The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1755 - PROJECT 2029： Democrats Unveil Violent Retribution Plan

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00:01:01.480 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, if Democrats ever hold power again,

00:01:04.340 they have made their plans very clear.

00:01:06.280 In fact, they're spelling it out in writing right now.

00:01:08.980 They plan to enact violent revenge on Donald Trump, his advisors, and his supporters.

00:01:13.880 I'll tell you about it also.

00:01:15.180 The media promised us even more chaos at our airports once ICE arrives,

00:01:18.820 but of course, a day after ICE showed up, the results have been, what do you know, exactly the opposite.

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00:01:53.200 You know, there are only so many ways that Democrats can spell out in the most explicit possible terms what they plan to do if and when they retake control of the federal government.

00:02:10.120 They spent the last year celebrating the murder of conservatives, raising hell over the most basic voter ID laws imaginable, and most recently sabotaging the nation's airports in order to prevent ICE from doing its job.

00:02:21.420 A plan that very well may work, given that Republicans seem interested in caving at the moment, once again, which is what they're what they're really the only thing they're really good at doing is caving, of course.

00:02:32.920 But in short, Democrats are preparing a government that would treat Americans as foreigners in their own country.

00:02:39.120 But just in case their plan somehow wasn't obvious, here's Senator Chris Murphy, the Democrat from Connecticut, to spell it out for you and listen carefully to what he says right here.

00:02:52.140 For my 20 years covering this issue, the trade is this.

00:02:55.580 They want more border security and enhancement.

00:02:58.200 Democrats want a path to citizenship.

00:03:00.860 This time around, the negotiation didn't have a path to citizenship.

00:03:05.600 It was entirely on their terms in order to get Ukraine funded, right?

00:03:14.240 Well, I mean, Chris, that's been a failed play for 20 years.

00:03:17.200 So you are right that that has been the Democratic strategy for 30 years, maybe.

00:03:22.920 And it has failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country.

00:03:31.080 This is also not 2013 any longer when we ran that play last.

00:03:38.600 So that's not taken out of context. That's not manipulated by AI.

00:03:42.920 it's the undocumented Americans, quote unquote, that Democrats care about most, according to

00:03:48.000 Chris Murphy. I mean, he just said it himself. Yes, undocumented Americans. Like, I don't know

00:03:55.000 which part of that is more objectionable, the fact that he cares about them most or that they're

00:03:59.460 being called undocumented, not even undocumented immigrants, undocumented Americans. Simply by

00:04:06.260 virtue of entering this country illegally in almost every case, these people become Americans,

00:04:12.000 according to one of the leaders of the Democrat Party.

00:04:15.020 This, of course, is the magical dirt theory of American citizenship.

00:04:19.300 As long as you're standing on the dirt, then you're an American. 0.91

00:04:22.740 That's all there is to it.

00:04:25.100 And more than that, they become the most important Americans of all.

00:04:29.020 They're not just Americans.

00:04:30.300 They're the most important Americans.

00:04:33.320 Democrats will prioritize their interests over the interests of you and your family.

00:04:37.980 And they won't even pretend otherwise.

00:04:39.540 They'll tell you to your face, which in some ways makes it even worse.

00:04:45.980 They'll look at you in the face.

00:04:47.420 They'll look you right in the eye and tell you, we don't care about you.

00:04:50.600 We care about these people over here who don't even belong here. 0.99

00:04:54.980 Now, that interview aired in the final days of Joe Biden's presidency.

00:04:58.120 It only recently surfaced on social media, and for good reason.

00:05:00.800 Democrats are now clearly preparing to wage an all-out war on Americans if they retake Congress and the White House.

00:05:06.580 They're planning a campaign of retribution against conservatives that will make the Biden years look tame by comparison.

00:05:13.180 And this is not a guess. I mean, they're saying it openly in a variety of different contexts.

00:05:17.600 In some cases, they're rewriting history to justify the purge that they're planning.

00:05:22.820 Now, probably won't come as a surprise to anyone to hear that.

00:05:25.020 I believe it's very important to study history, real history, not the propaganda you're taught in public schools, but actual history.

00:05:31.640 We talk about various historical topics on this show all the time.

00:05:35.060 I also have another monthly show, Real History on Daily Wire, and there's a few reasons for this.

00:05:40.620 First of all, it's interesting as a factual matter.

00:05:44.700 And secondly, as the famous quote goes, those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it.

00:05:48.700 And on top of that, if you're familiar with American history, then it's easier to spot political propaganda,

00:05:54.440 especially from the left, which has committed itself to rewriting the past.

00:05:58.740 It's also easier to see through the propaganda and determine what the left is really after, what they're really doing.

00:06:04.160 So here's a very transparent example of what this means in practice. Late last week, the New Republic, which is one of those outlets on the left that claims to be highly intellectual, like the Atlantic, outlined an elaborate plan to harass and imprison Donald Trump and his advisors and his supporters once Trump leaves office.

00:06:26.620 This is the left's new and improved game plan for a new wave of lawfare against Donald Trump and his supporters.

00:06:32.920 Instead of talking about ways to improve the lives of American citizens, they're fixated almost entirely on retribution.

00:06:40.560 This article is entitled, There Will Be No Post-Presidential Peace for Donald Trump.

00:06:46.580 And for the most part, the article feels like it could have been written 10 years ago,

00:06:49.940 except for the fact that it drops the whole Russian collusion hoax, which is too embarrassing

00:06:54.760 for Democrats to talk about anymore. That's why, by the way, nobody on the left mourned really

00:07:00.580 Robert Mueller. He was their hero when they thought he was useful to them. But when he

00:07:05.380 failed to take down Trump, they just completely forgot he existed. But the author of the New

00:07:09.520 Republic article does mention the infamous emoluments clause, which used to be all the

00:07:15.340 rage on the left, as you remember. He also drones on about international law as if it's a real thing.

00:07:20.700 It's not. It's fake. He suggests that government attorneys should be disbarred if they worked for

00:07:26.040 the Trump administration. There's even the suggestion that ICE officers should be punished

00:07:30.720 in a future administration for the crime of just doing their jobs. But the best paragraph of all

00:07:36.700 for my money is this one. Again, this was published in the New Republic, which allegedly is an award

00:07:42.600 winning magazine on the left. And here's what it says, quote, a rundown of the Trump administration's

00:07:48.260 scandals and crimes resembles, with shocking likeness, the grave sweeping charges laid out

00:07:53.800 in the Declaration of Independence against the last American king. He has excited domestic

00:07:59.000 insurrections against us, the founding fathers wrote about George III in 1776. Is there any

00:08:06.080 better way of describing Trump's actions on January 6th, 2021? He supported a violent mob

00:08:11.060 aiming to overthrow the government, he maintains a similar disrespect for the

00:08:14.900 institutions of American democracy to this day. Now, if you have no familiarity with American

00:08:21.120 history, and you're very stupid, which is the target audience for this sort of thing, 0.99

00:08:27.960 then this paragraph might make some degree of sense. After all, the Declaration of Independence 0.99

00:08:32.740 condemned the British king for causing, quote, domestic insurrections. And according to the

00:08:37.940 New Republic, Donald Trump basically committed an insurrection as well because he delivered a

00:08:42.520 speech. And therefore, we can conclude that the founders themselves would have endorsed a campaign

00:08:48.360 of violent payback against Trump and his advisors and supporters. Now, the main problem with this

00:08:54.960 argument becomes very clear when you take a look at what the founders were talking about when they

00:09:00.760 referred to domestic insurrections. Contrary to what modern leftists believe, the founders were

00:09:06.500 not attacking King George for delivering a speech to his followers, in which he urged his followers

00:09:11.460 to, quote, peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard, which is what Trump said.

00:09:17.200 Instead, the founders were attacking King George and other British officials for encouraging slave 0.66

00:09:23.560 revolts in the colonies. And in particular, the colonists were furious over Lord Dunmore's

00:09:29.900 proclamation in 1775, which was issued by the British officer, as the colonists were becoming

00:09:35.320 increasingly frustrated with British rule, Lord Dunmore declared martial law and promised freedom

00:09:41.240 to every slave or indentured servant who ran away from his owner and joined the British army.

00:09:47.460 Now, by some estimates, thousands of slaves took them up on this offer. And so it was,

00:09:53.020 in the literal sense, a domestic insurrection. It was also nothing like what Donald Trump did

00:10:00.100 on January 6th, obviously. So take a moment to appreciate the irony here. In order to construct

00:10:06.900 an extremely convoluted plan to get Donald Trump, the so-called thought leaders on the left are now

00:10:13.040 taking the side of American colonists who were upset that the British government was encouraging

00:10:19.280 slaves to run away and become free. Put another way, in order to defeat the MAGA movement once

00:10:26.160 and for all, they're saying that Donald Trump's actions on January 6th are the moral and legal 0.82

00:10:31.860 equivalent of telling black slaves that they should run away and become free.

00:10:40.000 But they don't actually realize they're saying any of this because they don't understand American 0.98

00:10:43.920 history. They've never read a single page about it. They certainly don't care about what the

00:10:49.160 founders said or what they really believed. Their only objective, as always, is to destroy

00:10:54.500 their political opponents, and they will lie about anything in order to achieve that objective.

00:10:59.280 If you spend any amount of time studying history, it becomes very obvious that they do this all the

00:11:03.780 time. And if your children are in public schools, same thing is happening there. What we're

00:11:10.120 witnessing here is the launch of what Democrats are calling themselves Project 2029. That's after

00:11:16.600 the infamous Project 2025 that became an instant obsession on the left. But there's a big difference

00:11:22.680 between Project 2025 and Project 2029.

00:11:26.680 The former was a policy document from a conservative think tank

00:11:30.440 which discussed plans to roll back taxes,

00:11:34.800 promote the nuclear family, eliminate propaganda from public schools.

00:11:39.400 Democrats pretended that Project 2025 was our nefarious plan

00:11:43.260 to do horrible things to them,

00:11:44.740 but it was actually a pretty standard policy document.

00:11:47.720 By contrast, Project 2029 is explicitly a plan to imprison and bankrupt Donald Trump and everybody who works for him or supports him.

00:12:01.340 So once again, Democrats were projecting, in other words.

00:12:04.600 They're doing exactly what they claimed the right was doing.

00:12:08.620 Here's the governor of Illinois, who's now on Ozempic, apparently, and is explaining this very explicitly.

00:12:16.260 Watch.

00:12:17.720 What does a Project 2029 agenda look like for you?

00:12:23.540 I don't think you can speak of it in shorthand, but I'll just say a couple of things that I think are absolutely necessary.

00:12:30.380 One is we've got to restore the rule of law, and that means holding people accountable who've broken the law.

00:12:36.700 I'm talking about in this administration, when we get a new one, the people in this administration who've broken the law and federal agents who've broken the law need to be held accountable.

00:12:46.300 And that means criminally prosecuted.

00:12:48.660 Criminally prosecuted, civilly prosecuted, whatever it is that we can do, right?

00:12:52.980 It may be that you can't criminally prosecute somebody, but that you can go after them civilly.

00:13:00.460 Now, the New York Times woman with the tie is eager to hear that federal agents will be criminally prosecuted for what exactly?

00:13:10.120 Well, they don't say.

00:13:10.780 You know, when the Russiagate hoax was in full swing, they at least had some kind of fake criminal charges in mind, like obstruction of justice or, you know, something like that.

00:13:20.500 But now they don't even have that.

00:13:23.240 Think about how extraordinary that is.

00:13:25.180 These people spent several years talking about prosecuting Donald Trump during his first term.

00:13:29.660 Trump left office and they followed through on their threats.

00:13:34.060 That's the one thing about Democrats is that they'll make all these plans and promises as horrible as they may be.

00:13:39.740 And then they'll actually go do them. Whereas Republicans will make a lot of promises and not do them at all. But they began several prosecutions against the former president in state and federal court. They didn't spend any amount of time thinking about what voters actually wanted or how Donald Trump or why he resonated with so many people.

00:14:02.080 Instead, they spent all their creative energy bringing charges that made absolutely no sense to the point that, you know, when Donald Trump was convicted in New York, no sane person in the country even pretended to care because it was all fake.

00:14:15.600 No matter how many times Kamala Harris read the script about Donald Trump being a convicted felon, it didn't matter.

00:14:21.220 And now after all of that, after losing the presidency, in large part because of their lawfare, they're not simply doubling down.

00:14:30.280 They're openly admitting that in their next campaign of retribution, they're not even going to use a pretext.

00:14:37.000 They're just going to throw people in prison or worse. 0.87

00:14:40.700 About a year ago, I did a monologue on the rise of assassination culture in this country.

00:14:45.000 And we talked about how Democrats were trying to murder Elon Musk, how they celebrated the murder of a health care insurance CEO and glorified his killer, how they threw money at a black teenager who was accused of murdering a white high school student at a track meet.

00:15:00.800 And now, as it happens, Charlie Kirk also talked about assassination culture on his show back in April of 2025.

00:15:07.060 In particular, Charlie cited a report from the Network Contagion Research Institute, or NCRI.

00:15:14.680 And they're a nonprofit based in New Jersey that focuses on analyzing threats on social media.

00:15:19.860 And their report showed that on the left, a growing number of people weren't simply celebrating political violence.

00:15:25.520 They were openly calling for it.

00:15:26.840 And that's why, according to U.S. Capitol Police data, threat investigations have more than doubled since 2017, from 4,000 per year to more than 9,400.

00:15:37.180 Of course, we don't really need a report for this. We all know that it's true.

00:15:41.680 Now, one year later, NCRI has updated their report.

00:15:45.760 And they ran a survey where they asked about 2,000 people to first provide their political ideology and then to state whether they saw a justification for violence against certain political figures.

00:15:56.840 And NCRI then filtered out about, you know, a thousand of these respondents because they finished the survey too quickly or failed various attention checks, which should tell you something about how unreliable polls tend to be.

00:16:08.580 But here's what they found. Quote, justification for the murder of Donald Trump has increased from NCRI's original study in April 2025 from 56 percent to 67 percent among left of center respondents.

00:16:23.640 This tolerance for violence appears to have grown on the right as well, with 54% of right-of-center respondents expressing justification for murdering New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani.

00:16:33.620 Support for political murder is associated with pessimistic assessments of America's trajectory.

00:16:38.320 Support for political murder is about 15% higher among females than among males.

00:16:43.140 Overall, nearly two-thirds of all respondents, 66%, endorsed some level of justification for murdering either or both Zoran Mamdani and Donald Trump.

00:16:52.380 The broader pattern points to belief in American decline amplified by social media, especially among youth, as a central driver of this change.

00:17:00.800 But here's the data on the people who want Trump dead, to give you an idea.

00:17:05.480 It's there on the screen.

00:17:06.960 67% of left-of-center respondents gave some or more justification for murdering Donald Trump.

00:17:13.600 58% of centrists did the same. And incredibly enough, 42% of right-of-center respondents

00:17:20.400 gave a justification for killing Trump, which should tell you something, by the way, about

00:17:25.600 who qualifies as a right-of-center because they give the data on, well, apparently a majority of

00:17:31.520 people on the right-of-center also support political murder. But then we find out that

00:17:35.780 40% of them, more than 40%, want Trump to be killed. So what do we talk about? When you say 0.59

00:17:43.480 right of center, are you talking about like Bill Kristol right of center? That's probably what

00:17:46.540 they mean. But anyway, the survey also found a strong correlation between justifying Trump's

00:17:52.260 murder and Mamdani's murder, indicating a, you know, broader trend towards political violence

00:17:56.560 in this country, one that's noticeably stronger on the left, particularly among women who spend 0.99

00:18:02.240 a lot of time on social media and who perceive that America is on the decline. And it's mostly

00:18:07.260 what you'd expect, except perhaps for the fact that women are more likely than men to call for 0.99

00:18:14.840 political violence. I mean, for all the talk we're hearing about the dangers of the so-called

00:18:20.700 manosphere and toxic masculinity and the... Well, it turns out that women are bigger fans of 1.00

00:18:28.480 political violence than men are. And this is a finding that, if true, would obviously represent 0.94

00:18:34.160 a major victory for the feminist movement. For generations, they've sought to erase every 1.00

00:18:39.100 feminine instinct and to replace those instincts with a crude knockoff of masculinity, and that 1.00

00:18:44.940 appears to be what's happening. Women are now posting on social media and giving interviews

00:18:49.520 in which they beat their chests about how bloodthirsty they are. It's almost as if feminism 1.00

00:18:55.460 has made women much less happy and much less pleasant than they've ever been at any other 0.99

00:19:00.420 point in American history. Almost as though, watch. What was your reaction this July when

00:19:22.780 the assassin almost got Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania? Happy that he missed or happy

00:19:28.820 that it happened. No, happy that it happened. And too bad that it wasn't in the head. What

00:19:33.860 was your reaction in July when an assassin came an inch away from ending Trump? Disappointment

00:19:41.600 that they didn't follow through. They missed. Got shot. Yeah. I thought, oh my God. It could

00:19:50.620 would have been wonderful. If he'd been shot. Exactly. Yeah. I can sum it up in one word. 0.79

00:20:00.880 Draft that it happened or draft that it missed? Draft that it missed. I won't lie.

00:20:08.700 So women are more likely to justify political murder. They're also much more likely to, 1.00

00:20:14.060 sympathize with a black murderer who's been convicted of 30 other crimes and was just let 0.99

00:20:22.040 out of prison and killed somebody else. So a lot of moral confusion, I think we can say. 0.98

00:20:28.840 And while several of the women in that clip obviously skew older, this trend is not limited

00:20:33.840 to the elderly. It's not simply a phenomenon in which old people are mouthing off. YouGov ran a 0.98

00:20:39.700 similar survey just two days after Charlie Kirk's murder. They asked, is it ever justified for

00:20:44.300 citizens to resort to violence in order to achieve political goals? And here's what they found.

00:20:49.700 Over one third of self-described liberals, ages 18 to 39, answered yes. That is the highest of

00:20:56.360 all the demographics they surveyed. And again, you don't really need a survey to establish this.

00:21:00.080 You can just browse TikTok and look at videos like this one with millions of views.

00:21:05.020 hello my name is scarlett kelly and i am officially declaring war on the republican party if you are 1.00

00:21:14.760 a republican on tiktok and you want to interact with me you deserve to die you deserve to be shot 1.00

00:21:23.240 you deserve whatever suffering could possibly come to you if you are a republican and try to 1.00

00:21:30.440 start any of that uh kind of nonsense with me in person you will lose your life this is war i am 0.99

00:21:36.720 not joking it's done you are not an american anymore you're out you're off the list you're 0.95

00:21:44.920 you've been naughty you know on one hand you see videos like this and you want to joke about it and

00:21:52.440 and and because these people are like the least intimidating uh human beings you'll ever see i 0.95

00:21:57.860 I mean, they're all weak and flabby. 0.98

00:21:59.580 It looks like they could be knocked unconscious with a toothpick. 0.72

00:22:02.780 But then you realize that, you know, all these mass shootings and everything,

00:22:06.160 and you look at what those people look like.

00:22:09.360 Well, it looks exactly like that.

00:22:12.160 It doesn't matter how weak somebody is. 0.88

00:22:13.840 They show up someplace with a gun, and they're deranged and evil enough.

00:22:19.440 They can inflict a lot of damage.

00:22:21.400 Now, in one significant way, it's reminiscent of the effort to ban Alex Jones

00:22:25.000 from every social media platform, including YouTube, Apple, Facebook, Spotify, Twitter.

00:22:29.400 Back then, we were told that Alex Jones was an exception to the rule and that Democrats

00:22:32.620 wouldn't try to ban everybody else they disagreed with. NPR reported that the ideas that Jones

00:22:37.900 shares are particularly noxious. Well, guess what? Within three years, they banned the

00:22:44.000 president of the United States as well as thousands of his followers. Political violence

00:22:48.500 works the same way. Once Democrats believe they're justified in killing one person for

00:22:53.740 political reasons, the floodgates open. They're not going to stop with Brian Thompson or Charlie

00:23:00.320 Kirk or Donald Trump. With each assassination or assassination attempt, they grow more and

00:23:06.160 more committed. They will expand their efforts to murder their opponents until they have no

00:23:10.700 opponents left or until somebody stops them. There will be no return to normalcy. They're

00:23:17.660 saying that themselves. They want you dead or in jail. That's what they want. You know, justifiably, 0.98

00:23:25.260 we spent a lot of time on this show criticizing Republicans, especially Republicans who aren't

00:23:29.260 advancing basic legislation like the SAVE Act, which needs to pass if we want to have fair

00:23:33.960 elections in this country. It's not an overstatement to say that many Republicans would

00:23:38.240 rather do nothing and lose control of Congress in November than undertake the difficult but

00:23:44.820 necessary work of passing legislation, of being leaders.

00:23:48.340 They don't want to lead.

00:23:49.020 They want to lose, many of them.

00:23:51.520 That's true.

00:23:53.280 But at the same time, from a purely practical perspective, politicians who do nothing for

00:23:59.780 you are still better than politicians committed to actively destroying your life and the lives

00:24:05.340 of everybody you care about.

00:24:07.880 And in America, according to every indication we have at the moment, those are your choices

00:24:13.800 right now.

00:24:15.500 Democrats have decided that in lieu of appealing to the very interests, to the interests of American voters, they're going to import foreigners who are beholden to the Democrat Party and then begin a violent crackdown against anyone who disagrees with them.

00:24:29.680 That is their agenda for 2029. They're making it very clear. They're telling us.

00:24:35.100 They're no longer going to even pretend to care about appealing to Americans or democracy or any of that.

00:24:41.660 Instead, they're going to appeal to, quote unquote, undocumented Americans, which is not a thing. And that's to say foreign invaders who aren't American at all. Democrats want to punish you, steal from you, put you in prison. All for the benefit of foreigners who will vote Democrat in every election. 0.86

00:24:59.460 And it would be a fatal mistake, in the sense that it could result in the end of Western civilization, for us to assume that these people will be as passive as the FBI was after the murder of Charlie Kirk.

00:25:14.000 They won't be.

00:25:16.060 They will be ruthless.

00:25:18.840 And for that reason alone, they must never be allowed to hold power again.

00:25:25.240 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:26:17.540 All right, checking in on the airports, which have been a disaster zone, as we've covered extensively on the show.

00:26:23.360 So yesterday, ICE deployed to a number of major airports around the country, and it seems that they've been effective.

00:26:31.220 Even CNN has had to admit that they've been effective.

00:26:35.740 So here they are at the Atlanta airport.

00:26:38.780 Watch.

00:26:41.060 Finally, we can take a deep breath here.

00:26:42.760 The numbers have dropped off.

00:26:44.340 The lines are getting shorter.

00:26:46.020 I think the average wait time now is under 40 minutes.

00:26:48.660 So if you have a flight to catch today, it's a good time to come to Hartsfield-Jackson International.

00:26:53.360 and maybe we should abolish the tsa and put ice in charge of the airport security permanently

00:27:01.540 they need a lot more funding but maybe that's the solution as fox documented most air travelers

00:27:09.400 support ice in the airports in fact most most americans support ice in general that's the truth

00:27:15.720 of it and uh here it is watch bother anybody i'm okay i was concerned about people so

00:27:23.340 they're not bothering us. Let's get it done. I like that they're here. I think that it's allowing

00:27:27.760 us to move and get to where we need to go. It's kind of scary in the sense because you don't know

00:27:32.400 what to expect with ICE. As long as they can help us move a little bit faster, maybe they can take

00:27:36.940 some of the work off the TSA agents as far as, you know, general security. I'm all for it.

00:27:44.240 What a shock. They couldn't find anyone who would say, you know what? I hate ICE so much. I'd rather

00:27:49.440 have a five-hour wait line than have ICE help.

00:27:54.380 I'll take a five-hour wait at the airport

00:27:57.480 over having ICE, just out of principle.

00:28:01.540 They couldn't find anyone to say that.

00:28:03.880 So maybe this is the solution.

00:28:05.360 Get rid of TSA, put ICE in charge.

00:28:08.200 Because it turns out for all the relentless demonization

00:28:10.820 of ICE that the media and Democrats have engaged in,

00:28:13.460 most Americans don't care.

00:28:15.440 They just want to, you know,

00:28:17.040 they don't want to wait in line for five hours at the airport.

00:28:19.440 That's what they care about. Or better yet, as I've been arguing, as I've argued for years, we could abolish TSA completely. I mean, we hear about abolishing ICE. Obviously, we can't do that. That's insane. Abolish TSA, though, we could do that and just replace it with no government agency at all.

00:28:38.080 let airport security be handled privately, as it was up till 2001, and as it still is in some

00:28:45.180 airports. TSA sucks at its job. It is terrible. And that's not just my opinion. This has been

00:28:52.600 tested. As I mentioned yesterday, the DHS has sent in private investigators on many occasions

00:28:58.580 to try and smuggle weapons through security to test how effective their security measures are.

00:29:05.960 And they found that TSA failed to prevent up to 80% of the weapons from making it through screening.

00:29:14.840 And that was an improvement.

00:29:16.700 That was in 2017.

00:29:18.060 That was an improvement over previous years when the failure rate was 90% to 95%.

00:29:23.200 That should really tell you something.

00:29:26.260 When you have an agency that is failing in 90% to 95% of cases, and that agency is not immediately disbanded or even seriously reformed in any way, that tells you that whatever this agency is supposedly doing, that's not really the point because they can't even pretend to care about doing it well.

00:29:53.300 Here's a fun fact. Did you know this?

00:29:56.260 Did you know that to this day, TSA has not prevented a single terrorist attack?

00:30:02.840 Not one.

00:30:04.280 There is not one actual recorded case of a terror plot being foiled by TSA.

00:30:09.140 If you don't believe me, go look it up.

00:30:11.600 Let me tell you something.

00:30:12.720 If that happened, they would tell us.

00:30:14.920 If that happened, they would trumpet it from the rooftops.

00:30:20.500 Okay, there'd be a marching band down the street.

00:30:23.320 They'd be announcing it to everybody.

00:30:26.260 Hey, after 25 years, we finally did something.

00:30:30.540 Hasn't happened one time.

00:30:32.340 25 years of this agency existing, and it has not even once done the single thing that it exists to do.

00:30:40.860 And what's more, and this is another thing that I think people don't maybe realize, especially younger people,

00:30:48.500 TSA was formed in response to 9-11.

00:30:52.020 I think most people know that.

00:30:52.940 But on the surface, that might seem like it makes sense, right?

00:30:57.640 Until you realize that 9-11 was not a failure of airport security.

00:31:02.240 It was a failure of a lot of things.

00:31:04.300 There's a lot of blame to go around.

00:31:06.940 But, you know, ironically enough, the one thing you can't blame is airport security.

00:31:13.820 The hijackers took over the planes with box cutters.

00:31:17.180 Box cutters were smuggled.

00:31:19.080 They were not smuggled.

00:31:20.040 Box cutters were not smuggled on the planes. 0.60

00:31:22.940 Box cutters were allowed on the planes because according to federal regulations, they were permitted. 1.00

00:31:30.900 So airport security was following federal guidelines.

00:31:35.100 At the time, the idea of a plane being hijacked by box cutters just had not occurred to anybody. 0.89

00:31:42.140 Now, the security failure happened on the planes themselves.

00:31:46.080 I mean, there were a lot of failures to go around, but there was kind of a security failure on the airplane.

00:31:52.940 At the time, it was way too easy to get into the cockpit.

00:31:58.460 Pilots were trained also at the time to basically concede to the demands of hijackers.

00:32:04.720 And a lot of that stuff has changed since then.

00:32:08.480 But airport security, again, was not at fault.

00:32:11.340 They were following federal regulations.

00:32:13.940 And yet, in the wake of 9-11, we end up with this whole elaborate, theatrical, government-run security procedure in every airport in the country, or most of them.

00:32:22.940 In which now agents of the government are empowered to conduct searches of our personal effects and our bodies, the kinds of searches that prior to the TSA, a government agent would need a warrant to conduct.

00:32:37.280 Prior to the TSA, there was no scenario where agents of the government could conduct those kind of searches on millions of people every day without warrants.

00:32:49.000 so they basically ripped up the constitution formed this whole new government agency inflicted

00:32:55.740 on millions of americans every day all for no valid reason in order to achieve a goal

00:33:01.480 that in 25 years they have not achieved

00:33:03.600 and uh and that tells you what this is really about

00:33:10.180 but the TSA is one of those things that you know this is what we've learned that the government

00:33:19.960 the government can do something terrible they can put some new awful policy in place

00:33:24.160 and people will object to it I mean when TSA was first formed and for the first several years that

00:33:30.500 TSA existed it was a live issue it was a political issue and there were a lot of people that were

00:33:35.600 protesting against it and you would have politicians that were saying this you know we shouldn't be

00:33:39.440 doing this. We're raising all these objections about the constitutionality of it and the

00:33:43.140 effectiveness of it. And this is just security theater. It's all these things. But now it's not

00:33:51.440 even talked about. It's just assumed. Even now, even when, I mean, we're all talking about TSA

00:33:56.840 because of the funding being pulled and all these TSA agents calling out of work,

00:34:02.300 even though they're all going to get back paid, by the way, so they're stealing our money right now.

00:34:05.720 but even amid all that there's almost nobody saying hey by the way like this agency shouldn't

00:34:11.620 even exist by the way this agency shouldn't exist if it didn't exist then you wouldn't be able to

00:34:17.200 use it as a political football this would not be a politicians would not be able to hold

00:34:22.560 airport security hostage if the government didn't control airport security almost nobody is saying

00:34:29.320 that? Right? Who's saying that? Aside from me and maybe a few other podcasters, I don't know.

00:34:35.600 Is any Republican saying that? And what that shows is like, everyone knows TSA is like,

00:34:43.000 they're awful at their jobs. That's just a fact. This is a fact. They're extremely ineffective.

00:34:48.120 Private security would be much better. There's no way private security could be worse.

00:34:52.840 You're failing 80 to 95% of the time. How could, how could anything be worse than that?

00:34:59.980 So, and we all know that, but we just kind of accepted it.

00:35:04.900 We're like, well, you know, it's existed for 25 years, so it might as well exist forever.

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00:36:00.820 All right, Fox News has this. A progressive Chicago alderwoman is being widely panned on social media over her response to a local college student being allegedly shot and killed by an illegal immigrant over the weekend. 0.98

00:36:11.020 Shortly after Sheridan Gorman was gunned down while taking a walk with friends, alderwoman Maria Haddon suggested in an interview with Fox 32 that Gorman was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

00:36:22.820 that's the way that she puts it let's go ahead and play the clip

00:36:26.300 all the time right and they go out on the pier they walk around so the the kids were out doing

00:36:31.960 normal normal things people do in the neighborhood and it sounds like this might have been a wrong

00:36:37.120 place wrong time running into a person who had a gun they might have startled this person at the

00:36:42.440 end of the pier unintentionally so um you know there have been some people trying to claim that

00:36:51.900 this clip is taken out of context, but it's not. I mean, this is what she said. She said what she

00:36:55.920 said. And notice how she talks about the violent killer like he's a wild animal. I mean, this is

00:37:02.040 the kind of thing that you might say after somebody is mauled by a mountain lion or like

00:37:06.260 stomped to death by a moose. You might say, oh, well, you know, she must have surprised it.

00:37:11.280 Terrible thing. She was out for a walk and came too close and caught it by surprise. Maybe it was

00:37:17.620 eating. You know, when you walk up on a wild animal and it's eating, then it might respond

00:37:22.500 aggressively to protect its kill. You know, maybe that's what it was doing. And, you know, that

00:37:28.000 makes sense. It's a valid explanation when you're talking about some kind of creature from the

00:37:32.240 forest. But she's talking about a human. She's talking about an illegal alien who doesn't belong 1.00

00:37:38.740 in this country. But this really is how these people, how Democrats, see violent criminals.

00:37:43.100 They see them as animals, as these sort of poor, helpless, scared animals who have no control over their actions.

00:37:49.180 Ironically, those of us who have a much harsher perspective, or at least call for much harsher punishments of these criminals,

00:37:56.640 we are the ones with a humanizing point of view.

00:38:01.640 In fact, we humanize the criminals by treating them like people.

00:38:08.140 When we call for them to be punished severely, that's because we see them as people.

00:38:12.180 We see them as human beings who should be subjected to punishment, to justice.

00:38:19.860 I would never call for punishing an animal.

00:38:23.680 Even if an animal mauled somebody to death, I'd say, well, that animal should be put down.

00:38:27.680 But I wouldn't call that justice.

00:38:29.080 I wouldn't say it in the interest of justice that the animal should be killed.

00:38:33.820 And nobody else would either.

00:38:35.080 justice is for humans, which is something that you understand if you acknowledge the humanity

00:38:43.700 of all people, but Democrats don't. And that's not to say that humanizing criminals is the most

00:38:49.260 important thing here. The most important thing is protecting American citizens from violent

00:38:54.240 invaders and all violent criminals who shouldn't, in this case, shouldn't even be here in the first

00:38:59.660 place. But my only point is that the compassion of Democrats is not only cruelty to innocent

00:39:07.320 American citizens, most importantly, that's what it is, but it's also dehumanizing to the very

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00:41:01.760 All right, here's something great, something awesome for a change.

00:41:06.300 Every once in a while, a local news station will do one of these heartwarming human interest type stories.

00:41:12.360 that, and every once in a while, one of those kinds of stories will be something so heartwarming

00:41:20.480 that even I, with my icy heart of stone, will find wonderful and inspiring.

00:41:27.920 And this report out of Kentucky is one of those occasions.

00:41:32.880 So here it is. Watch.

00:41:35.840 If it's my way, I'll stay and hold and feed a nation.

00:41:39.660 $26 million doesn't mean anything.

00:41:41.940 Some people might find it hard to understand how Delcia Baer can turn away a $26 million offer to buy some of her land 0.74

00:41:49.260 until you spend a little time with her walking the dirt road she grew up on and in the house her daddy built.

00:41:55.340 My grandfather and great-grandfather and a whole bunch of family has all lived here for years,

00:42:01.260 paid taxes on it, fed a nation off of it, even raised wheat through the Depression

00:42:06.700 and kept the bread lines up in the United States of America.

00:42:10.700 when people didn't have anything else.

00:42:12.780 Delcia is one of dozens of landowners approached by an anonymous buyer,

00:42:17.080 one of the major players in artificial intelligence,

00:42:20.300 likely Google or Meta or Amazon, to purchase their land.

00:42:24.520 The market value for land in Mason County is about $6,000 an acre.

00:42:29.880 The realtor that came to her door last April

00:42:32.240 offered her and her mother about 10 times that. 1.00

00:42:35.820 They call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we're not. 0.99

00:42:39.700 We know whenever our food is disappearing, our lands are disappearing, 0.99

00:42:43.800 and we don't have any water and poison, we know we've had it.

00:42:48.660 Delcia's mom, Ida Huddleston, is now 82 years old.

00:42:52.620 She says she does not need the money or the hassle.

00:42:55.820 She was born on this land, and she plans to die here, 0.99

00:42:58.840 and she certainly does not trust the promises made by the AI companies

00:43:03.160 or the people who want them to build here.

00:43:05.460 So what do you say to the people who are in town that say, hey, this is going to bring jobs, this is going to bring economic prosperity?

00:43:15.220 I say they're a liar and the truth ain't in them, is what I say. It's a scam. 0.92

00:43:20.140 For Delcia, scam or not, she says she's connected to her home like Scarlett O'Hara was in Gone with the Wind.

00:43:27.340 As long as she was attached to that land, her spirit never would die. That's the exact same thing for me right here.

00:43:35.460 As long as I'm on this land, as long as it's feeding me, as long as it's taking care of me, there's nothing can destroy me if I've got this land.

00:43:47.820 Well, I just love everything about that.

00:43:49.840 This is America.

00:43:51.200 This is what America is.

00:43:52.080 This is what America is supposed to be and always has been.

00:43:54.340 And I love the idea of some pencil neck city slicker real estate agent working on behalf of Google or Amazon or whatever, knocking on old, old Delcia's door, offering them $26 million for their land and then being totally flummoxed when he was told to, you know, kindly. 0.93

00:44:13.320 off. I mean, I'd like to imagine they pulled out a shotgun and told him that he has 30 seconds to

00:44:20.100 get his yuppie ass off their porch before they start blasting. I'd like to imagine that it was 0.99

00:44:26.000 probably less dramatic. In fact, it was probably, they probably said it turned him down in a really

00:44:31.360 warm and kind sort of way, but the message was the same. And, you know, these are,

00:44:39.040 When we use the phrase real Americans, when some of us use that phrase, this is what we mean. What is an American? These ladies are American. These are Americans. And this to me is a case study.

00:44:52.720 You know, for anyone who says that America is nothing but a propositional nation, America is an idea. America is an abstract principle. Anyone who says that, you know, anyone who comes here is just as American as the people who've lived here for generations.

00:45:11.820 anybody in that camp okay look at these women 1.00

00:45:15.000 look at these women listen to them also the way that they speak uh and i love the way that they 0.94

00:45:22.460 speak i should say well what would you say when when the older woman was asked ida when ida was

00:45:28.100 asked uh what would you say the people that say well you should sell your land well i'd say they're

00:45:31.320 a liar and the truth ain't in them perfect that's all you got to say perfect perfect answer but

00:45:37.160 anyway, look at these women and then look at a Somali immigrant fresh off the boat. 1.00

00:45:45.520 Tell me, tell me, tell me that you think the Somali immigrant is just as American, 1.00

00:45:50.500 just as authentically American as the two women in that video. Try to tell me that with a straight 0.99

00:45:55.660 face. Tell me that when it comes to Americanness, when it comes to connection to this country

00:46:02.000 and the authenticity of your citizenship and your claim to being an American? Tell me that you see

00:46:09.540 no difference. Tell me that. You can't. You cannot tell me that with a straight face.

00:46:13.760 Because on the one hand, you have a third worlder who came here 10 seconds ago so they can bilk 1.00

00:46:18.020 money from taxpayers and send it back to Somalia. On the other hand, you have women who've lived on 1.00

00:46:21.740 a farm in Kentucky who are connected to the land by heritage and blood, and that matters,

00:46:27.420 living in a cabin their great-grandfather built by hand

00:46:31.040 who feel so connected to the land, so connected to their lineage,

00:46:34.400 they'd rather stay there and die on that land

00:46:37.200 than become multi-millionaires.

00:46:41.120 Nobody can tell me that they are somehow no more American,

00:46:45.500 no more authentically American than the Somali guy 1.00

00:46:47.740 who doesn't even speak the language,

00:46:49.800 has no connection to our land, no connection to our people,

00:46:53.040 no connection to our tradition, no connection to our way of life.

00:46:57.420 you cannot tell me that. I mean, you could say it, but you can't say it with a straight face

00:47:01.660 because that's total nonsense. So I think this is great. I think, and you know, there's some

00:47:07.980 people on social media who are, as you would imagine, are saying, well, this is dumb. Why, 0.98

00:47:13.680 they should just take the money. I saw someone say, well, they turned down generational wealth.

00:47:18.300 well you know the generational wealth is the land the generational wealth is the land

00:47:28.100 that their father and grandfather and great-grandfather worked and sweat and bled for

00:47:35.500 that is the generational wealth that they want to hang on to and taking 26 million dollars you can

00:47:42.340 move to some other place and buy a mcmansion and buy a lot of stuff just buy a bunch of

00:47:48.300 for your house, that has no appeal to them, or at least it does not appeal to them more

00:47:53.820 than the land and the connection that they have to it. And that's another thing. As an American,

00:48:04.640 you should understand that, that it's literally priceless. I would bet that if Google came back

00:48:11.980 and said, you know what, we'll write you a blank check. What do you want? You want a billion

00:48:16.700 dollars will give you that. I think they wouldn't take it. I mean, if they wouldn't take 26 million,

00:48:21.360 especially, you know, 26 million, it might as well be a billion as you can't, unless you're

00:48:25.000 totally profligate and you're spending it. So you can't even spend that in a lifetime.

00:48:28.560 Especially if you're older, I think they wouldn't take it. I don't think it'd take any amount of

00:48:33.040 money because the land and the connection it has to their ancestors is literally priceless.

00:48:38.320 You cannot put a price on it. And so I think that's just great. I love that story.

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00:49:30.600 Here's something that's also kind of fun for a different reason.

00:49:33.860 This is funny.

00:49:35.440 The scourge of HR ladies in elected office continues. 1.00

00:49:39.540 to women who speak and act like HR reps. So here's Mayor Dorsey Applers of, last name is 1.00

00:49:49.180 A-P-P-L-Y-R-S. How are you supposed to pronounce? I get a lot of grief for my mispronunciation of

00:49:56.260 names and sometimes that's justified, but then there are other times. Why don't you take a stab 0.96

00:50:00.540 about that. A-P-P-L-Y-R-S. Appliers? Applers? I don't know. Anyway, Mayor Dorsey of Albany

00:50:11.680 trying to answer a question about how she plans to solve the city's debt crisis. Watch. 0.87

00:50:19.320 Mayor, moving long-term, what structural changes need to happen to prevent Albany from facing

00:50:24.940 similar financial issues again that's a great question and that's why we were

00:50:31.360 pulling together that team that interdepartmental team that will really

00:50:38.200 go under the hood open up the cabinets really get into the weeds on our budget

00:50:46.200 the process some of our systems you know it is government there's a lot of

00:50:51.880 bureaucracy a lot of systems and sometimes those systems do not work until

00:50:57.220 you have to get under the hood to first understand what's not working and so

00:51:01.840 that team in short order will start the process of examining all of those things

00:51:07.720 to then in turn provide me with recommendations on how we improve those

00:51:13.600 systems to prevent something like this from happening before.

00:51:21.460 So this is like a game. It's like a fun game. How many cliches can you fit into one sentence?

00:51:26.860 How many cliches and mixed metaphors can you jam into 30 seconds of speaking time?

00:51:32.300 Yeah, you know, we're really getting under the hood, opening up the cabinets,

00:51:35.980 getting into the weeds. Just really need to drill down, need to unpack,

00:51:41.180 need to, shall we say, to coin a phrase, peel back the layers much like an onion.

00:51:50.800 So just to review, in case you lost track, when asked about fixing the debt problem in Albany,

00:51:55.820 the mayor says that her plan is to assemble a team to then develop a system to then provide

00:52:01.140 recommendations, which then can be used to create a new system to improve the system

00:52:06.560 so that now there's a system which one would presume can assemble a better team

00:52:11.420 that then can develop a better system to provide recommendations.

00:52:16.480 And the cycle continues.

00:52:17.460 It continues unto eternity until the sun explodes and the earth is turned to vapor.

00:52:23.480 I mean, that's actually the plan.

00:52:26.680 And you have to understand something with these people,

00:52:28.620 people who speak like this,

00:52:31.180 that this is the number one indicator that somebody is barely sentient.

00:52:36.560 And these are the kinds of people who, to a large extent, run our country.

00:52:42.020 They run so many of their institutions.

00:52:43.620 They're in elected office.

00:52:46.460 People who are barely sentient. 0.94

00:52:48.560 They have almost no self-awareness, no inner life.

00:52:52.720 They speak in cliches.

00:52:55.240 That's how you know someone has no inner life, when they speak in cliches.

00:52:58.800 there's no unique vibrant person underneath there all they have all they have in their head

00:53:09.980 is just these cliches i think sometimes it's assumed that this kind of sort of roundabout

00:53:15.440 cliche written answer is a calculated attempt to avoid providing a real answer but in many cases

00:53:22.480 it really isn't this is a reflection of their actual inner life of their thought process

00:53:26.620 which is totally vacuous it is as vacuous as their outward expression would seem to indicate

00:53:33.840 um finally daily mail has uh has this more good news really on a roll on a roll today uh daily

00:53:44.900 mail has uh this story target has imposed a strict new dress code on employees as the struggling

00:53:50.360 retailer tries to win back customers comes just months after the chain upset staff and left

00:53:54.660 shoppers unnerved during holidays

00:53:56.240 when they rolled out new rules

00:53:58.840 demanding sales assistants smile more.

00:54:01.560 Staff were told to smile at customers within 10 feet

00:54:03.580 in a push to create a friendlier in-store experience.

00:54:08.020 And Target's front of house

00:54:10.540 must now abide by a rigid dress code.

00:54:13.380 They will now be required to wear red shirts

00:54:15.020 with blue jeans or khakis.

00:54:16.780 This marks a shift from the current rules,

00:54:18.620 which allow employees to wear clothing

00:54:19.980 with graphics or designs on them,

00:54:22.000 as well as non-blue denim.

00:54:24.660 But many workers are on Reddit complaining, quote, in this economy, I barely make enough to pay rent.

00:54:31.080 I will not be wasting money on a whole new wardrobe.

00:54:33.480 What a waste of resources. Of all the things to be worried about, this is what you choose.

00:54:38.460 Others argue that a target wants a more uniform look. It should provide the clothing.

00:54:43.720 Our store has been getting a ton of new rules and things we have to follow lately, and leadership has been overbearing much more than usual.

00:54:49.320 A fellow coworker in my department got told he had to go buy a new shirt or clock out and go home because the shirt was too full of a shade of red, so it would be seen as almost brown.

00:55:01.400 So they're all complaining about it.

00:55:03.080 Anyway, yeah, so it's a rigid new dress code, a rigid, overbearing, puritanical, costly, expensive dress code, which demands that they wear a red shirt and jeans.

00:55:15.080 and now all the employees are like a red shirt and jeans what where am i supposed to get that

00:55:23.480 a red shirt and gee who even what do you want me to do go down to the red shirt store

00:55:28.900 go down to the where do they sell jeans i don't know where to get what is a jean i don't know

00:55:34.500 where to get the blue jeans of all things they don't do they even make it in that color

00:55:37.640 this is impossible red and blue these are the rarest colors for clothing

00:55:43.080 i'm a big fan of this i say bring back standards bring back expectations bring back bring back

00:55:51.300 the bare minimum okay that is a really uninspiring slogan but i think that's where we got to start

00:55:57.000 you got to start somewhere let's start with that bring back the bare minimum let's start with the

00:56:02.240 bare minimum and then you can raise the standard higher but we need to bring back some kind of

00:56:06.100 standard some sort of expectation so that we could then eventually raise it and bare minimum is a

00:56:12.040 start. And it's better than what has been the standard for years, especially for customer

00:56:15.640 service workers, who for them, the standard has been apparently do whatever you want,

00:56:23.700 act however you want, treat your customers like dirt, be as unhelpful and surly as you can possibly

00:56:28.480 be. It's all about you. The customer is never right. The employees are always right. Their 0.57

00:56:35.680 needs do not matter at all. If they have even the most basic request, do not make any real

00:56:41.980 attempt to help them. They are bothering you by being there. Their presence is an inconvenience

00:56:53.120 and you should let them know. So that has been the standard in most customer service

00:57:00.140 environments, apparently. I don't know if that's actually been written down somewhere

00:57:04.080 in the handbook. I don't know if they write it on the whiteboard in the break room at

00:57:08.880 these places. I don't know if they write down. Rule number one, customer does not matter.

00:57:17.000 Rule number two, do not let them inconvenience you ever.

00:57:23.640 I don't know if they write, but maybe it's unspoken. Maybe it's not actually written down,

00:57:27.660 but that has been the standard. And if that has changed, I think that that's a very good thing.

00:57:32.400 And by the way, I would like to see, because you get into this argument, anytime you talk about

00:57:37.420 how bad customer service is these days, and it's really bad. It is really, really bad. Almost

00:57:43.760 everywhere. It is god-awful abysmal. And anytime you point that out, customer service workers will,

00:57:52.500 they won't really deny it because they can't. But instead, they'll try to pass the buck to

00:57:57.600 the customers and they'll say, well, customers are terrible. And I agree, a lot of customers

00:58:02.240 are terrible too. I know that. I've worked these jobs. And I'd like to see higher standards for

00:58:08.040 customers, but the employees have to lead the way, right? It's like if you are inviting guests over

00:58:17.260 to your house and you want them to abide by certain rules or conduct themselves a certain way,

00:58:23.240 then you also, you need to lead by example. This is your house and you need to lead by example.

00:58:32.240 right? You want people to use a coaster when they're putting a drink down on the coffee table.

00:58:36.620 You need to use one too. You can't put your drink down on the coffee table with no coaster and then

00:58:40.780 yell at the person across from you, hey, use a coaster. You can't do that. I mean, you can,

00:58:45.320 but no one, people are going to disregard you. Lead by example. And you know, the great thing is

00:58:50.880 if you lead by example, a lot of times you don't even have to tell somebody. If you use the coaster

00:58:55.360 and your guest sees that, he'll, if they're at least a mildly considerate person, they'll also

00:58:59.760 use one. So the employees have to lead the way. You cannot hold customers to a higher standard

00:59:06.740 of decorum and conduct than you hold the employees of the establishment. So you need

00:59:11.520 your employees to be well-dressed, well-groomed, good hygiene, friendly, polite, good attitude,

00:59:17.080 helpful. All of that needs to happen first. And then you could also demand more of the customers.

00:59:23.520 I mean, I'd like to see basic dress codes, basic standards for customers too. Basically,

00:59:27.300 No pajama pants in the store, right? No slippers. Also, don't treat the employees like dirt. Don't be rude. When you're talking to an employee, put your phone down when you're interacting with them or else you'll be refused service.

00:59:46.160 I'd be fully on board with that. I'd be fully on board with a, with a store that said,

00:59:51.020 if you're like looking down at your phone while you're asking someone, Hey, do you know where the,

00:59:55.720 where can I get the ketchup or whatever? And you don't even look up from your phone.

00:59:59.940 I'd be fully on board with a, with a, a store having a rule saying you're going to be ignored.

01:00:05.040 We are like, put the phone down at least just acknowledge the existence of this other person.

01:00:10.480 Okay. You also have to be polite. This is a polite environment for everybody.

01:00:16.160 and we're going to hold you to it. I'd be fully on board for that. I think that'd be great.

01:00:21.320 But you got to lead by example. You have to do that with the employees. Employees have to do it

01:00:27.360 first. I'd like to see stores even outlaw sweatpants, not just pajama pants, but sweatpants

01:00:35.360 too. I think that'd be great. And I say that as someone who may be on very rare occasion,

01:00:41.640 Maybe. I'm not confirming this, but perhaps for a late night Walmart run on occasion, I have been guilty of wearing sweatpants in the store. Perhaps.

01:00:53.240 But I'll tell you this, I would actually, I mean this sincerely, I would feel great joy if I tried to go into Walmart in sweatpants and somebody stopped me at the door and said, excuse me, sir, you cannot dress that way in here. 0.96

01:01:08.660 Excuse me, sir, put on some real pants, you hobo. 1.00

01:01:12.420 This is Walmart, okay? 0.98

01:01:13.580 We have some pride.

01:01:16.740 I'd be proud of Walmart if they did that.

01:01:18.460 A single tear of pride would roll down my cheek.

01:01:20.780 It really would.

01:01:21.300 that's how proud i would be but you can't do that while your own employees are sulking around in

01:01:29.140 wrinkled and tattered clothing not making eye contact not putting in even the most minimal

01:01:34.200 effort acting like acting like a bunch of moody teenagers who like just had their video games

01:01:39.340 taken away because they got bad grades on their report card you can't rightly lecture me for my

01:01:44.760 sweatpants while that's going on so raise the standards raise them for everybody and then

01:01:51.080 maybe we'll live in a civilized society again. That's my dream. That is my dream. I have a dream.

01:01:56.900 I have a dream. I have a dream where society is so civilized that even Walmart customers at 11

01:02:04.560 PM on a Tuesday are forced to put on pants before they walk into the store. That is my dream.

01:02:13.240 And we can achieve it. I believe that. And I'll leave you with that inspirational

01:02:18.600 thought for the day. As we wrap it up there, talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.

01:02:31.640 I do believe that if people have committed treason against the United States of America,

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01:02:43.080 the 1960s, we've been told mostly by people whose ancestors didn't even live here during the war,

01:02:47.620 that the South committed treason.

01:02:50.740 But if the Confederates were traitors,

01:02:55.100 then why was Jefferson Davis never put on trial for treason?

01:02:59.940 What were Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson afraid of?

01:03:03.580 Do they know something they're not allowed to say today?

01:03:07.500 It's time for the truth, so here it is.

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01:03:11.500 and a man of immense honor.

01:03:13.140 He was beloved by Americans from the North and South

01:03:15.700 for a century after the war.

01:03:18.040 This is the real history of the Civil War.

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