The debate over the N-word heard around the world has obscured one question that deserves consideration: Why was that Somali man in that park in Minnesota? Why have thousands of Somalis moved to the United States over the past few years? And what benefit does this mass Somalian migration bring us? We ll talk about all that today on the Matt Walsh Show.
00:22:17.240What's more, if you had a choice between living next door to Shiloh Hendricks or even with her propensity for vulgar language or living next door to the Somalian accused,
00:22:30.460the Somalian who's also an accused child abuser who was filming her, you would choose Shiloh every time.
00:22:45.820Why are we going out of our way to make our communities in this country resemble the worst and most dysfunctional countries on the entire planet?
00:25:33.300But you will start to see, if you're not already, you'll start to see pundits and influencers become experts on Indian-Pakistani relations.
00:25:45.020And you will also see, which is going to be funny to see this, but you're going to see people try to rope this into their, like, pet issue somehow.
00:25:53.580You know, find some way to relate this to whatever issues they're obsessed with, which will be a lot of fun to watch.
00:26:01.980My solemn promise to you is that I will never be an expert on it.
00:26:05.600I will not ever know anything about it.
00:26:53.740The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump to implement his ban on transgender people serving in the military.
00:26:58.480The justices granted an emergency request from the Trump administration to lift a nationwide injunction blocking the policy while litigation continues.
00:27:05.600The court's brief order noted that the three liberal justices dissented.
00:27:10.980Just over 4,000 transgender people currently serve in the military, according to the Defense Department data, though some activists put the figure much higher.
00:27:18.500There are around 2.1 million active service members in total.
00:27:21.160So the Supreme Court will allow this ban to go into effect.
00:28:23.120And if that's true, and I've always been skeptical of that, I've always been skeptical of the claim that I've heard so many times that by someone like myself going out and saying, yeah, I don't agree with this.
00:28:34.680I don't think the claims of transgenderism true, that that will somehow spur this mass suicide event.
00:28:45.100I'm skeptical of that, but that's what they tell us.
00:28:46.800And if that's true, then by their own admission, we're dealing with a very fragile group of people, a very psychologically and emotionally brittle, vulnerable group.
00:29:05.300Do you want vulnerable people in the military?
00:29:08.140Is that, when you're looking, when you think about like the perfect soldier or Marine, and you think about the traits you're looking for, is vulnerable one of them?
00:29:23.600You know, and I didn't serve in the military, so I didn't go to boot camp, but is there a part of boot camp where they're working on their vulnerability?
00:30:41.580And that's why I say, okay, well, thanks for letting us know.
00:30:43.900Well, you know, well, then, for your own sake and everyone else's sake, then you should not be in high-pressure positions where lives are on the line.
00:30:52.780I mean, what if you're a surgeon, but right before surgery you got misgendered?
00:30:56.200What if you're on your way to work, you stopped at a gas station, and the cashier called you sir instead of man?
00:31:03.500You know, well, we're told that's, like, a devastating moment for a trans-identified person, a moment that could lead to the ultimate act of self-destruction.
00:31:16.280And do we want, like, do we want that?
00:31:20.620Do we want a situation like that where someone's, you know, your chest is open on the operating table?
00:31:33.740So, you know, that's why you just, you can't have it both ways.
00:31:38.340Like, the trans activists, they really want to have it both ways where they want to tell us that, listen, this group is so fragile that you have to be so careful in what you say around them.
00:31:52.960I mean, here's a whole list of words that we need you to say.
00:31:57.040Here's, we need you to change the way you approach language.
00:32:00.960We need to, we, we, we, I don't care if you believe that it's a woman or not.
00:32:06.720Because if you don't, this, horrible things could happen.
00:32:11.480So you can't say that on one hand, and then on the next hand say, and also, these people should be in the military and doing high-pressure job supplies on the line.
00:32:20.900It's, it, it, it can't be both, right?
00:32:23.680It's, it's, it's got to be one or the other here.
00:32:35.840Uh, the Postmillennial reports, Target is scaling back its use of self-checkout kiosks across its nearly 2,000 U.S. stores, reversing a previous strategy due to rising concerns over theft.
00:32:46.900The company had announced plans last March to expand self-checkout across all locations.
00:32:52.280However, it's since quietly removed kiosks from certain stores, shutting them down in others, or imposing strict item limits, such as capping self-checkout use to 10 items or less.
00:33:00.980And this is happening, you know, of course, we've seen stories like this, uh, in many other stores where they're moving away from the self-checkout, uh, because of all the theft, because people are, it's like, it's easier for people to steal.
00:33:11.400And this is the good news, I guess, that comes from living in a low-trust society filled with thieves and crooks.
00:33:18.600The good news is that it saves thousands of cashiers from losing their jobs.
00:33:23.660And this is, this is a story that jumps, that jumped out at me because I just had an experience at a self-checkout lane, uh, not at Target, because I don't go to Target.
00:33:31.700For me, by the way, the Target boycott is still going and is permanent.
00:33:36.040I haven't been to a Target in two years, and I'll never go back.
00:33:39.580Um, so, but this is at Kroger, and I used the self-checkout, scanned all my stuff, uh, because I'm a hypocrite.
00:33:47.020I, I don't like the, like, I, I oppose self-checkout in principle because I don't like that it takes jobs away, and I don't like that it, you know, it's just more of an excuse for people to be antisocial.
00:33:56.700But at the same time, I am antisocial, so if you give me the option, I will take it.
00:34:00.620But I don't think I should have, it's, don't give me the, if you give me the option, I'll take it.
00:34:06.000So anyway, but I'm at the self-checkout line, and, um, I was about to, to pay, and then the light flashes, right?
00:34:13.140And it says on the screen that an associate has to come over, and so this girl came over, and I hadn't seen this before.
00:34:20.580I don't know, maybe this has been happening for years.
00:34:22.780It's the first time I'd seen it, where the, it, the associate came over, it played a video on the, on the screen, like a video replay of me scanning the items.
00:34:36.180It was like a little 10-second replay, and I guess because I moved a certain way that triggered the security sensor and made it seem like I might have put something in the bag without, without scanning it.
00:34:49.820Uh, now that was not the case, for the record, I, it was not actually stealing anything, but it just, whatever, tripped the thing.
00:34:56.260And so the girl had to come over, and together we watched the replay to see if I stole something.
00:35:01.760And I also, I watched it too, a little bit nervous, because, you know, I'm like, did I accidentally, did I put something in the thing by accident without scanning it?
00:35:09.740Uh, and then I thought, how am I gonna explain this?
00:35:19.480And, and then she, whatever, scans the badge, and we're fine.
00:35:23.780But even so, it, it's just, it's like, it's weird, and it's, it's, it's kind of embarrassing.
00:35:29.180It's embarrassing that I have to, now I've got to check, you know, I'm, I'm sitting there being, being checked to make sure I didn't steal anything.
00:35:37.780And, uh, I just thought, this is how we all have to be treated now.
00:37:03.620Um, you know, as a 38 year old dad at the grocery store with my kids, the chance that I steal anything is basically zero.
00:37:15.000I mean, it's the same thing when going through an airport, you know, when they randomly flag, uh, certain people, even though there are wide demographic swaths that have literally never committed any kind of terrorist attack on a plane.
00:37:30.800It's a very small demographic group that does all of the plane terrorism.
00:37:43.300There's essentially zero chance that the white middle-aged woman with leggings at the airport is going to blow up the plane or the black middle-aged woman with leggings at the airport.
00:37:54.040And even the leggings probably aren't that important, but it's, it's zero chance.
00:37:57.600Or me and my flannel, you know, going through airport on the way to vacation, no chance that I'm going to be blowing up a plane.
00:38:05.880No one thinks that there's zero chance of it, 0.0% chance.
00:38:10.300And, um, but we all have to be treated this way.
00:38:14.360There is a greater chance that, that, and I got randomly flagged at the airport recently too.
00:38:19.600I mean, this goes to travel all the time.
00:38:38.140There's a, it's, it's, it's a much greater chance actually.
00:38:41.400And the chance of that is also zero, but we have to do this whole kabuki theater where we pretend that every,
00:38:46.640that the risk level is the same for everybody.
00:38:49.860And, you know, so if you have, uh, a, a man of Middle Eastern descent going through the, uh, you know, from, from, uh, Saudi Arabia or something going through airport security.
00:39:03.520And you've got a 45 year old white woman with three kids.
00:39:07.380We have to pretend that, but I don't know.
00:39:15.040We can only randomly do additional screening because the chances are the same for both of them.
00:39:22.720Uh, and no one really believes that, but it's much worse as in places, much worse in places like grocery stores and the cultural effect is much worse.
00:39:30.800I think because it's just, you know, at least an airport is a, is a, a, a place that most people, most people don't go every day or every week.
00:39:40.580Uh, grocery stores were all there all the time.
00:39:43.560And for us all to be treated like thieves, as soon as we walk in the door is, um, is, uh, is bad.
00:39:51.440You know, as, as, as a middle-aged dad, you could, for, you could just leave me alone and forget about me.
00:40:00.880I'm in the category where, and this happened once, once a few years ago, even if I do leave without some, with something not being scanned accidentally, I will drive back to the store and pay for it.
00:40:11.560Okay. That, that happened to me a few years ago and it wasn't a self-checkout. I go through the, it was a cashier that made the mistake of not scanning like coffee filters or something.
00:40:18.860And I get home, I checked the receipt because that's the other thing, of course, we all, that you do, you always check the receipt.
00:40:24.340And I noticed that that thing had not been scanned. It wasn't on the receipt.
00:40:26.840I drove back to the freaking store to pay the five bucks for the, for the, uh, coffee filters.
00:40:32.740Not some great heroic act. It's just like sort of typical middle-aged dad behavior.
00:40:37.120It's the same thing my dad would have done. Um, and, uh, but you know, everyone's treated like a thief, a thief.
00:40:45.480And by the way, the number one predictor for shoplifting is age, right? That's, that's, that is, I mean, statistically, that's what the data says.
00:40:53.780That's the number one predictor. Uh, the peak age for shoplifting is between 25 and is between 15 and 25, like 75% of shoplifting is done by people under the age of 35.
00:41:03.620Um, almost half of it is done by people under the age of 25.
00:41:07.560And when it comes to small personal items, the stuff that you, you know, would find in the toiletry aisle, when you go to the toiletry aisle and, uh, shampoo or cosmetics are locked behind glass, uh, well, that's like mostly young women that are stealing almost all that stuff.
00:41:22.260Um, a young man, if, if, if, if, if a, if a, if an expensive drill goes missing at Home Depot, there's a much greater chance that a man steals it.
00:41:30.240They tend to steal, young men tend to steal high ticket items. Uh, but the smaller stuff, the stuff you find at a grocery store, it's mostly women, but this is the way it goes.
00:41:38.960This is the consequence of, uh, living in a low trust society. And there's no way around it really for the stores.
00:41:44.500Um, you know, there's, there's, there's, there's no way to do it other than to, uh, lock everything behind glass and do the video replays, get rid of the self checkouts, uh, have somebody checking the receipts at the exit.
00:42:01.520And, uh, and, uh, because we live in a low trust society and, and none of this in most places in America, none of this existed even like 20 years ago.
00:42:14.220Many of us have been going to grocery stores our entire lives. And unless you lived in the middle of the city, you never saw anything locked behind glass.
00:42:22.420And now in a lot of these places, uh, it's, it's just, it's a normal part of the experience.
00:42:28.000All right. Finally, this is a fun thing because it feels like a kind of a woke flashback to like 2021.
00:42:39.280And here is Hope Walls, I think is her name, the daughter of Tim Walls with some philosophical thoughts about running.
00:42:51.380Running as an act is political. And you know who taught me that? Tim Walls.
00:42:56.220The first thing he told me when I was first getting into it in high school, granted, I don't really do it as much anymore.
00:43:01.620I go in spurts, but when I was first getting into it in high school, the first thing he told me was that running is a privilege and being a part of the running community is a privilege that not all people have access to.
00:43:13.720Um, whether you do it recreationally or you race a lot or you are, you know, at the elite level, it is a privilege.
00:43:19.220Whether it be you just having the time to run, access like to funds to buy the gear, access to, you know, healthy quality foods that fuel you as you're training and as you're running, um, access to, you know, a safe, stable situation that allows you to be in a good mental state to be able to run.
00:43:40.700All of those things are hard to come by. And if you have them and are a part of the running community, that is a privilege. Um, and that again was the first thing he taught me. Um, so I don't really understand how platforming and administration, uh, running is political.
00:43:58.280That's the first thing her dad taught her. And, you know, I got into track and field when I was in high school too.
00:44:05.160The first thing my dad said when I got into track and field is that I need to practice and train consistently if I want to be great.
00:44:12.440That was my dad's message. The message from Hope's dad is that running is political, which is, I mean, that's exactly the kind of useless nonsense that I would expect Tim Wallace to say to his kids.
00:44:27.180That's exactly, it's precisely the kind of parenting that I thought he probably was, was doing. I can't even imagine those words coming out of my dad's mouth.
00:44:36.800Like I'm trying to imagine being 14 years old, just got into running and I tell my dad, Hey, I'm going out for the track team. And he says, you know, Matt running is a political act.
00:44:46.580I would just look at him like, what? Are you okay? Are you having a stroke? Should I call somebody? Do I need to call? Dad, do I need to call 911?
00:44:59.000Running is political. I actually, I can't think of anything less political than running.
00:45:04.580What I always liked about running is that it's this, it's the purest, simplest, most uncomplicated, most primitive sport there is really. It's just you and your legs running.
00:45:14.960It's the most ancient form of competition, right? It's probably the first type of competition that ever existed in human society was somebody saying, Hey, first one to that tree wins. Right?
00:45:25.080And that's, so it's the, it's the simplest, oldest form of competition. Simple, but difficult, not complicated, but difficult. Running is a battle against your opponents.
00:45:35.020It's also a battle against your own mind, against your own willpower, especially long distance running. And that's what I loved about it.
00:45:43.080Meanwhile, Tim Wall says that it's political. And why is it political? Because not everyone has access to running.
00:45:51.080Access to running. I mean, think about that. Running is the one sport that everyone has access to.
00:46:01.480If you have your legs, if you have legs and you have a three-dimensional space of some kind, then you have access to running.
00:46:09.980That's all you need. You need, well, you need functional legs and a three-dimensional.
00:46:14.480So if you, for example, are a two-dimensional being that is, you know, was drawn on a sheet of paper by a child, then yeah, then you don't have access to running or really anything because you're not a person.
00:46:26.820But if you are, if you have legs that work and you live in a three-dimensional space, then you have access.
00:46:33.040You could be in prison and have access to running, actually.
00:46:42.240And it's the kind of nonsense that just dominated political discussion, you know, four or five years ago.
00:46:47.180But we're still hearing it from people like Hope Walls.
00:46:51.020Well, let's face it. Current handgun storage options are pretty terrible.
00:46:54.600Either your weapon is locked up tighter than Fort Knox, completely useless in an actual emergency, or sitting around like an accident waiting to happen.
00:47:02.220And that's why I've been using the Stopbox Pro for a while now.
00:47:06.500It's 100% mechanical, no batteries to die at the worst possible moment, no keys to lose or fumble with, just reliable access when you need it.
00:47:14.260Stopbox uses a patented five-button locking system that responds only to your unique input.
00:47:20.020It's fast, intuitive, and built for muscle memory, so you're not thinking, you're reacting.
00:47:24.580And when seconds matter, that can make all the difference in the world.
00:47:27.180What really sold me was testing it out at home.
00:47:29.340The build quality is exceptional. It's durable and well-bit.
00:47:32.220Built, and it should be, since they make everything right here in the USA.
00:47:35.760And I can access it quickly in the dark, which gives me real peace of mind,
00:47:38.880while simultaneously making whoever's breaking and entering learn what regret feels like very quickly.
00:47:44.380Plus, for those of you who travel, it's TSA compliant, so you can actually fly with it properly secured and check baggage.
00:47:50.480Because it turns out TSA is not a fan of just throwing loose weapons into your bag.
00:50:45.220Piers Morgan tries to coax the woman Lily into saying the N-word.
00:50:48.240Mark Lamont Hill loses his mind, starts shaking uncontrollably...
00:50:51.440His camera is shaking and screaming that if she says it, she'll cause him harm.
00:50:58.000But in the process of screaming about how she can't say the word, he himself says the word.
00:51:02.320It's bleeped out, so he may have missed it, but Mark screams that he's the only N-word on the panel.
00:51:07.120And then to cap things off, he calls the other black panelist, Myron, an Uncle Tom, which is also a racial slur.
00:51:11.860So if you're keeping track at home, Mark said two racial slurs while shrieking about how he doesn't want to hear any racial slurs.
00:51:17.580So it's like if you were eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and then someone comes by and starts freaking out because they have a peanut allergy.
00:51:23.900And while they're yelling at you to stop eating your peanut butter and jelly sandwich, they're just popping fistfuls of honey roasted peanuts into their mouth.
00:51:30.140I mean, it's like a psychotic spectacle.
00:51:33.820Why do I have a problem with the scene that we just witnessed?
00:51:37.980Well, on one level, I don't have a problem with it. It's really funny.
00:51:40.440But why do I have like an intellectual problem with it?
00:51:43.080Well, is it because I love the word and I wish for people to go around yelling it at the top of their lungs?
00:59:54.100You cannot do something and then tell other people not to do it.
00:59:57.580So instead, you might say, why don't we all just refrain from saying it for the same reason in the same way that most of us try to refrain from using any other slur or vulgarity?
01:00:08.980If you said that, I, along with most everyone else, would say in response, yes, agreed.