The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1355 - The Government Is Gearing Up To Declare A ‘Climate Emergency,’ Which Will Wipe Out What’s Left Of Our Freedoms

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Biden administration is gearing up to declare a climate

00:00:03.480 emergency. What does that mean exactly? Well, we need only look to our neighbors in the north to

00:00:07.540 see what that entails, and it's not a pretty picture. Also, Joe Biden has his worst Ron

00:00:11.440 Burgundy moment yet. A leftist campus protester has trouble explaining why she's protesting. 1.00

00:00:16.260 AI is about to wipe out a huge number of jobs worldwide. Should we allow that to happen?

00:00:20.780 And Greg Abbott says that he's having pro-Palestine protesters arrested because,

00:00:24.680 quote, anti-Semitism won't be tolerated in Texas. But is that a valid reason to arrest people?

00:00:30.000 Of course not. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:48.280 slash Walsh. For several years now, it's been clear that the Biden administration has been

00:01:52.920 thinking about officially declaring a climate emergency, quote unquote. Beginning on the day

00:01:57.500 Biden took office, several politicians have floated the possibility, and some have gone further

00:02:02.480 than that. The Democrats' leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, publicly called on Biden to make

00:02:06.620 the declaration within a week of his inauguration. And ever since then, there have been articles and

00:02:11.460 deep dives in various outlets, including Politico, New York Times, and others, suggesting that it'd be a

00:02:16.600 really good idea to essentially go to war with the weather. Now, as of now, as his term winds down,

00:02:24.700 Joe Biden has resisted these demands. Biden has said that he's practically declared a climate

00:02:30.400 emergency, signaling that he likes the idea, but he hasn't actually gone ahead and done it officially.

00:02:36.380 Even so, the demands have kept coming for several years, which is a little odd when you think about

00:02:41.500 it, because the definition of the word emergency is, quote, a serious, unexpected, and often

00:02:46.300 dangerous situation requiring immediate action. So, the very fact that you have to deliberate for

00:02:52.980 three years about whether something is an emergency would seem to indicate that it is not an emergency.

00:02:59.480 So, that's the most important point, that there is, of course, not, in fact, a climate emergency.

00:03:05.880 And everybody pushing this hysteria understands that very well. Well, they'll never stop pretending

00:03:10.740 that this is an urgent crisis, because the moment they stop pretending, they lose some measure of

00:03:16.100 control over our lives, and, well, they can't allow that to happen. The Biden administration's flirtation

00:03:21.200 with this whole idea also tells you something else, which is that the White House sees an emergency

00:03:26.460 climate declaration as a potential sort of nuclear option to deploy when they get really desperate.

00:03:33.080 And with pretty much every major poll showing Donald Trump leading Joe Biden right now,

00:03:37.180 that desperation has really started to set in. So, right on cue, a climate emergency is now

00:03:43.520 back on the agenda. According to Bloomberg, the White House is now seriously considering the idea

00:03:48.480 of declaring a climate emergency in the very near future. CBS recently spoke to a Columbia climate

00:03:54.420 professor about this idea. Watch.

00:03:58.700 The White House is considering declaring a national climate emergency to unlock federal powers and

00:04:04.620 stifle oil development. That's according to Bloomberg. Meanwhile, the administration is announcing

00:04:09.600 several projects this Earth Week. The plans include solar energy conservation, clean water,

00:04:15.580 green transportation, and cutting pollution. Tell me what a climate emergency is and what that might

00:04:20.740 entail. So, when we talk about the potential for the president to declare a climate emergency,

00:04:25.080 what it's saying is, you know what, there's a national emergency going on, and I need extra powers to be

00:04:29.680 able to respond to it to protect the U.S.

00:04:31.640 Oh, so that clarifies that. What is a climate emergency? Well, it's when the president says

00:04:38.000 there is an emergency. Okay, well, thanks for clarifying. So, the climate emergency is when

00:04:45.140 the administration declares it, and it supposedly unlocks massive new powers over the economy and

00:04:52.280 especially the oil industry. Of course, already the administration has done everything it can to

00:04:57.360 gut the energy sector in this country. They've suspended new oil and gas leases. They've scrutinized

00:05:03.320 and shut down many existing permits for the development of fossil fuels. And just for good

00:05:07.680 measure, they've sold off much of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve just to make sure that we're as

00:05:11.620 reliant on foreign energy as possible. So, what Biden wants to do now is adopt new powers to destroy

00:05:18.680 the economy, which exceed the powers he's already employed to destroy the economy. And specifically,

00:05:24.640 these new emergency powers would potentially include the ability to ban all crude oil exports

00:05:29.300 indefinitely. Now, put that in perspective, right now we export millions of barrels of oil per day,

00:05:36.040 accounting for tens of billions of dollars in revenue. All of that could disappear overnight

00:05:40.540 in the event of an emergency climate declaration. Additionally, the Biden administration would be

00:05:45.120 able to kill all new oil and gas drilling on more than 10 million acres of federal waters.

00:05:50.600 They'd also be able to cut overseas investments and fossil fuels and

00:05:53.680 greatly reduce imports and exports of fossil fuels. That's according to various media publications

00:05:58.900 that have looked into the emergency powers already. But the truth is that once it declares a national

00:06:04.680 emergency, the federal government can pretty much do whatever it wants. The courts give the alleged

00:06:10.380 experts vast and completely undeserved deference. On this point, there are really no guardrails in a

00:06:17.300 national emergency. Everybody knows that after experiencing the COVID lockdowns, which of course were the

00:06:21.760 pretext to the coming climate emergency, there were never any consequences for those lockdowns

00:06:27.520 and mandates. There hasn't really been any reckoning with the destruction those policies

00:06:32.780 wrought on our lives. There's been no accountability. In fact, it would have shocked people. You could go

00:06:38.620 back in time and tell people in 2020 that the COVID lockdowns would not even be a factor in the 2024

00:06:46.260 election. Nobody would even be talking about it like it never happened. Nobody would have believed

00:06:52.380 you. But that's where we are. Because no one's even interested in talking about it. So what does

00:06:57.560 that mean? It just means it's going to happen again. It means the government learned that they

00:07:01.500 can do that. They can shut down your life completely and take away all your freedoms and it won't matter.

00:07:08.200 Like you'll get over it. You'll just get over it as soon as they stop. You'll get used to it.

00:07:13.080 And so what does that mean? It means that they'll keep doing it. And make no mistake,

00:07:16.140 if they can force the entire country to stay at home because of a virus,

00:07:21.640 including young people who are at virtually no risk from that virus,

00:07:24.760 then they can absolutely restrict every single one of your freedoms in the name of saving the

00:07:29.300 climates. But just in case you need a confirmation of that fact, you can always look north to our

00:07:35.800 perpetually embarrassing neighbors in Canada. Several years ago, Canada's government declared a national

00:07:41.040 climate emergency. And just to drive the point home, several major cities within Canada, including

00:07:46.260 Vancouver, also declared their own climate emergency. So you have climate emergencies on top

00:07:51.180 of climate emergencies. At the time, the idea behind this emergency was to enable the Canadian

00:07:56.420 government to take steps to reduce the country's carbon emissions, even though the entire country

00:08:01.060 of Canada essentially emits zero carbon compared to the rest of the world. The whole country could

00:08:06.240 commit mass suicide, which they're sort of in the process of doing right now, and it would have no

00:08:11.180 impact on global carbon emissions. But even so, Canada enacted a bunch of carbon taxes that made

00:08:16.400 life even more expensive for its citizens. And it's worth noting quickly, although I've made this point

00:08:20.580 many times before, that even if you buy into the idea that carbon causes climate change,

00:08:26.400 there is nothing that the US, much less Canada, can do about it. As Zach Weinberg pointed out this week,

00:08:32.920 China and India comprise the vast majority of carbon emissions in the world. The US accounts for less

00:08:37.640 than 15% of carbon emissions and we're falling fast. Canada is well under 2%. So the whole idea of

00:08:43.600 taxing carbon to reduce emissions and save the planet was always a scam, even if you subscribe to

00:08:49.960 the left's theories on climate change. But it was never going to end there. Again, once you declare an

00:08:55.980 emergency without any clear way to solve the emergency, things will continue to escalate. Give the

00:09:02.040 government vast, undefined powers and rights will continue to erode until they're all gone.

00:09:08.320 As Milton Friedman said, nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. And Canada,

00:09:12.640 once again, is a perfect example of that. Earlier this year, in the name of saving the climate during

00:09:19.380 this supposed emergency, Canadian legislators introduced a bill to suspend freedom of speech.

00:09:25.760 And what does that have to do with the climate? Well, Canada's NDP party, which is a key part of the

00:09:30.900 coalition keeping Justin Trudeau's government in power, introduced legislation that would actually

00:09:35.340 make it illegal to speak positively about fossil fuels. Okay. Yes, that's not an exaggeration.

00:09:44.340 This legislation would make it illegal to express positive opinions about fossil fuels in any context.

00:09:51.180 Quoting from Canada's National Post, quote,

00:09:52.920 An NDP bill is seeking to criminalize the promotion of fossil fuels and prescribe

00:09:57.500 jail time even for Canadians who say scientifically true things, such as how burning natural gas is

00:10:03.860 cleaner than burning coal. The bill goes well beyond merely banning advertising by oil and gas companies

00:10:09.520 violate this as a regular citizen, and the act prescribes summary conviction and a fine of up to

00:10:14.980 half a million dollars. Violated as an oil company, and the punishment could be as strict as two years in

00:10:20.460 jail or a fine of a million dollars. Now, even after reading this article, and as cynical as I am,

00:10:28.860 especially about Canada, I still couldn't believe it. Now, I thought, like, are we missing something

00:10:34.320 here? So I pulled up the text of the bill, and the text of the bill indeed says that, quote,

00:10:38.800 it is prohibited for a person to promote a fossil fuel or the production of a fossil fuel in a manner

00:10:43.540 that states or suggests that a fossil fuel or the practices of a producer of the fossil fuel industry

00:10:48.060 would lead to positive outcomes in relation to the environment, the health of Canadians,

00:10:53.080 reconciliation with indigenous peoples, or the Canadian or global economy.

00:10:57.900 So basically, private citizens who say anything good about fossil fuels can be fined $500,000,

00:11:05.460 which is enough of a fine to completely bankrupt 95% of Canada's population. You can't even say that

00:11:11.360 Indians would benefit from fossil fuels, even though many Indians in Canada would disagree with that

00:11:16.620 statement. Now, to be clear, this is not one rogue politician introducing this bill. Canada's

00:11:24.540 federal minister of the Environment and Climate Change has said that he welcomes the bill, and

00:11:29.380 various members of Canada's public health establishment have endorsed it. I want you to

00:11:34.400 take a look at this press conference from the NDP party announcing this legislation. It's like

00:11:39.940 something out of a satire film, but it's real. It's not overstating things to say this is the single

00:11:45.340 most demented press conference to occur in the Western world in at least the last decade.

00:11:49.760 At the very least, it's in the top five. Here's just some of it. Watch.

00:11:55.940 Good morning. Bonjour à tous. I am Charlie Angus, Member of Parliament for Timmons James Bay,

00:12:01.320 and very proud to be here on the unceded territory of the Algonquin nation.

00:12:06.500 Last summer, over 200,000 Canadians were forced from their homes because of massive climate damage.

00:12:14.040 In cities across North America, children could not go outside because of the risk to their health.

00:12:18.840 This is why I'm so proud to stand here today with representatives of Canada's medical community

00:12:24.540 to state that the time has come to ban all oil and gas advertising. The big tobacco moment has

00:12:33.040 finally arrived for big oil. The legislation will make it illegal to falsely claim that the use of

00:12:38.740 one fuel fossil fuel product is somehow better than another fossil fuel product in improving the

00:12:44.940 environment. To claim that there are clean fossil fuels is like saying there are safe cigarettes.

00:12:50.520 We know that is simply not true. This legislation will make it illegal for Canada's oil and gas giants

00:12:56.800 to falsely identify themselves with the health and positive lifestyles of Canadians or with

00:13:03.200 reconciliation of Indigenous people on whose lands the toxic contamination is highest. 1.00

00:13:08.800 Bonjour. Hello, everyone. I'm happy. Oh, I'm too short. I'm happy to be able to join you today

00:13:15.020 to put the full support of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment behind the important

00:13:19.980 legislation that Mr. Angus has introduced today.

00:13:22.620 Disinformation is being promoted as though this is some kind of woke agenda. So the reality is I

00:13:29.580 think that ordinary people know is that their kids can't go outside without choking on toxic fumes.

00:13:35.180 That's something average people understand, no matter what the disinformation machine says.

00:13:42.220 You've got to love every part of that, including the beginning. This is the unceded lands of the Algonquin

00:13:47.620 people. He says, well, they haven't ceded it. So apparently the Indians have not ceded 0.99

00:13:51.760 the land. So what does that mean? So who cares? You haven't ceded the land, but we have it. So what

00:14:01.960 does that mean? Apparently, everyone knows, according to this guy, that their kids can't even go outside

00:14:08.140 in Canada without choking on fossil fuels. You can't go outside. It's impossible. How are these

00:14:13.940 people going to get from the press conference to their cars? Why are they even driving cars?

00:14:20.120 You can't go outside. You need a gas mask, I guess, to go outside. That's the position of a member of

00:14:24.680 Canada's parliament who, again, is trying to put Canadians in prison and bankrupt them if they

00:14:30.320 disagree with him about climate change. Now, I listened to that whole press conference, even though

00:14:35.460 it was excruciating because they spoke in French for half of it. But that was actually the better half 1.00

00:14:40.640 because the other half I had to actually understand what they were saying, which is even worse.

00:14:44.060 It was a half hour of Canadian public health experts and politicians saying that they're right

00:14:48.040 and everyone who disagrees with them needs to be in jail. Keep in mind, everybody promoting this

00:14:53.820 legislation got every conceivable aspect of COVID wrong, but they have no shame, only a desire for

00:15:00.100 more power. So they're back and everything is a public health emergency now, even the weather.

00:15:05.940 The press conference concluded with a question and answer session with Canadian media,

00:15:09.380 which was even more surreal somehow. None of the journalists seemed outraged in any way by what

00:15:14.280 they just heard. Instead, they mostly asked procedural questions about when the bill might

00:15:18.080 come up for a vote. In fact, one reporter even asked if Russia was helping the fossil fuel companies

00:15:22.520 spread disinformation. If you want to lose all faith in Western democracy, I recommend you go to

00:15:27.780 YouTube and pull up the footage from this press conference yourself. It's almost unbelievable.

00:15:33.160 And the point of talking about Canada isn't to suggest that we should care about Canada.

00:15:36.620 I mean, that would be absurd. You know, the whole country just pretended that sewage sites were

00:15:42.320 burial grounds for children in order to justify burning dozens of churches. This is not a serious

00:15:47.480 place we're talking about. And the Canadian people have mostly given up on their country and on

00:15:53.060 themselves. So good riddance. I mean, let the country burn. This is what they want and they deserve

00:15:58.320 to get it good and hard. But Canada does have one purpose, which is to serve as a bellwether of what we can

00:16:05.180 expect in this country if we get too complacent. If we allow Joe Biden to declare a climate

00:16:10.360 emergency, that he won't simply dismantle the energy sector in this country and destroy our

00:16:15.080 economy. Give him a few years and he'll throw you in prison if you complain about it. Or at least his

00:16:20.080 successor will, because he's not going to be around in a few years, let's be honest. Those are the stakes.

00:16:25.880 It's not worth going through how climate activists have lied for generations about this emergency.

00:16:32.100 I've done that many times before. At this point, you know, they know they're liars. We know they're 0.85

00:16:37.480 liars, which is why their ultimate goal is to silence you. That's why Joe Biden wants to declare 0.78

00:16:42.760 his climate emergency. And unless we want to end up like Canada, which is a fate worse than death,

00:16:48.220 death, we have to prevent it from happening. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:18:10.740 So I've got a couple of fun clips for you. I mean, fun if depressing things are fun for you. First,

00:18:19.840 here's Joe Biden. Listen. Imagine what we can do next. Four more years. Pause.

00:18:28.440 Four more years. Pause. He says, of course, reading the prompter.

00:18:40.940 You know, in a just world, this would be the final nail in his campaign's coffin.

00:18:46.140 A small thing on its own, a funny thing on its own. And if somebody who didn't have dementia did

00:18:50.920 this, if they pulled a Ron Burgundy and just read, you know, a note on the prompter that was

00:18:54.720 not meant to be read out loud, you would laugh about it and you would move on. But for Biden,

00:19:00.740 of course, this, as we understand, this is another symptom of his dementia and of the fact that he's

00:19:07.560 not present mentally. And it should be the final thing that makes people say, okay, this guy is not

00:19:15.380 fully conscious. We can't elect him. We just can't. Like, we cannot have somebody like this running

00:19:21.500 the country. But unfortunately, this is all baked in. You know, it's kind of like with Trump.

00:19:27.840 That's what makes this whole election cycle so absurd that you got two guys that have been in

00:19:32.980 the public eye forever and everything is so baked in that nothing, it's like, it doesn't matter.

00:19:38.100 Nothing matters. Nothing happening right now matters politically, or at least very little of

00:19:43.700 it does because it's all baked in. And with Trump, you know, there's nothing he could say.

00:19:49.140 There's no controversy he can generate by saying something supposedly offensive that will have any

00:19:54.600 effect on him politically, one way or another. Because again, it's all baked in. That's why you

00:19:58.720 notice, like in 2016, it was just one news cycle after another with the media freaking out about

00:20:05.560 something that Trump had said or tweeted. And we aren't getting nearly as much of that this time

00:20:11.040 around. We're getting some of it. Every once in a while, he'll say something, then we get a news cycle.

00:20:15.620 Well, this is the latest thing Trump said. It's so terrible. And usually they're lying about it

00:20:20.500 and taking it out of context. And we know the whole routine, but they're not doing it as much

00:20:25.320 because they know it's pointless. They know that we don't care. You know, that's if you're the kind

00:20:33.900 of person that gets all bent out of shape about stuff that Trump says, you're not voting. It's like,

00:20:38.300 there's no chance you're voting for him anyway. And everybody else, you've made up your mind. And

00:20:43.200 that's who Trump is. We get it. Trump's being Trump. But like, what's the point of what's what's

00:20:48.780 why point it out? We all know that. But with Biden, of course, it's much worse because the

00:20:55.600 thing that's baked in is not that he's, you know, prone to speak in his mind and just saying whatever

00:21:01.000 he feels like. With Biden, it's that he's a vegetable. And the people who have decided to vote

00:21:06.800 for him know that. And they've decided to live with it. Which means that, I mean, look, the guy

00:21:14.900 could like people who are people, conservatives are kind of waiting for that one final definitive

00:21:22.560 moment or something so embarrassing happens where Biden demonstrates his dimension such a clear way

00:21:29.920 as if that hasn't already happened a bunch of times. But he demonstrates it in such a clear and

00:21:33.440 dramatic way that it has to be over like you can't vote for him. But that will never it can't

00:21:40.120 happen. I mean, he Biden could he could fall down his pants and then fall asleep on the stage,

00:21:49.620 you know, in in succession. And it would have no effect on his polling, like maybe two point,

00:21:56.160 maybe he'd lose two percentage points temporarily if that were to happen.

00:21:59.780 Um, but other than that, it would have no effect because everybody would see that.

00:22:07.100 Like everybody who would be rightly horrified by that spectacle. Well, we're not voting for him

00:22:10.740 anyway. And all the rest of them would look at it and say, yeah, well, yeah, he's, he's,

00:22:15.840 he's basically dead. We already knew that he's like, he's essentially a dead man. And,

00:22:20.300 but we're going to vote for him. Um, speaking of brainless vegetables, here's a, another clip. 0.90

00:22:26.140 Uh, this is of a protester at NYU explaining or trying to explain, uh, the, you would think

00:22:32.560 important question, uh, of why is she protesting in the first place? Listen.

00:22:37.740 And what would you say is the main goal with tonight's, uh, protest? I think the goal is

00:22:43.700 just showing our support for Palestine and demanding that NYU stops. I honestly don't know

00:22:49.000 all of what NYU is doing. Is there something that NYU is doing? I really don't know. I'm pretty sure

00:22:53.280 whether, do you know what NYU is doing? About what? About Israel. Why are we protesting here?

00:22:59.040 I wish I was more educated. I'm not either. I came from Columbia. I was there up at Columbia

00:23:06.900 and we came down. They said NYU students needed our support. So I came down. I heard there's lots

00:23:12.160 of cops. Some people were saying it was getting dangerous. So why are they protesting? Uh, well,

00:23:17.120 yeah, I mean, that is the million dollar question, isn't it? Like that, that's the, that's if that

00:23:23.200 should be the one thing, you know, when you're in a protest is why you're there because you're,

00:23:27.720 it's like you must want something. Otherwise, what are we doing? And if you're protesting a certain

00:23:34.480 institution, um, you, you should have some idea of like what you want that institution to do.

00:23:40.820 Um, but these protesters, they're all shouting at NYU and NYU says like, why are you mad at us?

00:23:48.960 Well, I don't know, but we're mad. There's, there's a reason. Um,

00:23:54.940 and here's what I don't get. If you know, if you know that you don't know why you're protesting,

00:24:02.280 then why would you volunteer to talk to the guy with the camera in the first place? Like,

00:24:05.920 what did you think was going to happen? How did you think the conversation was going to go?

00:24:08.920 But she at least is, she's at least aware of her own ignorance. And if you're aware of your own

00:24:14.360 ignorance, then why, then if somebody tries to stop you with a camera and talk to you,

00:24:18.040 just say, oh no, I don't have, I don't have time. Sorry. Got to get back to protesting for reasons I

00:24:24.380 can't explain. Now, of course, it's not a surprise that they didn't know why they were protesting.

00:24:29.220 Um, and as much as we talk about the radicalism of these protesters, we, we can't forget that the

00:24:36.920 radicalism is really among the ringleaders, the most devoted ones, uh, the ones shouting on both

00:24:43.940 into bullhorns and so on. So yet you have like three levels, uh, when it comes to these kinds

00:24:48.520 of protests, you've got the people that are bankrolling it, you know, and, and they don't

00:24:53.620 really care about the reason. The, the, the pretense is irrelevant to them because they have

00:24:59.020 other, their agenda is beyond that. Um, and then you've got the ringleaders on the ground,

00:25:05.560 right? The people that are there on the ground in the bullhorns organizing it. They're there.

00:25:09.100 They're actually taking part. Those are the true believers, those people. And then those people

00:25:14.620 go and recruit people like this, um, who, uh, uh, you know, aren't really radical at all. They don't,

00:25:24.820 they don't even understand what the cause is. They don't care. Uh, they don't know why they're there.

00:25:29.900 This is just a social event for them. It's just what you do. All your friends are going protesting.

00:25:35.940 It's trending on social media. Seems like a fun thing. Uh, so let's go do it. And that's,

00:25:40.520 and that's, that's going to be the bulk. That's going to be the lion's share at a protest like this.

00:25:45.040 Um, you know, James Lindsay tweeted in response to that clip that protesting is leftist church.

00:25:51.340 And, uh, of course he's right. And that's, uh, kind of a great way of putting it. And just like

00:26:01.060 real church, it's like, it's a similar dynamic in real church. If you go, if you go to real church,

00:26:06.560 uh, you've got your devout believers who, who are, who are there and are the most excited and

00:26:13.280 all of that. But then you've got an even larger contingent of sort of social church goers.

00:26:20.780 And, uh, they go because it's what you do. It's, it's the culture. It's where they find some

00:26:27.820 semblance of community. It's where they find some semblance of structure and purpose in life.

00:26:33.940 Um, and so they go for that reason, but they don't necessarily believe all the doctrines or,

00:26:38.580 or even know what the doctrines are. Um, it's the exact same scenario for these protests.

00:26:45.040 So talking to this woman, it's like, it's like if, if, uh, you were to stop some casual Christian 1.00

00:26:51.540 coming out of Christmas mass, you know, one of these types that only goes to mass or goes to church

00:26:57.080 on Christmas. And, and this is, you know, this is Christmas for, for people that are in protest

00:27:03.160 church. This is Christmas. This is their big holiday event, um, for the year.

00:27:08.580 But it's like stopping one of those at Christmas mass and, and asking them really any question about

00:27:13.780 basic doctrine or, or theological questions. Like they're Christmas men, maybe stop them and say,

00:27:21.140 hey, um, which gospels have an infancy narrative? How many gospels have an infancy narrative and

00:27:29.280 which ones? And of course the answer you're going to get is like, uh, infancy what, what do you tell

00:27:36.900 which God, what do you mean? Is there more than one gospel? What are you talking about? Do they all,

00:27:40.580 do they not all say exactly the same? What do you say? They have no idea. Um, they're there to

00:27:45.960 celebrate the birth of Christ ostensibly. And they couldn't tell you the first thing about the birth

00:27:51.100 of Christ or where it is in the Bible. Like if you gave them a Bible and said, okay, I'll give you 30

00:27:56.380 seconds, find the part in the Bible or one of the parts in the Bible that has this story.

00:28:03.020 Uh, they wouldn't be, they would, they would not know how to do it. That's, that's like the

00:28:07.480 majority of people you'd find at a Christian church. Um, and again, very, so now I've really

00:28:15.300 just gotten into complaining about that because that is a bigger problem as far as I'm concerned

00:28:18.400 as a Christian, but it's a, it is a similar thing on the left. Um, and this is their, this is their

00:28:24.320 religion and, uh, they go just, uh, just to be there. So, you know, it, when we're talking about, 0.85

00:28:33.720 and we're going to get into this more, uh, actually in the daily cancellation, but we're

00:28:38.180 talking about the reasons why people go to these protests and what motivates them. It is important

00:28:43.320 to keep in mind that it's, it's not just one thing. There's a lot to end up with a situation

00:28:48.380 like this, where you have mass protests across the country. Uh, there's a lot that goes into it.

00:28:54.680 It's a multifaceted phenomenon. And one of the things that goes into it is a, is an immense

00:29:02.320 amount of ignorance. You need a lot of ignorant people who will just show up and they don't care. 0.99

00:29:08.240 And by the way, that's also one of the reasons why on the right among conservatives, 0.98

00:29:17.280 we have a harder time getting protest movements going or getting even a single protest going.

00:29:23.400 It's, it's a lot more difficult to organize. And, uh, it's, it's this sort of thing. If there's

00:29:28.980 a mass protest movement with people all across the country, especially one that seem, seems to

00:29:33.760 spring up spontaneously, even though it's not spontaneous, uh, it, it, even before you know

00:29:39.440 any of the details, you ought, you automatically know that it's a, it's a left-wing thing because

00:29:43.560 on the right, that basically never happens. Um, there is one that I could think of. There's one

00:29:50.220 kind of perennial, uh, consistent annual protest movement on the right, which is the pro-life

00:29:55.640 movement, the March for Life. Outside of that, it just never happens. And there are a couple of

00:30:00.260 reasons for that. But a big part is you look at, again, the three levels to have the pro-Palestine

00:30:06.840 protest. There are three levels. You've got the, you've got the big money backers who don't really

00:30:11.520 care about the issue, um, that are funding all of this. Then you've got your devout believers on,

00:30:20.080 on the megaphones, and then you've got your ignorant people who just show up because it's 0.98

00:30:23.240 something to do. The left has all of that, has all those layers on the right. We only have the middle 0.97

00:30:28.780 layer. We don't have, we don't have the big money backers. We don't have institutional support for

00:30:33.840 our protest movements. So we're not going to have, uh, uh, you know, shadowy billionaires coming along

00:30:38.500 and offering us lots of money and with a lot of different shell organizations and all this kind

00:30:43.120 of stuff, um, who are contributing to it. So we don't have that. We do have the true believers.

00:30:50.300 We've got the people that are the bullhorn types, right? The, like the actual activists. Uh, and then we

00:30:55.300 don't have the final layer either, which are just like the ignorant masses who will just show up 0.96

00:30:59.120 because it's something to do. So if you're on the right, and I know this is someone who's, who's a 0.90

00:31:03.380 time organized or been a part of organizing these kinds of rallies and things a time or two.

00:31:10.540 I know this from experience that like, you don't, well, the only people who will show up are the,

00:31:15.240 are the ones who really care about this, which is great. It's great to have them.

00:31:19.820 But if you want to have the mass event, you want to get thousands of people showing up,

00:31:23.460 especially all across the country. You need to get people who will just show up. Cause like,

00:31:26.840 I don't know. It's just what we do. The left has that because again, it's part of their culture.

00:31:32.180 That's part of, it's part of their culture. It's, but just, it's just a, it's a habit. It's what

00:31:35.480 they, it's a recreation for them. Um, on the right, it's not, it's not part of the culture.

00:31:40.840 It's not recreational. And so for conservatives, if you want to convince, if you want them to come to

00:31:46.680 a protest, you got to convince them that it's really worthwhile.

00:31:50.240 And even most of the ones that agree that it's worthwhile, they're like, eh, I'm not going

00:31:55.420 to go. I don't, I got to work. I don't, I'm not going to take, I'm not going to take, you want me

00:31:58.660 to take off work for this? I'm not going to do that. I don't care that much. That's the way most

00:32:02.920 conservatives look at it. Um, which is, you know, not really the right way of looking at it, by the

00:32:08.300 way. I mean, you do have to worry about your job and all that, but they're, but, uh, you know,

00:32:11.640 this, this, this is an advantage the left has that they, um, that, you know, they, they see this

00:32:19.140 kind of activism as a top priority and, and, um, they see it as an effective way of moving their

00:32:25.680 agenda forward. And, you know, oftentimes it is. All right. Uh, News Nation has this report.

00:32:31.640 The next time you order a Frosty, there's a chance you'll be talking to a robot. After months of testing,

00:32:35.680 Wendy's is expanding its artificial intelligence partnership with Google to streamline the drive

00:32:41.300 through experience at its restaurants. Starting in 2024, franchisees will get a chance to test the

00:32:46.660 company's fresh AI chatbot, according to the chain, which announced on Monday. Right now, the tech is

00:32:52.220 only available at four company operated restaurants in Columbus, Ohio. When he started testing the AI

00:32:57.420 chatbot back in May, company said service times at an AI pilot location were 22 seconds faster than the

00:33:03.380 local market average. In terms of accuracy, fresh AI has successfully handled 86% of orders without an

00:33:08.820 intervention from staff. That number is expected to improve as the AI model continues to iterate,

00:33:14.040 according to Wendy's. Um, now this article is from a couple of months ago there. They, they have now

00:33:20.020 started actually rolling these out across the country. And here's what the drive through chatbot

00:33:24.820 experience is like. Watch.

00:33:26.600 Welcome to Wendy's. What would you like? Can I have a chocolate Frosty?

00:33:37.040 Which size for the chocolate Frosty? Medium.

00:33:43.200 Can I get you anything else today? No, thank you.

00:33:46.040 Great. Please pull up to the next window.

00:33:55.200 Okay. Now, first of all, if you really want this to feel real, then you need your AI chatbot to be a

00:33:59.760 lot less friendly, especially at a place like Wendy's. Uh, you need now, if this is a, if Chick-fil-A

00:34:04.900 goes to the AI chatbot, then that, that works. Cause that, you know, that's pretty, feels pretty

00:34:09.420 lifelike for, uh, for, uh, for Chick-fil-A, but at any other place like Wendy's or Burger King or

00:34:14.280 McDonald's, um, if you want it to feel real, you want us to feel like we're really talking to a

00:34:18.760 person, then you need, you need, you need the chatbot to be a lot more surly and a lot, a lot,

00:34:23.000 a lot less, uh, interested in you. So the chatbot needs to come on like, yeah, what do you want?

00:34:29.280 Uh, number one. Okay. Pull around. No, no, please. No, thank you. No, nothing.

00:34:33.880 Um, now I'm going to take a, an unpopular position as I tend to do sometimes. And this

00:34:42.260 is unpopular anyway with conservatives who tend to worship the free market with a kind

00:34:46.360 of religious conviction. And I believe in the free market too. Um, I'm a big proponent

00:34:50.820 of economic freedom. I'm such a big proponent actually that, uh, that I think that the income

00:34:55.060 tax should be abolished. And, and not only that, but I think a constitutional amendment should be

00:35:00.620 passed prohibiting the government from taxing income. So I am farther to the right on economic

00:35:06.200 freedom than most people, including most conservatives. But why do I favor, uh, economic

00:35:13.020 freedom? Well, it's for the same reason that I favor any kind of freedom because I think that it

00:35:19.140 leads to human flourishing. Um, if it didn't, if it interfered with human flourishing or prevented

00:35:26.480 human flourishing, then it would be bad. And I would oppose it because it's, it's not the freedom

00:35:31.420 or the right in and of itself. That's good. It's, it's what it leads to. Um, and anything that on

00:35:41.220 balance makes people's lives worse and more importantly, makes people worse, like makes

00:35:48.160 people into worse people. Anything that does that on balance is bad. Um, and this, this is what I'm

00:35:55.980 saying so far should not be controversial, right? This is like basic, like, if you don't believe

00:35:59.860 this, then what's the point if we're not fighting for human flourishing and for people to have better

00:36:03.920 lives and to be better people, then what the hell are we even fight? Who cares about anything? If

00:36:08.180 that does, if that's not the thing that matters, uh, most to us, then what, what does matter? Like,

00:36:15.740 why does it, what, what could rank above that? Um, so anything that prevents human flourishing

00:36:23.160 is bad, not something you want in society. And I think on balance, freedom makes people's lives

00:36:30.140 better. So I'm in favor of it, but I'm not in favor of complete freedom. Nobody is like,

00:36:36.520 I don't think that you should have absolute freedom. I don't think you should have the freedom

00:36:38.980 to do whatever you want. There are limits. Everyone agrees that there are limits. We just disagree

00:36:45.180 about where the limits should be. And one of the reasons we disagree about where the limits

00:36:49.380 should be is because we don't, many people don't have a clear idea again of like, what the,

00:36:54.120 what's the point of allowing people to be free? What is that supposed to accomplish exactly?

00:36:59.980 And if you understand what it's supposed to accomplish, then you clearly start to see where

00:37:03.900 the limits are. The limits are only confusing. If you have no underlying notion of what the purpose

00:37:11.800 of life even is like, what, what, what's, what's the project here? What are we even doing?

00:37:15.340 Why do we exist? Um, if you, if you have no notion of that, if you haven't thought about it,

00:37:21.140 then a question like, well, where, you know, where do you draw the line on freedoms becomes very,

00:37:26.460 very confusing. You know, it's, it's, it's because very vague, but if you have a clear idea,

00:37:31.860 then it's much, uh, those lines are delineate, delineated more clearly. So for me, the limits are

00:37:38.580 kind of clear. Um, with freedom, when you push past the point of human flourishing, when it gets

00:37:47.560 to the point where it now makes people suffer or it makes their lives worse, it makes them worse,

00:37:53.400 that harms the body and the soul, but the soul more importantly, then you have reached the limit.

00:38:00.020 That's where freedom should end. It should not go beyond that point, which is why I think,

00:38:05.140 for example, that you shouldn't have the freedom to kill your baby, uh, or gender transition your 0.94

00:38:09.800 child or, uh, bring a kid to a drag show. You know, all of that, along with many other things, 0.89

00:38:15.460 I don't, I think you shouldn't have the freedom to do. But, uh, the reason I take that view on those

00:38:21.040 topics is because that stuff is pretty well past the line, right? That, that, that is the kind of

00:38:26.740 freedom. It is a kind of freedom, you know, it's a freedom for people to do, but it's a freedom that

00:38:32.180 harms people and harms society and harms the soul and makes everything worse for everybody.

00:38:39.360 And so it's, it's bad. Okay. So that's my brief dissertation on freedom. How does that relate

00:38:46.880 to AI chatbots in the drive-thru line? Well, um, you know, if this is as far as it goes, the,

00:38:54.020 the drive-thru, if this is the limit, if AI is going to take over drive-thrus and that's it,

00:38:59.340 then I'd probably be fine with it. But we know that it doesn't end here. It only, it begins here,

00:39:06.960 which is why I feel quite strongly that there, there should be laws in place heavily regulating

00:39:13.420 the use of AI by businesses and outright banning it in some cases. I know again, if you're on the

00:39:20.620 right and especially if you're, you know, more, if you're kind of the Fox news conservative type

00:39:26.200 and you hear regulate, you hear the word regulation to go, how, this is blasphemy.

00:39:30.840 How could you possibly suggest that the regulation should be passed? Obviously there are, we have a

00:39:37.020 lot of regulations that are bad. We have too many regulations, but clearly there should be some

00:39:41.100 regulations. Like obviously we're not so stupid that we take the position that nothing should be 0.92

00:39:47.960 regulated ever. Um, clearly there is a place for some form of regulation in some context. I hope we 0.97

00:39:54.920 could all agree with that. And I think this is one area where it should be. Uh, and the reason I say

00:40:02.040 that is that if nothing is done, if no laws are passed, then AI is going to replace easily 80 to

00:40:10.900 90% of all the jobs on the planet. Like that will happen. It will happen rapidly within the next 20

00:40:17.520 years. Okay. 80 to 90%. And I think that's probably a conservative estimate. And it, it,

00:40:25.500 now it's speculation. You could say, well, how do I know that? I don't know that, but it seems very

00:40:31.140 likely to me. And all you have to do is imagine with current technology, how many jobs could be

00:40:37.280 replaced right now with current technology? Many. And, and, and, but then from there you said, okay,

00:40:43.460 well, how many jobs conceivably could be replaced with just a little bit of it, more advancement,

00:40:48.420 uh, in, in our technology? Um, well, many more. Uh, so like one, one big example is, um,

00:40:59.960 self-driving cars, AI that drives cars. And we already have a little bit of that. It's,

00:41:03.800 it's in that, that technology is in its infancy, but I think we all understand that without,

00:41:10.040 if, if nothing prevents it from happening, that certainly within 20 years, probably sooner than

00:41:14.060 that, you're going to have self-driving cars all over the road. And it'll be a very common,

00:41:17.960 it'll be like most cars that that'll be a standard, you know, um, eventually it'll be probably mandated.

00:41:24.020 And then there's a whole bunch of jobs that go out the window, just, just with that alone,

00:41:29.300 just that piece, uh, truck drivers, uh, any, you know, any kind of Uber taxi driver, anything in that

00:41:36.740 industry, all that stuff, delivery drivers out the window. That's, that's, uh, thousands and

00:41:43.120 thousands of middle-class jobs just from that piece gone. And I think that's bad. I think that's

00:41:52.280 very, very bad. Um, I think that will lead to suffering on a massive planetary scale actually.

00:41:58.160 And, um, and I think that we should prevent that kind of suffering. I think that, I think that,

00:42:03.520 I think that's, I think that massive planet-wide suffering is bad. And if we can prevent it,

00:42:09.520 we should. We can't prevent all of it, but if it can be prevented, then it should be. And if we see

00:42:17.760 ourselves right now actively creating the circumstances for future suffering, we should

00:42:26.380 probably stop and say, well, maybe we should stop doing this. Like we are, we are right now choosing

00:42:31.560 to do things that are going, that's going to harm a lot of people. And we don't, we can stop. Let's

00:42:37.540 not do that. So now you might argue as many people have that people have always predicted doom,

00:42:45.360 you know, whenever some new technological advance comes along. Um, and they've, and they've always

00:42:50.760 been wrong supposedly, right? Uh, they worried that cars would take, uh, jobs away from horse and

00:42:56.380 buggy manufacturers, right? And, and, and so on, but this is different. Okay. This is a different

00:43:02.500 kind of thing. It just is. Any analogy that you try to draw isn't, is going to, will fail because all

00:43:10.020 of that is different. Now I'm all about historical analogies, but not everything has an analogy. Not,

00:43:18.580 not every, there are unprecedented things that happen in history sometimes. And this kind of

00:43:23.620 technology is unprecedented. There's nothing go back a hundred years ago. What was their version

00:43:28.280 of AI? It didn't exist. They didn't have a version of it. It just was not a thing that existed.

00:43:34.220 It didn't. So, you know, with the horse and buggy example, that was a massive technological shift,

00:43:42.540 totally changed human society. Um, but people went from driving horse and buggies to driving cars.

00:43:50.760 The thing that they used, the tool they used changed.

00:43:58.140 And so, you know, you just had to learn how to use the new tool and that's a big adjustment, but

00:44:01.740 you know, it, it, that's it. That's all that happened. Uh, people went from writing one way

00:44:07.400 to writing another way with the invention of the printing press and, and any other example you can

00:44:12.220 think of, but this is a different sort of thing. It just is. Other technology has been artificial,

00:44:17.460 man-made, right? But this technology is artificially intelligent. We are inventing

00:44:24.620 intelligence, which is simply different from inventing a new tool for intelligent people to

00:44:30.780 use. We invented cars, right? But they didn't drive themselves, at least not at first. Now that will

00:44:37.520 happen. But, um, you know, at first and up until now, uh, it, it, they didn't drive themselves. So

00:44:46.280 all we invented cars and yeah, you're not doing horse and buggy. Now just use a car because the

00:44:50.580 car is not going to drive itself. We still need people to do that. So it's the self operation.

00:44:55.720 It's the, it's the intelligence, um, that, that sets this apart. And the problem is that it takes

00:45:02.760 away whole industries. It takes away whole categories of jobs and doesn't replace them

00:45:08.860 with anything. It gives people less to do a lot less to do fewer tasks to perform, um, rather than

00:45:16.680 giving us new things to do and new tasks to perform. It makes people themselves obsolete and

00:45:23.140 irrelevant. It creates a few jobs, comparatively few. They're the people that create, maintain the AI

00:45:31.040 and that sort of thing. But, um, but it is not a one for one trade at all. I mean, in reality,

00:45:40.500 we will just be erasing entire industries from the face of the earth. Where does that lead? Well,

00:45:47.700 the optimist, the AI advocate will say that it will freeze people up. I talked about, I was talking

00:45:52.980 about this on Twitter today. This is the response I got from a lot of people that it frees people up

00:45:58.460 to, to seek more fulfilling, worthwhile, creative pursuits. You know, why waste your time running

00:46:03.500 drive-through lines? Uh, now the would-be drive-through worker can become a poet or a

00:46:10.100 philosopher or, you know, go be a, be a painter or they could take up a trade. Uh, one of the few that

00:46:16.120 isn't, hasn't been consumed by the AI blob. They can take up one of the trades. That's the positive

00:46:21.200 spin here. It's also completely delusional. Um, you have to have some understanding of human nature

00:46:29.060 in order to participate in a conversation like this. And if you just don't understand how people

00:46:33.260 work, then your opinion will not be very useful. Um, and that is not how people work. That's not how,

00:46:41.040 it's not how it has worked so far. What will happen instead is that for one thing,

00:46:47.540 the welfare roles will explode even more than they already have. It's going to put millions more on

00:46:53.760 the government dole. Um, all those immigrants coming here to run our drive-throughs, guess what 1.00

00:46:59.480 they're doing? They're not going home. Okay. They're going on welfare, even more of them. So that's what

00:47:06.480 will happen. And while we become a welfare state, even more of a welfare state than we already are,

00:47:11.720 uh, people will be sitting around staring at screens, amusing themselves idly and pointlessly

00:47:17.240 with no sense of meaning or purpose. That has been the trend. Okay. I, you know, we, all you got

00:47:24.320 to do is look at even without AI, um, all these other technological advancements, although they

00:47:32.380 haven't made human beings obsolete yet, like AI will, they have freed up a lot of time for us,

00:47:38.020 right? So we, we, we do have a lot more free time. We have a lot more free time now than people

00:47:43.040 did a hundred years ago or 200 years ago. Okay. Well, how are we using that free time? You tell

00:47:49.120 me, is there any evidence, any evidence that on, that on the whole human beings will take all that

00:47:56.100 free time where they don't need to do anything and use it to pursue worthwhile pursuits? No.

00:48:02.580 What do we do? We spend 10 hours a day staring at screens. That's what we do. That's what people do.

00:48:07.400 That's just the reality. And that's what will happen. It has already been happening and it will

00:48:12.840 continue to happen. And so you take away all these jobs. That is what now you can say all you want.

00:48:18.220 Well, running a drive-thru is a soul crushing work. It's, oh, really? So just sitting at, at, at home

00:48:24.620 and like looking at your phone and doing this for 15 hours a day, this is better. This, this is better.

00:48:29.260 This is more enriching to the soul. Just this move all day that that's, that's, that's a, that's a heck

00:48:36.680 of a lot more enriching, isn't it? At least when you're working a job, like you're doing something,

00:48:42.620 you're, you're interacting with people, you're performing some sort of task, you're providing

00:48:47.920 a service or a good to people. You have like a reason to get up in the morning and, and take a

00:48:52.280 shower hopefully and get changed. Um, people need work. They need, people need something to do.

00:49:01.460 They need a, they need a purpose. They need like a task. They need to wake up in the morning and feel

00:49:07.180 like there's a, like, I've got something to do. I have a reason to get out of bed. They need that.

00:49:11.740 People need that. You cannot take that away from people. You can't take it away from millions of

00:49:17.480 people all at once and expect anything but total catastrophe to, uh, come as a result of that.

00:49:28.260 Um, and so that's, what's going to happen. Uh, don't say I didn't warn you, but you know,

00:49:38.860 I guess we'll check back in 20 years and I can do the, uh, I told you so game.

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00:52:15.820 Well, it is, I think, established that I am not a fan of the pro-Palestine protests happening on

00:52:20.880 college campuses all across the country. On this show just yesterday, I went into detail arguing that

00:52:24.680 these protests are BLM reborn. There was always destined to be some kind of race-related protest movement

00:52:30.160 in the spring and summer before the election. In 2020, it was George Floyd. This time around,

00:52:34.040 it's taken the form of sympathizing with Hamas. But at bottom, it's the same people, the same

00:52:38.600 activists, funded by the same wealthy backers who, just as in 2020, can ultimately be traced back to

00:52:43.340 George Soros. Who else? And they're angry about basically the same things, many of them. Even if the

00:52:50.140 conflict in Israel has nothing at all to do with racial grievances in the U.S., these activists,

00:52:55.980 and the left more broadly, are still viewing it through that prism. They see Hamas as revolutionaries

00:53:03.900 fighting back against white power structures and white colonialism. They see this as marginalized

00:53:08.580 brown people warring against white oppressors. It's all about systemic racism. Everything is 0.60

00:53:13.260 always about that. As I've said many times, they will always side with the less white side or the 0.83

00:53:18.140 browner side, if that's how you want to put it. So I'm not a fan of these people or their movement. 0.76

00:53:21.880 In fact, I despise everything they stand for. And I've also said, including just yesterday, that

00:53:25.880 any protester breaking the law should be rounded up and dragged away in handcuffs immediately.

00:53:33.120 Throw the book at any of the lawbreakers. If they're setting up illegal encampments,

00:53:36.900 if they're vandalizing or causing any property damage at all, if they're engaging in any acts

00:53:40.840 of violence at all, if they're making explicit threats of violence against Jewish people or any

00:53:45.160 other group of people, if they're standing in the road and blocking traffic, if they're engaging in

00:53:50.160 criminal activity of any kind, they should be thrown in jail. And if hundreds of them are

00:53:54.600 committing crimes at once, then arrest hundreds of them, put them in buses and take them to jail.

00:53:58.500 Very simple. And I've been clear about my feelings on that subject. But right now I have a bone to

00:54:04.200 pick with the other side of this dispute. And before we get to the more significant problem,

00:54:10.740 I will, first of all, confess some annoyance at some of the people who have been so bold in speaking

00:54:16.600 out against these protests. Take Speaker Mike Johnson, for example, who went to Columbia University

00:54:21.360 yesterday to denounce the protests and call for the president of the university to resign. Watch.

00:54:28.620 Sadly, Columbia's administrators have chosen to let the threats, the fear and the intimidation of the

00:54:35.480 mob rule to overtake American principles like free speech and the free exchange of ideas and the free

00:54:42.460 exercise of religion. They have co-opted First Amendment arguments to protect genocide and to

00:54:50.100 elevate the voices of anti-Semitism. They have proven themselves to be incapable of achieving their basic

00:54:56.500 responsibility, which is keeping students safe. We just can't allow this kind of hatred and anti-Semitism

00:55:03.280 to flourish on our campuses, and it must be stopped in its tracks. Those who are perpetrating this violence

00:55:09.540 should be arrested. And I'm here today. I'm here today joining my colleagues and calling on President

00:55:16.500 Shafiq to resign if she cannot immediately bring order to this chaos.

00:55:23.760 As Speaker of the House, I am committing today that the Congress will not be silent as Jewish students

00:55:29.800 are expected to run for their lives and stay home from their classes, hiding in fear. In the House of

00:55:35.700 Representatives, we've already acted to address anti-Semitism on campuses. We have passed a number

00:55:40.800 of statutes to address this matter, and we call upon the U.S. Senate to act upon our legislation.

00:55:46.980 Okay, we'll get back to the anti-Semitism bit in a moment, but the point is that Mike Johnson was

00:55:51.860 very clear about condemning this movement, and when asked about his message to Columbia students

00:55:57.280 participating in the protest, here's what he said. What is your message to the students inside the

00:56:03.860 encampment right now? My message to the students inside the encampment is go back to class and stop

00:56:10.400 the nonsense. Look, if we want to have a debate on campus about the merits of these things, let's do

00:56:15.560 that. But you can't intimidate your fellow students and make them stay home from class. Think about that.

00:56:20.760 Is that right? Do you think that's right? Stop wasting your parents' money, Congressman Lawler says.

00:56:26.280 I think that's right. So you're wasting your parents' money, he says, and he's right. They

00:56:32.360 are. I take no issue with what was said in that second clip. But it's hard not to notice a stark

00:56:40.720 contrast here. You know, when it comes to the pro-Palestine demonstrations, he is bold and loud

00:56:46.060 in his denunciations. But what did he have to say only a few years ago when BLM mobs were torching our

00:56:53.420 cities? Now, those protests, quote unquote, were far, far, far more destructive, like by an infinite

00:57:01.700 margin. What was Mike Johnson's response back then? Well, let's take a trip down memory lane,

00:57:08.240 shall we? What did you feel when you watched the video of George Floyd being killed?

00:57:15.420 I was outraged. I don't think anyone can view the video and objectively come to any other conclusion

00:57:22.080 but that it was an act of murder. And I felt that initially, as everyone did. And it's so disturbing.

00:57:30.260 And, you know, the underlying issues beneath that are something that the country is now struggling

00:57:36.300 with. And I think it's something we have to look at very soberly and with a lot of empathy. And I'm glad

00:57:42.180 to see that's happening around the country. You know, what it's taught me is we now have four other

00:57:45.940 children of our own. And my oldest son, Jack, ironically, this year is 14. And I've thought often

00:57:52.140 through all these ordeals over the last couple of weeks about the difference in the experiences between

00:57:56.800 my two 14-year-old sons, Michael being a black American and Jack being white Caucasian. They have

00:58:03.860 different challenges. My son, Jack, has an easier path. He just does. The interesting thing about both

00:58:11.180 these kids, Michael and Jack, is they're both handsome, articulate, really talented kids gifted

00:58:17.000 by God to do lots of things. But the reality is, and no one can tell me otherwise, my son Michael had a

00:58:23.180 harder time than my son Jack is going to have simply because of the color of his skin. And that's a

00:58:27.100 reality. It's an uncomfortable, painful one to acknowledge. But people have to recognize that's a

00:58:31.260 fact. What should we do about that?

00:58:32.880 I think that we need, we really do need systematic change. I think we need transformative solutions.

00:58:41.440 Systematic change for our systemically racist country. How bold and courageous. So turns out,

00:58:48.780 Mike Johnson did not denounce the BLM rioters. He didn't hold any press conference at the site of

00:58:53.260 any of these riots and condemn the protesters to their faces. He didn't tell them to go home.

00:58:58.960 Instead, he went on national television and declared that George Floyd was murdered.

00:59:03.520 He threw Derek Chauvin under the bus. And then proceeded to validate and agree with the BLM rioters 0.97

00:59:09.500 and their claims about systemic racism in America. That's what he did. And now he wants us to give him

00:59:16.420 credit because he's at Columbia University making fun of the dumb college kids. I don't give him any 0.99

00:59:22.540 credit for that. And I'm picking on Mike Johnson here for good reason. He's a speaker of the house.

00:59:27.000 But I could play this game with almost any Republican politician who has been vocal in

00:59:31.860 their denunciations of the so-called free Palestine movement. Almost none of them showed even a fraction

00:59:38.620 of that boldness when BLM was terrorizing not just Ivy League campuses, but the entire country, 0.91

00:59:45.880 whole cities, communities of normal people. Not these dumb college, Ivy League college kids. 0.99

00:59:51.940 Now, of course, the same can be said, can even more be said for the people in corporate media, 0.99

00:59:57.920 academia, elsewhere, who have been speaking out against the campus protests this month. All of

01:00:02.180 them, literally all of them, were on the side of these same activists four years ago when those

01:00:07.940 activists were looting and burning our cities. Now, this is not just some cheap gotcha moment.

01:00:14.200 The point is that most of these people pretending to be shocked and appalled by the campus protests

01:00:18.100 are at least partially to blame for them. You validated these activists and their tactics. In fact,

01:00:23.940 you validated tactics much worse, much more destructive, much more disruptive than this.

01:00:30.600 And now you're speaking out without ever acknowledging your own role in this or apologizing 0.68

01:00:35.060 for your cowardice. And why are you speaking out now? Why now, but not back then? Well,

01:00:41.240 because the BLM movement of 2020 was anti-white, and it is not safe to denounce anti-whiteism,

01:00:49.020 which is why Mike Johnson never has denounced it and never, ever, ever will. And we all know that.

01:00:55.480 It is much safer and much more acceptable in polite society to denounce anti-Semitism.

01:01:00.140 So they're happy to do so. There's nothing wrong with denouncing anti-Semitism, of course.

01:01:08.020 Anti-Semitism, actual anti-Semitism, which is the hatred of Jewish people for being Jewish,

01:01:12.520 is evil and should be denounced. And very often is denounced by both sides of the political divide.

01:01:17.760 However sincere or insincere that may be with their denunciations, they do denounce it all the time. 0.98

01:01:22.700 But hating white people for being white is evil too. And yet again, most of these people have never 0.89

01:01:31.260 once, not once ever, not ever explicitly condemned that kind of bigotry or even acknowledged that it

01:01:37.680 exists. And that imbalance and double standard really matters. It does. So that's my first issue

01:01:45.980 with some of the people on the other side. Here's my second. Yesterday, students at University of Texas

01:01:52.260 Austin joined in the protest fund, but they were greeted with a much different response from what

01:01:58.040 their comrades and other campuses have experienced. As soon as they began their walkout, police were on

01:02:03.340 the scene and making arrests. Watch.

01:02:05.380 So the whole video is kind of like that. So according to CBS News, at least 30 of the

01:02:30.300 UT protesters were arrested. And why were they arrested? Were they threatening violence? Were

01:02:36.620 they setting up illegal encampments? Was this an unlawful assembly? Maybe so. But we can't know for

01:02:42.160 sure based on that video. You know, you can't really tell. So it's up to those in a position of authority

01:02:46.880 to communicate with us. They have to tell us why they are making these arrests. And especially when

01:02:53.800 you're arresting protesters in the middle of a political demonstration, it is very important to be 0.83

01:02:59.060 clear about why you're doing it. So what did Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, say? Well, yesterday

01:03:06.220 afternoon, he retweeted that video of law enforcement swarming the area. And he said this, quote,

01:03:12.600 arrests being made right now will continue until the crowd disperses. These protesters belong in jail.

01:03:18.920 Anti-Semitism will not be tolerated in Texas, period. Students joining in hate-filled anti-Semitic

01:03:25.060 protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled. Now, there are plenty of

01:03:33.260 conservatives who have tried to twist themselves into pretzel-like shapes in search of some defensible

01:03:39.920 interpretation of Greg Abbott's own words. But we should not have to twist ourselves into any shape

01:03:45.800 for the sake of our political leaders. That's not our job. Your job is to communicate clearly,

01:03:52.640 especially in a time like this. And the clear, simple, most direct interpretation of Abbott's

01:03:58.600 statement is that these protesters are being arrested for being anti-Semitic. Again, quote,

01:04:05.220 these protesters belong in jail. Anti-Semitism will not be tolerated in Texas.

01:04:12.580 Okay, if you tell me that that does not indicate that they're being arrested for anti-Semitism, 1.00

01:04:17.120 then you are being intentionally stupid and you know it. Stop it. The only way to avoid 1.00

01:04:23.560 interpreting this as a direction for protesters to be arrested for their anti-Semitic views

01:04:27.540 is to assume that the first sentence in that statement has nothing to do with the second

01:04:33.380 sentence. Like these are two completely separate, unrelated thoughts that just happen to be put

01:04:38.720 into the same tweet for no particular reason. But that is absurd, of course. And anyone

01:04:44.920 interpreting it that way is being willfully obtuse. And again, if you're in that category,

01:04:51.040 you know it, and I know it, so just cut it out. So we are left with two possibilities.

01:04:58.940 Either Greg Abbott really did direct law enforcement to arrest protesters for being anti-Semitic,

01:05:04.480 or he wants us to think that he did. Either they are being hauled away in handcuffs for being,

01:05:10.160 for anti-Semitism, or they're being hauled away for actually breaking the law, but Greg Abbott is

01:05:16.460 presenting it as a crackdown on anti-Semitism. In either case, it's a problem. It is a very big

01:05:23.220 problem, in fact. And that is because anti-Semitic speech is not illegal. Okay? Now, directly calling for

01:05:32.960 or inciting violence is illegal. And if somebody does that, then arrest them for that. Arrest them

01:05:38.960 right away. And tell us that's what you're doing. But anti-Semitic speech more broadly, that is speech

01:05:46.240 that conveys a hatred for or opposition towards Jews, is not illegal. You are allowed to hate Jews 1.00

01:05:52.340 or any other group in this country. You cannot make it illegal to simply hate a group of people or say

01:05:58.600 you hate them. Or you can do that. But if you do, free speech is over. It's just done. If we have

01:06:06.820 free speech at all, then that umbrella must cover what we now call hate speech. And this is entirely

01:06:14.260 leaving aside the question of whether all of these protesters actually do hate Jews. And I think it's 1.00

01:06:19.000 clear that many of them don't. Some of them are Jewish themselves. Others are there because, as 0.85

01:06:23.560 established, they see Israel as a white Western power, and that's why they hate it. Others are

01:06:28.920 there just because they want to protest something, and they don't care about the reason or know about

01:06:32.640 the reason. We just heard from one of those people. She doesn't even know why she's there. And others

01:06:36.860 are there because they oppose Israel as a political entity, but not Jews as people. And then some are

01:06:42.680 there, yes, because they hate Jewish people. That crowd is certainly present in many of these protests. 0.97

01:06:48.140 You can hear them. It's absurd to deny all of these other motivations and reasons and assume

01:06:54.260 that all of them are protesting just for that last reason. But even if they were, it shouldn't matter

01:07:01.200 legally because legally we have the First Amendment. Now, if free speech does not include the kind of

01:07:09.360 speech society judges to be most vile and unpleasant, then there's no such thing as free speech.

01:07:15.040 If protesters don't have the First Amendment right to express views that those in power find

01:07:20.080 especially detestable, then they don't have the First Amendment. You know, if the governor declares,

01:07:24.900 you have the right to say whatever you want, except for that, because that's really mean.

01:07:30.740 Well, if that is declared, then clearly you do not have the right to say what you want.

01:07:35.980 It's not hard to see what happens next once this precedent is set. If the governor can send you,

01:07:41.560 you can send the cops in and have you arrested for being anti-Semitic, if he can declare indeed

01:07:47.740 that anti-Semitic speech will not be tolerated in his state at all, which is what he said,

01:07:53.900 then why can't you also be arrested for so-called homophobic speech or transphobic speech or racist

01:08:00.340 speech? Is it now up to the governor of each state to decide which forms of hateful speech will be

01:08:06.200 tolerated and which will not be tolerated? Is that what it means to live in a supposedly free country?

01:08:11.560 There are many forms of bigotry, yet there's only one that Greg Abbott has decided will not be

01:08:17.580 tolerated in Texas. He certainly never declared during the BLM riots that anti-whiteism won't be

01:08:22.640 tolerated. He appears to have a lot of tolerance for that. Well, that's why our free speech rights

01:08:30.540 should not hinge on the tolerance and preferences of our political leaders. You as the leader might find

01:08:37.480 this form of hate to be especially appalling even more than other forms, I don't care. I don't give

01:08:43.360 a damn what you personally feel is worse. That shouldn't make a difference. You're allowed to

01:08:48.300 have your opinion. You can't arrest people according to that. No one has the right to directly call for

01:08:58.120 or threaten violence against anyone. But you do have the right to hate whoever you want and to

01:09:03.940 express that hatred verbally. I'm not saying hatred is good. I'm not recommending it. But you have the

01:09:10.860 right. Human beings experience hate and they talk like you. Yes, you have the right to do that.

01:09:16.700 It's that simple. If we legitimize the criminalization of so-called hate speech,

01:09:21.340 we embrace the final destruction of the First Amendment. And we invite the left to use this as a

01:09:27.080 weapon against us, which they will. And happily so. And that's why Greg Abbott is, once again,

01:09:34.700 I'm afraid to say, canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for

01:09:38.700 listening. Have a great day. Talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

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Ep. 1355 - The Government Is Gearing Up To Declare A ‘Climate Emergency,’ Which Will Wipe Out What’s Left Of Our Freedoms

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