The Matt Walsh Show - March 03, 2025


Ep. 1547 - Trump Puts International Welfare Queen Zelensky In His Place


Episode Stats

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1 hour and 6 minutes

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168.14217

Word Count

11,193

Sentence Count

917

Misogynist Sentences

22

Hate Speech Sentences

42


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media blatantly lies about the meeting between Trump and Zelensky
00:00:03.400 and the White House. We'll talk about what really happened and who is actually to blame.
00:00:06.640 Also, there was a land acknowledgement recited on the Oscars red carpet last night as the left
00:00:10.800 continues to transcend parody. The mayor of Boston mourns the loss of a guy who tried to
00:00:15.480 stab random people to death. And the Wall Street Journal publishes an op-ed telling white men to
00:00:19.640 shut up and stop complaining. I have a lot to say about that and so much more. I'll tell you on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:01:50.080 For a long time, there's been a debate over whether cameras should be allowed inside the Supreme Court
00:01:55.000 so that oral arguments can be posted in their entirety on the internet. And every time the
00:01:59.020 issue came up, Justice Scalia was one of the most vocal opponents of the idea. As Scalia put it,
00:02:04.760 what most of the American people would see would be 30-second, 15-second takeouts from our arguments.
00:02:10.060 I'm sure it will miseducate the American people. A lot of people dismissed Scalia's reasoning at the
00:02:15.120 time. After all, how could the media successfully distort footage that everybody has access to?
00:02:20.460 But all these years later, it's hard to think of a greater vindication of Scalia's point of view
00:02:24.620 than what happened on Friday following Donald Trump and J.D. Vance's meeting with Ukraine's
00:02:29.440 president in the Oval Office. Within minutes, footage from this meeting was available in its
00:02:35.160 entirety all over the internet. And yet, if you got your information from the mainstream press,
00:02:39.880 you came away with a completely inaccurate version of what actually happened. As The Atlantic put it,
00:02:44.440 quote, the president of the United States ambushed a loyal ally. New York Times ran this headline,
00:02:49.560 quote, Vance positions himself as Trump's attack dog during blow-up with Zelensky.
00:02:54.980 Meanwhile, the BBC reported, quote, Vance took the lead attacking Zelensky. And on and on and on and
00:03:00.500 on. If you actually watch the unredacted hour-long footage of this Oval Office meeting,
00:03:05.940 then you immediately recognize these headlines for what they are, which are outright fabrications
00:03:11.040 intended to protect Zelensky, who repeatedly lied and antagonized Trump and Vance throughout the
00:03:16.780 meeting. The actual takeaway from this Oval Office meeting and its fallout is that most of Europe is
00:03:22.320 fully on board with escalating the war in Ukraine three years after it began, and they're not
00:03:26.640 remotely worried about starting World War III in the process. I'm going to begin by doing what most
00:03:31.780 of the media still refuses to do, which is to show you the context for the meltdown in the Oval Office
00:03:36.460 before it occurred. In the first 20 minutes or so, everything's cordial. At one point, Zelensky is
00:03:41.560 asked whether Trump is on his side, which was obviously intended to bait some sort of confrontation,
00:03:46.560 and neither Trump nor Zelensky took the bait at the time. Instead, Trump mocked the reporter for
00:03:51.960 asking such a dumb question.
00:03:55.040 President Zelensky, do you feel like the U.S. is on your side, that the President Trump is on your
00:04:03.000 side at this moment?
00:04:08.000 What do you think?
00:04:08.800 He wants to know, do you think that, sort of a stupid question.
00:04:13.000 I guess we wouldn't be here if I wasn't.
00:04:17.000 I think that the United States on our side from the very beginning of occupation, and I think that
00:04:25.280 President Trump on our side, and of course, I'm sure that the United States' president will not
00:04:32.740 stop support. This is crucial for us. It's important for us.
00:04:37.740 Now, later on, a different reporter gave Trump an opportunity to attack Zelensky. Specifically,
00:04:42.040 the reporter wanted to know whether Zelensky actually owned a suit or any kind of formal attire,
00:04:47.760 and again, the question was rebuffed. Here it is.
00:04:51.140 What was your second question?
00:04:52.160 My second question for President Zelensky, do you ever, why don't you wear a suit?
00:04:57.480 Why don't you wear a suit? You're the highest level in this country's office, and you refuse to
00:05:02.780 wear a suit. Just want to see if you, do you own a suit?
00:05:05.900 Yeah, yeah. Problems.
00:05:07.280 A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the dignity of this office.
00:05:11.920 I will wear a costume after this war will finish.
00:05:15.560 Okay.
00:05:16.160 Yes, maybe one.
00:05:18.300 Maybe something like yours, yes.
00:05:20.520 Maybe something better, I don't know. We will see. Maybe something cheaper than, yeah.
00:05:27.200 Thank you.
00:05:27.640 Thank you.
00:05:28.320 Thank you, President Trump.
00:05:29.320 Thank you, President Trump.
00:05:32.420 You said yesterday that you have...
00:05:33.820 Are you going to send more arms to Ukraine in case there's no peace?
00:05:38.160 Mr. President, if I can answer. Yes, if I can answer. Sorry. Please. Please.
00:05:43.520 And I do like your clothing better.
00:05:44.960 Yeah, really?
00:05:45.760 Even though I have to... I think he's a great guy, by the way.
00:05:48.360 I don't know if you two like each other, but you know what? I think he's dressed beautifully.
00:05:53.040 No, I like this guy. I don't know.
00:05:54.820 I think he's dressed beautifully.
00:05:55.940 So I have more serious things than answer on such a question.
00:06:00.780 I will answer on more serious questions if I can.
00:06:03.660 That's a good statement.
00:06:03.980 Yeah, so please.
00:06:05.700 Now, about an hour earlier, Trump had already teased Zelensky for his ridiculous clothing
00:06:10.200 about as politely as he possibly could.
00:06:12.460 That happened outside the Oval Office when Zelensky first arrived.
00:06:15.200 And, you know, it was well-deserved.
00:06:17.160 Zelensky looks like a complete fool attending a meeting in the Oval Office wearing sweatpants.
00:06:21.880 I mean, the guy constantly looks like he's getting ready to run in a track meet,
00:06:24.620 not attending high-level meetings with important world leaders.
00:06:27.700 His outfits are too casual for a dinner at Applebee's, let alone the White House.
00:06:31.700 But in any case, inside the Oval Office, Trump clearly wanted to set a more serious tone.
00:06:36.100 He didn't want to sidetrack the point of the meeting, which was to sign a minerals deal with Ukraine.
00:06:40.600 And by the way, the proposed deal was extremely favorable to Ukraine
00:06:44.140 in that it doesn't require Ukraine to use all of its available resources,
00:06:47.760 oil, mineral deposits, natural gas, to repay the $500 billion we've spent on them.
00:06:52.980 That was the original idea, but now the deal simply establishes a joint investment fund
00:06:57.120 where the U.S. will realize some profits from new revenue sources, quote-unquote,
00:07:01.100 that are identified in Ukraine.
00:07:03.020 So, you'd think Zelensky would be happy about this kind of one-sided arrangement.
00:07:07.940 Instead, as the meeting went on, Zelensky began openly suggesting
00:07:10.620 that he doesn't want a mere ceasefire.
00:07:12.300 Instead, he said he wants so-called security guarantees,
00:07:15.560 which is another way of saying that he wants the United States to commit to a broader war
00:07:19.420 if Russia violates the ceasefire.
00:07:22.840 Watch.
00:07:23.140 About justice fire, we can't just speak about ceasefire and speak and speak.
00:07:29.000 It will not work.
00:07:30.640 Justice fire will never work, because I'm like a president.
00:07:34.520 I have this experience, and not only me.
00:07:38.100 Ukraine, before my presidency, from 2014, Putin broken 25 times.
00:07:43.980 25 times he broke his own signature.
00:07:50.540 25 times he broke his fire.
00:07:52.480 But he never broke to me.
00:07:53.980 He never broke to me.
00:07:54.620 No, no, you were the president.
00:07:55.960 You were the president.
00:07:57.520 He never broke to me.
00:07:58.240 In 2016, you've been the president, Mr. President.
00:08:01.400 You've been the president.
00:08:02.020 But he had, of course, not with you, but he had, during those periods,
00:08:07.400 he had conversations with our side, and we had Normandy format, you know,
00:08:11.960 the France, Germany, Ukraine, and Russia.
00:08:14.220 And he broke in 25 times.
00:08:16.280 That's why we will never accept just ceasefire.
00:08:20.300 It will not work without security guarantees.
00:08:22.820 So this is the point where Zelensky begins lecturing Trump about how untrustworthy Putin is
00:08:27.560 and how Trump can't possibly broker a successful ceasefire.
00:08:30.060 And then Trump makes the point that if you want a peace deal,
00:08:32.720 it doesn't help matters to constantly attack Putin, which Zelensky kept doing.
00:08:38.300 I really count on your strong position to stop Putin.
00:08:42.160 And you said that enough with the war.
00:08:45.280 I think that it's very important, Ben, to say these words to Putin at the very beginning.
00:08:50.620 At the very beginning of war, because he's a killer and terrorist.
00:08:53.760 But I hope that together we can stop him.
00:08:56.160 But for us, it's very important to, you know, to save our country, our values, our freedom and democracy.
00:09:05.100 And, of course, no compromises with a killer about our territories.
00:09:10.000 But it will be later.
00:09:11.400 And I want to get this thing over with.
00:09:12.900 You see the hatred he's got for Putin.
00:09:14.740 It's very tough for me to make a deal with that kind of hatred.
00:09:17.260 He's got tremendous hatred.
00:09:18.320 And I understand that.
00:09:20.000 But I can tell you the other side isn't exactly in love with, you know, him either.
00:09:26.440 So it's not a question of alignment.
00:09:28.720 I have to.
00:09:29.260 I'm aligned with the world.
00:09:31.240 I want to get the thing set.
00:09:32.580 I'm aligned with Europe.
00:09:34.760 I want to see if we can get this thing done.
00:09:37.940 You want me to be tough?
00:09:39.120 I could be tougher than any human being you've ever seen.
00:09:41.640 I'd be so tough.
00:09:43.380 But you're never going to get a deal that way.
00:09:45.320 So that's the way it goes.
00:09:47.520 So this is the setup for the international incident that you've probably seen by now.
00:09:50.860 Zelensky keeps saying diplomacy won't work because Putin will break the ceasefire.
00:09:54.260 And Trump says that it's the best chance Ukraine has, especially since there's a new administration
00:09:58.380 in the White House.
00:09:58.940 And you can tell Trump is a little annoyed that Zelensky keeps calling Putin a killer
00:10:02.320 and a terrorist because that's just not the most effective way to begin a successful negotiation.
00:10:06.200 So everybody's position is pretty clear by this point.
00:10:08.620 But later on, when Vance tries to make the same point Trump was making, Zelensky jumps down
00:10:13.560 his throat.
00:10:14.000 He sarcastically asks him what kind of diplomacy Putin might respect.
00:10:20.280 What makes America a good country is America engaging in diplomacy.
00:10:24.800 That's what President Trump is doing.
00:10:26.300 Can I ask you?
00:10:28.000 Sure.
00:10:28.720 Yeah?
00:10:29.180 Yeah.
00:10:29.400 Okay.
00:10:30.000 Okay.
00:10:30.620 So he occupied it our parts, big parts of Ukraine, parts of East and Crimea.
00:10:39.400 So he occupied it on 2014.
00:10:42.420 In 2019, I signed with him the deal.
00:10:45.380 I signed with him, Macron and Merkel.
00:10:49.120 We signed ceasefire.
00:10:51.180 Ceasefire.
00:10:51.980 All of them told me that he will never go.
00:10:55.700 We signed him with gas contract.
00:10:58.560 Gas contract.
00:10:59.840 Yes.
00:11:00.040 But after that, he broke in this ceasefire.
00:11:03.320 He killed our people and he didn't exchange prisoners.
00:11:07.000 We signed the exchange of prisoners.
00:11:09.080 But he didn't do it.
00:11:11.220 What kind of diplomacy, J.D., you are speaking about?
00:11:14.680 What do you mean?
00:11:16.680 I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country.
00:11:20.280 Now, but not a lot of people have looked at this footage and concluded that Zelensky went out of his way to adopt a snarky, obnoxious, and inappropriate tone.
00:11:27.780 That's obviously true.
00:11:29.260 At the same time, not enough people are pointing out that throughout this clip, Zelensky is lying.
00:11:33.340 Other than Aaron Mates and a small number of independent journalists, no one seems to be talking about this.
00:11:38.500 For example, take a look at these images from December of 2019.
00:11:42.460 The photographs are from a ceremony welcoming back Ukrainian captives that had been freed by Russia in a prisoner exchange.
00:11:48.700 One of several that Ukraine and Russia have agreed to in recent years.
00:11:51.880 In fact, in April of 2020, Zelensky's office put out a statement celebrating the release of dozens of Ukrainians who were held captive by Russia.
00:11:59.400 So why exactly was Zelensky claiming in the Oval Office that, as a matter of fact, Putin couldn't be trusted when it came to prisoner exchanges?
00:12:06.420 Why didn't he mention all of the prisoner exchanges which went so well that Ukraine bragged about them?
00:12:11.840 And for that matter, why was Zelensky attacking Trump and Vance for suggesting that diplomacy with Putin might work when, again,
00:12:18.260 Zelensky's own government clearly believed that diplomacy could work.
00:12:22.160 Shortly after the invasion began, Ukraine's top diplomats met in Istanbul with Russian negotiators in an effort to end the war.
00:12:28.860 And by their own admission, they came very close to a deal.
00:12:32.020 Here's one of Ukraine's negotiations.
00:12:34.000 This is my personal view.
00:12:36.800 Putin, in one week after he started his aggression in 24 February last year, very quickly understood he did mistake and tried to do everything possible to conclude agreement with Ukraine.
00:12:52.280 And Istanbul communique, it was his personal decision to accept the text of this communique, which totally far away from the initial proposal of Russia, ultimatum proposal of Russia, which they put before the Ukrainian delegation in Minsk.
00:13:12.680 So we managed to find a very real compromise.
00:13:17.300 So Putin really wanted to reach some peaceful settlement with Ukraine.
00:13:22.020 It's very important to remember.
00:13:23.620 So this is coming directly from a senior diplomat from Ukraine.
00:13:27.080 And to be clear, these negotiations took place after Putin broke the previous ceasefire agreements, according to the Ukrainians.
00:13:33.000 And yet they were willing to sit down and negotiate with Putin.
00:13:35.500 And they got very, very close to a deal.
00:13:37.860 So why did that deal go through?
00:13:39.680 And why did all those previous ceasefire agreements fail, including the agreement signed in Minsk in 2014?
00:13:45.800 If you look into the specifics of that ceasefire agreement, the history is actually pretty enlightening.
00:13:50.000 It turns out that Angela Merkel, the former chancellor of Germany, has admitted that the real purpose of the ceasefire agreement in 2014 was to give Ukraine some time to build up its military.
00:13:59.840 In other words, Ukraine was not entering into the arrangement with the intention of securing a lasting peace.
00:14:04.280 It was a ploy.
00:14:05.880 None of this came up while Zelensky was berating Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.
00:14:09.300 Instead, Zelensky claimed that Putin was solely responsible for the failures of their past ceasefire agreements.
00:14:14.820 Then Zelensky began suggesting that if the United States doesn't fund Ukraine, then we are going to get attacked.
00:14:22.600 Listen.
00:14:24.260 During the war, everybody has problems.
00:14:27.380 Even you.
00:14:28.220 But you have nice ocean.
00:14:29.940 And don't feel now.
00:14:31.140 But you will feel it in the future.
00:14:33.800 God bless.
00:14:34.360 You don't know that.
00:14:34.940 God bless.
00:14:35.580 God bless.
00:14:36.520 You will not have the war.
00:14:37.760 Don't tell us what we're going to feel.
00:14:39.480 We're trying to solve a problem.
00:14:41.100 Don't tell us what we're going to feel.
00:14:42.680 I'm not telling you.
00:14:43.580 Because you're in no position to dictate that.
00:14:45.580 That's exactly what you're doing.
00:14:46.520 You're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel.
00:14:51.380 We're going to feel very good.
00:14:52.760 You will feel influenced.
00:14:53.360 We're going to feel very good and very strong.
00:14:55.900 You will feel influenced.
00:14:57.080 You're right now not in a very good position.
00:14:59.380 You've allowed yourself to be in a very bad position.
00:15:02.260 And he happens to be right about it.
00:15:03.600 From the very beginning of the war, Mr. President, I was arrested.
00:15:07.100 You don't have the cards right now.
00:15:09.260 With us, you start having cards.
00:15:10.680 But right now, you don't have your playing cards.
00:15:12.860 Mr. President, I'm very serious.
00:15:14.700 You're gambling with the lives of millions of people.
00:15:17.480 You're gambling with World War III.
00:15:20.040 You're gambling with World War III.
00:15:23.260 And what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country, that's backed you far more than a lot of people said they should have.
00:15:32.640 Have you said thank you once, this entire meeting?
00:15:34.480 A lot of times.
00:15:35.280 No, in this entire meeting, you said thank you.
00:15:37.520 And your people are very brave.
00:15:39.780 But you're either going to make a deal or we're out.
00:15:42.440 And if we're out, you'll fight it out.
00:15:45.360 I don't think it's going to be pretty.
00:15:47.220 But you'll fight it out.
00:15:48.360 So Trump tells Zelensky that he doesn't hold the cards.
00:15:52.320 In response, Zelensky says he's not playing cards, even accounting for the language barrier.
00:15:56.260 It's pretty rough.
00:15:57.040 These are high-level negotiations where one side can't understand extremely basic metaphors.
00:16:01.140 But by the end of the meeting, it's likely that Zelensky eventually began processing what Trump was saying because Trump laid it down pretty clearly.
00:16:08.640 It would be a damn good thing.
00:16:11.480 And then you tell us, I don't want a ceasefire.
00:16:14.460 I don't want a ceasefire.
00:16:15.700 I want to go.
00:16:16.600 And I wanted this.
00:16:17.760 Look, if you could get a ceasefire right now, I tell you, you take it.
00:16:22.080 So the bullets stop flying and your men stop getting killed.
00:16:25.040 Of course, we want to stop the war.
00:16:26.520 But you're saying you don't want a ceasefire?
00:16:27.460 But I said to you, with guarantees.
00:16:30.140 Because you'll get a ceasefire faster than an agreement.
00:16:32.220 Ask our people about ceasefire, what they think.
00:16:34.980 It doesn't matter for you what...
00:16:36.900 That wasn't with me.
00:16:38.000 That was with a guy named Biden, who was not a smart person.
00:16:42.280 That was with Obama.
00:16:44.360 It was your president.
00:16:45.120 Excuse me.
00:16:45.820 That was with Obama, who gave you sheets, and I gave you javelins.
00:16:49.400 Yes.
00:16:49.740 I gave you the javelins to take out all those tanks.
00:16:53.000 Obama gave you sheets.
00:16:55.040 In fact, the statement is, Obama gave sheets and Trump gave javelins.
00:17:00.640 You got to be more thankful.
00:17:02.800 Because let me tell you, you don't have the cards.
00:17:05.460 With us, you have the cards.
00:17:06.820 But without us, you don't have any cards.
00:17:09.440 One more question to Mr. Vice President.
00:17:12.360 I'm sorry.
00:17:13.080 It's going to be a tough deal to make.
00:17:15.000 Because the attitudes have to change.
00:17:17.540 What if Russia breaks ceasefire?
00:17:20.020 What if Russia breaks these talks?
00:17:22.700 What do you do then?
00:17:23.900 I understand that it's a heated conversation right now.
00:17:27.040 What are you saying?
00:17:28.280 She's asking, what if Russia breaks the ceasefire?
00:17:31.460 What if anything?
00:17:33.140 What if a bomb drops on your head right now?
00:17:35.640 So taken together, the footage makes it abundantly clear that Zelensky antagonized Trump in Vance.
00:17:40.340 Not the other way around.
00:17:41.420 Zelensky has always been an entitled, ungrateful brat in his demeanor towards the United States.
00:17:46.700 He showed his true colors again on Friday.
00:17:48.760 The only difference is that he was actually called on at this time.
00:17:51.260 And three years ago, there were reports that Joe Biden became frustrated with Zelensky's complete lack of gratitude also.
00:17:57.380 But of course, nothing ever came out of that.
00:17:59.900 And Zelensky never faced any consequences for his entitlement and lack of respect, even after that became public with Biden.
00:18:06.760 The Biden administration certainly didn't do anything about it.
00:18:08.560 So I keep hearing that Trump's behavior in the Oval Office was shocking.
00:18:12.160 And in a way, it was because it's shocking that because we are accustomed, we're not accustomed to seeing American political leaders who refuse to lie prostrate on the floor and grovel for approval from other countries that need us a whole hell of a lot more than we need them.
00:18:30.200 And in Ukraine's case, that imbalance is pretty much absolute because we don't need Ukraine at all.
00:18:39.160 They don't really do anything for us.
00:18:41.560 The existence or non-existence of Ukraine is basically immaterial to the everyday lives of any American citizen who's not a bureaucrat or defense contractor.
00:18:52.320 But on the other hand, Ukraine depends on us for its very existence.
00:18:56.980 So that's the way this works.
00:18:58.560 So that's how one-sided this whole thing is.
00:19:01.760 Even now, Ukraine's government seems incapable of admitting that.
00:19:05.000 So does pretty much every country in Europe.
00:19:07.400 After Zelensky's public humiliation on Friday, the entire continent announced their support for him.
00:19:12.380 And as you can see, Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Austria, Portugal, Croatia, Denmark, Canada, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Lithuania, Sweden, Spain, Norway, all put out statements of support for Zelensky.
00:19:26.680 These are countries that, in many cases, are happy to import massive amounts of natural gas from Russia, but they still want a virtue signal on behalf of Ukraine.
00:19:35.760 But the prime minister of the UK went even further.
00:19:38.880 He announced psychotically that the UK is prepared to put boots on the ground and assemble a coalition of the willing,
00:19:45.700 which essentially means that the UK wants to start World War III, because that's what would be the result.
00:19:51.860 Watch.
00:19:53.020 We will go further to develop a coalition of the willing to defend a deal in Ukraine and to guarantee the peace.
00:20:01.900 Not every nation will feel able to contribute, but that can't mean that we sit back.
00:20:10.120 Instead, those willing will intensify planning now with real urgency.
00:20:14.740 The UK is prepared to back this with boots on the ground and planes in the air.
00:20:21.920 Together with others, Europe must do the heavy listing.
00:20:26.900 But to support peace in our continent and to succeed, this effort must have strong US backing.
00:20:34.960 So he begins with this very bold pronouncement that the UK and various European nations are going to take the lead
00:20:41.320 because America is no longer interested in this particular proxy war.
00:20:45.140 And a few seconds later, he admits that they can't do any of this without the United States.
00:20:49.600 And it's a great way to summarize this whole situation.
00:20:52.660 Both Zelensky and the Europeans are making it very clear why we should pull all foreign aid immediately.
00:20:59.400 Yet another reason.
00:21:00.760 Like, these countries despise us.
00:21:02.280 They're openly admitting that they want to replace us as the world's most important superpower.
00:21:06.120 And yet, at the same time, all these countries come crying and begging to us anytime they need something.
00:21:11.880 Unfortunately, there are signs that finally this particular arrangement is coming to an end.
00:21:16.220 Lindsey Graham, one of Zelensky's strongest allies, came out and suggested that Zelensky may need to resign after this incident in the Oval Office.
00:21:22.740 So did Dan Crenshaw, who, again, has been kind of a blank check supporter of the war in Ukraine.
00:21:28.380 Crenshaw wrote, quote,
00:21:29.200 As of today, it doesn't appear that any of this is getting through to Zelensky.
00:21:42.400 We're at the point where it's clear that he's not going to change his attitude,
00:21:46.220 even though common sense would dictate that the onus is much more on Zelensky to show respect and deference in this context.
00:21:54.980 You know, it's not much different from the proper dynamic between a child and his father.
00:21:59.980 Like, you live in your father's house.
00:22:01.680 He pays for your food.
00:22:02.720 He gives you shelter.
00:22:04.300 You will be respectful to him and obey his rules.
00:22:07.000 If you don't like it, you can buy your own food and pay for your own house.
00:22:11.260 Zelensky, of course, is the child in this analogy.
00:22:14.160 He depends on us.
00:22:15.340 He needs us.
00:22:16.900 So he should be respectful and watch his mouth, especially when he's addressing our president.
00:22:22.440 Instead, he acts like a petulant brat.
00:22:25.020 So it makes a lot of sense that the left sides with him instinctively.
00:22:27.920 After all, they're a bunch of spoiled children themselves with bad fathers who never force them to get in line and follow the rules.
00:22:33.700 So when the clips from this Oval Office meeting began coming out, they instantly saw themselves in Zelensky.
00:22:41.220 It also explains the reaction from Europe, which is almost as dependent on the United States as Ukraine is.
00:22:47.020 And this is a dependency that, over time, breeds contempt.
00:22:52.300 And now, after many years, that contempt is finally receiving the response that it deserves.
00:22:59.020 Now let's get to our five headlines.
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00:24:07.460 So the Oscars were last night.
00:24:09.560 Nobody cares, of course.
00:24:10.800 I will mention two things briefly.
00:24:13.280 First of all, I have to say, a movie called No Other Land won the Oscar for Best Documentary.
00:24:19.340 It's apparently a movie about how Palestinians are supposedly oppressed or whatever.
00:24:24.840 The filmmakers were on the red carpet draped in Palestinian flags.
00:24:29.160 So then, of course, they won.
00:24:33.360 You could see that coming from a mile away.
00:24:35.820 What's funny is that all the headlines are saying how No Other Land was the highest-grossing Oscar-nominated documentary of 2024,
00:24:44.700 which is true, it grossed $420,000 in the U.S.
00:24:50.660 But the Oscar-nominated bit is an important qualifier because, of course, our documentary, Am I Racist,
00:24:57.440 grossed more than 25 times more than the highest-grossing Oscar-nominated documentary.
00:25:05.740 So put it into more perspective, our film grossed four times as much on the first day of release
00:25:14.640 than this movie did in its whole theatrical run.
00:25:18.980 And we weren't even on the short list.
00:25:23.060 Nobody saw this movie.
00:25:24.480 It had no cultural impact at all, like none.
00:25:28.620 But it won because it had the right politics.
00:25:31.180 So that's how it goes.
00:25:32.720 And just pointing it out.
00:25:34.360 Just pointing it out.
00:25:35.180 That's all.
00:25:35.600 Just a little disclaimer there, a little qualifier when you hear about highest-grossing Oscar-nominated documentary.
00:25:47.800 Speaking of politics, Julianne Hough, I think is the last name.
00:25:53.340 Is it Ho or Hough?
00:25:54.700 How?
00:25:55.340 I think Hough.
00:25:56.540 Hough?
00:25:56.900 Okay.
00:25:57.540 Julianne Hough was a singer or something, maybe an actress.
00:26:01.180 Um, actually delivered a land acknowledgement from the red carpet, which is very funny for a lot of reasons.
00:26:10.180 One of them is that it's the kind of troll that I would have done if I was nominated, which was never going to happen.
00:26:16.600 But she did it for real.
00:26:18.340 This was not meant to be a troll.
00:26:19.240 This is not a joke.
00:26:20.320 This is completely sincere.
00:26:22.360 Let's hear it.
00:26:23.900 We gather in celebration of the Oscars on the ancestral lands of the Tongva, Tataviam, and Chumash peoples,
00:26:30.360 the traditional caretakers of this water and land.
00:26:33.480 We honor and pay our respects to indigenous communities here and around the world.
00:26:37.520 So, that's it.
00:26:41.360 I mean, you really can't even make fun of that.
00:26:45.420 It's a land acknowledgement delivered by a white lady in a, you know, $100,000 dress on a red carpet at the Oscars.
00:26:53.260 It's so on the nose.
00:26:54.540 It's so perfect that what can you even add to it?
00:26:58.220 I will say one thing just for the record, and let's just take the first tribe that she listed there in her little land acknowledgement.
00:27:05.600 And you can play this game with any tribe in any land acknowledgement that's ever been recited.
00:27:10.980 But she pays respects to the Tongva tribe.
00:27:14.240 And here's the interesting thing about the Tongva tribe.
00:27:16.960 They've been in the Southern California area for a long time, sure.
00:27:23.260 But there was a more ancient tribe that was in Southern California for thousands of years before the Tongva.
00:27:31.080 So, the Tongva missed out on being the first tribe.
00:27:35.540 Like, they missed that distinction by several thousand years.
00:27:40.640 Who was the first tribe?
00:27:42.120 Well, they don't exist anymore.
00:27:44.500 They existed at one point, but the Tongva killed or displaced them all and stole their land.
00:27:52.480 So, I go back to my point that if the Tongva are indigenous to Southern California, then so are white people.
00:28:02.500 Tongva have been here for a long time.
00:28:03.960 They weren't first.
00:28:04.900 They killed whoever was here first.
00:28:08.340 White people have been here for a long time, not first.
00:28:12.120 They conquered the land, just like the Tongva did.
00:28:15.560 And the cycle continues.
00:28:18.340 So, of course, when they start listing all the names of the tribes and all that,
00:28:23.160 they don't expect you to and certainly don't want you to actually Google who these tribes are
00:28:30.100 and what their history is and how they ended up on the land
00:28:33.640 and how exactly they came to possess and control the land before the white Europeans moved in.
00:28:40.020 All right, the ultra-woke mayor of Boston has been featured on this show several times,
00:28:45.820 never for good reasons, of course, and now here she is again with perhaps her most ignominious performance yet.
00:28:54.420 The Daily Mail reports,
00:28:55.580 Boston's progressive Democrat mayor has been criticized for offering condolences to a knife man shot dead by an off-duty police officer
00:29:03.780 while trying to stab two people.
00:29:06.360 Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu offered her condolences to the family of the unnamed attacker gunned down at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in the city on Saturday.
00:29:13.240 Boston police said two people ran into the Chick-fil-A in Copley Square while being chased by a man with a knife.
00:29:21.020 He was attempting to stab them shortly before 5.30 p.m.
00:29:24.080 An off-duty cop was inside the restaurant, identified himself to the attacker, told him to drop the knife.
00:29:28.880 The attacker didn't.
00:29:30.320 And then at that point he shot him and killed him.
00:29:33.180 And so that's what happened.
00:29:35.100 The off-duty cop is a hero.
00:29:37.320 He stepped in and saved lives, put himself in harm's way in defense of others.
00:29:42.800 That's the headline, or should be.
00:29:45.060 But instead, Mayor Michelle Wu gave a press conference where she said this.
00:29:52.180 My condolences and all of our thoughts are with the family of the individual whose life has been lost.
00:30:01.740 Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of the individual who's been lost.
00:30:10.100 So our condolences go to the individual who was killed tonight.
00:30:16.920 The individual who's been lost.
00:30:19.260 And they keep saying over and over again.
00:30:21.820 And how did that happen?
00:30:23.300 How was this individual lost?
00:30:25.860 What do you mean lost?
00:30:26.840 Was he lost at sea or something?
00:30:28.260 What do you mean lost?
00:30:28.920 Oh, that's right.
00:30:30.820 Well, this was a crazed assailant trying to butcher innocent people with a knife.
00:30:35.240 And he was lost because he refused to drop the knife when he was confronted by an off-duty cop.
00:30:40.900 He was lost because he decided to go out and try to stab people.
00:30:45.080 And yet Mayor Michelle, along with the DA and whoever the other moron was,
00:30:49.740 they're all grief-stricken over the death of the stabber guy.
00:30:56.660 They're sorry he wasn't able to stab more people.
00:30:59.620 Because, to be clear, that was the other option here.
00:31:02.900 Either this guy was going to be lost or he was going to stab somebody to death.
00:31:08.000 Those are the two choices.
00:31:09.620 And Mayor Michelle is apparently upset that we ended up with the former option where he was killed instead of stabbing people.
00:31:16.580 She was offering him condolences basically because he wasn't able to do any stabbing.
00:31:22.880 I want to offer my sincere condolences to the stabber.
00:31:27.580 I'm deeply sorry that you were not able to bury your blade into the flesh of any innocent people.
00:31:34.060 I know how much that meant to you.
00:31:36.340 I'm so sorry.
00:31:37.280 But, you know, at least he died doing what he loves, which is trying to stab people.
00:31:42.100 That's why it takes some solace in that.
00:31:44.220 So it's psychopathic.
00:31:47.420 And I mean that in a very literal sense, in a very sort of clinical sense.
00:31:51.560 Our cities across the country are run by actual psychopaths.
00:31:57.820 Psychopaths are elected.
00:32:00.220 They're elected to run the largest cities in the country.
00:32:03.700 And the thing is, when you think about a psychopathic political leader, your mind immediately conjures images of, you know, some kind of military dictator, a genocidal maniac.
00:32:13.100 You know, Pol Pot or someone like that.
00:32:15.880 And sure, they are psychopaths.
00:32:17.580 But Michelle Wu is also a psychopath.
00:32:20.740 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago is a psychopath.
00:32:25.460 The What's-Her-Face in Los Angeles, Karen Bass, is a psychopath.
00:32:29.960 They're all psychopaths because to be a psychopath is to be narcissistic.
00:32:34.040 Check.
00:32:35.140 Anti-social.
00:32:36.120 Check.
00:32:36.880 And to lack basically any trace of empathy.
00:32:41.620 Check again.
00:32:43.100 So that's clinical psychopathy.
00:32:46.140 My only disagreement with the clinical diagnosis is that I don't think it's a medical problem so much as a soul problem.
00:32:52.060 These are not medically sick people.
00:32:54.920 These are evil people.
00:32:56.960 Michelle Wu has no empathy.
00:33:00.100 And, you know, I make this point all the time, but it's an important point.
00:33:02.960 We see these bleeding-heart liberal types crying tears for violent criminals, and we're tempted to think that they have kind of the opposite problem.
00:33:11.480 That they have almost this overabundance of empathy that they're too sensitive, you know, people say.
00:33:17.700 But that's not the case.
00:33:19.440 Michelle Wu has no empathy.
00:33:21.000 She doesn't know how empathy works.
00:33:24.880 Like, she's barely human.
00:33:28.020 She's like some kind of alien, you know, reptilian space creature trying to emulate human empathy.
00:33:34.440 And that's why she goes out claiming to be heartbroken over the death of a criminal.
00:33:41.060 She's not actually heartbroken over that.
00:33:43.160 She doesn't care about that.
00:33:45.000 Just as she's not heartbroken over the deaths of innocent people.
00:33:47.840 She just doesn't care at all, is the point.
00:33:50.040 She's a psychopath.
00:33:53.880 And I don't know what other evidence you need.
00:33:59.940 Offering condolences to somebody like that is, it's psychopathic.
00:34:03.860 That's what it is.
00:34:07.740 Ilhan Omar has some thoughts about Elon Musk.
00:34:12.140 Let's hear that.
00:34:13.120 He literally posted on X.
00:34:16.740 There's a shortage of top-notch air traffic controllers.
00:34:19.260 If you have retired but are open to returning to work, please consider doing so.
00:34:23.600 How about you don't fire as many as you did?
00:34:25.700 So you've got...
00:34:26.980 The retirement thing for air traffic controllers is also...
00:34:34.100 Again, it just shows how much he doesn't know.
00:34:36.340 I know people talk about him as a genius.
00:34:38.200 But to me, I think he's probably one of the dumbest, luckiest people to exist on this earth.
00:34:49.100 The retirement age for air traffic controls is 55 or 25 years of service.
00:34:56.000 So unless we raise the retirement age, if they retire, they're not coming back.
00:35:01.940 They were set to retire.
00:35:04.640 And it is a taxing job.
00:35:06.160 On Friday, I went to the FAA in the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport to check in on air traffic controllers.
00:35:15.820 What we learned is that, you know, they're...
00:35:17.820 That stuff doesn't...
00:35:18.500 So the highlight here is that Ilhan Omar says that Elon Musk is one of the dumbest people on earth.
00:35:26.060 And he's lucky.
00:35:28.120 So he's dumb and lucky, is what Ilhan Omar says.
00:35:31.460 This is a woman who came here as a refugee from Somalia.
00:35:34.520 Her family was granted asylum.
00:35:37.460 They didn't earn it.
00:35:38.920 They were given it.
00:35:40.300 So that's her first stroke of luck.
00:35:42.560 Then she ends up eventually in Minnesota.
00:35:45.560 That's her second stroke of luck because Minnesota is a hub for Muslims.
00:35:48.980 It's basically the American Mecca at this point, especially Somalian Muslims.
00:35:53.460 And that's what enabled her to be elected to Congress.
00:35:56.060 And while in Congress, she's accomplished nothing.
00:35:59.500 She's done nothing.
00:36:01.140 And yet she's been re-elected multiple times.
00:36:03.360 So all of that is luck.
00:36:05.940 Okay.
00:36:07.640 Now let's compare her story to Elon Musk.
00:36:10.340 And I'm not a Musk biographer, but I know a little bit about his backstory.
00:36:14.460 So he came here from South Africa.
00:36:16.260 Most people know that.
00:36:17.600 I believe in the 80s or 90s.
00:36:19.340 He founded a software company in 1994, 1995.
00:36:23.640 He did start it with an investment from his dad, but this was not a $100 million investment.
00:36:29.320 This was a $30,000 investment.
00:36:32.880 Yet in the span of just a few years, he was able to get that company to a point where it
00:36:38.140 could be sold for $300 million.
00:36:39.780 And he made about $20 million off of that deal.
00:36:42.480 So he went from $30,000 and he was able to turn it into $20 million for himself and $300
00:36:50.340 million for the company.
00:36:51.840 And then over the course of the next 20 years, he would go on to found or take majority ownership
00:36:57.360 of six companies and will become the richest person on the planet who's worth $400 billion.
00:37:06.060 And now he owns companies that make electric vehicles and one that makes rocket ships and
00:37:10.200 of course, a social media platform.
00:37:11.440 And he founded the Boring Company, which is a company that makes like underground tunnels
00:37:15.740 and infrastructure.
00:37:16.900 He owns Neuralink.
00:37:18.460 He owns an AI company.
00:37:21.920 Let me just state the obvious, what should be the obvious here.
00:37:24.540 You don't go from a $30,000 investment to all of that if you're stupid, much less one of
00:37:32.920 the stupidest people on earth.
00:37:35.700 Recent experience shows us that you can be stupid and be elected to Congress.
00:37:39.800 That certainly can happen.
00:37:43.600 But you cannot do what Elon Musk has done and be stupid.
00:37:47.880 You just can't.
00:37:49.920 And that's all pretty obvious unless you're a moron, a legitimate moron like Ilhan Omar
00:37:54.040 is.
00:37:54.540 But I think it's obvious even to her.
00:37:56.660 I think she knows better.
00:37:57.540 And yet people like her, AOC, you know, said the same thing recently that Elon is dumb.
00:38:04.160 They keep trying to convince us that the most successful human on earth is dumb.
00:38:09.960 And you kind of have to wonder why.
00:38:13.340 Why is that?
00:38:15.240 Wouldn't it serve them better and be more credible if they said he was an evil genius?
00:38:19.540 Like, shouldn't they be, if anything, overstating his intelligence?
00:38:25.200 Because that makes him more of a threat.
00:38:27.000 And they're trying to say that he's this great threat to, you know, our way of life.
00:38:31.280 But this is what the left always does.
00:38:33.680 You know, they have their villains.
00:38:36.400 They're people that they want us to be afraid of.
00:38:38.820 And they say that these people are terrifying and they're threats to our democracy and our
00:38:43.480 very existence.
00:38:44.560 But at the same time, they say that the same people are just utter dunces, which makes them
00:38:52.100 less threatening.
00:38:54.060 You know, like, I'm not worried about a dumb supervillain.
00:38:57.600 That's why supervillains are always smart.
00:39:00.040 You know, if the Joker had an IQ of 85, nobody would be worried about him.
00:39:04.180 And so, so, so what they're trying to do is, is create this kind of stupid supervillain.
00:39:13.420 Stupid supervillains who are also really, really successful somehow.
00:39:18.380 And it just doesn't make sense.
00:39:20.700 Why, why do it?
00:39:22.480 Why insist on calling their enemies stupid?
00:39:25.680 When it's clearly not true.
00:39:27.640 And again, it undercuts their own narrative.
00:39:31.620 And of course they do this all the way down the line.
00:39:33.700 And, you know, this is their narrative about anyone they don't like.
00:39:39.040 You find this, of course it's going to be.
00:39:41.960 Like, if Elon Musk is stupid, according to the left, then all the rest of us certainly are.
00:39:47.960 Then there's no hope for the rest of us.
00:39:49.780 If he's dumb, then we're all certainly dumb.
00:39:52.520 And that's the way that it always goes.
00:39:55.900 Even though, as you go down the line, there's still this problem of, well,
00:40:01.000 they kind of undercut themselves by constantly insisting that everyone they disagree with is dumb.
00:40:07.880 I can think about this on me personally.
00:40:13.780 You know, all these left-wing YouTubers out there who incessantly make videos attacking me just all the time.
00:40:23.140 And in every video, they'll always make sure to inform their audience that I'm a huge idiot.
00:40:29.220 And I always find that kind of funny because, you know, we're in the same business, basically.
00:40:34.640 We're in the same game.
00:40:36.300 And I've had more success than most of them.
00:40:40.340 And I'm better at this than them by almost any metric.
00:40:43.740 So if I'm an idiot, which I could very well be, but then what does it say about them?
00:40:50.580 We do the same thing.
00:40:51.820 I'm an idiot, but I'm a lot more successful than you are at this thing.
00:40:55.220 So doesn't that make you a bigger idiot?
00:40:57.740 Wouldn't you prefer, even if I am an idiot, wouldn't you prefer if I wasn't?
00:41:01.560 Just because of the contrast?
00:41:04.820 So that means you're either a bigger idiot or you're so talentless that you're getting boat raced by someone dumber than you.
00:41:13.740 Which is it?
00:41:14.660 It's just very odd.
00:41:17.400 But this is the way it goes.
00:41:18.840 And I think, and as I said, if they can call Elon Musk stupid, then again, the rest of us, you know, there's no hope.
00:41:31.360 So how do you explain it?
00:41:32.740 I think that, I think it's mostly, of course, just intellectual laziness.
00:41:37.660 They aren't clever enough to come up with insults that actually ring true or are related to reality in some way.
00:41:44.160 But also I think leftists are elitists and snobs to their core.
00:41:48.540 It's just who they are, right?
00:41:50.220 It's at the deepest level, it's who they are.
00:41:52.640 And that means that they equate intelligence with a virtue.
00:41:57.200 They think that smart people are just better people.
00:42:01.160 To be dumb is to be a bad person.
00:42:03.220 That's how they see the world.
00:42:04.160 That's a core component of their worldview.
00:42:07.280 In fact, you could argue it's like the core of their worldview is this idea.
00:42:13.640 Well, the problem with this idea, aside from the fact that it's obviously wrong, is that so many of them are deeply mediocre and unimpressive.
00:42:22.200 Like Ilhan Omar, for example.
00:42:24.920 Just a very mediocre, unimpressive person.
00:42:28.440 Not clever, not innovative, not insightful, not interesting, not accomplished, just nothing interesting to say, just not that smart.
00:42:41.540 And yet that snobbiness, that elitism persists because it's who they are.
00:42:47.880 It's part of being that.
00:42:50.260 Part of being someone who's a devoted member of the left wing is to be snobby and elitist.
00:42:56.800 And to believe that, you know, if you're a good person, then you're smart.
00:43:02.900 If you're a smart, then you're a good person.
00:43:05.320 So it just kind of requires them to believe that all the people they hate must be stupid.
00:43:12.720 And yet at the same time, they will also claim that all these people are a huge threat.
00:43:19.020 That they're being oppressed by these people.
00:43:20.880 So according to you, all the dumbest people on the planet have figured out how to get a, how to get a, have figured out how to, you know, one up you and are now oppressing you.
00:43:35.560 Again, what does that say about you?
00:43:38.380 Something to think about.
00:43:39.480 Let's get to the comment section.
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00:44:47.560 Whoever was at Epstein's was most likely at P. Diddy's, so let's get those files and videos.
00:44:53.920 Yeah, that's another one.
00:44:54.960 I mean, we're told that Combs is this predatory freak who was having these sexually abusive orgy parties with famous people.
00:45:01.760 And there's no doubt that he is a sexually, you know, predatory freak.
00:45:07.160 Um, and that's, you know, he's now been charged for it and yet nobody else has been charged.
00:45:14.080 I, you know, I thought that these were parties.
00:45:16.320 Other people are at parties, aren't they?
00:45:19.660 So where are the other prosecutions?
00:45:22.820 And it's, it's the same kind of phenomenon.
00:45:25.120 Epstein was a global pimp and yet we're supposed to believe apparently that he had no clients.
00:45:31.020 Because no client has ever been charged.
00:45:32.760 Um, it's nonsense, of course, and it insults our intelligence and really, uh, ticks me off.
00:45:39.960 Um, destroying evidence is a crime in itself.
00:45:43.180 Anyone who's done so should be prosecuted.
00:45:45.440 Absolutely.
00:45:46.060 Pam Bondi has accused, I mean, Pam Bondi has essentially accused the FBI or at least strongly implied that they're involved in, in, uh, in crimes, in a coverup.
00:45:55.160 Um, and you can't make that accusation and not follow it up with prosecutions.
00:46:04.660 How did it go from Pam saying that she had all the disgusting files on her desk and we will all be shocked to the New York FBI office refusing to hand them over?
00:46:13.560 Uh, well, that's the question.
00:46:14.920 You know, that's, that's what doesn't make sense about the narrative.
00:46:17.400 Um, what we were told by Pam Bondi on Friday, that alone could make sense if she, if she just came out and said, hey, look, trying to get these files, I'm getting stonewalled right now.
00:46:29.920 We're getting, but we're going to get to the bottom of it.
00:46:32.980 That would make sense.
00:46:34.720 The problem is that the night before she said she already had them.
00:46:38.340 Um, so both of these things can't be true.
00:46:42.660 You can't have already had the files and also you're getting stonewalled.
00:46:46.680 Um, and so it just doesn't make sense.
00:46:50.160 Uh, Zendaya is awful.
00:46:51.560 She's another in a long line of actors like Shia LaBeouf, Emily Clark, and Michael B. Jordan forced on an audience because Hollywood wants them to be successful.
00:46:59.400 Okay, well, wait a minute here.
00:47:02.200 Now, I don't have strong opinions about the other two, but Shia LaBeouf is actually a great actor.
00:47:05.720 Say what you want about the guy, but he is a pretty, he's a pretty remarkable actor.
00:47:12.200 Um, and if you want to know how good of an actor he is, there's a movie he made called, um, called, I'm trying to remember, Honey Boy is the name of the movie.
00:47:22.700 And it, it's a kind of semi-autobiographical film about a child actor and his abusive father.
00:47:30.060 And Shia LaBeouf, I believe, wrote the movie, and it's based on his own experiences as a child actor with apparently an abusive father.
00:47:38.320 In the movie, he plays the dad.
00:47:42.640 He plays, so he's playing his own abusive father in a movie about his childhood.
00:47:47.520 Uh, and, uh, it's a pretty, I think, quite incredible performance.
00:47:54.180 I, even without that backstory, it's still a great performance, but with it, it's quite fascinating.
00:47:59.840 And, uh, I don't think he won any awards for it or anything, but it was, um, I don't know, you can't watch that movie
00:48:04.920 and come away not convinced that he's at least a pretty capable actor.
00:48:14.140 Um, now, whether it's really psychologically healthy to, you know, take on the role of your own abusive father in a movie is a totally different deal,
00:48:24.980 but we certainly can't expect actors to be psychologically healthy people.
00:48:29.700 That's, uh, it just sort of comes with the territory.
00:48:31.600 Um, and finally, okay, Matt, saying that Sonic movies are, for kids, is understandable, I agree,
00:48:41.480 but saying that Shrek 1 and 2 are horrible movies might be one of the worst takes I've ever heard.
00:48:46.100 Just for that, I took Shapiro's side in your movie argument.
00:48:51.220 Well, I don't know what to tell you.
00:48:52.400 Look, uh, they're, they're pretty bad.
00:48:54.460 Uh, you know, the, the, the Shrek films belong to a genre of comedy that we, we, we might call
00:49:00.700 reference comedy, and these were especially popular back in the early 2000s.
00:49:06.900 You still see them, but back in the early 2000s, they were very popular.
00:49:10.340 And that was back when the, the scary movie films were being made and, you know, all those other
00:49:14.880 kind of date movie, disaster movie, whatever else.
00:49:18.240 And basically the style of humor is that they'll, which you can't even call humor really,
00:49:22.860 but they'll reference something in pop culture.
00:49:25.320 And it's supposed to be funny just because they referenced it.
00:49:29.600 They don't make a joke about the thing.
00:49:32.060 There's no punchline.
00:49:33.160 There's no joke there.
00:49:34.200 They just, they just reference it.
00:49:36.880 And so they, they have a plot and then like something from pop culture will just sort of
00:49:40.760 be referenced.
00:49:41.740 And then they point to it and the audience was like, oh yeah, I, I know that.
00:49:44.980 Oh yeah.
00:49:46.320 That that's from American Idol.
00:49:47.760 That's a show I know about.
00:49:50.500 That's hilarious.
00:49:51.820 The fact that you recognize it from pop culture is supposed to be funny.
00:49:55.140 And it's pretty much the most, the most witless form of humor that's ever been invented.
00:50:02.000 And that's kind of the Shrek movie.
00:50:03.500 So there you go.
00:50:05.860 This is one you don't want to miss.
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00:50:36.520 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:50:37.860 Today we cancel somebody named Joanne Littman of the Wall Street Journal for an op-ed with
00:50:48.880 this lovely title, Can White Men Finally Stop Complaining?
00:50:53.640 Now we've obviously reached inception levels of irony when a mainstream media journalist,
00:50:57.960 a female one at that, is complaining about other people complaining.
00:51:02.480 On the other hand, they say we should trust the experts, and she is certainly an expert
00:51:05.720 on the subject of complaining.
00:51:07.120 So let's read on.
00:51:09.280 Quote,
00:51:09.500 In 2021, Joe Rogan famously said,
00:51:27.940 It will eventually get to straight white men are not allowed to talk.
00:51:30.500 It will be, you're not allowed to go outside.
00:51:32.220 I'm not joking.
00:51:33.080 It really will get there.
00:51:34.020 It's that crazy.
00:51:35.220 But Rogan's complaint is actually an old one that has exploded as a rallying cry every
00:51:39.840 decade or so for more than 50 years.
00:51:42.660 White guys have blamed others for their job losses, educational failures, economic problems,
00:51:46.740 and drug addictions.
00:51:48.060 Somebody else is always at fault.
00:51:49.720 The mighty white guy, it turns out, is quite the delicate flower.
00:51:53.300 Racism and sexism are at oldest time, but the oppressed white man trope is a relatively
00:51:56.980 modern invention with roots in the civil rights and women's rights victory of the 1960s.
00:52:02.760 Now, from here, Lippmann gives us a lengthy historical overview of what she calls the
00:52:06.560 oppressed white man trope.
00:52:08.260 The whole diatribe is dripping with unmitigated resentment towards white men, but she does offer
00:52:13.920 this generous disclaimer.
00:52:16.380 Quote,
00:52:16.640 To be clear, white guys aren't all sexist or racist or whiners, nor do all or even most
00:52:21.660 buy into the white guy persecution complex.
00:52:24.840 Well, that's nice of her.
00:52:25.560 We aren't all sexist, racist whiners.
00:52:28.220 There are some white guys that pass muster with Joanne Lippmann.
00:52:31.740 I'm sure there are even some white guys whose work she admires.
00:52:34.900 David Hogg must be one.
00:52:36.460 Pete Buttigieg, Tim Walls, Rachel Levine, Joseph Stalin.
00:52:40.960 But for the most part, she's done with white men.
00:52:43.680 She's just had it up to here.
00:52:45.460 She wants them all to go to hell.
00:52:47.460 Well, first she wants them to buy a subscription to the Wall Street Journal because 62% of the
00:52:50.380 journal's readers are men.
00:52:51.420 But then, then they can go straight to hell.
00:52:53.880 And here's how she wraps things up.
00:52:56.220 With white guys now dominating government, popular culture, the airwaves, and our brain
00:52:59.940 space, it's puzzling why the victim mentality still persists.
00:53:03.400 The cries that DEI has somehow ruined white men's lives are particularly head-scratching,
00:53:07.360 considering that, as a recent Wall Street Journal analysis revealed, corporate diversity initiatives
00:53:11.420 have had relatively little impact on the workforce.
00:53:13.500 Yet, white guys are still insisting that they're being terrorized by the scary DEI monster,
00:53:18.620 blaming it for everything from California wildfires to the Potomac plane crash to the
00:53:22.740 Francis Scott Key bridge collapse.
00:53:24.800 And the most powerful and privileged among them continue to complain the loudest.
00:53:29.060 Really, guys?
00:53:30.180 Enough already.
00:53:30.880 Now, there's a lot that could be said in response to this fantastically stupid article.
00:53:37.700 Littman simply dismisses the claim that white males have been treated in a systematically unjust
00:53:43.060 and unfair way.
00:53:44.560 She doesn't debunk it or make any attempt to engage with it.
00:53:47.320 She just kind of waves it away.
00:53:49.520 But for all her waving, the reality remains.
00:53:51.760 It is just a fact that affirmative action and DEI have discriminated against white males for
00:53:57.600 decades.
00:53:58.180 Every single institution in the country has put in place policies that deliberately make
00:54:03.000 it more difficult for white males to be hired.
00:54:05.680 And once they are hired, more difficult to advance.
00:54:08.360 That's not some sort of wild theory.
00:54:11.060 It's the whole point of these policies.
00:54:14.520 But we don't even have to get into that.
00:54:18.000 All we need to say is this.
00:54:20.680 This article itself is proof of exactly the kind of anti-white male bias that it's
00:54:27.560 denying.
00:54:29.080 Okay.
00:54:29.540 No mainstream publication would ever in a million years publish an article like this
00:54:34.680 targeting any other demographic group.
00:54:38.100 So try this.
00:54:40.380 Swap in any other group you can think of.
00:54:42.580 Any group at all.
00:54:44.160 And hear how it sounds.
00:54:45.760 For example, can black people stop complaining?
00:54:50.240 Black people have blamed others for their job losses, educational failures, economic problems,
00:54:54.700 and drug addictions.
00:54:55.920 Somebody else is always at fault.
00:54:57.560 The mighty black person, it turns out, is quite the delicate flower.
00:55:01.620 Really black people, enough already.
00:55:04.560 How about this?
00:55:05.880 Can women finally stop complaining?
00:55:08.540 Women have blamed others for their job losses, educational failures, economic problems, and
00:55:12.640 drug addictions.
00:55:13.540 Somebody else is always at fault.
00:55:15.280 The mighty woman, it turns out, is quite the delicate flower.
00:55:18.860 Really women, enough already.
00:55:20.900 Those are articles that would never and could never exist in any mainstream publication.
00:55:29.000 No media outlet in America would ever publish anything like that.
00:55:33.400 Now, it would be easy to disprove my point here.
00:55:37.040 All you'd have to do is find one single article in any publication comparable to the Wall Street Journal
00:55:43.500 where a white person talks about black people that way or a man talks about women that way.
00:55:49.260 Just a single article, even a tweet from somebody who works at one of these places.
00:55:54.400 Anything.
00:55:55.640 But you can't.
00:55:57.360 And we all know you can't.
00:56:00.120 And that's because this is the kind of sneering contempt that can only be expressed towards one demographic group and no other.
00:56:09.820 You are allowed to openly despise one group and only one, and that is white men.
00:56:18.020 That's it.
00:56:19.640 And Joanne Littman can't deny this.
00:56:22.000 She doesn't even really try.
00:56:23.340 Her point is simply that we shouldn't complain about this blatantly unfair dynamic.
00:56:28.100 We should just accept our role as a societal punching bag.
00:56:31.760 Because we're white men after all.
00:56:33.260 We deserve it.
00:56:35.220 Littman isn't really upset that we're complaining.
00:56:37.040 She's upset that we, at least some of us white men anyway, are rejecting that role.
00:56:43.840 White men have had enough of this.
00:56:46.120 We're not just complaining.
00:56:47.840 We are speaking up in our own defense.
00:56:51.460 And that is what's so upsetting to her.
00:56:54.560 When white men speak up in their own defense, they are demonstrating some semblance of pride in themselves as individuals and as a group.
00:57:03.460 At least enough pride to say, hey, we don't deserve to be mocked and belittled like this.
00:57:08.340 We deserve at least the same basic respect that every other group receives.
00:57:14.620 That's the really ominous thing in the mind of somebody like Joanne Littman.
00:57:18.760 White men must not have any pride.
00:57:22.040 Women are allowed, in fact, encouraged to be proud of the fact that they're women.
00:57:25.600 Black people certainly can be proud of the fact that they're black people.
00:57:28.520 Asians, Hispanics, gay people, every demographic group you can name can and should be proud of their membership in that group except white men.
00:57:39.680 The only feelings that white men are permitted to feel about their group identity are remorse, shame, and disgust.
00:57:47.500 That's been the rule in our society for many years.
00:57:49.740 What startles Joanne Littman is that some white men are not following that rule.
00:57:57.720 I'm certainly not.
00:57:59.380 I am proud to be a white man.
00:58:02.040 I think that if anyone's writing an article singling out white men, it should be to thank us.
00:58:07.960 After all, as I said recently, this country could not exist without white men.
00:58:12.780 Nearly every good thing you have in your life, everything that makes your life safer, more comfortable, more enjoyable, was given to you by a white man.
00:58:22.980 The vast majority of the greatest pioneers, inventors, thinkers, leaders in the history of Western civilization have been white men.
00:58:29.980 White men have been, by far and away, the main ones to fight our wars, achieve every political and scientific advancement, build basically every aspect of our society.
00:58:39.820 Without white men, you would not have airplanes, you would not have phones, you would not have air conditioning, you would not have cars, computers, trains, modern medicine, microscopes, elevators, x-ray machines, calculus, the periodic table, rocket ships, rocket science, democracy, the abolition of slavery.
00:58:54.140 And I could go on and on and on.
00:58:56.140 Now, you might point out that these things were achieved not by white men collectively, but by specific white male individuals.
00:59:02.880 Just because I'm a white guy doesn't mean I get to take credit for the fact that, you know, air conditioning exists.
00:59:07.460 And that's true, of course, in a literal sense.
00:59:10.080 But if it makes no sense to lump white men together when discussing these accomplishments,
00:59:16.020 if it makes no sense to give us all credit for what specific white men have done,
00:59:21.160 then why does it make sense to lump us all together for the sake of lecturing and scolding us?
00:59:26.720 You cannot have it both ways.
00:59:29.340 Like, let me see if I have this right.
00:59:31.100 As a white man, I get no credit for the good white men have done, but I do share the blame for the bad?
00:59:37.440 Is that how it works?
00:59:40.620 Well, yes, that is how they want it to work.
00:59:42.840 And yet again, this is a rule that does not apply to any other group.
00:59:48.460 Not a single other group.
00:59:51.780 Black people are frequently celebrated as a group.
00:59:54.520 And black people individually are encouraged to take pride in the good done by other black individuals.
00:59:59.340 Women also are celebrated as a group.
01:00:01.380 Women are very much encouraged to take pride in what women have done.
01:00:06.060 Nobody would think it was strange if a black woman said that Harriet Tubman makes her proud to be a black woman.
01:00:13.640 Right?
01:00:14.080 Nobody would criticize a black woman who expressed that sentiment.
01:00:17.980 In fact, if you criticized her for it, you'd be a racist.
01:00:21.900 And yet, if I said that Isaac Newton makes me proud to be a white man,
01:00:27.360 I would be both condemned as a racist and mocked for saying something so absurd.
01:00:33.800 Look, there's just no logical way to defend that double standard.
01:00:38.420 And yet, it exists.
01:00:39.940 And we all know that it exists.
01:00:43.940 In fact, as we know, all of these groups have their own months on the calendar,
01:00:47.780 set aside for the purpose of reflecting on their group achievements.
01:00:52.020 White men do not, even though, frankly, we have the most achievements.
01:00:57.240 Just a couple of weeks ago, speaking of black women,
01:01:00.340 today.com had an article with this title,
01:01:03.680 25 Influential Black Women Who Changed History.
01:01:06.480 And the list is, I'm afraid to say, the list is not terribly impressive.
01:01:14.420 Beyonce and Michelle Obama made the cut, just to give you an idea.
01:01:19.140 In fact, one of the names on the list isn't even a black woman.
01:01:22.000 Laverne Cox is on the list, and he's a male.
01:01:25.180 And even if he wasn't, how does some random actor make the list of the most influential figures in all history?
01:01:31.060 Yet, this is the kind of article, one of the many thousands I could cite,
01:01:35.380 that can be written to highlight the achievements of any group,
01:01:38.600 any group besides white men.
01:01:42.560 You will never see an article on today.com listing the 25 most influential white men
01:01:48.140 who changed history, even though
01:01:49.980 our list would have some
01:01:52.640 real heavy hitters.
01:01:54.440 It would have, like, the most important humans
01:01:57.360 who've ever lived on the planet?
01:01:59.920 Isaac Newton, Alexander the Great,
01:02:01.780 Shakespeare, Da Vinci, Plato,
01:02:03.480 George Washington, Magellan, etc.
01:02:06.200 Okay, not going to be any room
01:02:07.520 for B-level actors on our list,
01:02:09.520 but
01:02:10.360 that's a list that you will never see published
01:02:13.120 anywhere, by anyone,
01:02:16.180 ever.
01:02:17.380 A couple of years ago, the Boston Globe
01:02:19.380 published
01:02:21.320 an article with this title.
01:02:22.660 What We Mean by Black Girl Magic
01:02:25.940 and the article is about
01:02:27.900 black girl magic,
01:02:29.100 which is a phrase we hear a lot these days,
01:02:31.500 meant to describe the special magic,
01:02:33.720 the beautiful essence of black women.
01:02:35.440 And here's how the article begins.
01:02:37.260 When I see a black woman,
01:02:38.680 I see a revolution.
01:02:40.240 She's here,
01:02:41.120 in a country determined to rest its back on her shoulders
01:02:43.600 while calling her worthless.
01:02:45.020 I see magic.
01:02:46.320 I don't see a superhuman,
01:02:47.360 I see an architect.
01:02:48.500 I know she's doing a lot of groundwork
01:02:50.060 to be present,
01:02:50.980 to walk that walk with swagger,
01:02:52.660 and self-determination.
01:02:54.000 I know she's becoming more and more herself,
01:02:56.340 building the truth in a world
01:02:57.560 that lies to us about who we are.
01:03:00.560 Now,
01:03:01.600 not to belabor the point,
01:03:03.400 but
01:03:03.540 this is the kind of article
01:03:05.360 that could never be written
01:03:07.200 about white men.
01:03:09.460 It's the kind of article
01:03:10.320 that could only not be written
01:03:11.900 about one group,
01:03:13.240 and that is white men.
01:03:15.320 But let's just hear how that would sound,
01:03:17.160 if that article was written.
01:03:19.060 Imagine this,
01:03:19.900 in the Boston Globe,
01:03:21.560 okay?
01:03:23.240 What we mean by white man magic.
01:03:26.460 When I see a white man,
01:03:27.820 I see a revolution.
01:03:29.240 He's here,
01:03:30.140 in a country determined to rest its back on his shoulders
01:03:32.660 while calling him worthless.
01:03:33.820 I see magic.
01:03:35.560 I don't see a superhuman.
01:03:37.240 I see an architect.
01:03:38.640 I know he's doing a lot of groundwork
01:03:40.200 to be present,
01:03:40.980 to walk that walk with swagger
01:03:42.620 and self-determination.
01:03:43.900 I know he's becoming more and more himself,
01:03:46.160 building the truth in a world
01:03:47.280 that lies to us
01:03:48.260 about who we are.
01:03:51.100 That article can't exist,
01:03:53.600 even though
01:03:54.720 one could certainly argue
01:03:57.100 that it applies
01:03:58.200 more to white men.
01:04:00.560 After all,
01:04:01.260 white men are explicitly demeaned
01:04:03.400 as worthless
01:04:04.000 in a way that black women
01:04:05.460 literally never are,
01:04:08.040 ever.
01:04:10.380 And this country has,
01:04:12.360 just,
01:04:12.840 I want to pause on that for a second,
01:04:14.320 because
01:04:14.540 this is something we hear about.
01:04:17.240 The narrative in the media
01:04:18.380 has been forever
01:04:19.240 that black women are
01:04:20.700 not just oppressed,
01:04:21.820 but the most oppressed.
01:04:23.140 The most oppressed of all groups.
01:04:25.100 Constantly belittled.
01:04:27.180 And yet,
01:04:27.880 in reality,
01:04:29.140 never.
01:04:30.660 You know the only place
01:04:31.860 where you're going to hear
01:04:32.380 black women explicitly belittled
01:04:33.940 and demeaned?
01:04:34.460 The only place,
01:04:35.320 the only place,
01:04:36.580 is in rap music
01:04:38.360 performed by black men.
01:04:41.300 Outside of that,
01:04:42.560 never happens.
01:04:44.020 Never,
01:04:44.700 ever,
01:04:45.220 anywhere.
01:04:48.040 But with white men,
01:04:49.280 it's a little different.
01:04:50.380 You'll hear that kind of stuff
01:04:51.320 everywhere all the time.
01:04:52.900 And also,
01:04:53.780 this country has largely
01:04:54.780 rested on the shoulders
01:04:55.660 of white men
01:04:56.780 since its inception.
01:04:57.860 As for magic,
01:05:00.580 you know,
01:05:00.720 I wouldn't say that
01:05:01.300 white men have magic,
01:05:02.500 but they are the ones
01:05:03.320 who learned how to fly,
01:05:04.780 who walked on the moon,
01:05:06.180 who traveled to both poles
01:05:07.420 of the earth,
01:05:08.160 who made it to the deepest
01:05:09.360 depths of the ocean.
01:05:11.080 Okay,
01:05:11.200 it's not magic,
01:05:12.040 but it's as close
01:05:12.600 as human beings
01:05:13.180 have ever come to it.
01:05:14.440 But we aren't supposed
01:05:17.100 to talk about any of that.
01:05:19.000 And,
01:05:19.300 just not supposed to talk about it.
01:05:21.400 Just not supposed to acknowledge
01:05:22.540 that any of that is true.
01:05:24.100 Even though we all know it is.
01:05:26.680 And the reason is obvious.
01:05:28.720 If white men are allowed
01:05:29.960 to think of themselves
01:05:30.940 as a group
01:05:31.720 in anything but
01:05:32.820 an explicitly negative context,
01:05:35.160 then they'll quickly realize
01:05:37.100 that they aren't,
01:05:39.040 in fact,
01:05:39.520 the great villains of history.
01:05:40.880 Far from the villains,
01:05:43.180 they've been,
01:05:43.900 in so many cases,
01:05:45.600 the heroes.
01:05:47.600 And once they realize
01:05:48.780 that all the guilt
01:05:49.760 and shame
01:05:50.300 they're supposed to feel
01:05:51.120 and that some of them
01:05:51.660 actually do feel,
01:05:53.140 will melt away.
01:05:54.960 The left's whole narrative
01:05:56.000 collapses.
01:05:57.060 Their emotional blackmail
01:05:57.980 stops working.
01:05:58.840 The jig is up.
01:06:00.320 And that's what they're afraid of.
01:06:02.000 That's what Joanne Littman
01:06:03.040 is afraid of.
01:06:04.580 And that's why she is today
01:06:06.000 canceled.
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