The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the long-awaited release of the Epstein Files was a massive,

00:00:04.160 disastrous flop. What happened? Why did it happen? And when will we see the actual Epstein Files?

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00:02:31.200 your best sleep tonight. In the summer of 2019, the FBI rang the doorbell of Jeffrey Epstein's

00:02:37.280 40-room, eight-story townhouse in Manhattan. And it was never exactly clear why they bothered to

00:02:42.240 ring the doorbell, given that they were looking for sensitive evidence that could easily be

00:02:45.740 destroyed. But that's what they did. And then when no one answered, agents forced entry. And

00:02:50.860 once they were inside, they found a safe that they cut open with a saw. So they came prepared.

00:02:56.340 And ultimately, agents discovered several hard drives and CDs in the residence, both inside and

00:03:00.540 outside the safe. And additionally, they found numerous black binders with mysterious white labels.

00:03:05.680 And photos of the raid have been available for some time. You're seeing some of them

00:03:09.320 right now. But at this point, we don't have specific information about what exactly was on many of

00:03:14.800 those CDs and hard drives. According to the FBI, they left the apartment to seek another search

00:03:19.980 warrant for the property. And when they returned several days later, many of these materials had

00:03:24.140 gone missing. That's the excuse they came up with. They just abandoned the scene of one of their most

00:03:29.080 high-profile investigative targets. And what do you know? The evidence went missing. But not all the

00:03:34.940 materials were gone. On cross-examination during Gislaine Maxwell's trial, an FBI agent admitted that

00:03:41.540 more than 20,000 images were recovered. But of those images, only a small fraction of these were

00:03:47.180 ever shown to the jury. And the vast majority of them have never been publicly accounted for.

00:03:51.880 We don't have descriptions. We don't have explanations. We're meant to forget all about it.

00:03:56.560 And in particular, we're meant to stop asking which high-profile clients might be implicated by

00:04:02.980 those documents. We were supposed to just wipe that whole question from our memory. But millions of

00:04:07.320 people have not forgotten about this. Among the many other questions that have circulated since

00:04:12.540 Epstein's death, the question of what exactly the FBI recovered from his townhouse and his private

00:04:17.880 island has remained a topic of intense interest and speculation. It's one of the reasons a lot of

00:04:23.800 Americans voted for Donald Trump. They wanted transparency. And on Wednesday night, in an appearance

00:04:27.880 on Fox News that got a lot of attention, the Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi,

00:04:31.960 promised to deliver exactly that transparency. Watch.

00:04:37.180 Said last week that you have the Epstein files on your desk. When can we see them? And what's taking

00:04:42.600 so long to release them?

00:04:44.500 I do. Jesse, there are well over, this will make you sick, 200 victims. 200. So we have, well over,

00:04:54.380 over 250 actually. So we have to make sure that their identity is protected and their personal

00:05:02.420 information. But other than that, I think tomorrow, you know, the personal information of victims.

00:05:08.020 Other than that, I think tomorrow, Jesse, breaking news right now, you're going to see some Epstein

00:05:13.600 information being released by my office.

00:05:16.600 What kind? Are we going to see who was on the flights? Are we going to see any evidence from what

00:05:22.820 he recorded? Because he had all of his homes wired with recording devices.

00:05:27.540 What you're going to see, hopefully tomorrow, is a lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot of

00:05:34.960 information. But it's pretty sick what that man did. Okay. Well, along with his co-defendant.

00:05:43.020 Absolutely. And he had help. That's for sure. He sure did.

00:05:47.140 Now, everybody watching this clip understood the implication of what Pam Bondi was saying. We were

00:05:51.440 being prepared for a major document dump on Thursday, one that would demonstrate the extent

00:05:56.940 of Epstein's depravity beyond what we already knew. Bondi didn't make it clear exactly how this

00:06:02.700 document dump would take place, but she was clearly suggesting that it would be significant. She said,

00:06:07.240 breaking news. This information is going to come out. There's just no way to interpret this clip in

00:06:13.120 any other way. She had reviewed the information and she was promising that it would be at least

00:06:18.120 relevant. And then Thursday morning rolled around and several prominent conservative social media

00:06:23.680 personalities and journalists entered the White House. And when they emerged outside, they were

00:06:28.380 holding binders that supposedly contained phase one of the Epstein files. The binder specifically

00:06:34.540 boasted on the cover that the administration's transparency was the reason they were being

00:06:38.540 released. But almost immediately, there was a mixed reaction to this whole scene, as you might

00:06:42.480 imagine. After all, it didn't make a lot of sense to filter this information through anybody.

00:06:46.680 Why not just post it online so everybody can access it? That would seem to be the most transparent

00:06:51.100 possible approach. And apparently that was the original plan, but it didn't happen,

00:06:54.980 at least not right away, for some reason. Instead, for several hours, nobody in the public could see

00:06:59.960 these binders. Only a small subset of hand-selected conservative commentators were allowed to see it.

00:07:05.040 And even those commentators were not allowed to post about the binders right away. There was an

00:07:09.180 embargo for some reason, according to Savannah Hernandez. Supposedly, the White House was going to stage a

00:07:15.360 press conference where they released the binder publicly, but the presser never happened.

00:07:20.120 Why didn't it happen? Why did it all play out? Why did everything play out this way exactly? Well,

00:07:25.400 that was never explained. And as the hours went by, people became more and more upset at both the

00:07:30.680 White House and their guests with the binders. And it reminded me of something that had happened in

00:07:35.280 the early days of the Obama administration when Charles Krauthammer was invited to attend an event at

00:07:40.340 the White House. He wrote one of his most famous columns about this experience. The event was a

00:07:45.040 ceremony that would mark the end of George Bush's ban on stem cell research. The White House thought

00:07:50.160 Krauthammer would want to attend because he'd previously advocated in favor of stem cell research.

00:07:54.300 But Krauthammer declined the White House's invitation because, as he put it, quote,

00:07:58.340 once you show your face at these things, you become a tacit endorser of whatever they spring.

00:08:03.320 In other words, even though Krauthammer ostensibly agreed with what the White House was doing and with the

00:08:07.160 subject of the event, he turned him down because he didn't know what would actually happen once he

00:08:11.820 got there. And indeed, yesterday, all of these prominent conservative personalities were thrown

00:08:20.200 a curveball. From what I've been told, none of them were there to talk about Epstein. That's not why

00:08:25.840 they were there. There was a previously scheduled meeting between the White House press team and

00:08:30.820 these influencers, which is a totally normal thing. But then at the meeting, the Epstein binders were 0.74

00:08:38.400 sprung on them. And so now all of those people are getting, to my mind, unfairly criticized for

00:08:46.700 participating in a stunt that they didn't actually sign up for. They were there, again, for something

00:08:53.780 else, and they were handed these binders. I don't think it's fair to blame them for that.

00:08:59.000 And now, though, the White House says that it didn't sign up for this either somehow. It turns

00:09:07.040 out that, according to Pam Bondi, late Wednesday night, just hours before the whole binder event,

00:09:11.860 a source of the FBI's field office in New York reached out to the Trump administration and

00:09:15.040 explained that, in fact, all of the Epstein files had not been provided to the White House.

00:09:19.640 All that Pam Bondi possessed, all she was hyping up on Fox News, were 200 pages of redacted documents.

00:09:25.380 And most, if not all, these documents have already been released in some form,

00:09:29.820 including Epstein's contact list and some of the travel logs.

00:09:33.400 But the source of the FBI's New York office allegedly said that thousands of additional

00:09:37.640 documents remained in the FBI's possession, even though Bondi had requested that every single

00:09:41.580 document be turned over to the White House. In a response yesterday, Bondi wrote to the FBI

00:09:46.080 director, Kash Patel, this letter you can see on the screen. In her letter, as you can see,

00:09:51.420 Bondi demands that all of these documents are provided to the White House immediately.

00:09:56.180 She also requested an investigation into why these materials were not provided in the first

00:10:00.140 place. That's a good question. Why would the FBI flagrantly defy an order from their boss at the DOJ?

00:10:06.140 Why would they hide documents that they have in their possession? How do they think they would get

00:10:10.280 away with that? Now, of course, this letter from Bondi raises several questions. Put mildly,

00:10:16.360 there are reasons to doubt that we're getting the full story here. First of all, if Bondi had only

00:10:22.460 200 pages in her possession on Wednesday night, why did she go on Fox News and hype up this document

00:10:28.960 up? Did the White House not realize that all of these materials were already available in the public

00:10:33.760 domain? In fact, the really crazy thing is that some of these materials are less redacted on the

00:10:41.360 internet than they were in the binders that Bondi handed out to those conservative influencers.

00:10:46.860 So in fact, not only did they provide information that was already public, they provided less

00:10:51.520 information than was already publicly available. In at least one instance, the binder actually redacts

00:10:57.200 Jeffrey Epstein's email address, even though he's dead, obviously, and doesn't use it anymore.

00:11:02.780 But online, you can find the same email address, no problem. Websites like Gawker leaked Epstein's

00:11:08.320 phone contacts a long time ago. Anybody with an internet connection can discover all of that.

00:11:13.500 Was the White House somehow not aware of this? Did Pam Bondi think she was releasing new information?

00:11:19.240 If so, that would not be an encouraging sign. It's just, it's not an exaggeration to say that

00:11:25.120 there is not a single new revelation in this 200-page binder. Even the fact that Epstein was an FBI

00:11:31.040 informant is not new. We already knew that he provided information to the feds during his prosecution

00:11:35.660 and that a senior FBI official at the time was under the impression that Epstein, quote,

00:11:39.680 belonged to intelligence. We knew that. So what exactly happened here? If Bondi knew that there

00:11:46.160 was no new information and the FBI was stonewalling her, why hand out binders with Epstein files phase

00:11:53.120 one emblazoned on the front? Why set up these people, by the way, these influencers, to be embarrassed

00:11:59.500 by giving them this information when there's nothing new there?

00:12:07.820 Now, we've known for a long time now that the odds of learning any significant new information

00:12:12.500 about Epstein and his clients are probably very low, but there are obviously legitimate reasons to

00:12:18.320 want the information. People are interested in knowing whether and to what extent their government

00:12:22.260 was compromised by Epstein. They want to know whether anyone in power is still compromised. They want to

00:12:27.060 know which rich and powerful people were raping minors and engaging in other acts of evil debauchery.

00:12:32.600 They want to understand the extent of the damage that Epstein has done to his victims and to this

00:12:38.940 country. And what happened yesterday amounted to basically a mockery of that interest. It wasn't

00:12:46.540 in effect a giant middle finger to Americans. The only question that remains is who exactly was giving us

00:12:52.300 that middle finger. And why? Now, right now, Pam Bondi says that she's doing what she can to fix the

00:12:58.700 problem. She says that heads will roll at the FBI. But as some observers have pointed out, she should

00:13:05.600 not limit her focus to the FBI. After all, it was the Department of Justice that approved Epstein's

00:13:10.440 sweetheart plea agreement, which allowed him to avoid a significant prison sentence and also granted

00:13:15.300 immunity to his co-conspirators. It was the DOJ that messed up the search warrant of Epstein's property

00:13:20.720 and delayed the creation of a grand jury. Why did that happen exactly? What internal documents does

00:13:26.600 the DOJ possess from that period that might shed light on the decision-making that was going on?

00:13:31.380 The information we already have from the grand jury is about as disturbing as it could possibly be.

00:13:36.100 Last year, a law in Florida allowed for the release of some of these records. And it turns out that

00:13:40.820 throughout the proceedings, the prosecutors attacked the victims repeatedly. They also minimized what

00:13:47.260 Jeffrey Epstein was doing. And it got so bad that at one point, a juror had to step in

00:13:51.040 to defend the victims. Watch.

00:13:53.740 The records show prosecutors called only five witnesses, three investigators, and two victims,

00:13:59.100 one who was only 14 when she was first enticed to Epstein's mansion. The girls testified how,

00:14:05.220 while they were underage high school students, Jeffrey Epstein paid them for massages but sexually 0.92

00:14:10.020 abused them repeatedly, including two who were raped. But prosecutor Lana Belalavik quickly moved 0.62

00:14:15.820 to questioning the girls as though they were on trial, asking one, you understand you in effect

00:14:21.160 were committing prostitution yourself. Belalavik brought up their MySpace accounts, asking an

00:14:26.320 investigator, and does her website also include pictures of her in skimpy attire, drinking alcohol,

00:14:31.740 and sexually provocative photos, photos she then produced to the grand jury. Belalavik asked the

00:14:37.880 girls about their piercings, drinking beer, and shoplifting histories, asking one, you've had problems 1.00

00:14:43.440 with drugs, haven't you? When jurors had a chance to question the victim, they seemed to follow

00:14:48.720 Belalavik's lead, one asking, do you have any idea deep down inside of you that you, what you're doing

00:14:54.260 is wrong? Victim, yeah, I did. Belalavik also seemed to make allowances for Epstein, asking one

00:15:00.860 investigator, so he didn't make her do anything she was uncomfortable with? One juror did jump in to

00:15:06.760 defend the teenagers, saying, perhaps you were too young to be up against a man of that age who had more

00:15:11.940 control over you and that you knew. Now, you can watch a million grand jury proceedings and you won't see

00:15:18.380 anything like this. And it should go without saying, but prosecutors are not defense attorneys. Their job is

00:15:23.420 not to grill their own witnesses. That's especially true when you're at the grand jury stage when the

00:15:28.560 prosecution's only responsibility is to get an indictment. Usually, they go in, present the evidence that will

00:15:34.420 lead to an indictment, and they get the indictment, and they move on to the trial. But in this case, they clearly

00:15:40.020 didn't want to do that. They wanted to tank their own case. And you have to wonder whether anyone at

00:15:43.820 the DOJ instructed them to do that. At the moment, we don't know whether Pan Bondi will be able to

00:15:50.020 answer that question. But the truth is, especially after what happened yesterday, it looks pretty likely,

00:15:56.500 sadly, that we'll never get an answer. We'll also never know how Jeffrey Epstein managed to become a

00:16:02.140 global pimp with no identifiable clients. That's maybe the single biggest gaping hole in the entire

00:16:08.200 narrative we've been sold. They haven't arrested or even seriously investigated a single one of his

00:16:12.000 clients. At every stage, the government made sure that Epstein's clients would be completely protected. And to

00:16:17.220 that end, as we learned yesterday, the FBI has apparently concealed and perhaps destroyed the actual

00:16:21.740 incriminating information, and not just in Epstein's townhouse. So this is the sad reality that I think we all

00:16:28.480 need to prepare for. You know, we might find out some more specifics in the coming hours and days, assuming the

00:16:35.040 FBI complies with Pan Bondi's request. But of course, there's no reason to think they'll do so after a

00:16:40.120 cover-up that's lasted as long as this one has. At this point, it's very possible, it's very possible

00:16:45.940 that there are no Epstein files. Not because they never existed, but because some of the most powerful

00:16:54.080 people in this country made sure that they would never be discovered. After all, if there are files

00:16:59.880 out there, documents, video, etc., showing the most powerful people in the world engaged in horrific

00:17:05.420 criminal activity, what are the chances that the evidence still exists anywhere six years later?

00:17:13.100 Why would it still exist? If it wasn't released to begin with, it's because powerful people decided

00:17:18.700 to cover it up. And if they covered it up, they covered it up. That means burning the evidence, not

00:17:22.800 storing it in some safe somewhere for someone to release later. I hope that's not the case. I hope that

00:17:28.260 these files are out there and that we'll be able to see them one day and all the bad guys will be

00:17:32.560 held accountable. But my point is that at this point, I have very little faith in that happening.

00:17:39.920 Not to be the bearer of bad news. So going forward, if the administration takes anything from this

00:17:46.580 debacle, and it really is a debacle, it should be that retroactive transparency is very difficult,

00:17:53.440 if not impossible. And that's why transparency is necessary at all times, in all contexts.

00:17:58.260 For one thing, the classification system needs a major overhaul. The vast majority of documents

00:18:04.460 that the government hides from the public should not, in fact, be hidden to begin with.

00:18:09.040 Additionally, all of the agents of the FBI in New York field office who failed to respond

00:18:13.700 to Pam Bondi's request need to be fired immediately. And whoever was responsible for the evidence,

00:18:22.900 whatever happened, if the files are gone now, if that's true, then we need to find out how that

00:18:30.060 happened and who was responsible for that. And those people need to go to prison. And while we're

00:18:34.680 at it, we need a full accounting for what exactly Pam Bondi was looking at when she discussed that 0.98

00:18:39.760 binder on Fox News on Wednesday night. This is a question that no matter what you think of Pam Bondi,

00:18:45.460 and I think she's generally done a really good job so far, but that needs to be addressed.

00:18:53.520 We unfortunately may never know the full extent of Epstein's crimes, but these are the kinds of

00:19:00.260 changes that are necessary to ensure that the next serial pedophile like Jeffrey Epstein and his

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00:20:05.820 Daily Wire reports, graphic footage obtained by the Daily Wire appears to showcase how violent New

00:20:11.560 York prisons have become for inmates, correctional officers, and other workers since the Democrat-backed

00:20:16.760 Halt Act took effect in 2022. A source who wishes to remain anonymous out of fear of retribution

00:20:22.300 leaked the alleged footage from Greenhaven Correctional Facility, wishing to expose how dangerous

00:20:27.000 conditions are as 15,000 correctional officers and sergeants across the state remain on strike.

00:20:31.820 The source said, quote,

00:20:32.520 If I send this footage to you to help the public understand what it is we face and why we're on

00:20:35.900 strike, this is not about money. It's about the liberal agenda, how the liberal agenda has destroyed

00:20:40.720 our justice system. As Daily Wire previously reported, the strike began on February 17th with

00:20:45.980 officers asking for the Halt Act to be repealed and have other safety measures put into place,

00:20:50.440 including stopping mandated shifts that officers say can sometimes last days at a time.

00:20:57.480 The footage, the source says, shows staff at Greenhaven Correctional Facility being attacked and

00:21:00.860 inmates assaulting, even slashing each other's faces. The video opens up with an inmate slicing

00:21:05.020 the face of a woman who went to the prison to visit the inmate. Additionally, footage starting at

00:21:12.700 the two minutes, 209 mark appears to show the fatal stabbing of 30-year-old inmate Jarrett Frost.

00:21:20.620 And there's other things in the footage as well. I can't play the video from Amanda's report,

00:21:25.700 Amanda Prestigiacomo, who's the DW reporter on this story. I can't play the video because

00:21:29.840 YouTube would take it down. YouTube would take this whole show down, the whole video because

00:21:34.840 of the violent content. So if I played it, I had to blur everything. You wouldn't be able to see it.

00:21:41.880 But you can go to Daily Wire or go to my X page and you can see it there. It's brutal. It's just

00:21:48.180 really bad. And, you know, I've also gotten, at this point, dozens of messages from corrections

00:21:56.320 officers, many in New York, but also across the country, as I've been talking about this just over

00:22:02.020 the last few days. And they all tell me two things. Number one, the situation in our prisons is terrible.

00:22:10.660 I mean, which maybe doesn't come as a shock, but it's very bad. The inmates are given way too much

00:22:19.420 power. Guards have very little leverage. They're subjected to just constant abuse and harassment,

00:22:25.980 assaults, physical and sexual. It's a nightmare scenario. And this has all been enabled and fueled

00:22:31.940 by left-wing prison reform efforts, so-called prison reform. Now, obviously, it's a prison,

00:22:37.520 so it's not going to be a lovely environment no matter what. You know, if you go, if you become

00:22:43.000 a corrections officer, you know that going in. You know you're going into a tough situation

00:22:48.580 no matter what, because it's a prison and these are all the worst people in society who are there.

00:22:55.340 That's kind of the nature of the thing. But prisons don't have to be places of total chaos.

00:23:03.120 I mean, you can have some semblance of order and even safety, at least for the guards, in a prison.

00:23:12.160 You can have that. We've had that in the past.

00:23:18.280 But we don't have that now because of all these reforms that have been pushed, not exclusively,

00:23:24.600 but mostly by Democrats. And all of their reforms. Anytime a Democrat is talking about prison reform,

00:23:31.000 changing prisons, it is always on behalf of the criminals. They are never suggesting any reforms

00:23:37.200 to make the prison guards, the correctional officers safer. They don't care about that.

00:23:43.160 So every reform, it just gets worse and worse and worse, but every reform, whether on the federal

00:23:48.960 or state level, it's always about making sure the prisoners are more comfortable, that they have

00:23:55.040 more freedom, that there's more things they're able to do. And the more freedom you give to the prisoners,

00:24:03.660 the more you empower the inmates, the more risk you are causing for the guards, the more vulnerable

00:24:14.240 the guards become. So that's, you know, this is like unanimously what I'm, what I'm hearing behind

00:24:20.820 the scenes. And, uh, and then to the other kind of unanimous sentiment is that they feel totally

00:24:27.460 ignored. Their plight is, uh, not getting much press because the left-wing press is much more

00:24:32.460 interested in the plight of convicted murderers and rapists than in the, the, the suffering of prison

00:24:37.520 staff. They don't care about it. And also again, the left, it's their reforms, their policies have

00:24:43.920 caused this situation. So of course they have no interest in talking about the negative consequences

00:24:49.360 of their own policies. So they're ignored. And, um, you know, and the corrections officers are kind

00:24:55.920 of hung out to dry, uh, left to deal with this on their own. You know, there's one, I got one message

00:25:01.500 from a corrections officer who kind of explained it this way because, because in New York now,

00:25:07.180 thanks to the HALT Act, a prisoner can only go to solitary confinement, which isn't what I've been

00:25:12.560 told isn't even really solitary confinement, not how we think of it anyway. Um, but he can only go

00:25:17.840 for 15 days. So the guy's point to me was that if he gets assaulted, he has in the corrections

00:25:26.960 officer, the worst punishment that his attacker can get is 15 days. Now, if you're assaulted on the

00:25:34.380 street, in theory, anyway, the attacker is punished for years now. And we know it actually doesn't work

00:25:39.480 out that way very often, which is why the streets have are also becoming increasingly more dangerous.

00:25:45.440 But in theory, if somebody attacks you on the street and physically assaults you, they there's,

00:25:51.100 there's a years long punishment, but that's not how it works in these prisons now. So there's

00:25:57.100 basically no disincentive to stop inmates from assaulting guards. There's essentially no

00:26:02.120 punishment. And if you're a lifer, you know, if you're in there for life, um, there isn't even

00:26:07.660 any real consequence for killing a guard. I mean, think about that. What's the consequence? You

00:26:11.520 already, if you have life without parole, there's basically no solitary confinement anymore.

00:26:15.640 Um, you got all these prison reforms in place and, uh, everybody is given, you know, this,

00:26:23.420 this obsessive focus on the comfort of inmates. You're not going to leave anyway.

00:26:29.300 What's the stop you from killing a prison guard? And if there's no death penalty,

00:26:33.500 because that's another thing that might, that could stop you, but they don't do that in New York.

00:26:39.000 And they don't do that in most States either. Even in the States where they have the death penalty,

00:26:42.480 they rarely use it. So you're in prison for life. You can't be executed. You're never going to leave.

00:26:50.880 They can't put you in solitary confinement and you're a violent, evil sociopath 1.00

00:26:56.380 with nothing to lose. Why not kill a prison guard? There's like no reason why they wouldn't. 1.00

00:27:05.860 Uh, why not stage a prison riot? Why not cause as much mayhem as you can every single day?

00:27:10.540 There is nothing stopping you. You have no reason to not. Um, it's at this point,

00:27:18.560 we are relying entirely on the, on the, the, uh, inmates own sense of decency and propriety.

00:27:26.120 That's the only thing stopping them. Of course they're violent sociopaths. So they have no such 0.95

00:27:30.820 sense. And this is what happens as a result. So, you know, I'm, I'm going to stay on this story.

00:27:37.500 I'm not going to, I mean, it's, it's, it's not the kind of story that's, uh, drives engagement

00:27:42.680 or it gets a ton of clicks, but it really does matter because we are depending on corrections

00:27:47.360 officers to do a job that none of us would ever want to do. You know, what happens if they all go

00:27:52.160 on strike? What if a hundred percent of corrections officers go on strike? What then? What do we do then?

00:27:57.660 You know, this is not like, you know, this isn't like with say public school teachers where, uh,

00:28:06.900 cause if they go on strike, first of all, it doesn't affect me personally at all. We homeschool

00:28:11.620 our kids and we could get rid of the entire public school system. In fact, I think we should

00:28:16.380 privatize the whole thing. And a combination of private education and homeschooling,

00:28:23.000 in my opinion is how, is how that's what the education system should be. Um,

00:28:29.780 so we can actually have a functioning society without public schools. We definitely can.

00:28:37.620 Uh, there have been many functioning societies, including our own that did not have public schools.

00:28:44.640 So it would, when, when public school teachers go on strike and look, I think there, I think I

00:28:48.600 still, even though I'm very critical of the public school system, I still think that teachers do an

00:28:52.660 important job. I mean, educating kids is a very important job. Uh, and there are plenty of public

00:28:56.860 school teachers that are really good people and they, and they care about their job. And it's also

00:29:01.860 a thankless job in many respects, not nearly as thankless as being a prison guard. That's for damn 0.99

00:29:06.400 sure. Um, but even so, you know, we, the job of a public school teacher is not one that we actually

00:29:17.480 need. That's you can do that at home. You really can. Uh, we cannot though have a functioning society

00:29:23.960 without prisons. I homeschool my kids. I would not want to run a home prison for the murderers and

00:29:30.580 drug dealers in my community. Okay. I wouldn't want to do that. So when the public, if the public

00:29:35.620 school teachers say, Oh, we're all going to go on strike. All right, fine. I thought I could teach my

00:29:39.000 own kids. If the prison guards say, okay, we're all going on strike. I'm not going to say, okay,

00:29:43.960 fine. I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll put the murderers in my, uh, and we got a spare guest

00:29:48.840 room. We'll put them there. Nope. No big deal. Um, so this is why the story should matter to

00:29:56.840 everybody. And I will say that I've also gotten some messages from former inmates in the New York

00:30:00.900 correction system, kind of giving the other side of the story. Uh, not, not as many, but I've read a

00:30:06.880 few messages from people like that. And, and they say that I have it all backwards that, you know,

00:30:11.100 the guards are the ones who inflict abuse on the inmates and, um, the guards are given free reign to,

00:30:17.840 uh, be as violent as they want to be. Uh, so that that's the inmate perspective. But to be honest

00:30:24.780 with you, um, I'm sure that kind of thing does go on. I'm just frankly, not nearly as worried about

00:30:33.640 that. Uh, and you know, I, I, because I'm not a psychopath. Okay. When you've got two groups,

00:30:42.780 you've got prison guards and inmates, um, and you got to give the benefit of the doubt to one group

00:30:49.420 or the other. I'm giving the benefit of the doubt to the prison guards, not to the violent sociopaths

00:30:55.420 who are in prison because they are not functioning members of society. You know, none of us are there

00:31:01.460 in prison every day. So, and, and, and nobody is perfect on either side of this thing. There's

00:31:06.240 going to be abuses that happen. That's just, that comes with the territory, but you have,

00:31:12.480 you kind of have to give benefit of the doubt to one side or the other. And it is just madness

00:31:18.540 that in society and even most of our political leaders, especially the Democrat party kind of

00:31:28.780 instinctively give the benefit of the doubt to the inmates, to the violent sociopaths who are in

00:31:37.040 prison because they have committed serious crimes already. Um, and people who, as, as part of being a

00:31:48.560 violent sociopath, by the way, just lie constantly, just like lie about everything. That's, that's it.

00:31:54.560 You talk, that's whether a corrections officer or a law enforcement officer, you talk to any of these

00:31:59.480 people, uh, that's one thing they'll tell you that they're just dealing with people who just lie

00:32:04.220 about everything all the time. You know, they just are constantly lying. That's one of the reasons

00:32:11.140 with, with, uh, you know, when, when you see these, uh, these, uh, body cam videos from,

00:32:19.500 from arrests and you've got the person who's being arrested saying, I can't breathe. I can't

00:32:25.700 breathe. You know, of course there's the one very famous incident of that, but, um, that's a common

00:32:31.340 refrain that officers hear all the time, especially now, but even before. And you want, you watch the

00:32:36.980 videos. And of course, if you're a moron, you watch it and you go, well, why aren't they, why aren't 0.99

00:32:41.660 they taking that more seriously? Why aren't they listening? He said he can't breathe because they 1.00

00:32:45.160 all say that because they just lie. They just simply lie to, to get out of trouble always.

00:32:51.920 Okay. That's why. So if you're a corrections officer or law enforcement officer, you're

00:32:56.800 dealing with people who lie about everything always. And then we get mad at them. Why don't

00:33:03.260 you, they tried to warn you. Why don't you listen to these poor people? Maybe because they're 1.00

00:33:09.920 lying psychopaths. Maybe because they're dealing with the kinds of people who would happily slit 1.00

00:33:15.960 your throat and kill you for your shoes or for nothing. Maybe that's why. 0.98

00:33:24.100 All right. The Enquirer has this. The Philadelphia school district has indicated that it will ignore

00:33:27.920 a rule directing schools to ban transgender athletes from participating in sports that

00:33:32.000 match their gender identities. The move comes after the school's interscholastic athletics governing

00:33:36.220 body changed a key policy regarding transgender athletes. The Pennsylvania Interscholastic

00:33:40.400 Athletic Association board of directors last week voted to revise its transgender athlete policy to

00:33:45.460 comply with an executive order issued by President Trump. But the Philadelphia schools say that they are

00:33:51.900 going to defy this and they're going to continue to allow boys and girls sports. So obviously Trump needs

00:33:58.460 to pull all federal funding from Philadelphia schools. They receive tens of millions of dollars a year in

00:34:05.020 federal funding. I don't know exactly how much, but I think it's 15 to 20 million, something like that.

00:34:11.720 Pull it all. Just to begin with, pull all the funding. But there's only so much Trump can do. And that's why

00:34:17.260 Congress needs to codify these executive orders. Congress needs to pass laws. We need actual laws. Executive

00:34:25.700 orders are not enough on their own. So there needs to be a law banning men from women's sports. That needs to be one law. 1.00

00:34:33.780 There also needs to be another law, much more importantly, banning child gender transitions. 1.00

00:34:40.320 And we have, neither one of those laws have been passed yet. And you know, because of Trump's

00:34:44.340 first several weeks in office and how successful it's been, we talk about the Republican Party as

00:34:49.900 though it's new and improved. You know, this ain't your grandfather's Republican Party.

00:34:54.780 But, but it might be, you know, it might be the same. It might be the same ineffectual blob that

00:35:01.780 it's been for decades. That remains to be seen because they need to step up. We know that this

00:35:06.980 is a different Trump administration than it was the first time around. Is it a different Republican

00:35:11.000 Party? That very much remains to be seen because they need to actually pass laws. This needs to happen 0.65

00:35:17.760 soon. And, um, in the meantime, apparently some of these school districts are just going to defy

00:35:26.360 the executive order and do what they want. Uh, because there seems to be a real split on the left

00:35:33.380 between those who are determined to sort of die on the trans Hill and those who don't want to die on

00:35:40.560 it. And if they decide they want to die on it, great. I mean, so be it. If, uh, I mean the, the,

00:35:48.560 the left has a chance right now has an opportunity right now to leave all that, to just abandon all

00:35:55.160 that madness and try to pretend it never happened. Um, we should not allow them to pretend it never

00:36:00.100 happened, but politically that would be their smartest move. Just move on. Um, they could do

00:36:10.400 that or they could double down. They can double down on this totally losing argument. And, uh,

00:36:18.880 it seems right now that that's the, that's kind of what the civil war, uh, in the Democrat party is

00:36:23.760 about. And, um, if the pro-trans side wins that, that war, then the Democrat party will have consigned

00:36:31.200 itself to basically permanent irrelevance. We'll see how that plays out. Um, all right.

00:36:40.400 Bit of, uh, entertainment news on a Friday. This is from Variety. Zendaya is taking her talents to 0.98

00:36:49.560 the swamp. The in-demand actor has joined Shrek 5 as Felicia, the daughter of Shrek played by Mike

00:36:58.120 Myers and Fiona Cameron Diaz. Uh, so there was a teaser for Shrek 5 that was just put out and I didn't see

00:37:08.880 the teaser, but apparently it's, um, there was a, the teaser involves a very current, uh, TikTok joke.

00:37:16.660 So I guess Shrek is using some version of TikTok. Who could have, who could have seen that coming?

00:37:23.220 That we get the TikTok joke from a Shrek 5. And listen, Shrek 5 is not the most important news in

00:37:29.180 the world. Probably not even top 10, frankly, probably not. But I do want to say, first of all,

00:37:35.200 that if you go and see Shrek 5, you lose the right to, well, you should lose the right to vote. I mean,

00:37:42.760 that should be the first thing. Uh, there, there should be, we should have people stationed at the

00:37:48.480 theaters when, uh, Shrek 5 comes out and just documenting every single person who walks in to

00:37:54.380 see Shrek 5. Every single person over the age of 18 who does not have a child. If you're bringing 1.00

00:37:59.860 your kid, I'll allow it. Even though that's the movies, the whole franchise is like garbage. I 0.99

00:38:03.860 wouldn't bring my kid to see it, but, um, I'll allow it. Any adult without a kid who goes into

00:38:08.780 Shrek 5, I want it documented and you immediately lose at least your right to vote. Probably other

00:38:16.000 constitutional rights as well. That's what I would like to say. It's probably not going to happen.

00:38:19.140 That's what I would like to see happen. Uh, and if that doesn't happen at the, at a minimum,

00:38:23.080 you lose the right to ever again in your life, complain about a lack of originality in Hollywood.

00:38:28.100 And yet people will do this. They'll go and buy a ticket to Shrek 5 and it'll make, you know,

00:38:33.020 a billion dollars. And then those same people, the same people will say that Hollywood has run out

00:38:39.720 of ideas, you know, and all they do is put out the same reheated slop over and over again.

00:38:46.060 Uh, and this will be adults who go see this movie. The Shrek franchise is not for kids, really.

00:38:51.780 Like my kids don't care about Shrek. Does anyone, if you're around my age and you have kids,

00:38:57.440 does anyone kids like your kids actually care about Shrek? They couldn't care less about Shrek.

00:39:03.440 The original Shrek came out like 25 years ago. It's four millennials. This is a bunch of now 1.00

00:39:08.400 middle-aged millennials who go and see this just soulless dreck. Think about this for a moment.

00:39:16.720 They've been making Shrek films for 25 years. Okay. The first, I had to look it up. The first one

00:39:24.840 came out in 2001. Um, so 20, about 25 years, a quarter century of Shrek films, a quarter century

00:39:34.840 of making Shrek movies. The first one was sort of mildly amusing for about 30 minutes. If you were

00:39:43.400 alive and a child in the year 2001, that's the most we could say about the original Shrek.

00:39:50.380 It was also obnoxious and the animation is quite hideous and it's lazily written and it's just not

00:39:55.720 a good movie by any stretch of the imagination. But in the year 2001 specifically, if you were a child,

00:40:00.300 it was kind of amusing. And yet from this original film, which at best, at the very best was sort of

00:40:06.140 amusing. They've been able to launch a five film franchise that spans the entire century so far.

00:40:15.160 And people will keep watching the movies. They'll keep paying for tickets. They'll just keep rewarding

00:40:19.980 this sludge, this just empty, tedious tripe, and then complain about it. What? Why do we keep getting

00:40:28.480 terrible, uh, uh, you know, unimaginative films from Hollywood? They complain as they give their money

00:40:35.180 to the people who are making exactly that kind of material. I don't get it. And then there's Zendaya,

00:40:43.200 which I have to say, I just don't get the Zendaya thing. Is it Zendaya or Zendaya? I don't know.

00:40:49.220 Uh, and I'm not trying to be a hater, you know, I mean, I am being a hater, but, uh, I don't try to be,

00:40:54.480 it just kind of works out that way. And I, I honestly don't understand why this woman is in 1.00

00:40:59.660 every movie now. Uh, she appears in like 19 movies a year and yet she is, I mean, she has to be 0.52

00:41:07.480 the least interesting actress in Hollywood. Has she ever had an interesting role in anything?

00:41:17.800 Like what's a movie where you would say, Oh man, that Zendaya performance was tremendous.

00:41:24.480 Have you ever said to yourself, Oh, Zendaya is in that one. I got to see it. Has anyone said that?

00:41:29.920 I get, I'm probably not the, the target demo for a, for a Zendaya performance, but is,

00:41:35.860 does anyone feel that way? She's either kind of a non-entity or she actively makes the movies worse. 1.00

00:41:41.580 The Dune films. I like Dune. You know, I think the director, uh, Vela Nueva, however you pronounce

00:41:46.600 his name is probably the best director working in Hollywood today. I think all of it, he has not made a

00:41:52.040 bad movie. All of his movies have been good. Um, and there's not very many directors you can say

00:41:55.980 that about the one major problem with the Dune films is Zendaya who just almost ruins it single

00:42:02.680 handedly. She's just kind of this sulking humorless lump on a log, the whole movie. And she's very good

00:42:08.180 at that. She's very good at sulking in movies. So if there's a, if there's a role in a movie where 0.83

00:42:11.560 you need someone to sulk, if you need some good sulking in a movie, then bring in Zendaya for that.

00:42:16.180 She's the, she's the one, uh, I don't get it. So the sentence, the sentence Zendaya will star in

00:42:24.180 Shrek five is to me one of the least appealing combinations of words ever assembled in the human,

00:42:31.080 human language, in the English language or the human, any human language. Yeah. People will watch

00:42:35.760 it. They'll watch it. And, uh, we'll get 10 more Shreks. It'll be, it'll be the year 2100 and we'll be on, 0.99

00:42:43.700 we'll be on Shrek, you know, 65 at that point. Uh, all right, let's get to the comment section.

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00:43:59.440 Many Canadians know the truth. There were no masked, unmarked graves. The Indian chiefs themselves

00:44:06.080 debunked the initial reports. Two, the indigenous peoples of Canada requested the schools. They were

00:44:10.700 not forced to send their children. Many children withdrew after a basic public school level education,

00:44:15.100 ensuring basic literacy, math skills, and general knowledge. Note, there was some abuse in some schools,

00:44:21.580 but that came later. The problem in Canada is that we have a long ingrained history of government-funded

00:44:25.680 news. That was needed when technology was limited and expensive because of the vast geography of the

00:44:29.700 country. However, in the last 50 years or so, the reality has been exploited by the so-called

00:44:34.400 progressive liberals to control narratives. Most Canadians have not realized that these once-trusted

00:44:38.560 institutions have become propaganda instruments. Yeah. You know, I don't know much about the

00:44:44.500 residential schools in Canada, I confess. It's not a story. It's not a story and history that I've

00:44:52.880 studied in any great depth. I do know, we all know, that the masked graves narrative was total bunk, so we know

00:45:03.060 that. But, and I've read several comments like this saying that the whole story about, because even now,

00:45:11.720 even people who will admit that the masked graves, that was a false narrative and that there were no masked

00:45:18.020 graves, most of them will still say that, yeah, okay, maybe there were no masked graves, but the

00:45:22.620 residential schools were still an atrocity and they were a terrible thing. And it was, you know, it 0.88

00:45:29.220 was, it was, indigenous, so-called indigenous children were ripped away from their families by

00:45:35.220 force and it was an awful thing. Most people seem to still think that. And, but I have had read a few

00:45:42.520 comments like yours saying, well, no, the whole, the whole narrative about residential schools is just

00:45:46.740 wrong. And, um, uh, that, that would not surprise me to learn, you know, I, uh, I sort of suspected that the, the whole

00:45:56.220 narrative itself is probably bunk, um, uh, or, or at the very least, extremely incomplete. And at this point, we should

00:46:07.260 know this, we should know about basically any historical episode where there's a kind of an

00:46:17.660 established mainstream narrative. Um, it doesn't mean that the narrative is false. It doesn't mean

00:46:24.280 that, uh, but you should, there's no reason to assume it at this point. There's no reason to assume

00:46:30.860 that the established mainstream narrative about any historical episode, uh, is automatically true.

00:46:36.680 especially when it's, when it's one that the left has, um, has used to guilt people,

00:46:45.540 you know, to, to manipulate and heap guilt on people, uh, especially in those cases,

00:46:52.300 uh, which is why you do actually have to go and, uh, do your own research.

00:46:59.400 And this is why I, I drone on about this kind of thing all the time when it comes to the story of,

00:47:07.560 you know, the quote, indigenous peoples of, uh, in, you know, the, the United States or what became

00:47:14.400 the United States. Um, and that, that whole narrative, which, which, which claims, you know,

00:47:23.700 in the narrative that, um, that Europeans came here and it was just nothing but one atrocity

00:47:29.000 inflicted. It was a one-sided, uh, campaign of genocide against the natives that lasted for

00:47:35.960 hundreds of years. That's the official mainstream narrative. And in that case, that is something

00:47:41.760 I've studied quite extensively. And so I know, and I could only really discover this by taking the time

00:47:47.480 to read about it on my own. Um, but I know that narrative is, is absolute nonsense.

00:47:57.100 All right. Um, as a Canadian, I'm ashamed that I live in this woke country. Glad everything is

00:48:03.260 coming out in the light. Well, don't be ashamed of your country though. I mean, despise your political

00:48:07.060 leaders. Sure. But you're Canadian. You should love your country. Be proud to be Canadian. Uh,

00:48:13.260 I mean, I know I have a lot of expense, a lot of fun at the expense of, of Canada.

00:48:17.480 But I'm not Canadian. So, you know, you should be a patriot for your country. You should hold your

00:48:24.620 leaders accountable and be critical of them and be critical of the aspects of your culture that

00:48:30.360 are worth criticizing. And it seems like there's a lot, but, um, no, you shouldn't be ashamed

00:48:36.180 to be Canadian. This is your country. Um, which is also, you know, when I make fun of Canada,

00:48:44.600 which again, I, I admit that I do sometimes, and I get angry comments from Canadians, uh,

00:48:51.180 I don't begrudge them that. In fact, you should be angry. You should, you should get kind of ticked

00:48:56.960 off when someone like me is making fun of you. Uh, you know, you should be, you should be defensive

00:49:02.580 about your own country. Uh, as a Lord of the Rings fan, I think we should stop. Matt is never

00:49:12.280 going to change because I think he enjoys arguing with people who really love something with logic

00:49:16.140 that works at face value. I think this because he does it in the same way as my father, whom I can

00:49:20.640 argue with over an opinion that we share for literally hours. It never goes anywhere and we

00:49:25.400 agree with each other. Well, I will admit, I come from a long line of people who love to argue even

00:49:30.740 though they agree. So that is, um, I don't know if it's an Irish Catholic thing or what, but

00:49:35.820 it is, it may be shared by, by other cultures, but it's certainly an Irish Catholic thing.

00:49:41.880 Um, Matt, your list of fake tasks you performed at your job was hilarious. Well done. Nothing

00:49:46.680 hilarious about it. I mean, this is serious stuff. If your boss asks you for a list of things that you

00:49:51.080 did last week, you need to know how to use buzzwords. It's all about the buzzwords. In fact,

00:49:56.600 I realized I left out, I think I left out a really important buzzword, which is comprehensive.

00:50:02.540 So that's a good one. You want to make sure that you, you, uh, inform your management that you did

00:50:08.200 stuff comprehensively. That's an impressive word. When they see the word comprehensive, they go,

00:50:14.300 wow, he did. Well, he's, he's worked his, his, I don't know what he's doing, but it's comprehensive.

00:50:18.680 That's all I know. So one of the items on your list could be that you, uh, implemented

00:50:23.520 comprehensive strategies for developing, uh, more productive client engagement,

00:50:30.680 implemented comprehensive strategies for developing more productive client engagement.

00:50:38.460 What does that mean? That doesn't mean anything, but it sounds good.

00:50:44.460 Uh, another one, another, another good term is identifying opportunities. That's a really good

00:50:48.740 one. That's a great one. You need to know that one because you can always say that you identified

00:50:54.420 opportunities. Like you don't need to have done anything with those opportunities because you

00:51:01.280 didn't claim you did anything with the opportunity. You just said you identified it. And what does

00:51:06.260 identifying mean? I mean, you can identify, you could just, I could sit here like this and identify

00:51:09.700 stuff. That's all, that's all internal. So, uh, I identified opportunities for greater cross

00:51:20.940 departmental collaboration. I identified opportunities for greater cross departmental

00:51:26.960 collaboration. That's a good one. That sounds, I mean, that'll get you, that'll get you a 50%

00:51:35.360 raise just based on that alone. So, or, or you could actually do real things in your job and then

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00:52:22.260 right now on Delaware plus. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:52:31.180 Well, this is a very simple and obvious cancellation. So obvious that there probably

00:52:37.060 isn't much to say about it, but I have to cover it because it is easily the most cancelable thing

00:52:41.300 anyone did yesterday. So today we're going to, we're going to cancel the Republicans of the

00:52:46.600 House Judiciary Committee, or at least whoever runs their X account after their response to the

00:52:51.660 non-release of the Epstein files on Thursday. Now, shortly after the influencers were given binders

00:52:57.140 with what turned out to be a bunch of information we already knew, the official X account for the

00:53:01.880 House Judiciary Committee, the House Judiciary GOP rather, tweeted this. Breaking, Epstein files

00:53:08.440 released. And then there was a link to the files, except that if you click the link to the files,

00:53:15.120 you discover that it was not the files at all, but rather Rick Astley's 1987 song,

00:53:21.520 Never Gonna Give You Up. Yes, this was a Rick roll. The Republicans of the House Judiciary Committee

00:53:25.460 apparently decided to use the occasion of the Epstein files release or alleged release

00:53:30.620 to pull a Rick roll prank on the public. Now, as you know, I am a big supporter and proponent

00:53:38.200 of trolling. There are few people in public life who enjoy trolling more than me. It is one of my

00:53:42.820 great passions and one of my skills. It probably is my only skill. And I also am not above a good

00:53:49.200 Rick roll. As a general rule, Rick rolling is now such an old joke and has been done so many times

00:53:56.580 that it's funny again. So Rick rolling went from very funny when it first began to not funny anymore

00:54:03.660 because it had been done too many times. And it was not funny for like a good 10 years.

00:54:10.040 But recently it's funny again because now it's been done so many times that it's once again funny.

00:54:17.040 That's the way it goes. So my point is that I have nothing in principle against trolling and against

00:54:23.540 Rick rolling, quite the opposite. But the Epstein files are not a time for that, especially not from

00:54:29.640 government officials. We should remember that, you know, when we talk about the Epstein files,

00:54:35.100 we are talking about records of the systematic rape and abuse of minors. I mean, that's what the

00:54:41.320 Epstein files are, if we ever actually see them. So the people running this account, you know, to

00:54:48.500 include perhaps some elected Republicans, thought that files related to child abuse presented a great

00:54:55.500 opportunity for a fun, lighthearted prank. And it went over about as well as you would expect.

00:55:01.640 I mean, if you're not on X and you didn't see the backlash, just imagine in your mind,

00:55:04.980 how you think most people would respond, where an official government social media account makes

00:55:09.660 a joke about the mass rape of minors. Like exactly what you're imagining is what happened. And

00:55:14.560 the tweet was eventually deleted, though nobody has been has been held accountable. Nobody's

00:55:19.520 apologized for it. And we haven't been told who was responsible for that tweet. Now, as I said,

00:55:26.280 it's very obvious, obvious to everyone except people running this account, apparently,

00:55:30.360 that trolling the American people over the Epstein files is wildly inappropriate. It is a truly stunning 0.58

00:55:38.080 display of poor judgment. That much is very clear. I don't think I need to explain that point any

00:55:43.800 further. The American people want to actually see the files. We deserve to see them. The victims and

00:55:49.560 their families most of all deserve for this information to be out there and for Epstein's pervert pals to be

00:55:53.960 exposed and held accountable. We don't deserve to be trolled over this. I love trolling, but I also

00:55:59.760 believe in trolling only those who deserve to be trolled. And the people demanding to see the Epstein

00:56:04.400 files don't deserve to be trolled for that. I mean, that's very clear. But I want to make a broader point

00:56:10.480 because to me, this story is part of a larger trend. And I don't mean a larger trend of government

00:56:18.340 officials rickrolling the public. It's not about rickrolling specifically. I'm talking about politicians

00:56:23.520 politicians who use ghetto slang. You know, lawmakers challenging their colleagues to step outside

00:56:29.360 during committee hearings, which happened recently. Political candidates posting thirst trap photos

00:56:34.980 and on and on and on. It's the larger trend of just a general lack of seriousness by our political

00:56:41.600 leaders. We need seriousness from the people running our country. We need you to be serious people.

00:56:48.460 Now, Trump himself is a unique case. You know, trolling and joking has been his style from the

00:56:55.080 very beginning. It's part of what makes him effective. But all the rest of these people,

00:56:59.960 the rest of our government officials, elected and unelected, they're not Trump. And they should not

00:57:05.860 try to act like Trump. Let Trump be Trump, but we won't let the rest of you be Trump because you're not

00:57:11.580 Trump. And in fact, even Trump is far more serious and far less jokey this time around for good reason.

00:57:20.140 Trolling the media is fun, but we have more important things to do and Trump is trying to do

00:57:23.980 them. As for the rest of these people, we want seriousness of purpose, dignity, class.

00:57:31.320 30 years ago, the House Judiciary GOP would have never posted a rickroll on X, not just because 0.99

00:57:36.980 Rick Rowling didn't exist and X didn't exist, but because it's an extremely stupid and childish 0.99

00:57:41.860 thing to do. And for most of American history, we really didn't have stupid and childish people 1.00

00:57:47.580 in leadership positions in this country. Now, sure, we've had bad people in leadership many times. 0.99

00:57:53.000 We've had corrupt and incompetent people. But stupid and childish is kind of a new flavor 1.00

00:57:59.360 for our political leaders. It's only in recent years that a person like, say, 1.00

00:58:04.560 Jasmine Crockett could hope to be elected to national office. She's obviously not a member 1.00

00:58:09.840 of the House Judiciary GOP, but she's a perfect example of this problem. She's a ridiculous, 1.00

00:58:15.200 dumb, unserious person. And there are far too many of those people in leadership positions in this 1.00

00:58:21.680 country. So here's the message to our political class. We don't need you to entertain us.

00:58:27.380 We don't need or want theatrics. Leave the jokes to people who are actually funny and who don't have

00:58:34.160 more important jobs to do. We want you to be serious. We want you to be boring. We want you

00:58:41.060 to focus on the job we've elected you to do. And that job is not to be an influencer or an actor or

00:58:46.820 a comedian. And that is why the House Judiciary Committee, GOP, and all other unserious politicians

00:58:52.960 are all today canceled. That'll do it for the show today and this week. Have a great weekend.

00:58:58.280 Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - February 28, 2025

Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster

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