The Matt Walsh Show - June 25, 2025


Ep. 1620 - New Yorkers Embrace The Destruction Of Their City By Voting For Socialist Muslim Mayor


Episode Stats

Length

57 minutes

Words per Minute

170.22307

Word Count

9,844

Sentence Count

588

Misogynist Sentences

25

Hate Speech Sentences

24


Summary

A Muslim socialist from Uganda has just won the Democratic primary in New York City and will likely soon be the city s new mayor. How could something like this happen? What does it say about the future of New York and the country? Also, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett declares that she should have been the one who decided whether to strike Iran. And a different congresswoman with a similar IQ brings her baby to a congressional hearing. Not the first time she s used her child as a prop. Plus, the five-year freeze on student loan repayments is coming to an end. College graduates are going to have to pay back their debts, and they re not happy about it.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a Muslim socialist from Uganda has just won the Democratic primary in New York City and will likely soon be the city's new mayor.
00:00:07.560 How could something like this happen? What does it say about the future of New York and of this country? We'll talk about it.
00:00:12.480 Also, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett declares that she should have been the one who decided whether we strike Iran.
00:00:17.660 And a different congresswoman with a similar IQ brings her baby to a congressional hearing.
00:00:21.740 Not the first time she's used her child as a prop. Plus, the five-year freeze on student loan repayments is coming to an end.
00:00:27.300 College graduates are going to have to pay back their debts and they're not happy about it.
00:00:31.540 All that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:02:31.520 Now, it's not every day that we begin the show with a groundbreaking piece of breaking news from the New York Times of all places,
00:02:38.760 but in this case, I have no choice.
00:02:40.700 You see, the paper of record recently hired a new climate change reporter who specializes in hard-hitting investigations with no compromises,
00:02:48.680 and yesterday, after just a few days on the job, actually, this young reporter, whose name is Maxine Joslau,
00:02:55.380 delivered what may be her magnum opus.
00:02:58.660 She has made a discovery that, without any doubt, has massive implications for the future of this country and, indeed, of civilization itself.
00:03:09.140 So, if you're not sitting down already, it's time to do so, because we're going to put Maxine's big discovery up on the screen.
00:03:17.340 And this is from her account on X, and I want you to just take it in,
00:03:21.240 because in future generations, they're going to be studying this post in science classes all over the world.
00:03:26.520 That's how significant this is, and here it is.
00:03:29.640 So, as you can see, Maxine wrote, quote,
00:03:33.260 just started as a climate change reporter at the New York Times, and this is what job security looks like.
00:03:38.200 And then below her message, Maxine posted a screenshot from the weather app on her iPhone,
00:03:42.880 revealing that, today, in her zip code, the weather will vary from 80 degrees to 99 degrees,
00:03:49.460 and then throughout the week, there will be a mixture of rain and sunshine, with temperatures hovering around 80 degrees.
00:03:54.820 So, yes, in late June, it's getting hot in the New York area.
00:04:00.620 Did you get that?
00:04:01.460 I mean, admittedly, if you're a rube, you might be confused by what Maxine is getting at.
00:04:06.280 The implications might befuddle or even terrify you, or you might be tempted to mock Maxine,
00:04:12.620 as though as they derided Socrates and Galileo.
00:04:15.960 But that would be ignorant and short-sighted, because you see, without even realizing it,
00:04:20.820 New York Times reporter Maxine Joslau has discovered something very fundamental about the nature of the planet.
00:04:29.060 And in particular, she has discovered all by herself the concept of summer.
00:04:34.000 That's spelled S-U-M-M-E-R, pronounced summer.
00:04:38.360 And during this period known as summer, temperatures tend to increase by a significant margin.
00:04:45.740 They become what is known as hot, spelled H-O-T.
00:04:50.320 In the eyes of Maxine and the New York Times, this is an earth-shattering revelation.
00:04:54.720 It's the kind of newfangled development that ensures that climate change reporters with English degrees from Brown
00:05:00.900 are, in fact, irreplaceable on the job market.
00:05:04.800 After all, until people started buying SUVs and using gas stoves, the temperature never changed in the summer.
00:05:10.100 Every day of the year, it was exactly the same temperature as the day before.
00:05:13.420 Weather conditions never changed at all.
00:05:15.880 Now it's different.
00:05:17.740 A check back in the winter, and who knows, we might even see the temperatures go down.
00:05:22.600 That'll guarantee a Pulitzer, perhaps a Nobel Prize for Maxine if it comes to pass.
00:05:28.880 It'll be total vindication for the climate change cult.
00:05:32.840 Now I'll admit that, you know, piling on to poor Maxine, it's not exactly sporting at this point.
00:05:38.560 Half the internet has already accomplished that task for me.
00:05:41.220 Within hours of posting a screenshot of high temperatures and suggesting that it's proof of climate change,
00:05:46.240 she locked down her account.
00:05:47.580 So it's safe to say that she's gotten the message, which is that nobody's really buying into the climate change scam anymore.
00:05:54.640 It's simply too lazy and too unintelligent for anyone to take seriously.
00:06:00.200 The weather changes.
00:06:01.620 It has always changed.
00:06:02.840 Blaming the climate on humans is convenient for the left because it gives them permission to regulate everything into the ground,
00:06:09.140 but it's a false premise, and now pretty much everybody understands that.
00:06:13.700 Bernie Sanders is one of the exceptions.
00:06:15.320 The other day, he went on Joe Rogan's show to talk about, among other things,
00:06:19.300 how climate change is supposedly a new existential threat to humanity.
00:06:24.800 But he wasn't prepared for Joe to pull up data, which was published by the Washington Post,
00:06:31.000 not exactly a right-wing website, that completely contradicts this whole narrative.
00:06:36.520 Watch.
00:06:37.700 First of all, the reality is that the Earth's temperature has never been static, right?
00:06:41.380 We can both agree on that.
00:06:42.400 It's always been up and down.
00:06:44.040 There's been ice ages and heat waves.
00:06:46.200 And then the Washington Post looked at it.
00:06:48.300 What was the time period that they looked at?
00:06:50.780 That essentially they found that we're in a cooling period, that the Earth over the past X amount of years,
00:06:58.380 and this was like a very inconvenient discovery, but they had to report the data, and kudos to them for doing that.
00:07:04.820 Scientists have captured the Earth's climate change over the last 485 million years.
00:07:08.940 Here's a surprising place we stand now.
00:07:11.300 So look at the far end of that graph, and you see we're in a cooling period.
00:07:17.360 Well, I'm not sure.
00:07:19.180 I didn't read that article.
00:07:20.480 But, you know, the scientists who are out there, I think—
00:07:23.900 I know, but there's a lot of money involved in that, too, Bernie.
00:07:26.040 That's part of the problem.
00:07:27.200 It's very high.
00:07:27.600 Look, this is—it's not an American issue.
00:07:29.660 It is a global issue.
00:07:31.620 And all I can tell you is that we are, in my view, going to see more extreme weather disturbances in the coming years than we have ever.
00:07:40.540 And we're seeing them right now.
00:07:42.920 This is one of the easiest ways to see if you're dealing with an honest person or a completely useless hack who brings nothing of value to the debate.
00:07:51.580 If somebody's honest and you confront them with data that contradicts their argument, then they'll pause to respond to the data in some way.
00:07:57.620 But that's not what Bernie Sanders does here.
00:07:59.580 Instead, he just brushes off the data, saying he hasn't seen the article from The Washington Post.
00:08:03.400 Then he starts repeating the talking points about how we're supposedly seeing more cases of extreme weather, which is both false and completely irrelevant to the point that Joe Rogan was making.
00:08:11.820 Not to mention the fact that extreme weather is a basically meaningless term.
00:08:16.980 I mean, what is extreme—what counts as extreme is very much relative to where you live, the season, the time of year, and so on.
00:08:25.500 And by the way, it wasn't The Washington Post that came up with this data.
00:08:28.140 It was a research paper in the journal Science, which The Post reported on.
00:08:31.740 And the researchers looked at 500 million years' worth of fossil evidence, and they came up with this chart of global average surface temperatures over time.
00:08:41.280 Now, of course, I'm not vouching for whatever fossil evidence and climate modeling produced this graph.
00:08:46.520 I have no idea whether it's accurate or not.
00:08:49.620 Admittedly, I'm extremely skeptical that they can figure out what the weather was like a million years ago by looking at fossils.
00:08:56.440 But these are the same experts that, in every other case, we're told we have to take seriously.
00:09:02.440 And this data shows very clearly that the world used to be much, much warmer than it is today.
00:09:07.720 Hundreds of millions of years ago, the world was warmer.
00:09:10.480 It's also a lot warmer when the dinosaurs went extinct.
00:09:13.660 Relatively speaking, according to the experts, quote-unquote, we're in a cooling-off period.
00:09:17.560 But Sanders and the environmentalist cult have no response to this.
00:09:21.400 All they could do is deflect and lie some more, which is exactly what Sanders did.
00:09:25.220 So it's hard to watch interviews like this, along with, you know, very ill-conceived posts by New York Times reporters,
00:09:31.060 without concluding that the climate change narrative, which was once a dominant orthodoxy on the left, is crashing and burning at the moment.
00:09:39.720 So was the LGBT agenda and Pride Month.
00:09:43.620 Five years ago, you couldn't get away from Pride Month propaganda.
00:09:46.840 Now you barely hear anything about it.
00:09:49.000 As we've discussed, various pride parades are going bankrupt.
00:09:52.000 Sponsors are pulling out one by one and so on.
00:09:54.700 And these are victories that, on the surface, might suggest, as some on the right have claimed,
00:10:01.100 that wokeness and the extreme excesses of left-wing ideology have been defeated, or at least neutralized.
00:10:10.560 But that is not the case.
00:10:13.080 The most destructive and anti-American impulses of the left have not been defeated.
00:10:17.820 They haven't suddenly realized the error of their ways.
00:10:21.640 Instead, like a malignant cancer, they have mutated.
00:10:25.840 They've identified different ways to undermine the foundations of this country.
00:10:29.880 And in the process, they've become much more dangerous and ultimately much more deadly.
00:10:35.460 Now, that's not to say that we haven't had any real victories against wokeness or leftism in recent years.
00:10:39.780 We have.
00:10:40.340 But the point is that the battle is very, very far from over.
00:10:44.700 You cut off one tentacle of this giant squid-like beast, and it grows another.
00:10:50.840 So the battle continues.
00:10:53.360 And getting to the real point here today,
00:10:55.600 that's the only way to understand what just took place yesterday in New York's mayoral primary.
00:11:02.820 Andrew Cuomo has conceded the race, which means that,
00:11:05.560 barring an upset in the general election from a candidate like Eric Adams,
00:11:09.020 a 33-year-old Muslim socialist from Uganda named Zoran Mamdani
00:11:14.080 is going to be the next mayor of New York City.
00:11:17.500 Yes, a foreign Nepo baby and failed rapper who wants to nationalize the grocery stores and rental properties
00:11:24.040 while also destroying the police department in the name of queer liberation
00:11:28.140 and forcing taxpayers to fund sex changes for children
00:11:31.480 is the man that New Yorkers apparently want to put in charge of the whole city.
00:11:36.560 Every aspect of his platform is un-American and demented and totally insane,
00:11:42.960 but it's worth spending a little time specifically on this brilliant idea of his
00:11:47.560 to create government-run grocery stores, which we touched on yesterday briefly.
00:11:52.260 And we can use just this one example, this one part of his platform,
00:11:55.900 to show how utterly foolish the whole thing is
00:11:58.680 and how utterly foolish the people who voted for him are,
00:12:01.600 these morons who, all they hear is,
00:12:05.080 oh, cheaper groceries or free groceries.
00:12:09.740 Must be good.
00:12:11.620 Not going to think any more deeply about it than that.
00:12:14.940 But if you do think about it for more than five seconds,
00:12:17.520 what you realize is that in this country,
00:12:20.180 the typical grocery store has a profit margin of roughly 2% to 3%.
00:12:25.020 They're not colluding with other stores to extract some insane profit
00:12:30.200 in violation of antitrust laws.
00:12:32.320 Instead, the way grocery stores work is by leveraging economies of scale
00:12:36.020 to generate a lot of very small profits from a lot of individual sales,
00:12:40.040 which add up over time.
00:12:42.000 They're only functional because they're efficient,
00:12:44.280 which is the opposite of how the government works.
00:12:46.820 And even then, they're barely turning a profit on every sale.
00:12:50.640 So if you're some kind of greedy, capitalist, Gordon Gekko-like figure,
00:12:55.560 the grocery business is not the kind of business that you would get into.
00:13:00.880 So if you want to create government-run grocery stores,
00:13:04.240 then, I mean, you might as well create government-run restaurants
00:13:06.760 and technology companies and car dealerships,
00:13:09.200 which, of course, the most likely new mayor of New York
00:13:13.800 would love to do as well, I'm sure.
00:13:15.820 I mean, you might as well nationalize the entire economy
00:13:17.820 and turn the United States into Venezuela.
00:13:19.300 After all, of all the things you can nationalize,
00:13:22.740 grocery stores are the worst.
00:13:25.460 That's like the most extreme.
00:13:26.900 So as usual, radical leftists,
00:13:29.380 they don't follow the slippery slope trajectory
00:13:31.820 in a kind of neat and gradual way.
00:13:35.260 What they so often do is they start with the most extreme thing
00:13:39.080 and work backwards from there.
00:13:42.840 Now, if this conversation sounds familiar,
00:13:44.600 it's because Kamala Harris also ran on the idea
00:13:47.020 of price controls for grocery stores,
00:13:48.860 which is just socialism, of course.
00:13:50.820 It was rejected by voters in every swing state
00:13:53.400 because it doesn't work.
00:13:54.780 But it just won in New York,
00:13:56.280 thanks largely to well-off voters
00:13:57.920 who will never need to shop
00:13:59.700 at a government-run grocery store.
00:14:01.380 That's why the blue-collar workers
00:14:03.140 didn't vote for this communist.
00:14:05.800 They saw what happened in San Francisco and Chicago
00:14:08.300 and every other jurisdiction on the planet
00:14:09.860 when people like this are put in power.
00:14:13.740 It ends in widespread poverty and destruction
00:14:17.080 every single time,
00:14:18.380 and that's what's going to happen soon
00:14:20.060 in our largest city.
00:14:22.020 There are broader implications here as well
00:14:24.300 beyond the disaster that's about to befall New Yorkers.
00:14:27.720 Whatever happens in the general election,
00:14:29.380 it's safe to say that less than 25 years after 9-11,
00:14:33.520 New York has been conquered.
00:14:35.580 All of the trillions of dollars we've spent
00:14:37.780 on fighting the war on terror,
00:14:39.860 all the American lives that have been lost here and abroad,
00:14:42.680 have not prevented an anti-American Muslim
00:14:45.160 from taking control of America's largest city.
00:14:48.880 I mean, we've spent the last 25 years
00:14:50.540 bringing freedom and democracy
00:14:52.900 to countries around the globe,
00:14:54.520 while our own country has been systematically invaded,
00:14:57.540 and now our largest cities
00:14:59.060 are run by foreigners and communists.
00:15:02.060 So if you want to know
00:15:03.020 why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist,
00:15:05.320 this is why.
00:15:07.600 And keep in mind,
00:15:08.240 this guy's a legal immigrant on top of that.
00:15:11.140 And we allowed him into this country,
00:15:13.600 we granted him citizenship,
00:15:14.640 even though he doesn't share any of our values.
00:15:18.240 He hates America.
00:15:20.860 And that's how seriously we've protected the homeland
00:15:23.060 after 9-11.
00:15:24.000 We've rolled out the red carpet
00:15:25.120 for foreign nationals
00:15:26.260 who are going to destroy us from within.
00:15:29.580 You know, if New York City were a country,
00:15:31.320 its GDP would rank around the 12th largest globally.
00:15:35.920 And now there's a very good chance
00:15:37.240 it's going to be in the hands of a man
00:15:38.560 who hasn't even been a citizen for a decade,
00:15:41.600 who fakes his accents,
00:15:43.500 who sees capitalism,
00:15:44.680 the economic engine
00:15:45.480 that has single-handedly prevented this country
00:15:47.020 from becoming another Uganda,
00:15:48.600 as an enemy to be vanquished.
00:15:51.440 This is a man whose own mother
00:15:52.920 has reportedly said,
00:15:54.120 quote,
00:15:54.980 he's not an American at all.
00:15:58.180 And in that way,
00:15:59.080 he has a lot of company in New York City
00:16:00.560 where 40%,
00:16:01.800 40% of the city's population
00:16:04.780 was not born in this country.
00:16:07.160 Now, hearing all this,
00:16:10.020 you might say,
00:16:10.540 well, New York's always been
00:16:12.000 a left-wing cesspool.
00:16:13.180 It's always been
00:16:13.800 a little dysfunctional.
00:16:16.260 That's not exactly true.
00:16:17.860 I mean, a few decades ago,
00:16:18.740 only around 20% of the city
00:16:20.020 was born in a foreign country,
00:16:21.600 which is still high.
00:16:23.660 Now the number is close
00:16:24.700 to double that figure.
00:16:27.080 And what do you know?
00:16:28.560 Hot on the heels
00:16:29.160 of demographic replacement,
00:16:30.480 New York is poised
00:16:31.360 to have a third world mayor.
00:16:32.760 The slogans are true.
00:16:34.580 Demographics are destiny.
00:16:36.340 Import the third world,
00:16:37.320 become the third world.
00:16:38.000 It's all true.
00:16:40.680 And New York will learn
00:16:41.480 that when they,
00:16:42.560 we'll learn all that
00:16:43.520 when they have a mayor
00:16:44.260 who proudly tweeted,
00:16:45.380 and I quote,
00:16:46.580 queer liberation means
00:16:47.760 defund the police.
00:16:50.560 He also called the NYPD,
00:16:51.960 quote,
00:16:52.080 racist, anti-queer,
00:16:53.460 and a major threat
00:16:54.260 to public safety.
00:16:57.200 College-educated New Yorkers,
00:16:58.560 as well as foreign nationals,
00:16:59.800 are the reason he won.
00:17:01.080 There's no debate about that.
00:17:02.720 But here's just one exit poll
00:17:04.260 to give you an idea.
00:17:05.180 You can see it here.
00:17:06.860 And as you can see,
00:17:07.540 New Yorkers with the lowest incomes
00:17:09.420 were the ones who rejected
00:17:10.760 Zoran Mamdani.
00:17:14.140 And you might think
00:17:15.000 that the poorest voters
00:17:16.060 would support the socialists,
00:17:17.400 but at least that's
00:17:18.300 what we're led to believe.
00:17:19.180 That's not the case.
00:17:20.440 And that's probably because
00:17:21.380 unlike college-educated New Yorkers
00:17:23.000 who were taught to despise
00:17:24.100 this country
00:17:24.880 and leech as much as possible,
00:17:27.000 poor New Yorkers
00:17:28.240 didn't undergo
00:17:28.960 all the same brainwashing
00:17:30.320 in these institutions.
00:17:31.360 And as a result,
00:17:31.980 very soon,
00:17:33.400 New Yorkers will discover
00:17:34.220 that, you know,
00:17:35.340 stop and frisk
00:17:36.300 wasn't actually so bad.
00:17:38.480 The alternative
00:17:39.280 is lawlessness
00:17:40.280 and socialism,
00:17:41.120 which will trigger
00:17:41.880 a death spiral
00:17:42.900 in New York.
00:17:44.360 Wealthy New Yorkers
00:17:45.260 who would be forced
00:17:46.100 to fund all these
00:17:46.900 social experiments
00:17:47.820 that this new mayor
00:17:49.220 wants to undertake
00:17:49.900 will simply leave.
00:17:51.680 And once that happens,
00:17:52.880 New York will no longer
00:17:53.640 have a GDP
00:17:54.220 that rivals most other
00:17:55.240 countries in the world.
00:17:56.380 We will witness
00:17:57.440 in real time
00:17:58.120 the slow
00:17:58.720 and managed destruction
00:17:59.960 of a once
00:18:01.020 world-class city.
00:18:03.060 Again,
00:18:04.160 another one.
00:18:06.700 And, you know,
00:18:07.020 that's not something
00:18:07.620 to celebrate
00:18:08.120 regardless of your politics,
00:18:09.500 as tempting as it may be.
00:18:12.080 I wish that I could just say,
00:18:14.060 as I've seen a lot
00:18:14.720 of conservatives say,
00:18:15.420 understandably,
00:18:16.000 I understand the sentiment,
00:18:17.540 but I wish I could just say,
00:18:18.720 good riddance.
00:18:21.160 I wish I could say that
00:18:22.180 to all the major
00:18:22.780 American cities
00:18:23.420 that have fallen
00:18:24.000 into decay and disorder
00:18:25.260 thanks to their awful leaders
00:18:26.640 and the suicidal idiots
00:18:27.800 who elect them.
00:18:28.420 But, as an American,
00:18:30.600 I actually want
00:18:32.080 these cities to be great.
00:18:33.960 They used to be.
00:18:36.280 They could be again.
00:18:39.120 And that's why
00:18:39.800 I have so much contempt
00:18:40.760 for the parasites
00:18:41.520 who've destroyed them.
00:18:43.740 These are American cities.
00:18:45.860 That means that
00:18:46.600 they're our cities, too.
00:18:48.980 And these morons
00:18:50.420 have ruined them.
00:18:53.720 Suddenly,
00:18:54.280 the fall of Pride Month,
00:18:55.540 doesn't seem
00:18:57.140 as significant.
00:19:00.400 The election
00:19:01.160 of a Muslim socialist
00:19:02.420 to be the next mayor
00:19:03.300 of New York City
00:19:04.040 is very clear evidence
00:19:05.420 that wokeness
00:19:06.300 and left-wing ideology
00:19:07.380 are still very much alive
00:19:09.780 in this country.
00:19:11.180 And you say what you will
00:19:11.820 about Andrew Cuomo's
00:19:12.880 disastrous handling
00:19:13.780 of COVID
00:19:14.240 and all of his weakness
00:19:15.800 as a candidate,
00:19:17.480 which was substantial,
00:19:20.320 there's still
00:19:21.240 no other explanation
00:19:22.080 for what happened
00:19:22.680 last night.
00:19:23.140 This primary demonstrates
00:19:25.380 once again
00:19:25.920 that the culture war
00:19:26.680 continues.
00:19:27.220 It just moves
00:19:27.660 to new battlefields.
00:19:28.460 This is how the left
00:19:29.080 operates.
00:19:30.360 It shapeshifts
00:19:31.180 and rebrands
00:19:32.040 and grows new tentacles.
00:19:33.240 It finds new Trojan horses.
00:19:35.800 But it's always
00:19:36.520 the same enemy
00:19:37.180 underneath it all.
00:19:39.300 And as New Yorkers
00:19:40.020 are about to discover,
00:19:40.940 the enemy is even
00:19:42.000 more potent
00:19:42.600 and more capable
00:19:44.500 of ruining millions
00:19:45.360 of lives
00:19:45.880 than it's ever been.
00:19:47.760 New York
00:19:48.240 and the entire country
00:19:49.060 has just suffered
00:19:49.640 a catastrophic blow
00:19:53.140 and if we're going
00:19:54.220 to preserve
00:19:54.600 what's left of America,
00:19:55.780 we have to,
00:19:56.780 as I've been saying,
00:19:58.860 return the focus
00:19:59.840 to what's happening
00:20:00.780 within our own borders,
00:20:02.360 which is that right now
00:20:04.520 the invaders are winning.
00:20:06.640 I mean,
00:20:06.800 it's not easy to admit,
00:20:07.960 but it's true.
00:20:10.420 They're going to claim
00:20:11.460 our largest city
00:20:13.500 and they are
00:20:15.740 a far greater threat
00:20:16.740 to our sovereignty
00:20:17.480 and our security
00:20:18.140 than any country
00:20:18.880 that's 6,000 miles away.
00:20:20.160 Unless we want
00:20:22.420 the entire country
00:20:23.740 to suffer the same fate
00:20:24.920 as New York,
00:20:26.680 we have to recognize
00:20:27.620 that fact.
00:20:28.140 We have to treat
00:20:28.860 these foreign socialists
00:20:30.760 like the mortal enemy
00:20:31.840 that they are.
00:20:34.260 After last night,
00:20:35.160 we can either choose
00:20:35.800 to fight
00:20:36.240 or we can become
00:20:38.100 Uganda.
00:20:40.300 Voters in New York,
00:20:41.260 many of whom
00:20:41.680 aren't even American,
00:20:42.600 have made their choice.
00:20:44.680 Now the rest of us
00:20:45.580 have to stop wasting
00:20:46.220 our time obsessing
00:20:47.080 over whatever's happening
00:20:47.840 across the globe
00:20:48.540 and make our choice
00:20:50.240 as clear as we possibly can.
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00:23:18.160 And we'll get
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00:23:19.900 I will say that
00:23:20.780 the, just,
00:23:21.680 just,
00:23:22.940 the,
00:23:23.360 to emphasize the point,
00:23:25.240 the,
00:23:25.460 the most
00:23:26.360 frustrating thing
00:23:27.200 is that now
00:23:27.980 New Yorkers
00:23:29.680 are going to
00:23:30.400 flee in droves
00:23:31.280 even more
00:23:31.800 than they already have.
00:23:33.060 They're going to
00:23:33.620 flee down to Florida
00:23:34.640 or wherever else.
00:23:36.820 And now,
00:23:37.420 if you're Florida,
00:23:38.280 if you're Tennessee,
00:23:39.100 if you're any,
00:23:39.460 you know,
00:23:39.680 if you're Texas,
00:23:40.480 you might want to
00:23:41.240 start building
00:23:41.900 your own walls.
00:23:45.280 Now we know,
00:23:45.880 we need the big wall
00:23:47.180 on the southern border.
00:23:47.780 Now we're going to need
00:23:48.100 a whole bunch of other
00:23:48.700 smaller walls
00:23:49.780 around a lot of these states.
00:23:52.960 And this is what they do.
00:23:55.180 You know,
00:23:55.620 on X,
00:23:56.220 Mike Cernovich said
00:23:57.320 that they're,
00:23:57.780 that they're,
00:23:58.240 they're fleeing
00:23:59.200 like locusts
00:23:59.960 to devour
00:24:00.440 another host.
00:24:01.400 You know,
00:24:01.580 the New Yorkers will.
00:24:02.780 And I think that,
00:24:03.240 I think that states it perfectly
00:24:04.240 like locusts,
00:24:05.280 like bedbugs,
00:24:06.280 whatever,
00:24:07.280 whatever kind of
00:24:08.980 parasitic life form
00:24:10.520 you want to use
00:24:11.200 as an analogy.
00:24:12.140 And that,
00:24:12.800 that's what's frustrating
00:24:13.500 because like,
00:24:14.160 here's an idea.
00:24:16.580 Here's an idea.
00:24:19.600 Why don't you stay
00:24:20.860 and fix your own city?
00:24:25.280 Okay,
00:24:25.680 we always hear
00:24:26.200 from like New Yorkers,
00:24:27.660 they're so,
00:24:27.920 I'm so proud,
00:24:28.700 they're so proud
00:24:29.280 to be from New York.
00:24:32.700 And then they destroy
00:24:33.680 their city
00:24:34.060 and they leave.
00:24:35.520 So if you're so proud,
00:24:36.760 why don't you stay there
00:24:37.820 and fix your own city?
00:24:39.060 Have some courage,
00:24:40.400 have some pride,
00:24:41.700 have some accountability.
00:24:42.560 actually engage
00:24:45.240 in some self-reflection
00:24:46.880 and figure out
00:24:48.500 why the city
00:24:50.240 turned to crap,
00:24:51.380 what it is that you did
00:24:53.160 to cause this problem.
00:24:58.240 Because if you're
00:24:59.100 a New Yorker,
00:25:00.100 this,
00:25:00.780 this is you.
00:25:02.260 You can't just blame,
00:25:03.260 oh,
00:25:03.340 it's all the politicians.
00:25:04.340 You elected them
00:25:05.400 repeatedly.
00:25:07.200 You kept electing people
00:25:08.820 who promised
00:25:09.400 to destroy your community.
00:25:10.520 So this is on you.
00:25:11.320 It's your fault.
00:25:12.560 The people of New York City,
00:25:13.880 it is your fault.
00:25:14.620 You did this.
00:25:15.160 Your fault.
00:25:15.680 It's on you.
00:25:17.120 You idiots,
00:25:18.220 you did this.
00:25:20.100 And now it's going
00:25:20.760 to get a lot worse.
00:25:21.760 And your lives
00:25:22.460 are going to get
00:25:22.680 a lot more miserable
00:25:23.300 and you're going to be,
00:25:24.080 you're going to be less safe
00:25:25.120 and you're going to be,
00:25:25.800 you're going to be poorer
00:25:27.280 and everything else
00:25:29.060 and less happy
00:25:29.740 and you did it to yourself.
00:25:31.340 Well,
00:25:31.760 why don't you
00:25:32.560 have a little bit
00:25:33.620 of integrity
00:25:34.080 for a change?
00:25:36.340 Just a little bit
00:25:37.320 of self-reflection.
00:25:39.820 Okay,
00:25:40.220 come to terms with that.
00:25:41.720 Stay in your own city.
00:25:42.540 Why is it that your city
00:25:47.460 is now a smoldering
00:25:48.300 pile of garbage?
00:25:51.180 It's not just New York,
00:25:52.400 Chicago,
00:25:53.260 Los Angeles.
00:25:53.980 I mean,
00:25:54.140 we could go down the list
00:25:54.960 of major American cities.
00:25:57.440 Cities that,
00:25:58.100 like I said,
00:25:58.520 they're our cities too.
00:25:59.600 These are American cities
00:26:00.740 and these were once
00:26:01.780 great cities.
00:26:03.480 You destroyed them.
00:26:05.940 You idiots.
00:26:06.740 So why don't you
00:26:10.460 figure that out
00:26:11.040 and then do the opposite
00:26:12.180 of whatever you did
00:26:12.840 to cause the problem?
00:26:16.900 And it's the same thing
00:26:17.940 for a lot of the immigrants
00:26:19.140 who come here.
00:26:20.900 Frankly,
00:26:21.340 a lot of the third world
00:26:22.480 immigrants
00:26:22.820 who come to this country.
00:26:25.660 Why don't you have
00:26:26.160 some pride
00:26:26.580 in your homeland?
00:26:27.600 You claim that you do.
00:26:28.540 You come to this country
00:26:29.300 and you wave the flag
00:26:31.320 of the country
00:26:31.800 that you fled from
00:26:32.860 and you talk about
00:26:34.160 how proud of it you are
00:26:35.320 and you still speak
00:26:36.820 your language
00:26:37.340 and you come here
00:26:38.140 and you try to set up
00:26:38.940 your own little versions
00:26:40.580 of your country
00:26:41.420 inside our country.
00:26:42.940 Well,
00:26:43.160 you're so proud of it.
00:26:45.060 Why don't you think about
00:26:46.000 why are you leaving?
00:26:48.000 Well,
00:26:48.440 we know why you're leaving
00:26:49.200 because the country
00:26:50.160 is a hellhole
00:26:51.080 because it's totally
00:26:52.420 dysfunctional
00:26:53.360 and that's why
00:26:54.620 you want to leave.
00:26:56.080 Why is that?
00:26:57.000 What happened to it?
00:26:59.120 What did you do to it?
00:27:00.920 What did you allow
00:27:01.720 to happen to it?
00:27:03.020 Why don't you take
00:27:03.420 some responsibility?
00:27:04.440 Why don't you have
00:27:04.720 some actual pride
00:27:05.580 in your country?
00:27:06.800 Stay there
00:27:07.520 and fix it.
00:27:10.240 Why don't you fight
00:27:11.140 for your countries
00:27:12.000 instead of just
00:27:14.080 running away?
00:27:18.040 How's that for an idea?
00:27:20.940 So what you see
00:27:21.680 with New Yorkers
00:27:22.420 and people from Los Angeles
00:27:24.160 and all these major cities,
00:27:25.920 while you see it
00:27:26.360 on a kind of micro scale,
00:27:27.360 you see it on the macro scale too.
00:27:30.960 And the common theme
00:27:32.140 is like people
00:27:32.700 they're in a place
00:27:33.560 and they destroy it
00:27:34.740 and then they don't
00:27:35.440 and then they just leave
00:27:36.420 and then they go
00:27:36.860 destroy something else too.
00:27:43.060 And the rest of us,
00:27:44.540 you know,
00:27:45.940 the rest of us
00:27:46.460 who know how to build
00:27:47.560 and maintain
00:27:48.380 functioning communities,
00:27:50.340 functioning safe communities
00:27:51.660 where we can like
00:27:52.640 walk down the street
00:27:53.800 with our families
00:27:54.660 and feel safe.
00:27:58.840 like the rest of us,
00:28:01.360 we're supposed to just
00:28:02.020 put up with that.
00:28:07.940 All right,
00:28:08.360 I think it's been a little while
00:28:09.260 since we've
00:28:09.840 enjoyed some
00:28:11.600 dumb Jasmine clips
00:28:13.480 on this show.
00:28:14.280 Usually Jasmine Crockett
00:28:15.220 provides us with
00:28:15.840 at least one segment a week,
00:28:17.560 but she's been
00:28:18.360 slipping lately.
00:28:19.920 Maybe I have,
00:28:20.480 I don't know,
00:28:20.760 but she's recently
00:28:24.040 this week
00:28:24.560 been having temper tantrums
00:28:25.800 over the Iran strike
00:28:27.800 and specifically
00:28:28.980 she's upset
00:28:29.680 that she was not
00:28:30.540 personally consulted
00:28:31.620 about it.
00:28:33.800 And so I'll play
00:28:34.360 two clips
00:28:35.000 of several
00:28:36.340 that I could play,
00:28:37.080 but we'll play
00:28:37.420 these two
00:28:37.980 and you kind of
00:28:39.040 get the gist.
00:28:39.680 Here it is.
00:28:40.320 Let me tell you,
00:28:41.860 just dropping
00:28:42.480 those few bombs
00:28:43.380 in one day,
00:28:44.180 that was the beginning
00:28:45.100 of what is going
00:28:46.120 to be a very long
00:28:47.660 bill for us
00:28:48.820 as they talk
00:28:49.500 about being efficient.
00:28:50.700 There was nothing
00:28:51.300 efficient about doing it
00:28:53.100 and maybe if there
00:28:53.820 was some consultation,
00:28:55.400 maybe with those
00:28:56.440 that say have
00:28:57.540 constitutional authority
00:28:58.780 since we care
00:28:59.500 about the Constitution,
00:29:01.060 then maybe we could
00:29:01.960 have saved the American
00:29:02.900 people not only money,
00:29:04.500 but the lives
00:29:05.220 that are now at risk
00:29:06.700 as we have to put out
00:29:08.220 warnings for American
00:29:09.760 citizens in this
00:29:10.800 country and abroad.
00:29:12.760 Maybe we need to start
00:29:13.960 leading with the people
00:29:15.360 at the middle
00:29:17.700 of what it is
00:29:18.880 that is guiding us
00:29:20.380 instead of following
00:29:21.820 one person.
00:29:23.280 The reason that people
00:29:24.380 like me say things
00:29:25.400 like y'all are in a cult
00:29:26.640 is because somehow
00:29:28.680 people are abdicating
00:29:30.220 their duties
00:29:30.800 and abdicating
00:29:31.960 the very people
00:29:33.160 that put them
00:29:33.780 into office.
00:29:34.580 And to understand
00:29:35.400 enough about the
00:29:36.120 Constitution to the extent
00:29:37.560 that I'm the one
00:29:38.440 that's supposed to make
00:29:39.280 a f***ing decision
00:29:40.080 or at least get them
00:29:40.800 open.
00:29:48.320 Okay, so I just want
00:29:51.680 to highlight two snippets
00:29:52.740 there.
00:29:53.120 In the first clip
00:29:53.700 she says,
00:29:54.360 and I'm quoting here,
00:29:55.780 maybe we need to start
00:29:57.300 leading with the people
00:29:58.160 at the middle
00:29:58.680 of what it is
00:29:59.340 that is guiding us
00:30:00.300 instead of following
00:30:02.680 one person.
00:30:04.880 Maybe we need to start
00:30:05.740 leading with the people
00:30:06.780 at the middle
00:30:07.440 at the middle
00:30:07.460 of what it is
00:30:08.360 that's guiding us
00:30:09.620 instead of,
00:30:11.240 I have no clue
00:30:11.980 what that means.
00:30:13.020 Like, I don't know
00:30:14.320 what she's trying
00:30:14.740 to say there.
00:30:16.060 I'm not even trying
00:30:16.920 to be difficult.
00:30:18.300 I really don't know.
00:30:19.400 I honestly don't.
00:30:21.780 Maybe we need
00:30:22.460 to start leading
00:30:23.160 with the people
00:30:23.860 at the middle
00:30:24.560 of what it is
00:30:25.380 that's guiding us.
00:30:26.320 What?
00:30:27.580 What are you,
00:30:28.600 those are just words.
00:30:29.980 She was shouting
00:30:31.340 random words.
00:30:34.540 And look,
00:30:36.900 I know everybody
00:30:37.340 knows where I stand
00:30:38.640 on the question
00:30:39.380 of Jasmine Crockett's IQ.
00:30:41.340 I think it's very low
00:30:42.180 in case you didn't know,
00:30:44.000 just to be clear.
00:30:45.520 And I probably don't need
00:30:46.380 to return to that point,
00:30:47.440 but I have to emphasize
00:30:48.800 how incredibly dumb
00:30:50.160 a person has to be
00:30:51.260 to utter a sentence
00:30:52.320 like that.
00:30:53.260 We can all misspeak.
00:30:54.560 We can all flub our words.
00:30:56.300 We can stutter
00:30:57.120 and stammer.
00:30:57.760 But to string together
00:31:00.300 a sentence like that,
00:31:01.740 totally devoid
00:31:02.620 of anything
00:31:03.040 that can be considered
00:31:03.820 a coherent meaning,
00:31:06.140 that just requires
00:31:07.020 a staggering level
00:31:08.220 of pure rank stupidity.
00:31:12.040 And then the second clip,
00:31:12.820 she says that she's the one
00:31:13.980 who's supposed to be
00:31:14.600 making the decisions
00:31:15.460 about launching
00:31:16.200 military strikes.
00:31:17.820 No, Jasmine.
00:31:19.180 That's not,
00:31:19.840 hey, hey, Jasmine.
00:31:21.360 Jasmine,
00:31:21.960 do you know where you are?
00:31:23.780 Do you know who you are?
00:31:25.960 Do you know what position
00:31:26.940 you occupy?
00:31:30.300 Honest question.
00:31:30.920 Do you know
00:31:32.180 that you're not the president?
00:31:34.960 I'm asking that sincerely.
00:31:37.060 I really am.
00:31:37.540 I don't even mean it sarcastically.
00:31:40.140 Do you know
00:31:41.380 that you are
00:31:42.160 a congressional representative?
00:31:44.320 Because it occurs to me
00:31:46.520 that you might not
00:31:47.260 even actually know
00:31:48.100 what position
00:31:48.540 you were elected to.
00:31:50.060 You might not.
00:31:51.840 Well, if that's the case,
00:31:52.940 I should tell you
00:31:53.680 that you are in Congress,
00:31:54.880 you're a congressional representative.
00:31:55.720 So, no,
00:31:56.760 you don't make
00:31:57.440 those kinds of decisions.
00:31:59.000 The Trump makes them
00:32:00.080 because he's the commander-in-chief.
00:32:01.420 The commander-in-chief
00:32:02.080 is,
00:32:05.540 and by the way,
00:32:06.420 commander-in-chief,
00:32:07.260 that is not like,
00:32:08.840 I don't,
00:32:09.120 he's not the coach
00:32:09.860 of the football team
00:32:10.640 in Kansas City.
00:32:12.080 He's the commander-in-chief.
00:32:13.200 He commands
00:32:13.860 our armed forces, okay?
00:32:16.060 And,
00:32:16.640 and since we're on this subject,
00:32:19.260 I will,
00:32:19.580 I will say that,
00:32:22.160 and everyone knows
00:32:22.860 how I feel
00:32:23.380 about the U.S.
00:32:24.280 getting involved
00:32:24.860 in Iran.
00:32:26.000 I was against it,
00:32:26.840 I'm against it,
00:32:27.420 but even so,
00:32:28.660 I don't agree
00:32:29.200 with even the more
00:32:30.260 intelligent people,
00:32:31.900 which is a low bar,
00:32:33.020 but there have been even,
00:32:34.960 there have been actually
00:32:35.880 intelligent people
00:32:36.820 who have,
00:32:37.220 who have accused Trump
00:32:38.620 of violating the Constitution
00:32:39.780 by launching the strikes,
00:32:41.020 and I don't agree with that.
00:32:43.600 Even as someone
00:32:44.280 who wasn't a fan of it,
00:32:45.780 I'll still say
00:32:47.080 he had the authority
00:32:47.740 to do it.
00:32:48.780 Doesn't mean it was
00:32:49.400 the right move,
00:32:50.080 but yeah,
00:32:50.740 of course he had the authority.
00:32:51.560 He's the commander-in-chief.
00:32:52.800 He has the authority
00:32:53.720 to direct the military,
00:32:54.860 to launch military operations,
00:32:56.560 and obviously presidents
00:32:58.340 have been doing this
00:32:59.260 since always,
00:33:00.880 and they've been doing it
00:33:02.980 without formal declarations
00:33:04.260 of war
00:33:04.720 or congressional approval.
00:33:05.620 Biden did,
00:33:06.600 Obama did,
00:33:07.200 Clinton did,
00:33:07.960 all the way down the line,
00:33:09.100 which is why
00:33:11.000 the whole congressional approval
00:33:12.160 thing is just
00:33:12.820 such a red herring,
00:33:14.560 you know,
00:33:14.840 and we know
00:33:15.380 that Democrats
00:33:15.820 only complain about that
00:33:16.800 when it's a Republican president.
00:33:18.280 We know that.
00:33:18.620 I mean,
00:33:18.720 Obama launched
00:33:19.780 drone strikes
00:33:21.100 against American citizens.
00:33:23.220 He killed American citizens
00:33:24.640 with drones,
00:33:25.680 and there was
00:33:27.600 very little pushback
00:33:28.460 from Democrats
00:33:29.960 in Congress
00:33:30.460 at the time.
00:33:31.200 It's not something
00:33:31.580 you hear Jasmine Crockett
00:33:32.380 talk about.
00:33:36.040 So,
00:33:36.580 I think all that
00:33:37.200 is just
00:33:37.640 sort of absurd.
00:33:39.860 Since we're on the subject
00:33:40.660 of female members
00:33:42.100 of Congress
00:33:42.580 who frequently annoy me,
00:33:43.880 here's Congresswoman
00:33:44.860 Brittany Peterson,
00:33:45.900 and she's the one
00:33:46.860 who's been showing up
00:33:47.640 in Congress
00:33:48.140 carrying her baby,
00:33:50.420 turning her child
00:33:51.020 into a prop,
00:33:52.200 and she's been doing
00:33:52.860 this for months,
00:33:54.380 and it started
00:33:55.240 as a protest
00:33:56.120 ostensibly demanding
00:33:57.480 that members of Congress
00:33:58.640 be allowed
00:33:59.080 to work from home,
00:34:00.180 but she just continues
00:34:01.460 doing it.
00:34:02.400 So now,
00:34:02.680 here she is
00:34:03.180 at a congressional hearing,
00:34:04.500 a hearing on monetary policy
00:34:06.300 with her child
00:34:08.000 on her lap
00:34:08.700 as a prop,
00:34:10.560 as always.
00:34:11.700 It's a ludicrous sight.
00:34:13.820 Here it is.
00:34:14.220 Watch.
00:34:14.400 Thank you for
00:34:15.840 your long service
00:34:16.880 to our country.
00:34:18.060 I know that you've
00:34:19.240 served under
00:34:20.280 many Democrats,
00:34:21.840 Republicans.
00:34:23.160 You've always
00:34:24.040 been nonpartisan
00:34:25.660 and done your job
00:34:26.400 to put our country first,
00:34:27.600 and we appreciate
00:34:28.380 your steadfast leadership,
00:34:30.360 and if you are not
00:34:32.480 reappointed,
00:34:33.540 we'll be
00:34:34.200 very missed here.
00:34:36.160 It's hard to imagine
00:34:37.320 that Congress
00:34:37.960 could become
00:34:39.440 any more of a joke
00:34:40.320 than it already was,
00:34:42.200 but then these
00:34:43.540 these women
00:34:44.440 like Crockett
00:34:45.300 and this lady,
00:34:46.240 they come along
00:34:47.100 and they somehow
00:34:47.460 turn it into
00:34:48.020 a bigger farce.
00:34:50.200 And keep in mind,
00:34:52.220 Congress
00:34:52.720 has a daycare center
00:34:55.000 that's open
00:34:55.940 like 18 hours a day.
00:34:57.640 They have high-quality
00:34:58.980 taxpayer-subsidized
00:35:01.220 daycare
00:35:01.920 on the premises,
00:35:04.200 and yet this woman
00:35:05.740 carries her baby
00:35:07.060 around with her,
00:35:07.980 not out of necessity,
00:35:09.680 but because it's part
00:35:10.780 of this dumb performance.
00:35:13.220 And I'll be the first
00:35:14.200 to say that we need,
00:35:16.120 that society should be
00:35:17.500 more welcoming
00:35:18.320 to young families.
00:35:19.800 I talk about that
00:35:20.720 all the time.
00:35:21.900 Children should be
00:35:22.540 included more often
00:35:23.640 in more ways,
00:35:25.160 in more contexts.
00:35:28.080 Like,
00:35:28.600 you shouldn't feel guilty
00:35:29.360 bringing your kid
00:35:30.240 into a grocery store
00:35:31.480 or a restaurant.
00:35:33.700 Right?
00:35:34.160 We've talked about
00:35:34.640 that before.
00:35:35.540 But not at a
00:35:36.400 congressional hearing.
00:35:38.860 I mean,
00:35:39.080 there are places
00:35:39.620 in society
00:35:40.100 where it's not
00:35:40.720 appropriate
00:35:41.080 to bring a child,
00:35:42.200 obviously,
00:35:42.620 and this is one of them.
00:35:46.220 Now,
00:35:46.780 the response
00:35:47.720 that I'll hear
00:35:48.180 is that Brittany
00:35:48.780 doesn't want
00:35:49.640 to leave her child
00:35:50.400 in daycare.
00:35:52.900 She doesn't want
00:35:53.640 to leave her child
00:35:54.280 at home
00:35:54.780 while she travels
00:35:55.360 to D.C. for work.
00:35:56.440 And I get that.
00:35:57.560 I agree, actually.
00:36:00.100 So go home, Brittany.
00:36:01.440 Go home
00:36:02.180 and be a mother
00:36:02.820 to your child.
00:36:04.940 Go be a mother.
00:36:05.860 Let someone else
00:36:06.500 handle the congressional work.
00:36:09.620 Okay?
00:36:09.920 Like,
00:36:10.120 we don't need you
00:36:10.600 for that.
00:36:11.400 You're not even good
00:36:12.040 at that anyway.
00:36:13.240 So anyone else
00:36:15.340 can handle it.
00:36:17.220 And it'll be fine.
00:36:19.460 And just to show you
00:36:19.980 how dumb
00:36:20.480 our political discourse is,
00:36:21.680 as though you needed
00:36:22.360 more evidence,
00:36:23.260 I want to read
00:36:23.740 some comments to you
00:36:24.440 because I posted
00:36:24.960 about this on X
00:36:25.660 that she should go home
00:36:28.080 and be a mother
00:36:28.740 to her child.
00:36:29.560 And I want to read
00:36:30.040 some of the top responses
00:36:31.280 to that,
00:36:32.840 which I think
00:36:33.200 is very simple.
00:36:34.300 Like,
00:36:34.520 you're carrying
00:36:35.280 your kid around.
00:36:36.040 You're at a congressional
00:36:36.680 hearing with a baby.
00:36:38.340 Okay?
00:36:38.540 No one has ever done that.
00:36:39.740 We don't do that.
00:36:44.280 And,
00:36:44.460 I mean,
00:36:46.920 it's like
00:36:47.260 if the president
00:36:50.040 of the United,
00:36:50.860 God forbid,
00:36:51.860 Brittany Peterson
00:36:52.680 somehow becomes
00:36:53.220 elected president,
00:36:53.940 which will never happen,
00:36:55.340 given the state
00:36:56.040 of the union,
00:36:56.620 just like holding
00:36:57.140 a baby the whole time.
00:36:58.060 So,
00:37:00.840 clearly it's ridiculous,
00:37:02.760 but,
00:37:04.360 should be an obvious point,
00:37:05.700 but I just want to
00:37:06.320 read some of these.
00:37:06.820 So,
00:37:07.120 here's a response
00:37:07.820 from an account
00:37:08.200 called Joyful Laughs.
00:37:10.260 Says,
00:37:12.040 the right told her
00:37:12.780 to have that baby.
00:37:13.900 She did,
00:37:14.700 and now she needs
00:37:15.340 to bring him to work.
00:37:16.760 I don't know
00:37:17.120 what the problem is.
00:37:20.240 Wait,
00:37:20.500 what is that?
00:37:21.620 The right told her
00:37:22.720 to have a baby?
00:37:24.060 Who on the right
00:37:26.740 said that?
00:37:28.060 Was there some kind
00:37:28.800 of campaign
00:37:29.420 among conservatives
00:37:31.140 to force Brittany Peterson
00:37:32.400 to have a baby?
00:37:34.060 I must have missed that.
00:37:35.920 I missed the rally
00:37:38.260 in the nation's capital
00:37:39.100 calling upon Brittany Peterson
00:37:40.700 to have a baby.
00:37:43.240 Not saying it didn't happen.
00:37:45.660 Granted,
00:37:45.980 I don't always see the emails.
00:37:48.480 You know,
00:37:48.760 the right-wing conspiracy.
00:37:49.800 We're all in an email chain.
00:37:50.840 We send emails around.
00:37:51.600 I don't,
00:37:52.160 I'm notoriously bad
00:37:53.620 at checking emails,
00:37:54.520 and so I miss a lot of them.
00:37:56.700 And so there are a lot
00:37:57.300 of updates
00:37:57.740 to the right-wing conspiracy
00:37:58.760 that I don't see.
00:38:01.940 And maybe this one,
00:38:02.960 maybe this is in it.
00:38:03.660 Maybe this was,
00:38:04.260 maybe it was like,
00:38:04.920 hey guys,
00:38:05.340 we're gonna,
00:38:05.900 the next item on the agenda,
00:38:07.520 there's this woman
00:38:08.200 named Brittany Peterson.
00:38:09.220 We're gonna force her
00:38:10.500 to have a baby.
00:38:12.800 I'll go back and check,
00:38:13.720 but I don't think
00:38:14.120 that was there.
00:38:15.980 Another comment says,
00:38:17.360 wow,
00:38:17.780 did you say that to Elon
00:38:19.180 when he had his kid
00:38:20.640 with him at the White House?
00:38:21.860 Well,
00:38:22.060 Elon,
00:38:22.460 wasn't paid
00:38:24.460 by the taxpayers.
00:38:25.760 He wasn't a member
00:38:26.680 of Congress.
00:38:27.340 He wasn't bringing his kid
00:38:28.540 to congressional hearings
00:38:30.200 or to testify
00:38:31.760 on the floor
00:38:32.400 of the House.
00:38:35.020 So,
00:38:35.540 no,
00:38:35.800 I didn't say that to him
00:38:36.620 because it's not
00:38:37.280 the same thing.
00:38:38.260 Again,
00:38:38.620 not everything is,
00:38:39.420 not everything is the same
00:38:41.160 as everything else.
00:38:41.920 There are things
00:38:42.400 that are different
00:38:43.020 and this is different.
00:38:48.080 OMG,
00:38:48.560 heaven forbid
00:38:48.960 she keeps her baby
00:38:49.740 with her
00:38:50.060 instead of dumping
00:38:50.640 them off at daycare.
00:38:51.500 Maybe if it was normalized,
00:38:52.820 you wouldn't feel
00:38:53.240 so triggered
00:38:53.760 that she used
00:38:54.580 her baby
00:38:54.940 as a prop,
00:38:55.960 retards.
00:38:58.460 No,
00:38:58.860 I'd be a lot more
00:38:59.500 triggered
00:38:59.760 if this was normalized.
00:39:01.160 Like,
00:39:01.660 normalized?
00:39:02.820 So,
00:39:03.360 we'll just have kids
00:39:04.100 running all over the Capitol?
00:39:05.180 What do you mean normalized?
00:39:06.200 You want it to be
00:39:07.260 a normal thing
00:39:07.880 at congressional hearings?
00:39:09.420 Just having kids
00:39:10.040 running all,
00:39:10.600 every congressional hearing
00:39:11.520 is now like
00:39:12.000 Chuck E. Cheese?
00:39:15.320 We're going to build
00:39:16.260 a jungle gym
00:39:16.920 in the middle
00:39:17.240 of the room?
00:39:18.660 have a swing set?
00:39:23.440 I mean,
00:39:23.920 given the average IQ
00:39:24.780 of members of Congress,
00:39:25.880 it sort of is already
00:39:26.560 like that,
00:39:27.080 so maybe you have
00:39:27.620 a point.
00:39:27.980 I don't know.
00:39:29.560 All right,
00:39:30.000 one other thing
00:39:30.540 I wanted to mention
00:39:30.980 is an interesting article
00:39:31.820 from NBC News
00:39:32.600 that I've been meaning
00:39:33.440 to talk about.
00:39:34.100 the headline
00:39:35.240 is this.
00:39:38.760 The strange bedfellows
00:39:40.080 driving and winning
00:39:41.260 the war on porn.
00:39:43.220 Feminists,
00:39:43.740 religious crusaders,
00:39:44.540 and alpha male influencers
00:39:45.640 have turned the tide
00:39:46.800 in the decades-old battle
00:39:48.280 over adult content.
00:39:50.640 So,
00:39:50.840 reading a little bit,
00:39:51.320 it says,
00:39:51.520 anti-pornography crusaders
00:39:52.500 are on a winning streak.
00:39:53.320 On almost every front,
00:39:54.920 those who argue
00:39:55.460 that pornography
00:39:55.960 is a scourge in society
00:39:57.220 are racking up wins.
00:39:58.600 States are implementing
00:39:59.300 online age verification laws.
00:40:01.360 Some politicians
00:40:01.900 are pursuing aggressive bans
00:40:03.400 on explicit content.
00:40:04.960 Culturally,
00:40:05.320 the viewpoint that porn
00:40:06.040 is not only harmful to women
00:40:07.100 but increasingly men
00:40:08.040 and the sexual development
00:40:09.180 of young people
00:40:09.700 has made significant inroads
00:40:11.120 as porn has become
00:40:13.120 more mainstream
00:40:13.800 so as the discussion around it.
00:40:16.500 Pop star Gracie Adams
00:40:17.500 said in a February interview
00:40:18.460 with the Cosmopolitan,
00:40:19.600 porn is BS.
00:40:21.000 It's dangerous,
00:40:21.700 not real,
00:40:22.260 and a performance.
00:40:23.000 It's really dangerous
00:40:23.620 for young people
00:40:24.180 for that to be
00:40:25.260 their introduction to sex.
00:40:27.880 For many,
00:40:28.560 the harms of porn
00:40:29.160 are obvious.
00:40:29.900 Feminists have primarily argued
00:40:31.300 that porn normalizes
00:40:32.240 sexual violence,
00:40:33.120 contributes to the
00:40:33.680 objectification of women
00:40:34.600 and erodes
00:40:35.620 childhood sexual development.
00:40:37.860 Writing New York Times,
00:40:38.680 Christina Emba,
00:40:39.600 whose work has focused
00:40:40.640 on gender,
00:40:41.140 sexuality,
00:40:41.500 and youth norms,
00:40:42.220 recently pointed to
00:40:42.940 changing sexual habits
00:40:44.040 among young people.
00:40:45.220 Okay, so you can read
00:40:45.720 the whole article
00:40:46.160 at the NBC News site.
00:40:47.860 There's a couple of points
00:40:48.780 that come to mind.
00:40:49.320 First of all,
00:40:50.880 the thrust of the article
00:40:51.820 is correct,
00:40:52.480 that the movement
00:40:53.880 against this kind of content
00:40:55.240 has picked up
00:40:56.000 a lot of steam recently.
00:40:57.700 It's now much more popular
00:40:59.180 to be anti-smut
00:41:00.660 than it was
00:41:01.700 not that long ago.
00:41:03.800 I mean,
00:41:04.040 I've been talking about
00:41:05.060 the dangers of porn
00:41:06.600 for almost,
00:41:07.340 you know,
00:41:08.220 for 15 years.
00:41:10.720 And up until
00:41:11.940 the last few years,
00:41:12.820 the backlash,
00:41:13.760 as anyone knows,
00:41:14.900 who has been talking
00:41:15.960 about it as well
00:41:16.520 for a while,
00:41:17.640 the backlash,
00:41:18.620 even from conservatives,
00:41:20.000 was intense.
00:41:22.940 And it's not that long ago
00:41:24.640 where talking about
00:41:26.340 the dangers of pornography
00:41:27.340 wasn't a popular position
00:41:29.400 even on the right.
00:41:32.500 And,
00:41:32.940 I mean,
00:41:34.740 I vividly recall
00:41:35.500 it was back,
00:41:36.320 I think it was 2018
00:41:37.080 or 2019
00:41:37.780 when I argued
00:41:39.400 that porn
00:41:40.300 should be banned.
00:41:42.500 And the blowback
00:41:43.780 at the time
00:41:44.620 was enormous.
00:41:47.680 Right?
00:41:48.140 It was like,
00:41:49.240 and even now,
00:41:50.680 that's probably not
00:41:51.480 a majority position
00:41:52.640 that we should
00:41:53.860 ban porn altogether.
00:41:55.340 It's the right position.
00:41:56.040 But it's not
00:41:57.720 a scandalous position
00:41:58.660 to people anymore.
00:41:59.280 Like,
00:41:59.380 you can say that
00:42:00.060 without being
00:42:01.180 ripped to shreds for it.
00:42:03.260 And even people
00:42:03.760 who disagree,
00:42:04.640 many of them
00:42:05.340 will at least acknowledge
00:42:06.460 that,
00:42:06.840 okay,
00:42:06.980 it's not a crazy thing
00:42:08.020 to say.
00:42:10.340 But,
00:42:11.000 not a little long ago,
00:42:12.640 it was,
00:42:12.920 it was,
00:42:13.640 it was like,
00:42:16.100 it was,
00:42:16.560 it was insane.
00:42:18.220 It was an insane thing
00:42:18.940 to say.
00:42:20.600 And that's not
00:42:21.260 the case anymore.
00:42:21.940 What changed?
00:42:22.760 Well,
00:42:24.060 I think it,
00:42:25.180 I think it's very simple.
00:42:27.040 Those of us
00:42:27.940 who were speaking
00:42:28.780 out against porn,
00:42:29.760 we were making the case
00:42:31.140 that consuming
00:42:31.760 this kind of content
00:42:32.800 will bring misery
00:42:34.640 and dysfunction
00:42:35.460 into your life.
00:42:37.220 And it's not
00:42:37.480 the only argument
00:42:38.080 against it,
00:42:38.640 but,
00:42:38.860 but that,
00:42:39.860 you know,
00:42:40.040 that's kind of our point.
00:42:41.200 This stuff's bad for you.
00:42:42.340 Like,
00:42:42.540 the basic point is,
00:42:43.340 this is bad for you.
00:42:44.300 It's bad for you.
00:42:45.220 It's bad,
00:42:45.640 especially bad for your kids.
00:42:46.920 It's bad in general.
00:42:48.940 And we were right.
00:42:50.840 So,
00:42:51.420 misery and dysfunction
00:42:52.340 followed.
00:42:53.040 There's a lot of people
00:42:55.580 that just kind of
00:42:56.120 dismissed that.
00:42:56.720 Oh,
00:42:56.860 you're a Puritan.
00:42:57.720 You're the,
00:42:58.200 what are you,
00:42:58.540 Amish?
00:43:00.160 And they went right,
00:43:01.100 right along
00:43:01.780 with their porn habit.
00:43:03.300 And after a while,
00:43:04.600 they kind of looked
00:43:05.680 at their own life
00:43:06.380 and said,
00:43:06.800 well,
00:43:07.040 this is like,
00:43:07.660 I'm miserable.
00:43:09.020 It's,
00:43:09.160 it's,
00:43:09.460 it became obvious
00:43:10.260 to people
00:43:10.660 that this stuff is toxic.
00:43:11.920 It's not a good influence
00:43:13.020 on your life.
00:43:15.360 And the second point here
00:43:16.400 is we,
00:43:16.780 you know,
00:43:17.000 we,
00:43:17.140 we see how feminists
00:43:18.560 are getting some credit here.
00:43:21.040 Reminiscent of the
00:43:21.880 gender ideology fight
00:43:23.160 where feminists want credit
00:43:24.580 for taking a stand
00:43:25.480 against it.
00:43:27.420 The problem is that
00:43:28.560 just like gender ideology,
00:43:29.700 the vast majority
00:43:30.420 of feminists,
00:43:31.300 first of all,
00:43:32.040 still support
00:43:32.900 the evil thing,
00:43:34.740 porn in this case.
00:43:36.520 And more importantly,
00:43:37.460 your crusade
00:43:38.840 against porn,
00:43:39.540 just like the crusade
00:43:40.180 against gender ideology
00:43:41.020 will ultimately fail
00:43:43.180 if it isn't grounded
00:43:44.980 in a coherent
00:43:46.140 moral system.
00:43:51.280 Feminists can complain
00:43:52.600 about certain aspects
00:43:53.680 of this scourge
00:43:54.980 and I'm happy
00:43:56.520 to have them.
00:43:57.460 I'm happy to have anybody
00:43:58.280 on board with the fight,
00:43:59.760 you know,
00:43:59.940 to any extent
00:44:00.600 that they're on board.
00:44:01.200 Like I'd rather,
00:44:02.960 whatever help we can get
00:44:04.220 in calling attention
00:44:06.620 to this problem
00:44:07.440 and hopefully defeating it,
00:44:09.600 I'm happy to have.
00:44:10.940 But their arguments
00:44:12.620 are ultimately toothless
00:44:13.900 and groundless
00:44:14.940 because they are
00:44:16.740 at bottom themselves
00:44:18.000 moral relativists.
00:44:19.400 They ultimately believe
00:44:20.320 that truth is
00:44:20.920 whatever you say it is
00:44:21.820 and the greatest good
00:44:22.900 in life is to pursue
00:44:24.280 your own pleasure
00:44:24.960 and satisfaction.
00:44:26.420 And as long as you
00:44:27.080 believe that,
00:44:27.660 you will not be able
00:44:28.680 to fully make the case
00:44:29.920 against porn
00:44:30.580 or gender ideology
00:44:31.560 or any other evil thing
00:44:32.720 because the argument
00:44:33.940 for any evil thing
00:44:35.500 is always fundamentally
00:44:36.640 that people
00:44:38.360 should be able
00:44:39.540 to do it
00:44:39.920 because they want
00:44:40.540 to do it
00:44:40.880 and it makes them
00:44:41.420 happy,
00:44:41.820 supposedly.
00:44:45.060 Only conservatives,
00:44:46.240 religious conservatives
00:44:47.000 specifically,
00:44:48.280 have really a response
00:44:49.580 to that.
00:44:53.380 Only we can articulate
00:44:54.680 the real argument
00:44:55.640 against porn,
00:44:56.740 which is that
00:44:57.400 it is an assault
00:44:58.560 on human dignity.
00:45:00.500 We are human beings,
00:45:03.480 we're created by God,
00:45:04.860 imbued with dignity.
00:45:07.160 Your life,
00:45:08.200 your being
00:45:08.900 is sacred
00:45:10.520 because it was made
00:45:11.380 by God
00:45:11.840 and pornography
00:45:12.340 is a desecration.
00:45:13.640 It's the objectification,
00:45:14.740 commodification,
00:45:15.580 and defilement
00:45:16.640 of the human body,
00:45:19.460 the human mind,
00:45:20.140 the human soul,
00:45:21.080 the human person.
00:45:24.020 That is the argument
00:45:26.100 ultimately against it.
00:45:27.380 And so all that
00:45:34.760 to say that
00:45:35.660 we need a critical mass
00:45:38.840 of people
00:45:39.380 making that argument
00:45:41.160 because kind of
00:45:43.520 just like picking around
00:45:44.340 the edges of this thing,
00:45:47.040 the feminist argument,
00:45:47.900 oh, well,
00:45:48.220 it takes advantage
00:45:49.080 of women.
00:45:51.740 In many cases,
00:45:52.720 it does.
00:45:53.120 I mean,
00:45:53.240 the porn industry
00:45:53.680 has done that.
00:45:54.380 But that argument,
00:45:56.540 it only goes so far.
00:45:59.500 Especially when
00:46:00.100 the more you get
00:46:00.720 like OnlyFans,
00:46:02.620 it's like,
00:46:03.160 well,
00:46:03.300 it's harder and harder
00:46:04.700 to make that argument
00:46:05.700 when you got something
00:46:07.660 like OnlyFans
00:46:08.380 because now you have
00:46:10.600 women who,
00:46:11.640 in many cases,
00:46:12.460 they're not destitute,
00:46:14.000 they're not like homeless.
00:46:16.500 You have well-off
00:46:18.260 soccer moms,
00:46:19.140 basically,
00:46:19.820 who are going
00:46:20.820 into business
00:46:21.500 for themselves.
00:46:22.320 There's no pimp here.
00:46:23.420 Well,
00:46:23.700 OnlyFans basically
00:46:24.440 functions as the pimp,
00:46:25.240 but there's no,
00:46:25.960 right,
00:46:26.340 there's not,
00:46:27.700 there's no one
00:46:29.420 threatening to backhand
00:46:30.320 them if they don't
00:46:30.800 bring back the money.
00:46:32.040 Nothing like that.
00:46:32.960 So they're going
00:46:33.340 into business,
00:46:33.760 well-off,
00:46:34.680 or at least
00:46:35.180 comfortable financially,
00:46:36.960 going into business
00:46:38.000 for themselves
00:46:39.020 as hookers.
00:46:44.020 And the more
00:46:44.880 that the porn industry
00:46:46.560 becomes that,
00:46:47.860 the harder it is
00:46:48.840 to make that
00:46:49.440 particular case.
00:46:50.280 which is why
00:46:53.460 you have to have
00:46:53.960 the deeper point,
00:46:55.100 which I think
00:46:56.180 that conservatives
00:46:56.900 have,
00:46:57.440 but a lot
00:46:58.780 of the other people
00:46:59.340 who are sort of
00:47:00.500 aligning themselves
00:47:01.180 with us
00:47:01.700 don't have.
00:47:03.720 We're all feeling it.
00:47:04.880 Costs are rising
00:47:05.940 on everything,
00:47:06.760 gas,
00:47:07.260 groceries,
00:47:07.760 home repairs.
00:47:08.800 And if you're
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00:47:11.060 should I call
00:47:11.460 American Financing
00:47:12.220 to refinance
00:47:13.120 and pay off
00:47:13.700 this credit card debt?
00:47:15.280 Then you second-guess
00:47:15.960 yourself because of
00:47:16.660 that low mortgage rate
00:47:17.540 that you currently have.
00:47:18.440 Well, listen,
00:47:18.980 that low rate,
00:47:19.700 it's not saving you
00:47:20.640 if you're drowning
00:47:21.280 in credit card interest
00:47:22.220 at 25% or more.
00:47:24.000 That's the math
00:47:24.600 that no one wants
00:47:25.140 to face,
00:47:26.220 but it's costing you
00:47:27.040 thousands of dollars.
00:47:27.940 Here's the truth.
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00:48:34.280 And let's get to
00:48:34.700 our daily cancellation.
00:48:35.380 We began the show
00:48:42.520 by talking about
00:48:43.220 the Muslim socialist
00:48:44.360 who's just won
00:48:45.840 the Democrat primary
00:48:47.120 to become the next
00:48:48.600 mayor of New York City,
00:48:49.980 ran on a platform
00:48:50.660 of legalized theft,
00:48:52.040 as all socialists do.
00:48:53.540 The wealthiest New Yorkers
00:48:54.680 will be forced to pay
00:48:55.560 for everybody else's
00:48:56.320 groceries and rent
00:48:57.160 and sex changes
00:48:57.920 right up until the moment
00:48:59.400 that those wealthy
00:49:00.340 New Yorkers leave
00:49:01.200 and the city collapses.
00:49:02.920 And we've become
00:49:03.340 so familiar with this kind
00:49:04.320 of crass transactional politics
00:49:06.020 where con artists
00:49:06.720 are elected to public office
00:49:07.940 simply by promising
00:49:08.720 to give away
00:49:09.220 other people's money.
00:49:10.660 It's worth highlighting
00:49:11.360 the rare moments
00:49:12.140 when the opposite happens.
00:49:14.320 Believe it or not,
00:49:15.280 indeed, there are occasions
00:49:16.320 in which elected officials
00:49:17.280 in the United States
00:49:17.860 tell people to take
00:49:18.640 some responsibility
00:49:19.140 for their lives
00:49:19.760 instead of becoming
00:49:20.440 entirely dependent
00:49:21.140 on handouts from taxpayers.
00:49:23.120 It sounds like
00:49:23.480 absurdist fiction
00:49:24.220 as cities like New York
00:49:25.120 descend into third world status,
00:49:26.540 but contrary to all expectations,
00:49:28.340 sometimes there is
00:49:29.020 accountability in this country.
00:49:30.300 And at the moment,
00:49:31.640 the tens of millions
00:49:32.260 of Americans
00:49:32.740 who took out student loans
00:49:33.920 to go to college
00:49:34.700 are coming to this realization
00:49:36.680 the hard way.
00:49:37.720 After years of extensions
00:49:38.840 and promises
00:49:39.580 that their loans
00:49:40.240 would be forgiven,
00:49:41.160 meaning paid by taxpayers,
00:49:43.020 the Trump administration
00:49:43.660 is starting to collect.
00:49:46.020 They're garnishing wages
00:49:47.120 and destroying the credit scores
00:49:48.460 of anyone who refuses to pay.
00:49:49.940 This is a major victory
00:49:51.780 for the rule of law
00:49:52.740 in this country,
00:49:53.300 as we'll discuss in a second.
00:49:54.500 Here's the Wall Street Journal,
00:49:55.480 quote,
00:49:55.660 Nearly 2 million student loan borrowers
00:49:58.780 are at risk of having
00:49:59.500 their wages garnished
00:50:00.520 this summer.
00:50:01.540 Roughly 6 million
00:50:02.340 federal student loan borrowers
00:50:03.980 are 90 days or more
00:50:05.140 passed through
00:50:05.680 after a pandemic era
00:50:06.720 reprieve ended,
00:50:07.480 according to TransUnion.
00:50:09.200 The credit reporting company
00:50:10.820 estimates that about
00:50:11.660 a third of them
00:50:12.340 of nearly 2 million borrowers
00:50:13.840 or nearly 2 million borrowers
00:50:15.080 could move into default
00:50:16.260 in July
00:50:16.700 and start having their pay docked
00:50:18.040 by the government.
00:50:18.720 An additional 1 million borrowers
00:50:20.020 are on track
00:50:20.780 to default by August,
00:50:22.340 followed by another
00:50:22.880 2 million in September.
00:50:24.000 The Education Department
00:50:25.020 restarted collections
00:50:25.800 on defaulted student loans
00:50:27.060 in May,
00:50:27.700 something it hadn't done
00:50:28.860 since before the pandemic.
00:50:30.360 The Department sent notices
00:50:31.160 to borrowers
00:50:31.780 saying their tax refunds
00:50:33.320 and federal benefits
00:50:34.200 could be withheld
00:50:34.900 starting in June
00:50:35.640 if they don't take steps
00:50:36.800 to resume payments
00:50:37.500 until past due payments
00:50:39.260 are paid in full
00:50:40.120 or the default status
00:50:41.160 of resolved borrowers
00:50:41.980 could see up to 15%
00:50:43.520 of the wages
00:50:43.860 automatically deducted
00:50:45.100 from their paychecks,
00:50:45.960 close quote.
00:50:48.380 Now, in order for contracts
00:50:50.060 and loans to have any meaning,
00:50:51.840 this is what needs to happen.
00:50:53.340 People who borrow money
00:50:54.440 after explicitly promising
00:50:55.680 to repay that money
00:50:56.700 shouldn't have any choice
00:50:59.200 in the matter.
00:51:00.200 They have to pay back
00:51:01.180 their debts with interest.
00:51:03.160 It doesn't matter
00:51:03.960 what sob story
00:51:04.520 you come up with.
00:51:05.200 People who make
00:51:05.760 legally binding promises
00:51:06.840 should be forced
00:51:07.480 to keep those promises
00:51:08.300 or else suffer
00:51:09.440 the consequences.
00:51:11.220 If we suspend
00:51:12.480 that system,
00:51:13.740 right,
00:51:14.720 as we have done,
00:51:16.580 three things happen.
00:51:18.040 None of them are good.
00:51:19.440 First,
00:51:20.020 private loans
00:51:20.600 become much harder
00:51:21.440 to obtain
00:51:21.920 because no one's
00:51:22.640 going to lend anyone
00:51:23.640 with a remotely
00:51:24.360 suspicious credit profile.
00:51:26.440 People will have
00:51:27.180 much more difficulty
00:51:28.220 acquiring cars,
00:51:29.360 homes,
00:51:29.680 and so on.
00:51:31.480 Secondly,
00:51:32.560 federally funded loans
00:51:33.460 will become
00:51:33.880 yet another
00:51:34.700 unsustainable form
00:51:35.600 of welfare
00:51:35.980 that we can't afford.
00:51:36.880 And third,
00:51:38.000 tuition will continue
00:51:38.720 to increase
00:51:39.220 across the board
00:51:39.860 since schools
00:51:40.440 might as well draw
00:51:41.260 whatever they can
00:51:41.940 from the treasury.
00:51:43.920 So,
00:51:44.840 it just makes
00:51:46.060 the problem worse.
00:51:47.360 and in the process
00:51:49.760 that makes
00:51:50.140 higher education
00:51:50.840 even more
00:51:51.420 unaffordable.
00:51:53.440 But there's
00:51:54.220 another reason
00:51:54.640 to support
00:51:55.080 the Trump
00:51:55.480 administration's
00:51:56.100 collection efforts
00:51:56.780 which is that
00:51:57.380 it will punish
00:51:58.220 some of the
00:51:59.020 absolute worst
00:51:59.600 people in this
00:52:00.100 country
00:52:00.300 in a very
00:52:00.620 direct and
00:52:01.180 tangible way.
00:52:02.560 You take a look
00:52:03.060 at social media
00:52:03.680 and see how
00:52:04.400 people are
00:52:04.940 talking about
00:52:06.120 their student
00:52:06.540 loans right now.
00:52:07.800 It turns out
00:52:08.560 that once you
00:52:09.200 give people
00:52:09.640 an extension,
00:52:10.800 they want to
00:52:11.480 make that extension
00:52:12.060 permanent.
00:52:12.900 They start
00:52:13.320 concocting ways
00:52:14.100 to get out
00:52:14.600 of their
00:52:14.760 obligations
00:52:15.280 now that
00:52:16.340 they sense
00:52:17.220 weakness
00:52:17.620 on the part
00:52:18.040 of the debt
00:52:18.340 collectors,
00:52:18.740 the government
00:52:19.100 in this case.
00:52:20.460 Who could
00:52:20.740 have imagined
00:52:21.100 that?
00:52:21.420 It's almost
00:52:21.920 as if you
00:52:22.600 want an
00:52:22.940 orderly
00:52:23.340 functioning
00:52:23.700 society,
00:52:24.880 you can't
00:52:25.600 grant exceptions.
00:52:26.240 You have to
00:52:26.480 hold people
00:52:26.960 to their
00:52:27.300 promises.
00:52:28.680 Otherwise,
00:52:29.100 you get
00:52:29.300 videos like
00:52:29.920 this.
00:52:30.380 Watch.
00:52:31.340 So,
00:52:31.780 as of today,
00:52:32.800 student loans
00:52:33.420 that are in
00:52:33.820 default have
00:52:35.060 basically went
00:52:35.900 into collections
00:52:36.800 and wage
00:52:37.880 garnishments
00:52:38.580 are into
00:52:39.400 effect.
00:52:40.560 The question
00:52:40.980 is,
00:52:41.320 can you
00:52:41.740 dispute
00:52:42.140 these
00:52:42.380 collections?
00:52:43.180 Yes,
00:52:43.500 you can,
00:52:44.060 and it
00:52:44.280 is your
00:52:44.540 right,
00:52:44.800 and I'm
00:52:45.000 going to
00:52:45.140 tell you
00:52:45.500 what to
00:52:45.880 ask for.
00:52:46.520 The first
00:52:46.880 thing you're
00:52:47.120 going to
00:52:47.220 ask for
00:52:47.560 is the
00:52:47.860 full chain
00:52:48.460 of custody
00:52:49.040 with
00:52:49.840 assignment
00:52:50.580 agreements.
00:52:51.800 The second
00:52:52.180 thing you're
00:52:52.580 going to
00:52:52.680 ask for
00:52:53.080 is the
00:52:53.400 original
00:52:53.920 master
00:52:54.700 promissory
00:52:55.540 note
00:52:56.080 with your
00:52:57.060 wet
00:52:57.280 signature
00:52:57.720 or
00:52:58.700 virtual logs.
00:53:00.260 The third
00:53:00.600 thing you're
00:53:00.860 going to
00:53:00.980 ask for
00:53:01.380 is the
00:53:01.740 breakdown
00:53:02.100 of
00:53:02.380 itemized
00:53:02.880 charges
00:53:03.320 with
00:53:03.960 evidence
00:53:04.440 of
00:53:04.760 accrual.
00:53:05.660 The good
00:53:05.940 news is,
00:53:06.500 I have a
00:53:06.820 dispute
00:53:07.140 letter
00:53:07.460 where you
00:53:08.120 could actually
00:53:08.660 escalate
00:53:09.260 with the
00:53:09.640 CFPB
00:53:10.180 as well.
00:53:11.040 I made
00:53:11.400 this very
00:53:11.740 simple for
00:53:12.300 everyone.
00:53:12.760 If you
00:53:12.940 go to
00:53:13.140 the link
00:53:13.460 in my
00:53:13.840 profile,
00:53:14.660 you're
00:53:14.860 going to
00:53:15.000 see where
00:53:15.360 it says
00:53:15.860 buy me
00:53:16.460 a coffee.
00:53:17.180 The dispute
00:53:17.620 letter is
00:53:17.980 going to
00:53:18.100 be right
00:53:18.420 there for
00:53:18.780 you to
00:53:19.040 use.
00:53:19.620 Or I
00:53:20.020 could
00:53:20.160 customize
00:53:20.540 it for
00:53:21.180 you myself.
00:53:22.300 You're
00:53:22.520 going to
00:53:22.640 see where
00:53:22.920 it says
00:53:23.340 upload
00:53:23.880 your
00:53:24.080 credit
00:53:24.280 report
00:53:24.740 and I
00:53:25.040 will
00:53:25.160 customize
00:53:25.580 your
00:53:25.920 dispute
00:53:26.220 letters
00:53:26.560 for you.
00:53:27.480 He's
00:53:27.940 being a
00:53:28.200 little coy
00:53:28.660 but the
00:53:29.020 idea is
00:53:29.620 fairly
00:53:30.000 clear.
00:53:30.600 He's
00:53:30.780 encouraging
00:53:31.120 people to
00:53:31.680 bombard
00:53:32.100 the
00:53:32.280 federal
00:53:32.480 government
00:53:32.780 with
00:53:32.980 paperwork
00:53:33.360 requests
00:53:33.920 in the
00:53:34.120 hopes
00:53:34.280 that the
00:53:41.740 student
00:53:41.900 loans.
00:53:42.180 That's
00:53:42.320 very
00:53:42.460 clear from
00:53:42.820 the
00:53:42.960 comments
00:53:43.260 on this
00:53:43.740 video.
00:53:44.600 They're
00:53:44.920 just
00:53:45.080 looking
00:53:45.320 to
00:53:45.520 delay
00:53:45.760 as
00:53:45.920 much
00:53:46.060 as
00:53:46.180 possible.
00:53:47.500 Other
00:53:47.860 videos
00:53:48.300 that are
00:53:49.000 also
00:53:49.400 popular
00:53:49.740 make
00:53:49.980 this
00:53:50.140 tactic
00:53:50.460 really
00:53:50.720 explicit.
00:53:51.220 Here's
00:53:51.360 one of
00:53:51.580 them.
00:53:52.440 I was
00:53:52.880 curious
00:53:53.340 what
00:53:53.660 was
00:53:53.880 happening
00:53:54.340 with
00:53:54.920 that
00:53:55.100 student
00:53:55.460 loan
00:53:55.940 situation
00:53:56.900 that
00:53:57.140 on
00:53:57.300 May
00:53:57.560 5th
00:53:57.880 student
00:53:58.180 loans
00:53:58.460 after
00:53:58.660 five
00:53:59.120 years
00:53:59.340 since
00:53:59.540 COVID
00:53:59.880 people
00:54:00.880 are
00:54:01.040 going
00:54:01.120 to
00:54:01.140 be
00:54:01.260 put
00:54:01.540 sent
00:54:02.480 to
00:54:02.620 collections
00:54:02.960 that
00:54:03.100 they
00:54:03.180 don't
00:54:03.340 start
00:54:03.520 paying
00:54:03.900 as
00:54:04.140 May
00:54:04.540 5th.
00:54:04.840 Well
00:54:05.000 here's
00:54:05.180 an
00:54:05.260 update
00:54:05.440 to
00:54:05.600 that.
00:54:06.420 So
00:54:06.520 here's
00:54:06.860 what
00:54:07.020 the
00:54:07.180 Associated
00:54:07.760 Press
00:54:08.320 is
00:54:09.100 saying
00:54:09.780 is
00:54:09.960 that
00:54:10.160 millions
00:54:10.600 of
00:54:10.820 Americans
00:54:11.160 have
00:54:11.360 already
00:54:11.520 seen
00:54:11.800 their
00:54:11.960 credit
00:54:12.200 scores
00:54:12.720 be
00:54:13.220 downgraded
00:54:13.780 because
00:54:14.020 of
00:54:14.220 their
00:54:14.400 default
00:54:15.000 in
00:54:15.240 their
00:54:15.360 loan
00:54:15.560 status.
00:54:16.320 Wage
00:54:16.740 garnishments
00:54:17.520 will
00:54:17.860 start
00:54:18.320 at
00:54:18.520 the
00:54:18.640 end
00:54:18.760 of
00:54:18.860 this
00:54:19.040 summer.
00:54:19.640 They
00:54:19.740 said
00:54:19.960 90
00:54:20.260 days
00:54:20.560 after
00:54:20.780 May
00:54:20.980 5th
00:54:21.280 is
00:54:21.420 when
00:54:21.540 that
00:54:21.660 will
00:54:21.760 officially
00:54:22.440 start
00:54:23.040 which
00:54:23.500 looks
00:54:23.720 to
00:54:23.820 be
00:54:24.020 the
00:54:24.280 first
00:54:24.480 week
00:54:24.680 of
00:54:24.800 August
00:54:25.080 so
00:54:25.360 that's
00:54:25.960 coming.
00:54:26.580 There's
00:54:26.760 already
00:54:26.960 been
00:54:27.140 reports
00:54:27.560 of
00:54:27.740 people
00:54:27.940 on
00:54:28.100 social
00:54:28.340 media
00:54:28.600 saying
00:54:29.000 that
00:54:29.240 their
00:54:29.580 tax
00:54:30.260 refund
00:54:30.760 is
00:54:30.980 being
00:54:31.140 withheld
00:54:31.560 because
00:54:31.920 of
00:54:32.100 this.
00:54:32.460 Oh
00:54:32.620 what
00:54:33.080 if
00:54:33.580 hypothetically
00:54:34.520 with
00:54:35.000 the
00:54:35.260 crazy
00:54:35.880 success
00:54:36.540 of
00:54:37.120 the
00:54:37.360 No
00:54:37.640 Kings
00:54:37.980 protest
00:54:38.460 what
00:54:39.320 if
00:54:39.520 we
00:54:39.640 were
00:54:39.780 able
00:54:40.000 to
00:54:40.200 get
00:54:40.380 like
00:54:40.620 a
00:54:40.980 million
00:54:41.440 student
00:54:42.460 loan
00:54:42.740 borrowers
00:54:43.240 together
00:54:43.700 to
00:54:44.200 start
00:54:44.420 contacting
00:54:45.080 these
00:54:45.320 agencies
00:54:45.800 these
00:54:46.120 agencies
00:54:46.560 that
00:54:46.840 have
00:54:46.960 been
00:54:47.280 defunded
00:54:48.680 staff
00:54:49.480 have
00:54:49.640 been
00:54:49.800 cut
00:54:50.160 and
00:54:50.980 are
00:54:51.480 currently
00:54:52.040 strained
00:54:53.340 for
00:54:53.540 resources
00:54:54.000 because
00:54:54.420 of
00:54:55.000 our
00:54:56.160 current
00:54:56.500 dictator
00:54:56.960 what
00:54:57.560 if
00:54:57.880 we
00:54:58.040 were
00:54:58.220 able
00:54:59.280 to
00:54:59.700 overwhelm
00:55:00.680 these
00:55:00.880 systems
00:55:01.320 would
00:55:01.640 we
00:55:01.820 be
00:55:02.000 able
00:55:02.240 to
00:55:02.740 delay
00:55:03.840 them
00:55:04.760 from
00:55:05.180 reporting
00:55:05.940 student
00:55:06.520 loan
00:55:06.820 borrowers
00:55:07.460 to
00:55:07.760 collections
00:55:08.520 could
00:55:08.840 that
00:55:09.000 be
00:55:09.140 done
00:55:09.480 could
00:55:09.840 we
00:55:09.960 do
00:55:10.140 that
00:55:10.520 think
00:55:11.540 about
00:55:11.680 the
00:55:11.800 psychology
00:55:12.360 at play
00:55:12.780 in a
00:55:12.960 video
00:55:13.160 like
00:55:13.400 this
00:55:13.600 leftists
00:55:13.960 recognize
00:55:14.420 that
00:55:14.600 the
00:55:14.720 federal
00:55:14.900 bureaucracy
00:55:15.300 is one
00:55:15.600 of their
00:55:15.760 most
00:55:15.960 important
00:55:16.460 assets
00:55:17.000 the
00:55:17.920 the
00:55:18.280 corruption
00:55:19.080 and
00:55:19.420 manufactured
00:55:20.120 inefficacy
00:55:20.820 gives
00:55:21.140 them
00:55:21.340 enormous
00:55:21.820 power
00:55:22.200 it's
00:55:23.240 been
00:55:23.360 a norm
00:55:23.680 for
00:55:23.840 generations
00:55:24.300 and
00:55:24.540 now
00:55:24.780 that
00:55:24.960 the
00:55:25.060 Trump
00:55:25.200 administration
00:55:25.680 unlike
00:55:25.920 pretty much
00:55:26.300 every other
00:55:26.640 administration
00:55:27.980 in recent
00:55:28.760 history
00:55:29.100 has gutted
00:55:30.760 the
00:55:30.900 bureaucracy
00:55:31.360 the left
00:55:32.820 still hasn't
00:55:33.360 moved on
00:55:33.820 they still
00:55:35.240 think in
00:55:35.620 terms of
00:55:36.060 how the
00:55:36.720 bureaucracy
00:55:37.220 or lack
00:55:37.840 thereof
00:55:38.300 can help
00:55:39.340 them cheat
00:55:39.740 the system
00:55:40.180 so they're
00:55:41.340 openly talking
00:55:41.960 about flooding
00:55:42.540 the federal
00:55:42.880 government
00:55:43.200 with fraudulent
00:55:44.140 documentation
00:55:44.660 all to
00:55:45.220 avoid paying
00:55:45.860 back debts
00:55:46.460 that they
00:55:47.460 agreed to pay
00:55:48.040 back a long
00:55:48.500 time ago
00:55:48.940 now notice
00:55:50.580 there's no
00:55:50.900 gratitude
00:55:51.320 here
00:55:51.580 there's no
00:55:51.880 sense
00:55:52.220 of
00:55:52.360 appreciation
00:55:52.960 for the
00:55:53.400 fact
00:55:53.620 that
00:55:53.880 their
00:55:54.820 repayments
00:55:55.540 were
00:55:55.780 frozen
00:55:57.400 for half
00:55:58.500 a decade
00:55:58.900 they don't
00:55:59.500 care about
00:55:59.860 that
00:56:00.160 all they're
00:56:01.900 thinking about
00:56:02.340 is how to
00:56:02.700 steal some
00:56:03.200 more money
00:56:03.600 there's never
00:56:04.900 any sense
00:56:05.300 of personal
00:56:05.740 responsibility
00:56:06.280 in any
00:56:06.640 context
00:56:07.060 in every
00:56:08.040 single case
00:56:08.480 the moment
00:56:08.860 you give
00:56:09.180 a leftist
00:56:09.680 something
00:56:10.100 free
00:56:10.480 they will
00:56:10.820 demand
00:56:11.140 even more
00:56:11.660 free
00:56:11.900 stuff
00:56:12.160 and
00:56:12.380 they won't
00:56:13.120 stop
00:56:13.520 until you
00:56:13.900 force them
00:56:14.300 to stop
00:56:14.680 or until
00:56:16.300 the entire
00:56:16.800 economy
00:56:17.180 is destroyed
00:56:17.620 it's an
00:56:17.940 ironclad
00:56:18.440 rule
00:56:18.700 it's also
00:56:19.680 the lesson
00:56:20.080 of the
00:56:20.400 great
00:56:20.700 prophetic
00:56:21.140 text
00:56:21.580 called
00:56:22.000 if you
00:56:22.420 give a
00:56:22.660 mouse
00:56:22.800 a
00:56:22.940 cookie
00:56:23.140 now
00:56:24.460 that
00:56:24.600 said
00:56:24.840 sure
00:56:25.320 it's
00:56:25.740 reasonable
00:56:26.380 to have
00:56:27.560 some
00:56:27.840 sympathy
00:56:28.160 for
00:56:28.360 student
00:56:28.580 loan
00:56:28.780 borrowers
00:56:29.220 I've
00:56:29.560 always
00:56:30.340 agreed
00:56:31.000 with
00:56:31.300 their
00:56:31.420 central
00:56:31.840 complaint
00:56:32.340 actually
00:56:32.820 which
00:56:34.400 is that
00:56:34.720 they got
00:56:35.060 ripped
00:56:35.280 off
00:56:35.640 and
00:56:36.020 they
00:56:36.180 were
00:56:36.340 sold
00:56:36.620 an
00:56:36.740 education
00:56:37.180 that
00:56:37.400 isn't
00:56:37.680 worth
00:56:37.920 nearly
00:56:38.220 as
00:56:38.360 much
00:56:38.520 as
00:56:38.640 they
00:56:38.740 paid
00:56:38.940 for
00:56:39.100 it
00:56:39.180 in
00:56:39.240 fact
00:56:39.400 in
00:56:39.500 many
00:56:39.600 cases
00:56:39.840 it's
00:56:40.020 worth
00:56:40.200 nothing
00:56:40.560 at
00:56:40.700 all
00:56:40.920 anyone
00:56:42.640 who's
00:56:42.940 been
00:56:43.200 paying
00:56:48.700 the
00:56:50.580 consequences
00:56:51.160 of
00:56:51.380 their
00:56:51.460 decision
00:56:51.840 but
00:56:53.360 loan
00:56:53.820 forgiveness
00:56:54.460 was
00:56:54.900 never
00:56:55.140 the
00:56:55.320 solution
00:56:55.740 to
00:56:56.020 that
00:56:56.220 problem
00:56:56.520 it
00:56:56.660 again
00:56:57.020 only
00:56:57.480 makes
00:56:57.840 the
00:56:58.000 problem
00:56:58.280 worse
00:56:58.640 it's
00:57:00.720 a
00:57:00.860 sure
00:57:01.140 fire
00:57:01.440 way
00:57:01.740 to
00:57:01.940 make
00:57:02.200 the
00:57:02.480 problem
00:57:02.720 much
00:57:03.000 worse
00:57:03.200 in
00:57:03.320 every
00:57:03.700 respect
00:57:04.100 it
00:57:05.020 creates
00:57:05.260 an
00:57:05.400 incentive
00:57:05.720 for
00:57:05.920 colleges
00:57:06.200 to
00:57:06.460 charge
00:57:06.840 more
00:57:07.280 while
00:57:08.660 also
00:57:08.840 encouraging
00:57:09.400 whiny
00:57:09.740 leftists
00:57:10.220 to
00:57:10.400 scam
00:57:10.660 the
00:57:10.800 federal
00:57:11.020 government
00:57:11.380 the
00:57:12.060 only
00:57:12.380 workable
00:57:12.800 solution
00:57:13.200 which
00:57:13.380 the
00:57:13.500 Trump
00:57:13.640 administration
00:57:13.980 is
00:57:14.200 now
00:57:14.360 pursuing
00:57:14.660 is
00:57:15.580 to
00:57:15.740 force
00:57:16.120 these
00:57:16.320 borrowers
00:57:16.820 no matter
00:57:18.700 may
00:57:18.860 be
00:57:19.080 to
00:57:19.540 pay
00:57:19.720 their
00:57:19.900 debts
00:57:20.160 that's
00:57:22.180 how
00:57:22.240 you
00:57:22.360 save
00:57:22.560 the
00:57:22.660 next
00:57:22.800 generation
00:57:23.200 from
00:57:23.400 committing
00:57:23.700 to
00:57:24.220 a
00:57:24.360 lifetime
00:57:24.660 of
00:57:24.940 poverty
00:57:25.300 to
00:57:25.560 pursue
00:57:25.800 a
00:57:25.940 degree
00:57:26.180 in
00:57:26.480 black
00:57:27.640 British
00:57:28.000 literature
00:57:28.440 from
00:57:28.740 Vassar
00:57:29.200 as
00:57:31.000 is
00:57:31.120 often
00:57:31.340 the
00:57:31.480 case
00:57:31.720 the
00:57:31.960 seemingly
00:57:32.360 inhumane
00:57:33.240 approach
00:57:33.560 is
00:57:33.740 actually
00:57:34.160 the
00:57:34.460 most
00:57:34.640 humane
00:57:34.980 in
00:57:35.120 the
00:57:35.220 end
00:57:35.440 and
00:57:36.980 that
00:57:37.080 is
00:57:37.180 why
00:57:37.360 everyone
00:57:37.700 scheming
00:57:38.180 to
00:57:38.360 avoid
00:57:38.740 repaying
00:57:39.180 their
00:57:39.300 student
00:57:39.500 loans
00:57:39.820 even
00:57:40.000 after
00:57:40.260 the
00:57:40.380 Trump
00:57:40.520 administration
00:57:40.900 has
00:57:41.120 begun
00:57:41.360 garnishing
00:57:41.740 wages
00:57:42.020 to
00:57:42.200 collect
00:57:42.400 payments
00:57:48.700 a great
00:57:48.920 day
00:57:49.180 God
00:57:49.580 speed