The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1748 - Watch This INSANE Moment That Belongs In A Dystopian Novel
Aired: 2026-03-10
Duration: 01:10:10


=== Walter Masterson and the Nail Bomb (14:53) ===

[00:00:00]  Today, Matt Wall Show, we've now had two Islamic terror attacks in a week.
[00:00:03]  Has this persuaded the left that maybe unchecked Islamic migration is not the best idea?
[00:00:07]  Well, of course it hasn't.
[00:00:08]  Also, Lindsey Graham appoints himself emperor of the country as he calls for even more wars in the Middle East.
[00:00:14]  And David French reaches his final form, publishing a New York Times article where he fawns over a Christian heretic who says that God is non-binary and wants us to abort our children.
[00:00:22]  All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
[00:00:49]  If you were to ask somebody to name a famous dystopian novel, they'd probably come up with something like Orwell's 1984 or Animal Farm.
[00:00:57]  Maybe they'd mention Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
[00:01:01]  Or if they're younger, they'd say something, unfortunately, like The Hunger Games.
[00:01:05]  These are all very well-known works of dystopian fiction, and pretty much every school forces students to read at least one of them.
[00:01:13]  What's interesting about all these novels is that in every case, the threat comes from within.
[00:01:18]  You have the dictatorship, the Capitol in the Hunger Games, Big Brother and the Party in 1984, the Tyrannical Pigs in Animal Farm, the Fire Captain in Fahrenheit 451.
[00:01:30]  That's not a knock against the novels, but it's worth pointing out.
[00:01:34]  You know, this is the safe message that's approved to teach in every school in the country.
[00:01:40]  Students are bombarded with messages that tell them that domestic authoritarianism, in one form or another, is the greatest threat.
[00:01:50]  And then when these students grow up, unsurprisingly enough, many of them are sympathetic to left-wing messaging about the alleged rise of fascism in the United States.
[00:02:00]  But there is one dystopian novel that focuses on an external threat to a sovereign nation.
[00:02:06]  And appropriately enough, this dystopian novel, unlike all the other ones I mentioned, has actually been censored relentlessly.
[00:02:14]  No school in the United States will assign it to you.
[00:02:18]  If you mention that you've even read this novel, you'll instantly be labeled a white supremacist by the editors of The Atlantic.
[00:02:25]  Reading this novel amounts to wrongthink.
[00:02:28]  Now, it was first published in the 1970s, but it was quickly dropped by major publishers because it was seen as racist and offensive.
[00:02:35]  Currently, it's only in print because of a small independent publishing house called Valbin Books.
[00:02:41]  And I'm talking about the book called The Camp of the Saints by the French author Jean Raspail.
[00:02:47]  Contrary to what you're told, this book is not a white supremacist screed, nor is it concerned solely with the rise of domestic fascism.
[00:02:56]  Instead, the Camp of the Saints is about a threat that is external to a sovereign nation, specifically the threat of unchecked mass migration.
[00:03:03]  Now, as the author puts it, the book is not about Big Brother.
[00:03:06]  It's about Big Other.
[00:03:09]  This is one dystopian plotline that you really aren't supposed to read.
[00:03:12]  But if you do read the book, you'll quickly come across dialogue that doesn't exactly mince words and the characters that aren't exactly subtle.
[00:03:21]  Certainly back in the 1970s, the novel might have seemed a little over the top, hard to believe.
[00:03:26]  For instance, in the very first chapter, a million foreigners from India are on boats rapidly approaching the coast of southern France.
[00:03:34]  And as the foreign armada approaches, a white French hippie barges into the home of an old professor.
[00:03:41]  And the hippie can't contain his excitement about the foreign flood that's descending on France, his home country.
[00:03:47]  He says, quote, tomorrow, we won't recognize this country anymore.
[00:03:50]  It's going to be reborn.
[00:03:52]  My real family is all the people coming off those boats.
[00:03:55]  Now I have a million brothers, sisters, fathers, and mothers, a million wives.
[00:04:00]  And he talks about how he's going to marry one of the foreigners and all of his friends are going to do the same thing.
[00:04:04]  And eventually there won't be any white people left in France, which he sees as a great thing.
[00:04:10]  Now, I'm not going to spoil the surprise of what the professor does to this hippie.
[00:04:13]  It's a book that's worth reading is all I'm going to say.
[00:04:16]  But you get the idea.
[00:04:17]  The book is full of quotes like this.
[00:04:19]  And honestly, if you were a reader in France in the 1970s, the dialogue may have seemed, you know, fairly unconvincing.
[00:04:26]  After all, who would actually welcome a horde of impoverished foreigners who were in the process of invading their home country?
[00:04:34]  In real life, how many people would have so little respect for their own country, harbor such disdain for their own skin color, that they would welcome the invasion of a million hostile migrants from a distant land?
[00:04:48]  Well, it's been half a century since the Camp of the Saints was published.
[00:04:52]  Still one of the only dystopian novels that you're not allowed to talk about in polite company.
[00:04:56]  But if there was ever any question of whether the characters in the novel were a little over the top, a little unbelievable, that conversation has now ended as of today.
[00:05:10]  After what just happened in New York City, we can definitively say that if anything, the Camp of the Saints dramatically undersold the extent of the anti-white, anti-civilizational depravity that would take hold in the West.
[00:05:24]  The book was ahead of its time.
[00:05:25]  In other words, as of 2026, everyday leftists walking around the streets of New York have far more suicidal empathy, harbor far more anti-white hatred than any character depicted in the Camp of the Saints.
[00:05:41]  Now, we briefly discussed this, the terrorist attack in New York that happened over the weekend.
[00:05:45]  We talked about this yesterday.
[00:05:46]  But in particular, we need to focus on how a man named Walter Masterson, who was present during the attack, responded to what he experienced.
[00:05:58]  Masterson was in front of the mayor's residence demonstrating in favor of more migration to the United States.
[00:06:03]  He was chanting through a megaphone that New York welcomes everyone.
[00:06:07]  And then as he was saying this, one of the Muslim terrorists jumps up behind him, yells, Allah Akbar, and throws a bomb at the conservative activist Jake Lang.
[00:06:18]  This is some of the most extraordinary footage you'll ever see.
[00:06:20]  We'll play it back from two different angles.
[00:06:23]  Here it is.
[00:06:25]  We were born and raised in New York, and we want everyone here to stay in New York.
[00:06:30]  You don't get to come from outside and then tell everyone else.
[00:06:36]  Move, move, move, move, move, move.
[00:06:44]  Yeah, let's take a tool.
[00:06:46]  Long, bro.
[00:06:47]  Yeah.
[00:06:47]  He threw a bomb?
[00:06:49]  Yo, did he throw a bomb, bro?
[00:06:51]  Nice.
[00:06:51]  That's stinks.
[00:06:54]  Yo, did he just a la Akbar bomb, bro?
[00:06:57]  Yo, that stinks.
[00:07:00]  You know, damn what I wasn't mean, though.
[00:07:01]  That was crazy.
[00:07:02]  He threw an a la Akbar cocktail at y'all.
[00:07:05]  That was some wild, bro.
[00:07:07]  Are y'all saying them is good?
[00:07:11]  Yo, go back to back, go back to the back.
[00:07:13]  This is the way fuck going crazy.
[00:07:14]  Yo, you did a cop, bro?
[00:07:16]  What was wrong with you, bro?
[00:07:17]  You retarded.
[00:07:22]  There's also an amazing lack of urgency among some of the spectators there, including the narrator, who's hanging around after a bomb was thrown and doesn't seem that concerned about it.
[00:07:33]  But this is the shot that they'll put on the screen right now, that more than any other image I've ever seen encapsulates the ideology of modern leftism.
[00:07:43]  This is it right here.
[00:07:44]  Like the whole issue can be illustrated in this one shot.
[00:07:49]  This is the whole thing.
[00:07:51]  This is an emasculated white guy literally in the act of extolling the virtues of open borders and migration, getting used as a literal footstool by a Muslim bomb thrower whose parents came from Afghanistan.
[00:08:04]  It's a political cartoon playing out in real life.
[00:08:07]  It's hard to believe that it's real, but it is.
[00:08:10]  It's like watching someone who's trying to convince you to get a pit bull and that pit bulls are safe.
[00:08:14]  And then while he's speaking, a pit bull comes up and mauls him.
[00:08:18]  Actually, it's worse than that because in that scenario, you'd assume the guy would probably stop promoting pit bulls after getting mauled by one, probably.
[00:08:25]  But Walter Masterson has not changed his beliefs at all in the wake of this attack.
[00:08:29]  Instead, he wrote the following on X, quote, I was in the middle of saying, as a born and raised New Yorker, we welcome everyone in the city when he threw that over my head.
[00:08:37]  And I still stand by it.
[00:08:38]  As a born and raised in New York, everyone is welcome, everyone except chief goat effer Jake Lang.
[00:08:47]  And then in a follow-up, Masterson wrote, quote, I cannot stress this enough.
[00:08:51]  It was right near our feet and it did not look real.
[00:08:53]  We just stood there laughing.
[00:08:55]  Meanwhile, the incel femoids ran away, having been totally gesture mugged.
[00:08:59]  Their cortisol levels have yet to recover.
[00:09:04]  So he is making fun of the people who tried to get away from a bomb.
[00:09:09]  But he's so woke.
[00:09:11]  He's so woke and so enlightened that he was just going to say it like he was going to let it blow him up.
[00:09:15]  Because he had decided that, hey, if a Muslim guy wants to blow me up, then I should just get blown up.
[00:09:20]  What is my own life?
[00:09:21]  Why should I protect my own life?
[00:09:23]  If a Muslim immigrant from Afghanistan thinks that I should die, well, then I should just die.
[00:09:27]  That is my responsibility.
[00:09:28]  That's what he's saying.
[00:09:31]  You're an incel.
[00:09:32]  You're an incel if you try to avoid getting blown up by a Muslim.
[00:09:37]  On Instagram, Masterton repeated this language.
[00:09:40]  He claimed that the bomb was a piece of cardboard, which obviously isn't true.
[00:09:44]  And again, he's like a character from a dystopian novel, an actual dystopian novel.
[00:09:48]  Now, if you're tempted to dismiss Masterton as a performance artist or a moron, rest assured, he's not an outlier.
[00:09:53]  To be clear about what happened, Jake Lang, the right-wing activist, was staging an event outside the mayor's residence in New York City, explicitly calling for the removal of all Muslims from the United States, saying they're incompatible with the country.
[00:10:04]  In response, before the two terrorists tried to murder Lang, a crowd of white leftists formed.
[00:10:10]  And according to Turning Point USA's reporters who were on the scene, the mob of angry white leftists openly called for Lang's murder before someone actually tried to kill him.
[00:10:18]  Watch.
[00:10:20]  Right as we got out of our Uber to show up to this event, there was a kid with a freedom shirt getting berated.
[00:10:26]  And it was instant.
[00:10:28]  Like right as we showed up, we saw some kid get chased out.
[00:10:32]  And it just gave me flashbacks in Minneapolis.
[00:10:36]  Yeah, absolutely.
[00:10:37]  These were white leftists that were coming here to kill Jake Lang.
[00:10:44]  And I'm not exaggerating when I say that.
[00:10:46]  You could hear multiple of the members saying, kill Jake Lang.
[00:10:52]  They were doing everything they could to get to him.
[00:10:55]  They were trying to cross the barricades.
[00:10:58]  When he ran away from the attempted bombing, the leftists then went to the other side to try and cut him off.
[00:11:05]  They were doing everything in their power to kill him.
[00:11:10]  So we saw this after the murders of Brian Thompson and Charlie Kirk, as well as the attempted assassinations of Donald Trump.
[00:11:16]  An overwhelming number of leftists, probably a majority at this point, want to see their political opponents get killed.
[00:11:21]  And on top of that, they want to see the downfall of the United States.
[00:11:24]  They want white people to be eliminated from the face of the earth.
[00:11:27]  They want a true dystopia.
[00:11:29]  In other words, now nothing illustrates this point more clearly than the response of the mainstream corporate press, including the supposedly reformed CBS News, to what happened during this attack on Saturday.
[00:11:41]  First, we need to establish what exactly happened.
[00:11:43]  So, this is the moment when a bomb lands at Jake Lang's feet.
[00:11:48]  Watch.
[00:12:19]  That was a fing bomb.
[00:12:21]  Was it?
[00:12:21]  Somebody threw a fing bomb.
[00:12:24]  That's a nail bomb.
[00:12:26]  What the f bomb?
[00:12:27]  I didn't sign up for this.
[00:12:29]  Holy f.
[00:12:30]  That was a nail bomb.
[00:12:31]  Yo, Jesus is king and he made it that that nail bomb didn't go off.
[00:12:36]  Jesus is king.
[00:12:37]  Thank you, Lord God.
[00:12:40]  Thank you, Lord God.
[00:12:41]  What just happened?
[00:12:42]  Thank you, Lord God.
[00:12:43]  They threw a nail bomb at us and it didn't explode because Jesus is still on the throne.
[00:12:47]  Thank you.
[00:12:49]  Thank you, Jesus.
[00:12:51]  They just threw another one.
[00:12:52]  So that was the first bomb, which did not detonate.
[00:12:55]  And then there was a separate attack in which one of the terrorists threw a bomb at a police officer, which also did not detonate.
[00:13:27]  So there's no mystery about the motive here.
[00:13:30]  While one of the terrorists was being transported to jail, he informed officers, without being asked any questions, by the way, that he was on a mission to cause more deaths than the Boston Marathon bombing in the name of ISIS and Islam.
[00:13:42]  So with that in mind, let's take a look at how the press covered the story.
[00:13:46]  Here's NBC, quote, breaking a device ignited outside Zorah Mamdani's mayoral residence yesterday during an anti-Islam protest and counter-protest was confirmed to be an improvised explosive, New York City police say.
[00:13:59]  Of course, the goal of the headline is to make you think that the anti-Islam protesters, quote unquote, placed the explosive device outside the home of the Muslim mayor, which is not at all what happened.
[00:14:10]  The headline is vague on purpose to avoid describing what happened.
[00:14:14]  They want readers to believe a lie.
[00:14:16]  NBC's New York affiliate did the same thing.
[00:14:19]  They published the following article, quote, multiple arrests made after suspicious devices found outside Gracie Mansion, home of Mayor Zorhan Mamdani, during anti-Islam rally and counter-protest.
[00:14:30]  Meanwhile, TMZ went with the following headline, which was also inaccurate and wildly misleading.
[00:14:35]  Quote, suspicious devices found outside Zorhan Mamdani's residence.
[00:14:40]  And there was this egregious article from The Guardian.
[00:14:43]  They plaster Jake Lang's photo at the top of the story, implying that it's a story about him.
[00:14:48]  And then the article states, explosive device thrown outside of Zorhan Mamdani's residence at anti-Islam protests.

=== Misleading Headlines on Fox News (10:49) ===

[00:14:53]  Two men are in custody in connection with the incident after anti-Islam demonstrators clashed with counter-protesters.
[00:14:59]  Meanwhile, the AP, which provides wire copy to a million different outlets, deliberately wrote their article to obscure the fact that Islamist terrorists committed the attack.
[00:15:09]  So I'll read the headline and first full paragraph from their story, quote, counterprotesters threw improvised explosives at anti-Islam event in NYC, police say.
[00:15:17]  A device thrown by a counter-protester at an anti-Islam demonstration in New York City on Saturday was confirmed to be an improvised explosive, according to a preliminary police analysis.
[00:15:26]  As the investigation continued on Sunday, police said they were looking into a second suspicious device found in the same area of Manhattan's Upper East Side.
[00:15:35]  Now, you could read this five times and come away completely confused by what actually happened.
[00:15:40]  A counter-protester at an anti-Islam demonstration is a double negative, essentially.
[00:15:45]  It's a lot easier to say an Islamist terrorist threw a bomb at an anti-Islam demonstration.
[00:15:50]  But that'd be a very inconvenient headline.
[00:15:53]  So they bury the facts in word salad.
[00:15:56]  They want to avoid writing the truth, which is that the Muslim terrorists made Jake Lang's point for him.
[00:16:02]  He was saying these people are not compatible with Western civilization.
[00:16:05]  They're violent.
[00:16:07]  And they throw a bomb at him.
[00:16:08]  CBS was one of the worst offenders.
[00:16:11]  Here's what they aired on CBS Evening News.
[00:16:13]  Pay attention to the photo that the producers put on the screen to the right of the anchor watch.
[00:16:19]  Tonight, the FBI is investigating two men after an explosive device with bolts and screws was thrown into a crowd.
[00:16:26]  It happened in New York City on Saturday during a protest that turned violent outside the mayor's official residence.
[00:16:32]  CBS's Chanel Call is there with the very latest tonight, Chanel.
[00:16:38]  Again, like the mayor and every other outlet, she doesn't want to talk about Islam at all.
[00:16:42]  Instead, they want to imply that white conservatives committed an act of terrorism against the Muslim mayor.
[00:16:48]  That's the photo they displayed in case you missed it.
[00:16:52]  Again, pretty much every outlet did something like this.
[00:16:55]  Here's the New York Post.
[00:16:57]  The parents of one of the alleged ISIS-loving teens who tried to detonate an IED near Gracie Mansion owns a gorgeous $2.25 million home, a sign they seize the American dream after arriving from Afghanistan decades ago.
[00:17:12]  The Post has learned.
[00:17:13]  Alleged bomber Ibrahim Kayumi's family home spans 5,800 square feet with six bedrooms and five bathrooms in scenic Newtown, Pennsylvania.
[00:17:23]  Records show.
[00:17:25]  Police say that Kayumi, who is 19 years old, and his friend Amir Balat, who is 18, traveled from their Bucks County enclave to attend a counter protest against right-wing nut Jake Lang's anti-Muslim protest outside the mayor's residence.
[00:17:40]  We're going to make sure my Nami knows that he's not welcome in New York.
[00:17:45]  So they describe Jake Lang as a right-wing nut in what's supposed to be just a straightforward news report, which is pretty remarkable under the circumstances.
[00:17:56]  These terrorists tried to murder Jake Lang solely because of his political and religious beliefs.
[00:18:00]  But according to New York Post, the terrorists are just ISIS-loving teens whose parents seize the American dream.
[00:18:08]  But the guy they attempted to blow up live on camera, well, he's a nut.
[00:18:12]  Like objectively.
[00:18:13]  They don't even need to, it's not even editorializing their claiming.
[00:18:17]  It's just an objective description.
[00:18:20]  That's not even getting into how exactly these people came from Afghanistan, one of the poorest countries on the planet, and now own a multi-million dollar home in an exclusive neighborhood.
[00:18:31]  Someone should explain how exactly they pulled that off.
[00:18:35]  Do they own any learing centers in Pennsylvania?
[00:18:39]  And how did they manage to amass this extraordinary wealth while raising a domestic terrorist?
[00:18:45]  How is it possible that they weren't aware of what he was doing and what he believed?
[00:18:49]  How is it possible they don't share those beliefs?
[00:18:53]  There's also the question of how these two terrorists knew each other.
[00:18:56]  One of the terrorist attorneys has suggested that they didn't have any kind of relationship before the bombing, which is odd.
[00:19:03]  And more broadly, there's the more important, the most important question of all.
[00:19:06]  Why is it, why is it in our interest to import Afghans into this country?
[00:19:14]  Why is there a single one in this country?
[00:19:18]  No one's ever presented an actual argument for this.
[00:19:21]  What's the argument for it?
[00:19:24]  Hundreds of thousands of people from Afghanistan who come from a culture completely incompatible with our own are now living in the United States.
[00:19:33]  Did we ever hold a vote on that?
[00:19:36]  Have we ever run a cost-benefit analysis?
[00:19:40]  Has anyone who supports this ever presented any argument in favor of it?
[00:19:46]  Have they ever even attempted to explain why we should do this, what we get out of it?
[00:19:51]  Of course not.
[00:19:54]  Instead, we keep hearing stories like this one.
[00:19:56]  And these are questions we should have asked before we allowed the parents of both of these terrorists, Imar Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, to become naturalized citizens.
[00:20:06]  More importantly, these are the kinds of questions we should have asked before allowing the Muslim population of the United States to double over the past 20 years.
[00:20:15]  Now we're finding out that actually we didn't vet any of these people.
[00:20:18]  We didn't ensure that they were loyal to the United States or compatible with our civilization.
[00:20:24]  And maybe that's because as we're finding out the hard way, most of them aren't.
[00:20:30]  And now it may be too late to do anything about it.
[00:20:34]  On that point, this is a remarkable video I saw last night.
[00:20:36]  It was posted by a correspondent at Redux, which does really good reporting, especially on trans ideology.
[00:20:43]  The correspondent was in Toronto, walking down a main drag in broad daylight when she was attacked by a homeless schizophrenic black man.
[00:20:51]  And she says the police told her that the man routinely assaults women.
[00:20:56]  He'll probably be out of jail within 24 hours.
[00:20:58]  And here's the video that the Redux correspondent posted showing the man's arrest.
[00:21:04]  And see what you notice in this video.
[00:21:22]  So there's the police officers making the arrest, knowing full well that the attacker, a schizophrenic black guy, is going to be out of jail in a matter of hours.
[00:21:28]  Then there's the Somali woman walking by at the end.
[00:21:31]  And in the middle, there's a car driving by with an Iranian flag flying.
[00:21:35]  So in just this tiny 12-second video, little slice of life, you can easily detect several signs that Toronto is no longer a Western city.
[00:21:45]  It has become the third world.
[00:21:48]  As Will Tanner suggested the other day, if the Trump administration really wants to take out Iran, they could just force them to invoke the Civil Rights Act.
[00:21:57]  They'd force Iran to open the borders and release all the criminals in the name of racial equity as Western nations have done.
[00:22:03]  That's how you really demoralize and destroy nations.
[00:22:06]  That's how you make Iran unrecognizable.
[00:22:09]  You do the same thing that made Toronto and New York unrecognizable.
[00:22:13]  And all the while, white leftists will cheer it on.
[00:22:17]  Every major city is like this now.
[00:22:18]  Here's a relevant dispatch from the New York Times, which was published during the era of peak BLM insanity.
[00:22:25]  This is what they said.
[00:22:26]  Quote, after the death of George Floyd at the hands of the police, Sherry Albers, who is white, and many of her progressive neighbors, have vowed to avoid calling law enforcement into their community.
[00:22:37]  Doing so, they believed, would add to the pain that black residents of Minneapolis were feeling and could put them in danger.
[00:22:45]  Okay, so all these progressive white people in this neighborhood, which is near the site of George Floyd's overdose, decided as a community not to call police.
[00:22:54]  And just two months later, things started to go south.
[00:22:57]  Homeless people began invading the neighborhood.
[00:23:00]  One of them passed out in the elevator of an apartment building.
[00:23:03]  Two of them overdosed in the park.
[00:23:04]  They began destroying property, causing residents to have nightmares about their imminent deaths.
[00:23:11]  One woman, according to the paper, quote, had visions of people from a tent camp forcing their way into her home.
[00:23:16]  She imagines using a baseball bat to defend herself.
[00:23:20]  And it goes on and on.
[00:23:21]  The article lays all this out, but in pretty much every case, according to the New York Times, the locals refused to call the police.
[00:23:29]  There is one exception that's mentioned in the article.
[00:23:31]  The Times talks about the case of Mitchell Erickson, who was robbed at gunpoint by two black teenagers right outside his home.
[00:23:37]  Surprisingly enough, he decided to call the authorities as soon as the black teenagers cornered him.
[00:23:41]  And here's how that played out.
[00:23:42]  Quote, one of the boys pointed a gun at Mr. Erickson's chest, demanding his car keys.
[00:23:47]  Flustered, Mr. Erickson handed over a set, but it turned out to be house keys.
[00:23:52]  The teenagers got frustrated and ran off, then stole a different car down the street.
[00:23:56]  Mr. Erickson said later that he would not cooperate with prosecutors in a case against the boys.
[00:24:01]  After the altercation, he realized that if there was anything he wanted, it was to offer them help.
[00:24:07]  But he still felt it had been right to call the authorities because there was a gun involved.
[00:24:10]  Two days after an initial conversation, his position had evolved.
[00:24:14]  Been thinking more about it, he wrote in a text message, I regret calling the police.
[00:24:17]  It was my instinct, but I wish it hadn't been.
[00:24:20]  I put those boys in danger of death by calling the cops.
[00:24:25]  But here's what Mitchell Erickson looks like, just for the record, give you an idea.
[00:24:29]  No shock there.
[00:24:32]  This person is not exceptional.
[00:24:34]  Just like everyone else in his neighborhood, and just like Walter Masterson, and just like the corporate press and every leftist in the country, he wants to usher in the destruction of Western civilization.
[00:24:46]  The principle of cause and effect doesn't matter to him.
[00:24:49]  Basic survival instincts don't matter to him.
[00:24:54]  How are you supposed to debate a person like that?
[00:24:56]  How are you supposed to convince them of anything?
[00:25:00]  How are you supposed to live alongside them?
[00:25:04]  Well, right now, instead of hearing the answers to those questions, you're hearing a lot about Iran's activation of sleeper cells in the United States.
[00:25:11]  This was on Fox News the other day.
[00:25:12]  Watch.
[00:25:14]  Meantime, an alarming report of threats outside Iran.
[00:25:18]  ABC News reports Iran may be activating sleeper cells.
[00:25:22]  Quote, the U.S. has intercepted encryptive communications believed to have originated in Iran that may serve as an operational trigger for sleeper assets outside the country.
[00:25:34]  That sounds scary, but really what you have to understand is that a sleeper cell doesn't have to be like something out of a Mission Impossible movie.

=== Lindsey Graham's Dying Loyalty to Israel (15:32) ===

[00:25:43]  It doesn't necessarily mean that Iran currently employs hundreds of sophisticated operatives within our borders who are all waiting for the green light before they plant bombs or whatever.
[00:25:53]  That's not the problem, or at least it's not the main problem.
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[00:27:41]  You know, whatever you think about the war in Iran, we should all be able to agree that the effeminate closeted neocon senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina should shut the hell up.
[00:27:55]  We should all be able to agree on that point.
[00:27:58]  Graham has been, of course, one of the biggest cheerleaders of this war.
[00:28:01]  He's been a cheerleader for every war for his entire life.
[00:28:05]  He's never met a bombing campaign or war or military operation that he didn't love.
[00:28:12]  He's never seen one that he didn't want to see expanded and continued.
[00:28:18]  He really is just a psychopath.
[00:28:20]  I mean, this guy truly is.
[00:28:23]  And now with the war in Iran, Lindsey Graham has been all over the place, all over Fox, every single night.
[00:28:32]  I mean, he's practically orgasmic with glee over this whole thing.
[00:28:37]  And also presenting himself as the guy in charge.
[00:28:40]  Like increasingly, he's centering himself as the main figure here, as the decision maker in the story, something that you would think would piss Trump off.
[00:28:51]  So you'd think that Trump would call Lindsey and say, hey, shut up.
[00:28:54]  You're not in charge.
[00:28:55]  Okay.
[00:28:56]  This is not up to you.
[00:28:58]  But it doesn't appear that Trump is telling Lindsey that.
[00:29:00]  If anything, he's telling him the opposite, encouraging him to go and talk more.
[00:29:04]  But here, there's a couple of clips of Lindsey Graham from yesterday.
[00:29:07]  This is from one of his 97 Fox hits yesterday where he's talking about he makes a plea to another country, and he does it in a way where it appears that he believes he has absolute authority.
[00:29:21]  Listen.
[00:29:23]  Holly to my friends in Saudi Arabia.
[00:29:25]  I've been your biggest champion.
[00:29:27]  I think the crown prince has taken Saudi Arabia in a completely different direction in a good way.
[00:29:33]  But here's what I want to say to Saudi Arabia tonight.
[00:29:36]  I'm willing to do a mutual defense agreement with your country to give you protection in perpetuity.
[00:29:41]  Under the agreement I've been pushing, and I hope we can continue to talk about.
[00:29:46]  If you're attacked by Iran, we would go to war for you.
[00:29:51]  Now, I admit I might have missed this.
[00:29:54]  I don't keep up on the news, I guess.
[00:29:56]  I thought I did, but maybe I don't.
[00:30:00]  Because at what point did we vote to appoint Lindsey Graham emperor of the world?
[00:30:06]  I don't remember that happening.
[00:30:08]  I don't remember that initiative.
[00:30:11]  Was that a ballot initiative somewhere?
[00:30:13]  Lindsey Graham is in charge of everything.
[00:30:17]  Lindsey Graham is a Caesar.
[00:30:19]  When did that happen?
[00:30:20]  Because where else would he derive the authority to, by himself, unilaterally offer permanent defense agreements to other countries?
[00:30:31]  Because notice the I word he's using.
[00:30:33]  He's not saying we.
[00:30:35]  And he's not even saying, well, I'm going to advocate for a policy or a bill or I'm going to go talk to Trump.
[00:30:41]  He's saying, I. He's saying, I will do this.
[00:30:43]  What I am offering you personally as Lindsey Graham is a permanent defense agreement.
[00:30:49]  Now, never mind the fact that it's an insane idea.
[00:30:52]  I mean, we should not be entering into a permanent defense agreement with anyone.
[00:30:57]  A defense agreement in perpetuity?
[00:31:01]  So we're on the hook.
[00:31:02]  Anything that happens to Saudi Arabia, now we have to go to war over it?
[00:31:09]  You're signing up future Americans to have to go to war for Saudi Arabia?
[00:31:15]  It's a crazy idea.
[00:31:16]  It's a terrible idea.
[00:31:17]  But whether it's a terrible idea or not, Lindsey Graham does not have the authority to do this, obviously.
[00:31:25]  Or at least he shouldn't.
[00:31:28]  And I don't know.
[00:31:29]  I mean, I don't understand why Trump is not telling this guy to shut up.
[00:31:33]  Get in line and shut up.
[00:31:34]  I mean, Lindsey Graham is positioning himself as a greater authority than Trump.
[00:31:42]  And, you know, someone should probably let him know that.
[00:31:45]  They should let him know that he's a United States senator.
[00:31:48]  Emphasis on United States, by the way, because he also seems to be confused about which country he's supposed to be serving.
[00:31:56]  Listen to this part.
[00:31:59]  All the anti-Semites, to all the isolationists, I don't believe.
[00:32:04]  Forget it.
[00:32:04]  I'm not with you.
[00:32:05]  I'm with Israel.
[00:32:06]  I will be with Israel to our dying day.
[00:32:08]  They're the best ally we could hope for.
[00:32:10]  So we have a commander-in-chief and President Trump who I think is Ronald Reagan plus, plus, plus.
[00:32:17]  Where to begin here?
[00:32:20]  First of all, the cope I've heard, the excuse is that Lindsey was just condemning anti-Semites, quote unquote.
[00:32:27]  Even if that were the case, this would still be a very disturbing thing for a United States Senator to say for reasons that we'll get to in a second.
[00:32:35]  But he didn't just condemn anti-Semites.
[00:32:39]  I mean, there are some advocates for this war that feel like they have to defend everything that anyone says in defense of it that I've seen conservative influencers who all of a sudden are big Lindsey Graham fans, who are totally, just totally humiliating themselves in that way.
[00:32:54]  And they're gaslighting and they're saying, well, he was just talking about anti-Semites.
[00:32:58]  No, no.
[00:32:59]  Did you hear?
[00:33:00]  Like, you heard what he just said.
[00:33:01]  He said anti-Semites and isolationists.
[00:33:06]  Okay.
[00:33:06]  He also said isolationists.
[00:33:08]  So not only is he lumping isolationist in with anti-Semite, how are those two things related?
[00:33:14]  How are those two things related?
[00:33:15]  I mean, whatever you think about being an isolationist, I'm often called an isolationist.
[00:33:19]  I'm actually not, but it doesn't, fine.
[00:33:21]  You want to call me an isolationist?
[00:33:22]  I don't really care.
[00:33:24]  How is that the same as being an anti-Semite?
[00:33:27]  What?
[00:33:27]  What do they have to do with each other?
[00:33:29]  The only way those two things could be the same is if you believe that we have some kind of God-given moral duty to Israel all the time.
[00:33:40]  And so therefore, being an isolationist is to reject that duty, which is therefore anti-Semitism.
[00:33:44]  Like that, which is what Lindsey Graham believes.
[00:33:46]  I mean, that's what he actually thinks.
[00:33:48]  That's why he, that's the only, that's the only way you can logically get to being an isolationist is being anti-Semitic.
[00:33:56]  Because yeah, being an isolationist means you're not going to war to defend Israel.
[00:34:00]  It means you're very skeptical of alliances with Israel.
[00:34:03]  But being an isolationist also means you're not going to war to defend any other country either.
[00:34:06]  Being an isolationist means you really don't care about any other country at all.
[00:34:10]  And Israel is one of the other countries, not the only one.
[00:34:13]  That's what being an isolationist would mean.
[00:34:16]  So how does that become anti-Semitism?
[00:34:20]  Well, as Eric explained it, I mean, there's only one way to get there.
[00:34:26]  And he's saying that if any American citizen has a viewpoint that he considers isolationist, then he condemns them in the same way he condemns anti-Semites.
[00:34:38]  And he's, quote, with Israel instead.
[00:34:42]  In fact, he says, I mean, you can even take out the first part of that.
[00:34:47]  The way that he's talking about so-called isolation is very disturbing.
[00:34:51]  You can even put that out.
[00:34:52]  He says, I'm with Israel until my dying day.
[00:34:55]  Actually, he says, with Israel until our dying day.
[00:35:00]  What's this our thing?
[00:35:03]  I mean, I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt that he meant to say my dying day, because our dying day doesn't make it better.
[00:35:11]  It makes it worse and creepier.
[00:35:13]  But we'll just, you know, we will give him a benefit of the doubt he doesn't deserve and say he meant my.
[00:35:18]  So he's with Israel until his dying day.
[00:35:23]  That is just not an acceptable thing for a United States government official to say about a foreign country, period.
[00:35:37]  Look, again, if you're in favor of this war, that's your call.
[00:35:42]  Make your argument and that's your position.
[00:35:47]  Okay, you're entitled to that point of view.
[00:35:49]  We can have that debate.
[00:35:51]  We have been having it.
[00:35:53]  But you have to be able to admit that a United States senator pledging undying loyalty to a foreign country is absolutely insane.
[00:36:04]  Not just pledging, not even just pledging undying loyalty, loyalty until his dying day, but explicitly putting that country above Americans whose viewpoints he disagrees with.
[00:36:21]  That's what he just did.
[00:36:23]  Lindsey Graham is saying, if you have a viewpoint that I consider, quote, isolationist or quote, anti-Semitic, then I am with this other country.
[00:36:32]  Not even like, no, I'm with my fellow Americans who condemn you.
[00:36:35]  I'm with, it's not saying that.
[00:36:38]  I'm with Israel until my dying day.
[00:36:40]  That's insane.
[00:36:42]  And the fact is that every conservative, every single one of us would correctly see this for what it is if he had said that about any other foreign country.
[00:36:55]  Okay.
[00:36:55]  If he had said, I'm with Ireland until my dying day.
[00:36:59]  I'm with Norway until my dying day.
[00:37:01]  I'm with Japan.
[00:37:02]  I'm with Nigeria, Kenya, whatever.
[00:37:06]  Slot in any other foreign country.
[00:37:09]  And we would all agree that pledging your lifelong permanent loyalty to another country is to put it very mildly, inappropriate for a United States senator.
[00:37:22]  And we've done this.
[00:37:23]  I mean, we've heard other, we've heard, we've heard, we've, we've heard congresswomen in particular, Dalia Ramirez basically said that about Guatemala.
[00:37:36]  You know, she's a Guatemalan first.
[00:37:38]  We've heard what Ilhan Omar is expressing her loyalty to Somalia.
[00:37:43]  And I condemn that strenuously.
[00:37:45]  I've done that on this show many times.
[00:37:48]  Like I'm very consistent here.
[00:37:51]  I'm very consistent on this.
[00:37:54]  If you're a United States congressional representative, government official, or even just citizen, your undying loyalty should be to the United States of America, period.
[00:38:09]  End of discussion.
[00:38:11]  And I'm very consistent on that.
[00:38:13]  I apply that to every country on earth outside of this one.
[00:38:18]  Your first priority always is the United States.
[00:38:24]  Let me ask you this.
[00:38:25]  Has Lindsey Graham ever spoken this passionately about the state of South Carolina?
[00:38:31]  Has he ever said anything like this?
[00:38:35]  Has he ever said anything even approaching, I'm with South Carolina until my dying day.
[00:38:43]  Has he ever said that?
[00:38:45]  Because I don't think he has.
[00:38:46]  Go ahead and correct me if I'm wrong.
[00:38:47]  Go ahead and pull a clip of him saying anything like that.
[00:38:50]  Take the way that he talks about Israel.
[00:38:52]  Has he ever shown that kind of emotional, spiritual commitment to this country and in particular, the state that he's supposed to be representing?
[00:39:06]  Has he ever done that?
[00:39:08]  And we all know the answer is no.
[00:39:10]  I mean, in a sane society, that clip right there would get him tossed out of Congress.
[00:39:13]  That should be the end of his career.
[00:39:16]  That should be it.
[00:39:19]  And yes, Dalia Ramirez should have been tossed.
[00:39:21]  Ilhan Omar should have been tossed.
[00:39:23]  The second that you, as a senator or as a member of the House of Representatives, as any kind of government official, elected or not, the second that you express loyalty and fidelity to any country that is not our own, that should be it.
[00:39:41]  You're done.
[00:39:42]  Not only are you kicked out, you're banned from office permanently.
[00:39:45]  That's what it should be in a sane country.
[00:39:46]  We should apply that 100% of the time, 100% consistently.
[00:39:53]  And if you want to make carve-outs for other particular foreign countries and say, yeah, but if it's them, it's okay.
[00:39:59]  Well, then that's you being inconsistent.
[00:40:00]  That's you being a hypocrite.
[00:40:04]  But this is just outrageous.
[00:40:05]  And Lindsey Graham is just a horrible person.
[00:40:08]  He's a psychopath.
[00:40:09]  He's awful.
[00:40:11]  What has he ever done?
[00:40:12]  What is Lindsey Graham?
[00:40:12]  Let me ask you this, Lindsey.
[00:40:13]  What have you ever done for the people of your state?
[00:40:15]  What have you ever done for them?
[00:40:21]  Every time I see him on TV, he's talking about Israel, how concerned he is for Israel.
[00:40:26]  What about the people in the state that elected you?
[00:40:28]  What are you doing for them?
[00:40:30]  Anything?
[00:40:32]  What are you doing for them?
[00:40:35]  That should be what you're worried about.
[00:40:38]  Like, why are you even focused on this?
[00:40:41]  You're a senator from South Carolina.
[00:40:45]  Your first focus shouldn't even just be the United States generally.
[00:40:48]  It should be South Carolina.
[00:40:50]  What is going on in South Carolina?
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[00:41:48]  All right.
[00:41:50]  Daily Mail headline.
[00:41:52]  Gavin Newsom's wife and her firm pocketed $3.7 million from her gender stereotypes charity, Unearthed IRS filings reveal days after her sanctimonious rant at the press.
[00:42:04]  It says, Jennifer Sable Newsome stole the spotlight at her husband's Planned Parenthood press conference last month when she scolded reporters for not asking enough about the war on women.
[00:42:15]  But now financial filings obtained by the Daily Mail suggest the first partner of California may have to answer some tough questions of her own.
[00:42:23]  IRS documents from recent years show Gavin Newsom's wife has been paying herself and her company Girls Club LLC.
[00:42:29]  Oh my gosh.
[00:42:31]  Her company is called Girls Club LLC.
[00:42:35]  Up to a third of her nonprofit's entire income each year, pocketing over $3.7 million over the past decade.
[00:42:43]  So a third of the income goes to her.
[00:42:46]  The organization brings in about $1 million to $1.7 million a year in grants and donations with roughly $300,000 of it going straight to her and her company in recent years.
[00:42:57]  Okay.
[00:42:58]  I mean, the main reason I'm reading this story is because of the term first partner of California.
[00:43:04]  As to the stuff about the charity, yeah, obviously it's a scam.
[00:43:08]  There are plenty of charities and nonprofits out there that are legit and that actually do good work.
[00:43:13]  There are also plenty of scams, plenty of organizations that exist to enrich the people who run them.
[00:43:20]  And that's not news.
[00:43:23]  But even there, it's like if you're going to donate your money to Gavin Newsom's wife's nonprofit, then you deserve to get scammed.
[00:43:32]  Like part of me is like, I hope she steals all of it because you just deserve to be scammed.
[00:43:37]  You deserve to be scammed out of every dollar you own.
[00:43:41]  If that's how you're going to spend your money, you're going to give it to the woman who runs the Girls Club LLC.
[00:43:48]  It's a nonprofit that deals with gender stereotypes.
[00:43:52]  It's like, okay, yeah, you deserve to be scammed.
[00:43:57]  You deserve to be bankrupted, okay, and scammed.
[00:44:00]  That's what you deserve.
[00:44:02]  But back to first partner, I have to say that I think I hate the term because obviously they're using first partner rather than first lady.
[00:44:11]  I think I hate the term partner referring to a spouse more than I hate any other woke term.
[00:44:17]  In a lot of ways, it's less aggressive and less gratuitous than many of the other terms that they use.
[00:44:23]  But this one I find, it just, it's nails on the chalkboard.
[00:44:27]  I hate it more than I hate like people with uteruses or whatever, any birthing person.
[00:44:33]  But it's also a useful term because it tells me everything I need to know about you.
[00:44:38]  If I'm talking to you and you use the word partner instead of wife, I immediately know everything about you.
[00:44:45]  I can judge your entire life, your entire life.
[00:44:48]  They say don't judge a book by its cover.
[00:44:50]  I don't even need the cover.
[00:44:51]  I just need that word.
[00:44:53]  I can judge, yeah, I can judge your entire life, everything about you based on that.
[00:44:58]  I know you're an insufferable, emasculated, pretentious dork.
[00:45:03]  I know you're the biggest loser on the planet if you're using the word partner.
[00:45:11]  Never call your spouse a partner.
[00:45:13]  Forget about first partner referring to a first lady.
[00:45:15]  That's obviously woke nonsense, but just partner by itself is terrible.
[00:45:19]  I mean, partner, it's a word you use for somebody you're in business with.
[00:45:25]  Okay, if you say partner to me, you better be talking about your colleague at your law firm or something.
[00:45:31]  This actually happened to me recently.
[00:45:32]  This is the kind of thing I don't encounter it in the wild very often because I just don't surround myself with the kinds of people with these kinds of people.
[00:45:39]  But somewhat recently, I was talking to somebody and they actually said partner.
[00:45:44]  They weren't even trying to make it a joke.
[00:45:45]  They would say it unironically.
[00:45:47]  They weren't trying to be funny.
[00:45:48]  They said partner referring to their wife.
[00:45:52]  And I was kind of blindsided because up to that moment, it seemed like kind of a normal guy.
[00:45:56]  And then he just drops partner on me.
[00:45:58]  And it was a very clarifying moment.
[00:46:01]  So that's good.
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[00:46:49]  Here's a guy who definitely calls his wife partner, I would assume.
[00:46:55]  David French.
[00:46:56]  He just wrote an article for the New York Times that is the most David Frenchian article that's ever been composed.
[00:47:03]  This is David French reaching his final form.
[00:47:06]  This is him becoming the final form that he will be.
[00:47:12]  And this is the article we all knew was coming, the one where he defends and praises the liberal heretic James Tallarico.
[00:47:18]  So remember James Tallerico, we talked about him last week.
[00:47:21]  He won the Senate primary over Jasmine Crockett, and he's a Christian, supposedly, quote unquote.
[00:47:28]  He is a seminarian.
[00:47:30]  He loves talking about his alleged faith, but he's a heretic.
[00:47:34]  He's a blasphemer.
[00:47:35]  He supports abortion up to birth.
[00:47:37]  He supports child castration, transgenderism, everything down the list.
[00:47:42]  He claims that the Bible agrees with him.
[00:47:45]  He says that God is non-binary.
[00:47:47]  He uses apocryphal texts like the Gospel of Thomas to support his theological claims.
[00:47:54]  He says that Jesus was a radical feminist.
[00:47:57]  On and on.
[00:47:58]  He's a heretic, full-on.
[00:48:00]  No other way to describe him.
[00:48:02]  But David French, the alleged conservative, the alleged Christian, he loves the guy.
[00:48:08]  And so here he is in the New York Times.
[00:48:10]  This is what he wrote.
[00:48:12]  That title is, James Tallarico is a Christian X-ray.
[00:48:18]  He says, these days I'm asked about James Tallarico more than I'm asked about any politician not named Donald Trump.
[00:48:24]  Tallerico is a 36-year-old Texas state representative and the latest and greatest hope for winning the Democrat Party's latest greatest hope for winning its first statewide election there in more than 30 years.
[00:48:34]  He's also one of the most faith-forward politicians in the United States.
[00:48:38]  Tallarico doesn't just root his policies and ideology in his Christian beliefs.
[00:48:41]  He's a seminarian willing to dive deep into theology.
[00:48:45]  When he's arguing with the religious right about, say, Christian nationalism, he makes a specifically Christian argument to counter a poisonous Christian movement.
[00:48:53]  Jesus liberates, Tellerico said in a sermon in 2023.
[00:48:56]  Christian nationalism controls.
[00:48:58]  Jesus saves.
[00:48:59]  Christian nationalism kills.
[00:49:01]  Jesus started a universal movement based on mutual love.
[00:49:04]  Christian nationalism is a sectarian movement based on mutual hate.
[00:49:11]  David French says the same thing applies to his discussions about specific government policies.
[00:49:15]  Just as Christian conservatives often root their arguments about immigration and abortion in scripture, so does Tallarico.
[00:49:23]  Blah, blah, blah.
[00:49:23]  He continues, when I hear Tallarico speak about faith, I alternate between agreement and disagreement.
[00:49:28]  He's spot on about the dangers of Christian nationalism.
[00:49:30]  And yet I can't help but respond to his arguments about the relative priority of abortion by asking, why can't we do it all?
[00:49:36]  Provide high quality health care, welcome immigrants, and protect the unborn.
[00:49:40]  And that's hardly the only disagreement between us.
[00:49:42]  Those disagreements are to be expected.
[00:49:43]  Tallerico is a political and religious progressive.
[00:49:46]  I'm a political, religious conservative.
[00:49:48]  But focusing on those disagreements misses the reason I'm asked so much about him.
[00:49:52]  Tallerico isn't just making arguments.
[00:49:53]  He's giving people hope.
[00:49:55]  And I think I know why.
[00:49:58]  And then he goes on to say that the primary American divide is between decent and indecent.
[00:50:04]  And in this equation, Tallarico shines.
[00:50:07]  To put it another way, Tallarico is one of the few openly Christian politicians in the United States who acts like a Christian.
[00:50:11]  And by acting like a Christian, he reveals a profound contrast with so many members of the MAGA Christian movement that's dominated American political life for 10 years.
[00:50:19]  Okay, so, and it goes on and on and on.
[00:50:22]  I mean, this thing is long.
[00:50:26]  And that's the first thing.
[00:50:27]  I mean, my God, how boring.
[00:50:31]  I mean, David French has been writing the same article over and over again for 10 years.
[00:50:37]  The same thing, because he has this long, he goes into this long discourse about Trump and how Trump's all the bad things about Trump.
[00:50:44]  He's been doing the same thing for 10 years.
[00:50:46]  Republicans aren't decent.
[00:50:48]  They follow Trump.
[00:50:49]  Trump is bad.
[00:50:50]  Democrats are the decent ones.
[00:50:52]  Same thing for 10 years.
[00:50:54]  Never mind that it's wrong.
[00:50:55]  It's just boring.
[00:50:57]  And that is the case with 95% of political analysis, by the way.
[00:51:01]  It's not just David French.
[00:51:02]  I mean, he's one of the worst offenders, but it's not just him.
[00:51:04]  95% of political analysis is just people saying the same thing over and over and over again.
[00:51:11]  And some of that is unavoidable.
[00:51:12]  I know I repeat myself.
[00:51:14]  Some of it is just a hazard of the trade.
[00:51:18]  But I try to talk about a wide range of topics.
[00:51:21]  I try to find new angles to explore.
[00:51:23]  I try to go deep into subjects and give you maybe some information or a perspective that you hadn't heard yet.
[00:51:30]  Try to.
[00:51:31]  But guys like David French, they're not even trying.
[00:51:34]  I mean, he's like a tribute band.
[00:51:35]  He's like a cover band playing the hits.
[00:51:38]  And they're not even hits.
[00:51:41]  But the reason why this is happening is because like, but the one change that you find with David French and people like him, the, you know, obviously Bill Kristol, Jonah Goldberg, that whole wing, is that although they're saying the same thing over and over and over and over again, I mean, they just printing and reprinting the same indictment of Trump over and over.
[00:52:03]  There is zero difference between the articles they're writing about Trump in 2026 and the ones they wrote in 2016.
[00:52:09]  It's the same thing.
[00:52:11]  And you could, and they could say, well, yeah, I still object to Trump.
[00:52:14]  Yeah, I get it.
[00:52:15]  Like you've, we know, you've told us.
[00:52:18]  You've told us.
[00:52:19]  We get it.
[00:52:20]  We do.
[00:52:20]  I promise you.
[00:52:21]  We understand your point.
[00:52:24]  We think it's dumb.
[00:52:25]  We understand it, though.
[00:52:26]  You've said it.
[00:52:27]  We get it.
[00:52:28]  Okay.
[00:52:29]  Thank you.
[00:52:31]  The only change that you're seeing with these guys is that they are becoming more and more overtly liberal.
[00:52:37]  I mean, Bill Crystal is just a full-on leftist at this point.
[00:52:41]  And that's a change that you have to, that is inevitable.
[00:52:44]  They kind of have to do it because the reality is that Trump, and this is what like David French is terrified of, as much as he pretends to hate Trump, Trump will not be on the national stage for very much longer.
[00:52:58]  He is going to be term limited and he is going to be out of the White House, you know, and in a couple of years.
[00:53:06]  And that's going to be it.
[00:53:07]  I mean, he'll still be out there.
[00:53:09]  He'll be, you know, certainly giving his opinion and all those kinds of things, but he's going to be an ex-president.
[00:53:14]  He's going to be a former president, a retired president.
[00:53:16]  And that's what he's going to be.
[00:53:19]  And for someone like David French, when your whole career is just complaining about Trump, what are you going to do?
[00:53:29]  I mean, in 2030, is David French still going to be writing New York Times op-eds about how Trump is bad?
[00:53:36]  Part of me wouldn't put it past him.
[00:53:38]  Maybe that is what he's going to do.
[00:53:42]  But really what's happening is they realize that, well, they're going to need some kind of career, some kind of point of view after Trump.
[00:53:51]  And so the safest thing at this point, like they can't go back to being actual conservatives.
[00:53:57]  So, you know, the only move is just to become full, full-on died-in-the-wool leftist Democrats, and that's what they're doing.
[00:54:04]  And that's what this is.
[00:54:07]  But as to the article itself, I mean, it's absolute nonsense.
[00:54:10]  David knows that.
[00:54:14]  He just still to this point refuses to drop the pretense of being a pro-life Christian conservative.
[00:54:20]  He will drop it, but he hasn't yet.
[00:54:23]  And so we have to endure the absurdity of somebody who is allegedly pro-life claiming that a radically pro-abortion heretic who uses the Bible to push the murder of babies is somehow decent.
[00:54:42]  Yeah, he supports killing babies and says God is okay with it, but he's a decent guy.
[00:54:54]  I mean, he uses the story, he uses the nativity, uses the story of Christ's birth as an argument for abortion.
[00:55:05]  But he does it in a decent way.
[00:55:08]  How does that work, David?
[00:55:09]  How does that work?
[00:55:12]  How could it be advocating for baby murder and heresy in a decent way?
[00:55:18]  What does that mean?
[00:55:19]  What do you think decent means?
[00:55:23]  It is not possible to decently push for the murder of babies.
[00:55:27]  It is not possible to decently preach heresy and blasphemy.
[00:55:31]  It's not possible to decently blaspheme God by saying he's non-binary.
[00:55:37]  It's not possible to decently advocate for the castration and mutilation of children.
[00:55:41]  There's no decent version of that, David.
[00:55:45]  There's no kind version.
[00:55:47]  There's no compassionate version.
[00:55:49]  There's no nice version.
[00:55:51]  There's no charitable version.
[00:55:54]  There's no Christian version.
[00:55:57]  So what David wants us to believe is that if one guy advocates for dismembering babies, which is James Tallarico's position, he believes in dismembering infants.
[00:56:14]  But if he does that and he does it in a nice and measured way, but then another guy advocates against it, advocates for protecting babies and does it in an angry way, well, the first guy is decent and the second guy is indecent.
[00:56:33]  So David says that, you know, the line is between decent and indecent, which again has been his, that's, this has been his talking point for 10 years.
[00:56:42]  But somehow the baby killers and the child mutilators are on the decent side, which is impossible.
[00:56:49]  David, what do you think decent means?
[00:56:51]  I go back to that question again.
[00:56:52]  What do you think it means?
[00:56:54]  Do you think it just means polite?
[00:56:56]  What the hell do you think it means?
[00:56:58]  What is decent about James Tallarico?
[00:57:00]  Everything he says is horrifying.
[00:57:02]  He says the most horrifying things.
[00:57:04]  He's advocating for genocidal violence against the innocent, against children, against the unborn, which you must agree with that if you're pro-life, supposedly.
[00:57:15]  He's advocating for mass murder of babies.
[00:57:17]  What do you talk about?
[00:57:18]  What's decent about it?
[00:57:19]  I listen to him and I'm like shaken to my core.
[00:57:24]  And I'm used to hearing, I mean, I've heard the left make these arguments a million times, but coming from him, especially cloaked in Christian language, it's disturbing at like the deepest level.
[00:57:41]  So what do you think decent means?
[00:57:42]  It just means polite.
[00:57:45]  Even if it did mean that, I don't think the side that pretty much exclusively advocates for, cheers, and commits political violence would qualify as polite.
[00:57:56]  But it's not that.
[00:57:59]  Okay, do you know what decent means?
[00:58:00]  It means conforming to respectable and moral behavior.
[00:58:06]  That is what decent means.
[00:58:08]  A decent person conforms to respectable and moral behavior.
[00:58:15]  So let me ask you, David, is it possible to advocate for evil in a moral way?
[00:58:24]  Is it possible to conform yourself to moral behavior while advocating for the slaughter of millions of babies?
[00:58:38]  Moral immorality.
[00:58:39]  Is that what you're saying?
[00:58:40]  Is that what you're claiming?
[00:58:43]  Yeah, he's deeply immoral, but he's immoral in a moral way.
[00:58:49]  It's total nonsense.
[00:58:52]  But David knows that.
[00:58:54]  And so there's only two ways to explain what David French is doing.
[00:59:05]  And one is bad, the other is worse.
[00:59:08]  So one thing that he's doing is he knows that this is complete nonsense.
[00:59:15]  And he knows that what guys like James Telerico are doing is evil to its core, but he's pretending to not understand that for political reasons.
[00:59:26]  Or on the other hand, David French is no longer pro-life at all.
[00:59:30]  He doesn't share these views at all anymore, and he's just pretending to.
[00:59:37]  There's no third option at this point.

=== Masculine Parking Strategy (09:50) ===

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[01:00:56]  McKenna sent this in our little group chat thing for the show.
[01:01:01]  And so here's a TikTok video explaining to women, allegedly, how men approach the issue of parking, which is an important topic.
[01:01:10]  I don't deny that.
[01:01:13]  But he's purporting to speak for men in this video, this guy is, and uh, which I find offensive.
[01:01:18]  I find deeply offended, I'm very deeply offended by it.
[01:01:21]  But here it is, watch.
[01:01:23]  Women say just park anywhere, but men don't just look for a parking spot.
[01:01:27]  We're looking for strategic positioning.
[01:01:29]  And I know this drives my wife nuts, but let me speak for men for a second because men and women experience parking in parking lots very differently.
[01:01:36]  When you say just park anywhere, all we hear is abandon all strategy.
[01:01:40]  And we can't do that.
[01:01:41]  We're not just looking for a parking spot.
[01:01:43]  We're running projections, distance to entry, cart return proximity, door ding exposure, exit flow, all of that.
[01:01:50]  So what you're very fairly seeing as empty space, we're seeing as risk assessment.
[01:01:54]  That's why we almost always back in.
[01:01:56]  It's not because we're trying to be cool.
[01:01:58]  I'm fully aware I peaked in high school.
[01:02:00]  It's because we believe in a clean exit.
[01:02:02]  Future Us is tired.
[01:02:04]  Future Us is managing kids and groceries.
[01:02:06]  Future Us doesn't want to back up into a sea of other cars to try to get out.
[01:02:10]  So we'll do it now.
[01:02:11]  That's not overthinking.
[01:02:12]  That's preparedness.
[01:02:14]  And you can call it dramatic, but we're going to keep calling it operational excellence.
[01:02:18]  And when you don't have to walk a mile to return the cart and we pull forward in one clean exit, that's not luck.
[01:02:24]  That was foresight.
[01:02:26]  Yeah, see, this is actually incorrect.
[01:02:29]  And I have to say, this is wrong.
[01:02:31]  Now, he's right that backing into a parking space is obviously very masculine.
[01:02:35]  That's the manly move.
[01:02:36]  Women swoon over that.
[01:02:37]  They do.
[01:02:38]  They see a man backing into a parking spot and they just fan themselves and faint like a, like, you know, like something out of the Victorian age.
[01:02:46]  And we all know that.
[01:02:47]  That's for sure the case, definitely.
[01:02:50]  But the rest of this is exactly wrong.
[01:02:52]  It's precisely the opposite of reality.
[01:02:53]  The masculine approach to parking is to not overthink it.
[01:02:58]  Okay.
[01:02:58]  It's like strategizing, making a big deal out of it.
[01:03:02]  That's not the manly approach.
[01:03:04]  That's what women do.
[01:03:07]  Like if you walk up to a regular guy and say, what's your approach to parking?
[01:03:10]  Like a regular guy's, what do you mean by approach?
[01:03:12]  I just parked.
[01:03:13]  I just parked.
[01:03:14]  I find a spot.
[01:03:15]  I park in it.
[01:03:16]  But I've never thought about it beyond that.
[01:03:17]  I was like, there's no strategy.
[01:03:18]  There's no like, I'm analyzing and I got to find the right spot and I'm thinking about future me.
[01:03:24]  It's like, what are you talking about?
[01:03:25]  You just park.
[01:03:27]  That's the masculine approach.
[01:03:28]  You just find, find, just stop making a big, just take an open spot.
[01:03:32]  Okay.
[01:03:33]  If, just take the open spot.
[01:03:35]  Just find a spot and park That's it.
[01:03:39]  If the open spot is 12 miles from wherever you're going, well, okay, then I guess you're walking 12 miles.
[01:03:44]  I mean, that's where the spot is.
[01:03:45]  Just take the spot.
[01:03:48]  That's my approach.
[01:03:49]  My approach to parking is: I that I park and I move on with my life.
[01:03:52]  Okay, that's my approach.
[01:03:54]  My wife is the one who's really picky about the parking spot.
[01:03:57]  That's a woman thing.
[01:03:57]  The women are very picky about it.
[01:03:59]  My wife, if she's the one, if she's driving, well, I wouldn't be in the car if she was driving because if I'm in the car, I'm driving.
[01:04:04]  But if she's just in the car by herself, she will circle a parking lot for 15 minutes looking for a space that's 15 feet closer than the ones that are immediately available.
[01:04:15]  And if she's in the car and I'm going to park, she'll say, Wait, but I see spots all the way up there.
[01:04:20]  Why are you parking here?
[01:04:21]  I see a spot all the way up there.
[01:04:23]  And I say, Yeah, it's like 20 yards away.
[01:04:25]  It's 20 yards away from where I'm currently parking.
[01:04:28]  The amount of time it takes us to have this conversation about that parking spot.
[01:04:32]  We could have already parked and been at the door of the place.
[01:04:35]  You see?
[01:04:37]  Be practical.
[01:04:38]  That's the masculine strategy.
[01:04:39]  Be practical.
[01:04:40]  Save your time.
[01:04:42]  And it also means that, I mean, I'll park farther away than is necessary.
[01:04:47]  Like if I pull into a parking lot, I'm taking the open spot.
[01:04:50]  Like you pull in, you're pulling into the back of the parking lot.
[01:04:53]  If there's open spots at the back of the parking lot, I'm just going to take that spot.
[01:04:56]  I'm not even going to drive up to see if there's a better spot.
[01:05:00]  I'm not doing that.
[01:05:04]  And my wife will say, oh, it's too far back.
[01:05:06]  Well, it's fine.
[01:05:07]  We'll be fine.
[01:05:07]  We're moving on.
[01:05:08]  We're moving on with our life, okay?
[01:05:10]  We're moving on.
[01:05:11]  We're just parking and moving on.
[01:05:13]  We have a whole life to live.
[01:05:15]  There's no time to think about this.
[01:05:18]  And having to walk farther is an added bonus.
[01:05:21]  I mean, there are times where I will, if I have my kids in the car, I will deliberately park farther away than I need to because I was in the kids with my car one time and I parked farther away and they had the audacity to try to complain.
[01:05:37]  They had the audacity to try to tell me, they had the audacity to tell me I need to park for.
[01:05:43]  So now we're going to park farther away and I'm going to make you walk on purpose.
[01:05:47]  This is character building is what it is.
[01:05:50]  So just take the first open spot.
[01:05:52]  You know, that's the whole, this is the whole reason.
[01:05:54]  This is why I take it personally.
[01:05:55]  The whole reason why parking lots are so chaotic and annoying.
[01:06:01]  Every parking lot in the country is annoying.
[01:06:05]  And this is why.
[01:06:06]  It's for two reasons.
[01:06:07]  Number one, it's because, as I've covered a million times, everybody's a bad driver except me.
[01:06:13]  That's the first problem.
[01:06:15]  You're all terrible at driving.
[01:06:17]  Every single one of you.
[01:06:18]  I used to think there were exceptions.
[01:06:19]  I used to say there's like 10 good drivers in the country.
[01:06:22]  I'm one of them.
[01:06:22]  So that leaves nine other spots.
[01:06:24]  I actually think that there are none.
[01:06:26]  I'm the only one who knows how to drive in the entire country.
[01:06:28]  All the rest of you.
[01:06:30]  I know every man listening to this is saying, no, that's wrong.
[01:06:32]  I'm the good driver.
[01:06:33]  No, no, no.
[01:06:33]  It's incorrect.
[01:06:34]  Incorrect.
[01:06:36]  None of you know what you're doing.
[01:06:38]  I drive down the highway every day and I look around like none of you people have any clue what you're doing.
[01:06:42]  What do you do?
[01:06:43]  None of you have any idea.
[01:06:45]  How did any of you pass your driver's test?
[01:06:47]  None of you should have.
[01:06:49]  I should be the only one with a driver's license.
[01:06:51]  I should drive down the highway and it should be like post-apocalyptic.
[01:06:55]  There's nobody on the road.
[01:06:56]  It's just me.
[01:06:58]  That's what it should be.
[01:06:59]  So that's the first problem.
[01:07:00]  But the second problem also in compounding this is that this is what makes parking lots annoying is that everybody is looking for the best spot.
[01:07:08]  Everybody is going around.
[01:07:11]  You know, it's like, I mean, the worst is when you're, you're in a busy parking lot, every parking lot is busy, and you're leaving the establishment and then and then someone starts following you.
[01:07:26]  That should be banned.
[01:07:27]  That should not be legal.
[01:07:29]  Okay, you should go to jail for that.
[01:07:31]  I'm walking.
[01:07:32]  Maybe I got my kids with me.
[01:07:34]  And now I got this, now I've got this stalker.
[01:07:37]  It's like jaws, right?
[01:07:38]  They're following me because they're like, oh, maybe he has a good spot.
[01:07:42]  Maybe he has a good spot.
[01:07:43]  I'm going to follow him slowly behind.
[01:07:47]  You do that.
[01:07:48]  First of all, I'm walking even slower now.
[01:07:51]  And second, joke's on you because I'm parked all the way over there.
[01:07:54]  You're going to be, you're going to, you're going to pass open spots just to follow me, assuming I have a good spot that will open up for you.
[01:08:03]  Just take the first spot.
[01:08:05]  Just go into the parking lot five.
[01:08:07]  If you have to walk a little bit farther, you're going to be fine.
[01:08:10]  Okay, do you understand that Pete, like we could all, we all need to walk more than we do.
[01:08:16]  We all spend all day sitting around.
[01:08:17]  So if you got to walk a little bit farther, it's going to be fine.
[01:08:22]  I thought maybe this is for the best because here's how every parking lot works.
[01:08:26]  I pull in whatever the place is, Walmart or whatever it is, and there's like this mad, everything is bunched up.
[01:08:33]  Like the parking lot is this big.
[01:08:35]  All the action is bunched up here.
[01:08:37]  And all of these idiots are circling around and fighting over the parking spot that's like 50 yards closer.
[01:08:45]  And I've got the whole back half to myself, which is nice.
[01:08:49]  So you fat asses can fight over the closed spot because you don't want to have to walk an extra 50 yards.
[01:08:53]  I'm fine.
[01:08:54]  I'll park over here.
[01:08:54]  I got the whole thing to myself.
[01:08:59]  So that's that.
[01:09:02]  Glad we could establish that.
[01:09:05]  And that'll do it for the show today.
[01:09:07]  Thanks for watching.
[01:09:08]  Thanks for listening.
[01:09:08]  Talk to you tomorrow.
[01:09:09]  Have a great day.
[01:09:17]  What do Snow White, Cinderella, and smallpox blankets have in common?
[01:09:22]  They're all fairy tales.
[01:09:24]  For decades, you've been told that you live on stolen land.
[01:09:27]  We are right now on stolen land.
[01:09:29]  That the Indians were peaceful.

=== The Real History of Stolen Land (00:40) ===

[01:09:30]  Native Americans, we massacred them.
[01:09:32]  Your ancestors committed genocide.
[01:09:36]  And guess what?
[01:09:37]  None of it is true.
[01:09:39]  The Native Americans were some of the most savage fighters ever known to man, raiding, scalping, torturing, even eating enemies.
[01:09:46]  It was better to lose a battle to the U.S. Army than to get wiped out by a rival tribe.
[01:09:51]  And why did the story completely change in the 1960s?
[01:09:54]  It turns out there's a lot more to the American Indians than Hollywood directors and school teachers want you to know.
[01:09:59]  This month, we blow up the biggest myths about the American Indians and reclaim the real history that was stolen from us.
[01:10:08]  This is the real history of the American Indian