Ep. 1865 - Why Do We Keep Importing Migrants To Murder Us?
An Afghani "refugee" shoots two National Guardsmen in D.C., a lib congressman says white supremacists should be deported, and President Trump calls Tim Walz retarded.
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The tragic shooting of two National Guardsmen, a Somali terror funding fraud scandal by an allegedly retarded governor, and Democrat tears over the deaths of narco-terrorists have combined over Thanksgiving weekend to make Americans reconsider mass migration and who we want to be.
Are we the nation of the Muslim pirate ship?
Are we the nation of the Venezuelan drug boat?
Or are we still the nation of the Mayflower?
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Welcome back to the show.
Wonderful to be back with all of you.
I hope you all had a very good Thanksgiving.
So much to catch up on.
I'll try to speak at a much faster pace today.
Maybe I'll try to channel a Shapiro-esque pace today.
There was a very prominent liberal commentator, Wajihat Ali, who went on this terribly anti-white diatribe about mass migration.
And his parents are from Pakistan.
And he accidentally, I think, kind of proved a lot of the immigration restrictionists' arguments.
So we'll get to that momentarily first, though.
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Biggest story, brutal, brutal start to Thanksgiving.
The day before Thanksgiving, an Afghan refugee, so-called an Afghan who was brought into the United States under Joe Biden's disastrous immigration policy, specifically from Afghanistan to cover up for his particularly disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
An Afghan murdered two National Guardsmen, not just two National Guardsmen, a National Guardsman and a National Guardswoman, and a young woman in particular, Sarah Beckstrom, just 20 years old, 20 years old, signs up to support her country, defend her country, is stationed in Washington, D.C. because Democrat cities have allowed the political order to get so dangerous, so out of control, that the National Guard has had to be called in.
And this Afghan now proving the point, she was shot.
She ended up dying.
Andrew Wolf, last I checked, is in critical condition, but he was shot multiple times.
24-year-old guy shot by some guy named Ramallah Lakalakalaka, whatever.
I'm not going to say his full name.
I don't know that I could actually pronounce his full name.
He was shot four times after he shot the guardsman.
Sadly enough, he's still alive.
He's 29 years old.
He's not cooperating with authorities.
He came to the U.S. in September of 2021 under a program for Afghans called Operation Allies Welcome.
These are our allies.
These are the allies that Biden brought in.
The allies, the oppressed, the refugees, our strength, isn't that what we're supposed to call this?
It's our strength.
Diversity, of course, is our strength.
So Biden imports our strength and all the cultural enrichment from the narco-states and the terrorist hellholes, and he brings in our allies who are welcome.
And what do they do?
They kill young Americans the day before Thanksgiving.
According to the Congressional Research Service, 77,000 Afghans entered the U.S. under this Joe Biden program, which was in place for a year after U.S. withdrawal.
And this guy who shot the guardsmen is not the sole case here of these Afghans committing crimes or even attempting to kill people and commit terror actions.
There are a litany of examples of this, which we'll get to in a moment.
Why was the guy let in in the first place?
Apparently he worked with the CIA in Afghanistan.
And a lot of these guys, they maybe helped out the U.S. in some way during our 20-year occupation of Afghanistan.
And then we say, okay, we're going to let them all in.
And they've all been properly vetted, supposedly.
Not only did Democrats immediately respond by defending the Biden-era program, by defending the indefensible, MSNBC yet again responded to this tragic murder by immediately, as it was happening, by attempting to justify it.
But of course, you know, there's so much controversy happening in the United States right now with ICE who are also wearing uniforms and wearing masks.
And so there's, you don't know people walking around with uniforms in an American city.
There are some Americans that might object to that.
And so apparently this shooting has happened.
There are people, so report.
At least one National Guardsman shot.
Let's bring up the clip again.
Where is that?
Secret Service.
At least one National Guardsman shot in DC and ended up being torn.
As this is happening, the MSNBC, now they call it MSNOW because MSNBC's brand was so toxic, I guess they had to rebrand.
But it's MSNBC, says, well, people are walking around in uniforms and, you know, some people object to that.
So anyway, this has happened.
If you're having deja vu, this is because this is exactly the way that MSNBC responded when Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
As the scene was unfolding, right after Charlie had been shot by a deranged leftist, MSNBC responded.
It was Matthew Dowd, a Democrat analyst on MSNBC, said, well, you know, this is what happens when you spread hate.
Hate breeds more hate, doesn't it?
Charlie was asking for it is basically what he was saying.
It was so heinous then.
There was actually some public backlash, and yet MSNBC learns nothing.
A National Guardsman shot by an Afghan terrorist.
And MSNBC says, well, you know, that's what those National Guardsmen get for wearing their uniforms on the street.
What are National Guardsmen doing in the nation's capital?
I mean, what are they even doing?
They don't belong there.
They're the National Guard.
Why would they be in the nation's capital?
I mean, that's what happens when you have law enforcement, when you have military personnel in a country.
You know, it's like if they didn't want to get shot, they probably shouldn't have served in the military.
They probably shouldn't serve in law enforcement.
That's what MSNBC is arguing.
That's where the Democrats are at on this.
So MSNBC quickly moves to justify it.
We then get, thanks to PBS, an actual earnest instantiation on one of the funnier Norm McDonald bits.
Norm, being the greatest comedian probably ever, but certainly of any of our lifetimes, Norm McDonald had a zillion funny bits, but one of them was, he had this long bit, he said, my greatest fear is that a Muslim terrorist would get hold of a dirty bomb detonated over a major city, killing tens of millions of people, because then the backlash against peaceful Muslims would be terrible.
And his guest on his show, she couldn't laugh at it.
She couldn't bring herself.
She had to take it earnestly.
Well, PBS, just doing the bit.
This is an actual headline, November 28th, right after two National Guardsmen shot.
One is killed.
The other might die by an Afghan terrorist.
Refugee groups worry about backlash after National Guard shooting.
That's really interesting.
Refugee groups worry about backlash against Muslim migrants.
I am more worried about the Americans that these supposed refugees are murdering.
So I guess we're different.
I guess that makes us different.
The refugee groups, the open borders groups, the pro-Muslim groups, those groups are really concerned.
The second that a 20-year-old woman who serves in the National Guard is murdered by an Afghan Muslim terrorist the day before Thanksgiving, their first thought is, gosh, the backlash against Afghanis is going to be terrible.
But I guess my concern, I guess we're different because my concern is for the Americans that the so-called refugees are murdering.
So that makes us different.
And we have different priorities.
And I guess that makes us different from PBS.
I guess that makes us different from MSNBC.
I guess that just makes us pretty different.
What the liberal media, I mean, these are two indefensible reactions.
Yeah, the guardsmen were asking, the young National Guardswoman was asking for it because she wore a uniform.
Or, well, the only thing that matters is the refugees.
All that matters are the Afghan Muslim terrorists.
Americans have no rights whatsoever, and they don't have any right or privilege to be protected in their own country.
Those reactions are totally indefensible.
The next reaction that you're going to hear, the most reasonable reaction you're going to hear from the left, is that this sort of thing just happens every once in a while.
It's a needle in a haystack.
Nobody could have possibly seen it coming.
No one could have known.
Yes, bad things happen, but come on, these refugees, they were vetted.
They're peaceful.
This sort of thing doesn't happen.
Come on.
Who could have called it?
Mr. Vice President, I'm not speaking to, I don't have JD Vance on the line right now.
In fact, I'm pulling up a clip of JD Vance from about 11 months ago.
Here's JD Vance in January of this year.
Mr. Vice President, could you predict it?
When you talked to us in August, you said, I don't think we should abandon anybody who's been properly vetted and helped us.
Do you stand by that?
Well, Margaret, I don't agree that all these immigrants or all these refugees have been properly vetted.
In fact, we know that there are cases of people who allegedly were properly vetted, and then were literally planning terrorist attacks on our country.
That happened during the campaign, if you may remember.
So clearly not all of these foreign nationalists.
But there are 30,000 people in the pipeline, Afghan refugees.
But my primary concern as the vice president, Margaret, is to look after the American people.
And now that we know that we have vetting problems with a lot of these refugee programs, we absolutely cannot unleash thousands of unvetted people into our country.
These people are vetted.
These people are vetted.
Just like the guy who planned a terrorist attack in Oklahoma a few months ago, he was allegedly properly vetted.
And many people in the media and the Democratic Party said that he was properly vetted.
Clearly he wasn't.
I don't want my children to share a neighborhood with people who are not properly vetted.
And because I don't want it for my kids, I'm not going to force any other American citizens' kids to do that either.
No, and that was a very particular case.
It wasn't clear if he was radicalized when he got here or while he was living.
I don't really care, Margaret.
I don't want that person in my country.
And I think most Americans agree with me.
I don't really care, Margaret.
That clip, that exchange, which took place almost a year ago, went viral because of that line, because of, was it Margaret Brennan, whoever the interviewer is, her reaction to say, well, look, that was one particular, okay, so like one of these Afghanis that we were told was properly vetted by Joe Biden.
Yeah, okay, he tried to do a terrorist attack, but that was a very particular case.
And he might have been radicalized when he got here by all of that Wahhabism in America or whatever.
Raises another question of how he could be radicalized when he got here, but that's a topic for another time.
And maybe that was, you know, I mean, come on.
I mean, but, And JD Vance cuts her off and says, yeah, I don't care.
I don't really care, Margaret.
I don't want these people here.
And this brings us to the central issue.
I don't really care, Margaret.
I don't want these people here.
If there is even a very, very minor chance that one or several of the Afghanis that we are importing on en masse, obviously without proper vetting, is going to kill Americans or rape Americans or rob Americans.
We can get to those examples in a little bit.
If there is even a small chance that that's going to happen, I don't want them here.
Why are we bringing them here?
What's the point?
JD Vance puts it very well.
He says, yeah, Margaret, you might be right that most of the Afghanis aren't going to commit terror attacks.
I hope most of them aren't going to come.
I hope that most of them don't go around raping and murdering people.
I hope that's true.
But if even some of them do that, I don't want them here because my responsibility is to protect the American people, not to import Afghanis en masse.
Nothing against Afghanistan.
I mean, I guess something against Afghanis, but nothing against Afghanis in general, but I'm the vice president of the United States.
I have a responsibility to the American people.
Clearly, the liberal media feel no such responsibility.
And you see this antagonism to the United States, to the native population of the United States being expressed more and more and more.
Crazy statements from a Democrat member of Congress and from a prominent liberal commentator.
We'll get to that in one second.
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The reactions from the left were mixed.
There were two in particular that went viral.
And they're really beautiful, beautiful reactions because they think they're pushing back hard against the right.
They think that they're, I don't know what they're, they think they're defending open borders or something like that.
But these two people, Jasmine Crockett, member of Congress, and Wajahat Ali, who's some talking head, both of them accidentally grant the premise of the people who want to restrict immigration.
Jasmine Crockett's claim is that Trump should not be deporting the Afghanis or whatever.
Jasmine Crockett's claim that Trump should not be deporting any of the mass deportees.
He should instead be deporting white supremacists.
But obviously, in Trump's America, this is exactly what he wants.
And the idea that one person can get out of line and commit such a horrific crime as shooting two of our National Guardsmen, two National Guardsmen that never ever asked to be here.
In fact, we know the young lady that lost her life specifically.
We're saying that this is a waste of time, but now you want to go against every single immigrant.
That doesn't make sense.
And it's frankly not who we are.
Because if that's the case, let's talk about the white supremacists and how many of them need to be kicked out of this country because I can guarantee you I can track down more crimes that they've committed because overall, immigrants have a lower crime committal rate than white supremacists.
But we don't want to talk about that in this country.
I mean, the F. Few points, just on the particulars.
One, all illegal immigrants commit a crime.
That's why we call them illegal immigrants.
They break the law by the very act that defines them as illegal immigrants, first of all.
They often commit many more crimes on top of that.
Identity theraft by stealing social security numbers.
Sometimes they're repeat offenders, which raises the illegal crossings to a felony.
Often, almost always, they're working with criminal cartels who are narco-terror groups, foreign terrorist organizations.
Often they're involved in drugs, drug smuggling, with fentanyl alone kills 75,000 Americans a year, human trafficking.
The list goes on and on and on.
However, let's just focus on the white supremacist thing because you hear this claim a lot.
White supremacists commit more violent crime than anyone else in America.
It isn't true.
It's not even close to true if you look at crime statistics by race or gang affiliation or motivation or whatever.
It's not even close, not even close.
In as much as actual skinhead neo-Nazi white supremacists commit crimes, they kill each other over gang territory and drugs.
And most of it's from prison.
Okay.
This is an imaginary thing.
But we don't even need to get into that.
We don't have enough time.
There's a lot to cover today.
Maybe we'll save that story for another day because the real key to Jasmine Crockett's commentary here is she is granting the premise of deportations.
Right.
So Jasmine Crockett here says, Trump shouldn't be deporting the illegal aliens from Venezuela or from Afghanistan or whatever.
You know, he shouldn't be deporting these people.
He should be deporting white supremacists.
Okay.
So we've granted the premise now.
I just want everyone to hear this.
Jasmine Crockett is granting the premise of deporting some people who are a threat to our country, who should not be here.
Having granted the premise of mass deportations, now we are only arguing about the particulars.
Whom does it make more sense to deport?
The so-called white supremacists who are by and large American citizens, who are the ones who are actually criminals, are all in prison already?
Them, this vanishingly small number of American citizens who basically just kill each other, who are already in prison, or the tens of millions of foreign nationals who have no right to be here, who are by their very existence in the country, constantly committing crimes and who are also generally working with foreign terrorist organizations.
Should we deport them?
Or should we, let's put aside the illegal immigrants for a second.
How about the so-called refugees who are here from terrorist-laden countries, from totally foreign cultures, from totally foreign religions who are here committing terrorist attacks?
Maybe we should get rid of them.
Which of those three do you think it makes the most sense to deport?
Because Jasmine Crockett has given us permission to deport some people.
So now we're just quibbling over the details.
It's like that old joke, you know, like a guy walks up to a lady and says, hey, would you sleep with me for $1?
She says, absolutely not.
I'm not that kind of woman.
Okay.
Would you sleep with me for $100?
Absolutely not.
I'm not that kind of woman.
All right.
Would you sleep with me for $10 million?
Well, I mean, maybe.
Okay.
Would you sleep with me for $200?
Absolutely not.
I'm that.
Well, hold on.
We've established what kind of woman you are.
Now we're just arguing over the details.
Now we're just quibbling over.
We have established.
Okay, deportations are okay.
Great.
I love that clip from Jasmine Crockett.
Wonderful.
We all agree we can deport some people en masse.
Now, who's it going to be?
Wajahat Ali, who's a talking head on the left, he went even more viral for a response to the reaction to the murder of these National Guardsmen.
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Wajahat Ali responding to Americans who are rightly quite concerned that the people that we import into this country from foreign places keep murdering us.
Here's Wajahat Ali's brilliant liberal commentary.
You have lost.
You lost.
The mistake that you made is you let us in in the first place.
See, that's the thing with brown people.
And I'm going to say this as a brown person.
There's a lot of us, like a lot.
There's like 1.2 billion in India.
There's more than 200 million in Pakistan.
There's like 170 million in Bangladesh.
Those are just the people there.
I'm even talking about the folks who are expats or immigrants.
There's a bunch of us.
And we breed.
We're a breeding people.
And the problem is, you let us in in 1965.
There was a few, there were a few of us beforehand, but once you let one of us in, you know what happens with brown folks?
Some white women, you know, the Western civilization women, the pure women, the American women, quote unquote, the Rust Butt women, the real women, they like some of us brown folks.
We don't take them.
They come to us.
So we're embedded.
We are everywhere.
We are everywhere.
I've traveled this country.
I'm going to speak as a brown person.
Brown people are everywhere.
There will be a Patel Motel or there will be a Daisy restaurant everywhere.
I want you to realize this.
You have lost.
Your story is a shitty story filled with misery.
It's filled with bland chicken.
It's filled with terrible, terrible, dry-ass meat.
Your music sucks.
All your culture sucks.
Nobody, that's why the kids like listen to black people and their music.
That's why the kids love Latinos.
Your parties suck because they're monochromatic.
Our parties have better food, better music, better looking women.
And yet you all come here.
I can't help but notice in this terribly vicious diatribe by Wajahat Ali against white people and America, you know, the kind of founding stock of America generally.
I can't help but notice in this vicious about why he hates every single thing about us and our country and our culture.
I can't help but notice his parents came here.
And in fact, his whole argument is that all these other people are coming here as well.
Wajahat Ali is a perfect example of the problems of immigration.
I love this diatribe.
It's a beautiful diatribe because on the one hand, Wajihat Ali, he does this.
I'm a brown person and my parents are from Pakistan and I'm a brown.
Okay.
But on the one hand, in many ways, Wajihat Ali is the perfect American lib, par excellence.
This is a guy who was born here.
He was born in California.
He graduated from UC Berkeley.
He bloviates in a bunch of frivolous left-wing outlets.
He dresses like a slob.
He is a perfectly assimilated American lib.
And yet, he expresses a deep hostility toward the native population of the country to which his parents fled from Pakistan.
And it's not just a hostility in the general sense.
It's a deeply tribal hostility.
It's a hostility that comes from his race and his nation of origin, you know, homeland, I guess, you know, a generation back, and culture.
And what this suggests to me is that even in the best of circumstances, heritage is a part of identity that is enduring, that is complex, that is enduring, and that cannot simply be waved away by passing a multiple choice civics exam.
You know, we have this fiction, as he even grants, he says, look, all of this mass migration, it started in 1965.
I know we all pretend like America's a country of immigrants.
It was all founded by immigrants.
It was all just immigrants all the way down, but that's not really true.
It really just started in 1965 when the liberals opened up our immigration process and flooded the country with the third world.
And everything's basically gotten worse ever since.
But, you know, it's not only because of the immigrants, but it's both a symptom and a cause of many problems.
And anyway, here we are now, and that's how it goes.
even under the best of circumstances, where you have a guy like Wajihad Ali, who is as assimilated to American liberal culture as it is possible to be, went to one of the exemplars of American liberal institutions.
And even there, he has this deep tribal identity.
Me, Pakistani, me hate you, white honky American.
That sounds like a complete knuckle-dragging troglodyte, doesn't he?
But with a kind of liberal twist to it.
And what does this tell us?
It tells us that the ancients and the medievals and basically everyone before the 1960s was right about immigration.
Our founding fathers, who severely restricted immigration.
Everyone is right about immigration until us.
St. Thomas Aquinas in particular comes to mind.
I'll just get just a little bit from St., you know, it wouldn't be an episode of the show without a little Thomas Aquinas.
This is from Summa Theologiae Primus Ecunde, question 105, Article 3.
Man's relations with foreigners are twofold, peaceful and hostile.
And in directing both kinds of relation, the law contained suitable precepts.
For the Jews were offered three opportunities of peaceful relations with foreigners.
First, when foreigners passed through their lands as travelers.
Secondly, when they came to dwell in their land as newcomers.
And in both these respects, the law made kind provision in its precepts for it is written, thou shalt not molest a stranger, and again, thou shalt not molest a stranger.
Exodus 22, 21 and Exodus 22, 9.
That's the one we always hear.
Well, you were strangers in the land of Egypt, and therefore you must not, this is all obviously true.
It's from the Bible, but it's taken and twisted and exploited by liberals to justify open borders.
Okay.
St. Thomas Aquinas goes on.
Thirdly, when any foreigners wished to be admitted entirely to their fellowship, speaking of the Jews and mode of worship, with regard to these, a certain order was observed, for they were not at once admitted to citizenship, just as it was law with some nations that no one was deemed a citizen except after two or three generations, as the philosopher Aristotle says.
The reason for this was that if foreigners were allowed to meddle with the affairs of a nation as soon as they settled down in its midst, many dangers might occur, since the foreigners not yet having the common good firmly at heart might attempt something hurtful to the people.
So put a pause here.
St. Thomas Aquinas is saying, look, here is how the Jews handled immigration in the Old Testament, because the Old Testament prefigures Christ.
The Jews as a people are a particular people that is the type of all nations because God, who is the God of everything, is a God who also cares very much about the particulars, so much so that his only begotten son, only begotten son, is particularly incarnate in a particular place and particular time to a particular woman and is crucified by a particular governor, Pontius Pilate.
And it's all particular.
He picks particular apostles and a particular church he founds in order to spread from the particular to the universal.
So St. Thomas Aquinas says, okay, the Jews, being a particular people who are the type of all nations, they didn't just like open up all their borders.
They would sometimes admit people.
It's not that immigration and assimilation is always wrong.
Look at Ruth.
Ruth was a Moabite who was brought in and said, your people will be my people and your God will be my God.
She was brought in to the Jews, and she's in actually the lineage of our Lord, of Christ.
However, the Jews were pretty careful about it.
So he says, okay, and then he doesn't just cite the Jews in the Old Testament.
He also cites Aristotle, wisdom also from Greece.
And he says, you know, you don't make them citizens all at once because it takes some time.
It's not that you say, all right, you have to have a certain amount of a certain kind of blood in you or else you're not allowed into the nation.
It's not quite that.
But it says you need a little bit of time.
You can't just come here and, as we pretend today, you know, pass a civics exam, like a, you know, five-question civics test, and then we pretend you're as American as apple pie.
That's not how it works.
That is not how it works.
Final point.
It says, hence it was that the law prescribed in respect of certain nations that had close relations with the Jews, the Egyptians among whom they were born and educated, the Idumians, the children of Esau, Jacob's brother, that they should be admitted to the fellowship of the people after the third generation, whereas others with whom their relations had been hostile, such as Ammonites and Moabites, were never to be admitted to citizenship, while the Amalekites, who were yet more hostile to them and had no fellowship of kindred with them, were to be held as foes in perpetuity,
for it is written, the war of the Lord shall be against Amalek from generation to generation.
Wow.
Man, Thomas Aquinas, as always, just like right about everything.
He says, it's not that you should never take immigrants in, but when you take immigrants in, you should do so very, very carefully.
And you probably shouldn't grant them citizenship right away.
You should wait maybe a generation, maybe two generations, maybe three generations, because it takes a while to be enculturated in all of the not totally rational, not totally articulable aspects of a political tradition.
You know, to understand what fireworks and hot dogs on the 4th of July are, to have a little bit of the George M. Cohan songs in your blood, to have your heart swell a little bit when you hear about George Washington and Paul Revere.
It just takes a little while.
You got to get it a little more in your bones.
It's not just something you inject into your head or upload to the cloud.
He says, certain people, by the way, are more suitable for immigration.
So immigrants from England, I mean, America comes from England.
So English immigrants are probably going to be a little bit easier to assimilate.
Immigrants from Germany, a little less so, but there's a shared cultural patrimony.
Let's not forget that the kings of England and Germany and even Russia were all cousins, right, in the First World War.
So Germany, yeah, you can bring in the Germans, a little tougher than the English, but you can do it.
The Italians, a racially liminal people, you know, a little bit North African, a little Terroni.
That's actually going to be a lot harder than assimilating the English and the Germans.
But yeah, maybe you can do it.
Obviously, there's a shared cultural patrimony.
I mean, Rome, after all, is in Italy.
How about Eritrea?
How about Pakistan?
Let's really come down to the brass tax.
How about Somalia?
That's going to be a lot harder.
I'm not saying it can't be done.
I'm not saying that the Somalians are the Amalekites, that we're forever, you know, embattled with these people.
But what I am saying is it's going to be a lot harder to assimilate them.
It's going to be a lot harder to meaningfully make them American than it would be for an Italian or a German or especially an Englishman.
And so then this raises the question.
I think this was the question on a lot of people's minds, especially as we found out that Governor Tim Walz, the man who was the running mate with Kamala Harris, almost one heartbeat away from becoming the second woman president, Tim Walz was caught in a massive fraud scandal where taxpayer dollars from Minnesota were going to Somali schemes who were sending it to a terror group in Somalia.
Raised a lot of questions to people about immigration, which is not just who do we have to let in?
Who do we, who are we, who, through what procedures do we have to let these people in?
It raised a question, which is, what do these people add to America?
Why are we letting them in in the first place?
We'll get to that in one second first.
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My favorite comment on, when was this?
Was a zillion years ago.
This was right before we left before Thanksgiving.
It's from Fufu Cuddlypoo PS85.
It says, Michael was feeling a little extra unhinged today with that Scott Besson impression.
I love Scott Besson.
The guy is terrific.
I really, I think he's just an absolute killer, so smart and a killer in the admin.
And I love the idea of Scott Besson.
He's just running intellectual circles around all of his liberal interlocutors.
Okay, turning to Somalis.
We're running out of time, so I'm going to try to move quick on this.
This short, the TLDR, President Trump called Governor Tim Walz a retard.
He actually called him seriously retarded in a Tolstoyan length truth social post for Thanksgiving.
I'll skim it.
A very happy Thanksgiving salutation to all our great American citizens and patriots who have been so nice in allowing our country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at, along with certain other foolish countries throughout the world for being politically correct and just plain stupid when it comes to immigration.
Goes on about the insane foreign-born population, 53 million people, all of the yearly benefits that they're getting, all the welfare benefits that we're told the migrants don't really get, all the, how recent all this problem was.
And then he says, the seriously retarded governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing either through fear, incompetence, or both, while the worst Congressman or woman in our country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the USA illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our country, our constitution, how badly she is treated when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime-ridden nation, which is essentially not even a country for lack of government.
It goes on.
We don't have time.
We got to get to it.
Is Trump allowed to call Tim Walz retarded?
That's the question.
That's what people are debating.
I'll tell you something.
In public, sometimes people's private speech is a little saltier than their public speech.
And I think that's good.
It's good to have more decorum in public.
It's good always to speak in a moral way.
But in terms of the particulars of terrorists colloquial phrase, it's good to maybe have more decorum in public than in private.
One of the real popular things about President Trump, though, is he is, by all accounts, the exact same guy in public as he is in private.
And at a time when our political order is so dishonest, when people are not merely a little more polite in public, a little more refined in public, but when people are actually hypocrites, when people say one thing and do the exact opposite in private, in that kind of political order, it's quite refreshing.
Trump's the same guy.
He wears the same suit with the same tie.
He speaks with the same accent.
He says exactly the same things in every circumstance to every group of people.
He doesn't pander to anyone.
He is exactly the same guy with every single person.
He makes Muslim jokes on Truth Social about Elhan Omar.
He makes Muslim jokes to the al-Qaeda leader of Syria to his face.
Hey, I got some perfume for your wife.
How many wives you got?
I never know with you people.
You people, you know, you guys.
He's the same guy.
So the question is, is he allowed to use the word retard?
Because I think in public, you know, people generally don't use that word.
Why?
Well, not because it isn't like funny or not because it's like the worst word you could possibly use, but because we all, I actually can't say that we all know retarded people because abortion has killed so many retarded people.
It used to be that we all knew retarded people and we love retarded people.
And people, there are varying degrees of mental retardation and many people have mentally retarded people in their families.
And so we don't want to be offensive, needlessly offensive to people.
However, however, I can't help but notice that it's many people on the right who are willing to say the word retard or retarded in a pejorative, vulgar sense.
And the people on the left, they won't do that.
The people on the left, however, will openly advocate and actually carry out the murder of every retarded person in the country.
Whereas the people on the right feel moral horror at even contemplating that thing.
A buddy of mine has put it pretty succinctly.
Yeah, I'm willing to say retarded, but at least I don't want to kill them.
I think that's a pretty fair assessment.
And so beyond whether or not Trump's allowed to say retarded, let's get to the real political point here.
You realize why he said retarded, right?
You realize why Trump called Tim Walz retarded?
Because Trump has poetic diction.
He has an extremely good grasp on language.
I've said this since 2016, since he used the phrase make America great again, which is a beautiful Saxon, evocative, poetic phrase.
He like actually in many ways does have the best words in our political environment.
And like, sorry if you disagree, but it's why he is the biggest political success ever of any of our lifetimes.
So the word retarded here serves a similar poetic and rhetorical function.
Retard is the bait.
Retard is the bait in this Truth Social post.
Okay.
And then the switch.
Here's the bait.
The switch is now we're all talking about Somalian immigrants.
If he just said, what happened under Governor Walls' administration is completely reckless and irresponsible.
And the welfare fraud that took place because of the refugees from Somalia is just wrong.
Sorry, was anybody talking about anything at all?
I'm sorry.
Hold on.
Let me try that again.
Hey, Tim Walz is a big, fat, stupid retard.
You see what he did with those Somalians?
Which one are you more likely to pay attention to?
So people can quibble over his public use of the word retarded.
But now, note, we're not talking about, I kind of, in many ways, I wish we were talking about retarded people and why we shouldn't kill them through abortion, which is actually the chief political relevance of that word.
But maybe that's a conversation for another time.
At the very least, we're talking about the massive immigration fraud scandal, specifically regarding Somalis in Minnesota.
So what is the scandal?
What is the scandal?
The scandal is that Tim Walz, under his leadership, allowed Somalis to defraud the welfare system in all sorts of housing programs, food programs, all these kind of programs, take the money, send it back to Somalia, in many cases funding the terror group al-Shaba, as Chris Ruffo reported.
Even the New York Times has had to admit this, how fraud swamped Minnesota's social services system on Tim Walz' watch.
Minnesota health service employees.
This is a group of actual health service employees in Minnesota.
Minnesota underscore DHS says, Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota.
These are bureaucrats in Minnesota who worked for Tim Walz.
We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud, but no, we got the opposite response.
Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports, on and on and on.
Okay, so then the question becomes, okay, you've imported these massive schemers, these fraudsters from Somalia who have a foreign religion, who support actual terror groups materially with taxpayer money, who are kicking Christians and the native population out of various towns in the United States, not just the Somalians, but Muslim immigrants generally.
Dearborn, Michigan, probably the clearest example of this.
See, why are we doing this?
What are they adding to our country?
What are Somalians adding to our country?
This is, I have nothing in particular against Somalians.
They're children of God.
I hope they all convert to Christianity.
I hope that their lives improve and we can help their lives improve in some way.
They add nothing to our country.
Nothing good to our country comes from Somalians at all.
At all.
You can't even, with some groups, you say, well, look, they bring crime and drugs and break down a social solidarity, but gee Willikers, I love their food.
Somalians don't even have food.
What do they add to the country?
Nothing.
So why do we bring them in?
So that they can defraud taxpayers and fund Muslim terror groups overseas?
So that they can commit murder and rape?
So why are we bringing them in?
Let's zoom it out again.
Let's bring it all the way back to what we were talking about at the top of the show.
DHS had a great little rundown, a horrifying little rundown, but great in its clarity on what the Afghan refugees have been up to.
Here are the Afghanis.
Zabahullah Mama Nwama, whatever.
An Afghan national who was settled in Montana by the Biden administration was charged in the rape of a teenage girl in a Missoula motel room.
So he was resettled in Montana.
Sure, he blended in marvelously there.
And he was just charged with the rape of a teenage girl.
So we bring this Afghan in and he rapes an American, okay?
Or rapes a guy.
I don't know if it was an American or not.
Either way, quite horrible.
Certainly in America.
How about Abdullah Hajid Zada and Nazir Ahmed Tawidi, both Afghan nationals, given legal status by Joe Biden?
They were arrested and prosecuted for plotting a terror attack in Oklahoma City on Election Day 2024.
I think that's what the vice president was talking about earlier.
They had hundreds of rounds of ammunition, pledged their allegiance to ISIS.
How about Mohamed Karwin, another Afghan national who was on the terror watch list?
Border Patrol got him in 2024 and then released him back.
He was on the terror watch list.
Border Patrol gets him under Joe Biden and then just releases him back into the country.
Then he was arrested again.
He'd been living at large in the U.S. for over a year.
Then we got Barola Nouri.
He's an Afghan evacuee.
He was arrested at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin, charged with attempting to engage in a sexual act with a minor using force.
and three other counts of engaging in a sex act with a minor.
So Barola Nouri raped a kid, at least one kid.
This is our strength.
This is the cultural enrichment.
As I pointed out earlier, citing St. Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle and others, I am not totally opposed to immigration in principle.
I do not think that assimilation is impossible or necessarily harmful.
Look at Ruth, the Moabite, joining the Israelites.
However, immigration is a very, very big problem.
Thinkers from Plato and Aristotle up to Dante, all the way up to thinkers today, have observed that immigration, in many ways more than any other political issue, can cause real social problems in a polity.
So you got to be very, very careful about it.
It can introduce confusion.
It can introduce crime.
It can break down social solidarity.
Why do we have to tolerate this?
Why?
Why did we bring those Afghanis to America?
I'll tell you why.
It's not because we like their food.
We don't know what their food is.
No one eats Afghani food.
It's not because we can be enriched by their culture and religion.
We can't.
It's not because we love their cultural practices like pederasty is a notable Afghan cultural practice referenced in one of those criminal descriptions.
We did it because we feel guilty.
We did it because Afghanistan harbored Islamic terrorists who attacked the United States on September 11th, 2001.
And then we went to war in Afghanistan first, then Iraq.
But Afghanistan, we were there for 20 years.
And the war, like so many wars waged by Washington bureaucrats, was overly broad, kind of aimless, didn't really achieve a lot of ultimately what it hoped to achieve.
It was unclear even what the objectives were.
And then we left and we felt kind of bad about it.
So we took some of them in.
And now they're killing us and they're raping people and they're committing terror attacks.
But we felt bad.
That's it.
We felt bad because things didn't work out in the war that we had to engage in after they waged war on us and we felt kind of bad.
Why do we take the Somalis in in Minnesota?
Because we feel bad for them.
I get it's good.
It's good to feel for people.
I like feeling for people.
Charity is good.
But liberalism is a perversion of Christian charity, of Christianity broadly.
All modern ideologies are just thin, abstract, rationalized perversions of true religion.
And in the case of liberalism, it takes certain virtues and divorces them from the others.
So it takes, I don't know, it takes some mercy, generosity, and it totally divorces it from prudence and self-defense.
So now you have a situation where we say, well, we have to bring in these people who are going to kill us and murder us, shoot up our Christmas markets, rape our girls, commit terrorist attacks, kill our National Guardsmen.
We have to do it.
And we're going to, we won't even pretend that they're adding a lot to the country or that we like their food.
We have to do it because, you know, come on, those poor people.
But we have an obligation to defend our own country.
And frankly, it's not even really good for them, ultimately, if we do it, because all we'll do is destroy this country and then they'll have nowhere to even aspire to go to.
Do we have to live like this?
I don't think so.
There's so much more I want to get to.
There's so much that happened.
There's a trans professor at University of Oklahoma who gave a Christian student zero points out of 25 points on a paper because she cited the Bible on gender issues.
Oh, I have so much to say about it because everyone's getting it wrong.
But we got to wait until tomorrow.
How do you like that, Fritis?
Oh, by the way, Pope Leo, the Holy Father, prayed the Pater Noster in Latin in Constantinople with the Eastern Orthodox and called for a communion, a full communion for all baptized Christians.
We're like reuniting the East and the West.
Everything's going on, but we got to get to it tomorrow.
Oh, the FDA admitted that COVID killed kids.
Anyway, we got to get to it all tomorrow because today's Music Monday.
