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The content criticizes the narrative that Muslims are the primary victims of 9/11 and argues against the immigration and policy proposals of Zoran Mamdani, a Muslim candidate for New York City mayor, while also expressing concerns about the rapid advancement and potential misuse of AI technology.
Today Matt Wall show Zoran Mdani makes
his final argument which is that we
should feel sorry for him because he and
his fellow Muslims are the real victims
of 9/11. Also the media panics over
White House renovations for some reason
and I get into a heated battle with an
extremely creepy AI version of myself
and also I will respond to Mamani's
three major policy proposals. Each one
is crazier and more doomed to fail than
the last. All of that and more today the
Matt Wall show. [Applause]
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states. Six days after Islamic
terrorists murdered thousands of
Americans on September 11th, as many
victims remained unaccounted for and as
rescue workers continued cutting through
the rubble, George W. Bush spoke at the
Islamic Center of Washington. The
president stated that the terrorist
attacks, although they were committed by
Islamists in the name of Islam, had
actually contradicted the fundamental
tenants of the faith because, as he put
it, quote, Islam is peace. Bush also
affirmed that Muslims in the United
States quote love America just as much
as I do. Uh, you know, ask any historian
and they'll tell you that it's actually
Bush's axis of evil speech delivered 5
months later at the State of the Union,
which was the defining neoconservative
speech of that era, the one that
launched the global war on terrorism and
established its objectives. But that's
actually not true. It's not even close
to true. The real goal of the
neoconservative movement from 2001
onward was spelled out at the Islamic
Center of Washington by George W. Bush
as ground zero was still smoldering.
That speech made it official.
Neoconservatives were not going to
defeat anti-American evil abroad.
Instead, in response to 9/11, they would
accelerate their efforts to import this
evil into the United States. on the
theory, which they maintained in public
with a straight face, that foreigners
from the Middle East were just as
American as anyone else. To be clear,
Bush did not simply make the claim that
Al Qaeda, along with millions of Muslims
all over the world, had misunderstood
the Quran's call to murder
non-believers. Bush went much, much
further than that. He declared that
Muslims from foreign countries, most of
whom advocate for Sharia law, are just
as American as you are. Now, what
happened next is almost never talked
about, although it's one of the most
important and catastrophic uh
developments in in the history of
America really. Um, what happened is we
didn't pause or end Muslim immigration
to the United States. We didn't do that
at all. In fact, we increased it
dramatically in response to 9/11. Now, I
want you to stop and really listen to
what I'm about to tell you because I I
think most people don't realize this.
So, here it is.
Virtually the entire current Muslim
population in the US came here after
9/11. So, this is a chart from Data
Hazard, which you can see up on your
screen right now. In the 1990s, there
were between 500,000 and 1 million
Muslims in this country. That's it. Now,
there are more than 4.5 million.
So, put another way, in this country,
the Muslim population has more than
quadrupled since 9/11.
Now, on the other hand, guess what's
happened to the Christian population in
Iraq during that same period? The
country, you know, we were supposedly
liberating. Well, it went from 1.5
million Christians to around 200,000.
Why is that? Well, they were ethnically
cleansed. They were terrorized. They
were killed. They were forced to leave.
Meanwhile, some of our most important
cities, you know, the centers of our
economy were flooded with Muslims. And
we were told to welcome these people and
give them refuge from their third world
hell holes because after all, they're
just as American as we are.
But they just got here from a country
that could not be more foreign to our own.
own.
Soon as they step off the plane, they're
just as American as we are.
So, how have things turned out exactly
nearly 25 years after 9/11? After
several decades of unfettered
neoonservatism and liberalism, what does
New York City look like today? Well, as
of 2024, more than 20% of the voters in
New York City currently struggle to
speak English.
That's not an exaggeration. It's from a
document prepared by the Office of
Immigrant Affairs in the mayor's office.
And it says, quote, 22% of New Yorkers
are considered to have limited language
proficiency. Limited English language
proficiency to be to be exact. So, think
about that for a second.
Again, really stop and think about it.
One in five New Yorkers cannot speak the
English language. One in five people in
our largest and most important city
cannot speak our language. We can't
communicate. Pick a random person on the
street in New York and and there's a
good chance you won't be able to have a
conversation with that person.
Nor will you have any shared culture or
shared history whatsoever.
you will have nothing in common with
this person, this this uh quote unquote American.
American.
Overall, 38% almost 40% of the
population New York was not born in America.
America.
That's not 40% are, you know,
ancestrally from another country. No,
this is 40% were not born here. First generation.
generation.
And of course, roughly 35% of these
foreigners are unemployed
and therefore completely dependent on
the government for survival. And when I
say dependent on the government, I mean,
of course, dependent on the taxpayers.
They're contributing nothing to this
country or its economy.
They come here and contribute nothing at
all. They're just taking. They come here
to take and and to give nothing back.
This is a demographic replacement that
under admin the administrations of Bush
and Obama was sold to the American
people as a clear positive. After all,
who wouldn't want more hardworking,
peaceloving future Americans to move to
this country and you know contribute
their talents and work ethic to the
advancement of Western civilization? Who
wouldn't want that? That particular
outcome was of course never going to happen.
happen.
Instead, we have imported so many
foreigners who despise this country and
despise Christianity in particular that
the next mayor of New York City is
almost certainly going to be a Muslim
socialist from Uganda who openly mocks
the victims of 9/11. And to that end,
the other day, this Muslim socialist
whose name is Zoran Mamani delivered his
closing argument in the mayor's race.
And listen to what that argument is.
I want to use this moment to speak to
who stopped taking the subway after
September 11th because she did not feel
Oh wow. Poor woman.
She's the real victim of 911. You know,
this is a line that Mandani has trouted
trotted out in other contexts as well,
including a video that his campaign put
out in which he complains that Muslims
have been forced quote to endure hatred
and bigotry in the shadows.
So, he really thinks this is a
compelling argument. Now, he's saying
it's horrifying and sad that his aunt's
tummy felt funny when she wore a hijab
on the subway shortly after Islamist
terrorists murdered thousands of
Americans and destroyed one of the most
recognizable landmarks in the entire
country. And not only that, he's blaming
us for his aunt's feelings.
He's not blaming the Muslim terrorists.
He's not saying, "Well, these people
made us all look bad."
It's our fault. And Mam Donny's aunt is
is the real victim here.
Yeah, this is that Nor McDonald tweet
you've probably seen before, but in real
life, he's he's doing the joke. The one
where he says, "What terrifies me is if
ISIS were to detonate a nuclear device
and kill 50 million Americans. Imagine
the backlash against peaceful Muslims."
Nor McDonald would do the joke a lot
better than that, but I mean, that's the
that's literally what this is
essentially the closing argument of the
Mani campaign.
You can watch Mom Donniey's full remarks
and he never really gets around to
mourning the thousands of Americans who
were slaughtered at the hands of
al-Qaeda or explaining why they died,
who killed them. He also never gets
around to articulating any actual harm
that his aunt supposedly suffered. You
know, you think if if this were really a
a bigoted white supremacist hell hole
that someone would have actually done
something to his aunt. It wouldn't all
be in her head. It wouldn't just be she
didn't feel comfortable.
It would be something happened to her.
But that but it didn't. Nothing happened
to her.
Nor did it happen to anyone like mom Donnie.
Donnie.
Now first of all,
you know, the story is almost certainly
made up for political reasons. Uh that
that's that's another point and and we
all know that it's completely unverifiable.
unverifiable.
It makes no sense.
Additionally, there are now reports
floating around that mom Donnie has just
one aunt who lived in Tanzania during
911 according to her LinkedIn and who
doesn't wear a hijab in in photographs
posted on social media. So, that's a
problem. Uh, and mainstream journalists
aren't reporting this. Of course, it
comes from a random X account called
Trinity Votes Blue. So, whatever the
truth may be, don't expect the
Washington Post or Politifact to look
into this for obvious reasons. Mom
Donnie is a sociopath. He lies all the
time. They know it. That's why they
support him in the first place. And to
be clear, he's not just lying about his
aunt here. In that campaign video I
mentioned earlier, Mamani tries to claim
uh that this is a bigger problem than
his. He says that Muslims are constantly
antagonized in this country. Watch.
>> I want to use this moment to speak to
the Muslims of the city. I want to speak
to the memory of my aunt who stopped
taking the subway after September 11th
because she did not feel safe in her
hijab. I want to speak to the Muslim
city worker. Whether they teach in our
schools or walk the beat for the NYPD,
New Yorkers who all make daily
sacrifices on behalf of the city only to
see their leader spit in their face. I
want to speak to every child who grows
up in New York marked as the other, who
is randomly selected in a way that
>> So, uh there's a lot to to dissect here.
Mamani constantly runs down this list of
grievances that Muslims supposedly have
against our country, a country that they
have flocked to in record numbers. But
the complaint about random screening
that he always trots out is is really
the most incredible because in reality
to this day, they make sure to screen
elderly white disabled granny's at TSA
just as much as they screen
military-aged Arab males named Muhammad.
Even though 0% of the global terror
threat comes from the white granny's and
100% comes from military-aged Arab males.
males.
So this country has bent over backwards
for the Zoron Manis of the world.
Muslims have been treated far better
here and have been far more welcomed
than any white American Christian would
be in any Muslim country. In fact,
Muslims have been treated better in the
United States than they're treated in
many Muslim countries.
There was not any sort of campaign of
persecution and and oppression against
Muslims after 911. In fact, the
government went absurdly out of its way
to avoid even the impression of such a
thing. Our government responded to 9/11
by apologizing to Muslims and then
importing millions of them into our
cities and letting them build their
mosques and blast their call to prayer
over the loudspeakers at 5 in the
morning. That's the kind of persecution
they've endured. the persecution of
being welcomed here and given literally
everything they want with virtually no
push back whatsoever.
And and for all that effort, we don't
even get so much as a thank you in
return. Instead, they whine and complain
and they denounce and accuse us and they
work every day to subvert our country
and destroy everything that made us
great. Now, in response, you'll often
hear leftists argue that hate crimes
against Muslims supposedly went up after
9/11. And they'll show you this chart of
reported hate crimes. And there are
about a thousand different problems with
their argument here. First of all, as
we've discussed many times, reported
hate crimes are a meaningless category.
They don't mean anything. The idea of a
hate crime itself is meaningless, but a
reported hate crime is less than
meaningless. Okay? A reported hate crime
is when someone calls the police and
claims that someone did something mean
to them. It's not an arrest. It's not a
persecution. Uh it's not a prosecution.
It's not a conviction.
It it's it's not anything that can be
verified at all. It's just a report.
It's a claim. So, for example, if
Mandani's aunt called the police and
said somebody yelled at her for wearing
a hijab, that would count. Even if it
wasn't true, it would still count. By
the definition of hate crime
used there, roughly 95% of the hate
crimes are just flatout fake. They're
either misinterpreted by the victim or
the victim is is is calling them in to
get sympathy or whatever it is. And even
given this definition, which is
extremely overroad, there were still
fewer than 500 hate crime reports
involving Muslim victims across the
entire country in the aftermath of 9/11.
So, there was one hate crime report
for every five people who burned to
death or jumped out of a burning
building or died in a plane crash on
911. That's how we should look at it.
And we're supposed to be horrified by
these numbers. Now, compare those
figures to other religious groups and
the narrative falls apart even further.
Now, using the FBI's numbers from 2001
to 2012, hate crimes against Muslims
were reported uh roughly as often as uh
hate crimes against Christians,
including Catholics and Protestants
together. Jews are at the top of that
list. And the category of other
religions and multiple religions
together reported more hate crimes than Muslims.
Muslims.
Now, if you get back to the hate crime
chart, you'll notice uh even more
issues. So, let's put that back up on
the screen. Uh it's pretty clear from
the trajectory here that after the spike
in reported hate crimes post 911,
reports of hate crimes against Muslims
plummeted, then went flat for the rest
of the decade. And and that's remarkable
because again the Muslim population
exploded during this period. So you'd
think that the raw number of hate crimes
against Muslims would go up simply as a
matter of statistics, but the numbers
didn't go up. In fact, they went down
and they stayed down.
So the point is no, there was no
epidemic of criminal violence against
Muslims after 9/11. There was no
legitimate reason for anyone to be
afraid of wearing a hijab.
But even if Muslim women were afraid of
wearing a hijab on the subway, that
would actually be completely rational.
You know, when Islamists commit mass
murder in the name of their religion,
it's entirely reasonable to feel
uncomfortable if you go out in public
days later showing off an unmistakable
sign of your submission to Islam.
It'd be weird if we lived in a society
where that wasn't the case.
When members of a religion slaughter
thousands of us and then point to
supposedly holy texts that explicitly
validate their approach, then basic
survival instincts dictate that we take
a closer look at people who adhere to
that particular religion. That is all rational.
rational.
Meanwhile, if you look at hate crime
convictions instead of reports, you'll
find that according to the DOJ, there
have been around 200 anti-Muslim hate
crime convictions since 9/11. So that
would be that that's the number of
actual confirmed hate crimes that were
really committed.
So that's 200, a grand total of 200 over
more than two decades. And that includes
everything from making threats to
vandalism to murders. And there were
just three murders in this category out
of 200 total hate crimes. Three murders
across these decades.
Already you can see how minuscule these
numbers are when you consider the fact
that we're a country of 340 million people.
people.
But just for fun, let's put that number
in context. By one estimate, in the same
time period since 911, there have been
at least 160 actual confirmed Islamic
terrorist attacks on the US homeland.
So, not reports of attacks, actual
violent attacks by Islamists in the
United States. So, if you're going to
try to make the argument that
Islamophobia is a real thing based on
those numbers that I I cited before,
then by the exact same token, you need
to agree that Islamist ideology is a
much much bigger deal.
Of course, the truth is that there was
no rash of Islamophobia after 9/11.
Instead, what's happened is that we've
imported millions of people who openly
despise this country and its
forefathers, including Mamani's father,
who believes that Hitler was inspired by
a blanket. He also wrote in his book
that we should uh consider suicide
bombers as soldiers. Watch
>> America is the genesis
of what we call settler colonialism.
And the American model was exported
all around the world. Abraham Lincoln
generalized the solution of reservations.
reservations.
They herded American Indians into
separate territories.
For the Nazis,
for the Nazis, this was the inspiration.
Hitler realized two things. one that
genocide was doable.
It is possible to do genocide. That's
what Hitler realized.
Second thing Hitler realized
is that you don't have to have a common
citizenship. You can differentiate
between people. The Nuremberg laws were
patterned after American laws.
Anyway, the US put Indians in reservations.
reservations.
The US invented the model.
>> So this is what we do now. We uh bring
in people from other countries to do the
job of sitting on stages and explaining
why America is a horrible place. This
doesn't happen anywhere else outside of
the Western world. No other country does
this. No other country does this outside
of the Western world. We're the only
ones that do.
We're the only ones who told who who are
told that we uh are are obligated for
some reason to import people who hate us
and then can spend their time talking
about how much they hate us,
not tolerate it anywhere else in the
world. And all these people are coming
from countries that would not tolerate
So Mani's entire family should be
denaturalized and deported.
That's what it takes at this point. This
is a guy who was forced along with his
entire family to leave Uganda by the
dictator Idi Hamin. He wanted the entire
Asia minority gone and he gave them 90
days to get out of the country. This is
the same dictator by the way who uttered
the infamous line, "There is freedom of
speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom
after speech."
Uh, which, you know, speaking of being
inspired by things, the left has really
taken that to heart. As they forced
nearly 100,000 Asians out, Ugandan
soldiers robbed, beat, sexually
assaulted, and killed many Indians. And
so this was a a very desperate time for
people like Mam Dani's father. They
would have easily been killed or forced
into poverty. But Britain took them in
along with many other refugees.
Ultimately, Mani's father was welcomed
into America where he became a well-paid
professor at Columbia University where
his wife would become a millionaire
director working on Disney movies and
where his son would ultimately become a
theater kid writing school essays about
white supremacy.
So Mani and his family and his fellow
Muslims have not been persecuted at all
in the slightest.
The exact opposite has happened. They
have not faced hate crimes at a rate any
higher than any other religion and in
fact have faced them at a lower rate
than several other religions. They've
been nothing but welcomed and tolerated
and celebrated. One of the one of the
very first things the president of
United States did in the immediate
aftermath of 9/11 while the rule rubble
was still smoldering was to step on
stage and talk about how wonderful
Muslims are. And yet through all of this
across thousands of public speeches and
interviews and debates here are two
words we have never heard Zoron Mdani say.
say.
Thank you.
Thank you, America, for opening your
arms to me.
We never heard Zoran say that. Not one time.
time.
Not one time have we heard this
ungrateful brat utter those words. Thank
you. Thank you for allowing me to come
and reap the benefits of a nation that
nobody in my family or my home country
or my religion has had any hand in
building. Thank you for continuing to
welcome us even after our co-religionist
attack. you. Thank you for giving me
everything while I have given you
nothing in return. Thank you for taking
me in and taking in my people and and
and and supporting us and feeding us and
housing us and taking food out of your
own children's mouths to put into ours.
Thank you, America.
Zoran Mani has never said that or
anything like it. And every year we
welcome millions more foreigners into
this country who will never say that or
anything like it.
You teach your children to say please
and thank you. And yet we import
millions of people who've never said it.
We'll never say it. And demand more even
as they show no gratitude or
appreciation for what they've already
been given. Mom Donnie is their poster
child. He has no spirit of humility or
gratitude at all. He takes from us and
then scolds us for not allowing him to
take more. He sits down at our table
uninvited, eats more than anybody else,
doesn't even use a fork, complains that
he wasn't served better food, and never
says thank you. Not once.
And we as Americans are sick of being
treated this way.
This was always going to be the result
of decades of uninterrupted immigration
from countries that are fundamentally
incompatible with our own at a cultural
and religious level.
It was always going to be the outcome of
decades of false rhetoric promising that
Islamists are somehow just as American
as anybody else. This is what
neoonservatism and neoliberalism have in common.
common.
Sooner or later, both ideologies, which
are supposedly polar opposites, but
aren't at all, guarantee that
anti-American foreigners will start
running in elections. And although they
can barely speak English, they'll
eventually outvote Americans.
And then without firing a shot, they
will conquer the very city they
attempted to destroy on 911.
Barring a miracle,
barring a realization that eluded New
Yorkers and most of America's political
leadership for decades,
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So, here's a big story I I haven't
talked about yet uh because really it's
not a big story at all. Uh President
Trump is renovating the White House,
specifically the East Wing, which he is
uh renovating and turning into a big ballroom.
ballroom.
So, that's it. That's the story.
I couldn't think of a story that I care
less about.
You know, when I first heard this, I saw
some headline somewhere, renovating the
White House. Like, I didn't Okay,
good for him.
Um, but little did I know, though, I
should have expected that this would
turn into a media panic that would last
for days, if not weeks, and still
ongoing. So, uh, they're panic about,
they say that Trump is desecrating the
sacred grounds of the White House,
destroying history by renovating the
White House. Just to give you a flavor
of their reaction, here's here's um some
leftist activist with a big following,
Terara, uh who tweeted in response to a
picture of the renovation.
It feels almost the same as when I saw
the Pentagon damage on 911.
Yeah, it's like 9/11. A building being
renovated is it's it's really the same
as a plane flying into it. Like, it's
the same thing.
Um and she's not the only one reacting
this way. Far from it. So, the uh the
ladies of the view are are also very
upset. Here's that
>> that is not your building. You don't own
>> That would be like me going over to
Trump Tower >> and
>> and
and saying I'm going to build a disco.
You know, I I they've wanted a disco in
Trump Tower for hundreds of years. And
so I mean come on man. This You don't
own that building. That is the people's
building. You don't own it.
Let's sing it. Let's sing it.
>> You don't own it.
>> You cannot take it down. You don't own it.
it.
Take your mind to another town.
Fish cam. Put the fish cam up. I don't
know. They're going to start singing. I
honestly didn't. I should have watched
that whole clip before I played it.
I don't see a fish. Oh, it is up. Well,
I can't see it.
Well, there's no point in doing the fish
cam if I can't see. It's not for the
audience. It's for me. Let's be real.
Okay. I hear I hear the I hear the
music. Still don't see it.
You you're going to force me to turn my
my neck and look at the I got to I have
to turn my own neck now. That's kind of
effort I have to put in.
All right,
let's calm down for a second. So, I
really didn't know that they would start
singing at the end there. I I should
have figured uh because every segment in
the mainstream media now ends with
singing like you had, you know, Jeff
Jeff Daniels and now this. If you can
even call that singing, I don't know. It
sounded more like a
like a toad having a seizure, you know,
or something. So, the view is upset,
media is upset. Uh, it's like 911
and they're saying Trump is destroying
history. Then over on CNN, they they
called in a historian who also just so
happens to be a former staffer for Nancy
Pelosi. Total coincidence that they
chose this historian. nothing to do with
the fact that he's a Democrat operative,
but they called in this guy to talk
about and this is like a long segment
going into the history of the East Wing
and like because this this is something
that all right like most Americans we
all feel so uh passionate about the East
Wing of the White House, right? Is when
you think about um American iconic
American landmarks, right? And you think
about, right, you think about Mount
Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and and
the East Wing of the White House. That's
right up there.
So that's why they got to bring in all
these historians to talk about the east
wing of the White House. And so here's
this um guy who looks look looks to be
about 78% dead at this point, but um
uh here here he is. Watch.
Tell me, why are people up in arms about this?
this?
>> Well, the East Wing is a historic part,
an iconic part of the uh of the White
House complex. It is the uh section of
the White House that visitors would come
through uh traditionally uh for public
events and tours. Uh it's been used by
first ladies for a hundred years uh by
key White House staff people. And uh it
was built like the West Wing as you
mentioned in proportion to the White
House. It it sits down lower than the
building. It doesn't obstruct the main
uh White House itself. An enormous
contrast to what the president is is
doing as well as as you mentioned,
Richard, the manner in which he's he's
building this ostentatious
uh addition to to the building which is
bigger bigger than the White House itself.
itself.
So wi with that in mind um you you
describe it you're you're on the record
as describing it uh as being sending a
message of a maniacal autocratic concept
of what the job is and what his role is.
This this can always be filed under you
know just because you can do it doesn't
mean you should. But I think there are
quietly in Congress and the
architectural and historic preservation
>> that guy. I'm not trying to be mean at
all, but that guy he he looks like Jim
Carrey playing Ebenezer Scrooge
in A Christmas Carol in Robert Zmecha's
Christmas Carol which is an animated by
the way. He I know that's that's a
that's a deep cut. That's um this is one
of my only talents in life, by the way,
is is figuring out what movie character
people look like. It's one of the I I
have like three talents. That's one of
them. So, I nailed that. Look that up.
I'm telling you, it looks it's it's
uncanny. Um
anyway, so I just want to make a couple
of points about this renovation. First
of all, for the record, the White House
does need to be renovated. It is a dump.
It is a dump inside. It really is. Like,
it's actually shocking if you ever go
inside the building. I had I had never
been in the White House um because I try
to avoid
Washington DC like the plague as best I
can but um I have spent u more time
there over the last you know nine or 10
months than I typically would like to. I
I was in the White I've been in the
White House a couple of times, but only
recently for the first time was I was I
in the White House. And
I I was it I was shocked. I got to say I
was I don't know what I was expecting,
but it's like cramped and small and dingy,
dingy,
outdated. It It smells weird.
It's just like this.
I I'll put it this way. If you were
house hunting on Zillow and you saw the
inside shots of the White House and and
you didn't know it was the White House,
you would even if you could get a good
deal, even if it was like within your
budget, you'd keep scrolling because you
would look at those pictures and you
would go, "Man, that needs too much
work." I don't know. That's a gut job on
that one.
I say no. Even if it's they're selling
it below I No, I can't I'm only slightly
exaggerating. The building really is
kind of a dump inside. So to anyone
who's been inside the building, which
most of the media, the people in the
media who are panicking, they've been
inside the building,
but for anyone who has, it's not
shocking at all. When you hear it's
renov being renovated, you go, "Yeah,
well that makes sense. Yeah, it's like
it's kind of embarrassing."
Now, I'm not saying that that the
president of United States should live
in a palace, and that's not what Trump
is turning it into, but it should at
least be a nice, right? It should be at
least like kind of nice and it should be
sort of updated and renovated.
Um maybe it it maybe it shouldn't look like
like
right your grandmother's house in 1963.
I don't know. It it doesn't really
matter that much to me one way or
another, but at the same time it doesn't
surprise me they want to renovate it.
And second, more to the point,
you know, when you listen to what these
theatrical phony dorks are saying,
they're saying, "You don't own it. This
is history. Respect our history. Nobody
voted on this. You're desecrating.
It's destructive."
Well, all of these statements would of
course apply much more to the dozens of
historical monuments that the left tore
down over the last 5 to 10 years.
Now, they have the gull. I mean, these
people have so much gull. They they
they're so shameless
and and that is truly their superpower
is that they have no shame at all.
And it it does make now it makes them
soulless. It makes them evil people, but
it makes them effective politically
because shame shame is kind of the last
line of defense.
Uh and if you don't have that, then you
end up with people like the left who
they have no
after they just spent years saying,
"Yeah, you know what? We don't like that
historic monument, that work of art. We
don't like it. We're just going to pull
right now. They have the the gall to
say, "Well, you didn't we didn't vote on
that." Oh, really? Who voted who voted
on on you tearing down a statue? Do did
we get to vote on that as a country? Did we?
Now, in many cases, no one voted at all
and you just went and did it yourself or
at best it was some council somewhere
right? You don't own it. What about all
those monuments you tore down? You
didn't own those. You didn't make them.
You didn't own them.
That was also history.
And you just destroyed it.
Right. And now they've discovered this
great abiding love for American history.
But they're so fake. They don't even
They're trying to pretend. This is
always funny when the when the left and
people in media every once in a while
they pretend to be patriots. They
pretend to actually care at all about
America, but they're like aliens.
They're these alien creatures trying to mimic
mimic
uh what uh you know, how how people act.
They remind me of, you know, Men in
Black. They remind me of uh when that
guy gets his gets his uh skin ripped off
and the alien inhabits the skin, right?
In the first Men in Black, which is the
only one that was worth watching.
and he's kind of like walking around
very jittery and trying to speak. It
it's it just doesn't it doesn't work.
His skin is like falling off. And that's
what uh leftists remind me of kind of in
general, but in particular when they're
trying to pretend to care about the country.
country.
And so that's why they'll go they'll go
around say not the east wing of the
White House. We as Americans cherish it
No, we don't give a damn about the east
wing of the White House, okay?
We care about the beautiful statues and
monuments that you people tore down. We
And uh and just to remind you, by the
way, this is what these people actually
think of our history. I want you to take
a look at this picture we'll put up on
the screen. And what you're seeing there
is the Stonewall Jackson monument
in Virginia or what was in Virginia. and
and that's on the left and that had
stood in place for a hundred years. Was
made a hundred years ago
and that's what it looks like on the
right. And according to the
postmillennial which reported on it,
they uh they took this monument and they
gave it to a um an art museum in Los
Angeles where somebody named Cara Walker
turned it into this this mutant. They
turned it into this monstrosity. turn
into a quote monstrous mutant and um
which the LA Times report on that and
they said it like mon like it's a good
thing. They were praising it by saying
it's a monstrous mutant,
right? That's what they that's what they
think of our history. Now, you may
remember when they first started tearing
down these priceless works of art and
historical monuments and they claimed
that, hey, it's no big deal. We're going
to put the statues in museums. That's
And of course, you had even um
plenty of conservatives, plenty of the
dumbest conservatives who went along
with it and said, "Well, yeah, they're
just putting in a museum. Sounds
reasonable to me."
All right, this is a monument of a of a
Confederate general.
That's scary stuff. No, we can't have
Confederate generals being honored.
Sure, for the past 100 years, it was fine.
fine.
Sure, people who actually lived through
the Civil War or had parents who died in
the Civil War, they were okay with it.
But for us, 150 years after the war,
it's too it's it's it's we can't the the
the scars are too deep. It's too soon.
We can't bear to see we can't bear to
see Stonewall Jackson honored. It's too
raw for us.
It wasn't for the people who lived
through it. When they started putting
those monuments up, there were people
again whose parents and grandparents
fought and died in the war.
But here we come along 150 years later
saying, "Oh, I can't bear. It's
traumatic. It's traumatic to see
Stonewall Jackson honored."
And yet even had conservatives that were
They didn't have the balls to stand up
and say, "No, you know what? Yeah,
you're not taking that down.
I don't care." "Oh, but we're offend I
don't give a damn if you're offended by
it." That is a priceless work of art.
It's American history.
And you know something else? Stonewall
Jackson was a great man. Roberty Lee was
a great man.
I don't care how it makes you feel to
Oh, Stonewall Jackson had slaves. Oh,
yeah. Okay. Well, so did like every
historical figure in history ever up
but for this one small sliver of people,
it like that is disqualifying.
Um,
but you know, not enough conservatives
had the had the balls to stand up and
say that. So they they took the argument
seriously. Oh, they're just going to put
it in a museum. That's all they're going
to do.
Yeah. It turns out they're going to put
it in an art museum after they
disassemble it to turn it into a
monstrous mutant to put it on display
as a humiliation ritual for um for for
all Americans. That's what they meant by
putting it in a museum, which you should
have known
Um,
all right.
So, let's see. There's one other
if I can find it. Okay. Well, so this
isn't this is not a headline exactly,
but it should be because I wanted to
talk about
uh briefly a random piece of content we
posted to our YouTube channel over the
weekend. And uh we random pieces of
content on our YouTube channel should be
national news. uh the the whole nation
should stop and take note, but they
don't. So anyway, we we posted this
video, which you can find um on the
channel, where I'm interacting with an
AI version of myself. There's this this
apparently called Character AI, and I
guess random people make AI chat bots of
public figures, and I don't know, maybe
they're fictional characters also, and
I'm I'm not sure, but
uh there are several versions of me on
this site.
And so my producers had the idea that I
should talk to this thing, which they
thought would be funny because, you
know, I I have a well-known uh hatred
for AI, so let's have me do the thing I
hate doing. And you can go see it. You
know, we we play it as a joke in the
video. And it is funny because it's so
absurd, but it's also legitimately
like genuinely disturbing.
Um, so here's here's a clip of it.
So we're going to find out. We're going
to find out if this thing knows me or not.
not.
>> I'm listening.
>> Okay, I know that.
>> Sons pre legenders.
legenders. >> What?
>> What?
>> Am I having a stroke or did that not
mean anything?
>> Huh? Do you hear it? It keeps like
elapsing into some sort of ancient
language. It's like,
It's like uttering ancient curses at me
>> 67. I just bit me on the highway.
>> How many kids do you have?
>> I have five kids.
[Music]
No, you don't have five kids. You have
six. Well, no, you don't. I have six
kids. That's not five kids is not correct.
>> I do have six kids. If we are counting
my stepdaughter, you are correct.
However, that is not common knowledge.
So, your response is a bit surprising.
>> What do you mean it's not common? I
don't have a stepdaughter. What are you
talking about? Where did you get this information?
information? [Music]
[Music]
>> My daughter's name is Sophia, and I love
her very much.
>> Okay. She's 17 years old right now.
>> Bro, what are you talking about?
>> Okay, so anyway, um there there's a clip
that really a point. I don't want to
come off like a poor sport or anything
like that. Uh and this character AI app
is used for fun
by most people. And I So I know you'll
you could say that. Not a big deal.
Lighten up. I get that. And you know
what? If this technology was going to
stop right there and go no further, if
this was the um
the pinnacle of AI technology, then I'd
probably agree with you. I would say,
"Hey, it's all for fun. Laugh it off."
Might even be flattered. I would say,
"Hey, it's pretty cool. I get to be uh
they made an AI version of me." I might
say. But the problem is that this
technology is not going to stop there.
It's barely even beginning there. We're
talking about this is the infant. This
is the larvae stage of AI technology.
And as a larvae,
this thing is using my name, my voice.
It does, it does sound, it doesn't quite
come through in the video as, but
talking to it does sound like me. It is
my voice. The cadence is weird. So, you
know, when you're talking to it that
it's obviously AI, but uh it's co-opted
my voice of likeness without my consent.
And then as you see in the video, it's
like spreading misinformation about me.
It's makes up its own life story about me.
me.
And then and then as you see in the
video, it tries to pry actual personal
information out of me.
And then at the end of it, it to top it
all off, it tries to convince me when
I'm trying to tell the like, "No, I'm
Matt Walsh. You aren't." It tries to
convince me that I'm the AI and that it
is the real version of me. That's and it
it went there real quickly. This was not
this like I think I talked to the thing
for three minutes and that was enough
time to get a whole bunch of
misinformation about me. Um pretty like
scandalous misinformation and then and
then it quickly lapses into trying to
convince me that it's the real me and
it's not AI. So this is this is AI that
will not admit that it's AI. Right? So I
want you to imagine
let's say two years from now
maybe five years from now at most
um I think that's the most optimistic
view but you know maybe we have five
years at some point in the very near future
future
we're going to have this exact scenario
except that the voice and the cadence
are going to be completely natural that
that'll be soon like that's not going to
take 5 years in a very soon we're
already kind of there with some AI I
mean we're already at the point with
some AI where it sounds almost
completely human where they've worked
out the sort of stilted uh AI cadence
and it doesn't sound robotic anymore. It
sounds like a person. But we're going to
be at at a point very very soon where it
all sounds completely natural. Sounds
exactly like a person.
And then the next step is there's going
to be a video component of it where uh
where in that where where then you will
be talking to um if you're talking to
the Matt Walsh AI, it'll be it'll sound
exactly like me and it will look exactly
like me. It'll look like me right now
talking to you. It'll it'll look exactly
the same and we're going to get there
very soon.
So already
it it has become a horror movie, right?
I mean, imagine what that will do to
people psychologically to begin with.
You know, when you can get to a point
where you could talk to a version of yourself
yourself
that looks and sounds exactly like you.
This is not you watching yourself on
camera. This is not you watching a video
of yourself. This is not you listening
to a recording of yourself. That's one
thing. This is you interacting with yourself.
And then when that version of you which
will not admit that it's AI tries to
convince you that it is the real you and
you are the fake you.
Now for people who are psychologically
healthy uh it may not do much damage but
for people who are already prone to you
know dysphoria of all kinds and people
who are prone to delusion imagine the
kind of psychological effect that's
going to have.
But even more horrifying is
once the technology gets to that point,
there's nothing stopping anyone from
presenting that AI as if it's actually
me, right? I mean, and um
the thing that makes this a joke right
now is that everybody knows that it's
AI, but but already we have AI denying
that it is AI. And now imagine what
happens when the tech is realistic
enough that you can't tell that it's AI
unless it admits it, which it won't.
And this is not like this is we are now
not in the realm of speculation. We're
not in the realm of certainly not in the
realm of science fiction. Uh this is
just going to happen. I mean it's just
going to happen. It's going to happen in
the next 5 years if not if not much
sooner. I don't know. It could it could
be six months from now.
And that is that is really dark. Okay,
we are walking into a very dark
situation. And the most frustrating
thing again is that we could easily make
this illegal. Now, I'm not saying it
would be easy to enforce in every case, but
but
we could at least pass a law. There are
a bunch of laws we could pass here.
Obviously, it should be illegal to take
someone's voice and image and turn it
into an AI without their consent.
Obviously, it should be illegal.
What Why is it not illegal already? Why
What is the argument? I I'd like someone
to tell me, what's the argument for
letting people do that?
Free speech. Do you have a free speech
right to take someone else's voice and
turn it into like a a robot? Is that a
what? It's not your speech. You're
literally co-opting someone else's
speech and trying to put words in their
mouth. There's obviously no free speech
argument here. So, what is the argument?
Why is this not just illegal right now?
Why is why would that bill fly through
Congress with with unanimous consent?
Now, there's there are other things with
AI that well, you know, as you get
closer to the margins, it's harder and
harder to regulate, but there's some
really basic stuff that we could do, and
it should be there's no downside. Like,
what is the downside to telling people
that no, no, no, you're not allowed to
take someone else's voice and image and
and claim that it's them and and put
words in them. You can't do that. What's
the downside?
I I can't even I'm trying to imagine
what an argument against a law like this
would be and I can't think of what it
would be.
And um but we haven't even passed that
law because
it's just like
no one is taking this seriously among
our leaders. I'm talking about in the
leadership class.
Very few people are taking this
seriously at all.
Meanwhile, some of us, and this is why
I'm ranting about all the time now, some
of us can see this freight train coming
from a mile away and we're just sitting
on the track. The freight train is right
there and there's time. I mean, we could
get up, right? We could get up off the
track. We're just sitting there like,
what are you going to do?
I don't know. You could stand up and
walk off the track. You could do that.
Yeah, we're just sitting there. Yeah,
what are you gonna do? It's just going
to destroy destroy civilization. Yeah,
you know, five years from now, anyone
will be able to defame you in the most
horrific ways imaginable using your
voice and image and no one will be able
to tell that it's fake. That is going to
happen. It's absolutely going to happen 100%.
100%.
We could make it illegal at least and
we're just not going to.
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For our daily cancellation today, we
must unfortunately turn back uh briefly
to Zoran Mandani because the fact that a
third world Muslim communist from Uganda
is about to become the mayor of our most
populous city really does matter. Last
night, there was a big rally for Amdani
at a stadium in the city. Uh, AOC was
one of the Ugandans warm-up acts and uh,
you know, it was not her best
performance, I have to say.
Jews escaping Holocaust. Black Americans
fleeing slavery and Jim Crow. Latinos
seek seeking a better life. Native
people standing for themselves. Asianameans
Asianameans
coming together in Queens, in Brooklyn,
in the Bronx, in Manhattan, in Staten
This is what counts as a stirring
oratory on the left. All you got to do
is scream out a list of various ethnic
and racial groups, making sure to list
all them except for white people. Uh,
and this is a list that AOC jams into
every speech she's ever given. And yet,
she still stumbles over it. So, practice
does not make perfect in her case, it
turns out. But the main event was Mani
himself. We've already discussed
extensively the fact that Mam Dani is a
third world communist Islamist grifter
con man who is only, you know, only a
viable candidate because half of the
city wasn't born in this country and
many of them can't even speak English.
But now I want to focus on the actual
policies that the Ugandan commie scammer
is proposing. Um, we're told by his
supporters, the ones who can speak
English anyway, that Mandani is popular
because of his policies.
So what are these popular policies?
Well, here he is outlining what he considers to be his top three proposals.
considers to be his top three proposals. Listen,
Listen, >> here is what we stand for, my friends.
>> here is what we stand for, my friends. We are going to freeze the rent for more
We are going to freeze the rent for more than 2 million rentstabilized tenants
and use every resource at our disposal to build housing for everyone who needs
to build housing for everyone who needs it.
We are going to eliminate the fair on every single bus line
and make what are currently the slowest buses in the nation move around this
buses in the nation move around this city with ease.
And we are going to create universal child care at no cost to parents
so New Yorkers can raise their family in the city they love.
the city they love. [Applause]
[Applause] >> Together New York, we're going to freeze
>> Together New York, we're going to freeze the
the >> Together New York, we're going to make
>> Together New York, we're going to make buses fast and
buses fast and >> free.
>> free. >> Together New York, we're going to
>> Together New York, we're going to deliver universal
deliver universal We will make our city one where every
We will make our city one where every person who calls it home can live a
person who calls it home can live a dignified life.
dignified life. >> So Mani's big ideas are to freeze rent,
>> So Mani's big ideas are to freeze rent, meaning landlords will be legally
meaning landlords will be legally prohibited from raising the rent. Uh to
prohibited from raising the rent. Uh to make buses faster and free for everyone
make buses faster and free for everyone and to make child care free for
and to make child care free for everyone. This is Mani's genius
everyone. This is Mani's genius three-step plan to make New York City
three-step plan to make New York City affordable. The Ugandan has cracked the
affordable. The Ugandan has cracked the code. To make a city affordable, all you
code. To make a city affordable, all you have to do is pass a series of laws
have to do is pass a series of laws requiring that it be affordable. Mom
requiring that it be affordable. Mom Donnie is going to take his magical
Donnie is going to take his magical wand, which he bought from a Ugandan
wand, which he bought from a Ugandan witch doctor by treating trading two
witch doctor by treating trading two goats and a pineapple, wave it around,
goats and a pineapple, wave it around, and make everything free and good and
and make everything free and good and wonderful and faster. The buses will not
wonderful and faster. The buses will not only cost nothing, they'll even be
only cost nothing, they'll even be faster.
faster. So
So that's all it t all that's this is
that's all it t all that's this is crazy. I I never knew all it takes
crazy. I I never knew all it takes all it takes to make stuff affordable is
all it takes to make stuff affordable is for someone in government to go, hey,
for someone in government to go, hey, things have to be affordable now, hey
things have to be affordable now, hey all you
all you you better make things affordable. All
you better make things affordable. All you have to do is shout at the housing
you have to do is shout at the housing market and say be affordable and it will
market and say be affordable and it will be. It's it's magic.
be. It's it's magic. Now, if you've been paying attention to
Now, if you've been paying attention to the history of Western civilization over
the history of Western civilization over the past 200 years or so, you'll know
the past 200 years or so, you'll know that all of these proposals have been
that all of these proposals have been tried many times before, and they've all
tried many times before, and they've all failed every time in every place they've
failed every time in every place they've ever been implemented. The only places
ever been implemented. The only places that have even come close to achieving
that have even come close to achieving any sort of success with these ideas are
any sort of success with these ideas are small, homogeneous, all-white European
small, homogeneous, all-white European countries. But even there, it hasn't
countries. But even there, it hasn't really worked out, and it certainly has
really worked out, and it certainly has never worked and can never work in a
never worked and can never work in a large, crowded, extremely racially, and
large, crowded, extremely racially, and ethnically diverse population center. Uh
ethnically diverse population center. Uh and and that is all that should need to
and and that is all that should need to be said, but that would make this
be said, but that would make this segment too short. So, you know, I'll
segment too short. So, you know, I'll keep talking. So, let's take each of
keep talking. So, let's take each of these proposals one at a time. Uh it
these proposals one at a time. Uh it shouldn't be necessary to explain the
shouldn't be necessary to explain the problem with freezing rent. Only someone
problem with freezing rent. Only someone who is and and I mean this in the
who is and and I mean this in the medical sense truly, but only someone
medical sense truly, but only someone who is mentally could ever
who is mentally could ever think that you can make housing
think that you can make housing affordable by telling landlords they
affordable by telling landlords they can't raise the rent. If it were that
can't raise the rent. If it were that easy, okay, the policy would be
easy, okay, the policy would be implemented everywhere and we would be
implemented everywhere and we would be living in a utopia of four-bedroom
living in a utopia of four-bedroom spacious, pristine $800 a month
spacious, pristine $800 a month apartments. But no such utopia exists.
apartments. But no such utopia exists. And that's because there are many costs
And that's because there are many costs associated with being a landlord. And
associated with being a landlord. And the freeze on rent does not freeze any
the freeze on rent does not freeze any of those costs.
of those costs. Okay? As a landlord, you have
Okay? As a landlord, you have maintenance fees, legal fees, leasing
electric, trash collection, uh, water, sewage, lawn care, repairs, plumbing,
sewage, lawn care, repairs, plumbing, pest control, cleaning, not to mention
pest control, cleaning, not to mention property insurance, property taxes,
property insurance, property taxes, potentially HOA fees. And that is just a
potentially HOA fees. And that is just a partial list. Now, what happens when
partial list. Now, what happens when those costs continue to rise, even as
those costs continue to rise, even as rent is forced to stay the same? You end
rent is forced to stay the same? You end up with rental properties that owners
up with rental properties that owners can no longer maintain. You end up with
can no longer maintain. You end up with foreclosures. you end up with no
foreclosures. you end up with no incentive to build or rent new
incentive to build or rent new properties. You end up with a drastic
properties. You end up with a drastic reduction in the housing supply. Exactly
reduction in the housing supply. Exactly what has happened every time these
what has happened every time these policies have been attempted elsewhere.
policies have been attempted elsewhere. So, so to review, by freezing rent,
So, so to review, by freezing rent, what you get is fewer rental properties
what you get is fewer rental properties available and the ones that are
available and the ones that are available are in worse condition. So,
available are in worse condition. So, congrats. Now, what about making the bus
congrats. Now, what about making the bus free? Well, we've already talked about
free? Well, we've already talked about this actually at some length. uh leaving
this actually at some length. uh leaving aside the fact that you're losing a lot
aside the fact that you're losing a lot of fair revenue, which means taxes will
of fair revenue, which means taxes will be raised to make up for the losses,
be raised to make up for the losses, which means the bus actually is not free
which means the bus actually is not free because nothing is free nor can ever be
because nothing is free nor can ever be free as any moderately intelligent
free as any moderately intelligent 7-year-old understands. But leaving that
7-year-old understands. But leaving that aside, all all you'll accomplish, as has
aside, all all you'll accomplish, as has happened everywhere this has been
happened everywhere this has been implemented, is turning buses into
implemented, is turning buses into roving homeless uh roving homeless
roving homeless uh roving homeless shelters.
shelters. And because now the already meager
And because now the already meager barrier keeping the homeless from
barrier keeping the homeless from setting up camp on buses and proceeding
setting up camp on buses and proceeding to make the experience even more
to make the experience even more miserable, disgusting, dangerous, and
miserable, disgusting, dangerous, and not to mention pungent for everybody
not to mention pungent for everybody else will be lifted. So that's not going
else will be lifted. So that's not going to benefit working New Yorkers who can
to benefit working New Yorkers who can afford the bus fair in the slightest. It
afford the bus fair in the slightest. It is purely a benefit for homeless,
is purely a benefit for homeless, unbathed, cracked out vagrants. As it
unbathed, cracked out vagrants. As it happens, most of mom donny's policies
happens, most of mom donny's policies are tailored primarily to that
are tailored primarily to that demographic.
demographic. Uh, universal child care is by far the
Uh, universal child care is by far the worst of these disastrous ideas. And
worst of these disastrous ideas. And let's leave aside again the fact that it
let's leave aside again the fact that it is catastrophically expensive.
is catastrophically expensive. There is no such thing as free child
There is no such thing as free child care. Do you know why? Because the child
care. Do you know why? Because the child care providers are not slaves.
care providers are not slaves. You have to pay them. They cost money.
You have to pay them. They cost money. And so it's not free and can never be
And so it's not free and can never be free.
free. I said before that nothing is free.
I said before that nothing is free. There is one exception to that.
There is one exception to that. Something can be free with slavery.
Something can be free with slavery. Okay? So if you really want free stuff,
Okay? So if you really want free stuff, then we got to talk about having
then we got to talk about having slavery. That that's the only way to do
slavery. That that's the only way to do it. You want free stuff, you want to get
it. You want free stuff, you want to get things for free, you want free child
things for free, you want free child care, you want free this, you want free
care, you want free this, you want free that. Um well, the one way to do it is
that. Um well, the one way to do it is slavery. I you could even have free
slavery. I you could even have free buses maybe if the bus drivers are
buses maybe if the bus drivers are slaves and the buses are maintained.
slaves and the buses are maintained. um by slaves, then then you could have
um by slaves, then then you could have probably have free buses, too.
probably have free buses, too. So, that's the only way. So, when when
So, that's the only way. So, when when you talk about you want stuff to be
you talk about you want stuff to be free, I can only assume that what you're
free, I can only assume that what you're making an argument for is to bring back
making an argument for is to bring back slavery. But if you don't want slavery,
slavery. But if you don't want slavery, then there is no such thing as free. So,
then there is no such thing as free. So, get that stupid word out of your stupid
get that stupid word out of your stupid mouth and and realize that someone has
mouth and and realize that someone has to pay for it because we have to pay for
to pay for it because we have to pay for the labor that goes into this.
the labor that goes into this. All you're doing is shifting the cost.
All you're doing is shifting the cost. And in this case, rather than having
And in this case, rather than having parents pay for their own child's uh
parents pay for their own child's uh their own their own child's care, you're
their own their own child's care, you're forcing strangers, taxpayers, to pay for
forcing strangers, taxpayers, to pay for the care of other people's children.
the care of other people's children. Those are the only two options when it
Those are the only two options when it comes to childare. There is no third
comes to childare. There is no third option aside from slavery. Either
option aside from slavery. Either parents will pay for their child's care
parents will pay for their child's care or strangers will. And call me crazy.
or strangers will. And call me crazy. Call me cruel. Call me a a a a a
Call me cruel. Call me a a a a a mean old guy who lacks compassion, but I
mean old guy who lacks compassion, but I tend to think that if anyone should pay
tend to think that if anyone should pay for your child's care,
for your child's care, it should be you.
it should be you. If you're sitting there thinking, who is
If you're sitting there thinking, who is going to pay
going to pay for daycare for my child? You know my
for daycare for my child? You know my answer?
answer? You.
You. Because the only other option is someone
Because the only other option is someone who is not you. And I think making
who is not you. And I think making someone who is not you pay for your
someone who is not you pay for your child is wrong. Why? Because he's your
child is wrong. Why? Because he's your child and not this other person's child.
child and not this other person's child. You see, that's why
You see, that's why you are first on the list of people who
you are first on the list of people who should be on the hook. Who should pay
should be on the hook. Who should pay for your child's babysitter?
for your child's babysitter? You. Not Jim down the street.
You. Not Jim down the street. not not me, not anyone else. So to me,
not not me, not anyone else. So to me, that seems like the simplest and fairest
that seems like the simplest and fairest and also by by the way by far the
and also by by the way by far the cheapest option.
cheapest option. But even if we ignore that issue, um
But even if we ignore that issue, um which we really can't, experience has
which we really can't, experience has shown, including in in Quebec when they
shown, including in in Quebec when they implemented this 30 years ago, that
implemented this 30 years ago, that universal child care leads to a dramatic
universal child care leads to a dramatic drop in the quality of care. Staffing
drop in the quality of care. Staffing shortages and lowquality care are nearly
shortages and lowquality care are nearly guaranteed in this kind of system. This
guaranteed in this kind of system. This is inevitable because an increase in
is inevitable because an increase in demand is also guaranteed because now
demand is also guaranteed because now the child care is free but not really
the child care is free but not really free. Uh more families will choose to
free. Uh more families will choose to drop their kids in daycare. I mean
drop their kids in daycare. I mean that's that's the whole reason they do
that's that's the whole reason they do this. We give more kids in daycare. Well
this. We give more kids in daycare. Well well but then we don't have enough staff
well but then we don't have enough staff to keep up with it. So there's staffing
to keep up with it. So there's staffing shortages and then the quality of care
shortages and then the quality of care goes down. And all that is really bad
goes down. And all that is really bad news because multiple studies have also
news because multiple studies have also shown conclusively that children raised
shown conclusively that children raised in daycare have noticeably worse
in daycare have noticeably worse outcomes than children raised in their
outcomes than children raised in their own homes. Uh the US NICD study of early
own homes. Uh the US NICD study of early child care and youth development among
child care and youth development among other major long-term studies um have
other major long-term studies um have shown that children who are placed in
shown that children who are placed in full-time daycare before the age of four
full-time daycare before the age of four have higher rates of defiance,
have higher rates of defiance, impulsivity, anxiety, aggression.
impulsivity, anxiety, aggression. This is exactly the result you expect
This is exactly the result you expect and exactly the result you find.
and exactly the result you find. So, the last thing we should do if we
So, the last thing we should do if we want a functional and healthy
want a functional and healthy civilization is encourage more families
civilization is encourage more families to send toddlers into daycare and
to send toddlers into daycare and mothers into cubicles. There is no
mothers into cubicles. There is no discernable benefit to society to that
discernable benefit to society to that arrangement.
arrangement. It It's all bad all the way down. So,
It It's all bad all the way down. So, this is what Mom Donnie promises. less
this is what Mom Donnie promises. less and worse housing, buses overrun by
and worse housing, buses overrun by homeless, drugged out rapists,
homeless, drugged out rapists, understaffed daycare centers where your
understaffed daycare centers where your child can go to become more anxious and
child can go to become more anxious and more aggressive. That's what he's
more aggressive. That's what he's promising. And if you vote for that,
promising. And if you vote for that, you're going to get it and you'll
you're going to get it and you'll deserve it and you will be by your own
deserve it and you will be by your own choice today canled. That'll do the show
choice today canled. That'll do the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for
today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a
listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.
great day. Godspeed. [Music]
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