The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1709 - How Anti-White Male Discrimination Is The Root Of Our Decline

Episode Date: December 17, 2025

Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a viral op-ed calls attention to the extreme institutional discrimination against white males. Lots of people are acting shocked by it. But this is not new information. Also, Congress — which is controlled by Republicans, by the way — removes a Robert E. Lee statue and replaces it with some black woman you’ve never heard of. And Kamala Harris might consider running for president again. I for one am really concerned about this and make a plea for the mercy and grace democrats are well known for. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show. Ep.1709 - - - Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/4bEQDy6 - - - Today's Sponsors: PureTalk - From everyone in the Pure Talk family, thank you! Switch to PureTalk and start saving today! Visit https://PureTalk.com/WALSH Good Ranchers - Visit https://goodranchers.com and subscribe to any box using code WALSH to claim $40 off + free meat for life! StopBox USA - Not only do you get 10% Off your entire order when you use code WALSH10 at https://stopboxusa.com/WALSH10, but they are also giving you Buy One Get One Free for their StopBox Pro. #stopboxpod #ad Leaf Home - Schedule your free inspection and get up to 35% off your entire purchase at https://leaffilter.com/WALSH Balance of Nature - New and existing customers can go to https://balanceofnature.com/pages/lock-in-for-life and get 50% off the Whole Health System FOR LIFE. Shopify - Sign up for your $1-per-month trial and start selling today at https://Shopify.com/walsh - - - DailyWire+: 🎄✨ DAILY WIRE CHRISTMAS SALE IS HERE! ✨🎄 🎁 https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe ⭐️ 40% Off DailyWire+ New Annual Memberships ⭐️ 50% Off DailyWire+ Annual Upgrade Memberships ⭐️ 50% Off DailyWire+ Annual Gift Memberships Finally, Friendly Fire is here! No moderator, no safe words. Now available at https://www.dailywire.com/show/friendly-fire Get your Matt Walsh flannel here: https://bit.ly/3EbNwyj - - - 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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anymore, for as long as everyone's own a cell phone, pretty much every form of media has been locked in an arms raise to make content shorter, more attention-grabbing, more conspiratorial. So it takes a lot for a 10,000-word essay in a tiny, little-known publication to break containment. But that's exactly what happened with a new article in something called Compact Magazine, titled The Lost Generation. It was written by Jacob Savage, who's a white man, who aspired to be a big player in the entertainment industry, before he had to settle for a much less glamorous career, scalping tickets from his bedroom. Now, it's not hard to see why Savage's article has been so well-received.

It's a well-written explanation of how major institutions in this country, particularly the media in Hollywood, have systematically discriminated against white men over the past decade. Now, it's definitely not a perfect article for reasons that we'll get into. And it reaches a conclusion that is obviously wrong and frankly kind of embarrassing. But at the same time, if you've been looking for reasons why every aspect of society seems to be falling apart, and we've been talking about that on the show for the past few weeks, this piece in combat magazine is a very good jumping off point. Now, in particular, the article includes the following statistics on writing jobs in the entertainment industry, which help explain. why every streaming show and movie, virtually without exception, is now terrible. Quote, in 2011, the year I moved to Los Angeles, white men were 48% of lower-level TV

writers. By 2024, they accounted for just 11.9%. Women of color made up 34.6% white men directed 69% of TV episodes in 2014, and just 34% by 2021. But that remaining third went overwhelmingly to establish names, leaving little space for younger white men. Since 2021, 11 directors under 40 have been nominated for Emmys. Emmys, none of them have been white men. Now, the article goes on to describe a white man who wrote a screenplay that made it on Hollywood's Blacklist, which is a prestigious list of unproduced screenplays, as determined by Hollywood executives. But despite that achievement, he couldn't land a full-time staff job from any showrunner. At one point, he was told to his faced by a showrunner, a Gen X white guy, we're told, that they already had too many white

people on staff. And the author also notes that Dan Erickson, the white guy who created the Apple TV show Severance, which is the best show on TV today, I think by a mile, and one of the best of this century, wasn't able to land a job in a TV writer's room until his own show began production. And in some cases, that discrimination was put in writing. One higher up at a talent agency He wrote, quote, Chicago Fire, the UL, upper level, can be anyone, but we need diverse SWs, staff writers. Savage also points to the Disney Writing Program, which is basically a boot camp that leads, in most cases, directly to full-time staff writing jobs on major shows. And over the past decade, Savage notes, the writing program has awarded 107 writing fellowships and 17 directing fellowships, none of which have been given to White Men. none of them. Now here's the web page for the current crop of fellows in the Disney writing program

and see what you notice when you look at this. There's only one person who could plausibly be described as a white male in the entire cohort. And when you look at that guy's bio, he informs you that he's a Tihano comedy writer who's proud of his queer crime, queer crime comedy pilots. And that's the other thing. We talk about the white males who are allowed to get jobs in this business. If you were to narrow it down even further, which this piece doesn't do, to straight white males,

then the situation becomes even more dire. And every single one of the bios on this webpage begins with a statement about the person's ethnic origin. So Neda is a first-generation Iranian-American drama writer. Ali is a Lebanese American writer from Detroit, Michigan. Monib is a first-generation Afghan-American writer. Jason is a... first-generation Korean-American drama writer. Ananya is a first-generation Indian-American

dramedy writer. Fatima is a Sudanese-American tromedy writer based in Los Angeles, and so on. It's pretty obvious that in the eyes of Disney and the rest of Hollywood, it doesn't actually matter if you're a good writer. Your most important attribute is your ethnicity. And if you look even vaguely white, then you'd better be writing queer comedies about Tejano heritage. because otherwise you're definitely out of luck. I'm not going to summarize all of Savage's findings, but this should give you some idea. He goes on to describe in much the same way

how other fields from academia to the corporate press practice the same kind of anti-wide discrimination, particularly for entry-level jobs. The statistics from the university system in California in particular are actually so over the top that they're hard to believe. UC Irvine hired 64 tenure track assistant professors in liberal arts since 2020, and only three of them were white men. And for its part, UC Santa Cruz only hired two white men out of 59 assistant professors in the humanities

in that same time period. Savage's thesis is that starting around 2014, in response to political and social pressures, older and more established white men, the decision makers and hiring managers began openly discriminating against younger white applicants who were starting their careers. And rather than stand-on principle, Savage Rights, the boomers effectively sabotaged younger generations. 2014, he writes, was the hinge. The year DEI became institutionalized across American life. And then we get this conclusion, which is where things go off the rails a bit, quote, I'm not angry at the women and people of color who made it, made it instead of me.

People have the right, in most cases, the responsibility. to take the opportunities that are offered them or even at the older white guys who ensured that I didn't. Mostly, I'm annoyed at myself because instead of settling down, proposing to my then-girlfriend, now wife, and earning a steady income that might support a family, I spent a decade insisting the world treat me fairly when the world was loudly telling me it had no intention of doing so. So he's not angry about the people who discriminated against him on the basis of his skin color. he's angry at himself. He's certainly not angry at the unqualified people,

the quote-unquote people of color who got the jobs that he should have gotten by all rights. He's angry at himself. And this was the moment in reading this article that I decided to look into Compact Magazine a little more closely. And in doing so, I found the following tidbit of information, which is interesting per vanity fair.

Quote, at a recent get-together, lefty mags were royal to learn that George Soros Foundations are supporting Compact, a publication that's flirted with authoritarianism. It was weird to me, the whole effing time, says one attendee. Now, the article goes on to note that sources Open Society foundations have sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to Compact, and I have no idea why that donation was made or what it may have purchased. The leftist at Vanity Fair, they weren't sure either. But I can say that, having read this article myself, I find myself agreeing with commentators.

like Oran McIntyre who have called Jacob Savage's article a permission piece. It's a way to finally admit something that the left had previously described as a conspiracy, except the admission is done in a way that lessens the impact and frames the narrative in a way that is beneficial to the left. And meanwhile, all the leftist journalists can act shocked by the findings, including the ones that are sharing this piece on X right now, shocked and appalled by it, even though everybody on the right has known all of this for years and been saying it and been dismissed. I think of the mainstream articles that finally acknowledged COVID came from a lab in China, or the articles that acknowledge that the COVID shot can cause serious heart problems.

These were all permission pieces. Audiences on the left were finally told a semblance of the truth, but there's never any accountability for the liars, nor is there a full explanation of what actually happened, nor is there an apology. Basically, you get a permission piece when the left's hand is forced. They can't deny reality anymore because the truth has become too obvious. And we've been seeing some of this, by the way, on the trans issue too,

with certain articles and mainstream publications admitting that, well, maybe we shouldn't be doing this to kids, and maybe it's a bad idea to cast straight kids and all this sort of thing. And saying it like they're the first people to ever say it. So that's how this goes. Now, in the case of the piece in Comback Magazine, there are a few elements of obvious spin. The first is the article's implication that systematic anti-white discrimination only really took hold in 2014. In fact, Savage even writes that if you were born in 1974 or earlier, then you were already established and didn't hit the wall of anti-white discrimination.

But that is a claim that makes the generational divide seem much starker than it really is. because in reality, the left's efforts to systematically discriminate against white people and white males in particular, that's been in place for many decades. I mean, this has been going on for a very long time. Back in 2003, there was a major Supreme Court case about the University of Michigan's application process, which was similar to the process used by many other schools. If you were black, Hispanic, or Native American, then your application automatically received 20 points. By contrast, if you earned a perfect SAT score, something only a few hundred students do every year, had millions of test takers, then you only got 12 points.

And an outstanding personal essay would only get you three points. In other words, a white student from a middle class background with a perfect SAT score and a flawless essay received fewer points than a black applicant would receive simply for being black. And even after the Supreme Court struck down this kind of quota system, it persisted, as we all know. The universities just stopped admitting that they were doing it. And long before that, in the 1960s, there was the Philadelphia plan where federal contractors were required to start hiring so-called minority workers in the trades, a practice that continues today with a fairly explicit quota system. For tens of thousands of white construction workers, beginning in the 1970s, it became more difficult to get a apprenticeship, not because they weren't skilled, not because they didn't have potential, but because

of the color of their skin. So we could talk about many more examples because there are an infinite number, but put simply, the idea that DEI and anti-white racism only became a systemic barrier to white education and employment in 2014 is not remotely true. The Savage is probably correct to point out that in the industries he's talking about mainly media and entertainment, things accelerated in 2014, but plenty of people in other industries hit this wall well before then. Now, the other element of the story that's being de-emphasized here is that when white men are passed over for jobs because of their skin color, there are plenty of downstream consequences. It's not simply the fact that white men have to settle for worse salaries and less fulfilling

careers, they're also less likely to ever own a home or to get married, start a family, have kids, they're more likely to become depressed and turn to drugs, which explains why overdose rates are so high. And through it all, as fertility rates plummet and men are forced to work jobs that they're overqualified for, men realize exactly what's happening to them. It's not some great mystery. And that leads to justifiable rage as millions of working-age men come to realize that their lives have been sacrificed for a leftist experiment. Now, the biggest and most important downstream consequence of this open discrimination against white men is that everything in society gets worse as a result.

That is the second order effect that the compact piece doesn't really get into. It's the third rail, the part you're not supposed to talk about. But the truth, which everybody intuitively knows, is that things were all. a lot better back when white men were not being discriminated against by every institution in the country, but instead, we're running most of them. The fact of the matter is that a hugely disproportionate number of our greatest leaders, innovators, pioneers, explorers, philosophers, and so on, have been white men. I mean, without white men, we wouldn't have airplanes or spaceships, or trains, or phones, or light bulbs, or computers, or the internet, or batteries, or

x-ray machines or jet engines or rockets or a thousand other things that our society depends on to exist and to flourish. We never would have had a railway system or the printing press. We wouldn't have this country, which was founded by white men and led by white men and expanded from coast to coast and settled and built up, mostly by white men. Now, these are all facts, historical realities that cannot be denied by reasonable people. It's just true. And while black women are encouraged to be proud of the historical achievements of black women, whatever those might be, and Asians to be proud of Asian achievements and Native Americans of Native American achievements and so on, white men are the one group in the entire face of the

planet who've been forbidden to even acknowledge what other white men have accomplished, much less to express any pride in it, God forbid. Instead, our society set out on a campaign to punish and exclude and alienate this very group. That is their reward for having carried the weight of Western civilization on their shoulders. But white men, as it turns out, they're not just good at building and flying spaceships. They're also good at writing television shows and covering the news and teaching students at the university level and so on. In fact, in the aggregate, based on every existing piece of available evidence, white men are better at all of these tasks than the allegedly underprivileged communities that are replacing them. And if that sounds harsh, I really don't care. It happens to just be true.

And the underrepresented minorities, so-called, that I'm talking about in many cases can be some of the most vindictive people. in the country. Back in 2015, as the author Wesley Yang pointed out, BuzzFeed published one of their insufferable listicles that were very popular back in those days. This one was titled 23 writers with messages for straight white male publishing. And we'll put up some of the messages on the screen right now so you can see them. So you have girl bosses of various ethnicities saying things like, sit down and let us abolish you. And she's coming. And she's coming. for you with the middle finger. These are explicitly hateful, deranged messages directed at white men, and they were published enthusiastically by a major news outlet. Like the kind of thing

you would never see directed at any other race or group ever. And this kind of race hate was commonplace in 2015. And this is in publishing, which yet again, well, what have white men done in publishing? What sin have they committed? Well, I don't know. I mean, only like, most of the greatest authors in the history of Western civilization have been white men. Not all of them, but most of them. If you make a list of the top 500, I think like 480 of them, at least would be white men. So that's the sin that white men committed in publishing was just being like really, really good at it and being great, brilliant writers. And so for that, for that trouble, not only are they cut out, but they get a middle finger on the way out the door.

And guess what? The girl bosses were right. I mean, they did abolish white men in the entertainment industry. The writers are mostly women and minorities now. And almost all their shows are garbage. I mean, can you give me an example of a show. And maybe you can. I'm just throwing this out there. Can you give me an example of a show that is where the writer's room is predominantly consists of minorities and women and the show is good? Can you give one example of that? I think you probably can't. I think there's not one example of that. I think that this cohort has not managed to make one good show ever. It is what it is. That's just the facts of the matter. I mean, it's almost as if they're intentionally bad.

You know, television peaked before all these people took over. And the only conclusion you can draw realistically is that girl bosses, I don't know, shouldn't be allowed to write shows. They're not good at it. Bring back the white men. I mean, they knew how to do this. They made good shows. And if that ever happens, it will only happen if, unlike this compact article, we're honest about what white men have achieved in the past. The left can only ever tear down what has been built, and white men are the primary builders of Western civilization.

Make a list of the 1,000 greatest and most influential figures of the past two millennia in any field, not just publishing, any field. And I don't know, 975 of them will be white men, if not more. it is suicidal to target this group of all groups for ostracization and alienation. I mean, it's suicidal. But that, of course, is the point. You know, the compact piece is the tell that lets you know what's going on here. You're finally being allowed to say out loud that white men have been discriminated against for many years, but you're not allowed to talk about the extent of the discrimination.

you're not allowed to talk about the full effects of it. And in polite company, you're still expected to elevate mediocrity in the name of racial justice. I mean, call the article whatever you want, a permission piece, a limited hangout, whatever. But it's not going to be the way to course correct the self-inflicted collapse of our country. The way to fix it or to have any hope of fixing it is to admit that white men aren't simply victims. they were also key to building Western civilization, and by the same token, they'll be key to saving it. Now let's get to our five headlines. This episode is sponsored by Good Ranchers.

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I mean, literally everyone. I think just every human is going to be there. Except me, it turns out. I will not be there because I am mostly disabled right now by a back injury, and I'm not going to go into details about it. I mean, I've had back problems for years. You know, I'm just a mess in general. But I did slip on the ice outside my house.

which is mostly the source of my current predicament. And, you know, that happened. It did happen. And if you're keeping track at home, because you might be thinking, well, weren't you just complaining a few weeks ago that you pulled your hamstring? I was complaining about that. So if you're keeping track, pulled hamstring playing pickup football outside my house, slipping on the ice.

I'm just, I'm a barely functional person. I mean, that's the truth. I'm barely functional. I don't know. I don't know how I managed to get out of bed in the morning without falling down the steps and killing myself. I don't know how I do it. So, and I have fallen down the steps for that. That has also happened. In fairness to me, my shoes were wet. So I was coming in, anyway, I'm not going to go to that whole story. But it is what it is. So, but it will be a great event.

And sorry, I can't be there. I need to complain about something, something else, which I know shocking to you. Because I don't usually complain on this show, except for every single second of the show, I don't usually complain. Except for that. Except for every moment of every show, I don't usually complain. But here's something else.

Here's footage from the U.S. Capitol yesterday. This is Emancipation Hall where they just unveiled a new statue that is going to replace the Robert E. Lee statue that they took down. And they took down the statue.

I think it was a couple of years ago. High-ranking members of Congress were in attendance. Other political figures, Mike Johnson was there. Hakeem Jeffries was there for the unveiling of this new statue. And this is supposed to represent Virginia. So Glenn Yunkin was there. A bunch of other Virginia politicians were there. And anyway, let's watch here.

So everyone's very excited. Lots of different members of Congress. put out statements about how wonderful this was that they replaced Robert E. Lee with that statue. That is Barbara Rose Johns is the name of the person. Cory Booker was excited about Tim Kane. Glenn Youngman has mentioned was there. He put out this statement. Today we gather an Emancipation Hall of the U.S. Capitol to dedicate the Barbara Rose John statue to honor her legacy as a trailblazer

and ensure her story of courage and conscience is a story for generations to come. Now, of course, when you hear that, you hear that they took down the Robert Elyleat statue replaced it with Barbara Rose Johns, you might have a few questions. But the first question that pops into your mind is, who the hell is Barbara Rose Johns? You see that and you're thinking, am I supposed to know who this person is? Barbara Rose Johns? This is someone who supposedly is worthy of being immortalized in the U.S. Capitol, along with the great, icons of American history? Shouldn't I know who she is? Like if I'm a vaguely educated sort of person and I know a little bit about American history, if there's a statue of a person in the U.S.

Capitol, it should be the kind of person that we all at least know who that is. Well, so who is she? Every statement about this has gushed over the fact that she's an icon and a trailblazer and a hero. and who is she? Well, like everybody else, including Glenn Yunkin and Corey Booker and Tim Kane, I had to check Wikipedia to find out because I have no clue. And here's what it says. Barbara Rose Johns was a leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. On April 23rd, 1951 at the age of 16, Powell led a student strike for equal education opportunities at R.R. Morton High School in Farmville, Virginia. And that's it. I mean, that's actually it. I read the whole Wikipedia article. but that is, that's it.

That, so she protested for quote unquote equal education opportunities when she was 16 in Farmville. And then she went on to become a librarian. She went to, to a university and studied library science or something like that and became a librarian, which is fine. I mean, that's a perfectly fine, acceptable life,

you know, and she died of cancer in the early 90s, unfortunately. And, you know, uh, it's fine. There are many worse lives that have been lived for sure.

But this is what gets you a statue, is you held a picket sign when you were 16 and then became a librarian. And now we're going to give you a statue. Now you are qualified to stand alongside the greats, like to stand alongside Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and you, you know, if I showed that statue of Barbara Rose Johns to 10 million people, not one of them,

zero of them would be able to correctly identify it as Barbara Rose Johns. If I got 10 million people in a line and showed them each to statue, precisely zero of them would say, oh, that's Barbara Rose Johns. Oh, I know Barbara, old Barbara. I know her anywhere. Oh, that's, oh, that's Barbara Rose Johns who led the protest in Farmville, Virginia. I know that face anywhere. Why, that's got to be Barbara Rose Johns. And then if I said, you idiots, this is Barbara Rose Johns, still, zero of them would have any idea who it is. And that's also not an exaggeration.

And we all know that. How many total people in the entire country do you think had heard about? Barbara Rose Johns prior to today. How many total humans in the country, if you had done a poll of everybody, how many of them could give you even one biographical detail about Barbara Rose Johns? I think, I don't know, 50, maybe, 100 at most, probably not that many. Now, granted, if I saw that statue with no context, I could probably have given you at least one vague biographical detail.

Like if you'd show me that statue And especially if you'd given me the context of Where it was erected and what it was replacing If you give me it but even without that context Because that makes it a little too easy You just show me the statue Don't even tell me where it's from I would be able to look at it

And I would at least be able to tell you That it must be some kind of civil rights thing Because it's a black woman And so if the black If there's a statue of a black woman being put up somewhere, it's always like a civil rights thing. It's always going to be someone probably who lived within the last 100 years, 150 at the absolute most. And it's a civil rights thing. Because there just aren't a lot of black female inventors or philosophers or war heroes or

pioneers or anything else. There just aren't. And I don't say that to me mean or rude. It's just true. But more importantly, I don't. I know the pattern, which is this. And it's grounded in this fact, which is that the left has no historical heroes. It's really one of the most striking things about the modern left is that they have no heroes. They just don't have any. So every once in a while they'll come along and erect a statue to some unremarkable nobody. With all due respect to Barbara Rose Johns, like I said, I got nothing against her.

I'm sure she was a nice person. But in historical context, she's not remarkable. which is true of most of us. Most of us are going to die and it's like we're not going to get statues. In the context of history, most of us will not be remembered. Like almost every person who's ever lived

will not be remembered. Almost none of us will ever get statues. And that's just how it is. And that's fine. But, you know, that's what they do. Every once in a while they come along, they put up some statue to some nobody,

calling her an icon, even though everyone has to check Wikipedia to find out who she even is. And then the left will pretend as soon as you put up the statue, they put up the statue, and they say, oh, this is Barbara Rose Jones. That everyone on the left goes, oh, yeah, well, you don't know what Barbara Rose Johns is, really? And you think you're educated? There's going to be a movie about this woman, again, now, guaranteed. Not because it's an interesting story.

They're going to find a way. Netflix is going to have to find a way to get, two hours of interesting content out of a woman who held a picket sign and then became a librarian. They're going to have to, they have to find some kind of way. Like, they're going to have to turn her into like a ninja or something. They're going to have to, like, in her private life, she was really a secret assassin or something. They're going to have to do that. They're going to have to take some serious liberties.

She didn't become a librarian. She became a fighter jet pilot or something. She became, it's like top gun. Because they have no real heroes. Why? Because all of the true icons of history are problematic. Right? All of the great men of history are ruled out because for one thing they're men and for another thing most of them are white When we're talking about the history of our of Western civilization and for another great men great people are complicated very often those with great virtues tend to also have great vices So men who are very physically brave may also tend to be aggressive and violent men who are geniuses and

tend to have all kinds of eccentricities of various kinds. They might hold political views, ideological views that are we consider unsavory, you know. And so the nitpickers, the peanut gallery, the men who are not in the arena, right? The critics that Teddy Roosevelt talks about, the nobodies can always sit on the sidelines and find reasons to criticize the great men. All of the great men, all of the men who did anything notable in. in history, all of the men who've ever had a statue built to them, whether the statue's been since torn down or not, all of them, there are going to be details of their life that you can

look at and say, well, I don't know, they did that. Here's this thing they did. They said this thing over here. I don't know. They did this. Yeah, they did all that, but they also did this. The weak men, the weak people who are not even good, let alone great, can find problems. with the great men. And that's the story of our recent history. It's a lot of people who are not even good, let alone great, finding problems, finding issues with the greats. So what are we left with? We're left with a black librarian who held a picket sign when she was 16. You know, our civilization once stood on the shoulders of giants. Giants. Giants. we once stood on the shoulders of men,

and I keep saying men, because like most, not all of them were men, who did unthinkable things. Okay, this is not just like, oh, she protested because the school was unfair. It's not that. It's like men who did things that I can't even conceive of how you would have done it. Things that are inconceivable.

Men who got on ships before any modern technology existed, who had no idea what the world looked like. Entire swathes of the globe, unknown. And they got on ships and managed to go around the entire world and get back to where they started. Do you have any idea how that's how could you do that? How could a person do that? I don't know. Things that are so great that they're out, they're not just outside of our company. They're outside of our, our comprehension is how great they were.

And the pioneers who went out into the wilderness with nothing just went out into a hostile wilderness filled with animals and bandits and Indian, you know, ruthless savage Indian tribes that would scalp you while you're still alive. They heard these stories about people being kidnapped and having their scalps removed from their heads while they're still alive and then tortured and killed. And you had people that went out in the midst of that and just like built societies from scratch. So that's what our civil is eight.

We used to stand on the shoulders of those kinds of people. And now we stand on the shoulders of like three or four random black women who have accomplished basically nothing. I would almost prefer it if they just put up a statue of Karl Marx or Mao or Stalin or somebody like that. I'd almost prefer it. I mean, they're evil men who should not be celebrated, but somehow it feels less insulting. Like, it's still insulting. Somehow to me, it feels less demoralizing to replace a statue of a man of great historic influence with a statue of another man of great, though really bad, historic influence. That's still outrageous.

I guess my point is that a lot of people are saying, well, next thing you know, they're putting up statues of, you know, fill in the blank, evil guy, Carl Marx. And my point is that, like, actually, we're kind of past that. What we're doing now is worse than that. I think we've, we've kind of, we leapfrogged over that part of the slippery slope. And now we're just tearing down these statues of, like, the greatest people in history. and just replacing it with like some random librarian. And I find that even more insulting.

I really do. Now, Robert E. Lee, on the other hand, was a great man. A great man. And I make no apologies for saying that. I've been saying it my whole career. I made no apologies. He was a great man. He was a brilliant military technician.

He was a leader of men. He was one of our greatest military leaders. He was honorable. He was brave. He was much. more honorable and much braver than any of the people who've torn down his statues, any of the people in that video standing around clapping like seals. Oh yes, Barbara Rose John's a librarian. Robert Lee was had more greatness and dignity and honor in his pinky finger than any of them

have in their entire bodies put together. I mean, if you don't think that our country being a much better place, if men like Robert Lee were in charge of it rather than these clowns, If you don't think that, then you're a fool. Then you are just a stupid fool and you're not worth talking to, honestly. If you think what we have now, if you think the people that are tearing down these statues are in any way better than Robert E. Lee, then you are a clown. You are a fool. You are a moron. Unworthy of being taken seriously.

Robert E. Lee went to battle against an opponent that was much larger, much better supplied, better armed. Okay, he was marching with armies of like 16-year-old farm boys. He was marching armies. He was marching with a force of boys and men. Some of them didn't even have shoes, okay? They didn't even have shoes. Or they had one pair of shoes and it was worn down to the souls. And he won one battle after another.

Do you know how he did that? Can you even conceive of that? Is that something you could ever do in a million lifetimes? It's not. his victory at Chancellorsville alone. I mean, that alone is greater than anything that was ever achieved by Barbara Rose Johns or any other random nobody the left venerates. That alone. Chancellor'sville, Lee facing a force twice his side.

He divides his force repeatedly, extremely risky, bold, brilliant move. He's doing things that would have seemed absolutely crazy to everybody around him and did, except that his men followed. and they followed him because he was a great man. He was a leader that commanded, not demanded, but commanded respect. And so they knew that this sounds crazy. This goes against everything we, this goes against all the rules to divide your force like this. We're already outnumbered. And they followed and they did it and it worked.

He sent Stonewall Jackson on a wide flanking march. So Lee already outnumbered severely. He decides to divide his army even more to make it even smaller. And he sent Stonewall Jackson, his best general, through, like, 10 or 15 miles or whatever it was, marching through back roads and dense forests to hit the union from its right flank, which was exposed. And but what this meant was taking like 20 or 30,000 men along with Stonewall out of the fight for basically the whole day, because this would have taken, I mean, this is not a short day at the march, right? So this would have to take, like 10 or 12 hours.

What happens if you get just decimated in the meantime? Could have happened. Finally, 12 hours later, they complete the move. They launched their surprise attack from the right flank. It works. Sends the Union Army into a panic. Disarray. It's a brilliant, risky move. Could have ended in disaster. I mean, ultimately, battle is won. It did end a disaster because Stonewall Jackson was hit with friendly fire and he died six or seven days later, which was a pivotal, pivotal loss. but this is what I mean when I talk about greatness. This is greatness. And you can point out all of the, well, he fought for the Confederacy. He thought, okay, that doesn't change that this was a great man. And his personal motivation in doing so, as I've said so many times, if people had any capacity. Like we used to be able to, 100 years ago, back when a lot of these statues were being put up, we were able to talk about the Civil War

with some measure of nuance. People took it less personally, which as I've often pointed out, makes no sense. How could it be that 100 years ago, people took it less personally were more capable of talking about this and understanding it kind of from both sides

than we are today? That was back when like your father was in the Civil War or your grandfather. You had relatives who died in the Civil War. And now it's 100 years after that, And you've got people that, oh, the wounds are so deep. I can't, we can't. I can't even see a Robert Ely's statue. It hurts me so much. Oh, shut the fuck up. It doesn't hurt you. You don't even know what we is. You don't know anything about them. You know nothing about them whatsoever.

You don't even know what Chancellorsville is. Go ahead. Name one battle of the Civil War. Can you do that? No, you can't. And yet you're so injured. You're so hurt. It's so, I can't, it's, I, I feel so attacked. Most of these people, do you even know, like, what years of, do you even know what century the Civil War was fought in? We're pulling down these statues on the behest of people. They could even tell you, within 300 years, tell me when the Civil War was fought. Probably could even do that. But I don't know, the 1400s.

I must also say that my real frustration, my deal, the reason why I take this, I get so heated is, uh, is, you know, it's not just with the Democrats here, but this is Republicans. We control Congress and the White House. Why was this allowed to happen? What's the point of being in power if we're going to let this happen? That's my question. Not only let it, but participate in the humiliation ritual. I'm just letting it happen.

We're participating in it. What's the point? Why did we elect you? you're going to sit there. We elected you and you're going to sit there and applaud this. Because you don't have the balls to stand up and say, because you're worried that people will say, oh, you support slavery because you're still worried about that.

You don't have the balls to stand up there and say, shut up. No, what are you taught? No one supports slavery, you dumbass. It's not what this is about. You're still worried about that. Why are you there? Why do we elect you? I love an answer to that question.

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And I cannot help but think of what is happening in our city today and how that echoes with how outsiders have been treated for thousands of years. How Mary and Joseph themselves were considered outsiders and forced to stay in a barn. That's what we're getting ready to commemorate as Christians around the world. While all of this fear is happening right here in our town. So he says he's raised a Catholic. And that phrase, you know, that phrase is, it's like what is the Inglorious Bastards meme

where he's holding up three fingers. But he's holding up, whatever, he's holding up this. I forget how he held him up in a way that let the other guy know that he's a fake. And it's, that's what it's like. When someone says raised Catholic, you got one of these people say, I was raised Catholic. What you mean is that you're no longer Catholic. You're not practicing and you don't care about your faith. Because anyone who actually is Catholic, like as a practicing Catholic, if I was to talk about that fact, I would not say, I was raised Catholic.

I would just say, I'm Catholic. That's what I would say. And yet, so you're raised Catholic, which means that you are, what you're telling me almost certainly is that you are, you're an apostate. and yet here you are pretending to take something personally because of your Catholic faith which you don't care about which you probably stopped practicing if you ever did to begin with 30 years ago now for a lot of these people they were raised like they weren't even raised Catholic even that's not true for most of them most of them they were raised Catholic as in yeah they were maybe confirmed and they went to church like five times their entire childhood

their parents didn't care about it either. And then, you know, and they don't care about it. Like, they weren't even raised Catholic. You're not Catholic. You weren't raised Catholic. There's nothing Catholic about you. And yet they use this to make these kinds of arguments. Because if this guy, Brian O'Hara actually cared about his faith and had ever read the gospel in his life,

which if you're really a Catholic, then you would think you'd have read the gospel maybe once or twice or, you know, preferably like hundreds of times. and if he had then he would know that he just said like the dumbest thing that's been uttered by an open borders liberal in at least the past 17 minutes it is that dumb mary and joseph were not outsiders in bethlehem brian hey chief chief brian they were not outsiders that's the whole point okay the gospel of luke tells us joseph went to bethlehem because of the census because it was his ancestral home he was not an outsider He was legally required to be there. He was legally ordered to go there. Is that the case of illegal immigrants?

Are they legally ordered to come here? Illegally? So they're legally ordered to come here illegally. Is that what you're saying? And they ended up in the manger, not because they were rejected as outsiders, but because of the, you know, it wasn't like bias against undocumented migrants, which they weren't, but because there was no room in the inn. And that's one of the most famous details in the entire Bible.

I don't know. It's like top five most famous things in the Bible where you don't even have to have read it to have just absorbed this, you would think? You just kind of absorb it. It's in the atmosphere. Even in our secular culture, there's a lot of things. That's how powerful scripture is that even in a secular culture, it is so deeply embedded, so deeply rooted. So there's certain things you just absorb. And one of them, I would think, is the phrase, no room at the end. There's no room. at the end. That's why they ended up in the manger. It wasn't, there's no room for foreigners. Where are your papers? You're an undocumented migrant. We ain't got no room for you here. Now, that's not what happened. Okay, it's just there's no room. There's no vacancy. So obviously this attempt to shoehorn modern leftist open borders doctrine into the Bible fails as it always does. Because it's not in there. Because the entire subject just isn't really in there. the entire subject of the immigration, open borders, immigration enforcement.

It's just, I'm not going to claim that there's a lot of pro-immigration enforcement stuff in there, especially in the Gospels. You know, is, now, immigration enforcement is consistent with the Bible. It's consistent with the Gospels. It's consistent with Christian teaching, obeying the law, give to Caesar what is Caesar's. that's in there. But for the most part, the Gospels aren't really interested in our immigration debates. And so the real point to me is that the leftists who do this,

who try to hit you with the Bible on the immigration topic, they will become suddenly and mysteriously uninterested in, and even hostile to the Bible on basically every other subject, including and especially the subjects where the biblical edict the biblical ruling is very explicitly clear. I mean, there are a lot of things, as I said, that we argue about that are not explicitly, like that's not the Bible is not meant to be this sort of glossary that covers every single last political debate that you might ever have about something. Now, there are the biblical principles and laws and moral edicts that are in there that apply,

that applies to everything we talk about and everything we do in life. But you can't always go and find chapter and verse that says, okay, here's what to think on this particular specific political issue. But there are issues. There are like current political issues, social issues. social issues, but there's explicit. A subject like homosexuality. You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. It's an abomination. Homosexuality is a dishonorable passion.

The book of Romans tells us. A subject like marriage. Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother, hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. A subject like transgenderism. Male and female, he created them. Couldn't be clearer than that. A subject like abortion. Thou shalt not kill. before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, Jeremiah, and so on.

On these topics, the Bible actually rules on them explicitly. You don't even need to interpret it. You don't need to, it's not like, there's no really connecting the dots of, well, okay, well, we got to, here's the moral rule, the moral law, the moral principle, and how do we apply this to this issue, which usually is not really that complicated, People try to make it seem more complicated it is. But then it's not even that. It's just, well, here's what it says on that.

Male and female, he created them. That's it. We're created male and female. That's it. End of discussion. It's right there. It is right there. It is right there.

Our babies, people, before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. I knew you. You're a person. I knew you. I formed you. I'm God. I formed you in the womb. Do babies have a right to life?

Yeah, it's right there. It is right there. It's right there. You don't have to trade. You don't have to interpret it. It is clear as day. Homosexuality. could not be clearer.

Yeah, but I don't know. It says, oh, it's an abomination. Like, it's right there. It is right there. A dishonorable passion. Right there. And yet these same, these raised Catholic types, these alleged Christians in public life, be they politicians or police chiefs or anybody else, on immigration.

The immigration is one of the only topics. They'll pull out the Bible. They suddenly become Bible thumpers on that topic with their tortured, horrifically perverse understanding of scripture. And then on every other topic, you pull out the Bible and say, well, you know, you brought up the Bible and like, hey, by the way, I'm glad to hear you care about what the Bible says. You're wrong about it in this case. You're wrong about what actually says.

Let me tell you. It helps to read it. Then you'd know. But by the way, since you apparently care about what the Bible says, here's this really explicit statement on this other issue. And then when you do that, they say, well, hey, hey, man, don't try to force your religion on me. Hey man, don't try to legislate morality. That's the game. This episode is sponsored by Shopify. Launching your own business is pretty much in everybody's bucket list, but most people don't actually take the time to pursue it. Stop making excuses like,

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that Kamala Harris is stepping towards another White House run. That's the, that's, I'm not going to get, I won't read the old story, but that's the story. I've seen this headline a few places. Kamala Harris is thinking about is maybe going to launch, maybe is likely going to launch another presidential campaign coming up for 2028. And I have to say, you know, if Kamala is thinking about running for president again, as somebody on the other side, I must say, just being totally honest,

which is all I can ever be. that I hope that does not happen. That would be a disaster for our side. My God. My God. I heard Kamala Harris, I know like every other, and a lot of you are not saying it out loud, and I'm being a little bit too honest for your taste here.

But everyone else on the right, when you heard Kamala Harris might jump in, might throw her hat in the ring, you thought, oh, oh dear Lord, no, please don't let this. Because why? And again, let's be honest, extremely formidable candidate.

I hope they don't hear me saying this. I don't want anyone in Kamala's orbit to hear me saying this. So I'm just talking to you. But between you and I, let's say the thing that we all say behind the scenes in the comfort of our own homes. We're sitting around the living room on the couch. And we all say that Kamala Harris, she's something else. She's, we saw it last time. She's highly intelligent, great orator.

Highly accomplished. I mean, she always talks about she's the most qualified person to ever run for president. And she's right. George Washington? You think he was the most qualified? No, let's be real. You think, like, Abraham Lincoln was a? No.

It's Kamala Harris. I mean, she wipes the floor with them. You see Kamala Harris here like, George Washington, who? George who? What did he do? So, I hope she doesn't run, because, it scares me. I really hope she doesn't. And I really hope that Democrat voters don't nominate her. Even if they don't nominate her, she might still be the nominee because we know

that Democrat Party doesn't really care what its voters say at all. I mean, that's very clear. They don't care at all. It doesn't matter what you say. We're just going to put whoever. So one way or another, you know, all I'm saying to Democrats, if they are listening is I'm begging you, do not make this woman your nominee. Just please. Play fair. Give us a chance. Give us a chance. Give us a shot. Be good sports. I mean, give us a fighting chance here. Kamala Harris. She's so, you know, and she's funny, too. That's the other thing. She's, she's great anecdotes. She talks about, you know, coconut trees and vend diagrams. I love when she talks about vend diagrams. She talks about vend diagrams all the time. It's very relatable. Because when she's talking about vend diagrams,

everyone else is saying, I love vend diagrams too. Oh, she loves vand diagrams? So do I. Captivating stuff and hilarious. I mean, she basically has the comedic chops of like Norm MacDonald, the intelligence of Albert Einstein, the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, the leadership skills of Julius Caesar, the beauty of Kathy Griffin. So she's really got it. She's got it all going on. And so I hope this doesn't happen. I'm praying it doesn't.

I'm begging Democrats, don't do this. Don't destroy us. Don't wipe the floor with us. Right? I'm appealing to your humanity, to your. to your mercy for which you are so well-renowned and that's all I could say

that's my plea. I did my best. I did my best. I laid it bare. I was very vulnerable. I tried to be vulnerable. I was very vulnerable. And that's all I could say. We'll see what happens. And that will do it for the show today.

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