The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 978 - Leftist Elites Want You To Stop Complaining About Our Economic Collapse

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, leftist elites have a message for average people suffering

00:00:04.040 under these economic conditions. Shut up and stop complaining. That is actually the message

00:00:07.660 verbatim. Also, the Supreme Court strikes down New York's unconstitutional gun control law.

00:00:11.800 Biden unveils his brilliant plan for driving gas prices down. 60 Minutes claims that a six-foot,

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00:00:30.160 matter. In our daily cancellation, the TSA heroically saves lives by confiscating bottles of water and

00:00:35.420 tubes of sunscreen and then brags about it on Twitter. We'll talk about all that and more

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00:01:57.640 health questions. If we could say that anything good has come from the cavalcade of economic

00:02:03.760 catastrophes that we now face thanks to the Biden regime, it's maybe the clarity that the situation

00:02:09.480 has offered. The clarity is not exactly worth the price we're paying for it, but you have to look

00:02:13.720 for silver linings anywhere you can find them these days. And this has certainly been a clarifying

00:02:17.840 moment. As regular people suffer from high gas prices, inflation, other severe financial

00:02:23.900 strains, the Democrat Party, what used to be seen as and still bills itself as the party of the

00:02:29.720 working man, has thoroughly demonstrated its total disdain for working class people. And I mean

00:02:35.720 disdain in a dictionary definition sent to the term. To have disdain for someone is to feel that the

00:02:41.840 person is unworthy of consideration. You may not be directly trying to hurt them, or maybe you are,

00:02:46.680 but the general attitude is that the person's suffering is just irrelevant to you. And that's

00:02:52.380 been the Biden administration's approach. You've heard over and over again over the past few weeks

00:02:57.480 and months from various officials that the record high gas prices are actually a wonderful opportunity

00:03:01.700 to switch over to electric vehicles and other green transportation options. The pain you're feeling

00:03:07.400 is worth it in the long run, as it may help their cultural agenda and help advance it, they say.

00:03:12.460 We heard a similar message in the summer of 2020 when communities across America were in flames,

00:03:16.840 devastated, terrorized by BLM rioting. And that was all okay, said the Democrat elites from behind

00:03:22.480 the walls of their gated communities, because if your business has been looted or your home burned to

00:03:26.640 the ground, it's all for the sake of social justice, you see. So take heart. On gas prices,

00:03:32.360 we're told that the pain is worth it, not just for the sake of healing Mother Earth,

00:03:37.020 but also for Ukraine. So Biden yesterday took issue with Republicans who criticized him over gas

00:03:42.840 prices. Isn't it worth a few extra bucks in the tank in order to help Ukraine, he asks.

00:03:48.680 So for all those Republicans in Congress criticizing me today for high gas prices in America,

00:03:55.400 are you now saying we were wrong to support Ukraine? Are you saying we were wrong to stand up to Putin?

00:04:01.140 Or are you saying that we would rather have lower gas prices in America and Putin's iron fist in

00:04:07.660 Europe? I don't believe that. Yeah, yeah, that's that's what we're saying. Now, this is a false

00:04:14.980 choice. Of course, the gas prices are not Putin's fault. But putting that aside, Biden asks if we'd

00:04:21.360 rather have lower gas prices instead of helping Ukraine. And the answer that I give and that most

00:04:25.920 normal Americans give is yes, absolutely. I would leave Ukraine to defend itself and take the

00:04:32.540 discount at the pump. Absolutely. In fact, I'd leave Ukraine to defend itself even if there was no

00:04:37.200 discount at the pump. But give me the discount and you've just sweetened the deal. I don't have to

00:04:42.800 think about it. Is that selfishness? No, it's called patriotism because I prioritize American families

00:04:50.860 over Ukrainian families. And gas prices are not some small, petty concern. The average price of

00:04:57.280 gas right now is almost five dollars a gallon. This is devastating to working class people. But

00:05:01.940 the alleged party of the working class is so far removed from the working class that it can't even

00:05:06.200 conceive of why gas prices are a major concern for people who don't have the benefit of taking a

00:05:12.240 chauffeur service everywhere they go. I mean, Joe Biden hasn't paid for a tank tank of gas since

00:05:18.460 since like ever since cars were invented. So he doesn't understand why it matters so much.

00:05:24.260 He actually thinks that working class people are happy to have less money to feed their children

00:05:29.600 if it means that they can stick it to Putin. And it's all for the best anyway, Biden thinks, because

00:05:35.220 as he also said yesterday, the ultimate goal is to take cars off of the roads entirely.

00:05:41.340 We're investing almost a hundred billion dollars in public transit and rail for all the studies show

00:05:48.560 that it will take millions of cars off the road and significantly reduce pollution if there's

00:05:54.800 a serious transportation system available.

00:05:59.140 Yeah, get the cars off the road, reduce pollution. Why alleviate suffering when it presents such a

00:06:04.980 wonderful opportunity? And besides, the suffering really isn't that bad anyway. I mean,

00:06:10.220 everybody's just exaggerating. That was the message from Michelle Singletary at the Washington Post

00:06:15.580 when she appeared on MSNBC yesterday and launched into what just might be the most out-of-touch

00:06:21.780 and tone-deaf diatribe we've ever heard on cable news. And that's quite a statement, I realize.

00:06:27.060 The competition is stiff, but I think this is at least in the running for that title. Listen for

00:06:32.600 yourself.

00:06:33.580 There's a new poll out by Politico, Morning Consult, that I think is quite revealing. It shows 38%

00:06:39.920 of Americans say they would rather see a recession than the inflation that we're dealing with.

00:06:45.700 I mean, I read that to mean more than a third of Americans are so pressed by what they're having

00:06:52.360 to pay for gas, for food, everyday items, rent, that they'd rather see a recession. Is that where we

00:06:59.280 are right now?

00:06:59.940 You know, I'm just going to say this, and if I get bang for it, I don't care. There is a great

00:07:08.320 deal of Americans where it is uncomfortable that they're spending more, but they are not going to

00:07:13.920 go under. You know, you've got to stop complaining when there's so many people who literally the

00:07:20.680 inflation rate means they may only have two meals instead of three. There are Americans who did

00:07:25.840 extremely well in the last two years in the market. You still have your job, and yeah,

00:07:31.620 it's costing you more for gas, but guess what? You are still going to take that holiday,

00:07:35.440 that Fourth of July vacation. You could still eat out. So I'm going to need you to calm down and back

00:07:40.060 off because it feeds into this fear, and then this fear feeds into people making decisions that creates

00:07:46.780 the very thing that they're fearful of. And if you're in that category, calm down. Stop looking at

00:07:53.280 your portfolio. And you know what you can do with all that energy? Help other people. Help put some

00:07:58.120 food on the table in somebody else's house because you have extra. Now, the other half of America,

00:08:04.620 anything that we can do to help them to get to the job that they need to keep, to put that food on

00:08:10.320 the table, those are the folks that we need to concentrate on. And if they are responding to

00:08:14.820 this survey saying that they're afraid, I get that. But overall, many Americans are not suffering as

00:08:20.760 much as they think they are. Amazing. Why do they always have such annoying voices is the question.

00:08:28.180 So calm down, back off. You're not suffering as much as you think you are, she says. Now, make no

00:08:36.080 mistake, she's not directing this message at millionaires. She says that half of the country

00:08:39.880 is still doing well. This is half of the country. Overall, overall, we're fine, she claims. Quit your

00:08:45.980 belly aching. Now, tough talk like this is pretty rare from the left. You're not suffering as much

00:08:52.380 as you think you are. When's the last time you've ever heard anyone on the left say something like

00:08:56.000 that? And there are many contexts when it should be said and it certainly will not be said.

00:09:03.440 It's quite instructive to see just when they start speaking this way and who they are speaking to

00:09:08.340 when they do. This is the clarity the moment offers us. Leftist elites are saying out loud on camera

00:09:14.760 the kinds of things they usually only mutter under their breath or say to each other when nobody else

00:09:19.440 is around. So what drives this? I mean, what drives this? What is really just a disregard

00:09:25.260 for human suffering? As much as these people talk about lived experience, why don't they seem to

00:09:30.560 actually care much about other people's lived experience, so-called? Of course, it has a lot to do with

00:09:36.740 the fact that these people live in a bubble, they're insulated, they're walled off from the average

00:09:40.700 people whose lives they seek to control and govern and manipulate. That's a part of it. That's not the

00:09:46.580 whole story. The other part of the story is that the rules of intersectionality demand that they

00:09:52.700 siphon out their compassion based on race, gender, sexual orientation, and so on. They can care or

00:09:59.520 pretend to care about certain protected classes of people and certain favored groups, but they have to

00:10:05.560 be careful not to accidentally express any concern for the unfavored classes, particularly straight

00:10:09.660 white men. They wouldn't want anyone to get caught in the faux compassion crossfire. And then the other

00:10:16.740 thing to keep in mind is that, and this is maybe the most important aspect, is that the left has no

00:10:21.460 concept of inherent human dignity. Any true compassion or concern for your fellow man must spring from

00:10:28.580 your recognition of and belief in your fellow man's human worth and dignity. But there is no shared

00:10:34.920 human dignity on the left. Our worth is subjective, conditional, highly mutable, subject to change.

00:10:42.520 So all that's left then is to virtue signal, to put on a show of compassion. But when the

00:10:47.040 circumstances really call for it, when the chips are down, they turn their back and tell us to stop

00:10:52.120 whining and to simply suffer for the greater good, which is to say their own good, of course.

00:10:58.340 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:12:14.860 of course, waging their assault on the Second Amendment with their quote-unquote bipartisan gun

00:12:19.960 control legislation that they've agreed to. But the Supreme Court, at least, thanks to the

00:12:25.440 conservative majority, is standing in the gap. And we await now for these red flag laws to make

00:12:32.560 their way up to the Supreme Court so that Clarence Thomas and company can have their say in it. But

00:12:39.000 for now, we have this decision from the Supreme Court. We're still waiting on the Roe v. Wade decision,

00:12:47.740 so that was not announced today. I think it has to be tomorrow. Usually, they make announcements. They

00:12:53.120 announce their decisions on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, or rather, Tuesdays and Thursdays, and they added an

00:12:58.480 extra day on Friday. And so, I think the assumption probably is that since they've announced their

00:13:04.860 decisions in most of the cases that they heard for this time around, the assumption is that they're

00:13:11.040 going to announce it tomorrow and then skip out of town. But anyway, this was a case that

00:13:17.640 people were waiting for. Not quite as much as Roe v. Wade, but still a really important case.

00:13:22.560 And here is from NPR. They have the report. It says, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a six to three

00:13:26.820 opinion, ruled that New York's restrictions on the concealed carry of firearms in public

00:13:31.640 violates the Second Amendment. The opinion written by Justice Clarence Thomas invalidates the state's

00:13:37.360 requirement for people to show proper cause to get public carry licenses. Writing for the

00:13:42.500 conservative majority, Justice Thomas said, quote, the exercise of other constitutional rights does not

00:13:46.940 require individuals to demonstrate to government officers some special need. The Second Amendment

00:13:50.760 right to carry arms in public for self-defense is no different. New York's proper cause requirement

00:13:55.140 violates the 14th Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs

00:13:59.440 from exercising their right to keep and bear arms in public. Meanwhile, writing for the court's three

00:14:06.060 liberals, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote, quote, in applying that approach to New York's law, the court fails to

00:14:10.820 correctly identify and analyze the relevant historical facts only by ignoring an abundance of historical

00:14:15.320 evidence supporting regulations restricting the public carriage of firearms. Can the court conclude

00:14:19.820 that New York's law is not consistent with the nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation?

00:14:25.660 And of course, what they're always worried about is, well, the historical, at least in this case,

00:14:30.340 they're worried about the quote-unquote historical tradition. And when they say historical, they mean over

00:14:34.700 the past few years. What they're not so worried about is the actual Constitution itself.

00:14:40.180 So, this is obviously the right decision. They're striking down this law in New York, which was

00:14:47.000 not only unconstitutional, but absurdly unconstitutional, that in order to exercise one of

00:14:53.160 your fundamental basic rights as an American, which our founding fathers found to be so important that

00:15:00.700 they put it at number two on the list, right behind the freedom of expression, freedom of religion,

00:15:05.400 freedom of speech. But in order to do that, you have to go to a government official and demonstrate

00:15:13.060 to their satisfaction that you need to exercise it. And if you can't demonstrate it, then they'll allow

00:15:20.640 you to have the gun, but you got to keep it at your house, where it is very often useless, because

00:15:28.100 especially if you live in New York, if you live in the city, many of the dangers that you're going to

00:15:34.040 experience to your personal safety, you're going to experience those dangers out when you're walking

00:15:38.920 around. Now, that might happen at home too, but more than likely, they're going to be out in public.

00:15:44.960 So, this gave, this is great for the government, of course, it gives, it puts them in the position

00:15:48.880 of deciding who is worthy of that kind of protection, because that's really what this comes down to.

00:15:55.520 Right? All people are equal, but some people are more equal than others, as George Orwell wrote in

00:15:59.740 an animal farm. So, you have to demonstrate to the government that not only are you, do you fear for

00:16:09.140 your life, and do you have, to their satisfaction, a good reason to fear for your life, but that your

00:16:13.620 life is worth this kind of extra protection. That was the law anyway, but that law has gone away.

00:16:21.620 For now, we can say. All right, let's move to this. For this, it's kind of a set of headlines we got

00:16:28.060 here on the five headlines, and we're going to have various examples of the government being

00:16:32.760 just totally useless, because that's always fun. And of course, we have to start with Biden,

00:16:38.260 and we go back to this gas prices issue, and he had a lot to say about gas prices yesterday,

00:16:42.500 all of it quite stupid. And, you know, maybe I wasn't entirely fair. You know, I said he doesn't,

00:16:48.100 he doesn't care about bringing down the prices. To them, this is an opportunity, really. They're

00:16:52.120 actually, they're actually happy that the prices are so high, because it's an opportunity to get the

00:16:56.200 cars off the road. But that's mostly true. But he does have, he had one idea, at least,

00:17:02.060 for how to bring the gas prices down. He made an attempt yesterday, and here it was.

00:17:08.520 So let's be honest with one another. My message is simple. To the companies running gas stations

00:17:14.400 and setting those prices at the pump, this is a time of war, global peril, Ukraine.

00:17:22.320 These are not normal times. Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost

00:17:29.920 you are paying for the product. Do it now. Do it today.

00:17:36.180 Problem solved. I wish someone had thought of that. Just go, just tell the gas stations to

00:17:42.120 take the price down. That's all. There's a problem of gas being expensive. Then just say

00:17:50.100 to the gas stations, hey, make it not as expensive. And then they'll go, oh, okay. Well, all right.

00:17:57.060 Oh, you guys don't like what the high prices, you don't like that? No, we don't. Oh, we didn't

00:18:00.500 realize. Okay, we'll just put it. What price do you guys want for the, is it 250? Is that good?

00:18:04.860 $2? 50 cents? What do you want? He's calling on gas stations to go bankrupt. First of all,

00:18:11.580 it's what he's actually calling on them to do by just saying, just bring the prices down, guys.

00:18:16.520 Maybe I'll have a similar strategy during wildfire season. Come on, fires. Just stop burning. Okay.

00:18:22.720 This is a difficult time in America. Stop burning. You don't need to burn.

00:18:27.520 But at least Biden's analysis was better than what we got from somebody else on MSNBC,

00:18:37.000 who, for reasons that are quite unclear to me, broke out into song while talking. I mean,

00:18:43.800 these people are losing their minds. That's it. They just don't know how to respond.

00:18:47.140 We've got a Democrat regime. Everything's falling apart. People's lives are much worse now under Biden

00:18:53.300 than they were under Trump. There's no denying it. And these people are just scrambling. They

00:18:57.700 don't know how to respond. And this one guy at MSNBC has gone so insane that he just started breaking

00:19:03.200 out into song in the middle of his analysis of the situation. Listen. These are crazy times we're

00:19:11.140 living in, to put it mildly, Robin. But can you just get it straight for me? Who's to blame for the

00:19:17.860 cost of oil being so high right now? Is it because of President Biden's policies or are there other

00:19:24.140 effects going on? Did you see this back and forth between Biden and the CEO of Chevron and kind of

00:19:30.480 his emotions? And it was so touchy feely. And I could see if the oil execs had kind of more chill to

00:19:35.900 them, they'd be like, quit playing games with my heart, with my heart. I mean, it's hard.

00:19:42.800 Yeah, apparently. Apparently, it's very hard out there. What? I'm not exactly sure what he was

00:19:52.380 going for there. But I think it's mainly just, as I said, that they're scrambling. They don't know

00:19:59.240 what to say and what to do. And that's always going to be the case when you've got a Democrat

00:20:05.960 administration that's failing this miserably, this utterly. But even more so when you consider

00:20:14.320 that he's taking the place of Donald Trump. I mean, Donald Trump was literally Hitler,

00:20:19.480 right? Remember? And he's the worst president we've ever had, according to them. And he just,

00:20:23.800 he's made our lives so terrible. But the left, they had to spend a lot of time during Trump's

00:20:30.540 administration, especially pre-COVID, right? Trying to convince us that our lives were being

00:20:40.540 made worse by Trump himself, and even during COVID, actually. They had to convince us that Trump

00:20:47.160 himself was making our lives worse. Because it wasn't really obvious to anybody. We're living our

00:20:52.820 lives. We don't really see the connection. But with Trump, with Biden, rather, there's a very clear

00:20:58.600 connection. He got into office, and things went to hell. It's pretty clear. And that has happened

00:21:05.780 in ways that affect people every single day. And they don't know what to do, so they're just

00:21:11.680 singing, I guess. That's the way to go. Here's some more government uselessness. This report from

00:21:16.580 The Daily Wire says, President Biden's administration will impose restrictions on the amount of nicotine in

00:21:20.960 cigarettes and tobacco products. The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a division within the

00:21:26.040 Office of Management and Budget, issued a statement on Tuesday regarding the proposal, saying,

00:21:30.580 this proposed rule is a tobacco product standard that would establish a maximum nicotine level in

00:21:35.900 cigarettes and certain finished tobacco products. Because tobacco-related harms primarily result from

00:21:41.740 addiction to products that repeatedly expose users to toxins, FDA would take this action to reduce

00:21:46.280 the addictiveness to certain tobacco products, thus giving addicted users a greater ability to quit.

00:21:51.320 And it's kind of interesting to see them doing this. You know, they're going after not just

00:21:58.140 cigarettes, continuing this war on cigarettes, which, you know, meanwhile, the rate of smoking of

00:22:05.700 cigarettes has declined dramatically over the years, which is good. And at this point, if you're still

00:22:11.660 choosing to smoke, I mean, everyone knows what you're getting into. When you pick up a cigarette,

00:22:15.520 everybody knows they've got it. It's, it's, uh, we all, as kids, we sat through all the, the PSAs and

00:22:21.480 everything, all the warnings about cigarettes, and they've got the big messages right on the,

00:22:25.560 the carton, this will kill you, you will die. And, um, so people know what they're getting into,

00:22:30.700 I think, at this point. Uh, but also while they've, they're launching this continued campaign against

00:22:38.300 cigarettes, um, and then they throw in, uh, you know, e-cigarettes and vaping and those sorts of

00:22:43.200 things. Meanwhile, in a lot of American cities now, you know, they're setting up stations for you to go

00:22:51.080 and, um, shoot up heroin. So, you know, the hard drugs, people are using those at record rates.

00:23:02.220 And, um, even, even marijuana, I mean, you can't walk through a city anymore without every city that

00:23:08.700 I've been to, certainly over the last year, while we were filming, what is a woman, you know, uh,

00:23:13.760 many things, it was a revelatory experience going through all these cities and talking to people.

00:23:17.880 And part of it also was just the fact that, uh, every single city, everywhere, just reeks of weed

00:23:23.540 everywhere you go. Everyone's walking around high all the time. And, uh, marijuana is the least of it,

00:23:29.780 right? Along with all the other hard drugs. So that's happening. Not a lot's being done to curb

00:23:33.800 it. In fact, not only are they not curbing it, but in many of these cities, again, they're actually

00:23:36.980 facilitating the use of these drugs, but they're going after cigarettes and vaping because that

00:23:44.760 makes a lot of sense. Speaking of things that make sense, the rugby league has, uh, now banned males

00:23:51.240 from competing against females in international competition. And 60 Minutes Australia did a story

00:23:57.340 about this. And I want to play this story for you. And if you're only listening to the audio,

00:24:01.600 you're not going to be able to fully appreciate this because you got to see the video. So go to

00:24:05.000 YouTube or go to dailywire.com and watch the video too. Um, this is not supposed to be a parody.

00:24:10.780 They interview Hannah Mouncey, who's a male who identifies as a woman, plays rugby,

00:24:15.400 is now going to be excluded from a lot of these competitions, a lot of these, uh, rugby matches.

00:24:20.460 And you're supposed to watch this interview and think that Hannah Mouncey is the victim and that

00:24:29.680 it's absurd that he would be, uh, excluded, but it's kind of hard to come to that conclusion just

00:24:35.820 based on the visual. Let's watch. Do you accept the AFL's argument that you do have a size advantage

00:24:43.160 over some of your opponents? I think the biggest issue is not necessarily that I'm too big or too

00:24:47.420 strong now. It's more, okay, you're already big, you're already strong, whatever. But what if you

00:24:54.100 were to get into that elite training environment and they were to build you up, put on an extra 15

00:24:59.840 kilos and you just push everyone aside. But physiologically, that's just not going to happen.

00:25:05.160 The people who seem to have the biggest problem with this is male administrators,

00:25:09.500 but the female competitors haven't raised their voices at all. Lisa Watson knows better than most

00:25:15.660 what Hannah's going through. She's a doctor who specializes in transgender health issues and is

00:25:21.900 also a transgender athlete. After two years of hormone replacement therapy, she says Hannah's body

00:25:30.780 has no residual benefits from her time as a male. Prior to her transitioning, she had a V8 motor powering

00:25:40.420 this big muscle frame. Now she's transitioned and her testosterone level has dropped and her muscle

00:25:48.520 mass has decreased and her strength and stamina has decreased. She's now got a little four-cylinder

00:25:56.420 engine. So she's actually at a physical disadvantage. Dr. Watson suspects there are other, more sinister

00:26:05.240 factors at play. I'm just wondering whether they did not want to have someone like Hannah

00:26:12.620 representing their new league. They wanted a presentable, beautiful female who could be the face

00:26:26.360 of AFLW. A trans woman may not be what they desired. Okay. I had to actually take notes because there's

00:26:35.980 so much nonsense here that we need to pick apart in that less than two minute clip there.

00:26:41.960 First of all, we'll start with the trans person, the older person saying that, well, female competitors,

00:26:48.540 they're not complaining. Well, yes, they are complaining. First of all, uh, they, they have

00:26:55.200 complained in all of these sports, but then the other part of it is that, um, it, when, if, and when

00:27:02.300 they do complain, they are shouted down and called bigots by people like you. So you've got a metaphorical

00:27:11.840 gun to their head. And then you're saying, look at that. They're not complaining while you point the gun

00:27:16.060 right at their head and you're muttering under your breath to them. You better not complain.

00:27:21.320 You see, they're not complaining. I mean, if they do complain, we'll destroy their lives,

00:27:26.660 of course, and, uh, it will just rip them to pieces, but they're not complaining.

00:27:33.980 No, it's, it's even in spite of that, there are still women who are, who are speaking out and many

00:27:39.520 more should and hopefully will in the future. Also, we're told by the, um, the reporter there

00:27:46.800 that Hannah Mouncey has no residual benefits. And again, you have to see the visual to really

00:27:54.680 appreciate this. And in fact, you can go to Google and just look up Hannah Mouncey and to see the,

00:28:00.040 the spectacle of this guy competing against women in rugby. It's ridiculous. They like you would,

00:28:07.580 you, another thing from the left where when you first see it, you think it must be a joke. This

00:28:12.740 must be from, no, it's, this is real. Hannah Mouncey, in spite of all the, uh, the hormones,

00:28:20.140 presence and everything else, Hannah Mouncey is six foot two. Hold on. I just had it up here. I want

00:28:27.200 to get, I want to get Hannah Mouncey's statistics. Okay. Six foot two, 220 pounds, no residual benefits

00:28:36.220 in rugby against women. What's the average, um, height and weight of a, of a, of a female? Um,

00:28:43.060 five feet, four inches and 170 pounds. Okay. Five feet four on average versus six foot two,

00:28:53.520 220 pounds versus 170 on average, no residual benefits.

00:28:59.940 It's just, it's just total absurdity. The, the, the, the truth is right there in front of your face

00:29:08.240 as always. And they are, and you're looking right at it and they are telling you, no, that doesn't

00:29:13.600 exist. It's like, you're, it's like, you're, you're standing in front of a brick wall. Okay. And

00:29:18.740 Hannah Mouncey is basically a brick wall compared to these, uh, to these women that he's competing

00:29:22.900 against. But it's as though you're standing in front of a brick wall and actually banging your

00:29:28.660 head against it. And they're sitting there telling you, oh, that brick wall doesn't exist. No, it

00:29:32.680 doesn't. It's actually not there. And you're supposed to just accept that. Okay. And then the

00:29:41.720 other part of this too, I mean, we could, we could talk about, um, just how dishonest and disingenuous

00:29:48.360 all this is. Women aren't complaining. Yeah. But when they do, you destroy them. No residual

00:29:52.940 benefits. That's ridiculous. And we can talk about all those issues, but also I don't want

00:29:57.600 to gloss over just the, um, how they sort of casually admit the ways that, um, this gender

00:30:07.280 so-called gender transition destroys your body. So you have this other guy just casually admitting

00:30:15.500 this. Oh, well, he's, he's been on, uh, on all these drugs and everything. So there's

00:30:21.320 a lot weaker. He's, he's not as powerful. Well, he's, he's no, I assure you his body's

00:30:26.800 been destroyed by, by transition. And that's supposed to be a good thing. Now I, I agree

00:30:34.020 with that. I don't deny that. They are correct that when you get on the hormone drugs and everything

00:30:39.480 else and you start the transition, you are destroying your body and you are, whether you're

00:30:46.220 a man or a woman, you are depriving yourself of many of the benefits of being a man or a

00:30:52.200 woman. You're taking away a lot of the, uh, inherent power that you would have in that

00:30:57.900 identity as a male or a female. You're stripping all of that away. And in return, you're getting

00:31:04.640 nothing. So a woman, as she transitions, uh, she takes away her female form, her breasts,

00:31:11.700 her ability to conceive children, um, all of that, her feminine beauty, all of that is out the window

00:31:16.800 and in replace, she gets nothing. She doesn't get the power and strength of a man. She doesn't even

00:31:23.960 get the appearance of a man. Um, she doesn't get the biological capacities and abilities of, of,

00:31:29.240 of a male. She gets none of that. So she's lost much of what makes her a woman, though.

00:31:34.200 She still is a woman and she gets none of what makes a man, a man. And she just ends up with

00:31:38.760 nothing. So it's a bargain where you give up everything and you get nothing in return.

00:31:43.500 Like a literal deal with the devil is what it is. And it's the same thing for a man.

00:31:49.200 And they admit that like, we're like, they're proud of it. Like it's a good thing.

00:31:55.240 No, what you're describing, that's all the more reason why this doctor should not be doing this to

00:31:59.840 people. And they get away with that. Like they can, most of the time they will admit,

00:32:11.580 but rather they will, they will refuse to admit that gender transition destroys the body.

00:32:17.140 The only time they'll admit it is in this context, when they're trying to defend the idea of males

00:32:22.700 competing against females in sports. And then they'll freely admit it and say, oh no,

00:32:27.020 his body's completely ruined. I assure you, everything's fine.

00:32:33.660 Absolutely grotesque. This is from CNBC. It says, Canada is banning the manufacture and import of

00:32:39.620 single-use plastics by the end of the year. The government announced on Monday in a major effort

00:32:44.220 to combat plastic waste and address climate change. The ban will cover items like checkout bags,

00:32:50.480 cutlery, food serviceware, and of course, straws. That's a big part of this.

00:32:53.940 Um, single-use plastics make up most of the plastic waste that we're told by CNBC. And so all of that,

00:33:01.600 um, Prime Minister Justice Trudeau is going to be out the window. You're not going to have any more of

00:33:05.460 that. And, uh, you know, you can, as far, as far as straws go, you can, uh, just make do with the

00:33:11.820 totally useless paper straws, you know, paper straws, which you're, you're, you're taking paper and

00:33:17.420 you're putting them in water or in some kind of liquid. And then what happens when paper makes

00:33:22.440 contact with liquid? You know, it starts to fall apart, which is what happens with the paper straws.

00:33:28.300 Now, think about this. A couple of points here. First of all, the whole straw thing,

00:33:33.080 the plastic straw thing, when did that start? That started a few years ago, right? We didn't hear

00:33:36.840 anything about, about plastic straws. Nobody was complaining about plastic straws. And then a few

00:33:40.920 years ago, there was this big push to start banning plastic straws. And they banned them in

00:33:45.660 California. They banned them in various different, uh, states in the United States. And now they're

00:33:49.800 banning them in Canada. Well, why did it start? I mean, why did we start caring all of a sudden

00:33:55.660 about plastic straws of all things? Uh, well that goes back to, and you could still see this statistic

00:34:02.160 being bandied about. Um, a few years ago, if you remember, we started hearing all these reports

00:34:07.520 about how, um, Americans, I think it was just Americans. The, the, the claim was Americans use 500 million

00:34:15.260 plastic straws a day. That was the, actually, let me clarify that. Let me look that up again

00:34:22.420 to make sure I have the exact claim that they, that they made. Yeah. Okay.

00:34:28.960 500 million plastic straws every day. That's the claim. And I'm looking right now at the National

00:34:33.880 Park Service on their website and they still have this claim up there. 500 million plastic straws

00:34:40.620 every day. And, uh, and that was the, the jumping off point for this campaign to ban straws because

00:34:46.620 500 million plastic straws a day, that's, uh, it's, it's astronomical. It's unbelievable, right?

00:34:53.480 Um, they're talking about billions over the course of just not a few years. You're talking about,

00:34:57.880 you're talking about billions and trillions and trillions of straws. Well, here's the problem

00:35:03.280 that the 500 million straws a day was a statistic invented by a nine-year-old. A nine-year-old was

00:35:12.880 doing some sort of project for school and came up with this idea that we use 500 million straws a day.

00:35:20.580 And he, and he came to this by doing a brief phone survey of a few people. And then from there,

00:35:25.800 the nine-year-old extrapolated that we use 500 million straws a day. And that claim, which again,

00:35:32.420 was invented by a nine-year-old is still used now to justify banning plastic straws.

00:35:39.120 The national park service has it front and center, right on the website.

00:35:43.340 This has already been debunked. It's like there was, we shouldn't need to debunk it. This is a

00:35:48.100 nine-year-old. And I mean, all due respect to nine-year-olds. Um, I have two, two nine-year-olds

00:35:53.520 myself, but I'm not going to trust them with statistics. They're not very, you know, when it

00:35:58.900 comes to statistics, they, uh, I think lack some, um, some perspective. And of course we don't use

00:36:06.180 500 million straws a day. How could we possibly, that's like every American, every single American

00:36:13.860 is using almost two straws every single day. Meanwhile, I think I've used like two straws in

00:36:22.240 the last 10 years of my life. Who's using all these straws, but getting away from the

00:36:29.080 straws for a second, because that's just totally invented. Plastic straws are not really a big

00:36:33.020 problem. Uh, they've got, you know, you look at all the waste and, and garbage and everything in

00:36:39.160 the pollution and the litter. Plastic straws make up a very small amount of it. I mean, these days,

00:36:44.520 you know, a lot of the littering and waste, a lot of that, those are the disposable,

00:36:47.660 non-biodegradable masks that they had everybody in for two years. Not a lot of concern for the

00:36:53.600 environment with that, but with plastic in general, here, here's a fact that everybody should realize.

00:37:01.300 Um, most of the plastic in the, the world's oceans comes from Asia and Africa. Okay. In fact,

00:37:13.700 when it comes to plastic pollution, when I say most, I'm almost kind of understated.

00:37:17.000 95% of the problem stems to Asia and Africa. And there are like 10 rivers in Asia and Africa

00:37:27.540 that account for almost all of this. Okay. Countries like China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand,

00:37:34.320 um, the Philippines, and then countries in, uh, in Africa too. Uh, they, they, they account for 95%

00:37:41.620 of the problem. And it's not even just those continents. It's, it's like 10 rivers in those

00:37:47.120 continents create this problem. And why is that? Well, because in some of these countries,

00:37:52.740 they use their rivers like garbage conveyor belts and they just dump their trash and their waste and

00:38:02.640 their human waste too. And it, it funnels and flows right out into the ocean. That's 95% of the problem.

00:38:12.080 And that means that all the rest of the world we have, we account for 5% of the plastic waste.

00:38:20.380 You know, the United States and our entire hemisphere accounts for less than 5% of the

00:38:26.880 problem. And of that 5%, how many of it, how much of it goes back to plastic straws?

00:38:32.720 It's a lot less than 1%, I can tell you that. Now, does that mean that we should do nothing at all?

00:38:40.280 Does that mean that we're completely off the hook? Does that mean that, uh, we have a lot of ground

00:38:44.000 to make up? So we might as well just start dumping stuff in our rivers, you know, cause it's not going

00:38:47.380 to make a difference. Should we be doing that? No, of course not. Uh, we shouldn't be littering.

00:38:51.280 You should be, you know, you should be, uh, uh, you should be responsible with your own waste and your

00:38:56.280 own garbage. I totally believe that. But if we're trying to make a dent in the plastic pollution

00:39:04.940 problem, especially as it affects our world's oceans, and it is a problem, if we're trying

00:39:09.920 to make a dent in that problem and address it, then we cannot exclude 95% of the problem.

00:39:16.020 And yet that's what we do because when's the last time you heard an environmentalist say

00:39:22.440 anything about Asia and Africa and the way that they contribute to this, what they say

00:39:27.920 is a crisis. When's the last time you heard them even mention it? Because, because, you

00:39:36.800 know, in the United States, we could, from this point forward, create zero waste. If we could

00:39:44.680 find a way and maybe take all of our pollution, all of our waste, all of our litter, and just,

00:39:50.880 uh, launch it directly into the sun. And that's all we do from now on. So we, we are not contributing

00:39:55.140 to the problem at all. Even if we did that, that would have almost no effect whatsoever on

00:40:00.940 the overall problem. So if you actually want to do something about it, then you got to get,

00:40:05.640 you got to get Asia and Africa on board. And we got to start talking about the fact that

00:40:11.340 in a lot of those countries on those continents, people are just dumping waste, just mounds of

00:40:17.740 garbage, tons and tons of garbage every single day into the river, out to the ocean. But of

00:40:25.020 course we can't talk about that because that's racist. All right. One other thing here, uh,

00:40:28.540 Senator Cringe, Cory Booker put together perhaps one of the, one of the cringiest videos, uh,

00:40:33.400 ever produced by a politician. And I thought that we would just watch it together. Here it is.

00:40:36.940 Okay. They're running after each other and tackling each other. Really bad acting on display here.

00:41:03.060 Guys, reporters are calling. You're tackling each other in the Capitol.

00:41:05.880 We've been through this before. You have to stop tackling each other.

00:41:09.480 All right. Then we'll just tackle big egg consolidation.

00:41:13.900 Well, big egg consolidation is killing real America. We need to get to work and help the

00:41:19.080 cow-calf guys and the feeders and the consumers taking it at the meat counter too. That's why we

00:41:24.480 introduced a couple bills, Booker. We need to get these bills done.

00:41:27.480 We're going to get them done, ma'am. I appreciate you. You're a good guy.

00:41:30.240 Okay. Oh my gosh. It was worse than I thought. All right. We can stop that. We can turn that off.

00:41:41.340 You know, you can tell a lot about somebody from their sense of humor, I think, uh, because humor

00:41:46.140 is one of the most uniquely human things, right? And, uh, I think humor is also a really good test

00:41:50.540 of IQ. I think you don't even need all the complicated IQ tests. You could just, uh, someone

00:41:55.880 just list for me what you think the five funniest movies of all time are or something. And I could

00:41:59.660 already tell, I can get you, I can, I can peg your IQ within a five point range just based on that

00:42:05.420 alone. And so what does that tell us about Cory Booker? Let me keep that in mind. Well, that he's

00:42:11.900 very stupid and he's also barely human. Although I did appreciate this. So, uh, Cory Booker's fans,

00:42:17.900 he has fans, uh, they love this video. They thought it was very hilarious. And there was

00:42:23.120 this one tweet from someone who said, this is the funniest video you'll ever see about

00:42:27.460 antitrust legislation in the food and agriculture industries. And you know what? She's right. I mean,

00:42:34.860 I'll give, I'll give them that at least. It is definitely the funniest video I've ever seen

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00:43:42.780 Now let's get to our comment section.

00:43:57.660 Let's see. Noah quoting me, the latest celebrity trend is to have a non-binary kid. It's so transparent.

00:44:03.960 Even if he didn't mean for it to be, that was one of the best puns I've heard in a while.

00:44:09.020 I did. I want to claim credit for that. Okay. I did. That was 100% intentional. Okay. That was a pun

00:44:15.580 intended moment and I was pretty proud of it. But then I thought it would be more effective if I don't

00:44:20.240 stop and ask for acknowledgement with my transparent pun. But then after the fact, I thought, well,

00:44:26.460 I don't know. I think I played that too cool and people are going to think I did it by accident.

00:44:30.360 So now I'm circling back to say that yesterday, I meant to do that with the pun.

00:44:36.440 And now it's just, you don't even believe you think I'm taking credit for it after the fact.

00:44:39.480 And it's just really pathetic. And it's certainly not funny anymore because I'm explaining it a day

00:44:43.800 later, but still. Nate Soyboy says, I'll be glad when Matt finally comes out as trans because this

00:44:50.960 self-hate is sad and exhausting to watch. Well, your username, at least, I think is, there's some

00:44:56.100 accuracy there, Nate. So I appreciate that. I always find this interesting from the left when they do this

00:45:01.380 thing. You know, if you're talking about gender, you're talking about LGBT, anything like that,

00:45:08.400 they say, well, you're only doing that because you're really trans or you're actually gay. You're in the

00:45:12.560 closet. Well, sorry. Are you using those things as an insult? Maybe I am trans. Nate, what of it?

00:45:22.660 What's your point? You mean it as an insult then? That's the really interesting thing. The only

00:45:29.520 people anymore, really, who still use like trans and gay as an insult are actually, it's actually on

00:45:34.260 the left. They use it as an insult all the time. They use it in a pejorative way about their opponents.

00:45:39.780 You're only saying that because you're gay. You're trans. What exactly, Nate, are you trying

00:45:47.140 to imply? Are you saying it's a bad thing to identify that way? You know what? Yes, I am trans.

00:45:57.360 Fine. I'll go ahead. Yeah, I'm actually trans, which means that you can no longer criticize me.

00:46:02.260 And I have the, you know, moral authority to talk about these issues. We already know that I'm an

00:46:10.980 LGBT, bestselling LGBT children's author. I don't think I need to remind you of that. So I've got

00:46:15.480 all the points. Mike says, Matt, your Airbnb rant makes you sound like someone who still takes a cab

00:46:22.380 instead of Uber. Now that's, that's, that's, that's an entirely different thing. Okay. So Airbnb versus

00:46:28.920 hotels. And then you've got Uber versus cab. So the, the cab experience is certainly

00:46:36.900 worse than the Uber experience. And the Uber experience is often not that great,

00:46:43.560 but the cab industry somehow, and you could, you almost have to respect it. They just have refused

00:46:49.240 to update, improve anything at all. I mean, you still get in the cab, the cabs themselves look like

00:46:55.880 they're still from the nineties and it's still just reeks of BO. And whereas in, in Ubers,

00:47:01.460 it's only like 50% of the time do they reek of BO and just the whole experience is pretty miserable

00:47:05.680 and awful. And the cab is dirty and everything. They're not making any attempt at all to compete

00:47:09.620 with Uber. They're just good. They are sticking by their guns. You have to respect it. But, um,

00:47:14.740 but it is certainly a worse experience, but just because something is newer and has more technology

00:47:21.360 behind it doesn't automatically make it better because then you go to Airbnb versus hotels and

00:47:25.900 Airbnb is the newer thing, but the hotel experience is on average way better. I would say, um,

00:47:36.200 a McMahon says, I cannot believe the pure cowardice of this police officer who was giving orders. The

00:47:40.640 men under his command should have ignored him. Their jobs notwithstanding. Well, it's a tale as old

00:47:45.420 time, right? People using the, uh, I'm just following orders excuse. And we fight it here

00:47:49.780 again. Athena says, joining the Navy is my dream after high school, but after hearing that this is

00:47:54.800 starting to happen, I'm starting to become unsure. Yeah. I hear this from a lot of, a lot of younger

00:47:58.660 people who were thinking about joining the military and now aren't sure about it. Hear from a lot of

00:48:01.720 parents who, um, maybe would have loved the idea of their sons joining the military and now aren't

00:48:07.380 sure. That's how I feel about it. You know, I don't even like to, it feels bad to even say it out

00:48:14.840 loud, but, uh, but the truth is that, no, I don't want my sons to join the military as it stands right

00:48:20.600 now because for a number of reasons. And, but one of them is that now they're giving their lives

00:48:27.900 over to this and they're sacrificing their, you know, their liberty, their, their ability to, you

00:48:33.980 can't just leave because you feel like it. And so that means that they're going to be totally

00:48:37.800 vulnerable to all of this stuff, all the woke indoctrination and everything. Uh, they're signing up for

00:48:44.220 that and they don't have the ability to simply just leave. And then you add onto that, the people

00:48:52.580 that we often have running the country are going to take, you know, love to go on these adventures

00:48:56.760 overseas and send them off to fight wars that we have nothing to do with. So, um, yeah, at this point,

00:49:01.600 that's just the sad reality. Let's see. Uh, Dan says the cowardice is mostly the result of the

00:49:09.940 climate. The police have to work under the inhibitions and hesitancy are being ingrained

00:49:14.060 in an attempt to curtail abuse unsolvable situation. In my opinion, accepting, except adopting

00:49:20.080 self-defense culture and incorporate, um, knowledge and training in every possible way. Yeah. There's

00:49:25.680 a lot that goes into it, uh, with, with this, you know, what's, what's happening with, with police

00:49:30.500 and what happened in Uvalde. Um, and I hear a lot about the climate that police have to work

00:49:36.600 with and work in. And I have a lot of sympathy for that, but that sympathy, of course, dries up

00:49:43.200 when you try to use that as an excuse to sit safely in the hallway while, while 19 children

00:49:49.900 are executed because nothing could excuse that. And the anti-police climate and culture certainly

00:49:56.300 doesn't excuse that. In fact, it's quite the opposite. Now you're creating more of that.

00:50:00.700 You're making that climate, that culture even worse through your own actions.

00:50:04.120 Um, but overall we live in a, in, it's not just with police, but in general, we, we live

00:50:11.460 in a culture that, um, encourages cowardice and selfishness. You know, C.S. Lewis wrote

00:50:20.820 about this. Um, we make men without chess and expect of them virtue and sacrifice. And that's

00:50:28.080 what we're doing in our culture now. We breed cowardice and self-centeredness, narcissism,

00:50:34.120 on purpose. And then we're shocked when we see, as Lewis wrote, cowards in our midst.

00:50:40.560 Um, and April says, it's a mixed bag either way, Airbnb or hotels. Ask someone working at a hotel,

00:50:47.540 how clean everything is. Doubt you like the answer, Matt. No, I'm not going to ask that.

00:50:51.320 That is a question I will not ask. And I don't want to know because ignorance is bliss, April.

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00:52:30.660 Today, it's my great pleasure to cancel, maybe not for the first time, the TSA. As you know,

00:52:36.060 the so-called Transportation Security Administration was invented in 2001 by George W. Bush who responded

00:52:40.820 to 9-11 by creating dozens of useless government agencies and launching two wars on the other side of

00:52:45.660 the world. 9-11 was itself in large part a failure of government. 19 guys from the Middle East slowly

00:52:52.340 but surely worked on their plan to stage the worst attack on American soil in our history. They planned

00:52:57.180 and trained for it in our own country, and none of our intelligence or law enforcement agencies did a

00:53:01.880 thing to stop it. And they all knew that some kind of big attack was coming, but there was no competent

00:53:08.020 or organized effort to figure out what it would be or to prevent it. The attack was entirely preventable

00:53:13.620 by the agencies that already existed and through the security processes that were already in place,

00:53:18.700 but all of them failed, and they failed spectacularly. They failed in every possible way.

00:53:25.300 And as punishment for the government's failure, it only grew larger, gave itself more money,

00:53:31.400 granted itself more power. If a dozen government agencies failed to stop 9-11, the thinking went,

00:53:36.940 well, let's just form a dozen more while doing absolutely nothing at all to fix the problems in

00:53:41.420 the first dozen. And if the security screenings we already had in place didn't work, let's just

00:53:46.900 make the security process more complicated and extravagant and inconvenient, while doing absolutely

00:53:52.080 nothing at all to address the reasons for its failure in the first place. This is the way the

00:53:56.760 government operates, and that is why the TSA was created. The agency now has some 47,000 employees

00:54:03.320 stretched out across all 50 states. In the latest federal budget, it was awarded $10 billion.

00:54:08.160 And this is a $1.4 billion increase over the previous year. Overall, over the past 20 years,

00:54:15.240 the TSA has used up about $140 billion of taxpayer money. And that's to say nothing of all the many

00:54:21.740 billions of hours of lost productivity the TSA has eaten up while we're all standing around in line

00:54:27.340 doing the security theater hokey pokey while being sexually molested by overweight rent-a-cops.

00:54:32.560 But look on the bright side. This whole charade might be grotesquely wasteful and pointless and

00:54:38.320 gratuitous, and it might be a blatant infringement on your constitutional rights for agents of the

00:54:42.300 state to treat you like a suspected terrorist just because you want to board an airplane.

00:54:46.080 But at least they're keeping us safe. That is, they're keeping us safe from liquids, gels, and

00:54:51.160 aerosols, which is essentially all the TSA actually does now. They build giant collections of

00:54:57.580 confiscated lotion, bottled water, and tubes of toothpaste. They can't explain why they're

00:55:02.880 confiscating these items. They can't tell you exactly what risk is posed by a can of deodorant

00:55:07.880 that exceeds the arbitrary cutoff of 3.4 ounces. But whatever the threat is, we're being saved from

00:55:13.500 it. And the TSA, they're quite proud of this. Yesterday, Lisa Farbstein, who is the TSA spokeswoman

00:55:19.080 and somehow has the perfect name for a TSA spokeswoman, gleefully bragged on Twitter about all

00:55:23.840 the oversized gels and lotions the TSA had confiscated at just one airport in Syracuse over

00:55:29.240 a three-day span. Here's her tweet. She said, along with a picture of their winnings,

00:55:35.500 display of oversized liquids, gels, and aerosols that travelers had in their carry-on bags at the

00:55:39.820 Syracuse airport, TSA checkpoint in a three-day span. The limit for liquids through a checkpoint is

00:55:44.680 3.4 ounces. Now, as you can see there, our protectors of the TSA heroically saved us from

00:55:50.960 countless bottles of Deer Park water, several containers of Vaseline, a collection of toothpaste

00:55:56.820 tubes, four or five snow globes somehow, and even one jar of chunky peanut butter.

00:56:02.500 That last one may have been a terrorist planning a mass attack against people with peanut allergies.

00:56:07.800 You never know. And hopefully the peanut butter bandit was detained by the TSA and then shipped

00:56:12.840 down to Gitmo for interrogation. We can only hope. All in all, I think we can agree that this hall

00:56:17.620 is certainly worth $140 billion. Now, I said before that nobody can explain why these items

00:56:23.740 aren't allowed through security. It's true that nobody at the TSA can explain it, but there is a

00:56:29.320 reason, ostensibly. The real reason why we spend billions of dollars and billions of hours collecting

00:56:35.000 and throwing away bottles of water and jars of Vaseline is that in 2006, a suspected terrorist in

00:56:40.860 Britain named Abdullah Ahmed Ali was caught on surveillance cameras drilling a hole into a

00:56:47.320 bottle of water, which he potentially intended to fill with explosive liquid and then potentially

00:56:52.080 wanted to detonate on a plane. And he was arrested before the plan could be taken into action,

00:56:57.220 and so nothing actually happened. But that's the reason why you can't take your Dasani through

00:57:02.680 security. It's because one suspected terrorist in another country 15 years ago drilled a hole into a

00:57:09.360 water bottle. Same thing with shoes, by the way. Like, one guy years and years ago got onto a plane

00:57:18.660 with a bomb in his shoe, and it didn't detonate, and so everyone has to take their shoes off now

00:57:25.400 forever. By the way, the TSA screening, the security screening, failed in that case.

00:57:33.500 Now, they didn't even stop it. Now, of course, if somebody did have an explosive bottle of Aquafina

00:57:38.640 or an explosive shoe and they wanted to kill a bunch of people with it, they could still walk

00:57:42.980 into any crowded area and accomplish that task. In fact, they could walk right into the crowded line

00:57:49.440 at security and do it. Because conveniently for the terrorists, we're bunching everyone together

00:57:55.400 in this one chokehold, this one choke point, rather. And it is kind of a chokehold sometimes.

00:58:01.500 We're putting everybody there and creating a perfect opportunity for terrorists if they wanted to

00:58:05.100 take advantage of it. But we're spending $140 billion to make sure that they at least can't do

00:58:10.540 it on planes. Well, actually, they can still do it on planes because as an investigation in 2017

00:58:16.140 revealed, and investigations before that and after that have had the same result, TSA screenings have

00:58:21.820 a failure rate of over 50%. 47,000 employees, tens of billions of dollars spent. And still,

00:58:30.480 these glorified mall cops fail more than half of their inspections. And this leads to another

00:58:36.840 question. How many terrorist attacks has the TSA actually prevented? Yes, they're wasting

00:58:44.140 extraordinary amounts of time and money. Yes, they're giving you, they got you playing Simon Says

00:58:49.020 while they bark orders at you. And they have you strip off random items of clothing for no reason.

00:58:54.180 Yes, this is all humiliating and seemingly pointless and intrusive. But perhaps it's worth it if they're

00:58:59.300 actually preventing terrorist attacks. Who knows how many people are alive today because of the

00:59:03.960 efforts of the TSA? However half-assed those efforts might be. Well, we do know actually. We know that

00:59:11.020 the TSA has prevented precisely zero terror attacks. Zero. Over 20 years in, and there is no evidence that

00:59:19.680 the TSA has ever stopped even one terror attack from taking place. They have not caught one terrorist

00:59:26.580 in 20 years in 20 years. Not one. 700 million people board flights in America each year. That's 14

00:59:33.440 billion over the past 20 years. The TSA has therefore screened 14 billion people. Not one of them was a

00:59:42.020 terrorist. O for 14 billion. So to review, the TSA is bad at its job, wasteful, incompetent. There's no

00:59:52.700 evidence that it has ever accomplished the one single thing it was formed in order to accomplish.

00:59:58.340 And for all that, it got a 1.4 billion dollar raise this year. It's quite infuriating when you think

01:00:04.940 about it. But hey, at least they got that jar of crunchy peanut butter before somebody really got hurt.

01:00:10.680 And that guy should be eating creamy peanut butter anyway. What kind of freak eats crunchy peanut butter?

01:00:14.200 Still, we must say, the TSA and crunchy peanut butter are both canceled. And we'll leave it there

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Ep. 978 - Leftist Elites Want You To Stop Complaining About Our Economic Collapse

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