The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1597 - South Africa Doubles Down On Their Anti-White Agenda And The Left Celebrates

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the meltdown over the white South African refugees has

00:00:03.380 reached a fever pitch. This has really been the ultimate mask-off moment. We'll talk about it.

00:00:07.700 Also, officials in Minnesota are supposedly preparing for riots in case Derek Chauvin

00:00:11.740 is pardoned. But is that really going to happen? And why are they actually making a big show of

00:00:16.220 preparing for riots? We'll discuss. And environmentalists are always finding little

00:00:19.820 ways to make everybody's lives worse. The Trump administration will be rolling back at least one

00:00:23.680 of these policies. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:23.400 Try to imagine that you run South Africa. You're in charge of the African National Congress. Not

00:02:29.100 exactly an enviable position. Your country has the highest unemployment rate in the entire world

00:02:33.600 since the end of apartheid, which was supposedly the greatest evil to ever befall mankind.

00:02:38.040 A lot of bad things have been happening. The power grid has collapsed along with the export markets 1.00

00:02:42.300 and any semblance of public safety. Headlines like this one are common. As you can see, it reads,

00:02:48.760 Grandmother 71 dies of shock after she was forced to watch her three granddaughters being raped at

00:02:53.700 gunpoint at her home in South Africa. And there's plenty more where that came from because you have

00:02:58.700 turned your country into the living embodiment of DEI to disastrous results. And then, to your horror,

00:03:04.820 the President of the United States decides to shine an international spotlight on your incompetence.

00:03:09.100 He makes it impossible to hide what's going on in South Africa. Specifically, the President allows

00:03:13.720 white citizens of South Africa to flee to the U.S. so they can escape all the anti-white violence and

00:03:19.000 race-based land seizures that you've implemented in your failing country. And unsurprisingly, a lot 1.00

00:03:24.120 of white people take the United States up on the offer. They decide that it's better to uproot their 0.98

00:03:27.840 entire families and fly halfway across the world than to spend another second under your rule in South 0.93

00:03:33.320 Africa. Now, if you have an ounce of shame, that would have to be extremely, monumentally embarrassing. 0.81

00:03:40.720 I mean, there are politicians in Japan who would quit, you know, quite literally commit like

00:03:46.020 ritualistic suicide under those circumstances. The job of any government is to look after the

00:03:51.860 well-being of its own people. And once the most productive members of society start leaving

00:03:56.740 at great personal cost to themselves, then you have failed as a leader and as a government. You are

00:04:03.880 illegitimate and you have no one else to blame. And you should resign in shame at the absolute minimum. 0.98

00:04:10.720 But the African National Congress has decided on the opposite course of action. Rather than engage

00:04:14.480 in any kind of introspection, they decided to attack the white refugees who have just fled to 0.96

00:04:19.060 America. They're not showing any interest in keeping any of the remaining Afrikaners from fleeing, 1.00

00:04:23.620 even though they're responsible for maintaining the vast majority of usable farmland in the country.

00:04:29.160 They're also not interested in contesting the notion that white people are going to be persecuted

00:04:32.720 in their country. Instead, the African National Congress released this statement the other day.

00:04:37.820 As you can see, the statement reads, quote,

00:04:40.980 They flee not from persecution, but from justice, equality, and accountability for historic privilege.

00:04:47.060 The statement goes on to describe the refugees as cowardly and says that they are offended by a

00:04:51.360 democratic society working to redress past injustices. Then there's this concluding line,

00:04:56.160 which really sells the message. Quote,

00:04:58.240 Well, this is one of those things that's less true for having been said, as the saying goes.

00:05:13.400 If you're running a highly functional, stable country, then you're not going to end your press

00:05:18.080 release out of nowhere by declaring that you're not a broken or failing state. No state that isn't a

00:05:24.140 failing state has ever had to clarify in a statement that they aren't a failing state.

00:05:28.680 And it's like walking up to your wife unprompted and announcing that you're not having an affair.

00:05:34.200 But none of these people are especially bright, so they're not aware of the implications of what

00:05:38.060 they're saying, no matter how obvious those implications might be.

00:05:41.600 It also explains why, in effect, their message is essentially an explicit threat to every white 0.96

00:05:45.640 person in South Africa. And they're also attempting to coax the refugees back 0.99

00:05:50.140 with a promise of giving them the opportunity to be held accountable for historical injustices.

00:05:57.060 They're basically saying, hey, guys, can you come back so we can persecute you?

00:06:00.360 This isn't fair. We were going to persecute you, and then you left. That's not fair.

00:06:04.640 Now, with this statement, they are validating everything the Trump administration says about

00:06:07.780 the country. No person of any race should be subjected to land seizures or violence as part of

00:06:12.960 accountability for historic privilege, whatever the heck that means. But that's what the government of

00:06:17.940 South Africa is now demanding by their own admission. And it's what the political left is

00:06:21.820 demanding in this country, too. In the days since the first 59 white refugees arrived from South

00:06:27.020 Africa, political commentators on the left have been melting down to a degree that's

00:06:31.920 truly hard to comprehend, even given everything we already know about these people.

00:06:35.540 What we're seeing is primal rage and hysteria. I mean, it's a level of anti-white race hatred

00:06:41.200 that needs to be exposed, or else very soon, you know, we're going to start to look

00:06:45.800 a lot like South Africa. So let's start with Don Lemon, who no longer has the need to temper

00:06:51.020 his passion for white genocide now that he's not on cable news. Not that cable news personalities

00:06:56.120 are tempering it very much, as we'll see later on. But anyway, here's Don Lemon.

00:07:00.680 This South African farmer, which is the most blatantly obvious racist ever. It is blatantly obvious 0.94

00:07:11.920 the way that we treat white South Africans, who, by the way, for the most part, and I am generalizing

00:07:18.540 here, some of the wealthiest people are well-to-do people in the country. They speak their language.

00:07:24.400 They're not just taking land away from white South African farmers. White South Africans, 0.86

00:07:30.220 about 9% of the population owned 87% of the fertile land. Okay? Today, black South Africans make up more 1.00

00:07:41.220 than 90% of the population, and they only hold about 4% of all privately owned land. So what they're

00:07:49.500 trying to do is say, hey, we need to fix an historical injustice and figure out if you're not using that

00:07:57.320 land to farm, then we need to have some of that land, not taking all of your entire farm. That's

00:08:03.540 not what's happening. And we need to what? There needs to be equity. And now people are crying because

00:08:08.420 the playing field is being leveled. And so therefore, it is now discrimination.

00:08:13.300 Okay, so notice what is being said here. Notice he says that white people own most of the fertile land

00:08:18.960 in South Africa. The word fertile is doing a lot of work there because, you know, if you know anything

00:08:24.080 about farmland, even if you don't know anything about it, you should still know that it's possible

00:08:29.040 to ruin it. I mean, it's possible to do a very bad job of maintaining it. And it's not as though you

00:08:34.480 could just give a farm to a random person off the street and rest assured that it's going to be

00:08:39.800 fertile in 10 years. And we know that for a few reasons. First of all, it's common sense. Second,

00:08:45.360 Zimbabwe already tried this. Several decades ago, they made the decision to seize farms from whites, 0.98

00:08:50.680 give them to black citizens. After all, what could go wrong? Well, you know, I mean, Zimbabwe was the 1.00

00:08:56.740 breadbasket of Africa, supposedly. Well, as it turns out, a lot can go wrong, like a whole lot.

00:09:04.480 And before long, Zimbabwe needed to import food because they couldn't make their own.

00:09:10.060 And eventually, the government gave up on the idea. They gave the farmland back to the white people. 0.80

00:09:15.320 This is a Bloomberg News article from a few years ago, quote,

00:09:17.820 Zimbabwe gives land back to white farmers after wrecking economy. Two decades after President 0.96

00:09:23.800 Robert Mugabe wrecked Zimbabwe's economy by urging black subsistence farmers to violently force white

00:09:29.800 commercial farmers and their workers off the land, his successor has thrown in the towel. The seizures

00:09:35.300 that began in 2000 were ratified by the government, which said they were needed to address colonial

00:09:39.500 imbalances. A vibrant agricultural industry that exported tobacco and roses and grew most of the

00:09:45.500 food the nation needed collapsed. Periodic food shortages ensued. Inflation became the world's

00:09:50.280 highest and the manufacturing industry was decimated. It was one of Africa's richest countries

00:09:54.720 became one of its poorest, close quote. Okay, so in other words, it turns out that

00:09:59.880 when you use the government to redistribute fertile farmland to correct some alleged injustice,

00:10:06.160 what you get is famine. Okay, that's what equity means in practice. It's what always happens

00:10:13.420 when you take land from people who are managing it properly and redistribute it on the basis of race.

00:10:20.760 Competence matters, especially when you're talking about a country's food supply.

00:10:25.060 And make no mistake, the reason those white people control the farmland in South Africa 0.99

00:10:29.440 is because historically they're competent. They bought it, they maintained it for generations,

00:10:36.020 nobody handed it to them or maintained it for them. The fact that it's still fertile,

00:10:40.520 again, you can ruin farmland. It's still fertile, even by Don Lemon's own testimony. It's still

00:10:47.020 fertile after generations. What does that mean? It means that they are properly managing the land.

00:10:52.940 And in many cases, they were there long before black South Africans arrived and demanded their 1.00

00:10:57.060 property. Now, in this debate, we are well past the point where the left can scream apartheid and just

00:11:02.580 get whatever they want. Post-apartheid South Africa is simply too great of a disaster by every

00:11:06.560 available metric. And by the way, apartheid was nothing like what's currently being enacted in

00:11:11.060 South Africa. As we discussed the other day, there were far fewer race-based laws under apartheid than

00:11:16.440 there are right now in South Africa. And the race-based laws under apartheid, by and large,

00:11:20.720 were directed at enforcing racial separation, not large-scale farm seizures by the government

00:11:26.360 without any limiting principle whatsoever. Activists on the left know they have the losing

00:11:31.100 argument in this debate, which is why they're now resorting to some of the most pathetic tactics 0.97

00:11:35.120 imaginable. So the New Republic, for instance, just ran a story in which they dug up the old tweets of

00:11:40.920 one of these white refugees. And we'll get to the bombshell. And let's see if you notice the big 1.00

00:11:48.800 problem with this line of attack. Maybe you'll pick up on it. So the headline is,

00:11:53.880 one of Trump's Africana refugees is quite the anti-Semite. 0.97

00:11:57.200 So yeah, they went rooting through his tweets to smear him, all because he's white and he's 0.91

00:12:02.820 fleeing persecution in South Africa. He's allegedly an anti-Semite, so he needs to go back. 0.84

00:12:08.880 Now, of course, if this is the new standard for refugees, then I have very bad news about 90% 1.00

00:12:17.200 or more of the refugees that were admitted under the Biden administration. Muslims from the Middle East

00:12:22.100 and Africa are not exactly big fans of Jewish people, generally speaking, okay? Even if a lot

00:12:29.980 of them don't have Twitter, so you can't go look at it. It doesn't take long if you want to know

00:12:33.620 how they feel on that subject. It wouldn't take much digging to find out. But the New Republic

00:12:38.620 probably doesn't seem to realize how this would go, but it's pretty obvious. Meanwhile, other luminaries

00:12:45.620 on the left are reduced to making explicit threats against these refugees. And here's one viral

00:12:51.320 example. Watch.

00:12:53.360 Good morning. This is for the South Africans who are going to be entering the United States. This

00:12:59.040 is just a public service announcement. I just wanted to make you aware that the Black people

00:13:05.420 who were students during apartheid, we're grandmas and grandpas now, and we have the era of Gen Z.

00:13:17.260 One more thing. I also want to let you know that our president, he has secret service and you will not.

00:13:23.740 Mm-hmm. I also want to tell you that Black people over here are empowered. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

00:13:35.580 These are just public service announcements. When you get here, sit your ass down and don't touch nothing 0.99

00:13:45.960 because you don't have secret service. Okay. Now have the day you deserve. 0.99

00:13:56.860 Now, this is not some random person, by the way. She has more than 100,000 followers on TikTok for some

00:14:02.640 ungodly reason. And she's openly threatening these white refugees with murder solely on the basis of 0.99

00:14:09.240 their skin color, which, by the way, is something you just never see. For all the talk about the 0.95

00:14:14.000 anti-immigrant rhetoric on the right, there's nobody on the right going out and just threatening 0.89

00:14:19.880 to kill immigrants who are coming here. We're saying round them up, deport them if they shouldn't 1.00

00:14:30.600 be here, enforce our immigration, enforce our laws. There's nobody saying that. Nothing like this is

00:14:36.020 happening. All it takes is for a few white people to be admitted, and this is the kind of anti-refugee,

00:14:42.740 anti-immigrant rhetoric we get from the left. It's like immediately, all pretense is dropped,

00:14:48.000 and they're saying, yeah, we're going to go out and kill you. There's not even any attempt to 0.86

00:14:52.740 sugarcoat it. She thinks that white people should die. And there are a lot of videos like this on 1.00

00:14:56.980 TikTok at the moment. Most of them adopt the same gleeful tone. We saw this with Carmelo Anthony.

00:15:01.360 We saw it with Rodney Hinton. And now we're seeing it here. And if you listen really carefully,

00:15:06.880 by the way, the most telling part of the video happens around the 31-second mark. Maybe go back and

00:15:11.940 listen to it again. Turn the volume up. That's the moment where you can hear a very faint smoke

00:15:15.320 alarm chirp in the background while this woman is threatening to murder white people. So 1.00

00:15:19.940 the whole thing is just very on the nose. Actually, there is one exception here. Over at CNN,

00:15:26.000 they've managed to fix the smoke detectors at least, but they definitely have not gotten rid of

00:15:32.240 the genocidal anti-white commentators. So this again is on CNN. This is not on TikTok.

00:15:38.000 And listen to what this woman says.

00:15:41.380 The people who are native to that land deserve their rightful land back. That is not what the 0.99

00:15:47.580 Afrikaners actually want to have happen, which are the white Africans. And so who are not originally 0.92

00:15:54.400 from Africa who colonized South Africa also. And so that is what they are saying is discrimination.

00:16:00.620 Now, if the constitution in South Africa is discriminatory, they have their checks and

00:16:06.260 balances in that land, just like we do. And that is for them to, so if the Afrikaners don't actually 1.00

00:16:11.160 like the land, they can leave that country. They are. They're leaving to come here. No. 0.99

00:16:16.060 These refugees are coming here. They can actually leave and go to where their native land is, 1.00

00:16:20.200 which is probably Germany. Are you against them coming here?

00:16:22.940 Holland probably. Holland.

00:16:24.020 Now, the obvious problem here is that despite being given a national television platform,

00:16:29.420 this woman clearly has no idea what she's talking about. She thinks the Afrikaners came

00:16:32.400 from Germany. She's a complete imbecile, like pretty much everyone else on CNN. All she's 1.00

00:16:38.120 interested in doing is demonizing white people. And she's going to do that one way or another 1.00

00:16:41.800 every time she gets on television. But there's actually a bigger problem with this woman's response. 1.00

00:16:48.280 I mean, let's pretend for a second that the Afrikaners actually did come from Germany. 0.86

00:16:51.380 Germany. She's implying that in that scenario, the white people could go back there and she'd

00:16:56.980 be fine with that. But of course, she wouldn't be fine with that. The left would not be fine with

00:17:01.540 that. Take a look at what the left has done to Germany in the last couple of decades. If you

00:17:06.480 don't believe that, I mean, it's unrecognizable. And any white person who complains is immediately

00:17:09.780 labeled far right. They're condemned as white supremacists. The National Security Service has 0.90

00:17:14.500 opened counter-terrorist investigations in every single one of them. And the same is true,

00:17:19.740 of course, in this country. So this is the funny thing about who is considered native or

00:17:26.740 not, who is considered an invader or not. CNN commentators have no problem announcing that

00:17:34.040 white people whose ancestors have been in the country for 20 generations should go back home 1.00

00:17:39.640 if they're in South Africa. But try telling the Somalis in Minnesota to go back home. You'll 0.94

00:17:44.680 be immediately labeled a far right bigot. Even though the Somalis have been here for at 0.97

00:17:48.940 most a couple of decades. Some have been here for a couple of hours. But we're told that

00:17:53.700 the Somalis have every right to be here. That we're told the Somalis, the moment they step

00:17:58.260 foot here, they are just as American as anyone else. The moment the Somalis steps foot in this 1.00

00:18:05.100 country, they're just as American as you, even if your family's been here for 400 years.

00:18:09.440 And yet the white South Africans are not South African, even after 400 years. 0.97

00:18:15.800 And Americans who can trace their lineage back several centuries, 0.88

00:18:19.660 they just have to shut up and take it in this country. 0.97

00:18:24.120 No matter where they are, maybe you've noticed white people, no matter where they are, 0.99

00:18:30.500 are always the colonizers. And have no legitimate claim to whatever land they're on. 0.83

00:18:36.640 In other words, under the left's framework, white people are the only demographic on the planet

00:18:43.620 that can never be considered truly at home or native to any country anywhere.

00:18:50.760 You know, we'll be told that a white person's true home is Western Europe. 0.87

00:18:55.420 And yet if any white person in the UK claimed that it was a white country, they'd be condemned.

00:19:00.560 They say to us in America that this isn't our land, right? It's stolen. So where is our land?

00:19:09.720 They will not follow that to its conclusion and say that, well, Europe is the white man's land.

00:19:15.460 They're not going to say that. So where is it? The message is that there is literally no place

00:19:22.380 on earth that white people can claim is a legitimate homeland. A white man is native to nowhere. 0.97

00:19:27.880 He is indigenous to nowhere. I mean, that's strange, isn't it? How does that work?

00:19:35.880 Like, have you noticed that there's no country on the planet with white indigenous people?

00:19:43.340 How is that possible? Where did the white people come from? Did they fall out of the sky like rain? 1.00

00:19:47.600 Did they magically spawn out of thin air? If a white person could trace his roots back to the 17th 0.97

00:19:53.680 century in this country, does that make him a Native American? I mean, at what point can the

00:20:00.580 white person say, yeah, I am native to this country? How many centuries does he need to be?

00:20:05.380 Does his family need to be in a country to be native to it? How many generations? 10? Is that enough?

00:20:12.040 No? 15? 20? 25? 30? 40? Is that enough? At that point, can we say we're native to this country?

00:20:17.680 And if the answer is, well, there's no amount of time. If the answer is that, well, it could be a

00:20:23.820 thousand years from now, and a white person who's been here for more than a thousand years, their

00:20:29.000 family's been here for a thousand years, still is not native to this country in America. If that's the

00:20:34.160 answer, then again, where is his native homeland? And if he goes there, can he claim the title of

00:20:44.260 Native or Indigenous? Can he say that the non-natives are invading or stealing? Well, the left has no

00:20:55.780 answer to any of those questions. And the reason is that the terms Native and colonizer and invader

00:21:03.400 and Indigenous are all just tools of manipulation. They don't mean anything. And of course, white people 1.00

00:21:11.500 get this treatment, even though they actually bring innovation, advancement, and infrastructure

00:21:14.980 everywhere they go. And then when they're kicked out, what happens? I mean, very often, that

00:21:22.620 infrastructure is not maintained. Look at what happened after Portugal gave back Mozambique or Angola.

00:21:28.400 Look at South Africa. Look at Zimbabwe. Total disrepair has followed when the alleged colonizers are

00:21:33.960 kicked out. And that's just a historical fact. And why might that be? Well, that's a question you're

00:21:40.940 definitely not supposed to ask. But recently, I saw someone who's an African who took a crack at 1.00

00:21:47.780 addressing this point. Interesting. Let's watch.

00:21:51.760 What is the one word in Igbo for maintenance?

00:21:56.180 Maintenance? There's no direct English word for that. It doesn't translate directly to

00:22:00.940 maintenance. That's correct. How about you?

00:22:02.980 It doesn't translate. That's correct. 1.00

00:22:04.660 But it translates to, like, take care of.

00:22:07.180 No, that's not maintenance. What is the one word for repair in Igbo?

00:22:11.660 Imezi.

00:22:12.380 Exactly. What is the one word for repair in...

00:22:16.020 You see? I'm driving you to somewhere. What is the one word for democracy in Igbo language?

00:22:23.240 You don't. How about you? You don't. You're trying to practice something that is not in the concept

00:22:27.720 of the language. There is no African country, and I've done it through Kenya, through... I've done it all,

00:22:32.980 that has an equivalent of the word maintenance.

00:22:35.660 Well, in order to maintain something, you have to have it first.

00:22:38.640 Correct.

00:22:39.720 No, if I leave it for you, you can maintain it. The British left a lot of things in this country 0.55

00:22:43.020 when they left. They established the hospitals, they established the fire stations,

00:22:46.160 the post offices, the railway lines, the roads they built before they left.

00:22:49.260 You are not able to maintain it because you don't have that concept.

00:22:51.780 Because your environment, the tropical environment of Africa, the way you build your houses,

00:22:57.120 the material you use, you don't require maintenance.

00:22:59.280 Every country that is called industrialized countries, today, one of the things you know

00:23:02.960 about them is maintenance of what they have. That's why we have buildings here that are

00:23:06.820 about 250 years old, 300 years old in this country. There are buildings in other countries

00:23:11.060 of Europe that are 700 years ago. The Notre Dame that burned in France was a 13th century building.

00:23:16.400 Do you know what kept it that long till today? Maintenance is a culture.

00:23:22.860 Now, this is one of those conversations that if you were leading South Africa at the moment,

00:23:28.300 you'd probably want to take pretty seriously. Maybe you'd take a step back and wonder if 30 years

00:23:34.140 of black supremacy and white hatred is really an optimal substitute for maintaining the roads 1.00

00:23:40.260 and the farms and the power grid. Maybe you'd recognize that if you don't value, 0.94

00:23:45.760 if you don't even value the concept of maintenance, then inevitably you're going to have a collapse.

00:23:54.500 That's what inevitably will happen. And it's pretty clear in South Africa that they don't

00:23:58.860 value maintenance at all, which is why they are taking the people who've maintained fertile farmland

00:24:05.800 that everyone recognizes as fertile and expelling them from it without any real plan of like,

00:24:13.020 how are we going to make food now? So this is what happens if you demonize a handful of productive

00:24:18.560 people who are sticking around. But of course, no one in South Africa is asking these questions at

00:24:24.140 the moment. Instead, they're demonizing the white people who are already out the door. And that means

00:24:30.180 that very soon those white people will have a lot of company. I mean, South Africa is about to lose 0.99

00:24:36.260 the few farmers it has left. No country in human history has ever survived something like that.

00:24:43.820 And South Africa, the ultimate embodiment of DEI, will be no different. Now let's get to our five 0.96

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00:25:52.080 Rumors started circulating pretty widely on social media yesterday that Minnesota is preparing for

00:25:57.280 riots in case there is a pardon of Derek Chauvin. Here's the local ABC affiliate with the report.

00:26:06.300 This is what Minneapolis looked like after former MPD officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd. And it's

00:26:13.340 something state and city leaders do not want to see happen again. I spoke with six total sources today.

00:26:19.420 They tell me Governor Tim Walz, the Minnesota National Guard, Attorney General Keith Ellison,

00:26:24.400 Mayor Jacob Fry, and Hennepin County Sheriff DeWanna Witt have all been briefed on a potential Chauvin

00:26:29.600 pardon and the possible end to the federal consent decree that called for extensive reform at MPD.

00:26:36.160 And tonight, law enforcement is now preparing for possible civil unrest if those two things happen.

00:26:42.400 Mayor Fry is not talking about those plans, but his Commissioner of Community Safety, Todd Barnett,

00:26:47.780 in a statement says, quote, we've heard the same rumors as everyone else. But the bottom line is that

00:26:53.480 Derek Chauvin would remain behind bars serving his state sentence, even if his federal charges are

00:26:59.560 pardoned. To be clear, we have no credible intelligence about any pardon or planned disruptions here in

00:27:05.140 Minneapolis. So this is kind of a strange story. I mean, pardoning Chauvin isn't strange. I think that

00:27:10.500 should happen. But it doesn't it doesn't appear there's any actual indication that a pardon is coming.

00:27:15.080 And I mean, maybe there is, but there's no indication of it. And yet, the media is talking

00:27:21.720 about all these Democrat officials in Minnesota are preparing for it very, very kind of publicly.

00:27:27.300 Which which leads me to believe this is this is all a charade by the Democrats.

00:27:31.680 Some kind of charade to try to whip up the BLM mob. This is them saying, oh, gee, you know, 0.99

00:27:36.940 I hope there aren't more riots in the summer. That would be terrible. That would be really bad.

00:27:41.460 Oh, man, I hope I hope that, you know, the first summer after Donald Trump is elected that we don't

00:27:46.080 have mass riots again. That would be right, guys. That would that would be we wouldn't want that.

00:27:51.640 We're really getting prepared for that. So it just doesn't it doesn't make sense that they have

00:27:57.520 they say they have no intelligence about a pardon coming and yet they're preparing for riots anyway.

00:28:02.420 In case of an event that they have no reason to believe will happen.

00:28:07.640 That doesn't make a lot of sense. Alternatively, they do have intelligence of a pardon coming. And

00:28:12.500 this is their way of signaling to the people who organize and fund these riots that they should

00:28:17.760 start getting ready, you know, rev up your engines and get ready. Because these riots are not organic.

00:28:23.280 Obviously, riots in response to a federal pardon would definitely not spring up organically

00:28:28.500 because the pardon wouldn't even free Derek Chauvin from jail. There's no reason why riots would break

00:28:34.500 out in response to that, except in a coordinated, non-organic way. Now, all that said, there should

00:28:42.760 definitely be a pardon. There should be a pardon because it's the right thing to do. Leaving aside all

00:28:49.660 the strategy, the political strategy, the legal strategy, it's just the right thing to do. Chauvin was

00:28:54.840 railroaded. He's an innocent man. And Trump should do whatever is in his power to rectify however much

00:29:00.200 of the situation he can. Now, he can't free Chauvin from prison at this point, unfortunately. I have

00:29:06.700 seen people, you know, on X coming up with elaborate ways that maybe he could free him. I saw someone

00:29:14.400 suggest, well, can you send Chauvin to El Salvador, to an El Salvador prison, and then have Bukele

00:29:26.460 free him, you know, so he can live out his days in El Salvador. I think it's very unlikely that 0.52

00:29:33.460 something like that will happen. So probably Trump cannot free Chauvin from prison at this point,

00:29:39.240 unfortunately. But he can pardon him from some of the charges at least, and he should.

00:29:45.660 Why should he do it? Well, because he's innocent, and those charges are bogus. And so you should get

00:29:51.100 rid of whatever, you should get rid of all the bogus charges that you can. And there's also,

00:29:59.600 I think maybe people are underestimating this factor. There's also the bully pulpit effect.

00:30:05.680 A pardon would be Trump using the bully pulpit of the presidency to both call attention to Chauvin's

00:30:12.800 plight and also give permission, right, to normal people to speak up for Chauvin and to take his

00:30:21.780 side. And when I say, when I say permission, I don't mean literal permission. Nobody needs actual

00:30:28.460 permission from Trump to say that Chauvin is innocent. I mean permission in the sense of giving

00:30:33.440 cover. This is how it always goes. There's, you know, a lot of people know that what happened to

00:30:40.340 Chauvin is wrong, but they're afraid to say it. They're afraid to speak up. And in the first couple

00:30:46.300 of years of all this, like speaking up in defense of Derek Chauvin was the ultimate taboo because

00:30:51.280 George Floyd was a martyr and a saint and had been canonized. And now that's loosened up a little

00:30:57.980 bit. People are a little bit bolder, but I think most people, most normal people still won't say

00:31:03.740 that publicly. If the president of the United States is saying it though, if the president of

00:31:07.380 the United States comes out and says, this was a, this is this, you know, this guy was railroaded.

00:31:11.840 This was a miscarriage of justice. He should be pardoned. If he says it, then it's not that

00:31:17.620 everyone's all, everyone on the right is going to just parrot whatever he says, because they can't

00:31:23.560 think for themselves. It's more that that's cover that gives people cover because now it's like a

00:31:28.440 lot of people already think that the president says it. And now it gives people to cover where

00:31:32.180 they feel like they can say it too. And, um, cause it's not, it's not this kind of like scary edgy

00:31:38.120 thing anymore when the president is saying it. And that would be a significant benefit. I think

00:31:43.580 in giving, uh, in giving this pardon to Derek Chauvin. Another point I saw somebody on X make this

00:31:49.560 point. And this is, uh, this is not my point. I'm stealing it shamelessly. I think it was the

00:31:55.180 account, uh, Fisher King on X. And he made the point that the Menendez brothers shot both of their

00:32:03.660 parents in the face with a shotgun and killed them. And as far as I, I've followed the story very

00:32:09.540 closely, but I have not followed it. I'm saying, but, uh, as far as I know, they at one point had to

00:32:16.400 go and reload the shotgun to finish the job on their mom. Okay. So this was like a, just a,

00:32:26.180 this is first degree murder. I mean, this is a, a, a planned out murder, very deliberate

00:32:33.500 reloading the shotgun, finishing the job. I mean, this is like very methodical plotted sadistic murder.

00:32:42.840 And, uh, like I said, I haven't followed the case very closely, but I know that their original

00:32:49.960 sentence of life without parole was converted to a lighter sentence recently, which would enable a

00:32:55.780 judge to parole them. And they're in California, I think, which will mean that these two guys who

00:33:03.080 executed their own parents could walk free in society. And, uh, you know, there are other

00:33:12.960 aspects of the case. I mean, they're definitely guilty of executing their parents. Nobody disputes

00:33:16.820 that. They don't dispute that. Their claim, I guess, is that the parents were abusive. As far as I'm

00:33:22.100 aware, that has never been proven. What we do know is that they brutally executed two people.

00:33:27.420 And now as, you know, as Fisher King points out, basically because of women who are obsessed with 0.94

00:33:34.540 true crime podcasts, they might get to walk free. Even as Derek Chauvin, an actually innocent man

00:33:42.380 rots behind bars. Uh, like who would you rather live next to? Two psychopaths who shot their parents in

00:33:52.940 the face or Derek Chauvin? Who would you be more worried might like break into your house in the

00:34:00.180 middle of the night and butcher you while you're sleeping? Is that, would anyone be concerned that

00:34:04.580 Derek Chauvin, like would anyone be worried? If Derek Chauvin was living next to you, would you have

00:34:07.600 any, would you be worried at all? Would you have any concern that Derek Chauvin is a threat to you?

00:34:13.340 Of course not. Um, sadistic murderers who killed their own parents. Uh, yeah, I don't want to be 0.98

00:34:21.120 anywhere, anywhere around those people. I know it's like, who would want to be around them?

00:34:26.640 And, but this is how it usually goes. You know, you got these, you look at these organizations

00:34:31.300 like the Innocence Project or whatever, and, and often taking up the case, taking up the cases of

00:34:37.760 people who very often clearly are not actually innocent, or it's, it's not clear at all that

00:34:44.040 they are innocent. Working to free the kinds of people into society who none of us would ever want

00:34:50.460 to be around. And maybe there were some procedural things that went wrong in the trial. Maybe this

00:34:55.780 or that happened, but it's like, yeah, they're still definitely guilty though. And yet we work to

00:35:02.160 set those kinds of people free. Nobody would want to be around them, right? You wouldn't want to be

00:35:06.960 like alone or an elevator with any of these kinds of people. And then you have people like Derek Chauvin

00:35:12.340 who you would feel perfectly safe with him in your community. And he's, uh, he's still rotting behind

00:35:18.360 bars. So maybe this is what we need. Maybe, maybe there needs to be, uh, I mean, I'm sure there

00:35:24.260 already have been plenty of podcasts and stuff about, of course there have been about Derek Chauvin,

00:35:30.080 but like we need a, I don't know. We need a, we need a true crime podcast specifically targeting

00:35:36.880 women, like middle-aged women, uh, about Derek Chauvin. And that would, we'll probably, that,

00:35:44.120 that's what tips it over the edge. Once the women start listening to a true crime podcast about a 1.00

00:35:49.920 trial and they get into it, then those are the people who end up getting set free. So

00:35:56.520 I don't know. What do you, what do you got to do? What do you got to do to get, what's the,

00:36:02.800 what's the secret sauce here? There, there are certain murder trials that women become very obsessed 1.00

00:36:09.160 with and then others that they have no interest in at all. And I, what exactly is the, I mean,

00:36:17.540 there's the obvious thing. Is it like, well, if the, if they think that the, uh, that the accused

00:36:22.000 is attractive, I mean, that might be part of it. I don't think that's the entire thing though.

00:36:26.480 There's something else deeply psychological going on that I haven't quite figured out, but

00:36:29.340 that will be Chauvin's salvation. I think is if, uh, if the soccer moms of America can be mobilized 1.00

00:36:40.220 to take up his cause because they saw an HBO documentary or a true crime podcast about it.

00:36:46.420 All right. I've been meaning to play this clip. This gets a little bit graphic. So

00:36:50.600 if you have kids around, you can skip this segment. It's another clip from that YouTube series

00:36:55.400 surrounded. And in this one, uh, the guy being surrounded is, I guess, some kind of LGBT 0.99

00:37:01.520 activist. And here he is trying to defend the claim that so-called anti-LGBT policies are anti-Christian.

00:37:10.780 So the specific claim that he's making is that Christianity embraces homosexuality.

00:37:16.400 He's attempting to make a religious argument and allegedly Christian argument for the homosexual 0.97

00:37:21.020 lifestyle. And here is, uh, Sarah Stock, who we've seen before on this show, making the counter 0.98

00:37:26.240 argument. Uh, let's watch a little bit of that. So I'm assuming from everything you're telling me

00:37:32.200 that you think that God is okay with you practicing sodomy with other men. I am saying that God always

00:37:37.520 acts in accordance with love and the sodomy that was written about in the Bible has nothing to do

00:37:40.980 with loving queer and trans relationships because there was no frame of reference for the phrases who

00:37:45.160 created it. Man is imperfect. God's word is perfect. God would support queer and trans existence. 1.00

00:37:49.520 Do you want to talk about why it's also anti-American? You don't think that

00:37:52.500 sodomy existed 2000 years ago? I do think it existed 2000 years ago. And the way that it was

00:37:58.220 written about in the Bible was about hateful, unconsensual, pedophilic, ritualistic acts of 0.94

00:38:03.960 sodomy. There have been healthy queer and trans relationships all throughout the history and they 1.00

00:38:07.340 were not included in the Bible the same way women's rights were not included in the Bible. God did not 0.96

00:38:11.960 intend us to treat that like a law that we never move on from. He entreated us to use it like a way to

00:38:16.520 learn love and practice it better. It is not an instruction manual. It is one tool that we can

00:38:21.160 use to live our lives. But to clarify, so you do think that God is okay with you having sex with 0.74

00:38:25.920 other men? Yes. Okay. So I think that your definition of love is basically what feels good 0.71

00:38:32.240 for you and also being nice to other people. I think love is more complicated than that. For

00:38:37.600 example, you can have a sexual relationship with someone that you might not love, whereas love is a

00:38:41.160 deeper emotion of care. Okay. But basically it's just like this like fluffy feeling of like, oh,

00:38:46.340 like I like you, I'm treating you well, whatever. I think that love is willing the good of another

00:38:50.960 person. Love is a hard action. So you can, you can have consensual sex with someone and that's not

00:38:56.260 loving them because participating in homosexual acts is inherently not loving because it's damaging. 0.59

00:39:02.240 They're not inherently damaging. It violates natural law. It doesn't violate natural law.

00:39:05.680 There are over 1000 species that are proven to have queer relationships.

00:39:11.340 Okay. So the old, uh, the old animals do it so we can do it too. Canard, which I always find

00:39:16.740 hilarious because that's the worst. I mean, animals do a lot of stuff that we shouldn't do.

00:39:24.300 And it's funny how often this comes up in these arguments. Um, and the, the gay rights,

00:39:28.840 the gay rights people like they, they think this is a great argument. They love this argument.

00:39:32.220 They say it, it, it, you have any argument with a gay rights activist and within two minutes,

00:39:38.260 I think we got in under two minutes on that one. Within two minutes, they're going to bring up

00:39:41.840 the animal kingdom. Did you know there's homosexuality in the animal kingdom?

00:39:47.360 Okay. What do you, so because animals do it, that in and of itself shows that it's okay to do it.

00:39:52.720 Animals do, animals eat their own young. Okay. Animals, uh, uh, cannibalize each other. 0.99

00:39:59.280 Black widow spider mates with the male and then eats the male. 0.99

00:40:06.420 Okay. Should we be doing that? I mean, yeah, a lot of feminists might like that plan, but, uh, 1.00

00:40:10.040 but there's a species of wasp that lays its eggs inside of a caterpillar. And then when the eggs hatch,

00:40:18.480 the bait, the little baby wasps eat the caterpillar alive from the inside. Is it, should we,

00:40:24.780 I don't know, should we somehow find a way to adopt that strategy for, you know, that's natural in the,

00:40:31.440 in the animal kingdom? So the point is that the animal kingdom is full of just savagery and

00:40:38.580 brutality. It's, it's, it's a, the animal kingdom is just a, and I love nature documentaries as much

00:40:44.180 as the next guy, but, uh, it is a brutal place. Um, and so I, I don't know that I'd be taking my cues

00:40:53.200 from that. Yeah. You know, like a, a, a human family, a human nuclear family is distinct,

00:41:06.200 uh, uh, among life forms on the planet. It is in a sense, unnatural in a sense.

00:41:16.720 And I say unnatural only in the sense that in the way that it's often used, like when, when people

00:41:23.860 say, Oh, this is natural. What they mean is like, it's, it's base. It's like a based,

00:41:28.360 based kind of bestial instinct. And, and that's what is meant by natural a lot of the time.

00:41:36.200 Uh, the nuclear family monogamy, these are unnatural, not in the sense of being lower

00:41:44.400 than nature, but in transcending our animal nature. It is unnatural in a transcendent sense.

00:41:52.680 It is unnatural in that it is higher. It is better. It is bigger than what you find in nature.

00:42:00.220 Because yes, in the animal kingdom, you're not going to find anything like now you might find it's,

00:42:05.020 it's rare, but there are some species where they have, where they, uh, where they pair up for life

00:42:10.220 where they make mating for life is a, is a thing. And that's very rare. And what you're not going to

00:42:17.560 find is like mating for life and then raising the baby animal for years and years and years. And like

00:42:27.620 they, they, they all live together for years and years and years and years, um, that you just don't

00:42:33.380 find, uh, in the, in the, uh, in the animal kingdom because this is, because we're not modeling our

00:42:40.940 society. We're not moderate modeling human society off of what alligators do. Okay. We're not looking

00:42:47.980 at alligators. We're not looking at monkeys. We're not looking at what the, a tree squirrel does and said,

00:42:54.700 and saying, well, let's model our society over that by that we are, we are modeling our society.

00:43:00.020 Our society is grounded in something that is, that transcends, that is transcendent beyond nature. 0.95

00:43:05.380 So, um, so that's all ridiculous. And, and then we get to the kind of, uh, the, the, the biblical,

00:43:15.640 uh, such as it is the biblical argument, which is that Christianity somehow condones the homosexual

00:43:22.400 lifestyle. And this is what they do. If you're wondering how anyone could possibly be a pro-gay, 0.98

00:43:29.280 pro-LGBT Christian, this is how they square that circle. I mean, there's no disputing what the Bible

00:43:36.540 says about homosexuality. Obviously there are many passages in the old Testament and, and, and there

00:43:42.980 are multiple messages, passages in the new Testament, like the first chapter of Romans, which describes the

00:43:47.480 homosexual act as shameful and dishonorable and debased. That's what the Bible says. 1.00

00:43:55.500 Right. And he's bringing up the Bible. So you can't, you can't say, oh, who cares what the Bible

00:44:01.580 says? That's the argument. That's the argument he's making. So he cares about what the Bible says

00:44:06.900 allegedly. So let's talk about what it says. So the first chapter of Romans says that homosexual 0.95

00:44:13.320 act is shameful, dishonorable, and debased. It's hard to be more explicit than that. 0.93

00:44:19.760 And perhaps even more clear, even more explicit is the fact that the Bible comes right out of the

00:44:23.900 gate in Genesis, describing what a, what a man is supposed to do. And, uh, and it's this to remind

00:44:31.780 you, a man shall leave his father's mother and hold fast to his wife and the two shall become one, 0.77

00:44:35.760 one flesh. Again, that's, that's not really a natural setup. That is a, a supernatural setup.

00:44:45.300 I think is the framing is the best way to frame it. It's not natural. It's supernatural. That is a

00:44:50.480 supernatural. The two become one flesh. That doesn't happen in the animal kingdom. Um, so anyway,

00:44:58.240 but it's right there. So what are you going to do about this? If you're an LGBT activist? Well,

00:45:04.060 one thing you could do is just say, well, Christianity is false. It's an ignorant, 1.00

00:45:08.240 ancient, you know, bigoted religion. And I reject it totally. You could say that. I think that's 1.00

00:45:14.620 wrong. I think that's tragically terribly wrong, but that's one way of dealing with the very clear

00:45:19.840 biblical edicts, both condemning the homosexual lifestyle and prescribing monogamous heterosexual

00:45:25.400 marriage as the correct and healthy form. And, uh, and, and plenty of LGBT activists will just say

00:45:31.340 that. They'll say, well, I don't care what the Bible says. I'm not, you know, it's the Bible's

00:45:34.540 false. But then you've got guys like this who want to cling to the Christian label. They, and these

00:45:39.760 guys are much, much greater threats because they're trying to subvert Christianity from the inside.

00:45:45.040 The guys on the outside, basically the, the Reddit atheists talking about how we believe in a

00:45:50.920 magical sky daddy or whatever they say, they're not much of a threat. Uh, nobody takes them seriously.

00:45:56.680 The greater threat is this. These people who claim to be Christian while holding to a moral 1.00

00:46:01.340 framework that is completely anti-Christian. And how do they do it? Well, they do it by just simply

00:46:07.300 declaring that the words in the Bible mean something other than what the words actually mean.

00:46:13.160 So he just states as fact that anytime homosexuality is condemned in the Bible, which it is frequently,

00:46:20.100 it's really condemning rape and pedophilia, which is an interesting argument, right? Like

00:46:26.360 so you're saying that the Bible uses homosexuality as a catch-all term for rape and pedophilia.

00:46:35.080 I'm not sure that really helps your case, but this is what they do. The LGBT activists who

00:46:39.420 pretend to be Christian, this is what they do. Oh, no, no, no, it's no, it's totally fine. Because 1.00

00:46:44.120 whenever the Bible talks about gay people or homosexuality, what they really just mean, 0.97

00:46:47.520 that's just a word that means sexual violence. Oh, really? Well, have you thought about that? 0.92

00:46:58.200 That's interesting, isn't it? Um, and anyway, it's not true. Homosexuality in the Bible meant back 0.97

00:47:05.740 then what it means now. Okay. Men having relations with other men. In fact, even that is explained in

00:47:13.280 Romans, as I mentioned, St. Paul says that there are men having relations with men and this is

00:47:17.540 debased and wrong. It can't get more clear than that. So it's not even just saying, oh, homosexuality 0.65

00:47:25.120 is, and then you can go, well, what, what did he mean by homosexuality? I wonder what that means.

00:47:30.460 No, he actually says, no, there are, there are men who are having relations with men. That is wrong.

00:47:36.000 Don't do that. It's right there. I mean, it's, it's plain text. Um, but what we get from guys like

00:47:46.120 this is they say, well, yeah, well, Paul says that, but what he really meant to say, I'll tell you what

00:47:53.060 he really meant to say. And if you ask them, well, how do you, where do you, what are you basing that

00:47:58.540 on? What do you mean what he really meant to say? Well, these guys, they treat the Bible like it's

00:48:04.760 some sort of obscure hieroglyphic that they have to translate and not translate. Like we translate

00:48:10.200 a foreign language in English, obviously all of our Bibles. And if we're speak English are

00:48:14.780 translated that way. Um, but no, they translate it like, you know, if you go to some, uh, con artist

00:48:25.760 psychic and you tell her about your dreams and she starts interpreting your dreams for you,

00:48:31.680 you know, and says, Oh, well, a tiger appeared in your dream. And so that means that you're worried

00:48:37.860 that you're going to lose your job or whatever. That's how they treat it. And now there are parts

00:48:44.540 of the Bible that are, that are, that are dreamlike, you know, that are visions and dreams of the

00:48:51.300 apocalyptic literature, revelation and so on. But because the Bible, you know, the Bible is not one

00:48:58.000 book. We call the Bible, a book, but it's, it's not one book as any, anyone who's read the Bible

00:49:04.480 knows. Uh, it's a collection of books and all these different books are doing different things.

00:49:10.120 It's different styles of literature. It's different styles of writing. And they're trying to do

00:49:14.960 different things. It's not, it's not, it's not like one thing. Um, and so you have books, I mean,

00:49:21.740 you have the Psalms, you have poetry, you have all these things, but much of the Bible,

00:49:28.180 particularly in the new Testament is written to be very plain and very clear because you have to

00:49:34.920 look again at what, okay, whatever part of the Bible you're reading, what was the author of this,

00:49:40.720 this portion that I'm reading? What was the author trying to do? What was the point of this?

00:49:46.460 Well, the epistles of Paul are letters that he wrote to various churches

00:49:52.600 and they're, they're meant to be clear as day. He's directly addressing and dealing with, uh,

00:49:59.660 the issues that the communities were facing and some, and often like deep moral theological issues,

00:50:05.120 sometimes more practical day-to-day issues, but that's all it was. It was, he was writing letters.

00:50:09.680 It wasn't meant to be, it was meant to be clearly understood based on the language that was used

00:50:15.940 to deal with these like problems that they were experiencing in their communities.

00:50:21.660 Um, so, but these, these LGBT activists and so-called left, these, these leftists who are

00:50:29.040 so-called Christians, but not real Christians, these subversives, uh, in the church, they look at even

00:50:36.120 stuff like that. They look at the epistles, they look at the, um, the, the, the plain words of the text,

00:50:43.180 the plain words of Christ in the gospels. And they treat even that stuff like it's, well,

00:50:50.400 I know this is the word that's used, but here's what, and they, and they state it.

00:50:58.160 It's not even an argument, it's just an assertion. And you saw in that clip very confidently, he says,

00:51:02.940 well, yeah, but it meant this. Really? How do you know that? Where'd you hear that?

00:51:11.080 Oh no, you heard it because another like subversive left-wing LGBT gay, uh, so-called theologian or 0.94

00:51:18.180 whatever told you that's, that's why you know it. You read it in a book that was, that was written

00:51:23.520 three years ago. So they, uh, have no case, just to summarize. As Doge continues to surgically cut

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00:52:45.680 daily cancellation. On January 3rd, 2019, something unthinkable happened at Jeff Bezos's newsletter,

00:52:57.600 which is formerly known as the Washington Post. At the time, the paper was furiously obsessing over

00:53:01.580 every detail of the Russiagate hoax. But amid all the chaos and the P-tape stuff, one man managed to

00:53:07.420 write a worthwhile opinion piece for the Washington Post. And it was a bit like Monet somehow managing

00:53:12.460 to create a decent painting, even though he was pretty much blind. The piece I'm talking about

00:53:16.240 was written by a guy named Sonny Bunch. And here was the headline. Environmentalists make good movie

00:53:20.800 villains because they want to make your real life worse. And the op-ed goes through a number of

00:53:25.760 examples from Thanos, Thanos, Thanos, right? In Avengers Affinity War to King Orm in Aquaman to Samuel

00:53:33.140 Jackson's character in The Kingsman. All movies that I have not seen. And in all these cases,

00:53:39.160 apparently, the villain is motivated by some strain of environmentalism. The Aquaman villain guy was

00:53:45.160 angry about trash being dumped in the water, apparently. Now, admittedly, we're not talking

00:53:50.840 about groundbreaking journalism, but by the Washington Post standards, this is profoundly

00:53:55.320 insightful stuff. And I was reminded of this article recently when I saw this headline from Axios the

00:54:00.220 other day. Quote, EPA administrator targets stop-start vehicle tech. Everyone hates it. The article

00:54:06.900 explains, quote, Trump administration is targeting climate technology that automatically turns a

00:54:10.700 vehicle's engine off when it's stopped to save fuel. Stop-start technology has become a common

00:54:15.560 feature in new vehicles as a way to save a few bucks on gas and reduce emissions. Advocates like

00:54:20.320 it because it helps combat climate change, but critics find it irritating. The article quotes EPA

00:54:25.260 administrator Lee Zeldin as saying, quote, stop-start technology where your car dies at every red light

00:54:29.640 so companies get a climate participation trophy. EPA approved it and everyone hates it, so we're fixing

00:54:34.040 it. Now, currently, the EPA incentivizes automakers to implement stop-start technology by providing

00:54:39.720 them with fuel economy credits. As of 2023, more than 65% of vehicles are equipped with this system,

00:54:46.500 so there's a good chance that unless you're driving an electric car or hybrid, your car has some kind of

00:54:51.120 start-stop functionality. And if that's the case, you should disable it immediately if your car allows

00:54:58.800 you to do so. And in practice, if you don't turn it off or if you can't, the start-stop feature works by

00:55:05.700 shutting down your engine when you come to a stop for any length of time, like at a red light. And for those

00:55:10.560 of us who can't turn this feature off, this is a source of, like, constant unnecessary annoyance.

00:55:16.200 Generally, it means that your air conditioning shuts off as well or doesn't work as well. And it means you're going

00:55:20.640 to accelerate more slowly from a stop. And supposedly, this is all worth it because it cuts down on

00:55:25.580 greenhouse emissions, and therefore, it stops the weather from changing. And as an added bonus,

00:55:31.220 it'll potentially save you a couple of dollars when you fill up your tank, supposedly.

00:55:36.220 Now, in reality, of course, the start-stop feature, it turns out, does not change the weather or prevent

00:55:43.840 hurricanes. And we know that because reports indicate anyway that hurricanes still exist. And it seems that

00:55:50.040 the weather is still changing. And additionally, to the extent that it's saving you a few dollars on fuel

00:55:54.360 costs, it's dramatically increasing the wear and tear on your engine and your battery. And replacing those

00:56:00.280 components is a lot more expensive than spending a few extra dollars at the gas pump. An account called Honest

00:56:05.060 Mechanic Colorado broke down some of the issues involved in this system. Watch.

00:56:09.920 Number one, oil pressure issues. Think about this for a second. Every time your engine starts up, there's a brief

00:56:16.140 moment where oil pressure hasn't fully built up. In a normal car, this happens maybe once or twice a day.

00:56:22.260 But with start-stop, we're talking dozens of times in a single commute. That adds up, especially on turbo

00:56:28.200 engines where that hot oil is crucial for cooling. Number two, battery and starter problems. Yes, these

00:56:34.440 cars use special AGM batteries and heavy-duty starters. But guess what? Those parts cost way more to

00:56:40.140 replace. I'm talking two times more than regular parts. And trust me, they don't last three times longer.

00:56:46.520 Now, it's a worthwhile video because it goes through all the different ways that the geniuses

00:56:51.640 in the federal bureaucracy decided that technology should be made worse. And so it's worthwhile in

00:57:00.920 that sense. But you don't really need it. Common sense tells you that it can't be good for a car's

00:57:04.580 engine to increase the number of times it's turned off and on by like, what, 500% or more? That's

00:57:10.820 exactly what the start-stop system does. It introduces a huge amount of completely unnecessary

00:57:14.440 wear and tear on a system that was not designed for it. There's also a safety problem here.

00:57:18.860 The stop-start thing means that when you accelerate from a stop, there's a brief delay as the engine

00:57:24.500 revs up again. And the delay may only be one second. But if you're making a left turn onto a busy road,

00:57:29.160 for example, a second could be the difference between getting T-boned or not. And none of this

00:57:35.000 is new. The people who created the systems like this all the way back in the 1970s understood that

00:57:38.380 it would cause problems for people's cars. But they did it anyway because the country was

00:57:42.140 experiencing a massive fuel shortage at the time. The Arabs implemented an oil embargo,

00:57:46.180 which meant that gas stations saw long lines and fuel prices quadrupled. So this was pitched as a

00:57:50.280 way to conserve gas, not as a way to save the planet. The saving the planet stuff is the new branding.

00:57:55.860 And only people who have never driven a car in their lives and who don't understand how cars work

00:58:00.060 would think that this is a good pitch. And in that sense, the start-stop debacle is the perfect

00:58:06.780 expression of environmental activism. Because it promises to save the planet, when in reality,

00:58:12.420 it serves only one purpose, which is to make your life a little bit worse. Now, granted,

00:58:17.560 it makes your life worse in a comparatively small way. But that's not the point. The point is that it's

00:58:22.740 totally unnecessary. Your car engine is being destroyed more quickly, and you're sitting at a

00:58:28.800 stoplight without AC for no reason. The old system worked fine. They changed it, increasing a daily

00:58:36.120 annoyance in your life for no reason. And this is what environmentalism has become. Just finding,

00:58:42.760 it's what it always has been. Finding little ways, one after another, to take things that worked fine

00:58:49.400 and to make them worse than they were before, totally arbitrarily. And the way they play the game is

00:58:56.360 that you can never complain about any of it because all of it individually is so small

00:59:00.260 that if you complain about it, then they can always go, what are you freaking out about? It's

00:59:03.900 this little thing. Yeah, but why? It's a little thing, but why did you do it? There was no reason

00:59:09.580 for it. And we've seen a lot of efforts like this, from the attempts to ban gas stoves, to banning

00:59:15.200 disposable plastic bags, the crusade against plastic straws. In the case of plastic straws that we

00:59:19.380 previously discussed, a nine-year-old boy came up with data basically out of his own imagination,

00:59:24.660 suggesting that these straws are somehow a major threat to civilization, and everyone just went

00:59:28.840 with it. The next thing you know, you're drinking out of a paper straw that dissolves inside the

00:59:32.860 drink. A small thing. It's like the smallest thing, but why? Why can't I just use the straws

00:59:41.460 that actually work? Those were fine, but they made the change and introduced another little annoyance

00:59:47.580 into your life for no reason. It would be like if, imagine if one day the powers that be decided

00:59:53.640 that every chair manufacturer in America has to make chairs that have one leg slightly shorter

01:00:00.740 than the others. And imagine that the reason for this policy is something totally fantastical and

01:00:05.740 just made up. Maybe they determined that sitting on a wobbly chair helps to ward off evil invisible

01:00:11.140 fairies or something. I don't know. Now imagine that as a result, every chair you sit in is a little 1.00

01:00:18.020 bit wobbly. Now it's true that a wobbly chair is not a major crisis. It's not a huge problem in the

01:00:23.660 grand scheme. If anyone asked you about the greatest struggles in your life and you said that wobbly

01:00:28.840 chairs are at the top of the list, they would conclude rightly that you are the most pampered 0.92

01:00:32.580 human who's ever existed. But even so, it would be extremely annoying and it would make your life a

01:00:38.000 little bit worse if every chair was wobbly. And the fact that this was being done on purpose

01:00:43.620 for some totally superstitious, insane reason only makes the annoyance exponentially greater.

01:00:52.540 And that's what it is with these changes made to save the climate. They are very often small

01:00:58.800 annoyances being imposed on us for insane and superstitious reasons. And that just makes it worse.

01:01:06.380 And there are dozens of examples of this. Another one is the effort to ban incandescent lights,

01:01:10.220 for example, which doesn't get a lot of attention. And here's what streets used to look like on the

01:01:15.660 left before environmentalists decided that incandescent lights are going to destroy the

01:01:19.840 planet in 12 years. And that was a lot more than 12 years ago. Planets, well, maybe that's why the

01:01:25.760 planet wasn't destroyed because they made the change. And because environmentalists stepped in and

01:01:30.260 saved all of civilization, now pretty much every city block in the country looks like the photo on

01:01:35.260 the right. We're now treated to this kind of fluorescent looking office space aesthetic

01:01:39.220 everywhere we go. City streets used to have kind of like a cool moody feel to them. Now everything

01:01:43.920 looks like a hospital hallway. And when you confront environmentalists about this, they will say that

01:01:49.140 LED lights can actually display any kind of color and that it's absurd to want light that's less bright.

01:01:53.540 And the picture on the right looks better anyway. But the left is much warmer. It has more character

01:01:58.540 and a lot of people liked it. So why do we have to change it everywhere? Walk down the street on the left

01:02:02.960 and you might be inspired to become the next Edgar Allan Poe. It's contemplative and distinct.

01:02:07.860 And walk down the street on the right and you'll feel a little like Bill Lumberg wondering where the

01:02:12.240 TPS reports are. There's really no comparison. Now, is the Trump administration going to fix

01:02:15.820 streetlights next? We can only hope. But for now, they have done the nation a great service by moving

01:02:21.040 to end the absurdity of these start-stop systems in automobiles. And we should end all of the little

01:02:28.180 revisions that environmentalists have made to our lives against our will. They are small things on

01:02:35.320 their own, but together they make our lives a little bit worse for no reason. And also, as a matter of

01:02:41.400 principle, environmentalists should just simply never get their way about anything ever. And that

01:02:46.160 is why the inventor of start-stop technology, along with every other environmentalist who wants to make

01:02:50.420 our lives worse, are today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks

01:02:55.740 for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.

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