The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1591 - The Part Of The Shiloh Hendrix Case No One Wants To Talk About

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the debate over the N-word heard around the world has obscured

00:00:03.840 one question that deserves consideration. Why was that Somalian man in that park in Minnesota?

00:00:08.660 Why has Minnesota imported thousands of Somalians over the past few years? And what benefit does 1.00

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00:00:17.380 upholds Trump's trans-military ban. More major retailers are moving away from self-checkout

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00:02:13.000 We're at the point where pretty much every square inch of the Shiloh Hendricks racial slur

00:02:17.640 controversy has been debated and overanalyzed ad nauseum. It's an N-bomb that we're told rivals

00:02:23.740 the destructive power of anything that was dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki. But despite all of the

00:02:30.600 coverage, probably the single most important aspect of the story, which is how exactly Minnesota

00:02:37.160 woman Shiloh Hendricks ended up in a playground with two individuals of Somali heritage in the first

00:02:42.180 place still hasn't been widely discussed. And that's too bad because that's the part of the

00:02:47.840 story that elevates it beyond the discussion about Shiloh Hendricks and language policing and cancel

00:02:53.340 culture and brings it to this. It's a question that has significant relevance to every American

00:03:00.380 citizen. So it's worth asking, why exactly were those two individuals 8,000 miles away from Somalia?

00:03:07.260 And what are so many Somalis doing in this country and in particular in Minnesota?

00:03:12.980 Now we'll start with the specific location of this now infamous incident, which is the city of

00:03:18.120 Rochester. Rochester is the third most populous city in the state of Minnesota. It originated

00:03:22.100 as a humble stagecoach stop for travelers between St. Paul and Iowa before a part-time farmer and

00:03:28.520 surgeon named William Mayo put the town on the map. And during the Civil War, Mayo, who was born in

00:03:33.000 England, moved to Rochester and began examining draftees to the Union Army. And within a few years,

00:03:38.580 he established what would become the Mayo Clinic, which now consistently ranks as the best hospital

00:03:43.960 in the country, if not the world. Rochester, in other words, is an example, historically, of American

00:03:50.040 excellence. To the extent that foreign nationals moved into Rochester, like William Mayo, it was to

00:03:55.420 make the city a much better place for everyone. But somewhere along the way, starting in the past few

00:04:02.480 decades, the people running the state of Minnesota, including Tim Walls, decided to import a large

00:04:08.260 group of people not to improve the lives of American citizens in Rochester, but to secure a new and

00:04:13.420 very local constituency for themselves. And in particular, tens of thousands of refugees from the

00:04:19.620 African nation of Somalia began pouring into the state, and many of them settled in Rochester. In fact, so

00:04:26.640 many Somalis have now settled in Rochester that the city recently opened an entire community center

00:04:31.800 just for them. Watch.

00:04:34.580 Minnesota is home to the highest population of Somali residents in the United States. 2023 population data

00:04:43.140 shows more than 63,000 Somalis live in the state. Living in a country other than their own, language and

00:04:50.500 cultural barriers are common issues immigrants face. To overcome these obstacles and promote

00:04:56.300 self-sufficiency, the Rochester Somali community center aims to be a source of help for its people.

00:05:02.360 You have to connect to your community. If you don't have the community that you call yourself,

00:05:09.300 then you're going to be by yourself. The non-profit organization plans to have a community building

00:05:15.220 where the Somali people can feel at home. Hmm. Where the Somali people can feel at home? Well, 1.00

00:05:22.520 I mean, there's one way for them to feel at home. I mean, they could just stay home. If you want a

00:05:29.640 Somali community, then why did you leave Somalia? The whole place is a Somali community. Why did you

00:05:36.260 come here? Now, when William Mayo moved into Rochester, of course, he didn't demand a community

00:05:41.400 center for British citizens. He didn't call for a segregated location where they could talk amongst

00:05:45.640 themselves, away from those dastardly Americans. And he certainly didn't start some fake non-profit 1.00

00:05:52.260 to do so in order to secure a lot of taxpayer money and some write-offs. Instead, he did something

00:05:57.200 productive. He built a medical practice that benefited the entire community and ultimately

00:06:02.160 the entire world. But that's not remotely what Rochester's Somali population is interested in 1.00

00:06:08.380 doing. Instead, they've created a web of non-profits to the point that every single news report involving

00:06:13.540 Somalis in Rochester will inevitably mention a non-profit at one point. So here's another example.

00:06:19.380 This is a news report in which Somalis in Rochester celebrate their own country's independence,

00:06:24.660 not American independence, but Somalia independence. Watch.

00:06:30.040 America celebrates its Independence Day this Tuesday, but for Somalis in our area and all over

00:06:34.780 the world, Independence Day was celebrated today.

00:06:36.880 Somali Independence Day is celebrated everywhere in Minnesota, Minnesota being the second home to

00:06:53.500 Somalia for Somalis. 0.65

00:06:55.160 PAMUJA Women is a non-profit for East African women and their families here in the Rochester area.

00:07:01.840 This is the second year they partnered with various organizations to put together celebrations for

00:07:06.460 Somali Week. 0.84

00:07:07.320 We're just here to just help out the community and empower the women and just kind of get them out of 1.00

00:07:12.740 the homes and into the town and just see this beautiful city of ours.

00:07:17.580 The week of celebrations ended today at Mayo High School where they worked with a back-to-school

00:07:22.080 tournament to run the Somali Week Soccer Championship.

00:07:24.860 It is the second year of this tournament and we're looking forward for the future to have

00:07:30.960 a bigger and better.

00:07:34.020 A week of Somalian Independence Day celebrations in Minnesota.

00:07:41.880 I mean, and by the way, how did Somalian Independence work out?

00:07:46.100 Like, how did that work out for you?

00:07:47.980 I mean, part of celebrating American independence is that we became an independent nation and then

00:07:53.520 very quickly became the most powerful country in the world.

00:07:57.040 So, like, it worked out really well, which is why we kind of celebrate it.

00:08:00.680 Somali Independence, like, how did that work out?

00:08:03.280 It's a, Somalia is a failed state, an impoverished state, full of crime and dysfunction, 1.00

00:08:09.300 just a total disaster zone where Somalian people don't want to live anymore, you know. 1.00

00:08:15.180 So, I don't know, you didn't know exactly what you're celebrating.

00:08:17.980 Anyway, Minnesota is the second home of Somalis, as you just heard.

00:08:22.580 Therefore, they have their own independence day, their own soccer championship.

00:08:25.940 They host events for their own country because they understand very well that

00:08:29.200 they aren't really a part of the United States and they don't want to be.

00:08:33.400 They're not trying to assimilate at all into American culture.

00:08:36.640 They're trying to recreate their culture in this country.

00:08:39.380 Instead, the Somali population in Minnesota has committed itself to, 0.96

00:08:44.020 well, actually, in many cases, defrauding this country at every available opportunity.

00:08:47.680 They have imported every bit of the corruption and wide-scale fraud that has destroyed Somalia. 1.00

00:08:52.700 In 2022, prosecutors announced federal charges against dozens of defendants who ripped off

00:08:57.020 a federally funded child nutrition program during the pandemic to the tune of $250 million.

00:09:02.320 And they claim that they served meals and then they didn't actually serve them.

00:09:06.000 So we're talking about more than 70 defendants here, and most of them were Somalis.

00:09:10.260 Quoting from the Minnesota Reformer,

00:09:12.300 a dizzying array of nonprofits were created or revived to participate in a U.S. Department

00:09:16.660 of Agriculture program to provide free meals to children during the pandemic.

00:09:21.260 Two Minnesota nonprofits are at the center of the case, feeding our future and partners

00:09:24.720 in nutrition.

00:09:25.740 What prosecutors say was the nation's biggest pandemic relief fraud.

00:09:29.800 An FBI forensic accountant testified Wednesday that the largest food distribution site out of

00:09:34.480 the 50 sites connected to the defendants was at the Dar al-Farouk Mosque in Bloomington,

00:09:40.660 where they claimed to serve 1.9 million meals in 2021 for $4.9 million in reimbursement,

00:09:46.660 close quote.

00:09:48.020 Now, this fraud, unsurprisingly, was apparently enabled by Democrats in the Minnesota legislature.

00:09:53.860 As the outlet reports, quote,

00:09:55.300 Representative Hodin Hassan withdrew two bills that would have given the Somali nonprofit called

00:09:59.800 Somali Community Resettlement Services, a total of $6.5 million in grants.

00:10:04.560 Evidence prepared for the federal trial linked the nonprofit to the Feeding Our Future case.

00:10:09.500 It sponsored eight distribution sites in Minnesota cities, where the defendants claimed to serve

00:10:13.540 thousands of meals and snacks daily in 2020 and 2021, for which it was reimbursed over $2.9 million.

00:10:18.700 Of that, the Somali nonprofit paid the defendants and their various entities

00:10:23.120 purporting to be serving meals $1.83 million, meaning it kept nearly $1.1 million, close quote.

00:10:31.200 In other words, the Somali population of Minnesota isn't just ripping off American taxpayers, 0.78

00:10:36.660 they're electing corrupt representatives who are helping facilitate the fraud one way or another.

00:10:42.020 And to be clear, unpacking all of the various fraudulent operations at work here would take about five years,

00:10:46.660 so I'm not going to attempt it. Instead, I'll focus on one aspect of the story,

00:10:49.500 which really highlights the comical and absurd level of corruption at work here.

00:10:55.820 So during one of these trials, some of the defendants hatched a plan to bribe a juror with $200,000,

00:11:03.520 and they decided to drop it at the juror's front door, along with a note explaining that it's a bribe.

00:11:09.500 So it's not the most subtle operation. But then a funny thing happened.

00:11:13.100 As the courier is taking the money to the juror's front porch,

00:11:17.680 she skims $80,000 from the bribe money and keeps it for herself without telling her co-conspirators.

00:11:25.000 So the Somalis are scamming other Somalis while in the middle of a scam. 1.00

00:11:30.200 I mean, it's like you can't trust anyone these days. Watch.

00:11:33.220 On Monday morning, June 3rd, toward the end of the first Feeding Our Future trial,

00:11:41.260 we learned that an unknown woman showed up at the home of a juror, juror 52.

00:11:47.820 Because juror 52 did not answer the door, the woman explained to the man who did

00:11:53.360 that she was leaving $120,000 in cash for the juror as a bribe in exchange for an acquittal.

00:12:02.100 Other than the lawyers, defendants, and the court in this case, no one knew the names of the jurors.

00:12:09.740 Juror 52 immediately contacted authorities when she learned of the bribe, exposing the plot to corrupt the jury.

00:12:18.260 Ladon Muhammad Ali crying before the judge today as the U.S. Attorney's Office

00:12:23.020 laid out the potential prison sentence she could face for her role in all this.

00:12:27.680 Meanwhile, we're learning that she actually hatched a plan to steal some of that cash

00:12:32.360 before ultimately dropping it off at that juror's house.

00:12:36.340 Ms. Ali, any comment?

00:12:38.100 What happened to the rest of the money?

00:12:40.160 Where did the $80,000 go?

00:12:42.220 Please put the microphone.

00:12:43.180 The 31-year-old is one of five people charged with trying to bribe a juror in one of the Feeding

00:12:50.380 Our Future cases.

00:12:51.640 The trial involved seven people connected to the nonprofit, accused of stealing millions

00:12:56.460 from COVID relief funds meant to feed children in need.

00:13:00.840 So a real criminal mastermind here.

00:13:03.220 I just love the fact that she explained explicitly that it's a bribe, which you don't really need

00:13:10.940 to explain.

00:13:11.460 I mean, this is someone who's on the jury for a corruption trial.

00:13:15.200 If you show up with $200,000, like they're going to get, they'll get it.

00:13:19.220 You don't need to say, you don't need to say, by the way, this is a bribe.

00:13:21.960 Just to be clear.

00:13:23.660 So there's money I want to give you and it's a bribe.

00:13:26.340 This is a bribe.

00:13:27.120 Okay.

00:13:27.380 It's just, just, just, you know, this is, I'm, I'm bribing you.

00:13:30.080 I am.

00:13:30.580 I'm trying to pay you to do something that I want.

00:13:32.460 It's a bribe.

00:13:32.980 You understand?

00:13:33.500 You see a bribe.

00:13:35.120 You don't really need to spell it out like that, but she did.

00:13:38.360 Now it, it, we can laugh about how flagrant this was because, because it is funny.

00:13:44.340 Why is it so flagrant?

00:13:45.800 Well, because this kind of thing happens constantly in Somalia and now in places like Rochester.

00:13:52.940 Bribery is a common part of the culture in many places in Africa.

00:13:57.200 I'll, I'll never forget landing in the airport in Nairobi a few years ago and having officials

00:14:02.640 at the airport demand a bribe from me and our whole team five minutes after we got off

00:14:09.360 the plane.

00:14:10.120 And the funny thing is that before we went, we were kind of briefed by the security team

00:14:13.900 and said, like, you know, you know, you get people, if you drive anywhere, these African 1.00

00:14:17.740 countries, it's recommended that you have cash on you to pay the brat, to pay the cops in

00:14:22.680 case they stop you for, for a bribe.

00:14:25.580 And, uh, they, I remember this was explained to us to make sure that you have, make sure

00:14:29.680 you have this money with you in case that you need a bribe.

00:14:32.520 I thought we'd at least make it through the airport before we're stopped for one, but we

00:14:36.880 didn't even, we didn't make it out of the terminal and they were already asking for a

00:14:40.080 bribe.

00:14:40.620 I complain about TSA all the time, but it's just unthinkable that a TSA agent would come

00:14:46.040 up to you and say, Hey, um, you know, you gotta pay me some money.

00:14:49.600 I need some money for, uh, you know, it just won't happen.

00:14:53.620 So it's a, it is a, it's part of the culture.

00:14:57.160 And now, well, what happens when you have people from a certain culture and you bring 1.00

00:15:01.880 them here?

00:15:02.440 Well, they bring their culture with them.

00:15:04.280 And so now this is part of the culture in Minnesota too.

00:15:07.960 Whenever fraudsters are extremely brazen about their crimes, it usually means that they've

00:15:13.000 done it many, many times before, before without any consequences.

00:15:15.680 In this case, they just so happened to run into a juror with a basic sense of morality

00:15:19.720 and, uh, and also a juror who knows that like, okay, we're in a civilized country.

00:15:26.060 I can't like, I can't take this.

00:15:29.120 I can't just take $200,000 in cash and deposit it to my bank account while I'm in the middle

00:15:34.180 of a trial.

00:15:34.880 It's going to send off a million red flags.

00:15:36.420 Even though I wanted to take the money, I can't, I'm going to go to prison.

00:15:39.120 I cannot possibly get away with this in a civilized first world country.

00:15:42.460 Um, so she would have known that too.

00:15:45.680 And of course, even when they're caught, they're totally shameless about it.

00:15:48.520 Calling this an endemic problem would be, uh, you know, it'd be a major understatement.

00:15:52.500 Now on Reddit, just to emphasize the point, there's a topic called question on possibly

00:15:57.520 moving to Minnesota.

00:15:59.060 And here's the question on Reddit.

00:16:01.700 Salaam, my brothers and sisters thinking about moving to Rochester, Minnesota for a job.

00:16:05.860 Is there a large Somali community there?

00:16:07.640 And here's one of the top rated replies, quote, from what I understand, there's a fairly large

00:16:12.400 Somali community in Rochester.

00:16:13.620 The community is tight knit from what I hear.

00:16:15.880 They'll even cut you in on their latest scams.

00:16:18.400 Best of luck.

00:16:19.980 Close quote.

00:16:21.620 Now, one of the reasons that this fraud is so prevalent, other than the fact that, uh,

00:16:25.800 many Somalis who come here like Ilhan Omar despise this country.

00:16:30.420 Uh, but another problem is that a large number of these people apparently don't have the capacity

00:16:37.480 to do much else.

00:16:38.600 Something like 54% of Somalis in Minnesota are below the poverty line compared to 12%

00:16:43.540 of people living in Minnesota overall.

00:16:45.580 Roughly 65% of Somali children live in poverty.

00:16:48.740 The numbers are similar in the UK where 72% of Somalis live in socialized housing.

00:16:54.000 Uh, there is not a single Western society on, on earth that has been improved by importing 0.99

00:17:01.700 large quantities of Somalis and, and the lives of these Somalis aren't really improving that 1.00

00:17:08.260 much either.

00:17:09.980 What's happening is they're bringing corruption, violence, and poverty with them to wherever

00:17:14.660 they go.

00:17:16.040 And they were apparently bringing some antisocial behavior to the playground in Rochester, uh,

00:17:20.680 uh, Rochester, Minnesota, if Shiloh Hendricks version of events is true.

00:17:24.420 As she put it, a black child reportedly of Somali heritage tried to take items from her

00:17:29.020 bag.

00:17:29.340 And then after calling the black child a slur, Hendricks was accosted by a Somali man who's

00:17:33.860 completely unrelated to the black child.

00:17:36.100 And that Somali man, as we discussed the other day, has a history of sexual assault allegations

00:17:40.320 that were later dropped in court.

00:17:42.680 From Shiloh Hendricks's perspective, uh, let's recap.

00:17:45.700 She wanted to enjoy a day at the park with her child in Rochester, but she couldn't enjoy

00:17:48.800 it because like so many other cities in Minnesota, in Minnesota, Rochester has deliberately imported

00:17:54.260 a lot of third world behavior and put aside whether she's a good person or a bad person

00:17:59.060 or whether she used a bad word, which she did use a bad word, uh, by all accounts, including

00:18:03.980 her own.

00:18:05.800 Instead, think about the overall context.

00:18:10.180 Now consider the fact, consider the fact that Minnesota's Cedar Riverside neighborhood has

00:18:14.400 been nicknamed, uh, Little Mogadishu because there's so many Somali migrants flooding in. 1.00

00:18:20.280 And then consider the fact that Little Mogadishu has seen a 56% increase in violent crime from

00:18:26.380 2010 to 2018, right when the Somali population was surging.

00:18:31.840 And think about living through that.

00:18:33.500 Imagine that the local parks, which were once a point of pride for Rochester, are now full

00:18:38.340 of people who are engaging in third world behavior.

00:18:44.800 I mean, how do you respond in that situation?

00:18:47.240 You're probably exasperated.

00:18:49.960 I mean, you might say something naughty on camera.

00:18:52.040 You shouldn't, but you might.

00:18:55.580 And if you did say it, it really wouldn't serve any purpose to start, you know, pointing

00:19:00.360 fingers and blame. 0.61

00:19:01.120 It's like, it's like blaming a driver if he crashes in a poorly designed intersection.

00:19:04.580 Yes, the driver made a mistake.

00:19:05.880 The driver did something they shouldn't do, but the, the real overarching problem that

00:19:12.580 we should be talking about, if we can get outside of this playground and this incident

00:19:16.820 and a bad word that was said that was bad and shouldn't have been said, uh, the, the

00:19:23.040 much greater problem is the, that which the government has engineered.

00:19:28.480 And that is what actually needs to be addressed, which is the flood of third world immigration 1.00

00:19:35.820 from dysfunctional failed States that are overrun with poverty and crime.

00:19:41.880 And they bring it to this country.

00:19:45.400 Now, after my commentary the other day in which I voiced my support for Hendricks's fundraiser

00:19:50.600 as a way of dealing a death blow to cancel culture, not my support for her language, which

00:19:55.800 of course I don't support, but my support for the fundraiser because of the death blow that

00:20:00.780 it deals to cancel culture.

00:20:02.760 But after that, I've been accused of, you know, belonging to the so-called woke right or

00:20:10.040 using third rail tactics that are typical of the woke right.

00:20:13.800 Now, no one's ever explained what exactly that's supposed to mean or how a monologue in which

00:20:18.760 I explicitly condemn cancel culture could be described as woke in any meaningful sense.

00:20:23.760 But the point of these allegations about the woke right isn't to make sense.

00:20:27.740 The point is to derail the conversation so that everyone's talking about labels and meta

00:20:31.620 analysis instead of, uh, what's happened to cities like Rochester.

00:20:37.320 You know, without much fanfare, large portions of this country have been converted into miniature

00:20:42.780 versions of Somalia.

00:20:45.120 You can see the evidence everywhere from community centers to parks to playgrounds.

00:20:49.040 And if you really want to understand the Shiloh Hendrix story, which not many people do, then

00:20:56.060 you can start by explaining to her and everyone else in Rochester what exactly two individuals

00:21:00.940 of Somali heritage were doing in the playground in the first place. 0.99

00:21:03.680 I mean, why exactly?

00:21:04.580 Why?

00:21:04.940 Why?

00:21:05.280 Why are we importing Somalians into this country en masse? 1.00

00:21:10.560 It's a fair question.

00:21:12.100 It's something that we're doing.

00:21:14.260 Why are we doing it?

00:21:15.640 What's the reason?

00:21:17.580 In what way has it improved American society?

00:21:21.300 That's another fair question.

00:21:23.180 I'd like for someone to answer that.

00:21:26.060 No, you can get offended about it.

00:21:27.900 You can call me woke right and you can say all this and that's, that's fine too if that's

00:21:31.720 how you want to respond.

00:21:32.380 But I'd be interested in someone answering the question.

00:21:35.160 We have imported thousands and thousands of people from Somalia.

00:21:39.400 In what way?

00:21:40.480 In what tangible way?

00:21:41.520 Just give me one way that this has improved American society.

00:21:44.800 Give me one tangible way.

00:21:47.360 Can anyone do it?

00:21:50.100 Fair question, but it's a forbidden question.

00:21:52.980 Just like it's forbidden to state the obvious here.

00:21:56.160 Which is that nobody wants to live in a community overrun with Somalian immigrants. 1.00

00:22:02.880 I mean, if you had a choice to live in a community where 60% of the population is from Somalia or one where 0% is from Somalia,

00:22:10.240 you would choose the latter.

00:22:13.440 Every single person would.

00:22:15.740 And we all know it.

00:22:17.240 What'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, 0.78

00:22:30.460 the Somalian who's also an accused child abuser who was filming her, you would choose Shiloh every time. 0.97

00:22:37.100 Every single person would.

00:22:38.160 And we all know it.

00:22:41.520 So then, why are we doing this?

00:22:45.820 Why 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?

00:22:52.960 Can you explain that?

00:22:57.680 If you can't, then you have no business telling anyone who has to live amid this dysfunction, you know, what they can and can't say.

00:23:05.840 And whether that makes me a member of the woke right or not, I don't really care.

00:23:12.060 It's true.

00:23:14.040 And everyone living in places like Rochester knows it very well.

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00:24:39.520 All right, well, you know, it's the headlines, and so we should start with the big headline the media is talking about.

00:24:45.980 The conflict between India and Pakistan is escalating.

00:24:49.420 India this week has launched strikes against Pakistan on the heels of a terrorist attack in India by Pakistani militants.

00:24:56.080 And as this story gets more attention in the media, you know, I have taken the time to research it extensively.

00:25:02.220 I've spent, at this point, several minutes, upwards of 12, even 13 minutes, researching this conflict on Wikipedia.

00:25:12.860 So now we're going to go into a deep dive where I will explain whose side I'm on and whose side we should all be on,

00:25:21.720 which I'm not really going to do, of course.

00:25:24.280 I have no opinion of this.

00:25:25.500 I have no idea what's going on over there.

00:25:27.260 I did look on Wikipedia to try to understand it a little bit.

00:25:30.480 So I do have that.

00:25:31.320 I have that going for me.

00:25:33.300 But you will start to see, if you're not already, you'll start to see pundits and influencers become experts on Indian-Pakistani relations.

00:25:45.020 And 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.

00:25:53.580 You know, find some way to relate this to whatever issues they're obsessed with, which will be a lot of fun to watch.

00:26:01.980 My solemn promise to you is that I will never be an expert on it.

00:26:05.600 I will not ever know anything about it.

00:26:08.140 I refuse to know anything about it.

00:26:11.300 I will.

00:26:12.280 I'm going to stay in blissful ignorance.

00:26:15.560 And my only take is that I hope these guys work it out.

00:26:19.480 You know, I wish them the best of luck.

00:26:23.580 I don't want to be involved in any way whatsoever, whatsoever in any way.

00:26:28.440 But so, you know, just good luck with all that.

00:26:31.000 Good luck with all that.

00:26:32.020 I hope it works out.

00:26:32.740 I really do.

00:26:34.680 That's my analysis.

00:26:36.500 My official analysis of this very important global conflict is that it sucks.

00:26:41.880 And, you know, good luck with that.

00:26:45.580 The end.

00:26:51.120 Here's something I have a little more to say about.

00:26:52.660 NBC News has this.

00:26:53.740 The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump to implement his ban on transgender people serving in the military.

00:26:58.480 The justices granted an emergency request from the Trump administration to lift a nationwide injunction blocking the policy while litigation continues.

00:27:05.600 The court's brief order noted that the three liberal justices dissented.

00:27:10.980 Just over 4,000 transgender people currently serve in the military, according to the Defense Department data, though some activists put the figure much higher.

00:27:18.500 There are around 2.1 million active service members in total.

00:27:21.160 So the Supreme Court will allow this ban to go into effect.

00:27:26.580 But it's good news.

00:27:28.300 Trans-identified people should not be in the military. 1.00

00:27:30.540 The military has to be a place for clear-eyed people who are grounded in reality.

00:27:34.600 If you're confused about some of the basic facts of reality, then you just aren't suited for the military.

00:27:39.880 But, you know, the funny thing is that this is something that the left and trans activists themselves basically admit.

00:27:46.320 They basically admit that trans people are not fit for military service.

00:27:51.500 I mean, they won't admit it outright.

00:27:53.120 They won't say that, but they won't arrive at that conclusion explicitly.

00:27:57.680 But that's effectively what they're saying when they tell us, for example, that trans people commit suicide at alarmingly high rates.

00:28:03.840 They tell us that expressing a view on transgenderism that trans people don't like is an act of genocide.

00:28:10.280 Failing to say a preferred pronoun is an act of genocide.

00:28:13.740 It's genocide because mass amounts of trans people will end their own lives in response to it. 0.94

00:28:18.540 I mean, that's what we're told.

00:28:19.340 That is what they say.

00:28:21.300 That's what they are saying.

00:28:23.120 And 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.

00:28:33.980 I don't think it's true.

00:28:34.680 I don't think the claims of transgenderism true, that that will somehow spur this mass suicide event.

00:28:45.100 I'm skeptical of that, but that's what they tell us.

00:28:46.800 And 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.

00:28:59.560 Again, they'll say that.

00:29:00.720 They'll say a vulnerable is a vulnerable group.

00:29:03.180 They're vulnerable.

00:29:05.300 Do you want vulnerable people in the military?

00:29:08.140 Is 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?

00:29:18.000 Is that a trait you're looking for?

00:29:23.600 You 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?

00:29:30.700 Is that a thing?

00:29:34.440 But that's, again, what the trans activists will say.

00:29:37.020 So in that case, obviously, we can't put them under the stress of warfare.

00:29:41.240 That would be dangerous for them and everyone around them.

00:29:44.800 If you desperately need frequent affirmation, then the military is not for you.

00:29:49.080 Affirmation isn't part of the program.

00:29:52.020 It's not anyone's priority, especially in combat.

00:29:54.160 But trans people, according to trans people, are very needy.

00:30:00.180 They have a lot of emotional needs, which, once again, should rule them out of military service.

00:30:05.660 It should rule them out of really any high-pressure, important job.

00:30:10.340 There should also be a trans ban for, you know, airline pilots and surgeons and a number of other jobs.

00:30:15.920 And I say that because I'm taking the trans activists seriously.

00:30:19.780 I'm believing what they say.

00:30:21.040 They tell us that trans people may physically harm themselves if they are not affirmed.

00:30:25.640 They say that these are very vulnerable people.

00:30:27.580 They're very emotionally, they have a deep need for emotional affirmation.

00:30:32.440 And if they don't get it, like, horrible things can happen.

00:30:34.620 That's what they tell us.

00:30:36.160 And if that's the case, then, you know, again, I'll believe that.

00:30:40.740 I'll take it seriously.

00:30:41.580 And that's why I say, okay, well, thanks for letting us know.

00:30:43.900 Well, 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.

00:30:52.780 I mean, what if you're a surgeon, but right before surgery you got misgendered?

00:30:56.200 What if you're on your way to work, you stopped at a gas station, and the cashier called you sir instead of man?

00:31:03.500 You 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.

00:31:16.280 And do we want, like, do we want that?

00:31:20.620 Do we want a situation like that where someone's, you know, your chest is open on the operating table?

00:31:24.800 You have an open-heart surgery?

00:31:25.800 And the person that's doing the surgery is in a state of emotional crisis?

00:31:32.680 Probably not.

00:31:33.740 So, you know, that's why you just, you can't have it both ways.

00:31:38.340 Like, 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. 0.97

00:31:52.960 I mean, here's a whole list of words that we need you to say.

00:31:57.040 Here's, we need you to change the way you approach language.

00:32:00.960 We need to, we, we, we, I don't care if you believe that it's a woman or not. 0.92

00:32:05.100 You have to play along.

00:32:06.720 Because if you don't, this, horrible things could happen.

00:32:11.480 So 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.

00:32:20.900 It's, it, it, it can't be both, right?

00:32:23.680 It's, it's, it's got to be one or the other here.

00:32:27.800 Um, so, all right.

00:32:33.900 Here's another story.

00:32:35.840 Uh, 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.

00:32:46.900 The company had announced plans last March to expand self-checkout across all locations.

00:32:52.280 However, 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.

00:33:00.980 And 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.

00:33:11.400 And this is the good news, I guess, that comes from living in a low-trust society filled with thieves and crooks.

00:33:18.600 The good news is that it saves thousands of cashiers from losing their jobs.

00:33:22.140 That's one thing.

00:33:23.660 And 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.

00:33:31.700 For me, by the way, the Target boycott is still going and is permanent.

00:33:36.040 I haven't been to a Target in two years, and I'll never go back.

00:33:39.580 Um, so, but this is at Kroger, and I used the self-checkout, scanned all my stuff, uh, because I'm a hypocrite.

00:33:47.020 I, 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.

00:33:56.700 But at the same time, I am antisocial, so if you give me the option, I will take it.

00:34:00.620 But I don't think I should have, it's, don't give me the, if you give me the option, I'll take it.

00:34:04.460 But you probably shouldn't.

00:34:06.000 So anyway, but I'm at the self-checkout line, and, um, I was about to, to pay, and then the light flashes, right?

00:34:13.140 And 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.

00:34:20.580 I don't know, maybe this has been happening for years.

00:34:22.780 It'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.

00:34:36.180 It 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.

00:34:49.820 Uh, now that was not the case, for the record, I, it was not actually stealing anything, but it just, whatever, tripped the thing.

00:34:56.260 And so the girl had to come over, and together we watched the replay to see if I stole something.

00:35:01.760 And 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?

00:35:09.740 Uh, and then I thought, how am I gonna explain this?

00:35:11.700 Turns out I was good, I didn't steal.

00:35:13.880 The whole thing was like, you know, it was like a 30-second ordeal with her just watching the thing.

00:35:18.440 She doesn't care anyway.

00:35:19.480 And, and then she, whatever, scans the badge, and we're fine.

00:35:23.780 But even so, it, it's just, it's like, it's weird, and it's, it's, it's kind of embarrassing.

00:35:29.180 It'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.

00:35:37.780 And, uh, I just thought, this is how we all have to be treated now.

00:35:41.300 We all have to be treated this way.

00:35:42.760 They've, you know, they've got the shampoo locked up behind glass.

00:35:46.800 Um, I, that was in the, in the same shopping experience.

00:35:50.180 And I've, of course, we've, many of us have been through this exact same thing.

00:35:53.660 We needed more shampoo, and I go to the shampoo. 0.69

00:35:56.440 It's a lock behind glass.

00:35:57.260 So I just said, okay, well, never mind.

00:35:58.360 I guess we're not getting shampoo.

00:35:59.300 Like, we're going to have dirty hair, I guess, because I'm not, I, I'm not, I'm, I refuse to do it.

00:36:02.720 I'm not going to call someone over, uh, to unlock the shampoo for me.

00:36:06.680 It's, it's humiliating.

00:36:09.780 And, uh, and then I go to the self-checkout lane, and someone has to come over and check the replay monitor.

00:36:13.840 Like, like an NFL referee.

00:36:16.300 And the whole experience is, uh, it's, it's, you know, it's actually dehumanizing.

00:36:21.720 And just being treated like a suspected thief, even when you haven't stolen anything in your entire life, is, it's actually dehumanizing.

00:36:32.760 And, and it's something that, but this is, we're all used to it.

00:36:36.320 We're all treated like suspected thieves, even though most of us have never stolen anything.

00:36:41.240 And even though most of us are, are not like in the category that you have to worry about us stealing.

00:36:48.580 And that does matter because the data on who does most of the shoplifting and who does what kind of shoplifting is well-established.

00:36:55.360 But stores aren't really allowed to take any of that into account officially.

00:36:59.020 They're not allowed to know what the data says and act on it.

00:37:02.240 So we all get kind of lumped in.

00:37:03.620 Um, you know, as a 38 year old dad at the grocery store with my kids, the chance that I steal anything is basically zero.

00:37:15.000 I 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.

00:37:30.800 It's a very small demographic group that does all of the plane terrorism. 1.00

00:37:37.060 I mean, a hundred percent of it.

00:37:39.140 And, you know, of course we're talking about middle Eastern men.

00:37:41.560 They do like all of it.

00:37:43.300 There'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.

00:37:54.040 And even the leggings probably aren't that important, but it's, it's zero chance.

00:37:57.600 Or 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.

00:38:05.880 No one thinks that there's zero chance of it, 0.0% chance.

00:38:10.300 And, um, but we all have to be treated this way.

00:38:14.360 There is a greater chance that, that, and I got randomly flagged at the airport recently too.

00:38:19.600 I mean, this goes to travel all the time.

00:38:20.560 It happens every once in a while.

00:38:22.300 And once again, the, the, the inconvenience is small, but it's the principle of it.

00:38:28.540 Why am I getting pulled aside?

00:38:30.240 So you can check me.

00:38:32.040 There's a greater chance that I'm selected as the next Pope than that I'm going to blow up a plane.

00:38:37.800 Okay.

00:38:38.140 There's a, it's, it's, it's a much greater chance actually.

00:38:41.400 And the chance of that is also zero, but we have to do this whole kabuki theater where we pretend that every,

00:38:46.640 that the risk level is the same for everybody.

00:38:49.860 And, 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.

00:39:03.520 And you've got a 45 year old white woman with three kids. 1.00

00:39:07.380 We have to pretend that, but I don't know.

00:39:08.780 It could be either one of them.

00:39:09.760 There's an equal chance that one of them could, there's no way to know.

00:39:13.680 There's no way we have no way.

00:39:15.040 We can only randomly do additional screening because the chances are the same for both of them.

00:39:22.720 Uh, 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.

00:39:30.800 I 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.

00:39:40.580 Uh, grocery stores were all there all the time.

00:39:43.560 And for us all to be treated like thieves, as soon as we walk in the door is, um, is, uh, is bad.

00:39:51.440 You know, as, as, as a middle-aged dad, you could, for, you could just leave me alone and forget about me.

00:40:00.880 I'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.

00:40:11.560 Okay. 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.

00:40:18.860 And 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.

00:40:24.340 And I noticed that that thing had not been scanned. It wasn't on the receipt.

00:40:26.840 I drove back to the freaking store to pay the five bucks for the, for the, uh, coffee filters.

00:40:32.740 Not some great heroic act. It's just like sort of typical middle-aged dad behavior.

00:40:37.120 It's the same thing my dad would have done. Um, and, uh, but you know, everyone's treated like a thief, a thief.

00:40:45.480 And 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.

00:40:53.780 That'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.

00:41:03.620 Um, almost half of it is done by people under the age of 25.

00:41:07.560 And 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. 1.00

00:41:22.260 Um, 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.

00:41:30.240 They 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. 1.00

00:41:38.960 This is the consequence of, uh, living in a low trust society. And there's no way around it really for the stores.

00:41:44.500 Um, 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.

00:42:01.520 And, 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.

00:42:14.220 Many 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.

00:42:22.420 And now in a lot of these places, uh, it's, it's just, it's a normal part of the experience.

00:42:28.000 All right. Finally, this is a fun thing because it feels like a kind of a woke flashback to like 2021.

00:42:39.280 And here is Hope Walls, I think is her name, the daughter of Tim Walls with some philosophical thoughts about running.

00:42:49.860 Listen.

00:42:51.380 Running as an act is political. And you know who taught me that? Tim Walls.

00:42:56.220 The 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.

00:43:01.620 I 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.

00:43:13.720 Um, whether you do it recreationally or you race a lot or you are, you know, at the elite level, it is a privilege.

00:43:19.220 Whether 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.

00:43:40.700 All 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.

00:43:58.280 That's the first thing her dad taught her. And, you know, I got into track and field when I was in high school too.

00:44:05.160 The 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.

00:44:12.440 That 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.

00:44:27.180 That'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.

00:44:36.800 Like 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.

00:44:46.580 I 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?

00:44:59.000 Running is political. I actually, I can't think of anything less political than running.

00:45:04.580 What 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.

00:45:14.960 It'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?

00:45:25.080 And 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.

00:45:35.020 It's also a battle against your own mind, against your own willpower, especially long distance running. And that's what I loved about it.

00:45:43.080 Meanwhile, Tim Wall says that it's political. And why is it political? Because not everyone has access to running.

00:45:51.080 Access to running. I mean, think about that. Running is the one sport that everyone has access to.

00:46:01.480 If you have your legs, if you have legs and you have a three-dimensional space of some kind, then you have access to running.

00:46:09.980 That's all you need. You need, well, you need functional legs and a three-dimensional.

00:46:14.480 So 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.

00:46:26.820 But if you are, if you have legs that work and you live in a three-dimensional space, then you have access.

00:46:33.040 You could be in prison and have access to running, actually.

00:46:35.680 So that is just total nonsense.

00:46:42.240 And it's the kind of nonsense that just dominated political discussion, you know, four or five years ago.

00:46:47.180 But we're still hearing it from people like Hope Walls.

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00:49:00.960 Well, the N-word has been the topic of the week.

00:49:03.360 Every episode of America 2025 seems to have its own plot line,

00:49:06.240 and the plot of this week's episode is the N-word.

00:49:08.660 And, you know, when compared to some of this season's recent installments,

00:49:11.200 we have to admit that this one has been, if nothing else, pretty entertaining.

00:49:15.300 And that was especially the case if you watched Piers Morgan's show yesterday,

00:49:18.820 where he assembled a panel, including Myron Gaines, Lily Gaddis,

00:49:23.100 who went viral with her own N-word controversy about a year ago,

00:49:26.480 and Mark Lamont Hill, the race-baiting activist and former cable news personality,

00:49:30.940 who, according to Wikipedia, currently works for Al Jazeera.

00:49:34.680 Not a very surprising career turn for him.

00:49:36.880 With a panel like this, you know, you are no doubt expecting a civil, polite,

00:49:42.080 intellectually rigorous debate.

00:49:44.180 And if you are expecting that, then I'm sorry to disappoint you,

00:49:47.600 because instead, it went like this.

00:49:51.880 I want to live in a country where people are allowed to say what they want unashamedly,

00:49:56.520 and you can, you will not have...

00:49:57.400 Well, go on then, say it.

00:49:59.120 You will not have...

00:50:00.080 Go on, say the N-word. Go on.

00:50:03.020 I'm not asking...

00:50:03.660 Hang on, hang on.

00:50:04.540 No, no, no, no.

00:50:05.400 I don't want you to invite this woman to say a racially harmful term in front of me, 1.00

00:50:09.200 because I'm the only...

00:50:09.760 I'm the only man on here.

00:50:11.160 So if she says it, I'm the victim of it.

00:50:13.220 So please don't invite her for ratings to call me the N-word,

00:50:16.240 because that's basically what it's going to be.

00:50:17.520 There's a bunch of white people up here,

00:50:19.160 and one Uncle Tom on the left here,

00:50:22.420 and asking her to say the N-word while I'm here is ridiculous.

00:50:24.800 You would not sit here with a Jewish person and say,

00:50:27.420 please use a Jewish slur in front of this Jew... 0.92

00:50:29.260 It's ridiculous.

00:50:30.060 I understand you don't have any bad intent, Pierce.

00:50:31.900 I understand what you're trying to do.

00:50:32.960 But we already know some racism, and I don't want to invite a racial harm to me...

00:50:36.960 I hear you, I hear you, and I accept that, and we'll leave it there.

00:50:40.620 Thank you all very much.

00:50:43.340 So let's review what just happened.

00:50:45.220 Piers Morgan tries to coax the woman Lily into saying the N-word.

00:50:48.240 Mark Lamont Hill loses his mind, starts shaking uncontrollably...

00:50:51.440 His camera is shaking and screaming that if she says it, she'll cause him harm.

00:50:58.000 But in the process of screaming about how she can't say the word, he himself says the word.

00:51:02.320 It's bleeped out, so he may have missed it, but Mark screams that he's the only N-word on the panel.

00:51:07.120 And then to cap things off, he calls the other black panelist, Myron, an Uncle Tom, which is also a racial slur.

00:51:11.860 So 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.

00:51:17.580 So 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.

00:51:23.900 And 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.

00:51:30.140 I mean, it's like a psychotic spectacle.

00:51:33.820 Why do I have a problem with the scene that we just witnessed?

00:51:37.980 Well, on one level, I don't have a problem with it. It's really funny.

00:51:40.440 But why do I have like an intellectual problem with it?

00:51:43.080 Well, is it because I love the word and I wish for people to go around yelling it at the top of their lungs?

00:51:47.840 No, it's vulgar.

00:51:49.400 In fact, Piers should not have asked Lily to say it.

00:51:53.000 I mean, that's great television.

00:51:54.580 Piers Morgan has a great instinct for TV.

00:51:58.580 But he should not have asked her to say it for the same reason that he shouldn't dare her to say the F word on live TV.

00:52:04.900 The problem is not that Mark doesn't like the word.

00:52:10.260 The problem is that, and if he had just said, hey, don't tell, you know, it's vulgar.

00:52:14.520 Don't ask her to say a vulgarity on live TV.

00:52:16.920 If he had just said that, we wouldn't even be talking about this.

00:52:19.280 Totally reasonable way to respond.

00:52:21.620 The problem is that he literally shakes with fear at the very suggestion of the word,

00:52:27.160 like a child terrified that if someone says Bloody Mary into the mirror three times,

00:52:31.440 it might summon an evil spirit from the bowels of hell.

00:52:33.600 And yet, while frantically warning of the unspecified harms caused by hearing the word,

00:52:38.160 he forces everyone to hear it by saying it himself.

00:52:41.880 That's the problem.

00:52:42.860 That is obviously the problem.

00:52:44.860 At least obvious to rational people.

00:52:46.600 But I've heard from a lot of very irrational people on the topic this week.

00:52:50.000 People who, while trying to refute my point about the word, only manage to reinforce it.

00:52:54.980 And that brings us to a guy who goes by the X handle, The Strong Dad.

00:52:59.300 But he doesn't seem very strong in the video that he posted responding to my monologue on the Shia La Hendricks case.

00:53:06.360 And so let's watch a little bit of that.

00:53:09.680 If you want to use the word, use that.

00:53:13.400 Go ahead.

00:53:14.860 Use it.

00:53:15.900 In real life.

00:53:17.760 In your walking every day.

00:53:20.120 Use that.

00:53:20.720 If you really care so much about the word, it's a free country.

00:53:28.860 Right?

00:53:29.420 Trump's in office.

00:53:30.480 It's filled up freedom bells and popes and eagles and whatever the f***.

00:53:36.900 Right?

00:53:38.040 It's supposed to be f***ing ego, right?

00:53:40.600 Say that.

00:53:41.560 Go out in your normal.

00:53:43.020 Because this is what y'all do.

00:53:43.920 You say it online, behind faceless accounts, because you're either robots or f***ing ego.

00:53:49.880 Go out there in your normal f***ing life and go call Big Black. 1.00

00:53:55.220 Go do it.

00:53:56.340 It's a free country.

00:53:57.620 You f***ing ego.

00:53:58.280 If you're really not a f***ing ego.

00:53:59.820 If you're really descended of George Washington, you f***ing ego.

00:54:03.080 You'll go out there and do it.

00:54:05.100 You f***ing ego.

00:54:06.240 Go do that. 0.52

00:54:07.760 Go, Aaron, go call the f***ing ego that you know will drag your ass through the street.

00:54:13.620 Go call a f***ing ego. 0.95

00:54:14.620 You know you want to do it.

00:54:15.660 It's a free f***ing country.

00:54:17.620 It's a free f***ing country.

00:54:19.200 The consequences are your own.

00:54:22.320 White people who complain about not being able to say f***ing ego, they own some f***ing 0.91

00:54:27.320 crybaby.

00:54:28.840 Because this is really what they're saying.

00:54:30.920 I want to say n***, but I don't want to get punched for it.

00:54:34.760 I don't want to get mad at me for it.

00:54:37.180 Like Matt Walsh, you f***ing ego.

00:54:40.340 When a tranny beard is not man enough to say, I want to be racist.

00:54:45.620 Just say, I want to be racist.

00:54:48.520 And I don't want y'all to get mad at me for it.

00:54:51.820 Unfortunately, you don't have the right to be racist without us getting mad at you for it.

00:54:56.980 If you want to be a racist, because that's what it comes down to, then you have to be

00:55:02.340 able to accept that God's given consequences could be enacted upon you.

00:55:07.480 Who knows?

00:55:08.140 Okay, first of all, I have to say, don't go throwing stones when you live in a weak,

00:55:16.240 patchy house made out of pubes, which is what your beard looks like.

00:55:19.940 And I'm not one to beard shame normally.

00:55:21.400 I'm on the record that I support any man who decides to grow his own version of a beard.

00:55:25.440 But, you know, coming after my beard when your beard has leprosy is a bit much.

00:55:30.640 Throwing around a term like tranny beard when Ellen Page has a better beard than you is just,

00:55:35.480 it's a bridge too far, man.

00:55:37.220 It's a bridge too far.

00:55:39.620 Second, less importantly, you've completely missed the point.

00:55:44.100 The only question is whether you and all the people who've been saying similar things

00:55:48.360 are pretending to not understand or if you really are this obtuse.

00:55:51.740 And I'm not going to speculate about that, but I don't need to speculate to say that

00:55:55.160 you have made the worst possible arguments against my point because your argument proves

00:56:00.680 my point rather than refuting it.

00:56:02.540 You say that I would be too scared to say the N-word to a black guy because I don't want 1.00

00:56:08.240 to be physically assaulted or killed.

00:56:10.300 My entire point, or half of it at least, is that this word elicits a hysterical and wildly

00:56:15.000 disproportionate reaction.

00:56:16.120 In order to prove me wrong, you're warning me that if I say it, I might end up in the hospital.

00:56:22.280 Yes, well, exactly.

00:56:25.080 Yes.

00:56:25.480 The other half of my point is that there is an insanely flagrant double standard around

00:56:30.880 the word.

00:56:32.080 You helpfully demonstrated that as well by using the word at least a dozen times in your

00:56:37.400 video about why I shouldn't use the word.

00:56:39.920 All that said, I do understand why you're getting so upset.

00:56:44.400 I understand why Mark Lamont Hill was shaking with rage like a two-year-old who was just told

00:56:48.940 that it's time to leave the playground.

00:56:50.780 I get it.

00:56:52.280 For a long time in this country, there has been a rule surrounding this word.

00:56:56.660 The rule stipulates that the word is so unspeakably evil that if a white person says it, you can

00:57:00.720 physically assault him.

00:57:02.020 And if you say it as a black person, it's not offensive or even vulgar in the slightest.

00:57:06.300 So it's the first ultra taboo in the English language or any other language in the history

00:57:11.460 of the world, as far as I know, that switches off suddenly depending on the skin pigmentation

00:57:16.900 of the person saying it.

00:57:18.180 That's the rule.

00:57:20.500 The rule makes no logical or moral sense.

00:57:22.320 It's obviously totally unreasonable, but people followed it anyway, largely because,

00:57:26.980 as you helpfully point out, there was an implicit or even explicit, oftentimes, threat

00:57:32.340 of, among other things, great physical harm if they didn't follow it.

00:57:38.000 So it was an unreasonable and indefensible rule that gave you a certain amount of privilege

00:57:41.720 and power.

00:57:42.580 It's nice to be on the winning side of a rule like that.

00:57:45.300 It may not be fair.

00:57:46.820 It may not make sense intellectually, but it's kind of fun and satisfying if you have

00:57:51.360 a sadistic streak to watch people jump through hoops and march on command like little wind-up

00:57:57.600 monkeys with symbols.

00:57:58.760 You know, like watching other people do that, if you're a sadistic person, is enjoyable.

00:58:04.160 The rule surrounding this word is linguistically unprecedented.

00:58:09.280 There's, again, never been a word in any language ever, ever treated quite like this one.

00:58:16.060 But there's nothing unprecedented about forcing or manipulating people into following artificial,

00:58:21.280 arbitrary rules.

00:58:22.700 I mean, we've seen quite a lot of that, especially recently.

00:58:24.520 There's, you know, this is spiritually no different than social distancing.

00:58:29.420 You gotta be six feet apart.

00:58:31.380 Not four, not eight, six.

00:58:34.840 Respecting pronouns is another one. 0.60

00:58:37.220 These are all rules that can't be defended, can't be justified.

00:58:40.840 They can't even really be coherently explained.

00:58:43.860 People follow them anyway.

00:58:45.300 Until one day, a few people, and then a few more, and a few more, stop and say, hey, wait

00:58:51.720 a minute, why are we doing this exactly?

00:58:53.740 Why is this a rule?

00:58:55.440 Who is this for?

00:58:57.500 Who does this benefit?

00:58:59.440 Who made this up?

00:59:01.840 Like, why?

00:59:04.080 And the moment people start asking those questions, the game is over.

00:59:07.880 And people who benefited from the game, like you, always react the same way.

00:59:13.100 You get angry, you panic, you make threats.

00:59:16.860 I understand.

00:59:18.780 People were cooperating.

00:59:20.180 Now they aren't.

00:59:20.860 And that's always frustrating and kind of jarring for the proponents of the incoherent, indefensible

00:59:25.660 rule.

00:59:27.100 But you don't actually need to panic.

00:59:30.220 You know, there is another way to respond.

00:59:33.340 You could just say this.

00:59:36.200 Here's what you could say.

00:59:38.700 Yes, obviously it's totally wrong and insane for anyone to be physically harmed over a word.

00:59:45.740 And yes, if I say the word, then I cannot rightly tell anyone else to not say it.

00:59:52.320 That's a basic rule of life.

00:59:54.100 You cannot do something and then tell other people not to do it.

00:59:57.580 So 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?

01:00:08.980 If you said that, I, along with most everyone else, would say in response, yes, agreed.

01:00:20.480 Sounds like a plan.

01:00:21.520 And then we could move on and never talk about the subject again.

01:00:24.880 We could never talk about it ever again.

01:00:27.120 You could, in other words, just be reasonable and honest and consistent and humble.

01:00:37.620 Which, by the way, is always the better option.

01:00:40.720 But you and Mark Lamont Hill and your race-hustling compatriots have ruled out reasonableness and honesty and consistency and humility.

01:00:47.920 So instead, you scream and panic and threaten, which is a tale as old as time.

01:00:54.480 And it's why you are today, I'm afraid to say, canceled.

01:01:01.360 That'll do it for the show today.

01:01:02.360 Thanks for watching.

01:01:02.940 Thanks for listening.

01:01:04.200 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:01:05.080 Have a great day.

01:01:06.100 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - May 07, 2025

Ep. 1591 - The Part Of The Shiloh Hendrix Case No One Wants To Talk About

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