Ep. 1485 - The Media Panics Over Trump's Administration Picks
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Trump has begun staffing his next administration, and the media is panicking over his choices. Also, a mother is handcuffed and thrown in jail because her 11-year-old son went for a walk in the neighborhood. This is why the overzealous nanny state isn t just annoying and expensive, but can be downright terrifying.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Donald Trump has begun staffing his next administration.
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The media is panicking over his choices, which obviously means he's knocking it out of the park
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so far. Also, CNN and MSNBC have seen their ratings crater since Trump's election. It turns
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out that being in the resistance, quote unquote, won't be as profitable this time around, perhaps.
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And a mother is handcuffed and thrown in jail because her 11-year-old son went for a walk in
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the neighborhood. This is why the overzealous nanny state isn't just annoying and expensive,
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but if you're a parent, it can be downright terrifying. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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delivered. Try to think back, if you can, to the transition period of the Biden-Harris administration.
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I'm talking about the personnel decisions and especially the key cabinet appointments that the
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incoming administration made in the weeks after the media called the race for Joe Biden back at the
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end of 2020. Now, those personnel decisions were treated as basically non-stories. They came and went
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in the media, didn't talk much about them. Wasn't a lot of outrage or debate. Pete Buttigieg, for
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example, became the transportation secretary because he likes trains and was vaguely interested
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in airplanes. And he's gay. And those were his qualifications. That was it. So they put him in
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charge of the Department of Transportation, which has a budget of tens of billions of dollars and
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oversees the nation's railways and airports. Why not? Made sense to Democrats at the time. What's the
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worst that could happen? A train carrying toxic chemicals might derail somewhere in Ohio, let's say?
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What are the odds of that? Well, that was the nomination of Lloyd Austin to lead the Defense
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Department. And that was really inspiring. You see, Lloyd Austin was serving on the board of Raytheon,
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one of the biggest defense contractors in the world. Raytheon was paying him a lot of money. And
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then without much fanfare, the Biden-Harris administration appointed Lloyd Austin to run
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the Pentagon. What could go wrong? Surely Lloyd Austin wouldn't try to enrich his former colleagues in
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the defense industry by, say, sending billions of dollars worth of weaponry to a tiny corrupt country in
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Eastern Europe. That would be unthinkable. Then there was the appointment of someone using the
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name Rachel Levine, a biological male originally named Richard, who decided in middle age to start
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wearing a dress and rebrand himself as Rachel. Made perfect sense, we were told, for a man deeply
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confused about the basic realities of human biology to oversee the nation's healthcare system.
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Now, sure, he might pressure hospitals to castrate and sterilize as many children as possible.
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He might pose for some uncomfortable photographs with Sam Britton, the cross-dressing nuclear waste
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expert and kleptomaniac who'd been terrorizing airport baggage claims all across the Eastern
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Seaboard for years before also being appointed for a role in the Biden-Harris administration.
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But that's the cost of human progress, we were told at the time. I'm going through these
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appointments to make a couple of points. The first point is that all of these appointments and many
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others like them, including the appointment of an open borders advocate to run the Department of
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Homeland Security, were grotesque. None of them should have been allowed to go through, but they
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did. And the country paid the predictable consequences. Biden, you know, he appointed
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more cross-dressers than we'd been used to seeing in government at that point. But otherwise, his picks
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were exactly what we come to expect, a bunch of corrupt and useless bureaucrats who went on to do
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what corrupt and useless bureaucrats always do, which, by the way, is expand their own power and
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enrich themselves and their friends. That's the whole deal. Well, thankfully, it's clear that Donald
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Trump is not going to follow that typical strategy. Donald Trump's incoming administration is already
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unlike any other in American history. I mean, this is a transition team that's making a concerted
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effort to select competent, independent cabinet officials, people who aren't self-interested cronies
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or morons who are selected on the basis of identity politics. He's picking people who are actually
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competent and who might actually advance the agenda that the American people voted for, which is
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Donald Trump's agenda. Imagine that. So let's start with one of the selections that was announced
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last night and that has upset a lot of people on the left. Donald Trump revealed that Pete Hegseth,
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a Bronze Star recipient who served nearly two decades in the military, including in Iraq and Afghanistan,
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will be nominated as the Secretary of Defense. Now, Hegseth is most recognizable at the moment as a
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Fox News host, where he often advocates on behalf of veterans. He's also used his platform to outline
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changes that, in his view, need to be made to the military immediately. And this gives us kind of a
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preview of hopefully what we can expect now that he's running the Defense Department. Let's watch.
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The Pentagon is, in the book, the exact amount of years. But in the past X number of years, 10, 12, 15,
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the Pentagon has a perfect record in all of its war games against China. We lose every time
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inside the Pentagon war games. We know what our real capability—you see, we didn't even get to this
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part of the war on warriors. I mean, the military-industrial conflicts, the way we procure
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weapons systems, you know, we're always—the way our system works, the way our bureaucratic system
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works, where the speed of weapons procurement works, we're always a decade behind in fighting
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the last war. Whereas China, we have a—we have, you know, what did Rumsfeld say? You go to the war
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of the army, you have. We have the—China's building an army specifically dedicated to defeating the
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United States of America. That is their strategic outset. Take hypersonic missiles. So if our whole—if our
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our whole power projection platform is aircraft carriers and the ability to project power that
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way strategically around the globe. And yeah, we have a nuclear triad and all of that, but a big part
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of it. And if, you know, 15 hypersonic missiles can take out our 10 aircraft carriers in the first 20
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minutes of a conflict, what does that look like? Well, first of all, you've got to fire, you know,
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you've got to fire the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and you've got to fire this—I mean, obviously,
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you're going to bring in a new Secretary of Defense, but any general that was involved, General Admiral,
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whatever that was involved in any of the DEI woke—it's got to go. Either you're in for war
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fighting, and that's it, and that's the only litmus test we care about. You've got to get DEI
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and CRT out of military academies, so you're not training young officers to be baptized in this
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type of thinking. And then, you know, whatever the standards—whatever the combat standards were,
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say in, I don't know, 1995, let's just make those the standards. And as far as recruiting,
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to hire the guy that, you know, did Top Gun Maverick and create some real ads that motivate
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people to want to serve. I'm straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles.
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It hasn't made us more effective, hasn't made us more lethal, has made fighting more complicated.
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We've all served with women, and they're great. It's just our institutions don't have to
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incentivize that in places where traditionally—not traditionally, over human history, men in those
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positions are more capable. Well, I'm sold. I'm sold on that pick. I don't need to know
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anything else about the guy, just based on that alone. This is all common sense stuff,
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but it's the kind of stuff that you just never hear from anyone in a cabinet position,
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any kind of bureaucrat, until now. And these are the kind of picks, by the way,
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that probably only Donald Trump would make. Like, Donald Trump's probably the only guy
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who would select him as Secretary of Defense. But again, all common sense, the overwhelming
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majority of countries don't allow women in combat for obvious reasons. We are one of only a handful
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of countries that do that. And no, the military shouldn't be teaching its soldiers about white
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rage, nor should the Pentagon be focused on recruiting girl bosses or diverse applicants.
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That strategy isn't working. The military is now regularly missing its recruitment goals,
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primarily because they've gone out of their way to alienate white men for political reasons.
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As a result, our military is much smaller than China's. Morale is terrible. We're constantly
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losing war games, as Pete Hegseth pointed out. And making matters worse, our military leaders are
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clearly inept, as evidenced by the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, and also as evidenced by
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everything else that's happened over the last 20 or 30 years. So with this track record,
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the absolute last person you'd want to pick for the job of Defense Secretary is another Lloyd Austin
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type. The Lloyd Austins of the world are the ones who created the very situation that Hegseth is
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talking about in those clips. That's why you need someone who's motivated and equipped to make some
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radical changes, which actually aren't that radical because you're just going back to what was common
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sense and what was standard, you know, only a few decades ago. But by our standards, it's radical.
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And you want someone who knows what it's like to be a soldier in a war zone and who hasn't been
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corrupted by his connections to the military industrial complex. In short, you want somebody like
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Pete Hegseth. Now, as you'd expect, Democrats don't see it that way. They lost their minds when Trump
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briefly paused the flow of military weapons to Ukraine. And now they're losing their minds
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because Pete Hegseth might spurn the defense industry too. Elizabeth Warren, the senator from
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Massachusetts, was especially enraged. She was sneering last night, along with a lot of her
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colleagues. She wrote, quote, a Fox and Friends weekend co-host is not qualified to be the secretary
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of defense. I lead the Senate military personnel panel. All three of my brothers served in uniform.
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I respect every one of our service members. Donald Trump's pick will make us less safe and must be
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rejected. So right away, the woman who pretended to be an Indian tries to dismiss Hegseth as a
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weekend co-host, completely ignoring his military service and his ideas and his advocacy for veterans.
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And by the way, it's funny that the fact that he is a combat veteran is not relevant.
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But she's a greater authority because her brothers are veterans. So his own experience doesn't matter.
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He's just a weekend co-host. But no, she is an authority because her brother, my brothers served.
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So? How does that apply to you? How does that make you qualified to say anything?
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Oh, she's also on the military personnel panel. She's on a panel, everybody. I mean, this guy
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actually served in war zones, but she's on a panel. She sat on so many panels and talked about things.
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So we're supposed to believe, based on her word, that if Hegseth had served on the board of Raytheon,
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he would somehow be vastly more equipped for the job. We apparently want defense secretaries who are
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bureaucrats or defense contractors, first and foremost, because that's obviously worked out
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really well over the past three decades. And in the context of a second Trump administration,
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the criticism of Pete Hegseth makes even less sense. Because recall that under the first Trump
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administration, the Pentagon actively sabotaged Trump's policy objectives. Our envoy to Syria
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has admitted this. It's one of the most incredible admissions ever printed, but it never got much
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attention. The envoy stated that officials in the first Trump administration were, quote,
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always playing shell games in order to hide the actual number of US troops in Syria from Trump.
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That's an actual quote, shell games. In other words, they were lying to the commander in chief.
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Trump wanted troops to leave Syria, and they told him the troops were already gone. And it wasn't true.
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They were lying to undermine his agenda. People should have been put on trial for that. I mean,
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that's criminal, but it just faded from memory. And it's faded from maybe the media's memory and the
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public's memory. It hasn't faded from Trump's memory. So given that background, you can understand
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why this time around Trump wants someone he can actually depend on, someone who agrees with his
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agenda and will try to enact it. He wants people he can trust. That's the single most important
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quality that a cabinet pick can have. You've got to be able to trust them. And that's very obvious
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to Trump now after what he experienced in his first term. But Democrats are still going to resist
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this nomination anyway for reasons that they can't really articulate. They just know that it'd be a
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disaster for them if an outsider took control of the Defense Department. That's why one of CNN's
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hosts tried to push back on Scott Jennings' argument for Hegseth last night on CNN. Let's watch that.
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You want to have confidence in the current leadership of the Pentagon and the way the defense
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situation has been operating for the last several years? I mean, from the Afghanistan pullout,
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which was an extreme debacle for which no one was held accountable. We've had spy balloons flying
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over the United States. We built a $300 million pier as a public relations stunt, which wound up
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killing an American service member. I'd say I've had just about enough of the so-called insiders running
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the Defense Department. I think we ought to give Pete Hegseth a chance because he's got two.
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All the criticism of him is that he's not the expected Washington pick. And I'm just saying to
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you that the American people just voted against the expected Washington pick. So he's got 20 years
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in service, Afghanistan, Iraq, two bronze stars, Princeton, Harvard. Yeah, he's on TV, but so are
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the rest of us. By the way, that lesson you just gave us really interesting because you highlighted
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a bunch of things that the civilian leadership of the country decided on. And the military,
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their job was just to execute. How did it go? I'm just saying. How did it go? In terms of the
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decision-making, you're assigning decision-making responsibility to the military over things that
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civilians are responsible for. So you make a good point. The civilian leadership made decisions,
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and then the people they put in charge of the Pentagon carried it out. And it was all pretty
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much a disaster. So for starters, it's pretty amusing for starters, as Jennings points out,
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for television pundits to attack Hegseth for being a TV host when they're all television
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personalities also. So either being on television makes you an idiot or it doesn't. And if it does,
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then all these people should quit their jobs now before CNN closes down and fires them anyway,
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which appears more likely to happen with each passing day. Then the anchor says that civilians
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give the orders in the military, which is obviously true. But it's the Pentagon, which is also run by
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civilians, that has the job of carrying out those orders. And as Jennings pointed out,
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the Pentagon has repeatedly failed to do its job. They were wrong about the spy balloon and what it was
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doing. They were wrong about the logistics of the Afghanistan pullout, which resulted in the
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deaths of American service members. Couldn't even build a pier properly. And so what exactly is the
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argument for keeping those kinds of people in control of the Defense Department? How could
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we possibly do any worse than they've been doing? That's a point that Tom Homan, the incoming border
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czar, just made on Fox News. He was asked whether he was worried about having the title of border
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czar, given that Kamala Harris has done everything she can to run away from that title. And here's how he
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Hey, Tom, you know, the last person who was border czar, she didn't want to be called border czar.
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You're proud of it, right? You know what? I'm going to look like a genius because when you
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follow a failure, you can't help succeed, right? To the American people, President Trump is going
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to secure this border. He's going to save American lives. He's going to, by securing the border,
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we're going to drop illegal alien crime, which is skyrocketing. Less people are going to die from
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fentanyl. Less children are going to be sex trafficked. Less women will be sex assaulted on the southern
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border. The criminal cartels will be put out of business by this president.
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I think that's the right attitude. I'm going to look like a genius because when you follow
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up failure, you can't help but succeed. And that is true. And also, it's all the more reason to go
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in there and make radical changes. Can't get any worse. And so go in there and make the changes.
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And whatever risks are involved in that, politically, take those risks. And that pretty
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much sums up the entire transition so far. We're so used to administration officials who lie to us,
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who try to use emotional blackmail and manipulation. That's pretty much impossible to be disappointed by
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the incoming Trump administration at this point. I mean, just by demonstrating that they don't care
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about the media's manipulation and false narratives, they're already well ahead of their predecessors.
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It's also clear that the federal bureaucracy, which functioned to undermine Trump at every
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possible opportunity the first time around, isn't going to exist in the same form the second time.
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So last night, Trump officially announced that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will be running the
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Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. Trump said the goal of this new department,
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which actually is not going to be in the government, but it's going to be an independent
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outside the government organization. But the goal will be to dismantle government bureaucracy,
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slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies.
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He said they'll be done within two years, what he called the perfect gift to America on the
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250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. And this is good, because the task of,
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as he says, dismantling government bureaucracy should be the number one focus of Trump's second
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term. Because nothing else can be done unless that is done first. And Elon Musk is just the guy to do
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it. He showed up to Twitter and immediately axed 80% of the staff. And of course, as we remember,
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everybody in the media said it would destroy the company. They said the whole site would crash and
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burn and be forgotten. And yet, here we are, two years later, place is running better than ever.
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Now, the problem in the federal government is like what the problem was in Twitter, except
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multiplied by, you know, about a factor of, let's say, a million. Unlike every other company on the
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planet, the federal government doesn't undergo mass layoffs. It just grows and grows year after year,
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siphons more and more money from taxpayers without any accountability. These bureaucrats call themselves
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public servants, but really the public is serving them. We're the ones who go to work every day to
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pay their salaries. And what exactly do they do for us? Do we really need these people to spend tens of
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thousands of dollars on gender equity in places like Honduras? Do we need them to develop new bat
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coronaviruses and secret labs in Wuhan? Do we need them to use our money to subsidize some of the
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most useless college degrees in existence? Do we need them to conduct fraudulent criminal trials of
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the leading presidential candidate? Do we need them to issue insane new regulations, you know, in the name
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of saving the environment, like banning the sale of gas-powered vehicles or gas stoves or plastic straws
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or whatever else? Of course we don't. We've never needed any of that. What we have needed for a long
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time now is for the government to get out of the way of human progress. They need to stop spending and
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printing money as if it's endless. They need to do what every American in the private sector has to do,
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which is justify their salaries. They need to explain how exactly they're serving the public instead of
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the other way around. And this is a reckoning that would have been unthinkable if Kamala had won this
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election. We'd be dealing with another parade of useless BIPOC, trans-whatever appointees who exist
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only to check boxes. And now things are different. And giving Musk and Ramaswamy the hacksaw with a
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directive to go to town on the federal bureaucracy means that maybe, maybe for the first time ever,
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some real and substantial cuts will actually be made. No Republican president in modern times has ever
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actually done anything to cut the size of government. They've all talked about it. None of them have done
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it. Much less have they taken any steps to gut the federal bureaucracy and get rid of all the
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useless people and their useless departments and programs. In fact, Republicans, of course,
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have only contributed to that problem. They've added to it. There's pretty good reason to think that
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this time will be different. Trump has picked the right two guys for the job, which is why the
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federal bureaucrats are panicking and their panic will only become more unhinged in the days ahead.
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For everyone else, for people who actually earn their living, it's a time to celebrate something
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that's never happened before in modern American history. The behemoth federal bureaucracy is
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hopefully about to get what it deserves, what's been coming to it for decades. If Trump fulfills his
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promises, and that means simply letting the people he's hiring do the jobs they've been hired to do,
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if that happens, it will mean ultimately that America becomes a freer, safer, more prosperous place.
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And if this is the fascism they warned us about, then, well, it can't come soon enough.
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puretalk.com slash Walsh. Some more good news from our friends at Outkick. It says,
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viewership for MSNBC and CNN has tanked since Donald Trump steamrolled Kamala Harris in the
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2024 presidential election. Mediate obtained viewership data from Thursday to highlight the
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concerns both channels face. For the day, MSNBC averaged 596,000 viewers, while CNN recorded just
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419,000. That's a decline of 23% for MSNBC and 40% for CNN year over year. But the primetime numbers
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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?
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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
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are just tired of it. It's just simple exhaustion and boredom. People are bored of it. How could they not
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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
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interesting. Even if you agree with them, even if you hate Trump at a certain point after 10 years of
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it, you've kind of heard it all. And you don't need to keep hearing it every day. It just gets
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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
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little influence. They have no real ability anymore to set the narrative and influence people on a
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national scale. They're just irrelevant. Trump's victory has not so much made them irrelevant as
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exposed how irrelevant they really are. And that's why the ratings are tanking, I think. Pretty simple.
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Mayor Adams in New York was asked whether he will cooperate with Trump's mass deportation plan. And
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well, he didn't say no. We'll put it that way. Let's watch.
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Will you express concern about mass deportations in the city?
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My concern is one concern. We keep tinkering around the edges. We keep having this philosophical
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conversation about it. The voters communicated loudly and clearly. We have a broken immigration
00:27:30.560
system. It needs to be fixed. That's the only conversation I want. New York City was devastated
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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
00:27:47.720
in New York City without police cooperation? Why should New Yorkers, including migrant New Yorkers,
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
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
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
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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.
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And that's fine because Trump doesn't actually need them to cooperate. He can do it without their
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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
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things, if there's a will to do it, if there's a willingness to do it, then it can be done.
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But even so, I think there will be maybe, and maybe I'm just
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high on the fumes of optimism right now, which rarely happens to me, but I think there will be a
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surprising amount of cooperation. And the reason is just simple politics. I mean, there is wide public
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approval for mass deportations. Democrats are on the losing side of this argument.
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The American people are basically decided on this issue and they're done with it. They want it to be
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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.
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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
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protected. No matter what else you think about politics, you should want that. And I think that
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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,
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there's always going to be the gullible people, the morons. There's always going to be the dupes
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
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the moment they actually start with the deportations, we're going to, I mean, the propaganda machine is
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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.
00:34:24.160
Rose noted that a passerby called the police after which EMTs checked for injuries. Um,
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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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
00:40:53.400
Okay. You are extremely foolish because eventually they'll get to you. Eventually it'll happen to you.
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,
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
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
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to our daily cancellation. On the surface, Fannin County, which is located in the Blue Ridge
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Mountains of Northwest Georgia, isn't exactly a place you'd confuse with a nanny state. For one thing,
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it's one of the most rural counties in the United States. They're famous for their apple orchards and
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fishing and scenic railway through the countryside. And it's an overwhelmingly conservative place.
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In last week's election, Fannin County went for Donald Trump by more than 82%. All that's to say,
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we're not talking about some highly neurotic sheltered enclave of Brooklyn here. We're talking
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about people who go outside and think about more important topics than the latest strain of
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COVID that's been detected in the wastewater. So when something happens in Fannin County that seems like
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it should have happened in Brooklyn, it's worth taking notice. And that brings me to this new
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reporting from Reason Magazine, which to many people may seem like it can't possibly be real,
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but apparently it is. Here's what happened. On the evening of October 30th, according to Reason,
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police in Fannin County arrested a mother named Brittany Patterson in front of her four children.
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And they fingerprinted her and put her in an orange jumpsuit and sent her off to jail. She's now facing
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up to a year in prison and a fine of $1,000. So what was Brittany Patterson's crime exactly?
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Did she rob a convenience store while high on meth and fentanyl? Did she
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torch a federal courthouse and assault the guards? Did she follow a random guy around at night and
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then pound his head into the pavement? Well, you know, Brittany Patterson didn't do any of those
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things because if she had, the left would be defending her right now. Kamala Harris would
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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
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less than a mile away from their home. And to give some context here, Brittany lives on a 16-acre
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property with her children and their father who works in another state. They have family all around
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the area, including her sisters and mother who live just two minutes away. So this is not a situation
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where they're living in, say, the south side of Chicago, where they don't know anybody and people
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get shot every day and it's very dangerous. This is very much a familiar environment, a safe environment
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environment that we're talking about. And here's what happened. Quote, Patterson had driven her
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eldest son to a medical appointment. Her youngest son, 11-year-old Soren, intended to come along but
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wasn't around when it was time to leave. I figured he was in the woods or at grandma's house, says
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Patterson. Soren, however, was not playing in the woods. He decided to walk to downtown Mineral Bluff,
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a town of just 370 people. It's not quite a mile from his house. A woman who saw him walking a lot
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alongside the road, speed limit 25 in some places, 35 in others, asked him if he was okay. He said yes.
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Nevertheless, she called the police. Now, eventually, a female sheriff showed up, picked up Soren, and
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dropped him off with his grandmother. She also lectured the mother about how her son could have been
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kidnapped or been hit by a car. Then the mother scolded her child for leaving home without telling
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anyone. And then the female sheriff left. Now, already, this is a situation that's escalated well
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out of proportion. There's nothing out of the ordinary about an 11-year-old going for an unsupervised
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walk in an area that's familiar and safe. We're talking about a county where the crime rate is well
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below the national average. So in this scenario, maybe you can understand why a well-meaning bystander
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would see an unaccompanied child and ask if everything's all right. I mean, even that seems
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a little overboard. I don't know why. Just because you see an 11-year-old walking, I don't know why you
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would even think to ask if they're all right. There's no reason why they wouldn't be, unless they
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look distressed for some reason. But regardless, in no universe does it make sense for that bystander,
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having heard that everything is fine, to then immediately call the police. I mean, this is a
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psychotic level of meddling. Also, by the way, the sheriff brought up the child could have been
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kidnapped. The chances that an 11-year-old gets kidnapped by a stranger in broad daylight
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is significantly less than a million to one. It's the kind of thing that almost never happens.
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There are thousands of other horrible things more likely to happen to your child than that.
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statistically, kidnappings are almost always related to family disputes. They're almost
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always carried out by family members. They're almost never just random person being, a kid being
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taken off the street. It does happen very rarely, but it almost never happens. That's just a fact.
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You know, that's the statistical reality. So a fear of kidnapping should not prevent an 11-year-old
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from taking a walk in a safe neighborhood. What should prevent him then? What is there to
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be seriously worried about? Now, this is normally the point where I'd talk about how the fake experts
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are wildly out of touch on this issue. But in this case, even the fake experts agree with me on this.
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You can go to the American Academy of Pediatrics, and they'll tell you that in their esteemed opinion,
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a child older than 10 years old can indeed go outside from location to location and walk around
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without an adult monitoring their every movement. So in case you were wondering, in case you needed their
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blessing, you have it. It's not remotely a controversial point. Anyone who has children,
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who has ever been around children, can probably tell you this. But in this case, the story didn't
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end there. Quoting again from Reason Magazine, at 6.30 p.m. that night, the sheriff returned with
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another officer. They told Patterson to turn around and put her hands behind her back. As three of her
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kids watched, Patterson was handcuffed. The sheriff took her purse and phone, put her in the cruiser,
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and hauled her off to jail. To Patterson, none of this made sense. She had grown up in the area with
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plenty of unsupervised time to wander and play and was raising her kids that way too. Patterson was
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soon released on a $500 bail. The next day, a case manager from the Division of Family and Children
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Services came out for a home visit and even went to interview Patterson's oldest son at his school.
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So now we're at the point where the local government is criminalizing parenting practices that were
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standard for every generation of Americans up until like five seconds ago. In an attempt to
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supposedly look after the interests of a child, they've decided to arrest that child's mother in
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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
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mother to be incarcerated for up to a year. But the story still doesn't end there. Local officials
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in this tiny county in Georgia kept on going. In Georgia, officials decided that it wasn't enough
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to arrest this mother and drag her away from her children. They had to go further. This is from
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Reason Magazine once again, quote, a few days later, the Division of Family and Children Services
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presented Patterson with a safety plan for her to sign, would require her to delegate a safety person
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to be a knowing participant and guardian and watch over the children whenever she leaves home.
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The plan would also require Patterson to download an app on her son's phone,
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allowing for his location to be monitored. So the government is demanding that this woman
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agree to conditions that are clearly unconstitutional, not to mention completely unreasonable,
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not to mention she's being essentially punished without being convicted of any crime,
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which is how it can often happen, you know, when you've got these sorts of issues.
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And they think that if they threaten her with jail time, she'll agree to them. But to her credit,
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she's not doing that. She's telling the government that this is obscene and she's trying to get
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legislation passed to prevent this kind of thing from ever happening to another parent in Georgia.
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At the moment, that's where things stand. It's unclear what will happen next. The government will
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either make good on its threat and jail this mother, or they'll move on and harass people who are
00:58:10.400
actually breaking the law, hopefully. But whatever the government does, there are a few takeaways
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here that I think are worth keeping in mind. The first takeaway is that no matter where you live,
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you just, you can't really escape the nanny state. There's all the more reason why,
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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.
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If the nanny state can come for a mother living in the mountains in northwest Georgia,
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it can come for you too. Now, we spent so much time over the last few months talking about national
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politics, but the truth is national politics aren't everything. Local politics aren't everything either.
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In the end, there's a very real possibility that your freedom and the freedom of your children could
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come down to the whims of one power-tripping district attorney or one sheriff who's having a bad day.
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If that sheriff thinks that she can raise your children better than you, then she can throw you in prison.
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This is the terrifying reality that parents everywhere face, and there are many horror stories just like this one.
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There are also horror stories of actual criminal abuse being inflicted on children by their evil parents.
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That does happen, and that is abuse that is often not noticed or not stopped by the people and agencies
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tasked with noticing and stopping it because they're too busy chasing down good and loving parents
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who parent in a way that was, again, totally commonplace up until very recently.
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This mother is certainly not the first to be arrested for something like this.
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You know, when I was growing up, and anyone my age or older would say the same thing.
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We all say the same thing. My parents would tell us to leave the house, go play outside,
00:59:48.940
We'd trek all over the neighborhood, we'd go into other neighborhoods, we'd go to the woods,
00:59:53.660
There were no cell phones, there was no nothing, just my parents said, go have fun.
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We'll see you in eight hours, just go do whatever you want.
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And we did, we came back around dark, and this is how most of us grew up.
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But now, as parents, we face this scenario where if we give our children even a fraction
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of the independence that we had as children, we face the possibility of arrest and imprisonment.
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I mean, it's insane. As I said, there are a lot of stories just like this.
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Take, for example, the mother in Georgia who was jailed a couple of years ago for leaving
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her 14-year-old daughter to babysit her younger siblings for a few hours while she was at work.
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And, you know, that, she was arrested for that.
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Now, I can remember when I was a kid, and my older sisters were left in charge of the house
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Now, it's the kind of thing that could get you handcuffed and thrown in a jail cell.
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You know, parenting in the modern age is difficult enough.
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And introducing more independence and responsibility into your children's lives is already stressful
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.
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Now, the good news is that, in this case, the mother, Brittany Patterson, didn't back down.
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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.
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Instead, she went out and sought some exposure for her story.
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Reason Magazine covered it. Now I'm covering it.
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As a result, a lot of reasonable people are hearing about it.
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And any reasonable person who hears about the story will be outraged by it.
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This is at least one recourse that you have in this kind of situation.
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Although you don't have many recourses, that's at least one.
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You can expose the tyrants and what they're trying to do to your family.
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Maybe that makes them back down and slink away.
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At the very least, you will have shed more light on the kind of tyranny
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that many parents face in this country every day.
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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,