Ep. 1623 - First New York, Now Minneapolis. Foreign Socialists Are Taking Over.
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a foreign socialist is on his way to becoming the next mayor of New York City. Now, a Somali socialist is running for mayor of Minneapolis. This raises a lot of questions, including one in particular that very few people want to say out loud. We’ll talk about it. Also, Democrats in Congress have now suddenly discovered an urgent desire to see all of the Epstein files released. Funny that they didn’t feel that way when Biden was in office. A new band has exploded on the Spotify streaming charts. The only problem is that the band doesn’t exist. It’s AI. And Gavin Newsom continues to moderate his views on the trans issue. His latest attempt to deal with the topic is hilariously clumsy and incoherent.
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Today in the Matt Wall show, a foreign socialist is on his way to becoming the next mayor of New York City, and now a Somali socialist is running for mayor of Minneapolis.
This raises a lot of questions, including one in particular that very few people want to say out loud, but we'll talk about it today.
Also, Democrats in Congress have now suddenly discovered an urgent desire to see all the Epstein files released.
Funny they didn't feel that way when Biden was in office.
A new band has exploded on Spotify streaming charts.
The only problem is that the band doesn't exist.
It's AI.
And Gavin Newsom continues to moderate his views on the trans issue.
His latest attempt to deal with the topic is hilariously clumsy and incoherent.
talk about all that and more today in the Matt Wall Show.
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A few years ago during the summer of George Floyd, the socialists in the government of Seattle were celebrating.
And here's what one member of Seattle City Council, an Indian woman by the name of Kashama Sawant, wrote on social media at the time, quote, our tax Amazon movement has made history.
Seattle City Council just voted to pass an Amazon tax on the largest corporations to fund affordable housing and jobs to begin to end racist gentrification.
This is entirely because of the thousands of working people, unions, socialists, et cetera, close quote.
So this was a tax that politicians like Kashama Sawant had been pushing for quite some time.
Watch this.
Right now, we have enormous momentum to pass a tax on big business.
In other words, an Amazon tax in our city.
A new tax on big businesses, Councilmember Shama Sawant says.
And this time around, she's asking for a lot more.
So I would say we have to look at something like $300 to $500 million to be raised every year with no sunset clause, meaning having the construction of affordable housing every year with union jobs with energy-efficient buildings.
The promise, as you heard, was to raise hundreds of millions of dollars by taxing the most successful business in the city and then redistributing that money towards union jobs, affordable housing, and energy-efficient buildings.
In other words, she's going to steal money from productive companies and redistribute it to various left-wing projects and handouts.
Never mind the fact that Kashyama Swan has never created anything of value since arriving in this country in her mid-20s.
She's a socialist, so therefore she gets to dictate how the economy of Seattle will work.
That's the idea.
And for several years, Seattle went along with it.
They put foreign socialism into action, and how did it turn out?
Well, as you'd expect, businesses began leaving Seattle.
More workers stayed at home.
Companies like Expedia conducted mass layoffs.
The results has been less tax revenue and fewer jobs.
In other words, socialism failed as it always does.
And to give you an idea of how dire things have become, here's a recent headline from one of Seattle's local news outlets, quote, this is catastrophic.
Seattle payroll tax revenue $47 million short as jobs leave the city.
Here's how Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell assessed the situation.
Quote, today's announcement that payroll tax revenues collected in 2024 were $47 million lower than projected requires action to ensure our budget remains balanced.
This decrease in revenue is aligned with recent reports of major employers moving thousands of high-paying jobs out of Seattle to other cities in our region.
Well, imagine that.
Kashama Sawant became a socialist in India.
She brought her ideas to this country, and her ideas in a very observable way made this country worse to the point that the Democrats running the city can't even deny it.
And we're seeing a lot of this lately, if you haven't noticed.
Of course, a few weeks ago, as we talked about, a Muslim socialist, someone who wants to eliminate the police department, establish state-run grocery stores, nationalize rental properties, dominated the primary in the mayor's race in New York.
He's very likely to lead New York very soon.
He'll probably win the general election, and he's very, very far ahead in the lead.
And now in Minneapolis, a similar election is about to unfold.
A Muslim socialist named Omar Fateh, who represents the district where George Floyd overdosed, is now gaining traction in the mayor's race.
And before we go any further, just think about that credential.
He's a socialist who represents the district where George Floyd overdosed, which happens to be one of the most dangerous and least desirable places to live in the country.
And to give you some local color, here's what that means in practice.
This is what George Floyd Square was like post-BLM.
Watch.
This bill of comprehensive police reform to be just got to be careful here with some gunshots.
Excuse us, excuse us.
It sounds like gunshots, I'll let you know what this is.
So, there it is.
That's Omar Fateh's home turf.
And he wants all of Minneapolis, and indeed all the United States, to look just like that.
Like the Muslim socialists in New York, Omar Fateh is not subtle about his intentions.
He's not hiding anything.
Instead, he's made it very clear that he works with other Somali politicians in Minnesota to advance the interests of Somalia, not of the United States or of his local constituents.
He's also referred to Somalia as our home, even though he was actually born in Washington and grew up in Virginia.
Watch.
Investing in increasing affordable housing and not gentrifying our neighborhoods.
These are all things that are causing harm to our community because of this idea that there isn't money when in reality we do have this money to spend on this.
It's just that we're choosing not to.
It's not a value of ours.
So right now we're blessed to have three Somali elected officials at the capital, me, Sister Hodan Hassan, who's in the State House, and Brother Mahmoud Nur.
And we work very closely together.
And we carry each other's bills.
So the way it works is if there's a bill in the House, it needs an identical bill to be carried in the Senate for it to be negotiated and to pass in the committees and then go on for the floor session and then go on to the governor's signature.
So we're able to pass our bills back and forth.
That'll help benefit our communities.
I understand that our Somali communities are all connected to each other here in Minnesota and back home.
And I ask for your support.
There's always been a link between our community here as well as back home.
And I'm running to bridge that gap and unite all of us and represent all of us because when we succeed here, we will succeed everywhere.
And I'm hoping to do that just like Abderzak, inshallah.
So he's really outright admitting that Somali politicians are engaged in a conspiracy against the United States.
They're working together to loot the treasury to serve the interests of foreign nationals.
They're not hiding it.
And that's their goal in every case.
It doesn't matter that Omar was born here.
It doesn't matter whether his parents were legal immigrants or not.
None of that matters.
His goal remains the same.
He was born in America, but he's not actually an American.
America is not his home.
He's very proudly admitted that.
Omar Fateh, like the other Somali politicians in Minnesota, understands that he can take advantage of us.
So they're all doing it to their great benefit.
By contrast, nobody can provide, and I've asked, nobody can provide an example of a single way that the United States has benefited from Somali immigration.
This is like the question that people don't want to ask, even though it should be a very simple question.
What is the benefit of importing a bunch of Somalis into this country?
Now, it's easy to think of the drawbacks, but I can't think of a single positive, and neither can anyone else.
You know, by some estimates, there are more than 150,000 Somalis living in this country.
In fact, I think the official estimate is 170,000, although it's probably way more than that.
They've completely taken over entire neighborhoods in Minnesota and several other states.
What have they improved?
Have they boosted the GDP, employment rates, IQ averages?
That'd be quite a trick since the average IQ in Somalia is something like 70.
Have Somalis reduced crime?
Have they come up with any new technologies?
Have they innovated anything?
Have they done anything except marry their cousins at extremely high rates?
Which is also a statistical reality about life in Somalia.
These are questions that have objective answers.
And in every case, the answer is just no.
Leftists know they can't dispute that, so they'll call you racist for asking the question.
But the question needs to be asked, why are we allowing Somalis into this country?
If nobody can explain how allowing them into the country helps our country, then why do we allow it?
Like, this is the basic question that should be asked about every policy at every level.
Any government policy, whether it has to do with immigration or any other topic.
The very first question that should be asked, the very first one, is, does this policy help the country?
If the answer is no, then obviously the policy should not be enacted.
Obviously, we don't need to ask any other questions.
We don't need to say, well, it doesn't help the country, but does it do this?
It doesn't matter what it does.
Nothing else matters.
It doesn't help the country.
Every policy in America should have the intention and the effect of helping Americans.
And if it doesn't do that, we shouldn't have the policy.
And while we're at it, why aren't we beginning the process of denaturalizing as many of these Somalis as possible?
If you join a subversive communist party, your citizenship can be revoked on national security grounds.
Additionally, if you didn't actually abandon any foreign allegiance, then you lied on your application for citizenship and your citizenship can and should be revoked.
So if you've got Somalis in this country that are saying, oh, our home is Somalia, we're interested in helping Somalia.
Well, then they lied in their application.
Their allegiance is to Somalia, so they shouldn't be allowed to be here.
And I'm not just talking about Ilhan Omar's whole fraud with her brother.
This is a systemic issue.
So when do we start kicking these foreign communists out of the country?
The question is becoming increasingly urgent because at the moment, Omar Fateh stands a very real chance of winning in Minneapolis.
And if he wins, he'll win because of the support of a lot of people who shouldn't be in the country to begin with.
And then we'll all suffer the consequences.
In particular, one of his core agenda items will be dismantling the police department and redistributing the money to Somalis, which is something that he's wanted for a very long time.
Listen.
By increasing the minimum wage to $20 by 2028 and passing rent stabilization to stop price gouging and incentivizing new construction, we can protect workers.
Protecting all of our communities from Donald Trump means not letting MPD interact with ICE.
Whether it's for an immigration raid or not, our residents deserve a mayor that will stand up to Donald Trump and say, no, not in our community.
Did you know that the city's own data showed that 47% of calls to MPD can be diverted to non-police response?
Cops aren't social workers.
Investments in programs like these ensure that the appropriate response arrives when we call 911.
It's just that we know that police officers are not required or not needed to respond to every single call.
So I think that if we have a new system in which, for example, a young child with autism is having a mental breakdown, we can have a qualified professional there and not an armed officer.
I think that's the right approach to take.
Well, what could go wrong?
You have a young, autistic person having a mental breakdown.
Why would you ever need to send an armed officer to that kind of a situation?
It's not as if autistic mentally ill people have ever hurt anyone in the history of this country, right?
I mean, that would be absurd.
That's never happened.
And by the way, the statistic there was pretty incredible.
He claimed that 47% of calls to the police could be diverted to non-police responses.
That's a number that some left-wing academics at NYU came up with, but there's an obvious problem with it.
In fact, there's a lot of problems with it, but one of them is that police don't know in advance whether a call is going to be dangerous.
Okay, that they don't like call back and say, hey, is this going to be dangerous for us or not?
There's not enough time for that kind of questionnaire.
And there are a lot of things that seem like they're not going to be dangerous.
And then they turn a traffic stop, something that seems like a very low intensity, low stakes thing like a traffic stop can turn deadly in an instant, as it has many times.
Now, it's probably true that many Autistic children having a mental breakdown, quote unquote, aren't violent and that a social worker could coax them out of it with an ice cream cone or something.
But there's also a chance that the Autistic Child or Autistic Young person of any age having a mental breakdown will indeed try to kill someone.
That's why you need police officers there to respond to as many calls like this as possible.
You don't wait until somebody gets killed.
Now, this is all self-explanatory.
Even somebody as dumb as Omar Fateh understands everything I just said.
He knows all this.
In reality, his goal is to legalize certain forms of violence.
And again, there's a lot of this kind of thing going around.
Take domestic violence, for example.
Most people would agree that domestic violence is bad, I would hope, and that police should respond to domestic violence calls, especially since they're some of the most dangerous calls that police can receive.
But just a few years ago, the Muslim socialist in New York, Mamdani, explained that in his view, the police shouldn't respond to domestic violence calls.
This is audio that was first reported by the Free Beacon, and listen to this.
I mean, you just look at the history of the NYPD, and you see that we have invested in a system that functions in many ways to punish poor black and brown people across this city and across this state, frankly, across this country.
And there are so many responsibilities we have given to police that frankly should have nothing to do with their departments.
A homeless person is on a train, they do not need a stranger with a gun to come and resolve that situation.
If somebody is jaywalking, if somebody is surviving, you know, going through domestic violence, if there are so many different situations that would be far better handled by people trained to deal with those specific situations as opposed to an individual with a gun.
Notice how he just sort of casually mentions jaywalking along with domestic violence.
A lot of people have said that hardline Islamist beliefs aren't a part of Mohamdani's platform and that he's just a typical left-wing socialist.
But, I mean, this soundbite would maybe indicate otherwise.
There's a little bit of a traditional Islamic teaching creeping in, perhaps.
In any event, just consider the comparison that he just made.
Jaywalking, beating your wife, well, what's the difference?
According to him, they're both against the law.
And according to Mom Dani, laws are bad.
Therefore, when New York is under the rule of a Muslim socialist, they won't have laws anymore or police to enforce them.
The only way to combat this very rapid rise in third world governance is to treat these socialist invaders like the threat that they are.
There can't be any compromise whatsoever.
Denaturalization and deportations are a big part of that.
We also need to establish prisons like the ones they have in El Salvador for the deterrent effect.
For, first of all, a place to house these dangerous people, but also the deterrent that it creates.
Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida seems to understand that.
He's just opened a new detention facility for illegal aliens in Florida that the administration is calling Alligator Alcatraz, as you've probably heard.
The administration repurposed a state-owned airfield west of Miami in the Everglades.
And the idea, of course, is that if anyone tries to escape, they'll, you know, well, they might get eaten by alligators.
So don't try to escape.
Or failing that, a hurricane might get them.
So again, don't try to escape.
Predictably, because they're aligned with the foreigners who want to undermine this country's national security, Democrats are falling over themselves to explain why this idea, which is obviously very good, is somehow terrible and unacceptable.
Here's Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a member of Congress from Florida, to deliver the best line of argument that Democrats could come up with on this issue.
Here it is.
They essentially drink.
They get their drinking water and they brush their teeth where they poop in the same unit.
They bragged that they went above standards, supposedly, and gave them a three-foot privacy wall that stretches the length inside the 32 detainee cage, a three-foot privacy wall that stretches the length of the three toilet.
Yes, she says in a horrified tone, they brush their teeth where they poop in the same unit.
I'll say that again.
These illegal aliens, criminals who have no right to be in this country, are being forced against their will to brush their teeth where they poop.
Can you imagine the utter horror of being subjected to something like that?
Can you imagine having to brush your teeth in the same room where you use the toilet?
My God.
Now, of course, if you happen to have something called a bathroom in your home, then you might see a problem with the way that Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is trying to, you know, is trying to present this.
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, who keeps getting re-elected despite lacking any form of charism or authenticity whatsoever, is going into hysterics over the fact that these illegal aliens have bathrooms inside the detention facility.
And then she complains about the privacy wall, which is only three feet tall, apparently.
You have to wonder if Debbie Wasserman-Schultz has ever heard of the concept of a prison.
For that matter, you have to wonder if she's ever seen what sailors have to deal with on deployment, to say nothing of the forward operating bases at places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
Actually, you don't have to wonder about any of this.
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is a fundamentally dishonest person, so nothing she says has any value whatsoever.
And more to the point, even if the situation at the facility is kind of rough, and I haven't seen any evidence of that really.
It sounds like just a normal detention facility, except for the alligators, but you don't have to worry about that as long as you stay in the facility.
But even aside from that, even if it was true that it was a rough situation, even if they were, when she says they're brushing their teeth where they poop, when I first heard that, I thought like, oh, do they have to brush their teeth using the toilet water?
Is that what's going on here?
And even if that was true, the illegals are still being treated with more kindness and humanity than most countries outside of the Western world treat people who try to sneak across their own borders.
The fact is that illegal migrants are waging an assault on our country and our sovereignty.
It might be ugly.
It might be this, some of the ways we have to deal with this might be ugly to somebody like Debbie Wasserman Schultz, but our illegal immigration problem is itself ugly.
There is no pretty way to deal with an ugly thing.
The Trump administration seems to understand that, which is why they're using blackhawks and armored vehicles to raid marijuana farms.
Watch.
A rally outside Oxnard City Hall denouncing the federal enforcement at a Camarillo-licensed marijuana grower, where this morning people lined up saying they were trying to locate loved ones like this woman's aunt.
She was working here yesterday, and we haven't heard anything about her.
The Turk County Fire confirming they transported eight people, including farm workers like Jaime Anes, who seemingly fell off a roof as he fled from agents, his family, and the United Farms Workers Union, confirming that he was pulled off life support and is now dead.
The Department of Homeland Security confirming on their side they executed a criminal search warrant at the Glass House Farms, arresting about 200 immigrants suspected of being in the country illegally.
They also posted this image of 10 minors describing them as, quote, illegal aliens, eight of them unaccompanied.
Glass House responding in a statement that it, quote, never knowingly violated applicable hiring practices and does not and has never employed minors.
Now, we need to see much, much more of this.
It's not enough to go after illegal aliens.
You have to target the people who are employing them.
In this case, the facts were particularly bad.
There were nearly a dozen children on site, even though children obviously shouldn't be growing marijuana.
One of the adults overseeing the workers was a convicted child predator, unsurprisingly.
Apparently, a Gavin Newsome donor ran the place as well, also unsurprisingly.
But none of this should be necessary in order for ICE to act.
Anyone who employs illegal aliens, even if they're not growing marijuana and employing pedophiles, should receive the exact same treatment.
This has to continue until illegal aliens see no value in coming to this country and obtaining employment in the first place.
At the moment, instead, left-wing activists and illegal aliens are emboldened.
And one of them was caught on camera shooting at ICE agents during a raid on one of the farms.
And just the past two weeks, a heavily armed terrorist opened fire at a Border Patrol office in Texas, injuring two officers before he was taken out.
Meanwhile, 10 suspects were charged with attempted murder for engaging in coordinated attacks on a separate ICE facility in Texas.
They allegedly lured agents out of the facility with fireworks before firing more than a dozen rounds, including one round that hit an officer in the neck.
Fortunately, the officer who was shot, wasn't seriously wounded.
Watching all this domestic terrorism, judges with foreign names are, of course, taking the side of the terrorists.
There's a federal judge in California named Miami Uisi Mensa Frinpong, for example, just issued a bizarre injunction claiming, in effect, that ICE is rounding up people because of the color of their skin.
And according to the injunction, which is based on five declarations from random people, ICE needs to stop doing that immediately.
Now, this is an injunction that will have no effect whatsoever.
That's because in reality, what ICE is doing, as Judge Miyami Uisi-Mensa Frimpong understands very well, is enforcing the law.
All that's necessary to be detained in this country is a reasonable suspicion that you're committing a crime.
If you're standing around at a car wash and then run away when ICE pulls up, you've provided reasonable suspicion.
If you're a child and you're working on a marijuana farm, then there is reasonable suspicion that crimes are happening.
And for that matter, if you openly admit that you're conspiring against the United States for the benefit of a foreign country, you've provided reasonable suspicion that you lied to obtain citizenship and you should go back to where you came from.
We are well past the point where anyone can pretend that there's a middle ground compromise solution here.
Foreign nations are telling us what they want to do to our country.
Foreign nationals are telling us this.
Even after we've elected them to Congress and made them judges and funded their fraudulent nonprofits, they still want to mine us for everything we have so they can send it back home to the place that they still call home, which is not this country.
That's their Stated position.
And it's not just Somalis doing this.
Here's the Washington Post: quote: Over the last quarter century, the volume of remittances sent to Central American countries has increased more than tenfold, particularly following the pandemic.
Migrant cash transfers rose from 10% of the Central American region's GDP in 2010 to 23% last year.
Yes, cash transfers from the U.S. to foreign nationals back, quote, home, are now keeping many of these Central American countries afloat.
It's like a hugely sizable portion of their GDP is money that's being sent to them from this country.
So we are subsidizing the rest of the world.
And when we import more foreign nationals, the subsidy only increases as we become poorer and more dysfunctional.
Now, the solution to that part of the problem is to tax remittances by about 10,000%.
But in their latest spending bill, Congress just refused to do so.
So now we're left with mass deportations and denaturalization as the only solution.
That's the only practical way forward.
And the more that socialists open their mouths from New York to Minnesota to federal courtrooms in Los Angeles, the more they prove this point.
It shouldn't even be controversial, really.
After all, these people speak fondly of their home countries.
They send huge sums of money back to their home countries.
Now it's time for them to go back home and for the rest of us to begin to undo the damage that cultural enrichment and mass migration have wrought.
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Axios reports, several House Democrats are mounting long-shot efforts to force a House vote on making Attorney General Pam Bondi release all records related to Jeffrey Epstein.
Democrats are hoping to take advantage of a blow-up between President Trump and his base of the Epstein files.
Representative Roe Conna of California told Axios that he will file an amendment to the Genius Act, a cryptocurrency bill slated to be marked up by the House Rules Committee on Thursday that is supposed to force the release of the files.
So House Democrats are demanding this now.
They're demanding that the Epstein files be released.
Here is Hakeem Jeffries talking about this issue.
Here it is.
Discourse about Jeffrey Epstein.
Is this appropriate for your members to be doing so?
Do you want to see any action on that front?
The American people deserve to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth as it relates to this whole sorted Jeffrey Epstein matter.
Democrats didn't put the Jeffrey Epstein thing into the public domain.
This was a conspiracy that Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, and these MAGA extremists have been fanning the flames of for the last several years.
And now the chickens are coming home to roost.
The American people deserve to know the truth.
What, if anything, is the Trump administration and the Department of Justice hiding?
What are you hiding?
If you're not hiding anything, prove that to the American people.
And if you are trying to hide something, as many of Donald Trump's MAGA supporters apparently believe, then the Congress should actually work hard to try to uncover the truth for the American people.
Yes, the American people deserve to know the truth, he says courageously.
Now, of course, the interesting thing is that apparently the American people didn't deserve to know the truth at any point during Biden's term about a whole range of things, including whether Biden himself was still alive mentally, and when it comes to the Epstein files.
And that's why Democrats waited until the precise moment when Biden left office to start demanding the Epstein files.
And they could have demanded them back when they had control of the White House, but they didn't.
Now they're making a big show of pretending to want transparency.
So the whole thing is itself extremely transparent.
These are a bunch of frauds, totally shameless frauds at that, very obviously.
And that's why some conservatives will say, have said to me also that, you know, I'm helping the Democrats or I'm joining with them by calling out the administration over the Epstein stuff.
You know, they'll take this, and I'm sure there'll probably be comments like to this effect on the show today, saying, well, you see, yeah, Democrats are using this against Trump.
How could you join with them in their efforts to undermine Trump?
Well, except that I'm not joining anyone.
I'm saying the same thing about Epstein that I've always said.
I'm saying the same thing about the Epstein situation that I said a month ago, A year ago, three years ago, five years ago.
I'm not going to suddenly change now or switch to the opposite view because Democrats are pretending to agree with me.
I mean, there are also some Democrats, we'll get to this in the last segment.
There are also some Democrats now pretending to be somewhat sane on the trans issue.
Should I suddenly start waving the pink and blue flag and marching for trans rights so as not to be on the same side as them?
Of course not.
I mean, it's absurd.
No, the blame for this goes back again to the administration.
They're the ones who put us in this position.
They're the ones who handed this gift to the Democrats, giving them the opportunity to pretend that they, you know, just want the truth.
And that's not our fault.
Those of us who are saying we want the Epstein files, who have been saying that all along, we've always said that.
And the idea that because Trump came out and said, yeah, you shouldn't care about this anymore, like we're just going to say, okay, well, we don't care then.
Really?
I mean, we're Americans.
We have our own minds, don't we?
And let me say this.
The other thing I've heard many times, and not for the first time, I heard this a lot during the Iran situation.
But I've been told, and anyone who's, all the many people who I've been calling for the release of the Epstein files and for more transparency have heard the same thing.
But I've been told that I'm turning on the president.
I'm being disloyal.
I'm betraying him by criticizing his administration's handling of the Epstein files.
But again, no, that's not how this works.
To say that we are turning on Trump or being disloyal to him is to say that we have some kind of moral obligation to support whatever the administration does, whatever it says, whatever position it takes, no matter what.
But no such obligation exists.
And we're not called to be loyal to politicians.
We're called to be loyal to our country, to be loyal to our families, to be loyal to our principles, to be loyal to our values, to be loyal to God.
Loyalty to politicians goes the other way.
We demand loyalty from them.
We want they should be loyal to us and to the country and to their promises.
And so if they promise something and they don't deliver it and we say, well, we want the thing that you promised, to turn around on us and say, you're being disloyal is crazy.
It's insane.
So that's all that's happening here.
Like either you're going to be consistent and you're going to have basic principles and integrity or not.
And I'm not going to sacrifice that for anyone.
You know, least of all for the White House.
I'm just not going to do it.
Now, all that said, there is one Democrat who I think did make a pretty powerful statement about the Epstein situation.
And admittedly, admittedly, there's one.
I think all of them are frauds on this issue.
Okay?
Like, it's like, we're not joining them, but they're trying to join us and say, yeah, guys, let's get the Epstein files out.
And we're saying to them, no, no, no, not you.
You're not, go away.
You're not part of this.
Except for one.
And that is Representative Hank Johnson.
And he's the guy who you might recognize because he's the guy who once famously worried that the overpopulation on Guam would cause the island to tip over, which is a real thing that he said.
Like, he actually said that.
He said the island would capsize because there are too many people on it.
That was actually said.
So obviously a very smart man.
And like any smart man, he's decided to address this Epstein scandal in the form of a song.
Listen.
Congressman Hain Johnson coming to give you some more ear candy or perhaps an ear ache.
But I'm going to do my best off of this Jason Isbil tune, Dream Sickle.
Epstein died by suicide.
Believe that end, you must be blind.
You've been telling us human needs to file, but where are they?
We're gonna loan with what's been told.
We've had plenty of time you're in control.
But they say you have withhold, the Epstein will find Dreams sickle on a summer night in a full chair.
Trump's hollering at the moon.
Release the ups down five and soon.
Well, you know, it makes me envious of the people of Guam who all died when the island capsized because at least they never had to hear that song.
And the thing, you know, the thing that most confuses me is that he made the song, I guess, based on a, well, he said based on a Jason Isbell song called Dreamsickle, which is a good song, by the way.
I like some of Jason Isbell's stuff, even though the guy's a total lib.
I think he's like campaigning for Kamala and all that, but he's a musician.
What are you going to do?
But how is it that you heard a song called Dreamsickle and thought to yourself, wow, this would be a great song about Jeffrey Epstein.
Why did Dreamsickle bring Jeffrey Epstein to mind for Hank Johnson is my question.
And in fact, it's like creepy on a lot of levels because actually that song is about Jason Isbel's reflections on childhood and it's Dreamsicle.
It's about kids.
And Hank Johnson heard that song and said, you know what I hear when I hear this song?
Jeffrey Epstein.
So it's very strange.
I'm also trying to figure out how Hank Johnson's staff could have ever allowed him to do this.
I mean, the guy's 97 years old.
He has an IQ of three.
If he said he wanted to record another music video, you don't have to do it.
You could have pretended.
You could have set him up in front of a toaster and told him that the toaster will film it for him and then just never release it.
And he never would have known.
So why would you actually go through with that?
I don't know.
But then again, I guess, I mean, this is why you joined Hank Johnson's staff, I suppose.
It's like, if I was to get a job working on any politician's staff, which I never would, I'd rather be dead.
I would rather be dead.
I'd rather be shot in the head than work in politics at all, but in particular on the staff of a politician.
It's like it's a fate worse than death.
But anyway, if I were to ever do it, I would probably want to be on, I'd want to work for Hank Johnson only because of the hilarity that would ensue.
Just to see all of his hilarious schemes that he cooks up.
And if he's out in public saying that Guam's going to tip over because too many people are, can you imagine what kind of stuff this guy says behind closed doors?
Can you imagine what sort of statements he's been talked out of making if that one made it through?
So there is that at least.
Let's see.
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A new policy memo issued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Todd Lyons has stated that U.S. immigration officials can now deport illegal immigrants to countries other than their own with minimal advance notice.
The memo dated July 9th outlines a framework in which deportations to so-called third countries can take place with as little as six hours notice in exigent circumstances.
Following the decision, the U.S. deported eight individuals to South Sudan from a variety of countries, including Cuba, Mexico, Sudan, Vietnam, and others.
And so now they're able to do that, which is good.
I actually love this idea of deporting illegal aliens to a different country.
I love the idea that we're taking an illegal alien from Mexico and just dropping him off in South Sudan.
He comes out of the plane like, this doesn't look like Mexico.
And we say, oh, it isn't?
Oh, well, I mean, close enough.
Anyway, see you later.
But we do, I mean, in all seriousness, we have the right to deport illegal aliens to wherever is the most convenient to us.
Okay.
And it's like if we've got a bunch of illegal aliens and we've got to drop them off somewhere, it's a lot more convenient to just drop them off in one central location and let them figure out the rest of it.
Now, I'm not saying we should go out of our way to bring them all to some far-flung place.
I'm not saying we should bring them all, drop them off in Antarctica or something.
I mean, I am kind of saying that.
Maybe we should do that, but we're not doing that.
And no one's talking about doing that.
The point is that we have no obligation to these people.
We don't owe them anything.
They have created a problem for us, and we will solve it in whatever way is most feasible and convenient for us, not for them.
So when people ask, well, why would you do that?
Why would you send illegal aliens to South Sudan if they're not from there?
Well, just because that's the easiest thing for us.
Okay, you see?
That's easiest for this guy.
It's easiest and cheapest way to handle it for us.
And that's what matters.
Is it our responsibility to provide free plane rides for every single illegal alien back to their country of origin?
Is that our obligation now?
We have to identify exactly where they're from and bring them back there.
Do we have to bring them all the way to their front door?
Why is that our obligation?
It's not.
Why should we be saddled with that burden?
We shouldn't be.
All right, I also want to talk about this.
So one of the more popular bands on Spotify right now with something like a million monthly listeners, which is a lot, is a band called Velvet Sundown.
And it's kind of a kind of a retro 60s folk band.
The only problem with this band, it's like one small problem, is that it doesn't actually exist.
It isn't real.
It's AI.
And many of their monthly listeners don't know that and didn't know that until this was all revealed.
Here's the New York Post.
A fresh new rock band that quickly shot to Spotify's top ranks announced that it's actually wholly generated by artificial intelligence just one month after its celebrated debut album earned it 1 million listeners.
The 60s-inspired rock and roll band, The Velvet Sundown, revealed on Saturday that nothing about it is real after fans of the up-and-coming artist noticed that there were virtually no traces of any people associated with it online.
Its debut album, Floating on Echoes, was released on June 5th to mass appeal online.
The most popular song in the album, Pro-Peace folk song Dust on the Wind, clinched the number one spot for Spotify's daily viral 50 chart in Britain, Norway, and Sweden between June 29th and July 1st.
And then it all came out that this was AI.
Eventually, the people associated with it came out and issued a statement.
They said, The Veil of Sundown is a synthetic music project guided by human creative direction and composed, voiced, and visualized with the support of artificial intelligence.
This isn't a trick.
It's a mirror, an ongoing artistic provocation designed to challenge the boundaries of authorship, identity, and the future of music itself in the age of AI.
Okay, so it's a synthetic music project, which means that it's fake, which means that it's, you know, because it's AI, it's not real.
Now, because I know you're curious, we'll play just a little clip, a little clip of this fake band's hit single, Dust on the Wind.
Here it is.
Dust on the wind, boots on the ground.
Smoke in the sky, no peace found.
Rivers run red, the drums roll slow.
Tell me, brother, where do we go?
You know, the really scary thing is that when you listen to that, is that yeah, it sounds almost real.
Not quite.
It sounds almost real.
Very close.
The lyrics to me still sound AI generated.
The lyrics to me sound like if you went to ChatGPT and asked it to spit out lyrics to a 60s folk rock anti-war song, it's what you would come up with.
But everything else could easily be human, right?
The instrumentals, the melody, the vocals in particular sound human.
And that's a very scary thing because this is where we are right now.
Where will we be a year from now or five years from now?
What about 10 years from now?
Everything will be fake.
That's where we're going to be.
Everything will be AI.
10 years from now, we'll be begging for another Hank Johnson tune because at least it's human, sort of.
Now, is that actually a problem?
Is it really a problem to have music generated by AI?
This is the question that a lot of people ask.
But it shouldn't be a question because the answer is yes.
Okay, yes, it's a massive problem.
It is, to me, obviously a massive problem.
And I get actually really angry at the morons who just shrug their shoulders at this sort of thing, shrug their shoulders at all the many threats posed by AI and say, oh, you know, it's fine.
What do you mean?
This is what they said about the printing press.
Right, because we're going to drop, yeah, this is just like the printing press.
The printing press, which was a new technology that you use to produce the written word, to write, as opposed to this technology, which just does everything for you.
Right?
It's like went from horse and buggy to cars, and that was just a new way to drive.
It was a new way to get aroused.
It was a new way for humans to transport themselves from place to place.
And then you end up with, but now you have self-driving.
And so you're just taking the human being out of the equation entirely.
And that's what's happening here.
And so I get annoyed at the people who dismiss the problems because it's very clear to me that we're walking straight into a dystopian nightmare.
And 10 years from now, all of these clueless morons who did see the problem are going to be looking around as usual, because this is how it always goes.
They're going to be looking around at what their lives have become and saying, hey, what happened?
Man, this all came out of nowhere.
No, it didn't.
You idiots.
It was right in front of your face for years.
It was right in front of your face and people tried to warn you about it and you were too stupid to listen to them.
And so now here we are.
Look, I mean, there are two points here that should clarify things for us.
And number one, if we want to try to illuminate the problems here, number one, art is an essential aspect of human existence.
Human beings have been creating art since the beginning of civilization, since before civilization.
It's what makes us human.
It's what separates.
One of the fundamental things that separates us from monkeys and lizards and birds is that we are the only creatures on the planet, the only creatures in the universe, so far as we know, who create art.
Why do we do it?
Well, we do it because we have souls, because art comes from the soul.
It speaks to the soul.
A world without any kind of art, a world devoid of art, is a soulless, ugly, black, void of a world.
Art brings joy.
It brings beauty.
It gives our lives meaning.
It reveals the meaning in our lives.
We create art because we're human.
And therefore, a human society without art is not really a human society.
It is an unhuman and anti-human society, which means, therefore, that AI art is not art.
AI cannot create art by definition.
Art is a reflection of the human soul.
It comes from our hearts.
It comes from our souls.
Art is human expression.
It is a person revealing something, some truth from deep within themselves.
Machines can't do that.
Algorithms can't do that.
Algorithms have no interior life.
They have no soul.
They have no emotions.
So they can't make art.
But what they can do is produce something that simulates art.
They can produce a mimicry of art.
And we're going to get to a point where that's all that exists.
And the thing is that when we get to a point where it's like 90% of the top songs on the Spotify charts or where I billboard or anything are AI generated, well, none of that is real.
Like that's not real.
So you listen to it.
It sounds like, it sounds like art, but it's not really.
And so you don't get any of the benefits that you get, any of the human benefit that you get from consuming, engaging in art.
And at the same time, it cheapens all of the real art that still exists.
Like the moment that AI can take over and just do this, that you can go to a, you can just plug a prompt in, make me a 60s folk anti-war song.
Boom.
Spits it out in half a second.
Well, the moment you can do that, it just, it cheapens the whole art form.
It cheapens and devalues the whole art form.
And then you have, you know, kids, it's like we've, we've had basically one generation, I don't know, one and a half generations of kids who grew up in the internet age and that like they never knew a world where that where people didn't have the internet in their pocket walking around.
And you look at what that's done to that generation of kids, how screwed up it's made them.
Well, now we're going to have a generation of kids who don't know a world without AI.
Like AI is just going to do everything.
They're not going to know what it's like to not have that.
Are any of those kids going to bother to like pick up a guitar or sit down at a piano?
Are they going to bother to learn how to sing, learn how to create music when they could just quote unquote create it by plugging a prompt in?
Probably not.
So that's what's at stake here.
And to me, I see it as the death of art is what's at stake.
And anyone who doesn't see the problem with that, if I have to explain it anymore, anyone who would say, oh, it's, bro, what do we art for?
What do we need art for?
Anyone who would say that is already like not human.
I mean, honestly, like you're barely human if that thought is in your mind already.
Like you're already lost.
The machines have taken you.
You are a machine.
Like you are basically AI.
I mean, it's like, it's like, I don't know, we were on vacation.
We went out to the mountains and we're up in the mountains and we're looking at this beautiful, the horizon.
It's just mountains and green.
And anyone who would look at that and say, what do you need that for?
Beauty.
Who cares?
Anyone who would say that is like, not, it's barely human.
You're barely human.
You barely have a soul.
And if you have that attitude about art and the potential death of art, then you barely have a human soul already.
And I can't help you.
On that note, let's get to the comment section.
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As a Trump supporter, I've never seen a man look weaker and out of touch with his following than in recent days.
My high respect for him has fallen sharply and it just makes me feel sick.
It's a feeling of great betrayal and abuse of hard-earned trust.
We reinstated Trump as our leader based upon the justice he promised.
It's one thing to humbly admit that no evidence of wrongdoing can be found, along with a transparent report of what was uncovered.
But instead of treat the American people like heartless idiots, was a slap in the face that no one expected.
We're all currently stumbling around disbelief with reddened faces from Trump's heavy backhand.
What the hell did you just do to us, Mr. Trump?
Are you busy making America gaslit again?
Look, I mean, there's a lot.
I've seen so many comments like this.
And this is a deeply felt sentiment for a lot of people.
Trump has done a lot of great things in this term.
There's no question about it.
Nobody is trying to downplay or deny that.
I know that I'm not.
And I talk like every, I talk even today, even today, about the great things that Trump has done.
But I've never seen him misread the base the way that he has on this issue.
It's not just the fact that they aren't releasing the files and all that.
It's the tone.
I mean, that's what you're getting at in your comment.
And I think the thing that you found particularly galling, I know that I did, it's the tone, it's the attitude, right?
It's the gaslighting.
That's what irks a lot of people, me included.
When Trump says, are people still talking about this Epstein thing?
Why are people talking about that?
It's like, come on, man.
Don't do that.
Don't pretend all of a sudden like you don't understand why we care.
Right?
That's gaslighting.
That's what gaslighting is.
And that really is a problem.
Now, the other thing, too, is that if the DOJ had come out and said, well, look, we can't find any files or we can't find a list or files because that stuff's been destroyed.
It looks like there's been some sort of cover-up.
Now, I would have personally found that to be a very credible possibility that all the really incriminating stuff that incriminates very powerful and prominent people would at this point no longer exist because the evidence would have been destroyed.
But if that's the answer, then you come out and say that and you don't try to mock us or belittle us for caring.
And then the follow-up is, okay, now we got to figure out who destroyed it.
There's a cover-up going on.
We're going to get to the bottom of it.
This thing goes deeper than we thought.
And right, like the investigation continues and it gets even more serious from here.
That's a different answer.
And that's not the answer that we got.
Let's see.
There is a door number three.
The current administration is using the list to blackmail the people on it themselves.
Yeah, I've heard this theory.
I don't really buy it.
And if it's true, I'm still not happy about it.
We've had enough blackmail.
Now we want them punished.
Right?
Because the whole point of blackmailing is you're saying, okay, if you don't do what we want, we're going to release this information and you're going to be in trouble.
Well, no, there's no it.
No, they should be in trouble.
They just need to be in trouble.
They need to be punished for what they did.
Kudos to Matt for calling out his own political side.
I'm saying this completely unironically.
It takes a lot of courage to stand up for your enemies, but it takes even more courage to stand up to your friends.
That's what Professor McGonagall said at the end of the first Harry Potter book slash movie.
Yeah, it's a good reference there.
I appreciate that reference.
You know, I kind of relate it back to what I think about like what Gandalf said at the end of Star Trek, A New Hope, when he looked at Dumbledore and he said, never forget, he said, always remember, with great power comes great responsibility.
That was a powerful moment, too.
I think about that in relation to this.
I was a contractor that worked with government employees for my entire 30-plus year career.
I can tell you that what Matt says about government employees is spot on.
Of the hundreds, if not thousands, of government employees I encounter over my career, I could count the number of good ones on one hand.
Yeah, I obviously have a very dim view of federal workers, but there are plenty of them who actually do important jobs and do them well.
I do think that some government jobs should exist.
I'm not an anarchist.
We do need a government.
And so that means you need people, human beings working in these jobs.
The problem is that the bloat is so extreme and in such a state that there are now, at a minimum, many thousands of federal workers whose jobs exist just to justify themselves.
And so we talk about, I know I say all the time, you got these federal workers who sit around doing nothing all day.
And that's effectively true, but it's not that they have nothing to do or it's not that they have no job title.
It's that really their job, what they are doing, if they're doing anything, is just justifying the fact that their job exists in the first place.
And that's all that any of this is.
This is unconstitutional.
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Today we have, admittedly, an entirely unnecessary daily cancellation because we're going to cancel Gavin Newsom, a man who is by default always canceled on this show and also a man whose flaws are so numerous and obvious that you don't need me to point them out for you.
But we're going to cancel them anyway just because I'm really annoyed by this clip that I'm about to play.
The governor of California, soon-to-be presidential candidate, appeared recently on the Sean Ryan show.
And towards the end of the interview, the subject turned to the trans issue.
Newsom continued his unceremonious and unexplained, and as we'll see, very clumsy backpedal on the issue.
This is a guy who was once such an enthusiastic peddler of extreme LGBT propaganda that he unironically used the term Latin X on multiple occasions.
But now that he has ambitions to hold national office, he's pretending to be a more moderate voice.
But he can't explain this pivot or articulate what exactly changed for him.
And never has that been more obvious than when Sean Ryan asked Newsome how he feels about gender transitions for children.
Newsome, who was once a big fan of castrating kids, now has this to say on the subject.
What about for your values?
I mean, is eight years old too young?
Yeah, I mean, look, now that I have a nine-year-old, just became nine.
Come on, man.
I get it.
So those are legit.
You know, it's interesting, just the issue of age, I haven't, it's interesting.
As I am, as someone that's been so focused on equality, broadly, LGBT rights, particularly gay marriage, the trans issue for me is also novel.
It's over the last few years.
I'm trying to understand as much as anyone else.
And this notion of gender-affirming care for children, that's tough, man.
And the science on that, I haven't delve that deep into it, but I read one report and then there's one that's slightly contradictory.
And then they said, there's no contradictory.
Here's what the UK just came out with.
You're full of shit.
It's absolutely scientifically sound that it's outrageous.
and so it's intense.
Oh, well, okay, then.
Thank you for that eloquent dissertation on the topic, Governor.
And just in case you missed any of this brilliant man's brilliant response, let me just read a partial transcript.
This was his response to the question of whether eight-year-olds are too young for sex changes.
A question that any rational adult should be able to answer in one simple word, which is yes.
Yes, they're too young.
Or two words, hell yes, or at most five words, hell yes.
Are you insane?
You know, that would be a fine answer too.
But it took the governor a lot more than five words.
Here's the transcript of what he said.
He said, yeah, I mean, look, I, now that I have a nine-year-old, just became nine.
Come on, man, I get it.
So those are legit.
You know, it's interesting, just the issue of age, I haven't, it's interesting as I, and I'm not, as someone who's been so focused on equality broadly, LGBT, gay marriage, the trans issue for me is also novel.
It's, it's over the last few years, I'm trying to understand like anyone else, the whole pronoun thing.
I'm trying to understand all that.
That was like, I mean, all that stuff.
I get it.
Now, of course, you can't forget the hand signals when you're reading a Gavin Newsom quote.
You know, he's always doing the, he's doing the hand.
I don't know what all this is.
It looks like he's directing planes on a runway or like he's a sign language interpreter who isn't actually fluent in sign language.
Although based on that quote, it would also seem that he isn't fluent in English either.
But in any case, there are just two points I want to make here, and we won't belabor it.
But first of all, Newsom is attempting to moderate on the trans issue in the only way that he can, if he also wants to preserve any hope of winning a Democrat primary.
So he can't come out and be fully rational and sane and clear because rational, sane, clear people don't win Democrat primaries.
But he also can't be a whack job trans activist because whackjob trans activists don't win general elections.
This is the box that every Democrat of the national stage has created for themselves.
Newsom is now staking out the only ground available to him, which is why he's adopting this kind of all shucks tone of a guy who isn't quite sure what's going on, but he's trying to figure it out.
It's all so complicated.
It's tough.
It's intense.
It's so intense, man.
Come on, man.
This is a tough one.
Geez, it's like, wow, am I right?
Now, an approach like this would make a lot of sense and be totally credible if Sean Ryan had asked him to give his take on like quantum mechanics or something, but that's not what Ryan asked.
Instead, he asked whether we should castrate eight-year-old boys to turn them into girls.
It's not a tough question.
It's not complicated.
It's not something that you need to figure out.
And you certainly shouldn't still be figuring it out years later.
We're supposed to believe that Newsom has spent the last 10 years of his life deeply reflecting on the question of whether we should try to turn boys into girls.
And 10 years into these reflections, he still isn't sure.
This is supposed to be a more palatable response than a full-fledged endorsement of trans ideology.
But if anything, it somehow manages to be, I would argue, maybe less palatable.
It kind of reminds me of the people that you run into on occasion online anyway, who will say that they aren't in the flat earth cult, but they're open to the flat earth arguments.
You know, you hear that every once in a while.
And I can understand conceptually.
Conceptually, I can understand the concept of someone being totally insane and thinking that the earth is flat.
I can also understand being sane and normal and knowing that the earth isn't flat.
I can't understand knowing that the earth isn't flat, but being open to the possibility that it is.
And that's the kind of middle ground between insanity and sanity that Newsom and many other Democrats are trying to stake for themselves.
And it just doesn't work.
It will never work.
Secondly, as we see all these former believers in the trans cause throw down their trans flags and retreat, I do want to make another thing very clear, which is that I'm happy that at this point, there's almost nobody left on the public stage who's willing to outright defend the castration and mutilation of children.
Almost nobody will outright defend it.
And that's a very positive development.
But if you ever did defend it, you are not welcome on team sanity.
You will never be welcome here.
Like, I know we're supposed to be gracious and merciful after winning the battle, but frankly, I'm not a very gracious or merciful person.
I don't pretend to be.
Not on an issue like this, because if you ever claimed that men are women, that biological sex doesn't exist, that men can get pregnant, that boys can become girls, it tells us that you are either so incredibly stupid as to have bought into that propaganda, or that you're so incredibly soulless and dishonest and cowardly as to have pretended that you bought into it.
In either case, you have permanently discredited yourself.
It's the same reason why I would never trust a sex predator around my kids or anyone else's kids, even if he claims to have reformed and changed his ways.
It's the same reason why I'll never trust the word of a pathological liar, even if he says he isn't a pathological liar anymore.
There are things you can do in life, positions you can take, things you can say, that are so deeply deranged and debased and evil that they become permanent, irreversible stains on your reputation and your credibility.
And this is one of those things.
Now, of course, there are a million other reasons why Gavin Newsom has no credibility and should never be trusted or taken seriously.
This is just one of them.
And it's also just one of the reasons, though a very significant reason, why Gavin Newsom is today canceled.
