The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1485 - The Media Panics Over Trump's Administration Picks

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00:02:20.860 delivered. Try to think back, if you can, to the transition period of the Biden-Harris administration.

00:02:26.160 I'm talking about the personnel decisions and especially the key cabinet appointments that the

00:02:31.180 incoming administration made in the weeks after the media called the race for Joe Biden back at the

00:02:35.420 end of 2020. Now, those personnel decisions were treated as basically non-stories. They came and went

00:02:40.800 in the media, didn't talk much about them. Wasn't a lot of outrage or debate. Pete Buttigieg, for

00:02:45.740 example, became the transportation secretary because he likes trains and was vaguely interested

00:02:50.900 in airplanes. And he's gay. And those were his qualifications. That was it. So they put him in 0.99

00:02:55.420 charge of the Department of Transportation, which has a budget of tens of billions of dollars and

00:02:59.180 oversees the nation's railways and airports. Why not? Made sense to Democrats at the time. What's the

00:03:04.880 worst that could happen? A train carrying toxic chemicals might derail somewhere in Ohio, let's say?

00:03:10.020 What are the odds of that? Well, that was the nomination of Lloyd Austin to lead the Defense

00:03:14.860 Department. And that was really inspiring. You see, Lloyd Austin was serving on the board of Raytheon,

00:03:19.720 one of the biggest defense contractors in the world. Raytheon was paying him a lot of money. And

00:03:23.580 then without much fanfare, the Biden-Harris administration appointed Lloyd Austin to run

00:03:27.560 the Pentagon. What could go wrong? Surely Lloyd Austin wouldn't try to enrich his former colleagues in

00:03:32.820 the defense industry by, say, sending billions of dollars worth of weaponry to a tiny corrupt country in

00:03:38.460 Eastern Europe. That would be unthinkable. Then there was the appointment of someone using the

00:03:42.740 name Rachel Levine, a biological male originally named Richard, who decided in middle age to start

00:03:47.320 wearing a dress and rebrand himself as Rachel. Made perfect sense, we were told, for a man deeply

00:03:52.460 confused about the basic realities of human biology to oversee the nation's healthcare system.

00:03:57.940 Now, sure, he might pressure hospitals to castrate and sterilize as many children as possible.

00:04:01.680 He might pose for some uncomfortable photographs with Sam Britton, the cross-dressing nuclear waste 1.00

00:04:07.620 expert and kleptomaniac who'd been terrorizing airport baggage claims all across the Eastern

00:04:12.400 Seaboard for years before also being appointed for a role in the Biden-Harris administration.

00:04:17.360 But that's the cost of human progress, we were told at the time. I'm going through these

00:04:22.920 appointments to make a couple of points. The first point is that all of these appointments and many

00:04:27.420 others like them, including the appointment of an open borders advocate to run the Department of

00:04:31.320 Homeland Security, were grotesque. None of them should have been allowed to go through, but they

00:04:36.100 did. And the country paid the predictable consequences. Biden, you know, he appointed

00:04:41.580 more cross-dressers than we'd been used to seeing in government at that point. But otherwise, his picks 0.75

00:04:46.380 were exactly what we come to expect, a bunch of corrupt and useless bureaucrats who went on to do 0.99

00:04:51.700 what corrupt and useless bureaucrats always do, which, by the way, is expand their own power and 1.00

00:04:56.380 enrich themselves and their friends. That's the whole deal. Well, thankfully, it's clear that Donald 0.99

00:05:01.260 Trump is not going to follow that typical strategy. Donald Trump's incoming administration is already

00:05:08.800 unlike any other in American history. I mean, this is a transition team that's making a concerted

00:05:14.160 effort to select competent, independent cabinet officials, people who aren't self-interested cronies 0.97

00:05:20.140 or morons who are selected on the basis of identity politics. He's picking people who are actually 0.86

00:05:25.140 competent and who might actually advance the agenda that the American people voted for, which is

00:05:30.980 Donald Trump's agenda. Imagine that. So let's start with one of the selections that was announced

00:05:36.680 last night and that has upset a lot of people on the left. Donald Trump revealed that Pete Hegseth,

00:05:43.860 a Bronze Star recipient who served nearly two decades in the military, including in Iraq and Afghanistan,

00:05:48.200 will be nominated as the Secretary of Defense. Now, Hegseth is most recognizable at the moment as a

00:05:56.020 Fox News host, where he often advocates on behalf of veterans. He's also used his platform to outline

00:06:01.040 changes that, in his view, need to be made to the military immediately. And this gives us kind of a

00:06:07.460 preview of hopefully what we can expect now that he's running the Defense Department. Let's watch.

00:06:11.440 The Pentagon is, in the book, the exact amount of years. But in the past X number of years, 10, 12, 15,

00:06:19.520 the Pentagon has a perfect record in all of its war games against China. We lose every time 0.93

00:06:26.200 inside the Pentagon war games. We know what our real capability—you see, we didn't even get to this

00:06:32.560 part of the war on warriors. I mean, the military-industrial conflicts, the way we procure

00:06:35.720 weapons systems, you know, we're always—the way our system works, the way our bureaucratic system

00:06:41.660 works, where the speed of weapons procurement works, we're always a decade behind in fighting

00:06:46.760 the last war. Whereas China, we have a—we have, you know, what did Rumsfeld say? You go to the war

00:06:53.240 of the army, you have. We have the—China's building an army specifically dedicated to defeating the 0.95

00:06:59.160 United States of America. That is their strategic outset. Take hypersonic missiles. So if our whole—if our

00:07:04.960 our whole power projection platform is aircraft carriers and the ability to project power that

00:07:10.000 way strategically around the globe. And yeah, we have a nuclear triad and all of that, but a big part

00:07:13.440 of it. And if, you know, 15 hypersonic missiles can take out our 10 aircraft carriers in the first 20

00:07:18.480 minutes of a conflict, what does that look like? Well, first of all, you've got to fire, you know,

00:07:24.400 you've got to fire the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and you've got to fire this—I mean, obviously,

00:07:27.120 you're going to bring in a new Secretary of Defense, but any general that was involved, General Admiral,

00:07:30.880 whatever that was involved in any of the DEI woke—it's got to go. Either you're in for war

00:07:37.440 fighting, and that's it, and that's the only litmus test we care about. You've got to get DEI

00:07:42.560 and CRT out of military academies, so you're not training young officers to be baptized in this

00:07:46.640 type of thinking. And then, you know, whatever the standards—whatever the combat standards were,

00:07:52.080 say in, I don't know, 1995, let's just make those the standards. And as far as recruiting,

00:07:56.720 to hire the guy that, you know, did Top Gun Maverick and create some real ads that motivate

00:08:01.360 people to want to serve. I'm straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles. 1.00

00:08:05.920 It hasn't made us more effective, hasn't made us more lethal, has made fighting more complicated.

00:08:10.640 We've all served with women, and they're great. It's just our institutions don't have to 0.97

00:08:15.920 incentivize that in places where traditionally—not traditionally, over human history, men in those

00:08:22.560 positions are more capable. Well, I'm sold. I'm sold on that pick. I don't need to know

00:08:28.400 anything else about the guy, just based on that alone. This is all common sense stuff,

00:08:31.920 but it's the kind of stuff that you just never hear from anyone in a cabinet position,

00:08:38.800 any kind of bureaucrat, until now. And these are the kind of picks, by the way,

00:08:44.480 that probably only Donald Trump would make. Like, Donald Trump's probably the only guy

00:08:48.320 who would select him as Secretary of Defense. But again, all common sense, the overwhelming

00:08:55.920 majority of countries don't allow women in combat for obvious reasons. We are one of only a handful

00:09:02.640 of countries that do that. And no, the military shouldn't be teaching its soldiers about white 0.80

00:09:07.440 rage, nor should the Pentagon be focused on recruiting girl bosses or diverse applicants.

00:09:13.280 That strategy isn't working. The military is now regularly missing its recruitment goals,

00:09:17.120 primarily because they've gone out of their way to alienate white men for political reasons.

00:09:22.240 As a result, our military is much smaller than China's. Morale is terrible. We're constantly

00:09:28.080 losing war games, as Pete Hegseth pointed out. And making matters worse, our military leaders are

00:09:34.080 clearly inept, as evidenced by the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, and also as evidenced by 0.73

00:09:38.640 everything else that's happened over the last 20 or 30 years. So with this track record, 0.93

00:09:43.600 the absolute last person you'd want to pick for the job of Defense Secretary is another Lloyd Austin

00:09:49.120 type. The Lloyd Austins of the world are the ones who created the very situation that Hegseth is

00:09:55.040 talking about in those clips. That's why you need someone who's motivated and equipped to make some

00:10:01.280 radical changes, which actually aren't that radical because you're just going back to what was common

00:10:05.440 sense and what was standard, you know, only a few decades ago. But by our standards, it's radical.

00:10:11.840 And you want someone who knows what it's like to be a soldier in a war zone and who hasn't been

00:10:16.560 corrupted by his connections to the military industrial complex. In short, you want somebody like

00:10:21.040 Pete Hegseth. Now, as you'd expect, Democrats don't see it that way. They lost their minds when Trump

00:10:27.760 briefly paused the flow of military weapons to Ukraine. And now they're losing their minds

00:10:31.680 because Pete Hegseth might spurn the defense industry too. Elizabeth Warren, the senator from

00:10:38.000 Massachusetts, was especially enraged. She was sneering last night, along with a lot of her 1.00

00:10:41.740 colleagues. She wrote, quote, a Fox and Friends weekend co-host is not qualified to be the secretary

00:10:47.300 of defense. I lead the Senate military personnel panel. All three of my brothers served in uniform.

00:10:54.420 I respect every one of our service members. Donald Trump's pick will make us less safe and must be

00:10:58.360 rejected. So right away, the woman who pretended to be an Indian tries to dismiss Hegseth as a

00:11:03.840 weekend co-host, completely ignoring his military service and his ideas and his advocacy for veterans.

00:11:12.620 And by the way, it's funny that the fact that he is a combat veteran is not relevant.

00:11:19.800 But she's a greater authority because her brothers are veterans. So his own experience doesn't matter.

00:11:25.600 He's just a weekend co-host. But no, she is an authority because her brother, my brothers served.

00:11:31.540 So? How does that apply to you? How does that make you qualified to say anything?

00:11:38.940 Oh, she's also on the military personnel panel. She's on a panel, everybody. I mean, this guy

00:11:45.560 actually served in war zones, but she's on a panel. She sat on so many panels and talked about things.

00:11:53.800 So we're supposed to believe, based on her word, that if Hegseth had served on the board of Raytheon,

00:12:00.620 he would somehow be vastly more equipped for the job. We apparently want defense secretaries who are 1.00

00:12:06.000 bureaucrats or defense contractors, first and foremost, because that's obviously worked out

00:12:10.340 really well over the past three decades. And in the context of a second Trump administration,

00:12:14.520 the criticism of Pete Hegseth makes even less sense. Because recall that under the first Trump

00:12:19.700 administration, the Pentagon actively sabotaged Trump's policy objectives. Our envoy to Syria

00:12:26.680 has admitted this. It's one of the most incredible admissions ever printed, but it never got much

00:12:30.240 attention. The envoy stated that officials in the first Trump administration were, quote,

00:12:34.360 always playing shell games in order to hide the actual number of US troops in Syria from Trump.

00:12:40.080 That's an actual quote, shell games. In other words, they were lying to the commander in chief.

00:12:46.820 Trump wanted troops to leave Syria, and they told him the troops were already gone. And it wasn't true.

00:12:53.280 They were lying to undermine his agenda. People should have been put on trial for that. I mean,

00:12:58.920 that's criminal, but it just faded from memory. And it's faded from maybe the media's memory and the

00:13:06.120 public's memory. It hasn't faded from Trump's memory. So given that background, you can understand

00:13:10.540 why this time around Trump wants someone he can actually depend on, someone who agrees with his

00:13:15.300 agenda and will try to enact it. He wants people he can trust. That's the single most important

00:13:22.180 quality that a cabinet pick can have. You've got to be able to trust them. And that's very obvious

00:13:27.040 to Trump now after what he experienced in his first term. But Democrats are still going to resist

00:13:31.760 this nomination anyway for reasons that they can't really articulate. They just know that it'd be a

00:13:36.940 disaster for them if an outsider took control of the Defense Department. That's why one of CNN's

00:13:41.340 hosts tried to push back on Scott Jennings' argument for Hegseth last night on CNN. Let's watch that.

00:13:49.320 You want to have confidence in the current leadership of the Pentagon and the way the defense

00:13:53.540 situation has been operating for the last several years? I mean, from the Afghanistan pullout,

00:13:58.800 which was an extreme debacle for which no one was held accountable. We've had spy balloons flying

00:14:04.020 over the United States. We built a $300 million pier as a public relations stunt, which wound up

00:14:10.260 killing an American service member. I'd say I've had just about enough of the so-called insiders running

00:14:16.180 the Defense Department. I think we ought to give Pete Hegseth a chance because he's got two.

00:14:20.340 All the criticism of him is that he's not the expected Washington pick. And I'm just saying to

00:14:27.620 you that the American people just voted against the expected Washington pick. So he's got 20 years

00:14:32.780 in service, Afghanistan, Iraq, two bronze stars, Princeton, Harvard. Yeah, he's on TV, but so are

00:14:38.560 the rest of us. By the way, that lesson you just gave us really interesting because you highlighted

00:14:45.060 a bunch of things that the civilian leadership of the country decided on. And the military,

00:14:50.900 their job was just to execute. How did it go? I'm just saying. How did it go? In terms of the

00:14:56.520 decision-making, you're assigning decision-making responsibility to the military over things that

00:15:02.600 civilians are responsible for. So you make a good point. The civilian leadership made decisions,

00:15:07.100 and then the people they put in charge of the Pentagon carried it out. And it was all pretty

00:15:11.700 much a disaster. So for starters, it's pretty amusing for starters, as Jennings points out,

00:15:18.140 for television pundits to attack Hegseth for being a TV host when they're all television

00:15:23.940 personalities also. So either being on television makes you an idiot or it doesn't. And if it does, 1.00

00:15:30.600 then all these people should quit their jobs now before CNN closes down and fires them anyway, 0.99

00:15:34.740 which appears more likely to happen with each passing day. Then the anchor says that civilians

00:15:39.100 give the orders in the military, which is obviously true. But it's the Pentagon, which is also run by

00:15:43.960 civilians, that has the job of carrying out those orders. And as Jennings pointed out,

00:15:47.640 the Pentagon has repeatedly failed to do its job. They were wrong about the spy balloon and what it was

00:15:51.880 doing. They were wrong about the logistics of the Afghanistan pullout, which resulted in the

00:15:55.440 deaths of American service members. Couldn't even build a pier properly. And so what exactly is the

00:16:00.920 argument for keeping those kinds of people in control of the Defense Department? How could

00:16:05.140 we possibly do any worse than they've been doing? That's a point that Tom Homan, the incoming border

00:16:11.720 czar, just made on Fox News. He was asked whether he was worried about having the title of border

00:16:16.680 czar, given that Kamala Harris has done everything she can to run away from that title. And here's how he

00:16:22.200 responded.

00:16:24.140 Hey, Tom, you know, the last person who was border czar, she didn't want to be called border czar.

00:16:28.600 You're proud of it, right? You know what? I'm going to look like a genius because when you

00:16:35.100 follow a failure, you can't help succeed, right? To the American people, President Trump is going

00:16:43.060 to secure this border. He's going to save American lives. He's going to, by securing the border,

00:16:48.480 we're going to drop illegal alien crime, which is skyrocketing. Less people are going to die from

00:16:52.500 fentanyl. Less children are going to be sex trafficked. Less women will be sex assaulted on the southern

00:16:57.220 border. The criminal cartels will be put out of business by this president.

00:17:00.520 Go get them, Tom Homan. Appreciate it.

00:17:03.160 I think that's the right attitude. I'm going to look like a genius because when you follow

00:17:05.980 up failure, you can't help but succeed. And that is true. And also, it's all the more reason to go

00:17:10.800 in there and make radical changes. Can't get any worse. And so go in there and make the changes.

00:17:18.220 And whatever risks are involved in that, politically, take those risks. And that pretty

00:17:25.140 much sums up the entire transition so far. We're so used to administration officials who lie to us,

00:17:30.020 who try to use emotional blackmail and manipulation. That's pretty much impossible to be disappointed by

00:17:35.620 the incoming Trump administration at this point. I mean, just by demonstrating that they don't care

00:17:40.060 about the media's manipulation and false narratives, they're already well ahead of their predecessors.

00:17:44.560 It's also clear that the federal bureaucracy, which functioned to undermine Trump at every

00:17:49.360 possible opportunity the first time around, isn't going to exist in the same form the second time.

00:17:56.440 So last night, Trump officially announced that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will be running the

00:18:01.240 Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. Trump said the goal of this new department,

00:18:06.980 which actually is not going to be in the government, but it's going to be an independent

00:18:09.920 outside the government organization. But the goal will be to dismantle government bureaucracy,

00:18:17.180 slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies.

00:18:23.300 He said they'll be done within two years, what he called the perfect gift to America on the

00:18:27.600 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. And this is good, because the task of,

00:18:34.860 as he says, dismantling government bureaucracy should be the number one focus of Trump's second

00:18:41.460 term. Because nothing else can be done unless that is done first. And Elon Musk is just the guy to do

00:18:49.920 it. He showed up to Twitter and immediately axed 80% of the staff. And of course, as we remember,

00:18:55.600 everybody in the media said it would destroy the company. They said the whole site would crash and

00:19:00.560 burn and be forgotten. And yet, here we are, two years later, place is running better than ever.

00:19:07.160 Now, the problem in the federal government is like what the problem was in Twitter, except

00:19:11.880 multiplied by, you know, about a factor of, let's say, a million. Unlike every other company on the

00:19:18.560 planet, the federal government doesn't undergo mass layoffs. It just grows and grows year after year,

00:19:24.940 siphons more and more money from taxpayers without any accountability. These bureaucrats call themselves 0.98

00:19:31.640 public servants, but really the public is serving them. We're the ones who go to work every day to

00:19:35.940 pay their salaries. And what exactly do they do for us? Do we really need these people to spend tens of

00:19:42.380 thousands of dollars on gender equity in places like Honduras? Do we need them to develop new bat 1.00

00:19:49.500 coronaviruses and secret labs in Wuhan? Do we need them to use our money to subsidize some of the

00:19:55.440 most useless college degrees in existence? Do we need them to conduct fraudulent criminal trials of

00:20:01.720 the leading presidential candidate? Do we need them to issue insane new regulations, you know, in the name

00:20:08.360 of saving the environment, like banning the sale of gas-powered vehicles or gas stoves or plastic straws

00:20:14.580 or whatever else? Of course we don't. We've never needed any of that. What we have needed for a long

00:20:20.680 time now is for the government to get out of the way of human progress. They need to stop spending and

00:20:25.340 printing money as if it's endless. They need to do what every American in the private sector has to do,

00:20:29.160 which is justify their salaries. They need to explain how exactly they're serving the public instead of

00:20:34.880 the other way around. And this is a reckoning that would have been unthinkable if Kamala had won this

00:20:40.020 election. We'd be dealing with another parade of useless BIPOC, trans-whatever appointees who exist 1.00

00:20:45.260 only to check boxes. And now things are different. And giving Musk and Ramaswamy the hacksaw with a 0.90

00:20:51.480 directive to go to town on the federal bureaucracy means that maybe, maybe for the first time ever,

00:20:57.940 some real and substantial cuts will actually be made. No Republican president in modern times has ever

00:21:04.460 actually done anything to cut the size of government. They've all talked about it. None of them have done

00:21:09.720 it. Much less have they taken any steps to gut the federal bureaucracy and get rid of all the

00:21:15.140 useless people and their useless departments and programs. In fact, Republicans, of course, 0.96

00:21:18.880 have only contributed to that problem. They've added to it. There's pretty good reason to think that

00:21:24.320 this time will be different. Trump has picked the right two guys for the job, which is why the

00:21:29.740 federal bureaucrats are panicking and their panic will only become more unhinged in the days ahead.

00:21:34.660 For everyone else, for people who actually earn their living, it's a time to celebrate something

00:21:39.960 that's never happened before in modern American history. The behemoth federal bureaucracy is

00:21:45.680 hopefully about to get what it deserves, what's been coming to it for decades. If Trump fulfills his

00:21:52.200 promises, and that means simply letting the people he's hiring do the jobs they've been hired to do,

00:21:59.300 if that happens, it will mean ultimately that America becomes a freer, safer, more prosperous place.

00:22:06.780 And if this is the fascism they warned us about, then, well, it can't come soon enough.

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00:23:31.620 viewership for MSNBC and CNN has tanked since Donald Trump steamrolled Kamala Harris in the 0.95

00:23:36.060 2024 presidential election. Mediate obtained viewership data from Thursday to highlight the

00:23:40.700 concerns both channels face. For the day, MSNBC averaged 596,000 viewers, while CNN recorded just

00:23:48.020 419,000. That's a decline of 23% for MSNBC and 40% for CNN year over year. But the primetime numbers

00:23:57.340 are even more concerning. While CNN saw a 30% decline, MSNBC declined an unprecedented 54%.

00:24:03.740 So this is kind of interesting. The conventional view is that left-wing media outlets and news channels

00:24:13.420 should see a surge of ratings after a Trump win because now they're the opposition, right? And for

00:24:22.900 the past four years, they've been in the position of defending the powers that be, and now they get

00:24:27.480 to play the role of the critic, the resistance, right? They get to slide back into that role.

00:24:34.360 And so typically, you'd think that that would help their ratings, not hurt them, but that doesn't seem

00:24:39.400 to be happening. In fact, the situation is so dire for MSNBC that they're, from what I saw,

00:24:44.600 the report I just saw, they're looking at possibly selling the company. That's how bad it is. So why

00:24:50.900 aren't they getting the resistance bump that we've seen in the past? Why aren't they getting bigger

00:24:57.560 ratings as the outsiders, the ones bravely standing up against the fascist regime?

00:25:03.740 I think there are a few reasons. And the first is that they've been obsessively criticizing Trump

00:25:10.340 for almost 10 years now. And with him winning another four years, that means that it'll be

00:25:17.140 another half decade or so of relentless Trump hate on these networks. And I think many in the audience

00:25:23.800 are just tired of it. It's just simple exhaustion and boredom. People are bored of it. How could they not

00:25:30.480 be? By the end, this will be 15 years, right? This will be almost a decade and a half of

00:25:41.240 focusing your programming primarily on attacking one guy, one specific guy. And it's just not

00:25:52.600 interesting. Even if you agree with them, even if you hate Trump at a certain point after 10 years of

00:25:59.020 it, you've kind of heard it all. And you don't need to keep hearing it every day. It just gets

00:26:03.520 boring. It's boring. You know, it's as simple as that. And the second factor, I think the bigger

00:26:07.560 factor is that MSNBC and CNN have just proven themselves to be irrelevant. They had dedicated

00:26:15.020 themselves for the past four years to the project of making sure Trump does not win again. And he won.

00:26:22.940 It was a landslide. And so they failed in historic fashion, thus demonstrating that they have very

00:26:32.260 little influence. They have no real ability anymore to set the narrative and influence people on a

00:26:39.700 national scale. They're just irrelevant. Trump's victory has not so much made them irrelevant as

00:26:47.600 exposed how irrelevant they really are. And that's why the ratings are tanking, I think. Pretty simple.

00:26:57.360 Mayor Adams in New York was asked whether he will cooperate with Trump's mass deportation plan. And

00:27:04.460 well, he didn't say no. We'll put it that way. Let's watch.

00:27:10.240 Will you express concern about mass deportations in the city?

00:27:16.880 My concern is one concern. We keep tinkering around the edges. We keep having this philosophical

00:27:22.400 conversation about it. The voters communicated loudly and clearly. We have a broken immigration 1.00

00:27:30.560 system. It needs to be fixed. That's the only conversation I want. New York City was devastated

00:27:35.740 by that broken system. 220,000 migrants and asylum seekers have made their way here.

00:27:41.600 How can migrant New Yorkers be sure that they won't happen here, given that ICE can make arrests 1.00

00:27:47.720 in New York City without police cooperation? Why should New Yorkers, including migrant New Yorkers, 1.00

00:27:53.420 trust that you will advocate for them with the new Trump administration?

00:27:57.160 But you said, how can I advocate for New Yorkers? So I should only advocate for one type of New Yorker 0.94

00:28:03.840 or New Yorkers. So the media wants Adams to say that he will valiantly stand up against Trump's

00:28:10.360 deportation plans, his deportation agenda. But he didn't say that. In fact, he agreed that illegal

00:28:17.180 immigration is a major problem that needs to be addressed. And I think that more Democrat governors 0.95

00:28:24.660 and mayors are going to more will cooperate or at least not obstruct than we think. There will be

00:28:32.480 more people in the Mayor Adams camp than maybe you would otherwise anticipate. And yes, some of them

00:28:40.540 have already said that they're not going to cooperate. They're going to try to sabotage Trump's

00:28:45.180 efforts to enforce the border, enforce our immigration laws. We know that. That's been happening.

00:28:51.020 I mean, that's what sanctuary cities are all about. So that's been happening for a long time.

00:28:56.480 And that's fine because Trump doesn't actually need them to cooperate. He can do it without their

00:29:02.100 help. Where there's a will, there's a way. And so if there's the will in the Trump administration

00:29:09.780 to carry this out and enforce our immigration laws, regardless of what any mayor or governor says or

00:29:18.360 things, if there's a will to do it, if there's a willingness to do it, then it can be done.

00:29:25.100 But even so, I think there will be maybe, and maybe I'm just

00:29:30.380 high on the fumes of optimism right now, which rarely happens to me, but I think there will be a

00:29:38.640 surprising amount of cooperation. And the reason is just simple politics. I mean, there is wide public

00:29:44.680 approval for mass deportations. Democrats are on the losing side of this argument.

00:29:53.360 The American people are basically decided on this issue and they're done with it. They want it to be

00:29:59.740 over. They want their borders back. They want their sovereignty back. This is not a far right position

00:30:05.000 anymore. It's not even a conservative position anymore uniquely. And it never was. I mean, never was.

00:30:12.900 It never should have been rather a conservative position. It should just be an American position.

00:30:19.000 Or if you're in this country and you're a citizen, you should want us to have borders that are

00:30:23.160 protected. No matter what else you think about politics, you should want that. And I think that

00:30:28.000 that's where people are now. And people want their communities back and they want their culture back.

00:30:33.500 And they're kind of done with the emotional manipulation. Not everybody. You know,

00:30:38.600 there's always going to be the gullible people, the morons. There's always going to be the dupes 1.00

00:30:44.520 who fall for the emotional manipulation tactics. That's always going to happen. But I don't think

00:30:49.540 that's where the culture is anymore. And so all the more reason why this can be done. And look,

00:30:58.000 we all know what will happen. I mean, we can play this out in our heads and we know that

00:31:05.440 the moment they actually start with the deportations, we're going to, I mean, the propaganda machine is

00:31:15.860 going to rev up on the left at a level we haven't even seen before. And we've seen a lot of it

00:31:23.460 you know, with Trump and we've seen a lot of anti-Trump propagandizing and we've seen

00:31:29.180 there've been many hoaxes and all of that. We've seen all that, including on this issue

00:31:35.180 in Trump's first term. Remember what was it? The ridiculous hoax about a border agent whipping

00:31:44.340 an illegal immigrant. That was the story anyway. But he had a whip and he was just, he was whipping 1.00

00:31:49.700 them. And it turns out that's not what happened at all. So there's going to be a lot of that kind

00:31:55.660 of thing. And it's going to be, there's going to be a lot more of it. And we know that. And

00:32:00.580 they're going to start, we're going to get all the tear jerking, weepy stories about families being

00:32:06.860 ripped out of their homes and sent back. And we're going to get the videos and the, you know,

00:32:11.340 the cell phone footage and all that's going to happen. And the left is hoping that that will

00:32:18.500 be enough to turn the tide of public opinion. They're hoping that after a few rounds of that,

00:32:23.900 after a few weeks of that, right, when we've seen a few of these videos of the illegal immigrants

00:32:31.000 crying and being sent away and all of that, they're hoping, they're expecting that that will be enough

00:32:37.700 and that the American people say, well, nevermind. I didn't know if deporting illegal immigrants means

00:32:42.500 that they're going to cry. Well, then nevermind. I thought they'd be happy. I thought this would be a

00:32:48.100 cheerful thing. I thought everybody would be happy. I didn't know it would get ugly like this.

00:32:51.460 That's what they're hoping will be the response of most people in the public. And I think they're

00:32:56.680 going to be disappointed. That's, that's, that's my, my theory. I don't think it's going to be that

00:33:02.760 easy. I think it's going to take more. It's going to take more than a few viral videos of illegal

00:33:06.960 immigrants crying because they're getting deported. I don't think that's going to be enough to turn 1.00

00:33:10.900 public opinion, uh, against this, but we will see. Um, all right. I want to talk about this

00:33:20.700 for a moment. Um, reading now from the express tribune, it's the name of the outlet,

00:33:28.300 Marla Rose, a Jewish feminist activist has sparked debate following an alleged altercation with far

00:33:34.920 right commentator, Nick Fuentes at his Illinois residence. Over the weekend, Rose reportedly

00:33:40.500 approached Fuentes's home, rang the doorbell and was allegedly met with pepper spray in a physical

00:33:45.480 confrontation. She claims Fuentes pepper sprayed her, kicked her down a flight of stairs and took

00:33:51.120 her phone, which was later returned by the police. Emergency services, including the police and ambulance

00:33:55.520 arrived following the incident. In a Facebook post, Rose elaborated on her motivations, citing Fuentes's

00:34:01.640 controversial reputation. Uh, quote, what would you do if a neo-Nazi white supremacist who called on a

00:34:07.960 holy war against Jews and is allowed proud misogynist lives in your town? She wrote. Encouraged by a 0.99

00:34:12.900 friend, Rose explained, so I rang the doorbell. He immediately swung the door open like he was at

00:34:16.960 damn Waco, sprayed me with a burning liquid and pushed me down the stairs into a, onto his sidewalk. 0.98

00:34:24.160 Rose noted that a passerby called the police after which EMTs checked for injuries. Um, 1.00

00:34:29.280 and, uh, she says she was assaulted and all that. Okay. So just filling in some details here,

00:34:35.200 Fuentes got doxed over the weekend. It was a pretty major doxing. Um, I mean, I saw his address all over

00:34:42.900 my Twitter feed. It was just, it was all over the place and a picture of his home, you know,

00:34:48.720 address, all of that. Very, very thorough, very viral doxing event. Then you started seeing posts

00:34:55.260 from people talking about how they're going to his home or driving by, uh, his home. And, and then

00:35:00.240 you've got, you know, this left-wing activist, Marla Rose shows up. Uh, she posts about it on 0.87

00:35:06.860 Twitter and, uh, makes it very clear in her post that she's there to harass him. You know, it's not

00:35:11.920 like she knocked on his door to say hello or to sell door-to-door magazine subscriptions or something.

00:35:17.300 I mean, she was there for a reason. It was very clear what the reason was. Um, and on his property,

00:35:23.880 you know, unless somebody is in an apartment, in most cases, if you're knocking on the door,

00:35:28.280 it means you're already on their property. So she's on his property and, uh, is there to harass him. 0.92

00:35:33.860 And, and that's not really debatable, which is, um, which is why it's absurd to take her side in this.

00:35:41.560 As I've seen some people doing, including conservatives, uh, taking her side just because,

00:35:47.900 you know, you don't like Nick Fuentes. Now I admit I'm kind of biased here. I am biased.

00:35:53.340 Uh, I'm very biased in fact. And I take this kind of story perhaps more personally than most people

00:35:58.780 do. And that's because as you know, if you've been listening to the show for a while, I also

00:36:05.640 have been doxed, you know, I mean, really doxed. Like people talk about doxing and sometimes you'll

00:36:10.240 hear that somebody is like an anonymous accounts and their real name is posted somewhere and we call

00:36:16.160 that doxing. And that can be, I mean, that's a form of doxing, but I'm saying doxing like real

00:36:21.520 doxing. Okay. Like here's the person's home address and a picture of their home.

00:36:27.180 Yeah, that's doxing. That's what doxing actually is. And most people just have not had that experience.

00:36:34.820 Uh, and you're lucky if you haven't, most people haven't, you know, you, you probably have not had

00:36:38.940 the experience of having your home address going viral on the internet for millions of people to see.

00:36:45.680 many of whom do not like you. Um, and if you never, if you've never been through that,

00:36:52.840 well, be grateful. Uh, I've been through it more than once and putting someone's home address out

00:36:59.740 there because you don't like their political opinions or because you're mad about their mean

00:37:05.440 tweets or because you think that they're a rude person who says terrible things. I mean, that is

00:37:11.020 just psychotically evil behavior. It's just evil. You are trying to get them killed.

00:37:19.360 You, you, you, a hundred percent. That's what you're doing. So in the past, when this has happened 0.99

00:37:23.640 to me, I was like, you were trying to get me and my family killed. That is what you're doing.

00:37:27.560 There's no getting around. It's not dramatic to say that. I mean, what, that's the point.

00:37:31.000 Why else would you put someone's address on the internet? That's why you're doing it.

00:37:34.880 The whole point is that you're, you're trying to send negative attention to the person's home where

00:37:40.080 they live with their families. Um, so yes, you are trying to get them hurt along with anyone else

00:37:48.540 who happens to be in their home. And, uh, and, and in fact, when you get doxed, many of the people

00:37:57.440 doing the doxing are very explicit that this is the reason they're doing it. You know, they're,

00:38:02.640 they're often very clear that like they want people to go to your house and burn it to the ground 0.99

00:38:07.540 and kill you. Like this is not, it's not subtle. It's not a subtle thing. So if you do that to 0.99

00:38:15.140 someone, you are the bad guy. Uh, you know, I don't care who the other person is. I don't care

00:38:19.400 what they've said. It doesn't matter. And if you actually show up to somebody's house,

00:38:25.240 if you, if you show up, if you show up at all, but especially if you show up in this context,

00:38:34.380 in the midst of a doxing campaign, when the person who is being doxed is necessarily on high alert and

00:38:42.420 in a very defensive posture, and you can say, well, you're scared. You're like, yeah,

00:38:47.580 you're sending whack jobs to my house. Yes. That makes me nervous. I, who wouldn't I,

00:38:54.560 any human being on earth would be. So now I have to, I'm, I'm have to be defensive.

00:38:59.560 And so if you do that and someone's getting doxed and you show up to their house,

00:39:04.960 uh, you get what's coming to you. You put someone's address out there and then you walk

00:39:10.080 onto their property. As far as I'm concerned, they're within their rights to respond. However

00:39:14.740 they feel they need to respond. However they feel they need to respond. They are within their rights

00:39:20.320 to do it. And whatever happens to you, you had it coming. Uh, you had it coming. Like it's not like

00:39:28.380 you just don't go on their property. It's not, you know, it's not, we're not, this is not any,

00:39:32.760 we're not expecting anything. We're not, we're not, we're not expecting much here.

00:39:37.100 This is not some great imposition that I'm, but just, just don't, that's their house. Stay away

00:39:41.260 from their house. You don't belong there. That's their property. Just wandering. I mean,

00:39:46.740 you got these left-wing activists and this is how entitled they feel that like, what the,

00:39:52.360 what the F do you think's going to happen? Someone's in the middle of being doxed.

00:39:58.560 People on the internet are very clear. Hey, go to this house and kill this guy. We hate him. 1.00

00:40:02.460 And then you show up. What? And then you're surprised that you get a physical response.

00:40:07.420 What are you doing? How could you respond that way? I don't know. Maybe there's a million crazy

00:40:12.320 people who want to kill me and know where I live. Maybe that's why I'm responding this way. 0.99

00:40:18.100 What are you going to do? Open the door and say, Hey, come on in. Let's have a talk. You want some

00:40:23.880 lemonade? So I don't care how you feel about Nick Fuentes. Obviously no love lost between the two of

00:40:31.880 us. It doesn't matter. I mean, doxing is despicable. Coming to someone's house is way, way, way,

00:40:39.280 way outside the bounds of what is appropriate or acceptable. And I'll tell you this, if you're on

00:40:45.280 the right and you're cheering on a doxing campaign against anyone, you are extremely foolish. 1.00

00:40:53.400 Okay. You are extremely foolish because eventually they'll get to you. Eventually it'll happen to you. 1.00

00:40:59.880 And what are you going to do then? What are you going to do when it happens? What are you going

00:41:03.180 to do when your address is viral on the internet and you start complaining about it? And then people

00:41:08.560 pull up your tweets where you were cheering it on when it happened to somebody else.

00:41:11.420 So, you know, now if that were to happen, I would still be against it. You know, you're,

00:41:18.240 you're a hypocrite in that case, but I'd still be against it. Uh, uh, cause just, it's just what, 0.98

00:41:25.260 you don't go to someone's house. You just don't do this. Um, and, uh, and, uh, yeah, this, this,

00:41:34.480 and, and this should be like, it's not even, I'm not even saying you have to be some, uh, great

00:41:39.120 principled, uh, person to take a stand like this. It's just, this is like basic self-preservation.

00:41:46.080 We should all be on the same page here that this is not okay. We're not in favor of this. This is

00:41:51.680 wrong. And you just don't do it to anybody. Um, I don't care who they are and I don't care how much

00:41:56.940 you don't like them. All right. Let's see. Two stories to mention briefly. The post-millennial

00:42:03.640 has this California voters have said no to an initiative that would have amended the state

00:42:08.180 constitution to ban any forced labor in prisons. Forced labor is already banned in the state

00:42:13.320 constitution with the exception that it could be used to punish a crime. The associated press reported,

00:42:18.320 um, 53.8% of Californians voted against the measure. According to the secretary of state's office,

00:42:24.440 prisoner rights advocates opposed the punishment exemption for labor saying they don't think

00:42:29.240 incarcerated people should be forced to do any work while serving their time. They also say the

00:42:33.020 state does not fairly compensate them for work performed, which generally amounts to less than

00:42:37.360 $1 per hour. Prisoners are routinely expected to do cleaning and maintenance work at prisons,

00:42:41.740 manufacturing license plates, or do light gardening at cemeteries. The measure was also part of a larger

00:42:46.800 set of reparations aimed at compensating black Californians for allegedly being subject to racism

00:42:51.900 discrimination over the centuries. Um, and, uh, so this is another initiative that failed. So there's

00:43:00.500 a, you know, we've talked about a few other kind of pro-crime initiatives that, that failed, um,

00:43:07.300 as even in California. And, and, and these are all like baby steps. Uh, it, it does not mean that

00:43:12.360 California is now a bastion of sanity and common sense in the world. Certainly not, but even California

00:43:18.960 has had enough of a lot of this, um, and the forced labor in prison thing, like that's just obvious.

00:43:27.280 I mean, yes, of course there should be forced labor for prisoners that they it's, there's not nearly

00:43:34.360 enough of that. I think we're not, we are not doing nearly enough with, with forced labor for, for

00:43:42.280 prisoners. And if they're compensated a dollar an hour, I'm actually kind of outraged by that because

00:43:48.780 that's too much. They shouldn't be compensated at all. You should get nothing. You should be forced

00:43:53.060 to work for free if you're in prison and work hard. Light gardening is to like, make them do hard labor

00:43:59.840 for free. You're in prison. This is the punishment, right? So, and it's a win-win. It's like, it's,

00:44:09.260 it's, it's, this is a great resource. Prisoners, people in prison, it's a great, it's a great resource

00:44:16.500 that we should be using a lot more. And it's a, it's a win all across the board because you're

00:44:22.780 getting free labor out of it and getting people to do, uh, to do, to do these jobs and you don't

00:44:27.520 have to pay them, which is fantastic. Um, it it's, it's adds to the punishment because prisons are

00:44:36.160 supposed to be punitive. You're getting punished. Well, that's it's, but doing forced labor is hard

00:44:44.520 and it makes them, it's supposed to be, you're being punished. You did something bad. We're

00:44:49.020 punishing you. That's part of the punishment. Um, so it's part of the punishment and, uh, and that's

00:44:54.080 another advantage. And also it's good for them. You know, if we want to talk about rehabilitation

00:44:59.900 or anything like that. And I think that there are a lot of people in prison that basically can't be

00:45:05.360 rehabilitated, or at least we can never trust that they've been rehabilitated, which is why they

00:45:10.400 should just stay in prison forever. Uh, many of them, but if there's any hope of rehab, I mean,

00:45:15.280 rehabilitation can happen. It's not like it's impossible. And it's not as though I think that

00:45:21.000 every crime should be life in prison. I think a lot of them should be, but not all of them.

00:45:24.920 And so if you, if you have someone who's going to be not in prison for the rest of their life,

00:45:29.320 then, uh, then you do hopefully want to hope that they can be rehabilitated.

00:45:34.020 This is one of the best ways to do it. Uh, putting someone to work, giving them,

00:45:37.660 you know, giving them something to do. If you just are having them sit around doing nothing all day,

00:45:41.720 it's just a waste, you know? And by the way, it's not free anyway. It's still not actually free

00:45:47.940 because we as taxpayers are paying to house them. We're paying for their food. We're paying for their

00:45:52.880 lodging. We're paying for all of it. So this is just you giving back to the taxpayers.

00:45:58.680 It's not even free actually. So this is a, to me, a very obvious one.

00:46:05.300 All right. Another quick thing. Postmillennial also another Postmillennial says, um, following a

00:46:09.280 raid on a local raw milk farm, Amish people in Pennsylvania reportedly turned out in unprecedented

00:46:13.900 numbers to vote in the 2024 election. Lancaster Farming reported in January that Lancaster County

00:46:19.800 farmer, Amos Miller was raided by the Pennsylvania department of agriculture on January 4th following

00:46:25.040 reports of illnesses traced back to raw milk. In 2022, Miller reached a deal with the federal

00:46:30.040 government to avoid jail time, but were not complying with food safety laws. And now they're

00:46:35.520 saying that, um, that the Amish turned out in record numbers in part because of this, this raw

00:46:42.480 controversy. And you know what? If raw milk is what inspired the Amish to vote and it helped to flip 0.80

00:46:51.340 Pennsylvania for Trump, then, then fine. Raw milk, raw milk is, is fine. I mean, it's not fine.

00:47:00.140 It's not fine. It's disgusting. It's gross E. coli juice still. Uh, it's, it's a disgusting fecal

00:47:06.520 flecked secretion that, uh, but I will tolerate it. Um, I will retract my previous statements that

00:47:15.800 raw milk drinkers should be deported into a volcano. Uh, on second thought that was slightly

00:47:21.600 overboard, a little bit overboard. Maybe like maybe, maybe that was, maybe not, we don't have to go

00:47:26.700 that far. Um, maybe, but what you have to understand is that I always associated raw milk

00:47:31.620 with hippies. So that's what this was all about. I mean, this was my bigotry against hippies,

00:47:36.560 which is totally understandable. I'm sure you would agree. Uh, and, and, you know, and so

00:47:40.520 that's what this all, that's where it all started. Um, and also because it's unsanitary and repulsive,

00:47:47.400 but, but I always thought it was a hippie thing. And so I wanted to throw hippies into a volcano. 0.95

00:47:54.160 Turns out I was throwing the Amish also never intended to do that. I love the Amish. I think the Amish

00:47:59.220 are great. I would never throw the Amish into a volcano. I'll be very clear about that. So 1.00

00:48:03.260 that's one that I'd take a firm stance on that one. Firm stance. So anyway, uh, raw milk is, uh,

00:48:11.140 I mean, look, you know, if it, if it helped, then it, then it's fine. I mean, it's not fine.

00:48:17.220 It's bad, but it's fine. That's my new position. It's bad, but it's fine. Now, if you tell me that

00:48:23.300 anime flipped one of the swing States too, then I'm really going to be in a moral crisis. I don't know

00:48:28.060 what I do about that. I don't know. I don't know what, but I don't think anime fans are voting for

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00:50:24.120 to our daily cancellation. On the surface, Fannin County, which is located in the Blue Ridge

00:50:34.700 Mountains of Northwest Georgia, isn't exactly a place you'd confuse with a nanny state. For one thing,

00:50:39.780 it's one of the most rural counties in the United States. They're famous for their apple orchards and

00:50:43.880 fishing and scenic railway through the countryside. And it's an overwhelmingly conservative place.

00:50:49.040 In last week's election, Fannin County went for Donald Trump by more than 82%. All that's to say,

00:50:53.960 we're not talking about some highly neurotic sheltered enclave of Brooklyn here. We're talking

00:50:58.500 about people who go outside and think about more important topics than the latest strain of

00:51:04.540 COVID that's been detected in the wastewater. So when something happens in Fannin County that seems like

00:51:08.980 it should have happened in Brooklyn, it's worth taking notice. And that brings me to this new

00:51:12.540 reporting from Reason Magazine, which to many people may seem like it can't possibly be real,

00:51:18.580 but apparently it is. Here's what happened. On the evening of October 30th, according to Reason,

00:51:23.140 police in Fannin County arrested a mother named Brittany Patterson in front of her four children.

00:51:28.320 And they fingerprinted her and put her in an orange jumpsuit and sent her off to jail. She's now facing

00:51:33.660 up to a year in prison and a fine of $1,000. So what was Brittany Patterson's crime exactly?

00:51:39.120 Did she rob a convenience store while high on meth and fentanyl? Did she

00:51:43.440 torch a federal courthouse and assault the guards? Did she follow a random guy around at night and

00:51:48.020 then pound his head into the pavement? Well, you know, Brittany Patterson didn't do any of those 1.00

00:51:52.160 things because if she had, the left would be defending her right now. Kamala Harris would 1.00

00:51:55.440 probably be raising money to bail her out. What Brittany actually did, and this isn't an exaggeration,

00:52:01.020 is allow her 11-year-old son to go for a walk. That's it. Specifically, he walked to a small town that's

00:52:07.160 less than a mile away from their home. And to give some context here, Brittany lives on a 16-acre 0.60

00:52:13.180 property with her children and their father who works in another state. They have family all around

00:52:17.720 the area, including her sisters and mother who live just two minutes away. So this is not a situation

00:52:22.720 where they're living in, say, the south side of Chicago, where they don't know anybody and people

00:52:27.200 get shot every day and it's very dangerous. This is very much a familiar environment, a safe environment

00:52:32.480 environment that we're talking about. And here's what happened. Quote, Patterson had driven her

00:52:36.800 eldest son to a medical appointment. Her youngest son, 11-year-old Soren, intended to come along but

00:52:41.880 wasn't around when it was time to leave. I figured he was in the woods or at grandma's house, says

00:52:46.000 Patterson. Soren, however, was not playing in the woods. He decided to walk to downtown Mineral Bluff,

00:52:50.920 a town of just 370 people. It's not quite a mile from his house. A woman who saw him walking a lot

00:52:56.220 alongside the road, speed limit 25 in some places, 35 in others, asked him if he was okay. He said yes.

00:53:03.940 Nevertheless, she called the police. Now, eventually, a female sheriff showed up, picked up Soren, and 0.59

00:53:10.380 dropped him off with his grandmother. She also lectured the mother about how her son could have been

00:53:14.840 kidnapped or been hit by a car. Then the mother scolded her child for leaving home without telling

00:53:19.440 anyone. And then the female sheriff left. Now, already, this is a situation that's escalated well 0.59

00:53:25.940 out of proportion. There's nothing out of the ordinary about an 11-year-old going for an unsupervised

00:53:32.320 walk in an area that's familiar and safe. We're talking about a county where the crime rate is well

00:53:37.900 below the national average. So in this scenario, maybe you can understand why a well-meaning bystander

00:53:44.140 would see an unaccompanied child and ask if everything's all right. I mean, even that seems 1.00

00:53:49.980 a little overboard. I don't know why. Just because you see an 11-year-old walking, I don't know why you

00:53:53.300 would even think to ask if they're all right. There's no reason why they wouldn't be, unless they

00:53:58.580 look distressed for some reason. But regardless, in no universe does it make sense for that bystander,

00:54:04.440 having heard that everything is fine, to then immediately call the police. I mean, this is a

00:54:09.920 psychotic level of meddling. Also, by the way, the sheriff brought up the child could have been

00:54:15.420 kidnapped. The chances that an 11-year-old gets kidnapped by a stranger in broad daylight

00:54:22.520 is significantly less than a million to one. It's the kind of thing that almost never happens.

00:54:31.360 There are thousands of other horrible things more likely to happen to your child than that.

00:54:36.420 statistically, kidnappings are almost always related to family disputes. They're almost

00:54:41.600 always carried out by family members. They're almost never just random person being, a kid being

00:54:48.060 taken off the street. It does happen very rarely, but it almost never happens. That's just a fact.

00:54:53.120 You know, that's the statistical reality. So a fear of kidnapping should not prevent an 11-year-old

00:54:58.940 from taking a walk in a safe neighborhood. What should prevent him then? What is there to

00:55:04.760 be seriously worried about? Now, this is normally the point where I'd talk about how the fake experts

00:55:10.520 are wildly out of touch on this issue. But in this case, even the fake experts agree with me on this.

00:55:15.680 You can go to the American Academy of Pediatrics, and they'll tell you that in their esteemed opinion,

00:55:20.420 a child older than 10 years old can indeed go outside from location to location and walk around

00:55:26.640 without an adult monitoring their every movement. So in case you were wondering, in case you needed their

00:55:31.440 blessing, you have it. It's not remotely a controversial point. Anyone who has children,

00:55:37.480 who has ever been around children, can probably tell you this. But in this case, the story didn't

00:55:43.280 end there. Quoting again from Reason Magazine, at 6.30 p.m. that night, the sheriff returned with

00:55:48.280 another officer. They told Patterson to turn around and put her hands behind her back. As three of her 1.00

00:55:53.680 kids watched, Patterson was handcuffed. The sheriff took her purse and phone, put her in the cruiser,

00:55:58.700 and hauled her off to jail. To Patterson, none of this made sense. She had grown up in the area with

00:56:03.620 plenty of unsupervised time to wander and play and was raising her kids that way too. Patterson was

00:56:08.360 soon released on a $500 bail. The next day, a case manager from the Division of Family and Children

00:56:12.640 Services came out for a home visit and even went to interview Patterson's oldest son at his school.

00:56:18.720 So now we're at the point where the local government is criminalizing parenting practices that were

00:56:23.720 standard for every generation of Americans up until like five seconds ago. In an attempt to

00:56:29.200 supposedly look after the interests of a child, they've decided to arrest that child's mother in

00:56:33.720 front of him. That couldn't possibly cause any issues with the child's mental state or his ability to get

00:56:40.620 to school and live his life. Now sure, his father works out of state, but who cares? Just throw the

00:56:45.440 mother in prison. The state has determined that it's in the best interest of this 11-year-old for his

00:56:50.400 mother to be incarcerated for up to a year. But the story still doesn't end there. Local officials

00:56:56.720 in this tiny county in Georgia kept on going. In Georgia, officials decided that it wasn't enough

00:57:02.000 to arrest this mother and drag her away from her children. They had to go further. This is from

00:57:06.920 Reason Magazine once again, quote, a few days later, the Division of Family and Children Services

00:57:10.480 presented Patterson with a safety plan for her to sign, would require her to delegate a safety person 0.97

00:57:16.400 to be a knowing participant and guardian and watch over the children whenever she leaves home.

00:57:21.520 The plan would also require Patterson to download an app on her son's phone,

00:57:25.680 allowing for his location to be monitored. So the government is demanding that this woman 1.00

00:57:30.860 agree to conditions that are clearly unconstitutional, not to mention completely unreasonable,

00:57:36.980 not to mention she's being essentially punished without being convicted of any crime,

00:57:41.340 which is how it can often happen, you know, when you've got these sorts of issues.

00:57:48.880 And they think that if they threaten her with jail time, she'll agree to them. But to her credit,

00:57:53.820 she's not doing that. She's telling the government that this is obscene and she's trying to get 1.00

00:57:57.440 legislation passed to prevent this kind of thing from ever happening to another parent in Georgia.

00:58:01.820 At the moment, that's where things stand. It's unclear what will happen next. The government will

00:58:05.380 either make good on its threat and jail this mother, or they'll move on and harass people who are 1.00

00:58:10.400 actually breaking the law, hopefully. But whatever the government does, there are a few takeaways

00:58:15.420 here that I think are worth keeping in mind. The first takeaway is that no matter where you live,

00:58:21.080 you just, you can't really escape the nanny state. There's all the more reason why,

00:58:24.660 and this is not a federal issue in this case, but still all the more reason why the federal bureaucracy,

00:58:29.420 all the bureaucracy across the board needs to be, is public enemy number one.

00:58:34.320 If the nanny state can come for a mother living in the mountains in northwest Georgia, 1.00

00:58:40.860 it can come for you too. Now, we spent so much time over the last few months talking about national

00:58:45.860 politics, but the truth is national politics aren't everything. Local politics aren't everything either.

00:58:51.140 In the end, there's a very real possibility that your freedom and the freedom of your children could

00:58:55.300 come down to the whims of one power-tripping district attorney or one sheriff who's having a bad day.

00:59:00.560 If that sheriff thinks that she can raise your children better than you, then she can throw you in prison. 1.00

00:59:06.920 This is the terrifying reality that parents everywhere face, and there are many horror stories just like this one.

00:59:12.260 There are also horror stories of actual criminal abuse being inflicted on children by their evil parents.

00:59:17.500 That does happen, and that is abuse that is often not noticed or not stopped by the people and agencies

00:59:22.980 tasked with noticing and stopping it because they're too busy chasing down good and loving parents

00:59:28.400 who parent in a way that was, again, totally commonplace up until very recently.

00:59:35.260 This mother is certainly not the first to be arrested for something like this.

00:59:38.540 You know, when I was growing up, and anyone my age or older would say the same thing.

00:59:42.280 We all say the same thing. My parents would tell us to leave the house, go play outside,

00:59:47.240 come back at dinnertime.

00:59:48.940 We'd trek all over the neighborhood, we'd go into other neighborhoods, we'd go to the woods,

00:59:52.360 we'd go anywhere we wanted.

00:59:53.660 There were no cell phones, there was no nothing, just my parents said, go have fun.

00:59:58.400 We'll see you in eight hours, just go do whatever you want.

01:00:02.120 And we did, we came back around dark, and this is how most of us grew up.

01:00:06.700 But now, as parents, we face this scenario where if we give our children even a fraction

01:00:13.780 of the independence that we had as children, we face the possibility of arrest and imprisonment.

01:00:19.900 I mean, it's insane. As I said, there are a lot of stories just like this.

01:00:23.820 Take, for example, the mother in Georgia who was jailed a couple of years ago for leaving

01:00:28.400 her 14-year-old daughter to babysit her younger siblings for a few hours while she was at work.

01:00:34.500 And, you know, that, she was arrested for that. 0.99

01:00:36.380 Now, I can remember when I was a kid, and my older sisters were left in charge of the house

01:00:41.660 at an age, at that age or even younger.

01:00:44.320 And we all survived. It was normal.

01:00:48.340 Now, it's the kind of thing that could get you handcuffed and thrown in a jail cell.

01:00:53.100 You know, parenting in the modern age is difficult enough.

01:00:57.780 And introducing more independence and responsibility into your children's lives is already stressful

01:01:04.080 and worrisome, though it is necessary.

01:01:06.720 It's part of parenting. You have to do this.

01:01:08.660 But now, as a parent, you face the very real possibility that if you introduce that independence

01:01:13.100 and responsibility in a way that happens to offend the sensibilities of a nosy neighbor

01:01:17.540 who then calls the police or CPS, you could find yourself standing in front of a judge

01:01:22.400 and labeled a child abuser for life because that label never wears off.

01:01:29.120 Now, the good news is that, in this case, the mother, Brittany Patterson, didn't back down.

01:01:32.900 She didn't install some location tracker on a child's phone or cower in the face of the government's

01:01:37.140 threats. She didn't sign the nanny state safety plan they presented her with. 0.62

01:01:41.740 Instead, she went out and sought some exposure for her story.

01:01:44.540 Reason Magazine covered it. Now I'm covering it.

01:01:47.160 The Daily Mail has also picked up a story.

01:01:49.620 As a result, a lot of reasonable people are hearing about it.

01:01:52.860 And any reasonable person who hears about the story will be outraged by it.

01:01:56.220 This is at least one recourse that you have in this kind of situation.

01:02:00.680 Although you don't have many recourses, that's at least one.

01:02:03.320 You can expose the tyrants and what they're trying to do to your family.

01:02:07.140 Maybe that makes them back down and slink away. 0.99

01:02:09.520 These people are cowards, after all. 0.91

01:02:12.120 At the very least, you will have shed more light on the kind of tyranny 0.96

01:02:15.560 that many parents face in this country every day.

01:02:20.440 And that is why the nanny state, and in particular the bureaucrats and police officers

01:02:24.120 who are threatening to imprison a woman for allowing her 11-year-old son to go for a walk,

01:02:28.660 are today canceled.

01:02:30.960 That'll do it for the show today.

01:02:31.800 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

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The Matt Walsh Show - November 13, 2024

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