The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1762 - Meet The Billionaires Who Are Secretly Sabotaging The Country

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00:00:15.680 If you're like a lot of Americans, you probably feel like your vote doesn't matter much.

00:00:20.300 No matter who you vote for, you seem to get the same outcomes.

00:00:23.000 This has been a consistent complaint in politics for a long time, but lately it's really been thrust in our faces.

00:00:28.540 Republicans will claim to support historic immigration crackdowns, voter ID, reduced spending, and so on.

00:00:34.380 And they stab us in the back every time.

00:00:37.000 Decades of repeated betrayals and amnesties led to Trump's rise a decade ago.

00:00:42.340 But now as Trump enters his final years in office, the question remains,

00:00:46.100 why are so many Republicans still insistent on ignoring the will of their own voters?

00:00:51.580 Now, the straightforward and honest answer is that it happens because they don't care about you.

00:00:56.280 In many cases, they're embarrassed by you.

00:00:58.540 They don't actually represent you either. Instead, they represent, of course, their donors, including a billionaire hedge fund manager by the name of Ken Griffin, who you heard about on our show just a few weeks ago. Watch.

00:01:11.820 It's important to understand that Howard Schultz is not the exception. There's now an epidemic of rich leftists fleeing from Democrat-controlled jurisdictions.

00:01:20.320 These people supported Democrat policies and helped to get those policies passed. In fact, now they're running away from the natural consequences of those policies. Jeff Bezos moved from Seattle to Florida in 2023. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin moved from California, which is also planning a massive wealth tax to Florida in the past year.

00:01:44.220 Ken Griffin, the co-founder and CEO of the hedge fund Citadel, who donated to both Obama

00:01:49.620 and Biden, just moved from Chicago, where Citadel employees were getting robbed all

00:01:54.200 the time, to Miami.

00:01:57.080 Shortly after this segment aired, Griffin sicked his PR people on us like an angry pitbull.

00:02:04.840 Somebody named Emma from a communications firm began calling me on my private number.

00:02:11.000 Never explained to me how she got it.

00:02:12.540 She also bombarded the Daily Wire's editors, demanding that they edit my monologue to clarify that Ken Griffin has actually donated to several Republicans, too.

00:02:21.660 Now, I've never had anything like that happen before, ever.

00:02:25.100 Never mind the fact that, as I stated, Ken Griffin has indeed donated to Democrats who destroyed major American cities.

00:02:31.800 That's true.

00:02:33.020 You're not supposed to talk about that, apparently.

00:02:35.420 The message from the PR firm was pretty clear.

00:02:37.540 The people who are actually running the country, the people with actual influence like Ken Griffin, don't want you to know what they're up to.

00:02:45.080 This is a very sensitive subject for them.

00:02:48.380 Now, the truth is that Griffin is a Republican mega-donor who's completely untethered to anything you believe in ideologically.

00:02:56.160 He donates because it serves his interests. That's it.

00:02:58.380 He gets special carve-outs and tax breaks and sponsors politicians who do his bidding.

00:03:02.940 He also gives money to Democrats, which is true, including Rahm Emanuel and Joe Biden.

00:03:08.380 Rahm Emanuel, incidentally, is one of the Democrats who destroyed the city of Chicago, a city that Ken Griffin fled because it's so violent.

00:03:13.980 In fact, Griffin took his entire company with him after his security detail had to fend off a carjacking attempt and his employees kept getting insulted.

00:03:21.860 But Griffin is not simply a menace to the people of Chicago or to my personal cell phone.

00:03:27.040 what he's doing has tremendous consequences for all of us because currently he's doing everything

00:03:31.680 he can to get Republicans to open the borders. Rich guys like Ken Griffin are why Republicans

00:03:36.960 constantly betray us. This is from Fortune the other day. Quote, Griffin believes that the

00:03:42.680 current restrictions limit America's access to the world's best minds. He notes that immigrants 0.88

00:03:47.820 or children of immigrants launched some of the most most of the successful Silicon Valley

00:03:52.680 startups, including in AI. Griffin hammers the point by noting that his co-chief investment

00:03:57.880 officer hails from Ecuador, the head of the trading unit from mainland China, the commodities

00:04:02.980 chief from Australia, and Citadel's most successful equity fund manager from the UK.

00:04:08.400 For Griffin, his hometown success is a tribute to the power of immigration. 54% of Miami-Dade

00:04:13.360 County's residents were born abroad. Now, no American conservative, no one who truly represents

00:04:19.300 conservative ideals would celebrate the fact that more than half of the population in a 0.81

00:04:24.540 major American city was born abroad. I mean, it really is that simple. But in Griffin's circles,

00:04:30.940 this is a success story. The less American an American city is, the better. That's what he 0.84

00:04:38.320 believes. Now, on this point, there is no daylight whatsoever between Ken Griffin and most well-funded

00:04:44.680 conservative politicians and a leftist like Gavin Newsom. I mean, listen to him for five minutes

00:04:50.480 and Gavin Newsom will inevitably brag about how many foreigners live in his state. Watch.

00:04:56.660 Tell us what you think

00:04:58.360 we should know about what's going right in California.

00:05:04.020 But I appreciate the context. Look, you know, California is America, but only more so.

00:05:14.680 In the spirit of your introductory remarks, just to set the scene, it's the size of 21 state populations combined.

00:05:22.560 It's the most diverse state in the world's most diverse democracy.

00:05:26.180 27% of my state is foreign-born.

00:05:30.600 We practice pluralism.

00:05:32.800 It's a point of pride.

00:05:34.360 I say that because it needs to be said, and you reinforce it here today.

00:05:38.860 It's in that diversity that we have achieved so much strength.

00:05:44.680 Behind closed doors, this is how most Republicans talk.

00:05:49.520 It certainly is how Ken Griffin talks.

00:05:51.460 This is someone who really doesn't care about the country at all. 0.99

00:05:54.480 It's easy to live in a multicultural hellscape when you have a $100 million house and a private jet. 0.98

00:06:01.620 Sure, no one can point to anything that Ken Griffin built, but he's good at moving money around, 1.00

00:06:07.120 and therefore we have to pay attention to what he thinks, apparently.

00:06:09.480 And it's pretty clear what he thinks. Because white Americans aren't reproducing at replacement levels, it's necessary to bring in as many foreigners as possible. That's what he thinks. A bigger population means a bigger workforce, lower wages, and more potential customers. 0.61

00:06:25.720 Naturally, the people running these companies don't care if millions of Americans are unemployed or can't find housing, as long as business is booming.

00:06:34.620 And to drive that point home, Fortune also ran this puff piece, this video on Griffin. Watch.

00:06:40.720 Billionaire Ken Griffin wants to turn Miami into America's next business capital.

00:06:45.260 Ken Griffin is worth roughly $50 billion, and he is the CEO of both the biggest market maker in America and one of the largest hedge funds in the world.

00:06:56.080 He's also one of the largest contributors to Republican politicians in America.

00:07:00.660 In February, I went to Ken Griffin's office overlooking the Biscayne Bay in downtown Miami in the Brickell area and spent over an hour with him.

00:07:08.100 What really impressed me about him is he's an outspoken advocate of the free market,

00:07:13.260 which contradicts a lot of the Trump policies, although many of them he likes.

00:07:16.740 But he's anti-tariff, he's very worried about the growth of the debt and the deficits,

00:07:22.260 and he's very pro-immigration.

00:07:24.020 In 2022, Ken Griffith made one of the most astounding corporate relocations in recent

00:07:30.400 history when he moved Citadel's headquarters from Chicago, where he'd been based for about

00:07:34.840 35 years, to Miami.

00:07:36.360 He's a huge promoter of Miami, and he's given about $350 million to charities in Miami.

00:07:43.420 For Griffin, the reason he went to Miami is not primarily taxes.

00:07:47.360 It's the pro-business attitude of the politicians, whether they happen to be Republicans or they happen to be Democrats.

00:07:53.820 Griffin's move to Florida in 2022 has led a lot of companies to come behind him coming to Miami.

00:08:00.340 Whether it's Apollo, whether it's the expansion of McKinsey, whether it's Palantir, lots of law firms have come in.

00:08:08.240 And so the move of businesses and wealthy people to Miami keeps accelerating.

00:08:14.140 So Emma and Ken Griffin's team would obviously be thrilled with that video.

00:08:20.060 There won't be any angry phone calls to those people.

00:08:22.800 There's no mention of Ken Griffin's decision to fund one of Chicago's worst mayors or his decision to flee the city after it became too dangerous.

00:08:30.740 All we're told is that Ken Griffin is going to do great things for Miami, just like he did so many great things for Chicago.

00:08:37.300 But it's OK, I guess, because he donates to Republicans, too.

00:08:40.280 So really, when I said that Ken Griffin was a leftist, I was being too kind.

00:08:44.440 I should have said that he funds the most destructive leftist policies imaginable.

00:08:48.740 But hey, at least he's fiscally conservative.

00:08:51.060 Well, you need to understand, and why I'm beginning with Ken Griffin, aside from just the principle of it, that you call me on my phone to try to get me to change something.

00:09:02.840 But the reason is that wealthy donors, the ones who are wealthy enough to donate to both sides, control the trajectory of American politics.

00:09:11.580 They operate often behind the scenes to stamp out any dissent.

00:09:15.680 They're extremely aggressive about it to a degree that I wasn't aware of until recently, at least not fully aware of.

00:09:22.220 It's not an issue of Democrat versus Republican.

00:09:24.640 It's a business calculation that these donors have made.

00:09:28.820 Obviously, these kinds of donors own the Democrat Party.

00:09:31.680 I mean, absolutely.

00:09:32.560 That's been true for decades.

00:09:34.540 But increasingly, they own the Republicans, too.

00:09:37.400 I mean, that's why the SAVE Act isn't going to get through the Senate.

00:09:40.260 It's just not going to happen.

00:09:41.500 We're not going to protect American elections.

00:09:43.620 It's the most important thing that Republicans could do with the power we gave them,

00:09:47.400 and they're just not going to do it.

00:09:48.820 They're just not going to do it.

00:09:50.660 It's also why Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas,

00:09:53.380 declared that Texas belongs to Indians back in November of 2024.

00:09:58.220 This is from an event at the governor's mansion marking Diwali,

00:10:00.780 which is the Hindu holiday.

00:10:02.480 Listen carefully to what he says.

00:10:04.380 As long as I'm governor of this great state,

00:10:07.820 Texas will be a land for the Indian community.

00:10:09.920 A land of absolutely love.

00:10:12.920 And we will continue to celebrate Diwali here in the great state of Texas.

00:10:22.800 Thank you, Diwali, everybody.

00:10:24.600 Thank you, Diwali.

00:10:27.320 Greg Abbott has been spreading this message for a long time.

00:10:31.340 A couple of years ago, he went to Mumbai on an economic development trip, so-called,

00:10:36.100 to convince more people to come to Texas.

00:10:37.940 He met with some of the biggest companies that sponsor H-1B visas in the United States.

00:10:43.080 Watch.

00:10:44.080 Right now, Texas Governor Greg Abbott is in India.

00:10:47.220 His office tells us he met with economic development partners and business leaders in Mumbai today.

00:10:52.480 First Lady Cecilia Abbott, Secretary of State Jane Nelson, and other Texas economic leaders joined the governor.

00:10:58.520 In a statement, he said Texas is strengthening its relationship with India so that the next generation can have greater prosperity.

00:11:05.220 This economic development trip is expected to last through the rest of the week.

00:11:11.120 This idea is never actually explained by anyone.

00:11:14.500 No one can explain why, after building the world's greatest superpower, 0.99

00:11:18.580 suddenly Americans will be hopelessly lost unless we import people from other countries. 0.99

00:11:24.720 But Western leaders have gone ahead and opened the floodgates anyway. 0.74

00:11:28.440 You see the results in Canada, which has been totally colonized at this point.

00:11:32.980 It's also much poorer and less cohesive than it used to be by a huge margin in every respect.

00:11:39.140 But Greg Abbott isn't concerned with any of that. 1.00

00:11:41.200 His only concern is courting now, apparently, Indian business owners.

00:11:46.040 I mean, it's not an exaggeration to say that he apparently thinks about India more than Texas.

00:11:49.020 I mean, take a look at some of his recent social media posts, if you think I'm exaggerating.

00:11:52.760 Put some of that up on the screen right now.

00:11:54.920 Dozens and dozens of posts all about a country that you wouldn't think would have a lot to do with Texas.

00:12:00.980 And it's actually remarkable. What's happening here is that Greg Abbott is telling large companies in India that, you know, if they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on development in Texas, they can staff those companies with Indian workers on H-1B visas.

00:12:16.900 And while Greg Abbott has suspended H-1B visa approvals for state agencies and public universities, private companies like this can continue to take advantage of the visa program.

00:12:27.420 And indeed, plenty of private companies are doing just that.

00:12:30.100 According to Blaze News, which analyzed Department of Labor data from the first quarter of fiscal year 2026, quote, Texas companies sponsored and certified over 11,200 H-1B visa applications, second only to California, which brought in over 13,700 H-1B visas, according to available data.

00:12:50.440 So that's more than 10,000 H-1B applications that were certified in just one quarter in one state.

00:12:56.880 That's a small fraction of the total H-1B population in Texas, which is concentrated in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston.

00:13:03.360 So we're not talking about American companies poaching a very small number of highly qualified scientists or engineers from another country.

00:13:12.480 When people talk about H-1B, that's what they, or at least the advocates for it, talk about it as if that's all that's happening.

00:13:19.240 But no, we're talking about a much larger replacement of U.S. workers.

00:13:23.300 And in many cases, the foreigners with H-1B visas are directly replacing Americans.

00:13:30.520 This is from the New York Post, quote,

00:13:32.060 As thousands of Oracle employees awoke on Tuesday to an email informing them they were laid off,

00:13:37.040 the workers likely didn't know the tech company had been busy trying to hire foreign staff.

00:13:41.280 According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services data,

00:13:43.900 Oracle filed for roughly 3,126 petitions to employ H-1B workers in fiscal year 2025 and 2026.

00:13:51.940 Employers must submit the paperwork when seeking to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations like technology.

00:13:57.760 Some 436 of those petitions were filed this year alone.

00:14:01.500 Amazon, which in January said it would axe 16,000 corporate employees, has filed for some 2,675 H-1B petitions during the same two-year fiscal period.

00:14:14.280 So this is a very direct replacement. 0.95

00:14:16.700 I mean, they're literally firing, laying off the American workers and bringing in foreigners to replace them. 0.91

00:14:25.580 Now, relative to the total population of Texas, those numbers are small.

00:14:28.740 But if you walk around Texas, as the journalist Tyler Olivera just did in a viral video,

00:14:34.180 then you'll find that large communities in Texas have been totally transformed.

00:14:37.940 And a significant number of these immigrants say they received H-1Bs.

00:14:42.920 And what Tyler found is that in many cases, they don't come to Texas on an H-1B visa.

00:14:47.020 Instead, they either make up an asylum claim or they arrive on an F-1 visa, which is intended for students. 0.58

00:14:53.880 It's one of the easiest ways to get into the country.

00:14:55.760 You claim you're going to attend one of the 10 million colleges and universities we have.

00:14:59.760 Until the Trump administration shut this down, more than 100,000 Indians received these student visas in just a year.

00:15:06.840 And Tyler ran into several of them.

00:15:09.340 Until the Trump administration took over, immigrants with a student visa had two options.

00:15:13.220 They could graduate and get an H-1B and stay in the country indefinitely, or they could drop out of the school and stay in the country indefinitely. 0.97

00:15:21.540 Either way, they get to stay indefinitely.

00:15:24.620 And we're only now starting to crack down on this scam.

00:15:29.000 All things considered, it's a fairly new scam. 0.98

00:15:30.800 As recently as 1980, less than 7% of Texas was foreign-born, and now it's more than 20% of the population of Texas that was born in another country. 0.96

00:15:41.840 White Texans went from more than 70% of the population to less than 40%. 0.66

00:15:45.680 Numbers are only getting worse by design.

00:15:48.960 So why is Greg Abbott and many other Republicans allowing this to happen?

00:15:54.540 Now, if you need an explanation, you don't need to look any further than wealthy donors with the same ideology as Ken Griffin.

00:15:59.920 Greg Abbott's business donors are business, biggest donors rather, are business interests that believe foreign migration will increase their profits.

00:16:09.040 Pretty simple.

00:16:10.320 A couple of years ago, a billionaire named Jeff Yass made the single biggest donation in the history of Texas to Abbott's campaign.

00:16:17.220 This is from Bloomberg.

00:16:19.080 Quote, Jeff Yass gave $4 million to Greg Abbott's campaign, adding to a $6 million check from December that the Texas governor's office said was the single largest political donation in the state's history.

00:16:29.180 Yass, the billionaire co-founder of market-making firm Susquehanna International Group, made the contribution in April, according to a campaign finance report released this week.

00:16:38.460 That makes up the majority of the more than $5 million Abbott collected in the first half of 2024.

00:16:43.240 Jim Walton, the son of Walmart Inc., founder Sam Walton, gave Abbott's campaign $200,000, according to the report.

00:16:51.020 Now, Walmart's desire for more foreign labor is self-evident.

00:16:54.460 So let's talk about Jeff Yass.

00:16:56.260 What are his beliefs?

00:16:57.980 Well, it turns out that Yass is a registered libertarian,

00:17:00.280 and many years ago he joined the Cato Institute as an advisor and board member.

00:17:04.640 If you've been listening to the show over the past few months,

00:17:06.660 you know that the Cato Institute is one of the biggest advocates for open borders in Washington.

00:17:11.860 They're very vocal about it.

00:17:12.940 They believe that more immigration means more jobs, more economic transparency, less crime, and so on.

00:17:18.740 And they're constantly spreading false or misleading statistics to push those policy objectives,

00:17:23.620 which we've discussed many times before.

00:17:25.700 Now, in the libertarian world, in their worldview, the more foreigners who come to Texas, the stronger Texas will be. 0.96

00:17:34.160 And that's why, as Savannah Hernandez with Turning Point USA just reported, there's new effort to transform the Texas countryside into a megacity for Muslims. 0.99

00:17:43.760 Watch.

00:17:44.900 Okay, so these are the exact coordinates to where the proposed epic city is supposed to be.

00:17:49.060 And I just want to, like, pan the camera back this way because look at this farmland.

00:17:53.300 this is where a proposed 400-acre Muslim-centric city with over 1,000 homes, a mosque, K-12 schools

00:18:01.280 is supposed to be set up. So there are a couple of homes out here but imagine living out here in

00:18:06.480 rural Texas having no neighbors, it's super quiet and then all of a sudden you're hearing about this

00:18:11.940 400-acre city that's coming in and I know a lot of people have concerns about whether or not they

00:18:16.420 have the infrastructure out here for it so um this is the location of where epic city might

00:18:23.520 potentially be built also let's not forget as of march 2026 no construction permits have been

00:18:28.540 issued no ground has been broken nothing has officially been built the state is still actively

00:18:33.020 fighting the creation of this city however this is the land that was purchased and this is where

00:18:38.700 it is potentially going to be so craziest thing about what's happening here in josephine is this

00:18:44.420 isn't the only location where this is going on. And apparently another city similar to this is

00:18:50.320 being proposed in Kauffman, Texas. And the crazy thing about this is that they were supposed to

00:18:55.820 have a closed door meeting on March the 6th about this. Well, the residents found out about this

00:19:03.940 closed door meeting and they were all planning on showing up unannounced, uninvited, all of the

00:19:08.500 things. And they cancel it last minute because they don't want the pushback and the company

00:19:13.560 just doesn't want to have to deal with the residents actually speaking to them and being

00:19:16.460 upset about it. All of this to say, I talked to Representative Lance Gooden today, and he said

00:19:21.420 that there's no more cause for concern that he talked to the developers, the developers are

00:19:26.080 going to move on for County. However, I will say that there is cause for concern because

00:19:31.040 from my sources within the county, this is not the first place that SCE Holdings and the

00:19:36.500 developing companies have tried to go into for this particular development. There are plenty of

00:19:42.100 other similar developments besides the ones that Savannah Hernandez just mentioned. Remember Colony

00:19:47.540 Ridge, the illegal immigrant community of 100,000 migrants outside of Houston. The developers behind 1.00

00:19:52.680 Colony Ridge were major donors to Greg Abbott, who just let it happen. They actually helped them

00:19:57.360 along by trying to designate the colony as a federal opportunity zone. Until we get money

00:20:03.040 out of politics, this is never going to change. The GOP isn't just going to randomly start to

00:20:06.920 serve the voters. And that's why this is happening all over the country.

00:20:12.100 As the White Papers Policy Institute pointed out, quote, Utah, a state that has not had a Democrat governor since 1985, is being very rapidly filled with immigrants.

00:20:21.060 The foreign-born population of Utah jumped from 3.5% in 1980 to 10.6% in 2025.

00:20:28.840 The immigrant population of the state has jumped 639%.

00:20:33.000 You'll find similar massive increases in many other states from Arizona to Virginia, Colorado.

00:20:40.080 you can see the numbers here on this chart. It's very stark. Just look at that. I mean,

00:20:46.400 the orange bars represent the foreign-born population in each state in 1980, and the blue

00:20:50.940 bars are the foreign-born population in 2025. So Georgia went from 1.7% to 14%. Virginia went from

00:21:00.320 3% to 14%. New Jersey, New York, and Florida more than doubled their foreign-born populations.

00:21:06.540 Maryland went from 4.6% to a staggering 22%. Nobody voted for any of this. Nobody voted for 0.93

00:21:19.520 this kind of drastic demographic change. It was never put up for a vote. And if it had been,

00:21:24.520 it would have been voted down. But as someone named Ryan McCubbin pointed out the other day,

00:21:29.880 that's not the point. You don't get a say in this matter. Here's what Ryan wrote as far as

00:21:34.480 post on Exco. It's one of the more insightful ones that I've seen. And he wrote this, quote,

00:21:41.280 there are a few things most intelligent people really don't understand about modern politics.

00:21:45.020 One, there's almost no relationship between what the common people actually want and what they get.

00:21:49.760 Two, the agenda of the donor class always gets passed. Three, if the agenda of the donor class

00:21:54.560 conflicts with the agenda of the common folk, the common folk's agenda gets subverted through

00:21:58.600 propaganda in the public square and institutionally by Democrats, rather bureaucrats and judges.

00:22:04.480 The system you participate in doesn't belong to you.

00:22:06.880 It belongs to the millionaires and billionaires.

00:22:08.880 And many of these people who are active in Texas politics aren't even Americans.

00:22:14.020 Abbott isn't a bug.

00:22:15.120 He's a feature.

00:22:16.240 This is your system working.

00:22:19.080 Yesterday, we went into some detail about the decline of Boston, which got its start

00:22:23.040 in the civil rights era.

00:22:24.400 That was the story of several major cities, really basically all of them.

00:22:30.100 But what's happening now is that instead of reversing the mistakes of the 1960s, some of the richest donors in American politics, men who donate to both political parties, are going in for the kill shot.

00:22:41.240 They're willing to sacrifice American civilization in the name of ideology, profit, or both.

00:22:47.360 And many of these donors are planning to bankroll the next slate of presidential candidates on both parties ahead of the 2028 election.

00:22:55.320 Pay very close attention to where those candidates are getting their money. 0.57

00:23:01.340 Because otherwise, whether you vote for a Democrat or a Republican, if you're not careful, you'll be voting for the exact same thing, which is an America without Americans.

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00:25:43.660 Okay, Artemis.

00:25:44.700 So the Artemis spacecraft completed its slingshot around the moon yesterday,

00:25:48.140 traveled 252,756 miles away from the earth, officially reaching the farthest from earth

00:25:55.320 that any vessel has ever gone. Any manned vessel, anyway, Voyager 1 is like 15 billion miles from

00:26:02.400 earth. Pretty extraordinary. But there's obviously nobody on it, let's hope. So this is an amazing

00:26:09.060 achievement. And now they're headed back towards earth, a successful mission so far. Now we pray

00:26:14.840 for a successful re-entry back into the atmosphere, which, of course, is a dangerous thing.

00:26:21.980 And, you know, the great thing, one of the many great things, I think, about this mission

00:26:26.840 is how the crew on board the capsule have used it as an opportunity to preach the gospel,

00:26:36.800 which maybe was unexpected.

00:26:39.180 Well, if you haven't paid much attention to the history of space exploration in this country, then it might be surprising.

00:26:48.560 But there's actually a lot of precedent for this, which we'll talk about.

00:26:50.840 But here is Victor Glover, one of the astronauts on the capsule on Easter, sharing a message.

00:26:57.200 Listen.

00:26:58.060 To remind you of one of the most important mysteries there on Earth, and that's love.

00:27:04.000 Christ said

00:27:05.600 in response to what was the greatest command

00:27:08.420 that it was to love God with all that you are

00:27:10.680 and

00:27:11.920 he also

00:27:14.520 being a great teacher said the second is

00:27:16.440 equal to it and that is to love your neighbor

00:27:18.720 as yourself

00:27:19.640 and so

00:27:21.400 as we prepare to go out of radio

00:27:24.660 communication we're still

00:27:26.580 going to feel your love

00:27:28.780 from earth

00:27:30.160 and to all of you down there

00:27:32.780 on earth and around earth. We love you from the moon. Houston copies. We'll see you on the other

00:27:46.340 side. We will see you on the other side. So that was the second or like third time that Glover has

00:27:59.380 shared a gospel message from space, and he joins a list of other astronauts participating in this

00:28:05.940 modern tradition. I think we mentioned the astronauts on Apollo 8, read from Genesis as

00:28:11.940 they were orbiting the moon. Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11, of course, read from Psalm 8 during the return

00:28:18.120 journey. He also took communion on the moon. James Irwin, Apollo 15, has talked about how he reflected

00:28:25.020 on Psalm 121 while he was walking on the surface of the moon. So this is a tradition, you know,

00:28:29.980 it's one of the many reasons why I love these missions. Another reason why I think in particular

00:28:35.940 the conservatives who've been so cynical and critical about this mission just look dumber by 1.00

00:28:44.740 the day. I mean, you've got this amazing thing happening and they're up there, they're sharing 0.97

00:28:49.280 the gospel, and you still have some conservatives that are sitting there like, I don't like it.

00:28:52.940 This is, this is bad. Why is it bad? I don't know. It just doesn't, I've just decided not

00:28:59.480 to like it. So I'm going to stick with that. Um, and it really tells you something, you know,

00:29:05.840 that, that you've got these astronauts that are sharing the gospel. It tells you too. First of

00:29:10.100 all, it tells you that when human beings are confronted with the immensity and mystery and

00:29:14.920 beauty of creation, they can't help but praise God. Uh, they can't help but be overwhelmed,

00:29:19.860 be overjoyed with the knowledge, the certainty that there is a God, that he is good.

00:29:25.700 And it really tells you that.

00:29:27.580 It also tells you that, frankly, atheists don't do cool stuff like this. 0.93

00:29:35.440 Atheists don't become explorers. 0.92

00:29:36.900 I mean, this goes all the way back way before the space age. 1.00

00:29:39.380 All through the history of human exploration, it has almost always been religious people.

00:29:44.920 and not just people who happen to subscribe to one religion or another, but people who are

00:29:50.400 very religious, who are animated, motivated by their religious conviction. And it's almost

00:29:57.140 always been, whether we're talking about astronauts in lunar orbit or landing on the moon, or we're

00:30:00.920 talking about Magellan or Columbus or whoever, generally speaking, to explore, to go forth into

00:30:07.800 the unknown requires faith. It requires an attitude of humility, of wonder. And that's why

00:30:14.580 it's usually deeply religious people who are doing this. There was another beautiful moment

00:30:19.880 from this leg of the trip. One of the astronauts, Reed Wiseman, lost his wife to cancer a few years

00:30:26.640 ago. So they decided to name a crater, which is a kind of a bright patch on the dark side of the

00:30:32.240 moon, after Wiseman's late wife, Carol. And here they are announcing that. Watch.

00:30:39.800 So we lost a loved one. Her name was Carol.

00:30:44.580 the spouse of Reed, the mother of Katie and Ellie, and if you want to find this one,

00:30:53.400 you look at Glushko, and it's just to the northwest of that at the same latitude as Ohm,

00:31:00.380 and it's a bright spot on the moon, and we would like to call it Carol,

00:31:07.180 and you spell that c-a-r-r-o-l-l

00:31:13.200 integrity and carol crater loud and clear thank you well i think that's i don't know simply one

00:31:25.000 of the great moments in the history of the human race that's really what that is i actually think

00:31:30.200 it's one of the greatest moments in the history of the human race uh call me sentimental i think

00:31:34.080 a man traveling to the far side of the moon, you know, not long after his wife died of

00:31:40.880 cancer, naming a patch of light of brightness, you know, amid the darkness after his late

00:31:46.700 wife, that's just one of the humanity's great moments.

00:31:51.860 It is.

00:31:53.540 And if you can't feel moved by that, then you're dead inside.

00:32:00.200 I don't know what else to say. 0.55

00:32:00.920 You're an empty vessel.

00:32:01.940 like if you can't be moved by that then what is like is there any beauty in your life does

00:32:07.800 there anything that you would if you can't look at that and say well that is beautiful that's

00:32:11.580 incredible if you can't say that about a man traveling to the moon after his wife dies naming

00:32:17.920 a bright patch if you can't then what would you say it about

00:32:21.080 well like your latest netflix binge is that is that what it is is that is that what you find

00:32:27.660 beauty in? Whatever bolt you're watching on Netflix, is that the only thing you can find

00:32:32.740 that can absorb you anymore? You're just a miserable person. And I say this in a medical 1.00

00:32:43.940 sense, retarded. I mean, you've got idiots on social media who, in the face of this incredible 1.00

00:32:53.140 beauty are saying space is fake anyway that's an actual point of view that a measurable number 0.99

00:33:05.200 of people have in this country space is fake that i don't know how many people believe that

00:33:13.720 i would like to think that it's just a troll it's not real like there's a there are a couple 0.93

00:33:20.220 of schizophrenic people walking around 0.94

00:33:22.440 who might say,

00:33:22.960 but like, no one really believes,

00:33:24.340 but I, it's, it's, no,

00:33:27.140 there's, there's like a group of people

00:33:29.460 larger than any of us

00:33:32.420 would want to believe

00:33:33.200 who actually think this.

00:33:37.400 And worse, they,

00:33:38.380 they're like snobby about it. 1.00

00:33:39.820 They have the most retarded view ever. 1.00

00:33:43.920 I mean, I can't tell you, 1.00

00:33:45.380 like, this is worse,

00:33:46.720 almost, it's almost worse 0.97

00:33:47.940 than trans ideology 1.00

00:33:48.800 in terms of how stupid it is um and they're snobby about it space well some of us know that 1.00

00:34:00.660 space is fake what does that even mean what do you mean it's fake what does that mean what do 1.00

00:34:08.700 you think's up there do you think there's a ceiling do you think there's a ceiling in the sky

00:34:16.060 Do you think it's like literally the Truman Show?

00:34:18.140 If you go up too high, you'll hit a ceiling?

00:34:23.620 Or does the sky just stretch on, the atmosphere stretches on infinitely?

00:34:32.200 Is that what you think?

00:34:35.180 Like, space is just a vacuum beyond the atmosphere.

00:34:38.800 That's what space is.

00:34:40.300 Humans have known about space since ancient times. 0.90

00:34:45.220 If you think space is fake, you are significantly more ignorant about the universe

00:34:50.620 than people who lived 5,000 years ago. 0.87

00:34:55.460 Do you realize that?

00:34:57.160 You have somehow achieved a level of scientific illiteracy 0.98

00:35:01.080 that would have been shocking to the average Sumerian walking around in 3,000 BC. 0.99

00:35:08.900 You are somehow so ignorant that someone 5,000 years ago 0.98

00:35:14.060 would look at you and say what that's what you think like people who lived before the horse 1.00

00:35:23.080 drawn carriage was invented knew more about the universe than you do even though you carry around

00:35:31.480 in your pocket the sum total of human knowledge it's it's god it's so demoralized i try you know

00:35:41.840 I'm trying to focus, I meant to focus on the positive.

00:35:43.980 I really do, but it's, I see this stuff 1.00

00:35:46.680 and it's so, how can people be this stupid? 1.00

00:35:48.920 How is it possible? 1.00

00:35:50.940 My six-year-old daughter has a better understanding

00:35:54.180 of the basic structure of the universe

00:35:56.180 than adult humans.

00:35:59.080 A lot of them. 1.00

00:36:04.400 The dumbest thing is when you hear people say, 1.00

00:36:07.100 oh, so you believe the government? 0.99

00:36:09.800 so you're so you're just believing the government then do you think that the united states

00:36:16.980 government came up with the idea that outer space exists is that what you think

00:36:23.740 is that do you think that what do you so up until the united states government existed

00:36:33.540 There was no, is that what you think? Or, or, or do you think this is a conspiracy that stretches

00:36:42.560 back thousands of years across the entire globe? Every government that has ever existed has been

00:36:49.660 in on it. Every civilization, every scientist, I'm not just talking about modern scientists,

00:36:54.280 every scientist ever, Isaac Newton, Isaac Newton is in on this. Cause by the way,

00:36:59.880 Isaac Newton, who's like only the smartest person who's ever lived on the planet.

00:37:03.540 Um, and, uh, but, but in just using him as an example, uh, if space is fake, then, then everything

00:37:10.280 he said was wrong. Like everything, all of physics is wrong. It's not just like they're wrong about

00:37:15.220 a few things. The whole thing is right. None of it works, which doesn't really make sense because

00:37:20.380 they also use physics to do things like nothing would work on the planet. Our whole understanding

00:37:25.980 of everything is wrong. And no, it's not just like a few scientific claims. Everything is wrong.

00:37:31.240 And, but this is what happens. You know, you've got people who, um, what we're discovering is

00:37:41.400 that there are a lot of people who are totally incapable of exercising even a little bit of

00:37:47.640 mental restraint. And so it really has to be all or nothing for them. And it's an IQ thing.

00:37:55.580 I think there's a spiritual component to it, but it's, it is an IQ thing that there are a lot of 1.00

00:37:59.940 really stupid people. And with the internet, like everyone is all the dumb people who in the past 1.00

00:38:06.140 you like would never interact with them. Now they're all out there, you know, and these stupid 1.00

00:38:10.900 people are encountering other dumb people who are encouraging them. And so I think that's part 1.00

00:38:16.720 of what's going on. But so when you're really, really, really dumb, you're not capable of any 0.99

00:38:21.760 kind of measured thought, any sort of discernment. And so what happens is, you know, we talk about 0.99

00:38:28.220 the experts, right? And anyone who's, you don't have to be smart, but like anyone who's just

00:38:32.900 vaguely intelligent understands at this point that, well, there are experts who can be wrong

00:38:38.100 and the experts have been actually been wrong about some really important things. And so that's

00:38:44.000 true. Experts can be wrong, right? And, but for some of these people, it was like, well, the

00:38:53.860 experts have to be right about everything. And if they're not, then the only other alternative

00:39:02.080 is that every expert and every human with an IQ above 80 since the beginning of time is wrong

00:39:10.680 about literally everything, including the existence of the universe itself, right?

00:39:16.120 It's like either we have to believe everything we're told, or we have to assume that literally

00:39:21.460 every single thing we've ever been told about anything is wrong and there's this whole all

00:39:29.080 this vast expanse of space space in between those two in which you use intelligence and discernment

00:39:37.480 and you realize that yeah sometimes people lie to you they tell you but like but but there are

00:39:42.740 things that we do know about the universe including that it exists um and and and that

00:39:50.200 kind of basic level of discernment is just beyond the capacity of some people. I think that's part

00:39:56.860 of what we're learning. Um, and I would really like to believe I'm very sympathetic to the theory

00:40:11.300 that space is fake and related claims are some kind of like government, talk about the

00:40:20.180 government, the government didn't invent outer space.

00:40:23.200 It's much more likely they invented this, that they invented space is fake and, you

00:40:28.220 know, the earth is flat or at least the modern reincarnation of the flat earth idea that

00:40:33.800 this is some sort of government conspiracy in order to discredit those of us who do doubt

00:40:40.960 the mainstream narrative, you know, when the mainstream narrative is wrong. Those of us who

00:40:44.600 are skeptical of the mainstream narrative, you know, are, are discredited because of our, 1.00

00:40:49.320 because, because of our association, our association with these morons who go around 0.98

00:40:54.640 saying things like, you know, the space is fake. So, so maybe it's all one big sigh off. 0.99

00:41:01.940 I'm sympathetic to that, but I think it's wishful thinking

00:41:04.340 because it's just so depressing to think that there are actually real people, 1.00

00:41:12.280 a lot of them, who are that stupid. 1.00

00:41:16.480 So, who knows? 1.00

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00:42:32.540 that's policygenius.com slash Walsh. Let's see here. This is kind of exciting. So just a quick

00:42:38.580 thing that the Obama Presidential Center will be opening soon. And in case you haven't seen it,

00:42:46.100 we'll put a picture up on the screen. This is the building that looks like a tower where an evil

00:42:51.760 wizard lives. We've shown it before on the show. It looks like the prison in a comic book movie

00:42:59.300 where they keep super villains. It's like the prison where Magneto, they keep Magneto or

00:43:03.700 something or Dr. Octopus or whoever, uh, the penguin. I know I'm mixing the different, but

00:43:08.480 whatever. Um, but it's not, this is not the penguins layer. This is Obama's layer. And, uh,

00:43:14.900 and Obama of course demanded that they, they build him the ugliest building of all time.

00:43:19.640 So they came to him and they asked, uh, you know, what kind of building he wants. And he said,

00:43:23.800 well, ugly. You know what I want? Well, I want a building that reflects my inner self. So I want 0.82

00:43:30.040 something that's very ugly. And they said to him, okay, well, how ugly do you want it?

00:43:36.640 And he looked them straight in the eyes and he said, the ugliest. The ugliest. 0.99

00:43:43.320 And they said, the ugliest building ever? Do you know? Yes. The ugliest, damn it. Get out of my 0.75

00:43:48.880 office. And then he went to the, to the construction site. This is what I heard anyway,

00:43:54.080 based on reports. He went to the construction site while it was being built and he looked

00:43:57.800 around and he flipped out because he said, this is not ugly enough. This needs to be

00:44:02.420 uglier. And they said, but sir, Mr. President, it's already really ugly. I mean, look at

00:44:07.660 this thing, make it uglier. And so that's when then you can see in the picture, they've

00:44:12.100 got these random, like, schizophrenic, like, block of text, just random words on the building.

00:44:21.900 And that was a brilliant move because what they did was they somehow managed to make

00:44:27.780 the structure look both bland and too busy at the same time.

00:44:32.680 It's got too much going on and not enough going on simultaneously.

00:44:37.180 It's the worst of all worlds architecturally in a brilliant way.

00:44:42.100 how can it be both?

00:44:44.140 You feel like it's like, okay, 0.82

00:44:45.440 either you have a building that's so ugly

00:44:47.320 because it's way too busy

00:44:48.320 and there's all kinds of stuff going on,

00:44:49.780 or it's too ugly

00:44:50.840 because it's just this bland sort of block.

00:44:53.600 And they did both.

00:44:55.420 And that is impressive in a way.

00:44:59.420 So anyway, here's a report

00:45:00.500 on the opening of the center.

00:45:02.060 Listen.

00:45:03.200 Well, this is new this morning.

00:45:04.460 You'll soon be able to purchase tickets

00:45:06.040 to visit the museum

00:45:07.220 at the Obama Presidential Center.

00:45:09.360 Ticket sales open to the general public

00:45:11.100 on May 6th, you'll be able to book a date to visit

00:45:14.260 starting June 19th through November 30th.

00:45:16.880 Admission is $30 for adults and 23...

00:45:19.640 Hmm, I wonder if that has any significance.

00:45:22.740 $23 for children ages 3 to 7, maybe not.

00:45:26.920 Michael Jordan.

00:45:28.620 Kids 2 and under can visit for free.

00:45:30.840 The museum is also free on Tuesdays

00:45:33.320 with proof of Illinois residency.

00:45:35.820 So, I don't know if you heard that,

00:45:37.480 but yes they did say that you get in for free on tuesdays if you're a resident of the state

00:45:46.380 but how would they know that how would they possibly know

00:45:51.440 wait are they asking for ids do you have to show an id to go to the president's

00:45:59.900 library i couldn't believe it i couldn't believe it so i looked it up and if you go to the website

00:46:04.840 it says this, sure enough,

00:46:07.220 must be able to provide proof of residency.

00:46:09.000 Be prepared to show proof of residency at the museum

00:46:10.800 with a valid photo ID,

00:46:13.580 Illinois driver's license,

00:46:15.160 state ID, or city issued ID.

00:46:17.460 I mean, this is shocking.

00:46:19.900 I couldn't believe that.

00:46:22.240 I looked that up this morning.

00:46:23.680 I closed my laptop

00:46:24.480 and I wept.

00:46:27.380 I mean, if you want to know the truth,

00:46:28.140 if you want to know, honestly, I did.

00:46:29.640 I wept.

00:46:30.580 I cried.

00:46:31.900 I was so appalled.

00:46:34.840 So appalled. Apparently, black people are not allowed to go to the Obama presidential library. 0.97

00:46:41.860 This is the ultimate betrayal. The first black president bans black people from his library. 0.99

00:46:47.440 That's the story. I can't believe it. Because, you know, asking for IDs is the same as banning black people. 0.99

00:46:53.240 That's what we've been told. We've been told this many times. Black people cannot get IDs. 0.81

00:46:57.300 They don't know how. They walk into the DMV and they're just totally flummoxed. And they don't even know how to get to the DMV in the first place. They don't know how to get there. And so asking for IDs to get into the center is exactly the same as having a sign out front that says, no blacks allowed. Attention, no blacks allowed in the ugliest building on earth. 0.99

00:47:23.900 so this is a huge scandal i mean i don't know why there's not more conversation about it 0.99

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00:49:36.620 on february 6th britney allen donned a white milia london bridal dress as she walked down

00:49:44.580 the staircase at hinwick house a mansion in english countryside to the sound of

00:49:48.100 johan packable's cannon and d on her uh wrist she wore her something borrowed a vintage silver

00:49:55.840 diamond watch and her hair hung in elegant loose waves her 35 guests which included family members

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00:50:16.120 salt burn themed fancy British aristocratic party in England. It couldn't just be an aristocratic

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00:50:35.340 It has to be salt burn themed.

00:50:37.620 Like you had to make it themed based on some, what, Netflix show? 1.00

00:50:44.120 Speaking of stupid, that's how illiterate people are. 0.99

00:50:47.120 It's like, because none of the guests would know what she meant. 1.00

00:50:50.940 When she says, oh, we're doing a thing where it's like the aristocracy and they go, what are you talking?

00:50:55.760 What is that?

00:50:56.280 Oh, you know, from salt burn.

00:50:57.800 Oh, that.

00:50:58.580 Oh, salt burn. 0.68

00:50:59.240 Yeah.

00:50:59.460 Um, anyway, I'm not gonna read this whole thing. It doesn't really matter. But, uh, the point is

00:51:05.920 that this is, uh, apparently according to the article in the New York times are very excited

00:51:09.540 about it, that this is something that, uh, women, older women are doing more and more now where

00:51:14.640 they are, um, they are doing birthday party, childless women who are in their late thirties

00:51:20.040 and forties now in their fifties, never had weddings. And so they're doing birthday parties 0.92

00:51:25.500 that are weddings. They like look like weddings and they wear the wedding dress and they do the

00:51:29.120 whole wedding thing. And this is supposed to be a great development. And it's one of those

00:51:38.900 articles that's basically designed specifically to annoy me because everything revolves around

00:51:44.120 me, obviously. So I'm just going to assume that the only reason this was published was to

00:51:47.780 personally antagonize me. And if so, then it succeeded. You've got narcissistic women throwing

00:51:53.860 wedding celebrations for themselves, not to celebrate a wedding, but to celebrate their 1.00

00:51:58.260 birthdays. And other people are showing up to these things, which I always, that is always to me

00:52:03.260 the most unfathomable, unfathomable part of stories like this. Because the, the idea that

00:52:10.660 some woman is this narcissistic and shallow, that doesn't surprise me. The idea that like 30 or 40 1.00

00:52:17.280 other people around her would participate, that is shocking. I cannot imagine an invitation that

00:52:26.400 would elicit a harder or faster no from me than this. I mean, you might as well send me an

00:52:32.820 invitation that says, hey, on May 10th, come on over. We're going to have a thing where we cut

00:52:37.720 your head off. We're having a decapitation party. Yeah, come on over. We're going to cut your head 1.00

00:52:43.520 off. I would more likely say yes to that than the birthday party wedding thing. If I had to choose, 1.00

00:52:50.980 I mean, if I had to choose, easily getting my head cut off, it's quicker, not as painful, and not as embarrassing. 0.62

00:53:03.760 Now, of course, the irony is that the more these kinds of women try to dress up their narcissism and celebrate it and pretend to be happy with their life choices, the sadder it is. 0.60

00:53:13.520 You know, the more that they pop champagne and throw the confetti and say, yay, I'm childless. 0.92

00:53:19.700 I'm going to die alone.

00:53:20.980 I have no children. I have no legacy. I'm going to die in a nursing home because no one will be

00:53:26.860 around to take care of me. And none of my supposed friends actually care about me that much.

00:53:32.680 Yay. And the more they do that, the more miserably sad it all comes off. And now we're at the point

00:53:38.480 where 40-year-old women are staging these elaborate fake weddings for themselves. And it's just 1.00

00:53:42.400 desperately, tragically sad. And this is also what happens when liberals try to deconstruct

00:53:49.720 and reverse engineer cultural traditions when they take a tradition that has existed for thousands

00:53:55.960 of years, which they have opted out of, and they try to apply it in a new way. I mean,

00:54:02.080 it's always sad and pathetic and pitiful. It doesn't work. It doesn't work because it's 0.97

00:54:07.160 totally arbitrary and meaningless. I mean, a wedding celebration is a celebration of an actual

00:54:12.740 thing. Now, you could say that, well, getting married itself is also not an achievement in

00:54:22.360 and of itself, any more than a birthday is an achievement. Well, it's a little more of an

00:54:27.860 achievement than a birthday. At least you have to get someone to marry you. And for some people

00:54:32.140 in particular, for me, that was an achievement in and of itself, and quite a shock for everyone

00:54:39.800 else. But that's not the point. Wedding celebrations are not meant to be celebrations

00:54:46.260 of achievements. They do wedding celebrations in cultures with arranged marriages. And for 0.99

00:54:53.800 thousands of years, basically every marriage was in effect arranged. And they still had weddings

00:54:59.340 because it's not about personal achievement. The wedding celebration is a celebration of

00:55:04.880 the formation of a new thing. It's a sending off. In essence, it's a farewell and a welcoming all

00:55:13.720 in one. That's what makes it beautiful. That's what makes it sacred, is that it's both of those

00:55:21.480 things. It is a saying bye and a saying hello altogether. That's why the dad hands the daughter

00:55:26.720 off. And very often the dad is teary-eyed in this moment. And he's also smiling because it's a

00:55:33.400 happy thing, but there's a solemnness to it. There's a somberness as well as a joy, as well

00:55:38.940 as happiness. A new thing has been made, a marriage, a family. And that's the point. And so it's sort of

00:55:45.880 like a, you know, there's a, anytime there's a transformation and something new happens, it's

00:55:51.780 also sort of a death in a way. Like you're, as the parent, you're saying goodbye to your child.

00:55:58.620 I mean, it's still your child, but now they are going off and starting their own life.

00:56:03.900 And so that's what makes it so beautiful.

00:56:08.700 So, you know, a wedding is not like a birthday in that way.

00:56:14.940 Turning it into a birthday celebration just strips it of all the meaning, all the beauty, all the sacredness, all the joy, everything. 0.99

00:56:20.380 The whole point of the thing emptied out, hollowed out, worn like a skin suit. 1.00

00:56:25.520 And, you know, I think that's pretty obvious. 1.00

00:56:28.620 Um, but here's, this is what happens. This is what leftists do. And these aren't leftists

00:56:34.380 because they're feminists. They have no new ideas at all, right? Even the ideas that are 1.00

00:56:41.180 supposed to be new actually aren't remotely new. I mean, this is supposed to be a new thing. Oh,

00:56:47.440 it's a new thing. Women are doing weddings for their birthday. That's not new. A birthday party 1.00

00:56:52.240 is not new. A wedding celebration is not new. You're just taking this thing that already exists

00:56:58.120 and you're twisting it and perverting it and subverting it and emptying it of everything that

00:57:03.900 made it matter. And not even in a creative or interesting way. This is all leftists do with

00:57:10.500 anything. They subvert, they pervert, they take what already exists, they destroy it. And they

00:57:15.600 don't even ever do it in a way that's remotely interesting. It's like taking the Mona Lisa

00:57:23.820 and gluing googly eyes on it

00:57:26.600 and then calling yourself an artist.

00:57:30.460 I mean, any revision to the Mona Lisa

00:57:32.200 would be a tragedy,

00:57:34.480 but you didn't do anything

00:57:35.460 that has any hope

00:57:36.420 of being interesting or unique.

00:57:38.640 You just take the thing

00:57:39.940 that already exists.

00:57:42.340 You take this thing and say,

00:57:43.460 well, this thing is beautiful

00:57:44.420 and it's ancient and it's wonderful

00:57:45.980 and people love it.

00:57:47.500 And so what we're going to do,

00:57:49.160 here's our crazy idea.

00:57:50.640 We're going to take this thing

00:57:51.420 and we're going to make it 0.99

00:57:51.900 superficial, ridiculous, silly, 1.00

00:57:53.520 and ugly. That's everything the left does with everything. Silly and ugly, grotesque 1.00

00:57:59.620 and ugly, ridiculous and ugly. And that's all they do. It's because the thing they're 1.00

00:58:08.160 trying to destroy, the thing that they're rebelling against, Western civilization,

00:58:11.700 Christian civilization, that thing has all the beauty and inventiveness and creativity

00:58:17.820 and vitality and life and vibrancy. It has all the interesting ideas. The people just seeking

00:58:24.820 to destroy it invariably end up glomming on to the forms that the thing they want to destroy

00:58:31.580 has invented. They end up sort of affixing themselves to it, stealing its ideas. They

00:58:36.540 have no ideas of their own. Leftism is the worship of self, the celebration of the self.

00:58:42.000 self satanism is what it is and but they can't even worship the self in any kind of new or original

00:58:48.960 way um they just end up taking all the uh all the ways that that people have worshiped god and

00:58:58.100 celebrated family and tradition and they say well let's do that but without the god and the and the

00:59:02.720 and the family and the tradition this is what satan does this is this is satanism which is

00:59:06.880 like i said the worship of the self celebration of the self leftism is a kind of secular satanism

00:59:10.840 as I've said for many years. And this is what they do in, you know, if we were to call it like

00:59:18.920 a sort of theological Satanism, if you were to go to like a satanic temple, which you shouldn't,

00:59:24.160 but everything they do, it's like nothing new going on. It's just taking what already exists.

00:59:27.960 It's taking the symbols of Christianity and Catholicism in particular, the cross, the altar,

00:59:34.140 the church, everything, and just kind of flipping it upside down, desecrating it.

00:59:40.120 because they have no ideas of their own, and we can't lose sight of that. 0.75

00:59:45.960 These people, on top of being evil, are also really boring and have no ideas at all, period.

00:59:56.040 And, yeah, this is a perfect example of that. 0.90

01:00:01.820 Am I saying that this is satanic?

01:00:05.180 Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's also that. I'll go with that. I think that's true.

01:00:08.460 And we will leave it on that bright note for today.

01:00:13.400 Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.

01:00:23.400 I do believe that if people have committed treason against the United States of America,

01:00:29.220 their statues should not be in the Capitol.

01:00:33.120 History is written by the victors.

01:00:34.440 and since the 1960s we've been told mostly by people whose ancestors didn't even live here

01:00:38.840 during the war that the south committed treason but if the confederates were traitors

01:00:46.760 then why was jefferson davis never put on trial for treason

01:00:51.560 what were abraham lincoln and andrew johnson afraid of

01:00:55.160 do they know something they're not allowed to say today

01:00:59.160 it's time for the truth so here it is robert e lee was a military genius and a man of immense honor

01:01:04.360 He was beloved by Americans from the North and South for a century after the war.

01:01:09.360 This is the real history of the Civil War.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 07, 2026

Ep. 1762 - Meet The Billionaires Who Are Secretly Sabotaging The Country

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