The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1528 - WATCH The Democrats Hilariously Fall Apart During The DNC Meeting

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the DNC met over the weekend to elect their new leadership.

00:00:03.540 It was an unintentionally hilarious circus that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt the

00:00:07.220 Democrats have learned absolutely nothing from their embarrassing defeat.

00:00:10.520 Also, Trump's tariffs on Mexico are already getting big results.

00:00:14.140 Trump now has his eyes set on Panama. He says America should control it. He's

00:00:17.220 definitely right. I'll explain why. And a liberal philosophy professor humiliates himself

00:00:21.740 in an attempt to debunk J.D. Vance. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:04.680 It's still obviously very early in the process, but I think I may have identified the candidate

00:02:08.800 that Democrats are going to run in the next election. This is not a definite prediction.

00:02:13.940 Everything's subject to change at this point. But after what happened at the Democrat National

00:02:17.840 Committee on Saturday, any reasonable person would agree that I'm onto something here.

00:02:22.560 So for background on Saturday, Democrats met to select a new chair for the DNC, along with a slew

00:02:27.440 of other roles, including vice chair. And one candidate for the job, her name is Dr. Quintessa

00:02:33.400 Hathaway, stole the show. Now on her website, Dr. Quintessa describes herself as a thought leader,

00:02:39.520 in addition to being a scholar, a historian, and an entrepreneur. So she's like Socrates,

00:02:45.860 Stephen Ambrose, Elon Musk, Albert Einstein rolled into one. And plus she's a doctor on top of that.

00:02:53.360 Now granted, Dr. Quintessa is a doctor in the sense that Jill Biden is a doctor, which means that she's

00:02:58.420 a doctor in the sense that she's not a doctor. She has some kind of educational degree or something,

00:03:04.120 but she's not letting that slow her down. Her biography states that her goal in life is to,

00:03:07.980 quote, continue to beat the drum of change. And as she made her case at the DNC on Saturday,

00:03:14.880 the good doctor did exactly that. So here, for example, is how Dr. Quintessa began her opening

00:03:20.720 statement at the DNC. Now to be clear, this is not some kind of sketch comedy show. This was broadcast

00:03:27.100 on MSNBC to literally dozens of viewers who are eagerly looking forward to seeing how their party

00:03:33.400 was going to move forward after their massive loss in the last election. And here's how it went. Watch.

00:03:39.860 We'll begin with the opening statements. Each candidate will have 30 seconds. And we'll start

00:03:46.060 with Dr. Quintessa Hathaway.

00:03:49.040 Good evening, everyone. It is my desire to be the next DNC chair. And I just want to give you all a

00:03:57.300 little bit of something that's been on my heart here over the last couple of days. You fight

00:04:03.620 on. You fight on. You fight on. You fight on. When your government is doing you wrong. You fight

00:04:18.260 on. You fight on. Thank you, Dr. Hathaway. I just noticed the people on the stage openly laughing

00:04:32.560 at her, which is kind of nice. So try to imagine what it must have been like watching that performance

00:04:37.420 as a committed, true believer in the Democrat Party. You know, you're in some ballroom in Maryland.

00:04:44.240 You're hoping to see some kind of new approach to win over voters who are clearly moving away from

00:04:50.040 liberal politics. Meanwhile, the candidates to lead your party are treating the whole thing like

00:04:55.320 karaoke night. And by the way, Dr. Quintessa didn't stop there. She kept on singing. She was singing

00:05:01.440 through this whole thing. OK, here she is again. We shall overcome. We shall overcome.

00:05:17.720 Well, by the way, how many pearls does that like how many oysters had to die to create the

00:05:31.600 56 pearl necklaces around her neck? But anyway, if you've ever wondered what it would be like to

00:05:40.400 encounter a character in a musical, but in real life, well, now we know. Just someone who sings

00:05:47.100 rather than rather than talking. And it's just as annoying and off-putting as you'd expect.

00:05:51.940 But anyway, in the end, I'm shocked to report and and disappointed to report that Dr. Quintessa,

00:05:57.540 the esteemed scholar, historian, entrepreneur, you know, pop singer, did not receive a single vote

00:06:05.160 at the DNC. Out of hundreds of voting members, not a single one decided that Dr. Quintessa should be

00:06:10.640 the next chair of the party. There is apparently zero grassroots genuine support for her candidacy

00:06:15.900 whatsoever. She couldn't even get a friend to vote for her. She had precisely zero support.

00:06:20.780 And you know what that means? It means that Quintessa is a shoo-in to be Democrats next

00:06:24.420 presidential nominee. After all, if Kamala Harris can do it, so can Quintessa. In today's Democrat 1.00

00:06:30.300 party, the fact that no one actually wants to vote for her, that nobody likes her, even though she's a 0.99

00:06:35.960 strong, independent black woman, is far from a liability. It's an asset. So you might as well start 1.00

00:06:41.300 printing the Dr. Quintessa Hathaway yard signs now. She's basically a lock to break the glass ceiling 1.00

00:06:47.040 in four years, or to be broken against the glass ceiling, as this happened to the last two women 1.00

00:06:53.860 who ran. But at the same time, as history-making and inspiring as Dr. Quintessa is, she was just a

00:06:59.800 small part of the show that the DNC put on this weekend. One by one, Democrats made it very clear

00:07:05.320 that they have learned absolutely nothing from the last election. Not a single thing. Every

00:07:11.680 speaker, without exception, was clearly obsessed with identity politics and in particular racial

00:07:16.700 grievances. So here are a couple of speakers who, you know, repeatedly begin their remarks by telling

00:07:24.540 the crowd to be quiet because a black woman is speaking. Watch. 1.00

00:07:28.540 Hello, Democrats. Hey, I am speaking, and I would love your attention. There is a black 0.86

00:07:35.680 woman at this podium, and I deserve your attention, like the 11 people who went before me. Yes,

00:07:41.480 I am speaking. Good evening, Democrats. Look up here. Three strong black women standing before you. 1.00

00:07:47.620 Three black women who, rather than just grabbing a chair, ran for chair. We are sick and tired of being 1.00

00:07:54.300 the last one hired and the first one fired. We are sick and tired of this.

00:08:01.860 Yeah, I might try a version of this at my next speech. Hey, everyone, shut up. There's a white 1.00

00:08:06.280 man speaking up here. How dare you? How dare you speak while a white man is addressing you?

00:08:12.440 Silence, you fools. I am a white man. Try it. I mean, I'd probably go over a little differently than it 1.00

00:08:19.260 did at the DNC, I'm guessing. But Democrats have marinated in racial politics for so long in every

00:08:24.960 aspect of their lives that they didn't see any problem with this. And if you go in and pull up

00:08:28.960 footage of the DNC's internal selection process back in 2017, after Trump's first election, you'll

00:08:35.420 notice that it was not like this. Not exactly like it anyway. CNN covered the whole thing at the time,

00:08:41.480 and it was a primetime event, and they were talking about their plans to impeach and investigate

00:08:45.620 Trump and former resistance. They talked about how motivated they were to come up with a coherent

00:08:51.480 message for Americans. Watch. Donald Trump has already done a number of things which legitimately

00:08:57.200 raised the question of impeachment. This energy is electric. January 20th was undeniably an important

00:09:08.020 day. But January 20th and 21st and beyond was even more important because people are rising up and

00:09:14.140 saying, Donald Trump, you do not stand for our values. So I think it's really important that the

00:09:19.940 Democratic Party focuses on an overarching message that's going to speak to all Americans.

00:09:27.380 Now, the whole thing was obviously still deranged in its own way, but it was not like what we're

00:09:33.520 seeing now. We're now seeing a party that has no idea how to be effective, no idea what it even wants

00:09:39.220 to do. A party in total disarray with no vision for the future whatsoever. So instead of coming up with

00:09:45.040 anything unifying or coherent, they're going completely off the deep end. And in fact,

00:09:48.840 they're now reciting land acknowledgements because, of course, they believe America sits on stolen land,

00:09:54.240 and that's their winning message for the next election. The way that everything went in the last

00:10:00.820 election, the way the culture is moving right now has not dissuaded them. They're leaning into it,

00:10:05.880 and here's how the DNC's voting meeting began this weekend.

00:10:10.500 Welcome. The Democratic National Committee wishes to be a

00:10:40.480 to acknowledge that we gather together to state our values on lands that have been stewarded

00:10:46.380 through many centuries by the ancestors and the descendants of tribal nations who have been here

00:10:52.760 since time immemorial. We honor the communities native to this continent and recognize that our

00:11:01.300 country was built on indigenous lands and hope. Now, of course, as always with this kind of thing,

00:11:10.040 I must always ask, which indigenous people did we allegedly steal the land from? The ones who most

00:11:17.280 recently possessed it before white people showed up, or the ones that those indigenous people 0.88

00:11:20.840 slaughtered and took it from, or the ones that those people slaughtered, and so on and so on down the 0.85

00:11:25.080 line? And we never do get an answer to that question, no matter how many times I've asked it.

00:11:29.320 All we're told is that the line of legitimate possession of the land stopped for some reason in about the

00:11:35.560 16th century. The moment white people showed up, it was no longer legitimate to conquer the land and 0.98

00:11:41.820 take possession of it. It was only legitimate to do that for the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of

00:11:46.880 years that Indians were doing it before Europeans landed. That's the idea. But, you know, there's no time 1.00

00:11:53.580 to dwell on that one bit of absurdity. The whole thing was a parade of absurdity that went on for hours,

00:11:58.180 like this moment, where the proceedings eventually came to an abrupt halt because one candidate identified

00:12:04.240 as non-binary, and that created some confusion because the DNC apparently has strict rules requiring

00:12:10.140 gender balance among the party chairs who are elected. So what do you do when someone shows up

00:12:15.900 and they are none of the genders? When they don't fall into any of the, you know, 95 invented genders

00:12:23.880 at all, what do you do? Well, here they are trying to deal with that problem.

00:12:30.160 Rules specify that when we have a gender non-binary candidate or officer, the non-binary individual

00:12:38.480 is counted as neither male nor female, and the remaining six officers must be gender balanced.

00:12:43.360 With the results of the previous four elections, our elected officers are currently two male and

00:12:51.320 two female. In order to be gender balanced, we must select one male, one female, and one person 0.96

00:13:04.320 of any gender. So again, this is what we have to do for this vice chair race. We have to elect 0.66

00:13:11.940 one male, one female, and one person of any gender. To ensure our process accounts for male, female,

00:13:19.900 and non-binary candidates, we conferred with our RBC co-chair, our LGBT caucus co-chair, and others

00:13:26.500 to ensure that the process is inclusive and meets the gender balance requirements in our rules.

00:13:31.880 To do this, our process will be slightly different than the one outlined to you earlier this week.

00:13:36.840 So they conferred about this question, and I'm sure they did confer about it. I mean,

00:13:41.800 and if you're wondering why the Democrats, no Democrat can ever be an effective leader,

00:13:47.320 why they cannot effectively lead the country, it's because this is what they're spending time on.

00:13:52.420 I mean, they're spending hours and hours conferring and caucusing and meeting, you know,

00:13:58.220 to discuss what to do with their non-binary candidates. And watching that, you have to

00:14:04.340 wonder what they would do with the DNC if they ended up with a candidate who belongs to one of

00:14:08.720 the other 10 million genders out there. If one non-binary candidate, quote unquote, can throw the 1.00

00:14:15.140 whole process out of whack like this, imagine what they do if they had a two-spirit running for office 0.99

00:14:19.280 or a bi-gender candidate. But if there's a gender-fluid demi-queer thrown into the mix, 0.90

00:14:24.340 what do you do then? To avoid being transphobic, they probably just have to shut down the whole

00:14:28.220 party at that point. And by the way, just for the record, of course, this is the, if you're

00:14:34.320 wondering, this is the allegedly non-binary, quote unquote, candidate they're talking about.

00:14:39.960 He was running for vice chair. Watch.

00:14:43.760 My name is Troy Blackwell. I know that I'm a new face to many of you, but I'm a proud Afro-Latino

00:14:49.940 from the South Bronx, New York. I got into this work because at the age of 18, unfortunately,

00:14:56.280 I was the victim of a hate crime. Today, I stand before you as one of the first non-binary

00:15:02.380 candidates to run in the DNC's 177-year history.

00:15:10.500 I'm proud to be the only Afro-Latino in this race.

00:15:14.000 I'm asking you to take a chance on someone like me, a proud non-binary Afro-Latino from

00:15:19.940 the South Bronx. The final tally of votes, Troy Blackwell, zero.

00:15:29.300 By the way, is he an Afro-Latino? He didn't mention it. I can't remember. Did he say that?

00:15:33.600 I was watching. I'm wondering, is that guy an Afro-Latino?

00:15:37.140 I know what he did mention it, 46 times in the span of 30 seconds. Now, looking at that guy,

00:15:42.920 there are a lot of signs that seem to point towards a specific binary and that he's a member

00:15:48.840 of one side of that binary, being the male side. There's the facial hair, the voice, the build.

00:15:56.500 But then he opens his mouth and dispels all those assumptions. He tells us that he's one of the first

00:16:00.120 non-binary candidates in the DNC's history. And you might ask what it means for someone to be

00:16:05.480 non-binary. I mean, what does it take to claim that identity? Well, all it takes is for you to

00:16:10.520 say it out loud. If someone is non-binary, it means that they have said out loud the words,

00:16:17.700 I am non-binary. And through that mystical incantation, they have become something other 1.00

00:16:22.960 than male or female, even though they can't explain how exactly they are something other

00:16:27.880 than male or female, or what it means to be something other than male or female.

00:16:31.420 Well, still, they are somehow. Now, it's all nonsense, obviously. And at some level,

00:16:37.100 Democrats seem to realize that. And that would explain why that guy, like the doctor,

00:16:41.120 received zero votes. And things went on like this for a while longer at the meeting.

00:16:46.480 Take a look at this footage, for example, showing every single candidate for DNC chair. And each one

00:16:51.940 of them has asked the same question. And you'll never believe how they answer it. Watch.

00:16:56.600 In this round, so I'm going to have a show of hands. How many of you believe that racism

00:17:06.800 and misogyny played a role in Vice President Harris's defeat? Okay. So that's good. You all pass.

00:17:20.320 So when the moderator says you all passed, he's making a more revealing statement than he probably

00:17:29.080 realized. The question was a test. And specifically, it was a test of loyalty. He's trying to determine

00:17:33.660 who's willing to affirm party orthodoxy, even in the face of clear evidence that the party orthodoxy

00:17:38.940 is wrong. The vast majority of Americans understand that Kamala lost because she was a terrible

00:17:43.980 candidate who played a key role in a terrible administration. That's why she lost the popular 0.99

00:17:48.420 vote as well as the election. But in the Democratic Party of 2025, you're not allowed to criticize the

00:17:52.960 party establishment, which Kamala Harris represents and or at least did. And you're certainly not allowed 1.00

00:17:58.380 to criticize a black woman for any reason. So this is what you're left with. And that's why the ultimate 0.96

00:18:03.840 results of this DNC meeting were not surprising in the slightest. As the saying goes, garbage in, 0.93

00:18:08.760 garbage out. And that is why in the end, David Hogg, the man who built a lucrative career on the 0.94

00:18:13.320 bodies of his dead classmates, was elected vice chair of the DNC. Yes, David Hogg is now a major

00:18:20.020 party in the, a major figure in the Democrat Party. And here's that big announcement, which of course

00:18:24.980 is prefaced, prefaced by a guy quoting the sage words of Beyonce. You Democrats, in the words of Beyonce,

00:18:36.180 Beyonce. America has a problem, but Democrats, we're about to fix it. God bless you. Thank you so much.

00:18:42.880 Let's get to work. David Hogg.

00:18:57.380 First of all, thank you, Chairman Harrison. Can we give a round of applause to Jamie?

00:19:03.580 You. Thank you. Thank you. Who's ready to take the fights of the Republicans and win this thing?

00:19:13.580 Are you guys ready to fight? It's been a long day, but guess what? We have a long road ahead.

00:19:19.620 Let's go and kick some ass. Now, there's an old adage about never interrupting your enemy 0.99

00:19:25.300 when he's making a mistake. And in this case, the enemies of civilization are clearly making a massive

00:19:29.940 and unforced error. So really, I probably shouldn't say anything here. But in this case,

00:19:34.380 I can't resist because even David Hogg himself has explained to Democrats why this is a terrible idea.

00:19:39.780 So let's put this image on the screen. Here's what Hogg has written. Quote,

00:19:44.780 like I'm already one of the most politically toxic people in the country. Any politician doing

00:19:48.920 anything with me is in effect committing political suicide. Close quote. And that about sums it up.

00:19:54.740 And there's a reason that Hogg wrote that. I mean, he's on record making some of the dumbest and most 0.99

00:19:58.880 politically damaging statements imaginable. Here's just a small collection of them. And 0.99

00:20:02.560 there's, I mean, hundreds you could choose. As you can see, David Hogg has written, quote,

00:20:06.460 abolish ICE, defund the police. The NRA needs to be designated a terrorist organization.

00:20:13.360 He also predicted Joe Biden would win the last election pretty confidently. These are ideas

00:20:17.440 that Kamala Harris tried to run away from, and it still didn't work. And now Democrats are

00:20:21.940 embracing all of it. And things get even worse when you look at the man who won the office of

00:20:26.740 DNC chair. This is the guy that David Hogg will be advising as vice chair. It's a guy named Ken Martin,

00:20:31.940 who currently leads Democrats in Minnesota. And if you don't know anything about Ken Martin,

00:20:35.780 which nobody does, here's how he answered one very important question during this leadership

00:20:40.580 contest. This is just about the simplest question and the easiest one he could have possibly been

00:20:47.320 asked. And he managed to give the wrong answer. Here it is. In October of 2024, a large part,

00:20:56.020 about one third of Trump's advertising budget, went specifically to this one ad. It was about

00:21:01.720 gender-changing surgeries for a small number of transgender, incarcerated, undocumented

00:21:06.460 immigrants. These particular ads ended with the line, Kamala is for they, them. President Trump is

00:21:12.120 for you. How should Democrats respond to this attack? Our party has to live its values. Everyone

00:21:19.580 has dignity. Our party believes that no matter where you're from, no matter where you live, no matter

00:21:24.800 who you love or who you are, you have dignity and we're going to fight for you. And that's what we're

00:21:29.080 going to do as a Democratic party. Now, a lot of polls, including Democrats' own internal polls,

00:21:34.240 show that this kind of thing is what cost the Democrats the last election. And the DNC chair

00:21:39.900 has just doubled down on it. Instead of saying, no, we shouldn't fund sex changes for illegal aliens, 0.64

00:21:45.540 he gave pretty much the same response Kamala Harris gave. He has embraced what is perhaps the single

00:21:50.520 least popular position in maybe political history. It'd be hard to think of one less popular than

00:22:00.220 this. Funding sex changes for illegal aliens who are in prison is the kind of thing seemingly designed 0.94

00:22:09.420 to piss off nearly every group and demographic in the country, save for the demographic of pink-haired 1.00

00:22:16.120 people with septum piercings. Those are the only people you're appealing to with a position like

00:22:22.340 that. And as we found, there's not enough of those people to win a national election. Thank God.

00:22:29.000 Meanwhile, his vice chair admits that the party's committing political suicide just by associating

00:22:33.020 with him. And in the background, there's a chorus of non-binary men and angry BIPOC screaming about 1.00

00:22:39.640 racism. That's the state of the Democrat party in 2025. And the point here is not just to make fun of

00:22:45.880 Democrats, although that's a big part of it. And it's always a lot of fun. The real point is that

00:22:50.240 the DNC clearly has not learned a single thing from their recent humiliating defeats. The Democrat

00:22:55.680 party is a bicycle with only one gear. This is it. Identity politics is just too deeply embedded in

00:23:02.520 the core of the institution. It's all they know how to do. And that means that one of two outcomes is

00:23:07.940 possible going forward. Either the Democrats are headed towards a generation of irrelevance,

00:23:15.200 or they will somehow successfully pull the culture back into the sort of fog of wokeness that we only

00:23:25.180 recently seem to be emerging from. And watching what happened at the DNC this weekend, the latter

00:23:30.740 option admittedly doesn't seem very likely at this point. But as long as these people are still running

00:23:36.060 a major party in the US, we have to consider that possibility, as remote as it may be. And that's why

00:23:41.380 after laughing at these people and sharing as many of these clips as possible, because they're

00:23:45.780 objectively hilarious, we need to do everything we can to make sure that they never hold power again.

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00:24:54.980 Daily Wire reports Canada and Mexico announced tariffs against the U.S. on Saturday in retaliation for a slate

00:24:59.880 of new import duties. President Donald Trump ordered against the U.S. neighbors in China.

00:25:04.060 Canadian Prime Minister Justice Trudeau said on Saturday that Canada is working with Mexico to

00:25:08.180 push back against Trump's tariffs. Trump ordered increased tariffs on goods from Canada, China,

00:25:12.700 and Mexico over a lack of sufficient action against human and drug trafficking that has poured into

00:25:17.100 the U.S. Trudeau said, I think Canadians understand that we need to respond to this. We're certainly not

00:25:23.440 looking to escalate, but we will stand up for Canada. Trump issued his own statement on Truth Social

00:25:28.900 saying that condemning his critics and supporters of the decades-long ripoff of America, both with

00:25:34.820 regard to trade, crime, and poisonous drugs that are allowed to so freely flow into America those days

00:25:40.240 are over. Trump ordered 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico with a lesser 10% tariff hike

00:25:46.240 on Canadian energy imports. Trump also ordered a 10% additional tariff on Chinese goods.

00:25:51.640 In return, Canada and Mexico announced their own 25% tariffs on a slate of U.S. goods.

00:26:01.020 So Trump is imposing these tariffs. The reason is pretty simple, pretty clear.

00:26:06.280 For Mexico and Canada, it's because they're not doing enough to secure their side of the border

00:26:10.440 and to prevent the tidal wave of drugs that is flowing into our country, as Trump said. And we've

00:26:18.080 asked these countries nicely for a long time to step up and do their part, because it's just not

00:26:26.040 acceptable that this stuff is coming across their borders into our country. It's just not acceptable.

00:26:33.020 And, you know, when you're the most powerful country in the region and in the world, in fact,

00:26:38.880 you say to the countries that border you, hey, you need to fix this.

00:26:42.980 Okay, this is not allowed to continue. So you need to figure, whatever you got to do,

00:26:48.120 you need to figure out a way to fix this. And that's what Trump is doing. And

00:26:52.140 Trump is trying to basically force the issue, because the thing about the carrot and stick approach

00:26:57.900 is that eventually you got to use the stick. And so here it is. Here's the stick.

00:27:03.700 And it was a long time coming. Now, of course, the media and the left and even some conservatives

00:27:08.880 are freaking out about this and acting like Trump is imposing these tariffs for no reason,

00:27:15.180 you know, acting shocked and like this is Trump is deranged or something and just doing this

00:27:23.440 randomly when, first of all, Trump has been talking about this since forever. I mean,

00:27:29.160 since way before he even ran for president. So this is Trump doing exactly what he said he would do,

00:27:36.660 what he ran on. That's what gets me about the reaction from a lot of people is he ran on this.

00:27:44.260 He's been talking about this forever. And so now he's doing it. Why wouldn't he do it? He ran on it.

00:27:51.960 He won. So, okay, now he's going to do it. And again, there's a reason for it. These countries are

00:28:00.180 directly facilitating the deaths of thousands of Americans by allowing poison to pour across

00:28:04.860 their border into our country. And, you know, that does that count as a reason to do it? I'd say 0.82

00:28:12.640 it's a reason. It's pretty good reason. Now, meanwhile, Democrats are hysterically warning about

00:28:18.380 the cost of a quote unquote trade war with China, with well, China, yes, but with Canada and Mexico

00:28:24.580 in particular, as if we couldn't easily win such a war, as if we don't obviously have the upper hand

00:28:32.100 in both cases. But Democrats are claiming we don't. Here is Chuck Schumer.

00:28:38.880 Let's just take Super Bowl Sunday. Okay. It's going to affect beer. Okay. Most of it Corona here

00:28:48.620 comes from Mexico. It's going to affect your guac. Because what is guacamole made of avocados both from

00:28:57.000 Mexico? Okay. Well, while Chuck Schumer was babbling there, I just saw the latest on this.

00:29:05.140 In fact, there's an update beyond what I just told you. Daily Wire just reported this. Mexican

00:29:11.640 President Claudia Scheinbaum said on Monday that she's moving 10,000 members of the country's

00:29:16.720 National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border to stop drug trafficking. Scheinbaum made the announcement

00:29:21.200 after speaking earlier in the day with President Trump following his decision to hit the country

00:29:23.900 25% tariffs. She said that Trump administration agreed to pause the implementation of tariffs

00:29:30.200 for one month. Okay. So Trump is apparently pausing the tariffs because we've already gotten,

00:29:38.180 there's already been a response and concessions made by Mexico. And exactly what, this was exactly

00:29:46.580 the point. This is the whole point of the tariffs. It wasn't just something frivolous, just doing

00:29:52.800 it for fun. Um, it was to get precisely this reaction. And it looks like, at least according

00:30:00.600 to this statement from the Mexican president, it looks like, uh, they've already gotten a response.

00:30:08.400 So, uh, you've got Democrats, we just played that clip of the Democrats and that was Chuck

00:30:15.360 Schumer. I think that was yesterday talking about how the Superbowl is going to be ruined because we

00:30:20.020 can't get guacamole and beer. And meanwhile, Trump announces these tariffs and has them in place for

00:30:28.140 like a day and already there's a response. And why, why do we get results that quickly?

00:30:34.960 Well, it's because what else are they going to do? This is what happens when you are the most powerful

00:30:39.880 country in the world and you actually use your power, you wield it without this feeling of like

00:30:45.820 embarrassment about it. What else is Mexico going to do? They can't win a trade war with the United

00:30:52.300 States. They can't win any kind of war with the United States. Obviously the only thing they have

00:30:57.980 to hold over our heads. Well, you just heard Chuck Schumer, well, beer, you're not gonna be able to get

00:31:02.160 guacamole and beer. Now, by the way, guacamole, sure. I think probably in a, in a situation where

00:31:09.560 there's a standoff, um, a Mexican standoff between us and Mexico over tariffs, probably guacamole becomes

00:31:16.200 more expensive, but beer that not, even that is actually not true because Mexico, he claims in that

00:31:24.940 clip that Mexico accounts for most of the beer that's sold in this country. Most, uh, no, the vast

00:31:33.220 majority of beer sales in this country, I think 78 to 80% are domestic beer sales. Now, Mexico accounts

00:31:41.020 for a big chunk of imported beer sold in this country, but that's still a minority of the sales.

00:31:50.280 So all told Mexican beer accounts for like, I think 10 to 15% of the beer sales. And, um,

00:31:56.860 and then there's another chunk that's imported from other countries. And then the vast majority of it

00:32:01.060 is domestic. So, so then what happens? Let's say that this were to, were to play out and we didn't

00:32:08.040 get a concession from Mexico. Um, and then yeah, Corona, which by the way, looks and tastes like,

00:32:15.520 uh, stagnant rainwater that's been sitting in a rusty bucket for, for three weeks. So not much is lost

00:32:23.360 there, but yeah, Corona, uh, becomes more expensive. This Mexican beer becomes more expensive. So then what

00:32:28.820 do, what do American consumers do? Well, you just don't buy that. There's a thousand other options

00:32:34.580 of beer that's brewed right here in the United States. Go support your local brewery. It's not

00:32:39.340 that much more expensive and the beer is way better. So all that ends up happening in that scenario is

00:32:46.220 that these Mexican beer companies are destroyed because American consumers don't need Corona, but

00:32:51.240 you go without it. Like Corona could just cease to exist tomorrow and it would be fine. Like it would

00:32:56.660 not affect anyone's life in this country at all. Um, it wouldn't really affect any of the bars, any of

00:33:02.380 the liquor stores either, because you just replaced that with, with domestic beer. No problem. Um, and as

00:33:09.880 for guacamole, well, yeah, that becomes more expensive and, uh, and you know, but that's like, that's a

00:33:14.560 price that most of us, I think most Americans are willing to pay to keep drugs and poison out of this

00:33:20.820 country. If I got to pay more for guacamole at Chipotle, it's already an upcharge. So add another

00:33:27.340 couple of bucks onto it. You know, you know, if it's that important to you, you'll pay the couple

00:33:32.020 bucks. If not, you can just go without guacamole, not the end of the world. I like guacamole, not the end

00:33:35.960 of the world though. So that's the position that Mexico's in, which is why, um, there's, there are already

00:33:43.480 concessions. And, um, so we've seen this now with the Trump administration. I mean, the Trump

00:33:48.520 administration is only two weeks old and we've seen now repeatedly, um, how they've, Trump has gotten

00:33:58.300 results by actually, by setting clear, like making clear what you want. Here, here's what America

00:34:08.500 needs. Here's what's in our best interest. You say to the other countries, and if you don't do what we

00:34:17.180 need you to do, then here's going to be the penalty. And it turns out that when you communicate

00:34:25.420 that clearly with, with, with, and you set the guidelines and you set the ultimatum, it turns

00:34:32.080 out you get results pretty quickly because whether it's Columbia or Mexico or like none of these

00:34:37.620 countries want to tangle with the United States, there's nothing in it for them. And you got all

00:34:43.120 these morons that are talking, talking as though Mexico could win a trade war with the United 1.00

00:34:49.600 States. It's, it's, it's, uh, delusional. So already some, uh, results there. Uh, here's another 1.00

00:34:58.580 area where, uh, uh, hopefully we'll see some results. And as far as I know, we haven't seen them just yet,

00:35:04.300 but, uh, who knows things are, well, in fact, we, no, well, I'm, I'm, we actually have seen results

00:35:09.000 already on this as well, which we'll talk about in a second, but, uh, Trump last night

00:35:12.360 was, uh, discussing his efforts to take back control of the Panama canal.

00:35:18.940 And, uh, here's what he said about that. Secretary of state Rubio is in Panama, Panama right now. And,

00:35:26.480 uh, we're talking about the Panama canal. What they've done is terrible. They violated the agreement.

00:35:31.920 They're not allowed to violate the agreement. China's running the Panama canal. That was not

00:35:38.580 given to China. That was given to Panama foolishly, but they violated the agreement. And we're going to 0.83

00:35:45.060 take it back or something very powerful is going to happen. Okay. So he appears to, to threaten to use,

00:35:51.660 to use force to take back the canal. At least that's how it's being interpreted by a lot of people.

00:35:57.340 Um, or, or maybe he's indicating that taking it back forcefully is an option. So it's not,

00:36:03.980 not exactly a threat. He's not saying, well, give us back the Panama canal. We're going to send troops

00:36:07.860 into Panama. And, and I don't think that that's, I don't see that scenario as, uh, plausible,

00:36:14.940 but you know, he says like, we got to work this out or something very powerful is going to happen.

00:36:22.460 So you can kind of interpret it that the way you want, but there is a clear ultimatum there.

00:36:27.340 Right. And, um, and he's right. He's right on this too, that yes, we should take back control

00:36:35.940 of the Panama canal one way or another. That canal is ours. We should control it. And Trump is right

00:36:42.240 that China right now exerts a lot of influence over the canal. So, uh, there is some real urgency

00:36:47.280 here. And as I alluded to before, Panama, there already are results on this. Uh, it's not settled

00:36:53.960 completely, but Panama has, you know, Rubio, new secretary of state went down to Panama and it

00:36:59.260 was his first international trip of secretary of state. And already Panama has agreed, uh, to end

00:37:05.280 a deal with China that had been on the table. So this is being handled diplomatically. Hopefully it

00:37:12.480 is all worked out diplomatically. It seems to be trending that way. That obviously is vastly

00:37:17.180 preferable. Um, but one way or another, um, but one way or another, the United States should control

00:37:23.900 the Panama canal. And, um, because that canal is ours and you know, just some basic facts about this,

00:37:33.480 if you're not familiar with, with it or with the history of it, first of all, the vast majority of

00:37:41.180 the ships that go through the canal are coming to or leaving, uh, ports in the United States.

00:37:48.700 So it's about 70% of the traffic is going to the United States or coming from the United States.

00:37:54.520 More importantly, we built the canal. Okay. The United States spent 10 years building the canal

00:38:03.740 at the beginning of the 20th century. Thousands of Americans died in the process. Now I think the

00:38:09.400 official estimates are like 5,000, 6,000 Americans. It was probably way more than that. Um, but,

00:38:14.560 but thousands, either way, thousands of Americans died building the canal. It's one of the greatest

00:38:19.900 construction projects ever undertaken in human history. Um, one of the greatest engineering marvels

00:38:26.620 in the history of humanity. I mean, they cut a hole in the earth from one ocean to another.

00:38:34.540 It's like inconceivable how they did it. I, I've read a couple of books now in the Panama Canal and

00:38:40.120 even after reading the books, in fact, even more so after reading the books and learning about the

00:38:46.460 process, it's, you can't wrap your, your, your mind around it. How is that possible?

00:38:52.760 Just imagine that like, imagine, uh, like it's one thing when you're, if you go, if you go to the

00:39:00.160 Panama Canal, which I never have been, but, and you look at it when it's already constructed,

00:39:03.640 but imagine standing on that plot of land, uh, before anything was constructed when it was just

00:39:12.280 a jungle, because that's what it was. And like trying to conceptualize how we're going to dig a

00:39:19.600 giant hole that goes from this ocean all the way to the next one across. We're going to,

00:39:26.840 we're going to split these two continents in two. Um, and that's what America did. 0.95

00:39:34.380 And this country built it and paid for it. This was American grit and ingenuity. And we paid for

00:39:41.480 it with, with, with American treasure and American blood. So why in the hell should anyone but America

00:39:47.620 have control over it? Why should Panama have control over? Panama didn't build it. Panama didn't

00:39:54.680 build it. They didn't, they didn't pay for it. And they're not even the ones who are mostly using

00:40:00.520 it. America built it, paid for it. And is the 70% of the time we're the ones using it.

00:40:10.320 No other country was able to build it. The French tried to build it and failed.

00:40:13.720 And we did it. We built it. And then about 60 years later, Jimmy Carter, the incompetent buffoon

00:40:21.300 that he was gave the canal away. He just gave it away. It is one of the most one-sided deals in 0.99

00:40:26.740 history. And yet the, you know, this, this idiot and to call Jimmy Carter a buffoon or an idiot, 1.00

00:40:33.560 I think is probably cutting him too much slack because he was also just a bad guy. He was a bad 1.00

00:40:41.440 leader and a bad man. And by the way, I know that he, he lived for a long time afterwards and,

00:40:47.500 but that doesn't all of a sudden change the fact that he was a bad leader and a bad person.

00:40:51.540 And he did a lot of terrible things and he caused immeasurable, he did it. This man did

00:40:55.880 immeasurable damage to the country, but then he lived till he was a hundred. And so all of a sudden

00:41:00.620 it doesn't count anymore because for people in my generation or younger, we only remember Jimmy

00:41:06.620 Carter as this kind of frail old man, just kind of sitting there all shriveled up. And so it,

00:41:13.500 because of that, he sort of like bought goodwill because he was just really old for a long time.

00:41:19.100 But that doesn't change the fact that he was a terrible, terrible president

00:41:21.980 and made this, made the world a worse place.

00:41:28.700 And this is not the only bad thing he did, but it's one of the worst. And he considered it to be

00:41:34.280 his like crowning achievements. One of his crowning achievements he thought

00:41:37.280 was this deal of giving away the Panama Canal, which how is that an achievement?

00:41:44.720 You gave someone, you gave a thing of immense value to another country and they gave you nothing

00:41:51.940 in return. And that's an achievement. You know, that's like if, that's like if I considered it an

00:41:57.280 achievement because I worked out a deal with you where I would give you a million dollars

00:42:02.920 and you give me nothing. Maybe not nothing. Maybe, maybe, uh, I bought a toothpick from you for a

00:42:10.480 million dollars. And then for the rest of my life, I brag that I just, I just made this incredible

00:42:16.580 deal. I convinced you, I convinced you to give me a toothpick for just a million dollars.

00:42:23.360 What a deal making genius I am. Except it's worse than that because at least if I gave you a million

00:42:30.200 dollars, uh, well, I earned the million, I can spend it how I want. It's my million. But in the

00:42:37.580 case of the Panama Canal, Jimmy Carter didn't build it. It, it, it never would have been built under his

00:42:43.380 leadership because he was a weak, feckless, corrupt leader who couldn't do anything. Um, no, he didn't 0.99

00:42:49.600 build it. You know, he, instead he, he took a massive dump all over the Americans who struggled

00:42:56.160 and died for years to build it and decided to just give it away. Now the real reason that it was given

00:43:05.400 away was just a sense of white guilt. Really? That's what it was. It was just this, this, this

00:43:13.000 sacrifice on the altar of white guilt because we're, you know, America's a predominantly white country,

00:43:20.120 even more so back when the back when Jimmy Carter was in office. And, um, and so it, it, it, it was

00:43:28.020 like, we have no right to it. Um, and so that's really what it was. But beyond that, ostensibly,

00:43:35.560 the reason that it was done was to improve relations with Latin America. That's the reason that would

00:43:41.160 was given. And the problem is that first of all, we're in a position of power, so we don't need to

00:43:49.560 give them this gift that costs billions of dollars and thousands of lives just to improve relations.

00:43:56.440 We don't need to bribe them. Okay. We don't have to bribe Panama to make them like us. 0.68

00:44:04.420 Who gives a if they like us or not? If you don't give it to us, we're going to not like you. Okay.

00:44:10.980 Then don't. What do we care? What possible difference does it make? What you think of us,

00:44:16.660 but also how did that work out? Jimmy, how did it work out? Uh, given the Panama Canal to improve

00:44:24.900 relations with Latin America, how did that pan out? Well, I'll tell you how it panned out.

00:44:30.860 Latin America has spent the, uh, the following 40 years shipping drugs and criminals into our country, 1.00

00:44:37.320 utterly decimating our national sovereignty while killing thousands of more Americans. 0.77

00:44:42.000 So that's what they gave us. I said that they gave us nothing in exchange to Panama, Panama Canal.

00:44:46.800 I'm wrong. That's what they gave us. So as this great token of, of, uh, good faith to Latin America,

00:44:54.100 we gave them the Panama Canal and in exchange, they gave us crime and drugs for 40 years. 0.73

00:45:01.560 That that's the improved relations with Latin America is that.

00:45:04.580 So, um, so now Trump wants the Panama Canal back and I hope he gets it. And look, uh, I know that,

00:45:12.980 you know, the response is going to be, well, it was a treaty. It's a legal agreement. There's nothing

00:45:17.220 you could do. First of all, Panama has almost certainly violated the terms of the treaty.

00:45:24.920 It would not be that hard to take a look at it and find myriad ways that they violated the treaty,

00:45:30.140 which would justify us saying treaty has been violated. It's it's, it's, it is now defunct. You

00:45:35.920 violated it. I mean, one of the aspects of the treaty was neutrality that the canal is supposed to

00:45:45.140 remain neutral. And yet you've got China down there exerting a, a, a, a, a outsized influence,

00:45:52.580 extending their tentacles from the other side of the globe. So that alone, we'd be perfectly

00:46:01.220 justified in saying you violated the treaty. That's really the answer to the whole thing about

00:46:05.500 the treaty. But then also look, I mean, Jimmy Carter had no right to give it away. Are, are we

00:46:17.140 beholden forever to this terrible, awful deal that is like, that hurts America? It, so how long,

00:46:26.620 I mean, a thousand years from now, we still, it never changes. Um, even though Panama is this tiny 0.99

00:46:37.200 little speck of a country with no power at all. And I mean, we could just show up and say,

00:46:43.820 we're taking the canal back. You can do literally nothing about it. We could do that.

00:46:51.440 Uh, but, uh, you got to respect the treaty. All right, fine. Well, take it's, it's, it's,

00:46:56.280 that's the thing about contracts is like, if, if you get some lawyers in a room, they're very good

00:47:00.500 at this and they can figure out ways that the contract was violated. They can, they can figure

00:47:04.500 out, like I said, they can figure out a thousand ways. And so have them do that. I'm sure they already

00:47:08.320 have. Here's a thousand ways Panama, uh, vitally the treaty. So we're taking them canal back.

00:47:14.280 We could do it legally. If it makes everyone feel more comfortable with it. Let's get to the

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00:48:35.840 All right. I know three Matts. One is my second daughter's husband. One is my fourth daughter's

00:48:42.020 boyfriend. One is you. You're the only Mat I like. Well, look, give those other Matts a chance is all 0.99

00:48:50.520 I'm going to say. I mean, they're not going to be as good as me, but you can't hold them to that

00:48:54.780 standard. I'm the top of the Mat pile here, but they got their names right, at least. That's got to

00:49:01.320 count for something. It can't be all bad. Matt, it totally amazes me how you can start the day by

00:49:11.020 talking about the serious matter of possible DEI issues with traffic controllers and helicopters

00:49:15.940 and planes, potential crashes, and then move to onesies and the snap versus the zipper. I just want

00:49:21.540 you to know that every time I listen to you and watch your facial expressions, I grin from ear to

00:49:25.200 ear, shake my head, and wonder, how in the world did God give you such a comical, sarcastic, and wise

00:49:29.520 mind? Like I said, you can always send me compliments and I'll read them. Well, I appreciate

00:49:35.440 that. And, you know, what you've just pointed to is the reason to love the show or, but also

00:49:40.100 the reason to hate it. It just depends on, you can go either way. It depends on how you're wired

00:49:45.140 because we will move seamlessly from really important topics to the pettiest stuff imaginable.

00:49:50.720 And I will discuss all of them with an equal level of seriousness and I will discuss all of them at

00:49:57.300 length. So you either appreciate that or you're repulsed by it and there's not a lot of room in

00:50:04.540 between. As a father of three, I'm glad Matt is finally addressing the snapping onesies. I refuse to

00:50:10.560 buy them after our first and only ones we had were gifted to us. They're a nightmare when doing late

00:50:14.840 night feeding or diaper changes. Yeah, they really are. I hate dealing with them when I'm changing

00:50:20.720 diapers. I mean, if I ever did change a diaper, I would hate it. I'd hate dealing with them.

00:50:27.840 I'm kidding. Of course I do. Every time I make this joke, people get really upset.

00:50:32.980 I do change diapers. Not, not like directly. I don't directly, but, but I, I I'm involved. I

00:50:39.820 facilitate, I facilitate and delegate the changing of the diapers. I pay for the diapers. So I'm very

00:50:46.860 much involved. I am involved in the process of changing the diapers, but you know, in terms of

00:50:51.580 the actual physical labor of it, that's not so much my role. That's not, that's not where I excel

00:50:56.960 is in the changing of the diapers. Let's see. But Matt, the snap on the onesies can help keep your

00:51:04.480 baby warm. Like when you're changing the diaper, you can only have to open the bottom snaps instead of

00:51:08.460 unzipping the entire onesie and exposing the baby's chest to the cold. Come on, man. Think

00:51:12.360 look, the baby will be fine. I mean, what do you mean exposing the baby to the cold?

00:51:16.920 You have heat in your house, don't you? What are you living in the 17th century? You got,

00:51:20.960 you got one candle in your kitchen, heating the whole house. Baby's not going to freeze while

00:51:28.120 you're changing. By the way, my wife has given me the same speech. We've had the snap discussion.

00:51:33.320 What are you going to keep? Cause you want to keep, cause they're going to get cold when you're

00:51:36.280 Eskimos have babies for God's sake. Like they live in igloos with their babies. Okay. So you think 1.00

00:51:43.520 about that. And here you think that your baby needs a snap on onesie so that, you know, the child

00:51:50.200 doesn't get hypothermia while you're changing a diaper for 90 seconds. Matt, are you mixing up

00:51:56.420 onesies with footie pajamas? I've never seen zippers on onesies, but I'm also, I've also never seen

00:52:01.300 snaps on footie pajamas. Maybe I'm too old. You know, there've been a lot of comments like this.

00:52:05.640 There were a lot of comments claiming that I don't know what a onesie is. Um, saying I'm confused

00:52:11.440 about what a onesie is. Like, don't come at me with that. All right. Miss me with that. Miss me

00:52:16.420 with that, bro. All right. Dead ass. I know what a onesie is. Actually a onesie is a one piece garment.

00:52:25.340 Technically. That's what a onesie is. That's why it says one. So if the whole outfit comes in

00:52:31.260 one piece, it's a onesie. All right. So yeah, I'm talking about snap on onesies. The ones that are

00:52:37.180 a torturous to put on a baby that have like 95 snaps and you have to assemble them. When you lay

00:52:43.100 them out, they're like flat. It's like a flat piece of fabric and you have to fold them and assemble

00:52:48.140 them and snap them. That's what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about the ones that have the three

00:52:52.700 snaps at the crotch. Like, that's not what I mean. So the full on snap on pajama things is what I'm

00:52:58.760 in. And yes, those are one. Those are onesies. So get out of my comments with the, those aren't

00:53:03.080 any one piece outfit is. So that means what that means. Yes. Batman wears a onesie. Spider-Man

00:53:12.300 wears a onesie. Like I got, I got news for you. That's what it means. Tell me, I don't know what a

00:53:17.360 onesie is. Do you know, like 60% of all onesie purchases in the United States for the last 10 years

00:53:23.780 have been made by my family and you're telling me, I don't know what a onesie is like back off

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00:54:11.240 Well, I hadn't planned to talk about this again today, but people won't stop being stupid about it. 0.99

00:54:15.900 And when people are being stupid on the internet on those very rare occasions, I have no choice but 0.99

00:54:21.100 to respond. So on Friday, we discussed the controversy bubbling around J.D. Vance after he 0.99

00:54:25.840 had the audacity to suggest that we as human beings have a special responsibility to our own families

00:54:31.200 and communities and country. He provocatively claimed that you should be more concerned about

00:54:36.060 caring for your own child than caring for someone else's child in a country 5,000 miles away.

00:54:42.180 In case you missed it, here's that clip again.

00:54:44.240 But there's this old school, and I think it's a very Christian concept, by the way, that you love

00:54:50.280 your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love

00:54:54.660 your fellow citizens in your own country. And then after that, you can focus and prioritize the rest of

00:55:01.300 the world. A lot of the far left has completely inverted that. They seem to hate the citizens

00:55:06.160 of their own country and care more about people outside their own borders. That is no way to run

00:55:11.160 a society. And I think the profound difference that Donald Trump brings to the leadership of this

00:55:16.340 country is the simple concept, America first. It doesn't mean you hate anybody else. It means

00:55:22.380 that you have leadership, and President Trump has been very clear about this, that puts the interests

00:55:27.320 of American citizens first. In the same way that the British prime minister should care about Brits, 0.69

00:55:32.640 and the French should care about the French, we have an American president who cares primarily

00:55:36.740 about Americans, and that's a very welcome change.

00:55:39.460 What is President Xi doing? What is Vladimir Putin doing?

00:55:41.520 He's looking after the Chinese. Putin is looking after the Russians. They're entitled to do that. 0.99

00:55:45.840 Thank God we now have an American president who's looking after the citizens of his own country.

00:55:50.940 As we talked about on Friday, this very obviously correct observation, one that is both

00:55:55.060 biblically sound and self-evident to any functioning human being, nonetheless provoke great outrage on

00:56:00.120 the left. And the outrage has yet to subside. They feel they must object to Vance's utterly

00:56:04.920 sensible statements about prioritizing your own family and nation over nations and families across

00:56:10.060 the globe because they believe, or feel obliged to pretend they believe, that our borders should

00:56:14.940 be open and that we have a moral obligation to welcome and care for an infinite stream of third

00:56:20.700 world immigrants. And this is why a large gaggle of self-satisfied college professors and alleged 0.97

00:56:26.320 theologians, midwits who tragically see themselves as geniuses, this is why they started posting smarmy

00:56:32.820 rebuttals claiming that Vance's position is unbiblical, quote, pagan, quote, tribal, and a, quote,

00:56:39.920 false gospel. And of course, this is all coming from atheists, heretics, apostates, false teachers like 0.95

00:56:46.260 Father James Martin, who will just as confidently assure us that the gospel endorses same-sex marriage 0.98

00:56:51.660 and the chemical castration of gender-confused minors. So these are people who only open the Bible 0.99

00:56:57.540 so that they can spit on it and defile it, and yet they pretend to be, in situations like this,

00:57:03.440 authorities on a book that they've obviously never read. And if they did read it, they would find that

00:57:10.240 Vance's idea about the proper ordering of loves is, again, not only self-evident and common sense,

00:57:16.620 but also explicitly outlined in the scripture. 1 Timothy 5.8, for example, says that anyone who does

00:57:23.360 not provide for his relatives, especially those of his own household, has denied his faith. Or you could

00:57:30.100 also flip all the way back to the Old Testament to something called the Ten Commandments, and there

00:57:35.720 we're told to honor our father and mother. Now, it doesn't say, honor your father and mother and also

00:57:42.440 the fathers and mothers of all the people all across the world. No, honor your own father and mother.

00:57:48.580 This is God himself engraving in stone the special obligation we have to our own family members.

00:57:54.720 As for our neighbors, we're told not to bear false witness against them, not to be covetous of their

00:58:00.560 property or envious of their lives, but it doesn't tell us to honor our neighbors. That command and

00:58:07.840 that phrasing is reserved specifically and especially for our parents. In fact, here's something

00:58:15.200 interesting. If you follow the Ten Commandments from number one down to number 10, you'll find that

00:58:21.780 first our obligations to God are outlined, then our obligations to family, and then our obligations to

00:58:28.600 our neighbors. So the hierarchy of love, the order of love, is literally and numerically laid out in

00:58:37.000 the Ten Commandments. But the dumbest rebuttal of all came yesterday, and this is why I've been forced 0.95

00:58:43.440 to revisit the topic today. The sheer force of the dumbness compels me, almost as though the dumbness 0.99

00:58:49.040 has actual mass and exerts its own gravitational pull upon me. Somebody named Scott Alexander posted this. 0.97

00:58:56.480 He apparently has a blog where he claims to write about science and philosophy. He's also, I'm told

00:59:01.420 by Wikipedia, a psychiatrist in San Francisco. And we know that about 85% of the worst ideas in the

00:59:08.180 history of the world have originated from psychiatrists in San Francisco. So this is no

00:59:12.840 surprise. Explains why he tweeted this, quote, I went on a walk and saw a child drowning in the river.

00:59:18.740 I was going to jump in and save him when someone reminded me that I should care about family members

00:59:22.600 more than strangers. So I continued on my way and let him drown. This is the argument presented by

00:59:29.640 an alleged philosophy writer. It is a thought experiment meant to reveal the absurdity of

00:59:34.220 Vance's position. But instead, all it reveals is that Scott Alexander has the comprehension skills

00:59:39.600 of a carrot cake. Okay, the first problem is that clearly there is a significant difference between a

00:59:45.060 child drowning in front of you in a river and millions of immigrants all across the world.

00:59:50.960 The point of his analogy is to explain why we're morally obliged to open our borders to an endless

00:59:57.040 army of third world migrants. So he's not talking about, he's actually not talking about saving just one

01:00:03.780 child in a river. He's actually suggesting that we must save millions of children from every river in the

01:00:10.160 world. So yes, Scott, I agree that I should and I would save a child drowning in a river if I happen to

01:00:17.620 stumble upon the scene while going for a walk. But what if I didn't see him drown? What if I decided

01:00:24.180 to stay home? Is his death still my fault? Did I somehow fail in some sort of duty to go out looking

01:00:31.000 for drowning children? Is America on the hook to provide shelter and aid and a home to every impoverished

01:00:38.100 person everywhere in the world indefinitely? Are we allowed to stay home as it were, shut the door and

01:00:45.540 focus on our own home, our own nation? But we still haven't really gotten to the point. Because what

01:00:53.240 makes Scott's argument so incredibly, almost unfathomably stupid is that it actually proves 1.00

01:01:02.100 Vance's point perfectly. Scott has found the perfect thought experiment to confirm Vance's 0.99

01:01:09.000 argument beyond any shadow of a doubt. All we have, and it's so good that I almost, I wish I had

01:01:13.880 thought of it when we talked about this on Friday, which is one of the reasons why I'm talking about

01:01:16.480 it now. All we have to do is make one adjustment so that it actually reflects the point that he was

01:01:23.140 making. Okay? If you're walking alone and you see a child alone drowning in the river, well, there's

01:01:31.000 no reason why prioritizing your family would prevent you from saving the child. It's just the child

01:01:35.940 drowning. Now, even if you do care more about your family than you do about strangers, which you should,

01:01:42.800 there's still no reason why you wouldn't save the child in that scenario, right? There's no competition

01:01:47.240 here between your own child and this child in the river. Now, sure, I mean, if the child is drowning

01:01:56.480 in a fast-flowing river 20 feet from a massive waterfall or something, and you have children

01:02:02.420 at home and a family to care for, then that might give you reason to pause before going on a suicide

01:02:08.200 mission to save a stranger. But even so, if there's a reasonable hope of saving the child, then I think

01:02:13.260 most people would take the risk and should. I would. Still, this scenario doesn't adequately reflect

01:02:21.960 Vance's point. Vance's point is more like this. You're walking along a riverbank. Suddenly, you see a

01:02:30.780 child drowning 50 yards off in the river. Then you notice 50 yards back in the other direction,

01:02:38.500 your own child drowning. Okay, so you got a child you don't know and your own child both drowning in

01:02:47.340 the same river. And they're a hundred yards apart in this case. You can't save them both at the same

01:02:55.580 time. You have to save one first, and the other one will most likely die, tragically. So, which child

01:03:05.960 do you save first? Your own or the stranger? What would you do, Scott? Your child is drowning, shouting

01:03:17.760 to you, screaming, Dad, save me. Would you do what any morally sane human being would do, what any decent

01:03:24.700 father would do, what any human who is not a psychopath would do, and immediately jump in to save your own

01:03:30.220 child first? And then if you get him back to safety and the other child is still above the surface, or even

01:03:35.920 if he's not, at that point, you jump in to save the other child, when tragically, it's probably going

01:03:42.140 to be too late, but you would at least attempt, but you're going to get your own child first. Is that

01:03:45.220 what you would do? Or would you stay true to your enlightened liberal principles and demonstrate your

01:03:50.340 commitment to equity and inclusivity by leaving your child to drown while you swim off in the opposite

01:03:57.040 direction to save some other kid you've never met before? Would you shout to your child,

01:04:03.120 sorry son, but I don't recognize any special obligation to love you? I love all human beings across the world

01:04:08.620 equally. Is that what you would do? Now, if you would not do that, if you would, without hesitation,

01:04:17.560 prioritize your own child and save him first, then you actually understand Vance's point perfectly well.

01:04:23.820 You have a hierarchy in your own mind and heart, an ordering of loves, and you recognize intuitively

01:04:31.040 that you are called to protect, love, and serve your own family before anybody else.

01:04:35.940 You, in fact, love your child more than you love that other child. You love the other child in a sort

01:04:44.860 of general and charitable sense because he's a fellow human being, because he is a child,

01:04:49.260 child, but you love your child even more because he is yours. He's your flesh. You are tied to him by

01:04:57.800 blood. You have known him from his first breath. And even before that, you are called by God to protect

01:05:03.040 him with your life and to give your life for his. It is a deeper and stronger love, which is also why

01:05:09.620 you would mourn the death of your own child much, much more than you would mourn the death of any other

01:05:15.000 child. If a child drowns in the river and you hear about it on the news, you'd be very sad for him

01:05:20.100 and his family. And then after hearing about it on the news and being very sad, you would still go

01:05:26.860 about your day. But if your child drowns in the river, you will be crushed as though a 10-ton boulder

01:05:34.760 had been dropped on your head, and you will mourn him and grieve his loss every day of your life until

01:05:40.480 you die. So the outside world sees the death of your child and the child down the street as tragedies

01:05:48.780 of equal proportion. And objectively, they're right. But they're not equal to you because that is your

01:05:55.600 child. Now, do I really need to explain this? Is there any chance that Scott would actually tell me

01:06:03.300 that he would save the other child instead of his own? Or even that he'd have to think about it?

01:06:10.460 Would Scott insist that he would mourn the death of his own child no differently than he mourns the

01:06:15.000 death of anybody else? If so, I certainly hope he doesn't have any kids in real life, because any man 0.98

01:06:22.360 who is that neutral about his own children is not fit to raise them. But the good news is that Scott is

01:06:28.400 almost certainly full of crap. He understands the basic concept of prioritizing the people closest to 0.99

01:06:33.140 us. He does it every day. It would be impossible to maintain any healthy human relationship if you

01:06:38.380 didn't do that every day. And I'm going to assume that Scott has at least a few healthy human

01:06:43.240 relationships. Though that may be a bold assumption to make about a psychiatrist from San Francisco.

01:06:48.740 But in any case, this river thought experiment that Scott accidentally gave us absolutely proves J.D.

01:06:55.140 Vance's point. If you would save your own child first, you agree with J.D. Vance. Period. End of story.

01:07:05.520 If you wouldn't save your own child first, you are a psychotic monster and should lose custody of your 1.00

01:07:12.340 kids. Those are really the only two options here. It's not a false dichotomy. It's just the actual 1.00

01:07:18.920 dichotomy. You are either the type of person who would save your own child, or you're the type of

01:07:25.940 person who would let him drown. Now, I'm not sure how many people would actually be in the latter camp

01:07:32.060 when push comes to shove, but I do know that a lot of people on the left, especially the intellectual

01:07:36.560 leaders on that side, claim they're in that camp. So either way, they are horrifically and embarrassingly

01:07:44.380 wrong, and they are today, of course, canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for

01:07:49.120 watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.

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