The Matt Walsh Show - September 16, 2024


Ep. 1443 - Ghoulish Leftists Blame Trump For Another Assassination Attempt On His Life


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1 hour

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702

Misogynist Sentences

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00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the unhinged rhetoric about Donald Trump has now apparently led to a
00:00:04.140 second assassination attempt. Will this cause the media to back off and stop fear-mongering
00:00:08.920 about Trump? Well, of course not. Also, my new film, Am I Racist, debuted in theaters and managed
00:00:13.560 to crack the top five in the National Box Office. It's a huge achievement, and we'll talk about it
00:00:18.360 today. Plus, the Navy brags about their latest innovation, a gender-neutral submarine. We'll
00:00:23.740 discuss all of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
00:00:30.000 Just 65 days ago, President Trump narrowly escaped death at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:00:55.880 Yesterday, his safety was again compromised at his own golf course, with the FBI now probing
00:00:59.980 another attempt at assassination. This is the reality we're up against. At The Daily Wire,
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00:02:07.620 promo code Walsh. On Sunday, Donald Trump became the first presidential candidate in a half a century
00:02:13.020 to survive two back-to-back assassination attempts. Both of these assassination attempts involved
00:02:18.200 significant failures by the Secret Service. And they raised the question of whether Donald Trump,
00:02:22.660 who's currently the leading candidate for president of the United States, will even survive until
00:02:27.580 election day. That is the current state of American democracy, thanks to the self-described
00:02:32.380 protectors of democracy. And we know why this is happening. Donald Trump, more so than any other
00:02:37.980 candidate since Nixon, is openly antagonistic to the most entrenched interests in Washington,
00:02:43.540 and particularly the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies. And he's difficult to control because of
00:02:48.240 that. Trump is not an easily replaceable actor like Kamala Harris, who's only capable of reciting
00:02:53.840 canned soundbites. Whether you like Trump or not, everybody knows that's true about him. And now that
00:03:00.000 lawfare has failed, his enemies believe that they're out of options. Assassinating Trump would change the
00:03:06.380 trajectory of this country forever. Assassinating any other politician would, you know, frankly,
00:03:12.260 probably not. And this is why, for the better part of a decade, the left has attempted to establish a
00:03:17.740 pretext for Trump's assassination. They labeled Trump a traitor to this country. They said that he
00:03:23.920 was a double agent working for Putin. They branded Trump as the gravest threat to democracy since the
00:03:30.400 Civil War. They repeatedly claimed that Trump called neo-Nazis very fine people, even when he said the
00:03:35.680 opposite. Even after the assassination attempt at Pennsylvania two months ago, nothing about Democrats' plans
00:03:41.860 and their approach to Trump has changed. Tim Walz again labeled Trump a fascist and a threat to
00:03:47.660 democracy, saying that he will put people's lives in danger if he returns to the White House.
00:03:52.200 From the debate stage, Kamala Harris again invoked Charlottesville and repeated the very fine people
00:03:57.080 hoax. She said that Trump vowed to be a dictator. She told Americans that Trump had promised a blood
00:04:03.360 bath if he lost the election when he was actually talking about the auto industry suffering a blood
00:04:07.360 bath in terms of job losses. So that's how flagrant the propaganda has become. But if you're unhinged
00:04:15.180 and uninformed, say if you're the kind of person who might try to murder a political candidate,
00:04:20.920 then these kinds of lies really resonate with you. And that's why Democrats repeat them over and over.
00:04:27.520 They're hoping somebody will take their lies seriously and act on them. And that appears to be what
00:04:33.500 happened yesterday. The shooter at Trump's golf course has been identified as Ryan Ruth. He's been,
00:04:39.180 he's made nearly two dozen donations to Democrats. He was also reportedly arrested for possessing a
00:04:44.080 weapon of mass destruction, referring to a fully automatic machine gun back in 2002. So he was on
00:04:50.360 law enforcement's radar, to put it mildly. And on social media this April, an account with Ruth's
00:04:54.880 name posted this message to Joe Biden, quote, your campaign should be called something like
00:05:00.660 K-A-D-A-F, keep America democratic and free. Trump should be massa, make American slaves again,
00:05:09.760 master. Democracy is on the ballot and we cannot lose. We cannot afford to fail.
00:05:14.740 The word is, the world is counting on us to show the way.
00:05:17.200 So a lot of that is just almost incoherent and crazy. But even in that crazy ranting,
00:05:25.940 you notice that he wrote, democracy is on the ballot, which is a line that, you know,
00:05:31.100 you may have heard before. So the gunman is reciting the exact talking points that Democrats
00:05:36.740 have repeatedly, endlessly gone on about for the past several years. In particular, the shooter also
00:05:44.220 bought completely into the Democrats' narrative on Ukraine, to the point that he recorded this
00:05:49.760 interview with Newsmax. Watch.
00:05:53.520 Please tell me who you are and why are you here?
00:05:57.980 I'm 56 from the U.S., from North Carolina, originally. So I live in Hawaii now. So I flew
00:06:04.440 all the way from Hawaii here. So the question as far as why I'm here, to me, you know, a lot of
00:06:11.560 daily conflicts are gray, but this conflict is definitely black and white. This is about
00:06:15.820 good versus evil. This is a storybook. You know, any movie we've ever watched, this is
00:06:20.820 definitely evil against good. I mean, we're battling a situation here where, you know, the
00:06:27.440 Ukrainians and the rest of the world are caring and kind and generous and unselfish and take
00:06:34.800 care of one another. And it's just a matter of, you know, we need to stand up for that.
00:06:40.220 That is the most important thing in the world is just to show human beings that we're kind
00:06:44.840 and we're caring and that we take care of one another and that the world is united so that
00:06:49.220 we feed each other and make sure that, you know, we all move forward as one collective
00:06:54.640 whole unit.
00:06:55.520 So, uh, by the way, that's Newsweek, not Newsmax. Um, it's all about being caring and
00:07:01.740 kind, he says, and, uh, taking care of one another. This, according to the man who would
00:07:08.440 allegedly go on to attempt an assassination, this is the level of cognitive dissonance that
00:07:15.280 now defines many on the left. These are the same people with love is love law signs who
00:07:21.820 will try to get you fired if you disagree with them. But the more important thing is
00:07:25.720 that again, the alleged gunman is inheriting exactly what Democrats are saying. He's saying
00:07:31.600 that Ukraine is completely good and Russia is completely evil because that's what Democrats
00:07:37.260 have been saying ever since Russiagate. There's no room for any kind of nuance. The official
00:07:43.380 Democrat party line is that we have to fight Russia overseas using Ukraine as a proxy or else
00:07:48.020 will have to fight Russia on the streets in this country as if they're going to invade the United
00:07:52.340 States. Adam Schiff literally said that during the first impeachment trial. I mean, it's insane
00:07:58.260 rhetoric. The idea that Russia is going to invade the United States, we'll have to fight them.
00:08:03.520 But, uh, inevitably the thing with insane rhetoric is that someone's going to take it seriously.
00:08:09.880 And that appears to be what Ryan Ruth did. Two years ago, the, uh, semaphore reported that
00:08:16.080 Ryan Ruth said, quote, I've had partners meeting with Ukraine's ministry of defense every week
00:08:20.820 concerning assistance to Ukraine's war effort. And then one year ago, the New York times reported
00:08:25.840 that, uh, the same man had traveled to Ukraine several times and was even working on illegal
00:08:30.580 plans to recruit Taliban fighters to move to Ukraine. He also said that, um, online that he was,
00:08:37.260 uh, willing to fight and die for Ukraine. This is someone who clearly believed all of the
00:08:42.780 propaganda the Democrats used in order to secure that first, uh, impeachment. And it's, it's worth
00:08:48.180 mentioning at this point that we've already learned a lot more information about Ryan Ruth than we
00:08:53.020 ever learned about Thomas Crooks, who tried to murder Donald Trump and Butler. The Secret Service
00:08:58.700 held a press conference just a few hours after this incident yesterday, answering a bunch of
00:09:02.400 questions, but they ducked the first press conference, uh, the night of the Butler shooting.
00:09:06.820 At the same time there, there, even though they're saying a lot more about it, there's still a lot
00:09:13.700 of unanswered questions here. Last night, Facebook apparently deleted Ruth's account, uh, for
00:09:18.800 instance, what was on that account exactly? And what, if any, communications did Ruth have with anyone
00:09:24.200 in Ukraine beyond what's already been reported? Those are questions we need answers to. At the same
00:09:30.340 time, it's important to understand that Ryan Ruth himself probably isn't the biggest part of this
00:09:35.220 story. Just like Thomas Crooks wasn't the biggest part of the first assassination attempt. We are
00:09:39.280 not witnessing one or two lone gunmen who just snapped, which is what we saw with the attempted
00:09:44.780 assassinations of Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, for example. We're not even seeing anything similar
00:09:49.400 to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, which raised a lot of questions about the potential
00:09:52.680 involvement of the U.S. government. When Kennedy was murdered, the media and the security state at
00:09:56.980 least pretended to be upset by it. But with Donald Trump, the opposite is happening. In fact,
00:10:02.740 the media didn't even bother to act like they were upset by the day's events. Instead,
00:10:07.920 the corporate press immediately suggested that Donald Trump bore responsibility for his own
00:10:12.940 attempted murder. Again, here's a MSNBC on that point. Yeah. Uh, do, do you expect there to be calls
00:10:22.580 from within the Trump campaign to do that? Um, because he's going to reach out to his, uh, supporters
00:10:30.020 and say, let's take this down. Uh, we do not know again, the source of any gunshot or gunshots. We
00:10:37.700 don't know who's responsible for this. Uh, the whole thing has yet to be 100% confirmed, uh, from start
00:10:44.460 to finish how this all played out. But do you expect to hear anything from the Trump campaign about
00:10:50.200 toning down the rhetoric, toning down the violence, or would that be atypical of, uh, the former
00:10:56.040 president? Well, Alex, remember back to the assassination attempt on president Trump's life
00:11:01.800 and how, you know, there was talk of a new tone. And then the, the Republican convention was by
00:11:07.480 Trumpian standards muted. And it did seem like he was, you know, just trying to take it down a few
00:11:15.340 notches. But then by the end of his convention speech, you know, we were kind of back to where,
00:11:20.900 uh, we started. So I don't know how long this could like, you know, this moment of unity for
00:11:28.400 the country where we come together and we say, I don't want any political opposition to be under
00:11:34.020 threat of violence. It's not okay. Any threat of violence, you know, we don't want, I would love
00:11:40.560 for us to have a unity type moment, but I think it's probably going to be pretty fleeting as we've
00:11:45.460 seen in the past. So there were a similar clips after the Butler shooting and that's the, there's
00:11:52.300 no accident here. These people are every bit as ghoulish as they appear saying Donald Trump needs
00:11:56.980 to tone down his rhetoric after his own assassination attempt. I mean, it's, it's like blaming a rape
00:12:02.500 victim for wearing a short skirt. You know, this is a classic victim blaming that you hear about from
00:12:07.860 the left a lot. And now they are engaging in it, of course. How about MSNBC tone down their own
00:12:14.140 rhetoric? How about they stop comparing Donald Trump to Hitler every other day? This kind of
00:12:20.240 reaction isn't confined to MSNBC. Last night, 60 Minutes ran another special on January 6th, once again
00:12:25.660 portraying Trump as a threat to democracy. And for several hours yesterday, there was no statement
00:12:30.380 from the White House condemning the attempted assassination. By the time Kamala Harris finally put
00:12:34.920 out a statement on social media last night, she called it a possible assassination attempt, probably to
00:12:39.740 encourage her followers to say that it's all a hoax again. Meanwhile, top Democrats continued lying.
00:12:45.040 Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrats' leader in the House, wrote, quote, extreme MAGA Republicans are the party
00:12:50.100 of a national abortion ban and Trump's Project 2025. We must stop them. That was posted on Hakeem Jeffries'
00:12:57.920 account more than a half hour after gunfire was first reported at Trump's golf course. Nothing in the
00:13:04.080 statement was true. Republicans are not the party of a national abortion ban, unfortunately. And Donald
00:13:10.740 Trump has repeatedly disavowed Project 2025, unfortunately. These are just more lies in
00:13:17.580 service of telling people that we must stop Trump because he's so extreme. This is not the kind of
00:13:22.620 rhetoric that you should be using in any context because lying like this is wrong. But it's especially
00:13:29.680 galling when a left winger is actively in the process of trying to murder the president
00:13:33.660 for the second time in two months. And there were many reactions along these lines. Rachel Vindman
00:13:40.040 wrote, quote, no ears were harmed. Carry on with your Sunday afternoon. So who is Rachel Vindman? Well,
00:13:47.600 she's the wife of Alexander Vindman, the main witness against Trump during the first impeachment,
00:13:52.460 the one about Trump briefly pausing financial assistance to Ukraine. Alexander Vindman was also offered the
00:13:59.200 role of Ukrainian defense minister a few years ago. For his part, after the assassination time yesterday,
00:14:04.240 Alexander Vindman tweeted that Trump should be disqualified from office. So this whole situation
00:14:09.760 certainly has the appearance of some very powerful and well-connected people who don't want Trump to
00:14:15.380 cut Ukraine's funding again. And they apparently wouldn't mind if Trump were killed in order to
00:14:20.640 prevent that from happening. Meanwhile, NBC News went out of its way to link the shooting to Donald Trump
00:14:27.160 and J.D. Vindman's comments on the ongoing crisis in Springfield, Ohio. They didn't point out that
00:14:33.040 Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have done everything they can to present Donald Trump as a neo-Nazi terrorist.
00:14:38.420 Instead, they faulted Donald Trump and J.D. Vindman for bringing attention to the tens of thousands
00:14:43.060 of Haitians that have descended on a town of just 60,000 people. Watch.
00:14:46.620 Today's apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail
00:14:52.560 itself. Mr. Trump, his running mate J.D. Vindman continue to make baseless claims about Haitian
00:14:58.440 immigrants in Ohio. This weekend, there were new bomb threats in that town. Our Maggie Vespa is in
00:15:04.500 Columbus, Ohio with more. Lester simply puts Springfield, Ohio has been inundated by threats
00:15:10.320 over the last several days, closing government buildings, schools, hospitals. Today, effectively closing a
00:15:15.640 local university campus after administrators said someone threatened a mass shooting targeting
00:15:20.640 Haitians. This in light of, officials say, a false online conspiracy theory alleging Haitian immigrants
00:15:27.000 in that city are eating people's pets. So you see how this works. Donald Trump is to blame for
00:15:32.120 inciting violence because he talks about problems in Springfield, but Democrats are not to blame for
00:15:36.660 inciting violence because they talk about how Donald Trump is the next Hitler. The whole inciting violence
00:15:41.540 thing only applies to Donald Trump, not the reverse. At this point, I could play the footage from Chris
00:15:46.820 Ruffeau of what appears to be someone's pet being grilled in Ohio. We could go through all the 911
00:15:52.280 calls about Haitians carrying geese away or the city council testimony about ducks being beheaded and
00:15:57.620 so on. But none of that's actually important because here's the important point. Even if Trump were
00:16:02.920 completely wrong about what's happening in Springfield, it still wouldn't justify someone trying to murder
00:16:07.000 him, obviously. It also wouldn't justify Democrats calling Trump an existential threat to democracy who
00:16:13.320 must be stopped or, quote, eliminated. There's a clear difference between a debate about what open
00:16:19.620 borders are doing to this country and a debate about whether Donald Trump should be allowed to run for
00:16:24.280 office without being imprisoned or shot. The left is having the latter debate right now, and that's the
00:16:30.460 problem. Actually, to be more precise, it's not just the left. Neocons, who are now indistinguishable from
00:16:36.640 the left, are joining in that debate too. Here's Bill Kristol, for example. He wrote this several
00:16:42.440 hours after it was confirmed that the shooting of the golf course was an attempted assassination. He
00:16:46.040 wrote, quote, Walsh should consider canceling the debate with Vance. Vance would use his time on a
00:16:51.080 national stage to slander minorities, further poison the national discourse, and incite potential
00:16:56.280 violence with lies. Walsh could rebut Vance's falsehoods, but why risk the further incitement?
00:17:02.440 Now, there are thousands of posts like this from prominent Democrats and random people. They're
00:17:08.720 all over the internet. People are blaming Donald Trump for being shot at. It's so pervasive that
00:17:14.960 you have to wonder what's coming next. At the press conference yesterday, the local sheriff made
00:17:20.400 several comments that raise serious concerns about the Secret Service's willingness and ability to
00:17:24.860 protect Donald Trump. Here's one of them. In the bushes where this guy was is an AK-47 style rifle
00:17:33.600 with a scope, two backpacks which were hung on the fence that had a ceramic tile in them, and a GoPro
00:17:40.560 which he was going to take pictures of. So those are being processed right now. The Secret Service
00:17:47.420 agent that was on the course did a fantastic job. What they do is they have an agent that jumps one
00:17:55.220 hole ahead of time to where the president was at. And he was able to spot this rifle barrel sticking out
00:18:01.100 of the fence and immediately engage that individual, at which time the individual took off.
00:18:07.280 In other words, there was no secure perimeter here. There was no checkpoint that the shooter had to
00:18:12.320 pass through. He could just walk up to the tree line with a rifle and set up a sniper's nest. And if
00:18:17.900 that one agent had noticed the rifle barrel, then he would have been able to shoot Donald Trump.
00:18:23.420 That's how poorly Donald Trump was being protected by the Secret Service, two months after somebody
00:18:27.580 tried to murder him on live television. And that's not because it's impossible to secure the golf course.
00:18:33.500 The sheriff went on to admit that if Donald Trump were the sitting president, the whole golf course
00:18:37.720 would have been secured. Nobody with a rifle would have been allowed anywhere near Donald Trump,
00:18:41.940 much less within 500 yards of him. Watch. How was this able to happen? And for future
00:18:48.540 reference, is there any up security of a golf course? Well, you got to understand the golf course
00:18:53.380 is surrounded by shrubbery. So when somebody gets into the shrubbery, they're pretty much out of sight.
00:18:58.720 All right. And at this level that he is at right now, he's not the city president. If he was,
00:19:04.420 we would have had this higher golf course around it. Well, because he's not, the security is limited to
00:19:09.700 the areas that the Secret Service deems possible. So I would imagine that the next time he comes at
00:19:16.540 a golf course, there'll probably be a little bit more people around the perimeter. But the Secret
00:19:22.140 Service did exactly what they should have done. They provided exactly what the protection should
00:19:26.520 have been. And their agent did a fantastic job. So this is the kind of protection that Donald Trump
00:19:32.080 is receiving two months after the attempted assassination in Butler. Because he's not the president,
00:19:36.860 the Secret Service are allowing armed men with rifles to roam around in the trees by his golf
00:19:42.260 course. They just don't have the resources to set up a perimeter, supposedly. There's just no way the
00:19:48.200 Secret Service has the budget to seal off the entire course. Everybody in the entire country knows that
00:19:53.980 Joe Biden is in far less danger right now than Donald Trump. But he's the president, Donald Trump isn't.
00:20:01.140 Therefore, people basically get to take pot shots at Donald Trump from now until the election.
00:20:05.060 That's effectively what the sheriff is saying. There are signs that at least there will be an
00:20:10.960 actual investigation into this attempted assassination. Last night, Ron DeSantis wrote,
00:20:15.020 quote, the state of Florida will be conducting its own investigation regarding the attempted
00:20:18.360 assassination at Trump International Golf Club. The people deserve the truth about the would-be
00:20:22.680 assassin and how he was able to get within 500 yards of the former president and current GOP nominee.
00:20:28.320 Now, based on how the Biden administration stonewalled after the Butler shooting,
00:20:31.320 having Florida do its own investigation is obviously a necessary step. It shouldn't be
00:20:36.980 necessary, but it is. We have a federal government that's actively trying to cover up the attempted
00:20:42.980 murder of Donald Trump based on the testimony of the Secret Service director a month ago.
00:20:47.440 And they're clearly not doing their best to protect Trump now. In particular, any connections between
00:20:52.760 this shooter and Ukraine need to be thoroughly investigated. We need to know how the shooter learned about
00:20:59.020 Trump's location on the golf course, especially because it wasn't published on any schedule.
00:21:04.960 It wasn't publicly known that he'd be on the golf course. And the Secret Service needs to explain
00:21:08.780 why Donald Trump isn't receiving anywhere near the level of protection that he should be receiving.
00:21:13.480 In the meantime, what's necessary is for everyone in the corporate press and the Democrat Party
00:21:17.820 who has pushed all of these lies about the end of democracy and so on to apologize profusely for
00:21:25.140 the damage they've done to this country. Then they should resign and never hold another job in the
00:21:30.060 media or the government ever again. Yesterday on CNN, the network that, you know, pushed so many
00:21:35.520 Russiagate lies to begin with, there was one analyst who suggested that maybe some accountability might be
00:21:42.480 in order. Watch. You know, Aaron, it's unprecedented in a civilized society. And I think we're becoming
00:21:48.020 more and more uncivilized, sadly, with the political diatribes that are going on and the political
00:21:53.760 indictments of either candidate. And sadly, the finger pointing at Trump has led to, you know,
00:22:01.640 you know, the line about the blood bath, talking about the auto industry being used as if he's going
00:22:06.200 to create a bloody coup if he loses. That kind of verbiage is something you use in a third world
00:22:15.600 country when you're talking about a dictator. And that sadly has led to, I think, these attempts
00:22:21.880 on Trump's life. And I don't think it's going to end. And I think we just have to realize, look,
00:22:27.020 we're political opponents. You and I might not agree on 50 percent of what we care about politically.
00:22:31.820 It doesn't matter. It doesn't mean we can't be friends, neighbors, relatives, and have a regular
00:22:36.700 dialogue every day. And we have to get back to that. Talk about our differences, but not in a
00:22:41.140 way that makes us feel like you're the enemy and I'm all good. A lot of truth to what he said. The
00:22:46.500 problem is that there are no indications that this kind of calming down will actually happen. It
00:22:52.620 didn't happen after Butler, and it's not going to happen now. From the rhetoric that Democrats and
00:22:57.500 the media are using, it's now abundantly clear that a lot of very powerful people want Donald Trump
00:23:01.500 dead. They're not really even trying to hide it. It's also clear that the Secret Service isn't
00:23:05.800 capable of preventing that outcome. As a result, the next two months will be unlike any other in
00:23:12.680 American history. Trump supporters don't simply have to hope that their candidate wins the election.
00:23:17.060 They also have to hope that Kamala Harris supporters won't kill their candidates.
00:23:21.660 That's what they tried to do in Butler two months ago. It's what they tried to do on Sunday.
00:23:25.760 And thanks to the self-appointed defenders of democracy in the corporate press and the leadership
00:23:32.320 of the Democrat Party, it's all but assured that before long, they will try again.
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00:25:30.780 was $3 million. So surpassed our production budget in three days. Not too shabby, I have to say. And
00:25:37.120 probably what I'm most proud of is that we're also in the top five for opening weekend box office for
00:25:43.380 any film in our genre in the past decade. And we're also the top grossing documentary of this year.
00:25:50.880 So it's all amazing. I'm humbled by it. Grateful for it. Grateful to everybody who came out and
00:25:58.780 supported the film. If you didn't come out and support it, then you're dead to me. Unless you
00:26:03.240 support it this weekend, then I can forgive you. And this has also given me an appreciation that I
00:26:10.340 never had before. An understanding of how enormously difficult it is to compete in the film industry.
00:26:21.180 And to begin with, it's really hard to make a movie. I mean, even making a bad movie is hard.
00:26:28.480 I don't know that from experience. My two movies are good. But I do know that just making a
00:26:33.220 movie in general is just a hard thing to do. Making a good movie is even harder. Getting a
00:26:37.920 movie into theaters is a Herculean task, we discovered. Getting a wide release once you're
00:26:43.940 in theaters, even more so. And then having any kind of success in theaters, making it to the top five,
00:26:50.440 even the top 10, is almost impossible. It doesn't seem impossible from the outside because
00:26:56.180 movies are in the top 10 every week, of course. But the vast majority of films that are made every
00:27:03.800 year never appear in the top five in the box office. The vast majority aren't there at all,
00:27:11.180 aren't even in theaters. And in our situation, we were blessed to have 1,500 screens on opening
00:27:22.660 weekend, which is great for a documentary. But every other film, I believe, in the top 10
00:27:29.940 had more screens than us. The films in front of us had like double or triple the number of screens.
00:27:35.980 Many of the films that finished behind us had hundreds more screens than we did, even 1,000
00:27:41.960 more screens. Then there's the marketing budget. You have to market your movie, of course. You have
00:27:45.700 to get people. And marketing a movie means really like marketing anything else. It's like you can't
00:27:54.080 just tell people about it. You've probably noticed that with how often we've talked about this film
00:27:57.820 is because you can't just tell people about it once. You have to like drill it into their heads
00:28:02.400 until they can recall it on their own, right? You want people just like unprompted.
00:28:08.920 And with a movie, you want to get sort of get the public to the point where if you were to go up to
00:28:13.560 them and say, hey, what movies are coming out this weekend, they'll name your own movie. It'll be the
00:28:18.300 first thing they name. And mainstream Hollywood films, of course, they have, this is the task for
00:28:27.300 them. And they've got like $80 million, $100 million to spend on marketing so that even if you don't want
00:28:35.060 to know that there are movies coming out this weekend, you'll know it. We had a tiny fraction of
00:28:42.140 that. I can tell you. And so smaller, much smaller budget, many fewer screens. That's the obstacle
00:28:49.600 that you have to get over. And this is not me, certainly not complaining at all, quite the
00:28:54.060 opposite. I'm trying to express gratitude and awe because, you know, you just don't know.
00:29:00.720 You don't know how big the mountain is until you start climbing it very often. And sometimes you
00:29:06.920 start climbing it and then you look and you're like, holy crap, what did I get myself into?
00:29:10.380 But you got to press on ahead. And in this case, it has gone better than my wildest imagination to
00:29:22.300 this point. And the challenge is to build on the momentum. You know, we always knew this would be a
00:29:27.520 word of mouth kind of operation for us because when you don't have the huge marketing budget, then
00:29:33.700 your primary mode of marketing is just to get some people to see it. And then those people
00:29:40.300 hopefully will market the movie for you if they love it. And fortunately, our word of mouth is very
00:29:46.140 strong. We have a 99% verified audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, which means that 99% of the people
00:29:52.780 who actually went and saw it liked the movie, which to me is also pretty mind-blowing.
00:30:02.260 And it's an interesting dichotomy because, you know, with Rotten Tomatoes, we're very accustomed to
00:30:10.460 seeing this thing where the audience score for a film, especially if it's a film from a conservative,
00:30:14.800 we all know the audience score is often like 90% or higher. And then you'll see that critic score
00:30:20.640 and it's like 25%, right? So you got the fresh audience score, the Rotten Critics score,
00:30:27.600 and we're all used to seeing that. In our case, it's an even more stark contrast because you've got
00:30:39.680 a 99% score with the audience. And then from mainstream critics, we have no score. They're not
00:30:45.800 even going to score it. To this point, and maybe this will change today, maybe it'll change tomorrow,
00:30:52.020 but to this point, precisely zero mainstream critics in mainstream publications have reviewed the film.
00:31:02.340 They've all been sent the film, you know, and at this point, they certainly know that it exists,
00:31:06.640 but to this point, zero have even reviewed it. So when they don't agree with you politically,
00:31:18.520 they'll reflexively give you a bad review. What we're discovering is if they really,
00:31:24.580 really don't agree with you, I mean, if they really hate you, then they'll just refuse to
00:31:28.920 acknowledge that your movie exists at all. And of course, I'm biased because it's my movie and I
00:31:35.380 like the movie, but I think one of the problems that the mainstream critics are having, and one
00:31:44.620 of the reasons why they're at this point not reviewing it, is that they know that if they
00:31:51.940 review it, they're going to have to at least give us some credit. Like they're not going to be able to
00:31:58.020 come out and say that it's just a terrible movie. I'm sure they'll give it a bad review ultimately,
00:32:04.020 right? But they'll, they'll give it bad enough that it can qualify as rotten on the rotten tomatoes
00:32:09.620 score. But they'll have to admit that like, they'll have to give it to, to give it any kind
00:32:15.980 of honest review. They'd have to give it some props because like it is a funny movie and I don't care
00:32:22.540 who you are. If you watch the movie, you're going to laugh. I don't care where you fall on the
00:32:27.380 political spectrum. You're going to laugh if you watch it. And they don't want to have to do that.
00:32:30.800 They don't want to have to give us any props. They don't want to have to say that, yeah,
00:32:33.800 Matt Walsh is a horrible bigot. He's a terrible person. Here are all the problems with the movie,
00:32:38.080 but it is entertaining. And I did laugh. They don't want to say that. Um, and they're worried
00:32:43.140 if they do say that, that their own audience is going to be very angry. So that's the issue so far.
00:32:50.600 And like I said, maybe it'll change. I think that, um, you know, when you, when you, this is what we
00:32:57.000 discovered with what is a woman, when you have a film and you don't put it in theaters and you put
00:33:01.080 it on the platform, one of the disadvantages there is that you're kind of staying in your own lane
00:33:08.260 and then kind of the mainstream media can justify ignoring it. Cause they could say, well, that's
00:33:14.900 not, you know, it doesn't even count once you put it in theaters. And then especially if you're,
00:33:19.700 if you, if you, uh, show up in the box office,
00:33:23.220 then it's a lot harder to justify ignoring it. So, um, maybe after the results this weekend,
00:33:31.340 uh, they'll start reviewing it. And I mainly want them to review it just cause I'm very interested
00:33:37.340 in how they're going to navigate this. Like it's just, it's interesting to me. It's a, it's a,
00:33:42.680 it's a real problem for them. Um, it'd be much less of a problem if it was a, if our,
00:33:50.720 if our attempts at comedy in the film were just lame and unfunny and it didn't work,
00:33:55.380 then I think we'd already have like 60 reviews because they'd be very eager to come out and say,
00:34:00.740 oh yeah, we watched that. It was totally, it was, it was terrible. Uh, they're not going to be able
00:34:05.040 to say that. So we'll see, we'll see what they do. Um, but, uh, that's why, again, we appreciate
00:34:14.840 your support on the film, uh, deeply appreciate it. And if you haven't watched it yet, then please
00:34:21.040 go to the theater this week or this weekend. If you did watch it and you liked it, then tell your
00:34:28.300 friends, post it on social media. Uh, this is how, this is how we're going to keep, keep the engine
00:34:34.980 chugging along in the box office here. All right. Tim Walls spoke at a rally in Wisconsin over the
00:34:43.460 weekend and his wife showed up and treated us to the most, you know, probably the cringiest moment
00:34:52.680 of the campaign so far came from Tim Walls, his wife. Let's watch that.
00:34:58.480 But I kind of liked it when she did this, turn the page. You like that? Okay. So I need you to be
00:35:07.200 with me and practice with me. What are we going to do? We're going to turn the page. Oh, pretty good.
00:35:12.800 Do it again. We're going to turn the page and we're going to turn the page. All right. So I'm
00:35:19.140 going to be watching you because when I see Wisconsin and I'm one watching nationally on TV,
00:35:25.680 because it's a pretty important place in Minnesota, help you practice it with this.
00:35:30.040 You just show me this, turn the page, right? Turn the page. And you know what else that looks like?
00:35:36.040 Bye-bye. Bye-bye, Donald Trump. We are turning the page. 52 days and we are turning the page.
00:35:55.020 52 days and it is. Bye-bye, Donald Trump. So this is obviously painfully cringe. I can barely
00:36:02.940 watch it. And I mean, I can barely watch it. And I just released a cringe comedy with some of the
00:36:09.200 cringiest scenes that you'll see in anything all year. And I was in the room for those cringes. I
00:36:13.520 was causing them in some cases. So I have a very high capacity for cringe, I will say, but that was
00:36:20.580 too much even for me. And there's something else too. You notice how she's talking to the audience,
00:36:26.620 like they're a bunch of first graders. She comes off like a first grade teacher talking to her
00:36:31.640 whatever, six-year-old students, or maybe like some kind of a children's TV show host,
00:36:39.560 like the newest member of the Wiggles or something. And this is the same thing that Kamala Harris does.
00:36:45.620 This is a very common thing on the left, especially leftist women, where they have this
00:36:51.220 tone and this cadence when they're talking to an audience of adults.
00:36:54.660 And it's not endearing. It's not heartwarming or whatever it's supposed to be. It's patronizing.
00:37:01.320 It's infantilizing. It's insulting to our intelligence, which makes sense because they
00:37:07.300 don't think that their audience is intelligent. They really do consider their voters to be stupid
00:37:12.780 infantile children. And some voters are stupid infantile children. And that's why they vote for
00:37:20.020 somebody like Kamala Harris. And I guess they recognize that, which is why they talk to the
00:37:24.380 audience that way. There was another moment that, this one is from Tim Walls when it was his turn to
00:37:32.500 speak. And he had some interesting ideas about how to make conversation with strangers. Let's watch that.
00:37:40.580 This thing's going to be a battle for the next 52 days. It's going to be in rooms, one in rooms, just like
00:37:48.460 this. It's going to be one door to door, call to call, $5 donation, trying to have that hard conversation in the
00:37:56.500 produce aisle with the person you saw there at the grocery store and ask, have you voted yet?
00:38:02.020 Yeah, that's the ticket. Go up to a stranger in the produce section and have a hard conversation about who they're voting
00:38:08.040 for. Like, I'll tell you this. I'm not looking to have any conversation with anybody about anything in the produce
00:38:15.180 section. Least of all, do I want to have a hard conversation? Like, I've never been in the produce aisle looking for a
00:38:23.360 ripe avocado and thought to myself, you know what I could really use right now? A difficult dialogue with someone. I get a hard
00:38:31.380 conversation. That's what I'm looking for, to go along with my avocado. I've never thought that nobody has a
00:38:38.020 So, I have different advice, which is leave strangers alone at the grocery store. Okay? I mean, they're
00:38:44.340 surrounded by this political stuff all day long. Just leave them alone. All right, NBC News has this
00:38:49.880 headline, first co-ed submarine joins Navy fleet. The U.S. Navy made history on Saturday by commissioning
00:38:57.360 its first ever co-ed submarine, the USS New Jersey, making a new era of inclusivity beneath the ocean's
00:39:03.800 surface. Inclusivity beneath the ocean's surface. I don't know why that's funny to me.
00:39:11.440 USS New Jersey is now commissioned and ready for service. The Navy proudly announced in a post on X,
00:39:16.420 the Navy's latest Virginia-class submarine joins the fleet. USS New Jersey is the first fully integrated
00:39:22.380 submarine built for both male and female sailors in the 100-year history of submarines. It's a testament to
00:39:28.500 the strength that diversity brings to our Navy, according to the Navy. Men and women will operate the
00:39:36.220 subs side-by-side for the first time, united in purpose, skill, and determination. In fact, there was a video
00:39:42.920 that the Navy put out about this submarine, a little promotional video. Let's watch some of that.
00:39:49.560 As the USS New Jersey sets sail,
00:39:51.660 it marks a historic milestone, not just for its cutting-edge capabilities, but for what it represents.
00:40:01.080 New Jersey is representative of the future of the submarine force,
00:40:05.260 and integrating this boat is a long time coming.
00:40:10.080 The first fully integrated submarine built for both male and female sailors,
00:40:14.820 a testament to the strength that diversity brings to our Navy.
00:40:21.660 Side-by-side, men and women will operate this vessel, united in purpose, skill, and determination.
00:40:28.380 This is really the first time that the Navy is truly planning for the future regarding manning
00:40:36.380 and taking advantage of the entire population for finding those rare humans that can be and should be
00:40:45.140 submariners.
00:40:45.860 The USS New Jersey isn't just a powerhouse beneath the waves. It's a symbol of progress,
00:40:51.860 breaking barriers as it protects our shores.
00:40:55.460 The 100-year history of submarines, it is an honor that we are the first to have this slice of that
00:41:01.300 particular narrative.
00:41:02.720 The future of naval warfare starts here, and it's more inclusive, stronger, and more capable than ever.
00:41:08.820 Okay, so needless to say, well, it should be needless to say, there is zero advantage to having
00:41:16.960 a co-ed submarine. Just zero. There's not one problem that this solves. There's not one advantage
00:41:27.640 that this allows us to exploit. It doesn't solve any problems. Right? I mean, there is no problem that
00:41:35.940 you would have on a submarine when you've got just men operating it, where you would say,
00:41:43.280 you know what would fix this? Having some women here. And nothing against women. It's just,
00:41:51.200 I guarantee, in the 100-year history of submarines, that's just never happened. It's not happened one
00:41:58.260 time. So there's no problems that it solves. I can think of plenty of problems created by this.
00:42:04.700 There are plenty of issues that arise because you've decided to have a gender-neutral submarine.
00:42:10.020 Putting men and women in a confined space like this, in a sort of high-pressure situation,
00:42:16.020 creates problems. You've now introduced different kinds of tensions, difficulties, conflicts,
00:42:23.720 romances, potentially, that you likely wouldn't have otherwise. I mean, you still could have some of
00:42:32.440 that if it's only men, including the romances, unfortunately. But it's a lot less likely.
00:42:38.100 Right? And when you introduce women, then you've increased the chances of all that stuff.
00:42:43.560 And look, I've made this point a million times. I don't need to rehash the point here
00:42:48.020 about why diversity, in fact, is not our strength. But here's a new thought that I'll add to this.
00:42:55.100 And I'll just say this. I would respect the diversification agenda, the DEI agenda. I'd respect
00:43:04.560 it more than I do, which is to say that I would go from negative 1,000% respect to negative 950%
00:43:14.100 respect if they would be just honest about it. Now, I know that the people who push this stuff are
00:43:20.740 incapable of being honest. I know that the DEI agenda would not exist, but for all the lying.
00:43:29.860 So asking them to not lie, it goes against their nature. It's like asking a fish to climb a tree
00:43:35.740 or something. It can't happen. But still, if they were honest, they would not claim ludicrously
00:43:47.120 that somehow it makes the Navy stronger to have co-ed submarines. They wouldn't say any of that.
00:43:53.900 They would say rather that they would say, yes, it makes us weaker. Yes, this causes problems. Yes,
00:44:02.600 it creates all kinds of new issues that did not exist before, but it's worth it. It's a sacrifice
00:44:09.320 worth making for the greater good. It's a moral decision that we're making.
00:44:17.120 Now, that would still be wrong, obviously. It would still be insane. It is not a good moral
00:44:23.080 decision. It's immoral. It's not a sacrifice worth making. But my point is that this is their actual
00:44:31.180 argument. So it would be honest. They would be articulating what their actual argument is.
00:44:37.080 They do not think that a submarine will operate more effectively by having both men and women in
00:44:45.360 it. They don't think that. They don't care how it operates. They don't care about the effectiveness.
00:44:52.700 They don't care if people die. It's worth the sacrifice in their minds.
00:44:57.720 So if they're being honest, they would say, yes, this probably makes things less effective,
00:45:05.620 but effectiveness is not our top priority. Okay, so we are, we are, effectiveness used to be the
00:45:13.140 top priority, but it's not anymore. That's their real argument. But they don't want to make that
00:45:20.940 argument, even though it is their real argument, because they know they can't win that argument.
00:45:28.280 Right? There's no, that's an indefensible position to take, which is why they, they won't take it.
00:45:36.900 Instead, they'll take some other position pretending that that's actually their argument when it isn't.
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00:46:59.820 heavyweights at the box office, and Am I Racist didn't just hit theaters, it shook them. Right
00:47:04.840 now, Am I Racist is the number four movie in the country. That's right, number four, and we achieved
00:47:09.360 this with just 1,500 theaters, while the elite studio releases ahead of us are playing in two to
00:47:15.240 three times as many locations. But here's something that those major studios don't have, a 99% audience
00:47:22.500 score on Rotten Tomatoes with over 1,000 reviews. Plus, Am I Racist is already verified hot on Rotten
00:47:29.380 Tomatoes, and now we need to make week two even bigger. Here's how we do it. Go to emiracist.com
00:47:36.160 right now for tickets and showtimes near you. Tell your friends, your family, your neighbors,
00:47:40.960 co-workers, tell everybody, whether they're conservative or liberal, doesn't matter. Post on
00:47:45.620 your social media accounts, and if we see that, we're going to share it, and we love everything that
00:47:51.920 you're doing to promote the film and to keep filling those theaters. Thank you to everybody
00:47:56.660 who joined us for opening weekend. We truly couldn't do any of this without your support,
00:48:00.200 so let's keep this momentum going. Get your tickets now at emiracist.com. Now let's get to our daily
00:48:06.640 cancellation. After a period of mass hysteria like the one we all endured in 2020, nobody really wants
00:48:18.240 to go back and revisit exactly what happened. The people who promoted the hysteria don't want to
00:48:22.980 remind people of how ridiculous everything became, and those who endured the hysteria don't want to
00:48:28.960 be reminded of it either. They're just grateful that it's over, you know, sort of over. So everyone
00:48:34.940 just wants to collectively move on and memory hole the whole thing, which is actually what we've done
00:48:40.500 with pretty much everything that happened in 2020. But every now and then, it can be a good idea to
00:48:46.760 look back at articles and videos from periods of mass insanity. For one thing, it can be kind of
00:48:51.940 entertaining, and it can also be a reminder of how counterproductive and self-defeating all of the
00:48:56.060 hysteria really is. It's also a way to kind of, it's a look at human psychology that's quite
00:49:02.020 instructive, a lot of lessons that can be learned from it. We're all familiar with how the defund the
00:49:07.040 police movement has backfired spectacularly to the point that even BLM activists are now clamoring for
00:49:11.980 more police officers. But there are many more examples. Here, for example, is a news clip from four years ago
00:49:16.700 when the Washington Redskins decided to change their name because George Floyd ingested a lethal
00:49:22.820 amount of fentanyl halfway across the country. It was never really explained how the Washington Redskins
00:49:27.380 were related in any way to George Floyd's situation, but the news media went with that angle anyway.
00:49:33.760 Watch.
00:49:34.920 Washington team ownership announced Monday they will be retiring their name and logo. The logo isn't a mascot,
00:49:41.460 though. It's based off a real man, Chief Two Guns Whitecaf of the Blackfeet tribe.
00:49:46.660 He was a very prominent person. You know, as once he led to the Blackfeet was integrity. He was a man of
00:49:54.340 integrity. The team had used the logo since the 1970s. The logo had previously been an R until Walter
00:50:01.360 Blackie Wetzel, former chairman of the Blackfoot tribe and president of the National Congress of American
00:50:06.760 Indians persuaded the team to change it. The team maintained a relationship with the Wetzel family and the Blackfeet
00:50:12.860 nation over the years, and members of the tribe have performed traditional music and blessings at the team's
00:50:17.820 stadium several times.
00:50:20.260 The name and logo change comes after a letter signed by 87 investors and shareholders with a total worth of $620 billion
00:50:27.700 was sent to the sponsors Nike, Pepsi, and FedEx, requesting them to stop doing business with the team
00:50:34.580 until the name was changed. The National Congress of American Indians praised the name change and said
00:50:40.680 the previous name disrespected, demeaned, and stereotyped all Native people. Murray said he can't speak for
00:50:46.900 every member of the more than 540 tribes in the U.S., but personally can see how the name and the actions of
00:50:53.900 some of the fans can be seen as unrespectful and degrading.
00:50:57.780 You know, they would paint their faces and act out, you know, different put-on feathers and whatever,
00:51:03.620 and I think that's what really turned a lot of people off.
00:51:06.480 Yes, people would paint their faces and act out during sporting events. These were unspeakable horrors
00:51:12.340 that really turned a lot of people off back in 2020. You know, when you go to a sporting event,
00:51:16.820 you're supposed to sit in silence and stare ahead like you're at a funeral or something.
00:51:21.100 Maybe politely clap your hands if your team scores a touchdown, but even that is frankly pushing it.
00:51:28.120 So to recap, a few decades ago, the head of the National Congress of American Indians persuaded
00:51:31.820 the Redskins to put the Blackfeet chief, a guy named John Two Guns Whitecalf, on the helmet,
00:51:40.060 and the team complied. They changed the logo from an R to an image of the chief, and they held a bunch
00:51:46.340 of regular on-field events featuring the Indians as a way to introduce their culture to people living in
00:51:51.000 the Washington, D.C. area. Everything was going fine. No one had any complaints. In fact, in 2016,
00:51:55.460 a Washington Post poll found that the overwhelming majority of, quote-unquote, Native Americans
00:51:59.640 didn't care about the Redskins' name. Quoting from the Post in 2016, 9 in 10 Native Americans say that
00:52:06.260 they are not offended by the Washington Redskins' name, according to a new Washington Post poll that
00:52:10.680 shows how few ordinary Indians have been persuaded by a national movement to change the football team's
00:52:16.060 moniker. The survey, 504 people across every state in the district, reveals that the minds
00:52:20.660 of Native Americans have remained unchanged since a 2004 poll by the Annenberg Public Policy Center
00:52:25.720 found the same results. Responses to the Post's questions about the issue were broadly consistent
00:52:31.420 regardless of age, income, education, political party, or proximity to reservations.
00:52:36.380 Well, then, in early 2020, Berkeley ran another poll. This one supposedly showed that nearly half of
00:52:42.200 Indians in this country were offended by the name suddenly. So assuming those results are accurate,
00:52:48.060 it shows how easy it is to generate fake outrage. I mean, nothing changed from 2016 to 2020 except the
00:52:55.420 election of Donald Trump, after which point everything became retroactively offensive. And then, of course,
00:53:00.820 everything really spiraled out of control. In mid-2020, George Floyd tried to pass that fake $20 bill.
00:53:05.980 BLM started rioting. And within days, the National Congress of American Indians, now taking money from
00:53:11.040 George Soros, came up with a new demand. Instead of wanting the team to have an Indian mascot and name,
00:53:16.300 they wanted the exact opposite. They claimed that the Redskins' name and the mascot were dehumanizing
00:53:21.380 and demanded that the team get rid of them. And they contributed to a campaign to get a bunch of
00:53:25.920 investors to threaten some sponsors, which ultimately succeeded. They even threatened Nike,
00:53:31.020 which is kind of amusing. Nike has no problem with sweatshop labor, but an Indian mascot is where they draw
00:53:36.380 the line. And of course, ultimately, the pressure campaign worked. Instead of the Washington Redskins,
00:53:40.940 we now have the Washington Commanders. So how is all that working out four years later? How has
00:53:48.120 society been improved by changing the name Redskins and getting rid of the image of a famous Indian
00:53:54.020 chief? What exactly has been the benefit of eliminating all of those Indian-themed events from
00:53:58.800 the NFL? Well, judging by an article on Fox News yesterday, things are not going well. Quote,
00:54:05.500 the family of the Blackfeet chief who served as the face of the Washington Redskins for 48 years
00:54:09.680 wants his image back on the fields of the NFL, relatives told Fox News Digital. The descendants
00:54:15.300 of John Tugan's Whitecaf also want his incredible life story retold to a new generation of Americans
00:54:20.400 who seek unity and value multiculturalism. The article quotes somebody named Thomas Whitecaf,
00:54:26.360 who's apparently a nephew of the chief. He says, quote, the fans want him back and we want him
00:54:30.520 back. Our ancestor was the most famous and most photographed native in history. Two Guns was also
00:54:36.200 the face on the Indian head nickel. I'm proud of him. The Blackfeet are proud of him. Fox News also
00:54:42.180 reports that the Whitecaf family was never consulted and never supported the removal of two-gun Whitecaf's
00:54:47.360 image from the NFL. And apparently now they've decided to speak up about it. It's unclear what they were
00:54:52.660 doing four years ago. The article doesn't address that point, which isn't too surprising. It's
00:54:57.000 basically a puff piece for the Blackfeet people that they got for the interview. And that's why
00:55:02.820 there's the usual lionizing of Indian tribes as if they adopted all modern progressive values,
00:55:08.600 even when that's clearly not the case. From what I can tell, just, you know, doing research online
00:55:13.760 for two seconds, the Blackfeet, well, they were like any other Indian tribe. They did some pretty
00:55:18.760 horrible things, just like any other tribe and civilization throughout history. There's certainly
00:55:23.400 signs that they did not value multiculturalism, whatever that's worth. And it cost them quite
00:55:29.200 dearly on a few occasions. For example, according to the government of Montana, quote, a band of
00:55:33.520 Blackfeet raided a Shoshone camp, not knowing that the Shoshone had smallpox. The raid resulted in a
00:55:38.320 smallpox epidemic among the Blackfeet band. So maybe it'd be honest, it would be best to just be honest
00:55:44.240 about this and just say that the Redskins mascot and the team name were fine because, you know,
00:55:49.420 they were interesting. They were grounded in history. They weren't generic and dull like the
00:55:56.400 Washington commanders. They referenced real people that played a role in American history.
00:56:02.220 And, you know, those people were violent. There was a lot of fighting. It was a warfaring culture.
00:56:08.020 All Indian cultures were warfaring cultures, which, again, is not that different from any other
00:56:15.240 culture that existed, you know, 200, 300 years ago. But anyway, that's why it's also fitting for
00:56:21.280 a football team. And nobody in the modern era was ever using Redskins as a slur either.
00:56:28.200 So that should be enough. We don't have to pretend that this tribe cared about multiculturalism or
00:56:33.460 whatever. Once we accept that framing, we're right back where we started. But the broader point is
00:56:40.060 that this is a perfect example of how obviously self-defeating the BLM hysteria from 2020 has
00:56:45.720 turned out to be. The left demanded the removal of Native American imagery from cultural life,
00:56:51.900 and now the Native Americans aren't happy about it. Who could have possibly predicted that outcome?
00:56:58.680 At this rate, it won't be long until the Indian woman is back on the tubs of Lando Lakes butter.
00:57:03.460 This is another one of those humiliating episodes that's worth revisiting very briefly,
00:57:08.640 if you can bear it. Let's just walk down memory lane to see how social justice was imposed on
00:57:15.380 butter. Here it is. You might start to notice something a little bit different on the shelves
00:57:20.540 of the dairy aisle over the next few months. Lando Lakes, America's best-selling butter brand
00:57:25.280 according to Food & Wine, sent out a press release in February announcing a major redesign of its
00:57:30.780 packaging to celebrate its upcoming centennial. Company CEO Beth Ford said in the release,
00:57:36.380 As Lando Lakes looks toward our 100th anniversary, we've recognized we need packaging that reflects
00:57:41.800 the foundation and heart of our company culture. The new packaging is certainly very tasteful,
00:57:47.740 retaining the green trees and sky-blue waters reminiscent of the company's home state of
00:57:52.260 Minnesota. But there's an obvious missing element, the famous butter maiden,
00:57:56.140 a Native American mascot who, according to the Twin Cities Pioneer Press, went by the name of Mia.
00:58:02.400 While Lando Lakes did not publicly kill her off like planters did with Mr. Peanut,
00:58:06.780 its designers quietly removed her from the box.
00:58:09.460 So to celebrate their company values, they quite literally erased the Indian woman and then they
00:58:15.940 kept her land. And that didn't strike anyone at Lando Lakes as strange at the time. And there was
00:58:20.880 the Aunt Jemima episode as well. So our moral superiors in corporate America told us that everything
00:58:26.960 about this country is racist, even our syrup, and we had to go about correcting it. These same people
00:58:32.680 would probably rather we never talk about any of this insanity again. It's very embarrassing for them.
00:58:37.700 But it's important to do it because otherwise we'll fall into the same trap again.
00:58:42.040 And one of the reasons that Am I Racist has been successful is that a lot of people on all sides
00:58:45.820 of the political spectrum are aware of how ludicrous all of this is. They can watch an hour and a half
00:58:53.120 long film that mocks many of the absurdities that arose out of the moral panic of 2020.
00:58:58.340 And they can laugh at it. And nothing upsets the moral scolds who tried to divide and destroy this
00:59:04.680 country four years ago. More than that. More than mockery and laughter. And that is why the
00:59:10.120 investors and activists who canceled the Washington Redskins back in 2020 are today themselves canceled.
00:59:17.700 That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow.
00:59:20.160 Have a great day. Godspeed.
00:59:21.500 Republicans are Nazis. You cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. Growing up, I never
00:59:34.160 thought much about race. Never really seemed to matter that much. At least not to me. Am I racist?
00:59:39.280 I would really appreciate it if you love. I'm trying to learn along this journey.
00:59:42.540 I'm going to sort this out. I need to go deeper undercover.
00:59:45.160 Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert. Here's my certification. What you're doing is
00:59:53.460 you're stretching out of your whiteness. This is more for you than this for you. Is America
00:59:57.120 inherently racist? The word inherent is challenging there. I want to rename the George Washington
01:00:01.320 Monument to the George Floyd Monument. America is racist to its bones. So inherently. Yeah.
01:00:06.440 This country is a piece of... White folks. White trash. White supremacy. White woman. White boy.
01:00:12.460 Is there a black person around here? What's a black person right here? Does he not exist?
01:00:17.760 Hi, Robin. Hi. What's your name? I'm Matt. I just had to ask who you are because you have
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