Ep. 1591 - The Part Of The Shiloh Hendrix Case No One Wants To Talk About
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the debate over the n-word heard around the world has obscured one question that deserves consideration: Why was that Somalian man in that park in Minnesota? Why has Minnesota imported thousands of Somalians over the past few years? And what benefit does this mass Somalian migration bring us? We’ll talk about it. Also, the Supreme Court upholds Trump's trans military ban. More major retailers are moving away from self-checkout because of all the shoplifting. And the Piers Morgan Show descends into chaos after Piers dares a woman to say the n-word.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the debate over the N-word heard around the world has obscured one question that deserves consideration.
Why was that Somalian man in that park in Minnesota?
Why has Minnesota imported thousands of Somalians over the past few years?
And what benefit does this mass Somalian migration bring us?
We'll talk about all that.
Also, the Supreme Court upholds Trump's trans-military ban.
More major retailers are moving away from self-checkout because of all the shoplifting.
And the Piers Morgan show descends into chaos after Piers dares a woman to say the N-word live on air.
We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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We're at the point where pretty much every square inch of the Shiloh Hendricks racial slur controversy has been debated and overanalyzed ad nauseum.
It's an N-bomb that, we're told, rivals the destructive power of anything that was dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
But despite all of the coverage, probably the single most important aspect of the story, which is how exactly Minnesota woman Shiloh Hendricks ended up in a playground with two individuals of Somali heritage in the first place.
Still hasn't been widely discussed.
And that's too bad because that's the part of the story that elevates it beyond the discussion about Shiloh Hendricks and language policing and cancel culture and brings it to this.
It's a question that has significant relevance to every American citizen.
So it's worth asking, why exactly were those two individuals 8,000 miles away from Somalia?
And what are so many Somalis doing in this country, and in particular in Minnesota?
Now, we'll start with the specific location of this now infamous incident, which is the city of Rochester.
Rochester is the third most populous city in the state of Minnesota.
It originated as a humble stagecoach stop for travelers between St. Paul and Iowa before a part-time farmer and surgeon named William Mayo put the town on the map.
And during the Civil War, Mayo, who was born in England, moved to Rochester and began examining draftees to the Union Army.
And within a few years, he established what would become the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, in other words, is an example, historically, of American excellence.
To the extent that foreign nationals moved into Rochester, like William Mayo, it was to make the city a much better place for everyone.
But somewhere along the way, starting in the past few decades, the people running the state of Minnesota, including Tim Walz, Decided to import a large group of people, not to improve the lives of American citizens in Rochester, but to secure a new and very local constituency for themselves.
In particular, tens of thousands of refugees from the African nation of Somalia began pouring into the state, and many of them settled in Rochester.
In fact, so many Somalis have now settled in Rochester that the city recently opened an entire community center just for them.
Watch.
Minnesota is home to the highest population of Somali residents in the United States.
2023 population data shows more than 63,000 Somalis live in the state.
Living in a country other than their own, language and cultural barriers are common issues immigrants face.
To overcome these obstacles and promote self-sufficiency, the Rochester Somali Community Center aims to be a source of help for its people.
You have to connect to your community.
If you don't have the community that you call yourself, then you're going to be by yourself.
The non-profit organization plans to have a community building where the Somali people can feel at home.
Where the Somali people can feel at home.
Well, I mean, there's one way for them to feel at home.
I mean, they could just stay home.
If you want a Somali community, then, like, why did you leave Somalia?
The whole place is a Somali community.
Why did you come here?
Now, when William Mayo moved into Rochester, of course, he didn't demand a community center for British citizens.
He didn't call for a segregated location where they could talk amongst themselves, away from those, you know, dastardly Americans.
And he certainly didn't start some fake non-profit to do so, in order to secure a lot of taxpayer money and some write-offs.
Instead, he did something productive.
He built a medical practice that benefited the entire community and ultimately the entire world.
But that's not remotely what Rochester's Somali population is interested in doing.
Instead, they've created a web of non-profits to the point that every single news report involving Somalis in Rochester will inevitably mention a non-profit at one point.
So here's another example.
This is a news report in which Somalis in Rochester celebrate their own country's independence, not American independence, But Somalia Independence, watch.
America celebrates its Independence Day this Tuesday, but for Somalis in our area and all over the world, Independence Day was celebrated today.
Today was the last day of a week full of Somali Independence celebrations.
Somali Independence Day is celebrated everywhere in Minnesota, Minnesota being the second home to Somalia for Somalis.
Pamuja Women is a non-profit for East African women and their families here in the Rochester area.
This is the second year they partnered with various organizations to put together celebrations for Somali Week.
We're just here to just help out the community and empower the women and just kind of get them out of the homes and into the town and just see this beautiful city of ours.
The week of celebrations ended today at Mayo High School where they worked with the back-to-school tournament to run the Somali Week Soccer Championship.
It is the second year of this tournament and we're looking forward for the future to have a bigger and better.
A week of Somalian Independence Day celebrations in Minnesota.
I mean, and by the way, how did Somalian Independence work out?
Like, how did that work out for you?
Part of celebrating American independence is that we became an independent nation and then very quickly became the most powerful country in the world.
So it worked out really well, which is why we kind of celebrate it.
Somali independence, how did that work out?
Somalia is a failed state, an impoverished state, full of crime and dysfunction, just a total disaster zone where Somalian people don't want to live anymore.
So I don't know if you didn't know exactly what you're celebrating.
Anyway, Minnesota is the second home of Somalis, as you just heard.
Therefore, they have their own Independence Day, their own soccer championship.
They host events for their own country because they understand very well that they aren't really a part of the United States, and they don't want to be.
They're not trying to assimilate at all into American culture.
They're trying to recreate their culture in this country.
Instead, the Somali population in Minnesota has committed itself to...
Actually, in many cases, defrauding this country at every available opportunity.
They have imported every bit of the corruption and wide-scale fraud that has destroyed Somalia.
In 2022, prosecutors announced federal charges against dozens of defendants who ripped off a federally funded child nutrition program during the pandemic to the tune of $250 million.
And they claimed that they served meals and then they didn't actually serve them.
So we're talking about more than 70 defendants here, and most of them were Somalis.
Quoting from the Minnesota Reformer.
A dizzying array of nonprofits were created or revived to participate in a U.S. Department of Agriculture program to provide free meals to children during the pandemic.
Two Minnesota nonprofits are at the center of the case, feeding our future and partners in nutrition.
What prosecutors say was the nation's biggest pandemic relief fraud.
An FBI forensic accountant testified Wednesday that the largest food distribution site out of the 50 sites connected to the defendants was at the Dar al-Faruq Mosque in Bloomington.
Where they claim to serve 1.9 million meals in 2021 for $4.9 million in reimbursement, close quote.
Now, this fraud, unsurprisingly, was apparently enabled by Democrats in the Minnesota legislature.
As the outlet reports, quote, Representative Hoden Hassan withdrew two bills that would have given the Somali nonprofit called Somali Community Resettlement Services a total of $6.5 million in grants.
Evidence prepared for the federal trial linked the nonprofit to the Feeding Our Future case.
It sponsored eight distribution sites in Minnesota cities where the defendants claimed to serve thousands of meals and snacks daily in 2020-2021, for which it was reimbursed over $2.9 million.
Of that, the Somali nonprofit paid the defendants and their various entities purporting to be serving meals $1.83 million, meaning it kept nearly $1.1 million.
In other words, the Somali population of Minnesota And to be clear, unpacking all of the various fraudulent operations at work here would take about five years, so I'm not going to attempt it.
Instead, I'll focus on one aspect of the story, which really highlights the comical and absurd level of corruption at work here.
So during one of these trials, some of the defendants hatched a plan to bribe a juror with $200,000.
And they decided to drop it at the juror's front door along with a note explaining that it's a bribe.
So it's not the most subtle operation.
But then a funny thing happened.
As the courier is taking the money to the juror's front porch, she skims $80,000 from the bribe money and keeps it for herself without telling her co-conspirators.
So the Somalis are scamming other Somalis while in the middle of a scam.
I mean, it's like you can't trust anyone these days.
Watch.
On Monday morning, June 3rd, toward the end of the first Feeding Our Future trial, we learned that an unknown woman showed up at the home of a juror, Juror 52. Because Juror 52 did not answer the door, the woman explained to the man who did that she was leaving $120,000 in cash for the juror as a bribe in exchange for an acquittal.
Other than the lawyers, defendants, and the court in this case, no one knew the names of the jurors.
Juror 52 immediately contacted authorities when she learned of the bribe, exposing the plot.
To corrupt the jury.
Ladan Muhammad Ali crying before the judge today as the U.S. Attorney's Office laid out the potential prison sentence she could face for her role in all this.
Meanwhile, we're learning that she actually hatched a plan to steal some of that cash before ultimately dropping it off at that juror's house.
Ms. Ali, any comment?
What happened to the rest of the money?
Where did the $80,000 go?
Please put the microphone.
The 31-year-old is one of five people charged with trying to bribe a jury in one of the Feeding Our Future cases.
The trial involved seven people connected to the nonprofit, accused of stealing millions from COVID relief funds meant to feed children in need.
So a real criminal mastermind here.
I just love the fact that she explained explicitly that it's a bribe, which you don't really need to explain.
I mean, this is someone who's on the jury for a corruption trial.
If you show up with $200,000, they'll get it.
You don't need to say, by the way, this is a bribe.
Just to be clear, there's money I want to give you, and this is a bribe.
Just so you know, I'm bribing you.
I'm trying to pay you to do something that I want.
It's a bribe, you understand?
Do you see?
A bribe.
You don't really need to spell it out like that, but she did.
Now, we can laugh about how flagrant this was, because it is funny.
Why is it so flagrant?
Well, because this kind of thing happens constantly in Somalia and now in places like Rochester.
Bribery is a common part of the culture in many places in Africa.
I'll never forget landing in the airport in Nairobi a few years ago and having officials at the airport demand a bribe from me and our whole team.
Five minutes after we got off the plane.
And the funny thing is that before we went, we were kind of briefed by the security team.
People, if you drive anywhere in these African countries, it's recommended that you have cash on you to pay the cops in case they stop you for a bribe.
And I remember this was explained to us to make sure you have this money with you in case you need a bribe.
I thought we'd at least make it through the airport before we stopped for one, but we didn't make it out of the terminal, and they were already asking for a bribe.
I complain about TSA all the time, but it's just unthinkable that a TSA agent would come up to you and say, hey, you've got to pay me some money.
I need some money.
It just won't happen.
So it's part of the culture.
And now...
Well, what happens when you have people from a certain culture and you bring them here?
Well, they bring their culture with them.
And so now, this is part of the culture in Minnesota, too.
Whenever fraudsters are extremely brazen about their crimes, it usually means that they've done it many, many times before without any consequences.
In this case, they just so happen to run into a juror with a basic sense of morality.
And also a juror who knows that, like, okay, we're in a civilized country.
I can't, like...
I can't take this money.
I can't just take $200,000 in cash and deposit it to my bank account while I'm in the middle of a trial.
It's going to send off a million red flags.
Even if I wanted to take the money, I can't.
I'm going to go to prison.
I cannot possibly get away with this in a civilized first world country.
So she would have known that too.
And of course, even when they're caught, they're totally shameless about it.
Calling this an endemic problem would be a major understatement.
Now on Reddit, just to emphasize the point, there's a topic called Question on possibly moving to Minnesota.
And here's the question on Reddit.
Salaam, my brothers and sisters.
Thinking about moving to Rochester, Minnesota for a job.
Is there a large Somali community there?
And here's one of the top-rated replies.
Quote, Now, one of the reasons that this fraud is so prevalent, other than the fact that Many Somalis who come here, like Ilhan Omar, despise this country.
But another problem is that a large number of these people apparently don't have the capacity to do much else.
Something like 54% of Somalis in Minnesota are below the poverty line, compared to 12% of people living in Minnesota overall.
Roughly 65% of Somali children live in poverty.
The numbers are similar in the UK, where 72% of Somalis live in socialized housing.
There is not a single Western society on Earth that has been improved by importing large quantities of Somalis.
And the lives of these Somalis aren't really improving that much either.
What's happening is they're bringing corruption, violence, and poverty with them to wherever they go.
And they were apparently bringing some antisocial behavior to the playground in Rochester.
Rochester, Minnesota, if Shiloh Hendricks' version of events is true.
As she put it, a black child reportedly of Somali heritage tried to take items from her bag, and then after calling the black child a slur, Hendricks was accosted by a Somali man who's completely unrelated to the black child.
And that Somali man, as we discussed the other day, has a history of sexual assault allegations that were later dropped in court.
From Shia Hendrix's perspective, let's recap.
She wanted to enjoy a day at the park with her child in Rochester, but she couldn't enjoy it because like so many other cities in Minnesota, Rochester has deliberately imported a lot of third-world behavior.
And put aside whether she's a good person or a bad person or whether she used a bad word, which she did use a bad word, by all accounts, including her own.
Instead, think about the overall context.
Consider the fact that Minnesota's Cedar Riverside neighborhood has been nicknamed Little Mogadishu because there's so many Somali migrants flooding in.
And then consider the fact that Little Mogadishu has seen a 56% increase in violent crime from 2010 to 2018, right when the Somali population was surging.
And think about living through that.
Imagine that the local parks, which were once a point of pride for Rochester, are now full of people.
Who are engaging in third-world behavior?
I mean, how do you respond in that situation?
You're probably exasperated.
I mean, you might say something naughty on camera.
You shouldn't, but you might.
And if you did say it, it really wouldn't serve any purpose to start, you know, pointing fingers and blame.
It's like blaming a driver if he crashes in a poorly designed intersection.
Yes, the driver made a mistake.
The driver did something they shouldn't do.
The real overarching problem that we should be talking about, if we can get outside of this playground and this incident and a bad word that was said that was bad and shouldn't have been said, the much greater problem which the government has engineered,
And that is what actually needs to be addressed, which is the flood of third world immigration from dysfunctional failed states that are overrun with poverty and crime and they bring it
Now, after my commentary the other day, in which I voiced my support for Hendricks' fundraiser as a way of dealing a death blow to cancel culture, not my support for her language, which of course I don't support, but my support for the fundraiser because of the death blow that it deals to cancel culture.
But after that, I've been accused of, you know, belonging to the so-called woke right or using third rail tactics that are typical of the woke right.
Now, no one's ever explained what exactly that's supposed to mean or how a monologue in which I explicitly condemn cancel culture could be described as woke in any meaningful sense.
But the point of these allegations about the woke right isn't to make sense.
The point is to derail the conversation so that everyone's talking about labels and meta-analysis instead of...
What's happened to cities like Rochester?
Without much fanfare, large portions of this country have been converted into miniature versions of Somalia.
You can see the evidence everywhere, from community centers to parks to playgrounds.
And if you really want to understand the Shiloh Hendricks story, which not many people do, then you can start by explaining to her and everyone else in Rochester what exactly two individuals of Somali heritage were doing in the playground in the first place.
Why?
Why?
Why are we importing Somalians into this country en masse?
It's a fair question.
It's something that we're doing.
Why are we doing it?
What's the reason?
In what way has it improved American society?
That's another fair question.
I'd like for someone to answer that.
No, you can get offended about it.
You can call me woke right, and you can say all this, and that's fine too if that's how you want to respond.
But I'd be interested in someone answering the question.
We have imported thousands and thousands of people from Somalia.
In what way?
In what tangible way?
Just give me one way that this has improved American society.
Give me one tangible way.
Can anyone do it?
Fair question, but it's a forbidden question.
Just like it's forbidden to state the obvious here.
Which is that nobody wants to live in a community overrun with Somalian immigrants.
I mean, if you had a choice to live in a community where 60% of the population is from Somalia or one where 0% is from Somalia, you would choose the latter.
Every single person would, and we all know it.
What's more, if you had a choice between living next door to Shiloh Hendricks or even with her propensity for vulgar language, or...
Living next door to the Somalian who's also an accused child abuser who was filming her, you would choose Shiloh every time.
Every single person would.
And we all know it.
So then, why are we doing this?
Why are we going out of our way to make our communities in this country resemble the worst and most dysfunctional countries on the entire planet?
Can you explain that?
If you can't, then you have no business telling anyone who has to live amid this dysfunction, you know, what they can and can't say.
And whether that makes me a member of the woke right or not, I don't really care.
It's true.
And everyone living in places like Rochester knows it very well.
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All right, well, you know, it's the headlines, and so we should start with...
The big headline the media is talking about, the conflict between India and Pakistan is escalating.
India this week has launched strikes against Pakistan on the heels of a terrorist attack in India by Pakistani militants.
And as this story gets more attention in the media, I have taken the time to research it extensively.
I've spent, at this point, several minutes, upwards of 12, even 13 minutes, researching this conflict on Wikipedia.
Now we're going to go into a deep dive where I will explain whose side I'm on and whose side we should all be on, which I'm not really going to do, of course.
I have no opinion of this.
I have no idea what's going on over there.
I did look on Wikipedia to try to understand it a little bit, so I do have that going for me.
But you will start to see, if you're not already, you'll start to see pundits and influencers become experts on Indian-Pakistani relations.
And you will also see, which is going to be funny to see this, but you're going to see people try to rope this into their pet issue somehow.
They'll find some way to relate this to whatever issues they're obsessed with, which will be a lot of fun to watch.
My solemn promise to you, I will never be an expert on it.
I will not ever know anything about it.
I refuse to know anything about it.
I'm going to stay in blissful ignorance.
And my only take is that I hope these guys work it out.
I wish them the best of luck.
I don't want to be involved in any way whatsoever.
Whatsoever in any way.
So just good luck with all that.
Good luck with all that.
I hope it works out.
I really do.
That's my analysis.
My official analysis of this very important global conflict is that it sucks.
And, you know, good luck with that.
The end.
Here's something I have a little more to say about.
NBC News has this.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump to implement his ban on transgender people serving in the military.
The justices granted an emergency request from the Trump administration to lift a nationwide injunction blocking the policy while litigation continues.
Court's brief order noted that the three liberal justices dissented.
Just over 4,000 transgender people currently serve in the military, according to the Defense Department data, though some activists put the figure much higher.
There are around 2.1 million active service members in total.
So the Supreme Court will allow this ban to go into effect.
It's good news.
Trans-identified people should not be in the military.
The military...
It has to be a place for clear-eyed people who are grounded in reality.
If you're confused about some of the basic facts of reality, then you just aren't suited for the military.
But, you know, the funny thing is that this is something that the left and trans activists themselves basically admit.
They basically admit that trans people are not fit for military service.
I mean, they won't admit it outright.
They won't say that.
They won't arrive at that conclusion explicitly.
But that's effectively what they're saying when they tell us, for example, that trans people commit suicide at alarmingly high rates.
They tell us that expressing a view on transgenderism that trans people don't like is an act of genocide.
Failing to say a preferred pronoun is an act of genocide.
It's genocide because mass amounts of trans people will end their own lives in response to it.
I mean, that's what we're told.
That is what they say.
That's what they are saying.
And if that's true, and I've always been skeptical of that, I've always been skeptical of the claim that I've heard so many times that by someone like myself going out and saying, yeah, I don't agree with this, I don't think it's true, I don't think the claims of transgenderism are true, that that will somehow spur this mass suicide event.
I'm skeptical of that, but that's what they tell us.
And if that's true, then by their own admission, we're dealing with a very...
Fragile group of people, a very psychologically and emotionally brittle, vulnerable group.
Again, they'll say that.
They'll say a vulnerable is a vulnerable group.
They're vulnerable.
Do you want vulnerable people in the military?
When you think about the perfect soldier or marine, and you think about the traits you're looking for, is vulnerable one of them?
Is that a trait you're looking for?
You know, and I didn't serve in the military, so I didn't go to boot camp, but is there a part of boot camp where they're working on their vulnerability?
Is that a thing?
But that's, again, what the trans activists will say.
So in that case, obviously, we can't put them under the stress of warfare.
That would be dangerous for them and everyone around them.
If you desperately need frequent affirmation, then the military is not for you.
Affirmation...
It's not anyone's priority, especially in combat.
But trans people, according to trans people, are very needy.
They have a lot of emotional needs, which, once again, should rule them out of military service.
It should rule them out of really any high-pressure, important job.
There should also be a trans ban for airline pilots and surgeons and a number of other jobs.
And I say that because...
I'm taking the trans activists seriously.
I'm believing what they say.
They tell us that trans people may physically harm themselves if they are not affirmed.
They say that these are very vulnerable people.
They're very emotionally...
They have a deep need for emotional affirmation.
And if they don't get it, horrible things can happen.
That's what they tell us.
And if that's the case, then again, I'll believe that.
I'll take it seriously.
And that's why I say, okay, well, thanks for letting us know.
Well, then, for your own sake and everyone else's sake, then you should not be in high-pressure positions where lives are on the line.
I mean, what if you're a surgeon, but right before surgery you got misgendered?
What if you're on your way to work, you stopped at a gas station, and the cashier called you sir instead of man?
Well, we're told that's a devastating moment for a trans-identified person.
A moment that could lead to the ultimate act of...
Of self-destruction.
And do we want, like, do we want that?
Do we want a situation like that where someone's, you know, your chest is open on the operating table, you have an open heart surgery, and the person that's doing the surgery is in a state of emotional crisis?
Probably not.
So, you know, that's why you just, you can't have it both ways.
Like the trans activists, they really want to have it both ways.
Where they want to tell us that, listen, this group is so fragile that you have to be so careful in what you say around them.
Here's a whole list of words that we need you to say.
We need you to change the way you approach language.
I don't care if you believe that it's a woman or not.
You have to play along.
Because if you don't, horrible things could happen.
So you can't say that on one hand, and then on the next hand say, and also, these people should be in the military and doing high-pressure jobs with lies on the line.
It can't be both, right?
It's got to be one or the other here.
So, all right.
Here's another story.
The Postmillennial Reports.
Target is scaling back its use of self-checkout kiosks across its nearly 2,000 U.S. stores, reversing a previous strategy due to rising concerns over theft.
The company had announced plans last March to expand self-checkout across all locations.
However, it's since quietly removed kiosks from certain stores, shutting them down in others or imposing strict item limits such as capping self-checkout use to 10 items or less.
And this is happening.
Of course, we've seen stories like this in many other stores where they're moving away from the self-checkout.
Because of all the theft.
It's easier for people to steal.
And this is the good news, I guess, that comes from living in a low-trust society filled with thieves and crooks.
The good news is that it saves thousands of cashiers from losing their jobs.
That's one thing.
And this is a story that jumped out at me because I just had an experience at a self-checkout lane, not at Target, because I don't go to Target.
For me, by the way, the Target boycott is still going and is permanent.
I haven't been to a Target in two years, and I'll never go back.
But this was at Kroger, and I used the self-checkout, scanned all my stuff.
Because I'm a hypocrite, I oppose self-checkout in principle because I don't like that it takes jobs away, and I don't like that it's just more of an excuse for people to be antisocial.
But at the same time, I am antisocial, so if you give me the option, I will take it.
But I don't think I should have it.
If you give me the option, I'll take it, but you probably shouldn't.
So anyway, but I'm at the self-checkout line, and I was about to pay, and then the light flashes, right?
And it says on the screen that an associate has to come over.
And so this girl came over, and I hadn't seen this before.
Maybe this has been happening for years.
It's the first time I'd seen it, where the associate came over.
It played a video on the screen, like a video replay.
Of me scanning the items.
It was like a little 10-second replay.
And I guess because I moved a certain way that triggered the security sensor and made it seem like I might have put something in the bag without scanning it.
Now, that was not the case, for the record.
It was not actually stealing anything, but it just, whatever, tripped the thing.
And so the girl had to come over, and together we watched the replay to see if I stole something.
And I watched it, too, a little bit nervous because, you know, I'm like, did I accident?
Did I put something in the thing by accident without scanning it?
And I thought, how am I going to explain this?
Turns out I was good.
I didn't steal.
The whole thing was like, you know, it was like a 30-second ordeal with her just watching the thing.
She doesn't care anyway.
And then she, whatever, scans the badge and we're fine.
But even so, it's just, it's like, it's weird.
And it's kind of embarrassing.
It's embarrassing that I have to, now I've got to check.
You know, I'm sitting there being checked to make sure I didn't steal anything.
And I just thought, this is how we all have to be treated now.
We all have to be treated this way.
You know, they've got the shampoo locked up behind glass.
That was in the same shopping experience.
And of course, many of us have been through this exact same thing.
We needed more shampoo.
And I go to the shampoo.
It's a lock behind glass.
So I just said, okay, well, never mind.
I guess we're not getting shampoo.
We're going to have dirty hair, I guess, because I refuse to do it.
I'm not going to call someone over to unlock the shampoo for me.
It's humiliating.
And then I go to the self-checkout lane, and someone has to come over and check the replay monitor, like an NFL referee.
And the whole experience is, it's actually dehumanizing.
Just being treated like a suspected thief, even when you haven't stolen anything in your entire life, it's actually dehumanizing.
But we're all used to it.
We're all treated like suspected thieves, even though most of us have never stolen anything.
And even though most of us are not in the category that you have to worry about us stealing.
And that does matter because the data on who does most of the shoplifting and who does what kind of shoplifting is well-established.
But stores aren't really allowed to take any of that into account officially.
They're not allowed to know what the data says and act on it, so we all get kind of lumped in.
You know, as a 38-year-old dad at the grocery store with my kids, the chance that I steal anything is basically zero.
I mean, it's the same thing when going through an airport.
You know, and they randomly flag certain people, even though there are wide demographic swaths that have literally never committed any kind of terrorist attack on a plane.
It's a very small demographic group that does all of the plane terrorism.
I mean, 100% of it.
And, you know, of course, we're talking about Middle Eastern men.
They do like all of it.
There's essentially zero chance that the white middle-aged woman No one thinks that there's zero chance of it.
0.0% chance.
But we all have to be treated this way.
There is a greater chance that And I got randomly flagged at the airport recently, too.
I mean, this goes to travel all the time.
It happens every once in a while.
And once again, the inconvenience is small, but it's the principle of it.
Why am I getting pulled aside so you can check me?
There's a greater chance that I'm selected as the next pope than that I'm going to blow up a plane, okay?
There's a much greater chance, actually.
And the chance of that is also zero.
But we have to do this whole kabuki theater where we pretend that the risk level is the same for everybody.
And, you know, so if you have a man of Middle Eastern descent going through the, you know, from Saudi Arabia or something, going through airport security, and you've got a 45-year-old white woman with three kids, we have to pretend that, I don't know, it could be either one of them.
There's an equal chance that one of them could...
There's no way to know.
There's no way.
We have no way.
We can only randomly do additional screening because the chances are the same for both of them.
And no one really believes that.
But it's much worse in places like grocery stores, and the cultural effect is much worse, I think, because it's just, you know, at least an airport is a...
Is a place that most people don't go every day or every week.
Grocery stores, we're all there all the time.
And for us all to be treated like thieves as soon as we walk in the door is bad.
As a middle-aged dad, you could just leave me alone and forget about me.
I'm in the category where, and this happened once a few years ago, Even if I do leave with something not being scanned accidentally, I will drive back to the store and pay for it.
That happened to me a few years ago, and it wasn't a self-checkout.
It was a cashier that made the mistake of not scanning coffee filters or something.
And I get home, I check the receipt, because that's the other thing, of course, that you do.
You always check the receipt.
And I noticed that that thing had not been scanned.
It wasn't on the receipt.
I drove back to the freaking store to pay the five bucks for the coffee filters.
Not some great heroic act.
It's just sort of typical middle-aged dad behavior.
It's the same thing my dad would have done.
But everyone's treated like a thief.
And by the way, the number one predictor for shoplifting is age.
Statistically, that's what the data says.
That's the number one predictor.
The peak age for shoplifting is between 15 and 25. Like 75% of the shoplifting is done by people under the age of 35. Almost half of it is done by people under the age of 25. And when it comes to small personal items, the stuff that you would find in the toiletry aisle, when you go to the toiletry aisle and shampoo or cosmetics are locked behind glass, well, that's mostly young women that are stealing almost all that stuff.
A young man, if an expensive drill goes missing at Home Depot...
There's a much greater chance that a man steals it.
They tend to steal—young men tend to steal high-ticket items.
But the smaller stuff—the stuff you find at a grocery store, it's mostly women.
But this is the way it goes.
This is the consequence of living in a low-trust society.
And there's no way around it, really, for the stores.
You know, there's no way to do it other than to lock everything behind glass and do the video replays, get rid of the self-checkouts, Have somebody checking the receipts at the exit.
And because we live in a low-trust society.
And none of this, in most places in America, none of this existed even like 20 years ago.
Many of us have been going to grocery stores our entire lives.
And unless you lived in the middle of the city, you never saw anything locked behind glass.
And now, in a lot of these places, it's just...
A normal part of the experience.
All right, finally, this is a fun thing because it feels like a kind of a woke flashback to like 2021.
And here is Hope Walls, I think is her name, the daughter of Tim Walls, with some philosophical thoughts about running.
Listen.
Running as an act is political, and you know who taught me that?
Tim Walls.
The first thing he told me when I was first getting into it in high school, granted I don't really do it as much anymore, I go in spurts, but when I was first getting into it in high school, the first thing he told me was that running is a privilege and being a part of the running community is a privilege that not all people have access to.
Whether you do it recreationally or you race a lot or you are at the elite level, it is a privilege.
Whether it be you just having the time to run, access to funds to buy the gear, access to healthy, quality foods that fuel you as you're training and as you're running, access to a safe, stable situation that allows you to be in a good mental state to be able to run.
All of those things, Running is political.
That's the first thing her dad taught her.
And you know, I got into track and field when I was in high school, too.
The first thing my dad said when I got into track and field is that I need to practice and train consistently if I want to be great.
That was my dad's message.
The message from Hope's dad is that running is political.
Which is, I mean, that's exactly the kind of useless nonsense that I would expect Tim Wallace to say to his kids.
That's precisely the kind of parenting that I thought he probably was doing.
I can't even imagine those words coming out of my dad's mouth.
Like, I'm trying to imagine being 14 years old, just got into running.
And I tell my dad, hey, I'm going out for the track team.
And he says, you know, Matt, running is a political act.
I would just look at him like, what?
Are you okay?
Are you having a stroke?
Should I call somebody?
Dad, do I need to call 911?
Running is political.
I actually can't think of anything less political than running.
What I always liked about running is that it's the purest, simplest, most uncomplicated, most primitive sport there is, really.
It's just you and your legs running.
It's the most ancient form of competition, right?
It's probably the first type of competition that ever existed in human society was somebody saying, hey, first one to that tree wins, right?
So it's the simplest, oldest form of competition.
Simple but difficult.
Not complicated, but difficult.
Running is a battle against your opponents.
It's also a battle against your own mind, against your own willpower, especially long-distance running.
And that's what I loved about it.
Meanwhile, Tim Wall says that it's political.
And why is it political?
Because not everyone has access to running.
Access to running.
I mean, think about that.
Running is the one sport that everyone has access to.
If you have your legs, if you have legs and you have a three-dimensional space of some kind, then you have access to running.
That's all you need.
You need functional legs and a three-dimensional.
So if you, for example, are a two-dimensional being that was drawn on a sheet of paper by a child, then yeah, then you don't have access to running or really anything because you're not a person.
If you have legs that work and you live in a three-dimensional space, then you have access.
You could be in prison and have access to running, actually.
So, that is just total nonsense.
And it's the kind of nonsense that just dominated political discussion, you know, four or five years ago.
But we're still hearing it from people like Hope Walls.
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Well, the N-word has been the topic of the week.
Every episode of America 2025 seems to have its own plot line, and the plot of this week's episode is the N-word.
And, you know, when compared to some of this season's recent installments, we have to admit that this one has been, if nothing else, pretty entertaining.
And that was especially the case if you watched Piers Morgan's show yesterday, where he assembled a panel, including Myron Gaines' Lily Gaddis, who went viral with her own N-word controversy about a year ago.
And Mark Lamont Hill, the race-baiting activist and former cable news personality who, according to Wikipedia, currently works for Al Jazeera.
Not a very surprising career turn for him.
With a panel like this, you know, you are no doubt expecting a civil, polite, intellectually rigorous debate.
And if you are expecting that, then I'm sorry to disappoint you, because instead, it went like this.
I want to live in a country where people are allowed to say what they want unashamedly.
And you can...
Well, go on then.
Say it.
You will not have...
Go on.
Say the N-word.
Go on.
No, no, no.
I don't want you to invite this woman to say a racially harmful term in front of me because I'm the only...
I'm the only one here.
So if she says it, I'm the victim of it.
So please don't invite her for ratings to call me the N-word because that's basically what it's going to be.
There's a bunch of white people up here.
And one...
Uncle Tom on the left here.
And asking her to say the N-word while I'm here is ridiculous.
You would not sit here with a Jewish person and say, please use a Jewish slur in front of this Jew.
It's ridiculous.
I understand you don't have any bad intent, Pierce.
I understand what you're trying to do.
But we already know some reasons.
I don't want to invite a racial harm to me.
I hear you.
I hear you.
And I accept that.
And we'll leave it there.
Thank you all very much.
So let's review what just happened.
Piers Morgan tries to coax the woman Lily into saying the N-word.
Mark Lamont Hill loses his mind, starts shaking uncontrollably.
His camera is shaking and screaming that if she says it, she'll cause him harm.
But in the process of screaming about how she can't say the word, he himself says the word.
It's bleeped out, so he may have missed it, but Mark screams that he's the only N-word on the panel.
And then to cap things off, he calls the other black panelists, Myron, and Uncle Tom, which is also a racial slur.
If you're keeping track at home, Mark said two racial slurs while shrieking about how he doesn't want to hear any racial slurs.
So it's like if you were eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and then someone comes by and starts freaking out because they have a peanut allergy.
And while they're yelling at you to stop eating your peanut butter and jelly sandwich, they're just popping fistfuls of honey roasted peanuts into their mouth.
I mean, it's like a psychotic spectacle.
Why do I have a problem with the scene that we just witnessed?
Well, on one level, I don't have a problem with it.
It's really funny.
Why do I have an intellectual problem with it?
Is it because I love the word and I wish for people to go around yelling it at the top of their lungs?
No, it's vulgar.
In fact, Piers should not have asked Lily to say it.
I mean, that's great television.
Piers Morgan has a great instinct for TV, but he should not have asked her to say it.
For the same reason that he shouldn't dare her to say the F word on live TV.
The problem is not that Mark doesn't like the word.
The problem is that, and if he had just said, hey, don't tell, you know, it's vulgar.
Don't ask her to say a vulgarity on live TV.
If he had just said that, we wouldn't even be talking about this.
Totally reasonable way to respond.
The problem is that he literally shakes with fear at the very suggestion of the word, like a child terrified that if someone says Bloody Mary into the mirror three times, it might summon an evil spirit from the bowels of hell.
And yet, while frantically warning of the unspecified harms caused by hearing the word, He forces everyone to hear it by saying it himself.
That's the problem.
That is obviously the problem.
At least obvious to rational people.
But I've heard from a lot of very irrational people on the topic this week.
People who, while trying to refute my point about the word, only manage to reinforce it.
And that brings us to a guy who goes by the X handle, The Strong Dad.
But he doesn't seem very strong in the video that he posted responding to my monologue on the Shiloh Hendricks case.
And so let's watch a little bit of that.
If you want to use the word, use that.
Go ahead.
Use it.
In real life.
In your walking every day.
Use that.
If you really care so much about the word, it's a free country.
Right?
Trump's in office.
It's still a freedom bells and popes and eagles and.
Or whatever the f***.
Right?
It's supposed to be f***ing ego, right?
Say that.
Go out in your normal.
Because this is what y'all do.
You say it online behind faceless accounts because you're either robots or b***h.
Go out there in your normal f***ing life and go call big black n***.
Go do it.
It's a free country.
You b***h.
If you're really not a b***h.
If you're really descended of George Washington, you b***h.
You'll go out there and do it.
You b***h.
Don't do that.
Go call her.
You know you want to do it.
It's a free country.
It's a free country.
The consequences are your own.
White people who complain about not being able to say they own some crybaby.
Because this is really what they're saying.
I want to say n***a, but I don't want to get punched for it.
I don't want to get mad at me for it.
Like Matt Walsh, you f***ing.
When a tranny beard is not man enough to say, I want to be racist.
Unfortunately, you don't have the right to be racist without us getting mad at you for it.
If you want to be a racist, that's what it comes down to.
Then you have to be able to accept that God's given consequences could be enacted upon you.
Who knows?
Okay, first of all, I have to say, don't go throwing stones when you live in a weak, patchy house made out of pubes, which is what your beard looks like.
And I'm not one to beard shame normally.
I'm on the record that I support any man who decides to grow his own version of a beard.
But, you know, coming after my beard when your beard has leprosy is a bit much.
Throwing around a term like tranny beard when Ellen Page has a better beard than you is just, it's a bridge too far, man.
It's a bridge too far.
Second, less importantly, you've completely missed the point.
The only question is whether you and all the people who've been saying similar things are pretending to not understand or if you really are this obtuse.
And I'm not going to speculate about that, but I don't need to speculate to say that you have made the worst possible arguments.
Against my point, because your argument proves my point rather than refuting it.
You say that I would be too scared to say the N-word to a black guy because I don't want to be physically assaulted or killed.
My entire point, or half of it at least, is that this word elicits a hysterical and wildly disproportionate reaction.
In order to prove me wrong, you're warning me that if I say it, I might end up in the hospital.
Yes, well, exactly.
Yes.
The other half of my point is that there is an insanely flagrant double standard around the word.
You helpfully demonstrated that as well by using the word at least a dozen times in your video about why I shouldn't use the word.
All that said, I do understand why you're getting so upset.
I understand why Mark Lamont Hill was shaking with rage like a two-year-old who was just told that it's time to leave the playground.
I get it.
For a long time in this country, there has been a rule surrounding this word.
The rule stipulates that the word is so unspeakably evil that if a white person says it, you can physically assault him.
And if you say it as a black person, it's not offensive or even vulgar in the slightest.
So it's the first ultra-taboo in the English language or any other language in the history of the world, as far as I know, that switches off suddenly depending on the skin pigmentation of the person saying it.
That's the rule.
The rule makes no logical or moral sense.
It's obviously totally unreasonable.
But people followed it anyway.
Largely because, as you helpfully point out, there was an implicit or even explicit, oftentimes, threat of, among other things, great physical harm if they didn't follow it.
So it was an unreasonable and indefensible rule that gave you a certain amount of privilege and power.
It's nice to be on the winning side of a rule like that.
It may not be fair, it may not make sense intellectually, but it's kind of fun and satisfying, if you have a sadistic streak, to watch people jump through hoops.
And march on command like little wind-up monkeys with symbols.
Watching other people do that, if you're a sadistic person, is enjoyable.
The rule surrounding this word is linguistically unprecedented.
There's, again, never been a word in any language ever, ever, treated quite like this one.
But there's nothing unprecedented about forcing or manipulating people into following artificial, arbitrary rules.
We've seen quite a lot of that, especially recently.
You know, this is spiritually no different than social distancing.
You gotta be six feet apart.
Not four, not eight, six.
Respecting pronouns is another one.
These are all rules that can't be defended, can't be justified.
They can't even really be coherently explained.
People follow them anyway.
Until one day, a few people, and then a few more, and a few more, stop and say, hey, wait a minute.
Why are we doing this exactly?
Why is this a rule?
Who is this for?
Who does this benefit?
Who made this up?
Like, why?
And the moment people start asking those questions, the game is over.
And people who benefited from the game, like you, always react the same way.
You get angry, you panic, you make threats.
I understand.
People were cooperating, now they aren't.
And that's always frustrating and kind of jarring for the proponents of the incoherent, indefensible rule.
But you don't actually need to panic.
You know, there is another way to respond.
You could just say this.
Here's what you could say.
Yes, obviously it's totally wrong and insane for anyone to be physically harmed over a word.
And yes.
If I say the word, then I cannot rightly tell anyone else to not say it.
That's a basic rule of life.
You cannot do something and then tell other people not to do it.
So instead, you might say, why don't we all just refrain from saying it for the same reason in the same way that most of us try to refrain from using any other slur or vulgarity?
If you said that, I, along with most everyone else, Would say in response, yes, agreed.
Sounds like a plan.
And then we could move on and never talk about the subject again.
We could never talk about it ever again.
You could, in other words, just be reasonable and honest and consistent and humble.
Which, by the way, is always the better option.
But you and Mark Lamont Hill and your race-hustling compatriots have ruled out reasonableness and honesty and consistency and humility.
So instead, you scream and panic and threaten, which is a tale as old as time.
And it's why you are today, I'm afraid to say, canceled.
