Ep. 1762 - Meet The Billionaires Who Are Secretly Sabotaging The Country
Matt Walsh exposes billionaire donors like Ken Griffin and Jeff Yass for allegedly sabotaging the nation by funding contradictory policies, from open borders to H-1B visa expansions that displace American workers. He critiques the Obama Presidential Center's residency requirements as a racial barrier, mocks a "Saltburn" themed birthday party as narcissistic cultural subversion, and condemns atheists while defending Confederate leaders against treason charges, arguing history is written by victors rather than reflecting moral truth. [Automatically generated summary]
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If you're like a lot of Americans, you probably feel like your vote doesn't matter much.
No matter who you vote for, you seem to get the same outcomes.
This has been a consistent complaint in politics for a long time.
But lately, it's really been thrust in our faces.
Republicans will claim to support historic immigration crackdowns, voter ID, reduced spending, and so on.
And they stab us in the back every time.
Decades of Repeated betrayals and amnesties led to Trump's rise a decade ago.
But now, as Trump enters his final years in office, the question remains why are so many Republicans still insistent on ignoring the will of their own voters?
Now, the straightforward and honest answer is that it happens because they don't care about you.
In many cases, they're embarrassed by you.
They don't actually represent you either.
Instead, they represent, of course, their donors, including a billionaire hedge fund manager by the name of Ken Griffin, who you heard about on our show just a few weeks ago.
Watch.
Now, it's important to understand that Howard Schultz is not the exception.
I mean, there's now an epidemic of rich leftists fleeing from Democrat controlled jurisdictions.
These people supported Democrat policies and now they're in help to get those policies passed.
In fact, and now they're running away from the natural consequences of those policies.
Jeff Bezos moved from Seattle to Florida in 2023.
Google co founders Larry Page and Sergi Brin moved from California, which is also planning a massive wealth tax, to Florida in the past year.
Ken Griffin.
The co founder and CEO of the hedge fund Citadel, who donated to both Obama and Biden, just moved from Chicago, where Citadel employees were getting robbed all the time, to Miami.
Shortly after this segment aired, Griffin sicked his PR people on us like an angry pit bull.
Somebody named Emma from a communications firm began calling me on my private number.
Never explained to me how she got it.
She also bombarded the Daily Wire's editors, demanding that they edit my monologue to clarify that Ken Griffin has actually donated to several Republicans, too.
Now, I've never had anything like that happen before, ever.
Never mind the fact that, as I stated, Ken Griffin has indeed donated to Democrats.
Who destroyed major American cities?
That's true.
You're not supposed to talk about that, apparently.
The message from the PR firm was pretty clear.
The people who are actually running the country, the people with actual influence like Ken Griffin, don't want you to know what they're up to.
This is a very sensitive subject for them.
Now, the truth is that Griffin is a Republican mega donor who's completely untethered to anything you believe in ideologically.
He donates because it serves his interests.
That's it.
He gets special carve outs and tax breaks and sponsors politicians who do his bidding.
He also gives money to Democrats.
Which is true, including Rahm Emanuel and Joe Biden.
Rahm Emanuel, incidentally, is one of the Democrats who destroyed the city of Chicago, a city that Ken Griffin fled because it's so violent.
In fact, Griffin took his entire company with him after his security detail had to fend off a carjacking attempt and his employees kept getting assaulted.
But Griffin is not simply a menace to the people of Chicago or to my personal cell phone.
What he's doing has tremendous consequences for all of us because currently he's doing everything he can to get Republicans to open the borders.
Rich guys like Ken Griffin are why Republicans constantly betray us.
This is from Fortune the other day.
Quote Griffin believes that the current restrictions limit America's access to the world's best minds.
He notes that immigrants or children of immigrants launched some of the most successful Silicon Valley startups, including in AI.
Griffin hammers the point by noting that his co chief investment officer hails from Ecuador, the head of the trading unit from mainland China, the commodities chief from Australia, and Citadel's most successful equity fund manager from the UK.
For Griffin, his hometown success is a tribute to the power of immigration.
54% of Miami Dade County's residents were born abroad.
Now, no American conservative, no one who truly represents conservative ideals, would celebrate the fact that more than half of the population in a major American city was born abroad.
I mean, it really is that simple.
But in Griffin's circles, this is a success story.
The less American an American city is, the better.
That's what he believes.
Now, on this point, there is no daylight whatsoever between Ken Griffin and most well funded conservative politicians and a leftist like Gavin Newsom.
Listen to him for five minutes, and Gavin Newsom will inevitably brag about how many foreigners live in his state.
Watch.
Tell us what you think.
We should know about what's going right in California.
But I appreciate the context.
Look, California is America, but only more so.
We're the most, in the spirit of your introductory remarks, and just to set the scene, it's the size of 21 state populations combined.
It's the most diverse state in the world's most diverse democracy.
27% of my state is foreign born.
Practice pluralism.
It's a point of pride.
I say that because it needs to be said, and you reinforce it here today.
It's in that diversity that we have achieved so much strength.
Behind closed doors, this is how most Republicans talk.
It certainly is how Ken Griffin talks.
This is someone who really doesn't care about the country at all.
It's easy to live in a multicultural hellscape when you have a $100 million house and a private jet.
Sure, no one can point to anything that Ken Griffin built, but he's good at moving money around.
And therefore, we have to pay attention to what he thinks, apparently.
And it's pretty clear what he thinks.
Because white Americans aren't reproducing at replacement levels, it's necessary to bring in as many foreigners as possible.
That's what he thinks.
A bigger population means a bigger workforce, lower wages, and more potential customers.
And naturally, the people running these companies don't care if millions of Americans are unemployed or can't find housing, as long as business is booming.
And to drive that point home, Fortune also ran this puff piece, this video on Griffin.
Watch.
Billionaire Ken Griffin wants to turn Miami into America's next business capital.
Ken Griffin is worth roughly $50 billion, and he is the CEO of both the biggest market maker in America and one of the largest hedge funds in the world.
He's also one of the largest contributors to Republican politicians in America.
In February, I went to Ken Griffin's office overlooking the Biscayne Bay in downtown Miami in the Brickell area and spent over an hour with him.
What really impressed me about him is he's an outspoken advocate of the free market, which contradicts a lot of the Trump policies, although many of them he likes.
But he's anti-tariff.
He's very worried about the growth of the debt and the deficits.
And he's very pro-immigration.
In 2022, Ken Griff had made one of the most astounding corporate relocations in recent history when he moved Citadel's headquarters from Chicago, where he'd been based for about 35 years, to Miami.
He's a huge promoter of Miami, and he's given about $350 million to charities in Miami.
For Griffin, the reason he went to Miami is not primarily taxes.
It's the pro-business attitude of the politicians, whether they happen to be Republicans or whether they happen to be Democrats.
Griffin's move to Florida in 2022 has led a lot of companies to come behind him coming to Miami, whether it's Apollo, whether it's the expansion of McKinsey, whether it's Palantir.
Lots of law firms have come in.
And so the move of businesses and wealthy people to Miami keeps accelerating.
So, Emma and Ken Griffin's team would obviously be thrilled with that video.
There won't be any angry phone calls to those people.
There's no mention of Ken Griffin's decision to fund one of Chicago's worst mayors or his decision to flee the city after it became too dangerous.
All we're told is that Ken Griffin is going to do great things for Miami, just like he did so many great things for Chicago.
But it's okay, I guess, because he donates to Republicans too.
So, really, when I said that Ken Griffin was a leftist, I was being too kind.
I should have said that he funds the most destructive leftist policies imaginable.
But hey, at least he's fiscally conservative.
What you need to understand, and why I'm beginning with Ken Griffin, aside from just the principle of it, that you call me on my phone to try to get me to change something.
But the reason is that wealthy donors, the ones who are wealthy enough to donate to both sides, control the trajectory of American politics.
They operate often behind the scenes to stamp out any dissent.
They're extremely aggressive about it to a degree that I wasn't aware of until recently, at least not fully aware of.
It's not an issue of Democrat versus Republican, it's a business calculation.
That these donors have made.
Obviously, these kinds of donors own the Democrat Party.
I mean, absolutely, that's been true for decades.
But increasingly, they own the Republicans, too.
I mean, that's why the SAVE Act isn't going to get through the Senate.
It's just not going to happen.
We're not going to protect American elections.
It's the most important thing that Republicans could do with the power we gave them, and they're just not going to do it.
They're just not going to do it.
It's also why Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, declared that Texas belongs to Indians back in November of 2024.
This is from an event at the governor's mansion marking Diwali, which is the Hindu holiday.
Listen carefully to what he says.
As long as I'm governor of this great state, Texas will be a land for the Indian community.
A land for absolutely everyone.
To celebrate Diwali here in the great state of Texas.
So, happy Diwali, everybody.
Happy Diwali.
Greg Abbott has been spreading this message for a long time.
A couple of years ago, he went to Mumbai on an economic development trip, so called, to convince more people to come to Texas.
He met with some of the biggest companies that sponsor H 1B visas in the United States.
Watch.
Right now, Texas Governor Greg Abbott is in India.
His office tells us he met with economic development partners and business leaders in Mumbai today.
First Lady Cecilia Abbott, Secretary of State Jane Nelson, and other Texas economic leaders joined the governor.
In a statement, he said Texas is strengthening its relationship with India so that the next generation can have greater prosperity.
This economic development trip is expected to last through the rest of the week.
This idea is never actually explained by anyone.
No one can explain why, after building the world's greatest superpower, suddenly Americans will be hopelessly lost unless we import people from other countries.
But Western leaders have gone ahead and opened the floodgates anyway.
You see the results in Canada, which has been totally colonized at this point.
It's also much poorer and less cohesive than it used to be by a huge margin in every respect.
But Greg Abbott isn't concerned with any of that.
His only concern is courting now, apparently, Indian business owners.
I mean, it's not an exaggeration to say that he apparently thinks about India more than Texas.
I mean, take a look at some of his recent social media posts, if you think I'm exaggerating.
Put some up on the screen right now.
Dozens and dozens of posts all about.
A country that you wouldn't think would have a lot to do with Texas.
And it's actually remarkable.
What's happening here is that Greg Abbott is telling large companies in India that if they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on development in Texas, they can staff those companies with Indian workers on H 1B visas.
And while Greg Abbott has suspended H 1B visa approvals for state agencies and public universities, private companies like this can continue to take advantage of the visa program.
And indeed, Plenty of private companies are doing just that.
According to Blaze News, which analyzed Department of Labor data from the first quarter of fiscal year 2026, quote, Texas companies sponsored and certified over 11,200 H 1B visa applications, second only to California, which brought in over 13,700 H 1B visas, according to available data.
So that's more than 10,000 H 1B applications that were certified in just one quarter in one state.
That's a small fraction of the total H 1B population in Texas, which is concentrated in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston.
So, we're not talking about American companies poaching a very small number of highly qualified scientists or engineers from another country.
When people talk about H 1B, that's what they, or at least the advocates for it, talk about it as if that's all that's happening.
But no, we're talking about a much larger replacement of US workers.
In many cases, the foreigners with H 1B visas are directly replacing Americans.
This is from the New York Post quote, as thousands of Oracle employees awoke on Tuesday to an email informing them they were laid off.
The workers likely didn't know the tech company had been busy trying to hire foreign staff.
According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services data, Oracle filed for roughly 3,126 petitions to employ H 1B workers in fiscal year 2025 and 2026.
Employers must submit the paperwork when seeking to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations like technology.
Some 436 of those petitions were filed this year alone.
Amazon, which in January said it would axe 16,000 corporate employees, has filed for some 2,675 H 1B petitions.
During the same two year fiscal period.
So, this is a very direct replacement.
I mean, they're literally firing, laying off the American workers and bringing in foreigners to replace them.
Now, relative to the total population of Texas, those numbers are small.
Texas Population Replacement00:08:52
But if you walk around Texas, as the journalist Tyler Oliveira just did in a viral video, then you'll find that large communities in Texas have been totally transformed.
And a significant number of these immigrants say they received H 1Bs.
And what Tyler found is that in many cases, they don't come to Texas on an H 1B visa.
Instead, they either Make up an asylum claim or they arrive on an F1 visa, which is intended for students.
It's one of the easiest ways to get into the country.
You claim you're going to attend one of the 10 million colleges and universities we have.
Until the Trump administration shut this down, more than 100,000 Indians received these student visas in just a year.
And Tyler ran into several of them.
Until the Trump administration took over, immigrants with a student visa had two options they could graduate and get an H 1B and stay in the country indefinitely, or they could drop out of school.
And stay in the country indefinitely.
Either way, they get to stay indefinitely.
And we're only now starting to crack down on this scam.
All things considered, it's a fairly new scam.
As recently as 1980, less than 7% of Texas was foreign born, and now it's more than 20% of the population of Texas that was born in another country.
White Texans went from more than 70% of the population to less than 40%.
Numbers are only getting worse by design.
So why is Greg Abbott and many other Republicans allowing this to happen?
Now, if you need an explanation, you don't need to look any further than wealthy donors with the same ideology as Ken Griffin.
Greg Abbott's business donors are business, biggest donors rather, are business interests that believe foreign migration will increase their profits.
Pretty simple.
A couple of years ago, a billionaire named Jeff Yass made the single biggest donation in the history of Texas to Abbott's campaign.
This is from Bloomberg.
Quote Jeff Yass gave $4 million to Greg Abbott's campaign, adding to a $6 million check from December that the Texas governor's office said was the single largest political donation in the state's history.
Yass, the billionaire co founder of market making firm Susquehanna International Group, Made the contribution in April, according to a campaign finance report released this week.
That makes up the majority of the more than $5 million Abbott collected in the first half of 2024.
Jim Walton, the son of Walmart Inc. founder Sam Walton, gave Abbott's campaign $200,000, according to the report.
Now, Walmart's desire for more foreign labor is self evident.
So let's talk about Jeff Yass.
What are his beliefs?
Well, it turns out that Yass is a registered libertarian, and many years ago he joined the Cato Institute as an advisor and board member.
Been listening to the show over the past few months.
You know that the Cato Institute is one of the biggest advocates for open borders in Washington.
They're very vocal about it.
They believe that more immigration means more jobs, more economic transparency, less crime, and so on.
And they're constantly spreading false or misleading statistics to push those policy objectives, which we've discussed many times before.
Now, in the libertarian world, in their worldview, the more foreigners who come to Texas, the stronger Texas will be.
And that's why, as Savannah Hernandez with Turning Point USA just reported, There's a new effort to transform the Texas countryside into a mega city for Muslims.
Watch.
Okay, so these are the exact coordinates to where the proposed epic city is supposed to be.
And I just want to like pan the camera back this way because look at this farmland.
This is where a proposed 400 acre Muslim centric city with over 1,000 homes, a mosque, K 12 schools is supposed to be set up.
So there are a couple of homes out here, but imagine living out here in rural Texas, having no neighbors, it's super quiet, and then all of a sudden you're hearing about this.
400 acre city that's coming in.
And I know a lot of people have concerns about whether or not they have the infrastructure out here for it.
So, this is the location of where Epic City might potentially be built.
Also, let's not forget, as of March 2026, no construction permits have been issued, no ground has been broken, nothing has officially been built.
The state is still actively fighting the creation of this city.
However, this is the land that was purchased, and this is where it is potentially going to be.
So, the craziest thing about what's happening here in Josephine is this isn't the only location where this is.
Going on, and apparently, another city similar to this is being proposed in Kauffman, Texas.
And the crazy thing about this is that they were supposed to have a closed door meeting on March the 6th about this.
Well, the residents found out about this closed door meeting, and they were all planning on showing up unannounced, uninvited, all of the things, and they cancel it last minute because they don't want the pushback, and the company just doesn't want to have to deal with the residents actually speaking to them and being upset about it.
All of this to say, I talked to Representative Lance Gooden today, and he said that there's no more cause for concern that he talked to the developers.
The developers are going to move on for Collin County.
However, I will say that there is cause for concern because from my sources within the county, this is not the first place that SCE Holdings and the developing companies have tried to go into for this particular development.
There are plenty of other similar developments besides the ones that Savannah Hernandez just mentioned.
Remember Colony Ridge, the illegal immigrant community of 100,000 migrants outside of Houston.
The developers behind Colony Ridge were major donors to Greg Abbott, who just let it happen, actually helped them along by trying to designate the colony as a federal opportunity zone.
Until we get money out of politics, this is never going to change.
The GOP isn't just going to randomly start to serve the voters.
And that's why this is happening all over the country.
As the White Paper's Policy Institute pointed out, Utah, a state that has not had a Democrat governor since 1985, is being very rapidly filled with immigrants.
The foreign born population of Utah jumped from 3.5% in 1980 to 10.6% in 2025.
The immigrant population of the state has jumped 639%.
You'll find similar massive increases in many other states from Arizona to Virginia, Colorado.
You can see the numbers here on this chart, it's very stark.
Just look at that.
I mean, the orange bars represent the foreign born population in each state in 1980, and the blue bars are the foreign born population in 2025.
So, Georgia went from 1.7% to 14%.
Virginia went from 3% to 14%.
New Jersey, New York, and Florida more than doubled their foreign born populations.
Maryland went from 4.6% to a staggering 22%.
Nobody voted.
For any of this.
Nobody voted for this kind of drastic demographic change.
It was never put up for a vote.
And if it had been, it would have been voted down.
But as someone named Ryan McCubbin pointed out the other day, that's not the point.
You don't get a say in this matter.
Here's what Ryan wrote as far as posts on Exco.
It's one of the more insightful ones that I've seen.
And he wrote this There are a few things most intelligent people really don't understand about modern politics.
One, there's almost no relationship between what the common people actually want and what they get.
Two, The agenda of the donor class always gets passed.
Three, if the agenda of the donor class conflicts with the agenda of the common folk, the common folk's agenda gets subverted through propaganda in the public square and institutionally by Democrats, rather, bureaucrats and judges.
The system you participate in doesn't belong to you, it belongs to the millionaires and billionaires.
And many of these people who are active in Texas politics aren't even Americans.
Abbott isn't a bug, he's a feature.
This is your system working.
Yesterday, we went into some detail about the decline of Boston, which got its start in the civil rights era.
That was the story of several major cities, really, basically all of them.
What's happening now is that instead of reversing the mistakes of the 1960s, some of the richest donors in American politics, men who donate to both political parties, are going in for the kill shot.
They're willing to sacrifice American civilization in the name of ideology, profit, or both.
And many of these donors are planning to bankroll the next slate of presidential candidates on both parties ahead of the 2028 election.
Pay very close attention to where those candidates are getting their money.
Because otherwise, whether you vote for a Democrat or a Republican, if you're not careful, you'll be voting for the exact same thing, which is an America without Americans.
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Space Is Fake Claims00:15:36
Okay, Artemis.
So the Artemis spacecraft completed its slingshot around the moon yesterday, traveled 252,756 miles away from the Earth, officially reaching the farthest from Earth that any vessel has ever gone, any manned vessel, anyway.
Voyager 1 is like 15 billion miles from Earth.
Pretty extraordinary.
But there's obviously nobody on it, let's hope.
So this is an amazing achievement.
And now they're headed back towards Earth, a successful mission so far.
Now we pray for a successful re entry.
Back into the atmosphere, which, of course, is a dangerous thing.
And, you know, the great thing, one of the many great things I think about this mission is how the crew on board the capsule have used it as an opportunity to preach the gospel, which maybe was unexpected.
Well, if you haven't paid much attention to the history of space exploration in this country, then it might be surprising.
But there's actually a lot of precedent for this, which we'll talk about.
But here is Victor Glover, one of the astronauts on the capsule on Easter, sharing a message.
Listen.
To remind you of one of the most important mysteries there on Earth, and that's love.
Christ said in response to what was the greatest command that it was to love God with all that you are.
And he also, being a great teacher, said the second is equal to it, and that is to love your neighbor as yourself.
And so as we prepare to go out of radio communication, we're still able to feel your love from Earth and to all of you down there on Earth and around Earth.
We love you from the moon.
Houston copies.
We'll see you on the other side.
We will see you on the other side.
So that was the second or like third time that Glover has shared a gospel message from space.
And he joins a list of other astronauts in participating in this modern tradition.
There was the, I think we mentioned the astronauts on Apollo 8 read from Genesis as they were orbiting the moon.
Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11, of course, read from Psalm 8 during the return journey.
He also took communion on the moon.
Has talked about how he reflected on Psalm 121 while he was walking on the surface of the moon.
So, this is a tradition.
You know, it's one of the many reasons why I love these missions.
Another reason why I think, in particular, the conservatives who've been so cynical and critical about this mission just look dumber by the day.
I mean, you've got this amazing thing happening and they're up there, they're sharing the gospel, and you still have some conservatives that are sitting there like, I don't like it.
This is bad.
Why is it bad?
I don't know.
It just doesn't.
I've just decided not to like it, so I'm going to stick with that.
And it really tells you something, you know, that you've got these astronauts that are sharing the gospel.
It tells you two.
First of all, it tells you that when human beings are confronted with the immensity and mystery and beauty of creation, they can't help but praise God.
They can't help but be overwhelmed, be overjoyed with the knowledge, the certainty that there is a God, that he is good.
And it really tells you that.
It also tells you that.
Frankly, atheists don't do cool stuff like this.
Atheists don't become explorers.
I mean, this goes all the way back way before the space age, all through the history of human exploration, it has almost always been religious people.
And not just people who happen to subscribe to one religion or another, but people who are very religious, who are animated, motivated by their religious conviction.
And it's almost always been, whether we're talking about astronauts in lunar orbit or landing on the moon, or we're talking about Magellan or Columbus or whoever.
Generally speaking, to explore, to go forth into the unknown requires faith.
It requires an attitude of humility, of wonder.
And that's why it's usually deeply religious people who are doing this.
There was another beautiful moment from this leg of the trip.
One of the astronauts, Reed Wiseman, lost his wife to cancer a few years ago.
So they decided to name a crater, which is a kind of a bright patch on the dark side of the moon, after.
Wiseman's late wife, Carol, and here they are announcing that watch.
So we lost a loved one.
Her name was Carol, the spouse of Reed, the mother of Katie and Ellie.
And if you want to find this one, you look at Glushko, and it's just to the northwest of that, at the same latitude as Ohm, and it's a bright spot on the moon.
And we would like to call it Carol.
And you spell that C-A-R-R-O-L-L.
Integrity and Carol Crater, loud and clear.
Thank you.
Well, I think that's, I don't know, simply one of the great moments in the history of the human race.
That's really what that is.
I actually think it's one of the greatest moments in the history of the human race.
Call me sentimental.
I think a man traveling to the far side of the moon, you know, not long after his wife died of cancer, naming a patch of light of brightness, you know, amid the darkness after his late wife, that's just.
One of humanity's great moments.
It is.
And if you can't feel moved by that, then you're dead inside.
I don't know what else to say.
You're an empty vessel.
Like, if you can't be moved by that, then what is, like, is there any beauty in your life?
Is there anything that you would, if you can't look at that and say, well, that is beautiful, that's incredible.
If you can't say that about a man traveling to the moon after his wife dies, naming a bright patch, if you can't, then what would you say it about?
Or, like your latest Netflix binge?
Is that what it is?
Is that what you find beauty in?
Whatever bolt you're watching on Netflix?
Is that the only thing you can find that can absorb you anymore?
You're just a miserable person.
And, you know, and I say this in a medical sense, retarded.
I mean, you've got idiots on social media who, in the face of this, Incredible beauty are saying space is fake anyway.
That's an actual point of view that a measurable number of people have in this country.
Space is fake.
I don't know how many people believe that.
I would like to think that it's just a troll, it's not real.
There are a couple of schizophrenic people walking around who might say that, but no one really believes.
But I, it's, it's, no, there's, there's like a group of people larger than any of us would want to believe who actually think this.
And worse, they're like snobby about it.
They have the most retarded view ever.
I mean, I can't tell you, like, this is worse almost, it's almost worse than trans ideology in terms of how stupid it is.
And they're snobby about it.
Space is.
Well, some of us know that space is fake.
What does that even mean?
What do you mean it's fake?
What does that mean?
What do you think is up there?
Do you think there's a ceiling?
Do you think there's a ceiling in the sky?
You think it's like literally the Truman Show?
If you go up too high, you'll hit a ceiling?
Or does the sky just stretch on, the atmosphere stretches on infinitely?
Is that what you think?
Like space is just a vacuum beyond the atmosphere.
That's what space is.
Humans have known about space since ancient times.
If you think space is fake, you are significantly more ignorant about the universe than people who lived 5,000 years ago.
Do you realize that?
You have somehow achieved a level of scientific illiteracy that would have been shocking to the average Sumerian walking around in 3000 BC.
You are somehow so ignorant that someone 5000 years ago would look at you and say, What?
That's what you think?
Like people who lived before the horse drawn carriage was invented.
Knew more about the universe than you do, even though you carry around in your pockets the sum total of human knowledge.
It's, it's, God, it's so demoralized.
I try, you know, I'm trying to focus, I was, I meant to focus on the positive.
I really do, but it, but it's, I see this stuff and it's so, how can people be this stupid?
How is it possible?
My six year old daughter has a better understanding of the basic structure of the universe than adult humans.
A lot of them.
The dumbest thing is when you hear people say, oh, so you believe the government?
So you're just believing the government then?
Do you think that the United States government came up with the idea that outer space exists?
Is that what you think?
Do you think that?
What do you?
So, up until the United States government existed, there was no.
Is that what you think?
Or do you think this is a conspiracy that stretches back thousands of years across the entire globe?
Every government that has ever existed has been in on it.
Every civilization, every scientist I'm not just talking about modern scientists, every scientist ever.
Isaac Newton.
Isaac Newton is in on this.
Because, by the way, Isaac Newton, who's like only the smartest person who's ever lived on the planet, but just using him as an example if space is fake, then everything he said was wrong, like everything.
All of physics is wrong.
It's not just like they're wrong about a few things.
The whole thing is right.
None of it works.
Which doesn't really make sense because they also use physics to do things like nothing would work on the planet.
Our whole understanding of everything is wrong.
And no, it's not just like a few scientific claims, everything is wrong.
But this is what happens.
You know, you've got people who.
What we're discovering is that there are a lot of people who are totally incapable.
Of exercising even a little bit of mental restraint.
And so it really has to be all or nothing for them.
And it's an IQ thing.
I think there's a spiritual component to it, but it is an IQ thing.
There are a lot of really stupid people.
And with the internet, like everyone is all the dumb people who in the past you would never interact with them.
Now they're all out there, you know.
And these stupid people are encountering other dumb people who are encouraging them.
And So, I think that's part of what's going on.
But so, when you're really, really, really dumb, you're not capable of any kind of measured thought, any sort of discernment.
And so, what happens is, you know, we talk about the experts, right?
And anyone who's, you don't have to be smart, but like anyone who's just vaguely intelligent understands at this point that, well, there are experts who can be wrong.
And the experts have actually been wrong about some really important things.
And so, that's true.
Experts can be wrong.
Right.
And, but for some of these people, it was like, well, the experts have to be right about everything.
And if they're not, then the only other alternative is that every expert and every human with an IQ above 80 since the beginning of time is wrong about literally everything, including the existence of the universe itself.
Right.
It's like either we have to.
Believe everything we're told, or we have to assume that literally every single thing we've ever been told about anything is wrong.
And there's this whole, all this vast expanse of space, space in between those two, in which you use intelligence and discernment, and you realize that, yeah, sometimes people lie to you, they tell you, but like, but there are things that we do know about the universe, including that it exists.
And that kind of basic level of discernment is just beyond the capacity of some people.
I think that's part of what we're learning.
And.
I would really like to believe, I'm very sympathetic to the theory that space is fake and related claims are some kind of like government.
Talk about the government.
The government didn't invent outer space.
It's much more likely they invented this, that they invented space is fake and the earth is flat, or at least the modern reincarnation of the flat earth idea, that this is some sort of government conspiracy.
In order to discredit those of us who do doubt the mainstream narrative, you know, when the mainstream narrative is wrong.
Those of us who are skeptical of the mainstream narrative, you know, are discredited because of our association with these morons who go around saying things like, you know, the space is fake.
So maybe it's all one big psyop.
I'm sympathetic to that, but I think it's wishful thinking.
Because it's just so depressing to think that there are actually real people, a lot of them, who are that stupid.
So, who knows?
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This is kind of exciting.
So, just a quick thing that the Obama Presidential Center will be opening soon.
And In case you haven't seen it, we'll put a picture up on the screen.
This is the building that looks like a tower where an evil wizard lives.
We've shown it before on the show.
It looks like the prison in a comic book movie where they keep supervillains.
It's like the prison where Magneto, they keep Magneto or something, or Dr. Octopus or whoever, the penguin.
I know I'm mixing the different, but whatever.
But it's not.
This is not the penguin's lair.
This is Obama's lair.
And Obama, of course, demanded that they build him the ugliest building of all time.
So they came to him and they asked, you know, what kind of building he wants.
And he said, well, ugly.
You know what I want?
Well, I want a building that reflects my inner self.
So I want something that's very ugly.
And they said to him, okay, well, how ugly do you want it?
And he looked them straight in the eyes.
He said, the ugliest.
The ugliest.
And they said, The ugliest building ever?
Do you know?
Yes.
The ugliest, damn it.
Get out of my office.
And then he went to the construction site.
This is what I heard anyway, based on reports.
He went to the construction site while it was being built and he looked around and he flipped out because he said, This is not ugly enough.
This needs to be uglier.
And they said, But, sir, Mr. President, it's already really ugly.
I mean, look at this, make it uglier.
And so that's when they, you can see in the picture, they've got these random, like, Schizophrenic, like a block of text, just random words on the building.
And that was a brilliant move because what they did was they somehow managed to make the structure look both bland and too busy at the same time.
It's got too much going on and not enough going on simultaneously.
It's the worst of all worlds architecturally in a brilliant way.
How can it be both?
You feel like it's like, okay, either you have a building that's so ugly because it's way too busy and there's all kinds of stuff going on, or it's too ugly because it's just this bland sort of block.
And they did both.
And that is impressive in a way.
So, anyway, here's a report on the opening of the center.
Listen.
Well, this is new this morning.
You'll soon be able to purchase tickets to visit the museum at the Obama Presidential Center.
Ticket sales open to the general public on May 6th.
You'll be able to book a date to visit starting June 19th through November 30th.
Admission is $30 for adults and $23.
I wonder if that has any significance.
$23 for children ages three to seven, maybe not Michael Jordan.
Kids two and under can visit for free.
The museum is also free on Tuesdays with proof of Illinois residency.
So I don't know if you heard that, but yes, they did say that you get in for free on Tuesdays if you're a resident of the state.
But how would they know that?
How would they possibly know?
Wait, are they asking for IDs?
Do you have to show an ID to go to the president's library?
I couldn't believe it.
I couldn't believe it.
So I looked it up.
And if you go to the website, it says this sure enough, must be able to provide proof of residency.
Be prepared to show proof of residency at the museum with a valid photo ID, Illinois driver's license, state ID, or city issued ID.
I mean, this is shocking.
I couldn't believe that.
I looked that up this morning.
I closed my laptop and I wept.
I mean, if you want to know the truth, if you want to know, honestly, I did.
I wept.
I cried.
I was so appalled.
So appalled.
Apparently, black people are not allowed to go to the Obama presidential library.
This is the ultimate betrayal.
The first black president bans black people from his library.
That's the story.
I can't believe it.
Because, you know, asking for IDs is the same as banning black people.
That's what we've been told.
We've been told this many times.
Black people cannot get IDs.
They don't know how.
They don't know.
They walk into the DMV and they're just totally flummoxed.
And they don't even know how to get to the DMV in the first place.
They don't know how to get there.
And so asking for IDs to get into the center is exactly the same as having a sign out front that says, no blacks allowed.
Attention, no blacks allowed in the ugliest building on earth.
So, this is a huge scandal.
I mean, I don't know why there's not more conversation about it.
Pretty bad.
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Article in the New York Times, a headline A wedding weekend, no spouse required.
For some single women, milestone birthday parties offer the celebratory feel of a wedding.
Without the marriage.
Now, reading a little bit of this very important article.
On February 6th, Brittany Allen donned a white Millia London bridal dress as she walked down the staircase at Hinwick House, a mansion in the English countryside, to the sound of Johann Packable's Canon Indeed.
On her wrist, she wore her something borrowed, a vintage silver diamond watch, and her hair hung in elegant loose waves.
Her 35 guests, which included family members and childhood friends, had traveled far and wide to celebrate with her.
The occasion Miss Allen's 40th birthday.
Miss Allen, a content creator based in New York, who's never been married, does not have children, spends several months per year in London, decides that she would host a Saltburn themed, fancy British aristocratic party in England.
It couldn't just be an aristocratic party.
This is not really the point, but you couldn't just do a party that is where the thing is that it's an aristocratic British party.
It has to be Saltburn themed.
Like you had to make it themed based on some, what, Netflix show?
Speaking of stupid, that's how illiterate people are.
It's like, because none of the guests would know what she meant.
When she says, Oh, we're doing a thing where it's like the aristocracy, and they go, What are you talking?
What is that?
Oh, you know, from Saltburn?
Oh, that.
Oh, Saltburn.
Yeah.
Anyway, I'm not going to read this whole thing.
It doesn't really matter.
But the point is that this is apparently, according to the article in the New York Times, they're very excited about it, that this is something that women, older women, are doing more and more now, where they are.
They are doing birthday parties for childless women who are in their late 30s and 40s now, in their 50s, never had weddings.
And so they're doing birthday parties that are weddings, that look like weddings.
And they wear the wedding dress and they do the whole wedding thing.
And this is supposed to be a great development.
And it's one of those articles that's basically designed specifically to annoy me because everything revolves around me, obviously.
So I'm just going to assume that the only reason this was published was to personally antagonize me.
And if so, then it succeeded.
You've got narcissistic women throwing wedding celebrations for themselves, not to celebrate a wedding, but to celebrate their birthdays.
And other people are showing up to these things, which I always, that is always to me the most unfathomable part of stories like this.
Because the idea that some woman is this narcissistic and shallow, that doesn't surprise me.
The idea that like 30 or 40 other people around her would participate, that is shocking.
I cannot imagine an invitation that would elicit a harder or faster no from me than this.
I mean, you might as well send me an invitation that says, hey, on May 10th, come on over.
We're going to have a thing where we cut your head off.
We're having a decapitation party.
Yeah, come on over.
We're going to cut your head off.
I would more likely say yes to that than the birthday party wedding thing.
If I had to choose, I mean, if I had to choose easily getting my head cut off, it's.
Quicker, not as painful, and not as embarrassing.
Now, of course, the irony is that the more these kinds of women try to dress up their narcissism and celebrate it and pretend to be happy with their life choices, the sadder it is.
You know, the more that they pop champagne and throw the confetti and say, Yay, I'm childless.
I'm going to die alone.
I have no children.
I have no legacy.
I'm going to die in a nursing home because no one will be around to take care of me.
And none of my supposed friends actually care about me that much.
Yay!
And the more they do that, the more miserably sad it all comes off.
And now we're at the point where 40 year old women are staging these elaborate fake weddings for themselves.
And it's just desperately tragically sad.
And this is also what happens when liberals try to deconstruct and reverse engineer cultural traditions.
When they take a tradition that has existed for thousands of years, which they have opted out of, And they try to apply it in a new way.
I mean, it's always sad and pathetic and pitiful.
It doesn't work.
It doesn't work because it's totally arbitrary and meaningless.
I mean, a wedding celebration is a celebration of an actual thing, right?
Now, you could say that, well, getting married is itself is also not an achievement in and of itself, any more than a birthday is an achievement.
Well, it's a little more of an achievement than a birthday.
At least you have to get someone to marry you.
So there's, and for some people in particular, For me, you know, that was an achievement in and of itself, and quite a shock for everyone else.
But that's not the point.
You know, wedding celebrations are not meant to be celebrations of achievements.
They do wedding celebrations in cultures with arranged marriages.
And for thousands of years, basically every marriage was in effect arranged.
And they still had weddings because it's not about personal achievement.
The wedding celebration is a celebration of the formation of a new thing, it's a sending off.
In essence, it's a farewell and a welcoming all in one.
That's what makes it beautiful.
That's what makes it sacred.
Is that it's both of those things.
It is a saying bye and a saying hello all together.
That's why the dad hands the daughter off.
And very often the dad is teary eyed in this moment.
And he's also smiling because there's a, it's a happy thing, but there's a solemnness to it.
There's a somberness as well as a joy, as well as happiness.
A new thing has been made, a marriage, a family.
And that's the point.
And so it's sort of like a, you know, there's a, anytime there's a transformation and something new happens, it's also sort of a death in a way.
Like you're, You're, as the parent, you're saying goodbye to your child.
It's still your child, but now they are going off and starting their own life.
And so that's what makes it so beautiful.
So, you know, a wedding is not like a birthday in that way.
Turning it into a birthday celebration just strips it of all the meaning, all the beauty, all the sacredness, all the joy, everything, the whole point of the thing emptied out, hollowed out, worn like a skin suit.
And, you know, I think that's pretty obvious.
But here's what happens.
This is what leftists do.
And these are leftists because they're feminists.
They have no new ideas at all, right?
Even the ideas that are supposed to be new actually aren't remotely new.
I mean, this is supposed to be a new thing.
Oh, it's a new thing.
Women are doing weddings for their birthday.
That's not new.
A birthday party is not new.
A wedding celebration is not new.
You're just taking this thing that already exists and you're twisting it and perverting it and subverting it.
And emptying it of everything that made it matter.
And not even in a creative or interesting way.
This is all leftists do with anything.
They subvert, they pervert, they take what already exists, they destroy it.
And they don't even ever do it in a way that's remotely interesting.
It's like taking the Mona Lisa and gluing googly eyes on it and then calling yourself an artist.
I mean, any revision to the Mona Lisa would be a tragedy.
But you didn't do anything that has any hope of being interesting or unique.
You just take the thing that already exists.
You take this thing, you say, well, this thing is beautiful and it's ancient and it's wonderful and people love it.
And so, what we're going to do here's our crazy idea we're going to take this thing and we're going to make it superficial, ridiculous, silly, and ugly.
That's everything the left does with everything silly and ugly, grotesque and ugly, ridiculous and ugly.
And that's all they do.
It's because the thing they're trying to destroy, the thing that they're rebelling against, Western civilization, Christian civilization, that thing has all the beauty and inventiveness and creativity and vitality and life and vibrancy.
It has all the interesting ideas.
The people seeking to destroy it invariably end up glomming on to the forms that the thing they want to destroy has invented.
They end up sort of fixing themselves to it, stealing its ideas.
They have no ideas of their own.
Leftism is the worship of self, the celebration of the self.
Satanism is what it is.
But they can't even worship the self in any kind of new or original way.
They just end up taking all the ways that people have worshiped God and celebrated family and tradition, and they say, well, let's do that, but without the God and the family and the tradition.
This is what Satan does.
This is Satanism, which is, like I said, the worship of the self, celebration of the self.
Leftism is a kind of secular Satanism, as I've said for many years.
And this is what they do in, you know, if we were to call it like a sort of theological Satanism, where if you were to go to like a satanic temple, which you shouldn't, but everything they do, it's like nothing new going on.
It's just taking what already exists, it's taking the symbols of Christianity and Catholicism in particular, the cross, the altar, the church, everything, and just kind of flipping it upside down, desecrating it, because they have no ideas of their own.
And we can't lose sight of that.
You know, these people, on top of being evil, are also really boring and have no ideas at all, period.
And, yeah, this is a perfect example of that.
Am I saying that this is satanic?
Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's also that.
I'll go with that.
I think that's true.
And we will leave it on that bright note for today.
Talk to you tomorrow.
Have a great day.
Godspeed.
I do believe that if people have committed treason against the United States of America, their statues should not be in the Capitol.
History is written by the victors.
And since the 1960s, we've been told, mostly by people whose ancestors didn't even live here during the war, that the South committed treason.
But if the Confederates were traitors, then why was Jefferson Davis never put on trial for treason?
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Do they know something they're not allowed to say today?
It's time for the truth.
So here it is.
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He was beloved by Americans from the North and South for a century after the war.