The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1749 - AIRPORT CHAOS： The Real Reason Why Traveling These Days Feels Like A Nightmare

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00:01:01.740 Today on the Matt Walsh Show,

00:01:02.480 the air travel experience in this country

00:01:03.780 has declined catastrophically over the years,

00:01:05.840 just as the quality of almost everything else has declined.

00:01:08.020 Why is this happening?

00:01:09.340 How bad is it really?

00:01:10.300 And what can we do about it?

00:01:11.700 We'll talk about that.

00:01:12.320 Also, we know about the fraud in Minneapolis.

00:01:14.040 A new investigative investigation reveals

00:01:16.560 that the situation is even worse in California,

00:01:19.100 and Meghan Markle's Netflix deal has been canceled.

00:01:22.160 Her string of failures over the past five years

00:01:24.220 is truly impressive.

00:01:25.740 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:01:27.500 I'll usually open the show with a correction, but today I'm forced to do so.

00:01:56.960 in discussing the media's deliberately misleading coverage of the terror attack in New York City on

00:02:01.540 Saturday, I made an egregious mistake. I described CBS News as perhaps the worst offender out of

00:02:07.700 every media organization that lied to the public about what happened. But as bad as CBS's coverage

00:02:12.400 was, my statement turns out wasn't entirely accurate. Because the truth is that no single

00:02:18.020 outlet was more committed to lying about the terrorist attack than actually CNN, which aired

00:02:23.920 the following analysis from CNN's Abby Phillips last night.

00:02:27.820 This is one of those clips that seems like it can't possibly be real, but it is.

00:02:32.900 Watch. 0.83

00:02:34.260 Two Republicans say Muslims don't belong here. 0.56

00:02:37.020 After an attempted terror attack against New York's Mayor Zoran Mamdani

00:02:41.920 and the House Speaker, Mike Johnson, says nothing really to condemn those comments.

00:02:46.840 Another special guest is going to be with us at the table.

00:02:49.340 So the bombing was, quote,

00:02:50.720 an attempted terror attack against New York's Mayor Zoran Mamdani, according to CNN's Abby

00:02:55.720 Phillips. Well, there it is. It's completely false, the total inverse of the truth concerning

00:03:02.780 a major news story that took place more than 48 hours earlier, and she delivers it live on air.

00:03:09.120 Now, of course, this false narrative is precisely what every news outlet, including CNN,

00:03:13.220 has been trying to suggest for the past 48 hours. They've desperately been attempting to confuse

00:03:18.360 the public into believing this lie. They know that two Muslim terrorists tried to murder 0.99

00:03:23.280 right-wing activist Jake Lange, as well as several police officers in the name of ISIS 0.52

00:03:28.620 and global jihad. But as we've discussed, the media has been reporting the story in a way that

00:03:32.800 suggests that Mamdani was somehow targeted by anti-Islam demonstrators because the attack

00:03:38.240 occurred near his official residence. And now we have the CNN anchor coming out and repeating the

00:03:43.860 same lie that CNN has been spreading all day, except she's even more direct about it. So earlier

00:03:48.780 in the day on their official accounts, CNN posted the following text on X as well as their website

00:03:54.100 in the form of an article. And here's what CNN wrote, quote, two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed

00:04:00.040 in New York City Saturday morning for what could have been a normal day enjoying the city during

00:04:04.960 abnormally warm weather. But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair

00:04:10.180 would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs

00:04:12.440 during an anti-Muslim protest

00:04:14.560 outside of Mayor Zoran Mamdani's home.

00:04:17.960 So notice how the propaganda works. 0.96

00:04:19.760 Instead of Muslim terrorists 1.00

00:04:20.900 whose parents came here from Afghanistan and Turkey, 0.99

00:04:23.400 they are Pennsylvania teenagers

00:04:25.580 who could have been enjoying the city

00:04:27.900 during the nice warm weather.

00:04:30.140 And these Pennsylvania teenagers

00:04:32.140 don't actually do anything.

00:04:34.820 They didn't do anything.

00:04:35.920 Instead, something happens to them.

00:04:37.460 They got arrested.

00:04:38.060 their lives changed. It's all very passive. And we're told the incident occurred during an

00:04:45.000 anti-Muslim protest, which suggests that the anti-Muslim protesters were responsible for the

00:04:49.780 bombing. And that's apparently how Abby Phillips understood the story or claimed that she did.

00:04:55.640 Now, that CNN article was written by two authors, both of them women. One of them went to UC Berkeley 0.79

00:05:00.420 and Columbia Journalism School, where the yearly cost of attendance is well over $100,000.

00:05:05.540 She uses they-them pronouns and identifies as non-binary.

00:05:10.340 The other author is a Spanish-speaking Colombian immigrant to the United States who holds an undergraduate journalism degree.

00:05:17.040 And what's important to understand about this propaganda, and why I'm opening with it,

00:05:20.700 is that virtually every single mainstream media outlet is trying to do the same thing.

00:05:25.080 The mistake that CNN made in this case was being too obvious about it.

00:05:28.240 But if you pay enough attention, you'll find that journalists are paid to obscure relevant information

00:05:32.720 to the extent that the information might lead you to draw some unapproved conclusions.

00:05:37.680 If you draw those unapproved conclusions, then your life might actually get better.

00:05:43.840 The quality of life in this country might improve

00:05:46.220 instead of continuing this steady managed decline that we've been on for so many years.

00:05:51.920 Consider what's happening to air travel right now in the United States.

00:05:56.540 If you've been on a plane lately, as I have been many times,

00:05:59.760 you know that you know that it's as bad as it's ever been and now in the wake of the dhs shutdown

00:06:05.620 things are starting to really fall apart but the media as always isn't interested in providing

00:06:11.320 all of the necessary context so here's a report that just aired on mbc news on this topic and see

00:06:17.440 if you can spot uh what's missing listen get up and get here early at houston's hobby airport

00:06:25.240 those lines have been snaking out the main terminal down to the baggage claim and all the

00:06:30.900 way out to the parking garage. The airport is warning TSA wait times could be three hours or

00:06:38.300 more. We tried to allow a little more than three hours to get here. I've been waiting for about

00:06:43.660 two hours now. Got nothing else to do but wait. The same story at MSY in New Orleans.

00:06:50.220 and at Hartsfield Jackson Airport in Atlanta. The TSA's funding expired three weeks ago after

00:06:59.600 lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on ICE protocols, triggering a partial homeland security

00:07:05.840 shutdown. The White House released a statement blaming Democrats for the shutdown and airport

00:07:11.360 staffing shortages. So TSA wait times are now insanely long at three specific airports, Atlanta,

00:07:18.360 Houston Hobby, and New Orleans. Total breakdown, as you can see, they're telling passengers to get

00:07:25.340 to the airport several hours early, and the TSA long is so lying that it snakes into the parking

00:07:30.700 garage. Now, the reason that all this is happening, according to NBC News, is that Democrats are

00:07:35.220 refusing to fund DHS. You see, Democrats are upset that two left-wing agitators were killed while

00:07:40.500 assaulting and interfering with federal law enforcement officers, so they're not going to

00:07:43.800 pay for TSA anymore. And Republicans aren't willing to compromise at the moment, so therefore

00:07:48.220 you get long delays. But as an explanation for what's happening, again, that's an incomplete

00:07:53.900 analysis. And it's incomplete on purpose. Because you also have to ask yourself this question,

00:07:59.520 why exactly is the crisis only affecting three airports, all of them located in the American

00:08:04.940 South? The TSA is a national federal agency. None of these officers anywhere in the country are

00:08:11.780 getting paid at the moment. So why isn't every single airport in every city in the U.S. experiencing

00:08:17.340 a similar meltdown? Why aren't lines going to the parking garage in, you know, Maine or New Hampshire?

00:08:26.040 Now, if you look a little deeper, you'll discover that TSA agents in the South are calling in sick

00:08:32.720 in response to the funding lapse. And that's the reason for these delays. In other words,

00:08:37.060 the TSA agents in these particular airports are committing fraud on the taxpayer. Now,

00:08:42.640 they know that when the DHS is funded, they will receive back pay. So they're not getting paid

00:08:47.800 right now, but they will get paid, but they don't care. They're going to take a vacation or work a

00:08:53.340 side hustle on false pretenses because they see an opportunity to double dip. And for some unknown

00:08:58.900 reason, which can't possibly have anything to do with systemic corruption or culture or local

00:09:04.180 hiring practices or demographics or anything at all, the vast majority of TSA agents who are

00:09:09.200 committing this fraud happened to be located in three major urban centers in the southern

00:09:14.160 United States. Just a couple weeks ago, we talked about the unprecedented amount of sewage that was

00:09:19.940 flowing into D.C. streets as the local water board celebrated its diversity. Is something similar

00:09:27.340 happening with the TSA in Houston, New Orleans, and Atlanta? Whatever the case, we need to know

00:09:33.500 why so many of these TSA agents are concentrated at these particular airports and why they aren't

00:09:38.820 getting fired or even punished for committing a very flagrant, obvious fraud. But no one at NBC

00:09:46.200 News will ever investigate those questions, and we all know why. They're afraid of what they'll

00:09:50.880 discover. Above all, the media's objective is to prevent you from realizing that our cultural

00:09:58.840 decline is a choice. All of the daily indignities that we put up with are in fact optional. And we

00:10:06.980 know that because not too long ago, we didn't indulge the laziness and the corruption of the

00:10:12.260 worst among us. In an upcoming episode of Real History, we're going to talk at some length about

00:10:17.680 the book The Age of Entitlement by Christopher Caldwell. And among other things, it describes

00:10:22.220 many of the ways that society has floundered ever since the civil rights era. Turns out that when

00:10:27.220 you usher in a wave of anti-white racism at every level of society, things start to break, and they

00:10:31.440 break in ways that many people don't even realize. So here's just a couple of examples from the book.

00:10:36.080 Quote, by the 2016 presidential election, the quickest flights from New York to London took six hours and 40 minutes, almost three quarters of an hour longer than they had taken during the Nixon administration.

00:10:46.760 The train trip from New York to Washington, D.C., a mere two hours and 15 minutes when the Beatles made it on the on their first American tour in 1964, now took half an hour longer on the very fastest trains.

00:10:58.300 it's hard to believe but it's true travel by air and by train has become much slower than it was

00:11:06.020 during the 1960s there are more passengers more delays the infrastructure has degraded and

00:11:11.920 meanwhile airlines decided that flying slower would save on fuel which is the main reason they

00:11:17.160 stopped making the concord of course you could pick many other metrics where we've declined from

00:11:22.880 crime rates to fertility rates to literacy rates and so on we've talked about a fair number of

00:11:28.180 these indicators of decline, but air travel is worth focusing on because it's a relatively

00:11:33.340 expensive way to travel. It's supposed to be the crown jewel of American transportation.

00:11:39.400 And if air travel has gotten much worse, then it stands to reason that you probably don't want to

00:11:44.760 use the local subway system or take a Greyhound through the Midwest. So what exactly has gone

00:11:51.840 wrong here? Well, to answer that question, you need to recognize that air travel used to look

00:11:57.120 very different compared to how it looks today. Now for one thing, the security lines didn't

00:12:01.840 stretch to the parking lot and being a stewardess was considered a glamorous and desirable job and

00:12:07.700 passengers weren't packed together like cattle in the smallest possible seats. Let's take a look at

00:12:12.600 this Coke TWA ad from 1967, which gives you some idea. Watch. Finally, New York. Glamour job.

00:12:23.260 Marianne has made dozens of runs like this, 0.82

00:12:25.800 served hundreds of hot meals,

00:12:28.000 greeted thousands of new people.

00:12:29.740 It all demands a lot of charm

00:12:30.980 and works out to a lot of coke.

00:12:33.700 Being a flight attendant presented,

00:12:35.700 you know, was presented as an exciting

00:12:37.100 and demanding job

00:12:38.620 where she gets to travel the world

00:12:40.420 and meet interesting, well-behaved passengers.

00:12:43.220 There are only two seats per aisle.

00:12:44.780 Everyone has tons of room.

00:12:46.820 Passengers are all smiling

00:12:48.080 as they receive hot meals.

00:12:50.740 Tickets were more expensive

00:12:51.620 than they are now, but in return, the experience was 10 times more comfortable and civilized.

00:12:59.500 Watch.

00:13:00.500 Eating and drinking.

00:13:02.100 As costly as flying was, you can't say that passengers didn't get their money's worth.

00:13:06.280 Contemporary flyers consider themselves lucky if they receive a free bag of peanuts and

00:13:09.960 a cup of water to wash it down.

00:13:12.080 That's a far cry from the multi-course meals they served in the 60s, complete with fancy

00:13:16.400 silverware and tablecloths.

00:13:17.800 Since iPads and laptops didn't exist back then, people would stay occupied with bottomless 0.65

00:13:22.700 glasses of wine, champagne, and other alcoholic beverages on the house.

00:13:27.360 Even economy passengers ate and drank like royalty.

00:13:30.240 Despite technically being complimentary, the food and drinks were largely white airfare

00:13:34.360 was so high.

00:13:35.760 As excessive as 60s air travel was, the 70s took things to new heights with the introduction

00:13:40.860 off piano bars. Now, the simple explanation for why domestic air travel is now unrecognizable

00:13:46.340 is that over the past 60 years, air travel has become much cheaper. So customers have

00:13:51.260 made the choice to spend less money in exchange for worse service and a smaller seat and a flight

00:13:59.660 that takes longer. Now, today, if you shop around and buy early, you can get a cross-country plane

00:14:05.360 ticket for around 300 bucks. In the 1960s, accounting for inflation, you probably would

00:14:10.380 have spent around $1,000, the equivalent of $1,000 for the same ticket. But the issue isn't

00:14:17.360 simply that customers are paying less for worse service. The main reason air travel is so unpleasant

00:14:21.920 is that the low prices attract passengers like this, who lower the quality of air travel for

00:14:28.720 everybody in the terminal. Watch. If they give me the explanation, I don't know. And me and my

00:14:34.100 f***ing daughter, it's her birthday, my son and my other son right here, we got on the plane with 0.98

00:14:38.800 No explanation as let's get off. I'll talk to I'll talk to him. See what's going on. See what's going on 1.00

00:14:42.980 And bring him in the f**k out here cause I'm going to smack the f**k out. 0.99

00:14:47.400 Just have a seat for me. Nah, I'm not having a seat. 0.99

00:14:48.900 Just have a seat for me. That's racist as s**t. I'm not having a seat. 0.98

00:14:51.400 Just have a seat for me. I'm not having a seat. You can go talk to him. I'll stand right here. 0.99

00:14:54.400 I'm not having a seat. I'm going to need you back.

00:14:55.700 I need that racist s**t. We're not doing that racist s**t today. 1.00

00:14:57.900 You not with that racist s**t. You with me. Get the f**k off me. 1.00

00:15:01.900 Put your hands down your back. 1.00

00:15:05.900 Y'all not putting me in handcuffs.

00:15:07.900 If y'all want to talk, y'all talk.

00:15:10.180 What up to the ground, man?

00:15:10.940 What up to the ground?

00:15:12.740 What up to the ground?

00:15:15.580 What up to the ground?

00:15:16.260 What up?

00:15:18.060 Back up, back up, back up.

00:15:20.140 So, yes, you heard that correctly.

00:15:21.360 The guy is thrown off of his Spirit Airlines flight.

00:15:24.520 An officer arrives and finds that he's very agitated, so he tells him to sit down.

00:15:29.020 And in response, the guy tells the officer that he's racist for making that request.

00:15:33.860 This is what the Rosa Parks mythology has become.

00:15:36.340 It's gone from, you know, it was racist to tell Rosa Parks to give up her seat for a white person,

00:15:40.480 to it's racist to tell any black person to take a seat ever for any reason.

00:15:46.600 And then the situation escalates until it's a brawl at the airport.

00:15:50.920 Now, these kinds of seat disputes are extremely common on Spirit Airlines, as it turns out.

00:15:56.280 This is one of the more remarkable ones.

00:15:57.900 A woman claims that she's entitled to a middle seat in the 13th row, 0.92

00:16:01.460 and she shows the officers her Spirit Airlines app to confirm her seat assignment,

00:16:05.740 but then the officer notes that the woman is actually showing them a screenshot of the app

00:16:10.300 and possibly manipulated it.

00:16:12.380 And then he informs her that, according to her ticket, she needs to move to another seat.

00:16:15.900 And here's how that went.

00:16:18.060 Deputy Soto.

00:16:19.020 I'm grieving is actually how I'm doing.

00:16:21.140 I'm trying to get to a funeral.

00:16:22.420 I'm sorry.

00:16:23.160 Today.

00:16:23.420 Okay, ma'am, I'm sorry about that.

00:16:25.040 Today.

00:16:25.400 But now.

00:16:25.900 I'm sitting in my assigned seat.

00:16:27.860 No, you're supposed to be a 37E. 0.86

00:16:29.640 Come on, no. 1.00

00:16:31.240 Ma'am.

00:16:32.380 You think I would make this up?

00:16:33.600 You think I would hold everybody up?

00:16:34.420 It's right here.

00:16:35.160 it's also right here that's a screenshot it's the app view my boarding pass why would i make that up

00:16:46.280 okay let me talk to the cat hey sir i know it's on her app though

00:16:55.560 a screenshot okay she opened it up for me so let's show me how yeah let me show you this let me see

00:17:05.160 Get off the plane. The final chance. Once the handcuffs go on, there's no negotiating it.

00:17:13.960 Get off the plane or go to jail.

00:17:15.960 I'm not negotiating. I'm not doing anything.

00:17:17.960 One last chance. Off the plane or off the plane or go to jail.

00:17:21.960 What am I doing?

00:17:22.960 I'm not going to tell you. Off the plane or off the plane or go to jail.

00:17:25.960 You choose right now. What do you want to do? What do you want to do?

00:17:28.960 Off the plane, we're off the plane to go to jail.

00:17:37.960 He's asking you to please stand up and walk off.

00:17:43.960 If you stand up and walk off, you can rebook.

00:17:46.960 If not, you're going to jail.

00:17:49.960 Stand up.

00:17:54.960 Now, put aside whether or not the woman actually faked a screenshot with her boarding assignment.

00:18:02.980 That would be hilarious, but really, the footage is hilarious anyway.

00:18:07.700 I mean, the remarkable thing is that she's going to jail and forcing every passenger to the plane 1.00

00:18:11.680 and potentially faked her boarding pass over a middle seat. 0.81

00:18:16.320 So either she's really passionate about having one of the worst seats on the plane,

00:18:19.980 or she really wanted to miss the funeral that she claimed she had to get to.

00:18:23.960 either way, she's obviously irrational and entitled and highly annoying. Now, when pastors 1.00

00:18:30.660 like this flood airports every day, as they have been, and when the FAA awards massive airport

00:18:36.960 contracts on the basis of racial equity, as they've been doing, then everything gets worse.

00:18:43.200 Now, here's a great example, the so-called Jetway Jesus phenomenon. If you haven't heard about it,

00:18:48.620 this is what it is. Watch. Joining me now is NewsNation travel editor Peter Greenberg. Peter

00:18:53.720 explain to me how the wheelchair scam works, because not everyone using a wheelchair really

00:18:59.800 needs one. Correct. In fact, this goes back to 1986. It's called the Air Carrier Access Act,

00:19:05.700 and it was well-intentioned, basically, that anybody can self-declare that they have a

00:19:09.840 disability and are capable and then eligible for wheelchair assistance. What does wheelchair

00:19:14.260 assistance mean? You can basically get to the counter first, you can get to the gate first,

00:19:19.040 you go through security first, and you board first. The reason why they call them miracle

00:19:23.920 flights, and I've seen this personally on many of my flights, you'll see as many as 30 or 40 people

00:19:28.200 getting wheelchair assistance at the gate and boarding first. Of course, the airline knows

00:19:33.640 that when it lands, when that plane lands, they're going to need 40 wheelchair assistance.

00:19:38.240 Really? Guess what happens? The plane lands, it's a miracle. They can not only walk,

00:19:42.360 they can run off the plane. And in fact, as one flight attendant told me, it's Jetway Jesus

00:19:46.980 working. Now, the federal law was passed, as so many laws were passed, during a time when America

00:19:53.420 was a high-trust society. It didn't occur to Congress or the airlines that passengers in mass

00:20:00.440 would just lie about a disability in order to get a priority access to their seat. But that's

00:20:07.000 exactly what's happening. We've imported tens of millions of people who have no regard for our 1.00

00:20:11.380 culture, our way of life, or basic rules. And this is the result. Let's take a look at that

00:20:18.240 picture from the Wall Street Journal. The caption reads, there were 25 wheelchair passengers on a

00:20:23.160 recent flight out of Guadalajara's airports. Think about that. 25 wheelchair passengers on one flight.

00:20:32.420 Now, unless this is a plane headed for like the Special Olympics, that doesn't check out. That

00:20:36.560 doesn't make sense. Neither does this flight. Watch.

00:20:40.700 If your bags are checked, please ensure you remove keys, medication,

00:20:44.720 any spill, any battery, e-cigarettes, or travel documents in your broad picture.

00:20:49.660 Be avoided by group number. Take a moment to the picture of waiting cards.

00:20:52.840 Be accessed. Be avoided by your group number.

00:20:54.700 Now, this is obviously fraud. The reason that airlines tolerate this kind of

00:20:58.860 obvious fraud is that if they try to enforce the rules, they'll get sued into the ground.

00:21:04.420 That's an inevitable result of civil rights law under the regime of disparate impact.

00:21:08.900 If you do anything that has a disproportionate effect on non-white people, then you've broken the law. 0.50

00:21:14.680 And we all know that if airlines crack down on these wheelchair fraudsters, 1.00

00:21:19.540 they'd be punishing an awful lot of non-white people, and that's just not allowed anymore.

00:21:25.960 American Airlines learned this lesson the hard way a couple of years ago.

00:21:28.640 A flight attendant claimed that eight passengers had a foul odor and had to exit the aircraft.

00:21:34.540 And that led to this viral video, massive nationwide outrage, and a lawsuit that American Airlines ended up settling.

00:21:41.880 Watch.

00:21:42.740 I got to take you guys to the top.

00:21:44.340 I got to take you guys to the top.

00:21:46.480 That's a man.

00:21:49.320 That's a man.

00:21:52.480 You're the only ones getting taken off the plane.

00:21:54.980 Look at us.

00:21:58.640 I would never even film something.

00:22:04.820 This is crazy.

00:22:05.280 Right, yeah.

00:22:06.080 This is wild. 0.94

00:22:06.500 This is like eight black people. 0.97

00:22:07.960 That was wild. 0.99

00:22:10.240 That was ****, though. 0.70

00:22:11.900 I'm trying to get home.

00:22:15.940 Yeah, what's the issue?

00:22:17.520 What's going on?

00:22:20.380 Yeah, this ain't no random pics.

00:22:23.840 What's the odor that you're smelling?

00:22:28.640 So they keep saying this ain't random and I paid for my ticket, none of which is relevant or in

00:22:49.360 dispute. No, it's not random. And yes, you paid for your ticket, but that's irrelevant to the

00:22:54.480 question of whether you smell really bad, so bad that you need to be removed from an airplane.

00:23:01.200 So there's two possibilities here. Either the American Airlines flight attendant is a raging 0.98

00:23:04.680 white supremacist and he just fabricated the idea these eight passengers were emitting a foul odor, 0.96

00:23:10.320 which could mean anything from poor hygiene to marijuana use or both. The flight attendant just 0.97

00:23:16.440 decided to go full Nazi one day on this one occasion and only on this one occasion. Or in 0.60

00:23:22.640 alternative maybe these people did smell really bad and uh maybe they happen to be black also 0.97

00:23:28.800 now what you need to understand is that our legal system simply does not allow for that 0.87

00:23:32.480 second possibility to be true it's extremely difficult if not impossible to proactively

00:23:37.040 remove passengers before a flight if those passengers are not white and as a result 0.98

00:23:41.440 Well, whatever airline you fly, you get passengers like this one.

00:24:11.440 now to be fair that's another spirit flight they they keep coming up you know for reasons that i

00:24:19.240 think everybody is aware of here's another flight that we'll put up on the screen it's a uh four on

00:24:24.380 one that ends relatively quickly the bottom line is that whether you're in the terminal or the the

00:24:31.000 ticket area or on the plane you're taking your chances on spirit that's especially true now that

00:24:36.240 they're bankrupt which raises the stakes significantly in general probably not a good

00:24:39.700 idea to fly a bankrupt airline, regardless of the quality of the passengers. But to be clear,

00:24:43.780 this is not simply a Spirit Airlines problem. You can see obvious signs of decline and cost

00:24:47.060 cutting on any major carrier. Here's the first class meal that United Airlines recently served

00:24:54.180 its high paying passengers, for example. You can see it right there. It was a five hour flight

00:24:59.260 and they serve the guy a whole tomato and a bunch of cubes of some kind. And probably paid something

00:25:07.940 like $400 extra for this, it's legitimately embarrassing. Unless you fly in an international

00:25:13.920 airline or fly private, there's no amount of money you can spend that will provide anywhere

00:25:18.460 near the airline experience that was available to everybody in the 1960s and 70s. Particularly in

00:25:27.360 cities where the foreign-born population has exploded in the past few decades, cities like

00:25:30.940 Los Angeles, for example, it's also become much harder to simply get to the airport. Watch.

00:25:35.940 The LA World Airport's commission has approved increasing fees for rideshare pickups and drop-offs at LAX.

00:25:42.900 Fees for services like Uber, Lyft, taxis and even limousines are set to go up from the current $4 to $6 each way.

00:25:51.560 Those could start at the end of April.

00:25:53.580 The fee would then increase to $12 once the LAX PeopleMover starts operating, which is expected later this year.

00:26:00.420 Currently, the fees are absorbed by the service companies.

00:26:02.880 Airport officials hope it stays that way.

00:26:05.940 LAX has not raised its commercial access fee since 2016. So this takes us into alignment

00:26:13.560 with the market today. It is a fee that is for the commercial provider. So we're hopeful that

00:26:19.800 it's not passed on to drivers or customers. The fee hike is part of an effort to reduce

00:26:24.700 traffic congestion through the arrival and departure areas of the airport.

00:26:29.300 Now the fees are going up for the rideshare drivers, but don't worry, that won't be passed

00:26:33.160 along to the consumers, which, if true, would be quite remarkable.

00:26:35.880 I mean, it'd be the first time in the history of economics that a company decided not to

00:26:39.720 pass on regulatory fees to the consumer.

00:26:43.020 Of course, it's not true.

00:26:44.840 So at this point, when you go to the airport, the best case scenario you can hope for is

00:26:48.000 that you won't witness a violent assault.

00:26:50.320 And that's becoming more and more difficult to avoid, by the way.

00:26:53.580 This is from Frontier Airlines just last summer.

00:26:56.060 Watch.

00:26:57.080 Fight that broke out of midair on a Frontier Airlines plane.

00:26:59.800 It was headed to Miami.

00:27:00.520 A New Jersey man was arrested, charged after attacking another passenger.

00:27:04.760 Victor Dikendo is at Miami International Airport with this story.

00:27:06.940 Good morning, Victor.

00:27:08.860 Good morning, George.

00:27:09.860 That Frontier Airlines flight headed here to Miami from Philadelphia.

00:27:13.200 According to the police report, the victim says that he was sitting in his seat

00:27:16.440 when that other passenger grabbed him by the neck and attacked him.

00:27:22.480 This morning, an alarming scene as a fight breaks out on board a Frontier Airlines flight

00:27:27.200 bound for Miami while it was still in the air.

00:27:29.460 The plane was about to land when, according to police records, 21-year-old Ashan Sharma was returning to his seat when he allegedly grabbed another passenger by the neck.

00:27:39.660 The two, trading blows, passengers trapped, witnessing the chaos.

00:27:44.000 The man sitting behind was making comments to the man in front, like negative comments the whole flight.

00:27:52.220 And the man in front went to the bathroom.

00:27:55.000 And when he came back, that's when things started to escalate.

00:27:58.820 But Western airlines will see violence and decay like this, 0.95

00:28:01.320 and they'll conclude that their problem is white people. 0.92

00:28:04.440 That's not an exaggeration. That's what they truly believe. 0.96

00:28:07.820 This was the scene at Gatwick Airport during a recent Black History Month, for example.

00:28:12.060 They celebrate over the PA system that no white people will be flying the plane or serving the drinks. 0.83

00:28:17.540 Watch. 0.60

00:28:18.720 History Month, Tui today has an all-black flight crew and an all-black cabin crew. 0.95

00:28:28.060 Give yourself a big kid.

00:28:36.360 Now, you know, in Japan, taking a phone call on the bus is considered deeply offensive.

00:28:41.640 You're supposed to get off the bus, and everybody complies with that.

00:28:45.180 That's because Japan is a high-trust, homogenous society. 0.99

00:28:47.760 It's the kind of country that doesn't have 30 people pretending to need a wheelchair before every flight.

00:28:53.380 Now, meanwhile, in the United States, civil rights laws make those types of policies illegal.

00:28:58.060 To their credit, United Airlines is going to try anyway.

00:29:01.520 They just enacted a new policy where they kick you off the plane if you're listening to music without headphones.

00:29:06.680 Obviously, it's sad that this even needs to be a policy.

00:29:09.200 It tells you something about where we are that they even need to clarify this.

00:29:13.460 But it does appear that, as of now, United is enforcing the rule.

00:29:18.460 But you have to wonder, how long until United gets sued for racial discrimination?

00:29:23.720 Which is going to happen. 0.98

00:29:24.720 what if they kick a bunch of black people off a plane for failing to comply with this rule 0.99

00:29:30.420 now we all know that's coming because we all know there are racial disparities in the people who 0.99

00:29:37.360 tend to use their phone on speaker or listen to music without headphones you know it's there

00:29:42.820 are racial disparities in that statistic as we all have observed and we all know and so we all

00:29:48.340 know what will happen next there'll be a settlement united ends its policy and air travel once again

00:29:54.700 and gets worse for everybody. That's the trend we've been on ever since the 1960s, where we are

00:29:59.840 a wealthier nation, but the lowest common denominator is dragging down everything for

00:30:06.160 everybody, starting with air travel. And if air travel has gotten this bad, then we know trains

00:30:13.720 and buses and light rails and subways are much worse. As Caldwell points out, over the past 60

00:30:20.820 years, we've lost our ability to go to the moon. We've lost our ability to make supersonic passenger

00:30:25.100 jets at scale. We've lost the high-trust society that we once had, which is why we can't trust the 1.00

00:30:31.120 media to tell the truth about Islamic terrorist attacks. It's why we can't trust the TSA to show 0.89

00:30:34.980 up to work, why we can't trust passengers not to steal wheelchairs and so on. At the same time,

00:30:41.820 this decline, as stark as it is, can be reversed. The moment consequences are introduced, the moment

00:30:46.600 TSA officers are fired for pretending to be sick, for example, you will see a dramatic improvement

00:30:51.500 in day-to-day life in this country. It's been the mission of the civil rights movement to avoid 0.94

00:30:56.000 these punishments, and they've been very successful at doing so. And before the decline of our country

00:31:01.420 and our transit system gets any worse, and before another Spirit Airlines brawl goes viral,

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00:32:23.640 All right. After Nick Shirley's extremely successful investigation into the infamous

00:32:28.620 leering centers in Minneapolis, some news outlets have now taken an interest in fraud stories. So

00:32:34.100 CBS News has now stepped up to bat with an investigation into hospice fraud in California.

00:32:39.480 They just published a big article and a video. Here's some of the article.

00:32:44.300 Medicare is federally administered and hospices must be certified for reimbursements,

00:32:47.680 but the state issues the licenses for hospices to operate.

00:32:52.400 Three years ago, a California state auditor sounded the alarm that Los Angeles County had seen a

00:32:56.560 1,500% increase in hospice companies since 2010, more than six times the national average relative

00:33:02.900 to its elderly population.

00:33:04.680 Auditors estimate that L.A. County hospices

00:33:06.800 overbilled Medicare by $105 million in a single year.

00:33:11.960 The report called out notable red flags,

00:33:14.340 key warning signs of fraud.

00:33:15.840 The state says it proceeded to investigate

00:33:17.280 and revoke the licenses of 280 hospices.

00:33:20.640 But since then, the problem has continued to fester.

00:33:22.900 CBS News examined the business and financial records

00:33:25.060 of every hospice currently operating in L.A. County.

00:33:29.040 Indications of fraud have not stopped.

00:33:30.700 In fact, they've grown.

00:33:32.900 CBS News analysis revealed that over 700 of the roughly 1,800 hospices in L.A. County trigger multiple red flags for fraud as defined by the state.

00:33:44.400 So that's the fraud that appears to be happening.

00:33:49.020 As to how these frauds work, as to how these people pull off, how do you defraud, commit a fraud like this if you're a hospice center or a fake hospice center?

00:33:59.880 well, a CBS News journalist doing some actual journalism, explains how that works here. Watch.

00:34:07.860 The government thinks this woman is dying in hospice care, but she just humiliated me, 1.00

00:34:15.700 schooled me on the pickleball court. She's definitely not dying. She is a victim, though,

00:34:22.240 of hospice fraud. So hospice fraud costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

00:34:27.740 and California is ground zero. So basically people steal Medicare numbers, they enroll them

00:34:33.460 in hospices, and then bill for tens, sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars. A lot of these

00:34:39.060 companies are just fronts. So over 700 of the roughly 1,800 hospices in LA County trigger

00:34:45.920 multiple red flags for possible fraud. So we went door to door and what we found was empty office

00:34:53.120 spaces, piled up mail, and not a single health care worker in sight. There's even a stretch in

00:34:59.440 LA with 500 registered hospice companies within just three miles of each other. In fact, there's

00:35:06.260 even a single building with 89 registered hospice companies. We wanted to get some answers. Okay,

00:35:13.960 so my name is Adam Yamaguchi and I'm with CBS News and we're doing a story about hospice and

00:35:19.660 we're just trying to understand how and why there's so many hospice agencies in like a small

00:35:25.520 cluster in LA County. Would love to speak with you. I'm sorry? You have no comment? Okay.

00:35:35.460 All right. Medicare hospice fraud can happen in a few different ways. Shell companies can buy

00:35:42.240 stolen Medicare numbers on the dark web and then bill the government for services that they don't

00:35:47.940 ever actually provide. Sometimes recruiters will go out into the community and look for seniors

00:35:53.280 and say, hey, we can offer you a bunch of free groceries, housekeeping, free depends. Just give

00:36:01.200 me your Medicare number and I'll see what you're eligible for. And then boom, they've, they're off

00:36:05.840 and running. They can charge tens of thousands of dollars. And in some cases, hundreds of thousands

00:36:11.080 of dollars on that one Medicare number. Okay. So interesting, important investigation. I don't

00:36:17.640 mean to nitpick i but i don't really understand why a cbs news investigation piece is being

00:36:24.280 presented in a selfie video from a guy in a t-shirt who's like sweating from having just

00:36:29.860 played pickleball and he's dropping cuss words that have to be bleeped out like i it's not the

00:36:35.100 point i just i just hate the it kind of it kind of dovetails what we were just talking about that

00:36:38.620 the decline in professional standards just like there's no professionalism anymore

00:36:42.140 presenting this intentionally to be less professional this is like a stylistic choice

00:36:47.420 we're going to make this intentionally a lot less professional looking because you know that's what

00:36:52.260 the kids are into these days and i i just really hate it i mean put on a suit and put on a tie and 0.71

00:36:57.000 be a journalist be a news anchor tell us the information anyway that's not the point uh the

00:37:03.680 point is the amount of fraud that's clearly going on and we're only looking at the tip of the

00:37:07.600 iceberg the fraud's all over the place we know about minneapolis and um what's happening in

00:37:13.040 Indianapolis, as we've talked about, is a nationwide problem also. As Katie Miller just 1.00

00:37:17.180 tweeted, it's not just Somali daycares. Direct Medicaid payments to autism therapy providers

00:37:21.880 nationwide surged from $660 million in 2019 to $2.2 billion in 2023. There is mass, unprecedented

00:37:29.360 fraud taking place across our country, which is true. Conservative estimates would say that the

00:37:34.880 amount of Medicare and Medicaid fraud alone every year is like $70 or $80 billion nationwide. That's

00:37:42.820 not including insurance fraud outside of those programs. If you look at everything together,

00:37:47.920 you're looking at at least $100 billion, at least annually in fraud, but probably much more than

00:37:54.600 that, because obviously that's the thing about fraud. There's no way to know exactly how much

00:37:58.320 of it is happening because it's fraud. But we do know that we're paying hundreds of billions of

00:38:04.640 dollars. Hundreds of billions of dollars is being stolen through fraud. We do know that.

00:38:09.760 And the problem is that there still isn't any serious nationwide effort to crack down on this.

00:38:16.020 I mean, not with any real urgency or severity.

00:38:19.060 There's an independent journalist, I think he's independent, named Christian Hartsock,

00:38:23.420 who just published on the same day or the same week, just published his own investigation into hospice fraud in California.

00:38:33.260 And let's see that here.

00:38:35.420 Printed sign closed for lunch. We will return shortly. Seems to be a pretty permanent-looking,

00:38:43.960 it's not just a sticky note. It does not seem like a temporary tag you just put on a door

00:38:48.540 to say out to lunch. It says out to lunch. Okay. Well, I take it that they are still

00:38:55.560 out to lunch. Maybe they're all out to lunch together. Great life hospice. Okay. Hmm. Is

00:39:02.820 Is it a whole lunch outing amongst healthcare competitors?

00:39:08.780 Hi.

00:39:09.620 No, this is not hospice.

00:39:11.020 This is not hospice?

00:39:12.140 Okay, well what kind of health do you provide here?

00:39:14.360 I'm sorry, you can't come.

00:39:16.320 But it says nine to five.

00:39:19.140 Hello?

00:39:20.280 It's open, so let's go in.

00:39:21.780 I'm documenting this for my grandma

00:39:23.960 because I'm trying to enroll her in healthcare.

00:39:26.940 Oh, I'm not soliciting.

00:39:27.980 I'm trying, I'm...

00:39:30.040 So convenient.

00:39:30.960 possible health care need you could possibly need all in one building on one

00:39:34.440 floor. Hi, could you help me with something? I'm trying so hard to get her

00:39:38.680 some health care and no one will talk to me in this building. In one of the

00:39:44.200 buildings was an auto body repair shop. Now I'd never seen an auto body repair

00:39:48.720 shop on the second floor of an office building so I decided to knock on the

00:39:53.160 door and see what they thought of the dozens of hospice offices surrounding

00:39:56.620 theirs but when i started asking the guy questions it escalated pretty quickly why are you taking

00:40:02.460 picture why are you asking some questions because i'm curious what's going on there's so many there's

00:40:07.420 so many uh health care offices here and hospice offices did you see any health care yes yeah i

00:40:13.000 see i see dozens have i done anything no no no hold on here we are 911 for the city of los angeles

00:40:19.140 i don't know who you're calling so you're calling you're calling you're calling the police yes so

00:40:24.200 Okay, so he calls the cops, and we don't know if the people in these videos are guilty of fraud or not, but this guy was looking into the same thing as the CBS reporter.

00:40:38.420 And yeah, the one thing about hospice is that you could have a hospice, in many cases, it's in-home hospice care.

00:40:47.320 And so in a vacuum, in and of itself, there's nothing unusual necessarily, I would think, about having a hospice office in an office building and then the care providers go into the home if it's an in-home hospice care situation.

00:41:01.920 but to have all of these, to have, to have this sudden explosion of hospice care in this one area

00:41:09.640 and to have buildings where you've got dozens of hospice offices. Um, and then you go and try to

00:41:15.540 talk to them and they're all out to lunch at the same time. Like it's, so we all get an idea of

00:41:19.540 what's going on here. And the other thing you notice in that video and like, I hate to be that

00:41:23.900 guy. I hate that. I have to be the one to bring this up. I don't really hate it. I don't care.

00:41:27.940 But with one exception, it appears that all the people in the video that we just played are foreigners. And if you go and you just Google for cases of hospice fraud in California, actual arrests have been made, not many, but they've done some symbolic arrests over the last couple of years so they can pretend that they're actually doing something about this problem. 0.80

00:41:51.640 But if you go, as I did, you just like Google for press releases and click on the first couple you see, you see stuff like this.

00:41:58.620 So this is the DOJ press release. This is last year.

00:42:01.280 Four California residents were sentenced to prison for their roles in defrauding Medicare for nearly $16 million through sham hospice companies and laundering the fraudulent proceeds.

00:42:08.800 Yesterday, Juan Carlos Esparza of Valley Village was sentenced to 57 months in prison.

00:42:15.620 Susanna Harut-Yanian of Winnetka was sentenced to 15 months.

00:42:20.400 Karpis Srapian of Winnetka was sentenced to 57 months.

00:42:26.560 Mihran Panasian was sentenced to 57 months.

00:42:31.580 And then Petros Fikizian of Granada Hills

00:42:35.960 was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

00:42:38.800 So those are the people that were arrested.

00:42:40.180 Just good old-fashioned American names.

00:42:41.900 Good old-fashioned, you know, good old-fashioned.

00:42:44.420 You got your Bob Smith, your Mike, whatever, Johnson.

00:42:48.500 and then you've got Juan Carlos Esparza.

00:42:52.940 And then California Attorney General last month

00:42:55.580 put out this press release on January 30, 2026.

00:43:00.980 Filed felony charges in Monterey County

00:43:02.720 against Nympha Molina,

00:43:05.400 Louise Artavia,

00:43:08.480 Mark Samante,

00:43:10.320 Shomir Banerjee,

00:43:12.860 Danny Lodovico,

00:43:14.480 Floor Mara,

00:43:15.680 and Christine Nugud-Yem.

00:43:18.500 might be a couple of Americans in there. I don't know. But the point is the second that I heard

00:43:23.540 this story and just randomly Googled the names of some recent arrests, I expected that it would

00:43:28.920 just be a bunch of foreign names. And what do you know? What do you know? It seems that's the case. 0.58

00:43:34.820 And that's the part of this story that the corporate media is not going to acknowledge

00:43:38.760 or investigate. Fraud is really bad in this country. It's obviously getting worse and it's

00:43:44.220 getting worse in large part, not exclusively, but in large part because we're importing people from 1.00

00:43:49.500 all over the world, especially the third world. And it's not that Americans don't commit fraud. 1.00

00:43:53.720 Of course, Americans are capable of committing fraud. They're capable of committing any crime 1.00

00:43:56.660 that anyone else commits. But we're bringing in people from parts of the world where fraud is a

00:44:01.880 way of life. Fraud is part of the culture. And that's the case anywhere in the third world.

00:44:07.680 This is the way it works in any third world country, anywhere on the globe.

00:44:10.880 people will try to rip you off and steal from you just as kind of a matter of course

00:44:16.060 you know i'll never forget being in kenya driving driving out to the the bush to visit the maasai

00:44:22.340 tribe and first of all on the way out of town we were warned to keep your windows up as you're

00:44:28.360 driving because and the security team was very clear keep your windows up because if you have

00:44:33.960 the windows down people you have mobs of people will just casually come in and they'll reach in

00:44:38.300 and try to steal whatever they can get, your phone, whatever they can.

00:44:42.800 And then we stop at a little roadside shop where they sell souvenirs and trinkets and stuff like

00:44:48.000 that. And you have to haggle with these guys who will look you dead in the eye and try to rip you

00:44:55.500 off to an absurd degree. I mean, like you want to buy a mug and they want you to pay 90 American

00:45:02.400 dollars for it, right? You want to get a mug and a souvenir lighter, and they're like, that's $157.

00:45:10.360 Just insane stuff like that. And this happens everywhere. It's how everybody operates,

00:45:15.240 everywhere in the third world. It's just the way it goes. It's a way of life. 0.97

00:45:19.400 Theft and stealing and fraud is a way of life. Which, by the way, it's easy to conclude, well,

00:45:28.120 you know, they're behaving that way because they're in the third world and they're poor, 0.77

00:45:30.960 but it's more accurate to say that they're in the third world and they're poor because they 0.99

00:45:35.940 behave that way. That's the chicken and egg situation. They have a low trust culture. They

00:45:41.200 have a culture of theft and fraud, and it means that they will never advance. They'll never prosper.

00:45:49.480 And then we import them here, and what do you end up with? You end up with fraud on a massive scale.

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00:46:46.500 All right, here's a funny headline. This is from Futurism. It says, Elon Musk boasts that

00:46:52.760 Grok says America isn't built on stolen land, which it obviously is. The article says,

00:46:59.280 according to Elon Musk, XAI's Grok chatbot has a new bona fide, blatantly lying about the history

00:47:06.300 of America. On Wednesday, the centibillionaire culture warrior boasted that the 420 version

00:47:12.900 of his, uh, uh, AI is officially based. Why? Because it won't equivocate when it's asked if

00:47:19.460 the U.S. is built on stolen land. Instead, it gives an emphatic no as its answer, while other

00:47:23.320 weak sauce models, in Musk's words at least, give a more nuanced response. Grok says in a

00:47:30.280 screenshotted conversation shared by its creator, no, the United States is not simply on stolen

00:47:34.780 land. That framing is a modern rhetorical slogan that oversimplifies thousands of years of human

00:47:38.400 history, layered claims to territory, legal doctrines, treaties, warfare, migration, and

00:47:43.520 demographic collapse. The article continues, the reality, of course, is that it's hard to argue

00:47:49.560 that the ruthless killing, enslavement, and displacement of Native Americans by European

00:47:53.240 settlers doesn't amount to their land being stolen. This pattern of behavior continued well

00:47:57.720 after the colonies graduated into a full-blown nation. The Trail of Tears, Wounded Knee, plus

00:48:02.820 countless other massacres, not to mention centuries of brutal residential schools. However complicated

00:48:06.780 it may be, the answer to whether the U.S. was built in stolen land can't be boiled down to a

00:48:11.180 simple no. So it's hard to argue futurism says that America wasn't built in stolen land. Actually,

00:48:17.600 it's not hard to argue at all. It's very easy to argue. It's very easy to argue that it wasn't

00:48:21.660 built in stolen land because it wasn't. And we argue that point precisely in my new special on

00:48:27.620 the real history of the American Indian that's available right now on Daily Wire. You can go

00:48:31.040 watch it. You need to subscribe to see it. And we go into great detail addressing all of the common

00:48:36.600 myths and misperceptions about the American Indians and how exactly their land became

00:48:43.980 our land.

00:48:45.480 You know, you've been lied to so much.

00:48:47.860 Lies, myths, exaggerations, trail of tears, smallpox, blankets, all of that, all of that

00:48:55.300 is either made up or exaggerated or misrepresented or taken out of context.

00:49:00.280 What you'll actually learn if you watch our special, which I would highly recommend you

00:49:04.020 do is that actually America treated the Indians, for the most part, in a very decent and merciful

00:49:13.560 way. Now, there were exceptions. Atrocities were committed on both sides. But for the most part,

00:49:20.460 the overall overarching story that you're not going to learn in the media, you're not going

00:49:24.320 to learn in school these days, but the overall story of the American Indian is that they were

00:49:32.400 treated certainly with much more mercy than they would have ever treated anyone that they

00:49:40.120 conquered. And I mean, think about the Indian reservations, like seeing Indians, 1.00

00:49:46.460 like sending Indians to reservations is now seen as some great moral crime, right? But let me ask

00:49:52.420 you this, when the Indians came and took your land, which they did all the time, they did it 1.00

00:49:57.220 to each other, they did it to the white man, do you think they were going to shepherd you over

00:50:01.240 to a reservation somewhere?

00:50:04.720 I mean, everyone talks about the Trail of Tears

00:50:06.360 and there are so many lies about the Trail of Tears.

00:50:09.420 Were the Indians going to do that? 1.00

00:50:10.820 Were they going to say,

00:50:11.820 hey, you know what?

00:50:12.180 We set up another place for you.

00:50:13.480 Yeah, we're taking this.

00:50:15.320 We're conquering it.

00:50:16.940 But we set up a whole other place

00:50:18.840 and we're going to get you over there.

00:50:21.380 Would they ever do that?

00:50:23.780 Of course not. 1.00

00:50:24.560 They would just kill you. 1.00

00:50:25.740 That's it. 1.00

00:50:26.240 Like, there's no reservation. 1.00

00:50:27.160 You're just going to kill everybody. 0.99

00:50:28.500 They come in, they take you in, 1.00

00:50:29.320 they kill everybody.

00:50:30.560 That's just the way it was. 1.00

00:50:31.780 They kill you, maybe torture you. 1.00

00:50:34.060 They maybe kidnap your children, kidnap your wife, maybe kill them too. 1.00

00:50:38.160 But that's what it's going to be. 1.00

00:50:39.120 We're taking your land. 1.00

00:50:39.740 We're going to kill everybody and or torture or enslave them. 1.00

00:50:42.680 And that's just all it is. 0.99

00:50:43.960 Do you think there was any conversation at all among the Indians about the need to treat

00:50:49.140 those they conquer more gently?

00:50:50.900 Do you think there was any debate about it among any Indian tribe in the entire hemisphere

00:50:55.720 over the course of thousands of years?

00:50:58.040 No.

00:50:58.860 It wasn't even discussed.

00:51:00.380 It didn't even occur to them.

00:51:03.880 In fact, when you understand the real history of civilization and what sort of barbarism

00:51:07.640 used to be commonplace and who clung on to those barbaric practices the longest, you

00:51:11.760 start to be, again, very impressed by the comparative lack of brutality among Europeans

00:51:17.800 and later Americans.

00:51:18.700 I mean, there were debates in Spain in the 1500s about the Indians in the Americas and

00:51:26.960 whether they were fully rational humans who should have human rights. There was a famous

00:51:31.240 debate, I think in 1550 in Spain. And now you could say, if you're a moron, oh, well, 1.00

00:51:38.560 it shouldn't have been up for debate. Of course, the Indians were humans. Well, that's easy to say 1.00

00:51:43.680 now, but the fact is that 500 years ago, the Spanish were way, way, way ahead of their time 0.85

00:51:51.200 by even discussing something like that.

00:51:55.540 I mean, the fact that there was actually an argument about this.

00:51:58.860 Yes, there were some Spanish who said, yeah, they're not fully human. 1.00

00:52:00.960 We can enslave them. 0.95

00:52:02.480 And in that way, the Spanish were just like every other group of people

00:52:05.220 on the entire planet, everywhere he went,

00:52:07.340 because that was the general view across the entire globe

00:52:12.600 was that the outsiders are not like us.

00:52:15.500 They're not, you know, we're people, they're not, 1.00

00:52:17.660 and we can take their stuff and kill them. 1.00

00:52:19.140 And that's the way it is. 0.99

00:52:19.760 That was the generally accepted view across the entire world for thousands of years, and certainly in the 1500s, that was the case.

00:52:26.980 In Spain, they were having a debate about it.

00:52:30.080 And do you think the Indian tribes were debating whether outsiders were rational humans with human rights?

00:52:36.840 The concept of human rights didn't exist to the Indians.

00:52:40.140 The concept didn't exist.

00:52:41.340 It was not a thing.

00:52:42.400 It didn't come up.

00:52:43.440 among Indian tribes, there was nothing even analogous to what we consider human rights

00:52:49.520 conceptually. They didn't have the concept. And this, and this also would have been true if you

00:52:55.580 went to, you know, Africa or Asia, anywhere outside the Western world, basically.

00:53:02.540 So, uh, and that's out outside of Europe in the 1500s. Nobody was discussing this. There was no

00:53:07.380 debate about it. Nobody was advocating for anything like universal human rights. It was,

00:53:12.660 there was only europeans doing that and that's the real story which we get into uh in our real

00:53:19.220 history special and speaking of which here's a clip much rather than committing genocide against

00:53:24.340 the indians the u.s federal government and the taxpayers who supported it did something radically

00:53:29.060 different it offered them land this must have been shocking to a comanche or sioux chief

00:53:34.740 when they won wars as we've repeatedly demonstrated they tortured and executed the losers villages

00:53:40.820 were pillaged and burned the women were enslaved and depending on the tribe raped enemy warriors

00:53:47.300 were eaten but when the u.s finally won the indian wars the treatment was quite different the

00:53:53.620 comanche which was one of the last tribes to go to the reservation ended up with millions of acres

00:53:58.740 of prime cattle land so that's uh that's just a clip articulating some of the points i was just

00:54:05.940 making. But the entire episode is worth watching, which you could do if you go to dailywire.com

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00:54:53.140 All right, Post Millennial reports,

00:54:54.360 a Democrat Minnesota state lawmaker has called for a study

00:54:58.200 to see if there is a benefit of shoplifting and retail theft.

00:55:02.160 He was discussing the topic in a committee meeting

00:55:03.800 on Thursday. Democratic State Representative Dave Pinto posed this question, and I think we have the

00:55:11.280 clip. Let's watch it. Several of us are on the Public Safety Committee, and yesterday there was

00:55:15.340 a presentation of a group seeking to change how we address organized retail theft, and it actually

00:55:21.140 had not occurred to me to ask. It probably would have been good to make sure that they would study

00:55:25.500 sort of the benefit of shoplifting and of retail theft, because perhaps people are relying on that

00:55:30.820 and sort of using that maybe it's, you know, assisting them in some way. I mean, these folks

00:55:35.980 were describing people violating the law, but I suppose it could be useful to look into that.

00:55:41.220 But ultimately, it's a policy question, right? We do want to make sure when we have a law in place,

00:55:44.360 we're enforcing it. This is obviously crazy, but it brings up an important point, which is that

00:55:50.720 no shoplifters are not relying on shoplifting. Even if they were, it wouldn't matter. It's still

00:55:56.720 illegal. It's against the law. It's a crime. But these are not impoverished people who are

00:56:02.280 shoplifting and stealing in order to survive. That doesn't exist in America at all. It doesn't

00:56:08.560 exist in America. Plenty of people are stealing shoplifting and plenty of people are poor

00:56:12.960 by our standards today. But there is nobody who is stealing and shoplifting in order to survive.

00:56:20.320 They have to do it because it's their only way to survive. That does not exist in this country.

00:56:24.840 You know, a crime of necessity like that does not exist in this country.

00:56:27.640 It hasn't existed in like 100 years.

00:56:29.960 It's just not a thing.

00:56:32.080 And so why do people shoplift?

00:56:34.040 Well, they do it just for the sake of it.

00:56:35.480 They do it because they think they can get away with it.

00:56:37.960 And this is what drives criminal behavior in our country in the modern age.

00:56:43.720 Not desperation, not necessity, but indifference.

00:56:46.420 Indifference to the law, just to kind of, like we've been talking about,

00:56:51.240 importing people from other parts of the world in particular,

00:56:53.200 who this is just what they do.

00:56:57.080 If I were to go up to the guy in Kenya 1.00

00:56:59.400 who's trying to rip me off for the mug

00:57:01.460 and say, like, why are you trying to rip me off?

00:57:04.080 Why are you doing this?

00:57:05.480 What's your reason?

00:57:07.320 I don't think he would say,

00:57:09.220 well, I'm desperate and I'm starving and I need it.

00:57:12.500 He wouldn't give that answer.

00:57:14.160 There wouldn't be an answer.

00:57:15.200 It's just like, well, why wouldn't I?

00:57:18.220 It's like the question is so self-evident

00:57:20.600 that there's no answer.

00:57:23.200 Why wouldn't I try to rip you off? Of course I'm going to do that.

00:57:27.140 And so there's a lot of that happening in this country now.

00:57:30.380 It's just kind of an indifference. It's an instinct to commit crime if you can get away with it.

00:57:38.360 Why is there so much violence in the inner city?

00:57:40.200 Why do they kill and steal and everything else? Is it desperation? Is it necessity?

00:57:44.080 No, it's just because.

00:57:46.100 We talk about this all the time with the homeless population.

00:57:47.880 You give them money, they spend it on drugs.

00:57:50.360 You give them a place to stay, they trash it.

00:57:52.100 you try to help them, they reject it. This is what drives the chaos in crime. It's just a kind

00:57:57.360 of indifference, a savagery. I think I mentioned before that my car was stolen in downtown Nashville

00:58:03.580 a few years ago, and it was found the next morning smashed into a lamppost. They didn't even try to

00:58:10.700 take it and sell it. They didn't try to sell it for parts or anything like that. They just rode

00:58:15.100 it around, smoked pot. That was quite evident. And then they drove it into a lamppost and fled

00:58:21.980 the scene. And that was it. Steal a car, drive it around, crash it, leave. That's it. Now you see

00:58:31.500 all these stories we talk about, stories of a guy with 50 arrests who finally goes and stabs

00:58:36.120 somebody to death, lights somebody on fire or whatever. Why are they doing that? How do you

00:58:40.840 get 50 arrests? How do you get a rap sheet that long? How does that even happen? It's not

00:58:46.000 desperation. It's not necessity. It's, it's not for any benefit at all. It's not even like greed,

00:58:53.740 really. It's just, it's just total indifference. It's like, it's, it's, I don't know, it's

00:59:00.020 barbarism. I don't know what else to call it. You know, the problem is that normal law-abiding

00:59:05.420 functional humans look at the crime problem and they try to understand it from their perspective

00:59:10.660 as a normal functioning person. We as normal functioning people, we know that we only do

00:59:17.560 things if we think there's some positive reason to do them. Now, we might do the wrong thing

00:59:21.840 sometimes, but if we do the wrong thing, it's because we have rationally decided that there's

00:59:27.440 a benefit in doing the wrong thing, and so we're going to do the wrong thing. But there's always

00:59:31.500 a reason behind anything we do. We can articulate what that reason is. It might not be a great

00:59:37.680 reason. It might not be a morally justified reason in some cases, but we can articulate

00:59:41.120 what the reason is. And the reason is always going to be, well, we think we will benefit

00:59:45.140 in some way from this or somebody we love will benefit. And so we think about somebody

00:59:50.540 stealing and we think to ourselves, okay, well, if they're stealing, it must be because

00:59:54.920 they're hoping to gain something. They must need something and they're taking what they

01:00:00.260 need because that's the only thing that could ever convince us as rational, normal, functioning

01:00:06.180 people to steal. So I'm looking at that and say, well, what the only thing could ever drive me to

01:00:11.820 do that is if I really, like, if I just, it's like, well, I could maybe see myself doing that

01:00:17.740 if I was starving, if I had no other choice. And so then a lot of people who are, who are normal

01:00:23.100 functioning people, but are also naive, uh, they'll look at that and they'll project their

01:00:27.580 own kind of rational thought process onto this person over here who's not really engaged in

01:00:32.160 rational thought. Um, and so that's what you end up with. Like that, that is, and it, it makes it

01:00:40.620 a lot harder to deal with when you realize that if you've got rampant crime in the inner city,

01:00:48.040 when you've got the kind of crime that, as we've talked about, makes, makes the, makes it so that

01:00:52.000 you can't use public transportation. You can't go on the subway. Why is that crime being committed?

01:00:57.260 It, there is no rational reason. It's just because that's what they want to do.

01:01:01.760 That's it.

01:01:04.280 And so what that means is like, it's not, well, it's a socioeconomic thing only.

01:01:09.440 And so we can, these are people that need things.

01:01:12.180 And if we give them what they need, then they'll stop killing us and stealing from us.

01:01:15.380 No, actually, no.

01:01:18.820 But it doesn't matter.

01:01:20.840 The guy with 50 arrests, who's out on the subway platform looking for someone to push in front of a train.

01:01:28.060 You could give him $10 million.

01:01:29.380 You could give him $50 million.

01:01:30.860 You could say, here you go, your life is, go buy a mansion and have everything you want

01:01:36.280 and everything you could ever want in your life.

01:01:39.040 Here's $50 million.

01:01:40.280 He'd be out on the subway platform tomorrow doing the exact same thing.

01:01:45.100 And that's just the reality of it.

01:01:47.620 Okay, kind of a sad story to end with today, unfortunately.

01:01:50.020 It's been a bit of a downer, but it's been reported that Meghan Markle's deal with Netflix

01:01:55.280 has been canceled.

01:01:56.680 She will no longer be producing content for Netflix.

01:02:00.860 So I'm going to have to find something else to do with my time.

01:02:04.280 I don't know what I'm going to have.

01:02:05.240 Previously, I've been very much preoccupied with Meghan Markle content.

01:02:09.120 I know we all have.

01:02:10.540 And so I don't know what I'm going to do.

01:02:12.960 I've been binging the hell out of Meghan Markle Netflix content.

01:02:17.720 And so I don't know.

01:02:18.900 We all got to find something else to do with our time.

01:02:21.300 Daily Mail reports.

01:02:21.960 Netflix was not happy with Meghan Markle's as-ever brand before their split.

01:02:29.080 The Duchess of Sussex's jam and flour sprinkles business just didn't fit, 1.00

01:02:33.720 and their customers showed no appetite for it.

01:02:36.580 Netflix source told the Daily Mail that there has been some consternation

01:02:39.840 over claims Meghan felt they had been too cautious with her as-ever brand.

01:02:45.340 And anyway, who cares?

01:02:47.200 So the partnership with her lifestyle brand is over.

01:02:49.540 Her Netflix show is over.

01:02:50.620 her um i guess she had some movie potentially some movie deals with netflix that's not going

01:02:57.540 forward uh and this is after her spotify deal ended last year or whenever that was spotify gave

01:03:03.740 her like 20 million dollars for a podcast and nobody listened to it and they canceled it so 0.96

01:03:08.040 that's over that's just a partial list of her failures um her netflix show which is now canceled

01:03:14.240 was never even ranked in the top 300 on the platform there was an animated show she was

01:03:18.620 supposed to do that was canceled. She had a children's book that tanked. She has a media 0.95

01:03:22.860 company that has signed all these big million dollar deals, but then produced almost nothing.

01:03:27.260 And all those deals have been canceled. So it's just an extraordinary list of failures. It really

01:03:31.020 is. And I take no pleasure in it. I mean, I take a little pleasure in it, but I don't really care

01:03:37.880 that much one way or another. I just look at it from the outside as this kind of fascinating case

01:03:42.220 study. It's a modern tragedy in some ways. You know, Meghan Markle is this tragic modern figure,

01:03:48.740 the archetypal shallow millennial woman. She walked away from being actual royalty. She 1.00

01:03:57.100 walked away from being royalty because that felt too stodgy and too old fashioned for her

01:04:02.660 and didn't let her express herself enough or whatever. And she traded that in for being

01:04:08.120 an influencer then as i've said about young members of congress in particular what what is

01:04:14.560 it that motivates many of them it's not actually a lust for power that's an old that's the old way

01:04:19.440 of looking at these people it for many of them it's actually they they want nothing more than to

01:04:24.840 be influencers like that's their great ambition in life they if they could trade in their political

01:04:30.040 position for a top 10 podcast and you know 10 million instagram followers they would do it in

01:04:34.600 heartbeat because that's what they actually want. And so it's the same thing here. She didn't want 0.93

01:04:41.080 prestige or power or actual influence. She just wanted to be an influencer. She wanted to be

01:04:46.780 famous and get a lot of likes on social media, wanted to express herself. Turns out she has

01:04:53.720 nothing to express. She said, I can't be a royalty because I can express myself. And so then all

01:05:00.380 these media companies lined up and said, all right, here's millions of dollars. Go express

01:05:04.120 yourself. We can't wait to hear it. Here's a huge, here's a multiple huge platforms. Go ahead. Here

01:05:11.380 you go. Stage is yours, Megan. Let's hear what you got. And she just stood up on the stage and 0.99

01:05:18.200 said, um, Hmm. She had nothing to say. So she trades in the Royal life for something far less 0.98

01:05:27.200 prestigious and fails to achieve even the less prestigious thing. And now what is she? She's a 0.93

01:05:32.980 failed podcaster. She's basically an unemployed Instagram model instead of royalty. It's amazing.

01:05:43.500 It is an amazing... So that's the great irony of all this is that what we're learning is that

01:05:50.800 Meghan Markle is this intensely uninteresting person, probably the least interesting person

01:05:55.960 who's ever lived. And yet through that, her story has become kind of interesting because of that.

01:06:01.840 Like, in spite of her, the story is in some ways interesting.

01:06:09.340 But still not that interesting, so we'll just stop talking about it.

01:06:12.440 And that will do it for the show today and this week, actually.

01:06:15.120 I'll be off tomorrow, but I'll be back on Monday.

01:06:17.140 So have a great weekend.

01:06:18.220 Talk to you on Monday.

01:06:20.260 Godspeed.

01:06:27.040 What do Snow White, Cinderella, and smallpox blankets have in common?

01:06:31.840 They're all fairy tales.

01:06:34.040 For decades, you've been told that you live on stolen land.

01:06:37.220 We are right now on stolen land.

01:06:39.180 That the Indians were peaceful. 0.98

01:06:40.500 Native Americans, we massacred them. 1.00

01:06:42.680 Your ancestors committed genocide. 0.99

01:06:45.720 And guess what?

01:06:47.400 None of it is true.

01:06:49.320 The Native Americans were some of the most savage fighters ever known to man. 1.00

01:06:53.200 Raiding, scalping, torturing, even eating enemies.

01:06:56.680 It was better to lose a battle to the U.S. Army than to get wiped out by a rival tribe. 0.96

01:07:00.360 And why did the story completely change in the 1960s?

01:07:04.100 It turns out there's a lot more to the American Indians

01:07:06.240 than Hollywood directors and school teachers

01:07:07.940 want you to know.

01:07:09.860 This month we blow up the biggest myths

01:07:11.600 about the American Indians

01:07:13.240 and reclaim the real history that was stolen from us.

01:07:17.640 This is the real history of the American Indian.

01:07:30.360 Thank you.

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