Matt Walsh (38:39)
Okay, so Trump wants to end birthright citizenship. He wants to try to do it through executive orders. There are obviously major questions about whether it can be done that way. It's going to be a big legal fight no matter what, because you have to contend with the 14th Amendment. So in terms of the exact levers that should be pulled to end it, in terms of how exactly you go about ending it, that's a legal question that people smarter than me will have a lot of opinions about. And we'll hear many of those opinions in the coming months, of course. But I can say with absolute certainty that, however, whatever you have to do to end it, yes, you should end it. A birthright citizenship needs to end in whatever way possible by whatever means necessary the needs to end. It's absurd. It's a joke. The idea that a woman can sneak across the border and have a baby two days later and the baby is automatically a citizen is just farcical. It's funny because on most constitutional questions, the left will be the first to claim that the Constitution was written at a different time. And you know, most of what you find in it. They would say, especially gun rights, free speech, even states rights, they would say that most of that is outdated and archaic. You know, we hear about the Constitution as, what do they say, a living document and all of that. And they're wrong about all that. You know, the principle of free speech is not, can't really be outdated. Gun rights are not outdated. Sure, firearm technology has changed, but that doesn't change the basic principle that you have a right to bear arms, you have the right to self defense. And same with free speech. The means of communicating our ideas have drastically changed. The founding fathers had no idea about the Internet, of course, but that doesn't change the basic principle of free speech. However, when it comes to birthright citizenship, things have fundamentally changed since the amendment was codified in the 1860s or whenever it was. So this is one time when you can reasonably argue that the constitutional principle is simply out of date to the point of irrelevance. Yet it's the one area where, you know, the left won't argue that, because here, here's what we know. When that amendment was enacted, you did not have millions of people sneaking into the country every year. We were not, as we are now, a fully formed and settled and highly populated country with 330 million people living in 50 states from coast to coast, and we did not have millions of additional people trying to sneak into the country to take advantage of our welfare system and our entitlement systems. None of that was happening in the 1860s. None of that applied, none of that existed. Okay? And it was not foreseen, it was not imagined. So in the 1860s, birthright citizenship made sense, you could argue. Now it doesn't. It just simply doesn't. I mean, look at it this way. If birthright citizenship was never a thing to begin with and somebody came along today and proposed it, would anyone agree with it? I think this is a good test for lots of things, especially laws and policies that have been in place for a long time in this country, so that we take them for granted. But you should always think to yourself, okay, if this had not been in place, if I was not Born into a country where this was already an established part of life. If that were not the case and somebody came along and suggested it, what would I say? By the way, the income tax is another. This is a perfect example of this, the income tax and the withholding system. If that didn't exist and somebody came along and said, hey, let's put a tax on your income before you even spend it. We're going to. Let's make it so the government can come in and take a chunk of your paycheck before you even get your hands on it. They're gonna take a chunk, and they're gonna take whatever chunk they want, by the way. You'll basically have no control over that. And actually they're gonna take too much and they're gonna hold onto it all year, and then they're gonna give it back to you without interest at the end of the year. Like, who would agree to that right now if it was explained to them like that and it didn't already exist? Nobody would. Nobody would. There'd be no reason for anyone to agree to that. It would sound like the worst idea ever. But we're used to it, and so most people just accept it as a grant. And it's the same thing with this. If someone came along now and said, hey, I got an idea. Why don't we set it up so that if you come to this country illegally and have a baby, even if you have the baby five seconds after crossing the border, your baby is automatically a citizen, even though you aren't. Um, yeah, it'll be great. But let's make it so that we have millions of illegal immigrant families where some people are illegal and some aren't. This will be a lot of fun. Let's make it so that babies are citizens but their parents aren't. Let's do that. What do you guys say? Let's try that one on for size, see how it goes. You would never, in this. In the situation we're in right now, if someone. If someone proposed that it would be hard. No, you know, no, thanks. There's nothing about that sounds like it makes sense. And so if we know that about. If there's any policy where we would say to ourselves, okay, if someone suggested this now, I would think it was insane. Well, that means it's insane. It may not have been insane when it was put in place. In some cases it was, but now it is, and so we got to change it. And I think that's certainly the case here. Let's talk about something that affects all of U.S. taxes. 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In fact, I don't shut up about them. So angling, though, has a more secretive, sinister sound. It has the sound of plotting and scheming. I've never really done any scheming, or at least I didn't think that I had. That's why I was so fascinated to read this article. And so let's do that now. This is from the Nashville Scene. It's from a Nashville Scene writer who goes by the name Betsy Phillips, and here's what it says. Quote I was watching conservative commentator Matt Walsh make his little speech outside the Supreme Court after arguments in US vs SC about how we are going to continue to fight against transgender people. As the old joke goes. I was like, who is this we, by the way? How is that an old joke? That's just a phrase. Sometimes it's used in a joking way, I guess, but I wouldn't call it an old joke. Does this person not understand what the word joke means? Probably not, but let's not get hung up on semantics. Continuing on, but like it's William Lamberth all over again. And other Tennessee politicians think about this. Just take a minute to let it soak in. Two years ago, Matt Walsh gets all these Tennessee politicians to speak at an ostensibly anti trans rally that ends up essentially being a Proud Boys rally. And as I've hammered on before, not a single politician there had the balls to say, hey, wait, no, I'm not headlining a Nazi rally. You'd think, once bitten, twice shy, that Republican leaders would not hang out with Matt Walsh again, lest he surprised them with another photo op with proud races. But no, off they go again to be by his side. Let's pause here for a moment again. Was my rally a Nazi rally? I guess it depends on how you define it. If you define a Nazi rally as a rally for Nazis, then no, it was not. But if you define it as Betsy Phillips does, as any gathering of two or more white people who even vaguely disagree with Betsy Phillips on any political topic whatsoever, then yes, I suppose it was a Nazi rally. So actually they don't even need to be white. So just two or more people who disagree with this person about anything. That's a Nazi rally. And if that's how you Define it, then. Yeah, I guess by that definition, it was. So how did I get all these people to attend such a sinister gathering? Well, Phillips has a theory on that. That's quite a bit of pull. I mean it. You stick a bunch of politicians in front of the proud boys, and those politicians are still kissing your ass years later. That means they'll tolerate a little public humiliation to be seen with Matt Walsh. Interesting. Who else in the state do you think could do that? Like most people, I'd just been assuming former pro wrestler and current Knox county mayor Glenn Jacobs was going to be our next governor after all. As my brother put it, he's the undertaker's brother. Of course Tennessee is going to vote for him, but watching Matt Walsh, I don't know, y'all, I just got a bad feeling. So that's what I'm angling for, is to be the next governor of Tennessee. And I have to admit, at first, I read this claim with some skepticism. As Matt Walsh myself, I doubted whether Matt Walsh wanted to run for governor or any other political office. My general understanding of Matt Walsh is that he would rather be fed feet first into a wood chipper than run for any political office at all. But what do I know about myself? Certainly not as much as the Nashville scene knows. Quote, we're grading on a curve here, and I'm tossing Clint Eastwood out since he's still too good looking to make it fair to other Republicans. But Matt Walsh is passably handsome. He's as attractive as Bill Lee and doesn't have those empty eyes. He's right in there with Jody Barrett, Clark Boyd, Kip Kapli, and Kevin Vaughn in terms of conservative cutie patootie ness. You know, I've never really spent much time thinking about where I fall on the vaunted cutie patootie scale. But, you know, on this point, and I say this totally objectively, in fairness, Phillips got it right. You know, I get a passing grade in handsomeness. That's at least a C minus, folks. Okay, that's according to the news, not me. I'm just giving you the facts. I may not be the sexiest man alive, but I am the most slightly above average man alive. Not too shabby. What are some other wonderful things about me? Let's find out. Quote, he's comfortable in front of cameras. He has a wife and kids and is religious. Or at least he presents himself as religious. He has a huge platform and daily wire money. Plus, he has a clear agenda that I obviously disagree with, that he communicates well Now, I have to say, this is by far and by far, in a way the most bizarrely complimentary hit piece I've ever read about myself. It's actually starting to feel a little bit uncomfortable, but let's continue anyway. Quote and at least from the outside, it looks like Matt Walsh has accomplished all he's going to accomplish at the Daily Wire. He's written books, he makes movies. He's perhaps their best known media personality who isn't either a raging, obviously unhinged lunatic or trying to clean up the platform's extremist viewpoints so that they're palatable to a bigger audience on their way to greener pastures. Or a has been trying to remain at least a little relevant on their way down. Is he really going to hang around waiting to what age into Jordan Peterson? If the Supreme Court rules Walsh's way in US first scrimmetti, which it likely will, then what? He's won. Sure, he could continue to try to make trans people miserable, but that's boring cleanup work that has the potential to make him look weak if he can't. Accomplishment. He's worked hard and achieved his goal. Now, at this point, I have to clarify, I think for the record that I did not write this article myself. Okay, Betsy Phillips is not my pen name. I promise you, you'd be forgiven for being suspicious, but I promise I did not write this about myself. Now, this is the work of a leftist who I think. I think it's trying to express disdain for me, but instead has accidentally declared that I am a highly accomplished, hardworking, handsome winner. Now, I've already sent this article to a team of trained and qualified fact checkers, and they've all come back and unanimously confirmed that all of the claims in this article are 100% incontrovertibly true. Indeed. What they told me what they told me. I'm just telling you what they told me. They said that this is the truest article the Nashville Scene has ever published. In fact, it's their only true article reading on. Quote, Walsh is on an upward trajectory right now, but he needs someplace for all this momentum to carry him. Even if he wanted a mainstream news career, what channel can offer him an audience bigger than what he already has? He would continue to press his way in entertainment, but to what end? To have a Hollywood hit. The whole point of Daily Wire's push in entertainment is to provide an alternative to Hollywood that centers conservatives. If Walsh can make a Hollywood hit, it disproves the basic premise of the whole Daily Wire ethos up for Walsh is politics. And with Governor Lee halfway through his second and final term, Tennessee is about to need a governor. I'm prepared to be wrong about this. I'm hoping I'm wrong about this. I hope you're all laughing at me about this in two years. And I will gracefully take the digs. Well, I'll try to gracefully take the digs, but this doesn't seem as unlikely to me after this week as it did before. So there it is. So let me just be honest with you. The truth is that I absolutely had not planned nor even considered running for governor or anything else. I would rather be tied to the top of a giant ant hill and slowly eaten alive than run for office. There is no part of the process of running for office that I find remotely appealing. And in fact, I don't find the job of being governor or senator or congressman or even president to be all that appealing either. I mean, mostly it seems pretty boring. It involves way too many ceremonies and meetings, which are the two things I hate the most in the whole universe. Now, yeah, granted, I like the idea of having power, but I've always thought that a position like king or emperor would be more suitable for a man of my tastes. Now, if anything, I thought that maybe I'd make a run at becoming a tribal warlord in some third World country somewhere, then work my way up to despot, and then keep climbing the ladder until I have absolute power over millions of subjects who are permitted to do nothing but obey me, unquestionably upon penalty of death. That had been sort of my career plan for the next five years or so. But then I read this article, and Phillips makes a lot of really good points. I was skeptical at first, but then I thought about it, and I began to see the truth in it. Because I'm pretty open minded and I always read articles. I'm always open minded. I'm ready to be convinced. I am handsome. I am smart. I am brilliant and charming. So we can also add that I'm humble because I'm willing to admit that the Nashville scene is right about all those points, right about how great I am. And frankly, here's what I'll say. I'm tired of the political divide in this country. I'm tired of the left and right being at each other's throats all the time, constantly disagreeing over everything. We need more unity. We need to see the value in other people's perspectives. Which is why I'm going to unite with the Nashville scene on this issue. The issue of how I'm amazing and should be in charge of an entire state. So I want to thank Betsy Phillips and the Nashville Scene. They've inspired me. I never thought of myself as a gubernatorial candidate until this moment, but now I'm thinking about it. In fact, I can announce right now that I am officially launching an exploratory committee to consider the possibility of running for governor. The committee will have to take a number of factors into consideration. We'll have to find out the answer to certain questions. Questions like, can I still do a podcast if I run for governor? And if I do run and I win, which, as Phillips points out, I definitely will, what happens if I find out that being the governor is actually, like, super lame and boring? Would I resign at that point, or would I commit a bunch of scandals so that I could be impeached? The latter would be a lot more fun, you know, Much more fun. Way to go. What are the chances that it lands me in federal prison? It's a complicated equation, and we gotta take all these things into account. Who knows what will happen going forward? But running for governor is a possibility now. All thanks to Betsy Phillips and the Nashville Scene. Just as I inspired the best article ever published in its pages, I have likewise been inspired to reach for the stars. And for that reason, I must say that neither Betsy Phillips nor the Nashville Scene are today canceled. That'll do for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.
