The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1602 - Trump Just Forced The South African President To Acknowledge The White Genocide

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00:02:05.720 slash Walsh. Ever since the death of Nelson Mandela, it's fair to call Cyril Ramaphoso one of the few

00:02:13.220 surviving founding fathers of post-apartheid South Africa. He helped to write the country's new

00:02:18.680 constitution, which would supposedly usher in a new era of prosperity and equality. He also oversaw

00:02:23.960 the transition to the new government. And as South Africa descended into lawlessness and squalor over

00:02:29.020 the ensuing 30 years, Ramaphoso gradually accumulated more wealth and power until he

00:02:32.780 finally became the country's president in 2018. He's currently worth something like half a billion

00:02:37.520 dollars, even as the vast majority of South Africans now live in extreme poverty. What this

00:02:43.640 means is that Ramaphosa is the personification of South Africa's post-colonial experiment.

00:02:49.180 When he drafted the new constitution, he presumably did not foresee that by 2025,

00:02:53.560 the country would have the single highest unemployment rate of any country in the world at 40%.

00:02:58.620 He certainly didn't tell anyone that he eventually planned to sign new laws that would disenfranchise

00:03:03.420 and rob white farmers or that white people would be systematically slaughtered in their homes.

00:03:07.960 But all that has happened. And yet for all this time, no one and certainly no world leader has 0.97

00:03:13.320 held this deranged despot accountable for any of that. Instead, it's been something of a tradition

00:03:18.880 in Washington to pretend that South Africa is somehow a great ally to the United States and

00:03:24.080 to treat Ramaphosa as royalty as Joe Biden did a few years ago. But that tradition came to a very

00:03:29.200 abrupt end yesterday in the Oval Office when Donald Trump did something that no other political figure

00:03:35.140 has ever done. He told Ramaphosa to his face in the most public form imaginable that he's a fraud 0.87

00:03:41.200 who is overseeing a white genocide. And in the process, Trump took a blowtorch to a mythology 0.98

00:03:46.180 that pretty much every politician from both parties has been desperate to uphold for several

00:03:51.020 decades. Now, in order to understand the importance of what Donald Trump communicated here,

00:03:56.920 you have to first see exactly how he communicated it. First, of course, Ramaphosa asked the United

00:04:02.060 States for money because that's any visiting dignitary now. That's just that's what they do.

00:04:07.560 They come hat in hand as beggars asking for our money. And in this case, he's done that because

00:04:13.480 he's he's run his country into the ground and they can't even feed themselves anymore.

00:04:18.020 Then a reporter asked a patronizing question about what it would take for Trump to stop repeating

00:04:22.680 supposedly false claims about white genocide in South Africa. In other words, the reporter is

00:04:26.960 basically calling Trump a liar and asking him what it would take for him to stop lying. And here's how

00:04:32.600 that went. Our main, main real reason for being here is to foster trade and investment so that we

00:04:42.760 are able to grow our economy, your support. And so that we are also able to address all these societal

00:04:49.960 problems because criminality thrives when people are unemployed, when they have no other hope to eke out

00:04:58.260 living. So that is what we need to resolve.

00:05:02.260 Mr. President, this time, what will it take for you to be convinced that there's no white genocide in South Africa?

00:05:08.260 Well, I can answer that for President.

00:05:12.260 I'd rather have him answer.

00:05:16.260 Our President will respond to you. Thank you, Mr. President.

00:05:20.260 It will take President Trump listening to the voices of South Africans, some of whom are his good friends.

00:05:32.260 So after begging for cash, Ramaphosa validates what the reporter is saying, patronizes,

00:05:40.260 is being patronizing to the president of the United States, to our president.

00:05:44.260 He says Donald Trump needs to listen to the people of South Africa in order to stop lying about the alleged genocide of white people.

00:05:51.260 Probably the most obnoxious answer that he could have come up with, especially after dozens of South Africans just fled the country in fear of their lives.

00:05:57.260 But Trump was prepared for it. First of all, Trump asked one of the white golfers that Ramaphosa brought with him.

00:06:03.260 This is a two-time U.S. Open winner named Retief Goosen what the situation was like in South Africa.

00:06:10.260 And the golfer responded that his father's friends, who owned farms, have been murdered and the farms are constantly being torched.

00:06:17.260 Watch.

00:06:18.260 I grew up in an area in South Africa that is a farmland area, Polakwani.

00:06:24.260 And there is some issues up there, obviously. My dad was a property developer as well as a part-time farmer.

00:06:33.260 And, yeah, some of his buddy farmers got killed. The farm is still going. My brother's run it.

00:06:41.260 But it's a constant battle with farms trying to get, they're trying to burn the farms down to chase you away.

00:06:48.260 So it is a concern to try and make a living as a farmer. And at the end of the day, you know, without farmers, there's no food on the plate.

00:06:56.260 So we need the farmers to produce the food. 0.67

00:07:00.260 He wouldn't even want to do what you're doing. They love farming. They don't want to leave.

00:07:04.260 But it's a struggle.

00:07:06.260 Yeah. And, you know, food and fresh water is the most important thing in life. You know, without those two things you can't survive.

00:07:13.260 How is the water there?

00:07:15.260 The water is great, obviously. All the water comes out of a borehole, out of ground for us definitely.

00:07:22.260 But, yeah, it is a battle to get the water out sometimes when all the equipment gets stolen all the time that you're trying to get the water out.

00:07:29.260 So does your family and your brother, do they feel safe on the farm?

00:07:33.260 They live behind electric fences, you know, try and be at night safe.

00:07:39.260 But it is constant whenever you leave that something could happen.

00:07:46.260 And, you know, both of them has been attacked in their houses. My mom's been attacked in their house when she was 80.

00:07:54.260 So it is, it is difficult.

00:07:58.260 So this is a pretty extraordinary moment because, keep in mind, this is one of the golfers that the president of South Africa brought to the Oval Office

00:08:05.260 as part of the South Africa's, you know, delegation, hoping he neutralized the supposedly fake narrative, quote unquote, about white genocide.

00:08:13.260 This is one of the people that the president of South Africa demanded obnoxiously that Trump listened to.

00:08:19.260 He said, all you have to do is listen to these people.

00:08:22.260 And then it's like, you know, this is essentially a witness for the defense, you know, basically.

00:08:28.260 And this is what he says.

00:08:30.260 So it didn't exactly go as planned, which probably tells you something about the level of planning that South Africa's government is capable of.

00:08:36.260 And things only got worse from there as Trump dimmed the lights in the Oval Office and played a tape of South African politicians openly calling for the murders of white farmers.

00:08:46.260 In other words, Trump once again called Ramaphosa's bluff.

00:08:49.260 He listened to the calls for genocide coming from South Africans and he made Ramaphosa and the rest of the world listen to it as well.

00:08:56.260 And as you watch this, notice the expression on the South African president's face as he genuinely cannot believe what's happening.

00:09:04.260 Watch.

00:09:06.260 It has to be responded to.

00:09:07.260 Yeah, sure.

00:09:08.260 Let me see the articles, please, if you would.

00:09:11.260 And, excuse me, turn the lights down.

00:09:14.260 Turn the lights down and just put this on.

00:09:17.260 It's right behind you.

00:09:18.260 Yohan.

00:09:19.260 There's nothing this government can do.

00:09:22.260 With or without you, people are going to occupy land.

00:09:26.260 We require no permission from you, from the president, from no one.

00:09:31.260 We don't care.

00:09:32.260 We can do whatever you want to do.

00:09:34.260 Who are you to tell us whether we can occupy land or not?

00:09:37.260 Who are going to occupy land? 0.93

00:09:39.260 South Africa?

00:09:40.260 A revolution demands that at some point there must be killing because the killing is part of a revolution act.

00:09:49.260 To do aot toDoor, the woman, the man. 0.98

00:09:59.260 To do aot in the country and the man.

00:10:03.260 To walk.

00:10:04.260 These are articles over the last few days, death of people, death, death, death, horrible

00:10:23.760 death, death, I don't know, to pick anyone, white South Africans are fleeing because of 1.00

00:10:32.740 the violence and racist laws, and this is all, I mean, I'll give these to you, so when you

00:10:40.140 say, what would I like to do, I don't know what to do, look at this, white South African 1.00

00:10:44.620 couples say that they were attacked violently, and, well, I could do that, look, here's burial

00:10:53.040 sites all over the place, they're all, these are all white farmers that are being buried. 0.53

00:10:57.980 So just, I mean, it's an incredible moment, again, remember, the South African president

00:11:02.720 what cued this up perfectly, and, I mean, you couldn't have, you could not have scripted

00:11:08.740 it any better, where the South African president said, well, what, you know, what Trump needs

00:11:14.560 to do is just listen, and so then Trump says, okay, we'll listen, yeah, let's do that, let's,

00:11:19.740 hey, what do you think, let's all listen, let's all, let's all just listen for a moment.

00:11:24.840 Now, if you have listened to this show or been active on social media over the past year or

00:11:28.840 so, then you've seen or heard most of those clips that we just saw there, or heard, and you've

00:11:35.420 heard stories like the ones that Trump just cited, and that's because in South Africa, black 0.98

00:11:39.000 politicians have openly called for genocide for many years now. White farmers have been tortured

00:11:43.040 in their homes for decades in attacks that are clearly racially motivated, and instead of stopping

00:11:49.060 the carnage, the government has just passed a law allowing the government to seize land from white 0.97

00:11:52.760 people without compensating them, all this has been known for a long time. But in their coverage

00:11:58.480 of this Oval Office meeting, the corporate press pretended to be surprised by this footage from

00:12:03.700 South Africa. So before we go back to the Oval Office incident yesterday, let's take a brief look

00:12:08.800 at that coverage. So here's ABC, for example, and watch as they deliberately give the impression that

00:12:13.860 they had never seen anything like this footage before.

00:12:17.700 There was a striking moment when a reporter asked President Trump, what would it take for you

00:12:22.400 to believe that there are not these, not genocide being committed toward these white farmers?

00:12:28.060 And the South African president, Terry, actually jumped in and he said that it would take President

00:12:33.360 Trump's friends, some of whom he brought, it would take President Trump listening to them

00:12:38.820 to understand that what he believes is untrue. And just to point out as well that President Trump,

00:12:45.100 ever the producer in chief, he dimmed the light, he asked the team to dim the lights at one point,

00:12:49.780 rolled the video to try and bolster his claims. You could see that the South African president during

00:12:54.420 that moment was visibly surprised. And at one point said he didn't know where these videos were

00:12:59.540 coming from. He hadn't seen them. We do not know the source, Terry, of the videos that were played.

00:13:06.440 We do not know the source of the videos. Pretty extraordinary. I mean, there's only two

00:13:10.660 explanations for how that reporter could make a statement like that. Either she's monumentally lazy 1.00

00:13:14.780 and she's confessing that no one at ABC News is capable of verifying the authenticity of footage

00:13:18.600 that's been available on the Internet for years, or she's deliberately lying to ABC's viewers and

00:13:24.180 trying to get them to believe that the footage might be fake. Those are the options. And if anyone

00:13:29.640 at ABC News was actually interested in the truth about what's happening in South Africa, they tell their

00:13:33.760 audience that, yes, the footage is real and the genocide of white people is something that they are

00:13:38.800 openly encouraging over there. Now, for his part, after Trump played the footage in the Oval Office,

00:13:45.420 Ray Mufasa offered this response. And as you listen to this, see if you can spot the very familiar

00:13:50.460 sleight of hand trick that he uses. Watch.

00:13:54.360 Let me clarify that. Let me clarify that because what you saw, the speeches that were being made,

00:14:01.000 one, that is not government policy. We have a multi-party democracy in South Africa that allows

00:14:08.500 people to express themselves, political parties to adhere to various policies. And in many cases,

00:14:16.880 or in some cases, those policies do not go along with government policy. Our government policy is

00:14:25.780 completely, completely against what he was saying, even in the parliament. And they're a small minority

00:14:35.520 party party, which is allowed to exist in terms of our constitution. But you do allow them to take

00:14:42.500 land. No, no, no, no. You do allow them to take land. Nobody can take land. And then when they take

00:14:47.140 the land, they kill the white farmer. And when they kill the white farmer, nothing happens to them. 0.99

00:14:52.980 No. There is quite... Nothing happens to them. There is criminality in our country. 0.99

00:14:57.120 People who do get killed, unfortunately, through criminal activity, are not only white people. 0.99

00:15:06.320 Majority of them are black people. And we have now been utilizing... 0.96

00:15:11.160 The farmers are not black. I don't say that's good or bad, but the farmers are not black. 1.00

00:15:16.680 First of all, he's right that some of the clips show politicians from minority parties in South

00:15:21.220 Africa. That's true. It's not very reassuring, though, for two reasons. First of all, these 1.00

00:15:26.740 minority parties are filling stadiums with tens of thousands of people chanting about murdering 0.98

00:15:32.460 white farmers. So we're not talking about one fringe politician here. And of course, if it was the

00:15:40.280 reverse, if it was a stadium full of white people chanting, you know, kill the black people, 1.00

00:15:45.920 thousands of people saying that, nobody would be reassured by saying, oh, that's just a minority party. 0.99

00:15:51.220 Um, so this is a very common sentiment in South Africa. And secondly, as Trump pointed out,

00:15:57.060 the government of South Africa has just signed legislation that calls for white people to lose

00:16:00.200 their homes and their farms without any form of compensation whatsoever. That's a pretty good

00:16:03.940 indication that indeed the government is aiding and abetting the ongoing genocide. Now, Ramaphosa had

00:16:10.160 no answer to that. Instead, he simply pointed out that in South Africa, the majority of people who die

00:16:14.160 are black. This is one of those lines that only works if you're a race-obsessed, illiterate moron who 1.00

00:16:18.760 doesn't understand the concept of per capita, which of course describes most South African leaders. So 1.00

00:16:22.720 maybe the talking point works there, but it doesn't work when you're dealing with intelligent people

00:16:27.240 because intelligent people recognize the significance of the fact that over 80% of the

00:16:32.200 population of South Africa is black. So obviously most of the people who are killed in South Africa 0.52

00:16:37.140 are going to be black. Uh, nobody's disputing that. The relevant question is whether white people, 0.99

00:16:41.820 particularly white farmers are being targeted because of their skin color and whether they're

00:16:46.840 dying at a rate that's higher than black people, given that they're only something like 6% of the

00:16:51.420 population. And of course, no one in South Africa's government wants to address those questions

00:16:56.880 because they know the truth. White farmers are being killed at dramatically higher rates than you'll

00:17:01.640 see in actual war zones or places like Afghanistan. By some estimates, the murder rate for white farmers is

00:17:08.200 something like 150 per 100,000 people. And that's why white people in South Africa are currently

00:17:13.540 leaving everything behind their farms, their homes, everything in order to fly to the United States

00:17:20.180 and stay in, you know, holiday inns off the interstate in Idaho. Not doing that for fun. This is not a

00:17:26.000 tourist trip. Um, they're doing it because their lives are endangered in South Africa. But even after

00:17:32.480 Trump explained all this in the Oval Office, even after Trump played the evidence of white genocide for the

00:17:37.000 press and for the president of South Africa, the corporate press is continuing to lie universally about

00:17:42.700 what's happening in South Africa. They're simply denying that white people are being targeted. So we'll put up 0.91

00:17:47.360 a selection of the headlines on the screen now. I'm not going to read all these, but every single one of them

00:17:52.400 accuses Trump of falsely spreading claims of white genocide in South Africa. They say that Trump abused the

00:17:59.720 South African president with lies, even though he literally played 10 minutes of video for him and

00:18:06.240 listened to firsthand testimony from the country. Pretty much every media outlet did the same

00:18:11.060 thing. Uh, this is one compilation that Chaya Reichich assembled. Watch.

00:18:16.940 The dramatic scene in the Oval Office today, the tense confrontation, President Trump ambushing the

00:18:21.820 president of South Africa.

00:18:22.940 Up next, another Oval Office meltdown. President Trump ambushing the president of South Africa.

00:18:28.340 President Trump is being accused of conducting something of a diplomatic ambush of South Africa's

00:18:33.100 president in the Oval Office. To be with you, I'm Katie Tur. President Trump orchestrated another

00:18:37.060 Oval Office ambush today. Today, Donald Trump meeting with the president of South Africa and attempting to

00:18:44.580 ambush and humiliate that leader. Zelensky territory where essentially he was, uh, a bit ambushed inside

00:18:51.140 the Oval Office. Felt like an ambush in there. Kind of like, uh, the President Zelensky meeting in the Oval Office.

00:18:56.840 This was an ambush. It was orchestrated.

00:19:00.740 Dero Ramaphosa brought his best diplomatic self to this meeting, but nothing could have prepared him

00:19:05.640 for this multimedia ambush.

00:19:07.760 What started as, to some degree, an ambush.

00:19:10.920 Well, Katie, I mean, it was an ambush.

00:19:12.540 Ambush.

00:19:13.280 Ambushed.

00:19:13.880 Ambushed.

00:19:14.360 An ambush.

00:19:14.940 Ambushing.

00:19:15.520 Ambushed. Ambushed inside the Oval Office.

00:19:17.420 So, the talking points went out. They're never very subtle about it. And this was shameless. And, uh,

00:19:24.280 talk about coordinated. This was coordinated to a pretty amazing degree, even by these people's

00:19:28.260 standards. But there was one outlet that told the truth seemingly by accident. Here was a photo that

00:19:33.940 the AP posted buried in an image gallery inside their article about how South Africa is supposedly

00:19:39.060 safe for white people. But this is an image in that article. And here's the caption, quote,

00:19:44.580 A view of crosses planted at the White Cross Monument, each one marking a white farmer who's been killed

00:19:50.540 in a farm murder, uh, is seen on a hillside in South Africa.

00:19:55.240 Okay, well, that's the reality of what's happening. And occasionally it gets out.

00:20:00.580 But you won't find similar reporting at the New York Times. Here's how they discussed what the, uh,

00:20:04.560 white golfer said in the Oval Office. Quote,

00:20:07.080 Two of South Africa's most famous golfers were drawn into a tense Oval Office discussion about race

00:20:11.600 in their country on Wednesday after President Trump ambushed his, uh, South African counterpart,

00:20:16.080 Cyril Ramaphosa, with videos intended to support his false claim of mass killings of Afrikaners.

00:20:22.900 Mr. Goosen shared that his relatives on farms live behind electric fences in fear of crime,

00:20:28.040 like many other South Africans. But the guys live a great life despite what's going on, he said.

00:20:32.640 Close quote.

00:20:34.420 Yes, that's, that's what the New York Times took from the golfer's statement.

00:20:37.780 They left out the fact that the farmer's friends are dead, that the farms are being torched,

00:20:43.380 uh, that his elderly 80-year-old mother was attacked in their home.

00:20:46.880 And the reason they left those details out is that ordinarily, uh, most criminals don't set fire to

00:20:52.960 farms or beat old women for no reason whatsoever. But they will do those things if they're motivated 1.00

00:20:58.160 by racial resentment, which is clearly the case in South Africa. Now, over at CNN, meanwhile, they,

00:21:03.640 they tried to convince their, you know, 15 or 16 viewers that the song about killing white farmers,

00:21:08.580 which is often repeated at political rallies in South Africa, really isn't meant to be taken

00:21:13.380 literally. Watch.

00:21:15.740 Larry has been debate over that song, uh, that anti-apartheid chant, right? And for people who

00:21:23.260 don't have a historical context, uh, it does, uh, potentially appear more literal. Talk to us about

00:21:30.960 the debate that has happened inside of South Africa with the recognition of how it appears,

00:21:37.120 uh, to people when they hear those words.

00:21:43.000 It is, uh, an inflammatory song without a doubt. And many in South Africa, even black South Africans

00:21:49.500 don't think it should be sung in a post-apartheid world, 30 years plus after apartheid. But there are

00:21:55.960 many who grew up under those years of white minority rule who understand the historical context 0.90

00:22:01.520 of this song, kill the boar, kill the farmer, that Julius Malema has made popular again. It sort of fell

00:22:07.880 into disuse. It's not been that commonly sung after the end of apartheid in 1994, but it's brought it

00:22:13.480 back again to reanimate the issue of the majority of land in South Africa still being owned by white

00:22:21.440 farmers. Yeah. It's just, it's just figurative. It's, you know, it's just, which is why again,

00:22:26.740 if there was a, if there was a whole stadium of white people chanting, kill the blacks, 1.00

00:22:33.000 yeah, all right. They'd be fine with it because then those white people can say, no, we just meant 1.00

00:22:37.520 it figuratively. That's all. It's just figurative, figuratively kill them poetically. Kill them

00:22:43.960 with kindness is what we meant to, was what we're really trying to say. Yeah. I'm sure they'd buy that 0.99

00:22:48.380 argument, right? So you've got, uh, you have stadiums of people chanting, kill the farmer 0.95

00:22:53.420 and then you have farmers being killed, but still it's all it's that don't, don't draw any connection

00:22:59.560 between those two things. They're simply incapable of bringing themselves to say that, yes, it's bad

00:23:06.120 to call for the mass executions of white farmers. They can't acknowledge that post-colonial South 0.78

00:23:11.860 Africa is a failure for the same reason they can't acknowledge that Rhodesia was a functioning, 1.00

00:23:16.860 thriving state, the breadbasket of Africa, they called it, while Zimbabwe, the new name for

00:23:21.440 Rhodesia is a hell hole that needs to import food in order to avert famine. Like one after another,

00:23:27.500 these post-colonial African states are demonstrating that colonialism wasn't so bad after all. In fact,

00:23:32.960 it was, turns out better than the alternative. Now it's obvious why they can't admit any of this.

00:23:38.120 Every single left-wing agenda item from the modern civil rights movement to DEI, everything is

00:23:42.660 predicated on the idea that past oppression, as they define it, justifies handouts and preferential

00:23:49.460 treatment today. But that logic falls apart when you realize that any effort to supposedly balance

00:23:55.020 things out and make up for the alleged sins of the past only means the murder rate will be 10 times

00:24:01.120 higher than it was in Afghanistan at the height of the U.S. occupation. Everyone is poor, elderly women 1.00

00:24:06.180 are regularly tortured and beaten to death in their own homes. Yeah, that's what that means. That's the

00:24:11.380 reality. And it's gone unsaid for generations and people in South Africa of all races have

00:24:16.260 suffered because of it. So have people in this country. And it's a lie that yesterday in the

00:24:21.800 Oval Office, Donald Trump confronted and debunked in the most direct way that he possibly could. And

00:24:25.960 in doing so, Trump didn't just demolish one of the central mythologies of the left, one that until

00:24:31.040 now has sustained the vast majority of their depraved social experiments. Trump also signaled that in

00:24:36.420 this administration, doublespeak and innuendo are not going to be the default mode of communication

00:24:42.200 with foreign leaders or anybody else. Instead, we'll be direct. We're not going to cower from the

00:24:47.340 truth or sugarcoat it with euphemism. Every single aspect of society would be improved if we all adopted

00:24:54.340 that level of discourse. We need a lot more of this if we're going to reverse the damage that South 1.00

00:24:59.680 Africa's leaders have done. And more importantly, if we're going to prevent that ideology from spreading 0.85

00:25:04.320 here. That's been the main goal of true conservatives in this country for many years now. And yesterday

00:25:09.880 in the Oval Office, for the first time since the 1960s, Donald Trump gave us reason to think that

00:25:16.000 we're going to succeed in that effort. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:27:07.960 occasions that while everyone seems to want our lawmakers to work together in a bipartisan way,

00:27:14.300 it is in fact the bipartisan ideas that are always the worst. When both Democrats and Republicans get

00:27:20.620 together and agree to do something together, that's when you know that it's a just a monumentally bad

00:27:26.380 idea. It's bad enough when one side wants to do something, but when they both want to do it,

00:27:31.620 then watch out. So that brings us to the bill that just passed 100 to 0 in the Senate. Not a single

00:27:41.100 dissenting voice in the Senate on this bill. NBC News reports, quote, the Senate this week unanimously

00:27:47.380 passed the No Tax on Tips Act in a surprise vote, which could boost momentum for an idea floated by

00:27:53.260 President Donald Trump during his 2024 campaign. If enacted, the legislation would create a federal

00:27:57.380 income tax deduction of up to $25,000 per year. With some limitations, the tax break applies to

00:28:02.520 workers who typically received cash tips reported to their employer for payroll tax withholdings,

00:28:06.940 according to a summary of the bill. Currently, workers who receive cash tips of $20 or more

00:28:11.500 monthly must report those earnings to employers, according to the IRS. Cash tips can include funds

00:28:16.800 received directly from customers, tip sharing from other employees, or tips paid via credit card.

00:28:21.040 And so that's the bill. And it passed the Senate 100 to nothing. And I think it's a terrible idea.

00:28:32.480 I know this is a Trump priority. I know that all the Republicans in the Senate support it. I don't. I think

00:28:41.020 it's dumb. I just think it's dumb. And there are a few major problems here, as I see it. First of all, 0.99

00:28:49.160 as you know, I am in favor of abolishing the income tax for everybody. I despise the income tax

00:28:55.160 conceptually. I think in principle, it's an oppressive, evil scam. It shouldn't exist.

00:29:01.940 I'd like to see a no tax on any income whatsoever policy. But this kind of legislation is not working

00:29:09.820 us towards that goal incrementally. Okay. This is not, if that was the point, then I would support it.

00:29:19.820 But there's no way in hell it would get 100% support in the Senate if the idea was just to

00:29:26.440 like chip away at the income tax gradually until nobody has to pay it.

00:29:33.020 Nobody involved in this actually thinks that this is part of a process to get us to a point where

00:29:38.640 there is no income tax at all. So that is not what's happening. That's not what this is.

00:29:42.720 Instead, this is just more of the same. This is more of what makes the income tax

00:29:46.120 so oppressive to begin with. This is the powers that be, our overlords in Washington,

00:29:52.720 using the tax system to arbitrarily pick winners and losers.

00:29:57.060 This is the government using the tax code as a system of punishment or reward, right? This is

00:30:06.440 not moving us towards a better system, but rather this is doubling down on what makes the system so

00:30:11.140 screwed up in the first place. So why exactly should people in the service industry get this special

00:30:21.900 deal? That's what I don't understand that no one's explained. I mean, you can explain why, yeah,

00:30:29.780 it's nice for them to not have to pay taxes, but why them, like what makes them so special?

00:30:34.280 What about anybody else? If you have two people who are both making, let's say, 45 grand a year

00:30:40.560 and one of them works retail and the other one works as a waiter, why exactly should the waiter get

00:30:48.140 to have most of his income exempted from taxes, but the retail worker doesn't? What makes the waiter

00:30:53.680 so special in comparison to the retail worker? Why? And please don't give me any nonsense about how

00:31:02.000 tips aren't income. Tips are a gratuity. They're just a gift. It's not really an income. That is a

00:31:08.140 distinction without a difference in this case. And also the service industry has been screaming at us

00:31:13.160 for decades that tips are not just a gift. They're not just a gratuity. They are income. That's why we've

00:31:19.700 been guilted into giving tips to everybody in the first place. Because for so long, they've told us

00:31:25.160 that, well, these waiters, you know, they don't get paid a real hourly wage. And so this is their income.

00:31:32.000 And so it falls on you as a customer to directly pay their salary, basically.

00:31:38.140 So if that's the case, this is income. You can't have it both ways. So what? Tips are income when

00:31:42.600 it comes to guilting us into giving tips, but they're a gift when the IRS comes calling?

00:31:49.360 That's nonsense. I mean, pick a lane. Pick a lane here.

00:31:53.200 And so there is no coherent reason for this other than our politicians just waving their magic wand

00:32:03.100 and deciding to grant a special privilege to one random subset of the country. Again, this is not

00:32:09.380 how you fix... This is not a way of fixing the problem with the system. This is just creating more

00:32:16.820 of the problem that needs to be fixed. So it's a bad idea. It's unfair. It's unjust.

00:32:23.380 And also, obviously, obviously, you've just created a situation where people are going to look to

00:32:29.400 convert more of their income into tips. You've just created all kinds of new complications.

00:32:35.580 You've given the IRS more to do, not less.

00:32:42.840 Any positive change with the tax code should always be in the name of simplifying it.

00:32:50.280 It should be working us towards there not being an income tax, but at the very least,

00:32:53.440 it should be simplifying things, making it more fair, making it more just, more even,

00:33:00.220 and simpler so that the IRS is less involved, not more. And all you've done is create an extra

00:33:07.500 loophole that now the IRS is going to be more involved, which, again, is the opposite of what

00:33:13.960 we should be doing. And yet, 100% of the Senate was... No one in the Senate had an issue with it.

00:33:21.880 I mean, what I'm saying here, these are at least... You might not agree with me, but you have to admit

00:33:26.640 that there are at least reasonable objections. And yet, this is like the only thing we've seen

00:33:34.620 in a long time where everybody agrees in Congress, at least in the Senate.

00:33:44.640 So... And on top of that, now you're going to have... So if you love this situation we're in now,

00:33:53.800 where, you know, when you go out and you're running errands or you're doing whatever,

00:33:58.040 you get asked for a tip now 20 times a day, right? So if you love that, if you love getting

00:34:04.720 asked for a tip, well, good news, now it's going to be 40 times a day. Now it's going to be 60 times

00:34:09.880 a day. Thanks to this brilliant bipartisan idea, now the IRS is going to be more involved,

00:34:16.840 the tax code is a little bit less fair and less even, and you're going to have people

00:34:22.600 begging you for tips even more now because the tips are exempt. So... Great. So this is an idea

00:34:32.220 that just doesn't make anything better. It makes everything a little bit worse. Every problem that

00:34:37.300 this idea touches, it makes that problem worse, not better. It doesn't... It does not solve anything.

00:34:42.940 100 to 0, though. 100 to 0.

00:34:50.060 So we played this week the clip of Brandon Johnson, mayor of Chicago, saying that he prefers to hire

00:34:54.900 black people because they're better people. They're more generous. Well, he was just confronted about

00:34:59.640 this during a press conference, and when I say confronted, he was really confronted. I don't have

00:35:04.680 a lot to add to this. I just think it's a great... I just want to play it because it's a great moment.

00:35:09.100 Let's watch it.

00:35:09.760 Real Chicagoans woke up this morning relieved that the Department of Justice is finally

00:35:16.000 investigating your race hustle. As someone who grew up on the south side of Chicago, I've heard a lot

00:35:22.600 of race hustlers in my life, trust me, but they were usually marching around outside of City Hall,

00:35:27.920 which is what makes this so embarrassing and dangerous. Very, very dangerous to the city of Chicago.

00:35:37.740 Okay. We need the question.

00:35:40.460 I'm more than happy to ask this question. It's long overdue. For over a year, real Chicagoans,

00:35:46.480 white and black, have been telling me that your black power rhetoric is bringing the city backwards

00:35:53.020 from a place that... We need the question. ...had overcome. 0.83

00:35:56.240 You want the question? Please.

00:35:57.600 Real Chicagoans want to know, why are you a racist?

00:36:04.440 Well, you know, first of all, I reject the idea and the premise that somehow that that's an actual

00:36:09.120 legitimate question.

00:36:11.060 You want to bet?

00:36:12.820 All right. We're going to go to the next one.

00:36:14.600 Alice?

00:36:14.940 The next question, my follow-up question, is a businessman, Robert Gomez, had his Riverfront restaurant license yanked.

00:36:26.140 You said that the reason you hire black people is because they're the most generous race on the planet.

00:36:34.580 His Riverfront restaurant license was yanked and given to a black restaurateur. 0.60

00:36:43.120 That seems to, that has, once again, reinforced the belief among real Chicagoans, white and black and Mexican, 0.99

00:36:54.080 that you are a racist. 0.83

00:36:56.480 What do you say to those people?

00:36:59.800 Again, I reject the premise that somehow that your question has any legitimacy.

00:37:03.920 Thank you for your time.

00:37:05.700 So that is, I believe, that's an independent journalist named William J. Kelly.

00:37:10.580 Great question. Fair question.

00:37:11.880 And Johnson's response is, first of all, a very dumb person response. 0.97

00:37:17.360 I reject the premise that your question has any legitimacy. 1.00

00:37:21.080 That's a classic example of a dumb guy trying to sound smart. 0.92

00:37:24.700 He could just say, I reject your question. 0.99

00:37:27.500 He could say, I reject the premise of your question.

00:37:30.720 But he makes it as wordy as he can because that's his way of trying to advertise his own intellect.

00:37:35.340 He thinks that being smart just means using more words, when, in fact, it's actually the opposite.

00:37:40.680 Smart people are able to get a point across using fewer words. 0.99

00:37:43.680 So this is a dumb response. 1.00

00:37:46.120 This is a dumb person trying to sound smart. 1.00

00:37:48.860 It's also cowardly. 1.00

00:37:49.720 And this is someone who is not capable of defending his position. 0.99

00:37:54.080 These race hustlers never are.

00:37:55.580 And also afraid to. 1.00

00:37:57.220 He's a coward. 0.99

00:37:59.200 They all are. 1.00

00:38:00.200 That's the thing you notice about these race hustlers. 0.84

00:38:02.200 There's something we noticed when we were making our film, Am I Racist?

00:38:07.380 Available now on dailywire.com. 0.98

00:38:10.620 That they're just such cowards. 0.87

00:38:14.160 When they're in a friendly environment, they'll be very explicit about how they feel. 0.98

00:38:19.860 They'll just come out and say the thing.

00:38:21.500 Brandon Johnson came out and said he prefers his own race.

00:38:24.940 They're more generous.

00:38:25.660 They're better people. 0.53

00:38:26.780 He'll hire them instead of white people. 0.96

00:38:28.720 Came out and said it.

00:38:29.620 But when these same people are in an environment where there's a chance of like the slightest

00:38:35.400 bit of pushback, they crumble.

00:38:37.920 They backtrack.

00:38:38.640 They equivocate. 1.00

00:38:40.460 And because they're cowards. 1.00

00:38:42.400 Dumb, racist cowards. 1.00

00:38:44.900 All right. 1.00

00:38:45.500 Let's put this up on the screen so you can see it.

00:38:49.280 A group of trans activists have been, have put up a giant trans flag at Yosemite National

00:38:56.120 Park.

00:38:57.300 Put up the clip 12 there.

00:38:59.620 So they, they hung it on the, um, the famous El Capitan rock formation.

00:39:05.700 And you can see it here.

00:39:07.800 So now we have this giant hideous thing defacing God's beautiful creation.

00:39:13.260 Imagine you go to Yosemite National Park all the way out to this rock formation out in the

00:39:18.180 wilderness, away from the hustle and bustle of daily life, away from all the nonsense and

00:39:21.240 the noise.

00:39:21.600 And you arrive there and you look up and you see an enormous trans flag. 0.99

00:39:26.900 Even out in the wilderness, you still have LGBT people shoving their nonsense in your face. 1.00

00:39:33.620 Even out in the woods, even out in the woods, you have trans people demanding that you pay 1.00

00:39:39.080 attention to them.

00:39:39.840 This is like, this is like a much worse version of what happens if you climb Mount Everest these

00:39:45.440 days, as, as of course, I know from extensive experience.

00:39:48.160 But if you climb Mount Everest, you get up two thirds of the way and there's a line, you know,

00:39:53.660 there's like, you came all this way, the highest point on earth.

00:39:55.900 And there's a freaking line you have to wait in soon.

00:40:00.920 They're going to have a visitor center at the top and like a gift shop and a dairy queen. 0.61

00:40:05.280 So it's depressing, but this is way worse.

00:40:08.600 So why are they doing this?

00:40:11.280 Well, empty lives desperate for attention.

00:40:13.720 We know why, but what reason do they give?

00:40:17.240 Here's a guy dressed like a park ranger from somebody's nightmarish acid trip, uh, who is

00:40:24.640 going to explain to us why they're doing this.

00:40:26.680 Let's watch.

00:40:27.640 Some carry hate.

00:40:28.920 We carry the largest trans pride flag to ever be flown in a national park and unfurled it

00:40:34.520 on the side of El Cap to prove a point that trans is natural. 1.00

00:40:39.480 The Trump administration and transphobes would love to have you believe that being trans is

00:40:44.580 unnatural, but species that can transition sexes can be found on every continent and in

00:40:49.560 every ocean on planet earth.

00:40:51.680 So call it a protest, call it a celebration.

00:40:54.640 We are bringing elevation to liberation.

00:40:57.500 They try to erase us from government websites and education systems and libraries.

00:41:02.620 So we raised this flag higher than ever before.

00:41:05.520 So every trans person knows that they have people that love them in their corner.

00:41:10.920 The people united will never be defeated.

00:41:13.840 I like how the name tag on the, this guy's wearing says gay in case you didn't pick up on that in 0.89

00:41:20.420 case you didn't notice in case there was any confusion, he's gay. 0.75

00:41:25.020 Just so you know, that's a gay guy. 0.60

00:41:28.000 I mean, you wouldn't have known otherwise.

00:41:30.060 I know when you, when you look at a dude in a park ranger outfit with a mini skirt wearing like more makeup than a Republican woman on Fox news, when you see all that, uh, I know you must be, you think, well, that guy must be straight.

00:41:41.100 That's straight all day.

00:41:42.900 That's straight. 0.98

00:41:43.480 If I've ever seen it, but no, it turns out he's gay. 1.00

00:41:46.500 So, um, I know when you see a dude who, uh, it's, it looks like if, if Kathy Griffin was a character on Yogi bear, when you see that, you think that's heterosexual.

00:41:58.140 I, if I know heterosexual, that's, that's what that is. 0.96

00:42:02.380 But, uh, but no, he's gay. 0.62

00:42:03.600 So, and honestly, all I could think when I watched this is that I hope this guy is not an actual park ranger.

00:42:10.400 I don't think he is, but I don't know.

00:42:12.640 Can you imagine getting lost in the wilderness and you've been lost for nine days and you're, you know, and then, and then suddenly this guy shows up to rescue you.

00:42:20.620 Imagine you're huddled around a campfire, you know, and you're starving and, and this guy emerges from the darkness.

00:42:28.120 You would assume that you have died and you're going to hell.

00:42:31.860 That's what you would assume.

00:42:32.760 That would be your first thought.

00:42:34.440 You would think, okay, this is the demonic entity that has come here to drag me to hell.

00:42:39.800 This is it.

00:42:40.680 This is how it's going to happen.

00:42:42.800 Uh, anyway, so he says that trans is natural. 1.00

00:42:48.860 Now I've recently addressed this kind of line of argument as it pertains to homosexuality.

00:42:53.180 It's a really bad argument. 1.00

00:42:54.580 It's a very dumb argument. 0.99

00:42:57.040 Just because something occurs in nature doesn't mean it's acceptable or moral or okay. 0.99

00:43:02.340 Or normal, uh, for us to do it as humans, just because a certain behavior can be observed in the ocean.

00:43:09.560 That doesn't mean that we should model ourselves after it.

00:43:14.160 Okay.

00:43:14.840 Your role model in life should not be an octopus or whatever.

00:43:19.360 If you do something and, and, and, you know, you, you can't justify it by saying, hey, what's everyone upset about?

00:43:27.820 Uh, hammerhead sharks do it too.

00:43:30.980 It doesn't work.

00:43:31.960 For example, squids are cannibalistic.

00:43:36.740 Is it squids or squid?

00:43:38.980 Is squid, is, is squid the plural of squid?

00:43:41.860 Anyway, uh, so they, they're cannibals. 0.91

00:43:44.760 They eat their own species and that is acceptable behavior for a squid.

00:43:48.940 But if you get caught at your dining room table, chowing down on your neighbor's torso, you're not going to be able to get off the hook by saying, hey, what's the big deal?

00:44:01.300 Squids do it. 0.97

00:44:02.720 Oh, I, I see.

00:44:04.000 Oh, okay.

00:44:05.080 Okay.

00:44:05.400 So when a squid is a cannibal, nobody cares.

00:44:08.540 But what I am, everyone's got an issue with it.

00:44:12.200 You're not going to be able to do that.

00:44:13.320 It's not going to, it's not going to be a convincing line of argument.

00:44:16.880 And it especially doesn't work here because yes, it's true that some species can change their sex.

00:44:25.240 And he puts up on the screen, an image of a, of a clownfish as an example of something that can change their sex. 0.79

00:44:32.640 And yes, clownfish have been observed changing sex, but human beings do not change sex.

00:44:41.940 That is not a thing that humans have ever done or will ever be able to do.

00:44:45.620 Humans are not clownfish.

00:44:49.400 Clownfish also have gills.

00:44:51.520 They can breathe underwater.

00:44:53.200 We can't do that either.

00:44:55.440 You know, you know what's crazy?

00:44:56.900 Our lives actually don't resemble the lives of clownfish at all.

00:45:01.900 There's, if we were to do Kamala Harris's favorite thing and make a Venn diagram and we've got humans and clownfish,

00:45:09.460 there's very little that's going to be in that middle little bit.

00:45:13.240 Like there's not a lot that you're going to find.

00:45:16.080 It's going to be a lot of things.

00:45:18.240 There's not a lot of commonality between humans and clownfish.

00:45:21.440 So, uh, and so yes, clownfish.

00:45:27.700 And this is one of those things that doesn't really cross over.

00:45:29.800 They do change sex. 0.98

00:45:30.800 Humans don't.

00:45:31.940 Our whole point about quote unquote transgenderism isn't exactly that it's unnatural.

00:45:37.320 It's that it's impossible.

00:45:41.140 It's not real.

00:45:43.000 It doesn't exist.

00:45:44.160 It's not a thing in the human species.

00:45:47.380 Clownfish literally physically change sex, which means that a clownfish with the reproductive capacity of a male can switch and develop the reproductive capacity of a female.

00:45:59.820 No, this is a survival mechanism in their species.

00:46:03.640 It is not a survival mechanism in ours.

00:46:07.280 Trans people don't do this. 1.00

00:46:08.920 Even with the help of surgery and drugs and hormones, they still don't do it.

00:46:13.440 There has never been ever in history, a male human who developed or in any way obtained the reproductive capabilities of a female human or vice versa.

00:46:27.040 This has never happened ever.

00:46:30.440 It happens in clownfish, but not in humans.

00:46:36.140 Now, I'll, I'll be the first to say if, uh, if that did exist, if there was a male human who said, I'm going to transition into a woman.

00:46:47.980 Um, and now suddenly through some dark magic actually has the reproductive capacity of a female can bear children. 0.99

00:46:58.920 Um, then I would say that, yeah, okay, well, I, that, that, that's, that's a trans person.

00:47:06.340 The first one, there it is.

00:47:08.620 That's what that would be.

00:47:09.960 But, um, that doesn't exist.

00:47:13.140 It's, it's, it's, it's not a thing in our species.

00:47:16.300 So, uh, so that's it.

00:47:20.140 And, and, uh, and that's why you can take the trans flag down from the, uh, the, the, the cliff there and let everybody enjoy God's creation without your, uh, incessant whining. 0.66

00:47:33.240 That would be good.

00:47:33.760 So let's get to the comment section.

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00:48:36.400 There's one thing I agree with from that black guy that says you shouldn't marry outside your race. 1.00

00:48:40.420 No, not that part. 0.98

00:48:41.300 I'm not racist.

00:48:42.060 He said, Angel Reese can be great in her own right, as Caitlin Clark is as well. 0.65

00:48:47.320 Indeed, she can be.

00:48:48.340 All she needs is talent, skill, sportsmanship, intelligence, and most of all, greatness.

00:48:52.900 Acquire those things, and she can be great. 0.90

00:48:56.220 Yeah, and also speaking of Ryan Clark, I just saw this morning that apparently, and I didn't know this when we talked about yesterday, apparently he also has a mixed race kid.

00:49:08.080 He was forced to put out a tweet, I think this morning, where he confessed that he has a mixed race kid, which normally wouldn't be the kind of thing that would come up in a conversation about basketball.

00:49:19.300 I mean, it's not the kind of thing you would normally have to confess.

00:49:21.520 But he, of course, was condemning RG3 for marrying a white woman, and it turns out that Clark has a mixed race daughter.

00:49:31.580 So, he's done exactly the same thing.

00:49:34.300 In fact, he hasn't done the same thing. 0.99

00:49:35.980 He apparently had sex with a white woman and produced a kid, but did not marry the mother. 0.97

00:49:41.240 So, as opposed to RG3, who married, you know, the mom. 1.00

00:49:46.320 So, he's a hypocrite, a racist, and a deadbeat, all at the same time. 1.00

00:49:54.080 Just a real catch, that guy. 1.00

00:49:55.540 Let's see.

00:49:58.240 Yeah, I'm definitely calling BS on the racial slurs.

00:50:00.360 Someone yelling racial slurs in a multiracial crowd, someone would have caught it, and someone would have made a big deal about it for the cameras to see, like they did at the BYU volleyball game.

00:50:12.260 Right.

00:50:12.660 Well, exactly.

00:50:14.740 And also, just the idea of a raving, shouting racist going to a WNBA game is very funny to me.

00:50:22.560 That's a very funny idea. 0.90

00:50:23.920 The idea that someone went to a WNBA game and then looked around and was shocked and appalled by all the black people. 0.99

00:50:30.520 That's funny.

00:50:31.820 That would be a good, you know, like old Chappelle show bit or something. 0.96

00:50:37.180 Somebody, some racist white guy sits down, all excited to watch some WNBA basketball, and then looks around and sees that it's almost all black women. 0.99

00:50:47.260 And goes, what the hell? 0.99

00:50:48.740 What the hell is this? 1.00

00:50:50.960 Since when do black people play basketball? 1.00

00:50:53.920 Uh, that's, that's pretty funny.

00:50:57.820 So, but I don't think that actually happened.

00:50:59.780 Uh, let's see.

00:51:03.260 I, I honestly forgot that Starbucks exists until there's something in the news about the employees complaining.

00:51:08.060 People still pay for overpriced bad coffee?

00:51:10.160 Yeah, I'll keep making better coffee at home for cheaper.

00:51:12.640 No, listen, you know what?

00:51:13.740 I'm, uh, I'm not going to go along with the Starbucks slander.

00:51:17.220 I mean, slandering the employees is fine, but I will unapologetic and slandering, like slander the company and the employees and the corporate office.

00:51:27.240 I will unapologetically defend the product though.

00:51:30.000 I'm not going to go, you know, this is something conservatives do with a lot of things.

00:51:34.680 I think it's kind of lame where it's, it's kind of like when you have conservatives that will, there's some actor who, who's a lame, woke liberal.

00:51:44.360 And so then, then, then they'll also, they'll also pretend that the actor is not a good actor.

00:51:49.380 And sometimes they're actually not good actors, but, um, oftentimes like, no, they're good actors.

00:51:56.040 I mean, they're good at what they do.

00:51:57.700 Not all of them, but many of them are.

00:52:00.480 Uh, but they're also woke leftists. 0.72

00:52:04.180 And so I think a similar thing happens with, with, with Starbucks where you got conservatives that will pretend, oh, the coffee isn't even good.

00:52:09.860 No, it's like, it's pretty good.

00:52:11.380 We don't have to pretend it's not good.

00:52:14.360 Um, it's, it's the best you're going to get from a chain coffee place.

00:52:21.160 And it's also better than a lot of people make in their homes.

00:52:25.660 I mean, you'll hear from people that say, oh, I can make better coffee at my house.

00:52:29.120 And, you know, and they've got like a $12 drip coffee maker and they're making Folgers.

00:52:34.400 And it's like, well, no, you're not making better at your house.

00:52:37.100 Actually, you're not, you're not even making diner level coffee at your house.

00:52:40.520 So give me a break.

00:52:41.340 Now, if you're making, you know, if you're going the whole French press route, that's too much effort for me.

00:52:47.100 But if you're doing that and you got some gourmet coffee beans and you're grinding it yourself, making French press, then yeah, that's better than Starbucks.

00:52:53.980 But, uh, I'm afraid to say most of you are not making better coffee at your house.

00:53:00.180 Uh, and, uh, and, uh, Starbucks is pretty good again for, for a chain place.

00:53:05.020 It's pretty good.

00:53:05.600 Uh, now like a local coffee shop will often be better, but of course in most places, especially most urban places, most metropolitan places, the local coffee shop is going to be way woker than Starbucks even is.

00:53:21.540 So if you want to avoid wokeness, it's, if you want to avoid it entirely, that's hard to do.

00:53:29.400 And also find good coffee, unfortunately.

00:53:33.380 Um, so, and look, Starbucks is a way better than Dunkin' Donuts.

00:53:41.200 It's so don't even like, give me a break.

00:53:45.300 All these people pretending that Dunkin' Donuts is better and Dunkin' Donuts is probably a woke company too.

00:53:50.000 I, you know, they all are.

00:53:51.700 It's probably not as woke.

00:53:54.960 Um, the service at Dunkin' Donuts is also bad in a different way, but the coffee is not better.

00:54:05.220 Dunkin' Donuts coffee is, uh, it, it's, it's like.

00:54:09.620 It's like if you had boiling hot water in a rusty bucket mixed with a mulch and it sat there for two days and then you strained out the mulch and poured it into a cup and poured it into like a normal size cup, like a leftist tears tumbler.

00:54:27.120 And then put, and then put 19 tablespoons of sugar in it and mixed it all together.

00:54:33.960 That's Dunkin' Donuts coffee.

00:54:34.940 So give me a break.

00:54:37.420 Uh, let's see.

00:54:38.300 Oh, look, another transitional job that people make a career out of wanting to wear their own flair, like it's office space or something.

00:54:44.560 Yeah.

00:54:44.880 That's maybe the most absurd thing about the Starbucks strike is, uh, I mean, the very fact they have a union at all is, is ridiculous because Starbucks isn't supposed to be a career.

00:54:54.360 You're right.

00:54:54.680 I mean, sure.

00:54:55.640 If you want to work your way up and get into management, that's, that could be a career.

00:55:01.720 You want to move over to the corporate side.

00:55:03.320 That could be a career.

00:55:04.440 Uh, if your ultimate goal is to open up your own coffee shop or something, that can be a career.

00:55:08.580 There's plenty of careers in the coffee world, but just being a barista on an hourly wage, wearing a name tag, that is not a career.

00:55:19.320 So why are you wasting your time fighting?

00:55:22.960 On top of all the other problems with the whole striking over the uniform, why are you wasting your time fighting with them about it? 1.00

00:55:29.480 Just put the stupid thing on. 1.00

00:55:31.600 Do your job. 1.00

00:55:33.140 Hopefully you don't plan to be there for 10 years anyway.

00:55:36.640 Uh, do it to the best of your ability and move on.

00:55:39.240 That's it.

00:55:39.800 It's that simple.

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00:56:09.280 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:56:16.660 You know, very often people ask me what it's like to be a best-selling, world-renowned children's author.

00:56:22.240 They'll wonder how it feels being a member of one of the world's most exclusive clubs.

00:56:26.240 And, um, and if for some reason I choose to respond to these people, I always have the same answer, which is that my life really hasn't changed much since the massive success of my book, Johnny the Walrus.

00:56:37.400 But yes, occasionally I'll get some flattering messages from my peer and very good friend, J.K. Rowling, or, you know, an oversized royalty check might arrive in the mail with millions of more dollars in it from my, from my book.

00:56:50.640 And yes, it's true that Amazon once listed Johnny the Walrus as the best-selling book in the LGBTQ plus category, which has endeared me to millions of trans and non-binary folks all over the world.

00:57:02.600 In fact, many of, of these fans still follow me around to this day, obsessing over my every move.

00:57:06.540 And yes, the book cemented my status as one of the great wordsmiths of our generation.

00:57:11.520 Uh, and, and frankly, of all time, I think most people would agree, but really I don't think of Johnny the Walrus, which is available now at the Daily Wires online shop bundled with a Walrus plushie on sale for the low price of $29.99 as something that I need to promote or talk about, uh, very often.

00:57:27.080 The art speaks for itself in this case, and having freed that particular literary dove and released its brilliance and beauty into the world for everyone to enjoy, I have mostly moved on with my life.

00:57:39.360 But the same cannot be said for people who have made the decision to purchase my book.

00:57:44.460 You might think that in a country with the First Amendment, you can buy any book you want, and you certainly think that you could purchase a book about Johnny, a boy with a very active imagination who dresses up as a walrus.

00:57:54.580 To be clear, the message of the book is pretty simple and straightforward.

00:57:58.320 Johnny isn't actually a walrus, and, I mean, not to spoil it, and people who try to convince him to undergo walrus-affirming surgery and to eat worms are wrong.

00:58:07.040 Now, we're not talking about a classified bomb-making manual here or an al-Qaeda guide to hijacking an aircraft.

00:58:14.900 We're also not talking about anything deviant or grotesque or explicit or vulgar or anything like that.

00:58:20.920 We're talking about a children's book about a kid who thinks he's a walrus.

00:58:25.040 So how, you might ask, could this book possibly be controversial in any way?

00:58:28.840 How could anyone who buys this book possibly lose their job or be threatened with termination simply for owning it?

00:58:35.020 Well, enter the Intermountain Education Service District in Oregon, which oversees multiple school districts in the state.

00:58:44.300 And the district currently employs a licensed social worker named Rod Face, T-H-E-I-S.

00:58:51.320 I might be browsing that wrong.

00:58:52.300 Currently, Rod decided to place a copy, recently rather, Rod decided to place a copy of Johnny the Walrus on his desk in his office.

00:59:00.000 And he also displayed two other books on the windowsill called He is He and She is She.

00:59:05.200 This is an office that says staff only on the door, and students are only inside the office when he's evaluating him as part of his job.

00:59:12.360 And here's what the setup looks like.

00:59:13.820 You can see it there.

00:59:14.940 So the book is not exactly shoved down anybody's throat.

00:59:17.600 It's not plastered all over the wall like the various pro-trans, pro-pride month propaganda that pretty much every school in Oregon posts everywhere.

00:59:23.620 It's just a book on his desk.

00:59:25.840 No parent or student complained about the book, as far as anybody knows.

00:59:29.520 Not that they have any reason to do so.

00:59:31.760 But that didn't stop the Intermountain Education Service District from demanding that Rod remove the book from his desk.

00:59:38.920 And then suggesting that he attend a mandatory re-education seminar entitled Making Schools Safe and Inclusive for Transgender Students.

00:59:48.260 They said that my story about a little boy who pretends to be a walrus is, in fact, a hostile expression of animus towards students, quote, actual or perceived gender identity.

00:59:59.300 They claim that the mere presence of this book on the desk constitutes a bias incident.

01:00:05.900 And they said that if Rod didn't comply with their demands, that they would fire him.

01:00:11.520 Now, specifically on October 21st, 2024, the principal of one of these schools in the district emailed Rod to discuss, quote,

01:00:18.740 some concerns brought to the principal about a couple of books on display in your office.

01:00:23.060 In that same email chain, the principal told Rod to place the books out of sight.

01:00:27.420 Quoting for the lawsuit, according to Principal Wagner, the staff member was concerned about messages that could be considered offensive to transgender students.

01:00:35.420 When plaintiff asked why this staff person thought this, Principal Wagner responded that the staff member had looked up the books online and then determined that they were offensive, close quote.

01:00:44.760 So, in other words, the staff member who complained didn't actually read the book.

01:00:48.500 And the principal, when he read the book, determined that it wasn't offensive or inappropriate.

01:00:52.760 Nevertheless, the principal told Rod that he had to remove the book because he supposedly has to maintain a neutral environment at the school.

01:01:00.140 Now, by November, there was an official bias complaint from a staffer.

01:01:03.400 And the superintendent, who's a spineless coward named Mark Mulvihill, ruled against Rod.

01:01:09.960 He determined that the book's display, quote, amounted to a bias incident because the books, quote,

01:01:14.540 promote a binary view of gender, which excludes and invalidates an understanding of gender diversity.

01:01:20.320 And their display, quote, communicates a message of exclusion and diminishes the validity of non-binary and transgender experiences

01:01:27.200 and contributes to an unwelcoming environment, which directly contradicts the district's commitment to inclusivity and diversity.

01:01:34.180 Now, to his great credit, Rod did not back down.

01:01:37.640 He secured representation from the Alliance Defending Freedom, the premier Christian First Amendment advocacy group in the country,

01:01:45.160 which won the Dobbs case that overturned Roe v. Wade before the Supreme Court.

01:01:49.360 And now they've stepped in to defend him.

01:01:51.500 They just filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the district to force them to end their censorship.

01:01:56.180 And in their investigation, ADF determined that various schools in Oregon tolerate books that contain, quote,

01:02:01.860 violence, suicide, explicit language, domestic abuse, drug and alcohol use, and sexual content.

01:02:08.200 And those books include the Twilight Saga, The Hunger Games.

01:02:12.020 There are also books that feature same-sex relationships and non-binary characters,

01:02:15.740 which are on display and available for students to read in sixth-grade classrooms.

01:02:20.760 Additionally, some of the books in classrooms that are next to Rod's office contain, quote,

01:02:24.320 sexually inappropriate material, including a book where a boy masturbates,

01:02:28.000 along with books that reference contraceptives and contain descriptions of explicit gore.

01:02:33.260 And even though several parents complained about those books,

01:02:35.300 in that case, the parents did complain, and they didn't complain about my book,

01:02:40.400 still those books are on display.

01:02:43.260 Now, in case you're unfamiliar with my book, there is no explicit gore in Johnny the Walrus.

01:02:48.480 Neither Johnny nor the Walrus, nor anyone else,

01:02:50.860 engage in sexually explicit behavior or domestic abuse or drug or alcohol use.

01:02:56.680 This is a representative page from the book.

01:02:59.540 And as you can see, characters are having fun, but they're doing it completely sober.

01:03:05.840 There's nothing explicit as being exposed here.

01:03:08.520 But the Intermountain Education Service District has chosen to ban Johnny the Walrus,

01:03:12.520 ostensibly to maintain a neutral environment.

01:03:15.300 And at the same time, ADF found that there's no concern about the left-wing messaging that staffers

01:03:20.360 and teachers are posting throughout other schools in Oregon, including schools outside the district.

01:03:25.080 One special education teacher displays a pride flag, for example,

01:03:28.160 and a counselor has posted various BLM slogans all over the place.

01:03:32.540 But apparently, there's no concern in these Oregon schools that any of this messaging might upset,

01:03:37.180 say, a conservative student or disrupt the neutral environment.

01:03:41.400 So why is that?

01:03:42.720 Well, according to the lawsuit, the assistant superintendent of the district, Amy Van Nice,

01:03:46.600 interrogated Rod at one point, and her interrogation gives us a window into the worldview of these people.

01:03:53.300 And apparently, the assistant superintendent asked him, and this is verbatim from the lawsuit,

01:03:57.160 quote, why can't Johnny be a walrus?

01:04:01.220 And that about sums up this whole incident, as well as the logic of trans activists more generally.

01:04:05.940 Why can't Johnny be a walrus? 0.87

01:04:07.640 It is the perfect encapsulation of how mindless and truly sinister these people are.

01:04:12.580 Um, Johnny can't be a walrus because he's not a walrus.

01:04:17.200 He's a fictional human, not a fictional walrus.

01:04:20.560 My book is intended for children between the ages of three and seven,

01:04:23.140 and every single one of them can grasp this concept very quickly.

01:04:26.580 But the middle-aged representatives of this district who are supposed to serve the interests of taxpayers

01:04:31.020 are pretending not to understand it.

01:04:34.520 Or maybe they actually don't understand it,

01:04:37.320 which would explain the quality of education system in this country.

01:04:39.540 At this point, it won't be enough for Rod to win this case.

01:04:43.160 Superintendent Mark Mulvihill, along with the assistant superintendent and HR director Amy Van Nice,

01:04:49.560 need to be fired immediately.

01:04:52.020 The federal government has a responsibility to make sure that

01:04:54.800 any school district that engages in this kind of discrimination is brought to justice,

01:04:59.260 because we're talking about civil rights violations here.

01:05:01.780 The First Amendment, your freedom of speech and religious expression,

01:05:05.360 is a federal issue, and it's a fundamental right.

01:05:07.880 However, the government cannot arbitrarily punish certain viewpoints and reward others.

01:05:12.720 Any school district that suspends the First Amendment or that targets Christians because of their beliefs

01:05:16.700 should lose all federal funding.

01:05:19.140 And the people responsible should never be allowed to teach again.

01:05:23.140 Now, to be clear, I'm not saying that any teacher should be able to place any book they want in the classroom

01:05:26.980 or plaster any message they want on the walls.

01:05:29.660 The issue here is, first of all, that they're treating my book differently from all these other books,

01:05:33.840 which is unconstitutional on its face.

01:05:35.140 And the second issue is that my book is sane and reasonable, while theirs are pornographic and disturbing.

01:05:41.220 Each one of these issues independently is grounds for Rod to win this case.

01:05:45.040 So we'll be following this lawsuit, and we'll let you know what happens in Oregon.

01:05:48.340 In the meantime, if something like this is happening where you live,

01:05:51.080 get in touch with us or with Alliance Defending Freedom.

01:05:53.920 Conservatives control the federal government, but state and local attacks on constitutional rights

01:05:58.140 appear to be accelerating in many cases.

01:06:00.580 And these people will win unless we fight back.

01:06:04.620 Now, Rod, to his credit, is taking these leftists to court.

01:06:08.040 We'll need a lot more people like him if we're going to preserve the right of every American

01:06:11.120 to read whatever inoffensive children's books they want, including masterpieces like Johnny the Walrus.

01:06:16.940 And that is why this Oregon district that's threatening to terminate a social worker for reading my book

01:06:21.480 is today canceled.

01:06:23.860 That'll do it for the show today.

01:06:24.780 And this week, we're off for the weekend and Memorial Day.

01:06:28.560 We'll see you on Tuesday.

01:06:30.040 Have a great weekend.

01:06:31.440 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - May 22, 2025

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