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Matt Walsh
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Unidentified Caller or Guest
Watch Allred has already stated, we encourage each and every one of you to remain resilient. We cannot allow this type of behavior to be rewarded, because so long as they know that they can win, even if it means cheating, then they will continue to do it. So I am asking you, I am begging you, to make sure that you go ahead and figure out where it is that you are supposed to vote. Stand in line, wait in line, so
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Matt Walsh
Remember to update your scorecards at home. It is officially okay to question the results of a Democratic election. Again, that's back on the menu, provided any way that you're black and a woman and a Democrat. In any case, it is. It is shocking that she would lose in this way. Indeed, cheating is the only possible explanation, especially if you go back and watch her career highlights. Which even though Jasmine Crockett is not really the subject of our monologue today, we will. Well, let's check them out anyway.
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Unidentified Caller or Guest
In fact, Ms. Perry, I know your organization, the Heritage foundation, loves Texas. Ooh, they love Texas. They always sending us some nonsense bills. And to understand enough about the Constitution, to the extent that I'm the one that's supposed to make the decision or at least get a vote, someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's bleach blonde, bad built, butch body dude that would not be engaging in personalities. Correct.
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Matt Walsh
A what now,
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Unidentified Caller or Guest
Chairman? Because we in these hot ass Texas streets, honey. Y' all know we got Governor hot wheels down there. Come on now. And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot ass mess. Honey, you not. We done picking cotton. We are. You can't pay us enough to find a plantation. But when we start talking about things that look like evidence, they want to act like they blind. They don't know what this is. These are our national secrets. Looks like in the. To me, this looks like more evidence of our national secrets, say on a stage at Mar a Lago. So she gonna keep saying trans, trans, trans. So that people will feel threatened and child, listen.
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Matt Walsh
Well, I don't know about you, but I just cannot understand for the life of me how a woman of such eloquence and elegance, a woman who looks and sounds like a part time Waffle House waitress, could have lost her Senate campaign. I mean, I just don't get it. But she wasn't the only one who suffered a shocking loss. There was also the legitimately surprising defeat of the neocon Dan Crenshaw, which obviously signals the direction that the Republican Party, its voters anyway, are headed towards. And today, Tuesday was also a reminder, and this is what I actually want to talk about today, that the leaders of the Republican Party are doing everything they can right now to sabotage the second Trump administration and to ensure that a candidate like Trump never wins the presidency ever again. This is the single most important story in the country right now. But because of the war in the Middle east, it's not getting anywhere near the attention that it should. As DHS Secretary Kristi Noem testified in the Senate yesterday, outgoing Republican Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina declared that because of his frustrations with the dhs, he would go out of his way to undermine the president's agenda at every available opportunity. Or watch.
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Senator Thom Tillis or Senate Committee Member
And, Mr. President or Mr. Chair, in my remaining time, I have a lot to go, but I want to submit this letter from the Office of Inspector General that cites 10 different instances under Ms. Noem's leadership where they've been misled and not allowed to pursue investigations that they think are critically important. Does anybody have any idea how bad it has to be for the OIG in this agency to come out and do this publicly? That is stonewalling. That's a failure of leadership, and that is why I've called for your resignation. And if I don't get an answer to these questions, I don't want an applause. Please don't do that for me. If I don't get an answer to these questions. If I don't get an answer that you've had a month to respond to, and the remaining ones, as of today, I'll be informing leadership that I'm putting a hold on any en bloc nominations until I get a response.
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Matt Walsh
And.
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Senator Thom Tillis or Senate Committee Member
And in two weeks, if I don't get a response, I'm going to deny quorum and markup in as many committees as I can until I get a response. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Matt Walsh
So, in other words, because the DHS Inspector General isn't happy with Kristi Noem's responses, Thom Tillis is going to burn everything down. The administration won't be able to appoint anyone or pass any legislation as long as the Inspector General of the DHS says that Christy Noem is stonewalling. Now, to be very clear about what's going on here, the Inspector General of the DHS is a. Is a man named Joseph Kufari. In 2024, when Joe Biden was president, a committee of inspectors general and federal officials determined that Cufari had abused his authority and engaged in substantial conduct that would justify his removal. The allegations of wrongdoing included claims that Kufari had interfered in independent investigations, fired a whistleblower who reported his misconduct, lied during his nomination process, and spent millions of taxpayer dollars to hire a law firm to advance his own interests. Now, the. This is the inspector general that Tillis is throwing his support behind. He's an official who's obviously corrupt, even though his job is to prevent corruption. This is the person Noam needs to placate. Apparently, and in particular, according to Tillis, Christy Noam needs to answer questions about why ICE is deporting so many illegal aliens. God forbid. Watch.
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Senator Thom Tillis or Senate Committee Member
So why am I disappointed with Secretary Noem? Because we're not going after enough people who did this damage at the expense of running numbers that Stephen Miller wants out of the White House. We just want numbers. We want a thousand a day, 6,000 a day, 9,000 a day. Because numbers matter, right? No, they don't matter. Quality matters. Not quantity.
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Matt Walsh
Quality.
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Senator Thom Tillis or Senate Committee Member
And what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership, Ms. Noem. A disaster. What we've seen is innocent people getting detained that turn out are American citizens. I could talk about the culture that's been created here with Stephen Miller aiding and abetting. I heard first reports that he was the one that said it was a domestic terrorist situation where two people lost their lives in Minneapolis. I've heard that report. Maybe you can refute it. I don't know that we'll have time for you to respond, because I'm giving you a performance evaluation here. I'm not looking for a response. And I'm saying, Ms. Noem, that time after time after time, I've been disappointed.
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Matt Walsh
So it's indistinguishable in every way from the questions the Democrats asked throughout this hearing. And first of all, yes, we want numbers. What are you talking about, Tom? Yes, we want numbers. Numbers are important, okay? The. The more illegal aliens who are deported, the better. This is not a quality over quantity thing. If they're an illegal alien and they're getting deported, that's quality. That's a quality deportation. If they don't belong here and they're deported, that is a quality. Deportation does not matter if those illegal aliens have committed additional crimes or not. Why should that matter? They don't belong here. The simple fact that they're in the country is a problem. They need to be deported, period. It's not difficult. But Tillis disagrees. His position, and the position of most established Republicans, is that illegal entry into the United States is no big deal. Tillis also believes that violently interfering with ICE is no big deal either, which is why he brought up Alex Pretty and Renee Good, who everybody on the planet has already forgotten about except Thom Tillis.
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Senator Thom Tillis or Senate Committee Member
Watch the fact that you can't admit to a mistake, which looks like under investigation, it's going to prove that Ms. Good and Mr. Priddy probably should not have been shot in the face and in the back. Law enforcement needs to learn from that. You don't protect them by not looking after the facts. Not only should the FBI be investigating it? But every single law enforcement agency in that jurisdiction should be invited to it. So our law enforcement officers do not have this Paul cast upon them. One of the reasons why ICE officers are having threats and damn the people that threaten ICE officers because so many of them are doing a good job, is because you've cast a pall on them by acting like we should investigate things differently.
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Matt Walsh
So there you have it. According to Thom Tillis, leftists aren't threatening ICE agents because they want open borders and lawlessness and destruction United States. Instead, leftists are threatening ICE agents because of Alex Preddy and Renee Goode. Never mind the fact that the ICE agents were being threatened long before either of those activists died. Never mind the fact that both Alex Preddy and Renee Goode decided to attack ICE agents in order to prevent them from doing their jobs. Never mind the fact that the left openly celebrated the murder of one of the top conservative leaders in the country, Charlie Kirk, simply because they didn't like his opinions. So we're supposed to believe that there's a universe where the left would be totally fine with immigration enforcement if only the DHS had conducted a more transparent investigation into the shooting of the lesbian who drove her SUV into an ICE officer and absolutely brought her. Brought her death on herself through her own actions. Now, this is nothing new for Tillis. In 2024, he was the ringleader of a fake amnesty bill in the Senate, which was intended to undermine the president's immigration policy. But lately, he's become a lot more animated in his disdain for this administration. In case it's not obvious, Tillis is shouting all the time because he's trying to impress some nonprofit or university. He wants to get a job when he leaves Washington, which is a day that can't come soon enough. And that's why when he was dealing with Biden's DHS secretary, that is Biden's DHS secretary, not Trump's, he had a very different approach
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Senator Thom Tillis or Senate Committee Member
case to get hundred thousands of dollars of payout. It's going to be another reason why it's a crisis and not just the situation we're trying to work through. Thank you, and I wish you good health. Thank you, Senator.
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Matt Walsh
Now, watching this, you might say that Thom Tillis is leaving office because he's unpopular. So what's the big deal? He's just one outgoing Republican senator who's threatening to derail the president's agenda. How bad can things be? Well, the problem is that Thom Tillis is not, in fact, an exception. He represents the entrenched Republican power structure in Washington. The leadership of the party does not want to enact Donald Trump's agenda. They're doing everything they can to interfere with it. The GOP leader in the Senate, John Thune of South Dakota, is about to send the Senate off to vacation. And instead of giving a speech where he outlines some kind of plan to advance legislation that the White House is pushing for, Thune simply complained about Democrats over and over again. Watch. I mentioned the air travel chaos that ensued as a result of Democrats first fiscal year 2026 shutdown. Well, the longer this DHS shutdown drags on, the more likely it is that we will start to have staffing problems at airport checkpoints, which will lead to compounding flight delays and other problems. Mr. President, it's two more days until Department of Homeland Security employees start missing part of their paychecks. I hope that my Democrat colleagues will finally decide to come to the table and bring their second shutdown in under six months to a close. Well, this just isn't going to cut it. Democrats are going to use every tool they have, including a government shutdown, to get what they want. We don't accomplish anything by whining about it. Instead, we should be using every tool that we have to achieve our own policy objectives. Now, for starters, instead of standing in the way of Trump's appointments, as Thom Tillis is doing, Republicans in the Senate could go on recess for 10 days or longer. And under current law, that would allow the President to make recess appointments to keep positions, including seats on federal courts if he chooses to do so, no approval from the Senate is necessary as part of a recess appointment. That's important because as we discussed before, the Senate follows a so called blue slip process which allows an individual Senator to veto a nomination as long as the nominee is from his home state. It's, it's an outdated and pointless process, but Republicans are going along with it. But here's the issue. Thune has deliberately prevented recess appointments from occurring and he's done so by holding so called pro forma sessions in the Senate. And the idea is that even though the Senate is on vacation, they hold a quick session with basically nobody in attendance. And that resets the clock on recess appointments. It prevents the Senate from counting as in recess for the 10 days that are required by law. So here's what these pro forma sessions look like. Just to give you an idea. This is from last summer.
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Senator Thom Tillis or Senate Committee Member
The House will be in order. The chair lays before the House a communication from the Speaker.
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Matt Walsh
The Speaker's Rooms Washington, D.C. july 25, 2025. I hereby appoint the Honorable Mike Heridopoulos to act as picket pro temporary on this day. Signed Mike Johnson, speaker of the House of Representatives. HR 1316 bill to amend the Export Control Reform act of 2018 relating to licensing transparency
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Senator Thom Tillis or Senate Committee Member
pursuant to clause 13 of rule 1. The House stands adjourned until 5pm on Tuesday, July 29, 2025.
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Matt Walsh
So the Clerk gets up there, read some nonsense for less than two minutes, and everybody goes home. The sole purpose of these pro forma sessions is to prevent Donald Trump from making recess appointments. Now, did you know that this was going on? Did you have any idea that the President's own party, which controls both houses of Congress, he's using a procedural mechanism to block him from appointing administration officials along with dozens of US Attorneys and judges. That's what Republicans in the Senate are doing. And for the same reason, Republicans in the Senate aren't taking any action to advance the SAVE act, which is short for Safeguard American Voter Eligibility. This is, in every respect, the single most important piece of legislation that anyone currently serving in Congress has ever considered. It's not close. Passing this legislation is the most important thing that any of them can possibly achieve right now, by far. That's why Donald Trump specifically called on Republicans to pass the SAVE act during his State of the Union address last week. This law will determine whether we have fair elections, real elections at all, going forward. It'll determine if Americans get to decide who leads them or if foreign invaders get to decide that for them. I mean, that's what's at stake. The terms of the SAVE act are straightforward. If you want to register to vote or update your voter registration, then you need to present documentary proof that you're a citizen, and you need to present this proof in person. A passport would satisfy this requirement all by itself. A majority of Americans have a passport already. 170 million Americans, in fact, have a passport, which means that if you don't have one, it's not very hard to get one. Okay, if 170 million Americans have already done something, then there's no way that it could be that difficult for you to do. But if you don't have one and you don't want to get one, then a birth certificate paired with a driver's license will satisfy the requirement. And additionally, the law would require the voters to show photo identification in order to cast a ballot in person. And if voting absentee, which would only be allowed in rare cases, a copy of the photo identification would need to be provided there in that case as well. There is no good faith basis whatsoever for opposing this legislation. There is no valid argument against it. The only argument is that some American citizens might be too dumb or lazy to fulfill the rudimentary requirements. But as I've, as I've explained, far from being an argument against it, that's just one more reason for it. Anybody who can't live up to the baseline standards that this law puts in place should not be voting. Either it means they aren't a citizen, so they shouldn't vote, or they're exceptionally stupid and lazy. And in any of those cases, they should not be voting. And that's why everybody outside of elected representatives in the Democrat Party, almost everybody, supports it. Gallup just ran a poll finding that 84% of Americans support the voter ID requirement. 84%. 83% support the requirement that first time voters provide documentary evidence of citizenship. It's extremely difficult to get broad bipartisan agreement on anything. I mean, 83% of Americans probably wouldn't agree on whether the, on whether or not the earth is flat. And yet they agree on this. So everybody knows why Democrats have an issue with the SAVE Act. As Trump said, they want to cheat. They want to flood the United States with illegal aliens, allow them to vote using the honor system and permanently seize control of the country. That's been their game plan for many years. They're on the verge of success. And Republicans have a once in a generation opportunity to stop. Wouldn't even take any special effort. That's what you have to understand. If the Republicans fail here, it is because they chose to fail. They want to, they don't want to protect our elections. They have no other excuse. So the obstacle right now is that Democrats are threatening to filibuster the bill. And under normal circumstances, 60 votes are needed to end the filibuster and hold the vote. All John Thune would have to do is, though, is keep the Senate's legislation session open and force a standing filibuster on this particular piece of legislation under a standing filibuster. The old, the old way of doing it. If they want to delay a vote, Democrats cannot simply announce their intention to block the legislation. Instead, they have to get up, walk to the podium and talk endlessly without taking any breaks. If they take a break, then they're done. They have to pass the, the torch to another Democrat. And if they can't do that, then the filibuster ends and Republicans can hold a vote. So the thing with the standing filibuster is, you're not abolishing the filibuster. It's still in place, but eventually it will come to an end because senators can't return to the podium more than two times during any one legislative session. So worst case, if they're really, really organized and very dedicated, they could drag this thing on for days and days, but eventually it will end. It wouldn't be pleasant for anybody, including Republicans, who would have to remain near the Senate chamber at all times in order to ensure that there's a quorum. If there's no quorum, then the legislative session ends and the speech counter resets and Democrats can go back to the podium the next day and filibuster some more. So it would not be pleasant. It would be hard to do, but this is what we elected you to do. It's not good enough to say, well, that will be hard. I won't be able to get enough sleep. I don't care. This is your job. This is the future of our country at stake. Are you willing to get some sleepless nights? Have. Have some sleepless nights or not? This is the most important fight they can undertake. They don't even have to change the rules of the Senate to do it. They just have to stay near the Senate complex for a few days. That's it. Instead of doing this, though, here's what John Thune is up to. This is one of his social media posts yesterday. Quote, great to sit down with members of Ducks Unlimited, including these students who started the SDSU chapter of du, who are working to further wildlife and conservation priorities in the state. Wow, thanks, John. You know, instead of sitting down with the members of the Mighty Ducks or whatever and whining about Democrats, you need to put the Save act up for a vote. It's sitting right there. And if Democrats want a filibuster, you need to require them to stand up and talk until they can't talk anymore. And then when the bill is passed, the President will sign it and we will have some chance of fair elections in this country going forward. If you don't do this, then we won't. If that's too much for Senate Republicans somehow, though, you know, if they really don't want to lose any sleep because they're lazy fat bastards, well, they also have the option of eliminating the filibuster entirely. You could do that. And we all know that Democrats will do it the first chance they get. So there's no use fretting that if we do it, they'll do it. They'll do it regardless. The Democrats are fighting fascists and Nazis and Darth Vader. Remember, they'll do anything at all that they need to do to advance their agenda. There's no reason we shouldn't do the same thing, especially since the odds are very low that Republicans will remain in power in Congress for much longer. Right now, Republicans have a real chance of losing Senate races in several key states in November, from Alaska to Ohio to Georgia. Meanwhile, the establishment wing of the GOP is throwing around enormous amounts of money to prop up neocons like John Cornyn, who spent something like $70 million to receive 43% of the vote in yesterday's primary in Texas, while ken Paxton spent around 4 million to receive 40% of the vote. And Paxton probably would have won outright if there wasn't a spoiler candidate in the race anyway. There's ample evidence, in other words, that the Republican Party is in a state of managed decline. The leaders are waiting for Donald Trump's exit, many of them. At this point, frankly, it doesn't appear that our elected representatives in Congress, many of them, actually want to hold on to power. Like, what you have to understand about the political scene in modern America is that many politicians, especially Republicans, not all of them, but many of them, don't actually want to be in power. They don't crave power so much as they crave the prestige of holding elected office and the many ways they can financially benefit from their position, both while they're in office and once they leave. Many of them want to trade their elected office in for cushy jobs as lobbyists and consultants. And many of them, especially younger ones, dream of nothing more than being podcasters. It's a relative few who. Who want. Who want power in order to actually use the power. For the rest, having power, being in the majority is an inconvenience. You know, why would they actually want to fly the plane when they can sit in first class and drink Bloody Marys? As John Thune demonstrated, Republicans are very comfortable complaining about Democrats, which, fine, there's plenty to complain about, but we need to do more than that. And as Thom Tillis demonstrated, Republicans have no problem berating the Trump administration and threatening to shut down his entire agenda. You know, to this point, keep this in mind. Most of the achievements of the Republican Party in Washington during this term have really just been achievements of the Trump administration. Republicans in Congress have done the bare minimum, if even that, okay, they passed the big, beautiful bill, and I guess we're supposed to be satisfied with that. We Handed them control over the entire government. In return, we get one piece of legislation. And that's supposed to be good enough. Well, it isn't. That is just not going to be satisfactory. And for anyone who is willing to accept the filibuster excuse for Republicans, this is something that I really want you to keep in mind. Okay? You, it, this is very important. Okay. Every time you hear, well, we can't do that because of filibuster. We can't do that either. There's a whole list of great pieces of legislation that, that theoretically, well, this is what we elected Republicans to do. Can't do it. Can't do it because of the filibuster. I mean, basically what they're saying is we can't do anything unless basically the Democrat party approves of it. Because. Because if they don't and they're united and not improving of it, then they can filibuster. And well, if you're tempted to, to accept that excuse, what you have to understand is that Republicans will never have, and I mean never have a filibuster proof majority. It is not ever going to happen. It has only happened once this century and that was for Democrats like 15 years ago. Republicans are never going to have enough votes in the Senate to overcome a filibuster. Never. You will be dead before that ever happens. And even after you're dead, it still won't happen. There is no path for it. It's just not going to happen. Republicans haven't had one since the 1920s, and the country today doesn't even vaguely resemble the 1920s. So either they will barrel through, force their agenda through by eliminating the filibuster, or doing a standing filibuster, or they will not advance their agenda at all. Not now, not ever again. Those are your choices. Kill the modern filibuster or never see an actual conservative piece of legislation passed ever again in your life. That's it. Either we keep the current filibuster system alive or Republicans carry out the will of the voters. It can't be both. It cannot be both. Right now, hiding behind these excuses, Republicans have decided against the will of the voters. That's what's happened, especially in the Senate. And unless that changes and the SAVE act becomes law, our elections will be permanently compromised. 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The accusation is that he ought to have known that his son was a danger to others. He ought to have been much more wary than he was. And his criminal negligence led to this crime. And that's true. I mean, there. There were apparently very vivid, very clear red flags with his son. He was warned by school counselors and, and others about his son's mental state, and he ignored those warnings. So he was negligent in the extreme. No doubt about it. Now, the defense argued that, well, he didn't know that his son was going to do this. He didn't plan the shooting. He didn't want it to happen. He didn't have foreknowledge of it. He is distraught by it. He gave the gun to his son for hunting. He's trying to bond with his son. He's obviously had a lot of issues at home and a lot of issues connecting with his son and so on. And so this was really just a, an attempt by the father to connect with the son. And, and there was no attention that anybody would get hurt. And that is also true. So this is a case where it seems to me the arguments made by the defense and the prosecution are both basically correct, but the decision by the jury was that the defense's argument wasn't good enough. It might be true that he didn't know this was going to happen, but he should have known. And, and that's what they decided. He was convicted, and now he'll probably spend the rest of his life in prison, although he hasn't been sentenced yet. Now, this is, as we followed on the show, not the first case like this. There have been, by my count, about four or five other. Maybe. I think there have been five other cases, all relatively recent, of parents charged in connection with their child's school shooting or mass shooting. And in all of those cases, from my memory, nobody claimed that the parents knew that they were intentional accessories in the crime. They didn't mean to contribute to it. But their negligent, their negligence led to the crime or made the crime possible. And, you know, they didn't do just like the basic things that a parent should do. And because of that, they're. This, this crime happened. And that argument has proven to be very successful in courts now. So whatever you think of all that. So that's the. Keep that all that in mind. Bear it in mind as we move to another case. The New York Times reports. This is from this week, or rather, I think this is New York Post. In fact, three baby faced boys are accused in the rape of a 12 year old girl in Miami, pinning her to the ground and stuffing rocks in her mouth so that no one could hear her scream. Authorities said the suspects, Nelson Nunez, Josiah Jones and Xavier Tyson, 13, 12, 15 respectively, allegedly attacked the young girl on June 18 in a community garden near where they all live. Investigators allege Nunez tore off the victim's pants and raped her as the other two boys held her down in a sickening 30 minute ordeal. One of the boys shoved rocks in the girl's mouth to stop her from crying. Suspect fled after the girl's father started calling out her name. Another boy who has not been identified allegedly witnessed the heinous crime. Nunez and Jones both pleaded not guilty to a string of charges, including aggravated sexual battery on a minor. It's unclear whether a similar court hearing was already held for Tyson. So, and the, the mom of the victim has spoken out. She said that as far as she's concerned, the boys should go to jail for 100 years and. Which I agree. Well, if they're guilty of this crime then, and they're convicted, then they should just go to jail forever. And I, I think that unfortunately in our current system it's probably very unlikely that's going to happen. It's much more likely that they end up, if they, if they go to jail at all, I mean, they probably will, but they'll be out when they're 18 or whatever and they'll be, they'll be far more dangerous than they've ever been. And this is the problem when you have crimes of this type, these kinds of barbaric, unthinkable, violent, brutal crimes committed by kids who are 11, 12, 13 years old. Well, the problem is that they're already at that point at the age of 12. So putting them in jail for five or six years and having them hang out with other hardened criminals is not going to make it better, okay? They're not, they're not going to be reformed. Everyone needs to get this through their heads that reforming criminals in prison is for the most part a fantasy, okay? For the most part. It just doesn't actually exist. For the most part. It's something that happens in the movies, okay? It's, it happens in the movies, okay? If you want to, you watch Shawshank Redemption or something and you see a story about criminals that are actually decent people at heart and, and everything is fine. And really the warden is the evil one, right? That's not reality, okay? In reality, most of the people in prison are sociopathic violent predators and will always be. I mean the chance that somebody will be a violent rapist at 12 but a productive citizen at 25 or 30, the chance of that is, I don't know, I mean, it's a lot less than 1%. Is it, is it, is it even higher than 0%? Is there really like any chance of it? So you, if you value the lives of innocent people, if you value the, the life of the next potential victim, the only choice you have, the only choice. When you've got a kid committing crimes like this, the only choice is to put them in a cage forever. That's it. So this is the crime, but what about the parents? In this case, we're talking about the parents. Well, if these boys are guilty of this crime, you have to immediately ask, how does a young boy get to a point by the age of 12 where he's already a violent rapist? How is that possible? How are they even in a position where something like this can happen? How did any of this happen? I mean, every step of the way through every part of this story, we find absurd levels of parental neglect or worse. And in this case, the parents of the accused 12 year old rapists have spoken out. The mother was in the courtroom screaming out in protest against these charges. And the father spoke to the media. And I'm going to assume the father and mother are not currently married. Why? I don't know that wild assumption. But here's what he said. This is a 12 year old boy we talking about. We're gonna leave him in jail and put a life charge on a young man, a young black man that was visiting Miami. It was with the wrong two kids. Marvin Jones son Josiah is charged with battery and false imprisonment charges related to the rape of a 12 year old girl. A police report says the victim says his son Josiah held her down and put rocks in her mouth to stop her from screaming. A young black man. How could you charge a young black man? So he's defending his son, making excuses for him, playing the race card. Playing the race card. Even though everybody involved in this story apparently is black. Okay, including the victim. And, and we know that because we've heard, we've heard from, I don't know if we've seen the mother, but we've heard audio. There's a report where the mother was interviewed and there's at least audio of her. And it's clear that so, so it's clear that everybody involved in the story is black. So how do you, how do you place play the race card? It, it doesn't matter because for somebody like this guy, this father, the race card is instinctive. You know, a black person literally can't do anything wrong ever in his mind. That's what people like this really believe. They truly believe it. Because the boy is black, he can never do anything wrong and should never be held accountable for anything he does, ever. I mean, anything. That is the honest to God belief system at play here. We are dealing with a belief system that says, well, a young black kid can rape or kill someone and it's. He, he should not be punished at all. Like, he shouldn't even lose his PlayStation, okay? Like, he shouldn't even, he shouldn't, nothing should happen to him. And I'm not even making a, a straw man out of it. That's what they actually believe. So here's my question, and you know where I'm going with this, but explain this to me. Someone explain to me how in God's name can we say that the father of a school shooter who was negligent but not consciously or deliberately involved in the crime, how is it that he goes to prison but this dad, if these allegations are true, doesn't go to prison? All of the same logic applies here and more extreme negligence, extreme levels of parental neglect. And on top of that, even after the fact, he's still defending his kid. Colin Gray at least didn't do that. Colin Gray exhibited plenty of remorse that he was distraught by all this. And I believe that he is. I, I still think there's, there's a good argument for sending him to jail. I just think that it should be done consistently. But when he gets up there and says that he's distraught, I believe that he is. This guy doesn't even care. He doesn't care that a girl was raped. He does not care at all. So you take a case like this. If these boys committed a violent rape as adolescents, what that means, that is, is that at a minimum, their parents are extremely, absurdly, grotesquely negligent in their basic parental duties. They are at least as negligent as any of the parents of these school shooters. But very likely, in fact, these parents are worse than negligent and we all know that. I mean, where does a 12 year old learn to be a rapist? That is not. How is that even possible? How is it even possible for a 12 year old to conceive of committing a crime like this? How is it possible? I have a 12 year old son at home, it is impossible that he could ever commit a crime like this. It couldn't happen. I mean, the risk of it happening is 0%. It's not even, it's just not in his universe of, of things that could ever occur. And if your son is properly raised, even just moderate like, you don't have to be a perfect parent, but just, just b, like if you're a basically competent parent, then at 12 years old you might be worried. There's plenty of things to worry about, but that's just not, it's like you're not worried about that that's not going to happen. So the chances are very, very high that not only are this, are this boy's parents negligent, but they are in fact actively abusing their child? I don't know that. I'm not stating that as a fact. I'm saying the chances are incredibly high. The chances are incredibly high. If you could be a fly on the wall in this boy's home for even just one day, you would be horrified by what you see. Horrified by it. And it's so much worse than even people think. You know, these homes in these inner cities, what's going on in those homes? Like if unless you've experienced it or you worked, been a social worker or something, or a cop, you can't even conceive of how bad it is. I can't conceive it. I can listen to people I can listen to. I've talked to plenty of police officers about this kind of thing and, and yeah, it's just like calling it negligent is, is understating the case to an extreme degree. And I mean these are homes where there's basically like a constant campaign of, of. It's just, it's constant abuse of, of every type happening all the time. And, and yet, and that's how these kids end up this way. Not just this kid, but every kid in the inner city who's on a street corner getting involved in gangs, robbing liquor stores, shooting and killing each other. Every single one of them, every single one of them are coming from homes that are, they don't have parents. Like they, they, they have, they have people who conceived and birthed them, but they don't really have parents. It's just total Lord of the Flies and worse. And yet these kinds of parents are never charged. In cases like this. Cases of violence, crime, abuse carried out by black kids from the inner city, the parents are never charged unless they were actually consciously, actively involved in a crime. And even then, many times are not charged. So why isn't the school shooter logic ever applied to these parents? Ever? Well, we all know the reason. There have been five cases of parents of school shooters or mass shooters who have been charged. All but one of them have been white. And even in the one case where the parents were not white. The point is that school shootings are seen as white suburban crimes. Now they actually aren't exclusively or even mainly white suburban crimes, but that's how they're seen. It is a white coded crime. And that is why. Which inaccurately white coded. But that's that, that's just the way it's perceived. And that's why this crime and only this crime is treated this way. It's with this kind of crime and only this crime where you see parents being charged even when the parents were not in any way deliberately or directly involved. Because the truth of the matter is, if you started going down this road with what we might call ordinary urban crime, and sad to say that, that even this crime is in many ways an ordinary urban crime. I mean young kids engaging in this kind of brutality that is not uncommon, tragically. But if we went down this road, then you'd have thousands of parents in every city in the country thrown in prison. This 12 year old kid's entire family would be in prison. Father, mother. I saw, I saw a video that I can't confirm, so I'm not going to play. It purported to be of the aunt of one of the assailants who was just openly defending it. I mean openly excusing it. So if we went down this road, you would take this 12 year old boy, throw him in prison and his entire family with him, like his whole family. Which at this point I would say so be it. At this point I would say, you know what, that's what we should do. Fine. You want to keep putting parents in jail when their parent, when their kids commit school shootings? Okay, I think there are reasonable objections a person can raise, but it's already happening. Toothpaste is out of the tube on this one. And I see the argument for it, I see the argument for it, but okay, let's, let's take it all the way. If we're gonna, if we're gonna do this, if this is what we're doing, then okay, you know, you, you can't, you cannot be blamed for everything your kid does, particularly as they get older, particularly as they become adults. But there's a certain standard I, I guess is what is the message now? In society and from the court system. Although the message is only being applied in a very specific and I think discriminatory way. But the message is like there's just you, you can't be blamed for everything your kid does. But there is a basic standard you just need to live up to as a parent. And if you cannot live up to that standard, and that standard is the, it's, it is bare, but not even bare minimum. I mean the, the bar here is under the earth. It's like you need to raise a kid who's not a school shooter. Like you need to raise a kid who does not become a mass murdering psychopath before the age of 18. Like you need to do that. You need to be able to do that. And if you can't do that, then you're going to face consequences. And again, fine. But I want to see that logic applied across the board. Board. I want to see it applied across the board. And if that means that hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of parents, most of them in the inner city, are sitting in prison cells, then probably for the best if we're being honest about it. Have you dabbled in investing here and there, but haven't been happy with how things are going? Stash helps turn good intentions into consistent progress Stash isn't just another investing app. It's a registered investment advisor that combines automated investing with expert personalized guidance so you don't have to worry about gambling or figuring it out on your own. Stash is simple, smart and stress free. Choose from personalized investments. Let Stash's award winning Smart portfolio do the work for you or pick a combo of both. Stash is there to guide you every step of the way. Stash's Smart Portfolio helps you invest in a diversified balanced portfolio, not a regular schedule which can help you build wealth over the long term. 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The officer is fatally shot, Diaga Diagni, who is suspected of killing three people in the shooting at Buford's backyard beer garden. Attorney Doug Oconnell said the Austin Police association has requested that his team represent the three officers as they face a grand jury. He wrote, the Austin Police association has asked my team to represent these three heroes. Unfortunately, they will face a grand jury hearing, as is the process directed to the Travis County DA by the Wren Collective. We will be with them every step of the way. O' Connell wrote that in Austin, the Ren Collective requires the D A to have a grand jury consider charges every time a police officer uses force. And the D A completely controls the grand jury and decides what evidence they see and what they're prohibited from seeing. Now there is an update to the story that was the report yesterday. But last night the DA came out and said that he will not refer these officers to a grand jury. Texas Tribune reports. Every shooting involving a police officer in Travis county for the past several years has gone before a grand jury, a policy that District Attorney Jose Garza has said ensures transparency. But after several police officers took down the gunman in a mass shooting in downtown Austin early Sunday, Republican politicians and law enforcement advocates began hammering Garza's office over the idea that the officers could face possible criminal charges. Situation's extraordinary circumstance, said Michael Bullock, president of the Austin Police Association. These officers have been through enough. Anything can happen in a grand jury. In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, Garza echoed Abbott's assessment of the officers and indicated that he would make an exception to the grand jury policy for officer involved shootings. Okay, so the DA Is making an exception. He says after a lot of public pressure, he will not refer these officers to a grand jury, which is good because that would be totally insane. But this is still insane. I mean, the whole situation is insane. The DA is. DA Is making an exception here because arbitrarily, it's basically an arbitrary exception that. That I'm glad is being made, but it's an arbitrary exception because of media scrutiny. But in every other case, he has followed this blanket policy of automatically sending an officer who shoots somebody in line of duty to a grand jury. You know, this is a. This is a crazy policy. It is an evil policy. It punishes police officers for risking their lives to protect the public. Even in cases where the shooting Is clearly justified. That's what they've been doing in Austin. If there's a shooting and there's no doubt that it was totally justified, like the guy shooting at you, we're shooting at innocent people. You kill them still, you got to go to. It goes to a grand jury and it puts the officers in line potentially for devastating life changing repercussions. Anything can happen with a grand jury. Right. Grand juries will indict a hands ham sandwich or whatever. That, that's, that's the point. Anyone could be indicted. That's why this is so evil. You're a police officer, you shoot a bad guy. Totally justified. You risk your life and now you have to roll the dice and hope you don't end up charged with a crime. Basically, the policy is saying that if you as a police officer have to, have to shoot somebody in the line of duty, even if you are protecting yourself or protecting innocent people and acting heroically, then next by policy, you have to play a game of Russian roulette. That's the policy. And now it's even crazier because why won't the d. A refer these specific officers to the grand jury? If the policy is good, if it makes sense, if it's a good policy, why are you abandoning it? Why are you making an exception? Okay, you don't want something to happen to these officers. You don't want them to end up, you know, being charged with a crime. Sure. But then for every other officer, you are willing to take that risk. This is the issue. He's basically admitting that this is a bad policy, that it puts officers in line for unfair consequences. And he's saying that, well, in this case, with all the media scrutiny, if these guys end up charged with a crime, then I, that's, that's going to be bad for me. And so he's not doing it. So this is criminal justice reform for you. I mean, this is, this is what's happening. And a lot of people don't realize. I mean, I didn't realize this was the policy down there. And, and this is not the only jurisdiction where that's the case. But it is just like
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mean, how, how can you even be a cop in a place like that? I got a lot of respect for cops, especially in places like that that have policies like this. I just would not. I don't, I don't. I, I would quit. That's like, I'm out. No way. I mean, all you're telling me is that if someone tries to kill me or kill somebody else. Now you put me in a lose lose situation where, you know, like, I have a what are my options? I can just let myself be killed or let someone else be killed, or I can shoot the person and then probably go to prison. I'm not putting myself in that spot. I think officers who do that are even more heroic. I mean, it's just, it's, it is heroic. And it's not like the money is so good that it's like, well, yeah, it's. But it's, yeah, this is crazy that I'm in this spot. But it's worth it for the money. The money's not that good. Not even close. And this is what's happening all across the country. And that's, like I said, that's criminal justice reform. That's what it is. Starting something new can be daunting. When we launched the Matt Walsh show, we had all the usual fears, but I'm glad we went for it. And you can too, with our sponsor, Shopify. Shopify is the commerce platform powering millions of businesses around the world and 10% of all e commerce in the US including our very own daily wire shop. Getting started is incredibly easy. With hundreds of ready to use templates, you can build a beautiful online store that matches your brand style. Shopify is packed with helpful tools that write product descriptions, page headlines, and even enhance your product photography so you can accelerate your efficiency whether you're uploading new products or improving existing ones. Need to get the word out? Shopify helps you find your customers with easy to run email and social media campaigns. What's more, you can tackle all those important tasks in one place, from inventory to payments to analytics, without juggling multiple websites or platforms. And if you ever get stuck, Shopify's 247 customer support is always around to help. Plus, that iconic purple shop pay button isn't just recognizable. It's the best converting checkout on the planet. Which means fewer abandoned carts and more sales for you. It's time to turn those what ifs into with Shopify today. Sign up for your $1 per month trial at shopify.comwalsh go to shopify.comwalsh that's shopify.comwalsh
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Matt Walsh
Finally, here's a conversation we were having on X that I want to bring over here, if I could. Just getting out of the news for a moment. There's an account, really a slop account, just your standard social media slop account called American Nostalgia that posted this picture, which you can see it there, and it's an image of a kid on a bike riding down the street in a neighborhood at dusk, right? And looks like something out of the 80s or 90s. Very nostalgic. Now, granted, this picture is probably AI. This is probably AI slop, which I hate, as you know, it doesn't need to be AI. Like, I don't know if it is AI. It's like you could find a picture just like that that exists in real life. Plenty of photographs like that. But. But if we can leave that aside, there. There was a. There was a conversation about whether what this picture represents is real or not. Because we, as old fogies, like to say all the time, oh, the world we grew up in is lost. The world, that world is gone. Everything's different now. It's not like this anymore. And. And I have the same thought, you know, I. I think the same thing. Is that true or is it just nostalgia talking? Well, here's what I say. And like I said, there's an interesting discussion about it online right now. I think that it's not just nostalgia. It is nostalgia, but it's not just that. This was our childhood and it is actually gone now. There is a severing that has happened between the generations, something that defines the current generation of kids and probably the one before them that is just different in kind from anything that's ever existed. People have always lamented, older people always lament, oh, it was better back in the day. There's always been that. I get that. But something has actually happened. In this case, it is real. You know, the kid riding the bike, staying out until the street lights are on, that is basically gone. That entire way of life, that kind of childhood, a real childhood, is gone. It really is gone. Now, as a parent, you can, through effort, through a lot of effort, a lot of intentionality, you can create the conditions for some version of this for your own children, you can basically insist by force of will that your child is going to have some kind of actual genuine childhood. Play outside, ride his bike and all that kind of stuff. You can create the conditions for it as we have in our family. But you know, it is possible to do. It's not easy. Like it's, it's actually really difficult. It takes a lot of effort. But the problem, and here's the thing that people who aren't parents or who are parents a long time ago might not really understand the problem is that, and we've been contending with this for as long as we've been parents, the problem is that most of the other kids are screen addicted zombies who don't really want to run around outside until the street lights are on. They don't want to do that. So here's what happens. Very often this is what happens. And this is like tragic. I mean it really is. It's a tragedy that unfolds all across the country. You've got an energetic, free spirited kid, right? Like if you as a parent, you have a child or multiple children and you're making this effort because you say this is what I had growing up and I want you to have the same thing. You're not going to have a childhood that is totally dominated by and defined by looking at screens. You're not going to have. And so maybe you do that and the result is now you have this energetic kid who loves running outside. Free spirited, you know, much more independent than a lot of kids are today. Kid. That's another thing. Kids today are not independent at all, at all. Like they just. Kids today just need constant coddling and constant. They need to be entertained and they need to be taken around places and they need, everything needs to be structured and. But the independence of like, yeah, go off and entertain yourself for hours on end. Most kids are just not even capable of that. But if you have a kid like that, a kid who would rather climb a tree than stare at a screen, well, he ends up in most cases being kind of isolated. And that is so sad because 30 years ago, 40 years ago, that kid, free spirited, energetic, fun loving, rambunctious, that kid would be the most popular kid in the neighborhood, right? He could have no end of friends everywhere and everyone wants to hang out with him. Now the other kids in the neighborhood are home with the screen and that kid is climbing the tree alone. That's what's happening. I mean it is the great tragedy of modern times. One of them. And the data bears this out. I mean, every study I've ever read, and I've read a bunch of them on this subject, show that kids are spending a lot less time, a lot less time playing outside. I mean, which is not a surprise. We all have. This is something that is, I think lines up with almost everybody's anecdotal experience. There's a lot less time with unstructured, unscheduled, unguided play. And depending on what you look, it's like 50%, 60%, 70% less time in that kind of play compared to previous generations. And obviously they're spending a lot more time, a lot more time with screens. That's what every study says. Now, yes, you can go back to the 90s and parents were complaining about their kids looking at screens too much. But back then there was only one screen, it was a tv. And spending too much time with a screen that was like two hours a day. Okay, Back then, if you were watching TV for two hours a day, that was a lot. That's like you are a couch potato. You're a fat couch potato. To watching two hours of TV a day. Now two hours of screen time is like you're. I mean, that's unheard of practically for a lot of people because it's so low and, and it's not just the screens. Mass migration is also a big part of the story. Thanks to mass migration, neighborhoods are a lot. Many neighborhoods are less safe. They're more culturally fractured. There's a much greater chance that you live in a neighborhood where your kid doesn't even speak the same language as the other kids in his neighborhood. And on top of that, people are having fewer kids and they're having kids later in life. And on top of that, kids have never been subjected to more structured play. Like parents today fill their schedules, their kids schedules with organized activities. There are some parents that are just constantly bringing their kids to everything they do that is recreational is either on a screen or it is structured. It's like, I'm gonna bring you to this thing at 4 o' clock and it's gonna be over at 6 and then we're going home. And that's. And that's. And kids have never had more of that than they do right now. So. And what that means is that there isn't time to just roam around the neighborhood and have adventures with the neighborhood kids. There isn't time. There isn't time for it. There aren't as many other kids around to do that with. And the kids who are around many of them would rather look at screens. Plus, you have the cultural fracturing and this is what you end up with. Now, there are exceptions to this. Like, there are pockets of places, areas here and there where people, where something like the 90s style childhood still exists. But they are rare. They are very rare. And I'll tell you something, if you live in a place like that, and I've had some people tell me when we were talking about this, that, well, this is what my neighborhood's like. Kids are out riding bikes all the time. You know, my kid goes out, he plays all day with all the neighborhood kids. If you live in a neighborhood like that, don't leave, okay? Don't, don't leave. I enjoy your oasis. And don't tell anybody about it. Don't tell anybody about it. And don't, don't. It's like, yeah, yeah, just stay there. Don't leave until you're. At least until your children are grown because you found a, an oasis and I envy you. But in most places, it's not like that at all. You know, I think about my own experience as a child, and it's very much like the experience that of anyone my age or older. Very common, right? Nothing extraordinary about it. Typical Saturday, right? You wake up in the morning early, you're excited to start the day, eat some cereal, probably watch some Saturday morning cartoons for about an hour, then go outside. And I tell my parents, I'd say, I'm going to play outside. And they'd say, okay, be back by dinner. And then you leave the house. Imagine you just leave the house. No plan. There's nothing scheduled. There's no activity that's been planned ahead of time. You just leave the house and you physically go and knock on the door of your. Where your friends live and say, hey, can you come out and play? And then you would go do that and you would wander around and you would like, go on little adventures and you'd. We would.
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We would roam through the woods, you know, behind the house. There were train tracks about a mile from our house. And we would go and watch the trains pass by sometimes, which was like, yeah, not the safest thing. We got kind of close to the trains, whatever. We. We'd play basketball, tackle football, street hockey. There are always little dramas, you know, unfolding in the neighborhood, right? Like feuds and fights and resolutions and villains and heroes and the whole thing. And. And then you go home at night and, you know, you'd eat dinner, maybe play cards or something as a family, and then. And Then if you're in the 90s, you'd miss a Saturday night. You'd wrap up the night with. What was it called? Snick. Right. It's the Saturday night. Nickelodeon. Are you afraid of the dark? You know, get. Get the. Get the. Get the jump scare in before you go to bed. And. And that was it. And it's just not that way anymore. I know that lamenting this makes it just sounds old and out of touch, and I understand that, but it's a real thing. It is a real thing that existed not just in the 90s, but this is just what it was like. I mean, there was a. This is what childhood was like basically forever. I mean, it came in different forms and technology changed and communities changed, but this is basically what it was, not just for a decade, but for ever. Until now. It's not like that. And, you know, we've tried really hard to give our kids a childhood that's at least a real childhood, one that's not spent on the screens. And we've done that successfully, I think, but it's not really the same. And my nostalgia for those days is not for my own sake. Like, I don't want to go back to that myself. Right. I'm a grown man. I'm not. I. I am not wishing wistfully that I could go back and do that again. No, I want my kids to have it. I want that for my kids. I desperately want them to have it, but they don't. They have the best version of something that we can possibly give them, but they don't have that and they never will. That life is gone. It just is. And this is the key difference between what I'm talking about and. Because there's another kind of millennial nostalgia that is truly pathetic and is. And is infantilizing to the individual. But that is more like the. The. The Disney adult, right? That's the adult who goes to Disney by themselves. Childless. These, like, childless grown adults who are still living like kids. Those are people who are trying to live their own childhood permanently. These are people who are jealously clinging on to the things of their own childhood. Peter Pan syndrome, refusing to grow up. That's pathetic. What I'm talking about is not that. And what I'm talking about is much deeper. And I think what a lot of people are experiencing, what. What. What. What a lot of people feel is much deeper than that. It's not nostalgia. It's actually longing. That's what it is. And there's a difference. And longing is a real thing, it's a human thing and it's something that you should feel and there's a lot to long for there. But I'm longing not for something for me, but for my kids. And I wish that were possible. I wish it were possible that they could leave the house at 9am on a Saturday morning and go have all these adventures all day long. And I don't see them back until 6 o' clock at night and they've got grass stains on their jeans and they've got all kinds of stories about everything they've been up to all day. But for the most part, for most people where they live, that just doesn't, that doesn't happen, can't happen, not, not the same way anyway. And I don't know, I wish that there was some kind of re res resolution at the end of this where I could give a plan for recapturing that, but I don't know that there is one. I think the, I think the only plan is, as I said, just create an environment that is as much like that as possible. And if you do find a community where there's still that kind of thing, then as I said, don't, don't let it go. That's something to cherish. Hold on to it. All right, that'll do it for the show today. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed. What do Snow White, Cinderella and smallpox Blankets have in common? They're all fairy tales. For decades you've been told that you live on stolen land. We are right now on stolen land. That the Indians were peaceful Native Americans. We massacred them. Your ancestors committed genocide. And guess what? None of it is true. The Native Americans were some of the most savage fighters ever known to man. Raiding, scalping, torturing, even eating enemies. It was better to lose a battle to to the U.S. army. Did they get wiped out by a rival tribe? And why did the story completely change in the 1960s? It turns out there's a lot more to the American Indians than Hollywood directors and school teachers want you to know. 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