The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1716 - We Infiltrated Private Anti-ICE Groups. This Is What We Found

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, who are the left-wing radicals showing up all over the country to

00:00:03.500 obstruct, harass, and assault ICE? Where do they come from? How do they organize? Who's funding

00:00:08.140 them? I sent my producers into their groups and their signal chats to find out the answers. I'll

00:00:12.320 tell you what we discovered. Also, thanks to IVF, a rapidly increasing number of single women are 1.00

00:00:16.220 having children in their 40s. Is this a positive development for mankind? And a Chinese dissident 0.85

00:00:20.760 says the population of China might be half of what we've been told. In fact, as it turns out,

00:00:25.040 we really don't know the population of any country, including our own. What does that mean?

00:00:28.100 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:30.000 As we watch the rampant harassment and obstruction of ICE officers throughout the country,

00:00:59.860 but particularly in Minnesota, it's become obvious that someone or some entity is organizing and

00:01:06.380 funding many of these leftist agitators. That's not to say that we should delude ourselves into

00:01:11.180 thinking that there's no grassroots support whatsoever for these anti-ICE riots. Clearly,

00:01:16.520 millions of Americans unfortunately support the open borders agenda. They've embraced every tenet of

00:01:22.340 the anti-American ideology that's taught to children in many schools from kindergarten on up.

00:01:26.640 Can't deny that. Can't deny that. They're causing the chaos that we're seeing voluntarily of their

00:01:32.360 own free will. Now, at the same time, the scale of these campaigns to obstruct ICE and their

00:01:38.040 effectiveness does not seem to be organic. Every army needs a general, after all, and that's

00:01:44.560 particularly true when the army mostly consists of overweight, dead-eyed women hooked on SSRIs, 1.00

00:01:50.560 along with gay men and 68 IQ Somalis. So who is the general of the anti-ICE movement exactly? 0.94

00:01:59.040 Now, it'd be cliche to say, well, it's George Soros. But seriously, is it George Soros? And whoever it is,

00:02:06.480 what orders is the general given? What's the command structure here? Now, to answer that question,

00:02:12.600 some of my producers spent the last 48 hours joining so-called ICE resistance and ICE watch

00:02:18.480 groups via Facebook, Signal, and other platforms. Now, in Minnesota, the largest and most visible of

00:02:25.080 these groups is called Defend the 612 or Defend 612, which is a reference, of course, to the area code

00:02:30.380 of Minneapolis. In a prominent thread on Reddit on anti-ICE activism, Defend the 612 is one of the top 0.93

00:02:37.880 recommended groups that you're supposed to join if you want to assist in this criminal movement.

00:02:44.240 Elected Democrats in Minnesota have also encouraged their constituents to join this group,

00:02:48.600 including the president of the Minneapolis City Council. Watch.

00:02:53.260 I'm Council President Delia Payne, and I'm on Mallory in Central. We just heard that two legal

00:02:58.620 observers were arrested today. We are seeing increased ICE activity in the neighborhood,

00:03:03.560 and we're asking all of our community members to show up for each other in this moment.

00:03:08.880 State Senator Darn Clark here, proud to be at Central and Lowry. We need to. This is now what we do.

00:03:14.400 We stand up. We let our neighbors know that we are here. We are saying no, and we need to be visible

00:03:19.580 at home. So, if you're wondering what to do, get out, go for walks, make sure you are wearing a whistle.

00:03:26.320 Elliot's got one. I'm going to pick mine up now, too, and we're going to do the work.

00:03:30.460 Go to defend612.com to find out how you can get involved, and stay safe and stay vigilant.

00:03:37.340 Now, the top council members of Minneapolis are going to do the work, and they want you to do the

00:03:42.800 work, too, by joining Defend the 612. So, what is Defend the 612 exactly? If you pull up a flyer for

00:03:52.060 the group, you'll see that they're committed to interfering with law enforcement operations,

00:03:56.360 which they call abductions. To put another way, they're committed to committing federal crimes.

00:04:02.800 Now, we'll put one of these flyers up on the screen right now, which we pulled from Facebook.

00:04:06.440 Quote,

00:04:07.620 Every day, neighbors in Minneapolis are stopping and preventing abductions. Join us as we protect

00:04:12.200 each other on our blocks, on our streets, on patrol, at schools, and at local hotels that are housing

00:04:17.260 kidnappers.

00:04:18.020 So, they're bragging about criminal obstruction over at Defend 612. They're also openly talking

00:04:25.160 about harassing ICE agents in their hotels when they're sleeping. And on top of all that, it's

00:04:30.020 not a very exclusive group. Anyone can become a member, as those Minnesota politicians indicated.

00:04:36.160 And indeed, upon joining Defend 612, my producers were met with a network of signal groups and websites,

00:04:42.940 including a patrol handbook that offers a series of highly detailed instructions.

00:04:48.960 And what's notable about the handbook is that, at various points, it explicitly states that members

00:04:53.940 shouldn't violate federal law. But in other sections, the handbook clearly instructs members

00:04:59.440 to indeed engage in criminal activity. So, for example, there's this line from a section encouraging

00:05:06.840 residents to enroll their friends in the resistance. Quote,

00:05:10.140 If each and every block had a regular schedule of monitors, the abductors would not be able to

00:05:14.900 operate in our city. Close quote. Well, why might that be? Why would a group of legal monitors

00:05:22.440 prevent ICE from conducting operations exactly? You don't really have to fill in the blanks on that

00:05:28.120 one. Here's some guidance from a document provided by the same group. This is the paragraph in gray.

00:05:34.000 It says, quote,

00:05:34.460 For ICE agents sitting in parked cars or driving around, lay on your horn and honk at them or gather

00:05:40.920 as many people as possible to whistle and yell at them to chase them out. You can do this and

00:05:46.040 everyone is doing this. Phillips and Powderhorn, which are neighborhoods in South Minneapolis,

00:05:51.020 do not tolerate masked abductors taking our neighbors. Form a crowd and be as loud as your

00:05:56.080 commitment is to your people and get them out of here. Well, there's this section from the patrol

00:06:01.980 manual, which offers advice for members on how to call 911 on ICE effectively by lying to the

00:06:07.820 operator so that they send officers and obstruct ICE. Quote,

00:06:11.760 Many 911 operators have been trained not to dispatch police officers if the caller mentions

00:06:15.600 that ICE is involved. If you want a police response, it is straightforward to describe what

00:06:20.200 is happening to 911 without saying the word ICE or immigration. For example, there's two armed men

00:06:25.560 in a vehicle. They're getting ready to hurt or attack someone. There's an abduction happening right

00:06:30.080 now. They're taking her and they have guns. I'm surrounded by three cars. They're waving guns

00:06:35.280 at me and screaming. So what this is effectively is swatting the ICE officers. This manual is encouraging

00:06:45.020 members to make up a fictional scenario because what they described there does not, that does not

00:06:50.160 actually describe any ICE operation ever that's ever been done. So they're making up a scenario which

00:06:58.800 isn't happening in order to prompt a law enforcement response with the obvious goal of obstructing ICE

00:07:05.100 and potentially, very potentially, getting an ICE officer killed. Again, all of this is very illegal.

00:07:12.960 You cannot do any of this. Everyone involved in producing and disseminating this manual is involved

00:07:19.120 in a criminal conspiracy to commit federal crimes. And they're very well organized. Take a look at this

00:07:25.120 section of the handbook. It reads, quote, ICE encounters. What to do when you see these things?

00:07:31.580 Number one, request a plate check in the live call. Dispatch or plate checker will confirm.

00:07:38.160 Now you hear that, and you think dispatch? What are you talking about dispatch? Well, yes, these hopeless

00:07:43.500 dweebs have a dispatch system. So they'll see a car that, in their opinion, might be ICE,

00:07:49.220 and they'll call out the license plate number so that someone at home can compare that license plate

00:07:54.040 to their list of suspected ICE vehicles. And if it's a match, they'll flood the area and try to chase

00:07:59.280 the car away. Now, in just a few hours, my producer saw several license plates and car makes and models

00:08:06.120 being listed in this chat along with their current locations, which obviously poses a safety risk

00:08:11.000 to the general public as well as ICE. We have unhinged leftist vigilantes using unverified

00:08:18.120 Excel spreadsheets full of license plate numbers in order to hunt down and pursue and harass law

00:08:23.720 enforcement. They even do the same thing with the airplanes flying overhead. There's a whole signal

00:08:28.780 chat for flight tracking. Now, to give you an idea of how it works and how insane this is,

00:08:34.720 around midnight this morning, the following urgent message came into the Northeast Southeast rapid

00:08:41.480 response signal chat. Quote, Earl Giles employees locked in. ICE agents in parking lot. That's a

00:08:49.120 reference to a restaurant and distillery in Minneapolis. Another user responded, numbers description,

00:08:53.980 please. Then came the reply, all clear at Earl Giles MPD following up on potential prior ICE activity.

00:09:00.620 So the employees barricaded themselves inside, thinking ICE was on the way.

00:09:06.340 That gets circulated around signal chat full of these LARPers and their dispatchers. And then we

00:09:11.160 learned that actually there's no ICE agents around. The police were called because these freaks thought

00:09:16.200 that there might be ICE agents, which of course, by the way, is not an issue if the restaurant doesn't

00:09:22.540 employ any illegals. And then a few hours later, another update came in. The workers at Earl Giles wrote,

00:09:28.500 quote, which of course, my pronunciation was absolutely impeccable. And according to Google

00:09:43.580 Translate means that they're grateful that the community alerted them to the potential danger.

00:09:48.180 And according to Common Sense, it would imply that ICE needs to, you know, pay another visit to that

00:09:53.300 restaurant pronto. Then there was this remarkable exchange in one of the rapid response groups,

00:09:58.560 quote, highly suspicious activity, very tinted windows, camped outside Porzana,

00:10:04.820 went and parked around the block after idling for a few minutes.

00:10:09.300 Then somebody replies, I'm at Porzana right now. And someone else chimes in,

00:10:13.280 sending to Porzana staff now. Porzana is a steakhouse in Minneapolis. And apparently these losers

00:10:18.580 called them last night because they saw a car with tinted windows that was just parked nearby. 0.98

00:10:23.780 That's it. That's the threshold for highly suspicious activity for these lunatics. 0.95

00:10:30.240 They're barricading themselves inside restaurants and running across the city because they see a car

00:10:36.340 with tinted windows idling for a few minutes. It would be entertaining if these people weren't

00:10:42.520 genuinely, obviously unhinged. This is mass psychosis. And again, it's well organized. 0.60

00:10:50.800 In addition to the dispatch system, the leftists are using a procedure called SALUTE to standardize

00:10:56.400 the way that they report ICE activity to the larger group. As you can see here, SALUTE is an acronym.

00:11:00.680 They want their foot soldiers to report with the number of vehicles and agents,

00:11:06.280 what the agents are doing, where they are, what they're wearing, what time they were seen,

00:11:13.120 and what equipment they have. And additionally, according to the SALUTE system, anti-ICE foot

00:11:17.720 soldiers are supposed to specify what they want their comrades to do. Normally they request mob

00:11:24.060 action. That's what my producer saw last night, for example. Take a look at this screenshot.

00:11:28.600 So the address is provided and somebody immediately responds, we're eight blocks away, heading there

00:11:34.780 now. And somebody states at the same time, I'm there, MPD, as someone pulled over. After a brief

00:11:40.140 bit of panic, where they wonder if Minnesota police officers are cooperating with ICE, the communists

00:11:44.680 realize that the situation has nothing to do with immigration enforcement and they disperse.

00:11:49.460 They go off into the night awaiting their next call, awaiting the bat signal so they can swoop in. 0.94

00:11:55.620 So you can probably tell at this point, this is a common theme. They spend half their time

00:12:00.260 accomplishing absolutely nothing. Now, in the rare case where they arrive at a scene that actually

00:12:05.040 involves ICE, these agitators are encouraged to use their whistles as communication devices.

00:12:12.100 And here's that portion of the manual, which translates their whistle language. So apparently if

00:12:17.740 they're blowing in short of blasts, like pre, pre, pre, then they're saying ICE is nearby or lurking.

00:12:24.320 But if they're blowing continuously and the pre's are longer, then ICE is currently abducting

00:12:30.840 someone. So as ciphers go, it's not exactly the Enigma machine, but it's pretty close. By

00:12:36.280 the way, you know, you're dealing with criminal geniuses when they need to consult a manual

00:12:41.220 titled how whistles work. Like I would have thought that whistles are perhaps the most self

00:12:47.120 explanatory tool, explanatory tool to ever be invented. But, but apparently these masterminds

00:12:52.720 need a how-to manual complete with illustrations, how whistles work. And there's a picture of a

00:12:58.480 whistle in case you don't know what a whistle looks like. Now, the other thing my producers

00:13:04.580 noticed, I'm surprisingly, is that many of these people in these groups took pains to hide their

00:13:08.940 identity. They frequently changed their names in the signal group. They warned about how ICE can

00:13:14.360 supposedly hack Bluetooth and signal and GPS and everything else. There's a lot of paranoia and delusion

00:13:21.060 in this movement, as well as a clear awareness that they're committing crimes. And while many of

00:13:25.940 these people are, are ultimately harmless losers, some of them aren't. Some of them are nutjobs who 0.99

00:13:32.720 actually want to start a much larger conflict and they have a chance of succeeding based on what we've

00:13:37.880 seen over the past few days. That's why it's very important to figure out who is behind this

00:13:43.460 organization defend 612 or defend the 612. Well, a man living in Minnesota named Mitchell Williamson has

00:13:49.520 done a lot of research on this question, which my producers have verified, and which we will go

00:13:54.260 through now. Here's the top line summary. So defend the 612 is a tax-exempt nonprofit that in turn takes

00:14:01.940 a lot of money from other shady nonprofits and even from American taxpayers. So yes, you are funding

00:14:08.240 the rioting and the obstruction that's going on right now. And the federal government is allowing

00:14:13.160 this nonprofit to operate without paying taxes, which it shouldn't be allowed to do.

00:14:16.720 I mean, it shouldn't be allowed to operate at all. It should be shut down and everybody involved

00:14:20.740 should be in prison. Well, let's back up a second. Until a few days ago, if you wanted to donate to

00:14:27.000 defend the 612, here's what you would see on their website. If you look at the top, you'll see the

00:14:31.560 words Cooperation Cannon River. That's apparently the name of the real nonprofit that's behind defend

00:14:37.560 the 612. In effect, based on this fundraising page, we can conclude that Cooperation Cannon River

00:14:42.080 is doing business as defend the 612. Okay, so then what is Cooperation Cannon River? Well,

00:14:49.080 you get the sense that you're not supposed to look into that question because defend the 612 0.99

00:14:52.560 recently took down their donation page on the website, including any reference to Cooperation

00:14:58.540 Cannon River. Williamson was the first one to point this out, and I verified it using the internet

00:15:03.640 archive. As recently as December of 2025, defend the 612 stated on its website that it was the same

00:15:08.740 thing as Cooperation Cannon River, and now they've taken down that webpage. Now, looking at all this,

00:15:16.120 you know, you start feeling like you're in a real-life episode of The Chair Company, but it's all real.

00:15:21.080 There's a genuine conspiracy here, and the people behind it are trying to cover their tracks.

00:15:26.880 So let's take a look at the most recent IRS filing from Cooperation Cannon River, where they're

00:15:32.500 required by law to explain themselves to some extent, and here's their mission statement. Quote,

00:15:37.520 the primary mission of Cooperation Cannon River's DBA Corporation Northfield is to create social and

00:15:44.000 environmental justice through grassroots organizing and direct democracy in Minnesota. We do this in

00:15:48.380 three key ways. Youth organizing through our program, Young People's Action Coalition, which

00:15:52.980 supports high school and middle school student activists in southern Minnesota in making social

00:15:56.420 change in their schools and communities. Worker cooperative support through training and technical

00:16:00.500 assistance for local green worker cooperatives, particularly in the growing sector of compost collection

00:16:05.540 and compost processing, as well as free-range poultry production. Climate justice organizing

00:16:10.480 through engaging Minnesota climate activists in the movement for renewable energy and to stop the

00:16:14.820 expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure. We educate and organize communities in opposition to fossil fuel

00:16:19.360 infrastructure expansion while promoting investment in renewable energy in Minnesota.

00:16:23.260 Okay, well, that's an inspiring mission statement. It's also not remotely related to what they're currently

00:16:31.440 doing, which is disseminating materials that encourage the residents of Minnesota to commit federal crimes and

00:16:38.900 obstruct ICE agents. They're not doing compost processing or educating anyone about fossil fuel

00:16:46.520 infrastructure expansion or anything else. Now, somehow, they forgot to tell the IRS all about that.

00:16:54.460 You know, when they said direct democracy and environmental justice, they forgot to tell the IRS that what they

00:16:59.660 really meant by that was harassing ICE agents and driving them away from crime scenes and swatting them and trying to get

00:17:05.800 them killed. But things get worse when you look at who exactly has been donating to this nonprofit.

00:17:12.760 Now, to be clear, we don't know the identities of the vast majority of the donors. That's the benefit of being a

00:17:19.300 501c3 nonprofit. They don't have to disclose exactly who is financing them. However, if other tax-exempt

00:17:25.700 nonprofits donate to Cooperation Can River, a.k.a. Defendant 612, then we can discover that information because

00:17:32.360 those nonprofits are required to file a Form 990 where they tell the IRS about their donations. And that's where it gets

00:17:38.920 interesting. Because it turns out that in recent years, to give just two examples, Cooperation Can River

00:17:46.440 has taken money from the Tides Foundation to the tune of $10,000 and a nonprofit called MN350 to the tune of

00:17:53.600 more than $75,000. Now, again, my producers pulled the Form 990s after they were flagged by Williamson.

00:18:00.680 And here's what they look like. We'll put them up on the screen right now. So this is the donation

00:18:06.320 from the Tides Foundation to Cooperation Cannon River. And then here's the donation from MN350 to Cooperation

00:18:14.380 Cannon River. And when you look at that, what does it tell us? What does it matter that Defend the 612, one of the 0.52

00:18:22.700 lead anti-ice groups in Minnesota, has been taking money from the Tides Foundation and MN350, whatever that is?

00:18:30.660 Well, it turns out that the Tides Foundation takes a lot of money from groups like Open Society Foundations, the

00:18:35.420 Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Ford Foundation. And if those names sound familiar, it's because they're

00:18:40.560 some of the biggest donors to left-wing causes in the world. And Open Society Foundation is George Soros'

00:18:46.620 outfit, which is almost too on the nose. It's like a right-wing meme at this point to say that Soros is

00:18:52.620 behind everything. But indeed, as a factual matter, Soros' group funds the Tides Foundation, which funds

00:18:58.380 Cooperation Cannon River, which is otherwise known as Defend the 612, which is currently organizing mass

00:19:02.480 anti-ice activity in Minnesota. So we say that George Soros is behind everything because when you

00:19:09.120 dig to the bottom of it, you discover that, well, he is. But that's not even the most extraordinary data

00:19:15.240 point here. The really amazing contribution to the Cooperation Cannon River Group, the $75,000 one,

00:19:21.300 came from MN350. And no one has any idea what MN350 is. But as Williamson found, it's a nonprofit

00:19:30.040 that takes a lot of money from the state of Minnesota. In fact, they recently received $100,000

00:19:34.620 from the state government. So you see where this is going. This is how it works. Taxpayers fund the

00:19:43.300 government of Minnesota. In turn, the government of Minnesota funds a nondescript generic nonprofit

00:19:48.700 called MN350, which promises to save the environment or whatever. And then in turn, MN350 gives a large

00:19:55.680 sum of money to another random nonprofit, which turns out to be a communist front group.

00:20:01.560 Now, keep in mind, there are probably many, many more donations like this that we don't know about

00:20:08.760 and that we'll probably never know about. And this is just one nonprofit. Here's a Facebook post from

00:20:14.620 another group active in Minneapolis at the moment. It's called GR Rapid Response. They say they've had

00:20:20.520 more than 4,000 people participate in 81 rapid response groups, which have, quote,

00:20:25.680 tailed and boxed in ICE vehicles. So they are, again, boxing in an ICE vehicle is a serious crime.

00:20:36.420 They are openly admitting to committing crimes. And there are real names attached to many of these posts.

00:20:44.820 In cases where they use aliases, it shouldn't be hard in many cases to get a subpoena.

00:20:49.000 So this is a national scandal that demands an immediate investigation by federal authorities.

00:20:55.940 Fake nonprofits need to be shut down. Anyone disseminating pamphlets that encourage people

00:21:00.880 to commit crimes like the group Ice Watch, which Renee Good was a member of, should be arrested.

00:21:08.000 So look at this for just one example. It's just straight up telling people to pull and push

00:21:14.020 officers away from criminals that they're trying to arrest.

00:21:16.780 Okay.

00:21:19.000 These are the materials that are meant to persuade a low-level foot soldier, 0.97

00:21:23.420 you know, the lonely lesbian on SSRIs, to impede or physically attack ICE officers. 0.98

00:21:30.280 And the materials are disseminated by bigger players, including nonprofits that are funded

00:21:34.860 by taxpayers and powerful left-wing organizations. And then if you zoom out even further, all of this

00:21:40.920 criminal activity is enabled by leftist judges who do everything in their power to undermine the Trump

00:21:45.900 administration. So that is the very well-oiled machine that underlies Democrat activism.

00:21:55.420 There's a reason why so many of the judges who have ruled against the Trump administration

00:21:59.100 have names like, uh, Maeda and Frimpong and Chutkin and Reyes. Democrats have installed an army of

00:22:09.060 foreigners to the bench and Democrats are counting on those foreigners to give their foot soldiers 0.66

00:22:13.760 some much-needed backup, which they are. That's the only rational explanation for the lawsuit the

00:22:20.220 state of Minnesota just filed against the federal government, essentially asking a court to block

00:22:24.920 the executive branch from carrying out its constitutional responsibility, which is enforcing the law.

00:22:29.260 This isn't so much a lawsuit as a declaration of Minnesota's secession from the union.

00:22:36.620 Minnesota's government no longer believes it's governed by the U.S. Constitution or the federal

00:22:40.000 government has any authority within its borders. Watch.

00:22:44.220 And we ask that the courts will end the surge of thousands of DHS agents into Minnesota.

00:22:51.200 We ask the courts to end the DHS unlawful behavior in our state, the intimidation, the threats, the

00:22:58.280 violence. We ask the courts to end the tactics on our places of worship, our schools, our courts,

00:23:04.460 our marketplaces, our hospitals, and even funeral homes. The deployment of thousands of armed

00:23:11.940 mass DHS agents to Minnesota has done our state serious harm. This is, in essence, a federal invasion

00:23:20.600 of the Twin Cities and Minnesota, and it must stop.

00:23:24.100 This is a lawsuit that, under our federal system, is an obvious farce. The federal government has

00:23:28.360 the absolute authority to enforce immigration law under Article I of the Constitution. States

00:23:34.220 cannot interfere with that power because of the supremacy clause of the Constitution. This

00:23:39.980 is not a close question. It's also not a federal invasion. It doesn't matter if the residents

00:23:45.280 of Minnesota are offended by immigration law or if ICE gives them the ick. It doesn't matter

00:23:50.460 if the residents of Minnesota tell ICE that they don't want them there. It's not their

00:23:55.420 call. Immigration enforcement is the domain of the federal government. But there is one

00:24:01.300 element of this lawsuit that I have to admit is extremely entertaining. Let's put it up

00:24:04.160 on the screen. Quote,

00:24:07.000 Defendants of federal government have intentionally violated Minnesota's masking law, which prohibits

00:24:12.080 anyone from concealing their identity by wearing masks in public places. Wearing a mask in violation

00:24:17.440 of Minnesota law is neither necessary nor proper. Defendants' policy and practice of wearing masks

00:24:21.620 so that their agents can conceal their identities is arbitrary, capricious, and an abuse of discretion.

00:24:27.580 Yes, Minnesota, a state where the National Guard under Tim Walls forced private citizens to wear masks

00:24:34.900 during the COVID lockdowns, is now suing the federal government because ICE agents are wearing masks to

00:24:39.660 protect themselves from leftist freaks. We've come full circle. And on top of that, in this lawsuit,

00:24:46.360 Minnesota is accusing the federal government of acting in an arbitrary fashion. Yes, the federal

00:24:51.800 government is supposedly being arbitrary here, not the state of Minnesota. So it's totally fine for them to

00:24:57.360 require masks than sue you for wearing a mask without ever changing the law. That's not arbitrary

00:25:04.120 at all. I mean, if nothing else, you just have to admire the sheer gall and shamelessness on display

00:25:09.600 here. We can be fairly sure, based on the current makeup of the Supreme Court, that this lawsuit won't

00:25:14.540 go anywhere. But make no mistake about it. This is why Democrats want to pack the Supreme Court. They want 0.68

00:25:20.740 judges to rubber stamp their efforts to dismantle the federal system that our founders created.

00:25:26.240 They want to destroy the constitutional order. That's what these anti-ICE protests are really

00:25:32.800 about. Now, Trump's first term, they pretended to care about kids in cages and child separation.

00:25:39.080 Now they don't even have a pretext. They're just mad about the fact that laws are being enforced.

00:25:45.000 That's it. This is not an anti-ICE movement, really. It's an anti-American movement.

00:25:51.240 And it's very well organized and funded. So what's needed now, which the administration

00:25:57.920 seems to understand, is far more aggressive enforcement action. Don't just double the

00:26:02.540 number of ICE officers on the street. Go after the organizers. Go after anyone who's funding them.

00:26:07.420 After a certain point, once the checks dry up, the cars are impounded, the agitators are sent to prison,

00:26:13.660 it will end. Yes, they're well-funded. They're highly committed to their cause. But they're also

00:26:20.080 very careless. They don't expect anyone to pursue them, which is why my producers were able to gain

00:26:26.200 access to all of their groups. It's time to use their narcissism and naivete against them. And to

00:26:33.860 begin the crackdown on left-wing terror cells that we've all been waiting for ever since September 10th.

00:26:39.660 Now, let's get to our five headlines.

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00:27:34.700 I should mention that if you hadn't heard already, the great Scott Adams died today. He, of course,

00:27:39.340 had been diagnosed with cancer a while ago. He was very open about it in his final months.

00:27:45.000 And I didn't know Scott personally, so I'll let people who did know him, who were his friends,

00:27:50.560 be the ones to offer the eulogy he deserves. But I did know Scott's work, as many people did.

00:27:57.300 And based on that, I can say that he was one of the most insightful, unique, interesting,

00:28:05.820 thoughtful thinkers in the country today. He was his own man. He was his own guy.

00:28:12.860 And especially in a world now of just constant, uninspired, low-effort slop,

00:28:20.480 Scott Adams was doing something actually useful and interesting and often quite fascinating.

00:28:27.300 And he deserves to be remembered for that. And he will be. It had an impact on a lot of people's

00:28:34.320 lives. And I think it should also be said, it probably won't be said enough. And probably that's

00:28:40.340 fair because you want to focus on his life, the way he lived, which we should. But also,

00:28:47.760 I think it should be said that Scott Adams died well. He lived well and he died well.

00:28:53.760 Maybe that sounds strange to people these days, when you say someone died well. To our ancestors,

00:29:01.280 that's the kind of thing that would not be strange to say. But these days, we don't think of things

00:29:08.820 that way. And also, the truth is that most people don't die well. I mean, that's the really

00:29:15.560 dark truth. Is that most people die sort of begging and pleading and in a state of denial

00:29:26.740 and self-pity or else drugged out of their minds and not knowing what's going on. I don't judge

00:29:32.360 anyone for that. I mean, I might die that way too. I hope not. But it's not the kind of thing that we

00:29:38.280 want to assume. Scott, though, died with clarity and courage, honesty. He was not clinging on to

00:29:49.200 some faint hope of recovery. I mean, obviously, he wanted to recover. But

00:29:55.640 if you watched what he was saying publicly towards the end, he was very honest about it. Like,

00:30:03.180 I'm not going to get better. This is happening. I probably have days left to live. He didn't speak

00:30:08.460 in euphemisms about the situation. He said flat out, you know, that he's dying. And he faced it

00:30:14.600 like a man. And he spent his final days trying to impart his last bits of wisdom to the world.

00:30:20.240 And I think that was his final service to the world. And, you know, perhaps certainly one of his

00:30:26.160 most important services. And I think it's worth pointing that out. So rest in peace to Scott Adams.

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00:31:53.360 Well, I'll start the headlines with this. The post-millennial says a growing number of

00:31:57.520 women in the United States are becoming single mothers by choice in their 40s, a trend driven by

00:32:03.740 the widespread use of in vitro fertilization. According to NPR, 44% of women in the U.S. today

00:32:08.740 are single. Many American women spend their 20s and 30s, focus on education and their careers.

00:32:14.340 IVF has become more popular. Government data show the number of unmarried women in their 40s

00:32:18.960 giving birth has increased by 250% over the past 30 years. That is actually shocking.

00:32:28.820 And while some of those women have spouses, many do not. And then the report goes on. It's worth 0.79

00:32:35.080 reading, but this is, you know, becoming a, this is a trend that is only increasing. And it, you know,

00:32:45.820 this is the kind of story that won't get as much attention as the more dramatic events happening

00:32:49.640 in the world will get, but this is seismic. We are engineering, we are bioengineering a population

00:32:55.700 of, you know, old parents. We're flipping the natural progression of adulthood on its head

00:33:02.640 and creating this kind of top heavy old population on purpose. Because for all of human history until just 0.97

00:33:14.740 now, the process was basically the same. Now it may have looked a little different depending

00:33:19.420 on the culture, but the process was fundamentally the same, right? A child becomes an adult, gets

00:33:25.960 married, leaves home. And for most of human history, it wasn't like leave home and go 500

00:33:33.180 miles away, but just, you might be on the same homestead, you'll be in the same village, but

00:33:37.140 go and, you know, establish yourself. A young family establishes itself and they build a life

00:33:43.720 together for themselves. And that's the way it went. And now we've turned that upside down

00:33:49.080 and where the child becomes an adult, maybe at some point leaves home, focuses on career,

00:33:57.540 focuses on self, focuses on, you know, taking nice vacations, focuses on whatever they want to do

00:34:05.660 for the first, like 20 years of adulthood. And then right at the time when earlier generations

00:34:12.840 were starting to have grandkids, they tried to have their first child. This would not have even

00:34:19.920 been possible for most of human history. And now it is thanks to the combination of birth control,

00:34:24.060 number one, and IDF. And this is not a better system, obviously. Like it turns out that our biology,

00:34:33.300 our nature, had it right the first time. And it never ceases to amaze me that the people who go,

00:34:40.800 and everybody does these days, people go on and on about, right, you want to be

00:34:45.520 organic, you want natural, right? We don't want chemicals, we don't want any of these things.

00:34:53.640 And yet we don't apply that idea to the fundamental way that we organize our lives.

00:35:00.500 Because the organic and natural system is for people to have children

00:35:05.380 as young adults, start families. This was the system for thousands of years. It makes sense.

00:35:16.340 Nature knows what it's doing, which is another way of saying that God knows what he's doing.

00:35:22.140 It's better to have children younger because you are younger and healthier and more energetic and more fit.

00:35:28.440 The younger you have kids, the more kids you can have. And the longer you'll be around to help raise

00:35:35.980 and guide the generations after your children. So, you know, you have kids in your early 20s,

00:35:44.620 then you'll have grandkids probably in your 40s, great grandkids in your 60s and 70s. You might be

00:35:50.240 around for your great-great-grandkids. And this is ideal not just for, like, sentimental reasons.

00:35:58.780 The point is that in this system, which, again, is just the way it worked everywhere on the planet

00:36:05.940 for thousands of years. So this is why this kind of thing, like, we're doing, we're making decisions

00:36:13.760 as a society to dramatically change, you know, the way that people live. We're severing ourselves

00:36:27.320 from these systems that have been set up over thousands of years. We're coming along and saying,

00:36:35.300 you know what, we're going to do it completely differently. And there's almost no conversation

00:36:40.140 about it. There's almost no reflection. And the point of this system, the way that it used to be,

00:36:49.920 is that now kids are raised and guided by multiple generations. That's how it's supposed to be.

00:36:55.920 Again, for most of human history, a child was born to parents who were young, and they were raised by

00:37:03.780 those parents with the help of their parents' parents and the parents of their parents' parents.

00:37:10.140 They had their parents, and then a team of wise elders who were also there, also present,

00:37:17.300 also involved. And this is clearly the better way. Clearly. Which is why it was the only way

00:37:23.900 everywhere on earth for thousands of years. So how is it now? I mean, there's still some people

00:37:33.400 that are operating that way. But as we move toward more in this direction, well, now you'll have kids

00:37:41.340 who are born. So think about this. So that's the way it was for almost everyone, for almost always.

00:37:47.560 And let's think about this, you know, these women, they get single women IVF in their 40s. 1.00

00:37:52.600 Well, now you have kids who are born to single mothers in their 40s through IVF.

00:37:58.280 So instead of the child having the support of a mom, a dad, uncles, aunts, siblings,

00:38:06.840 grandparents, great-grandparents, and even great-great-grandparents, instead of all of that,

00:38:12.480 now they have the mom, who isn't even home because she's at the office, no dad, maybe,

00:38:21.440 probably no siblings, probably not very many aunts and uncles, if any at all, maybe a grandparent or

00:38:29.180 two who will be very old and will be dead before the child graduates elementary school, probably.

00:38:35.740 And that's it. So instead of this vast intergenerational support system, there's

00:38:44.060 just the mom who cares more about her office job than taking care of her kid. 1.00

00:38:52.240 The mom who we're supposed to celebrate because she's a single mom, by choice.

00:38:59.960 So it's really bad. And it's also why IVF for single women should be banned. Why do we even allow this?

00:39:06.220 We don't have to allow that. Obviously, we should not allow that. And you can't even do the whole,

00:39:14.760 this is my choice excuse. Because this is a choice that also has an impact on another person,

00:39:24.020 which is the child. So it shouldn't be allowed. IVF for people in their 40s should be banned. I mean,

00:39:31.340 I don't support IVF at all. I think that none of it should be happening. But at a minimum,

00:39:36.920 at the very least, it should not be allowed for unmarried women, obviously. 0.97

00:39:45.620 It's kind of a transition into this, as we're talking about, because, of course, the other effect

00:39:51.820 of doing things this way, the way that we do it now, is that populations decline,

00:39:56.220 which is all part of the design. So an interesting clip has gone viral. It's actually from a

00:40:01.320 podcast a few months ago, I think. And in the clip, a Chinese dissident, this is the Danny Jones

00:40:07.420 podcast, claims that the population of China is much smaller than the official estimates. And I

00:40:13.200 don't know, maybe, I guess, a few people noticed this when this podcast first happened, but now it's

00:40:18.160 that the clip is circulating, people are talking about it. Now, the CCP says that their population

00:40:22.580 is about 1.4 billion. And this woman believes that it's a fraction of that, probably. Listen. 0.92

00:40:28.520 You are ready for the number?

00:40:32.880 Yes.

00:40:33.880 At one point, I projected under 400 million.

00:40:37.740 What?

00:40:38.460 500 million.

00:40:39.900 Under 500 million.

00:40:41.120 Under 500 million.

00:40:42.960 So you think that they have a very similar population to the United States and China?

00:40:47.240 Yes.

00:40:49.100 Wow.

00:40:50.760 There's 1 billion people missing.

00:40:52.260 And this goes back to what we were saying in the beginning or earlier in the podcast

00:40:55.960 with all of the fake IDs and all of this stuff being found out.

00:41:02.200 Yeah.

00:41:02.460 There's possibly 1 billion people missing.

00:41:05.080 It's not a demographic question, Danny.

00:41:08.480 It's a mathematical question.

00:41:11.620 Let me ask you.

00:41:12.740 It takes a couple to have two children to replace themselves, right?

00:41:18.700 Think about it.

00:41:19.520 Yes.

00:41:19.760 Yes.

00:41:20.120 Two children.

00:41:20.560 Correct.

00:41:20.780 If every couple produces two children.

00:41:24.380 The population stinks level.

00:41:26.440 Right.

00:41:27.440 So do you know how many children does every woman needs to have in her lifetime in order 1.00

00:41:37.380 to triple its population in 50 years?

00:41:41.480 To triple its population in 50 years, you need to have what?

00:41:46.280 Let me guess.

00:41:47.860 I'm terrible at math.

00:41:49.340 I'll give you the answer because I ask AI.

00:41:52.260 It's a crazy mathematical.

00:41:55.900 If a country needs to triple or grow its population by 2.5 times, let's just say 2.5 times, over a

00:42:05.960 span of 50 years.

00:42:07.720 Five kids?

00:42:08.260 Each woman, you're right.

00:42:09.840 Each woman needs to give birth, on average, between 4.5 to 5.5 children. 0.95

00:42:16.780 Wow.

00:42:18.080 Okay.

00:42:18.680 Now, China grew its population officially from 1950.

00:42:25.460 That's when the CCP took over to control.

00:42:28.220 China's population in 1950 was about 500 million.

00:42:34.180 In the year 2000, 50 years later, China's population was about 1.24, 1.27 billion.

00:42:46.220 Okay.

00:42:46.560 So, it grew two and a half times, right?

00:42:49.440 From 500 million to 1.27 billion.

00:42:52.460 That's two and a half times.

00:42:54.000 Over 50 years.

00:42:58.360 Chinese women did not, on average, have five children because of the one-child policy.

00:43:06.560 Yes.

00:43:07.160 Because of the great famine, because of the great famine, tens of millions of people died

00:43:13.080 because of cultural revolution.

00:43:15.560 So, China, you know, from one political movement to another, and then to almost four decades

00:43:22.840 of single-child policy.

00:43:25.320 So, she raises a good point.

00:43:26.700 How did the population nearly triple in 50 years when, during that same time, there was

00:43:31.980 famine, not to mention a one-child policy?

00:43:37.160 You know, it's possible, but what are the chances?

00:43:40.720 And why should we believe it?

00:43:43.940 And this is actually a fascinating question, and one that we don't really think about or

00:43:48.440 talk about.

00:43:49.820 We're told that the population of the Earth is 8 billion people, right?

00:43:54.160 That's the number that we're given, that everybody uses.

00:43:58.320 And we get to that figure, thanks largely to the enormous populations of countries like

00:44:02.380 China, India, which also supposedly has over a billion people.

00:44:07.160 But how do we know those numbers are accurate?

00:44:10.800 And why should we believe they're accurate?

00:44:13.160 And how could we confirm one way or another?

00:44:17.260 I think, I believe maybe we talked about this in the past year when it comes to India.

00:44:21.220 And again, India has, supposedly has over a billion people.

00:44:26.400 How do we know that?

00:44:28.360 Well, that's what India tells us. 0.87

00:44:30.260 How do they know?

00:44:33.500 And why should we believe them?

00:44:36.200 Now, we do have a pretty good idea, as I saw someone point out on X, there's another kind

00:44:41.240 of viral post in response to this, pointing out that India's largest cities have a combined

00:44:47.160 population of like 300 million.

00:44:48.700 But then that means that we're supposed to believe that, you know, the Indian countryside and

00:44:54.580 the Indian wilderness accounts for like 800 and 900 million more.

00:44:59.860 Seems implausible.

00:45:01.960 Is it true?

00:45:02.920 Well, we don't know.

00:45:03.580 I don't know.

00:45:07.260 Come to think of it, how do we know how many people are living in Africa?

00:45:09.480 No one is conducting a relatable, a reliable, rather, census of most regions of that continent.

00:45:19.380 Official numbers say that there's like 1.5 billion people in the continent of Africa.

00:45:25.960 Okay, maybe there is, but how do we know?

00:45:28.880 What if there were really 500 million?

00:45:31.080 Would we know?

00:45:31.780 Like, how would we know?

00:45:32.940 What if there were 4 billion?

00:45:35.020 I mean, how would we know?

00:45:36.460 It could be a third of that or triple.

00:45:37.960 And how would we know?

00:45:39.100 I don't think we really would.

00:45:41.180 And you only know how many people are in a place, obviously, if somebody counts them.

00:45:47.520 But if nobody is counting them, or nobody reliable is counting them, how do we know?

00:45:54.320 We don't.

00:45:56.540 And come to think of it, we don't even know the raw population of our own country.

00:46:02.980 We don't know how many people are here.

00:46:09.100 Like, we can estimate, and we might be wrong, by tens of millions.

00:46:17.400 Now, we have pretty good census data for the legal population, although even that is questionable for a number of reasons.

00:46:25.180 We really have no idea about the illegal population.

00:46:29.340 We don't know how many illegal aliens are here.

00:46:31.580 They've been telling us it's like 10 or 20 million for the past 30 years.

00:46:36.200 Obviously, it must have grown since then.

00:46:38.120 How much?

00:46:38.580 We don't know.

00:46:40.720 Are there 30 million illegal aliens here?

00:46:43.000 Are there 60 million?

00:46:45.800 Are there 100 million?

00:46:47.140 We really have no idea.

00:46:50.620 Think about that.

00:46:52.180 That's tens of millions of hypothetical additional people who could be here for all we know, or maybe not.

00:46:58.260 Now, the obvious question is, why would any country lie about their population?

00:47:09.520 Now, we can see that in a lot of countries, we can see how they just might not know.

00:47:12.980 Like, they don't have the infrastructure in place to come up with a reliable census.

00:47:17.500 You would think a country like China would and does, but why would they lie about it if they are?

00:47:24.760 Well, the answer is even more obvious than the question.

00:47:27.020 Larger populations are more impressive, more imposing, more intimidating.

00:47:32.920 You know, a country of one, like when you're a country of 330 million, as we are, give or take, give or take 100 million.

00:47:40.920 The idea of going to war with a country of like 1.5 billion feels like suicide.

00:47:45.600 So, it makes your country feel more powerful and imposing in that way.

00:47:51.460 Also, countries that receive foreign aid would seem to have an obvious financial incentive to inflate their numbers.

00:47:58.820 So, there are many benefits of being perceived as having a larger population than you actually do.

00:48:03.880 And meanwhile, the globalists, the anti-human left-wing elitists, they have perhaps the most incentive of all.

00:48:13.220 Because their narrative is that the world is overpopulated, and so we have to give them more power, give up more of our humanity to solve the problem of overpopulation.

00:48:26.640 But what if global population growth is a lot more modest than what they're saying?

00:48:32.680 Well, that would be highly inconvenient for them.

00:48:34.200 So, I don't know, this is what we're left with.

00:48:38.780 The powers that be in these countries and on the global stage have many reasons and really every reason and every ability to lie about population sizes.

00:48:49.280 They can say basically anything they want, and we'll have no way of fact-checking them.

00:48:54.900 Like, China could say they have a population of 2 billion or 400 million, and either way, as far as I'm concerned and you're concerned, like, okay, maybe.

00:49:08.160 No way of knowing.

00:49:10.100 No way of verifying that.

00:49:13.280 So, does that mean that they're lying?

00:49:14.720 Not necessarily.

00:49:15.620 It does mean that they could be, and we should be skeptical of it.

00:49:18.880 But, in fact, as I was thinking about this, it's like, I'm embarrassed because I've been combating the overpopulation myth for a long time.

00:49:28.560 Talked about it many times.

00:49:30.460 And I've always made the argument that actually 8 billion people is not too many.

00:49:36.380 Because this is what they say.

00:49:37.540 We have too many people on Earth, whatever that means.

00:49:40.420 Too many.

00:49:42.520 And my argument has always been, well, the population can easily sustain all of us.

00:49:47.400 It could sustain many more, in fact.

00:49:50.820 You know, there is hunger and starvation on the planet, but not because we're running out of room or running out of resources.

00:49:58.100 It's because many countries are not allocating or utilizing their resources because these are third-world hellholes with no real infrastructure and no order and no governing authorities who are competent.

00:50:14.040 And that's been my argument.

00:50:15.360 And somehow it never even occurred to me that, like, well, yeah, also, maybe there aren't 8 billion.

00:50:22.420 How do we know that that's even true?

00:50:25.320 Maybe the real counter to the 8 billion is too many line is, well, we don't have 8 billion in the first place.

00:50:32.580 So, I don't know.

00:50:36.040 You know, you just kind of take the official population numbers as a given, and maybe there's no reason to do that.

00:50:43.700 So, that's interesting.

00:50:44.720 Let's see, a few days ago, there was some controversy in the left-wing fever swamps of the internet when former SNL host Bowen Yang, who is, he's the gay Asian one who, I guess, left the show.

00:51:03.080 And he made very, very mildly critical comments about Jasmine Crockett on a podcast.

00:51:11.440 Very mild.

00:51:13.040 Basically nothing.

00:51:13.920 I think he said, along with his co-host or whoever's on the podcast with him, said that it would be a waste of money to donate to Jasmine Crockett's campaign.

00:51:22.240 That was it.

00:51:22.620 And there was backlash, and they were called racist for the comment somehow, and they both folded, obviously, like, right away.

00:51:31.500 They just caved and apologized right away.

00:51:34.360 Within about 12 seconds, they collapsed on the floor begging for forgiveness.

00:51:40.240 But it's not enough because it never is, of course.

00:51:42.020 And now the race hustlers on TikTok are taking turns beating their new punching bags.

00:51:48.440 And I thought that this response was especially funny.

00:51:50.880 Watch this.

00:51:53.400 It's always a twink with a gaping rosebud and a microphone that has so much to say.

00:51:57.240 But since we are being funny, since the Boys With Podcast decided to turn a Black woman's Senate run into a punchline, let me return the favor. 0.70

00:52:04.640 Because it's actually insane. 0.93

00:52:06.060 And I'm not talking about quirky insane, not internet cute insane, but structurally violent insane. 0.80

00:52:10.300 That Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang thought that it was appropriate to sit on a microphone and tell Black people, or people in general, not to financially support a Black woman who is running for office. 0.65

00:52:19.300 Not critique her platform, not challenge her record, not debate her policies.

00:52:22.120 Just don't give her money.

00:52:23.800 That's not comedy.

00:52:24.720 That's not analysis.

00:52:25.720 That is material attempting to start a Black woman's campaign. 0.99

00:52:29.920 And then y'all wrap it up in this tired, cowardly-ass phrase saying that she's too well-defined. 0.99

00:52:34.400 Well, baby, she's not too well-defined. 1.00

00:52:36.040 What she is, is too unignorable, too competent, and too Black in public. 1.00

00:52:40.340 She's too woman while being ambitious, too clear about power, and the clarity that scares people who benefit from living in a fog. 0.99

00:52:46.340 Because somehow, defined only becomes a problem when the candidate is a Black woman or a Black person in general. 0.99

00:52:51.800 White men can be as defined as hell, angry, loud, corrupt, incoherent, indicted, and still get called serious contenders. 0.99

00:52:58.420 They can lose five elections and be called building a movement. 0.99

00:53:01.640 They can be mediocre forever and still get donors and headlines and grace.

00:53:05.200 But a Black woman has to be flawless and frictionless and humble and exceptional and non-threatening and brilliant and warm and soft and strategic and silent. 1.00

00:53:12.460 And she's still not going to be viable. 0.97

00:53:14.300 Yes, how dare you, how dare you say that about a Black woman? 0.99

00:53:19.760 How dare you fail to fall down and worship at the feet of a Black woman? 1.00

00:53:25.180 How dare you? 0.98

00:53:28.580 This is, we've talked about this before, this is the great fable of the modern left.

00:53:34.320 I mean, they have a lot of fables.

00:53:35.840 It's all, it's all fables all the way down.

00:53:38.500 This is perhaps the greatest and the most deranged.

00:53:42.440 It's the fable we hear over and over and over again, where Black women are somehow criticized and scrutinized more than any other group.

00:53:52.600 They're held to this impossibly high standard and nothing they do is good enough, even though they're all so smart and beautiful and so wonderful in every imaginable way.

00:54:03.380 This is what we're told.

00:54:07.780 Black women are held to the highest standard and a standard which they consistently exceed. 0.98

00:54:14.640 They're held to this, you know, the limbo bar is high, well, I guess in this case, lower, whatever.

00:54:19.720 Forget about limbo.

00:54:20.500 The bar is higher for them than it is for anyone else.

00:54:24.140 And, um, and they consistently get over the bar and it's not good enough.

00:54:29.260 This is what we hear.

00:54:31.960 This is the great left-wing fable.

00:54:35.260 And you hear that and it's like, what, what, what world are you living in?

00:54:41.360 What are you talking about?

00:54:43.440 This constant drumbeat of how Black women are treated in society. 0.96

00:54:48.380 It's, it's, uh, no one is criticized this way.

00:54:52.880 First of all, Black women are never criticized.

00:54:58.700 Black women are basically never criticized. 1.00

00:55:03.000 So not only are they not criticized the most, they're not criticized at all, ever.

00:55:10.920 Doesn't mean that there aren't criticisms one could make.

00:55:13.820 It just means that they're never criticized.

00:55:15.900 Okay.

00:55:18.380 Black women are basically never criticized as a group, right? 0.97

00:55:22.420 Like nobody ever singles out Black women as a group and condemns or even just criticizes them.

00:55:29.960 And that's not, white men are criticized, obviously, as a group all the time.

00:55:34.040 White women are criticized as a group. 1.00

00:55:35.980 Uh, even Black men are sometimes called out.

00:55:41.760 They're at least called out by Black women, sometimes, for not being good allies or whatever 1.00

00:55:47.180 the hell phrase they would use. 0.97

00:55:49.800 But, uh, Black women are just never called out. 1.00

00:55:53.200 When have you ever heard that?

00:55:55.960 So for all these people saying, oh, everyone treats Black women, really?

00:55:59.380 Who?

00:56:00.100 Can you give me an example?

00:56:03.420 I, I never hear it.

00:56:06.520 And, uh, again, it's not like there's nothing to criticize here, okay?

00:56:09.140 It's, it's, it's not like you can't find fodder for criticism.

00:56:11.280 It's just that they never are.

00:56:14.120 And even individually, Black women are basically the only group on the planet where you can't 1.00

00:56:21.400 criticize any single one of them individually in any context for any reason without being

00:56:28.780 called a bigot.

00:56:29.340 That doesn't apply to anyone else.

00:56:33.920 Now, sure, if you criticize a Black man, depending on who you are, you might get called a racist.

00:56:38.280 That can happen.

00:56:39.600 But it's still possible to criticize a Black man without being charged with racism, theoretically.

00:56:45.100 But a Black woman, I mean, this is what we've seen. 1.00

00:56:48.040 Like, there's so many examples of this, so many examples of controversies because public

00:56:55.540 figures criticized in very mild terms, um, a woman who happened to be Black.

00:57:04.180 And, and then they have to apologize for it because any criticism of any Black woman ever

00:57:11.980 for any reason is racist and sexist. 0.96

00:57:14.740 Even coming from someone who's not white, doesn't matter. 0.94

00:57:20.160 So Black women end up with this, like, halo around them that, that really no one else has. 1.00

00:57:26.440 I mean, we've talked about, now I'm starting to rethink, I'm having a little bit of an existential

00:57:31.120 crisis because I'm starting to rethink, and we've talked many times about the victim hierarchy.

00:57:36.720 And I've all, and I've said that, and it changes.

00:57:39.080 I mean, it does change.

00:57:39.940 It's very dynamic.

00:57:40.680 So the victim hierarchy on the left changes, and you can't expect that the victim hierarchy

00:57:45.500 today will not be what it is 10 years from now, and it's not what it was 10 years ago.

00:57:50.020 But currently, when I've, when I've gone through this and I've given my, my victim hierarchy

00:57:54.620 101 lessons, and maybe we'll have to do another one.

00:57:57.320 But I've said that it's like when you go through the rankings, and to get to the uber victim

00:58:03.900 who has the most status and is the most unimpeachable and cannot ever be criticized, I've always

00:58:10.180 thought it's like Black women are almost at the top, but then above them is LGBT, and then 1.00

00:58:17.500 above them is trans. 0.92

00:58:18.960 Above all the other, above LGB is the T.

00:58:21.540 And that's the way that it's worked.

00:58:23.260 And I think that, that, that there's a, there's a reorganizing happening because I actually

00:58:27.880 think that, that maybe it's Black women who are at the very tippy top of the whole thing. 1.00

00:58:35.560 So, and you look at how like Beyonce is treated, or Michelle Obama, celebrated as these utterly

00:58:45.600 untouchable, perfect goddesses.

00:58:51.100 People talk about Michelle Obama, like if she ran for president, she would win.

00:58:54.800 Why?

00:58:56.080 What is impressive about her? 1.00

00:58:57.700 There's nothing impressive about this woman at all. 0.99

00:59:02.380 The way people have always talked about Beyonce.

00:59:05.500 So one of the great artists of all, oh my gosh, Beyonce, who has, and you watch and you're

00:59:13.120 like, yeah, she's dancing, and it's like, who, everyone does that.

00:59:17.140 They can pull up any random pop star and they can do everything this person does.

00:59:21.040 There's nothing impressive here at all, at all.

00:59:24.800 And we talked yesterday about Amanda Gorman, flat out embarrassingly bad poet. 0.59

00:59:29.620 Her poetry isn't good enough to win a middle school creative writing contest, and yet she

00:59:33.980 is celebrated as the greatest poet of our time simply because she's a Black woman.

00:59:38.940 No other reason, that is the only reason, and no one has it quite that good, where you

00:59:50.780 could be so incredibly mediocre and yet be hailed as the greatest.

01:00:00.240 Whatever your pursuit is, you could be just not even, you could be below mediocre and yet

01:00:06.120 be seen as one of the greatest ever to do that particular thing. 0.91

01:00:11.120 And that is a benefit, a privilege that is almost exclusive to black women. 0.98

01:00:18.080 We saw this again over the weekend, a black actress won an award at the Golden Globes.

01:00:22.500 And I don't even know who this is.

01:00:24.080 Who is this?

01:00:24.800 Tiana or something?

01:00:26.700 She's definitely not the first black woman to win a Golden Globe at all, not even close.

01:00:32.820 But watch her acceptance speech.

01:00:34.880 Listen.

01:00:36.940 To my brown sisters and little brown girls watching tonight, our softness is not a liability.

01:00:43.240 Our death is not, death is not too much.

01:00:46.500 Our light does not need permission to shine.

01:00:49.240 We belong in every room we walk into.

01:00:51.220 Our voices matter, and our dreams deserve space.

01:00:54.420 Thank you so much, everybody.

01:00:55.860 Our softness.

01:01:01.220 Yeah, you heard that from the other clip, too.

01:01:02.560 And this is another thing that comes up a lot in the black woman fable is our softness.

01:01:08.080 We're so meek and mild.

01:01:11.800 And you hear that and you think, really?

01:01:15.640 That's not the first word that comes to mind.

01:01:19.700 Really? 0.95

01:01:20.060 You know, I mean, black women are renowned for being slow to give their opinions in situations. 1.00

01:01:31.060 And, you know, sure. 0.97

01:01:33.000 Okay.

01:01:34.620 So she's acting like she's the first black woman to ever win an award, treating this like 1.00

01:01:39.940 some kind of glass ceiling shattering moment, because this is what happens any time a black 1.00

01:01:44.820 woman achieves anything. 0.99

01:01:45.760 It's treated like it's some kind of historic thing.

01:01:48.460 And this is a group, again, it's not entirely unique among other victim groups on the left.

01:01:55.620 There's a measure of this for every victim group, but I think it's the most with the black 1.00

01:02:00.660 female victim group, in particular, where pure, unadulterated narcissism is applauded.

01:02:09.380 She actually says, we belong in every room we walk into.

01:02:16.280 What?

01:02:16.800 No, you don't.

01:02:19.280 There are definitely rooms where you might not belong.

01:02:22.660 Okay.

01:02:22.980 If you walk into my living room, unannounced, you don't even knock on the door.

01:02:28.080 You just walk in.

01:02:28.960 You don't belong there. 0.99

01:02:31.240 Oh, is it because I'm a black woman? 0.99

01:02:32.760 No, it's because you don't live here. 0.97

01:02:35.380 I belong in any room I walk into.

01:02:37.240 Think about, think about, just think about how, I hate always doing the, if the situations

01:02:46.180 were a reverse thing, but you can't help it.

01:02:48.260 Think about how this would sound if a white guy said this about white men.

01:02:54.700 Think about how it would sound if a white man got up there, and it wouldn't be any more 0.99

01:03:01.820 ridiculous. 0.99

01:03:02.460 Like, if a white man got up there and treated it like a glass ceiling breaking moment, of 0.99

01:03:06.220 course, that's absurd because, like, a lot of white men have won these awards, but a lot 0.98

01:03:09.620 of black women have two, so it's not any more ridiculous. 0.97

01:03:15.720 If a, if a, if a, uh, uh, Timothy Chalamet had won and got up there and said, to my white 0.82

01:03:26.160 brothers, I just, and he had a, you know, he's like, hands are shaking.

01:03:30.400 He has a, he has a message to his, to white people that he's written ahead of time and 0.65

01:03:35.860 he's reading it, to, to my white brothers, to my white brothers out there, just know we

01:03:43.280 belong in every room we walk into.

01:03:48.260 That would be seen as the most racist thing ever uttered in human history.

01:03:54.660 That would go down alongside like the, the, um, the, the, the, the militaristic speeches

01:04:02.400 given by Adolf Hitler.

01:04:03.920 They, they, they would put it in that category.

01:04:07.480 If a white man got up there and said, every white man belongs in every room he walks into. 0.98

01:04:17.200 That would be, they would stone him to death at the Golden Globes. 0.96

01:04:22.800 They would descend upon him and rip Timothy, they would rip poor Timothy Chalamet literally 0.83

01:04:28.620 to shreds, limb from limb, his bloody dismembered corpse would be left on the stage and they 0.57

01:04:39.600 would dance around it like wild Indians celebrating. 0.75

01:04:44.360 That's what would happen. 0.96

01:04:45.240 And yet a black woman gets up there and says that, and everybody applauds, says the most 1.00

01:04:52.780 insanely narcissistic nonsense you've ever heard in your life. 1.00

01:04:57.160 And everyone goes, wow. 0.98

01:04:59.480 Yeah.

01:05:01.100 A black woman get up there and say, we black women are the greatest people who've ever lived.

01:05:07.360 We are superior in every way to anyone who has ever lived.

01:05:11.580 We are better than every single one of you. 1.00

01:05:14.520 All of you should die. 0.99

01:05:16.880 And only we should be alive because our lives matter more than yours. 1.00

01:05:22.240 And everybody in the crowd.

01:05:24.160 Yes.

01:05:24.920 Amen. 0.90

01:05:25.700 All the white people in the crowd.

01:05:29.120 Absolutely. 0.98

01:05:30.000 We are nothing. 1.00

01:05:30.900 We're scum compared to you. 1.00

01:05:32.340 My goddess, my queen. 1.00

01:05:38.680 So, anyway, it's a little bit of a double standard.

01:05:43.120 That's all I'm trying to say.

01:05:44.480 That's all I'm trying to say.

01:05:46.280 And on that note, I think we'll wrap it up.

01:05:52.040 We've given Twitter enough to clip today, so we'll just wrap it up there and talk to you

01:05:56.440 tomorrow.

01:05:56.720 Have a great day.

01:05:58.160 Godspeed.

01:06:02.340 What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God?

01:06:16.000 Is that who you think I was alone with?

01:06:22.140 Meriden, I knew your father.

01:06:24.540 I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.

01:06:26.880 All men know of the great Taliesin.

01:06:33.000 You are my father.

01:06:34.180 That the gods should war for my soul.

01:06:37.340 Princess Garrus.

01:06:38.860 Saviour of our people.

01:06:42.880 I know what the bull god offered you.

01:06:45.420 I was offered the same.

01:06:47.400 And?

01:06:48.900 There is a new power at work in the world.

01:06:51.000 I've seen it.

01:06:53.040 A god who sacrifices what he loves for us.

01:06:55.220 We are each given only one life, Singer.

01:06:58.520 No.

01:06:59.620 We're given another.

01:07:03.480 I learnt of Yazoo the Christ. 1.00

01:07:05.780 And I have become his follower.

01:07:07.660 He's waiting on Merlin.

01:07:09.140 And I think you can give him one.

01:07:11.200 Trust in Yazoo.

01:07:12.560 He is the only hope for men like us.

01:07:15.520 Faith to Britain never rests in the hands of the great light.

01:07:18.420 Great light.

01:07:19.660 Great darkness.

01:07:21.100 Such things mattered to me then. 0.70

01:07:22.540 What matters to you now, mistress of lies? 0.94

01:07:27.200 You. 0.99

01:07:28.740 Nephew.

01:07:31.860 The sword of the high king.

01:07:36.140 How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?

01:07:43.680 So clinging to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.

01:07:46.900 I cannot take up that sword again.

01:07:49.980 You know what you must do.

01:07:53.480 Great light, forgive me.

01:08:02.240 The time has come.

01:08:04.360 To be reborn.

01:08:05.300 The time has come.

01:08:08.140 Stay home.

01:08:08.400 The time has come.

01:08:10.340 To be reborn.

01:08:10.660 May I be reborn.

01:08:11.240 The time has come.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 13, 2026

Ep. 1716 - We Infiltrated Private Anti-ICE Groups. This Is What We Found

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