The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1574 - Congress Needs To Act On This Very Important Issue Right Now

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the Trump administration has been doing quite a lot over its first three months in office.

00:00:04.260 Now we need Congress to pass laws codifying all the things that Trump has done.

00:00:08.440 So why isn't that happening? Where is Congress?

00:00:10.640 Also, the House did succeed in passing an election integrity bill called the SAVE Act.

00:00:14.960 The Democrats say this bill will make it almost impossible for married women to vote.

00:00:19.560 How could that possibly be the case?

00:00:21.200 Tim Pool upsets many conservatives with his take on the Austin Metcalf murder.

00:00:24.820 We'll listen to his case and evaluate.

00:00:26.340 Anyway, the governor of Colorado just signed a bill effectively abolishing the Second Amendment in the state.

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00:02:12.420 Here's a headline that, if you've been making car insurance payments over the last few years, might seem pretty hard to believe.

00:02:18.260 It turns out that average auto insurance premiums actually declined in March month over month.

00:02:23.860 Yes, for many people, premiums have gotten cheaper even as car prices have remained high.

00:02:29.040 Inflation has seemingly been defeated, at least in this particular industry and in this one context.

00:02:34.880 The declines were particularly steep in Florida, where insurers like Geico, Progressive, and State Farm are cutting rates by as much as 10%.

00:02:41.640 But there's no question that this is a nationwide phenomenon.

00:02:44.360 Insurance rates are down by roughly 1% across the board, which might not sound like a lot.

00:02:47.760 But it's a big difference from the typical double-digit increases that we've been seeing lately.

00:02:52.760 When you go from 15-point average increases to a 1% decrease, you're saving a lot of money, relatively speaking.

00:02:58.600 So why is this happening exactly?

00:03:00.700 Well, if you ask 10 different people, and you'll probably get 10 different answers, as with anything else, and all the answers might be right, at least partially.

00:03:08.540 But here's one theory.

00:03:09.980 It could be that insurance rates are going down because our roads are getting a little bit safer.

00:03:16.320 And maybe our roads are getting safer because two grand left-wing experiments, the BLM de-policing movement and the Open Borders agenda, have both finally come to an end, or at least are coming to an end.

00:03:29.760 Each of these movements clearly made driving significantly more dangerous in their own way.

00:03:34.180 Beginning in 2020, of course, BLM convinced police departments to stop enforcing laws, including traffic laws.

00:03:40.280 And the effect was immediate.

00:03:41.620 By one estimate, 35% more black people died in motor vehicle accidents in 2021 as compared with 2019.

00:03:48.380 In other words, a lot of black motorists suddenly realized that they could drive however they wanted because they'd no longer be pulled over for supposedly, quote-unquote, driving while black,

00:03:56.480 which was something that was totally imagined the entire time.

00:03:59.760 And some took full advantage of the situation.

00:04:02.980 Insurance companies had to deal with the carnage that followed.

00:04:05.120 And along the same lines, as we've discussed before, the flood of illegal aliens into this country under the Biden administration

00:04:11.360 has led to a lot of drunk driving collisions, which have wiped out entire families in some cases.

00:04:17.540 Many of these illegal aliens don't have driver's license, and they've refused to obey the rules of the road.

00:04:22.720 In the tiny town of Springfield, for example, one resident recently estimated that she sees 8 to 10 traffic accidents per day.

00:04:31.100 Haitian migrants, which now make up around one-third of the population in that town, routinely drive into buildings and onto sidewalks.

00:04:39.360 They've mowed down children and elderly women with total impunity.

00:04:42.100 One of these Haitian migrants ran over Kathy Heaton, a 71-year-old grandmother, while she was collecting her garbage cans.

00:04:48.320 She died in the street, and the impact was so severe that her socks were literally knocked off of her feet.

00:04:56.320 The driver, by the way, was not prosecuted.

00:04:59.060 And this era of impunity, though, is now coming to an end.

00:05:03.060 Police departments are no longer being overrun with BLM mobs.

00:05:06.340 Border security is being enforced again.

00:05:08.820 The result is that the prices that American citizens have to pay, both in terms of dollar amounts and lives that are lost, are coming down.

00:05:15.640 And it turns out that when you have a society that enforces laws, people benefit in many different ways.

00:05:21.800 The White House seems to understand this, and that's why every other day we're hearing about a new plan to reduce the cost of these kinds of externalities for Americans.

00:05:29.060 Here's the latest example.

00:05:30.220 The New York Times is now reporting that the Trump administration is canceling the Social Security numbers of foreign nationals who, for one reason or another, were allowed into this country during Joe Biden's presidency.

00:05:40.840 Quote, the Trump administration has moved aggressively to revoke the temporary legal status of thousands of, hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were allowed into the country under President Biden.

00:05:49.960 Now the administration is taking drastic steps to pressure some of those immigrants and others who had legal status to self-deport by effectively canceling the Social Security numbers.

00:05:59.060 They had lawfully obtained.

00:06:00.800 The goal is to cut those people off from using crucial financial services like bank accounts and credit cards along with their access to government benefits.

00:06:07.200 Close quote.

00:06:08.540 According to the Times, thousands of convicted criminals and suspected terrorists are among the foreign nationals who just had their Social Security numbers revoked.

00:06:16.640 Apparently, the Biden administration provided convicted criminals and suspected terrorists with Social Security numbers so that they could obtain government benefits.

00:06:24.520 Since the Biden administration determined that this course of action was preferable to just deporting these people or throwing them in prison.

00:06:31.900 And now the Trump administration is trying to change that policy.

00:06:34.800 Again, this will have the effect of reducing payments by taxpayers to people who shouldn't even be here.

00:06:39.840 It will also make our roads and our communities a lot safer in all likelihood.

00:06:42.740 More than anything else, this is what Americans voted for in the last election.

00:06:46.680 If Republicans are going to remain in power in Washington, if they're going to avoid a Democrat takeover of Congress in the midterms next year, then this kind of thing has to continue.

00:06:56.920 And more importantly, Congress has to start supporting it.

00:07:00.600 That's how we can ensure that the cost of living will continue dropping.

00:07:04.100 A large part of the equation is reducing government spending, which Congress, of course, is supposed to control.

00:07:11.500 As we all know, when the government spends trillions of dollars every year, that money is either coming from taxpayers or it's being printed and borrowed, which reduces the value of the money that we're all holding.

00:07:21.660 Either way, we're losing a lot of money in the process.

00:07:23.480 And at the moment, it appears that a small contingent of Republican lawmakers in Congress recognize that this arrangement needs to change, at least to some degree.

00:07:32.060 And they just held out for assurances that the next spending bill will slash $1.5 trillion from the budget.

00:07:39.580 After a lot of hand-rigging, they apparently received those assurances.

00:07:43.740 Watch.

00:07:43.980 Yesterday is that there was a group of conservative lawmakers who want deeper cuts to government spending than which was originally proposed in the framework.

00:07:57.160 So they essentially got those reassurances from Senate and House leaders that there would be more government spending cuts, $1.5 trillion to be exact.

00:08:09.260 Now comes the hard part, Mugo.

00:08:12.700 If this was difficult just to get to this point, you can imagine how much more difficult this is going to be moving forward,

00:08:20.180 because now they actually have to craft legislation and policy, expanding the president's tax cuts,

00:08:27.360 maybe introducing more tax incentives, like no tax on tips, for example,

00:08:32.160 line items related to funding immigration reform that the president wants.

00:08:39.300 But most importantly, the trick here is going to be finding where to find that $1.0 trillion in savings,

00:08:48.140 because up here on Capitol Hill, savings means spending cuts, and those cuts will have to come from somewhere.

00:08:55.580 So there were two plans here for a spending bill to fund the government.

00:08:58.920 The Senate plan, which passed over the weekend, would only reduce the deficit by around $4 billion,

00:09:04.560 which is basically nothing compared to the new House framework, which demands a minimum of $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction.

00:09:13.100 But here's the problem.

00:09:14.060 Even this new framework isn't binding.

00:09:15.880 It just sets a broad outline for future negotiations between the House and Senate, which still need to finalize a budget.

00:09:21.880 And several members of Congress, most notably Thomas Massey of Kentucky,

00:09:25.180 believe that this deal is worth about as much as the paper it's printed on.

00:09:29.400 Thomas Massey has been in office for more than a decade now.

00:09:31.800 He understands how Congress works.

00:09:33.580 And he knows that, you know, it's one thing for lawmakers to promise spending cuts,

00:09:37.040 but it's a completely different matter for them to agree on a bill that actually cuts spending.

00:09:41.500 So here's what Massey told a reporter after the framework was announced.

00:09:45.380 Listen.

00:09:46.640 What'd he get?

00:09:48.140 Some promises.

00:09:49.240 Okay.

00:09:50.360 Wait for him.

00:09:51.080 Were you surprised that some of your members went along with some promises, assurances from this speaker?

00:09:56.940 Nope.

00:09:57.580 I knew all along they would trade the cow for magic beans.

00:10:01.140 And these beans are like the rest.

00:10:02.680 They don't sprout.

00:10:04.360 I mean, they seem convinced that they'll get $1.5 trillion in spending cuts.

00:10:10.520 You don't buy it?

00:10:11.760 No.

00:10:12.720 Not that.

00:10:15.140 Okay.

00:10:15.800 We'll see.

00:10:16.560 We'll see how it all works out.

00:10:17.220 I mean, are you worried that your party's not focused on prices enough, given how big the issue was?

00:10:21.420 What I'm worried about is that the House is not consummating what President Trump is trying to do.

00:10:26.540 Like the doge cuts, why aren't we voting on those every week?

00:10:31.300 We should be doing rescissions or something.

00:10:34.960 But I suppose we don't want to take recorded votes on things.

00:10:39.940 I mean, like on the tariffs, we should be voting on that.

00:10:42.240 We're not voting on that.

00:10:43.260 Now, what's surprising here isn't anything Thomas Massey's saying.

00:10:47.760 What's surprising is that so few Republicans in Congress are agreeing with him.

00:10:53.680 The reasons that voters elected Republicans to control both chambers of Congress along with the White House

00:10:58.760 is that they want government spending and the cost of living to come down.

00:11:03.080 It's one of the top issues in every exit poll.

00:11:05.980 And now that Donald Trump is doing that or attempting to do it, Congress is refusing to codify any of his cuts into law.

00:11:12.680 So if a Democrat becomes president, he could override all these doge cuts in a day one executive order.

00:11:19.800 And by the way, no matter what you think of Trump's tariffs, Massey makes a good point there too.

00:11:24.020 Why hasn't Congress held a vote on them?

00:11:26.300 Tariffs are a form of taxation.

00:11:27.680 They have the potential to significantly raise the cost of goods in the United States, among other effects.

00:11:32.000 Under the Constitution, Congress has the power to tax.

00:11:34.500 And even if you approve of the tariffs, you should still want Congress to vote on them

00:11:39.140 for the simple reason that they'll be harder to overturn in a future administration.

00:11:44.000 On the other hand, if you're skeptical of tariffs, a congressional vote would allow for a full debate on the issue.

00:11:49.100 So either way, Congress should be taking action.

00:11:51.540 And no matter how you feel about the subject, you should agree with that

00:11:54.720 instead of just having unilateral announcements from the White House, which don't allow for this debate.

00:12:02.520 And also mean, again, that all that stuff can just be overturned in five seconds by the next White House.

00:12:09.680 But the GOP leadership in Congress hasn't displayed any interest in holding a vote on tariffs.

00:12:14.740 In fact, they've blocked a vote on the topic.

00:12:16.280 And they haven't held votes on the doge cuts or any other significant spending cuts.

00:12:20.700 In fact, they still haven't reined in any of the trillion dollars worth of spending in the so-called Inflation Reduction Act,

00:12:27.240 which was full of giveaways to environmentalist groups and NGOs and a million other places.

00:12:32.920 Why exactly hasn't any of the waste there been rolled back?

00:12:36.460 Why is no one bothering to even talk about it?

00:12:39.780 Really, Congress has not codified any of Trump's executive orders at all,

00:12:43.200 which means that they're all susceptible to being overturned with the stroke of a pen by the next president,

00:12:48.860 if it's a Democrat.

00:12:50.720 So where is Congress on that?

00:12:53.100 Now, when it comes to spending, if you ask Missouri Congressman Eric Burleson,

00:12:56.540 a member of the House Freedom Caucus, he'll say that Republicans aren't actually serious about cutting spending.

00:13:01.600 Like Massey, he thinks that the spending cuts will never actually happen.

00:13:04.940 Here's what he said, quote,

00:13:06.160 I think this town has got a lot of snakes in the grass who don't want to accomplish it.

00:13:09.880 But in any way that they can, that they're going to stop it from happening.

00:13:13.900 And I want to ensure that we don't end up in a place where we let the president down in that regard, close quote.

00:13:18.860 Whatever Donald Trump makes of the deal at the moment, it looks like Republican voters might be let down.

00:13:24.320 We're talking about raising the debt ceiling by a historic amount

00:13:27.600 and potentially spending more than the Biden administration ever did.

00:13:30.540 And we're doing it at a time when we're initiating a broader trade war,

00:13:34.380 which means that we'll have less access to money to borrow,

00:13:37.280 which is not a recipe for a stable economic situation going forward.

00:13:40.960 In separate interviews, Thomas Massey and Congressman Jody Arrington of Texas

00:13:44.940 outline what's at stake here.

00:13:47.180 Watch.

00:13:48.520 This is a framework for financial collapse of our country is what this is.

00:13:52.220 This is a framework for the biggest deficit increase in the history of Congress.

00:13:56.880 That's what this framework is.

00:13:58.300 There could have been promises to cut spending, but there were not.

00:14:02.640 The full America First agenda is not just cutting taxes and other pro-growth policies

00:14:08.000 like unleashing American energy prevention.

00:14:10.820 It's not just simply giving the president more research for border security

00:14:16.080 and strengthening our defense.

00:14:18.480 I would say most importantly, it's putting our nation on a path to balance

00:14:24.140 because if we bankrupt this country, nothing else matters.

00:14:28.300 Now, even if you listen to that rhetoric and you think that it's overblown or whatever

00:14:32.640 or that there's really no cause for concern, the fundamental point remains.

00:14:36.860 Republicans ran on a platform that involved lowering the cost of living,

00:14:39.600 which includes lowering taxes and government spending.

00:14:41.880 If Republicans cannot deliver on that very simple promise,

00:14:44.940 if they cannot deliver on it in Congress, they will not be in power for very long.

00:14:49.740 And they will be replaced by a party that's even more committed to more taxes

00:14:53.880 and more government spending.

00:14:55.700 This particular spending bill won't be finalized for several weeks in all likelihood.

00:14:59.960 Between now and then and the moment that this legislation is finalized,

00:15:02.980 it's hard to imagine that anything in Congress is more important

00:15:06.220 than holding GOP leadership to their promise on these spending cuts

00:15:09.460 and pushing them further for as many cuts as possible.

00:15:13.020 If Republicans and their voters stay focused on that goal,

00:15:15.700 they will have achieved something that the party has promised for decades

00:15:20.040 but never come close to delivering or even really tried to deliver.

00:15:23.920 They will have permanently reduced the size of the American government

00:15:26.460 for the benefit of everybody living in this country.

00:15:29.320 The White House is clearly committed to that goal.

00:15:31.360 Now it's time for every Republican in Congress,

00:15:33.420 not just Thomas Massey and a few others, to follow suit.

00:15:37.920 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:16:42.900 Well, here's something that Congress did achieve, or at least the House.

00:16:47.020 The House just passed an election integrity bill called the SAVE Act,

00:16:51.840 which is designed to make sure that only U.S. citizens are voting in U.S. elections.

00:16:56.040 Imagine that.

00:16:57.660 Now, as you can also imagine, the left is not very happy.

00:17:01.720 The media is not happy.

00:17:03.240 The idea of doing anything to protect our elections

00:17:05.500 and make sure that only people who should be voting are voting,

00:17:08.640 that's very offensive to the left.

00:17:09.880 So they had to find some kind of narrative here.

00:17:13.820 And the narrative that they're going with is that this bill will prevent or make it difficult

00:17:19.600 for married women to vote somehow.

00:17:24.300 Tons of headlines like this one from the New Republic.

00:17:27.000 Four Democrats passed bill making it harder for married women to vote.

00:17:30.800 So that's the point of the bill, you would think, if you read a lot of these headlines,

00:17:35.780 that Republicans are conspiring with a couple of Democrat Judases

00:17:39.700 to make sure that married women can't vote.

00:17:44.040 That's like the Republican grand conspiracy.

00:17:46.120 Even though that wouldn't even make sense as a Republican conspiracy,

00:17:49.440 married women vote Republican by and large.

00:17:52.000 So if Republicans were going to conspire to prevent a certain demographic of women from voting,

00:17:58.260 it would be young, single women.

00:18:00.800 Those are the ones that if you're going to conspire,

00:18:03.440 like those are the ones you want to conspire against.

00:18:06.460 So it doesn't make any sense.

00:18:09.700 But this is what the media is saying.

00:18:11.560 Here's a Newsweek headline.

00:18:14.020 Does the SAVE Act stop married women from voting?

00:18:17.440 Here's what to know.

00:18:18.400 I'm reading a little bit from the article.

00:18:20.460 It says,

00:18:20.660 The Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility SAVE Act

00:18:24.020 is a bill that will require all people registering to vote

00:18:26.960 to bring proof of citizenship in person to a voter registration site.

00:18:31.280 It eliminates voters' ability to register to vote by mail or online.

00:18:35.360 Supporters of the bill will say that it eliminates non-citizen voting.

00:18:39.800 The chapters say that multiple studies have found no evidence of widespread voter fraud

00:18:43.900 and that this will only make voting harder for citizens.

00:18:48.400 Will the SAVE Act stop married women from voting?

00:18:50.740 Not directly.

00:18:52.180 However, it will make it harder for 69 million married women

00:18:55.200 whose names do not match their birth certificates

00:18:57.660 to register to vote in the first place.

00:19:00.060 Married women can bring their passports instead,

00:19:02.300 but more than 146 million Americans do not have a passport

00:19:04.960 and may not have $130 to spare to purchase one.

00:19:09.620 Passports also take time to be delivered,

00:19:11.440 which many people may not have

00:19:13.360 if they are registering to vote close to their state's deadlines.

00:19:15.840 Okay, so does this stop married women from voting?

00:19:21.880 Well, only if the married women in question are so incompetent

00:19:27.620 that they can't figure out how to obtain a passport

00:19:30.640 over the course of the next three years

00:19:32.960 for the next presidential election or even for the midterms.

00:19:37.780 You know, you still have until next year to figure this thing out.

00:19:40.540 And if it does prevent those kinds of women from voting,

00:19:47.600 the ones who can't figure out,

00:19:50.060 like starting now, you've got a lot of notice here

00:19:53.420 that you need to go get a passport

00:19:55.440 if your name doesn't match your birth certificate.

00:19:59.180 And if there are any married women

00:20:04.720 who are totally flummoxed by that

00:20:07.000 and can't figure out how to get a passport,

00:20:10.520 even given years' notice,

00:20:13.920 and they're prevented from voting,

00:20:15.480 then that's good because these are incompetent,

00:20:18.200 stupid people who should not be voting.

00:20:21.020 If you're someone who cannot obtain a passport

00:20:23.240 in three years to vote in the next presidential election,

00:20:25.760 then we don't need you voting.

00:20:28.420 It's better that you don't.

00:20:31.580 But in spite of this fact,

00:20:32.640 in spite of the fact that like 170 million Americans

00:20:35.280 have passports,

00:20:36.320 so it's obviously not that hard to get one,

00:20:39.360 the Democrats are still telling us

00:20:41.000 that this requirement is effectively a ban

00:20:43.260 on married women voting.

00:20:46.140 Eric Swalwell says that,

00:20:48.080 he says it's impossible.

00:20:49.740 It's making it impossible for these women to vote.

00:20:53.940 Here's Eric Swalwell.

00:20:55.760 Congressman.

00:20:56.880 Hey, what's happening?

00:20:57.540 You're everywhere, man.

00:20:58.260 Yeah.

00:20:58.800 What the f*** is going on with the SAVE Act?

00:21:00.940 Oh, you mean the Save the Republicans Ass Act?

00:21:04.180 It's the only way they can win elections

00:21:05.660 is by making it absolutely impossible

00:21:08.020 for people to vote.

00:21:09.620 The SAVE Act would make it impossible.

00:21:12.580 It would be a ban on married women from voting.

00:21:15.520 Why?

00:21:16.300 Because it would require you

00:21:18.000 to have your birth certificate

00:21:19.580 to prove who you are to go and vote.

00:21:22.200 Well, married women who changed their name,

00:21:23.820 they're not going to have a document

00:21:25.240 that shows that.

00:21:26.160 So it's crazy.

00:21:27.820 It's just another way to obstruct people

00:21:29.700 from going to the ballot box.

00:21:31.560 All it does is save Republicans.

00:21:33.160 It doesn't save our democracy.

00:21:36.040 Every part of that is just false.

00:21:38.880 It could be completely invented.

00:21:41.940 Number one, again,

00:21:43.160 it would not save the Republicans' asses

00:21:45.440 to stop married women from voting.

00:21:47.340 Married women vote Republican.

00:21:48.560 Number two, more importantly,

00:21:52.060 he says it's impossible,

00:21:54.340 impossible for a married woman

00:21:56.920 who has changed her last name to vote,

00:22:01.160 even though, again,

00:22:02.060 you could get a passport.

00:22:05.120 But he says that's impossible.

00:22:06.760 It's impossible to do.

00:22:07.780 Did you know that?

00:22:08.320 It's impossible to get a passport.

00:22:10.580 You can't do it.

00:22:12.500 No one can do it.

00:22:13.580 No one's ever done it.

00:22:14.960 Nobody in this country has a passport.

00:22:16.360 I mean, I thought 160 million people do,

00:22:18.000 but apparently not.

00:22:21.780 I thought that I had a passport,

00:22:23.760 but I guess I don't

00:22:25.540 because it's impossible.

00:22:27.260 It's a figment of my imagination.

00:22:32.000 Again, if anyone finds

00:22:33.580 this very minimal barrier to entry

00:22:35.720 impossible to overcome,

00:22:37.220 then that is someone who is too stupid

00:22:40.100 and too incompetent to vote

00:22:41.480 in the first place.

00:22:43.300 You know, this idea that everyone

00:22:44.660 not only has the right to vote,

00:22:46.360 but has the right to vote

00:22:47.300 without having to expend any energy

00:22:49.160 or put in any effort whatsoever

00:22:50.820 is just pure nonsense.

00:22:52.140 It also contradicts

00:22:53.080 what we hear all the time

00:22:54.900 about how, you know,

00:22:57.140 voting is a sacred duty.

00:23:00.500 It's this mystical responsibility,

00:23:02.480 we're always told.

00:23:03.440 It's your civic duty.

00:23:05.800 Well, that's true.

00:23:06.480 If it's our civic duty,

00:23:07.460 then doesn't that mean

00:23:08.400 that we also have the duty

00:23:09.380 to put in the minimal amount of effort

00:23:10.780 to verify our identity

00:23:11.920 before we vote?

00:23:13.420 I mean, if we're already

00:23:14.420 talking about voting

00:23:15.500 in terms of duty,

00:23:16.740 in terms of civic duty,

00:23:17.920 of civic responsibility,

00:23:19.200 then wouldn't this be part of it?

00:23:23.280 I also love it when they talk about

00:23:24.880 the cost of getting an ID,

00:23:27.860 getting a passport,

00:23:28.620 in this case, $130.

00:23:30.640 But what if somebody can't afford it?

00:23:34.140 You can't afford $130.

00:23:35.760 Again, you have multiple years' notice

00:23:37.600 to save up.

00:23:38.420 I think, like, anyone can afford that.

00:23:42.060 If it's important to you,

00:23:44.500 if it's important to you,

00:23:46.420 and you have three years

00:23:49.560 to save your money

00:23:51.460 and scrounge together

00:23:53.060 the money to get a passport,

00:23:54.800 if it's important enough to you,

00:23:56.080 you can do that.

00:23:58.060 But also,

00:23:59.580 the government

00:24:00.240 takes from us

00:24:02.420 way more than $130

00:24:04.480 every year.

00:24:05.600 So we're worried about $130.

00:24:08.620 Well, I mean,

00:24:09.540 we're talking about married women here.

00:24:11.420 So the average American family

00:24:14.020 pays $18,000

00:24:16.160 in taxes every year.

00:24:17.600 That's federal,

00:24:18.420 state,

00:24:18.840 local,

00:24:19.340 combined.

00:24:20.640 And that's just the income tax.

00:24:21.760 We're not talking about

00:24:22.620 property tax.

00:24:23.320 We're not talking about

00:24:23.820 sales tax.

00:24:24.440 We're not talking about

00:24:25.080 tolls and fines

00:24:26.640 and speeding tickets

00:24:27.460 and on and on and on.

00:24:28.160 So it's actually a lot more than that.

00:24:29.260 But $18,000

00:24:30.380 just for income tax,

00:24:31.680 and that's only the average.

00:24:32.720 Some of us pay

00:24:34.020 way more than that.

00:24:35.960 So

00:24:36.160 the Democrats are worried

00:24:38.140 that American families

00:24:39.120 can't afford $130

00:24:40.220 every 10 years

00:24:42.100 to get a passport,

00:24:44.540 while at the same time,

00:24:46.520 you're already taking on,

00:24:49.240 you're taking an average

00:24:50.920 of $18,000

00:24:51.720 every year from us.

00:24:53.080 So here's an idea.

00:24:54.480 Cut taxes.

00:24:56.560 Cut them by even a small amount,

00:24:58.480 and you'll free up

00:25:00.520 a lot more

00:25:01.300 than $130

00:25:02.220 for all of us.

00:25:05.240 But just don't

00:25:06.200 tell me

00:25:07.100 that you're worried

00:25:07.680 that families

00:25:08.420 can't afford $130

00:25:09.600 while you're already

00:25:11.380 taking $18,000

00:25:13.040 on average

00:25:14.100 every single year

00:25:15.080 from

00:25:16.140 American taxpayers.

00:25:18.580 By the way,

00:25:19.260 you could just make

00:25:19.920 passports cheaper.

00:25:21.740 I mean,

00:25:21.900 the government is what,

00:25:23.300 the government controls

00:25:24.540 the fees

00:25:25.560 for getting a passport.

00:25:26.400 basically arbitrary,

00:25:29.200 so you could just

00:25:29.920 make it cheaper.

00:25:30.660 You could do that.

00:25:34.080 And

00:25:34.320 you know,

00:25:35.940 all of this,

00:25:36.540 I mean,

00:25:37.200 all of this to me

00:25:38.000 is irrelevant anyway

00:25:39.100 because you guys know

00:25:39.880 where I stand on this.

00:25:41.020 I

00:25:41.420 I don't think

00:25:43.820 that this makes

00:25:44.400 voting difficult

00:25:45.360 at all for anybody,

00:25:46.560 but even if it did,

00:25:49.160 you know,

00:25:49.920 my take on it

00:25:50.700 is that

00:25:51.160 I want to make voting

00:25:53.140 a lot harder

00:25:54.020 and a lot less accessible.

00:25:55.480 So when I hear

00:25:56.140 about a bill that,

00:25:57.240 oh,

00:25:57.340 this is going to make

00:25:57.820 voting less accessible,

00:25:59.240 I think,

00:26:00.580 great.

00:26:01.420 And then I'm always

00:26:02.260 disappointed

00:26:02.780 because it's not true.

00:26:04.800 When I hear about,

00:26:05.900 oh,

00:26:06.080 the Republicans

00:26:06.540 have finally passed

00:26:07.340 a bill that's going

00:26:07.860 to make voting

00:26:08.760 almost impossible.

00:26:11.220 And I hear that

00:26:11.960 and I go,

00:26:12.600 finally,

00:26:13.780 finally,

00:26:14.560 great.

00:26:15.840 You know,

00:26:16.120 we finally have

00:26:16.700 a bill in place

00:26:17.400 that's going to stop

00:26:18.220 like 70% of the people

00:26:20.260 currently voting

00:26:20.900 from voting.

00:26:21.400 Sounds good to me.

00:26:22.380 but then I look

00:26:25.920 into it

00:26:26.300 and that's not the case.

00:26:27.880 I mean,

00:26:28.060 they make it sound like,

00:26:28.920 you know what,

00:26:29.220 there's going to be

00:26:29.660 one voting location

00:26:31.300 per,

00:26:32.900 like,

00:26:35.040 per state

00:26:35.900 and it's going to be

00:26:37.800 at the top

00:26:38.320 of a mountain

00:26:39.420 that you have to climb

00:26:41.220 and deliver your ballot

00:26:43.340 in person

00:26:44.040 and then when you get

00:26:44.620 to the top

00:26:45.060 of the mountain,

00:26:45.760 there's going to be

00:26:46.780 a drawbridge

00:26:47.680 and a moat

00:26:48.780 filled with crocodiles

00:26:50.020 and there's going

00:26:50.460 to be one guy

00:26:51.300 standing at the drawbridge

00:26:53.780 and he's going

00:26:55.320 to have three riddles

00:26:56.180 and you have to get

00:26:56.620 all three of them right

00:26:57.600 or you'll be thrown

00:26:59.380 into the alligator moat.

00:27:01.500 That's what they make

00:27:02.120 it sound like.

00:27:02.540 It sounds like

00:27:03.660 that's what voting

00:27:04.260 is going to be,

00:27:04.740 which again,

00:27:05.700 sounds good to me.

00:27:06.940 I mean,

00:27:07.180 I think that that's

00:27:08.360 what the voting process

00:27:09.200 should be.

00:27:09.920 It's better than

00:27:10.340 what we currently have.

00:27:14.140 No,

00:27:14.600 actually,

00:27:15.260 I want to,

00:27:17.640 I think we should

00:27:18.580 be greatly reducing

00:27:19.460 the number of people

00:27:20.160 who vote

00:27:20.640 and we don't need

00:27:22.040 to use alligators

00:27:22.840 or mountains

00:27:23.400 as fun as that would be.

00:27:26.580 The voting law

00:27:27.460 that I,

00:27:27.860 and I said this,

00:27:28.900 I put this up on X

00:27:29.700 a few weeks ago

00:27:30.500 and of course people

00:27:31.100 were upset

00:27:31.520 as they always are

00:27:33.260 when I say anything,

00:27:34.140 but here's the save act

00:27:37.320 that I would like to see.

00:27:39.080 I mean,

00:27:39.320 this is good,

00:27:39.860 this is something at least,

00:27:40.980 but what I would like

00:27:43.160 to see is

00:27:44.020 I would put basically

00:27:46.280 three restrictions

00:27:48.060 in place for voting

00:27:49.080 and on top

00:27:50.700 of the ones

00:27:51.180 that we,

00:27:51.840 the very minimal

00:27:52.620 restrictions

00:27:53.040 we already have.

00:27:56.600 Number one,

00:27:57.280 you have to be

00:27:57.840 solely

00:27:58.840 a U.S. citizen

00:28:00.820 to vote.

00:28:02.320 You have to be

00:28:03.060 a citizen

00:28:03.620 of this country

00:28:04.560 and this country

00:28:05.240 only,

00:28:06.720 which means

00:28:07.600 that if you're

00:28:07.920 a dual citizen,

00:28:08.720 you have to renounce

00:28:09.440 your citizenship

00:28:10.080 in the other,

00:28:11.160 whatever the other country.

00:28:12.540 You have to renounce

00:28:13.400 any other citizenships

00:28:14.760 you might have

00:28:15.580 and declare

00:28:17.200 your loyalty

00:28:17.740 and fidelity

00:28:18.280 to this country

00:28:19.100 only if you want

00:28:19.980 to vote.

00:28:21.540 You want to take part

00:28:22.460 in our elections

00:28:23.100 and what everybody says

00:28:24.820 is there are sacred

00:28:25.840 democratic,

00:28:27.560 right,

00:28:28.060 ritual of voting.

00:28:29.640 Well,

00:28:30.160 okay,

00:28:30.860 then we got to

00:28:31.840 protect that

00:28:32.400 and this is only

00:28:33.440 for U.S. citizens

00:28:35.380 who are only

00:28:36.060 U.S. citizens.

00:28:37.900 So that's the first law

00:28:39.100 that I would put in place.

00:28:40.060 Second,

00:28:42.960 maybe we don't need

00:28:44.280 the guy at the drawbridge

00:28:45.380 with the riddles,

00:28:46.200 but I think

00:28:46.960 having a fifth grade

00:28:48.380 level civics exam

00:28:50.140 would suffice.

00:28:54.580 And so there should be,

00:28:55.980 when you register

00:28:56.680 to vote,

00:28:57.240 I mean,

00:28:57.400 we could talk about

00:28:57.960 how you do this

00:28:58.540 logistically,

00:28:59.220 but probably

00:28:59.680 when you register

00:29:00.360 to vote,

00:29:01.580 you're given

00:29:02.300 on the spot,

00:29:03.000 you have to register

00:29:03.500 in person

00:29:04.060 and you're handed

00:29:05.660 on the spot

00:29:06.980 a really easy

00:29:08.600 fifth grade level

00:29:09.980 multiple choice

00:29:13.720 civics exam.

00:29:16.520 Ten questions,

00:29:18.020 very basic,

00:29:20.640 can't use your phone,

00:29:22.000 you can't use

00:29:22.460 chat GPT,

00:29:23.820 this will be done

00:29:24.620 on paper

00:29:25.160 like in the old days

00:29:26.360 and you'll be graded

00:29:29.140 on the spot.

00:29:30.860 If you don't get

00:29:32.380 at least an 80%,

00:29:34.440 eight out of ten,

00:29:36.000 then you don't get

00:29:37.140 to vote.

00:29:37.900 In fact,

00:29:38.540 you're banned

00:29:39.020 from voting

00:29:39.640 for four years

00:29:40.960 and you can come

00:29:41.760 back in four years,

00:29:42.700 study up,

00:29:43.780 try to get up

00:29:44.240 to a fifth grade level

00:29:45.240 and then you can

00:29:47.640 take the test again.

00:29:49.200 So that's the second

00:29:50.180 thing I'd put in place

00:29:51.220 and then the third

00:29:52.000 thing that I would

00:29:52.520 put in place

00:29:53.060 is that you cannot

00:29:55.840 be on any form

00:29:56.920 of welfare,

00:29:58.500 you cannot be

00:29:58.940 on any form

00:29:59.700 of taxpayer,

00:30:01.800 you cannot be

00:30:02.720 on the taxpayer

00:30:03.540 dole

00:30:04.080 in any form

00:30:05.040 whatsoever

00:30:05.560 in order to qualify

00:30:07.500 for voting.

00:30:09.020 So that's it.

00:30:10.660 Eliminate

00:30:11.060 non-citizens,

00:30:11.980 eliminate dual

00:30:12.560 citizens,

00:30:13.340 eliminate people

00:30:14.060 who are too dumb,

00:30:15.120 who are dumber

00:30:15.580 than fifth graders

00:30:16.340 and eliminate

00:30:17.880 anyone who

00:30:19.580 relies on the

00:30:21.000 taxpayers

00:30:21.460 who lives off

00:30:24.440 of the taxpayer

00:30:25.040 dole.

00:30:25.440 Eliminate all

00:30:25.920 those people

00:30:26.320 from,

00:30:27.240 I'm not saying

00:30:27.860 eliminate them

00:30:28.500 permanently

00:30:29.560 from the world,

00:30:30.780 I'm saying

00:30:31.140 eliminate them

00:30:31.840 from voting

00:30:32.820 and the great

00:30:36.120 thing is that

00:30:36.520 all of those

00:30:37.120 are solvable

00:30:37.880 problems.

00:30:39.700 So if we put

00:30:40.460 this in place,

00:30:41.220 I think what

00:30:41.740 would end up

00:30:42.080 happening is that

00:30:43.120 I don't know

00:30:43.420 about 70%,

00:30:44.180 but a huge

00:30:45.340 number of

00:30:45.760 Americans would

00:30:46.600 immediately lose

00:30:48.180 their right to

00:30:48.980 vote.

00:30:50.800 The election

00:30:51.640 that occurs

00:30:52.440 right after

00:30:53.080 this law

00:30:53.580 was put in

00:30:54.020 place,

00:30:54.500 we would have,

00:30:55.380 I don't even

00:30:55.980 know,

00:30:56.440 we would have,

00:30:57.480 there would be

00:30:57.880 20 people voting

00:30:58.740 in the whole

00:30:59.020 country.

00:30:59.500 Maybe not that

00:31:00.480 bad,

00:31:00.760 but it would

00:31:01.240 be a drastic

00:31:02.500 reduction in

00:31:04.260 the voting

00:31:04.840 rolls,

00:31:05.240 but the great

00:31:05.800 thing is that

00:31:06.840 again,

00:31:07.020 all these things

00:31:07.440 are solvable.

00:31:08.540 If you're a dual

00:31:09.200 citizen,

00:31:09.600 you can renounce

00:31:10.080 your other

00:31:10.980 citizenship.

00:31:13.120 If you can't

00:31:13.780 pass,

00:31:14.120 if you're dumber

00:31:14.720 than a fifth

00:31:15.100 grader,

00:31:15.460 you've got some

00:31:15.880 time to study

00:31:16.420 for the next

00:31:17.200 election.

00:31:18.460 If you're on

00:31:19.100 welfare and it's

00:31:20.020 important to you

00:31:20.540 to vote,

00:31:20.980 then you can

00:31:21.640 work to be a

00:31:23.800 self-sustaining

00:31:24.280 person or not

00:31:26.880 and you just

00:31:28.180 don't get to

00:31:28.560 vote.

00:31:28.720 So that's

00:31:30.400 the law that

00:31:31.280 I would put

00:31:31.600 in place.

00:31:32.860 Never going

00:31:33.380 to happen in

00:31:33.820 a million years

00:31:34.440 and the

00:31:34.940 reason why

00:31:35.380 it's never

00:31:35.720 going to

00:31:36.060 happen is

00:31:37.640 that the

00:31:37.920 people in

00:31:38.420 power,

00:31:41.300 basically because

00:31:42.440 it is the

00:31:45.140 right thing is

00:31:45.680 why it's never

00:31:46.080 going to

00:31:46.320 happen.

00:31:47.700 The whole

00:31:48.740 reason why we

00:31:49.380 don't want

00:31:49.640 these kinds of

00:31:50.080 people voting,

00:31:51.980 if you're dumber

00:31:52.480 than a fifth

00:31:52.900 grader,

00:31:53.300 if you have

00:31:53.540 no clue what

00:31:54.340 kind of country

00:31:55.440 you're even

00:31:55.820 living in,

00:31:56.320 you have

00:31:56.860 no clue how

00:31:57.340 the government

00:31:57.800 even works

00:31:58.500 or what the

00:31:59.040 government is,

00:32:00.280 if you're on

00:32:02.720 the taxpayer

00:32:03.220 dole,

00:32:03.660 then these

00:32:04.520 are people

00:32:04.780 who are

00:32:05.020 very easily

00:32:05.840 manipulated

00:32:06.460 and that's

00:32:09.180 what a lot

00:32:09.860 of politicians,

00:32:10.660 I'm not going

00:32:11.260 to shock you

00:32:11.820 when I say

00:32:12.140 it,

00:32:12.240 a lot of

00:32:12.500 politicians,

00:32:13.100 that's how

00:32:13.940 they want

00:32:14.240 the voters

00:32:14.580 to be.

00:32:15.720 It's very

00:32:16.260 convenient for

00:32:16.900 them,

00:32:17.140 they'd prefer

00:32:17.600 that and

00:32:18.040 that's why

00:32:18.460 they would

00:32:18.760 never put

00:32:19.140 a law

00:32:19.380 like this

00:32:19.740 in place

00:32:20.120 that eliminates

00:32:21.340 those kinds

00:32:21.800 of people

00:32:22.060 from voting.

00:32:23.740 All right,

00:32:24.060 Tim Poole

00:32:24.460 has been on

00:32:24.860 his show

00:32:25.280 and on X

00:32:25.960 arguing to

00:32:27.100 the surprise

00:32:27.620 of many in

00:32:28.400 his audience

00:32:28.780 that the

00:32:29.240 Austin Metcalf

00:32:29.980 murder was

00:32:30.720 self-defense

00:32:31.440 or at least

00:32:33.940 he's speculating

00:32:35.680 that it may

00:32:37.080 have been

00:32:37.480 self-defense.

00:32:38.980 He's taking

00:32:39.720 the position

00:32:40.220 that Carmelo

00:32:41.200 Anthony may

00:32:42.560 have killed

00:32:43.020 Metcalf in

00:32:43.860 self-defense.

00:32:45.080 He's made

00:32:45.460 this argument

00:32:45.840 a few times,

00:32:47.020 it's been

00:32:47.420 kind of trending

00:32:47.900 on social media,

00:32:49.760 a lot of

00:32:50.500 people very upset.

00:32:51.500 Here's just one

00:32:52.040 short clip from

00:32:52.640 his show where

00:32:53.160 he kind of

00:32:53.620 lays this out.

00:32:55.720 There was an

00:32:56.460 argument between

00:32:57.400 Carmelo Anthony

00:32:58.040 who was from

00:32:58.600 a rival school

00:32:59.240 who was there

00:33:00.440 and there were

00:33:00.860 a bunch of

00:33:01.240 kids from

00:33:02.000 this town

00:33:03.960 or whatever

00:33:04.280 and they got

00:33:05.980 into an altercation.

00:33:06.860 They told him

00:33:07.460 he wasn't supposed

00:33:07.960 to be there.

00:33:09.020 Apparently they

00:33:09.400 had words.

00:33:10.540 Carmelo Anthony

00:33:10.960 pulled a knife

00:33:11.600 out from his bag

00:33:12.300 and said,

00:33:13.040 touch me and

00:33:13.360 see what happens.

00:33:14.840 Witnesses said

00:33:15.560 either he was

00:33:16.540 touched or grabbed.

00:33:17.620 They were different

00:33:18.060 with his accounts

00:33:18.480 but that Austin

00:33:19.600 Metcalf did put

00:33:20.480 hands on Carmelo

00:33:21.660 who then stabbed

00:33:22.760 him once in the

00:33:23.280 chest before

00:33:23.780 running away.

00:33:24.860 According to

00:33:25.360 police,

00:33:25.800 Carmelo Anthony

00:33:26.460 when he got

00:33:28.960 apprehended or

00:33:30.260 turned himself in

00:33:30.880 however the story

00:33:31.540 goes,

00:33:31.880 I mean different

00:33:32.380 accounts,

00:33:33.160 he asked if

00:33:34.320 Austin was going

00:33:34.960 to be okay

00:33:35.560 and said it was

00:33:36.660 self-defense.

00:33:37.720 He asked,

00:33:38.160 he said he grabbed

00:33:38.920 me and I said

00:33:39.620 self-defense.

00:33:40.780 The family is

00:33:41.460 arguing with

00:33:41.840 self-defense.

00:33:43.500 It's strange to me

00:33:44.620 that with this story

00:33:45.820 the right is adamant

00:33:46.820 that this kid just

00:33:47.560 killed another kid

00:33:48.180 and he should go to

00:33:48.560 prison forever and

00:33:49.180 I'm like,

00:33:50.500 we don't even know

00:33:51.160 what happened.

00:33:52.260 You've got witness

00:33:53.040 testimony that sounds

00:33:54.000 like a fight

00:33:54.640 happened at a school.

00:33:55.720 Then I've heard the

00:33:56.280 argument,

00:33:56.700 yeah,

00:33:56.880 well he shouldn't

00:33:57.200 have had a knife.

00:33:57.820 He brought a knife

00:33:58.260 to his school and

00:33:58.860 it's like,

00:33:59.380 okay,

00:33:59.640 what kind of knife

00:34:00.040 was it?

00:34:01.080 Was it a utility

00:34:01.680 knife?

00:34:02.040 Was it a switch

00:34:02.800 blade?

00:34:03.560 Was it a machete?

00:34:04.500 Did he have a steak

00:34:05.200 knife?

00:34:06.160 Was he coming back

00:34:07.180 from culinary class

00:34:08.080 where he had fine

00:34:09.100 Japanese blades for

00:34:10.100 cutting cucumbers?

00:34:11.000 I have no idea.

00:34:12.460 You're allowed to

00:34:13.080 carry knives,

00:34:14.120 I'm pretty sure,

00:34:15.180 in Texas,

00:34:15.960 especially if it's

00:34:16.580 like a utility

00:34:16.980 blade.

00:34:17.740 You're also not

00:34:18.320 allowed to grab

00:34:18.700 people.

00:34:19.020 Nobody knows the

00:34:20.320 exact specifics of

00:34:21.140 this story with

00:34:22.080 Carmelo and

00:34:23.740 Metcalf.

00:34:25.080 Some witnesses

00:34:25.940 said that Austin

00:34:27.360 touched Carmelo.

00:34:29.240 Some say he

00:34:29.740 grabbed him.

00:34:30.900 Whatever.

00:34:31.420 The courts will

00:34:31.900 play it out.

00:34:32.760 If weapons are

00:34:33.340 banned, he's going

00:34:33.960 to go to jail.

00:34:35.120 However, in a

00:34:36.120 general self-defense

00:34:37.080 context, this is

00:34:38.040 why I'm saying the

00:34:38.780 story I find so

00:34:39.760 confusing.

00:34:40.200 We have always

00:34:42.720 maintained, when it

00:34:43.900 comes to self-defense,

00:34:44.800 it is not the

00:34:47.620 responsibility of the

00:34:48.920 victim of an attack

00:34:50.260 to determine the

00:34:51.700 extent of that

00:34:52.460 lethal force.

00:34:53.380 If they are being

00:34:54.500 attacked, their

00:34:56.220 perception of how

00:34:58.000 far that force goes

00:34:59.060 is it.

00:35:02.520 So, let me,

00:35:04.380 first of all,

00:35:06.440 I like Tim.

00:35:07.460 He's a great guy.

00:35:08.640 He's been on the

00:35:09.220 show a bunch of

00:35:09.660 times.

00:35:10.600 I like doing his

00:35:11.280 show.

00:35:12.500 No hard feelings

00:35:13.340 at all.

00:35:13.720 I disagree with him

00:35:14.540 on this one

00:35:15.780 strongly, though.

00:35:17.080 I think he's wrong

00:35:17.940 on this one.

00:35:19.340 I don't think

00:35:19.740 there's anything

00:35:20.320 even approaching a

00:35:21.660 legitimate self-defense

00:35:22.780 claim here.

00:35:24.080 So, let's go over

00:35:25.240 the facts as we

00:35:26.000 understand them.

00:35:26.920 And this is

00:35:27.280 according to the

00:35:27.920 witness testimony

00:35:28.520 and the police

00:35:29.000 report, and also

00:35:30.320 just common sense.

00:35:31.420 You know, I think

00:35:32.020 all those things

00:35:33.440 combined give us a

00:35:34.980 pretty clear picture

00:35:35.760 of what occurred.

00:35:37.520 And, yeah,

00:35:38.620 innocent until proven

00:35:39.620 guilty and all of

00:35:40.680 that.

00:35:40.900 He'll get his day

00:35:41.420 in court, as he

00:35:42.120 should.

00:35:43.180 But innocent until

00:35:43.860 proven guilty, that

00:35:44.620 applies to the court

00:35:46.100 system legally.

00:35:47.020 It does not apply to

00:35:47.780 the court of public

00:35:48.380 opinion.

00:35:48.800 We're allowed to

00:35:49.580 arrive at our own

00:35:50.560 conclusions.

00:35:51.240 I mean, we know that

00:35:51.920 O.J. Simpson,

00:35:52.720 according to the

00:35:53.280 courts, was not

00:35:54.620 guilty.

00:35:55.180 But the court of

00:35:56.540 public opinion can

00:35:57.500 look at the evidence

00:35:58.180 the same way the

00:35:58.880 actual jury did, and

00:36:00.720 we can come to the

00:36:01.400 conclusion that the

00:36:02.040 jury got it wrong.

00:36:02.740 And no jury has

00:36:06.400 looked at this one

00:36:07.000 yet, but we can

00:36:08.920 look at the facts as

00:36:09.820 they're currently

00:36:10.300 known and come to

00:36:11.360 some conclusions

00:36:12.020 based on our own

00:36:12.800 opinions about it.

00:36:13.900 And that's what we're

00:36:14.500 doing here.

00:36:14.860 So, as far as we

00:36:16.580 know, what happened

00:36:17.180 is that Anthony,

00:36:19.520 Camarillo Anthony

00:36:19.980 went to the wrong

00:36:20.780 tent at a track

00:36:22.040 meet.

00:36:23.160 He brought a knife

00:36:24.140 with him to this

00:36:25.280 track meet.

00:36:26.860 Already, you know,

00:36:29.360 if he had a knife

00:36:30.680 on him and he

00:36:31.860 just had it on him

00:36:33.340 and obviously didn't

00:36:34.060 use it to stab

00:36:34.620 anybody, well, we

00:36:37.280 wouldn't even be

00:36:37.620 having this

00:36:37.940 conversation.

00:36:39.740 But it is, it's

00:36:41.480 strange.

00:36:41.940 Like, why are you

00:36:42.480 bringing a knife to

00:36:43.180 a track meet, of

00:36:44.560 all things?

00:36:47.080 I mean, why?

00:36:48.480 Why did it at a

00:36:49.320 track meet?

00:36:49.880 What is, what's the

00:36:50.880 purpose?

00:36:54.240 And anyway, so he

00:36:55.340 was in the wrong

00:36:56.200 tent.

00:36:56.560 He brought a knife

00:36:57.060 with him.

00:36:58.160 Already had it with

00:36:58.860 him.

00:36:59.660 Told to leave.

00:37:01.720 He, if he gets

00:37:02.840 up and leaves, the

00:37:04.520 place where he's

00:37:05.020 not supposed to be

00:37:05.560 and he's told to

00:37:06.020 leave.

00:37:06.440 If he gets up and

00:37:07.020 leaves right then,

00:37:09.060 then everyone lives,

00:37:10.960 nobody goes to

00:37:11.640 jail, everything's

00:37:13.040 fine, and none of

00:37:14.220 us are talking about

00:37:14.840 this.

00:37:15.840 But he refuses to

00:37:17.100 leave.

00:37:18.040 He then challenges

00:37:19.120 Metcalf and says,

00:37:20.140 touch me and see

00:37:20.720 what happens.

00:37:22.680 Metcalf at this

00:37:23.340 point grabs either

00:37:24.520 Anthony himself or

00:37:25.780 his book bag,

00:37:26.980 different accounts,

00:37:27.920 to try to get him

00:37:29.340 out of the tent.

00:37:31.560 So if, and I

00:37:32.800 think it's not

00:37:33.840 clear if this even

00:37:34.920 happened, but if

00:37:36.080 Metcalf grabbed

00:37:37.140 Anthony, and no

00:37:39.540 one is saying that

00:37:40.160 he, you know, that

00:37:41.740 it was some kind of

00:37:42.640 brutal, violent

00:37:44.780 assault, if he made

00:37:46.860 any physical contact,

00:37:47.760 he grabbed him to

00:37:49.780 get him out of the

00:37:50.580 tent, right?

00:37:51.480 And at that point,

00:37:53.920 Anthony pulls out the

00:37:54.800 knife and stabs him

00:37:55.520 in the heart, runs

00:37:56.980 away, dumps the

00:37:58.640 murder weapon, and

00:38:00.800 then admits to the

00:38:03.420 police that he does

00:38:04.720 not know whether what

00:38:06.060 he did was self-defense

00:38:06.880 because he asks the

00:38:09.040 police if what he did

00:38:10.060 would count as

00:38:10.520 self-defense, right?

00:38:13.820 So, I mean, that

00:38:15.040 fact alone pretty much

00:38:16.880 sinks you.

00:38:18.060 Everything else, I

00:38:18.740 mean, even if he had

00:38:19.960 said nothing, I'd have

00:38:21.160 the same opinion on

00:38:21.880 this, but him saying

00:38:23.920 that alone, I mean,

00:38:25.260 that's, you would need

00:38:26.960 the smartest defense

00:38:28.020 attorney in the world,

00:38:30.260 in history, to get

00:38:31.660 around even just that.

00:38:33.040 You have revealed your

00:38:34.220 state of mind to the

00:38:35.380 police, and you've

00:38:36.580 made it clear that you

00:38:37.820 at least don't know

00:38:39.440 whether it was

00:38:40.540 actually self-defense.

00:38:43.400 So, why isn't it

00:38:47.420 self-defense?

00:38:47.940 Well, first of all, he

00:38:48.920 instigated it by being

00:38:50.420 in the wrong place and

00:38:51.520 refusing to leave.

00:38:52.600 He further instigated it

00:38:54.160 by saying, touch me and

00:38:55.660 see what happens.

00:38:56.760 This is a guy looking

00:38:58.140 for a pretext.

00:39:00.620 He's provoking an

00:39:01.960 altercation, looking for

00:39:03.420 a pretext to commit

00:39:04.860 violence.

00:39:05.300 Very clearly, you cannot

00:39:06.980 go to a place where you

00:39:08.240 don't belong, refuse to

00:39:09.920 leave, dare anyone to

00:39:12.040 touch you, and then

00:39:13.820 stab them when they do.

00:39:15.780 You can't do that.

00:39:18.100 That's not self-defense.

00:39:20.100 That is you provoking

00:39:21.580 every step of the way

00:39:22.740 and then resorting to an

00:39:23.780 absurdly disproportionate

00:39:25.060 response when you get

00:39:27.620 the response that, when

00:39:28.840 you get the, what you're

00:39:29.780 looking for.

00:39:34.000 Anthony, in order to buy

00:39:36.940 the self-defense claim, you

00:39:38.040 would have to, first of

00:39:38.980 all, ignore the fact that

00:39:39.960 Anthony provoked the

00:39:40.700 situation entirely, and

00:39:42.380 then you'd have to believe

00:39:43.280 that he was in fear for

00:39:45.760 his life.

00:39:48.200 Right?

00:39:48.560 What matters is, was he

00:39:50.160 in fear for his life?

00:39:51.960 But not just that, because

00:39:53.640 anyone, we don't know,

00:39:54.820 anyone can claim that they

00:39:55.960 had any kind of emotion

00:39:56.840 going on inside them.

00:39:59.000 That's a subjective.

00:39:59.960 There's no way to know.

00:40:02.080 Did he have a reasonable

00:40:03.760 fear?

00:40:04.120 Was it a reasonable, did he

00:40:05.100 have a reasonable fear?

00:40:06.380 Did he have a, was there a

00:40:07.660 real reason for him to fear

00:40:09.000 for his life?

00:40:09.960 Or is there a reasonable

00:40:10.920 fear?

00:40:11.360 of some kind of lethal

00:40:13.200 threat?

00:40:15.160 Of course, does anyone

00:40:16.200 believe that there was,

00:40:17.560 does anyone believe that

00:40:18.520 Anthony truly thought

00:40:19.520 Metcalf was going to kill

00:40:20.940 him for being in the wrong

00:40:22.620 tent at the track meet?

00:40:26.140 Okay, grabbing someone and

00:40:27.420 going, come on, buddy, you

00:40:28.340 don't belong here.

00:40:29.100 Okay, that is not a fatal

00:40:31.800 situation.

00:40:32.400 That's not a lethal

00:40:33.180 situation.

00:40:34.440 Unless you make it one.

00:40:36.900 Nobody believes that

00:40:37.800 Metcalf was any kind of

00:40:38.800 real threat to Anthony.

00:40:39.840 Nobody believes that.

00:40:41.280 Does anyone think that

00:40:42.080 Austin Metcalf at this

00:40:43.200 track meet was going to

00:40:44.680 kill this guy for being in

00:40:46.140 the wrong tent?

00:40:48.220 Of course not.

00:40:49.280 It's just ridiculous.

00:40:52.700 And if Carmelo Anthony

00:40:54.700 really did fear for his

00:40:55.940 life, he could have left.

00:40:59.480 When you're in a place where

00:41:00.600 you don't belong and the

00:41:01.340 people who are there don't

00:41:02.260 want you there and they

00:41:02.820 tell you to leave.

00:41:03.580 If you fear for your life,

00:41:05.280 what do you do?

00:41:06.120 You leave.

00:41:06.800 It's not like you're locked

00:41:10.100 in.

00:41:10.420 There's a tent.

00:41:11.380 There's no doors.

00:41:12.180 There's no door or wall.

00:41:14.900 Just leave.

00:41:16.440 If I'm under a tent where I

00:41:18.640 don't belong and the people

00:41:19.360 there say, you got to go.

00:41:21.860 Well, for me, because I'm just

00:41:23.100 a reasonable human being,

00:41:24.520 like most people, I would

00:41:25.580 already be gone.

00:41:27.320 But if I feared for my life,

00:41:29.540 that would be all the more

00:41:31.220 reason to leave the tent.

00:41:34.240 Standing up and saying, touch

00:41:35.500 me and see what happens.

00:41:36.780 That is not a statement of

00:41:38.720 fear.

00:41:39.280 That is the opposite.

00:41:41.600 That is you making a threat.

00:41:43.760 That is you making a threat.

00:41:45.880 That is not you feeling

00:41:47.260 threatened.

00:41:50.380 Okay, what happened here very

00:41:52.780 clearly to me is that Carmelo

00:41:56.560 Anthony stabbed Austin Metcalf

00:41:59.940 not because Anthony felt

00:42:03.580 threatened, but because

00:42:05.980 Anthony felt disrespected.

00:42:09.480 That's what this is.

00:42:11.440 We all know that.

00:42:12.380 Again, I mean, I feel like I'm

00:42:13.820 just consistently saying things

00:42:15.340 that we all know.

00:42:17.420 The whole scene, showing up in

00:42:20.000 the tent, you don't belong

00:42:21.040 there, someone tells you to

00:42:22.120 leave, I'm not leaving.

00:42:24.100 It's like, dude, you have no

00:42:25.200 argument here.

00:42:25.680 You don't belong here.

00:42:26.220 You've been told to leave.

00:42:26.860 You're not in the right.

00:42:30.000 Okay, you have to leave.

00:42:31.520 It's not your tent, man.

00:42:34.420 And then sit, touch me and see

00:42:35.740 what happens.

00:42:36.280 That, every time, that whole,

00:42:38.300 that's a routine that we're all

00:42:39.640 familiar with.

00:42:40.280 Okay, the touch me and see what

00:42:41.620 happens thing.

00:42:43.640 That is you challenging, son.

00:42:45.920 That is a challenge.

00:42:48.180 That's you asking for a

00:42:50.600 physical altercation.

00:42:51.740 And then if you do get touched

00:42:55.160 and you respond, it's, it, this

00:42:58.120 is a, this is a, a, a matter of

00:43:02.300 disrespect.

00:43:03.160 You feel, Carmelo Anthony felt

00:43:04.780 disrespected that anybody, anybody

00:43:06.360 would dare, anyone would dare tell

00:43:08.500 him to leave a place where he

00:43:09.900 doesn't belong.

00:43:10.780 How dare you?

00:43:12.900 He felt disrespected and he killed

00:43:14.720 somebody for it.

00:43:15.580 And no, you don't, that's not

00:43:18.300 allowed in a civilized society.

00:43:20.020 We don't allow that.

00:43:23.760 So there's no self-defense here.

00:43:25.220 I think Tim got this one wrong,

00:43:26.880 which is okay.

00:43:27.700 We can have disagreements.

00:43:29.380 And the other point that I want to

00:43:30.160 make here before we move on is

00:43:31.520 that, you know, Tim is getting

00:43:34.560 fairly ripped to shreds on X right

00:43:37.020 now with a lot of people saying that

00:43:38.840 he's a traitor and a grifter and all

00:43:40.120 this because he, because he, you

00:43:41.400 know, took this position on the

00:43:44.100 Austin Metcalf thing.

00:43:45.920 We don't, he, he's wrong in my

00:43:48.840 opinion.

00:43:49.180 We really need to get away from

00:43:52.280 this thing where anyone who

00:43:53.820 disagrees is automatically some

00:43:55.860 kind of Judas, some kind of con

00:43:58.700 artist, a grifter, right?

00:44:00.920 I mean, I've talked about this

00:44:02.060 before.

00:44:03.600 This is one of the most annoying

00:44:05.180 things about discord.

00:44:07.060 What passes for discourse and

00:44:08.780 debate in modern American culture is

00:44:11.620 that we don't even debate anymore.

00:44:13.860 We just don't because anyone who

00:44:15.100 disagrees is automatically a scam

00:44:17.860 artist, they're automatically a

00:44:19.200 grifter.

00:44:19.740 It's like no one, it's not

00:44:20.980 possible for anyone to actually

00:44:22.280 have an opposing view.

00:44:24.280 And, and if they do, then they're

00:44:25.960 all, it's, it's just, it's, it's

00:44:27.620 always just like a, a, a game that

00:44:29.740 they're playing.

00:44:30.800 It, it, it's, it could never be

00:44:32.300 that, well, maybe they actually just

00:44:33.280 think that and they're simply wrong.

00:44:35.040 It's like, that's, that's, that's

00:44:35.960 possible.

00:44:37.720 Um, so people can have differing

00:44:41.040 opinions and we can argue about

00:44:42.780 it and we can argue passionately as

00:44:45.460 I so often do, but not everything.

00:44:48.560 We don't always have to jump every

00:44:50.280 time to, oh, this person disagreed.

00:44:52.740 Total con artist revoke his, uh, his

00:44:56.200 membership in the club.

00:44:57.200 He's not part of it anymore.

00:44:58.960 Never listening to you again.

00:45:01.040 Unsubscribed.

00:45:01.600 I'm done with you.

00:45:02.380 Like we don't, it doesn't always have

00:45:03.620 to be that every time.

00:45:05.860 It really doesn't.

00:45:08.380 Um, finally, I thought this was an

00:45:10.040 interesting report from New York

00:45:11.160 Post.

00:45:13.000 Gen Z has come up with a new

00:45:15.620 innovation and they're always

00:45:17.300 innovating, you know, Gen Z,

00:45:18.300 they're always inventing new things.

00:45:19.580 So listen to this.

00:45:20.780 This is pretty mind blowing.

00:45:21.640 So get ready for this.

00:45:23.740 New York Post headline.

00:45:25.260 Gen Z coffee lovers discover new

00:45:27.220 way to combat insane Java prices

00:45:29.460 with new home cafe trend.

00:45:32.000 The article says it's out with

00:45:34.680 overpriced oak milk lattes and in

00:45:37.420 with DIY coffee culture.

00:45:40.260 Gen Z TikTokers are ditching the

00:45:42.300 expensive morning coffee runs and

00:45:44.220 instead transforming their kitchens

00:45:46.000 into cozy custom coffee shops,

00:45:48.880 complete with menus, pastries, and

00:45:50.640 even barista uniforms in an attempt

00:45:52.400 to save money.

00:45:54.380 Um, and then it goes on and

00:45:56.520 describe this, but this is

00:45:57.540 incredible.

00:45:57.820 So the zoomers have figured out

00:46:00.100 that apparently you can drink

00:46:02.580 coffee at home.

00:46:06.380 Have you heard about this?

00:46:08.000 Have you heard about this, this

00:46:09.200 thing?

00:46:10.640 Folks, have you heard about this

00:46:11.780 trend with drinking coffee at home?

00:46:14.340 I heard about this and I was

00:46:15.460 floored.

00:46:15.980 I said, what?

00:46:17.260 You could, they're drinking coffee

00:46:19.380 where?

00:46:20.200 Where did you say?

00:46:20.940 At home?

00:46:22.080 You can, you can do that?

00:46:23.620 So they've pioneered this, this

00:46:26.060 bold new strategy where you just,

00:46:27.840 you, I guess you sit at your home

00:46:30.860 and you drink coffee.

00:46:33.600 I've also heard rumors and I don't

00:46:35.380 know if this is true or not, but

00:46:36.460 I've heard rumors that some of them

00:46:39.340 have even figured out a way to eat

00:46:42.520 like meals at home.

00:46:47.840 Breakfast, lunch, get this, dinner.

00:46:52.180 Okay.

00:46:52.760 Yeah.

00:46:53.740 Yeah.

00:46:54.140 They're eating dinner at home

00:46:55.160 sometimes.

00:46:58.200 In fact, there's this trend and I,

00:46:59.900 again, I heard about this, but Gen

00:47:01.120 Z, they're experimenting with this

00:47:02.700 other trend.

00:47:03.320 They've also, it's this new trend.

00:47:04.700 It's like this, it's this big flat

00:47:07.060 thing that they bring into their

00:47:08.380 home.

00:47:08.560 It's like big and flat.

00:47:09.400 It has legs, not real human legs.

00:47:11.340 Okay.

00:47:11.760 Because people get confused, but what

00:47:13.580 it's made, the legs are wooden.

00:47:15.220 It's like wooden legs.

00:47:16.080 And it's called a, in fact, it looks

00:47:17.600 a lot like this thing here, but it's

00:47:18.500 called a table.

00:47:20.280 And they'll sit at this table.

00:47:22.440 It might be, I think it's

00:47:23.540 pronounced table.

00:47:24.780 It's actually French.

00:47:26.220 And anyway, they'll sit at this

00:47:27.460 thing and they'll just drink coffee

00:47:29.420 and they'll eat.

00:47:30.320 And it's, it's just amazing.

00:47:31.900 So this is what I love about Gen

00:47:33.660 Z, that they're constantly inventing

00:47:35.140 new things.

00:47:36.460 And listen, the fact that the new

00:47:38.140 things that they're inventing have

00:47:39.300 existed since forever is not the

00:47:41.000 point.

00:47:41.380 That's not relevant.

00:47:42.380 The fact that they're constantly

00:47:43.360 inventing new trends where they do

00:47:44.900 the thing that everyone has already

00:47:46.120 done a billion times.

00:47:47.060 But it's still a trend.

00:47:49.100 I mean, I saw a headline recently.

00:47:52.160 I had to look it up again to make

00:47:53.420 sure I had it right.

00:47:54.160 The headline was, the rise of

00:47:57.440 hydration as a lifestyle trend.

00:48:00.880 Yes, a hydration trend.

00:48:03.020 A trend of being hydrated.

00:48:05.200 That's another one that the Zoomers at

00:48:06.540 Gen Z, they're really getting into the

00:48:08.580 hydration trend.

00:48:11.240 Which was mind-blowing for me because

00:48:12.860 my whole life, I always looked at

00:48:15.740 water and I didn't really know what

00:48:17.720 to do with it.

00:48:18.540 I wasn't sure.

00:48:20.140 I looked at water and I said, okay,

00:48:21.600 well, we can swim in it.

00:48:23.820 I can drown people in it.

00:48:26.720 That's pretty much it, isn't it?

00:48:28.100 Like, what else do you do with water?

00:48:29.300 You can swim in it.

00:48:30.040 You can drown somebody in it.

00:48:31.500 I don't know what other function this

00:48:32.660 stuff serves.

00:48:33.400 And then Gen Z came along and they

00:48:34.820 said, no, no, no.

00:48:36.400 You can drink it.

00:48:38.360 And I'm like, drink it?

00:48:39.460 You mean like with my mouth?

00:48:41.320 Drink it?

00:48:41.720 What do you mean?

00:48:42.640 And they said, yeah.

00:48:45.560 And so I went straight to the toilet

00:48:46.920 with a cup to get, and they said,

00:48:48.080 no, no, no, not that water.

00:48:49.680 No, there's water in your sink.

00:48:53.100 And you put that in a cup, you drink it.

00:48:55.760 And I said, oh, okay, noted.

00:48:58.220 And so anyway, Gen Z, they're always

00:48:59.320 inventing new things.

00:49:00.480 And by that I mean they're always

00:49:03.560 inventing things that have always

00:49:04.880 existed.

00:49:06.400 They're always inventing the oldest

00:49:07.900 things on earth.

00:49:09.460 I mean, we are days away from some

00:49:14.860 sort of article somewhere in New York

00:49:16.500 Post talking about Gen Z using this

00:49:21.060 new trendy thing called the wheel.

00:49:22.920 I mean, we are days away from Gen Z

00:49:24.560 actually announcing that they have

00:49:26.360 invented the wheel.

00:49:27.540 So we are very close to that actually

00:49:29.380 happening.

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00:51:00.440 As we're all painfully aware,

00:51:02.080 a lot of Democrats are vying to be their party's nominee

00:51:04.940 in the next presidential election.

00:51:06.520 There's Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer,

00:51:08.140 Cory Booker, to name a few.

00:51:09.240 In their own ways, they're all competing for the nomination,

00:51:11.400 whether they're doing 24-hour filibusters

00:51:13.040 or starting podcasts or whatever else.

00:51:15.700 At the same time, there's at least one prominent Democrat

00:51:17.700 who's decided that he doesn't want to be president in 2028

00:51:20.340 under any circumstances.

00:51:21.660 And he's gone out of his way to make his decision

00:51:23.640 as clear as he possibly can.

00:51:24.780 And I'm talking about Governor Jared Polis of Colorado

00:51:27.640 who just signed what is easily

00:51:30.040 the single most unconstitutional piece

00:51:31.900 of so-called gun control legislation

00:51:33.640 that we've seen in many decades.

00:51:35.140 He's gone full Robert Francis O'Rourke.

00:51:38.120 We're talking about a law that heavily restricts

00:51:40.680 the sale of most semi-automatic weapons,

00:51:42.860 including rifles and handguns.

00:51:44.300 The original version of the bill went even further

00:51:46.560 and outright banned these guns,

00:51:48.160 but the final version is still designed

00:51:50.640 to make the process of purchasing a firearm

00:51:52.660 as difficult as possible.

00:51:53.640 At the risk of giving Amy Coney Barrett

00:51:55.620 and John Roberts too much credit,

00:51:57.540 there's just zero chance

00:51:58.780 that the Supreme Court upholds this.

00:52:00.920 Watch.

00:52:02.480 Governor Polis signs into law

00:52:04.080 what may be the toughest gun control regulations

00:52:06.540 in state history.

00:52:07.600 Under that new law that takes effect next year,

00:52:09.740 it's illegal to buy, sell, and make

00:52:11.480 most semi-automatic firearms

00:52:12.980 without background checks and training.

00:52:15.540 Political reporter Sean Boyd

00:52:17.100 followed that measure through the legislature.

00:52:19.020 Sean, Polis received a lot of pressure

00:52:21.020 to veto this bill.

00:52:23.640 Colorado's congressional members,

00:52:27.320 Republican congressional members,

00:52:29.440 among those lobbying the governor, Michael.

00:52:32.020 They say the new law is unconstitutional.

00:52:35.160 The original version banned so-called assault weapons.

00:52:38.700 Governor Polis negotiated several amendments,

00:52:41.700 including an exemption for those who agree

00:52:44.120 to an extensive vetting process.

00:52:46.100 We can make sure the people

00:52:47.400 who choose to buy guns,

00:52:49.840 first of all,

00:52:51.100 are able to choose the gun they want,

00:52:53.460 but also that they're properly trained.

00:52:55.720 But the new law limits who qualifies for training.

00:52:59.260 Individuals would need to pass a background check

00:53:01.600 and receive an eligibility card

00:53:03.640 from their county sheriff,

00:53:05.020 who could deny it

00:53:06.120 if they believed the person was a danger.

00:53:08.600 Those eligible for training

00:53:10.080 would need to pass a 12-hour course

00:53:12.280 certified by Colorado Parks and Wildlife,

00:53:14.620 unless they have hunter's training.

00:53:17.200 And then it would be four hours.

00:53:19.160 Their names would go into a state database,

00:53:21.780 allowing them to purchase a gun

00:53:23.580 after passing another background check.

00:53:26.940 So in the state of Colorado,

00:53:28.200 you'll have to take a 12-hour course

00:53:30.180 in order to purchase a handgun.

00:53:31.740 We're not talking about a course

00:53:32.660 for a concealed carry permit.

00:53:34.060 We're talking about a 12-hour course,

00:53:35.420 including a background check

00:53:36.300 and a mental health examination

00:53:37.280 in order to buy a gun.

00:53:39.060 And by the way,

00:53:40.540 this is a 12-hour course

00:53:41.680 that if you live in the state of Colorado,

00:53:43.060 you have to pay for.

00:53:43.900 And on top of that,

00:53:44.820 even after you take the course,

00:53:45.960 the local police department

00:53:46.780 has the discretion to deny your ability

00:53:48.360 to purchase the handgun

00:53:49.220 if they conclude subjectively

00:53:51.280 that you're a threat in some way.

00:53:53.340 Quoting from legislation,

00:53:54.140 The sheriff may deny an application

00:53:55.440 if the sheriff has a reasonable belief

00:53:56.960 that documented previous behavior

00:53:58.540 by the applicant makes it likely

00:53:59.840 the applicant will present a danger

00:54:01.140 to themselves or others

00:54:02.020 if the applicant holds

00:54:03.260 a firearm safety course eligibility card.

00:54:05.380 The sheriff may revoke

00:54:06.180 an issued firearm safety course eligibility card

00:54:09.840 if the sheriff has a reasonable belief

00:54:11.300 that documented previous behavior

00:54:12.780 by the cardholder makes it likely

00:54:13.960 the cardholder will present a danger

00:54:15.500 to themselves or others

00:54:16.340 if the cardholder continues holding

00:54:17.900 a firearm safety course eligibility card.

00:54:20.040 Close quote.

00:54:20.460 So this is a standard

00:54:21.900 that pretty much empowers

00:54:22.940 the state of Colorado

00:54:23.580 to deny anyone a handgun for any reason. The law doesn't even say who specifically needs to document

00:54:29.720 the behavior that supposedly makes it likely that someone will be a, quote, danger. So to be clear,

00:54:35.020 we're not talking about denying handguns to people who commit a crime or even people who are accused

00:54:39.480 of committing a crime. We're talking about denying handguns to people who the police department in

00:54:43.300 its discretion just believes are dangerous. This law substitutes an objective standard,

00:54:49.420 one that involves judges and juries, with a subjective standard that provides an extraordinary

00:54:53.820 amount of power to law enforcement agencies. Again, we're not talking about concealed carry

00:54:58.340 permits here. We're talking about the right to buy a gun in the first place. Now, it's true that under

00:55:03.740 this law, people who are denied handgun licenses can go to court and appeal. You can demand an

00:55:08.500 administrative hearing, and then after waiting a few months, if not longer, you can take your chances

00:55:12.820 with the notoriously sane and highly nonpartisan judges in the state of Colorado. But even if

00:55:18.300 you're successful at court, that's still yet another very expensive hurdle that you need to

00:55:22.080 clear, even though under our Constitution, there's no reason for any of these hurdles to exist in the

00:55:26.140 first place. Now, of course, in Colorado, they know exactly why they're implementing all these hurdles.

00:55:31.800 The clear purpose of this legislation is to make it as difficult as possible for people to own

00:55:35.600 firearms, if not ban them entirely. That's why it started out as a bill that would completely ban

00:55:39.980 all so-called, quote, unquote, assault weapons. Before they watered it down, when they realized that

00:55:45.600 that wouldn't pass, a lawmaker who lost his son in the Aurora movie theater mass shooting,

00:55:50.920 a state senator named Ton Sullivan, has made it clear that his goal is to destroy the Second

00:55:55.340 Amendment. They're doing everything they can to ban all firearms, and they're trying to go as far as

00:56:00.220 they can within the limits that the Supreme Court has set out. And just by itself, this approach is

00:56:07.120 unlawful. Imagine if Republicans publicly announced that their goal was to ban all black people from

00:56:13.900 attending, say, sporting events. And then let's pretend that Republicans acknowledged that the

00:56:17.520 Supreme Court would probably strike that down as long as it was explicit. So instead, Republicans

00:56:22.580 decided to pass a bunch of laws that, taken together, heavily restrict the ability of black people to

00:56:27.480 attend sporting events. They might pass a law that shuts down public transit from the hood while games

00:56:32.540 are in progress, for example. Or they might ban people who wear certain kinds of shoes or have

00:56:36.720 certain kinds of criminal records that are more common among non-white demographics. If Republicans tried

00:56:41.020 something like this, we would all immediately recognize it as an unconstitutional attempt to

00:56:45.900 implement segregation. The law has discriminatory intent, and therefore no court in the country

00:56:50.960 would ever allow that to stand, at least in that case. That's exactly what Colorado is trying to do

00:56:57.300 with the Second Amendment. And just on that basis alone, it should be rejected. They're presenting a

00:57:01.660 mildly watered-down version of a clearly unconstitutional idea. But even in its current form,

00:57:05.840 this legislation is still unconstitutional. It's still going to punish law-abiding American

00:57:11.200 citizens who want to exercise their Second Amendment rights. And so it cannot be allowed

00:57:14.960 to stand. Really, this is almost as bad as the law that Washington, D.C. tried to implement back

00:57:19.420 in 2008, which banned handguns and required that rifles and shotguns be disassembled or trigger-locked

00:57:25.780 while at home. That was ultimately struck down by the Supreme Court. The same outcome

00:57:29.700 seems inevitable here. Although, I mean, frankly, who knows with the path that Amy Coney Barrett's

00:57:37.340 been on recently. As for the rest of us, people who are fortunate enough to not live in the state

00:57:41.040 of Colorado, the silver lining again is that we're probably going to be spared a Jared Polis

00:57:45.440 presidency after this, or even a serious candidacy. As Robert Francis O'Rourke discovered, Americans

00:57:51.040 don't like it when you promise to eliminate the Second Amendment. And in a way, that's too bad,

00:57:56.360 because it would have been a lot of fun if Democrats had tried to nominate somebody like

00:57:59.840 Jared Polis. Just to give you some idea of who he is, here's his profile on X.

00:58:05.600 As you can see, it reads,

00:58:07.700 Platinum Recording Artist, Father Entrepreneur, Education, Baseball, Tech, Politics, Gamer.

00:58:14.720 Yes, Jared Polis wants you to know that he is a gamer, G-A-Y-M-E-R, as in a homosexual man who

00:58:21.480 plays video games. Specifically, he says that he plays the games League of Legends and Age of

00:58:26.180 Mythology. And he plays them in a gay way, I suppose, because he finds it relevant to include

00:58:32.300 his sexuality in the very same word that he uses to describe himself as someone who enjoys video

00:58:36.200 games. Jared Polis is desperate for you to know that he is a gamer. It's a core part of his identity

00:58:41.380 as a gay gamer. And after he signed this bill into law yesterday, Jared Polis has also made another

00:58:47.900 thing clear, which is that he will never be the President of the United States or achieve any higher

00:58:52.360 office of any kind. And that is why Jared Polis and his unconstitutional infringement on the Second

00:58:56.360 Amendment are today canceled. That'll do it for the show today and this week. Have a great weekend.

00:59:02.760 Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 11, 2025

Ep. 1574 - Congress Needs To Act On This Very Important Issue Right Now

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