The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Donald Trump shows what it's like when the United States actually

00:00:03.440 acts like the most powerful nation in the world. With a couple of posts on social media,

00:00:06.920 he forced an entire country to submit. Also, J.D. Vance does the cable news rounds and it doesn't

00:00:12.220 go well for the news anchors that he crosses paths with. Trump is accused of cruelty when

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00:00:21.080 their security anyway? New York City considers a new law that seems specifically designed to

00:00:24.780 annoy me personally. And federal government workers are now living in fear under the

00:00:28.920 Trump administration. This is supposed to be a bad thing, according to the media. We'll

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00:02:06.040 IRS take advantage of you. Get the help you need with Tax Network USA. Back in 2022, the Biden

00:02:12.440 administration was doing everything it could to distance itself from Donald Trump's foreign policy.

00:02:17.140 Joe Biden and his handlers wanted to demonstrate that one year after the election, the adults were

00:02:22.120 supposedly in charge now. And to that end, Biden hosted the president of Columbia at the White

00:02:28.000 House. And the purpose of the meeting was to announce that the U.S. intended to designate

00:02:32.280 Columbia as a, quote unquote, major non-NATO ally. Watch.

00:02:38.460 Today, I'm proud to announce that I intend to designate Columbia a major non-NATO ally because

00:02:44.940 that's exactly what you are, a major, major non-NATO ally. And this is a recognition of the

00:02:52.960 unique and close relationship between our countries.

00:02:56.940 Now, like so many other alliances we've entered into, this was the very definition of a one-sided

00:03:02.940 deal. More than a quarter of Columbia's imports come from the U.S., while Columbia accounts for a

00:03:08.200 fraction of a percent of U.S. imports, Columbia's Air Force was making news because they were

00:03:13.460 cannibalizing their rotary wing aircraft for spare parts. By most estimates, no other country in the

00:03:20.440 Western Hemisphere has received more U.S. assistance in the last 50 years than Columbia. And Columbia

00:03:26.220 clearly wasn't capable of taking care of its own domestic affairs. In fact, just days ago,

00:03:30.800 northern Columbia erupted into all-out warfare as guerrilla factions launched an invasion

00:03:35.120 to take control of cocaine production. So that's what Columbia is like. So a reasonable person

00:03:41.000 might ask, why exactly was the Biden administration going out of its way to declare that Columbia was

00:03:46.980 a major ally? How exactly are we defining the word major here? Not to mention ally. I mean,

00:03:54.020 isn't an alliance supposed to be mutually beneficial? Where's the benefit for us? What the hell does

00:04:00.800 Columbia bring to the table besides coffee and cocaine? What do they do for us? Joe Biden and

00:04:06.960 his administration never answer those questions. You can read all their press releases and statements

00:04:10.820 and they never explain it. But these are pretty important questions, especially after what happened

00:04:15.140 this week when Columbia decided to reject U.S. military flights containing dozens of Columbia

00:04:20.180 nationals who had illegally entered the United States. According to the State Department, at first,

00:04:24.840 Columbia signaled that these flights were acceptable. And then when the C-17 cargo planes carrying the

00:04:30.240 Columbia nationals were in the air, Columbia terminated their landing clearance and forced

00:04:35.160 the planes to turn around. And before we get into the specifics of this particular dispute,

00:04:40.100 I just want you to think about that for a second. Imagine you're a Colombian citizen and you're being

00:04:45.900 deported from the United States back to your home country. And then you find out in the middle of the

00:04:50.120 flight that your home country doesn't even want you. I mean, you're such an undesirable criminal,

00:04:55.220 such a strain on society, apparently, that you can't go anywhere. Your own country won't take you back.

00:04:59.440 Even Con Air didn't have that problem. And to make matters worse, the excuse that

00:05:04.360 Columbia's government invoked was clearly a pretext that made no sense whatsoever. Watch.

00:05:11.920 President Trump says he's directing his administration to take immediate action against

00:05:16.420 Columbia's president and his supporters, including tariffs, a travel ban and visa sanctions.

00:05:21.720 The move comes after Columbia denied entry to two C-17 military planes carrying undocumented

00:05:27.280 immigrants, forcing the planes to turn around midair. Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Sunday

00:05:33.320 that the U.S. cannot treat migrants as criminals and that Columbia would accept migrants on civilian

00:05:38.620 planes. The C-17 is a large Air Force plane that's typically used to transport troops and cargo,

00:05:44.320 like this tank. While the Air Force says it's designed to hold about 100 paratroopers with their gear,

00:05:50.360 it can also carry more than 800 passengers if needed, as seen here during the U.S. evacuation from

00:05:57.120 Afghanistan. On Friday, two C-17s with about 80 migrants each arrived in Guatemala City from Texas

00:06:03.760 and Arizona. So the reasoning, according to Columbia's president, is that it's wrong to treat

00:06:09.440 these Columbia nationals like criminals, even though that's exactly what they are. They broke the law 1.00

00:06:15.600 by definition that makes you a criminal. But even if you concede that point, even if you pretend for

00:06:21.500 a second that all these Columbia nationals on board the C-17 are law-abiding citizens who have

00:06:25.980 done nothing wrong in their lives, the complaint still doesn't make any sense. And there's nothing

00:06:29.980 undignified in any way about what's happening here. As you just heard, there are plenty of non-criminals

00:06:35.140 who ride aboard these C-17s every day, and they don't complain because there's nothing unusual or

00:06:40.020 oppressive about it. The thing can carry 800 passengers in an emergency. It can carry 100

00:06:44.440 paratroopers in full gear without any problem. And yet we're supposed to believe that it's a human

00:06:50.320 rights catastrophe when 80 illegal aliens, just 80, are forced to fly on one of these planes for a few

00:06:57.660 hours. And that's not the only problem with the reasoning here. Consider this. Even if Columbia's

00:07:02.920 government did succeed in rejecting these flights, all that would happen is that these Colombian citizens 1.00

00:07:08.740 would end up in migrant detention facilities in the United States. How exactly is that outcome any more

00:07:13.920 dignified than simply allowing them to go back to their homes? And by the way, we're not under any

00:07:21.700 obligation to give these criminals a free ride back anyway. Okay, we would be well within our rights

00:07:28.160 to just drop them off in the desert on the other side of the border and tell them to figure it out

00:07:32.580 themselves. You got here. Get yourself home. It's not my job to get you home. So these flights represent

00:07:39.300 the United States being, if anything, too kind and generous in the first place. So obviously everything

00:07:48.220 the Colombian government is saying is a lie. Gustave Petro is trying to deny the return of his own

00:07:53.180 citizens to their own country because he doesn't want them. He's admitting many times over that the 0.99

00:07:59.180 Trump administration is doing the right thing by getting rid of these people. If you spend just a few

00:08:04.740 seconds thinking about what the government of Colombia is saying, that becomes very clear.

00:08:08.840 It was also pretty clear that the whole tough guy act was a ruse. You know, nobody takes Gustavo

00:08:14.920 Petro seriously, even in his own country. Last summer, even though he's married and supposedly straight,

00:08:19.840 Petro was spotted holding hands on some kind of date with a trans-identifying man.

00:08:25.040 And here's that footage. And you can see it there. And when this, so that's a man he's holding hands

00:08:34.420 with. You can tell by the shoulders and, you know, that's always a dead giveaway. When this footage

00:08:41.760 circulated at the time, Petro didn't deny the rumors, really. Instead, he condemned transphobia

00:08:47.680 and demanded privacy and said that he definitely wasn't gay. You know, he's, which, by the way,

00:08:53.900 when you got to put out a public statement saying, hey, I'm definitely not gay, folks. Like that's 1.00

00:08:58.500 usually that's a sign that things are not going exactly well. People who aren't gay don't have 1.00

00:09:05.040 to put out public statements saying that they're not. So anyway, he's going on a date with another

00:09:09.580 man in a totally heterosexual kind of way, he insisted. So when it comes to respectable,

00:09:14.840 reliable allies, needless to say, the Biden administration had a keen eye. And obviously his

00:09:20.840 whole tough guy negotiator routine was extremely fake and transparent. But we all know why Gustavo

00:09:28.740 is trying this approach. Because usually, historically, it works. If Joe Biden or Kamala

00:09:35.920 Harris were still in office, they'd be falling over themselves to apologize for offending our

00:09:40.540 major non-NATO ally. They would be saying, okay, you want, what kind of plane should we put them on?

00:09:47.480 You want to see, we'll get a private jet. We'll get each one of them a private jet. Would that be

00:09:51.180 okay with you? Gustavo, you tell us what to do. We'll do exactly what you say, Gustavo.

00:09:57.860 But that didn't happen this time. Trump was reportedly golfing when Columbia came up with

00:10:03.280 this nonsense. And he immediately responded to it via a post on Truth Social. He wrote that,

00:10:07.600 quote, Petro's denial of these flights has jeopardized the national security and public

00:10:11.400 safety of the United States. So I have directed my administration to immediately take the

00:10:15.640 following urgent and decisive retaliatory measures. And those measures included 25% tariffs on

00:10:21.680 Colombian goods, as well as a travel ban on Colombian government officials, visa sanctions

00:10:26.120 on party members, enhanced inspections of Colombians at the border, additional treasury and banking

00:10:31.700 sanctions. And Trump threatened even more crushing tariffs, up to 50%, if Colombia didn't back down.

00:10:38.200 Now, as expected, there was some outrage on the left in response to this threat. But Trump's

00:10:43.760 approach was both morally correct and strategically smart. The United States holds literally all the

00:10:53.020 cards against a country like Colombia. We have all of the leverage. They have none. We could step on

00:11:00.200 the nation like an ant if we wanted to. They have, again, no leverage. They have no power. We could

00:11:06.400 incinerate the entire country in 10 seconds. Okay, the power imbalance could not be any more cartoonishly

00:11:12.580 extreme than it is, which means that we can easily bully them into submission. We have both the ability

00:11:20.060 and the moral right and obligation to impose our will on these countries until they stop flooding our

00:11:26.340 communities with criminals. Trump should treat every country to our South just like this until they all get

00:11:33.020 in line. And there's nothing they can do about it. Not a single damn thing.

00:11:40.680 And very quickly, based on reporting from Fox's Bill Mulligan, Colombia's government came to realize

00:11:45.540 that, quote, Colombian President Gustavo Petro offered his presidential plane to repatriate migrants

00:11:51.200 coming back from the U.S. on Sunday in response to stern warnings made by President Trump.

00:11:56.140 In a statement translated from Spanish, the Colombian government said the plane will help facilitate a

00:12:00.220 dignified return. The government of Colombia, under the direction of President Gustavo Petro,

00:12:05.540 has arranged the presidential plane to facilitate the dignified return of the compatriots who are going

00:12:10.040 to arrive in this country this morning coming from deportation flights, the translated statement read.

00:12:15.700 By the way, I think if I were a migrant, I'd rather be on a C-17 than on a Colombian president's plane

00:12:22.840 just from a pure safety perspective.

00:12:28.720 But that is quite a turnaround. I mean, instead of blocking these flights, the Colombian government

00:12:33.700 is going to facilitate them, using the presidential plane, no less.

00:12:38.940 It was hard to see this development as anything other than a complete and total victory for the Trump administration,

00:12:43.440 which explains why shortly afterwards Trump posted this image on social media.

00:12:46.820 And for our podcast listeners, it's an AI-generated image of Trump dressed like a gangster with a sign

00:12:53.440 that reads F-A-F-O or F-A-Round and Find Out, which is kind of the lesson here.

00:13:00.840 And apparently in response to that post, a couple hours later, the president of Colombia posted an unhinged message

00:13:05.860 on X, which led to a lot of speculation that he was undergoing some kind of mental or drug-related breakdown,

00:13:11.380 having been thoroughly humiliated in front of the whole world in just a few hours.

00:13:14.860 Petro's long and rambling message was written in Spanish, so I'm relying on X's built-in translation tool

00:13:20.700 to understand what he said, so this might be a rough translation.

00:13:23.820 But with that in mind, here's part of the quote.

00:13:27.100 This is Gustavo Petro.

00:13:29.780 Quote, I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, 1.00

00:13:32.480 where I saw an entire fight in the U.S. capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades,

00:13:37.680 which seemed like nonsense to me because they should join together.

00:13:41.200 I don't like your oil, Trump.

00:13:43.100 You're going to wipe out the human species because of greed.

00:13:46.740 Maybe one day over a glass of whiskey, which I accept despite my gastritis,

00:13:51.440 we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race,

00:13:56.440 and I'm not, nor is any Colombian.

00:13:59.480 Close quote.

00:13:59.920 Now, if you put aside the fact that he's probably losing his mind,

00:14:05.640 there's something kind of amusing about a post like this.

00:14:09.340 He's trying to project a tough and defiant image after he's already backed down

00:14:14.200 and agreed to fly these aliens back home on his presidential plane.

00:14:18.020 It's a bit like you're the basketball team of New Zealand or something,

00:14:21.140 and you're talking trash after you've already gotten blown out by Team USA by 90 points.

00:14:26.400 In any event, late in the evening yesterday, the whole situation fell apart for Colombia even more.

00:14:32.760 They quit pretending to be in charge.

00:14:34.380 They capitulated entirely, apparently realizing how weak their negotiating position was.

00:14:39.680 According to Trump's press secretary, Colombia agreed to unrestricted acceptance

00:14:43.420 of all illegal aliens using military flights.

00:14:47.100 Trump said that he'd hold off on the tariffs and lift the visa sanctions

00:14:49.920 once the first plane load of illegal aliens lands in Colombia.

00:14:52.620 So this was a total and complete victory, and Trump's message ended with this, quote,

00:14:58.340 today's events make clear to the world that America is respected again.

00:15:02.680 So in other words, apparently, when you're the most powerful country in the world,

00:15:08.580 you can just simply force other countries to do what you want.

00:15:13.500 You can actually wield power for the sake of protecting the interests of your own people.

00:15:18.640 You don't have to capitulate to countries whose very existence depends on the aid and protection

00:15:24.580 that you give them.

00:15:26.020 They have to capitulate to you if you force them to, and you should.

00:15:31.200 You can and should use the power that you have.

00:15:34.340 There's no point in being the most powerful nation on earth if you will not act like it.

00:15:39.000 That is the moral of the story.

00:15:41.640 Now, it's hard to overstate the importance of Trump's foreign policy victory here.

00:15:45.540 He just sent a very clear signal to every other country that for the first time in a very long time,

00:15:51.860 the United States is actually going to advance its own interests using force if necessary.

00:15:59.700 That's an important message to send to the government of Haiti, for example,

00:16:03.520 which is especially upset right now.

00:16:05.900 Quoting from the AP,

00:16:06.540 The president of Haiti's Transitional Presidential Council said the Trump administration's decisions

00:16:10.840 to freeze aid programs, deport migrants, and block refugees will be catastrophic for Haiti.

00:16:17.680 And he goes on to say that Haiti can't handle the influx of its own people.

00:16:23.100 So in other words, Haiti wants you to know that sending more Haitians to Haiti 0.94

00:16:28.220 will be a catastrophe for Haiti.

00:16:32.220 Right.

00:16:32.780 But, yeah, I mean, that's exactly the point.

00:16:36.020 That's why Donald Trump was elected.

00:16:37.580 It's why Tom Homan is on the streets right now with Dr. Phil

00:16:40.020 kicking foreign nationals from places like Haiti and Colombia out of the country.

00:16:43.980 If you don't want these people, then why exactly should we want them?

00:16:49.100 If the addition of thousands of more Haitians will be a catastrophe for Haiti, 1.00

00:16:54.600 then why in the hell should we take them?

00:16:57.640 Haitians should be Haiti's problem, not ours. 1.00

00:17:03.500 Why should our country have to deal with your country's problems?

00:17:08.360 Why?

00:17:10.060 Over in Honduras, they have no answer to that question,

00:17:12.580 but they do seem to think that they have some leverage.

00:17:15.520 They're reportedly threatening to cut off U.S. access to an air base in their country.

00:17:20.200 But, again, just like Colombia, Honduras doesn't actually have any leverage in this situation.

00:17:28.720 We send Honduras hundreds of millions of dollars in financial assistance every year.

00:17:33.120 And if we turn that off permanently, they'll open the air base immediately.

00:17:39.020 I mean, it's Honduras.

00:17:41.980 You're Honduras. 1.00

00:17:43.320 What the hell do you think you can do?

00:17:45.740 Honduras?

00:17:46.620 And if you won't open the air base, we'll just take it.

00:17:51.120 How are you going to stop us?

00:17:52.600 The Texas National Guard is bigger than their whole army.

00:17:56.020 So what are they going to do about it?

00:17:58.220 I mean, in all seriousness, if we just went in and said,

00:18:00.260 yeah, we're going to take that air base and that over there, we're going to take that too.

00:18:03.780 We're going to take all that.

00:18:05.160 What would they do?

00:18:07.000 Invade the country?

00:18:08.280 Launch an attack?

00:18:09.600 They literally can't do anything.

00:18:10.940 All they can do is just complain.

00:18:12.880 Which, fine, go ahead and complain. 0.96

00:18:14.180 Now, just think about this dynamic for a moment.

00:18:18.800 All of the countries complaining about our deportation policies, all of them, all of them depend on us for financial aid.

00:18:28.440 Okay, so these countries leech off of us.

00:18:33.060 They take food out of our children's mouths.

00:18:35.980 They steal money from our paychecks.

00:18:39.000 And then they thank us for our donations by shipping the worst elements of their societies into our neighborhoods 0.99

00:18:45.300 so that our fellow citizens end up lying dead in ditches because of them.

00:18:49.660 And now they have the audacity to complain because we're returning the package back to sender.

00:18:56.980 That's why, again, I hope Trump treats them all like he did Colombia. 0.99

00:19:01.800 Tell them to shut their ungrateful mouths or he will shut it for them.

00:19:06.920 For decades, we have had to put up with these entitled international welfare queens. 1.00

00:19:12.000 Okay, they don't fear us, but they should.

00:19:16.400 When you're the most powerful nation on the planet, lesser countries should fear you.

00:19:21.780 They don't have to like you.

00:19:24.120 That's not what makes peace and stability across the globe.

00:19:26.680 It's not countries liking each other.

00:19:28.260 That doesn't exist.

00:19:29.000 It's when they fear you, when they're afraid of you, which they should be.

00:19:36.840 Now, these are all obvious observations, but until Donald Trump's election, nobody in Washington ever made them.

00:19:44.080 Our political leaders and expert class in this country have pretended for so long that all of our problems are hopelessly complicated.

00:19:51.700 There's really nothing we can do to solve any of them.

00:19:54.180 All we can do is sit around pontificating and debating and coming up with abstract theories to explain why we're so screwed.

00:20:03.200 Well, Trump is proving that you can actually take action and do simple yet effective things to solve serious yet simple problems.

00:20:12.480 You can, in fact, just do stuff.

00:20:16.740 You can send illegal aliens back home, and when their home country doesn't want to take them, you can force them. 0.99

00:20:24.180 And that's maybe the single most prominent lesson from Donald Trump's first week in office.

00:20:29.540 We've already accomplished more on the international stage than we did in four years under the Biden administration.

00:20:34.560 For Americans, this is a rare and welcome sign that we're finally getting what we voted for.

00:20:41.140 And for everybody else, especially in places like Haiti and Colombia, but also all over the world,

00:20:46.520 it's a clear signal that they need to respect American sovereignty.

00:20:50.820 And if they don't, then they too will be as humiliated as the president of Colombia is right now.

00:20:58.080 They will face crushing embarrassment or worse on the international stage.

00:21:03.560 And the United States, without apologizing to anyone, will celebrate their defeat.

00:21:10.940 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:21:12.640 Okay, J.D. Vance was back on the cable news circuit over the weekend.

00:21:23.120 Personally, I'd like to see Trump send Vance out to do the cable news rounds every weekend.

00:21:27.660 Just keep sending him until they refuse to take him anymore because he's constantly humiliating the news anchors.

00:21:34.860 Vance is very, very good at this.

00:21:36.420 And that's what led to this immediately iconic moment between Vance and CBS anchor Margaret Brennan on Sunday.

00:21:44.180 Here they're talking about the refugee program and the lack of vetting that has historically accompanied

00:21:50.140 these so-called refugees and asylum seekers who come to this country.

00:21:54.040 Or at least Vance is talking about the lack of vetting.

00:21:57.040 Margaret Brennan is insisting that they are being vetted.

00:22:00.240 And that culminated in this great moment.

00:22:04.740 Watch.

00:22:04.960 Well, Margaret, I don't agree that all these immigrants or all these refugees have been properly vetted. 1.00

00:22:10.340 In fact, we know that there are cases of people who allegedly were properly vetted

00:22:15.100 and then were literally planning terrorist attacks on our country.

00:22:18.260 That happened during the campaign, if you may remember.

00:22:20.680 So clearly not all of these foreign nationals have been properly vetted.

00:22:22.660 No, but there are 30,000 people in the pipeline, Afghan refugees.

00:22:26.100 But my primary concern as the vice president, Margaret, is to look after the American people.

00:22:30.740 And now that we know that we have vetting problems with a lot of these refugee programs, 1.00

00:22:35.200 we absolutely cannot unleash thousands of unvetted people into our country. 1.00

00:22:40.380 These people are vetted.

00:22:40.880 It's not good.

00:22:41.360 These people are vetted.

00:22:42.220 Just like the guy who planned a terrorist attack in Oklahoma a few months ago.

00:22:45.240 He was allegedly properly vetted.

00:22:47.080 And many people in the media and the Democratic Party said that he was properly vetted.

00:22:51.160 Clearly he wasn't.

00:22:52.060 I don't want my children to share a neighborhood with people who are not properly vetted.

00:22:57.220 And because I don't want it for my kids, I'm not going to force any other American citizens' kids to do that either.

00:23:02.220 No, and that was a very particular case.

00:23:04.220 It wasn't clear if he was radicalized when he got here or while he was living there.

00:23:08.020 I don't really care, Margaret.

00:23:09.040 I don't want that person in my country.

00:23:10.900 And I think most Americans agree with me.

00:23:12.500 So that line at the end there has already become a legendary meme.

00:23:17.200 I don't really care, Margaret.

00:23:19.060 It's kind of the, frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn of this generation.

00:23:23.960 And it is as simple as that.

00:23:25.620 I don't care.

00:23:26.760 I don't want that person in my country.

00:23:28.780 That's it.

00:23:30.880 Why do we want that person here?

00:23:33.800 And, you know, the line is great.

00:23:35.660 It becomes like a slogan, a banner that we can march under.

00:23:40.100 I don't really care, Margaret.

00:23:41.160 I don't want that person in this country.

00:23:43.460 And what's great about it is because it represents two things.

00:23:45.660 And the first is, I don't care, right?

00:23:50.500 You can try to use emotional blackmail.

00:23:52.600 You can do the guilt trip routine.

00:23:54.520 You can call us bigots.

00:23:57.640 Whatever.

00:23:58.920 We don't care.

00:24:00.460 And this is why I've always said that the most powerful response to anyone on the left when they try to put a label on you,

00:24:07.560 you know, when you're making an argument and they respond by saying,

00:24:10.540 well, if you think that, that makes you a xenophobe, a homophobe, whatever, racist.

00:24:17.800 The most powerful way to respond is to look at them and say,

00:24:22.500 I don't care that you think that, I don't care that you think that of me.

00:24:29.160 I understand that you think I'm a racist, sexist bigot.

00:24:33.860 I don't care that you think that.

00:24:36.120 It doesn't matter to me.

00:24:39.040 Your opinion of me is irrelevant.

00:24:42.640 And that, it's a totally disarming response because the whole labeling tactic,

00:24:51.220 the whole strategy depends on you caring about the labels they put on you.

00:24:55.440 Which is why, for a very long time, this strategy was effective.

00:25:00.440 Because people were, even on the right, were, you know,

00:25:04.100 many of them were terrified of being labeled, you know, certain things.

00:25:10.700 And, and, but if you don't care, then what?

00:25:16.920 What now?

00:25:19.420 That, that is like, well, I got nothing left.

00:25:22.040 It's, oh, well, if you, it's, it's, you're, it's mean to think that.

00:25:24.900 Okay.

00:25:25.160 Are you denying that it's mean?

00:25:28.820 I don't really even deny, I don't, I don't care enough to even deny it.

00:25:32.200 That's what you think.

00:25:33.100 I don't care that you think that.

00:25:36.220 Well, but what, what, you know, they got nothing, they got nothing left.

00:25:39.700 And, uh, if you make it clear that you don't care how they feel about you,

00:25:43.340 uh, you don't care that they disapprove, you don't care about any of that.

00:25:47.200 There's really nowhere for them to go from there.

00:25:49.900 And the second part is just as important because Vance says he doesn't want

00:25:54.040 the person in his, in, in his country.

00:25:57.300 He wouldn't want that person in his community living next door to his wife 1.00

00:26:00.540 and children.

00:26:01.820 It's a really important point.

00:26:03.000 This is something that a lot of us have said about politicians for a long time.

00:26:06.020 Like we're the ones saying to the politicians that are facilitating the

00:26:10.320 invasion of our country. 0.80

00:26:12.140 We say, well, you wouldn't want your children living in a neighborhood with 0.98

00:26:15.900 these people to hear that now from the vice president, that exact same logic

00:26:21.040 where he's saying, yeah, you're right.

00:26:23.040 I wouldn't want these people to live on my children. 0.66

00:26:24.740 And if I don't want them around my children, I'm not going to put them in 0.96

00:26:27.280 anyone else's community around anyone else's children.

00:26:29.440 Like that's exactly the kind of thinking that we need.

00:26:32.640 And it really is as simple as that.

00:26:35.420 That's how we should be thinking about this issue.

00:26:37.820 When it comes to immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, whatever we want to call

00:26:43.320 them.

00:26:43.760 And really all of these categories are now like they're in, they're

00:26:47.560 indistinguishable.

00:26:48.360 I mean, there's really no distinguishing, but every single illegal immigrant in the

00:26:54.780 country, according to the left would qualify as a refugee, every single one.

00:27:02.580 And, and they wouldn't even deny that.

00:27:04.540 I mean, they would not look at any illegal immigrant and say, well, yeah, except for

00:27:08.320 he's not a refugee, except maybe if you had any illegal immigrants that from a

00:27:13.960 predominantly white country, uh, then maybe in that case they would say, well, it doesn't

00:27:20.440 count, but for the most part, they would say these are all the same.

00:27:25.920 So you take whatever we're talking about, immigrant, refugee, asylum seeker, the first 1.00

00:27:31.380 and really only question we should be asking is, do we want these people in our country?

00:27:38.440 Does it benefit us to have them in our country?

00:27:46.000 We know it benefits them.

00:27:48.260 That's not the question.

00:27:49.620 The question is not, is it better for the Afghan national to be in our country than in Afghanistan? 1.00

00:27:56.920 Well, sure.

00:27:57.360 Of course it is.

00:27:58.900 Who wants to live in Afghanistan? 1.00

00:28:02.140 That's not the point though.

00:28:03.340 The point is, is it, is it better for our country for this person to be in it?

00:28:09.440 Yes or no?

00:28:11.220 Uh, the terrorist that Vance referred to in Oklahoma, that was an Afghan national who 0.99

00:28:15.920 plotted to carry out an ISIS attack on election day.

00:28:21.580 And Margaret says the guy was vetted.

00:28:24.780 Vance's point is that clearly he wasn't vetted very well if the vetting process didn't pick

00:28:28.980 up on the fact that he has heavy ISIS sympathies.

00:28:31.780 So, you know, he wasn't vetted well enough.

00:28:36.320 And that's kind of the easy, obvious part, I think, that the vetting process is broken.

00:28:41.220 It obviously isn't working.

00:28:42.840 And we need to put a halt on the whole thing, as Trump has done, because it's not working.

00:28:47.840 But then there's the, I think for some people anyway, maybe the more uncomfortable question,

00:28:53.160 which is this, why are we importing people from Afghanistan into this country at all?

00:29:04.100 Does it benefit us?

00:29:06.020 Does it make our country stronger and safer?

00:29:08.600 Does it help our communities to thrive if we bring in a bunch of Afghans? 1.00

00:29:18.320 Does it?

00:29:19.840 It's not even a rhetorical question.

00:29:21.280 I would invite anyone on the left to answer it.

00:29:24.840 Does it make America a stronger, safer, better country to bring in a bunch of Afghans? 1.00

00:29:29.040 Like what, you know, is it a net, what is the net positive?

00:29:33.020 What's the net positive, throwing open the doors and saying, yeah, anyone from Afghanistan can come. 0.88

00:29:38.520 What's the net, what exactly is the net positive?

00:29:43.740 If we had never allowed that, if we had shut the door and locked it and said,

00:29:50.080 no, we're not letting any of them in, in what ways would this country be a worse place? 0.99

00:29:54.700 What, maybe put another way, what problem in our country can be solved

00:30:04.080 by the mass importation of people from Afghanistan?

00:30:10.440 When you look at our nation and it's, and it's all of its many problems,

00:30:16.180 which problem do you look at and say, okay, you know what would help solve this one?

00:30:19.280 We need 50,000 more Afghans.

00:30:22.900 That would help make this situation better.

00:30:27.000 Can you name what that problem is?

00:30:28.640 It's a question.

00:30:33.380 And I would challenge anyone on the left to actually answer it.

00:30:35.940 Here's another question that nobody on the left will want to answer out loud.

00:30:41.020 And again, it's just a question.

00:30:43.320 But it's a thought experiment, let's just say.

00:30:47.560 Okay, you're moving to a new community.

00:30:50.680 Okay, you have two options in this thought experiment, just a hypothetical.

00:30:55.000 Let's say you have two options.

00:30:56.120 The only information you have is this.

00:31:00.120 One community is 20% comprised of Afghan nationals

00:31:04.860 recently imported from a war-torn third world terrorist infested hellhole. 0.98

00:31:09.880 And the other community is 0% comprised of such people.

00:31:19.000 You have no other information.

00:31:21.860 Which community do you choose?

00:31:24.100 Is there any single human being in the country that would say, oh, wow, yeah, well, I got it.

00:31:29.940 Oh, the one that's 20% Afghans that just came here from the terrorist infested country. 1.00

00:31:35.160 Yeah, well, I want to live there.

00:31:36.200 Yeah, I got to move my kids into that neighborhood for sure.

00:31:39.220 Would any person say that?

00:31:40.520 Would any single person say that?

00:31:43.040 No, none of us would.

00:31:44.840 Literally not a single one of us would say that.

00:31:46.800 We would all say, okay, well, you know, I don't know what's going on in this other community,

00:31:50.860 but I guess I'll go with that one.

00:31:53.020 Because, you know, the one thing I know about this community over here is like,

00:31:55.680 that is not very appealing to me.

00:31:59.740 And that tells us that importing Afghans is not about making America stronger. 0.93

00:32:03.400 It's about helping Afghanistan.

00:32:05.600 But we should not be helping Afghanistan at the expense of our country and our people.

00:32:10.520 But that is the disconnect for the left.

00:32:17.880 And everything that I'm saying right now, it's like it has become over the decades,

00:32:24.480 everything that I'm saying about this, everything that Vance has just said,

00:32:28.200 it has become like unspeakable and provocative.

00:32:32.520 And how could you say that?

00:32:35.460 I mean, what do you mean?

00:32:36.480 You'd prefer not to live in a community that was with a heavy presence of imported third world refugees 1.00

00:32:42.380 from a country that is overrun by terrorists who hate this country.

00:32:46.420 How could you say that?

00:32:47.700 What a terror?

00:32:48.820 It has, it has, these kinds of statements have been treated that way,

00:32:54.660 even though they're so obvious, basic common sense.

00:32:59.300 Everyone agrees with it.

00:33:00.400 It's one of those things.

00:33:01.200 And we've gotten used to this dynamic where there could be a statement that everyone agrees with.

00:33:05.200 And yet, even some of the people who agree with it, like, cringe when they hear it out loud.

00:33:09.800 It's crazy.

00:33:11.000 It's a crazy dynamic.

00:33:15.560 But the way we've ended up in this position is that for the left,

00:33:21.000 and we know the left has dominated and defined the culture for so many years,

00:33:24.300 their priorities are exactly inverted, okay?

00:33:34.300 Because the healthy and human way to be is to prioritize the people that are closest to you first, of course.

00:33:44.760 Okay, like, to start with your family, your children.

00:33:51.240 You care about, in an abstract sense, you care about the children of the world,

00:33:56.800 but you're not going to do anything that's going to harm your children for the sake of the children of the world.

00:34:03.440 Okay, you're not going to take, you're not going to make your children starve so that someone else's children don't.

00:34:11.980 You wouldn't do that.

00:34:13.700 If you did that, you should go to prison.

00:34:16.680 Because you have a basic fundamental duty to the people that are closest to you.

00:34:20.100 You should prioritize them.

00:34:21.460 You should care about them more.

00:34:23.860 A lot more.

00:34:25.620 Obviously.

00:34:26.980 And then it emanates out from that.

00:34:29.160 You care about, this is the principle of subsidiarity.

00:34:31.180 This is, you care closest, you know, it's the, you care about the people that are closest to you,

00:34:35.680 your family, your children, and then your community, right?

00:34:40.300 And your country, you know, you care about your family more than you care about your country.

00:34:45.200 You should.

00:34:46.720 But you certainly care about your country more than you care about

00:34:49.960 a country 8,000 miles away that you've never been to.

00:34:56.660 And this is the way that it is naturally supposed to work.

00:35:02.580 It's a principle that up until recently never even had to be articulated out loud

00:35:07.660 because it was just so natural and automatic that you didn't have to think about it or talk about it.

00:35:13.900 But as I said, the left has inverted that.

00:35:16.880 Where the way they look at it or have convinced themselves they look at it

00:35:20.340 is that they care the most about just the abstract, the people of the world, the community.

00:35:25.980 The global community.

00:35:28.400 And they somehow prioritize that, this kind of abstract, vague concept of a global community

00:35:34.820 over their own nation and even their own families.

00:35:39.580 It's a mental sickness.

00:35:44.560 It's a confusion.

00:35:46.120 It's a fundamental confusion.

00:35:47.320 But if you don't suffer from that confusion and you're just a normal person who prioritizes

00:35:54.240 what is closest to you, prioritizes your own people first, then all this stuff is obvious.

00:35:59.880 Then there's nothing offensive about saying, yeah, of course I don't want to import a bunch of people from Afghanistan. 1.00

00:36:04.880 That's not going to make my country any better.

00:36:06.980 It doesn't help my country.

00:36:09.340 I don't want to do it.

00:36:10.500 I don't wish any harm on them.

00:36:16.640 If Afghanistan turned into a wonderful, developed country and it was safe and everybody was happy and all of that,

00:36:26.240 then fantastic.

00:36:27.120 I feel that's good for them.

00:36:29.140 Congratulations.

00:36:30.260 I hope it does happen.

00:36:31.200 But that's not my priority.

00:36:38.000 It's not even on the list of the top 100 priorities.

00:36:42.360 That's for them to figure out.

00:36:45.420 You know, these countries, they need to stand on their own two feet at a certain point.

00:36:48.980 And if you can't, then you just cease to exist.

00:36:51.200 And that's also just the way of the world.

00:36:53.860 Figure out your own country.

00:36:54.820 You know, we hear this about Haiti all the time.

00:37:02.140 Haiti, well, it's because of the interference by all, you know, Haiti has been a self-governing country for like 200 years.

00:37:10.580 Okay, figure it out.

00:37:12.160 Like, stop complaining about the history of our country is so terrible.

00:37:15.540 Everyone's history is terrible.

00:37:16.720 Okay, everyone's history is terrible.

00:37:19.780 Everyone's ancestors suffered.

00:37:21.400 What, you think you're special?

00:37:23.060 Figure out your own country.

00:37:25.820 Figure it out.

00:37:27.720 If you can't, you don't even deserve to exist as a country anymore.

00:37:32.040 If you can't figure out how to govern yourself and take care of yourself.

00:37:38.700 And it'd be the same thing for the United States.

00:37:40.460 If the United States ever gotten to a point where we couldn't even exist without being like, without some international sugar daddy keeping us alive.

00:37:48.940 Then I would say, well, America shouldn't exist anymore.

00:37:51.200 In that case, it basically doesn't exist already.

00:37:54.820 All right, Daily Wire has this report.

00:38:00.040 President Trump has canceled Dr. Anthony Fauci's security detail.

00:38:03.740 The Trump administration has canceled his security detail.

00:38:06.240 Dr. Fauci has now hired his own security detail, according to a source familiar with the situation.

00:38:10.140 When a reporter asked about the decision, Trump stated, I think when you work for the government, at some point, your security detail comes off.

00:38:16.780 And, you know, you can't have them forever.

00:38:18.400 So I think it's very standard.

00:38:19.960 It would be for someone else.

00:38:21.540 It would be for somebody else.

00:38:22.880 You wouldn't be asking the question.

00:38:24.060 So Trump has taken security off of Fauci, a number of other bureaucrats.

00:38:30.040 John Bolton is another one.

00:38:31.360 Mike Pompeo, some others.

00:38:34.240 And there's been, you know, a lot of outrage over that, as you expect.

00:38:39.620 The only shocking thing to me has been the fact that all these people had tax funded security in the first place.

00:38:44.960 This is how naive I am.

00:38:46.180 I thought that only ex-presidents got lifetime personal security provided by the taxpayers, which in that case, I understand.

00:38:56.140 I'm on board for that.

00:38:58.100 I think America, even the presidents that I despise, of which there are several still living.

00:39:07.960 Yes, I think the taxpayers should pay for the security.

00:39:11.280 You should take care of your ex-presidents and, you know, to have ex-presidents who end up getting assassinated is just not a good situation for this country.

00:39:21.880 So that makes sense.

00:39:23.900 But providing lifetime personal security to just other random bureaucrats, I honestly didn't know that that was a thing. 0.63

00:39:30.920 I was unaware of that.

00:39:32.800 And it should not be a thing.

00:39:35.300 And, of course, as I said, Trump's being condemned for this.

00:39:37.540 But the outcry has come from both parties.

00:39:40.900 But I totally agree with him.

00:39:42.160 First of all, these people can, as he said, these people can afford their own security.

00:39:45.620 Fauci's net worth is something like $11 million.

00:39:49.120 So he can, a guy has plenty of money to pay for his own security.

00:39:53.440 So it shouldn't be an issue.

00:39:56.100 And also, in the case of Fauci in particular, and I'll be careful about how I say this so that it isn't misconstrued.

00:40:04.540 But if Anthony Fauci needs security because of threats, if that's the case, it's because he is a corrupt, evil person who lied to the American people repeatedly about basically every aspect of COVID.

00:40:22.980 He lied to us and manipulated and conjoled and forced millions of people to put a drug into their bodies on false pretenses.

00:40:30.900 He's truly a bad person.

00:40:32.480 He's a very bad, he should be in prison.

00:40:34.600 He is an evil, bad person who should be in prison.

00:40:37.420 And that would be one way to get his security paid for, by the way.

00:40:42.060 Put him in prison, he'll be taken care of there.

00:40:43.980 I'm totally fine with that.

00:40:44.840 Put him in prison and let him have all the extra security that he needs.

00:40:47.940 That I'd be on board with.

00:40:49.020 This corrupt weasel lied to us about everything.

00:40:56.240 Everything from his funding of gain-of-function research, to the origins of COVID, to the efficacy of the vaccine, and on and on.

00:41:03.540 And he, more than anyone, is the reason why all of these destructive, insane measures were taken that did infinitely more harm than good.

00:41:11.840 People's lives were destroyed because of him.

00:41:16.700 So if he's under threat, it's because of that.

00:41:18.820 Now, this is why I don't want to be misconstrued.

00:41:20.560 I don't want anything bad to happen to him.

00:41:22.160 I don't condone at all anyone who might be making threats.

00:41:25.100 But I hope that Fauci is unharmed.

00:41:27.940 And when he dies, I hope he dies a natural death.

00:41:31.360 And that's what I want.

00:41:32.780 But the fact remains that Fauci is perceived as the villain very much because of his own actions.

00:41:41.820 So I guess here's my question.

00:41:44.220 If a government bureaucrat is so bad at their job and so deceitful and so corrupt and so arrogant and power-hungry and did so much damage in their position that they end up getting death threats over it, does that mean we now have to pay for their security for life?

00:42:01.600 Like, we have to reward terrible bureaucrats for their bad behavior by footing the security bill that is only necessary because they were so awful?

00:42:11.920 No, that's insane.

00:42:13.100 As I said, I hope nothing bad happens to Fauci, but it's his job to make sure that he's protected and he's got the money to do it, fortunately.

00:42:21.940 So it's not our job.

00:42:24.680 The taxpayers don't have to, shouldn't have to foot the bill.

00:42:28.960 And, you know, generally speaking, if you're a bureaucrat, you know, and the reason why this matters is, and I don't even know how many other bureaucrats have personal protection,

00:42:39.820 but if you're a bureaucrat, especially if you're a bureaucrat who dealt with domestic policy.

00:42:46.060 Now, if you dealt internationally, you may have foreign countries that don't like you and that can create security, but that was not the case for Fauci.

00:42:54.240 So if you're a bureaucrat dealing with domestic issues and you leave your job roundly despised by millions of Americans, it means that you are absolutely terrible, you know.

00:43:10.440 And whatever security is unfortunately necessary after that should be something that you take care of yourself.

00:43:19.000 All right, finally, I have to mention this story, and you'll see why when I tell you the headline.

00:43:26.860 This is from Reuters.

00:43:30.320 New Yorkers may be allowed to use paid sick leave to look after pets.

00:43:35.960 Here's the article.

00:43:37.520 New York City's council is set to consider legislation that would allow New Yorkers to take paid sick leave to care for their pets and service animals.

00:43:44.140 Council member Sean Abreu, co-sponsor of the bill, said that the change could promote health for both pets and their humans.

00:43:52.840 When you take care of your animals, you're taking care of yourself too.

00:43:56.160 He said, citing long dog walks, socializing with other pet owners, and mental health benefits.

00:44:02.360 The leave would be included in that already mandated by New York State,

00:44:05.880 where companies must provide up to 40 or 56 hours of paid sick leave per year, depending on their size.

00:44:11.240 Okay, so this legislation was written just to troll me, I'm pretty sure.

00:44:15.920 I'm not trying to be self-centered.

00:44:17.360 Not everything's about me.

00:44:18.280 But this is in direct violation of multiple laws that I have passed down personally on this show.

00:44:26.040 Laws which supersede the laws of the city of New York and the laws of this country, I got to tell you.

00:44:31.140 And I think you all know that constitutionally, the laws invented randomly by podcast hosts

00:44:36.540 have primacy over local, state, and federal jurisdiction.

00:44:41.780 And I've made it clear how I feel about both sick days and people who are too obsessed with their pets.

00:44:48.060 Now both of these issues have been combined in this unholy stew.

00:44:53.180 And here's the thing, by the way, if an employer wanted to give sick days to people who want to stay home

00:45:00.280 and walk their dog or whatever, they have the right to do that. 1.00

00:45:03.320 Employers can give sick days for whatever they want.

00:45:07.340 Or they should be able to give sick days for whatever they want.

00:45:10.400 What's insane is forcing them to have certain sick day policies.

00:45:15.200 And in this case, forcing employers to allow employees to take sick days when they aren't even sick.

00:45:21.140 So now a sick day must be allowed for employees who are sick and employees who are not sick.

00:45:26.760 So why are we even calling it a sick day in that case?

00:45:29.820 And we can have a conversation about legitimate reasons to take a sick day.

00:45:34.500 Everyone knows my stance on it.

00:45:37.940 If you call out sick, you're gay. 1.00

00:45:41.120 I'm not saying that as an insult.

00:45:42.420 That's just according to the research that I've seen.

00:45:46.520 That's the most recent study that I personally saw.

00:45:49.400 It was like 98% of people who call out sick in a given year are homosexual.

00:45:54.680 It was just the study.

00:45:55.840 That's what the research says.

00:45:56.900 I don't know.

00:45:57.880 And then the 2% is when I personally call out sick.

00:46:01.700 That was also in the study.

00:46:03.300 So that's just the science.

00:46:07.440 But maybe you think my view is a bit extreme.

00:46:09.240 And maybe you'd claim even scientifically dubious.

00:46:12.840 You might even claim entirely invented.

00:46:15.080 You might say that.

00:46:16.420 But we should be able to agree that whatever the valid reasons for calling out sick,

00:46:21.120 my cat has a tummy ache is not one of them.

00:46:25.180 Like my iguana has a headache is not good enough.

00:46:30.060 That doesn't pass buster.

00:46:32.460 You know, my parakeet has indigestion and I have to stay home and comfort him.

00:46:36.880 And it's just not, that doesn't work.

00:46:40.860 And now I'll just wait for the angry comments from people who tell me that,

00:46:44.380 you know, they once had a call out of work for three weeks

00:46:46.880 because their golden retriever was sneezing or something.

00:46:51.200 I'm sure that's going to happen next.

00:46:52.700 I look forward to that.

00:46:53.440 Speaking of which, let's get to the comment section.

00:46:55.440 If you're a man, it's required that you grow a beard.

00:47:00.940 We're the sweet baby gang.

00:47:03.560 Okay, a couple of comments here.

00:47:06.620 I honestly thought those clips Matt showed of Amelia Perez was an SNL skit.

00:47:10.880 There's just absolutely no way that that film got nominated for 13 Oscars

00:47:14.120 based on merit and not Hollywood pandering to the left.

00:47:17.060 You know, the other thing, and I think I kind of alluded to this

00:47:19.500 when we talked about this, I mean, just utterly awful film

00:47:25.260 that got nominated for 13 Oscars.

00:47:27.100 The other thing about it is it wasn't even critically acclaimed.

00:47:31.800 Okay, so there have been plenty of other cases of films that are bad

00:47:36.960 and yet are showered with Oscar nominations and Oscar wins

00:47:41.480 because although they were bad, they were critically acclaimed,

00:47:44.760 and that's when you go to Rotten Tomatoes and you see the thing

00:47:46.820 where, you know, the movie gets 95% from critics and 35% from the audience.

00:47:52.960 What's interesting here is, and this is what makes it pretty unique,

00:47:58.100 it's not that it's a bad movie, I mean, it is really bad.

00:48:02.100 It's like it's bad on a scale that, you know, it's maybe unprecedented

00:48:07.620 how bad it is given the number of Oscar nominations.

00:48:12.540 But the more unique thing is that it was not critically acclaimed.

00:48:16.380 The critics didn't even like this movie that much,

00:48:18.540 which really tells you something because it's pandering to their political biases,

00:48:23.580 so it's got that going for it.

00:48:27.320 So critics go into it knowing that it's a movie, it's a trans, musical, whatever thing,

00:48:32.860 and it stars, you know, the quote-unquote trans, quote-unquote actress,

00:48:38.220 big quotes around that.

00:48:39.980 So already going in, critics are going to spot it about two and a half stars out of four.

00:48:45.940 It's already got two and a half stars going in before they watch one frame.

00:48:50.480 And, but then you look at the critical responses, and that's it.

00:48:58.060 Like, they're basically giving it two and a half stars.

00:49:00.240 So they're giving it the number of stars they had to give it because of the trans factor, 0.97

00:49:06.740 but no additional stars because it's just a bad movie.

00:49:10.140 Even critics are admitting that.

00:49:13.280 I think it has, like, a 70-some percent on Rotten Tomatoes, which is, you know, a C-,

00:49:20.260 and yet it has 13 Oscar nominations.

00:49:23.280 So, pretty funny.

00:49:29.800 Matt doesn't get enough credit for his ad reads.

00:49:31.980 You can tell he pours his heart and soul into each one.

00:49:33.880 Well, I'm glad you noticed that.

00:49:35.180 Not enough people do.

00:49:36.240 I appreciate that.

00:49:37.120 But, you know, things are different when pardons are being signed in the first week.

00:49:41.440 The gloves are off this term.

00:49:43.860 Exactly right.

00:49:44.480 I mean, also, it turns out that it's possible to wield the pardon power in a good and just way

00:49:50.020 so that you don't need to save it for the end of your term because you're embarrassed by it.

00:49:54.800 You know, it's possible to do that.

00:49:57.160 Now, we've grown so accustomed to the way that the pardons are doled out that it comes at the end,

00:50:03.580 and the reason it comes at the end, obviously, is that it's the president who is delivering the pardons

00:50:09.180 knows that this is embarrassing, and so waits until he's going to be gone to do it.

00:50:16.080 But you don't have to use pardons that way.

00:50:19.100 There are actually people who deserve to be pardoned,

00:50:22.060 and if you're doing that, you don't have to wait to the end.

00:50:27.160 Imagine if people used abortion as birth control for cats and dogs instead of spaying and neutering.

00:50:33.180 Something tells me that would never, ever be accepted,

00:50:35.680 and yet here we are with our own human babies being treated like literal garbage.

00:50:39.220 Words can't.

00:50:41.100 That is a very good point.

00:50:42.680 That is a very good point.

00:50:43.660 I mean, I've made the comparison to the way that people treat animals many times,

00:50:51.980 but the scenario, the kind of thought experiment you're laying out is a really interesting one.

00:50:57.860 Because, and it's grotesque to think about, but even that, like to say it's grotesque to think about,

00:51:05.540 yeah, it's grotesque to think about people bringing, you know, someone bringing a dog in for an abortion

00:51:10.960 because they don't want to have to deal with the puppies.

00:51:13.380 That's a grotesque thing to imagine.

00:51:15.100 And yet, that's exactly what we're doing to humans by the millions.

00:51:21.800 And you are, I think, 100% correct that if somebody were to bring their dog in for an abortion

00:51:30.340 to get rid of a litter of puppies before it's even born, everyone would condemn it.

00:51:35.240 And can you imagine a dog abortion clinic being set up somewhere where the whole reason it exists 0.99

00:51:46.940 is so that you can bring your dog in to abort puppies before they're born?

00:51:53.820 The place would be burned down.

00:51:57.820 Like, that clinic would not survive a day.

00:52:02.200 Not a day.

00:52:03.680 There would be national outrage, you know, against something like that.

00:52:09.140 And we all know it.

00:52:09.940 Can you imagine that the shame that would be heaped up, someone bringing their dog in by the leash

00:52:17.840 to this dog abortion clinic, just the throngs of people outside and what they'd be saying to that person,

00:52:24.420 the person wouldn't even make it to the door. 0.89

00:52:27.020 That's how everybody would respond in that scenario.

00:52:32.800 And why would they respond that way?

00:52:34.300 Well, because they would recognize, they would recognize that the dog, the unborn dog is still a dog.

00:52:46.420 And so killing an unborn dog, they would see it as no different than just killing a dog.

00:52:53.080 And the person who's bringing their dog into the dog abortion clinic would not be able to say,

00:52:57.640 well, it's just a clump.

00:52:58.640 It's not even a dog yet.

00:52:59.600 What are you talking about?

00:53:00.680 I'm not killing a dog.

00:53:04.300 Um, and, uh, so that's a, that's a very good point.

00:53:10.320 It's, it's, it's one of so many other unanswerable points that someone on the correct side of the abortion issue can make.

00:53:20.160 This is just a point that no one on the left is even, even going to engage with this.

00:53:23.660 I guarantee you, they won't even engage with it.

00:53:26.400 Uh, because they, they know they can't because they know that you're a hundred percent right.

00:53:30.660 They know that they would recognize the dogness of an unborn dog, but they will not recognize the humanity of an unborn human.

00:53:39.220 And they, there's no way that they could possibly justify that on logical or intellectual grounds.

00:53:44.320 And so the only way around it is just to, um, ignore it.

00:53:50.020 Um, hearing Matt say that's the T is really funny.

00:53:57.140 No, bro.

00:53:57.840 That's cap.

00:53:58.780 My, my Gen Z slang is a high key slaps fam. 0.98

00:54:04.080 So you need to do a vibe check.

00:54:06.800 It hits different.

00:54:08.660 It, uh, that's all I got.

00:54:12.320 I had to quit when I'm ahead.

00:54:13.260 That's all I got.

00:54:14.320 Donald Trump hit the ground running in his first week, delivering on key promises, many of which were battles initiated and amplified by the daily wire.

00:54:21.600 Am I racist?

00:54:22.140 The number one documentary of the decade exposed the grifters and race hustlers driving DEI initiatives following recent executive orders. 0.96

00:54:28.800 DEI programs have been significantly dismantled at the federal level and scaled back by the, uh, by major corporations.

00:54:34.360 So we're winning, but the fight, well, the fight is far from over.

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00:54:54.600 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:55:02.880 We close today with what I assume is supposed to be a sad story.

00:55:06.580 It tells the tragic tale of useless bureaucrats now living in fear under the tyrannical Trump regime.

00:55:12.600 Politico has the article titled, I am terrified.

00:55:14.880 Workers described the dark mood inside federal agencies.

00:55:17.660 Then the subheading, which really tells us everything we need to know, quote, I would love to leave, but I don't know where I'd go, said one staffer.

00:55:25.320 Well, yeah, that is the problem, isn't it?

00:55:26.940 I mean, you can't figure out where to bring your talents and your skill set because you have neither talents nor a skill set.

00:55:32.640 You're a useless bureaucrat.

00:55:34.040 And you know that you're a useless bureaucrat.

00:55:35.620 And you know that very few companies are actively seeking to hire useless bureaucrats.

00:55:40.000 So that's the issue.

00:55:41.000 But let's not get ahead of ourselves.

00:55:42.140 Here's how the article begins.

00:55:43.180 Quote, President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting the federal workforce have injected a fresh wave of anxiety among employees across the bureaucracy, stoking fears the president is coming for their jobs.

00:55:54.640 Just a few days into Trump's second term, some federal workers are contemplating quitting.

00:55:58.220 Others are preparing to file grievances with their union or moving communications with each other to secure platforms like Signal.

00:56:03.180 Some, fearing they'll be caught up in the White House's purge of diversity programs, are leaving their names off of memos and documents they worry could be labeled as DEI adjacent.

00:56:12.920 Now, of course, federal workers threatening to quit is like a cop threatening to not give you a ticket.

00:56:17.600 They seem to be fundamentally confused about how incentives work.

00:56:21.080 But reading on, as federal employees searched this week for clues within the orders to see how they'll be affected,

00:56:26.140 a staffer with the Environmental Protection Agency said they were cleaning out their inbox and waiting for information about early retirement and buyout programs.

00:56:33.900 Trump version 1.0 was bad, said the EPA employee, I'm already done with version 2.0.

00:56:40.540 Well, I think the bigger point is that he is done with you, or at least I hope he is.

00:56:44.880 In fact, he should be done with the entire EPA.

00:56:47.240 We'll see how that works out.

00:56:49.120 Going back to the article one more time, it says,

00:56:50.600 At the State Department, the shutdown of these programs was something many saw coming,

00:56:54.760 but some were startled by the directive that they report individual cases of people's job descriptions being changed to disguise the DEI element to a special office of personnel management email address.

00:57:05.200 Some saw it as an order to snitch on colleagues.

00:57:08.060 Quote,

00:57:08.240 I would love to leave, but I don't know where I'd go.

00:57:10.320 I'm terrified of not being able to pay rent and not having health care, one state staffer said.

00:57:14.400 It's too early to tell if a mass exodus of federal workers will occur.

00:57:17.520 The vagueness of the president's orders has many workers waiting to see how they will be implemented once political staff is in place.

00:57:23.400 But what is clear is that the new administration intends to follow through on its threat to purge and dismantle the federal bureaucracy.

00:57:29.560 Adding to federal workers' distress, the acting head of the Office of Personnel Management, which is effectively the federal government's HR department,

00:57:36.180 on Monday instructed agencies to compile lists by the end of the week of all recent hires and promptly determine whether those employees should be retained at the agency.

00:57:44.680 Career staffers who have been on the job for less than a year are on probationary status,

00:57:48.220 meaning that they can be fired without triggering civil service protections that insulate much of the federal workforce.

00:57:52.180 The only reason you would do that is if he's going to fire them all, said Alan Lest, a Washington-based employment lawyer who represents federal workers.

00:58:00.140 If you have these mass firings, you can't accuse him of discriminating or anything.

00:58:05.180 Well, that's exactly right.

00:58:06.300 I mean, the way to avoid charges of discrimination is to just fire huge numbers of bureaucrats indiscriminately,

00:58:12.240 which is just yet another reason to fire huge numbers of bureaucrats indiscriminately.

00:58:17.120 I mean, it's a win-win.

00:58:18.620 And here's the truth.

00:58:19.520 If Trump announces tomorrow that he's taking a chainsaw to the federal workforce and cutting 60% of them on the spot,

00:58:26.860 almost none of us will notice any impact on our daily lives.

00:58:31.720 Which is why you'll notice that these articles lamenting the impending bureaucratic apocalypse

00:58:35.980 always focus on the hurt feelings of the bureaucrats themselves.

00:58:40.420 They don't give us any specific examples of American citizens in the private sector who will be in any way negatively affected

00:58:47.380 by the total annihilation of the State Department's DEI team, for example.

00:58:53.060 You know, they can't give us any sob stories about a person out there in the real world

00:58:56.320 whose life will be horrifically altered by cuts at the EPA.

00:59:00.520 Instead, they tell us that cuts at the EPA are bad because the people who work at the EPA are sad about them.

00:59:07.480 But that is just not a very compelling argument.

00:59:10.360 And I know that as these mass layoffs begin, God willing,

00:59:15.600 it may seem that people like myself are rather cruel and unkind about it.

00:59:20.460 After all, these are real people who are losing their jobs and their livelihoods.

00:59:23.520 We should feel sorry for them, just on that basis alone.

00:59:27.940 Or so you may think.

00:59:29.760 But frankly, I don't feel sorry for them

00:59:32.460 because the federal government is not supposed to be

00:59:36.040 a giant jobs program for people who don't have any functional skills.

00:59:41.180 Every single government job is supposed to have the express purpose

00:59:44.660 of serving the public.

00:59:46.420 That's why we call them, or used to call them, public servants.

00:59:49.440 But the federal government stopped serving the public a long time ago.

00:59:54.700 And now most of these jobs exist for the sake of whoever happens to hold the job.

00:59:59.940 Government jobs perpetuate and spread like cancer or a parasite,

01:00:04.300 feeding on the host organism, which is the taxpaying public.

01:00:08.560 And if you aren't serving the public, if your job is not in some tangible way

01:00:13.480 making the lives of American citizens better, then you don't deserve to have the job.

01:00:17.320 And I'm not sorry to see you lose it.

01:00:20.780 I'm only sorry that you had it in the first place.

01:00:24.240 But that's not actually the main point that I want to make.

01:00:28.240 What I'd like to do is just pass along some friendly advice to our federal workforce.

01:00:34.140 And because the timing here is actually quite providential.

01:00:38.360 You know, a lot of you may be losing your job soon.

01:00:41.580 But at the same time, I'm told, a great number of jobs are currently becoming available.

01:00:48.500 Because the left tells us that all of the illegal aliens we're deporting

01:00:52.020 are the ones who pick our crops and mop our floors and clean our trash

01:00:56.240 and perform all the menial labor that keeps our country running.

01:01:00.340 You know, that's what they're telling.

01:01:01.440 They tell us that our whole civilization is about to come crashing down

01:01:04.360 without migrants here to perform these duties. 1.00

01:01:06.720 Well, if that's the case, you know, this all works out really well.

01:01:11.260 Because we ship out the illegal immigrants at the same time 1.00

01:01:15.600 that we fire you from your pointless bureaucratic job.

01:01:19.220 And so now you can kind of swap in and start picking our crops and mopping our floors.

01:01:25.400 I mean, indeed, there's no reason why our floors should go unmopped for even a single day.

01:01:32.640 Let the illegals pass the baton to the bureaucrats. 1.00

01:01:35.600 And, I mean, you guys claim to be public servants anyway, right?

01:01:39.820 You're only in those jobs because you care so much about serving the public, right?

01:01:44.640 Well, okay then. Start serving us. 0.92

01:01:48.020 You should be excited by the opportunity.

01:01:50.720 And now you can truly put the servant back in public service.

01:01:56.160 Which is a wonderful thing, isn't it?

01:01:58.440 Problem solved.

01:01:59.640 Two birds killed, one stone.

01:02:01.660 So, if you're a bureaucrat still complaining about losing your job,

01:02:07.060 even after this beautiful solution has been presented to you,

01:02:11.680 then, in that case, you are today, sadly, canceled.

01:02:16.300 That'll do it for the show today.

01:02:17.200 Thanks for watching.

01:02:17.680 Thanks for listening.

01:02:18.480 Have a great day.

01:02:19.520 Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 27, 2025

Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson

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