The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1413 - Trump Called Racist For Standing Up To Obnoxious, Hostile Black Journalists

00:00:00.000 Today, The Matt Walsh Show, activists in one crime-ridden city are rallying together to blame local businesses for the crime problem.

00:00:06.520 This is just the latest example of leftists refusing to be honest about why the crime epidemic is happening and who exactly is responsible for it.

00:00:13.880 Meanwhile, Donald Trump is being accused of racism after his contentious back and forth with a group of hostile black journalists.

00:00:19.820 Needless to say, the racism claims are totally bogus.

00:00:22.000 Plus, Joe Rogan predicts a Kamala Harris victory, and the Army comes up with another brilliant scheme to deal with its recruitment crisis.

00:00:28.060 Instead, they just made it worse. As always, we'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:49.960 One of the most important principles in life is the idea of cause and effect.

00:01:55.180 Children start mastering the concept at around 18 months.

00:01:58.640 A toddler might drop a block on his foot, very quickly realize that the block caused him to feel pain.

00:02:04.540 He won't assume that the TV across the room had somehow hurt him.

00:02:08.540 He won't blame the neighborhood cat for it, and he'll know the block is what hurt him.

00:02:12.940 And in the future, as a result of this deduction, the toddler might think twice about dropping a block on his foot.

00:02:19.060 That's cause and effect.

00:02:20.640 But in politics, for various reasons, cause and effect can be difficult for some people to figure out.

00:02:26.120 Sometimes it's because life is complicated.

00:02:28.620 Sometimes it's because of all the propaganda that people are subjected to.

00:02:32.500 And sometimes it's because people just aren't that bright, frankly.

00:02:35.840 That would explain the scene that took place the other day in Brooklyn, where there was a massive protest against the shelters for illegal aliens that have popped up all over the city.

00:02:44.900 You might have seen that footage on social media.

00:02:46.500 The protesters said that they were shocked by all the violence and mayhem that these migrants have brought to their community, apparently oblivious to the fact that they voted for exactly this outcome. 0.99

00:02:55.900 Of course, there are similar scenes playing out all over the country.

00:02:58.240 But even when you take into account all these factors, the propaganda, partisan politics, etc., it's still hard to come to terms with what's happening right now in Jackson, Mississippi.

00:03:09.520 Politicians and black activists in Jackson have just made it clear that they have no understanding of causation whatsoever.

00:03:16.340 This basic concept completely eludes them.

00:03:19.440 It's not simply that they're blinded by politics.

00:03:21.480 Instead, it appears that, like infants, these activists do not comprehend that certain actions naturally lead to certain results.

00:03:29.160 And it's worth exploring what's happening in Jackson in some detail because it has implications for the whole country, including the presidential race.

00:03:35.200 So here's the background.

00:03:36.960 There's a Texaco gas station in Jackson that's located on a street called Medgar-Evers Boulevard.

00:03:42.940 And recently, there's been a lot of crime near the gas station, including several homicides and shootings this year.

00:03:49.020 In response to this crisis, the solution that politicians and activists have come up with is not to blame the criminals.

00:03:55.940 It's not to hire more police officers, increase patrols.

00:03:59.520 Instead, their response has been to blame the Texaco gas station.

00:04:04.320 And now these politicians, including a councilman named Kenneth Stokes, are calling for the gas station to be shut down.

00:04:10.800 In fact, Stokes has said he'll bring a vote of no confidence against the city's law department for refusing to have the gas station declared a public nuisance.

00:04:19.560 Because the gas station is what's responsible for all the crime happening around the gas station.

00:04:26.120 Watch.

00:04:27.640 Jackson Councilman Kenneth Stokes continues to press the case for a crackdown on a West Jackson gas station.

00:04:34.480 Any other city in this state and country where you have a nuisance will be in court filing legal paperwork to shut these kind of places down.

00:04:48.440 If you're providing a business that you see is detrimental to the community that you're serving and that your business is causing people to lose their lives, then you should have the integrity of a human being for yourself to say, we need to shut this down.

00:05:06.740 So just to reiterate there, what we just heard at the end of that clip, if you're providing a business that you see is detrimental to the community and that your business is causing people to lose their lives, then you should have the integrity of a human being to say, you need to shut this down.

00:05:21.560 In other words, the Texaco gas station is causing people to shoot each other.

00:05:27.140 The gas station, a collection of snacks and pumps distributing gasoline, is causing people to lose their lives.

00:05:34.180 Therefore, the local councilman is holding rallies to get this place shut down.

00:05:39.360 Now, when I first saw this story, I had to check if there was, you know, maybe something I'm missing because I figured that this can't be the full story.

00:05:47.960 Is the Texaco gas station executing its customers when they walk inside?

00:05:51.900 I mean, is that why we're blaming the gas station for what's happening?

00:05:55.720 Do they have guards posted at the door who shoot you in the head as soon as you enter the place?

00:06:00.280 If so, I'll say I totally agree that they need to shut the place down.

00:06:03.620 I mean, I am completely against that business practice, the practice of killing your customer.

00:06:09.800 If I went to the gas station and it tried to murder me, I'd be frankly pretty upset.

00:06:15.320 That's fodder for like a bad Yelp review, no doubt.

00:06:18.000 I mean, no more than two stars on that one.

00:06:20.460 But after looking into it, I can conclusively say that these are crimes being committed by community members at and also against the gas station.

00:06:31.000 So the real problem in Jackson, Mississippi is that so many people in the community are violent criminals, which means that if you get rid of the gas station, by the way, those violent criminals are still going to be there.

00:06:42.120 And they're still going to be violent and they're still going to be criminals.

00:06:44.500 But the rush to avoid blame and accountability is so extreme that now they are robbing businesses and then turning around to the businesses and blaming the businesses for being robbed.

00:06:58.320 And we've seen this kind of thing a few other times.

00:06:59.900 And for example, the politicians in Minnesota and other major cities who have blamed car manufacturers for making their cars too easy to steal.

00:07:07.880 And that's really bad, but this is a whole other level of delusion that we're seeing now in Jackson.

00:07:14.340 Now, when I see a situation like this, I can't help but compare the situation in Jackson to what I've experienced in my own life.

00:07:21.760 So before we moved to Nashville four years ago, we lived in a small blue-collar town in Pennsylvania.

00:07:28.140 We had a local gas station that doubled as the town's supermarket.

00:07:33.120 And people used to go to the gas station.

00:07:35.680 They would park their cars outside, leave the keys in the car with the car running and the doors unlocked and the windows down.

00:07:44.000 And they would just go shop and they'd stroll back out 50 minutes later with a bag of groceries and a coffee and their car would still be there.

00:07:52.240 So how is it that a gas station in one town is so safe that you can leave your keys in an unlocked car while in another town you can't fill up your tank without getting shot?

00:08:05.540 And it's not just about gas stations, obviously.

00:08:08.040 The violent crime rate all across Jackson, not just at the gas station, is extremely high.

00:08:14.500 Jackson is more dangerous than 97% of all cities in America.

00:08:19.500 It is among the least safe places you can live.

00:08:23.600 I mean, there are cities in third-world countries safer than Jackson, a lot safer.

00:08:29.740 By comparison, and for the record, in the town where I lived, the violent crime rate was less than half of the national average.

00:08:36.840 Property crimes were about a third of the national average.

00:08:40.380 So it was very safe.

00:08:41.500 So again, the question.

00:08:44.760 Why is one so safe and the other isn't?

00:08:50.180 I mean, forget about where I lived.

00:08:51.540 Jackson is in the 97 percentile for crime.

00:08:54.320 So you could compare it to almost any town and the comparison will be unfavorable for Jackson.

00:09:01.060 Why is that?

00:09:02.640 Can any politician in Jackson answer that question?

00:09:04.720 Well, here's where we get to the, what for some people is the uncomfortable part of this conversation.

00:09:12.380 Because we all know where the answer starts.

00:09:14.780 Except we aren't supposed to say it out loud.

00:09:17.900 Every single person listening right now is thinking the same thing.

00:09:21.520 But you're not supposed to say it.

00:09:23.900 But I will say it.

00:09:25.180 The population of Jackson is 80 percent black.

00:09:30.140 By the way, where I used to live, it was 2 percent black.

00:09:34.400 Now, you might know nothing about Jackson at all.

00:09:37.460 But just based on the crime stats, you already made assumptions about the racial demographics.

00:09:42.820 And your assumptions were right.

00:09:45.440 Okay?

00:09:45.680 You heard that it's a place where violent crime is overwhelming. 0.94

00:09:50.500 You make an assumption that it must be a heavily black community. 0.83

00:09:55.360 And you're right.

00:09:56.400 Indeed, if you look at any town in America and see that it has a predominantly black population,

00:10:00.200 you can assume that the crime rate is probably pretty high.

00:10:03.240 And you will almost always be correct.

00:10:05.780 And we all know that.

00:10:07.700 We all know it.

00:10:09.280 But we're not supposed to say it.

00:10:12.860 This is one of the many things that we all, every single person watching,

00:10:16.540 including the people that are going to clip this and put it on Twitter and say,

00:10:18.760 oh, Matt Walsh is racist.

00:10:19.640 All of them know that it's true also. 0.76

00:10:22.720 But you're not supposed to say it.

00:10:24.860 So it's one of the many truths in America that we've all just agreed to not say out loud.

00:10:31.400 Which is very unfortunate because it prevents us from asking the next question.

00:10:37.700 Once we've admitted what we know is true, 0.68

00:10:41.160 predominant black community probably going to have high crime. 1.00

00:10:44.500 The next question is, why is that the case? 0.98

00:10:48.020 Why is crime so prevalent in black communities? 1.00

00:10:53.100 Now, there isn't one single answer to that question.

00:10:55.680 But there is one major, overwhelmingly significant answer that we must begin with.

00:11:01.600 The fatherless rate in the black population in Jackson, just as in cities all across the country, is over 80%.

00:11:09.280 Now, you've heard stats like that before, especially on this show.

00:11:13.220 But, you know, you hear it so often that it might not really sink in.

00:11:17.680 Because you hear 80% fatherless.

00:11:18.940 Oh, yeah, we've heard that.

00:11:19.660 But really think about that.

00:11:22.040 I mean, really think about it.

00:11:23.760 Over 80%.

00:11:25.360 I mean, we are rapidly approaching a point where married parents and intact families

00:11:31.420 simply just don't exist in Jackson or cities like it at all.

00:11:35.740 In fact, the fatherless problem is so pervasive in Jackson and other cities in that state

00:11:40.720 that the out-of-wedlock birth rate in all of Mississippi is now over 50%.

00:11:46.200 In the entire state, a child in Mississippi is more likely to be born to an unmarried mother than to a married one.

00:11:52.480 Now, it is not possible to have a functioning society with statistics like that.

00:11:59.460 There has never been in the history of the world a functioning society with statistics like that.

00:12:05.460 Ever.

00:12:06.260 It's impossible.

00:12:08.080 It is a guaranteed recipe for crime, violence, dysfunction, and chaos.

00:12:13.220 Every time. 0.98

00:12:15.360 So there is no solution to the problems facing black people that doesn't begin with addressing this issue. 0.69

00:12:23.000 It is not possible to have a productive and worthwhile conversation about the plight of the black community in this country

00:12:28.560 if that conversation does not revolve around the fact that the black community, generally speaking,

00:12:32.900 has given up on the nuclear family.

00:12:36.000 Given up on it.

00:12:38.080 To the extent that, again, in a lot of these communities, the nuclear family basically does not exist anymore.

00:12:45.900 Now, politicians like the one currently running for president on the Democratic ticket

00:12:49.380 will never talk about this, though.

00:12:52.480 As much as they claim to be voices for that community.

00:12:57.400 For Democrats, any criticism or uncomfortable observation of black communities,

00:13:02.400 even if it's well-intentioned, even if it's completely reasonable,

00:13:06.860 even if it's something we all know, even if it's absolutely necessary in order to solve any of the problems,

00:13:12.620 still talking about any of that is tantamount to donning a white hood

00:13:16.300 and setting a cross on fire outside of somebody's lawn. 0.97

00:13:20.660 The inevitable result is that black communities will continue to stagnate and devolve into more needless violence. 1.00

00:13:27.500 And that's obviously a very bad outcome that will ruin millions of lives.

00:13:30.720 But really, the problem's even worse than that.

00:13:32.680 Because the attitude is so cancerous that it's now destroying our national political discourse, too.

00:13:37.980 And if you doubt that, take a look at what happened yesterday at the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago.

00:13:42.580 Because, yes, apparently we have segregated associations for black journalists,

00:13:46.020 just like Kamala's campaign has racially segregated Zoom calls. 0.86

00:13:49.000 But Donald Trump showed up, knowing that it would be hostile territory, much to his credit.

00:13:56.400 He did not duck the event like Kamala.

00:13:59.340 Kamala, who still hasn't answered a single serious question from a single journalist

00:14:02.580 since becoming her party's presumptive nominee,

00:14:04.680 she could have gone to this event and she would have gotten nothing but the easiest softball questions in the world.

00:14:11.020 And she didn't even do that because she's afraid of even the softball questions.

00:14:15.320 Meanwhile, Trump sits down for what he thought was going to be an hour.

00:14:19.000 And knowing that they're just going to roast him and he's sitting there live on TV in front of a crowd.

00:14:30.360 And then as soon as the event began, the ABC journalist did not ask Trump a policy question.

00:14:36.420 She didn't talk about inflation or interest rates or the price of housing or any issue that actually matters to a single American.

00:14:43.680 She also didn't talk about how, oh, hey, by the way, you got shot two weeks ago.

00:14:49.000 How are you doing? 0.97

00:14:51.360 Instead, she started barking about how Donald Trump is racist because he said mean things about some people who happen to be black. 0.95

00:14:58.920 Watch. 0.98

00:14:59.480 You have used words like animal and rabbit to describe black district attorneys. 1.00

00:15:04.840 You've attacked black journalists, calling them a loser, saying the questions that they ask are, quote, stupid and racist. 1.00

00:15:11.420 You've had dinner with a white supremacist at your Mar-a-Lago resort. 1.00

00:15:14.400 So my question, sir, now that you are asking black supporters to vote for you, why should black voters trust you after you have used language like that? 0.85

00:15:25.960 Well, first of all, I don't think I've ever been asked a question so in such a horrible manner.

00:15:32.920 First question.

00:15:33.660 You don't even say hello.

00:15:36.400 How are you?

00:15:37.600 Are you with ABC?

00:15:38.780 Because I think they're a fake news network, a terrible network.

00:15:42.980 And I think it's disgraceful that I came here in good spirit.

00:15:49.160 I love the black population of this country.

00:15:52.660 I've done so much for the black population of this country.

00:15:56.520 Now, what's going on here is pretty clear.

00:16:00.360 This woman knows that Donald Trump has called white people a lot of insulting names.

00:16:05.360 Everyone's well aware of what Trump has said about Rosie O'Donnell and Jeb Bush and Rand Paul and Ted Cruz and Ron DeSantis and John Bolton.

00:16:15.080 Dozens and dozens of other people happen to be white. 0.93

00:16:17.020 There's not a single person on the planet who thinks that Donald Trump only uses nasty names to refer to black people. 0.84

00:16:23.660 What's happening here pretty explicitly is that the moderator is saying that Trump is racist because he treats black people the same way he treats white people. 0.96

00:16:32.280 He insults them the same way he insults everyone else who crosses him.

00:16:35.920 That's his approach.

00:16:36.920 If you come after him, if you come after him, you criticize him, he's going to hit back hard and he's going to use whatever language he wants to use.

00:16:45.140 And he doesn't care if man, woman, black, white, doesn't matter.

00:16:50.840 Now, say what you want about that approach.

00:16:55.820 But if equality is what you're looking for, then that's as equal as it gets.

00:17:01.100 But, you know, they can't tolerate that.

00:17:07.380 So these journalists are demanding special status for black people. 0.95

00:17:13.180 That journalist there wants to completely shut down any criticism of black DAs, black politicians, black journalists. 0.99

00:17:20.440 This is the same mindset that gets gas stations blamed for shootings in black neighborhoods. 0.98

00:17:24.100 Okay, because we're never, because you can never turn the mirror around to look at yourself.

00:17:30.700 It is the pathological avoidance of criticism and accountability.

00:17:35.080 And now, of course, it's being used to derail debate during a presidential election.

00:17:38.240 This is not some fringe ABC reporter I'm talking about.

00:17:40.460 This is a mainstream view now on the left.

00:17:42.360 Last night, there was this post on Twitter, which is very viral, millions of views, tens of thousands of likes and supportive comments.

00:17:49.440 A lot of commentary like this on social media and in corporate media sends Trump's interrogation by the black journalists there.

00:17:55.820 This is just one example, but a lot of stuff like this. 1.00

00:17:58.540 Quote, if you're black and watched how Trump talked to those black journalists and women and you still want to vote for him, please keep your black ass away from me. 1.00

00:18:07.260 Thanks. 1.00

00:18:07.620 In other words, he's saying very clearly that Trump should have treated that black journalist differently from any other journalist.

00:18:16.080 Even though she was being as hostile and unprofessional and rude and disrespectful as she possibly could have been. 0.77

00:18:23.220 Even though she's approaching him in a tone of voice and with a line of questioning, she would never, ever in a million years direct at Kamala Harris or any Democrat.

00:18:31.860 We all know that. 0.92

00:18:33.720 Trump should have pretended otherwise, apparently, because she's black. 0.99

00:18:37.620 And it's not possible for black people to do anything wrong whatsoever, I guess. 0.96

00:18:43.280 That's what a critical mass of people on the left now believe.

00:18:46.800 It's also apparently the view of Washington Post columnist Karen Attaya.

00:18:50.460 In response to the event, she tweeted, quote, I'm so angry right now.

00:18:53.880 N-A-B-G. 1.00

00:18:54.760 This was a colossal mistake.

00:18:57.260 That's how you know, by the way, that Donald Trump completely neutralized their attacks.

00:19:01.780 Because if it had gone badly for Trump, they'd be glad that he was invited.

00:19:05.760 But it went well for Trump because instead of falling for the trap, he called it out.

00:19:09.520 In fact, what he did is he treated black people the same way he'd treat anyone else.

00:19:16.060 He was honest.

00:19:17.840 He wasn't tiptoeing around or walking on eggshells.

00:19:20.240 He's sitting there comfortably.

00:19:21.160 The whole thing, you know, it's worth watching.

00:19:22.800 If you haven't watched, it's the whole 30-minute.

00:19:25.480 I can't call it an interview.

00:19:26.420 It's an interrogation.

00:19:28.440 But it's worth watching the whole thing.

00:19:31.500 And I think it makes Trump look great because starting with just how comfortable and normal he is.

00:19:40.280 He's just sitting there like, OK, yeah, bring it on.

00:19:43.020 And I'm going to talk to you the same way I talk to anybody else.

00:19:45.860 You know, you're not special.

00:19:47.340 You're a person like anyone else.

00:19:49.780 Yes, I'm talking. 0.98

00:19:50.540 These are black, quote, unquote, journalists that are interrogating me. 0.83

00:19:53.340 It's mostly black people in the audience. 0.97

00:19:54.880 OK, who cares? 0.98

00:19:56.200 I wouldn't care if they were white. 0.98

00:19:57.320 It doesn't matter.

00:19:58.820 And this is what we need now.

00:19:59.740 We've needed it for a long time.

00:20:00.760 A radical, straightforward honesty.

00:20:03.900 An honesty that is totally unconcerned with coloring inside the PC lines.

00:20:09.260 When people aren't allowed to say the truth, they very quickly start believing in absurdities,

00:20:14.320 like the idea that gas stations cause crime.

00:20:18.740 Only a party that wants more crime and more violence would push a lie as absurd as that.

00:20:23.340 And only a party that wants to push even more deception and propaganda, even when reality

00:20:29.280 is staring all of us in the face, would ever dream of installing a candidate as obviously

00:20:34.480 fraudulent as Kamala Harris.

00:20:36.400 Now, let's get to our five headlines.

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00:21:49.460 Okay, staying for a moment on this Trump interview, or rather, waterboarding session with the black journalists. 0.94

00:21:56.740 Of course, the main thing everyone's talking about today is the moment when Trump has a few words about Kamala's racial self-identification.

00:22:12.020 Let's watch that.

00:22:13.120 I've known her a long time indirectly, not directly very much, and she was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage.

00:22:25.580 I didn't know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black, and now she wants to be known as black.

00:22:32.340 So, I don't know, is she Indian or is she black? 0.99

00:22:34.600 She is always identified as a black when she went to a historically black college.

00:22:38.040 I respect either one, but she obviously doesn't, because she was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn, and she went, she became a black person. 0.86

00:22:47.160 Just to be clear, sir, do you believe that she is a black person? 0.94

00:22:49.020 I think somebody should look into that, too, when you ask, continue in a very hostile, nasty tone. 0.74

00:22:54.360 So, this is, and of course, they're making, trying to make a lot of hay out of this, to put it mildly, this moment.

00:23:04.940 Everyone in the building there, and everyone in general, knows exactly what Trump was referring to.

00:23:11.180 The ABC journalist knows what he's referring to, although she pretended not to.

00:23:14.940 Early in her political career in San Francisco, Kamala Harris pushed her identity as an Asian American. 0.99

00:23:18.960 That's how she presented herself, and she did that for self-serving reasons. 1.00

00:23:22.440 In San Francisco, I had more Asian voters than black voters, and that's why when she first ran for DA, the press mentioned in, you know, all the articles and stuff that she'd be the first Asian DA of the city. 0.96

00:23:34.220 But for the most part, they didn't mention that she'd be the first black DA anywhere in their reporting.

00:23:38.700 So, early in her career, this is, you know, she was Asian.

00:23:41.840 Nobody anymore, like, when's the last time you heard anyone refer to Kamala Harris as Asian?

00:23:46.740 When's the last time you heard her refer to herself that way?

00:23:52.440 And many articles were written about, you know, at the time about this, and it's what Kamala was emphasizing at the time.

00:23:59.740 And she continued to emphasize her identity as an Asian American for several more years.

00:24:04.340 And that's why in 2016, when she was elected to the Senate, the AP ran this headline, quote,

00:24:11.340 California's Kamala Harris becomes the first Indian American U.S. senator.

00:24:15.820 Indian American.

00:24:16.420 And then a couple of years ago, CNN did a whole biography segment on Kamala Harris, complete with an Indian narrator that didn't talk about her being a black woman at all.

00:24:25.800 Let's watch that.

00:24:28.100 My mother, who raised me and my sister, was a proud woman.

00:24:35.060 She was a brown woman.

00:24:37.580 She was a woman with a heavy accent. 0.98

00:24:39.380 And her mother, Shamala Gopalan, was also the biggest influence in Kamala Harris' life.

00:24:45.740 The answer is absolutely yes, Joan.

00:24:48.160 After the big announcement, Harris' sister wrote in a Twitter post,

00:24:52.260 You can't know who Kamala Harris is without knowing who our mother was.

00:24:56.760 In 1958, a precocious 19-year-old Indian, Gopalan traveled thousands of miles from her home and family

00:25:03.660 to pursue a doctorate in nutrition and endocrinology in America.

00:25:08.680 She soon became an active civil rights crusader while studying at UC Berkeley.

00:25:14.260 Once she went there, she almost felt free.

00:25:18.380 And she took part in politics.

00:25:20.520 She used to bring a whole series of literature, leftist literature from Karl Popper's, you know,

00:25:27.380 he was a great philosopher.

00:25:28.760 In her book, Harris says,

00:25:30.400 There is no title or honor on earth.

00:25:32.960 I'll treasure more than to say I am Shamala Gopalan, Harris's daughter.

00:25:37.940 Harris's visits to India with her mother kept her connected to her roots.

00:25:41.840 Okay, so she was an Indian mother, Jamaican father.

00:25:49.500 She was raised by her Indian mother.

00:25:52.660 And that's how she identified.

00:25:57.260 And then not too long ago, Kamala's identity, her self-identification,

00:26:01.960 the parts of herself that she, let's say, emphasizes change very quickly.

00:26:05.600 By 2020, the AP was running headlines like this one, quote,

00:26:09.140 Biden picks Kamala Harris as running mate, first black woman.

00:26:13.820 Okay, and then that's when the emphasis changed.

00:26:18.780 These are all factual pieces of information about how Kamala has presented herself over the years through the media.

00:26:22.900 She's changed the way that she marketed herself in order to appeal to different segments of the electorate 0.98

00:26:28.480 and to win political offices, office in different contexts.

00:26:34.740 And that's what Donald Trump was pointing out.

00:26:39.200 It just, it happens to be true.

00:26:42.180 Doesn't mean that he's committing some kind of slur against black people 0.96

00:26:44.960 or sending coded messages to white supremacists, you know, dog whistles. 0.70

00:26:48.940 It means that he's observing something, which, by the way, the dog whistle thing,

00:26:55.280 I think it's sidetracked, but anytime Trump is accused of sending a dog whistle,

00:27:00.480 and we're hearing that now with this as a racist talk,

00:27:03.260 like, he's the least dog whistling politician that probably has ever existed.

00:27:09.860 He doesn't do dog whistles.

00:27:10.800 He just, he'll just say what he thinks.

00:27:13.020 So, for better or worse, he's just got, whatever's on his mind, he's just going to say it.

00:27:16.980 So, there's not any subliminal messaging, nothing like that.

00:27:20.400 It's just, here's what I think.

00:27:22.660 Here's what I'm thinking right now, and here it is.

00:27:25.660 And that's what he did there.

00:27:29.000 And it's just, it is just a fact about her.

00:27:33.440 And that's it.

00:27:34.040 That's the whole point.

00:27:36.440 Right now, do I think that this point about Kamala is something that Republicans need to run on?

00:27:41.560 Do I think that it should be a central focus of Trump's campaign?

00:27:44.500 No, of course not.

00:27:47.380 Not because it's offensive, but just because it's not that important.

00:27:51.000 People aren't going to vote one way or another based on it.

00:27:54.600 And Trump didn't make it out to be super important.

00:27:57.360 It just, they had a wide-ranging conversation that was all just them attacking him from different angles.

00:28:04.480 But it was a long conversation, and this is one of the things that was said.

00:28:10.420 And, of course, now it's portrayed as though this was, you know, Trump was like obsessing over it, and this is what he was focused on.

00:28:18.300 No, it was about, it was less than 60 seconds of time was spent on that topic.

00:28:26.020 It's the media that, of everything that was said and talked about, they are plucking that out and saying, this is the thing.

00:28:32.180 This is all that matters.

00:28:34.780 So it wasn't like this was Trump's hyper-focus.

00:28:38.520 And, again, it shouldn't be.

00:28:40.440 It wasn't.

00:28:41.200 It shouldn't be.

00:28:41.680 This is not.

00:28:42.200 There are many things to point out about Kamala Harris.

00:28:44.700 Nothing wrong with pointing this out.

00:28:45.980 Well, it's not the most important thing.

00:28:50.660 There are a lot of things about her that are much more important.

00:28:55.660 But this is the other game the media plays where, you know, and to a lesser extent and to a smaller degree, I have experienced this many times myself.

00:29:10.040 Where, you know, I talk about a lot, I do a show, I'll talk about a lot of different things, and maybe I'll spend 30 seconds on a particular topic.

00:29:19.180 You know, it could be like a side comment, a sidebar, just, you know, 30 seconds out of an hour.

00:29:25.760 I'll say 30 seconds I'll spend on one thing.

00:29:28.040 And then it gets picked by Media Matters, and then all the left blogs and everything pull it from there, the YouTubers.

00:29:36.160 And then it's, well, why is Matt Walsh obsessing over this?

00:29:38.900 Why does that matter?

00:29:40.200 Well, I'm not obsessing.

00:29:41.220 I spent 30 seconds on it.

00:29:42.900 You're obsessing over it.

00:29:44.220 I just mentioned it.

00:29:48.260 So, again, that's a smaller, so I experienced that to a smaller degree.

00:29:52.340 This is what they do to Trump all the time.

00:29:54.820 And they, you know, they have kind of an easy time with Trump because of his style of speaking.

00:30:02.340 It's very extemporaneous.

00:30:03.640 It's not scripted.

00:30:05.340 He just says what's on his mind.

00:30:06.860 And this is what people love about him.

00:30:11.520 But the media, they like it for different reasons because then they can kind of like comb through it.

00:30:17.140 And if Trump is talking for an hour, he'll talk about, in that hour, he'll talk about like 80 different topics.

00:30:24.480 And so they just combed through it.

00:30:26.540 And let's find the one topic of the 80 that we want to pretend was the focus of everything he said.

00:30:34.480 All right.

00:30:35.040 Let's move on to this.

00:30:36.240 Here's a moment with Joe Rogan that's getting a lot of media attention.

00:30:40.540 He interviewed Michael Malice this week.

00:30:42.400 And during that conversation, he made a political prediction.

00:30:46.040 Let's listen to that.

00:30:46.960 She's going to win.

00:30:48.720 No, she's not.

00:30:49.380 She can win.

00:30:50.740 She absolutely can win.

00:30:52.200 I do not think she's going to win because the more she talks, like in 2020, she, how bad do you have to be that you can't even make Iowa?

00:30:59.140 She couldn't even compete with the mayor of South Bend.

00:31:00.820 I feel like we are in this very bizarre time where people are giving in to the bulls**t in a way that I never suspected people would before.

00:31:13.820 And this is one, they just want no Trump, no matter what. 0.96

00:31:17.420 And they're willing to gaslight themselves.

00:31:19.660 Like if you're a person who's on the fence, you're like, maybe Donald Trump's not a bad guy.

00:31:22.540 And then you Google him and then you start reading some of these like pieces that they've written about him.

00:31:27.120 It'll change your perspective.

00:31:28.160 You really think she's going to win?

00:31:29.860 I'm saying it because she could.

00:31:31.700 I'm not saying it because I think she's going to.

00:31:33.440 I'm not saying it because I want her to.

00:31:35.080 I'm just being honest.

00:31:36.340 Like I could see her winning.

00:31:38.720 So he's not wrong.

00:31:39.720 I mean, I don't know that.

00:31:41.100 I'm not going to say.

00:31:41.760 I don't know that Harris is going.

00:31:42.900 I'm not going to predict that Kamala is going to win.

00:31:45.520 I'm not going to predict one way or another.

00:31:47.180 I've already said I'm bowing out of the political prediction game.

00:31:51.000 Part of me wants to predict that she'll win because then it all but guarantees that she won't.

00:31:55.500 Because whatever electoral prediction I make, the opposite is destined to happen.

00:31:58.880 But I'm not going to predict because I honestly don't know.

00:32:01.800 I mean, nobody knows.

00:32:02.460 And it's so up in the air at this point that you could probably make a believable case that Trump will not only win, but win handily, win very convincingly, win the way that he needs to win, which is to win so overwhelmingly that they can't cheat their way out of it.

00:32:19.160 And you could make that case.

00:32:21.940 But you could also probably make a credible case the other way, that there's more of a landslide in the other direction.

00:32:29.860 Probably there won't be a landslide either way.

00:32:31.800 But to me, the thing is so wide open that no outcome will surprise me at this point.

00:32:39.160 And Harris does have a few major advantages.

00:32:40.980 There's the obvious and very, very significant one that she has all the institutions on her side, starting with the media. 0.99

00:32:46.780 So Trump is not just running against Kamala Harris.

00:32:49.760 He's running against Kamala Harris and the entire media, big tech, corporate apparatus.

00:32:55.820 Together they have invented this new version of Kamala.

00:33:00.680 Kamala, the political sensation.

00:33:02.220 Kamala, the new Obama.

00:33:03.320 And the advantage that she has on top of that is that she only has to maintain that facade for three months. 0.88

00:33:16.060 Because that's always the question.

00:33:18.200 They've taken this person who's so unpopular for so long.

00:33:21.900 Someone who's just not that charismatic, not that impressive, has never been seen that way.

00:33:27.660 And overnight, they've turned her into this other thing that bears no resemblance to who she really is.

00:33:33.640 The question has always been, well, how long can they keep that up?

00:33:37.020 And there's just no, how do you, you can't keep this up forever.

00:33:40.180 She does have to, like, at some point, answer some questions.

00:33:44.780 She's going to, you know, there's going to be a debate, at least one debate, I'm going to assume.

00:33:53.240 And she's, there's a, she's in the honeymoon period now.

00:33:56.700 This is a major honeymoon period.

00:33:58.760 Can't last forever.

00:34:00.940 And it can't.

00:34:01.900 But the advantage that she has is that it only has three months, is it?

00:34:08.120 Now, three months is kind of an eternity in the internet age, but it is only three months.

00:34:13.760 And then Trump, on the other hand, has been campaigning for a year.

00:34:17.460 He's been intensely scrutinized politically for a decade.

00:34:22.760 Kamala only has three months.

00:34:23.860 And there will be no scrutiny at all during that time.

00:34:27.540 So those are big advantages.

00:34:30.680 But Trump's appeal and brand and base is powerful enough to overcome it.

00:34:34.660 And I think he needs to do more stuff like what he just did yesterday, sitting down with the, you know, black journalists.

00:34:42.680 I think he needs to do more of that kind of thing.

00:34:47.100 Because, first of all, I think it showcases him at his best.

00:34:51.060 It also brings the conversation back to him.

00:34:53.100 And things have really been flipped on their head here in so many ways after this coup by the Democrats.

00:34:58.840 And you've got to start thinking differently about strategy in a lot of ways.

00:35:04.040 And this is one of those ways where, back when Trump was running against Biden, I think the kind of conventional wisdom that I also subscribe to was,

00:35:17.860 well, if you're running against Biden, the best thing Trump could do is make sure that the election is not about him.

00:35:23.420 So just let it focus on Biden and what a failure he is and the fact that he's senile and all the rest of it.

00:35:30.640 Let that be the focus.

00:35:31.760 And if you're Trump, you don't have to do much.

00:35:34.080 Just let them, let everyone, the more they focus on Biden and not you, the better it is.

00:35:42.520 I think now that has changed.

00:35:47.160 Where the more they focus on Kamala, the worse it is for Trump.

00:35:51.000 So a month and a half, two months ago, I would have said, no, no, you don't want to, Trump, you don't want a news cycle focused around you.

00:36:02.300 Let it be around Biden.

00:36:05.740 But now I think it's, I think it's different.

00:36:07.140 I think, I think you get, you grab the news cycle, you grab the attention, you grab the excitement, you grab it all back to yourself.

00:36:12.440 And this is how you do it.

00:36:15.420 And you do it with things that the media, like they, they know this too. 1.00

00:36:21.500 They're not, they're not as stupid as they come across. 0.98

00:36:25.420 They know that at this point it works to Trump's advantage to focus on him. 1.00

00:36:28.660 They'd rather just focus on Kamala and keep building up this myth, this, this ridiculous myth around her, this rebuilding her into this person that doesn't really exist. 0.75

00:36:39.900 Because they'd rather keep doing that. 0.98

00:36:44.740 But when Trump is, is sitting there sparring with black female journalists, they just can't help themselves. 0.65

00:36:50.580 They can't help them.

00:36:51.460 So they're going to give Trump this news cycle because they can't help themselves.

00:36:55.720 Because it makes them so angry.

00:36:56.960 And that, that brings me to another point that I've been thinking about because I've also noted a change in the way that the left is going after Trump up until like yesterday, you know, yesterday with this most recent news cycle.

00:37:13.560 But for the several weeks before that, there was a change.

00:37:17.400 Because for years, the left's favorite move against Republican politicians was to turn them into punchlines, right?

00:37:25.720 They, they did it with Bush.

00:37:27.020 He still won twice, but they did it with Bush.

00:37:31.120 They did it to McCain.

00:37:32.640 They did it to many other Republicans, Sarah Palin, you know, people like that.

00:37:35.480 They just destroyed her career completely, turned her into a total punchline, someone that you just can't take seriously.

00:37:41.100 Now, Republicans did themselves no favors and set themselves up for mockery, Sarah Palin principle among them.

00:37:49.320 But this was the left's preferred mode of attack against Republicans, was just to make them into caricatures, someone that mainly you laugh at.

00:37:58.640 Like, even more than getting angry at them and shouting at them, you just laugh at them.

00:38:03.280 And that's what they would do.

00:38:04.420 And they, they would successfully, they did that successfully.

00:38:06.480 Well, Trump came along in 2016 and things changed because they hated the guy so much.

00:38:13.140 They hated him so much.

00:38:14.580 They just couldn't bring themselves to make jokes about him.

00:38:17.500 Even the Trump, you remember the early days, the Trump SNL impersonators, they brought in Alec Baldwin.

00:38:22.700 And SNL doesn't matter that much, but it's just symptomatic of the fact that they just can't, like, even the SNL impersonators were humorless and angry.

00:38:34.080 The Alec Baldwin-Trump impersonation was, it wasn't even trying to be funny.

00:38:39.380 It was just mad.

00:38:41.100 Like, and what Baldwin was doing, it didn't bear any resemblance to Trump.

00:38:46.060 It was just very disrespectful.

00:38:48.180 It was like an angry, we want to do this impersonation that we want to try to hurt his feelings more than actually be funny.

00:38:55.060 Late night comedians, of course, started giving homilies against Trump instead of making jokes about him.

00:39:01.820 And they tried scolding instead of ridicule, and it just backfired.

00:39:05.120 It didn't work.

00:39:06.640 Did not work at all.

00:39:07.620 One of the changes in 2024, and it was a recent change just over the past several weeks, is that it seemed like they were kind of trying to go back to their pre-2016 playbook. 0.95

00:39:18.680 And that's what a lot of the weird stuff is about, where now they're trying to go back and, you know, okay, we're going to make Trump into, like, a bumbling, unserious, doofus. 0.67

00:39:31.160 Kamala has used that term about Trump several times recently. 0.92

00:39:35.000 He's not serious.

00:39:35.880 He's unserious.

00:39:37.860 They're trying to make Vance into the new Sarah Palin. 0.68

00:39:41.060 And they're using ridicule instead of lectures.

00:39:44.180 That's what they're trying to do.

00:39:49.020 And it is more effective.

00:39:51.880 It's a more effective strategy.

00:39:53.980 But the question is whether they can maintain it.

00:39:57.100 Because Trump just angers them so much that so far they have not been able to keep up the kind of sarcastic, mocking, trolling tone that has worked pretty well for them against other Republican politicians.

00:40:11.780 And then they kind of slid into that mode for the last couple of weeks to some effect.

00:40:18.280 I'll admit, just like, as an objective observer, even though I'm not very objective.

00:40:23.020 But then with this news cycle, they've slid back into they're just angry and they're crying.

00:40:29.240 They're, like, practically in tears about how disrespectful Trump was to the black female journalists. 0.59

00:40:34.460 And they're crying about it. 0.89

00:40:35.380 They're angry.

00:40:35.960 They're lecturing.

00:40:36.640 They're scolding.

00:40:37.240 I mean, that's good.

00:40:40.040 I guess this is my long way of saying that's good.

00:40:41.900 That's the mode we want them in.

00:40:43.920 It's a lot less effective. 0.99

00:40:46.500 You know, it just makes them look ridiculous. 0.98

00:40:49.620 And so that's good. 0.97

00:40:52.460 And it's an argument for Trump to continue to do things like this.

00:40:55.640 Just put himself in those kinds of environments where he's sparring with people on the left and with no concern for their feelings whatsoever.

00:41:04.020 It's the kind of thing that, like, they just hate it so much.

00:41:06.640 It makes them so mad.

00:41:08.600 And it's funny how mad it makes them.

00:41:11.800 Remember, that was the dynamic in 2016.

00:41:14.840 2016, the dynamic was the left is really, really mad.

00:41:19.360 And the right is just kind of, like, laughing at them.

00:41:21.780 That was the dynamic.

00:41:22.740 And it was effective.

00:41:24.540 It's also a lot more fun.

00:41:26.020 Let's be honest about that, too.

00:41:29.240 So that's why I think this moment with Trump, I think, was great for all of those reasons.

00:41:34.420 All right.

00:41:35.020 Let's.

00:41:37.020 I've had this.

00:41:37.800 I wanted to play this for the last couple of days.

00:41:41.800 Joe Biden is still technically, supposedly the president.

00:41:45.220 And he gave a speech a couple of days ago where he unveiled his ideas for Supreme Court reforms, including term limits.

00:41:55.760 Let's watch that.

00:41:57.280 We've had term limits for presidents of the United States for nearly 75 years after the Truman administration.

00:42:03.840 And I believe we should have term limits for Supreme Court justice in the United States as well.

00:42:08.780 In fact, the United States is the only major constitutional democracy that gives lifetime seats into their high court.

00:42:27.720 Term limits would up ensure that the court membership changes with some regularity.

00:42:32.940 That would be make timing for the court's nomination more predictable and less arbitrary.

00:42:41.440 Reduce the chance that any single presidency imposes undue influence in generations to come.

00:42:47.600 I mean, he can't.

00:42:50.200 I don't need to remark on the fact that he can't speak, but he can't.

00:42:54.680 This is a it's a terrible idea.

00:42:57.560 It's not going to happen at this point.

00:42:59.960 They're not going to be able to push this through at this point.

00:43:02.540 But maybe eventually this is their this is their dream, their goal.

00:43:06.840 Now, we know that if the court had the makeup that they wanted, then they wouldn't be asking for term limits.

00:43:16.400 So if they ever do get the term limits, what's going to happen is that they put the term limits in, wait until the court has the makeup that they want.

00:43:24.180 And then they'll say, you know what, actually, it turns out we don't need the term limits.

00:43:29.420 Let's get rid of them.

00:43:30.040 That would be the plan.

00:43:33.940 But term limits in general are a terrible idea.

00:43:36.020 I think we talked about this.

00:43:38.280 Recently, just, I guess, to reiterate, because on some real surface level.

00:43:46.860 I can understand why it appeals to people, the idea of term limits, especially on the Supreme Court, because you're a lifetime appointment and you say, well, that's not fair.

00:43:54.400 You can't be there for life.

00:43:55.140 But the whole reason, or certainly I'd say the main reason why there are term limits on the Supreme Court, is to at least try to set up a scenario where the justices can be apolitical and make judgment calls based on what they think is actually correct and constitutional and not with anything else in mind.

00:44:20.880 So that's what the lifetime appointment is really about.

00:44:22.780 Now, is that a foolproof plan?

00:44:26.880 Obviously not.

00:44:30.740 It's very clear that political considerations are often made on the court and all that kind of stuff.

00:44:37.360 And even if they are, even if they do have lifetime appointments, these justices still, it's not like they are quarantined from society for the whole time they're on the court.

00:44:47.700 They're still out, they're going to the cocktail parties, they have friends in high places, so they can be influenced by that.

00:44:55.360 They don't want to be ostracized and alienated by their rich and powerful friends.

00:44:58.820 So all that can still happen, but at least you can mitigate that to some extent.

00:45:03.180 You can give yourself, you can give the country some chance at least of having a court that makes decisions based on the Constitution rather than politics and the desire of the justices for personal advancement.

00:45:19.240 There's some chance of that with lifetime appointments.

00:45:22.720 If you put the term limits in, you get rid of lifetime appointments, then there's just no chance now of having anything but a highly politicized court.

00:45:34.720 Because now all of these justices are thinking about life after the court.

00:45:40.920 And even if you do an 18-year term limit, which I think is what they're talking about, still.

00:45:48.540 I mean, we know that these, you know, people stay in politics until they're 170.

00:45:53.480 So even 18 years, they're still going to have a life outside of that, most likely.

00:45:58.260 And then you're going to have justices that want to run for office afterwards.

00:46:03.080 They want to run for president.

00:46:03.780 Now, maybe you could do an amendment saying that term limits and you are barred from running for office after you leave the Supreme Court.

00:46:13.400 That's not part of this proposal.

00:46:15.760 You know, in theory, you could put that in there.

00:46:18.620 And that at least would mitigate some of the concern.

00:46:21.740 But still, it still means that they're leaving the court and they are going to do something.

00:46:28.760 They're going to get a job somewhere, do something.

00:46:33.960 And that just increases the likelihood that they're going to be taking politics into account.

00:46:40.620 They're taking life after being a justice into account.

00:46:44.580 And I say all this as if it's a, you know, as if I'm making some sort of observation that the people in favor of term limits will hear and think, oh, yeah, I hadn't thought of that.

00:46:59.300 But that's, of course, very naive because they know that.

00:47:03.100 They know that term limits will politicize the court even more. 0.92

00:47:07.400 And that is the point.

00:47:08.540 That is what they want.

00:47:09.380 For them, the problem with the Supreme Court is not that it's too political.

00:47:15.140 It's that it's not political enough.

00:47:17.900 It's not that the justices are too influenced by outside forces.

00:47:22.040 It's that they are not influenceable enough.

00:47:26.680 And that's what this is all really about, of course.

00:47:31.000 Let's get to the daily cancellation.

00:47:32.220 So today we must sadly cancel the Army.

00:47:41.480 This, I admit, is a bit of a victim-blaming scenario.

00:47:44.940 The Army got worked over, scammed, I guess, allegedly.

00:47:48.980 They got a bad deal, as Trump would say, and I'm blaming them for it.

00:47:53.000 Here's the article from military.com.

00:47:54.520 The Army is seemingly having buyer's remorse after an $11 million marketing deal with the United Football League and Dwayne The Rock Johnson.

00:48:00.760 The high-profile, high-dollar deal likely didn't lead to a single new Army recruit and may possibly have had a negative impact on finding new enlistments.

00:48:08.700 The service may even seek to get some of its money back.

00:48:10.880 The Army inked the deal earlier this year with the UFL, the upstart minor league alternative to the NFL that had an inaugural season from March through June with a disappointing debut.

00:48:20.700 More importantly, the deal included Johnson, a global superstar and owner of the league, who was supposed to serve as a pseudo-brand ambassador for the Army,

00:48:29.360 though the service said he did not fulfill his end of the bargain to publish a specific number of service-related posts on his social media accounts.

00:48:36.620 Now, before the article describes what exactly his end of the bargain was supposed to be and how it failed,

00:48:44.080 it gets into some detail about the historic recruiting crisis facing the Army along with other branches of service.

00:48:49.300 And the crisis is real.

00:48:52.020 I mean, last year alone, the military across the Army, Navy, and Air Force came up over 40,000 recruits short of its goal.

00:48:58.620 They also came up short the year before and the year before that.

00:49:01.920 So this is a compounding problem, and it's a major problem.

00:49:06.980 We'll return to that point in a moment, but first, more details here.

00:49:11.120 Quote, the UFL deal was so catastrophic it led to a projected loss of 38 enlistments,

00:49:16.380 an internal revenue review of the plan shows.

00:49:19.300 The bulk of the deal included prominent Army branding during UFL games, including the service logos on players' uniforms.

00:49:25.780 The center of gravity was Johnson, whom service planners were hoping could elevate the Army brand,

00:49:30.860 as he's among the most revered celebrities in the world, with a strong cross-demographic appeal.

00:49:36.360 Part of the allure of the deal was Johnson's social media reach and an agreement that he would tout the Army.

00:49:40.560 A titan on social media, Johnson has 396 million followers on Instagram.

00:49:44.080 The Army valued each social media post at $1 million service document show, and it was expecting five of them.

00:49:50.960 But Johnson did not fulfill his end of the deal, making only two of the five social media posts.

00:49:56.700 Okay, let me see if I understand this correctly.

00:49:59.640 They paid $11 million for the UFL, an obscure off-season football league that nobody watches,

00:50:04.400 to market for them.

00:50:07.100 A sizable portion of that money was allocated to The Rock, who was supposed to post on social media about the Army.

00:50:13.860 They put a value of $1 million on each social media post.

00:50:19.040 They were paying $1 million per post.

00:50:21.760 So already we have a massive problem here, because there is no way on God's good green earth

00:50:26.900 that a single post to social media could ever be worth $1 million, even if it's posted by Dwayne The Rock Johnson.

00:50:35.320 Now, one of the posts that The Rock did make was apparently just a picture of him posing with some Army generals.

00:50:42.620 So they thought a picture of The Rock standing next to some Army dudes was worth $1 million.

00:50:50.500 Like, inflation truly is out of control right now.

00:50:53.860 In fact, I'll say this, that if they're valuing social media posts that highly,

00:50:58.320 then I'd like to talk to them about a promotional deal for me.

00:51:02.060 Now, I don't have as many followers as The Rock, or even close to as many,

00:51:06.300 but I do have millions of social media followers.

00:51:08.660 So, you know, if he can get a million dollars to post a picture of himself to his Instagram,

00:51:14.060 I'd be willing to do it for, like, let's call it 75 grand.

00:51:17.980 That's a steal.

00:51:18.980 I'm basically doing charity work at these rates.

00:51:21.760 The pictures don't even have to be of me.

00:51:23.200 I'll post pictures of The Rock on my channels if they'll pay me, like, high five figures for each post.

00:51:29.160 Now, of course, the most incredible thing here is that The Rock didn't even do all of the posts that he was supposed to.

00:51:35.440 Like, imagine being so rich that someone will pay you a million dollars for five posts on Instagram,

00:51:42.100 a million dollars each, but you only bother to do two.

00:51:45.940 The other three aren't worth the effort for a measly three million bucks, I guess.

00:51:50.420 That's the other reason why I'd be a much better investment than The Rock.

00:51:53.940 Like, if I scam you by charging you a million dollars for a social media post,

00:51:56.700 I will have the decency to actually post it, or at least I'll make sure my social media team does,

00:52:00.980 because logging in and doing it myself is kind of a hassle.

00:52:04.020 Anyway, it appears that this strategy of blowing millions of dollars on selfies with The Rock

00:52:08.320 did not translate into a single new recruit, as the article says.

00:52:11.960 Not one single person saw The Rock's picture on Instagram and said,

00:52:15.060 you know what, I think I'll join the Army.

00:52:17.220 In fact, they tell us 38 people who, I guess, were going to enlist decided not to,

00:52:24.220 and they're blaming the social media posts for that.

00:52:26.940 I guess they really hate professional wrestling, I don't know.

00:52:29.660 So this is another failed recruitment scheme,

00:52:32.080 and it can be added to the list of all the other failed recruitment schemes in recent years.

00:52:37.540 And, of course, we cannot talk about failed Army recruitment schemes

00:52:40.560 without again making note of the 2021 ad campaign that included this ad.

00:52:48.480 This is the story of a soldier who operates your nation's Patriot Missile Defense Systems.

00:52:56.940 It begins in California, with a little girl raised by two moms.

00:53:04.940 Although I had a fairly typical childhood, took ballet, played violin, I also marched for equality.

00:53:23.660 I like to think I've been defending freedom from an early age.

00:53:29.440 When I was six years old, one of my moms had an accident that left her paralyzed.

00:53:33.260 The doctor said she might never walk again.

00:53:36.960 But she tapped into my family's pride to get back on her feet, 0.99

00:53:41.220 eventually standing at the altar to marry my other mom.

00:53:43.940 Okay, let me get the cut off.

00:53:44.980 So the story drones on and on, as stories told by women so often do. 1.00

00:53:49.240 But remember, this was an entire ad blitz, not just one random commercial.

00:53:53.780 They had a bunch of ads like this.

00:53:56.080 I guess by the way they spend money, they probably spent $50 million just on that one ad we just saw.

00:54:01.680 They also had the other one that had the look and sound of a Disney princess film and featured this scene.

00:54:11.160 When I was 17, I had such real big dreams.

00:54:18.380 I said, Dad, I want to be a soldier so I can be like you.

00:54:26.460 Okay, so that's an army ad there.

00:54:30.800 What do you notice about these ads?

00:54:32.000 I mean, what do you notice about whatever you can see of the ads while you're cringing into a ball?

00:54:37.220 They are, of course, targeted at women, which is what the army's been doing for a long time.

00:54:42.240 Instagram selfies with celebrities are also mostly targeted at women, even if the celebrity is The Rock.

00:54:47.420 And if you don't want to go as far as to say that social media posts from The Rock are a feminine recruitment strategy, 1.00

00:54:53.080 we can at least say that it's not a strategy likely to mobilize young men to do anything, least of all join the army.

00:55:00.500 And the proof's in the pudding on that one.

00:55:02.600 So this is a problem because the recruitment crisis in the military is entirely due to a drop in male enlistment.

00:55:10.560 Another article from military.com, this one from June of this year, spells this out.

00:55:15.340 Quote, a decade of declining recruitment numbers for the army is almost entirely attributable to a significant drop in male recruiting

00:55:20.760 as female enlistments have remained relatively flat, internal service data reviewed by military.com shows.

00:55:26.700 Since 2013, male enlistments have dropped 35%, going from 58,000 men enlisting in 2013 to 37,700 in 2023.

00:55:36.600 Meanwhile, female recruitment has hovered around 10,000 recruits each year.

00:55:42.380 Okay, so the military has aggressively feminized its recruitment strategy, and yet still, the number of female recruits remains the same. 0.99

00:55:51.480 But the number of male recruits has fallen off a cliff.

00:55:55.800 Women are not all that interested in joining the military, no matter how desperately the military wants them to join. 1.00

00:56:01.500 Men used to be very interested in joining the military, but no longer are.

00:56:07.060 So that's the crisis.

00:56:08.280 That is the entire crisis.

00:56:10.260 It's not that the military is failing to attract recruits generally, it's that it's failing to attract men.

00:56:16.160 Young men specifically, between the ages of 18 and 24, which is the age range of about 90% of new recruits.

00:56:21.860 So how do you fix that?

00:56:24.060 Well, you have to understand what appeals to young men and speak to them on that level.

00:56:28.260 Like, you have to be willing to try to appeal to men specifically, which no institution in American life is willing to do anymore, including the military.

00:56:39.420 And it's not all about having good ads, or even mostly about ads, but the tone of the ads can tell you something.

00:56:46.860 So think about what recruitment commercials back in the 90s used to be like.

00:56:50.800 I can remember growing up in the 90s, watching TV, you see these recruitment ads all the time, and they were all very similar, but they had a certain tone to them.

00:56:59.260 So, for example, here's a very 90s Army commercial that aired about 30 years ago.

00:57:04.640 Watch.

00:57:04.960 I can't tell you how it feels when you're way out there on your own tracking the bad guys.

00:57:14.060 How it feels leading a skilled team that's the eyes and ears of the whole outfit.

00:57:20.580 When all your training is coming alive.

00:57:23.820 But finding those tanks and telling the Air Cavalry right where to hit them?

00:57:29.800 I can tell you exactly how that feels.

00:57:34.960 Okay, so according to the YouTube description, that aired in 1992 during a WWF, as it was known at the time, Saturday Night Main Event.

00:57:45.900 Now, the music may be a bit on the dated side, though also very much on the awesome side, in my opinion.

00:57:51.440 But focus instead on the pitch that they're making.

00:57:53.800 They're saying, come join the Army.

00:57:56.140 It's exciting.

00:57:56.920 It's an adventure. 1.00

00:57:57.440 You can hunt down and kill the bad guys. 0.99

00:58:00.800 That is a pitch tailor-made for young men between the ages of 18 and 24. 0.96

00:58:05.860 This used to be how the military sold itself.

00:58:08.960 It spoke to that distinctly male desire for adventure, excitement, and combat.

00:58:14.820 Now, the Marines had maybe the best entry into this genre.

00:58:18.180 Here's an ad from 1987.

00:58:20.500 hell, that's a nice day.

00:58:21.700 Here's an ad from 1987.

00:58:22.500 And that's All file, that's all.

00:58:22.760 That's theную photo.

00:58:23.340 So you can what you say.

00:58:23.560 Right.

00:58:24.280 You can correct this.

00:58:24.800 On specify.

00:58:25.360 There's actually a certain amount of 와중에 Madgan

00:58:38.980 Once there were a few proud men, men of adventure, men of courage.

00:59:08.980 Men who knew the meaning of honor, there still are the few, the proud, the Marines.

00:59:23.060 Okay, I mean, I want to join the Marines after watching that.

00:59:25.720 I want to join the Marines in 1987.

00:59:28.840 I mean, my, even, again, retro vibe, a little dated with the music and all that, but, and the special effects.

00:59:34.620 But if my 11-year-old son saw that ad, he would want to, he'd want to join the Marines.

00:59:42.740 This would be, if he saw that ad.

00:59:45.220 So he could have a sword?

00:59:47.680 Yeah, that's what he would be thinking.

00:59:51.680 So adventure, pride, courage, honor.

00:59:57.200 These are words that don't come up very often in military recruitment these days or anywhere.

01:00:03.460 Like, they don't, they, these are just not words that are used anymore.

01:00:07.860 Here's another word that you hear in that commercial that you will not hear in any military ad in the current year.

01:00:14.280 Men.

01:00:15.220 The Marines were calling very specifically for men of adventure, men of honor, men of courage.

01:00:24.760 Why?

01:00:25.920 Well, because that's what a military needs if it's going to be a strong and lethal fighting force.

01:00:30.400 Also, that's what young men want to be.

01:00:35.220 Other ads from the time period focused on duty, patriotism, sacrifice.

01:00:40.040 High ideals that stir a young man's soul to action.

01:00:45.760 Now compare that to today.

01:00:47.860 Compare that ad we just watched with a crusader in shining armor wielding a sword

01:00:52.420 while the manly voiceover calls on men to go on an adventure for the sake of their honor.

01:00:59.380 Compare that to a woman talking about her two lesbian moms 1.00

01:01:02.880 or a girl staring out at the ocean while singing about her dreams.

01:01:08.680 Now, of course, you know, of course you're losing men.

01:01:11.100 You're doing everything you can to lose them and none of what you could do to win them back.

01:01:16.460 Partnering with a football league at least potentially gives you access to a male audience.

01:01:22.620 It is arguably a step in the right direction, even if it's a league that nobody watches.

01:01:27.400 But once you have access to that audience,

01:01:30.560 you have to make a pitch that will appeal especially to that audience.

01:01:35.020 That's what the military, terminally infected by wokeness at the highest levels,

01:01:42.120 cannot bring itself to do.

01:01:44.940 And that's why army recruitment is falling off a cliff.

01:01:47.940 And it will continue to until the army no longer exists unless something changes drastically.

01:01:54.140 And that is why the army, by its own choice, is today canceled.

01:02:00.260 That'll do it for the show today.

01:02:01.000 Thanks for watching.

01:02:01.500 Thanks for listening.

01:02:02.060 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:02:02.680 Have a great day.

01:02:03.560 Godspeed.

01:02:05.020 We'll be right back.

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The Matt Walsh Show - August 01, 2024

Ep. 1413 - Trump Called Racist For Standing Up To Obnoxious, Hostile Black Journalists

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