Ep. 1455 - How Dirty Union Greed Is Holding The American People Hostage
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There are multiple major catastrophes unfolding across the country and the world as we come to the final days of the Biden-Harris administration and their historic incompetence. Also, J.D. Vance turns in a masterful debate performance last night, covering the so-called childcare crisis. But is childcare the kind of problem the federal government should be handling at all? And the media is raving about a new off-Broadway play about January 6th. It sounds awful.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, there are multiple major catastrophes unfolding across the country
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and the world as we come to the final days of the Biden-Harris administration. These are all
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direct results of the Biden-Harris administration and their historic incompetence. Also,
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J.D. Vance turns in a masterful debate performance last night. One of the subjects covered in the
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debate is the so-called childcare crisis. But is childcare the kind of problem that the federal
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government should be handling at all? And the media is raving about a new off-Broadway play
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about January 6th. It sounds awful. It's worse than you think. All of that and more today on
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One of the oldest cliches in Hollywood is that if you want a story involving insane levels of
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corruption and over-the-top mob tactics, you should probably have a lot of dock workers in
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your film. Some of the most famous movies ever made, like On the Waterfront, starring Marlon Brando,
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made use of this conceit involving a longshoreman. For generations, everyone's understood that this
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industry functions a bit like a fiefdom, independent of the rest of the country. It promotes from within,
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it protects its own, and when it wants something, it's not afraid to shut down the U.S. economy in
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order to get it. Over the years, various presidents have had to tangle with the dock workers and their
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unions. Some of these presidents, like FDR and Obama, have granted dock workers massive concessions.
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Other presidents, like George W. Bush, went to court and used the Taft-Hartley Act to end strikes that
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were costing the U.S. economy billions of dollars a day. But no administration in the history of this
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country has adopted the approach that the Biden-Harris administration is now taking. Right now, without
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any objection from the White House whatsoever, a 78-year-old union boss named Harold Daggett is proudly
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shaking down the entire country. He's going on television wearing gold medallions and flaunting his
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$700,000 a year salary as his union, the 50,000-member International Longshoremen's Association, shuts down
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36 ports, including the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Now, these ports taken together
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handle more than 50% of the imports and exports to this country. The cost to the U.S. economy is more
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than $4 billion a day. And very soon, the shutdown could lead to shortages and mass layoffs. And Harold
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Daggett has made it very clear that he doesn't care about any of these effects. He doesn't care what
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happens to millions of Americans as a result of this strike. He doesn't care if you lose your job
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and your family and your children suffer. It doesn't matter to him. All that he cares about
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is enriching himself. And he's been very clear about that. Watch.
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Are you worried that this strike? They hired the Capitol to settle this thing. Are you worried that
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this strike is going to hurt the everyday American, the farmers that need to reach the export market?
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They're telling me that they're going to hurt through all of this. Now you start to realize
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who the longshoremen are, right? People never gave a s*** about us until now, when they finally
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realized that the chain is being broke now. Cars won't come in. Food won't come in. Clothing
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won't come in. You know how many people depend on our jobs? Half the world. And it's time for them
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and time for Washington to put so much pressure on them to take care of us because we took care of
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them. And we're here 135 years and brought them where they are today. And they don't want to share.
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So you notice there's no rational argument here. He's not arguing that dock workers deserve higher
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salaries because they can't make ends meet or because they're doing such a great job
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or because they're so efficient or any of that. He's saying that they should receive higher salaries
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because they're holding America hostage. They have the power, so we need to pay the ransom.
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And he also says that nobody cared about us, which is like, dude, what do you want? What do you want
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everyone to do? Are we supposed to throw you a parade every day because you're doing your job?
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Everybody is doing their own jobs and, you know, taking care of themselves and in their own lives
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and their own families. What are you doing to show your appreciation for all the other people that
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are doing important jobs to you in your life? What are you doing for them? Have you thrown them a
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parade? Have you told them how grateful you are for them? No. Now, when you look at these specific
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demands that this union is making, the absurdity becomes even more apparent. Daggett wants the ports to
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give dock workers a 77% pay raise to $69 an hour after turning down a 50% pay raise. That's far more
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than dock workers make on the West Coast. Daggett also wants more container royalties, which gives
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money to longshoremen even if they're not working. And he wants a complete ban on any forms of automation
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at ports. Now, previously, I've talked about the rise of automation and how it's a threat to many
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Americans' jobs. There are obviously a lot of important concerns as far as how automation is used
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and how many jobs is allowed to replace and all of that. But in this context, this blanket demand
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that no automation is used at all is a dead giveaway. It's evidence that these dock workers don't care
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about the economy at all or remaining competitive with what other countries are doing. Here's a look
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at what they're doing in ports in China, just to give you some idea. And you can see the footage
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there. They still have people working there, as you can see, but they're using cellular connections
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and computers to remotely unload and offload the cargo. In many cases, that's safer, faster,
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cheaper than having humans do it. Now, we don't have any of this, and it's because of unions. These
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unions are a big part of why U.S. ports are so inefficient compared to ports all over the world.
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As recently as 2020, the World Bank found there was not a single U.S. port that ranked in the top
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50 global ports in terms of getting a ship in and out of port quickly and affordably.
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Not a single one. Overall, our ports are about as half as efficient as global ports on average.
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And now the union representing the workers at these ports are demanding a massive raise.
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They want to raise as a reward for being worse than so many other ports in the world.
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And they also want to ban on any form of technology that could make the ports more efficient.
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Now, if the Biden administration wanted to put an end to this, they could. They could
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do what Bush did and take this union to court. They could apply public pressure. They could
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threaten to repeal other laws on the books that already benefit the dock workers' unions.
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There's something called the Jones Act, for example, requires that all goods transported
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between U.S. ports by water are carried on ships that are built in the U.S. and crewed by Americans.
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This leads to hundreds of millions of dollars in additional costs, but unions love the law because it means
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more union jobs are created. Of course, you know, that law won't change and no one in the Biden
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administration wants it to change. They don't want to upset Harold Daggett, someone the DOJ once
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accused of being an associate of a mafia family. And he has quite a life story, by the way. The New York
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Post reports, quote, Daggett took the witness stand that year after federal prosecutors charged him
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with racketeering. During the course of trial, one of Daggett's co-defendants, Lawrence Ricci,
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an alleged major mob figure, disappeared. His body was found weeks later decomposing in the trunk of a
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car outside a New Jersey diner. Ricci's death remained unsolved, though speculation circulated
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that he was killed after refusing to plead guilty to avoid news reports of the trial. Daggett was
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acquitted. Of course he was. So Harold Daggett beat that racketeering rap. We have no idea how he
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managed to do that. One can only speculate. And now he's holding the U.S. economy hostage.
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Change. Ships are having to reroute to the West Coast in order to prevent economic calamity,
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all because of this guy. It's quite a recovery for Harold Daggett's career. A guy who, again,
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is making $700,000 a year. For the rest of us, it's a crisis that has no real precedent in the past
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several decades. And this is just one of the several disasters that are unfolding in the final days of
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the Biden-Harris administration. And I say that, by the way, there's another theory with the ports issue
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that this is all a big setup. It's a big stage play. And the end has already been determined ahead of
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time. And they're just doing all of this so that Biden can come in and Harris can come in and work out
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a deal, a deal that's already been determined, and then say, look, I saved the U.S. economy.
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That's possible, too. I wouldn't be surprised if that's what's going on here. It is interesting
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that this guy is so willingly playing the role of, like, a supervillain. I mean, he's basically,
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that one clip we play is not even, it's not even the worst of it. I mean, this guy is on TV
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proudly saying, like, he's going to hurt you and your family. He doesn't care about anybody.
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It's full-on Batman supervillain stuff. When you see that, you think, like, this is a weird
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performance, especially if you want the people, you know, America on your side. No one's on your
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side when you're promising to hurt us all and our families. So is it all a big setup? I don't know.
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But what we do know is that there are crises unfolding all across the country and the world.
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Yesterday, Iran launched a volley of more than 180 ballistic missiles into Israel.
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This is the second direct attack by Iran against Israel in just the last few months.
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It's put us much closer to World War III than we've been in recent history. And it comes just a year
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after the Biden administration's national security advisor bragged that the Middle East was quieter
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And what we said is we want to depressurize, de-escalate, and ultimately integrate the Middle
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East region. The war in Yemen is in its 19-month truce. For now, the Iranian attacks against U.S.
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forces have stopped. Our presence in Iraq is stable. I emphasize for now because all of that can
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change. And the Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.
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So a week after Jake Sullivan made that claim, Hamas terrorists, backed by Iran, committed a
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massacre in Israel. And now rockets are flying back and forth. And despite all of this, Jake
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Sullivan still has his job. He was not fired. He wasn't run out of Washington after making it
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abundantly clear that he has no idea what's happening in the Middle East, which you'd think
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would disqualify him from being a national security advisor. They forced Mike Flynn out of a job
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national security advisor after, what, three weeks. And then you have someone like Jake Sullivan,
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who's obviously incompetent to the point of being dangerous, and he suffers no consequences
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whatsoever. Again, nothing like this happened during the four years of the Trump administration.
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This level of international chaos and complete ineptitude simply was not present. Iran was not
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launching rockets directly into Israel, just like Russia was not sending tanks directly into Ukraine.
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Are Iran and Russia taking advantage of the fact that the brain of the current US president is
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basically applesauce at this point? It seems like a valid theory, especially since the Biden
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administration has no alternative hypothesis for what's going on. If you ask them, everything's fine
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until suddenly it isn't. That's the same story we're seeing in North Carolina. As I discussed
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yesterday, after failing to evacuate residents from the western portion of the state,
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the federal government is now failing to help many of the survivors. Yesterday, I read an email on
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the show that came from someone named Jason, who's from the rural area of Ash County. And he reported
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that FEMA was nowhere in sight. So here's an update that he sent me last night. Quote, I just got home
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from volunteering with a search and rescue team in Lansing, which is one of the flooded rural towns.
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Funny thing is the FEMA people showed up today, but they're worthless. We ran into a bunch while we were
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delivering water and generators. They were just walking around, making sure that people were still
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in the house. So the federal government is still failing to help people in the most devastated areas
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from this storm. And communications are still spotty, in part because the government didn't want to
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spend any money on Elon Musk's Starlink system because they have a vendetta against Elon Musk.
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As a result, private citizens are now installing Starlink systems in the area themselves.
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The journalist Nick Sartor just reported that first responders still do not have reliable
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communications in North Carolina after four days. He uploaded this footage of three North Carolina
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state police units, giving him a police escort so that he can deploy Starlink systems for others to
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use. And he added that the police are, quote, literally using my Windows Starlink to communicate
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What I'm trying to do is get the Starlink in just because I want to make a point that they're
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literally the only reason that we can connect with our convoy is because we've got a Starlink
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So the federal government spends hundreds of billions of dollars to prepare for disasters
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like this, ostensibly so that vital communications equipment and supplies are available within hours.
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But they haven't been doing that. For the past several days, random people, citizen journalists
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and volunteers have been doing a better job than the government, than the government agency that
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supposedly specializes in exactly this, in disaster relief. So wherever you look, whether it's the
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Middle East or North Carolina or the nation's ports and everywhere in between, you'll find an
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ongoing once-in-a-lifetime disaster that's threatening to spiral even further out of control.
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This is what the country and the world look like at the end of the Biden-Harris term.
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There are multiple catastrophes happening all at once.
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I mean, it's impossible for anyone to deny that the world is a measurably worse and more dangerous
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place today than it was when they took office. Everybody knows it. There's no way of denying it.
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We're all seeing it. We're all living it right now. Even Kamala Harris knows it.
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That's why she had to duck the first question of the presidential debate when she was asked whether
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Americans are better off now than they were four years ago.
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I mean, they're not. This is the Biden-Harris legacy. And it'll either end in January or
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inevitably, these people will lead us into a major catastrophe that we can't come back from.
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slash Walsh today. So the VP debate last night, I thought that J.D. Vance was spectacular. You know,
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and that's what most people on the right are saying. And you might say that, well, of course we were going
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to say that. But, you know, I for one have shown a willingness to admit when a Republican performs
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poorly in a debate. And in this case, he just performed really well. I mean, I'm not exaggerating
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when I say it's maybe the best debate performance I've seen in my lifetime. I can't think of a better
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one. There's nothing that comes to mind. Certainly it's the best in the past decade or more.
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Vance is so much better at this than Tim Walls. That was clear last night. He's so much better at
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it than Kamala Harris. And he's also much better at it than Donald Trump. Vance can do the thing that
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Trump can't, which is deliver a focused, substantive answer that stays on message. You know, Trump,
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of course, has a much more freewheeling kind of style, which has clearly served him well. But in a
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debate, in this kind of debate, it's not always effective. The best debate style is what we saw
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from Vance last night. Calm, cool, collected, very smooth, very eloquent, substantive. And that's what
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he delivered. I thought it was tremendous. As we talked about on Backstage last night, the media and
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the Democrats really unintentionally did Vance a favor. They set him up for success because for weeks and
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weeks, they'd been blabbering about how Vance is weird and he's awkward and he's just this strange
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guy. They've been saying that's how they branded him. The branding was totally divorced from reality.
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There have been plenty of awkward politicians. We know that. Vance is not really one of them.
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There have been weird politicians. Vance was on the stage with a weird politician yesterday. But he's not weird
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himself. He is, if anything, aggressively normal. If you want to insult him in a way that has some relation to
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reality, you would say that he's boring. Right? You'd say he's too normal, if anything. There's nothing exciting
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about him. Now, I don't find him boring personally, but I'm saying that if you were trying to criticize
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him in any kind of honest way, that's the direction you would go. But instead, they called him weird.
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So that's where they set the bar. He's this weird, awkward guy. That means that if you're a kind of
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clueless, kind of ignorant, not paying attention sort of American, then you turn on the debate last
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night expecting to see this weird, bizarre, awkward, cringey freak up there. And instead, you get this
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dude who's totally comfortable, doesn't break a sweat, handling the debate with ease. And so now
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you're even more impressed. They set Vance up to be more impressive than he actually is. And I think
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that he's already very impressive. So that was interesting to see. It was a narrative versus
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reality moment that I think was extremely favorable to J.D. Vance. So all that to say, Vance won the
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debate easily. Walls did better than Kamala. He actually did better than I thought that he would
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in general. He didn't totally melt down. He had a few rough moments in there, a few moments that
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didn't go well for him, especially when he was asked about his lies about going to China and that
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sort of thing. Some of the embellishments from his personal history, that was the closest that
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Walls came to really melting down. He was a deer in headlights, which is fascinating that he didn't
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have an answer ready for that stuff, but he didn't. And that was a rough moment. Aside from that,
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Walls, he was fine. It was like a C plus. I give him a C plus for Walls. I graded about a 78%,
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let's say. But Vance was a 95%. And that was Walls' problem. Overall, he did okay, but he's
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competing against someone who's an A plus. And that means that all told, the debate itself was
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pretty boring. You know, when you got a high C plus against an A plus, kind of makes for a boring
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debate. And I have to say, I don't say that as a complaint. I kind of liked that it was boring.
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I think I miss boring debates. And I think a lot of Americans feel this way. I want politics in
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general to be boring again. And you make it boring by having just competent, serious people
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in these positions. And so I think that's good. It was kind of refreshing.
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Yeah. When you think back to the least boring debate I've ever seen was the first Trump debate
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against Biden or the only Trump debate against Biden. To see the president of the United States
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just disintegrating right in front of us, it was not boring. I'll say that for it. It certainly
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was not boring. It was the most fascinating. I couldn't take my eyes off it. I think we all,
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that's one of those debates you're going to remember for the rest of your life because I'd never
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say anything like it, that debate with a president who cannot speak. So it was fascinating. It wasn't
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boring, but that's what makes this debate refreshing. It's like, okay, there's just
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two people answering the questions. That's fine. So there weren't many fireworks. It was a very
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friendly debate. Vance was being strategically nice, which was not emotionally satisfying for
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me to watch, but I get the tactic. Probably the right call, all things considered. The closest thing
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to fireworks was probably this moment where Vance fact checks the moderators who were trying to fact
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check him on the Haitian immigrant problem. Let's watch that. And just to clarify for our viewers,
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Springfield, Ohio does have a large number of Haitian migrants who have legal status,
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temporary protected status. Well, Margaret, but thank you. Senator, we have so much to get to.
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Margaret, I think it's important because we're going to turn out of the economy. Thank you.
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Margaret, the rules were that you guys weren't going to fact check. And since you're fact checking me,
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I think it's important to say what's actually going on. So there's an application called the CBP
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One app, where you can go on as an illegal migrant, apply for asylum or apply for parole
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and be granted legal status at the wave of a Kamala Harris open border wand. That is not a person
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coming in, applying for a green card and waiting for 10 years. That is the facilitation of a legal
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immigration, Margaret, by our own leadership. Thank you, Senator, for describing the legal process.
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We have so much to get to, Senator. Those laws have been on the books since 1990.
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Thank you, gentlemen. The CBP One app has not been on the books since 1990.
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Gentlemen, the audience can't hear you because your mics are cut.
00:24:37.580
So that was very good. Not by the moderators, that they look like fools, but from Vance jumping in
00:24:46.940
there and fact checking the fact check was great. That was what I was missing from Trump's last
00:24:52.120
debate. He never really took it to the moderators, never called them out. And he was getting dishonestly
00:24:57.840
quote unquote fact check again and again and again. And Trump never pointed that out. He never said,
00:25:02.940
hey, you're fact checking me, but not him. Also, by the way, your fact checks are inaccurate.
00:25:06.940
So I was hoping Vance would go this direction and he did. And it was good. It was also the last time
00:25:13.820
in the debate that the moderators tried to do a dishonest fact check of Vance. So the move worked.
00:25:19.760
I mean, it paid off. It had the desired effect. And that was good. I thought one of Vance's best
00:25:26.220
moments was this, where he's talking about the very difficult job that Walls was facing during the
00:25:35.160
debates, given who he was there to represent. Let's watch that. If you notice what Governor
00:25:41.420
Walsh just did is he said, first of all, Donald Trump has to listen to the experts. And then when
00:25:45.740
he acknowledged that the experts screwed up, he said, well, Donald Trump didn't do nearly as good
00:25:49.160
of a job as the statistics show that he did. No, that's a gross generalization.
00:25:51.520
So what Tim Walz is doing, and I honestly, Tim, I think you got a tough job here because you've
00:25:56.680
got to play whack-a-mole. You've got to pretend that Donald Trump didn't deliver rising take-home
00:26:00.880
pay, which of course he did. You've got to pretend that Donald Trump didn't deliver
00:26:04.540
lower inflation, which of course he did. And then you've simultaneously got to defend Kamala
00:26:09.380
Harris's atrocious economic record, which has made gas, groceries, and housing unaffordable
00:26:14.660
for American citizens. I was raised by a woman who would sometimes go into medical debt so that she
00:26:20.740
could put food on the table in our household. I know what it's like to not be able to afford
00:26:26.060
the things that you need to afford. We can do so much better. To all of you watching,
00:26:30.660
we can get back to an America that's affordable again. We just got to get back to common sense
00:26:35.180
economic principles. I hope we have a conversation on healthcare then.
00:26:39.580
So that was a very skillful answer. And this is where Vance shines, when he's delivering a lot of
00:26:45.060
information and covering a lot of ground, but doing it smoothly and efficiently. What we heard
00:26:53.000
there was a pretty searing, comprehensive indictment of the Kamala administration in about 60 seconds,
00:26:58.120
which isn't easy to do. And that's why I actually thought Vance's most impressive moment happened
00:27:03.360
at the very beginning of the debate. I don't think this moment made a lot of people's highlight
00:27:08.940
reels, but it was Vance's very first answer, which I thought was kind of a masterclass. And I don't
00:27:16.860
have the clip, but the debate started with a question about the war in the Middle East.
00:27:23.620
And Vance begins his answer by saying that he wants to introduce himself first.
00:27:33.580
And then he'll answer, then he goes into his backstory about growing up in Ohio and all of that.
00:27:38.940
Kind of giving the back of the book summary of hillbilly elegy, essentially.
00:27:46.520
And when he first started his answer and he said he wanted to introduce himself,
00:27:51.980
I thought, oh no, JD, what are you doing? You can't,
00:27:56.200
this is, there's no way you can do an introductory bit about yourself and then transition into the war
00:28:02.220
in the Middle East in two minutes and make it sound fluid and natural. This is going to,
00:28:09.120
this is going to be awkward. It's going to be an awkward, disjointed answer. And you're going into
00:28:13.360
this thing. You've already been branded as an awkward, disjointed guy. And now you're going in
00:28:18.140
with this and this is a, this is a bad move. I thought to myself when he first started talking,
00:28:22.620
but he pulled it off. It was really impressive. He pulled it off. He somehow managed to give like
00:28:28.100
a 60 second autobiography of himself. And then he still answered the foreign policy question and it
00:28:34.100
all worked. He made the transition. That's not easy to do. I say this as someone who is in the
00:28:39.180
public speaking business, also different kind of public speaking, different context, obviously,
00:28:42.780
but public speaking all the same. And from that perspective, again, very impressive.
00:28:46.960
And this is one thing it's easy to lose sight of that the modern debate format. And I complain about
00:28:55.000
the modern presidential debate format all the time because it's ridiculous, really giving people one
00:29:00.140
to two minutes to answer questions. It's not enough time covering really, they cover too much ground in
00:29:08.640
this, in these debates, which might sound counterintuitive, but they, they, they just talk about too many
00:29:13.140
things. And really what we want to hear is what we should hear is lengthy discussions about the most
00:29:24.280
important issues. We don't need to get into, we don't need to cover 20 different topics for one
00:29:29.940
minute each. How about cover like three or four for 30 minutes each? That's what I would like to see.
00:29:36.520
That's the debate format that would be much more productive and much more and tell us much more about
00:29:41.340
these guys. But this debate format, uh, even though I think it's a lot less revealing, it tells us less
00:29:48.720
it's, it is a very difficult, it's a high degree of difficulty. It's easy to lose sight of that.
00:29:54.860
Giving one to two minute answers, saying everything you want to say in one to two minutes while avoiding
00:30:00.900
the stuff you don't want to say on national television, right? Most high pressure situation,
00:30:07.220
extremely difficult. And we should all appreciate that to some degree now, because we've seen in
00:30:14.040
the last several years, some truly awful performances in that forum. I mean, we've seen what it looks like
00:30:20.340
when you've got people in there who really, this is not their skillset and it's a, it is a total
00:30:25.480
meltdown. It just, it's, it's terrible. Uh, again, Biden bombed so hard that he had to drop out.
00:30:31.460
Like, that's how, that's how bad it can be. And, uh, but for Vance, he's, uh, in his element in this
00:30:40.300
kind of thing. I also think he would do really well in a better format where they could talk at
00:30:44.240
greater length. I want to move on to this. I did, I want to, I did want to discuss one of the issues
00:30:49.240
from the debates. Uh, in fact, this is one of the issues that they should not have covered.
00:30:53.120
Um, because it's not an issue for the federal government to solve, but
00:31:01.460
even so, the conversation turned to what was described as the childcare crisis.
00:31:09.500
And, uh, let's just watch a little bit of that and then we'll talk about it.
00:31:15.560
There is a childcare crisis in this country and the United States is one of the very few
00:31:21.400
developed countries in the world without a national paid leave program for new parents.
00:31:28.100
Governor Walz, you've said that if Democrats win both the White House and Congress, this is a day
00:31:33.120
one priority for you. How long should employers be required to pay workers while they are home
00:31:39.500
taking care of their newborns? You have two minutes. Yeah, well, that's negotiable and that's
00:31:45.060
what Congress worked, but here's what the deal is. Americans sitting out there right now,
00:31:49.140
you may work for a big company. Look, we're home in Minnesota to some of the largest fortune 500
00:31:53.580
companies. Kamala Harris knows that and call are in California. Those companies provide paid family
00:31:59.220
medical leave. One is, I think they're moral and they think it's a good thing, but it also keeps
00:32:03.800
their employees healthy. We in Minnesota passed a paid family medical leave. You have a child,
00:32:09.120
you, and I had to go back to work five days after my kids. His answer doesn't really matter.
00:32:13.440
Um, it's more of the question and they both answered it and they both gave a spiel about
00:32:19.280
what the government should do to solve this problem of the childcare crisis.
00:32:24.160
And so I want to say a few things about this, none of which will be popular. I don't have a popular
00:32:29.180
view on this. I understand that. And, uh, I'm setting myself up to be, uh, attacked as a cruel,
00:32:35.540
heartless person who doesn't understand and all that kind of stuff. And I get all that and that's
00:32:39.400
going to happen. Whatever. Um, first of all, can we just calm down for a moment?
00:32:47.160
Not everything is a crisis. Not every problem we face as a country is a crisis. It is possible to
00:32:55.380
have an issue, an important issue, a problem even in your country that is not a national crisis.
00:33:02.720
But what happens is we call every problem a crisis. If we recognize that there's a problem
00:33:09.740
in the country, it's automatically a crisis. And, uh, so the word has no meaning anymore. It
00:33:16.340
just doesn't, it doesn't mean anything. We label that there are, we label everything a crisis
00:33:20.840
automatically. And so now when you call something a crisis, it doesn't, I don't know, that does not
00:33:26.600
tell me anything about this problem, how serious it is. Uh, second thing, more to the point, if
00:33:32.340
childcare is a crisis or if, or if it's a problem, but not a crisis, however we describe it, the issue
00:33:39.760
is not primarily a lack of affordable daycare. It's not a lack of paid family leave. The crisis,
00:33:48.860
just using the word, we'll stick with that word for the sake of argument. The crisis is being driven
00:33:55.080
not by a lack of affordability, but by single motherhood. Okay. So can we just be honest about
00:34:03.440
that? Now, yes, I realized that there are married couples with kids who struggle to find affordable
00:34:09.720
childcare options. I get that. I know that. But the thing that brings it to crisis level, if that's the
00:34:18.260
level that it's at, the primary thing driving that is that we have far too many people having kids,
00:34:24.660
but not getting married or having kids, but not staying married. That is what's driving this
00:34:29.720
primarily. What's the solution? Get married first, then have kids, then stay married. That's the
00:34:41.420
solution. If we are not doing that, then there will never be a solution. Childcare, here's another hot
00:34:51.760
take for you. Childcare is not an issue for the government to solve. This is not an issue for
00:34:59.280
the federal government. You should not be looking to the president of the United States to figure out
00:35:07.020
childcare solutions for you. I mean, do you realize how insane that is? Looking to the president to
00:35:16.280
figure out childcare solutions. I mean, does the president need to come into our kitchens and make
00:35:23.680
us dinner too? At what point does it become a problem for us to solve? Are there any problems
00:35:30.060
that just American families solve on their own anymore? And maybe not even entirely on their own,
00:35:37.800
with their own families, with their own communities. But is there anything, is there any part of our lives
00:35:43.280
anymore that we don't turn to the federal government to figure out for us? Can there be any aspect of
00:35:49.540
our lives that we say, well, you know what, this is probably not for you guys. You know, and I say
00:35:54.400
this as someone who has experience with these challenges. Because I'm automatically going to be
00:36:00.720
accused of, you don't know what it's like. Yeah, I do. I was making 40k a year when we had our first two
00:36:06.420
kids. We had twins, first kids. And that's a family of four on a $40,000 income, not poverty level
00:36:14.540
wages, doesn't qualify as poverty level wages for a family of four. But it's not rich. It's a big
00:36:23.680
challenge, you know, taking care of a family of four on that income. And so, yeah, we had this
00:36:30.300
very, this, this problem, this, we faced this problem many people have faced and where it's
00:36:35.140
like, well, I'm, I'm the one earning the income. Now we've got four mouths to feed here and not a
00:36:42.540
lot of money to do it with. We got all the other expenses, all the other things that we have to pay
00:36:47.100
for the rent and the car and everything, the groceries. And we said, well, my wife could go to
00:36:54.220
work and earn an income also. But then if she does that, then we got to pay for daycare for the kids.
00:37:00.440
And we also lived in Kentucky at the time. We were eight hours away from the, our nearest family
00:37:06.100
member. So we were totally isolated from any family or anybody we knew, friends, you know,
00:37:11.020
there's nobody around that we knew and, or we could depend on. And so it was a big, it was a big
00:37:18.220
challenge. And what we decided to do in our case was my wife did not go to work. She stayed home with
00:37:25.040
the kids. And so, and we didn't, so we didn't take, incur that childcare cost. Also, we just,
00:37:30.500
we wanted her to be with our children. And, uh, it was just, it was a big, it was, it was a big
00:37:36.700
sacrifice. It was, it was hard. It was hard. And ultimately, well, the decision we finally made
00:37:42.520
was to pick up and move to leave. We put all, we put our two kids and all of our stuff into a car
00:37:49.920
and we drove, um, back to Maryland. We made the eight, nine hour drive and we just decided we're
00:37:56.560
going to, we got to be around, you know, uh, uh, we got to have some kind of support system around us.
00:38:01.920
And that's not easy to do. Like you can't talk about moving. Like it's these, that's not an easy
00:38:08.500
solution. So when someone is facing something like we were, what we were facing, where you don't have
00:38:14.160
any support system, I know what that's like. Uh, and someone says, well, why don't you just move to
00:38:20.440
where your family is? Not as easy as that. That's not a simple thing to do. Um, but ultimately it's what
00:38:27.760
we did. It was very, very difficult. We did it. And, um, and I guess the point is that
00:38:34.000
at no point during that process did I ever think to myself, what is the president of the United
00:38:44.580
States going to do about this at no point? Many conversations with my wife about how are we going
00:38:53.960
to, like, what are we doing here? How are we going to, how are we going to make all this work?
00:38:58.740
At no point did we say, what is a president? What's the president going to do about it?
00:39:07.860
Because there are some problems that, uh, are not for the federal government to solve.
00:39:14.180
And there are some problems that when the federal government tries to solve them,
00:39:17.560
they just make it worse. And I think that this is one of those problems.
00:39:23.380
Of course, the great, really morbid irony here is that many of the people who say that
00:39:31.520
child care is a problem for the federal government to solve, uh, would be the first to say that
00:39:40.120
the decision to whether or not, whether the decision of whether or not you kill your child
00:39:43.820
to begin with, the federal government should have nothing to do with that.
00:39:47.040
So the federal government should have no say in whether your child gets to live or not.
00:39:53.380
But once you decide that your child's going to live, now it's the federal government's job to
00:39:58.160
figure out how you're going to care for your kid.
00:40:05.220
So you're saying the government should have no, like whether or not your child gets to live in
00:40:09.400
the first place is no concern of the government's. But then if you decide the child is going to live,
00:40:14.400
now it's a, an issue that the government needs to solve for you.
00:40:19.900
So we want the government to go from like total disregard for your child's life to,
00:40:24.160
oh, this, this is our issue. We need to, it's like, that's a, there's a disconnect here.
00:40:32.280
I would say, um, there is not a disconnect the other way though.
00:40:40.060
For the government to say, um, you know what, you can't kill your child.
00:40:44.140
Like we're not going to get involved in your family and tell you, uh, you know,
00:40:47.840
figure out childcare for you and all that. We're not going to do that,
00:40:50.420
but you can't kill your child. Like that's not, there's no hypocrisy there. That's not,
00:40:57.040
that's not a disconnect. It's just like basic laws that have, that govern society.
00:41:04.100
You can't deliberately harm your child. Um, but to flip it around the other way is just
00:41:10.680
totally backwards and bizarre. Um, and so, yeah, I don't need, I don't, Tim wall. We don't need Tim
00:41:19.560
Walls. I don't, I don't need Tim Walls. Uh, and now with six kids, I don't, I don't need Tim
00:41:23.540
Walls to tell me anything about how to care for my kids. I don't need his help. I don't want it.
00:41:27.700
I don't, uh, want the president to get involved. Uh, halt. I got it. Thank you though.
00:41:34.080
Let me briefly, uh, mention this from, it's a report from the New York post.
00:41:39.840
Speaking of childcare, you know, one of the, um, Doug Emhoff, the current second gentleman,
00:41:46.240
you know, is, is now famous for having slept with the nanny. So we know how he feels about
00:41:52.020
childcare and, uh, and here's some more information that has just come out about Doug Emhoff's
00:41:57.600
past and not very distant past. I have to say, New York post reports, vice president
00:42:04.460
Kamala Harris's husband is being accused of slapping his ex-girlfriend for flirting with
00:42:08.920
a valet worker at a ritzy gala in 2012, a new report claims. Second gentleman, Doug Emhoff,
00:42:15.340
59 supposedly struck his then girlfriend, a successful New York attorney in the face so
00:42:20.640
hard. She spun around while in a valet line after an event at the Cannes film festival in May, 2012.
00:42:27.440
Three unnamed friends of the woman reportedly told the Daily Mail, all three sources requested not to
00:42:32.460
be named due to fear of retaliation from Emhoff. They shared a series of photos showing Emhoff posing
00:42:37.260
with the woman in 2012, as well as other documents related to the allegations. Uh, the woman herself
00:42:42.900
apparently declined to comment. So she has not said anything, but these friends have come out and
00:42:50.080
said that. So Emhoff has been accused of sleeping with a nanny and conceiving a child and not just
00:42:54.680
accused, he's admitted to that. And now he's accused of abusing a girlfriend in 2012, not that long
00:43:00.320
ago. Uh, and so this is, this is not back in his misguided youth. He would have been in his like,
00:43:06.860
what, mid forties at the time. Um, and that's the claim. Is it true or not? I have no idea.
00:43:13.740
And I will say that generally, I would say that this is the kind of thing it's like kind of,
00:43:19.420
it's basically politically irrelevant. Uh, if he did abuse his girlfriend, that's terrible. He's a
00:43:25.120
scumbag, but it doesn't have, it's not, it's not really, there's not a lot of news value in that.
00:43:30.860
Um, and if Kamala Harris is married to a guy who's, uh, a philanderer and an abuser,
00:43:38.840
then again, that's terrible, but it's not really politically relevant. That's what I would say.
00:43:44.420
I would say that, except unfortunately the media has been propping Emhoff up as a,
00:43:54.140
the paragon of masculinity has been telling us that he's a new icon. He's a new role model for
00:43:59.020
men. And Emhoff himself has gladly stepped into that role. So both Emhoff himself and the media
00:44:05.840
and the Kamala campaign have presented this guy as the, the, we just played the clip yesterday from
00:44:13.600
Jen Psaki saying that he, what was the phrase? He's redefining masculinity. And again, Emhoff himself
00:44:22.220
is, is embracing that title. And so, well, when you present yourself that way, and when you are
00:44:28.960
presented that way, then all of this stuff becomes relevant. Now you have kind of in the court of public
00:44:34.020
opinion, you have entered that into evidence. You have, uh, right. I mean, you have, um,
00:44:38.880
made all of that stuff relevant. Uh, because if you want to be looked at that way, well,
00:44:48.980
if you're just the husband of the woman who's running for president and you're kind of staying
00:44:55.200
out of the limelight and all of that, and you're just, you know, there, then I would say, well,
00:45:00.520
who really cares about you. But if you're coming out and saying, yeah, I'm the new, every men should
00:45:08.040
be like me. Well, now we got to, we got to find out about you. I mean, now, now it's like, well,
00:45:15.960
okay, well you're, you're claiming and people are claiming about you that you are a role model for
00:45:22.680
men. Uh, maybe you are, who knows? I don't know anything about it. Well, now we got to go find out.
00:45:27.260
We got to go find out more about you. And what we're finding out is, um, not great. And it doesn't
00:45:35.480
really support the claim that he's any kind of role model for men at all. In fact, I mean, so we've
00:45:43.280
heard terrible stories about this guy. Don't know how true all this stuff is, but we've heard terrible
00:45:47.940
stories. Have we even heard a good, what, what are the good stories? They've yet to, they keep telling
00:45:55.100
us that he's a role model. He's the icon. He's, uh, re redefining masculinity. They haven't even given
00:46:03.400
us any examples of like, okay, well, here's something great that he did. Uh, you know,
00:46:07.980
he rescued a cat out of a tree or whatever. He's not even, we haven't gotten any of those
00:46:12.020
kinds of stories. There are no positive stories really about this guy. Uh, the only stories we're
00:46:17.840
getting are negative and he has made all that relevant by trying to present himself a certain
00:46:24.440
way. Um, and, uh, it's pretty clear what kind of guy this person really is. What is a wireless
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cancellation. We've talked a lot about bad leftist art on the show recently. And this is not just
00:48:26.520
because I have my own movie out. Am I racist in theaters now? Get your tickets at amiracist.com.
00:48:31.680
I'm not just trying to draw a contrast between poor quality art and my film, which is good quality
00:48:35.900
art. That's part of it. But it also just happens that there's been a lot of this terrible stuff
00:48:40.560
recently. We're experiencing a surge of cringy lib content, perhaps none cringier than this. The media
00:48:49.360
this week is raving about a new off-Broadway play called Fatherland. The play tells the true and we're
00:48:56.340
told heroic story of a son, Jackson Reffitt, who turned his own father into the feds and testified against
00:49:04.800
him for his role in January 6th. The real-life father, Guy Wesley Reffitt, is now serving a
00:49:10.260
seven-year prison sentence, thanks at least in part to his son's testimony. The play dramatizes the son's
00:49:15.700
allegedly noble decision to betray his own father. And based on the clips that have been aired on
00:49:21.640
MSNBC, the whole thing is about as overwrought and self-important as you might expect. Let's watch a clip
00:49:31.220
Now on everyone who was there, you know that's right, you know that.
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Because I didn't break any laws. Tell me the law I broke.
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You smashed through police barricades and you overtook the United States Capitol.
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You carried your weapon on the federal grounds.
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Okay, I carried my weapon on the federal grounds that we own, that American citizens own.
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I had every constitutional right to carry a weapon and take over Congress. Just because
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a law is written does not mean it's the right law. We went in there, they scurried away
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That was a scene from the new off-Broadway play, Fatherland, which opened last week.
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Now, first of all, maybe I'm, I went back and listened to that like three times to see
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if I heard it right. Did he say yeppers? Did I hear that right? At the very beginning
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of the clip, the son is like, you stormed the Capitol. And then the father emerges from
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the shadows. Yeppers! Did he say that or did I imagine that? What did he say?
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A guy like that would never say yeppers. What? Did he say yes, sir? I mean, what did
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he, I don't, it's an honest question. I don't know what he said. I think he said yeppers.
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Second, nothing about the dialogue that you just heard there reads as authentic. It instead
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reads as exactly what it is, a left-wing theater kid's fever dream, which is even more apparent
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in this next clip that was also aired by MSNBC. Let's watch that.
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Everybody who was there on the 6th should be locked up for the rest of their lives, everyone.
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I am not the one that is putting our family in jeopardy.
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If you cross a line here, I will do my duty. I will have no other choice.
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Actually, if I lived in New York, I would go to this play.
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Not for any of the reasons they want it to be great.
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But if I wanted to make a parody of a liberal play about January 6th, it would be exactly this.
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The total lack of subtlety and nuance just gives it the feel of satire.
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They could have made an actually interesting play on this subject if they had been willing to portray the father as a real human being and not a cartoon.
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Because in the liberal mind, January 6th is one of the darkest days in human history.
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And the people involved are some of the greatest villains of history.
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And they will not allow themselves to see it any other way.
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You know, the left likes to talk about empathy and compassion.
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But, of course, they are sorely lacking in both departments.
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And this is one of the reasons why their art is so subpar.
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Because you have to understand your opposition in order to counter it and defeat it.
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But they don't understand Trump supporters, and they never have.
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Hillary Clinton, of course, famously called Trump supporters deplorables back in 2016.
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That was her explanation for why people support Trump.
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Nobody on the left has ever come up with another explanation.
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That's a shame because when it comes to this particular case, there are some interesting angles that could be explored.
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The most interesting and troubling is not that the father was at the Capitol on January 6th, but that the son turned on him.
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So here is the son, the real-life son, Jackson, on MSNBC, explaining his decision.
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Let's talk a little bit, if you don't mind, about the real-life incident here after January 6th.
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Well, the tip actually came in from before January 6th.
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My dad was getting way more radicalized as time went on following Trump and isolating himself more and more.
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You know, he's watching all sorts of media that was terrifying.
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He isolated himself to online groups that were far-right, radical, and he was growing more and more violent, not to just the family, but to the people around him.
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And then when you saw it January 6th, how soon after did you realize your father was involved, that you had to act further?
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It was while they were pointing guns at the doors of the house.
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And did you have any hesitation about going further?
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I mean, he is your father, but as you say, you saw him there with guns.
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And prosecutors said he lit the match on January 6th.
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It was the hardest decision I've ever made, and it continues to haunt me to this day.
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So Jackson was scared by the media his father was consuming.
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We don't know what kind of scary media it was, but scary in this guy's world doesn't have to mean that his dad was, I don't know, perusing neo-Nazi forums in some dark corner of the Internet.
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He could have just been watching Sean Hannity, for all we know.
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Like, the father's watching The Five on Fox News, and Jackson is cowering in the corner, trembling, terrified.
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That's probably what happened, but I don't know.
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But the real point here is that Jackson did exactly what the left wants all of us to do.
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Whether we have family members who were involved in January 6th or not, they want us to choose the state over our families.
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He can remain loyal to his father, his own blood, the man who raised him, or he can align himself with the government against his father.
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It was his father or the federal government, the family or the state.
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He would have to defy one for the sake of the other.
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He could either be a loyal son or a loyal subject, and he chose to be a subject.
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That's what makes him a great hero to the left.
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While the rest of us normal people see him as a treacherous backstabber, a turncoat who took sides against his family.
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This is what the left seeks to do to all of our families, even if in less dramatic fashion in many cases.
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They want to drive a wedge between child and parent, between husband and wife.
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The bond of the family is a threat to their agenda because, in their minds anyway, it undermines the authority of the state.
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A man who honors his father more than he honors the bureaucracy in D.C. is a problem.
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It's harder to manipulate, harder to control such a person.
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Jackson Reffitt is then their perfect role model, the example that they want us all to follow.
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And that is why the cringy play meant to honor this deeply dishonorable person is today canceled.
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You cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people.
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And what you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.
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I want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument.
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I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.