The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1743 - My Honest Take On The War In Iran

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the United States attacks Iran. Was this a smart move? Will it 1.00

00:00:04.220 benefit American citizens or doom us to another Iraq-style quagmire or something else? And why 0.83

00:00:10.040 did we launch this attack? Was it necessary? We will break everything down today as fairly

00:00:14.040 and objectively as we can on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:30.000 We are going to discuss today, of course, the military operation in Iran. It will not

00:00:46.820 surprise any of my viewers and listeners to learn that I am quite skeptical of this operation

00:00:52.960 as I am usually skeptical of military interventions in far-off countries on the other side of the

00:00:57.680 globe. That's my position, and I'm not going to abandon it now, even as certain segments

00:01:03.360 of the base become inflamed with war fever and demand that the rest of us fall in line.

00:01:09.120 I'm not going to do that. I'm also an American patriot. I love my country. I wanted to succeed,

00:01:14.800 which means that I'm not rooting for this to be a failure, obviously, nor am I weeping over the poor

00:01:21.860 Iranian regime and its leaders who are now scattered in many pieces across the desert sand.

00:01:26.660 Good riddance to them, as far as I'm concerned. Now, you wouldn't know it based on what you see

00:01:31.540 on social media, especially X over the weekend, but there is actually a lane for people in this

00:01:37.220 camp, in the camp that I'm in. There is a lane for people who are skeptical of military intervention

00:01:42.180 and regime change wars, especially ones in the Middle East, but also aren't siding with the

00:01:47.680 Iranian regime and actively rooting for America to fail. Not only does that lane exist in real life, 0.99

00:01:52.360 but it's where I would estimate a great majority of normal Americans live.

00:01:57.980 Now, with that in mind, I want to discuss this issue as fairly and objectively as I can.

00:02:03.300 One thing we know for sure is that it is never more difficult to recognize the limits of what

00:02:08.420 you know and to ask honest and good faith questions about what you don't know than it is during a once

00:02:14.180 in a generation war in which millions of lives, including American lives, can be potentially changed

00:02:20.600 irreparably. It's not natural for a political commentator or a politician to admit this,

00:02:26.580 but it's true. For decades, Democrats have pursued a policy of appeasing Iran on the theory that money

00:02:33.780 and diplomatic concessions would forestall the development of a nuclear bomb. On the other hand,

00:02:38.380 Republicans have been split between two factions, the neocon axis of evil hardliners who chant

00:02:44.660 bomb Iran on the one hand and the America first proponents on the other, many of whom voted for 0.96

00:02:50.120 Donald Trump precisely because he promised to keep the United States out of needless regime change

00:02:56.520 wars. Every single one of these factions at the moment has reason to be furious and therefore they

00:03:03.180 have an incentive to confuse the public about what's actually happening in Iran. Democrats didn't get

00:03:08.380 their peace treaty where the mullahs and the supreme leader hold hands and announce that they'll

00:03:12.560 never attempt to build a dirty bomb ever again. The neocons didn't get their full scale ground

00:03:18.020 invasion complete with boots on the ground, a new democratic Iranian constitution drafted by the 0.90

00:03:24.140 United States and lucrative nation building contracts, at least not yet. And many America first

00:03:31.320 voters, myself included, are wondering how exactly the invasion of Iran will advance the interests

00:03:37.460 of the United States. We should not do anything at all, anything outside the borders of our country

00:03:45.380 or within them, unless it will first and foremost benefit American citizens. And the benefit must be a

00:03:53.260 net gain, which means the reward for Americans is greater than the cost we must pay to procure it.

00:04:01.120 That has to be the deal or whatever you're doing is a bad idea with no exceptions.

00:04:11.000 Is that the case here? Well, other than a 3 a.m. address from Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Friday

00:04:16.120 night, which broadly argued that Iran has been a threat to the United States for many decades,

00:04:21.400 that case was not sufficiently made in the lead up to this operation. And I would states say that it

00:04:28.320 still has not been made. And it certainly hasn't been subjected to any kind of rigorous scrutiny.

00:04:34.800 Now, you can make the argument that because the beginning of the war in Iran was a highly sensitive

00:04:38.900 military operation involving classified intelligence that could change at a moment's notice,

00:04:43.360 it's not prudent for the White House to lay out its case in detail ahead of time. After all,

00:04:48.140 the president is the commander in chief of the military for a reason, and he's entitled to deference

00:04:52.440 when it comes to national security. But there are two major problems with that argument. First of all,

00:04:57.220 U.S. military deployments to the Persian Gulf over the past few weeks have been extensive and very

00:05:02.720 obvious. So this was not a surprise attack or anything close to it. There's no reason why the

00:05:07.820 president couldn't have addressed Congress, explained the status of the negotiations with Iran,

00:05:13.120 and then outlined a plan of action in case those negotiations failed, including some suggestion of

00:05:17.260 what would happen after Iran's government was toppled. That didn't happen, even though the president

00:05:22.880 had a chance to do so during the State of the Union. But even if you give the administration

00:05:26.320 a pass on that, which you might, you still have to wonder why the silence persisted. There was no

00:05:33.080 senior administration official or cabinet member appeared on any of the Sunday shows the other day,

00:05:37.640 more than 24 hours after the attacks began. They didn't seem interested in explaining how the war

00:05:42.600 was going, why they felt they had to strike at this moment, or what Iran will look like in five

00:05:46.980 months or five years. Over the weekend, information came mostly through press releases and truth social

00:05:53.280 posts. Then this morning, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and General Dan Kane held the first press

00:05:58.980 conference to discuss the mission more than 48 hours after the start of the war. When asked if the U.S.

00:06:04.520 will put boots on the ground, this is how Kane replied.

00:06:08.940 You mentioned during the briefing, General Kane, that there would be additional troops sent to the

00:06:13.760 region. Could you say how many troops currently are involved in this operation and how many

00:06:19.440 additional troops are planned to go in and in this next phase? I don't want to talk specifics because

00:06:26.600 that would tip the enemy off. And then Pete Hegseth said the same thing when asked if the U.S. already had

00:06:34.140 boots on the ground. Are there currently any American boots on the ground in Iran?

00:06:39.640 No, but we're not going to go into the exercise of what we will or will not do. I think it's one

00:06:47.520 of those fallacies for a long time that this department or presidents or others should tell

00:06:52.260 the American people, and our enemies, by the way, here's exactly what we'll do. Here's exactly how

00:06:57.000 long we'll go. Here's exactly how far we'll go. Here's what we're willing to do and not do. It's

00:07:01.560 foolishness. And so President Trump ensures that our enemies understand we'll go as far as we need to

00:07:07.360 go to advanced American interests. But we're not dumb about it. You don't have to roll 200,000

00:07:12.580 people in there and stay for 20 years. We've proven that you can achieve objectives that advance

00:07:17.460 American interests without being foolish about it. Now, when a reporter asked how long the mission

00:07:24.740 would last, this is what Hegseth said. I had a question about four weeks. It's the typical NBC

00:07:33.440 sort of gotcha type question. President Trump has all the latitude in the world to talk about

00:07:38.180 how long it may or may not take. Four weeks, two weeks, six weeks. It could move up. It could move

00:07:42.380 back. We're going to execute at his command the objectives we've set out to achieve.

00:07:48.900 Okay, so then what is our objective? Is it regime change? Here's what Hegseth said.

00:07:55.160 Turns out the regime who chanted death to America and death to Israel was gifted death from America.

00:08:03.440 And death from Israel. This is not a so-called regime change war. But the regime sure did change.

00:08:13.880 And the world is better off for it.

00:08:18.240 Now, a lot of people on the internet are saying that this is the Iraq War 2.0.

00:08:22.020 The administration and Warhawks are saying that it isn't. So it's important to lay out some historical

00:08:26.240 context for those of you who don't remember what happened in 2003 or weren't born yet or were too young.

00:08:31.420 Back then, the Bush administration would often use the Sunday shows to make the case for regime change

00:08:37.100 in Iraq. They would fabricate information on occasions, as it turned out. But they were also

00:08:41.820 grilled over and over again. They knew that meet the press was not friendly territory for them.

00:08:46.440 They knew that the Sunday shows were biased in favor of the left. But the Bush administration still

00:08:50.600 felt compelled to make their case before a hostile and skeptical audience one way or another.

00:08:55.540 Just days before the invasion, Vice President Dick Cheney went on one of the Sunday shows and said,

00:09:00.400 I think the invasion will go relatively quickly, weeks rather than months.

00:09:04.240 A few weeks later, after the situation spiraled out of control, the Washington Post reported that

00:09:08.200 Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul D. Wolfowitz told reporters that defense officials made assumptions

00:09:13.040 that turned out to underestimate the problem, beginning with the belief that removing Saddam Hussein

00:09:17.620 from power would also remove the threat posed by his Ba'ath party. In addition, they erred in assuming that

00:09:23.360 significant numbers of Iraqi army units and large numbers of Iraqi police would quickly join the U.S.

00:09:27.500 military and its civilian partners in rebuilding Iraq. Now, back in the present day, yesterday,

00:09:34.460 the Washington Post reported that, quote, inside the Pentagon and among some members of the Trump

00:09:38.460 administration, there was deepening concern Sunday that the Iran conflict could spiral out of control.

00:09:45.200 Iran and Iraq are two different countries, that's true. And a lot of things about those two

00:09:50.020 situations are different, but they aren't as different as the proponents of this war would

00:09:56.240 have you believe. It definitely is not unreasonable to wonder if and to worry that the early days of

00:10:03.180 this conflict and the stated reason for it resemble very closely those events in 2003.

00:10:10.460 So the reasoning we're hearing so far simply is not good enough. I acknowledge that the White House

00:10:16.120 has accessed all kinds of information that I don't have. They could have reasons for doing what they're

00:10:19.700 doing that I don't know about or understand, but that's an argument we've heard before, not just

00:10:23.740 during Iraq. I mean, much more recently. It's what we heard during COVID, when all the people with 0.98

00:10:28.880 more information than us chose a course of action that was disastrous for the country, and we still

00:10:35.480 haven't recovered. The trust the experts logic died with COVID, and it's never coming back.

00:10:42.700 From now on and forevermore, the experts will need to make their case clearly and coherently,

00:10:47.980 explain exactly what they're doing and why they're doing it and what the end game is and what information

00:10:53.200 justifies whatever course of action they've chosen. Just simply trusting that they have it all under

00:10:58.600 control is not going to work anymore, at least for those of us with a memory that stretches back

00:11:03.540 farther than last week. To the extent that an objective has been clearly laid out, stopping Iran from 0.96

00:11:10.660 developing nuclear weapons appears to be the primary one. But the problem is that we were told

00:11:17.760 that Iran's nuclear program was obliterated. That's the White House's own phrasing. Still on the website,

00:11:23.920 you can go check it. Just a few months ago, it was obliterated. So how could Iran's nuclear program go

00:11:31.020 from total obliteration, annihilation, to a matter so urgent that we have to go to war over it

00:11:37.380 in the span of seven or eight months? That's a problem. That doesn't make sense. It just doesn't.

00:11:46.140 This is a question that still has not been even close to coherently answered.

00:11:51.220 It is a fundamental hole in the logic behind this entire thing. Now, the question about the end game,

00:11:58.280 on the other hand, is very important. At this point, it is by far the most important question.

00:12:05.320 Whatever the reason is that we got into this thing, and that's still not clear,

00:12:08.940 we are hearing different things, what exactly is the end game? How do we get out? When do we get

00:12:14.680 out? What are we trying to achieve? The Iranian people rise up and take control of their government 1.00

00:12:20.040 is what we've heard. That's what Trump said in his address on Saturday night. That's what he called for.

00:12:26.140 Well, okay, what does that mean? Which people? How are they taking control? What happens after they do

00:12:34.260 take control? Are we sure the new people, whoever they are, will be better than the old people? 1.00

00:12:39.760 How are we going to make sure of that? How are we going to make sure of that while also not putting

00:12:43.440 boots on the ground? Or are we going to put boots on the ground? Even though we were told many times

00:12:48.220 that would not happen. None of this has been explained, and it needs to be. You know, it's just

00:12:53.080 a basic matter of life that generally speaking, the most ruthless and violent forces will be the ones

00:13:00.520 who seize the crown. That's the way, that's the lesson of history, not just Iraq, but all of human

00:13:07.300 history. What exactly is the mechanism by which we plan to ensure that these secular pro-Western

00:13:15.220 factions in Iran, who are by definition not barbaric killers, somehow manage to fill the power vacuum and

00:13:22.220 prevail over the factions that are barbaric killers? Now, I'm not a foreign policy expert. I admit that.

00:13:28.860 I'm just a common sense guy. I'm also a student of history. So, someone explain it to me, to all of

00:13:34.780 us. If you blow up the government, how is it not very likely that militant killers who are as bad or

00:13:43.680 worse than the old regime fill the void? How is that not just a possible scenario, but actually the most

00:13:54.520 likely scenario. Now, however much trust you may have in Donald Trump and his administration, this is

00:14:00.340 the reality he must contend with. It's perfectly reasonable for Americans to be skeptical of regime

00:14:07.080 change wars in the Middle East. We can hear all day long, this is totally different from Iraq. It's 0.52

00:14:12.360 totally different. Okay. I mean, that's, so you claim that Trump himself was skeptical of regime

00:14:20.920 change wars in the Middle East. And the idea that we're obligated to just assume it's a good move 0.87

00:14:25.620 because Trump decided to do it is asinine, not to mention un-American. And that's especially true 0.98

00:14:33.200 since at the moment, powerful voices in the conservative movement are calling for a long

00:14:38.300 war in Iran, which is explicitly contrary to what most of Trump's voters want. Here's the

00:14:43.500 Wall Street Journal editorial board, for example, quote, it's too soon for Iran off-ramps. The first

00:14:48.580 two days of the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran have been a striking success, but the response of the

00:14:54.160 Iranian regime has also revealed the reason it was necessary. The biggest mistake President Trump

00:14:57.960 could make now would be to end the war too soon before the Iran, before Iran's military and its

00:15:04.160 domestic forces have been more thoroughly destroyed. Yes, the biggest mistake would be

00:15:10.460 ending the war too soon. We can't have a short and contained conflict, say the neocons, you know,

00:15:18.400 like the operation in Venezuela. Instead, we need an open-ended war. We need to stay until we eliminate 0.98

00:15:24.400 their capability of engaging in acts of terrorism, which is when exactly? And where have we heard this

00:15:31.260 before? I mean, again, everyone says it's totally different. It's totally different. Okay. It sounds

00:15:37.740 a lot like the argument that got us stuck in Afghanistan and Iraq for an entire generation.

00:15:42.540 It sounds a lot like that. I mean, it's pure gaslighting to tell us that we shouldn't draw any

00:15:49.740 comparisons at all. So before that happens, the Trump administration needs to answer some questions.

00:15:57.380 In addition to clearly establishing a timeline, the need to tell us, is it true, as some anonymous

00:16:02.140 sources have claimed, that Iran was beginning to work on dirty bombs that could kill American

00:16:06.140 citizens? Now, here's one of the posts I'm talking about. This is from Andrew Colvett of

00:16:11.020 Turning Point USA. In response to something I wrote on X, he said, quote, in calling around a number of

00:16:14.880 contacts today, it was clear that there was growing urgency and concern in DC, even among the most

00:16:19.520 stridently anti-war voices, that Iran was beginning to work on dirty bombs while making urgent appeals to

00:16:24.740 China for hypersonics, which can sink U.S. carriers in the region, which carry 5,000 servicemen.

00:16:31.500 Now, while I don't fault Andrew, of course, for sharing what he's hearing, the problem with this

00:16:36.420 kind of information is that it's totally useless for the rest of us. There's no one going on the

00:16:40.980 record who's saying that. In fact, we have some reporting that suggests a totally different,

00:16:45.800 suggests the opposite, actually. This is from CNN, which is not a trustworthy source of information.

00:16:50.260 But where are the trustworthy sources? That's always the question. But here it is, quote,

00:16:56.300 Pentagon briefer has acknowledged to congressional staff in a briefing Sunday that Iran was not

00:17:00.480 planning to strike U.S. forces or bases in the Middle East unless Israel attacked Iran first,

00:17:05.040 according to multiple sources. This undercuts Trump admin's argument on Saturday that Iran was

00:17:09.620 planning to potentially strike the U.S. preemptively and posed an imminent threat.

00:17:13.680 Now, none of these claims in either direction are reliable because no one is answering these

00:17:19.900 questions on the record with any specificity. And in that sense, these reports are even less

00:17:24.840 reliable than the narrative that led us into the Iraq war. In 2003, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld

00:17:30.140 went out in public. They told the United Nations and meet the press that Iraq had WMD and that we

00:17:36.300 knew precisely where those WMD were. If they could lie on camera, then there's absolutely no reason to 0.95

00:17:41.660 trust. And they did lie, as we know. Well, if you've got, you know, government officials that

00:17:48.060 are going to go lie on camera, well, there's no reason then to trust anonymous sources who tell

00:17:53.320 various media outlets or turning point that Iran was on the verge of acquiring a dirty bomb or

00:17:59.560 hypersonics. Nor is there evidence that Iran, you know, wasn't going to attack first. We need to 1.00

00:18:06.520 actually see the evidence and someone in the administration needs to explain it to us.

00:18:09.580 Now, it does appear that, as Trump suggested at Mar-a-Lago, that Iranians are happy that their 0.67

00:18:17.580 supreme leader has been killed. Iranians living in Los Angeles, who, you know, a lot of these people

00:18:23.440 shouldn't even be in the country, took to the streets in celebration. So maybe they can go back

00:18:28.340 home. I mean, that's what we're hearing is a lot of people are going to go back home. I'll believe it

00:18:32.120 when I see it. I don't think that's actually going to happen. And there were similar scenes in Tehran,

00:18:37.360 as New York Times reported, large crowds of men and women dancing and cheering, shouting,

00:18:41.260 woohoo, hurrah, drivers passing by honked their car horns, fireworks lit up the sky,

00:18:45.540 and loud Persian dance music filled the streets. Many residents from their windows and balconies

00:18:50.020 joined in a chant of freedom, freedom. Well, that's good for them. But we don't fight wars for the

00:18:58.200 freedom of Iranians. I mean, of all the reasons you could possibly give to justify this war, and

00:19:05.000 there have been a bunch of reasons offered, many of them conflicting. The worst thing you could say

00:19:13.240 is that, well, we're freeing the Iranian people. Their freedom is not relevant to us. It may sound cruel,

00:19:23.620 but to put it as frankly as possible, the question of whether or not Iranians are free should be of

00:19:30.000 no concern to us whatsoever. That's their own issue to sort out. What's relevant in terms of mission

00:19:37.200 objectives is whether these people, I mean, the right people among those people, whoever the right

00:19:41.820 people are, which hasn't been explained, will rise up and, as Trump suggested, complete the mission in

00:19:48.380 Iran, whatever that mission is exactly. Is that going to materialize? How sure are we that it will?

00:19:58.680 We need the administration to answer those questions. They also need to provide assurances,

00:20:01.820 if they can, that this new power vacuum in the Middle East will actually be filled 0.89

00:20:05.300 by pro-Western secular leaders. Has it worked that way at any point in the last 40 years

00:20:12.140 when we've overthrown a Muslim state? What's the batting average on that? What's the batting average 1.00

00:20:20.700 in overthrowing a Muslim regime and then having someone better fill the void? 0.92

00:20:29.940 What's the batting average? And if that ever does happen, how long does it take generally?

00:20:35.380 And how much money has to be spent by Americans and lives lost to get us there?

00:20:41.740 Now, we all know what happened when the Obama administration, along with France and the UK,

00:20:45.400 overthrew the government of Libya. More than a decade later, that war has produced millions 0.87

00:20:50.000 of refugees, many of whom ended up in Europe. The economy of Libya, which was once a relative

00:20:55.120 bright spot in Africa, has been destroyed. Militia violence is commonplace. Slave markets returned. 0.98

00:21:02.740 And maybe that would be considered a success in Iran. Maybe that's what they're going for. I'm 1.00

00:21:10.300 not being sarcastic. That could genuinely be the goal. It could be the case that the United States

00:21:14.300 has decided that if Iran is reduced to a dysfunctional, violent hellscape with no functioning 0.98

00:21:19.160 leadership, then America will be safer. After all, dysfunctional third world countries typically 1.00

00:21:24.360 aren't capable of building nuclear weapons. But if that's the goal, and I don't know if it is,

00:21:28.320 somebody needs to tell us that. And then we should debate the pros and cons of that rather risky

00:21:35.460 approach. We should ensure that refugees from Iran won't end up in Europe and the United States 1.00

00:21:41.940 where they can commit terrorist attacks. We should have some way of determining whether Iran's dirty 1.00

00:21:47.160 bombs or the material to make them will end up in the hands of terrorists. And by the way, what happens

00:21:52.240 if Israel is not on board with our approach, whatever it is? Because right now, they don't appear to be.

00:21:58.320 Instead, Israel is currently vowing to use the full weight of their military to go after Iran,

00:22:02.400 which leaves open the possibility of a ground invasion. What happens then? What happens when

00:22:07.360 Israel decides that they want to put boots on the ground? Does that force us into it?

00:22:16.220 Would the Trump administration assist in that kind of operation? Right now, we have no idea.

00:22:23.000 Would Russia and China get involved in that case? So far, they've shown no interest in the

00:22:27.060 conflict, which is a good sign. It means that World War III probably isn't about to start.

00:22:32.720 Will that continue indefinitely? Will it continue if ground forces are involved?

00:22:39.720 And maybe the most important unanswered question, the one that has immediate ramifications for every

00:22:45.060 American, is whether or not Iran has sleeper cells in the United States that could activate at any

00:22:51.980 moment. We have no real guidance on that point whatsoever. The administration hasn't

00:22:57.100 shared any intelligence with us one way or another. Our consulate in Pakistan just came

00:23:01.120 under attack, but it appears U.S. Marines were ready for the rioters. The Marines opened fire and

00:23:05.480 prevented the attack from becoming another Benghazi, thank God. But in Austin, Texas, a terrorist,

00:23:09.920 sympathetic to Iran, sympathetic to Iran, and we know that he had a Koran and clothes that said

00:23:15.760 property of Allah, was able to murder several American citizens two nights ago. His name was 0.98

00:23:22.540 Diaga Diagni. He's a 53-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Senegal, was living in

00:23:32.100 Pflugerville, Texas. His social media feed was full of deranged posts, many of them anti-Christian and

00:23:38.060 anti-Jewish. He also mocked the idea that Islam could be a threat to the United States, which is 0.95

00:23:42.660 reminiscent of that trans-identifying gunman in Rhode Island who insisted that trans people 0.93

00:23:46.520 aren't actually dangerous psychopaths, and then went and demonstrated that, in fact, he was one.

00:23:54.040 This is someone who obviously should not have been allowed into the United States, much less granted

00:23:57.700 citizenship. We should have taken one look at him and sent him back to Senegal, but that's not what

00:24:03.160 happened. This is from Fox's Brooke Taylor, quote, Diaga Diagni entered the U.S. on March 13,

00:24:09.720 2000, on a B-2 tourist visa. In June 2006, he adjusted to lawful permanent resident based on

00:24:16.400 a marriage to a U.S. citizen. He naturalized as a U.S. citizen on April 5, 2013, under the Obama

00:24:21.580 administration. In 2022, he was arrested in Texas for collision with vehicle damage.

00:24:26.600 In other words, he remained in this country for six years on a tourist visa, which is illegal.

00:24:33.920 Tourist visas last six months, not six years. But instead of being deported, he was allowed to marry

00:24:39.300 a U.S. citizen and become a lawful permanent resident. And then the Obama administration

00:24:44.400 made him a citizen. It's reminiscent of the story of Billy Chimimer. You might not remember this one.

00:24:52.940 Billy was born in Kenya. He overstayed his visa, married a U.S. citizen, got a green card,

00:24:57.540 and then slaughtered 18 elderly women. Precisely no lessons were ever learned from this incident.

00:25:05.720 But there's an easy solution here. First, we need a blanket ban on all third world immigration. 1.00

00:25:10.420 There's no reason why we should allow any foreigner from Kenya or Senegal or Somalia or Iraq or Afghanistan 1.00

00:25:16.120 or Iran or anywhere else in the third world to step foot in the United States, period.

00:25:22.760 And certainly they shouldn't be allowed to come into the United States under the pretext of being a 1.00

00:25:26.480 tourist. There are no tourists from the third world. They have no money to spend. 1.00

00:25:34.140 And foreigners from third world countries, statistically speaking, overstay their visas

00:25:37.740 at extremely high rates. So just cut it off. End the entire stream.

00:25:43.920 Third world migration offers no benefits to this country at all. Not a single benefit. 1.00

00:25:51.720 And we know it. We all know it. So end it all. End the farce. That's our only choice.

00:25:59.400 And secondly, of course, we need to intensify our efforts to deport and denaturalize as many 1.00

00:26:03.420 foreign-born residents as possible.

00:26:05.200 Any foreign-born resident, any naturalized citizen who is clearly anti-American needs to be gone. 0.85

00:26:19.020 You know, angry lesbians and Antifa managed to make this administration back down in Minnesota. 1.00

00:26:24.200 That's just a fact. That's what happened. And it can't be allowed to happen again going forward.

00:26:29.640 The stakes are simply too high. We need to ruthlessly deport any illegal alien, 1.00

00:26:35.540 no matter how elaborate their sob story may be, because it's a matter of national security. And we

00:26:41.900 need to denaturalize anyone who, like this terrorist from Senegal, is on social media talking about 0.96

00:26:49.740 bringing death to America. That should be one strike and you're out. Just one social media post like 0.97

00:26:57.500 that or public statement as a naturalized citizen where you're expressing hatred for America or its

00:27:05.320 people, you should be gone, period. These are people who lied on their application for citizenship.

00:27:13.980 They defrauded this country. They are a threat to us. They need to go.

00:27:21.120 Now, keep in mind, when we talk about the potential downstream negative effects of wars in the Middle East,

00:27:26.160 this is one of them. Okay, even if World War III does not materialize, which it probably won't,

00:27:33.500 we still have to contend with all the millions of third world anti-American invaders who are already 0.99

00:27:38.280 in our country and could lash out at any time as one of them already has less than 48 hours into this

00:27:44.600 thing. That's part of the cost of an operation like this. That's the other thing that proponents of

00:27:53.400 this war need to contend with, and they're not. I haven't heard any of them. You have to honestly

00:27:58.620 contend with this. It's not enough to say, oh yeah, well, there's not going to be World War III

00:28:02.580 because China's not getting involved. Russia doesn't care. I think a lot of that is premature,

00:28:08.840 but what about here? Because what's happened over the last 20 years, one of the differences between now

00:28:13.840 in 2003, between now and Iraq, is that we have permitted a tidal wave of immigration from the

00:28:24.420 Muslim world. So in many ways, we are at a worse position to do this kind of thing now than we were 1.00

00:28:32.180 in 2003. A lot worse, actually. We are much more susceptible, much more vulnerable now because of

00:28:39.520 the invasion that has happened over the last 20 years. And that has to be part of the calculation.

00:28:47.580 It just has to be. You start doing this in the Middle East. We have a bunch of Middle Eastern people

00:28:54.460 here who are still loyal to their homeland. What is that like? That is a very volatile situation,

00:29:03.800 which is why before I could even theoretically support a regime change war in the Middle East,

00:29:07.740 it would need to be preceded by a mass deportation operation to remove every third world Muslim 1.00

00:29:14.760 militant and potential militant from the country. Our own safety must come first, always. 0.86

00:29:23.800 Now, right now, the attitude in the Republican Party is very different. Here's Ted Cruz. This is from

00:29:28.000 just a few days ago. For example, watch.

00:29:30.560 Plus taking the time to speak on issues like immigration.

00:29:33.620 My approach to immigration for a long time, I've summed up in four words. Legal, good.

00:29:41.540 Illegal, bad. I think most Texans and most Americans agree with that.

00:29:49.360 It's one of those cases where the simple approach is wrong. The fact that a foreigner has complied with 1.00

00:29:54.680 our laws does not mean that the law is correct. It doesn't mean the law should remain unchanged.

00:30:00.120 In fact, there's compelling evidence, which you can see all over the place, that the law needs to change immediately.

00:30:06.620 It's one of the great betrayals of the Bush administration that even as they waged war in the Middle East,

00:30:10.960 they allowed millions of foreign Muslims to enter the United States.

00:30:15.660 At the time, the Bush administration's argument was that Islam is a religion of peace and that extremists represent a tiny fraction of the Muslim population,

00:30:22.220 never mind the fact that worldwide, the vast majority of Muslims support Sharia law.

00:30:27.980 The Bush administration was very concerned about being called racist, so they just opened the floodgates.

00:30:33.480 Now, 20 years later, we have Muslim politicians like Rashida Tlaib,

00:30:38.400 who wrote the following post on social media in response to the attack on Iran.

00:30:42.400 Look at this.

00:30:42.980 So she's referring to the United States as they.

00:30:48.440 Both the U.S. and genocidal Israel don't care about the laws. 0.99

00:30:51.720 This is who they are, she says.

00:30:54.300 This is who they are.

00:30:57.240 Doesn't even pretend that she's an American. 0.51

00:31:00.640 And why should she?

00:31:02.420 The people who elected her despise this country.

00:31:04.980 She's giving them exactly what they want.

00:31:06.340 So is Zoran Mamdani, the Muslim socialist who's now in charge of New York,

00:31:09.900 where a quarter of the population can't even speak English.

00:31:12.980 Here's what Mamdani wrote.

00:31:15.120 You can see it here.

00:31:16.280 Quote,

00:31:16.740 Today's military strikes on Iran carried out by the United States and Israel

00:31:19.740 mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression.

00:31:23.320 Bombing cities, killing civilians, opening a new theater of war.

00:31:26.100 Americans do not want this.

00:31:27.580 They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change.

00:31:29.900 They want relief from the affordability crisis.

00:31:32.240 They want peace.

00:31:35.440 So it's not that we don't want another war when he's talking about Americans. 0.75

00:31:39.540 Instead, Mamdani says they don't want another war.

00:31:42.980 Again, he doesn't see himself as an American because he knows he isn't one. 0.71

00:31:47.840 And he doesn't even have to pretend.

00:31:51.320 And also pay attention to the other language that they use.

00:31:54.080 They call this an illegal war, as if international law actually exists.

00:31:58.220 This is not a genuine good faith objection.

00:32:00.500 I think there's a lot of reasons to be skeptical of this, to be opposed to it, as I've already laid out.

00:32:08.420 Calling it an illegal war is meaningless.

00:32:12.160 Americans, people who actually care about this country, aren't interested in talking about international law.

00:32:16.720 That doesn't matter.

00:32:17.540 However, the only thing that matters, I don't care if it's an illegal war, I don't care about that.

00:32:24.040 What I care about is how this will benefit the people of the United States of America.

00:32:31.240 Now, given the lack of information, you have to be open to the possibility that this might have some benefit.

00:32:44.800 Lacking information, as we discussed, nobody can make an absolutely definitive proclamation with any credibility.

00:32:53.020 But we also have to be very open to the possibility that the war might undermine everything the Trump administration has achieved to this point.

00:33:01.240 Now, sure, if the conflict ends up as a major success with a minimal loss of life and a new pro-Western Iran, 0.60

00:33:09.460 then Donald Trump can claim victory and will go down as a hero.

00:33:18.760 We can't say that's an impossible outcome.

00:33:21.040 Is it likely?

00:33:24.140 Well, it seems unlikely to me.

00:33:30.200 But who knows?

00:33:31.960 And right now, we're nine months from the midterms.

00:33:34.260 Some polls show that the overwhelming majority of Americans oppose going to war with Iran,

00:33:38.200 although you also find some mainstream polls showing that Americans support the war,

00:33:41.420 if it means eliminating Iran's nuclear capability.

00:33:44.840 So to some extent, it depends on how you ask the question.

00:33:48.140 But really, the polls aren't the best indicator because people are generally, this is the important, a key point.

00:33:53.340 People are generally supportive of invasions in the early days.

00:33:56.920 The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan were popular at first.

00:34:00.440 They ended up destroying Bush's presidency and led to eight years of Obama,

00:34:03.880 which means that most likely, this is the key point.

00:34:08.500 This operation in Iran is right now as popular as it will ever be.

00:34:16.320 And no matter which poll you look at, it's still not that popular.

00:34:21.760 There's a low ceiling politically on this kind of thing, and that's a bad sign.

00:34:29.140 So what happens if this war becomes a quagmire and gives the Democrat Party a new platform to run on?

00:34:33.260 What happens if the Wall Street Journal gets what they wish, what they want?

00:34:36.060 A war that continues for years and years until Iran isn't capable of committing acts of terrorism, however that's defined.

00:34:43.420 Right now, according to most generic congressional ballots, Republicans are roughly even with Democrats in the congressional races.

00:34:48.660 That could change very quickly.

00:34:51.320 And if this war costs Republicans in midterms and then the presidency, it will not have been worth it.

00:34:57.160 Almost no matter how it turns out in Iran, if it means Democrat rule at home, it was not worth it.

00:35:08.420 Because Democrat rule here at home means tyranny for our people. 0.99

00:35:12.560 Freedom for Iran in exchange for oppression for Americans is not a good trade.

00:35:21.220 That would be just about the worst deal of the century.

00:35:23.840 So it's not enough for the president to talk about the USS Cole bombing, which took place more than 25 years ago.

00:35:31.020 It's not enough for him to talk about the attack on Israel in October of 2023 either.

00:35:37.840 Why do we, as Americans, need to do this?

00:35:43.020 What's in it for us, for our country, right now?

00:35:47.060 Whatever the answer is, we are right now staring down the possibility of another indefinite conflict in the Middle East.

00:35:56.040 One that could cost trillions of dollars, result in the deaths of more Americans.

00:35:59.900 How many? We don't know.

00:36:02.220 And in the end, accomplish nothing.

00:36:05.500 It won't necessarily turn out that way, but it certainly could.

00:36:10.260 And to me, based on what we know right now, that does not seem to be a risk worth taking.

00:36:20.880 It's a major risk.

00:36:22.660 The downside is extraordinarily high.

00:36:28.220 To me, it does not seem worth taking.

00:36:30.840 Less than a year ago, we were told that Iran's nuclear capacity was decimated and totally obliterated.

00:36:35.740 We were told that.

00:36:36.480 Those reassurances didn't last long.

00:36:40.400 So how do we know that this time, despite recent history, everything will be different?

00:36:47.100 And if we are told this whole thing was a smashing success, how do we know it actually was?

00:36:52.840 That's what they told us in June.

00:36:56.500 The answer is that we don't know.

00:36:57.860 We have no idea.

00:36:58.400 And before the administration escalates this war even further, and before any more Americans die,

00:37:05.220 they have an obligation to tell us.

00:37:08.760 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:39:47.880 Okay, well, this is supposed to be the part of the show where we run through other headlines.

00:39:53.000 The problem is that there really aren't any other headlines because everything's about Iran,

00:39:57.200 so we'll be reaching a little bit here.

00:39:58.720 But it is what it is.

00:40:01.000 So we'll start with this.

00:40:02.880 In much less important news, or maybe not, maybe even more important news,

00:40:10.480 the NAACP Image Awards happened this weekend.

00:40:13.460 And there is a point to be made here, which I'll get to.

00:40:21.320 As expected, there were a bunch of speeches from rich and famous black people

00:40:25.380 talking about how oppressed they are, which we knew was going to happen.

00:40:28.380 Ryan Coogler, who's the guy who directed The Sinners, right?

00:40:33.160 And he expanded on the theme of oppression.

00:40:37.180 Watch.

00:40:38.980 We just want to say thank you to you guys, man.

00:40:41.080 Like, it's a lot of, since our people have been here over four centuries,

00:40:46.380 there's always been a lot of lies told about us.

00:40:48.080 And a lie, no matter how powerful the person is saying it is, it's still a lie.

00:40:54.320 And the truth, no matter how little power the person has that's saying the truth,

00:40:59.900 it's still the truth.

00:41:00.480 And the truth is y'all are loved, y'all are beautiful, and y'all are powerful and mighty.

00:41:04.460 And bless y'all.

00:41:05.060 Thank y'all so much.

00:41:05.720 Okay, so a lot of lies told about us, what lies exactly he doesn't say.

00:41:16.100 So, you know, there's a lot of that.

00:41:17.680 But then there was this from Michael B. Jordan, the actor, very famous actor, of course.

00:41:23.800 And here's what he says.

00:41:25.460 Listen.

00:41:27.740 What's up, y'all?

00:41:28.620 Y'all really don't understand how much this means to me, being here.

00:41:37.300 I used to come here when I was a kid, when I was about 15 years old,

00:41:40.600 sneaking in through the back as best I could.

00:41:43.260 And I always loved being here, man.

00:41:45.920 It felt like a reunion of sorts, you know, being from New Jersey

00:41:48.700 and coming out here during the summers.

00:41:51.440 And this is a place where I always felt encouraged.

00:41:53.700 I always felt like I could, I was being celebrated and nourished.

00:41:57.260 You guys poured into me, even small successes.

00:41:59.560 Even when I was a kid, you told me it was okay to keep going

00:42:01.980 because I felt seen here.

00:42:03.240 I felt comfortable.

00:42:03.980 I felt like, I felt the love.

00:42:05.740 And yeah, I just want to thank the NAACP.

00:42:07.420 I want to thank, man, I love being black.

00:42:09.240 I love y'all.

00:42:14.560 Okay, so I love being black, he says.

00:42:17.220 And here's the thing.

00:42:18.080 I'm fine with that.

00:42:19.180 I have no issue with Michael B. Jordan or any other black person saying that. 0.92

00:42:23.820 Actually, I support it.

00:42:25.600 I support it.

00:42:26.320 You should love being who you are.

00:42:27.980 You should love the parts of yourself that are innate,

00:42:30.240 that are fundamental to your identity.

00:42:33.060 I mean, I'm not big on the whole love yourself shtick.

00:42:37.420 Not really my style, but you should love yourself as a child of God.

00:42:42.480 And you should love how you were made.

00:42:45.080 So yes, you should love being black. 1.00

00:42:46.760 If you are black, that's fine. 0.99

00:42:48.760 No complaint from me. 0.99

00:42:50.140 The problem, though, is exactly what you're already thinking.

00:42:52.440 It's the thing that comes immediately to mind.

00:42:55.500 It's the most obvious thing.

00:42:57.520 And the problem is that we all know if, let's say, I don't know, Chris Pratt got up at some kind of award ceremony and was standing up there and said,

00:43:08.180 man, I love being white, man, I love being white. 0.55

00:43:12.780 God bless.

00:43:13.520 See y'all later.

00:43:15.040 It would be the scandal of the century.

00:43:17.200 It might even be the top headline on CNN right now, even with everything going on with that.

00:43:23.480 It might beat out the Iran war. 0.66

00:43:25.020 It might be that big of a deal.

00:43:26.220 By the way, it would be an enormous scandal.

00:43:28.940 He would be condemned from all corners as a racist and forced to apologize.

00:43:35.040 We all know this is the case.

00:43:36.820 And even more absurd, people, including a lot of white people who have no problem with what Michael B. Jordan said,

00:43:42.940 people would take issue with the statement conceptually.

00:43:47.680 You know, they would act like it's absurd.

00:43:49.240 They would say, well, what do you mean you love being white?

00:43:51.960 Why do you care what color you are?

00:43:53.660 What does that mean?

00:43:55.400 You didn't choose it.

00:43:56.560 Like, why do you act like you're proud of it? 0.94

00:43:58.980 They would act like it's fundamentally ridiculous for a person to love being the race that they are. 0.99

00:44:05.120 And they would certainly act like, so it's ridiculous. 0.94

00:44:07.540 And so they would assume that, well, the only reason you're saying that is because you're actually trying to convey that you hate other races or you think other races are inferior. 0.95

00:44:16.840 And that's how it would go.

00:44:17.840 And that is the totally irreconcilable hypocrisy in our racial conversation in this country. 0.82

00:44:26.300 And a lot of people, white people, are just done with it.

00:44:32.100 You know, this is, in a sense, the kind of like modern social contract.

00:44:36.040 I don't really, I don't like that term. 0.96

00:44:38.380 But if there is a social contract, then this is the contract, the social contract in the modern age, which says that white people will just tolerate, even actively affirm and celebrate these ridiculous, ludicrous racial double standards. 0.94

00:44:55.200 This contract that says that, you know, every other race except whites are allowed to say and do a whole bunch of stuff that white people can't say and do. 0.97

00:45:05.480 The contract that says that, you know, every other race is allowed to love themselves and be proud of who they are, but white people can't. 0.61

00:45:14.280 And the only reason ever given for that is just sort of gesturing towards, well, it's about the history.

00:45:19.200 It's about the historical context.

00:45:20.640 Never mind the fact that the actual history of our country is that white people as a group, generally speaking, have been most responsible for building, establishing, maintaining, fighting for, inventing, pioneering, basically every good thing in our lives. 0.90

00:45:36.420 And for that effort, the reward is, in a very literal sense, this kind of second class citizen arrangement.

00:45:45.780 But the thing is that increasingly white people, especially younger white people, especially white men, are just bowing out of this arrangement.

00:45:55.840 And that's what the media is noticing.

00:45:58.480 And that's what all the frantic hand-wringing about, you know, the rise of so-called white nationalism and all this stuff is all about.

00:46:08.220 It's really just people bowing out.

00:46:10.520 It's, it's them, it's people looking at this contract and saying, I'm not signing that, but I don't, what?

00:46:17.560 Oh, so the contract is like, there's all these rules I have to follow, but nobody else does because of the color of my skin?

00:46:23.240 No, I'm not, I'm just not doing it.

00:46:25.840 Why should I?

00:46:27.680 Why should I do that?

00:46:29.560 Oh, you're saying that like every other person with different color skin can say this.

00:46:33.680 They could say, but I can't.

00:46:35.520 No, and, uh, and that's all that's happening.

00:46:41.500 People are saying that's a bad deal.

00:46:43.400 That's a bad deal for me.

00:46:44.500 I decline.

00:46:45.820 I decline to take part.

00:46:47.140 So, Hey, guess what?

00:46:47.840 I love being white.

00:46:49.020 I love being white.

00:46:50.320 Happy to be white. 0.94

00:46:51.600 White people are great.

00:46:52.620 They've done great things.

00:46:54.260 They've been a blessing to the world.

00:46:56.080 Go ahead and tell me.

00:46:56.960 I can't say that.

00:46:57.640 Go ahead and explain to me why everyone else is allowed to say that, but I can't go ahead.

00:47:02.740 But you can't explain it and you know, you can. 0.99

00:47:08.360 So shut up or don't shut up and keep whining. 0.99

00:47:12.200 Doesn't really matter. 0.99

00:47:14.480 But, uh, that's what I'm doing.

00:47:16.000 And that's, and that's, that's exactly what's happening.

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00:48:39.480 I've also been meaning to mention that episode two of my new series, Real History, is out

00:48:46.320 right now.

00:48:48.900 And in this episode, we talk about the history of the American Indian and the real story of

00:48:55.760 the American Indians, which is a theme that we've talked about.

00:48:59.320 We come back to that on the show quite a bit.

00:49:01.720 It's something that's important to me, which is making the case that we, in fact, do not

00:49:09.960 live on stolen land.

00:49:11.240 That we deserve to live here.

00:49:13.600 You know, that we built this country.

00:49:16.200 It was not, you know, this whole story of a country built on oppression and subjugation

00:49:21.540 of so-called indigenous people is not true.

00:49:25.440 And in the second episode, we deal with this, with that whole thing.

00:49:29.480 We lay out the real history, the real history of the American Indians and of the Indian wars

00:49:34.220 and all the rest of it.

00:49:35.420 So here's a clip from that episode where we talk about why the Indians were called savages.

00:49:41.160 And today we're told that, well, that was all just pure bigotry and racism, but there

00:49:46.860 is a reason for that.

00:49:48.480 In fact, they earned that moniker.

00:49:53.060 Listen.

00:49:54.980 So just how savage were the Indians? 0.99

00:49:58.440 We'll get into specific details of some of these raids, but for now we can focus on

00:50:02.360 perhaps the most gruesome detail of all, evidence of cannibalism among American Indian tribes.

00:50:07.760 According to Keeley's book, War Before Civilization, at 25 sites in the American Southwest,

00:50:13.160 anthropologists have discovered cannibalized human remains dated from roughly the year 900

00:50:17.780 to 1300, hundreds of years before Columbus arrived.

00:50:21.400 We know they were consumed because the assemblages of disarticulated bones share a number of features.

00:50:27.280 Butchering cut marks, skulls broken, long bones smashed for marrow extraction, bones burned

00:50:33.920 or otherwise cooked, and disposal with other kitchen refuse.

00:50:37.760 And there's a lot more to it than that.

00:50:42.300 If you watch the episode, you'll find we go into gruesome detail about what the first

00:50:49.740 the European pioneers and settlers and then Americans discovered when they came across

00:50:55.900 these native tribes.

00:50:57.540 And that is, and it doesn't really matter where they came across them.

00:51:01.840 If it was in, if we're talking about, you know, continental United States or the Mesoamerican,

00:51:06.700 Mesoamerican tribes, we're talking about South America,

00:51:09.660 all across the hemisphere, I mean, even up into the Arctic,

00:51:15.380 the encounters with, you know, the Eskimos,

00:51:19.140 the Inuits as we call them now, you find this sort of thing, just brutal savagery.

00:51:27.100 And this is the story across the entire hemisphere.

00:51:31.740 And there's a reason for getting into it.

00:51:33.540 It's not just for shock value.

00:51:36.700 That's not what it's about.

00:51:37.800 It's to give you a sense of what it was like, what they were dealing with when they were

00:51:44.420 trying to build a civilization.

00:51:46.120 I mean, you get to this part of the world, you want to build a civilization here

00:51:50.240 where one previously did not exist.

00:51:53.200 And it advanced modern civilization for its time.

00:51:56.640 And, uh, but what you're encountering are these tribes that are living 5,000 years in the past,

00:52:05.700 10,000 years, even in some cases.

00:52:09.780 And when you actually look at the history and you look at what these, what these tribes were doing,

00:52:15.780 the whole story, the whole narrative about the noble, the noble savage, these peaceful people,

00:52:23.180 the Pocahontas, right, singing to the, to the, to the birds and the bees and the trees,

00:52:28.080 all of that melts away.

00:52:30.800 And you see how utterly absurd it was.

00:52:35.780 And you also begin to understand, you can, you can, you know, there's so much emphasis that's been put

00:52:41.760 over the last many decades on empathizing with the, the, the native people, the so-called indigenous people.

00:52:50.700 We have to be empathetic to them.

00:52:52.140 We have to understand their plight.

00:52:53.640 And there's been so much emphasis put on that.

00:52:57.040 Nobody ever talks about being empathetic or trying to understand in context,

00:53:03.200 the, the settlers who came here, the Western, the Westerners, and what it was like for them.

00:53:10.980 See this through their perspective.

00:53:13.060 I mean, just imagine what it's like, you, you, you cross it in ocean, you come to this new land that you've never seen,

00:53:23.540 you know, nothing about, there are no maps, you have no context for it.

00:53:27.100 It's a wilderness, mostly an empty wilderness, by the way, most of the hemisphere was empty,

00:53:35.740 wide, wide swaths of land that were empty, not claimed by anybody.

00:53:39.900 And that's often forgotten.

00:53:43.140 You don't know what, what to expect.

00:53:44.760 And then you encounter, again, without any context, it's, it's really hard for us to put ourselves in this mindset

00:53:50.400 because of all the, because of all the context we have now, because all these things we take for granted.

00:53:57.520 Um, and all the kind of dogmas that we have that are ingrained in us, embedded in us.

00:54:03.220 You know, the idea of like universal human equality, everybody is equal.

00:54:10.820 That's a, it's a really modern notion.

00:54:13.540 And people 500 years ago, 400 years ago, 300 years ago, they didn't have that.

00:54:18.580 They didn't take that for granted.

00:54:20.440 So you don't have any of that framework in mind, right?

00:54:24.640 You don't have any of that, any of that kind of scaffolding.

00:54:26.600 Um, and you get here and you encounter people who are running around naked or in loincloths, um, murdering each other brutally.

00:54:37.180 And in some cases eating each other.

00:54:40.860 What, what conclusions would you draw about these people?

00:54:44.620 What, what, what language would you use to describe them?

00:54:48.640 Would you conclude that they're, that they are savages?

00:54:51.040 Yeah, I think so.

00:54:51.860 And when, when, when you, when you start to be, when you try to actually be empathetic in that way and understand things from their perspective, uh, what you realize is that actually in many cases, it's, it's the, it, the lack of brutality on the part of the European and American settlers is pretty surprising and admirable.

00:55:18.960 There was much more restraint than people realize.

00:55:25.760 And in fact, much more restraint on the side of the Europeans and the Americans than on the side of the Indian tribes.

00:55:32.220 Anyway, we get into all this, uh, in the episode and, uh, in much more detail, but in order to watch it, you have to become a subscriber.

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00:55:59.940 We'll end it there.

00:56:00.940 Talk to you tomorrow.

00:56:01.780 Have a great day.

00:56:02.920 Godspeed.

00:56:03.300 They told you America invented slavery.

00:56:13.360 They told you the Indians were peaceful.

00:56:16.900 They told you colonialism was evil and that Joseph McCarthy was a bad guy.

00:56:22.220 And guess what?

00:56:23.460 They lied.

00:56:24.980 For half a century, generations of American schoolchildren have been taught to hate our history, hate our country, and hate themselves.

00:56:31.380 It's time to set the record straight.

00:56:34.040 And since no one else is going to do it, I will.

00:56:37.620 Who sold us the slaves?

00:56:39.040 What were India and Africa like before Europeans arrived?

00:56:42.280 What caused white flight?

00:56:44.380 Some of the most well-known stories from American history are designed to demoralize you.

00:56:48.400 The Trail of Tears, the Smallpox Blanketsmith, the Red Scare.

00:56:52.280 It's all baseless.

00:56:53.560 It's time for a lesson on what they're not teaching in public schools.

00:56:57.060 On the real history of slavery, of colonialism, of the Indians, of America, and the world.

00:57:04.160 It's time for Real History with Matt Walsh.

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