The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1755 - PROJECT 2029: Democrats Unveil Violent Retribution Plan
Aired: 2026-03-24
Duration: 01:03:20


=== Domestic Insurrections and Prosecution (15:07) ===

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[00:01:01]  Today in the Matt Walsh show, if Democrats ever hold power again, they have made their plans very clear.
[00:01:06]  In fact, they're spelling it out in writing right now.
[00:01:08]  They plan to enact violent revenge on Donald Trump, his advisors, and his supporters.
[00:01:13]  I'll tell you about it.
[00:01:14]  Also, the media promised us even more chaos at our airports once ICE arrives.
[00:01:18]  But of course, a day after ICE showed up, the results have been, what do you know, exactly the opposite.
[00:01:23]  And big tech has been trying to buy up farmland to build data centers for their AI, but they're finding out that farmers in the heartland aren't so eager to give up their land no matter how much money you throw at them.
[00:01:34]  talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
[00:02:01]  You know, there are only so many ways that Democrats can spell out in the most explicit possible terms what they plan to do if and when they retake control of the federal government.
[00:02:10]  You know, they spent the last year celebrating the murder of conservatives, raising hell over the most basic voter ID laws imaginable, and most recently sabotaging the nation's airports in order to prevent ICE from doing its job.
[00:02:21]  A plan that very well very well may work, given that Republicans seem interested in caving at the moment, once again, which is what they're really the only thing they're really good at doing is caving, of course.
[00:02:32]  But in short, Democrats are preparing a government that would treat Americans as foreigners in their own country.
[00:02:39]  But just in case their plan somehow wasn't obvious, here's Senator Chris Murphy, the Democrat from Connecticut, to spell it out for you.
[00:02:47]  And listen carefully to what he says right here.
[00:02:52]  For my 20 years covering this issue, the trade is this.
[00:02:55]  They want more border security and enhancement.
[00:02:58]  Democrats want a path to citizenship.
[00:03:01]  This time around, the negotiation didn't have a path to citizenship.
[00:03:05]  It was entirely on their terms in order to get Ukraine funding, right?
[00:03:14]  Well, I mean, Chris, that's been a failed play for 20 years.
[00:03:17]  So you are right that that has been the Democratic strategy for 30 years maybe, and it has failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country.
[00:03:31]  This is also not 2013 any longer when we ran that play last.
[00:03:39]  So that's not taken out of context.
[00:03:40]  That's not manipulated by AI.
[00:03:43]  It's the undocumented Americans, quote unquote, that Democrats care about most, according to Chris Murphy.
[00:03:49]  He just said it himself.
[00:03:51]  Yes, undocumented Americans.
[00:03:54]  Like, I don't know which part of that is more objectionable, the fact that he cares about them most, or that they're being called undocumented Americans, not even undocumented immigrants, undocumented Americans.
[00:04:05]  Simply by virtue of entering this country illegally in almost every case, these people become Americans, according to one of the leaders of the Democrat Party.
[00:04:15]  This, of course, is the magical dirt theory of American citizenship.
[00:04:19]  As long as you're standing on the dirt, then you're an American.
[00:04:22]  That's all there is to it.
[00:04:25]  And more than that, they become the most important Americans of all.
[00:04:28]  They're not just Americans, they're the most important Americans.
[00:04:33]  Democrats will prioritize their interests over the interests of you and your family.
[00:04:38]  And they won't even pretend otherwise.
[00:04:39]  They'll tell you to your face, which in some ways makes it even worse.
[00:04:46]  They'll look at you in the face.
[00:04:47]  They'll look you right in the eye and tell you, we don't care about you.
[00:04:50]  We care about these people over here who don't even belong here.
[00:04:55]  Now, that interview aired in the final days of Joe Biden's presidency.
[00:04:58]  It only recently surfaced on social media and for good reason.
[00:05:00]  Democrats are now clearly preparing to wage an all-out war on Americans if they retake Congress and the White House.
[00:05:06]  They're planning a campaign of retribution against conservatives that will make the Biden years look tame by comparison.
[00:05:13]  And this is not a guess.
[00:05:14]  I mean, they're saying it openly in a variety of different contexts.
[00:05:17]  In some cases, they're rewriting history to justify the purge that they're planning.
[00:05:22]  Now, it probably won't come as a surprise to anyone to hear that I believe it's very important to study history, like real history, not the propaganda you're taught in public schools, but actual history.
[00:05:31]  We talk about various historical topics on this show all the time.
[00:05:35]  I also have another monthly show, Real History on Daily Wire.
[00:05:38]  And there's a few reasons for this.
[00:05:40]  First of all, it's interesting as a factual matter.
[00:05:44]  And secondly, as the famous quote goes, those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it.
[00:05:48]  And on top of that, if you're familiar with American history, then it's easier to spot political propaganda, especially from the left, which has committed itself to rewriting the past.
[00:05:58]  It's also easier to see through the propaganda and determine what the left is really after, what they're really doing.
[00:06:04]  So here's a very transparent example of what this means in practice.
[00:06:09]  Late last week, the New Republic, which is one of those outlets on the left that claims to be highly intellectual like The Atlantic, outlined an elaborate plan to harass and imprison Donald Trump and his advisors and his supporters once Trump leaves office.
[00:06:26]  This is the left's new and improved game plan for a new wave of lawfare against Donald Trump and his supporters.
[00:06:32]  Instead of talking about ways to improve the lives of American citizens, they're fixated almost entirely on retribution.
[00:06:40]  This article is entitled, There Will Be No Post-Presidential Peace for Donald Trump.
[00:06:46]  And for the most part, the article feels like it could have been written 10 years ago, except for the fact that it drops the whole Russian collusion hoax, which is too embarrassing for Democrats to talk about anymore.
[00:06:57]  That's why, by the way, nobody on the left mourned really Robert Mueller.
[00:07:01]  He was their hero when they thought he was useful to them.
[00:07:04]  But when he failed to take down Trump, they just completely forgot he existed.
[00:07:08]  But the author of the New Republic article does mention the infamous emoluments clause, which used to be all the rage on the left, as you remember.
[00:07:17]  He also drones on about international law as if it's a real thing.
[00:07:20]  It's not.
[00:07:21]  It's fake.
[00:07:22]  He suggests that government attorneys should be disbarred if they worked for the Trump administration.
[00:07:27]  There's even the suggestion that ICE officers should be punished in a future administration for the crime of just doing their jobs.
[00:07:35]  But the best paragraph of all for my money is this one.
[00:07:39]  Again, this was published in the New Republic, which allegedly is an award-winning magazine on the left.
[00:07:44]  And here's what it says, quote, a rundown of the Trump administration's scandals and crimes resembles, with shocking likeness, the grave, sweeping charges laid out in the Declaration of Independence against the last American king.
[00:07:57]  He has excited domestic insurrections against us.
[00:08:00]  The Founding Fathers wrote about George III in 1776.
[00:08:04]  Is there any better way of describing Trump's actions on January 6th, 2021?
[00:08:09]  He supported a violent mob aiming to overthrow the government.
[00:08:13]  He maintains a similar disrespect for the institutions of American democracy to this day.
[00:08:19]  Now, if you have no familiarity with American history, then, and you're very stupid, then, which is the target audience for this sort of thing, then this paragraph might make some degree of sense.
[00:08:30]  I mean, after all, the Declaration of Independence condemned the British king for causing, quote, domestic insurrections.
[00:08:37]  And according to the New Republic, Donald Trump basically committed an insurrection as well because he delivered a speech.
[00:08:43]  And therefore, we can conclude that the founders themselves would have endorsed a campaign of violent payback against Trump and his advisors and supporters.
[00:08:53]  Now, the main problem with this argument becomes very clear when you take a look at what the founders were talking about when they referred to domestic insurrections.
[00:09:03]  Contrary to what modern leftists believe, the founders were not attacking King George for delivering a speech to his followers in which he urged his followers to, quote, peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard, which is what Trump said.
[00:09:17]  Instead, the founders were attacking King George and other British officials for encouraging slave revolts in the colonies.
[00:09:26]  And in particular, the colonists were furious over Lord Dunmore's proclamation in 1775, which was issued by the British officer as the colonists were becoming increasingly frustrated with British rule.
[00:09:37]  Lord Dunmore declared martial law and promised freedom to every slave or indentured servant who ran away from his owner and joined the British Army.
[00:09:47]  Now, by some estimates, thousands of slaves took them up on this offer.
[00:09:52]  And so it was, in the literal sense, a domestic insurrection.
[00:09:57]  It was also nothing like what Donald Trump did on January 6th, obviously.
[00:10:02]  So take a moment to appreciate the irony here.
[00:10:05]  In order to construct an extremely convoluted plan to get Donald Trump, the so-called thought leaders on the left are now taking the side of American colonists who were upset that the British government was encouraging slaves to run away and become free.
[00:10:23]  To put another way, in order to defeat the MAGA movement once and for all, they're saying that Donald Trump's actions on January 6th are the moral and legal equivalent of telling black slaves that they should run away and become free.
[00:10:40]  But they don't actually realize they're saying any of this because they don't understand American history.
[00:10:44]  They've never read a single page about it.
[00:10:47]  They certainly don't care about what the founders said or what they really believed.
[00:10:51]  Their only objective, as always, is to destroy their political opponents, and they will lie about anything in order to achieve that objective.
[00:10:59]  If you spend any amount of time studying history, it becomes very obvious that they do this all the time.
[00:11:04]  And if your children are in public schools, same thing is happening there.
[00:11:09]  What we're witnessing here is the launch of what Democrats are calling themselves Project 2029.
[00:11:16]  That's after the infamous Project 2025 that became an instant obsession on the left.
[00:11:20]  But there's a big difference between Project 2025 and Project 2029.
[00:11:26]  The former was a policy document from a conservative think tank, which discussed plans to roll back taxes, promote the nuclear family, eliminate propaganda from public schools.
[00:11:39]  Democrats pretended that Project 2025 was our nefarious plan to do horrible things to them, but it was actually a pretty standard policy document.
[00:11:48]  By contrast, Project 2029 is explicitly a plan to imprison and bankrupt Donald Trump and everybody who works for him or supports him.
[00:12:01]  So once again, Democrats were projecting, in other words, they're doing exactly what they claimed the right was doing.
[00:12:08]  Here's the governor of Illinois, who's now on Ozempic, apparently, and is explaining this very explicitly.
[00:12:16]  Watch.
[00:12:18]  What does a Project 2029 agenda look like for you?
[00:12:23]  I don't think you can speak of it in shorthand, but I'll just say a couple of things that I think are absolutely necessary.
[00:12:30]  One is we've got to restore the rule of law, and that means holding people accountable who've broken the law.
[00:12:36]  I'm talking about in this administration, when we get a new one, the people in this administration who've broken the law and federal agents who've broken the law need to be held accountable.
[00:12:46]  And that means criminally prosecuted.
[00:12:48]  Criminally prosecuted, civilly prosecuted, whatever it is that we can do, right?
[00:12:53]  It may be that you can't criminally prosecute somebody, but that you can go after them civilly.
[00:13:00]  Now, the New York Times woman with the tie is eager to hear that federal agents will be criminally prosecuted for what exactly?
[00:13:10]  Well, they don't say.
[00:13:11]  You know, when the Russiagate hoax was in full swing, they at least had some kind of fake criminal charges in mind, like obstruction of justice or, you know, something like that.
[00:13:20]  But now they don't even have that.
[00:13:23]  Think about how extraordinary that is.
[00:13:25]  These people spent several years talking about prosecuting Donald Trump during his first term.
[00:13:29]  Trump left office and they followed through on their threats.
[00:13:33]  That's the one thing about Democrats is that they'll make all these plans and promises as horrible as they may be, and then they'll actually go do them.
[00:13:42]  Whereas Republicans will make a lot of promises and not do them at all.
[00:13:48]  But they began several prosecutions against the former president in state and federal court.
[00:13:53]  They didn't spend any amount of time thinking about what voters actually wanted or how Donald Trump or why he resonated with so many people.
[00:14:02]  Instead, they spent all their creative energy bringing charges that made absolutely no sense to the point that when Donald Trump was convicted in New York, no sane person in the country even pretended to care because it was all fake.
[00:14:15]  No matter how many times Kamala Harris read the script about Donald Trump being a convicted felon, it didn't matter.
[00:14:22]  And now after all of that, after losing the presidency in large part because of their lawfare, they're not simply doubling down.
[00:14:30]  They're openly admitting that in their next campaign of retribution, they're not even going to use a pretext.
[00:14:37]  They're just going to throw people in prison or worse.
[00:14:40]  About a year ago, I did a monologue on the rise of assassination culture in this country.
[00:14:46]  And we talked about how Democrats were trying to murder Elon Musk, how they celebrated the murder of a healthcare insurance CEO and glorified his killer, how they threw money at a black teenager who was accused of murdering a white high school student at a track meet.
[00:15:01]  Now, as it happens, Charlie Kirk also talked about assassination culture on his show back in April of 2025.

=== The Rise of Political Violence (15:33) ===

[00:15:07]  In particular, Charlie cited a report from the Network Contagion Research Institute or NCRI, and they're a nonprofit based in New Jersey that focuses on analyzing threats on social media.
[00:15:19]  And their report showed that on the left, a growing number of people weren't simply celebrating political violence, they were openly calling for it.
[00:15:27]  And that's why, according to U.S. Capitol Police data, threat investigations have more than doubled since 2017 from 4,000 per year to more than 9,400.
[00:15:37]  Of course, you don't really need a report for this.
[00:15:39]  We all know that it's true.
[00:15:41]  Now, one year later, NCRI has updated their report and they ran a survey where they asked about 2,000 people to first provide their political ideology and then to state whether they saw a justification for violence against certain political figures.
[00:15:57]  NCRI then filtered out about 1,000 of these respondents because they finished the survey too quickly or failed various attention checks, which should tell you something about how unreliable polls tend to be.
[00:16:08]  But here's what they found.
[00:16:11]  Quote, justification for the murder of Donald Trump has increased from NCRI's original study in April 2025 from 56% to 67% among left-of-center respondents.
[00:16:24]  This tolerance for violence appears to have grown on the right as well, with 54% of right-of-center respondents expressing justification for murdering New York City Mayor Zorhan Mamdani.
[00:16:33]  Support for political murder is associated with pessimistic assessments of America's trajectory.
[00:16:38]  Support for political murder is about 15% higher among females than among males.
[00:16:43]  Overall, nearly two-thirds of all respondents, 66%, endorse some level of justification for murdering either or both Zorhan Mamdani and Donald Trump.
[00:16:52]  The broader pattern points to belief in American decline, amplified by social media, especially among youth as a central driver of this change.
[00:17:00]  But here's the data on the people who want Trump dead to give you an idea.
[00:17:05]  It's there on the screen.
[00:17:06]  67% of left-of-center respondents gave some or more justification for murdering Donald Trump.
[00:17:13]  58% of centrists did the same.
[00:17:16]  And incredibly enough, 42% of right-of-center respondents gave a justification for killing Trump, which should tell you something, by the way, about who qualifies as a right-of-center because they give this, they give the data on, well, you know, apparently a majority of people in the right of center also support political murder.
[00:17:35]  But then we find out that 40% of them, more than 40%, you know, want Trump to be killed.
[00:17:40]  So, you know, what do we talk about right of, when you say right of center, are you talking about like Bill Crystal right of center?
[00:17:46]  That's probably what they mean.
[00:17:47]  But anyway, the survey also found a strong correlation between justifying Trump's murder and Mamdani's murder, indicating a broader trend towards political violence in this country, one that's noticeably stronger on the left, particularly among women who spend a lot of time on social media and who perceive that America is on the decline.
[00:18:06]  And it's mostly what you'd expect, except perhaps for the fact that women are more likely than men to call for political violence.
[00:18:16]  I mean, for all the talk we're hearing about the dangers of the so-called manosphere and toxic masculinity and the violence.
[00:18:24]  Well, it turns out that women are bigger fans of political violence than men are.
[00:18:31]  And this is a finding that, if true, would obviously represent a major victory for the feminist movement.
[00:18:36]  For generations, they've sought to erase every feminine instinct and to replace those instincts with a crude knockoff of masculinity.
[00:18:44]  And that appears to be what's happening.
[00:18:46]  Women are now posting on social media and giving interviews in which they beat their chests about how bloodthirsty they are.
[00:18:54]  It's almost as if feminism has made women much less happy and much less pleasant than they've ever been at any other point in American history.
[00:19:03]  Almost as though.
[00:19:04]  Watch.
[00:19:08]  I don't want to be a violent person, but in this case, I feel like that we just need to not just say the word, but assassinate him.
[00:19:20]  What was your reaction this July when the assassin almost got Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania?
[00:19:27]  Happy that he missed or happy that it happened?
[00:19:29]  No, happy that it happened.
[00:19:31]  And too bad that it wasn't in the heck.
[00:19:33]  What was your reaction in July when an assassin came an inch away from ending Trump?
[00:19:40]  Disappointment that they didn't follow through.
[00:19:44]  They missed.
[00:19:45]  Got shot.
[00:19:46]  Yeah.
[00:19:47]  I thought, oh my God.
[00:19:50]  It could have been wonderful.
[00:19:52]  If he'd been shot.
[00:19:54]  Exactly.
[00:19:54]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:19:55]  I can sum it up in one word.
[00:20:01]  Drad that it happened or drad that it missed?
[00:20:03]  Drad that it missed.
[00:20:04]  I won't lie.
[00:20:08]  So women are more likely to justify political murder.
[00:20:11]  They're also much more likely to sympathize with a black murderer who's been convicted of 30 other crimes and was just let out of prison and killed somebody else.
[00:20:25]  So a lot of moral confusion, I think we can say.
[00:20:28]  And while several of the women in that clip obviously skew older, this trend is not limited to the elderly.
[00:20:34]  It's not simply a phenomenon in which old people are mouthing off.
[00:20:38]  YouGov ran a similar survey just two days after Charlie Kirk's murder.
[00:20:42]  They asked, is it ever justified for citizens to resort to violence in order to achieve political goals?
[00:20:47]  And here's what they found.
[00:20:49]  Over one-third of self-described liberals ages 18 to 39 answered yes.
[00:20:55]  That is the highest of all the demographics they surveyed.
[00:20:57]  And again, you don't really need a survey to establish this.
[00:21:00]  You can just browse TikTok and look at videos like this one with millions of views.
[00:21:06]  Hello, my name is Scarlett Kelly, and I am officially declaring war on the Republican Party.
[00:21:14]  If you are a Republican on TikTok and you want to interact with me, you deserve to die.
[00:21:22]  You deserve to be shot.
[00:21:23]  You deserve whatever suffering could possibly come to you.
[00:21:28]  If you are a Republican and try to start any of that kind of nonsense with me in person, you will lose your life.
[00:21:35]  This is war.
[00:21:36]  I am not joking.
[00:21:38]  It's done.
[00:21:39]  You are not an American anymore.
[00:21:41]  You're out.
[00:21:42]  You're off the list.
[00:21:44]  You've been naughty.
[00:21:48]  You know, on one hand, you see videos like this and you want to joke about it because these people are like the least intimidating human beings you'll ever see.
[00:21:57]  I mean, they're all weak and flabby.
[00:21:59]  It looks like they could be knocked unconscious with a toothpick.
[00:22:03]  But then you realize that, you know, all these mass shootings and everything and you look at what those people look like.
[00:22:09]  Well, it looks exactly like that.
[00:22:12]  Doesn't matter how weak somebody is, they show up someplace with a gun and they're deranged and evil enough.
[00:22:19]  They can inflict a lot of damage.
[00:22:21]  Now, in one significant way, it's reminiscent of the effort to ban Alex Jones from every social media platform, including YouTube, Apple, Facebook, Spotify, Twitter.
[00:22:29]  Back then, we were told that Alex Jones was an exception to the rule and that Democrats wouldn't try to ban everybody else they disagreed with.
[00:22:35]  NPR reported that the ideas that Jones shares are particularly noxious.
[00:22:40]  Well, guess what?
[00:22:41]  Within three years, they ban the president of the United States as well as thousands of his followers.
[00:22:47]  Political violence works the same way.
[00:22:50]  Once Democrats believe they're justified in killing one person for political reasons, the floodgates open.
[00:22:57]  They're not going to stop with Brian Thompson or Charlie Kirk or Donald Trump.
[00:23:02]  With each assassination or assassination attempt, they grow more and more committed.
[00:23:07]  They will expand their efforts to murder their opponents until they have no opponents left or until somebody stops them.
[00:23:14]  There will be no return to normalcy.
[00:23:17]  They're saying that themselves.
[00:23:19]  They want you dead or in jail.
[00:23:21]  That's what they want.
[00:23:24]  You know, justifiably, we spend a lot of time on this show criticizing Republicans, especially Republicans who aren't advancing basic legislation like the SAVE Act, which needs to pass if we want to have fair elections in this country.
[00:23:35]  It's not an overstatement to say that many Republicans would rather do nothing and lose control of Congress in November than undertake the difficult but necessary work of passing legislation, of being leaders.
[00:23:48]  They don't want to lead.
[00:23:49]  They want to lose, many of them.
[00:23:51]  That's true.
[00:23:53]  But at the same time, from a purely practical perspective, politicians who do nothing for you are still better than politicians committed to actively destroying your life and the lives of everybody you care about.
[00:24:08]  And in America, according to every indication we have at the moment, those are your choices right now.
[00:24:15]  Democrats have decided that in lieu of appealing to the very interests, to the interests of American voters, they're going to import foreigners who are beholden to the Democrat Party and then begin a violent crackdown against anyone who disagrees with them.
[00:24:29]  That is their agenda for 2029.
[00:24:31]  They're making it very clear.
[00:24:33]  They're telling us.
[00:24:35]  They're no longer going to even pretend to care about appealing to Americans or democracy or any of that.
[00:24:42]  Instead, they're going to appeal to quote-unquote undocumented Americans, which is not a thing.
[00:24:48]  And that's to say, foreign invaders who aren't American at all.
[00:24:52]  Democrats want to punish you, steal from you, put you in prison, all for the benefit of foreigners who will vote Democrat in every election.
[00:25:01]  And it would be a fatal mistake in the sense that it could result in the end of Western civilization for us to assume that these people will be as passive as the FBI was after the murder of Charlie Kirk.
[00:25:14]  They won't be.
[00:25:16]  They will be ruthless.
[00:25:19]  And for that reason alone, they must never be allowed to hold power again.
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[00:26:17]  All right, checking in on the airports, which have been a disaster zone, as we've covered extensively on the show.
[00:26:24]  Yesterday, ICE deployed to a number of major airports around the country, and it seems that they've been effective.
[00:26:31]  Even CNN has had to admit that they've been effective.
[00:26:35]  So here they are at the Atlanta airport.
[00:26:38]  Watch.
[00:26:41]  Finally, we can take a deep breath here.
[00:26:42]  The numbers have dropped off.
[00:26:44]  The lines are getting shorter.
[00:26:46]  I think the average wait time now is under 40 minutes.
[00:26:48]  So if you have a flight to catch today, it's a good time to come to Hartsfield-Jackson International.
[00:26:56]  And maybe we should abolish the TSA and put ICE in charge of airport security permanently.
[00:27:02]  They'd need a lot more funding, but maybe that's the solution.
[00:27:07]  As Fox documented, most air travelers support ICE in the airports.
[00:27:11]  In fact, most Americans support ICE in general.
[00:27:15]  That's the truth of it.
[00:27:16]  And here it is.
[00:27:17]  Watch.
[00:27:19]  Bother anybody.
[00:27:20]  I'm okay.
[00:27:20]  I was concerned about people.
[00:27:23]  So they're not bothering us.
[00:27:24]  Let's get it done.
[00:27:25]  I like that they're here.
[00:27:26]  I think that it's allowing us to move and get to where we need to go.
[00:27:30]  It's kind of scary and sick as a person.
[00:27:32]  Don't know what to expect.
[00:27:33]  We ICE.
[00:27:33]  As long as they can help us move a little bit faster, maybe they can take some of the work off of TSA agents as far as general security.
[00:27:41]  I'm all for it.
[00:27:44]  What a shock.
[00:27:45]  They couldn't find anyone who would say, you know what?
[00:27:47]  I hate ICE so much.
[00:27:48]  I'd rather have a five-hour wait line than have ICE help.
[00:27:54]  I'll take a five-hour wait at the airport over having ICE, just at a principle.
[00:28:01]  They couldn't find anyone to say that.
[00:28:04]  So maybe this is a solution.
[00:28:05]  Get rid of TSA, put ICE in charge.
[00:28:08]  Because it turns out, for all the relentless demonization of ICE that the media and Democrats have engaged in, most Americans don't care.
[00:28:15]  They just want to, you know, they don't want to wait in line for five hours at the airport.
[00:28:19]  That's what they care about.
[00:28:22]  Or better yet, as I've been arguing, as I've argued for years, we could abolish TSA completely.
[00:28:27]  I mean, we hear about abolishing ICE.
[00:28:30]  Obviously, we can't do that.
[00:28:31]  That's insane.
[00:28:32]  Abolish TSA, though.
[00:28:33]  We could do that and just replace it with no government agency at all.
[00:28:38]  Let airport security be handled privately, as it was up till 2001, and as it still is in some airports.
[00:28:46]  TSA sucks at its job.
[00:28:49]  It is terrible.
[00:28:51]  That's not just my opinion.
[00:28:52]  This has been tested, as I mentioned yesterday.
[00:28:55]  The DHS has sent in private investigators on many occasions to try and smuggle weapons through security to test how effective their security measures are.
[00:29:06]  And they found that TSA failed to prevent up to 80% of the weapons from making it through screening.
[00:29:15]  And that was an improvement.
[00:29:17]  That was in 2017.
[00:29:18]  That was an improvement over previous years when the failure rate was 90 to 95%.
[00:29:25]  That should really tell you something.
[00:29:26]  Okay, when you have an agency that is failing in 90 to 95% of cases, and that agency is not immediately disbanded or even seriously reformed in any way, that tells you that whatever this agency is supposedly doing, that's not really the point because they can't even pretend to care about doing it well.
[00:29:53]  Here's a fun fact.
[00:29:54]  Did you know this?
[00:29:56]  Did you know that to this day, TSA has not prevented a single terrorist attack?
[00:30:03]  Not one.
[00:30:04]  There is not one actual recorded case of a terror plot being foiled by TSA.
[00:30:09]  If you don't believe me, go look it up.
[00:30:11]  Because let me tell you something.
[00:30:12]  If that happened, they would tell us.
[00:30:15]  If that happened, they would trumpet it from the rooftops.
[00:30:20]  Okay, there'd be a marching band down the street.
[00:30:23]  They'd be announcing it to everybody.
[00:30:26]  Hey, after 25 years, we finally did something.
[00:30:30]  Hasn't happened one time.
[00:30:32]  25 years of this agency existing, and it has not even once done the single thing that it exists to do.

=== TSA Security Failures Exposed (04:28) ===

[00:30:41]  And what's more, and this is another thing that I think people don't maybe realize, a lot of people, especially younger people, TSA was formed in response to 9-11.
[00:30:52]  I think most people know that.
[00:30:53]  But, and on the surface, that might seem like it makes sense, right?
[00:30:57]  Until you realize that 9-11 was not a failure of airport security.
[00:31:02]  It was a failure of a lot of things.
[00:31:04]  There's a lot of blame to go around.
[00:31:06]  But, you know, ironically enough, the one thing you can't blame is airport security.
[00:31:13]  The hijackers took over the planes with box cutters.
[00:31:17]  Box cutters were smuggled.
[00:31:19]  They were not smugglers.
[00:31:20]  Box cutters were not smuggled on the planes.
[00:31:23]  Box cutters were allowed on the planes because according to federal regulations, they were permitted.
[00:31:31]  So airport security was following federal guidelines.
[00:31:35]  At the time, the idea of a plane being hijacked by box cutters just had not occurred to anybody.
[00:31:42]  Now, the security failure happened on the planes themselves.
[00:31:46]  I mean, there were a lot of failures to go around, but there was kind of a security failure on the airplane.
[00:31:53]  At the time, it was way too easy to get into the cockpit.
[00:31:58]  Pilots were trained also at the time to basically concede to the demands of hijackers.
[00:32:05]  And a lot of that stuff has changed since then.
[00:32:08]  But airport security, again, was not at fault.
[00:32:11]  They were following federal regulations.
[00:32:14]  And yet in the wake of 9-11, we end up with this whole elaborate theatrical government-run security procedure in every airport in the country, or most of them, in which now agents of the government are empowered to conduct searches of our personal effects and our bodies, the kinds of searches that prior to the TSA, a government agent would need a warrant to conduct.
[00:32:37]  Prior to the TSA, there was no scenario where agents of the government could conduct those kind of searches on millions of people every day without warrants.
[00:32:51]  So they basically ripped up the Constitution, formed this whole new government agency, inflicted it on millions of Americans every day, all for no valid reason, in order to achieve a goal that in 25 years they have not achieved.
[00:33:07]  And that tells you what this is really about.
[00:33:15]  But the TSA is one of those things that, you know, this is what we've learned, that the government can do something terrible.
[00:33:21]  They can put some new awful policy in place and people will object to it.
[00:33:26]  I mean, when TSA was first formed and for the first several years that TSA existed, it was a live issue.
[00:33:33]  It was a political issue.
[00:33:34]  And there were a lot of people that were protesting against it.
[00:33:36]  And you would have politicians that were saying this, you know, we shouldn't be doing this.
[00:33:40]  We're raising all these objections about the constitutionality of it and the effectiveness of it.
[00:33:44]  And this is just security theater.
[00:33:46]  You know, it's all these things.
[00:33:48]  And, but now it's not even talked about.
[00:33:53]  It's just assumed.
[00:33:54]  Even now, even when, I mean, we're all talking about TSA because of the funding being pulled and all these TSA agents calling out of work, even though they're all going to get back pay, by the way.
[00:34:04]  So they're stealing our money right now.
[00:34:07]  But even amid all that, there's almost nobody saying, hey, by the way, like this agency shouldn't even exist.
[00:34:12]  By the way, this agency shouldn't exist.
[00:34:14]  If it didn't exist, then you wouldn't be able to use it as a political football.
[00:34:18]  This would not be a politicians would not be able to hold airport security hostage if the government didn't control airport security.
[00:34:28]  Almost nobody is saying that.
[00:34:30]  Right?
[00:34:31]  Who's saying that?
[00:34:32]  Aside from me and maybe a few other podcasters, I don't know.
[00:34:35]  Is any Republican saying that?
[00:34:40]  And what that shows is like everyone knows TSA is like they're awful at their jobs.
[00:34:44]  That's just a fact.
[00:34:45]  This is a fact.
[00:34:45]  They're extremely ineffective.
[00:34:48]  Private security would be much better.
[00:34:50]  There's no way private security could be worse.
[00:34:52]  You're failing 80 to 95% of the time.
[00:34:55]  How could anything be worse than that?
[00:35:00]  So, and we all know that.
[00:35:03]  But we just kind of accepted it.
[00:35:04]  We're like, well, you know, it's existed for 25 years, so it might as well exist forever.

=== Humanizing Criminals vs Justice (04:00) ===

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[00:36:00]  All right, Fox News says this.
[00:36:01]  A progressive Chicago alder woman is being widely panned on social media over her response to a local college student being allegedly shot and killed by an illegal immigrant over the weekend.
[00:36:11]  Shortly after Sheridan Gorman was gunned down while taking a walk with friends, alderwoman Maria Haddon suggested in an interview with Fox 32 that Gorman was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
[00:36:24]  That's the way that she puts it.
[00:36:25]  Let's go ahead and play the clip.
[00:36:27]  All the time, right?
[00:36:28]  They go out on the pier, they walk around.
[00:36:30]  So the kids were out doing normal, normal things people do in the neighborhood.
[00:36:34]  And it sounds like this might have been a wrong place, wrong time, running into a person who had a gun.
[00:36:40]  They might have startled this person at the end of the pier unintentionally.
[00:36:48]  So, you know, there have been some people trying to claim that this clip is taken out of context, but it's not.
[00:36:54]  I mean, this is what she said.
[00:36:55]  She said what she said.
[00:36:56]  And notice how she talks about the violent killer like he's a wild animal.
[00:37:01]  I mean, this is the kind of thing that you might say after somebody is mauled by a mountain lion or like stomped to death by a moose.
[00:37:08]  You might say, oh, well, you know, she must have surprised it.
[00:37:11]  Terrible thing.
[00:37:12]  She was out for a walk and came too close and caught it by surprise.
[00:37:17]  Maybe it was eating.
[00:37:18]  You know, when you walk up on a wild animal and it's eating, then it might respond aggressively to protect its kill.
[00:37:24]  You know, maybe that's what it was doing.
[00:37:27]  And, you know, that makes sense.
[00:37:28]  It's a valid explanation when you're talking about some kind of creature from the forest, but she's talking about a human.
[00:37:36]  She's talking about an illegal alien who doesn't belong to this country.
[00:37:39]  But this really is how these people, how Democrats see violent criminals.
[00:37:43]  They see them as animals, as these sort of poor, helpless, scared animals who have no control over their actions.
[00:37:49]  Ironically, those of us who have a much harsher perspective, or at least call for much harsher punishments of these criminals, we are the ones with a humanizing point of view.
[00:38:01]  In fact, we humanize the criminals by treating them like people.
[00:38:08]  When we call for them to be punished severely, that's because we see them as people.
[00:38:12]  We see them as human beings who should be subjected to punishment, to justice.
[00:38:20]  I would never call for punishing an animal.
[00:38:23]  I wouldn't, even if an animal mauled somebody to death, I'd say, well, that animal should be put down.
[00:38:27]  But I wouldn't call that justice.
[00:38:29]  I wouldn't say it in the interest of justice that the animal should be killed.
[00:38:34]  And nobody else would either.
[00:38:37]  Justice is for humans, which is something that you understand if you acknowledge the humanity of all people, but Democrats don't.
[00:38:46]  And that's not to say that humanizing criminals is the most important thing here.
[00:38:50]  The most important thing is protecting American citizens from violent invaders and all violent criminals who shouldn't, you know, in this case, shouldn't even be here in the first place.
[00:39:01]  But my only point is that the compassion of Democrats is not only cruelty to innocent American citizens.

=== Generational Wealth and Land (09:33) ===

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[00:41:01]  All right, here's something great, something awesome for a change.
[00:41:06]  Every once in a while, you know, a local news station will do one of these heartwarming human interest type stories that, and every once in a while, one of those kinds of stories will be something so heartwarming that even I, with my icy heart of stone, will find wonderful and inspiring.
[00:41:27]  And this report out of Kentucky is one of those occasions.
[00:41:32]  So here it is.
[00:41:34]  Watch.
[00:41:36]  If it's my way, I'll stay at hold and feed a nation.
[00:41:39]  $26 million doesn't mean anything.
[00:41:42]  Some people might find it hard to understand how Delcia Bear can turn away a $26 million offer to buy some of her land until you spend a little time with her walking the dirt road she grew up on and in the house her daddy built.
[00:41:55]  My grandfather and great-grandfather and a whole bunch of family has all lived here for years, paid taxes on it, fed a nation off of it, even raised wheat through the Depression and kept breadlines up in the United States of America when people didn't have anything else.
[00:42:12]  Delcia is one of dozens of landowners approached by an anonymous buyer, one of the major players in artificial intelligence, likely Google or Meta or Amazon, to purchase their land.
[00:42:24]  The market value for land in Mason County is about $6,000 an acre.
[00:42:29]  The realtor that came to her door last April offered her and her mother about 10 times that.
[00:42:36]  They call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we're not.
[00:42:40]  We know whenever our food is disappearing, our lands are disappearing, and we don't have any water and poison.
[00:42:47]  We know we've had it.
[00:42:48]  Delcia's mom, Ida Huddleston, is now 82 years old.
[00:42:52]  She says she does not need the money or the hassle.
[00:42:55]  She was born on this land and she plans to die here.
[00:42:59]  And she certainly does not trust the promises made by the AI companies or the people who want them to build here.
[00:43:06]  So what do you say to the people who are in town that say, hey, this is going to bring jobs.
[00:43:11]  This is going to bring economic prosperity.
[00:43:15]  I say they're a liar and the truth ain't in them.
[00:43:17]  That's what I say.
[00:43:19]  It's a scam.
[00:43:20]  For Delcia, scam or not, she says she's connected to her home like Scarlett O'Hara was in Gone with the Wind.
[00:43:27]  As long as she was attached to that land, her spirit never would die.
[00:43:32]  And that's the exact same thing for me right here.
[00:43:35]  As long as I'm on this land, as long as it's feeding me, as long as it's taking care of me, there's nothing that can destroy me if I've got this land.
[00:43:48]  Well, I just love everything about that.
[00:43:50]  This is America.
[00:43:51]  This is what America is.
[00:43:52]  This is what America is supposed to be.
[00:43:53]  It always has been.
[00:43:54]  And I love the idea of some pencil neck city slicker real estate agent working on behalf of Google or Amazon or whatever, knocking on old old Delcia's door, offering them $26 million for their land, and then being totally flummoxed when he was told to kindly off.
[00:44:14]  I mean, I'd like to imagine they pulled out a shotgun and told him that he has 30 seconds to get his yuppie ass off their porch before they start blasting.
[00:44:24]  I'd like to imagine that it was probably less dramatic.
[00:44:27]  In fact, it was probably, they probably said, turned him down in a really warm and kind sort of way.
[00:44:34]  But the message was the same.
[00:44:37]  And, you know, these are when we use the phrase real Americans, when some of us use that phrase, this is what we mean.
[00:44:47]  What is an American?
[00:44:49]  These ladies are American.
[00:44:50]  These are Americans.
[00:44:51]  And this to me is a case study.
[00:44:53]  You know, for anyone who says that America is nothing but a propositional nation, America is an idea.
[00:45:01]  America is an abstract principle.
[00:45:04]  Anyone who says that, you know, anyone who comes here is just as American as the people who've lived here for generations.
[00:45:13]  Anybody in that camp, okay, look at these women.
[00:45:16]  Look at these women.
[00:45:18]  Listen to them also, the way that they speak.
[00:45:21]  And I love the way that they speak.
[00:45:24]  When the older woman was asked, Ida, when Ida was asked, what would we say to the people that say, well, you should sell your land?
[00:45:30]  Well, I'd say they're a liar and the truth ain't in them.
[00:45:33]  Perfect.
[00:45:34]  That's all you got to say.
[00:45:35]  Perfect answer.
[00:45:36]  But anyway, look at these women and then look at a Somali immigrant fresh off the boat.
[00:45:45]  Tell me, tell me, tell me that you think the Somali immigrant is just as American, just as authentically American as the two women in that video.
[00:45:54]  Try to tell me that with a straight face.
[00:45:58]  Tell me that when it comes to Americanness, when it comes to connection to this country and the authenticity of your citizenship and your claim to being an American, tell me that you see no difference.
[00:46:10]  Tell me that.
[00:46:11]  You can't.
[00:46:11]  You cannot tell me that with a straight face.
[00:46:13]  Because on the one hand, you have a third worlder who came here 10 seconds ago so they can bilk money from taxpayers and send it back to Somali.
[00:46:20]  On the other hand, you have women who've lived on a farm in Kentucky who are connected to the land by heritage and blood, and that matters, living in a cabin their great grandfather built by hand who feels so connected to the land, so connected to their lineage, they'd rather stay there and die on that land than become multi-millionaires.
[00:46:41]  Nobody can tell me that they are somehow no more American, no more authentically American than the Somali guy who doesn't even speak the language, has no connection to our land, no connection to our people, no connection to our tradition, no connection to our way of life.
[00:46:58]  You cannot tell me that.
[00:46:59]  I mean, you could say it, but you can't say it with a straight face because that's total nonsense.
[00:47:04]  So I think this is great.
[00:47:06]  I think, and you know, there are some people on social media who are, as you would imagine, are saying, well, this is dumb.
[00:47:13]  They should just take the money.
[00:47:14]  I saw someone say, well, they turned down generational wealth.
[00:47:20]  Well, you know, the generational wealth is the land.
[00:47:26]  The generational wealth is the land that their father and grandfather and great-grandfather worked and sweat and bled for.
[00:47:35]  That is the generational wealth that they want to hang on to.
[00:47:40]  And taking $26 million, so you can move to some other place and buy a McMansion and buy a lot of stuff, just buy a bunch of for your house.
[00:47:50]  You know, that has no appeal to them, or at least it does not appeal to them more than the land and the connection that they have to it.
[00:47:58]  And that's another thing that's, as an American, you should understand that.
[00:48:06]  That there's literally priceless.
[00:48:09]  I mean, I would bet that if that if Google came back and said, you know what, we'll give you, we'll write you a blank check.
[00:48:14]  What do you want?
[00:48:15]  However, you want a billion dollars?
[00:48:17]  We'll give you that.
[00:48:18]  I think they wouldn't take it.
[00:48:19]  I mean, if they wouldn't take 26 million, especially, you know, 26 million, it might as well be a billion.
[00:48:24]  You can't, unless you're totally profligate and you're spending it.
[00:48:26]  So you can't even spend that in a lifetime, especially if you're older.
[00:48:30]  I think they wouldn't take it.
[00:48:32]  I don't think it'd take any amount of money because the land and the connection it has to their ancestors is literally priceless.
[00:48:38]  You cannot put a price on it.
[00:48:41]  And so I think that's just great.

=== Bureaucracy and Sentient Systems (04:02) ===

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[00:49:30]  Here's something that's also kind of fun for a different reason.
[00:49:33]  This is funny.
[00:49:35]  The scourge of HR ladies in elected office continues.
[00:49:40]  The women who speak and act like HR reps.
[00:49:43]  So here's Mayor Dorsey Applers of last name is APPLYRS.
[00:49:52]  How are you supposed to protect?
[00:49:54]  I get a lot of grief for my mispronunciation of names.
[00:49:56]  And, you know, sometimes that's justified.
[00:49:58]  But then there are other times they're like, you know, why don't you take a stab at that?
[00:50:01]  APP, APP-L-Y-R-S.
[00:50:05]  Appliers?
[00:50:07]  Applers?
[00:50:08]  I don't know.
[00:50:09]  Anyway, Mayor Dorsey of Albany trying to answer a question about how she plans to solve the city's debt crisis.
[00:50:17]  Watch.
[00:50:19]  Mayor, looking long term, what short-term changes need to happen to prevent Walmart from facing similar financial issues again?
[00:50:28]  That's a great question.
[00:50:29]  And that's why we're pulling together that team, that interdepartmental team that will really go under the hood, open up the cabinets, really get into the weeds on our budget, the process, some of our systems.
[00:50:49]  You know, it is government.
[00:50:51]  There's a lot of bureaucracy, a lot of systems.
[00:50:54]  And sometimes those systems do not work.
[00:50:56]  And so you have to get under the hood to first understand what's not working.
[00:51:01]  And so that team in short order will start the process of examining all of those things to then in turn provide me with recommendations on how to improve those systems to prevent something like this from happening before.
[00:51:21]  So this is like a game.
[00:51:22]  It's like a fun game.
[00:51:23]  How many cliches can you fit into one sentence?
[00:51:27]  How many cliches and mixed metaphors can you jam into 30 seconds of speaking time?
[00:51:32]  Yeah, you know, we're really getting under the hood, opening up the cabinets, getting into the weeds.
[00:51:38]  Just really need to drill down, need to unpack, need to, shall we say, to coin a phrase, peel back the layers, much like an onion.
[00:51:51]  So just to review, in case you lost track, when asked about fixing the debt problem in Albany, the mayor says that her plan is to assemble a team to then develop a system to then provide recommendations, which then can be used to create a new system to improve the system so that now there's a system which one would presume can assemble a better team that then can develop a better system to provide recommendations.
[00:52:16]  And the cycle continues.
[00:52:17]  It continues unto eternity until the sun explodes and the earth is turned to vapor.
[00:52:23]  I mean, that's actually the plan.
[00:52:26]  And you have to understand something with these people, people who speak like this, that this is the number one indicator that somebody is barely sentient.
[00:52:37]  And these are the kinds of people who, to a large extent, run our country.
[00:52:42]  They run so many of our institutions.
[00:52:43]  They're in elected office.

=== Raising Customer Service Standards (09:44) ===

[00:52:46]  People who are barely sentient.
[00:52:48]  They have almost no self-awareness, no inner life.
[00:52:53]  They speak in cliches.
[00:52:55]  That's how you know someone has no inner life when they speak in cliches.
[00:53:00]  There's no unique, vibrant person underneath there.
[00:53:08]  All they have in their head is just these clichés.
[00:53:12]  I think sometimes it's assumed that this kind of sort of roundabout cliche written answer is a calculated attempt to avoid providing a real answer.
[00:53:21]  But in many cases, it really isn't.
[00:53:23]  This is a reflection of their actual inner life, of their thought process, which is totally vacuous.
[00:53:30]  It is as vacuous as their outward expression would seem to indicate.
[00:53:37]  Finally, Daily Mail has this more good news.
[00:53:41]  We're really on a roll.
[00:53:42]  We're on a roll today.
[00:53:44]  Daily Mail has this story.
[00:53:46]  Target has imposed a strict new dress code on employees as the struggling retailer tries to win back customers.
[00:53:52]  Comes just months after the chain upset staff and left shoppers unnerved during holidays when they rolled out new rules demanding sales assistants smile more.
[00:54:01]  Staff were told to smile at customers within 10 feet in a push to create a friendlier in-store experience.
[00:54:08]  And Target's front of house must now abide by a rigid dress code.
[00:54:13]  They will now be required to wear red shirts with blue jeans or khakis.
[00:54:16]  This marks a shift from the current rules, which allow employees to wear clothing with graphics or designs on them, as well as non-blue denim.
[00:54:24]  But many workers are on Reddit complaining, quote, in this economy, I barely make enough to pay rent.
[00:54:31]  I will not be wasting money on a whole new wardrobe.
[00:54:33]  What a waste of resources.
[00:54:34]  Of all the things to be worried about, this is what you choose.
[00:54:38]  Others argue that a target wants a more uniform look.
[00:54:40]  It should provide the clothing.
[00:54:43]  Our store has been getting a ton of new rules and things we have to follow lately, and leadership has been overbearing much more than usual.
[00:54:50]  A fellow coworker in my department got told he had to go buy a new shirt or clock out and go home because the shirt was too full of a shade of red, so it would be seen as almost brown.
[00:55:01]  So they're all complaining about it.
[00:55:03]  Anyway, yeah, so it's a rigid new dress code, a rigid, overbearing, puritanical, costly, expensive dress code, which demands that they wear a red shirt and jeans.
[00:55:16]  And now all the employees are like, a red shirt and jeans?
[00:55:20]  What?
[00:55:22]  Where am I supposed to get that?
[00:55:24]  A red shirt and gee, who even, what do you want me to do?
[00:55:27]  Go down to the red shirt store?
[00:55:29]  Go down to the, where do they sell jeans?
[00:55:32]  I don't know where to get, what is a jean?
[00:55:34]  I don't know where to get blue jeans of all things.
[00:55:36]  Did they even make it in that color?
[00:55:38]  This is impossible.
[00:55:40]  Red and blue.
[00:55:41]  These are the rarest colors for clothing.
[00:55:45]  I'm a big fan of this.
[00:55:47]  I say bring back standards, bring back expectations, bring back, bring back the bare minimum.
[00:55:52]  Okay, that is a really uninspiring slogan, but I think that's where we got to start.
[00:55:57]  You got to start somewhere.
[00:55:58]  Let's start with that.
[00:56:00]  Bring back the bare minimum.
[00:56:01]  Let's start with the bare minimum and then you can raise the standard higher, but we need to bring back some kind of standard, some sort of expectation so that we could then eventually raise it.
[00:56:10]  And bare minimum is a start.
[00:56:12]  And it's better than what has been the standard for years, especially for customer service workers, who for them, the standard has been apparently do whatever you want, act however you want, treat your customers like dirt, be as unhelpful and surly as you can possibly be.
[00:56:30]  It's all about you.
[00:56:32]  The customer is never right.
[00:56:33]  The employees are always right.
[00:56:35]  Their needs do not matter at all.
[00:56:38]  If they have even the most basic request, do not make any real attempt to help them.
[00:56:45]  They are bothering you by being there.
[00:56:51]  Their presence is an inconvenience and you should let them know.
[00:56:56]  So that has been the standard in most customer service environments, apparently.
[00:57:01]  I don't know if that's actually been written down somewhere in the handbook.
[00:57:06]  I don't know if they write it on the whiteboard in the break room at these places.
[00:57:10]  I don't know if they write down rule number one, customer does not matter.
[00:57:17]  Rule number two, do not let them inconvenience you ever.
[00:57:23]  I don't know if they write, but that maybe it's unspoken.
[00:57:26]  Maybe it's not actually written down, but that has been the standard.
[00:57:29]  And if that has changed, I think that that's a very good thing.
[00:57:32]  And by the way, I would like to see, because you get into this argument anytime you talk about how bad customer service is these days, and it's really bad.
[00:57:41]  It is really, really bad almost everywhere.
[00:57:45]  It is god-awful abysmal.
[00:57:48]  And anytime you point that out, customer service workers will, they won't really deny it because they can't.
[00:57:55]  So, but instead, they'll try to pass the buck to the customers and they'll say, well, customers are terrible.
[00:58:01]  And I agree, a lot of customers are terrible too.
[00:58:03]  I know that.
[00:58:03]  I've worked these jobs.
[00:58:06]  And I'd like to see higher standards for customers, but the employees have to lead the way.
[00:58:13]  Right?
[00:58:14]  It's like if you are inviting guests over to your house and you want them to abide by certain rules or conduct themselves a certain way, then you also, you need to lead by example.
[00:58:25]  This is your house.
[00:58:28]  And you need to lead by example.
[00:58:32]  Right?
[00:58:32]  You want people to use a coaster when they're putting a drink down on the coffee table.
[00:58:36]  You need to use one too.
[00:58:38]  You can't put your drink down on the coffee table with no coaster and then yell at the person across from you, hey, use a coaster.
[00:58:42]  Can't do that.
[00:58:44]  I mean, you can, but no one, people are going to disregard you.
[00:58:47]  Lead by example.
[00:58:50]  You know, the great thing is if you lead by example, a lot of times you don't even have to tell somebody.
[00:58:54]  If you use the coaster and your guest sees that, if they're at least a mildly considerate person, they'll also use one.
[00:59:02]  So the employees have to lead the way.
[00:59:04]  You cannot hold customers to a higher standard of decorum and conduct than you hold the employees of the establishment.
[00:59:11]  So you need your employees to be well-dressed, well-groomed, good hygiene, friendly, polite, good attitude, helpful.
[00:59:18]  All of that needs to happen first.
[00:59:19]  And then you could also demand more of the customers.
[00:59:23]  I mean, I'd like to see basic dress codes, basic standards for customers too, basic.
[00:59:27]  No pajama pants in the store, right?
[00:59:30]  No slippers.
[00:59:32]  Also, don't treat the employees like dirt.
[00:59:35]  Don't be rude.
[00:59:38]  When you're talking to an employee, put your phone down when you're interacting with them or else you'll be refused service.
[00:59:47]  I'd be fully on board with that.
[00:59:48]  I'd be fully on board with a store that said, if you're like looking down at your phone while you're asking someone, hey, do you know where can I get the ketchup or whatever?
[00:59:57]  And you don't even look up from your phone.
[01:00:00]  I'd be fully on board with a store having a rule saying you're going to be ignored.
[01:00:05]  We are like, put the phone down at least.
[01:00:07]  Just acknowledge the existence of this other person.
[01:00:10]  You also have to be polite.
[01:00:13]  This is a polite environment for everybody, and we're going to hold you to it.
[01:00:18]  I'd be fully on board for that.
[01:00:19]  I think that'd be great.
[01:00:21]  But you got to lead by example.
[01:00:23]  You have to do that with the employees for it.
[01:00:26]  Employees have to do it first.
[01:00:30]  I'd like to see stores even outlaw sweatpants, not just pajama pants, but sweatpants too.
[01:00:37]  I think that'd be great.
[01:00:38]  And I say that as someone who maybe on very rare occasion, maybe, I'm not confirming this, but perhaps for a late night Walmart run on occasion, I have been guilty of wearing sweatpants in the store.
[01:00:52]  Perhaps.
[01:00:54]  But I tell you this, I would actually, I mean, I mean this sincerely, I would feel great joy if I tried to go into Walmart in sweatpants and somebody stopped me at the door and said, excuse me, sir, you cannot dress that way in here.
[01:01:08]  Excuse me, sir.
[01:01:10]  Put on some real pants, you hobo.
[01:01:12]  This is Walmart.
[01:01:13]  Okay, we have some, have some pride.
[01:01:16]  I'd be proud of Walmart if they did that.
[01:01:18]  A single tear of pride would roll down my cheek.
[01:01:20]  It really would.
[01:01:23]  That's how proud I would be.
[01:01:25]  But you can't do that while your own employees are sulking around in wrinkled and tattered clothing, not making eye contact, not putting in even the most minimal effort, acting like a bunch of moody teenagers who like just had their video games taken away because they got bad grades on their report card.
[01:01:42]  You can't rightly lecture me for my sweatpants while that's going on.
[01:01:47]  So raise the standards, raise them for everybody, and then maybe we'll live in a civilized society again.
[01:01:53]  That's my dream.
[01:01:55]  That is my dream.
[01:01:56]  I have a dream.
[01:01:56]  I have a dream.
[01:01:58]  I have a dream where society is so civilized that even Walmart customers at 11 p.m. on a Tuesday are forced to put on pants before they walk into the store.
[01:02:10]  That is my dream.
[01:02:13]  And we can achieve it.
[01:02:14]  I believe that.
[01:02:17]  And I'll leave you with that inspirational thought for the day as we wrap it up there.
[01:02:21]  Talk to you tomorrow.
[01:02:22]  Have a great day.
[01:02:23]  Godspeed.

=== Treason, History, and Statues (00:49) ===

[01:02:31]  I do believe that if people have committed treason against the United States of America, their statues should not be in the Capitol.
[01:02:41]  History is written by the victors.
[01:02:42]  And since the 1960s, we've been told, mostly by people whose ancestors didn't even live here during the war, the South committed treason.
[01:02:50]  But if the Confederates were traitors, then why was Jefferson Davis never put on trial for treason?
[01:02:59]  What were Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson afraid of?
[01:03:03]  Do they know something they're not allowed to say today?
[01:03:07]  It's time for the truth.
[01:03:08]  So here it is.
[01:03:09]  Robert E. Lee was a military genius and a man of immense honor.
[01:03:13]  He was beloved by Americans from the North and South for a century after the war.
[01:03:18]  This is the real history of the Civil