00:00:00.000Today, The Matt Walsh Show, activists in one crime-ridden city are rallying together to blame local businesses for the crime problem.
00:00:06.520This 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.
00:00:13.880Meanwhile, Donald Trump is being accused of racism after his contentious back and forth with a group of hostile black journalists.
00:00:19.820Needless to say, the racism claims are totally bogus.
00:00:22.000Plus, Joe Rogan predicts a Kamala Harris victory, and the Army comes up with another brilliant scheme to deal with its recruitment crisis.
00:00:28.060Instead, 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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00:02:20.640But in politics, for various reasons, cause and effect can be difficult for some people to figure out.
00:02:26.120Sometimes it's because life is complicated.
00:02:28.620Sometimes it's because of all the propaganda that people are subjected to.
00:02:32.500And sometimes it's because people just aren't that bright, frankly.
00:02:35.840That 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.
00:02:44.900You might have seen that footage on social media.
00:02:46.500The 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.
00:02:55.900Of course, there are similar scenes playing out all over the country.
00:02:58.240But 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.
00:03:09.520Politicians and black activists in Jackson have just made it clear that they have no understanding of causation whatsoever.
00:03:19.440It's not simply that they're blinded by politics.
00:03:21.480Instead, it appears that, like infants, these activists do not comprehend that certain actions naturally lead to certain results.
00:03:29.160And it's worth exploring what's happening in Jackson in some detail because it has implications for the whole country, including the presidential race.
00:03:36.960There's a Texaco gas station in Jackson that's located on a street called Medgar-Evers Boulevard.
00:03:42.940And recently, there's been a lot of crime near the gas station, including several homicides and shootings this year.
00:03:49.020In response to this crisis, the solution that politicians and activists have come up with is not to blame the criminals.
00:03:55.940It's not to hire more police officers, increase patrols.
00:03:59.520Instead, their response has been to blame the Texaco gas station.
00:04:04.320And now these politicians, including a councilman named Kenneth Stokes, are calling for the gas station to be shut down.
00:04:10.800In 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.
00:04:19.560Because the gas station is what's responsible for all the crime happening around the gas station.
00:04:27.640Jackson Councilman Kenneth Stokes continues to press the case for a crackdown on a West Jackson gas station.
00:04:34.480Any 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.
00:04:48.440If 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.
00:05:06.740So 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.
00:05:21.560In other words, the Texaco gas station is causing people to shoot each other.
00:05:27.140The gas station, a collection of snacks and pumps distributing gasoline, is causing people to lose their lives.
00:05:34.180Therefore, the local councilman is holding rallies to get this place shut down.
00:05:39.360Now, 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.
00:05:47.960Is the Texaco gas station executing its customers when they walk inside?
00:05:51.900I mean, is that why we're blaming the gas station for what's happening?
00:05:55.720Do they have guards posted at the door who shoot you in the head as soon as you enter the place?
00:06:00.280If so, I'll say I totally agree that they need to shut the place down.
00:06:03.620I mean, I am completely against that business practice, the practice of killing your customer.
00:06:09.800If I went to the gas station and it tried to murder me, I'd be frankly pretty upset.
00:06:15.320That's fodder for like a bad Yelp review, no doubt.
00:06:18.000I mean, no more than two stars on that one.
00:06:20.460But after looking into it, I can conclusively say that these are crimes being committed by community members at and also against the gas station.
00:06:31.000So 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.
00:06:42.120And they're still going to be violent and they're still going to be criminals.
00:06:44.500But 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.
00:06:58.320And we've seen this kind of thing a few other times.
00:06:59.900And for example, the politicians in Minnesota and other major cities who have blamed car manufacturers for making their cars too easy to steal.
00:07:07.880And that's really bad, but this is a whole other level of delusion that we're seeing now in Jackson.
00:07:14.340Now, 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.
00:07:21.760So before we moved to Nashville four years ago, we lived in a small blue-collar town in Pennsylvania.
00:07:28.140We had a local gas station that doubled as the town's supermarket.
00:07:33.120And people used to go to the gas station.
00:07:35.680They would park their cars outside, leave the keys in the car with the car running and the doors unlocked and the windows down.
00:07:44.000And 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.
00:07:52.240So 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?
00:08:05.540And it's not just about gas stations, obviously.
00:08:08.040The violent crime rate all across Jackson, not just at the gas station, is extremely high.
00:08:14.500Jackson is more dangerous than 97% of all cities in America.
00:08:19.500It is among the least safe places you can live.
00:08:23.600I mean, there are cities in third-world countries safer than Jackson, a lot safer.
00:08:29.740By comparison, and for the record, in the town where I lived, the violent crime rate was less than half of the national average.
00:08:36.840Property crimes were about a third of the national average.
00:14:59.480You have used words like animal and rabbit to describe black district attorneys.
00:15:04.840You've attacked black journalists, calling them a loser, saying the questions that they ask are, quote, stupid and racist.
00:15:11.420You've had dinner with a white supremacist at your Mar-a-Lago resort.
00:15:14.400So 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?
00:15:25.960Well, first of all, I don't think I've ever been asked a question so in such a horrible manner.
00:15:38.780Because I think they're a fake news network, a terrible network.
00:15:42.980And I think it's disgraceful that I came here in good spirit.
00:15:49.160I love the black population of this country.
00:15:52.660I've done so much for the black population of this country.
00:15:56.520Now, what's going on here is pretty clear.
00:16:00.360This woman knows that Donald Trump has called white people a lot of insulting names.
00:16:05.360Everyone'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.
00:16:15.080Dozens and dozens of other people happen to be white.
00:16:17.020There's not a single person on the planet who thinks that Donald Trump only uses nasty names to refer to black people.
00:16:23.660What'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.
00:16:32.280He insults them the same way he insults everyone else who crosses him.
00:16:36.920If 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.
00:16:45.140And he doesn't care if man, woman, black, white, doesn't matter.
00:16:50.840Now, say what you want about that approach.
00:16:55.820But if equality is what you're looking for, then that's as equal as it gets.
00:17:01.100But, you know, they can't tolerate that.
00:17:07.380So these journalists are demanding special status for black people.
00:17:13.180That journalist there wants to completely shut down any criticism of black DAs, black politicians, black journalists.
00:17:20.440This is the same mindset that gets gas stations blamed for shootings in black neighborhoods.
00:17:24.100Okay, because we're never, because you can never turn the mirror around to look at yourself.
00:17:30.700It is the pathological avoidance of criticism and accountability.
00:17:35.080And now, of course, it's being used to derail debate during a presidential election.
00:17:38.240This is not some fringe ABC reporter I'm talking about.
00:17:40.460This is a mainstream view now on the left.
00:17:42.360Last night, there was this post on Twitter, which is very viral, millions of views, tens of thousands of likes and supportive comments.
00:17:49.440A lot of commentary like this on social media and in corporate media sends Trump's interrogation by the black journalists there.
00:17:55.820This is just one example, but a lot of stuff like this.
00:17:58.540Quote, 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.
00:18:07.620In other words, he's saying very clearly that Trump should have treated that black journalist differently from any other journalist.
00:18:16.080Even though she was being as hostile and unprofessional and rude and disrespectful as she possibly could have been.
00:18:23.220Even 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.
00:21:46.960ZipRecruiter, the smartest way to hire.
00:21:49.460Okay, staying for a moment on this Trump interview, or rather, waterboarding session with the black journalists.
00:21:56.740Of course, the main thing everyone's talking about today is the moment when Trump has a few words about Kamala's racial self-identification.
00:22:13.120I'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.
00:22:25.580I 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.
00:22:32.340So, I don't know, is she Indian or is she black?
00:22:34.600She is always identified as a black when she went to a historically black college.
00:22:38.040I 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.
00:22:47.160Just to be clear, sir, do you believe that she is a black person?
00:22:49.020I think somebody should look into that, too, when you ask, continue in a very hostile, nasty tone.
00:22:54.360So, this is, and of course, they're making, trying to make a lot of hay out of this, to put it mildly, this moment.
00:23:04.940Everyone in the building there, and everyone in general, knows exactly what Trump was referring to.
00:23:11.180The ABC journalist knows what he's referring to, although she pretended not to.
00:23:14.940Early in her political career in San Francisco, Kamala Harris pushed her identity as an Asian American.
00:23:18.960That's how she presented herself, and she did that for self-serving reasons.
00:23:22.440In 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.
00:23:34.220But for the most part, they didn't mention that she'd be the first black DA anywhere in their reporting.
00:23:38.700So, early in her career, this is, you know, she was Asian.
00:23:41.840Nobody anymore, like, when's the last time you heard anyone refer to Kamala Harris as Asian?
00:23:46.740When's the last time you heard her refer to herself that way?
00:23:52.440And many articles were written about, you know, at the time about this, and it's what Kamala was emphasizing at the time.
00:23:59.740And she continued to emphasize her identity as an Asian American for several more years.
00:24:04.340And that's why in 2016, when she was elected to the Senate, the AP ran this headline, quote,
00:24:11.340California's Kamala Harris becomes the first Indian American U.S. senator.
00:24:16.420And 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.
00:28:45.980Well, it's not the most important thing.
00:28:50.660There are a lot of things about her that are much more important.
00:28:55.660But 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.
00:29:10.040Where, 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.
00:29:19.180You know, it could be like a side comment, a sidebar, just, you know, 30 seconds out of an hour.
00:29:25.760I'll say 30 seconds I'll spend on one thing.
00:29:28.040And then it gets picked by Media Matters, and then all the left blogs and everything pull it from there, the YouTubers.
00:29:36.160And then it's, well, why is Matt Walsh obsessing over this?
00:30:52.200I 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?
00:30:59.140She couldn't even compete with the mayor of South Bend.
00:31:00.820I 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.
00:31:13.820And this is one, they just want no Trump, no matter what.
00:31:17.420And they're willing to gaslight themselves.
00:31:19.660Like if you're a person who's on the fence, you're like, maybe Donald Trump's not a bad guy.
00:31:22.540And then you Google him and then you start reading some of these like pieces that they've written about him.
00:32:02.460And 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.
00:34:30.680But Trump's appeal and brand and base is powerful enough to overcome it.
00:34:34.660And I think he needs to do more stuff like what he just did yesterday, sitting down with the, you know, black journalists.
00:34:42.680I think he needs to do more of that kind of thing.
00:34:47.100Because, first of all, I think it showcases him at his best.
00:34:51.060It also brings the conversation back to him.
00:34:53.100And things have really been flipped on their head here in so many ways after this coup by the Democrats.
00:34:58.840And you've got to start thinking differently about strategy in a lot of ways.
00:35:04.040And 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,
00:35:17.860well, if you're running against Biden, the best thing Trump could do is make sure that the election is not about him.
00:35:23.420So 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.
00:35:47.160Where the more they focus on Kamala, the worse it is for Trump.
00:35:51.000So 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.
00:36:15.420And you do it with things that the media, like they, they know this too.
00:36:21.500They're not, they're not as stupid as they come across.
00:36:25.420They know that at this point it works to Trump's advantage to focus on him.
00:36:28.660They'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.
00:36:39.900Because they'd rather keep doing that.
00:36:44.740But when Trump is, is sitting there sparring with black female journalists, they just can't help themselves.
00:36:56.960And 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.
00:37:13.560But for the several weeks before that, there was a change.
00:37:17.400Because for years, the left's favorite move against Republican politicians was to turn them into punchlines, right?
00:37:32.640They did it to many other Republicans, Sarah Palin, you know, people like that.
00:37:35.480They just destroyed her career completely, turned her into a total punchline, someone that you just can't take seriously.
00:37:41.100Now, Republicans did themselves no favors and set themselves up for mockery, Sarah Palin principle among them.
00:37:49.320But this was the left's preferred mode of attack against Republicans, was just to make them into caricatures, someone that mainly you laugh at.
00:37:58.640Like, even more than getting angry at them and shouting at them, you just laugh at them.
00:38:14.580They just couldn't bring themselves to make jokes about him.
00:38:17.500Even the Trump, you remember the early days, the Trump SNL impersonators, they brought in Alec Baldwin.
00:38:22.700And 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.
00:38:34.080The Alec Baldwin-Trump impersonation was, it wasn't even trying to be funny.
00:39:07.620One 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.
00:39:18.680And 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.
00:39:31.160Kamala has used that term about Trump several times recently.
00:39:53.980But the question is whether they can maintain it.
00:39:57.100Because 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.
00:40:11.780And then they kind of slid into that mode for the last couple of weeks to some effect.
00:40:18.280I'll admit, just like, as an objective observer, even though I'm not very objective.
00:40:23.020But then with this news cycle, they've slid back into they're just angry and they're crying.
00:40:29.240They're, like, practically in tears about how disrespectful Trump was to the black female journalists.
00:40:52.460And it's an argument for Trump to continue to do things like this.
00:40:55.640Just put himself in those kinds of environments where he's sparring with people on the left and with no concern for their feelings whatsoever.
00:41:04.020It's the kind of thing that, like, they just hate it so much.
00:42:57.560It's not going to happen at this point.
00:42:59.960They're not going to be able to push this through at this point.
00:43:02.540But maybe eventually this is their this is their dream, their goal.
00:43:06.840Now, we know that if the court had the makeup that they wanted, then they wouldn't be asking for term limits.
00:43:16.400So 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.
00:43:24.180And then they'll say, you know what, actually, it turns out we don't need the term limits.
00:43:38.280Recently, just, I guess, to reiterate, because on some real surface level.
00:43:46.860I 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.
00:43:55.140But 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.
00:44:20.880So that's what the lifetime appointment is really about.
00:44:30.740It's very clear that political considerations are often made on the court and all that kind of stuff.
00:44:37.360And 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.
00:44:47.700They're still out, they're going to the cocktail parties, they have friends in high places, so they can be influenced by that.
00:44:55.360They don't want to be ostracized and alienated by their rich and powerful friends.
00:44:58.820So all that can still happen, but at least you can mitigate that to some extent.
00:45:03.180You 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.
00:45:19.240There's some chance of that with lifetime appointments.
00:45:22.720If 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.
00:45:34.720Because now all of these justices are thinking about life after the court.
00:45:40.920And even if you do an 18-year term limit, which I think is what they're talking about, still.
00:45:48.540I mean, we know that these, you know, people stay in politics until they're 170.
00:45:53.480So even 18 years, they're still going to have a life outside of that, most likely.
00:45:58.260And then you're going to have justices that want to run for office afterwards.
00:46:15.760You know, in theory, you could put that in there.
00:46:18.620And that at least would mitigate some of the concern.
00:46:21.740But still, it still means that they're leaving the court and they are going to do something.
00:46:28.760They're going to get a job somewhere, do something.
00:46:33.960And that just increases the likelihood that they're going to be taking politics into account.
00:46:40.620They're taking life after being a justice into account.
00:46:44.580And 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.
00:46:59.300But that's, of course, very naive because they know that.
00:47:03.100They know that term limits will politicize the court even more.
00:47:54.520The Army is seemingly having buyer's remorse after an $11 million marketing deal with the United Football League and Dwayne The Rock Johnson.
00:48:00.760The 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.
00:48:08.700The service may even seek to get some of its money back.
00:48:10.880The 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.
00:48:20.700More 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,
00:48:29.360though 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.
00:48:36.620Now, before the article describes what exactly his end of the bargain was supposed to be and how it failed,
00:48:44.080it gets into some detail about the historic recruiting crisis facing the Army along with other branches of service.
00:56:24.060Well, you have to understand what appeals to young men and speak to them on that level.
00:56:28.260Like, 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.
00:56:39.420And it's not all about having good ads, or even mostly about ads, but the tone of the ads can tell you something.
00:56:46.860So think about what recruitment commercials back in the 90s used to be like.
00:56:50.800I 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.
00:56:59.260So, for example, here's a very 90s Army commercial that aired about 30 years ago.