The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1443 - Ghoulish Leftists Blame Trump For Another Assassination Attempt On His Life

Episode Date: September 16, 2024

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On Sunday, Donald Trump became the first presidential candidate in a half a century to survive two back-to-back assassination attempts. Both of these assassination attempts involved significant failures by the Secret Service. And they raised the question of whether Donald Trump, who's currently the leading candidate for president of United States, will even survive until election day. That is the current state of American democracy, thanks to the self-described protector, of democracy. And we know why this is happening. Donald Trump, more so than any other candidate since Nixon, is openly antagonistic to the most entrenched interest in Washington, and particularly the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies. And he's difficult to control because of that. Trump is not an easily replaceable actor like Kamala Harris, who's only capable of reciting canned soundbites.

Whether you like Trump or not, everybody knows that's true about him. And now that lawfare has failed, his enemies believe that they're out of options. Assassinating Trump would change the trajectory of this country forever. Assassinating any other politician would, you know, frankly, probably not. And this is why, for the better part of a decade, the left has attempted to establish a pretext for Trump's assassination. They labeled Trump a traitor to this country. They said that he was a double agent working for Putin. They branded Trump as the gravest threat to democracy since the civil war. They repeatedly claim that Trump called neo-Nazis very fine people, even when he said the opposite. Even after the assassination attempt at Pennsylvania two months ago, nothing about Democrats' plans and their approach to Trump has changed.

Tim Walls again labeled Trump a fascist and a threat to democracy, saying that he will put people's lives in danger if he returns to the White House. From the debate stage, Kamala Harris again invoked Charlottesville and repeated the very fine people hoax. She said that Trump vowed to be a dictator. She told Americans that Trump had promised a bloodbath if he lost the election when he was actually talking about the auto industry suffering a bloodbath in terms of job losses. So that's how flagrant the propaganda has become. But if you're unhinged and uninformed, say if you're the kind of person who might try to murder a political candidate, then these kinds of lies really resonate with you. And that's why Democrats repeat them over and over. They're hoping somebody will take their lies seriously and act on them.

And that appears to be what happened yesterday. The shooter at Trump's golf course has been identified as Ryan Ruth. He's been, he's made nearly two dozen donations to Democrats. He was also reportedly arrested for possessing a weapon of mass destruction, referring to a fully automatic machine gun back in 2002. So he was on law enforcement's radar, to put it mildly. And on social media this April, an account with Ruth's name posted this message to Joe Biden. Biden, quote, your campaign should be called something like KADAF, keep America democratic and free.

Trump's should be Massa, make American slaves again, master. Democracy is on the ballot, and we cannot lose. We cannot afford to fail. The world is counting on us to show the way. So a lot of that is just almost incoherent and crazy. But even in that crazy ranting, you notice that he wrote, democracy is on the ballot. which is a line that, you know, you may have heard before. So the gunman is reciting the exact talking points

that Democrats have repeatedly, endlessly gone on about for the past several years. In particular, the shooter also bought completely into the Democrats' narrative on Ukraine to the point that he recorded this interview with Newsmax. Watch. Please tell me who you are and why are you here? 56 from the U.S., from North Carolina, originally.

So I live in Hawaii now, so flew all the way from Hawaii here. So the question as far as why I'm here, to me, you know, a lot of other conflicts are gray, but this conflict is definitely black and white. This is about good versus evil. This is a storybook. You know, any movie we've ever watched, this is definitely evil against good. I mean, we're battling a situation here where, you know, you know, You know, the Ukrainians and the rest of the world are caring and kind and generous and unselfish

and take care of one another. And it's just a matter of, you know, we need to stand up for that. That is the most important thing in the world is just to show human beings that we're kind and we're caring and that we take care of one another and that the world is united so that we feed each other and make sure that, you know, we all move forward as one collective whole unit. So, by the way, that's Newsweek, not Newsmax. It's all about being caring and kind, he says, and taking care of one another. This, according to the man who would allegedly go on to attempt an assassination,

this is the level of cognitive dissonance that now defines many on the left. These are the same people with love is love law signs who will try to get you fired if you disagree with them. But the more important thing is that, again, the alleged gunman is heriting exactly what Democrats are saying. He's saying that Ukraine is completely good and Russia is completely evil because that's what Democrats have been saying ever since Russia gate. There's no room for any kind of nuance. The official Democrat Party line is that we have to fight Russia overseas using Ukraine as a proxy or else we'll have to fight Russia on the streets in this country as if they're going to invade the United States. Adam Schiff literally said that during the first impeachment trial. I mean, it's insane rhetoric.

The idea that Russia is going to invade the United States will have to fight them. But inevitably, the thing with insane rhetoric is that someone's going to take it seriously. And that appears to be what Ryan Ruth did. Two years ago, the Seymour reported that Ryan Ruth said, quote, I've had partners meeting with Ukraine's ministry defense every week concerning assistance to Ukraine's war effort. And then one year ago, the New York Times reported that the same man had traveled to Ukraine several times and was even working on illegal plans to recruit Taliban fighters to move to Ukraine. He also said that online that he was willing to fight and die for Ukraine.

This is someone who clearly believed all of the propaganda the Democrats used in order to secure that first impeachment. And it's worth mentioning at this point that we've already learned a lot more information about Ryan Ruth than we ever learned about Thomas Crooks, who tried to murder Donald Trump and Butler. The Secret Service held a press conference just a few hours after this incident yesterday, answering a bunch of questions, but they ducked the first press conference the night of the Butler shooting. At the same time, even though they're saying a lot more about it, there's still a lot of unanswered questions here. Last night, Facebook apparently deleted Ruth's account, for instance. What was on that account exactly?

And what, if any, communications did Ruth have with anyone in Ukraine beyond what's already been reported? Those are questions we need answers to. At the same time, it's important to understand that Ryan Ruth himself probably isn't the biggest part of this story. Just like Thomas Crooks wasn't the biggest part of the first assassination attempt, we are not witnessing one or two lone gunmen who just snapped, which is what we saw with the attempted assassinations of Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, for example. We're not even seeing anything similar to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, which raised a lot of questions about the potential involvement of the U.S. government. When Kennedy was murdered, the media and the security state at least pretended to be upset by it.

But with Donald Trump, the opposite is happening. In fact, the media didn't even bother to act like they were upset by the day's events. Instead, the corporate press immediately suggested that Donald Trump bore responsibility for his own attempted murder. again, here's MSNBC on that point. Yeah. Do you expect there to be calls from within the Trump campaign to do that? Because he's going to reach out to his supporters and say, let's take this down. We do not know, again, the source of any gunshot or gunshots. We don't know who's responsible for this.

The whole thing has yet to be 100% confirmed. from start to finish how this all played out. But do you expect to hear anything from the Trump campaign about toning down the rhetoric, toning down the violence, or would that be atypical of the former president? Well, Alex, remember back to the assassination attempt on President Trump's life and how, you know, there was talk of a new tone. And then the Republican convention was by Trumpian standards muted. And it did seem like he was, you know, just.

just trying to take it down a few notches. But then by the end of his convention speech, we were kind of back to where we started. So I don't know how long this could like, you know, this moment of unity for the country where we come together and we say, I don't want any political opposition to be under threat of violence.

It's not okay, any threat of violence, you know, we don't want. I would love for us to have a unity type moment, but I think it's probably, going to be pretty fleeting as we've seen in the past. So there were similar clips after the Butler shooting, and that's, there's no accident here. These people are every bit as ghoulish as they appear, saying Donald Trump needs to tone down his rhetoric after his own assassination attempt.

I mean, it's, it's like blaming a rape victim for wearing a short skirt. You know, this is a classic victim blaming that you hear about from the left a lot, and now they are engaging in it, of course. how about MSNBC toned down their own rhetoric? How about they stopped comparing Donald Trump to Hitler every other day? This kind of reaction isn't confined to MSNBC. Last night, 60 Minutes ran another special on January 6th, once again portraying Trump as a threat to democracy.

And for several hours yesterday, there was no statement from the White House condemning the attempted assassination. By the time Kamala Harris finally put out a statement on social media last night, she called it a possible assassination attempt, probably to encourage her followers to say that it's all a hoax again. Meanwhile, top Democrats continued lying. Hakeem Jeffreys, the Democrats leader in the House, wrote, quote, Extreme MAGA Republicans are the party of a national abortion ban and Trump's Project 2025.

We must stop them. That was posted on Hekeem Jeffrey's account more than a half hour after gunfire was first reported at Trump's golf course. Nothing in the statement was true. Republicans are not the party of a national abortion ban. unfortunately. And Donald Trump has repeatedly disavowed Project 2025, unfortunately. These are just more lies in service of telling people that we must stop Trump because he's so extreme. This is not the kind of rhetoric that you should be using in any context because lying like this is wrong. But it's especially galling when a left-winger is actively in the process of trying to murder the president for the second time in two months.

And there were many reactions along these lines. Rachel Vindman wrote, quote, No ears were harmed. Carry on with your Sunday afternoon. So who is Rachel Vindman? Well, she's the wife of Alexander Vindman, the main witness against Trump during the first impeachment, the one about Trump briefly pausing financial assistance to Ukraine.

Alexander Vindman was also offered the role of Ukrainian defense minister a few years ago. For his part, after the assassination time yesterday, Alexander Vindman tweeted that Trump should be dissoned. qualified from office. So this whole situation certainly has the appearance of some very powerful and well-connected people who don't want Trump to cut Ukraine's funding again. And they apparently wouldn't mind if Trump were killed in order to prevent that from happening. Meanwhile, NBC News went out of its way to link the shooting to Donald Trump and J.D. Vance's comments on the ongoing crisis in Springfield, Ohio. They didn't point out that Kamala Harris and Tim Walls have done

everything they can to present Donald Trump as a neo-Nazi terrorist. Instead, they faulted Donald Trump and J.D. Vans, for bringing attention to the tens of thousands of Haitians that have descended on a town of just 60,000 people. Watch. Today's apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail itself. Mr. Trump, his running mate, J.D. Vans continue to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants in Ohio. This weekend, there were new bomb threats in that town. Our Maggie Vespah is in Columbus, Ohio with more. Lester, simply put, Springfield, Ohio has been inundated by threats.

Over the last several days, closing government buildings, schools, hospitals, today, effectively closing a local university campus after administrators said someone threatened a mass shooting targeting Haitians. This, in light of, officials say a false online conspiracy theory alleging Haitian immigrants in that city are eating people's pets. So you see how this works. Donald Trump is to blame for inciting violence because he talks about problems. in Springfield, but Democrats are not to blame for inciting violence because they talk about how

Donald Trump is the next Hitler. The whole inciting violence thing only applies to Donald Trump, not the reverse. At this point, I could play the footage from Chris Rufo of what appears to be someone's pet being grilled in Ohio. We could go through all the 911 calls about Haitians carrying geese away or the city council testimony about ducks being beheaded and so on, but none of that's actually important because here's the important point, even if Trump were completely wrong about what's happening in Springfield, it still wouldn't justify someone trying to murder him, obviously. It also wouldn't justify Democrats calling Trump an existential threat to democracy who must be stopped or, quote, eliminated. There's a clear difference between a

debate about what open borders are doing to this country and a debate about whether Donald Trump should be allowed to run for office without being imprisoned or shot. The left is having the latter debate right now, and that's the problem. Actually, to be more precise, It's not just the left. Neocons, who are now indistinguishable from the left, are joining in that debate, too. Here's Bill Crystal, for example. He wrote this several hours after it was confirmed that the shooting of the golf course was an attempted assassination. He wrote, quote, Walls should consider canceling the debate with Vance. Vance would use his time on a national stage to slander minorities, further poison the national discourse, and incite potential violence

with lies. Walls could rebut Vance's falsehoods, but why risk the further incitement? Now, there are thousands of posts like this from prominent Democrats and random people. They're all over the internet. People are blaming Donald Trump for being shot at. It's so pervasive that you have to wonder what's coming next. At the press conference yesterday, the local sheriff made several comments that raise serious concerns about the Secret Service's willingness and ability to protect Donald Trump. Here's one of them. As the Krispy Chicken Sandwich from 7-Eleven, people always call me loud.

And I'm like, yeah, I know. I'm crispy. Did you expect me to whisper? If you want quiet, go eat some soup and reflect. Like, I know I'm a handful. I'm bold, I'm juicy. Throw some pickles and barbecue sauce on me, and baby I'm a whole meal. And with seven rewards, I'm just $4.

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is an 8K-47 style rifle with a scope. two backpacks which were hung on the fence that had a ceramic tile in them and a GoPro, which he was going to take pictures of. So those are being processed right now. The Secret Service agent that was on the course did a fantastic job. What they do is they have an agent that jumps one hole ahead of time to where the president was at. And he was able to spot this rifle barrel sticking out of the fence and immediately engage that individual. at which time the individual took off. In other words, there was no secure perimeter here.

There was no checkpoint that the shooter had to pass through. He could just walk up to the tree line with a rifle and set up a sniper's nest. And if that one agent had noticed the rifle barrel, then he would have been able to shoot Donald Trump. That's how poorly Donald Trump was being protected by the Secret Service two months after somebody tried to murder him on live television. And that's not because it's impossible to secure the golf course. the sheriff went on to admit that if Donald Trump were the sitting president, the whole golf course would have been secured. Nobody with a rifle would have been allowed anywhere near Donald Trump, much less within 500 yards of him. Watch.

How was this able to happen and for future reference, is there any of security of a golf course? Well, you've got to understand the golf course is surrounded by shrubbery. So when somebody gets into the shrubbery, they're pretty much out of sight. All right. And at this level that he is at right now, he's not to sit. president. If he was, we would have had this higher golf course around it. But because he's not, security is limited to the areas that the Secret Service deems possible. So I would imagine that the next time he comes at a golf course, there'll probably be a little more people around

the perimeter. But the Secret Service did exactly what they should have done. They provided exactly what the protection should have been. And their agent did a fantastic job. So this is the kind of protection that Donald Trump is receiving two months after the attempted assassination in Butler. Because he's not the president, the Secret Service are allowing armed men with rifles to roam around in the trees by his golf course. They just don't have the resources to set up a perimeter, supposedly. There's just no way the Secret Service has the budget to seal off the entire course. Everybody in the entire country knows that Joe Biden is in far less danger right now than Donald Trump. But he's the president. Donald Trump isn't. Therefore, people basically get to take pot shots at

Donald Trump from now until the election. That's effectively what the sheriff is saying. There are signs that at least there will be an actual investigation into this attempted assassination. Last night, Ron DeSantis wrote, quote, the state of Florida will be conducting its own investigation regarding the attempted assassination at Trump International Golf Club. The people deserve the truth about the would-be assassin and how he was able to get within 500 yards of the former president and current GOP nominee. Now, based on how the Biden administration stonewalled after the butler shooting, having Florida do its own investigation is obviously necessary step.

It shouldn't be necessary, but it is. We have a federal government that's actively trying to cover up the attempted murder of Donald Trump, based on the testimony of the Secret Service Director a month ago, and they're clearly not doing their best to protect Trump now. In particular, any connections between this shooter and Ukraine need to be thoroughly investigated. We need to know how the shooter learned about Trump's location on the golf course, especially because it wasn't published on any schedule. It wasn't publicly known that he'd be on the golf course. And the Secret Service needs to explain why Donald Trump isn't receiving anywhere near the level of protection that he should be receiving.

In the meantime, what's necessary is for everyone in the corporate press and the Democrat Party, who has pushed all of these lies about the end of democracy and so on to apologize profusely for the damage they've done to this kind of. country. Then they should resign and never hold another job in the media or the government ever again. Yesterday on CNN, the network that, you know, pushed so many Russiagate lies to begin with, there was one analyst who suggested that maybe some accountability might be in order. Watch. You know, Aaron, it's unprecedented in a civilized society. And I think we're becoming more and more uncivilized, sadly, with the political diatribes that are going on and the political, indictments of either candidate. And sadly, the finger-pointing at Trump has led to, you know,

you know, the line about the blood bath, talking about the auto industry, being used as if he's going to create a bloody coup if he loses. That kind of verbiage is something you use in a third-world country when you're talking about a dictator. And that sadly has led to, I think, these attempts on Trump's life. And I don't think it's going to end. And I think we just have to realize, look, we're political opponents. You and I might not agree on 50% of what we care about politically. It doesn't matter.

It doesn't mean we can't be friends, neighbors, relatives, and have a regular dialogue every day. And we have to get back to that. Talk about our differences, but not in a way that makes us feel like you're the enemy and I'm all good. A lot of truth to what he said. The problem is that there are no indications that this kind of calming down will actually happen. It didn't happen after Butler, and it's not going to happen now. From the rhetoric

that Democrats and the media are using, it's now abundantly clear that a lot of very powerful people want Donald Trump dead. They're not really even trying to hide it. It's also clear that the Secret Service isn't capable of preventing that outcome. As a result, the next two months will be unlike any other in American history. Trump supporters don't simply have to hope that their candidate wins the election. They also have to hope that Kamala Harris supporters won't kill their candidates. That's what they tried to do in Butler two months ago. It's what they tried to do on Sunday. And thanks to the self-appointed defenders of democracy and the corporate press and the leadership of the Democrat Party, it's all but assured that before long, they will try

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success. We were top five in the box office among all films currently in theaters. And in fact, we beat a widely released mainstream Hollywood film that also released this weekend called The Killers Game, I believe. And that film was in about a thousand more theaters than we were. were, and I mean, certainly had a much larger marketing budget and all that kind of stuff. So we finished the weekend with about $4.5 million. And by the way, our production budget on the film was $3 million.

So surpassed our production budget in three days, not too shabby, I have to say. And probably what I'm most proud of is that we're also in the top five for opening weekend box office for any film in our genre in the past decade. And we're also the top grossing documentary of this year. So it's all amazing. I'm humbled by it, grateful for it. I'm grateful to everybody who came out and supported the film. If you didn't come out and support it, then you're dead to me. Unless you support it this weekend, then I can forgive you. And this has also given me an appreciation that I never had before an understanding of how enormously difficult it is to compete in the film industry. And to begin with, it's really hard to make a movie. I mean, even making a bad movie is hard. I don't know that from experience.

My two movies are good, but I do know that just making a movie in general is just a hard thing to do. Making a good movie is even harder. Getting a movie into theaters is a Herculian task, we discovered. Getting a wide release once you're in theaters, even more so. And then having any kind of success in theaters, making it to the top five. Even the top 10 is like almost impossible. It doesn't seem impossible from the outside because we, you know, movies are in the top 10 every week, of course. But the vast majority of films that are made every year never appear in the top five in the box office.

You know, vast majority, you don't aren't there at all, aren't even in theaters. So, and in our situation, we were blessed to have 50,000. 1,500 screens on opening weekend, which is great for a documentary. But every other film, I believe, in the top 10, had more screens than us. The films in front of us had like double or triple the number of screens. Many of the films that finished behind us had, you know, hundreds more screens that we did, even a thousand more screens. Then there's the marketing budget.

You have to market your movie, of course. You have to get people in marketing a movie means really like marketing anything. else. It's like you can't just tell people about it. You've probably noticed that with how often we've talked about this film is because you can't just tell people about it once. You have to like drill it into their heads until until it's until they can recall it on their own, right? You want people just like unprompted. And with a movie, you want you want to get sort of get the public to the point where if you were to go up to them and say, hey, what movies are coming out this weekend? They'll name your own, your movie. It'll be the first thing they name.

And mainstream Hollywood films, of course, they have, this is the task for them. And they've got like $80 million, $100 million to spend on marketing so that even if you don't want to know that there are movies coming out this weekend, you'll know it. We had a tiny fraction of that, I can tell you. And so smaller, much smaller budget, many fewer screens. That's the obstacle that you have to get over. And this is not me certainly not complaining at all quite the opposite. I'm trying to express gratitude and all Because you know you just don't know You don't know how big the mountain is until you start climbing it very often And sometimes you start climbing it and then you look and you're like holy crap what do I get myself into But you got to press on ahead and in this case It has gone better than my wildest imagination to this point.

And the challenge is to build on the momentum. You know, we always knew this would be a word of mouth kind of operation for us. Because when you don't have the huge marketing budget, then your primary mode of marketing is just to get some people to see it. And then those people, hopefully, will market the movie for you if they love it. And fortunately, our word of mouth is very strong. We have a 99% verified audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, which means that 99% of the people who actually went and saw it,

like the movie, which to me is also pretty mind-blowing. And it's an interesting dichotomy because, you know, with Rotten Tomatoes, we're very accustomed to seeing this thing where the audience score for a film, especially if it's a film from a conservative, We all know the audience score is often like 90% or higher. And then you'll see that critic score and it's like 25%. So you've got the fresh audience score, the rotten critic score.

And we're all used to seeing that. In our case, it's an even more stark contrast because you've got a 99% score with the audience. And then from mainstream critics, we have no sense. score. They're not even going to score it. To this point, and maybe this will change today, maybe it'll change tomorrow, but to this point, precisely zero mainstream critics in mainstream publications have reviewed the film. They've all been sent the film, you know, and at this point, they certainly know that it exists, but to this point, zero of it, zero, have even reviewed it. So, when they don't agree with you politically, they'll reflexively give you a bad review.

What we're discovering is if they really, really don't agree with you. I mean, if they really hate you, then they'll just refuse to acknowledge that your movie exists at all. And, of course, I'm biased because it's my movie and I like the movie. But I think one of the problems that the mainstream critics are having, and one of the reasons why they're at this point not reviewing it, is that they know that if they review it, they're going to have to at least give us some credit. Like, they're not going to be able to come out and say that it's just a terrible movie. I'm sure they'll give it a bad review ultimately, right? But they'll give it bad enough that it can qualify as rotten on the rotten tomatoes score. But they'll have to

admit that, like, they'll have to give it, to give it any kind of honest review. they'd have to give it some props because it is a funny movie and I don't care who you are if you watch the movie you're going to laugh I don't care where you fall on the political spectrum you're going to laugh if you watch it and they don't want to have to do that they don't want to have to give us any props

they don't want to have to say that yeah Matt Walsh is a horrible bigot he's a terrible person here are all the problems with the movie but it is entertaining and I did laugh they don't want to say that and they're worried if they do say that that their own audience is going to be very angry. So that's the issue so far.

And like I said, maybe it'll change. I think that, you know, when you, this is what we discovered with what is a woman, when you have a film and you don't put it in theaters and you put it on the platform, one of the disadvantages there is that you're kind of staying in your own lane. And then kind of the mainstream media can justify ignoring it, because they could say, well, that's not, you know, it doesn't even count. Once you put it in theaters, and then especially if you're, if you, if you, uh, show up in the box office, then it's a lot harder to justify ignoring it.

So, um, maybe after the results this weekend, uh, they'll start reviewing it. And I mainly want them to review it just because I'm very interested in how they're going to navigate this. Like, it's, it's interesting to me. They, it's a, it's a real problem for them. it'd be much less of a problem. If it was a, if our, if our attempts at comedy in the film were just lame and unfunny and it didn't work, then I think we'd already have like 60 reviews.

Because they'd be very eager to come out and say, oh yeah, we watched that. It was totally, it was terrible. They're not going to be able to say that, so we'll see. We'll see what they do. But that's why, again, we appreciate your support on the film, deeply appreciate it. And if you haven't watched it yet, then please go to the theater this week or this weekend.

If you did watch it and you liked it, then tell your friends, post it on social media. This is how we're going to keep the engine chugging along in the box office here. All right. Tim Walls spoke at a rally in Wisconsin over the weekend, and his wife showed up. and treated us to the most, you know, probably the cringiest moment of the campaign so far came from Tim Walls' wife.

Let's watch that. But I kind of liked it when she did this. Turn the page. You like that? Okay, so I need you to be with me and practice with me. What are we going to do? We're going to turn the page. Oh, pretty good.

Do it again. Because when I see Wisconsin and I'm one of the... to watch you National Land TV because it's a pretty important place in Minnesota I'll help you practice it with this. You just show me this. Turn the page. Right? Turn the page.

And you know what else that looks like? Bye-bye. So this is obviously painfully cringe. I can barely watch it. And I mean, I can barely watch it. And I just released a cringe comedy with some of the cringiest scenes that you'll see in anything all year. And I was in the room for those cringes.

causing them in some cases. So I have a very high capacity for cringe, I will say, but that was too much even for me. And there's something else to you. Notice how she's talking to the audience, like there are a bunch of first graders. She comes off like a first grade teacher talking to her whatever six-year-old students or maybe like some kind of a children's TV show host, like the newest member of the Wiggles or something. This is a same thing that Kamala Harris does. This is a very common thing on the left, especially leftist women, where they have this tone and this cadence when they're talking to an audience of adults. And it's not endearing. It's not heartwarming or whatever it's supposed to be. It's patronizing. It's

infantilizing. It's insulting to our intelligence, which makes sense because they don't think that their audience is intelligent. They really do consider their voters to be a stupid infantile children. And, you know, some voters are stupid infantile children. And that's why they vote for somebody like Kamala Harris. And I guess they recognize that, which is why they talk to the audience that way. There was another moment that this one is from Tim Walls when it was his turn to speak. And he had some interesting ideas about how to make conversation with strangers. Let's watch that.

This thing's going to be a battle for. the next 52 days. It's going to be in rooms, one in rooms, just like this. It's going to be one door-to-door, call-to-call, $5 donation, trying to have that hard conversation in the produce aisle with the person you saw there at the grocery store and ask, have you voted yet. Yeah, that's the ticket. Go up to a stranger in the produce section and have a hard conversation about who they're voting for. Like, I'll tell you this. I'm not looking to have any conversation with anybody about anything in the produce section. Least of all, do I want to have a hard conversation? Like, I've never been in the produce aisle looking for a ripe

avocado and thought to myself, you know what I could really use right now? A difficult dialogue with someone. I get a hard conversation. That's what I'm looking for to go along with my avocado. I've never thought that nobody has. So I have different advice, which is leave strangers alone at the grocery store. Okay? I mean, they're surrounded by this political stuff all day long. Just leave them alone. All right, NBC News has this headline. First, co-ed submarine joins Navy fleet. The U.S. Navy made history on Saturday by commissioning its first ever co-ed submarine, the USS New Jersey, making a new era of inclusivity beneath the ocean surface. Inclusivity beneath the ocean surface. I don't know why that's funny to me.

USS New Jersey is now commissioned and ready for service. The Navy proudly announced in a post on X. The Navy's latest Virginia-class submarine joins the fleet. USS, New Jersey is the first fully integrated submarine built for both male and female sailors and the 100-year history of submarines. It's a testament to the strength that diversity brings to our Navy, according to the Navy. Men and women will operate the subs side by side for the first time, united in purpose, skill, and determination. In fact, there was a video that the Navy put out about this submarine, a little promotional video. Let's watch some of that.

As the USS New Jersey sets sail, it marks a historic milestone, not just for its cutting-edge capabilities, but for what it represents. New Jersey is representative of the future of the submarine force and integrating this boat is a long time coming. The first fully integrated submarine built for both male and female sailors, a testament to the strength that diversity brings to our Navy. Side by side, men and women will operate this vessel united in purpose, skill, and determination. This is really the first time that the Navy is truly planning for the future regarding manning and taking advantage of the entire population for finding those rarests. humans that can be and should be submariners. The USS New Jersey isn't just a powerhouse beneath the waves. It's a symbol of progress, breaking barriers as it protects our shores.

The 100-year history of submarines, it is an honor that we are the first to have this slice of that particular narrative. The future of naval warfare starts here, and it's more inclusive, stronger, and more capable than ever. Okay, so needless to say, well, it should be needless to say, there is zero advantage to having a co-ed submarine, just zero. There's not one problem that this solves. There's not one advantage that this allows us to exploit. It doesn't solve any problems, right? I mean, there is no problem that you would have on a submarine when you've, you've, You've got just men operating it, where you would say, you know what would fix this?

Having some women here. And nothing against women. It's just, I guarantee, in the 100-year history of submarines, that's just never happened. It's not happened one time. So there's no problems that it solves. I can think of plenty of problems created by this. There are plenty of issues that arise because you've decided to have a gender-neutral submarine, putting men and women in a confined space like this in a sort of high-pressure situation

creates problems. You've now introduced different kind of tensions, difficulties, conflicts, romances, potentially, that you likely wouldn't have otherwise. I mean, you still could have some of that, if it's only men, including the romances, unfortunately. But it's a lot less likely, right? And when you introduce women, then you've increased the chances of all that stuff. And look, I've made this point a million times.

I don't need to rehash the point here about why diversity, in fact, is not our strength. But here's a new thought that I'll add to this. And I'll just say this. I would respect the diversification agenda, the DEI agenda. I'd respect it more than I do, which is to say that I would go from like, negative 1,000% respect to negative 950% respect, if they would be just honest about it. Now, I know that the people who push this stuff are incapable of being honest. I know that the DEI agenda, the DEI agenda would not exist but for all the lying.

So asking them to not lie is, it's just, it goes against their nature. It's like asking a fish to climb a tree or something. It's just not, it's, it's, it can't happen. But still, if they were honest, they would not claim ludicrously that somehow it makes the Navy stronger to have co-ed submarines. They wouldn't say any of that. They would say, yes, it makes us weaker. Yes, this causes problems. Yes, it creates all kinds of new issues that did not exist before.

But it's worth it. It's a sacrifice worth making for the greater good. It's a moral decision that we're making. Now, that would still be wrong, obviously. It would still be insane. It is not a good moral decision. It's immoral. It's not a sacrifice worth making.

But my point is that this is their actual argument. So it would be honest. They'd be making what they would be articulating what their actual argument is. They do not think that a submarine will operate more effectively by having both men and women in it. They don't think that. They don't care how it operates. They don't care about the effectiveness. They don't care if people die. It's worth the sacrifice in their minds. So if they're being honest, they would say, yes, this probably makes things less effective, but effectiveness is not our top priority.

Okay, so we are, effectiveness used to be the top priority, but it's not anymore. That's their real argument. But they don't want to make that argument, even though it is their real argument, because they know they can't win that argument. That's an indefensible position to take, which is why they won't take it. Instead, they'll take some other position pretending that that's actually their argument when it isn't. Are you still struggling with back taxes or unfiled returns? The IRS is escalating collections by adding 20,000 new agents and sending millions of demand letters.

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while the elite studio releases ahead of us are playing in two to three times as many locations. But here's something that those major studios don't have a 99% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes with over 1,000 reviews. Plus, Amiracist is already verified hot on Rotten Tomatoes, and now we need to make week two even bigger. here's how we do it. Go to Emmaracist.com right now for tickets and showtimes near you.

Tell your friends, your family, your neighbors, coworkers. Tell everybody whether they're conservative or liberal, doesn't matter. Post on your social media accounts. And if we see that, we're going to share it. And we love everything that you're doing to promote the film and to keep filling those theaters. Thank you to everybody who joined us for opening weekend. We truly couldn't do any of this without your support. So let's keep this momentum going. Get your tickets now. at am irasist.com. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. I wrote a little song to remind you,

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The people who promoted the hysteria don't want to remind people of how ridiculous everything became. And those who endured the hysteria don't want to be reminded of it either. They're just grateful that it's over, you know, sort of over. So everyone just wants to collectively move on and memory whole the whole thing, which is actually what we've done with pretty much everything that happened in 2020. But every now and then, it can be a good idea to look back at articles and videos from periods of mass insanity. For one thing, it can be kind of entertaining.

And it can also be a reminder of how counterproductive and self-defeating all of the hysteria really is. It's also a way to kind of, it's a look at human psychology that's quite instructive. A lot of lessons that can be learned from it. We're all familiar with how the defund the police movement has backfired spectacularly to the point that even BLM activists are now clamoring for more police officers. But there are many more examples. Here, for example, is a news clip from four years ago when the Washington Redskins decided to change their name because George Floyd ingested a lethal amount of fentanyl halfway across the country. It was never really explained how the Washington Redskins were related in any way to George

Floyd's situation, but the news media went with that angle anyway. Watch. Washington team ownership announced Monday they will be retiring their name and logo. The logo isn't a mascot, though. It's based off a real man. Chief two guns white calf of the Blackfeet tribe. He had, he was very prominent as much as what he led to the black. Blackle was of integrity. He was a man of integrity. The team had used the logo since the 1970s. The logo had previously been an R

until Walter Blackie Wetzel, former chairman of the Blackfoot tribe and president of the National Congress of American Indians, persuaded the team to change it. The team maintained a relationship with the Wetzel family and the Blackfeet Nation over the years, and members of the tribe have performed traditional music and blessings at the team's stadium several times. The name and logo change comes after a letter signed by 87 investors and shareholders

with a total worth of $620 billion was sent to the sponsors Nike, Pepsi, and FedEx, requesting them to stop doing business with the team until the name was changed. The National Congress of American Indians praised the name change and said the previous name disrespected, demeaned and stereotyped all native people. Murray said he can't speak for every member of the more than 540, in the U.S., but personally can see how the name and the actions of some of the fans can be seen as unrespectful and degrading. You know, they would paint their faces and act out, you know, different put-on feathers

and whatever, and I think that's what really turned a lot of people off. Yes, people would paint their faces and act out during sporting events. These were unspeakable horrors that really turned a lot of people off back in 2020. You know, when you go to a sporting event, you're supposed to sit in silence and stare ahead, you're at a funeral or something, maybe politely clap your hands if your team scores a touchdown, but even that is frankly pushing it. So to recap, a few decades ago, the head of the National Congress of American Indians persuaded the Redskins to put the Blackfeet chief, a guy named John Two Guns White Calf,

on the helmet. And the team complied. They changed the logo from an R to an image of the chief. And they held a bunch of regular on-field events featuring the Indians as a way to introduce their culture to people living in the Washington, D.C. area. Everything was going fine. No one had any complaints. In fact, in 2016, a Washington Post poll found that the overwhelming majority of, quote-unquote, Native Americans didn't care about the Redskins name. Quoting from the Post in 2016, nine and ten Native Americans say that they are not offended by the

Washington Redskins name, according to a new Washington Post poll that shows how few ordinary Indians have been persuaded by a national movement to change the football team's moniker. the survey of 504 people across every state and the district reveals that the minds of Native Americans have remained unchanged since a 2004 poll by the Annenberg Public Policy Center found the same results. Responses to the post questions about the issue were broadly consistent regardless of age, income, education, political party, or proximity to reservations. Well, then, in early 2020, Berkeley ran another poll. This one supposedly showed that nearly half of Indians in this country were offended by the name, suddenly. So assuming those results are accurate, it shows how easy it is to generate fake outrage. I mean, nothing changed from 2016 to 2020 except the election of Donald Trump, after which point,

everything became retroactively offensive. And then, of course, everything really spiraled out of control. In mid-2020, George Floyd tried to pass that fake $20 bill. BLM started rioting. And within days, the National Congress of American Indians, now taking money from George Soros, came up with a new demand. Instead of wanting the team to have an Indian mascot and name, they wanted the exact opposite. They claimed that the Redskins name and the mascot were dehumanizing and demanded that the team get rid of them.

And they contributed to a campaign to get a bunch of investors to threaten some sponsors, which ultimately succeeded. They even threatened Nike, which is kind of amusing. Nike has no problem with sweatshop labor, but an Indian mascot is where they draw the line. And of course, ultimately, the pressure campaign worked. Instead of the Washington Redskins, we now have the Washington Commanders. So how is all that working out four years later? How has society been improved by changing the name Redskins and getting rid of the image of a famous Indian chief? What exactly has been the benefit of eliminating all of those Indian themed events from the NFL?

Well, judging by an article on Fox News yesterday, things are not going well. Quote, quote, the family of the Blackfeet chief who served as the face of the Washington Redskins for 48 years wants his image back on the fields of the NFL, relatives told Fox News Digital. The descendants of John Two Guns White Calf also want his incredible life story retold to, to a new generation of Americans who seek unity and value multiculturalism. The article quotes somebody named Thomas Whitecalf, who's apparently a nephew of the chief, he says, quote, the fans want him back and we want him back. Our ancestor was the most famous and most photographed native in history. Two Guns was also the face on the Indian head nickel. I'm proud of him. The Blackfeet are proud of him. Fox News also reports that the

White Calf family was never consulted and never supported the removal of two-gun white calf's image from the NFL. And apparently now they've decided to speak up about it. It's unclear what they were doing four years ago. The article doesn't address that point, which isn't too surprising. It's basically a puff piece for the Blackfeet people that they got for the interview. And that's why there's the usual lionizing of Indian tribes as if they adopted all modern progressive values, even when that's clearly not the case. From what I can tell, just doing research online for two seconds. The Blackfeet, well, they were like any other Indian tribe. They did some pretty horrible things, just like any other tribe and civilization throughout history.

There are certainly signs that they did not value multiculturalism, whatever that's worth. And it cost them quite dearly on a few occasions. For example, according to the government of Montana, quote, a band of Blackfeet raided a Shoshone camp, not knowing that the Shoshonee had smallpox. The raid resulted in a smallpox epidemic among the Blackfeet band. So maybe it'd be honest, it would be best to just be honest about this and just say that the Redskins mascot and the team name were fine because, you know, they were interesting. They were grounded in history. They weren't generic and dull like the Washington commanders. They referenced real people that played a role in American history. And, you know, those people were violent. There was a lot of fighting. It was a warfaring culture. All Indian cultures were. warfare and cultures, which is, again, is not that different from any other culture that existed

200, 300 years ago. But anyway, that's why it's also fitting for a football team. And nobody in the modern era was ever using Redskins as a slur either. So that should be enough. We don't have to pretend that this tribe cared about multiculturalism or whatever. Once we accept that framing, we're right back where we started. But the broader point is that this is a a perfect example of how obviously self-defeating the BLM hysteria from 2020 has turned out to be. The left demanded the removal of Native American imagery from cultural life, and now the Native Americans aren't happy about it. Who could have possibly predicted that outcome? At this rate, it won't be long until the Indian woman is back on the tubs of Lando Lakes butter. This is another one of

those humiliating episodes that's worth revisiting very briefly. If you can bear it, let's just walk down memory lane to see how social justice was imposed on butter. Here it is. You might start to notice something a little bit different on the shelves of the dairy aisle over the next few months. Landl Lakes, America's best-selling butter brand, according to food and wine, sent out a press release in February announcing a major redesign of its packaging to celebrate its upcoming centennial. Company CEO Beth Ford said in the release, As Landolakes looks toward our 100th anniversary, we've recognized we need packaging that reflects

the foundation and heart of our company culture. The new packaging is certainly very tasteful, retaining the green trees and sky-blue waters reminiscent of the company's home state of Minnesota. But there's an obvious missing element, the famous Butter Maiden, a Native American mascot who, according to the Twin Cities pioneer press, went by the name of Meeky, While Landau Lakes did not publicly kill her off like Planters did with Mr. Peanut, its designers quietly removed her from the box. So to celebrate their company values, they quite literally erased the Indian woman, and then they kept her land. And that didn't strike anyone at Landau Lakes as strange at the time.

And there was the Aunt Jemima episode as well. So our moral superiors in corporate America told us that everything about this country is racist, even our syrup, and we had to go about correcting it. These same people would probably rather we never talk about any of this insanity again. It's very embarrassing for them. But it's important to do it because otherwise we'll fall into the same trap again. And one of the reasons that am I racist has been successful is that a lot of people on all sides of the political spectrum are aware of how ludicrous all of this is. They can watch an hour and a half long film that mocks many of the absurdities that arose out of the moral panic of 2020. And they can laugh at it.

and nothing upsets the moral scold who tried to divide and destroy this country four years ago more than that, more than mockery and laughter. And that is why the investors and activists who canceled the Washington Redskins back in 2020 are today themselves canceled. That'll do for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow.

Have a great day. Godspeed. Republicans or Nazis. You cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. Growing up, I never thought much of you. about race. Never really seemed to matter that much, at least not to me. Am I racist?

I would really appreciate it if you love. I'm trying to learn. I'm on this journey. I'm going to sort this out. I need to go deeper undercover. They don't say I'm racist. Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert. Here's my certification.

What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness. This is more for you and less for you. Is America inherently racist? The word inherent is challenging there. I want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument. America is racist to its bone. So inherently.

Yeah, this country is a piece of... White folks, trash, white supremacy, white woman, white boy. Is there a black person around or what happened? Black person right here? Does he not exist? Hi, Robin? Hi. What's your name?

I'm Matt. I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful. Never be too careful. In theaters now, rated PG-13.