Ep. 1696 - DISTURBING VIDEOļ¼ Somali Crime Ring Takes Over Minnesota Police
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The Somali takeover of Minneapolis is worse than we thought, and now the Trump administration is taking steps to address the problem. Plus, Elon Musk made a small change to X that has led to some major revelations about who is influencing our political dialogue in America and where they live.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Somali takeover of Minneapolis is worse than we thought.
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And now the Trump administration is taking steps to address the problem.
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Also, the Democrat running to represent Nashville in Congress is on tape
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That's not even close to the craziest thing that she said.
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Plus, Elon Musk made a small change to X that has led to some major revelations
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about who is influencing our political dialogue in America
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and where those people live, which is not in America, I'll tell you that.
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When it comes to immigration enforcement by the Trump administration, especially for people
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living in the Midwest, there's been one decision that has stood out.
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And it's clearly been a deliberate decision for whatever reason.
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For the most part, the government has left illegal alien Muslim populations alone in places
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Now, admittedly, there's not much hard data on this, but intuitively, you can tell.
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You can go online and find hundreds of videos of ICE raids in Los Angeles or Texas, but very
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conspicuously, you won't find really any of that coming from Little Mogadishu, which
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by some conservative estimates is home to tens of thousands of illegal aliens.
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There's another way to tell that immigration enforcement has been soft in these areas.
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They haven't been surrounding ICE agents chanting Allah Akbar, like they're reenacting Black Hawk
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Instead, Muslims in these communities have mostly been targeting, as we saw last week,
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white conservative activists and journalists who dare to venture into the no-go zone that
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They're emboldened like conquerors, because that's what they've done.
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Whatever the administration's strategy has been here, it does appear to be changing, at least
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Now, last week, as you may remember, I called for hate crime charges to be brought against
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a man who punched a white conservative activist in Dearborn.
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And within hours, Harmeet Dillon, who runs the DOJ Civil Rights Division, responded to that
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And then shortly after that, the president announced a major change, one that we've been
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calling for again and again for several months.
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He ended the temporary protected status for Somalis in the United States.
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Now, as you have heard me talk about, this is a designation that's been in place for more
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And it shields Somalis, in many cases, from being deported back to Somalia on the theory
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that the country is so dysfunctional that it would be inhumane to send them back.
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Now, to be clear, in most other cases, temporary protected status is awarded after some natural
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And the idea is that, well, we're not going to send people back to an unstable environment
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like that, where everything's on fire or is flooded.
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But in Somalia's case, there was no devastating earthquake or mudslide or anything like that.
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No, it's just that there's a lot of Somalis attempting to govern themselves.
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And that's such a disaster that for more than 30 years, it's been the official policy of
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the U.S. government that we should not send Somalis back to their own country.
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Somali governance is equivalent to a magnitude 20 earthquake.
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Essentially, what we've said is that we can't send Somalians back to Somalia because there
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It would be cruel to force Somalians to live with Somalians.
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So instead, we'll just force Americans to live with them.
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Now, of course, the appropriate response in this scenario is to keep Somalis as far away
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We don't want them establishing an enclave in this country because, inevitably, it'll be
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just as dysfunctional as the country they fled.
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But for many years now, it's been the policy of the U.S. to pretend otherwise and to give
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The fact that the Trump administration is changing this policy after so many years is
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a clear signal that they're thinking about going into Muslim communities, particularly
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Somali communities, and enforcing immigration law, as well as civil rights law, which we should
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And it's more urgent than ever because, at this point, law enforcement in these communities,
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law enforcement is now working on behalf of the foreign criminals in cities like Minneapolis.
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The leaders of major police departments are now far more worried about offending their Muslim
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We've already talked about how in Dearborn, conservatives can be physically attacked by Muslims
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right in front of police, and the police will do nothing.
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But the situation is even worse in Minneapolis, where the chief of police, Brian O'Hara, just
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apologized to the Somali community for pointing out that they're committing a lot of crimes.
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So this may be the first documented case of a police chief begging for forgiveness, simply
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for observing the fact that crime is taking place in his city.
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So here's what Chief Brian O'Hara said in an interview with a local radio station.
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This was the observation that outraged the Somali community, as reported by Alpha News.
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Quote, Chief O'Hara said in the interview, groups of kids, groups of East African kids that
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are coming from surrounding communities, and not just one community, kind of all over
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the place, are coming to the area armed and ready for a fight.
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They aren't the poor kids from Minneapolis that are our residents.
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These are kids coming down in mommy's Mercedes Benz to Dinkytown.
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Somalis from East Africa are invading communities in Minneapolis and committing serious crimes.
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But Somalis in Minneapolis decided that this statement simply could not stand.
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That's because large Somali communities in the U.S. are effectively criminal enterprises
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There's widespread awareness in these communities about the fraud and robberies they commit,
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And they understand that in order to minimize any undesired attention, they need to band together
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and shut down any suggestion from anywhere that they're engaging in criminal activity.
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There's a code of silence that they obey themselves, and they enforce on everybody else.
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After all, the easiest way to conceal a criminal enterprise is to make sure that no one's allowed
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It's been known for a long time that Somalis operate like this, and it's also been widely
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understood that politicians in Minneapolis are going along with it.
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I mean, the mayor, as we all know, is not ashamed to pander to Somalis and BLM and so on.
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He certainly never critiqued Somalis, nor would he ever dream of doing so.
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That said, even with this background in mind, the police chief just took things to another level.
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He didn't simply pander to Somalis or turn a blind eye to their crimes.
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He actually went on camera and apologized for making a factually accurate statement about
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Accompanied by a translator, the police chief apologized for doing his job, for informing the
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public about criminal activity, and for enforcing the law against Somalis, God forbid.
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If any video justifies a federal takeover of law enforcement in Minneapolis,
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The Somali community here in Minneapolis has been welcoming and has shown love towards me,
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Over the last three years, we have been working together to try and address some of the real,
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serious problems that we have in our community.
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We have to be honest at times with the problems that we're having in our community, and we need
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our community to help us fix those problems together because it's real and it's serious.
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At the same time, if people have taken anything that I have said out of context in a way that's
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caused harm, I apologize, and I'm sorry for that because that's not my intention at all.
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I'm so sorry that I noticed that your community is committing a lot of crimes.
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I'm so sorry that I noticed that you guys are coming here and committing a lot of crimes
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You know, the real victim, obviously, is you because you had to listen to me noticing the
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Now, he says we have to be honest about what's happening, and then in the same breath, he
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apologizes for being honest about what's happening.
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It looks like a hostage video because, you know, it's exactly what it is.
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After seeing this, is there anyone who seriously believes that any law enforcement official in
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Minnesota from the Attorney General on down has any interest in arresting and prosecuting
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And all he did was make a factually accurate statement.
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You've got people coming here from a third world country.
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These are people who cannot, they cannot govern themselves.
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They cannot establish their own functional communities.
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There's no reason for us to do anything for them, to give them anything, or even to let
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And all the people who are supposed to be in charge just fall to their knees, prostrate
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themselves in deference to these third worlders.
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But if somehow you think law and order still exists in Minneapolis, you know, maybe this
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This, again, is almost hard to believe, but it's real.
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Now, if you're listening to the audio podcast and you don't speak Somali, I could tell you
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that according to the translation, the Minnesota sheriff refers to white police officers as
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He says he's working for Somalis and understand Somalis better than those foreign officers
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And, you know, of course, I have to offer my usual disclaimer here, which is that I have
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But that's not my problem, because every single public official in the state should be speaking
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And if you decide to speak a foreign language, then we're going to take our best guess as
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And any confusion or mistranslation is totally your fault, 100%.
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Now, what's important to understand about clips like this is that as unacceptable as they
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obviously are, the actual problem is much, much worse.
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What these clips signify is that the Somali takeover of Minnesota is now so pervasive that
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they're not even pretending to hide it anymore.
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If sheriffs and the chief of police are willing to pledge their allegiance to Somalia on camera,
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then there's no chance whatsoever that Somalis are actually being prosecuted for committing
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You know, maybe the DOJ will catch some fraudsters here and there, but the vast majority of these
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But just in case there was any doubt, a few days ago, Ryan Thorpe and Chris Ruffo published
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an article in City Journal highlighting the extent of the rampant fraud in Minneapolis.
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And it's so over the top and brazen that, again, it sounds almost fake, but it's not.
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Autism claims to Medicaid in Minnesota have skyrocketed in recent years from 3 million in 2018 to 54
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million in 2019, 77 million in 2020, 183 million in 2021, 279 million in 2022, and 399 million in
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Meanwhile, the number of autism providers in the state spiked from 41 to 328 over the
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same period, with many in the Somali community establishing their own autism treatment centers,
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citing the need for culturally appropriate programming.
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By the time the fraud scheme was exposed, one in 16 Somali four-year-olds in the state had
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reportedly been diagnosed with autism, a rate more than triple the state average.
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Yes, claims for autism treatment in Minnesota, treatment that was mostly administered by Somalis
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and which was then reimbursed by federal taxpayers, spiked from $3 million to $399 million in the
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I mean, they're scamming everything they can get their hands on, from COVID food programs
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And we all know that even when the DOJ catches a handful of Somalis who are involved, there's
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The few Somalis who are eventually sentenced to prison, in all likelihood, won't be there
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By the way, there's also a very good comprehensive analysis of Somali fraud in Minnesota, written
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by Armin Rosen in the publication County Highway.
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It's one of the better explanations of how Minnesota officials are concealing all this fraud,
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None of this is surprising, though, because, once again, this is why we say, import the
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Because the thing that nobody wants to say is that the reason why third world countries
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are the way they are is because third world people are the way they are.
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At the end of the day, your country is a reflection of its people.
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Somali is totally dysfunctional and corrupt because scam and frauds, piracy, this is part
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The City Journal article highlights another important dimension of the story, which needs
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to be addressed, which is that Somalis in Minnesota are sending a lot of this stolen money back
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They're taking the money that you pay to the IRS, or that the IRS takes from you, anyway,
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And in some cases, they're literally putting the cash in suitcases and flying it overseas.
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And as we discussed last week, millions of dollars in remittances are apparently going
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to al-Shabaab, which is a terrorist group linked to al-Qaeda.
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Quote, the Somali fraud rings have sent huge sums of remittances or money transfers from
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According to reports, an estimated 40% of households in Somalia get remittances from abroad in 2023
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The Somali diaspora sent back $1.7 billion, more than the Somali government's budget for
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Significant funds were being sent from America to al-Shabaab networks in Somalia.
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Whether the money was intended for al-Shabaab or not, they were taking a cut.
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Now, one obvious step to address this problem, which the Trump administration should take
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immediately, is to raise the tax on remittances to 10,000%.
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Certainly, at least for remittances going to Somalia, which really should just be across
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You know, if you want to come here and send money out of this country to another country
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to help their economy, well, you should have to pay a hefty, hefty, hefty price for that.
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And especially since we're clearly being robbed to the tune of billions of dollars, that needs to
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We need an emergency tax on remittances immediately.
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We also need to ramp up deportations and denaturalization proceedings.
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And that's going to trigger a legal battle, but it's the one we need to fight.
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But the Attorney General of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, is already vowing to take the Trump
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administration to court in order to keep as many Somalis in this country as possible.
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Quote, Trump's announcement of the termination of Somali TPS holders in Minnesota is legally
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While the president does have a lot of authority to designate and revoke TPS, he cannot legally
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wield that power to discriminate against an ethnic group or target a state like Minnesota.
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Yes, it's legally problematic to end an extraordinary carve-out which we've awarded to Somalis for
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This is what always happens when you give any concessions or favors to anyone, including
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Like they had no right to it to begin with, but you gave it to them.
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And now that they have it, they have a right to it.
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You know, their lawyers will claim that you violated the Constitution.
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You know, that thing in the Constitution that guarantees Somalians the right to come here
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Yeah, it violates that clause in the Constitution.
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But if you ask Somalis themselves, ironically enough, they'll drop the pretense.
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At this point, Somalis are basically daring us to deport them.
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And this was Ilhan Omar's response after Trump terminated Somalia's temporary protected status.
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I'm a citizen, and so are the majority of Somalis in America.
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Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn't have much impact on the Somalis
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Now, notice she doesn't even refer to her own people as Americans.
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They've taken over the state attorney general's office.
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And now, the moment the Trump administration suggests that laws might actually be enforced
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in Little Mogadishu, what they're saying is, come get us, basically.
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Well, for once, I think we should give Ilhan Omar and her Somali countrymen
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Okay, Afton Bain is the name of a human, apparently.
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Actually, it's a woman who's running as the Democrat nominee in Tennessee's 7th Congressional
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District special election, which is, that's Nashville.
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Nobody ever heard of this person until a few days ago when she started going viral for all
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the wrong reasons in the lead up to the election.
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And before we get to the viral stuff, here's a report from the Daily Wire, which just gives
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Afton Bain, the Democratic nominee running in Tennessee's 7th Congressional District special
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election, repeatedly said in recent years that she would be willing to get arrested for abortion
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Bain, a state representative seeking to replace Representative Mark Green, who resigned from
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office earlier this year, is running against Republican Matt Van Epps, who's been endorsed
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She said in a May 22nd conversation with the Tennessee holler, what is the positive if there's
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What this does not mean for Tennessee is that groups on the ground will continue to provide
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And so instead of going to a doctor, because we won't have any doctors that provide abortions,
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We'll continue to figure out how to get abortion pills to people so the organizing does not stop
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I think most importantly, we'll see the increased criminalization of people seeking abortions
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So I anticipate lots of bail funds for women seeking abortions, getting caught getting abortions,
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women like myself that plan to travel with women getting arrested, and we'll also see increased
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So she's a pro-abortion extremist, willing to get herself arrested for the sake of helping
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But really, it has nothing to do with other women.
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You know, this is not some kind of perverse generosity on her part.
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This is, you know, the only reason she feels so strongly about the issue is that she wants
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to protect her own right to kill her own children, which I assume she's probably already done.
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You know, a woman like this almost certainly has multiple abortions under her belt.
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I don't know that for a fact, just my own theory.
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So she's a vile creature who loves baby murder.
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She's also, of course, a big fan of BLM and violent crime and lawlessness.
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So if you live in Nashville and you're deciding who to vote for, I mean, if you like crime,
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if crime is your thing, if you're really into crime and you like for your community to be
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less safe and you want to be more worried about, you know, your kids and their safety, then
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she's the person for you because she's a big fan of crime and doesn't like enforcing the law.
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So I don't know what's going on over there, but listen to this.
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Representative, in 2020, you made some tweets that have since been deleted that were very
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You said in those since-deleted tweets that the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department
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Another cheered on a teacher's union saying that defund the police should be a requirement
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And another saying good morning, especially to the 54 percent of Americans that believe
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And if not, is there anything you want to clarify?
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I'm not going to engage in cable news talking points, but what I will say is that, you know,
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We need local people deciding, solving local problems with local solutions.
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And that's not the overreach of a federal government or state government of is of which
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we are dealing with and in Nashville and our cities across the state of Tennessee.
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So you don't want to clarify whether you still believe that the police should be defunded?
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Once again, I don't remember these tweets, but I'm what I'm saying is, is that I'm not asking
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you, if you remember, what is your position today?
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I mean, once again, I'm here to talk about my race, which is in literally nine days.
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And not even because she's a radical leftist mutant who wants to burn down police stations
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and kill babies and then lies about it when she's called out.
00:29:13.080
I mean, that's the main reason she should not win.
00:29:22.620
Like, it's one thing to be a soulless con artist, which this woman is.
00:29:26.740
It's another to be so clumsy and unconvincing about it.
00:29:34.140
And despite her extremely lazy, kind of low-energy effort to deflect, she says, well, I'm not
00:29:50.280
But yes, it's true that she has publicly called for the defunding of police.
00:29:58.180
Which, by the way, is a stance that should legally bar her from running for office anyway.
00:30:04.140
Okay, call me crazy, but you should not be allowed to run for office if you have publicly
00:30:10.120
endorsed mob violence against law enforcement officers.
00:30:19.060
I think there are some things you could say that should disqualify you from being allowed
00:30:23.820
And, you know, we could debate what those things would be.
00:30:26.520
But this is calling for police stations to be burned down by angry mobs is the kind of
00:30:34.440
thing where, yeah, that you should not be allowed to run for office.
00:30:41.180
Now, of course, on the flip side, you could say, well, if a community is going to elect
00:30:47.680
somebody like that after they've said that, then you kind of get what's coming to you at
00:30:54.400
Now, the other thing about Afton is that, and this is not really a surprise based on what
00:30:59.000
we've already seen about her, but she really hates the place that she is running to represent.
00:31:06.480
She's on the record on multiple occasions, actually, talking about how much she hates
00:31:21.320
I've been heavily involved with the Nashville mayoral race because I hate the city.
00:31:31.020
I hate all of the things that make Nashville, apparently, and its city to the rest of the
00:31:37.760
I'm that girl at the airport that all these bachelorettes are giddy walking out in their
00:31:44.360
And they walk out, and I'm like, they're like, oh my god, Nashville is so loud.
00:31:52.620
Now, I admit, I will admit that she's not totally wrong about, I mean, I agree with her about
00:32:04.940
And if you're not familiar with pedal taverns, by the way, if you're blessed to live in an
00:32:08.320
area where these things don't exist, I'll tell you what they are.
00:32:14.360
But pedal taverns are these giant multi-seat bicycles, basically, where tourists can sit
00:32:20.580
and drink overpriced beer while they pedal around the city.
00:32:24.900
So if you drive through Nashville, you're going to find yourself, if you have to go through
00:32:30.520
Nashville as part of your commute, it's going to take longer than it should because you'll
00:32:36.080
be stuck behind a group of 10 drunk people on a giant bicycle pedaling on the street.
00:32:51.120
I have never found myself drinking a beer and thought to myself, you know what?
00:32:54.840
This would be so much better if I was outside, in traffic, breathing exhaust fumes, and exercising.
00:33:05.900
I don't know why you would want to combine those four things in particular with a leisure
00:33:14.880
And so if you drive through Nashville in the summer, especially, then like 68% of the traffic
00:33:29.180
It feels like 68% to 70% of the traffic is nothing but pedal taverns.
00:33:39.380
You got like businessmen in suits taking a pedal tavern to the office.
00:33:48.640
Now, if she had said, hey, Nashville is not as enjoyable of a place as it should be because
00:33:54.320
of all these damn pedal taverns all over the street, I want to run and I want to pass
00:34:04.040
Still couldn't vote for her because of all the baby murder, but, you know, at least that
00:34:13.840
Because she's a compulsive liar and she's a bad one, as we've seen.
00:34:17.600
So here's how she tried to address this controversy.
00:34:21.260
Again, from her own words, this is what she said.
00:34:28.580
Hey, Representative Afton Bain here, the Democratic nominee for the 7th Congressional Special
00:34:33.680
For those of you just joining in, I often record segments in my Jeep Wrangler called Wranglin'
00:34:42.260
But yes, I will bring it back because I know a lot of you miss it.
00:34:51.900
I have bags under my eyes because the Republican eye of Sauron has finally shifted towards moi.
00:35:04.480
And then today, the Republicans decided that they're going to start this narrative that
00:35:10.100
me, the state representative who represents downtown Nashville, doesn't like the city.
00:35:17.840
Now, I always want Nashville to be better, right?
00:35:19.880
I want Nashville to be a place where working people can thrive, right?
00:35:23.080
But sure, I get mad at the Bachelorette sometimes.
00:35:27.580
And you're talking to someone who has cried no less than 10 times in the Country Music Hall
00:35:32.580
of Fame, the girl that just goes to the Ryman to hang out.
00:35:39.120
We are so close to winning this race, which is why these rumors are getting more wild.
00:36:06.700
Wait, it sounds like you just said you hate Nashville.
00:36:18.800
So, but again, if you line up and vote for someone like this, I mean, it's like the least
00:36:26.900
I mean, from the most, at the most shallow level, all the way to the stuff that really
00:36:32.680
Like, everything from her name to just her demeanor, her tone of voice.
00:36:42.760
And then, of course, also, she's just a horrible person and her policies are horrific and she's
00:36:51.100
So you line up and vote for somebody like that, then again, you get, you know, and you destroy
00:36:59.200
Well, you get what's coming to you at that point.
00:37:02.480
Now, a lot of people think that Congress doesn't do anything.
00:37:08.500
Republicans in particular are very frustrated with our GOP-led Congress.
00:37:16.940
But if you want to accuse them of, you know, never accomplishing anything, well, I'll have
00:37:25.860
So here's what happened, I believe this was on Friday, over at Capitol Hill.
00:37:42.380
But of note, the four leading Democrats in the House voted with Republicans to condemn
00:37:53.840
So those are the Democrats who voted with Republicans, Jeffries and Catherine Clark, Pete Aguilar
00:38:04.520
White House with the Democratic Socialists out of New York meeting with President Trump
00:38:37.820
That's going to fix some big problems that we have.
00:38:40.900
So they wrote on a piece of paper, I condemn socialism.
00:38:43.860
And then they voted that they agreed with the thing they wrote on the paper.
00:38:52.840
They wrote something down and said, we don't like this thing.
00:38:55.900
And then they all said, yeah, I agree with the thing we wrote.
00:39:04.460
I mean, someone needs to applaud that because I am.
00:39:08.400
Now, I thought, here's what I've been thinking this whole time.
00:39:10.680
The Republicans, we gave them control of the legislative branch.
00:39:23.260
Oh, and it's really clever, too, did you see it?
00:39:24.900
Because, like, really, people that are defending this, some people say this is a waste of time.
00:39:31.040
Other people have defended it and said, well, you know, but the good thing is that we forced Democrats to vote on it, too.
00:39:44.420
Oh, we just revealed something we didn't already know about them, didn't we?
00:39:49.600
This is, I can't, I mean, this piece of paper that you guys wrote is the greatest, it's the greatest piece of paper in American history.
00:39:55.100
It's the greater, Declaration of Independence is nothing compared to this.
00:40:07.760
Here's the piece of paper where Republicans condemn socialism.
00:40:14.120
Because, like I said, I thought Republican legislators had completely failed to do anything with the power that we had given them.
00:40:23.900
I thought we handed them power over every branch of government, actually.
00:40:29.140
And I'm looking at it, and I'm like, well, you guys have not passed, like, any laws to solve any of the many problems that we have.
00:40:53.200
No, actually, I'm being a little subtle about it.
00:41:02.180
But I will say that I'm actually not impressed at all.
00:41:06.760
And keep in mind that all of these same Republicans, or most of them, voted just a week before that to fully fund the SNAP program.
00:41:20.060
So, this is the Republican Party in a nutshell.
00:41:23.380
You vote to fund a massive, fraudulent, corrupt wealth redistribution scheme that actively harms millions of American taxpayers.
00:41:32.480
And then five seconds later, you vote to condemn socialism.
00:41:38.480
So, you're funding the socialism, which this is wealth redistribution, billions of dollars worth of it.
00:42:00.540
And they turn around and say, yeah, but we condemn.
00:42:07.540
You're actively working to promote and fund these socialist schemes, while also casting totally meaningless symbolic votes condemning socialism.
00:42:18.040
We don't care about the symbolic statements, guys.
00:42:24.360
We don't give a shit about your symbolic statements.
00:42:30.900
And your symbolic statements accomplish nothing.
00:42:37.460
You're there for a reason to actually do a job.
00:42:41.140
Do the, oh, but trying to, let's say, for example, defund SNAP.
00:42:44.800
I mean, there's a lot of other things that need to be done.
00:42:56.780
Well, yeah, but that's what you're there to do.
00:43:00.980
If you didn't want to do the hard things, then you should have said that when you ran for office, all of you.
00:43:08.100
When you run for office, just be honest and say, hey, look, elect me and I'll do some symbolic stuff.
00:43:13.460
And, you know, we'll do a few things that will play well on Fox News.
00:43:17.980
But we're not going to do anything difficult because, let's be honest, we don't want to put our own political careers in jeopardy.
00:43:22.920
Yes, please vote for me to do the easiest things the whole time.
00:43:28.720
Vote for me and I'll give you nothing but low-hanging fruit for my entire term.
00:43:43.060
Even on Fox, even the Fox News audience, are any of them impressed?
00:43:46.400
I'd be shocked if there's a single person in the audience right now that hears about Republicans condemning socialism and is at all impressed with it.
00:43:56.620
Do they expect that all of us would hear that and just be blown away by the courage they've shown?
00:44:16.760
Former Alabama Teacher of the Year, Randy Nicole Jackson Staples, has been arrested after a viral video purports to show her allegedly beating her son with a belt.
00:44:25.040
Staples, 44, resident of Grand Bay, Alabama, was arrested and charged with willful child abuse of a child under the age of 18 on November 16th.
00:44:32.400
The arrest came after a video went viral, which appears to show Staples beating her 12-year-old son with a belt.
00:44:38.780
And Jackson Staples, 24, her oldest son, told the outlet that he received the video from one of his siblings, and then he posted the alleged video online.
00:44:49.560
So this is a teacher of the year, quote-unquote, who's arrested for child abuse, which I think makes it a story in and of itself.
00:45:09.320
And it's, as we just saw, it's a video taken, I guess, by another child given to the older son who then posted it.
00:45:17.600
And I'm not going to play the video here because it's, I probably can't even play it on YouTube, but it's, you know, and I'm not going to play it.
00:45:25.300
It's very upsetting, but that's what happens in the video.
00:45:27.720
She is beating a child with a belt, screaming in his face, beats him many times, like 10, 15, 20 times, and picks him up by the hair at one point in the video and is just, like, screaming at him, beats him, you know, and all that.
00:45:46.660
And the reason I'm bringing this up is the reaction to the video.
00:45:50.120
And from what I saw, you know, the majority of people certainly had the appropriate reaction, which is horror and outrage.
00:45:58.060
When you see a child being physically abused, you should be horrified and outraged.
00:46:02.720
And that's how the majority of people seem to be reacting to it.
00:46:07.200
But I did see a number of comments, and not a small number, I mean, a sizable number, defending the mother.
00:46:14.720
And again, just to reiterate, and you can go see the video yourself if you want online.
00:46:21.340
But she's whipping him with a belt many times, grabbing him by the hair, okay, screaming.
00:46:33.560
Saying, you know, hey, this is old school discipline.
00:46:37.200
You know, this is how it was done back in the day.
00:46:40.300
This is how I was raised, and I turned out fine.
00:46:46.620
And that sparked sort of a debate about the appropriate ways to discipline a child.
00:46:56.340
You know, I'm not against, and usually this kind of conversation, it always boils down to, well, spanking your child right or wrong.
00:47:06.980
I'm not against corporal punishment in principle.
00:47:09.700
I think spanking can be an effective form of discipline in some circumstances.
00:47:14.880
But here's the point, which I would hope is obvious.
00:47:17.620
Whatever discipline you impose on a child, it should be done in a calm and measured way.
00:47:26.120
And, you know, everybody yells sometimes, no parent is perfect.
00:47:33.840
But if you're taking your anger out on a child physically, that's abuse.
00:47:41.640
If you are, quote, unquote, disciplining your child by being wildly undisciplined yourself and venting your anger as you physically strike them because you're mad, that's abuse.
00:47:58.540
And if that's how you were raised, because you always see these comments, I was raised like this and I turned out fine.
00:48:08.360
I mean, if you were raised by a mother or a father who would take out their anger on you physically, scream and yell and wail on you with a hand or a belt, then you were abused.
00:48:27.040
I mean, everyone always thinks they turned out fine, but a lot of us from the outside can see that, I don't know, your life is actually not that fine.
00:48:35.060
There's a lot of things about you that don't seem too fine to me.
00:48:39.640
But if that's what you, you know, went through, then you grew up in an abusive household.
00:48:48.340
A woman who was totally out of control, infuriated, trying to inflict as much damage as she can, not for the sake of discipline, but for the sake of venting her frustrations.
00:48:57.740
Okay, when you react away to a child because you're mad at them and you're just trying to hurt them because you're mad, like, obviously that's abuse.
00:49:09.360
And what kind of boggles my mind about the people who defend this sort of thing is that we would never accept our children hitting other children out of anger.
00:49:21.440
Okay, we don't accept adults venting their frustrations and their anger by hitting other adults.
00:49:27.900
Yet, if an adult hits a child out of anger, then it's okay.
00:49:33.320
So, like, the only context where venting your anger by physically hurting somebody is okay is when a parent does it to a kid.
00:49:42.660
Wouldn't that be actually the worst form of it?
00:49:51.440
I mean, if you're really mad and you want to hit someone, like, I would prefer you hit an adult.
00:49:59.860
If you got to hit, I mean, don't hit anybody, but I would prefer that.
00:50:03.020
That to me seems better, though still not good.
00:50:07.540
You know, there's a general principle here, which every parent should always have at the front of their minds.
00:50:12.260
And the principle is this, that you cannot expect your child to exhibit any trait.
00:50:24.820
And you can't be angry at them for exhibiting any trait that you have demonstrated for them.
00:50:32.900
And again, this is not me putting myself on a pedestal saying I'm a perfect parent.
00:50:39.920
I mean, it's not hard to refrain, I would hope, from, you know, grabbing your child by the hair and beating them mercilessly because you're mad.
00:50:48.680
But in general, this general principle is not, you know, no one is going to bat a thousand with it.
00:50:55.040
But if you want your child to have self-control and discipline, you have to exhibit that.
00:51:02.700
And you always see these parents who have never exhibited that for their kids, ever, have never exhibited self-control, have never exhibited discipline.
00:51:14.260
And then they get mad when their kid doesn't exhibit the same.
00:51:19.180
I mean, you can't just yell at them, be self-controlled, be disciplined.
00:51:24.780
The kid is looking at you like, what do you mean?
00:51:34.200
And if you don't show them, then you can't expect them to exhibit it.
00:51:42.200
And this is also why, because you'll often hear it said that, well, when, in fact, I saw this said a lot in reaction to this video.
00:51:52.780
That, well, you know, it's old school, and hey, you only got to do that once.
00:51:58.380
You do it one time, and that kid will be whipped into shape, right?
00:52:04.180
Well, it's like, that's not how it works, though, is it?
00:52:09.060
I mean, the parents that are in the habit of, like, they get mad and they start hitting their kid, it's not just once.
00:52:17.760
And it's also not true that the kids then start acting well-behaved magically.
00:52:23.080
In fact, a lot, like, go to the inner city sometime, okay?
00:52:27.380
And, yeah, the dad's not in the picture, but there's a mom at home.
00:52:30.440
And I can pretty much guarantee you that those kids, all of them, like, take any random kid, any gangbanger, any kid that's dealing drugs on the corner.
00:52:46.340
It's only one time, and they'll be a straight-A student.
00:52:49.240
Like, because it works exactly the opposite of that.
00:52:51.280
In real life, the exact opposite is what actually happens.
00:52:56.460
Well, because you're demonstrating a lack of self-control.
00:52:59.540
You're demonstrating a lack of discipline in your home.
00:53:03.060
And so your kids are going to do the same thing.
00:53:06.100
If you don't want your child to act a certain way, then you cannot act that way around them.
00:53:13.020
Because they're going to pick up the cues from you.
00:53:19.000
It is absurd to be angry at your child for doing things that you do.
00:53:27.800
Which is why, I mean, really being angry at your kid ever is silly.
00:53:37.580
But if you could take a step back, and it does help me sometimes when I get really frustrated or angry at something my kids are doing, which happens.
00:53:44.460
But if I can take a step back, if I can get myself to do that, just take a step back and think about this.
00:53:49.920
I realize that, okay, it's actually, it's not that I should let them get away with it.
00:53:53.220
If they do something wrong, they've got to be disciplined.
00:53:57.700
But for me to get, like, actively angry doesn't really make any sense.
00:54:01.680
Because my kids have never done anything that I didn't do when I was a kid, and that in some cases I don't do now.
00:54:11.380
You know, the other day, I came into one of my kids' rooms, and their closet was a huge, unorganized mess.
00:54:17.440
Like, they had been cleaning by just shoving things in the closet.
00:54:21.180
And I tried to open the closet to get something, and it was like a cartoon where all the stuff falls out, you know, on top of you.
00:54:32.220
But I also realized that, okay, well, I did the exact same thing when I was a kid, and I do that now.
00:54:37.360
Like, I still do that as a parent, as an adult.
00:54:40.740
I mean, if you go to the closet in my room right now, it's the same thing.
00:54:45.840
And does that mean that I told my kid, oh, well, it's okay.
00:54:52.380
No, not, of course not, because you still have to enforce the rules.
00:54:57.780
Like, it takes the temperature down a little bit when you realize that, okay, like, you know, I have no room to be angry about this, obviously.
00:55:08.420
But we're going to fix it in a, you know, you need to fix it.
00:55:10.660
But we're going to approach it in a calm way, in a calm, measured, self-controlled, disciplined way.
00:55:19.140
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Well, if you've ever seen the John Carpenter movie called They Live,
00:57:24.380
you probably remember the pair of sunglasses that are discovered by the hobo main character.
00:57:28.600
Once he puts these sunglasses on, the hobo realizes that an awful lot of people
00:57:32.280
who appear to be human on the outside are, in reality, bug-eyed aliens.
00:57:35.580
And without giving the movie away, needless to say,
00:57:38.580
this revelation really changes the hobo's perspective on the world.
00:57:44.240
And over the weekend, courtesy of the social media platform X,
00:57:47.240
the conservative movement in this country had kind of a they-live moment.
00:57:52.320
Rather abruptly, for every single account on the platform,
00:57:55.820
X began disclosing the country where the account is based in,
00:57:58.880
meaning where the person has been posting from.
00:58:01.420
And additionally, X will tell you the region where the user downloaded the X app.
00:58:07.580
So if X detects that the poster is using a VPN to hide location information,
00:58:14.020
But in general, these two data points have been sufficient to reveal
00:58:20.520
As a result, in just a matter of hours, we've learned conclusively
00:58:23.560
where not all, but a significant amount of the division on the right
00:58:30.720
and really in the culture generally, has been coming from over the past year.
00:58:36.380
And a lot of it has not been coming from Americans.
00:58:39.540
It has come, much of it, from foreigners posing as American citizens,
00:58:53.560
In short, the division has been coming from foreigners.
00:58:56.520
And the scale of this propaganda campaign is so large
00:58:58.920
that it should be the single biggest news story in the country right now.
00:59:02.080
At the very least, it deserves 10 times more media hyperventilating
00:59:04.880
than everyone else, than everything else they're talking about.
00:59:10.800
the fake accusations of Russian meddling in the 2016 election
00:59:13.640
where Russia supposedly spent $50,000 on Facebook memes
00:59:21.220
We're talking about a genuine intrusion by foreigners
00:59:28.480
for the clear purpose of dividing and distracting us from our own country.
00:59:35.520
they've been melting down to great comedic effect in many cases.
00:59:39.220
So we'll start with an account called Israel Exposed,
00:59:42.600
which, as the name implies, is fixated on the state of Israel.
00:59:49.080
A lot of these accounts have a lot of followers.
00:59:53.200
And to give you just one example of the kind of content this guy is putting out,
00:59:58.860
in response to a random person who criticized him.
01:00:02.600
You are a Zionist pretending to be an American patriot.
01:00:08.160
This is a common attack line, which you'll see all over the place.
01:00:11.660
Part of a constant, relentless effort to make Israel the subject of every discussion on the right.
01:00:21.900
It always comes down to Israel for certain people on the right.
01:00:24.720
As we talked about last week, it's Israel first, just from the other direction.
01:00:32.360
And what they'll say sometimes, you know, is if you don't criticize Israel 24-7 like they do,
01:00:37.660
if you don't make everything about Israel all the time, then you're not patriotic.
01:00:45.160
If you're not thinking all the time, every day, every hour, every moment of the day about another country,
01:00:50.480
which is Israel, then you're not America first.
01:00:52.680
Being America first means being focused entirely on another country.
01:00:58.700
And according to, you know, at least this one account, you should be deported if you are not that focused on it.
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Well, this account, of course, has also gone after me several times and hasn't been particularly effective.
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Just a few days ago, for example, I pointed out that Muslims are killing Christians
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and generally have animosity towards Christians and have for, you know, about 1,400 years or so.
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But here's what Israel Exposed wrote in response, quote,
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The millennia-long conflict between Islam and Christianity, I will tell you,
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has nothing to do with the country of Israel established in 1948.
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But this is the kind of slop that's polluted right-wing discourse for a long time.
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And over the weekend, we learned where this account is from.
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As you can see there, he actually is based in Saudi Arabia.
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Yes, the account that was threatening to deport an American citizen,
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use the word we to talk about Americans, is not even American, right?
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He's a foreign agitator posing as an American in an effort to destroy political discourse in this country.
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Now, multiply this account by about 10,000, and you begin to see the scale of the problem.
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This is a post from an account called Native American Soul.
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And it depicts a woman pretending to be, you know, extending a middle finger in front of Mount Rushmore,
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Well, you know, it's pretty inflammatory, but the kind of thing we're used to seeing.
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But actually, that's not the remarkable thing about this post.
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The really amazing thing is that this particular Native American is, we just found out,
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Yes, we have the world's first Bangladeshi Native American.
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At this point, I'm starting to wonder if that woman was ever really in front of Mount Rushmore.
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And as it turns out, there are many, many, allegedly Native American accounts that are also from Bangladesh.
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And then there's Native American Culture, which publicly lists its location as Indianapolis.
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In the smoke of ancient pipes, our ancestors whispered to the winds.
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From the northern lakes where the eagle soars, to the southern rivers where the jaguar prowls,
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Now, presumably, the primary intent of many accounts like this is to farm engagement and sell merchandise.
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But it would not be difficult to imagine that foreign governments are heavily involved here as well.
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And either way, we're going to need an option to block or mute all accounts from outside of America.
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We should be able to block or mute based on region and country.
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And honestly, that should probably be the default option at this point.
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The slop is so far out of control that just something needs to be done.
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All I hear now is F-35 and intense bombs south.
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Got hundreds of thousands of views for reporting on the brutality of an Israeli bombing raid.
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But it turns out that Mahmoud, despite its handle, is not in fact based in Gaza.
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As you can see, he's really thousands of miles away in Poland.
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You know, dealing with those Israeli bombing raids in Poland, apparently.
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Turns out that for a while, BBC has been citing someone named Matasim E. Dalul,
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Here's one example of the BBC's coverage, which you can see.
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Quote, Matasim Dalul, a journalist in Gaza City, told the BBC he had seen and heard
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From time to time, there are fighter jets which carry out attacks and destroy homes and other
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And indeed, you can see why the BBC would find this guy to be pretty compelling.
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Seems to document a lot of really awful examples of war crimes as part of his job as a journalist
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For example, in October, he posted this viral tweet, which you can see.
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He, quote, Israeli occupation forces left booby-trapped toys behind them in Gaza.
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Now, in recent days, he's also claimed that children are trembling in Gaza because it's
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apparently freezing in their tents, even though Gaza is actually relatively warm right now.
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But in retrospect, it makes sense why he would say that it's cold.
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Well, yes, it turns out that Matasim Dalul is actually based in Poland, which is indeed
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This is someone the BBC has been citing as an authoritative source on the ground.
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It's someone who's been taken seriously by leftists as an eyewitness to atrocities, and
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And there are many, many more accounts like this.
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To give one more example, an account called Naila Ayyad, which has nearly 100,000 followers,
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recently posted the question, does Zionism control the world?
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And the account's public location is the United States, which again, you can see.
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But over the weekend, X revealed that he's actually in the Netherlands.
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And meanwhile, another large account that posts similar messages called Tiberius Files has
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Turns out he's posting from Thailand, not the US.
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The account MAGA Nation, with nearly 500,000 followers, is based in Eastern Europe.
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There are a number of other MAGA accounts that are not based in the US.
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You can just type MAGA into X, the search bar, and just go down the list, and you're
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going to find a lot that are not from here, including a bunch of accounts like this one,
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Ivanka Trump News, which has a million followers and is based in, it turns out, Nigeria.
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So you can get your Ivanka Trump News from Nigeria.
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And now that it's being exposed, some of these foreigners are not taking it too well.
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This is another slop account that doesn't post anything relevant or interesting or valuable
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at all, as you could guess, based on the name of the account.
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Now, but it is someone who posts obsessively about American politics and American culture.
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This is part of the engagement farming shtick, is you go after accounts that are bigger than
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You have nothing to offer, just kind of like a parasite, just leeching off of someone.
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And of course, by acknowledging it right now, sort of giving him what he wants, I understand
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that, but unfortunately, it's a necessary evil in order to expose the extent to which foreigners
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Well, it turns out this guy is actually from Australia.
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And this is one of the more embarrassing discoveries, which is really saying something, because Australia
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They arrested Billboard Chris a few weeks ago for holding a sign in a public place.
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But instead of fixing his own country, this particular Australian is obsessing over the
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I mean, this is a guy who stays up all night so that he can post about America while Americans
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are awake, while doing nothing at all for his own country.
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It's another thing to keep in mind with these foreign accounts, and you see them posting slop
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Well, if they're from like Australia, it means they just stay up all night.
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It means like this is some guy in a foreign country up at like three in the morning, just
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obsessively engagement farming off of American politics and American culture.
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Now, it's important to understand that all these people want, excluding any government operatives
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that may be involved, what most of them want is attention.
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And they're realizing that, now that they've been exposed as frauds, that no one's going
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I mean, once you lie to your audience, you're done.
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Presumably, that's why professional MAGA hunter Ron Smith, a relatively large account,
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Deleted his whole account after X revealed that he's actually from Kenya.
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A country that, among its many faults, you know, doesn't have a lot of MAGA supporters.
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Meanwhile, over in Saudi Arabia, the account known as Proud Black Conservative is still
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This is someone who, based on his profile picture and bio, doesn't seem like the typical
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resident of Saudi Arabia, especially when you see God Bless America, you know, American
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But indeed, as you can see there, he's from the Middle East.
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Just another black MAGA guy in the Middle East posting slop day in and day out.
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Although, strangely enough, he's stopped posting his slop ever since this weekend.
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And we're going to see a lot more of this as the grift continues to dry up.
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And that means we have a real opportunity here to refocus our conversation on issues that
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matter to Americans instead of angry foreigners.
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But just for my own purposes, it's been eye-opening to click on the accounts of people who are attempting
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to troll me and seeing which third-world hellhole they come from.
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Some of my most dedicated trolls are, you know, in fact, I had some in mind.
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As soon as this went live, I'm like, okay, here's a few I'm going to check right away.
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This guy, for example, was telling me to get back to work from Paraguay.
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I mean, imagine if I decided to devote a single second of my day to fighting with a podcaster
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I can't imagine doing that, being so invested in another country that I'm getting into arguments
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with their comment, with their podcasters in that country.
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I'd have to jettison every ounce of self-respect I ever had, even comprehend the idea of obsessively
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In other news, we did finally learn where the Church of Satan is based.
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For many years, the Church of Satan has been operating in an undisclosed location, presumably
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It turns out that they're actually based in Canada.
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Now, having run down this very incomplete, non-exhaustive list of foreign influence ops
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on X, I know I'm going to get more angry messages from these foreigners who are furious
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that they've been outed and just very upset to be accused of being non-Americans, which
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And here's my message to all of you who are crying in my mentions right now.
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I keep getting this response from these foreigners saying, well, what are you saying?
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You know, because most of the debates that we have on social media are about American
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And we don't care what some random guy in the Philippines or wherever has to say about
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those subjects any more than he would care what we have to say about the internal disputes
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Okay, if you're a foreigner, I'm sure you have a lot of great opinions about the stuff
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But the debates in and about America are for Americans.
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If you are not from this country, we don't care what you think about American politics.
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We don't care what you think about American culture.
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We don't care what you think about American elections.
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You know, it's not just annoying that so many foreigners are butting into the conversation.
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And the reason is that we cannot have a coherent or productive political debate if that debate
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includes a whole bunch of random foreigners from all across the world who have no state
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in this country, no skin in the game, no firsthand knowledge of our culture at all.
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And that's why it's very important to identify the foreign intruders and bully them mercilessly
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Like, we cannot talk about or fix any of our problems when we've got a mob of foreigners
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And that is why all of the foreigners posing as Americans on social media, all the many,
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President Trump mogs Mamdani at the White House.
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And Elon Musk reveals all of the foreigners influencing our politics.
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Rinse takes your laundry and hand delivers it to your door.
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So you could take the time once spent folding and sorting and waiting to finally pursue a whole new version of you.