Matt Walsh (15:15)
Now you can watch a million grand jury proceedings and you won't see anything like this and should go without saying, but prosecutors are not defense attorneys. Their job is not to grill their own witnesses. That's especially true when you're at the grand jury stage, when the prosecution's only responsibility is to get an indictment. Usually they go in, present the evidence that will lead to an indictment, and they get the indictment, and they move on to the trial. But in this case, they clearly didn't want to do that. They wanted to tank their own case. And you have to wonder whether anyone at the DOJ instructed them to do that. At the moment, we don't know whether Pam Bondi will be able to answer that question. But the truth is, especially after what happened yesterday, it looks pretty likely, sadly, that we'll never get an answer. We'll also never know how Jeffrey Epstein managed to become a global pimp with no identifiable clients. That's maybe the single biggest gaping hole in the entire narrative we've been sold. They haven't arrested or even seriously investigated a single one of his clients. At every stage, the government made sure that Epstein's clients would be completely protected. And to that end, as we learned yesterday, the FBI has apparently concealed or perhaps destroyed the actual incriminating information. And not just in Epstein's townhouse. So this is the sad reality that I think we all need to prepare for. Yeah, we might find out some more specifics in the coming hours and days, assuming the FBI complies with Pam Bondi's request. But of course, there's no reason to think they'll do so after a cover up that's lasted as long as this one has. At this point, it's very possible. It's very possible that there are no Epstein files. Not because they never existed, but because some of the most powerful people in this country made sure that they would never be discovered. After all, if there are files out there, documents, video, et cetera, showing the most powerful people in the world engaged in horrific criminal activity, what are the chances that the evidence still exists anywhere six years later? Why would it still exist if it wasn't released to begin with? It's because powerful people decided to cover it up. And if they covered it up, they covered it up. That means burning the evidence, not storing it in some safe somewhere for someone to release later. I hope that's not the case. I hope that these files are out there and that we'll be able to see them one day. And all the bad guys will be held accountable. But my point is that at this point, I have very little faith in that happening, not to be the bearer of bad news. So going forward, if the administration takes anything from this debacle, and it really is a debacle, it should be that retroactive transparency is very difficult, if not impossible. And that's why transparency is necessary at all times in all contexts. For one thing, the classification system needs a major overhaul. The vast majority of documents that the government hides from the public should not, in fact, be hidden to begin with. Additionally, all of the agents, the FBI New York field office who failed to respond to Pam Bondi's request need to be fired immediately. And whoever was responsible for the evidence, whatever happened, if the files are gone now, if that's true, then we need to find out how that happened and who's responsible for that. And those people need to go to prison. And while we're at it, we need a full accounting for what exactly Pam Bondi was looking at when she discussed that binder on Fox News on Wednesday night. This is a question that no matter what you think of Pam Bondi, and I think she's generally done a really good job so far, but that needs to be addressed. We unfortunately may never know the full extent of Epstein's crimes, but these are the kinds of changes that are necessary to ensure that the next serial pedophile like Jeffrey Epstein and his associates actually suffer consequences for what they've done. Now let's get to our five headlines. Attention investors. While this is a paid endorsement, we've got some good news to share. We believe that we've turned the tide in the battle for the soul of America. Donald Trump has been elected is beginning the herculean task of pushing back against the forces of wokeism in America. It's true that many businesses are beginning to mothball their dei, CRT and ESG programs and focus on serving customers, all customers, rather than political interests. What about you? Have you joined the movement of Americans who are using their investments to hold companies accountable for their ethical behavior? I'm not a client of the firm, but if you'd like to join other patriotic citizens by aligning your investments with your conservative values, go to constitutionwealth.com matt for a free consultation. Constitutional wealth is a registered investment advisor. You should review Constitutional Wealth's disclosures@constitutionwealth.com to understand their services and their fees. All investing involves risk, including the risk of loss. Daily Wire Reports Graphic footage obtained by the Daily Wire appears to showcase how Violent New York prisons have become for inmates, correction officers and other workers since The Democrat backed HALT act took effect in 2022. A source who wished to remain anonymous out of fear of retribution leaked the alleged footage from Greenhaven Correctional Facility, wishing to expose how dangerous conditions are as 15,000 correctional officers and sergeants across the state remain on strike. The source said, quote, I send this footage to you to help the public understand what it is we face and why we're on strike. This is not about money. It's about the liberal agenda, how the liberal agenda has destroyed our justice system. As Daily Wire previously reported, the strike began on February 17th with officers asking for the HALT act to be repealed and have other safety measures put into place, including stopping mandated shifts that officers say can sometimes last days at a time. The footage, the source says, shows staff at Greenhaven Correctional Facility being attacked and inmates assaulting, even slashing each other's faces. The video opens up with an inmate slicing the face of a woman who went to the prison to visit the inmate. Additionally, footage Starting at the 2 minutes 2:09 mark appears to show the fatal stabbing of 30 year old inmate Jarrett Frost. And then there's other things in the footage as well. I can't play the video from Amanda's report, Amanda Prestigiacomo, who's the DW reporter on this story. I can't play the video because YouTube would take it down. YouTube would take this whole show down, the whole video because of the violent content. So if I played it, I'd have to blur everything. You wouldn't be able to see it, but you can go to Daily Wire or go to my X page and you can see it there. It's brutal. It's just really bad. And you know, I've also gotten at this point dozens of messages from corrections officers, many in New York, but also across the country, as I've been talking about this just over the last few days. And they all tell me two things. Number one, the situation in our prisons is terrible. I mean, which maybe doesn't come as a shock, but it's very bad. The inmates are given way too much power. Guards have very little leverage. They're subjected to just constant abuse and harassment, assaults, physical and sexual. It's a nightmare scenario. And this has all been enabled and fueled by left wing prison reform efforts, so called prison reform. Now obviously it's a prison, so it's not going to be a lovely environment, no matter what. You know, if you go, if you become a corrections officer, you know that going in, you Know, you're going into, you're going into a tough situation no matter what, because it's a prison. And these are all the worst people in society who are there. That's kind of the nature of the thing. But prisons don't have to be places of total chaos. I mean, you can have some semblance of order and even safety, at least for the guards in a prison. You can have that. We've had that in the past, but we don't have that now because of all these reforms that have been pushed, not exclusively, but mostly by Democrats and all of their reforms. Anytime a Democrat is talking about prison reform, changing prisons, it is always on behalf of the criminals. They are never suggesting any reforms to make the prison guards, the correction officers, safer. They don't care about that. So every reform, it just gets worse and worse and worse. But every reform, whether on the federal or state level, it's always about making sure the prisoners are more comfortable, that they have more freedom, that there's more things they're able to do. And the more freedom you give to the prisoners, the more you empower the inmates, the more risk you are causing for the guards, the more vulnerable the guards become. So that's. This is like unanimously what I'm hearing behind the scenes. And then two, the other kind of unanimous sentiment is that they feel totally ignored. Their plight is not getting much pressure because the left wing press is much more interested in the plight of convicted murderers and rapists than in the suffering of prison staff. They don't care about it. And also again, the left, their reforms, their policies have caused this situation. So of course they have no interest in talking about the negative consequences of their own policies. So they're ignored. And the corrections officers are kind of hung out to dry, left to deal with this on their own. I got one message from a corrections officer who kind of explained it this way, because in New York now, thanks to the Holt Act, a prisoner can only go to solitary confinement, which isn't what I've been told isn't even really solitary confinement, not how we think of it anyway. But he can only go for 15 days. So the guy's point to me was that if he gets assaulted, he is in the corrections officer. The worst punishment that his attacker can get is 15 days. Now, if you're assaulted on the street, in theory anyway, the attacker is punished for years now. And we know it actually doesn't work out that way very often, which is why the streets are also becoming increasingly more dangerous. But in theory, if somebody attacks you on the street and physically assaults you, they, there's a years long punishment. But that's not how it works in these prisons now. So there's basically no disincentive to stop inmates from assaulting guards. There's essentially no punishment. And if you're a lifer, you know, if you're in there for life, there isn't even any real consequence for killing a guard. I mean, think about that. What's the consequence? You already, if you have life without parole, there's basically no solitary confinement anymore. You got all these prison reforms in place and everybody is given this obsessive focus on the comfort of inmates. You're not gonna leave anyway. What's to stop you from killing a prison guard? And if there's no death penalty, Cuz that's another thing that might, that could stop you. But they don't do that in New York and they don't do that in most states either. Even in the states where they have the death penalty, they rarely use it. So you're in prison for life. You can't be executed, you're never going to leave. They can't put you in solitary confinement and you're a violent, evil sociopath with nothing to lose. Why not kill a prison guard? There's like no reason why they wouldn't. Why not stage a prison riot? Why not cause as much mayhem as you can every single day? There is nothing stopping you. You have no reason to. Not at this point. We are relying entirely on the inmates own sense of decency and propriety. That's the only thing stopping them. Of course they're violent sociopaths, so they have no such sense. And this is what happens as a result. So you know, I'm, I'm going to stay on this story. I'm not going to. I mean it's, it's, it's not the kind of story that drives engagement or gets a ton of clicks. But it really does matter because we are depending on corrections officers to do a job that none of us would ever want to do. You know what happens if they all go on strike? What if 100% of corrections officers go on strike, what then? What do we do then? You know, this is not like, yeah, this isn't like with say public school teachers where, because if they go on strike, first of all, it doesn't affect me personally at all. We homeschool our kids and we could get rid of the entire public school system. In fact, I think we should privatize the whole thing. And a combination of private Education and homeschooling. In my opinion, that's what the education system should be. So we can actually have a functioning society without public schools. We definitely can. There have been many functioning societies, including our own, that did not have public schools. So when public school teachers go on strike and look, I think they're. I think I still. Even though I'm very critical of the public school system, I still think that teachers do an important job. I mean, educating kids is a very important job. And there are plenty of public school teachers that are really good people and they care about their job. And it's also a thankless job in many respects. Not nearly as thankless as being a prison guard, that's for damn sure. But even so, you know, the job of a public school teacher is not one that we actually need. You can do that at home. You really can. We cannot, though, have a functioning society without prisons. I homeschool my kids. I would not want to run a home prison for the murderers and drug dealers in my community. Okay? I wouldn't want to do that. So when the public. If the public school teachers say, oh, we're all gonna go on strike, all right, fine, I could teach my own kids. If the prison guards say, okay, we're all going on strike, I'm not gonna say, okay, fine, I'll. I'll put the murderers in my. And we got a spare guest room, we'll put them there. No big deal. So this is why the story should matter to everybody. And I will say that I've also gotten some messages from former inmates in the New York Correction System, kind of giving the other side of this story. Not as many, but I've read a few messages from people like that, and they say that I have it all backwards, that the guards are the ones who inflict abuse on the inmates, and the guards are given free reign to be as violent as they wanna be. So that's the inmate perspective. But to be honest with you, I'm sure that kind of thing does go on. I'm just, frankly, not nearly as worried about that. And, you know, because I'm not a psychopath, okay? When you've got two groups, you've got prison guards and inmates, and you got to give the benefit of the doubt to one group or the other. I'm giving the benefit of the doubt to the prison guards, not to the violent sociopaths who are in prison because they are not functioning members of society. You know, none of us are there in prison every day, so. And nobody is perfect on either side of this thing. There's going to be abuses that happen. That comes with the territory. But you kind of have to give benefit of the doubt to one side or the other. And it is just madness that in society. And even most of our political leaders, especially in the Democrat Party, kind of instinctively give the benefit of the doubt to the inmates, to the violent sociopaths who are in prison because they have committed serious crimes already. And people who, as part of being a violent sociopath, by the way, just lie constantly. Just like, lie about everything. That's it. Whether a corrections officer or a law enforcement officer, you talk to any of these people, that's one thing. They'll tell you that they're just dealing with people who just lie about everything all the time. You know, they just are constantly lying. That's one of the reasons with, you know, when you see these body cam videos from arrests and you've got the person who's being arrested saying, I can't breathe. I can't breathe. You know, of course, there's the one very famous incident of that. But that's a common refrain that officers hear all the time. Especially now, but even before. And you watch the videos and of course, if you're a moron, you watch it and you go, well, why aren't they taking that more seriously? Why aren't they listening? He said he can't breathe. Cuz they all say that. Cuz they just lie. They just simply lie to get out of trouble always. Okay? That's why. So if you're a corrections officer or law enforcement officer, you're dealing with people who lie about everything, always. And then we get mad at them. They tried to warn you. Why didn't you listen to these poor people? Maybe because they're lying psychopaths. Maybe because they're dealing with the kinds of people who would happily slit your throat and kill you for your shoes or for nothing. Maybe that's why. All right, The Inquirer has this. The Philadelphia School District has indicated that it will ignore a rule directing schools to ban transgender athletes from participating in sports that match their gender identities. The move comes after the school's interscholastic athletics governing body changed a key policy regarding transgender athletes. The Pennsylvania Interscalactic Athletic Association Board of Directors last week voted to revise its transgender athlete policy to comply with an executive order issued by President Trump. But the Philadelphia schools say that they are going to defy this and they're gonna continue to allow boys and girls sports. So obviously, Trump needs to pull all federal funding from Philadelphia schools, they receive tens of millions of dollars a year in federal funding. I don't know exactly how much, but I think it's 15 to 20 million, something like that. Pull it all just to begin with, pull all the funding. But there's only so much Trump can do. And that's why Congress needs to codify these executive orders. Congress needs to pass laws. We need actual laws. Executive orders are not enough on their own, so there needs to be a law banning men from women's sports. That needs to be one law. There also needs to be another law, much more importantly, banning child gender transitions. And we have. Neither one of those laws have been passed yet. And, you know, because of Trump's first several weeks in office and how successful it's been, we talk about the Republican Party as though it's new and improved. You know, this ain't your grandfather's Republican Party, but it might be. You know, it might be the same. It might be the same ineffectual blob that it's been for decades. That remains to be seen, because they need to step up. We know that this is a different Trump administration than it was the first time around. Is it a different Republican Party? That very much remains to be seen, because they need to actually pass laws. This needs to happen soon. And in the meantime, apparently, some of these school districts are just going to defy the executive order and do what they want, because there seems to be a real split on the left between those who are determined to sort of die on the Trans Hill and those who don't want to die on it. And if they decide they want to die on it, great. I mean, so be it. If. I mean, the left has a chance right now, has an opportunity right now to leave all that, to just abandon all that madness and try to pretend it never happened. We should not allow them to pretend it never happened. But politically, that would be their smartest move. Just move on. They could do that, or they could double down. They can double down on this totally losing argument. And it seems right now that that's kind of what the Civil war in the Democrat Party is about. And if the pro trans side wins that war, then the Democrat Party will have consigned itself to basically permanent irrelevance. We'll see how that plays out. All right, bit of entertainment news on a Friday. This is from Variety. Zendaya is taking her talents to the swamp. The in demand actor has joined Shrek5 as Felicia, the daughter of Shrek, played by Mike Myers and Fiona Cameron Diaz. So There was a teaser for Shrek 5 that was just put out and I didn't see the teaser, but apparently the teaser involves a very current TikTok joke. So I guess Shrek is using some version of TikTok. Who could have seen that coming? That we get the TikTok joke from Shrek 5? And listen, Shrek 5 is not the most important news in the world. Probably not even top 10. Frankly, probably not. But I do want to say, first of all, that if you go and see Shrek 5, you lose the right to. Well, you should lose the right to vote. I mean, that should be the first thing there should be. We should have people stationed at the theaters when Shrek 5 comes out and just documenting every single person who walks in to see Shrek 5. Every single person over the age of 18 who does not have a child. If you're bringing your kid, I'll allow it. Even though that's the movie's. The whole franchise is like garbage. I wouldn't bring my kid to see it, but I'll allow it. Any adult without a kid who goes into Shrek 5, I want it documented. And you immediately lose at least your right to vote, probably other constitutional rights as well. That's what I would like to say. It's probably not gonna happen. That's what I would like to see happen. And if that doesn't happen, at a minimum, you lose the right to ever again in your life complain about a lack of original in Hollywood. And yet people will do this. They'll go and buy a ticket to Shrek 5 and it'll make, you know, a billion dollars. And then those same people, the same people will say that Hollywood has run out of ideas, you know, and all they do is put out the same reheated slop over and over again. And this will be adults who go see this movie. The Shrek franchise is not for kids. Really. Like, my kids don't care about Shrek. Does anyone. If you're around my age and you have kids, does anyone. Kids like, do your kids actually care about Shrek? They couldn't care less about Shrek. The original Shrek came out like 25 years ago. It's for millennials. This is a bunch of now middle aged millennials who go and see this. Just soulless drek. Think about this for a moment. They've been making shrek films for 25 years. Okay, the first, I had to look it up. The first one came out in 2001, about 25 years, a quarter century of Shrek films. A quarter century of making Shrek movies. The first one was sort of mildly amusing for about 30 minutes. If you were alive and a child in the year 2001, that's the most we could say about the original Shrek. It was also obnoxious and the animation is quite hideous and it's lazily written and it's just not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination. But in the year 2001, specifically, if you were a child, it was kind of amusing. And yet from this original film, which at best, at the very best was sort of amusing, they've been able to launch a five film franchise that spans the entire century so far. And people will keep watching the movies, they'll keep paying for tickets, they'll just keep rewarding this sludge, this just empty, tedious tripe, and then complain about it. Why do we keep getting terrible, unimaginative films from Hollywood? They complain as they give their money to the people who are making exactly that kind of material. I don't get it. Then there's Zendaya, which I have to say, I just don't get. The Zendaya thing. Is it Zendaya or Zendaya? I don't know. And I'm not trying to be a hater. I mean, I am being a hater, but I don't try to be. It just kind of works out that way. And I honestly don't understand why this woman is in every movie now. She appears in like 19 movies a year and yet she is, I mean, she has to be the least interesting actress in Hollywood. Has she ever had an interesting role in anything? Like, what's a movie where you would say, oh man, that Zendaya performance was tremendous. Have you ever said to yourself, oh, Zendaya's in that one, I gotta see it. Has anyone said that? I get, I'm probably not the target demo for a Zendaya performance, but does anyone feel that way? She's either kind of a non entity or she actively makes the movies worse. The Dune films. I like Dune. You know, I think the director Villanueva, however you pronounce his name, is probably the best director working in Hollywood today. I think all of he has not made a bad movie. All of his movies have been good and there's not very many directors you can say that about. The one major problem with the Dune films is Zendaya, who just almost ruins it single handedly. She's just kind of this sulking, humorless lump on a log the whole movie. And she's very good at that. She's very good at sulking in movies. So if there's a role in a movie where you need someone to sulk, if you need some good sulking in a movie, then bring in Zendaya for that. She's the one. I don't get it. So the sentence Zendaya will star in Shrek 5 is to me, one of the least appealing combinations of words ever assembled in the human language, in the English language or the human any human language. Yet people will watch it. They'll watch it, and we'll get 10 more Shrek's. It'll be the year 2100, and we'll be on Shrek 65 at that point. All right, let's get to the comment section. Grand Canyon University is a private Christian university in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona believes that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. GCU believes in equal opportunity and that the American Dream starts with purpose. GCU equips you to serve others in ways that promotes human flourishing and creates a ripple effect of transformation for generations to come. By honoring your career, calling you impact your family, your friends and your community. Change the world for good by putting others before yourself to glorify God. Whether your pursuit involves a bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree, GCU's online, on campus and hybrid learning environments are designed to help you achieve your unique academic, personal and professional goals. With over 340 academic programs as of September 2024, GCU Meets yous where you are provides a path to help you fulfill your dreams. The pursuit to serve others is yours. Let it flourish. Find your purpose at Grand Canyon University. Private christian affordable visit gcu.edu Many Canadians know the truth. There were no masked unmarked graves. The Indian chiefs themselves debunked the initial reports. 2 the Indigenous Peoples of Canada requested the schools. They were not forced to send their children and many children withdrew after a basic public school level education ensuring basic literacy, math skills and general knowledge. Note there was some abuse in some schools, but that came later. The problem in Canada is that we have a long ingrained history of government funded news that was needed when technology was limited and expensive because of the vast geography of the country. However, in the last 50 years or so the reality has been exploited by the so called progressive liberals to control narratives. Most Canadians have not realized that these once trusted institutions have become propaganda instruments. Yeah, you know, I don't know much about the residential schools in Canada. I confess it's not A story. It's not a story in history that I've studied in any great depth. I do know we all know that the mass graves narrative was total, total bunk. So we know that. But I've read several comments like this saying that the whole, the whole story about. Because even now, even people who will admit that the mass graves, that was a false narrative and that there were no mass graves, most of them will still say that, yeah, okay, maybe there were no mass graves, but the residential schools were still an atrocity and they were a terrible thing. And it was, you know, it was indigenous, so called Indigenous children were ripped away from their families by force. And it was an awful thing. Most people seem to still think that. But I have read a few comments like yours saying, well, no, the whole narrative about residential schools is just wrong. And that would not surprise me to learn. I sort of suspected that the whole narrative itself is probably bunk or at the very least extremely incomplete. And at this point we should know this, we should know about basically any historical episode where there's a kind of an established mainstream narrative. It doesn't mean that the narrative is false. It doesn't mean that, but there's no reason to assume it at this point. There's no reason to assume that the established mainstream narrative about any historical episode is automatically true, especially when it's one that the left has used to guilt people, to manipulate and heap guilt on people, especially in those cases, which is why you do actually have to go and do your own research. And this is why I drone on about this kind of thing all the time when it comes to the story of the, quote, Indigenous peoples in the United States or what became the United States. And that whole narrative, which claims in the narrative that, that Europeans came here and it was just nothing but one atrocity inflicted, it was a one sided campaign of genocide against the natives that lasted for hundreds of years. That's the official mainstream narrative. And in that case, that is something I've studied quite extensively. And so I know, and I could only really discover this by taking the time to read about it on my own, but I know that that narrative is, is absolute nonsense. All right. As a Canadian, I'm ashamed that I live in this woke country. Glad everything is coming out in the light. Well, don't be ashamed of your country though. I mean, despise your political leaders, sure, but you're Canadian. You should love your country, be proud to be Canadian. I mean, I know I have a lot of fun at the expense of Canada, but I'm not Canadian. So, you know, you should be a patriot for your country. You should hold your leaders accountable and be critical of them and be critical of the aspects of your culture that are worth criticizing. And seems like there's a lot. But, no, you shouldn't be ashamed to be Canadian. This is your country. Which is also, you know, when I make fun of Canada, which, again, I admit that I do sometimes, and I get angry comments from Canadians. I don't begrudge them that. In fact, you should be angry. You should get kind of ticked off when someone like me is making fun of you. You should. You should be defensive about your own country. As a Lord of the Rings fan, I think we should stop. Matt is never going to change because I think he enjoys arguing with people who really love something with logic that works at F value. I think this because he does it in the same way as my father, whom I can argue with over an opinion that we share for literally hours. It never goes anywhere and we agree with each other. Well, I will admit I come from a long line of people who love to argue even though they agree. So that is. I don't know if it's an Irish Catholic thing or what, but it is. It may be shared by other cultures, but it's certainly an Irish Catholic thing. Matt, your list of fake tasks you performed at your job was hilarious. Well done. Nothing hilarious about it. I mean, this is serious stuff. If your boss asks you for a list of things that you did last week, you need to know how to use buzzwords. It's all about the buzzwords. In fact, I realize I left out. I think I left out a really important buzzword, which is comprehensive. So that's a good one. You want to make sure that you inform your management that you did stuff comprehensively. That's an impressive word. When they see the word comprehensive, they go, wow, his work is. I don't know what he's doing, but it's comprehensive. That's all I know. So one of the items on your list could be that you implemented comprehensive strategies for developing more productive client engagement. Implemented comprehensive strategies for developing more productive client engagement. What does that mean? That doesn't mean anything, but it sounds good. Another good term is identifying opportunities. That's a really good one. That's a great one. You need to know that one, because you can always say that you identified opportunities. Like, you don't need to have done anything with those opportunities. Because he didn't claim you did anything with the opportunity. You just said you identified it. And what does identifying mean. I mean, you can identify. You could just. I could sit here like this and identify stuff that's all internal. So I identified opportunities for greater cross departmental collaboration. I identified opportunities for greater cross departmental collaboration. That's a good one. That sounds. I mean, that'll get you a 50% raise just based on that alone. Or you could actually do real things in your job and then you don't have to come up with BS phrases like this. First we released Am I Racist? In theaters nationwide. It became the number one documentary of the decade. Then we dropped it exclusively on Dailywire, where it became the number one piece of content ever released on our platform. Maybe you saw it in theaters. Maybe you joined Daily Wire plus just to watch it. Hopefully you did both. But here's what you haven't done. Watched it with me, the director and the cast talking over the whole thing. Good news. Well, now you can do exactly that. The MI Races Commentary Edition is streaming exclusively on Daily Wire Plus. It's like we're all sitting on the couch right next to you without the awkward actual couch sharing part. You can go stream the Commentary edition of M. Racist right now on Daily Wire Plus. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. Well, this is a very simple and obvious cancellation. So obvious that there probably isn't much to say about it. But I have to cover it because it is easily the most cancelable thing anyone did yesterday. So today we're going to. We're going to cancel the Republicans of the House Judiciary Committee, or at least whoever runs their X account, after their response to the non release of the Epstein files on Thursday. Now, shortly after the influencers were given binders with what turned out to be a bunch of information, we already knew the official X account for the House Judiciary Committee, the House Judiciary GOP rather tweeted this breaking Epstein Files released. And then there was a link to the files. Except that if you click the link to the files, you discover that it was not the files at all, but Rather Rick Astley's 1987 song Never Gonna Give youe Up. Yes, this was a Rick Roll. The Republicans of the House Judiciary Committee apparently decided to use the occasion of the Epstein files release or alleged release to pull a Rick Roll prank on the public. Now, as you know, I am a big supporter and proponent of trolling. There are few people in public life who enjoy trolling more than me. It is one of my great passions and one of my skills. It probably is my only skill. And I also am not above a good Rickroll. As a general Rule Rickrolling is. Is. Is now such an old joke and has been done so many times that it's funny again. So Rick rolling went from very funny when it first began to not funny anymore because it had been done too many times. And it was. And it was. It was not funny for like a good 10 years. But recently it's funny again because now it's been done so many times that it's. That it's once again funny. That's the way it goes. So my point is that I have nothing in principle against trolling and against Rickrolling. Quite the opposite. But the Epstein files are not a time for that, especially not from government officials. We should remember that. You know, when we talk about the Epstein files, we are talking about records of the systematic rape and abuse of minors. I mean, that's what the Epstein files are if we ever actually see them. So the people running this account, you know, to include perhaps some elected Republicans, thought that files related to child abuse presented a great opportunity for a fun, lighthearted prank. And it went over about as well as you would expect. I mean, if you're not on X and you didn't see the backlash, just imagine in your mind how you think most people would respond where an official government social media account makes a joke about the mass rape of minors. Like, exactly what you're imagining is what happened. And the tweet was eventually deleted, though nobody has been held accountable, nobody has apologized for it, and we haven't been told who was responsible for that tweet. Now, as I said, it's very obvious, obvious to everyone except people running this account, apparently, that trolling the American people over the Epstein files is wildly inappropriate. It is a truly stunning display of poor judgment. That much is very clear. I don't think I need to explain that point any further. The American people want to actually see the files. We deserve to see them. The victims and their families most of all deserve for this information to be out there and for Epstein's pervert pals to be exposed and held accountable. We don't deserve to be trolled over this. I love trolling, but I also believe in trolling only those who deserve to be trolled. And the people demanding to see the Epstein files don't deserve to be trolled for that. I mean, that's very clear. But I wanna make a broader point because to me, this story is part of a larger trend, and I don't mean a larger trend of government officials Rickrolling the public. It's not about Rickrolling Specifically, I'm talking about politicians, politicians who use ghetto slang. You know, lawmakers challenging their colleagues to step outside during committee hearings, which happened recently. Political candidates posting thirst trap photos and on and on and on. It's the larger trend of just a general lack of seriousness by our political leaders. We need seriousness from the people running our country. We need you to be serious people. Now, Trump himself is a unique case. Trolling and joking has been his style from the very beginning. It's part of what makes him effective. But all the rest of these people, the rest of our government officials, elected and unelected, they're not Trump, and they should not try to act like Trump. Let Trump be Trump. But we won't let the rest of you be Trump because you're not Trump. And in fact, even Trump is far more serious and far less jokey this time around, for good reason. Trolling the media is fun, but we have more important things to do, and Trump is trying to do them. As for the rest of these people, we want seriousness of purpose, dignity, class. Thirty years ago, the House Judiciary GOP would have never posted a Rick Roll on X. Not just because Rick Rolling didn't exist and X didn't exist, but because it's an extremely stupid and childish thing to do. And for most of American history, we really didn't have stupid and childish people in leadership positions in this country. Now, sure, we've had bad people in leadership many times. We've had corrupt and incompetent people. But stupid and childish is kind of a new flavor for our political leaders. It's only in recent years that a person like, say, Jasmine Crockett could hope to be elected to national office. She's obviously not a member of the House Judiciary gop, but she's a perfect example of this problem. She's a ridiculous, dumb, unserious person. And there are far too many of those people in leadership positions in this country. So here's the message to our political class. We don't need you to entertain us. We don't need or want theatrics. Leave the jokes to people who are actually funny and who don't have more important jobs to do. We want you to be serious. We want you to be boring. Okay? We want you to focus on the job we've elected you to do. And that job is not to be an influencer or an actor or a comedian. And that is why the House Judiciary Committee, GOP, and all other unserious politicians are all today canceled. That'll do it for the show Day and this week. Have a great weekend. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.
