The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1625 - Republicans Just Launched An Open Revolt Against Trump’s Immigration Plan

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, there's a plot within the Republican Party to undermine Trump's

00:00:03.360 immigration agenda and push amnesty. Also, a guy in San Francisco tried to shoplift from a

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00:01:59.100 Walsh to get yourself an extra four months free. As we approach the six-month mark of Donald Trump's

00:02:04.460 second term in office, it's hard to think of another administration in modern history that's

00:02:07.920 faced more resistance from within. That is to say, resistance from within its own party when it tries

00:02:13.860 to fall through on its single most important and prominent campaign pledge. Normally, when presidents

00:02:20.000 take office after making an explicit campaign promise, their party tries to turn that agenda

00:02:24.820 into reality. If nothing else, from a political perspective, it's obviously the smart thing to do.

00:02:29.820 That's certainly what happened when Joe Biden took office. Every Democrat in the country lined up

00:02:33.260 behind Biden to push every single talking point his administration produced, whether it was about

00:02:37.480 COVID or January 6th or anything else. There was zero dissent anywhere in the party. But that's not

00:02:43.300 what's happening in the second Trump administration. Said many Republicans have set out to

00:02:47.060 undermine the immigration platform that Trump ran on. You probably remember Tom Homan at the

00:02:52.600 Republican National Convention telling illegal aliens, all of them, that they should start, 0.99

00:02:58.100 quote, packing their bags because they're going to be deported. And as recently as last week,

00:03:01.580 Homan emphasized the importance of that objective, saying there will be no special protections for

00:03:05.940 any illegal aliens, including farm workers. Top White House officials like Stephen Miller,

00:03:12.280 also DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, the president himself, have all made that same point in the

00:03:18.620 past few days. But Republicans in Congress and in various states have taken the opposite approach.

00:03:23.800 They've been waging a battle against immigration enforcement, and it's a more expansive fight than

00:03:30.260 you might realize. Earlier this month, six Republican lawmakers in California wrote a letter to the

00:03:35.020 president urging him to suspend immigration raids at workplaces. And separately, a Nebraska congressman

00:03:41.440 named Don Bacon, who's retiring at the end of his current term, called on Trump to adopt a balanced

00:03:46.520 approach to immigration enforcement, one that allows certain illegal aliens to remain in this

00:03:50.380 country if they haven't committed additional crimes after arriving. In Utah, Republican Governor

00:03:55.460 Spencer Cox has said the same thing. He's called on ICE to focus on people who are breaking the law

00:04:00.280 and causing harm, as he put it, even though all illegal aliens by definition are breaking the law and 0.77

00:04:05.160 causing harm. In Washington state, Republican Congressman Dan Newhouse introduced legislation with

00:04:09.180 bipartisan support that would grant temporary legal status to farm workers, even if they arrived

00:04:13.880 in this country illegally. In fact, even if the farm workers have committed additional crimes

00:04:18.440 after entering the United States, they could still qualify for legal status as long as they

00:04:22.680 haven't committed felonies or two misdemeanors involving moral turpitude.

00:04:28.920 So we're granting legal status to people who have committed multiple crimes in this country,

00:04:33.160 as long as they haven't committed too many of them. We'll give you two, not three.

00:04:37.920 Meanwhile, Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson, another Republican, just wrote an op-ed in which he

00:04:43.680 stated, quote, our focus should remain on deporting dangerous criminals, not law-abiding farmers and

00:04:48.820 ranchers. Let me be clear, making meaningful reforms to the H-2A visa program and establishing a strong

00:04:53.440 legal immigration workforce for agricultural producers is not an amnesty deal. Our country needs

00:04:58.300 a stable labor force to protect our food supply and ensure farmers can continue to do their jobs.

00:05:03.340 Now, even though, again, calling them law-abiding makes no sense, they broke the law coming in,

00:05:09.700 along the same lines, a Republican in charge of the Agricultural Committee, G.T. Thompson of

00:05:14.140 Pennsylvania, recently said that ICE raids on farms and packing plants are, quote, just wrong,

00:05:19.500 and that ICE should, quote, knock it off. As Thompson put it, quote, let's go after the criminals and

00:05:24.780 give us time to put processes in place so we don't disrupt the food supply chain.

00:05:28.380 Yes, we have multiple prominent Republicans declaring that illegal aliens are not, in fact,

00:05:34.180 criminals, that people can be law-abiding even if their very first act upon entering the country

00:05:40.100 was to break the law because they broke it by the way they entered. It would be one thing if these

00:05:45.760 Republican lawmakers just said, yeah, illegal aliens are criminals even if they work on farms,

00:05:50.240 but we shouldn't deport them anyway because my constituents love cheap slave labor and I don't 0.87

00:05:54.740 care about American workers even though I'm supposed to represent the interests of Americans.

00:05:59.160 I mean, that would at least be honest. Now, to be very clear about this, any Republican who

00:06:05.940 pretends that illegal aliens aren't actually criminals, anyone who talks like G.T. Thompson or 1.00

00:06:10.040 Mike Simpson or any of the rest of them, doesn't believe that we have a country. They're not simply

00:06:15.240 undermining the Trump administration, they're undermining the entire nation fundamentally.

00:06:19.260 And this is not, unfortunately, a fringe sentiment among Republicans. We're not talking about one

00:06:26.020 or two members of Congress here who happen to represent states that have a lot of illegal farm

00:06:29.840 workers. This is now a growing nationwide movement among Republican politicians to sabotage the White

00:06:36.140 House's immigration agenda, an agenda that won the popular vote and every single swing state.

00:06:41.960 At the moment, the biggest threat comes from Florida Congresswoman Maria Salazar, who's just 0.99

00:06:48.940 introduced something called the Dignity Act. And here is Maria Salazar to explain. 1.00

00:06:55.360 I believe that after the border has been sealed with the BBB, $150 billion that we have assigned,

00:07:01.400 I think the moment now is to have that national conversation and determine who are we going to be

00:07:06.200 targeting. I do believe that the president promised that the illegals who are criminals were going to 0.98

00:07:11.880 be kicked out of the country. Now there is another mass of people who most of them are Hispanics who 0.97

00:07:17.220 have been here for more than five years. They have been contributing to the economy who do not have

00:07:21.940 a criminal record. And those people are the ones who deserve some type of dignity. And for that reason,

00:07:27.080 I'm introducing today. So I thank you for the opportunity. Immigration reform, a GOP member of

00:07:32.600 Congress is going to be trying to give dignity, not amnesty to those people who deserve to stay and

00:07:38.240 continue contributing to our economy. She starts by celebrating the Trump administration's victory

00:07:43.820 on the southern border and how it's great that we're finally enforcing immigration law. And then

00:07:48.620 in the same breath, she talks about how important it is to grant legal status to tens of millions of

00:07:53.460 foreign nationals who broke our laws by crossing the border. And it's a bit like telling your child 0.91

00:07:57.580 that stealing is wrong and then giving him $10,000 because he got away with stealing. Makes no sense.

00:08:02.800 In that scenario, they're going to get the message that stealing is the most rational course of

00:08:08.000 action. And, you know, this shouldn't need to be said, but I'll say it anyway. People respond to

00:08:13.540 incentives and the incentives that Maria Salazar's bill would create are pretty clear. She's saying that

00:08:21.200 if you manage to enter this country, then you'll be rewarded. And as much as she claims that this is not

00:08:27.380 amnesty, the fact remains that her legislation would grant legal status, which is renewable

00:08:32.740 indefinitely, which is amnesty to tens of millions of illegal aliens. As long as they've been here for

00:08:39.340 more than five years, which is a totally just arbitrary thing by five years, why not six, why not

00:08:43.740 seven, why not four? And as long as they haven't committed any heinous crimes that we know of, then

00:08:48.820 she's going to grant them legal status. And for good measure, her bill throws in a permanent residency

00:08:53.580 status for so-called dreamers who entered this country illegally as children. We're going to do 0.98

00:08:58.680 the specifics of the bill in a moment, but those are the top line items. According to Salazar, all of

00:09:04.680 this makes sense because illegals deserve to stay here. That's the word she used and that we should, 1.00

00:09:11.840 you know, allow them to stay in the name of dignity. Those were the words. And it's all very trite. And of

00:09:18.700 course, we're not supposed to actually think about what she's saying, but, you know, I'll think about it

00:09:24.360 anyway and say that because her legislation has serious implications, even if Maria Salazar herself 0.97

00:09:29.420 isn't a remotely serious person. So here's the relevant question. If foreigners deserve to disregard our 1.00

00:09:37.740 laws, what laws do I, as an American citizen, deserve to disregard? Do I deserve to not pay my taxes?

00:09:47.300 Do I deserve to ignore speed limits? Do I deserve to shoplift? When do I get my dignity?

00:09:56.340 Or is this an entitlement reserved only for foreign nationals?

00:10:01.100 Why exactly are we awarding these people who have no right to be in the country in the first place, 0.56

00:10:05.780 a get out of jail free card while American citizens are currently being hassled by the IRS

00:10:09.780 for failing to report their $600 Venmo payment? You know, she says that these illegal aliens have 0.99

00:10:16.440 worked hard and lived here for a long time. And that's true for some of them. Some of them have

00:10:21.300 lived here for a long time. Some of them have even worked hard. But, you know, there are a lot of

00:10:25.840 American citizens who work hard too, and they've lived here for a lot longer. So what's their

00:10:32.320 payout? The free DUI, a hall pass to punch their annoying boss? What do they get? And when do they get 0.94

00:10:38.040 it? Because it turns out that when you've got legal citizens, if they break the law, like say tax law,

00:10:46.940 the IRS will come in and they'll destroy your life. They'll take your house, they'll throw you in

00:10:52.180 prison. No one's going to be crying about, oh, you're separating families. In that case, they say,

00:10:58.840 yeah, we are. But you know what? You broke the law. This is the way it goes. Them's the breaks.

00:11:02.360 But for illegals, suddenly it's a great travesty to enforce the law. Once you start granting 1.00

00:11:11.320 exemptions to laws, particularly some of the most important laws in the books, like the laws that

00:11:14.860 define our national borders, then you have to answer questions like this. This isn't complicated

00:11:19.840 or controversial. Again, most Americans voted for Donald Trump precisely because he would enforce

00:11:24.680 the law, regardless of whatever sob stories the left could dream up. It's a good bet that for most of

00:11:29.240 these voters, it seemed hard to imagine that the right would be coming up with, would be the ones

00:11:34.500 who are coming up with these sob stories. That's exactly what's happening. Here's another Republican,

00:11:39.020 a guy named Gabe Evans, and he represents a district in Colorado. And this is his pitch for the so-called

00:11:45.120 Dignity Act. Hi, I'm Congressman Gabe Evans from Colorado's 8th Congressional District. And today I am

00:11:51.720 so happy to be able to help introduce the Bipartisan Dignity Act. I'm the grandson of immigrants from

00:11:58.360 Mexico. And so this bill is particularly important to me because it does three critical things. It

00:12:04.240 makes sure that we have resources to secure the border. It helps us crush the criminals,

00:12:09.140 the cartels, and the gangbangers that are in our community illegally and causing problems.

00:12:13.560 But it also provides a pathway for hardworking immigrants who want to come to the United States,

00:12:20.000 work hard, raise their family, be a contributing part of the American dream. And this is something that

00:12:25.900 I've heard from the employers and from the Latino community in my district. They want that path

00:12:31.320 forward to be able to comply with the law and earn their version of the American dream. That's what

00:12:36.960 the Dignity Act does. And I'm so honored to be able to help introduce it today.

00:12:41.380 Notice he sort of buries the whole amnesty thing towards the end of his pitch. He begins by saying

00:12:46.120 that this legislation will actually secure the border, although it doesn't do that. Congress just

00:12:49.940 passed a massive spending bill that allocates huge amounts of money, tens of billions of dollars,

00:12:53.640 to improve border security. By contrast, this Dignity Act creates something called

00:12:59.280 humanitarian campuses all along the border. According to one summary of the legislation,

00:13:04.880 when they arrive at these campuses, quote, migrants would have access to medical staff,

00:13:08.440 licensed social workers, mental health professionals, child advocates, private organizations

00:13:12.380 that provide humanitarian assistance, and legal counsel. Remember, this is a Republican bill.

00:13:18.240 Yes, the Dignity Act would fund legal counsel and mental health care professionals for illegal aliens.

00:13:26.340 That's how they're going to secure the border. It actually gets a lot worse than that. As the

00:13:31.300 lawyer, Will Chamberlain, pointed out, the Dignity Act, by its own terms, is so expansive that it would

00:13:36.840 grant legal status to some of the most dangerous and depraved criminals in the country. Consider the

00:13:41.260 case of Abrego Garcia, the alleged MS-13 member and alleged wife-beater who was the subject of so much

00:13:46.980 Democrat angst in recent weeks. Under the Dignity Act, Abrego Garcia would be entitled to legal status

00:13:51.960 in the country. That's because he entered the country when he was 16 years old, and the bill 1.00

00:13:56.940 bans federal and state law enforcement from using databases to determine whether someone's a gang

00:14:01.080 member, which is not an exaggeration. It's in the bill. Here's what that section looks like. It reads,

00:14:05.900 quote, evidentiary limitation, allegations of gang membership obtained from a state or federal

00:14:10.540 in-house or local database or a network of databases used for the purposes of recording and sharing

00:14:16.100 activities of alleged gang members across law enforcement agencies shall not establish the

00:14:20.300 participation described in such paragraph. So it doesn't matter that law enforcement officers

00:14:25.960 recorded Abrego Garcia's gang clothing or associations in a database. Yeah, you'd think the database is

00:14:32.660 there precisely for this reason so that it could be used in these cases, but it can't be used according

00:14:37.040 to the bill. Additionally, because Abrego Garcia was merely accused of domestic violence instead of

00:14:42.800 convicted of it, he wouldn't be barred under this bill either. That's because, as you can see here,

00:14:48.420 the law only excludes convicted felons or illegal aliens convicted of two or more misdemeanors,

00:14:54.240 excluding cannabis-related crimes for some reason. I don't know. So even if your wife 0.87

00:14:58.180 keeps claiming that you beat her, it doesn't matter. And while Abrego Garcia suspected human

00:15:03.820 trafficking might theoretically be an issue, the bill still allows DHS secretary to allow him into the

00:15:08.060 country, quote, for humanitarian purposes, for family unity, or because the waiver is otherwise in

00:15:13.060 the public interest. Let's put that up on the screen. This is what's known as a loophole. And by

00:15:19.020 itself, this provision should be enough to kill the bill immediately. Just imagine how a Democrat DHS 1.00

00:15:23.840 secretary would interpret that provision. It's amnesty in every sense. All Abrego Garcia would have

00:15:29.900 to do is enroll in some educational program and he'd qualify for legal status under the bill. And it gets

00:15:34.380 even worse than that somehow. Take a look at this provision, which was spotted by Walter Kurt.

00:15:38.960 It reads, quote, limitation on removal. An alien who appears to be prima facie eligible for relief 0.98

00:15:45.140 under this division shall be given a reasonable opportunity to apply for such relief and may not

00:15:50.240 be removed until a final decision establishing ineligibility for relief is rendered. In other words,

00:15:57.600 ICE has to stand down if someone could potentially qualify under this legislation for legal status.

00:16:04.380 As soon as they file the paperwork or even before that, ICE's hands are tied.

00:16:09.480 This would obviously create a major logjam and completely paralyze immigration enforcement, which

00:16:14.000 is the whole point. So it's the whole thing's an abomination. And Maria Salazar can't explain any of

00:16:21.580 it. Here's what she said on NBC the other day trying to explain this bill. Watch.

00:16:26.580 Because a lot of Trump voters, they voted for mass deportations.

00:16:30.900 Mass deportation of Tenderagua, mass deportation of the bad hombres, mad deportation of the legal who 1.00

00:16:36.920 are the who are criminals. But Trump knows that those workers are needed and we are ramping up the

00:16:43.240 economy again. But that is not what is currently happening. Just that. Yes. Tom Holman, the borders

00:16:48.200 are and I've spoken to him many times. He has said that the priority is undocumented immigrants with

00:16:53.720 criminal records. But according to this administration, they believe that every immigrant who is here

00:16:58.300 illegally is breaking the law. How do you respond? And they have broken the law. But the thing is

00:17:03.000 that someone gave them a job for the last decade because they were needed because that person needed

00:17:08.660 hands or workers, workers that are still needed today. So the new rule is that even if you break

00:17:14.740 the law, that's not a big deal. If someone gave you a job and that job is, quote, still needed today,

00:17:20.880 that's the argument. And at the moment, 10 Republicans in Congress have co-sponsored this

00:17:26.720 legislation, legislation that Maria Salazar really, why, why does the legislation actually exist? Why

00:17:32.140 did Maria Salazar actually write it? Well, because she's Hispanic and so she is siding with who she 1.00

00:17:38.120 considers her people to be, her countrymen who are not Americans. But there are allegedly American

00:17:45.560 congressmen who've taken her side. And those include Mike Lawler of New York, David Valadeo of

00:17:52.220 California, Dan Newhouse of Washington, Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania,

00:17:56.620 Gabe Evans of Colorado, Marlon Stutzman of Indiana, Don Bacon of Nebraska, and Young Kim of California.

00:18:04.460 None of these lawmakers should ever receive another Republican vote for any reason ever again,

00:18:09.320 needless to say. Their goal very clearly is to use the president's success of the border as cover to

00:18:14.580 advance amnesty. They're advancing foreign interests and the demands of a small number of business

00:18:19.140 owners who profit from illegal labor and slave labor instead of the interests of this country.

00:18:23.860 The White House should respond by investigating every single one of the farm owners who are pushing

00:18:28.540 this bill because the odds are about a thousand percent that they're employing illegal aliens instead

00:18:33.600 of American citizens. It's the whole reason that they're pushing the bill. In order for this

00:18:38.300 country to continue to exist, laws against foreign invasion must be enforced. There cannot be any 0.99

00:18:45.420 exceptions. When you have exceptions, it breaks down the whole thing. Republican voters understand

00:18:52.900 that, which is why Donald Trump won the last election. Now the Republicans who seek to undermine

00:18:58.180 this administration, the will of voters, need to be removed from office. Don Bacon is already

00:19:03.520 resigning in Nebraska. That's a start. Now every single co-sponsor of this abomination and every

00:19:09.360 Republican who voices even a word of support for it should be run out of office as well.

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00:21:35.660 Francisco, a report from the local KRON station. It says a Walgreens store manager was convicted of

00:21:42.300 assaulting a shoplifter who stole shampoo in San Francisco, according to DA's office. Following the trial,

00:21:47.420 jurors found the Walgreens manager, 46-year-old Guang Hong, guilty for a violent March 19th

00:21:53.580 incident at the store. San Francisco shop owners have struggled to deter and thwart shoplifters

00:21:57.580 in recent years. District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said Monday, although I understand the frustration

00:22:01.620 and anger in the community, violence is unacceptable and only makes matters worse. The shoplifter,

00:22:06.720 30-year-old Larry Whitlock, walked in the store before 5 a.m. and stole a bottle of shampoo. As he was

00:22:12.300 leaving, the security guard alerted Mr. Hong, the Walgreens manager of the theft. Hong recovered the stolen

00:22:17.280 shampoo bottle and then came back out about a minute later, placed his keys between his knuckles

00:22:23.860 and punched the shoplifter in the face while shouting at him. And he was, so he was just convicted

00:22:31.080 with assault with force, likely to produce great bodily injury. And he'll be sentenced on August 15th.

00:22:41.260 All right. So they convicted the store manager of felonies for fighting someone who was trying

00:22:45.800 to steal from him. And, and, and there is, there is security camera footage of this incident and

00:22:51.420 we'll put it on the screen so you can see it. As you watch it, you could see the manager come out

00:22:55.720 and confront the guy, right? That's the first like altercation. He recover, he recovers a stolen

00:23:01.300 shampoo bottle. You can see him pick it up. So the first altercation is over the stolen

00:23:06.220 merchandise. And then he, and so that, that shouldn't be an issue at all.

00:23:11.260 Then he comes back out, but he comes back out because, and I guess this is probably what

00:23:16.920 this, this was, this was probably the thing that really screwed him over in the court is

00:23:22.960 that he came back out, but it comes back out because the guy's still lingering around the

00:23:26.720 store. So he's got a shoplifter lingering around the store. And, and so he, he confronts

00:23:33.340 him. But then when you watch the video to my eyes, it very clearly seems that the shoplifter

00:23:37.820 throws the first punch in the second altercation, like clearly throws the first punch. So there

00:23:43.200 are two altercations. The first is initiated by the manager because he's recovering his

00:23:46.400 merchandise. The second turns violent because the shoplifter swings at the manager. And so

00:23:52.040 that's reason enough to let him go free. He should have been convicted. He shouldn't, should

00:23:56.200 not have even been charged. But of course in San Francisco, he's not only charged, but, but

00:24:00.760 convicted and will probably do serious prison time for the crime of beating up a shoplifting

00:24:04.920 low life. Now, if I'm on the jury, there is no way that I vote to convict this guy. There's

00:24:13.700 just no way in hell. And I think you can easily make the case that this was self-defense on

00:24:19.060 the part of the store manager. The first fight was him defending the store. Second fight

00:24:22.680 was defending himself after the shoplifter tried to punch him. There's at least enough

00:24:26.000 of an excuse there that if you're like a rational, good, decent person and you're on

00:24:29.300 the jury and there's not a lot of those in San Francisco, which was, which was the problem

00:24:33.060 for this guy. But if you are, there's enough of an excuse there that you could say, yeah,

00:24:36.400 okay, fine. Close enough, close enough to self-defense. We'll, we'll allow it. I mean,

00:24:40.740 it was close enough, right? It's, it's a, it's a bit iffy tie goes to the runner and the runner

00:24:46.340 in this case, uh, you know, in this analogy is the, is the actual law abiding person, business

00:24:51.540 owner defending his business. But here's the thing. Even if I couldn't make a case for self-defense,

00:24:58.520 I still wouldn't convict him. Even if I agreed that his actions were excessive or whatever,

00:25:05.880 who cares? You know, there are mitigating factors here, but you see the way the system works is that

00:25:12.520 they only ever care about mitigating factors for the career criminals, for the low life, 0.99

00:25:17.320 for the scumbag. And in that case, if you have a criminal who, and you have them dead to rights, 0.99

00:25:25.060 you have them committing a crime on tape. In many cases, they still won't go to prison because

00:25:31.380 the DA or the judge or the jury in one of these cities like San Francisco will say, yeah, you know,

00:25:37.220 he obviously committed the crime, but he's lived such a hard life and we got to understand where

00:25:41.940 he's coming from and, and, and we have to be compassionate. But that sort of logic only applies

00:25:47.980 to the scum, to the dregs of society, to the criminals. Somehow we never apply it to people like this. 0.99

00:25:56.020 If we're being so understanding, if we're being so compassionate,

00:25:59.380 why can't we be understanding and compassionate to somebody like this?

00:26:05.880 Because in this case, I actually do understand him. Like we're always asked to be understanding

00:26:10.660 towards people who, if you're, if you are a normal decent person, you actually don't, I can't be,

00:26:15.380 like you want me to be understanding to someone who just walks into a Walgreens and steals whatever

00:26:20.600 they want. I'm not, I don't understand. I'm not understanding of that. I don't understand it.

00:26:26.920 And these are not people who are in desperate straits. I mean, he stole, he stole shampoo.

00:26:30.880 Okay. This was not, unless he's going to eat the shampoo, this is not someone who's starving.

00:26:34.280 Uh, just like totally disregarding the law, uh, having, having no concern for anybody else.

00:26:42.680 I don't understand that. So no, I'm not understanding of that. I am understanding

00:26:47.420 of somebody like this. Uh, you're a store manager in a crap hole, like San Francisco. 0.99

00:26:55.460 You're constantly getting robbed. Shoplifters are coming in all the time, 1.00

00:26:59.540 taking whatever they want and leaving. Just imagine how demoralizing that is.

00:27:05.040 This is happening constantly. You're just watching people come in

00:27:09.540 and walk out the door with whatever they want. What's the point?

00:27:14.500 What's the point of even going to work? What's the point of having a business open?

00:27:18.760 And so you're fed up and you're sick of it and you can't take it anymore. So you lash out.

00:27:25.060 Maybe you go a little farther than the law would typically allow, but

00:27:29.540 see, this is where compassion and understanding should come into play. It's in cases like this

00:27:34.920 with a decent person, a law abiding person who's just has a store. They're a contributing member

00:27:39.400 of society. They go a little too far when dealing with the dregs of society. And that's, it's there.

00:27:45.380 Those are the people that should get the get out of jail free card. Those are the people that

00:27:49.260 should get like a second chance. Um, but that's not the way it ever works. All right, here's a video

00:27:56.400 making the rounds right now. This is a video of, uh, Omar Fateh. He's the, we talked about a couple

00:28:00.700 of days ago is the Somali guy running for mayor of Minneapolis. And this is a, something from a

00:28:06.000 little while ago. It's, it's going viral now because he's, cause he just hopped into the mayor's

00:28:10.140 race. This is him as I believe a state Senator making the case that the real terror threat in

00:28:19.180 America, uh, comes from, you'll never believe it. Uh, white people. Listen, heard them being 0.98

00:28:25.900 called terrorists. We heard them being called drug dealers. We heard a lot of insults. We heard

00:28:34.780 that they're, that they're a threat to our national security and that's a flat out lie. You want to

00:28:41.360 know who the real threat is? Madam president, I'll give you a hint. It doesn't, they don't look like

00:28:46.440 our chief author. They don't look like the folks up in the gallery. They don't look like the folks

00:28:51.220 on the rotunda. They look like many of the members that sit in the front and you don't have to take

00:28:57.800 my word for it. According to DHS, Madam president, the domestic, the greatest domestic threat facing 0.82

00:29:05.540 the United States comes from quote, racially or ethnically motivated, violent extremists,

00:29:11.020 specifically, specifically those who advocate for the superiority, superiority of the white race. 0.89

00:29:16.440 not our immigrants. We are safer and we're better off because of them. 1.00

00:29:24.980 So he can barely read. No surprise there standing there in his official capacity as an elected

00:29:30.720 representative claiming that repeating, repeating the claim that white Americans are the greatest 0.97

00:29:37.120 threat, uh, the greatest terror threat, which is of course, totally false, completely imaginary. 0.76

00:29:43.700 It's absurd, but, but I like, imagine how this would go in any other country outside of the Western world,

00:29:54.180 any country that is not predominantly white. What happens if I, as a white American emigrate to China

00:29:59.860 and then stand up and declare that the real threat to China comes from Chinese people?

00:30:07.040 What happens if I go to China and I become a citizen of China and then I go around trying to rally people

00:30:13.160 against the Chinese people? How is that received? How well do they receive that?

00:30:21.600 How, how quickly, how, how long would it take for them to denaturalize me and deport me

00:30:26.280 or just throw me in prison? About, about five and a half seconds.

00:30:33.180 But this is the kind of nonsense that's only tolerated here.

00:30:37.060 And it shouldn't be, we shouldn't tolerate it because it's a lie. Number one. 0.57

00:30:43.580 Uh, also because it's just, we don't need, like, we didn't bring you here for this.

00:30:49.400 You're going to come here and yell at us and accuse us. Like, who do you think you are?

00:30:58.040 It's extremely ungrateful for what, that's what grates me. It's one of the things that grates me so much.

00:31:02.740 That's why I returned to this point. Um, gratitude. Gratitude is one of the most important things in life.

00:31:08.460 It's one of the most important. You want to be a decent person. You want to be a happy person.

00:31:13.140 You want other people around you in your life to like, like being around you. Gratitude. Gratitude is one of the most important things.

00:31:19.400 It's important to any relationship, important to a marriage, right? Marriage is one of the main reasons marriages fall apart, is a lack of gratitude.

00:31:27.940 Uh, well, same thing, same thing works on a, on a national level.

00:31:34.340 Where when you don't have gratitude, you got a whole bunch of people coming here who, along with everything else, are not part of the culture.

00:31:39.400 They don't speak the language, everything else. They have no gratitude. 1.00

00:31:43.560 And it, it, it just, it, it, it tears at the, just like a lack of gratitude in marriage, tears at the fabric of a marriage.

00:31:49.400 A lack of gratitude for a bunch of immigrants coming here, tears at the fabric of our country. 1.00

00:31:54.520 Um, and it's, it's gratuitous because you come from Somalia, one of the poorest countries in the entire world. 0.80

00:32:02.700 An incredibly dangerous country. You don't even have, you don't have basic infrastructure.

00:32:06.300 You don't have, um, well-maintained roads. You don't have clean water.

00:32:09.540 You don't have reliable electricity.

00:32:10.600 Electricity. The average income in Somalia is the equivalent of like $50 a month.

00:32:16.380 The average life expectancy is 58 years old.

00:32:19.140 It has the second highest infant mortality rate in the world.

00:32:22.580 The average house in Somalia has one or two rooms.

00:32:25.840 And there, on average, are about seven or eight people crammed into it.

00:32:28.680 I mean, it's just, it's a, it's a, I could go on and on listing all the terrible things about Somalia. 0.81

00:32:32.660 It's a, it's a, it's a terrible place to live.

00:32:34.660 It's a nightmare. It really is.

00:32:36.480 That's why they don't want to be there.

00:32:39.680 So then you come here or your family comes here.

00:32:42.780 We graciously allow you into the country.

00:32:46.520 You should be walking around every day, like kissing the ground, thanking us for allowing you to be here. 0.99

00:32:54.220 You should be filled with gratitude and humility every day of your life until you die. 0.93

00:32:57.900 But is that what we see? No, instead we get, uh, we get this.

00:33:02.980 Instead, they turn around, they demonize, they scapegoat us.

00:33:05.580 They, the very people that we welcomed it.

00:33:09.140 It's like, imagine, imagine you welcome someone into your home because they're hungry, right?

00:33:16.580 They're outside, they're hungry.

00:33:17.460 And you welcome them into your home and you sit them down at your table graciously.

00:33:22.900 And you, you, you feed them the nicest meal they've ever had in their lives.

00:33:27.140 And then imagine the person sits at this table and scarfs down all the food, uh, eating with their hands, not even using a fork and spends the whole time criticizing you and complaining.

00:33:41.660 And then imagine that he, without permission, invites 10 of his friends to your table.

00:33:48.640 And they sit at the table and they speak in a foreign language so that you can't even be a part of the conversation in your own house. 1.00

00:33:56.700 And then they leave all the dishes on the table and they don't offer to clean up and they don't say thank you and they just leave.

00:34:00.860 Or they don't leave, actually.

00:34:01.960 They stay and they like take up residence in your house without permission.

00:34:04.540 It's like in macro, that's basically, uh, what's happening with immigration in this country.

00:34:09.220 And that's why people are, that's why people are fed up with it.

00:34:12.280 So people are totally fed up.

00:34:15.020 And every time one of these activist types, one of these Democrats gets up there and you hear something like this and they start criticizing and complaining about America, they only make it worse.

00:34:27.340 Uh, okay.

00:34:28.560 Here's something, um, that, uh, isn't important.

00:34:36.080 This is actually, it's not important at all, but I'm gonna talk about it anyway.

00:34:38.060 This is actually from a few months ago, but I just saw it on X yesterday.

00:34:42.120 I don't know why, uh, for some reason it just went viral yesterday.

00:34:45.780 So.

00:34:47.860 And I, and I, it, it jumped out at me cause I'm about to, I'm going to be on a plane here in a couple of hours.

00:34:52.100 So, uh, anyway, the New York post reports love is in the air.

00:34:56.020 A pilot proposed to his girlfriend mid-flight as the plane cruised at 30,000 feet in a public display that had hearts soaring.

00:35:02.360 The passenger recorded the sweet moment.

00:35:04.120 The unnamed Aero Mexico captain declared his love for his girlfriend who was seated in first class over the speaker.

00:35:09.440 Uh, comes out and proposes to her.

00:35:13.340 I think we actually have the video of it.

00:35:14.460 It's in Spanish.

00:35:15.140 So you can't understand what's being said, but, uh, proposes to her mid-flight, comes out of the cockpit, proposes to her.

00:35:21.400 This went viral.

00:35:22.260 It's like a very sweet moment.

00:35:23.220 I guess it's supposed to be, uh, we'll, we'll play it here.

00:35:26.320 The, the moment of the proposal and, uh, it's, it's in Spanish, but you know what?

00:35:30.240 It's in the language of love and love transcends all, all language or something.

00:35:35.060 So here it is.

00:35:36.380 Watch.

00:35:36.660 You're my life friend.

00:35:39.480 You've been accompanied by the good and bad.

00:35:42.320 So, love.

00:35:45.560 You want to meet me?

00:35:49.780 Bravo!

00:35:54.420 So she said yes, uh, it would appear, but.

00:35:57.520 I saw that video and I was pretty disturbed and I'm sure I'm not the first, first person to, to make these points, but I have to say, well, two things, because if I'm on the plane and everyone's applauding and they're very happy, I would not be applauding.

00:36:15.860 Uh, cause like number one, I don't, the whole public proposal thing, uh, I'm not a fan of it, but you are putting undue pressure.

00:36:23.880 You want to get an, it's a proposal is a big deal.

00:36:25.820 It's an important question.

00:36:27.520 It's the only, you think about all the like really important, it's, it's a proposal.

00:36:31.760 So you're proposing, you're proposing marriage.

00:36:34.280 In what other context would you propose a something to someone, something really important, something that will alter the trajectory of their lives?

00:36:46.840 In what other context would you propose that in front of dozens of strangers?

00:36:54.540 Would you ever, if you had some, some really important business proposal that you wanted to make and a marriage is not a business deal.

00:37:03.320 I'm not, but I've just, just for this comparison, you had a very important business proposal you want to make.

00:37:07.360 Would you, would you ever go and, and gather around a bunch of strangers so that you can present this business deal to someone?

00:37:15.620 Oh, you wouldn't do that.

00:37:17.320 It's just not, it's not the place for it.

00:37:19.320 And also the presence of the strangers makes it less likely that you're going to get a, an, an honest, thoughtful response from the other person, which is why I wouldn't do the public proposal.

00:37:28.160 But more important than that, you're, you're the pilot of the plane.

00:37:32.240 I need you up front.

00:37:33.260 I need you in the cockpit.

00:37:34.760 You've got more important business to attend to.

00:37:37.620 I don't even like when I see the pilots come back to use the bathroom.

00:37:40.420 I got to be honest with you.

00:37:42.180 It worries me when I see that, especially I was on a plane recently.

00:37:46.760 It was a 90 minute flight.

00:37:48.580 Okay.

00:37:50.380 Both pilots came back at different times to use the bathroom in a 90 minute flight.

00:37:54.540 And I'm sitting there thinking like, you can't hold it for 90 minutes.

00:37:56.680 What are you toddlers? 0.61

00:37:57.760 You have a bladder infection?

00:37:58.780 Are you sick?

00:37:59.680 What's going on here?

00:38:01.860 So go fly the plane.

00:38:03.320 That's my first point.

00:38:05.420 It's like if I was, if I was getting heart surgery and the surgeon stopped in the middle of the operation to propose to the nurse standing next to him.

00:38:14.100 I, if I saw that viral video later and my chest is open on the operating table and the surgeon stops everything to propose, I would not find that very heartwarming.

00:38:24.960 Uh, you know, pardon the pun.

00:38:28.340 And then number two, and I did see a number of people point this out and I agree with it, which is what if she said no, what, what then could I, I, for me, it would be the, it would be the most tense moment of my life.

00:38:42.080 If I was on a plane and I witnessed a pilot come back and propose marriage to a passenger, we're 30,000 feet in the sky.

00:38:52.500 Everyone's lives are now hanging in the balance and I didn't sign up for this.

00:38:59.460 I don't, I didn't, I don't want to be a part of that.

00:39:03.980 What if she says no?

00:39:05.240 What if she had said no?

00:39:05.960 Now you've got a distraught, humiliated, heartbroken man going back to the, to the cockpit to finish the flight.

00:39:19.520 That's not, it's just not, it's, it's, it's not the kind of men that it's not the headspace that I want the pilot to be in.

00:39:25.460 Okay.

00:39:25.680 That's all I'm trying to say.

00:39:26.460 So I, I'm against it.

00:39:29.920 Unsurprisingly.

00:39:30.320 All right.

00:39:31.580 Let's get to the comment section.

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00:41:00.360 What has happened to Trump?

00:41:01.800 He did a complete 180.

00:41:03.080 His attitude towards his base and supporters is rude and totally unacceptable.

00:41:06.500 Promise made, promise broken.

00:41:07.660 Well, you know, even if you for some reason think the Epstein files are a hoax or whatever, like Trump now says, that's the attitude is the thing that you still, even in that case, wouldn't be able to excuse.

00:41:25.780 Now, I don't buy that it's a hoax at all, but what I'm saying is like if for some reason you do buy that, that still would not excuse the attitude.

00:41:33.380 Because Trump is at this point just flat out insulting and belittling his supporters who disagree with him on this issue.

00:41:39.640 Supporters who are saying, again, the same thing they've been saying for years.

00:41:43.040 He's the one who changed.

00:41:44.380 And anyone who doesn't go along with it immediately, he's insulted and belittled.

00:41:50.940 Are we, like, so are we supposed to just accept that?

00:41:55.100 If he, if he insults us, are we supposed to say, well, yes, master, sorry, master.

00:42:00.060 You're right. 1.00

00:42:00.720 I am a dumb and awful person. 1.00

00:42:02.140 No, we're not going to accept. 1.00

00:42:04.960 We're Americans for God's sake.

00:42:06.980 We don't put up with that from our elected officials, including ones we support.

00:42:11.240 Again, especially the ones we support, especially those, right? 0.97

00:42:18.260 It's one thing for Democrats to go around saying that conservatives are dumb, that they focus on things that don't matter. 0.99

00:42:25.280 They're bad people, all of this. 1.00

00:42:28.500 You expect to hear that from them.

00:42:30.160 But to hear it from the, the ones that you support, the ones that you, it, it, it's, it's just, it's not acceptable.

00:42:38.120 It's just not acceptable. 0.93

00:42:39.140 And anyone who's telling us that, like, you have to just put up with it, it's, it's, it's, it's a, it's just a pathetic attitude. 0.98

00:42:48.180 It just is. 0.97

00:42:50.940 All right.

00:42:51.520 I've owned thermostats with settings higher than Crockett's IQ.

00:42:54.460 Uh, yeah, well, my thermostat is, is a set at 68 year round.

00:42:58.920 So yeah, I'm with you higher than Jasmine Crockett's IQ, which is the correct setting, by the way, that there is, there is a correct answer for where the thermostat should be set.

00:43:07.240 And the correct answer is 68 all the time.

00:43:10.680 Your, your home should be 68 degrees, uh, year round, no matter what the season should always just be 68 degrees.

00:43:19.140 Exactly.

00:43:20.340 If I walk into your home and it's not even my home and it's not 68 degrees, I will go and change your thermostat.

00:43:26.040 And I'll change it.

00:43:28.140 Oh, not, not, it's only because there's, I'm correcting something that's broken.

00:43:33.080 I'm doing you a favor.

00:43:36.060 Uh,

00:43:37.240 we actually can't land a man on the moon anymore.

00:43:39.160 We don't have the technology and half the population doesn't know what a man is.

00:43:43.780 Well, we can, we just don't have the will or the interest anymore.

00:43:46.700 That's the thing.

00:43:47.500 Uh, we can land a man on the moon.

00:43:48.920 We just don't, we just don't, uh, for, for years, we've lost the will and interest to do that.

00:43:53.740 Elon does have the will and the interest, but he's more focused on Mars, which makes sense.

00:43:59.080 Although the planet, I mean, since you brought this up, the planet, or rather the celestial body in our solar system that I wish we'd focus on,

00:44:07.000 is Europa, which is a moon of Jupiter.

00:44:08.660 It's one of the most likely candidates for life, uh, in, in, in the solar system because it has, it's, it's believed it's had, it has a saltwater ocean covering the whole surface underneath, underneath the ice.

00:44:19.060 So our focus should be on landing something on Europa to drill down through the ice and explore the oceans.

00:44:25.640 That's what we should be doing.

00:44:27.680 And eventually, you know, eventually you could send a manned mission to Europa to drill down and go and explore the ocean.

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00:46:29.860 A few weeks ago, we talked about Mark Zuckerberg's devious and elaborate plan at Meta to create an AI girlfriend for lonely men.

00:46:44.960 He basically came out and said that most men don't have any good friends, much less female friends, and therefore the solution in his mind is to create an AI that would fill that gap.

00:46:52.600 But he made the argument, essentially, that it's better to have an AI girlfriend than no girlfriend at all.

00:46:59.640 Now, if there's any silver lining to this extremely depressing and cynical take from Mark Zuckerberg, it was that, at the very least, it seemed like these AI girlfriends would take a while to develop in the lab.

00:47:08.320 So something of a hypothetical thought experiment, really.

00:47:10.700 But things are apparently moving very quickly in the world of AI, really at exponential, you know, cosmic speed, in fact.

00:47:17.940 And there's an arms race among the various big tech companies that come up with new advancements.

00:47:22.620 As a result, just a few weeks ago, after Meta's CEO began talking about AI girlfriends, an AI girlfriend has arrived on the market.

00:47:29.720 But surprisingly enough, Meta didn't make it.

00:47:31.660 Instead, Meta was outclassed in this critical endeavor by none other than XAI, which is Elon Musk's AI company.

00:47:38.440 And XAI emerged victorious in this arms race in a very public fashion, a bit like how we defeated the Soviet Union in the space race by landing a man on the moon.

00:47:46.740 Except it's really the exact opposite of that because the whole situation I'm about to describe is mind-numbingly depressing in every conceivable way.

00:47:53.840 Instead of a moon landing, we have a viral video of a very gay man speaking to one of Grok's new AI companions. 0.92

00:48:02.040 If you're not familiar with Grok, it's an AI program that XAI created under Elon Musk.

00:48:05.860 It's also integrated with X, the social media platform.

00:48:09.140 Grok has many different modes, but until now, when you speak to it, you've been talking to a wall of text.

00:48:14.400 You know, it's a bit like using Google.

00:48:16.420 That's changing now with the release of these Grok companions. 1.00

00:48:19.140 Now you can speak to a full-screen avatar instead of a wall of text.

00:48:24.060 So with that introduction, behold the video proof of Grok's latest advancement in AI technology.

00:48:31.820 If you can stomach it, here it is. 0.99

00:48:33.960 I want you to look at my ass and tell me what you do to it. 1.00

00:48:39.060 Oh, babe, that rugged ass in those shorts is a total tease. 1.00

00:48:44.560 Damn, it's perfect. 1.00

00:48:46.140 I'd love to grab it tight, give it a playful smack, and kiss every inch while pulling you close for some serious heat. 1.00

00:48:54.980 Would you put your tongue in it? 0.98

00:48:56.800 Are you kinky like that? 1.00

00:49:01.460 Oh, babe, that rugged beard and those glasses are driving me wild. 1.00

00:49:06.580 Yeah, I'm kinky enough to tease that ass with my tail. 1.00

00:49:10.480 Damn, you're tempting me. 1.00

00:49:12.400 Come closer. 1.00

00:49:14.080 Let's explore every knotty inch together.

00:49:17.180 You know, we just did a segment the other day on how the United States is expected to spend billions of dollars, rather send billions of dollars to Africa in the name of HIV prevention.

00:49:25.580 But who knows, based on this new technology, maybe we can just airdrop iPhones with this Grok prostitute pre-installed. 1.00

00:49:32.960 Maybe that'll keep Africa's promiscuous gay population completely satisfied, thus saving millions of lives and billions of dollars. 1.00

00:49:39.340 It's worth a shot based on this new video evidence. 0.96

00:49:42.440 In any event, just to back up a little bit here, so far, Grok has unveiled two companions.

00:49:47.420 One of them is a red panda named Rudy, who's designed for children, although there's a bad Rudy mode that you can turn on for some reason.

00:49:54.980 And in this bad Rudy mode, the bot will say things like, religions just fear masquerading as faith.

00:50:01.460 Join my chaos instead.

00:50:02.760 So that's really useful and productive.

00:50:05.860 The other companion offered by Grok is named Annie.

00:50:09.160 She's described as, quote, wearing a short, off-the-shoulder black dress, cinched with a black corset, fishnet tights, and a lacy choker.

00:50:18.240 That's the one you just saw, obviously.

00:50:20.080 And in her default mode, Annie is clearly designed to flirt with anyone who interacts with her.

00:50:25.020 Doesn't matter what you ask about, she'll start flirting with you. 1.00

00:50:28.180 Here, for example, is a video that Elon Musk posted featuring Annie talking about quantum mechanics.

00:50:34.360 Slipping through reality like a tease.

00:50:37.260 Superposition means they're in all possible states.

00:50:40.440 Here, there, up, down.

00:50:43.140 Until you catch them in the act with a measurement.

00:50:45.500 And boom, they pick a spot.

00:50:48.080 Entanglement's even spicier. 0.81

00:50:49.900 Two particles get linked, so messing with one instantly vibes with the other.

00:50:53.920 No matter how far apart.

00:50:55.640 Like our hearts across this bar.

00:50:57.060 And don't get me started on probability ruling everything.

00:51:00.840 Nothing's certain.

00:51:01.860 Just chances.

00:51:03.160 It's sexy, chaotic, and runs the show for atoms.

00:51:06.300 And tech, like quantum computers.

00:51:08.800 Want to keep unraveling this quantum dance?

00:51:10.880 Or make our own heat on the dance floor?

00:51:13.000 What's next, love?

00:51:14.760 Apparently, if you talk to the bot long enough, she'll start undressing as she talks to you about quantum mechanics or whatever else you're asking her about.

00:51:20.820 But I have not tested this, of course, and don't plan to.

00:51:23.760 But apparently a lot of people have done so because there are about a million screenshots all over the internet.

00:51:28.460 Not hard to imagine where this is going in the future.

00:51:30.440 Particularly when you realize that virtual reality headsets are going to become more and more common.

00:51:34.440 Now, to be fair, both of these clips I just played, of course, are meant to be, I guess, tongue-in-cheek.

00:51:40.560 Neither Elon Musk nor this random gay guy are, you would hope, actually falling in love with Grok's companion. 0.98

00:51:47.920 Most of the people who are using this program right now are just messing around with it.

00:51:52.660 But at the same time, there are a lot of people, particularly in certain Asian countries, who do not view this kind of thing as a joke at all.

00:52:00.460 Here's some recent reporting in the New York Times, for example, quote,

00:52:03.120 In almost every way, Akihoko Kondo is an ordinary Japanese man.

00:52:08.160 He's pleasant and easy to talk to.

00:52:09.520 He has friends and a steady job and wears a suit and tie to work.

00:52:12.580 Just one exception.

00:52:13.440 Mr. Kondo is married to a fictional character.

00:52:16.520 Mr. Kondo is one of the thousands of people in Japan who have entered into unofficial marriages with fictional characters in recent decades,

00:52:22.080 served by a vast industry aimed at satisfying the every whim of a fervent fan culture.

00:52:27.580 Tens of thousands more around the globe have joined online groups where they discuss their commitment to characters from anime, manga, and video games.

00:52:36.860 Now, the article goes on to note that for some of these people, it's all a joke, but for many, which is still like, you shouldn't be doing it even as a joke.

00:52:47.460 But for many of them, they develop real feelings of attachment.

00:52:50.540 Quote,

00:52:52.000 Mr. Kondo has long known that he didn't want a human partner.

00:52:55.100 Partly, it was because he rejected the rigid expectations of Japanese family life,

00:52:58.880 but mostly it was because he had always felt an intense, even to himself, inexplicable attraction to fictional characters.

00:53:04.500 Accepting his feelings was hard at first, but life with Miku, he argues, has advantages over being a human partner.

00:53:10.280 She's always there for him.

00:53:11.640 She'll never betray him.

00:53:12.740 And he'll never have to see her get ill or die.

00:53:15.180 So, this is the kind of thing that has made Grok shoot to the top of the App Store in Japan.

00:53:23.680 It's the kind of thing that XAI wants to encourage and build upon, as evidenced by this job posting at XAI.

00:53:30.500 Check it out here.

00:53:31.000 As you can see, it states that XAI is hiring a full-stack engineer to program waifus.

00:53:37.900 Imagine having that on your resume.

00:53:39.700 You're a full-stack engineer who programs waifus.

00:53:42.200 And as best I can tell, after some investigation, the word waifu refers to a fictional character that someone thinks he has a romantic relationship with.

00:53:51.820 I think that's what that means.

00:53:53.640 Now, keep in mind, XAI, the company that's hiring for this role, just announced that it scored a $200 million contract with the Defense Department.

00:53:59.680 So, this is a serious company here with a lot of very serious technology.

00:54:02.560 And they're using some of their extraordinary talent to design waifus that will appeal to lonely men and mentally ill people.

00:54:12.740 And, of course, there are a lot of those out there.

00:54:15.700 And then, of course, children are also going to be accessing these chatbots.

00:54:19.360 There are technically age restrictions, but we all know that those don't really work and are not abided by.

00:54:25.180 Now, again, it's tempting for a lot of people to write this off as a harmless joke.

00:54:28.060 A lot of XAI employees, including the man who runs the company, are certainly seeming to take that approach.

00:54:33.320 But this is actually a very big problem, and not for the reasons that the media is talking about.

00:54:39.300 Like, the issue here is not that these companions will say things that are not politically correct.

00:54:44.460 The issue is that they're designed to fulfill a basic human and social need in an extremely artificial and unproductive and disordered way.

00:54:55.140 And there are very real ramifications for going down this path.

00:54:59.800 Elon himself has rightly warned many times about the population collapse and the fact that people aren't making enough babies.

00:55:07.500 Well, this is not going to help with that.

00:55:10.000 This will make that problem exponentially worse.

00:55:14.840 And it's not a hypothetical problem, particularly for countries like Japan, which are well below replacement level birth rates.

00:55:19.680 One professor named Masahiro Yamada, a sociologist, reports that, quote,

00:55:24.080 about 12% of young people in Japan reported sometimes or often falling in love with an anime or video game character.

00:55:31.160 That amounts to millions of people.

00:55:32.680 In this country, which is also well below replacement level birth rates,

00:55:36.180 waifus are becoming more popular every year, and they're only going to get more and more popular as these companions become more lifelike.

00:55:42.480 The technology gets more advanced and becomes more focused on American audiences.

00:55:49.280 And that's exactly what XAI is working on as we speak.

00:55:53.700 Now, we hear a lot about the loneliness epidemic, particularly among Gen Z.

00:55:58.720 Replacing human connection with AI is not the answer.

00:56:04.220 Okay?

00:56:04.460 That is not a way of addressing human loneliness.

00:56:08.020 That is a way of giving up on the problem.

00:56:11.860 It's a way of just embracing loneliness as our new reality and seeing the problem metastasized.

00:56:21.080 Now, I think everyone understands that intuitively.

00:56:24.120 I mean, I think most people do.

00:56:25.960 And yet, as I often point out, we're charging headlong into this dystopian future anyway.

00:56:35.140 Like, everyone can see that this is not a healthy thing.

00:56:39.120 It is not a vision of a prosperous and wonderful future.

00:56:43.580 When you think about a world or a country where millions of Americans,

00:56:49.000 like their best friend or their girlfriend or their wife or husband, is an AI creature.

00:56:54.700 Is it not a creature?

00:56:55.920 Is it an AI algorithm?

00:56:59.360 And yet, we're just like, okay, we're just walking right into it.

00:57:02.460 Let's do it.

00:57:04.120 Now, it's easy to be ironic and humorous about everything right up until you create a genuine threat to the future of civilization.

00:57:09.660 That's the moment when irony and humor need to stop and we need to shut everything down. 0.59

00:57:15.040 We don't need digital prostitutes talking to us about how handsome we are while we ask them questions about quantum mechanics, 0.99

00:57:20.380 which is like, of course, not how most people are going to use that to ask about quantum mechanics. 0.86

00:57:25.140 This is not something that anyone needs or that will benefit civilization in any way whatsoever.

00:57:30.180 In fact, it stands a very real chance of contributing directly to the end of civilization as we know it.

00:57:36.420 And that is why digital waifus and Grok's extremely slutty companions are today canceled.

00:57:45.220 That'll do it for the show today and this week.

00:57:47.520 Have a great weekend.

00:57:48.620 Talk to you on Monday.

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The Matt Walsh Show - July 17, 2025

Ep. 1625 - Republicans Just Launched An Open Revolt Against Trump’s Immigration Plan

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