Today on the Matt Wall Show, we take a closer look at the story of a white woman who was set on fire while sitting on a train by a black man with 72 prior arrests. How and why was this man still walking the streets? And what can we actually do to stop this madness?
00:20:22.400Within just a couple of years, the California Supreme Court invented the idea of a Romero motion where defendants could petition the court to forgive a strike as long as forgiveness was in the interests of justice.
00:20:35.820So the voters made it very clear that they wanted a three-strike system, which by definition is not a four-strike system.
00:20:42.360The voters wanted to prevent judges from releasing habitual criminals.
00:20:46.020They wanted to prevent exactly this scenario.
00:20:50.020But the judges just came in and said, no, we're going to take that power back for ourselves.
00:20:54.920You guys voted on this, but yeah, you can't have that.
00:21:00.400Now, what happened in California is that a defendant named Jesus Romero was charged with possessing 0.13 grams of cocaine after having been convicted for residential burglary and attempted residential burglary.
00:21:12.560So prosecutors thought they had a slam dunk case on their hands.
00:21:17.880This is like what the three-strikes law is for.
00:21:21.220This would be Romero's third strike, and he would go to prison for 25 to life automatically.
00:21:27.620But the judge thought, well, that would be an unjust outcome on the theory that it's wrong to give such a harsh sentence for narcotics possession.
00:21:46.220So he told the defendant he could plead guilty in exchange for the judge dismissing one of his strikes.
00:21:51.060And somehow the California Supreme Court upheld this arrangement.
00:21:53.800Now, of course, the big problem with the logic here is that the defendant voluntarily possessed the narcotics after he'd already committed two serious felonies and been convicted for them.
00:22:09.780So he already committed two crimes, either one of which by itself should have resulted in a sentence of 25 to life in a sane society.
00:22:18.860Okay, burglary should be a life sentence.
00:22:21.080You break into someone's home to steal from them, you should just go to prison forever, and that should be the end of it.
00:23:47.420The crimes tend to get worse over time.
00:23:49.460And so either you cut it off in the interests of justice and safety, or you just let them keep committing crimes until they do something so horrendous that you have no choice but to put them in jail forever.
00:24:05.340So California Supreme Court, they disagreed with the three strikes law.
00:24:09.540So almost immediately, the three strikes law was watered down.
00:24:14.840Corporate media outlets complained about criminals who were supposedly being sentenced to life imprisonment for relatively minor offenses like stealing golf clubs.
00:24:23.080So California voters changed the law again so that the third strike has to be a violent felony.
00:24:28.660And then they changed the law once more to reclassify many felonies, including drug-related felonies, as misdemeanors so they wouldn't count as strikes.
00:24:36.960And to this day, California's three strikes law is still being weakened by the courts.
00:24:40.660There was a ruling a few months ago by the California Supreme Court that prevents some gang-related crimes from counting as strikes.
00:29:41.480By the end of the day, those numbers will almost certainly be higher.
00:29:44.100In response to these numbers and to the attack on the train last week, J.B. Pritzker has suggested that he's open to revisiting the Safety Act in some way.
00:29:52.820But revisions are not enough at this point.
00:29:55.100We need laws, ideally at the federal level, that strip judges of all discretion when it comes to repeat offenders.
00:30:38.720Because, after all, if we can't go out in public without a reasonable fear that a violent, habitual felon is going to shank us or light us on fire, then we have no civil liberties.
00:30:49.800The first conservative lawmaker in Congress to propose some kind of solution to our rogue judiciary will also be the first conservative lawmaker in Congress this entire year to propose a genuine, meaningful improvement in the lives of Americans at all.
00:31:04.240Before any more young women are killed or maimed for the crime of going outside in a major American city, and before any more Republicans resign from Congress, it's time that we heard some of those proposals.
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00:35:48.960And now, as a consequence, he expects that we will feed him for the rest of his life.
00:35:54.820So his reward for committing crimes is, he expects, free food forever.
00:36:03.240That's the deal that he demands, and it's the deal that he has enjoyed up until now.
00:36:08.620Now, the Trump administration is obviously totally right about all of this.
00:36:12.500I think there should be many more cuts to the SNAP program.
00:36:14.960I think that the whole program should be scrapped, really.
00:36:16.980But certainly, this is a bare minimum reform that should be put in place, and I guess is being put in place.
00:36:25.320If you are an adult, able-bodied, not elderly, and you have no kids, then there is absolutely no reason why you should be getting any help from the taxpayers at all.
00:36:39.020There's no reason why you should be getting any handouts from the taxpayers at all, period.
00:36:43.640I mean, I would revoke all welfare, all handouts, all taxpayer, you know, quote-unquote assistance of all kinds.
00:36:51.880From everybody who is an adult, able-bodied, and has no kids, and is not elderly.
00:37:00.920Okay, so if, you know, those are the qualifiers.
00:37:03.680And if you're in that group, I don't see why we should be, why you should be on the dole at all, in any form.
00:38:25.880You have all kinds of other obligations, probably, that come with it.
00:38:28.900And you need to find a job that fits all those requirements.
00:38:32.840You also, you know, if you're a functional adult, you have, and you're Nelson's age at 38, you should have a career that you've been pursuing.
00:38:54.080I think it's good to have something for people who fall on hard times and need some help getting back up, especially if we're talking about families in particular.
00:39:01.640You know, if we're talking about families, people who are elderly, or people who are actually disabled.
00:39:10.340And, of course, we know that the category of disabled has been expanded into meaninglessness at this point.
00:39:15.520So anyone can claim they have a disability.
00:39:17.740And a lot of people who claim they have disabilities really don't.
00:39:19.960But if they really do have a disability, then, you know, those are categories where I think most people, most Americans, most taxpayers would say, yeah, there should be something in place.
00:39:30.200Like, you know, we should have something in place to help those people.
00:39:35.600But it should be relegated to that group specifically.
00:39:42.300And in most cases, the help should be temporary.
00:40:00.140I mean, you need to make your own net at that point.
00:40:03.000Like, this is just another example of suicidal empathy, that we've allowed this kind of thing to happen, that we've allowed this kind of person to exist.
00:41:31.340The Garden Grove Unified School District opened its Board of Education meeting last night with a traditional Native American dance performed by Baak Garcia, a Bolsa Grand High School graduate.
00:41:44.900The presentation was held in recognition of Native American Heritage Month.
00:41:48.180District officials noted that the segment was included as part of ongoing efforts to acknowledge the history and cultural traditions of Native American communities.
00:41:54.920Okay, so this school district went, they went beyond the kind of like standard cringe land acknowledgement, the cringe acknowledgement, you know, we're going to acknowledge how cringe we are, which is, you know, basically what a land acknowledgement is.
00:43:24.520I'm no dance historian, but I think I clocked about five different modern dances in that traditional Native dance.
00:43:31.860I think, so the electric slide, uh, the running man, a couple of Michael Jackson moves in there.
00:43:40.920Um, the crip walk, he's doing a crip walk.
00:43:44.960And we're supposed to believe this is all traditional.
00:43:47.220We're supposed to believe that the, uh, whatever the Chumash tribe or whatever, some tribe in the Pacific Southwest in 1832 was out there before a battle doing the Cupid shuffle.
00:43:59.800That's what we're supposed to believe.
00:44:03.140After they raided a neighboring tribe and, uh, killed and tortured all the men and kidnapped the women and children, they, they celebrated around the campfire by doing a Cupid shuffle.
00:44:14.100That's what we're supposed to believe.
00:44:16.160Now, it's very obvious when you watch these kinds of things, like this particular, I mean, especially this one, this guy's just making it up as it goes along.
00:44:24.720Um, I'm guessing, I don't know if he lied on his resume and he got into this Native American dance troupe and they, you know, and it was time for the big dance and maybe the guy, like maybe, maybe he's, you know, he's a, he's a backup dancer and someone called in sick and they had to, they had to just throw him in there.
00:44:44.820He was, he was just making it up, did the best he could.
00:44:50.100And, you know, when I constantly make fun of this kind of a cringe nonsense, you know, it, it, I think it should go without saying it's not because I have anything against Native Americans, so-called Native Americans.
00:45:01.740Now, as you know, as I have stipulated, I think it's important to stipulate the actual Native Americans, uh, we're not, we're not these people, the actual Native Americans are white Europeans.
00:45:13.120They are the ones who are native to the country of America, the United States of America.
00:45:19.440But, you know, just using the common term for the sake of discussion, uh, so Native Americans, I have nothing against them.
00:45:26.980Someone today posted something, I, I posted this on, on X and somebody responded and said, why does Matt have, why does he hate Native Americans so much?
00:45:55.980I can't tell you how many like Native American museums and festivals and historic sites we've been to with our kids because they also love that stuff.
00:46:03.200Uh, you go into my house right now to my living room and there's like 10 books on the subject and on our, uh, on our bookshelf.
00:46:13.240The fact that there was this whole world, right, this whole other world, this alien world, this, this primitive civilization, uh, separated from the rest of the world, isolated in this hemisphere.
00:46:25.720For tens of thousands of years and, uh, and, uh, and then the, the modern world at the time in the 1500s, late 1400s, early 1500s, this advanced civilization stumbles on to this, this world.
00:46:44.240That's living 5,000 years in the past.
00:46:47.100And there's this clash of civilizations that lasted for hundreds of years.
00:46:54.740And I mean, here you still had hunter gatherer societies, the most advanced, um, societies in this part of the world, you know, back in the Mesoamerican tribes, the, the Aztecs and the Mayans and the Incas, they were as advanced as ancient Europeans.
00:47:13.480So by the time that Europeans showed up here, the, the most advanced Native Americans had gotten to where the ancient Egyptians were like 3,000 years before that.
00:47:31.700And it's like, it was like going in a time machine is one of the only, uh, you know, the only kind of real life example of someone using a time machine.
00:47:41.980It's when the European explorers got onto ships and came here in the 1500s.
00:47:47.680It was, it was, it's the, the, the closest thing to a time machine that we've ever seen.
00:47:54.860And, uh, these were warrior cultures, which I respect, you know, people that lived here for the most part were, you know, these were, these were strong, brave cultures.
00:48:04.580I mean, this is not, you know, the noble savage myth takes it way too far.
00:48:08.480Um, but it is also true that these were warrior cultures and there was a huge emphasis on being strong and brave and manly.
00:48:15.700So there's no contempt for me towards Native Americans.
00:48:18.920I'll tell you what I have contempt for.
00:48:25.680I have like deep contempt for the relentless campaign to make Americans feel guilty for the fact that we conquered this land fair and square and built the greatest country on earth.
00:49:25.360Uh, and you know, the other thing is that these rituals, they are, they are so insulting to both sides, by the way, that's what makes this, the video I just played.
00:49:36.700So kind of illustrative is that it's meant to be this expression of white guilt, which it is, but it's also deeply insulting to the natives who have been reduced to the kind of the status of court jesters, right?
00:49:53.720Flailing around in their feather suits, performing for the, the polite patronizing amusement of white liberals.
00:50:08.140Um, and it's, it's, it's even more insulting really to native American culture to have some random weirdo dancing around like MC hammer in a rainbow feather costume.
00:50:23.000If you have actual native American ancestry, you should be more offended by that than I am.
00:50:28.040Um, but my main concern as an American is the, um, is that the whole routine is meant to send a message, right?
00:50:38.720This is not about respecting native American history or, or being interested in it or anything like that.
00:50:46.800This is about sending a message and it is a detestable message because, and it's a false, it's a false message.
00:50:54.520And the message is that America has no right to exist.
00:50:57.340That's what all this stuff is about land acknowledgements, you know, these native American rituals, the constant, like, that's what it's about.
00:51:07.000It's about saying that my country, your country, our country has no right to exist.
00:57:15.740So, you know, think about Jussie Smollett.
00:57:20.000Like, Jussie Smollett, yeah, I mean, he did put a little bit of effort into it, but even for him, it was like, okay, well, you want these guys to beat you up.
00:57:29.380He didn't, they didn't really beat him up.
00:57:31.840Okay, this woman, she went out and said, okay, like, mutilate me.
00:57:35.480Okay, I'm, we're going to, I'm going to disfigure me, is what happened with her.
00:57:40.700Jussie Smollett, he had like maybe a small bruise on his cheek, maybe, if that.
00:57:46.000Okay, he didn't, he didn't have the commitment to it.
00:57:51.620So, there's a lesson in there for all of us, I think.
00:57:57.520Now, we talked about this Afton Bain character yesterday who's running in the special election in Tennessee, and she became a public figure like 10 minutes ago.
00:58:05.080And it's been a rough 10 minutes for her because everything that's come out about her has been humiliating.
00:59:56.420And just screaming it at the top of my lungs.
00:59:59.020And for someone who grew up with my mother telling me, never have kids because you will, you know, you'll have to give up a lot.
01:00:08.880You'll have to sacrifice professionally, which is what she was saying.
01:00:11.360And where I am now with seeing the consequences and the ramifications of women having kids and being in the political field and what they're able to achieve, because we don't offer, you know, it's like the political field hasn't met the challenge of working moms.
01:00:30.160But also the deeply patriarchal structures that these women are involved with because they've chosen marriage and they've chosen to raise children.
01:00:43.680And I think in the South, it's incredibly difficult to shake those, especially if you've grown up here and that's all you've been told is the definition of success.
01:00:53.700The metrics of success, how many kids you have, the bigger, the square footage of your house.
01:03:09.440But as to the issue at hand here, yes, this is feminism in a nutshell.
01:03:13.240You know, women giving up family life, rejecting motherhood because they're selfish.
01:03:17.380They lust for power and material gain.
01:03:20.220And they, you know, give up the love and fulfillment of family life in order to obtain it.
01:03:25.580But then they inevitably discover that they will never actually have all the power and wealth that they want or anything close to it.
01:03:32.820And even if they do achieve it, they still aren't happy.
01:03:35.780And they can't be because all this stuff is meaningless and empty if you're just doing it for yourself.
01:03:42.860Amassing power and wealth just for yourself will never make you happy.
01:03:46.720That's kind of the caveat to the, you know, money doesn't buy happiness idea.
01:03:51.000It's that money for its own sake, power for its own sake, that will not make you happy.
01:03:56.020Now, money can, can help you be happy.
01:04:01.360It can, it can, it can help to lead to a happier life if, if you're not obtaining it for its own sake.
01:04:10.740And so like if you have a family and so then you make money when you can provide for your family, you can, you can, you can give things to your family and, and that can help to make you happy.
01:04:20.600And that's a very satisfying feeling is being able to provide for other people.
01:04:26.500And so in that sense, you know, money can buy happiness in that sense.
01:04:30.100But if it's just for you, then at a certain point, very quickly, you're going to kind of look around and go, well, what's the point?
01:04:40.660And after all that, you're still left with yourself.
01:04:43.260And for someone like Afton Bain, her problem is that she is, again, a, a ridiculous, miserable person and doesn't matter how much power you have or how much money you have.
01:04:53.980But there's another point here that I want to make about this because a lot of people have pointed out the obvious about it.
01:04:59.480I haven't seen anyone make this point, which is, which is this, that, you know, giving up motherhood for the sake of power, isn't just selfish and shallow and morally repulsive.
01:05:14.280You know, it's like saying that it's like if a person said that they care so much about being physically attractive, the only thing they care about in the world is being physically attractive.
01:05:41.560If you want power, if you want influence, well, there's almost certainly nothing you'll ever do in your life, no position you'll ever hold, that will make you more powerful or give you more influence than you would have as a mother or a father, as a parent.
01:05:57.740Now, that's not a good reason to have kids.
01:06:02.120You should not have kids because you want power and influence.
01:06:04.880That would be a very weird reason to go have kids.
01:06:07.380But it is simply true that having kids gives you power and influence over the future of this country in a way that almost no other job or position ever could.
01:06:18.520As a mother, you are shaping their lives, the lives, the souls, the minds of your children.
01:06:24.780And nobody will ever have more influence or power over your children than you do.
01:06:30.440And then your children will go out and have their own lives and their own children.
01:06:38.280And no one, I mean, you and the father, like between the parents, no one will have more influence or power over your children than you.
01:06:45.260And then your children will go out and, again, they have their own lives and then they have their own children.
01:06:51.700And the things that you do, the decisions that you make, will reverberate for generations.
01:06:58.260I mean, if you're a bad mother, your children's children's children's children will still be paying the price 150 years from now.
01:07:09.080And in some ways, in ways that they won't realize, they won't know where that traces back to.
01:07:15.300But there's a good chance if you're a bad mother, that sends your children off on a course that will reverberate for decades and decades and even centuries.
01:07:26.740If you're a good mother, they'll be reaping the benefits for generations.
01:07:33.760Now, on the other hand, if you go off and become some corporate middle manager somewhere, do you understand how little power and influence you actually have?
01:07:48.100That's what's so absurd about these women who say, no, I want to make a difference in the world.
01:10:04.940You give up actual fulfillment, actual happiness, actual influence, actual power.
01:10:09.400And, um, and, and, and in its place, you, you work at some, you know, job in an office building somewhere.
01:10:23.520And, uh, and you work there for a number of years and then you leave and someone else comes in and takes your job and it just doesn't matter.
01:10:35.280That's the other thing, you know, like when you're, when you're in, in your job as a, as a manager somewhere, you leave and it doesn't matter at all.
01:10:43.460Like no one's going to be mourning that you left.
01:10:46.300Probably there'll be more people who are happy that you left than there are sad about it.
01:10:49.480Even the ones who are sad, like by Monday, it's like, doesn't matter.
01:10:52.500But now as a mother, uh, if you refuse to do your job, if you quit your job as a mother, refuse to take care of your kids, then that is devastating.
01:11:06.680You have devastated the lives of these, of these children.
01:11:12.500If you die, you know, if you, if you can't do your job as a mother anymore because you've died, uh, total devastation, which again could, could last for generations.
01:11:22.300In some form, but this is what feminism encourages women to do is to give that up for, um, you know, to become Afton Bain.
01:11:33.960I cannot imagine a, a fate, uh, worse or, or more pathetic than that.