The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1641 - As Migrants Terrorize Britain, Police Wage War On Catcalls

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, British police launch a sting operation to catch straight men who compliment women as migrant criminals terrorize their country. 1.00

00:00:06.800 This is what they're focused on. Also, the media is very upset that the Trump administration will be removing all the anti-white propaganda from Smithsonian Museum exhibits.

00:00:14.080 And The Daily Beast accuses Ron DeSantis of committing mass murder against veterans.

00:00:18.720 The one relevant detail here is that the veterans Ron DeSantis has executed were serial killers.

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00:02:37.000 Around a decade ago, when viral videos were just starting to become commonplace, a woman uploaded a video entitled 10 Hours of Walking at NYC as a Woman.

00:02:47.460 Like many viral videos, it wasn't actually as spontaneous as it looked.

00:02:51.680 It was the brainchild of an anti-harassment organization by the name of Hollaback, along with an ad agency called Rob Bliss Creative.

00:02:58.920 And the premise, as the name of the video implies, is that a young white woman named Shoshana Roberts would walk around New York, all areas of Manhattan, they said, wearing jeans and a crew neck.

00:03:11.600 She wouldn't say anything to anyone.

00:03:13.400 In front of her, someone would be carrying a hidden camera, which would capture all of the misogynistic men who would inevitably catcall her.

00:03:20.220 So it was intended to be feminist propaganda, in other words. 1.00

00:03:23.960 And you might remember the video, but if not, just for context, here's some of it. Watch.

00:03:29.220 How you doing today?

00:03:32.240 Wow.

00:03:32.680 That's not good.

00:03:33.420 Wow.

00:03:34.960 What's up, baby?

00:03:35.780 How you doing?

00:03:37.300 Hey, what's up, girl? 0.98

00:03:38.340 How you doing?

00:03:39.580 Somebody's acknowledging you.

00:03:42.040 She's in English.

00:03:43.900 Oh, bless you.

00:03:46.360 Hey, baby.

00:03:50.220 Hey, I'm here, bro.

00:03:53.200 How are you, Samar?

00:03:55.740 Have a nice evening.

00:03:57.320 Nice. 1.00

00:03:58.880 Damn. 1.00

00:04:00.160 Damn. 1.00

00:04:01.420 I'm here, bro. 1.00

00:04:02.500 God bless.

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00:04:06.900 Hello, good morning.

00:04:08.720 God bless you.

00:04:09.320 Have a good day, all right?

00:04:20.220 Hey, look at that.

00:04:31.320 $5,000.

00:04:32.880 Yeah, bro.

00:04:34.740 You want to talk?

00:04:40.040 You're asking?

00:04:42.140 Huh?

00:04:43.720 You can't be trans or nothing. 1.00

00:04:47.140 You want to speak?

00:04:47.940 Can I give you my number?

00:04:48.980 You want to tell to?

00:04:50.620 No?

00:04:51.640 No.

00:04:52.460 You're welcome.

00:04:52.960 According to the caption on the video, to her horror, this woman was catcalled more than

00:04:58.480 100 times in just 10 hours.

00:05:01.200 And after releasing this piece of groundbreaking investigative journalism, the feminists who created 1.00

00:05:05.940 it were convinced that they had a real winner on their hands.

00:05:10.180 It was being shared everywhere.

00:05:11.560 People were horrified by the plight of women in New York City.

00:05:15.260 But very quickly, the mood changed.

00:05:18.240 Leftists noticed that, inconveniently enough, pretty much every single catcaller in the video 0.87

00:05:24.980 was black or Hispanic.

00:05:27.120 There was one white guy who said something like, nice, although it wasn't even clear if

00:05:31.620 he was talking to her or not.

00:05:32.500 In any event, he's clearly respectful.

00:05:35.380 He keeps things moving.

00:05:36.480 He simply compliments her, if that's what he did.

00:05:38.560 And he continues walking.

00:05:40.020 By contrast, there were dozens of black and Hispanic catcallers in the video. 0.88

00:05:44.420 And they went far beyond saying, nice. 0.58

00:05:46.720 One of the black guys follows her down the street for five minutes, staring at her the

00:05:50.840 entire time.

00:05:51.360 Another person, another person of color, as we say, tells her to say thank you more.

00:05:56.720 Another guy says, God bless you, mommy.

00:05:59.780 And you know what this means.

00:06:01.640 It means that this video was determined to be highly racist.

00:06:04.820 NPR and Slate, among many other left-wing publications, ran lengthy pieces on how problematic

00:06:10.460 the video was.

00:06:11.500 The author, Roxanne Gay, for example, wrote, the racial politics of the video are effed

00:06:16.840 up.

00:06:17.600 Like, didn't she walk through any white neighborhoods?

00:06:21.260 Now, never mind the fact that she walked all over Manhattan, which the footage clearly

00:06:25.120 shows.

00:06:26.380 As the hysteria grew, the organization that produced the video released a groveling and

00:06:30.500 very confusing statement of apology, which threw their own video under the bus.

00:06:34.760 Quote, we regret the unintended racial bias in the editing of the video that over-represents

00:06:39.700 men of color.

00:06:40.820 We're committed to showing the complete picture.

00:06:43.120 It is our hope and intention that this video will be a start of a series to demonstrate

00:06:47.200 that the type of harassment we're concerned about is directed toward women of all races

00:06:51.380 and ethnicities and conducted by an equally diverse population of men.

00:06:56.480 Now, over on Reddit, the ad agency added, quote, we got a fair amount of white guys, but

00:07:00.720 for whatever reason, a lot of what they said was in passing or off camera.

00:07:04.060 Now, obviously, one of the biggest issues with this claim is that everything in the

00:07:08.360 video was in passing or off camera, so it doesn't make sense to claim that the white

00:07:12.180 people were edited out for that reason, nor does it make any sense to state that in the

00:07:16.980 future, they'll be committed to demonstrating that catcallers are from a, quote, equally diverse

00:07:21.880 population of men.

00:07:22.860 After all, they just captured video demonstrating via a recorded experiment that catcallers apparently

00:07:28.740 are not, in fact, diverse, certainly not equally diverse.

00:07:32.580 So what's the basis for saying that in the future, they'll prove that white people are 0.89

00:07:37.700 just as likely to catcall women, which, by the way, this was years ago, they never were

00:07:42.160 able to prove that.

00:07:44.920 Now, they don't have any basis for saying that, of course, because it's not true.

00:07:48.100 Catcalling women to the point that they become uncomfortable, sort of like playing music 0.99

00:07:52.540 loudly on a Bluetooth speaker at the park or committing armed robbery, is one of those

00:07:56.940 behaviors that, from a statistical perspective, simply isn't perfectly distributed among various

00:08:03.040 ethnic groups.

00:08:04.460 Even if you tried to stack the deck by conducting this experiment in a neighborhood that's like

00:08:08.640 100% white, it still wouldn't work.

00:08:11.180 In fact, it would probably only prove the opposite conclusion because we all know that a woman 1.00

00:08:14.400 can walk through a predominantly white suburb, not just for 10 hours, but like for 10 years,

00:08:20.760 and maybe never get catcalled at all.

00:08:24.280 So that was the real lesson of 10 hours of walking in NYC as a woman, even though the 0.62

00:08:29.300 ad agency would never admit it.

00:08:31.260 They prove rather publicly that different demographic groups engage in catcalling at very different

00:08:36.080 rates and in very different ways, also, it turns out.

00:08:39.520 And so ever since the publication of this video, in the name of racial justice, leftists have

00:08:43.860 mostly stopped talking about catcalling.

00:08:46.660 They've kind of left the topic alone.

00:08:49.260 But as we all know, every lesson of history must be relearned at some point.

00:08:52.500 It's sort of like the old maxim, never fight a land war in Asia.

00:08:56.140 Everyone agrees it's a bad idea, but eventually someone else tries again to disastrous results.

00:09:00.400 And indeed, that's the case with catcalling.

00:09:02.760 So once again, leftists are trying to make a big deal out of catcalling.

00:09:06.840 They're back on the catcalling bandwagon.

00:09:09.380 Specifically in England, the Surrey Police Department recently sent undercover policewomen out on the

00:09:14.600 streets, in jogging clothes, in a sting operation, in an attempt to elicit catcalls.

00:09:21.020 Yes, this is real.

00:09:21.720 They actually did this.

00:09:23.100 And then when the policewomen were catcalled, backup cars swoop in like a drug bust. 1.00

00:09:29.240 Watch.

00:09:29.720 These women aren't friends out for a run. 1.00

00:09:33.260 They're actually undercover police officers taking to the streets in Surrey as part of

00:09:39.100 a new operation trying to stop people catcalling and harassing female runners.

00:09:45.520 We get hulked at.

00:09:46.820 They're staring, they're hanging out of the window just to look at us.

00:09:49.340 And it just, it's so, so, so prevalent.

00:09:51.960 And police teams are ready to intervene the moment the officers are beeped at, followed

00:09:58.180 or shouted at, pulling people over.

00:10:03.460 Those kind of behaviours may not be criminal offences in themselves, but they still need

00:10:07.260 to be addressed.

00:10:08.360 And of course, the people that are likely to commit those kind of behaviours, you know,

00:10:12.840 they may then go on to commit more serious offences.

00:10:15.760 Well, they've convinced me.

00:10:17.820 The policewoman is constantly being told by strangers that she's attractive. 1.00

00:10:22.900 And that is a horrible, horrible thing.

00:10:25.280 It's hard to imagine anything worse than receiving unsolicited compliments, frankly.

00:10:30.520 And indeed, you can see the abject pain and horror in her voice as she's having to process

00:10:35.560 all of this.

00:10:37.000 I mean, last week, I upset some people by suggesting that female cops shouldn't be out on patrol 0.90

00:10:41.900 because they lack the strength and other attributes necessary for that job.

00:10:44.760 But I guess I should revise my statement.

00:10:47.700 I mean, this is one job, walking around and fishing for compliments that female cops are 1.00

00:10:53.260 highly suited for.

00:10:54.540 And they do have, apparently, at least the strength and wherewithal to withstand the deep

00:11:01.360 horrors of being complimented.

00:11:03.660 Unlike, like, with men, you walk around in public your whole life as a man, and you'll probably 0.51

00:11:11.600 never, ever be complimented randomly by a stranger.

00:11:13.920 You'll never hear a compliment, ever, from anyone.

00:11:17.540 And women, we're supposed to believe, hear compliments all the time, and somehow the 1.00

00:11:22.700 women have the harder deal there. 1.00

00:11:24.460 You're constantly being complimented, according to you.

00:11:26.940 Men are never complimented.

00:11:28.020 It's harder to always be complimented.

00:11:29.740 Really?

00:11:31.960 Anyway, it's enough to make you wonder what would happen if some police officers are assigned

00:11:36.720 to this detail and they got no catcalls whatsoever.

00:11:40.100 Would they be giving interviews about how happy they are about the fact that no one in the

00:11:44.500 entire city, during their eight-hour shift, bothered to compliment them?

00:11:48.380 Is that the conversation that would take place back at the station?

00:11:51.880 It seems doubtful, but we can't say.

00:11:55.140 Like, we're supposed to pretend that these undercover cops who were going out looking for

00:11:58.400 catcalls?

00:11:58.760 We're supposed to pretend that those women didn't want to be catcalled? 1.00

00:12:01.240 We're supposed to pretend that they wouldn't have been horrifically embarrassed and offended

00:12:05.060 if they weren't catcalled at all?

00:12:07.000 We're supposed to pretend that.

00:12:10.140 In any event, in the video, they admit that catcalling isn't even criminal, which raises

00:12:14.140 the obvious question of why the police are doing this.

00:12:17.080 They explain that in truth, they're just trying to wag their finger at people who catcall

00:12:20.920 because catcalling is like a gateway drug to more criminal activity.

00:12:24.520 Apparently, people who catcall are more likely to commit murder and tax evasion and arson

00:12:30.080 and so on.

00:12:30.680 I mean, one minute you're telling a woman she looks pretty, the next minute you're, you 0.97

00:12:35.540 know, robbing a bank and shooting the bank teller.

00:12:38.960 I mean, it happens all the time.

00:12:40.120 It happens all the time.

00:12:42.880 But even if that's true and there's not much evidence that it is, it still doesn't come

00:12:46.180 close to justifying a police stop.

00:12:48.000 I mean, if the police are allowed to pull you over because you might commit a future crime

00:12:51.680 in their judgment, then, I mean, that's when you have a police state, which the left always

00:12:56.620 pretends they're concerned about.

00:12:58.040 And of course, that's exactly what the UK has become.

00:13:00.800 They become the kind of left wing version of a police state.

00:13:03.900 But as it turns out, contrary to what's stated in the video, some people are indeed being

00:13:08.540 arrested in the UK as part of this sting operation.

00:13:10.800 The Telegraph reports, quote, Surrey police said the approach was designed to protect women

00:13:14.120 and girls in public places. 1.00

00:13:15.180 According to the force, the operation, which lasted a month, led to 18 arrests for offenses

00:13:19.960 such as harassment, sexual assault and theft.

00:13:23.340 Now, the implication, I guess, is that they picked up people with outstanding warrants for

00:13:26.440 assault and theft, since there's no indication that these officers were actually attacked

00:13:30.400 during their runs.

00:13:31.500 But what's notable about this report and every other report like it is that we don't have

00:13:35.240 any information about the identities of the offenders.

00:13:37.940 They also don't explain what conduct constitutes harassment exactly.

00:13:41.500 Instead, they simply state that this was a one month trial for a sting operation, which

00:13:45.720 has now concluded.

00:13:46.340 So there was there was more transparency from a viral video produced by feminists a decade 1.00

00:13:52.420 ago in New York City than the British police are willing to provide about their taxpayer

00:13:56.680 funded catcalling bust.

00:13:59.160 Now, we can all draw the obvious conclusion here.

00:14:01.400 It's almost certain that this particular sting operation backfired, just like that viral video

00:14:05.820 did.

00:14:06.720 They came up with this plan in order to entrap heterosexual white men who shout compliments 0.73

00:14:12.500 at attractive women. 0.99

00:14:13.380 That was the point. 0.97

00:14:16.080 It was a way to get heterosexual white men in prison. 0.87

00:14:18.500 That's what they were trying to do.

00:14:19.920 That's the great crime that British police decided to spend their time on, something that

00:14:24.560 isn't even a crime at all.

00:14:26.460 In fact, in many cases, it's not even morally objectionable if all you're saying is a polite

00:14:33.100 compliment to somebody.

00:14:34.960 And yet, in their bid to criminalize heterosexuality and to lock up white men for non-crimes, the British 0.91

00:14:40.780 police probably realized to their heart that the worst and most aggressive catcallers, the 0.76

00:14:45.160 real menaces of the catcalling community, were not white at all.

00:14:49.260 And therefore, this operation will end and it will never be resumed again.

00:14:53.820 We can all assume that that's probably what happened.

00:14:56.780 And it's not really a guess because this is how things work in Britain.

00:15:00.280 For many years, the British government concealed the systematic sexual abuse of children that

00:15:04.140 was being committed right out in the open by foreign gangs in England and Wales.

00:15:08.260 According to one recent report prepared by UK government official, Louise Casey, quote,

00:15:14.260 we found that the ethnicity of perpetrators is shied away from and is still not recorded

00:15:18.260 for two thirds of perpetrators.

00:15:19.740 We found many examples of organizations avoiding the topic altogether for fear of appearing racist,

00:15:24.840 raising community tensions or causing community cohesion problems.

00:15:29.380 With the protection of the government, so-called grooming gangs have operated with impunity in

00:15:34.160 the UK. The normal tactic that these gangs used, as Casey's report notes, was for men to target

00:15:39.640 vulnerable adolescent children, often those in care or children with learning or physical

00:15:44.980 disabilities. Those children were then drugged, passed among various men and transported via

00:15:50.980 taxis through the country to other clients. That's how these gangs operated.

00:15:56.140 The total number of victims is unknown because most of these perpetrators have never been caught.

00:16:00.200 A recent estimate suggests that a minimum of 700 children were victims of group-based child

00:16:05.820 sexual exploitation in the UK in 2023 alone. Roughly 1,400 children were sexually abused by men in

00:16:13.260 the UK in the UK town of Rotherham between 1997 and 2013. Again, that's just in one town.

00:16:20.340 In several cases, the police also participated in the sexual assault. They also made it clear that

00:16:25.800 they were extremely uninterested when victims came forward. Watch.

00:16:29.480 One evening in 2006, a 12-year-old girl went into this police station. She reported that she had

00:16:37.000 been molested in a local graveyard. The police officers here told her to sober up and come back later.

00:16:44.540 Police turned the girls away. 0.90

00:16:46.600 As she left, she was accosted by two further men who took her away in a car and raped her.

00:16:52.720 They gave her money for a bus fare and dropped her in the streets in this town in Greater 0.71

00:16:57.780 Manchester. She was picked up by another man.

00:17:01.100 Detectives were discouraged from investigating the crimes.

00:17:04.680 Many senior police officers were fearful of intervening because they may be branded racist.

00:17:13.340 Now, in response to the latest government report on this scandal, police told the BBC that they had,

00:17:18.920 quote, a dedicated team of detectives working on this case who have worked diligently to explore all

00:17:25.140 lines of inquiry. That was the response just a few weeks ago in July of this year. So they're

00:17:30.780 claiming it's a top priority for them. And yet, just a couple hours away in Surrey, the police are

00:17:34.800 busy trying to arrest cat callers. They're chasing down men who honk at women, even though there's

00:17:40.660 nothing criminal about that.

00:17:42.020 Now that we should really be surprised by this, sociopathic sting operations in the service of 0.96

00:17:47.440 extremely dumb policies that happen to target native white citizens are becoming the norm in 0.96

00:17:51.980 police departments all over the country and all over the Western world. In fact, in Canada, they're 0.98

00:17:57.240 rounding up people who try to hike in the woods. We talked about that yesterday, handing out $30,000

00:18:02.300 fines. In Australia, as we also have discussed, they've essentially outlawed prayer. If you try to

00:18:08.780 pray with a guy who thinks he's really a woman or vice versa, you could face a decade's worth of 0.93

00:18:14.620 prison time. In fact, parents can't even pray with their children under the law. Now, there's no way to

00:18:21.540 make sense of any of these crackdowns without recognizing that the governments of the West

00:18:25.160 harbor a deep and abiding disdain for the native populations of their respective countries. And these

00:18:31.260 governments have realized that if they can't completely eliminate the police force and leave the

00:18:35.760 population defenseless, then they can discredit the police at the very least. They can turn law

00:18:40.540 enforcement into a laughingstock, eliminate its legitimacy that way. It's the same reason the police

00:18:47.500 chief in DC can barely understand English, as we talked about yesterday. In other words, the latest war on

00:18:53.200 policing, incredibly enough, is one that the police themselves are participating in. Police departments can

00:18:57.980 either realize what's going on and refuse to participate in the charade, or they can continue to

00:19:02.660 contribute to their downfall. One extremely ill-advised sting operation at a time. Now, let's get to our five

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00:21:15.280 Well, it was announced recently that President Trump would be doing a review of the Smithsonian's

00:21:21.280 museum exhibits to make sure that they, quote, celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive

00:21:26.680 or partisan narratives, and restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions. Which, yes,

00:21:32.100 that is what our publicly funded museum exhibits should do. So that's very good. And they talked

00:21:37.420 about this on CNN last night, and you could only imagine what their take was. Jillian Michaels was a

00:21:43.520 guest. And so, and, and, but she's the one person on the panel who was, did not see this move by

00:21:52.780 Trump to be some great horrific act. And so here's how that conversation went. Listen.

00:21:58.320 Yeah. Have you looked at some of the things that were being reviewed?

00:22:00.280 Yeah. Slavery, yeah. Slavery was a bad thing that was to talk about.

00:22:02.600 Okay. He's not whitewashing slavery. So he's not? He's not. No. Okay. He's not. And you cannot tie

00:22:09.600 imperialism and racism and slavery to just one race, which is pretty much what every single exhibit

00:22:16.440 does. But let's talk about the fact that when you-

00:22:18.600 In the United States-

00:22:19.120 Let's talk about the fact that I mean, unites, slavery in America was-

00:22:21.780 Do you realize that only less than 2% of white Americans own slaves?

00:22:25.340 Do you realize that slavery is thousands of years old? Do you know who was the first race to try to end slavery?

00:22:32.340 I didn't realize this was controversial. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm very surprised that you're trying to litigate.

00:22:36.340 This is an extraordinary exercise in historical revisionism. I'm really surprised.

00:22:39.340 Historical revisionism. Do you realize that-

00:22:40.340 Jillian, I'm surprised that you're trying to litigate who was the beneficiary of slavery and who was not.

00:22:46.340 What I'm trying to tell you is that-

00:22:48.340 In the context of American history, in the context of American history, what are you saying is incorrect by-

00:22:53.340 What I'm saying is you cannot-

00:22:54.340 By saying that it was white people oppressing black people? 0.99

00:22:56.340 Every single thing is like, oh, no, no, no, this is all because white people bad. And that's just not the truth. 0.98

00:23:04.340 The truth. Like, for example, every single exhibit, I have a list of every single one. Like, people migrated from Cuba because white people bad. 0.94

00:23:14.340 Not because of past- 0.52

00:23:16.340 Yes, no, it's in there. That's what I'm saying. You don't actually know what's in there.

00:23:19.340 Do you know that when you walk in the front door-

00:23:20.340 Jillian, what exactly- 0.99

00:23:21.340 The first thing you see is the gay flag- 0.91

00:23:23.340 All right, so Jillian is completely correct, of course. 0.92

00:23:28.340 The other people on the panel are looking at her dumbfounded.

00:23:33.340 And that's not a put-on, by the way. They're not feigning ignorance. They really just have never heard anything that she's saying.

00:23:42.340 The things that she's saying, they've never-

00:23:44.340 When they're looking at her, stupefied, right? They can't even-

00:23:48.340 They can't process it. Well, that's because they've actually never heard it before.

00:23:52.340 The level of sheer, sheer overwhelming historical ignorance of most, of most, quote, educated Americans these days just cannot be understated.

00:24:03.340 And that's not to let them off the hook or to excuse it.

00:24:06.340 But the fact is that if you went to public school any time over the past 40 years, your education was effectively worthless.

00:24:13.340 Your American history education was especially worthless.

00:24:16.340 And that's why you never even heard some of the most basic facts of the world's-

00:24:21.340 You know, you've never heard a lot. There's a lot of basic facts you've never heard.

00:24:24.340 And you certainly didn't hear some of the most basic facts about one of the world's longest-running and most prevalent institutions, which is slavery.

00:24:32.340 An institution so prevalent that when two sides of the world that had been out of contact with each other for thousands of years, when they finally met,

00:24:43.340 they both had independently come up with this idea of forcing other people to work for free.

00:24:49.340 Right? And that's one of the reasons why, and I always talk about, I love reading about explorers and these stories of people who made first contact with tribes in far-flung corners of the world.

00:25:00.340 And I'm endlessly fascinated by these kinds of stories.

00:25:07.340 And one of the reasons is that I think it's really interesting to see the universals.

00:25:12.340 Right? You have all the differences. There are a lot of very significant differences, of course.

00:25:19.340 But there are certain things that you've got these cultures that were separated thousands and thousands and thousands of years, had no contact with each other whatsoever.

00:25:26.340 They didn't even know each other existed. And yet there are certain things that they, like certain conclusions that they had arrived at.

00:25:34.340 And, you know, it's the same thing when you read about, you know, Captain Cook or any European explorer stumbling upon tribes on small Pacific islands, or you hear about the British explorers who were exploring the interior of Africa, you know, in the, in the 19th century, 18th and 19th century tribes so isolated, you know, that they believe they were the only people on earth.

00:25:59.340 And, and, and then you look at the areas where they had reached kind of similar conclusions independently on a number of things.

00:26:11.340 And slavery is one of them, unfortunately.

00:26:14.340 And that's, that's a sad statement. It's a sad, it's a statement about human nature. It's one of the, it's a troubling statement about human nature.

00:26:21.340 We have a fallen nature as human beings. We know that as Christians, so it shouldn't be a great shock.

00:26:26.340 But either way, um, one of the primary things that humans across the world had in common with each other for thousands of years is that they all had figured out that it's a lot easier to get stuff done if you force someone else to do it.

00:26:39.340 So it's like you have these, these two cultures and they're trying to communicate, trying to relate, not understanding each other. 0.74

00:26:46.340 And then they see each other slaves and they go, Oh, you have those two. Oh, that's so neat. We're twins, slave twins.

00:26:55.340 That's actually a direct quote, by the way, that's, uh, that's from one of Vasco da Gama's expeditions, I believe.

00:27:00.840 Anyway, so this was universal. Okay. And yet universal now there are a lot of, we'll talk about, there were a lot of differences in how these institutions, uh, were, how they operated.

00:27:12.840 And there were a lot of differences in how long these various different cultures had slavery, but the universal is that everybody throughout the world for a long period of time had slavery.

00:27:25.080 And it was, and, and they got the slaves different ways. Maybe they had the slaves, but, but slavery is okay. You have to work. You have to perform some sort of labor for you and we're not going to pay you. And you're not, you don't have a choice. Like that's slavery. And it was everywhere. It was everywhere. Every single place on the globe where there were people had this. Um, and yet somehow this fact has escaped.

00:27:49.080 Most of the educated people in our country today. This really, I think, fascinating fact. There's so much to be learned from that.

00:28:02.200 Right. That's so much we can learn about human nature, important things that we should learn about human nature. We could learn if we would just face this fact. Um, and yet we don't, because we have a lot of people today who don't even,

00:28:17.220 they truly don't know you've grown adults that went to, you know, went to, uh, went to, went to, went to universities and everything else. And they don't even know this. And that's, again, it's not to let them off the hook.

00:28:30.340 Yes. Their education failed them. Their schools failed them, but so did mine. I went to public school and then I dropped out of community college and that's the extent of my formal education.

00:28:41.760 Um, yet I know these basic things about world history. You probably know them as well. Uh, so we know them.

00:28:50.600 And yet you have people that have like a decade of formal higher education, uh, under their belt and they've got degrees and masters and everything else.

00:28:59.640 And they don't even know this basic stuff. And that's because if you know this stuff and if I know it, it's because we are curious about things and we like to keep learning.

00:29:12.620 And these people, the kinds of people on that CNN panel are totally incurious, just absolutely empty headed, incurious, jello brained ignoramuses who really just don't know anything.

00:29:25.760 They, they, they, they really don't know anything at all. Their, their base of knowledge is as deep as a thimble. They don't know anything at all. 0.92

00:29:33.580 Um, and now that they've been told the truth, they certainly won't follow up. Not going to follow up on it. No, they'll climb back into their intellectual shells because these truths about slavery are very startling, very scary to them.

00:29:47.080 They threaten to dismantle the entire artifice of, uh, of white guilt. The whole narrative. I mean, the whole narrative of white guilt depends on the idea that white people are uniquely guilty for things like slavery. It, it, it completely depends on that. 0.54

00:30:04.420 And if that is not the case, then the whole thing breaks down. So they run away screaming. They don't want to hear anymore.

00:30:13.100 They certainly don't want to hear that, you know, every predominantly white nation on earth had abolished slavery by the mid 1800s.

00:30:21.840 Meanwhile, slavery persisted legal institutional slavery persisted in, uh, Arabic and African countries for another century, sometimes much longer.

00:30:37.300 Slavery was not fully criminalized across the African continent.

00:30:43.100 Okay. Get this. Slavery was not fully criminalized across the African continent until 2007.

00:30:52.880 Yes. 2007.

00:30:56.300 They were on like season six of American Idol when Africa finally got around to fully criminalizing slavery. 0.71

00:31:03.440 That's how recent it was. Okay. And it's the same in the Middle East. And that's why I've, I've said so many times, the only thing unique about the relationship between, uh, white Western society and slavery, the only thing unique about it is that those societies practiced it for a much, much, much shorter period of time. 0.61

00:31:31.440 And also a much less brutal form of it. Because the other thing that you're going to hear about it. Well, the other, yes, but the slavery, chattel slavery in the United States was so much more brutal than what they did in other parts of the world. 0.60

00:31:44.440 You have no clue what you're talking about. First of all, it's like, like, as if chattel, there's something distinct. Oh, well, this was chattel.

00:31:51.100 As opposed to what? What do you think they were doing? What do you, what do you think the Arabic slave traders were doing?

00:31:56.900 What do you think they were doing? Well, you think that was a nice and gentle, you think when they captured slaves and like dragged them across the Saharan desert, it was, it was nice and friendly.

00:32:06.160 No, the Arabic slavers were, again, if you have even the smallest bit of knowledge about this, you know, that, that, uh, slavery in Africa, slavery in Arabic countries was often much more brutal, much more.

00:32:24.020 Um, things like, you know, just re, uh, routinely as a matter of course, uh, castrating male slaves. This was, this was a routine. This was the, this was the custom. This is what they did. It wasn't like there were a few horrific cases of it. This is just what they did.

00:32:42.760 And, um, and, um, and that's, and that's only the beginning of it. So this was absolutely brutal. And, uh, and on top of that, they, it went on for so much longer. It went on for a hundred years longer.

00:32:59.760 And the only reason that it even stopped is because, uh, they were forced to stop. It's because the European powers, uh, put it, abolished slavery. And then eventually they said, you know what, we're not going to let anyone else do it.

00:33:15.300 They're like, this is, we're done with this guys. We're moving on. We're, you know, we're going to be civilized people. Now we're not doing slavery anymore. And so slavery was abolished that the, the, uh, the, the, the slave trade, the Atlantic slave trade, it was abolished over the objections of,

00:33:29.760 Arabic and Arabic and African countries who wanted it to continue. Um, and that is just the fact. So, and as much as anyone on the left might want to say, well, that's got nothing to do with that. It's irrelevant.

00:33:43.840 That's got everything to do with it because your whole narrative is that white Americans are uniquely guilty, but that's your whole narrative. And it's just not true.

00:33:54.120 Um, and if the, you know, the history of slavery in Africa, if the, if the history of slavery in the Middle East, if the history of slavery in Asia is irrelevant now, because it was a long time ago, even though, you know, in Africa, it's like a long time ago was 2007.

00:34:15.040 Uh, but if it's irrelevant now, cause it's a long time ago, then it's, then it's also irrelevant, you know, then, then the form of slavery practice in the United States, which by the way, only one to 2% of Americans ever owned slaves.

00:34:30.800 Like the tiniest little fraction of Americans ever even owned slaves. 99% of Americans never had anything to do with it.

00:34:41.400 So, and yet this is our, somehow, somehow, somehow this, this thing, slavery wasn't it? Slavery was an institution in the United States of like America as a United States of America, as a country had slavery for like 90 years.

00:34:56.340 That's it. That's it. Then we're comparing this to countries that had it for 900 years or longer.

00:35:05.820 Uh, the whole thing's absurd. Now I've been seeing clips of, uh, Beto O'Rourke circulating for some reason, and he's on some kind of tour going around speaking and he has a message for Democrats.

00:35:18.120 Here is that message. Listen, we are in a basketball game right now.

00:35:22.720 If you'll excuse the metaphor where the refs have left the arena and the other side is just clobbering the, punching us in the face, kicking us in the nuts. 0.97

00:35:31.440 And we're kind of throwing our hands up and we're asking the crowd, the people of America, Hey, do you see what's going on here?

00:35:36.720 This is unfair. This isn't the rules that we agreed to play by.

00:35:40.980 Well, who cares about the rules right now? Punch back, kick back, dunk over their heads and win some power. 0.60

00:35:49.100 So this is Beto's strategy. This is the strategy he wants Democrats to adopt.

00:35:56.180 The strategy is cussing a lot. That's the strategy. 0.98

00:36:00.520 And listen, we should really take this guy seriously. I mean, it would be smart for Democrats to heed his advice.

00:36:05.020 This guy has absolutely killer political instincts. He's really killer. 0.77

00:36:09.080 I mean, he's his political, political, political instincts are so killer that he's killed his own career with them. 0.98

00:36:13.740 I mean, this is a guy, this guy that knows how to, he's, this, this is a real killer.

00:36:19.100 I mean, this is someone who, who has lost every race he's been in since 2019, which doesn't even sound that impressive because you think, well, since 2019, how many races could he've actually been in since 2019?

00:36:30.740 Well, the answer is three. He's lost a Senate race, a presidential race, and a governor's race.

00:36:35.920 He won the, he won the triple crown of losing. Uh, he he's lost at every level of government.

00:36:43.020 Now we just need him to lose a mayor's race and then a school board race and then a, a, a potato sack race.

00:36:49.200 And it'll have finally completed the ultimate journey of losing.

00:36:53.120 The ultimate loser's journey will have finally been completed by Beto O'Rourke.

00:36:57.260 And I believe in him. I believe, I think he can do it.

00:36:59.320 He will have fulfilled his destiny as America's greatest loser, history's greatest loser. 0.97

00:37:04.660 So that's pretty inspiring. And as for his advice here, um, obviously the suggestion that Democrats are too worried about the rules is just asinine. 0.99

00:37:16.380 And this is the thing you hear now from Democrats all the time, that they, they imagine that their problem is that they are too polite and too concerned with following the rules and the norms and, you know, abiding by political tradition. 0.52

00:37:34.660 Meanwhile, these are the people who tried to stop Trump from becoming president by putting him in prison.

00:37:41.560 They conjured fake criminal charges against a former president and a presidential candidate and tried to throw him in prison to stop him from winning.

00:37:51.060 So these are not people who are worried about the rules. Okay. These are, these are not people who need a lesson in how to fight dirty.

00:37:58.300 They get it. I mean, these are the dirtiest fighters we've ever seen in politics in this country anyway, but, and, and I, we could say that without hyperbole because they're, they have done things that no one else has ever done, uh, to, to include again, you know, try, trying to throwing a former president in prison or trying to, because you don't like him.

00:38:18.520 And you're worried about his continued political influence or continued political campaigns. Uh, no one had ever done that before. And so, yeah, I think that they, I think they get the message, but putting that aside, what Beto really wants is for us to be impressed with how much he's cussing.

00:38:35.480 I mean, he just, he threw four cuss words into a 32nd soundbite. So he's like a, he's like a fifth grader who just learned new cuss words. And he's so excited to go, to go to school and say them in front of his friends. Um, and a lot of Democrats are trying this now they're trying to be looser, more crude, more vulgar. They're thrown in F bombs all the time. And, and why are they doing this? Well, obviously this is their attempt to kind of ape Donald Trump and to try to capture some of Donald Trump's appeal and energy.

00:39:05.480 But it never works. It has never worked. It will never work. Uh, Trump's opponents have been trying this for 10 years. This is not new. Republicans tried it all the way back in the Republican primaries in 2015. We, we, we, we all remember that they went from lecturing Trump for his vulgarity to trying to imitate it. We all remember that very pathetic spectacle of Republican candidates in the primaries of 2015 doing this sudden switch.

00:39:35.480 Cause they tried the finger wagging and this, and that didn't work. And so then they tried to act like him and start using this kind of language he used and it didn't work. It never works. It can't work.

00:39:46.160 And the reason that it can't work is very simple because the appealing thing about Trump's style. And it's amazing to me, the Democrats are so clueless that they have yet to figure this out. I mean, we're 10 years into this. We're 10 years into the Trump era and they have not figured this out.

00:40:02.440 Um, the thing that is appealing about Trump style is not that he's vulgar. It's not that he's crude or crass. It's not any of that. It's that he's authentic.

00:40:12.500 Okay. That's the number one, far and away number one appeal of Trump's personality is that he's authentic. It's authenticity. That's what people respect about it. And he's just being himself.

00:40:22.260 And so when he uses vulgar words or when he, you know, makes fun of people and he does what he does that we've all used to, you all used to seeing over the last 10 years.

00:40:31.020 Um, people are not, it's not like, Oh my gosh, he, he said a cuss word. That's so impressive. It's just that, Oh, this guy's real. Like this is how he is.

00:40:41.300 This is his, this, and, and, and you, you just know that this is how he is on stage. And if you met him in person, he'd be exactly the same way.

00:40:49.180 And everyone that's ever met him or knows him has everyone has said that it's like, this is the same guy, no matter where, no matter what context you meet him, he's always just the same guy.

00:40:59.200 Um, and that is the appeal. And, uh, and that's why this, all of these, uh, little tricks by Democrats, all of these rebrands, none of it will ever work because it's inauthentic.

00:41:12.740 It's not real. And when Beto O'Rourke gets up there and starts talking about, Hey, F the rules, man, let's kick their ass. Right. Right. Folks. You hear me? I just said the F word. You hear that? 1.00

00:41:26.900 Um, but so when Beto O'Rourke does it, it's not authentic. It's, it's cringe. It's embarrassing. Okay. It is, it's the, it's like the political equivalent of the Christian youth pastor with a backwards hat.

00:41:42.240 Making, making, making pop culture references from nine years ago. It's, it's, it's as cringe as that because, and why is that cringe? Cause it's not authentic. It's not who you really are. And, um, and that's the problem.

00:41:55.820 So it's just not going to work. All right. Finally, this came across my feed. It's an article in market watch titled, did baby boomers really have it easier than millennials?

00:42:05.340 And it dissects this long running feud, which seems to have really found new life over the past several weeks on social media, this competition between generations to establish who had a more difficult time.

00:42:16.860 And, uh, now that competition is especially intense among Gen Z versus boomers. Every day on X, I see another post of how Gen Z has it so much worse. And, uh, and, and, and sometimes you see the opposite claim. 0.66

00:42:29.840 I just saw a kind of a viral post from a boomer woman who was saying the opposite that, you know, they worked really hard and they had it a lot harder.

00:42:36.580 And so there's just this constant, this constant competition going on, uh, this competition, this, this unending discussion about, um, the, the war of the generations. Right.

00:42:49.220 And I was thinking about this and I have a few thoughts about it.

00:42:53.160 First of all, there's no question that the younger generations today do have a harder time of it by a number of really important metrics. And this is measurable. It's measurable, right?

00:43:03.440 Housing is more expensive. Everything is more expensive. Inflation is ridiculous. Young people today have to compete in a labor market flooded with third world slave labor. 0.99

00:43:12.760 And now also AI. And these are problems that boomers didn't face. Not only did they not face it, but problems that they created.

00:43:20.400 I mean, they're the ones who let the immigrant invasion happen. They facilitated it, welcomed it, uh, created it. It was not just letting it happen. 0.99

00:43:27.040 But they, but they, this was their handiwork largely, generationally speaking. And that's just true. Um, now on the other hand, it's also true that, uh, every living generation of Americans today have it easier.

00:43:43.560 However, and this is, this is one of the, like, this might be the key point. Every time I see this, uh, this competition, this is the point that I think everyone needs to understand.

00:43:56.560 Every generation of Americans that are living today have it easier, much, much easier than the vast majority of humans that have ever lived or who currently live on the globe.

00:44:08.520 Um, so you can make the argument if you're Gen Z that you have it harder than the baby boomers did at your age. And I think that's true. I do. I do think that that is true, but there's a reason why you're using the baby boomers. 1.00

00:44:25.620 And no one, like you're specifically using the baby boomers in the United States of America. That's that, that is what you're using. Because if you expand the, the comparison any more than that, I mean, if you pull back, right, the, if you widen the lens any more than all of a sudden it all starts breaking down. 0.52

00:44:45.880 Because then you're going to find that the world is full of people who would kill to have your life. And, uh, and that again is the, that's, that's the case historically.

00:44:56.280 And you might say that this undeniable fact of life doesn't make your personal challenges any easier, which sure it doesn't. But if we're doing the comparison game, then you have to expand the scope. It's only fair. I mean, either we're going to just say, look, it doesn't matter to compare it. It's not a competition. Who has it harder? Who doesn't? Let's just live, live your life. Okay.

00:45:20.460 No matter if anyone has it easier or harder than you, it doesn't do anything for you one way or another, live your life. And so that's one approach. And we could just do that. I prefer that. But if you're going to get into this obsessive game of they had it easier. Well, once you start doing that, um, okay, well now you've opened, now we've opened up the comparison conversation and, uh, and then you're going to quickly find that.

00:45:43.500 Yeah. Yeah. Um, baby boomers had an, we're in an enviable, enviable position, uh, in relation to you, but, but, but you are, we're all in an, in, in, in a very enviable position in relation to billions and billions and billions of people. Um, and I think that's one of the things that that's, that gets lost.

00:46:13.500 And that, and that just brings me to the, what I think is the, the main point, which is that, and I know I talk about the generational, I get into the generational warfare sometimes too. I know that I'm, I'm guilty of that.

00:46:25.000 I think we do have to face the horrific mistakes that baby boomers made. And they did make a lot of, when I say mistake, it makes it sound like it was done accidentally, but, uh, the, the horrifically bad decisions that were made in large part by baby boomers. Uh, I think we have to face that. We're dealing with it right now. We've got to learn the lessons of history. So some of that is, uh, is necessary. 0.99

00:46:47.000 But the incessant generational warfare, um, I think the problem is that, especially if you're a young person, especially if you're a young person, just starting out in life and you're sitting around just like obsessing over, I wish it was easier. I wish it, I wish I was born in 1953. It'd be so much easier. Uh, whether that's true or not.

00:47:11.000 To, to, to, to live your life that way and to obsess over that is just, it, it will, will kill it. It's death. It will kill your potential. Once you, once you start stacking excuses, um, then you have killed your potential. You've killed your own chance at success because you can still succeed in life, but you've, you've killed it.

00:47:35.440 Once you start, once you start obsessing over the excuses and just sort of collecting them, which is what a lot of people do, they start collecting excuses and they have them in their pocket, ready to pull out at any moment.

00:47:45.900 And this is, I truly believe this is the, the number one dividing line. The thing that separates successful people from unsuccessful people, ultimately success by however you measure it in whatever your walk of life, whatever your, um, profession, whatever field, whatever it is.

00:48:06.540 But the thing that separates successful people, uh, but the thing that separates successful from unsuccessful is that the unsuccessful people, uh, collect excuses, the unsuccessful people, when you, when you, when you, when you ask them for an, when you ask them, you know, when it, when it comes to their, their own failures or the things that aren't working out, they've got, they've got 20 excuses ready to go.

00:48:30.060 They've got, they've, they've, they've got them all rehearsed. They have them on a, on a list in their brain and they just run through them constantly.

00:48:39.140 Uh, and successful people don't do that. It's not because they don't have excuses. It's not because they don't have difficult lives. A lot of times these are people that have much more difficult lives.

00:48:48.340 Uh, but they don't sit around thinking about excuses. Like they, they, they, they just won't take no for an answer.

00:48:57.000 They're ambitious. They know what they want in life. They're going to go chase it and they will not take no. They don't, they don't want excuses. They, they're not collecting excuses in their pocket. They are, they're dumping the excuses out and throwing them on the ground. They don't want them.

00:49:11.120 Um, and that's the number one, uh, dividing line, I believe you may have noticed, but I don't shave much. I do, however, have thoughts about men pretending to be women and women pretending to be men.

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00:50:55.760 He was actually a member of the U.S. Armed Forces. He enlisted in the Army back in 1979, and that same year he was deployed as a combat medic to West Germany.

00:51:05.200 A couple years later, his performance deteriorated, and he received an honorable discharge.

00:51:09.000 And believe it or not, Dahmer wasn't the only notorious serial killer who served in the military.

00:51:12.680 David Berkowitz, otherwise known as the Son of Sam, killed six people and injured 11 others.

00:51:17.540 And guess what? He served in an Army Infantry Division in South Korea as well as Fort Knox.

00:51:22.020 Now, if you're a normal person, hearing these little bits of random trivia, you might say, so what?

00:51:27.580 Both Dahmer and Berkowitz committed some of the most horrible crimes imaginable.

00:51:31.360 Therefore, they deserve the maximum punishment under the law for what they did.

00:51:34.780 The fact that they served in the military has no bearing whatsoever on anything.

00:51:38.300 And it certainly doesn't mean that they were entitled to a lesser sentence or any kind of sympathy.

00:51:42.400 And if that's your position, congratulations.

00:51:43.800 It's safe to say that you don't work at the media outlet known as the Daily Beast,

00:51:47.560 which is easily one of the worst publications on the Internet.

00:51:51.200 And you see, in their infinite wisdom, the Daily Beast has just published a lengthy article written by a breaking news intern,

00:51:56.160 which makes the case that, in fact, it's wrong for murderers to face justice as long as they served in the U.S. military.

00:52:05.000 Put another way, the Daily Beast, a very left-wing publication that ordinarily does not support the U.S. Armed Forces in any way,

00:52:10.880 has now decided that serving the military should make you immune from the death penalty no matter what crime you committed.

00:52:15.140 That's what they're going with.

00:52:17.660 We'll start with the headline. Here it is, quote,

00:52:19.640 Veterans Beg Ron DeSantis to Stop Killing Them.

00:52:24.020 Yes, according to this headline, Ron DeSantis is murdering veterans.

00:52:27.500 You're obviously meant to imagine Ron DeSantis cruising around the streets of Miami,

00:52:31.000 stopping off at VA hospitals and going American Psycho on all the patients inside.

00:52:36.120 If you want more specifics on how exactly Ron DeSantis is accomplishing this particular task,

00:52:40.000 you have to read the sub-headline of the article, which states, quote,

00:52:42.280 Ron DeSantis, who is a veteran himself, has overseen the executions of five vets this year alone.

00:52:48.400 Now, already this sounds pretty bad. After all, how can the governor of a state possibly oversee the execution of military veterans?

00:52:54.300 It's unthinkable.

00:52:56.420 Serving the military means you can't be executed.

00:52:58.540 Everyone knows that.

00:52:59.960 But somehow in the state of Florida, it's happening.

00:53:02.600 Here's the meat of the article, such as it is, quote,

00:53:04.440 Ron DeSantis is under fire for turning against his fellow service members and letting executioners slaughter five veterans this year alone.

00:53:10.960 The governor, who served in the U.S. Navy as commission officer from 2004 to 2010,

00:53:15.500 has called Florida the most veteran-friendly state in the nation.

00:53:17.960 But during his reign, nine people have been executed, including five veterans.

00:53:22.440 Florida administers executions by lethal injection or electric chair at the execution chamber located at Florida State Prison.

00:53:29.540 Close quote.

00:53:30.680 So to restate, Ron DeSantis is under fire for letting executioners slaughter five veterans this year alone.

00:53:36.920 And he claims his state is friendly to veterans, but actually it's more like a house of horrors. 0.68

00:53:43.160 Veterans walk into Florida excited about the whole no-income tax thing, and then Ron DeSantis springs his, you know, his saw trap on them, apparently.

00:53:51.960 But it gets worse.

00:53:53.180 The article continues, quote,

00:53:54.060 Nearly 30 veterans are sitting on death row, waiting for execution, including 67-year-old Cale Bates, who was set to be killed on August 19th.

00:54:02.240 During DeSantis' term, five veterans have been executed.

00:54:04.820 Bobby Joe Long, Dwayne Owen, Edward James, Jeffrey Hutchinson, and Edward Zarkuski, let's go with.

00:54:13.200 Bates is set to become the 10th on August 19th, followed by Curtis Windham on August 28th.

00:54:18.160 Hutchinson, a 62-year-old veteran with severe mental problems, was executed in May for the murders of his girlfriend and her three children.

00:54:26.020 Close quote.

00:54:26.920 Now, the article doesn't provide any additional context on any of these people.

00:54:29.900 We're just told that they're veterans and that one of them was mentally ill.

00:54:32.960 So I'll do the Daily Beast job for them. 0.91

00:54:36.300 Bobby Joe Long sexually assaulted and killed nearly a dozen women in Florida in 1984. 0.55

00:54:41.940 So he's a serial killer.

00:54:43.340 He confessed and was convicted of eight murders. 0.82

00:54:45.620 Dwayne Owen sexually assaulted and stabbed a 14-year-old child to death before sexually assaulting and beating a 38-year-old mom, a 38-year-old to death a couple of months later.

00:54:55.960 Edward James stole a car and murdered an 8-year-old child and her 58-year-old grandmother after he got high on LSD and drank 24 beers.

00:55:06.980 Jeffrey Hutchinson murdered his live-in girlfriend and her three children, ages 9, 7, and 4.

00:55:11.560 Edward Zakuski killed his wife with a machete after she demanded a divorce, and then he also killed his 7-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter.

00:55:21.360 He lured his children into the bathroom one by one by saying he wanted to brush their teeth, and then he murdered them. 0.60

00:55:27.560 So these are murderers. 0.99

00:55:30.000 These are absolute ghouls. 0.99

00:55:33.040 I mean, the dregs of human society, monsters that can barely be called human, which the Daily Beast is defending as a very incoherent and demented way of defaming Ron DeSantis. 0.82

00:55:46.460 They're saying that all these people deserve lighter sentences solely because they served in the military at one point.

00:55:52.280 This is the editorial position that the outlet has taken.

00:55:54.920 Now, of course, the cowards over at Daily Beast won't admit that.

00:56:00.060 They'll claim they're just reporting on the utterly insane suggestion that other people are making.

00:56:05.080 Specifically, the article goes on to cite a letter supposedly written by around 100 alleged veterans, which states, quote,

00:56:10.060 So we can never be a veteran-friendly state when our leader is signing off on their deaths at the hands of the state.

00:56:16.360 The military instills in all of us an unbreakable code of honor.

00:56:20.100 Leave no one behind.

00:56:21.720 That obligation does not end at the end of one's duty.

00:56:24.320 To execute a veteran who was broken by war and left without adequate care is not justice.

00:56:29.880 It is a failure of duty.

00:56:31.680 It is the final abandonment.

00:56:33.360 So we're abandoning serial killers and men who have committed mass slaughter of children.

00:56:44.940 Now, if you're an actual news organization and you receive a demented letter like this one,

00:56:48.620 you might choose to investigate every single name on the list to see what's wrong with them or what their goals might be.

00:56:54.540 You'd also want to make sure that they're actually who they say they are.

00:56:57.880 If you pull up the letter they refer to, you won't find any signatures.

00:57:01.800 You'll just see a list of names, and here's what it looks like.

00:57:05.300 There's no letterhead or signature at all.

00:57:07.220 It's just a list of names without any verification whatsoever.

00:57:10.400 Anyone could come up with a document like this.

00:57:13.100 Did the Daily Beast ask Airman First Class Norbert Burlinghouse if he agrees that Ron DeSantis shouldn't execute serial killers?

00:57:20.540 Did anyone ask him?

00:57:21.740 Seems doubtful.

00:57:23.540 What about Electronics Technician Third Class Garrett Baker Smith, who also has no online footprint whatsoever?

00:57:29.280 Why did he, out of the blue, sign on to this letter?

00:57:33.240 Now, we all know the Daily Beast's breaking news intern didn't bother to look into any of these questions.

00:57:37.440 Instead, the Daily Beast simply endorsed this letter from quote-unquote veterans, if that's what they actually are,

00:57:43.080 while leaving out any and all context about the people who were executed,

00:57:46.980 as a way of portraying Ron DeSantis as some kind of mass murderer.

00:57:51.000 Now, to their credit, Ron DeSantis' press office sent the Daily Beast a very succinct reply to this ridiculous article,

00:57:56.000 which really gets at the heart of the matter.

00:57:58.020 Here's how the outlet reported on their statement, quote,

00:58:00.220 When reached for comment, DeSantis' communications director, Alex LaFranconi, told the Daily Beast,

00:58:06.160 after publication, a simple trick to avoid execution in Florida is to not murder people.

00:58:11.800 That's pretty straightforward advice.

00:58:14.060 Anybody with an IQ above room temperature can understand it pretty well.

00:58:17.440 But at the Daily Beast, all bets are off. 0.99

00:58:20.700 And to give you an idea of how utterly moronic these people are, 0.98

00:58:22.900 just a few years ago, a Daily Beast's contributing editor, 0.99

00:58:25.280 someone whose entire job is to watch conservatives on television, published this tweet.

00:58:30.200 It reads, quote,

00:58:31.480 It appears that Tucker's producers added googly eyes to AOC in this image.

00:58:36.020 Then he attached a picture of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's face.

00:58:39.760 But alas, no googly eyes were added.

00:58:42.100 It was just AOC's face.

00:58:44.220 In other words, the Daily Beast, in their attempt to smear conservatives,

00:58:46.480 managed to admit that, in their opinion, AOC looks like she has googly eyes 1.00

00:58:50.860 from the party store glued onto her face.

00:58:54.960 I could spend the next five years going through every example of the Daily Beast discrediting itself.

00:59:00.460 But after this hit piece on Rana Santas, I really don't have to.

00:59:04.320 This is a publication that serves only to degrade discourse in this country

00:59:08.120 and to insult the intelligence of all ten of their readers day in and day out.

00:59:12.380 With their latest hit piece from their breaking news intern,

00:59:16.500 the Daily Beast has gone a step further

00:59:18.020 and insulted the victims of some of the most heinous serial killers who have ever lived.

00:59:23.360 And for that reason, among many others,

00:59:24.820 the Daily Beast, along with anyone who's supposedly writing letters

00:59:27.280 defending mass murderers because they happen to serve in the military at some point,

00:59:31.120 is today canceled.

00:59:33.260 That'll do it for the show today.

00:59:33.920 Thanks for watching.

00:59:34.380 Thanks for listening.

00:59:34.920 Talk to you on Monday.

00:59:36.100 Have a great day.

00:59:36.700 Godspeed.

00:59:36.980 Today on The Ben Shapiro Show,

00:59:44.840 new polling shows young Democrats boosting Zorin Mamdani to victory.

00:59:48.140 We examine just why.

00:59:49.540 President Trump continues his moves to take control of D.C.'s crime problem,

00:59:53.020 and President Trump seeks to influence the Smithsonian and the Kennedy Center.

00:59:56.360 That's today on The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:59:57.300 Give it a listen.

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The Matt Walsh Show - August 14, 2025

Ep. 1641 - As Migrants Terrorize Britain, Police Wage War On Catcalls

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