The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1421 - This So-Called “Conservative” Is Trying To Convince You To Vote For Kamala Harris. Here’s Why That’s An Insane Idea

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a prominent never-Trumper made the case this week for why conservatives should vote for Kamala Harris.

00:00:05.980 But voting for Kamala Harris, if you call yourself a conservative, is incoherent and incredibly foolish at the very best.

00:00:12.320 Also, the left accuses J.D. Vance of hypocrisy after an alleged photo of Vance wearing drag at a Halloween party in college services.

00:00:19.040 I'll explain why they're undermining their own position by making that argument.

00:00:22.400 When a primitive tribe on an island in the Indian Ocean viciously murders any intruders who venture close to their borders,

00:00:28.000 what do they have to teach us about immigration policy in this country?

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00:02:16.840 Beneath the coordinated and manufactured hype campaign promoting Kamala Harris,

00:02:22.160 it's not hard to detect an air of desperation.

00:02:24.900 We're constantly being told that Harris is a transformative candidate who will save democracy as we know it,

00:02:30.860 but she's dodged pretty much every opportunity to answer serious questions since stealing the nomination.

00:02:36.380 The whole thing violates a basic rule of persuasion, which is that you're supposed to show, not tell.

00:02:42.200 Everything's more convincing when you see it instead of hearing about it,

00:02:45.380 but Harris isn't capable of making the case for her own candidacy. 0.98

00:02:49.140 She can't show us why she'd be a good president. 1.00

00:02:51.520 The best she can do is, you know, cackle and repeat her stump speech. 1.00

00:02:55.060 So it falls on professional commentators to articulate why it makes sense to vote for her.

00:02:59.840 The problem that these commentators have is that if they go into any kind of detail about the policies Harris has said she supports,

00:03:06.480 then she's going to lose the election, abolishing ICE, guaranteeing everyone a federal job, 1.00

00:03:12.340 outlawing private health insurance, banning fracking.

00:03:14.780 I mean, these are all proposals that make it basically impossible to win a national race.

00:03:19.560 That's why she's backpedaled on every single one of those proposals.

00:03:22.860 She has no real values.

00:03:24.440 Everything's malleable at a moment's notice.

00:03:27.020 So how exactly do you pitch a candidate like that?

00:03:30.320 Well, the other day in the New York Times, columnist David French came up with a solution.

00:03:34.760 And he's a columnist who calls himself conservative, considers himself conservative.

00:03:40.080 And yet he wrote a piece entitled, To Save Conservatism From Itself, I Am Voting for Harris.

00:03:46.900 And it's worth talking about this in some detail because it's going to be a familiar refrain from the left in the next three months.

00:03:52.820 And we're already seeing a lot of other media reports purporting to tell us about, you know,

00:03:58.840 Republicans and conservatives who are voting for Kamala Harris.

00:04:01.440 David French has decided to lead that charge to stand up in the front of the parade.

00:04:08.120 The idea is that electing Kamala Harris will end Donald Trump's political career

00:04:12.600 and allow the Republican Party in four years to get back to what French calls Reaganite conservatism.

00:04:18.720 In other words, don't worry about what Harris believes or doesn't believe.

00:04:23.760 Vote strategically to take down Donald Trump so that in four years, the party of Ronald Reagan will return.

00:04:29.600 Now, this is an argument that's tailor-made to appeal to conservatives with some memory of Reagan

00:04:36.460 and a very poor understanding of Kamala Harris.

00:04:39.400 But everyone else understands the problem with it.

00:04:42.320 Saving conservatism by voting for Kamala Harris is like saving someone from drowning by chaining a millstone around their neck.

00:04:49.960 A Kamala Harris administration would guarantee that the future of American conservatism would look a lot like conservatism, quote-unquote, in Canada or the UK.

00:05:00.180 I mean, we're already trending in that direction.

00:05:02.480 An administration that censors dissent, criminalizes firearm ownership, stops enforcing the law,

00:05:07.700 would complete our transformation into a one-party left liberal government if we aren't already that.

00:05:13.560 But people like David French want that transformation to happen as quickly as possible.

00:05:19.180 And French hopes to convince conservatives to buy into this change by arguing that their preferred political ideology

00:05:25.280 has already been replaced by the so-called MAGA movement.

00:05:28.260 So you might as well just give up and vote for the Democrat, quote,

00:05:30.820 Since the day Donald Trump came down that escalator in 2015,

00:05:34.360 the MAGA movement has been engaged in a long-running, slow-rolling, ideological, and characterological transformation of the Republican Party.

00:05:42.060 At each step, it has pushed Republicans further and further away from Reaganite conservatism.

00:05:46.740 It's divorced Republican voters from any major consideration of character and leadership.

00:05:50.900 And all the while, it has labeled people who resisted the change as traitors.

00:05:54.240 What allegiance do you owe a party, a movement, or a politician when it or they fundamentally changed their ideology?

00:06:00.820 Now, the issue here is pretty simple.

00:06:05.680 There are a lot of issues, but we can start with this, that French's underlying premise is wrong.

00:06:11.500 Trump has not fundamentally changed conservatism.

00:06:14.860 Many of his positions, immigration in particular, are more conservative than the average Republican politician,

00:06:21.980 especially the average Republican politician before Trump came onto the scene.

00:06:25.400 And even in the areas where he has moderated on abortion, gay marriage, for example, 0.74

00:06:34.260 even in those areas, he's not any more moderate than the average Republican politician.

00:06:39.240 Now, I personally wish he was less moderate,

00:06:41.980 but it's absurd to suggest that some establishment Republican like Tim Scott or whoever

00:06:46.760 would have held the line better on those issues.

00:06:49.720 I mean, it's just delusional.

00:06:50.900 Now, French seems to realize this because he immediately moves on to talking about how Donald

00:06:56.680 Trump supposedly lies a lot.

00:06:58.540 He drops the topic of ideology and starts making familiar observations, well-worn observations

00:07:04.640 about Trump's character.

00:07:05.880 Quote,

00:07:06.080 Now, what's not mentioned here or anywhere in the argument,

00:07:11.860 Now, what's not mentioned here or anywhere in the article or at any point by these Republicans

00:07:39.140 for Harris is the fact that Harris spent several years lying about Joe Biden's mental capacity,

00:07:46.300 which is like a pretty big lie.

00:07:49.320 Okay, the President of the United States is mentally incapacitated and they lied about it.

00:07:53.980 What about that, David?

00:07:55.640 Is that a lie that matters to you?

00:07:58.040 Or the fact that Tim Walz spent 20 years lying about his service in the National Guard?

00:08:03.140 You know, another big one.

00:08:04.060 I mean, I remember a time when a Republican would never dream to vote for a ticket where

00:08:09.020 someone's guilty of lying about their military record, for God's sake.

00:08:13.660 What's the world coming to when a Republican, a self-professed Republican, would vote for that?

00:08:19.080 Back in Reagan's day, they never would have.

00:08:22.400 And these are actual falsehoods.

00:08:23.920 They're statements of fact, allegedly, that can be proven to be false.

00:08:29.260 Now, what French is accusing Trump of doing, though, on the other hand, is very different.

00:08:35.180 He's saying that Trump was lying by claiming that the 2020 election was rigged.

00:08:39.000 But that is not a claim that anyone has proven false or that anyone can prove false.

00:08:43.140 It's Trump's assessment of what happened to him.

00:08:44.840 And it happens to be a very well-founded assessment.

00:08:47.480 The entire system of elections in this country was changed in a matter of weeks,

00:08:51.380 removing all kinds of safeguards against fraud,

00:08:53.500 ultimately allowing Joe Biden to receive millions more votes than Barack Obama, we're told.

00:09:00.000 That followed years of deliberate falsehoods about Russian collusion that never took place,

00:09:04.180 along with lies about very fine people, quote-unquote, in Charlottesville,

00:09:08.140 Hunter Biden's laptop, and the information about that that was suppressed.

00:09:11.400 That's another way of rigging an election, having it right out in the open.

00:09:15.560 And all of this stuff and these falsehoods were repeated many times by the Biden-Harris administration.

00:09:19.820 Add that, of course, there are millions of illegal aliens who have been shipped in this country over the past few decades.

00:09:27.260 Any reasonable person can conclude that this amounts to an unfair or what we may call rigged political process.

00:09:35.000 But David French doesn't care about any of that.

00:09:37.700 He only cares about Trump's response to it.

00:09:40.540 So he continues, quote,

00:09:41.980 Let's take another assertion that should be relatively uncontroversial.

00:09:45.180 Political violence and threats of violence have no place in the American democratic process.

00:09:48.900 Yet threats and intimidation follow the MAGA movement like night follows day.

00:09:53.480 Only one party has nominated a man who was indicted for his role in the criminal scheme to steal an American election,

00:09:58.920 a scheme that culminated in a violent political riot.

00:10:03.140 Now, French then kind of hand waves away the attempted assassination of Donald Trump last month,

00:10:08.720 as well as the attempted assassination of Brett Kavanaugh and Steve Scalise.

00:10:12.300 All of those instances of political violence, according to David French,

00:10:16.560 pale in comparison to Donald Trump's decision to challenge the results of the 2020 election.

00:10:20.640 And that decision, French says, led to a violent riot in which only Trump supporters were killed.

00:10:26.740 Therefore, Trump is responsible for inciting political violence.

00:10:30.040 Now, I'm not going to recount all of Trump's statements on January 6th calling for peaceful protests.

00:10:34.640 Those are very well documented.

00:10:36.080 We've all heard them if we care to listen.

00:10:39.920 It's also well documented that the left likes to pretend that Trump never made those calls for peaceful protests,

00:10:45.140 which is why the Supreme Court faulted Jack Smith's indictment for failing to mention them.

00:10:51.060 What's remarkable about French's assertion is that even if it were true,

00:10:56.140 then he could make a very similar complaint against Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

00:11:00.100 I've already talked about Tim Walz's role in delaying the National Guard response to the riots in Minneapolis,

00:11:05.940 but it's actually worse than that.

00:11:08.260 A Minnesota police sergeant testified that Walz ordered the authorities to surrender the police station to the mob.

00:11:14.480 Watch.

00:11:15.780 Three Minneapolis police officers testified at the Minnesota Senate today.

00:11:19.940 The officers are all board members for the Minneapolis Police Federation.

00:11:23.040 And as Esme Murphy reports, they offered up a scathing critique of government and police leaders

00:11:28.740 during the riots following George Floyd's death.

00:11:31.620 That's not what we stand for.

00:11:33.260 Her voice shaking, Minneapolis police sergeant Anna Hedberg says during the riots,

00:11:37.740 officers were abandoned by state, city, and department leaders.

00:11:41.160 To watch them go through that was so heartbreaking.

00:11:46.100 To know that they could have died because we were not allowed to respond the way that we have been trained to respond.

00:11:54.720 During the riots, the officers were told they could not wear protective frog suits,

00:11:58.620 but were still hit and injured with bottles, cement, and more.

00:12:02.280 Sergeant Hedberg blamed state, city, and department leaders for the abandonment of the third precinct.

00:12:06.980 I heard the governor say, give it up.

00:12:12.200 It wasn't directly to me, it was through a phone call.

00:12:15.060 The governor says give up the precinct.

00:12:17.620 I mean, that's demoralizing for this whole state.

00:12:21.700 So the governor of Minneapolis whips up a mob of violent thugs.

00:12:25.440 They ransack businesses.

00:12:26.800 They set buildings on fire.

00:12:28.600 They kill people and cause tens of millions of dollars in property damage.

00:12:32.260 And then in response, the governor tells the authorities to stand down so there could be more carnage.

00:12:38.560 Meanwhile, his wife lowers the window in the governor's mansion to take in the aroma of burning tires.

00:12:45.520 And Kamala Harris gets to work bailing out the perpetrators. 1.00

00:12:49.300 It's easy to talk about violence like this in the abstract.

00:12:52.180 So here's new footage of what Tim Walls oversaw in Minneapolis.

00:12:55.380 This apparently hasn't been widely broadcast until yesterday when it resurfaced on social media.

00:13:00.760 Let's look at this for a second.

00:13:07.240 Okay, so it looks like a war zone.

00:13:13.700 Not even hyperbole.

00:13:14.760 It looks like a war zone.

00:13:15.820 I mean, if you saw that without any context and I asked you what happened here, what do you think happened here?

00:13:23.840 They would say, oh, this must be in the middle of some kind of combat zone.

00:13:26.180 And by the way, if you look at that and you honestly tell me that that is not as bad as what happened in the Capitol, then you are just, I don't believe that you believe that.

00:13:43.100 You are a liar.

00:13:46.180 You're lying to my face.

00:13:47.900 If you're going to look at that and tell me, yeah, that's not as bad.

00:13:52.320 A whole block set on fire.

00:13:54.880 And this is just one block in one city.

00:13:56.540 We know this is happening all over the country.

00:13:59.200 Now, any competent governor who cared about his city would have done everything in his power to end that destruction.

00:14:03.660 But Tim Walz enabled it.

00:14:05.480 And this is why whatever criticisms you can bring against Donald Trump for January 6th, it doesn't make any sense whatsoever to protest Donald Trump by voting for the people who let that happen, who encouraged it to happen.

00:14:17.800 These are people who aren't just liars.

00:14:19.440 They promoted violence that led to the deaths of innocent people all over the country.

00:14:24.840 They bailed out the radicals so they could commit more acts of violence.

00:14:28.280 And that kind of violence isn't suddenly acceptable because it happened outside of the Capitol building.

00:14:33.660 Now, at best, even if French's points were all valid, they're not.

00:14:38.540 At best, it would be an argument for not voting for Trump.

00:14:43.000 But actively voting for a far-left Democrat and doing it in the name of conservatism is an asinine position.

00:14:50.060 It is despicable, even.

00:14:52.980 Now, Trump may not be pro-life enough for my taste, but the Biden administration supports abortion until the moment of birth.

00:14:59.500 They're also actively prosecuting pro-lifers.

00:15:02.540 So David French, the avid pro-lifer, is voting for the regime that is currently, right now, throwing pro-life activists in federal prison for a decade.

00:15:14.720 Nice job, David.

00:15:16.960 He's also backing a government that just proposed ethics rules and term limits for the Supreme Court,

00:15:22.900 which would obviously be a major step towards ending the independent judiciary in this country for good.

00:15:27.300 What part of Reaganite conservatism is that?

00:15:32.180 Okay, what part involves kicking conservative justices off the bench because, you know, they fly historic flags outside their beach houses?

00:15:40.680 What conservative principle is that defending?

00:15:44.340 Using pretext to oust justices who don't toe the left party line is not conservative.

00:15:49.520 It's also not what Reagan did either, by the way.

00:15:52.460 It's what Reagan's enemies did in the Soviet Union.

00:15:54.240 And for that matter, what exactly is conservative about abolishing ICE and closing all illegal immigrant detention centers?

00:16:01.020 Does that conserve our borders or our national heritage?

00:16:05.200 No one can ask Kamala Harris about this because she won't sit for any real interviews at all, but it's all on tape.

00:16:11.060 Watch.

00:16:11.300 You simply cannot have a functioning country with someone like this, someone like Kamala Harris in charge.

00:16:41.660 It's impossible, by definition, to maintain our borders when you shut down all border enforcement, which is what Kamala Harris has promised to do.

00:16:51.360 And there are many more examples like this.

00:16:53.680 A Harris-Walls administration would mean that more federal resources would be allocated on the basis of race.

00:16:59.420 It would mean vastly more government spending and giveaways to preferred groups like student loan debt relief,

00:17:05.100 which is welfare for the upper class, where they take from working class people and use it to pay off the loans of upper class people.

00:17:13.980 And none of these ideas are consistent with Reaganism, if that's what you're concerned about.

00:17:18.140 But people like David French and the other, you know, Republicans for Harris want you to think they are.

00:17:25.560 And they're now actively campaigning for a candidate who hates this country and its people and wishes to do harm to both.

00:17:32.800 Now, you know, some perspective is important.

00:17:36.540 I'm not going to claim that this election is the last election we'll ever have and we have to win or America is over.

00:17:42.980 Both sides say that about every election.

00:17:44.760 They've been saying that for as long as I've been alive.

00:17:46.620 But it is true that a Kamala victory would mean eight years of this current regime, very likely 12 years.

00:17:54.720 This country has suffered greatly from just four years.

00:17:57.640 Another decade of this would be disastrous.

00:18:01.600 So it comes down to this.

00:18:05.300 It's very simple.

00:18:07.540 Every American who considers himself conservative or Christian has a moral obligation to vote against Kamala Harris.

00:18:17.380 This is a bad person.

00:18:19.500 And she is part of a regime, more importantly, that has very bad, very evil designs for this country. 0.67

00:18:28.900 She wants to kill babies. 1.00

00:18:32.400 Okay, up to the moment of birth.

00:18:34.500 That's what these people believe in.

00:18:36.020 Fully born infants.

00:18:38.920 She wants to destroy our national sovereignty. 1.00

00:18:41.100 She doesn't believe that we have a right to national sovereignty.

00:18:43.380 She wants to indoctrinate our children into an ideology of self-harm and confusion. 0.91

00:18:50.340 These are the people who want to release violent criminals onto the streets.

00:18:54.360 You know, to continue to destroy our communities.

00:19:00.720 And in every other sense, they are actively working against everything we claim to stand for.

00:19:06.940 So whatever you think of Trump, I mean, even if you have the most unflattering view of him that a reasonable person could possibly have, he is not part of that agenda.

00:19:20.220 And if you are voting for that agenda, you are actively participating in the evil.

00:19:27.600 You are supporting it.

00:19:29.580 You are helping it to gain and retain power.

00:19:33.020 And that you're doing all of that to get back at Donald Trump because you don't like him, at the expense of our country, that just makes you a fool at best.

00:19:47.160 At best.

00:19:49.320 This is not about being loyal to Donald Trump or any other politician.

00:19:54.020 Politicians don't deserve our loyalty.

00:19:56.240 I don't care about that.

00:19:57.540 But this is about loving your country, loving your country enough and caring enough about your children and their future to put your feelings about Donald Trump to the side and cast a vote against this regime that has already done incredible harm to this country.

00:20:16.760 And we'll do a lot more if we don't stop it.

00:20:21.480 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:20:27.540 We'll be right back.

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00:21:29.340 The media continues its never-ending quest to embarrass and humiliate J.D. Vance for the crime of being selected as a VP candidate.

00:21:37.660 And I wanted to talk for a moment about this because they're just stepping on one rake after another in their attempt to embarrass him.

00:21:50.840 And this is the most egregious example I've seen.

00:21:54.680 So here's the latest from HuffPost.

00:21:56.080 Republican vice presidential candidate and Ohio Senator J.D. Vance is getting dragged for hypocrisy after a photo from his law school days surfaced on social media appearing to show him in a blonde wig and a dress.

00:22:06.540 The photo first came to light via ex-user Matt Bernstein, who said the pic dates back to Vance's days at Yale Law School in 2012.

00:22:16.420 A short time later, a short time later, Yale assistant professor Travis Whitfield said he was the source of the photo that Bernstein had posted but credited another classmate for taking it.

00:22:26.580 Whitfield told the Daily Beast, it's from a group chat of Vance's fellow classmates and it's from a friend of a friend.

00:22:30.860 I believe it was grabbed from Facebook and was taken at a Halloween party.

00:22:36.160 The photo quickly went viral with some social media users giving Vance the drag name Sofa Loren, which is a reference to the made-up couch meme.

00:22:47.440 And then there was another photo that also came out, basically the same photo of him dressed in drag.

00:22:58.840 Here's the photo, by the way.

00:22:59.740 Let's just put that up on the screen.

00:23:01.500 So there it is.

00:23:03.180 And Vance is apparently not denied that this was him.

00:23:07.360 It looks like him.

00:23:08.200 It's not being denied.

00:23:09.180 So I think we pretty much know that it is.

00:23:12.240 My only question about this, and it is a sincere question, it really is, is whether these people are as dumb as they present themselves to be or if they're pretending.

00:23:25.320 You know, it's maybe an impossible choice between their stupidity and their dishonesty, which one wins out, who knows.

00:23:31.660 What I do know is that you have got to be a giant, slobbering moron to not understand the distinction here.

00:23:43.420 I mean, to accuse J.D. Vance of hypocrisy for wearing drag at a Halloween party in college.

00:23:51.780 And why is he a hypocrite?

00:23:52.940 Because he doesn't think that we should parade drag queens around children.

00:23:56.740 And he thinks that men are men and women are women, and if a man dresses up like a woman, he's not actually a woman.

00:24:05.420 Like, those are his two positions, broadly speaking, that lead to him being a hypocrite because 12 or 13 years ago at a college party he wore drag.

00:24:17.300 So, again, assuming those photos are actually J.D. Vance, and it seems like a safe assumption.

00:24:24.440 So this was at a Halloween party in college.

00:24:26.740 I mean, he's holding a beer pong ball in the picture, you can see.

00:24:33.500 And what does that tell us?

00:24:35.620 Okay, it tells us that he dressed like this as a joke.

00:24:40.420 It's a joke.

00:24:41.560 The whole point is that it looks ridiculous.

00:24:45.100 Okay, so if you're on the left and you saw that photo of J.D. Vance, you know, oh, we got him now.

00:24:52.120 He's a hypocrite.

00:24:54.520 Again, I'm going to do you the favor of taking you at your word, which would mean that you're just a total moron.

00:25:03.000 And so I'm going to try to slow down, and I'll speak as slowly and clearly as I possibly can.

00:25:07.300 If you really don't understand the distinction, let me try to explain it.

00:25:13.160 So, and this was pretty common back in the old days at frat parties, Halloween parties, have guys dressed up like that.

00:25:24.340 Why were they doing that?

00:25:26.520 Were they expressing their true self?

00:25:29.540 Was this something that they walked in dressed like that and everyone applauded and celebrated?

00:25:34.680 Oh, it's so beautiful.

00:25:36.140 He is himself, herself.

00:25:38.360 Sorry.

00:25:40.300 No.

00:25:41.300 What did people do?

00:25:41.960 They laughed.

00:25:43.500 Because you're supposed to laugh.

00:25:45.960 You're supposed to look at that and laugh.

00:25:47.860 That was the point.

00:25:48.620 It was a joke.

00:25:49.420 The punchline is that it is absurd for a man to dress like a woman. 0.99

00:25:57.220 Why would a person at a college party do something intentionally absurd?

00:26:02.080 I don't know.

00:26:03.140 Welcome to college parties.

00:26:04.460 That's because it's funny.

00:26:08.260 It's a Halloween costume.

00:26:10.700 So, especially, you know, as a man, and this, I may have got to back it up a little bit more,

00:26:15.480 explain to you how Halloween costumes work.

00:26:19.860 Right?

00:26:22.140 Is that if you're a man and you're dressed in a Halloween costume, and I don't wear Halloween costumes myself as an adult,

00:26:28.220 but, you know, I understand the basic concept at least more than you people apparently do, if you're on the left, I mean.

00:26:34.360 So, if you're a man dressed in a Halloween costume, there are really two possible reactions you're hoping to get.

00:26:40.580 And one is that you want people to laugh because you're trying to be funny.

00:26:45.180 The only other possibility is that it's supposed to be scary.

00:26:49.200 The only two reasons any man really wears a Halloween costume is it's funny or it's scary.

00:26:56.320 And so why was he dressed like that?

00:26:58.820 I mean, I guess it could be a little column A, a little column B here.

00:27:03.880 Either we're supposed to laugh.

00:27:06.080 Hey, look, it's a man dressed like a woman. 0.97

00:27:07.480 That's hilarious.

00:27:08.440 Or, hey, look, it's a man dressed like a woman.

00:27:10.460 That's creepy as hell.

00:27:12.720 Maybe it's supposed to be kind of creepy and funny.

00:27:15.840 Either way, this is not the same thing as a self-proclaimed trans woman, quote unquote, or a drag queen today. 0.79

00:27:26.680 In both of those cases, those are males presenting themselves as females in a context that we are supposed to take seriously.

00:27:35.600 You're not supposed to look at a trans woman, quote unquote, or a drag queen and laugh.

00:27:43.680 Are you?

00:27:44.880 In fact, if you do that, right, you on the left, you would accuse us of unspeakable bigotry, right?

00:27:51.160 If a trans-identified male walked into the room dressed like a woman and I pointed at him and said, that's hilarious. 0.99

00:27:59.600 Good one.

00:28:00.800 Wow, that's great.

00:28:03.320 That's hysterical.

00:28:04.320 Look at him.

00:28:04.820 Look at him.

00:28:05.320 He looks like he's like a clown.

00:28:06.640 What a hilarious costume.

00:28:09.780 If I reacted that way, you would cry, right?

00:28:17.160 The trans-identified male would cry. 1.00

00:28:18.760 You would cry.

00:28:19.940 You'd want me brought up on hate crime charges.

00:28:22.120 And why is that?

00:28:25.420 Because for you, cross-dressing is a sacred act.

00:28:28.800 It is an expression of some deep inner truth about a person.

00:28:32.320 So this is not only different from the context of the J.D. Vance photo, but in fact, it's exactly the opposite.

00:28:42.580 It's exactly the opposite thing.

00:28:45.340 One is treating cross-dressing as a deep, profound truth.

00:28:51.280 The other, you're treating it as a punchline.

00:28:54.700 So the claim here, unintelligibly, is that Vance is now a hypocrite for criticizing the leftist worship of cross-dressing because Vance himself once mocked cross-dressing?

00:29:06.520 His history of making jokes out of it means that he can't criticize those who take it seriously?

00:29:11.500 I mean, what?

00:29:14.740 What?

00:29:16.140 Now, the left undermines its own case by they themselves now are drawing a parallel between Vance dressing like that in 2012 and, say, Rachel Levine dressing like that today.

00:29:29.160 Like, if you're on the left, again, I'm trying to slow it down and explain this to you.

00:29:33.500 That's the kind of analogy and parallel that you're supposed to reject.

00:29:39.480 Like, you're not, that's, I'm the one who's supposed to compare those two things.

00:29:44.820 You're supposed to say, no, it's not the same.

00:29:47.720 It's a totally different thing.

00:29:48.940 That's what you're supposed to say.

00:29:51.080 Like, you people are so stupid and confused that I need to explain to you what your own positions are supposed to be so we can have any kind of argument here.

00:29:59.120 You destroy your own case by making this connection.

00:30:05.500 So no, you idiots, you drooling dimwits.

00:30:08.220 You're supposed to be condemning Vance for being insensitive and bigoted by wearing the wig and the dress.

00:30:16.100 That's your position.

00:30:17.120 You're supposed to look at that and say something like, oh, look, Vance has always been a transphobe.

00:30:23.100 Like, that would be consistent.

00:30:24.500 That would make some kind of sense.

00:30:27.860 But if you accuse them of hypocrisy for dressing like that, which is what you absolute dunce caps have done,

00:30:33.240 you are yourselves claiming that wearing a dress as a Halloween costume at a frat party while you play beer pong is the same as Rachel Levine wearing a dress today.

00:30:44.640 Okay, you've given up on your whole gender ideology agenda just to dunk on Vance. 1.00

00:30:50.600 I mean, it's incredible.

00:30:52.760 What's next?

00:30:53.520 Are you going to tell us that Mrs. Doubtfire was a, you know, the first, is a great film because of its trans representation?

00:31:05.580 A film that happened again at a time when if a guy was dressed like that, you're supposed to laugh.

00:31:12.740 It's a joke.

00:31:13.740 Okay, it's only in the last, like, 15 and a half seconds that we've decided that it's not funny anymore, it's beautiful.

00:31:25.160 And, you know, funny and beautiful really are not the same.

00:31:28.180 It's pretty rare that something is both funny and beautiful at the same time.

00:31:33.960 All right, here's something else I wanted to talk about.

00:31:37.240 Kamala Harris had a rally over the weekend in Detroit, and there were a lot of people there,

00:31:41.620 thousands of people, in fact, and I think we have some of the pictures here.

00:31:46.240 Let's put up a few of the pictures.

00:31:48.460 So, all right, so there she is.

00:31:51.680 There's the crowd, big crowd, we must admit.

00:31:57.040 They had the crowd staged when the plane pulled up.

00:32:01.480 Now, the right, conservatives are not particularly happy about these crowd sizes that Kamala Harris is attracting,

00:32:09.980 understandably so.

00:32:11.620 And I'm on the right, and I'm not happy about it.

00:32:13.880 I mean, I'll admit that.

00:32:14.920 You know, I'd prefer if that wasn't happening.

00:32:18.380 It's not my favorite thing that's happening in the world today, I'm willing to admit.

00:32:23.820 But the problem is that some on the right, to include, unfortunately, Trump himself,

00:32:29.800 have resorted to quite desperate lengths to dismiss the crowd sizes.

00:32:34.540 And this, you know, anytime I get into a conversation like this, I always have people getting mad at me.

00:32:41.580 Even if they agree, they're like, yeah, okay, you're right, but don't say this because it's critical and this is an election.

00:32:46.660 And that's not what, I'm not counter-signaling.

00:32:49.780 Okay, I'm, I want to win.

00:32:54.680 I don't know, I keep saying this.

00:32:55.740 I want to actually win.

00:32:56.920 And so if I see conservatives adopting a tactic that is bad and doesn't work, then now's the time for me to say it.

00:33:06.260 I don't know when else am I going to say it.

00:33:07.600 I'm not going to wait until it's too late and then say it.

00:33:10.540 So I don't know what you want me to do.

00:33:14.500 And unfortunately, you know, I, I, there have been several examples recently of Republicans,

00:33:21.540 sometimes including Trump and sometimes not, using strategies and tactics that I just think are not at all effective.

00:33:30.020 I just think they're bad tactics.

00:33:31.400 And so what's happening here is that over the weekend, a conspiracy theory popped up claiming that the crowd images are AI.

00:33:42.740 That in fact, nobody was at this rally, that there were zero people there and all the images were fake.

00:33:48.820 Trump claimed this himself.

00:33:50.000 In fact, he tweeted this or didn't tweet it.

00:33:53.140 This is on Truth Social, but now he's back on Twitter, which, which, which is a good thing, by the way.

00:33:56.620 So that's one, that's a mark in strategically, that's a mark in his favor.

00:33:59.840 That's a good thing that that's being done.

00:34:01.400 Um, but this not so much.

00:34:05.460 So he, he put this out on Truth Social.

00:34:07.840 Has anyone noticed that Kamala cheated at the airport? 1.00

00:34:10.340 There was nobody at the plane and she AI'd it and showed a massive crowd of so-called followers, but they didn't exist.

00:34:16.040 She was turned in by a maintenance worker at the airport when he noticed the fake crowd picture, but there was nobody there.

00:34:20.420 Later confirmed by the reflection of the mirror-like finish on the vice presidential plane.

00:34:24.380 She's a cheater. 1.00

00:34:25.100 She had nobody waiting.

00:34:26.100 The crowd looked like 10,000 people.

00:34:27.620 Same thing that's happening, uh, with her fake crowds at her speeches. 1.00

00:34:31.840 This is the way the Democrats win elections by cheating.

00:34:34.340 And they're even worse in the ballot box.

00:34:36.020 She should be disqualified because the creation of a fake image is election interference. 0.99

00:34:39.820 Anyone who does that will cheat at anything.

00:34:41.240 Okay, I mean, you know, it's not true.

00:34:45.720 Um, there are dozens of different videos and photos from local sources, national news, individual rally attendees, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, uh, showing these crowds.

00:34:56.220 You, there was one image that made the rounds of an AI crowd.

00:34:59.780 Like, there was an image making the rounds of a Kamala Harris crowd where it was clearly AI, but that image came from a parody account on Twitter.

00:35:09.640 Um, they were making a joke.

00:35:11.420 And then I think that's what started this whole thing.

00:35:13.900 But it's a, it's a satire account.

00:35:16.100 It's not, it's not real.

00:35:17.360 You know, it's like, you might as well be basing your news on a, on a Babylon Bee headline or something.

00:35:23.120 And, you know, at this point, you have to be alleging a vast and coordinated conspiracy, uh, in order to explain the crowd sizes.

00:35:33.200 And you're also setting a precedent where no images or videos mean anything anymore.

00:35:39.640 And so then what?

00:35:40.580 The next big Trump rally.

00:35:43.500 Well, the other side could easily look at that and say, yeah, no, it's fake.

00:35:47.320 No, no, but we have 10, we have 10 different sources here with, with footage of the, of the rally.

00:35:52.160 He says, yeah, it's all fake.

00:35:52.940 It's all fake.

00:35:53.700 I wasn't there.

00:35:54.420 So it's fake.

00:35:54.860 Didn't happen.

00:35:56.660 Uh, I mean, that's where we are.

00:35:57.780 And it just becomes, it just becomes like, there's no net benefit at the end.

00:36:03.120 And here's the frustrating thing to me.

00:36:05.860 It's so unnecessary.

00:36:08.500 Like we don't, I mean, it's not true.

00:36:10.880 That's probably the most important thing, but second, second day, let's focus on the second point,

00:36:15.840 which is that tactically it is not smart to make this claim.

00:36:21.500 And it's not, it's, you don't, it's not necessary.

00:36:25.640 Um, when you start claiming that the crowds are fake, you look desperate and scared.

00:36:32.060 That's, that's what you look, that's what you look like to everybody.

00:36:35.020 Everyone who is not already a diehard on your side.

00:36:39.800 Now the diehards that are on your side, they might love it. 0.59

00:36:43.640 It might make them feel good, but that's pure echo chamber stuff.

00:36:47.140 It's just about making yourself feel good.

00:36:49.100 It's like political masturbation and it, and it's just as unseemly.

00:36:52.500 Um, and you don't need it to explain why Kamala Harris is drawing big crowds. 1.00

00:36:58.360 It's, it's actually, it's not confusing.

00:37:00.500 It's not a mystery.

00:37:02.400 So when you see the big crowd for Kamala Harris, you don't need to go, well, how, this is not,

00:37:06.020 but this can't be positive.

00:37:06.860 This can't be happening.

00:37:08.520 It must be AI.

00:37:09.520 It must be a conspiracy.

00:37:11.340 No, it's, it, she's drawing big crowds because she has the entire media and Hollywood machine 1.00

00:37:16.700 generating hype for her.

00:37:20.040 That's why.

00:37:21.480 Okay.

00:37:22.120 It's that simple.

00:37:23.640 Now, when she ran in 2020 and, uh, got less than 1% of the vote, nobody cared.

00:37:29.720 Why, why, why did that happen?

00:37:31.700 Well, she didn't have the hype machine at that point.

00:37:34.640 In fact, the media and Hollywood didn't like her that much back then because they preferred

00:37:40.300 other Democrat candidates.

00:37:41.380 And so they weren't hyping her up and now they are.

00:37:46.400 And so it's different.

00:37:48.580 This is not mysterious.

00:37:49.700 And this is the, now I don't think we should spend a lot of time talking about Kamala's

00:37:54.980 crowd sizes at all.

00:37:56.040 I don't think we should spend a lot of time trying to explain them because to focus on

00:38:00.100 it at all is, uh, is probably not, is also not tactically smart.

00:38:04.680 And, and, and, you know, if you focus on too much, you still look like desperate and like

00:38:09.560 you're trying to explain it away.

00:38:10.360 But, but, but if it comes up, I mean, this is the actual truth that this is why they're

00:38:15.780 there.

00:38:17.300 And the media could do this with anyone.

00:38:21.240 Okay.

00:38:21.620 They could pull any random person off the street and turn them into a star.

00:38:26.500 Anyone.

00:38:27.700 If they just plucked you off the street, walking by one day and said, Hey, Bob Smith, you're

00:38:35.400 a star now.

00:38:36.400 You're the biggest thing ever.

00:38:37.480 You're a person of the year.

00:38:39.220 We're going to put you on time magazine.

00:38:41.660 If they did that, they, they make, they'd make, they could make you into a major star

00:38:45.200 just like that.

00:38:46.960 Less than 24 hours.

00:38:48.740 Now it'll be fleeting.

00:38:52.160 Probably.

00:38:52.700 It's not going to last forever.

00:38:54.440 So the media can't maintain that artificial stardom indefinitely, but they can make you a

00:39:01.620 star for a season.

00:39:03.400 It's going to burn hot and burn fast and burn out, but they can do it.

00:39:07.480 Uh, unless now eventually you have to, you have to get by on your own star power.

00:39:11.900 So they can kind of give you this totally artificial boost.

00:39:14.720 And if you happen to be also a person of charisma and talent and, uh, and all of that, then maybe

00:39:21.200 you can maintain it yourself.

00:39:23.380 But, uh, if you don't have any of that, then any of that star power, then the balloon will

00:39:28.340 inflate.

00:39:30.460 And this is the situation Harris is in.

00:39:32.620 The advantage she has is that she only needs to coast for a couple of months. 1.00

00:39:36.040 She only needs to keep that book.

00:39:37.200 She doesn't have any star power. 0.74

00:39:38.340 She doesn't have any charisma. 1.00

00:39:39.480 She doesn't have any real talent.

00:39:40.680 There's nothing interesting or exciting about her as a person.

00:39:43.120 And that will become evident, um, to all of the sheep that are getting caught up in the

00:39:49.800 hype right now.

00:39:51.340 But Harris knows and the Harris campaign knows that they don't need, they just need to keep

00:39:55.240 this balloon inflated for a couple of months.

00:39:57.280 That's it.

00:39:58.040 Once she's in office.

00:39:59.680 Yeah.

00:40:00.320 The, the novelty will wear off quickly.

00:40:03.960 All the star power.

00:40:05.200 If she runs, if she, if she actually ends up in office, she runs for reelection in 2028.

00:40:08.860 Obviously it's not going to be the same rally crowd, crowd sizes.

00:40:13.080 Um, because by that point, you know, the, the, it'll be this, this weird, you know, phase

00:40:22.800 right now where Kamala Harris is being treated like a star will be distant, ancient history.

00:40:28.540 But they're not worried about that.

00:40:29.700 Cause at that point she'll be running as an incumbent. 0.99

00:40:31.300 She'll have those advantages.

00:40:32.580 I mean, she's an incumbent now, but she's not the incumbent president.

00:40:35.020 Um, so the media Hollywood machine is just betting that they can keep the balloon afloat

00:40:41.200 for, uh, for that long, at least just a couple of months.

00:40:45.360 And maybe they can.

00:40:46.920 And once again, this is not mysterious that the media Hollywood machine, this is what they

00:40:51.360 do.

00:40:52.000 This is what they're good at.

00:40:53.100 It's the only thing they're good at and they can do it with anyone.

00:40:56.860 I mean, somebody compared it to, uh, the Hawk to a girl.

00:41:01.600 Okay.

00:41:01.720 And that's a phenomenon that I never talked about on the show because I up to this point

00:41:05.460 have refused to acknowledge that someone can be made famous just for making a crude sexual

00:41:09.980 reference in a 10 second internet video.

00:41:12.240 Like I, I just could not bring myself to acknowledge that we are at that point culturally where that

00:41:17.700 is enough.

00:41:18.280 Just that, um, uh, I didn't want to acknowledge it because it's annoying, but, but it happens

00:41:23.680 to be true.

00:41:24.560 So the Hawk to a girl made a crude sexual reference in a 10 second video.

00:41:29.160 And next thing you know, she's like a celebrity. 1.00

00:41:31.980 She's everywhere.

00:41:33.000 I saw last week, I think it was, she was being interviewed by Bill Maher.

00:41:37.000 What?

00:41:38.440 Why?

00:41:39.320 Interviewed about what?

00:41:41.540 Are you going to spend an hour talking about that video?

00:41:43.720 Like, what is there to say about it?

00:41:45.780 Does she have any other interesting things to say about anything?

00:41:48.400 I don't think I watched like a, just because I was, I wanted to know, like, does this person

00:41:52.360 actually, does this person also happen to be incredibly interesting on top of it?

00:41:57.800 You know, and I, I listened for five minutes to a clip.

00:42:01.740 It's like, no, nothing to say.

00:42:03.460 Absolutely nothing to say.

00:42:05.580 Um, but that doesn't matter right now.

00:42:08.460 They decided to make her into a star.

00:42:09.960 It's not going to last.

00:42:11.500 Uh, a year from now, the Hawk to a girl isn't going to be a legitimate celebrity with sustained

00:42:16.000 fame.

00:42:16.980 At a certain point, as I said, you, you do have to stand on your own two feet.

00:42:20.840 You have to be able to, to do something.

00:42:22.560 You have to be able to create something.

00:42:23.940 Uh, so can the Hawk to a girl sing? 0.99

00:42:26.420 Can she act?

00:42:27.160 Can she, uh, you know, does she have anything interesting to say?

00:42:31.080 Could she host a talk show or something? 0.97

00:42:33.760 If she does have those abilities and she may be able to take this very weird fleeting 15

00:42:39.140 minutes that's lasted longer than 15 minutes, but won't last forever.

00:42:42.520 And she may be able to parlay it into something, but she has to have that talent.

00:42:47.020 If she doesn't, she doesn't seem to, then it'll just go away.

00:42:50.620 Hey, you can't live forever on a gimmick, especially a gimmick as utterly vacuous and

00:42:54.880 lacking in substance as this.

00:42:56.880 But the point is this girl got like a month, maybe more out of this, out of like absolutely

00:43:07.320 nothing.

00:43:08.720 So can Kamala Harris, the Hawk to a girl of presidential candidates, can, can she get three 1.00

00:43:16.420 months?

00:43:17.500 I mean, if Hawk to a can get a month of cultural relevance and this weirdly, totally misplaced

00:43:25.040 stardom, that's, that's based in nothing.

00:43:27.340 If she can get a month out of it and the media is not even trying that hard to make her into 1.00

00:43:33.040 a star, can they, can they get, uh, Harris three months?

00:43:38.980 That's the big question.

00:43:40.000 We'll see.

00:43:40.320 And the point is that that is why she's getting the crowds. 1.00

00:43:47.260 She was getting the crowds for the same reason that the Hawk to a girl got on Bill Maher.

00:43:50.960 It's the same thing.

00:43:54.120 I would love to say that, no, she wasn't really on the Bill, Bill Maher show.

00:43:57.560 Like that was AI.

00:43:58.440 I'd love to say that was, I'd love to tell myself that when I see Hawk to a girl doing

00:44:02.480 the interview circuit on major shows, it must be AI.

00:44:06.460 Like it can't be real.

00:44:07.540 We're not that stupid of a society, are we?

00:44:10.640 We are.

00:44:11.980 I hate to tell you, we are.

00:44:13.800 And it's real.

00:44:16.300 So same thing with Harris.

00:44:19.240 They have willed her stardom into existence.

00:44:22.800 And now Trump, on the other hand, draws the crowds in spite of the media and the Hollywood

00:44:30.220 machine.

00:44:31.660 They are trying to do the opposite with him.

00:44:33.500 They want to take someone who already has a lot of star power on his own and make it

00:44:38.940 so he's not a star.

00:44:40.480 And they've tried very hard for many years to do it.

00:44:43.000 And he's only grown more powerful because of it.

00:44:47.140 So they have willed Kamala's star into existence.

00:44:50.740 They've tried to will Trump's star out of existence and they've failed.

00:44:54.260 And so that should really be the response.

00:44:59.120 Like that, that is how you respond to this.

00:45:03.140 Say like, okay, yeah, so she can get the crowds when she's got the entire media mechanism, 0.96

00:45:08.120 everybody working together, Hollywood media, everyone working together to turn her into

00:45:13.820 this.

00:45:14.540 She can get crowds. 0.96

00:45:15.600 Wow.

00:45:16.120 Literally anyone could do that.

00:45:17.820 Anyone.

00:45:18.540 If you have that level of promotion, anyone can get a crowd.

00:45:21.340 Um, can you do it when that whole industry is against you?

00:45:29.120 Almost nobody could, but Trump did.

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00:46:20.040 The Sentinelese on North Sentinel Island and in the Indian Ocean are a fascinating case.

00:46:28.980 Media reports often call them uncontacted, which isn't quite true.

00:46:32.860 They've been contacted at various points in the past, in the past centuries, just not with

00:46:38.780 positive results for the most part.

00:46:40.300 I've even heard them referred to as the last uncontacted tribe on Earth, which is doubly 0.93

00:46:45.960 false.

00:46:47.180 There are uncontacted tribes, actually uncontacted, and they mostly all live in the Amazon jungle

00:46:52.940 some 9,000 miles away from North Sentinel Island.

00:46:55.900 But contacted or not, the Sentinelese are a very primitive tribe.

00:46:59.500 They are human relics of the Stone Age, running around mostly naked, using arrows and spears, 0.98

00:47:04.720 living in lean-to mud huts.

00:47:06.860 They are surviving as hunter-gatherers.

00:47:10.180 Nobody knows exactly how many of them still survive on the island.

00:47:13.160 Some reports say it may be hundreds.

00:47:14.580 Others estimate that it could be dozens at most.

00:47:17.880 Many modern Americans became aware of these people for the first time in 2018 when an American

00:47:23.560 missionary named John Allen Chow tried to visit the island to tell the tribe about Jesus,

00:47:29.720 as missionaries do. 0.85

00:47:31.720 He walked up on the beach singing hymns, and he was, of course, unarmed.

00:47:35.760 He had no violent or aggressive intentions at all.

00:47:38.800 And the Sentinelese responded by shooting Chow full of arrows, and he died on the beach.

00:47:43.700 Now, it's not clear what happened to the missionary's body after he was murdered.

00:47:47.020 The Sentinelese have a history of not exactly treating their victims with respect.

00:47:50.200 Years earlier, in 2006, two fishermen accidentally washed up on shore.

00:47:55.880 They did not intend to invade the Sentinelese territory, but they did, accidentally.

00:48:01.000 And the fact that it was unintentional did not save them.

00:48:04.040 They were hacked to death with axes, and their bodies were put on bamboo stakes and displayed

00:48:08.440 like scarecrows facing out to sea.

00:48:10.960 This has been the Sentinelese way of dealing with outsiders for centuries.

00:48:15.640 There's a violent history of these kinds of encounters extending many hundreds of years,

00:48:19.660 interspersed throughout this time.

00:48:21.020 There have been more peaceful meetings between the modern world and the Stone Age tribe. 0.61

00:48:24.840 But for the most part, it has been a history of brutal violence.

00:48:28.440 In the 70s, a documentary crew was met with a barrage of arrows, even after offering gifts

00:48:33.820 to show that they had friendly intentions.

00:48:35.420 They were still shot at.

00:48:36.560 One member of the film crew was hit in the leg with an arrow.

00:48:39.280 In the 80s, a freight ship ran aground on the island during a storm.

00:48:43.900 The crew of 31 nearly met a very grisly end when the Sentinelese appeared on the beach,

00:48:48.900 waving their spears and arrows around.

00:48:50.580 The tribesmen started making canoes to paddle out to the ship and attack.

00:48:55.700 But the crew was eventually rescued before the massacre could begin.

00:48:59.300 And there are many stories like this in the history of the island, and many more that were

00:49:03.700 never recorded because nobody survived to record it.

00:49:05.840 In summary, the Sentinelese have claimed the right for themselves to massacre anyone who

00:49:13.400 happens upon their shores, no matter their intentions, no matter why they're there,

00:49:17.700 no matter if they're armed or unarmed, no matter who they are or what they want,

00:49:22.900 they can all be killed.

00:49:25.540 And I was thinking about this point a few days ago when I saw a viral tweet from a Twitter user

00:49:31.420 who made an interesting point about the Sentinelese.

00:49:34.760 He posted, quote,

00:49:35.960 One of the funniest things about modern leftism is that it simultaneously says that we must

00:49:39.480 respectfully preserve North Sentinel Island and its culture in a prehistoric bubble,

00:49:43.740 and that if they magically showed up here tomorrow, they'd be Americans just like me.

00:49:50.180 Now, that's a funny thing, and it's a good point.

00:49:53.220 The liberal view of immigration says that a man who just emerged from a Stone Age time capsule

00:49:57.940 and set foot on American soil 10 seconds ago is every bit as American in every sense of the word

00:50:04.460 as a man who's lived here his whole life and whose family has lived here since the Revolutionary War.

00:50:10.520 There is no difference between those Americans, we are told.

00:50:14.400 The only thing that makes a person an American is that they happen to be standing on the same plot of land.

00:50:19.940 But as I was thinking about it, I think that the Sentinelese present an even more interesting challenge

00:50:27.740 to liberal ideas about immigration.

00:50:31.180 So consider this.

00:50:33.580 Every liberal I've ever heard talk about the Sentinelese or similarly hostile primitive tribes

00:50:38.940 will quickly and definitively say that these tribes are well within their moral rights 0.74

00:50:45.200 to murder all intruders indiscriminately.

00:50:48.580 And this is not just anecdotal.

00:50:49.760 Go back and read any of the commentary about the American missionary in 2018 that was killed,

00:50:54.880 and there was quite a lot of commentary about it.

00:50:57.380 And nearly universally, the commentary arrived at this verdict,

00:51:03.300 that Chow deserved to be killed for invading their territory.

00:51:07.620 Yes, he was unarmed.

00:51:08.700 Yes, he was just trying to talk to them.

00:51:10.700 No, he didn't intend to harm them.

00:51:12.440 He didn't intend to move in with them.

00:51:14.560 He wasn't trying to claim citizenship among them.

00:51:17.040 But he still deserved to die.

00:51:20.160 He didn't belong there.

00:51:21.800 That's their land.

00:51:22.900 It's not his.

00:51:23.500 And so he got killed.

00:51:25.980 It was his fault.

00:51:27.260 And that was the conclusion that almost everyone came to.

00:51:30.880 This is very strange, though, because all of those same people would also say,

00:51:38.800 just as definitively and with just as much confidence,

00:51:42.360 that our country would be guilty of a heinous sin if it were to kill all illegal intruders on site.

00:51:49.320 Indeed, most of the Western defenders of Sentinelese autonomy would even say that

00:51:56.420 we are committing an act of evil by guarding our borders at all.

00:52:03.420 Certainly, if we caught an illegal at the border and stabbed him to death 1.00

00:52:07.900 and then displayed his body on a stake as a warning to future trespassers,

00:52:13.480 nobody would defend it.

00:52:14.620 All would agree that it is a horrific human rights violation.

00:52:19.820 So how can the Sentinelese be justified in using literally any method,

00:52:25.620 no matter how brutal, to defend its border,

00:52:29.180 but we aren't justified in using any violent methods

00:52:33.620 or perhaps even any nonviolent methods to defend ours?

00:52:36.540 How can a person hold these two thoughts in the same head simultaneously?

00:52:43.820 Now, I've posed this question on social media

00:52:47.220 and not gotten a coherent answer from anyone on the left.

00:52:50.300 A few have tried to dodge it by saying that,

00:52:53.000 well, our laws forbid us from killing illegal immigrants,

00:52:57.100 but their laws don't forbid them from doing the same.

00:53:01.060 You know, so it's about the law.

00:53:03.240 But this is a weak sidestep of the issue.

00:53:05.580 I'm talking about what is moral, not just what is legal.

00:53:10.820 It's a question of morality first, not legality.

00:53:14.800 And besides, America could change its law to permit the butchering of intruders.

00:53:20.980 Would liberals be okay with it then?

00:53:24.300 If we just change the law, is that okay?

00:53:26.620 Will we change it?

00:53:27.060 Of course not.

00:53:28.060 So you can't hide behind the law.

00:53:30.240 What then is the answer?

00:53:31.420 The only intelligible way to defend the Sentinelese and their right to axe stranded fishermen to death, 0.90

00:53:39.200 while denying America the right to kill illegal intruders under any circumstance at all,

00:53:43.900 or even to defend its border using force,

00:53:47.560 the only way to really do that is to say that the Sentinelese are in some way inferior.

00:53:52.700 That they lack not only technological advancement, but moral and intellectual advancement.

00:53:59.220 They are not as empathetic, not as morally sophisticated as the Western world,

00:54:05.260 and therefore we can't hold them to the same standards.

00:54:08.640 But the problem is that liberals cannot say that, and will not say it,

00:54:12.600 because their ideology also requires them to believe in the universal equality of all people and all cultures.

00:54:19.180 They have to also say that we're not better than the Sentinelese running around in loincloths or completely naked, 0.90

00:54:26.280 you know, throwing, chucking spears at people that wash up on shore.

00:54:30.880 They have to say that our cultures are totally equal.

00:54:33.680 We're not better at all.

00:54:35.080 We're not smarter.

00:54:35.940 We're not anything.

00:54:36.880 We're not morally superior in any way.

00:54:39.500 And if anything, we're actually worse than them.

00:54:41.120 That's what liberals have to say.

00:54:42.580 It's what they will say.

00:54:44.880 So then we're back to the same problem.

00:54:46.940 How is it that they are morally permitted to commit these acts of violence against intruders,

00:54:52.640 but we're not morally permitted to do anything approaching that?

00:54:58.180 Now, they might try another duck and dodge maneuver, hiding behind cultural relativism.

00:55:03.440 Perhaps they'll say that, well, murdering intruders is right for the Sentinelese in their culture, 1.00

00:55:08.660 because they say it is.

00:55:10.300 But it's not right in ours, because we say it isn't.

00:55:14.480 But that doesn't work either, because if our culture suddenly decided that killing illegal immigrants was okay,

00:55:21.820 well, these liberals would still say that it's not okay.

00:55:26.480 So, of course, nobody really believes that whatever our culture does is automatically okay,

00:55:31.840 because it's what our culture does.

00:55:33.200 Like, that's the kind of reasoning they only apply to cultures like the Sentinelese,

00:55:37.640 not to predominantly white Western cultures.

00:55:41.780 So, they will take a culturally relativistic view of these cultures,

00:55:46.300 but for our culture, they take an objective view.

00:55:48.620 They say, like, no matter what our laws are or what we say is okay, here's what's okay, here's what's right, and that's it.

00:55:58.180 Which brings us back to the same question.

00:56:00.720 Like, why?

00:56:02.320 How do you reconcile this?

00:56:03.480 Now, for me personally, this is not a difficult quandary.

00:56:07.440 What I would say is that Sentinelese society is indeed inferior in many ways. 1.00

00:56:13.760 These are primitive people who haven't yet invented the wheel, 0.82

00:56:16.840 even while the developed world has robots rolling around on Mars.

00:56:20.640 So, their culture is quite backwards and barbaric. 1.00

00:56:24.460 I think we can say that after you, you know, hack people to death and display their bodies like scarecrows.

00:56:28.980 Like, what are you going to call that aside from barbaric?

00:56:31.600 Even so, I would say that they have the moral right to use force to defend their borders,

00:56:38.260 their homeland, and their cultural identity.

00:56:42.780 And what I would say is that they have that moral right

00:56:45.980 because all nations and all people have that right.

00:56:51.940 Their moral right of self-defense and sovereignty and national defense

00:56:57.580 is not any greater or any smaller than anyone else's, including our own.

00:57:04.500 Now, does that mean that we would be morally justified

00:57:07.820 in indiscriminately slaughtering anyone who happens to wander even accidentally near our border?

00:57:12.800 Should we be killing illegal immigrants and hanging their bodies up as trophies 1.00

00:57:16.100 like these tribal people do? 1.00

00:57:17.740 Of course not.

00:57:18.740 Because that is evil and barbaric.

00:57:20.720 It is wrong to behave in evil and barbaric ways.

00:57:24.580 We're civilized people.

00:57:26.240 We're not going to do that.

00:57:27.580 But it's wrong when the Sentinelese do it, too.

00:57:30.780 Like, I'm willing to take the apparently controversial position

00:57:33.040 that the Sentinelese did a bad thing

00:57:34.800 when they shot an unarmed, peaceful missionary full of arrows.

00:57:38.100 That was an evil act.

00:57:40.180 And in earlier times, you know, going back maybe centuries,

00:57:45.440 when European explorers were still, you know,

00:57:48.780 exploring and happening upon places like this,

00:57:51.560 and I think when maybe we were a little bit of a tougher stock,

00:57:57.020 we probably would have responded to that aggression against that missionary 0.83

00:57:59.980 by raiding the island and avenging the blood of our murdered countrymen.

00:58:04.060 Now, I'm not advocating for that, but he was murdered,

00:58:06.760 and murder is bad no matter who does it.

00:58:09.080 That's my point.

00:58:09.680 Still, the basic principle of using force, just force, right?

00:58:18.280 Force within reason, in a civilized way,

00:58:21.280 to defend your border and your homeland is completely valid.

00:58:25.060 That's the position that I would take.

00:58:30.440 And there's another thing we can learn from the Sentinelese.

00:58:33.380 When you set the precedent that you're willing to use force to defend your borders,

00:58:38.080 you'll quickly find that force becomes less and less necessary.

00:58:42.460 Because if potential intruders know that they might get that response,

00:58:46.500 they are a lot less likely to intrude.

00:58:48.260 So, I would say that the Sentinelese go rather overboard

00:58:54.080 in the way that they defend their borders,

00:58:57.100 and they can be quite savage in the way that they do it.

00:59:01.980 But the basic idea, the basic idea behind it is a good and moral one.

00:59:09.840 And we could adopt the idea in a more civilized,

00:59:13.060 more moral, and more orderly way if we wanted to.

00:59:16.480 So, that's my answer.

00:59:22.060 But, you know, liberals cannot give that answer.

00:59:25.440 They can't give that answer that I just gave.

00:59:29.140 They can't give any coherent answer,

00:59:32.220 because their actual answer is that their views on immigration enforcement

00:59:36.800 are arbitrary and half-baked,

00:59:39.680 and, most importantly, not grounded in any real love for their own country.

00:59:44.840 In fact, they hate their country.

00:59:47.200 In fact, they have more love, in the abstract anyway,

00:59:50.960 for North Sentinel Island than they do for their own country.

00:59:55.020 In fact, they would probably even tell you if you asked them

00:59:57.500 that it is more important to them

00:59:59.340 to preserve the sovereignty of North Sentinel Island

01:00:02.560 for, you know, 57 primitive tribesmen running around naked with spears.

01:00:07.580 It's more important to preserve their sovereignty

01:00:09.340 than the sovereignty of their own country

01:00:11.960 where they live and their families live.

01:00:16.080 They are morally confused people

01:00:18.000 with clouded minds

01:00:20.140 and treacherous, unpatriotic hearts.

01:00:24.840 That's the real answer.

01:00:27.080 And it's why they are today canceled.

01:00:31.400 That'll do it for the show today.

01:00:32.260 Thanks for watching.

01:00:32.760 Thanks for listening.

01:00:33.280 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:00:33.900 Have a great day.

01:00:34.960 Godspeed.

01:00:35.280 Republicans or Nazis, 0.56

01:00:43.800 you cannot separate yourselves

01:00:45.600 from the bad white people.

01:00:47.500 Growing up, I never thought much about race.

01:00:49.400 It never really seemed to matter that much,

01:00:51.260 at least not to me.

01:00:52.080 Am I racist?

01:00:53.260 I would really appreciate it if you left.

01:00:54.660 I'm trying to learn.

01:00:55.320 I'm on this journey.

01:00:56.640 If I'm going to sort this out,

01:00:57.680 I need to go deeper undercover.

01:01:00.960 They're going to say I'm racist.

01:01:02.240 Joining us now is Matt,

01:01:03.700 certified DEI expert.

01:01:05.900 Here's my certification.

01:01:07.040 And what you're doing

01:01:07.460 is you're stretching out of your whiteness.

01:01:09.760 This is more for you than this for you.

01:01:10.740 Is America inherently racist?

01:01:12.300 The word inherent is challenging there.

01:01:14.220 I want to rename the George Washington Monument

01:01:15.800 to the George Floyd Monument.

01:01:17.380 America is racist to its bones.

01:01:19.160 So inherently.

01:01:19.860 Yeah, this country is a piece of shit.

01:01:23.220 White folks. 0.76

01:01:24.280 White trash. 1.00

01:01:24.800 White supremacy.

01:01:25.580 White woman. 1.00

01:01:26.140 White boy.

01:01:26.720 Is there a black person around here?

01:01:28.020 There's a black person right here.

01:01:29.360 Does he not exist?

01:01:30.180 They're going to say I'm racist.

01:01:31.940 Hi, Robin.

01:01:32.680 Hi.

01:01:33.040 What's your name?

01:01:33.980 I'm Matt.

01:01:34.460 I just had to ask who you are

01:01:35.520 because you have to be careful.

01:01:37.480 I'll never be too careful.

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