The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1492 - Why DOGE Is the Key to Destroying Big Government

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Elon Musk has unveiled his strategy for gutting the federal

00:00:03.560 bureaucracy. The left is already panicking and the cutting hasn't even begun yet. Also,

00:00:07.260 Trump's pick for defense secretary has been accused of sexual assault. This was an incredibly

00:00:10.800 predictable development and the claim, in my opinion, is not remotely credible, which is

00:00:14.780 also predictable. Also, Planned Parenthood has been exposed yet again for illegally selling the

00:00:18.880 bodies of aborted babies. Will this finally be enough to convince Republicans to abolish their 0.67

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00:02:17.660 Usually when you don't hear about a story, that's because it's not especially relevant or important. But

00:02:22.820 every now and then, there's a story that's such a dud that no one remotely cares about,

00:02:27.200 that it actually manages to circle back around and become relevant and important. Again, because of

00:02:31.060 that, the very fact that no one cares about the story in itself is worth talking about. So here's

00:02:35.720 one recent example of what I mean. About a year ago, there was a massive strike in Canada's federal

00:02:40.680 public sector. It's one of the largest strikes in the country's history. Roughly a third of Canada's

00:02:45.040 government bureaucracy, more than 150,000 employees, walked off the job, saying they deserved higher

00:02:50.520 wages and the privilege of working from home. The public sector union in Canada expected that

00:02:55.680 Trudeau's government would immediately agree to their demands and end the strike, but that didn't

00:03:00.180 happen. For once in his political career, Trudeau hesitated before throwing taxpayers' money away.

00:03:05.900 And therefore, for nearly two weeks, Canada had to make do without a huge portion of its federal

00:03:11.740 workforce. Now, keep in mind, Canada is our largest trading partner. Something like 40 million people

00:03:17.580 live there. They have an army, allegedly. And yet, no one in Canada, much less in the United States,

00:03:24.700 felt any negative impacts whatsoever from this huge, unprecedented government strike. Everything

00:03:31.240 functioned as smoothly as it did before. The economy was untouched. People went about their lives as they

00:03:36.520 normally did. The strike of Canada's government was neither relevant nor important to anyone. Now, naturally,

00:03:43.360 that led Canadians to ask some rather uncomfortable questions. They wondered, for example, whether they

00:03:49.960 really needed to pay millions of dollars to the federal government so that bureaucrats could write 1.00

00:03:53.740 useless reports about, say, the precise size of all the hydrothermal vents that have been discovered in

00:03:58.940 Canadian waters or the specific number of non-binary vagrants in Vancouver who also identify as

00:04:04.360 indigenous furries. As one Canadian put it at the time in a post that was widely shared on social

00:04:09.060 media, quote, other than delayed passport applications, who has actually noticed the

00:04:13.300 effects of 155,000 federal servants that haven't been working for a week? If you haven't, perhaps

00:04:18.960 there's no need for them. Reports from CBC News, which is Canada's state broadcaster, focused on alleged

00:04:24.540 hardships that the federal workers were enduring on strike. They didn't even mention hardships suffered by

00:04:29.660 the public because there weren't any hardships that anybody suffered. Another Canadian outlet,

00:04:34.840 CTV, tried its best to find a downside to what was happening. They ended up saying that it was a

00:04:40.580 terrible thing that Canada's immigration system wasn't able to allow as many foreign nationals into

00:04:44.920 the country as they usually did. Watch. For many Canadians, this federal workers' strike has created

00:04:50.600 inconveniences, obtaining passports, filing taxes on time. But for people looking to come to this

00:04:56.040 country or to stay here, the consequences are much more severe. The strike is delaying an already

00:05:01.620 overburdened immigration system. While claims are still coming in, all processing is frozen.

00:05:07.640 Canada was already facing a backlog of immigration applications even before the strike because of the

00:05:12.180 pandemic. You know, it's an amazing clip to watch now that just one year later, Canada's government

00:05:17.840 has implemented a moratorium on most new migration. They're finally admitting that they shouldn't have

00:05:22.640 allowed hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals into their country every year. Housing has become

00:05:26.780 more expensive. Crime has gotten worse. People can't find jobs. Now even Canada's liberals have

00:05:31.420 to acknowledge this. But really, if they had allowed the strike to continue, they wouldn't have needed

00:05:35.720 the immigration moratorium. The strike was already accomplishing that in a roundabout way.

00:05:40.280 And as you heard, it was apparently accomplishing other things too. People weren't getting taxed either.

00:05:44.600 It was a win-win for everybody. But of course, eventually Trudeau caved. He had to pay the federal

00:05:49.620 workers because they're his base. And as a result, Canadians are still being forced to employ a vast

00:05:54.580 bureaucracy that clearly and unquestionably makes their lives worse. This is a burden that Elon Musk

00:06:01.760 and Vivek Ramaswamy are now promising to eliminate in this country. They've already published a roadmap

00:06:07.640 explaining how exactly their Department of Government Efficiency plans to gut the United States

00:06:12.620 federal bureaucracy. And it's worth taking a look at it, in part because this roadmap helps explain

00:06:17.780 exactly how our government got completely out of control in the first place. And also the reactions

00:06:23.320 from the left are already hysterical. I mean, they're losing their minds at the thought, the very

00:06:28.160 thought of a smaller, more efficient government. And it's all pretty amazing to watch. So Musk and

00:06:35.180 Ramaswamy outlined in a Wall Street Journal op-ed this week that the Department of Government

00:06:39.700 Efficiency, or DOGE, has a very real chance of succeeding where other efforts to curb government

00:06:45.900 expansion have failed. And that's because of the two Supreme Court rulings that the conservative

00:06:50.220 justices helped secure during Joe Biden's presidency. One of those rulings overturned the so-called

00:06:54.980 Chevron Doctrine. That's the doctrine that allowed unelected bureaucrats in government agencies 1.00

00:06:59.860 to essentially make laws in certain areas, as long as Congress has given the agency some

00:07:05.280 general authority to oversee those areas. This is a principle that expanded the power of the federal

00:07:10.480 government far beyond what anybody probably realizes. You might remember, for example,

00:07:15.600 when the Biden administration came out and declared that 85 million private sector workers

00:07:20.100 had to either get the COVID shot or wear a mask. There was no law authorizing that.

00:07:27.000 There was no public referendum. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, a federal

00:07:32.420 agency staffed with unelected bureaucrats, just issued a rule one day. They said mask mandates and

00:07:38.660 vaccine mandates fell under their mandate of a workplace safety agency, even though nothing like

00:07:44.960 that had ever been tried before because it made no sense whatsoever. And incredibly, until the Supreme

00:07:49.700 Court stepped in, some federal courts actually agreed with the Biden administration. The Chevron

00:07:55.640 Doctrine made unconstitutional mandates like that possible, along with tens of thousands of other

00:08:01.120 irrational and onerous rules and regulations. Now the Chevron Doctrine is gone, but virtually all of those

00:08:07.220 illegal administrative rules and regulations remain on the books. They're not going to be removed unless

00:08:11.720 the federal government or a federal court takes the initiative and strikes them down. And that's

00:08:16.740 the whole idea here with Doge. Specifically, the Doge plan involves placing legal experts inside

00:08:22.060 government agencies who are aided by advanced technology, quote unquote, that will allow them

00:08:26.180 to apply the Supreme Court's ruling to federal regulations. Doge will then turn over a list of the

00:08:32.120 regulations to Trump, who can cut them instantly with an executive order. That's going to be the

00:08:37.140 process. There's no need for Congress to get involved here. The administrative state has gained

00:08:43.520 a lot of power over the years, and now Doge is going to use those powers to destroy the administrative

00:08:49.560 state. That's the first kind of reform that Doge plans to put in place. It's called regulatory

00:08:54.200 rescissions. The second and third kinds of reform, the more prominent ones, are called administrative

00:08:59.520 reductions and cost savings. This involves shutting down government agencies and firing government

00:09:04.640 employees. And that's really the fun part. That's where it gets fun. As Musk and Ramaswamy wrote in

00:09:10.060 their plan, quote, the number of federal employees to cut should be at least proportionate to the

00:09:13.820 number of federal regulations that are nullified. Not only are fewer employees required to enforce

00:09:18.100 fewer regulations, but the agency would produce fewer regulations once its scope of authority is

00:09:22.820 properly limited. In interviews, Ramaswamy has made it clear that eliminating entire government

00:09:27.200 departments is on the table. Watch. Are you expecting to close down entire agencies like

00:09:34.220 President Trump has talked about the Department of Education, for example? Are you going to be

00:09:38.580 closing down departments? We expect mass reductions. We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright.

00:09:44.100 We expect mass reductions in force in areas of the federal government that are bloated.

00:09:47.920 We expect massive cuts among federal contractors and others who are overbilling the federal government.

00:09:52.740 So, yes, we expect all of the above. And I think people will be surprised by, I think, how quickly

00:09:57.840 we're able to move with some of those changes, given the legal backdrop the Supreme Court has given.

00:10:02.920 Now, both Musk and Ramaswamy have previously signaled their explicit support for abolishing

00:10:07.580 the Department of Education in particular, which I obviously support as well. This is a department that

00:10:12.900 has just just failed its third audit in a row, which is almost as bad as the Pentagon, which just

00:10:17.920 failed its seventh consecutive audit for its budget of nearly a trillion dollars. No one can point to

00:10:23.960 anything, any single thing the Department of Education has achieved. Americans have become

00:10:29.300 dumber and less educated by every metric since the Department of Education was reintroduced in this 0.99

00:10:34.820 country back in 1979. Even the defenders of the Department of Education inevitably end up making 0.97

00:10:39.480 this point themselves accidentally. So this is one of the better tweets that you'll see on the subject

00:10:45.400 from somebody on the left who's opposed to gutting the education bureaucracy in this country.

00:10:49.480 See if you can follow the logic here. This is a tweet. Quote,

00:10:53.780 Oh, by the way, middle schoolers can't read, high schoolers can't write a proper essay,

00:10:58.220 college students can't differentiate a scholarly-based article versus propaganda,

00:11:02.040 and adults can't tell when a picture is AI. But sure, get rid of the Department of Education,

00:11:07.500 LOL. That person eventually deleted that tweet after about 10 million people pointed out that all of

00:11:13.640 those failures have occurred under the watch of the Department of Education. This is an agency that

00:11:19.560 is not fixing any of those problems or any problems. It's taking in billions of dollars,

00:11:24.640 wasting it on administrative costs. Now, obviously, we don't know yet whether Doge will actually be

00:11:29.780 able to eliminate this agency or any other agency. A change that significant would probably require an

00:11:35.520 act of Congress. But it's clear that Doge will clearly push us in that direction. They'll go after

00:11:41.220 other useless government departments, too. Recently, Elon Musk reposted this video of the economist

00:11:46.820 Milton Friedman from about 15 years ago, outlining all of the government departments that he'd cut.

00:11:52.060 It's a pretty big clue into the agencies that can expect significant downsizing under Doge. Watch.

00:11:59.140 I want to just go right down the list quickly and have you give me a thumbs up or thumbs down. Keep

00:12:03.960 them or abolish them? Department of Agriculture.

00:12:06.380 Abolish. Gone. Department of Commerce? Abolish. Gone. Department of Defense? Keep. Keep it? Department

00:12:15.120 of Education? Abolish. Gone. Housing and Urban Development? Out. Oh, didn't even pause over that

00:12:20.760 one. Department of the Interior? Oh, but the Housing and Urban Development have done an enormous amount

00:12:24.680 of harm. My God. If you think of the way in which they've destroyed parts of cities under the rubric 0.98

00:12:33.040 of eliminating slums. Jack? You know, you remember that Martin Anderson wrote a book on the federal

00:12:41.020 bulldozer describing the effect of the urban development. There have been many more dwelling

00:12:47.480 units torn down in the name of public housing than have been built. Department of the Interior,

00:12:54.300 your beloved National Park Service. Well, given that the problem there is, you first have to sell

00:13:01.560 off all the land that the government owns. But that's what you should do. But it could be done

00:13:05.820 pretty quickly. It could be done. You should do that. There's no reason for the government to own.

00:13:09.880 The government now owns something like one-third of all the land in the country.

00:13:14.100 And that's too much. Should go down to zero. Should go down to, well, not entirely zero.

00:13:19.220 They ought to own the land on which government buildings are.

00:13:24.900 Now, whatever you think of Milton Friedman, it's obviously true that if the U.S. government

00:13:29.040 had listened to him a long time ago, we'd be better off than we are right now. Friedman once

00:13:34.120 stated that it's impossible to have a welfare state and open borders at the same time. You can't

00:13:38.960 promise the entire world free stuff and then allow all of them to enter the country. But the 1.00

00:13:44.800 government didn't listen to that kind of logic at the time. And now we have states like California,

00:13:49.420 which are completely out of money as they rush to pay the health care bills of millions of

00:13:53.680 illegal aliens. Later on in the video, Friedman outlined his guiding overall principle of

00:13:58.040 determining whether an agency should be dismantled or retained. He explained why he thinks we still

00:14:03.860 need a defense department, a treasury department, a state department, for example. And Friedman was

00:14:08.160 using similar principles we can assume that Musk is going to adopt with Doge. Watch.

00:14:14.800 What are its fundamental functions? Preserve the peace, defend the country, provide a mechanism

00:14:22.340 whereby individuals can adjudicate their disputes. That's the Justice Department. Protect individuals

00:14:29.880 from being coerced by other individuals. The police function. And now, this is both the central

00:14:39.140 government and the state and local governments. The police function is primarily local and central.

00:14:44.640 Right. And those are the fundamental functions of government, in my opinion.

00:14:49.480 Now, critics of Doge point out that even if you cut all these departments, the government's still

00:14:55.500 going to be in the red. And that's true. Two thirds of our spending is on entitlements like Social

00:14:59.240 Security, along with interest payments on the national debt. I pointed out before that Social

00:15:03.920 Security is a giant Ponzi scheme that steals money from Americans. It would be far better,

00:15:09.100 obviously, to allow Americans to keep their paychecks, invest their own money however they

00:15:14.800 want, rather than having the government plan our retirements for us. But Doge can't get rid of Social

00:15:20.960 Security without an act of Congress. But even given that Doge can't get rid of all government spending,

00:15:26.440 obviously, it could still reduce a huge amount. It can make people's lives a lot less burdensome in the

00:15:31.440 process. And on top of that, some of this spending is just evil. So eliminating it is good for its own

00:15:38.420 sake, even if the relative savings aren't that big in terms of the entire U.S. budget. For example,

00:15:43.720 this is from the Wall Street Journal op-ed that Musk and Ramasamy wrote, quote,

00:15:47.340 Doge will help end federal overspending by taking aim at the $500 billion plus in annual federal

00:15:52.440 expenditures that are unauthorized by Congress or being used in ways that Congress never intended.

00:15:56.920 From $535 million a year to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and $1.5 billion for grants to

00:16:03.780 international organizations to nearly $300 million to progressive groups like Planned Parenthood.

00:16:09.280 So we're spending billions of dollars to fund propaganda on stations like NPR. We're also paying

00:16:15.200 Planned Parenthood to murder children. That's a pretty big problem. And this is spending that has 0.99

00:16:23.400 persisted for a lot of administrations, both Democrat and Republican, even though the vast

00:16:28.300 majority of Republican voters don't support it. It's just well past time to end it. And if Doge could

00:16:34.220 do that just by itself, that would be a major victory. You can tell the left realizes that.

00:16:38.920 They're melting down over the new Doge blueprint already. Here, for example, was the reaction from

00:16:44.220 a guy named Brian Allen, who's apparently been featured in MSN and Yahoo Finance. So you know he's a real

00:16:49.180 credible guy. He says, quote, I'm not exaggerating when I say this could collapse the government within

00:16:54.940 a year. Musk and Ramaswamy just dropped their first Doge roadmap, and it's a disaster waiting

00:17:00.360 to happen. Here's how they plan to dismantle the federal government step by step. Plant Doge loyalists 1.00

00:17:05.880 in every U.S. agency, then use advanced technology, probably AI, to identify thousands of regulations to

00:17:11.060 slash across the board. Hand Trump this hit list of regulations and let them rubber stamp their

00:17:15.940 elimination. Gut federal agencies by finding the minimum number of employees needed to function

00:17:20.640 after gutting regulations. Think Musk's 80% staff cuts at X, but scaled up to the entire government.

00:17:28.180 Sounds amazing. I mean, it sounds absolutely wonderful. Yeah, but here he's presenting the

00:17:34.240 Twitter layoffs as a negative. Apparently, this is something of a common perspective on the left,

00:17:39.100 even though it boggles the mind that anybody would think this. Elon Musk fired 80% of Twitter

00:17:45.140 employees, and everybody on the left said Twitter would collapse as a result. It would just be gone.

00:17:50.200 A lot of software engineers and so on said the same thing on MSNBC. None of it was true.

00:17:55.100 Twitter is now a lot better than it used to be. By getting rid of all the bureaucrats and

00:17:59.860 censorship commissars at Twitter, it's about a million times more functional and useful.

00:18:06.320 If a top Silicon Valley company has that much bloat, then you can imagine how much bloat the federal

00:18:11.460 government has. I mean, it's really staggering. Even a lot of critics of Donald Trump understand

00:18:17.040 that. Here, for example, is John Bolton praising the idea of Doge, although he then says that we

00:18:21.880 should spend all of the savings on bombing foreign countries, which is John Bolton's favorite thing

00:18:26.360 to do. Watch. Look, Musk may have a big, big role here. It's not entirely clear what Trump is going to do

00:18:33.660 with this Department of Government efficiency. If we can save a couple hundred billion dollars,

00:18:37.940 I'd be delighted. We can spend it on the defense budget, which desperately needs an increase.

00:18:44.040 So this is something we need to look out for, obviously. It's not very productive if we save

00:18:47.720 a ton of money and then use that money to start World War III, as John Bolton really wants us to

00:18:51.720 do. The point is to cut the spending and let Americans keep more of their own money. That's the

00:18:56.200 whole idea. And along the way, we need to eliminate funding for merchants of death like Planned Parenthood and

00:19:00.400 other evil organizations. In Argentina, they've implemented similar wide-scale cuts in government. As a result,

00:19:06.080 their GDP is expected to grow by nearly 10% next year, according to JP Morgan. That's one of the

00:19:11.060 highest rates of growth in the world. This is the kind of growth you get when you destroy needless

00:19:15.580 regulations and government agencies. Like Argentina, you know, we weren't always this bloated and

00:19:21.500 inefficient. As aerospace CEO Jared Isaacman put it recently, quote, take the Gerald Ford-class

00:19:27.520 aircraft carriers. The first carrier was awarded in 2008. Construction began in 2009. It was commissioned

00:19:32.760 in 2017. It didn't deploy until 2022 at a cost of $18 billion. The next carrier in the class,

00:19:39.760 the JFK, will take at least 10 years from construction to commissioning and cost $12.5

00:19:44.280 billion. These timelines are staggering. During World War II, the USA built over 155 carriers in

00:19:50.140 a handful of years. Or for another perspective, these projects run longer than the time from Alan

00:19:55.080 Shepard's first suborbital flight to Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon.

00:19:59.100 So getting us back to mid-20th century levels of government efficiency is a goal that Republicans

00:20:06.920 have had for decades. And now there's a realistic chance that it'll finally happen. It's only been

00:20:14.000 two weeks since the election, and Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have already gotten to work hiring

00:20:18.640 employees for Doge, outlining their agenda in very clear, direct terms. If and when they succeed,

00:20:24.380 it'll be a lot like the situation in Canada last year. Tens of thousands of federal bureaucrats will

00:20:30.740 stop going to work because they won't have jobs anymore. And other than saving a lot of money and

00:20:36.720 having more freedom, Americans won't notice a thing. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:22:03.080 All right. I want to talk about, spend a little time on this. In a development as predictable as

00:22:09.700 the sunrise this morning, it's come to light that Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick for defense secretary,

00:22:15.360 was accused of sexual assault. And I say that this was predictable because Pete Hegseth is a man

00:22:22.020 who is a conservative and who was picked by Trump for, to hold a position of power

00:22:27.820 and who the Democrats really, really, really hate. So all of those factors together are

00:22:34.660 virtually guaranteed that we'd hear lurid claims and allegations of various kinds. And here they are.

00:22:40.520 So here they are, right on schedule, they've showed up. Now, what makes this all so ugly,

00:22:47.780 of course, is that there's never any way to know for sure if somebody is innocent of a rape claim

00:22:54.120 made against them? I mean, usually there's no way to know for absolute sure. None of us

00:22:58.140 were there when the supposed crime was committed. And the accused usually can't prove a negative.

00:23:05.020 It's very hard to prove that something didn't happen. And this is what makes false claims so

00:23:11.580 incredibly evil. Even if they are false, and even if most people suspect that they're false,

00:23:17.100 even if most people are very confident that they're false, there's no way for the accused to ever

00:23:20.080 fully and definitively exonerate himself, which just means that bad actors can use

00:23:24.120 the false accusation to smear him for the rest of his life. Totally innocent, doesn't matter.

00:23:31.240 It could still be used to smear you for the rest of your life. That's what makes this so evil.

00:23:39.220 However, although none of us can know what did or did not happen in any kind of sense,

00:23:45.000 anytime something happens in a room where you weren't there and there's no video or audio,

00:23:50.600 you can't know for sure what happened, we can still use our judgment to decide what we think

00:23:57.000 is likely true. And using my judgment on this one, I have to say that from my perspective,

00:24:03.680 this rape claim is among the least credible, the least believable, the most apparently outrageous

00:24:09.680 that I've ever seen. I mean, this is Kavanaugh-level stuff. The only difference is that this is a claim

00:24:16.500 for 2017. With Kavanaugh, it was like 30 years ago or whatever. But everything else, it's about as

00:24:21.880 credible as that, which is to say not at all. So I don't believe it. I don't believe it at all. I just

00:24:27.060 simply don't believe it. Now, admittedly, I'm biased because I went in with heavy skepticism

00:24:34.520 just because the rape claim is such a common tool used against Republicans that the media is trying

00:24:39.780 to destroy, especially Republicans who are in some kind of position where they've been appointed to

00:24:43.560 something and they're going to go through a confirmation process, whether it's a cabinet

00:24:46.960 pick or a Supreme Court, this especially, just like, you know, it's going to happen. And then when it

00:24:51.780 does, you can't help but be very skeptical before you even listen, before you know the story,

00:24:56.860 you're immediately like, okay, yeah, here we go. But still, I read through the facts,

00:25:02.220 let them speak for themselves. And the facts here just make it impossible for me personally

00:25:07.080 to take the claim seriously. So we'll go through this. And I want to start with how the mainstream

00:25:14.660 media is covering it. So I'm going to play this CBS report. It's kind of long. It's about two and a

00:25:18.300 half minutes. But it's important that you hear the whole report. So I can then tell you what you don't

00:25:24.440 hear in this report, right? But let's listen to it. We turn now to this newly revealed police report

00:25:30.580 that offers graphic details into a sexual assault claim against Donald Tripp's pick to run the

00:25:35.680 Department of Defense. The police report is now published for anyone to read. Pete Hegseth's

00:25:40.620 lawyer maintains it was a consensual encounter. CBS's Nicole Kaelin was asking tough questions today

00:25:46.060 on Capitol Hill.

00:25:47.100 Vice President-elect J.D. Vance played host to Defense Secretary pick Pete Hegseth on Capitol Hill

00:25:54.260 today, just as the news broke of a graphic newly released police report that detailed Hegseth's

00:26:00.220 involvement in an alleged sexual assault in 2017. Did you sexually assault a woman in Monterey,

00:26:06.420 California? I have, as far as the media is concerned, I'll keep this very simple. The matter was

00:26:12.160 fully investigated and I was completely clear and that's where I'm going to leave it. According to

00:26:16.780 the report, a woman referred to as Jane Doe met Hegseth during a conference at the Hyatt Regency

00:26:22.020 Hotel. Both were drinking with a group at the hotel bar when Doe said things got fuzzy. A nurse who

00:26:28.620 treated her later said Doe believed something may have been slipped into her drink. She then recalled

00:26:34.320 being in a hotel room when Hegseth took her phone from her hand. When she got up to leave,

00:26:39.140 Hegseth blocked the door with his body. Her next memory was when she was on a bed or a couch and

00:26:45.340 Hegseth was over her. His dog tags were hovering over her face. I don't know the young lady.

00:26:50.960 Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen said Hegseth addressed the allegation in their meeting.

00:26:55.560 I don't think there's any way in the world you can say that this is a sexual assault.

00:26:59.300 What makes you so confident about that? Have you read the report? I actually have. I've got it right

00:27:03.880 here. I read the report too. It's pretty clear of what took place. It was pretty clear that it was

00:27:09.820 she definitely wasn't drug to her room. It was two people working on each other. 0.95

00:27:14.960 Well, it also said she couldn't get out of the room. Well, that's one person.

00:27:19.300 Hegseth's attorney told CBS News police found the allegations to be false and claimed it was

00:27:23.880 Hegseth who was intoxicated and the woman who was the aggressor. He also confirmed the Fox News

00:27:29.400 host paid the woman an unknown sum of money after she threatened to sue, fearing it could cost him

00:27:35.580 his job. The district attorney in Monterey said tonight that her office declined to file charges

00:27:43.300 against Hegseth because it determined that they could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

00:27:48.560 Nora. All right, Nicole Killian with those tough questions tonight. Thank you.

00:27:53.040 So that's a pretty good representation of how the media is covering the story,

00:27:56.640 which isn't to say it's a good representation of the story. It's a good representation of how

00:28:00.440 the media is covering it. And it's exactly how you'd expect them to cover it. That is incredibly

00:28:04.600 dishonestly. A lot of extremely pertinent information was left out of the report.

00:28:10.200 So let's go through it. Let's talk about the facts that are, let's talk about the facts,

00:28:14.540 first of all, that are not in dispute. The things that everybody agrees on.

00:28:19.440 The details that we know with relative certainty and which can be proven by witnesses,

00:28:23.900 security camera footage, and so on. So we'll start at the beginning here.

00:28:29.060 Hegseth and this woman were both at a conference, apparently some kind of conservative

00:28:33.780 conference thing, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in 2017. The woman, and this is something that,

00:28:42.480 unless I missed it somehow, CBS doesn't tell you, the woman is married. And not only is she married,

00:28:48.880 but apparently her husband and children were at the hotel with her. Okay. So this is a married woman

00:28:56.700 who apparently attended this conference with her family. Why would you not mention that in the

00:29:01.940 report? Well, you don't mention the report because it makes her sound really bad. It makes her sound 1.00

00:29:06.020 really bad. Because at a minimum, she's late at night at a hotel bar drinking with some guy,

00:29:13.120 and her husband is there upstairs. Automatically, that makes her sound terrible.

00:29:21.540 Well, we don't want to include anything in the report that will make this woman sound terrible. 0.85

00:29:25.780 Because if we already know this woman did a terrible thing, well, terrible people do terrible 0.83

00:29:29.940 things. Another terrible thing you can do is lie about a rape accusation to get yourself out of

00:29:34.760 trouble. So let's leave that out. Let's not talk about that. This is what the media says.

00:29:39.180 So, but she's, she's apparently, you know, at this conference with her, she attended with her family

00:29:44.580 late at night at this bar. Her husband is in the, in the hotel room with her children.

00:29:52.660 She's down at the bar drinking with Pete Hegseth. Again, this part, not, not really in dispute.

00:29:58.100 Um, and by the way, just a, just a note for any men out there. If you're at a hotel with your wife 0.57

00:30:07.200 and it's midnight and she's out drinking with someone who isn't you, uh, she's cheating. Okay. 1.00

00:30:15.340 Let me just clear up any confusion you might have. Yeah. She's cheating. You're sitting in the hotel, 1.00

00:30:20.160 hotel room worried. Well, it's a, you know, she can't, this camp, this, she, she can't be cheating. 0.81

00:30:25.160 No, no, she is. She is a thousand percent. She is. Apparently her husband went looking for her at

00:30:30.160 2 a.m. and couldn't find her, couldn't get her on the phone, couldn't find her. Once again,

00:30:35.700 if you don't know where your wife is at 2 a.m., she's cheating. That terrible feeling you have in

00:30:39.980 the pit of your stomach where you're, you're all the worst case scenarios. Yep. That's it. That's

00:30:43.340 what's a thousand percent probability. Okay. Um, I mean, well, cheating or dead, I guess,

00:30:49.380 are the two possibilities. And I don't mean to be morbid, but that's really it. Uh, you know,

00:30:52.380 you can't find your wife at 2 a.m. She's cheating or she's dead. Um, and yet this woman showed back up 1.00

00:30:57.020 in her, uh, the next morning to her room with her husband and had some sort of story about falling

00:31:04.760 asleep in a friend's room. Uh, yeah. Okay. Anyway, so back to that night, she goes up to Hegseth's room.

00:31:12.380 She was not dragged up there. She was not carried up there. Okay. She walked up there.

00:31:21.340 Uh, according to the security camera footage, this footage of her walking up to the room 0.68

00:31:26.200 and that's all the stuff we know for sure. So now they're in the hotel room,

00:31:32.080 in the hotel room that they both, they both were drinking. Okay. So you can't use the whole,

00:31:37.880 uh, well, she was, she was drunk. So this automatically is not her consent. He was

00:31:41.340 drinking too. So he could accuse her of rape, I guess. I mean, this is what, this is what we're

00:31:47.900 always told. Well, if a woman was drinking and then automatically she can't consent. 0.99

00:31:52.280 Drunk sex is non-consensual. Well, so is he drinking. So she's a rapist. She raped him. 1.00

00:31:56.080 He should sue her. So now they're in the hotel room, uh, in the room. There are no witnesses 0.99

00:32:02.720 aside from those two. There's no security footage. Uh, one would hope one would hope there's

00:32:06.360 no cameras in the hotel room. And, uh, Hegseth says that they had consensual sex. The woman

00:32:11.580 says that she wanted to leave, but she's, he forcibly stopped her and then, uh, and then 0.99

00:32:16.300 raped her. Um, he said, she said there, okay, no other evidence to go on either way. But for 0.80

00:32:24.520 that part of the story that we got a bunch of stuff we, we know, and then there's this

00:32:29.020 part here in the hotel room. We don't, we can't know nobody was there. It was just those

00:32:33.060 two. Uh, but then we go back and now there's more stuff that we know because the story continues.

00:32:39.600 And here's another one that CBS didn't mention. I don't think this woman did not report the

00:32:44.580 supposed sexual assault until four days later. She says that she didn't remember it until

00:32:51.600 days after the fact. Um, she told her husband about the quote unquote assault three days after

00:33:01.120 it supposedly occurred. Police investigated. As you heard, he was cleared. They found no,

00:33:06.380 no solid evidence of rape. Uh, they found no evidence that she was drugged or whatever.

00:33:11.560 There was something put in her drink. If Pete Hegseth, okay, I mean, come on, Pete Hegseth at

00:33:17.140 this point, a well-known Fox news host is at a conservative conference slipping drugs in women's 0.64

00:33:23.300 drinks. And you know, that's the claim here. Uh, if that happened when she went to go report the 0.98

00:33:29.080 rape, they could have done a test. They would have found it in her system. They didn't find it. 1.00

00:33:34.040 Um, and she doesn't even know that. I mean, apparently she's saying, well, he might've,

00:33:38.180 I don't know. I, things got fuzzy. Well, I don't know. You're drinking all night.

00:33:42.540 Maybe that's why things got fuzzy. It's midnight. It's 1am. You've been drinking all night. That

00:33:47.020 things tend to get fuzzy. Uh, that's, that's, uh, there was something in my system. Yeah. All the

00:33:52.340 alcohol in your, as well, it was in your system. That's, it has that effect. Um, okay. So you've

00:33:58.300 got a bunch of verifiable facts leading up to whatever happened in the hotel room, then a bunch

00:34:02.020 of verified, verifiable facts after the hotel room. All we can do then is draw probabilistic

00:34:06.620 conclusions about what happened during that dark spot, during the gap in the story based on the

00:34:10.660 other stuff that we know with reasonable certainty. And here's what I know with reasonable certainty

00:34:15.800 about the woman. She walked up to a hotel room with a man who is not her husband walked, not

00:34:23.800 dragged, not carried, not, not escorted at gunpoint walked. There is no conceivable reason why you

00:34:32.440 would ever do that unless you intended to have sex with the person. You know, what, what was she 0.99

00:34:38.540 going up there to play chess? Was she going up there to watch Seinfeld reruns? Which even that,

00:34:43.960 by the way, would be like wildly inappropriate for a married woman to do. Um, but, but no, 1.00

00:34:49.800 she went up there to have sex with him. I feel very, very confident in that assumption. There 0.96

00:34:52.860 is one reason and one reason only that a married woman goes to a man's hotel room in the middle of 0.99

00:34:58.300 the night or an unmarried woman. Okay. This, this only one reason why this happens. And, uh, and, 0.95

00:35:05.700 and, and only one possible result can be intended.

00:35:09.980 Now here's what else I feel confident assuming

00:35:14.180 about this woman. Uh, and it is an assumption, but she's a liar and she's a very, very bad person. 1.00

00:35:26.540 I mean, cheating on your husband is very bad. Going to another man's hotel room while your husband 0.99

00:35:33.740 and children are in the hotel in a different room is just, it's how, if you are not a totally evil 1.00

00:35:45.660 soulless scumbag, how could you do that? I mean, how, even if you're just like a regular cheater, 0.99

00:35:51.260 bad enough, but even if you're just that level of evil, you would think that the presence of your

00:35:57.480 children and husband in this hotel with you would be, that would be too much guilt. You wouldn't

00:36:02.800 be able to get over that to then go through with this. I mean, to, to do that, it's just, I,

00:36:08.340 it's monstrous. It's like a monstrous level of treachery. Um, in my opinion, I'm talking about my

00:36:19.740 opinion. Like I said, I can't say for sure what happened. I don't know. This is my perspective.

00:36:23.520 From my perspective, this woman is a very, very terrible human being who, who, who is obviously 1.00

00:36:28.420 willing to lie, uh, to get her way. So what do I think happened? What's my own theory of the case?

00:36:33.920 Uh, I don't think you need to be Sherlock Holmes here. I think, uh, it seems to me that she, if I

00:36:39.080 were to, if I were to explain all these facts and how do you, what's a, what's a theory that makes

00:36:43.840 sense of all it? Well, well, here's, here's my theory. Again, you don't need to be a professional

00:36:48.160 detective, a private eye to put it all together. It seems to me that she cheated on her husband. 1.00

00:36:54.240 And then a few days later lied and said that she was drugged and raped. Why would she make up the

00:36:59.020 story? Well, because she was drinking and flirting with a famous TV personality at a bar in full view 1.00

00:37:04.580 of other people. It seems extremely likely that her husband may have heard about that when he went

00:37:09.960 down to the bar to look for it 2 AM and couldn't find her. Like, it seems very likely that either then,

00:37:15.340 or at some point, uh, shortly after somebody said something to him. Oh yeah. You know,

00:37:21.600 I saw him with a Pete Hegseth guy. What? Some with Pete Hegseth. You know, it seems very likely that

00:37:27.420 he had suspicions, uh, unless he's the dumbest person who's ever lived, seems very likely had 0.96

00:37:32.700 suspicions. And, uh, and so at some point, uh, you know, the wife could either, she could either be 0.81

00:37:39.340 honest and say, yeah, you know, I'm a horrifically evil person who cheated on you while you were

00:37:44.340 watching our kids in a hotel room down the hall, or she could desperately invent some story to try

00:37:51.960 to avoid accountability. And, uh, and I think that's what happened. I think that that's what

00:37:57.520 happened here. Just based on my own subjective analysis, that's my theory. And I feel pretty

00:38:03.000 confident in it. Um, and, um, and this kind of, look, this, the, the false accusations

00:38:13.960 I, I think are very common. Now we can't know how common that's the thing. They're false. It's

00:38:19.880 there's no way to quantify me. You hear, you know, sometimes the, the, um, the sort of believe all

00:38:26.880 women types on the other side of this, they'll come up with totally made up statistics about, 1.00

00:38:32.380 Oh no, false rap rape accusations only happen X number of percentage. And actual rape is way more

00:38:38.460 common than false rape. I said, you can't know that it's, it's literally impossible to know that

00:38:42.320 because they're false. So it, it, if somebody is falsely accused of rape and it's never discovered

00:38:48.200 that it was false, that we don't know. We don't know how many times that's happened. Just no possible

00:38:51.800 way to know. But, uh, it, so once again, you're left with just making, using logic and common sense

00:38:58.780 and kind of drawing deductions. And to me, it seems pretty clear that false accusations are probably

00:39:08.480 common. In fact, it seems most reasonable to assume that false accusations are at least as common

00:39:17.380 as rape itself, if not more. Because there are a lot, you know, what, what, what, when you have a case

00:39:28.420 where there's an actual rape that occurs, what, what could, like, what kind of man is doing that?

00:39:33.500 What can motivate that? Well, these are, for actual rapists, they are horrifically evil, monstrous men 0.99

00:39:43.000 who find pleasure in forcing themselves on women and in the suffering and everything that that causes. 0.99

00:39:50.920 It's like, these are just, just, just, the worst of the worst, evil, evil people. That's, those are the

00:39:57.080 rapists. Um, however many men you have in that category is how many rapists you have. Uh, and that 0.98

00:40:07.360 exists, that's real. So thank God is not close to the majority of men or even, or anywhere near that.

00:40:14.340 But, you know, you, you do have that population over on the false rape accusers. Well,

00:40:21.260 what can motivate that? What kind of women do that? Well, you have some women who are just 1.00

00:40:28.360 really, really evil monsters themselves, and they get off on destroying men's lives. 0.95

00:40:34.620 And they're, they're kind of the, the, they're, they're basic, they're in the same category as 0.99

00:40:41.060 the male rapists. This is like their version of rape. They can't actually force themselves 0.99

00:40:45.300 physically on men, but they can, uh, get their kicks by, uh, by imposing themselves on men in

00:40:52.460 another way. And they do it that way. So there's that. So it's like, how many horrifically monstrous

00:40:57.980 men do we have? How many horrifically monstrous women do we have? Probably about the same. 1.00

00:41:02.100 So already it's reason to believe it's about equal there. But then you've got these other

00:41:06.820 categories, you know, then you have, you have women who resort to false accusations who maybe 1.00

00:41:10.720 aren't, maybe it's not because they enjoy it necessarily, but it's self-preservation.

00:41:18.480 Trying to avoid accountability. They make up the story because the other option is admitting

00:41:23.360 they did something terrible. That's still evil. That's still very evil.

00:41:27.840 Um, but you have the, the, uh, the women who resort to this for maybe we'll say more practical 1.00

00:41:36.320 reasons. And you add that into the category, which contributes to the false accusers. So

00:41:43.960 you got all the women, these, these kinds of women, the one, the one who, the ones who come 1.00

00:41:47.400 up with the false accusations. You got the kinds of men who actually commit rape. Just seems really 0.93

00:41:53.720 reasonable to me to assume that it's at least equal in terms of the numbers, which is all the

00:41:59.000 more reason why there, there just have to be punishments for false accusers. There have to be

00:42:03.980 severe punishments for this stuff. It is, it's so terrible. And the effect that it has on men's lives

00:42:09.740 is, uh, it, it, it, it's so severe that it can't even be quantified.

00:42:15.440 And there have to be punishments. There have to be severe punishments. I mean, I'm not the only one

00:42:21.760 to say that the punishment for a false rape accusation should be the same as the punishment

00:42:26.380 for rape. Whatever, whatever penalty, as the woman inventing the story, whatever penalty you were 1.00

00:42:31.620 trying to have imposed on the man who's innocent in this case should be imposed on you.

00:42:38.420 Now that doesn't mean that in a scenario like this, it doesn't mean that it, well,

00:42:42.380 if a woman man's accused of rape and then he's not charged or cleared that automatically the

00:42:47.700 woman goes to jail, of course not. Now that's, that's a whole separate crime that has to be 1.00

00:42:51.180 investigated. She has to be tried for that. And it has to be proven that she made it up. If it can't

00:42:54.740 be proven, then obviously there's not going to be any criminal penalty there, but we need to,

00:43:01.400 we need to start seeing women who falsely accused put on trial and have their own lives put on the 1.00

00:43:07.120 line. Uh, that's the only way that you could have any chance of stopping some of this sort of thing

00:43:13.820 from happening. All right. Here's a new report from the center for medical progress. Uh, and this

00:43:20.680 is, uh, this is very important. Watch this. We told you about Planned Parenthood's flagrantly illegal

00:43:26.200 contractual arrangement to sell so-called proprietary aborted fetuses to UC San Diego for the valuable

00:43:32.280 consideration of owning the intellectual property and patent rights developed from experiments on

00:43:37.780 the body parts. This heavily redacted research plan submitted to the UCSD ethics review board and

00:43:43.700 approved in 2018 states, the project will harvest fetuses up to six months old from subjects undergoing

00:43:50.100 elective surgical pregnancy termination at Planned Parenthood and who are carrying viable non-anomalous

00:43:56.240 fetuses. Okay. So this is a yet again, Planned Parenthood selling aborted babies for medical

00:44:01.620 experimentation. This is, uh, you would think a major, major scandal. It should be, it is, it is a major

00:44:08.380 scandal, just not treated that way. And we've known about these practices for almost 10 years now.

00:44:13.940 The center for medical progress first revealed them back in, I think it was 2014 or 15, maybe even before

00:44:21.780 that. Um, so it's been at least 10 years that we've known about this and Planned Parenthood has suffered

00:44:29.760 no consequence. There've been no repercussions at all for them selling the bodies of aborted babies

00:44:38.940 for, um, for medical experimentation and for, and for other purposes, any purposes. There can't be any

00:44:45.820 good purposes, obviously for it. No repercussions, no penalties, no consequences,

00:44:52.300 not even the revocation of their federal funding. And we talked about this, you know, this brings us

00:45:00.400 back to the point that was mentioned in the opening monologue, but should, but needs to be mentioned

00:45:03.660 here again, needs to be emphasized again. Um, that what should have happened is Planned Parenthood

00:45:10.340 executives should have been frog marched into prison. You know, they, they should, they should be in

00:45:16.000 orange jumpsuits right now with chains around, shackles around their legs. That's what should have

00:45:19.980 happened. Didn't happen. At the very least, uh, they should have their $500 million in taxpayer

00:45:26.840 funding or 300 million. I think it's down to now there are hundreds of millions of dollars in

00:45:30.640 taxpayer funding should have been revoked. In fact, you shouldn't even need this to revoke their,

00:45:35.480 their federal funding. They never should have been federal funded, federally funded to begin with.

00:45:40.200 Given the fact that even if they're not selling the aborted baby parts, they are aborting hundreds of

00:45:46.100 thousands of babies every year. Forcing Americans to pay for that is just reprehensible, not to mention

00:45:54.220 unconstitutional. So reason enough to never fund them to begin with. And, but if you needed additional

00:46:00.480 reasons, well, here you go. And yet, um, still they got their federal funding. Every Republican

00:46:07.160 administration, every Republican administration for decades has been chose, has, has continued the

00:46:13.520 funding. Republicans, uh, had complete control of the government from 2016 to 2018, just like they're

00:46:20.960 about to have again. Still, they continued the funding. There wasn't even an effort to defund them.

00:46:28.340 Not any serious one. Might've been mentioned by a few lawmakers here and there, but there was no

00:46:32.860 serious effort. It wasn't even, they weren't even pretending that they wanted to. Um, that has to,

00:46:40.000 that, that, that has to change this time around. I mean, this has to be, this should be one of the

00:46:43.860 first items on the agenda. And, um, no, not that if you, if you save 300, 400 million dollars in

00:46:51.000 taxpayer in, in waste, uh, it's, it, that doesn't even make a dent. That's not even a, right. That's

00:46:57.360 not even a, a tablespoon out of the ocean in terms of all the waste, but it's not really about that.

00:47:03.920 Uh, it's about the fact that you cannot force taxpayers to pay for this. Um, and this is an

00:47:12.340 easy, this should be an easy thing for Republicans to do. This is an easy call.

00:47:18.280 Let, yeah, the Democrats will freak out about it. Oh, you see, it's the attack on reproductive

00:47:21.600 rights. Let them, who cares? They're going to freak out no matter what. Who cares? Let them, 0.78

00:47:25.920 let them, let them, go out, have them go out and make the, force them to make the case for this.

00:47:31.540 Force them to make the case that not only should Planned Parenthood be open and be allowed to

00:47:35.940 continue killing babies, but you as a taxpayer should be forced to pay for it. Let them make 0.98

00:47:42.280 that case. Dare them. The fact that Democrats will freak out about it is actually an added bonus

00:47:50.280 of defunding Planned Parenthood. Because that means that they're going to be out in public now

00:47:57.080 telling people that they should have to pay for this. How many Americans really want to pay for

00:48:05.580 it? Even among the Americans who are, uh, in favor of abortion to, to some degree or another,

00:48:12.420 how many of them actually want their tax money to go to this? How many? I don't know if any polls

00:48:19.960 have been done on this. And if there have been polls done on it, I guarantee they were done in a

00:48:23.220 dishonest way. Like you have to explain to most Americans what Planned Parenthood is and what

00:48:28.340 they do. That's actually not as widely understood as you and I might think. So yeah, without any

00:48:35.560 context, if you go to the average American and say, do you think some tax money should go for the

00:48:42.220 purposes of reproductive health to reproductive health organizations? Probably most Americans would 0.87

00:48:47.820 say, yeah, because they don't know what that means. But then if you say, oh no, this is Planned

00:48:51.480 Parenthood. They abort hundreds of thousands of babies every year. Uh, and this money enables

00:48:57.100 them to do that. Of course they say that, well, this, this money doesn't go to the abortion part 0.95

00:49:02.620 of our business. Okay. Money is fungible. It doesn't make a difference. If you're funding the

00:49:07.300 organization, it doesn't matter where, if you give them $300 million, it doesn't matter where they put

00:49:12.120 that specific chunk of change. You are helping them to abort the baby. So they could put it here.

00:49:17.820 They could put it up. It doesn't make a difference. That's the point of money. It's fungible.

00:49:20.120 So just takes a little, yeah, you gotta, you have to explain it a little bit. It's not that hard to

00:49:25.580 explain. And once it's explained and once Americans understand what this really is all about and what

00:49:31.040 Planned Parenthood really does, uh, I, I don't think I do, do a majority of Americans want their

00:49:37.620 money to go to abortionists, want their tax money to go to abortionists. I don't think that that is

00:49:44.280 anywhere close to a majority position. Uh, so this would be, uh, not only the right thing to do,

00:49:50.080 but a political winner. And it just, it had, you know, this is one of those things. Now you,

00:49:57.140 you might say that, uh, well, it's not a top priority. I think it is, but maybe you, maybe

00:50:01.660 you're in favor of defunding Planned Parenthood, but you wouldn't think it's a top priority,

00:50:04.960 um, by its, you know, on its own merits. I'll tell you why, why another reason why it is,

00:50:11.540 it's because it's a, it's kind of a canary in the coal mine sort of thing.

00:50:15.600 If Republicans don't do this, then that's a really good indication that they're not going

00:50:20.700 to do any of the other stuff they say they're going to do. If they don't get this done,

00:50:24.060 which is an easy thing to get done, should be, it's a no brainer. Uh, and if they don't do that,

00:50:30.640 that's a real bad sign. Okay. If they're not going to do that, then why would we think that

00:50:36.840 they're going to do mass deportations, for example, which is a much larger operation and

00:50:43.500 more difficult. And also, by the way, it will provoke a lot more outrage, uh, although it

00:50:47.680 should still be done. So if they're not going to do it, then that to me, that's a real bad sign.

00:50:52.260 So let's, let's hope they do. And we got to keep pushing them in that direction.

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00:52:42.740 Today, we are going to quickly cancel Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin. For those mercifully

00:52:48.740 unfamiliar with this person, she is the formerly conservative, very big air quotes around conservative

00:52:53.880 media pundit who went insane because of Donald Trump and flipped being a hardcore liberal to spite

00:52:58.900 him. Many such cases, as we know. And just as in all those other cases, it's probably the case that

00:53:04.620 she didn't really flip to being liberal. She always was. Whether she was always also insane is a bit more

00:53:10.120 unclear. Rubin took to her podcast this week to give some advice to Democrats. She thinks that she can

00:53:14.740 help them reach those ordinary voters that they lost this election, or rather that they abandoned

00:53:20.520 long before this last election. And here is her brilliant strategy that she outlines. Listen.

00:53:25.440 And for people who don't get political news, who never pick up a newspaper, who never turn on CNN,

00:53:33.620 who never even bother with Fox News, those people really have no idea what's going on. And that means

00:53:40.740 we have to bend over backwards, not to suck up to these people, not to make excuses for them,

00:53:47.560 but at least to communicate the basic facts. You don't have a vaccine because you're not getting

00:53:56.200 a child tax credit because all the good things that are happening at the state level, they have to know

00:54:04.300 why they're getting those things. Oh, you have a chip manufacturing plant because a Democratic president

00:54:10.620 put that into effect and a Democratic governor went out and solicited bids. And now you have

00:54:18.960 X number of thousands of jobs. It's that simple. You can't talk broad themes. You have to boil it down

00:54:25.980 to nuts and bolts and you have to be pithy. What do I mean by pithy? How about this? Republicans want

00:54:33.500 to kill your kids. It's actually true. If you're going to oppose vaccinations, if you're going to stop 1.00

00:54:40.300 breakthrough medical research, if you're going to allow minors and all sorts of people to get

00:54:47.780 semi-automatic weapons, which they use to shoot up schools, well, then you are responsible for kids'

00:54:54.500 health and death, unfortunately. It has to be that simple and that direct, and it has to be over and

00:55:01.680 over and over again. Okay, a few points here. First of all, I know it may sound ironic for me to say

00:55:07.480 this on my podcast, but I do have to say that not everyone needs a podcast. We need to get a grip on

00:55:14.320 the podcast. Just because you have the vague ability to formulate words and put them together

00:55:18.580 into sentences doesn't mean you should be starting your own podcast. It really doesn't. Whoever you

00:55:25.280 are, if you're thinking to yourself right now, maybe I should start a podcast. No, you probably shouldn't.

00:55:28.040 You probably shouldn't. Who is listening to the Jen Rubin podcast? It's a serious question. Why does

00:55:37.100 it exist? Have you ever met anybody in your entire life who would identify themselves as a Jen Rubin

00:55:41.960 fan? Have you ever met anyone who even mildly cares what she thinks about anything? I mean, sure,

00:55:47.260 I'm doing a segment about her right now, but it's Friday, and this was an easy one, and I'm just trying

00:55:50.840 to get to the weekend at this point, just to be honest with you. Anyway, the point is that there's no

00:55:54.880 reason for this person to have a podcast. There's no reason for 98% of the people who have podcasts

00:55:59.740 to have them. Okay, podcasts at this point have become like visual diaries for self-satisfied gas

00:56:06.580 bags to talk to themselves. Whether that also applies to the present podcast is up to you to decide.

00:56:12.600 Second, let's get to the central insight being offered by this genius political analyst. She's 0.99

00:56:19.560 decided that the way for Democrats to connect with voters, at least the uninformed ones who don't watch CNN,

00:56:24.880 she says they don't, people who don't read newspapers or watch CNN. Oh, so you mean 100% of the population

00:56:31.920 under the age of 75? That's what you mean? That's everyone doesn't read newspapers or watch CNN. That's

00:56:37.340 literally everyone who, you know, who was born at any point in the last 70 years. But anyway, the way to

00:56:47.080 connect with them is to make simple declarative statements like Republicans want to kill your kids. 1.00

00:56:54.120 Never mind that Democrats are the ones who literally want to kill kids and have killed them, 0.99

00:56:58.080 over 60 million of them, to be specific. You just don't get to accuse anyone of wanting to kill kids 0.95

00:57:03.400 when you have funded, facilitated, and fought to legalize the mass slaughter of children.

00:57:07.440 You don't get to do that. But as proof of this Republican desire to murder children, 0.78

00:57:13.440 she mentions our resistance to vaccines and also the fact that we give semi-automatic weapons to

00:57:20.660 minors. Now, the latter is entirely made up, of course. It is not legal for minors to obtain or

00:57:27.600 possess semi-automatic weapons anywhere in the country. Literally no Republican anywhere at any

00:57:32.620 point has ever suggested that we should make it legal for kids to purchase those weapons.

00:57:37.160 It's never happened. When a child tragically shoots up a school, he has done so in defiance of

00:57:44.520 the laws forbidding him from possessing those weapons and in defiance of the laws forbidding

00:57:48.320 him from bringing those weapons onto school grounds and in defiance of the laws forbidding

00:57:51.700 him from using those weapons to murder innocent people. Our only point is that when somebody is

00:57:56.420 breaking 10 laws already, adding an 11th law for them to break as well probably won't solve the

00:58:02.600 problem. As for vaccines, if you're still completely dismissive of all vaccine skepticism,

00:58:08.600 even after our experience with the COVID vaccine, then you're just not a serious person,

00:58:12.560 which is obviously the case here. But all that's beside the point. Now, that's not what makes this

00:58:17.900 analysis from Jen Rubin so crushingly stupid. It contributes to the stupidity, but it's not even 1.00

00:58:23.840 the dumbest thing about this clip. Here's the dumbest thing. Rubin is recommending that Democrats 1.00

00:58:30.140 make hysterical panicked declarations like Republicans want to kill your kids as if that 0.93

00:58:36.260 hasn't already been the entire Democrat political playbook for years now. This has been not just part

00:58:44.900 of their strategy, but essentially their only strategy for at least a decade. Jen Rubin, who was paid 0.99

00:58:52.560 paid by a major corporate media company to analyze politics for a living, apparently hasn't noticed

00:58:58.840 that Democrats have spent 10 years doing the thing that she recommends they start doing. If overwrought,

00:59:06.880 simplistic, frenzied, not to mention wholly false, or as Jen Rubin calls them, pithy statements are what you

00:59:15.260 want, well, Democrats have them in abundance. It's all they've had. And they still got demolished.

00:59:21.140 This is not a coincidence. In fact, they lost largely because they followed the playbook that

00:59:27.800 Jen Rubin is now recommending as if she invented it. For years now, the left has been screaming

00:59:33.120 that their ideological opponents are racists, are bigots, are Nazis. They want to bring back slavery. 0.97

00:59:39.740 They want to create a handmaid's tale, patriarchal dystopia. They want to kill kids. None of that means 1.00

00:59:45.780 anything to voters anymore. They've heard it a million times. See, this is the problem. You've

00:59:52.620 used the most dramatic possible language and made the most hysterical possible claims you can.

00:59:59.820 You have accused your opponents of the worst possible things, killing kids, being Nazis.

01:00:06.040 There's nowhere to go from here. You know, you can't ramp up the rhetoric even more.

01:00:11.020 You can't get any more dramatic than you've already been. The public is numb to it.

01:00:20.260 You've used up all of your credibility. Nothing you say means anything anymore.

01:00:25.080 That is the problem that Democrats face. I don't know how they solve it. And I'm not much

01:00:31.940 interested in helping them to figure it out, to be honest with you. But I do know that a good start

01:00:36.440 is to stop listening to people like Jen Rubin, if anybody ever was, because she is today certainly

01:00:42.840 canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for listening. Thanks for watching. Talk to you

01:00:47.480 on Monday. Have a great weekend. Godspeed.

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Ep. 1492 - Why DOGE Is the Key to Destroying Big Government

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