The Matt Walsh Show - April 19, 2024


Ep. 1351 - Students Protest As Their School Becomes Infested By Furries


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1 hour and 4 minutes

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168.94423

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10,867

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682

Misogynist Sentences

16

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Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, students in Utah walked out of class in protest after their school became overrun by furries.
00:00:06.080 The media has been denying that any of this is really happening, but it's real and the full story is even more bizarre than you think.
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00:01:50.760 Let's try to follow the winding contours of this rather bizarre story.
00:01:55.880 It begins earlier this week with students at Mount Nebo Middle School in Utah
00:02:00.160 staging a walkout in protest of all the furries that administrators have allowed to infest the school.
00:02:07.840 It began with a petition, which gained over 500 signatures in a few days,
00:02:11.180 calling for the school to start enforcing its dress codes and stop allowing students to come to class dressed in their furry costumes.
00:02:18.100 And then came the walkout.
00:02:19.280 Adam Bartholomew, who is a local commentator in Utah, captured footage of the event and of the kids outside the school,
00:02:25.900 talked to them and asked them what their complaints were.
00:02:27.680 And let's watch a little bit of that.
00:02:30.860 So are they wearing a mask every day?
00:02:32.760 Yes.
00:02:33.720 Yes.
00:02:34.240 But every time they go, they're always just wearing a mask.
00:02:37.440 But the principal finally stood up and banned those stuff.
00:02:40.900 But they still wear them every day.
00:02:42.560 Yeah, they don't get in trouble.
00:02:44.260 The principal doesn't make them get in trouble.
00:02:46.360 Yeah.
00:02:46.740 All the principal says is just be kind.
00:02:48.820 Be nice.
00:02:49.740 Be nice.
00:02:50.400 And then, what's the point of dressing up like a furry?
00:02:54.020 I don't know.
00:02:54.980 It's to get attention.
00:02:55.740 It's to get attention.
00:02:56.680 They think they're so cool that they want to be here.
00:02:59.340 It's to get a lot of attention.
00:03:00.180 I think they want attention.
00:03:01.220 So people can come at them and just look at them and think that they're so cool.
00:03:04.580 Okay.
00:03:05.220 Also, are you guys going to be in trouble for walking out of school today?
00:03:08.680 No.
00:03:08.960 Maybe.
00:03:09.900 If we go back on school grounds, we will get in trouble.
00:03:13.100 If we go back on school grounds, we will get in trouble.
00:03:13.700 If we go back on school grounds, we're not people like this is wrong.
00:03:15.360 We're okay if we stay here.
00:03:17.660 The furries are wrong.
00:03:21.240 This is wrong.
00:03:21.920 They should not be doing this.
00:03:22.780 Do your parents know you guys are out here?
00:03:24.180 Yes.
00:03:25.440 They attack us.
00:03:26.560 If they bite us and we just kick them, we get in trouble.
00:03:29.820 They attack us.
00:03:30.640 They attack us and we get in trouble.
00:03:32.400 How else do they attack you guys?
00:03:34.180 They either bite us, they scratch us, they bark at us.
00:03:37.640 They pounce on us.
00:03:38.780 And then they run on all boards and pounce on people.
00:03:43.540 So, the furries have gone feral, it seems.
00:03:48.420 They're biting and scratching and pouncing on people.
00:03:52.160 Some of the students have had enough of this behavior.
00:03:54.540 They want to go to school at a school, not at a petting zoo, and that's why they walked
00:03:59.020 out.
00:04:00.020 So, that's the story.
00:04:01.040 But then, the fact checkers leapt into action to throw cold water on this whole story,
00:04:06.380 or to try to do that, at least.
00:04:08.300 Here's the Salt Lake Tribune.
00:04:09.880 Fact check.
00:04:10.680 Nebo School District responds to claims about student protest over furries.
00:04:14.260 A district spokesperson said the protest seemed to be organized after a message sent to families
00:04:19.060 was misinterpreted.
00:04:21.800 Now, what kind of misinterpretation can lead these students to think that there are a bunch
00:04:26.060 of furries in school when there really aren't, supposedly?
00:04:29.420 Like, and what could you have said in an email that people would mistranslate as a reference
00:04:35.680 to furries?
00:04:36.940 Well, let's keep reading.
00:04:38.520 Quote, video of middle schoolers walking out of a Nebo School District school in Payson
00:04:43.300 on Wednesday quickly spread in conservative social media circles with posts claiming the
00:04:48.420 students were protesting because the district was allowing student furries to terrorize other
00:04:52.960 students.
00:04:53.860 Nebo School District spokesperson Seth Sorensen said that claim was false.
00:04:58.160 He also said that students at the middle school are not wearing full-body animal costumes
00:05:02.760 to class as furries, part of a subculture of people who sometimes dress up like animal
00:05:07.540 characters but act like humans, are known to do.
00:05:09.720 Dismissing the claim, Sorensen said the Wednesday protests seemed to be organized after a message
00:05:13.660 the school sent to families last week was misinterpreted.
00:05:16.680 The message was sent after a group of students had been targeting another group of students,
00:05:20.700 saying things that were overheard by others that the administrators felt were inappropriate
00:05:24.960 and shouldn't be said, Sorensen said.
00:05:27.120 The group of students being targeted, he added, were students who sometimes come to school
00:05:31.380 wearing headbands that may have ears on them.
00:05:35.040 He said he doesn't think the targeted students necessarily refer to themselves as furries.
00:05:39.880 So the spokesman says that there are no furries.
00:05:42.820 I guess the kids are lying or somehow confused.
00:05:46.780 There aren't any furries, but there might be some kids wearing animal ears to class for
00:05:51.660 whatever reason.
00:05:52.920 And those kids, he says, may or may not identify as furries.
00:05:56.200 It's all a big misunderstanding.
00:05:58.500 But then he goes on to admit that there have been altercations over people being,
00:06:02.740 dressing differently, quote unquote.
00:06:05.560 Back to the article, it says,
00:06:06.480 In one specific instance, the targeted students were sitting in a corner of the lunchroom,
00:06:10.160 eating as a group of friends, when others began calling them names and throwing food
00:06:14.020 at them because they were dressed differently, Sorensen told the Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday,
00:06:18.180 providing more details about the situation.
00:06:20.260 After word of the altercation spread, the school sent an initial message to families last Friday,
00:06:24.560 stating, quote,
00:06:25.780 We expect all students to be respectful towards each other while we are here at the school.
00:06:30.220 We hope you will treat others how you would like to be treated.
00:06:32.720 The message stated, outstanding behavior might demonstrate curiosity, understanding, patience,
00:06:38.520 and tolerance.
00:06:39.900 But Sorensen said that he thinks some parents misinterpreted the note,
00:06:42.660 incorrectly taking it as a message that the school was taking the side of a single group,
00:06:46.540 saying, we want you to be this kind of group, but they don't have to be kind to anybody else.
00:06:52.920 Nobody was taking the side of one group or another.
00:06:54.840 He said, what we were saying is everyone needs to treat everyone else with respect.
00:06:59.000 Okay, well, wait a second here.
00:07:01.720 He says that the school isn't taking the side of a single group, quote, unquote.
00:07:07.560 But what group are you talking about?
00:07:08.740 I thought that he said that there weren't any furries at the school, which group is he referring to?
00:07:14.000 I thought the group in question doesn't exist at the school.
00:07:17.400 So what's the fact check here?
00:07:19.800 Is he saying that there are furries at the school, but he's not taking their side?
00:07:23.960 Because that's a different kind of fact check.
00:07:25.660 Is he confirming that there are indeed kids coming to school dressed like animals?
00:07:30.880 This fact check and the dozens of others published by various outlets over the last couple of days
00:07:36.740 who have claimed this is all some right-wing conspiracy totally invented,
00:07:41.600 they've made it seem like the reports of furries were pure, unfounded rumor.
00:07:46.140 But that's not quite what you get from the spokesman's own words.
00:07:50.780 And then there's this, quote,
00:07:53.380 On Tuesday, the school sent another message to parents trying to clarify its original note.
00:07:57.720 We have had several parents reach out to us over the past few days regarding rumors
00:08:01.220 that are being spread about behaviors of a small group of students at our school.
00:08:05.440 We hope our efforts to clarify misconceptions should be sufficient,
00:08:08.860 but it seems we still have some misunderstandings.
00:08:11.100 The note went on to quote the Friday message
00:08:12.720 and concluded with an acknowledgement of rumored plans of a walkout protest on Wednesday.
00:08:16.700 Well, there's again a reference to this group of students who, according to the fact checkers, doesn't exist.
00:08:23.660 So how can a non-existent group of furries exhibit any behaviors at all, given that they don't exist?
00:08:29.480 Or do they?
00:08:31.100 And if they don't exist, then why do we see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears
00:08:35.580 kids from that school on camera saying explicitly that their classmates are being permitted
00:08:41.000 to come to class dressed like animals and act like animals too?
00:08:46.700 Here's a video from a guy named Eric Mautzis with more insight from people who work at the school.
00:08:51.320 Listen to what he says.
00:08:53.240 Problem is a substitute teacher from Mount Nebo Middle School contact me and said,
00:08:56.840 this has been happening for over a year.
00:08:58.800 And this one is actually really sad and this person needs to be reprimanded.
00:09:02.460 Rebecca Hunsaker Barney said, this is the school I work at.
00:09:05.660 I'm embarrassed for the parents that just believed everything their kids told them,
00:09:08.880 then staged a protest without even contacting the school to find out what is really happening.
00:09:13.060 The truth is, is that a few kids dressed as pets stay to themselves.
00:09:17.720 They do not do any of these things these kids are reporting.
00:09:20.820 However, they are constantly picked on and bullied.
00:09:24.980 So the kids stay to themselves.
00:09:26.560 But what about the video I just got from a concerned parent where this girl acting like
00:09:30.360 a dog is going after these students?
00:09:32.540 This gets even better.
00:09:40.360 Honestly, we had the most wonderful, peaceful day yesterday because most of the troublemakers
00:09:44.700 were out protesting a lie.
00:09:47.920 Really?
00:09:48.700 Because that doesn't look like a lie.
00:09:52.080 The halls were quiet and actually cleaner without them there.
00:09:57.360 This is a teacher at the school.
00:10:00.000 So this teacher is supposed to look at these kids in the eye, unbiased, and give them grades.
00:10:07.160 Okay, well, that confirms it then.
00:10:09.080 You know, the furries being in school is not a rumor.
00:10:11.800 It's not misinformation.
00:10:13.460 And the left has been denying that this sort of thing is happening for years.
00:10:16.360 They've claimed that this is all the claims of furries at school and kids coming to school
00:10:19.820 dressed as animals.
00:10:21.120 They've been saying for years that this is a total right-wing myth, completely made up.
00:10:25.100 But here you have a teacher who is on the side of the furries, a teacher who doesn't
00:10:29.120 like the kids who were protesting, admitting publicly that, quote, a few kids dress as pets.
00:10:37.260 And she says that like it's completely normal, like she sees no problem with it, as if it's
00:10:42.840 normal childhood behavior.
00:10:44.180 I don't know about you, but when I went to school, we had precisely zero kids dressing
00:10:48.920 as pets at school.
00:10:50.780 Well, she acts like she doesn't have a problem with it, and she doesn't, and that is the
00:10:57.180 problem.
00:10:58.160 Now, look, we can have debates over dress codes and how strict they could be or should be,
00:11:02.640 but any halfway sane person should agree that the dress code should at least require that
00:11:09.220 every student dress like a human at a minimum.
00:11:14.180 Dressing as a pet is not something that a child of any age should be doing on a regular
00:11:19.260 basis.
00:11:20.460 Okay, if my four-year-old at home was dressing like an animal every day, I'd be a little
00:11:27.220 concerned even about that.
00:11:28.940 It's like, well, that's an unhealthy fixation for a child of any age.
00:11:34.020 But a middle school-aged child during school hours?
00:11:39.500 By the way, the same guy, Eric Mautzes, has also obtained these photos of kids at this school
00:11:44.560 dressed in their animal costumes, which you can see here.
00:11:47.860 So we've got some kind of velociraptor-lion hybrid thing, and then a bunch of variations
00:11:56.520 of cats, I guess.
00:11:57.340 I think I see another lizard or maybe there's a dinosaur back there.
00:12:00.420 Kids are dressing like this at school.
00:12:04.160 Coming to school in a full-on mask and just walking around the school.
00:12:09.800 Their parents are letting them leave the house in animal masks?
00:12:15.400 Well, this is happening.
00:12:16.920 It has not been debunked.
00:12:18.480 It is real.
00:12:19.160 It's a real thing.
00:12:20.640 But we have not yet gotten to the weirdest part of this story, somehow.
00:12:25.900 The local ABC affiliate decided to provide context by interviewing a furry in costume and
00:12:34.280 referring to the woman as her fictional character's name during this interview.
00:12:39.920 Watch.
00:12:41.600 This is Strudel, a member of the furry fandom.
00:12:45.360 Though they've been a furry for over a decade, they have their own opinions.
00:12:49.620 It's crazy that it's escalated to this point where these kids are being so distracting to
00:12:54.040 their peers that their peers want to stage a walkout.
00:12:56.460 To have, you know, the next generation kind of muddy our name and not represent it very
00:13:03.340 well, it is kind of disappointing.
00:13:05.320 Strudel believes there should be some limits.
00:13:08.120 Continue doing things you like.
00:13:09.900 Continue dressing up.
00:13:11.500 Continue making art.
00:13:13.120 But maybe let's keep it outside of school hours.
00:13:16.120 Yeah, she doesn't want these kids to muddy the name of furries.
00:13:23.420 They must not sully the reputation of the furries.
00:13:27.800 They shouldn't do anything that gives the public the impression that people who walk around in
00:13:31.560 animal costumes are, I don't know, weird, bizarre, deranged, mentally unbalanced.
00:13:38.260 That's according to Strudel, who the reporter refers to as Strudel, while also respecting
00:13:46.200 the non-binary pronouns of the fictional character that the woman in the costume is pretending to be.
00:13:53.200 Now, you may like to think that this, what you just saw there, is the media's low point.
00:13:57.840 That's as low as, it cannot get worse than that.
00:14:00.720 It has finally hit rock bottom.
00:14:03.240 It cannot possibly get any more embarrassing than that.
00:14:06.580 But unfortunately, you're wrong.
00:14:08.980 I mean, there is no bottom, I'm afraid.
00:14:10.440 Searching for the media's lowest point is like searching for the end of a black hole.
00:14:14.140 It just keeps going and going, and it gets darker and darker all the while.
00:14:19.640 Now, this, as many of us have warned for years, what you're seeing in this particular school,
00:14:26.020 and it's not the only school, by the way, is the result of emphasizing tolerance and acceptance
00:14:31.800 above all.
00:14:32.460 In fact, you heard it even in that email the school sent home.
00:14:34.720 The problem, as far as they're concerned, is not that kids are coming to school dressed
00:14:39.320 as animals, but that other kids are not sufficiently tolerant of it.
00:14:44.780 And this is the result of that.
00:14:46.280 And I don't say it's the end result.
00:14:47.700 It's not the final result.
00:14:48.860 As I said, there is no end.
00:14:50.600 There is no finality.
00:14:51.720 It can always get weirder and more disturbing.
00:14:53.860 But this is a result.
00:14:55.220 This is an inevitable stop along the way once you board the crazy train.
00:15:00.120 And when you start telling people, kids especially, that they can be whatever they want to be and
00:15:06.720 they can identify as whatever they want to identify as, of course some of them choose
00:15:11.300 to be animals, obviously.
00:15:13.880 And since you've elevated tolerance and personal expression, quote unquote, as the highest virtues,
00:15:19.040 you now have no way of telling these kids not to behave this way.
00:15:23.260 I mean, how can you?
00:15:25.660 They're expressing themselves.
00:15:27.420 They're being who they feel they are deep inside.
00:15:30.380 The school can't put a stop to this without backtracking on the entire woke program.
00:15:35.640 That's clearly how they see it.
00:15:37.820 And they're right.
00:15:39.980 There's an interesting segment from that ABC Affiliates written report on this same issue.
00:15:44.480 And the written, their article also quotes Strudel, by the way, and calls her that in the report.
00:15:51.140 But then it says this, according to WebMD, a furry is someone who has an interest in animals
00:15:57.640 with human qualities and who sometimes dresses up as a cartoon-like version of an animal.
00:16:03.720 Quote, I really like the idea of animals that walk and talk, so I'm going to dress up as one
00:16:08.360 as kind of a fun sort of cosplay thing, Strudel said.
00:16:13.040 WebMD said people are often interested in becoming furries to find a sense of community,
00:16:16.760 though some of the drawbacks they may face are negative stereotypes and social stigmas.
00:16:23.020 Now, I have no idea why WebMD is being consulted for furry information,
00:16:28.140 but in any event, it implies that the negative stereotypes and social stigmas
00:16:33.640 against this quote-unquote community are wrong.
00:16:36.520 But they aren't.
00:16:38.140 I mean, there should be a social stigma attached to walking around in a ridiculous costume.
00:16:43.140 It is normal for a person to treat such behavior as bizarre and antisocial,
00:16:48.520 because it is bizarre and antisocial behavior.
00:16:52.560 A lot of what we now refer to as bullying among children,
00:16:56.980 some of it is actually bullying,
00:16:59.020 but a lot of it is really just children acting normal
00:17:03.000 and responding to weird, unhealthy things in a way that conveys
00:17:07.820 that the things are weird and unhealthy.
00:17:09.880 The schools want to condition children out of that natural, normal response.
00:17:15.200 They want your child to treat the furry as normal,
00:17:19.340 and then after treating the furry as normal,
00:17:22.400 eventually to actually see this sort of behavior as normal,
00:17:26.200 and then eventually to become one himself,
00:17:29.040 or something just as or more bizarre.
00:17:32.460 That is the process.
00:17:33.940 That's the agenda.
00:17:34.660 And it's playing out at schools all across the country right now.
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00:19:00.640 Okay, so I was waiting for this.
00:19:02.860 Yesterday we heard Biden's story that his uncle
00:19:05.260 was eaten by cannibals in Papua New Guinea
00:19:07.460 after being shot down during World War II.
00:19:11.640 Great story.
00:19:12.860 Great story.
00:19:13.680 Completely made up.
00:19:14.940 You know, almost certainly false.
00:19:17.120 But like everything else Biden says, false.
00:19:19.460 But also a good story.
00:19:20.900 I was waiting for the inevitable follow-up
00:19:23.300 where we hear from people who are very troubled
00:19:25.620 by this racist claim about cannibalism.
00:19:28.880 That's the part we knew was coming.
00:19:31.060 And now we have it.
00:19:32.900 This is from the Daily Mail.
00:19:34.600 Outraged Papua New Guinea academics
00:19:36.240 have slammed President Joe Biden
00:19:37.840 for his unacceptable suggestion
00:19:39.440 that his uncle was eaten by cannibals in the country
00:19:42.000 after his plane was shot down during World War II.
00:19:44.660 Biden implied on two occasions Wednesday
00:19:46.260 that his maternal uncle was eaten by cannibals
00:19:48.160 in Papua New Guinea.
00:19:49.480 Okay.
00:19:51.200 Historically, cannibalism has been reported
00:19:53.500 in Papua New Guinea,
00:19:55.360 the Pacific nation that occupies the eastern half
00:19:57.440 of the island of New Guinea.
00:19:58.280 But local academics say that Biden's categorization
00:20:01.360 of the act is very offensive.
00:20:04.080 So they're not taking issue with,
00:20:06.280 like, yes, there was cannibalism,
00:20:08.000 but he's portraying the cannibalism
00:20:10.580 in a negative light.
00:20:12.000 He's making it sound bad,
00:20:14.480 like it's bad to eat people.
00:20:15.840 And that's the problem.
00:20:17.160 Michael Cabuni, a political science lecturer
00:20:19.180 at the University of Papua New Guinea,
00:20:20.580 told The Guardian,
00:20:21.940 cannibalism was previously practiced
00:20:23.440 by some communities in very specific contexts
00:20:26.340 and that locals, quote,
00:20:29.420 wouldn't just eat any white man
00:20:31.260 that fell from the sky.
00:20:33.220 Other analysts branded Biden's claims
00:20:35.000 as unsubstantiated and poorly judged,
00:20:37.180 especially during a time in which
00:20:38.220 the U.S. has been trying to strengthen
00:20:39.760 its ties with Papua New Guinea.
00:20:42.140 Outraged academics have slammed
00:20:43.500 President Joe Biden,
00:20:44.880 saying it's unacceptable.
00:20:46.200 Cabuni argued that the Melanesian people,
00:20:49.240 which includes those from Papua New Guinea,
00:20:51.340 are very proud and would be offended
00:20:53.440 by Biden's generalization of cannibalism.
00:20:56.380 He explained how cannibalism
00:20:57.580 was not practiced due to a lack of food,
00:20:59.580 but instead as a sign of respect
00:21:01.240 in very specific contexts,
00:21:03.360 such as eating a deceased relative's body
00:21:05.240 to prevent it from decomposing.
00:21:08.500 So I guess what we're getting from this
00:21:09.960 is if you ever go to Papua New Guinea,
00:21:11.380 make sure they don't respect you
00:21:13.300 because this is how,
00:21:14.380 this is bad news.
00:21:15.820 If you're in Papua New Guinea
00:21:16.440 and anyone ever says to you,
00:21:17.940 no, I really respect you.
00:21:18.880 That's bad.
00:21:20.600 Get out of there quick.
00:21:23.080 And I love this because,
00:21:24.680 you know, you think at first
00:21:25.960 that the Papua New Guinea academics
00:21:28.460 are going to deny
00:21:29.600 that people from Papua New Guinea
00:21:31.100 would ever engage in cannibalism.
00:21:33.320 But instead they're saying,
00:21:35.380 well, this is outrageous.
00:21:37.120 We aren't cannibals all the time.
00:21:40.380 We won't eat just anyone
00:21:42.200 who falls out of this.
00:21:43.080 We wouldn't have eaten Joe Biden's uncle.
00:21:45.720 Gross.
00:21:47.020 We have a much more discerning palate
00:21:48.860 than that.
00:21:50.180 We're very select.
00:21:51.360 We don't eat anyone
00:21:52.020 who falls out of the sky.
00:21:52.580 We eat some of the people
00:21:53.460 who fall out of the sky,
00:21:54.440 but we, you know,
00:21:55.120 we're selective about it.
00:21:58.080 We cannibalize because we love
00:22:01.300 is what they're saying.
00:22:05.120 And I love the,
00:22:06.780 I also love the suggestion that,
00:22:09.440 and in fact,
00:22:09.920 you hear this a lot
00:22:10.640 when this issue of cannibalism
00:22:12.720 and primitive tribes comes up.
00:22:14.320 what you'll hear is that,
00:22:15.800 well, it was totally different
00:22:17.080 because they weren't doing it
00:22:18.260 out of hunger.
00:22:19.900 But hold on a second.
00:22:21.000 Doesn't that make it worse?
00:22:23.120 Right?
00:22:23.800 You know,
00:22:24.540 if they were staving off starvation
00:22:27.860 and they turned to cannibalism,
00:22:30.280 I would still be opposed to that.
00:22:32.580 But isn't that,
00:22:34.260 ethically speaking,
00:22:35.320 arguably more justifiable
00:22:37.180 than doing it
00:22:38.240 when you're not even hungry?
00:22:40.260 Like, you know,
00:22:40.780 you're just doing it ritualistically.
00:22:42.480 You know,
00:22:44.040 this is not,
00:22:44.440 so this is not,
00:22:45.340 what is it,
00:22:46.400 the plane crash in the Andes
00:22:48.580 with a soccer team in the 70s
00:22:50.180 that resorted to cannibalism
00:22:51.640 because they were starving to death.
00:22:53.240 I would think
00:22:54.140 when you have that situation
00:22:55.980 compared to a situation
00:22:57.740 where primitive tribesmen
00:22:58.860 are eating people
00:23:00.180 and they're not even hungry,
00:23:01.560 like there's plenty of other,
00:23:02.480 they've got fish in the sea,
00:23:03.660 they've got plenty of fruits
00:23:05.240 and vegetables,
00:23:06.380 I would think that the latter case
00:23:08.240 is worse,
00:23:10.980 ethically speaking.
00:23:12.640 But this is a very awkward conversation
00:23:14.820 for these academics
00:23:16.020 and they don't like it
00:23:16.960 when it comes up
00:23:17.520 because one thing you notice
00:23:21.420 when you study the history
00:23:23.340 of first contact,
00:23:24.680 when you read the stories
00:23:26.260 of Westerners
00:23:27.460 encountering primitive tribes
00:23:29.080 around the world,
00:23:30.800 and I've read a lot
00:23:32.340 of these kinds of stories
00:23:33.340 from whether it's
00:23:34.980 the North American continent,
00:23:37.080 South American,
00:23:38.280 somewhere in the Pacific Islands,
00:23:39.740 Africa,
00:23:41.680 whatever,
00:23:42.360 one thing you notice
00:23:43.640 is that cannibalism
00:23:45.580 was actually extremely common
00:23:47.480 in these cultures.
00:23:49.240 Now,
00:23:50.420 I know for me,
00:23:51.080 growing up in school,
00:23:52.960 this is,
00:23:53.780 you know,
00:23:54.180 the reality of
00:23:55.360 these native cultures
00:23:58.160 wasn't,
00:23:58.920 we didn't go into,
00:23:59.500 they didn't go into much detail,
00:24:00.720 but they certainly made it sound
00:24:02.800 like this sort of thing
00:24:04.160 was very,
00:24:05.060 very uncommon,
00:24:05.840 it almost never happened,
00:24:06.760 but then you read about it,
00:24:08.540 you realize that,
00:24:09.040 no,
00:24:09.180 it's really common.
00:24:10.760 Cannibalism is a very common thing.
00:24:12.640 Human sacrifice,
00:24:13.820 very,
00:24:14.300 very common.
00:24:16.940 And Western explorers
00:24:18.620 were running into this
00:24:19.620 sort of barbarism
00:24:20.520 all the time.
00:24:22.440 Everywhere they went,
00:24:23.580 they were running into it.
00:24:25.100 And that's very awkward
00:24:26.080 for left-wing academics
00:24:27.920 and leftists in general.
00:24:31.340 It's a very awkward thing.
00:24:32.880 And it's awkward
00:24:33.600 because,
00:24:34.500 for a few reasons,
00:24:35.620 and one is that
00:24:36.600 it makes it a little bit harder
00:24:38.600 to mourn the loss
00:24:40.460 of some of these cultures,
00:24:42.840 to mourn the fact
00:24:44.280 that so many of them
00:24:45.380 were conquered.
00:24:46.460 It's a little bit harder
00:24:47.320 to mourn that
00:24:48.340 when you look at it
00:24:50.220 and you realize
00:24:50.980 that these were,
00:24:51.900 this was total barbarism
00:24:53.880 that was going on.
00:24:56.100 And,
00:24:56.700 but also it,
00:24:57.940 since we're talking
00:24:58.460 about context,
00:25:00.620 and you know,
00:25:00.900 when we discuss
00:25:03.100 these historical events
00:25:04.080 and historical people
00:25:05.040 and the,
00:25:06.580 especially the interactions
00:25:08.620 between Westerners
00:25:09.860 and these primitive tribes,
00:25:12.280 the academics
00:25:13.540 will always tell us,
00:25:14.620 well,
00:25:14.980 context is key.
00:25:16.280 We need context.
00:25:17.000 We need to have context.
00:25:18.100 We have to have context
00:25:19.080 for the cannibalism
00:25:20.760 that they were engaging in,
00:25:21.660 the human sacrifice.
00:25:23.760 Right?
00:25:23.880 If they were sacrificing
00:25:24.980 a child,
00:25:26.600 murdering a child
00:25:27.540 and ripping his heart out
00:25:28.920 and then eating it,
00:25:30.440 we need context to understand it.
00:25:32.860 Well,
00:25:32.980 they want context for that,
00:25:34.420 but they never want context
00:25:35.660 for the other side.
00:25:36.660 They never want any context
00:25:37.720 for the Europeans,
00:25:38.760 the Westerners,
00:25:39.520 and their behavior
00:25:40.600 and their responses.
00:25:41.780 We're not supposed to have
00:25:42.300 any context for that.
00:25:44.760 But,
00:25:45.440 what you see is that
00:25:46.460 there was context,
00:25:47.300 there is really important context.
00:25:49.880 Because,
00:25:50.860 even when Europeans
00:25:53.840 committed atrocities,
00:25:55.480 which sometimes they did.
00:25:58.500 Not often,
00:25:59.460 but sometimes they did.
00:26:01.440 Even in those circumstances,
00:26:02.580 you see that they were dealing
00:26:04.060 with truly savage
00:26:05.760 and shocking
00:26:06.840 and horrifying behavior.
00:26:08.820 I mean,
00:26:08.940 they were dealing with things
00:26:09.660 just out of a nightmare,
00:26:11.340 like hellish sights
00:26:13.140 these people were seeing.
00:26:14.920 You can't even imagine
00:26:16.260 what that must be like.
00:26:18.720 And,
00:26:19.160 that not only made them angry,
00:26:20.620 but it also led them
00:26:21.540 to the conclusion
00:26:22.280 that these people
00:26:24.180 were not exactly equal
00:26:26.040 to them
00:26:26.660 as Europeans.
00:26:28.680 And,
00:26:29.000 it's very,
00:26:29.340 again,
00:26:29.540 very easy for us
00:26:30.420 in the modern day
00:26:31.420 to say,
00:26:33.420 well,
00:26:33.520 that's unacceptable.
00:26:34.980 The universal equality
00:26:36.720 of man
00:26:37.220 is obvious.
00:26:38.900 Everyone should see it.
00:26:40.000 Actually,
00:26:40.300 it's not obvious.
00:26:41.900 You've been raised
00:26:43.380 with that doctrine,
00:26:45.200 so it's obvious to you.
00:26:47.180 But,
00:26:47.780 it is a doctrine
00:26:48.460 and it's a relatively
00:26:50.040 modern one.
00:26:51.460 Not relative,
00:26:52.020 it's a very modern doctrine.
00:26:54.160 And,
00:26:54.420 for most of human history,
00:26:55.480 it was not obvious
00:26:56.180 to anyone.
00:26:56.700 In fact,
00:26:56.960 it never even occurred
00:26:57.700 to anyone
00:26:58.160 for thousands of years
00:26:59.160 that all people
00:27:00.260 are equal
00:27:00.760 in some sort of
00:27:01.620 spiritual sense.
00:27:04.400 It just didn't occur
00:27:05.220 to anyone
00:27:05.520 from any culture.
00:27:06.460 They never would have
00:27:07.440 said that.
00:27:09.220 And,
00:27:09.640 so you've got
00:27:10.120 these Europeans
00:27:10.620 who,
00:27:11.000 they don't have that,
00:27:12.360 right?
00:27:12.600 They don't have that
00:27:13.140 framework that we all have.
00:27:14.080 We're all born
00:27:14.680 and we're told from birth
00:27:15.600 everyone's equal.
00:27:17.180 Well,
00:27:17.920 these Europeans were not,
00:27:19.440 they were not told that.
00:27:20.240 They didn't have
00:27:20.920 that framework
00:27:21.480 any more than,
00:27:22.300 any more than
00:27:22.780 these other cultures did.
00:27:24.440 And so they're going
00:27:25.000 around the world
00:27:25.520 and they pull up,
00:27:27.240 they land on some
00:27:28.520 foreign shore
00:27:30.260 and they see
00:27:32.080 naked people
00:27:32.880 run out of the forest
00:27:33.840 engaging in ritualistic
00:27:36.260 cannibalism
00:27:37.120 and human sacrifice.
00:27:40.100 Is it really hard
00:27:41.260 to understand
00:27:41.920 from their perspective
00:27:42.960 200 years ago
00:27:44.020 or 300 years ago
00:27:44.860 or longer?
00:27:45.640 Is it really hard
00:27:47.260 to understand
00:27:47.760 why they might
00:27:48.520 have had trouble
00:27:49.300 recognizing
00:27:50.020 the universal equality
00:27:51.960 of man
00:27:52.660 in those circumstances?
00:27:53.560 Is it really
00:27:54.500 that difficult
00:27:55.180 in context?
00:27:56.800 And if we can give
00:27:57.580 context to actual
00:27:58.860 cannibalistic acts
00:28:00.300 and acts of
00:28:01.700 pure savagery
00:28:03.900 and butchery,
00:28:04.640 if we can give
00:28:05.400 context to that,
00:28:06.160 then why can't we
00:28:06.800 give context to this?
00:28:07.700 Has always been
00:28:08.540 my question.
00:28:11.520 Anyway,
00:28:12.060 but still,
00:28:12.660 Joe Biden made
00:28:13.220 all that up,
00:28:13.640 so that was
00:28:14.720 originally the topic
00:28:16.360 I ventured away
00:28:18.060 from a little bit.
00:28:19.160 Okay,
00:28:19.400 CBS News reports
00:28:21.240 Washington,
00:28:22.560 House Republicans'
00:28:23.520 leadership on Wednesday
00:28:24.740 unveiled a legislative
00:28:25.620 text for three bills
00:28:27.080 that are part of
00:28:28.480 a complicated plan
00:28:29.440 by Speaker Mike Johnson
00:28:30.500 to get aid
00:28:31.280 to U.S. allies
00:28:32.340 while addressing
00:28:32.880 concerns from conservatives.
00:28:35.000 The three bills
00:28:35.660 would provide
00:28:36.100 $26.4 billion
00:28:37.420 to support Israel,
00:28:38.880 $60.8 billion
00:28:40.320 to bolster Ukraine,
00:28:42.260 and $8.1 billion
00:28:43.380 to counter China
00:28:44.380 and the Indo-Pacific,
00:28:45.660 including billions
00:28:46.400 for Taiwan.
00:28:48.020 The Israel bill
00:28:48.500 also includes
00:28:49.080 more than $9.1 billion
00:28:50.260 to address
00:28:50.980 humanitarian needs,
00:28:52.240 which Democrats
00:28:52.840 said was necessary
00:28:53.720 for their support.
00:28:58.000 So this is
00:28:58.800 the aid package
00:29:02.720 that they've come up with.
00:29:04.760 And do you remember
00:29:05.840 back when Republicans
00:29:06.840 kicked Kevin McCarthy
00:29:08.000 to the curb?
00:29:09.400 And I said at the time
00:29:11.440 on this show
00:29:12.060 that this was probably...
00:29:14.360 Now,
00:29:14.860 when it was initially announced,
00:29:16.100 I didn't know anything
00:29:16.640 about Mike Johnson.
00:29:18.140 Most people didn't.
00:29:20.440 But very quickly,
00:29:21.600 you start learning about him,
00:29:22.540 and once I learned
00:29:23.020 a little bit about him,
00:29:23.900 I said that,
00:29:24.880 well, this is probably
00:29:25.920 at best a lateral move,
00:29:27.520 and there's no reason
00:29:29.220 to think that this guy
00:29:30.100 is any better.
00:29:32.500 And, well, here you go.
00:29:33.640 I mean, Exhibit A.
00:29:35.140 Actually, this is not Exhibit A.
00:29:36.200 There have been
00:29:37.080 many other exhibits.
00:29:38.100 There were exhibits
00:29:38.580 back before he even
00:29:39.500 became Speaker,
00:29:40.560 way before.
00:29:41.760 As I showed you at the time,
00:29:42.840 Mike Johnson was going around
00:29:43.940 on left-wing outlets
00:29:44.920 back in 2020
00:29:45.740 during the Floyd riots.
00:29:47.680 He was going around
00:29:48.460 on left-wing outlets
00:29:49.460 crying about how
00:29:50.900 Floyd was murdered, okay?
00:29:53.040 And that's all we really
00:29:54.360 need to know about him
00:29:55.100 right there.
00:29:55.700 That told us the whole story.
00:29:58.640 And as for the particulars
00:29:59.840 here of this
00:30:00.320 foreign aid package,
00:30:01.520 well, you already know
00:30:02.480 that I oppose
00:30:03.200 foreign aid.
00:30:04.600 That's always been my view.
00:30:06.200 It certainly still is,
00:30:09.160 totally and completely.
00:30:10.120 And the idea that we'd even
00:30:11.460 be having a conversation
00:30:12.580 about foreign aid
00:30:13.520 while our own border
00:30:14.860 is wide open
00:30:15.720 and our people
00:30:17.000 are being murdered
00:30:17.680 by criminals
00:30:18.780 coming across our border,
00:30:21.520 like the idea
00:30:22.040 that we would be talking
00:30:23.560 about foreign aid at all
00:30:24.400 is just repugnant.
00:30:26.940 And as far as Ukraine,
00:30:29.580 I mean,
00:30:30.160 I have the same questions
00:30:32.300 I've always had,
00:30:32.860 which is what do we get
00:30:33.540 out of this?
00:30:34.780 Why are we still doing this?
00:30:36.500 What actual interest
00:30:37.680 do we have
00:30:38.240 in this conflict?
00:30:40.620 At this point,
00:30:41.720 two years in,
00:30:42.560 what do we gain from this?
00:30:44.500 Why don't we just
00:30:45.240 back away
00:30:45.760 and let things work out
00:30:46.740 however they're going
00:30:47.200 to work out?
00:30:48.780 What's the worst case
00:30:49.760 scenario for us?
00:30:52.580 Well,
00:30:52.900 Speaker Johnson
00:30:53.380 was on CNN
00:30:54.000 with Jake Tapper
00:30:54.700 and he tried to
00:30:56.080 explain that.
00:30:57.640 Let's listen.
00:30:58.060 I understand what you're
00:31:00.340 doing,
00:31:00.620 breaking up these
00:31:01.140 foreign aid packages,
00:31:02.140 Ukraine,
00:31:02.520 Taiwan,
00:31:03.000 Israel,
00:31:03.320 letting the House
00:31:03.860 work its will
00:31:04.480 and then sending over
00:31:05.320 to the Senate
00:31:05.800 into one bill,
00:31:06.860 whatever passes.
00:31:08.160 Why didn't you do
00:31:08.880 this months ago?
00:31:09.600 I mean,
00:31:09.800 Ukraine is desperate
00:31:10.800 for aid.
00:31:11.860 Yeah,
00:31:12.060 they are.
00:31:12.540 Well,
00:31:12.660 it takes a long time
00:31:13.560 to socialize
00:31:14.240 and build consensus
00:31:14.980 when you have
00:31:15.740 the smallest majority
00:31:16.460 in U.S. history.
00:31:17.160 So that's part of it
00:31:17.860 and it's very practical
00:31:18.620 politics here.
00:31:19.840 But also,
00:31:20.380 we've had other big lifts
00:31:21.600 in this Congress.
00:31:22.720 As you know,
00:31:23.140 we had to get the
00:31:23.680 government appropriations
00:31:24.900 bills done
00:31:25.460 and then we had to do
00:31:26.200 the renewal of the
00:31:27.180 Foreign Intelligence
00:31:27.740 Surveillance Act
00:31:28.520 and some pretty heavy
00:31:29.660 measures and it was
00:31:30.800 a lot to handle
00:31:31.880 at one time.
00:31:32.660 Look,
00:31:32.820 we know what the
00:31:33.300 timetable is.
00:31:34.080 We know the urgency
00:31:34.820 in Ukraine
00:31:35.300 and in Israel
00:31:36.080 and we are going to
00:31:37.020 stand by Israel,
00:31:38.520 our close ally
00:31:39.480 and dear friend
00:31:40.040 and we're going to
00:31:40.720 stand for freedom
00:31:41.440 and make sure
00:31:42.000 that Vladimir Putin
00:31:42.780 doesn't march
00:31:43.380 through Europe.
00:31:44.280 These are important
00:31:45.100 responsibilities.
00:31:46.020 A strong America
00:31:47.440 is good for the
00:31:48.660 entire world.
00:31:49.420 Since World War II,
00:31:50.520 really, really,
00:31:51.180 the responsibility
00:31:51.840 for the free world
00:31:53.920 has been shifted
00:31:54.540 onto our shoulders
00:31:55.360 and we accept that role.
00:31:56.640 We're an exceptional
00:31:57.260 nation.
00:31:58.140 We're the greatest nation
00:31:58.940 on the planet
00:31:59.840 and we have to act like it
00:32:00.840 and we have to project
00:32:01.680 to Putin and Xi
00:32:03.080 and Iran and North Korea
00:32:05.020 and anybody else
00:32:05.880 that we will defend freedom.
00:32:07.640 It doesn't mean
00:32:08.060 boots on the ground.
00:32:08.780 We're not the world's
00:32:09.380 policemen.
00:32:10.200 But we're going to do...
00:32:11.520 Wow.
00:32:13.060 Well, good job,
00:32:13.920 Republicans.
00:32:14.820 Good job again.
00:32:15.480 I can't say it enough.
00:32:16.740 Good job,
00:32:17.720 you damned morons,
00:32:19.300 you brainless jackasses,
00:32:24.080 you feckless dimwits.
00:32:25.860 Good job.
00:32:27.120 You made a big show
00:32:27.940 of kicking out
00:32:28.480 the old speaker
00:32:29.140 and you end up
00:32:29.840 with this.
00:32:32.000 At best,
00:32:33.200 at absolute best,
00:32:34.680 it's the same exact thing
00:32:35.640 you had before
00:32:36.120 and I think you can make
00:32:36.820 an argument
00:32:37.140 that he's worse.
00:32:39.060 So what the hell
00:32:39.760 was the point?
00:32:40.580 What was the point
00:32:41.320 of getting rid
00:32:41.840 of Kevin McCarthy
00:32:42.460 just to end up
00:32:44.080 with this?
00:32:45.580 And this is
00:32:46.080 like
00:32:46.940 everything wrong
00:32:49.640 with the Republican Party
00:32:50.800 and really
00:32:54.280 the conservative movement
00:32:55.360 more broadly
00:32:56.060 can be captured
00:32:57.680 in this story
00:33:00.200 where you had,
00:33:03.080 you know,
00:33:03.380 it's just like
00:33:03.980 we're just doing things.
00:33:05.240 There's no strategic
00:33:06.700 grand vision.
00:33:08.680 We're just doing things
00:33:10.100 and trying to capture
00:33:11.980 the headlines
00:33:12.560 for a single news cycle
00:33:13.800 with no concern
00:33:15.740 for how it might play out
00:33:17.440 down the road
00:33:18.060 and what it will lead to
00:33:19.280 and whether this
00:33:19.800 will actually advance
00:33:21.100 what should be
00:33:22.800 our agenda.
00:33:25.980 And perfect example
00:33:27.140 of that is,
00:33:28.200 well,
00:33:28.280 let's just kick
00:33:28.820 Kevin McCarthy out
00:33:29.700 and the people
00:33:31.260 who ask,
00:33:31.660 well,
00:33:31.720 who are we replacing him with?
00:33:33.520 Do we know
00:33:34.060 that this person
00:33:34.620 is going to be better?
00:33:35.140 Doesn't matter.
00:33:35.660 We need to get rid of him.
00:33:36.700 That doesn't matter.
00:33:38.420 What are you,
00:33:38.740 some kind of lib
00:33:39.320 to even ask that question?
00:33:41.580 No,
00:33:41.720 just get rid of him.
00:33:42.420 Just get rid of him
00:33:43.100 and okay,
00:33:43.760 what's the plan next?
00:33:44.580 Well,
00:33:44.700 we don't have a plan.
00:33:45.260 We'll just get rid of him
00:33:45.800 and see what happens.
00:33:48.500 The ability to be
00:33:49.800 strategic in the long term
00:33:52.400 is almost non-existent.
00:33:56.620 I mean,
00:33:57.240 you could probably count
00:33:58.600 on one hand
00:33:59.420 the number of people
00:34:00.680 on the right,
00:34:01.920 on the right generally.
00:34:03.080 I mean,
00:34:03.460 people publicly on the right.
00:34:05.800 So this is,
00:34:06.380 it's easy enough
00:34:06.840 to blame the Republican Party.
00:34:07.680 I mean,
00:34:08.420 on the right generally.
00:34:10.080 The number of people
00:34:11.260 who have shown
00:34:12.460 any capacity
00:34:13.660 to be strategic,
00:34:15.300 to be long,
00:34:16.280 to engage
00:34:17.400 in long term strategy.
00:34:19.860 It's very few.
00:34:24.100 And,
00:34:24.400 and that's of all
00:34:26.540 the public figures,
00:34:27.800 I mean.
00:34:28.140 what you normally get
00:34:35.920 from Republican politicians
00:34:39.140 and from the
00:34:41.480 conservative influencers
00:34:44.160 and hosts
00:34:45.100 and media figures
00:34:45.880 and so on,
00:34:46.620 what you usually get
00:34:48.140 is just
00:34:49.020 let's capture
00:34:51.120 the news cycle
00:34:51.820 for one news cycle.
00:34:53.040 Let's get a lot of attention.
00:34:54.120 and,
00:34:57.460 and that's
00:34:58.920 with,
00:34:59.400 with no plan
00:35:00.160 beyond that.
00:35:03.580 And this is how
00:35:04.360 we end up with,
00:35:05.040 with this.
00:35:05.520 I mean,
00:35:05.700 it's,
00:35:06.080 it's,
00:35:09.640 the word frustrating
00:35:10.900 does not even begin
00:35:11.920 to,
00:35:12.260 to describe it.
00:35:15.300 And
00:35:15.740 there are two things
00:35:18.040 that I think
00:35:18.660 that Mike Johnson
00:35:19.860 said there
00:35:20.260 that are just
00:35:20.740 aggressively asinine.
00:35:21.780 One is that
00:35:23.260 we have to stand
00:35:24.020 for freedom.
00:35:26.160 America does.
00:35:27.600 Now we're used
00:35:28.060 to hearing that,
00:35:28.740 right?
00:35:28.860 We've been hearing that
00:35:29.540 for 30 years or longer,
00:35:31.120 really.
00:35:31.920 Stand for freedom.
00:35:33.940 Well,
00:35:34.500 what does that mean?
00:35:35.740 In fact,
00:35:36.100 he says it's,
00:35:36.580 it's our burden.
00:35:37.980 Okay,
00:35:38.100 it's our burden
00:35:38.860 to bear.
00:35:39.780 The,
00:35:39.940 the,
00:35:40.180 the responsibility
00:35:41.080 for the freedom,
00:35:43.020 for freedom generally
00:35:44.440 across the globe
00:35:45.040 is,
00:35:45.740 is on us
00:35:46.680 as Americans.
00:35:47.660 Well,
00:35:48.060 what does that mean?
00:35:49.740 Like,
00:35:50.160 what does that actually mean?
00:35:52.740 And,
00:35:53.420 let's just start with,
00:35:55.540 well,
00:35:55.740 what do you mean freedom?
00:35:56.620 Like,
00:35:56.960 in what sense?
00:35:59.760 Okay,
00:36:00.200 like,
00:36:00.660 we,
00:36:00.760 we act like
00:36:01.780 that word alone
00:36:02.800 has some clear
00:36:04.220 objective meaning
00:36:05.420 when it simply
00:36:07.200 doesn't.
00:36:10.140 There are plenty
00:36:11.000 of words that we act,
00:36:12.240 that we,
00:36:12.660 we pretend are subjective
00:36:13.860 and ambiguous
00:36:14.720 but aren't.
00:36:17.120 But then there are words
00:36:17.720 that really are subjective
00:36:18.520 and pretty ambiguous
00:36:19.100 and one of them is free,
00:36:20.260 freedom.
00:36:21.420 Freedom.
00:36:22.000 In,
00:36:22.480 in what sense?
00:36:23.640 Freedom from who?
00:36:24.520 Freedom to do what?
00:36:25.940 Freedom to do what?
00:36:27.240 Exactly.
00:36:30.880 So,
00:36:31.460 what does that mean?
00:36:33.980 Why is that our job?
00:36:38.000 Why did we,
00:36:39.120 how have we inherited that?
00:36:42.400 And,
00:36:42.920 and let me ask you this,
00:36:44.140 Mike Johnson,
00:36:44.680 how many people
00:36:45.540 in the world right now
00:36:47.000 would you categorize
00:36:49.320 as free
00:36:50.320 by your standard,
00:36:52.340 whatever the hell
00:36:52.760 your standard is?
00:36:55.520 What are your standards?
00:36:56.520 Maybe you could tell us that.
00:36:57.400 You probably can't.
00:36:58.840 How many people
00:36:59.360 in the world right now
00:36:59.920 are free?
00:37:01.220 There are 8 billion people
00:37:02.260 on the earth.
00:37:03.600 How many are free?
00:37:05.020 Whatever that means for you.
00:37:06.720 Are there even a billion?
00:37:08.060 Are there even 1 billion
00:37:09.400 people
00:37:10.680 who are free
00:37:11.660 out of the,
00:37:12.160 out of the 8?
00:37:12.720 I doubt it.
00:37:16.580 Let's be very,
00:37:17.340 let's even be generous.
00:37:18.260 Let's be way too generous
00:37:19.360 and say that,
00:37:20.100 let's say that
00:37:20.600 by some definition
00:37:21.920 of the word freedom,
00:37:22.980 there are 2 billion people
00:37:24.140 on earth
00:37:24.480 who are experiencing
00:37:25.180 it right now.
00:37:26.240 Again,
00:37:26.520 I think that's
00:37:27.080 totally not true,
00:37:28.600 but that still leaves
00:37:30.560 6 billion
00:37:32.160 unfree people.
00:37:34.860 Are we supposed
00:37:35.600 to go to war
00:37:36.180 to free them all?
00:37:37.580 Are we supposed
00:37:38.360 to be in a constant
00:37:39.580 state of warfare
00:37:40.780 or funding wars
00:37:42.200 all the time
00:37:43.400 every single day
00:37:44.760 forever
00:37:45.500 for eternity
00:37:46.340 until everyone
00:37:47.960 in the world
00:37:48.360 is free
00:37:48.960 even though
00:37:49.940 nobody can even
00:37:50.900 explain what
00:37:51.820 that even means?
00:37:53.720 Is that the plan?
00:37:56.000 Are we supposed
00:37:56.740 to be just
00:37:57.080 in a constant
00:37:57.660 state of freeing
00:37:58.740 everybody from
00:37:59.400 everything all the time?
00:38:00.780 Well yeah,
00:38:01.100 that is the plan
00:38:01.600 I guess.
00:38:03.240 And how has
00:38:03.960 that worked out?
00:38:04.940 How has that
00:38:05.800 worked out so far?
00:38:06.880 We've been in the
00:38:07.440 Middle East
00:38:07.800 defending freedom
00:38:08.860 for 25 years.
00:38:10.840 How many
00:38:11.700 of the countries
00:38:13.900 that we have
00:38:14.560 spread freedom to
00:38:15.480 are actually
00:38:16.800 free right now
00:38:17.760 by any reasonable
00:38:20.280 definition of the term?
00:38:22.500 Iraq,
00:38:23.100 Afghanistan,
00:38:23.840 Syria,
00:38:24.380 Libya.
00:38:26.680 That bastion
00:38:27.740 of freedom
00:38:28.200 in Syria,
00:38:29.140 is that what
00:38:29.400 you're talking about?
00:38:30.600 How did our
00:38:31.280 freedom campaign
00:38:32.180 work out in those
00:38:32.840 countries, huh?
00:38:35.360 Like it turns out
00:38:36.320 that if people
00:38:36.800 want to be free
00:38:37.660 according to
00:38:38.200 whatever definition
00:38:38.900 they use
00:38:40.380 for that term,
00:38:42.260 if they want
00:38:43.760 to be free,
00:38:44.180 they need to
00:38:44.520 fight for it
00:38:45.040 and maintain
00:38:45.440 it themselves.
00:38:46.180 And if they
00:38:46.640 can't,
00:38:47.780 then they won't
00:38:48.360 be.
00:38:50.400 And the truth
00:38:51.120 really is that
00:38:51.840 every culture,
00:38:53.900 and again,
00:38:54.420 there are plenty
00:38:55.220 of times when
00:38:55.660 this argument of
00:38:56.280 well every culture
00:38:56.760 has their own
00:38:57.120 definition,
00:38:58.000 plenty of instances
00:38:58.840 where that argument
00:38:59.840 doesn't apply.
00:39:00.940 But in this case
00:39:02.060 it does.
00:39:03.140 Because every
00:39:03.860 culture really does
00:39:04.860 have their own
00:39:05.400 idea of what
00:39:06.060 freedom even is.
00:39:06.920 and by the way
00:39:08.160 there are plenty
00:39:08.880 of cultures that
00:39:09.420 don't value that
00:39:10.540 in the first place.
00:39:13.000 If you were to
00:39:13.700 talk about
00:39:14.480 freedom,
00:39:15.840 there are plenty
00:39:16.120 of cultures
00:39:16.580 especially historically
00:39:17.500 if you were to
00:39:17.980 go,
00:39:18.240 so how much
00:39:18.880 do you value
00:39:19.460 freedom?
00:39:20.000 They would look
00:39:20.320 at you,
00:39:20.940 they wouldn't
00:39:21.200 even understand
00:39:21.640 the question.
00:39:22.300 It's just that's
00:39:22.680 not part of
00:39:23.280 their language.
00:39:24.620 It's not a
00:39:24.880 priority.
00:39:26.880 Now that might
00:39:27.500 be confusing
00:39:28.140 for us,
00:39:30.300 but that's
00:39:31.280 just,
00:39:31.700 that's our
00:39:32.300 priorities.
00:39:34.420 And anyway,
00:39:34.820 it doesn't matter.
00:39:35.360 If that's
00:39:35.600 somebody's priority,
00:39:36.180 then they have
00:39:36.760 to fight
00:39:37.040 for it.
00:39:39.540 And then
00:39:40.120 Johnson also
00:39:40.660 says that we
00:39:41.280 have to
00:39:41.580 ensure that
00:39:42.180 Putin doesn't
00:39:42.820 march through
00:39:43.460 Europe.
00:39:45.880 Like he's
00:39:46.460 going to
00:39:46.640 invade all
00:39:47.380 of Europe
00:39:47.880 and it's
00:39:48.340 going to
00:39:48.520 be,
00:39:48.700 because,
00:39:48.940 you know,
00:39:49.300 and anytime
00:39:50.980 I've expressed
00:39:53.320 skepticism over
00:39:54.180 that claim,
00:39:55.120 and that was
00:39:55.480 the claim they
00:39:55.840 were making
00:39:56.100 two years
00:39:56.500 ago,
00:39:56.940 the fact that
00:39:57.940 they're still
00:39:58.500 making that
00:39:59.000 claim two
00:39:59.500 years later
00:40:00.140 is just
00:40:01.100 ridiculous,
00:40:02.320 but it was
00:40:02.700 ridiculous at the
00:40:03.220 time.
00:40:03.680 It was ridiculous
00:40:04.280 two years ago,
00:40:04.940 now it's just,
00:40:05.680 even more so,
00:40:07.860 but of course,
00:40:09.800 anytime I've
00:40:10.700 expressed skepticism
00:40:12.160 about that,
00:40:13.120 I'm always told,
00:40:14.280 well,
00:40:14.380 that's what people
00:40:14.680 said about
00:40:15.020 Hitler,
00:40:16.940 World War II
00:40:17.880 and Hitler.
00:40:18.540 Can I just
00:40:19.100 tell you something
00:40:19.580 for any moron
00:40:21.140 out there who
00:40:21.500 doesn't understand
00:40:21.900 this?
00:40:22.320 Not everything
00:40:23.060 in the world
00:40:23.640 is World War II,
00:40:24.620 okay?
00:40:25.040 World War II
00:40:25.700 was a particular
00:40:26.540 historical event,
00:40:28.160 Adolf Hitler
00:40:28.660 was a particular
00:40:29.400 historical figure
00:40:30.320 in a certain
00:40:31.560 historical context,
00:40:32.540 not everything
00:40:33.760 that happens
00:40:34.380 is analogous
00:40:35.220 to that.
00:40:36.120 Just because
00:40:37.000 it's the only
00:40:37.780 historical event
00:40:38.640 that you are
00:40:39.120 vaguely familiar
00:40:40.180 with,
00:40:40.700 it doesn't mean
00:40:41.540 that everything
00:40:42.200 that happens
00:40:42.860 is an analogy
00:40:43.780 to that,
00:40:44.940 okay?
00:40:46.700 Vladimir Putin
00:40:47.620 is not Hitler.
00:40:49.000 There's basically
00:40:50.560 no comparison
00:40:51.420 between the people
00:40:53.600 individually,
00:40:54.460 between the
00:40:54.900 historical circumstances,
00:40:56.440 nothing.
00:40:56.700 And the idea
00:40:58.760 that he's just
00:40:59.180 going to march
00:40:59.840 on Europe
00:41:00.380 at some point
00:41:01.160 and what,
00:41:04.180 take over
00:41:04.680 so that all
00:41:05.200 of Europe,
00:41:05.760 Western Europe
00:41:06.380 is going to be
00:41:06.680 Russia?
00:41:07.200 Is that really?
00:41:07.760 Really?
00:41:08.140 What are the chances
00:41:08.980 of that actually
00:41:09.600 happening?
00:41:10.720 Give me a
00:41:11.120 percentage point.
00:41:12.860 Let's say
00:41:13.200 the United States
00:41:13.660 pulls out
00:41:14.120 completely,
00:41:14.660 we pull our
00:41:15.260 money out,
00:41:15.600 we pull everything
00:41:16.060 out,
00:41:16.280 we're not
00:41:16.520 involved.
00:41:18.000 What do you
00:41:18.400 think the
00:41:18.880 percentage
00:41:19.460 chance is
00:41:20.480 that at some
00:41:21.660 point in the
00:41:22.680 near or even
00:41:24.000 distant future,
00:41:25.560 Europe is,
00:41:26.240 you look at
00:41:26.540 a map and
00:41:27.000 it just all
00:41:27.480 says Russia
00:41:28.160 across all
00:41:30.180 of Europe.
00:41:33.500 What are the
00:41:34.020 chances of that?
00:41:37.100 I think there
00:41:37.720 are people out
00:41:38.040 there stupid
00:41:38.420 enough to say,
00:41:38.980 oh, it's
00:41:39.160 probably like
00:41:39.580 a 75%
00:41:41.060 chance.
00:41:43.640 How about
00:41:44.120 like a
00:41:44.400 .0000000001%
00:41:50.520 chance?
00:41:51.060 Like, put it
00:41:51.580 right around
00:41:52.080 there somewhere.
00:41:55.060 I mean,
00:41:55.520 the chances
00:41:55.880 of that,
00:41:56.100 the only
00:41:57.180 reason I
00:41:57.440 can't say
00:41:57.700 it's 0%
00:41:58.160 chance is
00:41:58.560 because there's
00:41:58.960 a chance
00:41:59.240 anything could
00:41:59.600 happen,
00:41:59.880 and there's
00:42:00.060 a chance
00:42:00.320 the moon
00:42:00.980 could explode
00:42:01.580 tomorrow.
00:42:03.980 Our gaseous
00:42:04.940 moon that's
00:42:05.560 actually a
00:42:05.940 planet,
00:42:06.320 according to
00:42:06.600 Sheila Jackson
00:42:07.020 Lee,
00:42:07.160 could explode
00:42:07.600 tomorrow.
00:42:09.060 So anything
00:42:09.620 could happen,
00:42:10.120 but the
00:42:10.600 chances of
00:42:11.060 that are
00:42:11.400 exceedingly
00:42:12.540 low.
00:42:14.060 And even
00:42:15.740 if there is
00:42:16.340 some sort
00:42:16.840 of way
00:42:17.720 vanishingly
00:42:19.340 small chance
00:42:19.960 of that
00:42:20.120 happening,
00:42:20.880 can Europe
00:42:21.680 not defend
00:42:22.140 itself?
00:42:23.120 Can these
00:42:23.400 countries,
00:42:23.840 are they that
00:42:24.400 impotent that
00:42:24.980 they can't
00:42:25.320 even defend
00:42:25.680 themselves?
00:42:29.220 We were
00:42:29.920 hearing for
00:42:30.280 years that
00:42:30.720 Putin is
00:42:31.660 dying,
00:42:32.540 he's got
00:42:32.820 cancer,
00:42:33.440 he's old
00:42:34.620 and frail,
00:42:35.360 and that's
00:42:35.940 what they
00:42:36.060 were all
00:42:36.340 saying,
00:42:36.640 that's what
00:42:36.740 the media
00:42:37.000 was saying.
00:42:39.540 What?
00:42:40.020 And you
00:42:40.220 can't handle
00:42:40.740 this old
00:42:41.260 frail guy
00:42:42.160 dying of
00:42:42.600 cancer?
00:42:42.960 According to
00:42:43.280 you,
00:42:43.440 you can't
00:42:43.640 handle him?
00:42:46.360 They can't
00:42:46.880 even make up
00:42:47.200 their minds.
00:42:47.680 Like,
00:42:47.860 one minute
00:42:48.280 Putin is a
00:42:49.220 threat to the
00:42:50.140 safety and
00:42:50.620 security of the
00:42:51.100 entire globe,
00:42:51.680 the next
00:42:52.220 minute he's
00:42:52.660 an old
00:42:53.540 shriveled
00:42:53.860 old clown
00:42:54.480 that we
00:42:54.960 can laugh
00:42:55.380 at.
00:42:55.980 They can't
00:42:56.780 even make
00:42:57.100 up their
00:42:57.380 mind about
00:42:58.180 which piece
00:42:58.620 of propaganda
00:42:59.100 they're going
00:42:59.440 with,
00:42:59.640 so they
00:43:00.160 vacillate
00:43:00.880 between the
00:43:01.280 two.
00:43:03.080 I find it
00:43:03.980 all quite
00:43:05.680 repulsive.
00:43:07.300 All right,
00:43:08.040 finally,
00:43:08.760 I'll briefly
00:43:09.440 mention this,
00:43:10.480 Daily Beast
00:43:10.860 has this
00:43:11.160 report,
00:43:11.520 things got
00:43:11.900 physical when
00:43:12.420 a group of
00:43:12.760 climate
00:43:13.060 protesters
00:43:13.620 clashed with
00:43:14.340 other event
00:43:14.940 goers at
00:43:15.360 a gala
00:43:16.360 hosted by
00:43:17.120 Senator Lisa
00:43:17.720 Murkowski,
00:43:19.140 a Republican,
00:43:20.180 on Thursday.
00:43:20.800 Several
00:43:21.560 activists were
00:43:22.080 pushed off
00:43:22.560 stage and
00:43:23.000 fell on top
00:43:23.640 of one
00:43:23.880 another while
00:43:24.360 resisting
00:43:24.740 attempts by
00:43:25.240 the event
00:43:25.580 attendees to
00:43:26.360 remove them.
00:43:27.640 Murkowski was
00:43:28.060 giving a speech
00:43:28.640 at the Bryce
00:43:29.340 Harlow Foundation's
00:43:30.400 awards ceremony
00:43:31.080 when she was
00:43:31.880 suddenly interrupted
00:43:32.360 by about 10
00:43:32.980 to 12 climate
00:43:33.700 protesters who
00:43:34.440 rushed the
00:43:34.920 stage and
00:43:35.380 took over,
00:43:36.560 according to
00:43:36.900 a source.
00:43:39.320 Climate
00:43:39.780 Defiance is
00:43:40.640 the group,
00:43:42.040 and they were
00:43:42.620 the ones who
00:43:43.180 posted a video
00:43:44.460 of the scuffle
00:43:45.040 on social media.
00:43:46.360 Here's the
00:43:46.960 video.
00:43:50.800 Okay, and
00:44:03.380 that's, again,
00:44:04.600 that's climate
00:44:05.040 defiance, and
00:44:05.620 they posted
00:44:07.120 this caption,
00:44:09.300 it says,
00:44:10.300 Breaking.
00:44:11.520 We just
00:44:11.840 shut down a
00:44:12.520 gala honoring
00:44:13.340 U.S.
00:44:13.740 Senator Lisa
00:44:14.280 Murkowski.
00:44:15.180 Murkowski is a
00:44:16.020 murderer.
00:44:17.120 She incinerates
00:44:18.100 us to enrich
00:44:18.840 her cronies.
00:44:19.540 As Chevron's
00:44:20.840 top lobbyist
00:44:21.540 gave her an
00:44:22.040 award, we
00:44:23.180 stepped in and
00:44:24.180 stopped the
00:44:24.860 ceremony.
00:44:25.980 Respect us or
00:44:27.080 expect us.
00:44:30.520 Look, not a lot
00:44:31.660 to say here
00:44:32.200 other than
00:44:33.700 incinerates
00:44:35.360 us.
00:44:36.300 Okay, Lisa
00:44:37.380 Murkowski.
00:44:38.460 Lisa Murkowski
00:44:39.580 is incinerating
00:44:41.440 them.
00:44:42.640 Now, imagine
00:44:43.340 walking around
00:44:44.080 every day
00:44:44.760 believing that
00:44:45.700 you're being
00:44:46.180 incinerated.
00:44:47.000 you walk
00:44:48.540 outside on a
00:44:49.120 sunny day,
00:44:49.800 it's a little
00:44:50.420 bit warm,
00:44:51.220 and most
00:44:52.400 people are
00:44:52.740 saying, oh,
00:44:53.120 wow, it's
00:44:53.680 beautiful out
00:44:54.500 there today,
00:44:54.980 but you're
00:44:55.820 screaming in
00:44:56.600 pain.
00:44:56.840 I'm being
00:44:57.160 incinerated.
00:44:59.420 Like, dude,
00:44:59.980 it's 78
00:45:00.540 degrees.
00:45:01.140 Okay, calm
00:45:01.560 down.
00:45:01.860 I mean, you
00:45:02.180 know, I get a
00:45:03.060 little uncomfortable
00:45:03.460 with the hot
00:45:03.800 weather, too,
00:45:04.300 but let's just
00:45:06.440 turn it down a
00:45:07.280 few notches
00:45:07.660 here.
00:45:09.280 And, you
00:45:10.660 know, I kind
00:45:10.880 of go back and
00:45:11.420 forth on this
00:45:12.100 when I see
00:45:14.680 these climate
00:45:15.160 alarmists and
00:45:15.960 you listen to
00:45:17.760 their, you see
00:45:18.960 their antics and
00:45:19.620 you listen to
00:45:20.060 their screeching
00:45:21.960 and their
00:45:22.240 propaganda, and
00:45:24.520 you ask
00:45:24.900 yourself, is
00:45:25.580 this all
00:45:26.040 performance on
00:45:28.020 their part?
00:45:29.620 Is this part,
00:45:30.640 is this all
00:45:31.140 part of the
00:45:32.020 sort of theater
00:45:32.840 kid contagion
00:45:34.020 where you've
00:45:35.280 got a bunch
00:45:35.720 of just nerds
00:45:36.800 who like to,
00:45:38.240 for fun,
00:45:39.200 like to,
00:45:39.420 they lead
00:45:40.680 lives that
00:45:41.320 are so easy
00:45:42.260 and so
00:45:42.780 comfortable
00:45:43.280 and so,
00:45:45.660 you know,
00:45:46.700 devoid, really,
00:45:47.760 of any kind
00:45:48.420 of struggle
00:45:49.040 or obstacle,
00:45:50.300 everything is
00:45:50.940 provided for
00:45:51.600 them and has
00:45:52.040 been their
00:45:52.320 whole lives,
00:45:53.460 that they
00:45:53.980 just need to
00:45:54.820 pretend, they
00:45:55.380 need to pretend
00:45:55.920 like they're in
00:45:56.620 some sort of
00:45:57.120 great drama,
00:45:58.440 like their
00:45:58.980 lives are
00:45:59.820 being threatened.
00:46:03.080 So is it
00:46:03.900 that, is it
00:46:04.300 a performance,
00:46:04.880 or do these
00:46:05.480 people really
00:46:06.060 believe that
00:46:06.720 they are
00:46:07.020 currently being
00:46:08.080 slowly
00:46:09.120 roasted to
00:46:10.020 death,
00:46:10.600 as you
00:46:11.760 might be
00:46:12.120 if your
00:46:12.520 plane landed
00:46:13.540 in Papua New
00:46:14.080 Guinea,
00:46:14.860 are they
00:46:15.480 being slowly
00:46:16.180 roasted to
00:46:16.840 death by
00:46:17.800 the climate,
00:46:19.280 a climate
00:46:19.700 that we
00:46:19.960 have somehow
00:46:21.920 caused,
00:46:23.520 and that we
00:46:24.600 can cool
00:46:25.100 down by
00:46:25.740 passing some
00:46:26.380 laws and
00:46:27.360 some policies?
00:46:29.440 Do they
00:46:30.080 really believe
00:46:30.540 that?
00:46:31.920 And that's
00:46:32.600 the question,
00:46:33.180 and I think
00:46:33.680 there probably
00:46:35.160 isn't one
00:46:35.760 answer,
00:46:36.380 and the
00:46:36.820 answer probably
00:46:37.400 changes,
00:46:37.880 and it's
00:46:38.880 probably on
00:46:39.360 a spectrum
00:46:40.980 as these
00:46:41.520 same people
00:46:42.040 would probably
00:46:42.420 like to
00:46:42.720 say,
00:46:43.500 but I
00:46:43.900 generally
00:46:44.500 come back
00:46:44.840 to the
00:46:45.020 conclusion
00:46:45.340 that yes,
00:46:45.860 I think
00:46:46.100 this is
00:46:46.540 sincere.
00:46:48.020 There is
00:46:48.820 some
00:46:49.160 melodrama,
00:46:49.820 there is
00:46:50.020 some
00:46:50.160 performance
00:46:50.580 involved,
00:46:51.300 but the
00:46:52.680 more startling
00:46:54.140 and disturbing
00:46:54.780 possibility
00:46:56.520 is the one
00:46:57.320 that I think
00:46:57.640 is probably
00:46:58.560 true,
00:46:59.120 which is
00:46:59.360 that they
00:47:00.780 really do
00:47:01.340 think this.
00:47:02.880 They walk
00:47:04.120 around every
00:47:04.560 day thinking
00:47:05.160 that they're
00:47:06.500 being cooked
00:47:07.020 to death
00:47:07.740 by the
00:47:08.080 climate.
00:47:08.440 They're
00:47:08.540 going to
00:47:08.680 die at
00:47:08.940 any moment.
00:47:11.380 Which isn't
00:47:11.900 that shocking
00:47:12.320 when you
00:47:12.580 think that
00:47:12.860 this is
00:47:13.360 what kids
00:47:17.100 are told
00:47:17.500 from a
00:47:17.860 very young
00:47:18.260 age,
00:47:18.900 and they
00:47:21.680 believe it,
00:47:22.740 and then
00:47:23.340 they act
00:47:23.580 like this.
00:47:24.700 Well,
00:47:24.940 it's 2024,
00:47:25.680 and if you're
00:47:25.960 still spending
00:47:26.480 your money
00:47:26.820 with woke
00:47:27.260 companies,
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00:47:28.700 There are
00:47:28.960 a lot of
00:47:29.440 great companies
00:47:29.900 out there
00:47:30.260 that aren't
00:47:30.700 shoving
00:47:30.960 diversity and
00:47:31.580 inclusion
00:47:31.840 initiatives
00:47:32.300 down the
00:47:32.660 throats
00:47:32.920 of their
00:47:33.180 employees or
00:47:33.760 their customers.
00:47:34.280 Maybe you're
00:47:35.320 already doing
00:47:35.800 business with
00:47:36.940 some of
00:47:37.180 these,
00:47:37.480 and that's
00:47:37.780 great.
00:47:38.200 Maybe you're
00:47:38.560 boycotting
00:47:39.040 companies who
00:47:39.620 have made
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00:49:39.200 In December
00:49:40.080 of 2021,
00:49:41.020 the governor
00:49:41.520 of New York,
00:49:42.100 Kathy Hochul,
00:49:43.100 issued what she
00:49:44.000 called a message
00:49:44.880 to the world.
00:49:46.120 And this was
00:49:46.660 somewhat unusual
00:49:47.560 because as the
00:49:48.440 governor of New York,
00:49:49.280 Kathy Hochul's job
00:49:50.120 is to deliver
00:49:50.620 messages to New
00:49:51.680 Yorkers.
00:49:52.760 But on this
00:49:53.160 occasion, she
00:49:53.700 decided to speak
00:49:54.460 to a much larger
00:49:55.340 audience.
00:49:55.740 And here's
00:49:56.400 what she said.
00:49:57.520 After reading
00:49:58.100 the poem from
00:49:58.980 the Statue of
00:49:59.400 Liberty,
00:49:59.940 quote,
00:50:00.780 send us your
00:50:01.260 people,
00:50:01.700 send us those
00:50:02.220 who need the
00:50:02.660 cloak of
00:50:03.080 comfort that we
00:50:03.760 can demonstrate
00:50:04.260 as New Yorkers
00:50:05.000 with big hearts
00:50:05.660 and open arms
00:50:06.260 and will provide
00:50:07.260 a safe haven.
00:50:08.260 We want people
00:50:08.700 to come here
00:50:09.180 despite where
00:50:09.940 they came from.
00:50:11.500 We'll not only
00:50:12.320 house you,
00:50:12.980 but we will
00:50:13.340 protect you.
00:50:14.460 Well, that's
00:50:15.520 what she said,
00:50:16.000 and what followed
00:50:16.680 is exactly what
00:50:17.340 you would expect.
00:50:18.040 More than 10,000
00:50:19.040 illegals started
00:50:19.720 pouring into New
00:50:20.400 York City every
00:50:21.520 month looking for
00:50:23.140 the cloak of
00:50:24.100 comfort that
00:50:24.780 Kathy Hochul
00:50:25.380 offered them.
00:50:26.660 They took her
00:50:27.220 up on that
00:50:27.680 offer.
00:50:28.720 And now, as I
00:50:29.500 mentioned before,
00:50:30.160 they're being
00:50:30.540 housed in schools
00:50:31.400 and airports and
00:50:32.240 furniture stores
00:50:33.240 because the
00:50:34.160 shelters, including
00:50:34.780 government subsidized
00:50:35.580 hotels, are
00:50:36.280 overrun.
00:50:37.940 Now, there's a very
00:50:39.000 well-rehearsed
00:50:39.840 deflection that you'll
00:50:40.760 hear from Hochul if
00:50:42.140 you bring any of this
00:50:42.900 up.
00:50:43.660 And this is a reply that
00:50:44.620 local news stations in
00:50:45.580 New York will parrot at
00:50:46.660 every opportunity since
00:50:47.840 effectively they work
00:50:49.160 for Kathy Hochul.
00:50:50.260 Watch.
00:50:50.560 Governor, I want to ask
00:50:52.980 you about one of the
00:50:53.680 many issues that New
00:50:54.780 Yorkers are facing in
00:50:55.620 the whole country is
00:50:56.300 the issue around
00:50:57.000 immigration.
00:50:57.440 So, governors across,
00:50:59.980 mayors across the
00:51:00.800 country, I should say,
00:51:01.860 are pleading for more
00:51:02.560 federal government
00:51:03.140 assistance.
00:51:04.060 New York alone had
00:51:04.840 178,000 migrants who
00:51:07.020 came into the state,
00:51:08.600 and there's been issues
00:51:09.200 around housing, schooling,
00:51:11.420 medicine for these
00:51:12.100 people, and it's draining
00:51:13.040 billions from city
00:51:14.200 budgets.
00:51:14.900 Now, Mayor Adams has
00:51:16.120 raised the idea of
00:51:17.260 changing sanctuary city
00:51:18.660 laws so that migrants
00:51:20.000 aren't flocking to
00:51:21.180 major cities.
00:51:22.420 Do you support this,
00:51:24.420 and what do you think
00:51:24.980 needs to be done to fix
00:51:26.020 this influx of
00:51:26.760 migration?
00:51:27.400 Well, first of all,
00:51:28.020 let's just say we are
00:51:28.820 a nation of immigrants.
00:51:29.940 I'm sitting here
00:51:30.960 because my grandparents
00:51:36.440 were teenagers in
00:51:37.980 Ireland leaving great
00:51:39.640 poverty.
00:51:40.440 Grandpa started as a
00:51:41.900 migrant farm worker
00:51:42.860 himself in South Dakota
00:51:44.120 in the wheat fields.
00:51:45.440 They were domestic
00:51:46.100 servants in Chicago until
00:51:47.520 they heard about the
00:51:48.160 promised land of
00:51:49.040 Buffalo, New York.
00:51:49.780 You could make steel
00:51:50.560 with your hands and get
00:51:51.340 a good-paying union
00:51:52.100 job, and that's what
00:51:53.380 changed my whole family's
00:51:54.540 history.
00:51:55.660 Those jobs are here in
00:51:57.080 the state of New York.
00:51:58.180 You have to ask.
00:51:59.840 Before we ask you some
00:52:01.200 really important questions,
00:52:02.680 I want to know if you
00:52:03.520 would like to do a
00:52:04.340 dentist commercial since
00:52:06.420 you are a governor of
00:52:07.540 New York State, maybe in
00:52:08.940 South Dakota.
00:52:10.520 Hmm.
00:52:11.920 The implication here is
00:52:13.220 that America is a nation
00:52:15.240 of immigrants who work
00:52:16.880 hard like Kathy Hochul's
00:52:18.260 Irish grandparents.
00:52:19.860 And whatever we do, we
00:52:21.040 shouldn't demonize people
00:52:22.480 who come here and want to
00:52:23.260 work hard.
00:52:23.800 We shouldn't point out
00:52:24.900 that we're importing the
00:52:26.420 dregs of society into our
00:52:27.640 country right now.
00:52:28.660 If you speak in
00:52:29.640 platitudes instead, then
00:52:30.820 you'll get applauded by the
00:52:31.860 audience of The View, and
00:52:32.900 you can keep your job
00:52:33.980 running New York into the
00:52:35.000 ground.
00:52:36.120 What's left unsaid here
00:52:37.420 is that there is, in fact,
00:52:38.740 a very definite difference
00:52:40.380 between the immigrants of
00:52:41.980 old and the new variety
00:52:44.060 that we're importing.
00:52:45.640 Aside from the fact that
00:52:46.620 these new entrants are all
00:52:47.980 breaking the law in the
00:52:49.140 most flagrant fashion
00:52:50.200 imaginable, but on top of
00:52:52.760 that, immigrants in the
00:52:54.940 old days would come here
00:52:56.920 with a spirit of gratitude
00:52:58.180 and humility, hoping to
00:52:59.600 build a life.
00:53:01.000 And in the process, they
00:53:02.060 helped to build the country
00:53:03.420 because they were coming
00:53:04.140 here at a time when the
00:53:05.120 country was not itself
00:53:06.220 completely built.
00:53:07.560 They did what Kathy Hochul's
00:53:09.080 grandparents did, which is
00:53:10.220 work hard.
00:53:10.720 But immigrants now are
00:53:14.560 coming to a country already
00:53:16.060 completely settled and
00:53:17.800 built.
00:53:18.860 These are not pioneers,
00:53:20.600 you know, going out west
00:53:21.800 into the wilderness to
00:53:22.780 establish settlements.
00:53:24.280 They're coming into
00:53:25.040 something that's already
00:53:25.840 been made, and they're
00:53:27.420 very clearly hoping to
00:53:28.480 benefit from it without
00:53:29.440 necessarily contributing
00:53:30.400 anything to it.
00:53:32.500 And that's one of the key
00:53:33.500 differences between the
00:53:34.320 old immigrants and the
00:53:35.340 people entering the country
00:53:36.180 right now.
00:53:37.100 And that difference was on
00:53:37.820 full display this week at
00:53:39.000 New York City's City Hall,
00:53:40.720 which for some reason
00:53:42.260 held a hearing on the
00:53:43.220 experiences of African
00:53:44.640 migrants in the city.
00:53:45.700 Essentially, this was a
00:53:47.000 hearing on the plight of
00:53:48.400 black illegals who come
00:53:49.960 into the city.
00:53:51.060 According to City Council
00:53:52.260 member Alex Avilis, who
00:53:53.940 organized the hearing,
00:53:55.140 it's important to
00:53:55.600 understand, quote, the
00:53:56.300 experiences of black
00:53:57.320 immigrants and to uproot
00:53:58.440 the anti-blackness that
00:53:59.760 plagues our system of care.
00:54:01.640 And this work requires a
00:54:02.900 city willing to fund our
00:54:04.300 short, mid, and long-term
00:54:05.700 needs.
00:54:06.940 Over a thousand people
00:54:07.780 showed up, most of them
00:54:08.680 recent arrivals from
00:54:09.700 West Africa.
00:54:10.720 Many of them were
00:54:11.540 apparently looking for
00:54:12.360 work permits, which they
00:54:13.600 thought would be handed
00:54:14.300 out.
00:54:15.480 And that's pretty funny
00:54:16.840 when you think about it.
00:54:17.500 These people come to this
00:54:18.380 country with absolutely no
00:54:19.460 regard for the law.
00:54:20.660 And the first thing they
00:54:21.300 hear is that Democrats are
00:54:22.820 holding a hearing.
00:54:24.100 And they immediately assume
00:54:25.300 that they're going to get
00:54:25.800 free stuff at the hearing.
00:54:26.980 That's the automatic
00:54:27.540 assumption right now for
00:54:28.940 these arrivals.
00:54:30.060 And they were shocked to
00:54:31.020 learn that actually, in this
00:54:32.780 one instance, they would not
00:54:33.820 be getting free stuff.
00:54:34.540 Instead, they'd be getting a
00:54:35.820 chance to complain and
00:54:37.400 whine for hours on end.
00:54:39.640 So that's what they did.
00:54:41.780 Here's a representative
00:54:42.800 complaint from one of
00:54:44.220 these people.
00:54:44.800 Listen.
00:54:44.940 But at the shelter, the food,
00:54:52.640 my kids cannot eat the food
00:54:54.180 at the shelter.
00:54:54.880 And on Ramadan time, we
00:55:05.880 couldn't eat because when you
00:55:07.440 come back for the breaks, the
00:55:09.500 food is no good at all.
00:55:13.420 Food's no good at all.
00:55:15.560 Wow, what a shame.
00:55:17.360 She goes on to complain about
00:55:18.500 a bunch of other things besides
00:55:19.640 the food for Ramadan.
00:55:20.700 She complains that she can't
00:55:22.320 find a school for her kid, as
00:55:24.120 well as the fact that she
00:55:24.780 apparently had to leave a
00:55:25.760 shelter after two months and
00:55:26.880 find another one.
00:55:28.080 Now, it's hard to listen to
00:55:29.200 any of it because the total
00:55:30.600 lack of gratitude and
00:55:32.240 humility is frankly
00:55:33.980 appalling.
00:55:35.620 These people are demanding
00:55:37.280 everything and not
00:55:38.920 necessarily offering
00:55:39.920 anything in return.
00:55:41.840 There was not a single
00:55:42.720 moment during this hearing
00:55:43.840 where these West Africans
00:55:45.260 told New York City how they
00:55:46.820 were excited to contribute to
00:55:47.980 the local economy.
00:55:49.400 They never said how grateful
00:55:50.420 they were to leave a country
00:55:51.580 where the GDP is about 70
00:55:53.640 times lower than it is in the
00:55:55.280 United States.
00:55:56.620 Instead, they're complaining
00:55:57.720 about the free cuisine
00:55:59.220 provided by the government.
00:56:01.660 They're upset about the
00:56:02.540 housing that they're not
00:56:03.680 paying for.
00:56:05.320 This is a city where many
00:56:06.440 young people, American
00:56:07.200 citizens, cannot afford
00:56:08.860 housing.
00:56:09.900 But New York City's City
00:56:11.140 Council is not concerned
00:56:12.700 about them.
00:56:13.160 So instead, we're treated to
00:56:14.260 even more whining.
00:56:15.040 At one point, these foreigners
00:56:16.640 complained about the lack of
00:56:17.980 adequate translation services.
00:56:19.740 They also berated New York
00:56:21.400 for being a racist hellhole
00:56:22.840 because the government
00:56:23.540 isn't providing them a
00:56:24.460 translator who understands
00:56:25.920 every dialect that they
00:56:27.160 speak.
00:56:28.240 They never explained why
00:56:29.300 they traveled thousands of
00:56:30.480 miles to live in this
00:56:31.540 racist hellhole in the
00:56:32.740 first place.
00:56:33.560 But they did make it clear
00:56:34.820 that they're not happy here
00:56:36.120 and it's not up to their
00:56:37.640 standards.
00:56:38.540 Watch.
00:56:41.200 This is shameful time in
00:56:43.060 New York history.
00:56:44.340 This city is not friendly
00:56:45.700 for all people.
00:56:46.880 It is anti-African and
00:56:48.520 xenophobic.
00:56:49.740 Cette ville n'est pas du tout
00:56:51.920 accueillante pour les
00:56:52.740 Africains.
00:56:53.780 Elle est raciste et xenophobe.
00:56:55.940 Only in the Congo, you have
00:56:57.040 like more than 500 languages.
00:57:00.300 Swahili is being spoken in
00:57:02.360 Burundi.
00:57:03.080 So I can't speak with
00:57:04.320 somebody from Burundi.
00:57:05.660 But I cannot speak Swahili
00:57:07.160 with somebody from Mauritania.
00:57:09.680 You understand?
00:57:10.500 In Europe, a Turkish don't
00:57:12.340 talk for a French.
00:57:13.600 A French don't talk for a
00:57:14.920 Spanish.
00:57:15.740 So why it is that you will
00:57:17.660 put everybody, everybody in
00:57:18.980 Africa in the same bag and
00:57:20.340 thinking that because they
00:57:21.780 speak Asanya, because they
00:57:23.020 speak Puel, everybody will
00:57:24.500 understand.
00:57:25.440 You see?
00:57:25.940 I told you Hakuna Matata, you
00:57:27.200 couldn't understand anything.
00:57:28.980 You see?
00:57:29.780 So that's what we need.
00:57:31.600 We need people that speak the
00:57:33.680 native language to teach to
00:57:35.480 those people.
00:57:37.220 That's what we're asking the
00:57:38.420 city and the city refuse to
00:57:40.260 accruement.
00:57:40.700 Okay, so leave.
00:57:42.860 So just, so leave.
00:57:45.120 This place is xenophobic.
00:57:46.640 It's racist.
00:57:47.340 It's horrible for us.
00:57:48.120 Okay, we'll leave.
00:57:48.780 Nobody asked you to come
00:57:49.520 here.
00:57:50.420 No one invited you.
00:57:51.260 No one asked you to come.
00:57:52.080 Certainly no one put a gun to
00:57:53.040 your head and told you to
00:57:53.720 come here.
00:57:54.040 We didn't force you to come.
00:57:55.580 So just leave then.
00:57:57.260 It's a pretty simple solution.
00:57:58.620 If you hate it so much, if
00:57:59.640 it's so terrible to you, why
00:58:02.020 are you here?
00:58:04.700 It's like someone barging into
00:58:06.140 your house and then sitting on
00:58:08.620 your couch and complaining
00:58:10.700 that the couch isn't
00:58:12.380 comfortable.
00:58:13.500 I don't like this.
00:58:14.240 This doesn't, this doesn't
00:58:15.100 quite, I don't, this is not my
00:58:16.200 favorite couch.
00:58:16.840 Okay.
00:58:17.740 Well, you weren't invited so
00:58:19.120 you can leave.
00:58:19.840 This is my couch, not yours.
00:58:21.220 Like go get your own couch.
00:58:22.300 I don't know.
00:58:24.220 Yes.
00:58:24.460 How dare New York City not
00:58:25.780 provide 500 different
00:58:27.440 translators for every dialect
00:58:28.940 spoken in just one African
00:58:30.580 country.
00:58:31.300 You know, in all there are,
00:58:32.120 there are something like 7,000
00:58:33.780 languages spoken in the whole
00:58:34.980 world.
00:58:35.580 And apparently New York is
00:58:37.940 supposed to have a
00:58:38.560 translator for every single
00:58:40.280 one of them.
00:58:41.340 If not, they're xenophobic.
00:58:43.540 This is the level of
00:58:44.560 entitlement that we're dealing
00:58:45.560 with.
00:58:46.460 And we're getting it from
00:58:47.360 people who are coming from
00:58:48.400 third world hell holes.
00:58:50.420 They come here from the
00:58:51.680 third world and then
00:58:52.640 immediately inherit a first
00:58:54.380 world sense of
00:58:55.120 entitlement.
00:58:55.620 It's, it's pretty
00:58:56.640 extraordinary really.
00:58:58.680 Now it goes without saying
00:58:59.480 that the Irish immigrants who
00:59:00.740 came to this country in the
00:59:01.560 19th century did not try to
00:59:03.500 pull any of this.
00:59:04.200 They didn't have an
00:59:04.960 opportunity to, even if they
00:59:06.040 wanted to.
00:59:07.220 No one would have indulged
00:59:08.500 any of this nonsense.
00:59:09.380 So they got to work.
00:59:11.240 They made the economic
00:59:12.300 contributions that Kathy
00:59:13.660 Hochul loves to brag about.
00:59:15.860 What's uncomfortable for
00:59:16.980 people like Kathy Hochul is
00:59:18.020 that the Irish endured a lot
00:59:19.400 of discrimination along the
00:59:20.680 way.
00:59:21.080 And leftists will claim that
00:59:23.040 they're determined to avoid a
00:59:24.460 similar situation unfolding
00:59:25.560 again.
00:59:26.280 But no discrimination is
00:59:27.520 necessary to fix what's
00:59:28.500 happening in New York.
00:59:29.280 All that's necessary is to
00:59:30.320 tell every single person who
00:59:31.280 comes to this country,
00:59:32.400 regardless of their
00:59:33.180 immutable characteristics,
00:59:34.060 that they need to do it
00:59:35.660 legally or get the hell
00:59:37.900 out.
00:59:38.940 And no matter how they get
00:59:40.240 here, there's no excuse for
00:59:42.040 whining for hours to the city
00:59:43.380 council about all the perks
00:59:44.440 they want to have.
00:59:46.740 The moment they do that,
00:59:47.640 they should be put on a boat
00:59:48.460 back to where they came from.
00:59:51.280 You know, if that's
00:59:51.860 discrimination, it's
00:59:52.660 discrimination that's based
00:59:53.580 on behavior, which any
00:59:55.340 functioning society must
00:59:56.520 embrace if it wants to
00:59:57.660 survive.
00:59:59.160 Now, as far as I can tell,
01:00:00.260 Vicki Palladino was one of
01:00:02.500 the only council members at
01:00:03.720 this hearing who spoke up
01:00:05.620 in any way against this
01:00:07.080 insanity.
01:00:08.120 At the same time, she didn't
01:00:09.040 really say anything close to
01:00:10.460 what was necessary, because
01:00:12.540 what was necessary, what
01:00:13.520 someone needed to say was
01:00:14.780 exactly what I just said,
01:00:15.780 which is, if you don't like
01:00:17.260 it, leave.
01:00:19.120 Okay, how about a thank you?
01:00:21.480 How about the first words out
01:00:22.500 of your mouth if you're going
01:00:23.200 to sit there in our country at
01:00:25.180 this hearing and we're
01:00:26.640 inviting you to come and
01:00:27.540 speak?
01:00:27.980 First words out of your mouth
01:00:28.980 should be, thank you.
01:00:30.720 Thank you for allowing me to
01:00:32.200 be here.
01:00:32.600 Thank you for providing all
01:00:33.520 the things that you have
01:00:34.200 provided.
01:00:36.420 So I would have loved for
01:00:37.380 someone to say that.
01:00:38.120 Of course, that wasn't going
01:00:38.620 to happen.
01:00:38.920 Instead, we got this.
01:00:40.800 Watch.
01:00:42.020 But I'd like to say this.
01:00:44.800 In listening to everybody
01:00:46.320 speak and making demands on
01:00:49.260 New York City to do more,
01:00:51.480 more, more, how much more
01:00:55.700 are we supposed to do?
01:00:57.740 How much more are we capable
01:01:01.940 of doing?
01:01:04.200 This system is so overworked
01:01:07.620 and overburdened.
01:01:10.340 We don't have the resources
01:01:12.740 that you need to get what you
01:01:15.920 need.
01:01:17.240 I mean, your testimonies move me
01:01:19.080 tremendously.
01:01:19.720 I don't want to see anybody
01:01:22.520 mistreated in any sort of way.
01:01:25.100 But I have to ask you, what
01:01:27.140 motivated you to come here
01:01:30.480 thinking the streets are paved
01:01:32.040 with gold?
01:01:33.140 They're not.
01:01:34.560 They're absolutely not.
01:01:35.980 And you're living through that.
01:01:38.440 Now, the answer to the question
01:01:39.840 of what made you come here is
01:01:40.960 pretty obvious.
01:01:41.560 The governor of the state begged
01:01:43.020 them to come.
01:01:44.240 The federal government suspended
01:01:45.580 the enforcement of immigration law
01:01:46.920 and promised them all kinds
01:01:48.080 of benefits, including work
01:01:49.140 permits and indefinite asylum.
01:01:52.260 And their country is incredibly
01:01:53.420 poor.
01:01:53.860 So, I mean, why wouldn't they
01:01:55.200 come here?
01:01:57.200 That's the thing.
01:01:57.840 I don't, as annoyed as I am
01:02:00.220 by the entitlement, by the lack
01:02:01.580 of gratitude, by how self-serving
01:02:04.580 it is, I understand self-serving.
01:02:06.340 I get it.
01:02:07.040 Any person understands that.
01:02:10.140 In fact, you know, coming here
01:02:13.040 is a rational choice.
01:02:15.120 You could argue they're the only
01:02:17.180 rational actors in this whole
01:02:18.420 scenario.
01:02:19.480 They have every incentive to
01:02:20.900 continue complaining because so
01:02:22.100 far it's worked out pretty well
01:02:23.160 for them.
01:02:23.520 If they complain, they get what
01:02:24.340 they want.
01:02:26.120 What's needed now is for New York,
01:02:28.040 New York's leaders, to tell these
01:02:29.660 West Africans that they're getting
01:02:31.600 nothing and then deport them if
01:02:34.900 they're here illegally.
01:02:37.580 But, of course, that will never
01:02:38.500 happen.
01:02:39.560 Kathy Hochul will never tell the
01:02:41.040 audience of The View that these
01:02:42.460 immigrants are nothing like her
01:02:43.760 grandfather, you know, and that
01:02:46.040 it's an entirely different
01:02:46.920 situation and that people who
01:02:48.720 come here illegally are, you
01:02:49.980 know, all that.
01:02:51.780 The audience would not clap like
01:02:53.280 seals if she did that, so she's
01:02:54.380 not going to say that.
01:02:56.280 So instead, they'll continue to
01:02:57.600 enjoy Kathy Hochul's cloak of
01:02:59.360 comfort, as she calls it, which
01:03:02.360 simply means indefinite access to
01:03:05.120 New York's ever-dwindling
01:03:06.320 treasury.
01:03:08.400 American citizens will continue to
01:03:09.960 flee New York.
01:03:10.800 And eventually, when New York's
01:03:13.220 treasury can't afford to give
01:03:14.760 these people anything more,
01:03:16.520 they'll spread out throughout the
01:03:17.500 country.
01:03:18.500 And that's already happening, of
01:03:19.320 course, but it will accelerate in a
01:03:20.580 major way once New York and the rest
01:03:21.940 of the country falls apart.
01:03:24.320 Because there's one basic common
01:03:25.800 sense truth here.
01:03:26.800 If you import the third world in
01:03:28.940 mass, you become the third world.
01:03:31.940 And once that happens, you won't be
01:03:34.720 in a position to take care of the
01:03:36.420 third world anymore.
01:03:37.360 And much more importantly, you won't
01:03:39.700 be in a position to take care of
01:03:41.020 yourself.
01:03:43.040 And that's why the migrants
01:03:44.500 complaining about their
01:03:45.720 accommodations at that hearing are
01:03:47.200 today canceled.
01:03:49.520 That'll do it for the show today and
01:03:50.540 this week.
01:03:51.740 Have a great weekend.
01:03:53.600 Talk to you on Monday.
01:03:54.560 Godspeed.
01:03:54.880 Godspeed.
01:03:56.520 Godspeed.
01:03:56.660 Godspeed.
01:03:57.580 Godspeed.
01:03:57.820 Godspeed.
01:03:59.300 Godspeed.
01:03:59.840 Godspeed.
01:04:01.520 Godspeed.
01:04:05.240 Godspeed.