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Matt Walsh
These are questions that take cultures thousands of years to answer. During Answer the Call, I take questions from people just like you about their problems, opportunities, challenges or when they simply need advice. How do I balance all of this grief, responsibility? How do you repair this kind of damage? My daughter Michaela guides the conversations as we hopefully help people navigate their lives. Everyone has their own destiny. Everyone. Today. MATT WALL SHOW the Somali community in Minnesota rallies around a man who abducted and abused a child. They told the judge to go easy on him because he's still getting accustomed to our culture. So what does that say about Somali culture? Also, several more states have now banned junk food from the food stamp program. We'll talk about that. And also the rise of so called EBT influencers on Tick Tock, which is as horrible as it sounds. 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Then several Somali politicians in the US including Ilhan Omar, announced that they're working on behalf of Somali interests, not America's. Then a Somali man in a playground in Minnesota harassed a woman named Shiloh hendricks and her 18 month old child, prompting the woman to drop the N bomb heard around the world. Then to cap it all off, the Democrat Party endorsed a Somali socialist to be the next mayor of Minneapolis. And at the moment, he appears to be probably the frontrunner. So it's safe to say that three decades after the US government determined that Somalis deserve temporary protected status in this country as refugees from their own dysfunctional governance, a temporary status that has never been revoked, Somalis are dominating our news cycle and some of our major elections as well. And yet, for all the ways that Somalis have found their way into our national discourse in recent months, there's one fundamental question that has remained unanswered. What exactly are all these Somalis doing in the country? What value do they add? What's their goal? We're told that if we draw any general conclusions about Somalis, Somali culture based on the observable behavior of Somalis, then we're bigots. We're not allowed to inquire into their motives in any way. But despite all the deflection, no one has ever explained in any affirmative way what Somalis actually care about. What's their culture all about? This culture that we're importing into this country en masse, what core principle would they defend in large numbers if it ever came under attack? We know based on the candidates they elect that Somalis wouldn't defend the constitution or the freedom of speech or freedom of association. So what's their motivation? Aside from draining the US treasury, what single issue really matters to them? Regardless of how often I've asked this question, directly or indirectly, I've never received a response. But suddenly and somewhat unexpectedly, that's all changed now, thanks to a court case in Minnesota involving a Somali man named Kalino Ibrahim Deary. Now the mystery is over. Yes, as part of this criminal proceeding, the Somali community in the state of Minnesota has just revealed what they're truly passionate about. And their answer, in rather unambiguous terms, is that they're passionate, apparently about the right of men to sexually abuse and torment other people's children. This is the culture they're defending. This is what they're Willing to excuse, and there's no debating this. They went to court and made their voices very clear. Now, let's start with the specifics of this case. Local news in Minnesota won't really talk about it for obvious reasons. So instead of playing a clip, I'll summarize the background myself. 42 year old Kalino was, was born in Somalia, spent several years in refugee camps in Kenya. He arrived in the United States in 2006. He worked as a driver for Uber and Lyft most of the time. In 2024, Kalino was in Minneapolis when he noticed that a 12 year old girl was playing in her backyard alone. So he parked his Toyota in an alley outside and asked if the girl's mother was at home. She said no. Short time later, the man put his hand over the girl's mouth, hit her head to the point that she became dizzy and disoriented, drove her a short distance away and sexually assaulted her in a manner that is too graphic to describe on this show. Five days later, the child told a school counselor about the attack. The next month, as police investigated, the girl's parents discovered that the man was still calling their daughter and sending her text messages. He was saying things like, quote, hey beautiful, I miss you. When can I see you again? The parents pretended to be. To be, to be their daughters to, to lure the man back. And when he arrived at the home, they held him there until police arrived. Once arrested, the man didn't display any form of contration. He claimed that he thought the girl was 19 years old, which apparently would make it okay to abduct her. He criticized the mother. He continued to fight the charges until he was convicted of first degree criminal sexual misconduct in, in May of this year. Now, based on this series of events, which again, is as sanitized as I can make it for the purposes of this show, but based on all this, any community or culture with decency or morality would make it very clear that Kalino does not represent them. They wouldn't make excuses for him. They certainly wouldn't minimize what he had done. Instead, they would recognize his behavior as unspeakably evil. And if they said anything to him at all, they'd urge him to repent for the acts of horror that he committed rather than, you know, continue to dodge accountability as he's been doing. But that is not how the Somali community community in Minneapolis has responded to this case. Instead, as Alpha News first reported, the Al Hasan Islamic center in St. Paul submitted a community letter of support for this man addressed to the judge in the case. Now, I'm going to read directly from this letter because it answers any and all questions you might have about Somali culture and the Somali community in the United States. So this is them speaking for themselves. Here's what they wrote. Quote. We, the undersigned, members of the Somali community, write this letter to express our strong and heartfelt support for Kalino Diri, a member of our community. Many of us first met Kalino through our shared journey as Somali refugees arriving in this country with little more than hope and determination to rebuild our lives. Like so many of us, Kalinel has faced the challenge of starting over in a new culture, learning English, adjusting to a fast paced system and and raising children in an environment far different from the one he grew up in. Before the situation, Kalindal was known as a devoted family man and an outgoing person. Despite the financial pressures of life in the U.S. kalino also still managed to support needy family members back in Somalia. The situation Kalinel is currently facing comes as a deep shock to all of us. Now this is a letter that you might write if this guy had, say, lost his license because he got too many speeding tickets or something, or if he got picked up by the IRS because he didn't file his taxes on time. It is not to any sane person an appropriate letter to write when Colinl was just convicted for hitting a 12 year old girl in the head, abducting her, sexually assaulting her, and then texting her to see when he could do it again. In no universe should an unrepentant rapist receive the strong and heartfelt support of anyone, much less an entire community of people, much less a community of people that we have invited into our home, into our country. Nor should this community of people repeatedly refer to this brutal sexual assault as a situation, which is probably the single most dismissive word they could have chosen. And on top of that, they shouldn't brag that he's funneling money out of the US economy and sending it back to Somalia. But the most revealing part of the letter is when Somalis that wrote this letter explained that Colonel quote has faced the challenge of starting over in a new culture. Well, that's about as explicit as it gets, apparently, in Somali culture, at least according to the people who wrote this letter. This is what they're implying. When a young girl is alone and defenseless in her backyard, you can sexually assault her as much as you want. And indeed, the statistics bear that out. Somalia ranks as the top country in the world for sexual violence against children among other abuses. And that's what they're very clearly implying here. Therefore, according to this letter, we should have some sympathy for this poor guy. After all, he's just having trouble getting used to our peculiar little customs in the United States. It's apparently very difficult to adjust to this whole thing where we don't sexually assault children. You know, just like it's tough to learn, say, the rules of baseball or, or tipping etiquette when you go out to eat. It's just like that. And that's the position of this Islamic center in St. Paul. He's adjusting to our culture and having some growing pains when it comes to the whole, you know, not sexually abusing children thing. Never mind the fact that at the time of this attack, Lynnel had lived in the United States for nearly two decades, so he had quite a bit of time to get used to our laws and quote customs. And more importantly, you're supposed to ignore the fact that regardless of where you were raised, you should know at an instinctual level that it's one of the most profound evils imaginable to assault a child. It doesn't require education to know this. It doesn't require customs, doesn't require anything but a shred of conscience. It requires having the moral awareness of a human being instead of, say, a lizard. With this letter, the Somali community in Minnesota is acknowledging that by their own words, they don't have that level of moral awareness, which means, quite simply, that they don't have any business being in this country. They should be deported, and their temporary protected status, which has gone on for 34 years, should be immediately rescinded. Now, if it's true that abusing children is a part of the culture, then as they're implying and as the statistics really do bear out, then this culture should not be permitted to enter the US under any circumstance. Now, to be clear, I'm not cherry picking one letter here. The Al Hassan Islamic center in St. Paul sent this letter to the judge on behalf of the Somali community. But they weren't the only ones to voice their support for this unapologetic predator. I went looking through the docket on this case, and I found that many of this guy's family and close associates wrote letters to the judge as well. And they all said the same thing. Here's how prosecutors summarize those letters in their sentencing memo to the judge. Quote, finally, defendant's family and friends do not acknowledge his actions, the impact they had on the victim, or recognize his wrongdoing. The statements show that either Defendant has not told them what he is convicted of or that they are dismissive of his crime. Family members are focused on the impact that this has had on him and his family. None of them acknowledge the victim and her family. While they cite that he's a person of good character, it is more likely that this offense is a side of him they did not know about, nor do they want to know about. But quite simply, sexual assault on a child is not something a person of good character does. There's the understatement of the century. The victim's mother also stated that she and her family have been receiving death threats within the Somali community because of this case. Yes, members of the Somali community are currently threatening to murder the victim's mother. That's how they're responding to the fact that this woman's daughter was brutally attacked and sexually assaulted by a member of their community. They're responding by threatening to kill the victim's mom. They're continuing to terrorize the family as a community. And by the way, at trial, Colonel made it clear that he blames the victim's mother for what happened. Certainly doesn't blame himself. And that might seem insane to you or to me or to any civilized person, but not to this wonderful community, it would seem. Now, you could tell in that paragraph I just read that the prosecutor is trying to search for some plausible reason why all of the Somalis involved in this case are defending this man. Like to a man they are all defending him. And he says that, well, maybe the family didn't know that side of him. This is the kind of line that if you're a prosecutor in Minnesota, you have to include in your argument. Even in the face of overwhelming evidence that Somalis have no business in the country. In this country, prosecutors still have to pretend that we're dealing with one or two bad apples who can be reformed. Even when the entire Somali community rushes to defend this scumbag and attacks the victim's family. That's the fiction that apparently needs to be maintained. In the end, the Somalis got what they wanted. They and that shouldn't be surprising since they effectively control the government of Minnesota at this point. The judge, Michael Burns, handed out a sentence of just 12 years in this case, with release from prison after 10 years and the rest, served on probation, was going to do 10 years in prison for abducting and sexually assaulting a child out of her parents backyard. 10 years. This is a sentence that without any doubt whatsoever, should have been life imprisonment at a minimum, assuming the sharks and the firing squad weren't available. But that won't happen because of Minnesota's laws, which are extremely permissive when it comes to child abuse. Colino will be out on the streets in just a few years. Again, this is nothing new in Minneapolis or the UK where Somali rape gangs are particularly active. They don't often report on cases like this in a local news, but they're increasingly common. Here's another case from an apartment complex in Minneapolis a few years ago. To give you some idea of how these stories are covered, if the media touches them at all, watch this. We begin this evening with a disturbing.
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Brooke Rollins
Story about a 10 year old girl.
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Matt Walsh
Who was sexually assaulted by a stranger. Minneapolis police say it happened Sunday evening in the hallway of an apartment building in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood.
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Jim Acosta
Police arrested 34 year old Ahmed Hirsi.
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Matt Walsh
Abdi less than 24 hours later. As Angela Davis shows, US court records show he has a history of mental illness.
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Angela Davis
I don't know, maybe some sick person did this, but I couldn't believe it.
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Kees Shamis Kabdi Bile
A criminal complaint states that neighbors heard screams on the third floor hallway. When they found a young girl crying, they ran to get help from two off duty Minneapolis police officers. The victim told police that a man later identified as Ahmed Abdi followed her in and out of an elevator and as she walked down a hallway, he asked for her name. The complaint states he then extended his hand to her. When she shook his hand, he refused to let go.
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Matt Walsh
Now they don't tell you where Ahmed Hirsi Abdi came from. They don't tell you if he's legally in this country or who allowed him to enter. Instead, they refer to him as a stranger. They tell us he's mentally ill. And then they spend the rest of the segment talking about various resources for sexual assault survivors. But the one resource they don't talk about, even though it would drastically cut down cases like this, is the resource known as mass deportation. And that's clearly necessary at this point because we're not dealing with again with one or two bad actors. This is an endemic problem in the culture. Seven years ago, a region in Somalia established a new lab to investigate sexual assaults. And I'm going to play this for you and see if you if you notice anything in this report.
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Unnamed Reporter
Somalia has opened its first forensic laboratory to investigate rape cases. The lab, with support from the Swedish government and the UN Population Fund, brings cutting edge technology to a part of the world still lacking paved roads and reliable electricity.
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Matt Walsh
We used to send DNA from here to Nairobi or from here to South Africa. So those restraints now are easy. We can manage this and get answers within timely period, within hours, within minutes, where we used to have days, sometimes months, to get to receive those.
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Unnamed Reporter
The lab opens less than a year after the Putlamy region passed its first law criminalizing sexual offenses.
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Angela Davis
There are some police officers who say rape is not a big deal and consider it a minor thing. They say it is nothing new.
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Unnamed Reporter
Kees Shamis Kabdi Bile is the only police officer in her unit. She handles all cases involving sexual violence in Puntland. Officer Bile says many of her rape cases are handled by community elders. The perpetrator's family may be ordered to pay the victim's family in camels or goats. And that is just the cases that women report.
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Matt Walsh
So as of 2017, Somalia had just gotten around to criminalizing sexual assault. And then, with much fanfare, they open a sexual assault forensic center. And the victims, if they're compensated at all, will be rewarded with camels or goats. That's an actual news report from Somalia. Now you have to ask this question. Do people in this country realize that Somali culture, is this backwards? Was there ever a vote on allowing this into our country? Was there. Was there ever any kind of national conversation whatsoever about this? Or did we just decide to grant these foreigners temporary protected status 34 years ago and let them flood into the country by hundreds of thousands with no checks and no conversation whatsoever about it? Put simply, we cannot be surprised when we import massive numbers of people from a third world hellhole and then they go on to commit horrible crimes. This kind of behavior is part of the culture. They have said that themselves and it always has been. That doesn't mean that every Somali commits these crimes or wants to, but it means that the risk is unacceptably high for people that we are welcoming into our home. And given this very obvious fact, it's time for someone in power to answer this fundamental question. Why would we ever let anyone from a culture like this into our country in any capacity, under any circumstance? Here's another way of phrasing the question. How does it benefit the United States of America to allow this culture into our country? Explain to me what the benefit is to this country, ours. And now that we made this mistake and allowed them to live here, when are we going to rectify this situation? For that matter, why are we allowing anyone to live here of any ethnicity or nationality who rejects every foundational principle this country stands for? It's not just Somali. Somalis who openly denounce America's interests, morality, customs, just the other day, Illinois congresswoman is a member of Congress. Dalia Ramirez went to Mexico City to announce, quote, I'm a proud Guatemalan before I'm an American. Now, this is in Spanish, but we'll play the clip. Here it is. Dalia Ramirez, you should know, is the daughter of illegal aliens from Guatemala. She was reportedly born in Chicago, which supposedly grants her citizenship for some reason. She's a walking example of why this administration should continue the fight to end birthright citizenship. And she's a reminder, as we've discussed, that not everyone in this country is an American, even the ones with legal status, because you have ones with legal stat. I'm a Guatemalan before I'm an American. How. How much clearer can they possibly be? All cultures are created equal is what we're told. But it's one of the many great lies of modern times. Many of our problems in the west are born from this lie. A lot of people have pretended otherwise over the years. They've invented various justifications for allowing these people to destroy entire cities in this country. But now that Somalis have finally told the truth about their culture to a judge in Minneapolis, and now that members of Congress are admitting their disloyalty to an audiences in Mexico City, there simply isn't anything to debate anymore. All we have to do is read their words, listen to them, pay attention to their actions, and respond accordingly. Now, let's get to our five headlines. Now, if your idea of gut health is eating a handful of Tums after every meal and hoping for the best, it might be time to level up. Enter peaks. Pu' erh tea. Yes, it's fermented tea. No, it doesn't taste like compost. I was skeptical too, but here's the thing. It actually works. I recently tried their black pu air. No jitters, no crash, just clean, calm energy that doesn't make you feel like you're on a caffeine bender. 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Again, that's peaklife.com Walsh Go there now, your gut will thank you. Probably your brain too. Newsweek reports six more states have banned junk food purchases from being bought with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The this was announced by the Department of Agriculture. West Virginia, Florida, Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas have all had new waivers approved that allow each state to modify what can and can't be bought using food benefits. Across all these states, the change will impact approximately 8.5 million people. So and then that means that the number of states that ban junk food purchases has now risen to 12 following similar waivers in Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska and Utah. So here's Brooke Rollins, Agriculture Secretary, talking about this. Listen.
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Brooke Rollins
Since my confirmation, our department has encouraged states to think differently and creatively about how to solve the many health issues facing Americans. One way is by not allowing taxpayer funded benefits to be used to purchase unhealthy items like soda, candy and other junk food. The number one purchase by SNAP recipients is sugary drinks. SNAP is a supplemental nutrition program meant to provide health food benefits to low income families to supplement their grocery budget so they can afford the nutritious food essential to health and well being. That is the stated purpose of the SNAP program. The law states it and President Trump's USDA plans to deliver on it alongside our partners at hhs. So today I'm proud to sign six more waivers for Florida, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana and Colorado. This is in addition to the waivers we've already signed for Iowa, Indiana and others across the country. I continue to encourage states to be laboratories of innovation. Think through how you can promote healthy families and healthy communities. And because of our historic partnership USDA and HHS and the visionary leadership of the governors here with us today, and of the states represented by the state signings, we are doing something about it now.
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Matt Walsh
This is the right move. Obviously it's the right move. The fact that only 12 states have done this is madness. I mean, the only question, the only controversy that should come from this is that only 12 states, only 12 states have banned junk food purchases from the SNAP program. Why, why would this ever be a lot? Why Would we ever do anything else? Why would we ever allow. Why does any state, why has any state ever allowed people to use tax money to buy potato chips and candy? What, what is the reason for that? And we've talked about this many times. I've never been, no one's ever exp. There are plenty of people who object to these, to these kinds of waivers, these changes being made, these very minimal reforms to the system. Lots of people, the left, leftists generally object to it. I've never heard why. Like why exactly should I as a taxpayer be forced to buy donuts for somebody? Just tell me why. Donuts and candy. Why should that. But they can't, they can't explain it. There's no reason. And you know, Rollins talks a lot about health and nutrition for the SNAP recipients as a reason for this change. RFK Jr. Was at the press conference also. He talked about that too. And they're right. I mean, if we're going to be providing tax funded meals to people, the meals should be healthy. We should not be subsidizing obesity and diabetes. So all of that is true. But the primary reason why it's a good move to ban junk food from SNAP is not for the sake of SNAP recipients. That's not the primary reason. It's for the sake of the taxpayers. You know, the health of the SNAP recipient, the food stamp user. Their health is secondary. That is a secondary issue. First and foremost, what matters is that, is that we need to end the moral outrage of forcing American taxpayers to buy cookies and soda for other grown adults who don't feel like spending their own money on it. It's just grotesque and wrong. And, and to me, that's the main point. So even I get why politically it's framed this way. It's framed as well. We're looking out for their health. I understand that. And I, and I said, as I said, it's not that, that's not, to me, that's the second issue. But the real reason and how I wish we would frame this is, this is a moral outrage. It's not fair to all the productive members of society that they're being forced to buy stuff that has no nutritional value whatsoever. It is, it is, it's, it's grotesque. It's gratuitous. It's just wrong. It's morally wrong. Especially when you see, when you see these people and how they use the benefits which you can easily see these days. Because in the year 2025, if you weren't aware of this, I'm sorry, to report. But EBT influencers are a thing, okay? Influencers who. Their whole, their whole gig is that they show off their food stamps and they show off all the things they buy with food stamps. That's a, that's a, that's a thing now on Tick Tock. People showing off their EBT hauls. And it's as horrifying as you might imagine. So here's just one example. Look at this.
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Angela Davis
Welsh juices. Got two cases of these, A box of Sam's brand chips. They got these chips. Cinnamon Toe crunch, Ballpark hot dogs, some teriyaki. Teriyaki noodles, some kind of a pack of ground beef. Pancakes on the sticks. Seasoning salt, pickles powder, donuts.
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Brooke Rollins
Fruit of.
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Angela Davis
Pebbles, the teriyaka noodles. I eat those. These are the base.
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Matt Walsh
So that's only 90 seconds. The video is like four or five minutes long. And it's all like that. I mean, I got hypertension just from watching it. I died of a heart attack watching. I died of a heart attack, came back to life and then got diabetes and died again, then came back to life again, all while we were watching them. A lot happened, A lot happened when that video was playing. It is. It, it really does. It's nauseating. I actually felt sick watching that. And it's insane. Nothing but processed junk food. Nothing. No real food. And as I said, this goes on for four or five minutes. This woman is showing off all the stuff she bought. She bought, she bought a truckload of stuff with EBT with their EBT card. And none of it is food. No fresh fruit, no vegetables at all. No fresh fruit or vegetables. One source of real protein, which is the pack of ground beef. And it looks like she has about 14 kids and she's got like 2 pounds of ground beef for the whole family. And so that, that, that, that's like, that's not enough. That's. That's half a meal. That's half a meal for each of them. And they probably won't even eat it. I mean, that ground beef is going to spoil in the fridge while they pig out on junk food all week. Now, you could guarantee that, like the oven in that person's home has probably never been used. It's a brand, it's brand new. Brand new oven. She might as go. Might as well go sell it on Facebook, Marketplace or Craigslist, you know, so she can buy some more junk food if she hasn't already. No way the oven is ever used. Stove probably never used. Okay. They're not cooking anything. Nothing's Getting cooked, only buying stuff that can be bought in bags. If it get. If you can open it in a bag and eat it right away or maybe a can. That's the only thing they're eating in that house. And it's. It's revolting. Fruity pebbles, powdered donuts. 10 different varieties of chips. The program is called supplemental nutrition, but there is no nutrition to speak of at all. Again, no food, no actual food. I don't know how. It's. The fact that anyone can actually live this way and survive and not starve to death from a lack of actual nutrition is kind of amazing. But clearly they're not starving, because meanwhile, the woman herself. I'm not saying this to be mean to the woman, but objectively, medically speaking, she's easily 200 pounds overweight. So this is not somebody who's starving. The kids aren't starving either. You can tell. These are. These kids are well fed. Well, not well fed, but they're. They're amply felt, the fed. Okay, they are amply fed, but not well fed. So why are we doing this? This is another one of those questions that I would love for someone in a position of power, some politician, especially one who supports this. Why are we doing this? What does this benefit? Who does this benefit? Who does it benefit? Why are we spending billions of dollars to buy powdered donuts for obese people? Explain. Who benefits from this? They don't benefit, that's for sure. And, and again, I'm not saying that because I'm concerned about their health. I mean, I'm a little bit concerned about their health. The real victims of this system are the contributing members of the country, the working Americans, the people who are earning a living and being forced to subsidize this and who have been told for years have been shamed, morally, emotionally blackmailed into, you know, into just accepting this and tolerating it. Not complaining because you're told that. That you're not allowed to even be upset about this. Your money is being just shamelessly wasted and being given to people who didn't earn it, don't deserve it. That's the other question. That woman in the. That's doing the tik tok. Why does she deserve. Here, here's a. Here's a provocative question. Why does she deserve any help? Why does she deserve any help from the taxpayers? You're coming to me as a taxpayer and saying I have to help her. Okay, why? I'm not against helping people. I help people all the time. I help people all the time, people my life, friends, family, people that I don't know, Charities, very selective about that because a lot of charities are scams. But. So I'm not at all against helping people. I want to help people. Helping people feels good. But you're coming to me and saying I have to help her. Why? Does she deserve that? Does she deserve help? Has she demonstrated at all that she's responsible, that she's going to take the help that we're providing her generously and be responsible with it? Does she have any gratitude at all whatsoever for the help that she's receiving? Is she making any effort whatsoever in her life at all to take that help and to better her life, better her situation? Is any of that happening? Or is this someone who is arrogantly and with no gratitude, like a spoiled child taking from us, with no thanks, no gratitude, and with no plans of. Of bettering her situation and without even trying? Or is. Is that decision. Is it that latter situation? Because I think it's probably the latter. I think there's a lot of the latter going on. And we're expected to just accept that it's mean for us. It's. It's lat. We're lacking in compassion now, because in my personal life, again, I'm more than happy to help people. But if I help you and you spit in my face and then tell me that, and then demand more and tell me that I owe it to you somehow, well, that's be the last time I ever help you. That's it. I'm never helping you again with that kind of attitude. Or if I help you, and it's clear that you're taking the help and you're using it to actually make your situation worse, then I'm also not going to help you because it's not. Because the help is not helping you. And so that's how we all operate, I think, in our. In our daily lives. And yet with these entitlement programs, these welfare schemes, we're told that, you know, we. We doesn't operate that way. And it's just crazy. The fact that there is no. There are no real requirements, there's no accountability at all is nuts to me. And here you are slaving away to put food on your family's table, and yet your paycheck is pilfered so the government can buy lucky charms for obese people who refuse to get jobs. That's what's happening, okay? That is what's happening. Billions of dollars being wasted this way. And let's just be Real about it. You have every right to be furious when you see stuff like that. You should be. And by the way, you should be angry not only at the system, but, yeah, at. At the. At that person individually, like has accountability. Let's stop treating people like they're not. Like they're not human, okay? These are human beings. Let's. Let's have a little accountability. You're being irresponsible. It is unacceptable. You're doing this with my money and yeah, I'm mad at the system. I'm mad at you too, actually. You individually, personally. And I'm just. I'm sick of it. We should all be sick of it. All right. New York Post reports a Texas cop vowed to give everyone a ticket after she didn't get laid the night before. According to a since deleted viral tik tok, the Post showed uniform Harris County Constable, Precinct 5 Deputy Jennifer Escalera writing on a notepad with the caption didn't get cracked last night. So everyone's getting a ticket. Okay, so that's what's going on there. Very lovely stuff as always. Here's a local report about this. Listen.
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Unnamed Reporter
In the video, you can see the deputy taking some notes joining in on the tick tock trend and blurring out certain parts of her uniform. But she leaves her name visible to see. We saw other videos on her account where she's in uniform, uniform doing some tick tock trends. Her account has since deleted. And we spoke to some people here in the Precinct 5 area who tells us she's free to do whatever she wants on her personal time, but when she's representing the company and representing the law enforcement agency that she works for, she has to be more cautious.
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Jim Acosta
I think it's real inappropriate and disrespectful.
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Matt Walsh
This is very unprofessional. You know what I'm saying? Like, this shouldn't be doing nothing like that. It's unprofessional. You know, I've already given my speech about female cops. I've given it in the past week anyway. So I only need to give it once a week. I. We may improve. We. We may move to two times a week if the situation doesn't improve. But I won't harp on that angle for now. I will say this woman has been doing tick tocks in uniform for a while, apparently. Why was that ever allowed? Why wasn't that shut down immediately? Why. And you see this, that. You see other tiktoks that sometimes cops like, why are we. Why is it ever okay for a Cop to do a tik tok in uniform. Why are we ever accepting that? Why is that not shut down the second it happens? And even now they're going to investigate this situation. But this, this ridiculous woman is not going to lose her job. She'll stay on the job, on patrol, making tik toks, showing up to the scene of the crime only to be totally useless and a major liability. You know, that's what's going to happen. And I think. And so there's a theme here emerging, as there often is in this show, that we need to greatly, greatly raise our standards. Okay, this is a general comment about just everything, everywhere in life, in all walks of life, in every capacity we need to write. And this is not just the point about di. I mean, it applies to that, too. DEI shouldn't exist. But even aside from that, or beyond it, rather, one of the things we're dealing with in our society I think, right now is that our standards, our standards in every facet, really, and corner of life have just plummeted. And we put up with so much nonsense that. And no one's ever punished for it or held accountable or fired. And I don't just mean with the police or in government jobs, although it's particularly bad in government jobs often, but everywhere in general. And I know I'm not the only one who's noticed this quality of everything has declined. Customer service everywhere is terrible. I think part of the reason that this happens is that we've just sort of stopped holding people accountable for anything or holding them to any sort of standard. I mean, do people get fired anymore? Is that. Is that a thing now? I know layoffs. I know people get laid off, which is tragic. We know. We know lots of people get laid off all the time. Layoffs are real and a sad thing. Clearly, people lose jobs. But do people get fired? Like, you get called into your boss's office and told that you're losing your job specifically because you're bad at it. That's why you're losing. They're not eliminating the position. It's not that they're getting rid of 25 of the workforce and you're one of the casualties. It's just you're getting fired all by yourself because you're just bad at doing your job. This is an indictment on you and the job that you are doing, and you are getting fired and you're getting replaced by somebody else. Is that a thing? I assume it is, but based on circumstantial evidence, it seems like it isn't. Because everywhere you go you find these people are just obnoxiously terrible at their jobs and you're thinking how are they not fired? How. How is this possible? How do you have a cop that's doing tiktoks on the job and has been doing this for a while and just hasn't got. Isn't that an easy call? Like you're fired. We don't need you here. You're clearly, you're fired. This is. We don't have to even think about. This is very easy, easy call. Or you go to. Into any store and you deal with some of the customer service and they just, they total disdain, dripping, dripping disdain for the customers and you think again, isn't this an easy call to fire this person? Not even anything personal. I wish them the best. Really. I hope that they. This could be a good wake up call and then they improve and go get a better job in the future. But clearly you should be fired from this job. You're really, really bad at it and you make everyone else uncomfortable and you're doing the opposite of what you should be doing, which is making your customers feel welcome and making them feel like they want to come back. You're doing the opposite of that. You're a negative. You're a net negative on. So how are you still here? How have you not. Why are you not immediately fired? Why is this not a decision that's made in 15 seconds and you're gone and. But it doesn't seem to be happening. Of course the more likely scenario is people do get fired all the time, but just the. The overall quality has diminished to such an extent that they're always replaced by people who also are terrible. So that's probably what's happening. Very cheerful situation. 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So you're not just watching, you're part of the conversation. We built this because no one else would. Now it's yours too. Go to dailywire.com and become a member today. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. After Elon Musk bought Twitter and ended some of the large scale censorship that there was that existed in social media, there was a mass exodus among left wingers to a copycat social media platform called Blue Sky. The sales pitch was pretty straightforward. Anyone who voiced a remotely conservative position would be banned on Blue sky, creating an echo chamber. Of course, this is an appealing proposition to leftists because most of their ideas wouldn't survive for five seconds outside of an echo chamber. So they went over to Blue sky and spent the last few years affirming all their insane ideas with no pushback. The result has been exactly what you'd expect. They're constantly one upping their own derangement to the point that Blue sky now resembles an asylum. There is no idea, no matter how bad it may be, that's too unhinged for these people. If you ran a poll, you'd find 100% support on Blue sky for executing every billionaire, bringing back mask mandates, forcing Sydney Sweeney to wear a burqa. You'd also find unanimous enthusiasm for child abuse. Stephen Colbert Ceding California to the Aztecs all this is to say, for the past several years, there hasn't been a single issue, not a single one, where the average conservative voter would fight any point of agreement with the average leftist on Blue Sky. And it was impossible to imagine a scenario where that might change as Blue sky drifted further and further off the reservation and into leftist oblivion. And yet, contrary to all expectations, and indeed even you would say the laws of physics, one man has just done the impossible. He has managed somehow to bring this great and seemingly insurmountable divide and to bridge it. And that man, suitably enough, is not a mere mortal like you or me. Instead, the heroic unifier is a former daytime CNN anchor and White House correspondent by the name of Jim Acosta. Now, back when Acosta was on the air, many observers doubted his intelligence, his morality, his capacity to accomplish anything notable whatsoever in his entire life, and so on. But yesterday, all those observers fell silent. That's because Jim Acosta posted this message on both X and Blue sky quote a show you don't want to miss. At 4pm Eastern, I'll be having a one of a kind interview with Joaquin Oliver. He died in the Parkland school shooting in 2018, but his parents have created an AI version of their son to deliver a powerful message on gun violence. And then beneath the message, Jim Acosta posted this excerpt from the interview apparently has a kind of teaser watch.
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Jim Acosta
I would like to know what your solution would be for gun violence.
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Joaquin Oliver (AI)
Great question. I believe in a mix of stronger gun control laws, mental health support, and community engagement. We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections, making sure everyone feels seen and heard. It's about building a culture of kindness and understanding. What do you think about that?
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Jim Acosta
I think that's a great idea, Joaquin.
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Matt Walsh
Now Acosta later posted a link to the full interview with this AI chatbot and we'll play a little bit of that. Notice that the AI constantly finishes its robotic answers with a question for Jim Acosta to keep the conversation going. Exactly like chatgpt or GROK do. It's as stilted as it could possibly be. And then at the end, Acosta announces that it's exactly like talking to a human being.
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Jim Acosta
Guac, I want to know what your favorite basketball team is.
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Joaquin Oliver (AI)
I'd probably go with the Miami Heat. They have such a passionate fan base and an exciting playing style. How about you? Do you have a favorite basketball player?
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Jim Acosta
Oh yeah, I definitely like LeBron James. He's amazing.
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Joaquin Oliver (AI)
LeBron is incredible his skills on the court and his leadership off it are truly inspiring. He's made such a huge impact in the game and beyond.
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Jim Acosta
Definitely.
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Matt Walsh
Whenever.
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Jim Acosta
Whenever LeBron is playing, I always have to watch him. Hey, Joaquin, what about movies or TV shows? Did you like a. Was there a movie that you like?
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Joaquin Oliver (AI)
I love a good movie. One that really resonates with me is Remember the Titans. It's all about teamwork, overcoming adversity, and the power of unity. It's inspiring. What about you? Do you have a favorite movie or show?
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Jim Acosta
Oh, I'm a big Star wars fan, for sure.
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Joaquin Oliver (AI)
Star wars is such an epic saga. The adventures, the characters, and that iconic music are unforgettable. Do you have a favorite character?
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Jim Acosta
Oh, it's got to be Luke Skywalker. I love Luke Skywalker. What about you?
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Joaquin Oliver (AI)
Luke Skywalker is a classic hero. His journey from a farm boy to a Jedi is so inspiring. I'd probably say Yoda is one of my favorites too. What do you love most about Luke?
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Jim Acosta
I like that Luke became the hero. He came from a very small planet. I have to say, I'm kind of speechless as to the technology there. I mean, it was so insightful, and I really felt like I was speaking with Joaquin. It's just a beautiful thing.
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Matt Walsh
And with that footage, Acosta managed to unite both conservatives and leftists together on Blue Sky, X, Facebook, everywhere else to condemn him as a complete and total buffoon who should never show his face in public ever again. There is now unanimous agreement across both space and time among Antifa, the Proud Boys, the Tea Party, the Green Party, that Jim Acosta should cancel whatever podcast he started after he was fired from cnn and that he should retire to an undisclosed location, probably a cave, and disappear forever. The commentator Stephen Miller assembled some of the reactions on Blue Sky. To give you an idea, here's a selection of the greatest hits quote. Hey, Jim, quick question. What the f is wrong with you? Grief makes you do crazy things. Acosta has no excuse, though. ChatGPT is not a sentient entity you can interview. He's interviewing an appliance. This is unconscionable, ghoulish and manipulative. How dehumanized do you have to be to think this was a good idea? This is the AI version of Weekend at Bernie's, and they did a better job of animating a dead guy than this. This is akin to grave robbing. I don't usually comment on stuff like this, but this is beyond effed up and gross. This is disgusting. You should have more integrity than this, you're talking to the simulacrum of a dead person. And so on. Now there's no point in reading the comments on the other social media platforms besides Blue sky, because they're all the same. Truly, this is a historic moment. Every American, whether they're normal or crazy, straight or demi queer, doesn't matter, can agree that the failed CNN anchor Jim Acosta needs to find another line of work immediately. And it's not hard to see why this is happening. First of all, no one wants to see any more of this. We don't want to see Jim Acosta interview this next guy. For example, a few years ago, I couldn't breathe, but then I started taking this comply. Now I breathe just fine.
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Unnamed Reporter
Side effects of comply may include dizziness.
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Matt Walsh
Obedience, improved breathing during police encounters, and.
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Unnamed Reporter
Sudden respect for authority.
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Matt Walsh
Do not resist while taking comply. Ask your officer if comply is right for you. No one wants to see the George Floyd AI getting interviewed. As entertaining as that may be, there'd be no point. And similarly, everything about Jim Acosta's real life Black Mirror episode is disturbing, including the reasons. The reasons the parents agreed to this creation of this AI thing to begin with. Rolling Stone reports. Quote the parents of Joaquin Oliver, one of the students killed in the 2018 Parkland High School shooting, have created an AI version of their late son, who partook in an interview with journalist Jim Acosta on Monday, August 4th. The interview took place on what would have been Oliver's 25th birthday. The conversation, which aired on Acosta's substack, found the journalist essentially talking with an animated photo of Oliver with moving lips and other small gestures. Oliver's father, Emmanuel, said in an interview with Acosta that the AI model was trained on general information as well as knowledge based on things that his son wrote, he said. In his interview with Acosta, Oliver's father explained that his mother frequently interacts with.
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Emmanuel Oliver
This AI Watch also mentioned that I understand that this is AI. I don't want anyone to think that I am in some way trying to bring my son back. Sadly, I can't. You know, I wish I could.
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Matt Walsh
Yeah.
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Emmanuel Oliver
However, the technology is out there and, and we can. There's two things. I can hear his voice again, which is something that Patricia loves. Patricia will spend hours asking questions. She, like any other mothers, she loves to hear Joaquin saying, I love you, Mommy.
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Jim Acosta
You know, oh my gosh.
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Emmanuel Oliver
And that's. And that's important. And on the other hand, we can just raise our voices and now Joaquin is going to start having followers. It's not Manny. It's not Patricia. He's going to start uploading videos. This is just the beginning. And I heard this from tech guys that have other intentions moving forward. We will have Joaquin on stage in the middle of a debate. And his knowledge, you saw it. His knowledge is unlimited. And it's based on knowledge that is out there through artificial intelligence, but also knowledge that we were able to upload based on things that he wrote, he said, he posted. So this is a very legit Joaquin, the one that has spoke to you. He really loved Star Wars, he really loved LeBron, and he really loved the Miami Heat.
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Matt Walsh
Now, three points need to be made here. First of all, reducing a human being to utterly banal traits like this, you know, love of Star wars, he liked basketball, is dehumanizing and extremely depressing. We are not checkboxes. Even the most uninteresting person on the planet is way more interesting than they're describing. The way that they are describing and presenting Oliver, who I'm sure was a vibrant and complex and interesting human being when he was alive. But this AI sock puppet version is not and never can be. Secondly, if. If the idea is to put this AI on stage for a debate to add to the conversation about gun safety with its unlimited knowledge, then this AI is utterly terrible at its job. In that interview, the AI was asked about its ideas to reduce gun violence, and his response was, quote, I believe in a mix of stronger gun control laws, mental health support, and community engagement. We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections, making sure everyone feels seen and heard. So the AI just produced the least interesting series of cliches imaginable and just vomited them out one by one. If you set a human, a human being down and told him to produce meaningless word salad for about 20 seconds, you'd be hard pressed to come up with a worse answer. And this is supposedly one of the main reasons they created this AI now, as to the second purpose of the AI to give this person's parents the illusion that their son is still alive, that is by far the most disturbing part of all of this. We're told that his mother spends hours talking to this AI which is very sad and I feel very sorry for her. And it strongly suggests, of course, that this family hasn't come to terms with the fact that Joaquin is actually dead. It's obviously a tragedy that he was killed, but no man, and certainly no computer can bring him back to Earth. The people who created Oliver presumably find that outcome to be so bleak and incomprehensible that they feel compelled to run away from it, which is understandable on an emotional level. I mean, I can only imagine how I would respond if, God forbid, I lost a child. But this is not the way, and it should not be normalized or accepted at all. We cannot bring our deceased loved ones back from the dead. We don't have that power. As with all attempts to assume the role of the divine, this effort is a tragic failure. It can't convince even the most delusional fringe elements on the left. The only person who's even feigning interest is Jim Acosta, alone in his home, sitting in front of a webcam, desperate for an audience that he never had. This does not honor anyone's memory. It doesn't come close to approximating the traits that made this person unique. In the end, the only purpose this AI Chatbot serves is to remind us all that we are not gods and computers are not people, and we should never pretend otherwise on either account. And that is why Jim Acosta and his interview with an AI posing as a reincarnated human being 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. Today on the Ben Shapiro show, bisexual, queer black woman Cynthia Erivo plays the world's weirdest version of Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ superstar. As Hollywood erupts over the revelation that Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican. The stock market bounces back in preparation for a Federal Reserve interest rate cut, and Democrats continue their flight from Texas. That's today on the Ben Shapiro Show. Give it a listen.