The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1751 - The INSANE Left Wing Law That Is Causing Another Mass Exodus. What Happens Next？

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00:01:01.720 Today on the Matt Walsh Show,

00:01:02.560 there's a mass exodus of left-wing billionaires

00:01:04.780 from blue states to red states.

00:01:06.580 They pushed the policies that destroyed their home states

00:01:08.640 and now they're fleeing like locusts

00:01:10.740 searching for new places to destroy.

00:01:12.360 We'll discuss also the Senate takes up the SAVE Act.

00:01:15.140 Momdani unveils a new government office for LGBT affairs

00:01:18.600 and a billionaire Silicon Valley guy

00:01:20.760 says that if you want to achieve anything in life,

00:01:22.800 you should not engage in any introspection at all.

00:01:25.580 Is he right?

00:01:26.180 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:01:28.540 So they didn't get much attention for obvious reasons, but believe it or not,

00:01:57.160 a handful of white people actually managed to win major civil rights lawsuits during

00:02:02.340 the BLM revolution as the largest companies on the planet began discriminating against

00:02:06.460 white employees, denying them promotions, firing them, putting their CVs at the bottom 0.74

00:02:10.860 of the pile, and so on.

00:02:12.960 A small number of white people decided to invoke their constitutional rights.

00:02:15.980 They went to court and they came away with tens of millions of dollars.

00:02:19.420 And we should talk more about these stories, especially since they could inspire more victims

00:02:24.200 of anti-white discrimination to take their case to court.

00:02:27.160 And one of the most egregious examples involved Starbucks, which was run by CEO Howard Schultz at the time.

00:02:34.480 Now, you may remember this sordid episode in American history when a couple of black guys walked into a Starbucks and sat down without placing an order. 1.00

00:02:43.240 The store wouldn't let them loiter or use the bathroom without making a purchase, which makes sense since it's a private business and they don't want the property to become a crack house.

00:02:51.020 But the two black guys decided that this was their Rosa Parks moment, and they refused to leave to the point that they were arrested for trespassing. 0.60

00:02:58.900 In response, instead of demonstrating a semblance of integrity or courage in the face of a mob, Schultz shut down every Starbucks store for racial bias training, issued a payout to the black customers, attacked his own employees, and then, of course, groveled on CNN.

00:03:16.020 Watch.

00:03:17.460 Welcome back.

00:03:18.380 I'm Poppy Harlow in New York.

00:03:19.480 And this afternoon, 8,000 Starbucks stores across the country will close to train employees on racial bias.

00:03:26.060 This all stems from an incident last month that sparked nationwide uproar.

00:03:30.080 Two black men, Dante Robinson and Rashawn Nelson, were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks.

00:03:34.920 The store manager called the police after the men said they were in the store just two minutes without placing an order.

00:03:41.040 They were there to meet a friend.

00:03:42.460 The backlash was swift. It sparked many to talk of a Starbucks boycott.

00:03:47.580 I've gone through the training myself, as has the entire leadership team of the company last week.

00:03:53.100 And we did that so that we could experience it firsthand.

00:03:56.120 It's interactive. It's been co-authored by Bryan Stevenson, Sherilyn Ifill, Heather McGee.

00:04:02.940 And I think we wanted to try and really get professional people to help us understand and walk in the shoes of people of color and understand that racial bias does exist.

00:04:14.000 You are Starbucks. Starbucks is you in many ways.

00:04:16.200 So can you just tell me your gut?

00:04:17.860 What did you feel when you realized this happened to these two men because of their rights?

00:04:22.280 I was personally horrified by it.

00:04:24.800 When you think about the values of Starbucks, providing health insurance, free college tuition,

00:04:30.680 the things we've done for Opportunity Youth, veterans, refugees, all of these things,

00:04:35.840 for this to happen is such an anathema.

00:04:41.580 Horrified by it.

00:04:42.460 hot. He was horrified. He was, he was, it was like a genocide that the emotional experience he had

00:04:49.000 knowing that two black men were simply required to follow the same rules as every other customer

00:04:53.360 in the store. Uh, the emotional experience was, it was the, like the experience he has

00:04:58.540 witnessing a genocide. It's, it was that evil. So Howard Schultz went on national television

00:05:04.620 and of course threw his employees under the bus, accepted the premise of CNN's question, 0.96

00:05:08.980 which is that these black guys were only thrown out of the store because they were black 0.98

00:05:12.560 even though there was precisely zero evidence of that and this store served black people 0.96

00:05:16.940 all the time without any problem at all. It was only these particular black guys where it was an 1.00

00:05:21.380 issue which should tell you that it was them not the store that was the problem. And what happened 0.83

00:05:26.900 next is that amid all this hysteria Starbucks fired a white manager who had nothing to do with

00:05:31.920 the incident whatsoever. They couldn't fire the black manager who actually oversaw operations in

00:05:36.140 this particular store so starbucks told a white regional manager named shannon phillips to

00:05:41.920 terminate a white manager at a nearby district who didn't do anything as a way of demonstrating

00:05:48.720 that starbucks was serious about racial equity and when phillips refused they fired her instead

00:05:54.420 so then she sued and she won more than 25 million dollars watch the next year starbucks was in hot 0.98

00:06:03.180 water again, hit with a lawsuit from the regional manager who oversaw that store in approximately

00:06:09.280 100 other locations. Shannon Phillips, who is white, claims she was fired after the incident 1.00

00:06:15.300 because of her race. In the lawsuit, she says she was not involved in the arrests in any way

00:06:21.500 and that Starbucks did not take any action against the black district manager who oversaw that store

00:06:27.720 and had promoted the person who was responsible for making the call to police.

00:06:32.980 On Monday, a federal jury in New Jersey sided with Phillips,

00:06:36.740 awarding her $25.6 million in damages.

00:06:40.680 What was ultimately determined by the jury was they kind of went after people

00:06:45.340 that were not involved with that situation at all,

00:06:47.860 making those decisions based on appearance and the race of the people that they disciplined

00:06:53.900 who were associated with the Philadelphia store, but not with the events that occurred.

00:07:00.600 Now, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better illustration of how self-described progressives

00:07:04.780 like Howard Schultz operate. He makes a big show of major reform in the name of equity.

00:07:10.060 He says that he'll make Starbucks lobbies and bathrooms open to everybody, whether they make

00:07:15.200 a purchase or not. So he'll turn them into, you know, basically like refugee camps. And he goes 0.78

00:07:21.180 on national television to berate his employees for being white supremacists. And then just a few

00:07:26.340 years later, he's gone from the company. Starbucks has started opening offices in Tennessee for up to

00:07:31.340 2,000 employees to escape the mayhem of Seattle. The bathroom policy returned because vagrants were

00:07:38.060 treating Starbucks like a crack house. And Starbucks has to pay tens of millions of dollars

00:07:42.680 because, in fact, there were no white supremacists working at Starbucks. But Starbucks did have an

00:07:49.700 awful lot of executives who despise the white working class. But Starbucks isn't the only thing

00:07:55.680 that Howard Schultz has left in ruins without any sense of shame or reflection or self-awareness.

00:08:01.680 After decades of relentlessly promoting left-wing politics, which have destroyed his hometown of

00:08:07.060 Seattle, Schultz has now fled to Florida just in time to avoid a massive new wealth tax that

00:08:13.040 Washington State is implementing. Watch. Starbucks founder Howard Schultz announced he and his family

00:08:20.220 have moved to Florida just one day after the millionaire's tax passed the House. Schultz says

00:08:25.060 the move is part of his retirement, but some Republicans argue this timing is no coincidence.

00:08:31.020 It's called the capital flight. We spent 24 hours talking about why you shouldn't do things like

00:08:36.220 pass income taxes when you don't need them. He is just an harbinger of things to come.

00:08:43.040 now notice that schultz even as he's abandoning the city where he lived for decades still can't

00:08:48.980 bring himself to condemn any aspect of the left-wing politics that have destroyed seattle

00:08:53.960 he can't condemn the fact that leftists have turned downtown into a drug den he can't condemn

00:08:58.860 the anti-white racism that just cost his company tens of millions of dollars can't even condemn

00:09:03.800 the fact that leftists are attempting to confiscate 10 of all household income over one million dollars

00:09:09.020 even though the Constitution of Washington State makes it illegal to tax income. Something like

00:09:14.560 30,000 residents will be directly affected, although, of course, the actual effect is going

00:09:18.540 to be much larger than that. When businesses close and rich people leave, the result is fewer jobs

00:09:25.580 and less tax revenue. It's pretty simple. It's important to understand that Howard Schultz

00:09:29.840 is not the exception. There's now an epidemic of rich leftists fleeing from Democrat-controlled

00:09:36.120 jurisdictions. These people supported Democrat policies and now they're in help to get those

00:09:42.000 policies passed. In fact, now they're running away from the natural consequences of those policies.

00:09:47.820 Jeff Bezos moved from Seattle to Florida in 2023. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergi

00:09:54.240 Brin moved from California, which is also planning a massive wealth tax to Florida in the past year.

00:10:00.580 Ken Griffin, the co-founder and CEO of the hedge fund Citadel, who donated to both Obama and Biden, just moved from Chicago, where Citadel employees were getting robbed all the time, to Miami.

00:10:12.760 Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber, moved from California to Austin.

00:10:19.260 Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg, who spent half a billion dollars to help elect Democrats in 2020, just announced the purchase of a mansion in Miami.

00:10:26.740 So he's apparently leaving California as well. Watch.

00:10:30.580 Mark Zuckerberg could be the latest California billionaire to land in Florida.

00:10:36.500 The Wall Street Journal reporting the Meta CEO bought a waterfront mansion in the Sunshine State and plans to move by April.

00:10:45.180 Zuckerberg is among the latest of the ultra-wealthy fleeing California as state lawmakers threaten a massive wealth tax.

00:10:53.020 and Florida real estate agents are telling the Journal they've been working nonstop showing

00:10:59.320 properties to Californians since the new tax was proposed. And on and on it goes. We're witnessing

00:11:06.520 a mass exodus of billionaires from states that have been destroyed by their politics.

00:11:11.140 In every case, these billionaires either endorsed left-wing policies or they didn't object as those

00:11:17.300 policies were taking hold. And now that things have gotten out of hand and major American cities

00:11:22.080 are becoming overtly socialist.

00:11:24.460 They're all just running away, predictably.

00:11:27.300 And as you just heard,

00:11:28.020 it's not just the billionaires who are fleeing.

00:11:29.780 Here's one way to put the numbers in context.

00:11:32.320 Right now, without any foreign migration,

00:11:34.240 California would lose something like 120,000 people per year.

00:11:39.640 New York would lose around 100,000.

00:11:41.840 On the other hand, Texas is on track

00:11:43.640 to gain hundreds of thousands of residents,

00:11:45.680 even without any foreign migration.

00:11:47.880 So is Florida.

00:11:49.380 So a lot of people, not just the wealthy,

00:11:50.800 are escaping these hell holes that Democrats have created.

00:11:54.560 For the most part, the only people who are willing to live in New York or downtown Los

00:11:59.100 Angeles are coming here from the third world. 0.98

00:12:02.300 So they don't mind seeing people, you know, crap on the streets and all of that. 0.97

00:12:06.080 Feels like home. 0.93

00:12:07.420 Those are the only people who see America's urban centers as tolerable places to live

00:12:12.500 or even still a step up as bad as they are.

00:12:15.580 These are the kind of people who are doing most of the damage, by the way.

00:12:18.300 Uh, let's, let's put them up on the, on the screen here.

00:12:22.720 These are lawmakers in Washington state after they passed the wealth tax there.

00:12:27.360 It's a group of women who are elated.

00:12:30.340 They're genuinely thrilled to be taking other people's money.

00:12:34.100 They're making a major change to the state's economy without any understanding of what's

00:12:37.840 going to happen overnight.

00:12:39.720 They've transformed Washington from a very desirable state for high income earners to

00:12:44.460 one that high income earners have every reason to flee.

00:12:47.080 and they could be happier about it.

00:12:51.100 And we know how this ends.

00:12:52.120 Countries like France and Ireland and Sweden

00:12:53.800 have all implemented wealth taxes.

00:12:55.360 And in every case,

00:12:56.420 the wealth taxes were ultimately repealed

00:12:58.640 because they ended up losing money for the government

00:13:01.500 when all the rich people left town.

00:13:03.460 A study in Switzerland found that

00:13:05.120 if you increase the wealth tax by 0.1%,

00:13:08.160 the total amount of taxable wealth declines by 3.5%.

00:13:13.580 So the math just doesn't exactly work.

00:13:15.780 But Democrats in Washington state, well, they're not concerned about any of that. They have an

00:13:21.640 openly socialist female mayor in Seattle who admits that she relies on her parents to pay her

00:13:27.020 bills, even though she's 43 years old. So their plan apparently is to girl boss their way through 0.99

00:13:33.980 this. And CNN is going to help run cover for them, of course. Watch. So I want to ask you one other

00:13:41.220 thing because you sit here as a mayor elect you're in your early 40s you've accomplished so much at

00:13:46.920 such a young age and in that context you have been open about the fact that you have done that with

00:13:53.180 your parents help that your parents who live across the country have sent you checks to help

00:13:57.080 pay for your toddler's child care right that with all the things that you've accomplished

00:14:00.460 when it comes to affordability that you still needed that now fox news and the new york post

00:14:06.000 have framed that in a negative way they have said mayor elect that you are quote unquote living off

00:14:10.680 your parents' money. I'm curious how you see it, because this is something you've been very open

00:14:16.320 about. Do you think that people in Seattle see this as a negative or as a positive that people

00:14:22.840 can relate to? Well, I'll say that my opponent's campaign and the corporate PAC that tried to

00:14:30.320 stop my election certainly cast it as a negative thing. But, you know, campaigning for office is

00:14:35.440 stressful. Seattle's one of the most expensive cities in the country. Our child care is off

00:14:39.560 the charts expensive. And honestly, I think that a lot of people of my generation and younger and

00:14:45.220 older found it very relatable that during this stressful campaign, you know, my parents chipped

00:14:50.680 in to help to pay for the cost of their granddaughter's daycare. And I think, you know,

00:14:54.500 families help each other out. And I certainly acknowledge that I'm lucky to be in a position

00:14:58.840 where my parents were able to do that. Not all families have that privilege. And, you know,

00:15:02.660 that's why I'm going to fight for affordable childcare and affordable housing for every

00:15:06.120 family in this city. Well, the problem here is not, uh, specifically this woman's parents are

00:15:14.140 sending her money so that she can afford to raise a child. The problem is that she's a 43 year old 0.98

00:15:18.960 socialist who's never had a real job in her life. And also the problem is that if you're a mother

00:15:24.320 and you can't afford, you know, you can't afford to, uh, childcare, you can't afford childcare and

00:15:30.000 also to run for office. Well, maybe that's a good indication that you should not run for office and

00:15:35.040 be home with your children and raise your children. I mean, there's also that option.

00:15:39.520 Contrary to what CNN claims, she has no meaningful accomplishments whatsoever,

00:15:43.600 aside from holding elected office. And she's not even at a point now, she hasn't even accomplished

00:15:50.760 getting to a point where she can afford childcare for her kids. That's why she needs the money. 1.00

00:15:56.000 She also has a deadbeat husband who chooses not to work. He's been unemployed for something like

00:15:59.640 five years. And while that situation is obviously sad, it's also disqualifying. I mean, this is not

00:16:06.880 the kind of person you want to lead your city. The only way she knows how to solve her problems 0.99

00:16:12.240 is to rely on other people's money. That's it. That's her only qualification. And you simply

00:16:16.920 can't run a functioning city like that. That'd be one thing if these women could point to a way in 1.00

00:16:22.860 which all their government spending to this point has actually benefited American taxpayers,

00:16:26.400 But they can't do that because government spending is mostly fraudulent, as we've seen.

00:16:31.500 Whenever Democrats implement massive taxes, they squander the money on fraud and nonprofits that launder the money.

00:16:37.120 Let's take a look at this data, which was collected by the researcher Charlie Smirkley.

00:16:41.780 And Smirkley puts it, it says, quote, New York City spends more per homeless person than the median New York City household earns.

00:16:49.740 $81,705 per person in fiscal year 2025.

00:16:54.200 So I'll say that again.

00:16:54.760 New York is spending more money per homeless person than the median household earns.

00:17:02.320 They're spending enough to provide housing for everyone, in other words.

00:17:07.080 I mean, in theory.

00:17:09.020 That's roughly 200% more than what New York City was spending on homeless people compared to 2019.

00:17:15.180 200%.

00:17:15.660 And guess what?

00:17:17.380 In that period, by most estimates, the homeless population has only increased by at least 30%.

00:17:23.580 and some estimates say the increase was closer to 80%.

00:17:27.800 You're spending more on homeless people, you're giving them more free stuff,

00:17:31.640 and as a consequence, you end up with more homeless people.

00:17:35.860 Hmm, I wonder why that could be the case.

00:17:38.300 And this is nothing new.

00:17:39.580 Portland has similar numbers, so does San Francisco, which you can see.

00:17:44.440 They spent over $100,000 per homeless person as of last year.

00:17:48.960 That's a roughly 200% increase from 2019.

00:17:51.840 And once again, homelessness has only increased.

00:17:56.380 So where did the money go?

00:17:57.920 Well, it went to Democrat-aligned nonprofits and NGOs and activists.

00:18:01.180 They waste tens of millions of dollars all the time.

00:18:04.720 Here's just one example of how that works.

00:18:06.360 This is from Los Angeles.

00:18:08.220 Watch.

00:18:10.120 An exclusive look at the Marina Del Rey multi-million dollar homeless housing project

00:18:15.080 where for years neighbors say construction has been slow.

00:18:18.740 Where are the workers?

00:18:20.300 Where is the urgency?

00:18:21.840 The city of L.A. bought the former Ramada Inn on Washington Boulevard in 2020 for $10.2 million.

00:18:28.560 It was used as interim homeless housing before shutting down in 2022 to be converted into permanent supportive housing.

00:18:36.260 Since then, for almost four years, the property has sat unfinished.

00:18:40.260 Why does it take so long and such a waste of money that there's nothing to even show for it?

00:18:45.080 City documents reveal the nonprofit PATH took almost two years to get permits approved,

00:18:50.500 And by then, they needed even more money.

00:18:52.940 The city added another million and a half in homeless housing funds, plus loans and grants,

00:18:57.800 bringing the total price tag to around $20 million for just 32 units.

00:19:02.920 $10 million purchase that was gifted to PATH, you know, without really any other approval from the neighbors.

00:19:11.440 None of these nonprofits of any incentive actually fix the problem of homelessness,

00:19:15.460 because if they did that, the money would disappear.

00:19:18.540 If anything, they have an incentive to make the problem worse, which is exactly what they're doing.

00:19:23.740 They certainly don't have any incentive to tell the truth, which is that fixing homelessness top-down is impossible.

00:19:33.020 Practically speaking, you can't force people not to become drug addicts.

00:19:36.180 You can't force people not to alienate their family and friends so they have no one around them who wants to help them.

00:19:41.360 Even if PATH had built that hotel for the homeless, it still wouldn't have helped them.

00:19:45.940 they would have just destroyed the place. If you want to fight homelessness, the best you can do

00:19:50.180 is create the economic conditions where people can get jobs and close the border so that fentanyl

00:19:55.280 doesn't flow into the country and then let people make their own choices. But Democrats oppose all

00:20:01.820 of that. What Democrats stand for instead is the prospect that the government should seize even

00:20:07.000 more money from private citizens and corporations. We're meant to ignore all the waste and conclude

00:20:12.100 that the real problem is that taxes simply aren't high enough. Watch.

00:20:17.220 What I can tell the oligarchs is that the American people are sick and tired of their greed.

00:20:27.180 They are sick and tired of billionaires paying a lower tax rate than the average American worker.

00:20:37.500 They are sick and tired of large corporations like Tesla and SpaceX and many other large

00:20:48.120 corporations making billions of dollars in profit a year and paying nothing, zero zilch

00:20:56.540 in federal income taxes.

00:20:58.260 They are sick and tired of people like Sergi Brin, the co-founder of Google, who is spending

00:21:06.960 $20 million to defeat this tax on billionaires.

00:21:14.960 Mr. Brin, you are worth $245 billion.

00:21:22.960 Since Trump was elected, you have become over $100 billion richer.

00:21:34.960 Listen to the needs of working people.

00:21:38.240 Stop threatening the people of California.

00:21:41.560 Start paying your fair share of taxes.

00:21:46.120 Well, this is all just slop. 1.00

00:21:48.040 It sounds good if you're stupid, but there's a couple of problems here, 1.00

00:21:51.300 starting with the assumption that billionaires have all their money just like sitting in a bank account. 1.00

00:21:56.980 They don't.

00:21:58.200 If you want a billionaire to pay a massive new tax, he's going to have to offload a lot of company stock.

00:22:04.060 And when all the rich people are forced to sell their stock, the market will tank and everyone's 401k will plummet.

00:22:11.780 That's the first issue.

00:22:13.320 The second issue is that there's a reason that most major corporations aren't paying much income tax.

00:22:18.300 In many cases, they've lost a lot of money when they were starting up.

00:22:21.940 So they're offsetting their current profits with their previous losses.

00:22:25.340 And in other cases, they're issuing stock grants or investing in new factories, which they're allowed to write off because we want businesses to invest in infrastructure.

00:22:34.060 It's much better for the American economy if companies like SpaceX or Tesla invest in their own growth instead of Bernie Sanders taking the money and redistributing it to some left-wing NGO.

00:22:45.380 Because that's what he wants. That's the option he wants.

00:22:47.400 He wants to take this money so he can give it to NGOs and nonprofits on the left.

00:22:53.600 But what we want as Americans, we want rockets and robots, not more Somali daycares and leering centers. 1.00

00:23:01.200 but um well i'm not really sure about the it depends on what the robots are doing certainly

00:23:07.440 i want more rockets but even if you don't buy any of those arguments the fact remains that no tax

00:23:14.140 no matter how big would actually be sustainable you know if bernie sanders rounded up every

00:23:19.640 billionaire in the country and forced them to liquidate all of their assets and immediately

00:23:24.240 surrender every dime to the u.s treasury the resulting money would fund the u.s federal

00:23:28.880 government for roughly 10 months, 10 months, that's it. That's if you take all of their money,

00:23:35.820 leave them all broke and poor and unhoused, as we say, you get 10 months out of that. That's it.

00:23:45.420 In exchange for crashing the stock market and bankrupting every billionaire and destroying

00:23:51.380 the economy and sending a clear signal that no one should ever build a new company in the United

00:23:55.680 States ever again. In exchange for all that, we get 10 months of funding the government.

00:24:04.080 What do you do after that? All the billionaires are broke. Who are you taxing then, Bernie?

00:24:09.900 That's why, unless we want to end up like Cuba, where the lights haven't been working for the

00:24:13.840 past two days, it's vitally important to emulate what the red states are doing. The red states,

00:24:20.300 particularly Florida and Texas, are attracting tens of thousands of new residents precisely

00:24:24.340 because their governments have rejected the ideology of the deadbeats that have seized power

00:24:31.080 in New York, Washington State, and California. The problem is that most of these new residents

00:24:36.000 aren't renouncing the socialist ideology that they're running away from. They're like a Mongol 0.99

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00:26:47.420 The Hill reports, President Trump vowed to withhold his endorsement

00:26:50.640 from any lawmakers who do not vote for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act,

00:26:57.420 SAVE Act, ahead of a Senate procedural vote on legislation on Tuesday.

00:27:01.740 Trump runs Truth Social. 0.91

00:27:03.160 Only sick, demented, or deranged people in the House or Senate 0.97

00:27:05.300 could vote against the SAVE America Act. 0.63

00:27:07.320 If they do, each one of these points separately will be used against the user

00:27:12.320 in his or her political campaign for office, a guaranteed loss.

00:27:16.060 Get your senators, Republican or Democrat, to vote yes on the Save America Act.

00:27:19.360 I will never, ever endorse anyone who votes against Save America.

00:27:24.560 The president also indicated that his endorsement in the Texas Republican Senate primary runoff

00:27:28.780 between Senator John Cornyn and Ken Paxton will hinge on the legislation.

00:27:33.520 Trump has pushed Senate Majority Leader John Thune to invoke the talking filibuster,

00:27:37.860 which would force Democrats to speak continuously on the Senate floor to delay the bill 0.67

00:27:41.060 in an effort to overcome Democratic opposition.

00:27:44.400 Theoretically, once Democrats cede the floor,

00:27:46.080 Republicans could pass the measure with 51 votes.

00:27:48.380 However, Thune has said that he would not use such a procedure,

00:27:52.400 which he previously said is much more complicated and risky

00:27:56.000 than people are assuming at the moment.

00:27:59.200 So the Senate takes us up today,

00:28:02.900 and that's already happening as I'm talking.

00:28:06.940 At this point, Thune says that he will not abolish the filibuster

00:28:09.980 or implement the talking filibuster.

00:28:13.200 And in fact, he said the measure is unlikely to pass,

00:28:16.500 but it will be good to do it anyway

00:28:19.440 because he wants to get the Democrats on record

00:28:21.760 with their objection to the SAVE Act.

00:28:25.020 So that's all he's intending to do,

00:28:27.020 unless there's some sort of change of heart.

00:28:29.640 That's all he's intending to do.

00:28:31.000 This is all a big symbolic move

00:28:32.740 to get Democrats on the record

00:28:35.000 that they oppose this bill,

00:28:37.460 which we already know they do.

00:28:38.280 Well, as I've said, that's just not good enough. I mean, that's not nearly good enough. We are way

00:28:44.220 past the point of symbolic gestures. The Republicans have no excuse if they fail to

00:28:50.220 get this bill passed. They can pass it. They have the means. The president is calling on them to

00:28:55.440 use the means at their disposal. They have the American people on their side. Voter ID is very

00:29:02.900 popular. So there is no excuse. And how will the American people feel if they implement the

00:29:10.320 talking filibuster, uh, in order to get it passed? Well, do you know what the average American won't

00:29:15.520 care at all? Like the average American has no opinion about, about what would you, do you

00:29:20.720 support using the talking filibuster? Sure. So there's no excuse. The only reason they will

00:29:28.440 give and have given for failing to use the means at their disposal, talking filibuster or abolishing

00:29:35.060 the filibuster entirely, is that they're worried that the Democrats will do the same. When they

00:29:39.980 get into power, Democrats will do the same. And that's basically what John Thune is saying.

00:29:46.780 As I've argued many times, that reasoning just doesn't work. It doesn't work because there's

00:29:51.140 no limiting principle to it. If it's justified to decline to push forward your agenda in this case

00:29:57.480 for fear of Democrat reprisal when they get into power,

00:30:01.200 well, then it will always be justified,

00:30:02.780 and you'll never push through your agenda at any point

00:30:04.580 because there will always be the risk.

00:30:07.200 No, the certainty that Democrats will be in power again.

00:30:11.700 Democrats are always either going to be in power

00:30:14.540 or soon to be in power.

00:30:16.840 I mean, it's just the way it works.

00:30:19.640 And as I've said,

00:30:21.520 there will never be a filibuster-proof majority

00:30:24.220 for Republicans ever.

00:30:25.940 There hasn't been one in like 100 years, more than 100 years, and there won't be one again, especially if you don't get voter ID passed.

00:30:33.680 And the reality is that Democrats are going to do this anyway when they're in power.

00:30:37.600 When Democrats get in there, they are going to do it.

00:30:42.680 Maybe not if they win in the midterms because Trump will still be president and abolishing the filibuster won't do much because they won't be able to get anything passed because Trump could veto it.

00:30:50.540 But the next time that the Dems have Congress and the White House, which might be in 2028, gloves are off, bets are off, and they're going to do it.

00:31:01.460 They're going to pursue their agenda ruthlessly, which they always do, but even more now.

00:31:11.120 And they're going to be doing this in every way, by the way.

00:31:13.900 Abolishing the filibuster.

00:31:16.600 They're going to do all the things.

00:31:18.080 This is always the story.

00:31:18.920 They're going to do all the things that the Republicans did not have the gumption to do themselves.

00:31:24.560 Abolishing the filibuster will just be, that'll be child's play compared to everything else they're going to do.

00:31:31.900 Because, you know, the other thing that's happened is we had the assassination of one of the most important conservative political figures in the world.

00:31:42.040 And that was just one example of brutal left-wing militant violence.

00:31:47.460 And that is what it was. Left wing militant violence. And in response to that, has there been any kind of major nationwide crackdown on left wing militants and extremists and those who are funding and facilitating and encouraging and promoting this violence?

00:32:09.600 Has there been any kind of nationwide serious crackdown on it? No.

00:32:21.540 Charlie Kirk was murdered by a left-wing militant, and he had left-wing militants running rampant in the streets of Minneapolis again.

00:32:31.320 And in response, there has not been a concerted campaign to root these people out everywhere and their funders and their backers and the corrupt NGOs that are facilitating all this and throw them in prison.

00:32:50.920 Well, guess what? When Democrats get in office, they're going to do that to us.

00:32:55.780 The only difference is that we haven't committed any crimes. Doesn't matter to them.

00:33:01.320 Right-wing extremist violence basically doesn't exist.

00:33:05.760 It essentially doesn't exist.

00:33:07.360 I mean, it almost never happens.

00:33:10.360 And anytime it does happen, it is going to be a true, you know, quote-unquote, lone wolf.

00:33:14.540 Just someone acting of their own accord.

00:33:17.860 We don't have the organizations, institutions set up funding and facilitating this kind of thing.

00:33:25.840 That doesn't matter to them.

00:33:26.840 Democrats are going to be out for blood.

00:33:28.000 They're going to be out for vengeance.

00:33:31.320 And so we're going to see a nationwide crackdown of right-wing political figures, of conservative activists, almost all of whom will be innocent of any crime, but it's going to happen anyway.

00:33:46.900 meanwhile in the case of the left you've got this actual conspiracy

00:33:56.120 to commit the commit violence all over the country assassinations rioting

00:34:04.480 and there has not been any serious major crackdown there just hasn't been i mentioned this the other

00:34:13.220 day and someone said, well, they just arrested seven Antifa people in Texas or whatever. Okay,

00:34:16.980 great. I mean, good. That's not good enough. See, this is the attitude we must have. We should

00:34:26.880 have had all along. The bare minimum is not good enough. It's not good enough. You're not

00:34:37.980 in power to do the bare minimum. Go pursue the agenda that you ran on aggressively.

00:34:49.600 And that's why this, the SAVE Act, well, you got to pass through the House. So you held a vote in

00:34:54.980 the Senate. You got them on the record. We tried. We tried. Not good enough at all.

00:35:03.520 uh thune just kicked off the debate with a speech about why the bill should pass

00:35:10.680 so here's uh some of that democrats are done playing

00:35:15.740 as president today we are kicking off an extended debate on the save america act a package of

00:35:24.820 common sense measures united around two themes protecting our elections and protecting our

00:35:31.680 youth. You're going to hear me use the adjective common sense a lot in this debate, Mr. President,

00:35:37.760 because if there's any word that is suitable to describe the measures we're considering,

00:35:42.160 it's that. Mr. President, if there's anything essential to the integrity of elections,

00:35:47.340 it's ensuring that those who are registered to vote are eligible to vote, and that those who

00:35:54.760 show up to vote at polling places are those who they say they are. And how do you do that?

00:36:01.680 Well, by requiring that Americans show proof of citizenship when they register to vote 0.76

00:36:06.160 and that they show photo ID at polling places.

00:36:12.220 That's what the Save America Act would do.

00:36:17.200 It's just common sense.

00:36:20.500 And polls show that the American people overwhelmingly agree.

00:36:24.260 But to hear Democrats talk, you'd think that demonstrating citizenship

00:36:28.020 or showing a photo ID is an intolerable burden.

00:36:34.380 And yet, Mr. President, I haven't heard Democrats complaining

00:36:36.480 about the thousand other circumstances in which we require photo ID in this country.

00:36:43.500 Democrats are aware that Americans have to show photo ID to get on a plane, right?

00:36:49.280 And to start a new job.

00:36:52.140 And when they head to the doctor's office and to rent a car,

00:36:56.660 and to stay in a hotel.

00:37:02.000 Heck, if you want to get a library card,

00:37:05.020 you have to show a photo ID.

00:37:08.320 Right. It's crazy.

00:37:09.860 It's crazy that it's not required to vote.

00:37:12.340 It's crazy that anybody could oppose it.

00:37:14.280 It's crazy that the argument doesn't make any sense,

00:37:17.000 especially coming from people who do not object

00:37:20.560 to IDs being shown and any of IDs being required

00:37:25.760 in any of the circumstances

00:37:26.940 that John Thune just mentioned.

00:37:29.440 You know, if the idea is

00:37:30.880 that there are all these people

00:37:31.800 who just can't get their hands on an ID

00:37:33.280 and it's not their fault

00:37:35.500 and this is an enormous burden

00:37:36.860 and so this will be disenfranchising them effectively,

00:37:40.460 it'll be effectively banning them from voting

00:37:43.660 by requiring this.

00:37:45.280 Well, then by that logic,

00:37:46.280 these people have also been excluded

00:37:47.860 from pretty much every other aspect of society.

00:37:53.680 And why don't you object to that?

00:37:56.720 Why aren't you calling for policies and legislation that bans airlines and airports from requiring IDs and hotels and all the rest of it? 0.96

00:38:07.380 Rental car companies.

00:38:10.220 Well, because the argument makes no sense.

00:38:12.580 The people making the argument don't even believe it.

00:38:16.260 John Thune's right about that.

00:38:17.560 So what does that mean?

00:38:18.220 It means get the thing passed by any means necessary.

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00:40:04.120 The city of New York, under Mayor Mamdani, has unveiled a brand new agency.

00:40:08.080 Very important. It does very important work.

00:40:10.360 It's called the Office of LGBTQIA Plus Affairs.

00:40:14.820 Just unveiled this yesterday, so this is what he's focused on.

00:40:17.640 Really, really crucial stuff.

00:40:20.080 What we are doing is to create a central office solely focused on the well-being of queer New Yorkers so that their needs may be better met by every city agency across our administration.

00:40:33.360 The queer community as well as intersecting communities and adjacent communities are under extreme attack in this country from all angles it seems from the highest levels of government to society in general and to even sometimes people that we consider friendly fire.

00:40:50.080 unfortunately. And so now more than ever in this moment, it is so critical, I think,

00:40:56.160 to have trans leadership because New York City is where the LGBTQ civil rights movement started.

00:41:04.360 The so-called queer community is under attack, he says. In what way exactly? Well, he can't say.

00:41:11.920 I mean, can anyone list even one way in which the quote unquote queer community is under attack?

00:41:16.900 Well, of course they can't. But here's what I want to say about this. You know, you look at this, you listen to that guy talking, you hear this guy in a dress and it feels like a relic from an ancient world. It feels like the ancient, the ancient world of 2021.

00:41:31.720 And that's because the left seems to have mostly moved on from, or at least tried to minimize, tried to marginalize its LGBT extremism. You don't hear about it as much anymore. You don't see them shoving drag queens in our faces like they used to. They aren't talking about trans rights nearly as much anymore, if at all. They're not parading cross-dressers around like they used to. 0.68

00:41:59.600 I mean, it wasn't all that long ago when they had so-called drag kids, kids in drag showing up on like daytime talk shows, Good Morning America or whatever it was.

00:42:14.600 That's how that's how that's how much they had mainstreamed this or tried to anyway.

00:42:19.980 And you're not seeing that anymore.

00:42:21.360 and you know all that is the case but here's mom donnie opening up a whole new office a new agency 1.00

00:42:28.400 for uh quote-unquote lgbt people and appointing this man to an address to lead it and what that

00:42:36.080 tells us is that if these people get back into power on a national level if they get back to

00:42:41.820 back into the white house congress we're probably going back to this i mean this is all coming back

00:42:46.720 it has to because they really can't move on from it in reality they can't move on from it

00:42:53.940 permanently it is a fundamental part of their agenda leftists are waging war on civilization

00:42:59.540 waging war on god and the lgbt agenda is an integral part of that battle plan they can't 1.00

00:43:05.380 really put it to the side and also it's narcissism i mean that's what the lgbt agenda is all about 1.00

00:43:11.920 worship of the self, celebration of the self, putting your own proclivities and desires above

00:43:17.180 everything and everybody else. And leftists definitely can't move on from that. I mean,

00:43:21.120 that is their ideology. That's what leftism is fundamentally. So this is all coming back,

00:43:29.060 first chance they get. I think when you look at, this is the benefit in some ways of having

00:43:36.200 somebody like Mamdani in charge of New York, because you can look at that and you can see,

00:43:40.180 well, this is what's coming to the entire country if Democrats get to the White House in 2028.

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00:44:43.880 slash Walsh. Here's something interesting that's gotten some attention. Mark Andreessen is a

00:44:50.920 billionaire businessman and he went on a podcast and made an interesting, mostly wrong historical

00:45:00.020 claim that people are talking about on social media, here it is. Listen.

00:45:06.480 You don't have any levels of introspection.

00:45:08.440 Yes. Zero. As little as possible.

00:45:10.060 Why?

00:45:10.860 Move forward. Go.

00:45:13.240 Yeah. I don't know. I've just found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past.

00:45:16.320 It's just, it's a real problem. And it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home.

00:45:19.540 So I've read, obviously, 400 and I think now 10 biophysics-based entrepreneurs.

00:45:23.400 And that was one of the most surprising things. Like, what's the most surprising thing that

00:45:25.740 you've learned from this? Like, oh, they have little or zero introspection. Like, Sam Walton

00:45:29.160 didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up. He's like, I like building Walmart.

00:45:33.500 I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts and just kept doing it over

00:45:36.080 and over again. And you probably know if you go back before a hundred years ago, it never would

00:45:39.560 have occurred to anybody to be introspective. Like it's the whole idea. I mean, just all of

00:45:43.300 the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy and all the things that kind of result

00:45:46.160 from that are, you know, kind of a manufacturer of the 1910s, 1920s. Say more about that. Great

00:45:50.280 men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff at any prior point, right? It's all a new

00:45:55.440 construct. It was, you know, first Western civilization had to kind of invent the concept

00:46:00.660 of the individual, right, which was like a new concept, you know, several hundred years ago.

00:46:04.400 And then, you know, for a long time, it was all right, the individual runs, right, and like does

00:46:07.960 all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology,

00:46:12.080 does all these things. And then, you know, kind of this kind of guilt-based whammy, you know,

00:46:15.560 kind of showed up from Europe, a lot of it from Vienna, you know, 1910s, 1920s, Freud and all

00:46:21.340 that entire movement and kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to

00:46:25.760 basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs

00:46:29.920 to self-criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell

00:46:35.360 on the past. It never resonated with me. Okay, so this is clearly ridiculous at face value.

00:46:43.220 He's claiming that the great men of history had zero introspection, and something like the opposite 0.65

00:46:48.580 of that is the case. I mean, to begin with, all the great philosophers in the history of the human

00:46:54.800 race existed during the time of zero introspection, according to Mark. So apparently Plato and

00:47:01.420 Aristotle were not introspective or else they weren't great men of history. I don't know,

00:47:06.000 which either way, either way, it's retarded. So you think about all the great philosophers, 0.99

00:47:13.240 artists, writers? Was Tolstoy not introspective? Was Dostoevsky not introspective? What about

00:47:20.980 Michelangelo? I don't know. Based on his body of work, I'd say that seems like someone who had a

00:47:27.680 fair amount of introspection, a pretty rich inner life. What about St. Augustine? What about Thomas

00:47:34.620 Aquinas? What about Shakespeare? And the list goes on and on. Now, you could say, well, those are all

00:47:40.000 artists, theologians, philosophers, introspection was their profession. It was their craft in a

00:47:44.800 sense. So what about the great men who were doers, who were rulers and warriors and inventors and

00:47:52.220 leaders? Well, again, what you find if you look back in history is the opposite of what Mark

00:47:59.820 Andreessen is claiming. And by the way, this is a guy who's like in the tech field, I think does

00:48:07.160 some works with AI and that sort of thing, Silicon Valley. It's pretty haunting, actually,

00:48:16.480 when you think about the fact that you've got these tech CEOs who are denying the existence

00:48:21.380 of an inner self at all. That does not bode well for us. But anyway, historically, the great doers,

00:48:30.620 the great leaders were men of deep introspection. Marcus Aurelius was the most powerful man in the

00:48:36.540 world and also one of the most introspective men to ever live. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln,

00:48:41.500 Ben Franklin, Napoleon, Columbus, Andrew Carnegie. I mean, basically just random great men of history.

00:48:51.860 You could just list them and all of them fit the bill because these guys wrote journals and they

00:48:56.520 wrote diaries and they wrote letters. In many cases, they wrote memoirs, books. Some of them

00:49:03.760 wrote poetry some of them were artists in their spare time they were well read they studied

00:49:10.020 many of the great men of history in fact were romantics they were sentimental they were

00:49:15.600 highly driven by feelings of love and devotion a sense of honor that's the thing that probably

00:49:22.380 above all if you read history what you find what is the thing above all above all else that seems

00:49:28.500 to have driven the great men of history honor, a sense of honor. But you can't pursue honor or

00:49:34.500 live honorably without introspection. So it really is the opposite. The men of history had

00:49:39.660 rich, vibrant interior lives. It's people today who are dead inside, who are unthinking,

00:49:47.620 who have no introspection. I was just using the example the other day when I was talking

00:49:54.740 about something else, I don't even remember what, about Civil War letters. You know, you read letters

00:50:00.480 from soldiers in the Civil War writing home to their mothers and wives, and what you find is

00:50:05.380 emotion, introspection, sentimentality, romanticism. Even as these guys were locked in a deadly

00:50:12.740 struggle for their lives, dying by the hundreds and by the thousands in the most gruesome ways

00:50:16.800 on the battlefield, still this is how they spoke and this is how they thought. So this is all wrong.

00:50:22.060 however he is there's a there's a a way of thinking about what he's saying that could

00:50:28.820 be kind of true but i don't think this is what he was trying to say because he is right that

00:50:34.140 therapy did not exist until basically the 20th century all right maybe there were some rudimentary

00:50:40.860 forms of it in 19th century but basically therapy as we know today talk therapy is a 20th century

00:50:46.680 invention and certainly did not become common mainstream until the 20th century. So men were

00:50:54.340 not sitting around prior to, you know, about 100 years ago, whining about their feelings to a

00:51:02.840 therapist to whom they pay top dollar to listen to their complaints. That definitely wasn't

00:51:08.140 happening. He's right about that. So there is a form of self-obsession today that didn't exist

00:51:15.320 200 years ago, especially among the great men, but I wouldn't call it introspection.

00:51:21.980 I would almost say, the way that I would put it is this, I was thinking about it.

00:51:26.680 The great men of history had a rich interior life. They were contemplative, they were introspective,

00:51:31.260 but they weren't full of self-pity, and they didn't focus much on how they feel

00:51:38.300 or how they felt about themselves. See, that's the difference.

00:51:45.320 I think if you look at what they wrote and what they did, it's clear that these were people who felt deeply, but it doesn't seem that they were too focused on how they felt about themselves.

00:51:57.680 So today, introspection involves this obsession, not with the state of your soul or your inner life, but with how you feel about yourself.

00:52:08.740 200 years ago there was an emphasis on knowing yourself today the emphasis is on feeling good

00:52:18.040 about yourself so it's not what you know about yourself it's what you feel about yourself that

00:52:24.160 is the switch that's the pivot that's the thing now that everybody is so focused on and when he's

00:52:29.100 talking about introspection that's that's probably what he means which is not introspection at all

00:52:34.740 because in fact feeling good about yourself all the time means in many cases in practice

00:52:41.440 not knowing yourself so a lot of therapy and the way that our culture works in general

00:52:46.900 is to encourage you to lie about yourself to yourself so that you can feel better about

00:52:52.780 yourself or to put you on drugs so that you feel better while your inner self is obliterated

00:53:00.140 So what we have today is the obliteration of the inner self, or certainly a great de-emphasis on self-knowledge, in favor of feeling good, feeling good about yourself.

00:53:15.640 And that's the question.

00:53:17.500 If you were to go to your great-grandfather, if he's still alive, or if you could go to him in a time machine, your great-grandfather, your great-great-grandfather, and say, you know, what do you know about yourself?

00:53:27.420 he'd be able to talk about that.

00:53:31.120 He'd be able to talk about what he knows about himself.

00:53:33.880 If you were to ask him, how do you feel about yourself?

00:53:38.760 That question might be even sort of incoherent

00:53:42.060 because that's what they're not focused on.

00:53:47.380 So for modern man, the question that they ask themselves

00:53:51.160 is how do I feel about myself?

00:53:52.280 For historical man, we'll call it,

00:53:55.440 And the question was, what do I know about myself? And what do I know about the world beyond myself? That's been the change, and it has been a pretty devastating one. Finally, we just passed a major holiday, I feel I should mention. I hope you had a chance to celebrate. Long COVID Awareness Day was observed on Sunday. If you didn't know, I'm assuming you did. How could you not?

00:54:19.640 But unheard.com has this.

00:54:23.940 Niagara Falls was lit in a teal color last night to mark International Long COVID Awareness Day.

00:54:31.120 What do you mean lit in a teal color?

00:54:34.040 Isn't teal like blue-green?

00:54:36.100 So how would you know that a waterfall was lit in that color?

00:54:38.940 Isn't that just what the color of a waterfall already is for the most part?

00:54:42.100 I don't know. I'm colorblind, so I don't know.

00:54:43.420 uh among other locations illuminated to recognize the occasion was canada's tallest structure

00:54:49.700 toronto's cn tower the tower regularly changes color to celebrate a variety of events during

00:54:54.000 the year including kwanzaa human rights day and transgender day of remembrance so all the major

00:54:59.880 holidays there long covet awareness day kwanzaa human rights day transgender day of remembrance

00:55:04.560 i can't what other holidays are there i can't think of any those are the big ones

00:55:07.760 um anyway so that's uh long covet awareness day uh which is great i mean for me if they're going

00:55:15.300 to have a you know an awareness day to bring awareness to a mythical phenomenon i prefer like

00:55:20.740 bigfoot day loch ness monster day something fun like that i think would be better but this is fun

00:55:27.120 too and by the way since since we just passed long covet awareness day in case you're wondering

00:55:30.760 if you have long covet i did look up the updated list of symptoms on the cdc website and here's

00:55:37.400 what it says. Tiredness or fatigue, fever, difficulty breathing, shortness of breath,

00:55:44.120 coughing, chest pain, fast beating or pounding heart, difficulty thinking or concentrating,

00:55:48.680 headaches, sleep problems, dizziness, pins and needles feeling, what that means, change in smell

00:55:54.580 or taste, depression, anxiety, diarrhea, stomach pain, constipation, joint pain, muscle pain, or rash.

00:56:01.260 So basically a long COVID symptom is literally anything.

00:56:05.080 Any kind of uncomfortable physical or mental experience is a long COVID symptom.

00:56:12.060 So if you're wondering if you had long COVID, all I have to ask is, has anything ever happened?

00:56:16.080 Have you ever, have you had any kind of physical sensation or mental experience ever?

00:56:21.340 Yes?

00:56:21.760 Well, then you have long COVID because it all falls under that umbrella.

00:56:28.320 Okay.

00:56:30.360 There's basically nothing that isn't a long COVID symptom. Long COVID is everything. It's everywhere. We all have long COVID. We all are long COVID. Long COVID is in all of us. We have all become long COVID. Long COVID is the friends we made along the way.

00:56:43.740 And these are the kinds of diseases that people just love to have these days. People love these diseases. They love them. Liberals in particular. Liberals love these kinds of diseases. There's nothing that a liberal loves more than a disease like this. They literally cannot get enough of them. They just rack them up.

00:57:03.180 they love diseases that can't be tested for, can't be diagnosed in any kind of objective way.

00:57:11.040 And, and that any physical or psychological symptom proves that you have it. They love

00:57:17.200 those kinds of diseases. They can't get those, they can't get enough of the kind of disease that

00:57:21.880 the whole diagnostic process is you go to the doctor and say, uh, Hey, I think I have, I think

00:57:27.200 I have this. And the doctor goes, okay, well then you do. Oh, I mean, basically if you think you

00:57:31.780 have it, then you do because there's no, we can't test for it and anything at all is a symptom of

00:57:36.220 it. And so if you think you have it, then you have it. It's one of the weirdest features of

00:57:41.220 modern life. I mean, whole books could be written about it. Probably books have been written about

00:57:44.740 it. But the fact that so many people in our society want to be sick, it's mind-blowing.

00:57:54.980 We invent diseases like long COVID or a million others.

00:57:58.900 ADHD is another one.

00:58:01.240 People love that.

00:58:03.040 And they get so defensive of it.

00:58:04.520 Every time I talk about ADHD and I point out that it's not a real disease because it isn't.

00:58:08.140 People get so offended.

00:58:10.200 It's like their child.

00:58:11.720 It's like you insulted. 0.91

00:58:13.180 It's like you slapped their mother.

00:58:15.580 They take it so personally.

00:58:16.880 They cherish it.

00:58:21.200 But we invent all these things so that everyone can be sick.

00:58:23.700 Because everybody wants to be sick.

00:58:26.980 It's hard to understand the psychology of it.

00:58:30.680 Actually, it's not hard at all.

00:58:32.680 Being sick, even when you aren't sick, gives you two advantages.

00:58:36.600 For one thing, it gives you an excuse, which is what a lot of people are looking for.

00:58:40.780 They're looking for excuses.

00:58:41.820 You can excuse all of your shortcomings.

00:58:43.300 You can blame it on your ailment.

00:58:46.240 That's the thing that many people are pursuing in life.

00:58:49.320 Their life has not worked out how they want, and they're looking for an excuse.

00:58:53.700 So they'll latch on to anything, and then a new one comes along, and they're like, oh, I got that too.

00:58:58.860 Yep, I have that one.

00:59:00.300 I call dibs on that.

00:59:01.940 I call dibs on long COVID.

00:59:05.860 And then, too, it brings you pity, and people today have a deep desire to be pitied.

00:59:13.800 As the great men of history had a desire to have honor, to be respected, to be admired.

00:59:21.680 Those were the things that drove people in the past.

00:59:23.820 And now most people aren't driven by that.

00:59:27.680 They're not driven by any deep desire to be respected or admired because that takes effort.

00:59:33.620 And so they go for pity instead.

00:59:35.780 Pity is kind of the runner-up prize.

00:59:39.340 And that's the idea behind long COVID, which is why you should not give pity to someone who has a made-up illness.

00:59:46.820 The best thing you can do for them, the best remedy,

00:59:49.560 the best actual treatment plan that you can give to them

00:59:54.100 is to not pity them and to not take it seriously.

00:59:58.620 If anyone tells you they have long COVID,

01:00:00.040 you should just laugh hysterically at them.

01:00:02.060 Point at them and laugh.

01:00:04.760 Maybe that'll wake them out of their stupor.

01:00:08.000 It's for the best.

01:00:09.400 It's for them, really.

01:00:12.060 And even if it doesn't help them,

01:00:13.440 it at least is satisfying for you.

01:00:15.380 and so that matters also.

01:00:17.280 All right, that'll do it for the show today.

01:00:18.360 Thanks for watching.

01:00:18.860 Thanks for listening.

01:00:19.380 We'll talk to you tomorrow.

01:00:20.980 Have a great day.

01:00:22.080 Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - March 17, 2026

Ep. 1751 - The INSANE Left Wing Law That Is Causing Another Mass Exodus. What Happens Next？

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