Today on the Matt Walsh show, guest hosted by yours truly, David Cone, President Biden attempts to recover from his disastrous debate performance. Democrat operatives begin their best spin campaign in an effort to convince us that we didn't see what we clearly saw on that stage. America is losing to other countries in football, and I won't stand for it. And "International Days of random things" have become a problem, and they're getting canceled.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, guest hosted by yours truly, David Cohn.
President Biden attempts to recover from his disastrous debate performance.
Democrat operatives begin their best spin campaign in an effort to convince us that we didn't see what we clearly saw on that stage.
America is losing to other countries in football, and I won't stand for it.
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Matt Walsh is out again today.
Apparently, there was a flannel shirt convention that simply could not be missed.
But luckily for you, the show will go on.
The show must go on with me, David Cohn.
Last week, Americans by the tens of millions were left in a state of stunned disbelief about President Joe Biden's Disastrous performance on the debate stage.
Frankly, even many of us who have recognized his cognitive decline, because we have eyes and ears and functioning brains, did not expect what transpired.
But now, more than 72 hours have passed.
The shock and surprise has waned.
Reality has set in.
And that reality is this.
The man we saw on stage last Thursday night, who was incapable of completing his own sentences, is the President of the United States.
Not just a nominee.
Forget about the campaign for a moment.
Ostensibly, this guy is the Commander-in-Chief of the military.
He is the man who in the middle of the night needs to be ready to respond at a moment's
notice to the most crucial situations, such as a terrorist attack on American soil, or
an invasion of Taiwan by the Chinese, or someone in California being misgendered.
Yet Joe Biden is clearly incapable of handling those challenges.
He is not running our country.
Everyone understands that now.
Another four years is out of the question.
But that reality creates a political problem for Democrats.
They hit him in the basement last cycle, but now the truth outs.
And if they admit in the aftermath of this televised disaster that Joe Biden can't serve as president, then it's not enough to find a replacement candidate for the upcoming election.
They have to remove him from office right now.
And if Jill Biden, who is apparently making all these decisions, doesn't want to go along with that, then Democrats would need to invoke the 25th Amendment and forcibly remove the President from office.
That would be very nasty and politically damaging.
It would also mean Vice President Kamala Harris is next up to the plate, and she polls worse than the President himself.
So instead, they dusted the old fighter off and got him back in the ring the next day.
Only this ring had teleprompters and there was no one else on stage to fight.
Let's take a look at this together.
Let me close with this.
I know I'm not a young man.
State the obvious.
Well, I know.
Well, I know.
Well, I know it, y'all.
Are they saying Trump?
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go!
Folks, I don't walk as easy as I used to.
I don't speak as smoothly as I used to.
I don't debate as well as I used to.
But I know what I do know.
I know how to tell the truth.
Hmmm.
Remember, this is only a day after the man couldn't complete sentences on the debate stage.
But hey, according to his wife, he answered all the questions.
He woke up the next morning alive, so he's clearly fit to lead the greatest nation on earth.
The Trump campaign immediately put together a campaign ad with just footage of Joe Biden speaking.
Trump doesn't say a word.
Again, I take no pleasure in watching this.
Yes, it validates what many of us have been scorned for these past few years, but still, I'm an American.
This is the president.
This is sad, but watch it.
We must.
Let's take a look.
both of us.
Making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've
been able to do with the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do
with...
Look at Trump's face.
If we finally beat Medicare...
We're finally providing housing for black Americans.
The impact on the choice, the idea that they're going to... I'm not... I've been proposing that everybody, they pay...
That's sad.
This is sad.
This is sad.
Take it down.
I've seen enough.
I've seen enough.
It's one of the most effective political ads you'll ever see.
We are in uncharted territory right now.
But fear not, America, because the President is deeply engaged during the day.
That's according to the esteemed political journalist at Axios, who spoke to insiders on Team Biden and reported that, quote, from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m., Biden is dependably engaged.
Many of his public events are held within those hours.
Outside that time range or while traveling abroad, Biden is more likely to have verbal miscues and become fatigued, unquote.
So, he's like a reverse vampire.
He's only good in the sunlight.
He's like a zombie vampire, alive, then dead, then quasi-alive, but only during the day.
It's like Night of the Living Dead.
Never thought I believed in zombies or vampires, but now I do.
Still don't believe in aliens though, that's just childish.
Pull up the Reagan clip for me, please.
If you want to get a sense of how unprecedented this is, you have to put in historical context here.
Back in 1984, when Ronald Reagan was 73 years old and running against Walter Mondale, there was a lot of talk about whether he was too old to be president.
Both Republicans and Democrats were asking about Reagan's cognitive abilities as a serious issue.
Here's how Ronald Reagan handled that topic with all the scrutiny.
Mr. President, I want to raise an issue that I think has been lurking out there for two or three weeks and cast it specifically in national security terms.
You already are the oldest president in history and some of your staff say you were tired after your most recent encounter with Mr. Mondale.
I recall yet that President Kennedy had to go for days on end with very little sleep during the Cuba Missile Crisis.
Is there any doubt in your mind that you would be able to function in such circumstances?
Not at all, Mr. Truitt, and I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign.
I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.
[laughter]
[applause]
[laughter]
If I still have time, I might add, Mr. Truitt, I might add that
it was Seneca or it was Cicero, I don't know which, that said,
"If it was not for the elders correcting the mistakes of the young, there would be no state."
[BLANK_AUDIO]
When you make the guy you're running against laugh, you've won the debate.
When you make the moderator laugh, you've won re-election.
When you quote philosophers after all of it, well...
You're Ronald Reagan.
But just compare that side by side with Joe Biden's performance on Thursday.
If people were worried about Reagan's age, they should be losing their minds right now about our president.
Even that day after address that's being touted wasn't close to flawless or inspiring.
At various points, Joe Biden continued to slur his speech, and he also did that thing where He smashes all the words together really fast so he won't give himself time to mess up.
I think you know what I'm talking about.
We've all seen it.
Let's watch.
Donald Trump says he thinks overturning Roe v. Wade was a beautiful thing.
I'm serious.
I don't know a president wouldn't trade places with America in a heartbeat.
He's dead wrong.
America's not a losing nation.
America's winning.
As I stand here today, I can honestly say I've never been more optimistic about America's future in my whole career.
You just have to remember who we are.
We're the United States of America.
Who we are, man.
Who we are.
Can someone translate that?
I mean, as best I can tell, Joe Biden said, I don't...
I don't know a president that wouldn't trade places with America in a heartbeat.
I don't know what that means.
But I do know Democrats are now running cover for him.
This was predictable.
They are turning gaslighting into an art form.
Yesterday, another octogenarian, Nancy Pelosi, appeared on cable news in defense of Biden.
She said that actually it's Donald Trump who's demented.
Donald Trump, now look, Trump was many things on that stage last week.
I don't believe he even answered a direct question for the last hour.
But demented?
That's just plain false.
Let's take a look.
This is an opportunity for Joe Biden to go out there and show he has the stamina and the rest.
And by the way, while the press, and for some reason they don't, there are health care professionals who think that Trump has dementia.
Trump has dementia.
His thoughts do not go together.
And while he may be saying we're enablers, we see Joe Biden up close.
We know how attuned he is to the issues, how informed he is.
I debate with him about legislation, not debate, but discuss it with him.
He's right there.
So in any case, it was a bad night.
Let's not sugarcoat that.
It was a bad night.
It was a great presidency.
It was a great presidency.
No, it was not a great presidency, but I do find the past tense interesting.
Freudian slip?
Maybe she knows something we don't?
Also, you'd think if leftists really wanted to make the case that Joe Biden isn't too old to serve, they would at least send someone out who was younger than 80.
Or at least someone who wasn't going to start slurring her own words.
Instead, without a hint of irony, We got an interview with another mumbling maniac, another octogenarian who can barely speak straight.
We are a gerontocracy at this point.
The elderly states of America, which is further proof these people aren't running the country.
The bureaucracy calls the shots.
Former President Barack Obama also weighed in, stating, "Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this
election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life
and someone who only cares about himself." Obama never really clarifies there which
person is which.
But the bigger issue with Obama's post is that Joe Biden didn't simply have a bad debate.
That implies he whiffed on a couple of the questions or gaffed throughout the entire thing.
He was barely conscious.
He was visibly confused.
That fact remained evidence enough for even a few major left-leaning media outlets to suggest Biden must indeed drop out of the race.
Here was Meet the Press yesterday, for example.
They didn't mince words.
It is yet another extraordinary moment in the 2024 election cycle with Democrats in a state of crisis after President Joe Biden delivered a disastrous debate performance that fueled voters' top concerns about his age and ability to serve another four years in office.
Not since the first Nixon-Kennedy debate in 1960 has a debate had as much potential to shake up a presidential race.
This morning there is widespread panic within the Democratic Party and questions about whether the president should drop out of the race.
I mean, this is coming from NBC, which repeatedly told us for years that Joe Biden is fit as a fiddle.
They've put out several articles in just the past few weeks claiming that embarrassing videos of Biden are cheap fakes.
Joe Scarborough said three months ago that Joe Biden is as astute as I've ever seen him.
So what now?
Influential voices in the Democratic Party seem divided.
The New York Times reported this weekend that the Biden family huddled at Camp David to discuss the possibility of the president dropping out of the race.
Yet his family urged against that.
The paper quoted, one of the strongest voices imploring Mr. Biden to resist pressure to drop out was his son, Hunter Biden, whom the president has long leaned on.
For advice, Hunter Biden wants Americans to see the version of his father that he knows, scrappy, and in command of the facts, rather than the stumbling, aging president Americans saw on Thursday night, end quote.
Now, there are a few levels of comedy here, so let's unpack them.
First off, we have an admitted Crackhead, I don't know another way to say it, providing critical advice to the President of the United States.
Now, I'm no crackhead expert, but that doesn't seem like a good idea.
On top of that, this isn't just an ordinary crackhead.
Hunter Biden has directly profited by selling his father's influence overseas, in China, in Ukraine.
He has a clear vested interest in keeping that grift going.
He's now a convicted felon, so it makes sense he'd want his father to stay in office for the possibility of receiving a pardon.
Every new story only adds to the absurdity of Joe Biden staying in this race.
But there is still a way for Biden to win this election, senility notwithstanding.
It's the same way that every dictator has won throughout human history.
You resort to force and imprison your competition.
Now, that might explain why the crowd at this rally eventually started chanting, lock him up, as in jail Donald Trump.
The president's response?
Grinned.
Said there's time for that.
Let's check it out.
He's got more trials coming up.
Lock him up!
Lock him up!
There's time for that.
Time for that.
The strategy is becoming clear.
Joe Biden's too far gone to serve as president.
So the solution is to incarcerate his opponent.
This is as third world as it gets.
And yes, Joe Biden's DOJ is actually trying to lock up Donald Trump.
Now, I never liked the lock her up chance in 2016.
As I said last week, I, like many others, was very late to the Trump train.
But these chance must be considered worse because it's actually happening.
Do we remember nothing of Soviet history?
The Bolshevik Revolution?
Are the disasters of the 20th century so far behind us that we will repeat them so carelessly?
It's hard to believe this is happening in this country, but it is.
So the President can't work before 10 a.m., and remember, the suicide bombing in Kabul Airport that killed 13 American service members, yes, occurred before 10 a.m.
Eastern.
That's the same suicide bombing that Joe Biden apparently forgot about during the debate when he claimed no service members died under his watch, okay?
He also can't work past 4 p.m., so what can he do at night?
Visit Waffle House.
This is the saddest Waffle House footage you'll ever see.
I don't even know if I can sit through it again.
This is from debate night.
Let's watch it together.
How did you perform tonight?
I think we did well.
Do you have any concerns about your performance tonight?
No, I don't.
It's hard to debate a liar.
It's hard to debate a liar.
Big lies.
Do you have any concerns about your performance?
No, I don't.
It's hard to debate a liar.
It's hard to debate a liar.
He lied 26 times.
Big lies. You can't tell.
Big lies.
[crowd booing]
[laughter]
There's the president, followed by Joe Biden.
There is no way Joe Biden knows what's in an All-Star special.
I would bet all the money in my bank account.
God love you guys.
There is no way Joe Biden knows what's in an all star special.
I would bet all the money in my bank account.
No, I need higher stakes than that.
I will sit in the middle seat on every airline flight for the rest of my life.
What does Mr. Walsh say about this, the gentleman whose chair I have usurped?
He says, middle seat flyers have no rights.
They are second class citizens.
I agree.
It's awful.
I'm six foot seven.
I will sit in that dreaded, claustrophobic coffin of a seat for the remainder of my commercial
flying days if the President of the United States could look me in the eyes and tell
me what's in an all-star special.
To use the House of all places as an attempt to gain sympathy votes, to appear with the
common man, newsflash, it did not work.
But even as we watch the rest of the country disagree and debate about Joe Biden's inability
to serve, something many of us have said for years at this point, I must make something
The President of the United States is terrible for our country, whether he's cognitively impaired or not.
This is the man who prints roughly a trillion dollars.
Overseas to help fund foreign wars, even as inflation spirals out of control.
He's the man who lights up the White House with rainbow colors and flies the transsexual flag in places where only old glory should wave.
He's the one who has eradicated any concept of our national border, which has resulted in brutal rapes and murders of American citizens, including women and children.
And yet, despite the countless policy disasters, many Americans say, well, I was for him until I saw the debate.
So it takes him being a zombie on national television to finally get the country's attention.
Donald Trump made this point so wonderfully in Virginia this week and he said, remember, the biggest problem for our country Is not Joe Biden's personal decline, it's that Joe Biden's policies are causing America's decline at a level we've never seen before, end quote.
That's an unquestionably true statement.
And I'm impressed that Donald Trump and his team are making this point.
Rather than just calling the president names, rather than just bragging about how much better he did.
Trump, to me, is showing growth as a politician by speaking on substance such as this.
And that brings me to a final point.
If I'm Donald Trump, I think twice before I debate Joe Biden again.
That may seem counterintuitive, may seem exactly the opposite of what many of you are thinking.
I can feel the comments saying, it's Joe Biden who shouldn't ever debate again.
Yes, that's true as well, and we likely won't see it from his camp.
But this was such a definitive win for Trump that I wouldn't just assume that the next debate is an automatic win just because Joe Biden can't speak.
Remember, I laid out key factors on how Trump could still appear as the losers to independence in scenarios like this, despite Biden's incoherence.
Four months out from the election is a long time, yes, but these viral clips will live on.
These memes will live on in a way that wasn't possible in politics 20, 30, 40 years ago.
You don't know how the next format may be skewed against you unfavorably, and yet this time actually work to be unfavorable to you.
Don't give him a chance to get even.
Don't give him a chance to throw that Hail Mary.
My friend and colleague Jay Crane and I, we were talking about this in terms of football.
I played college football, so it's an apt analogy.
You just ran the ball down the throat of your opponent for three and a half quarters.
Your defense has been stout.
You have a lead, a slim lead.
Don't start throwing the ball all over the place to try and score more points.
That's a Trump mindset.
He's a wild card.
Go for the kill.
No, I say keep running it.
Don't give the other team the ball back.
Donald Trump cannot.
He must not underestimate the power of the deep state in the corporate press.
He is not just running against Joe Biden.
If that were the case, we wouldn't even be discussing this presidential race as a fair fight, much less close in numbers.
One guy can't finish a sentence, yet 33% of people believe he won that debate.
Can y'all bring up the CNN flash poll graphic from last week, please?
33%.
You saw what I saw.
They saw what I saw.
That's deep state influence.
As Joy Behar of The View put it, quote, it's important for voters to understand they are voting for an administration.
Yeah, not just a president.
We are also voting for a Supreme Court.
That's deep state influence.
What's amusing about that is that Joy Behar is actually the same age as Joe Biden, but he's clearly suffered even more of a cognitive decline than she has, which is Look, that is saying something.
So we had a pivotal moment last week, an eye-opening experience where the curtain was pulled back.
The wizard was revealed to be just a man, a barely functioning man at that.
Yet, in the 72 hours since that debate, Tens of millions of people have been instructed to ignore what they saw with their own eyes.
They've been lied to for several years about Joe Biden's cognitive abilities.
So what's another four months?
Anything to keep Donald Trump out of office.
Orwellian fiction has become reality.
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.
It was their final, most essential command.
Now, let's get to our five headlines.
That's right.
You heard what I said.
And don't you even think about changing this episode here.
Maybe you say, I don't care about football.
I don't care about sports.
America is losing in football to other countries.
Do you know how devastating that is?
Beyond just the world of sports.
That is indicative of how America is collapsing right now.
I kid you not.
Last week, the story broke that America's youth football team Lost to Japan.
Lost to Japan, I repeat.
41 to 20.
At one point, supposedly being down 27 to nothing, I didn't have a grandfather fight in the Marianas Trench.
I didn't have a grandfather go over and fight in World War II so that Americans could lose in football to other countries, especially not Japan.
Maybe some of you are confused when I say football.
I'm not talking about soccer.
Soccer is soccer.
Football is football.
Football is ours.
Football is American.
It's our thing.
We do it best.
We do it better than anyone else.
Our youth football team, under 20.
The IFAF Under 20 World Championships.
We lost to Japan, so we couldn't even compete for the championship.
Who are we sending?
Who are we sending?
Send my high school team.
Send 18-year-old me with my high school team, the Blue Devils.
We're winning this championship, but it gets worse.
It gets worse than we lost to Japan.
Team USA football suffered another stunning upset at the U-20 World Championship bronze medal game on Sunday at the hands of Austria.
32 to 25.
I would repeat that sentence, but I don't think I can stomach it.
Bronze medal game.
We're out here fighting for third place in football, and we're not even winning that.
Austria.
I don't even know anything about Austria except isn't that where Adolf Hitler is from?
Haven't they spent the last hundred years trying to convince the world that Adolf Hitler is in fact German and Beethoven was Viennese?
We're not buying it.
And apparently they just beat us in football, 32 to 25.
The US scored first when Anthony Luna threw a touchdown pass.
I'm not even gonna read these names.
Do we have footage?
Do we have footage from the game where Austria Was beating up the United States.
Run it back.
Run it back one more time.
Run it back one more time.
So we're already losing.
We're already losing.
Here we got shotgun formation.
Little flat route.
Look at that.
That's a tackle?
What kind of effort are we putting in, coach?
Who are we sending over there?
Austria?
Do we have the clip from the game in Japan?
Again, I'm getting sick to my stomach, but apparently we need this.
Apparently we need this.
We need to watch this.
We need to sit down and figure out the answers.
Run it back again.
Run it back again.
it memorable here and they may if they put it back again run it back again we're
gonna sit through this together maybe not so memorable for that player first
and 50 inside zone Shotgun inside zone.
We can't make a tackle.
We can't make a tackle on any level.
We're getting beat up front.
We're getting beat with our backers.
We're getting beat in the secondary.
Again, maybe you think this is just about football.
Oh, this is just this is just a sport thing.
Who cares?
President of the United States can't even finish sentences.
Don't we have bigger?
This is why this is happening all over this country.
We're losing in football?
And apparently, let me look at this real quick.
Apparently, Canada went on to win the championship.
I kid you not.
Here we go.
Team USA lost to Japan earlier in the week, as I said, which catapulted Japan to the gold medal game against Canada.
And Canada, I believe, won the championship.
Y'all fact check me in there.
I believe Canada.
We let the country to our north win a championship in football.
I repeat, not soccer.
Soccer is soccer.
We let them win in football while we sit here and we're giving up inside zone, right up the middle.
We can't make a tackle.
We're allowing passes to get completed to the flat, and we can't make a tackle.
Again, I'll ask, who are we sending?
Is this just indicative of America's decline on all fronts?
We're not talking about darts, right?
I don't know if we're good at that.
I don't know if we're good at arm wrestling.
The other world clearly has soccer.
They've taken soccer by storm, and we can't compete.
We're talking about football here.
This cannot stand.
It will not stand.
I will not abide this.
I will get involved.
My co-hosts on Crane & Company, Jake and Blaine, we will get involved as well.
I don't know if we need to coach the team, assemble the team, maybe play on the team.
I do have one year of eligibility left in college.
Either way, that's unacceptable.
Next story up here.
I was so excited to read this over the weekend.
So this comes from the Daily Wire here.
This comes from Megan Basham and also Morning Wire reported on this story as well.
Here's the headline of this article.
I just want to go through this because it is important and it's stunning.
Daily Wire poll.
Voters reject Biden's move to require parents to embrace LGBTQ ideology to adopt Foster children.
Let's get into this here.
An overwhelming majority of voters disagree with new Biden administration regulations that require parents to pass an LGBTQ litmus test to adopt foster children.
That's according to an exclusive Daily Wire poll.
Nearly twice as many voters reject banning religious families who oppose transgender ideology From taking in foster children, according to the survey of 1,000 registered voters conducted this week by RMG Research, only 29% say faith-based families who refuse to affirm a child's gender dysphoria should be banned from adopting, while the rest of the respondents weren't sure.
So on April 30th, Biden's Department of Health and Human Services enacted the Safe and Appropriate Foster Care Placement Requirements, that's the title of this, which requires child welfare agencies to place foster children only with families who have committed to establishing an environment that supports the child's LGBTQI plus status or identity.
Under the new rules, foster care providers must use a child's identified pronouns and chosen name, and to allow the child to dress in a way that reflects their self-identified gender identity and expression.
I can't even imagine my parents back in the day just letting me just dress any way that I pleased.
I mean, the rules also require foster parents to establish an environment that supports the child's LGBTQIA plus status or identity, something legal experts warn could be interpreted to mean providing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or surgical interventions designed to change the child's sex.
This poll here, again this exclusive poll at the Daily Wire, found that an overwhelming majority, 69%, said it would be good, it would be good for religious families to adopt a foster child.
Only 13% said it would be a bad thing.
When it comes to religious families, who oppose transgender ideology, 54% of voters do not
support banning them from adopting foster children. I mean, yeah, this is great work here by
the Daily Wire.
The Biden administration's new rules stand to put further strain on a foster care system that
is already struggling to serve more than 600,000 children annually, as it would disqualify the
the families most likely to care for the vulnerable kids.
Practicing Christians are more than twice as likely to foster or adopt children, more than twice as likely than the general population, with Catholics being three times more likely and evangelicals being five times more likely.
Further, 65% of non-Ken Foster parents attend religious services weekly.
Does any of that really surprise anyone?
That's what I want to ask.
Is the Biden administration, are they actively thinking through these things and they're just wrong?
Or is it all part of a malicious campaign, an anti-Christian, anti-religious campaign?
I think we know the answer to that.
This gets me into the movie Sound of Hope.
Right, this is what I want to talk about.
The Sound of Hope, the story of Possum Trot, a new film that tells the true story of 22 Christian families in a single church that adopted 77 at-risk children out of foster care, is providing a fresh picture of this statistical reality.
Look, this film, I don't know if I'm allowed to say this, I got a chance to see this film Weeks ago, long before it came out.
It is unbelievable.
It's an awesome story.
I encourage all of you to see this movie when it comes out.
I believe we're going to be sharing a link to it, to where you can find it.
Adoptive father Josh Weigel, who directed and co-wrote Sound of Hope, fears policies like the new HHS rules will leave vulnerable children at risk of being further neglected, abused, or even trafficked.
That kind, this is a quote here, that kind of legislation would prevent the story of Sound of Hope from happening again.
Over two-thirds, over two-thirds of the people helping foster kids are those who may not agree with that kind of legislation.
Yeah.
You would have a monumental ocean of traumatized children mounting every year if you were to cut off that kind of care.
So, again, great work here by The Daily Wire.
Megan Basham, Morning Wire, conducting this poll.
I want to make sure that we share out that link and tell people where they can see and when they can see Sound of Hope, the story of Possum Trap, an incredible film.
Everyone needs to see it.
And more than that, when you go see it, engage with me on social media at David Adam Cohn.
I want to hear what your thoughts are.
Let's talk about it.
And, you know, again, important and great work there from The Daily Wire.
Next story up here, we remember the Uvalde school shooting that happened over a year ago, almost two years ago, I believe at this point.
This story, this again from Daily Wire reporting last week, I'm just going to read through this article and I think it's important that we understand and keep up to date with what's going on there.
Yuvaldi police school chief indicted, arrested over response to the 2022 shooting.
So Pete Arradonado, the former chief of the school district police in Uvalde, Texas, has
been criminally charged and arrested over his actions on that day when law enforcement
delayed entering the school and neutralizing that school shooter.
A Uvalde County grand jury indicted Arradonado and another former district officer, that
was Adrian Gonzalez, on multiple felony charges of abandoning or endangering a child in response
to their botched response to the massacre, which comes 25 months.
Okay, so there's over two years at this point.
Over 25 months after the shooter murdered 19 students and two teachers.
One of the most horrific days in the history of this country.
19 students and two teachers.
Remember, this guy sat by, didn't act.
More people were shot, more children were shot, which is why I think we're seeing this action here.
Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell impaneled a grand jury in January to determine if charges should be brought against any of the roughly 400 law enforcement officials who responded to the shooting at Robb Elementary School.
The Texas Tribune reported this part.
Authorities were held back for nearly an hour.
Authorities were held back for nearly an hour, an hour and a half, actually, before border patrol agents stormed the classroom and killed the suspect.
Over 90 minutes held back.
The US Department of Justice released a 600-page report earlier this year Reviewing the failures of law enforcement's response to that shooting.
This is a quote here.
Chief Pete Arradonado of the UCISD Police Department directed officers at several points to delay making entry into classrooms 111 and 112 in favor of searching for keys and clearing other classrooms.
At several points, Chief Arradonado also attempted to negotiate with the suspect who became the de facto on scene commander.
He was without his radios, having discarded them during his arrival and communicated to
others via either verbally or via cell phone throughout the response.
Of the hundreds of law enforcement officials who arrived at the school, many believed that
the subject had already been killed or that UCISDPD Chief Arradonado was in the room with
the subject because of poor communication and those who were in charge of the scene.
Look again.
I can't imagine what it's like to be a police officer.
I've never been one.
I haven't had to go through that.
To wake up every single morning and know that there's a chance you won't return home.
I mean, yes, that's a reality for all of us on some level, but this is every single day for a police officer to wake up, put themselves in the line of duty, and have to go out and understand like, hey, you might never see your family again.
And it's not like It's not like they're getting rich doing this.
These aren't ballplayer salaries.
I wish we lived in a world, in a country, in a society where the people, our first responders, and our military are the people who are getting very wealthy.
That's not the case.
These people are putting their lives on the line for not very much money, but this is why.
It's for moments like this.
This is when we need leaders to respond.
Nineteen children dead and two teachers dead because we're standing by and we're not acting.
This is why we need the leaders in our society to be leaders, to take action when we need it most, because you never understand on any day what type of situation could turn into a life or death scenario.
That's what happened in Uvalde that day, and now this to me is the natural conclusion of that.
We'll keep you posted as more information comes out on the Uvalde story.
All right, next one up here.
Maybe you didn't know this.
I can understand if you've gotten confused giving the leftist talking points over the last few years and decades, but this is from the Washington Post now.
We've been accidentally cooling the planet.
Again, we've been accidentally cooling the planet, and it's about to stop.
Yeah, this is news to me, so why don't we just dive in.
Let's just work through this Washington Post article a little bit here.
Let's see how exactly, now all of a sudden, we're cooling the planet.
I can't wait to find out.
It is widely accepted that humans have been heating up the planet for over, this needs to be a stage performance.
I need an enactment of this that is just a stage play.
It has been widely accepted that humans have been heating up the planet for over a century by burning coal, oil, and gas.
Earth has already warmed by almost 1.2 degrees Celsius, that's 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit.
Can we just put that, like, this is America.
Since pre-industrial times and the planet is poised to race past the hoped for limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming.
But fewer people know that burning fossil fuels doesn't just cause global warming, it also causes global cooling.
Dun dun dun, this sounds like the Tom Cruise movie Entropic Thunder, like the fake parody ads.
Not only is the planet warming, but we're also cooling it.
Does that cancel each other out and we're all good?
No, it's doubly as bad.
It's triply as bad.
Don't you understand?
We're warming and we're cooling at the same time.
Things will never be the same.
It is one of the great ironies, this goes on to say.
It is one of the great ironies of climate change that air pollution, which has killed tens of millions, has also curbed some of the worst effects of a warming planet.
And now as society cleans up pollution, so we're doing a good thing, right?
We're cleaning up pollution, that cooling effect, we've been cooling.
Right?
That is now waning.
New regulations have cut the amount of sulfur aerosols from global shipping traffic across the oceans.
China, fighting its own air pollution problem, has slashed sulfur pollution dramatically in the last decade.
The result is even warmer temperatures.
But exactly how much warmer is still under debate.
The answer will have lasting impacts on humanity's ability to meet its climate goals.
What are the goals?
Like, what are the goals?
Can we just, I'll just keep going.
We're starting, this is a quote here, we're starting from an area of deep, deep uncertainty, said Zeke Housefather.
Housefather, a climate scientist and research lead for the payments company Stripe.
It could be a full degree of cooling being masked.
A full degree.
It could be a full degree, y'all.
These moves have saved lives, according to estimates.
Around 200,000 premature deaths have already been avoided in China because we're doing a good thing and cleaning up the air pollution.
But the new shipping regulations could save around 50,000 lives per year, but they have also boosted global temperatures.
Scientists estimate that the changes in aerosols from the new shipping rule alone could contribute between 0.05 and 0.2 degrees Celsius of warming over the next few decades.
How are we arriving at these numbers?
What sort of calculations are we able to do that we know 200,000 lives were saved?
50,000 lives per year are saved.
We think we are so much smarter than we actually are.
I get it.
Elon Musk is landing rockets backwards and apparently we went to the moon.
I still believe we went to the moon in 1969.
in 1969, maybe we didn't, but I did see a guy this weekend juggle three Rubik's cubes
and solve them while they were in the air.
It's one of the most incredible things, unless that's a deep fake too.
We are intelligent, we have the ability to do very, very interesting things on this planet.
And yet I'm just wondering, how do we find ourselves at times thinking we're so much
smarter than we actually are?
No scientist, this goes on to say, no scientists are advocating to halt the aerosol cleanup efforts, right?
Like we don't want to do that.
The death tolls from air pollution are simply too high.
There are really good reasons to want to clean up air pollution.
The benefits are really important, this person here says, but researchers worry that cleaning up that pollution without halting fossil fuels, for example, as in China, could be a recipe for even greater and faster warming.
Again, if you are confused over what just transpired over the last five minutes as I read that, then you're not alone because I thought, I've been reliably informed that global warming That's what it used to be called, but now it's climate change, was the single greatest threat to civilization.
Existential threat.
Like, might not make it to, it's July 1st now, right?
Might not make it to August type of threat, and now all of a sudden we're also cooling the planet?
We've been accidentally cooling the planet when I've been told that global warming is an existential crisis.
If you can keep up, please call me and tell me how to keep up because I'm starting to get lost.
All right, next story here, it's time to go in on McDonald's.
Are you ready?
Again, do not turn this episode off because you're someone who thinks, well, what do I care?
I don't eat McDonald's.
I can't remember the last time I had McDonald's.
Yeah, you know what?
I can't remember the last time I had McDonald's either.
I can't remember for sure the last time I had a McDonald's milkshake or ice cream, but
that's what we're going to get in because the implications of this go far beyond fast
food.
It speaks to our society right now.
I want to get into this thread right here that I saw on genius thinking.
If you've ever wondered why you can never get an ice cream from McDonald's, there's
a dark truth you need to know.
The machines are broken by design.
All right, let's dive into it then.
Here's the real reason you can't have your McFlurry.
Why are the McDonald's ice cream machines always broken?
It's a widespread issue, so much so that in 2021, a guy created the McBroken.com The McBroken.com to track this in real time, at least across the country, maybe across the world.
Some quick stats on the McDonald's ice cream situation.
An average of 14.7% of machines in the US are broken.
It's been a meme since the early 2010s.
Everybody's talked about it.
Other fast food chains don't have this same sort of issue, don't have numbers that high.
The culprit, the Taylor C602 ice cream machine, introduced in 2003.
It's mandatory for all McDonald's franchises.
No other option is allowed, period.
Taylor, the provider, makes machines for other chains, too, and those work fine.
So why is McDonald's different?
Now, some context that was added here online, this says prior to 2017, anyone who opened a McDonald's franchise could only purchase this Taylor-branded machine.
Since then, apparently franchisees have a little bit more leeway to purchase from one other company.
Anyway, we'll fact check all of this stuff, but I don't think it's a surprise to anyone to understand that there are nefarious reasons behind the McDonald's ice cream machines always being broken.
The C602 is a nightmare of complexity, four-hour daily heating cycle or daily cleaning cycles, interface that looks like it's from 1983, cryptic error codes like heat, The real problem, Taylor has zero reasons to improve these
machines.
In fact, they profit from keeping them broken.
And this is where we really get into the main point.
This is where we get into why I'm telling you about this.
How do they profit from the machine staying broken?
Staying broken, you make more money serving ice cream, right?
No.
25% of Taylor's revenue comes from repairs and maintenance.
That's right.
They're cashing in on their own product's failure.
Well, surely McDonald's corporate would step in, right?
Nope.
Repair costs hit franchise owners, not corporate.
They hit the franchisees.
Not McDonald's corporate, so McDonald's ignores them while the owners lose money.
One owner called for repairs four to five times in the first few months.
Cha-ching!
Here's where it gets shady.
There's a secret service menu in these machines.
Only tailored technicians can access it.
It's like a franchise owner holds a critical operating parameter.
It's like opening a car, having a car with a hood that you can't open, but someone else has to come out there, which we're seeing that too.
I mean, the other day I could barely jump off someone else's car.
As a foreign car, you could barely jump it off because they're trying to make it where We're only technicians can get into it, and you have to pay extra for that.
So what happens when these machines break down?
Franchise owners have one option.
Call the guy, quote unquote.
That guy is a tailored technician who charges $144 for the first half hour, hundreds more for each additional 15 minutes.
But wait, there's more.
In 2019, a tech startup called KiTech created a device that helps franchise owners.
It's connected to phones, giving real-time data on the machines.
It was a hit.
The owners, the franchisees, they loved it.
McDonald's response?
They banned it, claiming it was dangerous.
Again, take this for what it's worth.
I'm reading you what I've seen here.
There's a documentary that's been posted that goes along with this.
A guy has spent the better part of, what, three years, I guess, putting this together.
McDonald's banned that device, that app, solving their PR nightmare because they are making their own with a powerhouse dynamics.
This is owned by Taylor's parent company.
So the only app that now you can lose is owned by the parent company of the ice cream machines.
It's like asking the Fox to design the hen house security.
But this goes beyond just ice cream, of course.
It's a case study on how big corporations can crush innovation and hurt their own customers and franchisees to protect old partnerships.
And that's really what I get into here.
Planned obsolescence.
Haven't we seen this in America over the course of the last century, whether it be the automotive
industry or anywhere else?
I mean, just on fast food in particular, this is why you don't have issues like this at
Chick-fil-A. You don't have issues like this at Chick-fil-A.
Like.
They can't get me through the Chick-fil-A drive-thru fast enough.
I dread any scenario where I have to go through McDonald's, and I'm not even trying to get ice cream.
I'm not saying this as someone who's like, I desperately need a McDonald's ice cream all the time, and I'm disappointed that it's not there.
No, I'm talking about a bigger issue in America, this idea of planned obsolescence, this idea Not doing the best to your absolute ability.
Not only not doing the best that you can, but building that in as a feature to your business mechanics.
It's a feature.
It's not a bug.
You're making more off the repairs that you have.
Look, to me, it's unacceptable.
I operate by a simple principle.
Do the absolute best you can in any given situation in your life, and that's the way to ultimately have success.
So this idea of saying, well, you know, here's how we could boost our profits, right?
Like, let's make the iPhone where you need to replace it every 15 months instead of it lasting every three years.
You know what?
Let's make our American cars where, you know, they only last until 100,000 miles, and then you got to get a new one because then we'll make more money, right?
Wrong.
What are the Japanese doing?
I had a Toyota Land Cruiser one time that put, I put 325,000 miles on that thing.
Would I have rather had an American car?
Yes.
But that thing got me through the ice and the snow at the University of Michigan.
That's what I needed.
It never broke down on me.
Always started.
Because they're building things the right way.
They want their products to be the best they can possibly be.
Enough with this planned obsolescence.
It's time to end this practice in every business, in every corporation.
McDonald's, why don't you take the lead here?
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International days of the year have gotten out of control.
Yesterday marked the final day in the month of June, that special time of year when we are all inundated with rainbow flags and pride paraphernalia and whatever it is that this guy here was doing.
Turn it off.
Turn it off.
I had to live through that this weekend, so now you do as well.
It's that summertime season when every corporation issues statements of support and swaps out logos, unless, of course, it would hurt business to do so, such as in Saudi Arabia.
BMW, for instance, was asked online why they didn't update their Middle East brand logo, and the response was, it is commonplace and established practice at BMW Group with such marketing initiatives Marketing activities.
That's it.
Marketing activities.
That's what these really are.
To take into consideration country-specific cultural aspects.
So, in other words, that don't fly here.
I've been told the term for this is slacktivism.
So that's activism, that's slacking.
We may need to keep that in mind for future cancellations.
But my question is, who co-opted June without anyone's permission?
Are we sure that we're not misgendering June?
Perhaps June, like BMW Middle East, doesn't identify as a gay month.
Let's really add up the most important, most sacred days of observance in our society, like 4th of July, just a few days from now.
That one makes sense.
America's birthday.
I understand the origin.
Christmas, love it.
Easter, Hanukkah, Thanksgiving, important staples of our culture.
Even if you don't participate in all of them, Veterans Day, Memorial Day, let's even include Mother's Day and Father's Day, they're important.
All of those only get one single day.
And even added together, they don't make up half of June.
To make matters worse, claiming the entire six months isn't even enough.
Here are just a few of the other 48 claimed days outside the month of June on the LGBTQIA plus community calendar.
Here are some of them.
International Transgender Day of Visibility, Transgender Day of Remembrance, Non-Binary Parents Day, International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, National Asian and Pacific Islanders HIV and AIDS Awareness Day, International Drag Day, National Coming Out Day, Lesbian Visibility Day, International Lesbian Day, and I kid you not, Gay Uncles Day.
Gay Uncles Day, it's August 14th.
I had no idea.
I actually may need to send this to an uncle of mine so he doesn't miss it.
But this isn't just a gay thing.
These international days of the year have become a problem.
I did a deep dive on your behalf and I'm disturbed.
March 24th, International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims.
What?
May 30th, International Day of Potato.
I had potatoes last night.
My wife made them.
They were amazing.
I don't need this day here.
Who came up with these?
Who voted for these?
Did you get a say?
Did you get to voice your opinion on these decisions?
I know I didn't.
I guess these started Innocuous enough like, hey, today's National Pizza Day.
Okay, so what?
Big pizza, corporate pizza runs a marketing play and pays off Google or whoever to put it on your calendar that you can't take off.
Okay, not like I need another reason to eat pizza.
I already do that a lot, but so what?
International flannel shirt day where we all get together and wear plaid.
That's lame, I would never, not my thing, but who cares?
Some guys like that.
But like all things that we don't put a stop to when we should, like all things that we don't nip in the bud as soon as we recognize the insanity, they grow out of control.
July 12th, International Day of Combating Sand and Dust Storms.
Good luck.
Good luck with combating those.
November 5th, World Tsunami Awareness Day.
The people who need to be aware of tsunamis are very aware of tsunamis.
I promise you that.
The week after Valentine's Day, and look, we can have an honest conversation about Valentine's Day.
Hey, is that just one of those marketing ploys where we're trying to sell chocolate and teddy bears and we shouldn't have it?
It's not.
Okay, Valentine's Day is pretty much baked in at this point, but if you wanna make that
argument, that's fine.
Here's an entire week, the week after Valentine's Day, Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week.
What?
National Zip Code Day.
What could that possibly be for?
National Zip Code Day, National Outfit of the Day Day.
First off, you can't have the word day in there twice.
Second of all, what would happen if this day didn't exist?
All of a sudden, you don't remember to wear clothes?
All of a sudden, you walk around naked?
My birthday is in December, so I had to know.
What sorts of lunacy am I competing with?
Apart from Taylor Swift, yes, we share the same birthday.
Here's what I found out.
Two, got two on the same day here.
International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and the Prevention of this Crime.
What in the world?
Genocide's not bad enough.
We have to come up with a day that's this long?
And that's not it.
The second thing, International Anti-Corruption Day.
So let me get this straight.
On the one day a year when I get to celebrate the anniversary of my birth, I have to share that day with Taylor Swift, Corruption, good luck fighting that, and the commemoration and dignity of the victims of the crime of genocide and the prevention of this crime.
Some days just need to be normal.
Most days just need to be normal.
When every day is quote unquote special, none are special.
When every day masquerades as a holiday, it dilutes the important ones.
It's not like we get National Dude Day where, hey, we watch the Big Lebowski and drink white Russians out.
That would be something I could get behind.
But no, July 2nd, National I Forgot Day.
Yeah, I wish I could forget too.
I wish I could forget a lot of this.
What exactly did you forget that you don't need every single day of the year to have a theme in order to live your life and to go about your business?
Can I get just one day, just one day a year where I am left alone?
Look at this, National Wrong Trousers Day, where we sport whimsical pants and channel our inner spirit.
No.
No, no, this I can't abide.
I am going to channel my inner spirit.
All right, I'm going to do it right now.
I'm instituting a policy of my own.
I didn't want it to come to this.
Yes, I know I will be guilty of the exact thing I'm railing against, but just like Hank Williams Jr.
wrote that song, The Coalition, to ban coalitions, it's clear if you can't beat them, you must join them.
So this is what I have to do.
We have these arbitrary days, weeks, months, even years.
Hey, Year of the Dragon.
All right, so I'm carving out some space for myself and others like me, moving forward from this day until the end of days.
Every July 1st shall henceforth be known as Get Off My Lawn Day.
That's right, I am unilaterally installing this initiative for all humans in all countries.
National, no, actually this is bigger than that.
Intergalactic get off my lawn day.
I mean, aliens do not exist, but why take any chances?
Intergalactic get off my lawn day.
During this precious time, there will be no other nonsense days allowed.
Do not tell me what food to eat.
Do not tell me what cocktail I must consume in order to have fun with my friends.
Don't tell me anything.
This is the only way to fight this epidemic that has consumed our beautiful planet.
So, other than this acceptable and very reasonable day, all others who are foisting their agendas on our calendars via the slogan, International Day of the Week Month Day, You are today cancelled.
