The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1315 - We Need To Respect Black Culture By Getting Rid Of Laws, Says MSNBC

Episode Date: February 14, 2024

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One pattern that has emerged over the past four presidential elections ever since Barack Obama is that the national conversation, as directed by the media, shifts back to race right around the time that the primaries are wrapping up. But of course, the primaries are still happening on the GOP side. Technically, if you count Nikki Haley as a real presidential candidate, but if you realize that she is at this point simply running to be the next. overpaid CNN contributor, you understand the primaries ended weeks ago, which means that it's now time for the race cycle to begin anew. And right on Q, MSNBC released a new special this month

called Black Men in America, The Road to 2024. Now, based on the title and based on the timing, and based on the fact that it's MSNBC, you might assume that the show automatically is going to consist of a bunch of mindless race baiting. You might make the presumption without seeing a single second of it. You might just write it off without giving it a chance under the assumption that it's going to be nothing but idiotic, dim-witted racial grievance-mongering. You might assume all of that. And you would, of course, be entirely correct. Yet, as you'll see in the clip that I'm about to show you, it still manages to limbo its way under the incredibly low bar that you have already set for it in your mind, which is quite a feat. Watch.

We can get rid of all the crime in America overnight, just like that. And people ask how Attorney Crump change the definition of crime. Of course, if you get to define what conduct is going to be criminal, you can predict who the criminal is going to be. It sounds like we're criminal, though. Our existence is criminalized. No, no, no. They made the law to criminalize our coaches, black culture.

I mean, and so when I think that Eric Gordon, I always think of stuff like that, lucid cigarettes. We did nothing. We sit here the whole time, running our business. What are you doing? Who got to sell cigarettes? Don't touch me. Who did I? Not touch me.

God has lost his life, man. And then George Floyd was trying to buy cigarettes and so forth. So you have to think about the profiling things that they come up with, the profilers for pretextual reasons. And it happens every day, y'all. They would come and say you can't wear baggy pants. Make that a crime. Right. You can't have milk cartons in your yard.

Make that a crime. Now, as you can see, that's Ben Crump, pretending to shoot pool with Al Sharpton. In other words, it's the Neo-Al Sharpton with the old Al Sharpton. It's like broadband Al Sharpton with dial-up, Al Sharpton. And Ben Crump is what happens

when you clone Al Sharpton, but you remove his hair and the three brain cells that he had, and you end up with Ben Crump. But because that's the thing you notice about, is that he is objectively speaking, and I say this in a medical sense, I don't mean this as an insult. It's just it's a like a medical term. He's a moron. In fact, his very existence single-handedly and ironically disproves systemic racism because there's simply no way that a black guy this

aggressively mediocre, this consistently unimpressive, this simple-minded and ridiculous could ever achieve the success he's achieved in a country that was systematically racist. against black guys. Now, sure, even in a country with systemic racism, you could still end up with brilliant and innovative people who managed to succeed in spite of it. So the existence of successful black people doesn't in and of itself disprove systemic racism. A million other things disprove it, but not that. But Ben Crum specifically? I mean, this guy, you want to tell me this guy rose to the top despite having the entire system arrayed against him? No. I mean, obviously the truth is quite the opposite. The system favors guys like Crump, which is the only reason anyone

knows his name. By all rights, the pinnacle of this dude's career should have been like a position no higher than shift manager at Wendy's. With no disrespect intended to shift managers at Wendy's, the point is that his wealth and success is entirely a product of a system designed to move mediocre Hathwits like himself to the front. And as if to prove my point, what does he say? Well, what's the great insight that he offers the world? Well, he says that we can get rid of all the crime in America overnight by changing the definition of crime. Now, he's right, of course, technically. Crime is a legal designation.

If you stop applying that legal designation to things, then it will not be applied to things anymore. And therefore, you will have gotten rid of the designation. stop calling murder, robbery, and rape crimes. And just like that, presto changeo, the crimes of murder, robbery, and rape have disappeared. This is evidently what Crump, a guy with a law degree somehow, wants to see happen. Of course, the problem is that by getting rid of the crimes of murder, robbery, and rape, you have not gotten rid of the actions of murder, robbery, and rape. people are still being murdered, robbed, and raped.

In fact, at an even higher rate now, most likely. But it doesn't count in the books. The assailants aren't being brought to justice. The victims have nowhere to turn for redress. All the bad things are still happening, but the law is covering its eyes and plugging its ears and pretending that it's not happening. And that's what happens when you get rid of crime, as Trump suggests.

And in fact, we don't even need to speak of this theoretically. Every major city in America has adopted a strategy like this to one degree or another. Every major city, thanks in large part to Soros-funded Marxist DAs, has decided to reduce crime by not fighting it. They've decided to create fewer criminals by not calling the criminals criminals criminals. As a result, most of these places are unlivable hellscapes, which is not a problem for Ben Crump, whose firm rakes in tens of millions of dollars a year. So he's not living in these crime-infested sewers that ambulance chasing con artists like himself have helped to create. Now, Crump then goes on to claim that laws, any law, I guess, has the effect

of criminalizing black culture, he says. And he gives the example of Eric Garner, who died, as you'll remember, one of the, not the first, but one of the first BLM martyrs. And he just died. Well, police attempted to take him into custody for selling loose cigarettes. Now, the law against loose cigarettes. It's not as important as or essential as laws against murder and robbery, but the policy does make perfect sense. You aren't allowed to buy a pack of cigarettes from the convenience store and then stand outside that convenience store selling each individual cigarette to people walking by on the street. Why can't you do that? Well, that's not very fair to the convenience store, for one thing. And for another, there are all kinds of additional laws

governing the sale of tobacco products. Laws that cannot be enforced if people are allowed to walk around hawking individual cigarettes on the street corner. Now, it's not the most important law, but it is a law, and it's a law that makes plenty of sense. The question in this case is why Eric Garner couldn't just follow the law? Like, why can't you just follow? It's not hard. Most of us have no problem following that law.

It's not a difficult law to follow. It's not onerous. Is it black culture, quote unquote, to simply disregard whatever law you personally find inconvenient? That seems to be the claim that Ben Krupp is making. But all that is irrelevant anyway, because Garner didn't die because he sold loose cigarettes. Cops, despite how it's always framed, cops did not show up and stage a public execution as a penalty for selling Lucy's, as they're called. No, they tried to arrest him because he's committing a crime, and their job as police officers is to enforce the law. That's it.

And he resisted, and in the struggle he lost his life. Why resist? What's that going to achieve? What possible good can come from it? Even if you disagree with the law that you broke. Even if you didn't break a law. Even if you're being falsely accused. Even if you're completely innocent.

Okay. No matter the situation, how does resisting arrest help your case? What good will it do for you? Like, what is the plan? Walk me through the steps. Step one, resist arrest. Step two, unknown. Step three, you get to go home and have a pleasant day. All right, I guess that's the thought process, right, for all these BLM martyrs. What is the second step, though? We really got to fill in the blank there. Can Ben Krupp explain that? What is it that you think will happen at step number two that will lead to step number three? Now that you've started with step one, which is resisting arrest. What should it be?

Did Eric Garner think that if he declined to be arrested, the cops would just say, oh, so you don't want to be arrested? Oh, you'd prefer not to be arrested this particular afternoon. Well, never mind then, good sir. Please be on your way. Our apologies. Was that the idea? Well, we know the answer. There was no thought process behind it. He didn't have any ideas at all. He just was acting in a totally thoughtless, self-destructive manner, responding to a situation in a way that was guaranteed to make the situation worse, no matter what. Like, no matter what happens, even if you don't die in the process, the result will be worse than it would have been if you had just complied.

So making the situation worse intentionally, is that black culture, according to Crum? Crump also mentions George Floyd. He says that Floyd was another man arrested for participating in black culture. What was the culture in that case? Floyd was trying to pass off a forged $20 bill. I mean, this is what a just a liar this guy. This is what a dumb liar, Ben Crump is. They said, well, George Floyd was just trying to buy cigarettes.

Yeah, with a forged $20 bill. That was the problem. It's not that he was buying a cigarette. They weren't showing up. He didn't go to buy a cigarette, and then the convenience store called the cops and said, hey, someone just came and bought a cigarette. Go arrest him. That's not a crime.

You're allowed to do that. But using forged money is a crime. Shouldn't it be? Like, should we be okay with that? Are we going to, should we just get rid of the laws against forged dollar bills? So you can go in with monopoly money and buy something and no one's going to stop you? So is that black culture? using forged dollars?

Is that the black culture he's talking about? He was overdosing on fentanyl. Is that black culture? Now, I'm not asking these questions rhetorically. I would really like to hear Crump's answer. I'd like to hear the answer from any of these race baiters who talk about black culture. What is it?

I'd like to know what you consider black culture to be. Now, I wouldn't personally call any of that black culture, but I will say that if it was black culture, then guess what? The culture needs to change. Okay. If your culture, as Ben Crump seems to think, let's just go at Ben Crump's argument for a minute. This is what he's saying. He's saying that all these things are black culture, committing crimes, using drugs, overdosing, resisting arrest, going out of your way to make your life more difficult, being insanely self-destructive all the time. It's his argument that that, that,

is black culture. Okay, well then what I would say to that is that if that is black culture, then your culture is deeply flawed. It is terminally sick. And it needs to change. You see, the law doesn't need to change to accommodate your culture. Your culture needs to accommodate the fact that it exists in a civilized society with laws. That is the job of you and your culture to accommodate. We don't need to get rid of all the laws and make exceptions and say, oh, you know what, actually, you don't have to get arrested if you don't want to. And thereby invite the collapse of civilization itself just for your culture. Your culture needs to get with the program, if that is what your culture is. Now, naturally, Crump only talks about the laws

against loose cigarettes and milk cartons and baggy pants, he mentions, as if anyone is actually being arrested for having baggy pants? When's the last time that happened? He completely ignores the obvious fact that black men are arrested every day in every city in America for committing actual violent crimes. Okay, young black men are not landing in prison because of their milk cartons. Okay, there's not a lot of people that are in the prison yard right now. Oh, what'd you do? How'd you get here? Ah, milk cartons. Yep, too many milk cartons in the yard. Got 10 to 15 for that one, hard time. No, that's not what's happening. But Crump, of course, doesn't want to acknowledge that because he's a liar and he's evil and he doesn't care how many people die or how many black men get themselves killed by making the worst possible decisions.

He doesn't care about any of that as long as he can personally profit off of it. Now, I began this by saying that Crump is stupid and he certainly is, just like Al Sharpe is stupid. Many of these race-baiters are just very, very dumb. And you can't listen to them talk for more than five seconds without arriving at that conclusion. It's inevitable. But like any other race-baiter, he also knows exactly what he's doing. He pretends to speak up for black culture, whatever he thinks that is exactly. While at the same time doing everything he can to make black communities more dangerous, poorer, bleaker, more miserable.

It's not the white man keeping black communities. down. It's men like Ben Crum. And he deserves to be held accountable for it. Now let's get to our five headlines. This is Euphoria Calvin Klein, the new elixir collection featuring three perfume intense scents, inspired by a unique orchid accord paired with vanilla, each with its own distinct attitude, each with its own universe, bold elixir, sensual, woody, addictive, magnetic elixir, sweet and romantic like a lingering touch. Solar elixir, a radiant expression of joy, ultra-concentrated for amplified impact and lasting power. Find your euphoria. Discover the euphoria elixir collection by Calvin Klein. Starting to feel like a spring here in Tennessee, which means that

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And, you know, it's like a bi-monthly tradition at this point, which is a consequence of having six kids. Having a large family is a great joy. I highly recommend it. There are some challenges to come with it. And one is that, you know, when you have six kids, it's like, it is like opening a Wuhan virus lab in your living room. It's just a constant petri dish for every disease that kids love to bring into the House.

So that's one of the challenges. But you know what? It's there's downsides to everything in life. I think it's a small price to pay ultimately. So last night, the House of Representatives voted to impeach the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas. And he became the first sitting cabinet secretary to be impeached in the history of the United States. So this is a big deal. This is actually a historic political event.

And it maybe doesn't feel like that. For one thing, because the media doesn't have a lot of interest in talking about this. But also because we're at a clip right now where there are historic political events happening every three or four weeks. You know, we've got former presidents being indicted and all trying to send him to prison. And so it's like we have reached a point in history where there's unprecedented things happening a lot, which by the way is not a good sign. Okay. It's maybe a little bit more boring when you don't have a lot of unprecedented political events and just things are going on as normal. And it's kind of as it's always been a little bit more boring that way.

But that's a sign of stability, which is what you want. that you actually don't want your the political landscape to be to be very interesting that's a bad now it's good for the media it's good for if you're if you are in my in my business so it's actually not a good sign or a good thing when there are interesting fascinating unprecedented political events happening all the time as as advantageous as it is for the media and even in my business gives us a lot to talk about but i'd much prefer for it to be the the other way. You think back to the 90s and the big political scandal, of course, of the 90s, the thing that was the most fascinating political event of the 90s, certainly the latter half of the 90s,

was Monica Lewinsky. But you look back on that now, it's like quaint by comparison. That wouldn't even, that's the same thing happened again. It would not get that level of attention. And again, not a great sign. So, He's being impeached, and the charge is a willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law and breaching the public trust. And now, if you read the Washington Post or you watch CNN, you'll hear that this impeachment is futile. A two-thirds supermajority of the Democrat-controlled Senate is needed to convict Majorcas. And, of course, that isn't going to happen. So just like the two Trump impeachments, this will ultimately die in the Senate.

And that, of course, it's true. He's not actually going to be convicted. But there's a big difference between Trump's impeachment trials and the upcoming trial of Majorcas. And it's that myoricus's trial isn't really about him. Like the point of the exercise, it's not to prevent him from running for office or anything like that. I don't think we're too worried about that. Now, he's the one named in the impeachment, but Majoricus's trial will inevitably focus on, the Biden administration and their broader effort to facilitate a foreign invasion. That's what

it's about. This is a policy that has flooded hospitals, you know, it's totally destroyed American sovereignty. It's cost thousands of American lives, gang violence, drug trafficking, human trafficking, which is to say nothing of all the job opportunities that have been stolen and everything else, which is why an impeachment trial done right can answer some really important questions. And that's why I think that this is, I think it's smart politically for the statement that it makes. And I also think that it, again, answers questions that need to be answered. And you could say, by the way, you could say that, well, we shouldn't just be impeaching people to make a political statement. We shouldn't be impeaching someone if we know that they can't be convicted.

It's a waste of time. It's a waste of taxpayer dollars to do it sort of symbolically as a statement is we shouldn't be doing that. You could say that. But unfortunately, no matter how you might feel about that, that particular toothpaste is out of the tube and it's not going back in. Because this is the precedent that the Democrat said with Donald Trump. This is how they decided that this is how the game is how the game is. And so if you're on the other side, you have two choices. One is you can let them operate by their own set of rules, and you can give them that advantage. Right? So it's like you could sit down and play Monopoly with them, and you can play by the rules of monopoly while they say, while they just make up their own rules, you know,

and they say, well, I can take money from the bank whenever I want. Or, you know, I don't have to go to jail when it says land on, go directly to jail. No, for me, I don't have to do that. Oh, for me, you know, instead of getting $200 every time I pass go, I get $200 every time I pass around a turn. So I get $200 four times around the board. Those are the rules for me. So if you're playing monopoly, let's just say with someone like that, you can either continue respecting the rules and let them just make up their own rules.

and then you'll definitely lose and the whole thing is pointless it's like you're not even playing monopoly anymore because they've decided not to play by the rules so whatever this is it's not even monopoly that's their choice so you could do that and just volunteer to lose

or you could say okay well if those are the rules that you've made up then I'm going to take advantage of those two of course in that in my monopoly scenario the real option would be just stop playing they're not going to play it's a game's point I was not going to play it. Unfortunately, in the monopoly board that is American politics,

not playing isn't an option. So you can't not play. You got to play. And so now you're stuck with follow the rules while they break them and then you automatically lose every time no matter what. Or they make up rules for themselves and you say, okay, if those are your rules, they're mine too. And I think that option is obviously. It's really the only choice. And so this is what impeachment is now. Now, if I have my way about it, I prefer if it wasn't. I wish we could rewind the clock. If I could rewind the clock, I'd like to go back to a time when impeachment is a very, very rare occurrence, and it only happens when an actual crime has been committed. And, and, I'd even say, even then, I would say, if I had my way about it, you only go through with the impeachment.

if you know that there's some reasonable chance of actually getting a conviction. So if I could rewind the clock and flip a switch and make things happen the way that I want, then that's what I would do. But I can't. I can't. And none of us can. So we're here. We're in the world that the Democrats have decided to set up.

And so this is the rules that they've set up. And they'll be held to them too. It's the way it goes. Does that mean that there's going to be impeachments for every presidential administration from here on out? Probably. That's what it means. Either the president or cabinet officials are getting impeached. Probably for every administration till kingdom come. Wish it wasn't that way.

But the only other option is that every Republican administration gets impeached and none of the Democrat ones do. Well, that obviously is just not acceptable. We can't allow that. So going back to the questions that could be answered through this trial. Because again, this is not just symbolic. There's actually a function here. Who exactly was Majorcas taking orders from? What have they said in private about Joe Biden's stated goal of permanently changing the demographics of this country?

What have they been doing with the $120 billion that taxpayers are giving DHS every year? Why, for example, is DHS sending hundreds of millions of dollars to NGOs that help illegals get into the country? All of this information could be explored by GOP impeachment managers and committee chairs with expanded subpoena powers. They'll be able to investigate all this. They'll be able to investigate also why federal border patrol agents were captured on camera, cutting razor wire with heavy machinery to let the illegals into the country and then even giving them fist bumps as they enter the country. The impeachment managers can look into why the Biden administration abruptly reduced the number of questions that border guards are able to ask

illegal immigrants when they come in from China specifically. You know, all of these kinds of questions can be explored, and they must be. And that's what's going to happen now that he's being impeached. And on top of that, you know, you can make an argument about did he commit an actual crime? With Trump, there's no crime committed, nor even alleged, to go through with the impeachment. In my Orchus's case, you could easily make the argument that I would find very compelling that this is negligence to the point of actually being a crime. It's not just refusing to enforce the law, is actively undermining it as part of an overall plot to destroy American sovereignty and import voters for your political party.

I mean, there's a bunch of crimes tied up in all of that. So I guess what this comes down to is that probably even if, even if you're, if the Democrats hadn't set this precedent that every administration is getting impeached. Someone's getting impeached, whether it's the president or a cabinet official, even if they hadn't set this precedent. There still would be grounds in this case. All right, Daily Wire has this report, a boy who was a high school sophomore took first place in the girls high jump competition at the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association, indoor track and field championship. but, Mayel Jaquez, who celebrated as a female competitor, failed to match his winning jump,

jumped 5'2 inches, which was one inch higher than any girl, but, this is an important part, roughly a foot lower than the winning jump in the boys competition. So this is a boy competing against girls. He's an inch higher than any other girl, a foot lower than the winning jump in the boys competition. competition, which in the high jump, a foot is an enormous length. Twelve-time All-American swimmer Riley Gaines slammed Jack Wezz's parents posting on X. How could the parents of this boy allow their son to cheat? And why don't the parents of the girls stand up and say no for their daughters?

The country is full of failing, gutless mothers and fathers. And she's exactly right. The question from Riley Gaines is a good one. It's one that many of us have been asking for years. I know I certainly have. Where are the parents? It's at the point now where if you are the parent of a female athlete. Now, yeah, the parents of the boy who's doing this, they're the worst.

They should not be allowing this under any circumstance. And, you know, if you have a child who falls into the gender cult, and not by your doing, much to your chagrin, this happens because the kid goes to public school and gets sucked into the cult. Many cases of this happening, for sure.

And as I've always said, I have an immense amount of sympathy for parents whose kids are brainwashed in that way. It's heart-wrenching. But when you go along with it, and you go along with it, even to go along with it at all is deeply evil as a parent. To go along with it to this extent is all the worst.

So those parents are awful, clearly. But if you are the parent of a female athlete and you allow a male competitor to sabotage her game or her match or race or whatever it is and you don't say anything and you don't do anything, then the whole thing is your fault. Like, it's on you now. So at this match, when they're doing the high jump, you know, and all these parents presumably are there and watching, I didn't read any story, unless I missed it, unless I didn't see it. I didn't read any story of any parent walking up and confronting any of the officials,

causing any kind of scene. You know, as far as I know, most of them were on the sidelines, cheering on. Maybe some of them did begrudgingly. I'm sure they all did begrudgingly. And, but as far as I know, nobody made any real effort to put a stop to this. Now, I know that people don't like to make a fuss. You know, they don't like to be confrontational. They don't like to cause a scene.

I get all of that. And that's an aspect of human nature that trans activists have been able to exploit. Because people are generally polite and they are generally non-confrontational in real life. Now, on the Internet, it's a different matter. But in real life, the vast majority of people are much more subdued and they actually don't like to be the center of attention. Like most people, they don't. In real life, they don't. They certainly don't like confrontation, most people. Transactivists, on the other hand, they don't have that problem because they're narcissists. So they're raging narcissists. All of the trans activists are without exception. So they think that they're the main characters of the world. And if they walk into a situation, they have no problem saying, hey, this is all about me, guys. Look at me. Because they think that they're the protagonists of the whole story of the human race. So for them causing a scene, being the center of attention, is second nature. For normal people, though, it's not like that. But if you're a normal person, you need to just get over that or some of it. Your allergy to confrontation, your aversion,

you need to get over it in this kind of circumstance, especially when your kids are concerned. This should be an easy exception. You know, I know, I mean, it may surprise you to learn this, but I don't like being the center of attention either, which may seem mobbed given what I do for a living. But when I'm out living my life, I just want to go about my day. I just want to be a normal person. I don't want to have the spotlight on me

when I'm going about doing my normal things. I'm not looking for drama. That's the last thing that I want. When I'm going about my daily life, I don't want to have any dramatic incidents occur. I'd rather just go do my thing and keep to myself, and that's how I want to be. But, you know, if my kids are being abused, that's a different story.

And when a man is invading your daughter's sport or her locker room or both, because they come together, she's being directly abused. And that should flip a switch in your mind. It should shift you into another gear. And you should automatically be ready to stand up and say, no. Hell no. Absolutely not. You know, I don't like causing a scene usually, but I'm going to make an exception in this case.

This cannot be allowed to happen. I'm not going to sit here and tolerate this. I'm not going to sit here and cheer and act like this is normal. I'm not going to let you do this to my daughter and sit there and applaud. I'm not going to do it. And some parents have responded that way to their credit. Some parents have spoken up, but not nearly enough, not even close to enough. Especially when we know, again, that every single parent, I don't care what they say,

I don't care what claim they might make. I don't care what side of the aisle they're on politically. I don't even care what they would say if a pollster or survey or were to ask them, give them a survey. How do you feel about trans athletes and sports? Especially if they're liberal, a certain number of them will say, in fact, most of them will probably say, oh, yeah, I fully support it. I don't care about any of that because they're lying. And what I know for a fact is that every single parent of a girl, you know, any parent. who has a daughter does not want boy in a locker room, boy in the bathroom, boy in the

sport. None of them do. None of them want that. They all know that it's completely wrong. They know that it's insane. They know that it doesn't make any sense. This is one of the deeply frustrating, one of the many deeply frustrating things about this whole issue is that almost every, you know, those of us who have been arguing against the transgender, all we've been doing for years is saying what everyone already knows is true. All the people were arguing against, they all know that it's true too. So often it's just, that's the frustration.

It's like, I'm arguing with you, and I'm making my point. You and I both know that what I'm saying is true. Why are we even doing this? Why are we pretending? You know this is wrong. You see that the boy running down the track or doing the high jump?

You know that's not really a girl. You know that. Of course you know that. So given that everybody knows that it's wrong, given that nobody really needs to be convinced, actually, the number of parents who speak up, the number of parents who try to do anything about it, the number of parents who have any kind of protest at all that they offer, that number is just vanishingly small. And it's pathetically small. And so I think Riley Gaines gutless is a good way to describe. a lot of these parents. All right. Fox 40 says minimum wage is a topic that draws a lot of attention, especially in California, a state that has one of the highest minimum wages in the United States. In a debate Monday night, Representative Barbara Lee defended her previous advocacy for a $50 minimum wage. Here's the clip. Let's watch. You're calling for a $50 an hour federal minimum wage.

That's seven times the current national minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. Can you explain how that would be economically sustainable for small businesses. You have 60 seconds. First, let me say I owned and ran a small business for 11 years. I created hundreds of jobs, benefits, retirement benefits, also health care benefits. I know what worker productivity means, and that means that you have to make sure that your employees are taken care of and have a living wage. In the Bay Area, I believe it was the United Way. came out with a report that very recently $127,000 for a family of four is just barely enough to get by. Another survey very recently, 104,000 for a family of one, barely enough to get

by low income because of the affordability crisis. And so just do the math. Just do the math. Of course we have national minimum wages that we need to raise to a living wage. You're talking a $20, $25, fine. But I have got to be focused on what California needs and what the affordability factor is when we calculate this wage. Okay, $50 minimum wage is what she's asking for. Sure, why not? You know, why not $50, why not $100? Why not $1,000?

Let's do $1,000. $1,000 minimum wage. You know, once we get to $50, there's really no reason to not continue. Make it a million. Make it in a million dollar minimum wage. Pay people a million dollars now. We could all be billionaires before long. Wouldn't that be great?

Wouldn't that be fantastic? Of course, we're all billionaires, and so if you want to go and buy a roll of paper towels or something, it's going to cost you $70 trillion. But still, at least we all have all that money. And this is how you solve the affordability crisis, right? There's a crisis where things cost too much money. Things are not affordable.

And the way you solve it is by vastly increasing the cost of doing business for every business in your business. state. Okay, you like 7x their costs, and that's how you make things, the cost of things go down. That's the math. Barbara Lee's math is about as fuzzy and imaginary as the white guy who supposedly harassed her on the elevator in the Capitol building a few weeks ago, if you recall, she's the same person. So her math skills exist in the same way that that guy exists because they don't. Now, you know, this is obviously completely insane. Raise the minimum. wage to $50.

And that's just the end of California. That would be the end of the state because every business would have to leave. And it would be the end of commerce in the state. And if you don't have commerce in the state of any kind, then you just don't have a state. Like, no one can live there. It can't exist anymore. So maybe that's a silver lining. You know, maybe that's, maybe we should just go ahead and do it and put California out of its misery.

And we can all, you know, move on. And maybe that's the way we do it. But if you don't want to, if you don't want to just destroy the state completely, and finally, put the final nail on its coffin, it's a terrible idea. But anytime this subject of minimum wage comes up, it's important to remember that the whole topic is a red herring. The whole thing is irrelevant. Now, yes, I agree that it's difficult to support yourself on a minimum wage.

I've done it, so I know that it's hard. It's very difficult. And it's even harder, if not basically impossible these days. to support a family on minimum wage. You know, you basically, it's essentially impot. You can't do it. You can support yourself. I mean, it's very, very difficult, but you can do that.

It is possible. A family, no, you just can't. It's not enough money. But here's the thing. The minimum wage, that's not what it's for. That is not the point of minimum wage. It's not why it exists. Minimum wage jobs don't exist for that.

raising minimum wage. You know what it's like? It's a bit like trying to invent training wheels for bicycles that would allow a child to go 30 miles an hour on the bike. Okay, that's what it's like. It defeats the whole purpose of the training wheels. If he's ready to go that fast, it's long past time to take the training wheels off. The whole point of trading wheels is it's the assumption that the kid can't go even a mile an hour on the bike. It's like, so the training wheels are designed for that.

So you don't need faster training wheels. You just need to have no training wheels. Take them off. Same with minimum wage. Minimum wage, it's like these are the training wheels of income levels. You don't need a higher minimum wage. You just need to not be on minimum wage anymore. You need to graduate beyond minimum wage.

Minimum wage is not for adults. with houses and kids and car payments. It's not for that. So when we're saying to ourselves, well, even on $15 an hour, there's no way that an adult could have a mortgage and pay for the car and have a kid, it's impossible. It's not a living wage. Yes, you're damn right.

Of course it's not. It's not for that. That's not what it's for. It's not why it exists. Minimum wage is for teenagers. It's for college students, working part-time. It's for high school students. You're not supposed to camp out on minimum wage

and try to build your life on it. Yes, of course you can't. But that's why you don't stay there. And earning $50 an hour is more than possible. I mean, it's a great goal to have, especially if you're starting at minimum wage. And it's entirely feasible. I mean, there are many different paths you can take in life. There are many different careers you could go, you could explore.

Many of them don't even require, certainly don't require college degrees. and you could end up making $50 an hour. You know, it's not outside the realm of possibility at all. But you can't make that while staying on the minimum wage job. It's just not standing at a drive-thru or standing behind the cash register, you know, at Wendy's. We've already picked on Wendy's, so we'll do it again. Standing behind the cash register at Wendy's and somebody comes in and says, oh, I want to number one, please, medium diet,

Coke and then you press it in and you know you take you swipe the card you hand them the that's not that is not supposed to be a career just doing that it just isn't and that action of typing the thing in swiping the card and handing a bag of food to somebody is not worth $50 an hour by any metric like in no possible universe is that worth $50 an hour it just it isn't it's a job that is almost already been entirely replaced by automation. Most of the job could be done already. McDonald's has the automated, you know, the screens that you can press when you go in that are smudge with fingerprints and it's disgusting, but then again, the whole experience is disgusting, so who cares? So already, it's like, it's half of the job could be replaced with a screen

and pretty soon the whole job will be replaced. So it's not, it's not for that. It's not, it's, you're not supposed to build a career on it, which isn't to say that you can't build a career in the restaurant industry, the food industry, of course you can. It's not even to say that you can't build a career in fast food. You could do that too. You can work your way up. You could become a manager, a system manager, or general manager. You could go to the corporate side.

It's certainly not to say that you can't create a career in customer service. Like there are plenty of there. You could have quite a respectable and noble career. But the minimum wage job itself is not. supposed to be the career and this is where I'm always accused of being cruel and callous and out of touch and everything else even though as I said you know people can say that all they want you're out of touch you have no idea all right that's that's fine I guess you know more about my own personal history than I do

I don't know I I guess I should listen wait for internet comments to tell me about what my own biography is because as far as I'm aware of my own biography I've done all these kinds of jobs that's where I started I know know what it's like. I get it. And I also know that, you know, it's not that hard to graduate above minimum wage. It just requires, especially when you become, now if you're 15 years old, it's going to be more difficult. But if you're not, if you're older, if you're an adult, you should be able to launch yourself off of that launching pad. pretty quickly. And so if you're 26 years old and you're getting paid minimum wage,

you should look to see if the problem is with you a little bit. And I know that these are all things we're not supposed to say anymore. We're not supposed to say. When people complain, the only thing we're supposed to do is say, well, yeah, your life's terrible. It's horrible. It should change. Everything should change for you. I feel so bad for you. I know it's the only thing we're supposed to say. You're not supposed to put any onus on the individual at all. I understand on that. But I don't, maybe you've noticed I don't respect those rules. And so don't want to get paid minimum wage. I totally get it. I wouldn't want to either. So go out and earn more than that. That's the solution. It's the only solution that's available. Or, you know, the other option is that

you could say, well, I don't, you know, no, I don't want to. It's too hard. I think that minimum wage should be increased to $50 an hour. Well, okay, well, then let's just do that and destroy everything. That's the other option is just to destroy everything. And then in the end, you're still exactly where you are right now. We could just completely ruin the economy in the name of being compassionate towards you and being gentle. And then you are still screwed and everyone else is screwed too. Maybe that makes you feel better because everyone else is in a bad spot also. Is that the plan? I guess so. Misery loves company, I suppose. Just that that's not a very good economic philosophy, is my take on it.

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Very good question. Hard to say, because we're speaking theoretically, because we do intervene in everything all the time. I will say it's hard to imagine how it's much worse. Another way of looking at it is, now that we have decades and decades of this interventionist approach to foreign policy, what is the evidence that it's made the world a better place at all? What's the evidence that it's made America? I mean, forget about the world for a second. First priority is, where is the evidence that it's put the United States of America in a better position?

Where is the evidence that it's made us more prosperous? That it has aided in the well-being and prosperity of American families. Is there any evidence of that? Trillions of dollars in debt, you know, inflation, sky high. We don't have to run through the whole thing. I think we know that it's a pretty rough position that we're in. And so how has this worked? How has this made the country any better?

I guess you could always speculate that. Well, yeah, it's pretty bad, but it'd be even worse if we weren't shipping billions and billions of dollars off to foreign countries and getting involved in every conflict and all the rest of it. You could say that, but I think the speculation is on your end. And there's not a lot of evidence for it. As far as what happens if we let the quote-unquote, Soviets, as you call them run wild. How much different is our world in that case? Well, I think our world, you and I in America living our lives, would be really not much

different at all. Now, yeah, if Russia went on to try to invade and conquer all of Europe, then that would certainly affect us. I think we could say that. if the whole European continent is conquered by Russia, you know, certainly changes the balance of things in a way that will affect all of us. But that's not going to happen.

That is not the intention. There's no evidence that ever was the intention. You know, the idea that if we didn't, if he's not stopped in Ukraine, eventually Putin would marching into France or something is just ridiculous. He has certain pieces of land that he wants in Eastern Europe. And whether he has them or not, I think, does it, how does it affect our lives? Like, not at all. I just don't think it does. I don't think it, I don't think you would, you know, I, here's what I would say.

Let me put it this way. If we didn't have 24-hour cable news and we didn't have the internet. And, you know, maybe we have newspapers, but many people don't read them our access to it. Like, basically, if we were in the spot, we were in before the invention of modern media. And Putin conquered Ukraine, took the whole thing. And that's all Russia now. I think that you would never know it. You would, nothing in your life would change. There'd be no, you know, you could find out 10 years later that, you know, Putin, he actually conquered Ukraine.

And you said, oh, he did. I didn't know. Nothing in my life changed at all. I had no clue. So apparently, whatever happens in Ukraine has zero impact on me or my family. All right. This is silly. You're allowed to be for or against foreign aid, but we are a republic. And this is how all taxation and all spending works. We never get a direct say. We get to elect representatives's silly point. Someone else says, you're high. We provide foreign aid because it's an America's self-interest. This is obvious. You just don't agree with the assessment of America's interests. Vote harder next time. First of all, I don't know what to say. to you other than, you know, you're either too stupid to understand the point or you're pretending not to understand it. But there is a difference between our government spending

money ostensibly on in America, on things that will benefit Americans. Now, they do waste a lot of money. A lot of this money goes off into the bureaucracy and just disappears as far as we're concerned. So yes. But in principle, there is a difference between our government spending the money in America and our government sending the money to another government 4,000 miles away, for them to spend on their own people. Like, I don't know how to explain that difference other than to just say that. It's quite, one is a foreign country.

This is our country. Those are foreign citizens. Our citizens, like, these are different things, okay? And that's what we're talking about. And that's also why I say it's taxation without representation. Because once that money goes to that foreign country, we have no control, no say over how it's spent, and we do not benefit from it. It's not for us. Now, I know you could say, well, this is all in America's interests.

Yes, okay. That, yes, that is the line from the politicians. and the bureaucrats, do you believe it? Do you actually still believe it? Have you been living in this country all this time? I don't know how old you are. Maybe you're five years old. That's why you're so naive. But if you're an adult, are you really an adult in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 2024? And you still believe that this is all in our interest, really? I just pulled up this list out of just for out of interest. The top recipients of foreign aid.

So the most recent thing we have is for 2022, top recipients of foreign aid. In 2022, top recipient was Ukraine, about $12 billion. Then Israel, $3 billion. Ethiopia, $2 billion. And then we got a bunch of people that are in the billion dollar range. Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, Jordan, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Kenya, Kenya, Congo, Sudan, Syria, Uganda, all a little over a billion or a little under. Let me ask anyone that just left one of those comments.

Let's just take Nigeria, about $1.1 billion. How did you benefit from that? You say America's interests. America's interest means the interest of Americans. You're an American. So what did that do for you? the fact that Nigeria got a billion dollars. How did it make your life any better?

Can you articulate at all? Other than just at a blind faith saying, it's in our interests. They have told us it's in our interest. It's for us. Like, this is a Scientology cult level stuff. I can't explain it, but we have been told that it's in our interests.

Maybe you can't explain. So explain to me Nigeria getting a billion dollars. How does that help you? How does it help your family? How does it help your neighbors? How does it help your community? Can you look around to your community and say, you know, we're in a better spot today because Nigeria got a billion dollars in 2022? You can't say it's absurd.

It's an absurd thing to even claim and you know it. So we get rid of all the foreign aid to everybody. It doesn't hurt you at all. Yeah, it may hurt a lot of these foreign countries. It may. It certainly hurt a lot of the wealthy politicians and corrupt politicians in those countries who take that foreign aid and waste. didn't squander it. But it may also even, you know, the average citizen of Nigeria may be harmed by not having that foreign aid. Well, that's Nigeria's problem, isn't it? They're not our citizens.

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Now let's get to our daily cancellation. There have been so many humiliating stories out of Harvard in just the past few weeks that it's difficult to keep track of them all. First, a bunch of student groups signed a petition defending a terrorist attack, and then the university's DEI president was exposed to serial plagiarists and had to resign in disgrace. not to be outdone, a few weeks later, Harvard's head of DEI was also proven to be a plagiarist. Harvard just ignored that story because by that point they realized half of their faculty is probably plagiarizing all the time.

And this all happened shortly after Harvard's affirmative action policy was struck down by the Supreme Court in a landmark case that revealed Harvard's systemic discrimination against white and Asian applicants for the past several decades. Given this background, if you were a student at Harvard, it would seem logical to lay low for a little bit. to the extent that Harvard's reputation could possibly get any worse, you don't want to contribute to that decline. You don't want to have a new round of media scrutiny of Harvard, along with all the jokes and mockery that all that inevitably entails. But Harvard's students are taking a very different approach. They are evidently committed to decolonizing Harvard, by which I mean completely destroying it and leaving nothing behind whatsoever. Which, you know, fine, if that's what they want to do. That's the leading theory at the moment for why Harvard student newspaper,

the Harvard Crimson, just ran this headline. Quote, more than 30 Harvard students hunger strike for 12 hours in solidarity with brown protesters. That's right. We're told that more than 30 Harvard students did not eat for a grand total of 12 hours. Outside of Harvard, you know, this is called skipping lunch or like eating a late breakfast. And some people have joke that this is just intermittent fasting, really. But the truth is, it's not even that. Intermitt fasting usually involves going without a meal for longer, you know, than 12 hours. It could be 16 hours or longer than that. So this is a hunger strike that doesn't quite rise to the level of fasting for weight loss. Yet even still, at Harvard, this is a breathtaking act of

solidarity with the deeply oppressed students at another Ivy League University, Brown, where the cost of attendance is more than $80,000 a year. You know, we're all supposed to be very impressed that these Harvard students claim that they didn't eat three square meals for one day. And it was supposed to be very inspirational to those other Ivy League students who were also on hunger strike. Now, here's how the story in the crimson covers a strike, quote, more than 30 pro-Palestinian Harvard students participated in a 12-hour hunger strike Friday in solidarity with 17 students at Brown University who refused to eat for eight days to pressure the Brown Corporation to divest from Israel.

Of course, it's not in my nature to be cynical in any way, as you know. But even so, this paragraph did raise my eyebrows a little bit. According to the Harvard Crimson, 17 students at Brown didn't eat for eight days because they're mad at Israel or whatever. Now, admittedly, not eating for eight days, that's impressive. That's more impressive than skipping one meal. Eight days, that's legit. That's a legit hunger strike. We're not talking about skipping a meal. we're talking about a real fast. But, of course, we don't have any proof that this actually happened. It's just a claim that the Brown students are making, which means it's almost certainly a lie.

I mean, obviously, anyone can just claim that they've been hunger striking for eight days. I could tell you right now that I've been on a hunger strike since last April. You can't prove me wrong, unless you happen to be behind me in line at Chipotle last night, but the rest of you can't prove it. Even so, I do love the idea of these harvester. students joining an alleged eight-day hunger strike in solidarity, but only maintaining their solidarity strike for 12 hours. They skip lunch while these other students are supposedly starving themselves. So it's like if somebody is self-immolating as an act of protest,

they're setting themselves on fire. And you go up and stand next to them and say, I stand with you in solidarity. And then you give yourself a, I don't know, a mild burn by dipping your pinky finger and hot tea. It's the thought that counts, I suppose, but probably would have been better to just do nothing at that point. And what about those students at Brown? How did their strike end? Well, here's what the Crimson article says, quote, 19 students at Brown began the strike, which is originally indefinite, on February 2nd, ahead of the Brown Corporation's planned meetings beginning February 8th. The students intended to strike until the Brown Corporation considered a resolution to divest from companies which profited from human rights abuses in Palestine. But they ended the strike after Brown University

President Christina X. H. Paxon denied their request, citing now obsolete demands. Well, that's a little embarrassing. They starve themselves for eight days in order to force Brown University to comply with their demands. But then Brown University just said, nah, sorry, no. And so they ended it awkwardly. The article continues, the 17th students ended their strike at 5 p.m. on February 9th, along with Harvard demonstrators and more than 200 other Brown students who fasted for 32 hours in solidarity. Quote, to send solidarity to Brown Divest Coalition for their incredible hunger strike, 30 plus Harvard students committed to a day-long hunger strike to prove to the university corporations that we will not back down. The Harvard

undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Coalition wrote in an Instagram post on Friday. So they wanted to prove they wouldn't back down, but of course they did back down. This is one of the problems with the hunger strike, because if you're not prepared to go all the way, if you aren't ready to actually starve yourself to death, then the whole thing is meaningless. Because then your threat is not, well, you all better do what I do what I want or I'm going to die, which even that threat is not, I mean, that's not the best leverage to use against somebody. You're threatening, you know, that's your own peril. You're putting yourself at peril in peril to try to get someone else to do something. And I think very often the other

person's going to say, well, okay. I mean, I hope you're going to. I hope you. don't starve yourself to death, but that's your choice. It's not going to affect what I do. That's not even the threat. Instead, the threat is, you all better do what I want, or else I'm going to have to end this protest without getting any concessions, and then I'll be really embarrassed. You better do what I want, or I'm going to be very embarrassed. I'm not sure why either blackmail strategy should be successful, but the second one is especially impotent. Now, granted, to be completely fair, by the standards of left-wing activists, 12 hours is still pretty impressive. You may remember last summer when a Texas congressman named Greg

Casar made the bold decision to go on an eight-hour thirst strike in protest of an alleged law in Texas that was eliminating water breaks for construction workers. And I think we talked about this at the time, but it was a lot of fun. Let's just revisit that episode again. Congressman Greg Kazar is holding the first strike for workers' rights on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. I'm on thirst strike all day today, meaning no food, no water, and no breaks off the Capitol steps in the sun and in the rain to push back against Governor Abbott, taking water breaks away from Texas workers in this historic heat wave. The Austin area congressman wants OSHA to establish federally mandated heat protections for workers. We call on and push the Biden

administration to solve this once and for all and put in a federal heat standards. Cassar was joined in Washington, D.C. by union leaders from Texas and across the country. Now, politically, this eight-hour thirst strike didn't accomplish anything, but it did give us this enduring image of a pained Greg Casar getting his vitals checked by a nurse on the Capitol steps, which was a lot of fun. And this is a photo that the congressman tweeted out, by the way. He was proud of this moment. He was proud he went eight hours without drinking water. Something that nobody has ever done, except for when everyone in the world does it every night while they're sleeping. But it wasn't for the fact that, you know, this was the least impressive political demonstration of all time. It would actually be pretty impressive. Not that matters, by the way, but the reason for Greg Casar's strike was totally fabricated, obviously.

And you should know that without even looking into it. Just like Texas did not pass a law eliminating water breaks. Why would they do that? If you really see your political opponents as actual cartoon villains, then maybe you would believe that. But they didn't. In fact, they didn't pass a law that says anything about. water breaks at all. So the whole thing was completely made up. But that's okay because Greg Casar's water strike wasn't about the non-existent law. It was about Greg Casar. It was an opportunity

for him to virtue signal, which is, of course, the primary motivating factor behind virtually all left-wing activism, especially hunger strikes. It's all about the individual showing off. And that is why hunger strikes, all of them, are today canceled. That's going to do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Godspeed.