:38:38.760 So not that we want him to be a dictator, quote unquote.

00:38:43.920 Um, but his greatest flaw in my mind, it, it, it was, and is the unwillingness to wield

00:38:54.100 the legal power that you have to advance your agenda forward.

00:38:58.660 Um, and that, you know, as I said, if they wanted to land a blow and make a criticism that

00:39:07.740 might resonate with people, like maybe they'd go that direction, but they, they don't because

00:39:13.640 they, they, they, they lack the awareness and they lack the intelligence and, um, all they

00:39:18.380 can do is just emote and talk about how mean he is and how much he hurts their feelings.

00:39:22.900 Um, which, uh, which fine, I guess is how we would summarize that.

00:39:30.060 Okay.

00:39:31.500 Uh, briefly want to mention this daily wire, uh, has this article, a controversial bill

00:39:35.140 that would completely ban the, um, or could completely ban the Chinese on social media

00:39:39.600 app, TikTok from being downloaded in the U S is headed to the house floor after a congressional

00:39:44.000 committee voted unanimously on Thursday to advance legislation.

00:39:46.900 The bill introduced by Mike Gallagher passed the house energy and commerce committee in a

00:39:50.500 bipartisan vote of 50 to zero.

00:39:52.840 The measure titled the protecting Americans from foreign adversary control applications

00:39:57.560 act would require bite dance, TikTok's Chinese parent company to divest the, uh, social media

00:40:03.720 app or face an outright ban in the U S would also create a process for the executive branch

00:40:08.360 of the federal government to ban apps in the future that are deemed a national security

00:40:12.360 risk.

00:40:12.780 Um, but there's a lot of opposition to this at, to this, uh, legislation.

00:40:19.000 Uh, Trump is against it.

00:40:21.620 Ran Paul has spoken out against it.

00:40:24.000 Uh, Elon Musk is against it, I guess now.

00:40:29.360 And, um, and I understand the arguments against it.

00:40:35.960 And those are people that I obviously agree with on many things.

00:40:40.340 Um, but then I look at, you know, we know who else opposes this bill and that is the thousands

00:40:45.680 of TikTok addicts, many of them children who called their congressional representatives last

00:40:50.240 week, frantically demanding that they block the bill.

00:40:53.680 And the reason why, um, all these kids were calling is because TikTok apparently sent a

00:40:59.040 notice out to many of its users with announcing that TikTok was about to be banned, which isn't

00:41:04.720 even true, really true by the way, because again, there's, there's, there's, there's another

00:41:09.220 piece of that bill attached to it, which is the, which is if they divest, uh, the company

00:41:14.920 then, then, you know, if that doesn't happen, then the ban would take effect, but they don't

00:41:20.940 explain all that.

00:41:21.680 And so they just say it's going to be banned.

00:41:22.740 And they urged their, uh, there was a link, uh, to their congressional representatives.

00:41:27.140 And, and so a lot of people called this led to thousands of calls to difference, to

00:41:32.200 different, uh, members of Congress and reportedly in some of the calls, the kids threatened to kill

00:41:37.980 themselves if this bill was not blocked.

00:41:43.820 And that alone is the best argument I can think of for banning TikTok.

00:41:49.680 The fact that kids in this country are so hooked on it, are so emotionally dependent on it that

00:41:57.300 you, you have kids threatening to take their own lives if, if it's taken away from them.

00:42:03.420 Um, which, which means that those kids, they don't, TikTok is not what they need.

00:42:07.440 They need a lot of help, but the last thing they need is more TikTok in their lives.

00:42:13.740 So I'm still in favor of the bill.

00:42:15.360 I think that, you know, there, there are two elements of it.

00:42:18.860 One is that it is a Chinese spy app.

00:42:21.760 So that's true.

00:42:23.540 And I would think that's, that's reason enough for lawmakers at least to act on it.

00:42:28.480 Um, but more importantly, that this is something that is doing immense harm to millions of kids.

00:42:39.680 And I, and I, we talk about all the time on this show and it's one of those things that

00:42:44.420 I think people kind of reflexively agree with, but they don't really stop to think about the

00:42:48.360 implications.

00:42:48.840 And that is that we have a generation of kids who don't know how to function without

00:42:58.200 having their phone in their hand and constantly scrolling it.

00:43:01.200 And kids who, who this is their whole life now is this is just picking up their phone and

00:43:06.320 staring at it and scrolling through.

00:43:08.120 And that's their entire life.

00:43:09.100 And, you know, that part of the conversation, most people will agree with because there's

00:43:15.340 no denying it.

00:43:16.840 And if I say, well, that's a big problem.

00:43:18.360 Most people say, well, of course it's a big problem, but I don't think we've really stopped

00:43:21.940 to think about what this means.

00:43:26.140 I don't think we've really stopped to think about what sort of people we are creating.

00:43:31.800 Um, and, and what the world will look like in 50 years, 30, 20 years, you know, as

00:43:38.980 more and more of these kids who've grown up on this, like the only thing they've ever

00:43:42.200 known is just staring at their phone.

00:43:45.120 Um, and as they get older and become adults, I mean, we, we, we really could be looking

00:43:51.560 at the total breakdown of society to the extent that it hasn't already broken down.

00:43:56.860 When you've got people that can, that's, they, they, they have no other functional skills.

00:44:00.960 It's just that they have no interests outside of that.

00:44:04.380 Um, and it's a, it is a, is a crisis level problem without it, without a question.

00:44:16.540 And we should be looking at solutions.

00:44:20.020 And sure, you could argue that, well, this particular bill isn't the solution for this

00:44:23.280 and that reason.

00:44:24.660 Maybe it's not, but you better have some idea of what the solution is.

00:44:29.720 And the solution better be more than just, well, parents need to do better.

00:44:36.620 Well, I agree.

00:44:37.320 Parents should do better, but they're not.

00:44:40.540 Okay.

00:44:41.000 So the problem is persisting.

00:44:43.560 And that means probably more action needs to be taken.

00:44:48.560 And also we are, we are very much now in a world where you have parents who also grew

00:44:54.900 up that way.

00:44:55.320 This is the only thing they know how to do is just be on their phone all the time.

00:44:58.540 Um, and so they're, they're not even equipped to put these boundaries in place with their

00:45:03.560 kids.

00:45:04.280 They don't know how to put them in place with themselves.

00:45:09.360 So, uh, this is a problem that needs a solution and we should certainly be talking about it.

00:45:15.140 Let's get to was Walsh wrong.

00:45:21.640 Keeping windshields clean is always a pain, especially with all the rain we have been getting

00:45:25.220 here in Nashville.

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00:46:25.840 A few comments relating to some subjects we talked about last week.

00:46:29.880 First one says, secession is an idea sold to disgruntled Americans to divide and conquer

00:46:33.820 America.

00:46:34.800 Madison and Hamilton explained in depth in the Federalist Papers the explanatory publications

00:46:40.640 of the Constitution, they wrote, how destructive a separation of states would be compared

00:46:45.620 temporaneously to Europe and its centuries of bloodshed and suffering as well as historically

00:46:49.900 to Greece.

00:46:51.680 A national divorce would permanently destroy the greatest country ever devised. 1.00

00:46:56.120 Those on the right need to fight and never ever surrender the idea of one nation under

00:46:59.460 God.

00:47:02.340 Yeah, I'm not, I largely agree with that.

00:47:06.040 I think that's, um, that, you know, an actual secessionist, a real secessionist movement where

00:47:14.140 you've got entire states leaving the union and so forth.

00:47:17.940 Um, I think that that there's a high likelihood that that could ultimately create a situation

00:47:23.780 worse, far worse than what we have now, uh, that it won't, it won't really solve any of

00:47:29.220 the problems that we have now.

00:47:30.060 It only, it only make them worse.

00:47:31.100 I think that's, I think that's, I think that you're, uh, could very well be right about

00:47:35.460 that.

00:47:36.480 Um, but, you know, we can say that we can say it's, it's, it's a bad idea.

00:47:44.920 Fine.

00:47:46.120 But we also need to acknowledge that, you know, the reason why these, these ideas are appealing

00:47:53.560 to people now, that to me is the, is the interesting question is, and if it is such a bad idea, as

00:47:59.380 you say, then why is it that we looked at the polls yesterday?

00:48:04.280 I mean, thousands, really, if you, if you, if the numbers, the percentages are right, the

00:48:08.600 millions of Americans are, um, in favor of their state seceding.

00:48:13.500 Why is that?

00:48:15.260 That's, that's the point.

00:48:17.100 Another comment says, I don't think it's going to happen, Matt.

00:48:19.140 Uh, I don't think it can happen.

00:48:21.100 The hatred is there, not to mention the seething desire to create some racist paradise like the

00:48:25.480 confederacy was supposed to be. 0.84

00:48:27.140 The difficulty is that the would-be secessionists need a host.

00:48:30.540 Well, I don't agree that these people want a quote-unquote racist paradise.

00:48:34.600 Um, but I do agree with you that, yeah, I don't, I don't think it's actually going to

00:48:39.860 happen.

00:48:40.120 I've said this all along.

00:48:41.900 I don't think there's actually going to be a civil war.

00:48:44.280 I think that we are a more divided nation in many ways than we were in the lead up to

00:48:50.580 the civil war.

00:48:51.200 But I don't think that there actually will be one for a lot of reasons.

00:48:55.760 Um, some of it is, is, is the fact that our, you know, the cultural division is not as

00:49:02.960 geographically well-defined as it was during the civil war.

00:49:06.240 So that's, that's one reason.

00:49:08.420 Uh, another reason is just people, like we just talked about a minute ago, TikTok, people

00:49:11.860 would rather sit around on their phones.

00:49:13.740 Like they don't want to give that sort of stuff up.

00:49:15.760 Uh, the idea of actually like going out and fighting, uh, you know, a battle over this

00:49:20.960 is, is not really appealing to people.

00:49:23.040 Um, so I don't think there's going to be a civil war.

00:49:24.660 I think more of what we're going to see is the increasing breakdown of civil order across

00:49:29.820 the country and, uh, pockets of, of chaos, much like we saw in 2020.

00:49:34.500 I think we're going to see more and more of that.

00:49:37.100 Um, not a encouraging vision of the future, but I think that's what's happening.

00:49:42.400 Um, another comment says regarding Christians drinking booze, the word miracle is not pronounced

00:49:49.180 miracle.

00:49:49.920 I know, you know, every time I use that word, people, I know, what do you, what do you think

00:49:53.620 is supposed to be pronounced miracle, right?

00:49:55.780 This is, I refuse.

00:49:59.100 And you should know by now that the more you try to correct my pronunciation on a particular

00:50:03.360 word, the worse that that pronunciation will get.

00:50:07.340 So yeah, I mean, you've seen, you haven't seen anything yet.

00:50:10.300 If you think that, uh, the way I pronounce that word is wrong, just keep bringing it up. 0.96

00:50:15.440 It's just going to get worse and worse.

00:50:16.940 I can guarantee you.

00:50:19.000 Hi, Matt.

00:50:19.360 The Hebrew word for wine in that time region was also used for grape juice.

00:50:23.520 Do you really think our Lord offered alcohol considering children slash pregnant women were 1.00

00:50:27.540 surely present and it spoils the spiritual awareness of some adults?

00:50:31.940 Common sense translation, grape juice.

00:50:34.860 Really, that's the common sense translation of the, we're talking about the wedding at

00:50:40.780 Cana and the common sense translation is that it was grape juice.

00:50:44.920 Now, yes, uh, were there probably children and pregnant women at the event? 1.00

00:50:51.160 Yes.

00:50:52.680 But does that mean that they necessarily drank the wine?

00:50:55.320 I mean, I've been to many weddings where they had alcoholic beverages, but you don't see,

00:50:59.100 you don't see, you know, 10 year old kids sitting there drinking.

00:51:01.740 At least they certainly shouldn't be.

00:51:03.820 So I never said that he offered the wine to kids, but it was alcoholic wine.

00:51:09.040 So let's go back to, um, to that verse from, uh, from the gospel of John.

00:51:16.760 Let me read a little bit.

00:51:17.800 I mean, and you're saying, and there are many comments like this, trying to correct me on

00:51:20.780 this point, saying this was non-alcoholic.

00:51:22.940 Yes, he provided wine, but it was, it was just great.

00:51:25.340 It says wine, but it meant grape juice.

00:51:27.140 Okay.

00:51:28.640 Um, and the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee and the mother of Jesus

00:51:34.340 was there and both Jesus was called and his disciples to the marriage.

00:51:38.380 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, they have no wine.

00:51:42.680 I'm reading from the, uh, King James.

00:51:45.360 I don't usually like the King James translation, but I do like it for the gospel of John in particular

00:51:50.840 for some reason.

00:51:51.480 Um, so that's why I'm using it.

00:51:53.460 Anyway, Jesus saith unto her, woman, what have I to do with thee?

00:51:57.060 Mine hour is not yet come.

00:51:58.280 His mother saith unto the servants, whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.

00:52:02.600 Um, and, uh, skipping ahead just a few to get to the important part.

00:52:06.840 And he saith unto them, draw now and bear unto the governor of the feast.

00:52:10.080 And they bear it, um, and saith unto him, every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine.

00:52:17.460 And when men have well drunk than that, which is worse, but thou has kept the good wine until now.

00:52:24.000 Okay, so what do we get, what do we get from that?

00:52:27.300 He provides the wine and the people at the, at the party, at the wedding say, well, wow.

00:52:33.020 You know, usually what happens is, um, is that, uh, you know, you, you, you give the good wine first and then you, and then you, uh, have the bad wine.

00:52:45.820 And because by the time, why, why does that usually happen at parties?

00:52:48.480 They're saying, well, because, uh, by the time people have had a lot of the wine, they're feeling pretty good.

00:52:53.280 And then at that point you can bring out the crappy wine and they're not going to notice because they're already drunk.

00:52:59.020 That's like the implication.

00:53:00.460 And so they're surprised here that the wine is so good.

00:53:03.900 It's like, how have you saved that this is the best wine that you've saved for like the end of the party?

00:53:08.620 That's great.

00:53:09.480 So are they saying that about grape juice?

00:53:12.020 So I want you to, I want you to fit your common sense grape juice translation into that, that they're impressed that, oh, wow.

00:53:19.480 You know, usually people save, usually at a party, people save the best grape juice for the end.

00:53:25.460 You know, you know, when people have, they've, they've, they've consumed a lot of grape juice and they're feeling really good.

00:53:30.960 And, uh, and then usually that's when the, the, the bad grape juice is brought out, but you save the best grape juice for now.

00:53:37.140 Now, when you read this verse and you put grape juice in instead of wine, it makes no sense.

00:53:45.760 Like, and also just the very fact that why would this be a crisis?

00:53:49.160 Like, why is it a problem that you've run out of grape juice at a party?

00:53:53.440 That's not a problem.

00:53:54.900 Everybody knows at a party, you know, it could be a problem when you're at a party, especially at a wedding.

00:53:59.280 And you run out of wine, you run out of alcohol.

00:54:01.760 People say, well, we've got to run out and get some more.

00:54:03.180 That's usually the way it goes in modern times.

00:54:05.620 You've never been to a party where someone says, oh, we've run out of juice.

00:54:08.200 Where's all the juice?

00:54:09.020 Guys, we need more juice.

00:54:11.700 No, it's an issue because, you know, you're at a wine, you're at a wedding, you're celebrating, and you run out of wine.

00:54:19.100 And I'm just trying to understand your common sense translation that this is grape juice they're referring to.

00:54:28.900 You got high-quality grape juice, low-quality grape juice, people drunk on grape juice.

00:54:35.900 Interesting.

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00:56:27.460 Well, it's been a week since the release of damning internal documents and communications from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, or WPATH.

00:56:35.180 This is the organization that sets the standards of care, which are followed by major hospitals and gender clinics in this country.

00:56:41.020 The files prove that WPATH understands very well that children cannot provide informed consent to sterilization and butchery, which they call gender-affirming care.

00:56:48.900 In fact, at various points, the files make it clear that WPATH doctors themselves don't really understand the ramifications of what they're doing to children.

00:56:55.480 The documents demonstrate, for example, that WPATH has long suspected that cross-sex hormones can cause serious and potentially fatal problems for some patients, including liver tumors.

00:57:04.440 But WPATH kept pressing on anyway.

00:57:07.940 They openly talked about performing surgery on 14-year-old girls and transitioning patients as young as four years old.

00:57:13.960 Their only goal appears to be conducting as many children, rather inducting as many children as possible, into the gender cult, whatever the consequences may be. 0.89

00:57:23.380 They are deranged activists posing as concerned physicians.

00:57:27.600 In the past week, multiple media organizations, including The New York Times, The New York Post, Daily Signal, The Daily Wire, Telegraph, News Nation, have picked up the story.

00:57:37.320 Even the far-left Guardian called the WPATH files disturbing.

00:57:41.220 This is not simply a scandal.

00:57:44.220 It's the single greatest betrayal you can imagine from an organization that purports to care about medicine.

00:57:49.700 They are knowingly harming children.

00:57:52.220 They are performing life-altering procedures that they know their patients cannot consent to.

00:57:58.720 In another era, this was known as malpractice and battery.

00:58:04.500 Now it's called gender-affirming care.

00:58:06.140 And what's remarkable is that even as this story has blown up, WPATH hasn't directly addressed any of these allegations.

00:58:14.100 They haven't even tried, really.

00:58:15.760 Instead, on March 5th, WPATH's president put out a generic statement claiming that the organization is science-based and that the people who disagree are akin to flat-earthers.

00:58:25.180 That's it.

00:58:26.440 They can't say anything more than that.

00:58:27.620 They don't even try to deny that WPATH doctors talked about cross-sex hormones causing cancer or the fact that kids can't consent to genital mutilation.

00:58:37.260 And they can't deny that because it's all true.

00:58:39.860 And it's right there.

00:58:40.700 And we can look at the documents.

00:58:41.720 We can see the videos.

00:58:43.920 And at some level, that was expected.

00:58:45.400 As my opening monologue laid out last Wednesday, WPATH has always been a scam. 0.99

00:58:51.480 It was founded by perverts and degenerates. 0.89

00:58:53.440 And even now, some of the most prominent speakers at WPATH conferences are eunuch fetishists. 0.87

00:58:59.600 There will never be a moment when anyone can expect decency or honesty from any member of WPATH.

00:59:06.020 The organization is and always has been irredeemably evil. 0.78

00:59:10.100 And that's why it must be destroyed.

00:59:11.740 Now, the same cannot really be said about the biggest hospitals in this country.

00:59:17.040 You know, we do need hospitals.

00:59:18.540 We don't need WPATH.

00:59:19.620 But a functioning country needs good hospitals.

00:59:22.260 And for a long time, we've had them.

00:59:24.680 But over the past several years, many of these major hospitals have adopted WPATH's so-called standards of care wholesale.

00:59:30.820 Whether it's because they're motivated by profits or ideology or both, and I think it is both,

00:59:36.200 these hospitals are now completely aligned with the quacks at WPATH, who have now been entirely exposed. 0.99

00:59:42.920 So the question is, where have these hospitals been for the past, you know, almost week now, as this discussion has been happening?

00:59:50.260 Why haven't they had any reaction whatsoever to the fact that WPATH, by its own admission,

00:59:54.680 is knowingly harming children without their informed consent?

00:59:57.740 I checked. I couldn't find a single example of a single medical institution or hospital responding to the revelations that we've heard over the past week.

01:00:08.980 As of today, major hospitals are continuing to offshore all of their standards for gender-affirming care to WPATH.

01:00:14.640 That includes places like Mass General, one of the, supposed to be one of the best hospitals in the world,

01:00:19.280 which still says that it uses WPATH standards on its website.

01:00:22.000 It also includes UCLA, which has proudly posted videos about how important WPATH is to their surgical teams.

01:00:28.400 Here's just one of them, for example.

01:00:30.880 So some of the criteria for doing surgery kind of falls from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.

01:00:39.660 This is an international organization or association for health professionals.

01:00:45.140 It was first founded in the United Kingdom under the Harry Benjamin Foundation.

01:00:50.760 He was one of the first physicians and endocrinologists that treated patients with gender dysphoria.

01:00:59.740 And soon this organization grew internationally into a big association where they committed to ethical as well as safe treatment,

01:01:11.400 health care treatment for transgender patients.

01:01:13.820 Now, you notice how the UCLA doctor mentions Dr. Harry Benjamin.

01:01:18.700 What she doesn't say is that Harry Benjamin wrote a book called The Transsexual Phenomenon,

01:01:23.780 in which he concedes that fake vaginas are wounds, that's a quote, that can be, quote, obliterated over time. 0.99

01:01:31.460 For some reason, that quote didn't make it into this presentation on vaginoplasties.

01:01:36.040 But WPATH's so-called guidelines are nevertheless very important at UCLA.

01:01:40.600 As you saw on the slide, this surgeon won't see a patient unless these WPATH guidelines are met,

01:01:45.220 which includes letters of support from medical professionals advocating for surgery.

01:01:49.700 Now, as I demonstrated last year, that is not really a standard at all.

01:01:53.220 One of our producers, you may recall, was able to get a letter from a nurse approving him for testicle removal after a 22-minute Zoom call.

01:02:00.060 All you got to do is pay some trans clinic 50 bucks, and they'll approve you on the spot, basically. 0.69

01:02:05.760 And now, a year later, we know beyond any shadow of a doubt that WPATH is aware of their own misconduct.

01:02:10.840 They know that their standards are unscientific shams. 1.00

01:02:13.840 They're just making all this up as they go.

01:02:15.760 And the end result is always to push young people towards mutilation and sterilization. 0.67

01:02:20.680 That's why the WPATH files are full of conversations like this one, quote,

01:02:25.620 You bring up some very interesting issues.

01:02:27.560 At what age should transition begin?

01:02:29.020 It's very difficult to ask that they wait until age 16.

01:02:32.440 Waiting appears to increase the rate of suicide attempts, unquote.

01:02:37.360 That's it.

01:02:38.000 A medical professional explaining that it's challenging to tell a child to wait until they're 16 to begin taking drugs and undergoing procedures that will potentially have lifelong effects.

01:02:46.500 Apparently, this WPATH member thinks that if a 14-year-old threatens suicide, then you have to do what they're demanding.

01:02:52.700 Even though they have no idea what the consequences may be, and even though WPATH has admitted that they cannot really consent to it.

01:02:59.620 Another WPATH member wrote, quote,

01:03:01.180 The files go on and on like that.

01:03:18.200 Unlike WPATH's president, these WPATH members are basically admitting that they have no idea what they're doing.

01:03:24.280 They're not accusing anyone else of being flat earthers.

01:03:27.800 They're not remotely confident in this pseudoscience.

01:03:30.320 And they admit it.

01:03:30.940 And at other points, as I discussed last week, they effectively admit that children can't provide informed consent.

01:03:38.840 Despite all this, UCLA hasn't said a word about the WPATH statement.

01:03:43.100 Why might that be?

01:03:44.980 Well, let's see.

01:03:45.520 The doctor you saw in that clip I just played, whose name is Gladys, happens to be a WPATH member herself.

01:03:51.280 And that's how thoroughly WPATH controls the surgical pipeline in this country.

01:03:54.400 These quacks recruit ideologically aligned doctors. 0.99

01:03:57.480 They create bogus standards.

01:03:58.780 And then the doctors point to the standards and pretend that they're independent and robust, when in fact, it's a giant feedback loop.

01:04:05.460 You know, these people themselves are in WPATH.

01:04:07.340 They all have the wrong incentives.

01:04:10.320 Instead of caring about the patients, their incentive is to keep the racket going so that the money keeps coming in.

01:04:15.920 They don't think they owe any degree of transparency to their patients at all because they're not really in the business of health care anymore.

01:04:22.740 This is a pattern in medicine that extends beyond transgenderism and WPATH. 0.72

01:04:25.980 As Ben Shapiro reported last week on his show, major hospitals are now openly admitting that they're lowering their standards in the name of DEI.

01:04:33.140 So here's one video he found.

01:04:34.360 It's a senior surgeon at Duke named Vignesh Raman explaining that post-George Floyd, Duke has abandoned all kinds of metrics, quote-unquote, when recruiting surgeons.

01:04:43.560 Instead, Duke now has a completely holistic review process that focuses on the life stories of applicants who want to become surgeons.

01:04:51.240 Watch.

01:04:52.620 2020 and George Floyd and those events happened and sort of collectively galvanized the consciousness of Duke University

01:05:00.800 and certainly our department to try to do something and recognizing this, like, centuries-long history of racism and slavery

01:05:09.500 in which Duke University essentially was founded, on which it was founded.

01:05:15.540 And that's when we sort of had to confront the history of institution, the history of our department,

01:05:21.640 the walls of white men that are draped across our hallways.

01:05:27.300 And that's when we started to think that maybe something should change.

01:05:32.280 Something should change within ourselves in who comprises this department in terms of the faculty, in terms of the residents.

01:05:40.020 Significant inequity in representation in our program.

01:05:43.480 And it's something that we've been consciously, deliberately working hard to change over the last several years.

01:05:49.480 Some of the things that we have done, in addition to what Lillian presented, I think the most important thing we've done is really systemic changes to our recruitment process

01:06:01.360 to try to recruit diverse residents to our program and then to retain and support those diverse residents after they get to our program.

01:06:09.640 So part of this has involved transitioning to a completely holistic review process that we spoke about earlier today,

01:06:17.620 abandoning, you know, all sort of metrics and screens, looking at people's life story and what brought them into surgery.

01:06:27.900 And then the other part of it is increasing the diversity of the people who read the applications, right?

01:06:34.840 Because that's an important component of ensuring that we get diverse residents into our program.

01:06:40.040 And then once residents get here, how do we support them?

01:06:44.320 Because when you're going into surgery, that's what you want to know about your surgeon, right?

01:06:49.280 Is what their life story is, you know?

01:06:52.980 And there's a lot more that Ben found.

01:06:54.920 That's just part of it.

01:06:55.720 But the point is that nobody at Duke responded to this.

01:06:58.580 The Daily Wire sent them multiple requests for comment or explanation.

01:07:01.220 They ignored all of them.

01:07:01.960 That's because at Duke Health, they don't care about what the public thinks.

01:07:04.640 They're not really even concerned that much with patient safety.

01:07:07.400 They're now an ideologically driven institution, just like every other company in the Fortune 500.

01:07:12.960 Patient care is secondary to their political and ideological objectives.

01:07:16.080 And it's not just limited to Duke, but also found that Wake Forest is about to graduate a student who bragged about injuring a conservative patient who mocked her pronoun pen, for example.

01:07:25.860 Of course, if that medical student had bragged about injuring, say, a black patient because of his skin color, then she would have been expelled on the spot, not to mention arrested, which she should be in either case. 1.00

01:07:35.460 And the American College of Surgeons, which has about 90,000 members, recently put out a definition of racism that claims that it's impossible

01:07:41.600 to be racist against white people, which is just classic critical race theory.

01:07:46.340 This is what institutional capture looks like.

01:07:48.380 There are institutions in society that are never supposed to become political or ideological.

01:07:52.500 Hospitals are supposed to focus solely on improving the lives of their patients, not some trans dogma.

01:07:57.700 But once that firewall is breached, once ideology is the dominant force in hospitals, then people start getting hurt.

01:08:04.200 By embracing the cult of WPATH and all of its unscientific barbarism, hospitals have abandoned the principle of doing no harm. 0.64

01:08:13.660 By remaining silent in the face of WPATH's admissions of guilt, hospitals have become guilty themselves.

01:08:19.700 And if this continues, if they persist in hiding behind WPATH's fraudulent standards of care, then they too must be destroyed.

01:08:26.840 The only alternative is sacrificing the well-being of future generations.

01:08:32.140 And no society that wants to survive can ever tolerate that kind of outcome.

01:08:37.780 Which is why WPATH and all the hospitals propping it up are today canceled.

01:08:43.200 That'll do it for the show today.

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The Matt Walsh Show - March 11, 2024

Ep. 1324 - Haiti Descends Into Chaos As Our Borders Remain Wide Open

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