The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1521 - Trump Wages All Out War On DEI

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Trump's full-scale assault on DEI has begun and it is glorious.

00:00:05.040 Also speaking of DEI, a female cop accidentally shoots a civilian with his own gun.

00:00:09.300 The Canadian politician turns the tables on a news anchor who tries to corner him on gender

00:00:13.060 ideology. And the media, as expected, has been fighting back against Trump's border enforcement

00:00:17.460 operation with images of crying illegal immigrants. So far, it's not having the

00:00:22.280 effect that they intended. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:30.000 We'll be right back.

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00:01:49.320 For those who are fans of DEI, yesterday will go down in infamy. It was, you might say,

00:01:55.600 the DEI Pearl Harbor. At 5 p.m., all DEI offices within the federal government closed down. Employees

00:02:01.540 were put on leave as the first step towards mass layoffs. The DEI section of every major federal

00:02:07.300 website went offline. The heads of every DEI office in the federal government were rounded up,

00:02:12.220 chained to giant boulders, and tossed into the sea. That last part didn't happen, unfortunately,

00:02:18.080 but a man can dream. Back in reality, however, the Office of Personnel Management sent out a notice

00:02:23.100 to the head of every federal agency instructing them to ask employees, quote, if they know of any

00:02:27.720 efforts to disguise DEI programs or personnel in the federal government. Employees have 10 days to

00:02:33.800 disclose any disguised DEI programs or personnel that they're aware of. And almost immediately,

00:02:38.340 one of these disguises became pretty apparent. It was visible to anyone who checked out the

00:02:42.600 leadership page of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, or ATF.

00:02:47.580 Specifically, there was an unusual change to the title of one senior official at the ATF. Here's how

00:02:53.980 the Bureau's leadership page looked at the beginning of the week. You can see it there.

00:02:58.600 And as you can see, there's a woman named Lisa T. Boykin, who's listed as the chief diversity

00:03:02.780 officer at the ATF. Now, why does the ATF need a chief diversity officer? What was this person

00:03:07.820 doing every day? Well, who knows? She was collecting a paycheck, at least. We know that. 1.00

00:03:13.340 And now that's supposed to change. But the only change the ATF actually made

00:03:16.840 was in the meaningless title they gave this person. So sometime in the last 48 hours,

00:03:21.840 the page changed. And here's what the ATF's leadership page looks like now. Now, Lisa Boykin

00:03:28.240 is merely a, quote, senior executive. She's no longer the chief diversity officer.

00:03:35.460 Overnight, she has been graced with a much more generic and inconspicuous title. There was no

00:03:41.680 press release about it. There was no explanation. They just changed it. Check back tomorrow,

00:03:47.200 the ATF will probably put fake glasses and a mustache on Lisa Boykin and claim her name is really

00:03:52.320 Larry Soykin or something. So these DEI activists aren't completely out of ideas, but very soon

00:03:58.440 they will be completely out of the federal government. At least that's the plan.

00:04:02.440 As recently as a few months ago, a purge like this seemed pretty difficult to imagine. And it was

00:04:08.660 particularly hard for people on the left to imagine. When we filmed Am I Racist, the DEI activists we

00:04:15.080 spoke to from Robin DiAngelo on down were overconfident to the point of absurdity. It's one of the reasons

00:04:21.400 we were able to make the film. People always ask how we managed to get the race hustlers and DEI 0.99

00:04:25.380 scammers in the room with us. Well, the answer is that we use their own egos and their false sense

00:04:29.980 of security against them. They just couldn't imagine that anyone would ever challenge them

00:04:34.000 or try to embarrass them because that's the bubble that they were living in. And now it's safe to say

00:04:39.260 that that bubble has been pretty well popped. Now, in fact, their entire industry is crashing down

00:04:46.420 and not just in the government. The executive orders that Donald Trump has signed are broader

00:04:50.720 than that. One of the orders, for example, is entitled Ending Illegal Discrimination and

00:04:55.700 Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity. And this order explicitly applies to DEI in the private sector

00:05:01.280 as well. Quote, I further order all agencies to enforce our longstanding civil rights laws

00:05:06.100 and to combat illegal private sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities.

00:05:12.200 Each agency shall identify up to nine potential civil compliance investigations of publicly traded

00:05:17.560 corporations, large nonprofit corporations or associations, foundations with assets of $500

00:05:22.640 million or more, state and local bar and medical associations, institutions of higher education

00:05:27.220 with endowments over $1 billion. In other words, the federal government is gearing up to launch

00:05:33.720 investigations into private sector entities, whether they're universities or hospitals or corporations

00:05:40.060 that are engaging in discriminatory DEI practices. According to the order, that includes any organization

00:05:47.640 that employs, quote, dangerous demeaning and immoral race and sex-based preferences. The order goes on to 0.76

00:05:53.880 revoke an executive order signed by President Lyndon Johnson, which required that federal contractors and

00:05:59.040 the federal government take affirmative action to boost certain candidates based on race, color,

00:06:05.760 religion, and national origin. This has been the law of the land for generations, and no Republican

00:06:12.620 president until now has even considered the possibility of ending. But this time around, the second Trump

00:06:19.740 administration came prepared. It's one of the very first things they got rid of. And the importance of

00:06:26.180 the decision cannot be overstated. I mean, for decades, the requirement that federal contractors practice

00:06:31.320 affirmative action has forced companies to compare their workforce with the demographic composition

00:06:36.460 of the surrounding community. And then they had to alter their hiring practices to try to find more

00:06:41.220 so-called minority candidates, regardless of whether those people were the most qualified.

00:06:45.760 And it's led to an enormous amount of fraud and waste and inefficiency. And that's not even getting

00:06:51.980 into how unethical and immoral and unconstitutional it was. But that's all gone now, or at least it's

00:07:00.920 supposed to be at the federal level. Trump's order forbids the federal government from, quote,

00:07:05.880 allowing or encouraging federal contractors and subcontractors to engage in workforce balancing

00:07:10.780 based on race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion, or national origin. On top of that,

00:07:16.580 all federal agencies have to require every grant recipient to, quote,

00:07:19.600 certify that it does not operate any programs promoting DEI that violate any applicable federal

00:07:25.580 anti-discrimination laws. Within 120 days, the attorney general will also outline requirements

00:07:30.860 for colleges and universities concerning their own DEI programs. So this is obviously a sweeping

00:07:38.020 order, one that affects hundreds of billions of dollars in government spending. And it's very bad

00:07:44.520 news for universities like Harvard and other bastions of left-wing orthodoxy. It's the kind of order that

00:07:49.440 you'd expect would lead to, you know, a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth on the left.

00:07:56.280 And certainly that is happening to some extent. But there's also been kind of an interesting wrinkle

00:08:02.180 amid all of this. And it is early. It's still early. This is all just happening.

00:08:07.040 There might be some amount of shell shock on the left as well. I'm sure that's true. But

00:08:10.700 Christopher Foe reported something interesting yesterday. He reported this.

00:08:14.320 Tech executives are telling me that Silicon Valley companies will respect President Trump's ban of

00:08:20.400 discriminatory DEI. Many feel relieved that they don't have to pretend anymore. Resistance here is

00:08:27.420 basically dead. And I was quoting his source within one of these tech companies. So in other words,

00:08:32.940 according to Rufo's reporting, these executives were, you know, experiencing a kind of Stockholm syndrome

00:08:39.520 for the past several years. They knew that DEI was destructive to their business. They wanted it to go

00:08:45.320 away, but they felt they had no choice but to endorse it because on top of the legal requirements,

00:08:49.660 they didn't want to upset left-wing activists and the corporate media. They lacked the spine to stand up

00:08:56.080 for their own business interests. And they felt trapped. So they just went along with it. And this may sound

00:09:01.940 like convenient excuse making. But it may sound like, well, the claim is that these people were

00:09:12.700 victims. That's not the case at all. It's not an excuse, but the scenario here sounds very plausible.

00:09:19.100 After all, tech companies care the most about making money. I mean, you don't become a tech billionaire

00:09:26.300 without understanding how to turn a profit and without prioritizing profits. And DEI is obviously

00:09:32.820 and self-evidently bad for business because it forces you to hire people who are not qualified

00:09:37.320 for the job. It actually makes perfect sense that these companies would be relieved to be done with

00:09:42.340 it. But it's not an excuse. I mean, if anything, it just makes them look worse. DEI proliferated not

00:09:49.300 because all these companies believed in it, but because they were all cowards who didn't have the 0.79

00:09:53.160 gumption to speak out, even for the sake of their own economic self-preservation.

00:09:58.580 It would be better for them, I think. It'd make them look better if they actually believed in this

00:10:03.960 stuff and now are having some kind of awakening moment. But the truth is, they knew it was nonsense

00:10:08.680 the whole time. And they just did it anyway. So it's worth asking whether that response applies

00:10:17.600 to the left more broadly. I mean, one of the most fascinating things about Trump's full-scale

00:10:23.480 assault on gender ideology and DEI in government is the relative lack of left-wing hysteria over it.

00:10:32.120 Certainly, there has been plenty of whining and scolding about it. But we haven't seen protests in the

00:10:40.020 street or widespread panic. The outrage from my vantage point hasn't quite reached the fever pitch

00:10:47.160 that you would have expected, that I expected. I mean, even the media, from what I can tell,

00:10:52.360 seems to be relatively muted by their standards in their reaction. So here, for example, is a

00:10:58.060 decidedly kind of low-energy segment from MSNBC the other day. You'd think they'd be grabbing their

00:11:05.200 pitchforks because of the return of fascism in America. But instead, this is what they came up

00:11:11.640 with. Watch. Can we just drill down on this DEI initiatives piece for a moment? Because there's

00:11:17.620 research that shows diversity is a strength that makes organizations stronger, whether federal or

00:11:22.660 private. So what's the argument behind the scenes for getting rid of the DEI initiatives? Is it just

00:11:28.060 for getting rid of woke? Yeah, I think that that, frankly, is the argument. I mean, I think that you

00:11:33.180 know, as well as I do, that there are a few things that President Trump said in those rallies more

00:11:39.480 than that he would get rid of the woke ideology and he would get rid of DEI practices and instead

00:11:44.400 put back what they call meritocracy type style governments, where people are, where basically

00:11:50.020 it's race blind, right? People are promoted by their own merits, they say. And so they believe that

00:11:56.080 this is a fulfillment of those promises that Trump made on the stage. Okay, so they certainly don't

00:12:01.680 approve of Trump's policies, but you wouldn't call that a hysterical meltdown exactly. The anchor

00:12:07.760 cites that fake McKinsey study about how DEI supposedly improves companies, which we talked

00:12:12.700 about and debunked many times before. Then the reporter says conservatives want to take us back

00:12:17.140 to colorblind, merit-driven society, as if that's a bad thing. But it is, again, a bit low energy.

00:12:24.360 I mean, you contrast that with the hysteria in the days after Trump's first inauguration,

00:12:29.120 there's really no comparison. Back then, everything Trump did was part of a Russian 0.99

00:12:32.840 plot to destroy American democracy. Everything was a cause for panic. Everything was a five-alarm

00:12:37.340 fire. And yet this has been kind of the response to most of Trump's executive orders, from his order

00:12:44.300 ending DEI at the FAA to his order declaring that, indeed, there are only two genders and that gender

00:12:49.920 ideology is dead. This is the most far-reaching executive assault on left-wing ideology ever

00:12:58.620 launched by any president ever. There's not even a close second. We've never seen anything like this,

00:13:05.820 even from Trump in his first term. Truly unprecedented. And yet the left's reaction hasn't

00:13:11.640 matched the moment exactly, especially by, again, their normal standards of hysteria.

00:13:19.000 Why is that? It's worth asking. Now, there are multiple facets to this. The lack of mass protests

00:13:26.220 in the street may be easy enough to explain. It's very cold outside. And we know that left-wing

00:13:32.000 activists are dedicated to their causes, as long as that dedication doesn't require them to endure

00:13:37.020 even the slightest bit of physical discomfort. Also, you probably have to pay the protesters more

00:13:42.660 than their usual rate, given the weather conditions. And maybe it's just more than George Soros is

00:13:46.640 willing to shell out. But that's probably part of it. But that's not the whole story.

00:13:51.340 There's also, as we discussed this week, a kind of emotional burnout happening.

00:13:56.260 The left has been screaming hysterically about Trump for 10 years. And it's just not possible to

00:14:00.240 keep up that level of performative outrage indefinitely. Eventually, you lose a bit of steam.

00:14:06.140 And on top of that, the left is in organizational and ideological disarray. They have no clear

00:14:11.140 leader, no clear agenda, no clear political identity. And all of that serves to mute the

00:14:16.580 response to these moves by Trump. But on top of all of those factors, I also have to wonder if at least

00:14:25.580 some on the left are maybe, to some extent, even if subconsciously, sort of relieved to be done

00:14:34.740 with DEI and gender ideology and all the rest. I mean, after all, these things are so absurd on

00:14:41.540 their face that almost no one could have ever really, truly believed in them. I mean, almost

00:14:45.920 no one wants to be, actually wants to be in the position of having to defend some cross-dressing 1.00

00:14:52.300 man who's crying because he can't disrobe in the women's changing room.

00:14:56.300 Like, that's not a guy that almost anyone actually wants to stand in front of and defend. Almost no

00:15:03.100 one actually thinks it's a good idea to, for example, prioritize diversity in air traffic control

00:15:09.020 hiring. DEI and gender ideology require a suspension of basic common sense that is so extreme that few

00:15:17.540 people could ever achieve it. And everyone else was just pretending. We have suffered through an era

00:15:24.780 in American history that is defined by millions of people pretending to believe the most absurd

00:15:32.000 propositions ever put forward. And now that the cultural tide has changed, the pressure to pretend

00:15:39.680 has been greatly lifted. The true believers in DEI and gender ideology now are looking around 0.99

00:15:45.140 and discovering that they are without allies. Trans activists and DEI race hustlers were holding,

00:15:52.540 you know, a lot of people hostage. But the right's political and cultural victories have taken away

00:15:58.060 their ammunition, and it's just hard to keep your hostages in line when they find out that your gun

00:16:02.720 has no bullets. So in other words, for some who ostensibly appear to be on the left on these issues,

00:16:09.220 we are their liberators. That's just one. That's one theory that may explain one aspect of things.

00:16:17.820 And I believe there's an element of this, at least for some on the left. I certainly think it's the

00:16:22.240 case for business owners and corporate America. But regardless, all that said, one thing we know for

00:16:29.960 sure is that this somewhat eerie lull, it's not going to last. The true believers, and there are

00:16:37.360 plenty of them out there, along with the powers that be on the left, are not going to abandon

00:16:44.200 their agenda. They're not going to surrender to the right and just call it a day and say,

00:16:48.120 never mind. Well, forget all of it. They're going to regroup and probably come back eventually with

00:16:54.740 something even crazier than DEI and gender ideology. That's what we can assume if history

00:16:59.620 is our guide, and it should be. In the meantime, the fact is that pretty much everyone in this

00:17:06.200 country, the vast majority of people, including anyone who flies on a plane, who sends a child 0.88

00:17:10.920 to college or applies for a job or a federal contract, is already benefiting from the second

00:17:17.260 Trump administration. Whether they like it or not, they are. This is the swift restoration of

00:17:23.960 insanity that a majority of Americans voted for. Common sense has made a comeback. Team

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00:18:56.900 with Tax Network USA. Speaking of DEI, here's a DEI in action. The New York Post reports a police

00:19:02.820 department in Florida is moving to fire an officer after she accidentally shot a man with his own gun

00:19:08.500 during a routine traffic stop last month. Officer Mindy Cardwell was called to assist with a traffic

00:19:14.580 stop on December 13th in Jacksonville. And this is after Jason Arrington, 39, had been pulled over

00:19:24.120 by an officer for running a red light. Arrington was fully cooperating with all three officers.

00:19:27.900 Body camera shows, informed the cop who originally pulled him over that he did have a gun holster in

00:19:32.380 his waistband. He was told to exit the car. And in fact, rather than describing the rest of this,

00:19:37.440 we have the body cam footage. This picks up this, this incident of December 13th, it picks up

00:19:44.020 with the guy that Arrington already pulled over and, and the, the, the female cop, this is her body

00:19:53.080 cam. She shows up, the guy gets out and we'll see how that plays out. Watch. He's very compliant.

00:20:00.840 He does have a pistol on. So

00:20:07.420 So you see there, some, some fine police work, some very fine police work.

00:20:36.660 The, the female cop is tasked with removing the gun from Arrington's holster and in the process 1.00

00:20:46.640 shoots him in the leg. And in fact, if you take a look at, if you take a look at this,

00:20:52.440 it's still shot, the still shot 25 seconds in, take a look at this. Now you can see

00:20:57.980 she has two fingers, two fingers inside the trigger guard of the firearm while she's pulling 1.00

00:21:05.580 it out of his waistband. I mean, how do you make that mistake? You carry a firearm every day for your

00:21:13.540 job. How do you not just instinctively keep your, your finger off the trigger?

00:21:18.800 How do you end up with not one, but two fingers on the trigger? I mean, it's just,

00:21:24.740 this is firearm safety one-on-one. This is before you even get to one-on-one.

00:21:30.520 My, my, my sons have better trigger discipline with their BB guns than this, this police officer

00:21:36.240 does. It's insane. And meanwhile, the guy, the victim, what makes this so unfortunate is that 0.51

00:21:42.780 he did everything right. He pulled over, he cooperated, he informed the officer that he

00:21:49.220 was carrying a weapon, which is what, which is what you're supposed to do. So he follows all the

00:21:54.560 rules and he gets shot anyway with his own gun. And, you know, I'm, I'm the first to say, usually when

00:22:01.000 it comes to cases of alleged police brutality, uh, I'm the first to say that, and I've said many times

00:22:06.400 that if you just cooperate and comply, and if you're a reasonable person and you're reasonable with

00:22:11.300 police officers, you're almost certainly going to be fine. I mean, almost always when someone ends

00:22:16.300 up getting shot or hurt during an interaction with the cops, it's because they went out of their way

00:22:20.560 at every turn to turn the situation into something violent and dangerous when it didn't need to be.

00:22:26.180 But, uh, there are exceptions to every rule and here is the exception. And this is an exception made

00:22:33.480 possible by, of course, a female police officer. And, and look, I know that there are plenty of male

00:22:39.300 police officers who do dumb things and make mistakes, but this is still the kind of thing

00:22:44.060 that you inevitably get when you start bringing women into the force in the name of diversity and 0.88

00:22:48.760 inclusion. I mean, this is, like I said, DEI in action. This is what happens. And you can just tell,

00:22:55.440 you can tell in that short clip from the body cam that this woman is very nervous handling the guy's, uh,

00:23:03.740 firearm. So how does a woman who's nervous handling a gun end up on the damn police force of all things? 1.00

00:23:11.960 How does a woman who doesn't understand the most basic principles of gun safety 1.00

00:23:15.620 end up on the police force? Well, it happens through DEI, which is why the eradication of DEI

00:23:22.660 needs to go far beyond the federal government. I mean, it needs to trickle down to every level of

00:23:26.240 both federal and state and local government and into the private sector, which, which is the plan,

00:23:30.940 like we talked about in the opening. Um, but you know, we need to be done with this madness and,

00:23:36.480 and, um, and you can say, and I know people will say, well, how do you know that she was hired 0.51

00:23:40.840 because of DEI? You don't know that. Well, I know because she's a woman who by the department's 0.97

00:23:48.560 own admission now is incompetent. She was fired for incompetence. 1.00

00:23:51.940 Well, how do incompetent women get jobs like this? They get it through DEI, right? That's how. 1.00

00:24:04.680 So it's, it's absurd. I mean, if we're being honest, female cops are absurd. It's an absurdity. 1.00

00:24:12.960 I'm sorry. It's just ridiculous. It's cartoonish. You've got cops on the force who can easily be

00:24:18.400 overpowered by like 50% of the population and not just 50% of the population, by the way, like

00:24:25.040 the majority of, of people who end up getting arrested. The majority of people, um, who will

00:24:32.300 go to prison are men. So it's not 50% really. It's with a female cop. That means that the vast 0.67

00:24:41.260 majority of the people that she is going to try to arrest during her career can easily overpower

00:24:48.620 easily. Um, and that's why, you know, when, when, I mean, when I have an interaction with

00:24:58.100 the cops, I get pulled over or something doesn't happen very often, but when it does, uh, I I'm

00:25:04.960 only ever a bit nervous if the cop is a woman. And the reason that makes me nervous is because

00:25:11.220 I know that the cop knows because she's a woman that I could easily overpower her if 1.00

00:25:17.240 I wanted to. I know that she's aware of that. And, and I'm then worried that this fact is

00:25:24.360 making her worried, even though I'm not doing anything to make it work. Like if that makes

00:25:28.380 her jumpy and if she's jumpy, then stuff like that happens. And even if she's not jumpy, I'm

00:25:34.080 also aware that she's, she's only on the force because they lowered the standards to get her

00:25:38.040 there. So that makes me a bit nervous too. So now you have an interaction where both the

00:25:43.260 officer and the civilian who isn't doing anything wrong are kind of nervous. And that's, that's

00:25:49.360 not what you want. Uh, like nothing bad's going to happen on my end. I'm not going to freak

00:25:54.240 out. I'll comply and be cooperative. So everything's gonna be fine on my end, but I don't know about

00:25:59.960 her end. And as we just saw in that interaction there, the guy complied, he was, did everything

00:26:05.240 right. Ends up with a bullet hole in his leg. Um, and, uh, and now he's going to sue and he's

00:26:13.600 going to probably be a rich man as he should be because of the lawsuit. I don't think suing

00:26:18.560 is either enough. I mean, if any one of us in the course of our jobs accidentally shot

00:26:24.500 someone, we would also go to jail. Like, I think there should be jail time for that. That's, that's

00:26:30.460 not, you don't get a oopsie daisy, you know, on something like that. Um, now as you know, I am,

00:26:39.720 I'm the first to defend police officers when they deserve to be defended, which very often in these

00:26:45.060 kinds of, you know, very often when there's a viral controversy, they do deserve it. And I'll be the

00:26:50.340 first to say that, uh, I give cops a lot of leeway when they're put into these life threatening

00:26:55.960 situations because of what the suspect is doing. The suspect is acting in a way that is threatening.

00:27:02.840 And now all of a sudden the cop is thrust in his life threatening situation. I think we got to give

00:27:06.880 a lot of leeway and, um, and it's easy to Monday morning quarterback after the fact. And, you know,

00:27:14.660 so, so that's when, whatever you have a cop that someone's charging at him with a knife and the cop

00:27:20.980 shoots. And then everyone after the fact says, well, but you could have waited another two seconds

00:27:25.460 before you shot him, but why didn't you shoot him in the leg or something dumb like that? 0.98

00:27:30.260 No, in that case, I say that he did what he had to do in that situation. That's that his life is on 0.99

00:27:35.140 the line. He's got, he's got seconds to react. That's one thing. But in a case like this,

00:27:40.160 nothing life threatening is happening. Okay. There's no, this, this, this is, this was,

00:27:46.060 this is not a woman who was thrust into a life threatening situation. Uh, it became life

00:27:51.780 threatening for the guy. Cause by the way, she could have hit an artery and killed him. 0.94

00:27:57.040 It became life threatening for him because of her incompetence. So, um,

00:28:03.260 this, this is just, we gotta be done with this. Let's move to this. Uh, and look,

00:28:09.800 I've given Canada a hard time recently and it's all in good fun. Um, I mean, I have called for the

00:28:15.880 country to be conquered by force and all of its inhabitants sent to labor camps, but, uh, I never

00:28:21.260 meant that in a bad way. I didn't mean it, nothing personal. I mean it as an insult. So there's no

00:28:27.660 reason for any Canadians to get upset about it. But the truth is that, you know, it's not all bad in

00:28:31.660 Canada and there are some bright spots. And one of them is Pierre Poliev who appeared this week on a

00:28:37.280 Canadian news show and was asked whether as prime minister, he would follow, he would get in line

00:28:43.860 with Trump's executive order when it comes to gender ideology, which is already an incoherent 0.80

00:28:49.100 question because as prime minister of Canada, you, I mean, until you actually are conquered by the

00:28:54.860 United States, the executive orders signed by the president don't apply to you. Um, but regardless,

00:29:01.500 he was asked the question, I thought the way he fielded the question was, uh, quite brilliant.

00:29:06.960 Let's watch.

00:29:08.320 First day on the job, president Trump signed an executive order. Uh, you know, the U S government

00:29:13.480 only recognizing two genders, male, female, they're unchangeable. You know, if elected as prime 0.99

00:29:18.080 minister, is that something that you're going to kind of walk in line with or what are your feelings

00:29:22.660 on that executive order?

00:29:24.400 Well, I don't know. Do you have any other genders that you'd like to name?

00:29:28.700 Me personally? I'm just asking more. So if you're in line with what he is saying, do you agree with

00:29:37.780 what he's saying? Is that something that you would be lockstep with if elected as prime minister?

00:29:42.480 Well, I, I'm not aware of any other genders than men and women. I mean, if you have any other that 0.99

00:29:48.400 you want me to consider, you can, you're welcome to tell me right now.

00:29:51.780 Well, there's, well, there's personally, I am a man. I am a, as people say, cis man. There are,

00:29:57.820 there are people there who, you know, they say they're gender neutral. You're a man. Yes. There

00:30:02.320 are people out there who say they're gender neutral. Uh, they're, you know, they're, they're 1.00

00:30:08.360 a trans person. Is that something that you would recognize here? Whereas in the States, at least 0.71

00:30:14.460 with their U S government, the way they're seeing it, there's only two.

00:30:18.380 I'm only aware of two, but I mean, if you have, if you come up with another list, then, uh, you're

00:30:26.360 welcome to do that. But I, I'm aware of two. And, um, as far as I'm concerned, we should have a

00:30:31.660 government that just minds its own damn business and leaves people alone. 0.96

00:30:35.280 Now, very well done. And, um, as you all know, I, I'm, you know, I've been shouting this from the 0.97

00:30:40.940 rooftops forever. This is exactly how these questions should be handled. And I know that Pierre

00:30:46.260 Poliev has been very good at this kind of thing for as long as he's been on the political scene.

00:30:50.720 And this is key. Throw the ball back in their court, make them define their terms, make them

00:30:54.620 answer the basic questions. Uh, and if you do, you'll get hilarious meltdowns like what we just saw,

00:31:00.860 which is, I mean, that moment was something that was something straight out of what is a woman?

00:31:04.360 I mean, that's, uh, I would have been, I would have loved to have a moment like that. That's,

00:31:07.160 that's, you know, that's great, great comedy, just wonderful across the board. Um,

00:31:12.340 and I also agree with his answer, by the way, um, not the anchor, but Pierre Poliev

00:31:17.680 because he says that he, he believes that the government should mind its own business on this

00:31:25.280 issue. And, and I actually agree with him because what does that mean? It means that the government

00:31:31.880 will only officially recognize male and female because that's just simple biological reality.

00:31:36.940 We need to have a government that's rooted in reality. We can't have a government that exists in

00:31:41.200 some kind of fantasy land as we've had for the last four years. So now we see how that worked

00:31:45.180 out. It didn't work out well. So, uh, the government only recognizes what is real and then, and that's

00:31:52.940 it. But in your own private life, if you want to run around telling yourself that you're the opposite

00:31:57.400 sex or whatever, uh, nobody can stop you. In fact, if you want to run around telling other people

00:32:03.480 that you're the opposite sex, I mean, no one can stop you from saying that. I mean, you, you can say 1.00

00:32:07.160 that you could say those words. Um, if a man wants to quote unquote identify as a woman in the privacy

00:32:13.980 of his own home, then, you know, there's, there's nothing we could do to stop that. Nor would I be

00:32:17.920 interested in trying to crack down on that, even if it was possible. That's like, fine. That that's,

00:32:24.000 uh, that's your personal life. What you can't do is force anyone on the left, anyone, you know,

00:32:30.260 in society to go along with it. You can't impose it on anyone. You can't require us to cooperate

00:32:37.240 with it or to play into it or to play along with it. Uh, you can't indoctrinate children into it

00:32:44.340 and you can't expect the government to officially recognize or in any way legally codify or respect,

00:32:50.640 uh, this fantasy. That's what you can't do.

00:32:54.460 So when I say, and I believe this is the case that probably Pierre, probably I would say

00:33:00.120 something similar, but I can't speak for him. But when I say, Hey, you know, that that's your

00:33:07.480 business. I mean, it's specifically in that way. You, it's keep it your business. Don't try to wrap

00:33:14.620 anyone else into it. And if you do that to keep everybody else out of it, well then,

00:33:20.360 what, you know, what can we, what is there for us? There's nothing for us to say,

00:33:25.760 which by the way is one of the reasons. And this is, this is why, you know, when you hear the

00:33:31.100 trans activists, we'll say, well, trans people quote unquote have existed, uh, for, I mean,

00:33:37.480 they'll claim that trans people have existed, trans identified people have existed for thousands

00:33:40.620 of years, which is total nonsense because the concept of quote unquote transgenderism is,

00:33:46.500 is, is a, is a modern phenomenon, but, uh, it has, the concept has existed for decades

00:33:52.460 and for decades, it was basically a non-issue in mainstream culture. It was, it was, we didn't

00:34:01.500 talk about it. We didn't debate it. It didn't come up. There weren't any executive orders about it.

00:34:06.680 It didn't come up during presidential debates. Um, and that's because there, there was not this

00:34:14.740 effort, this collective effort to force society, people in society to go along with it or play

00:34:21.760 along with it or cooperate with it or affirm it. And it was just something that, you know,

00:34:29.300 a very small minority of people. It was, uh, something that they, uh, it was a, a something

00:34:38.660 that they had in their own minds and something that really they struggled with. Uh, and so that

00:34:43.580 was something between them and their, you know, therapists really. Um, it only became an issue,

00:34:51.020 uh, once it was decided that everyone else has to affirm this.

00:34:56.680 And then once you do that, once you go to the, to everybody else and you tell us, we have to

00:35:01.500 affirm it. Okay. Well now it is our business and it's our business because you forced it to be our

00:35:06.520 business. We would very much like to go back to a point where it's not our business anymore.

00:35:12.960 You know, when the left talks about what happens in my bedroom is my business. Yeah. I wish

00:35:18.540 like actually keep it in your bedroom that that's best for all of us. That's what we want.

00:35:26.680 Keep it in your bedroom and then great. Um, let's stay for another moment on the trans issue. ACLU 0.92

00:35:36.240 lawyer, Chase Strangio is, um, rather upset about these recent developments that are happening as you

00:35:43.260 would expect. And, uh, Chase Strangio is, as you'll be able to tell here in a moment, a female who

00:35:50.360 identifies as a man, but there's one thing, there's one term used in this clip that's getting some

00:35:57.420 attention. Uh, so listen, instructions in this one executive order, including this directive to HUD

00:36:03.720 to issue, uh, uh, proposed regulations to in essence, exclude trans people from various forms

00:36:09.600 of shelter system under the auspices that a trans person is an inherent threat to non-transgender 0.99

00:36:15.760 women. Obviously that just enhances the risk that transgender people face in society. If we are

00:36:20.720 deemed as a threat to others simply by, by existing. Well, a few things, first of all, nobody thinks

00:36:26.800 that trans people quote unquote are a threat simply by existing. Our whole point is that trans is a 1.00

00:36:35.160 category error. Uh, you in fact do not exist as the sex you claim, right? You do exist as a person.

00:36:44.360 We acknowledge that. But when a man who identifies as a woman says, Oh, you think I'm a threat to

00:36:51.740 women just because I'm a trans woman? Well, our answer is, is no, no, we're saying is that you're not 0.99

00:36:58.420 a woman. And that's our whole point. You're potentially a threat to women because you're a 1.00

00:37:03.600 male demanding access to the locker room and men who demand that they be allowed into private spaces

00:37:08.760 with women are rightfully perceived as potential threats. It's got nothing to do with the fact 1.00

00:37:12.380 that you call yourself trans. If a man who did not call himself trans did not identify as trans was

00:37:18.120 demanding access to the women's bathroom, that they would be perceived as a threat as well.

00:37:22.720 Like that the point is, is that you're a male is how you perceive yourself is basically irrelevant

00:37:28.320 in that scenario. Um, and second, you notice the phrase that she used, she said non-transgender

00:37:36.780 women, which is interesting because these people had invented the nonsense term cis women and cis men,

00:37:46.640 right? And up until now, that's what they would call a, what is actually just a, a regular woman, 1.00

00:37:53.940 a woman, an actual biological woman. But now apparently they've switched over to, um, this

00:37:59.500 new phrase of a non-transgender women. And why do they prefer that term? Well, they prefer it because 1.00

00:38:06.920 it goes even farther than the term cis women to make regular real women seem like they're the strange 0.99

00:38:16.080 ones. So this is what they're doing. It's an attempt to make real women into just one category 0.99

00:38:21.840 of women. And in this case, when you use the term non-transgender women, you've turned actual women 0.74

00:38:30.760 into not just one category of women, but you've turned them into a lesser, more obscure category 1.00

00:38:37.860 of woman because they're now the nons, right? You have, you have trans women and then you have 0.99

00:38:45.680 non-trans women. So now women are defined by their relation to so-called trans women.

00:38:55.060 They're, they are defined by their status of being not trans. So in this world of Chase Strangio, 0.74

00:39:04.200 you're either trans or you're not trans. Um, and, uh, and that, so that, that's the, 0.71

00:39:13.040 that's the rhetorical move that they're pulling now, which is quite desperate. Um, and we know

00:39:21.280 the trans activists have, they've gotten a lot of mileage out of these language games. I mean,

00:39:25.740 they've gotten, they've gotten, um, they've, uh, this has been their, not just their primary tool,

00:39:36.440 but really their, their only rhetorical tool has been, uh, of course there's emotional blackmail

00:39:41.940 and there's threats and everything else. But when it comes to sort of presenting the argument,

00:39:46.940 their only weapon there is just language games. And, uh, and they've typically been pretty good at

00:39:54.940 staying one step ahead, but they come up with some term and then people don't exactly know what

00:40:03.280 that term even means. And then once people started to understand that term is nonsense,

00:40:07.600 then they just start using a different term. And, you know, they try to stay one step ahead.

00:40:13.200 Uh, and that's what they're doing now. And, um, I don't think it's going to be enough. I don't

00:40:18.260 think it's going to work this time. Let's get to the comment section.

00:40:21.140 Something is horribly wrong. When that person becomes a Bishop, that Bishop is the most blatantly

00:40:35.300 obvious example of someone who has no actual faith and has somehow managed to be put in a

00:40:38.840 position of influence and uses that influence for racist and nefarious purposes. Um,

00:40:43.780 right. I mean, she's, she's almost certainly an atheist. And, uh, I think that we talked yesterday

00:40:51.020 about the Bishop at the prayer service, who's a far left radical. Uh, but yeah, it should also be

00:40:57.920 said along with being a far left radical, and this goes with the territory, she's almost certainly an

00:41:03.260 atheist. And I think we'd be shocked if we could know the actual number of full on atheists who are

00:41:10.720 running churches and leading congregations in this country. I mean, there's no way to know

00:41:15.420 there have actually been done some, some studies on this and there have been different organizations

00:41:19.940 that have, um, I mean, usually like atheist organizations who present this information as

00:41:26.380 a positive, but, um, so there are different claims about this. What, what, what is the actual

00:41:32.140 number? What's the actual number of people who lead churches in any denomination who actually

00:41:37.240 don't even have a faith at all? Uh, well, it's, it's impossible to know what the actual number is,

00:41:41.940 but, um, the proof is in the pudding on this sort of thing. And, uh, and I think we have reason to

00:41:46.820 believe that the number is distressingly high. Um, Matt, don't let anybody put you in a suit and tie

00:41:55.640 for your show. Even the backdrop of this show here is starkly beginning to morph into the same look the

00:42:00.780 mainstream monkeys have. Keep it real. Your content is always on point. Don't let anything change you

00:42:05.400 from real. God bless you, your family and your work. We don't have to worry about that. There's

00:42:09.380 no chance I'll ever start wearing a suit and tie for the show. Um, you know, I know I went on that

00:42:14.360 whole rant against Fetterman because he didn't wear a suit to the inauguration, but the truth is I hate

00:42:19.760 wearing suits, you know, and, and, uh, even more do I hate wearing a tie. It's very, women don't 1.00

00:42:25.940 understand. Women complain all the time about all the, the, the unique, uh, challenges and 1.00

00:42:31.620 discomforts of being a woman. And I know there are some, but they don't understand some of the

00:42:36.340 stuff that we deal with. One of them is a tie. Okay. We have to wear this thing. It's like we

00:42:40.160 was a noose around our neck. It's literally a noose around our neck. We have to wear anytime we go to

00:42:44.680 something formal to barely breathe. They were partially suffocating the entire time. You don't

00:42:51.080 realize that. Uh, so, but I still recognize that when you go to a formal event, that that's what

00:43:00.780 you wear and I'll, and I'll respect that. So that's, uh, I am saying, I think this gives more

00:43:09.040 force to my, my rebuke of Fetterman that I understand his desire to want to be casual all the

00:43:16.740 time. I get that, but just because you want to be casual and you're more comfortable in casual

00:43:21.500 clothes, uh, it doesn't make it okay. Um, Matt, you're against remote work, but didn't you work

00:43:30.740 remote from your car slash house for many years? I did. Uh, and, uh, this is another time where I

00:43:37.740 think my own personal experiences is actually lend some more weight to my point. Why do you think I'm

00:43:44.500 so against remote work? Yeah, I did it myself and, uh, my, my own experience with it is part of what

00:43:50.140 made me so skeptical of it. And, uh, I can say in my own case that, you know, my, my own, I've seen

00:43:55.860 this in my own, in my own personal experience that my, my own career took a, took really took off when

00:44:01.900 I started working in an office with a team and we were all physically present. And I understand my

00:44:07.500 job is different than other people's jobs, but everyone has their own unique situation. We're all

00:44:11.680 different. I still think there are some basic principles that apply across the board. And, uh,

00:44:17.140 so yeah, it's not, I know there were a lot of angry comments of the remote work conversation.

00:44:25.100 I didn't say that if you are working remote, you're a bad person or you should go to jail or

00:44:29.640 something. Okay. Uh, I mean, I wouldn't put it past me if I was dictator of the country, but as you

00:44:35.000 know, I'm going to end up putting everybody in jail for something. So, you know, don't again,

00:44:38.400 don't take it personally. Uh, but that's not what I said. I just, I, I, I am very skeptical

00:44:43.400 that in the final analysis, uh, people are actually going to be more productive when

00:44:50.200 they're working from home. I'm very skeptical of that claim. Uh, I understand the desire to

00:44:54.520 land on Mars, but I think the money could be much better spent here at home. I was just shy

00:44:58.700 of my eighth birthday when we landed on the moon. I'm 63. Now we've not utilized the moon

00:45:02.400 in any productive capacity. Why waste the money, time and effort? Well, I've explained why the

00:45:07.160 money, time and effort is not a waste. I think that the demand that we utilize the moon or Mars

00:45:11.200 is just, you know, very utilitarian, kind of a shallow way of looking at it, frankly. And

00:45:15.760 sure, if we can utilize it, great. If we can figure out how to mine the moon or Mars or

00:45:20.300 asteroids for precious metals and other resources and get them back to earth and do it in a cost

00:45:24.660 effective way. Fantastic. We should do that. But even if we can't, the value in doing the thing is

00:45:30.680 simply in doing the thing. The value of landing on the moon was that we land on the moon. The value

00:45:34.240 of going to Mars is going to Mars. And so to me, you know, it's a bit like, it's a bit like,

00:45:40.440 it's like saying that the Mona Lisa has no value because you can't use it for anything.

00:45:50.740 Or, or maybe a better example, because, you know, you can say with artwork, well, we can, we place a,

00:45:56.280 we can place a monetary value on it. Yeah. But the monetary value we place on art is totally

00:46:00.660 subjective. And it's still, it's, you know, what do you do with art? You just hang it on a wall.

00:46:06.080 You don't do anything with it. It doesn't, it doesn't, it just sits there. What if somebody

00:46:11.240 painted an extraordinarily beautiful picture, but never sold it or cashed in at all? So never got

00:46:18.800 any money out of it, never used it for anything, never sold it, never traded it. Would you say that

00:46:26.620 it was wasted time and effort? What if someone spent five years slaving away on a masterpiece

00:46:34.540 of a portrait or a painting or a sculpture, and then they just kept it, never did anything with

00:46:40.880 it? Is that, is that wasted time and effort? Or would you be able to see that creating a beautiful

00:46:47.640 piece of art is a valuable and worthwhile pursuit, even if you don't do anything with the final product,

00:46:54.200 except put it on display to look at? Uh, I think you'd, you know, I think the latter,

00:46:59.380 I think you'd understand that there's value in it because we're human beings and we find value in

00:47:03.880 things, even things we do not use. This is one of the many things that distinguishes us from the

00:47:09.160 animals. I mean, for an animal, uh, nothing has any value unless it's, it's a, some, a resource or a

00:47:15.900 food source for them. Um, but we can see values, value, a value in something that even transcends,

00:47:23.440 um, it's, uh, it's, it's usefulness. And, uh, I think a similar thing can apply to, uh,

00:47:31.280 space exploration.

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00:48:14.040 cancellation. We began the show by talking about the relative and rather bizarre lack of panic among

00:48:25.020 some on the left in the wake of Trump's barrage of executive orders. But there is one area where the

00:48:29.040 panic has been much more obvious and more to the scale of what you'd expect. And that relates

00:48:34.880 to the Trump administration's efforts to fulfill one of his central campaign promises, which is to

00:48:38.880 deport illegal aliens who are currently residing in the United States and to prevent more illegal 0.97

00:48:42.660 aliens from entering into the United States. In particular, Republicans in Congress have just

00:48:46.900 passed the Lake and Riley Act with the support of dozens of Democrats. The point of law is to require

00:48:51.940 the Department of Homeland Security detain illegal aliens who commit crimes, including shoplifting,

00:48:56.560 burglary, larceny, and so on so that they can be deported immediately. And as you may remember,

00:49:02.020 Lake and Riley's killer was picked up for a variety of crimes, including shoplifting

00:49:05.620 before he went hunting for women to rape and murder at the campus of the University of Georgia.

00:49:10.680 But instead of being deported or detained, he was immediately set free, which is what enabled him 0.68

00:49:14.360 to commit this horrific crime. So this is about as basic a law as you can imagine.

00:49:19.400 It doesn't even give any new authority to federal immigration officials. Instead,

00:49:24.140 it simply mandates that they do what was already their job when an illegal alien commits a crime. 0.50

00:49:30.500 If anything, the law is too permissive. We should be requiring that federal authorities deport everyone

00:49:35.560 who's here illegally, regardless of whether they commit an additional crime or not. But

00:49:39.240 as it stands, it's just a baseline measure to ensure that no more women like Lake and Riley are 0.65

00:49:44.460 murdered by people who obviously should have been deported a long time ago. But Democrats don't

00:49:49.220 see it that way. In fact, they've been having full-blown meltdowns in Congress over this legislation

00:49:52.880 and Donald Trump's plans more generally with immigration. So here, for example, is the astute

00:49:59.760 scholar Rashida Tlaib.

00:50:02.200 Enough is enough. It will separate families. It would lead again to continued discrimination.

00:50:07.940 It's shameful that my colleagues are giving into racist fear-mongering at the first opportunity to

00:50:13.060 pass legislation to scapegoat our immigrant neighbors and fuel hate in our communities.

00:50:18.140 I know what's going to happen. It won't just be undocumented. It'll be people like my mother

00:50:22.340 who will get stopped and profiled. She has to carry her U.S. passport around? 1.00

00:50:28.760 Are we asking people now to have documentation? That's what you want to turn our neighbors into,

00:50:34.380 is militarization?

00:50:35.640 I yield the general lady an additional 30 seconds. 0.99

00:50:38.240 I just ask all of you to truly understand what this will do to our community.

00:50:43.820 I urge our colleagues to please vote no on this divisive bill. And it's so important to understand

00:50:49.620 what you're going to turn our communities and our neighborhoods into. We can't allow that to

00:50:54.340 continue to happen. With that, I yield.

00:50:57.120 So bizarrely, she claims that her mother will be affected by this law, even though her mother

00:51:01.040 apparently is not an illegal alien. And that raises an obvious question. Is Rashida Tlaib's mother

00:51:06.980 a shoplifter? I mean, that's the only way this complaint really makes sense.

00:51:11.740 The law doesn't establish any criteria to profile anyone. It just requires that illegal aliens who 0.90

00:51:16.060 commit crimes get detained. Quoting for legislation, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall issue a

00:51:20.860 detainer for an illegal or for an alien described in paragraph 1E. And if the alien is not otherwise

00:51:27.140 detained by federal, state or local officials, shall effectively and expeditiously take custody of the

00:51:32.800 alien. Now, if you scroll down up to paragraph 1E, it applies to illegal aliens who are, quote,

00:51:38.840 charged with, arrested for, convicted of, admits having committed, or admits committing acts which

00:51:44.280 constitute the essential elements of any burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting offenses.

00:51:49.420 So maybe Rashida Tlaib is trying to tell us something about her mother and her community. Maybe this is a

00:51:55.960 cry for help. I don't know. Otherwise, it's all very confusing. Fortunately, we have AOC to shed some light

00:52:01.980 on the matter. Here's her very well-reasoned objection to the legislation. 0.56

00:52:06.580 If someone wants to point a finger and accuse someone of shoplifting, they will be rounded up and put into a

00:52:14.580 private detention camp and signed and sent out for deportation without a day in court, without a

00:52:20.580 moment to assert their right and without a moment to assert the privilege of innocent until proven

00:52:25.260 guilty, without being found guilty of a crime that will be rounded up. Again, this is all nonsense.

00:52:31.400 There's no provision in legislation where you get rounded up and put into a private detention camp and

00:52:36.120 sent out for deportation as soon as someone, quote, points a finger and accuses you of shoplifting.

00:52:40.760 That's not in there at all. I mean, she's missing two important things. First of all,

00:52:45.060 the law doesn't apply to you unless you're already in this country illegally, 0.88

00:52:49.240 meaning you're already subject to immediate deportation. And secondly,

00:52:52.420 random people can't just point a finger at these aliens. They have to be, at a minimum,

00:52:56.480 charged by a prosecutor with an additional crime on top of being here illegally.

00:53:01.820 A lot of Democrats seem to struggle with understanding any of this. Over at CNN, for example,

00:53:05.840 anchor Dana Bash was visibly stunned when Tom Homan explained that all illegal aliens are subject

00:53:12.780 to deportation, even if they haven't committed an additional crime within our borders. Watch.

00:53:18.040 We're not going to strike, and this is the difference between the last administration and

00:53:20.740 this administration. ISIS is going to enforce the immigration law. There's nothing in the INA, 0.79

00:53:24.920 the Immigration Nationality Act, says you got to be convicted of a serious crime in order to be

00:53:28.900 removed from this country. So there's going to be more collateral arrests in sanctuary cities

00:53:32.740 because they forced us to go in the community and find the guy we're looking for.

00:53:37.540 Let me just make sure that I understand what you're saying, because at first you said

00:53:41.400 that the first targets are those with criminal records. But you are also saying that those who

00:53:48.520 are undocumented in the U.S. also who don't have criminal records, people who are working in their

00:53:55.240 communities, maybe even have spouses who are American citizens, they could be swept up with ICE today

00:54:00.940 as well. What I'm telling you is when we go find our priority tiger, which is a criminal alien,

00:54:06.900 if he's with others in the United States illegally, we're going to take enforcement action against him.

00:54:11.160 We're going to enforce the immigration law. You know, one of the things that's great about Tom

00:54:14.760 Homan is that he doesn't even pretend to care about sanitizing any of this. It's what he's been

00:54:20.500 promising to do for months, and he's going to do it. Voters clearly want him to do it.

00:54:23.940 They've got the mandate of the American people. So when the CNN anchor reacts with disbelief,

00:54:30.780 he just doesn't care. That's not going to stop the rest of the corporate press from

00:54:35.080 relying on predictable emotional blackmail. Over the Washington Post, a reporter just uploaded a

00:54:39.580 video of a sobbing foreign national, and her caption reads, quote, migrants who are waiting for

00:54:45.620 their 1 p.m. CBP1 parole appointment learned 20 minutes ago that the app is shut down and those

00:54:50.840 disappointments are no longer valid. And here's the video that the reporter posted along with it.

00:54:55.840 There's going to be a lot of this kind of thing in the coming days. There's already been quite a bit

00:55:21.440 of it, these videos of so-called migrants sobbing and crying. But, you know, this one is interesting.

00:55:29.900 First of all, this person's pretty well-dressed. She has an iPhone, apparently, because she's 0.75

00:55:34.920 checking the app and clearly not very good at planning ahead because she somehow didn't make

00:55:39.720 the trip at any point in the last two months when it was obvious to everyone that Donald Trump was

00:55:43.020 going to take over the White House. But despite all that, we're supposed to feel terrible that she's

00:55:46.420 being turned away. In fact, we're supposed to be willing to forfeit our own sovereignty just so

00:55:52.080 that this woman feels better. If somebody cries because they can't illegally access your home,

00:55:58.880 you should just let them in. I mean, that's the idea. Never mind the inherent incoherence of a

00:56:03.740 left position on this. I mean, on one hand, they tell us that America is systemically racist,

00:56:09.300 and now it's being run by a fascist dictator. 0.93

00:56:11.940 And on the other hand, they expect us to see it as a great tragedy that a Hispanic woman 0.97

00:56:17.880 isn't allowed to come here. But by their logic, aren't we doing the woman a favor?

00:56:22.400 Isn't she better off in her homeland? Shouldn't they be the ones on the border saying,

00:56:26.180 no, don't come here, turn back, save yourselves? Right? We should try to save her from our racist,

00:56:31.340 xenophobic, fascist, Nazi hellscape of a country. Now, for their part, Axios came up with another tactic. 0.88

00:56:37.420 They decided that they were going to try to use Americans' faith against us. They reported,

00:56:44.380 quote, Trump's flurry of orders restricting immigration and promising mass deportation

00:56:48.220 violates core Christian principles of caring for the poor and needy.

00:56:53.500 So now the corporate press is reporting on God's assessment of America's domestic policy.

00:56:58.820 They're channeling divine insight, and that insight just so happens to sound a lot like

00:57:03.480 you know, that fake bishop from the other day. It also contradicts everything that the press has

00:57:08.120 been saying for months. As Aaron McIntyre pointed out, these same media outlets told us that Donald

00:57:13.340 Trump was a Christian nationalist who wants to bring about a Christian theocracy. And now they're mad that

00:57:19.220 Trump is supposedly ignoring Christian law, Christian principles, just to ruin the lives of all these

00:57:25.500 innocent illegal aliens. It's like, which is it? Never mind the fact that there's nothing remotely 0.99

00:57:32.080 Christian about allowing your country to be overrun by violent criminals to the point that women and 0.99

00:57:38.100 children are routinely dying horrific deaths. There's also nothing in scripture that tells us that

00:57:42.960 countries shouldn't have borders or that national sovereignty is an inherent evil. There is nothing

00:57:50.160 that declares our right to break whatever law we don't agree with. In fact, scripture says precisely

00:57:55.820 the opposite. Give to Caesar what is Caesar's. That was Jesus Christ's command. Saint Paul tells us to

00:58:00.680 obey governing authorities. So the Bible is very clear that we cannot simply discard the laws we don't

00:58:08.700 like. As long as man's law does not contradict the laws of God, as long as we are not being told to do

00:58:14.540 things that are inherently immoral and unjust and in contradiction to our faith, as long as that's not

00:58:21.580 happening, then we are obliged to respect the law and follow it, even if we don't like it, even if it's

00:58:28.140 inconvenient, even if it causes us hardship. The laws governing the border very much fall into the category of

00:58:34.840 laws that we must follow as Christians. It's in fact the illegal aliens who are being un-Christian in reality. 0.99

00:58:41.800 And certainly all the people that are trying to facilitate their entry into the country.

00:58:50.280 So if the left wants to bring our Christian faith into it, well, that's what our Christian faith

00:58:55.160 actually says. So none of these tactics will work. None of this emotional blackmail from Congress,

00:59:00.520 from the media, or anywhere else is likely to change very many people's mind about the Trump

00:59:07.860 administration's crackdown on illegal aliens. Americans are fed up with the illegal conquest 1.00

00:59:13.160 of our homeland. And for every, we know that for every crying illegal alien they put on screen,

00:59:18.280 there are a thousand crying Americans that they could show whose lives were destroyed by the crime

00:59:24.900 and drugs and violence that these people have brought into our country. But you know, they're not

00:59:31.020 showing us those images. And this time around, in a major contrast from the first Trump administration,

00:59:37.980 everyone knows why. And that is why Democrats who have descended into panic about Donald Trump's

00:59:42.840 decision to enforce immigration law are today canceled. That'll do it for the show today.

00:59:48.360 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day.

00:59:51.400 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 23, 2025

Ep. 1521 - Trump Wages All Out War On DEI

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