The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1640 - The Insanely Incompetent DEI Hire Running One Of America’s Most Dangerous Cities

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matwell Show, while D.C. fails to get its crime problem under control, the female chief of police publicly acknowledged that she doesn't even know what the term chain of command means, which is no surprise this woman was hired as their DEI officer before she was promoted to the head of the whole department.

00:00:14.100 Meanwhile, the attorney general of the city has declared that you can't just solve violent crime by arresting and prosecuting violent criminals somehow.

00:00:21.120 And a CNN contributor announces that rather than trying to make D.C. safe, we should instead rethink safety.

00:00:26.820 Also, climate lockdowns have officially begun in Canada. And an American lawmaker has asked an important question.

00:00:32.300 What is an American? Her answer could not possibly have been any worse. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matwell Show. 0.99

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00:02:30.000 Let's say there's been a mass shooting in Washington, D.C., which is not exactly a far-fetched hypothetical, and several shell casings and bullets were located at the crime scene.

00:02:40.500 Then the police locate a car full of suspects, and every single one of them is carrying a handgun.

00:02:45.440 But, of course, no one admits to firing the shots.

00:02:47.620 So as part of their investigation, the police bring everyone to the station and seize their firearms for further investigation.

00:02:52.860 Now, at that point, if the police want any chance of building a criminal case, they're going to have to rely on the crime lab.

00:02:58.900 In every major city in the country, this is a pretty straightforward process.

00:03:02.140 The crime lab runs a series of ballistics tests to determine which gun fired the shots.

00:03:07.380 This is possible because every firearm will transfer unique individual characteristics to the cartridge case or bullet that comes out of it.

00:03:16.340 Technicians will then, you know, come to one of three possible conclusions about any two pieces of ammunition evidence.

00:03:21.920 The first conclusion is called identification.

00:03:24.600 This means that they've confirmed the same firearm is responsible for two pieces of ammunition evidence.

00:03:30.360 The second conclusion is called elimination.

00:03:32.540 This means that the two pieces of ammunition evidence definitely come from different firearms.

00:03:36.780 And the third conclusion is inconclusive, meaning the components are similar enough that they can't figure it out.

00:03:41.980 They don't know which is which.

00:03:44.300 Now, the benefit of this system is that among competent experts, you won't find wildly different assessments of the same evidence, usually.

00:03:52.080 There's some amount of skill and perception involved in analyzing the evidence under a microscope and making the necessary comparisons.

00:03:58.340 But at the same time, it's not exactly rocket science.

00:04:00.980 Either the ammunition components have distinctive identifiable markings or they don't.

00:04:06.360 Now, in Washington, D.C., though, this relatively uncomplicated analysis has proven to be an extraordinarily difficult task.

00:04:12.440 In fact, a few years ago, they managed to botch it so flagrantly and so inexplicably that the entire crime lab was shut down for several years.

00:04:22.200 To give you an idea of how bad things got, here's how the D.C. crime lab assessed ballistics evidence in one particular case.

00:04:30.800 This is from a report prepared by SNA International, which is a consulting group that was called in to investigate the lab.

00:04:38.020 And as you can see, in January of 2016, somebody named Daniel Barrett, a forensic scientist with the D.C. crime lab, did an initial examination on some ballistics evidence.

00:04:48.100 And he found an identification, meaning that the two pieces of ammunition evidence came from the same firearm.

00:04:53.800 A couple of days later, another forensic scientist named Luciano Morales checked Daniel's work, and he, too, found an identification.

00:05:01.260 Then in August of 2017, a forensic scientist named Alicia Valario did a reexamination following Daniel Barrett's departure from the agency, and Alicia also found an identification.

00:05:11.720 And that same day, a forensic scientist named Michael Mulderig checked Alicia's work, and he also confirmed an identification.

00:05:18.920 So we're four for four.

00:05:20.360 Everyone's unanimous.

00:05:22.120 Having checked and quadruple-checked their work, they compared the same pieces of evidence, item 45 and item 16, and agreed that the same firearm was responsible for both of them.

00:05:33.280 Now, the problem is that when the U.S. Attorney's Office got involved several years later and sent in some highly experienced forensic analysts,

00:05:40.260 they found that identification was the exact opposite conclusion that these D.C. analysts should have drawn.

00:05:46.580 The correct result for these two items was elimination.

00:05:49.120 In other words, there were several very apparent differences between the two items, making it clear they did not come from the same firearm.

00:05:57.540 Now, as you can imagine, this is a very big deal when you're trying to put somebody in prison for committing a crime with a gun,

00:06:02.900 but the D.C. crime lab botched it.

00:06:06.180 This is a failure that's actually pretty difficult to even comprehend.

00:06:11.160 I mean, it'd be like four different mechanics telling you that your car is perfectly fine,

00:06:15.720 and the fifth one tells you that actually your car won't even start, and the engine has exploded.

00:06:21.200 So here's what the audit found specifically.

00:06:23.140 The review of the materials determined clear class characteristic differences between the two cartridge cases,

00:06:28.660 specifically the breech face impressions of the two cartridge cases,

00:06:32.020 which are caused by the head of the cartridge case pressing against the breech face of the firearm during firing,

00:06:37.480 were significantly and sufficiently different and support a conclusion of elimination.

00:06:41.160 The incorrect conclusion of identification rendered by some D.C. examiners is so distinct from the correct conclusion of elimination

00:06:49.000 that it represents a significant issue relating to the competence of those examiners.

00:06:53.280 In other words, the identification criteria of the examiners were not sufficiently rigorous to distinguish between coincidental correspondence

00:07:00.240 of striated marks produced by different firearms and correspondence due to being fired from or in the same firearm.

00:07:08.400 So that's a lot of words, but basically means an entire team of forensic scientists in the D.C. crime lab managed to

00:07:15.140 repeatedly come to the wrong conclusion about evidence in a criminal case.

00:07:21.900 And it wasn't an especially close call, according to people who came in and actually knew what they were doing.

00:07:28.300 But these people simply had no idea what they were doing.

00:07:31.320 And it wasn't just the ballistics either.

00:07:33.020 Over in the latent fingerprint unit, they were also just sort of winging things.

00:07:40.360 Basically, in the latent fingerprints unit, their job is to figure out if a piece of evidence might contain prints that could be useful at a trial.

00:07:50.280 And if one analyst finds no useful prints, then automatically another analyst has to verify their work.

00:07:56.300 So it's supposed to be a pretty, you know, foolproof process.

00:07:59.560 But the D.C. crime lab managed to botch it once again.

00:08:02.540 Again, the audit found that the latent fingerprint unit had, quote, improperly evaluated the latent prints for suitability in 42 of the 45 cases that were independently tested.

00:08:14.480 That's a failure rate, if you do the math, of more than 90 percent, which is worse than what a lab full of monkeys could accomplish by jumping up and down in the lab and randomly pressing buttons on the computer.

00:08:26.260 Now, I could go through the whole audit, which revealed that the D.C. crime lab, quote, face serious issues, including deliberate concealment of information, violations of accreditation standards and fraudulent behavior.

00:08:39.420 But you probably get the idea.

00:08:41.120 The crime lab was useless.

00:08:43.280 The problems were so staggering and so incredible that no prosecutor could use anything they produced.

00:08:49.480 As a result of this complete incompetence, D.C. did not have a crime lab for several years.

00:08:54.280 In fact, as Katie Pavlich reported on Monday, the District of Columbia still doesn't have an accredited ballistics lab to this day.

00:09:01.820 If they want to analyze ballistics evidence, they have to rely on contractors, many of whom are out of state.

00:09:07.680 On the bright side, nearly two years ago, the lab did receive approval to reopen for other purposes, including drug testing.

00:09:15.620 This was heralded as a as a major victory for the city.

00:09:19.760 Watch.

00:09:19.860 Meanwhile, major news in the effort to hold criminals accountable.

00:09:24.760 D.C.'s crime lab has been partially accredited for forensic testing and biology and seized drugs.

00:09:31.680 Daniel Hamburg joins us live in the newsroom with more.

00:09:34.300 And Daniel, the District crime labs lost accreditation almost, what, three years ago.

00:09:39.180 Yeah, Mark, in fiscal year 2020, 2022, a third of cases were not prosecuted.

00:09:46.600 That has since increased due to partnerships with federal and local labs to get some of that testing done.

00:09:54.160 But having an independent lab right here in D.C. is crucial to getting criminals off the streets.

00:10:00.140 D.C.'s Department of Forensic Sciences hasn't been able to test drugs since April 2021.

00:10:05.380 Its accreditation was revoked for a variety of issues, including errors, lack of expertise and engaging in fraudulent activities.

00:10:13.780 Which meant that we lost the ability to charge almost all drug cases.

00:10:17.140 That's a big reason only 33 percent of cases were charged by the U.S. Attorney's Office in 2022.

00:10:22.380 That's since increased to about 58 percent, but only between July and September of this year, once outside lab testing was secured.

00:10:30.720 So they tell you that the crime lab is partially accredited now, but they don't tell you what exactly is partial about it.

00:10:38.820 And they act like it's a big win that instead of only being able to charge 30 percent of cases, prosecutors are up to 50 percent.

00:10:44.880 So that's something. But the real story here is not that the crime lab is barely functional in Washington or the prosecutors can't even charge most cases because the crime lab is offline.

00:10:56.020 That's very bad, of course. It's also a symptom of a much larger problem, which is that in pretty much every aspect of society, from air travel to restaurants and on and on and on.

00:11:06.200 Basic services are becoming unreliable. Incompetence is now the norm.

00:11:12.900 This is what inevitably happens when the government forces hundreds of thousands of competent workers out of the workforce in the name of public health and then imports millions of fake asylum seekers from the third world to replace them, 0.91

00:11:23.900 while also elevating unqualified Americans on the basis of irrelevant characteristics like skin color or gender.

00:11:30.040 What you end up with is universal mediocrity or worse.

00:11:36.540 The machinery that's necessary for a functioning society starts breaking down piece by piece until nothing works and no one can be held responsible.

00:11:44.780 Really, the reason Washington, D.C. is in the news this week isn't because of anything Donald Trump did.

00:11:51.400 It's because D.C., more than any other city in the country, is a monument to the sustained managed decline of the United States.

00:12:01.500 As our capital, the district is an unmistakable symbol of a pervasive mediocrity at every level. 0.97

00:12:11.140 Yes, the crime lab amounts to a group of morons throwing darts at the wall to see what conclusion they should draw, 0.93

00:12:16.360 but every other aspect of the city from top to bottom operates in exactly the same way. 0.97

00:12:22.260 So go over to the police department, for example.

00:12:25.140 By now you've maybe seen the viral clip of the police chief, a woman named Pamela Smith, at a press conference with the mayor the other day.

00:12:33.560 And in this footage, she appears perplexed by the term chain of command,

00:12:38.800 as if she's never even heard those words before in her entire life.

00:12:44.240 Now, a lot of people mock that clip, and rightfully so. 1.00

00:12:46.800 A police chief who doesn't understand the concept of chain of command is a bit like a cook who's never heard of the word kitchen.

00:12:53.500 It's the kind of jaw-dropping moment that doesn't seem like it could possibly be real.

00:12:58.400 But actually, it is real.

00:13:00.140 And as bad as that clip was, the entire answer that Pamela Smith gave is even worse.

00:13:07.140 The more context you provide for the clip, the more excruciating it becomes.

00:13:11.180 But this is important to talk about, so we'll play the full context.

00:13:15.460 So I want you to watch as a reporter tries for more than a minute to ask Pamela Smith about the extent of the federal government's control of the D.C. Police Department.

00:13:26.200 For all practical purposes, as we know, the White House has assumed command of the D.C. police for the next 30 days,

00:13:31.080 pursuant to their legal authority over the district.

00:13:34.300 But Smith seems to struggle with this concept.

00:13:36.380 She implies repeatedly that the D.C. police are going to be working alongside the federal government as partners,

00:13:40.940 without giving any indication of who's actually in charge.

00:13:44.060 And then when the reporter finally asks the question, as directly as he can,

00:13:48.140 the police chief gives her now infamous answer. 0.98

00:13:50.800 Watch.

00:13:51.920 Chief, what's your role in all this?

00:13:53.860 I am the chief of police for the Metropolitan Police Department.

00:13:56.820 And being the chief of police, I am certainly the one who champions to ensure that we reduce violent crime across our city.

00:14:04.140 That is why the mayor appointed me to do that job, which is why you've seen the reduction in crime across our city.

00:14:09.080 This effort will only help us enhance and build upon that.

00:14:12.340 Are you answering to Terry Cole?

00:14:14.860 I answered to Mayor Muriel Bowser.

00:14:18.200 Chief, what?

00:14:18.980 And let me just say this.

00:14:20.560 Let us not have any controversy with that, okay?

00:14:23.200 Because I know people want to build upon and create division.

00:14:26.260 We're here to work together with our federal partners, and that's what we're going to do.

00:14:30.280 Chief, what's your other person?

00:14:31.220 How are you going to do that?

00:14:32.460 Can you explain what the National Guard is likely to do, what the federal agents are likely to do?

00:14:38.060 So the way we would do any operational plan across our city, we would create a plan.

00:14:44.100 We would put our resources together.

00:14:45.720 We would allocate and look at the locations around our city where we believe there are areas, pockets of crime that we would like to address.

00:14:54.520 We also know that there are opportunities for us to build upon our community engagement with our federal partners who work with us every day, and this is the time for us to do.

00:15:02.440 I won't go into the details and the depths of our organization, but we will see Metropolitan Communications Department working side-by-side with our federal partners in order to enforce the efforts that we need around the city.

00:15:14.500 Can you tell us what the chain of command is now?

00:15:17.280 What does that mean?

00:15:18.080 Well, is it Kim Bondi speaking to the mayor, speaking to you, or how does this work?

00:15:21.340 So, as the executive order is clear, the president has requested NPD services, and our home rule charter outlines the process.

00:15:33.340 You know, the way that Mayor Bowser swoops in at precisely that moment is probably the most revealing part of that clip.

00:15:40.100 She knows how incompetent her police chief is, so she takes over before things get any worse.

00:15:44.400 Presumably, Bowser didn't want the police chief to expound on all of the other words and phrases she doesn't understand.

00:15:51.900 After all, when your crime lab isn't even accredited and your murder rate is higher than Baghdad's, there's only so many more hits to morale that the city can really take. 0.89

00:16:01.980 Now, after this footage aired, a lot of people pointed out that Pamela Smith was not hired based on merit, unsurprisingly.

00:16:08.360 Instead, a couple of years ago, she was hired as the chief equity officer in the D.C. police department.

00:16:16.700 Okay?

00:16:17.600 Now, so that means she was a DEI hire in every sense.

00:16:22.320 And then very quickly, she goes from this meaningless job of equity officer to becoming the chief of police.

00:16:30.600 I mean, it would be like elevating a DEI consultant to be the CEO of, say, Microsoft.

00:16:36.100 I mean, it's a decision that makes no sense whatsoever if you actually care about the organization running well and efficiently, which they don't.

00:16:45.460 At the time when Pamela got the job, local media in D.C. were not interested in asking her about anything substantive.

00:16:51.780 Instead, of course, they highlighted her skin color and her gender, as well as her life story.

00:16:57.320 Watch.

00:16:57.580 And if approved by the city council, Pamela Smith, who you see here, will be the next person to fill that position.

00:17:05.520 And the chief, let's go ahead and call it the chief, joins us in studio to talk more about this historic nomination and her plans for the department.

00:17:13.420 It is so good to meet you.

00:17:14.780 Thank you so much for spending some time with us this morning.

00:17:17.220 Thank you for having me here this morning.

00:17:18.800 I really appreciate it.

00:17:19.720 So, I want to get to this moment first before we talk about the business of the district.

00:17:24.920 You would be the second woman, the first African-American woman to be elevated to this position.

00:17:30.640 I'm sure that is not lost on you.

00:17:32.620 What are your feelings when you think about that?

00:17:34.820 It's very humbling.

00:17:35.800 You know, when I was the chief of police of the U.S. Park Police, I was the first African-American chief of police in the agency's 230-year history at that time.

00:17:44.980 And to be able to do this, have this amazing opportunity extended to me by Mayor Muriel Bowser is very humbling.

00:17:52.060 And I'm so grateful.

00:17:53.840 And although it's not lost on me, what I hope is that I'm not the last.

00:17:59.660 I think this is an opportunity for young men and young women to really see how they can aspire to be anything that they choose to be.

00:18:09.840 But what I did was I used those moments of adversity and turned them into something positive.

00:18:15.820 I utilized some of the resources, like the Summer Youth Employment Program that was available to me in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

00:18:20.940 And meeting a pastor and his wife who thought enough of, I'll say, the little old girl from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to really groom me into the young woman that I am today.

00:18:32.460 Now, Washington, D.C. is a district that, if it became a state, would have the highest murder rate in the entire country.

00:18:39.660 It's so dangerous that members of Congress are being carjacked and beaten in their apartments.

00:18:44.460 The security detail for a Supreme Court justice was nearly carjacked before they shot the attackers.

00:18:50.940 The only relevant question when you're picking a police chief for a place like that is what exactly the police chief is going to do about the carnage that's unfolding every day in the city.

00:19:02.820 Instead, we're told that she's a nice lady. 0.99

00:19:05.240 She's black. 0.97

00:19:06.800 She had a tough upbringing.

00:19:09.260 Those were her qualifications for this job.

00:19:12.500 It's not an exaggeration to say the local media did precisely zero vetting of this woman, nor did anyone in the D.C. government, apparently.

00:19:19.260 At most, she was asked superficial questions with no follow-ups.

00:19:24.280 In a separate interview, for example, the local ABC affiliate asked Pamela Smith what she was going to do about all the murdering that was going on in Washington, D.C. 1.00

00:19:32.340 And here's how she responded.

00:19:33.600 Finally, what are you going to do about these homicides?

00:19:38.120 This is one of the things that really upsets folks a lot.

00:19:41.900 We're going to come up with a plan that is going to be collaborative and impactful across the District of Columbia, and we're going to do exactly everything we need to do to drive down crime.

00:19:51.420 And you think you'll have the support?

00:19:53.420 Absolutely.

00:19:53.820 And, of course, you've got fewer officers than, let's say, a few years ago.

00:19:58.840 We're going to come up with a plan, and I'm confident that that plan will be impactful to the District of Columbia.

00:20:05.520 So they're going to come up with a plan, according to Pamela Smith.

00:20:10.100 The plan will address the murders, and it will address the lack of police officers, too.

00:20:16.340 But, you know, what is this plan?

00:20:19.720 Well, you don't get to know what the plan is. 0.94

00:20:21.580 I mean, that would just be ridiculous.

00:20:24.400 What's their plan for bringing down the murders? 0.79

00:20:26.640 Well, their plan is they have a plan.

00:20:29.460 Their plan is to have, well, they don't have a, their plan is they're going to come up with a plan to develop a plan for a plan to bring the murder rate down.

00:20:38.440 Any questions?

00:20:40.860 Well, that was good enough for the local ABC affiliate.

00:20:43.100 They asked no follow-ups, but in retrospect, it seems like we all know what the plan was.

00:20:48.240 As we discussed yesterday, it looks a lot like the plan in D.C. was to fabricate crime statistics.

00:20:53.680 Instead of taking a report for a carjacking or a stabbing or a shooting, officers would classify the incident as taking an injured person to the hospital or a theft or a felony assault.

00:21:05.280 Apparently, according to the police union, when an incident is classified as a felony assault, it doesn't get counted in the D.C. Police Department's daily crime stats.

00:21:13.100 For some reason.

00:21:14.240 Or the FBI's uniform crime reporting system.

00:21:17.360 And this is a loophole that we can only assume is being used by many, many, many other police departments.

00:21:24.280 Also, in many cases, D.C. police would simply refuse to respond to crimes, including robberies and assaults, which is another way to cook the books, as we all know.

00:21:33.360 And for the DEI lady running the police department, apparently that's good enough. 0.99

00:21:37.740 But once again, this is not about one person. 0.98

00:21:41.480 Pamela Smith is obviously inept. 0.99

00:21:43.340 She has no business holding that job. 1.00

00:21:45.600 And people are dying as a result.

00:21:47.940 But really, she's part of a larger problem.

00:21:50.840 And pretty much everyone can see that.

00:21:52.080 In the past year, due to various incidents, prison escapes, terrorist attacks, wildfires, several prominent government officials in major cities all across the country have been, many, many times these are law enforcement, top law enforcement officials, that have been thrust into the national spotlight.

00:22:09.020 And we'll put some of them up on the screen.

00:22:11.540 After a jihadi mowed down more than a dozen people in New Orleans, the elderly female police chief informed the world that she had no idea, no idea whatsoever, that the city had purchased pedestrian barriers that could have prevented that attack.

00:22:24.920 Whoops.

00:22:25.960 That would have been nice to know, she said.

00:22:28.960 My bad.

00:22:29.780 Then after the mob of festival goers, as they're being called in Cincinnati, brutally attacked white people at a music festival, which has long been a state-sanctioned hotbed of anti-white racism, the female police chief scolded the people who recorded the violence.

00:22:45.080 Earlier in the year in Los Angeles, as wildfires destroyed entire neighborhoods while firefighters ran out of water, it emerged that the fire chief was a strong, independent lesbian who was committed to advancing the LGBTQIA plus agenda.

00:22:58.480 Meanwhile, the deputy fire chief, another fiercely independent girl boss, shot a video in which she downplayed the idea that female firefighters might not be able to rescue a man trapped in a fire by saying, if you remember, and I quote, 1.00

00:23:11.740 he got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of the fire.

00:23:16.880 In other words, it's the victim's fault.

00:23:19.320 As he's burning alive, that woman, you know, can't meet the physical standards necessary to be a firefighter, and he's going to burn alive. 0.93

00:23:25.480 But it's his fault. You shouldn't have put yourself in a position where you could burn to death.

00:23:31.260 Now, and this is just a quick snapshot of these kinds of things, and just from a statistical perspective, there's an obvious problem here.

00:23:41.000 I mean, we all know that in the private sector, women aren't typically leading major companies. 1.00

00:23:46.060 That's true in spite of the fact that every Fortune 500 corporation goes out of its way to advance women as part of their DEI agenda. 0.89

00:23:53.040 But still, it doesn't typically work out that way.

00:23:55.240 That's because women often choose to raise families instead of climbing the corporate ladder. 1.00

00:23:59.120 In many cases, they find that they're either unwilling or unable to work 80 hours a week,

00:24:04.300 wasting away their entire life in an office building in exchange for promotion.

00:24:07.180 Also, men and women are different, and men are often just more suited for those kinds of jobs.

00:24:14.200 And women certainly don't choose to become police officers or firefighters in large numbers for obvious reasons. 1.00

00:24:19.080 And yet, it seems like whenever there's a big news story in the past year,

00:24:22.680 we discover that women are somehow running the local police or the fire department. 0.61

00:24:28.980 Now, the only way to explain what's going on is that these departments are hiring women who are unqualified for the job solely because they're women. 1.00

00:24:37.180 I mean, that's not a partisan point. It's just, it's basic math.

00:24:41.440 And that's why these women immediately faceplant on the national stage the moment that they have to respond to any kind of crisis. 1.00

00:24:48.540 See, the thing about incompetence is that very often it's not particularly well hidden.

00:24:53.440 I mean, we're not talking about criminal masterminds here.

00:24:55.160 These people only get away with it because in pretty much every case, no one checks on what they're doing.

00:25:01.080 But increasingly, it's becoming impossible to ignore what's happening.

00:25:03.640 I mean, the degree of incompetence is simply too great.

00:25:07.180 By taking control of Washington, D.C., if only for, you know, 30 days or so,

00:25:12.680 the Trump administration has the opportunity to highlight this incompetence even further.

00:25:16.780 The administration can provide a clear contrast between Pamela Smith and Mayor Bowser on the one hand 1.00

00:25:23.920 and competent leadership on the other.

00:25:27.720 They can make sure that every relevant piece of evidence is shipped to a functioning crime lab.

00:25:31.960 They can unseal the D.C. Police Department's fraudulent investigation into January 6th, including the shooting of Ashley Babbitt.

00:25:39.320 They can use basic terms like chain of command without freezing like a deer in the headlights.

00:25:43.760 And in the end, they can expose the extent to which American decline is a choice.

00:25:51.100 We can shut it down just as quickly as the crime lab was shut down.

00:25:55.860 And before any more people are forced to suffer in the nation's capital or any other major city,

00:26:00.320 that's exactly what needs to happen.

00:26:02.260 Now, let's get to our five headlines.

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00:27:38.140 Well, the media continues to search for a reason to object to Trump

00:27:43.140 trying to turn D.C. into an actual livable place.

00:27:45.980 And I want to highlight this moment, one of many that I could highlight.

00:27:49.800 This is where a CNN contributor tries to explain

00:27:52.300 why more police does not equal safer streets,

00:27:58.440 which is a tough case to make because it's totally nonsense.

00:28:02.420 But let's see how well she does with it.

00:28:04.000 Watch.

00:28:04.180 You don't think more police make streets safer?

00:28:08.800 No, Joe.

00:28:09.400 I'm a black woman in America.

00:28:10.640 I do not always think that more police make streets safer.

00:28:13.860 When you walk down the streets of Georgetown,

00:28:16.000 you don't see a police officer on every corner,

00:28:17.660 but you don't feel unsafe.

00:28:18.880 So what is it about talking about places like Southeast D.C., right?

00:28:22.780 Ward 8, if you will,

00:28:24.200 that people say, well, we need more officers to make us safe.

00:28:27.080 I think we have to rethink what safety means in America.

00:28:31.900 Rethink what safety means in America.

00:28:35.780 Now, you know, we know that anytime somebody on the left

00:28:38.540 wants us to rethink what something means,

00:28:41.920 that means they want us to come to a conclusion

00:28:46.440 that the thing means the opposite of what it really means.

00:28:49.600 That's what rethinking means if you're on the left.

00:28:53.060 So let's rethink safety.

00:28:55.460 Let's rethink it.

00:28:57.760 That's always a bad sign when someone is,

00:29:00.800 you know, when you're saying, oh, this is unsafe,

00:29:02.260 and someone says, well, let's rethink safety.

00:29:05.420 Not even let's rethink your conclusion.

00:29:07.840 It's like, well, let's think differently about what safety is.

00:29:13.520 Maybe safety is actually when you get dragged out of your car

00:29:17.040 at a stoplight and shot in the head.

00:29:19.620 Maybe that is safety.

00:29:20.880 Have you thought about that?

00:29:23.780 Instead of assuming that you're unsafe

00:29:25.520 just because you have to worry about getting shot in the head, 0.69

00:29:27.440 maybe you should consider that getting shot in the head 0.65

00:29:29.400 actually makes you safe. 0.66

00:29:31.900 After all, I mean, you know, if you get shot in the head once,

00:29:35.120 you almost definitely will not get shot in the head a second time

00:29:37.900 because you're dead. 0.85

00:29:40.060 So she has a point.

00:29:43.680 She really has a point.

00:29:44.500 Like, the safest people in D.C.,

00:29:46.100 the only safe people in D.C.

00:29:47.500 are the ones who've already been murdered.

00:29:51.300 Look on the bright side.

00:29:52.320 If you're lying, dying in the street,

00:29:54.840 blood gushing out of your, you know,

00:29:56.520 a hole in your stomach because you got stabbed 0.99

00:29:58.260 by a drug-addled vagrant, 0.99

00:30:01.540 look on the bright side.

00:30:02.660 Like, someone could come up to you and say,

00:30:03.680 hey, well, listen, man, like, here's the bright side.

00:30:05.740 Very soon you won't have to worry about getting stabbed again.

00:30:07.740 Has anyone ever been murdered twice?

00:30:14.540 The murder rate for people who've already been murdered is zero.

00:30:18.840 I mean, so she really has a point.

00:30:21.180 She's a genius, obviously.

00:30:22.780 She's a genius rethinking safety.

00:30:26.180 Now, if you aren't a genius like her,

00:30:28.140 you might think that we don't need to rethink safety,

00:30:31.980 that it's pretty obvious what safety means in this context.

00:30:34.740 And the left, as always, they try to obfuscate.

00:30:38.580 That's the only tactic they have, really.

00:30:40.340 Make things seem more complicated than they really are.

00:30:43.040 They use terms like nuances.

00:30:45.260 Well, let's think about the nuances.

00:30:47.860 This is a really nuanced, this is a really nuanced issue.

00:30:53.100 Oh, you can't just go around saying that just because people are getting shot all the time,

00:30:56.060 that it's an unsafe city.

00:30:57.500 Let's think about the nuances.

00:30:58.960 What is safety, anyway?

00:31:02.720 Who's to say what's safe and what isn't?

00:31:06.480 Well, let me help you out.

00:31:08.820 If you want to know if you're in a safe town or not,

00:31:11.160 there are some pretty obvious indicators.

00:31:12.940 There actually aren't any, there are no nuances.

00:31:15.120 In fact,

00:31:16.540 there are safe towns and there are unsafe towns,

00:31:19.380 and there's really no nuance to it.

00:31:20.920 It's very, very simple.

00:31:22.140 So, for example,

00:31:24.680 I mean, here's one indicator that you're in an unsafe town.

00:31:26.780 Now, if you have to consciously remember to remove all the valuables out of your car,

00:31:32.060 or at least to put them out of view whenever you park,

00:31:36.020 you are in an unsafe city.

00:31:41.180 If you didn't even know that there's an option of not having to worry about that,

00:31:45.880 then you're in an unsafe city and you've never not been in an unsafe city.

00:31:50.960 Now, if you never worry about that,

00:31:52.940 and your car is never broken into or stolen,

00:31:56.280 then you're in a very safe city.

00:32:00.220 Where I am right now, actually,

00:32:02.100 it's a place where I'll stop at a gas station

00:32:04.440 and I'll run inside

00:32:06.260 with my keys still in the car

00:32:08.720 and my car on.

00:32:11.660 Not worried at all about it getting stolen.

00:32:14.040 Like, I have zero concern.

00:32:15.340 And it never is.

00:32:16.700 Now, you would never do that in D.C.

00:32:20.520 I don't care how liberal you are.

00:32:21.980 I don't care how enlightened you are.

00:32:24.000 You would...

00:32:24.620 Would you ever, in D.C.,

00:32:26.020 in a million years,

00:32:27.520 park your car at a gas station,

00:32:29.280 leave your keys in the car,

00:32:31.040 and go inside?

00:32:32.480 You would never do that.

00:32:34.320 No, you wouldn't.

00:32:35.780 Why wouldn't you do that?

00:32:37.100 Well, because you know

00:32:38.340 that there are people walking around everywhere

00:32:40.480 who, if you give them an opportunity to steal your car,

00:32:43.260 they're just going to steal it. 0.97

00:32:45.200 Okay?

00:32:46.980 Well, guess what?

00:32:50.860 Here's something that will shock you.

00:32:53.140 Okay?

00:32:53.400 If you're one of these urbanite liberals,

00:32:56.900 you'll be shocked to hear this.

00:32:59.720 You should be able to

00:33:01.980 leave your keys in the car.

00:33:04.980 You actually...

00:33:05.580 And that's not utopian.

00:33:07.160 You should be able to do that.

00:33:10.620 Okay?

00:33:11.100 There should not be people walking

00:33:13.620 all around your community

00:33:14.820 who will just steal your car

00:33:16.720 if you give them the chance.

00:33:18.740 That's not normal,

00:33:20.160 or at least it shouldn't be.

00:33:22.020 Okay?

00:33:22.320 That should not be a normal part of life,

00:33:24.420 and it doesn't have to be.

00:33:25.920 The fact that you live in DC

00:33:28.700 and you can't even comprehend

00:33:31.020 that you should be able to

00:33:34.040 leave your sunglasses in the car

00:33:36.540 on the dashboard

00:33:38.020 or even leave your keys in the car,

00:33:40.520 well, that just goes to show

00:33:41.620 that crime is so bad,

00:33:44.520 it's so normalized,

00:33:45.540 that you can't even conceive

00:33:47.260 of doing anything else.

00:33:48.700 Did you know there are places

00:33:52.580 in America right now

00:33:53.760 where people leave

00:33:54.600 the doors unlocked

00:33:55.600 in their homes at night?

00:33:57.360 There are places where they sleep

00:33:58.740 with, like,

00:33:59.160 the first floor window open.

00:34:02.400 There are places

00:34:03.240 where the murder rate

00:34:04.180 is effectively zero.

00:34:05.720 There are towns

00:34:06.580 that go a year

00:34:08.580 without anyone getting murdered.

00:34:12.220 Did you know that?

00:34:13.900 There are plenty of towns

00:34:15.000 where the number of people

00:34:15.980 murdered by strangers

00:34:17.280 on the street

00:34:18.180 is almost always zero

00:34:20.100 year after year.

00:34:24.620 There are places

00:34:25.820 where violent crime,

00:34:27.000 when it happens,

00:34:28.020 is almost always

00:34:29.140 domestic-related,

00:34:30.600 right, which is bad,

00:34:31.460 but it means that

00:34:32.700 you never have to worry

00:34:33.760 about being victimized

00:34:35.160 by a stranger.

00:34:36.280 There are places

00:34:36.800 where you could,

00:34:37.600 where at night

00:34:38.260 you could just walk

00:34:38.860 down the street.

00:34:39.920 You could do that.

00:34:41.500 Did you know that?

00:34:43.040 There are places

00:34:43.600 where as a woman at night

00:34:45.300 you could walk

00:34:46.360 down the streets

00:34:47.620 and you'll be fine.

00:34:51.120 And once again,

00:34:52.360 for all these leftists

00:34:54.360 that are trying

00:34:54.760 to minimize this,

00:34:55.820 they hear that

00:34:56.580 and they're like,

00:34:57.080 that's, well,

00:34:57.640 that's a utopia.

00:34:58.480 That's not possible.

00:35:00.020 What is this?

00:35:01.160 What, you're talking

00:35:01.600 about heaven?

00:35:03.440 That's heaven.

00:35:04.280 You can't do that

00:35:05.060 anywhere else.

00:35:07.800 No, that's a real thing.

00:35:09.760 And guess what?

00:35:10.580 That's how things

00:35:11.300 should be.

00:35:13.100 That is the standard

00:35:14.440 that you should hold.

00:35:16.180 Every plate,

00:35:16.980 the standard should be

00:35:18.440 that as a woman 0.93

00:35:21.460 you could walk

00:35:21.920 down the street at night

00:35:22.600 or as a man.

00:35:25.060 Like, you know,

00:35:26.000 because woman or man,

00:35:27.480 in D.C.,

00:35:28.620 it's like plenty of places

00:35:29.600 in D.C.

00:35:30.040 where I'm not walking

00:35:30.700 down the street at night

00:35:31.340 alone either

00:35:32.340 because I don't want

00:35:33.140 to get mugged and killed.

00:35:37.060 But that should be 0.99

00:35:38.580 the standard.

00:35:40.340 And you shouldn't

00:35:41.020 accept anything less.

00:35:42.280 Right?

00:35:45.400 Now, granted,

00:35:46.180 with rampant

00:35:46.800 third-world immigration 0.98

00:35:47.880 and the increasing

00:35:48.900 urbanization of the country,

00:35:50.460 these actual safe places

00:35:52.360 are fewer today

00:35:53.460 than they were

00:35:53.960 20 years ago,

00:35:54.780 a lot fewer.

00:35:56.860 And they are,

00:35:57.860 we're losing them

00:35:58.580 by the day.

00:36:00.500 But they do exist.

00:36:02.940 They have existed,

00:36:04.480 which means

00:36:05.180 they can exist.

00:36:07.580 And if you're trying

00:36:08.500 to decide

00:36:09.000 if D.C.

00:36:09.540 is safe,

00:36:10.500 what you have to do

00:36:11.560 is compare it

00:36:12.420 to actual safe towns.

00:36:15.000 You have to compare

00:36:15.940 its murder rate

00:36:16.900 of 27 per 100,000 people

00:36:19.160 with places

00:36:20.340 where the murder rate

00:36:21.060 is like one

00:36:22.240 or two.

00:36:24.660 D.C.'s murder rate

00:36:25.480 is more than

00:36:26.020 20 times higher

00:36:27.240 than

00:36:27.840 plenty of other towns

00:36:30.180 that are actually safe

00:36:31.160 in this country.

00:36:34.440 By the way,

00:36:35.040 one other thing.

00:36:38.380 The CNN contributor

00:36:39.420 brought up a point

00:36:40.220 that I also can't

00:36:42.000 neglect to

00:36:42.720 acknowledge.

00:36:45.680 She said that

00:36:46.360 in Georgetown

00:36:46.960 in D.C.,

00:36:48.160 they don't have

00:36:48.760 a bunch of cops

00:36:49.400 patrolling the street

00:36:50.280 and yet it's one

00:36:51.400 of the safest parts

00:36:52.140 of the city.

00:36:54.340 And she asked

00:36:55.380 why that is.

00:36:58.780 Well,

00:36:59.340 ma'am,

00:36:59.820 do you really want

00:37:01.020 the answer

00:37:01.440 to that question?

00:37:02.940 Do you really want

00:37:03.700 to know?

00:37:05.040 Do you actually,

00:37:06.520 I mean,

00:37:06.820 you asked,

00:37:08.020 but is that a conversation

00:37:09.300 you actually want

00:37:10.300 to have?

00:37:10.640 I don't think it is

00:37:11.480 because the answer,

00:37:13.080 since you asked,

00:37:14.500 is that Georgetown

00:37:15.920 is one of the whitest

00:37:17.280 parts of D.C.

00:37:19.200 Okay?

00:37:21.180 The whiter 0.87

00:37:22.100 that the neighborhoods

00:37:23.360 in D.C. get,

00:37:24.100 the safer they are.

00:37:25.480 That's just,

00:37:25.880 that's a,

00:37:26.220 that's a statistical reality.

00:37:28.380 Okay?

00:37:28.960 It's just a statistical reality.

00:37:31.200 D.C. has a majority

00:37:32.340 black population.

00:37:33.280 Georgetown, though,

00:37:33.920 is majority white

00:37:35.140 and it's one

00:37:36.640 of the safest parts

00:37:37.240 of the city.

00:37:38.900 That's your answer.

00:37:40.720 You asked,

00:37:41.560 lady,

00:37:41.940 that's your answer.

00:37:45.320 All right,

00:37:45.960 moving on here,

00:37:47.100 another,

00:37:47.700 another headline,

00:37:48.400 but staying with

00:37:48.900 the same general subject.

00:37:50.140 I want you to listen

00:37:50.660 to something

00:37:51.160 that D.C.

00:37:51.860 Attorney General

00:37:52.440 Brian Schwab

00:37:53.560 said

00:37:54.600 as he's seated

00:37:56.860 next to

00:37:57.560 somebody

00:37:58.180 in a COVID mask

00:37:59.580 in the year

00:38:01.240 of our Lord

00:38:01.640 2025,

00:38:03.120 but let's not

00:38:04.300 focus on that.

00:38:04.920 Let's focus on

00:38:05.560 what Mr. Schwab

00:38:07.380 had to say.

00:38:08.700 Listen.

00:38:10.000 During the discussion,

00:38:11.340 residents did not

00:38:12.360 hold back,

00:38:13.240 voicing their frustrations.

00:38:15.160 Am I blaming the system?

00:38:16.780 Many questioning

00:38:17.680 why kids

00:38:18.520 aren't being held

00:38:19.440 accountable.

00:38:20.440 We as a city

00:38:21.320 and a community

00:38:21.960 need to be much

00:38:22.960 more focused

00:38:23.640 on prevention

00:38:24.780 and surrounding

00:38:26.560 young people

00:38:27.240 and their families

00:38:28.160 with resources

00:38:28.920 if we want

00:38:30.060 to be safer

00:38:30.600 in the long run.

00:38:31.400 We cannot prosecute

00:38:32.720 and arrest

00:38:33.160 our way out of it.

00:38:34.300 We cannot

00:38:35.140 prosecute

00:38:36.080 and arrest

00:38:36.920 our way

00:38:38.620 out of crime.

00:38:39.500 We cannot

00:38:39.900 arrest our way

00:38:41.040 out of crime,

00:38:41.780 he says.

00:38:44.240 This is the

00:38:45.020 Attorney General

00:38:45.760 of the city

00:38:48.520 saying that

00:38:48.940 we can't

00:38:49.620 arrest our way

00:38:50.560 out of crime.

00:38:52.760 Brian,

00:38:53.240 that is

00:38:55.060 exactly

00:38:55.760 what we can

00:38:57.540 do.

00:38:58.860 That's

00:38:59.220 exactly

00:39:00.220 the solution.

00:39:02.840 That's

00:39:03.240 the solution.

00:39:04.980 Remember I said

00:39:05.680 you shouldn't

00:39:06.220 live in a town

00:39:06.860 where you have

00:39:07.380 to worry

00:39:07.640 about the fact

00:39:08.120 that so many

00:39:08.500 people are

00:39:08.780 walking around

00:39:09.340 who will just

00:39:09.740 steal your car

00:39:10.380 if you let them?

00:39:13.160 You should

00:39:13.760 expect

00:39:14.220 as opposed

00:39:15.660 to towns

00:39:16.140 where it's

00:39:16.740 like

00:39:16.980 no one

00:39:18.700 is just

00:39:19.020 going to

00:39:19.220 take your

00:39:19.600 car

00:39:19.880 just because

00:39:20.380 they have

00:39:20.620 the opportunity

00:39:21.120 to.

00:39:23.240 As a

00:39:24.800 normal

00:39:25.020 person,

00:39:26.840 I'm

00:39:27.560 relatively

00:39:28.600 normal by

00:39:29.120 most standards.

00:39:30.360 You could

00:39:31.520 give me an

00:39:32.220 opportunity to

00:39:32.680 steal a car

00:39:33.140 all day long

00:39:33.800 and I'm

00:39:34.140 just not

00:39:34.620 ever going

00:39:35.040 to steal

00:39:35.400 it.

00:39:35.700 I would

00:39:36.700 just never

00:39:37.220 ever do

00:39:37.660 that.

00:39:39.220 I could

00:39:41.120 be in

00:39:41.360 a lot

00:39:42.160 with a

00:39:43.380 thousand

00:39:43.840 of the

00:39:44.320 most expensive

00:39:45.080 cars that

00:39:45.800 all have

00:39:46.220 their keys

00:39:46.580 and they're

00:39:46.780 all running

00:39:47.160 and my

00:39:48.000 temptation

00:39:48.440 to steal

00:39:48.880 them will

00:39:49.280 be zero.

00:39:50.180 I won't

00:39:50.480 even feel

00:39:50.820 like 1%

00:39:51.580 temptation.

00:39:53.240 And that's

00:39:54.060 a normal

00:39:54.400 person,

00:39:54.800 a normal

00:39:55.100 civilized

00:39:55.540 person.

00:39:55.920 That's how

00:39:56.160 you operate.

00:39:56.760 That's how

00:39:56.980 you are.

00:39:59.720 So how

00:40:01.200 do you

00:40:01.400 solve crime?

00:40:02.120 Well,

00:40:02.360 all the

00:40:02.800 people who

00:40:03.520 you couldn't

00:40:04.100 trust them

00:40:04.780 around your

00:40:05.300 car with

00:40:05.700 the keys

00:40:05.980 in it,

00:40:06.940 all of

00:40:07.560 those people,

00:40:08.720 all of

00:40:09.720 them should 0.83

00:40:10.920 be in

00:40:11.420 jail.

00:40:12.940 Okay?

00:40:14.200 As soon as

00:40:14.900 you have the

00:40:15.200 opportunity,

00:40:15.960 now granted

00:40:16.480 you have to

00:40:16.760 wait until

00:40:17.000 someone actually

00:40:17.320 commits a

00:40:17.640 crime to

00:40:17.920 arrest them.

00:40:18.900 We're not

00:40:19.440 quite in

00:40:19.740 minority

00:40:20.260 report territory

00:40:20.940 yet,

00:40:21.340 but all

00:40:22.100 those kinds

00:40:22.420 of people,

00:40:22.660 they all

00:40:22.840 commit crimes.

00:40:23.700 So if

00:40:24.940 they're the

00:40:25.220 kind of

00:40:25.420 person who

00:40:25.700 would just

00:40:25.900 take a

00:40:26.180 car if

00:40:26.600 it's sitting

00:40:26.920 there,

00:40:27.800 they commit

00:40:28.700 crimes,

00:40:29.080 like they've

00:40:29.360 committed a

00:40:29.720 bunch of

00:40:29.920 crimes.

00:40:30.880 So you

00:40:31.620 take them

00:40:32.640 and you

00:40:32.960 round them

00:40:33.520 up and

00:40:33.880 you put

00:40:34.200 them in

00:40:34.420 a cage

00:40:35.180 and you

00:40:36.240 leave them

00:40:36.760 there.

00:40:38.020 That's how

00:40:38.480 you make

00:40:38.740 your city

00:40:39.000 safe.

00:40:41.320 The only

00:40:42.060 kinds of

00:40:42.560 people that

00:40:43.040 should be

00:40:43.280 walking around

00:40:43.940 the streets

00:40:44.460 of your

00:40:44.860 town are

00:40:45.240 the kinds

00:40:45.620 of people

00:40:46.080 who would

00:40:47.040 never steal

00:40:47.500 a car,

00:40:47.820 regardless of

00:40:48.420 whatever

00:40:48.780 opportunity they

00:40:49.620 have.

00:40:50.760 The kinds

00:40:51.380 of people

00:40:51.720 who they

00:40:52.520 could see

00:40:52.860 your door

00:40:53.220 wide open

00:40:53.780 at night

00:40:54.200 and they

00:40:55.040 would have

00:40:55.280 0% temptation

00:40:56.280 to walk in

00:40:56.760 and murder 1.00

00:40:57.060 you and 1.00

00:40:57.440 take your

00:40:57.720 TV.

00:41:00.240 Those are

00:41:00.760 the only

00:41:01.260 kinds of

00:41:01.860 people who

00:41:02.600 should be

00:41:02.960 walking around

00:41:03.840 free in

00:41:04.720 your community.

00:41:05.820 The other

00:41:06.480 kinds should

00:41:07.180 be in a

00:41:07.540 cage.

00:41:10.040 That's how

00:41:10.500 you have a

00:41:10.800 civilized community.

00:41:11.340 That's how

00:41:11.600 you do it.

00:41:12.260 You either do

00:41:12.900 it that way

00:41:13.480 or you will

00:41:14.000 not have a

00:41:14.420 civilized

00:41:14.920 community.

00:41:16.660 Those are

00:41:17.120 the only two

00:41:17.460 options.

00:41:18.000 There is not

00:41:18.340 a third one.

00:41:19.620 Saying you

00:41:20.400 can't arrest

00:41:20.920 your way

00:41:21.220 out of

00:41:21.460 crime,

00:41:21.900 it's like

00:41:22.440 running up

00:41:23.880 to a

00:41:24.180 firefighter

00:41:24.920 who's

00:41:25.760 connecting

00:41:26.080 the hose

00:41:26.540 to the

00:41:26.820 fire hydrant

00:41:27.420 and saying,

00:41:28.800 hey,

00:41:28.880 what are you

00:41:29.120 doing?

00:41:30.100 What are you

00:41:30.780 going to

00:41:30.960 spray water

00:41:31.580 on it?

00:41:33.200 We can't

00:41:33.880 water our

00:41:34.580 way out

00:41:35.020 of a

00:41:35.720 fire.

00:41:37.380 Oh,

00:41:37.580 so that's

00:41:38.280 your plan,

00:41:38.780 huh?

00:41:38.980 You're just

00:41:39.300 going to

00:41:39.480 use some

00:41:39.820 of this

00:41:40.040 magical,

00:41:40.760 what is

00:41:41.080 this,

00:41:41.380 water?

00:41:43.000 Oh,

00:41:43.840 look at

00:41:44.280 you,

00:41:44.500 Mr.

00:41:44.760 magical

00:41:45.100 fireman.

00:41:45.680 You're just

00:41:45.860 going to

00:41:46.040 spray water

00:41:46.620 on a

00:41:46.880 fire.

00:41:47.240 You think

00:41:47.600 it's that

00:41:47.960 simple?

00:41:48.720 You think

00:41:49.060 it's that

00:41:49.400 simple?

00:41:49.760 You don't

00:41:50.000 understand

00:41:50.320 the nuances

00:41:50.920 of

00:41:51.180 firefighting.

00:41:53.160 No,

00:41:53.560 what we

00:41:53.700 need to

00:41:53.920 do is

00:41:54.180 rethink.

00:41:54.880 We should

00:41:55.240 rethink

00:41:55.700 fires.

00:41:56.760 We should

00:41:57.120 rethink it.

00:41:57.920 Maybe the

00:41:58.260 fire's good.

00:41:59.540 Maybe it's

00:41:59.880 actually better

00:42:00.440 to have your

00:42:00.820 house on

00:42:01.180 fire.

00:42:01.520 Oh,

00:42:01.660 there's a

00:42:01.980 family trapped

00:42:02.660 in the

00:42:03.240 house.

00:42:04.180 They need

00:42:04.360 to be

00:42:04.540 rescued.

00:42:05.080 Well,

00:42:05.320 hold on a

00:42:05.780 second.

00:42:06.500 It's not so

00:42:07.120 simple to

00:42:07.480 just run in

00:42:07.940 and take

00:42:08.240 them out

00:42:08.480 and put

00:42:08.660 the fire

00:42:08.980 out.

00:42:09.960 Let's

00:42:10.300 rethink it.

00:42:11.820 Who's to

00:42:12.300 say that

00:42:12.660 they're any

00:42:12.940 less safe

00:42:13.440 with their

00:42:13.640 house on

00:42:13.980 fire than

00:42:14.260 they would

00:42:14.480 be

00:42:14.620 otherwise?

00:42:16.000 Did you

00:42:16.500 think about

00:42:16.840 that?

00:42:19.900 So it's

00:42:20.500 total madness.

00:42:22.380 Arrest our

00:42:22.980 way out of

00:42:23.380 crime,

00:42:23.700 yeah.

00:42:25.460 I mean,

00:42:26.040 there are

00:42:26.320 other things

00:42:26.980 you can and

00:42:27.560 should do

00:42:28.000 as well.

00:42:29.200 There are

00:42:29.500 other strategies

00:42:30.200 that can be

00:42:30.760 employed in

00:42:32.280 addition.

00:42:34.220 But the

00:42:34.900 fundamental way

00:42:35.760 that you

00:42:36.080 stop violent

00:42:36.720 crime is by

00:42:37.560 arresting and

00:42:38.460 imprisoning the

00:42:40.060 people who

00:42:40.500 commit it.

00:42:40.980 So that's

00:42:44.140 it.

00:42:45.020 But once

00:42:45.700 again, the

00:42:46.160 left wants us

00:42:46.760 to think that

00:42:47.460 a simple

00:42:48.100 issue is

00:42:48.820 actually super

00:42:49.720 complicated.

00:42:52.760 So way too

00:42:53.440 complicated.

00:42:53.880 You can't just

00:42:54.180 put them in

00:42:54.520 prison.

00:42:55.480 Well, yeah,

00:42:55.840 just put them

00:42:56.180 all in prison.

00:42:56.680 Well, we're

00:42:57.020 going to run

00:42:57.320 out of space.

00:42:57.860 Oh, we'll

00:42:58.100 just build

00:42:58.440 more prisons

00:42:58.860 then.

00:42:59.880 How many

00:43:00.340 prisons do

00:43:00.760 we need?

00:43:02.480 Hey, you're

00:43:02.800 asking, well,

00:43:03.120 how many

00:43:03.320 prisons should 0.87

00:43:03.700 we build?

00:43:04.120 I don't

00:43:04.300 know.

00:43:04.440 How many

00:43:04.640 do we need?

00:43:05.900 You tell

00:43:06.380 me how many 1.00

00:43:06.760 violent scumbags 1.00

00:43:07.460 we have walking 1.00

00:43:08.000 around that need

00:43:08.380 to be in

00:43:08.620 prison and we'll 0.70

00:43:09.900 do the math

00:43:10.420 and that's

00:43:10.740 how many

00:43:10.920 prisons we

00:43:11.300 should build.

00:43:12.640 Well, that

00:43:13.120 would require

00:43:13.580 100 new

00:43:14.160 prisons.

00:43:14.600 Okay, build

00:43:15.020 100, build

00:43:15.720 1,000.

00:43:16.460 We've got

00:43:16.720 plenty of

00:43:17.040 space.

00:43:18.120 We're wasting

00:43:18.760 money all the

00:43:19.280 time.

00:43:20.040 I mean, we

00:43:21.300 spend billions

00:43:21.920 of dollars a

00:43:22.980 year alone

00:43:23.620 just buying

00:43:24.080 donuts for 0.79

00:43:24.680 fat people on 0.62

00:43:25.300 EBT.

00:43:25.980 I mean, we

00:43:26.240 could take a

00:43:26.680 couple of

00:43:27.580 those billion

00:43:28.060 and build a

00:43:28.900 few more

00:43:29.160 prisons.

00:43:31.900 That's one

00:43:32.400 thing I'm

00:43:32.720 willing for my

00:43:33.220 tax money to

00:43:33.760 go to.

00:43:35.120 I'll donate to

00:43:35.900 a GoFundMe.

00:43:38.340 You could raise

00:43:39.280 the tax money

00:43:39.820 voluntarily.

00:43:41.880 Start a GoFundMe

00:43:42.680 to build another

00:43:43.200 prison for the 1.00

00:43:43.700 violent scumbags. 1.00

00:43:44.300 I will donate to 0.99

00:43:45.060 it personally.

00:43:47.700 So, yeah, it

00:43:48.540 is really that

00:43:49.780 simple.

00:43:50.200 It actually is.

00:43:54.320 All right, some

00:43:55.060 news out of

00:43:55.560 Canada, because

00:43:57.460 we love news out

00:43:58.520 of Canada, don't

00:43:59.140 we, folks?

00:44:00.480 And here it

00:44:02.680 is.

00:44:02.920 Watch.

00:44:03.080 A leisurely walk

00:44:04.800 in the woods is

00:44:05.440 no longer allowed

00:44:06.320 in Nova Scotia,

00:44:07.260 and it may not

00:44:07.880 be for the rest

00:44:08.580 of the summer.

00:44:09.760 Effective 4 p.m.

00:44:10.960 today, we're

00:44:11.840 telling Nova Scotians

00:44:12.980 stay out of the

00:44:13.780 woods.

00:44:14.540 Nova Scotia's 0.65

00:44:15.080 premier announced

00:44:15.760 today a ban on

00:44:16.780 activities in the

00:44:17.700 forest because of

00:44:18.480 extreme dry

00:44:19.220 conditions and the

00:44:20.100 risk of wildfires.

00:44:21.700 Hiking, camping,

00:44:23.100 fishing, and the

00:44:23.800 use of vehicles in

00:44:24.600 the woods are not

00:44:25.320 permitted.

00:44:26.480 Trail systems

00:44:27.220 through woods are

00:44:28.580 off limits.

00:44:29.760 At these walking

00:44:30.460 trails in the heart

00:44:31.260 of Sydney, some

00:44:32.040 agreed with the

00:44:32.680 move, while others

00:44:33.500 didn't.

00:44:34.600 As long as you're

00:44:35.220 not sit-tarting a

00:44:37.040 fire or smoking, you

00:44:38.940 know, that kind of

00:44:39.640 thing, you should be

00:44:40.660 able to walk there. 0.95

00:44:42.000 It kind of sucks for

00:44:42.780 the campers and

00:44:43.720 anybody out-tenting,

00:44:46.600 but it's probably

00:44:48.140 necessary.

00:44:49.200 At these wooded

00:44:50.020 trails in Coxseith,

00:44:51.120 the entrance is

00:44:51.740 blocked off.

00:44:52.580 The people who run

00:44:53.220 the trails say while

00:44:54.180 they understand the

00:44:55.060 province's move, it's

00:44:56.260 also unfortunate.

00:44:57.460 So there's some

00:44:58.040 expansions and

00:44:59.140 upgrades that we had

00:45:00.120 hoped to finish this

00:45:01.100 summer that, depending

00:45:02.340 on how long this

00:45:02.980 goes, it will be

00:45:04.420 slowed down.

00:45:05.700 According to the

00:45:06.480 province, the penalty

00:45:07.240 for violators will be

00:45:08.340 the same as it is for

00:45:09.340 the burn ban put in

00:45:10.400 last week, $25,000,

00:45:12.620 though camping is

00:45:13.740 allowed at registered

00:45:14.760 campsites and some

00:45:15.900 exceptions will be

00:45:16.760 made for work in the

00:45:17.840 woods.

00:45:18.660 So they can get a

00:45:19.560 permit to carry out

00:45:20.640 their operations on

00:45:21.580 Crown lands.

00:45:22.980 They may need to

00:45:24.020 operate at night,

00:45:25.040 which can take place.

00:45:26.380 The Premier says

00:45:27.320 with nothing but more

00:45:28.200 dry weather expected

00:45:29.380 in the coming days,

00:45:30.240 the move is being

00:45:31.040 made now to try and

00:45:32.080 avoid a major

00:45:32.840 wildfire like the

00:45:33.820 one outside of

00:45:34.440 Halifax two years

00:45:35.320 ago.

00:45:35.980 We've had briefings

00:45:37.040 from Environment

00:45:37.840 Canada about the

00:45:39.020 near-term forecast and

00:45:40.500 there is no significant

00:45:41.980 rain in sight.

00:45:43.680 You know, Canadians

00:45:44.300 just, they blow my

00:45:45.700 mind.

00:45:46.040 They really do.

00:45:46.640 They do because I

00:45:49.480 can't understand the

00:45:50.980 Canadian mind.

00:45:54.200 I'm wired in exactly

00:45:55.680 the opposite way.

00:45:56.700 I can't understand it.

00:45:57.700 You heard all those

00:45:59.180 interviews and

00:45:59.920 everybody was just

00:46:01.120 saying, well, yeah,

00:46:02.580 it seems ridiculous to

00:46:04.140 ban people from 1.00

00:46:04.900 walking in the woods,

00:46:05.840 but, well, what are

00:46:06.960 you going to do?

00:46:08.440 They must have a good

00:46:09.100 reason.

00:46:10.980 I mean, this is the

00:46:11.540 government we're

00:46:12.000 talking about here.

00:46:13.000 When has the

00:46:13.620 government ever done

00:46:14.220 something without good

00:46:14.900 reason?

00:46:16.980 So it's pretty amazing.

00:46:18.220 It's like an entire

00:46:18.760 country of submissives,

00:46:19.960 an entire country of

00:46:20.820 henpecked husbands,

00:46:21.720 an entire country of

00:46:24.600 Michael J.

00:46:26.340 Fox's dad from

00:46:27.380 Back to the Future.

00:46:30.700 Well, gee, they told

00:46:31.680 me not to walk in the

00:46:32.540 woods.

00:46:32.820 What am I going to do

00:46:33.400 about it?

00:46:33.720 Object?

00:46:34.880 What do you expect

00:46:35.600 me to do?

00:46:36.000 Object?

00:46:36.540 Well, that would be

00:46:36.940 impolite.

00:46:39.360 You know, there should 0.68

00:46:40.080 be thousands of

00:46:40.820 Canadians in Nova Scotia

00:46:41.960 hiking in the woods

00:46:42.860 every day just out of

00:46:44.220 principle.

00:46:45.440 That's the appropriate

00:46:46.240 response because this is 0.55

00:46:47.840 nonsense.

00:46:48.300 I mean, if you're

00:46:48.660 worried about wildfires,

00:46:49.600 you can ban people

00:46:51.100 from starting campfires.

00:46:52.460 That makes a lot of

00:46:53.020 sense.

00:46:53.380 That makes sense.

00:46:54.580 If there's actually a

00:46:55.940 high wildfire risk,

00:46:57.780 then, yeah, you ban

00:46:59.860 campfires.

00:47:00.740 You ban open burning

00:47:01.840 and that sort of thing.

00:47:03.700 But going for a walk

00:47:04.940 in the woods will not

00:47:06.020 create a wildfire.

00:47:07.460 That's not how

00:47:07.780 wildfires, unless you're

00:47:08.880 a cartoon character

00:47:09.940 and you're running so

00:47:11.320 fast that there are

00:47:12.140 flames jetting out from

00:47:13.980 behind you.

00:47:15.000 Then, aside from

00:47:16.600 that, a wall

00:47:19.580 walk or a jog in

00:47:20.400 the woods just does

00:47:21.440 not carry any

00:47:22.340 wildfire risk at

00:47:23.220 all.

00:47:24.860 But the reason I'm

00:47:26.100 bringing this up is

00:47:26.800 because, not because

00:47:29.380 I care all that

00:47:30.020 deeply about Nova

00:47:31.800 Scotians being able

00:47:32.860 to go for a hike.

00:47:34.680 I mean, they don't

00:47:35.360 care about it, so

00:47:36.040 what do I, I'm not

00:47:37.160 going to care for

00:47:37.760 them.

00:47:39.100 But I think we all

00:47:39.920 know what this is.

00:47:41.360 Well, these Canadians 1.00

00:47:42.240 might not, but the

00:47:43.020 rest of us do.

00:47:43.580 This is the early

00:47:44.340 precursor to climate

00:47:46.640 lockdowns.

00:47:47.400 This is a climate

00:47:50.540 lockdown.

00:47:51.040 It's one of the

00:47:51.400 first.

00:47:52.780 And we know that the

00:47:53.900 bureaucratic tyrants in

00:47:55.180 government have been

00:47:55.780 searching for a way to

00:47:56.920 once again wield the

00:47:58.580 power to lock us in

00:48:00.600 our homes, and climate

00:48:01.860 lockdowns are, you

00:48:04.220 know, obviously the

00:48:05.920 most obvious backup

00:48:07.680 plan.

00:48:09.280 Now, I still think

00:48:10.140 they'd probably prefer to

00:48:11.140 have some sort of virus

00:48:12.340 that they could use as

00:48:13.380 an excuse.

00:48:13.940 But if not that, then

00:48:16.500 climate lockdowns are

00:48:17.980 the way forward.

00:48:20.900 And this is why it's

00:48:21.860 important when this

00:48:22.680 stuff starts, and we

00:48:24.340 should know this by now,

00:48:25.280 we should have learned

00:48:25.800 this by now, that when

00:48:26.660 this stuff starts, you

00:48:27.440 got to push back hard.

00:48:29.820 Refuse to comply.

00:48:31.940 Let them know you're

00:48:32.820 not going to go along

00:48:33.680 with it.

00:48:35.660 Once they start the

00:48:36.520 climate lockdowns and

00:48:37.360 they say, oh, it's too

00:48:37.960 hot to go outside, so

00:48:39.640 you're not allowed to go

00:48:40.240 for a walk in the

00:48:40.880 woods.

00:48:41.080 We're going to treat

00:48:43.020 you like your mother

00:48:44.520 and tell you, oh,

00:48:47.140 sorry, Junior, it's

00:48:47.900 too hot today.

00:48:50.760 Scott, we've got to

00:48:51.400 stay inside today, and

00:48:52.320 for the rest of the

00:48:52.960 summer, once you let

00:48:55.060 them treat you like

00:48:55.740 that, then you've

00:48:58.220 just sort of signed

00:48:59.040 up for what comes

00:49:00.400 next, and we know

00:49:01.760 in Canada that

00:49:02.440 they've long since

00:49:04.700 signed up for it

00:49:05.420 because they've

00:49:05.800 gotten very used to

00:49:06.880 being treated this

00:49:07.760 way.

00:49:08.740 You know, there's

00:49:08.980 nothing like firing

00:49:09.640 up the grill for the

00:49:10.560 family on a weekend,

00:49:11.400 but I got tired of

00:49:12.720 wondering if the

00:49:13.260 steaks I was cooking

00:49:14.120 were actually what the

00:49:15.780 label claimed that

00:49:16.740 they were.

00:49:17.240 Turns out over 4

00:49:18.340 billion pounds of

00:49:19.280 imported meat can

00:49:20.700 still be labeled

00:49:21.540 product of the USA.

00:49:23.280 Not exactly what I

00:49:24.840 want on my grill, and

00:49:26.260 I know you feel the

00:49:26.920 same way, so I found

00:49:28.360 good ranchers, and

00:49:29.740 that has been a

00:49:30.360 solution.

00:49:30.740 100% American meat

00:49:32.320 from actual local

00:49:33.300 farms and ranches.

00:49:34.360 When I'm grilling

00:49:35.080 ribeyes for my wife

00:49:36.060 and kids or making

00:49:37.020 burgers for a camping

00:49:37.920 trip, I know exactly

00:49:39.340 where that meat came

00:49:40.280 from, plain and

00:49:41.280 simple.

00:49:42.020 I've been a good

00:49:42.500 rancher subscriber for

00:49:43.800 a long time now, I

00:49:45.280 don't know, three, two,

00:49:46.280 three years, and we

00:49:48.140 eat good ranchers

00:49:49.020 every week, and look,

00:49:52.120 we found the

00:49:52.520 convenience is

00:49:53.120 unbeatable.

00:49:54.200 I get $25 off every

00:49:56.280 order, free shipping,

00:49:57.480 plus they throw in

00:49:58.240 extras like bacon or

00:50:00.180 wagyu burgers, perfect

00:50:01.560 for those spontaneous

00:50:02.460 family cookouts and

00:50:03.900 dinners.

00:50:05.040 And, you know, the

00:50:05.620 other thing I love

00:50:06.140 about good ranchers,

00:50:07.060 aside from the fact

00:50:07.640 that it's right here

00:50:09.600 in America, is that

00:50:10.620 it's also just really

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00:51:51.120 Representative Delia

00:51:52.080 Ramirez from Illinois

00:51:53.320 was in the news

00:51:54.160 recently for, as we

00:51:55.560 talked about on this

00:51:56.080 show, standing in front

00:51:56.900 of a group of Hispanics

00:51:57.980 in Mexico City and

00:51:58.740 declaring that she is a

00:51:59.760 proud Guatemalan

00:52:00.800 before she's an 0.99

00:52:02.380 American.

00:52:03.540 Indeed, she's so proud

00:52:04.440 of Guatemala that her

00:52:05.560 family fled the

00:52:06.520 country, settled here

00:52:08.080 illegally, and have

00:52:09.200 refused to return.

00:52:10.640 They'd rather break the

00:52:11.600 law in this country than

00:52:12.560 live in Guatemala.

00:52:13.400 That's how proud of

00:52:14.220 Guatemala they are.

00:52:15.640 That's the inherent

00:52:16.240 contradiction, of course,

00:52:17.000 anytime an immigrant 0.99

00:52:18.340 claims to be so deeply

00:52:19.320 proud of the homeland

00:52:20.080 that they desperately

00:52:20.820 don't want to live in.

00:52:22.520 But the greater problem,

00:52:23.580 of course, is that

00:52:24.140 Congresswoman Ramirez

00:52:25.380 has announced that she is

00:52:27.720 more loyal to a foreign 0.81

00:52:28.960 country than to her own.

00:52:30.320 Now, granted, her loyalty

00:52:32.080 to Guatemala seems rather

00:52:33.600 uninspiring and conditional.

00:52:35.960 She's loyal from a

00:52:37.180 distance, but her loyalty

00:52:39.200 to the United States is

00:52:40.100 clearly even weaker.

00:52:41.840 She puts it second place

00:52:43.360 to the country that her

00:52:44.120 family have spent decades

00:52:45.620 trying to avoid going back

00:52:47.500 to.

00:52:48.700 Now, it should be

00:52:49.240 uncontroversial to say that

00:52:50.340 any elected representative

00:52:51.300 who declares a greater

00:52:52.220 loyalty to a foreign country

00:52:53.420 than to his own country

00:52:54.360 should be removed from

00:52:56.360 office at an absolute

00:52:57.480 minimum.

00:52:59.380 In Ramirez's case,

00:53:00.460 it's obvious that she

00:53:01.640 and her entire family

00:53:02.480 should be deported. 0.91

00:53:04.180 If she loves Guatemala

00:53:05.240 so much, she can live there. 0.77

00:53:07.900 The fact that Delia Ramirez

00:53:09.760 wasn't on a boat

00:53:11.100 back to Guatemala 0.99

00:53:11.900 five minutes after she

00:53:13.120 made those remarks

00:53:13.760 is a disgrace.

00:53:14.520 In fact, we didn't have

00:53:15.740 to put her on a boat.

00:53:16.400 She said all that

00:53:17.000 in Mexico City.

00:53:17.680 All we had to do

00:53:18.100 was lock the door

00:53:18.800 and not let her back in.

00:53:20.560 That's what she deserves. 0.99

00:53:22.140 This woman is a disloyal, 1.00

00:53:23.820 backstabbing, ungrateful 1.00

00:53:25.000 Judas who never should 0.99

00:53:26.840 have been granted citizenship

00:53:27.800 in the first place.

00:53:29.100 And there's no time

00:53:30.160 like the present

00:53:30.800 to rectify that mistake,

00:53:34.340 especially after her

00:53:36.200 most recent comments.

00:53:38.280 Because yes,

00:53:39.100 Ms. Ramirez is at it again. 0.99

00:53:41.260 And this time,

00:53:42.480 it was the Net Roots

00:53:44.440 Nation Conference

00:53:45.400 in New Orleans.

00:53:46.980 During a sit-down discussion

00:53:48.160 on stage at the conference,

00:53:49.220 Ramirez was asked

00:53:50.160 a very simple question.

00:53:51.960 It's a question that

00:53:52.620 everybody running

00:53:53.320 for elected office

00:53:53.980 should be asked.

00:53:54.940 It's a question that

00:53:55.720 every immigrant

00:53:56.380 should be asked

00:53:56.940 before we even think

00:53:58.000 about granting them

00:53:58.760 citizenship.

00:53:59.720 It is the question,

00:54:01.240 I think.

00:54:02.140 It's the new

00:54:02.960 what is a woman? 1.00

00:54:04.140 And that question is

00:54:05.120 what is an American?

00:54:07.780 And just as the left

00:54:08.640 never figured out

00:54:09.280 how to define

00:54:09.760 the word woman

00:54:10.280 and still don't know

00:54:11.100 how to,

00:54:12.160 they have just as much

00:54:14.300 trouble,

00:54:14.660 if not more,

00:54:16.500 stringing together

00:54:17.380 an even vaguely

00:54:18.780 coherent definition

00:54:19.840 for the word American.

00:54:21.280 So let's watch Ramirez

00:54:23.800 as she tries

00:54:25.080 to give it a shot.

00:54:26.820 I want to ask,

00:54:27.940 it seems like

00:54:28.440 a really broad question,

00:54:29.480 but what does it mean

00:54:30.720 to you to be an American?

00:54:33.680 What is it for me

00:54:35.060 to be an American?

00:54:37.060 For me,

00:54:37.720 being an American

00:54:38.400 is the ability

00:54:39.820 to dream,

00:54:41.080 to love,

00:54:42.060 to have dissent,

00:54:43.340 to be able

00:54:45.860 to organize

00:54:47.460 and build

00:54:48.180 a kind of solidarity

00:54:49.080 that recognizes

00:54:50.860 the good

00:54:52.080 and the bad

00:54:53.140 of the formation

00:54:54.240 of this country,

00:54:55.560 that is willing

00:54:56.320 to reckon

00:54:56.960 with how we have

00:54:58.320 used colonialism

00:54:59.120 to harm others,

00:55:00.860 especially in the

00:55:01.720 Western Hemisphere,

00:55:02.920 and begin to think

00:55:04.560 about and imagine

00:55:05.560 creatively

00:55:06.340 what reparations

00:55:07.540 look like,

00:55:08.380 what building

00:55:08.880 solidarity looks like,

00:55:10.200 what bringing

00:55:10.760 all of us together

00:55:11.640 means.

00:55:12.340 To be an American,

00:55:13.340 for me

00:55:13.840 is the ability

00:55:14.940 to love

00:55:15.820 and also push back.

00:55:17.720 The ability

00:55:18.440 to be able

00:55:19.500 to fight back

00:55:20.580 and also build community.

00:55:22.420 And to me,

00:55:23.300 this precise moment

00:55:24.560 is a time

00:55:25.560 for us to ask ourselves,

00:55:27.260 who are we

00:55:29.060 as Americans?

00:55:30.520 And let's be frank,

00:55:32.320 we haven't always

00:55:33.220 been great.

00:55:34.460 And let's be frank,

00:55:35.760 our history says

00:55:36.660 a lot about

00:55:37.400 what we've done

00:55:38.240 and who we've done.

00:55:39.500 This country

00:55:40.080 has never been great

00:55:41.480 for poor people, 0.98

00:55:42.980 for black people,

00:55:44.460 for indigenous people.

00:55:46.040 And so to be American

00:55:47.080 for me

00:55:47.580 is to be able

00:55:48.200 to live into

00:55:48.880 what we should be,

00:55:50.200 not what we have been.

00:55:51.600 So Representative Ramirez

00:55:53.100 says that

00:55:54.040 being an American

00:55:55.180 means that we can

00:55:56.600 dream and love

00:55:58.460 and also that we recognize

00:56:00.100 all the evils

00:56:00.940 of colonialism

00:56:01.620 and all the bad stuff

00:56:02.760 that America did 0.97

00:56:03.440 in the past.

00:56:04.140 That's our answer.

00:56:05.580 And there are a lot

00:56:07.000 of problems here.

00:56:07.740 First of all,

00:56:08.840 Ramirez,

00:56:09.200 what is this

00:56:11.100 we stuff?

00:56:12.840 You're an anchor baby.

00:56:14.220 You became an American

00:56:15.060 thanks to a paperwork

00:56:16.160 loophole.

00:56:17.360 You have no ancestral

00:56:18.600 ties to this country.

00:56:19.580 You don't love it.

00:56:20.260 You don't respect it.

00:56:21.040 You don't even like it.

00:56:22.020 You've made no effort

00:56:22.840 to assimilate

00:56:23.420 into our culture.

00:56:24.200 In fact,

00:56:24.460 you hate our culture

00:56:25.340 and our people.

00:56:26.760 Your family showed up

00:56:27.940 here illegally.

00:56:28.800 Their very first act

00:56:29.680 as residents,

00:56:30.440 illegal residents

00:56:31.060 of this country,

00:56:31.880 was to break our laws

00:56:33.260 and violate our sovereignty.

00:56:35.180 You and your family

00:56:36.160 are squatters.

00:56:37.600 I mean,

00:56:37.760 using the word we

00:56:38.620 is like if a junkie

00:56:39.820 broke into your house

00:56:40.640 while you were on vacation,

00:56:41.880 refused to leave,

00:56:43.320 and then started referring

00:56:44.140 to it as our home.

00:56:46.820 And now imagine

00:56:47.580 that that was a home

00:56:49.680 that your grandfather

00:56:50.660 had built

00:56:51.220 with his own hands,

00:56:52.120 a home that you had lived

00:56:53.380 in since birth,

00:56:54.660 a home built

00:56:55.540 and maintained

00:56:56.340 by your family's

00:56:57.720 sweat and blood

00:56:58.560 and sacrifice,

00:56:59.180 and now some random

00:57:00.500 vagrant

00:57:01.200 who broke in

00:57:02.400 through a downstairs window

00:57:03.480 five seconds ago

00:57:04.240 has announced

00:57:05.080 that it's just as much

00:57:06.440 his home

00:57:07.080 as it is yours.

00:57:08.600 Now, you wouldn't

00:57:09.380 take very kindly

00:57:10.000 to that.

00:57:11.180 And we don't take

00:57:12.220 very kindly

00:57:12.600 to it either.

00:57:14.460 There is no we here,

00:57:16.760 ma'am.

00:57:17.140 This is not your home.

00:57:19.620 And we know it isn't

00:57:20.700 because if it was your home,

00:57:22.620 you'd be able

00:57:23.180 to speak at length

00:57:24.460 and with real depth

00:57:25.840 and feeling

00:57:26.600 and meaning

00:57:27.300 when somebody asks you

00:57:29.620 what this home

00:57:31.160 means to you.

00:57:33.220 But instead,

00:57:34.140 when you were asked

00:57:34.640 what it means

00:57:35.020 to be an American,

00:57:35.540 you started with

00:57:36.440 third-rate

00:57:37.240 Hallmark pablum

00:57:38.600 about how being

00:57:39.200 an American

00:57:39.680 means that you can

00:57:40.460 dream and love.

00:57:43.060 In fact,

00:57:43.640 it's worse than Hallmark.

00:57:44.740 I mean,

00:57:45.020 I wouldn't accept

00:57:45.620 that answer

00:57:45.980 if it was written

00:57:46.580 on a July 4th

00:57:47.620 greeting card.

00:57:49.100 I wouldn't accept

00:57:50.000 it on a second-grader's

00:57:51.120 book report.

00:57:51.920 You are a grown adult

00:57:53.000 and an elected

00:57:53.600 representative of this country

00:57:54.780 and the best you can do.

00:57:56.280 In fact,

00:57:56.580 the only positive thing

00:57:57.680 you can say about America

00:57:58.900 is that Americans

00:58:00.000 can dream and love.

00:58:01.800 Does that mean

00:58:03.620 that people

00:58:04.080 in other countries

00:58:04.680 can't dream and love?

00:58:06.660 Is dreaming and loving

00:58:08.060 unique to Americans?

00:58:09.340 Do your fellow

00:58:09.840 Guatemalans

00:58:10.620 never experience love

00:58:11.800 or have dreams

00:58:12.560 until they sneak

00:58:13.180 across the border

00:58:13.820 into our country?

00:58:14.940 I'm pretty certain

00:58:16.020 that you wouldn't

00:58:16.660 make that claim,

00:58:17.360 which means that

00:58:17.840 your definition

00:58:18.440 of an American

00:58:19.040 is generic

00:58:20.260 and meaningless.

00:58:22.140 Being an American

00:58:23.040 means that you can

00:58:23.720 dream and love

00:58:24.600 and laugh

00:58:25.200 and look at pretty colors

00:58:26.740 and have tickle fights.

00:58:28.100 If my five-year-old

00:58:30.380 daughter said

00:58:30.980 something like that,

00:58:31.720 I'd be embarrassed.

00:58:32.780 You are an adult. 0.96

00:58:34.280 You should be deported

00:58:35.240 just for saying that

00:58:36.420 and for about a dozen

00:58:37.200 other reasons

00:58:37.700 on top of it.

00:58:39.460 But somehow

00:58:40.140 it gets worse.

00:58:41.840 We learn that

00:58:42.820 Americans are people

00:58:43.920 who dream and love,

00:58:44.840 whatever that means,

00:58:45.600 and also,

00:58:47.180 and this is their,

00:58:48.140 the only other

00:58:49.000 qualification you provide,

00:58:50.920 they are people

00:58:51.640 who feel

00:58:52.840 the requisite amount

00:58:53.640 of scorn

00:58:54.620 and resentment

00:58:55.260 for the alleged evils

00:58:56.780 committed by Americans

00:58:57.740 in the past.

00:58:59.860 I mean,

00:59:00.100 never mind the fact

00:59:00.660 that the United States

00:59:01.320 only had slavery

00:59:02.300 for about 90 years

00:59:03.440 while many other countries

00:59:04.240 in the world

00:59:04.560 had it for millennia.

00:59:05.940 Never mind the fact 0.87

00:59:06.600 that white people,

00:59:07.420 Americans and Europeans,

00:59:08.460 were among the last

00:59:09.400 to adopt slavery 0.81

00:59:10.320 and the first

00:59:10.980 to abolish it.

00:59:11.740 Never mind the fact

00:59:12.280 that if we're supposed

00:59:13.120 to feel bad about slavery,

00:59:14.380 then literally

00:59:14.780 every other nation,

00:59:15.820 race, and ethnicity

00:59:16.300 on earth

00:59:16.660 should feel even worse.

00:59:19.300 Never mind the fact

00:59:19.860 that there were countries

00:59:20.420 in Africa

00:59:20.820 practicing legal slavery

00:59:22.060 as recently as the 1970s.

00:59:24.480 Never mind all that.

00:59:26.240 Also,

00:59:26.580 never mind the fact

00:59:27.100 that colonialism,

00:59:28.840 which you decry,

00:59:29.680 is the reason

00:59:30.180 why you currently

00:59:30.920 live in a civilized society

00:59:32.020 where you don't have

00:59:32.500 to worry about

00:59:32.960 being kidnapped

00:59:33.460 by a raiding party

00:59:34.340 in the middle of the night

00:59:34.920 and having your beating heart

00:59:36.140 cut out of your chest 0.84

00:59:36.860 to appease the sun god. 0.71

00:59:38.640 If not for colonialism

00:59:40.180 in the Western Hemisphere,

00:59:41.460 there would still be slavery

00:59:43.080 here today.

00:59:45.040 The entire hemisphere

00:59:46.140 would still be locked

00:59:47.280 in perpetual wars

00:59:48.380 of conquest,

00:59:49.080 and you as a woman

00:59:50.040 would be the property

00:59:51.400 to be bought,

00:59:52.380 traded,

00:59:52.900 stolen,

00:59:53.440 used,

00:59:53.660 and discarded

00:59:54.360 because that's how

00:59:55.500 it worked

00:59:56.040 among the indigenous tribes

00:59:57.540 whose conquest

00:59:58.180 and subjugation

00:59:59.040 you lament 1.00

00:59:59.960 because you're a stupid, 1.00

01:00:01.400 ungrateful, 1.00

01:00:02.000 historically illiterate, 0.99

01:00:03.040 spoiled little child. 0.98

01:00:05.440 But as I said,

01:00:06.340 never mind all that.

01:00:08.040 Even if we pretend

01:00:09.000 that America

01:00:09.460 has all these unique

01:00:10.660 and terrible sins,

01:00:11.560 which it doesn't,

01:00:13.560 still,

01:00:14.620 couldn't anyone

01:00:15.120 anywhere in the world

01:00:15.960 recognize those sins?

01:00:17.280 Couldn't anyone

01:00:17.820 anywhere in the world

01:00:18.620 dream and love

01:00:19.680 and also hate America

01:00:21.120 as you do?

01:00:22.500 If that's the qualification

01:00:23.600 to be an American,

01:00:24.500 then by your definition,

01:00:25.600 anyone,

01:00:26.180 anywhere,

01:00:26.580 at any time,

01:00:27.420 at any given moment

01:00:28.220 can be an American.

01:00:30.460 Now,

01:00:30.600 considering there are

01:00:31.060 a lot of people

01:00:31.520 in the world

01:00:31.960 who hate America,

01:00:32.940 mostly out of envy

01:00:33.860 like you,

01:00:35.180 and considering that

01:00:36.320 most of those people

01:00:36.980 are presumably capable

01:00:38.060 of dreaming

01:00:38.580 and maybe even loving,

01:00:40.380 that would mean

01:00:40.780 that there are billions

01:00:41.560 of Americans

01:00:42.180 currently living

01:00:43.040 in the world today.

01:00:44.140 And most of these

01:00:45.180 Americans

01:00:45.840 have never even

01:00:46.680 been in this country.

01:00:47.540 The Middle East

01:00:48.000 is now full of Americans,

01:00:49.340 apparently.

01:00:49.940 The entire country

01:00:50.720 of China is America. 0.63

01:00:52.040 North Koreans 0.96

01:00:52.660 are all Americans.

01:00:54.600 Everyone's American.

01:00:56.420 Which means,

01:00:57.120 of course,

01:00:57.420 that no one

01:00:58.120 is American.

01:00:59.220 It means that

01:01:00.000 being an American

01:01:00.800 actually means nothing.

01:01:03.200 And that is your

01:01:03.820 real answer,

01:01:04.520 isn't it, Ramirez?

01:01:06.460 You just don't want

01:01:07.260 to say it out loud.

01:01:09.080 Being an American

01:01:09.860 means nothing to you.

01:01:11.640 America means nothing. 0.75

01:01:13.000 America is nothing.

01:01:14.120 It's not even a country.

01:01:15.100 It's not a place.

01:01:15.760 It's not even an idea.

01:01:17.080 It's nothing.

01:01:18.460 It is at most,

01:01:19.400 in your mind,

01:01:20.040 a vague feeling,

01:01:21.180 a fleeting sense

01:01:22.200 of something or other.

01:01:24.900 There's nothing solid

01:01:26.140 that defines it,

01:01:27.860 you say.

01:01:29.420 Now,

01:01:29.900 if I were to ask you

01:01:30.780 what it means

01:01:31.620 to be a Guatemalan,

01:01:33.180 you'd have a lot more

01:01:34.880 to say,

01:01:35.320 wouldn't you?

01:01:36.140 You'd talk about

01:01:36.820 the culture.

01:01:37.460 You'd talk about

01:01:38.020 the people.

01:01:38.640 You'd talk about

01:01:39.140 the pride you feel

01:01:40.300 for Guatemala,

01:01:41.640 the fidelity

01:01:42.360 you have to it.

01:01:45.040 Guatemala is a

01:01:46.000 distinct country

01:01:46.860 to you.

01:01:47.300 In fact,

01:01:47.820 every country

01:01:48.340 on the globe

01:01:48.800 that isn't

01:01:49.160 predominantly populated 0.91

01:01:50.000 by white people

01:01:50.560 is a distinct country.

01:01:52.000 It's only white

01:01:52.680 Western nations,

01:01:53.520 America principle among them,

01:01:54.920 that are not allowed

01:01:56.500 to have an actual

01:01:57.880 national identity.

01:01:59.820 That's what you really think.

01:02:01.260 You just won't say it.

01:02:02.380 I mean,

01:02:02.520 you'll come really close,

01:02:03.360 but you won't say it.

01:02:05.440 So let me answer

01:02:06.340 the question,

01:02:06.960 since you can't

01:02:07.700 or won't.

01:02:09.800 America is not

01:02:10.840 a feeling of love.

01:02:12.300 It's not a dream.

01:02:14.240 It's certainly not

01:02:15.160 a set of Marxist claims

01:02:16.540 about the evils

01:02:17.240 of white colonialism

01:02:18.280 or whatever.

01:02:19.980 America

01:02:20.420 is a country.

01:02:23.800 It is a country

01:02:24.940 with borders

01:02:25.740 and laws

01:02:27.040 and a language.

01:02:28.260 It is a people.

01:02:29.580 It is a culture.

01:02:30.680 It is a history.

01:02:31.840 It is a tradition.

01:02:33.800 It is also,

01:02:34.740 in addition to those things,

01:02:35.920 not on its own,

01:02:36.740 but in addition,

01:02:38.120 it is also

01:02:39.160 a set of values.

01:02:40.700 It is values

01:02:41.340 rooted in Christian thought.

01:02:43.080 This land was conquered

01:02:43.960 and this country

01:02:44.520 was established

01:02:45.120 by Christian men

01:02:46.540 who did it

01:02:47.200 for the glory of God

01:02:48.080 and for the sake

01:02:48.560 of spreading the gospel

01:02:49.500 from sea to shining sea

01:02:50.920 and they were very explicit

01:02:52.200 about that.

01:02:52.940 That is America.

01:02:54.860 It is a nation.

01:02:56.580 It is a home.

01:02:58.660 It's my home,

01:02:59.620 not yours.

01:03:00.940 It's the place

01:03:01.720 where I was born 0.81

01:03:02.620 and I will die.

01:03:03.560 It's where my children 0.90

01:03:04.260 will have children

01:03:05.580 and where their children

01:03:06.780 will have children

01:03:07.480 and all of them

01:03:08.280 will love this country

01:03:09.140 just as I do

01:03:09.880 and celebrate its history

01:03:10.980 and fight to preserve

01:03:11.940 its culture

01:03:12.420 and its traditions

01:03:13.120 because I'm an American

01:03:14.520 and I put no country

01:03:16.540 before this one.

01:03:18.640 You cannot say the same

01:03:19.940 because you are not an American.

01:03:22.720 You can't even convincingly

01:03:24.260 pretend to be one.

01:03:27.000 So what is an American?

01:03:29.040 Well, to begin with,

01:03:30.440 certainly not you.

01:03:33.420 That's why you are today

01:03:34.620 canceled.

01:03:36.980 That'll do it for the show today.

01:03:37.900 Thanks for watching.

01:03:38.380 Thanks for listening.

01:03:38.900 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:03:39.740 Have a great day.

01:03:40.560 Godspeed.

01:03:47.240 The D.C. chief of police

01:03:48.620 struggles to understand English.

01:03:50.600 Immigrants are self-deporting 1.00

01:03:51.900 by the millions

01:03:52.420 and a Harvard astronomer

01:03:53.540 warns that aliens might land

01:03:55.120 in 115 days.

01:03:56.800 Get ready

01:03:57.220 for The Michael Knowles Show.

01:03:59.480 I'm going to 지금

01:04:17.300 get ready

01:04:18.520 to trust and vaccine

01:04:18.860 take care of the people

01:04:20.600 who are passing in

01:04:21.160 the balance.

01:04:21.940 I'm going to see you tomorrow.

The Matt Walsh Show - August 13, 2025

Ep. 1640 - The Insanely Incompetent DEI Hire Running One Of America’s Most Dangerous Cities

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