The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1618 - Trump Bombed Iran. What's Next？

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, President Trump launches an attack on Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday night.

00:00:04.480 The next day, he mentions the possibility of a regime change in Iran.

00:00:07.200 I've made my stance on U.S. interventionism in the Middle East known.

00:00:10.560 Will I change my position now to keep up with the trends?

00:00:13.140 No, obviously not. I'll give my full take and break down the situation today.

00:00:16.300 Also, Democrats had more important things to worry about, like the fact that J.D. Vance called a Democrat lawmaker Jose.

00:00:21.720 And the good folks in Canada are always happy to lighten the mood by giving us something to laugh about.

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00:00:32.100 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:33.860 If you listen to this show and have followed my work over the years,

00:02:36.920 you know that foreign affairs are, to put it mildly, not my area of focus.

00:02:42.420 There are a couple of reasons for that.

00:02:43.780 One of them is that I'm just not that interested in what other countries are doing.

00:02:47.500 The other is that, to my mind, focusing intently on the affairs of foreign nations comes with a significant opportunity cost.

00:02:55.280 For every hour we spend talking about, for example, the mullahs in Iran,

00:02:59.500 who have supposedly been on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons for many years now,

00:03:02.620 we aren't talking about catastrophic threats that directly impact the lives of American citizens every single day.

00:03:09.240 And these are threats that we can easily solve if we choose to do so.

00:03:13.500 To give just one example, yesterday a magistrate judge ruled that Kilmar Obrego Garcia can be released from jail pending his trial.

00:03:21.920 This is the illegal alien and suspected MS-13 gang member whose alleged crimes include human trafficking and wife beating,

00:03:29.380 who Democrats have turned into a hero of their party.

00:03:32.300 And now the Democrats have succeeded in bringing him back here from El Salvador.

00:03:36.060 And if this judge gets her way, he'll be free to roam the streets of national Tennessee or anywhere else he wants to go.

00:03:41.780 And yet, despite this very direct infringement on our national sovereignty and many, many cases just like it,

00:03:50.020 no bunker buster bombs were dropped on MS-13 strongholds in Mexico or Central America over the weekend.

00:03:56.840 We haven't sent the military to go destroy the Mexican gangs and cartels that have terrorized this country for too long. 0.99

00:04:02.680 Yes, it would clearly advance our interest to eliminate these threats immediately using overwhelming military force,

00:04:08.640 but we haven't done that.

00:04:09.800 And there doesn't appear to be any plans to do that.

00:04:13.240 Instead, as you've heard by now, of course, on Saturday, the Trump administration launched a targeted military strike

00:04:18.640 against Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities, which means that, for better or worse,

00:04:23.700 Iran is not just a matter of foreign affairs anymore.

00:04:26.320 The United States is involved.

00:04:28.660 And now, very explicitly, the president is also, as of yesterday, talking about regime change in Iran.

00:04:36.040 So here's what he wrote on Sunday.

00:04:38.600 Quote, it's not politically correct to use the term regime change, but if the current Iranian regime is unable to make Iran great again,

00:04:45.940 why wouldn't there be a regime change?

00:04:48.480 MIGA.

00:04:49.360 MIGA.

00:04:50.000 I don't know.

00:04:50.580 Make Iran great again.

00:04:52.240 This is the MIGA.

00:04:54.140 Now, the defense for that post will be that, and has already been, that Trump is trolling or that he's saying something extreme as a means to gain an advantage in negotiations,

00:05:05.080 or that he means that the Iranian people should rise up and create their own regime change.

00:05:10.060 And any of those interpretations could be true.

00:05:13.440 But whatever his point, we absolutely cannot get involved in a regime change war.

00:05:19.720 It's not up to the United States to decide what sort of regime rules over Iran.

00:05:24.540 Least of all is it our job to make Iran great again. 0.95

00:05:28.160 The greatness of America is our only concern.

00:05:31.340 Now, of course, I have no doubt that if Trump did decide to launch a war for regime change in Iran,

00:05:35.780 a certain sizable portion of right-wing influencers will discover that actually they're big fans of Dick Cheney-style foreign policy after all.

00:05:42.760 We've already seen these pivots happening in certain corners.

00:05:45.420 Now, that brings us to what should be the question, which is, did the attack on Iran actually benefit the United States?

00:05:58.160 That is the only question that matters.

00:06:00.940 And any reasonable person has to admit that there are coherent arguments on both sides.

00:06:06.640 Now, the argument in favor of military intervention is that very soon Iran could, they say, build a nuclear weapon.

00:06:15.800 That's according to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who has testified that, quote,

00:06:19.380 Iran can produce a nuclear weapon within weeks to months if they decide to finalize the assembly.

00:06:24.320 And she also said that in the same statement that they have no intelligence indicating that Iran actually is building a nuclear weapon.

00:06:29.820 But she said that they could.

00:06:31.800 And this is a country that openly despises the United States, as many Islamic countries do. 1.00

00:06:37.300 They've waged proxy wars against us in the Mideast, often through intermediaries.

00:06:41.780 They've launched rockets at our soldiers.

00:06:44.000 The pro-intervention crowd says that the Iranian regime is evil and murderous, which, of course, it definitely is. 1.00

00:06:50.980 As I said last week, the whole regime can go to hell as far as I'm concerned. 0.95

00:06:53.840 Many of them already are in hell, you know, no doubt.

00:06:56.180 And so that was the argument in favor of military intervention, that this is an evil regime that's responsible for the deaths of Americans.

00:07:04.340 And it could build or maybe is building, depending on who you're listening to, a nuclear weapon.

00:07:09.720 That's the case that was made by that side of the argument.

00:07:13.540 And it's the case that ultimately won out, clearly.

00:07:18.160 It's also, I think, wrong.

00:07:20.460 There are some serious problems with this line of argument, problems that led me to think that it's a bad idea for America to get involved.

00:07:30.440 And I still think that.

00:07:32.900 I'm not going to change my position now just because Trump did the thing that I initially opposed.

00:07:38.040 I'm not going to triangulate and try to find whatever position will be the most popular right now as I'm sort of reading the tea leaves.

00:07:45.800 I'm not going to do that.

00:07:48.060 I'm just going to tell you what I think.

00:07:49.540 Which is all that I ever do on this show.

00:07:52.160 You know, I can't promise you that I'm always right.

00:07:54.140 I've been wrong about plenty of things.

00:07:55.880 But I can promise you that whatever you hear me say, I'm saying it because I believe it to be true.

00:08:02.220 All I can do is tell you what I believe to be true.

00:08:06.400 And the chips will fall where they may from there.

00:08:09.520 So what are the problems with the pro-intervention argument?

00:08:14.280 The argument that, as I already acknowledged, did in fact win the day.

00:08:20.540 Well, first of all, as has been pointed out many times, and rightly so, this is all very eerily similar to the lead up to the Iraq war. 1.00

00:08:29.660 It's not exactly the same.

00:08:31.080 It's 20 years later.

00:08:32.000 It's a different country.

00:08:32.640 But the similarities are striking enough to give any thoughtful person a reason for pause at a minimum.

00:08:39.580 And more importantly, and as was the case with Iraq, when it comes to the question of Iran's nuclear capabilities, we unfortunately have no reason to trust the U.S. intelligence agency's assessment one way or another.

00:08:51.580 They've lied so often and so consistently on everything from Iraq to the COVID lab leak to the fact that they, you know, bombed civilians during the pullout from Afghanistan that no one can trust them.

00:09:02.340 In fact, even the president of the United States doesn't seem to trust his own director of national intelligence.

00:09:06.680 Watch.

00:09:07.960 What intelligence do you have that Iran is building a nuclear weapon?

00:09:10.720 Your intelligence community has said they have no evidence that they are at this point.

00:09:14.420 Well, then my intelligence community is wrong.

00:09:17.040 Who in the intelligence community said that?

00:09:19.040 Your director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.

00:09:21.920 She's wrong.

00:09:23.120 Now, after this clip was posted online, a lot of people claim that the reporter may have twisted Tulsi Gabbard's testimony somehow.

00:09:28.900 But whatever your position is on that point, it doesn't really matter.

00:09:31.820 It's evident from this clip that the president of the United States does not have any confidence in his intelligence community.

00:09:37.400 I mean, you heard him say that they're wrong about this extremely important point about Iran's nuclear capabilities.

00:09:42.700 So why exactly should we listen to anything they say?

00:09:45.880 Who can we trust on the question of Iran's nuclear capabilities? 0.73

00:09:48.740 Who is Trump listening to if he's not listening to his own intelligence?

00:09:51.580 If he says that they're wrong, okay, well, then where's he getting his intelligence?

00:09:56.540 These are all important questions.

00:09:57.940 These are all valid questions.

00:09:58.980 The other issue is that, like Iraq, Iran has not launched any kind of recent direct attack on the United States.

00:10:05.900 And that doesn't mean in itself that we're not justified in launching a preemptive strike.

00:10:09.900 It doesn't mean that we have to wait to get hit first.

00:10:11.740 But it does make you wonder if this attack was launched primarily for America or primarily for the sake of and at the behest of a country other than America, namely Israel.

00:10:26.500 You know, in this case, there are very good reasons to be concerned that we got ourselves in a military conflict for Israel's sake and not our own.

00:10:36.260 And that concern becomes especially pronounced when you listen to the kinds of things that our government officials are saying.

00:10:44.220 For example, here's State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce just a few weeks ago.

00:10:48.960 The pride of being able to be here and do work that facilitates making things better for people and in the greatest country on earth next to Israel.

00:11:01.140 It is it's an honor to be able to make a difference and to be able to speak in this regard with an administration that I love so much.

00:11:11.280 And I and that I feel genuinely represented by it's it's a real honor.

00:11:17.820 Now, it goes without saying or it should go without saying that anyone who thinks that a foreign country is greater than her own should be barred from government service for life.

00:11:27.280 This is disqualifying in about a million different ways.

00:11:30.680 Now, you could claim that she's being taken out of context so that she didn't mean to say what she said.

00:11:35.340 And those are all possibilities, even though her job as a spokeswoman is to speak clearly.

00:11:39.440 But to my ear, it sounds a lot like she just said that America is, quote, the greatest country on earth next to Israel.

00:11:45.640 And watching footage like this, along with the relentless warmongering on cable news, you know, it's hard not to become more than a little cynical about our reasons for attacking Iran and whether America first was really the guiding principle at play here.

00:12:00.340 You know, for my part, I have a position that may not satisfy most people.

00:12:04.020 Well, I don't agree with the people claiming that Trump just betrayed his base and started World War Three.

00:12:10.480 I mean, at the moment, World War Three is seems like an unlikely outcome, in part because no other nation is rushing to Iran's defense.

00:12:17.980 Iran is not a particularly popular country, as it turns out.

00:12:20.600 And a lot of their neighbors in the Middle East, aside from Israel, don't want them to have nuclear weapons either.

00:12:26.120 Additionally, it's hard to justify the claim that Trump betrayed his base when he has been saying for like 15 years that Iran can't have nukes.

00:12:33.080 That's a point that the pro-intervention side brings up a lot.

00:12:35.680 And they're right. I concede that point.

00:12:38.660 To be sure, if this conflict turns into a years-long quagmire that costs billions of dollars and countless American lives, then Trump will have betrayed his base and sunk his presidency in the process.

00:12:48.800 But if this is a one-and-done deal, as he initially indicated, it would be pretty consistent with how he operated in his first term and handled similar sorts of situations.

00:12:58.480 But again, it's hard to come to any definitive conclusions at the moment.

00:13:01.940 Yesterday, Iran's parliament voted to close the Strait of Hormuz, one of the most important shipping routes for oil in the world.

00:13:07.680 But it remains to be seen whether Iran's so-called supreme leader will follow through on that vote, which will almost certainly result in more U.S. military action.

00:13:14.660 On the other hand, I also definitely don't agree with the neocons throwing a parade right now, raising the Mission Accomplished banner, and declaring that the Middle East has been fixed and a golden age of peace is upon us.

00:13:29.920 Those were Dave Rubin's words, paraphrasing slightly.

00:13:33.300 What they're claiming, essentially, is that all it took was a few bombs to fix everything.

00:13:37.980 Well, but we've already dropped a lot of bombs.

00:13:40.580 So what, the first million bombs didn't do it, but the last 10 did the trick?

00:13:44.660 That seems implausible.

00:13:48.500 And again, it's way too early, to put it mildly, for those kinds of proclamations. 0.93

00:13:54.300 Literally 12 hours after the U.S. dropped its bombs, there were legions of commentators on X claiming that the decision's already been vindicated and that those who warned against the move have been exposed as fools.

00:14:04.900 12 hours later, like the morning after, you could go on X and you would see, what?

00:14:09.840 What happened, guys?

00:14:10.840 Like you said, there'd be all this blowback.

00:14:12.540 It's 12 hours later.

00:14:16.520 Because, of course, if a military intervention doesn't result in anything bad within the first 12 hours, that means it won't result in anything bad at all, ever.

00:14:25.040 I'm not making a straw man here.

00:14:26.520 Social media is full of this kind of gloating and gaslighting mere hours after the initial assault.

00:14:31.120 Now, again, there are major problems with this line of thinking.

00:14:35.580 In particular, there are reports now that the strike didn't remotely affect Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium.

00:14:41.180 Both J.D. Vance and the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency have said that we don't know precisely where Iran's uranium stockpile is, and there's good reason for that. 1.00

00:14:50.820 Days before the U.S. bombed Iran, commercial satellite images show that trucks appeared at two of the sites that we hit, most likely to haul some of the uranium away.

00:14:58.500 And if that's the case, then we haven't obliterated Iran's nuclear program, as Trump said.

00:15:04.220 We've set it back, but we would not have obliterated it in that case.

00:15:08.260 And on top of that, of course, these attacks didn't destroy sleeper cells that we're told Iran likely has in this country, nor do they eliminate Iran's ability to launch missiles at U.S. troops in the region or strike Israel, for that matter, etc.

00:15:20.800 In other words, this attack probably won't turn into World War III, but the chances that it makes the situation in the Middle East more chaotic, fractured, and therefore dangerous for America and Americans seems relatively high to me.

00:15:36.780 I mean, that's the way that these things have played out for the past 40 years at least.

00:15:41.320 It's certainly not unreasonable to worry that a pattern established over four decades may continue.

00:15:47.100 X is full of right-wing influencers now declaring that their fellow conservatives who have these kinds of concerns aren't real MAGA.

00:15:56.120 They're traitors to the cause.

00:15:58.780 Even though these are the very concerns that Trump ran on, and that many people in the America First movement, like myself and millions of others, have expressed for years and years.

00:16:09.560 Meanwhile, John Bolton, David French, Nikki Haley, Lindsey Graham, Mike Pence, Jonah Goldberg, all support this attack.

00:16:19.040 In fact, it's the first thing Trump has done this term that they like.

00:16:22.160 So are they real MAGA now?

00:16:24.180 Is that how things have, my, how things change?

00:16:26.840 Also, taking a few steps back, there seems to be a real disconnect here.

00:16:33.760 You know, the same people declaring that Iran is a joke, friendless, isolated, impotent, and therefore we don't need to worry about any reprisals from them.

00:16:42.480 Well, these were the ones telling us for the past two weeks that Iran is a clear and present danger to the United States. 0.90

00:16:47.180 But how dangerous could they have ever really been if a few days of bombs has rendered them as threatening as a blind, limbless tortoise lying upside down on the pavement?

00:16:57.660 Now, yes, if Iran had a fully functional ICBM, that would change things. 0.74

00:17:01.140 But no one's even claiming that Iran was actively in the process of building a nuclear weapon or had established the capacity to launch one, much less if they had any plans to launch one at the United States.

00:17:11.540 Now, how will this all play out in the end?

00:17:14.820 What will the final analysis be?

00:17:18.640 Well, the truth is that if you're excited for the opportunity to thump your chest and say, I told you so, unfortunately, you're going to have to wait several years.

00:17:28.140 Because that's how long it will take for us to know for certain whether Trump's decision on Saturday night was ultimately right or wrong.

00:17:34.320 Maybe on the end, it will turn out that Trump's actions made America less secure in the short term, but more secure in the long term.

00:17:40.160 Maybe the reverse.

00:17:41.200 Maybe it will be a disaster in the short and long term.

00:17:45.160 Or maybe it will prove to have been a military masterstroke with no significant downside at all.

00:17:52.580 Now, the realist in me says that the final scenario there is the least likely, but it is possible.

00:17:59.060 And if that's how it works out, I'll be happy to admit I was wrong.

00:18:03.020 I do think that Trump has earned a lot of trust on these kinds of issues.

00:18:05.940 His foreign policy instincts have been excellent so far.

00:18:08.260 But that just means that he gets the benefit of the doubt within reason.

00:18:11.980 It doesn't mean he's infallible, obviously.

00:18:14.220 He can be wrong.

00:18:15.980 I think he is wrong on this one.

00:18:18.560 And anyone who says that conservatives aren't allowed to or shouldn't disagree with Trump or that it's disloyal for them to voice their concerns when they disagree is not a serious person.

00:18:29.320 And is also not a good American. 0.67

00:18:33.440 In America, we can disagree with our elected leaders and say so.

00:18:38.280 Loudly.

00:18:40.600 Then there's the Israel of it all. 0.94

00:18:42.880 And again, my take on that question is not satisfying really to any faction, I guess.

00:18:50.240 Because no, Israel is not the great Satan who can be blamed for all the world's ills.

00:18:56.980 But I also don't think it's our responsibility to bail them out or enter into all of their conflicts.

00:19:03.780 And I don't think there's any question that Israel deliberately backed Trump into a corner on Iran.

00:19:10.580 They launched this attack on Iran while knowing that they didn't have the capability to finish the job. 0.96

00:19:15.300 And on this point, although I thought that Trump's address on Saturday night was fine for the most part, there was one part that stood out and not in a good way.

00:19:22.860 Watch.

00:19:23.900 I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.

00:19:28.720 We worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before.

00:19:33.520 And we've gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel. 0.91

00:19:37.820 I want to thank the Israeli military for the wonderful job they've done.

00:19:42.220 So he says, we've gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel. 0.89

00:19:49.340 Now, this is probably a more revealing statement than Trump intended.

00:19:53.220 Trump's own intelligence community said Iran wasn't actively building a bomb.

00:19:56.960 That's what Tulsi Gabbard told Congress.

00:19:59.400 And then Israel launched an attack anyway.

00:20:03.020 Our State Department responded right away.

00:20:06.040 Marco Rubio put out a statement, a very cold statement disavowing any involvement.

00:20:12.220 And then a little over a week later, we dropped these bombs.

00:20:15.480 And now the president is talking about erasing a threat to Israel.

00:20:18.080 I just can't interpret that chain of events as anything but Israel dragging us into something that we didn't initially want to be involved in. 0.74

00:20:30.800 I mean, that's not my analysis.

00:20:33.820 That's the State Department's statement after the initial attack by Israel.

00:20:41.680 And this shouldn't need to be said, but erasing threats to Israel is not actually America's job.

00:20:49.080 Period.

00:20:50.380 America should be acting in its own interests to protect its own people.

00:20:54.040 It should never do a single thing that harms its own people and its own interests for the sake of some other country's people and interests.

00:21:03.660 Now, I'm no peacenik hippie when it comes to using force.

00:21:08.580 I just think force should only ever be used when it's used by America for America.

00:21:14.480 As I said, I'd love to see the military launch ruthless, devastating strikes on the drug cartels that have killed thousands of Americans for decades.

00:21:24.660 So does that count as isolationist?

00:21:27.220 Call it whatever you want.

00:21:29.260 Again, why haven't we done that yet?

00:21:31.920 Somebody in power should explain that to us as slowly as possible so there's no confusion.

00:21:37.280 Drug cartels have killed more Americans than the Iranians ever have, directly or indirectly. 0.95

00:21:41.780 And the criminal invasion of our country is a more direct and immediate and serious threat to us, to our country, than Iran's nuclear program ever was. 0.99

00:21:52.900 I think there's no doubt about that.

00:21:55.420 So why don't we use our military to neutralize that threat?

00:22:00.160 Why don't we?

00:22:01.860 Is it because Mexico is a sovereign country?

00:22:04.780 Well, so is Iran. 0.95

00:22:06.180 So are all the Middle East countries where we're constantly meddling.

00:22:08.860 So again, why haven't we bombed every compound and killed the entire leadership structure of every cartel? 0.94

00:22:16.140 Why haven't we just wiped them all off the face of the earth? 0.97

00:22:18.860 Am I supposed to believe we can't?

00:22:20.260 We don't know where they are?

00:22:23.640 Now, if this attack on Iran was the right call, it will be because it made Americans safer. 0.99

00:22:30.640 And if it proves to be the wrong call, it will be because it made Americans less safe.

00:22:38.280 This is the sole consideration that will determine whether Trump's decision was right or wrong.

00:22:43.760 The safety and prosperity of Israelis has no bearing on the final verdict, one way or another.

00:22:49.920 If a choice makes Americans safer, but Israelis less safe, it's the right choice. 1.00

00:22:57.460 And if vice versa, it's wrong.

00:23:01.440 Now, at the moment, the messaging from the Trump administration isn't encouraging on this point.

00:23:05.640 Here's J.D. Vance explaining why this particular intervention in the Middle East is a good idea.

00:23:09.960 And the second thing is, Kristen, I certainly empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. 0.90

00:23:19.500 I understand the concern. 0.99

00:23:21.640 But the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents. 0.98

00:23:25.340 And now we have a president who actually knows how to accomplish America's national security objectives. 0.97

00:23:30.060 So this is not going to be some long, drawn-out thing.

00:23:32.900 We've got in.

00:23:34.160 We've done the job of setting their nuclear program back.

00:23:36.700 We're going to now work to permanently dismantle that nuclear program over the coming years.

00:23:41.820 And that is what the president has set out to do.

00:23:44.900 Now, you know I like J.D. Vance a lot, but his answer misses the point, in my view.

00:23:51.300 Barack Obama's problem was not his IQ.

00:23:53.880 Neither was Bill Clinton's.

00:23:56.320 Those are smart guys.

00:23:59.060 Evil, but smart.

00:24:00.480 And you can debate about George Bush's IQ, but there's no doubt that the people controlling the foreign policy in his administration were extremely intelligent.

00:24:07.580 This is not a matter of intelligence. 1.00

00:24:10.380 Sometimes very smart people will start very stupid wars. 0.99

00:24:13.360 And in pretty much every case, they're making the same mistake. 0.99

00:24:16.160 They think they can control variables that they actually don't know anything about.

00:24:21.760 And that's the problem.

00:24:23.260 That's part of the problem with waging foreign wars.

00:24:25.360 It's a bit like trying to control the entire economy with Soviet-style price controls.

00:24:29.700 Things get complicated very quickly.

00:24:32.180 And having a good leader or a smart one doesn't necessarily insulate you from all the potential consequences once you go down that path.

00:24:40.820 Now, I truly hope and pray that Trump is vindicated.

00:24:45.820 Because that will mean that America is vindicated.

00:24:48.040 As long as he's the leader of our country, I want him to be right about everything he does, even if it means that I'm wrong.

00:24:54.360 But he's not going to be right about everything he does because he's a human being.

00:24:59.180 He's not God.

00:25:00.820 And I'm afraid that this is one of those times when he's not right.

00:25:06.700 But only time will tell.

00:25:07.820 In the meantime, whatever side you're on, pro-bombing Iran or against it, the fact remains that we've now dropped the bombs. 0.60

00:25:15.780 We've done more than Israel had any right to expect us to do. 0.94

00:25:18.720 And we've done it, I believe, in defense of their national security rather than our own.

00:25:24.320 Now it's time to take a look at what's happening within our borders.

00:25:28.200 We should apply the same level of decisiveness to solving those problems, including military intervention if necessary,

00:25:34.580 and leave other countries to handle their own affairs.

00:25:36.740 That is not just a platitude.

00:25:39.820 Okay, this country is in a state of internal crisis on multiple fronts.

00:25:43.560 Our national sovereignty has been destroyed.

00:25:45.800 We've been overwhelmed by an unsustainable flood of third-world immigrants. 1.00

00:25:49.460 Our cities are dysfunctional cesspools.

00:25:52.180 Our education system is a disaster, only getting worse.

00:25:55.200 Birth rates plummeting.

00:25:57.620 And all this has happened while our leaders have been more concerned with starting or getting involved in

00:26:02.940 or funding or engineering one foreign conflict after another and one godforsaken corner of the world after another.

00:26:11.320 This just can't continue.

00:26:13.760 That's why we say America first. 0.98

00:26:15.680 It's why I believe it, down to my core.

00:26:18.900 It's not just a slogan.

00:26:20.440 It's the only way forward.

00:26:21.780 We need to turn our focus back to our own country, or we won't have one for much longer. 0.99

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00:28:40.320 Well, the good news is that back on the home front, our elected officials are focused on real problems.

00:28:46.100 They're locked in, they're engaged.

00:28:48.160 And by that, I mean, they've spent the last several days crying because J.D. Vance called a Hispanic guy, Jose.

00:28:55.820 And so here's the moment, the tragic, gut-wrenching moment.

00:28:58.720 J.D. Vance was delivering remarks in Los Angeles when he made a reference to Alex Padilla,

00:29:04.440 the Democrat lawmaker and theater kid who deliberately got himself arrested by Secret Service

00:29:08.280 because he tried to bum-rush the DHS secretary.

00:29:10.840 And here's what Vance said. Here it is.

00:29:16.280 Well, I was hoping Jose Padilla would be here to ask a question,

00:29:19.360 but unfortunately, I guess he decided not to show up because there wasn't the theater.

00:29:22.840 And that's all it is. You know, I think everybody realizes that's what this is.

00:29:26.380 It's pure political theater.

00:29:28.780 These guys show up. They want to be captured on camera doing something.

00:29:33.320 They want to be able to go back to their far-left groups and to say,

00:29:36.300 look, me, I stood up against border enforcement. I stood up against Donald Trump.

00:29:40.600 But all they're really standing up for is for drug cartels to run rampant over our country

00:29:45.580 and sex traffickers to be able to continue to traffic little kids into our country. 0.99

00:29:49.680 That's what you're doing when you stand against border enforcement. 0.95

00:29:52.900 So I think these guys, we ought to laugh them out of the building.

00:29:55.320 We ought to call them out for doing what they're doing, which is grandstanding.

00:29:58.900 And if they want to work seriously on border enforcement and on keeping their community safe,

00:30:03.500 the Trump administration's door is wide open, but they're not doing that.

00:30:07.280 They'd love the grandstanding.

00:30:08.780 They hate law enforcement because they hate the idea of the United States of America having a border.

00:30:13.420 It's a disgrace, but it is what it is.

00:30:16.020 So he called him Jose Padilla instead of Alex Padilla, which is pretty funny.

00:30:23.100 Would have been funny if he called him Jose Quesadilla or something like that.

00:30:26.440 Not that I would condone it. I'm just saying as a factual observation,

00:30:30.280 it would have been funny if he said that.

00:30:31.200 But anyway, the Dems have seized on this moment.

00:30:34.680 This is the real crisis. This is the crisis.

00:30:38.720 They're focused on crises back home also, but it's this kind of thing.

00:30:44.340 So here's Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, later the same day, indignant with outrage over this.

00:30:52.520 Listen.

00:30:53.460 Mr. Vice President, how dare you disrespect our senator?

00:30:59.260 You don't know his name, but yet you served with him before you were vice president and you continue to serve with him today.

00:31:08.320 Because the last time I checked, the vice president of the United States is the president of the U.S. Senate.

00:31:14.280 You serve with him today.

00:31:15.920 And how dare you disrespect him and call him Jose?

00:31:19.940 But I guess he just looked like anybody to you.

00:31:22.840 Well, he's not just anybody to us.

00:31:25.020 He is our senator.

00:31:26.780 How dare you?

00:31:28.420 How dare you, sir?

00:31:30.140 His name is Alex Padilla.

00:31:33.320 Alex Gomez Enchilada Padilla.

00:31:36.240 Call him by his rightful name, sir.

00:31:37.700 How dare you?

00:31:39.260 Now, the question is, would Jose himself or Alex, if that's his real name, if that is his real name, would he forego the opportunity to play the self-pity card?

00:31:52.020 You know, when he's asked about this name kerfuffle, would he be an adult man and just say, oh, he got my name wrong.

00:32:00.220 Big deal.

00:32:00.680 It's like, why even ask me about that?

00:32:02.120 Who cares?

00:32:03.220 Would he do that and try to retain whatever is left of his dignity?

00:32:08.940 Or would he take the opportunity to engage in theatrics?

00:32:14.200 Well, we know the answer to that because, again, theater kid, as we've established.

00:32:17.740 And this was his big moment.

00:32:18.780 This is the moment in the script where, you know, he gets to deliver his big emotional monologue, which is what he did on MSNBC over the weekend.

00:32:26.640 Listen to this.

00:32:27.780 He also went to Yale.

00:32:28.640 I assume that he knows your name is Alex Padilla.

00:32:31.920 Your response to him calling you Jose?

00:32:33.680 Well, he knows my name.

00:32:34.800 He knows my name.

00:32:36.240 Look, sadly, it's just an indicator of how petty and unserious this administration is.

00:32:43.980 But he's the vice president of the United States.

00:32:45.980 Do you think he'd take the situation in Los Angeles more seriously?

00:32:51.540 You know, you think maybe he'd take a moment to talk to some of the families who have been impacted, have been terrorized, to feel what's really going on on the ground.

00:33:00.460 And you saw him shaking hands with Marines.

00:33:02.100 But did he listen to the Marines?

00:33:03.860 Because we have, you know, the report after report of the Marines, so many of the Marines themselves that don't want to be there.

00:33:09.420 That's not why they enlisted.

00:33:12.240 Or if not the migrant families, how about the employers who I know are speaking up because they're concerned about their workforce?

00:33:20.200 We've got a lot of important work to do.

00:33:21.820 But this is how the vice president chooses to act.

00:33:25.040 And that says a lot.

00:33:26.600 Are you going to cry, Jose?

00:33:28.520 It really sounds like he's about to cry.

00:33:30.440 It actually is.

00:33:31.240 Keep in mind, by the way, these are all the same people who call white women Karen as a pejorative.

00:33:37.580 And I mean, Vance didn't even actually do this on purpose, obviously.

00:33:41.160 It would have been funny if he did.

00:33:43.260 But he didn't.

00:33:44.620 I mean, it was obviously an accident.

00:33:46.160 He forgot Alex Padilla's name.

00:33:48.260 Why did he forget it?

00:33:49.080 Well, because Alex Padilla is irrelevant and nobody knew his name until last week.

00:33:53.160 Still nobody knows it, clearly.

00:33:55.360 And so why did Vance's mind go to Jose when he blanked on Alex's name?

00:33:59.520 Well, because Jose is a common name for Hispanics.

00:34:03.060 That's all.

00:34:04.360 What's wrong with that?

00:34:05.540 Why is that scandalous?

00:34:08.060 Oh, you only called him Jose because he's Mexican.

00:34:10.140 Well, yeah.

00:34:11.300 Like, it's a common name.

00:34:12.980 So what?

00:34:14.300 If he was of Australian heritage, yeah, he probably wouldn't have called him Jose.

00:34:17.120 But so what?

00:34:19.820 And these same people do this kind of thing deliberately all the time when they call white women Karen.

00:34:26.380 So you know what? 0.94

00:34:27.100 If you can go around calling annoying white women Karens, then we can call annoying Mexicans Jose. 1.00

00:34:32.920 Those are the rules you established. 0.97

00:34:34.960 Don't like it?

00:34:35.740 Too bad.

00:34:36.060 And in any case, of course, this is what the Democrats are latching on to because they are desperate to change the subject from, you know, actually talking about the illegal alien invasion of the country.

00:34:48.320 And they are desperate to find their immigrant martyr, their Mexican George Floyd.

00:34:54.500 And we've talked about this a lot over the last several months, that this is, you know, they need, this is the only way they know how to operate.

00:35:02.060 They need to find their martyr, their cause, right?

00:35:04.280 And they were hoping that Kilmar Garcia would be that guy, but that hasn't really worked out for them.

00:35:09.820 And so maybe now it can be Jose Padilla.

00:35:13.300 They're just, they're just like cycling through candidates until they find one that hits because it's the only move they have.

00:35:20.780 The emotional manipulation, the emotional blackmail.

00:35:23.640 It's the only move they have.

00:35:25.180 It's all they've got.

00:35:28.220 But it's not going to work.

00:35:31.440 At least I, well, I don't, I don't think it will work.

00:35:35.400 You can never underestimate the propensity of the public generally to, to, to fall for these emotional blackmail techniques.

00:35:42.440 And the left has used it to great effect over the years, especially recently.

00:35:47.280 But I don't think it's going to work because people are fed up with this.

00:35:50.360 They're fed up with, with the, with the, with the invasion of our country. 0.99

00:35:55.500 They want their country back.

00:35:56.880 This is what people want.

00:35:58.820 Just like we talked about in the opening.

00:36:01.320 This is what people want.

00:36:02.900 They want their country back.

00:36:05.360 Okay.

00:36:05.800 Americans want their own country back.

00:36:08.940 We've helped a lot of other countries with their own situations.

00:36:12.700 Very nice of us to do.

00:36:15.420 Trillions and trillions of dollars down the tubes.

00:36:17.300 But we want our own country.

00:36:22.080 And by the way, for, for not to backtrack to what we, what, what we've already covered, but for the people who say, oh, we could do both, you know.

00:36:30.440 No, we can't actually.

00:36:32.720 No, we can't.

00:36:35.740 History proves that we can't.

00:36:37.300 Like, you can't actually be the world police and also take care of the situation on the home front.

00:36:44.940 You can't do both.

00:36:47.000 Which is why, as we have taken on this role of world police, the situation on, at home has deteriorated rapidly.

00:36:53.380 That it's not like some kind of coincidence.

00:36:59.640 You can't do both.

00:37:02.200 You either, you either prioritize your own country and your own well-being or you don't.

00:37:08.240 It's, it's, it's, well, no, we could prioritize our own country, our own well-being.

00:37:10.900 And also, at the same time, equally prioritize the well-being of all these other people.

00:37:16.040 No, you can't.

00:37:18.000 No, you can't.

00:37:22.220 Okay, I wanted to mention this.

00:37:23.280 This is a, this is a, there's a renewed push on the left to ban law enforcement from wearing masks.

00:37:28.820 Some lawmakers in California introduced a bill to that effect last week.

00:37:31.880 And now here's Representative Jerry Nadler complaining about ICE officers wearing masks.

00:37:38.220 Watch.

00:37:39.420 But these people are wearing masks and are, and are totally unidentified.

00:37:45.280 And the question is why?

00:37:47.560 The question is why?

00:37:49.040 It's completely improper.

00:37:51.040 And again, one has to assume they're hiding something or they're hiding misbehavior.

00:37:54.660 Because otherwise, why would they be wearing masks and denying their identities?

00:37:57.600 You know, I'd like to say that it's inspiring to see how the, the penguin got himself together

00:38:02.420 and, you know, left behind his life of crime.

00:38:04.800 But, but, but, I mean, he, he is in Congress.

00:38:07.420 So apparently he didn't leave it behind.

00:38:10.240 But this is, this is the trend now is you've got the Democrats who are very concerned about

00:38:16.720 law enforcement masks.

00:38:17.600 I mentioned in California, they want a law preventing masks, preventing cops from wearing masks.

00:38:22.200 And here's one of the politicians in California talking about that.

00:38:24.880 Watch.

00:38:25.060 People covering their faces, impersonating police officers, it erodes trust in law enforcement

00:38:31.360 and it undermines community safety.

00:38:32.920 That's really what this bill is about.

00:38:35.600 And I think many law enforcement officials, legitimate law enforcement officials would welcome,

00:38:41.920 you know, putting in safeguards to ensure transparency and accountability.

00:38:45.960 And I think the concern is a lot that's happening.

00:38:48.340 There are a lot of people who are engaged in these enforcement actions and we don't know,

00:38:52.840 are they federal, are they contractors, are they local law enforcement?

00:38:56.360 And so we're requiring that people not have to wear masks except for some very limited exceptions

00:39:00.900 and that there'd be identifying information ensures that we know who is involved here.

00:39:06.380 It's also critical to uphold our state and local laws, including our sanctuary law, SB 54,

00:39:12.760 which says that local law enforcement are not gonna be involved in immigration enforcement.

00:39:16.460 So this is, I think, furthering the state's efforts to ensure legitimate law enforcement

00:39:20.120 purposes and to protect Californians.

00:39:22.840 So it turns out that, I guess I could have saved my penguin joke and used it for that clip too.

00:39:28.900 I don't know if that guy is Nadler's nephew or what, but strikingly similar.

00:39:34.840 This whole idea is actually very sinister.

00:39:38.620 If you want to ban anyone from wearing masks, you should ban the rioters from wearing them.

00:39:45.500 I mean, I would be in favor of a mask ban in general.

00:39:48.980 You know, it's like people wearing masks out in public, going into stores wearing masks and all the rest of it.

00:39:57.660 There's real safety concerns behind that, as we've seen.

00:40:01.260 But trying to take them away from law enforcement is sinister because they actually wear them for a reason.

00:40:07.220 Which is so that, especially now that everything is filmed, so that the leftist militants can't post their pictures all over social media and then try to hunt them down and kill them.

00:40:21.300 That's the reason why they wear them.

00:40:24.980 And so they want to take them away in order to make the situation more dangerous for law enforcement.

00:40:32.040 Just totally demoralize.

00:40:34.200 The ultimate goal, of course, as we know, is the ultimate goal is the destabilization and ultimate destruction of our civilization.

00:40:43.340 And one way to get there is because they can't defund the police.

00:40:47.980 They already tried.

00:40:48.360 They tried to get that movement going and it didn't really work out.

00:40:50.480 It was a disaster for Democrats in the ballot box.

00:40:53.020 So they can't do that.

00:40:54.980 But they can find other ways.

00:40:56.580 They can't defund the police, but they can find other ways of demoralizing law enforcement, of disincentivizing good people from entering into the law enforcement field.

00:41:09.680 That's what they can do.

00:41:12.320 And that's what they are doing.

00:41:13.440 This is part of that.

00:41:16.360 Every time you see a woke DA who refuses to press charges against some violent criminal or a judge who releases the criminal back on the streets,

00:41:23.060 it's all part of the same plan.

00:41:26.580 Also very demoralizing to law enforcement.

00:41:32.080 It's like that's the most demoralizing thing imaginable.

00:41:35.700 Imagine you're working every day to like, and putting your life on the line to apprehend these violent criminals,

00:41:41.060 and then you hand them over to the court system.

00:41:43.460 The court system says, no, we don't want them.

00:41:44.900 It just throws them right back out onto the street.

00:41:47.980 So it's all part of that plan.

00:41:51.480 All right.

00:41:51.980 Danny Boyle is a film director.

00:41:53.940 He directed the movie 28 Years Later, which just came out.

00:41:58.760 Zombie movie, a sequel, or second sequel, to 28 Days Later, which he also directed.

00:42:03.840 I think the one in between he didn't direct, but I don't know.

00:42:05.660 Anyway, he's on the promotional trail right now, and he's now joined the legion of filmmakers, actors, and comedians

00:42:12.480 who are apologizing for their previous work.

00:42:17.480 And in fact, there was another one just over this past week, and Amy Poehler, I think,

00:42:20.100 said something about how her previous SNL skits were racist or whatever and should never have been made.

00:42:25.420 So this is a common theme.

00:42:27.300 And here's The Guardian, reading now from an interview with Boyle.

00:42:30.380 The author of this piece is someone called Zan Brooks, Zan with an X, X-A-N.

00:42:36.800 So he, she writes,

00:42:39.200 I wonder, though, how history will judge Slumdog Millionaire, his Oscar-winning 2008 spectacular about a ghetto kid who hit the jackpot.

00:42:47.020 Boyle shot the film in Mumbai, partly in Hindi and with a local crew, but it was a film of its time, and the world has moved on.

00:42:53.440 Yeah, we wouldn't be able to make that now, Boyle says, and that's how it should be.

00:42:57.160 It's time to reflect on all that.

00:42:58.500 We have to look at the cultural baggage we carry and the mark that we've left on the world.

00:43:04.040 Is he saying that the production itself amounted to a form of colonialism?

00:43:07.160 No, no, he says.

00:43:08.240 Well, only in the sense that everything is.

00:43:10.040 At the time, it felt radical.

00:43:11.400 We made the decision that only a handful of us would go to Mumbai.

00:43:14.420 We'd work with a big Indian crew and try to make a film within this culture.

00:43:17.520 But you're still an outsider, still a flawed method.

00:43:20.020 That kind of cultural appropriation might be sanctioned at certain times, but at other times, it cannot be.

00:43:24.860 I mean, I'm proud of the film, but you wouldn't even contemplate doing something like that today.

00:43:29.280 It wouldn't even get financed.

00:43:30.900 Even if I was involved, I'd be looking for a young Indian filmmaker to shoot it. 1.00

00:43:34.820 Now, I can't really fully describe just how much contempt I have for people like this.

00:43:42.360 I mean, first of all, the guy doesn't even have the courage of his convictions.

00:43:46.460 Notice the way he tries to play both sides.

00:43:48.420 You know, he asks if Slumdog Millionaire, he's asked if Slumdog Millionaire is colonialism.

00:43:55.500 And he says, no, no.

00:43:57.560 Well, only in the sense that everything is.

00:44:00.160 So it's not colonialism, but everything is colonialism.

00:44:03.660 Which, what the hell does that even mean?

00:44:05.920 Everything is colonialism?

00:44:07.700 So colonialism is responsible for what?

00:44:09.780 Existence itself?

00:44:12.360 I mean, I was already kind of a fan of colonialism.

00:44:13.800 Not kind of, I'm a fan of colonialism.

00:44:15.380 Historically, anyway.

00:44:16.780 Not so much the modern form of it.

00:44:19.080 But apparently, it's even better than I thought.

00:44:22.740 So that doesn't make any sense.

00:44:23.860 But he does get around to apologizing for making the film and saying that, you know,

00:44:27.260 you couldn't and shouldn't make a film like that today.

00:44:29.980 And as I said, many filmmakers, actors, and comedians are doing this now.

00:44:33.340 And what's the common thread between all of them?

00:44:35.820 Well, you have aging artists who are well past their prime,

00:44:39.060 who enjoyed their full freedom of artistic expression during their prime,

00:44:43.380 now trying to pull the ladder up behind them.

00:44:45.660 They're pulling the ladder up and saying, no, no, no, never mind.

00:44:49.320 No one's actually allowed to do this.

00:44:51.680 Actually, no one's allowed to do this thing that we did and made us millions of dollars

00:44:55.380 and made us famous and respected and successful and admired.

00:44:58.420 No one else can do this.

00:45:01.240 I mean, it's not just pulling the ladder up.

00:45:02.980 It's more like leaving the house and lighting it on fire on the way out the door.

00:45:06.980 I mean, it's like dousing the whole thing in gasoline and burning it to the ground.

00:45:09.740 And people like Danny Boyle aren't just making it harder on future artists.

00:45:13.340 They're trying to kill the art itself because this is the death of art.

00:45:17.940 This is the death of filmmaking.

00:45:21.520 Danny Boyle made Slumdog Millionaire because it was a story he wanted to tell.

00:45:25.760 It was his story that he wanted to tell.

00:45:28.280 And that's why he made it.

00:45:31.520 But now he's saying that storytellers shouldn't tell stories that they want to tell.

00:45:35.480 They should give the stories to somebody else.

00:45:38.620 Which is like saying that a painter shouldn't paint the picture that he has in his own head.

00:45:43.400 He should get someone else to paint it for him.

00:45:47.200 If you want to paint a picture of something that doesn't, that isn't,

00:45:50.940 if you want to paint a picture of a person who isn't you,

00:45:56.220 you need to go get that person to paint it.

00:45:58.280 And why is Boyle only apologizing for Slumdog Millionaire?

00:46:03.140 I mean, he made the 28 Days Later films, even though he's not a zombie

00:46:07.980 and has never experienced a zombie apocalypse.

00:46:13.180 Well, he is British, I believe.

00:46:14.740 And there's something like a zombie apocalypse happening in Western Europe right now.

00:46:19.020 So maybe I'll give him that one.

00:46:20.420 He made 127 Hours about the guy who got his arm stuck by a rock and had to cut his own arm off.

00:46:26.320 And I'm pretty sure Danny Boyle has never cut his own arm off.

00:46:28.280 Or any limb, as far as I know.

00:46:31.000 He made train spotting, even though he's not a heroin addict, as far as I know, again.

00:46:36.900 So the guy doesn't even have the courage of his convictions.

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00:48:27.760 We're all familiar with the idea of comic relief in various art forms.

00:48:33.160 Its job is to relieve tension when things are getting a little too heavy.

00:48:36.240 Unfortunately, comic relief isn't just limited to the movies or the theater.

00:48:40.520 In real life, as we all know, there are actually millions of people

00:48:42.640 who have committed themselves to entertaining the masses,

00:48:44.940 even when everything seems to be falling apart.

00:48:47.100 They are the pressure relief valve for the world.

00:48:49.680 And I'm talking, of course, about the nation of Canada.

00:48:52.340 No matter what's going on, war in Iran, stock market collapse, airplanes crashing,

00:48:57.000 the people of Canada remain laser-focused on beclowning themselves for our amusement.

00:49:01.880 It is their purpose in life.

00:49:03.020 Long after Canada officially becomes a colony of India

00:49:06.200 and literally no Canadians have a job or the capacity to feed themselves,

00:49:10.520 they'll spend their last dying breaths finding ways to entertain us here in America.

00:49:14.380 And we should be grateful for that.

00:49:16.020 And as if to prove my point, the big story in Canada this week,

00:49:19.380 well, I won't even do the whole intro.

00:49:21.860 I'll let one of Canada's many fake news outlets take the reins from here.

00:49:26.360 Watch.

00:49:26.560 How's that for grabbing your attention?

00:49:33.640 It's the kind of ritual that's been going on here for thousands of years.

00:49:38.400 In Kitsilano Friday, it happened alongside a more contemporary one.

00:49:43.100 Is today an incredible day or what?

00:49:45.740 Woo! 0.99

00:49:46.340 The story of this street name change is both a practical one of day-to-day urban living

00:49:52.140 and an emotional turning point for the Musqueam Nation.

00:49:55.600 Our ancestors were forced to speak English.

00:50:00.200 They were forced to do away with our language.

00:50:04.940 And if we're walking reconciliation, we walk together.

00:50:08.480 The street formerly known as Trutch had been named after B.C.'s first lieutenant governor,

00:50:13.960 whose views and policies about First Nations people are now recognized as racist and wrong.

00:50:20.160 The Musqueam have long been troubled by having to look at it.

00:50:24.180 And there was unanimous support at city council to take it down.

00:50:28.380 So they have some obese guy in feathers and face paint dancing in a suburban neighborhood.

00:50:32.780 As the mayor says, this is an incredible day.

00:50:35.860 And he does a little woo to really get the crowd going.

00:50:38.240 And then we learn, thanks to another obese guy in feathers, whose name is Chief Wayne,

00:50:41.980 which is pretty funny all by itself,

00:50:43.620 that the Musqueam people are mad that they were forced to speak English.

00:50:50.160 And to that end, they're getting rid of a street sign named after a civil engineer named Joseph Trutch.

00:50:54.960 And according to the Canadian news anchor, who speaks in the most patronizing tone, 0.92

00:50:59.080 imaginable Joseph Trutch is a very mean and racist man. 0.58

00:51:01.880 So it's good to get rid of this random street sign.

00:51:04.460 Before we go any further here, a couple of points need to be made right off the bat.

00:51:08.440 First of all, Joseph Trutch contributed more to British Columbia

00:51:12.900 than any of these overweight men wearing costumes or their ancestors ever did.

00:51:17.040 He was the civil engineer behind the creation of the old Alexandra Suspension Bridge,

00:51:21.680 which is one of the main reasons British Columbia grew into a viable province.

00:51:24.980 It became a lot easier to move gold in and out of British Columbia and later on automobiles

00:51:28.860 because of that bridge.

00:51:30.900 And then Trutch became BC's Chief Commissioner of Land and Works.

00:51:34.220 And in that capacity, he didn't allow the primitive tribes to continue wasting the potential of all this land. 0.99

00:51:39.340 And therefore, now they're vilifying him.

00:51:41.760 Secondly, the idea that the white men is the reason that Musquean people 0.99

00:51:46.500 never had street signs in their language is absurd.

00:51:49.620 They never had street signs in their language because they never had streets

00:51:53.620 or signs or a written language.

00:51:57.940 Men like Joseph Trutch came in and brought all of that.

00:52:01.320 They brought language and civilization and commerce to what is now British Columbia.

00:52:05.620 But instead of celebrating Joseph Trutch, they're now slandering him and taking down his street sign.

00:52:11.280 And here's what they're replacing it with.

00:52:13.700 Get ready for this.

00:52:15.160 Every symbol has a sound and it's all, they're all sounded out.

00:52:23.000 Well, the English translation is Musqueam View.

00:52:25.920 The new legal name of the street is written in characters from the North American phonetic alphabet,

00:52:31.320 a system developed by linguists to express words from First Nation languages.

00:52:37.120 Here's Mayor Sim having a go at it.

00:52:39.600 Today, we officially renamed Trutch Street to Schmuckweam Awesome Street.

00:52:44.200 It's fine by me.

00:52:45.220 It's just a progress.

00:52:46.780 Put it that way.

00:52:48.900 Schmuckweam Awesome Street, I believe, is what he said.

00:52:52.600 He was either pronouncing the street name or he was sneezing.

00:52:55.220 I'm not really sure.

00:52:55.820 It's impossible to tell.

00:52:56.520 Now, one thing I will tell you is if you use that word in Scrabble and hit a triple word score,

00:53:00.980 it would be worth 85,000 points.

00:53:02.880 That's the good news.

00:53:03.980 The other big good news is that some of the best deadpan comedians in the world live in Canada.

00:53:08.240 They just don't realize it.

00:53:09.620 They are absolutely, completely, 100% sincere when they say that it's progress

00:53:14.480 to replace a normal street sign with one that is incomprehensible.

00:53:19.160 I mean, you might think that human progress means colonizing Mars or developing self-driving cars

00:53:25.120 or curing diseases or something like that.

00:53:27.900 But in Canada, progress means something very different.

00:53:29.920 It means making it impossible to order pizza to your house because nobody knows what the

00:53:34.500 hell the street sign says.

00:53:36.100 That's progress in Canada.

00:53:38.160 And never mind pizzas.

00:53:38.900 What happens when somebody calls 911?

00:53:41.480 And the funniest thing about this whole situation, of course, is that the sign isn't actually written

00:53:45.680 in the language of the primitive tribe because they didn't have a written language.

00:53:50.480 Instead, as you heard, it's written in some kind of fake language invented by academics

00:53:55.260 who are attempting to transfer the primitive language of the Musqueen people into written

00:54:01.080 English, which is why it looks like a Wi-Fi password.

00:54:03.960 A very strong Wi-Fi password, but a Wi-Fi password nonetheless.

00:54:07.820 Either that or it looks like maybe a mathematical equation written by a schizophrenic on the walls 0.56

00:54:11.880 of his padded room.

00:54:12.740 Like the kind of equation that could either be total nonsense or the key to interstellar

00:54:16.660 space travel.

00:54:17.520 You never know.

00:54:18.860 Now, if this were a South Park episode, you wouldn't need to add anything to it.

00:54:23.100 By itself, it is a self-contained, entertaining premise for an episode.

00:54:26.140 Canadians who are upset about colonialism decide to invent some gibberish language to pay tribute

00:54:30.420 to the illiterate tribes who hate the guy who built British Columbia.

00:54:34.240 It's perfect.

00:54:35.200 No notes, as the kids would say.

00:54:37.260 But believe it or not, it gets better.

00:54:39.820 Watch.

00:54:40.080 About half the Kitts residents we spoke with told us they support the change.

00:54:45.200 Others, though, said they were frustrated at the prospect of updating IDs and documents

00:54:50.420 in an alphabet they don't know.

00:54:52.840 And the neighbouring Squamish nation weighed in, saying they weren't properly consulted.

00:54:58.000 But as the new signs were unveiled Friday, it was nothing short of an historic moment.

00:55:04.120 Musqueen people seeing their ancient language live on. 0.81

00:55:07.840 Did you get that?

00:55:09.960 The neighbouring Squamish nation was upset by this new sign because they weren't consulted.

00:55:17.340 Can you imagine?

00:55:19.100 It's almost as if there were a lot of primitive tribes that lived in that area back in the day.

00:55:23.180 And it's almost as if they all took land from the tribes who were there before them.

00:55:26.740 And it's almost as if it's a waste of time to try to appease any of these people because you're only making them more emboldened and more entitled and more annoying.

00:55:34.660 And there's another another problem here as well.

00:55:40.220 One of the many things that irks me about these kinds of stunts, even though it's happening in Canada, it is funny and we can laugh at it.

00:55:46.660 But the part that irks me is that it gives the so-called indigenous people something they didn't earn.

00:55:54.880 The only reason that there are paved roads with street signs, not to mention modern cities, is because of the European settlers who came here and brought civilization along with them.

00:56:06.500 If the so-called indigenous people want street signs named after them, they should have figured out how to build streets and towns in the first place and write a language. 1.00

00:56:14.620 They didn't.

00:56:16.140 Therefore, they don't get to name the streets.

00:56:17.600 It's pretty simple.

00:56:18.160 What makes the situation all the more galling is that if you look at the current state of British Columbia, they have much bigger problems than catering to the delusional whims of obese Indian activists. 1.00

00:56:29.840 This is what Vancouver looks like right now.

00:56:32.220 You can see it there.

00:56:33.040 This is footage from the YouTube channel Life in Canada by Lucy.

00:56:36.800 It was shot this week in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia.

00:56:40.060 Block after block, you see tents, homeless people doing drugs, mentally ill vagrants freaking people out.

00:56:45.840 But if Canada were run by people who took themselves seriously, by moral men who wanted the best for their citizens, this would be the only thing that they'd be talking about.

00:56:56.400 They wouldn't mention climate change.

00:56:57.940 They wouldn't talk about tariffs or Iran.

00:57:00.360 They certainly wouldn't talk about random street signs in the suburbs.

00:57:03.540 They'd do something about the collapse of their country, which is becoming more and more apparent by the day.

00:57:09.300 But Canada's leaders are not interested in averting the collapse of their country.

00:57:13.560 They're only interested in accelerating it.

00:57:15.840 On the bright side, at least they're giving everyone else in the world something to laugh about in the process.

00:57:19.920 And that is why the Canadians who just changed the name of a random street so that it honors a strong Wi-Fi password instead of a great man are today canceled.

00:57:29.780 That'll do it for the show today.

00:57:30.460 Thanks for watching.

00:57:30.940 Thanks for listening.

00:57:31.860 Have a great day.

00:57:32.520 Talk to you tomorrow.

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