The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1427 - Whistleblowers Risk Everything to Expose Shocking Practices at Texas Children’s Hospital

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, whistleblowers are coming forward to expose the scam behind the child butchery industry,

00:00:05.320 but the Biden administration is doing everything it can to intimidate them into silence.

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00:01:37.580 Texas Children's Hospital in Houston is the largest children's hospital in the world.

00:01:42.040 They treat more than 4 million patients under the age of 21 every year, most of them minors.

00:01:46.360 And because of the hospital's size and prestige, what happens at TCH doesn't just affect those patients.

00:01:52.360 What happens at TCH also influences other major children's hospitals all around the world and how they conduct their operations.

00:01:59.420 And that's what makes the reporting out of Texas Children's Hospital this year, most of it done by Chris Ruffeau, impossible to ignore,

00:02:06.420 even if the media, of course, would like to ignore it and has ignored it.

00:02:09.420 In the span of a little over a year, two whistleblowers have come forward to allege that TCH is systematically deceiving the public and potentially violating the law.

00:02:18.060 Now, the first whistleblower, a general surgeon named Ethan Haim, provided records to Ruffeau,

00:02:23.360 which demonstrated that TCH had not, in fact, shut down its child sex change program, as promised.

00:02:29.020 And this was significant because the attorney general of Texas, Ken Paxton, had just released a legal opinion stating that child sex change surgeries,

00:02:36.620 as well as cross-sex hormone treatments, constitute child abuse under Texas law.

00:02:42.260 So TCH claimed that they shut the program down in order to avoid prosecution.

00:02:46.960 As the hospital put it, they wanted to safeguard our health care professionals and impacted families for potential criminal legal ramification.

00:02:53.220 So they stood by the child sterilization, but they said they had no choice but to comply with the attorney general so that they wouldn't all be arrested.

00:03:02.820 Now, according to Ruffeau's reporting, Haim provided redacted records proving that TCH then quietly restarted the program without informing the public.

00:03:12.940 In effect, they didn't really shut it down at all.

00:03:15.960 Haim didn't give Ruffeau any personally identifying information about any patients and no personally identifiable information was ever released publicly.

00:03:22.620 He provided only the information that was necessary to verify that TCH was continuing to perform procedures related to child sex change surgeries in apparent defiance of the attorney general.

00:03:34.380 For example, the records reportedly demonstrated that TCH allowed a doctor to, quote,

00:03:38.280 insert a non-biodegradable drug delivery implant into an 11-year-old girl who identified as transgender.

00:03:44.300 Records also indicated that several children between the ages of 11 and 15 received these implants, among many other procedures.

00:03:50.420 The Texas legislator clearly thought that Haim's revelations were worth acting on.

00:03:56.880 The very next day after Ruffeau published his report on Haim's claims, the Texas legislator voted in bipartisan fashion to ban so-called gender-affirming care for minors.

00:04:06.780 So the attorney general's legal opinion wasn't just an opinion anymore.

00:04:10.260 It was binding on hospitals like TCH.

00:04:12.260 On these facts, there's no question that Ethan Haim is a whistleblower by any definition.

00:04:18.880 He chose to risk his career, which was just beginning, to provide information that his employer might be systematically violating the law.

00:04:26.380 And not just any law, but a law designed to protect children from being abused and permanently sterilized.

00:04:31.120 And on top of that, Haim's evidence indicated that TCH might be lying to the public, which is a pretty big deal when you're talking about a children's hospital.

00:04:39.080 If they're willing to lie about castrating children, it might lead you to wonder what else they're willing to lie about and how deep the corruption goes.

00:04:47.740 Haim's disclosures directly led to a substantial change in Texas's law in record time, which means that by definition, they were highly relevant to the public interest.

00:04:55.480 You cannot define whistleblower any more, any more clearly than than that, I think.

00:05:00.740 But Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's DOJ didn't see it that way.

00:05:04.080 So a month later, they sent federal agents to his door to inform him that he was under investigation for HIPAA violations.

00:05:11.280 And shortly afterwards, he was indicted. Watch.

00:05:14.820 The question now is whether the doctor violated HIPAA when he accessed those patients' information.

00:05:20.740 The government says he did. The doctor says he's a whistleblower.

00:05:24.620 You know, I maintained from day one that I had done nothing wrong.

00:05:28.740 This is Dr. Ethan Haim, a former resident physician at Texas Children's Hospital.

00:05:33.480 Today, the Department of Justice claims he obtained protected health information for patients that were not under his care and without permission.

00:05:40.880 In a four-count indictment, the FBI says the doctor obtained personal information, including patient names, treatment codes,

00:05:47.480 and the names of patients' physicians through the TCH electronic system without authorization.

00:05:53.080 Prosecutors say he did this under false pretenses in order to cause malicious harm to the hospital by passing the information along to a media contact.

00:06:01.760 So according to DOJ, Ethan Haim wanted to cause malicious harm to the hospital.

00:06:07.460 They're not concerned about the permanent harm that this massive and well-funded hospital may be causing to children.

00:06:12.320 Instead, the prosecutors are worried about the harm that the hospital might suffer when the public learns about the harm they're doing to children,

00:06:19.720 in defiance of the attorney general on Texas law.

00:06:21.660 This is a hospital that, by the way, receives a lot of money and tax breaks from the government.

00:06:26.680 So we have every right to know, as the public, we have every right to know what it's doing.

00:06:30.620 But apparently the hospital's employees are not allowed to harm the hospital by informing the public about the procedures that they're performing.

00:06:38.220 You might remember that Democrats didn't always treat whistleblowers this way.

00:06:41.920 During the Trump administration, a CIA operative who was assigned to the White House leaked classified recordings of Trump to Adam Schiff.

00:06:49.320 And that led to the first impeachment trial.

00:06:51.960 We weren't even allowed to know the CIA operative's name at any point during the proceedings.

00:06:56.620 Corporate media outlets refused to tell us.

00:06:59.380 Even in Congress, lawmakers were told it was off limits to reveal his identity.

00:07:02.500 John Roberts, who was presiding over the impeachment, enforced that rule.

00:07:05.980 This was a whistleblower who wasn't even alleging that Trump had violated any law.

00:07:10.580 And yet, this CIA employee was treated with such reverence that, to this day, we're not allowed to say his name in public.

00:07:17.520 But Ethan Haim, who actually displayed real bravery, who disclosed relevant information about a children's hospital,

00:07:26.120 now faces up to a decade in prison if convicted.

00:07:30.020 His life gets destroyed.

00:07:31.800 His career ended.

00:07:33.300 All for telling the truth.

00:07:34.880 And he's not the only one.

00:07:35.980 This week, a nurse named Vanessa Sivage revealed that she was recently fired by Texas Children's Hospital.

00:07:42.740 Her crime was alleging that TCH bills Medicaid to provide puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children in violation of federal law.

00:07:50.940 TCH immediately denied this allegation.

00:07:52.840 Then the Biden administration sent more federal agents to harass her at her home. 0.95

00:07:56.680 Because that's what happens when you start saying inconvenient things about so-called gender-affirming care, quote-unquote.

00:08:03.500 Watch.

00:08:03.840 Hello?

00:08:05.800 Hello?

00:08:07.080 Hi.

00:08:08.840 I'm looking for Vanessa Sivage.

00:08:10.760 Okay.

00:08:11.560 Yeah.

00:08:12.020 Over here.

00:08:13.440 Can I see?

00:08:14.000 I'll make some an FBI agent.

00:08:15.560 Okay.

00:08:16.040 This is Mr. McBride.

00:08:17.100 I am David McBride.

00:08:17.780 Okay.

00:08:18.720 It's a pleasant interaction.

00:08:19.960 You're not in trouble.

00:08:20.700 No, we're in trouble.

00:08:21.300 Okay.

00:08:21.780 All right.

00:08:22.140 Hi.

00:08:24.360 Hi.

00:08:24.760 How are you?

00:08:25.180 I want to sneak up on you there.

00:08:26.180 You want to see Tiff?

00:08:28.280 Are we interrupting dinner?

00:08:29.600 I'm really sorry.

00:08:30.200 That's all right.

00:08:30.960 What's going on?

00:08:34.040 Let me start at the beginning.

00:08:36.180 So I'm sure you're aware of some of the things that have been going on at your work lately.

00:08:41.900 With regards to?

00:08:44.460 Yeah.

00:08:45.040 So I got to.

00:08:46.380 Can I?

00:08:46.940 Can we sit down for a minute?

00:08:48.200 Let me do my song and dance.

00:08:50.160 Now, the only reason these agents showed up to Sivage's home was to intimidate her.

00:08:54.720 They weren't there to arrest her.

00:08:56.060 They weren't there to inform her that she was the target of any investigation.

00:08:59.180 The point was to imply that she'd better keep her mouth shut because the federal government was watching her.

00:09:03.920 Now, in a letter to Rufo, Sivage said that she had attempted to transfer away from the endocrine unit as a last-ditch effort to avoid working in this area of so-called medicine.

00:09:14.240 But the hospital refused her request.

00:09:15.660 Quote,

00:09:15.900 This past Friday on August 16th, TCH fired me, effective immediately.

00:09:20.420 This is unlawful for two reasons.

00:09:21.860 It is retaliation for my coming forward with information on TCH's egregious pattern of deception and Medicaid fraud.

00:09:27.460 This action also illegally disregarded my request to transfer due to my belief that these procedures provide irreversible harm and lifelong regret to children confused by their sex.

00:09:38.840 If it's true that TCH is defrauding Medicaid, it wouldn't be particularly surprising.

00:09:42.800 Last year, I posted a Twitter thread looking to two of the largest so-called trans health care providers, known as Plume and Folks.

00:09:49.820 And both of these providers indicated that they diagnosed patients with dysphoria, even if they don't really have it, in order to ensure that the insurance pays out, which is fraud.

00:10:00.420 In fact, folks openly admitted that they were doing this on their website.

00:10:04.480 This is the kind of apparent fraud that can take place openly when your industry has the full backing of the Biden DOJ.

00:10:11.320 When you know the government's on your side, you can admit to fraud in public and no one does anything.

00:10:16.500 It's the people who point out the fraud who get harassed and even jailed.

00:10:22.100 Now, what's especially troubling about the situation at TCH is that Vanessa Sivage was clearly in a position to know if the hospital was defrauding Medicaid.

00:10:29.420 She interacted with doctors who were ordering various procedures and medications.

00:10:33.300 She coordinated prescription refills all the time.

00:10:37.200 She once taught a child how to inject sex change hormones. 1.00

00:10:40.360 It was her job, which she performed up until the moment that she realized how immoral it was.

00:10:45.200 And as Sivage put it, quote, in the cardiac clinic, we were taking sick kids and making them better.

00:10:50.040 In the transgender clinic, it was the opposite. 0.97

00:10:52.020 We were harming these kids.

00:10:54.160 So there's only two possibilities here.

00:10:55.980 Either this nurse is, for some reason, lying about her own firsthand observations and doing so in order to completely destroy her own career and her own life.

00:11:05.500 Or like Ethan Haim, she's telling the truth.

00:11:08.800 And right now, the latter explanation seems a whole lot more believable.

00:11:12.700 In response to her termination, Sivage posted just two words on social media, worth it. 0.83

00:11:19.480 That's the kind of response you'd expect from someone who knows that the Texas Attorney General's investigation is going to validate everything she said.

00:11:26.500 It's a rare example of bravery in an industry that is sorely lacking it.

00:11:31.400 And it's exactly what it will take to end this insanity and stop the mutilation and sterilization of children.

00:11:40.180 I mean, these whistleblowers, just two of them alone, have had major impact.

00:11:44.380 What happens next at Texas Children's Hospital could determine what happens not just to the millions of children in their care,

00:11:52.160 but to all the other children's hospitals that look to TCH for guidance.

00:11:58.460 And what's needed now is for more whistleblowers to come forward to follow their conscience and what they know is right,

00:12:05.500 and to expose this fraudulent, abusive industry for what it is.

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00:13:37.580 Okay, pretty reprehensible moment from Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear yesterday

00:13:42.900 when discussing J.D. Vance and the abortion industry.

00:13:47.080 Let's watch that.

00:13:49.520 I mean, think about what some people have had to go through because of these laws.

00:13:55.420 I mean, J.D. Vance calls pregnancy resulting from rape inconvenient.

00:14:01.000 Like, inconvenience is traffic.

00:14:03.060 I mean, it is, make him go through this.

00:14:06.800 Make him go through this.

00:14:08.840 Go through what?

00:14:10.980 Well, he was just talking about rape, 0.87

00:14:12.340 so he very clearly said make him go through the rape of a family member. 0.68

00:14:17.760 And that's obviously what he said.

00:14:20.080 We just heard him say it.

00:14:21.820 Like, we're not all having a hallucinatory event.

00:14:24.420 We heard him say it.

00:14:25.220 So now later in the same day, he was asked about this again and about Vance's response to him.

00:14:31.320 Vance responded and said that that's a disgusting thing to say because it is.

00:14:34.120 And, but Bashir refused to apologize.

00:14:38.820 There it is.

00:14:40.520 As you said this morning on Morning Show.

00:14:43.140 Okay.

00:14:44.120 I'm going to just prepare you for this.

00:14:46.280 Saying that when, well, let me take a look at what he said about you.

00:14:52.680 Janie Vance calls pregnancy resulting from rape inconvenient.

00:14:58.900 Like, inconvenience is traffic.

00:15:00.960 I mean, it is, make him go through this.

00:15:03.540 So, what he's saying is that you were somehow suggesting, he said, what the hell is this? 0.99

00:15:10.840 Why is Andy Bashir, he tweeted this out, wishing that a member of my family would get raped? 1.00

00:15:16.380 A disgusting person. 1.00

00:15:18.240 So, how do you respond to that? 0.99

00:15:19.420 I mean, is that what you were talking about?

00:15:21.960 Of course not. 0.88

00:15:22.480 It's ridiculous, but it's also deflection. 0.75

00:15:25.060 I mean, J.D. Vance knows that he and Donald Trump are so wrong on this issue. 0.92

00:15:29.200 And so, he's trying to make himself the victim.

00:15:31.980 Listen, Hadley Duvall was a victim.

00:15:34.660 The women that were on the stage last night, the couple that had to go through a non-viable pregnancy, are victims.

00:15:40.860 You know, as a man, J.D. Vance will never have to face any of this personally.

00:15:46.420 But it's sad that he lacks the empathy to be able to put himself in a different position

00:15:51.960 and to understand why having exceptions, having reproductive freedom is so important in the first place.

00:15:58.760 Obviously, I'd never wish harm on anyone.

00:16:01.680 It just, again, deflection, trying to make himself and Donald Trump the victims.

00:16:07.620 Of course not.

00:16:08.560 Of course I wasn't saying the thing that you all clearly heard me say.

00:16:11.520 Now, ironically, of course, he accuses Vance of deflecting, even as he immediately deflects. 0.68

00:16:17.880 He did indeed say that we should make Vance go through a rape. 0.95

00:16:22.680 And we can assume that he didn't mean that Vance himself should be raped because Vance can't get pregnant. 0.55

00:16:28.700 And, you know, I know that Democrats believe in the existence of pregnant men or claim to anyway.

00:16:32.800 But even so, it's clear from the context that going through this for Vance means that one of his family members,

00:16:38.100 a female family member, goes through it.

00:16:42.660 Now, it's not surprising that he would say this.

00:16:44.680 This is actually a very common rebuttal from the pro-abortion left. 0.97

00:16:48.460 Wishing rape on a family member is one of their favorite moves.

00:16:51.700 I've heard it myself from these people many times. 0.92

00:16:54.240 From the left in general, but especially when it comes to the abortion industry, this is something that you often hear.

00:17:01.980 But, you know, that's not even the grossest thing about this, or it's not the only gross thing about this, I should say. 0.60

00:17:09.200 Because even when they aren't wishing rape on their enemies, which, again, they so often do, 0.95

00:17:14.940 they are, just as Bashir was doing here, shamelessly using rape as a political cudgel. 0.55

00:17:23.680 Constantly bringing up rape as a way of winning the abortion argument, or thinking that you've won it, trying to win it, 0.99

00:17:30.940 is just as disgusting and despicable as what Bashir said. 0.98

00:17:36.560 And so even if he hadn't said that, make him go through it line, it still is disgusting. 0.95

00:17:43.200 And I know you guys probably get sick of hearing me make this point over and over again,

00:17:47.660 but I have to keep making it, because it, I mean, they keep doing this, so I have to keep pointing this out.

00:17:56.400 And the point is this, that rape accounts for a vanishingly small number of abortions, fewer than 1%.

00:18:03.980 Fewer than 1% of abortions are due to rape.

00:18:08.660 So it's a very small number.

00:18:09.700 And that means that we don't even need to talk about that until we've talked about the 99%. 0.61

00:18:16.920 And in 99% of cases, abortion is simply used as an after-the-fact birth control method.

00:18:23.640 In 99% of cases, a woman consented to sex, consented to doing the thing that might create a baby, 0.99

00:18:29.240 the thing that has created babies billions of times in the past, 0.93

00:18:36.360 and then created a baby, and then wants to kill the baby to erase the mistake, quote-unquote.

00:18:44.840 That's 99% of cases.

00:18:46.280 And a certain portion of that 99%, a portion much larger than 1%,

00:18:52.580 are cases where you have a repeat customer.

00:18:56.940 You know, a woman who has had multiple abortions, 0.98

00:18:59.500 and is making essentially zero effort to avoid conceiving a child,

00:19:04.340 displaying just a total disregard for human life,

00:19:06.880 for the lives of the children that she continually slaughters, 0.99

00:19:11.420 and continually getting the abortion in order to, for her own convenience, 1.00

00:19:16.980 just to protect her lifestyle. 0.68

00:19:19.660 That is a far more common scenario than an abortion because of rape.

00:19:25.560 And that's what we need to talk about.

00:19:27.940 And we need to talk a lot about that.

00:19:33.860 In fact, I would argue that when we're talking about abortion,

00:19:36.260 99% of the conversation should be about the 99% of cases.

00:19:41.560 And then 1% of the conversation could be about the 1% of cases.

00:19:44.480 That makes a lot of sense.

00:19:48.300 But they don't want to talk about the 99%, so they talk about the 1%, 0.94

00:19:51.100 and they are simply using it.

00:19:53.480 They don't care at all. 0.98

00:19:54.200 They don't care about women who are raped. 0.99

00:19:55.800 They don't care about rape victims. 0.97

00:19:56.860 They don't care about anyone.

00:20:01.420 They certainly don't care about the babies here.

00:20:03.900 They just see it as a convenient political tool.

00:20:09.660 And they use it as such.

00:20:12.200 All right, the Obamas spoke at the DNC last night.

00:20:16.000 The CNN talking heads were gushing over their speeches.

00:20:20.560 Both Michelle and Barack spoke.

00:20:22.460 The talking heads on CNN were just overcome.

00:20:27.240 I mean, they were practically in tears over it.

00:20:31.120 Watch.

00:20:31.640 Michelle Obama's speech was probably the most effective, powerful political speech I've ever heard.

00:20:41.420 It was rather remarkable.

00:20:43.640 I didn't know how much I missed them.

00:20:48.320 I missed them.

00:20:49.400 I missed that.

00:20:50.360 I miss hearing that.

00:20:53.200 You know, Biden did something important last night,

00:20:55.760 and he transferred the machinery of the party to Kamala Harris.

00:20:59.280 Because the Obamas renewed the magic of the movement.

00:21:04.240 That's what they were transferring.

00:21:06.640 And they did it beautifully.

00:21:08.740 They did it powerfully.

00:21:12.100 Obama used nostalgia in a beautiful way.

00:21:17.240 He didn't say, make America great again, we're going to go back again.

00:21:20.200 He reminded everybody of the best things about our families, about our neighborhoods.

00:21:24.560 That was beautiful.

00:21:26.140 And then Michelle, she wasn't doing the minister role. 0.98

00:21:29.000 She was really doing the coaching role in that she called it right out.

00:21:32.960 She said, you guys, you know, she talked about the affirmative action of generational wealth.

00:21:37.040 She talked about the luxury of whitening and cheating that other people don't have.

00:21:41.560 But she didn't stop there.

00:21:42.720 She also called the left up, and she said the whining on the left needs to stop. 0.73

00:21:49.200 The Goldilocks, they're not perfect.

00:21:51.460 This was a masterful act of leadership.

00:21:56.000 It was a sacred task.

00:21:57.900 They took it on well.

00:22:00.000 It was like an oasis.

00:22:02.460 I didn't realize I had been in a spiritual desert until they created that oasis on that stage,

00:22:08.480 and they did a beautiful job tonight.

00:22:10.000 That was your oasis, the spiritual water quenching your deep spiritual thirst.

00:22:19.320 First of all, I'll say this.

00:22:20.400 I mean, it's absurd to react this way to any political speech on either side of the aisle.

00:22:26.240 I'm not just saying this because it's the Democrats.

00:22:28.880 And I'm not saying you can't praise a political speech or say that it was effective or compelling or whatever.

00:22:34.420 That's fine.

00:22:34.940 And on a rare occasion, I will praise a political speech in those terms, and that's okay. 0.98

00:22:40.640 But to have a spiritual experience because of a political speech is quite asinine. 0.93

00:22:49.580 Every political speech is contrived, every single one. 0.97

00:22:54.060 That's the nature of the beast.

00:22:55.600 I'm not revealing anything you don't know.

00:22:56.940 These speeches aren't written from the heart.

00:22:59.100 Okay, if someone's giving a speech at a convention, they're not sitting down and saying to themselves,

00:23:03.880 hmm, what am I really feeling right now?

00:23:06.840 What do I want to tell the American people?

00:23:08.420 That's not it.

00:23:09.440 They're written by teams of speechwriters and consultants tailored to hit certain points

00:23:13.660 and use certain language as part of a political strategy.

00:23:17.900 And, you know, it's the game.

00:23:19.540 That's fine.

00:23:20.000 But that's what they're supposed to do.

00:23:21.780 But that means there's always going to be a kind of an air of phoniness to any speech

00:23:26.940 delivered by a politician, especially at a convention, but really at any other time.

00:23:30.500 The only exception really is Donald Trump at a rally because, in that case, it's not scripted at all.

00:23:38.700 And he's really just talking about whatever he pops into his head.

00:23:41.680 And so it's authentic in that way.

00:23:44.120 But I'd also think it's pretty silly to have a spiritual experience because of one of his rally speeches. 0.97

00:23:49.020 It would be a ridiculous thing. 0.86

00:23:50.160 And this is not cheap cynicism on my part. 0.70

00:23:52.940 It's just the reality.

00:23:53.660 These speeches are extremely contrived.

00:23:56.160 None of these people are saying what they actually think.

00:23:59.860 I mean, if Obama gave a speech from the heart and said what he actually thinks,

00:24:04.340 he would have said that he hates Kamala Harris, that he tried to have her removed from the ticket,

00:24:10.260 but that didn't work.

00:24:12.220 So now he's stuck with her.

00:24:13.400 And so he's playing along.

00:24:14.580 And he's going to take solace in the fact that even when Kamala Harris is in the White House,

00:24:17.340 if she is, it will really still be his White House.

00:24:21.960 Now, that's what an honest Obama speech would have said.

00:24:25.660 And we all know that because they also hate each other.

00:24:27.580 Like the Obamas and Kamala Harris, they hate each other.

00:24:29.460 Kamala Harris, I believe, wasn't even there.

00:24:31.380 She went to give her own speech.

00:24:32.540 She counter-programmed Obama at the convention. 0.91

00:24:38.800 So these people just despise each other.

00:24:42.460 But they're playing the game here.

00:24:45.180 But that's just why it's to be that overcome with emotion at a speech that's at least like 70% phony.

00:24:55.480 And I mean, leaving aside all the claims that are made that are false,

00:24:59.620 but just like the speech itself, it's coming from someone who hates this other person,

00:25:05.080 tried to knife her in the back, and it failed. 0.99

00:25:09.000 So it's ridiculous. 0.97

00:25:10.860 But the comments from Van Jones are still revealing. 0.95

00:25:14.000 They reveal that the left, on the left, politics is religion.

00:25:18.360 This is their church.

00:25:19.400 This is their sacred place.

00:25:20.760 And so he's right.

00:25:23.900 They have been in a spiritual desert because they look to political figures to be their messiahs,

00:25:28.540 to be their saviors.

00:25:30.140 And Biden really couldn't play that role because it's kind of hard to make a tomato plant into a savior.

00:25:39.720 And what Van Jones really means is that he finally has a messianic political figure to look to again.

00:25:46.440 The Obamas are transferring their messianic powers to Kamala.

00:25:53.640 Or maybe a better analogy would be, this is kind of like when the pope selects a new bishop,

00:25:59.660 and Obama is the left's pope.

00:26:02.200 Kamala is, she's not going to be the new pope.

00:26:04.340 She'll never be the pope.

00:26:05.120 But she's now being ordained as sort of a bishop in the leftist religion.

00:26:10.320 And that's the way they look at it.

00:26:14.960 Politics is religion for them.

00:26:16.000 It's also why they just can't handle it.

00:26:19.980 They can't stomach it when someone like Trump, when they lose, it is a great tragedy for them

00:26:26.700 because, you know, this is their church.

00:26:31.120 And this is their religion.

00:26:32.460 They're losing control of their own religion in their minds.

00:26:35.660 Speaking of Kamala, as I mentioned, she went and spoke at a rally last night,

00:26:40.720 I believe at the same time that Obama was speaking.

00:26:42.380 But here's one little interesting clip from that rally.

00:26:48.280 We believe in a future where we lower the cost of living for America's families.

00:26:54.080 And when I am president, I will bring down the cost of groceries by making sure markets are competitive and fair.

00:27:01.460 Now, this has been pointed out many times by many people on the right.

00:27:05.140 But I have to just join the chorus here in making the observation that Kamala Harris is in office right now. 0.99

00:27:11.440 You know, if she can bring down the cost of groceries, why aren't you doing it right now at this very moment?

00:27:18.600 It's worse than that.

00:27:21.380 Democrats have controlled the White House for 12 of the last 16 years.

00:27:26.640 We've only had Republican governance for four years.

00:27:30.760 Arguably less than that because Trump's last year in office was claimed by COVID.

00:27:35.480 So it's more like three years of normal Republican governance.

00:27:38.560 But, you know, call it four years.

00:27:40.980 That's four years against 12.

00:27:42.720 And they've been in office the last four.

00:27:48.440 The last four of those 12.

00:27:51.880 So it's like, imagine if you rented someone's house on Airbnb.

00:27:56.340 And, you know, they live there, but then they leave for a little bit so that you can move in.

00:28:00.720 And you're there, you know, for a few days or weeks or whatever.

00:28:04.860 You move out.

00:28:05.980 You check out.

00:28:06.640 Everything's fine.

00:28:07.420 And then four years later, the owner of the house calls you irate because his house is destroyed.

00:28:14.840 Carpets are all stained.

00:28:16.300 You know, furniture is broken.

00:28:18.120 Sinks are all clogged. 0.99

00:28:19.080 Doors ripped off the hinges.

00:28:21.520 Imagine that he calls you, blaming you for that and demanding that you pay for the damages.

00:28:27.800 But wait a minute.

00:28:29.060 I was there for a brief time four years ago.

00:28:33.360 I mean, who are we going to blame for where we're at now?

00:28:35.400 Is it me or is it the people?

00:28:37.440 You've been living there for the last four years and you lived there before that.

00:28:41.580 This is the case that she's making.

00:28:43.120 It's totally incoherent.

00:28:45.480 And you would think it'd be an impossible case to make if the media would hold her accountable for it. 0.99

00:28:51.600 But, of course, they are.

00:28:53.100 Fox News has this.

00:28:54.260 Former President Trump promoted images on Sunday, including some generated through artificial intelligence,

00:28:58.960 showing apparent support from singer Taylor Swift and her fans, triggering a widespread media outcry.

00:29:04.160 Trump posted a collage of Swift-related images to his Truth Social account,

00:29:09.900 showing apparent support from the pop star and her diehard fans known as Swifties.

00:29:14.280 One doctored image played off the classic Uncle Sam recruiting posters,

00:29:18.360 showing Swift in red, white, and blue with the caption,

00:29:21.200 Taylor Swift wants you to vote for Donald Trump.

00:29:24.080 Over the images, he wrote, I accept.

00:29:26.160 Other images included one of a satirical headline with accompanying fake pictures made by an ex-user.

00:29:34.400 Swifties turning to Trump after ISIS foiled Taylor Swift concert.

00:29:38.380 Stephen Chong told Fox News Digital,

00:29:40.580 Swifties for Trump is a massive movement that grows bigger every single day,

00:29:44.280 while Kamala Harris is guilty as sin for all the hurt she has caused every American. 1.00

00:29:49.160 I don't know, guilty as sin.

00:29:50.060 Is that some sort of Taylor Swift reference from one of her songs?

00:29:55.060 Anyway, well, look, I mean, this is a trolling thing.

00:29:58.800 I get it. It's funny.

00:30:02.560 I would never troll myself.

00:30:04.840 I never do any trolling.

00:30:06.140 I'm very anti-trolling, personally.

00:30:07.860 I just would never troll.

00:30:09.400 I haven't trolled.

00:30:10.960 I'm not trolling right now in this city that I'm visiting.

00:30:13.800 So I'm not the troll type myself, but I get it, and I appreciate the trolling.

00:30:19.460 But I guess I don't understand the strategic political play with this Swifties for Trump thing.

00:30:28.300 And I've seen, and Trump's promoting it.

00:30:29.840 I've seen other people, other conservatives, like on Twitter, promoting it.

00:30:32.320 Swifties for Trump.

00:30:34.940 Because if Trump is outclaiming that, and I know it's like a joke,

00:30:38.280 but if Trump is outclaiming that Swift supports him, even as a joke,

00:30:43.780 isn't he greatly increasing the likelihood that Taylor Swift will come out against him

00:30:48.340 and campaign against him?

00:30:50.580 Because she'll feel like now she has to,

00:30:52.760 to make clear that she's not with that guy.

00:30:56.720 And if that happens, I don't see how it helps Trump.

00:31:00.640 I mean, I don't see how Taylor Swift being fully activated against him

00:31:04.480 with her billions of religiously devoted fans

00:31:07.540 could possibly be a helpful thing.

00:31:10.120 I don't think it would decide the election necessarily,

00:31:12.160 but it's not helpful.

00:31:13.640 I mean, it's not like, it's not a win, right?

00:31:17.360 It doesn't benefit Trump to have Taylor Swift out there saying,

00:31:20.300 vote for Kamala. 0.93

00:31:22.580 So, you know, I don't get it.

00:31:24.620 I'm not sure I quite understand the strategy there.

00:31:27.820 There probably really isn't one.

00:31:30.220 And then there's this from Breitbart.

00:31:31.520 Producers of the recently released animated Batman series,

00:31:34.640 Batman Caped Crusader have swapped out its male penguin villain for a female penguin

00:31:40.260 because they claim there aren't enough good female villains in Batman. 1.00

00:31:45.060 The show developed by Warner Brothers Discovery was not released on W's streaming service,

00:31:50.180 Max, but instead dumped on Amazon Prime this month.

00:31:53.380 With this version of Batman, the penguin voiced by actress Minnie Driver

00:31:57.520 is a showy over-the-top cabaret owner who moonlights as the head of a criminal organization.

00:32:02.940 The series kept its gender-swapping of the penguin under wraps with its first trailer.

00:32:08.980 But it did showcase that one of the new characters would be a strong female police detective 0.94

00:32:14.140 who leads a Gotham police task force to capture and prosecute the Dark Knight

00:32:18.720 as a criminal vigilante.

00:32:20.840 Here's a look at what the female penguin will look like. 1.00

00:32:24.740 You can see there.

00:32:25.340 And I gotta say, I'm getting some kind of like Rachel Levine vibes from the female penguin. 1.00

00:32:32.620 And I don't mean that as an insult.

00:32:34.560 The penguin's obviously a beautiful woman, so I mean that as only a compliment to Rachel Levine.

00:32:40.340 And, you know, this story obviously doesn't matter at all.

00:32:42.520 If they want to make a female penguin villain in the new Batman cartoon, fine, whatever. 1.00

00:32:48.580 The penguin's one of the lamest supervillains anyway.

00:32:51.020 I mean, what is the penguin's power?

00:32:54.060 He doesn't have one, right?

00:32:56.200 His power is that he's short and fat and deformed, and he has an umbrella. 0.97

00:33:02.200 He's a short, fat, deformed guy with an umbrella. 0.99

00:33:05.340 How does that make him a supervillain? 0.95

00:33:06.280 Like, if the penguin walked into the room right now, I would not be scared.

00:33:09.540 At all.

00:33:11.540 Not even named after an intimidating bird.

00:33:13.480 He's named after a bird that...

00:33:15.020 Like, if a flock of a million of those birds attacked you, it wouldn't do any damage at all.

00:33:22.800 So it doesn't matter, but this story is kind of funny to me for two reasons.

00:33:26.140 First, it's funny that we have to make sure there's equal representation among villains.

00:33:31.200 Like, if you didn't know any better, you would think that that would be the one type of character

00:33:33.940 the left would be happy to allow white males to dominate. 0.99

00:33:37.980 You'd think, but apparently not. 0.62

00:33:39.400 And second, it just goes to show that these people are incapable of creating compelling

00:33:43.860 original female characters.

00:33:45.340 They just can't do it.

00:33:46.900 Every female character now is just a male character hollowed out and repackaged with slightly longer

00:33:52.600 hair.

00:33:54.040 And that's because the writers of these shows, you know, they might be very focused on diversity

00:33:58.100 and equity, but they don't actually understand women well enough to write a new original female 0.93

00:34:04.680 character, especially a female villain.

00:34:07.140 And so this is their way of doing it.

00:34:10.200 But there can be interesting, even intimidating female villains. 1.00

00:34:13.680 For example, I just watched a very good show called Kingdom.

00:34:17.320 It's a Korean show set in the 17th century, and it has zombies.

00:34:22.880 So it's basically a Korean Western with zombies.

00:34:25.820 I don't think, maybe I'm wrong about this.

00:34:27.940 I'm sure someone's done it, but I can't think of an example of someone who's thought to take

00:34:33.600 the zombie premise and move it back, you know, centuries so that you're fighting the

00:34:37.500 zombies with swords and stuff.

00:34:39.400 Maybe someone's done that.

00:34:41.040 Seems pretty obvious, but first I'd seen it.

00:34:43.840 And it's, so, you know, what's not to like?

00:34:46.500 Korean Western zombies, it's like a, you can't fail. 1.00

00:34:50.480 You can't lose.

00:34:52.400 And it's a good show.

00:34:54.360 But the main villain in that show ends up being the queen. 0.93

00:34:59.000 She's kind of a classic evil queen character. 1.00

00:35:01.480 Doesn't beat anybody up.

00:35:02.880 You know, she's not physically intimidating.

00:35:04.740 Doesn't know karate. 0.94

00:35:05.660 But she is highly manipulative, callous, power hungry. 1.00

00:35:10.360 And you take her seriously as a villain.

00:35:12.140 And that's because they wrote her as a female character who is villainous in kind of female 0.97

00:35:17.900 ways.

00:35:18.800 They didn't write her as a male villain who they then just gender swapped.

00:35:23.360 Anyway, that was really just my long excuse for bringing up the show Kingdom, which it

00:35:28.720 seems like no one's heard of somehow, but you should.

00:35:31.120 It's good.

00:35:31.400 Uh, not everything on TV now is terrible.

00:35:34.760 There's at least one good thing.

00:35:36.280 Let's get to the comment section.

00:35:47.700 Here's a comment from, uh, Cregan4584 responding to the discussion yesterday about the outrage

00:35:53.460 over my trailer playing in front of Elliot Page's new trans film.

00:35:56.920 And the comment says, uh, Ellen Page, don't submit, Matt.

00:36:02.380 A few other comments correcting me and accusing me of capitulating in some way by referring

00:36:06.080 to her as Elliot Page rather than Ellen Page.

00:36:09.580 But, you know, that is not a capitulation at all.

00:36:12.360 I've always said that, uh, I will refer to you as whatever name you pick for yourself.

00:36:17.320 Because that's how names work.

00:36:19.320 Um, you're allowed to give yourself a new name.

00:36:21.420 If the name is ridiculous, if it, if it's, uh, if it's a name commonly associated with

00:36:26.700 the opposite sex, if it's a name I don't like, like, okay, but it's still your name.

00:36:33.400 So it's just a fact that Elliot Page's name is Elliot Page.

00:36:38.180 It doesn't make any sense for me to say, no, no, no, her real name is really Ellen Page.

00:36:43.720 Well, no, it isn't.

00:36:46.180 Now, I mean, assuming she legally changed her name, which I have no reason to think she 0.98

00:36:49.360 didn't, if she legally changed her name, then her name is in no way and in no sense

00:36:53.620 Ellen Page.

00:36:54.340 It's just not her name.

00:36:56.020 Uh, so you, you can't really do that.

00:36:57.840 Now, with pronouns you can, and actually this is an important distinction because when you

00:37:02.740 refuse to use the new name, you are conflating names with pronouns.

00:37:09.860 And I think you're actually helping the left because that they want you to, to treat those

00:37:14.040 two things as if they're the same.

00:37:15.620 They're not.

00:37:16.360 Our whole point is that names and pronouns are different things.

00:37:19.520 A name is, is you can choose a name.

00:37:22.080 You can, you can identify as whatever name you want.

00:37:25.140 It makes sense to say, I identify as Matt Walsh.

00:37:27.960 Like that's, that, that's how I identify myself.

00:37:31.140 I could identify myself as something.

00:37:32.700 I could pick a new name and identify myself as that.

00:37:34.600 And that would be my name.

00:37:36.300 Um, so that makes sense.

00:37:40.260 But with pronouns, it doesn't, you can't identify as a pronoun.

00:37:43.780 You can identify as a name.

00:37:45.080 Names are arbitrary, subjective.

00:37:47.960 They have no scientific basis, right?

00:37:50.740 Somebody says they identify as a he, him.

00:37:53.160 You can scientifically find out whether that's true or not.

00:37:55.980 Um, if I say that I identify as Bill, let's say you can't scientifically prove that I'm

00:38:03.500 not Bill.

00:38:05.100 So, cause names are arbitrary, subjective.

00:38:07.180 They have no scientific basis.

00:38:08.180 And pronouns, on the other hand, are objective.

00:38:10.580 And, um, they're not something that you identify as.

00:38:13.920 They're something that is, uh, that, that speaks to the other person's perception of your

00:38:20.120 biological identity.

00:38:22.900 Let's see.

00:38:24.880 1313 Katie Bug. 0.90

00:38:26.880 As I was listening to the show yesterday, I said to myself, self, he's not in the studio.

00:38:30.180 There are an abundance of police sirens and his voice has an echo of trolling today.

00:38:33.800 Him and the man bun wig are a hundred percent going to sneak into the DNC.

00:38:36.680 I don't know.

00:38:37.260 I'm not, I don't know what you're talking about.

00:38:40.000 I'm not sure what you mean by that.

00:38:42.460 Um, that's a weird, that's a weird comment.

00:38:47.100 That's strange.

00:38:48.800 Punster says, Matt, don't forget that many misogynists are not single, uh, but divorced

00:38:54.620 and they've been through the ringer.

00:38:56.220 In fact, many of the single men avoid marriage because they've seen divorce ruin men's lives.

00:39:00.320 Divorce also ruins women's and kids' lives.

00:39:02.460 It might not be so bad if the government wasn't involved or if the legal system

00:39:05.320 treated everyone fairly.

00:39:08.740 Uh, that's true.

00:39:09.600 A lot of the hatred between sexes is driven by divorced people to, you know, uh, men and

00:39:15.300 women. 0.81

00:39:16.220 But that just proves my point even more.

00:39:17.960 If we're noticing a greater gender divide, um, lots of woman hate and man hate going around 1.00

00:39:23.940 out there, then, yeah, as I said yesterday, a lot of the, you know, a lot of the really,

00:39:30.080 the truly sort of woman hating comments that you see on Twitter or something, it's going

00:39:34.320 to be young single men.

00:39:35.440 Most of it is coming from that.

00:39:37.240 On the other, same thing on the other, uh, vice versa.

00:39:40.680 The man hating comments, most of it is coming from, um, single women, whether young or not.

00:39:45.920 Uh, but yes, and, and, and then in other cases, probably in a, in a, um, a certain preponderance

00:39:52.540 of cases, these are coming from people who were not single at one point and then, and

00:39:56.900 then got divorced.

00:39:58.180 But it still goes to the same solution, I think.

00:40:01.400 And the solution to this is happy marriages.

00:40:04.400 Uh, if you have a lot of resentment and anger and hatred between the sexes out in society,

00:40:10.800 which it seems like we do, uh, the solution is happy marriages.

00:40:14.280 If you have a society where people, where, where, where there's, uh, the majority of people

00:40:18.520 are in happy, healthy marriages, you're not going to have that.

00:40:23.400 Um, and finally, uh, I don't know.

00:40:27.580 I was saying the same thing at first, anti-white racism before I ever heard it online.

00:40:31.400 But the more I hear it said by others, the more I think we just need to call it what

00:40:34.300 it is, racism.

00:40:35.420 It just doesn't quite hit right.

00:40:37.180 It sounds too niche.

00:40:40.980 Yeah, I think you're right that, I mean, I, it would be nice if we didn't have to specify

00:40:45.300 anti-white racism.

00:40:47.020 And I certainly agree that we shouldn't be using the term reverse racism to describe

00:40:51.020 anti-white racism, because that implies that racism is fundamentally, um, you know, a,

00:40:57.260 a white on black thing. 0.70

00:40:58.640 Um, and so if black people hate white people, then they are reversing it, which we shouldn't, 0.67

00:41:03.600 we don't want to imply that. 0.84

00:41:04.780 But I do think you have to specify anti-white racism because people associate racism with

00:41:13.360 bigotry towards non-white people.

00:41:16.140 Uh, that's that when you say racism, that's what most people think.

00:41:18.840 Uh, and, and so it, using the term anti-white racism is to get people to understand that

00:41:27.720 there are other forms of racism aside from white on black or white on, uh, quote unquote,

00:41:34.180 people of color.

00:41:34.920 Um, that's what the phrase anti-white racism is supposed to accomplish.

00:41:41.940 Now, eventually it'd be nice to live in a society where you could just say the word

00:41:44.940 racism and everyone understands like that's racial bigotry from anyone to any other group.

00:41:51.140 But I don't think we're at that point yet.

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00:42:30.700 Now let's get to our Daily Cancellation.

00:42:38.480 Now the other day I went into some detail about Kamala Harris's plan to implement price 0.85

00:42:42.600 controls on groceries like they had in the old Soviet Union.

00:42:45.440 At the time, it seemed like a proposal that was pretty hard to top.

00:42:49.220 If you wanted to fast track the destruction of the economy, a surefire way to do it would

00:42:53.020 be to have bureaucrats in Washington tell your Kroger how much to charge for bread.

00:42:58.260 You know, it's pretty much a kill shot.

00:43:00.040 So I didn't think that the Harris campaign would immediately announce yet another new

00:43:03.440 proposal that might do even more to push the economy towards the Great Depression.

00:43:07.160 I didn't think it was possible, frankly.

00:43:08.920 But it turns out that price controls are just the beginning of Kamala Harris's economic 0.89

00:43:12.260 plan.

00:43:13.080 You can call it that.

00:43:13.880 But that's just the part of her plan that she's willing to talk about in public.

00:43:18.660 Simaphore is now reporting that the Harris campaign has just secretly announced its support

00:43:22.820 for an unprecedented plan to tax unrealized capital gains by high net worth individuals.

00:43:28.840 In other words, she wants to tax money that these individuals haven't actually earned

00:43:32.480 and which they do not possess.

00:43:35.020 They're just paper gains from stocks that have increased in value.

00:43:37.960 And now Kamala Harris wants to tax them. 1.00

00:43:39.280 That revelation came in an analysis released on Friday by the Committee for Responsible

00:43:43.260 Federal Budget, which spoke to the Kamala Harris campaign and confirmed that they endorse

00:43:48.160 a series of revenue options included in the Biden administration's recent budget.

00:43:53.060 And those options include a 25% minimum tax on, quote, billionaire wealth, the vast majority

00:43:57.920 of which is held in unrealized capital gains.

00:44:00.120 In particular, the proposal would apply to individuals worth more than $100 million.

00:44:03.900 Now, it's worth emphasizing the way this was communicated.

00:44:08.100 Kamala Harris didn't give a policy speech explaining why she plans to tax rich people's 0.97

00:44:12.360 unrealized capital gains.

00:44:13.720 She didn't release a statement explaining how it's possible or legal to tax unrealized

00:44:17.680 capital gains.

00:44:18.100 Instead, her campaign told the Committee for Responsible Federal Budget about the plans

00:44:21.940 and a Friday news dump hasn't spoken about it since.

00:44:25.360 Now, give you an idea of how this would work.

00:44:26.780 Let's say you're Elon Musk and you own $10 million in Tesla stock.

00:44:29.860 And let's say Tesla stock increases in value by 50% to $15 million.

00:44:35.900 Kamala Harris's plan would allow the federal government to tax your $5 million in unrealized 0.95

00:44:39.960 profit at a rate of 25%, even though you can't spend that $5 million in profit because it's

00:44:45.200 still tied up in the stock.

00:44:46.780 You now owe the federal government some of that money.

00:44:49.240 By contrast, if your stock had declined in value by 50%, you would not get a tax credit

00:44:54.700 for that drop.

00:44:55.360 And if the stock value were to drop after you paid the tax on the unrealized gains, well,

00:45:00.800 then tough luck.

00:45:01.300 You've just lost the value of the stock plus paid a tax on money that you never had.

00:45:05.880 This is a proposal that is unconstitutional, for one thing.

00:45:09.420 The federal government doesn't have the power to tax something you don't have.

00:45:12.920 They also don't have the power to levy direct taxes on anyone, according to Article 1, Section

00:45:16.620 9 of the Constitution.

00:45:17.960 We only have an income tax because the 16th Amendment specifically allows for it.

00:45:21.720 But a tax on unrealized gains isn't a tax on income because there's no income, just

00:45:26.540 appreciation.

00:45:27.880 Additionally, even if this new tax were somehow constitutional, it would still be a terrible

00:45:32.340 idea.

00:45:33.560 Harris's tax proposal would discourage investment in the stock market at the highest levels

00:45:37.220 by encouraging wealthy investors to take their money elsewhere.

00:45:40.140 That's what happened in Norway when they tried to tax unrealized capital gains.

00:45:43.880 They thought they'd be getting hundreds of millions in new tax revenue, only to lose hundreds

00:45:47.520 of millions of dollars in revenue because the ultra-rich fled the country, obviously.

00:45:51.720 This is the exact opposite of what you'd want to happen if you were trying to ensure that

00:45:54.760 people's 401k balances keep going up.

00:45:58.900 We want rich people keeping their money in the market and buying more stocks because that

00:46:02.160 benefits the market for everybody.

00:46:03.340 We don't want them to take their money into offshore tax shelters. 0.94

00:46:06.800 We don't want them selling their stocks in order to pay some massive tax so the government

00:46:10.240 can waste their money.

00:46:11.280 We want to encourage investment, not discourage it.

00:46:13.660 Very basic concept.

00:46:15.120 The other problem with this proposal is that it's obviously going to expand.

00:46:18.780 It's not going to stay limited to rich people.

00:46:20.840 Once the federal government assumes massive new powers to tax money that people don't

00:46:25.060 have, they're going to apply those new powers whenever possible.

00:46:29.240 They'll start with billionaires and they'll work their way down.

00:46:32.140 And if you don't believe that, look at what happened with the income tax.

00:46:34.700 That was passed in 1861.

00:46:36.500 At the time, it only applied to people making 800 bucks or more, which would put them in

00:46:40.540 the top 3% of income earners at the time.

00:46:43.320 But the income tax obviously didn't stay relegated to the top 3% for very long.

00:46:47.220 So now pretty much everybody pays income tax at a much higher rate also.

00:46:51.140 The same thing happened with the AMT or the Alternative Minimum Tax.

00:46:53.820 In 1969, the Treasury Secretary told Congress that a total of 155 taxpayers who made more

00:46:59.620 than $200,000 in the past year had managed to pay no federal income tax.

00:47:03.120 Reportedly, the public was so outraged by this that they sent more letters to Congress complaining

00:47:07.580 about these 155 taxpayers than they sent about the Vietnam War.

00:47:10.420 And in response, Congress passed an additional tax, tack on tax, that these 155 households

00:47:16.240 would have to pay in addition to income tax, which included a new tax on capital gains.

00:47:20.820 It was a popular proposal because most people assumed that they wouldn't be affected by it.

00:47:24.700 And you probably know what happened next.

00:47:26.200 By 2015, the AMT affected a lot more than 155 people.

00:47:29.260 In fact, it affected more than 5 million taxpayers in 2017.

00:47:33.920 And that's how many people had to pay some form of AMT.

00:47:36.540 It wasn't until the Trump administration reduced that number to around 200,000, but it was

00:47:41.260 still a lot higher than 155.

00:47:44.060 So given this history, there's absolutely no reason to think that this new tax on unrealized

00:47:48.460 capital gains is going to be restricted to wealthy individuals for very long.

00:47:52.360 It's very likely that the government will quickly start going after unrealized gains that millions

00:47:56.400 of Americans supposedly possess.

00:47:58.420 For example, your home.

00:48:00.500 Let's say you bought a home for $200,000.

00:48:02.580 It's now worth $400,000.

00:48:03.840 That will qualify as a $200,000 unrealized gain, even if you didn't sell it.

00:48:10.460 You don't have the money.

00:48:11.620 It's your home.

00:48:12.520 Your home is the money.

00:48:13.940 Can Kamala Harris charge you 25% of the $200,000 whenever she wants, which would bankrupt many 0.87

00:48:20.700 families?

00:48:22.000 Under this new proposal, she could.

00:48:24.240 She could also come after your 401k directly, since there are probably a lot of unrealized gains

00:48:29.440 there as well.

00:48:30.080 But here's the point.

00:48:32.760 Even if this proposal somehow did remain restricted to rich individuals, even if for the first

00:48:36.700 time in recorded history, the government decided not to expand its unprecedented new powers over

00:48:41.680 the economy, then it would still be wrong.

00:48:44.640 The government doesn't get to steal money that people don't have.

00:48:47.760 It doesn't matter if they're Elon Musk or a homeless guy on the street.

00:48:50.880 Taxing phantom money is an unethical and unconstitutional and unworkable plan.

00:48:56.860 We have to reject this kind of thing completely, reject it in principle.

00:49:02.960 To be comprehensive about this, there are additional proposals that Harris's campaign

00:49:06.320 quietly endorsed on Friday that would also help speed along the destruction of the economy.

00:49:10.500 For example, Harris would also raise the corporate tax rate to 28%, marking the first

00:49:15.000 hike in 40 years, a dramatic increase in the current rate of 21%, which has been in effect

00:49:19.380 since 2018.

00:49:19.960 She also raised some long-term capital gain tax rates to 44.6%, the highest rate since

00:49:26.340 1922.

00:49:28.280 All of these proposals, combined with the price controls and the tax on unrealized gains, would

00:49:33.060 put this country closer to a Great Depression than we've been since the 1920s.

00:49:36.680 And the only reason the Harris campaign is doing it is that Democrats are incapable of even

00:49:40.880 mentioning the actual solutions to our economic problems, slash government spending, and slow

00:49:47.480 the printing of money.

00:49:50.340 Adopting those solutions would mean disappointing core constituents of the Democrat Party, including

00:49:55.540 the millions of new arrivals from Central America.

00:49:58.880 It would require admitting that the Biden administration made our economic outlook worse, not better,

00:50:05.380 by spending nearly a trillion dollars to reduce inflation.

00:50:09.780 So Kamala Harris instead has endorsed a series of proposals that would turn our economy 0.90

00:50:13.220 sharply towards actual collapse.

00:50:18.080 And that is why Kamala Harris and her plan to tax money that does not exist are today 1.00

00:50:23.500 canceled.

00:50:25.580 That'll do it for the show today.

00:50:26.540 Thanks for watching.

00:50:27.000 Thanks for listening.

00:50:27.600 Talk to you tomorrow.

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00:51:04.860 Is America inherently racist?

00:51:06.420 The word inherent is challenging there.

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00:51:11.540 America is racist to its bones.

00:51:13.400 So inherently. 0.98

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