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Episode Date: June 10, 2025Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the chaos in Los Angeles isn’t just being driven by illegal immigrants. There are plenty of legal immigrants in the mix, too. We need to completely reframe the discussi...on around immigration. Illegal immigration is not the only problem. Also, a major international Pride event happened in D.C. a few days ago. The turnout was a third of what the organizers hoped for. And, it’s been repeatedly claimed that illegal immigrants in California actually aren’t “illegal” because California originally belonged to Mexico. This reasoning is flawed in many different ways. It shows us yet again how the school system has totally failed to instill even the most basic understanding of history. Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/4bEQDy6 Ep.1611 - - - DailyWire+: Save 40% on DailyWire+ Gift Memberships for Father's Day with code DAD40 at https://dailywire.com/gift Check out Jordan B. Peterson’s new show, Parenting, exclusively ON DailyWire+: https://bit.ly/4moWlu0 Get your Matt Walsh flannel here: https://bit.ly/3EbNwyj - - - Today's Sponsors: Grand Canyon University - Find your purpose at Grand Canyon University. Visit https://gcu.edu today. Momentous - Use code WALSH at https://livemomentous.com for 35% off your first subscription. Shopify - Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial and start selling today at https://shopify.com/walsh Tax Network USA - For a complimentary consultation, call today at 1 (800) 958-1000 or visit their website at https://TNUSA.com/WALSH Plus you’ll get 10% off all services through July 4th as part of their celebration of Our Nation’s Birthday. - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3Rv1VeF Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3KZC3oA Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3eBKjiA Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RQp4rs - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Today, Matt Wall Show, the chaos in Los Angeles isn't just being driven by illegal immigrants.
There are plenty of legal immigrants in the mix, too. We need to completely reframe the discussion around immigration.
Elegal immigration is not the only problem, and we'll talk about that. Also, a major international pride event happened in D.C. a few days ago.
The turnout was a third of what the organizers hoped for, and it's been repeatedly claimed that illegal immigrants in California actually aren't illegal because California originally belonged to Mexico.
This reasoning is flawed in many different ways.
It shows us yet again how the school system has totally failed to instill even the most basic understanding of history.
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And you're talking about any political issue, whether it's about immigration or foreign policy
or anything else, one of the hardest things to do is step back and recognize how the debate
has been framed.
This is part of the conversation that takes place before you get involved.
The Overton window is set.
Mainstream national news sources, politicians, various activist groups, all work together
to set the acceptable boundaries of dialogue.
And they're very good at it.
You often don't even realize what they're doing, or at least you often don't realize
what they're doing until some kind of catastrophic event takes place, the kind of event that
makes their manipulation too obvious to ignore.
Now, at this point, it's safe to say that the very sudden descent of Los Angeles into
anarchy, or at least further anarchy, is one of those kinds of events. In particular, it's a
kind of domestic disaster that suggests it's time to reassess how the debate over foreign migration
has been framed over the past few decades. After all, neither political party warned us that
U.S. immigration policy would turn major American cities into war zones in the span of just a
couple of generations. That was not on the menu of possible outcomes that were ever presented to
us. Instead, the people in charge were careful to silence any dissenters like Pat Buchanan. They were
cast out as crazies not to be trusted. And now after all these years, we're finally seeing
undeniable proof that actually people like Pat Buchanan were right about immigration policy all
along. Our leaders were either inept or they were deliberately trying to destroy the United
States. In either case, their framing is no longer relevant. Therefore, it's time for a new way
of looking at foreign migration.
You know, the old way of looking at it
in almost every mainstream context,
has been to defend legal migration
while acknowledging that illegal migration
is undesirable.
And in practice, it's always been a debate
between pro-anesty, pro-open borders,
Democrats, on the one hand,
who prefer to award legal status to foreign nationals,
thus erasing their status as illegal aliens.
And then pro-enforcement conservatives
who want to deport as many criminal aliens as possible while maintaining legal migration,
in theory.
And those have been your two options.
And at various points, both Democrats and Republicans have had the chance to enact their proposed
policies along these lines.
Republicans have historically failed to enact their supposed preferred policies,
while Democrats have succeeded in enacting theirs, which is why Mexican flags are
currently flying over Los Angeles.
So the question naturally arises, what would a more successful immigration
policy look like. What is the third option that we haven't pursued and that hasn't really been
presented to us, at least in mainstream discourse? Well, it's actually pretty simple. Instead of
simply targeting illegal aliens, the president should use his authority to immediately terminate
all migration from the third world. We should start being extremely selective about the
legal migration we allow, which means not allowing an unchecked flood of third world. We should start being extremely selective.
third world migration into this country. The United States has for far too long functioned as
essentially a giant soup kitchen or a homeless shelter for the entire world. And it's not sustainable.
We are out of space. We are out of money. We are out of resources. And as we watch what's happening
in Los Angeles, we're also out of patience. Now for one thing, the so-called legal immigration
system as it currently exists is nothing more than a giant pipeline for fraud and scams.
To just give one example, if you had to guess, here's a question.
How many foreign nationals do you think abuse our student visa system to enter as legal migrants only to overstay their visas?
What's the percentage?
Well, it turns out that in the fiscal year 2023, the percentage was about 3.5%.
And that might not seem like a large figure.
But then you have to ask, are people from certain countries overstaying their visas at much higher rates than everybody else?
That's the interesting question, and nobody seems to want to talk about it.
And that's because the answer to that question tells you everything you need to know.
According to DHS data, the third world is responsible for astronomical rates of visa overstates.
51% of student visas that were granted to the African nation of Chad, for example, ultimately resulted in criminal overstays.
So did 24% of student visas awarded to citizens of Haiti.
21% of student visas awarded to citizens of Venezuela.
36% of student visas awarded to citizens of Somalia.
Keep in mind, again, that the overall rate is 3.5%.
Now, in any other context, nobody would tolerate numbers like this.
Imagine you ran like a small business, and 36% of the time you relied on a contractor
for some important service, they'd send a deadbeat to your property who refused to leave.
I mean, you'd immediately stop dealing with that contractor, obviously.
You'd find some other company to do business with.
We're not talking about one or two bad outcomes here.
We're talking about systemic fraud.
And by the way, it's not like student visas are the exception.
Every kind of visa is abused by the third world every single year in large number.
In fiscal year 2022, 62% of migrants from Burma on a business or pleasure visa managed to stay in this country for too long.
So did 44% of Venezuelans, 18% of Somalians, 28% of Syrians, and 20% of Kenyans.
Meanwhile, for comparison, the visa overstate rate on business or place.
pleasure visas from developed countries like United Kingdom, Sweden, Switzerland, South Korea,
Taiwan, Greece, France, and Germany were all less than 1%.
Now, I'll give you 10 guesses to figure out what could possibly explain this disparity.
Although, of course, as countries like UK and Germany transform into the third world,
we can expect that the disparity will probably decrease year after year.
But in any case, anybody with common sense who looks at these numbers,
would understand immediately that migration from third world countries, whether you call it legal or not,
needs to be discontinued. The most dysfunctional countries on the planet, which obviously offer nothing to the U.S.,
because they aren't even able to care for themselves, are the ones that are clearly taking advantage of us.
They don't respect the rule of law. They don't respect our customs or even our language.
there are very good reasons why we don't want third world dysfunction in this country.
And it doesn't matter whether or not they wait in line or take a citizenship test.
That's not the most important factor.
Their level of interest in our country doesn't really matter.
What matters is whether these people are on balance, coming here to contribute to our country or take from it.
And the answer is usually the latter.
We are a country.
We are not a giant bag of goodies that they give to children at the end of a birthday party.
We're not an enormous prize counter at an arcade where all the prizes are free.
We cannot afford to provide and provide and provide and provide to everyone else all across the world indefinitely.
We just can't do this anymore.
Our cities are increasingly descending into chaos that mirrors the third world because we have imported that chaos into our country and we have to stop.
It's just that simple.
Now, just underscore the importance of reframing the migration debate.
Take a look at what's happened to Canada in just the past half decade.
This chart shows net international migration in the country from the 1950s to the present.
And as you could see in the chart, for most of Canada's history, they had migration under control, relatively speaking.
And then in just a matter of four years, all of a sudden, they're completely overwhelmed.
And guess what?
this surge was not the result of illegal immigration.
Hordes of immigrants didn't set out on pontoon boats and stormed the beaches of Newfoundland.
Instead, they just applied for asylum, the legal way.
Never mind the fact that there's no legitimate reason for most of these people to seek asylum.
They simply requested asylum in unprecedented numbers, and Canada's government went along with it.
The door's wide open.
Canada doesn't even run criminal background checks on applicants for most visas.
while in fact, if these immigrants need asylum at all, often they need asylum from law enforcement in their own countries, which is why they're coming here or coming to Canada in this case.
And this is a point that the Foreign Affairs Minister of India made himself publicly a few months ago.
Even he's looking at Canada and wondering what the hell they're doing.
And he warned that they are importing a lot of criminals from his country with no vetting whatsoever.
Watch.
Number of gangland people, number of people with organized crime links from Punjab have been made welcome in Canada.
We have been telling Canada saying, look, these are wanted criminals from India.
You have given them visas.
They have come many of them in false documentation.
And yet you allow them to live there.
If you decide to import for political purposes people with very dubious, actually very negative background.
there will be issues.
They have, in some cases, created problems in their own country
as a result of their own policies.
Now, on the one hand, you'd think that the Foreign Affairs Minister of India
would be grateful that Canada is taking gang members and criminals off their hands.
I wish we could send our criminals to Canada.
That would be convenient and kind of funny.
But apparently, there's some kind of ongoing diplomatic feud
between India and Canada involving assassinations and Sikh separatists,
which I won't pretend to know anything about or care about.
I mean, after all, part of the appeal of controlling your borders is that you don't have to worry about foreign feuds that don't concern you.
But when you import millions of people from foreign lands, their conflicts become your conflicts.
And Canada is now dealing with that reality, even as the quality of life in Canada declines year after year.
And the point of this example in Canada is that, again, you can't solve the immigration problem just by making all of the immigration legal.
As the Foreign Affairs Minister in India pointed out, you can legally accept
the wrong people into your country.
Now, we like to talk about immigration like it's all the same, right?
But it isn't.
And you're not allowed to point this stuff out, but there is a distinct difference between
immigration from, say, Somalia and immigration from, say, Italy or Ireland.
One of the big differences is that Italian and Irish immigrants have contributed to this country
and helped to build it in ways that Somali immigrants simply never have.
That is a historical reality that can't be denied.
But in the present, unchecked Somali immigration has brought increased crime, increased violence, and huge rates of fraud to every community that's had to cope with it.
This, again, cannot be denied.
It is a simple fact.
And the question is whether we are ever going to acknowledge that fact and do anything about it, or if we're going to continue acting like Somalis have some kind of cosmic entitlement written.
in the stars to come to our country whenever and however they please.
Now things have gotten so bad that even our elected leaders in this country are not only
not loyal to the U.S., but in some cases aren't even in the country legally.
A state lawmaker in Minnesota named Koli Vang Her, who's from Vietnam, just admitted
that she's living in this country illegally, and she's proud of it, apparently.
Watch.
Because his mother had died, my father as the one processing the paperwork.
put my grandmother down as his mother.
And so I am illegal in this country.
My parents are illegal here in this country.
Now, there is no excuse for why this person isn't already on a plane back to Vietnam or Guantanamo Bay.
I mean, if we're going to measure how serious the Trump administration is about enforcing immigration law,
this woman's status is a pretty good bellwether.
Here you have a confession from some dopey politician who's drawing a salary from taxpayers
and creating nothing of value in return.
So let's start with her.
And then when she's deported, we could shut down all immigration from Vietnam,
where, incidentally, they overstay their visas at around twice the rate of the average country.
Now, this is not rocket science.
You can look at the quality of the migrants coming from certain countries.
You can look at the quality of those countries, the state of those countries.
And you can ask you can do the logical, sane, fair thing,
and ask yourself, well, do we want that here?
Here's all this dysfunction, all the terrible things happening in that country.
Do we want to bring that into our country or not?
Democrats will pretend to be outraged by rhetoric like this, but of course they use it against white people all the time.
I mean, even when it makes no sense, they're happy to claim out loud that white people are the real third world migrants.
Here, for example, is a Minnesota lawmaker named Lee Think.
Think is a man who's claiming to be a woman.
And in case, yes, in case you're wondering, elected officials, Minnesota apparently had a deranged meeting about immigration enforcement yesterday, probably because they're trying to inspire riots in their state as well.
They're looking longingly at Los Angeles and feeling sort of envious.
And they'd love to see some of that happening in Minneapolis, which maybe it will start soon enough.
But in any event, here's Lee Fink.
Listen.
We have worked so hard to become a magnet for people.
from foreign countries. We are desperate to be a magnet for people from foreign countries. Do you want to
solve your labor shortages? Do you want to grow the economy? Do you want to see more businesses
created that develop the future of the Minnesota's communities? Do you know who does that work? It
ain't white people from the U.S. I am sorry, our track record on building new things in this country,
it ain't whites.
Yeah, what have white people ever built? You know, besides space shuttles, cars, the steam engine, the printing press, the telescope, computers, telephones, St. Peter's Basilica, Notre Dame infrastructure. It'd save millions of people globally, especially in Africa and Asia, the Magna Carta, the Constitution, Western civilization itself. Other than all that, what exactly have white people done? You know, the Somalis, they invented a spongy bread called Mufo. And we just can't compare to that. We should stop trying.
Now, it's not an accident that this same lawmaker also proposed a bill that would make it illegal to discriminate against sex offenders who target children.
It's also not an accident that every single argument from the left that's intended to justify these riots in the end simply demonstrates why we need to suspend third world migration entirely.
To give one more example, watch L.A. Mayor Karen Bass explain that the riots only occurred because the Trump administration dared to enforce federal immigration law.
And apparently, that's supposed to excuse the violence.
You enforce the law.
How dare you? And then for good measure, Bass explains that the riots are mostly peaceful as explosions are visible on the screen right next to it. Watch.
I just have to say that if you dial back time and go to Friday, if immigration raids had not happened here, we would not have the disorder that went on last night. I will tell you that it is peaceful now. But we do not know where and when the next raids will be. That is the concern because people in the city have.
have a rapid restampance network. If they see ice, they go out and they protest. And so it's
just a recipe for pandemonium that is completely unnecessary. Nothing was happening here. Los Angeles
was peaceful before Friday. Do you think the National Guard is needed now? No, I don't think
the National Guard is needed now. Things in L.A. are calm. I will tell you that I'm saddened
by the extent of the vandalism in the form of graffiti all through the downtown area.
But it is important for people to know that even in downtown, this is isolated to a few streets.
This is not citywide civil unrest taking place in Los Angeles.
This is becoming something of a staple of these L.A. riots.
It happened at least three times now.
They claim the riots are peaceful, even as everyone can see the truth directly next to them.
And that's a pretty good sign that Democrats are struggling with their messaging, to say the least.
They know they can't condemn the violence and take steps to stop it because the rioters are all Democrat voters.
So instead, we're left with incoherence. Gavin Newsom is out there begging for Trump to arrest him because otherwise, precisely nobody is sympathetic to his position.
Admittedly, some Democrats are more incoherent than others. Here, for example, is the president of the National Education Association, the largest teachers union in the country.
They represent public school teachers and faculty all across the country.
You'd expect, or hope at least, that the president of the union would be maybe stable and well-spoken in public.
But yesterday, she opened her mouth and revealed that, alas, she is neither of those things.
Watch.
We the people!
We the people!
The people!
To life, liberty and the pursuit of justice!
You know, if there's any upside to these riots, it's helping to expose people like this.
They just can't help themselves.
The insurrection that's underway in Los Angeles has made it very clear, once again,
that today's Democrats are the single most incompetent political party that this country has ever seen, hands down.
But we've known that already for quite some time.
And more importantly, the insurrection has also made it clear that the existing framework of the immigration debate simply is not working.
the idea that we have some kind of obligation to allow anyone into this country who wants to come
is absurd. No other nation on earth outside of the Western world operates this way or is expected
to operate this way. Non-Western countries tend to be very choosy about who they allow in,
as well they should be. That's their right. It's in the interest of their own self-preservation,
which should be the top interest of their leaders.
For example, India just recently revoked all visas issued to all Pakistani nationals in their country.
And there hasn't been much global outcry over this.
And there shouldn't be.
India has every right to revoke visas to whatever group they choose.
It's their country.
They can decide who's there.
They don't even know an explanation.
If they say, well, we don't want you here.
Well, that's it.
It's their country, not yours.
Get out.
And revoking visas.
for Pakistanis, given the state of affairs between those two nations, obviously makes a lot of
sense. But again, even if it didn't make sense to us, it still would be none of our business.
It's their country. It's just like your house. You can, you don't have to give, if somebody's a
guest in your house and you tell them to leave, you don't have to, you don't have to,
you don't have to convince them that they have a good reason to ask you to leave.
They told you to leave. Get the hell out. That's it. I could have any reason or no reason.
Indian leaders have a responsibility to protect Indian citizens, not Pakistani citizens.
And that's the kind of thing that we all intuitively understand, provided that it's a country with a non-white majority.
But for Western countries with white majorities, especially the United States,
we're expected to prioritize the well-being of foreign nationals over the well-being of our own people, our own families.
And that is the only possible reason why we would allow unfettered
migration from the third world countries from the third world in the first place.
I mean, we obviously aren't doing that for our own sake.
Okay, despite what any leftists will claim about all the great benefits of importing
the third world, they don't believe that.
That's not really why they want to do it.
Like, no one actually thinks that our country is stronger with tens of millions of
third world immigrants than it would be otherwise.
No one really thinks that.
my own children don't benefit from importing the third world into our country, but the children of third world migrants do benefit.
Well, guess what?
I care more about my kids than theirs, and my government should care more about my kids than theirs also.
I'll say that again, just to be clear, my government should care more about me and my children than about four children.
than about foreign nationals and their children.
And if that sentiment shocks or scandalizes you,
that is a good sign that your mind is hopelessly diluted
by left-wing open borders propaganda
to the point that you have become deranged.
Because what I'm talking about, again,
is basic self-preservation, basic national preservation.
Every other country outside of the West
functions this way instinctively,
and without a second thought.
And so should we.
But we have it.
And it's led to many terrible outcomes,
including now open warfare in Los Angeles.
And if we're being honest,
that warfare is being waged by both legal and illegal immigrants
from the third world.
And that's why if we want to prevent this warfare
from spreading far beyond Los Angeles,
both groups need to be told the same message.
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The Post-Millennial has a report about what was supposed to be the biggest pride event in the world.
It didn't work out very well.
Attendance was way down, and we're seeing this trend all over the place.
Pride is collapsing, as we have chronicled on this show.
But I want you to pay attention to the excuse that the LJGELD
LGBT activists are using for why this is happening, in particular for this event, reading now for
Post-Molennial says Sunday marked the final day of World Pride 2025, which was held in Washington, D.C.
this year, the first time in the U.S. since 2019.
Attendance numbers for the biannual festival, especially among international attendees,
were reportedly down.
Ashley Smith, board president of Capital Pride Alliance, told the Associated Press,
international numbers were noticely down with some would-be attendees opting not to travel to the U.S.
in protest of President Donald Trump's policies over fears of harassment.
Smith said that should disturb us and mobilize us.
Heading into the final weekend, which included the Capital Pride parade, the BBC reported that event organizers dropped their estimated crowd size to around one third of previous estimates.
Ryan Boss, executive director of Capital Pride Alliance, told NPR, we anticipate bookings to be much higher at the time for World Pride and do know that the climate, the concern for folks internationally to travel to the United States.
States is real. Montreal-based data analyst Alice Sarager, whose transgender had initially planned
on attending the event but was concerned about traveling to the U.S. It is a risk to now come
over and especially as a trans woman, Saragher said. So attendance was about 30% of what they
projected, which is hilarious and great. And what's the reason they give? Well, we heard about
it in the article. I also have a report from something called Queer News Tonight.
And I know you're thinking that, well, queer news tonight is what they call the evening programming block over on MSNBC.
But actually, it's a whole separate thing.
This is a whole, there's a whole separate thing they do called Queer News Tonight.
And they had a report on this issue as well.
Let's watch that.
World Pride, D.C. only meets 33% of projected attendance and revenue, mostly over concerns of fear.
World Pride in Washington finished last night in the shadow of the Capitol and the White House.
But largely, the news promised by World Pride organizers had disappointed.
reporting results for attendance and revenues.
World Pride may not even end up to be the largest LGBTQ event in America in 2025.
In January, the event organizers had projected that the celebration, which coincides with
the 50th anniversary of Washington's first Friday March, would attract 3 million visitors
and contribute nearly 800 million to the local economy.
But their expectations have now dropped to about a third of their previous estimates, end quote.
destination DC, the official tourism organization for the city reports that overall occupancy
over the weekend in Washington, D.C. was down 3% compared to the same weekend in 2024.
This means that the visibility of pride may not have drawn the expected huge international
visitors. The downturn of the entire city may suggest concerns related to World Pride may
have kept even more tourists away. Washington's mayor, Muriel Bowser, discussed the concerns
of the weekend when she acknowledged the visitors, saying, quote,
feel scared that an environment is developing that is anti-LGBQ,
but we can't live in fear.
We have to live our lives and be as best prepared as we can, end quote.
I have to say, I mean, just a little bit of feedback,
a little bit of, you know, constructive criticism,
very poor performance by the news anchor there.
She can barely read the prompter.
I expected more from Queer News Tonight.
When I heard about Queer News Tonight, I thought, well, that name,
must be synonymous with broadcasting excellence.
So I'm shocked by the mediocre quality of that report.
But in any case, so this was supposed to be the big international pride event.
They only do it once every two years.
Organizers were expecting a lot of pent-up demand.
They thought it would be a huge turnout.
And instead, they got a third of the crowd they expected, which, again, hilarious and great.
But what is the reason they offer?
Well, what's the real reason for this? We know the real reason, as we've talked about, is that the pride movement, so called, the quote-unquote gay rights movement, the LGBT movement, whatever label you want to put on it, is itself collapsing. And it's been exposed for what it is. People are tired of it. They're fed up with it. They're exhausted by it. And I think a critical mass of people just aren't.
aren't buying it anymore. And I think probably a critical mass of people never bought it,
but pretended to. And so what has really changed over the last three or four years is that
no, but people aren't pretending anymore. They're not acting like they're okay with this.
But what are the LGBT activists saying? Well, they say it's because all the LGBT activists
were scared to come here. It's a fear that keeps them all the way.
And we heard that from the Canadian, quote unquote, trans woman who said that he didn't want to come to the U.S. because he's scared.
And apparently, according to the media and the organizers, that was the prevailing sentiment that led to a reduction in the crowd size by like 70%.
Now, never mind the fact that these alleged fears are totally delusional.
LGBT people face no threat, no danger in this country at all.
That's why they have to make up hate crimes against themselves.
like we talked about last week, they have to invent these hate crimes because actual hate crimes against LGBT people are just not happening, basically non-existent.
We've talked before about this with trans-identified people, and we've established that the murder rate for trans people in this country is actually lower than the murder rate for the general population.
You are less likely to be killed if you're trans than if you are not trans.
That's what the data tells us.
So the whole idea that they would be scared of something, it's like a child being scared of the monster under the bed.
It's completely imaginary.
But that's not even the point.
The point to me is that these people are by their own testimony, total cowards.
Just think about the cowardice here.
By their own admission, they're absolute cowards.
sure there's nothing to actually be afraid of but they supposedly think there's something to be
afraid of and rather than face that fear and show up and march for their ridiculous cause
they just run away en masse according to them 70% of them ran away because they were afraid
And that's what you notice about LGBT activists of their many vices.
Cowardous is up at the top.
They're constantly talking about how scared they are.
There's no group of people on earth, especially no group of political extremists,
have ever been as just as scared as LGBT activists constantly are.
And they're constantly telling us how afraid they are all the time of everything.
just the most fearful, scared people on the planet, and they don't face their fears. They don't
fight on in spite of their fears. No, they just run away. They hide. At the slightest hint of any
possible pushback, they run for the hills. An amazing level of cowardice. And why is that? Well, it's because
LGBT pride, so-called, is not a real cause. It's not a real movement.
It is an expression of self-centeredness.
That's what pride is.
It's right there in the name.
It's pride.
Narcissism, self-obsession.
That's all it is.
And of course, people are not willing to put anything on the line for the sake of selfishness.
Risking your life, or risking it in your imagination anyway, for the sake of selfishness would defeat the whole purpose.
So they're not willing to do that.
And we get this just totally cowardly display.
All right.
And compare that, by the way, compare that to other groups of activists, say like pro-lifers, for example.
Pro-lifers during the Biden administration had actually had something to be afraid of,
actually had something to worry about.
because the Biden administration was going around and arresting pro-lifers and throwing them in federal prison, sometimes for years at a time.
Okay, that's not happening to LGBT activists.
There's no campaign to go round these people up and throw them in prison, even though many of them do commit crimes.
And in that case, they should be rounded up and thrown in prison.
But there's no campaign to do that.
The Trump administration isn't doing that. It was actually happening to pro-lifers.
And yet pro-life activists, they didn't stop their pro-life activism.
They still showed up for the March for Life every single year.
They didn't all run home and hide under their beds.
That's actual courage.
But that's what you expect to see because pro-lifers, like, what is the pro-life movement?
They're speaking up not for themselves, but for someone else.
There's no denying that even if you're pro-abortion, even if you hate pro-lifers,
you can't reasonably deny the fact that pro-lifers are in it because they want to protect babies.
They don't benefit from this personally.
A pro-life activist doesn't have anything personally at stake.
They're not threatened by abortion laws because they've already been born.
So they're there for someone else. And when you're motivated to protect someone else, that
already requires a certain amount of moral courage and fortitude. And so it's no surprise to see
pro-life activists acting with courage. But LGBT activists are in it for themselves, like,
admittedly so. Admittedly, again, it's in there in the name and pride, but they're
they are marching for the sake of their own ability to act however they want in public and
dance around naked in public and all that kind of stuff. So it is all naturally very self-centered.
And when you have a self-centered movement, you're not going to find the kind of courage and
selflessness that you find in these real political movements like the pro-life movement.
All right, here's, or I should say, a real civil rights movement is the pro-life movement.
I mean, they're both political movements, but the pro-life movement is a real civil rights movement.
whereas the LGBT Pride movement is not.
All right, here's a fun story with a happy ending.
There's a popular account, it was a popular account, on X called LA Scanner.
It's a leftist account.
And during the LA riots over the past few days, this account started posting information about ice raids.
And then it also started posting information about where ice agents could be found.
And I'm not going to put any of the screenshots up on the screen, obviously, because I don't want to spread any of this information.
but as one example, he somehow found out about a hotel where some ICE agents were allegedly staying,
and he posted the hotel with the exact address.
He was also posting home addresses and so on and so on.
Why was he doing this?
Well, obviously, he was hoping that violent mobs would show up where these people were living and sleeping,
and a cost or assault them.
I mean, why else would you post that information?
There's no other reason to post it.
So now for the happy ending.
Apparently, some of the good folks on X didn't take very kindly to this.
And so they decided to fight back, fight fire with fire.
And they found out who was behind this anonymous L.A. scanner account.
And they posted his personal information.
They also reported him to law enforcement because what he was doing was obviously highly illegal on several different levels.
And soon the guy behind the account named Jack Quillan was forced to issue a public apology.
and delete his entire account and announce that he will turn himself into law enforcement.
Oh, and it was also revealed that this guy is a convicted felon. He was convicted of stalking,
so no big surprise there. But he had to issue this apology. I'll read the apology that he issued.
He said, I want to issue a formal apology. I should not have posted the information or the locations of ice raids,
and I will no longer do so. I've contacted the authorities to take responsibility, and they are currently
reviewing my account to determine if any laws were broken. If it's found that I violated the law,
I will cooperate fully and turn myself in. To those targeting, my family, please I'm begging you to
stop. They've done nothing wrong or do not deserve to be dragged into this. The anger should
come, should be directed at me, not them. Someone's already come to my home, pounding on my door
and demanding to confront me. This has gone too far. To anyone, I may have put at risk, I sincerely
apologize. This was never my intention. Yeah, it's gone too far. Now that people are coming to
his home and pounding on his door wanting to confront him, it's gone too far. He was trying to send
mobs to the homes and locations of ICE agents so that they would do the exact same thing to those
ice agents. That's not going too far. It's going too far where it happens to him. So that was
the apology. And if you're wondering what this guy looks like, here's a video that he posted on a
different account unrelated to the doxing story. I guess this was a video posted at some point earlier.
and the journalist Colin Rugg
reposted this. So I just want to
play it just so you can see what this guy
looks like and sounds like.
This is apparently Jack Quillan.
Here it is watch.
The U.S. Secret Service confirmed visiting a Southside school
as part of an investigation into a threat.
Initially, Chicago Public Schools or CPS reported
that the agents were from the U.S. immigration
and customs enforcement are ICE.
But ICE denied involvement.
The Secret Service agent said
that they were directly to
Hamline Elementary School after visiting a home, but did not enter the school.
So, of course, he looks like that. He looks exactly as you would expect.
Another tough-talking, anonymous account run by a guy who looks like a melting snowman.
And no disrespect to him. I don't say that as an insult, of course. It's more, it's really just a
medical observation. I'm actually concerned about him. I'm concerned he might have some real
medical issues, legal issues too, but he might have.
medical issues also, because I don't think a person isn't supposed to look, you know, like that.
But this story only goes to show that the only thing that works, the only thing that stops
this kind of behavior, the only thing is consequence.
There must be consequences, punishment.
It's the only thing that matters.
The only thing these people respond to.
This guy was doxing law enforcement officers, and then he got docks.
and now he's learned his lesson.
I can't think of any other way that it would be learned other than him also going to prison, which hopefully he does.
But the thing is that the right for a long time has been hung up on this idea that we can't stoop to their level.
We must not stoop to their level.
Well, okay, then we'll just lose, I guess, in that case.
Because that's the other option.
if you won't fight them on their level, you will lose on their level.
It's like, think of it like leverage in sports and football.
In the trenches at the line of scrimmage, the lowest man wins.
If you're on the offensive line and the defensive tackle across from you
gets lower than you do, you're going to lose that battle.
You're going to get bowled over and he's going to go sack the quarterback.
So you can't stand there and say, I'm not going to stoop to his level.
I refuse.
That's a good way to get knocked on your ass.
And I think metaphorically, a similar thing has happened culturally and politically where the right didn't want to get as low as the left was getting.
And so we just got bowled over.
Now, I'm not saying that we should abandon our morals, abandon our dignity.
I'm not arguing for any kind of moral relativism.
That's not it at all.
but responding with proportional force and proportional tactics is not abandoning morals
um a guy was doxing ice agents and trying to get them killed he got doxed by other people
that feels pretty proportional um and uh and that's the only way that this stops
that's the only thing that that that that they'll respond to and we're seeing this with that that goes for all
these riders we talked yesterday there was that there was the clip of a of a rioter in the fact it's not
just one clip there are many riders doing this but one one clip in particular of a guy that was
throwing rocks like good size big rocks at vehicles that were moving at high rates of speed
now that's you could kill someone doing that very easily people have died that way there's many cases
of people dying from rocks being thrown at vehicles. This is like a common, relatively common
things. We've seen many cases of it. So, you know, and the update today is that law enforcement,
they're looking for this guy. They've identified him. Apparently, it's like a 40-year-old guy.
Okay, it wasn't even a teenager out there doing this. And even if it was, it still would,
they still should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. This was an adult man,
you know, a guy older than me. You're out there doing this. And law enforcement's looking for him.
it's good that they'll look for him. I assume they're going to find him.
But the next step is that that guy needs to go to prison for a long time.
That's proportional. That is justice.
A proportional response is you go find that guy.
Find any rioter who threw any rider who threw any kind of object,
any kind of potentially lethal object.
There's a brick, a cinder block, a rock.
any rioter who threw any kind of potentially lethal object, find every single one of them
and throw them in prison, prosecute them as attempted murderers because that's what all of them are,
and throw them in prison for a very long time.
Like your life is ruined.
You find those people, you put them in handcuffs and you say them, your life is ruined now.
You've just ruined your life.
Your life is never going to be the same.
And you've ruined your entire life.
You're going to live the rest of your life every single day when you wake up.
you're going to regret your decision to do that. You threw that rock at that cop, you threw it at a car.
Every day for the rest of your life for as long as you live, you're going to wake up. And the first thing you're going to think is that you wish you hadn't done that. And there's not going to be any respite. It's not going to change. You're not getting out of it. There will be no mercy. You can apologize and cry all you want. Doesn't matter. Sorry, your life is ruined. You did that to yourself. You respond that way enough times to enough people.
And that's how you see a restoration of a basic sense of order and dignity in our society.
There's just no other way to do it.
All right.
Let's get to the comment section.
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The sign saying no one is illegal on stolen land is absolutely ridiculous.
All land everywhere on earth has been conquered at one point or another.
The delusion of what human history actually is baffling.
Yeah, I agree, obviously.
We're going to deal with this a little bit more into cancellation.
But this is why a hammer on this point so often, it's astounding,
the level of historical ignorance that most people carry around every day,
no appreciation or understanding of how the world works,
how it was shaped, how it was formed.
And of course, you're tempted to say that this is a failure of the public school system,
but it actually isn't.
I mean, this is actually a testament to the success of the public school system
because the system has done what it intended to do.
It's not like the education system is trying to instill a true historical understanding
in its students and somehow failing, you know.
No, it's trying to give kids a cloudy, undefined sort of fantasy.
version of history. And it's succeeding. Because the more you sever somebody from their true history,
from their true legacy, their true ancestry, the more you can manipulate them and mold them in the
present. And that's the game and that's what they're doing. Matt, you're totally wrong about
Mexican food. If you're looking for the overrated ethnic cuisine, it's Indian food. Well, you're
wrong about that. Indian food is great. I don't care what I mean. It says butter chicken with rice and
some non-bread, one of my favorite dishes of all time. And it is, I'm sorry, it's just, it's,
it is better than, it's better than Mexican food. And I never said Mexican food. It's a lot of
people outraged by my take on Mexican food. I never said it was bad. I don't think it's bad.
I'll eat a taco. Yeah, look, no one hates Mexican food. How can you hate it?
It's, it's like hating pizza or something. It's, it's good. It's just, it's a bit overrated.
And, but more importantly, the idea that we need unchecked Mexican immigration into the country in order to make Mexican food is obviously ridiculous.
Anybody could make, I can, you know what, I can make a better taco personally than like 90% of tacos that you'd find in Mexico.
I'll tell you that right now.
I make a damn good taco, which is not a huge accomplishment because they're pretty easy to make.
which is good.
You know, that's a mark of a good food if it's easy to make.
Okay, are we going to, another one says,
are we going to mention the pallets of cinder blocks being dropped off outside of the ice facility?
Well, of course, none of this is organic.
It never is.
That's why these riots happen right on schedule.
You can predict them.
Like going into the summer, we have more riots.
Not a coincidence.
It doesn't just work out this way by happening.
these are being funded, coordinated, organized. That is always obvious. It's never been more
obvious than it is right now in this case, because this is supposedly in response to ice raids.
Like, how do all these people even know that this was happening? I mean, if you took the news at
at face value, you would think that there were just armies, entire battalions of ice agents
rolling up in like tanks and just you look through the street and you just see
Mexicans being dragged through the street thrown into buses and you imagine this like
this incredible scene that was unfolding and then and then people erupted in outrage organically
in response to it. That is not what was happening at all. Okay, the vast majority of people in
Los Angeles, almost all of them would not have even noticed that there were any ice race.
happening or even really known about it, which is a pretty good indication that this was not
an organic, emotional reaction to the scene that was unfolding. This was all coordinated and
funded, and that could not be more clear. Simone Biles has never been forced to compete against
a man, so she needs to shut it. Yeah, a lot of people have made this point, and it's true,
but it kind of understates the case a little bit because not only has Simone Biles not had to compete against men,
but she is in one of the most rigidly sex segregated sports in existence.
Because, you know, as far as I know, and I'm no gymnastics expert, but not only are men and women separated,
but they don't even do the same events.
So it's not even just that men and women are separated and they compete separately.
the events themselves are different.
I think there are a couple of gymnastic events
that both men and women do separately,
like what is it, floor exercises or whatever,
but most of them are different.
And as far as I'm aware,
Simone Biles has never complained about that.
She's never insisted that men and women
should do the same events
or that the sexes should be mixed
or anything like that.
She quite enjoys that level of sex segregation.
Finally,
I never have liked Simone.
She made me not want to watch gymnastics ever again
after she was losing and huffed out of the Olympics
like a three-year-old who hated losing
and then blamed mental health.
Please, she threw a temper tantrum and stormed off.
We all saw it.
Yes, quitting at the Olympics is one of the most disgraceful
and cowardly things I've ever seen in sports.
Actually, it's the most disgraceful and cowardly thing
I've ever seen in sports easily.
And the pathetic thing is that so many people
on the left and right were defending her at the time,
which ironically is also an advantage that she enjoys because she's a woman.
There's another example of sex segregation in sports in a way,
because there's no way in hell that anyone would be defending,
much less celebrating a male athlete who quit because of his mental health.
Imagine an NBA player who quit in the middle of the finals
because he needs to work on his mental health.
Imagine the star player on the court in the NBA.
It's the NBA finals.
And halfway through the second quarter on the first day, you know,
game one, he just leaves and says,
yeah, I'm not really in the place I need to be mentally.
I've got to get my mind right.
I'm just not in the right headspace right now.
If he did that, he would be widely excoriated, denounced, mocked,
forever by everyone, and rightly so. But Simone Biles was greeted with understanding and even people
applauding her for quitting. And that's because she's a woman. I mean, it's like, only a woman could be
applauded under those circumstances. But the truth is that quitting because something is difficult
or because there's too much pressure, quitting especially when people are depending on you,
is one of the most detestable things a person can do.
It's the kind of thing you say it's like a three-year-old, and you're right.
Like, that's the kind of thing we only tolerate in children.
And even then, we don't, you accept that children will behave that way,
but you don't really tolerate it.
You teach them otherwise.
Okay, I won't even let my kids quit in the middle of a board game.
I won't let, like, my eight-year-old quit in the middle of Monopoly because he's losing.
And trust me, he's tried many times.
But I tell him, you're going to sit here and we're going to finish this game.
It's going to be seven and a half hours more.
And you're going to sit here and we're going to finish.
Because when you start something, you finish it.
And you don't quit because you're losing.
We don't accept that.
That's not the kind of person that you're going to be.
And you teach that to children.
And yet this was a grown woman who did the exact same thing during the Olympics.
So she deserves to be forever disgraced and shunned because of that alone,
let alone what she is.
as how she's conducted herself afterwards.
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As we briefly talked about in the open, we're hearing several different alleged
justifications for the ongoing riots in Los Angeles.
They're braming the National Guard, even though the National Guard hasn't done anything
at this point.
They're blaming ICE, even though ICE is just enforcing the law.
But all these excuses, as pathetic as they may be, pale in comparison to the mother of all
rationalizations that's emerged in the days since the mayhem began.
We're talking about the claim, which I've seen repeated over and over again, that California
used to be a part of Mexico.
The idea is that because California was supposedly stolen from Mexico,
the insurrection is justified.
To give just one example of how this argument looks,
here's a demonstrator in Los Angeles.
This was recorded by Nick Shirley,
who's been shooting a lot of firsthand footage from the riots.
And watch this.
This is our city, and this was Mexico.
You can't get us out of the land that was our.
Donald Trump!
Donald Trump!
Come!
What's the windblower for?
Just for the tear gas to blow it back on those motherfuckers.
If you have a flower, bring it out.
Now, before we engage with the substance of this person's argument, we need to address the last part of that clip.
It turns out that as these riots continue, there's a lot of footage of these people using leaf blowers to fight back against the tear gas, which honestly seems like something out of a Babylon B article.
It's just a little bit too on the nose.
This is a riot led by Hispanic migrants.
And the first thing they grab when they riot is lawn equipment.
And because it's California, they're not gas leaf blowers.
They're electric.
And they really think it's going to work, even though it doesn't seem particularly effective.
Here's one demonstration of these electric leaf blowers in action.
As you can see, contrary to the rioters' expectation, the battery-powered lawn equipment isn't really doing the trick.
It's yet another reason as if we needed it.
to doubt the intellectual firepower that these rioters are bringing to the table.
But in any event, there have been a lot more people making the argument that California is really a part of Mexico.
It's not just the one very large woman with a leafblower.
There's been many conversations where this is coming up.
For example, the former Braves pitcher John Rocker, who's known for speaking his mind, wrote on social media, quote,
If you're waving a Mexico flag, you belong in Mexico.
And which of course is true.
And in response, a self-described comedian living in Los Angeles named Jake Flores wrote, quote,
I am in Mexico.
Now, he also posted this map showing Mexico's greatly expanded borders, followed by the message,
triggered yet.
Collectively, these posts racked up more than 13 million views.
So we can conclude that, indeed, a lot of people hold the opinion that California is,
rightfully, a property of Mexico.
At first, I was tempted to ignore all this stupidity because it's just a bunch of posts on social media.
But mainstream media outlets are repeating this narrative, even though it's obviously false.
CNN, for example, just interviewed a former Univision anchor.
And here's what she said.
I'm from L.A. I was born in L.A. That's where my roots are.
That's where I started my career.
It is almost 50% Hispanic.
Remember that California was part of Mexico.
All of the southwest is Mexico.
So the roots are really deep in that.
region. And what they're saying is no, not in our community. Because when they're coming in,
even though there's second, third, fourth, fifth generation Latinos that live there and Mexican
Americans that live there, some of them might be their family members. The people that they're
going after, it's personal for them because they're going after their cousin and their uncle
and their parents. And how to, how to make us safe? Okay, so let's just review a little bit of
history here. California was claimed as a colonial property of Spain in the 1500s. Mexico did not
exist as an independent country until August of 1821 when they negotiated their independence from
Spain. For the 300 years before that, it was Spanish territory. So when they say that California
belongs to Mexico, they really mean that it belongs to the European nation of Spain. Before the Spanish,
was the province of the bloodthirsty Aztecs who enjoyed ripping the still beating hearts out
of children's chests. And before that, some other barbaric tribe controlled the land.
And that's, you know, basically in a few sentences, the history of Mexico. Mexico is an independent
nation owned California for a period of about 25 years before they lost the Mexican-American
war and consequently California. And they lost that war in just two years. So it wasn't much
of a fight. By contrast, California has... So just just,
review again. California belonged to Spain for about 300 years, and then it belonged to Mexico
as an independent nation for a couple of decades, and then it belonged to the United States for at this
point around 175 years. In other words, California has been U.S. territory for seven times longer
than it was Mexican. And it was only Mexican because they briefly inherited it from the Spanish Empire.
And it should also be noted that neither the Spanish nor the Mexicans ever did anything with California.
Now, they planted a few missions here and there, which is good. But other than that, before Americans got involved, it was a sparsely populated wilderness.
The only reason why California is a desirable place to go right now, and it's becoming less and less desirable because of all the immigration.
But if it was ever a desirable place to go, it's only because of the United States of America.
And to illustrate that point, guess what the population of Los Angeles was in 1850, shortly after California became part of America?
There were around 1,600 people, total.
All of Los Angeles County had something like 3,000 people.
It was a small and irrelevant town.
Its potential was completely untapped.
Now, by 1900, just 50 years after the United States took control, the population had increased.
to 100,000. And then 50 years after that, just a century after the U.S. took control, Los Angeles
population had boomed to nearly 2 million people. Half of the population of the entire state
of California lived in Los Angeles and was mostly white people who lived there at the time.
So, in other words, Americans and specifically predominantly white Americans built Los Angeles
into one of the most important cities in the entire world. That's the fact. And they did the same
thing to the rest of California. In San Francisco, for example, the population was around 35,000 in
1850. Again, it was effectively a small town. By 1950, the population of San Francisco had
increased by more than 2,000 percent to 775,000. And again, at the time, it was mostly white.
Now, there really is no way to argue this point. California is California because of the United
States. Anything good that can be said about California as a place to
live is the direct consequence of the United States winning possession of it. Mexico, meanwhile,
has not become a great nation or even a functional one, for the most part, after independence.
And if somehow you're still not convinced by this fact, as obvious as it is, consider this.
The United States was winning world wars 140 years after declaring its independence, which is a
very short period of time to go from becoming independent to being a world power. By contrast,
a 140 years after their independence, Mexico became a narco state. The drug cartels took over
the country. And their economy is now dependent on money flowing from the U.S. in New Mexico in the
form of remittances and drug sales. In fact, their president is currently demanding direct
action in the U.S. because of a 3% tax that we're about to impose on those remittances,
3%. That's it. And they can't handle that, which is really embarrassing. And by the
way, in case you need more evidence of Mexico's dysfunction and inability to rule over anything,
including their own territory, consider the fact that the former emperor of Mexico, Maximilian I
is currently buried in the imperial crypt in Vienna, Austria. Yes, Mexicans allowed themselves to be
governed by an Austrian archduke because their country was falling into a state of complete
collapse. And then when they decided to murder this archduke, his body was buried 6,000 miles away from
Mexico. He ruled from 1864 to 1867 when he was executed for conspiring to overthrow the Mexican
government, even though he was running the Mexican government. Just picture a similar situation
happening in this country. Imagine if our ruler in 1864, Abe Lincoln was really an Austrian
archduke. And then when he got shot to death, we sent him back to his homeland in Vienna.
It would be completely embarrassing and ridiculous. And no one could explain it with a straight face,
but that's the history of Mexico. And now we're being told that Mexico is somehow the rightful owner
of California.
But we all know that if Mexico really did own California,
it would be right now even more dysfunctional and violent than it actually is today.
That may seem impossible if you've never visited Mexico, but it's the unavoidable truth.
That's how truly disastrous Mexico's government is and has been for a very long time.
And that is why everybody claiming that the L.A. riots are justified because California somehow
secretly belongs to Mexico, is today canceled.
That'll do for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow.
Have a great day. Goodspeed.
