Ep. 1708 - Violent Migrants Are Invading And Western Leaders Are Surrendering Without A Fight
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, after the Islamist attack in Australia, France has shut down its traditional New Year’s celebration for fear of violent attacks by Arab migrants. Also, Trump provokes outrage by attacking Rob Reiner moments after he was murdered by his son. The White House officially classifies fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. And the dictionary's word of the year is “slop." I couldn't think of a more appropriate choice.
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Today, Matt Walsh Show, after the Islamist attack in Australia, France has shut down its traditional New Year celebration for fear of violent attacks by Arab migrants.
Also, Trump provokes outrage by attacking Rob Reiner moments after he was murdered by his son.
The White House officially classifies fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, and the dictionary's word of the year is slop.
I couldn't think of a more appropriate choice.
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Under normal circumstances, it would be strange for me to begin the show by announcing that the French have surrendered in the face of a serious challenge.
Making a big deal out of a French surrender would be like talking about a Canadian who profusely apologizes or a Russian who gets drunk or a North Korean who loves Dear Leader or a young black male who gets himself into some legal trouble.
These kinds of things happen every day.
And if I devoted any amount of time to cataloging all of the times in which the French have waved the white flag, well, we just wouldn't have time to discuss anything else.
But today, we're going to talk about a French surrender because this particular retreat has ramifications for the West at large and in particular for the United States.
The French government has just announced that for the first time, they're going to cancel their traditional midnight concert on New Year's Eve along the iconic Champs Élysée in Paris, which usually draws a crowd of more than a million people.
And I even think that I might have pronounced that somewhat correctly, which is the greatest shock of all.
So they're still going to have the fireworks at midnight, but they're urging everyone to stay at home instead of attending any parade on the avenue.
Why are they canceling the traditional parade, you might ask?
Well, here's the New York Post with the explanation that you've probably guessed already.
Quote, the famed avenue has become a flashpoint of violence lately with throngs of young, mostly Muslim migrants streaming in from Paris's infamous suburbs at night looking for trouble, looting luxury stores and brawling with Parisians and police.
The Paris police, which pressed the mayor to scrap the concert, cited security concerns such as unpredictable crowd movements without going into details.
Even open-air Christmas markets are being treated as high-risk targets by France's interior minister.
In an urgent letter to state officials, he warned of a very high terror threat, citing groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS and ordered beefed up police presence at Christmas markets and to restrict vehicle access and mobilize intelligence agencies.
Close quote.
Now, as it turns out, this report is something of an understatement.
I went looking through footage since 2017, and every single year there's been some kind of violent attack or riot, mostly committed by France's non-native population.
If it's not an explicit act of terror, it's usually a riot over some career thug who was shot by a police officer or Moroccans who are really excited about soccer.
Each clip I'm about to show is from a separate incident in or around the center of parents in the vicinity of or directly on Champs-Élysées Boulevard.
Watch.
We begin with breaking news coming in from Paris.
A terror attack in one of the most famous tourist spots in the world.
Gunshots ringing out on the Champs-Élysées, usually packed with people.
Of course, many of them tourists from all over the world in the United States.
It is now a crime scene tonight.
The shooter targeting police officers, killing one of them, wounding another, before that shooter tried to run from authorities down the Champs-Élysées.
Now we could show another hour of footage like this.
It's been going on for a long time.
And rather than correct the problem at any point in the last decade or two, French and European officials have continued to allow millions of foreigners, particularly Muslims who despise the West, into their communities.
After all this time, the decision for the French government was always going to come down to one of two options.
The first option was a Trump-style crackdown and mass deportations, which probably wouldn't even be enough at this point.
And the second option was surrender.
And of course, they, as they so often do, they've chosen the latter option.
This is a humiliating collapse that somehow gets even worse when you remember that France, and it could be easy to forget this, used to be a global empire.
They had territory in Canada, the Midwest, India, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and so on.
They helped us win our independence.
They had the second best Navy in the world for centuries.
Napoleon conquered most of continental Europe.
And now they're so weak, they're so cowardly and so defeated by foreign invaders that they can't even host a New Year's parade.
They have to cower in their homes and watch their annual parade on the television because the risk that a Muslim terrorist will run them over or shoot them or blow them up is too high.
Now, that's not to single out the French.
All of the West is experiencing the consequences of mass migration all at once.
We spent much of yesterday's show talking about the Islamist terrorist attack in Australia.
Meanwhile, in Germany, authorities just shut down a plot to drive a vehicle through a Christmas market.
The terror cell consisted of three Moroccans, an Egyptian, and a Syrian.
And while it's obviously good news that the attack didn't succeed, there are many, many more plots like this, which are unfolding all the time.
Just today, the Daily Mail reported on a Christmas market ISIS mass terror attack plot in Poland.
A spokesman for the Polish government said that the aim of the crime was to intimidate many people and support the Islamic State.
This is part and parcel of Christmas in the West now.
In France alone, the government says they've intercepted six terror plots in the past year.
It's only a matter of time before one of them succeeds, and they have in the past, obviously.
And the same is true here in the United States.
Even when terror plots are intercepted, the authorities don't exactly inspire confidence.
As you may have heard, the DOJ just announced that it disrupted a series of bombings against targets in Orange County and Los Angeles beginning on New Year's Eve.
The perpetrators, authorities say, are members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, or TILF, which is apparently a far-left pro-Palestine, pro-quote, indigenous, anarchist, anti-capitalist organization that no one has heard of before this week.
So these are not Islamists.
These are, you know, communist Antifa types.
They were also going to target ICE agents, according to the DOJ.
And in a dramatic Tom Clancy-style moment, they were apprehended by a SWAT team in the desert as they were assembling their bombs, unaware of the presence of an FBI surveillance plane, which was watching them.
Take a look.
As I mentioned in my talking points, on December 12th, a group of individuals, again, members of this anti-government group, traveled out to the desert to test their explosive devices.
They had precursor chemicals there, and they were going to create these bombs in the desert.
What they are starting to do is put their chemicals and wares and the components out on the table there.
This footage that you're watching is from our surveillance plane.
And then what happened after this is the Los Angeles FBI SWAT team, along with the FBI's hostage rescue team, moved in and arrested all four subjects without incident.
Now, as easy as it would be to celebrate these arrests as an unequivocal win for the FBI, an agency that badly needs an unequivocal win, there is reason for skepticism here.
And that's not just because the FBI hasn't raided many, many more leftist groups like this by now, three months after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
We have not seen the nationwide aggressive crackdown on left-wing militants that we needed and were promised.
But it's not just that.
First of all, the indictment is somewhat reminiscent of the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping case from 2020.
If you remember that investigation, the official narrative was that a bunch of right-wingers hatched a plan to kidnap the governor of Michigan and force her to stand trial for treason because of her COVID policies.
But as it turned out, reality was much less dramatic.
The FBI and its informants pushed the plot on a bunch of stoners and broke losers, some of whom were acquitted at trial after they successfully argued that they'd been entrapped by the agency.
There was no date set for the kidnapping.
There was no real evidence that many of the alleged conspirators ever took it seriously.
Nearly half the people in the kidnapping van were working for the FBI in some capacity.
One of the lead FBI agents on the case was convicted of beating his wife.
It was a debacle.
So with that in mind, here's the indictment of the TILF terrorists.
And this was first reported by Ken Silva.
Quote, in late November 2025, Carol, a member of TILF, provided a confidential human source, or CHS, an eight-page handwritten document titled Operation Midnight Sun that described a bombing plot.
The CHS is cooperating with law enforcement and is a validated and vetted source.
The CHS has been a reliable source of information since August 2021.
The CHS is cooperating for financial compensation.
The CHS does not have any criminal history.
Now, separately, the indictment makes it clear that an undercover FBI employee was present during a meeting of the alleged co-conspirators on December 7th.
Quote, on or about the early morning of December 7th, 2025, the CHS and undercover employee met with the defendants.
Carol stated she had the plan and handed Gaffield four sheets of paper with writing on the front and back of each page which Gaffield and the undercover FBI employee read.
The undercover FBI employee later told law enforcement that the papers contained details instructions, detailed instructions on how to construct a black powder pipe bomb.
Okay, so to recap, the four defendants have been arrested in this case.
Pretty small group.
So TILF is not exactly Al-Qaeda.
And yet this very small group of TILFs managed to give their entire plan in writing to an FBI informant, someone who's paid an undisclosed amount of money to build cases like this.
And as if that wasn't enough, the TILFs also managed to invite an FBI employee to their secret hideaway to discuss the attack.
Now, to be clear, I'm not suggesting that the TILFs are innocent or that the FBI didn't do a great job in arresting these people, but given what happened with the Wittmer investigation and given how much direct involvement the FBI had with this sleeper cell, you know, you really can't be sure at this point.
And things get even worse when you see this tweet from MSNBC's Ken Delanian.
And in case you're not familiar with Ken, he is by far the most prolific deep state propagandist in the corporate press.
He was caught many years ago allowing the CIA to vet his stories prior to publication.
And that should have ended his career, but it didn't because the role of the corporate press is simply to repeat what the intelligence agencies say.
So to that end, Ken has spent the last decade pushing every FBI hoax under the sun, Rushing Gate, Hunter Biden laptop, you know, and so on and so on, everything in between.
He is, put simply, one of the most sinister and untrustworthy individuals on the left, which is, you know, genuinely saying something.
And here's what Ken wrote about the FBI's latest bust.
Quote, I'm told by people I trust this was a real plot, and the FBI put a lot of resources into unraveling it.
Sounds like really good investigative work.
So file that under things less true for having been said.
That's an all-timer.
Maybe when you have Ken Delanian in your corner, the guy whose nickname is literally Fusion Ken because he promoted the fake steel dossier to smear Donald Trump, then you have a serious credibility problem.
The FBI getting praised by Ken Delanian.
It's like your broker getting endorsed by, you know, Bernie Madoff.
Ken doesn't care about the truth.
He's never pretended to care about the truth.
Doesn't even really care about partisan politics, strictly speaking.
His only purpose is to advance the interests of the intelligence agencies, specifically the unelected members of these agencies that conduct all the day-to-day operations.
So when Ken Delanian is declaring that the FBI did some really good investigative work, we have every reason to infer that the exact opposite might be true.
And of course, we also have our own eyes and ears.
And we could see, for example, how the FBI has conducted the investigation into the mass shooting at Brown University, a school with thousands of cameras, none of which are apparently useful.
Now, the other day, FBI agents from the evidence response team were filmed looking for clues around the campus of Brown University by walking around and kicking the snow with their feet, which, I mean, I'm no investigator.
It doesn't seem like the best way to detect evidence, but that's what they went with.
They didn't bring any equipment or anything.
They're just scoping out the terrain, kicking the snow, hoping to stumble across a gun.
It's like when I tell my kids to look around the house because we can't find the remote.
They're just kind of wandering around, look under a pillow.
No, it's gone.
Can't find it.
Now, just from an optics perspective, it's an embarrassing display that strongly suggests the FBI has no idea what it's even looking for.
They certainly don't seem to have a lot of urgency.
And that needs to change.
And not just because one of the murdered students was the vice president of the school's College Republicans chapter, which obviously suggests a possible political motive.
This was a mass shooting at a major university, one in which, according to an article syndicated by Yahoo News, the shooter may have shouted Allah Akbar during the rampage.
As you can see, that article cites students and other witnesses for that claim, which as of now the authorities have not verified.
And every time they're asked about whether the shooter shot at something and what he may have shouted, local officials in Providence duck the question to a comical degree.
Watch.
There's a report the shooter yelled something right before the shot came in.
Could you tell us what that was?
Yeah, it's a part of the investigation, John and Wilk, yeah.
The only reason I ask that, though, is, for instance, like with the unibomber, his brother recognized the writing.
So it's possible a friend or family member might recognize if the person said something that was significant.
Correct, why you don't, other than the nine millimeter, is there anything else inside that auditorium that you could tell us?
No, that's correct.
And listen, like I said earlier, investigations will bring us to evidence that we need to collect in order to be able to prosecute.
With that being said, with that being said, we're going to continue to collect evidence.
And if it leads us to something to that nature, that's going to be extremely helpful for us to identify somebody, we'll be the first ones to put it out.
So that's something that we're investigating.
We took statements and we have to confirm.
Any questions for somebody else?
We're going to wrap it up here.
So it's clear they don't want to answer the question, which suggests one of two possibilities.
Either they want to cover for the shooter or they're so incompetent that they need to be fired immediately.
And it's not just the local authorities who are failing here.
The FBI is failing too.
They need to take the lead here and explain what, if anything, these local officials are covering up.
The authorities have already completely botched the investigation.
First, they detained a person of interest, then released him.
Then state and local officials held a series of press conferences that undermined all confidence in the investigation.
They brought out a weird fake sign language interpreter that started speaking in Spanish for no discernible reason.
Watch.
We want to see the individual that pulled the trigger on these young kids identified, apprehended, and brought to justice.
I can tell you from the state level, we're continuing to coordinate.
At a certain point, you have to ask yourself, when exactly did our country fall apart in such a visible and embarrassing fashion?
What was the moment where everybody in a position of power, seemingly at once, became incompetent parodies of themselves?
Until this week, did anyone seriously think a mass shooter could open fire in the middle of a major university and just walk out and remain nameless and unidentified for several days?
Did anyone think that in the aftermath, the FBI's response would amount to walking around like zombies in the snow and overseeing press conferences that feel like sketch comedy routines.
It's enough to make you wonder if the parents of Charlie Kirk's assassin hadn't turned him in, would the FBI have ever found him?
Starting to look like the answer to that question is no.
Now, it's true that we haven't fallen as far as France yet.
We're not completely powerless and forced to hide in our homes as marauding Muslim hordes terrorize our New Year's parades, but we're not far off.
Our leaders are willing to hold meaningless press conferences where they tell us they're hot on the heels of the brown shooter, or where they tell us Elohan Omar is living in this country illegally, or where they tell us that, you know, Antifa is a domestic terrorist organization, but then don't do anything about it.
They'll arrest some TILFs, whoever they are, and call it a day.
There is no more time for this.
As we trip over ourselves, we are being invaded from within.
And at the moment, the signal we're sending to these invaders is a very familiar one.
Like France, Germany, Australia, the UK, we're advertising our own incompetence to the world.
We're demonstrating our willingness to be subjugated and destroyed.
And if somebody in this administration doesn't send a very different signal and soon, then the enemies of civilization are guaranteed to take us up on that offer.
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Okay, as you know, Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle, were brutally murdered in their home, allegedly by their son.
And now more is coming out about this relationship, the relationship the parents had with their adult son, Nick, who was an addict, a junkie, apparently.
Fox has this report.
From addiction struggles to violent outbursts, Rob and Michelle Reiner's son, Nick, has said his shared battles throughout the years.
On Monday, the third character was arrested and booked on suspicion of murder and the horrific deaths of his parents.
This is not the first time their son has been violent.
A longtime neighbor told the New York Post, I know of another incident a few years back with Nick, but I won't say more than that.
Rob was always heartbroken that his son couldn't beat his addiction.
I know they wanted to get him help, go to rehab, but he wanted to get help while at home.
He did not want to get treatment at a facility.
He was on heroin, cocaine, so that it goes into more detail about that.
So there's, you know, in some ways, not a lot to say about a case like this other than it's horrible and sad.
And I mean, the worst fate imaginable for a person is to be murdered by your own child.
It's the most horrific thing that can happen to a person, obviously.
And of course, a lot of people are talking about Trump because he attacked Reiner in a Truth Social post, which you've probably seen.
And then he was asked about it the next day.
This was yesterday.
And he, in typical Trump fashion, certainly didn't apologize for it and instead doubled down.
And here's what he said.
Listen.
Mr. President, a number of Republicans have denounced your statement on Truth Social after the murder of Rob Reiner.
Do you stand by that post?
Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all.
He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.
He said he liked, he knew it was false.
In fact, it's the exact opposite that I was a friend of Russia controlled by Russia.
You know, it was the Russia hooks.
He was one of the people behind it.
I think he hurt himself in career-wise.
He became like a deranged person, Trump derangement syndrome.
So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape, or form.
I thought he was very bad for our country.
As many people on both sides have already pointed out, Trump going after Reiner hours after he and his wife were just butchered was ridiculous, low-class, gross behavior.
It's grotesque.
It's stupid.
It's wrong.
It's all those things.
And that's not difficult to say.
And this is not the kind of thing that if you're a conservative, you should feel the need to, well, we got to defend it because it's like we all know no one would do that.
I mean, you wouldn't do it.
No one would do it.
I have seen a few conservatives trying to defend this, but these are all conservatives who themselves, I know, would never say something like this about someone after they were just murdered by their child.
You know, so you know that it's wrong.
Now, the problem is that I can't take anyone on the left seriously when they wring their hands over it if you're on the left, because these, of course, are the same people who celebrated, are still celebrating Charlie Kirk's death.
These are the people who shamelessly, with no embarrassment, celebrate anytime somebody on the right dies.
I mean, if this had been a Republican to die like this, if Rob Reiner was known as a Republican, an outspoken Republican, then we know how it would go.
I mean, we all know how it would go.
But you notice how with Rob Reiner, a very outspoken leftist, almost everybody on the right, almost every conservative responded in a dignified, classy way.
And if you were on X when this news broke, as I was, every post from somebody on the right was along the lines of, this is a horrible tragedy.
Rest in peace.
This is terrible.
And that was it.
Or talking about how they really appreciated his work.
And he was a great artist.
I mean, he had a run of films from, what, I guess, like into the 80s into the 90s that has not been repeated by very many directors.
And so that's what most of the commentary was about from people on the right.
There was really only one person on our side who decided to gloat, and that was Trump.
Now, granted, that one person happens to be the president of the United States.
So it's not exactly someone.
It's not exactly a social media troll you can just write off, but even so.
And most conservatives, even Trump's biggest fans from what I saw, were openly expressing their disappointment in his reaction, which even if you go on Truth Social, where he put this post up originally, and you look at a lot of the comments, these are like diehards.
These are the diehards of the diehards when it comes to being Trump supporters.
And a lot of them were not agreeing with it.
And that's something that you would never see from the left.
So all that is true.
But here's what I want to talk about with this.
Putting all that to the side, because it sounds like Rob Reiner and his wife were essentially being held hostage, like emotional blackmail, not literal hostage, but they were being held hostage in the way that a lot of people are through emotional blackmail by their scumbag junkie son.
And there are many such cases.
And they almost always end in tragedy.
And you're seeing a lot of these reports now about how they wanted to put him in a facility, but he didn't want to go to a facility.
He wanted to stay home.
They let him stay at home.
And I think that Mike Cernovich on X made an important point.
He posted, no one wants to hear it, but if your kid is an unrepentant druggie for your own safety and the good of your family, you need to let him go his own way.
Druggies are not helpless victims.
They're calculating manipulators and exploiters.
And he's right that nobody wants to hear that, or very few people do, but it's true.
And that's one of the lessons in this story.
It appears this guy, Nick, was a junkie, an addict.
Rob and Michelle were trying to take care of him, trying to keep him at home, even if they didn't want him there, but they allowed that to happen, which is understandable.
He's their son.
There are plenty of parents who have been in similar situations.
And God forbid you're in that situation.
There's no easy answer.
And every part of you wants to be there for your child.
You don't want to tell your child to, you don't want to send your son out, even if even an adult.
You don't want to send them out to be homeless on the street.
You don't want that.
Who would?
But sometimes you have no choice.
And this is what happens.
And part of the problem, and again, nobody really wants to talk about this, but part of the problem is that we have pathologized addiction to the point where the addict is treated like a victim on the level of a cancer patient.
You know, we say that addiction is a disease.
And that, I think that framing, that way of looking at it, which we've done with all addictions, we've talked about them all like they're diseases, whether it's a drug addiction or a gambling addiction or a so-called sex addiction, right?
Someone cheats on their spouse and now, oh, I'm sick.
I'm sick.
I have a disease.
And the problem is that when you start talking about it that way, well, you know, it's a disease.
Okay.
Cancer is a disease.
If your son had, if your adult son had cancer, you wouldn't kick him out of the house.
So what kind of parent would do that?
Of course you wouldn't.
If someone you know, a loved one has cancer, has a disease, you're going to do all you can to help them.
You'll take them in.
You'll give them what they need, right?
And you'll, yes, they will be a burden in a certain way.
Like it's a burdensome thing in a certain way to take care of someone, but it's one that you, of course, for a loved one, you will gladly take on.
You would never consider doing anything but that if somebody has an actual disease.
So the more that we have, as a society, internalized this addiction is a disease thing, the more that we have felt obligated to cater to junkies and addicts, just the absolute dregs of humanity, the worst kinds of people, give them what they want and make ourselves susceptible and vulnerable to them, and we see that on a kind of societal scale with these, these druggies that are, you know,
allowed to just take over the street and set up camp and make our communities unlivable.
Because we refuse to treat this as a crime, we refuse to treat these people as just like antisocial dysfunctional, dangerous vagrants, which is what they are.
Instead, it's no, they have a disease, they're sick.
I mean routing them up and putting them in institution, putting them in prison, that would be like again, that'd be like doing that to a cancer patient um, and then that's what people do in their own lives with the, with the, with the, a lot of the addicts they know in their own lives and um, and that's a problem, because the truth is that drug addicts are often, often some of the most deceitful manipulative, selfish and ultimately dangerous people you will ever meet.
You know the.
They are not the victims of some kind of terminal illness.
These are people who have decided yes, I said decided to dedicate their entire lives, every part of their lives, to the pursuit of the pleasure they derive from this drug of choice, and they will put that above anything and anyone.
That's the reality now, that's like the cold hard reality.
They've dedicated their entire life to this.
It's all they care about and they will put it above anything and anyone.
They love the drug more than they love anyone.
And uh, so the truth is that addiction is not a disease.
Okay, it's not.
Addiction is a pattern of behavior.
It's not a disease.
Addiction involves choice.
It involves agency in a way that a real disease does not.
You don't directly choose to get cancer right, I mean, cancer can come from lifestyle result.
It could be partly the result of lifestyle factors um, but you don't just choose to have it.
No one does that.
People choose to get addicted.
They do.
You start doing something that's going to have that that can create an addiction and you keep doing it like you're choosing this.
You are choosing it.
And you can't just change your behavior and magically not have cancer anymore.
But addiction is a choice.
You choose to start using the substance that you're addicted to.
You choose to continue using it until it, until habits are formed.
And even when the habit is formed, you still choose to use it every time, whatever you're addicted to like.
I don't care if you're addicted to heroin.
The point is that every time you pick up that needle, that is a choice.
And people say oh, it's not a choice.
No, it is.
It is you you had to physically do like.
No one forced you to do it.
It's not, it's not.
It's not that that is you.
You're a person with a brain and you have chosen to pick it up.
You did.
And anyone who says otherwise.
When people say well, it's not a choice okay well, so then I guess they're totally screwed, they can't do anything about it.
So you can't say it's not a choice and then say you need to get help, you need to go to rehab, you know, let me, let me help you get.
You can't say, because you just said it's not a choice, you said there's nothing they can, it's not a choice.
It means there's nothing they can do.
If there's anything they can do about this, then that means that there's a choice involved.
So which is it?
And the other thing is that addicts respond to incentives.
Again um, rehab and recovery would not be possible unless that were true.
And the fact that it responds to incentives means it's not a disease.
Okay.
Whatever you're doing, if it responds to incentives, it's not a disease.
Diseases don't work like that.
Like very often, the only way to get an addict to stop, to change, is to cut them out.
Tough love.
It's not going to always work.
A lot of times it doesn't, but many times it's the only thing that will work.
If anything will work, it'll be that.
Well, no disease cures itself that way.
Okay.
Like there's no, oh, someone has diabetes.
Let's give them some tough love.
It doesn't make any sense.
Like diabetes does not respond to incentives.
It responds to treatment.
It doesn't respond to an incentive.
You can't incentivize someone to not have diabetes anymore.
They have it.
Like here's how I've often put it.
If you claim you're acting a certain way because of a disease, whether it's an addiction or some other mental disease that you claim you have, whatever.
And this is a widespread problem.
It's not just addiction.
People constantly, you know, we've invented a million diseases that are invisible, that no one can see, mysteriously cannot be detected on a brain scan, can't be diagnosed with the blood.
You know, you can't draw blood and do a blood test or anything.
But all these diseases and people blame their behaviors on their diseases, right?
This is the psychiatric industry that has had this effect, turned us all into slaves of our desires, really, believing that we're totally helpless.
We can't make any choices for ourselves, totally infantilized.
That's the idea.
It's done on purpose.
Well, okay.
You say that this behavior, whatever it is, is a result of disease.
Well, what if you're about to engage in that behavior, whatever it is, say your drug of choice, you're about to use the drug, take the drug.
And then I put a gun to your head and I say, I will pull the trigger right now if you do that.
I say, stop right now, or I'm going to put a bullet in your head.
Well, guess what?
Every quote unquote diseased person, person with one of these invisible diseases that causes them to do things, whether it's take a drug or act a certain way, every single one of them would stop, right?
They'd put down the, they'd put it down.
They'd say, okay, I'm not going to, every single one, every single one with a gun to their head, they would stop.
Now, they might not stop forever.
As soon as you leave and there's no gun to their head, they're going to be doing it.
But in that moment, they will stop.
What does that tell you?
I'm not suggesting that we treat addiction this way, by the way.
I'm only making the point that if you're able to respond to an incentive like that, even a very, very severe incentive, then you have agency.
You have a choice.
If me putting a gun to your head would mean that you would act a certain way, then you can choose to act that way.
I mean, it's as simple as that.
And no disease works that way.
If you have epilepsy and you're having a seizure and I put a gun to your head and say, stop, stop having a seizure.
Stop right now.
You couldn't.
I mean, you literally couldn't.
It is all the incentives in the world.
I could threaten, I could threaten you.
I'd put a gun to your head.
I could say, I'll give you $10 billion right now.
Here's the cash, $10 billion.
If you stop having a seizure, you still can't.
Because you can't.
If you have bone cancer, I can't put a gun to your head and say, stop having bone cancer.
Yet, interestingly enough, all these other, you know, quote unquote diseases, addictions, everything, with severe incentives, you can get people to change their behavior.
Maybe not permanently, but in the moment they can, in the moment.
I'm talking about in the moment.
And that means that in the moment it is a choice.
It just is.
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Trump announced that fentanyl classified as a weapon of mass destruction.
Here he is announcing that.
Today I'm taking one more step to protect Americans from the scourge of deadly fentanyl flooding into our country.
With this historic executive order I will sign today.
We're formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, which is what it is.
No bomb does what this is doing.
200 to 300,000 people die every year that we know of.
So we're formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.
Okay, so what does this mean in practice?
The White House put out a fact sheet laying it out.
The order directs the Attorney General to immediately pursue criminal charges, sentencing enhancements, and sentencing variances in fentanyl trafficking cases.
The order directs Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury to pursue appropriate actions against relevant assets and financial institutions for those involved in or supporting the manufactured distribution and sale of illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemicals.
The order direct Secretary of War in consultation with the Homeland Security Secretary to update their chemical incident response related directives to include the fentanyl threat.
There's like 20 bullet points.
You can go read the fact sheet for yourself if you want to.
I'm in favor of this, I think.
I mean, I'm certainly in favor of doing everything possible to get this poison off the streets.
I think categorizing it as a weapon of mass destruction feels a little bit gimmicky, to be honest.
If it actually has some kind of practical benefit, then okay, I guess I'm for it.
I mean, you can you can make an argument that it qualifies for the reason that Trump said it is a chemical that kills tens of thousands of people.
So in a sense, you could call it that.
But is this just a gimmick?
Or is it, is there a reason for, is there like a strategic benefit to saying this is a weapon of mass destruction?
And that's always the question.
Will this have any practical real-life implications?
Now, to me, they categorized Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization.
It feels a lot like that.
And then nothing happened.
And then the inaction in that case is worse because it's bad enough to not crack down on Antifa, but if you call them a domestic terrorist sell and then still don't crack down on them, if you still don't have mass arrests all across the country of anybody who's ever been involved in any Antifa activities at all, then what do you do?
Why'd you call them domestic terrorists?
Like you call them domestic terrorists.
That means that what we should have seen is all across the country, every single person. who is involved or has ever been involved in any capacity with any Antifa-related activities should be under arrest.
All of them.
So like thousands of people should be under arrest.
And we haven't seen that.
Okay, so we're not actually treating them like domestic terrorists.
And the same is true of this.
If you're saying it's a weapon of mass destruction, well, now, sure, you're blowing up the drug boats.
So that is consistent.
That's considered treating it like a weapon and you're blowing up the drug boats.
That's a consistent, that is a, that's what you would do if people were trying to smuggle weapons of mass destruction in.
Sure.
But it's got to go a lot farther than that.
Okay, because now like the drug dealers are not just drugs.
They're selling weapons of mass destruction.
What would you do if there was someone on the corner selling a weapon of mass destruction?
Okay, what if they were selling a nuclear bomb?
What would you do?
What would happen to that person?
Well, if the same thing doesn't happen to the drug dealers who are selling fentanyl, then you're not really treating it like a weapon of mass destruction.
And so there's, why'd you call it that?
So again, it should be mass arrests, severe, severe, severe penalties.
Life imprisonment, death penalty, which is what you would do with a terrorist who's trying to sell a weapon of mass destruction.
Life imprisonment at a minimum, probably the death penalty.
So that's what we should be looking at.
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Creepy, zany, and demonstrably fake content is often called slop.
The words proliferation online in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed at the title of Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year.
It's such an illustrative word, said Greg Barlow, Merriam-Webster's president, in an exclusive interview with the Associated Press ahead of Monday's announcement.
Announcement.
So what do they do?
Like a press conference?
This word of the year thing is like obviously a cringe.
This is a gimmick.
It was a cringe marketing gimmick.
Now, why does the dictionary need a marketing gimmick?
I don't know.
That's a separate question.
But I will say, though, that for once, they kind of nailed it.
So this is the one time I've seen this dumb, the word of the year is, and this is the one time where I say, yeah, you kind of, yep, that's it.
I agree.
Number one, it's a real word.
A lot of times that word of the year is not even a real word.
It's a real word, and it is a word that has become very relevant over the course of the year.
So it is the word of the year.
Slop is not only the word of the year, it is our future.
The future of our civilization is slop.
Just an endless stream of slop ingested mindlessly by slack-jawed, glossy-eyed drones who have no goals in life, no capacity for joy, no internal monologue, no thoughts or feelings of any kind, just sitting there consuming, consuming whatever images pop up on the screen with no discernment, whatever pops up, consuming it passively.
I was thinking about this the other day that one of the most prophetic dystopia novels of the past century is one that doesn't get talked about in that context as often.
We hear about Orwell all the time, Orwellian.
And we know what they're doing with Animal Farm.
In fact, ironically, they're treating Animal Farm in a very Orwellian way with this cartoon adaptation we talked about.
But one novel that doesn't get talked about nearly as often in that context is Infinite Jest, the David Foster Wallace novel that came out in the mid-90s.
It's like a thousand pages long, non-linear.
If you've ever read it or attempted to read it, you know, it's like a thousand pages long.
The story, there's no, it doesn't follow a linear path.
So it's just every paragraph or every chapter jumps from one place to another, footnotes all over the place.
And by the end, if you actually get through it, you won't be entirely sure what the story was even about.
You'll get to the end and say, like, what was that about exactly?
But I liked it.
And I think that David Foster Wallace was an absurdly gifted writer.
And anyway, in that book, there's this piece of content called The Entertainment.
And it's in the book, it's a film that when people watch it, they become totally mesmerized.
They become unable to take their eyes off it.
They're just, they become like these passive zombies that will lose their will to live.
They no longer have any will to live because they're just sitting there in a catatonic state, unresponsive, watching this piece of content, the entertainment.
And this was written in like 1996 or something.
So in the book, the entertainment is on VHS.
I think it's a film that you pop into the VCR or whatever.
So he didn't get the technology right.
He didn't predict that part.
But otherwise, that's exactly where we are now.
Except the entertainment is not a film.
It's an endless scroll of slop of content.
It's actually worse than what David Foster Wallace was prophesying in his book.
Because that was at least a film.
And the idea in the book is that the film was so great, so beautiful, so mesmerizing, so incredible that once you watch it, you could take your eyes off it.
And what we have now is a lot worse than that because it's not the entertainment, it's the content.
And people sit there staring at it, not really not mesmerized by it, not captivated by its beauty or anything like that, but numbed by the sheer pointlessness and inanity of what they're watching.
And it's the slop.
He called it the entertainment.
It should have been called the slop.
And that's where we are now.
And no one, and no one is impervious to it.
We're all susceptible to it.
I talk about this all the time, but I get caught up, especially not like you go, you're on X.
I mean, every social media platform is like this now, but you see a video like this happened to me this morning, actually.
Happens all the time.
I see a video that I actually want to watch, like a really short, I forget what it was, but it was something for the show.
It was like a piece of content.
Okay, I need, let me watch that.
And then you watch it and it's 35 seconds long.
Okay.
But then immediately the next video plays.
Right, because they just want to keep your eyes on it.
And it doesn't matter what it's about.
And the next video that plays has nothing to do with the thing you just watched.
The only reason it's being served to you by the algorithm is simply because it's something that they think you'll keep watching.
And it doesn't matter why you watch it.
Whatever incentivizes you to watch it is fine as far as the algorithm is concerned.
And you could watch it because you're entertained by it.
You could watch it because you're grossed out.
You could watch it because you're horrified.
You could watch it because it makes you angry.
You could watch it because it's very sad.
You could watch it because it's heartwarming.
It doesn't matter.
All the algorithm cares about is that you just, whatever the slop is, just whatever it is that gets you to watch it is fine.
And so, you know, the next video and then the next one.
And then you look down, it's like 42 minutes later.
42 minutes, you don't even remember.
It's like, it is very, it's like this.
It's like the entertainment in Infinite Jest.
You're basically in a catatonic state.
You don't even realize how much time went by.
And by the end of it, you snap out of it and you're like, that was, what did I get out of that?
Nothing.
It wasn't even entertaining.
I didn't watch it.
There was one video I wanted to watch that was 35 seconds long.
42 minutes later, this thing just cannibalizes you.
It cannibalizes your attention.
And that is the slop.
That's our future.
And that is the thing that we, this is why I preach it all the time, that we as parents should be the most concerned about protecting our kids from.
It's not, we talk so much as conservatives about, well, we don't want our kids to be, we want to keep them away from the woke stuff.
We want to keep them away from the objectionable content.
We want to keep them away from the filth and the pornography and all the rest of it.
And obviously we do want to protect our kids from that.
That's very important.
But just as bad is just the, is, that's only part of the problem, I guess is what I'm saying.
What we're trying to protect our kids from becoming is this empty vessel and a vassal, empty vessel and vassal sitting there staring at the screen, no hopes, no dreams, no desires, no passions at all, ingesting slop.
Even if 95% of the slop is on its own looked at in a vacuum, unobjectionable, just sort of, it seems kind of innocent, it's still, it's still slop.
And that's what we should be protecting our kids from.
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All right, finally, speaking of slop, very important report from the New York Post headline, what is the PSL scale?
Incels create looks maxing rating system from subhumans to ultra-rare terra-chads.
So I was just a crying slop.
Let's do a little bit of it.
So this is how Gen Z, this is the system they've devised for rating everybody's looks.
This is very important.
My producer sent me this.
I'm glad they did because this is the kind of information that I need and that the audience needs, if you're not aware.
So Gen Z pickup artists have devised a superficial online rubric for judging people's looks, grading them on a scale from subhuman, hideously ugly, to terra-chad, unattainable aesthetic perfection.
According to this hierarchical system, Angelina Jolie, Margo Robbie, and Australian model Jordan Barrett rank among the most attractive people on earth.
So how does this thing work?
Let's see.
I'm looking at it.
Okay, they've scored on a scale from one to eight.
At the bottom of the cosmetic cast system with a score of 0.25 to 1.5 are the subhumans who are deemed exceptionally unattractive and often exhibit deformities.
Most humans fall in the normie category per the scale, which divides this designation into three tiers.
The first, low-tier normie, 1.5 to 3, constitutes an ordinary level of unattractiveness, includes such celebrities as singer Ed Sheeran and rapper Jay-Z and actress and comedian Sandra Bernard.
I don't know who that is.
This culminates in the high-tier version, 4.5 to 5.5, defined as appealing and good looking.
This would be Justin Bieber, Zendaya are in this tier.
And then in the top 1% are the stunning Chad Lights and Stacey Lights, 5.5 to 6.
And then all the way to the top are the Giga Chad and Giga Stacey, only a handful of which are found globally.
These are the basically people of like godlike beauty.
Okay, first of all, no offense to Jay-Z, but he's normie?
Is he like, he's got to be in the subhuman category, right?
I mean, in terms of looks, I'm saying according to this scale, according to the look scale, which I didn't invent.
I'm just looking at it objectively.
So I think that he's got to be in the Elephant Man camp.
He's under the circus tent.
No offense to him intended.
I don't need any, when I say subhuman, I mean it in a non-offensive way.
Then we got all the other levels, all the way up to beings of, you know, as I said, godlike beauty, the Giga Chads.
Now, where would I put myself?
You know, you look at this tier.
Low-tier Normie is what, 1.5 to 3?
Can I give myself a 3.5?
Can I, can I, just a half point above low-tier Normie?
I think probably.
I'm not fat.
That's my saving grace.
Does my relative lack of body fat help me escape the low-tier normie?
Does it help me escape the gravity of the low tier normie vortex?
Or maybe I'm like a 2.9, just like barely on the edge, scratching and clawing my way, hanging on the on the edge of the cliff with all the hideous trolls down below trying to pull me down.
But here's the thing.
Here's the thing.
Two quick things about this that I find somewhat interesting.
And the first is that we've gone from body positivity.
That was the thing for many years.
And I guess that was ultimately kind of the millennial thing.
For millennials, it was all about body positivity.
You're beautiful at any size and everyone's beautiful and all that stuff.
And we've gone from that to now labeling ugly people as subhuman.
So wild swings in one direction and then the other.
And I have to say, between those two extremes, because it was a millennial body positivity right to like this Gen Z honest scale, everything is, everyone is categorized according to their looks and judged accordingly.
And I have to say, this extreme is healthier, relatively speaking.
Still not great, but better to put an overemphasis on physical beauty than to pretend that it doesn't exist, in my opinion, because that's more natural.
That's at least more natural.
Judging people harshly because of their looks, thinking less of people who are ugly.
It's not good.
We shouldn't do that, but it's more natural.
That's a natural human instinct.
This thing of pretending everyone is beautiful and we can't even distinguish between someone, a woman who's a supermodel and a woman who's 450 pounds, like they look exactly the same to us.
That's not natural.
That's not human.
So at least this is a little bit more in keeping with human nature.
But the second thing is there is a secret.
There's kind of like one weird trick to get to a point where you don't have to obsessively worry about your looks.
And the trick, the one weird trick is to get married.
Get married and none of this stuff matters.
Now, true, in order to get married, you might have to worry about your looks to some extent.
That's true.
But the goal, the point is that the goal, you should have a goal in mind, an objective.
What's the point of this?
Well, the point should be to make yourself desirable, whether you're a woman or a man, so that you can get married.
And then once you're married, it doesn't matter at all.
Now, I'm not saying you should get married and get fat, let yourself go.
You shouldn't do that.
You shouldn't get married and become a fat, hideous slob.
That's not fair to your spouse.
You should stay in shape.
You should try to be healthy for your spouse's sake, for your own, for your own, the sake of your own health.
What I'm saying is that once you're married, you don't have to worry about being attractive to everybody of the opposite sex.
You found one person, even if it's just one person.
You only need to be appealing to one person, ultimately.
And you found that person.
And so you're good.
Don't decay.
Don't completely let yourself go, but you found that person.
And I can't tell you how freeing that is.
It's one of the most underrated aspects of marriage, how freeing, how freeing marriage is.
Everyone talks about marriage like it's slavery or something, especially people who aren't married.
They talk about it that way.
And some people who are married or have been married talk about it that way too.
But I think it's the opposite of that.
I think there's a lot of freedom in it.
Marriage is very freeing in many ways.
And this is one of them, is that you're no longer held hostage by the need to be desirable to anyone else.
You don't need that.
It doesn't matter.
And it makes you impervious in a lot of ways to the judgments of other people.
Like my job is on the internet.
So I get, of course, I get nasty comments all the time.
People making fun of my looks and all this kind of stuff.
And it's great because I don't care at all.
I'm not going to say that there's nothing someone can say to me that, you know, I'm not going to say that I'm totally impervious to any sorts of criticism.
No one is impervious in that way.
We're human beings.
But this is a vein of criticism that has no effect.
Because someone can say, you're ugly.
And it's like, okay, so it's the equivalent of somebody coming to you and saying, oh, you're really slow in a 40-yard dash.
Or saying you're not good at tennis.
Okay, so you're making fun of me for lacking something I don't need?
Something totally irrelevant to my life?
That doesn't hurt.
That's not worth, you know, everyone has their vulnerabilities.
That's not one of them.
Once you're married.
And so that's the beauty of it.
But of course, you got to get a spouse first.
So yeah, looks max.
Should be looks maxing if you're single.
But this is the end point.
This is what we're missing a lot.
In the dating world in general, is people having a clear idea of what the point is, why you're doing this.
And this is the goal that you should have in mind.
And that's my motivational speech for the day.
And we'll leave it there.
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for listening.
Talk to you tomorrow.
Have a great day.
All of this is an illusion.
An echo of a voice that has died.
and soon that echo will cease they say that merlin is mad They say he was a king in David.
The son of a princess of lost Atlantis.
They say the future and the past are known to him.
That the fire and the wind tell him their secrets.
The magic of the hillfolk and druids come forth at his easy command.
They say he slew hundreds.
Hundreds, do you hear?
That the world burned and trembled at his wrath.
The Merlin died long before you and I were born.
Merlin Emirus has returned to the land of the living.
Vortiger is gone.
Rum is gone.
The Saxon is here.
Saxon Hengist has assembled the greatest war host ever seen in the island of the mighty.
And before the summer is through, he means to take the throne.
And he will have it.
If we are too busy squabbling amongst ourselves to take up arms against him, here is your hope.
A king will arise to hold all Britain in his hand.
A high king who will be the wonder of the world.
You to a future of peace.
There'll be no peace in these lands till we are all dust.
Men of the island of the mighty, you stand together.
We stand as Britons.
You stand as one.
Get back!
Great darkness is falling upon this land.
These brothers are our only hope to stand against it.