Ep. 1671 - It’s Time To Crush The Leftist Insurrection Once And For All
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The Trump administration is considering invoking the federal law that allows the president to federalize the National Guard and deploy troops for law enforcement purposes in U.S. cities. Plus, the childless cat ladies of the world are very upset with Taylor Swift. There s a giant rift in the Swifty Club, and a civil war is brewing. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the Trump administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act.
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Also, a peace deal in the Middle East is happening,
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and the Supreme Court seems poised to strike down bans on so-called conversion therapy.
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Plus, the childless cat ladies of the world are very upset with Taylor Swift.
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There's a giant rift in the Swifty Club. A civil war is brewing.
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Ever since Donald Trump took office, federal judges have undertaken a concerted effort
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to suspend the power of the executive branch, unlike anything else that's ever happened in this country.
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The words judicial coup do not even begin to describe what's been going on.
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In every case, whether they're blocking the Trump administration from deleting trans propaganda
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on federal websites or from terminating federal employees or from deploying the National Guard
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or a million other examples, these individual unelected federal judges
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have determined that the president of the United States
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had somehow overstepped his authority under the Constitution.
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And this is obviously an unsustainable situation.
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If judges are going to overturn every single significant decision the president makes,
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then the judges have effectively become president.
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And that's why a lot of commentators, myself included,
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have called on the White House to simply ignore these rulings.
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Other than impeaching and removing judges, which is impossible given that Democrats have
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too many votes in the Senate, ignoring courts that go rogue seems like the only real option.
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Andrew Jackson did it before, and Donald Trump, who happens to be a big fan of Andrew Jackson,
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But there is actually one additional approach that the Trump administration could take
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before we decide to simply do away with the court system altogether.
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And based on recent reports, it looks like the White House is seriously considering this
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I'm talking about invoking the Insurrection Act, the federal law that permits the president
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to federalize the National Guard and deploy U.S. troops for law enforcement purposes in U.S. cities.
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And when the Insurrection Act is discussed in the press, of course, it's described as
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Democrats pretend that it hasn't been invoked more than two dozen times in this country's history,
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They don't want to talk about the fact that several presidents, including some of their
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heroes like JFK and FDR, all invoked the law, mainly to enforce racial integration.
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On the other side of the political spectrum, Republicans point out correctly that the Insurrection
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Act is necessary to put down lawlessness in cities like Portland and Chicago.
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Lawlessness that's reached almost comical levels of absurdity, as police supervisors have
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made it clear that their officers should not assist federal agents who are being actively
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So here's audio, if you haven't heard yet, from the Chicago police scanner.
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Dispatchers told officers not to assist federal agents who are being surrounded by a violent
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And 999 just to confirm, 39th place in Kesey, they were saying that they were being surrounded
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by that large crowd, and they were requesting the police were not sending, waving off all
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And again, for all the units that we called to go over that way, 39th place in Kesey, if
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you could just hold off, 9-11, 9-13, 9-23, 9-24, 9-33, 9-34, just disregard that, 39th place
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They were requesting the police, we're not sending.
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That's the decision that's been made by local law enforcement in Chicago, or more accurately,
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It's an admission, which they also put in writing, by the way, that local police are
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That is, and always has been, a valid justification for invoking the Insurrection Act and sending
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I don't need to recount all the scenes of violence and anarchy, because you've probably seen
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They're being ambushed on the streets, run off the road, boxed in, pelted with objects,
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Rioters are blocking federal vehicles in the roadways.
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Mobs are parading through the streets, preventing people from going where they need to be.
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The mayor of Chicago, meanwhile, is establishing ICE-free zones in a clear effort to interfere
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Today, we are signing an executive order aimed at reigning in this out-of-control administration.
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That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as
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Now, the red line has always been state and local governments can decide not to actively
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assist federal officials, but they can't decide to actively interfere with federal officials
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It's how our whole constitutional system works.
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But the city of Chicago and many other cities have decided to break this covenant, and they
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As a result, no reasonable person can deny what's happening or that the Insurrection Act
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is not only a valid response, but probably the only available remedy to stop the mayhem,
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But there is one other major benefit of invoking the Insurrection Act, which a lot of people
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It would finally force federal judges to openly declare their rebellion against the executive
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The Chicago Police Department has just explicitly declared its own rebellion, as you just heard.
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And if a single federal judge tries to stand in the way of Donald Trump's invocation of the
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Insurrection Act, then the judiciary would be doing the exact same thing.
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The judges couldn't hide behind legalese or strained interpretations of the law in order
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If they attempt to overturn Donald Trump's use of the Insurrection Act, the only way they
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can do it is by admitting that they're waging open warfare on a duly elected branch of the
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The Insurrection Act, by design, leaves no room for judges or lawmakers to intervene.
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The law is based on the president's constitutional authority to act as commander-in-chief of the
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military, as well as his responsibility to ensure domestic security.
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Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution states,
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The Congress shall have power to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws
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of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions.
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And with the Insurrection Act, Congress awarded the president the unilateral authority,
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to decide when an insurrection exists and how to deal with it.
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You could pull up the law and read it for yourself.
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Whenever the president considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages,
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or rebellion against the authority of the United States make it impracticable to enforce
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the laws of the United States in any state by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings,
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he may call into federal service such of the militia of any state and use such of the armed
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forces as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.
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There's no provision that the president's declaration of insurrection has to be reasonable in the
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There's no provision that puts a time limit on the president's authority.
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There's not even a definition of the word insurrection.
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Now, if you're a blue-haired professor at, say, Berkeley, you might hyperventilate about
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Surely you might say there have to be checks and balances somewhere, but actually, no.
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So, when it comes to this, there don't have to be checks and balances.
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At some point, when you're dealing with a problem like this, one branch of government
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Yes, they created an intricate system of government in which the three branches of government serve
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But the founders also understood that if things break down and one branch of government decides
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to check another branch into oblivion in an attempt to destroy the entire country and
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our democratic system of government and to override the other two branches, then there
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There has to be a break-glass-in-case-of-emergency type of safeguard.
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And the Insurrection Act, which, again, is based very closely on the constitutional text,
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The Insurrection Act says if things get really, really bad, then the elected president of the
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United States, who has more of a democratic mandate than any court or any lawmaker, can use
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To be clear, undoubtedly, left-wing judges would try to issue injunctions anyway, not denying
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But the point is that, like the Chicago Police Department, they'd have to be very, very
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The Insurrection Act doesn't give them any room to weasel out of it.
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They'd have to state, essentially, that they don't care about the Constitution or laws passed
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by Congress, that they're declaring open warfare against the executive branch, that they are
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asserting their authority over, over the executive branch.
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And additionally, many of these judges, and all of the left along with them, are on the
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record already stating, of course, as we've heard countless times, that January 6th was
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Several courts, including the Supreme Court of the state of Colorado, attempted to kick
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Trump off the ballot in the last election on the theory that he had committed an insurrection.
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So they've already gone out of their way to declare, in no uncertain terms, that a group
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of old ladies, you know, wandering around the Capitol for a few hours, constitutes an insurrection.
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Their standard is that if a few windows are broken and someone sits on Nancy Pelosi's desk
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and steals her lectern, then an insurrection has taken place.
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And if that's the standard, then there's no conceivable way, morally or logically, to
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argue that cities like Portland and Chicago and Los Angeles aren't in a state of open
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If a mob loitering inside the Capitol for a few hours counts as an insurrection, then
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coordinated and violent attacks on law enforcement, endorsed by state and local officials, certainly
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And that's why the arguments from the left are growing increasingly frantic and incoherent.
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On social media at the moment, various left-wing figures are doing their best to stoke outrage
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because they suspect a declaration of insurrection is coming.
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Here's Robert Reich, for example, who claims to be some kind of professor at Watch.
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Trump wants to invoke the Insurrection Act to punish anyone who opposes him.
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If you take a look at what's been going on in Portland, it's been going on for a long
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I know all of this is frightening, and I don't want to unduly alarm you, but you need
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He's following a four-point plan that you need to know about.
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Step one is to deploy ICE into so-called blue cities owned by Democrats.
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These masked and armed ICE agents are wreaking havoc on American cities and violating due process.
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They're arresting people outside immigration courtrooms.
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They're raiding homes in the middle of the night and detaining children and adults, including
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Trump wants to stoke actual violence, which would make it easier for him to unleash the
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final step in his plan, which is step four, invoke the Insurrection Act.
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The Insurrection Act empowers a president to federalize the National Guard and use the U.S.
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military to suppress civil disorder, insurrection, or armed rebellion against the government.
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Everything done by Trump has been a preamble to invoking this act and being able to unleash
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troops against his perceived political enemies who oppose his regime in advance of the 2026
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It would be the ultimate step in Trump's authoritarian power grab.
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They're going to claim that Trump wants to round up his political opponents and anyone
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And of course, that's precisely what Joe Biden's administration actually did.
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They jailed every Trump aide and ultimately Trump himself in order to prevent a Democratic
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And Joe Biden didn't need the Insurrection Act to do any of that.
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What people like Robert Reich won't do, even though it would solve the whole problem, is
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In the first Trump administration, the argument from the left was that he put kids in cages
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Families are separated all the time when the parents commit crimes.
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And this time around, their argument is even more tenuous.
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They're saying that ICE agents are the modern day Gestapo because they're rounding up illegal
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aliens while wearing masks and making lawful arrests in public spaces.
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They say ICE is arresting American citizens, even though there isn't a single case of ICE
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There is a case of an illegal alien taking her children with her as she was deported, which
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But they've yet to have a real case of an actual American citizen being rounded up by ICE.
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What's really going on here, although no one on the left would wants to say it, is that
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They do not want any federal immigration enforcement of any kind.
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But they never say it out loud explicitly because they understand how unconvincing and unpopular
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So leftist judges hide behind various legalese while Democrat activists make outlandish claims
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That's what's been happening for the last 10 months.
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And as a result, we have arrived at the absolute limit of checks and balances in our system of
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And if courts and local governments want to keep pushing things, they'll rapidly find
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out that under our Constitution, they will lose any one-on-one battle with the executive
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That's how the Insurrection Act was structured.
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And in an ideal situation, of course, this fail-safe wouldn't be necessary.
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We shouldn't have to rely on a final line of defense like this.
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Democrats are daring the administration to invoke the constitutional response to their lawlessness
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And in response, the administration has no other choice but to follow the guidance of
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the founders and send in the military to quell an insurrection that has rapidly spiraled
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Praise for President Donald Trump has started to roll in after Hamas and Israel announced
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that they have agreed to the first phase of the peace plan to end the war in Gaza,
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potentially create a path to a Palestinian state.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was one of the first to credit Trump for the
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plan's framework that Hamas and Israel negotiators had just reached an agreement on.
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Through steadfast resolve, powerful military action, the great efforts of our great friend
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and ally President Trump, we have reached this critical point.
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I thank President Trump for his leadership, his partnership, and his unwavering commitment.
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Former Hamas hostages and the families of the hostages still trapped in Gaza hailed the
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agreement, which, if carried out, would see the release of the remaining 20 hostages
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Okay, so we'll see how this plays out in the coming days and weeks.
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But right now, I mean, this is a monumental achievement by Donald Trump.
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Now, he has billed himself as the peace president.
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I think he's lived up to that billing, certainly.
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He deserves, as many people have, at least on the right, have said, he deserves the Nobel
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Certainly deserves it far more than Obama did, who won it for doing absolutely nothing.
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And this is why, you know, even when I have criticisms of the current administration,
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and I'll voice those criticisms whenever I have them, but ultimately there's no question
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that this is the greatest presidency of my lifetime, hands down.
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And granted, pretty low bar, but even so, you know, Trump has accomplished some monumental
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things just in the first nine or ten months of his administration.
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And really, if all Trump ever did, if his entire term, the only thing he did was shut
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down the border, which he has, and get a peace deal in the Middle East, if those were
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his only accomplishments, that would still be, you'd count that as a success.
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But he's done this in like nine months, and those are not the only two achievements even
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You know, it's better for our country if the fighting stops, obviously.
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We'll wait now for that, for that Nobel Peace Prize to materialize.
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Okay, so the Supreme Court is considering conversion therapy bans, and this is the ABC News report.
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In a case at the heart of the debate over how best to care for young people struggling with
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their sexuality or gender identity, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday signaled that state
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restrictions on what licensed counselors can say in conversations with adolescents might
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The justice heard oral arguments in a dispute from Colorado over the state's 2019 law banning
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so-called conversion therapy for minors or efforts to change an individual's sexual orientation
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or gender identity during talk therapy treatment.
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So the media is very concerned because you can tell in the oral arguments which way this
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But just to review, first of all, it is obviously a violation of your free speech rights if you
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are told by the government that you cannot express certain thoughts or ideas during a therapy
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It is, if that's not a violation of free speech, then the concept of free speech has no meaning.
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If the government is giving counselors a list of approved opinions and thoughts that they're
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allowed to express during a session, then there is no free speech.
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So you can't say, oh, but you do have freedom of speech as long as you stick to what's on
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Here are the, here's the, actually it's not even a list.
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When someone comes to you and they're struggling with their quote unquote gender identity, here's
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And as long as you stick to that list with one item, you have freedom.
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You have the freedom to do exactly what we say.
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That's basically the argument on the other side.
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And that argument of course doesn't work and it will be rejected by the Supreme Court.
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And this is why we really need a workable definition of free speech.
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I mean, what, what kind of speech is included under the free speech umbrella?
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We're told that this is a hopelessly complicated question, but it really isn't.
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I mean, here's the definition or here's what it should be.
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Free speech is any speech that expresses a point of view.
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If you are communicating a point of view, an opinion, a belief through speech, then that
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That is speech and it's free speech and you should have the right to do that.
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And I think defining it that way, in that simple way, really it, it, it rules out the
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kinds of things that you want to rule out, like a threat.
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If I say I'm going to kill you, that's not really a point of view.
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An opinion, the opinion version of that would be if I said, I hope you die.
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It's a bad thing to say, but that's an opinion.
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I'm quite familiar with those, with that kind of expression.
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I hope you die is, uh, is, is that's an, yeah, that, that should be, that qualifies
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as free speech saying I'm going to kill you is not free speech.
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That's, that is just you stating what you're going to do, telling someone else, Hey, go
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I think, I think the distinction is easy to see.
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Um, and, uh, yeah, this also rules out defamatory speech.
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If speech is just expressing a point of expressing opinion, expressing a belief, then defamation
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Like defamation is not free speech, but what is the, what is a defamatory speech?
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Defamatory speech is when you're saying something that's not true about someone and you know
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that it's not true, that's, that is defamation, but that's not you expressing a point of view.
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The whole point is like, you know, that's not true.
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You're lying because you're trying to defame the person and that's not included.
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Everything else, everything that expresses a point of view and opinion or a belief should
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Pornography is not the expression of a point of view.
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You're not giving your opinion or expressing a belief when you do pornography.
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So that would be out, but you see how this really clarifies things.
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And as long as you're expressing, communicating a point of view, then, uh, it, you should be
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Well, that clearly is the expression of a point of view.
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When a client sits down and says, I think I'm a woman.
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And you as the counselor say, no, you're a man.
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It would say, and it's the correct point of view, by the way, when they counsel you
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to, to overcome same sex attraction, again, they're expressing a point of view, expressing
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Uh, I, you know, we act like this is so difficult to understand, but it really isn't.
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Although in this case, the most salient, the most important point, isn't that a so-called
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conversion therapy is free speech, though it is free speech.
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It's that so-called conversion therapy is also true speech.
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You know, they're outlawing, forbidding therapists from saying something that is true.
00:26:59.180
So if a male sits down and says, I'm a woman, for you to, as the therapist, to say, no, you're
00:27:08.840
Not only are you expressing a point of view, but it's the correct point of view, which is
00:27:15.000
And, um, and on top of all that, of course, banning conversion therapy makes no sense because,
00:27:25.140
The whole point of therapy is to convert the patient, convert the client from one mode of
00:27:33.140
You know, one way of thinking to another way of thinking.
00:27:36.000
The point is supposed to be specifically to convert them from a disordered way of thinking.
00:27:40.560
This is the way it's supposed to be to a properly ordered way of thinking from, from dysfunction
00:27:46.120
to function, from confusion to understanding, from, uh, despair to, uh, contentment from unhappiness
00:27:54.480
That's the point of therapy to convert in that way.
00:28:00.100
The therapist is trying to help change the way the person thinks about themselves and the
00:28:05.160
And if that doesn't need to be changed, then they shouldn't be in therapy.
00:28:11.100
If therapy has any use whatsoever, then that would be the use.
00:28:16.220
When you have someone who has a dysfunctional way of thinking and you are helping them to
00:28:23.700
Someone has a, has a, a, a mistaken view of themselves or of reality, and you're helping
00:28:35.600
So to ban conversion therapy is to ban therapists from doing literally the only thing they should
00:28:42.220
It would be like banning, you know, podiatrists from, uh, touching someone's foot.
00:28:47.540
It's like, well, what else am I, what else am I supposed to do then?
00:28:54.360
And, uh, that's also why, of course, affirmative care is such an absolute joke, such a farce.
00:28:59.940
Um, affirmation is the last thing you need in therapy.
00:29:04.640
And, uh, uh, you know, it, it, it, it is the desire to have your, your dysfunction affirmed
00:29:12.740
is one of the things that the therapist is supposed to be helping you to overcome.
00:29:16.880
Um, uh, yesterday we played the video of Katie Porter, um, former, former Congresswoman, current
00:29:27.180
We played the video of her melting down in the face of a total softball interview.
00:29:35.640
This is from, this is from a couple of years ago.
00:29:37.840
This is back when she was in Congress and she was doing some kind of interview, some kind
00:29:42.560
And she chews out one of her aides for wandering into the shot and does this on camera.
00:29:49.380
And now a couple of years later, two, three years later, this video has made its way to
00:30:03.780
Six hundred and thirty two, which is how much you save in fuel and maintenance costs when
00:30:09.700
you replace your traditional car with an EV, with an electric vehicle.
00:30:19.580
I just plug it into the garage three hole prong plug and I never have to go to the gas
00:30:27.700
And six hundred thirty two dollars is real money.
00:30:29.860
And I know here at UCI, we have a national fuel center research center, and they're also
00:30:35.880
doing work on how to make electric vehicles affordable, including for low and moderate
00:30:41.200
income people, working moms, single moms like me, people who really could benefit from an
00:30:46.000
extra six hundred and thirty two dollars in their pocket.
00:30:48.260
And it's also not just the individual savings, but it's also the total savings for our economy.
00:30:54.020
So I'm on the oversight committee, you might know, and that is where we did a study recently
00:31:01.700
And what it showed is if we don't electrify our transportation sector, that we're going
00:31:08.080
to lose more than half a million Californians dying prematurely to air pollution and other
00:31:19.240
I wanted to tell you that that's actually incorrect.
00:31:21.520
It's not that it's electric vehicles, it's that if we don't need the commitments, I
00:31:35.120
OK, I'm going to start again with electric vehicle saving us money.
00:31:44.120
She was in the shot, so, you know, you can't wander into the shot like that.
00:31:49.500
But her reaction was obviously unhinged and disrespectful.
00:31:54.800
First of all, just how sheltered and coddled Katie Porter has been as a Democrat female
00:31:59.600
congresswoman that, you know, and that not only explains why she treats people that way,
00:32:08.000
but also why she felt comfortable lashing out like that on camera.
00:32:13.180
I mean, she was sitting there on camera cussing out her staff, obviously not live.
00:32:18.180
Whatever they were doing, it was not a live shot.
00:32:20.320
So she had total confidence that she could do that.
00:32:26.860
And if it was leaked to the media, that the media would just bury it for her.
00:32:30.940
And and that's what they and that's the level of confidence she had.
00:32:37.360
I think what happened is she ran for Senate and law, so she decided not to run for reelection
00:32:41.160
and as a representative, she ran for Senate and she lost.
00:32:44.020
If she hadn't done that, if she just stayed where she was, then that video never would
00:32:50.840
And she also wouldn't be catching any flack from the left for the interview that we played
00:32:55.740
And that's because, you know, she would have been useful to the left in her position.
00:33:03.100
But now she's running for governor and she's running against other Democrats.
00:33:09.680
And so the moment they decide that you're not useful anymore, same thing happened to
00:33:19.460
There's a lot of things from the last five years that are weird to think about now, especially
00:33:22.900
But back in 2020, he was the he was not only was he in the good graces of the left, but
00:33:29.380
I mean, he was they wanted they wanted they actually wanted to give him a Nobel Peace Prize.
00:33:32.360
They were he was a he was their their their favorite.
00:33:38.900
But as time went on, he became less useful to them, and so they decided to throw him
00:33:43.500
to the wolves and same things kind of happening with Katie Porter should have just stayed where
00:33:48.640
But the problem is that these people, of course, have egos the size of Jupiter.
00:33:56.760
You know, Katie Porter wants to run for president.
00:33:59.120
We can assume this is all part of her plan, become governor and then try to run for president.
00:34:04.640
What she doesn't realize, Kamala didn't realize this, you know, a lot of these people don't
00:34:11.480
realize it, is that if you're a miserable, charmless.
00:34:22.840
There's just a limit to how far you can climb in politics.
00:34:25.560
It's not doesn't it doesn't it's not going to kill your political dreams entirely.
00:34:35.800
You know, Congress is is a congregation of some of the most repulsive and tiresome people
00:34:42.740
I mean, you could be a really awful and like the kind of person that nobody likes or could
00:34:55.240
You don't need to have any interpersonal skills, any social skills to make it into Congress.
00:35:06.140
So then you get all these like dull, tiresome bastards who make it into Congress.
00:35:11.640
And then they come to believe that they're the second coming of JFK or something.
00:35:17.080
And the problem is that generally speaking, to get any higher, to become governor, certainly
00:35:22.520
to become president, you know, that's where you have to actually have something like you've
00:35:30.980
You have to be a mildly attractive person in some way.
00:35:40.420
Also, by the way, I wanted to mention on this Katie Porter thing that as this video has been
00:35:46.020
going around of Katie Porter, the video from yesterday where she's chewing, where she storms
00:35:51.520
out of an interview, there are also these AI videos that are also making the rounds.
00:36:01.140
Like people are posting it as a joke saying, oh, well, you haven't seen the full version
00:36:07.280
And then the AI video is Katie Porter like lunging at the reporter and strangling her or something,
00:36:14.840
But, you know, it's kind of funny for what it is.
00:36:19.140
It's funny because it's obviously AI and the people that are posting it are not claiming
00:36:24.380
They're not actually trying to fool you into thinking that she assaulted the reporter.
00:36:29.940
But look, not to hop on this, up on this soapbox again, being on a soapbox is the whole point
00:36:38.940
But I look at those videos and I think, well, that's funny, but it is not going to be funny
00:36:50.160
We're getting to a point where this is not going to be funny anymore because you look
00:36:53.800
at those videos, they're still pretty clearly fake.
00:36:59.340
They look a lot more real now than they did two years ago.
00:37:06.560
I mean, within the next two years, certainly probably within the next year where these
00:37:11.360
AI videos are not, are, are, are no longer distinguishable, where they are indistinguishable
00:37:19.800
We are, we are very, very quickly getting to, we are almost, I'd say we're about 85% there.
00:37:24.140
I think, you know, just like roughly looking at these, these AI videos, I think they're about
00:37:30.580
There's about 15% of, of kind of uncanny valley that you still see in these videos.
00:37:39.660
And then eventually you're at a hundred percent.
00:37:44.960
Well, a hundred percent means that we will be at a point where anyone who doesn't like
00:37:49.980
you can go and put in a prompt and generate a video of you doing or saying something awful,
00:37:58.040
the worst kinds of things you can possibly imagine.
00:38:01.500
And they could just post it on the internet and it will be so, it'll be totally indistinguishable
00:38:08.580
And so there will be no way for you to prove that it's fake.
00:38:17.420
And even if there is like the best you'll be able to do is, is if someone's really an
00:38:22.680
expert, if you have some kind of program you can run that detects, but by that, by that
00:38:30.580
And there will always be, you know, once those kinds of videos are circulating and you've
00:38:36.280
got a video of yourself out there like that, even if you say, oh, it was AI, there's always
00:38:46.580
Like they, we're very visual, we're visual creatures.
00:38:48.880
And once that, here's what I'm saying that even if, you know, of course you're going to
00:38:53.940
come out and you're going to say that's AI and there'll be some people who will believe
00:38:56.680
you, but we're so visual that once we're able to create that visual of you doing right,
00:39:04.400
like that someone makes a video of you drowning a cat in a river or whatever, or something
00:39:08.440
even worse than that, when it looks totally real, now you've been in people's minds,
00:39:15.320
once they've see it, seen it, they've seen you do it.
00:39:17.720
And even if they know you didn't really do it, they've still seen you do that.
00:39:22.580
And so this association kind of is locked in, even if you don't want it to be.
00:39:31.860
Like this is going to happen and we all know it.
00:39:35.200
And what, and what is so crazy to me is that nothing is being done at all to stop this.
00:39:42.460
We have just accepted that this is going to happen.
00:39:50.600
Now you could say, well, there's nothing we can do.
00:39:55.340
So we're just waltzing into this future where anyone who hates you can generate any video
00:40:07.780
I mean, do we understand what a nightmare that is?
00:40:15.620
There are no laws that are seriously being proposed.
00:40:22.820
We could at least try to put some barriers in place.
00:40:28.280
Because what's going to happen is three years from now, we're going to, it's going to be
00:40:31.760
I mean, three years ago, it's going to be the scenario I just described.
00:40:38.260
And people are going to be looking around like, why didn't we try to stop this?
00:40:42.680
Why did we do nothing at all to try to do anything to prevent this very, like it's, we
00:40:53.740
Maybe we're too close to stop it, but we could at least try.
00:41:06.700
You know, and of course, if you're just a normal private person, you're, it won't happen
00:41:16.820
Like first, it's going to be, it's going to hit the politicians.
00:41:19.680
You know, it's going to be a thing like political campaigns are going to be destroyed
00:41:26.820
And then it's going to make it the public figures.
00:41:28.380
It's going to start with public figures who are partisan, who have enemies.
00:41:32.640
So, you know, uh, me and, and people in my line of work, uh, it's going to hit us real
00:41:40.740
And, um, and, and, and in that case, we're pretty much screwed because there's a whole
00:41:46.000
group of people, 50% of the country is going to be incentivized to, to believe whatever
00:41:55.500
And, um, and so that's going to be a bloodbath, but then, you know, pretty quickly, I mean,
00:42:00.740
this is all going to happen very quickly, pretty quickly.
00:42:02.100
It makes it down to just like normal people, um, who, you know, if you have anyone who doesn't
00:42:06.700
like you and a lot of everyone does, you know, um, it, it'll make it there.
00:42:11.540
And, and I'm, uh, and I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm the most worried about that because at least
00:42:21.480
if you're in my position and that starts happening, you have a megaphone where you can say, oh,
00:42:27.680
But what happens when you're just a normal person who works a normal job and someone creates
00:42:42.040
So, uh, I'm very worried about it and, uh, I wish that we were doing something about
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Well, last time I weighed in on the single most important luminary of modern times, which
00:44:07.100
of course is Taylor Swift, it was to discuss the news of her engagement with NFL player
00:44:12.060
More specifically, if I recall correctly, I spent about half of the daily cancellation mocking
00:44:16.100
a CBS reporter who giggled like a schoolgirl as she broke into live coverage to announce
00:44:21.120
Didn't exactly seem like professional behavior by the reporter, and I spent roughly 10 minutes
00:44:26.660
That was about two months ago, and now, belatedly, I have to do something I almost never do, which
00:44:32.660
I must issue an unequivocal apology to that giggling CBS reporter.
00:44:38.760
I had no way of knowing that, in retrospect, I'd realize that her response was actually the
00:44:42.500
single most dignified way that a self-described Swifty could handle the fact that Taylor Swift
00:44:47.340
was planning on getting married and having kids.
00:44:50.160
Everyone else in this illustrious community would ultimately take the news far, far worse.
00:44:55.180
It's not an overstatement to say that, at the moment, there is a full-fledged mutiny
00:44:58.480
among Swifties, now that her new album, called The Life of a Showgirl, has just been released.
00:45:03.620
This album contains a few songs, apparently, about Taylor Swift's personal life, focusing
00:45:10.220
And the fans, many of them, are not taking it well, and their response actually tells
00:45:14.520
us something important about our culture at the moment.
00:45:16.520
So we'll start with this TikTok, which features a small segment from the most controversial
00:45:24.020
And as the song plays for our audio podcast listeners, there's a white woman who scowls
00:45:29.240
through the whole thing, along with a caption calling the song, racist propaganda.
00:45:36.560
Now, in case you couldn't make it out, Taylor Swift is singing to her fiancé here, and she
00:45:58.340
says that she wants to have a couple of children and get the whole block looking like you.
00:46:03.540
This is one of those lines that, unless English isn't your first language,
00:46:08.060
It means that she wants to have a lot of children with Travis Kelsey.
00:46:11.860
And then they'll look like him, because that's the way genetics work.
00:46:15.260
You don't need to be a master wordsmith to decode it.
00:46:17.820
Throughout the vast majority of world history, no one would take any issue whatsoever with
00:46:24.200
But Taylor Swift's fans are taking an issue with this line, and it's not hard to see why.
00:46:28.740
The complaints about white supremacy are obviously disingenuous.
00:46:34.220
It's like a car backfiring or an animal that's vomiting involuntarily.
00:46:38.640
They don't know what to say, so they're just throwing words out there.
00:46:42.200
They're really unhappy because, like tens of millions of other women, they've been told
00:46:46.720
from birth that they can find fulfillment without starting a family, simply by pursuing a meaningless
00:46:50.840
corporate job and whatever, doing yoga until they turn 65 or something.
00:46:54.580
And now their icon, their goddess, is telling them in her mid-30s that actually fulfillment
00:47:06.640
And they just have no idea how to process this.
00:47:12.440
But on a wish list, when Taylor's like, they all want their dogs that they call their kids,
00:47:32.320
I want the whole neighborhood looking like you.
00:47:41.420
Like, in this climate, you want the whole neighborhood looking like Travis?
00:47:46.080
The childless cat ladies are definitely confused.
00:47:52.400
A guy using the name Wayne on X cataloged a bunch of similar clips like this.
00:47:56.880
Frankly, he deserves hazard pay for rooting through all of this.
00:48:02.320
I have subjected myself to listening to Taylor Swift's new album.
00:48:10.660
Why else would you put a song about wanting a whole block of kids looking like you while
00:48:17.440
They're apparently thrown by the fact that during the election, Taylor Swift put out a
00:48:21.500
post on social media attacking J.D. Vance, who had mocked childless cat ladies.
00:48:25.500
And Swift stood up for these childless cat ladies and called herself one.
00:48:29.920
And to make matters worse, as far as we know, Taylor Swift didn't take money from Kamala's
00:48:34.720
Although every other celebrity who supported Kamala was on the Democrats' payroll.
00:48:38.280
And in this case, it would have been a lot more dignified if she had posted that for,
00:48:45.160
But in any event, this is a major theme of these enraged TikToks.
00:48:48.440
They're all really upset that Taylor Swift, who once called herself a childless cat lady,
00:48:54.940
She's betraying the childless cat lady community.
00:49:03.900
Taylor Swift is handing the conservative agenda on a silver platter to the masses.
00:49:07.760
And before I go any further, and before you argue with me, you cannot convince me that
00:49:11.940
the master lyricist of our generation, akin to Shakespeare, the Easter egg master of our
00:49:18.680
generation, is not aware of what her entire optics and lyrics and album and everything is
00:49:25.000
She went through this entire thing with Trump, right?
00:49:27.840
About how she and her fan base did not like being called childless cat ladies.
00:49:33.140
And now Taylor is calling y'all childless cat ladies because she's about to pop out some
00:49:46.280
You too could pop out some kids and live in a racially homogenous neighborhood.
00:49:52.100
I could spend the next 5,000 years going through TikToks like this, where the women are clearly
00:49:56.700
upset that the rug has been pulled from under them.
00:49:59.940
In a way, this is similar to the fury that trans identifying people have when they realize
00:50:06.200
They've been fed a lie for most of their lives.
00:50:08.420
And then when they realize that they've been deceived, they lash out.
00:50:11.900
But instead of documenting any more TikToks where women lash out, because I think, you know,
00:50:17.240
Let's move on to this video from an especially deranged psychopath on TikTok.
00:50:24.420
Because, you know, you get some real serial killer vibes here.
00:50:26.760
But if you listen long enough, it gets to something of a point.
00:50:31.420
Am I the only one who's getting trad Wi-Fi from Taylor Swift's new album?
00:50:35.080
Like in the song Wishlist, she's talking about how everybody wants these material markers
00:50:43.860
And she wants to have all of his kids so everyone around her will look like him.
00:50:48.580
And what she really wants is a house in suburbia that has a basketball hoop in the driveway for
00:51:06.160
And then you have the line, his love was the key that opened my sighs, which reminds me of
00:51:11.240
a lot of slut-shaming I heard growing up of, oh, you should only have sex with people you
00:51:16.280
It shouldn't be about your own sexual pleasure.
00:51:18.980
And that line is so gross to me because it's his love that opened her thighs.
00:51:28.740
And it's so interesting to me because Taylor's entire brand is her being a relatable white
00:51:33.240
But the average white girl isn't relating to Taylor right now.
00:51:36.780
The average white girl is probably living paycheck to paycheck, is struggling to buy
00:51:40.720
groceries because grocery prices are up and rent prices are up.
00:51:47.020
And it seems like on this album, Taylor isn't even trying to be relatable anymore.
00:51:51.060
If you listen to hysterical women long enough in general, you'll eventually find out what
00:51:57.460
It might take a while for them to get around to it, but usually they do.
00:52:02.760
She's not upset about slut-shaming or trad wife vibes or how Taylor Swift is hypnotized
00:52:11.720
But at the end of the video, as you just saw, she admits her real problem with Taylor Swift.
00:52:16.120
Her real problem is that from an economic perspective, it doesn't seem possible for many young
00:52:27.680
Here's another example from a viral post on social media.
00:52:30.280
Quote, not to be dramatic and I'll be a Swifty to the day I die, but I actually cried tears
00:52:44.780
I mean, the first problem is that you thought that her music was good in the first place,
00:52:48.900
And those of us who've always known that it was bad, we're not shocked by it.
00:53:10.140
But you want her to just be heart broken and devastated her whole life.
00:53:22.400
If you're a young woman who can't find a husband,
00:53:25.540
which is more common now than it's ever been in the history of this country,
00:53:33.180
You're probably going to view family as a luxury.
00:53:35.140
You're going to fall into the trap of believing that only billionaires like Taylor Swift
00:53:39.720
And then you're going to become bitter and borderline psychotic.
00:53:44.080
Every single criticism of this new album ultimately boils down to this.
00:53:52.100
Like, innately, they do want to start a family.
00:53:56.140
At their core, there is that pull because, you know,
00:54:04.940
The sexual revolution and woke politics cannot change human nature.
00:54:11.680
And they're resolving this tension between what they really want
00:54:16.300
and what they've been told to want by lashing out at Taylor Swift.
00:54:22.260
And by the way, gay liberal men are doing the same thing for what it's worth.
00:54:26.320
An album about, like, an idealized form of, like,
00:54:31.840
of, like, living in a suburb, being in a monogamous relationship,
00:54:35.060
getting peace and joy and basically just kind of being a housewife.
00:54:41.360
but they are things that Republicans and conservatives and sometimes liberals use.
00:54:44.960
And ignoring that they are used in that way in our political climate is not, like, a gotcha moment.
00:54:53.280
So, yeah, Taylor Swift's new album is clearly political, right?
00:54:58.000
And it's political in exactly the politics that likes to hide itself, which is conservatism.
00:55:02.720
Further, doing this album, which is basically like a victory lap that is bad,
00:55:06.740
all people are literally being disappeared by a Gestapo,
00:55:09.460
there is a genocide going on, and rising fascism in America is distasteful.
00:55:13.520
It is distasteful to release an album and have not commented on any of the bad s*** going on
00:55:20.840
that celebrates how ideal and good your life is.
00:55:23.980
I'm not saying you can't do that, but you have to do so awarely.
00:55:27.040
And failing to do that, yeah, does normalize the state of existence you're in right now.
00:55:31.660
Again, the political diatribe is a smokescreen.
00:55:35.720
Nobody's mad at Taylor Swift because she's not singing songs about illegal aliens
00:55:40.860
People are mad at Taylor Swift because she's laid waste to a founding myth of feminism,
00:55:44.180
which is that women are happiest when they abandon the family, demonize men, and worship themselves.
00:55:51.120
Millions of young women are now seeing in their own lives exactly where feminist ideology leads.
00:55:55.480
They're watching other people find happiness while they produce impotent, deranged TikToks
00:56:03.820
This is where feminism was always going to lead.
00:56:06.760
And now, even though they were warned for many years, millions of women finally understand that.
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And that is why everyone complaining about Taylor Swift's new album on TikTok,
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instead of looking for the actual root of their own unhappiness, is today canceled.
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That will do it for the show today and this week.
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The L.A. Fires might have been left-wing terror, too.
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And California Democrat Katie Porter crashes out on CBS.
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The Matt Walsh Show is a Daily Wire production.