The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1595 - The Left Just Found A Type Of Refugee They Actually Hate

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media decides that actually refugees are bad now. All it took

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00:02:03.980 needs more people just like that. 59 refugees. In terms of raw numbers, when you consider the scale

00:02:11.100 of America's refugee resettlement operation over the years, it's a rounding error. Last year alone,

00:02:15.940 according to the most conservative estimates available, something like 100,000 officially

00:02:20.120 recognized refugees arrived in this country as part of an explicit government-sanctioned

00:02:24.500 resettlement program. 59 refugees isn't even close to one-half of 1% of that figure. It is an

00:02:30.940 astronomically small number of people in context. Under the Biden administration, four times that

00:02:36.940 number of refugees enter the United States every single day from places like Africa and Central

00:02:41.160 America and the Middle East, even if the media wanted to cover every batch of new arrivals,

00:02:45.580 they simply could not do it. They were arriving too quickly and from too many countries and too

00:02:49.900 great a number. So instead, they'll just tell us that all refugees are good and that we must accept 1.00

00:02:55.820 them without any questions because a crappy poem on the Statue of Liberty says so. And of course,

00:03:00.760 if you compare 59 refugees to all of the unofficial refugees, all of the illegal immigrants who the media

00:03:07.260 treats as refugees and asylum seekers, then 59 represents something like 0.00002% of the total.

00:03:17.520 Not even a rounding error. It's a microscopic number in comparison. But just for the sake of argument,

00:03:25.260 if you had to imagine a hypothetical scenario where 59 refugees somehow did get the media's attention

00:03:32.260 and also triggered a massive outrage cycle in the process, what do you think might be the reason?

00:03:38.580 I mean, what would it take for CNN, MSNBC, all the networks to lose their minds over 59 refugees who

00:03:44.640 are resettled into this country by the federal government? What kind of heinous terrorist attack

00:03:49.240 would those 59 people have to be plotting? What Chinese-developed bat virus would they have to be 1.00

00:03:55.080 carrying? How many Kanye West lyrics would they have to sing on the plane in order to make the national

00:03:59.540 news media for the first time in recorded history demand that a plane full of refugees be turned

00:04:04.600 around and sent back to where it came from? Well, yesterday we learned the answer to that question.

00:04:09.960 And it turns out that if you want the media to adopt a hardline anti-refugee stance, the refugees

00:04:16.780 don't actually have to do anything. They don't have to say a word, even a naughty word. Instead,

00:04:22.320 the refugees just have to commit the unforgivable cardinal sin of being white. Yes, if the federal 1.00

00:04:28.780 government takes a break from importing hordes of ungrateful Somalis and Haitians and Venezuelans, 1.00

00:04:33.600 if only for a second, and decides instead to rescue 59 well-mannered white people, then all hell 0.99

00:04:40.180 will break loose. And we know that because of the response to this scene from Dulles Airport the

00:04:45.440 other day, where 59 Afrikaners were greeted by senior Trump administration officials and formally

00:04:50.660 accepted in this country as refugees. Watch. 1.00

00:04:53.020 Welcome. Welcome to the United States of America.

00:04:58.840 It is such an honor for us to receive you here today. This is the land of the free. And we know

00:05:05.760 that all of you have faced... I'm Chris Landau. First of all, let me introduce myself. I'm the Deputy

00:05:10.400 Secretary of State of the United States. This is my friend, Troy Edgar.

00:05:14.220 Yeah, I'm the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. And again, welcome.

00:05:17.120 I'm so great to have you guys here. I know you've gone through a long flight. I cannot believe there

00:05:22.940 are babies and children who are actually so well behaved. This is much better than mine are. So

00:05:29.380 bless you for that. Now, before we get into the specifics of why these particular white people

00:05:37.060 are fleeing South Africa and why the left is so enraged by them, just look at these people.

00:05:43.460 They are... They're waving American flags. They're holding their children. They're well-behaved

00:05:50.020 children. They're speaking English. They're coming over as intact family units. They're respectful as

00:05:58.640 they're spoken to. They're not complaining. They're not demanding better accommodations or better food

00:06:05.260 like so many foreign nationals who come to this country. They're acting like responsible, 1.00

00:06:09.840 well-adjusted, productive people. And under the circumstances, this is no small feat. These

00:06:16.560 people have been subjected to decades of persecution in their native land of South Africa solely based

00:06:22.680 on their skin color. And make no mistake, I say the word native and I mean it. South Africa is indeed

00:06:28.660 their native land, at least if that term has any meaning at all. Afrikaners like the ones who 1.00

00:06:35.180 just arrived at Dulles are descendants of Dutch settlers who first arrived in South Africa in the

00:06:41.740 17th century. Okay, that's a very long time ago. So these people can trace their roots in South

00:06:48.000 Africa back 400 years, which is something like 15 or 20 generations. If you cannot be considered native 0.99

00:06:56.380 to a land after 15 generations, then the word native again has no meaning. But now the white 0.99

00:07:03.840 descendants of these Dutch settlers are being persecuted by black Africans, most of whom are 0.99

00:07:08.560 descendants of the Bantu. And the theory is that these white people deserve to be persecuted because 0.67

00:07:13.660 they're colonizers. But the funny thing about the Bantu is that they themselves displaced and conquered 1.00

00:07:20.500 the people known as the Khoisan who were living in South Africa first. So in other words, 0.80

00:07:24.460 if the white South Africans are colonizers, then so are the black South Africans who are now 0.98

00:07:29.120 persecuting them. Now we've talked before about how exactly these white South Africans are being 0.96

00:07:34.640 treated and persecuted. By some estimates, one white farmer is killed every five days in South Africa.

00:07:41.620 And some of these executions are brutal. Quoting from Newsweek, quote, Gabriel Stolls, 35, said that his

00:07:47.220 younger brother Kyle, 21, was shot dead by four people on a game reserve. What is happening to us is

00:07:53.180 torture? It is slaughter. It is brutal. It is revenge. The world doesn't know what is happening

00:07:57.400 in South Africa, he said. Meanwhile, a 56-year-old woman from Pretoria said that three armed men broke

00:08:03.240 into her family's house, stole money, and killed her. Close quote. Now in response to these reports of

00:08:09.000 rampant farm invasions and sexual assaults, the government of South Africa has repeatedly claimed

00:08:13.640 that overall, these statistics show that it's safe for white people in the country. And activists on the

00:08:19.020 left have mostly repeated that same line. They've accused Afrikaners of basically inventing all the

00:08:24.780 homicides and torture that they're being subjected to. The problem with that argument is that even if

00:08:30.080 you pretend for a moment that it's true, it wouldn't change the fact that Afrikaners are clearly being 0.92

00:08:34.600 subjected to overt persecution on the basis of their race. And we know that's true because the government

00:08:40.800 of South Africa just enacted a law that permits the government to seize land from white farmers

00:08:46.060 without compensating them for it. That is the express purpose of the law, to steal land from

00:08:51.320 white people and give it to black people. And predictably, in South Africa, white people, 0.99

00:08:57.120 you know, think that that is evil because it is. And many of the black South Africans support it 1.00

00:09:02.560 because they're the ones who are benefiting from it. Watch. The administration claims Afrikaners are

00:09:08.180 being discriminated against because of the race after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a law

00:09:13.900 this year allowing for private land to be seized by the government without compensation. It's known

00:09:19.140 as expropriation without compensation. The law was drafted and signed as a means of addressing the

00:09:24.600 country's land ownership disparity where black South Africans who make up 80 percent of the population

00:09:29.840 own less than 10 percent of all privately held land. In 2022, I traveled to South Africa to speak with

00:09:36.320 white farmers and black farmers about what was then the idea of a law that would allow the government

00:09:41.800 to confiscate privately owned land. Here's what they told me during my trip. I personally support the

00:09:47.500 land expropriation without compensation. But however, my worry is what do we do with the land we have

00:09:54.880 currently? I've paid for my land by working very hard for it. So I didn't inherit it. I've started with

00:10:03.080 nothing. But I work 10 hours a day for many, many years and pay for the land that I currently own.

00:10:16.100 Okay, so this is actual verifiable persecution. You know, these Afrikaners are not being coached by

00:10:23.400 some left-wing NGO to make up a sob story so that the administration lets them into the country when all

00:10:29.080 they really want is access to the U.S. labor market so they can get a better job. Or even worse and more 0.98

00:10:33.640 commonly, they want access to the U.S. welfare state. That's normally how asylum claims work.

00:10:39.720 They're pretty much all fraudulent and everyone knows it. But this is a very different situation.

00:10:43.480 The government of South Africa has given itself the authority to seize land without compensation

00:10:48.160 from white people specifically and then give it to black people. Okay, if that's not persecution,

00:10:55.100 then what is? If the government can come in and say, you're white, we're taking your home from you

00:11:00.320 and giving you nothing, okay, that is persecution on the basis of race and anyone who claims otherwise 0.93

00:11:06.700 is a liar. And meanwhile, chants of kill the boar, as in kill the white farmer, are being led in 0.98

00:11:12.440 massive stadiums by black politicians in South Africa. The purpose of asylum laws and refugee programs 0.95

00:11:18.620 is to protect people in precisely this scenario. They're being targeted based on characteristics

00:11:23.640 that they cannot control. But across the corporate press, we're told that these Afrikaners should 1.00

00:11:28.940 stay and they should just take it, essentially. They need to lose their land and in some cases lose

00:11:33.660 their lives because of the alleged sins of their ancestors. Watch.

00:11:38.900 So deeply and morally wrongheaded and repulsive. These are the descendants of the people who created 1.00

00:11:47.160 the most diabolical system of white supremacy in human history, apartheid. They're not directly

00:11:53.200 responsible for it, but it was a system that actually moved black people off of the arable land. 1.00

00:12:01.400 So they inherited the land that the black people had to give up. It was called forced removal. 0.99

00:12:06.960 It was something called a ban to stand policy where they moved black people out of the cities

00:12:11.080 and farmlands into these remote areas with non-arable land. I mean, it was just one of the

00:12:16.440 most worst processes ever. But what has happened in this strange, bizarre world we're living in

00:12:22.640 is that the Afrikaners have become the darling of these right-wing, white supremacist movements

00:12:28.340 around the world. It's like the lost cause for them. It's like the old confederacy. They're held up

00:12:34.800 as these white Christians who are being dispossessed of their land. It's like this is a modern 0.90

00:12:40.240 replacement theory in a country where, by the way, white people make up 7% of the population

00:12:46.800 and own 78% of the farmland. So it's actually, there's no injustice here. As you mentioned,

00:12:54.700 it's taking places away from refugees who are really being crushed by authoritarian governments

00:13:00.460 and military governments for these folks who have never had anything happen to them. And Trump

00:13:05.460 amazingly called it a genocide. One of the worst lies I've ever heard him say. There's just been a

00:13:11.620 small handful of farmers that have been killed over the past 10 years. This guy is such a, just a lying 0.99

00:13:18.680 piece of garbage. Uh, you know, it's, um, it's just a small handful. It's just a small handful of white 1.00

00:13:26.240 farmers that have been killed. You know, just a handful. What's a few white farmers being murdered for

00:13:31.200 their race? Yeah. What's a few of them between friends? So what's the big deal? You know, a certain 0.97

00:13:37.020 amount of sexual assault and murder apparently is a reasonable punishment for the supposed sins of your 0.95

00:13:42.140 great grandfather. I mean, just think about this for five seconds and you can imagine what kind of

00:13:48.680 torture these people have planned for you. And actually the, you know, the most insufferable part

00:13:54.360 of this answer came at the beginning. He describes apartheid as a horrific example of racial injustice

00:14:00.100 that we should never repeat, which of course is accepted liberal orthodoxy. He says it was so bad

00:14:06.060 that even today white people who had nothing to do with apartheid should suffer for it. That's about

00:14:10.700 the safest sentiment that you can express on television these days. What he doesn't address,

00:14:15.780 and it's a very noticeable omission, is what came after apartheid. He doesn't say whether South

00:14:21.660 Africa is a better country now, now that it's, you know, under, than it was under the previous regime.

00:14:26.760 And it's clear why he doesn't address that. It's the third rail of international politics. It's the

00:14:31.620 one question you're not supposed to ask. A lot of people fear that if you ask that question,

00:14:36.640 then you're justifying racial segregation. But actually you're not doing that. You're not

00:14:40.580 interested. What you're interested in doing is just understanding how the world works.

00:14:45.180 You're interested in observable and provable facts. So with that in mind, here are some of the

00:14:50.700 conclusions of a recent paper from the Center for International Development at Harvard University

00:14:55.020 about the current state of South Africa. And here we go. Quote,

00:15:00.460 Income per capita has been falling for over a decade. Unemployment at over 33% is the world's

00:15:06.520 highest, and youth unemployment exceeds 60%. Poverty has risen to 55.5% based on the national

00:15:13.300 poverty line, yet many more households depend on government transfers to sustain meager livelihoods.

00:15:18.860 Most cities are failing to adequately connect people to productive opportunities and are

00:15:22.260 failing to innovate, grow, and drive inclusion. Rural areas and former homelands

00:15:27.060 where almost 30% of South Africans live exhibit dismally low employment rates and remain

00:15:33.620 exceptionally poor. Critical network industries, including electricity, transport infrastructure

00:15:38.640 and services, security, and water and sanitation, have experienced major deteriorations over the

00:15:44.260 last 15 years. Rail and port capacity has declined, generating large losses in exports. Urban crime is very

00:15:50.960 high, and theft and sabotage undermined the functioning of many national infrastructure systems. Close

00:15:56.940 quote. Okay. And just imagine how much better all that's going to get once you start displacing,

00:16:03.960 you start removing the farmers who are actually like farming, you know, productive farms. When you kick

00:16:10.220 them out and redistribute that land, how much better is all this going to get? Well, how did this all happen? How

00:16:20.940 exactly did post-apartheid South Africa become a disaster zone? How did everything fall apart the

00:16:27.020 moment the country became the ultimate embodiment of anti-white race-based government? Of course, the answer 0.98

00:16:33.020 here is contained within the question. In South Africa, post-apartheid, people are awarded positions

00:16:40.340 of power based on their skin color. This is a far more extreme system than apartheid, which literally

00:16:46.780 meant separation. This is something else entirely. This is a system that says if you're not white, then you 0.67

00:16:52.600 get to run the power grid and the trade policy and every other vital function of the country. Identity

00:16:58.300 trumps merit in every single case. And of course, catastrophe follows. Now, we've shown this chart

00:17:05.760 before, but it's worth looking at again. You can take a look at it here. As you can see, it shows that

00:17:11.900 South Africa today has more laws involving race classifications than it did during apartheid.

00:17:19.680 Only these laws are targeted now at white people specifically. And the country has become even

00:17:24.840 more dysfunctional as a result. So by every measure, South Africa is worse today than it was

00:17:33.160 under apartheid. By every measure. Now, it's enough to make you wonder if, as MSNBC claims,

00:17:40.780 white people are responsible for the sins of their ancestors, then what should happen to the current 1.00

00:17:45.280 rulers of South Africa? They've done far more damage to that country than anyone that came before them 0.98

00:17:50.320 did. They've engaged in far more pervasive racial violence. They've made the economy stagnate.

00:17:57.060 They've collapsed the power grid. They've killed the export market. So if the white people deserve 1.00

00:18:03.480 to get murdered on their farms, what exactly should happen to the black Africans who have been entirely 1.00

00:18:08.140 responsible for the total decay of South Africa in the 21st century? Now, those are rhetorical questions, 0.97

00:18:14.300 of course, because nobody in the corporate press is capable of engaging in an ounce of introspection

00:18:17.860 about anything that's happened in South Africa for the past 30 years. Instead,

00:18:21.680 they're happy to tell you that, according to South Africa's government, everything's fine.

00:18:27.020 They've got this big celebration, and these are the only white African descendants of apartheid,

00:18:34.380 the European colonials, or those who participated in apartheid. They're of all ages, including children.

00:18:40.800 South Africa says that the allegations about persecution of these people,

00:18:44.820 the allegations are false, according to the South Africans.

00:18:48.420 Well, you know, we checked with the people doing the persecuting, and they say everything's fine,

00:18:52.000 so nothing to see here. We said to them, hey, are you persecuting people over there?

00:18:56.320 No, we're not. Thanks for asking. Oh, okay, well, never mind then.

00:18:59.920 Wow, they said they weren't doing it. 0.98

00:19:02.480 Now, these people know that they're saying, well, everything they're saying is ridiculous.

00:19:05.700 They also know what will happen to them if they step out of line.

00:19:09.060 Seven years ago, Australia's Minister of Home Affairs, basically their equivalent of our Department

00:19:14.120 of Homeland Security, became one of the first major Western political figures to call for the

00:19:18.340 resettlement of Afrikaners. The minister, his name is Peter Dutton, made a public declaration

00:19:23.320 condemning persecution of white farmers in South Africa. Additionally, Dutton stated that

00:19:27.620 these white farmers deserve the protection of what he called a civilized country, saying that they

00:19:32.400 should be offered emergency visas so that they could flee to Australia. If the white farmers remained in 1.00

00:19:37.300 South Africa for much longer, Dutton said the consequences would be horrific. And in the end,

00:19:41.440 he was shouted down and humiliated on the international stage for wrong think,

00:19:45.540 and the brutality in South Africa continued, even though he, of course, was completely correct.

00:19:50.820 Donald Trump is the first major Western figure to offer Afrikaners an alternative,

00:19:55.180 and that has led to many meltdowns just like this one. Watch.

00:19:59.980 Well, in my view, what makes it different is that they are white South Africans. The president, 0.91

00:20:05.680 in my view, has not hidden his racism behind a bushel. In fact, you know, in his policies,

00:20:11.720 whether it's removing government workers or, in this case, admitting white South Africans while denying

00:20:19.420 refugee status, asylum seekers from other countries, principally Central and South American and Black

00:20:29.000 nations to come into this country. And so I think that, you know, this policy, while it's not

00:20:34.940 surprising in this action, really speaks of the underlying message in this that disrespects and

00:20:44.080 shows disdain for people of color while embracing these Afrikaners. Now, and also expediting the 1.00

00:20:52.920 process by which they can come into the country while denying that same process to other refugees. 0.82

00:20:58.820 Now, the relevant distinction here is that Central and South Americans want to come to this country

00:21:04.880 so that they can get better jobs or exploit our entitlement programs. They are not being persecuted

00:21:10.900 because of their skin color. That's a very big difference under our laws. You know, there's not 0.97

00:21:18.520 anywhere in the world, actually, where there are non-white people who need to flee because a white 0.97

00:21:23.780 government is persecuting them for their skin color. That's not happening anywhere on the planet.

00:21:31.000 But the reverse is. And there's also a big difference here from a logical perspective.

00:21:36.520 We cannot rescue every poor person in the world. If being poor is enough to make you a refugee, 0.99

00:21:42.920 then there are billions of poor people and we've got to find some way to fit them all into the country. 0.96

00:21:48.800 You know, we simply don't have the capacity to do that, even if we wanted to. But we can save people

00:21:55.060 who are being explicitly targeted on the basis of their skin color. And in this instance, the left

00:22:00.100 is making it very clear that they don't want to do that. In many cases, they're coming up with all

00:22:03.320 kinds of bizarre rationalizations to avoid saying it out loud, but it's pretty clear. For example,

00:22:07.700 here's one reporter pretending that rescuing intact, stable families from South Africa is somehow just

00:22:13.480 as risky as accepting single military age foreign nationals from Venezuela. Watch.

00:22:19.740 The Trump administration, they're saying that essentially these white South Africans

00:22:23.240 assimilate better and they're also not as much of a security risk. That's really causing a lot of

00:22:29.000 people to be appalled, frankly. And I should tell people that this violence that they're talking

00:22:34.320 about that are dealing with these Afrikaners. I've been hearing from people that say there is 0.65

00:22:37.680 violence in South Africa, but it's affecting everybody of every single race, Katie.

00:22:41.340 It's appalled, many people were told, but it happens to be completely reasonable.

00:22:46.480 It's clearly better for this country to accept patriotic refugees who want to be here from

00:22:51.160 intact families, period. Anyone who denies that is operating with an ulterior motive.

00:22:57.700 And that would include the Episcopal Church, which has just made its intentions pretty clear on the

00:23:01.460 topic. Because Trump administration dared to save white people from persecution, the Episcopal Church

00:23:05.920 is now ending their longstanding partnership with the federal government to help resettle refugees.

00:23:11.340 I mean, this is one of the most extraordinary mask off moments you will ever see.

00:23:16.760 These people have no problem resettling Somalis, Haitians, tens of thousands of other people who

00:23:22.600 hate this country and want to abuse our charity and exploit us. But the moment they're asked to

00:23:28.720 resettle even one white person, they shut down the whole operation. So here's the relevant portion of

00:23:34.960 a letter from the leader of the Episcopal Church. And just listen to this. It's so cartoonishly evil

00:23:41.000 that at first you think it can't possibly be real, but no, it is. Quote,

00:23:46.500 Just over two weeks ago, the federal government informed Episcopal Migration Ministries that under

00:23:50.620 the terms of our federal grant, we're expected to resettle white Afrikaners from South Africa,

00:23:55.280 whom the U.S. government has classified as refugees. In light of our church's steadfast

00:23:59.400 commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of

00:24:04.080 Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step. Accordingly, we have determined that by the end of the

00:24:09.660 federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant with the U.S. federal government.

00:24:15.160 Now, you can read that paragraph 10 times, and it's still hard to believe that they put it in

00:24:20.960 writing. They're saying explicitly that they're not willing to save white people from persecution

00:24:26.480 because it doesn't align with the ideals of racial justice and reconciliation. Okay, so when someone

00:24:32.660 says that racial justice is just a very thinly veiled code word for anti-white persecution, there you go,

00:24:40.600 right there. I mean, what this episode is revealing pretty clearly is that the word

00:24:44.720 refugee has always been a cover for the Great Replacement. Okay, the Great Replacement is 1.00

00:24:50.840 real. It's not a theory. It's a thing that's actually happening. The idea behind refugee programs,

00:24:56.040 as far as the left is concerned, is to make the country less white. That is why it exists. That's 1.00

00:25:00.480 why they care about it. It's the only reason they care about it. They view the replacement of

00:25:05.020 white people as a necessary step towards racial justice. Any other explanation has always been a 0.87

00:25:11.760 complete and total scam intended to obscure the fact that they despise white people. They delight 0.99

00:25:16.900 in their suffering and their death and their displacement, and they want to see more of it.

00:25:20.880 That's the only way to explain everything that's happening right now, including the Episcopal Church

00:25:25.020 in that letter that I just read. This is not a conspiracy theory. We now have confirmation directly

00:25:30.320 from the corporate media and the refugee resettlement industry, directly from them. And for many years,

00:25:35.500 conservatives have made this point. And every single time, they've been shouted down by an

00:25:39.260 extraordinarily well-coordinated and well-funded propaganda machine on the left. In the end,

00:25:43.720 all it took to short-circuit the propaganda machine to get these ghouls to tell the truth

00:25:47.500 about their motivation was for an administration to actually save the lives of just like a few white

00:25:52.660 refugees. 59, that's it. The sight of just 59 white people being rescued from systematic persecution

00:25:59.220 was too much for them to bear. I mean, they couldn't even grin and bear it and pretend to be okay

00:26:06.520 with it for political purposes. They just couldn't continue the facade any longer.

00:26:11.420 That's how profound their anger and racial resentment and hatred really is. 0.63

00:26:16.880 But no matter how much anti-white vitriol these people spew, the fact remains that as more and

00:26:22.240 more Afrikaners flee to the United States, the total collapse of South Africa is now basically

00:26:27.620 inevitable. We are witnessing the end of the failed post-apartheid experiment, 0.92

00:26:32.620 as well as the public exposure of the longstanding refugee scam in this country.

00:26:38.080 Two of the biggest leftist myths of the past century have just been obliterated for everyone

00:26:42.920 to see. None of these refugee scams should receive another dime of taxpayer money, whether they're 1.00

00:26:48.940 affiliated with a church. Notice the scare quotes around that or not. Anyone who demonizes Afrikaners

00:26:56.960 should be given a one-way ticket to South Africa to see how well that's worked out for them.

00:27:00.680 And all the rest of us, those of us who actually care about this country,

00:27:05.320 should embrace these South Africans. And regardless of what some fake churches and the

00:27:11.800 corporate press desperately want, no matter how many times those frauds all beat their

00:27:15.760 chests and scream about apartheid, we should welcome them to our home. Now let's get to our five headlines. 1.00

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00:28:23.740 Network USA help before the IRS makes the next move. I want to play this because, well, just because I

00:28:30.360 very much enjoyed it. And so here is Ron DeSantis, Governor DeSantis, delivering a two and a half

00:28:36.940 minute takedown of property taxes, which is, it's just, the whole thing is music to my ears. Let's

00:28:43.920 listen. No, you should own your property free and clear. I think to say that someone that's been in

00:28:52.980 their house for 35 years just has to keep ponying up money, that is not, you don't own your home if

00:28:59.960 that's the case. So yes, of course, I'd like to see people be able to owe free and clear. And it's

00:29:07.180 interesting because it's like, you know, if I go to Best Buy and buy a flat screen TV and put it on

00:29:13.280 the wall, I got to pay a sales tax on it, right? But I don't keep paying tax on it every year. I mean,

00:29:18.060 it's just not, that's not how we do things. It's like, okay, if you're going to tax something, you tax it

00:29:23.180 at the transaction and then let people actually enjoy their free, their private property free and

00:29:30.440 clear of the government. So that I think is the vision. That's the philosophical insight. And if

00:29:35.560 you think about our founding fathers, when they were proposing the constitution in one of the

00:29:41.140 federal's papers, I think it was Hamilton, he's writing about, because, you know, there was opposition

00:29:45.680 to the constitution. They were making a more powerful federal government than under the Articles of

00:29:51.080 Confederation and people worried about taxation. And they didn't have, obviously, a 16th Amendment,

00:29:56.160 which eventually came on income tax. But basically, you were not effectively allowed to do any direct

00:30:01.140 taxation. It had to be indirect, meaning you couldn't just, I mean, you could theoretically just

00:30:06.820 apply like a tax on land federally, but it'd have to be a portion among the states. So practically,

00:30:11.520 it could never work. So basically, Hamilton's saying, look, the indirect taxes are the most effective,

00:30:18.120 efficient way to raise revenue for the government, because they basically allow the individual to

00:30:23.660 choose how much tax they want to pay based on how much they're consuming. And there's a security,

00:30:30.040 there's a protection against excessive tax in that regard, because if the government raises

00:30:35.580 consumption tax too much, it kills the golden goose, because then it causes people to stop purchasing

00:30:42.140 as much. But he said taxing property is one of the worst forms of taxation, because people don't 0.72

00:30:48.300 have a choice in the matter. And you're just basically drilling these folks over and over again

00:30:53.180 on tax. And so it's, it's an issue that I think has pinched a lot of people. But philosophically,

00:31:00.260 it was not the way that that the federal government was constructed.

00:31:04.640 I like how he specified flat screen TV, which is like specifying, you know, color TV.

00:31:11.040 But just giving the governor a hard time is he's because he's exactly right about this. And he's

00:31:16.020 right about some, you know, he's right about a lot of things, which is why I hope he runs for

00:31:21.260 president again. I also like J.D. Vance. So I think we'll be very blessed for a primary that comes down

00:31:26.160 to to those two not to get ahead of ourselves. So yes, property taxes are an abomination, direct taxes

00:31:32.700 of any kind are an abomination. We cannot be a free people with a system like this. We just can't.

00:31:38.280 You know, if the government has the ability to tax your land in perpetuity and your income in

00:31:43.940 perpetuity, then in what sense are you free? In what sense can you call yourself a free man?

00:31:48.200 You're not free. You know, you have to pay the government for the privilege to sit in a lawn chair

00:31:54.420 on your own front lawn. You're not free. And we need a lot more Republicans who are willing to talk

00:32:01.100 about this. This needs to become a Republican issue. I you know, this is why I don't I don't

00:32:09.400 care about lowering taxes. It's it's better than raising them. I'll take lower taxes are better than

00:32:15.720 higher taxes. I'll take them. Right. But I don't really give a damn about that because lowering

00:32:21.000 who cares? You know, lower property taxes by two points. Big deal. It's it's like kind of an insult,

00:32:28.780 actually. It's like if the bully who is stealing your lunch money every day suddenly announces that

00:32:34.700 he's going to he's going to steal four percent less than he normally does, because he wants to

00:32:38.820 you know, he wants to make sure that you got a little bit. Yeah, you got it. You'll have a little

00:32:42.680 bit of money. You'll have a couple of 50 cents to go buy, you know, whatever. But can't buy anything

00:32:47.820 with it. And then he expects you to thank him for it. They expect you to thank him. It's just an insult.

00:32:54.060 Well, the problem with property taxes and income taxes is it's not just the amount they take. I

00:32:59.480 mean, that is that's part of the problem. That can be very that is very onerous and even backbreaking

00:33:05.880 in some cases. Just dealing with property taxes specifically, I know, you know, the first home

00:33:12.440 that we ever owned, the property taxes were so bad that it was one of the primary reasons why we had to

00:33:17.660 move. We were paying like eight or nine hundred dollars a month just in property taxes. And this was

00:33:22.400 this was not a you know, this is not a million dollar home by any means or even close to that.

00:33:27.140 And that amount of money a month at the time was was like it was a lot. It was ultimately a deal

00:33:32.780 breaker. And that's pretty insane. I mean, it's it's pretty insane that you're paying rent to the

00:33:37.740 government that you move into it, you buy a home, you bought it and you still are paying rent basically

00:33:44.360 to the government for the for the privilege of living there so that you can never really own it.

00:33:50.960 I mean, even even after you've paid off your mortgage. Because you can quite accurately say

00:33:56.020 that, well, yeah, if you've got a mortgage, you don't really own your home. But even after you

00:34:01.340 pay it off, you go in and buy a house in cash and you and you but you still don't own it because

00:34:06.700 you got property because you got it. You got to pay rent. You got to pay rent to the to the

00:34:10.200 government for the privilege of owning your own home. And that's not even the worst part.

00:34:14.520 The worst part. To my mind, is the spiritual cost, the mental cost, the demoralization of

00:34:23.520 not being allowed to truly own anything. You know, the worst part is that the government

00:34:29.940 is saying to you, saying to all of us, you will own nothing. We will not let you own anything

00:34:37.960 ever. You're just you're not allowed to own anything. Your home is not yours. Your land is

00:34:45.400 not yours. None of your property is yours. Your income is not yours. We have direct access to

00:34:52.660 anything. We can go right into your bank account if we want. If you don't give us as much as we

00:34:56.960 think you owe us, we can just go into your bank account and take it like you. You own nothing.

00:35:01.480 We, the government, have direct access to anything that is yours. We can take any of it at any time

00:35:06.440 if we want to. And there won't even necessarily be any due process at all. You know, so it is

00:35:15.700 oppression. It is like actual oppression. And I want to hear more Republicans talking about this. So

00:35:25.940 when I, when I, you know, a lot of us on the right now, we get, we're very tired of the Republicans

00:35:35.280 who for them, the only thing they care about, like, well, we want to cut taxes. They don't want

00:35:40.700 to talk about all the really important cultural issues, the important issues that have to deal with

00:35:46.680 our sovereignty, our existence as a nation, as a people. They don't want to, they don't want to talk

00:35:51.480 about that, but they will talk about cutting taxes. Um, yeah, I'm, I'm very sick of that brand

00:35:58.100 of Republican. I have been basically forever, but that's not because taxes aren't an important issue.

00:36:06.300 It's because even what you're saying about taxes is not, it, it, it doesn't like cutting. Okay.

00:36:13.220 As I said, that's what you're not even getting close to addressing the actual problem.

00:36:21.480 And if you cut taxes a little bit, then, then they get raised and it's up and down and up and

00:36:25.340 down. It, the problem is that what we need to get down to is that some of these forms of taxation

00:36:32.820 should not exist in the first place. That's the issue. And there are very few Republicans that are

00:36:40.940 willing to talk about it along those lines. And that's a problem. All right, let's talk about

00:36:46.980 something, uh, a little bit more positive. So here's a conversation that is, has gone viral.

00:36:54.400 It's making the rounds right now on social media of, uh, Joe Rogan on his podcast recently. I think

00:37:00.400 this is his most recent episode, a couple of days ago, it came out and they start talking about,

00:37:05.440 uh, religion. They start talking about God, about the origins of the universe. Now, Joe Rogan,

00:37:10.860 as you probably know, is an atheist and has been in the past, very outspoken about that,

00:37:17.220 which is what made this clip really, really interesting. Listen to this.

00:37:23.880 Well, space is the ultimate who knows because we can only see so far. We see so far, but even so

00:37:30.960 far is only so far.

00:37:32.360 Well, and then they're saying like, it's always expanding, which that's, that can't be true.

00:37:35.520 Cause like, what is it expanding into? If space is space, you know, if they're like,

00:37:40.460 oh, it's like blowing up a balloon where everything's okay. Well, you're blowing up a

00:37:44.000 balloon in a room. Right. So what's the room that you're blowing the balloon into? And then

00:37:48.120 that's in a bigger room. And then that's right. And then there's the concept that it's actually

00:37:52.220 finite. It's not infinite. And it's some sort of donut shape. It's like the Lord goes back

00:37:58.820 around eventually. But then who made all that? Right. Like, is there a God? Did God make this?

00:38:03.880 Or is God the universe? Yeah. But then who made God? And then that bothers me.

00:38:08.880 Right. But who made that thing? Is that a thing that we think that like, because we were born

00:38:14.720 and we die, that we have these biological limitations that we attach to the universe itself?

00:38:22.720 That's, that's a very, yeah, that's fair. That, yeah, that we just, we see things as being

00:38:27.920 built and destroyed. That there's always been something. Wouldn't it be crazy if there wasn't

00:38:31.600 something at one point in time? Yeah. That seems even crazier. Then there always has been

00:38:36.320 something. Because if it's just something, if it's just the nature of everything, there

00:38:41.080 is always something. Right? Right. It couldn't be nothing. And then all of a sudden, everything.

00:38:46.660 That seems... Because what started that? What kicked that off? Exactly.

00:38:49.480 What snapped its fingers? Like, you know. That's McKenna's great line. Terrence McKenna

00:38:53.520 had a great line about the difference between science and religion is that science only asks

00:38:57.780 you for one miracle. I want you to believe in one miracle, the Big Bang.

00:39:01.860 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good one. It's a great line. It's because it really is true.

00:39:06.520 And it's funny because people would be incredulous about the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

00:39:11.040 But yet they're convinced that the entire universe was smaller than the head of a pen.

00:39:16.500 And for no reason than anybody's adequately explained to me. Makes sense.

00:39:20.960 Yeah. No. It instantaneously became everything.

00:39:25.200 Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I can't buy that.

00:39:28.660 I'm sticking with Jesus on that one. Yeah.

00:39:30.720 Like, Jesus makes more sense.

00:39:33.700 I'm sticking with Jesus. Well, that's a pretty incredible moment there. Now, I don't think

00:39:38.620 that Joe is going to go off and be baptized tomorrow, although that would be awesome.

00:39:42.980 But it is a significant statement, I think. And what they're saying here is true. You know, 0.79

00:39:52.420 when you really think about and study the great deep mysteries of the universe, you realize that

00:39:57.420 no matter what, you have to deal with incomprehensible mysteries. No matter what,

00:40:05.840 our universe and our own existence defies all of the physical laws and rules that we think exist.

00:40:12.040 You know, existence defies reason, basically. That's how it seems to me that the fact that

00:40:20.020 anything exists, that we exist, defies reason, defies what we think we know and what we think

00:40:25.940 we can observe. And so that's the world we're in. I mean, that's the world that all of us are in,

00:40:31.140 no matter what, like it or not. And that's the world we're in. So we are dealing with

00:40:38.100 things far outside of our comprehension, no matter what. And they're talking about the beginning of

00:40:46.400 the universe, which it's true makes no sense on the atheist worldview. The idea of something coming

00:40:51.920 from nothing is incomprehensible. The thing that the other guy mentioned, and I'm not sure who that

00:40:57.820 is, but the point about the expanding universe, expanding, like what is it expanding into? If it's

00:41:05.500 expanding, for it to expand assumes that there's an end to it. You know, a thing without an end cannot

00:41:12.040 expand by any definition of the word expand that makes any sense. Infinity cannot expand. So if it

00:41:19.180 has an end, what's on the other side of it? If you could theoretically travel faster than the

00:41:22.880 expansion of the universe, what would you run into? And these are all incomprehensible

00:41:27.120 questions, which shows that atheism, I mean, the point is that the atheism does not avoid

00:41:33.060 the incomprehensible. Atheism does not avoid the miraculous, which is the point, which is the quote

00:41:40.820 that Joe Rogan said there. Now, that quote, I think, is pretty clearly meant to be a selling point for

00:41:50.520 atheism, because the point is supposed to be that, well, with atheists, you only have to accept one 0.92

00:41:57.140 miracle. And if you're religious, then there's many, many more down the line. But number one,

00:42:05.440 that's not true. And number two, you're still admitting that even on the atheist worldview,

00:42:10.200 you have to accept what to us seems as miraculous. And I think that, and anyway, again, it's not even

00:42:17.260 true that, well, okay, so if you're atheist, then you only have to deal with one miraculous event,

00:42:22.800 which is the beginning of everything. Well, no, there's all kinds of stuff that happened

00:42:27.480 after the beginning that also cannot be explained on the atheist worldview. And to me,

00:42:38.380 I think the most incomprehensible and miraculous thing that atheism can't explain

00:42:44.360 is not the universe itself, which that's a problem, or even life itself, but consciousness.

00:42:51.800 I mean, that to me is the fact of our existence that points most immediately and unavoidably

00:42:58.520 to the supernatural. I mean, the existence of the universe points to the supernatural, I believe,

00:43:03.820 the existence of life points, but even more than that, the existence of consciousness.

00:43:10.160 Because even if you can explain how inanimate material, how matter came into existence on its

00:43:17.780 own somehow, which we can't, and even if you can explain how biological matter came into existence

00:43:23.580 on its own, which we still can't, you're still left with the question of how this matter, how this

00:43:29.220 material became aware of itself. How could chemicals arrange themselves in such a way accidentally

00:43:37.820 that they develop an awareness of their own existence?

00:43:44.520 Consciousness, the knowledge of the self as a self, which is what consciousness is, I would say.

00:43:50.100 Consciousness is basically selfhood.

00:43:53.260 Even if we concede that beings, that organisms can form accidentally, which I don't concede.

00:43:57.880 But if we did, it's like an infinitely larger leap to say that the self can form accidentally.

00:44:09.760 That our, you know, an awareness of the self can form accidentally.

00:44:14.360 And we don't even understand what consciousness is in physical terms, much less where it comes from.

00:44:19.720 So that's also, so that this is, it's not just one miraculous event.

00:44:24.480 That's, there's a series of them that the atheist must posit leading, I think, to what for the atheist

00:44:34.180 is the ultimate miraculous and unexplainable event, which is, which is consciousness.

00:44:39.220 So all that is, that's good.

00:44:40.740 But that's all.

00:44:43.680 To have someone like Joe Rogan speaking in these terms at all is just culturally, you know, a major progress.

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00:45:17.380 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:45:24.820 A while ago, there was a supposedly mind-bending observation that made the rounds online,

00:45:29.320 and it went something like this.

00:45:31.040 If we really wanted to, we could fit the entire population of the world,

00:45:34.640 several billion people, inside one building in New York City.

00:45:37.820 The architects and mathematicians crunched the numbers,

00:45:40.380 and they came up with the plans for a new structure that would supposedly make it work.

00:45:44.720 Here's one artist's rendition of what it would have to look like

00:45:47.740 with the Empire State Building there for scale.

00:45:51.160 So it's very, very large.

00:45:55.040 And it's not especially appealing from an aesthetic perspective.

00:45:58.840 But it's certainly not impossible, in theory, to construct something like this.

00:46:03.320 We have the technology. There's no doubt about that.

00:46:05.220 With enough time and money, we could get it done, in theory.

00:46:09.140 And on the surface, it was a pretty attractive proposition for some people.

00:46:12.700 After all, if we build a gigantic cube structure like this in a desert somewhere,

00:46:17.720 then no one would ever have to be homeless again.

00:46:19.580 And then we could build maybe a massive cube-shaped pizza hut next door,

00:46:23.200 and no one would ever go hungry again.

00:46:24.880 All the world's problems, in essence, could be solved.

00:46:27.500 All you have to do is provide the physical structure, and good things will happen.

00:46:30.520 But this kind of thinking crops up occasionally in various different contexts.

00:46:33.920 It's one of the reasons that left-wing cities pour millions of dollars into non-profits 0.99

00:46:37.740 that promise to end homelessness,

00:46:39.580 which in turn spend thousands of dollars on hotel rooms and pocket the rest.

00:46:44.260 It's also the reason that this video just went viral,

00:46:46.780 featuring a Canadian-based non-profit that's promising to end homelessness entirely

00:46:50.560 with their new creation, which is a set of so-called tiny, tiny homes.

00:46:56.200 And here's a little bit of their presentation.

00:47:00.420 Ryan, what have we got?

00:47:01.920 Hey, uh, we've got a little tiny home here.

00:47:04.360 So it is four feet by seven feet, so it's 28 square feet total.

00:47:07.940 I want to show you around a few things.

00:47:10.020 Take a peek.

00:47:12.200 Okay, I'm going to sit right here in the corner, okay, Ryan?

00:47:14.220 Okay.

00:47:16.580 Mind you, I'm about six foot two.

00:47:18.740 I'm, uh, six foot one.

00:47:20.400 I fit in here, I got a lot of space.

00:47:22.020 Yep.

00:47:22.220 So inside here, you got your ventilation.

00:47:24.500 This is really important for the wintertime,

00:47:26.480 or sorry, for the summertime.

00:47:27.960 You can keep all your heat and you can cook.

00:47:30.340 Right here, you got a desk.

00:47:32.800 That's the way you can, uh, you can eat, do your artwork,

00:47:35.480 do whatever you got to do.

00:47:36.580 I got a propane burner behind me.

00:47:38.860 Where do we sleep, Ryan?

00:47:40.020 When you're ready to go to bed,

00:47:41.700 I grab this back cushion, put it down, move it over. 1.00

00:47:46.320 Damn. 0.99

00:47:47.300 And the same thing for this one, right? 0.99

00:47:48.620 This cushion as well slots down.

00:47:49.920 Well, it all sounds fantastic,

00:47:53.580 at least if you've never interacted with a homeless person in your entire life.

00:47:57.040 The unhoused people can use the tiny desk for sending emails and, you know, 1.00

00:48:01.040 joining conference calls.

00:48:02.200 And it's a big relief for everyone because, as we all know,

00:48:04.960 nothing is more annoying than organizing a conference call

00:48:07.100 and then realizing that the local hobo didn't log on.

00:48:10.820 And then the unhoused individual can access propane,

00:48:13.380 which certainly won't be misused in any way.

00:48:16.100 That can't, nothing bad can happen there with a homeless person with a propane tank.

00:48:21.740 And then he can go to sleep and repeat the process the next day.

00:48:24.640 What's not to love?

00:48:26.080 Well, as I pointed out the other day,

00:48:27.360 actually there's like a lot to not love about this whole setup.

00:48:30.840 The biggest issue is that a homeless person will turn this tiny,

00:48:33.760 tiny home into a horrifying feces and trash filled drug den in about 45 minutes. 0.99

00:48:39.980 And that's because, as we've established many times before,

00:48:43.400 homeless people are not homeless because they fell on hard times.

00:48:46.380 They are homeless because they are completely dysfunctional, drug-addled vagrants 0.65

00:48:49.600 who have no ability to live in civilized society and no interest in even trying.

00:48:54.880 And it's time for everyone to just grow up and start being honest about this.

00:49:00.860 Now, to give you some idea of exactly what I'm talking about,

00:49:03.100 in case you need a visual reference,

00:49:05.260 here's footage that was shot by the independent journalist Kevin Dahlgren.

00:49:09.120 And it shows an example of a similar tiny home that was purchased by the city of Portland

00:49:14.300 for its local homeless population at a cost of around $16,000 a pop.

00:49:20.400 And there you go.

00:49:23.040 As you can see, it does not appear as though the vagrant who inhabited this tiny home

00:49:27.380 decided to make use of the facility to join conference calls or to tighten up his resume.

00:49:32.000 He didn't seize the opportunity to conduct little tiny piano recitals

00:49:35.260 or tiny basket weaving sessions for the local elderly community.

00:49:39.700 Instead, he used his tiny home to get high and hoard dead cats.

00:49:44.440 That's basically what happened.

00:49:46.160 And of course, this is not unusual.

00:49:48.260 It's how these kinds of projects always go.

00:49:51.300 My prediction about how the homeless will treat these tiny, tiny homes from this Canadian company

00:49:55.180 is not a Nostradamus prophecy.

00:49:57.840 There are many, many examples of this kind of approach failing disastrously.

00:50:02.740 Here's one recent example from downtown Los Angeles.

00:50:05.400 Watch.

00:50:05.600 Only on Fox 11, concerns of rampant drug use outside of a hotel that's now being used for LA's inside safe temporary housing program.

00:50:14.780 And neighbors say it's all happening just steps away from two schools.

00:50:18.860 Fox 11's Matthew Seedorf live tonight outside City Hall after relocating from the hotel on Union Street.

00:50:24.680 Matthew, what'd you find?

00:50:25.340 Well, Christine, after hearing from this viewer and seeing it firsthand, we didn't feel safe even doing a live shot outside this hotel.

00:50:33.460 But tonight, we're hearing and seeing this video from outside for the first time.

00:50:37.520 Oh, she got it.

00:50:39.780 Look, she got her fentanyl.

00:50:41.200 Possible illegal drug deals on public sidewalks.

00:50:44.160 They're attempting chest compressions.

00:50:46.660 Overdoses.

00:50:47.440 She really was waving a gun.

00:50:49.400 And arguments with police.

00:50:51.160 The rampant, hard drug use and sales.

00:50:55.560 Just some of what Christopher Stone has recorded outside the Stewart Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

00:51:02.120 Outside the building Thursday, Fox 11 recorded several people slumped over, a large encampment, and possible human waste.

00:51:09.840 They relieved themselves on the sidewalk because they're too high just to walk the 50 feet to their private bathroom.

00:51:17.960 Yes, it's too dangerous for the reporter to even film outside the hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

00:51:22.620 This is the center of one of America's biggest cities that we're talking about.

00:51:25.920 This is not Haiti, but it's resembling Haiti more and more, all in the name of helping the homeless.

00:51:31.800 And this kind of thing happens all the time in Los Angeles, as you might imagine.

00:51:34.640 A couple of years ago, vagrants caused more than $10 million in damage to the boutique Mayfair Hotel.

00:51:40.240 According to Los Angeles Times, they, quote, shattered windows, vandalized bathrooms, and tore carpet off the floor.

00:51:47.940 There was also open air drug use, violence, threats to staff, and so on.

00:51:52.620 All of this dysfunction was made possible by a federally funded program that turned hotels into homeless shelters to predictable results.

00:51:59.840 Again, these people were staying in a nice hotel, not some tiny, tiny home, and they still managed to destroy it immediately.

00:52:08.600 Because, as I've said so many times, their main problem is not a lack of housing.

00:52:13.360 And this is not just a local issue, by the way.

00:52:16.820 It's true everywhere that these homeless shelters and tiny homes are installed.

00:52:20.080 The Sun reported on a similar situation in the UK, for example.

00:52:22.580 Quote, 18 mini-homes, which provide a bed, shower, and cooking facilities, were installed three years ago in response to the growing number of street sleepers in Camborn.

00:52:31.040 Furious locals claim that they have led to a spike in street drinking, drug taking, and antisocial behavior.

00:52:37.760 One local trader, who did not want to be named in fear of reprisals, told the Sun,

00:52:41.180 I've experienced a rise in shoplifting and have had my windows smashed.

00:52:44.620 Indeed, on the day the Sun visited, drinkers clutching cans of lager were gathering in Commercial Square at the bus station.

00:52:50.760 Close quote.

00:52:51.180 And the same thing happened in a so-called tiny home village in Seattle, as Jason Rance reports.

00:52:58.000 Quote, Jason Shackelford is the owner of Stingray Auto Repair, just about seven blocks from the village.

00:53:02.540 In court documents, also presented as part of this lawsuit, he complains that crime and vandalism in the area has skyrocketed since the introduction of the village.

00:53:09.000 The business now opens an hour later due to his safety concerns and says that he now finds needles and condoms around his business.

00:53:16.840 Quote, most days we have to hose the urine out of our front doorway.

00:53:19.800 This was never a problem until this year, Shackelford declares.

00:53:23.120 Also affecting us is that we can no longer leave customers' cars in our own parking lot overnight, as they are sure to get broken into.

00:53:29.680 Close quote.

00:53:31.360 Now, people are outraged at me for my take on these tiny homes, but none of these people can deny the point that the homeless consistently destroy any kind of housing offered to them anywhere, ever, always.

00:53:44.680 Okay?

00:53:45.500 The evidence is very clear.

00:53:47.140 And that's because the vast majority of the homeless people do not want to be in homes and are not interested in or capable of doing the basic things necessary to be productive members of civilized society, as we just saw from that story in L.A.

00:54:01.100 You can offer them a private bathroom, and they will still just take a dump on the sidewalk rather than walking 50 feet to the bathroom.

00:54:08.020 Now, this all becomes even more obvious if you're just, again, honest, and you think about what has to happen for a person to end up homeless.

00:54:21.560 Okay, it's not like these are sober, law-abiding, functional, sane adults who get laid off, and next thing you know, they're sleeping on a cardboard slab on the sidewalk.

00:54:32.760 To be homeless, you need to be somehow unable or unwilling to get any job at all or obtain any lodgings at all of any kind.

00:54:43.360 Now, just for reference, just like for an example, I checked, based on a quick Google search, the cheapest apartments in Nashville, where I live right now, are around $600 to $800 a month.

00:54:58.980 Now, these are not nice places at all and are probably located in dangerous areas, but they're basically palaces compared to living on the sidewalk.

00:55:07.980 And even if they're unsafe, they have the security of Fort Knox compared to a cardboard box.

00:55:13.900 Meanwhile, the average full-time employee at McDonald's probably takes home around $2,000 a month.

00:55:18.900 Again, not a handsome salary, but it's enough to afford the cheapest apartment, and it's enough to, you know, you can get it enough to eat to survive.

00:55:27.560 So, if you're homeless, why wouldn't you just do that?

00:55:34.260 Any 16-year-old high school student can get a job at McDonald's.

00:55:38.400 Even a very low salary is enough to afford an apartment if you're willing to stay in the cheapest, crappiest place, which you should be if the other option is a park bench.

00:55:48.220 So then, why are there homeless people all over the city?

00:55:52.460 Like, why are there vacant apartments right now that you can get for like $700 a month and afford on a very low salary with a job that a teenager can get?

00:56:05.080 Why?

00:56:05.560 Why do I see the same rotations of vagrants hanging out at the same intersections for months, if not years at a time?

00:56:14.400 Like, if they're hitting the pavement, trying hard to land some kind of job so they can afford some kind of housing, how are you still on the street six months later?

00:56:24.820 Well, because the answer, of course, is that they're not trying at all.

00:56:29.020 They're not making any effort of any kind at all to improve their circumstances, because they don't want to improve their circumstances, because they don't care.

00:56:42.860 And yet, even that, right, even that is actually not enough in most cases to make you homeless.

00:56:49.240 Even, you know, in order to be homeless, you need to be unable and unwilling to get any job or to live in any apartment.

00:56:59.680 And, because that alone is not enough to make you homeless most of the time.

00:57:04.140 And you have to have alienated every single person in your life who would otherwise help you.

00:57:11.620 Now, go and talk to anyone who has a homeless brother or homeless cousin or whatever, and they will all tell you the same story.

00:57:22.240 The story is the same every time.

00:57:24.300 The story is, you know, I tried to help the guy for years.

00:57:27.220 I invited him to live with us.

00:57:28.780 All he did was steal and lie and manipulate, and he made himself a liability and a danger to everyone around him, including my family.

00:57:37.780 And so, eventually, even though we love him, we couldn't do anything for him anymore.

00:57:42.600 We just can't, because he won't take any help, and he abuses anything we give him, and he steals and lies and manipulates, and that's all he does.

00:57:50.020 You know, it's the same story a million times over.

00:57:54.580 And all of that is required in order for a person to wind up homeless.

00:58:00.280 Leaving aside the very rare exceptions to this rule, in almost every case, it is that.

00:58:06.180 It is someone who is unable and unwilling to do even the smallest, most basic things, to get even the lowest-paying job and live in the most modest apartment.

00:58:16.500 And also, they have systematically alienated every single person in their life.

00:58:23.280 That's, mix all that together, that's how you end up with somebody on the street.

00:58:28.420 And that's why you aren't going to solve the problem with cute little tiny homes.

00:58:32.580 If you could, homelessness would not exist.

00:58:36.180 Because there are already small, unpleasant, and extremely cheap housing options in every city in the country.

00:58:43.880 So, what is the solution?

00:58:46.180 The only solution is to institutionalize.

00:58:50.880 You start making use of prisons and asylums. 0.92

00:58:54.700 You know, we began closing the asylums in the middle of the last century in this country, 1.00

00:58:57.800 in part because the pharmaceutical industry successfully pushed the claim, which we now know is false,

00:59:02.420 that they can produce effective antipsychotic drugs.

00:59:06.120 And now everyone admits that actually we have no idea how many of these drugs even work or if they work.

00:59:13.940 We have no explanation for the dramatic rise in the number of mass shootings and suicides and so on.

00:59:18.540 But, despite these developments, no one's ever bothered to revisit the decision to close the asylums from the 1950s to the 1980s.

00:59:26.180 Instead, activists are now seriously pushing the idea of tiny, tiny homes,

00:59:29.980 even as every other tiny, tiny home becomes a storage locker for needles and dead animals.

00:59:34.640 What these activists don't want to acknowledge, even though it's obviously true,

00:59:40.060 is that you can't fix homelessness by building a giant cube in New York or a pop-up tent city in Portland

00:59:46.040 or a tiny home in, you know, Toronto.

00:59:49.320 The homeless population, overwhelmingly, is deeply troubled, mentally ill.

00:59:57.100 They've dedicated their whole lives to drugs. 0.55

00:59:59.280 It's the only thing they care about.

01:00:00.380 And the way that they want to live is incompatible with civilization.

01:00:06.180 Now, that's tragic, of course.

01:00:09.660 But it's a lot more tragic to allow psychotic degenerates to destroy everyone else's quality of life.

01:00:18.720 The fact that some people are incapable of living in a functional society

01:00:22.080 doesn't mean that society needs more tiny, tiny homes.

01:00:24.980 It means that these people need to be in an institution somewhere far away from the rest of us.

01:00:30.960 And if the creators of these tiny, tiny homes don't realize that now,

01:00:34.360 it will occur to them the moment that their new tenants get high

01:00:37.160 and take a dump all over their tiny, tiny furniture. 0.98

01:00:40.340 And that is why the creators of these ridiculous little homes for the homeless 0.76

01:00:44.040 and everyone else who denies the true cause of homelessness

01:00:46.420 and refuses to be honest about this are today canceled.

01:00:51.380 That'll do it for the show today.

01:00:52.320 Thanks for watching.

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01:00:53.400 Talk to you tomorrow.

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The Matt Walsh Show - May 13, 2025

Ep. 1595 - The Left Just Found A Type Of Refugee They Actually Hate

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