The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1745 - Why Is The Republican Senate SABOTAGING Trump？!

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00:00:12.720 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, as the midterm election season officially begins,

00:00:16.060 Republicans have the chance to pass a piece of legislation that would protect our elections and preserve our democracy.

00:00:21.280 It would be the greatest achievements in any of their careers by far.

00:00:24.880 So why don't Republicans in the Senate seem interested in doing this?

00:00:27.700 Also, a father plays the race card as his 12-year-old son is arrested for a brutal rape.

00:00:32.300 If parents of school shooters are getting locked up, why aren't this kid's parents in handcuffs?

00:00:36.700 Plus, older generations like to wax nostalgic about our childhoods,

00:00:40.600 but is it true that our kids will never have the kind of childhood that we had?

00:00:44.200 If so, why? What happened exactly?

00:00:46.000 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:57.700 Well, as of today, whether you want to hear it or not, the midterm election season is officially underway.

00:01:20.000 The first primaries of the year were held on Tuesday in Texas, North Carolina, and Arkansas.

00:01:24.260 And I must report, first of all, that my personal favorite candidate, Jasmine Crockett,

00:01:30.440 tragically did not prevail in her bid to become the first Senate nominee in U.S. history with a lower IQ than the average pumpkin. 1.00

00:01:38.780 Crockett lost her Senate bid to James Tallarico, who is smarter than a pumpkin and even smarter than most of the other members of the squash family.

00:01:47.100 Not all of them, though. But at least I can say this for Ms. Crockett.

00:01:51.600 She is as dignified and honest in her loss as she has been through her entire career,

00:01:57.560 which is to say that she's accusing the other side of cheating and refusing to admit that she actually lost.

00:02:03.020 Watch.

00:02:04.100 All Red has already stated, we encourage each and every one of you to remain resilient.

00:02:10.460 We cannot allow this type of behavior to be rewarded because so long as they know that they can win,

00:02:19.180 even if it means cheating, then they will continue to do it.

00:02:22.740 So I am asking you, I am begging you to make sure that you go ahead and figure out where it is that you are supposed to vote.

00:02:31.340 Stand in line.

00:02:33.020 Wait in line.

00:02:33.960 So remember to update your scorecards at home.

00:02:36.760 It is officially OK to question the results of a Democratic election again.

00:02:40.940 That's back on the menu. 0.88

00:02:43.000 Provided anyway that you're black and a woman and a Democrat. 0.53

00:02:46.440 In any case, it is it is shocking that she would lose in this way.

00:02:50.740 Indeed, cheating is the only possible explanation, especially if you go back and watch her career highlights,

00:02:57.260 which even though Jasmine Crockett is not really the subject of our monologue today, we will.

00:03:03.220 Well, let's check them out anyway.

00:03:05.740 In fact, Miss Perry, I know your organization, the Heritage Foundation, loves Texas.

00:03:09.860 Oh, they love Texas.

00:03:10.700 They always sending us some nonsense bills.

00:03:13.000 And to understand enough about the Constitution to the extent that I'm the one that's supposed to make the decision or at least get a vote.

00:03:19.360 Someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's bleach-blonde, bad-built, butch body that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?

00:03:29.940 A what now?

00:03:32.680 Chairman.

00:03:34.240 Because we in these hot-ass Texas streets, honey.

00:03:40.300 Y'all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there.

00:03:43.040 Come on now. 0.98

00:03:43.860 And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot-ass mess, honey. 0.99

00:03:51.060 You're not. 0.99

00:03:52.620 We done picking cotton.

00:03:56.440 We are.

00:03:57.440 You can't pay us enough to find a plantation. 1.00

00:04:00.360 But when we start talking about things that look like evidence, they want to act like they blind.

00:04:05.240 They don't know what this is.

00:04:06.340 These are our national secrets.

00:04:08.800 Looks like in the to me.

00:04:10.400 This looks like more evidence of our national secrets, say, on a stage at Mar-a-Lago.

00:04:18.500 So she's going to keep saying trans, trans, trans, so that people will feel threatened.

00:04:24.420 And child, listen.

00:04:26.100 Well, I don't know about you, but I just cannot understand for the life of me how a woman of such eloquence and elegance,

00:04:33.300 a woman who looks and sounds like a part-time Waffle House waitress, could have lost her Senate campaign. 1.00

00:04:39.720 I mean, I just don't get it.

00:04:41.360 But she wasn't the only one who suffered a shocking loss.

00:04:44.420 There was also the legitimately surprising defeat of the neocon Dan Crenshaw,

00:04:50.040 which obviously signals the direction that the Republican Party, its voters anyway, are headed towards.

00:04:57.180 And Tuesday was also a reminder, and this is what I actually want to talk about today,

00:05:02.140 that the leaders of the Republican Party are doing everything they can right now to sabotage the second Trump administration

00:05:11.260 and to ensure that a candidate like Trump never wins the presidency ever again.

00:05:17.500 This is the single most important story in the country right now,

00:05:20.120 but because of the war in the Middle East, it's not getting anywhere near the attention that it should.

00:05:23.940 As DHS Secretary Kristi Noem testified in the Senate yesterday,

00:05:28.600 outgoing Republican Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina declared that because of his frustrations with DHS,

00:05:34.860 he would go out of his way to undermine the president's agenda at every available opportunity.

00:05:40.660 Watch.

00:05:42.240 And Mr. President or Mr. Chair, in my remaining time, I have a lot to go.

00:05:46.960 But I want to submit this letter from the Office of Inspector General that cites 10 different instances

00:05:52.480 under Ms. Noem's leadership where they've been misled and not allowed to pursue investigations

00:05:58.160 that they think are critically important.

00:06:00.320 Does anybody have any idea how bad it has to be for the OIG in this agency to come out and do this publicly?

00:06:07.800 That is stonewalling. 1.00

00:06:09.180 That's a failure of leadership.

00:06:10.700 And that is why I've called for your resignation.

00:06:12.660 And if I don't get an answer to these questions, I don't want an applause.

00:06:18.040 Please don't do that for me.

00:06:19.880 If I don't get an answer to these questions, if I don't get an answer that you've had a month to respond to,

00:06:25.140 and the remaining ones, as of today, I'll be informing leadership that I'm putting a hold on any on-block nominations

00:06:31.820 until I get a response.

00:06:33.520 And in two weeks, if I don't get a response, I'm going to deny quorum and markup in as many committees as I can

00:06:39.780 until I get a response.

00:06:41.400 Thank you, Mr. Chair.

00:06:45.180 So, in other words, because the DHS Inspector General isn't happy with Kristi Noem's responses,

00:06:49.940 Tom Tillis is going to burn everything down.

00:06:52.460 The administration won't be able to appoint anyone or pass any legislation

00:06:55.660 as long as the Inspector General of the DHS says that Kristi Noem is stonewalling.

00:06:59.600 Now, to be very clear about what's going on here, the Inspector General of the DHS is a man named Joseph Kufari.

00:07:06.600 In 2024, when Joe Biden was president, a committee of inspectors, general, and federal officials

00:07:11.260 determined that Kufari had abused his authority and engaged in substantial conduct

00:07:16.080 that would justify his removal.

00:07:18.160 The allegations of wrongdoing included claims that Kufari had interfered in independent investigations,

00:07:23.200 fired a whistleblower who reported his misconduct, lied during his nomination process,

00:07:27.860 and spent millions of taxpayer dollars to hire a law firm to advance his own interests.

00:07:34.260 Now, this is the Inspector General that Tillis is throwing his support behind.

00:07:39.020 He's an official who's obviously corrupt, even though his job is to prevent corruption.

00:07:43.620 This is the person Noem needs to placate, apparently.

00:07:47.160 And in particular, according to Tillis, Kristi Noem needs to answer questions 0.94

00:07:51.000 about why ICE is deporting so many illegal aliens, God forbid.

00:07:55.940 Watch.

00:07:57.400 So why am I disappointed with Secretary Noem?

00:08:00.900 Because we're not going after enough people who did this damage

00:08:04.820 at the expense of running numbers that Stephen Miller wants out of the White House.

00:08:09.720 We just want numbers.

00:08:11.100 We want 1,000 a day, 6,000 a day, 9,000 a day, because numbers matter, right?

00:08:16.680 No, they don't matter.

00:08:18.220 Quality matters.

00:08:19.340 Not quantity.

00:08:20.460 Quality.

00:08:21.520 And what we've seen is a disaster.

00:08:24.200 Under your leadership, Ms. Noem, a disaster.

00:08:28.040 What we've seen is innocent people getting detained that turn out are American citizens.

00:08:33.720 I could talk about the culture that's been created here.

00:08:36.780 With Stephen Miller aiding and abetting,

00:08:39.300 I heard first reports that he was the one that said it was a domestic terrorist situation

00:08:44.420 where two people lost their lives in Minneapolis.

00:08:47.800 I've heard that report.

00:08:49.120 Maybe you can refute it.

00:08:50.400 I don't know that we'll have time for you to respond,

00:08:52.440 because I'm giving you a performance evaluation here.

00:08:55.160 I'm not looking for a response.

00:08:57.800 And I'm saying, Ms. Noem, that time after time after time, I've been disappointed.

00:09:03.460 So it's indistinguishable in every way from the questions the Democrats ask throughout this hearing.

00:09:10.140 And first of all, yes, we want numbers.

00:09:13.220 What are you talking about, Tom?

00:09:15.260 Yes, we want numbers.

00:09:16.800 Numbers are important.

00:09:19.140 Okay.

00:09:19.320 The more illegal aliens who are deported, the better. 0.99

00:09:22.980 This is not a quality over quantity thing.

00:09:25.100 If they're an illegal alien and they're getting deported, that's quality. 1.00

00:09:28.480 That's a quality deportation.

00:09:30.220 If they don't belong here and they're deported, that is a quality deportation. 0.99

00:09:34.340 Does not matter if those illegal aliens have committed additional crimes or not. 0.54

00:09:38.940 Why should that matter?

00:09:40.460 They don't belong here.

00:09:42.580 The simple fact that they're in the country is a problem.

00:09:46.100 They need to be deported.

00:09:47.300 Period.

00:09:48.440 It's not difficult.

00:09:49.440 But Tillis disagrees.

00:09:52.260 His position and the position of most established Republicans is that illegal entry into the United States is no big deal.

00:10:00.560 Tillis also believes that violently interfering with ICE is no big deal either, which is why he brought up Alex Preddy and Renee Goode,

00:10:07.460 who everybody on the planet has already forgotten about except Tom Tillis.

00:10:11.260 Watch.

00:10:11.740 The fact that you can't admit to a mistake, which looks like under investigation, it's going to prove it, Ms. Goode and Mr. Preddy.

00:10:19.640 Probably should not have been shot in the face and in the back.

00:10:23.600 Law enforcement needs to learn from that.

00:10:25.420 You don't protect them by not looking after the facts.

00:10:28.460 Not only should the FBI be investigating it, but every single law enforcement agency in that jurisdiction should be invited to it.

00:10:35.900 So our law enforcement officers do not have this palm cast upon them.

00:10:40.140 One of the reasons why ICE officers are having threats and damn the people that threaten ICE officers because so many of them are doing a good job is because you've cast a paw on them by acting like we should investigate things differently.

00:10:57.460 So there you have it.

00:10:58.720 According to Tom Tillis, leftists aren't threatening ICE agents because they want open borders and lawlessness and the destruction of the United States.

00:11:04.600 Instead, leftists are threatening ICE agents because of Alex Preddy and Renee Goode.

00:11:07.840 Never mind the fact that the ICE agents were being threatened long before either of those activists died.

00:11:12.740 Never mind the fact that both Alex Preddy and Renee Goode decided to attack ICE agents in order to prevent them from doing their jobs.

00:11:18.520 Never mind the fact that the left openly celebrated the murder of one of the top conservative leaders in the country, Charlie Kirk, simply because they didn't like his opinions.

00:11:26.500 So we're supposed to believe that there's a universe where the left would be totally fine with immigration enforcement if only the DHS had conducted a more transparent investigation into the shooting of the lesbian who drove her SUV into an ICE officer and absolutely brought her death on herself through her own actions.

00:11:44.400 Now, this is nothing new for Tillis.

00:11:46.340 In 2024, he was the ringleader of a fake amnesty bill in the Senate, which was intended to undermine the president's immigration policy.

00:11:53.280 But lately, he's become a lot more animated in his disdain for this administration.

00:11:59.220 In case it's not obvious, Tillis is shouting all the time because he's trying to impress some nonprofit or university.

00:12:05.160 He wants to get a job when he leaves Washington, which is a day that can't come soon enough.

00:12:09.380 And that's why when he was dealing with Biden's DHS secretary, that is Biden's DHS secretary, not Trump's, he had a very different approach.

00:12:20.480 Case to get hundreds of thousands of dollars in payout. 0.91

00:12:23.640 It's going to be another reason why it's a crisis and not just a situation we're trying to work through.

00:12:28.160 Thank you. And I wish you good health.

00:12:30.600 Thank you, Senator.

00:12:34.720 Now, watching this, you might say that Tom Tillis is leaving office because he's unpopular.

00:12:38.740 So what's the big deal?

00:12:39.900 He's just one outgoing Republican senator who's threatening to derail the president's agenda.

00:12:43.900 How bad can things be?

00:12:46.120 Well, the problem is that Tom Tillis is not, in fact, an exception.

00:12:48.900 He represents the entrenched Republican power structure in Washington.

00:12:52.700 The leadership of the party does not want to enact Donald Trump's agenda.

00:12:57.460 They're doing everything they can to interfere with it.

00:13:00.160 The GOP leader in the Senate, John Thune of South Dakota, is about to send the Senate off to vacation.

00:13:06.340 And instead of giving a speech where he outlined some kind of plan to advance legislation that the White House is pushing for,

00:13:12.000 Thune simply complained about Democrats over and over again.

00:13:14.800 Watch.

00:13:15.140 I mentioned the air travel chaos that ensued as a result of Democrats' first fiscal year 2026 shutdown.

00:13:25.940 Well, the longer this DHS shutdown drags on, the more likely it is that we will start to have staffing problems at airport checkpoints,

00:13:34.640 which will lead to compounding flight delays and other problems.

00:13:38.720 Mr. President, it's two more days until the Department of Homeland Security employees start missing part of their paychecks.

00:13:47.220 I hope that my Democrat colleagues will finally decide to come to the table and bring their second shutdown in under six months to a close.

00:14:01.200 Well, this just isn't going to cut it.

00:14:03.620 Democrats are going to use every tool they have, including a government shutdown, to get what they want.

00:14:09.160 We don't accomplish anything by whining about it.

00:14:11.780 Instead, we should be using every tool that we have to achieve our own policy objectives.

00:14:18.480 Now, for starters, instead of standing in the way of Trump's appointments, as Tom Tillis is doing,

00:14:23.400 Republicans in the Senate could go on recess for 10 days or longer.

00:14:27.020 And under current law, that would allow the president to make recess appointments to keep positions,

00:14:30.920 including seats on federal courts, if he chooses to do so.

00:14:34.140 So no approval from the Senate is necessary as part of a recess appointment.

00:14:38.160 That's important because, as we discussed before, the Senate follows a so-called blue-slip process,

00:14:42.480 which allows an individual senator to veto a nomination as long as the nominee is from his home state.

00:14:48.540 It's an outdated and pointless process, but Republicans are going along with it.

00:14:53.380 But here's the issue.

00:14:54.660 Thune has deliberately prevented recess appointments from occurring,

00:14:57.480 and he's done so by holding so-called pro-forma sessions in the Senate.

00:15:01.320 The idea is that even though the Senate is on vacation,

00:15:04.840 they hold a quick session with basically nobody in attendance,

00:15:07.760 and that resets the clock on recess appointments.

00:15:10.920 It prevents the Senate from counting as in recess for the 10 days that are required by law.

00:15:16.000 So here's what these pro-forma sessions look like.

00:15:19.000 Just to give you an idea, this is from last summer.

00:15:21.440 The House will be in order.

00:15:24.960 The chair lays before the House a communication from the Speaker.

00:15:31.240 The Speaker's Room is Washington, D.C., July 25, 2025.

00:15:36.640 I hereby appoint the Honorable Mike Herodopoulos to act as Speaker pro-temporary on this day.

00:15:42.040 Signed, Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

00:15:45.280 H.R. 1316, a bill to amend the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 relating to licensing transparency.

00:15:56.340 Pursuit to Clause 13 of Rule 1, the House stands adjourned until 5 p.m. on Tuesday, July 29, 2025.

00:16:07.260 So the clerk gets up there, reads some nonsense for less than two minutes, and everybody goes home.

00:16:11.180 So the sole purpose of these pro-forma sessions is to prevent Donald Trump from making recess appointments.

00:16:20.300 Now, did you know that this was going on?

00:16:22.200 Did you have any idea that the president's own party, which controls both houses of Congress,

00:16:28.100 is using a procedural mechanism to block him from appointing administration officials,

00:16:32.440 along with dozens of U.S. attorneys and judges?

00:16:35.460 That's what Republicans in the Senate are doing. 0.56

00:16:37.200 And for the same reason, Republicans in the Senate aren't taking any action to advance the SAVE Act,

00:16:43.020 which is short for Safeguard American Voter Eligibility.

00:16:46.220 This is, in every respect, the single most important piece of legislation that anyone currently serving in Congress has ever considered.

00:16:56.040 It's not close.

00:16:58.320 Passing this legislation is the most important thing that any of them can possibly achieve right now, by far.

00:17:04.960 That's why Donald Trump specifically called on Republicans to pass the SAVE Act during his State of the Union address last week.

00:17:12.500 This law will determine whether we have fair elections, real elections at all, going forward.

00:17:19.320 It'll determine if Americans get to decide who leads them, or if foreign invaders get to decide that for them.

00:17:25.740 I mean, that's what's at stake.

00:17:26.680 The terms of the SAVE Act are straightforward.

00:17:29.540 If you want to register to vote, or update your voter registration,

00:17:34.480 then you need to present documentary proof that you're a citizen.

00:17:38.600 And you need to present this proof in person.

00:17:40.800 A passport would satisfy this requirement all by itself.

00:17:43.720 A majority of Americans have a passport already.

00:17:46.560 170 million Americans, in fact, have a passport.

00:17:49.940 Which means that, if you don't have one, it's not very hard to get one.

00:17:55.640 Okay, if 170 million Americans have already done something,

00:17:59.140 then there's no way that it could be that difficult for you to do.

00:18:04.200 But if you don't have one, and you don't want to get one,

00:18:06.400 then a birth certificate paired with a driver's license will satisfy the requirement.

00:18:10.600 And additionally, the law would require the voters to show photo identification

00:18:13.820 in order to cast a ballot in person.

00:18:16.440 And if a voting absentee, which would only be allowed in rare cases,

00:18:21.320 a copy of the photo identification would need to be provided there in that case as well.

00:18:25.900 There is no good faith basis whatsoever for opposing this legislation.

00:18:32.080 There is no valid argument against it. 0.99

00:18:35.180 The only argument is that some American citizens might be too dumb or lazy 0.99

00:18:40.260 to fulfill the rudimentary requirements. 0.99

00:18:42.480 But as I've explained, far from being an argument against it,

00:18:45.880 that's just one more reason for it.

00:18:48.420 Anybody who can't live up to the baseline standards that this law puts in place

00:18:52.400 should not be voting.

00:18:55.120 Either it means they aren't a citizen, so they shouldn't vote, 1.00

00:18:58.660 or they're exceptionally stupid and lazy. 1.00

00:19:02.060 And in any of those cases, they should not be voting. 1.00

00:19:05.560 And that's why everybody outside of elected representatives in the Democrat Party,

00:19:09.640 almost everybody supports it.

00:19:10.920 Gallup just ran a poll finding that 84% of Americans support the voter ID requirement.

00:19:17.440 84%.

00:19:18.040 83% support the requirement that first-time voters provide documentary evidence of citizenship.

00:19:23.880 It's extremely difficult to get broad bipartisan agreement on anything.

00:19:28.380 I mean, 83% of Americans probably wouldn't agree on whether or not the Earth is flat.

00:19:35.200 And yet they agree on this.

00:19:38.100 So everybody knows why Democrats have an issue with the SAVE Act.

00:19:41.940 As Trump said, they want to cheat.

00:19:43.500 They want to flood the United States with illegal aliens, 1.00

00:19:46.360 allow them to vote using the honor system,

00:19:49.060 and permanently seize control of the country.

00:19:51.600 That's been their game plan for many years.

00:19:53.260 They're on the verge of success.

00:19:54.600 And Republicans have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to stop it.

00:20:00.600 It wouldn't even take any special effort.

00:20:02.560 That's what you have to understand.

00:20:04.040 If the Republicans fail here,

00:20:06.360 it is because they chose to fail.

00:20:08.860 They want to.

00:20:10.260 They don't want to protect our elections.

00:20:12.180 They have no other excuse.

00:20:15.120 So the obstacle right now is that Democrats are threatening to filibuster the bill.

00:20:19.600 And under normal circumstances,

00:20:20.920 60 votes are needed to end the filibuster and hold the vote.

00:20:23.460 All John Thune would have to do, though,

00:20:26.700 is keep the Senate's legislation session open

00:20:29.560 and force a standing filibuster on this particular piece of legislation.

00:20:34.300 Under a standing filibuster, the old way of doing it,

00:20:38.400 if they want to delay a vote,

00:20:39.640 Democrats cannot simply announce their intention to block the legislation.

00:20:42.900 Instead, they have to get up, walk to the podium,

00:20:45.620 and talk endlessly without taking any breaks.

00:20:49.300 If they take a break, then they're done.

00:20:51.000 They have to pass the torch to another Democrat.

00:20:54.280 And if they can't do that, then the filibuster ends,

00:20:55.960 and Republicans can hold a vote.

00:20:57.920 So the thing with a standing filibuster is you're not abolishing the filibuster.

00:21:01.000 It's still in place.

00:21:02.080 But eventually, it will come to an end

00:21:04.500 because senators can't return to the podium

00:21:06.720 more than two times during any one legislative session.

00:21:09.800 So worst case, if they're really, really organized and very dedicated,

00:21:14.620 they could drag this thing on for days and days.

00:21:16.740 But eventually, it will end.

00:21:19.520 It wouldn't be pleasant for anybody, including Republicans,

00:21:22.140 who would have to remain near the Senate chamber at all times

00:21:24.380 in order to ensure that there's a quorum.

00:21:26.680 If there's no quorum, then the legislative session ends,

00:21:29.220 and the speech counter resets,

00:21:31.200 and Democrats can go back to the podium the next day

00:21:33.180 and filibuster some more.

00:21:34.880 So it would not be pleasant.

00:21:36.820 It would be hard to do.

00:21:39.200 But this is what we elected you to do.

00:21:44.060 It's not good enough to say,

00:21:45.400 well, that will be hard.

00:21:46.240 I won't be able to get enough sleep.

00:21:47.540 I don't care.

00:21:49.220 This is your job.

00:21:51.420 This is the future of our country at stake.

00:21:54.580 Are you willing to get some sleepless nights,

00:21:56.620 have some sleepless nights or not?

00:21:59.320 This is the most important fight they can undertake.

00:22:01.820 They don't even have to change the rules of the Senate to do it.

00:22:05.960 They just have to stay near the Senate complex for a few days.

00:22:08.780 That's it.

00:22:11.120 Instead of doing this, though,

00:22:13.920 here's what John Thune is up to.

00:22:16.040 This is one of his social media posts yesterday.

00:22:20.740 Quote,

00:22:21.320 Great to sit down with members of Ducks Unlimited,

00:22:23.960 including these students who started the SDSU chapter of DU,

00:22:27.620 who are working to further wildlife and conservation priorities in the state.

00:22:31.820 Wow.

00:22:34.360 Thanks, John.

00:22:35.600 You know, instead of sitting down with the members of the Mighty Ducks or whatever

00:22:38.580 and whining about Democrats,

00:22:40.380 you need to put the SAVE Act up for a vote.

00:22:43.420 It's sitting right there.

00:22:45.540 And if Democrats want a filibuster,

00:22:48.000 you need to require them to stand up and talk until they can't talk anymore.

00:22:53.540 And then when the bill is passed, the president will sign it.

00:22:56.580 And we will have some chance of fair elections in this country going forward.

00:23:01.300 If you don't do this, then we won't.

00:23:05.560 If that's too much for Senate Republicans somehow, though,

00:23:10.380 you know, if they really don't want to lose any sleep 1.00

00:23:13.420 because they're lazy, fat bastards, 1.00

00:23:16.500 well, they also have the option of eliminating the filibuster entirely. 1.00

00:23:20.600 You could do that.

00:23:21.320 And we all know that Democrats will do it the first chance they get.

00:23:25.860 So there's no use fretting that if we do it, they'll do it.

00:23:30.280 They'll do it regardless.

00:23:32.780 The Democrats are fighting fascists and Nazis and Darth Vader.

00:23:36.940 Remember, they'll do anything at all that they need to do to advance their agenda.

00:23:41.440 There's no reason we shouldn't do the same thing,

00:23:45.420 especially since the odds are very low

00:23:47.060 that Republicans will remain in power in Congress for much longer.

00:23:49.720 Right now, Republicans have a real chance of losing Senate races

00:23:52.620 in several key states in November, from Alaska to Ohio to Georgia.

00:23:56.740 Meanwhile, the establishment wing of the GOP

00:23:58.660 is throwing around enormous amounts of money

00:24:00.360 to prop up neocons like John Cornyn,

00:24:02.780 who spent something like $70 million to receive 43% of the vote

00:24:05.760 in yesterday's primary in Texas,

00:24:06.980 while Ken Paxton spent around $4 million to receive 40% of the vote.

00:24:10.680 And Paxton probably would have won outright

00:24:13.100 if there wasn't a spoiler candidate in the race.

00:24:15.100 Anyway, there's ample evidence, in other words,

00:24:17.580 that the Republican Party is in a state of managed decline.

00:24:23.380 The leaders are waiting for Donald Trump's exit,

00:24:26.240 many of them at this point.

00:24:28.900 Frankly, it doesn't appear that our elected representatives in Congress,

00:24:31.840 many of them, actually want to hold on to power.

00:24:35.980 What you have to understand about the political scene in modern America

00:24:39.160 is that many politicians, especially Republicans,

00:24:42.580 not all of them, but many of them,

00:24:44.580 don't actually want to be in power.

00:24:48.080 They don't crave power so much as they crave the prestige

00:24:51.560 of holding elected office

00:24:53.200 and the many ways they can financially benefit from their position,

00:24:57.260 both while they're in office and once they leave.

00:24:59.660 Many of them want to trade their elected office in

00:25:01.520 for cushy jobs as lobbyists and consultants.

00:25:04.060 Many of them, especially younger ones,

00:25:05.800 dream of nothing more than being podcasters.

00:25:08.960 It's a relative few who want power

00:25:12.320 in order to actually use the power.

00:25:15.900 For the rest, having power,

00:25:17.820 being in the majority is an inconvenience.

00:25:21.000 Why would they actually want to fly the plane

00:25:22.640 when they can sit in first class and drink Bloody Marys?

00:25:26.820 As John Thune demonstrated,

00:25:28.220 Republicans are very comfortable complaining about Democrats,

00:25:32.020 which, fine, there's plenty to complain about,

00:25:35.800 but we need to do more than that.

00:25:37.300 And as Tom Tillis demonstrated,

00:25:38.620 Republicans have no problem berating the Trump administration

00:25:40.680 and threatening to shut down his entire agenda.

00:25:44.960 To this point, keep this in mind,

00:25:49.540 most of the achievements of the Republican Party

00:25:52.160 in Washington during this term

00:25:55.080 have really just been achievements

00:25:56.840 of the Trump administration.

00:25:58.320 Republicans in Congress have done the bare minimum,

00:26:02.340 if even that.

00:26:04.360 Okay, they passed the big, beautiful bill,

00:26:06.000 and I guess we're supposed to be satisfied with that.

00:26:09.000 We handed them control over the entire government.

00:26:11.800 In return, we get one piece of legislation,

00:26:15.160 and that's supposed to be good enough?

00:26:19.460 Well, it isn't.

00:26:21.040 That is just not going to be satisfactory.

00:26:23.960 And for anyone who is willing to accept

00:26:26.180 the filibuster excuse for Republicans,

00:26:28.000 this is something that I really want you to keep in mind.

00:26:29.920 Okay, this is very important.

00:26:34.500 Okay?

00:26:35.760 Every time you hear,

00:26:36.840 well, we can't do that because of the filibuster.

00:26:38.680 We can't do that either.

00:26:40.160 There's a whole list of great pieces of legislation

00:26:43.660 that theoretically,

00:26:45.580 well, this is what we elected Republicans to do. 0.51

00:26:47.740 Can't do it.

00:26:48.800 Can't do it because of the filibuster.

00:26:50.160 I mean, basically what they're saying is,

00:26:51.400 well, we can't do anything

00:26:52.040 unless basically the Democrat Party approves of it

00:26:54.260 because if they don't,

00:26:56.760 and they're united in not approving of it,

00:26:58.520 then they can filibuster.

00:26:59.540 Well, if you're tempted to accept that excuse,

00:27:05.980 what you have to understand is that Republicans

00:27:08.000 will never have,

00:27:10.900 and I mean never have,

00:27:13.540 a filibuster-proof majority.

00:27:15.520 It is not ever going to happen.

00:27:18.100 It has only happened once this century,

00:27:20.860 and that was for Democrats like 15 years ago.

00:27:24.940 Republicans are never going to have

00:27:27.420 enough votes in the Senate to overcome a filibuster.

00:27:31.460 Never. 0.97

00:27:33.440 You will be dead before that ever happens, 0.99

00:27:36.660 and even after you're dead, 0.99

00:27:37.880 it still won't happen.

00:27:39.400 There is no path for it.

00:27:41.260 It's just not going to happen.

00:27:43.660 Republicans haven't had one since the 1920s,

00:27:46.200 and the country today doesn't even vaguely resemble

00:27:48.520 the 1920s.

00:27:50.980 So,

00:27:51.520 either they will barrel through,

00:27:54.880 force their agenda through

00:27:56.360 by eliminating the filibuster

00:27:57.780 or doing a standing filibuster,

00:27:59.500 or

00:27:59.860 they will not advance their agenda at all.

00:28:03.260 Not now,

00:28:04.120 not ever again.

00:28:06.120 Those are your choices. 0.99

00:28:07.260 kill the modern filibuster

00:28:09.320 or never see an actual

00:28:12.860 conservative piece of legislation

00:28:14.600 passed

00:28:15.380 ever again in your life.

00:28:17.480 That's it.

00:28:19.040 Either we keep the current filibuster system alive,

00:28:22.680 or

00:28:23.500 Republicans carry out the will of the voters.

00:28:27.120 It can't be both.

00:28:28.820 It cannot be both.

00:28:31.800 Right now,

00:28:32.960 hiding behind these excuses,

00:28:34.240 Republicans have decided against

00:28:35.900 the will of the voters.

00:28:37.260 That's what's happened,

00:28:40.220 especially in the Senate.

00:28:42.320 And unless that changes,

00:28:44.480 and the SAVE Act becomes law,

00:28:47.560 our elections will be permanently compromised,

00:28:50.240 and then filibuster or not,

00:28:52.740 the will of the voters

00:28:54.080 won't matter at all.

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00:31:01.980 Let's begin with a story

00:31:03.480 out of Georgia.

00:31:04.660 There's a man named Colin Gray

00:31:06.160 who has been found guilty

00:31:07.620 of 27 felony counts,

00:31:09.540 including a second-degree murder

00:31:11.420 in connection with a school shooting

00:31:12.860 carried out by his son

00:31:14.480 back in 2024.

00:31:15.680 Colin Gray was accused

00:31:17.400 of giving the gun

00:31:19.940 to his son,

00:31:20.760 Colt Gray,

00:31:21.380 which was then used

00:31:22.280 in the shooting.

00:31:23.940 Now, to be clear,

00:31:24.860 nobody accuses this guy,

00:31:27.640 Colin,

00:31:28.900 of knowingly,

00:31:30.720 intentionally participating

00:31:32.040 in the crime.

00:31:34.100 Nobody is accusing him.

00:31:35.620 He was not accused

00:31:36.300 or charged

00:31:36.800 with arming his son

00:31:38.760 so that,

00:31:40.120 you know, 1.00

00:31:40.680 his son will go kill people. 1.00

00:31:42.400 The accusation 1.00

00:31:43.560 is that he ought

00:31:44.920 to have known

00:31:45.680 that his son

00:31:46.400 was a danger to others.

00:31:47.500 He ought to have been

00:31:48.100 much more wary

00:31:49.300 than he was

00:31:50.140 and his criminal negligence

00:31:52.260 led to this crime.

00:31:54.120 And that's true.

00:31:55.900 I mean,

00:31:56.100 there were apparently

00:31:57.220 very vivid,

00:31:58.200 very clear red flags

00:32:00.520 with his son.

00:32:01.680 He was warned

00:32:02.480 by school counselors

00:32:03.960 and others

00:32:05.220 about his son's

00:32:06.680 mental state

00:32:07.300 and he ignored

00:32:09.320 those warnings.

00:32:10.280 So he was negligent

00:32:11.720 in the extreme,

00:32:13.260 no doubt about it.

00:32:14.240 Now,

00:32:15.700 the defense argued

00:32:16.420 that,

00:32:16.840 well,

00:32:16.900 he didn't know

00:32:17.560 that his son

00:32:18.500 was going to do this.

00:32:19.560 He didn't plan the shooting.

00:32:20.900 He didn't want it to happen.

00:32:22.600 He didn't have

00:32:23.900 foreknowledge of it.

00:32:25.160 He is distraught by it.

00:32:27.640 He gave the gun

00:32:28.660 to his son

00:32:29.280 for hunting.

00:32:30.080 He's trying to bond

00:32:30.900 with his son.

00:32:31.700 He obviously had

00:32:32.640 a lot of issues at home

00:32:33.720 and a lot of issues

00:32:34.420 connecting with his son

00:32:35.260 and so on.

00:32:36.440 And so this was really

00:32:37.500 just an attempt

00:32:39.520 by the father

00:32:40.240 to connect with the son

00:32:41.240 and there was no attention

00:32:43.960 that anybody would get hurt.

00:32:45.220 And that is also true.

00:32:46.760 So this is a case

00:32:47.580 where it seems to me

00:32:48.400 the arguments made

00:32:49.420 by the defense

00:32:50.120 and the prosecution

00:32:50.980 are both basically correct.

00:32:54.440 But the decision

00:32:55.620 by the jury

00:32:56.240 was that the defense's argument

00:32:57.640 wasn't good enough.

00:32:59.740 It might be true 1.00

00:33:00.420 that he didn't know

00:33:01.000 this was going to happen,

00:33:01.900 but he should have known

00:33:02.800 and that's what they decided

00:33:04.960 he was convicted.

00:33:05.480 And now he'll probably

00:33:06.140 spend the rest of his life

00:33:06.980 in prison.

00:33:08.320 Although he hasn't

00:33:09.020 been sentenced yet.

00:33:11.040 Now this is,

00:33:11.960 as we've followed on the show,

00:33:13.180 not the first case like this.

00:33:14.740 There have been,

00:33:15.760 by my count,

00:33:16.560 about four or five other,

00:33:18.220 maybe,

00:33:18.580 I think there have been

00:33:19.040 five other cases,

00:33:20.540 all relatively recent,

00:33:22.760 of parents charged

00:33:24.240 in connection

00:33:24.800 with their child's

00:33:25.980 school shooting

00:33:26.620 or mass shooting.

00:33:28.520 And in all of those cases,

00:33:31.100 from my memory,

00:33:33.280 nobody claimed

00:33:34.420 that the parents

00:33:35.380 knew that they were

00:33:36.980 intentional accessories

00:33:38.200 in the crime.

00:33:39.480 They didn't mean

00:33:40.380 to contribute to it,

00:33:41.700 but their negligence

00:33:43.820 led to the crime

00:33:44.620 or made the crime possible.

00:33:46.720 And,

00:33:47.100 you know,

00:33:47.920 they didn't do

00:33:48.740 just like the basic

00:33:50.060 things that a parent

00:33:51.940 should do.

00:33:53.280 And because of that,

00:33:54.420 this crime happened.

00:33:57.100 And that argument

00:33:59.060 has proven to be

00:33:59.960 very successful

00:34:00.840 in courts now.

00:34:04.560 So,

00:34:04.980 whatever you think

00:34:05.540 of all that,

00:34:06.720 so that's the,

00:34:07.380 keep all that in mind,

00:34:09.920 bared in mind

00:34:10.480 as we move

00:34:10.920 to another case.

00:34:13.500 The New York Times reports,

00:34:14.780 this is from this week,

00:34:17.000 or rather,

00:34:17.620 I think this is

00:34:17.940 the New York Post,

00:34:18.580 in fact.

00:34:18.880 three baby-faced boys

00:34:21.940 are accused

00:34:22.580 in the rape

00:34:23.240 of a 12-year-old girl

00:34:24.040 in Miami,

00:34:24.640 pinning her to the ground 0.89

00:34:25.420 and stuffing rocks 0.84

00:34:26.220 in her mouth 0.98

00:34:26.720 so that no one

00:34:27.620 could hear her scream,

00:34:28.740 authorities said.

00:34:29.220 The suspects,

00:34:29.840 Nelson Nunez,

00:34:31.480 Josiah Jones,

00:34:32.740 and Xavier Tyson,

00:34:34.660 13, 12, 15,

00:34:35.960 respectively,

00:34:37.080 allegedly attacked

00:34:37.820 the young girl

00:34:38.480 on June 18th

00:34:39.640 in a community garden

00:34:40.660 near where they all live.

00:34:42.920 Investigators

00:34:43.400 allege Nunez

00:34:44.140 tore off the victim's 0.99

00:34:45.020 pants and raped her 1.00

00:34:45.880 as the other two boys 1.00

00:34:47.120 held her down

00:34:47.860 in a sickening

00:34:48.480 30-minute ordeal.

00:34:49.560 One of the boys

00:34:50.000 shoved rocks

00:34:50.620 in the girl's mouth 0.98

00:34:51.300 to stop her from crying.

00:34:53.000 Suspect fled

00:34:53.660 after the girl's father

00:34:54.600 started calling out her name.

00:34:57.880 Another boy

00:34:58.640 who has not been identified

00:35:00.600 allegedly witnessed

00:35:01.380 the heinous crime.

00:35:03.360 Nunez and Jones

00:35:04.100 both pleaded

00:35:04.640 not guilty

00:35:05.460 to a string of charges

00:35:06.600 including aggravated

00:35:07.360 sexual battery

00:35:08.000 on a minor.

00:35:09.440 It's unclear

00:35:10.320 whether a similar

00:35:11.460 court hearing

00:35:11.880 was already held

00:35:12.460 for Tyson.

00:35:13.640 So,

00:35:13.860 and the mom

00:35:17.760 of the victim

00:35:18.400 has spoken out.

00:35:19.240 She said that

00:35:19.760 as far as she's concerned

00:35:20.760 the boys should go to jail

00:35:21.780 for 100 years

00:35:22.660 which I agree.

00:35:26.340 If they're guilty

00:35:27.240 of this crime

00:35:28.080 and they're convicted

00:35:29.560 then they should just

00:35:31.280 go to jail forever. 0.51

00:35:33.260 And I think that

00:35:34.040 unfortunately

00:35:34.480 in our current system

00:35:35.800 it's probably

00:35:36.460 very unlikely

00:35:37.140 that's going to happen.

00:35:38.740 It's much more likely

00:35:39.680 that they end up

00:35:41.020 if they

00:35:41.780 if they go to jail

00:35:43.960 at all

00:35:44.360 I mean

00:35:44.540 they probably will

00:35:45.320 but they'll be out

00:35:46.100 when they're 18

00:35:46.720 or whatever

00:35:47.980 and they'll be

00:35:48.880 they'll be far more

00:35:51.940 dangerous than

00:35:52.460 they've ever been.

00:35:53.560 And this is the problem

00:35:54.560 when you have

00:35:55.680 crimes of this type

00:35:57.800 these kinds of

00:35:59.040 barbaric

00:35:59.900 unthinkable

00:36:01.420 violent

00:36:02.760 brutal crimes

00:36:03.840 committed by

00:36:05.560 kids

00:36:06.260 who are

00:36:06.780 11,

00:36:07.860 12,

00:36:08.100 13 years old.

00:36:09.020 Well,

00:36:09.240 the problem

00:36:09.680 is that

00:36:11.780 they're already

00:36:13.140 at that point

00:36:13.900 at the age

00:36:14.340 of 12.

00:36:16.660 So

00:36:17.140 putting them

00:36:17.900 in jail

00:36:18.260 for 5 or 6 years

00:36:19.300 and having them

00:36:20.060 hang out

00:36:20.680 with other

00:36:21.560 hardened criminals

00:36:22.400 is not going

00:36:24.400 to make it better.

00:36:26.400 Okay,

00:36:26.980 they're not

00:36:27.280 going to be

00:36:28.680 reformed.

00:36:30.600 Everyone needs

00:36:31.180 to get this

00:36:32.160 through their heads

00:36:32.720 that reforming

00:36:34.200 criminals in prison

00:36:35.100 is for the most

00:36:36.480 part a fantasy.

00:36:37.860 Okay,

00:36:38.040 for the most part

00:36:38.700 it just doesn't

00:36:39.200 actually exist.

00:36:40.080 For the most part

00:36:40.840 it's something

00:36:41.280 that happens

00:36:41.740 in the movies.

00:36:43.260 Okay,

00:36:43.540 it happens

00:36:44.200 in the movies.

00:36:45.780 Okay,

00:36:45.960 if you watch

00:36:47.000 Shawshank Redemption

00:36:47.800 or something

00:36:48.260 and you see

00:36:48.660 a story

00:36:49.340 about criminals

00:36:49.960 that are actually

00:36:50.780 decent people

00:36:51.780 at heart

00:36:52.180 and everything

00:36:53.220 is fine

00:36:53.640 and really

00:36:54.900 the warden

00:36:55.440 is the evil

00:36:55.900 one,

00:36:56.260 right?

00:36:57.200 That's not

00:36:58.000 reality.

00:36:59.880 Okay,

00:37:00.060 in reality

00:37:00.820 most of the

00:37:02.280 people in prison 0.76

00:37:03.080 are sociopathic 0.99

00:37:04.940 violent predators 1.00

00:37:06.100 and will

00:37:07.260 always

00:37:07.740 be.

00:37:12.560 I mean,

00:37:13.620 the chance

00:37:15.000 that somebody

00:37:16.080 will be a 0.99

00:37:16.720 violent rapist 1.00

00:37:17.500 at 12 0.99

00:37:18.300 but a

00:37:21.080 productive

00:37:21.680 citizen

00:37:22.540 at 25

00:37:23.540 or 30,

00:37:24.520 the chance

00:37:25.140 of that

00:37:25.500 is,

00:37:26.220 I don't know,

00:37:28.640 I mean,

00:37:30.780 it's a lot

00:37:31.100 less than

00:37:31.460 1%.

00:37:32.100 Is it

00:37:36.040 even higher

00:37:37.140 than 0%?

00:37:37.960 Is there

00:37:38.200 really like

00:37:38.620 any chance

00:37:39.220 of it?

00:37:41.900 So,

00:37:43.060 if you

00:37:44.460 value

00:37:44.940 the lives

00:37:46.180 of innocent

00:37:46.520 people,

00:37:47.140 if you

00:37:47.500 value

00:37:47.880 the life

00:37:49.100 of the

00:37:49.820 next

00:37:50.120 potential

00:37:50.720 victim,

00:37:52.100 the only

00:37:52.940 choice you

00:37:53.420 have,

00:37:54.300 the only

00:37:54.840 choice,

00:37:55.700 when you've

00:37:56.600 got a

00:37:57.240 kid

00:37:57.580 committing

00:37:57.980 crimes

00:37:58.340 like this,

00:37:59.180 the only

00:37:59.640 choice is

00:38:00.380 to put

00:38:00.700 them in

00:38:00.920 a cage

00:38:01.240 forever.

00:38:04.640 That's

00:38:05.120 it.

00:38:08.100 So,

00:38:08.860 this is

00:38:10.380 the crime.

00:38:12.040 But what

00:38:12.640 about the

00:38:12.960 parents in

00:38:13.520 this case?

00:38:14.460 We're talking

00:38:15.040 about the

00:38:15.360 parents.

00:38:17.280 Well,

00:38:17.480 if these

00:38:17.720 boys are

00:38:18.140 guilty of

00:38:18.640 this crime,

00:38:19.520 you have

00:38:19.820 to immediately

00:38:20.400 ask,

00:38:21.500 how does

00:38:22.160 a young

00:38:22.700 boy get

00:38:24.560 to a

00:38:24.920 point by

00:38:25.460 the age

00:38:25.820 of 12

00:38:26.340 where he's

00:38:27.740 already a

00:38:28.500 violent 0.99

00:38:28.800 rapist? 0.93

00:38:29.780 How is

00:38:30.420 that

00:38:30.580 possible?

00:38:31.440 How are

00:38:31.780 they even

00:38:32.160 in a

00:38:32.500 position

00:38:32.940 where

00:38:34.100 something

00:38:34.360 like this

00:38:34.780 can happen?

00:38:37.140 How did

00:38:37.760 any of

00:38:38.180 this happen?

00:38:40.500 I mean,

00:38:40.800 every step

00:38:41.380 of the way,

00:38:41.880 through every

00:38:42.420 part of

00:38:43.020 this story,

00:38:43.800 we find

00:38:44.680 absurd

00:38:45.360 levels of

00:38:46.580 parental

00:38:47.020 neglect,

00:38:47.720 or worse.

00:38:49.640 And in

00:38:50.220 this case,

00:38:50.720 the parents

00:38:51.240 of the

00:38:51.560 accused

00:38:51.900 12-year-old

00:38:52.360 rapist

00:38:52.760 have spoken

00:38:53.340 out.

00:38:53.640 The mother

00:38:54.000 was in

00:38:54.860 the courtroom

00:38:55.240 screaming out

00:38:56.000 in protest

00:38:56.640 against these

00:38:57.740 charges,

00:38:58.140 and the

00:38:58.580 father spoke

00:38:59.760 to the

00:39:00.020 media,

00:39:00.800 and I'm

00:39:02.480 going to

00:39:02.740 assume the

00:39:03.200 father and

00:39:03.540 mother are

00:39:03.880 not currently

00:39:04.840 married.

00:39:06.240 I don't

00:39:06.760 know that.

00:39:07.980 Wild

00:39:08.260 assumption.

00:39:09.640 But here's

00:39:10.000 what he

00:39:10.220 said.

00:39:11.920 This is a

00:39:12.640 12-year-old

00:39:13.400 boy we're

00:39:14.240 talking about.

00:39:15.220 We're going

00:39:15.540 to leave

00:39:15.980 him in

00:39:16.440 jail and

00:39:17.500 put a

00:39:17.960 life charge

00:39:18.820 on a

00:39:19.180 young man,

00:39:19.900 a young

00:39:21.980 black man

00:39:22.780 that was

00:39:24.480 visited

00:39:24.860 Miami.

00:39:26.380 It was

00:39:27.040 with the

00:39:27.340 wrong two

00:39:28.040 kids.

00:39:28.580 Marvin

00:39:29.280 Jones' 0.79

00:39:29.800 son

00:39:30.100 Josiah

00:39:30.600 is charged

00:39:31.220 with

00:39:31.380 battery

00:39:31.840 and

00:39:32.120 false

00:39:32.380 imprisonment,

00:39:33.400 charges

00:39:33.720 related to

00:39:34.300 the rape

00:39:34.720 of a 0.82

00:39:35.000 12-year-old

00:39:35.600 girl.

00:39:36.400 A police

00:39:36.780 report says

00:39:37.300 the victim

00:39:38.040 says his

00:39:38.680 son Josiah

00:39:39.380 held her

00:39:40.180 down and

00:39:40.860 put rocks

00:39:41.560 in her 0.99

00:39:41.800 mouth to

00:39:42.380 stop her 0.96

00:39:42.820 from screaming.

00:39:45.440 A young

00:39:46.300 black man.

00:39:47.640 How could 0.97

00:39:48.380 you charge

00:39:48.820 a young

00:39:49.240 black man?

00:39:50.700 So he's 0.93

00:39:51.460 defending his

00:39:52.140 son,

00:39:52.560 making excuses

00:39:53.280 for him,

00:39:54.600 playing the

00:39:55.040 race card,

00:39:55.980 playing the

00:39:56.560 race card even

00:39:57.160 though everybody

00:39:58.340 involved in

00:39:58.860 this story

00:39:59.360 apparently is

00:40:00.240 black, 0.58

00:40:01.760 including the 0.98

00:40:02.640 victim.

00:40:04.680 And we

00:40:06.640 know that

00:40:06.940 because we've

00:40:07.320 heard from,

00:40:08.500 I don't know if

00:40:08.780 we've seen

00:40:09.000 the mother,

00:40:09.300 but we've

00:40:09.460 heard audio.

00:40:10.020 There's a

00:40:10.500 report where

00:40:10.940 the mother

00:40:11.880 was interviewed

00:40:12.380 and there's

00:40:12.760 at least audio

00:40:13.340 of her and

00:40:13.940 it's clear that

00:40:14.640 everybody involved

00:40:16.540 in the story is 0.98

00:40:16.880 black.

00:40:17.160 So how do 0.95

00:40:17.680 you play the

00:40:20.100 race card?

00:40:20.640 It doesn't

00:40:21.660 matter because

00:40:22.500 for somebody

00:40:23.820 like this

00:40:24.300 guy,

00:40:25.440 this father,

00:40:26.220 the race

00:40:27.860 card is

00:40:28.240 instinctive.

00:40:30.740 You know, 0.96

00:40:30.880 a black 0.55

00:40:31.220 person literally 1.00

00:40:31.920 can't do

00:40:32.540 anything wrong

00:40:33.180 ever in his

00:40:33.800 mind.

00:40:35.500 That's what

00:40:36.020 people like

00:40:36.360 this really

00:40:36.740 believe.

00:40:38.000 They truly

00:40:38.800 believe it.

00:40:40.040 Because the 0.98

00:40:40.700 boy is black, 0.97

00:40:41.360 he can never 1.00

00:40:41.800 do anything

00:40:42.180 wrong and

00:40:43.940 should never

00:40:44.320 be held

00:40:44.600 accountable for

00:40:45.140 anything he

00:40:45.500 does ever.

00:40:47.820 I mean,

00:40:48.440 anything.

00:40:50.420 That is the

00:40:51.140 honest-to-God

00:40:51.800 belief system

00:40:52.780 at play here.

00:40:54.100 we are

00:40:55.980 dealing with

00:40:56.500 a belief

00:40:56.980 system that

00:40:58.620 says,

00:40:59.240 well,

00:41:00.200 a young

00:41:01.220 black kid 1.00

00:41:02.100 can rape 1.00

00:41:03.020 or kill 1.00

00:41:03.660 someone and 1.00

00:41:05.540 he should

00:41:06.680 not be

00:41:07.280 punished at

00:41:07.700 all.

00:41:08.700 Like,

00:41:09.160 he shouldn't

00:41:09.440 even lose

00:41:09.860 his PlayStation.

00:41:10.760 Okay?

00:41:10.980 Like,

00:41:11.140 he shouldn't

00:41:11.460 even,

00:41:12.400 nothing should

00:41:13.720 happen to

00:41:14.080 him.

00:41:16.260 And I'm

00:41:16.880 not even

00:41:17.200 making a

00:41:18.520 straw man out

00:41:19.120 of it.

00:41:19.260 That's what

00:41:19.460 they actually

00:41:19.760 believe.

00:41:20.080 So here's

00:41:22.440 my question,

00:41:23.140 and you

00:41:23.980 know where

00:41:24.220 I'm going

00:41:24.560 with this,

00:41:26.580 but explain

00:41:27.400 this to me.

00:41:28.940 Someone explain

00:41:29.460 to me.

00:41:30.960 How in

00:41:31.640 God's name

00:41:32.320 can we

00:41:33.760 say that

00:41:34.180 the father

00:41:34.780 of a

00:41:35.160 school shooter

00:41:35.720 who was

00:41:36.300 negligent but

00:41:37.180 not consciously

00:41:37.960 or deliberately

00:41:38.620 involved in

00:41:39.220 the crime,

00:41:40.420 how is it

00:41:41.000 that he

00:41:41.540 goes to

00:41:41.960 prison,

00:41:42.760 but this

00:41:43.920 dad,

00:41:44.260 if these

00:41:44.540 allegations

00:41:44.960 are true,

00:41:46.040 doesn't go

00:41:47.320 to prison?

00:41:47.680 All of

00:41:49.500 the same

00:41:49.860 logic

00:41:50.200 applies

00:41:50.600 here.

00:41:51.740 And more.

00:41:54.740 Extreme

00:41:55.260 negligence,

00:41:56.180 extreme

00:41:56.640 levels of

00:41:57.320 parental

00:41:57.600 neglect,

00:41:58.280 and on

00:41:58.520 top of

00:41:58.860 that,

00:41:59.400 even after

00:41:59.940 the fact,

00:42:00.640 he's still

00:42:01.040 defending

00:42:01.440 his kid.

00:42:04.120 Colin

00:42:04.460 Gray at

00:42:05.580 least didn't

00:42:06.060 do that.

00:42:08.540 Colin

00:42:08.900 Gray

00:42:09.420 exhibited

00:42:10.320 plenty of

00:42:11.300 remorse,

00:42:11.860 that he was

00:42:12.360 distraught by

00:42:13.000 all this,

00:42:13.420 and I

00:42:13.680 believe that

00:42:14.080 he is.

00:42:14.460 I still

00:42:18.220 think there's

00:42:18.600 a good

00:42:19.280 argument for

00:42:19.760 sending him

00:42:20.140 to jail,

00:42:20.620 I just

00:42:20.880 think that

00:42:21.160 it should

00:42:21.380 be done

00:42:21.740 consistently.

00:42:25.040 But when

00:42:25.560 he gets

00:42:25.880 up there

00:42:26.240 and says

00:42:26.620 that he's

00:42:26.880 distraught,

00:42:27.320 I believe

00:42:27.640 that he

00:42:27.860 is.

00:42:29.480 This guy

00:42:30.020 doesn't even

00:42:30.440 care.

00:42:31.780 He doesn't

00:42:32.240 care that a

00:42:32.700 girl was 0.99

00:42:33.160 raped. 1.00

00:42:33.600 He does 0.99

00:42:34.140 not care.

00:42:35.120 At all.

00:42:38.100 So you

00:42:38.600 take a case

00:42:39.100 like this,

00:42:39.660 if these

00:42:40.020 boys committed

00:42:40.620 a violent

00:42:41.160 rape as 0.54

00:42:41.560 adolescents,

00:42:42.260 what that

00:42:42.620 means is

00:42:43.980 is that

00:42:44.540 at a

00:42:45.060 minimum,

00:42:46.320 their

00:42:46.580 parents are

00:42:47.260 extremely

00:42:48.000 absurdly

00:42:49.000 grotesquely

00:42:49.780 negligent in

00:42:51.020 their basic

00:42:51.620 parental duties.

00:42:53.080 They are at

00:42:53.820 least as

00:42:54.480 negligent as

00:42:55.520 any of the

00:42:56.140 parents of

00:42:56.720 these school

00:42:57.080 shooters.

00:42:57.960 But very

00:42:58.420 likely, in

00:42:58.980 fact, these

00:42:59.540 parents are 0.84

00:43:00.040 worse than

00:43:00.620 negligent, and

00:43:01.180 we all know

00:43:01.580 that.

00:43:01.800 I mean, where

00:43:02.140 does a

00:43:02.480 12-year-old

00:43:03.100 learn to

00:43:04.100 be a 0.98

00:43:04.360 rapist? 0.76

00:43:06.140 How is

00:43:07.100 that even

00:43:07.400 possible?

00:43:08.260 How is it

00:43:08.780 even possible

00:43:09.500 for a 12-year-old

00:43:10.560 to conceive

00:43:11.400 of committing

00:43:12.320 a crime like

00:43:12.960 this?

00:43:13.240 How is it

00:43:14.380 possible?

00:43:16.120 I have a

00:43:16.880 12-year-old

00:43:17.340 son at

00:43:17.840 home.

00:43:18.400 It is

00:43:19.000 impossible that

00:43:20.320 he could ever

00:43:20.740 commit a

00:43:21.100 crime like

00:43:21.520 this.

00:43:21.920 It couldn't

00:43:22.540 happen.

00:43:23.480 I mean, the

00:43:23.840 risk of it

00:43:24.320 happening is

00:43:24.880 zero percent.

00:43:25.980 It's not

00:43:26.260 even, it's

00:43:27.660 just not in

00:43:28.460 his universe

00:43:29.280 of things that

00:43:30.640 could ever

00:43:31.060 occur.

00:43:32.800 And if your

00:43:33.540 son is

00:43:33.920 properly

00:43:34.360 raised, even

00:43:36.020 just moderate,

00:43:36.940 like you don't

00:43:37.220 have to be a

00:43:37.540 perfect parent,

00:43:37.940 but if you're

00:43:39.400 a basically

00:43:40.300 competent

00:43:40.840 parent, then

00:43:42.960 at 12

00:43:45.100 years old,

00:43:45.740 you might

00:43:46.020 be worried,

00:43:46.800 there's plenty

00:43:47.100 of things to

00:43:47.500 worry about,

00:43:47.980 but you're

00:43:49.720 not worried

00:43:50.100 about that.

00:43:50.480 That's not

00:43:50.880 going to

00:43:51.080 happen.

00:43:52.760 So the

00:43:53.260 chances are

00:43:53.740 very, very

00:43:54.180 high that

00:43:54.620 not only are

00:43:55.220 this boy's

00:43:56.260 parents negligent,

00:43:57.280 but they are

00:43:57.660 in fact actively

00:43:58.580 abusing their

00:43:59.240 child.

00:44:00.580 I don't know

00:44:01.180 that.

00:44:01.440 I'm not stating

00:44:01.960 that as a

00:44:02.400 fact.

00:44:03.260 I'm saying

00:44:04.020 the chances

00:44:04.420 are incredibly

00:44:05.460 high.

00:44:07.480 The chances

00:44:08.300 are incredibly

00:44:09.180 high.

00:44:12.540 If you

00:44:13.200 could be a

00:44:13.580 fly on the

00:44:14.160 wall in

00:44:14.740 this boy's

00:44:15.240 home for

00:44:16.120 even just

00:44:16.580 one day,

00:44:17.780 you would

00:44:19.120 be horrified

00:44:20.100 by what you

00:44:20.980 see.

00:44:21.840 Horrified by

00:44:22.580 it.

00:44:24.580 And it's

00:44:25.360 so much

00:44:25.840 worse than

00:44:26.640 even people

00:44:27.260 think.

00:44:30.180 You know,

00:44:30.820 these homes

00:44:31.300 and these

00:44:31.580 inner cities

00:44:32.140 what's

00:44:33.700 going on

00:44:34.080 in those

00:44:34.320 homes.

00:44:36.200 Like if

00:44:37.380 unless you've

00:44:38.800 experienced it

00:44:39.720 or you've

00:44:40.260 worked,

00:44:40.720 been a social

00:44:41.240 worker or

00:44:41.720 something or

00:44:42.040 a cop.

00:44:45.540 You can't

00:44:46.560 even conceive

00:44:47.840 how bad

00:44:48.540 it is.

00:44:50.020 I can't

00:44:50.760 conceive it.

00:44:53.080 I can listen

00:44:53.840 to people.

00:44:54.200 I can listen

00:44:54.660 to, I've

00:44:55.020 talked to

00:44:55.320 plenty of

00:44:55.560 police officers

00:44:55.960 about this

00:44:56.280 kind of

00:44:56.460 thing.

00:44:56.920 And, and

00:44:57.760 yeah, it's

00:44:58.200 just like

00:44:58.760 calling it

00:45:00.640 negligent is,

00:45:01.640 is

00:45:02.340 understating

00:45:03.840 the case

00:45:04.500 to an

00:45:06.440 extreme

00:45:06.740 degree.

00:45:09.620 And, I

00:45:11.720 mean, these

00:45:12.180 are homes

00:45:12.740 where there's

00:45:13.360 basically like

00:45:14.460 a constant

00:45:15.740 campaign of,

00:45:18.100 of, it's

00:45:20.380 just, it's

00:45:20.860 constant abuse

00:45:21.760 of, of

00:45:22.260 every type

00:45:22.860 happening all

00:45:23.460 the time.

00:45:23.900 and, and

00:45:26.680 yet, and

00:45:27.940 that's how

00:45:28.340 these kids

00:45:28.680 end up

00:45:28.980 this way.

00:45:31.300 Not just

00:45:31.920 this kid, but

00:45:32.680 every kid in

00:45:33.780 the inner

00:45:34.020 city who's

00:45:34.700 on a street

00:45:35.900 corner, getting

00:45:37.000 involved in

00:45:37.540 gangs, robbing 0.99

00:45:39.000 liquor stores, 0.92

00:45:40.600 shooting and 1.00

00:45:41.000 killing each 1.00

00:45:41.400 other, every 0.99

00:45:42.060 single one of

00:45:42.460 them, every

00:45:42.960 single one of

00:45:43.680 them are

00:45:45.100 coming from

00:45:45.600 homes that

00:45:46.300 are, they

00:45:49.360 don't have

00:45:49.840 parents.

00:45:50.300 Like, they

00:45:51.160 have, they

00:45:52.160 have people

00:45:52.600 who conceived

00:45:53.840 and birthed

00:45:54.360 them, but

00:45:54.620 they don't

00:45:54.960 really have

00:45:55.500 parents.

00:45:56.760 It's just

00:45:57.420 total Lord

00:45:57.940 of the

00:45:58.120 Flies.

00:45:59.760 And, and

00:46:00.480 worse.

00:46:02.500 And yet, these

00:46:03.340 kinds of

00:46:03.720 parents are

00:46:04.160 never charged.

00:46:05.960 In cases like

00:46:07.020 this, cases of

00:46:07.860 violence, crime,

00:46:08.860 abuse carried 1.00

00:46:09.500 out by black 1.00

00:46:11.000 kids from the 0.78

00:46:11.560 inner city, the

00:46:12.280 parents are

00:46:12.900 never charged.

00:46:14.300 Unless they

00:46:15.040 were actually

00:46:15.680 consciously, actively

00:46:16.920 involved in a

00:46:17.840 crime, and even

00:46:18.700 then, many times

00:46:19.760 they're not

00:46:19.940 charged.

00:46:20.300 So, why isn't

00:46:21.420 the school

00:46:21.740 shooter logic

00:46:22.820 ever applied

00:46:23.760 to these

00:46:24.440 parents?

00:46:26.620 Ever.

00:46:28.140 Well, we all

00:46:28.720 know the

00:46:28.980 reason.

00:46:30.040 There have

00:46:30.420 been five

00:46:31.020 cases of

00:46:31.560 parents of

00:46:31.980 school shooters

00:46:32.500 or mass

00:46:33.100 shooters who

00:46:33.540 have been

00:46:33.800 charged.

00:46:34.680 All but one

00:46:35.400 of them have

00:46:36.300 been white.

00:46:37.400 And even in

00:46:37.940 the one case

00:46:38.600 where the

00:46:39.280 parents were

00:46:39.720 not white,

00:46:40.360 the point is

00:46:41.000 that school

00:46:41.560 shootings are

00:46:42.480 seen as

00:46:43.120 white suburban

00:46:44.120 crimes.

00:46:45.280 Now, they

00:46:45.820 actually aren't

00:46:46.580 exclusively or

00:46:48.180 even mainly

00:46:48.860 white suburban

00:46:49.800 crimes, but

00:46:50.260 that's how

00:46:50.660 they're

00:46:50.840 seen.

00:46:51.800 It is a

00:46:52.580 white-coated

00:46:53.400 crime.

00:46:55.440 And that

00:46:55.620 is why,

00:46:57.200 which,

00:46:57.980 inaccurately

00:46:58.640 white-coated,

00:46:59.220 but that's

00:46:59.520 just the way

00:47:00.640 it's perceived.

00:47:02.220 And that's

00:47:02.860 why this crime

00:47:03.660 and only this

00:47:04.540 crime is

00:47:06.660 treated this

00:47:07.120 way.

00:47:07.380 It's with

00:47:07.980 this kind of

00:47:08.440 crime and

00:47:08.760 only this

00:47:09.120 crime where

00:47:09.840 you see

00:47:10.160 parents being

00:47:10.900 charged even

00:47:11.840 when the

00:47:12.220 parents were

00:47:12.740 not in

00:47:13.140 any way

00:47:13.800 deliberately or

00:47:14.900 directly

00:47:15.660 involved.

00:47:16.140 because the

00:47:18.780 truth of

00:47:19.080 the matter

00:47:19.360 is, if

00:47:19.700 you started

00:47:20.020 going down

00:47:20.500 this road

00:47:20.980 with what

00:47:21.960 we might

00:47:22.260 call ordinary

00:47:24.100 urban crime,

00:47:26.980 and sad

00:47:27.760 to say that

00:47:28.440 even this

00:47:29.500 crime is

00:47:30.380 in many

00:47:30.800 ways an

00:47:31.760 ordinary

00:47:32.300 urban crime,

00:47:35.040 I mean,

00:47:35.320 young kids

00:47:36.180 engaging in

00:47:39.540 this kind of

00:47:39.900 brutality, that

00:47:40.620 is not

00:47:41.120 uncommon,

00:47:41.680 tragically.

00:47:46.180 But if we

00:47:46.900 went down

00:47:47.280 this road,

00:47:47.900 then you'd

00:47:48.720 have thousands

00:47:49.560 of parents

00:47:50.420 in every

00:47:51.180 city in

00:47:51.740 the country

00:47:52.260 thrown in

00:47:53.240 prison.

00:47:54.420 This 12-year-old

00:47:55.500 kid's entire

00:47:56.480 family would

00:47:57.580 be in prison.

00:47:59.320 Father,

00:48:00.040 mother, I

00:48:00.420 saw a video

00:48:01.280 that I can't

00:48:02.240 confirm so I'm

00:48:02.700 not going to

00:48:02.940 play it,

00:48:03.400 purported to

00:48:04.920 be of the

00:48:06.320 aunt of one

00:48:07.220 of the

00:48:07.600 assailants who

00:48:09.020 was just

00:48:09.400 openly defending

00:48:10.340 it.

00:48:10.600 I mean,

00:48:12.060 openly

00:48:12.580 excusing it.

00:48:15.080 So,

00:48:15.680 if we went

00:48:16.920 down this

00:48:17.280 road,

00:48:18.320 you would

00:48:19.540 take this

00:48:19.920 12-year-old

00:48:20.400 boy, 0.97

00:48:21.480 throw him 0.99

00:48:21.780 in prison,

00:48:22.420 and his

00:48:22.800 entire family

00:48:23.800 with him.

00:48:25.620 Like,

00:48:26.040 his whole

00:48:26.520 family.

00:48:30.400 Which,

00:48:30.840 at this point,

00:48:31.220 I would say,

00:48:31.680 so be it.

00:48:32.660 At this point,

00:48:33.200 I would say,

00:48:33.760 you know what,

00:48:34.320 that's what we

00:48:34.820 should do.

00:48:36.180 Fine, you

00:48:36.660 want to keep

00:48:37.060 putting parents

00:48:37.880 in jail when

00:48:38.500 their kids

00:48:39.520 commit school

00:48:40.100 shootings,

00:48:41.460 okay.

00:48:45.740 I think there

00:48:46.380 are reasonable

00:48:46.780 objections a

00:48:47.340 person can

00:48:47.700 raise,

00:48:49.180 but it's

00:48:50.740 already

00:48:50.940 happening.

00:48:52.120 Toothpaste is

00:48:52.620 out of the

00:48:52.920 tube on this

00:48:53.480 one, and I

00:48:54.180 see the

00:48:54.460 argument for

00:48:55.000 it.

00:48:56.180 I see the

00:48:56.820 argument for

00:48:57.340 it.

00:48:59.260 But, okay,

00:49:00.060 let's take it

00:49:00.720 all the way.

00:49:02.180 If we're going to

00:49:03.060 do this, if this

00:49:04.000 is what we're

00:49:04.320 doing, then

00:49:04.840 okay.

00:49:05.100 you cannot be

00:49:10.200 blamed for

00:49:10.940 everything your

00:49:11.540 kid does,

00:49:12.540 particularly as

00:49:13.060 they get

00:49:13.460 older,

00:49:13.960 particularly as

00:49:14.340 they become

00:49:14.560 adults, but

00:49:16.320 there's a

00:49:17.380 certain

00:49:17.700 standard, I

00:49:19.260 guess, is

00:49:19.820 what is the

00:49:20.340 message now in

00:49:21.400 society and

00:49:22.200 from the

00:49:22.460 court system,

00:49:22.960 although the

00:49:23.820 message is only

00:49:24.380 being applied in

00:49:25.260 a very specific

00:49:27.020 and I think

00:49:27.560 discriminatory way.

00:49:30.140 But the

00:49:31.240 message is

00:49:31.880 you can't be

00:49:35.220 blamed for

00:49:35.480 everything your

00:49:35.800 kid does, but

00:49:36.880 there's a

00:49:38.240 basic standard

00:49:40.440 you just need

00:49:42.280 to live up to

00:49:42.940 as a parent.

00:49:43.960 And if you

00:49:44.320 cannot live up

00:49:45.200 to that standard,

00:49:46.020 and that

00:49:46.220 standard is

00:49:46.720 bare, not

00:49:49.120 even bare

00:49:49.440 minimum.

00:49:49.820 I mean, the

00:49:50.680 bar here is

00:49:51.900 under the

00:49:52.420 earth.

00:49:53.480 It's like

00:49:54.020 you need to

00:49:55.680 raise a kid

00:49:56.220 who's not a

00:49:56.660 school shooter.

00:49:58.620 Like, you

00:49:59.180 need to raise

00:49:59.520 a kid who

00:50:00.160 does not

00:50:00.940 become a

00:50:02.660 mass-murdering 1.00

00:50:03.580 psychopath before 0.99

00:50:05.180 the age of

00:50:05.600 18.

00:50:06.020 Like, you

00:50:06.580 need to do

00:50:07.260 that.

00:50:07.620 You need to

00:50:07.960 be able to

00:50:08.400 do that.

00:50:08.780 And if you

00:50:09.080 can't do

00:50:09.420 that, then

00:50:09.880 you're going

00:50:10.160 to face

00:50:10.440 consequences.

00:50:11.560 And again,

00:50:12.100 fine.

00:50:14.280 But I

00:50:15.780 want to see

00:50:16.140 that logic

00:50:16.720 applied across

00:50:17.340 the board.

00:50:17.920 I want to

00:50:18.180 see it applied

00:50:19.300 across the

00:50:19.780 board.

00:50:20.320 And if that

00:50:20.760 means that

00:50:21.180 hundreds and

00:50:21.700 hundreds, if

00:50:22.140 not thousands

00:50:22.680 of parents,

00:50:24.480 most of them

00:50:24.940 in the inner

00:50:25.300 city, are

00:50:26.260 sitting in

00:50:27.100 prison cells,

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00:51:52.980 All right, the

00:51:54.440 Postmillennial has

00:51:56.260 this report, the

00:51:56.740 three Austin, Texas

00:51:57.640 police officers who

00:51:58.500 stopped a mass

00:51:59.060 shooting at a bar

00:51:59.700 over the weekend

00:52:00.180 will have to appear

00:52:00.800 before a grand jury

00:52:01.780 that will decide

00:52:02.780 whether charges

00:52:03.480 should be brought 0.98

00:52:04.120 in the case.

00:52:04.760 The officers fatally

00:52:05.440 shot Diaga Diagni,

00:52:07.960 who was suspected of

00:52:09.220 killing three people

00:52:10.060 in the shooting at

00:52:10.760 Buford's backyard

00:52:11.680 beer garden.

00:52:12.740 Attorney Doug O'Connell

00:52:14.620 said the Austin

00:52:15.260 Police Association has

00:52:16.140 requested that his

00:52:16.660 team represent the

00:52:17.500 three officers as they

00:52:18.360 face a grand jury.

00:52:19.580 He wrote, the Austin

00:52:20.360 Police Association has

00:52:21.160 asked my team to

00:52:21.700 represent these three

00:52:22.540 heroes.

00:52:23.520 Unfortunately, they

00:52:24.060 will face a grand

00:52:24.640 jury hearing as is

00:52:25.460 the process directed

00:52:26.160 to the Travis County

00:52:27.360 DA by the Wren

00:52:28.240 Collective.

00:52:29.320 We will be with them

00:52:30.540 every step of the

00:52:31.000 way.

00:52:33.300 O'Connell wrote that

00:52:34.100 in Austin, the Wren

00:52:34.800 Collective requires the

00:52:35.600 DA to have a grand

00:52:36.340 jury consider charges

00:52:37.280 every time a police

00:52:37.900 officer uses force.

00:52:39.540 And the DA completely

00:52:40.540 controls the grand jury

00:52:41.500 and decides what

00:52:42.280 evidence they see and

00:52:44.040 what they're prohibited

00:52:44.760 from seeing.

00:52:45.360 Now, there is an update

00:52:49.600 to the story.

00:52:50.280 That was the report

00:52:50.880 yesterday.

00:52:51.840 But last night, the

00:52:52.980 DA came out and said

00:52:54.860 that he will not refer

00:52:55.920 these officers to a

00:52:57.500 grand jury.

00:52:58.420 Texas Tribune reports

00:52:59.320 every shooting involving

00:53:00.720 a police officer in

00:53:01.340 Travis County for the

00:53:02.000 past several years has

00:53:02.760 gone before a grand

00:53:03.620 jury.

00:53:04.380 A policy that District

00:53:05.460 Attorney Jose Garza has

00:53:07.620 said ensures transparency.

00:53:08.920 But after several

00:53:09.440 police officers took

00:53:10.140 down the gunman in a

00:53:11.620 mass shooting in

00:53:12.240 downtown Austin early

00:53:13.100 Sunday, Republican

00:53:13.740 politicians and law

00:53:14.600 enforcement advocates

00:53:15.300 began hammering Garza's

00:53:16.800 office over the idea

00:53:18.200 that the officers could

00:53:19.220 face possible criminal

00:53:20.380 charges.

00:53:22.020 Situations in

00:53:22.700 extraordinary

00:53:23.020 circumstance, said

00:53:24.000 Michael Bullock,

00:53:25.140 president of the

00:53:25.600 Austin Police

00:53:25.960 Association.

00:53:26.440 These officers have

00:53:27.000 been through enough.

00:53:28.260 Anything can happen

00:53:28.880 in a grand jury.

00:53:29.900 In a statement

00:53:30.340 released Tuesday

00:53:30.940 afternoon, Garza

00:53:31.740 echoed Abbott's

00:53:32.580 assessment of the

00:53:33.300 officers and indicated

00:53:34.660 that he would make

00:53:35.640 an exception to the

00:53:37.480 grand jury policy for

00:53:39.020 officer-involved

00:53:39.860 shootings.

00:53:40.340 Okay, so the DA is

00:53:42.960 making an exception,

00:53:43.700 he says.

00:53:44.540 After a lot of public

00:53:45.540 pressure, he will not

00:53:46.620 refer these officers to a

00:53:47.660 grand jury, which is

00:53:49.840 good because that would

00:53:51.660 be totally insane. 0.51

00:53:53.720 But this is still 0.59

00:53:54.860 insane.

00:53:55.900 I mean, the whole

00:53:56.420 situation is insane.

00:53:58.020 The DA is making an

00:53:59.680 exception here because

00:54:00.560 arbitrarily, it's basically

00:54:03.400 an arbitrary exception

00:54:04.680 that I'm glad is being

00:54:08.480 made, but it's an

00:54:10.240 arbitrary exception because

00:54:11.680 of media scrutiny.

00:54:12.960 But in every other

00:54:14.460 case, he has followed

00:54:16.060 this blanket policy of

00:54:17.800 automatically sending an

00:54:19.640 officer who shoots

00:54:20.580 somebody in line of

00:54:21.120 duty to a grand jury.

00:54:23.840 You know, this is a

00:54:25.080 crazy policy.

00:54:27.300 It is an evil policy.

00:54:28.760 It punishes police

00:54:29.800 officers for risking

00:54:30.880 their lives to protect

00:54:32.760 the public, even in

00:54:33.620 cases where the shooting

00:54:34.720 is clearly justified.

00:54:36.700 That's what they've been

00:54:37.480 doing in Austin.

00:54:37.980 If there's a shooting and

00:54:41.100 there's no doubt that it

00:54:43.180 was totally justified, like

00:54:46.140 the guy shooting at you

00:54:47.420 or shooting at innocent 1.00

00:54:48.960 people, you kill him. 1.00

00:54:50.540 Still, you got to go to, 1.00

00:54:51.420 it goes to a grand jury.

00:54:54.160 And it puts the officers

00:54:55.380 in line potentially for

00:54:57.260 devastating life-changing

00:54:58.480 repercussions.

00:54:59.720 Anything can happen with a

00:55:00.580 grand jury.

00:55:01.940 Right?

00:55:02.440 Grand juries will indict a

00:55:03.440 ham sandwich or whatever.

00:55:04.980 That's the point.

00:55:06.940 Anyone could be indicted.

00:55:08.540 That's why this is so evil.

00:55:12.060 You're a police officer, 0.98

00:55:13.200 you shoot a bad guy,

00:55:14.200 totally justified, you

00:55:15.300 risk your life, and now

00:55:17.080 you have to roll the dice

00:55:18.220 and hope you don't end up

00:55:19.260 charged with a crime.

00:55:20.280 Basically, the policy is

00:55:21.660 saying that if you as a

00:55:22.960 police officer have to 0.98

00:55:24.420 have to shoot somebody in

00:55:26.920 the line of duty, even if

00:55:29.480 you are protecting yourself

00:55:30.540 or protecting innocent

00:55:31.200 people and acting

00:55:32.400 heroically, then next,

00:55:34.600 by policy, you have to

00:55:36.960 play a game of Russian

00:55:37.860 roulette.

00:55:40.560 That's the policy.

00:55:41.500 And now it's even

00:55:42.300 crazier because

00:55:43.080 why won't the DA refer

00:55:46.300 these specific officers

00:55:47.700 to the grand jury?

00:55:49.240 If the policy is good,

00:55:51.060 if it makes sense,

00:55:52.820 if it's a good policy,

00:55:55.300 why are you abandoning it?

00:55:57.960 Why are you making an

00:55:59.140 exception?

00:56:00.960 Okay, you don't want

00:56:01.920 something to happen to

00:56:02.640 these officers.

00:56:03.060 You don't want them to

00:56:03.800 end up, you know, being

00:56:05.060 charged with a crime.

00:56:07.300 Sure.

00:56:08.500 But then for every other

00:56:10.560 officer, you are willing

00:56:12.000 to take that risk.

00:56:15.820 This is the issue.

00:56:16.720 He's basically admitting

00:56:17.600 that this is a bad policy,

00:56:19.480 that it puts officers in

00:56:20.600 line for unfair

00:56:21.340 consequences.

00:56:21.960 And he's saying that,

00:56:22.920 well, in this case, with

00:56:23.840 all the media scrutiny,

00:56:24.960 if these guys end up

00:56:26.180 charged with a crime,

00:56:27.000 then that's going to be

00:56:28.280 bad for me.

00:56:29.300 And so he's not doing it.

00:56:31.960 So this is criminal

00:56:32.920 justice reform for you.

00:56:34.420 I mean, this is what's

00:56:35.480 happening.

00:56:35.800 And a lot of people

00:56:36.280 don't realize, I mean,

00:56:39.240 I didn't realize this was

00:56:40.040 the policy down there.

00:56:40.980 And this is not the only

00:56:42.220 jurisdiction where that's

00:56:43.140 the case.

00:56:45.200 But it is just like,

00:56:48.580 I mean, how can you even

00:56:50.420 be a cop in a place like

00:56:51.580 that?

00:56:53.100 I got a lot of respect for

00:56:54.300 cops, especially in places

00:56:55.620 like that, that have

00:56:56.280 policies like this.

00:56:58.900 I just would not.

00:56:59.860 I don't know.

00:57:00.400 I would quit.

00:57:01.380 That's like, I'm out.

00:57:03.280 No way.

00:57:06.300 I mean, all you're telling

00:57:07.740 me is that if someone tries

00:57:09.140 to kill me or kill somebody 0.98

00:57:10.220 else, now you put me in a 0.99

00:57:11.360 lose-lose situation where,

00:57:13.120 you know, like I have a,

00:57:16.000 what are my options?

00:57:17.380 I can just let myself be 0.89

00:57:18.640 killed or let someone else 1.00

00:57:19.960 be killed. 1.00

00:57:22.000 Or I can shoot the person 1.00

00:57:24.080 and then probably go to 1.00

00:57:25.540 prison.

00:57:25.820 I'm not putting myself

00:57:28.520 in that spot.

00:57:31.120 I think officers who do

00:57:32.520 that are even more

00:57:33.860 heroic.

00:57:34.160 I mean, it's just, it's,

00:57:35.000 it is heroic.

00:57:37.200 And it's not like the money

00:57:38.460 is so good that it's like,

00:57:40.100 well, yeah, it's, but it's,

00:57:41.740 yeah, this is crazy that I'm

00:57:43.020 in this spot, but it's worth

00:57:44.240 it for the money.

00:57:44.840 The money is not that good.

00:57:46.440 Not even close.

00:57:48.860 And this is what's happening

00:57:49.960 all across the country.

00:57:50.740 And that's, like I said,

00:57:51.940 that's criminal justice

00:57:52.940 reform.

00:57:53.340 That's what it is.

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00:59:44.600 Finally, here's a conversation

00:59:46.200 we were having on X that I want

00:59:49.540 to bring over here if I could.

00:59:52.100 Just getting out of the news for

00:59:54.120 a moment.

00:59:55.220 There's an account, really a

00:59:56.500 slop account, just your standard

00:59:58.260 social media slop account called

01:00:00.300 American Nostalgia that posted

01:00:02.760 this picture, which you can see

01:00:04.520 it there.

01:00:05.940 And it's an image of a kid on a

01:00:07.740 bike riding down the street in a

01:00:10.160 neighborhood at dusk, right?

01:00:12.500 And it looks like something out of

01:00:14.740 the 80s or 90s.

01:00:15.720 Very nostalgic.

01:00:17.120 Now, granted, this picture is

01:00:18.400 probably AI.

01:00:20.340 This is probably AI slop, which I

01:00:22.940 hate, as you know.

01:00:24.760 It doesn't need to be AI.

01:00:26.240 Like, I don't know if it is AI.

01:00:27.240 It's like you could find a picture

01:00:28.140 just like that that exists in real

01:00:29.600 life.

01:00:29.960 Plenty of photographs like that.

01:00:31.460 But if we can leave that aside,

01:00:34.460 there was a conversation about

01:00:36.320 whether what this picture

01:00:40.780 represents is real or not.

01:00:43.540 Because we as old fogies like to

01:00:45.700 say all the time, oh, the world we

01:00:48.320 grew up in is lost.

01:00:49.520 That world is gone.

01:00:50.600 Everything's different now.

01:00:52.080 It's not like this anymore.

01:00:55.340 And I have the same thought.

01:00:58.280 You know, I think the same thing.

01:00:59.840 Is that true?

01:01:01.100 Or is it just nostalgia talking?

01:01:03.040 Well, here's what I say.

01:01:07.040 And like I said, there's an

01:01:08.040 interesting discussion about it

01:01:09.140 online right now.

01:01:10.760 I think that it's not just

01:01:12.260 nostalgia.

01:01:13.800 It is nostalgia, but it's not just

01:01:15.760 that.

01:01:16.140 This was our childhood.

01:01:17.860 And it is actually gone now.

01:01:21.300 There is a severing that has

01:01:22.920 happened between the generations.

01:01:26.860 Something that defines the current

01:01:28.940 generation of kids and probably the

01:01:30.940 one before them.

01:01:31.820 That is just different in kind from

01:01:35.520 anything that's ever existed.

01:01:38.200 People have always lamented.

01:01:40.480 Older people always lament, oh, it's 1.00

01:01:41.900 better back in the day.

01:01:42.860 There's always been that.

01:01:43.940 I get that.

01:01:45.820 But something has actually happened

01:01:47.840 in this case.

01:01:49.160 It is real.

01:01:53.360 You know, the kid riding the bike,

01:01:55.100 staying out until the streetlights

01:01:56.200 are on.

01:01:57.460 That is basically gone.

01:01:59.380 That entire way of life, that kind

01:02:02.080 of childhood, a real childhood, is

01:02:04.880 gone.

01:02:05.820 It really is gone.

01:02:07.700 Now, as a parent, you can, through

01:02:10.200 effort, through a lot of effort, a lot

01:02:12.520 of intentionality, you can create the

01:02:15.620 conditions for some version of this

01:02:18.240 for your own children.

01:02:19.760 You can basically insist by force of will

01:02:24.680 that your child is going to have some

01:02:27.180 kind of actual genuine childhood, play

01:02:29.880 outside, ride his bike, and all that kind

01:02:32.700 of stuff.

01:02:33.100 You can create the conditions for it, as we

01:02:37.080 have in our family.

01:02:38.500 But, you know, it is possible to do.

01:02:41.860 It's not easy.

01:02:43.340 Like, it's actually really difficult.

01:02:44.960 It takes a lot of effort.

01:02:45.600 But the problem, and here's the thing

01:02:48.680 that people who aren't parents or who

01:02:49.960 were parents a long time ago might not

01:02:51.440 really understand.

01:02:52.980 The problem is that, and we've been

01:02:55.200 contending with this for as long as

01:02:57.620 we've been parents, the problem is that

01:03:00.160 most of the other kids are screen

01:03:03.320 addicted zombies who don't really want

01:03:05.380 to run around outside until the

01:03:07.160 streetlights are on.

01:03:08.000 They don't want to do that.

01:03:09.420 So here's what happens very often.

01:03:10.760 This is what happens, and this is like

01:03:11.940 tragic.

01:03:12.720 I mean, it really is.

01:03:13.840 It's a tragedy that unfolds all across

01:03:18.640 the country.

01:03:19.920 You've got an energetic, free-spirited

01:03:22.960 kid, right?

01:03:24.240 Like, if you as a parent, you have a

01:03:26.080 child or multiple children, and you're

01:03:28.480 making this effort because you say, this

01:03:30.560 is what I had growing up, and I want you

01:03:32.580 to have the same thing, you're not going

01:03:34.960 to have a childhood that is totally

01:03:36.260 dominated by and defined by looking at

01:03:39.100 screens.

01:03:39.540 You're not going to have.

01:03:40.600 And so maybe you do that, and the

01:03:42.480 result is now you have this energetic

01:03:44.060 kid who loves running outside, free-spirited,

01:03:47.360 you know, much more independent than a

01:03:49.740 lot of kids are today.

01:03:50.880 That's another thing.

01:03:51.460 Kids today are not independent at all,

01:03:53.120 at all.

01:03:53.660 Like, they just, kids today just need

01:03:56.020 constant coddling and constant, they need

01:03:59.300 to be entertained, and they need to be

01:04:00.780 taken around places, and they need,

01:04:02.640 everything needs to be structured.

01:04:03.660 But the independence of, like, yeah, go

01:04:07.160 off and entertain yourself for hours on

01:04:09.180 end.

01:04:09.440 Most kids are just not even capable of

01:04:10.780 that.

01:04:10.920 But if you have a kid like that, a kid

01:04:15.600 who would rather climb a tree than stare

01:04:17.920 at a screen, well, he ends up, in most

01:04:21.120 cases, being kind of isolated.

01:04:22.620 And that is so sad, because 30 years

01:04:25.840 ago, 40 years ago, that kid, free-spirited,

01:04:30.920 energetic, fun-loving, rambunctious, that

01:04:37.100 kid would be the most popular kid in the

01:04:38.560 neighborhood, right?

01:04:40.820 He would have no end of friends everywhere,

01:04:43.440 and everyone wants to hang out with him.

01:04:44.800 Now the other kids in the neighborhood are

01:04:46.380 home with the screen, and that kid is

01:04:49.220 climbing the tree alone.

01:04:50.240 That's what's happening.

01:04:53.240 I mean, it is the great tragedy of modern

01:04:55.060 times, one of them.

01:04:56.720 And the data bears this out.

01:04:58.300 I mean, every study I've ever read, and

01:04:59.620 I've read a bunch of them on this

01:05:01.080 subject, show that kids are spending a

01:05:03.200 lot less time, a lot less time, playing

01:05:06.740 outside.

01:05:07.380 I mean, which is not a surprise.

01:05:08.660 We all have, this is something that is, I

01:05:10.940 think, lines up with almost everybody's

01:05:12.140 anecdotal experience.

01:05:13.760 There's a lot less time with unstructured,

01:05:16.540 unscheduled, unguided play.

01:05:20.240 And depending on what you look, it's like

01:05:22.220 50%, 60%, 70% less time in that kind of

01:05:28.140 play compared to previous generations.

01:05:30.760 And obviously, they're spending a lot more

01:05:33.820 time, a lot more time with screens.

01:05:36.760 That's what every study says.

01:05:41.220 Now, yes, you can go back to the 90s, and

01:05:43.240 parents were complaining about their kids

01:05:44.920 looking at screens too much.

01:05:46.640 But back then, there was only one screen, it

01:05:49.020 was a TV.

01:05:50.180 And spending too much time with a screen, that

01:05:52.940 was like two hours a day.

01:05:54.760 Okay?

01:05:55.440 Back then, if you were watching TV for two

01:05:57.420 hours a day, that was a lot.

01:05:59.300 That's like you were a couch potato, you're a 0.98

01:06:01.840 fat couch potato watching two hours of TV a 0.99

01:06:03.860 day. 0.66

01:06:04.000 But now, two hours of screen time is like

01:06:07.420 you're, I mean, that's unheard of practically

01:06:10.180 for a lot of people because it's so low.

01:06:14.800 And it's not just the screens.

01:06:17.100 Mass migration is also a big part of the

01:06:18.960 story.

01:06:19.660 Thanks to mass migration, neighborhoods are

01:06:21.840 a lot, many neighborhoods are less safe.

01:06:24.160 They're more culturally fractured.

01:06:26.220 There's a much greater chance that you live in

01:06:28.180 a neighborhood where your kid doesn't even

01:06:29.800 speak the same language as the other kids

01:06:31.900 in his neighborhood.

01:06:33.400 And on top of that, people are having

01:06:36.000 fewer kids.

01:06:38.240 And they're having kids later in life.

01:06:41.020 And on top of that, kids have never been

01:06:43.720 subjected to more structured play.

01:06:46.900 Like parents today fill their schedules,

01:06:50.280 their kids' schedules with organized

01:06:52.880 activities.

01:06:54.460 There are some parents that are just

01:06:55.820 constantly bringing their kids to

01:06:57.740 everything they do that is recreational

01:07:00.060 is either on a screen

01:07:02.020 or it is structured.

01:07:03.200 It's like, I'm going to bring you to this

01:07:04.620 thing at four o'clock

01:07:06.180 and it's going to be over at six.

01:07:08.380 And then we're going home.

01:07:10.420 And that's, and that's,

01:07:11.760 and kids have never had more of that

01:07:13.200 than they do right now.

01:07:15.460 Um,

01:07:16.020 so,

01:07:18.260 and what that means is that there isn't

01:07:20.800 time to just roam around the neighborhood

01:07:22.280 and have adventures with the neighborhood

01:07:24.060 kids.

01:07:24.780 There isn't time.

01:07:25.620 There isn't time for it.

01:07:28.020 There aren't as many other kids around

01:07:29.960 to do that with.

01:07:32.200 And the kids who are around,

01:07:33.480 many of them would rather look at screens.

01:07:35.740 Plus you have the cultural fracturing

01:07:37.480 and this is what you end up with.

01:07:40.800 Now there are exceptions to this.

01:07:42.520 Like there are pockets of places,

01:07:44.640 areas here and there where people were,

01:07:46.240 where something like the nineties style

01:07:48.180 childhood still exists,

01:07:49.440 but they are rare.

01:07:51.200 They are very rare.

01:07:52.340 And I'll tell you something.

01:07:52.860 If you live in a place like that,

01:07:54.020 and I've had some people tell me

01:07:55.740 when we were talking about this,

01:07:56.680 that,

01:07:57.240 well,

01:07:57.340 that's what my neighborhood's like.

01:07:59.000 Kids are out riding bikes all the time.

01:08:00.700 You know,

01:08:00.840 my kid goes out,

01:08:01.780 he plays all day with all the neighborhood kids.

01:08:03.900 If you live in a neighborhood like that,

01:08:05.440 don't leave.

01:08:06.620 Okay.

01:08:07.000 Don't,

01:08:07.380 don't leave.

01:08:08.940 Uh,

01:08:09.740 I enjoy your oasis and don't tell anybody about it.

01:08:13.600 Don't tell anybody about it.

01:08:15.140 And don't,

01:08:16.260 don't,

01:08:16.760 uh,

01:08:17.040 it's like,

01:08:17.600 yeah,

01:08:17.880 yeah.

01:08:18.180 Just stay there.

01:08:19.540 Don't leave until you're,

01:08:21.180 at least until your children are grown because you found a,

01:08:23.700 uh,

01:08:23.920 an oasis and I envy you.

01:08:26.240 But in most places,

01:08:27.600 it's not like that at all.

01:08:31.960 You know,

01:08:32.480 I think about my own experience as a child and,

01:08:35.780 um,

01:08:36.200 it's very much like the experience that of anyone,

01:08:39.600 my age or older,

01:08:40.660 very common,

01:08:41.980 right?

01:08:43.120 Nothing extraordinary about it.

01:08:45.380 Typical Saturday,

01:08:46.440 right?

01:08:46.720 You,

01:08:46.880 you wake up in the morning early.

01:08:49.200 You're excited to start the day.

01:08:51.360 Uh,

01:08:51.880 eat some cereal,

01:08:52.800 probably watch some Saturday morning cartoons for about an hour.

01:08:56.820 Then go outside.

01:08:58.700 And,

01:08:59.180 uh,

01:08:59.340 I tell my parents,

01:09:00.120 I'd say,

01:09:00.420 I'm going to play outside.

01:09:01.960 And they'd say,

01:09:02.740 okay,

01:09:02.940 be back by dinner.

01:09:05.320 And then you leave the house.

01:09:08.060 Imagine you just leave the house.

01:09:09.560 No plan.

01:09:11.100 There's nothing scheduled.

01:09:12.020 There's no activity that's been planned ahead of time.

01:09:15.280 You just leave the house and you physically go and knock on the door of your,

01:09:22.380 where your friends live and say,

01:09:24.500 Hey,

01:09:24.620 can you come out and play?

01:09:25.520 And then you would go do that.

01:09:26.620 And you would wander around and you would like go on little adventures.

01:09:30.820 And you'd,

01:09:31.680 we,

01:09:31.940 we would,

01:09:32.400 we would roam through the woods,

01:09:33.900 you know,

01:09:34.200 behind the house.

01:09:35.720 There were train tracks about a mile from our house.

01:09:37.940 And we would go and watch the trains pass by sometimes,

01:09:41.460 which was like,

01:09:42.200 yeah,

01:09:42.380 not the safest thing.

01:09:43.340 We got kind of close to the trains,

01:09:45.240 whatever.

01:09:45.680 We,

01:09:45.960 we'd play basketball,

01:09:47.520 tackle football,

01:09:48.200 street hockey.

01:09:49.440 Um,

01:09:50.300 there were always little dramas,

01:09:51.800 you know,

01:09:52.080 unfolding in the neighborhood,

01:09:53.260 right?

01:09:53.640 Like feuds and fights and resolutions and villains and heroes and the whole

01:09:59.240 thing.

01:10:00.100 And,

01:10:00.620 uh,

01:10:01.160 and then you go home at night and,

01:10:02.640 you know,

01:10:02.760 you need dinner,

01:10:03.860 uh,

01:10:05.180 maybe play cards or something as a family.

01:10:08.460 And then,

01:10:09.200 and then if you're in the nineties,

01:10:10.960 you'd,

01:10:11.300 uh,

01:10:11.540 you miss it.

01:10:12.180 It's Saturday night.

01:10:12.960 You'd wrap up the night with,

01:10:14.300 uh,

01:10:14.440 what was it called?

01:10:15.100 Snick,

01:10:15.660 right?

01:10:16.540 It's the Saturday night Nickelodeon.

01:10:19.420 Are you afraid of the dark?

01:10:20.720 You know,

01:10:20.920 get,

01:10:21.140 get the,

01:10:21.580 get the,

01:10:22.000 um,

01:10:22.240 get the jump scare in before you go to bed.

01:10:25.020 And,

01:10:25.500 uh,

01:10:25.680 and that was it.

01:10:26.540 And it's just not that way anymore.

01:10:29.720 I know that lamenting this makes it just sounds old and out of touch.

01:10:33.720 And I understand that,

01:10:34.660 but it's a real thing.

01:10:37.320 It is a real thing that existed,

01:10:39.560 not just in the nineties,

01:10:41.880 but this is just what it was like.

01:10:43.760 I mean,

01:10:43.960 there was a,

01:10:44.700 this is what childhood was like basically forever.

01:10:47.020 I mean,

01:10:47.620 it,

01:10:47.780 it came in different forms and technology changed and communities changed,

01:10:51.680 but this is basically what it was not just for a decade,

01:10:56.260 but for ever until now.

01:11:02.120 It's not like that.

01:11:05.320 And,

01:11:05.800 you know,

01:11:05.920 we've tried really hard to give our kids a childhood.

01:11:07.880 That's at least a real childhood,

01:11:09.360 one that's not spent on the screens.

01:11:10.960 And we've done that successfully,

01:11:12.240 I think,

01:11:12.840 but it's not really the same.

01:11:14.980 And my nostalgia for those days is not for my own sake.

01:11:22.000 Like,

01:11:22.480 I don't want to go back to that myself.

01:11:25.820 Right.

01:11:26.360 I'm a grown man.

01:11:27.460 I'm not,

01:11:28.100 I,

01:11:29.660 I am not wishing,

01:11:31.760 uh,

01:11:33.440 wistfully that I could go back and do that again.

01:11:36.520 No,

01:11:37.100 I want my kids to have it.

01:11:39.280 I want that for my kids.

01:11:40.940 I desperately want them to have it.

01:11:44.980 But they don't.

01:11:46.540 They have the best version of something that we can possibly give them,

01:11:50.680 but they don't have that.

01:11:53.720 And they never will.

01:11:55.840 That life is gone.

01:11:57.080 It just is.

01:11:59.980 And this is the key difference between what I'm talking about. 0.95

01:12:04.420 And because there's another kind of millennial nostalgia that is truly pathetic and is, 0.92

01:12:11.420 uh, 0.96

01:12:11.780 and is infantilizing to the individual,

01:12:13.640 but that is more like the,

01:12:15.860 the,

01:12:16.200 the Disney adult,

01:12:17.600 right?

01:12:18.280 That's the adult who goes to Disney by themselves.

01:12:21.120 Um,

01:12:21.740 childless,

01:12:22.360 these like childless grown adults who are still living like kids.

01:12:26.520 Those are people who are trying to live their own childhood permanently.

01:12:31.260 These are people who are jealously clinging on to the things of their own childhood.

01:12:37.460 Peter Pan syndrome,

01:12:39.200 refusing to grow up. 1.00

01:12:41.120 That's pathetic. 0.99

01:12:43.860 What I'm talking about is not that. 0.98

01:12:46.400 And what I'm talking about is much deeper.

01:12:48.280 And I think what a lot of people are experiencing,

01:12:50.160 uh,

01:12:51.580 what,

01:12:51.900 what,

01:12:52.640 what,

01:12:53.120 what a lot of people feel is much deeper than that.

01:12:57.560 It's not nostalgia.

01:12:58.580 It's actually longing.

01:13:00.280 That's what it is.

01:13:01.140 And there's a difference.

01:13:02.060 And longing is a real thing.

01:13:04.340 It's a human thing.

01:13:05.680 And it's something that you should feel.

01:13:07.280 And there's a lot to long for there,

01:13:08.580 but I'm longing not for something for me,

01:13:10.960 but for my kids.

01:13:13.360 And,

01:13:13.820 um,

01:13:14.500 I wish that were possible.

01:13:16.660 I wish it were possible.

01:13:17.600 That they could leave the house at 9am on a Saturday morning and go have all

01:13:22.120 these adventures all day long.

01:13:23.560 And I don't see them back until six o'clock at night.

01:13:26.720 And they've got grass stains on their jeans and they've got all kinds of

01:13:30.500 stories about everything they've been up to all day.

01:13:33.280 Um,

01:13:33.800 but for the most part,

01:13:35.040 for most people where they live,

01:13:36.180 that just doesn't,

01:13:36.920 that doesn't happen.

01:13:38.100 Can't happen.

01:13:39.680 Not,

01:13:40.140 not the same way anyway.

01:13:42.220 And,

01:13:42.700 um,

01:13:44.000 I don't know.

01:13:45.480 I wish that there was some kind of resolution.

01:13:47.000 Resolution at the end of this,

01:13:48.100 where I could give a plan for recapturing that,

01:13:50.480 but I don't know that there is one.

01:13:52.020 I think the,

01:13:52.500 I think the only plan is,

01:13:53.620 uh,

01:13:53.740 as I said,

01:13:54.280 just create an environment that is as much like that as possible.

01:14:00.860 And if you do find a community where there's still that kind of thing,

01:14:04.320 then as I said,

01:14:05.660 don't,

01:14:06.920 don't let it go.

01:14:08.600 That's something to cherish.

01:14:10.860 Hold on to it.

01:14:11.660 All right.

01:14:13.560 That'll do it for the show today.

01:14:15.960 Talk tomorrow.

01:14:16.640 Have a great day.

01:14:18.420 Godspeed.

01:14:18.820 What do Snow White,

01:14:26.720 Cinderella,

01:14:27.580 and smallpox blankets have in common?

01:14:30.340 They're all fairy tales.

01:14:32.240 For decades,

01:14:32.980 you've been told that you live on stolen land.

01:14:35.420 We are right now on stolen land.

01:14:37.380 That the Indians were peaceful.

01:14:38.700 Native Americans, 0.99

01:14:39.500 we massacred them. 1.00

01:14:40.900 Your ancestors committed genocide. 0.99

01:14:44.240 And guess what?

01:14:45.600 None of it is true.

01:14:46.380 The Native Americans were some of the most savage fighters ever known to man. 1.00

01:14:51.440 Raiding,

01:14:52.040 scalping,

01:14:52.680 torturing,

01:14:53.400 even eating enemies.

01:14:54.900 It was better to lose a battle to the U.S. Army than to get wiped out by a rival tribe. 0.96

01:14:59.020 And why did the story completely change in the 1960s?

01:15:02.260 It turns out there's a lot more to the American Indians than Hollywood directors and school teachers want you to know.

01:15:07.780 This month,

01:15:08.540 we blow up the biggest myths about the American Indians and reclaim the real history that was stolen from us.

01:15:14.680 This is the real history of the American Indian.

01:15:18.520 This is the real history of the American Indian.

The Matt Walsh Show - March 04, 2026

Ep. 1745 - Why Is The Republican Senate SABOTAGING Trump？!

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