The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1670 - Democrats Have Been Trying To Cover Up One The Biggest Healthcare Scams Ever

00:00:00.000 Today we'll look at the real reason behind the government shutdown and the debate over giving free health care to illegal aliens, a debate that shouldn't be a debate at all.

00:00:08.020 Also, leaked text messages reveal that Charlie Kirk had decided to, quote, leave the pro-Israel cause. We'll talk about that.

00:00:14.440 And a Democratic candidate for governor has a total meltdown on camera because she was asked the easiest softball question of all time.

00:00:20.940 Plus, China just accomplished another amazing engineering marvel. America used to do that kind of stuff all the time. What happened to that?

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00:03:30.580 History is rife with the names of great men who, through no fault of their own, were imprisoned at one point or another.

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00:03:42.640 Sir Walter Raleigh wrote The History of the World while imprisoned in the Tower of London.

00:03:46.080 Sir Thomas More wrote a dialogue of comfort against tribulation during his stint in the same prison.

00:03:52.260 John Bunyan wrote The Pilgrim's Progress from jail.

00:03:54.700 The Apostle Paul, of course, wrote several epistles while under house arrest, and so on and so on and so on.

00:04:00.260 If there's a lesson we can draw from all these examples, it would seem to be that even when they're confronted with a major disruption to their day-to-day life,

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00:04:56.400 Unfortunately for any sociology professors out there who were hoping to run this experiment, we now have the definitive answer to that question.

00:05:03.800 That's because, as you probably haven't noticed in any way, hundreds of thousands of federal government workers have been furloughed since October 1st as part of the ongoing government shutdown.

00:05:13.320 And during this furlough, thousands of federal government workers have been keeping themselves busy.

00:05:18.500 And not by producing any great works of literature, of course, but instead by producing an overwhelming number of vapid TikToks that have been polluting the internet for more than a week at this point.

00:05:29.660 They're eating popsicles, they're miming rap lyrics, they're taking videos of themselves looking at mirrors, and they want the world to know about all this for some reason.

00:05:41.020 I don't know how I'm supposed to pay the bills.

00:06:02.180 Probably have to start selling crack.

00:06:04.500 Or rapping.

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00:06:07.000 Day four of furlough, and it just keeps getting better and better.

00:06:25.640 Um, I've never been unemployed before.

00:06:28.700 Now, if you're tempted to excuse any of this inane behavior, maybe you're inclined to say these people can do whatever they want on their own time, you should know that some federal government workers are indeed being told that they need to commute to the office during the shutdown, and rest assured, those workers are uploading TikToks too.

00:06:48.680 Guys, I don't need any of that.

00:06:50.300 I need some water and my check.

00:06:52.560 And that's all I need, honey.

00:06:54.280 I show up, I do what you ask me to do, and goodbye.

00:06:56.920 Call it out there. 0.98

00:06:59.240 I hate you so much right now. 1.00

00:07:01.820 I hate you so much right now. 1.00

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00:07:14.660 what makes the videos of these public servants big air quotes around that even more enraging

00:07:23.020 than they might seem as if that's possible is that the government shutdown isn't really about

00:07:27.740 any of these people yes there are glorified welfare recipients with fake jobs and we shouldn't

00:07:32.880 have to pay their salaries but the government shutdown is actually about a separate set of

00:07:38.260 taxpayer handouts and specifically democrats want to renew federal subsidies for obamacare plans and

00:07:43.780 they want to reverse medicaid cuts that donald trump just signed into law including cuts that

00:07:48.080 would impose new work requirements and kick so-called asylum seekers off the program now last 1.00

00:07:54.620 week as as you might remember i indicated that um you know i didn't really want to talk about the

00:07:58.540 government shutdown there's a reason for that when you do this job long enough you begin to realize

00:08:03.400 that government shutdowns are not in fact a big deal uh for one thing as we just established

00:08:08.540 government workers are useless so no one cares if they're working or not and um not all 85 to 90

00:08:16.900 percent of them are useless i should stipulate there's maybe 10 to 10 to 15 percent that we need 0.97

00:08:20.780 and secondly in pretty much every case the government shutdown gets resolved

00:08:24.700 and nothing changes that doesn't matter usually whatever the dispute is about they just kick the

00:08:31.480 can down the road and it's all for nothing it doesn't matter and nobody should care but in this case

00:08:36.100 it is worth taking just a moment to talk about what's happening if only because of the sheer volume

00:08:41.620 of lying that we're all being subjected to so here's just one example from cbs's face the nation watch 0.78

00:08:48.660 you know what they counter propose they want to spend 1.5 trillion dollars and they want to return

00:08:54.520 hard-working taxpayer dollars to fund health care for illegal aliens it is in their bill go to 0.98

00:09:00.940 speaker.gov and see it for yourself page 57 section 2141 they're using this for political games and it

00:09:07.580 is shameful and real people are getting hurt uh well that i have looked at that text it doesn't

00:09:12.460 explicitly say what you are indicating um but unauthorized immigrants are eligible yes it does

00:09:18.600 it's it says very simply they want to repeal the changes that we made in the in the working

00:09:23.760 families tax cut the one big beautiful bill and what those changes were is it removed health care

00:09:28.260 going to illegal aliens it removed all the fraud waste and abuse and the congressional budget office 0.64

00:09:32.920 cbo said it achieved the desired result they project it'll save almost 200 billion dollars

00:09:37.960 chuck schumer's proposal on page 57 wants to return that 200 billion dollars of taxpayer funds to pay for

00:09:44.740 illegal aliens and other non-citizens that is a fact and you can check it out on my website speaker.gov

00:09:50.460 don't trust me look at chuck schumer's own paperwork now the anchor woman tries to fact check him but she

00:09:56.280 doesn't actually make a point he says that democrats want to repeal the new medicaid restrictions that

00:10:01.540 donald trump signed into law earlier this year which would have the effect of allowing more illegals to

00:10:06.420 access the program she just says you know he's wrong and shakes her head a few times uh rolling stone

00:10:12.840 attempted a similar fact check after mike johnson's appearance and here's the key line from their article

00:10:17.500 quote it's important to note that undocumented immigrants broadly do not qualify for medicaid affordable

00:10:23.320 care act subsidies or other federally funded health care coverage the word broadly is obviously doing

00:10:30.880 a lot of work there whenever you see a hedge word like that whether they you know where they can't say

00:10:37.060 something in a clear definitive way that's a very good indication that they're that they're hiding

00:10:41.920 something or they're lying and in reality illegal immigrants uh aren't allowed to access medicaid

00:10:47.660 in the same way that you aren't allowed to go through a stop sign without coming to a complete

00:10:52.260 stop it's a restriction in practice that's basically meaningless illegal aliens as a matter of objective

00:10:59.300 observable facts are allowed to enroll in medicaid they they do it's something that does happen all the

00:11:06.760 time that's the point and i'm not just talking about emergency coverage either go on the website of

00:11:12.700 states like new york massachusetts massachusetts uh california colorado north carolina oregon

00:11:17.940 and you all have had explicit statements that medicaid coverage is provided for illegals

00:11:23.060 including for primary care and you're seeing some of those websites on your screen right now it's not

00:11:28.120 exactly a well-kept secret they're not doing much to hide it new york offers managed medicaid care

00:11:35.260 plans for illegals uh illegals in massachusetts are entitled to quote full scope massachusetts

00:11:41.860 medicaid coverage and and on and on and on you can see it there in illinois even the paper of record

00:11:47.080 admits what's going on here they just do it in a somewhat roundabout way so here's headline from

00:11:52.660 the chicago tribune for example quote in illinois adult immigrants ages 42 to 64 without legal status

00:11:59.640 have lost their health care to save an estimated 404 million dollars and the article is entitled

00:12:06.660 illinois among democrat-led states rolling back medicaid access

00:12:11.040 now put two and two together you don't have to be a math genius to conclude that indeed

00:12:17.780 so-called immigrants without legal status otherwise known as illegal immigrants were indeed receiving

00:12:23.560 medicaid benefits the denver post admits that the same thing is happening in colorado and many other

00:12:29.320 states here's one of their recent headlines quote colorado and 19 other states sue the federal

00:12:33.760 government tuesday to prevent medicaid data from being used for immigration enforcement

00:12:38.280 well that's an interesting development how could medicaid data be used for immigration enforcement

00:12:46.300 i mean if illegal aliens have nothing to do with medicaid because they can't access it

00:12:52.760 then you would think that ice would have no use for medicaid data but of course illegal aliens are 0.99

00:12:59.320 indeed receiving taxpayer-funded health care it's happening all the time and democrats are doing

00:13:05.320 everything they can including filing lawsuits to prevent this fraud from being exposed and stopped

00:13:10.220 on the democrat side they'll often claim that only state funds are being used to fund these programs

00:13:16.620 they'll say that even though these are medicaid programs only state-level taxpayers are footing the bill

00:13:21.300 and first of all even if that were true it would still be an outrage no taxpayer should be forced to fund

00:13:27.400 health care for people who have no right to be in this country but on top of that this claim is simply a lie

00:13:33.100 federal funds are used in these programs all the time often as part of a shell game using federal tax revenue

00:13:39.160 which is carefully engineered to obscure the truth congressman eric burleson of missouri

00:13:44.540 recently posted a video of how this scam works in california and it's worth watching because he lays out the

00:13:50.460 details pretty clearly for uh for you know what can be a pretty complicated topic watch california

00:13:56.760 figured this out that they can force the federal government to spend nine dollars for every one

00:14:02.980 dollar that it spends and they're using it to launder money they and this is the way they do it and

00:14:08.880 it costs no money to california because they raise taxes on managed care companies the companies that

00:14:15.700 are providing medicaid so they go to these companies and say we're going to tax you but don't worry

00:14:19.920 we're going to give you all of the money that we just taxed you right back but in the meantime we're

00:14:25.320 going to take that money and we're going to pull down federal dollars and that'll let us have more money

00:14:30.560 so that we can spend it on expanding the population for medicaid and spend it on illegal immigrants in 1.00

00:14:37.080 fact this scheme has allowed california to spend nearly four billion dollars to put illegal immigrants 0.60

00:14:44.600 to put to put on to pay for illegal immigrants to have medicaid four billion dollars this is crazy

00:14:53.220 and this total scheme is spending more money in federal dollars in california that we send in

00:15:01.060 federal dollars than the entire state of florida spends in one year in their in their entire annual

00:15:07.680 budget so this is absurd this has to be corrected altogether by conservative estimates there are

00:15:14.240 roughly 1.5 million illegal aliens who are currently receiving medicaid benefits along with nearly

00:15:20.100 5 million able-bodied individuals who receive medicaid benefits but choose not to work this is

00:15:26.480 massive massive massive fraud uh on on a national scale costing us hundreds and hundreds and millions

00:15:34.180 of dollars even in relatively small states like connecticut the cost is astronomical here's a recent

00:15:39.360 assessment from ct insider for example quote at least 80 million dollars in state funds have been used

00:15:44.660 to pay for health care for children and expected and postpartum mothers without legal immigration status

00:15:50.240 since this coverage became available through connecticut's medicaid program two years ago

00:15:54.960 meanwhile in texas as you might expect the numbers are even higher and as you can see here in just four

00:16:01.520 months from november of 2024 to february of 2025 more than 100 000 patients in texas hospitals

00:16:07.260 admitted that uh they weren't in the country legally and that includes 23 000 inpatient discharges and

00:16:14.620 85 000 emergency department visits at the same time more than 600 000 patients refuse to provide their

00:16:20.720 immigration status and again the vast majority of people who declined to answer were receiving emergency

00:16:26.180 care so we can assume of course that the vast majority of those 600 000 patients are also illegal aliens

00:16:32.140 it's the only reason that you wouldn't want to give your status according to official estimates from

00:16:37.860 the state in total illegal aliens cost texas hospitals more than 120 million dollars per month 0.98

00:16:44.260 so when i said this is costing us hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars uh nationwide i was that's a

00:16:51.220 that's a vast understatement 120 million dollars a month in one state and again the important thing to

00:16:58.740 consider here isn't simply the cost which is obviously too high it's also important to recognize

00:17:04.580 that even if the illegal aliens were somehow paying for their own care which they're not 1.00

00:17:08.440 they're still creating a massive drain on our health care system they're making it harder for

00:17:13.220 american citizens to get the care they need they're filling up emergency rooms and doctor's office 1.00

00:17:18.080 is offices at a time when doctors are you know in increasingly short supply and by itself that's more than

00:17:24.980 enough reason to deny illegals any access to medicaid or to our health care system in general 0.75

00:17:30.780 you're not supposed to be here go to your own country and get health care 0.97

00:17:34.920 when the system is collapsing the absolute last thing we can do or should do is allow the entire 1.00

00:17:41.940 world to access it and then ultimately destroy it even some democrat institutions are finally coming

00:17:48.960 around to this realization the washington post editorial board of all places just published an editorial

00:17:54.440 that supports republicans position on the obamacare related aspect of the government shutdown

00:17:58.520 uh quote democrats have demanded that republicans agree to extend the covet era insurance subsidies

00:18:04.540 without proposing any way to pay for it this will cost 350 billion dollars over the next decade

00:18:09.780 the real problem is that the affordable care act was never actually affordable

00:18:13.740 well it's a belated reaction to put it mildly it's about 15 years too late in fact but

00:18:20.840 it's something it's an indication that everyone even the deranged partisans who read the washington

00:18:25.520 post understand that democrats have no credibility whatsoever when it comes to health care

00:18:30.120 which was their primary policy objective for the eight years of barack obama's presidency

00:18:35.040 their signature issue has been a complete debacle it's an unmitigated disaster

00:18:40.880 it's this recent history that we should keep in mind when they try to fact check claims that

00:18:47.720 illegal aliens are receiving federal health care benefits before obamacare if you were a healthy

00:18:52.800 young person you know you didn't have to subsidize anyone else's insurance you didn't have to

00:18:57.640 purchase comprehensive coverage that you didn't need you could pay out of pocket for most visits

00:19:02.400 and keep coverage for the most serious life-threatening issues like cancer

00:19:07.000 the system that replaced this arrangement was a disastrous deal for most americans and it became a

00:19:13.160 completely unworkable catastrophic deal when americans were forced to subsidize the health care

00:19:17.960 plans of millions of foreign nationals on top of their fellow citizens as a result this government

00:19:24.020 shutdown should continue indefinitely until we have assurance that no illegal aliens will receive 1.00

00:19:29.300 any taxpayer-funded health care at all yes a long shutdown means that we'll have to endure

00:19:35.320 thousands of of more insufferable tiktok videos from furloughed federal bureaucrats but it also means

00:19:43.860 that we'll have a functioning health care system eventually means we'll save hundreds of millions of

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00:22:47.240 charlie kirk furiously criticized bullying jewish donors and said he was considering leaving the

00:22:53.360 pro-israel cause before his death it was confirmed today the bombshell revelation comes after candace

00:22:58.500 owen released a screenshot of kirk uh fuming in a group chat that jewish donors were pulling funding

00:23:03.920 over his links to tucker carlson turning point spokesman andrew colvette confirmed the authenticity

00:23:09.140 of the screenshots on tuesday on tuesday during the latest episode of the charlie kirk show

00:23:12.900 uh text messages occurred privately complained that a jewish donor had withdrawn a two million

00:23:18.200 dollar investment into the organization because he refused to disinvite carlson from the upcoming

00:23:22.480 america fest event uh he wrote just lost another huge jewish donor two million dollars a year because

00:23:28.420 we won't cancel tucker i'm thinking of inviting candace jewish donors play into all the stereotypes

00:23:33.280 i cannot it will not be bullied like this and then he concludes leaving me no choice but to leave

00:23:39.800 the pro-israel cause okay so so that's the story so charlie kirk said in his text exchange that he was

00:23:48.500 fed up with uh jewish donors and that they live down to all the stereotypes and that he has no choice but 1.00

00:23:55.460 to leave the pro-israel cause and i have to tell you that that i saw these texts like everyone else did

00:24:01.500 when candace released them and i i thought i didn't i didn't say anything because i wanted to see how it

00:24:07.000 played out but uh i thought there was like a 40 or 50 chance that they were fake or at least partially

00:24:13.640 fake i didn't think that candace faked them i thought maybe someone had given someone else had

00:24:17.800 faked it given her something fake and lied to her and the reason i thought that it was it was really

00:24:21.980 just because of that final line just that final line the line about leaving the pro-israel cause

00:24:26.740 like in in those words exactly it felt just kind of on the nose just so definitive like the kind of

00:24:37.420 thing a person might make up but it turns out that it was not fake andrew colvette who by the way is is

00:24:43.800 great doing a heroic job i think helping to steer the ship um after after this tragedy after this

00:24:50.180 atrocity but um he's confirmed them so so that's that and i i think the takeaway here well there's

00:24:56.860 there's there's two things i want to say first of all let me tell you what this doesn't prove it

00:25:04.840 does not prove that charlie was in any way uh dishonest or not forthright you know or or anything

00:25:14.600 like that and candace of course has not accused him of that or implied it at all just to be clear

00:25:20.300 but i have seen people on social media trying to twist this stuff to smear him in that way so that

00:25:26.300 is that is something that you see and uh it's not fair and it's not true charlie in fact expressed uh

00:25:32.880 well first of all he expressed a lot of these frustrations publicly that's the first thing and as a

00:25:38.820 public person he's also under no obligation to run out into the public in front of an audience

00:25:43.200 in front of a camera or microphone and just blab whatever thought or feeling he most recently had

00:25:48.620 in his head right he's not any under any obligation to have a thought or feeling and say oh i gotta tell

00:25:54.320 everybody right away uh in fact his obligation especially in the position that he was in as not

00:26:00.360 just a public figure not just a media personality but also the head of an organization a very powerful

00:26:04.900 large important organization his obligation is uh really close to the opposite of that in his

00:26:10.100 position his responsibility was to be it was to be honest of course and he was honest but also you

00:26:15.440 have to be prudent and you have to be measured and you have to be thoughtful in what you say and when

00:26:19.720 you say it and how you say it and he was working through some really difficult things and he wanted

00:26:25.000 to sort all that out within himself personally you know i'm assuming before before he said it in front

00:26:31.800 of an audience so uh and that's what you see here so there's nothing that makes me feel any different

00:26:39.180 about charlie at all uh he was as i said as i said the you know the day after he was after he was killed

00:26:48.800 in my my first show back he was a great man i've said many times since he was a great man uh and a

00:26:54.360 virtuous and honest man uh very you know admirably honest unusually honest uh in particular in politics

00:27:02.740 and and in this business and that and that still is the case that doesn't that hasn't changed at all

00:27:07.580 uh secondly okay so the pro-israel side lost charlie kirk you know that's what he said in his message

00:27:17.320 in his in his own words now he may have been venting he may have been expressing frustration he

00:27:25.120 obviously was doing that uh he may not have flipped over to being actually actively anti-israel

00:27:32.360 uh he didn't say that but he did say that hey they lost me and they lost him because of how he was

00:27:41.480 being treated and what he saw behind closed doors and he was obviously not alone in feeling that way

00:27:49.320 because listen the pro-israel side as charlie called it has lost the majority of the american public

00:28:00.680 you know it doesn't have the left at all which who cares that that's fine but it also doesn't have

00:28:09.760 a huge chunk of the right and it wasn't always that way doesn't have the younger generation

00:28:15.420 like at all doesn't have support globally it's it's just failed to persuade the vast majority of people

00:28:23.500 that's the fact that's the reality and at some point if you're on the pro-israel side you really need

00:28:33.180 to be honest with yourself and engage in some actual honest self-reflection and self-analysis

00:28:38.900 you really do because you're losing the argument i mean you're just losing it you are and uh i've

00:28:50.080 never seen any side of any argument lose this much support this quickly i can't think of any other

00:28:58.600 example of something like this and if you're on that side you need to have the courage and humility

00:29:03.060 to ask yourself what you're doing wrong now sure you know when when you are going out with a message

00:29:11.280 and nobody is buying it and even people who were buying it suddenly are not anymore

00:29:18.940 now you could say oh well it's everybody but me it's all them it's a everyone is against me and

00:29:25.440 it's all their fault there's not not doing anything wrong it's possible that's the case

00:29:30.740 um you know in the whole history of the world when people feel ganged up on and i'm not doing

00:29:39.500 anything wrong and they're doing everything wrong yeah on occasion that could be true

00:29:44.200 but most of the time in life uh you got to look at common denominators

00:29:51.460 and most of the time in life when you're going around and your message is just not resonating with

00:29:57.220 anyone almost uh there's there's um you got to look at yourself

00:30:03.500 that's that's the case most of the time

00:30:07.200 but that doesn't seem to happen you know there's i don't see a lot of like self-reflection here

00:30:14.440 and there really should be especially now i mean this should be the kind of thing if if if

00:30:21.460 if you're on that side of the argument and you see these text messages it's the kind of thing

00:30:25.900 that should make you sit back and go wow

00:30:27.440 i mean even charlie was feeling that way

00:30:32.260 but instead what happens is that typically uh the they'll do what the donors were doing to charlie

00:30:40.860 apparently scold and point fingers and throw the anti-semitism charge around um

00:30:45.680 and i mean they'll do it to me because of what i'm saying right now right this is going to get

00:30:50.880 clipped and it's going to be oh see he's woke right he's anti-semitic he's you know it that's

00:30:56.700 going to happen that's going to happen um i'll probably i will get rebuked even by some people

00:31:04.220 who i would consider friends and or at least friendly uh so it's like you can just produce

00:31:10.940 like you know it's going to happen it will and and they won't be able to help themselves and they

00:31:13.960 will do it even though everything i'm saying right now is just true i'm giving you an analysis of the

00:31:19.900 state of affairs and it's not any kind of you don't have to be a genius to figure this out if you did i

00:31:24.980 wouldn't have figured out because i'm not a genius but you can look around and see like okay clearly

00:31:28.520 you're losing the argument and um and if you're going to conduct any kind of honest inventory here

00:31:37.000 this this is the first place you should start and i'll tell you the first major mistake you've made

00:31:42.140 is that you push out your allies or your potential allies um if they don't toe the line a hundred

00:31:50.700 percent a hundred percent perfect clean record of being pro-israel in every way in all cases all

00:31:56.860 the time always if they fail that test you push them out you label them woke right you label them

00:32:01.660 anti-semitic and that's what charlie experienced he was very pro-israel but he also was friends with

00:32:08.320 tucker and wanted to have a conversation with tucker uh which also makes sense

00:32:15.000 he he was that's the right thing by the way it's not just that that charlie was perfectly

00:32:22.300 justified and had every right to talk to whoever he wants and to platform whoever he wants that of

00:32:27.400 course is true but he didn't just have the right to do it he was right to do it

00:32:32.100 yeah if you're going to have a big event like america fest huge event great event i'll be at it this

00:32:39.780 year um yeah tucker should be there it would be absurd for him not to be there

00:32:46.180 but uh but what charlie experiences is because of that

00:32:51.200 they he he they well we're going to withdraw our money we're going to take the funding away

00:32:57.840 and yet you have the right to do that you have the right to take your money and do what you want

00:33:02.440 with it but this is the problem okay this is why this is this is it doesn't work it's not persuasive

00:33:09.480 people see that and they say okay well you're just a bully and you you won't and you you you will

00:33:17.180 not allow any conversation to happen at all

00:33:19.520 and i've encountered a version of this too many times um you know as everyone knows

00:33:25.500 my position everyone knows my position and it hasn't changed it's that i'm not pro or anti-israel

00:33:33.160 i'm not pro or anti any foreign country i'm very consistent about that i don't care about any country

00:33:40.580 but my own that that's just my opinion that's my perspective might not be yours you might not you

00:33:46.400 might you might feel that it's wrong you might feel that it's you know too simplistic you might

00:33:53.140 feel that it you might feel however you feel however you want to feel about it i don't really

00:33:56.520 care that's just my perspective it always has been always has been my entire adult life i'm very

00:34:03.040 consistent about this i don't want foreign aid to any country including israel uh and i i always call

00:34:08.660 out when i feel the u.s is getting involved in something that it shouldn't get involved in

00:34:11.940 and if they're getting involved in something from my perspective for the sake of israel and i don't

00:34:16.100 think they should i'll say that i i for i was against the iran intervention um so i'll call

00:34:23.240 that out i'll call i'll also call out the islamic invasion of the u.s i spent several days just over 0.90

00:34:28.820 the past couple of weeks talking about that i did i did multiple shows just about the situation in

00:34:33.660 dearborn i've talked about um many many times i've spent a lot of time on uh the importing you know

00:34:41.360 somalis into places like minnesota so i'll talk about that too

00:34:46.100 so i think i'm pretty damn consistent in my own principles when it comes to this stuff and you

00:34:50.260 again you don't have to share those principles but they're mine and i'm consistent about america

00:34:55.180 first i call out anything that i think is not america first i also call out the israel obsession

00:35:01.660 on the other side the anti-israel side the the you know the tendency to bring everything back to

00:35:06.200 israel all the time even if it doesn't have anything to do with it um the the there's a tendency on that

00:35:12.180 side to be to be israel first from the other direction i i've made that point countless times

00:35:17.040 on this show on x on every platform just being consistent which means that if you're pro israel

00:35:22.460 you may not agree with some of my takes but there's no reason why i should be your enemy

00:35:29.500 because you'll also agree with a lot of my other takes and um and and yet i've been labeled uh woke

00:35:40.140 right anti-semitic i just saw this today i don't even know who it was just a tweet that popped up

00:35:46.860 one of many i see him all the time but someone was uh i was just catching some conversation i wasn't even

00:35:52.460 about me but i was catching a stray someone said oh you know matt walsh is constantly engaging in

00:35:57.280 anti-semitic tropes and i see this all the time like what what are you what are you even talking

00:36:04.920 about but uh but this is what they're talking about is just not not towing the line a hundred percent

00:36:14.440 and i don't i don't tow any line i mean the only line i tow is my own line you know i have my own

00:36:21.180 line my own i have my own line the things that i care about and that's what i tell i don't tell any

00:36:25.700 other lines and um and like i said that's that's going to happen in reaction to what i'm saying

00:36:31.480 right now and that's your problem you know that's all or nothing strategy it's not working it is

00:36:36.900 failing utterly and totally it just is so that was my reaction to this news just being honest with you

00:36:47.080 i i actually am genuinely surprised that charlie had been pushed away from from that side and i know

00:36:55.740 everybody now wants to wants to say about charlie oh see i i knew all along i i knew well i didn't know

00:37:05.720 i don't know about this at all i'm sincerely surprised

00:37:11.940 and that's my honest feeling to me the takeaway here is that

00:37:18.180 the side the side that charlie himself identifies as the pro is real side

00:37:23.500 well they managed to alienate and push away charlie kirk

00:37:28.280 and if you're on that side you should really really stop and think about that you just should

00:37:35.840 rather than screaming at me for telling you to stop and think about it you should

00:37:41.220 actually stop and think about it

00:37:43.380 all right let's uh

00:37:47.460 brighten the mood with a fun video this is katie porter

00:37:52.860 formerly known as uh somehow somehow one of the most insufferable democrats in congress

00:37:59.020 and she managed to claim that title amid all the really intense competition

00:38:03.560 now she's running for governor of california and it's not going well here she is sitting down with a

00:38:08.780 reporter this is a reporter from uh cbs news i believe so a friendly reporter friendly outlet

00:38:14.160 on her side and watch how this goes listen what do you say to the 40 percent of california voters who

00:38:21.440 you'll need in order to win um who voted for trump how would i need them in order to win man

00:38:28.020 well unless you think you're going to get 60 percent of the vote you think you'll get 60

00:38:32.820 percent all everybody who did not vote for trump will vote for you that's what what you're in a

00:38:36.780 general election yes if it is me versus a republican i think that i will win the people who did not vote

00:38:43.120 for trump what if it's you versus another democrat i don't intend that to be the case

00:38:46.340 so how do you not intend that to be the case do you are you going to ask them not to run

00:38:51.680 no no i'm saying i'm going to build the support i have the support already in terms of name

00:38:55.600 recognition and so i'm going to do the very best i can to make sure that we get through this primary

00:38:59.920 in a really strong position but you don't feel like this is unnecessarily argumentative what is

00:39:04.140 your question the the question is the same thing i asked everybody that this is being called the

00:39:10.100 empowering voters to stop trump's power grab every other candidate has answered this question this is

00:39:14.860 not correct and i said i support it so and the question is what do you say to the 40 percent of

00:39:20.760 voters who voted for trump oh i'm happy to say that it's the do you need them to win

00:39:25.380 part that i don't understand i'm happy to answer the question as you haven't written and i'll answer

00:39:29.200 it and we've also asked the other candidates do you think you need any of those 40 percent of

00:39:33.900 california voters to win and you're saying no you don't no i'm saying i'm going to try to win every

00:39:37.780 vote i can and what i'm saying to you is that well to those voters okay so so you i don't want to keep

00:39:44.300 doing this i'm going to call it thank you you're not going to do the interview with us nope not like

00:39:50.960 this i'm not not with seven follow-ups to every single question you ask every other candidate has

00:39:55.580 i don't care i don't care i want to have a pleasant positive conversation which you ask me about every

00:40:01.220 issue on this list and if every question you're going to make up a follow-up question then we're

00:40:05.900 never going to get there i don't want to have an unhappy experience with you and i don't want this

00:40:10.420 all on camera i don't want to have an unhappy experience with you either i would love to continue

00:40:14.520 to ask these questions so that we can show our viewers what every candidate feels about every one of

00:40:19.900 these issues that they care about and redistricting is a massive issue we're going to do an entire

00:40:24.220 story just on the responses to that question and have asked everybody the same follow-up questions

00:40:29.240 well you know a little late for that katie uh after melting down on camera for three minutes she 1.00

00:40:34.820 finally says that she doesn't want to do this on camera and the hilarious that the hilarious and

00:40:40.000 revealing thing is that the meltdown was precipitated you just saw there by the easiest most softball

00:40:48.400 question you could possibly imagine all she was asked is what she will say uh how she will reach

00:40:59.320 out to voters on the other side that's all she was asked that that is politician 101 stuff okay

00:41:06.400 that that's not anything close to a gotcha or a trap question it's the opposite it's not a curveball

00:41:12.640 this is a t-ball okay it's not a curveball question it's a t-ball question the ball is right

00:41:17.380 there on the tee it's sitting right all you have to do is just swing and you almost can't help but

00:41:23.480 hit it and instead she refused to swing she walked up to the tee threw her bat down and said this is too

00:41:31.260 hard the ball's moving too fast what do you mean the ball's not moving at all it's not fair so amazing

00:41:40.640 performance truly and um and the answer would have been so easy katie the answer is so easy

00:41:47.360 what are you gonna do to reach out to all the republic here's all you say well what i say to

00:41:53.540 voters on the other side is i will fight for you i will fight for all californians what we're all in

00:42:00.220 this together you know whatever whatever something like that basic stuff easy and uh she she lost it 0.95

00:42:06.700 in the history of politician interviews has anyone ever stormed out because of an easier question

00:42:16.060 have you ever seen a less warranted storm out

00:42:20.940 maybe one the only one that comes to mind is uh is i think i still have i still have the i i i have

00:42:29.840 the the title when congressman mark tacano stormed out of our interview and what is a woman because i

00:42:34.940 asked him you know what is a woman so this but so that but this is second to that this is a very close

00:42:41.860 second and what accounts for this meltdown well three things and i think everyone is focused on the

00:42:50.420 first two that i'll list not so much the third but the first is that katie porter is first of all just

00:42:54.860 a miserable person an awful vile human being she's been accused of physical and emotional abuse by her 1.00

00:43:01.640 ex-husband she's accused of abusive behavior by her former staff members so there's a definite pattern 0.57

00:43:07.320 here there's a common denominator and it's katie porter and and then you see this and it certainly

00:43:12.300 supports the claim that she's uh abusive behind the scenes when you see this i mean not every claim

00:43:19.140 like that is true i mean you get these claims about people okay someone and someone in a divorce

00:43:25.080 making a claim well they have of course every incentive to lie or exaggerate former staff members

00:43:31.280 you know especially these days you have staff members and we get these you know these scandals

00:43:38.300 with politicians sometimes we get them with talk show hosts oh they're so mean they're so mean and

00:43:45.020 then you hear the horror stories and it's just like you know that you showed up late to work and they

00:43:51.600 told you hey don't be late or something and then you went and cried in a bathroom bathroom for 45

00:43:56.520 minutes and had to go to a therapist so a lot of times it's that but it you see something like this

00:44:02.340 and you see the way she behaves on camera and okay well that really comports i mean that if she's

00:44:07.500 acting like that on camera she's on camera and someone asked her a super easy question

00:44:12.000 and you she want you could tell she wanted to just lunge throttle this woman for asking the question 0.52

00:44:20.480 and uh okay if that's how you can ask act on camera you can only imagine what she's doing behind the 1.00

00:44:24.680 scenes so that's the first the second thing is uh that it tells us is that democrats of course live in

00:44:30.540 a bubble especially in california they are never asked it's not just that they're never asked

00:44:34.360 hard questions they aren't asked questions period they're never asked any real questions that that

00:44:40.440 that have to be answered they're never expected to give any real answers to anything at all

00:44:46.400 and this has made them extremely soft and very incapable of navigating even the friendliest

00:44:52.280 most sort of um low stakes exchanges but the third thing here and and i and this is to me the main

00:45:01.640 point as easy as the question is or seems for democrats these days it's uh it's not so easy it's difficult

00:45:13.800 and it's difficult because they truly hate the voters on the other side her real answer that she didn't

00:45:21.640 want to say is that she doesn't want their vote that's a real answer she doesn't want she doesn't want 0.75

00:45:28.600 them she doesn't want them to have a vote she doesn't want them to be alive she wishes they were

00:45:34.520 dead that's a real answer if she was being totally honest and she was asked well what about the 40%

00:45:41.080 of republic what are you going to say to them if she was being honest what she would have said is oh 0.99

00:45:46.600 what do i say to them i say go die i say hey guys why don't you go throw yourselves into the pacific ocean 1.00

00:45:51.300 and drown all of you you and your children that's what she would have said if she was being honest 1.00

00:45:56.960 because that's how she actually feels and um and that's why she can't answer a question to her

00:46:04.180 asking her how she's going to reach republican voters it's like asking her how she's going to

00:46:09.980 reach out and appeal to you know it's like if you had said to her um well you know california has a

00:46:19.320 heavy population of serial killers what are you going to do to reach them how are you going to appeal

00:46:25.780 to the serial killer demographic it's like now i mean that's a bad example because in reality

00:46:32.160 katie porter has no problem reaching the serial killer vote she would actually she she i think 0.94

00:46:37.760 she'd be very good at that uh because that's the vibe she gives off and on top of that you know the 1.00

00:46:43.580 abortion industry supports her totally so she she has the serial killer vote already locked down 0.99

00:46:48.740 but you get my point you know you get my point and more than anything else this is a reflection

00:46:53.260 of how democrats can't even pretend that they think their opponents are human beings

00:47:00.040 they can't even feign it they can't they can't feign it long enough for a powderpuff interview

00:47:08.220 with a friendly media outlet they can't fake it long enough to just say yes i want to reach all voters i

00:47:16.000 will fight for everybody can't bring themselves to say it every time the left tries to silence us

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00:48:54.540 all right here's the secretary of transportation on the legalization of weed he was uh interviewed on

00:49:01.240 i think it's fox and friends let's listen here's the here's the problem with alcohol i can look at

00:49:07.580 brian i can smell brian if he's been drinking in the car there's telltale signs and then i can give

00:49:11.800 my breathalyzer right and then i can take a blood test later it's hard with marijuana we don't have the

00:49:16.440 systems in place to tell if you were smoking marijuana before you got in the car so the

00:49:20.740 systems aren't there at a time when culture is pushing and celebrating the use of marijuana we're

00:49:25.980 not talking about the risks we lose 40 we lose 42 000 people on the roads every year but way too

00:49:30.680 many so do you think that we should uh legalize it that's where the president's thinking about

00:49:35.720 changing its ranking its schedule i think it would be a huge mistake uh listen i i i understand a lot of

00:49:42.660 pressure to do it i understand he's getting pressure listen i i've got nine kids um i see

00:49:46.960 what these drugs do um i'm not i'm not a supporter of legalizing and again i was a prosecutor we didn't

00:49:51.860 send people to prison for a quarter ounce bag or an eighth ounce bag of marijuana they got a city

00:49:56.180 citation they're not going to prison for this but to legalize it and to say it's okay for for our kids

00:50:01.900 and our young people to smoke it and it's good for them and they get behind cars it's dangerous and

00:50:06.760 and listen it it's taking lives and it's addictive something else really addictive and by the way it's

00:50:11.260 not the 1960s marijuana right um this is way more dangerous stuff and then they're lacing it with other

00:50:16.340 materials that are incredibly dangerous yeah well so of course of course i mean he's right and of

00:50:24.220 course weed is linked to traffic deaths right it's a mind-altering substance it makes you hazy and tired

00:50:31.800 and lowers your reaction times it affects your brain affects your mind a lot of people are smoking

00:50:37.000 the stuff now and most of them are driving so not hard to work out the calculus and yet the potheads

00:50:44.020 still aren't ready to have this conversation they aren't ready to admit that there are any downsides to

00:50:49.500 weed at all and that's really what gets me about this topic and you know how i feel about it we don't

00:50:56.700 have to get into the debate again yeah i've laid out mike i i also think that weed should be uh should

00:51:03.640 be banned federally it should be banned across the country i give my reasons why but you don't have

00:51:10.380 to agree with that what gets me about it is is this that it's this total lack of perhaps to be expected

00:51:19.200 total lack of of uh realism and honesty on the part of the pot advocates and not even accusing them of

00:51:30.040 explicitly lying i think there's some of that but i think they're lying to themselves they're lying to

00:51:35.000 themselves and so then what they say is just it's not it's not realistic it's not in you're not living

00:51:42.240 in reality and it's unlike anything else in that regard so there are plenty of people myself included

00:51:49.300 who enjoy alcohol in moderation plenty of people who enjoy it not in moderation also

00:51:55.140 but um the alcohol enjoyers you know they're not going to deny the health downsides i've never heard

00:52:02.700 that i've never heard anyone who likes to have a drink on occasion deny that there are health problems

00:52:09.020 associated with it we're not going to deny that yeah you know drinking and driving is bad you

00:52:14.880 definitely shouldn't do it it's a big problem um we're not going to deny that yeah drinking can

00:52:21.880 mess up your liver it it can you can make you gain weight uh it can there are all kinds of possible

00:52:28.580 complications drink too much it could cause brain damage i mean it it screws up all your internal organs

00:52:34.080 right you know and but we won't deny that there's plenty of denial among full-blown alcoholics

00:52:43.660 i'm not suggesting otherwise i'm just saying that i've never heard anyone claim that you can drink

00:52:49.580 basically however much you want without any measurable downside nobody claims that now people

00:52:56.180 might deny if they're in denial and they're alcoholics they might deny that they themselves are

00:53:00.200 guilty of that kind of overindulgence but they will at least agree that overindulging is possible

00:53:07.800 and it is bad right they'll agree that yeah people do that and it's bad but i don't that's where the

00:53:15.220 denial comes in but at least there's that fundamental agreement that yeah alcohol can definitely be

00:53:21.700 dangerous if you drink too much of it and uh and it's not the healthiest thing like it's it's it's

00:53:27.220 it's obviously not healthy uh all things considered

00:53:30.820 but among potheads there's just no acknowledgement from what i've seen i don't think i'm making a

00:53:37.400 straw man here there's just really no acknowledgement of any downsides they refuse to acknowledge it

00:53:42.880 if you say yeah you know it causes car accidents they'll deny that they'll actually try to deny that

00:53:50.380 so of course it causes car accidents what are you talking obviously a lot of people are smoking it

00:53:56.440 they get high you get behind the wheel of a car that's not that's far from ideal your reaction

00:54:01.720 times are lower you're not like you're you're not sober so anytime you're driving not sober your

00:54:07.240 chances of getting to accident are increased so clearly this is causing accidents and because of

00:54:13.100 the number of people who drive in america and the number of people who are smoking we you know we

00:54:17.160 might not know the exact number but we can assume that it's a pretty high number and yet you get

00:54:23.320 these pot advocates who just like they won't acknowledge that if you talk about the study

00:54:28.520 sale it's linked to cancer they won't acknowledge it you talk to them about the studies that it's

00:54:32.260 linked to psychosis it's a mind-altering substance they won't they won't acknowledge it they just refuse

00:54:38.240 to acknowledge that i don't know there's there's no downside from what i've seen that these people

00:54:45.340 will say yeah you know that is true that's true it does do that that is a risk that is a downside

00:54:50.780 however i still like to smoke it because xyz and i think it should be legal because xyz that's at

00:54:57.580 least an argument that like that's a conversation we could have but what i find is just total absolute

00:55:02.100 across the board denial where you want to believe that well this is a it was made by god it's a plant

00:55:10.820 who cares it was a plant there's a lot of plants out there that you're not supposed to ingest

00:55:15.760 that doesn't mean yes it's it's naturally occurring that doesn't necessarily mean that it's

00:55:22.140 that it's perfectly okay to ingest okay try going out into the forest sometime and just ingesting any

00:55:30.280 plant you see actually don't try that because you'll you'll die because there's a lot of stuff 0.93

00:55:36.120 out there you're not supposed to ingest um but that's the answer you get and it's totally ridiculous

00:55:41.440 and it's just it's denial it's total denial um finally this went viral here's a post from

00:55:51.200 colin rug we'll play the video as i read the caption there's no audio to it so um you can see there

00:55:56.480 china officially opens the world's tallest bridge completing the project under four years the bridge

00:56:01.140 features a restaurant at the top a whopping 2600 foot uh feet above the the river the bridge not

00:56:07.760 only cuts a two-hour drive to two minutes but also features as a has also features a theme park

00:56:13.660 with a glass skywalk a high-speed glass elevator and a waterfall off the edge of the bridge

00:56:20.180 okay

00:56:22.940 so very impressive as you can see and of course the reason i think it's going viral is that people in

00:56:31.220 america are looking at you look at the comments and it's just all these comments saying uh asking the

00:56:35.460 same question which is why aren't we building stuff like this anymore right why is it if there's some

00:56:40.800 big impressive architectural engineering feat it's always china doing it these days and how did they 1.00

00:56:50.360 build this giant bridge across this 2000 foot canyon in four years and there's like a restaurants and

00:56:57.700 theme parks and everything meanwhile the key bridge in baltimore had a cargo ship ram into it two years ago

00:57:03.920 and there's still a giant gaping hole in the side of it they haven't even started to fix it yet

00:57:10.740 so what's going on i mean why why don't we do this when was our last great architectural feat

00:57:18.800 when was our last engineering marvel we we've we've had a lot of them

00:57:25.260 no one's had more than us i mean we are the country that dug the panama canal we dug a canal

00:57:33.900 across 51 miles of jungle and connected two oceans together

00:57:39.860 something multiple countries tried to do and failed and we went in and did it

00:57:46.660 we built the empire state building 1200 feet high took one year they did it in one year and not only is

00:57:55.140 it a really high building the tallest in the world at the time that it was built it's also beautiful

00:58:00.560 it's a beautiful building on top of just being really big

00:58:04.060 um built the hoover dam largest concrete structure ever built at the time built the golden gate bridge

00:58:14.020 longest suspension bridge ever built at the time that thing is anchored like 200 feet below sea level

00:58:22.140 and again it's not only big and it was built quickly it was built in four years not only big built

00:58:29.920 but quickly has obviously has has withstood the test of time it's beautiful it's like art also

00:58:38.280 uh you know we we that was also in the 1930s

00:58:43.560 we built a transcontinental railroad

00:58:47.020 do you understand the transcontinental railroad was built across like 2 000 miles

00:58:54.400 through desert through mountains through forests across great plains right they were getting

00:59:05.520 attacked by by indians bandits there were diseases 1500 workers died

00:59:14.000 and they completed it in the 1860s with 1860s technology and if it's been a while since you studied this in

00:59:23.160 school guess how long six years

00:59:25.800 in the 1860s

00:59:28.380 no modern technology at all to speak of

00:59:32.840 people dying by the hundreds

00:59:35.800 building this railroad

00:59:38.280 over mountains and across deserts

00:59:41.940 six years we can't even build a parking garage

00:59:44.940 in that amount of time now

00:59:47.040 okay it'll take six years just to get the zoning permits

00:59:50.480 to build a parking garage

00:59:52.180 if we you know if they tried to build that chinese bridge in california today

00:59:57.820 it'd take 14 years just to begin construction

01:00:01.480 they'd start talking about it now

01:00:04.100 right with with with a goal of okay

01:00:08.520 uh this will begin construction in the year 2040

01:00:13.000 and then when it begins it'll be canceled

01:00:17.400 years before it was ever going to be completed

01:00:19.980 so what changed i mean why can't we do stuff like this anymore

01:00:25.120 well part of it is is what i just mentioned

01:00:28.760 endless tape permits you know endless red tape

01:00:31.760 uh permits zoning stuff restrictions

01:00:35.120 endless bureaucratic meddling

01:00:37.340 it just makes it impossible to do anything great anything awesome

01:00:40.640 um you know and and and uh certainly like a tolerance for danger we have no tolerance for that at all anymore

01:00:52.100 when we were built you know building the panama canal building the trans canal railroad

01:00:57.520 we went into it knowing like okay a lot you know when the worker showed up it was like

01:01:03.880 a lot of you are going to die doing this by the way

01:01:06.880 here's what we're doing and a lot of you are going to die

01:01:10.760 trying to do it

01:01:13.120 that's the deal

01:01:14.880 now i'm not suggesting that we should accept that much carnage like we don't need to we also have

01:01:20.460 modern technology we have modern medicine

01:01:21.860 uh so that's um i'm not saying people should sign up for you know to give their lives to

01:01:29.380 to for a construction project but what i'm saying is we've gone all the way to the other extreme

01:01:35.060 and uh and that's part of the problem

01:01:38.020 and as a country you know

01:01:39.880 so we just can't

01:01:41.220 you can't do it

01:01:43.020 we can't do anything great anything awesome

01:01:46.980 and that really is the primary reason that's the primary

01:01:49.160 reason

01:01:49.960 to build a bridge

01:01:52.380 like like the one in china

01:01:55.120 you know sure it has a practical purpose it cuts a two-hour drive

01:01:59.220 into two minutes

01:01:59.700 but also you should build the bridge because it's awesome

01:02:03.140 that's why you should do it

01:02:05.060 why do you build the giant bridge and you got the theme park and the restaurant on it

01:02:09.000 and it's really high and it's

01:02:10.580 yeah it cuts down a commute but why do you really build it because it's really cool

01:02:16.120 that's why it's just a it's a because you want to be able to say you did it

01:02:19.600 okay because as a country you should be doing awesome

01:02:23.660 that's that's why it's that simple you should do it because it's great you should do it because you can

01:02:28.740 and and but that reasoning is not convincing to bureaucrats uh that's the problem

01:02:33.140 they don't care about greatness they don't care about anything they're nihilistic meddlers who

01:02:37.080 exist solely to justify their own jobs

01:02:39.100 and for no other purpose

01:02:40.600 i mean asking why a bureaucrat exists

01:02:43.300 asking why why do you have why are you doing this

01:02:45.820 it's like asking why cancer exists

01:02:47.740 well it exists to eat away and destroy

01:02:49.820 that's why it's there doesn't have any other purpose

01:02:51.580 it's not thinking about what it's doing

01:02:53.360 it's just it's just that's why it's there

01:02:56.020 and as bureaucrats it's just like their job is

01:02:59.360 okay well you want to go build you want to do something awesome

01:03:01.820 we're going to make it impossible for you

01:03:03.940 and if you were to ask them why are you why are you doing this to us

01:03:07.940 why why are you making this impossible we want to do something awesome

01:03:11.640 why are you doing everything you can to stop us

01:03:13.860 they don't have an answer

01:03:16.240 as i said it's like asking a cancerous tumor why it's doing what it's doing

01:03:21.600 there's no answer

01:03:23.120 so that's part of it but also we rely on cheap bad mexican labor for everything now 0.99

01:03:29.160 even though we built all those incredible things without mexican labor 1.00

01:03:32.840 now we're told that well you can't oh we got to have the we got to have the

01:03:35.920 mexican you got to have the labor here from uh south america and central america

01:03:39.480 because otherwise you can't build anything

01:03:41.500 well okay well that's interesting so how do we like build

01:03:44.180 everything without them to begin with huh

01:03:47.160 if now we can't do anything now we can't do anything without mexican labor 1.00

01:03:53.160 well how did we build the country without them

01:03:56.860 i'd like to know

01:03:59.560 and then also finally i think and this is the biggest problem is that we've just

01:04:04.120 lost the will and desire to do the great things i think we have

01:04:07.280 uh and that's the saddest thing about like the state of the country right now

01:04:12.260 uh we talk about making america great again well

01:04:15.060 we will be great again when we as a nation have the will and desire to go out

01:04:19.980 and do impossible things just for the sake of doing them

01:04:22.460 that's the kind of greatness that has defined our country since its beginning

01:04:26.220 go do something impossible do something unthinkable do something historic

01:04:31.160 just to do it

01:04:33.080 and anyone asks you well why why are we doing that 0.99

01:04:36.640 it's like those people are so weak and pathetic they're not even it's not even 0.98

01:04:40.100 worth answering them it should the answer should be self-evident 0.99

01:04:43.800 the answer is in the greatness of the thing itself

01:04:46.660 when you go out to do something great and someone says why are you doing this

01:04:49.300 well if that's not a because it's great because look at it that's why

01:04:52.780 and if you if that's not immediately obvious to you

01:04:54.740 then you're not worth talking to you shouldn't have a voice in this conversation

01:04:59.100 um now there are still americans individually who have that drive obviously but

01:05:06.380 there are americans who do impressive things all the time but as a nation

01:05:09.420 i don't think that we have that and a lot of that goes to leadership

01:05:13.660 and i'm not specifically talking about the leader white house right now i'm talking

01:05:17.940 about this is a this is a decades multiple multi decades long problem

01:05:21.900 and i'm talking about leadership institutionally across the board

01:05:25.520 and it's a cultural problem it's a lot of things

01:05:27.880 and um you know and i think that's what we lost

01:05:30.920 and that's that's why i go on and on about space exploration all the time

01:05:34.300 and people will say that oh there's no point why waste the money

01:05:37.440 what why waste the money on that

01:05:39.760 waste money

01:05:41.960 what are you talking about we waste money in a million ways already if you're

01:05:47.260 worried if you're really worried about we're wasting money

01:05:49.500 there's so many other we waste money when we give fat people food stamps so they 0.99

01:05:53.420 can buy dr pepper okay

01:05:54.920 that's wasting money we waste money in a million different ways that you can count

01:05:58.500 this is not wasting money going out into space the great unknown doing things

01:06:02.540 that no human has ever done or conceived of doing

01:06:04.780 making history changing history changing civilization

01:06:08.280 doing something that they'll be reading about in history books

01:06:11.140 uh you know that are implanted on their forearms

01:06:14.300 500 years from now

01:06:16.280 like that is that's not that can never be a waste of money

01:06:20.080 how could it be

01:06:22.900 what is the point of money what's the point of being a wealthy country

01:06:27.160 a highly advanced wealthy country if you're not going to do stuff like that

01:06:32.260 what's the point

01:06:34.100 so um that's what we need to get back to we need and and a lot of it is a it's it

01:06:40.580 is a cultural thing like we have to have that desire in us

01:06:44.020 a lot like and a lot of us are not going to be the ones who go and do that i i'm not

01:06:49.400 actually going to be the one i'm i'd love to go into space i got six kids now my wife

01:06:53.620 probably would not approve uh so i've aged out i've i've aged out of space exploration

01:06:58.000 i still think it should be done i still think it should be done and uh and there is something

01:07:02.780 so even if you're not going to go out and do the thing

01:07:04.920 uh just like i say we built the panama canal well most americans didn't build

01:07:09.660 we built the the the the you know empire state building

01:07:13.540 i say we most americans the vast majority of americans even alive at the time had no hand in that

01:07:18.900 but you do have a hand in it if you by by just the desire to see it done by supporting it by

01:07:27.200 like calling for it i mean this this was at the time culturally there was this cultural

01:07:31.580 and this is and i say at the time i mean for decades for you know for the entire history of

01:07:36.780 of america up until very recently there it was the culture demanded it everybody wanted it like go

01:07:42.640 we want to see this country do incredible great awesome things and in that environment that's where

01:07:49.880 the people who know how to do those things can step up and say okay you guys want this and you're going

01:07:55.560 to support it you're going to support it financially you're going to give it the moral support it needs

01:07:58.500 and all that then i'll go do it i'll be the guy and uh we need to create that environment i think and

01:08:04.560 we don't right now so there it is that's my speech for today get back to greatness and we're going to

01:08:15.180 leave it there for today we'll be back tomorrow thursday thanks for watching thanks for listening

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The Matt Walsh Show - October 08, 2025

Ep. 1670 - Democrats Have Been Trying To Cover Up One The Biggest Healthcare Scams Ever

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