Ep. 1645 - Illegal Immigrant Numbers In America Are FAR Worse Than We’ve Been Told
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It s now been revealed that 55 million foreigners have American visas. If we add the illegal immigrants to that total, how many foreign nationals are currently in the country? Does anyone have any idea? We ll discuss. Also, fallout continues over Cracker Barrel Gates. A British journalist says that the inheritance tax should be 100% because your children have no right to inherit your money. And Disney is now trying to figure out how to attract a male audience after spending two decades intentionally alienating their male audience.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, it's now been revealed that 55 million foreigners have
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American visas. If we add the illegal immigrants to that total, how many foreign nationals are
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currently in the country? Does anyone have any idea? We'll discuss. Also, fallout continues
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over Cracker Barrel Gates. A British journalist says that the inheritance tax should be 100%
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because your children have no right to inherit your money. The government should inherit all
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of it, they say. And Disney is now trying to figure out how to attract a male audience after
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spending two decades intentionally alienating their male audience. All of that and more today
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where they fudge the numbers or cook the books, they make some minimal effort to hide their tracks.
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Even the guys in office space understood the concept of salami slicing, meaning they took very
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small amounts from their employer over time, or at least that was the idea. The number one goal of a
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scam artist, other than making money, is avoiding detection. You have to make the lie, whatever it may be,
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somewhat believable. For example, a consultant or technician who wants to falsify his timesheet
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probably wouldn't claim to have worked exactly 6.5 hours every day on the dot for several months.
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More likely, he'd claim that he worked, say, six hours one day, seven hours the next,
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and so on. It's more believable that way. That's the bare minimum of effort that you'd expect.
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So it's been fascinating to see how, in the case of one of the biggest scams in American history,
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precisely zero effort has been made to maintain the ruse. I'm talking about the lie that precisely
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11 million illegal aliens, no more, no less, reside in the United States. This is a number
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that you hear all the time from both political parties. It's repeated verbatim on every cable
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news network. But the number has remained unchanged for more than two decades. It is unquestionably,
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obviously fraudulent. Now, let's run through the history of this estimate. Here's a
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direct quote from the Pew Research Center 20 years ago. Quote, as of March 2005, the undocumented
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population has reached nearly 11 million, including more than 6 million Mexicans.
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OK, here's a PBS news report from 2013, which, of course, is eight years later. Watch.
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We return to politics now as lawmakers on Capitol Hill begin to discuss ways to address the estimated
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11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
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The hearing came two weeks after President Obama laid out his own goals for immigration reform.
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They include stronger border security, a pathway to citizenship for some 11 million illegal immigrants
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already here and expedited visas for highly skilled workers from abroad.
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OK, that was 2013. Four years later, Pew again estimated the number of illegals in this country.
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And somehow it was still 11 million. Quote, in 2017, there were 10.5 million unauthorized immigrants
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in the U.S. Three years after that estimate, Joe Biden asserted once again that the magic number
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I'm going to from day one, we're going to have a fund. I'm going to send to the United States
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Congress a a an immigration plan to provide a pathway for legalization for 11 million undocumented
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Now, four years after that, Biden's DHS secretary again went on the record saying that there were
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11 million illegals in the United States when we took office, I believe the accounting was
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approximately 11.4 million undocumented people in the United States.
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We don't have an update to that number now, but it's been millions and millions.
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So this is the one figure that never changes for any reason. Just from a statistical perspective,
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even if you know absolutely nothing about anything that's happening in this country,
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this is obviously a scam. I mean, you couldn't possibly keep any massive population that steady
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for that long in any context. And of course, if you know anything about Democrats open border
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policies or if you've noticed that entire neighborhoods have transformed in this country,
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crime has increased, housing has become extremely expensive, then the numbers become
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even more absurd. So it's a complete farce. It's intended to obscure just how much demographic
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replacement has actually taken place in this country in the past three decades. And it worked.
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No one really has any idea how many illegal aliens are in this country. That's by design.
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Is it 20 million? Is it 30? Is it 40? Is it 50 million? We don't know. And that's why last night
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there was a very strong reaction to this story about the Trump administration's latest
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immigration crackdown. Watch. Also breaking this afternoon, the Trump administration is
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reviewing the records of more than 55 million visa holders in the U.S. for potential deportation
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violations. This includes checking for visa overstays, criminal activity, and ties to terrorism.
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If found ineligible, visas will be revoked and holders may face deportation. The State Department
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says this is all part of their continuous vetting process to ensure safety and compliance.
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So the lead is a little buried there. So I'll say it again. There are 55 million
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visa holders in the United States, according to the Trump administration.
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That is more than the entire population of the state of California combined with the population of
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New York City. It's a number so high that it seems like it can't possibly be correct. But even if you
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account for the possibility of this number includes, say, tourist visas, including people living abroad
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right now, as well as people visiting their family in this country, even if that's it, the number is still
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far, far too high. There is no justifiable reason whatsoever for 55 million people to hold any kind of
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visa for entry into the United States. For one thing, visa overstays are common, including for tourist visas.
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There were something like 800,000 reported overstays in a recent fiscal year. Many of them involve business or
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tourist visas from countries in Africa to the point that the Trump administration has begun requiring these people
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to pay $15,000 bonds before they can arrive in the US. But even if none of these people were were ever overstaying
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their visas, 55 million is still an extraordinarily astronomically ridiculously high number. There is no reason to
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grant anywhere near that number of visas. And it's yet another very strong indication, as anyone could have
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surmised, that there are far, far more than 11 million illegal aliens and foreign nationals in this
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country. And as aggressive as the Trump administration's deportation efforts have been, we need to
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intensify them even more. From a political perspective, this would not be remotely difficult.
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Every effort by the corporate press to attack the administration for enforcing immigration law
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has backfired in spectacular fashion. The latest example comes to us from a woman named Amy Cho,
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who identifies as a reporter for NBC News. And here's what she wrote, quote,
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Breaking. Just saw D.C. police and federal agents detain a man on the National Mall. He appeared to try to
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escape, then was quickly tackled to the ground by several agents and was screaming in Spanish,
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please, I'm not a criminal. I work here. I want to be with my family. She added, quote,
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I asked the agents what the man was being charged with. They didn't reply. I've also reached out to
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ICE for comment. But of course, she didn't wait for the reply from ICE. Instead, Amy Cho posted this
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video, which had the effect of whipping liberals, especially liberal women, into an absolute frenzy.
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So he goes on screaming for a few more minutes before they haul him away. There's no context
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beyond the guy's claims that he's supposedly an innocent family man who's being hauled away to
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alligator Alcatraz simply because he's not white or whatever. But for liberal women,
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no context was necessary. The propaganda had its desired effect. Here's how Fox's Jessica Tarlov
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responded, for example, quote, This doesn't make D.C. safer. It'll just make people not come to D.C.
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The cruelty is the point. So all the murdering and carjacking wasn't preventing people from coming
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to D.C. apparently. Instead, according to Jessica Tarlov, a woman who, again, has no idea why this
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guy was arrested. The reason people are avoiding D.C. is that they might get randomly disappeared by ICE.
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You know, you can be walking down the street, taking pictures of the Lincoln Memorial,
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and then bam, you're being hauled away. You're in El Salvador. None of the people who made this claim,
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including Jessica Tarlov, can point to a single instance in which an American citizen was wrongfully
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arrested and deported by this administration. It has not happened. The closest example they could come
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up with is an illegal alien named Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the gangster and alleged wife-beater
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and human trafficker, who was, again, an illegal alien on top of it. So not exactly a compelling
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case, but Jessica Tarlov couldn't help herself. Neither could Miami Herald investigative journalist
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Julie K. Brown. Here's what Brown wrote on social media in response to that video, quote,
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His crying hits me in the gut, and we will probably never be told who he is, why he was stopped,
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or if he was here illegally. Now, especially for an investigative journalist, that was a pretty
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ill-advised tweet. Because, you know, you're an investigative journalist, maybe investigate it
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before you comment? Well, here's the update that Amy Cho had to append to the video five hours after
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she posted it. Quote, update, ICE sent a statement on this man's attention saying his name is David Perez
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Tiafani, and that he was arrested in Fairfax County in 2024 and charged with aggravated sexual battery
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against a minor under 13. Well, so much for that narrative. Jessica Tarlov and investigative
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journalist Julie Brown quietly deleted their posts. Of course, they didn't even pretend to learn
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anything from their humiliation. They're just going to wait for the next video that they can lie about.
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Apparently, what happened in this case is that the illegal aliens' charges were dropped by the
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Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney's Office when the victim and her mother told police that they
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didn't want to pursue the case, and they stopped communicating with law enforcement. So the man
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was not exonerated or anything like that. He was arrested for one of the most serious crimes
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imaginable, on top of the fact that he's illegally in the United States to begin with. In fact, he
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entered illegally on three separate occasions. For the most part, even the dumbest commentators on the
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left realized how badly this whole situation was going for them. So they deleted their posts,
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and they changed the subject. But CNN's Wolf Blitzer did not take that approach. Instead,
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he doubled down even after DHS's statement, even after we knew this guy was an alleged child rapist.
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New video shows federal officers detaining a man on the National Mall. We want to warn our viewers,
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some might find this video disturbing. Watch this.
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He was saying in Spanish he was here to work and not to be arrested. A Homeland Security Department
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spokesperson said the man is undocumented from Mexico and was arrested before. But NBC4 here in
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Washington is reporting that a person with the same name who faced similar charges had them dropped
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without prosecution. I love that. He says, you know, well, he said he's here to work and not to
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be arrested. Oh, well, he's not here to be arrested. Well, never mind then. He should have just explained
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that to ICE. Oh, no, gentlemen, I'm not here to be arrested. That's not. No. Oh, no, I didn't. I
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don't intend to be. I don't. I would. I don't want to be arrested. I would prefer. That's not my
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intention. Oh, well, OK, then, sir. Well, you go about your day. We thought you wanted to be
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arrested. We didn't realize this. It's been a. Oh, he doesn't want to be arrested, folks. Never
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mind. Yeah, go home. Let's back it up. No. Oh, he doesn't. No, he doesn't want to be arrested.
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That's Wolf Blitzer. So he doesn't even mention what the charge was. DHS went on record describing the
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nature of the charge. Wolf Blitzer doesn't even mention it. Said he goes out of his way to
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emphasize that the man wasn't convicted and strongly implies that he's the victim in this
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scenario. No matter how low your standards are for these people, somehow they continue to lower the
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bar. Now, it's true that because the witnesses wouldn't testify, David Perez Teofoni has not been
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convicted in a court of law of the crime of molesting a child. As far as I know, he wasn't convicted of
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illegal entry either, although he did have removal orders and no one's disputing the fact that he is an
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illegal alien. But that's not the relevant standard. When you're talking about non-citizens,
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you don't need to wait until they're convicted of anything. They have no right to be in this country,
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period. It doesn't matter what other crimes they've committed. But given that we probably have around
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30 million illegals in this country, not 11, if not more, the administration has to prioritize
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certain illegals for deportation first. You got to start somewhere. And in that context,
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it makes complete sense to deport the most dangerous and perverse degenerates as quickly
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as possible. And if you've got a guy that was accused of child rape, and the only reason he's
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not being charged with it is that the victim's family has decided not to pursue charges for
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whatever their reason is, yeah, that's someone who needs to get the hell out of our country.
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You don't let him stay on the off chance that it turns out that, well, let's, you know, there's
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like a 3% chance that he's not actually a child rapist. Let's just let him stay here until we figure
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that out. Now, it also makes sense, as we discussed earlier this week, for the administration to
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eliminate as many job opportunities for illegal aliens as they can. That's another very important
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way to approach the problem. American truck drivers are far more reliable and less dangerous
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than foreigners who can't speak English. And already, it's clear the administration understands
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that. Yesterday, the Secretary of State announced that the U.S. would stop issuing worker visas for
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commercial truck drivers after that horrifying crash last week on the Florida Turnpike that we've
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talked about. These are the kind of steps that should have happened a long time ago. But for more than
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20 years, pretty much everyone in authority lied to Americans about the extent of the foreign
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infiltration of this country. They fed us statistics that were obviously false, knowing that nobody
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would bother to check them. But at this point, the Cook numbers don't matter anymore. Neither do the
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fake narratives about random Spanish-speaking men in D.C. being thrown to the alligators when those men
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are actually allegedly pedophiles, it turns out. The real test for this administration, which to my
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knowledge hasn't happened yet, will come when they publicly defend the forcible deportation of someone
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who isn't a depraved child predator or a mass murderer or a Somali warlord.
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Because we can't allow those people to stay in the country either.
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And it would be a massive mistake to prioritize the worst offenders while then ignoring the so-called
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nonviolent migrants. We know there are far more than 11 million illegal aliens in this country.
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And as difficult as it may be for women like Jessica Tarlov and Julie Brown to understand,
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every single one of them has to go back to where they came from.
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Okay, a few stories to talk about on what I guess is sort of a bonus episode on a Friday. Usually,
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usually we're Monday through Thursday, but we miss the Monday show. And so here we are on Friday. So a little
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extra bonus show for you. Post-Millennial reports, staying on the immigration topic for a moment, U.S.
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citizenship and immigration services officers are expanding how an applicant's good moral character is
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evaluated in the naturalization process. The policy outlined in the August 15th memo instructs officers to
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consider applicants positive contributions to society in a more holistic approach rather than
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focusing solely on disqualifying factors. The memo stated, becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen means
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being an active and responsible member of society instead of just having a right to live and work in
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the U.S. Among other eligibility factors, aliens applying for naturalization must demonstrate that
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he or she has been and continues to be an individual of good moral character. Evaluating GMC,
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good moral character, involves more than a cursory mechanical review focused on the absence of
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wrongdoing. It entails a holistic assessment of an alien's behavior, adherence to societal norms,
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and positive contributions that affirmatively demonstrate good moral character.
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U.S. CIS spokesman Matthew Tregeser said in a statement of Fox News that U.S. citizenship is the
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gold standard and should only be offered to the world's best of the best.
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Well, I'm obviously hugely in favor of this. And for one thing, it sets everything right. It flips the
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burden back on the immigrant, which is where it should be. And because the way that we've approached
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immigration for many decades now is that the immigrant somehow has a right. So it's like we
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owe something to the immigrant. That's the way that we've approached it for decades, is that when
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immigrants come here, we owe something to them. They have a right to come and we owe something to
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them. We owe them a place to live. We owe them food. We owe it to them because they have a right.
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And the way the Trump administration is approaching it is exactly the opposite.
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If you want to come, then it's not what can we do for you? It's not what do you have a right to
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get from us? It's what do we have a right to expect from you? Because the rest of us who are
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actual Americans, we have expectations for you if you want to be a part of this club.
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And the term that was used, the gold standard, that's exactly the right attitude. We should
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really start thinking about U.S. citizenship as an exclusive club. It's like if you want to join a
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private club somewhere. I'm not much of a club joiner myself, but in the past, I've looked into
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a few different cigar lounges around Nashville that offer memberships. And then you get access
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to the private lounge and all that kind of stuff. And never pulled the trigger because it's not worth
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the money. But the point is, if you want to become a member of a private club, there's a pretty high
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barrier to entry. Mostly, in this case, it's like a significant fee that you have to pay. But they
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also look at what kind of person you are. They want to make sure that you're not some low-class
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schlub, which is another reason why I don't join any of these clubs, of course. But why don't we
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treat U.S. citizenship the same way? Only much more so. U.S. citizenship is the most sought-after,
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most highly prized membership on the globe. We've got people knocking on our door constantly,
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wanting to get in. And so the response to that should be to raise the standard significantly.
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And looking at all these applicants and saying, okay, what do you have to offer?
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What do you bring into the table? Rather than just assuming that everybody that comes,
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oh yeah, we need everybody. Everyone that comes, they all have something to bring to the table.
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They all have something to offer. No, they don't. Most of them don't.
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I mean, the vast majority of applicants, you could just, you could throw those resumes in the bin
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right away. You could look at it and say, you're not bringing it. What are you offering us that we
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don't already have? No platitudes about, oh, we'll do jobs Americans will do. No, like, what do you
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actually, what do you, why do we need you? That should be the question. When an immigrant comes,
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they want to be an American citizen. Our question would be, like, what do we need you for?
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And if we do need you, then make the case. And if you can't, then why would we invite you in?
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That should be the approach. And it looks like that's the way Trump administration is handling it.
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We talked yesterday about Cracker Barrel and its woke rebrand. And actually, I've heard a number of
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conservatives say that the rebrand isn't woke, that it's kind of silly to call it woke.
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It's because it's bad and ugly, but it's not woke. You know, all they did was take all the
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character and personality and history out of the brand and make it generic and soulless, but that's
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not woke. They took the old guy off the logo, but they didn't replace him with a gay furry or an
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indigenous trans bisexual or whatever. So it's not woke is, is the, you know, what some
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conservatives are saying. That's a misunderstanding of wokeness. You know, wokeness does not have to be
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overtly political. Wokeness doesn't have to, it doesn't have to destroy and then replace the thing
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that it destroyed with a trans person or a gay pride flag. Wokeness is the act of destruction itself.
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It's the emptying of the thing. It's the hollowing out of something, making something intentionally
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uglier is that's, that is wokeness. That is a hundred percent wokeness. So this is indeed a woke
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rebrand of Cracker Barrel. That is, I think a perfectly valid way of describing it. You have a
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liberal woman who's never eaten at a Cracker Barrel in her life coming in and getting rid of everything
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traditional and old and charming about the place just for the sake of it.
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That's wokeness to a T. So yeah, this is a woke rebrand for sure.
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And Fox has the latest Cracker Barrel old country store. Customers have been vocal on social media
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about their disdain for the recent transformation of the Tennessee-based restaurant chain.
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Those voices grew even louder after Cracker Barrel unveiled its new logo this week.
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Cracker Barrel also rolled out a new menu that includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner options,
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refreshed restaurant remodels. We talked about that.
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The Cracker Barrel spokesperson told Fox News Digital in a statement,
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the company is very pleased with the trajectory of our remodeled stores.
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Feedback from both guests and team members has been overwhelmingly positive
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and enthusiastic about the refreshed dining and shipping experience.
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All the elements of our remodel were informed by direct input from our guests and team members like,
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The entire country is pointing at them and saying, this sucks, this is terrible.
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And their reaction is to say, wow, everyone seems to love it.
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Meanwhile, I guarantee the majority of people who work at Cracker Barrel,
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including probably in the corporate office, know this is a terrible idea.
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That's the thing when you have these marketing people come in with awful ideas.
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Because most of the rest of the workforce are all saying to each other in the break room,
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This is going to, people are not going to like this.
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But hey, we need a Cracker Barrel for today is what we were told.
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Remember, that's what the CEO said on Good Morning America,
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This is the arrogant, woke attitude that these people have.
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It's why everything always has to be updated and remade constantly.
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Why can't the Cracker Barrel of 30 years ago be the Cracker Barrel of today?
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Yeah, if you're a Cracker Barrel customer, you want there to be a Cracker Barrel today,
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but why can't it be the same one that it's been?
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This is pure chronological snobbery, to use the term coined by, I think, C.S. Lewis.
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It's the idea that today is automatically superior to yesterday,
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just because we are farther along in the chronology of events.
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Not to improve it or fix it or even innovate or anything,
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but change it just to change it, just to make it different.
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I remember last week I saw somebody on X, they were talking about the new Harry Potter series.
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Apparently there's a new, I think on HBO or something, they have a new Harry Potter series coming out.
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They're doing the whole thing again, from what I understand.
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And somebody was defending it, saying that, well, you know, kids today, they don't have their own Harry Potter.
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You know, the Harry Potter films came out 20 years ago, and so they didn't grow up with Harry Potter the way that we did.
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But it's like, hang on, not that I have any attachment to the Harry Potter films, but the movies still exist.
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It's not like they're being stored in a vault somewhere inside a volcano.
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Why can't they just have the same Harry Potter that we had before?
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When we have the constant remodeling and remaking and, you know, refreshing going on, they're not doing it.
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Yeah, you can have things that have been around for a while, and you need to improve it.
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The new Cracker Barrel is not better in any way.
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And that's supposed to automatically be an improvement.
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Because the attitude is that if it's new, it's automatically better.
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The fact that Cracker Barrel looked like this 40 years ago means that it is inferior to whatever the new design is.
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And what ends up happening is that, not to make too much of Cracker Barrel, but this is just Harry Potter, Cracker Barrel.
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These are just, and that's one of the reasons why it's resonated with people, why people are so upset, I think, about the Cracker Barrel thing.
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If it was just Cracker Barrel on its own doing this, then I think very few people would care.
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But it's just, it's kind of like, it's a tip of an iceberg.
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It's a symptom of a much larger problem that people are sick of.
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What ends up happening is that every new generation is atomized, is isolated.
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Because every generation has its own version of the thing.
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A new Harry Potter, a new Cracker Barrel, and a million other examples, of course.
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Rather than the way that it used to be, which was that each new generation would discover anew, the same, like, you'd have traditions, you'd have things, you'd have stories, you'd have, and they would just get passed down from generation to generation.
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Not changed just for the sake of it, but the same thing.
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The same thing, getting passed down, like heirlooms from generation to generation.
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And now we take the thing and we tear it apart and change it just for the sake of it.
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Speaking of things getting passed down, there's been some conversation recently about the inheritance tax or the estate tax.
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Both constitute a form of tax which penalizes you for dying.
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If you die, you have to pay the government for the privilege of dying.
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They come in and pilfer your estate after you're dead.
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You know, these are estate tax, inheritance tax.
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It's a form of grave robbery that the government does.
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A guy named Lewis Goodall on the British network LBC had a proposal he wanted to share.
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What we've got at the moment is an aristocracy of wealth in this country.
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So what I would do, what I would do, and I wouldn't be opposed to, by the way, I wouldn't be opposed to 100% inheritance tax.
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You know, my rule might be that if you can put it in two pee bags, then you can hand it over.
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I would not be against a far higher rate of inheritance tax than we have at the moment, which is 40% above a certain threshold.
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I wouldn't be opposed to putting that to 50%, 60%, 70%.
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Because I think the quid pro quo should be twofold.
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One, that helps fund public services, which actually helps level the playing field in achieving a true meritocracy.
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Because at the end of the day, I want to incentivize work.
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I want to incentivize people to get up off their backsides and do more.
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You should have a right to work while you're alive and keep more of your own money.
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That, to me, is more important, way more important than your right to just inherit some money from mommy and daddy that you did nothing to earn.
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First of all, the point is not that kids have a universal right to inherit money from their parents.
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If the parents have nothing to pass down, that doesn't mean that the child's rights have been deprived.
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So none of us were born necessarily with a God-given universal right to an inheritance, per se.
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Although, if your parents do have wealth and property, then I would say that you do, in a sense, have a right, a birthright to it.
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Which is why, if there's no will, if the parents don't specify who gets it, then obviously the children should receive it before any stranger does.
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So I think we do recognize this kind of birthright.
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Normally, we do recognize a sort of birthright, a sort of right that the child has to an inheritance, if there is an inheritance to be had.
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But we don't need to talk about this in terms of the rights of the children.
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The more important point, the more obvious and direct issue at hand here, is the right of the parents to pass down his wealth to whoever he chooses.
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Do my children have a right to my money and my property?
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But that doesn't really supersede my own right.
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But more importantly, do I have a right to give my money and my property to my own kids?
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I'm working my whole life in order to be able to do that.
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This is one of the primary things that drives me personally, motivates me.
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It should be the primary motivator for most people is the desire to pass down wealth to
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I'm only going to be alive maybe for another 50 years at most, maybe less than, maybe a
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I'm not working to provide for my family only during that short time frame.
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It's one of the most basic, most fundamental rights that we have as human beings to work
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hard, acquire wealth, pass it down to the next generation of our families to create generational
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This idea that we shouldn't have it, that each generation should start over from scratch
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Especially from people who call themselves, and I don't know if this guy calls himself progressive
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or not, but you hear this from so-called progressives.
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Well, how do you have progress if you have to start over from scratch with each generation?
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If I don't have the right to give my money to my kids, then what right supersedes that right?
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Does the government have a greater right to decide what happens with my estate than I do?
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Does some government bureaucrat sitting in an office somewhere have a right to decide where my money goes?
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What people on the left actually think, and again, I don't know if this guy would call himself on the left.
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But generally, what people on the left believe is that, and this is what makes it all the more absurd.
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What they believe is that other citizens who are strangers and non-citizens have a right to my money.
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So they believe that my children have no right to inherit my money, but some obese EBT welfare queen does have a right to my money.
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I don't have a right to pass my money down to my kids, but some 350-pound food stamp jockey does have a right to take that money and buy Pringles and Mountain Dew.
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You only hear these people that say, oh, you didn't earn that money.
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This is the kind of thing, you didn't earn that money.
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They only will say that about the children of wealthy people.
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Now, every single person walking into a Walmart right now with their EBT card, did they earn that?
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And if we're talking about earning, like, who would have a better claim to having earned my money?
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Now, I don't think earning is the right way of phrasing it in either case, really, because it's not really about that.
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Again, it's about who I want to give my money to.
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I should be able to give it to whoever the hell I want.
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Okay, if you want to acquire wealth and then distribute it to charity or give it to whatever, then you go make your own money.
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Rather than sitting there saying, well, I think that your money should go here.
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I don't give a shit where you think my money should go.
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So I don't think we think of it in terms of earning.
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But if we did, I mean, if that's the word we're using, when all is said and done, the EBT recipient versus my children.
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Who has a better claim to having earned my money?
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I mean, that's what that's what family members should be doing.
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As opposed to somebody on welfare who's done absolutely nothing for me whatsoever.
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So if that's the way we want to phrase it, you know, when you start using words like that, well, you didn't earn it.
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But the thing is, they'll only use those terms in very limited circumstances.
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They're very careful about when they start using words like earn.
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And I don't think you really want to have that conversation.
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I don't think you really want to have the conversation about who's earning what.
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Around a year ago, a freelance journalist named Amelia Tate decided to conduct an unscientific survey of adults
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who are creepily interested in Disney, otherwise known as Disney adults.
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We've talked about Disney adults many times before, mainly because they're incredibly easy to mock.
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But also a great real-life example of a little-known phenomenon called synesthesia.
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This is when the stimulation of one sensory pathway leads to an involuntary stimulation in a completely different sensory pathway.
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So for example, you might see a picture of a sewer with your eyes, and then a short time later, you might smell sewage.
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And similarly, when you see a Disney adult, it can be difficult to suppress your gag reflex
00:42:23.660
as various odors seemingly waft from tick-tock directly into your nostrils.
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Even though, you know, it's not real, the stench is ultimately unmistakable.
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But Amelia Tate, in a rare example of bravery in modern journalism, decided to dive headfirst into an investigation
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of this repulsive yet fascinating genre of Disney fan.
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She surveyed more than 1,300 self-identifying Disney adults from all over the world.
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She primarily found these people through Facebook pages about Disney, as well as Reddit, of course.
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According to Tate, of these 1,300 Disney adults, quote,
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a third said that they first engaged with the company as a baby when asked,
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do you think you will be a Disney adult until you die?
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The majority of Disney adults, 71%, are aged between 25 and 44.
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Just under half, 49%, identify themselves as left-wing politically, while a further 9% are centrist.
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18% are right-wing, including 1.5% who said they are far-right.
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Yes, 1.5% of Disney adults claim to be far-right, whatever that means.
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You have to imagine that these particular survey respondents were maybe messing with Amelia Tate,
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Either way, these are people who clearly need to be interviewed on national television immediately.
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This is a Venn diagram that simply can't exist in any way, shape, or form.
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On the one hand, you're a childless, obese, 40-year-old woman who weeps at the sight of Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck.
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Like, you see men in dresses greeting young girls at Disneyland, and you just can't get enough of it.
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On the other hand, when you get home, you're frantically refreshing 4chan for the latest intel on the Proud Boys meetup.
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But then again, who am I to question an unscientific survey?
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The survey says what it says, so let's pretend it's credible for the sake of argument.
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The other noteworthy part of the survey is the gender element.
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In other words, Disney is completely missing out on a very large demographic of losers,
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specifically the losers who happen to also be male.
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It's a sizable share of the market that Disney isn't capturing.
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And it's not just their theme park attendance that's low among males.
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The new Indiana Jones movie, which was apparently supposed to appeal to men,
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even though it was terrible, earned just $380 million on a $300 million budget,
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not including marketing, which almost certainly destroyed every cent of the slim profits they would have otherwise made.
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And as Variety pointed out, Disney's live-action film business hasn't had a male-oriented hit
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that's been comparable to the Pirates of the Caribbean in more than a decade.
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In the entertainment industry, this qualifies as a crisis that requires all hands on deck.
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That's precisely how Disney is handling this developing situation.
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They've decided, having alienated most of their customer base,
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that they want to appeal to men all of a sudden.
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Leadership at Walt Disney Studios has been pressing Hollywood creators in recent months,
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for movies that will bring young men back into the brand in a meaningful way.
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Young men is defined here by sources as ages 13 to 28, a.k.a. Gen Z.
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The sources say Disney has been seeking new IP in pitches such as splashy global adventures and treasure hunts,
00:45:33.940
as well as seasonal fare like films for the Halloween corridor.
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The calls come as the Star Wars machine struggles to produce any film project,
00:45:41.460
and the superhero genre sheds audience by the minute.
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While two insiders say the mandate to recruit young males goes as high as the C-suite,
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the task primarily has fallen on David Greenbaum,
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the former Searchlight Pictures co-head brought on in 2024 to run Disney's live-action film business.
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Now, not that I'm in the business of offering unsolicited advice to major corporations,
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There's simply no reason to trust anything Disney's saying here.
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Disney just blew millions of dollars on their Star Wars hotel,
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which they also billed as a grand, unique adventure.
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In the end, it turned out to be a windowless hotel that transported guests around in unmarked trucks,
00:46:18.680
which also had no windows, so that the guests couldn't see that they were in a parking lot.
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But the other problem here, and this really is the central irony,
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is that Disney now, they're desperately trying to attract men.
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Well, Disney owns both Star Wars and Marvel, as Variety knows.
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They shouldn't have any trouble with the young male audience.
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These are both established franchises with relatable and popular male figures.
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These are franchises that historically have been very, very popular with young males.
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But Disney, for ideological reasons, spent nearly two decades trying to scare men away from these franchises
00:47:07.120
Kathleen Kennedy accused Star Wars fans of hating women
00:47:10.120
because they refused to watch lesbian witches parade around in service of a plot that made no sense.
00:47:14.680
The lesbian showrunner of The Acolyte boasted that it was the gayest Star Wars movie ever, or show.
00:47:21.820
The lesbian lead actress in The Acolyte recorded a diss track directed at the people watching her show
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after she stated that her goal as an actress was to make white people cry.
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It's not even getting into the films, which were obviously box-checking exercises
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Meanwhile, in the name of female representation, Disney commanded that we pretend,
00:47:40.440
against our better judgment, that Brie Larson is capable of acting.
00:47:43.700
They openly told audiences that they should embrace politics in their films.
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And now Disney, rather than returning to what it once was,
00:47:57.500
is trying to undo the damage in a very heavy-handed and calculated manner.
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But if Disney executives actually wanted to appeal to men or to well-adjusted women,
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they wouldn't approach the problem with demographics and propaganda in mind.
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That's what created their problem in the first place.
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Instead, they'd lock every single one of their producers and writers,
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even the DEI hires, in a dark room and force them to watch, you know,
00:48:20.620
They'd show them something like The Fox and the Hound.
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And then Disney executives would unlock the door,
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Tell them it's a windowless ride at the Star Wars hotel,
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That's how you could course-correct the historic downfall of a once-beloved entertainment company.
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But because no one at Disney appears to have any degree of self-awareness,
00:48:46.380
and because they seem to believe that more gender and race obsession
00:48:50.500
is the appropriate remedy to their past gender and race obsession,
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Disney is very unlikely to pull out of its ongoing death spiral.
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And that is why Disney, along with Disney adults, for good measure,
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So that'll do it for the show today and this week.
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