The Matt Walsh Show - March 17, 2025


Ep. 1556 - Trump Just Played His Trump Card Against This Insane And Unlawful Judge


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00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a federal judge tries to force President Trump to return a
00:00:03.520 plane full of foreign terrorists to the United States. Trump rightly ignores him. Now the
00:00:07.060 Democrats are screeching about a constitutional crisis we'll discuss. Also, Trump has declared
00:00:11.680 Biden's last minute pardons null and void because Biden didn't personally sign them and he was
00:00:16.160 senile at the time. The Democrats have found the person who will win back the youth vote for them.
00:00:20.340 She's 82 years old and looks 182 years old. An Amazon driver goes viral after she yells at a
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00:02:14.280 It took just a couple of days after Donald Trump's inauguration for a judge to issue an injunction
00:02:18.720 blocking one of his executive orders. And from that moment, the floodgates were open. Since January,
00:02:24.060 federal judges, almost all of them appointed by Democrats, of course, have issued four dozen
00:02:27.620 rulings that blocked or limited some aspect of the Trump administration's agenda. And that's not an
00:02:33.220 exaggeration. In just two months, there have been nearly 50 rulings by federal judges that restrict
00:02:38.200 what the executive branch is trying to do. And we've discussed many of these rulings before and
00:02:43.080 how obviously absurd they are. In one case, a judge ruled that the Trump administration
00:02:47.540 can't even fire its own probationary employees. In another ruling, they require that the White House
00:02:53.180 update federal websites to restore promotional content about child castration in the name of
00:02:58.860 gender-affirming care. So in other words, according to federal judges, Trump effectively has no power
00:03:03.980 whatsoever. He can't manage his personnel. He can't even manage a website. At this point,
00:03:09.380 it's impossible for any serious person to deny that these judges are going out of their way to
00:03:14.860 interfere with every aspect of executive authority. They are ignoring the fact that under our Constitution,
00:03:22.360 the executive branch is not a subordinate branch to the judiciary. It is a co-equal branch of government.
00:03:28.660 And they're doing it to provoke what the media likes to call a constitutional crisis. The judges
00:03:34.620 intend to assume the powers of the executive branch for themselves. And they won't stop until the Trump
00:03:40.080 administration is forced to ignore the courts, which is exactly what Andrew Jackson, who happens
00:03:43.760 to be one of Donald Trump's favorite presidents, did nearly two centuries ago. As drastic as it may seem
00:03:49.160 under normal circumstances, other than impeachment, this is the only check against a rogue judiciary that
00:03:55.360 exists in our system of checks and balances. So over the weekend, as you probably heard, for the first
00:04:01.540 time, a judge finally crossed the red line and pushed the Trump administration to exercise this
00:04:07.780 remedy, or at least something very close to it. On Saturday night, an Obama-appointed federal judge in
00:04:12.980 Washington, D.C. named James Bosberg attempted to block the White House from using the Alien Enemies Act
00:04:19.960 of 1798 to deport members of the Venezuelan terrorist gang Tren de Aragua, which had seized,
00:04:27.180 you may remember, entire apartment buildings in Colorado last year. And that was during the Biden
00:04:32.080 administration. Biden did nothing about it. In fact, facilitated this takeover of our communities by
00:04:37.280 terrorist gang members. And the law, though, allows the president of the United States to declare an
00:04:43.300 invasion and to deport invaders without waiting for an immigration hearing. Trump declared that the
00:04:49.180 Tren de Aragua has been invading this country for some time, because they have. So he ordered
00:04:54.680 several members of the gang to be deported under the Alien Enemies Act. But just hours after Trump made
00:04:59.980 that proclamation, Judge Bosberg attempted to overrule him. Following a brief hearing, the judge
00:05:05.160 stated that, quote, any plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be
00:05:09.820 returned to the United States, however that is accomplished. Make sure it's complied with immediately.
00:05:15.340 So we know the judges have already assumed the role of web designers. Now it appears that they
00:05:21.540 fashioned themselves air traffic controllers, too. As Bosberg said those words on Saturday evening,
00:05:27.000 two planes carrying these Venezuelan gang members and terrorists were already on their way from Texas,
00:05:32.380 bound for El Salvador. They had taken off around 2.30 p.m. Flight tracking databases appear to show that
00:05:37.720 these planes were very close to their destinations, flying off the Yucatan Peninsula at around 6.51 p.m.
00:05:43.760 when the judge issued this order commanding the planes to turn around. But they didn't do so.
00:05:48.980 They proceeded as scheduled to El Salvador. Axios is reporting that the White House intentionally
00:05:53.340 ignored the judge's order because the planes were over international waters, and the White House
00:05:57.220 determined that the judge had no jurisdiction. But meanwhile, the White House press secretary
00:06:02.680 actually disputes that characterization because the order itself was unlawful. Essentially,
00:06:07.960 she's saying that they didn't ignore an order. There was nothing to ignore. Quoting from the press
00:06:13.900 secretary, the administration did not refuse to comply with the court order. The order, which had
00:06:18.100 no lawful basis, was issued after terrorist TDA aliens had already been removed from the U.S.
00:06:24.180 territory. In other words, the White House determined that Judge Bosberg does not have the
00:06:29.320 jurisdiction that he claimed to have. So they did not return the planes to the United States as he
00:06:34.700 commanded. So it's less an ignoring of an order, and more, it's more that the order didn't exist.
00:06:41.320 This is not a lawful order to begin with. It may as well have been me saying, turn the planes around,
00:06:47.980 even though I would never say that. But it may as well have been just any random person on the street
00:06:52.160 saying, turn that plane around. Now, if some random person on the street said that, you wouldn't say,
00:06:58.700 well, the Trump is ignoring their order. The order doesn't, it's not an order. It doesn't exist.
00:07:03.180 You have no jurisdiction. Now, regardless of how you frame it, this is a giant, unambiguous warning
00:07:09.260 sign to every federal judge in this country. They've just been told by the White House, in no uncertain
00:07:13.520 terms, that their rulings do not create policy. Whatever a judge might say, his rulings do not
00:07:20.580 always have to be carried out. Now, what these judges expect is that they'll be given the benefit of
00:07:26.180 the doubt every time. So if they issue a probably unlawful ruling, they expect that the ruling will just be
00:07:32.380 followed anyway. And then after the fact, we'll figure out if it was unlawful or not.
00:07:38.120 So if they decree suddenly that Trump can no longer play golf or that he has to stop eating
00:07:43.600 his steaks well done or whatever, Trump just has to do as they say, under the assumption that it must
00:07:49.160 be lawful because they said it. But, you know, even though I would actually agree with the second
00:07:54.000 ruling about not eating your steaks well done, this is not how it works. Trump does not have to,
00:07:59.140 and now it seems is not going to, comply with rulings that the judges have no authority to
00:08:04.140 issue to begin with. That's the message here. That's also the message that the president of El
00:08:08.740 Salvador wants to communicate as well. Within hours of the planes touching down, Naib Bukele
00:08:14.280 mocked the judge's ruling. He wrote, oopsie too late, incidentally marking, I think, the first time
00:08:20.840 that the word oopsie has ever been used in a diplomatic communication. And then he added that the United
00:08:25.900 States had also deported nearly two dozen MS-13 members to El Salvador. So in total, according
00:08:31.720 to Fox, 137 aliens were deported on Saturday under the Alien Enemies Act. 101 were removed via regular
00:08:37.920 immigration proceedings. 21 were MS-13 members and two were MS-13 ringleaders. And their crimes include
00:08:44.520 the sexual abuse of children, kidnapping, robbery. And just so you know, this is how these criminals
00:08:51.860 were received in their home country of El Salvador. Watch.
00:09:21.860 All right. So you can see it there. Not the warmest welcome for these gentlemen. But this
00:09:34.740 is how a country that's serious about its own national security receives a plane full of terrorists
00:09:39.800 and gang members. You know, they don't put them up in a fancy hotel and offer them free legal services
00:09:45.100 like they do in New York. They meet them with a full military convoy and then throw them in the highest
00:09:50.640 security prison that they have. Now, in a moment, I'm going to get into why this judge's ruling deserves
00:09:56.240 to be ignored on the merits and why it sets up a genuine crisis for the legitimacy of the judiciary
00:10:02.280 in this country. But first, it needs to be said that even if the judge had some legal basis for blocking
00:10:09.020 these deportations, which he didn't, it would still be outrageous for him to order a con air to turn
00:10:14.860 around and head back to the United States. And pretty much everyone recognizes that.
00:10:20.420 From a public relations perspective, you could not script a worse hill to die on than the right of
00:10:26.500 Venezuelan gangsters and terrorists to be flown back into this country after they've already been
00:10:31.980 deported. The Democrats pretend to be big fans of democracy. Well, what do you think would happen
00:10:38.080 if we put this up for a vote? Now, what if there was a national poll that was conducted and the
00:10:44.280 question was, should a plane full of Venezuelan gangsters and child rapists be returned to the
00:10:50.460 United States? How many yeses do you think we would get? Now, what's the final score? 95% no, 5% yes.
00:10:59.000 Would the yeas even make it to 5%? But this is what Democrats and their judges stand for at this
00:11:06.800 point. At this rate, they're going to be telling Trump he has to open the asylums and say,
00:11:12.000 import thousands of Haitian cannibals into small towns in this country. Can you imagine that?
00:11:17.340 I mean, they're going from one obvious losing issue to another, from one 80-20 or 90-10 issue to
00:11:23.260 another, and then they're wondering why they can't win a single swing state. Not that it should need to
00:11:28.800 be said, but judges do not have the authority to direct the movements of the federal government's
00:11:34.260 planes when they're carrying out missions related to national security, especially when those planes
00:11:39.180 have already left the country. Now, this is an argument that the Trump administration made in
00:11:44.080 its emergency appeal to the D.C. appeals court on Saturday night. As the Trump DOJ put it, quote,
00:11:48.980 if this temporary restraining order were allowed to stand, district judges, district courts would
00:11:54.040 have license to enjoin virtually any urgent national security action just upon receipt of a complaint.
00:12:00.340 District courts might next block drone strikes. Sensitive intelligence operations,
00:12:03.800 or terrorist captures or extraditions. Now, separately, the White House press secretary
00:12:09.160 made a similar point. She said, quote, federal courts generally have no jurisdiction over the
00:12:13.720 president's conduct of foreign affairs as authorities under the Alien Enemies Act and its core Article 2
00:12:18.780 powers to remove foreign alien terrorists from U.S. soil and repel a declared invasion. A single judge
00:12:24.400 in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft full of foreign alien terrorists who are
00:12:29.540 physically expelled from U.S. soil. And just so you know, despite what you may hear from the media,
00:12:35.900 this is not an unprecedented decision for a White House to make. During the Vietnam War, an anti-war
00:12:41.740 judge on the Supreme Court named William Douglas issued a ruling blocking the military from bombing
00:12:46.980 Cambodia. Within around six hours, the full court reversed that injunction. But in the intervening
00:12:52.940 period, the bombing did not stop. The Pentagon simply continued its attack during those six hours
00:12:58.400 as if the ruling had never happened. And of course, that makes sense because the ruling was completely
00:13:02.760 and utterly insane. It's an obvious infringement on inherent presidential powers. And it's the same
00:13:09.980 reason why these planes weren't turned around before they landed in El Salvador on Saturday night.
00:13:15.420 If the White House had allowed a single judge to control the movement of the government's aircraft
00:13:20.260 overseas, then effectively the executive branch would have no authority left.
00:13:26.420 But the even bigger problem with the judge's ruling when you zoom out a bit
00:13:29.360 is that he's not simply trying to take control of government planes. He's also trying to block
00:13:34.320 the president's ability, which is clearly established under Article 2 of the Constitution,
00:13:38.000 to conduct foreign affairs and to keep the country safe from foreign invaders.
00:13:42.480 And this gets back to the negotiations that the Trump administration has been conducting with El Salvador.
00:13:46.120 There's a kind of a rare combination of innovation and basic common sense at work here,
00:13:53.240 which is what you find with the Trump administration, especially the Trump administration 2.0.
00:13:59.800 A lot of there's innovation, unique ideas, but also these ideas are very simple and common sense.
00:14:06.340 So the Trump administration is paying El Salvador about $6 million to imprison around 300 of these gang
00:14:13.100 members after we deport them from the United States. This is a deal that El Salvador has clearly been
00:14:18.540 very happy to take because it's a lot of money for them, relatively speaking. And in exchange for
00:14:24.520 paying them $6 million, which is not much to us, we don't have hundreds of gang members taking over
00:14:29.620 our apartment buildings and murdering people in broad daylight. So it's a win-win. It's exactly the
00:14:35.520 kind of deal that the president is supposed to engage in using his Article 2 powers. And
00:14:39.140 no judge can strip the president of those powers. That's because the judiciary is not in charge of
00:14:46.120 foreign affairs. The president is. And once again, the judiciary is, the executive branch is not
00:14:52.960 subordinate to the judiciary. That's not how this is supposed to work. Now, this is the strongest
00:15:00.300 argument for rejecting this particular judge's ruling, along with dozens of other rulings that have
00:15:04.400 been made against the Trump administration in the past two months. Regardless of whatever Congress
00:15:09.280 or the judiciary says about how the president can fire federal employees or what content needs to
00:15:14.640 appear on government websites or anything else, the fact remains that the Constitution is a higher
00:15:19.860 authority than any law passed by Congress or any ruling by a judge. When acts of Congress or rulings by
00:15:27.800 judges are used to interfere with the inherent power of the president, then they are just invalid.
00:15:33.220 They don't exist in that case. And in this particular case, Trump isn't even being contradicted
00:15:41.860 by any act of Congress. Instead, he's following the rules that Congress established with the Alien
00:15:47.580 Enemies Act, which became law all the way back in 1798. And despite, again, what you may have heard,
00:15:52.960 there's no expiration date on it. Just because it was made law a long time ago doesn't mean that you
00:15:57.480 can't use it anymore. And that law allows the president to expedite deportations when, quote,
00:16:02.920 any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of
00:16:09.000 the U.S. by any foreign nation or government. Now, the Trump DOJ maintains that Trend de Aragua
00:16:14.400 is acting as an agent of Venezuela to the point that this gang is basically indistinguishable from the
00:16:20.280 country's official government. And they're clearly invading our country because they're entering
00:16:24.500 without permission and with intent to cause harm. And therefore, whether you're looking for a
00:16:29.640 justification under an act of Congress or from the president's inherent authorities under the
00:16:33.300 Constitution, the deportations of these Venezuelan gangs are clearly lawful on multiple levels.
00:16:41.920 And by the way, not that this is the biggest point here, but Judge Bozberg didn't actually rule
00:16:46.280 that the deportations were unlawful. He didn't even get that far. Instead, he issued an emergency
00:16:51.280 preliminary restraining order in a matter of minutes on the theory that the gang members would
00:16:57.120 suffer irreparable harm unless he paused the deportations immediately. And we wouldn't want to do
00:17:02.520 irreparable harm to foreign gang members. Now, the whole theory of irreparable harm is something the
00:17:09.580 Supreme Court needs to take a very close look at because it's the way that all of these judges are
00:17:13.940 justifying their various insane power grabs over national policy. In reality, the only irreparable harm
00:17:21.200 that's being done in this scenario is the damage that these judges are doing to the rule of law
00:17:25.880 and to the democratic principles that we hear so much about all the time.
00:17:31.940 These rulings have a lot of people wondering why we bother with elections in the first place.
00:17:36.740 If a random Obama judge in Washington gets to pretend he's actually the president,
00:17:40.800 if judges can overrule anything the president does at any time, then why do we have a president?
00:17:47.020 And with every decision like this, that question becomes more and more valid.
00:17:53.160 Of course, Democrats will always be able to find an unelected judge in some left-wing city to rule
00:17:59.180 against the Trump administration on any issue at all. And that's why there will be many more
00:18:04.480 confrontations like this one until either the judges are ignored completely or the Supreme Court steps in
00:18:11.080 and ends the practice of individual federal judges dictating policy for the entire country.
00:18:16.940 In the meantime, what happened on Saturday night is the clearest indication yet that the Trump
00:18:22.480 administration is going to fight to make sure Americans actually get what they voted for,
00:18:27.040 which is entire planes full of foreign criminals leaving the country.
00:18:32.000 No other president would probably think to pay El Salvador millions of dollars to house these
00:18:38.160 violent gang members, much less use a law passed in the late 18th century to expedite the process.
00:18:44.100 But that's exactly what the Trump administration has just done. And as a result,
00:18:48.000 regardless of what judges appointed by Barack Obama might rule,
00:18:51.580 it's all but certain that a lot more terrorists and gang members are about to be kicked out of the
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00:20:22.040 Daily Wire reports, President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that the U.S. had launched
00:20:26.520 a military offensive against Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen. Is it Houthi or Hootie?
00:20:33.680 I don't know. Anyway, they're dead. They're pronounced dead. Hootie. Hootie and the
00:20:38.620 Hootie and the Blown to Smithereens by Drones. That's their new band name. Anyway, return to the
00:20:43.600 muscular foreign policy that was a cornerstone of its first term. New York Times reported that the
00:20:47.280 large-scale strikes specifically targeted radars, air defenses, and missile and drone systems.
00:20:54.100 Trump said in a message that the terror group had waged an unrelenting campaign of piracy,
00:20:57.700 violence, and terrorism against American and other ships, aircraft, and drones.
00:21:02.360 The strikes, believed to be only the opening salvo, were expected to last several days.
00:21:09.140 Trump said Joe Biden's response was pathetically weak, so the unrestrained Houthis
00:21:13.680 just kept going. It's been over a year since a U.S. flagged commercial ship safely sailed through
00:21:19.440 the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, or the Gulf of Aden. The last American warship to go through the Red Sea
00:21:23.840 four months ago was attacked by the Houthis over a dozen times. Funded by Iran, the Houthi thugs have
00:21:29.760 fired missiles at U.S. aircraft and targeted our troops and allies. These relentless assaults have
00:21:34.780 cost the U.S. and the world economy many billions of dollars, while at the same time putting innocent lives
00:21:39.320 at risk. And so now he's striking back against them. And you know, I'm as America first and
00:21:48.420 non-interventionist as they come. My first instinct is always to avoid foreign conflicts and foreign
00:21:54.500 entanglements whenever possible. But there's a distinction between being non-interventionist
00:22:01.380 and being just a pacifist, empty-headed wimp. And you can see, so here's kind of where the line
00:22:11.060 is drawn with a case like this. Because part of actually being America first is supporting your
00:22:16.240 country's right to defend itself. You do have a certain subset of people who call themselves America
00:22:24.180 first, who at this point will not support, it seems, any use of the American military at all for
00:22:32.360 anything ever. And that is not America first. America first means we can defend ourselves.
00:22:41.140 It means if you attack us, you're going to pay for it. And so this to me is an easy one.
00:22:45.760 If some little country in the Middle East is shooting at our ships, they need to pay. I mean,
00:22:53.360 there's absolutely no reason for us to tolerate that. You don't attack American ships. And by the
00:22:58.880 way, America has a long history of this. I mean, this goes all the way back to the founding.
00:23:03.640 This has been the stance of the United States of America since the beginning, that you do not attack
00:23:11.880 our ships. We have never tolerated that. Only in very recent years have we started tolerating that
00:23:19.740 kind of thing. And we shouldn't. And all other countries and adversaries and terrorist groups
00:23:26.460 need to know that if you so much as shoot a BB gun at an American ship, whether it's military or
00:23:31.260 commercial, we will vaporize you. And that's the approach Trump is taking, which is the correct
00:23:37.980 approach. It is, it is the America first approach. Um, you know, I've seen some people on the right
00:23:43.160 on X anyway, criticizing this decision. They're saying that, well, you know, the Houthi are only
00:23:49.560 attacking our ships because they're mad about our support for Israel or whatever. Okay. So who cares
00:23:59.060 what they're mad at? Well, they're, they're upset that we're, I don't give a damn what they're upset
00:24:05.220 about. You don't attack American ships. I don't care what the American ship is doing there,
00:24:11.080 why it's there, how they feel. I don't care. They had a bad day that they have, they have tummy,
00:24:16.180 their tummies hurt. They're in a bad mood. They're sad. Well, they attacked American ships because,
00:24:21.540 but you don't understand they're really sad. They're sad about American form. I don't care how
00:24:25.060 they feel about it. It doesn't matter. We're the United States of America. You don't attack us.
00:24:30.840 And if you do, you're going to pay for it. We are going to incinerate you. That's, that's the deal
00:24:36.580 here. Um, should we just allow a key shipping lane to become hazardous for American commercial
00:24:44.180 and military ships because we're being understanding of the feelings of terrorist groups?
00:24:51.360 I mean, that is very much the opposite of America first. That is America last. That is,
00:24:56.420 that is, you're putting America behind the thoughts and feelings and priorities of foreign
00:25:02.380 adversaries. So it's weak, pathetic, and insane. And, um, I, I, I think that, um, this is great.
00:25:11.580 It's exactly what you do. Anybody shoots at an American ship, you, uh, you, you, every shot you
00:25:18.400 take, we're going to blow up 10 of your buildings. How about that? That that's peace through strength is a
00:25:23.960 real thing. That's kind of the mantra that the Trump administration uses. It's the correct mantra.
00:25:30.880 And, um, and that's the way that it should be. All right. Let's see. We also have this
00:25:39.040 New York post president Trump said early Monday that he was avoiding all the last minute pardons
00:25:44.560 from president Joe Biden that were made using auto pen. The pardons that sleepy Joe Biden gave to the
00:25:51.780 unselect committee of political thugs and many others are hereby declared void, vacant, vacant,
00:26:02.980 and of no further force or effect because of the fact that they were done by auto pen.
00:26:08.320 In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them, but more importantly, he did not know anything about
00:26:12.400 them. So this is, um, well, first of all, here's Trump today explaining more about his decision.
00:26:20.080 Let's watch the video.
00:26:21.700 Are those executive orders, those pardons from the president now null and void?
00:26:26.600 I think so. It's not my decision. That'll be up to a court, but I would say that they're null and void
00:26:32.560 because I'm sure Biden didn't have any idea that it was taking place. And somebody was using an auto
00:26:38.600 pen to sign off and to give, uh, pardons to, as an example, just one example, but the J6
00:26:45.860 unselected committee, uh, they, they gave, think of it, they gave pardons with an auto pen. I don't
00:26:52.420 think Biden knew anything about it. And what they did is they deleted and destroyed all of the
00:26:58.040 information that took them over a year to get. Now I haven't tracked the left's reaction to this
00:27:03.840 very closely yet. I'm sure they're apoplectic about it. All I know is that I found out about
00:27:08.740 this on X last night because some leftists, I forgot who posted about it, but screenshotted the
00:27:13.920 post from, from Trump and caption it. This is insane. This is insanity. How could, is it really
00:27:19.580 insane? You and I and 300 million other people in this country and billions across the globe all know
00:27:28.200 that Joe Biden was senile. That is a well-established fact. Nobody denies it anymore.
00:27:34.840 They did for a while. They don't anymore. When's the last time you met anyone who would deny that
00:27:40.800 Joe Biden had dementia and was not in possession of all of his mental faculties? Nobody denies it.
00:27:45.880 Nobody does. And if that's the case and it is the case, then it has implications. The fact that the
00:27:53.480 president was a senile vegetable actually matters. It's not just a fun little factoid about recent
00:27:59.040 American history, right? It's not, it's not just something to put on a trivial pursuit card.
00:28:04.440 Which U.S. president had the mental capacity of asparagus? You know, that'll be, it'll be a fun
00:28:10.220 question for trivial pursuit. Yes, but it's not trivial. See, we've grown, we've grown so accustomed to
00:28:16.720 this cycle and the cycle goes like this. Something horrible happens. Conservatives point out that the
00:28:25.440 horrible thing is happening. And we say, look at that horrible thing. That's horrible. And the media
00:28:30.720 denies it and says that anyone who makes the claim that it's horrible is a fascist Nazi, you know,
00:28:37.700 conspiracy theorist. Then a little time passes and suddenly the media says, it's time to talk about
00:28:43.200 this horrible thing. And then they congratulate themselves for bravely acknowledging the horrible
00:28:48.520 thing years after the fact and after they actively suppressed conversation about that horrible
00:28:54.280 thing. And then conservatives say, hey, we tried to tell you guys about that. And the media says, did
00:29:01.260 you? We don't remember that. When did that happen? Anyway, and then everybody moves on, right? That's the
00:29:08.160 cycle with all this stuff. That's what played out with COVID. That's what played out with the trans
00:29:12.060 stuff. That's what's playing out with Joe Biden's dementia and so many other examples we could name.
00:29:16.760 And the whole cycle is very frustrating, but it's the end. It's the end of that cycle that's the
00:29:20.980 biggest problem because it's the part where everybody moves on and nothing happens. Once everyone is
00:29:28.280 finally on the same page about the horrible thing, nothing happens. There's no accountability. There are no
00:29:33.540 implications of the horrible thing. This is happening right now with COVID. Suddenly five years after the
00:29:41.540 fact, there are all these articles in mainstream publications saying that actually the lockdowns
00:29:46.100 were a terrible idea. Lots of people were hurt by it. And that's infuriating because obviously they
00:29:50.600 tried to censor us for years for saying that. But the worst part is that nobody's being held
00:29:54.620 accountable. Okay. If we're all saying that, yeah, it was a terrible thing. It hurt people. Okay. Well,
00:30:01.780 then what? Doesn't that have implications? Aren't there some stakes attached to that? If we all can agree
00:30:07.480 now that this policy destroyed millions of lives, nobody's held accountable, nobody's punished.
00:30:16.220 And it's the same thing with this. If we are all now finally admitting that Biden had dementia,
00:30:24.720 then yes, logically that would mean that basically everything he did in office is effectively null and
00:30:33.520 void. If he had dementia, then everything he did has to certainly be at least, uh, we have to go back
00:30:46.160 and analyze it. And everything is called into question. He did not have possession of his mental
00:30:52.400 faculties. That's, that's not the kind of thing that you acknowledge and then say, let's move on.
00:30:59.480 It's the kind of thing that you acknowledge. You say, well, the president did not have all of his
00:31:04.540 mental faculties, which means that therefore there are consequences to that. And, um,
00:31:15.360 it starts with this because these pardons, I mean, forget about the auto pen thing.
00:31:22.300 I think that is an important point here that he didn't actually physically sign it. So I think
00:31:26.060 technically, legally, that is an important point, but that to me is not even the main point.
00:31:30.800 These pardons were issued at the end of his term at a time when he was completely out of it.
00:31:36.820 At least you could argue that, okay, something he did in his first couple of years, he still had
00:31:40.380 most of his mental capacity, probably, maybe, but maybe not. By the end, he was totally out of it.
00:31:48.400 So even if he did sign it physically, he didn't, that, there's no, there's no there, there. There's
00:31:55.820 nothing, there was nothing in there. There's nothing going on inside his head. And again, that has
00:32:01.920 implications. I've had, so this is something I've had waiting on, on deck for several days. I haven't
00:32:09.960 been able to play it because we have to sort of pace this stuff out. We can only have so much
00:32:14.280 left-wing cringe in one day. I want to overload you. So now it's time for me to introduce you to
00:32:20.720 someone, if you don't know her. She's named Democratic Representative Rosa DeLaro is her name.
00:32:28.360 And she's the, when you see her, you'll recognize it because she's the really old one with purple
00:32:32.380 hair. You can't miss her when you see her. She's like 80 years old, I think, maybe older. And I
00:32:40.240 remember seeing her down at the joint session speech down in the gallery. And she looked like,
00:32:44.980 and I'm not trying to be mean when I say this, this is just, this is the most literal description
00:32:50.140 I can give that she looked like a corpse with a wig. Not even trying to be funny. I thought that
00:32:55.120 that's what she was at first. I really did. I saw her there. I thought there was, oh, there's a dead
00:32:59.920 person. Is a dead, are they doing a wake? Is there some kind of wake happening? Is this, I've never been
00:33:04.720 to a speech like this before. Do they do a wake for a recently deceased congressman before all these
00:33:09.840 speeches? Maybe that's a tradition. But then I noticed that she was moving a little bit.
00:33:14.620 And then I thought, oh, dear Lord, she's, she's, she's zombified. It's like a literal leftist zombie
00:33:21.180 with purple hair walking around the floor of Congress. And just a, just a bizarre sight, a very
00:33:29.260 bizarre sight. But, you know, just because she's 64,000 years old, that doesn't mean that she can't
00:33:37.220 connect with the youth. And at least that's what the Democrats seem to think. And that was the point
00:33:42.400 of this video. Watch.
00:33:45.680 Yo, this is the ranking Rizzer on appropriations, serving Connecticut's third district. It's time
00:33:52.620 to enter your dark academia Congress era. All right, besties. House appropriation is the money
00:33:58.660 moves in Congress. We are not chasing the bag. We are the bag. Democrats are making life smoother
00:34:05.480 for government funding. It's giving, it's giving it. So Sigma, main character energy. But Republicans
00:34:13.460 Project 2025 is mad sus. Eliminating the Department of Education? Negative aura points. Basically,
00:34:22.860 the biggest phantom tax on the environment, on your education, and your rights. Big L posting it
00:34:29.440 online, buddy. Democrats understood the assignment. But go off. See how I keep you informed? Very cutesy,
00:34:38.000 very demure. Yeah, that's how you reach the young people. By having the Mad Hatter's great
00:34:44.180 grandmother do a TikTok video. That's how you do it. You reach out to the youth with a fossilized troll
00:34:51.460 doll. You reach out to the youth with a TikTok video from the witch from Disney's Sword in the
00:35:00.660 Stone, which that's a little bit of a deep cut. You got to Google that one. But when you see it,
00:35:03.620 you'll know what I'm talking about. Purple hair, basically. Anyway, I can only hope this is the
00:35:09.820 Democrat Party's big plan for youth outreach. But what I'm afraid of is that the Republicans will see
00:35:16.400 this and learn the wrong lessons from it. They'll see this and think, well, we got to do it. Yeah,
00:35:20.840 this is it, guys. Look at all the hits this is getting. Look at all the views and clicks and shares.
00:35:28.980 And so maybe the Republicans will respond by slapping a mohawk on Mitch McConnell or having Chuck Grassley
00:35:35.860 do some, you know, skateboard tricks, which that actually would be impressive. So that's not a good
00:35:44.860 example. This video with the purple hair lady is not impressive at all. It is baffling, though. It's
00:35:49.160 very baffling. Because it is in every way the opposite of how you appeal to young people. Young
00:35:57.540 people, and this has been true since forever, basically. Young people don't need to hear you
00:36:02.760 use their slang. In fact, they don't want to hear you use it. The slang exists so that old people don't
00:36:08.580 use it. That's the whole point of it. What young people have always valued is authenticity.
00:36:18.440 Now, I say that even though there are a lot of people in Gen Z who are proponents of gender
00:36:22.400 ideology and they'll celebrate a man pretending to be a woman. So this point about authenticity kind of
00:36:27.240 needs to be highly qualified. But still, even with that qualification in mind, it remains the case
00:36:33.160 that if you want to connect with younger people, they need to feel like you're being real. And I mean,
00:36:41.760 if you think about it, it's kind of interesting that over the past, say, 15 years, okay, go back the
00:36:49.720 past 15, 20 years. Think of the politicians who have managed to attract a loyal, devoted base of
00:37:01.760 younger voters. And there haven't been many. How many politicians have been able to do that?
00:37:09.600 Well, Donald Trump has done it. As much as I hate to admit it, Bernie Sanders did it, at least for a
00:37:15.060 time. And then if you go back 15, you know, to the 15 to 20 year range, go back to around 2000,
00:37:23.480 you know, six, seven, eight, Ron Paul was another one. Back in my days of youth, Ron Paul was the
00:37:30.380 popular one with the kids. And what do all of them have in common? They're all elderly. These
00:37:34.800 are all elderly politicians who managed to attract the pretty large, devoted followings of young
00:37:41.320 people. And none of them did it by pretending to be cool or hip or whatever, or by using internet
00:37:48.120 slang. None of them did that. They all have very distinct personalities and styles that haven't
00:37:53.860 changed pretty much at all in like 50 years. That's the other thing you notice about those
00:38:00.660 three guys in particular, is that if you go back to any point in their lives and look at a video of
00:38:06.960 them speaking, they're saying the same stuff. They've been saying the same thing for decades and decades
00:38:12.100 and decades. And there are other reasons that those three in particular appealed so much to
00:38:19.820 their, basically their grandchildren and great grandchildren's generations. I'm just pointing
00:38:24.860 out that this tactic, the tactic that we just saw in that cringe fest of a video, that has no track
00:38:30.740 record of actually working. Because if you want to appeal to younger people again, and I would say
00:38:38.700 this is, and you know, you could always say, well, everybody wants authenticity. Maybe in theory,
00:38:44.960 everybody does, but I think it's a lot more important to younger voters. Younger voters are a lot more
00:38:51.480 likely to see someone being totally fake and phony and kind of roll their eyes and say, that's, that's
00:38:57.700 lame. That's cringe. I think boomer voters, older voters have a much higher tolerance for that kind of
00:39:05.880 thing. In fact, this video that we just watched is really made to appeal to older people, that older
00:39:14.160 people are the ones that are going to see that and go, oh, that's, look, isn't that silly and fun?
00:39:20.680 But as, as for appealing to younger people, it doesn't work at all. And yet they keep doing it.
00:39:26.380 And I hope they do. I hope they continue. This is a great strategy. Keep pursuing it.
00:39:31.340 Let's get to the comment section.
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00:40:49.280 Matt, today's opening reminds me of something that the late great Rush Limbaugh said when asked what he was
00:40:54.480 most proud of concerning his radio show. And that was the fact that all or most shows that were
00:40:58.380 successful were conservative, something he started. And with that fact, his show never lost popularity.
00:41:04.980 Yeah, there's no question that every successful right of center podcast owes a large debt of gratitude
00:41:08.800 to Rush Limbaugh. But this does again raise the question of why the right knows how to make a
00:41:16.520 successful podcast or news talk show and the left just doesn't. And this is something that goes back to
00:41:23.640 talk radio. This is the case back in the talk radio's heyday that almost all the successful
00:41:28.240 talk radio shows were conservative. Almost none of them were liberal. And now that podcasting is
00:41:34.980 very much supplanted talk radio, the same thing holds true even in the podcast era.
00:41:42.620 And it seems even more confusing when you consider that the left, they know how to make successful
00:41:48.980 films and TV shows and music. So they can do all that while the right historically has struggled
00:41:57.360 hugely in that regard with all three of those. So why is it that if the left, if they can,
00:42:07.540 not that I'm lamenting this fact at all, but if they know how to make a movie, they know how to make
00:42:11.200 a show, they know how to make music. These are all different forms of media, yes. But if they can do all
00:42:17.720 that, then you'd think making a podcast wouldn't be that difficult. Making a successful podcast,
00:42:21.800 you'd think they'd be able to do it. And they have so many of the famous people in their back pocket.
00:42:30.320 Most of the most famous people in the country are liberal because they're all in Hollywood. So why
00:42:35.600 can't you make a successful podcast? I think the answer is pretty simple. That conservative,
00:42:39.820 and this is maybe a bit trite, but I think it's true that conservative ideas appeal to the intellect,
00:42:46.240 right? They appeal to the rational mind, to the intellect. And that's what you're engaging when
00:42:52.500 you listen to a monologue or you listen to an in-depth conversation on Joe Rogan's show or wherever.
00:43:00.480 You're engaging your intellect. You're engaging your rational mind. Liberal ideas appeal to emotions,
00:43:07.240 and that's largely what's being engaged by films and shows and music in particular.
00:43:12.520 So I think that's why the dynamic is the way it is. I think that's why you have this kind of dividing
00:43:18.540 line. And I also think that it's why whichever side figures out how to cross that line,
00:43:27.240 that will be the side that will be in a position of cultural dominance for the next 25, 30 years.
00:43:35.740 So if the right can figure out, we know how to engage the mind. If we can figure out how to engage
00:43:43.360 emotionally also through these art forms, then we'll own everything. You know, we'll have all
00:43:52.640 these art forms, films, TV shows, music, and we'll have all the podcasts and talk shows and everything.
00:43:57.960 And then the entire culture is dominated by conservatives. Now, if on the other hand,
00:44:03.860 the left can figure out how to take this skill they have, I think it's a diminished skill,
00:44:09.500 but they still have this skill of creating films and TV shows and everything. And if they can figure
00:44:13.840 out how to apply some of that to podcasting and to commentary and to the talk show space,
00:44:20.700 then that will sort of seal the culture for them for the next 25 to 30 years. So I think that's
00:44:26.600 going to be the deciding factor here. Let's see. Damn, Matt, rich guy on podcast thinks poor people
00:44:35.380 should pay taxes. Great take. Well, I think everyone should pay income taxes or no one should.
00:44:40.600 That's my position. And I'd prefer that nobody does, to be entirely clear. I want no one to pay them. But
00:44:47.400 you know, I think that if some people are, then everybody shouldn't. I understand that this,
00:44:51.740 I understand that this loses me points in the populist contest. I get that. I don't care.
00:44:57.360 I had this same view when I was broke. I have it now when I'm not. My view on this has not changed.
00:45:04.880 It's always been the same. You can check me on that. I've always said this and it's not going to
00:45:11.260 change now. If this burden is being put on Americans to pay an income tax where the government
00:45:17.340 is coming in and taking your income from you before you even spend it, it is not fair. It is
00:45:23.920 immoral. It is wrong to put that burden on some Americans and not others. If this is part of being
00:45:34.520 an American, it shouldn't be. But if it is, then that is a cross that we all should have to carry.
00:45:39.700 Um, and, and by the way, if we ever want to actually get rid of the income tax, which is
00:45:47.040 what needs to happen, then, you know, cause there are some people that have said, and I think this
00:45:53.820 is the most rational argument for, for the people that are, this, this began with the conversation
00:45:57.960 about Trump's plan to basically abolish the income tax for anyone making under $150,000 a year.
00:46:03.460 My point was, no, I don't want to abolish it just for them. I want to abolish it for everybody.
00:46:06.980 But if we're going to have it, then everyone should have to pay it. And I think a, a reasonable
00:46:12.280 argument in favor of this is that, well, Hey, this is, this is a step. This is an incremental step.
00:46:17.980 And so let's get rid of the income tax for as many people as we can now, and then work our way
00:46:22.220 towards abolishing it completely. I understand that argument in theory, but I don't think it works that
00:46:26.920 way. I think that the more that the government can use it to choose winners and losers, the less
00:46:34.940 likely it is that we're ever going to get rid of it. Because if you're getting rid of it for certain
00:46:41.820 groups, then those groups don't care anymore. I mean, they're not going to be calling for the
00:46:45.060 abolition of the, of the income tax. So you get rid of the income tax for people under 150,000,
00:46:51.180 then that means that all those people, any, any hope of any kind of popular uprising against the
00:46:56.780 income tax is basically gone because a lot of the people that you need to be involved in that
00:47:01.920 movement don't care anymore because they're not paying it. And this, by the way, is one of the
00:47:08.560 reasons why, uh, the government likes to do this. They like to, they like to manipulate people using
00:47:15.540 the income tax. Uh, and this is why, this is one of the reasons why we don't have a flat tax
00:47:20.540 because if everyone is paying an equal amount, at least we're not an equal amount, but if everyone
00:47:25.460 was paying an equal percentage, then, uh, that just makes it all the more likely that people will
00:47:33.660 band together across party lines, even, and, and rise up against the income tax. It's just less
00:47:42.320 likely to happen. So let's see. I agree with you, Matt. Everyone should pay the same percentage of
00:47:49.020 their income equally, no matter tax bracket. And if it is this way with you paying your percentage,
00:47:54.520 it's also your right to vote. If you're not participating in society and cannot prove paying
00:47:58.620 taxes, you don't get to vote. Even if you're a citizen. Yeah. Somebody posted this on, on X as,
00:48:03.740 as a comment under one of my posts about it. I forget who posted it, but his point was that certain
00:48:08.020 people are being saddled with an incredibly disproportionate amount of the burden to fund
00:48:12.420 the government. And yet they don't get any more of a say over who runs the government.
00:48:16.580 And that is also unjust. If everyone has an equal vote, then everyone should pay an equal share of
00:48:25.540 the income tax. Again, if we have an income tax, um, because I'm pretty sure that nobody would support
00:48:36.760 the alternative, which is that, okay, fine. Not everyone has to pay the income tax, but if you don't
00:48:42.380 pay it, you don't get to vote. Um, and then what ends up happening is that people who are not,
00:48:49.520 and this is already the case now, but you've got people who can go and they can cast a vote
00:48:56.680 and they can decide how the money is being spent, but they're not paying into it.
00:49:02.420 So they get to have some say over the purse strings essentially, but they're not putting
00:49:08.420 anything into the purse. So they're voting for other people's money to be spent
00:49:14.200 on the things they want, but they are not putting money into it.
00:49:20.180 And, um, I don't know if, if we can call that system fair, then I think the word
00:49:25.600 fair just has lost all meaning in my mind. America is on the comeback, but the culture
00:49:31.400 war is not over. That's why we're releasing episode one of our series, the case for Derek
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00:49:57.660 slash subscribe. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:50:06.440 Today for our daily cancellation, we have another viral video that has, as they say,
00:50:11.260 sparked conversation. And the conversation in this case is even more inane and mind boggling
00:50:16.140 than usual. Before we get into any of that, let's start with the video. And what we're apparently
00:50:19.820 seeing here is doorbell camera footage of an Amazon driver venting her frustration at one
00:50:25.920 of her customers. And I say apparently because it's the internet and you always have to account
00:50:30.080 for the possibility that everything is fake. But even if it is fake, the reaction to the
00:50:34.820 video has revealed that the dumbifying of our culture is continuing at a record pace.
00:50:39.440 Here's a video.
00:50:41.440 I've been waiting on this day to tell you how much I hate this house. The waters, all the
00:50:51.980 to order, all of this. I hate it. I hate this house. I hate that you order. You are the laziest
00:50:58.820 house in this whole neighborhood. You're inconsiderate. You're full of. I hate everything about
00:51:06.440 y'all. I hate it. All you have to do is order the store from Walmart pickup or central pickup
00:51:11.980 or whatever and go put the shit in your own truck and go do it yourself. You are the laziest
00:51:17.260 sons of ever. And if people bring this shit, we break our backs, we break our necks, we break
00:51:21.840 our nails, we break everything to bring you this shit. If you're ungrateful to this, I hope
00:51:26.920 you know that.
00:51:33.920 Now, assuming again that this video is not staged, which we will assume for the sake of discussion,
00:51:56.900 we can see that the Amazon delivery driver is very upset at an Amazon customer for ordering
00:52:03.020 things to be delivered. This is a woman who went online and applied for a job as an Amazon
00:52:08.300 driver, waited for a callback, did at least one interview we can assume, took employee
00:52:14.000 training, went through the orientation process, went through the whole laborious process of
00:52:17.940 getting a job delivering packages only to then fly off the handle and have a temper tantrum
00:52:22.140 when she discovers that her job delivering packages would involve delivering packages.
00:52:27.580 Now, in a rational society, there wouldn't be much to talk about here. She is cussing out
00:52:31.860 a customer for using the service that she signed up to work for. She is angry because she has
00:52:38.080 to do the job she applied to do. So she is 100,000% in the wrong. She is completely and totally
00:52:46.880 out of line and she should be fired immediately. And I don't say that lightly, taking away someone's
00:52:51.600 job. But yeah, if you're treating customers like that, you need to be fired. And that's
00:52:57.360 what we would all say if we lived in a rational society. But we don't live in that kind of society,
00:53:01.760 which means that there have been many comments taking this driver's side somehow.
00:53:06.700 Let me read just a few of them. First one says,
00:53:11.140 Nah, I've seen people order stuff all day just to have it delivered. They're home and just being
00:53:15.680 lazy. I've seen houses with Amazon, Instacart, Uber Eats all delivering at the same time. And
00:53:20.880 they've been home all day doing nothing. So I understand that it's this Amazon driver. People
00:53:24.380 take advantage of it from ordering water and it's heavy as F. Another one says,
00:53:30.840 As a former delivery driver, I agree with her. Stop ordering 12 cases of water, dog food,
00:53:35.060 and cat food. Unless you're elderly or disabled, go to the grocery store like everyone else.
00:53:41.340 Another one says, Replies in here remind me of how people used to make arguments for how slaves
00:53:45.540 got jobs and were fed. Stop being lazy and go get your own stuff. This lady is dropping off 12
00:53:50.680 boxes to a rich upper middle class house. She's right. People are the worst. Sorry, Matt, I'm taking
00:53:56.440 her side on this one. I despise these people who order everything online. Online order does have its
00:54:01.920 downsides like making people more lazier and isolated, very inhuman. No, y'all really be
00:54:08.380 crappy customers point blank. Y'all think because someone signed up for that job, this is what they
00:54:13.380 should expect, especially the mother effers that don't want you to park in the driveway or walk in
00:54:18.000 the grass, inconsiderate as F. That's just a sample. Their argument, if you can call it an argument,
00:54:25.080 is that people are lazy and they order too many things to be delivered. Now this is fine and mostly
00:54:32.960 true as a general observation of American culture. We could talk about the value of having everything
00:54:40.600 delivered, not leaving your house. Is that good for society? Is that good for a person? Fine, but it
00:54:47.440 doesn't make sense as a complaint from a delivery driver. You cannot complain about consumer habits
00:54:54.580 that keep you employed. You certainly can't complain about them to the consumers themselves.
00:55:02.280 I mean, it's like if I walked into Cold Stone Creamery and the guy behind the counter screamed at me
00:55:06.300 for buying sugary junk food. And he screamed, what do you want? Are you here for ice cream? Is that
00:55:11.780 what you want, you big fatty? I mean, yes, he'd be correct that the food is sugary and unhealthy,
00:55:18.940 but the problem is that his whole job is to serve sugary, unhealthy food. If you really object to it
00:55:25.240 that much, get another job. If you've chosen a livelihood that depends on customers using a certain
00:55:31.220 good or service, you cannot resent the customers who use that good or service. Or at least if you do
00:55:37.760 resent them, keep it to yourself and find a new job. Now, as customers, of course, we've grown accustomed
00:55:46.040 to this attitude from the representatives of the businesses that we patronize. To participate in
00:55:51.500 the modern economy is to be treated like absolute filth by the people whose wages you are subsidizing.
00:55:57.200 I mean, we're all so used to this. It's like Stockholm syndrome as customers. We've grown so used to it,
00:56:04.360 you don't even complain about it anymore. When your customer service treats you like total dirt.
00:56:10.220 They hate you. They hate your guts. They hate everything about you. They're not even trying
00:56:13.840 to hide it. And as customers, we all just walk around like, okay, yeah, I deserve it. You're right.
00:56:20.160 How dare I? I mean, I saw the sign said open. And so I came in because the store exists and it's open
00:56:28.160 and I need stuff that's inside the store. And so that's why I'm here, but I'm so sorry. Nevermind.
00:56:33.320 Nevermind. Customer service is abysmal. It's never been worse. It basically no longer exists.
00:56:42.480 As a customer, you are constantly encountering customer service representatives who openly despise
00:56:47.180 you for purchasing a product or service from them. They signed up to do a job, but they hate you for
00:56:53.300 making them actually do it. Because in their ideal world, apparently, the company they work for
00:57:00.220 would get no business. And yet they would stay employed indefinitely and even get regular raises.
00:57:08.680 If they have to actually do anything at their job, they feel persecuted.
00:57:13.040 But if there's nothing to do because the business dries up and they lose their jobs,
00:57:16.780 they'll also feel persecuted. If Amazon customers heeded that delivery driver's demands
00:57:23.040 and stopped constantly ordering stuff online, it would mean that thousands, thousands of Amazon
00:57:30.420 drivers would be laid off immediately. People like that who order everything online, they get multiple
00:57:36.260 deliveries a day. Those people are keeping thousands of these drivers employed. If they stopped doing
00:57:44.260 that, they would all be laid off. And she would certainly be one of them if she hasn't been fired
00:57:50.040 already. And then she'd be back on camera angrily ranting about how she lost her job.
00:57:55.760 So she wants to have her cake and eat it and then complain that she's eating it and then complain
00:58:00.020 when someone takes it away so that she can't eat it. This attitude and the prevalence of this attitude
00:58:06.820 seems confusing until you realize what lies at the bottom of it. Underneath all of the people
00:58:10.900 bitterly complaining about having to do a job they signed up to do is something that we've talked
00:58:15.520 about a lot on this show, namely a denial of the necessity and inevitability of work.
00:58:21.180 This is a common attitude shared by many people today. Fundamentally, they believe that they
00:58:25.540 shouldn't have to work at all. And that's why they have this attitude. On the show, we've reacted to
00:58:31.820 many videos of people making exactly this claim explicitly. They believe that they are actually
00:58:36.440 entitled to do no work of any kind and yet still magically somehow have the money and resources
00:58:41.580 to live comfortably and carefree forever. The Amazon driver is angry about doing the job she
00:58:46.960 applied to do because it is a job. She would be angry about any job, right? That's the thing.
00:58:54.460 We all know that too. It's not that, well, she feels this way because Amazon drivers are treated
00:59:00.800 poorly. We all know that if she gets another job somewhere else, she'll have exactly that attitude
00:59:05.800 anywhere, anywhere in any job at any salary level. We all know that. And that's why she sees no point
00:59:14.280 in quitting and finding something else because if it's a job that requires her to do something,
00:59:20.000 she will hate it. Because what she really wants to do and what she feels entitled to do is nothing,
00:59:26.340 nothing at all. She wants to do nothing and still survive and even thrive, but she can't.
00:59:32.300 And that's what makes her angry. And this is why it's so important to instill in our children a
00:59:39.100 simple truth from an early age, that you will work. Everyone must work. You must do some kind
00:59:44.540 of work. All human life is, always has been, and always will be sustained through work. That doesn't
00:59:49.420 always mean you have to have a nine to five job and a W-2. If you're a woman, maybe you'll marry a man
00:59:54.380 who's willing and able to be the breadwinner. But even then, you have to work still, take care of the
00:59:58.720 house, take care of the kids. That's work. Everyone has to work. And if you refuse, you will
01:00:04.540 either die or you'll be a leech living off of the work of others. Even then, work is still sustaining
01:00:10.860 you. It's just that you're not taking part in the work that makes your life possible, which is
01:00:15.420 dehumanizing both to you and to the people that you're forcing to work on your behalf.
01:00:20.840 Now, I've given this speech many times on the show. You can only imagine how many times I've given it
01:00:24.580 to my own kids. And that's because I don't want them to end up dejected and resentful and whiny
01:00:30.420 like the woman in that video. The way to avoid that is to drill it into their minds that life is work.
01:00:36.340 Life requires work. Work sustains life. And therefore, work is good. You may as well just accept it and be
01:00:44.060 happy about it. Because even if you don't accept it and aren't happy about it, it will still be the
01:00:48.340 case. You will not escape this reality. You will just be miserable within this reality.
01:00:55.660 And you'll still be working. Just working badly and sadly. And that's the road that this delivery
01:01:02.740 driver has chosen. And that is why she is today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks
01:01:08.700 for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.
01:01:18.340 Can I hopefully have a great day. Godspeed.
01:01:23.980 Godspeed.
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