Ep. 1639 - Trump Moves To End D.C.’s Third-World Lawlessness. Democrats Lose It
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Donald Trump takes over Washington DC to put a stop to the rampant crime and violence. The Left and the media are big fans of violent crime, so naturally they’re very upset by this development. Also, is it true that the Supreme Court is about to overturn gay marriage? No it isn’t. But it should be. And a heavily botoxed middle aged female podcaster declares that white Trump supporters are no longer allowed to eat Mexican food.
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Today, Matt Wall Show, Donald Trump takes over Washington, D.C. to put a stop to the rampant crime and violence.
The left and the media are big fans of violent crime, so naturally they're very upset by this development.
Also, is it true that the Supreme Court is about to overturn gay marriage?
No, it isn't, but it should be.
And a heavily Botoxed middle-aged female podcaster declares that white Trump supporters are no longer allowed to eat Mexican food.
We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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Whenever you find yourself conflicted over a very contentious story you're seeing in the news, one of the easiest ways to resolve the debate is to listen to people who scream the loudest.
People with no argument tend to reveal themselves very quickly, mainly by screeching and ranting incoherently to the point that it's actually kind of amusing and also pretty revealing.
And that happens to be the case with the ongoing drama over whether or not the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., should resemble Mogadishu or not.
On the one hand, you have the President of the United States who's just invoked his legal authority to take over the district's police force for the next 30 days.
He's also pledged to send in the National Guard and redeploy hundreds of FBI agents to perform law enforcement duties on the streets.
And on the other hand, in defense of allowing the nation's capital to continue its descent into worse than third world status, you have this.
The president has been trying to provoke violence here, right here, in the black communities and in the brown communities, having ICE kidnap our neighbors, having the black community be harassed and profiled and want a response.
We say, hell no, we won't go.
Hell no!
We won't go!
Hell no!
When we say we won't go, that means we're not going into those mass incarceration, into their prisons and enslavement.
We won't go into their ICE, those encapsulate, what do you call his beautiful sinners that he got?
We won't go to where alligators live.
Hell no, we won't go.
Hell no, we won't go.
Black people are more likely to be stopped, searched, questioned, arrested, and harmed.
Encounters with the law.
When we add the president of federal agents or the National Guard to daily life in these neighborhoods, the burden can multiply.
Not by making harm more rare, but making it more visible and more likely to escalate.
So be clear, this has been going on, but as you bring more policemen, it's going to escalate.
And as the executive director of her is rider strings, I want to name white people's civil rights have never Been in danger because they are white.
The white civil rights represents the desire from the Jim Crow.
Full stop.
Well, at the very least, you know, looking desperately for silver lining, you have to be grateful that for the most part, humans are not employed to do closed captioning anymore.
That's one job that mercifully has been eliminated by the wonders of automation.
And we should all be able to agree that in the grand scheme of things, it's much better and more dignified to be employed and to be unemployed and homeless than to be forced to transcribe complete gibberish like what we just heard there.
As best as I can tell, without the benefit of subtitles, this person appears to believe that Donald Trump is going to deport the black residents of Washington, D.C., although she doesn't explain her reasoning there.
She also appears concerned that policemens are going to escalate their violence against the black community.
And then to cap it all off, she says that white people have never had their civil rights violated.
She's adamant that Mayor Murray Bowser, who has overseen the continued decay of D.C. over the past 10 years, should remain in charge of the district's police force.
Now, to be clear, these are not cheap shots I'm making here.
It's actually very relevant to point out that black activists in D.C. have somehow selected a spokesperson who can barely speak English.
All by itself, that's indicative of a major fundamental problem.
It's not just the pan-African hats and flags flying around.
It's not just the stupidity of the underlying arguments.
The simple fact that this person managed to become a spokesperson in any context is disqualifying for the entire position.
People who cannot speak cannot govern, period.
And that really should be the end of the discussion.
But it gets even worse if you try your best to decipher whatever this person was saying.
The best case scenario is that she's admitting that a lot of illegal aliens live in the nation's capital.
That's the only reason they have to go wherever the alligators live, otherwise known as Trump's Alligator Alcatraz facility in Florida.
Then she makes the point that black people are more likely to be stopped, searched, arrested, and harmed during police encounters.
And that's absolutely true.
Of course, it's true precisely because black suspects are overwhelmingly more likely than any other demographic in the entire world to commit crimes that merit a police detention, search, arrest, and use of force.
But this woman decided to just leave those inconvenient details out.
Maybe they were hard to pronounce.
Who knows?
Either way, it's notable that this woman doesn't spend any amount of time talking about the victims of criminal violence in the nation's capital, which, by the way, affects a lot of black people.
There's a lot of that tactic going around, in fact.
Here's a remarkable paragraph from the Washington Post, for example.
This ran the other day, and I had to verify that it was true because it seemed too good to be real, but it is real.
So here it is.
The Washington Post, in their quest to portray Donald Trump as a fascist, interviewed a D.C. resident following a series of violent attacks in his neighborhood.
And this was the paper's report on what that resident told the paper.
And again, I checked it.
This is actually real.
Quote, this is a safe city, but overhearing and witnessing gang threats and then watching the camera footage of thuggery is disturbing, said one resident, speaking on the condition of anonymity over concerns of personal safety.
The crowd of teens, he said, were roaming the street and appeared to be checking for unlocked cars and things to steal.
The language Trump uses to describe D.C. is wrong, he said.
But clearly there is something bad going on that needs to stop.
Yes, it is a safe city, says a resident who is speaking on condition of anonymity over concerns of personal safety.
And then he wags his finger at Trump for, I don't know, using some mean words, I guess.
I mean, it's so absurdly unconvincing and contradictory that it's indistinguishable from, you know, a satire.
As leftists huddle in their panic rooms and use aliases to avoid getting executed by gangs, they're informing the Washington Post that Donald Trump is, in fact, really racist for trying to enforce the law in the nation's capital.
And he doesn't need to enforce it.
We don't need this because everything's fine.
Everyone's safe.
Except for the roaming gangs that are outside of my window right now is as, you know, I'm saying all this.
Not outside of my window here, but outside the window of the guy who said that.
Again, they discredit themselves just by opening their mouths.
Over at the New York Times, someone named Peter Baker weighed in with this insight, quote, citing a non-existent crime crisis, non-existent, Trump plans to take over the Washington, D.C. police and put troops in the streets of the nation's capital.
Contrary to his claims, violent crime in D.C. is at a 30-year low.
And then there was this post from MSNBC's intelligence cutout, Ken Delanian, quote, President Trump announces he is seizing control of D.C.'s police forces.
He rolls out a series of false and misleading claims about crime in the city, which is actually at historic lows.
Now, neither of these posts are true for starters.
You can pull up the D.C. crime statistics online and see immediately that it's false.
We'll throw some of those up on the screen right now so you can see for yourself.
And as you can see, homicides are much higher than they were just a few years ago.
But before we explore this claim further, it's important to mention that CNN got in on the act too.
They aired some live footage of Trump delivering his press conference on the federal takeover of D.C.'s police force.
But as they did so, they put some statistics on the screen right next to him.
Watch this.
The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogota, Colombia, Mexico City, some of the places that you hear about as being the worst places on earth.
Much higher.
This is much higher.
The number of car thefts has doubled over the past five years, and the number of carjackings has more than tripled.
Murders in 2023 reached the highest rate probably ever.
They say 25 years, but they don't know what that means because it just goes back 25 years.
Can't be worse.
Now, in case you couldn't see it on the audio podcast, CNN informed its viewers that, in fact, the homicide rate in D.C. dropped by 12% from 2024 to 2025.
They also say that violent crime dropped 35% from 23 to 24, 26% from 24 to 25.
And therefore, we're meant to conclude that D.C. is a perfectly functioning city and Trump is engaging in some kind of totalitarian overreach.
Now, there are two major problems with this line of argument.
First of all, just thinking logically here, you know, imagine your kid comes home one semester with all Fs on his report card.
If they let kids get Fs anymore, which they don't, but like, just go with me on the thought experiment.
And then you tell them that he needs to get his act together and he needs to improve his grades because this is unacceptable.
And the next semester, he comes back with, you know, a lot of Fs, but a few Ds.
Now, in that scenario, most likely, you would not congratulate him on his stunning improvement.
You recognize that he still desperately needs some kind of urgent intervention.
So he went from really, really bad to really bad, but it's still really bad.
So this whole idea of using relative statistics rather than raw numbers is a pretty massive tell, but actually, it's even worse than that.
It turns out that, as you may have guessed, this massive drop in crime numbers in D.C. is probably just fake.
This is reporting from NBC's Washington Bureau just a month ago.
Watch.
A D.C. police commander is under investigation for allegedly making changes to crime statistics in his district.
Tonight, the police department confirms Michael Pulliam was placed on paid administrative leave in mid-May.
Well, hi there, the D.C. police union is putting its allegations on the record tonight, claiming police supervisors in the department are manipulating crime data to make it appear violent crime has fallen considerably when compared to last year.
As of today, according to the D.C. police website, crime is down 25%, a decrease the chairman of the police union calls preposterous.
The union's allegations come as the former commander of the 3rd District stands accused of doing what the union says is being done day in and day out.
To areas where we know that they are.
That's Michael Pulliam standing with the chief of police at a recent news conference.
At the time, he was the commander of the 3rd District, which patrols the neighborhoods of Adams, Morgan, and Columbia Heights.
In early May, five law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation tell News 4, Pulliam was placed on administrative leave with pay and told he was under investigation for questionable changes to crime data.
When our members respond to the scene of a felony offense where there is a victim reporting that a felony occurred, inevitably there will be a lieutenant or a captain that will show up on that scene and direct those members to take a report for a lesser offense.
So instead of taking a report for a shooting or a stabbing or a carjacking, they will order that officer to take a report for a theft or an injured person to the hospital or a felony assault, which is not the same type of classification.
Greg Pemberton says the police department's command staff is focusing on two categories in order to get the numbers to fall.
They are armed with a dangerous weapon, an injured person to the hospital.
When management officials are directing officers to take reports for felony assault or if they're going back into police databases and changing offenses to felony assault, felony assault is not a category of crime that's listed on the department's daily crime stats.
It's also not something that's a requirement of the FBI's uniform crime reporting program.
So by changing criminal offenses from, for example, ADW bat or ADW gun to felony assault, that would avoid both the NPD and the FBI from reporting that as a part one or a felony offense.
Now in that report, as it goes on, there's the implication that the police official was only accused of faking these numbers because he filed some kind of complaint against his boss.
So there's a lot of drama unfolding within this department, a lot of dysfunction.
But in any event, we can conclude that these new crime statistics out of Washington are very dubious at best.
The official narrative doesn't make a whole lot of sense, frankly.
Crime does not typically plummet for no apparent reason.
There hasn't been any major crackdown on crime in the city up till now.
It's been the same leadership with the same soft on-crime policies.
It would be totally inexplicable for the crime problem to just sort of magically solve itself.
That's what we're supposed to believe.
Well, when you got violent crime, if you just don't look at it and do nothing, it'll work itself out.
Well, no, that's not how these things ever work.
Like ever.
Even on some mainstream networks, you'll find some anchors admitting that the official spin isn't very convincing.
It's just too over the top.
Here's a clip from ABC News the other day, for example.
Watch.
We've been talking so much about the numbers.
And yeah, usually that's how you play devil's advocate is you talk about, oh, well, stats say crime is down.
However, I can tell you firsthand here in downtown D.C. where we work, right here around our bureau, just in the past six months, there were two people shot.
One person died literally two blocks down here from the bureau.
It was within the last two years that I actually was jumped walking just two blocks down from here.
And then just this morning, one of my coworkers said her car was stolen a block away from the bureau.
So we can talk about the numbers going down, but crime is happening every single day because we're all experiencing it firsthand while working and living down here.
Now, this used to be a pretty uncontroversial point on the left.
In fact, it was one of Joe Biden's big arguments back in the 1990s when he was advancing legislation to shut down quote-unquote super predators in D.C., as he called them.
Biden talked openly about how people worried about getting carjacked and shot in the city.
Watch.
Driving home, my staff who lives here in the hill reminded me, don't stop at a stoplight until I'm out of town.
If I see a red light late at night since there's very little traffic, slow up at the other block so I never come to a full stop except in the middle of the block because of carjackings.
Stopping the light, people standing at a corner, walking up with a gun.
Well, not much has changed in the last 30 years.
And if you look around various left-wing media outlets over the past year, you'll find that there have been many, many first-hand observations making the same point.
The Atlantic, for instance, ran a couple of articles about the rampant carjacking that takes place in D.C. these days.
The authorities never punish the criminals, and the criminals know that.
One of those articles followed a lengthy police pursuit of a stolen Cadillac escalade involving a police helicopter with infrared imaging, multiple undercover units, spiked strips, Several mark units.
And at one point in the pursuit, the officers realized that there's a pivotal moment coming up.
Quote: If the SUV turned left, staying in Maryland, the detectives could chase it.
But if it slipped across the D.C. line, the officers would have a much harder time getting permission to chase it.
This, too, was an outgrowth of the changing politics of policing over the past decade.
Communities all over the country have placed new restraints on police departments' ability to aggressively pursue criminals.
There were good reasons for these reforms.
Tragic examples of police overreach and outright abuse, especially in predominantly black neighborhoods, were common.
But police say this sudden overhaul had serious unintended consequences.
More murders, more carjackings, and more violent crime and other sorts, most of them in the very communities that the police reform had ostensibly been aimed at protecting.
Yes, according to the leftists at the Atlantic, there were good reasons for laws that restrict the ability of police officers to do their jobs.
And it's shocking, they say, that these laws had serious unintended consequences, such as destroying law and order in the nation's capital.
But of course, the consequences were neither unpredictable nor unintended.
When you don't allow police officers to do their jobs, criminals commit more crimes.
When you don't punish criminals for committing crimes, they commit more of them.
That's especially true when the crimes are never punished, which is the case in Washington.
At the end of the pursuit involving the escalade, the driver was arrested and charged with about a dozen felonies.
He destroyed the car, damaged a lot of property along the way.
But in just a few hours, he was released from a juvenile detention center and sent back out onto the streets.
Most likely to go commit more crimes, because that's how this stuff always goes.
And because carjackers suffer no consequences in D.C., a couple of years ago, the D.C. police department put out this tweet.
It reads, quote, MPD is giving away tiles and air tags to help our residents track their vehicles.
So they're hanging tracking devices on the assumption that your car is going to get stolen.
They're handing out these devices, rather.
And really, that's a fair assumption.
The year this tweet came out, there were reportedly 958 carjackings in Washington, D.C. with a population of 700,000.
That means that D.C. residents have something like a 10% chance of getting carjacked if they live to 70, or rather 75.
So if you live to 75 in the city, 10% chance of getting carjacked, which is astronomically high for a crime like that.
And that's according to one account on X that ran the numbers.
So why not just hand out air tags then?
You know, that's the solution.
Sooner or later, there's a good chance people will need them.
They can go and hunt down their car after it's stolen, because obviously the police won't help with that.
And whoever stole it's not going to get in trouble, but hey, at least you get your car back, maybe.
As a result of D.C.'s refusal to enforce the law, the number of high-profile victims in the Capitol has also been rising in a very steady and public fashion.
Mike Gill, a former top official at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, was murdered early last year in his Jeep in downtown D.C., just a few blocks from the White House.
His wife found him in a pool of blood with one leg still hanging out from the Jeep.
In February of 2023, a drug addict assaulted Congresswoman Angie Craig in her apartment.
She had to pour hot coffee on him to escape after he, quote, grabbed her neck and slammed her into a steel wall.
That same year, an aide to Senator Rand Paul named Philip Todd was stabbed on the sidewalk in broad daylight.
Then, just a few months later, a Democrat lawmaker from Texas was robbed by three masked men who took his Toyota and his sushi dinner.
And this past summer, a congressional intern was murdered at a subway stop.
And of course, there was the violent attack on the man known as Big Balls during an attempted carjacking just a few days ago.
And we can't forget the case of 66-year-old Mohamed Anwar either.
It was caught on video, but so we can't show it because it was too horrific.
But just to review that case, in March of 2021, around 5:30 p.m., two teenage girls, aged 13 and 15, carjacked him while he was doing an Uber Eats delivery in the Navy Yard neighborhood.
The girls hit him with a stun gun and attempted to steal his car.
They dragged him down the street until he was ejected from the car and he was killed.
And then the girls, you may remember in the video, they complained that they had lost their phones in the accident.
No concern whatsoever for the man they had just killed.
Well, guess what happened next?
Both of the carjackers received a few years in prison.
That's it.
They'll both be out of jail by their 21st birthday, ready to commit even more crimes and worse crimes.
This is how quote-unquote juveniles are sentenced in D.C., and every gang understands it.
That's why they use underage thugs as their foot soldiers.
These are not mere anecdotes.
Run the numbers and you'll find that, as I said, D.C. is worse than third world.
Havana, Mexico City, Islamabad, Baghdad, they're all safer statistically than Washington, D.C. Which should not be acceptable if you're an American citizen, whether you live in D.C. or not.
But as horrifying as all these incidents and statistics may be, over at CNN, they want you to know that none of it compares, even slightly, to the events of one singular day a few years ago.
And that day, of course, is January 6th.
This is a familiar line that if only for strategic reasons, you'd think CNN would have dropped by now, but they're still going with it.
Watch.
The most violent moment in recent history in D.C. was January 6th.
And it was an attack on the United States Capitol by a lot of people who were doing it in the name of Donald Trump.
And it included the people who were hurt, included members of law enforcement.
Now, seeing this clip, a lot of people have made the very important point that on January 6th, the only people who died were Trump supporters.
One of them was shot for no reason.
Another supposedly died of natural causes, quote unquote.
That's all true.
And of course, the comparison is absurd and desperate.
But it's also very revealing.
January 6th, as you may remember, was a response, was something that happened on the heels of the lawlessness that broke out all over the country during the summer of George Floyd.
The only way to understand the events of January 6th is to consider the preceding 10 months when Biden voters caused billions of dollars in property damage, killed several people, besieged federal courthouses, set entire city blocks on fire, all based on complete fabrications and all without any consequence.
The only people who suffered real consequences were people like Kyle Rittenhouse, who tried to stop the mob.
So the lesson for January 6th is not that Washington, D.C. should have federal police or that they shouldn't have federal police.
The lesson is that above all else, law and order must be enforced, no matter what.
If you allow some parts of the country to descend into lawlessness, sooner or later, you'll get even more lawlessness.
It spreads like a cancer.
And eventually people won't stand for it anymore.
They can't.
Once they lose their jobs and their freedoms, they have no choice.
At CNN, they're pretending to ignore the context of January 6th.
They also are acting as if they didn't advocate in the aftermath of January 6th for the full-scale military occupation of the nation's capital, supposedly to protect Joe Biden from hordes of phantom white supremacists.
And here's what that looked like, in case you forgot.
Somehow, none of these photographs alarmed the anchor women at CNN.
And why would they?
After all, the troops were just temporary.
They knew that as soon as Joe Biden took the oath of office and retired to the White House basement, the guards would leave.
The fences would come down and the nation's capital would again revert to a state of anarchy.
Now, what's different about the latest deployment of the National Guard and the takeover of the police force in the D.C. is the objective.
The goal now is not to perform security theater for the benefit of the Democrat Party.
Instead, for once, the federal government is going to use the military and the FBI and other federal agencies to advance the interests of American citizens, to protect American citizens, which is what they're supposed to be doing.
That includes men like Mike Gill, who are sitting in their jeeps downtown.
It includes women like Angie Craig, who are just trying to get back to their apartment.
It includes staffers like Big balls as well.
I mean, these are the kinds of people the Pentagon and the White House are supposed to protect, residents of the city, before they even think about assisting some foreign entity or anything else in one way or another.
This is the government's entire job description: defend Americans.
The reason you're seeing so much angst and misdirection from Democrats is that for the first time in memory, that's exactly what's happening right now.
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Leftists are panicking over this news, panicking over everything, you know, as always.
Here's another thing they're panicking over.
This is a report.
10 years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide, the justices this fall will consider for the first time whether to take up a case that explicitly asks them to overturn that decision.
Kim Davis, the former Kentucky County clerk, who was jailed for six days in 2015 after refusing to issue marriage licenses to a gay couple on religious grounds, is appealing a $100,000 jury verdict for emotional damages plus $260,000 for attorney fees.
In a petition, Davis argues First Amendment protection for free exercise of religion immunizes her from personal liability for the denial of marriage licenses.
More fundamentally, she claims the high court's decision in Obergefell v.
Hodges extending marriage rights to same-sex couples was egregiously wrong.
So this is being, the court's being petitioned to take up this case.
Lots of histrionics in response to this.
Just one example of a viral post from a leftist account.
This is 30,000 likes, a million views.
This is tragically going to work.
They're going to roll back all rights to before the time of Ronald Reagan, and it's going to take so much to reverse course of this fascism.
So it's just a lot of, you know, a lot of takes like that from the left.
And now, I hate to be the one to talk these people off the ledge.
I have really no interest in doing that, but I will just say that Obergefell is not going to be overturned.
It should be.
I wish that it would happen.
Like, I want it to be, but it won't be.
I mean, first of all, the Supreme Court has not actually taken the case.
They probably won't take it, I would think.
And if they did take it, which they almost certainly won't, it's very hard to see Kavanaugh and Gorsuch and Roberts voting to overturn gay marriage.
So it's not going to happen.
You can keep panicking.
Don't get me wrong.
Don't let me stop you.
Continue to panic if you want.
I know you will, but you're making fools of yourselves, which I know doesn't really bother you.
So it's all par for the course.
That said, again, the decision should be overturned.
That should happen.
The idea that the Constitution contains a right to gay marriage or a right to marriage at all is pure nonsense.
I mean, it doesn't even matter where you stand on the issue of gay marriage.
Now, I say that the whole issue, the whole concept of gay marriage is a fiction.
It's not real.
It's a contradiction in terms.
Marriage, by definition, is a certain thing.
It has certain dimensions.
It's pro-creative by nature fundamentally, which means gay marriage can't exist, just like square circles can't exist, just like married bachelors can't exist.
It's not that there's, you know, you have a law saying, decreeing that no one can be a married bachelor.
It's just that that's a thing that can't exist.
It's a contradiction in terms, which means that the government should not recognize.
The government should not recognize, solidify, codify a thing that can't exist.
But even if I didn't think that, even if I believed in the fiction of quote-unquote gay marriage, I would still admit that there is no right to it in the Constitution.
Having a right to marriage at all makes no sense, considering that marriage requires another person.
I mean, how can you possess a right to something that someone else has to voluntarily agree to?
How can that be a right?
Like if you have a right to get married, because that's what you're saying.
You're saying, well, I have a right to get married.
Okay, well, even leaving homosexuals out of it for a moment.
What if you can't find someone willing to marry you?
Does that mean that all the people turning you down are violating your rights?
I mean, for you to have a right to get married, it would mean that there is someone out there, maybe it's just one person, but there is someone out there who is obligated to marry you because you have a right to get married.
And if someone doesn't marry you, then your rights are being deprived.
I mean, that's where the logic leads.
And it makes no sense.
And it makes even less sense to say there's a right to gay marriage specifically, considering that gay marriage, so-called gay marriage, has no social utility.
You know, it's useless to society.
And again, even if you think that, well, gays should be allowed to get quote unquote married, you should still be able to admit this.
And I know that most people on that side can't admit it because they can't be intellectually honest about it, but you should still be able to admit it's useless to society.
Like it doesn't do anything, right?
A gay quote-unquote marriage.
I'm not going to keep saying quote unquote, but every time I say gay marriage, just do the quotes in your mind.
So a gay marriage doesn't do anything.
It does nothing for society.
Right?
I mean, that's like the best you can say about it, right?
Is that it doesn't do anything.
Society has no interest in preserving or protecting or promoting a so-called marriage between two dudes.
Now, society has an interest in a marriage between a man and a woman because that marriage can and usually does produce offspring.
It creates families.
Families are the bedrock of civilization.
So that is the vested interest that society, that civilization itself and the law, therefore by extension, have in marriage, in what we now call traditional marriage, which is just actual marriage.
The marriage between a man and a woman, there's a reason why people say, oh, you get the government out of marriage.
Well, no, the government does have an interest in it.
It has an interest in actual marriage because, again, this is it's the bedrock of human civilization.
I think it's not just a private thing.
Society relies on it fundamentally.
And that doesn't apply to gay marriage, though.
Gay marriage doesn't do anything.
It's by its nature, in every case, no matter what, impotent.
It doesn't do anything.
It's not procreative.
It's not a creative relationship.
Also, one of the point I want to make here that, you know, if you're worried about backlash against so-called gay rights and you're a gay activist, well, you only have yourself to blame.
I mean, gay activists won the right to get married.
And right away, I mean, without missing a beat, without a moment of hesitation, right away, they moved to normalizing transgenderism, Drag Queen Story Hour, child drag shows, sex changes for kids, on and on.
Right away.
This was not a gradual slide.
This was not one thing leading slowly to another.
This was an immediate dive.
This was a free fall off of a cliff.
And now you have, of course, some gay people who say, LGB without the T. And they say all that other stuff, you know, it has nothing to do with us.
Well, yeah, it does.
You can't disavow it.
It's too late for that.
We saw what happened.
And it was exactly what conservatives, what people like me and many others, said would happen.
And people like you laughed at us.
You had all these gay activists back when gay marriage, when the Supreme Court decision was announced.
And again, I was certainly not the only one.
I didn't have much of a platform back then.
But I was saying, many conservatives were saying, okay, if we allow this, here's what's going to happen next.
And you had all these gay activists that were just scoffing at that, calling us ignorant, bigots, dumb, that's ridiculous.
That's a log, that's a slippery slope fallacy.
Because these morons think that the slippery slope by definition is a fallacious argument.
It's not, by the way.
You can make a slippery slope argument fallaciously, but it is not a fallacy to point out that one thing leads to another, okay?
To point out that, okay, well, look, you've made an argument to justify a certain thing.
Well, the problem is that I can take that argument intact and apply it to justifying this other thing that we both agree is horrible.
Okay.
So if you're making an argument that justifies something that you want, and I can show you that I can take that argument totally intact, not change a word of it, and use it to also justify something that we both agree is horrific.
That's the slippery slope, right?
That's what the slippery slope is doing.
That's what the slippery slope argument is trying to demonstrate.
That's not fallacious.
Unless you're an absolute idiot, that's logical reasoning.
And what that shows you is that either the thing that you're arguing for over here is bad, or at the very least, the argument you're using for it is bad, or both of them are bad.
And so conservatives did that.
They said, okay, well, here's all the arguments that you're making for gay marriage.
And so here are all the things that that argument is going to be used to justify in the future.
And what do you know?
That's exactly what happened.
And now you have these gay activists, many of them, who wouldn't listen then.
And now they're trying to disavow it.
Now they're saying, well, we had nothing to do with that.
No, you did.
And we tried to tell you and you didn't listen.
And even now, you won't admit that you're wrong.
So you can't, no, you don't get to wash your hands of it now.
You don't get to do that.
All of this, there is no LGB without the T. It's all, no, sorry, you got to wear all that.
That's all, that's all you.
All of that is you.
That is your entire worldview is that.
All right.
In France, a foreign national from Morocco was recently caught on camera doing what you can see here.
We'll put it up on the screen.
He's at a grave site at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which commemorates and honors all French soldiers who have died.
And this is in Paris.
And here he is bending down and lighting his cigarette with the flame, the flame that they always keep lit to honor the fallen, desecrating this grave site and this memorial.
This is what this migrant, this immigrant did, this foreigner.
Just an extreme level of flagrant disrespect.
And the journalist Colin Rugg on X has an update on this.
He says, the 47-year-old Moroccan national lit a cigarette with the flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris was fined a whopping $1.16.
Hakeem H was caught on camera lighting a cigarette at the Paris War Monument last week.
The man was initially facing a fine of up to $17,400 with some calling for him to be deported.
While in court, Hakeem H. said his action was the stupidity of the century and said he was under the influence of alcohol and drugs at the time.
Along with the $1.16 symbolic fine, he was given a three-month suspended sentence and ordered to seek treatment for alcohol and drug addictions.
Now, I have not been able to corroborate this $1 fine claim anywhere.
I didn't spend a lot of time admittedly looking into it, so I'm not sure how accurate that is.
Maybe I'm hopelessly naive, but even for France, that seems absurd.
But I don't know.
But regardless, obviously, your tolerance for foreigners desecrating your national memorials should be zero.
You should come down on them.
You should come down on them the way that they would if you tried to pull something like this in, say, Singapore or China or any Muslim country.
You know, if they have some kind of monument, you go light a cigarette off of the monument.
How do you think it's going to work out for you?
Not well.
And, you know, it'd be years in prison.
It would be corporal punishment.
It would be, you may never see the outside of a prison cell ever again.
We might never hear from you ever again.
That's probably what's going to happen.
That's the last time anyone in the outside world is ever going to hear from you.
And that is actually the correct way to respond.
Like, you just, you cannot tolerate that.
You are not coming into our country and desecrating our war memorials.
I mean, you should treat that like that person just did a mass shooting and killed 10 people.
And I'm not saying it's exactly morally equivalent, but our, I mean, obviously it's not you're killing 10 people versus desecrate, but it's still our tolerance for it.
What I'm saying is our tolerance for that should be the lowest level possible, which is zero.
And but apparently, according to this, it's only going to be $1.16.
This, of course, is the problem with bringing people into your country who have no respect for your history or your traditions.
They have no ties to your country or your culture.
They don't care.
They're often openly hostile to you and your culture.
And this is what you get.
And, you know, I was thinking about this.
And this is not directly related to the incident in France, but it is related to the problem with importing foreigners en masse.
That mass migration is, among other things, really depressing.
It is depressing and bland.
And ironically, it kills diversity.
It doesn't create diversity.
It kills it.
At least it kills the only kind of diversity that actually matters.
And I'll explain what I mean because I was thinking about this the other day.
The other day, I was driving through a rural area.
I was out in the country, hours away from the nearest big city.
And I decided to stop at what looks like a kind of a mom-and-pop convenience store place.
And it's obvious the store has been around for a long time.
If you live in a small town, if you drive through small towns, you've seen these kinds of places.
And you can see the signage outside.
It's weather worn and faded.
Looks like the building's been around for 40 or 50 years or longer.
And it just looked like us kind of like mom-and-pop type of place.
And the sign on the side of the building was advertising great, delicious, made-to-order food, the best lunch in town, great sandwiches, right?
And that's what it looked like on the outside.
And so I was hungry, as I usually am.
And so I stopped.
And I like going into places like this.
And I walk in naively expecting a warm, inviting, local place, right?
That's what I was kind of expecting.
And instead, what I found, of course, is that the place was staffed entirely by foreigners.
And they look to be, to me, they look to be Middle Eastern or South Asian.
And they're all speaking a foreign language.
I walk into this place.
Again, we're out in the country, far away from any big city.
And I walk into this place and I don't even understand the language they're speaking.
And on the inside, it was just the same generic, dumpy gas station vibe that you find everywhere in every major city.
And they didn't make food anymore, right?
They had, there was no, they didn't do ready-to-order, you know, they didn't do made to order food.
It was no longer the place with the best lunch in town, as they once many years ago proclaimed proudly, you know.
And you can imagine that many years ago, there was a guy, probably a guy that runs a place, and he's behind the counter and he's whipping up what they're making, you know, probably got a small menu of only a couple of things.
And the kind of place you walk in and you say, hey, whatever it is that you do well here, go ahead and I'll have one of those.
And, but that's long gone.
That's not the case anymore.
And so now they had a couple of like pre-made food options that looked really terrible.
Same kind of food options they have at every gas station.
And they had, and mostly they sold lotto tickets and they sold vapes and they sold glass pipes and it did just become basically a glorified like smoke shop.
And so I turned around and left.
So later that day, I was curious.
And when I got home, I Googled, I looked it up.
And, you know, sure enough, you plug the place in a Google and you find the Google reviews.
And you look and you see that, you know, six, seven, eight years ago, this place was getting a lot of great reviews.
And people were talking about this is a great place, a friendly place, you know, great company, good food, quaint little place.
And then, you know, a lot of good reviews.
And then you start seeing the one-star reviews, the two-star, you know, one-star, two and a half, one-star reviews come pouring in.
And that is right at the moment.
And you see one of the comments, one of the reviews says it, that a couple of years ago, the place was bought by someone and there's new ownership now.
And so this is when the foreigners came in and they bought the place.
And now, and the one-star reviews come pouring in.
And they just stripped it of everything that made it great, everything that made it inviting and warm and local, right?
Everything that made it feel like the place where it was located, made it feel distinct from other places.
They turned it into a foreign-owned dump that sells lotto tickets and beer and vapes.
And of course, this is just one case of many thousands.
There's nothing remarkable about it.
I'm not saying there's anything, that's my point.
This is happening all over the country.
This is happening everywhere in the country.
And it's a tragedy.
It's just tragic.
And I see this so often.
It's not the first time I've seen it, but this time it just, I don't know.
I just left that place and it's like, this is just sad.
This is a really sad.
You know, and it's not even like you go in there and you've got the new ownership and yeah, they're foreigners, but they're trying their best to preserve what it was before and trying their best to make it still feel like a local place.
No, they just, they turn into just this totally soulless cash grab of a place.
Lowest common denominator, utterly soulless and dank and grimy and just like, you don't want to spend more than 30 seconds in there.
And it's happening everywhere.
So when we hear that multiculturalism is a strength, that it enriches, that it adds flavor and variety to life.
No, it doesn't.
Actually, it does the opposite.
It strips the flavor.
It strips the variety, the quality, the local culture and feel.
And that stuff matters.
And it's everywhere now.
Now you have, as much as I hear about, oh, multicultural, everything.
Yeah, well, that's interesting, right?
It's interesting that you call this diversity.
And yet now here's this little place that used to be a very local place, very distinct, have a distinct charm to it.
And now I walk into it and it looks like literally every dumpy gas station in every major city in the entire country.
This is multicultural.
How is this diverse?
It looks like every depressing convenience store, 7-Eleven gas station that I've ever been in anywhere.
If I walked into that place and you just transported me there in the middle, I would have no clue where I was.
Like, this could be like Baltimore.
This could be Chicago.
This could be LA.
This could be anywhere.
Whereas before, if you transported me into the middle of that place, I'd look around and go, okay, well, this is like, I'd be able to tell pretty quickly, you'd be able to tell where you were because you're in a place where they have pride in the fact that like, this is, we're here, we're in this town.
We've lived here for a long time.
My grandparents lived here, right?
I know the guy, like all that is gone now.
And that's what happens when you bring in people that have no love for the local culture, no respect for it, no tie to it at all, no desire to preserve it at all.
And it matters.
And we're told that it doesn't matter.
We're told that like we that we shouldn't care about this.
And meanwhile, in any other country, with any other group of people, preserving the culture is understood by everyone to be important, to be a worthy goal to preserve the culture.
I mean, for God's sake, you have primitive tribes in loincloths in the Amazon rainforest, right, that have been living in the year 10,000 BC since the year 10,000 BC.
And what do we say now?
We say, well, we've got to preserve the culture.
What even is the culture?
I mean, the culture is in every sense, like backwards and primitive.
And they're dying of diseases that people haven't died from in modern society for hundreds of years, right?
Their teeth are rotting out of.
They're dying of like tooth infections.
And yet we look at that and we say, you know, it's very important to preserve that culture.
Well, okay, then why isn't it important to preserve the culture of the town that I was driving through?
We got to preserve the culture of the Amazon rainforest loincloth tribe.
Fine, I could buy that.
I could buy that.
But this small town, like preserving that culture means nothing.
That culture is nothing.
Just throw it in the freaking garbage is what you're telling me.
And not only that, but if we say a word about preserving that culture, then we're racist, then we're bigots, then we're far-right extremists.
Well, I've had enough of that.
And I think that everyone, I think, well, I think most people have had enough of that.
Yeah, let's preserve.
Preserving culture is important and it's important here.
In fact, it's the most important here in my country because it's my country.
This is our country.
Preserving our own culture should be more important to us than preserving anyone else's culture.
And that should go without saying.
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Probably a cliche to point out that if you want to talk like a Klansman in the year 2025 without losing your job, the path of least resistance is to identify as a member of the left.
I mean, listen to these people for five seconds and they're guaranteed to extol the virtues of racial hierarchy, domestic terrorism, spraying swastikas on other people's property.
Really, it's like they compete to outdo one another.
They'll say, for example, that the Trump administration shouldn't deport illegal aliens because rich white people need someone to do their gardening for them.
Or they'll tell you that the idea of enforcing laws is inherently racist because laws disproportionately affect black people.
Now, all that is to say, without a doubt, Democrats have perfected the art of coming up with new ways of insulting and ultimately demeaning various quote-unquote minority groups, even though they claim that they're not interested in doing so.
They claim that they're doing the opposite.
But even with this well-deserved reputation in mind, you really have to hand it to a woman named Jennifer Welsh.
Now, admittedly, I didn't know anything about Jennifer Welsh until I heard this story.
Apparently, she's an actress and a podcaster, presumably with no relation to the Welsh brand of grape-based products, although I really don't know.
The New York Post describes her as a former Bravo star, which seems like a contradiction in terms.
But in any event, she's certainly very left-wing, by her own admission.
And the other day on her podcast called I've Had It, Jennifer Welsh announced a boycott of all Mexican, Chinese, and Indian restaurants.
She also wholeheartedly endorsed Cracker Barrel, saying it's the only place where white people should spend their money.
Now, again, ordinarily, based on these statements, you'd think that Jennifer Welsh is maybe one of those dastardly white supremacists that Joe Biden and Merrick Garland were always warning us about.
And yet, that's not the case, at least not to my knowledge anyway.
But you can judge for yourself.
Here's Jennifer Welsh in all her glory explaining her new planned boycott of so-called people of color.
Watch.
I've had it with white people that triple Trumped, that have the nerve and the audacity to walk into a Mexican restaurant, a Chinese restaurant, an Indian restaurant, go to perhaps their gay hairdresser.
I don't think you should be able to enjoy anything but Cracker Barrel.
And if you want to triple Trump and you want to browbeat DEI, you want to browbeat gay people and you want to browbeat black people as you've been doing for 400 years.
And you want to browbeat this generation of immigrants that come over here and open up businesses earnestly, pay their taxes.
You want to demonize them and call them rapists and felons and all that when the felon is the teeny weeny mushroom piece of.
Kangol's McTaco at the top of the ticket.
I have had it from top to bottom.
White people that triple Trump should be banned, boycotted from enjoying the best thing that America has to offer, which is multiculturalism.
Get your fat asses out of the Mexican restaurant.
Get your fat asses over to Cracker Barrel because nobody wants to see your mug ass, teeny weeny, pink arm, big gut around.
Nobody wants to see that.
No one.
Now, not that it's the most important part of this very important story, but I want to clarify a technical point first.
Initially, I assume that the term triple Trump meant people who had voted for Trump three times.
But apparently, per the New York Post, quote, the term triple Trump refers to those who support the critics, support what critics argue are the president's anti-stances on immigration, diversity and LGBTQ rights.
So that's apparently the textbook definition.
I'm not very convinced, but the jury's still out on that one.
In any event, during this podcast, the co-hosts.
someone who goes by the name Angie Pumps Sullivan doubled down.
She issued a challenge to white female Trump supporters, and here's what she said: quote, I want you to give up a credit card in your name, Sullivan said.
I want you to give up the bank account in your name, and I want you to be completely beholden to a man.
I want you to work.
I don't want you to work.
I want you to stay home and make cornflakes from scratch for that effort because that's what you're voting for.
She continued, when you're talking about the golden age and let's make America great again, they're talking about you having less rights than men, not be able to have a credit card, not being able to own anything in your own name.
So, Triple Trump, country club Christian white women, you should have to forfeit those luxuries, close quote.
So, you get the idea.
White people need to stay far, far away from minorities, apparently.
And white women, for their part, need to make cornflakes from scratch while staying at home all day because they're not allowed to have any contact whatsoever with the outside world.
We're told that because white people voted for Trump, that all this makes sense.
Now, as compelling as this reasoning is, you do have to wonder where this whole thing goes.
I mean, if we're taking it to its logical conclusion, I mean, I'm on board, but it seems like a half measure from where I'm standing.
Surely, as repentant white people, we can't stop with a simple boycott of Indian, Chinese, and Mexican food along with homosexual hairdressers.
We can't rest on our laurels after we've bankrupted all the Mexican and Indian restaurants and the gay people in the entire country, as this woman wants us to do.
And after we've decided to handcuff our wives to the kitchen and spend all of our disposable income on meals at Cracker Barrel.
I mean, we can't stop there.
That would just be lazy.
In the interest of racial justice, there's simply no doubt that we have to go a step further to really demonstrate our commitment to the mission of equity and to honor Barack Obama's legacy.
So, here's an idea: perhaps for the benefit of all these oppressed racial minorities, we should spare them any contact whatsoever with any innovations or inventions that were made by the tainted hands of white people.
That's the only way to truly prevent white supremacy from impacting anybody else.
We should channel Jennifer Welsh and keep all those people far, far away from devilish white supremacist inventions created by notorious white supremacists, such as, you know, the printing press and computers and the telephone and the internet, airplanes, motor vehicles, air conditioning, you know, like everything in modern society.
They could forget about penicillin, too.
Only once racial minorities are permanently grounded, forced to communicate with smoke signals and carrier pigeons without the benefit of modern medicine, only then can true racial justice be achieved.
That's where the wisdom of Jennifer Welsh would take us anyway.
And I can't see any reason not to trust her divine providence.
After all, she apparently starred in Bravo's reality show Sweet Home, which was about her luxury interior design business.
And it's about as good a credential as you can hope for.
Now, I'll admit that as easy as it may be to mock people like Jennifer Welsh, I do unironically have a great deal of appreciation for videos like this.
I genuinely wish that leftists who are more recognizable than Jennifer Welsh, which is to say, you know, most of them, would record a million more podcasts and rants like this one.
That's because it's exactly the sort of messaging that got Democrats demolished in 2024.
I'd be very happy if they kept it going through the midterms and on to 2028.
Just the dripping disdain, the seething contempt for anyone who doesn't do exactly as they say, the deep boiling hatred for white people and for themselves by extension.
Yeah, keep it going.
I mean, this is a recipe for the Democrat Party's continued march into political irrelevancy.
The more they openly voice their contempt for most of the country, the fewer elections they'll win.
And so I think it's great.
Keep it going.
I hope they keep pushing this stuff, keep wearing their hatred on their sleeves.
I mean, this particular woman certainly can't wear it on her face as the Botox has made facial expressions very difficult for her.
She's yet another middle-aged woman who's so desperate to look 25 that she ends up looking like a Disney villain instead.
She doesn't want to look like an old person, so instead she looks like an old cartoon.
That's the level of judgment that former Bravo star Jennifer Welsh is capable of.
The good news for conservatives is that at the moment, Democrats generally aren't doing much better.
Jennifer Welsh currently represents the standard mode of thought on the left.
The bad news is that, and I suppose I'm guilty of this myself, the right is going out of its way to shame Jennifer Welsh.
That makes it much less likely that we'll get this kind of content again, at least anytime soon.
And we might regret that.
After all, as the saying goes, you should never interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake.
And that is why all the people pointing out that Jennifer Welsh is a moron are correct, but also are today canceled.
That'll do it for the show today.
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Thanks for listening.
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