Ep. 1610 - LA Descends Into Chaos As Mexican Rioters Wage War On America
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If you want to understand why America's second most populated city now resembles a dystopian hellscape with masked barbarians shattering the windows at LAPD headquarters, lunatics in vans doing reverse donuts on the sidewalks, foreign nationals waving Mexican flags and throwing stones at passing cars, Antifa militants throwing Molotov cocktails and ramming their motorcycles into police lines, you have to go back about 40 years or so.

Now, that's when Ronald Reagan nearly swept the Electoral College by winning 49 states. Shortly after this total blowout, Reagan proceeded to sign legislation that would make it impossible for any Republican presidential candidate to achieve that margin of victory ever again. So he pulled the ladder up behind him in ways that nobody really appreciated at the time. And he did it by granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens who had entered the United States.

That decision kick-started an unprecedented demographic change that would torpedo any hope of national unity going forward. In order to appease any skeptics, Reagan's amnesty legislation had been billed as a one-time-only deal. And the idea was that going forward, the government would take border security more seriously. But it was never a convincing argument. Everyone knew that more migrants would flood into the country now that the U.S. had demonstrated its hesitation to deport illegal aliens.

That's why even Ronald Reagan, one of the most popular presidents of all time, wasn't able to sell this proposal to the public. Most Americans opposed the bill. Nevertheless, it became law. Both parties united to push it through. And soon afterwards, America began to change in ways that we still don't fully understand or appreciate. Take a look at this chart from Pew. It shows the share of Hispanics in each U.S. county as of 1980.

At the time, Hispanics amounted to just 6% of the population of the country. There were a total of just 403 counties out of more than 3,000 total counties in the country in which Hispanics made up more than 5% of the population. So now take a look at Pew's chart from 2020. 40 years later, Hispanics account for more than 20% of the population. That's just the ones that we know about.

Of course, illegal aliens aren't included in these numbers, but even the official statistics are striking. Hispanics now account for at least 5% of the population in more than 1,400 counties.

This is a transformation that's been particularly obvious in California. Take a drive through downtown LA sometime and you'll see the signs all over the place. In fact, you'll see the signs quite literally because many of the street signs are now written in Spanish. Compton is particularly unrecognizable. In the early 20th century, Compton was roughly 95% white, as in non-Hispanic white. By the 1960s, the white population was down to 33%, and now it's roughly one half of 1% white.

Additionally, the black population in Compton spiked at around 1970 to around 70%. And now Compton is roughly 70% Hispanic. So in other words, Hispanics have essentially replaced the native population in Compton and in many other neighborhoods in California as well. And this has not been a peaceful takeover. It was a hostile invasion by a foreign power, one that doesn't even pretend to respect our laws or our culture.

Against their will, American citizens have been forced to watch as large portions of the state of California and many other states have been transformed into outposts of dysfunctional third world foreign countries. Now, the foreign nationals that have flooded into California have not brought newfound prosperity or innovation to the United States. They have not enriched this country in any observable way.

In fields like technology, media, science, you will not find a single significant breakthrough that's been generated by any of these migrants. Their communities are not adding value, nor are they American in any relevant sense. Instead, for several years now, they've been waiting for their moment to secede. They've looked forward to the day when they can openly declare their disdain for this country and then try to burn it down. Over the weekend, that moment came.

With the full endorsement of the political leaders of Los Angeles, rioters attacked federal law enforcement officials, besieged federal government buildings, vandalized stores, torched vehicles. And as they did so, these rioters did not leave any room for interpretation about their motivation. Here's a photograph from Reuters that sums up the situation about as well as any photograph possibly can. And you can see it there. There's thick smoke from a car that these people set on fire. The police are keeping their distance.

And in the foreground, a masked rider on a motorcycle is waving the Mexican flag. And there are many more photographs like this. Here's another one that's making the rounds. Looking at images like this, a lot of people have expressed confusion on social media because they're wondering, well, if these people love Mexico so much to the point that they're going to wave the Mexican flag as they besiege a foreign country, why don't they just go back to Mexico?

Why are they violently resisting any attempt by the Trump administration to return them to the homeland that they're supposedly so proud of? Doesn't appear to make a lot of sense. And on one level, you know, the answer seems obvious. These people don't want to go back to Mexico because they've destroyed it. That's apparently what they're capable of doing, destroying things. To be sure, we're constantly told about all the wondrous benefits that hardworking Mexicans bring to our country. And yet...

Mexico, with all of its Mexicans, is a dysfunctional hellhole that Mexicans desperately want to escape. So something isn't quite adding up here. And indeed, if you take a look at some of the footage from these protests, you see very clearly that these people are wantonly destroying everything they can get their hands on. They've even torched self-driving Waymo vehicles for no discernible reason.

The journalist Cam Higbee with Today's America captured the first video that we'll play for you here while Anthony Cabasa recorded the second. Watch. Hey, hey.

We're looking live at some of these Waymos that are on fire at the moment. And as Kyung noted, this has taken a turn since she's been out there over the last several hours when she saw a different type of protester that was there in a more peaceful way. A lot of people, things have turned far more destructive and violent.

Now, as you watch these obese foreigners randomly destroying property, you might conclude that they're simply mindless agents of destruction. They go from country to country demanding handouts and wrecking everything they touch. And that's true to an extent. At the same time, these rioters are obviously acting as foot soldiers of much more powerful forces. They're not looting small businesses and setting self-driving Waymo cars on fire because they're protesting immigration enforcement. Nobody really believes that.

They're committing these crimes as part of a larger agenda, and it's not hard to see what that agenda is. Their leaders in this country and in Mexico are telling them to destabilize and ultimately destroy the U.S., and the foot soldiers are obeying those orders. That's the same reason left-wing militants, including Antifa, are joining in these riots. In many ways, what we're seeing in Los Angeles amounts to state-sponsored terrorism. And put aside what Democrats are saying—we'll get to that in a second—

We can't overlook the fact that the president of Mexico, Claudia Scheinbaum, recently encouraged Mexicans to take to the streets in the U.S. Scheinbaum reportedly threatened, quote, if necessary, we'll mobilize. We don't want taxes on remittances from our fellow countrymen, close quote. So that's just a few days ago. The president of Mexico said that, quote, we will mobilize in order to punish the U.S. She was responding to the bill in Congress that would tax all money sent to Mexico to the tune of 3%.

which is an important provision because it discourages Mexicans from coming to this country to secure jobs and then funneling the money out of our economy. But the Mexican president isn't happy about that. Therefore, she called for direct action in a foreign country, which sounds a lot like an act of war. And right on cue, as part of her instructions, foreign nationals, along with Antifa, are indeed mobilizing in Los Angeles.

According to the chief of police, in many cases, they're using commercial grade fireworks to attack police officers, which can easily obviously cause a serious injury or death. Here's one of those attacks, which was shot by Higby. Watch.

Beyond torching Waymos and attacking police officers, the rioters have destroyed several police vehicles. They sent fire to small businesses, blocked the freeway, trapping hundreds of people in the process. The authorities say that one person was arrested for throwing a Molotov cocktail at officers, while another was arrested after ramming an officer with a motorcycle. Here's just a sampling of some of the violence. Watch. Watch.

There's a lot more where this came from. Other footage shows rioters burning and spitting on American flags. They're also setting fires in the middle of the street by City Hall and breaking the windows at LAPD headquarters without any officers even attempting to stop them. To be very clear about this, these demonstrators are ostensibly protesting because as part of their raids in Los Angeles, ICE removed criminals who have no right to be in this country. And in many cases, they're

They're obviously horrible people who belong in prison for the rest of their lives, never mind being deported. For example, Fox reported that, quote, DHS confirms that a Vietnamese illegal alien ICE arrested in L.A. operation yesterday is a convicted murderer and gang member who was involved in shooting up a high school graduation party in San Marino in 1994, killing two teenagers and injuring seven others.

They also arrested multiple sex offenders, drug traffickers, so on. In other words, as always, the left is committing acts of terrorism because other terrorists are being taken off the street. In every case, you know, that's why they riot. And the left got away with doing this back in 2020. They were able to take over the freeways and set fire to federal buildings all over the country on behalf of professional degenerates like George Floyd and Jacob Blake. That's precisely what's happening again.

They don't believe there will be any consequence for rioting because they've never experienced any consequences before. And the only solution, of course, is to treat them like the terrorists they are. Use overwhelming force to put down the riots, charge and convict the rioters, send them to prison for years, not days or months, but years. Ruin their lives. Show no mercy. Make an example of them. This is how you maintain a just and orderly society. The other option is anarchy.

And it's only a matter of time before a lot of people die as a result. After all, at the moment, these terrorists are being allowed to commit attempted murder in broad daylight. Watch. Watch out for the fire. That way, that way, that way. All right.

There is no reason why those federal agents could not have responded with lethal force in this scenario. He's throwing rocks at fast moving vehicles. That's the definition of attempted murder. If you want to control this violent mob, all it takes is for one of these people to suffer immediate consequences. But that never happens.

They don't suffer immediate consequences. They don't even suffer consequences after the fact. So they keep doing it just like they did five years ago. And just in case you thought the parallels to 2020 weren't explicit enough, here's another one.

You might remember this image from 2020 as the buildings are being burned behind the CNN reporter and the text at the bottom of the screen infamously describes the riots as fiery but mostly peaceful as everything's being torched in the background. It instantly became an iconic image for obvious reasons. And now Democrats are bringing it back. The other day, a Democrat congresswoman appeared on CNN to declare that

that the L.A. riots are mostly peaceful, even as CNN showed footage of burning cars on the screen. So they're doing this again. Watch. We are having an administration that's targeting peaceful protests, people that are there to protest.

The president is sending the National Guard because he doesn't like the scenes. He doesn't like the scenes of people peacefully protesting. Yes, according to Congresswoman Nanette Diaz Barragan, the riots are totally fine and peaceful. There's nothing to see here. Pay no attention to the burning vehicles on your screen as she says that. Meanwhile, the sheriff of Los Angeles County, a guy named Robert Luna, is saying the same thing. He's pledging not to assist the federal government as it attempts to enforce immigration law.

Now, if you're noticing something of a pattern here, powerful political figures with Hispanic last names are telling you to shut up and enjoy the riots. In fact, in some cases, we're being told that quite literally. An ABC reporter just gave us a quote that may prove to be more infamous and iconic than the fiery but mostly peaceful line from CNN. Listen to how this guy characterized the scene. Listen.

It could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement in there in the wrong way and turn what is just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn into a massive confrontation and altercation between officers and demonstrators. Yeah, it's not a riot. It's just a group of people having fun watching cars burn.

That's the analysis from the media as political leaders continue to openly encourage the rioting as well. Watch as one California lawmaker named Eunice Hernandez explains that the rioters are going to continue to escalate their tactics against law enforcement. Listen.

They know how quickly we mobilize. That's why they're changing tactics, because community defense works and our resistance has slowed them down before. And if they're escalating their tactics, then so are we. When they show up, we got to show up even stronger. Yeah, it's just a casual threat of insurrection from yet another elected official.

Maybe you're starting to see the issue. All of these California politicians and officials with foreign last names were born in this country for the most part. They were raised by foreigners as first generation Americans, and they are therefore impossible to lawfully deport at the moment.

But they clearly don't share any American values at all. They don't respect the rule of law. They despise this country. They openly encourage rioters to destroy it. They're not loyal to America. Instead, their loyalty lies with the country that their parents and grandparents escaped. This is the natural end result of amnesty and birthright citizenship. The goal of the Democrat Party going back several decades has been to flood the country with people like this.

Inevitably, they'll have children who can't be deported. And in the meantime, all of these illegal aliens will continue to contribute to Democrats' numbers in the census, which is why California has so many seats in Congress. It's no accident that 40 years after Reagan's amnesty, Democrats are continuing to demand the same thing. They want citizenship for as many of these aliens as possible. Here's Maxine Waters from just the other day.

We have people who are immigrants here who are trying to seek a better living, who have come from places where they have experienced this kind of thing that he's doing here today. People who work every day, people who are paying taxes, who are raising their families, who are supporting education, they should not be treated this way. They should be given an opportunity to tell their story when they are

and why they're here and ask the United States to please do what the Constitution allows us to do, and that is give them consideration for having citizenship here. So the promise has always been the same. Amnesty, they tell us, will result in stability and assimilation. But the opposite has been true. Amnesty just codified and legitimizes the invasion while creating a permanent class of people who hate this country and are emboldened to act on that hatred.

And it's on full display right now in Los Angeles. It's also on display in places like Houston and New York, which have seen similar demonstrations in recent days. It's on display in Minnesota, too, where they just there's been just been yet another shooting involving Somalis, one of whom has been arrested. This is the third violent episode to unfold at a Minneapolis area high school involving Somalis just this year.

It's almost as if the reason these foreign countries are hellholes is that the people living inside them are often violent and incapable of self-governance or obeying laws or exercising any amount of restraint or personal responsibility. And then they come here and continue engaging in the same kind of behavior that destroyed their homes. I mean, it's almost like that. With the ongoing riots and widespread destruction in Los Angeles, once again, this pattern is abundantly clear.

The Trump administration has already sent in the National Guard with the Marines potentially on their way as well. These are moves that suggest the White House won't repeat the mistakes of 2020, where the left was allowed to demolish entire city blocks and torch federal buildings with impunity. And even the LAPD chief of police late last night suggested the National Guard was necessary because of the escalation of violence. But at the moment, if we're being honest, the National Guard doesn't seem to be doing much of anything. We certainly aren't seeing anything approaching the level of overwhelming force that is required.

Apparently they're still in transit or something. I have no idea why transit would take this long unless they're arriving by railway like it's the 19th century or something. But in any event, the way forward is clear. Any illegal foreign invader involved in a riot should be shipped immediately to Guantanamo Bay. Any illegal foreign invader not involved in a riot should be shipped immediately to whatever country they came from.

All illegal foreign invaders must be rounded up and removed from the country one way or another. We know the FBI is capable of finding these people because they tracked down every grandmother who dared to walk near the Capitol building on January 6th. Now they need to use those resources to get these foreign criminals out of the country. That's what most Americans wanted back in 1984, even though they didn't get it. It's what most Americans want today, which is why Donald Trump just won the last election.

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By the way, before we move on, while we're on the subject of Mexico, I tweeted something over the weekend that people aren't happy about, but I stand by it. Not the most important aspect of this immigration discussion, but it does need to be said, I think, which is that, you know, it's I mean, it's time to be honest about about some things, about everything.

And one of those things is that Mexican food is the most overrated cuisine on the planet. And I was thinking about it because this is, you know, whenever this is the topic of immigration deportations comes up, we're always you always hear the leftists that say, OK, we'll say goodbye to all your precious tacos.

Which, first of all, if that's like the main thing that you're claiming will be deprived of if we don't have all of this Mexican immigration, then that's that's that's kind of making our point for us, isn't it? And secondly, you know, the recipes are all on Google now, so we don't we could still make a taco. You don't need it. It's like if there are if we don't have, you know, 20 million illegal Mexicans in the country, then it's impossible to make a taco. Right.

But aside from all that, it's just it's actually an overrated cuisine. I'm not saying it's bad, but it's overrated. Like there's no variety. It's redundant. All Mexican food is just tacos, tacos in different forms. That's every Mexican, every Mexican dish.

It's just a different variation of a taco. It's all just a tortilla and meat assembled in different ways. So you can have a tortilla folded around the meat. That's a taco. You can have one wrapped around the meat. That's a burrito. You can put it in the oven. That's an enchilada. You can lay two flat on top of each other. Then it's a quesadilla and so on and so on. So it's all the same dish. And what's more, and here's the part that people treat as super controversial, even though it shouldn't be. But here's the truth. Authentic Mexican food

is worse than the Americanized versions. American Mexican food is better. Americans do Mexican food better. They just do. Authentic Mexican is kind of one note. It's sort of bland compared to the Americanized forms of it. The best tacos you'll ever have are in America. The best guacamole is in America. Americans are better at making Mexican food. They just are.

This is very common, by the way. The Americanized version of third world cuisine is almost always better than the authentic versions. Safer, too. There's a lot less E. coli to worry about because people, they fetishize authentic cuisine. But if you go down to Mexico and you have a taco, you'll discover that it's just meat, a corn tortilla and lime juice.

That's all it is. It's not people act like, you know, it's mind blowing. You don't know what it's like to have a taco in Mexico. It's like, OK, well, this is it. Like we could ease. The only reason we don't have it this way in America is because we want more than this. This is not this. It's better. We do more with it. But people, this is what they do. They like to. It's not even just with foreign countries, but everybody. It's like anyone who's been to, you know, Mexico.

been to new york will claim that oh well you don't know what pizza's like until you've been to new york it's like no well anywhere can make pizza okay like this anywhere any anyone anywhere can make all this stuff uh you don't need to be in the place but it's especially the case with uh with mexico you if you live in a city um or near a city

then there are probably like 20 restaurants within a 10 mile radius that make tacos better than what you'll find in Mexico. Okay. That's just, that's the, that's the fact of the matter. Tex-Mex,

Far superior variation of Mexican food. Fajitas. Everyone knows you go to a Mexican restaurant. What's the best thing on the menu is the fajita. If you don't get the fajita, you're going to be jealous of the guy at the table who does get them when they and they bring the sizzling thing out. And you're going to be looking at your enchiladas and you're going to think there's something I should have gotten that text. But that's fajitas. That's American. That's a Tex-Mex. That's not that's not Mexican.

So that's also an important part of this whole discussion, just to be clear. All right. I had planned to open the show with the Trump-Elon feud because I still haven't had a chance to talk about it. It all kind of broke open on Thursday, I guess. But now it feels like all that happened five years ago. Things have de-escalated. Musk deleted some of his anti-Trump tweets. And Trump on Saturday was asked about this whole thing and said,

Here's what he had to say about it. Watch. So Trump chose not to go nuclear against Elon, even as Elon was at one point claiming that Trump is incriminated in the Epstein files. And we'll get back to that in a moment. But

I will say that I'm glad that Trump chose not to engage or at least not to engage much by his standards, because the other big news story this weekend, the one that ended up supplanting this Trump-Elon stuff, the one we opened the show with, demonstrates why we cannot afford this kind of feuding and fighting on the right. We're dealing with an invasion. We're fighting people on the left who will resort to any means necessary to destroy and remake this country in their own image. And that's what matters.

And we need to be aligned in this battle, which is the only battle that matters. We don't have to all be friends. We don't have to like each other. But we do have to put our petty squabbles and personal beefs and personal slights to the side. Now, believe me, there are plenty of people on the right who I don't like. I mean, there are plenty of people on the right who I could, I think, reasonably claim have...

you know, have stabbed me in the back or wronged me in various ways. But I let almost all that go. And I never fight those battles in public. I'll only argue with somebody on the right in public if they attack me first in public. And then I feel like I need to defend myself in the arena that they have chosen. Even then, a lot of the times I won't respond, but sometimes I will if I feel like I need to. But I will never choose that arena to fight somebody on the right. Now, 10 years ago,

I used to see it differently. I used to fight with my own side all the time. But in recent years, I pulled back from that almost entirely because we just can't afford it. We just can't. And we especially can't afford to have the two most famous and powerful people on the right in a public feud. And granted, it was inevitable that the marriage wouldn't last. I mean, for the same reason...

It's like you can't put two alpha silverback gorillas in the same cage together. They're not going to get along for very long. And it's the same thing here. Elon and Trump are two very famous, very powerful, very wealthy people who don't like being told no, are not used to being told no. And it was just inevitable that their friendship would become strained and eventually break. And that's fine.

You know, they don't have to be friends, but we can't have public fighting, which is why, again, I'm glad that Trump chose not to engage for the most part. He posted a few things, I guess, on Thursday on Truth Social, but he didn't go all in. He didn't launch the nukes, you know, so to speak. And I'm grateful for that. And of course, as mentioned, the most vicious blow in the fight came from Elon when he said that Trump has not released the Epstein files because he's in them. And Elon has since deleted that tweet, I believe, although...

Doesn't really accomplish much when you delete a tweet that's already been viewed like 100 million times. But it seems like he's not going to pursue that accusation much further, which is good because it's certainly nonsense. I mean, is Trump in the Epstein files? Well, it depends on what you mean by in them. We already knew that Trump knew Epstein, had an association with him at some point in the distant past. That's not news. We've known that. But it doesn't mean that Trump did anything illegal or inappropriate.

But the obvious implication of Elon's tweets is that Trump is incriminated in the files, that there's evidence of him doing something horrible. And that obviously is not true. Like even before the tweet was deleted and there seemed to be a bit of a backtrack, it was clear to me that it wasn't true because it included a lot of people because a lot of people made the same point, which is that in order for that to be true,

It would mean that the Biden administration and the intelligence agencies had this damning evidence against Trump for years and chose not to release it. It would mean that they were trying for years to devise any possible way to stop Trump from being reelected. And yet they chose not to use the one thing that would have been sure to destroy Trump.

The one thing that could have actually landed him in prison, they chose not to use. And that just makes no sense. I mean, it's total nonsense. Now, what I've heard in response to this point is that, well, maybe the Dems did have this incriminating stuff about Trump, but they couldn't release it because they are also in the files and they didn't want to burn themselves in the process. But that's also nonsense. I mean, I don't doubt that they're in the files, but

It's like, OK, so you're saying they they couldn't have and wouldn't have just released the stuff that involves Trump while redacting or destroying the other stuff? As if the intelligence agencies that spent a decade trying to destroy Trump couldn't figure out a way to release the stuff in the file that implicated Trump without also releasing all the other stuff. It's just it's absurd. Yeah.

I mean, what even is the claim here that Trump's enemies thought it would be what poor sportsmanship to release his part of the Epstein files without releasing all the rest of it? As if the file is like one indivisible organism that it's like if you put out part of it, you got to put out the whole thing. It's just it doesn't make any sense.

What would have happened if Trump was actually in the Epstein files in the sense of being incriminated in them is that the only surviving parts of the files would be the parts that have Trump in them. And the rest of it would never see the light of day. But there are no parts with Trump. And that's why we never saw it. And Trump is the most vetted, most scrutinized, most transparent politician in American history. Even if you don't like him, you have to admit that we know everything about

we know everything we need to know about them and a lot of stuff we don't need to know. So there's just no way that this detail somehow never made it into the light. But, um, it seems that Ilana stepped back from that claim anyway. And I, and I, uh, and I hope that their differences stay private from here on out, because that's, that's what, that's the only way forward, especially with everything we see going on right now in the news. All right. Um,

I wanted to mention this to Daily Wire reports. Prosecutors say Luigi Mangione kept diaries chronicling in chilling detail his plans to assassinate UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and revealing he backed off of a mass casualty attack that he had initially conceived. The self-proclaimed anti-capitalist wrote in his manifesto that he chose to whack the CEO rather than bomb the UnitedHealthcare headquarters because he believed it would generate better headlines and be less likely to be deemed terrorism.

Mangione allegedly wrote in a Red Spiral notebook, quote, so say you want to rebel against the deadly greed-fueled health insurance cartel. Do you bomb the HQ? No. Bombs equal terrorism. Manhattan prosecutors are confident that this is open and shut case, pointing to evidence continuing to pile up, indicating that Mangione's goal was to send a message. And part of the diary that has been previously released, Mangione reasoned that someone would whack the CEO at the annual parasitic bean counter convention, saying,

It's targeted and precise and doesn't risk innocence. The University of Pennsylvania graduate justified targeting insurance providers because they literally extract human life force for money. The point is made in the news headlines. Insurance CEO killed an annual investors conference. It conveys a greedy bastard that had it coming. And the report goes on about how Mangione was very concerned about how the quote unquote normies would respond to his actions.

to his attack and he wanted to, he wanted, he knew he wanted to kill people and he wanted to engage in this act of terrorism, but he wanted to do it in a way that would manipulate the feelings of the quote unquote normies. And unfortunately he was successful. That's the unfortunate part of it. And I think it's, and that's the update on the Mangione case. It goes to, it's the, his first court appearances in a couple of weeks on June 26th.

I think it's important to bring this up now in light of the situation in California. And I'm going to keep bringing it up as this continues, because I know there are a lot of people on the right who would like to pretend that they never cheered this scumbag on or expressed any sympathy with him. But if you're in that group, I'm not going to let you forget it so easily because there's an important lesson that needs to be learned here.

And yeah, I might be a little resentful. I mean, I was ripped to shreds six months ago by a lot of self-professed conservatives and even some quote unquote longtime fans who probably weren't that, but were claiming it anyway, because I didn't defend Mangione. And I found that pretty annoying. And it's even more annoying now.

That those people are pretending that it never happened. So I have to admit that there's a little bit of maybe resentment there. I mean, it was the most insane backlash I've ever experienced in my career. I've gotten a lot of backlash. This was the craziest because people were angry at me for being opposed to first degree murder. I mean, total madness. But that's not that that's not the main thing. The main thing is that we have to we have to take the right lessons from this.

And this is why you don't join forces with the left and cheer on a murderer. Because when you do that, you give them moral license to do exactly what they're doing in Los Angeles right now or what they did during the Summer of Love in 2020 or dozens of other examples of politically motivated violence. After all, the whole argument in defense of Mangione wasn't that he's innocent of being a murderer. It's that, yes, he's obviously guilty, but it was for a good cause.

It was first degree murder for a good cause, allegedly. While a first degree murder can be justified for a good cause, then any kind of violence can be justified for a cause that certain groups deem to be good. Rioting can certainly be justified because the Mangione case was never about health care. I mean, you got idiots who tried to make it about health care, but that was never the point. You know, I didn't take a position against Mangione killing Brian Thompson because

Because I think that health care practices in this country are fair or always fair or always good. No, the story is about law and order. And as conservatives, we have to defend law and order. That must be one of the most fundamental things that we are trying to conserve and preserve. You can't have a civilization without law and order. You can have a civilization with unfair health care policies or whatever. That's not good. And it's something you want to try to fix. I mean, it's never going to be perfect.

People have a far too simplistic view of health care. I think just demonizing the health insurance companies and leaving it at that is lazy and dumb.

Sure, the health insurance companies can do unfair things and there's nothing wrong with pointing that out, but it's not nearly as simple as people make it out to be. Acting like the health insurance companies are run by Darth Vader is silly. And it precludes any kind of nuanced conversation where we figure out how to actually improve healthcare in this country, which is not simple. It's a complicated thing to deal with. And there are a lot of variables that people just don't take into account. But

That's not what this story is about. Again, it's about law and order, plain and simple. I mean, I don't care how you feel about health care. I don't care how you feel about health insurance companies. We cannot have a society without law and order. Health care policies are irrelevant without law and order. You could have the greatest, most equitable health insurance plan in the world, and it will mean precisely nothing if a roving gang of thugs shoots you in the head and burns your house down.

What good is the health care policy going to do at that point? Health care is a downstream issue. It's important, but it's not as fundamental as law and order. Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, maybe he was a bad guy. I'm still not convinced of that. I haven't seen evidence of what was so terrible about this guy. So the only thing I've seen about him is that he was a husband and a father,

He was the CEO of a health care company. I have not seen any evidence that anyone's presented that this guy was some sort of like a horrible villain. I have not seen that. But even if he was, let's just pretend maybe he was Darth Vader. Let's just let's just. OK, well, he was not a threat to civilization. Luigi Mangione is. If you have enough Luigi Mangione's out there, you can't have a civilization anymore. Civilization's done. OK, I mean, it's that simple.

People who have no respect for the law will do whatever they want, think that they have a moral license to kill someone if they don't like them. If you have enough people like that, civilization's gone. That's it. You cannot pick and choose here. Either you support and defend law and order or you don't. And if you don't, then what you support instead is anarchy because that's the only other option.

You support the death of civilization. And if we are not trying to, at bottom, conserve civilization, then I don't know what we're doing. I don't know what we're fighting for exactly. And we, you know, this latest example in Los Angeles should be...

This should not need to be a wake up call for anyone. We've seen repeatedly over the last five years prior to Luigi Mangione. We've seen many examples of what happens when you don't have law and order, when you start taking the side of of lawless thugs. And yet you still have people ostensibly on the right who made that mistake again. Will that be the last time? Probably not. But we'll see.

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Olympic gymnast Simone Biles is a very gifted athlete, and she's also a bad person. This is not the first time that we've seen those two qualities combined in a person. LeBron James is another example, plenty of examples. But Simone Biles is an especially egregious case. The last time we heard from her, she was celebrating the first all-black podium at the Paris Olympics last year after black gymnasts took home the gold, silver, and bronze. Simone bragged about the fact that it was a podium without any white people. So that was enough to tell us that

if we didn't already know that she was a leftist clown. And three years before that, she infamously quit on her team in the middle of the Tokyo Olympics, citing her need to work on her mental health. And that was enough to tell us that she's a coward. Finally, this week, she put it all together, mixing her cowardice with her leftism and sprinkling a little bit of a mean girl nastiness on top. Simone posted the following on X.

Quote, Riley Gaines, you're truly sick. All of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser. You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive or creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sport. Maybe a transgender category in all sports, but instead you bully them. One thing's for sure is no one in sports is safe with you around.

Now, to be clear, this was not a response to anything Riley Gaines had said to her. This was a totally random, unprovoked attack. And she followed up three minutes later with this. Bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male. Now, the great thing about this little jab is that it actually acknowledges the physical advantages that men have over women. It's also intensely hypocritical as this bit of body shaming is coming from a woman who spent the last 10 years promoting body positivity.

Here she is taking part in the Beauty is No Competition campaign. You can see the inspirational poster right there. And here she is talking about her own experiences being body shamed. Listen. The question I wish people would stop asking me is, how tall are you? Are you going to grow? I'm not going anywhere. I'm 4'8". I'm stuck. I'm Simone Biles, and I love my body because it helps with gymnastics, and it teaches younger girls to love their bodies as well.

I think I've learned to love my muscles a lot more than when I was younger. I got made fun of for my arms a lot. Some people would say like mean things. They used to call me like a swolder. At the time, it didn't make me feel the best so I wore sweaters or jackets all year long. Now I show off my arms all the time. To me, healthy body image is when you feel confident with yourself in and out.

So not only was Simone Biles body shamed, but she was shamed specifically for having a masculine physique. And now she's lobbing that exact same insult at a woman who never said a critical thing about her. But I think we know why she's treating Riley this way. In fact, Simone Biles has a theory about what motivates people like Simone Biles. To body shamers?

Let me see. I feel like if you love your body, then that's all you can do. So it doesn't matter what anybody else says. So I think they have to learn to fall in love with themselves. And I think it's out of jealousy. Jealousy. Yeah, that could be it. Or perhaps she doesn't have access to a mirror. So she's not aware that she looks like this.

That could be a factor. And for her part, you know, Riley did not respond in kind. She did not come back and say something like, hey, Simone, don't go making fun of anyone's physique when you're built like Muggsy Bogues. Riley did not say that. And thank God, because that would be mean. And I wouldn't condone it if she had said that. I wouldn't say anything like that. Instead, Riley left the insults to the side and addressed the issue at hand. Watch.

Yesterday, Simone Biles, the Olympic gymnast, the best of the best, bar none. There is no one else even remotely in her league in women's gymnastics. I guess in an attempt to be inclusive and virtuous, decided to sell out all women and girls who have dreams to achieve and to succeed and to specifically personally attack and body shame me.

She tweeted this out of the blue, like this came out of nowhere. And she said,

Straight up sore loser. You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive or creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sports.

Let me get something straight. It's my job. It's the women's job. This is what Simone Biles is saying. It's the women's job to find a way for the men's feelings to be validated, for their identity to be affirmed. That's not my job, actually, at all. So to say I should be doing this is insane. If she wants to use her platform to uplift men and women's sports, then by all means. But it's certainly not my job, and I don't believe it's the job

of any woman to do this. - Now she's exactly right, of course. Simone doesn't even have the courage to advocate for her own position. I mean, if she believes that there should be a separate category for trans people in all sports, or there should be some other kind of inclusive arrangement worked out, she is free to champion that cause. Instead, Simone Biles remained silent on the whole issue until this very moment. And when she finally speaks out, it's to condemn someone else for not promoting her own point of view.

Simone says that Riley should uplift the trans community. But why is that Riley's job exactly? I mean, if Simone thinks that the community should be uplifted, she could do that herself. Simone is clearly on the pro-trans team, but too afraid to enter the arena, which isn't a surprise. Obviously, this woman is not a very reliable teammate, as we've seen. So it's difficult, therefore, to respond to Simone's argument when she hasn't really made any argument. Instead, she assigned arguments to Riley that she thinks Riley should make.

But if we were to overlook that complication and offer a rebuttal anyway, we might note a few problems with Simone's position or what appears to be what we assume is her position. First of all, a separate trans category in every sport, as Simone suggests, could only work if there were enough trans athletes in every sport to fill out their own league. But the pro-trans side will be the first to insist that there aren't that many trans athletes. In fact, they claim that there are hardly any at all.

They're lying. I mean, there are a significant number of trans-identified athletes in certain sports, but definitely not enough to make a trans league for every sport. And there's even less interest in watching or supporting a league like that. Now, sure,

Maybe a certain amount of morbid curiosity would attract respectable ratings for opening day of the TLB, Trans League Baseball, or maybe we could just call it T-Ball, which would work in more ways than one. But in any case, there wouldn't be that many repeat customers after everyone gets their fill of the train wreck on day one. Yet all of that is irrelevant. You know, we don't need to create a separate category for trans-identified people, and we shouldn't. That would be an attempt to solve a problem that does not exist.

There is no problem with the system of sex segregation in sports. It works perfectly fine. It worked for many decades without anybody complaining about it. It serves a clear purpose by separating groups of people who are biologically distinct. Simone is suggesting a separate category for people who are not biologically distinct from males because they are males, but who feel like they're biologically distinct.

That makes as much sense as having a peewee soccer league for five and six year olds and then a separate league for people who feel like they're five or six. You cannot build a sports league around self-perception and there's no reason to try. We don't need to devise some novel system to include trans identified athletes. They're already included. They're free to compete in their biological category, same as anybody else. The problem is that despite Simone's insistence, they don't actually want inclusion. They want privilege.

And they can't have it. Tough luck. This conversation always comes back to the same fact, which is that men are men and women are women. Men who feel like women are still men. Men who claim to be women are still men. What a man feels like or perceives himself to be is not our problem. He can go on feeling however he wants to feel, but our policies and laws should reflect reality, not perception.

This is the point that Simone Biles can't contend with or refuses to, just like she refused to contend in the Tokyo Olympics. And she made that choice to quit for the sake of her mental health, which she wanted to preserve. But her tweets over the weekend show that her mental health preservation methods apparently didn't work. But perhaps her issue is less a matter of mental health and more an issue of intellectual deficiency. Whatever the reason, she's completely and embarrassingly wrong. And she is also today canceled.

That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.