Ep. 1524 - Selena Gomez Should Deport Herself In Solidarity With 'Her People'
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Hollywood celebrities are openly weeping over Trump s immigration enforcement. Meanwhile, Trump is more popular than he s ever been in his political career. That tells you pretty much everything you need to know. Also, Trump again floats the possibility of abolishing the income tax. And New York Magazine tries to slander young right-wing Trump supporters.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Hollywood celebrities are openly weeping over Trump's immigration
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enforcement. Meanwhile, Trump is more popular than he's ever been in his political career.
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That tells you pretty much everything you need to know. Also, Trump again floats the
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possibility of abolishing the income tax. I'll explain why that would instantly make
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him at least the second greatest president in U.S. history. And New York Magazine tries
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to slander young right-wing Trump supporters, but instead accidentally makes them seem cool
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as hell. And in our daily cancellation, I'm afraid I must cancel a certain prominent Republican
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Congresswoman. She's left me no choice. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Just over a week into Donald Trump's second term in office, it has to be said that Kamala Harris's
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talking points from the presidential campaign are not exactly aging well. You might remember that
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one of Kamala's taglines during the campaign was, Donald Trump has an enemies list. I have a to-do
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list. And the line was supposed to conjure up a contrast in voters' minds, a contrast between
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a president who gets rid of his enemies and a president who actually gets things done.
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But it turns out that Kamala's campaign misunderstood that those two things are
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not mutually exclusive. A president can indeed punish the enemies of civilization and also
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get a lot of other stuff done at the same time. And that's exactly what Trump
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has accomplished so far by all accounts. Now, to be clear, I'm not bringing this up to trash Kamala
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Harris, who isn't worth thinking about anymore, much less talking about. But as dumb as her campaign
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slogan was, it's clear that many Democrats thought it made sense. And now that Trump is actually in
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office, they have no idea what to make of it. They can't comprehend the fact that Trump is destroying
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America's enemies while advancing American interests, and that voters are responding very favorably
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to his new administration as a result. So here, for example, was the scene the other day on CNN
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when the anchor realizes, to her shock and horror, that Trump is now far more popular today than he
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So it was so interesting to me that Donald Trump's first net approval rating of his second term is higher
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than his entire first term. And I was interested, has that ever happened? Has the second term net approval
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rating in the first month? Have you ever had a higher rating than any net approval rating during
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the entire first term? Donald Trump is the only...
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This is 100% true. I went back. I love spreadsheets. Donald Trump's is the first guy ever whose net
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approval rating in the first month of his second term is higher than any rating that he had is an
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entire first term, Kate Baldwin. This is true. I don't make stuff up. The numbers are the numbers.
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So once again, there's the screen guy circling and underlining things for no reason. You don't
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need to underline the words on the screen. I mean, they're already typed in giant bold letters. We
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can see them. But anyway, more to the point, the audible gasp from the CNN anchor is a clue that
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nobody at CNN has any idea how this is happening. How can Trump possibly have a higher approval rating
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after all of his felony convictions and all the attacks and the most well-funded and consistently
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sustained smear campaign against a single individual person in the history of American
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politics? How is that possible? Well, it begins to make sense when you realize that the agenda
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Trump is aggressively pushing through in his first two weeks in office is not or need not be
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partisan or ideological. His executive orders and other actions aren't necessarily conservative at
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all, much less right wing. Instead, Trump is advancing something called common sense. Now,
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common sense has become right wing by default, but it's still common sense. And it happens to appeal
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to a lot of Americans, regardless of whether they describe themselves as liberal or conservative.
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Most Americans agree, for example, that people with serious mental illnesses should not serve in
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the armed forces. That's an intuitive concept that doesn't need any explanation. Until around 10 years
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ago, even Democrats would not object to that. So when Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced
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that trans-identifying individuals would be banned from serving or enlisting the military, as they did
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the other day, makes a lot of sense to most people. As the White House put it, quote, unit cohesion
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requires high levels of integrity and stability among service members. And because trans-identifying
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people don't meet those requirements, they can't serve. Period. End of discussion. It's pretty simple.
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In just the past few days, the Trump administration has announced a variety of straightforward
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executive orders like this. And every single one of them comes across as a reasonable solution
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that normal people would support. So Trump is also getting rid of DEI in the military and all across
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the federal government. But in the military in particular, the theory is that America's military
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shouldn't be concerned with quotas or diversity hiring. They should focus instead on one goal,
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which is fighting America's enemies as effectively as they possibly can. Kill the bad guys. That's your
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whole job in the military. And again, this is basic stuff. Until 15 seconds ago, it wouldn't even be
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considered controversial. And also, common sense. One by one. That's what these orders amount to.
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There's also Trump's planned order of creating an Iron Dome-style missile defense system to protect
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the United States. We've been funding Israel's Iron Dome for many years now, but we don't have a
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comparable system here, even though, as recent events make clear, American cities apparently face a
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variety of imminent short-range threats. We just had a swarm of mysterious drones appear off the East
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Coast out of nowhere. Never got any explanation. A member of Congress suggested that Iranian ships
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might be launching them. Who knows? But either way, why shouldn't America's major cities have some
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kind of protection against threats like that? Once again, simple question. And now the second Trump
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administration is answering it. Along the same lines, Americans have made it abundantly clear that they
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don't want millions of illegal aliens in this country. No matter how much the corporate press
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pretends that they enrich our communities, no serious person thought that the status quo was
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acceptable, especially as the bodies of innocent men, women, and children began piling up. And so now,
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as a result, the status quo was changing. The other day, Fox reported that the Del Rio sector of the border
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has gone from 4,000 illegal crossings per day back in 2023 to just 60 illegal crossings yesterday.
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So these are actual results. And they're taking place very quickly.
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Now, for self-appointed members of the elite, particularly in Hollywood, this has been a very
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difficult series of events to grasp and internalize. They can't muster any kind of rational argument
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against what the Trump administration is doing. They're stunned by how effective he's been and how
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popular he is now because of it. And they know that there's no logic behind DEI or open borders or
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letting criminals off the hook with no consequences. So instead of presenting any kind of cogent
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argument, they're just melting down. And there's maybe no greater example of this phenomenon than the
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performance that actress and singer Selena Gomez just put on. She uploaded this video to her Instagram
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with a caption of, I'm sorry, accompanied by a Mexican flag emoji. And here's what the video,
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I'm sorry. All my people are getting attacked. The children.
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I don't understand. I'm so sorry. I wish I could do something, but I can't. I don't know what to do.
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Now, first of all, before we even get into what she's saying, this is obviously an absurd example
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of emotional manipulation. Anyone who records a video of herself crying and posted to the
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internet should be disregarded and ignored automatically. I mean, it's one thing to cry
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in public, which is a crime that is slightly less offensive when committed by women, though still
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highly annoying. But it's another thing to film the spectacle yourself and then upload it.
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So that's bad enough. But there's a more revealing moment that's actually worth talking about.
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You'll notice that in Selena Gomez's theatrical crying video, she refers to, quote unquote,
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my people. And she's complaining about the Trump administration deporting her people.
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Now, if we take my people in the most literal sense, it would seem to indicate that Selena Gomez
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is herself a criminal alien, considering that only criminal aliens are being deported.
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In that case, obviously, Selena should be immediately placed on one of those C-17 cargo planes and sent
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back to her homeland. She's confessed to her crimes, after all. Trump should deport her based on her
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word alone. Better safe than sorry. Let her go be with her people. And then, of course, we should
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convert Selena's many multi-million dollar mansions into emergency shelters to house all these
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illegal migrants that she's weeping over. That would be the humane thing to do, after all.
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But if we take the statement as she likely intended it, that her people are Hispanic migrants in general,
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then it proves something else, which is that despite being born in this country, Selena Gomez
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doesn't see herself as American. Her people are people from another country.
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You know, it's difficult to imagine somebody like Selena ever using the phrase my people
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to refer to Americans. That would never happen. It would be a nativist and xenophobic. You can't do
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that. But Americans are never supposed to identify with each other in that way. So instead, a half
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Mexican, half Italian billionaire celebrity from Texas identifies with Mexican illegal aliens, many of
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whom don't even speak our language. And it goes to show how rampant immigration, both illegal and legal,
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tears at the fabric of our culture and undermines our national identity. That's not the point that
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Selena Gomez was trying to prove, but it's the point that she did prove. Now, here's the thing,
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Selena. If you are American, then your people are Americans. And the fact that you do not see it that
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way, that you do not identify with or feel any loyalty to the country that gave you everything and
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made you who you are, just goes to show why Trump's border policies are necessary.
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I mean, Selena, you never made a video hysterically crying when, for example,
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North Carolina was ravaged by a hurricane and its citizens were left to drown.
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You never wept over the suffering of your people who'd been abandoned by Joe Biden's government and
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left to die. That's because you don't see white people in North Carolina as your people.
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And that's the problem. So immigration enforcement is not just about keeping crime and drugs out of
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our neighborhoods, though that is a big part of it. At a deeper level, it's about reclaiming a sense of
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identity and fraternity as a nation. It's about becoming a people again, not just people who happen to all live
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in the same geographic area, but a people, a nation. And anyone who doesn't want that, anyone who would
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prefer that we have no identity as a nation is invited and indeed urged to leave. We don't need
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you here and we don't want you. And a lot of people who are supposedly in Gomez's target audience,
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namely Hispanics, seem to understand this, by the way. The Venezuelan YouTuber named Dross,
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for example, responded to Gomez's video by writing, quote, shut up, stupid. That was pretty,
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I mean, it's all that really needs to be said. And the backlash was pretty much universal,
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which is why Selena Gomez quickly deleted the post. Then she wrote a passive aggressive follow-up
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message that read, quote, apparently it's not okay to show empathy for people. And then she
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deleted that message too. So she clearly didn't have a lot of conviction in what she was saying.
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The moment her fans let her know that they thought she was acting like an imbecile,
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she just took the post down. It's yet another indication that the whole emotional blackmail
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routine is not working like it used to. The fact that Gomez was greeted with near universal
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mockery as a clear sign that things are changing. A few years ago, a sobbing actress would have
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probably convinced some people that, say, children were being held in cages at the southern border or
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whatever, if we remember that. But it doesn't work anymore because we've all been lied to and
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manipulated far too much. And as a result, we now have a government that, you know, we have leaders
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now who are not being cowed by these kinds of tactics. Yesterday, when border czar Tom Homan was
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asked about Selena Gomez's video, he pretty much said that he doesn't care. Watch.
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We've got over 2 million known goddoways. We've got a 600% increase in sex trafficking. We've got a
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record number of terrorists crossing the border on the terrorist watch list. We have quarter million
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Americans diving fentanyl coming across the open border. We're going to do this job and we're going
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to enforce the laws of this country. If they don't like it, then go to Congress and change the law.
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We're going to do this operational apology. We're going to make our community safer. We're going
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to save. Once we lock that border on continuous operation, you're going to see fentanyl, death
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decrease, illegal alien crime decrease, sex trafficking decrease. It's all for the good of
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this nation. And we're going to keep going. No apologies. We're moving forward.
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You know, when entire neighborhoods in North Carolina were destroyed by a hurricane late last
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year, like we just discussed, the DHS secretary at the time made it very clear that he didn't care
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about any of the victims. He went shopping for clothes in Georgetown while fiending
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the agency was supposedly overseeing, denied disaster relief to homes with Trump signs on
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the lawn. That's the kind of apathy that we're all familiar with when it comes to the federal
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government. But what the second Trump administration is bringing to the table is a very different
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kind of apathy. They are apathetic to the lazy emotional blackmail and propaganda that constantly
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emanates from our so-called elites, whether they're in Hollywood or the media. For the first
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time in modern history, we have an administration that simply does not care how much liberals are
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willing to fake cry on camera. To borrow from Kamala Harris's campaign slogan, those people are
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now on the enemies list in the sense that their opinion doesn't matter. Their crying is irrelevant.
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What matters now is restoring sanity to this country and to our government. And the more that
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billionaire actresses like Selena Gomez lose their minds, the more that the rest of us can be sure
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that after many very dark years, sanity is indeed making a comeback. Now let's get to our five
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Donald Trump gave a speech to a conference of congressional Republicans yesterday. And there
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were two moments in particular from the speech that are worth talking about. Two, I think,
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quite brilliant suggestions that Trump seemed to make. And the first one has to do with the
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problem of crime in our neighborhoods, and particularly the fact that this crime is often
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committed by repeat offenders. So it's the same people committing the crimes over and over again.
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And Trump had a solution that he proposed for that, which I thought was really interesting.
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They're very dangerous people. They're violent people. I used to say these are more violent than
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our criminals. In fact, the best part about them is they make our criminals look quite nice,
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actually, by comparison. They are very violent people. We also have many violent criminals in our
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country, however, that did not necessarily come here illegally, but have been arrested 30 times,
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35 times, 41, 42 times in a couple of cases, 25 times, 18 times, many for murder and other heinous
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charges, such as pushing people into subways. As the train's coming along at 45 miles an hour,
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boom, you get pushed into the subway. They had it last week, getting them in the head with baseball
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bats while they're not looking, punching old ladies in the face, knocking them unconscious
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and stealing their purse. They even break into apartments and rape elderly women and beat up
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elderly men, beat them to hell. And I don't want these violent repeat offenders in our country
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anymore than I want illegal aliens from other countries who misbehave.
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And I say, and this is subject to getting it approved, but if they've been arrested many,
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many times, they're repeat offenders by many numbers, I want them out of our country. I also
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will be seeking permission to do so. We're going to get approval, hopefully, to get them the hell out
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of our country along with others. Let them be brought to a foreign land and maintained by others for a very
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small fee as opposed to be maintained in our jails for massive amounts of money, including the private
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prison companies that charge us a fortune. So here Trump is floating the idea of, I guess,
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bringing back penal colonies. He's talking about shipping repeat offenders off to some foreign
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country, some foreign land and paying that country to be their jailers. And which means they're going to
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be housed in, you know, foreign jails somewhere by a country that needs the money. So probably not a
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very pleasant experience I would expect in a jail like that. And needless to say, I think this is a
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wonderful idea. I mean, why don't we do that? What's the argument against it? You know, there's a long
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history of this kind of thing all across the world. It's an effective system. It's effective in many
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different ways. It's cheaper for one. Also, it, you know, if there's any concerns about overcrowding
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in prisons or whatever, then, well, this is one way to solve that. And it makes prison far less
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appealing. You know, it increases, which you would think that prison would be unappealing no matter what.
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But obviously, for people that go to jail 15 times, they're not as worried about going to prison as
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they should be. So we have not made the experience as uncomfortable as it needs to be to get the
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message across to these people. So it has that. It increases dramatically the punitive effect of
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prison, which increases the deterrence effect. And all of these things are good. The only argument
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against shipping criminals off to be jailed by some foreign country is that the experience will be
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less pleasant for the criminals themselves. That's the only argument is about just seeing it from
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their perspective of the criminals and saying, well, this, this wouldn't be good for them. They're
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not going to like it. But not only is that not a downside, it is, as I said, an upside. If somebody
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has been arrested 18 times already, it's very clear that the experience of jail has not been unpleasant
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enough. So they need to be made to suffer. Okay. There's, there's, there's obviously been a failure
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to communicate in the words of the, the warden and cool hand Luke, um, who of course I recognize was
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not supposed to be the good guy of that movie. But, uh, but in this case, I think a little bit of that
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attitude, a little bit of that approach is, is warranted. So I think it's a great idea, but in the next
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clip, Trump floats something that is even better, I think. And, uh, he's brought this up before, but,
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uh, before he was elected, but now he's obviously been elected. He's in office and he's still talking
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about it, which is a good sign. Let's listen to this. He's going to be very rich again, and it's
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going to happen very quickly. It's time for the United States to return to the system that made us
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richer and more powerful than ever before. Do you know the United States in 1870 to 1913,
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all tariffs, and that was the richest period in the history of the United States, relatively speaking,
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in other words, relatively. And we, they set up the great tariff commission of 1887.
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And this commission had one function, what to do with all the money that we took in. It was so
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enormous that they had no idea. It was a blue ribbon committee was set up 1887 and what to do
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with all of the money that we had. And again, uh, Teddy Roosevelt was a beneficiary because when
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McKinley was killed, he took over this vast sum of money and he did all of those national parks and
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all of the other things. And I'm not knocking him, but he was given a vast amount of money and that was
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all made through tariffs as we had no income tax. The income tax came in in 1913. As I said in my
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speech last week, instead of taxing our citizens to enrich foreign nations, we should be tariffing
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and taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens. Does that make sense? Right? Okay. So Trump,
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yet again, talking about abolishing the income tax, replacing with tariffs, um,
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and his way of looking at it is let's, you know, rather than taxing our citizens to enrich foreign
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nations, let's tax foreign nations to enrich our citizens. Great, great idea. I mean, that's a,
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that yes, I, sign me up. Uh, and let me tell you something. Uh, now I still would not put any money
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on the income tax actually being abolished. You know, that would be a Herculean accomplishment.
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Um, more importantly, it's an accomplishment that would require the cooperation of Congress,
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which is the problem. So the odds are just very much against it happening. But,
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but if Trump were able to achieve this, if, if he were able somehow to, uh, lead, lead the charge to
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abolishing the income tax, he would automatically become one of the greatest presidents of all time.
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I think he would be number two, second only to George Washington. Um, you know, by abolishing
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the income tax, Trump will have done more to restore freedom in America than any president ever
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next to George Washington. He would deserve to be added to Mount Rushmore, like unironically.
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Um, and I personally would donate to the cause of, uh, carving his face in Mount Rushmore. I'll carve
00:24:39.820
it myself. I'll go up there and carve it. I, I, you know, I'll look at some YouTube tutorials on get,
00:24:45.660
to get the basics of sculpting down and then I'll go carve his face. Um, and even if he doesn't pull
00:24:52.340
it off, you know, he's already doing something very important by talking about it so openly. So
00:24:56.260
I hope he continues to talk about it. I mean, arguably if he can just get the abolition of the income tax
00:25:01.220
to become a mainstream talking point and position, if he can rally conservatives around this idea,
00:25:07.440
uh, even if it doesn't actually happen in the next four years, then that alone would put him
00:25:12.100
in the top two or three of presidents. Um, because the income tax is, uh, is just flat out oppressive.
00:25:24.860
Like we all live under an oppressive system of the income tax. It is oppression. It actually is.
00:25:33.820
Um, and you know, I've said before that the income tax is kind of proof of, uh, the quote from Ed
00:25:39.300
Harris's character in the Truman show, when he said that we accept the reality of the world that we're
00:25:44.780
presented. And he said that to explain why Truman in the movie didn't question all the surreal,
00:25:50.640
surreal, and kind of bizarre things about his reality. And he didn't question it because it's
00:25:54.940
just the reality he was born into. It's just, it's just the way the world is. And, um, most people
00:26:00.820
don't question that most people, at least not on their own. Most people, if the idea is not planted
00:26:10.840
in their head, then they're just going to accept whatever the world is as it's, they'll present the,
00:26:15.520
they'll accept the basics of it, kind of the framework. Um, but it's like that with the income
00:26:24.620
tax. I mean, which is why somehow the abolition of the income tax has not even been a live political
00:26:35.680
issue for like a century. I mean, it's, it's not even something that's debated. The income tax isn't
00:26:45.100
even controversial. Uh, you know, people just accept it. Um, even though objectively speaking,
00:26:54.920
it is an insane system. It's an insane system to have the government come in and take whatever
00:27:02.520
amount of your paycheck they want, whatever they want, because we actually have no control over it.
00:27:10.100
Uh, and then give you whatever's left over. You get the leftovers of your own paycheck and the
00:27:17.580
government comes in and takes whatever they want. How can we have any semblance of freedom or
00:27:21.660
independence when that's going on? Especially considering that this system has to be run and
00:27:26.180
facilitated by an agency called the IRS, which has in essence, total power over your life.
00:27:34.560
Anyone who's had to deal with the IRS knows this, that, you know, you like to think you have
00:27:40.800
constitutional rights and that you're a free American citizen and all this kind of stuff.
00:27:44.280
Yeah. Well, that's until the IRS gets their sights on you because when they get their sights on you,
00:27:48.000
you have no rights. I mean, they can, they can do whatever they want. They can come in,
00:27:52.780
they can, they can take whatever they want from you. They can look in your bank account. They can look
00:27:56.020
in all your records, everything. They tear your life apart. They can take your car. They can take your
00:28:02.860
house. They can throw you in prison. They can do anything. And these are all unelected bureaucrats,
00:28:08.180
all of them. You have no control over them. No say. They can do whatever the hell they want.
00:28:14.860
And they can do all of that just to ensure that they get your money.
00:28:23.060
In what sense can we even call this a free country with a system like that in place? We can't.
00:28:28.060
And it becomes all the more grotesque when you consider it. We all know that one of the reasons
00:28:40.300
our country exists to begin with was to escape an oppressive tax system. And yet what we have now
00:28:48.420
is so much worse than what, you know, our, our, our founders, uh, had, what, you know, sparked them to,
00:28:59.720
to the point of revolution. What we have now is so much worse. I mean, it's not even close.
00:29:05.420
So the whole thing, it's a mockery. It's a, it's just grotesque. And, uh, it's, you know,
00:29:15.420
yeah, and yet it's been a part of our reality since we were born. And for that reason, and for that
00:29:20.420
reason alone, we allow it to continue. It doesn't even come up. When's the last time it came up in a
00:29:27.220
presidential debate, which is nuts. I don't know how else to put it. Like I, I, and it's one of the
00:29:36.940
things that could happen. You know, there's, there's, there are a few things you can think of
00:29:44.420
that the government could do that if they did it, what it would immediately drastically improve
00:29:54.260
the quality of your life instantly. You know, that's a small list of things that the government
00:30:01.220
could, could do that would have that kind of a media impact. And like at the top of that list
00:30:05.460
would be getting rid of the income tax. Because if you're a working American instantly, you have, uh,
00:30:14.300
significantly more money than you had before. And it's not because anyone is giving it to you.
00:30:19.820
It's just your own money you get to keep. Um, and that's not even to mention, that's not even to
00:30:25.900
get into the, the, uh, freedom and independence over your own life that you now have. That now you're
00:30:33.240
in a spot where, no, there is no government bureaucrat that could just knock on your door
00:30:37.860
and demand to see all of your records, everything and tear your life apart and take everything from
00:30:42.500
you. If they decide you didn't give the government enough money like that, that would no longer be a
00:30:46.680
thing. So at the very least, um, this, uh, I hope Trump keeps talking about this and, uh, it, it needs
00:30:58.000
to, at the very least, become a live political issue. Something we actually talk about. If you're
00:31:03.520
running for president, you should have a position on the income tax. Yeah. You're nay and be able to
00:31:10.380
explain it. All right, here's some more encouraging news. The Daily Mail has this. Teenagers and those
00:31:17.400
in their early twenties are half as likely to identify as atheists than their parents. A new
00:31:21.240
poll has shown those age 18 to 24 who are all Gen Z are the most spiritual age group in the UK with
00:31:27.220
just 13% identifying as atheists. Another 62% describe themselves as very or fairly spiritual.
00:31:33.400
And when asked what the biggest factors in declining Christianity rates in the UK, Gen Z cited the
00:31:37.440
inability to grapple with scandals involving abuse, as well as generational change. In contrast,
00:31:42.400
middle-aged members of Gen X age 45, 45 to 60 are the most likely to be atheists with 25% saying
00:31:48.780
they don't believe in a God or spirituality. So this is just one survey of people in the UK,
00:31:54.120
apparently, but it tracks with trends we've seen in many polls and surveys. We've seen a lot of
00:31:57.300
evidence, including the last election results that in many cases, Gen Z are more conservative,
00:32:01.580
more right-wing, and apparently more religious than their parents. This is especially true of Gen
00:32:07.400
Gen Z males, but you see indications of this trend across the board.
00:32:11.360
And now you have this poll, which tells us that people in their twenties and late teens are
00:32:14.440
significantly less likely to be atheists than their parents and their grandparents, which is,
00:32:20.780
you know, when you think about it for a moment, pretty stunning. And it defies conventional wisdom
00:32:25.800
in many ways, at least the conventional wisdom that, again, the world as we've come to know it,
00:32:33.220
it kind of defies that, what we would expect based on that. I mean, just the idea that you'd have a
00:32:42.440
generation of young people who, on average, are more religious than their grandparents
00:32:47.240
is pretty crazy, but it's the fact. And it's actually not that surprising in the final analysis,
00:32:55.420
because a few things are happening here. The liberal secularism of the boomer generation
00:33:00.800
is fading out. It's dying a death of exhaustion, I think. It's dying of boredom.
00:33:08.440
It's just kind of dissipating, like a fart in the wind, right? It has nothing to offer.
00:33:16.600
And this is the thing about liberal churches. This is a phenomenon that every church-going
00:33:22.660
Christian has observed this, that the most liberal churches are all old. You know, the average age of
00:33:27.940
the congregation is going to be like 67. The pastor is old. The congregation is old. The churches are
00:33:33.700
sparsely attended. There's no life. There's nothing approaching exuberance or awe or reverence.
00:33:39.820
That's because liberal churches have nothing to offer. And I think that something similar is
00:33:45.140
happening with liberalism and secularism in general in the culture. And also, and this is, of course,
00:33:51.580
related, it's just a fact of life that younger generations have this natural rebellious instinct.
00:34:00.820
Every revolution in history, for better or worse, has been led by young people. And now,
00:34:10.680
well, that means rebelling against liberal secularism, because liberal secularism is
00:34:16.000
the dominant cultural position. And it's the thing, it's all of our institutions are defined by it.
00:34:25.980
And so you're seeing that as part of what we're seeing is this, I think, rebellious instinct
00:34:34.180
being used for good for a change. And on a related note, there's also this cover story from New York
00:34:41.260
Magazine that's getting some attention. And I think we have the image we can put up on screen. Yeah, there's
00:34:47.920
the image. So there was a New York Magazine reporter went to some of the Trump inauguration parties last
00:34:55.300
weekend and wrote this cover story. And the headline is, The Cruel Kids Table. And then the caption on
00:35:03.700
the tweet says, For our latest cover story, Brock Collier reported on the young, gleeful, confident,
00:35:09.140
and casually cruel Trumpers who, after conquering Washington, have their sights set on the rest of
00:35:14.880
America. Now, there's a lot of controversy over this image, the picture you see from this Trump
00:35:21.200
inauguration party. Because in the article, the reporter says that the event was almost entirely
00:35:25.980
white. And yet, as people on the internet have discovered, if you pan out a bit on that very
00:35:32.600
photo, you see that there are at least three black people who were cropped out. You know, they're just
00:35:40.020
out of frame. And that was done, of course, on purpose because they had this narrative they wanted
00:35:44.880
to say. And also, a black guy, C.J. Pearson, was one of the hosts of this party. So obviously,
00:35:52.860
no surprise, New York Magazine has an agenda here. But I don't even want to focus on that.
00:35:56.900
Okay, that's the easy part. And I don't care about what the article says, just the image alone,
00:36:02.600
just the cover image is really interesting because New York Magazine presents it to us
00:36:08.340
and wants us to see cruelty somehow. But instead, what any unbiased, normal person sees when they
00:36:16.740
look at that image, what they see are young, vibrant, happy, successful-looking people having
00:36:25.280
a good time. You know, you don't see a bunch of fat, ugly people with pink hair and nose rings and all
00:36:31.680
that. There are no cross-dressers in the photo. Nobody with a severe mental illness that they wear on
00:36:37.900
their sleeve with pride. We don't see that. These look like young, healthy, well-adjusted,
00:36:43.680
successful young people. And this is what the right wing has come to represent. This is the
00:36:51.300
future of the right wing. In a word, the photo is cool. It's a cool picture. And these look like
00:36:57.740
cool people. So being right wing is officially cool now. And truly, it is impossible to overstate
00:37:04.140
the significance of that cultural development. I mean, that's what this really all comes down to.
00:37:09.420
It changes everything. That, you know, they say the cruel kids table, but really it's the cool kids
00:37:16.300
table. If you're one of the cool kids, you're right wing now. And that's why it's significant that,
00:37:23.920
you know, all the right wing parties around the inauguration, they weren't held at like a Texas
00:37:29.820
Roadhouse with everybody listening to Christian rock or country music or whatever. And, um, and I
00:37:35.800
say that by the way, as someone who, you know, would have loved to go to an inauguration party at
00:37:39.780
a Texas Roadhouse, don't get me wrong. But, you know, when I went to these parties and I was actually
00:37:46.380
supposed to be at that party, uh, that they, they reported on, it's probably for the best that I didn't
00:37:51.620
show up because I think my dad vibes would have kind of ruined that picture just way. It wouldn't have
00:37:55.560
worked. So it's probably best that I wasn't there. Um, but you know, I did make it to plenty of the
00:38:01.200
other parties and they all had this same kind of vibe. And even though I love the Texas Roadhouse
00:38:06.780
vibe personally, I also appreciate that being right wing now also might mean that you're wearing a nice
00:38:14.420
suit and you're drinking a cocktail at a party in DC. I mean, that's a good thing.
00:38:19.860
It's not the vibe that I normally gravitate to personally, but it's good that the right has that
00:38:25.180
vibe also. And this is how we truly become culturally dominant. You know, cause look at
00:38:31.540
it this way. Here's, here's the, I think this is the, this kind of tells you everything you need to
00:38:36.020
know, right? That when you see that image of the, uh, of the party of the, you know, the party and
00:38:43.540
it's, it's a bunch of younger people and they're all, it's a black tie affair and everybody looks cool
00:38:48.140
and hip and young and all that. You see that image and it reads as right wing. Now,
00:38:54.500
if you saw that without any context and you didn't know it was a Trump inauguration event
00:38:59.580
and you just looked at that, you would say, yeah, that's probably Republicans.
00:39:04.620
But then also if you see, you know, a dad in flannel drinking a beer at Texas Roadhouse,
00:39:10.480
that also reads as right wing. So both of those images, if you see them, you immediately think,
00:39:17.660
yeah, it's probably kind of conservative. Um, and so that, what that tells you is it's, this is,
00:39:26.020
this is, it runs the gamut. So in other words, basically, I think this is all the way,
00:39:30.060
another way of putting it. If somebody appears to be happy, well-adjusted, um, you know,
00:39:39.760
reasonably successful in their station in life, just like a normal, confident person,
00:39:47.940
healthy, you know, if someone appears to be those things, it reads as right wing.
00:39:55.220
Just imagine like, what would you, again, without any context,
00:39:59.880
what would you need to see in a picture in order to think that this, okay, this codes as left wing,
00:40:06.840
right? If you're looking at a picture of people who are all in some kind of environment,
00:40:12.020
what are the, what are the, the signifiers, right? That would, would tell you that, okay,
00:40:17.720
this is probably a left wing group, but what are they? And that, I mean, if they're overweight,
00:40:25.580
if they've got weird, uh, piercings, if they have strangely colored hair, um, if they, you know,
00:40:36.140
if they are cross-dressing, basically weird, ugly, friendless losers, when you see that,
00:40:46.320
you think, well, that's, they're probably left wing. Uh, anything else, it now reads as right
00:40:55.060
wing. And I think that that, uh, this is, look, it does it every time I talk about this now. And I,
00:41:02.600
I know people in the audience are, uh, a little bit bewildered sometimes listening to the show for
00:41:06.960
the last two weeks, uh, because, uh, I'm strangely positive and optimistic, at least by my standards,
00:41:15.320
by my standards, it's, it's, it's, it's, I understand it's a little bit, it's a little
00:41:19.320
disturbing even if you've been listening to the show for a long time to hear this much sustained
00:41:23.700
optimism from me is, uh, quite, uh, it's even upsetting. I get it. It's like, you just not,
00:41:29.020
it doesn't make any sense coming from me. Um, and, and I don't want it to come across like
00:41:36.600
we're saying, or I'm saying that, well, everything's good. Now we won, let let's all go
00:41:44.480
home. We don't need to think about this anymore. That's not the point. Um, but the point is like
00:41:51.380
assessing where we actually are in the culture. And I think it's important to get a good read on that
00:41:56.360
because the fight does continue in order to be, in order to be in a fight, you have to kind of
00:42:00.740
know where you are and what your position is. And, uh, the fact is that the right wing is culturally
00:42:07.720
ascended. Um, and, uh, and that's a good thing. And, but that, that, those are also, that that's a
00:42:16.340
position and those are gains that we have to defend and build on. All right, let's get to the comment
00:42:26.360
Columbia doesn't just export coffee and cocaine. It exports petroleum, bananas, flowers, gold,
00:42:38.100
aluminum, among other things. Okay. But you know, we, we could stop importing from Columbia
00:42:43.340
entirely and it would hardly affect any of our lives. So that's the point. Um, let's see.
00:42:49.340
You forgot to mention the biggest outrage from the Academy Awards. Nosferatu didn't get a best picture
00:42:55.000
nom. Yeah. I got to say, I didn't, I hate to tell you, I didn't like that movie. I just didn't like
00:43:02.860
it. Um, I watched it a few days ago and now I'll say it's a, it's a beautiful film. I mean, the
00:43:11.560
cinematography, the shot selection, the way that it's filmed, it's pretty jaw dropping. So from a purely
00:43:17.900
aesthetic perspective, it's maybe the most artistic movie I've ever seen. I mean, every single shot
00:43:25.100
looks like a painting. It's pretty incredible. Um, on that basis. So I respect the movie for that
00:43:31.640
reason. I respect the director, Robert Eggers, who is a real filmmaker. I mean, the guy's not out there
00:43:36.760
making superhero movies. He's making real movies, real cinema. He made the Northmen, which I, which I
00:43:41.880
thought was a masterpiece. It's one of my favorite movies of the last five or 10 years. But, um, so
00:43:46.280
I watched Nosferatu with some anticipation and I just didn't like it. I wanted to like it, but I
00:43:53.100
didn't. I thought it was too slow to me, way too slow. And to me, there was no real suspense because
00:43:59.320
I knew exactly where it was going, which is maybe an inevitable problem when you make a film based on
00:44:05.800
one of the most famous stories of all time, which was basically Dracula. Uh, but still I didn't feel
00:44:10.900
the suspense, which is a problem in this case because so much of the movie relies on building
00:44:16.160
suspense. And, um, I, I found the whole thing to be a bit, I don't know, heavy handed is maybe the
00:44:23.920
word. You know, there's this viral clip going around for some reason from a clip from family
00:44:29.060
guy from some episode. I don't know when, where Peter Griffin says that he didn't like the Godfather
00:44:34.120
because the movie insists on itself, which is a criticism that doesn't make any sense for
00:44:40.800
the Godfather, but you know, it's fine. It's family guy. It's not supposed to make sense. It's
00:44:44.160
supposed to be funny, but I actually would borrow that phrase for Nosferatu. I actually think that
00:44:48.800
it insists on itself too much. Um, I thought every single frame of the movie from start to finish
00:44:55.440
just is supposed to fill you with dread and horror. Every single frame there, there's no other,
00:45:02.060
there there's, there's no other like a tone. There's no other mood. There's nothing. It's just
00:45:09.540
supposed to be unrelenting draw dread and horror from the very first second of the movie until the
00:45:15.500
end. And, uh, the movie just, it relentlessly insists on it, beats you over the head with it in
00:45:21.980
a way that got kind of tedious. If I'm being honest, the, the lead character, uh, who I forget her name,
00:45:28.120
but the whole, and it was a, it was a good performance. I mean, from an, just a pure acting
00:45:35.140
perspective, but every single, like she, she has this look of horror and kind of confusion
00:45:43.620
in her face for the whole movie. Again, from the very first moment and it never stops.
00:45:54.020
And I don't, it's hard to maintain that. It's just hard to like, I can't watch a movie
00:45:58.720
and the movie wants me to be horrified and experiencing deep dread the whole time, you know,
00:46:05.080
and I just can't, I can't sustain that level of emotional investment, I guess. And, uh, and then
00:46:11.660
spoiler alert, spoiler, spoiler. Okay. I'm just going to tell you, I hated the end. I thought the end
00:46:17.440
was, uh, was bad because in the end, the woman saves the day by selling her soul to the devil.
00:46:22.460
Essentially. Uh, she saves the day by submitting in every sense, in every sense, you know, in,
00:46:27.400
including in a quite grotesquely physical sense, uh, submitting to evil, which I didn't like either.
00:46:33.720
So even if I did like the movie up until that moment, that moment would have ruined the whole
00:46:40.020
movie for me. Um, and, uh, so yeah, I didn't like it. I'll be very interested to see what he does next.
00:46:48.020
I like the film. I find the filmmaker himself to be interesting, but I thought that that was by far
00:46:53.840
and away the least interesting movie he's ever made. Uh, and one of the least interesting movies
00:46:58.860
I've seen recently, afraid to say, um, Matt, this is one of my faves. The most obvious lesson here is
00:47:09.760
that these countries do not appreciate us. They should have to publicly apologize to the American
00:47:14.500
people before they get one more centavo her. Well, we don't know if he was radicalized here.
00:47:19.620
So it's our fault. Ship her to Afghanistan. That's what gets me to the total lack of gratitude,
00:47:25.560
total lack of appreciation that you find from other countries for all the help that we've given all of
00:47:30.940
these hundreds of other countries on the globe that we've given aid to and protection. There's just
00:47:36.080
no gratitude, you know, and then the, the, uh, immigrants when they come here, uh, now there are
00:47:42.360
exceptions to this, but for the most part, you don't get a sense of, of real appreciation and
00:47:51.160
gratitude when they come here. You just get a sense of entitlement. Um, that show was low key out of
00:47:59.460
pocket, Matt, no cap. Well, thanks fam. I mean, you cook, you cooked with that one. I stand your
00:48:05.440
comment, bro. Your comment, your comment is sending me. It's, and look, anyone who doesn't
00:48:14.320
like the show needs to take several seats. Low key needs to low key, take several seats.
00:48:22.540
You're being real extra. If you don't like the show,
00:48:24.760
I'm just like, I'm just connecting with the young people. Like I said, the right wing is cool now.
00:48:30.740
So this is, this is, this is me being cool. Young people, they hear their slang words and they,
00:48:37.120
they just can't. I, my viewership in the last two days, adopting some of this slang,
00:48:42.500
my viewership among Gen Z has increased 95%. They were just telling me, they were just telling me,
00:48:47.340
keep doing it because 95% increase. It's a fact. Look, it's no secret. Legacy,
00:48:54.760
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00:48:59.600
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00:49:04.620
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00:49:34.520
Today, I have to cancel Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace. Congresswoman Mace has been on a
00:49:41.000
crusade as of late over the trans issue. For the last few months, Mace has been speaking out in very
00:49:46.620
forceful language against the scourge of gender ideology, along with authoring a bill to keep men
00:49:52.120
women's bathrooms on Capitol Hill. Mace has also been tweeting things like, quote,
00:49:56.680
your mental illness will not become my new normal. And she stood in front of whatever cameras she can
00:50:04.240
Effort in response to Congresswoman McBride coming to Congress?
00:50:09.340
Yes, and absolutely. And then some. I'm not going to stand for a man. You know, if someone with a
00:50:15.180
penis is in the women's locker room, that's not OK. And I'm a victim of abuse myself. I'm a rape
00:50:20.780
survivor. I have PTSD from the abuse I've suffered at the hands of a man. And I know how vulnerable
00:50:26.400
women and girls are in private spaces. So I'm absolutely a hundred percent going to stand in
00:50:32.240
the way of any man who wants to be in a women's restroom, in our locker rooms, in our changing rooms.
00:50:39.700
So very clear and forceful and, of course, totally correct language. In fact, Nancy is so heated about
00:50:46.060
this topic that she recently challenged another Congresswoman, Jasmine Crockett, to, quote,
00:50:50.540
step outside in the middle of a congressional hearing. So this is a woman who will not take
00:50:54.740
any guff from the trans activists and their proponents. And she has, in recent months,
00:50:58.920
made that her brand. She has positioned herself as a leader in the fight against gender ideology.
00:51:03.320
She likes to tweet with the hashtag, hold the line, a slogan that she's adopted because she is,
00:51:07.780
we're supposed to believe, holding the line against the trans madness. But you may notice that
00:51:12.880
even as I've talked about this, I've had to qualify all of these statements by saying,
00:51:17.220
as of late and in the last few months, because oddly enough, less than two years ago,
00:51:23.880
the woman who is now holding the line and leading the charge, she claims, against trans ideology
00:51:29.560
was sitting down for interviews with corporate media outlets and saying stuff like this.
00:51:36.140
So I touch a lot of sensitive subjects because I want to show that as conservatives,
00:51:43.500
How does that inform your position on transgender rights?
00:51:47.220
Well, I'm pro-transgender rights. I'm pro-LGBTQ. Just don't go to the extreme with our kids.
00:51:57.680
Sex change surgery, the hormone blockers that sterilize our children. We shouldn't be doing
00:52:03.700
that when a child is prepubescent or going through puberty. Let that child go through the
00:52:09.680
natural process of life and let them make that permanent decision when they're older. Now,
00:52:15.500
if they want to take on a different pronoun or a different gender identity or grow their hair out
00:52:20.980
or wear a dress or wear pants or do those things as a minor, those are all things that I think
00:52:26.620
most people would support. Be who you want to be, but don't make those permanent changes
00:52:32.740
Okay, so Nancy was bold enough at least to oppose the medical mutilation of minors in 2023, but
00:52:41.420
she did support trans rights and the social transition of children.
00:52:48.720
In fact, she not only supported the idea that a child might have a different gender identity,
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quote unquote, she said that most people would support it. To her, it was obvious, a given.
00:53:00.220
Right? She's supporting dressing a boy up like a girl and saying that he's a girl and giving him
00:53:05.760
girl pronouns. That's what she supported. In 2023, I must stress again, this was in 2023.
00:53:11.500
Now, to put that into perspective, that was a full year after What Is A Woman came out.
00:53:19.020
Okay, we were already well into the period when it was pretty safe to fundamentally oppose gender
00:53:24.520
ideology. And yet, Nancy Mace didn't oppose it at the time. Does she now? I don't know. In 2023,
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she supported trans rights in those words. So tell me, Nancy, what do you think trans rights are?
00:53:39.800
What rights specifically fall under that umbrella? Well, I'll tell you. A man using the women's
00:53:47.020
restroom. That is specifically and explicitly what is meant when trans activists talk about
00:53:53.460
trans rights. That is the trans right they're demanding. The right to be fully recognized as
00:54:00.640
the gender they claim to be. That's what trans rights are. So if you support trans rights,
00:54:06.400
you support that. You support men in the women's room. There's no such thing as I support trans
00:54:12.640
rights, but not men in the women's room. That doesn't make any sense. Okay, this is a two that
00:54:18.340
is the same thing. Which means as recently as 2023, you supported men in the women's room.
00:54:25.520
Now, this has not stopped Mace from loudly on a daily basis at this point claiming with a shameless
00:54:32.700
straight face that she has led the charge in the fight against trans ideology. Just yesterday,
00:54:38.420
she posted this claim on X again. And she's saying this. I mean, it's constant. Okay,
00:54:43.440
constant. She's saying this. And so she's probably about to announce a campaign for South Carolina
00:54:48.720
governor. And this post was meant to favorably compare herself against Alan Wilson, who's the AG of
00:54:53.480
South Carolina, who's also probably going to run apparently. And she posted this. They say
00:54:58.080
imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. We led the fight to protect women. Alan Wilson holds
00:55:03.420
a press conference on it. We visit the South Carolina National Guard. Alan Wilson visits the
00:55:07.400
South Carolina National Guard. We speak at Greenwood County GOP. Alan Wilson speaks at Greenwood County
00:55:11.360
GOP. Well, thank you, Alan Wilson. We're flattered. So not only is she claiming to be in the lead,
00:55:17.760
but she's actually accusing someone else of copying her. And then there's a picture of herself with the
00:55:27.040
caption, how it started. Okay, so I must ask, Nancy, how what started? What is it that you think you
00:55:39.660
started? In what way did you lead the fight to protect women? The people who led the fight were
00:55:48.720
in it for years while you were still telling CBS about how deeply you care about trans rights.
00:55:55.880
Okay, while you were telling CBS that it's okay to dress a little boy like a girl and say that he's a
00:56:01.900
girl and give him girl pronouns. While you were doing that, the people who were actually leading the
00:56:06.860
fight were leading it. You came in after, okay? But this is the kind of ego that we're dealing with.
00:56:14.800
This is someone who posted a tribute to the people who started the fight to protect women's sports,
00:56:20.080
and it's literally just three pictures of her. I mean, come on. The woman who only got bold and
00:56:28.100
aggressive on the issue well after the people who had actually led the fight had made it safe for her
00:56:32.360
to do so. But look, that's not the point today. The fact that Nancy Mace explicitly supported trans
00:56:40.600
rights recently and is now pretending to be the leader of the very fight she undermined is annoying,
00:56:46.320
but it's also pretty standard political grandstanding. And I also don't like to get
00:56:51.940
into fights about who deserves credit for things. I'm used to people taking credit for stuff constantly,
00:56:58.060
especially politicians. They do this all the time. Politicians are always out, I led the fight.
00:57:02.840
And it's like, yeah, you came into this fight. No, no, no. You waited until it was super safe,
00:57:08.400
and then you rode a wave. You didn't lead a fight. But if we get into that game, then we'd be here all
00:57:17.140
day. And it's just, there's no point. Which is why I've been firmly biting my tongue for weeks now,
00:57:25.060
while Nancy Mace plays the role of anti-gender ideology crusader. In fact, I've even given her
00:57:31.200
credit on this show for going to bat on this issue recently. Because even of her incredibly
00:57:36.700
self-congratulatory tone and is grating and thoroughly undeserved, she is still right about
00:57:42.460
the bathroom issue. She's right about it now anyway. And so I tried to focus on that.
00:57:53.520
I didn't fight like hell to become the first woman to graduate from the Citadel just for some
00:57:58.300
man in a miniskirt to take away that achievement. Protecting women's accomplishments isn't a political
00:58:03.120
talking point. For me, it's personal. Now, this is also something that she says a lot.
00:58:09.440
She constantly brags about being the first woman to graduate from the Citadel Military College.
00:58:13.580
In fact, she bragged about it twice yesterday alone. She also tweeted, quote,
00:58:17.840
when I was first elected, I was told if I didn't fall in line, if I didn't play the Washington
00:58:22.060
political insider game, then I wouldn't fit in. Boy, were they right. When you were the first woman
00:58:27.700
to sit in the Citadel's barber chair to get all your hair chopped off, you don't get your feelings
00:58:31.700
hurt if you don't get invited to fancy cocktail parties in Washington, D.C.
00:58:35.360
I mean, Nancy, you were literally just at the fanciest D.C. cocktail party of the year last
00:58:43.600
Monday night for the inauguration. I was there, too. I'm not judging you for it. But you were just
00:58:49.500
there and you posted a bunch of pictures with yourself and celebrities. So you do get invited
00:58:55.260
to the cocktail parties. But anyway, that's not the point. The point is Nancy Mace's feminist girl
00:59:02.620
boss routine. And that is what is pushing me over the edge and forcing me to do this segment,
00:59:08.980
which I don't really want to do, but I have to. If she would just stick to taking credit for things
00:59:14.420
she didn't do, we wouldn't have to talk about it. I can deal with that, but I can't deal with this.
00:59:20.580
And I'll tell you the reason. You know, Nancy, you say that you fought like hell to be the first
00:59:26.120
female graduate of the Citadel. Well, first of all, your dad was the commandant when you were there.
00:59:30.040
So I imagine, you know, you had some help in that fight. But second, you say that you care so much
00:59:37.260
about protecting female-only spaces. Well, great. The Citadel was a male-only space until it was
00:59:46.660
forced by law to admit females, to admit you, in the name of diversity and inclusion. You were quite
00:59:55.300
literally the beneficiary of a DEI program. You were a DEI graduate. That's what DEI is. Now,
01:00:03.840
they didn't call it that back then, but it's the same thing. Forcing an institution to change their
01:00:08.960
standards in order to admit a more diverse group of people, all in the name of being progressive and
01:00:14.380
inclusive is DEI. And it's also the exact same argument that trans-identifying males use to
01:00:22.420
invade female spaces. So we rightly lament the death of female-only spaces, but the truth that
01:00:29.900
you are so helpfully bringing to light is that male-only spaces died a long time ago.
01:00:35.980
Thanks to people like you, every uniquely masculine and exclusively male space, including those spaces
01:00:43.580
that had very good reason to be uniquely masculine and exclusively male, like the military and related
01:00:48.620
institutions, has been feminized. The feminism that you champion set the stage for trans ideology.
01:00:58.200
It essentially is trans ideology. The feminists were the first ones to deny the fundamental and
01:01:07.080
inherent differences between the sexes and to deny the value of sex segregation in many aspects of
01:01:14.040
society. Who were the first people to come along and say that biological sex is basically irrelevant?
01:01:20.800
It doesn't actually matter. People are the same. There's no meaningful difference between men and
01:01:26.860
women. Who were the first ones to say that? Okay. Pop quiz. Who was it? It was the feminists.
01:01:35.500
It was the feminists who came along, saw that the military was exclusively male, and said,
01:01:40.640
there's no reason why women shouldn't be included too. But there was a reason, Nancy. The reason was
01:01:46.880
biology, which is the same reality that trans activists deny, and for the same reason,
01:01:52.560
so that they can feel included, just like you wanted to feel included.
01:02:00.980
Now, it's not exactly the same thing. The trans male claims to be a woman so that he can be included
01:02:09.100
in women's spaces. The trans male claims that his inclusion actually does not destroy its status as a
01:02:15.060
women's space because he says, falsely, that he is a woman. The feminist, on the other hand,
01:02:20.660
demands to be included in men's spaces, but does not claim to be a man. Instead,
01:02:25.440
she simply says that men's spaces shouldn't exist. So these are different arguments, but they have
01:02:32.340
the same ultimate effect. They are both very bad. They both are based in the same fundamental lie
01:02:39.060
about the human condition and the human species, and they both derive from the same basic level denial
01:02:44.780
of the inherent and immutable and fundamentally significant differences between the sexes.
01:02:51.620
And this is why I can't just sit silently and listen to a prominent voice in the Republican Party
01:02:56.940
try to reframe the fight against gender ideology in feminist terms. I can tolerate the showboating
01:03:03.840
and you taking credit when you should be giving it, but I can't tolerate that because you are hurting
01:03:10.580
the cause that some of us actually have been fighting for and fighting for a long time.
01:03:16.840
A lot longer than you, Nancy. And that is why Nancy Mace is today, I'm afraid to say,
01:03:25.280
canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.
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