The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1524 - Selena Gomez Should Deport Herself In Solidarity With 'Her People'

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Hollywood celebrities are openly weeping over Trump's immigration

00:00:03.800 enforcement. Meanwhile, Trump is more popular than he's ever been in his political career.

00:00:07.540 That tells you pretty much everything you need to know. Also, Trump again floats the

00:00:10.400 possibility of abolishing the income tax. I'll explain why that would instantly make

00:00:13.860 him at least the second greatest president in U.S. history. And New York Magazine tries

00:00:17.860 to slander young right-wing Trump supporters, but instead accidentally makes them seem cool

00:00:22.220 as hell. And in our daily cancellation, I'm afraid I must cancel a certain prominent Republican

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00:02:07.980 Just over a week into Donald Trump's second term in office, it has to be said that Kamala Harris's

00:02:12.300 talking points from the presidential campaign are not exactly aging well. You might remember that

00:02:17.000 one of Kamala's taglines during the campaign was, Donald Trump has an enemies list. I have a to-do

00:02:23.080 list. And the line was supposed to conjure up a contrast in voters' minds, a contrast between

00:02:27.620 a president who gets rid of his enemies and a president who actually gets things done.

00:02:31.680 But it turns out that Kamala's campaign misunderstood that those two things are

00:02:35.760 not mutually exclusive. A president can indeed punish the enemies of civilization and also

00:02:40.420 get a lot of other stuff done at the same time. And that's exactly what Trump

00:02:44.080 has accomplished so far by all accounts. Now, to be clear, I'm not bringing this up to trash Kamala

00:02:48.920 Harris, who isn't worth thinking about anymore, much less talking about. But as dumb as her campaign 1.00

00:02:54.560 slogan was, it's clear that many Democrats thought it made sense. And now that Trump is actually in 0.99

00:02:59.060 office, they have no idea what to make of it. They can't comprehend the fact that Trump is destroying

00:03:04.820 America's enemies while advancing American interests, and that voters are responding very favorably 0.85

00:03:10.680 to his new administration as a result. So here, for example, was the scene the other day on CNN

00:03:15.120 when the anchor realizes, to her shock and horror, that Trump is now far more popular today than he

00:03:22.520 ever was during his first term. Watch.

00:03:25.400 Take me back in history.

00:03:26.900 Take you back in history.

00:03:28.300 So it was so interesting to me that Donald Trump's first net approval rating of his second term is higher

00:03:33.200 than his entire first term. And I was interested, has that ever happened? Has the second term net approval

00:03:38.420 rating in the first month? Have you ever had a higher rating than any net approval rating during

00:03:42.840 the entire first term? Donald Trump is the only...

00:03:45.060 I have a really hard time believing this.

00:03:46.500 This is 100% true. I went back. I love spreadsheets. Donald Trump's is the first guy ever whose net

00:03:52.560 approval rating in the first month of his second term is higher than any rating that he had is an

00:03:57.020 entire first term, Kate Baldwin. This is true. I don't make stuff up. The numbers are the numbers.

00:04:02.460 So once again, there's the screen guy circling and underlining things for no reason. You don't

00:04:08.580 need to underline the words on the screen. I mean, they're already typed in giant bold letters. We

00:04:12.380 can see them. But anyway, more to the point, the audible gasp from the CNN anchor is a clue that

00:04:19.500 nobody at CNN has any idea how this is happening. How can Trump possibly have a higher approval rating

00:04:25.640 after all of his felony convictions and all the attacks and the most well-funded and consistently

00:04:31.480 sustained smear campaign against a single individual person in the history of American

00:04:36.760 politics? How is that possible? Well, it begins to make sense when you realize that the agenda

00:04:41.380 Trump is aggressively pushing through in his first two weeks in office is not or need not be

00:04:47.200 partisan or ideological. His executive orders and other actions aren't necessarily conservative at

00:04:53.740 all, much less right wing. Instead, Trump is advancing something called common sense. Now,

00:04:59.460 common sense has become right wing by default, but it's still common sense. And it happens to appeal

00:05:04.480 to a lot of Americans, regardless of whether they describe themselves as liberal or conservative.

00:05:09.580 Most Americans agree, for example, that people with serious mental illnesses should not serve in

00:05:14.840 the armed forces. That's an intuitive concept that doesn't need any explanation. Until around 10 years

00:05:20.100 ago, even Democrats would not object to that. So when Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced

00:05:25.560 that trans-identifying individuals would be banned from serving or enlisting the military, as they did 1.00

00:05:29.760 the other day, makes a lot of sense to most people. As the White House put it, quote, unit cohesion

00:05:34.460 requires high levels of integrity and stability among service members. And because trans-identifying

00:05:40.060 people don't meet those requirements, they can't serve. Period. End of discussion. It's pretty simple.

00:05:46.280 In just the past few days, the Trump administration has announced a variety of straightforward

00:05:49.380 executive orders like this. And every single one of them comes across as a reasonable solution

00:05:54.700 that normal people would support. So Trump is also getting rid of DEI in the military and all across

00:06:00.720 the federal government. But in the military in particular, the theory is that America's military

00:06:06.460 shouldn't be concerned with quotas or diversity hiring. They should focus instead on one goal,

00:06:13.520 which is fighting America's enemies as effectively as they possibly can. Kill the bad guys. That's your 1.00

00:06:19.360 whole job in the military. And again, this is basic stuff. Until 15 seconds ago, it wouldn't even be

00:06:24.920 considered controversial. And also, common sense. One by one. That's what these orders amount to.

00:06:33.300 There's also Trump's planned order of creating an Iron Dome-style missile defense system to protect

00:06:37.920 the United States. We've been funding Israel's Iron Dome for many years now, but we don't have a

00:06:42.040 comparable system here, even though, as recent events make clear, American cities apparently face a

00:06:46.680 variety of imminent short-range threats. We just had a swarm of mysterious drones appear off the East

00:06:51.720 Coast out of nowhere. Never got any explanation. A member of Congress suggested that Iranian ships

00:06:56.500 might be launching them. Who knows? But either way, why shouldn't America's major cities have some

00:07:01.840 kind of protection against threats like that? Once again, simple question. And now the second Trump

00:07:08.940 administration is answering it. Along the same lines, Americans have made it abundantly clear that they

00:07:13.280 don't want millions of illegal aliens in this country. No matter how much the corporate press 1.00

00:07:17.980 pretends that they enrich our communities, no serious person thought that the status quo was

00:07:24.340 acceptable, especially as the bodies of innocent men, women, and children began piling up. And so now,

00:07:29.460 as a result, the status quo was changing. The other day, Fox reported that the Del Rio sector of the border

00:07:33.980 has gone from 4,000 illegal crossings per day back in 2023 to just 60 illegal crossings yesterday.

00:07:41.660 So these are actual results. And they're taking place very quickly.

00:07:47.000 Now, for self-appointed members of the elite, particularly in Hollywood, this has been a very

00:07:52.600 difficult series of events to grasp and internalize. They can't muster any kind of rational argument

00:07:59.080 against what the Trump administration is doing. They're stunned by how effective he's been and how

00:08:05.060 popular he is now because of it. And they know that there's no logic behind DEI or open borders or

00:08:10.520 letting criminals off the hook with no consequences. So instead of presenting any kind of cogent

00:08:15.240 argument, they're just melting down. And there's maybe no greater example of this phenomenon than the

00:08:20.500 performance that actress and singer Selena Gomez just put on. She uploaded this video to her Instagram

00:08:26.880 with a caption of, I'm sorry, accompanied by a Mexican flag emoji. And here's what the video,

00:08:33.520 if you haven't seen it yet, looked like much.

00:08:38.240 I'm sorry. All my people are getting attacked. The children.

00:08:46.700 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.

00:09:00.080 I'll try everything, I promise.

00:09:04.080 Now, first of all, before we even get into what she's saying, this is obviously an absurd example

00:09:13.960 of emotional manipulation. Anyone who records a video of herself crying and posted to the

00:09:20.220 internet should be disregarded and ignored automatically. I mean, it's one thing to cry

00:09:25.080 in public, which is a crime that is slightly less offensive when committed by women, though still 0.99

00:09:29.280 highly annoying. But it's another thing to film the spectacle yourself and then upload it.

00:09:35.820 So that's bad enough. But there's a more revealing moment that's actually worth talking about.

00:09:41.620 You'll notice that in Selena Gomez's theatrical crying video, she refers to, quote unquote,

00:09:47.040 my people. And she's complaining about the Trump administration deporting her people. 0.81

00:09:53.200 Now, if we take my people in the most literal sense, it would seem to indicate that Selena Gomez

00:09:57.840 is herself a criminal alien, considering that only criminal aliens are being deported.

00:10:02.500 In that case, obviously, Selena should be immediately placed on one of those C-17 cargo planes and sent 1.00

00:10:08.100 back to her homeland. She's confessed to her crimes, after all. Trump should deport her based on her 0.98

00:10:13.500 word alone. Better safe than sorry. Let her go be with her people. And then, of course, we should

00:10:19.460 convert Selena's many multi-million dollar mansions into emergency shelters to house all these

00:10:24.540 illegal migrants that she's weeping over. That would be the humane thing to do, after all.

00:10:29.640 But if we take the statement as she likely intended it, that her people are Hispanic migrants in general,

00:10:38.100 then it proves something else, which is that despite being born in this country, Selena Gomez

00:10:43.920 doesn't see herself as American. Her people are people from another country. 1.00

00:10:49.860 You know, it's difficult to imagine somebody like Selena ever using the phrase my people

00:10:55.260 to refer to Americans. That would never happen. It would be a nativist and xenophobic. You can't do

00:11:00.360 that. But Americans are never supposed to identify with each other in that way. So instead, a half 0.85

00:11:05.280 Mexican, half Italian billionaire celebrity from Texas identifies with Mexican illegal aliens, many of

00:11:12.120 whom don't even speak our language. And it goes to show how rampant immigration, both illegal and legal, 0.75

00:11:17.720 tears at the fabric of our culture and undermines our national identity. That's not the point that

00:11:22.860 Selena Gomez was trying to prove, but it's the point that she did prove. Now, here's the thing,

00:11:26.660 Selena. If you are American, then your people are Americans. And the fact that you do not see it that

00:11:34.320 way, that you do not identify with or feel any loyalty to the country that gave you everything and

00:11:40.220 made you who you are, just goes to show why Trump's border policies are necessary.

00:11:44.360 I mean, Selena, you never made a video hysterically crying when, for example,

00:11:50.020 North Carolina was ravaged by a hurricane and its citizens were left to drown.

00:11:55.060 You never wept over the suffering of your people who'd been abandoned by Joe Biden's government and

00:12:00.740 left to die. That's because you don't see white people in North Carolina as your people. 0.95

00:12:06.820 And that's the problem. So immigration enforcement is not just about keeping crime and drugs out of

00:12:13.940 our neighborhoods, though that is a big part of it. At a deeper level, it's about reclaiming a sense of

00:12:19.360 identity and fraternity as a nation. It's about becoming a people again, not just people who happen to all live

00:12:27.060 in the same geographic area, but a people, a nation. And anyone who doesn't want that, anyone who would

00:12:34.520 prefer that we have no identity as a nation is invited and indeed urged to leave. We don't need

00:12:42.720 you here and we don't want you. And a lot of people who are supposedly in Gomez's target audience,

00:12:49.240 namely Hispanics, seem to understand this, by the way. The Venezuelan YouTuber named Dross,

00:12:53.960 for example, responded to Gomez's video by writing, quote, shut up, stupid. That was pretty, 1.00

00:12:59.800 I mean, it's all that really needs to be said. And the backlash was pretty much universal,

00:13:03.340 which is why Selena Gomez quickly deleted the post. Then she wrote a passive aggressive follow-up 1.00

00:13:07.380 message that read, quote, apparently it's not okay to show empathy for people. And then she

00:13:11.720 deleted that message too. So she clearly didn't have a lot of conviction in what she was saying.

00:13:16.620 The moment her fans let her know that they thought she was acting like an imbecile, 0.99

00:13:19.800 she just took the post down. It's yet another indication that the whole emotional blackmail 0.98

00:13:23.900 routine is not working like it used to. The fact that Gomez was greeted with near universal

00:13:30.260 mockery as a clear sign that things are changing. A few years ago, a sobbing actress would have 1.00

00:13:36.440 probably convinced some people that, say, children were being held in cages at the southern border or

00:13:43.420 whatever, if we remember that. But it doesn't work anymore because we've all been lied to and

00:13:48.460 manipulated far too much. And as a result, we now have a government that, you know, we have leaders

00:13:53.480 now who are not being cowed by these kinds of tactics. Yesterday, when border czar Tom Homan was

00:14:01.180 asked about Selena Gomez's video, he pretty much said that he doesn't care. Watch.

00:14:06.520 We've got over 2 million known goddoways. We've got a 600% increase in sex trafficking. We've got a

00:14:11.000 record number of terrorists crossing the border on the terrorist watch list. We have quarter million

00:14:14.880 Americans diving fentanyl coming across the open border. We're going to do this job and we're going

00:14:19.180 to enforce the laws of this country. If they don't like it, then go to Congress and change the law.

00:14:22.980 We're going to do this operational apology. We're going to make our community safer. We're going

00:14:26.960 to save. Once we lock that border on continuous operation, you're going to see fentanyl, death

00:14:30.980 decrease, illegal alien crime decrease, sex trafficking decrease. It's all for the good of

00:14:35.980 this nation. And we're going to keep going. No apologies. We're moving forward.

00:14:39.620 You know, when entire neighborhoods in North Carolina were destroyed by a hurricane late last

00:14:43.720 year, like we just discussed, the DHS secretary at the time made it very clear that he didn't care

00:14:49.700 about any of the victims. He went shopping for clothes in Georgetown while fiending

00:14:52.980 the agency was supposedly overseeing, denied disaster relief to homes with Trump signs on

00:14:57.480 the lawn. That's the kind of apathy that we're all familiar with when it comes to the federal

00:15:03.240 government. But what the second Trump administration is bringing to the table is a very different

00:15:07.800 kind of apathy. They are apathetic to the lazy emotional blackmail and propaganda that constantly

00:15:14.300 emanates from our so-called elites, whether they're in Hollywood or the media. For the first

00:15:19.600 time in modern history, we have an administration that simply does not care how much liberals are

00:15:26.020 willing to fake cry on camera. To borrow from Kamala Harris's campaign slogan, those people are

00:15:32.720 now on the enemies list in the sense that their opinion doesn't matter. Their crying is irrelevant.

00:15:40.260 What matters now is restoring sanity to this country and to our government. And the more that

00:15:45.580 billionaire actresses like Selena Gomez lose their minds, the more that the rest of us can be sure 1.00

00:15:51.220 that after many very dark years, sanity is indeed making a comeback. Now let's get to our five

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00:16:57.940 Donald Trump gave a speech to a conference of congressional Republicans yesterday. And there

00:17:02.640 were two moments in particular from the speech that are worth talking about. Two, I think,

00:17:07.580 quite brilliant suggestions that Trump seemed to make. And the first one has to do with the

00:17:15.540 problem of crime in our neighborhoods, and particularly the fact that this crime is often

00:17:21.520 committed by repeat offenders. So it's the same people committing the crimes over and over again.

00:17:25.780 And Trump had a solution that he proposed for that, which I thought was really interesting.

00:17:30.880 Let's listen to that.

00:17:32.220 They're very dangerous people. They're violent people. I used to say these are more violent than

00:17:37.240 our criminals. In fact, the best part about them is they make our criminals look quite nice,

00:17:41.280 actually, by comparison. They are very violent people. We also have many violent criminals in our

00:17:47.020 country, however, that did not necessarily come here illegally, but have been arrested 30 times,

00:17:53.540 35 times, 41, 42 times in a couple of cases, 25 times, 18 times, many for murder and other heinous

00:18:02.660 charges, such as pushing people into subways. As the train's coming along at 45 miles an hour,

00:18:09.340 boom, you get pushed into the subway. They had it last week, getting them in the head with baseball

00:18:14.740 bats while they're not looking, punching old ladies in the face, knocking them unconscious 0.78

00:18:19.320 and stealing their purse. They even break into apartments and rape elderly women and beat up 0.99

00:18:24.900 elderly men, beat them to hell. And I don't want these violent repeat offenders in our country 1.00

00:18:30.120 anymore than I want illegal aliens from other countries who misbehave. 1.00

00:18:34.840 And I say, and this is subject to getting it approved, but if they've been arrested many,

00:18:43.420 many times, they're repeat offenders by many numbers, I want them out of our country. I also

00:18:50.480 will be seeking permission to do so. We're going to get approval, hopefully, to get them the hell out

00:18:57.380 of our country along with others. Let them be brought to a foreign land and maintained by others for a very 1.00

00:19:02.500 small fee as opposed to be maintained in our jails for massive amounts of money, including the private

00:19:07.960 prison companies that charge us a fortune. So here Trump is floating the idea of, I guess,

00:19:13.740 bringing back penal colonies. He's talking about shipping repeat offenders off to some foreign

00:19:20.640 country, some foreign land and paying that country to be their jailers. And which means they're going to 0.95

00:19:26.880 be housed in, you know, foreign jails somewhere by a country that needs the money. So probably not a

00:19:35.960 very pleasant experience I would expect in a jail like that. And needless to say, I think this is a

00:19:40.860 wonderful idea. I mean, why don't we do that? What's the argument against it? You know, there's a long

00:19:47.580 history of this kind of thing all across the world. It's an effective system. It's effective in many

00:19:52.180 different ways. It's cheaper for one. Also, it, you know, if there's any concerns about overcrowding

00:19:58.500 in prisons or whatever, then, well, this is one way to solve that. And it makes prison far less

00:20:05.840 appealing. You know, it increases, which you would think that prison would be unappealing no matter what.

00:20:13.420 But obviously, for people that go to jail 15 times, they're not as worried about going to prison as

00:20:20.640 they should be. So we have not made the experience as uncomfortable as it needs to be to get the

00:20:27.480 message across to these people. So it has that. It increases dramatically the punitive effect of

00:20:34.660 prison, which increases the deterrence effect. And all of these things are good. The only argument

00:20:42.600 against shipping criminals off to be jailed by some foreign country is that the experience will be

00:20:49.900 less pleasant for the criminals themselves. That's the only argument is about just seeing it from

00:20:54.620 their perspective of the criminals and saying, well, this, this wouldn't be good for them. They're

00:21:00.260 not going to like it. But not only is that not a downside, it is, as I said, an upside. If somebody

00:21:06.600 has been arrested 18 times already, it's very clear that the experience of jail has not been unpleasant

00:21:12.680 enough. So they need to be made to suffer. Okay. There's, there's, there's obviously been a failure

00:21:19.420 to communicate in the words of the, the warden and cool hand Luke, um, who of course I recognize was

00:21:26.940 not supposed to be the good guy of that movie. But, uh, but in this case, I think a little bit of that

00:21:32.620 attitude, a little bit of that approach is, is warranted. So I think it's a great idea, but in the next

00:21:38.620 clip, Trump floats something that is even better, I think. And, uh, he's brought this up before, but,

00:21:45.600 uh, before he was elected, but now he's obviously been elected. He's in office and he's still talking

00:21:51.060 about it, which is a good sign. Let's listen to this. He's going to be very rich again, and it's

00:21:56.340 going to happen very quickly. It's time for the United States to return to the system that made us

00:22:01.700 richer and more powerful than ever before. Do you know the United States in 1870 to 1913,

00:22:08.780 all tariffs, and that was the richest period in the history of the United States, relatively speaking,

00:22:14.520 in other words, relatively. And we, they set up the great tariff commission of 1887.

00:22:23.400 And this commission had one function, what to do with all the money that we took in. It was so

00:22:29.720 enormous that they had no idea. It was a blue ribbon committee was set up 1887 and what to do

00:22:36.080 with all of the money that we had. And again, uh, Teddy Roosevelt was a beneficiary because when

00:22:42.580 McKinley was killed, he took over this vast sum of money and he did all of those national parks and

00:22:49.800 all of the other things. And I'm not knocking him, but he was given a vast amount of money and that was

00:22:55.440 all made through tariffs as we had no income tax. The income tax came in in 1913. As I said in my

00:23:01.900 speech last week, instead of taxing our citizens to enrich foreign nations, we should be tariffing

00:23:07.900 and taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens. Does that make sense? Right? Okay. So Trump,

00:23:13.800 yet again, talking about abolishing the income tax, replacing with tariffs, um,

00:23:17.480 and his way of looking at it is let's, you know, rather than taxing our citizens to enrich foreign

00:23:23.500 nations, let's tax foreign nations to enrich our citizens. Great, great idea. I mean, that's a, 0.91

00:23:29.620 that yes, I, sign me up. Uh, and let me tell you something. Uh, now I still would not put any money

00:23:37.120 on the income tax actually being abolished. You know, that would be a Herculean accomplishment.

00:23:43.420 Um, more importantly, it's an accomplishment that would require the cooperation of Congress,

00:23:48.480 which is the problem. So the odds are just very much against it happening. But,

00:23:53.980 but if Trump were able to achieve this, if, if he were able somehow to, uh, lead, lead the charge to

00:24:03.340 abolishing the income tax, he would automatically become one of the greatest presidents of all time.

00:24:08.720 I think he would be number two, second only to George Washington. Um, you know, by abolishing

00:24:16.140 the income tax, Trump will have done more to restore freedom in America than any president ever

00:24:23.180 next to George Washington. He would deserve to be added to Mount Rushmore, like unironically.

00:24:31.840 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 0.90

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, 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.82

00:36:31.680 that. There are no cross-dressers in the photo. Nobody with a severe mental illness that they wear on 0.99

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, 0.98

00:40:36.140 if they are cross-dressing, basically weird, ugly, friendless losers, when you see that, 1.00

00:40:46.320 you think, well, that's, they're probably left wing. Uh, anything else, it now reads as right 0.97

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

00:42:22.360 section.

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, 1.00

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 1.00

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. 0.94

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,

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00:49:34.520 Today, I have to cancel Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace. Congresswoman Mace has been on a 0.99

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 0.90

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 1.00

00:50:02.160 find saying things like this. Watch.

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.80

00:50:26.400 women and girls are in private spaces. So I'm absolutely a hundred percent going to stand in 1.00

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 1.00

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 1.00

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,

00:51:41.340 we can be compassionate. We can show love.

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.

00:51:55.400 Our kids...

00:51:56.120 Define extremism there for me.

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

00:52:30.980 when it's a child.

00:52:32.740 Okay, so Nancy was bold enough at least to oppose the medical mutilation of minors in 2023, but 0.92

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,

00:52:54.640 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 0.95

00:53:05.760 girl pronouns. That's what she supported. In 2023, I must stress again, this was in 2023. 0.97

00:53:11.500 Now, to put that into perspective, that was a full year after What Is A Woman came out. 0.90

00:53:19.020 Okay, we were already well into the period when it was pretty safe to fundamentally oppose gender 0.92

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,

00:53:32.760 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 1.00

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, 0.53

00:54:06.400 you support that. You support men in the women's room. There's no such thing as I support trans 1.00

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, 0.61

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 0.97

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 0.87

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. 0.99

00:57:47.380 But then she posted this. Quote,

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.95

00:59:46.660 forced by law to admit females, to admit you, in the name of diversity and inclusion. You were quite 1.00

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 0.99

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. 0.91

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. 1.00

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 0.99

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 0.99

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, 1.00

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 0.98

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 1.00

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.

01:03:28.380 Have a great day. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 28, 2025

Ep. 1524 - Selena Gomez Should Deport Herself In Solidarity With 'Her People'

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