Ep. 1619 - It's Time For America To Focus On Its Own Problems
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, President Trump brokers a ceasefire in the conflict between Iran and Israel. That ceasefire is immediately broken. We'll give you the latest, and then we'll try to refocus the conversation back on issues here at home, which is what should really matter to us. Also, a new study shows that AI is making us stupid, as if we needed any help in that regard. Plus, a news station celebrates Pride Month by having a drag queen deliver the weather report. Very inspiring. And is New York City on the verge of electing a foreign Muslim socialist as mayor? We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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The way that I've always done this show is that I write my opening monologue and my closing monologue, the daily cancellation. I like doing it this way. I like writing it because it allows me to deliver commentary that is, I hope anyway, more thought out and interesting than what you might get on the average podcast. The downside is that, first of all, it's way more work and effort to do it this way. And second, it presents practical complications during the rare moments when major news events are breaking and developing by the minute.

because by the time I finish writing my monologue, the situation I'm writing about may have already changed. And we are in one of those rare moments right now. My plan today was to bring the focus back to the home front, to problems that we face in our own country. And I will still do that, but I want to begin by providing an update on the situation in the Middle East. Unfortunately, the situation is rapidly developing, changing, deteriorating, then improving, then deteriorating again, then improving again. So I'll try my best to get us all up to speed with the understanding that

You know, everything I say in the first half of this monologue might be out of date by the time you hear it or by the time I finish talking. Not much I can do about that. Anyway, barring any order from a federal district court judge ordering the president to resume bombing Iran, which is a lot more plausible than it should be. We now have a much clearer situation, much clearer, you know,

vision into the situation in the Middle East than we did just 24 hours ago, although it's not perfectly clear, as we will see. Last night, as you've heard, Iran, Israel, and the United States agreed to what Donald Trump called a complete and total ceasefire. And the agreement came just hours after Iran launched a small number of missiles towards a U.S. airbase in Qatar. Here's footage of what those missiles look like from the ground. The vast majority of these missiles were intercepted in midair, and none of them caused any damage or casualties, we're told.

And that wasn't an accident. Through diplomatic channels, Iran informed both the United States and Qatar of its plan to launch the missiles ahead of time, apparently. So, yes, Iran informed us that they were going to fire the missiles at us before they did so.

And then they immediately agreed to stop launching missiles entirely. And the whole display was choreographed. The only conclusion you can draw here is that Iran knows it's in a very weak position. And therefore, they fired off a few missiles to get it out of their system, as Trump put it, or rather to put on a tough face for domestic consumption. And then they backed down. Now, regardless of what your position was 24 hours ago,

This would obviously be a very favorable conclusion to America's involvement in this conflict. If no American lives are lost and we're not pulled into another Middle Eastern quagmire, that is clearly something to celebrate. At this point, no politician or commentator should have any difficulty admitting that fact. And yet, strangely enough, not everybody was happy yesterday.

Indeed, some of the biggest cheerleaders of military intervention in Iran, the people who were the loudest voices urging Donald Trump to bomb those nuclear facilities, don't seem to be especially happy at the moment. You'd think they'd be overjoyed that their position ultimately prevailed, they got what they wanted, and that the United States has just taken the historic step of bombing Iran's nuclear program, and that no American lives were lost in the process. And you'd think they'd just be, hey, let's celebrate it. But that's not the case, as it turns out.

Now, to be sure, some politicians like Ted Cruz seem thrilled by what's transpired. They got what they asked for, and now they're praising the Trump administration, as you would expect. But then you have senators like Lindsey Graham, who just took to the floor of the Senate to demand regime change in Iran. He made it very clear that a ceasefire isn't acceptable, nor is military action that eliminates Iran's nuclear capability, if that's all that happens. He wants more.

Even though that was his previous goal, supposedly, was just to get rid of the nuclear capabilities. But it's not what he wants anymore. And to that end, Lindsey Graham began his speech by comparing Iran's leadership to Nazis. Because, of course, that's the only analogy that anybody in public life is capable of. There's only one other thing that's happened in history before this current moment, and that is World War II, which is why everything is like World War II.

And then he called on Israel to overthrow the government because the Iranians aren't "normal." Watch. Regime change is coming to Iran one or two ways. The regime renounces what they've been doing since 1979 and change course or it's replaced. To expect Israel to do anything else is offensive to me, to our friends in Israel. Finish the job.

Do what you have to do to bring about the regime change that will allow your children to sleep through the night. To the American people, wake up! Understand what we're fighting. The Ayatollah is not normal. These are not normal people. Stand with Israel. Quote, "To our friends in Israel, finish the job. Do what you have to do to bring about regime change." That's coming from a U.S. senator who's supposed to represent the interests of South Carolina, a state that's around 6,000 miles away from Israel.

He's not happy that bombers just flew all the way from Missouri to take out those nuclear sites in Iran. Instead, without missing a beat, he wants more upheaval and uncertainty. Forget a ceasefire. He wants more shooting immediately. And by the way, if that happens, there are no guarantees that Iran's going to tip us off to their next rocket barrage. It's very possible American soldiers would die. What happens then? Well, you know the answer.

There'll be a much wider war at which point Lindsey Graham will demand a full scale invasion, which is what he wants. Mark Levin has adopted a similar position. Here's what he wrote following the news that Iran had effectively chosen not to respond to our attack on the nuclear facilities or responded only in a symbolic way.

He wrote, quote, the Iranian Nazi regime is desperately trying to hold on to power with no effective options. Will the regime be provided an off-ramp without surrendering unconditionally? In other words, will the regime be given a lifeline and survive to terrorize and murder, build more ballistic missiles and develop nukes and intercontinental missiles in the future? That would be a disastrous outcome after all of this.

Now, reading all this, the only appropriate response is to demonstrate a characteristic that Mark Levin is apparently incapable of demonstrating. You have to show some humility and recognize what you know and what you don't know. We don't know whether and how quickly Iran's current regime will be able to develop nukes and intercontinental missiles. They've just suffered a massive setback to their nuclear program by all accounts. And we also don't know what a new government would do if we somehow orchestrated a regime change, whatever that means.

If we sponsor an effort to overthrow Iran's government, we have no idea what would happen next. But there's a very real possibility that the outcome would be catastrophic. And I say that because U.S.-led regime changes have been catastrophic every other time they've been tried. But so far, Trump has managed to avert catastrophe for the U.S. in the Middle East. And again, obviously, that's worth celebrating. But not everybody's happy with that. And that should tell you something. Although, and here's where we come to the latest updates as of this moment, this episode is not quite over.

Mere hours after the ceasefire was seemingly settled, Iran and Israel began accusing each other of violating it. So the initial ceasefire lasted for like five or six hours, if that, before the two parties were at each other's throats again. And this morning, President Trump was obviously fed up with the whole thing and especially frustrated with Israel, who he called out in pretty stern language. Here's what he said. Do you believe that Iran is still committed to the ceasefire?

Yeah, I do. They violated it, but Israel violated it, too. The Press: Are you questioning if Israel are committing to -- The President: Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before. The biggest load that we've seen. I'm not happy with Israel. You know, when I say, "Okay, now you have 12 hours," you don't go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them. So I'm not happy with them.

I'm not happy with Iran either, but I'm really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning because the one rocket that didn't land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn't land. I'm not happy about that. Now, in addition to that, Trump also said that Iran and Israel, and I quote, have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the F they're doing. And he followed that up with a post on Truth Social demanding that Israel send its plane home and not drop any more bombs.

A follow-up post reported that Israel was returning the planes and that the plane they sent to Iran would only do a, quote, friendly plane wave and then return. Now, I don't know what a plane wave is or why Israel would be doing that, but that's what Trump said. As of this exact moment, a measure of calm seems to have been restored again. And most importantly, still no American lives have been lost in the chaos. We'll see how things stand an hour or a day from now. No matter what, the one thing we know is that

No ceasefire will hold forever in the Middle East. We know that for certain. There is no ceasefire that will hold indefinitely in the Middle East. Across the region, there have been factions that have been fighting for years, for decades, arguably centuries in some cases, and they will continue to fight no matter what we do.

President Trump can definitely handle this stuff better than most presidents. In fact, he handles it better than any other president in my lifetime, hands down. But even so, there's only so much an American president can do when he's dealing with ancient blood feuds 10,000 miles away. He cannot fundamentally solve the problem, not because of a deficiency on his part, but because of a deficiency of human nature and because of the particular conditions in the Middle East.

And because there are lots of other forces at work who want conflict over there. And when people want conflict, they get it one way or another, at one point or another, in one form or another. And that's why what I want, what a lot of people want, is for the U.S. to leave this circus behind, back out of it completely, focus on our own problems. Trump's done everything he can do. Now let's focus on ourselves. Now you can call that simplistic or isolationist if you want. I really don't care. I call it rational.

I call it learning the lessons of history, including recent history. Most of all, I call it, we call it, America first. Our country is in a state of existential crisis on multiple fronts internally. We don't have the time, the resources, the manpower, the will, the ability to fix problems for other countries right now.

We need to focus on ourselves and let them handle their own disputes. I made this point yesterday. I make this point all the time going back to the very beginning of my career. But when I said this yesterday, again, for the umpteenth time about focusing on our own problems, I said it on X. Somebody responded in a tweet that got hundreds of likes and said that, well, we need to do a regime change in Iran if we, quote, believe in shaping a better world.

And I responded that actually, it's not America's job to shape a better world. I don't believe in shaping a better world as a foreign policy objective, as an objective of the United States. And lots of commentators seem to be scandalized by that assertion. They can't believe that I'm opposed to a better world. Well, let me break this down for them as slowly and plainly as I can. Yes, I'd like for the world to be better, whatever that means. That'd be great.

I'm in favor of better things and not worse things. Every time, actually. In every case, if you give me an option, better or worse, I'll take better. Every time. Now, I'm not convinced that US-led regime changes actually have made the world better ever, like at all. But sure, a better world sounds great to me. But the burden of improving the entire world and bringing peace and happiness to everyone who lives on the globe...

does not fall on the United States of America. That is not our job. And it is insane that I even have to explain this. The principal job of our leaders and our people, our citizens, is to make this country better. That is the obligation. That is the duty to our own country. It is to see to the prosperity, health, safety, and well-being of our own nation and our own people. And if we do that, guess what?

the world will be a better place too. You want to help the world? Put America first. More importantly, you want to help your own family, your own community, your own people, your own culture? Put America first. Always. Now, onto the practical steps that we could take. There are a lot of issues we could address here, issues that directly impact the lives of American citizens. The Trump administration has already secured the southern border, which is one of the most important steps towards restoring our national sovereignty and protecting Americans from foreign criminals.

But that still doesn't address the millions of illegal aliens who have already entered the United States. Securing the border is critically important, of course, but the problem is that the next Democrat administration can undo those efforts in like five seconds. They cannot, however, so easily reverse mass deportations. I mean, they'll try, but they can't do that overnight, which is why the mass deportations must commence.

The latest estimates show that only around 55,000 illegal aliens are currently in ICE detention. Around 30% of them have criminal convictions. Another 29 or 26% have pending criminal charges. Additionally, news reports suggest that roughly 15,000 illegal aliens are being deported every month on average, which would put us at around 180,000 on the year if that pace holds.

These are not anywhere near the numbers that we need to see if we want to make a dent in the massive number of illegal aliens who currently live in this country. That number is at least 11 million, although the actual number is definitely much, much higher because they've been giving us that 11 million figure for more than a decade. So let's do some back of the envelope math here. If we keep deporting illegal aliens at the current pace,

After four years, we'll have deported less than 10% of the illegal alien population in this country, using the most optimistic estimate imaginable. I mean, in reality, it's more like 5%, maybe even 1% or less. And that's not sufficient, to put it mildly. And unlike generational conflicts in the Middle East, this is something that we can start addressing immediately if we choose to do so. Here's one idea of how we can get started. In Los Angeles, local media outlets...

are openly advertising the services of fake nonprofits and charities that are aiding and abetting illegal aliens in this country. This is a story that every conservative should be talking about. It's far more relevant to our daily lives than anything happening halfway around the world. Watch this. As you know, ICE raids are sparking fear in many communities, and some people, they are too afraid to even leave their homes. And that's why this man known as the Hood Santa is stepping in to help.

Today we're going to Compton.

Long Beach, Paramount. - On a regular basis, Tito Rodriguez, Executive Director of Local Hearts Foundation and a team of volunteers prepare grocery bags for those in need. - Some bags of bread and some rice. - Lately, that includes people too afraid to leave their homes because of the ongoing ice rates happening across Los Angeles. - Yeah, people are scared to come out. We've gotten thousands of messages. We're afraid to go out. We're even afraid to go to the doctor at this point.

So then we assemble and we have somebody deliver groceries. And after watching video after video of ICE agents detaining street vendors, Tito, known to many as Hood Santa, and his wife, Petrina, knew they couldn't just stand by. Hola, senora.

They pick up vulnerable street vendors, buy their flowers and other merchandise, then drive them home to get them off the streets and out of harm's way. Thanks to cash donations, Tito was able to cover the woman's rent this month.

He urged her to stay home while the raids continue. Yeah, that's right. This guy's going around in a van and picking up random illegal alien street vendors. He's yelling and luring them into his unmarked white van with wads of cash, enough to buy all their products and pay their rent for a month. Nothing sketchy or crazy about that at all, we're told.

This supposedly life in Trump's America, even though, as we've as we just discussed, barely anyone's getting deported. And those who are getting deported in the majority of cases have criminal records. I mean, they've committed crimes in addition to the crime of entering the country illegally. Put all that aside for a second. Imagine if instead of helping illegal aliens, he was driving around in his van and offering to pay money to shelter, say, cop killers or armed robbers who just escaped from prison.

Pick any crime and then imagine that this guy is going around and helping the criminals evade the authorities. In those cases, the media would presumably have no problem calling this guy what he is. Well, actually, even in that case, they wouldn't want to. But it would be very clear to everybody that this is a crime. You're helping criminals evade detection. That's a crime. He's acting a lot like a criminal himself. Certainly his fake charity or NGO or whatever should be shut down immediately.

Any tax-deductible donations or expenses he's recording as part of any plot to help criminals evade accountability are obviously fraudulent. There should be raids immediately to determine where his funding is coming from and also to shut down the whole operation and throw anybody involved in prison. Until that happens, until people like this are held accountable for openly defying the law on the local news, then we shouldn't tolerate another word from any politician about getting the United States more involved in the Middle East.

This should be the red line. There's a massive web of NGOs and nonprofits that do exactly what this guy's doing, although they're a bit more subtle about it in many cases. And they all need to be shut down. And then for its part, the administration needs to drastically step up deportations because it's not enough. The pace is not enough. And that's what Donald Trump ran on. That is why he won every swing state. But nobody in Wisconsin or Pennsylvania voted for Donald Trump because of the things that he would do for a foreign country.

They voted for him because of what he would do for this country and its own people. They voted for him because he said he would secure the border, punish open lawlessness, restore our national sovereignty, our national identity. The first part of that promise has been fulfilled, which in and of itself is a great victory. Now it's time to remove the criminals who are already here, as well as the people who are facilitating them. And if we manage to achieve that, then we'll have a country 10 years from now. And nothing...

Not even the fate of various countries in the Middle East is more important than that. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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Reading now, does chat GPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT's Media Lab has returned some concerning results. So this is a big study. Actually, it's gotten a lot of attention. A lot of articles reporting on it right now. Even in the lead up to the study being published, there was a lot of conversation about it. And so here's what it says. The study divided 54 subjects, 18 to 39-year-olds, from the Boston area.

into three groups and asked them to write several SAT essays using OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google search engine, and nothing at all, respectively. Researchers used an EEG to record the writer's brain activity across 32 regions and found that of the three groups, ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.

Over the course of several months, ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy and paste by the end of the study. The paper suggests that the usage of LLMs, large language models, as I believe what that stands for, could actually harm learning, especially for younger users. The paper has not yet been peer-reviewed, and its sample size is relatively small.

This paper's main author, though, felt it was important to release the findings to elevate concerns that as society increasingly relies upon LLMs for immediate convenience, long-term brain development may be sacrificed in the process. Okay, so AI makes us dumber. And I mean, that's not exactly what the study's claiming. That is my editorialization. But I think that it's true. It reduces critical thinking skills. It hinders brain development.

It makes people lazier, both physically and intellectually. It makes us less intellectually engaged in what we're doing. So yes, it makes us dumber. And this is why I am very worried about a future ruled by AI. I mean, I'm worried about it for a bunch of reasons. It's going to erase millions of jobs, tens of millions of jobs.

are already disappearing. But as this thing ramps up in over the next five years, entire industries will just disappear, gone, not to be replaced by something else. It's not like jobs are you losing one job, but it's being replaced by a different job. It's just, no, the jobs are gone. They don't exist anymore in any form. And that is a major concern.

And as a corollary to that, 1A on the list, I would say, is that it will destroy creative fields, which I have a certain bias when it comes to that because I'm in a creative field. But once films and TV shows and books and music are all AI generated, human creativity is dead because none of that is human. That's not human creativity. Putting a prompt into an AI and just spitting out a movie script or something, that's not

It's not like, oh, no, people will just become more creative in how they use AI. There's no creativity. Putting in the prompt and say, make me a movie about pirates. And then the pirate movie, you didn't, that's no human creativity, zero involved in that. And so it's just, it's a death of human creativity. And then there's also what AI does to humans at a deep spiritual and psychological level, which is what this study touches on.

You cannot be, and I think this should be obvious, you cannot be an intelligent or wise or interesting person unless you learn. You have to learn things. And learning is an active process. You have to actively do it. Your brain has to be engaged. You have to put in effort. But if AI can generate everything for you, requiring no mental power on your part, then you're not going to learn. We are rapidly evolving.

entering a future where people just don't learn. They don't, they just don't learn anything. We are entering a future where people have no knowledge, no base of knowledge. And like we talked about last week, this, we, we've been on the trajectory for a long time. I mean, I, I firmly believe that, that, and I think this is a kind of like a common perception that a lot of people have that I think is totally true, which is that people in general today are, are

very dumb compared to 100 years ago, 200 years ago, 300 years ago. I saw someone on X yesterday say that he thinks that the average person in the 1700s would have been an intellectual giant compared to most people today. And I think he's probably right about that. I've said similar things. And you can see, I'm reading a book right now, for example, about the mutiny on the bounty.

And the book's called The Bounty, which I'm only about a third of the way into it. But I recommend it. It's very, very interesting. It's a fascinating story. And it is not just a story of the mutiny itself on the bounty. It's obviously a very famous story that Hollywood has been movies about and everything. But the second part of the story where Captain Bly is cast out on a small boat along with his loyalists in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, left to die. All he's got is like a compass.

Very few provisions. And he manages to make it home safely with everybody still alive. 4000 mile journey on this little small boat. Anyway, fascinating, fascinating story. Where was I? Speaking of being stupid, why did I bring that up? Oh, well, because when I read when I read books like this and this jumped out at me and I was reading this book.

that you'll see any kind of nonfiction book about a historical event, you'll often, you know, you get quotes from the people back then, people involved, from letters and journals and that sort of thing. And I'm just reading some of the journal entries that are included in this book and the letters of people recounting what happened. And I made this point before, but the way that they write, the language that they use

to convey their emotions and to describe what happened. There's just a richness and a depth to it that no one today is capable of. They write in a way where like when you read it, you go, okay, that had to have been written 300 years ago or 200 years ago. Um,

You know it. And not just because the language is archaic, but just because it's so descriptive and just kind of effortlessly poetic that nobody writes like that anymore. And these are not now. It's easy enough to say that when you've if you're reading a letter written by a ship's captain, for example. I mean, these were geniuses. The average ship's captain was a was an absolute genius, had to be. But even just normal, like, you know, the average sailor on a ship.

like barely literate, but still able to, through the kind of spelling problems and punctuation problems. Some of that just has to do with the way things were written back then. Some of it is being barely literate, but even then there's a depth and a richness to the language that people don't have today at all. And so that's been the case. We've been on this decline, I think for a long time. And so my worries with AI coming in, it just destroys it. I mean, the

20 years from now, the average person's vocabulary will be like 50 words. Right. And worst of all, there isn't anyone in a position of power who's taking these impending catastrophes seriously or trying to do anything about it. Instead, we're just kind of strolling casually into a future where the average human being doesn't have a job, doesn't have anything to do, doesn't know how to do anything, doesn't have any base of knowledge about anything at all.

And to me, that is a horrifying nightmare future that we should try to avoid in some way. It's like a vision of hell because it's life without meaning, without purpose, without beauty, without any of the things that make life worth living. And I don't really understand why people aren't taking this a little bit more seriously. Now, I often hear people.

That those of us who are warning about the dangers of AI are just fear mongering and, you know, and the supposed evidence of this, of the fact that we're just panicking over the supposed evidence of that is that all throughout history, people have always warned about the dangers of new technology. And this is no different, supposedly. So I hear this all the time.

People say, oh, come on. People said that about TVs and smartphones. People said that that would destroy society. And look, everything turned out OK. Well, there are two big problems with this line of logic. The first is that AI is just different in kind from any other sort of technology. Not everything is the same as everything else. There are things that are just different from other things. Sometimes something comes along and it's different. It's not the same.

AI is different. It's different because it removes the human element completely. That's the whole point of it. That's what the supposed great advantage of AI is supposed to be. All new technology up until now has just been new ways for humans to interact with each other, communicate with each other, create things and so on. But AI takes humans out of it, right? Because AI thinks, quote unquote, for itself. So this isn't even analogous to the industrial age when machines were

In fact, we started doing jobs that humans did before because that meant that now humans had jobs working machines standing on the assembly line. And it was a more efficient way for humans to work. And whatever you think about that, whatever you think about humans ending up on the assembly line, humans were still working. Same for when cars took over for horse and buggies. Well, humans went from driving horse buggy to driving a car.

But humans were still driving. Now, AI is coming along with self-driving cars and humans are taken out of it. It's not humans driving a fancy new contraption. It's not like, oh, we're all driving flying cars now. Like we all hope that would be the next step. We're all driving hovercraft. No, it's just like, it's still a car, but you're just not driving. Which, by the way, will wipe out millions of jobs. Millions. And this will happen soon. I mean, again, it is already happening. In the next five years, it...

ride share, taxi, trucking, gone, gone, gone, gone. And what then? What about all those people? What do we do? So this is different. Also, the other point here is that the warnings that were issued about a lot of these other technologies turned out to be correct.

So it's always funny to me when people use this argument, oh, you know, you sound like all the people that were warning about TVs. But yeah, well, they were right, though. What they warned about actually happened. You know, you could go back and read what was written about these other technologies. And guess what? They were mostly right. It's like when someone criticizes modern pop music and then someone else goes, oh, oh, please. You know, people said that about Elvis. Well, yeah, I mean, the people who are critical of Elvis in the 50s,

We're worried that it would lead to exactly the kind of insane degenerate filth that we're surrounded by today. So go back in time to find an Elvis critic and show them a clip of a modern music video or pop performance, and they're going to go, yeah, exactly. That's what I'm worried about. So, yeah, okay.

Now, am I saying that all new technology is bad, that we should not have new tech? Of course I'm not saying that. I'm just pointing out that there are downsides to every new technology. The people who talk about these downsides are usually correct and ignored. And because they're ignored, nothing is ever done to prepare ourselves for the downside or to mitigate it in any way. And now we're looking at a new kind of technology with AI that unlike cars, unlike the printing press, unlike computers,

I think with AI, we're looking at something that is far more downside than upside because of because I think it harms humanity much more than it helps it.

And not because I'm worried about some sci-fi scenario, Terminator, the AIs become sentient and enslave us. Who knows? That might happen. But that's not even it. That's not it. It's just a future where people have nothing to do and have nothing to expend any effort on or energy on. All of our experience as humans tells us that that is a recipe for just misery. All right. Well, that was kind of bleak, but let's get inspired.

Let's get inspired. Everything's been too bleak. So I want to show you something that should be inspiring to you. There's an NBC affiliate in Maine that is celebrating Pride Month. Nobody else is celebrating it, but they still are. And they decided to commemorate the occasion by having a drag queen deliver their weather report. And let's watch that.

Hello everybody. I am char as current temperatures right here saturday. It's 2:40 PM honey. It is 80 degrees here in Portland right now honey and we are feeling the effects. The sun is out. All it took was a pride parade to bring the sunshine out today. But honey, it is hot all over the state. We got 78 degrees in Lewiston. I know the people of Lewiston Auburn are probably celebrating and jumping in the river. Please don't do that. Be

safe because it is hot, hot, hot, and we need to find relief. Sanford's 81. Portsmouth down in New Hampshire is a lovely 83. Honey, the water is 56 degrees, okay? Now, I know what you're thinking. That sounds so tropical, but you still got to be careful, okay? Hypothermia is real, so take it easy. 78 degrees in Waterville, 71 degrees in Greenville, and 76 in Millinocket. And shout out to my friends up in Caribou. I see you up there, Caribou. It's 73 degrees up there. Hope you're having a good old time. So what is this guy's name? I...

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So there's the weather report from Mr. Chart. And it's kind of interesting watching that. And not just because the people of Maine think that 78 degrees is boiling hot. It's a beautiful 76 degree day with a slight breeze. And their map is colored in red and yellow, like the whole state is on fire, which is funny. But it's interesting in a cringy, really embarrassing way.

Because it puts on display one of the major pivotal mistakes that LGBT activists made. You know, as we've covered, the LGBT movement hit its peak probably about five years ago. It's been taking one loss after another ever since then. And leading up to this Pride Month, which has just been the most pitiful one on record, and gloriously so. And so it's kind of been this question of, well, what happened? What happened?

And I think this is one of the things that happened. This is one of the reasons why the LGBT movement fell apart. Not drag queens giving weather reports specifically, but drag queens in general. One of the big mistakes the LGBT camp made was putting drag queens front and center because drag went from up to about eight, nine years ago.

It was just a kind of bizarre fetish that was confined mostly to whatever weird nightclubs where they do that kind of thing. And if you were just a normal person, you never really saw it. You never encountered it. And it went from that to this thing that they were trying to force into the mainstream. They're putting it in front of our faces every chance they got, foisting it on us, foisting it on our children. Worst of all.

They wanted drag queens to be taken seriously as essentially as their own identity group. And journalists even started referring to drag queens by female pronouns in news articles, even though the drag queens themselves will say that they're playing a character. So it's like a news article referring to Christian Bale as Batman, like talking about him as if he actually is Batman. That's what the journalists do now with the drag queens.

So they're trying to normalize it. They try to normalize it. In other words, they wanted to normalize drag queens. And this is one of the key mistakes they made. Now, for those of us who were always opposed to the LGBT agenda, it didn't change how we felt about anything. We were opposed to the LGBT agenda before, and they shoved the drag queens in our faces, and we were still opposed. So we felt that way the whole time.

But for the people in the middle, the so-called moderates who didn't have much of a position or maybe sort of casually pro-gay rights or like they would have said that they were if you asked them and they hadn't really thought about it much. For those people, forcing them to look at drag queens all the time, trying to force them to take drag queens seriously, to accept them, to normalize them, to accept them being around their kids, it was just too much.

It was one of several things the LGBT agenda did that proved to be just too much for normal, moderate people. Because the fact is that no normal person can look at a drag queen, can look at shark poof and see that, see anything but like a bizarre mockery, a ridiculous woman face minstrel show. People naturally recoil, not because they're ideologically committed to opposing it,

But because, again, some of us are, but I'm talking about just sort of normal people kind of in the middle, so-called moderate. But they naturally recoil because they're normal. And the LGBT movement tried to get normal people to see abnormal stuff as normal. And it blew up in their face. I mean, you're talking about thousands of years of human experience and development that tells us that it's weird for a guy to pretend that he's a woman.

When you see that guy on the news report doing the weather, it's just your natural instinct is to go, what the hell is this? And so it'll take thousands of years of work in the other direction to undo all of that. And even then, it probably won't succeed because human nature is what it is. So what the LGBT movement could have done, what would have been a more effective propaganda, is if rather than putting drag queens front and center,

Uh, they could have put like men in business suits, you know, like normal people, normal functioning, successful people. Um, they had a choice. Like, it's like, okay, well they had the LGBT agenda and they wanted to find their sort of mascots for it. The people that are putting out front and center as their, their representatives, right. They're door to door evangelists for this movement.

And if you're a smart person, you know that, okay, well, if I need a door-to-door evangelist for my movement, it's got to be someone who's like inoffensive, normal. Okay, so that's what I'm going to find. It's just find like a friendly, normal person. Right? That's what the Mormons do, the Jehovah's Witnesses. They send someone to your door, it's going to be like a friendly, normal person.

But the LGBT movement, what they decided was, oh, no, we're going to put we're going to put shark poof there. We're going to take a guy dressed up like a like a Tim Burton character, dressed up like a like a female character in a Tim Burton movie from the late 90s. And we're going to put him on your front door. And you've lost right away because people open their door and shriek in horror. So it would have been much more effective propaganda if they had just. But but I'm so glad they didn't do that.

And in the end, they couldn't because the movement, the agenda is one of dysfunction and disorder and destruction down to its core. And it just couldn't help but advertise it. So maybe this is a long way of saying that the problem with making, you know, drag queens into the avatar of their movement is that actually it was too honest. It was too honest about what they were actually up to. And that's what...

That's what killed it in the end. So that's the lesson. Don't be honest. At least if you're evil and you have an evil agenda, don't be honest about it. But if you're a good person, then you can be honest. That's the advantage of being a good person. All right, let's get to the comment section. You're a man, it's required that you grow. We're the sweet baby gang.

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All right, for the comments, I had these yesterday and I didn't get to them, but there was some interesting feedback. So I want to get to it. This is feedback on the segment, not to belabor the point, but we did last week about how AI, specifically things like ChatGPT, are putting the final nail in the coffin of the education system. We just talked about AI again, of course, in the headlines. So there's a theme here. But as we talked about last week, new studies show that, you know, and we don't need any study to show us this,

But it shows us that kids in school, college and lower grades are just using chat GPT to do all their work for them, which, as I said, is the end of the education system as we know it. It's over. That's it. It's done. And that's my take anyway. But what's your take? We'll read through some of these comments and then I'll have some comments on my own at the very end. I'll just read a few of these back to back. Let's see. Teacher here. If I don't make them hand handwrite it in front of me, all of them will use AI to cheat.

The comment says, I'm in a master's program and the school actually had to send out a notice that we're not allowed to use AI or chat GPT to write our papers. Education is doomed. It makes me so annoyed when I take the time to study, actually put in the effort to learn, handwrite all my essays and assignments, then get flagged for AI when I wrote it completely naturally. Then I see my classmates using chat GPT and still somehow pass. Our education system is screwed.

Another comment, worse, my teacher wrote his feedback of my graduation thesis with AI. It's not just going in one direction. The teachers are abusing the technology just as much as students, just as they're not being held accountable at all. Academia is dead. My diploma is worthless. Another comment, the teenagers I've hired over the last two years, over the last year, cannot divide by two, literally, do not know how to calculate 50% off. And when I say divide by two, they cannot do it.

Actually, so a lot of just really depressing comments like that. So, in fact, I didn't I'm sure I'm sure it's there. I didn't read every single comment, but I didn't see one from someone in the education system saying, oh, no, you're you're overreacting. It's fine. Usually, whatever I'm whatever it is I'm complaining about, I can get a fair number of people who will have that response no matter what it is.

In this case, I didn't see anyone. Every comment from someone in the education system said, oh, yeah, it's bad. It's worse than you think. And it's only getting worse. And there's no way to stop it. So, I mean, first of all, a few weeks ago, I made the case against homework. But that's all mood, I guess. I mean, this is what kills homework. There's no point anymore. There's really no point if there ever was to begin with, because kids will just have AI do everything. The only answer, as some of these comments mentioned, is to have everything done in class, handwritten.

That's the only way. So the good news is that there is actually a way around it, but it's just that everything has to be done in class. Got to bring handwriting back. And and that's how you can get around to a large extent. You can get around the AI problem, at least in the context of schools. But practically speaking, schools aren't doing that. And there are just too many kids or too many subjects, too many different teachers.

So the solution of doing it in class will help in some isolated circumstances, but generally speaking, it won't. And AI will just kill the education system as we've come to know it. And look, despite everything I've said, I'm not against AI in principle. I mean, I think that it would be better if the technology didn't exist, if it was never invented. If I could flip a switch and erase it from the face of the earth forever, I would. But

You know, that can't happen. So it exists. And there are valid uses of it. I use it. I use it like a search engine, which is what it is. I think that's the valid use, at least in this kind of everyday application. And in particular, when you're doing creative work or you're doing schoolwork, you can use it like a search engine. Whatever I would have asked Google for, I'll ask the chatbot.

So like if I need an article about a certain subject, I just ask to show me the article. And then I read the article myself. I don't say send me the article and summarize it for me. I just say, give me the article and I'll read it. If I need data that I'm going to use for a monologue, but then I always end up cross-referencing it. So like I get it there and I'll check three or four of the places. So then really there's no point actually of using the chat GPT for that. But I'll tell you what I don't do. And I give you my solemn promise I will never do.

I mentioned at the top of the show, I write my monologues, at least for the open and close. I will never go to ChatGPT and just say, I need a 15-minute monologue in the style of Matt Walsh about X subject. I will never do that, ever. Like, I would rather die. Death before dishonor.

deaf before I ever give you a chat GPT written monologue. I would never, ever do it. Now, of course, right now, it's like sort of easy to not do it because the technology isn't at a point where it can convincingly pull that off. I have tested it just purely out of curiosity. And then you read it and you're like, yes, I'm better than this. This is not

But even if it gets to a point where it actually, it's like, okay, well, this feels like something a person would write. I still won't do it because if I forfeit my creativity to a machine, then what's the point? I mean, really, what's the point? And this is our only real salvation when it comes to this particular issue is that we have to value humanity for its own sake. We have to value human creativity for its own sake.

We're going to get to a point where we're saying, okay, well, we don't really need people to do this, but we're going to have them do it anyway because we value people. We're going to do it anyway because we value our humanity. That's kind of the crossroads we're at. And I'm not especially optimistic about the choice that we ultimately make there.

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Well, it's election day in New York City, and according to the latest polls in the mayoral race, former Governor Andrew Cuomo is locked in a dead heat with a 33-year-old Muslim socialist from Uganda named Zoran Mamdani. And this is an election that, without hyperbole, will help determine the trajectory of the whole country. It's the single most important mayoral race that has taken place in recent memory, and it's not really close. And it's an election that, without hyperbole, will help determine the trajectory of the whole country.

New York is our largest city. It's our most important economic center. Whatever you think of New York or the politicians who lead it, and I have a low opinion in both counts, still, it's undeniable how important the city is to the country. If New York were to collapse, the entire country would suffer, and this election could very well bring about that outcome. Now, to be clear, New Yorkers don't have a good choice in this election. Andrew Cuomo is an open borders Democrat who has repeated the mantra over and over again that diversity is our strength.

And Cuomo's opponent, coincidentally enough, is the manifestation of diversity in New York. Zoran Mamdani is the kind of candidate that just 15 years ago would have been unable to mount a serious candidacy for PTA president, much less mayor. But because New York's demographics have shifted so sharply, largely because of the policies of people like Andrew Cuomo, Mamdani now has the momentum. Roughly 40% of New York City's population wasn't born in this country. I'll say that again. 40% of New York City's population was not born in this country.

And that's the constituency that could propel Mamdani to victory. So what does Zoran Mamdani stand for exactly? Who is he? You spend five minutes listening to him speak and you'll quickly find the answers to both those questions. Mamdani has no desire to assimilate. He has no desire to improve this country in any way. Instead, he dreams of turning New York City into Uganda, where half the population makes less than $2 a day.

Mamdani has only been a citizen of this country for around six years, which means he's not even eligible to run for Senate, but he's determined to remake this country as he sees fit anyway. And like so many foreigners who've come to this country recently, Mamdani doesn't want to rather wants to implement the same failed policies that destroyed the countries that they fled from.

There are too many examples to list, but here's one of them. Here's a doozy. Watch this. Grocery prices are out of control. The cost of eggs and milk has skyrocketed. Some stores are even using dynamic pricing, jacking up the cost over the course of a day depending on what they can get away with. It doesn't need to be this way. I'm Zahran Mandani, and as mayor, I will create a network of city-owned grocery stores. It's like a public option.

Yes, Mamdani wants state-run grocery stores, an idea that has never worked anywhere it's been tried.

He wants a public option for produce. In other words, he wants to turn your local supermarket into the DMV. Never mind the fact that there isn't a single person alive in the entire country who's ever been to the DMV and thought to themselves, wow, these people are great. They should be put in charge of the food supply. That's what Mamdani is going with. He's apparently upset with dynamic pricing, which is another word for pricing. It means that store owners can decide what they want to charge depending on demand. It's like a basic function of free markets, which have directly resulted in places like New York

becoming New York, becoming extremely wealthy and successful cities. But now Mamdani has decided that he knows better than the markets. He knows better than what made New York City a great city to begin with. And he's going to use the dwindling resources of the city to arbitrarily prop up the state-owned stores, which will put a lot of smaller bodegas out of business. And once that happens, just like in the Soviet Union, most New Yorkers will have no choice but to use the state-run store. And then you get bread lines.

And then New York City will have finally achieved the utopian state already achieved by countries like Uganda. As best anyone could tell, Mamdani doesn't actually think any of this will work. He's actually not a particularly political person, certainly not a thinker, not a serious person. Instead, like so many prominent politicians we've seen over the years, he's an actor. Mamdani is adept at using different personas to appeal to different demographics, a skill he put to use during his short-lived rap career, and which still gets him into trouble sometimes. Watch this.

Because I think that New Yorkers, more than they hate a politician they disagree with, they hate a politician they can't trust. On the subject of trust, you've adopted different speaking accents in different scenarios. But they go to their local bodega. Is there one that's real and one that's affected?

What I would say is, as any immigrant knows, having been born in Kampala, Uganda, and then raised in South Africa, and moving here when I'm seven years old, is there are different parts of my life. Worldwide tour is a worldwide tour is a worldwide tour. Mamdani was talking about a worldwide press tour back when he was a rapper. Bring the flavor to the fish, bring the flavor to the rice.

In a Disney movie directed by his mother. Nepotism and hard work goes a long way here in New York City. This is how I speak. This is how I am. Do you believe in the First Amendment, Tom Holman? Now, watching that, you can you can see just how an actor like Zelensky became the president of Ukraine. Except this situation is actually a lot worse because at least Zelensky was born born in Ukraine. Mamdani is just parachuting into New York from a foreign country.

trying to find a way to use his connections and wealth to appeal to as many rubes as possible. And after trying rap, he's settled on politics. And very quickly, he realized that promising free stuff is a good way to get votes, especially when half the city is imported from the third world. And especially when the voters in your city basically have a death wish, which many of these voters in these major cities do, which is why they keep electing people who are promising to destroy the communities where they live.

And this guy, he doesn't just want price controls on groceries. Like any good socialist, he wants price controls on everything. A few weeks ago, for example, he shilled for rent control. Watch. - I'm Assemblyman Zahraan Maldani, and I'm running for mayor to freeze the rent for every rent-stabilized tenant. - Wait, you're gonna freeze my rent? - Yes. - Did I hear rent freeze? - Yes, this guy's gonna freeze the rent. - No hike? - None. - This guy's gonna freeze the rent.

It's true. As your next mayor, I will freeze your rent. Paid for by Zoran for NYC. Yeah, you know, just prevent landlords from charging more. And prevent grocery stores from charging more, too, while you're at it. So if the prices are too high, just say to the people that are charging the prices, don't make them so high. And then problem solved. Why didn't we think of that? What could possibly go wrong? You can't possibly run out of food or apartments.

Right. It's not like suppliers are ever going to stop shipping you food at whatever arbitrary price you want to charge. It's not like landlords are ever going to stop renting their apartments for zero profit. Because, by the way, you know, being a landlord is a very low margin business. OK, these are generally not people that are reaping insane profits. It is low margin, high liability business.

And so if you don't let people turn, even the small profits they're turning, you're not going to have places to live anymore. Unless you can just tell people that they have to charge less. And then what? It's like magic. Problem solved. Now, what's funny about this line of reasoning, such as it is, is that

Mamdani's platform still depends on massive tax revenues. I mean, even as he destroys New York's economy, like every other socialist has ever lived, he wants to spend money like it's water. This is from the New York Post, quote, Mayoral hopeful Zoran Mamdani wants to spend $65 million in taxpayer funds on transgender treatment, including for minors if he's elected to lead New York City.

About $57 million would be allotted for public hospitals, community clinics, federally qualified health centers and nonprofits, with another $8 million for more expanded services. Mamdani33 also vowed to go after private medical institutions that continue to deny trans youth care, stating he would work with State Attorney General Letitia James and local district attorneys in the five boroughs to investigate and hold public hearings on hospitals that deny trans youth their rightful health care and hold them accountable to the law.

And the result of all this, although it doesn't really need to be said, is that taxpayers in New York are going to flee to places like Florida. It's already happening in large numbers, and it's going to accelerate immeasurably if this guy wins. In New York City right now, 0.8% of residents, less than 1%, pay more than 40% of all income taxes that are collected. Yes, the 1% that socialists demonize are the only way that socialists can afford to do anything

Without this 1%, there's no one to subsidize these government-run grocery stores or the trans surgeries or the free rent. The people of New York City will have no homes and no food. We'll have nothing except a slick-talking, failed trust fund rapper from Uganda named Zoran Mamdani. And by the time they realize what they've done, it will be impossible to recover the city that they've destroyed. And that is why the socialist Muslim foreigner Zoran Mamdani and everyone supporting his communist bid for mayor

are 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.