The Matt Walsh Show - April 19, 2024


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


Episode Stats

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1 hour and 4 minutes

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168.94423

Word Count

10,867

Sentence Count

682

Misogynist Sentences

16

Hate Speech Sentences

33


Summary

Students in Utah walked out of class in protest after their school became overrun by furries. 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. Also, Joe Biden invented a story about his uncle being eaten by cannibals. Unsurprisingly, he s now being accused of cultural insensitivity. And Republicans want to send billions more to Ukraine. We must do this, says the speaker, because otherwise Putin will march on Europe and African migrants in New York attend a hearing to complain about the unsatisfactory accommodations. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.


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.
00:00:11.280 Also, Joe Biden invented a story about his uncle being eaten by cannibals.
00:00:15.160 Unsurprisingly, he's now being accused of cultural insensitivity for making this story up.
00:00:19.620 And Republicans want to send billions more to Ukraine.
00:00:22.560 We must do this, says the speaker, because otherwise Putin will march on Europe.
00:00:26.040 And African migrants in New York attend a hearing to complain about the unsatisfactory accommodations.
00:00:31.140 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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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.