Ep. 1713 - The Somali Daycare Scam Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg. The Truth Will Shock You

Today at the Matt Wall Show, you've heard about the rampant fraud by Somalis in Minnesota, but that is just the tip of a very large, very evil and very expensive iceberg. The truth is that this kind of fraud is rampant across the country on every level. It's actively harming you and costing you and your family lots of money. We'll talk about it. Also, Trump appears to be serious about acquiring Greenland. Is that a good idea? I say yes, definitively, and I'll explain. And a Democrat politician is asked to provide an example of a socialist country that is in good shape. Hilarity ensues. We'll talk about all that. The more today at the Matt Wall Show. Now, usually I don't feel any desire really to play devil's advocate. I have no interest in looking for ways just for the sake of argument to defend bad people or bad ideas. That's not to say that it's wrong to play devil's advocate or that people shouldn't do it. Generally, though, it's not my style. I prefer to be as direct as possible. And for example, if a certain group of people, say Somalis in Minnesota, are being dragged online by hundreds of millions of people, I feel no desire whatsoever to step in and ask an annoying contrarian question such as, hey, what if these people actually aren't so bad? Now, all that said, at this point, I feel compelled to say one thing, just one thing, that could be considered something of a defense of the hundreds of thousands of Somalis who are currently living in Minnesota and defrauding the American taxpayer. Now, you see, during yesterday's show, I pointed out that the average Somali has an IQ that approaches the level of mental retardation, in part because of rampant inbreeding. That affects roughly half of the population. It's not a talking point. It happens to be true that the typical Somali has an IQ below 70. Now, on the left, they'll claim that the IQ analysis is illegitimate because Somalia is a war-torn hellscape where everybody is malnourished, so you can't possibly administer a valid IQ test for some reason. But they'll never explain why when you look at the state of Somalia. Well, it looks an awful lot like a country run by people with an average IQ of 68. They don't have a functioning economy or system of government or anything that would indicate that they're capable of establishing or maintaining any kind of civilization. So what explains all of that if not for IQ? Is it climate change? White supremacy? No one knows. In any event, I'm not here to play devil's advocate on that particular question. The science is settled on the issue of Somali IQ. But I do think it's worth asking an important follow-up, which naturally follows from our previous discussion, and that follow-up question is this. If the typical Somali is indeed very dumb, then how exactly were they able to scam taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in Minnesota alone? Now, sure, their fraud schemes weren't exactly subtle. They spelled learning center as leering center. They went slack jawed when a YouTuber with an iPhone knocked on their front door. They had no kids inside their daycares at all. And then when CNN shows up the next day, suddenly they had some woman standing out front insisting that indeed she does send her children to the daycare every day from 2 to 10 p.m., which just so happens to be the precise operating hours of the daycare. But none of this is particularly indicative of high IQs in the community. But at the same time, if their IQ is really hovering around 68, you think they wouldn't even get that far. I mean, when your IQ is that low, you're not just putting up signs with obvious typos for your fraudulent business. That's more of a, you know, 80 to 85 IQ mistake. At 68 IQ, you're barely able to comprehend the idea of a business at all. I mean, at that rung of the IQ spectrum, you hear about laundering money and you throw your cash into the washing machine. You hear about the importance of headhunting and you go and literally scalp your competition. And you certainly aren't navigating the bureaucracy of the state of Minnesota and filing lengthy forms or anything like that. So who exactly helped the Somalis? That's the question. We know they didn't commit all this fraud on their own, which is the best defense I can muster for these people. And it requires us to figure out where did the help come from? Now we know Democrats from Tim Walz on down were complicit in the fraud. They understood that they were getting scammed. The budgets alone made that obvious and they did nothing to stop it. That still doesn't address the question of who specifically held the hands of these Somalis as they set up these fraudulent businesses. We know about a lot of people in government who knew that it was happening and allowed it to happen. But who were the people that facilitated, that helped them do it? Well, to figure out who did hold their hands, I went looking through various online resources for citizens of Minnesota who want to start their own daycare. And as it turns out, Blue Cross, which administers Medicaid in Minnesota, put out a video to that effect around four years ago. Here's a portion of the video from a foundation established by Blue Cross. And see if you notice anything unusual. Watch. Oh, sorry, we played the Somali language version of the video that Blue Cross uploaded. So that's our mistake. But here's the English language version, which they also provided, helpfully enough. And again, see what you notice. Watch. Are you thinking of opening a family child care business here in Minnesota and would like to get information? If so, you came to the right place. We hope these videos will help answer some of the questions you may have and help you understand the process of family child care licensing in Minnesota and learn about the regulations required to run a family child care business. What is family child care? Family child care is a care provided in a caregiver's home where no more than 10 children are cared for at any one time, of which no more than six of those children are under school age. Why become a licensed family child care provider? Opening a family child care can be a very rewarding career and comes with many benefits. You are opening your house to children while you are caring for your own children. Somali parents and guardians believe in keeping Somali culture and religion alive and embedded in child learning. Parents and guardians expect that their child will receive quality care and stay in a safe and clean environment while reaching learning milestones. You as a family child care provider are in a unique position to provide quality child care and protect the health and safety of children in your care while at the same time keeping parents' values and cultural beliefs intact. While the process may seem overwhelming, remember that your county licensor will work with you in more detail in each part of the process and help you apply this information to your situation. Now, in case you're listening to the audio podcast, I need to point out that there is not a single white person in the entire video that Blue Cross put out. The closest we get to a white person is the woman at the end who works as county licensor who will help the Somalis get their daycare so they can preserve their culture and their community. Now, all this is very strange if you think about it for a second. There's no obvious reason why Blue Cross, which is a health insurance company that manages Medicaid claims in Minnesota, would put out an instructional video specifically for Somalis who want to start daycares for other Somalis and no one else. I mean, there's no apparent reason why they'd want daycares to be established that exclude white children. There's no reason why they'd want to preserve Somali culture and only Somali culture. But that's their goal based on this video. And there are no other videos like this on Blue Cross' nonprofit YouTube account. They went out of their way to target Somalis specifically and encouraged them to start daycares. Even though like most of these people aren't working, they're on welfare. So why do they even need so many daycares? Like you're not going to a job. But even so, they went out of their way to make these videos specifically encouraging Somalis personally to go start daycares. There's no video about white daycares that will preserve white culture, as you might imagine. But there's also no videos about Hispanic daycares or black daycares, Asian daycares. They're all about Somalis and only Somalis. So what's going on here? Why is Blue Cross so passionate about the establishment of non-white, all Somali daycares in Minnesota? Now, if you're the optimistic type, you might say, well, they want to ensure that a low income, low IQ immigrant population is aware of their options when it comes to establishing daycares and healthcare clinics. Blue Cross may simply be trying to help the Somalis out. But if that's the case, you have to ask, did Blue Cross notice when Somalis began defrauding Medicaid on a massive scale? Did they notice that in many cases, this Medicaid fraud involved daycares, which received money under Medicaid when they treated patients with alleged disabilities like autism? Why did it take Chris Ruffaud to tell us that Medicaid claims for autism in Minnesota somehow increased from $3 million to nearly $400 million in just a few years? Why did it take a YouTuber to point out that many of the daycares are empty? Did Blue Cross not notice any of this? Why didn't they blow the whistle on the obvious fraud, which presumably they would have noticed very quickly since they were processing many of the claims? Why instead did they put out a video encouraging Somalis to set up even more daycares? Well, here's one theory, and it relates to how insurers like Blue Cross, which help manage Medicaid claims, get paid. Now, these are hypothetical numbers to illustrate the point. So let's say that there's no fraud at all and Blue Cross pays autism treatment providers $100 million per year on claims for autism therapy, adult daycares, home health services, and so on. The state of Minnesota would then reimburse Blue Cross $100 million via Medicaid, plus give them a 15% bonus for profit as well as administrative expenses. After all, Blue Cross isn't going to process the claims for free. They need some incentive. So 15% of a hundred million amounts to $15 million in profit for Blue Cross in that scenario. Well, now imagine that there's $300 million in Medicaid expenses bill to Blue Cross, $200 million of which are from Medicaid. And that means that some Somali fraudsters. Well, that means the total pie has now expanded significantly. 15% of $300 million is $45 million in profit for Blue Cross. And in future years, Blue Cross will command a higher rate from the state for handling more claims. So you see where this is going. You can make the argument that more fraud means more money for Blue Cross in the long term, as long as their fraud is, you know, that fraud is coming from Medicaid claims, which they'll be reimbursed for. And daycares again are ground zero for Somali fraud. That's where they ran the feeding our future scam from. They said children were coming to the daycares and getting meals when they weren't. And many of these fraudulent autism services are also organized through daycares. Keep in mind that there's this the convenient thing about autism is that there's no blood test. There's really no clear diagnostic criteria whatsoever. So if you're looking for a way to, you know, a type of disability to claim fraudulently, autism is a really good one. The Somalis could simply declare that children had autism and bam, the money started flowing. That's exactly what they did. So with this in mind, is it possible that Blue Cross was not encouraging Somalis to set up race-based daycares out of the goodness of their own hearts? Maybe they were doing it because like everyone else in Minnesota, they were in on the scam. You hate to think that might be a possibility, but it's it's the kind of thing that's clearly worth investigating. All this obvious fraud was going on. Blue Cross comes along and makes videos, some of which are in the Somali language saying, hey guys, set up more of these daycares. Kind of thing that you should really investigate. At a minimum, they're not paying much attention to the programs they're involved with, even as insurance claims grow exponentially. But whatever the case, they're not the only ones doing it. The state leadership initiative brought this video to my attention. It's from an organization called Child Care Wayfinder in Minnesota, which receives millions of dollars from the state in order to help Somalis establish daycares. They don't simply help the Somalis file the forms. They also fund the daycares directly. Watch. My name is Karen Bratland. I'm the child care aware startup and retention coordinator. I'm the retention coordinator with Child Care Wayfinder for 360 communities. Wayfinder Navigators are available to accompany you through the licensing process. I received an inquiry email from some individuals who were looking to start a Somali Montessori school in Apo Valley. They found her and Karen came along. I mean, it was great. We had a new partner in our area. We have me and my wife open the Acacia Montessori specifically for Somali parents in the Apo Valley area. This funding is one of the most significant hurdles that most of my participants have had. Opening from the ground up can be very expensive. Wayfinder Navigators assist participants to find access to funding, professional development, resources such as marketing, tax, accountants, and much, much more. When I first entered Acacia, I noticed that it had been a previous center. So this is the point. It's not enough to go after the Somali daycares themselves. Yeah, you go after them, but that's just the beginning, right? The tip of the iceberg. You have to look at who funded them, who helped to create them, and what were their incentives. And you need to determine what they knew about the legitimacy of the businesses that they were establishing. Now, I'm not saying that this particular NGO is fraudulent. I don't know one way or another. But in general, when you have armies of NGOs flushed with millions of taxpayer dollars, all setting up Somali daycares, many of which are indeed obviously fraudulent, but at some point you need to start rating the NGOs and conducting some investigations into what they knew or did not know. Just the other day, we learned that Amy Bach, the white woman who helped organize the massive Feeding Our Future scam for the Somalis, was also listed as the point of contact for 47 daycare centers in Minnesota. Now, Amy Bach was the ultimate middleman for Somali entrepreneurs, all of whom, strangely enough, wanted to start daycares. As a nonprofit director, she helped an awful lot of Somalis make an awful lot of profits. And then when she was busted for a fraud scheme to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, the daycares dropped her. Now, how many other Amy Bachs are out there? We should really find out. In other words, we can't pretend that Somalis are the only ones scamming us with fake claims of autism and other disabilities. Yes, it is righteous to arrest and deport every single one of these people, which we should. Yes, Somalis are committing horrific crimes. Their average IQ is extremely low. Yes, they should not be in this country in the first place. But it's also true that this goes much deeper. It's a much wider problem. Americans are also committing an awful lot of fraud. In some cases, they're helping Somalis while lining their own pockets. In many other cases, they're simply helping themselves. So take, for example, the curious case of Graham Platner, who's running for the Democrat Party's nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine. And Platner is best known as the guy with the Nazi tattoo, who supposedly didn't realize it was a Nazi tattoo. But what's interesting about Platner is not the tattoo. What's interesting about him is that as of now, he has a disability rating of 100% from the Department of Veterans Affairs, which stems from his deployment to Afghanistan and Iraq. Now, publicly, Platner has said that these benefits amount to roughly $5,000 a month or about $60,000 a year. Now, wait a minute, you might say. 100% disability. How can someone who is 100% disabled to the point that they receive a substantial amount of cash every year from the taxpayer possibly serve as a U.S. senator? Like, what does the term 100% mean? Because when I hear that, I think, oh, totally disabled. Like, you are not able to do anything. And yet you can serve as a U.S. senator. Which, on second thought, given the quality of our politicians, maybe is not so hard to believe. But for that matter, he also continues to work as an oyster farmer and harbormaster. How does he do that if he's 100% disabled? 100% disabled is running for Senate. 100% disabled. Now, in response, you might point out that under our current laws, it's possible to receive 60,000 a year with 100% disability while also working full-time in an extremely demanding job and obviously not being 100% disabled. And that's probably true. I'm not an expert in disability law, but I can say with absolute confidence that it should not be true. If you're capable of becoming a U.S. senator and if you're capable of working on a boat for a living, then you are not 100% disabled and you don't need $60,000 from the taxpayer on account of your disability. Period. Okay, it doesn't matter if you're a veteran, doesn't matter if you're a good person or a bad person. It's just a matter of common sense. It's a matter of, like, words mean things. 100% disabled means you shouldn't be working on a boat every day. But Graham Platner, of course, is just one example of a much, much larger trend. Disability fraud in this country is rampant. And it's extremely expensive, particularly when it comes to the VA. Something like 7% of our taxes go to VA benefits. And you have to wonder how much of that is unnecessary spending on men like Graham Platner. How much money are we spending to sending to fraudsters at the VA instead of actual American service members who could use the money for their own legitimate medical care? Because there are plenty of those people, too. Now, admittedly, from a political perspective, it's not as easy to go after fraudsters in the VA compared to, say, Somalis in Minnesota who can't even speak English. But it's arguably a lot more important to do so, especially since it's a more common and more expensive problem. And again, it's wasting resources that should be used to treat and assist veterans who actually need it. But apparently, the VA basically operates on an honor system where if you say you're disabled, the money just starts flowing. Watch. How are you making money? Oh, I'm a VA disability with dependents. We have two kids. Right. Okay. 4,700 twice a month? No, I make 4,700 once a month and he makes 3,600 twice a month. And it equals between 11 and 12. Are you going to get disability, too? Oh, yes, I will. There is not a single veteran that has come on the show that does not just get endless money for the rest of their life with disability. It breaks your body and mind. It really does. I'm old. I'm a police officer for the Navy. So I've done a lot of hard-working stuff throughout the time, which I got issues all around. But even people that have served for three years and they just sat on a base, they get it. There has not been one single person on this entire show that doesn't get thousands of dollars for the rest of their life. I think it's like 5% of our budget now. It's something crazy. It's something crazy. This is disabilities forever. Well, they serve their country and they probably have earned it. But it's disability. Yeah, I get that. But there's things that when you serve your country and you break your body or you can't function the same way. I totally agree. I'm saying every single person that has ever been on this show who has literally just sat at a base and did nothing. And I know a lot of them. I know a lot of them. Yes. They will be able to claim some stuff. Yes. I'm not saying if you go get hurt or anything. Like I think that's why it's there, right? Yes. Right. That's what it's intended for. That's what it's intended for. But, whoo. Okay. Now zoom out beyond the VA and the hundreds of billions of dollars we spend there and the problem becomes substantially worse. So here's a trivia question for you. How many food stamp recipients, if you had to guess, don't have any children? You might think the number is fairly low since under the law, if you're an able-bodied adult without dependents, it's supposed to be much harder to get food stamps. As an able-bodied adult, you can't get SNAP benefits easily unless you meet all kinds of work requirements. But here's the amazing thing. 66% of SNAP recipients do not have children in their household. That's roughly 26 million people since incredibly enough, more than 40 million people are on food stamps. Now we've already discussed on the show how absurd it is that 40 million people in this country need food stamps in the first place. It's an obvious farce. Most of them are obese. But the really interesting question is that, you know, an issue, rather, is that 26 million people are still getting food stamps without kids. That shouldn't be possible. The laws are supposed to prevent food stamps from flowing to tens of millions of able-bodied Americans with no dependents to feed. They only have themselves to feed. You should be able to do that with, like, any job. Just feed yourself. Now the trick, as you might have guessed, is that tens of millions of people are pretending that they are not, in fact, able-bodied. In other words, we supposedly have around 20 million disabled people in this country who are so disabled that they cannot get food. They need us to buy their food and also pay for their disability benefits on top of that, of course. The scale of the fraud that's happening here is staggering. And everyone knows it's going on, by the way. Everyone knows, but no one is doing anything about it. People claim they have PTSD or a bad back or whatever. They make some claim of an ailment that cannot be proven. An ailment that won't show up on any scan. You can't do an MRI. You can't take a blood test. And so the only way to determine whether someone has it, and some people do have these things, but the only way to know is if they say they have it. And then they have no problem finding a doctor to sign off on it, and then they just stop working. Or as in the Grant Platner case, they might choose to keep working so that they can double-dim. Now, we're talking about an amount of fraud that dwarfs what's happening in Minnesota, which is already outrageously high. And it's no mystery why this is happening. I mean, at the highest levels of government in academia, it's become fashionable to make disability normal. It's part of a larger plot to normalize communism. This is a recent speech at Harvard's public health school, for example. Listen. If we want to move the needle for people with disabilities specifically, we have to have public policy that looks at metrics around are we actually getting people included. How do we create a situation where for a disabled child coming to a new school, in fact, they won't be the first disabled child their classmates have gone to school with. Disability will be part of the norm. You know, if we can do that, we can move the needle on these specific challenges of the disabled experience. So I want to make something that by definition is abnormal, and most people are not disabled and turn into something that we see all the time, and the plan is working. This is from the Harvard Crimson quote, roughly a fifth of undergraduate students at Harvard received disability accommodations last year, an increase of more than 15% over the past decade, according to data published annually by the National Center for Education Statistics. The rise from roughly 3% in 2014 to 21% in 2024 brings the share of undergraduate students receiving accommodations at Harvard in line with the national average, which has consistently hovered around 20%. Yes, the national average is now 20%. 20% of undergraduate students are also supposedly disabled. And then when these students go out into the real world, many of them claim to be disabled once again so that you have to pay their bills. They're victims and they're dependent on the system. It's almost like all along the left has done everything in its power to normalize dependency and empower the government at the same time. As Mamdani put it, they want to destroy the rugged individual and make him dependent on the collective, the warmth of collectivism. They want a generation of professional victims. And disability fraud is one way they're doing it. We need to see far, far more action on this than we currently are seeing. Yes, swarm Minnesota with ICE and DHS and the FBI, deport the Somalis, shut down the daycares. But when you're done with that, work your way up. Go after the NGOs. Go after anyone, Somali or not, who's defrauding the taxpayer by pretending to work or pretending to be disabled or pretending to be starving. We are not talking about insignificant amounts of money here. We're talking about a very large percentage of the tax dollars that we are forced to pay every year. That's what we're talking about. What we're ultimately talking about is returning to Americans what is owed to us. Now let's get to our five headlines. If your credit card balance is stressing you out after all the holiday spending, cut your cell phone bill in half by switching to PureTalk's Saver Plan. Just $20 a month for unlimited talk text and three gigs of high-speed data on PureTalk's super-fast nationwide 5G network. They're a veteran-led company who cares about giving back to those who serve. So if you're active or former military or a first responder, you'll save an additional 20% every month. The easiest way to free up cash flow is to reduce your monthly recurring bills. 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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also told lawmakers at a classified briefing on Capitol Hill on Monday that the Trump administration did not plan to invade Greenland, but he mentioned instead buying the island from Denmark. So that's what Rubio was talking about, is buying it. And here is Trump on Air Force One talking about it. I will say this about Greenland. We need Greenland from a national security situation. It's so strategic. Right now, Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships all over the place. We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security. And Denmark is not going to be able to do it, I can tell you. You know what Denmark did recently? To boost up security in Greenland? They added one more dog sled. It's true. They thought that was a great move. What would the justification be for a plane to Greenland? I don't want to talk about Greenland now. I just say this. We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security. And the European Union needs us to have it, and they know that. Yes, clearly, if we can acquire Greenland, we should. There's almost no downside. It is that clear. And Trump focuses on the national defense advantages, which are very real. Greenland is a crucial staging ground for missile defense, also space surveillance. But they're also the natural resources, which are largely untapped. Oil and gas, uranium, rare earth, elements, minerals, fresh water. Greenland holds like 5% to 10% of the fresh water on earth. So lots of resources. And then there are the economic benefits beyond the resource, namely control over Arctic shipping lanes, very substantial. There's the strategic benefits, which are very clear, totally undeniable. And the people who laugh it off just don't know what the hell they're talking about. Okay, which is fine. I mean, not knowing much about Greenland is not a character flaw. That's, most people don't know anything about it. That's fine. And you can admit that. When the topic first came up of acquiring Greenland, the vast majority of people hear that as like, I don't know anything about Greenland. And yet everyone thinks they have to have an opinion about it right away. And the opinion of a lot of people is, well, we shouldn't do that. We don't need Greenland. That's ridiculous. Oh, really? Why? Why shouldn't we do it? Why is it ridiculous? I mean, because it's Greenland, you have no clue what you're talking about. None. And you know it. And I don't pretend to be a Greenland expert myself. I'm not. But the little bit I've looked into it, I see, basically, Trump administration talks about a conflict. The Trump administration talks about acquiring Greenland. They present their case. So I listen to the case and then I go, okay, well, that, if that makes sense, like if all those, you're laying out like obvious strategic and economic benefits of acquiring Greenland, I'll go look into it myself. It's like, yes, it appears to check out. But I also think there's another value that Greenland holds. There's another value in general to Trump's expansionism. And I talked about this last year when they first started talking about Greenland and they were talking about Panama and all of that. And I haven't heard very many other people talk about this aspect of it. I think I saw a post from Mike Cernovich, I think, a post of something on X about it, but not very many other people are tapping into this, which is the intangible value. And I understand that from a political perspective, if you're the Secretary of State or the President of the United States, you're probably not going to list this as one of the reasons. But there is also the intangible value that is very real of the life, the hope, the excitement that you bring to a nation and to a people by expanding, by acquiring new land, by acquiring new opportunities. And I realize that if you're a silly person, if you're a superficial dumb person, and you hear that, you scoff at it and you go, what is that? Who cares about that? Who cares about just like the spiritual health of a nation? But for most of human history, people would have instinctively understood this. That's what healthy countries do, okay? It's what empires do. And America is an empire. It always has been. It is encoded in our national DNA that if we are not exploring, if we are not expanding, if we're not going north and going south and going up into space, if we aren't going anywhere, then we're dying. Right? It's funny when I hear people, even conservatives, get so scandalized by Trump's expansionist ambitions, these weak, feeble little naysayers that I am. I'm so tired of these people. I'm so sick of them. People on the left, I don't care. I mean, obviously they're going to. Who cares what they say? A lot of people on the right, too, including people who I thought were like pretty right-wing, pretty based. Even they're saying, that's not who we are. That's not America. What right do we have? Oh, no, that's exactly who we are. You dummy. This is America. This is what America has always been. Do you know anything about American history? Do you know any? What the hell are you talking about? Do you know anything about this country? Really? Do you know anything about your own country? America was born in expansionism. To sit here now and say, well, expansionism is wrong. We don't. What are you talking about? This country would not exist without it. America's thrive became a world power through expansionism. You cannot claim to be an American patriot and have some kind of like fundamental problem with expansionism. Because without what you're saying is America has no right to exist. What you're saying is that America has no right to exist. Expansion through buying new land, through conquering new land, through fighting, killing, bargaining. We've done it all. Okay, this country has done it all. We've done it in every way possible. We would not exist without it. And I swear some of you right wing weaklings, you sound like full on white guilt leftists at this point. You about to break into land acknowledgments. I mean, it's mind boggling. That's what's happening next. I'm going to start hearing these people do land acknowledgments. Okay, now that doesn't mean that every expansionist dream that someone comes up with, that Trump or anyone else comes up with, that doesn't mean it's automatically the right move. There could be things you would do in the name of expansionism that would be a bad move. That would be wrong. We could have that argument. I'm not saying that. But the arguments that I'm hearing from a lot of people are like you are fundamentally opposing the very idea of expansionism, of conquest. You're opposing the very idea of it, which that if you claim to be an America first patriot is just like, it's not a valid position. You can't because you are opposing the very essence of America. You're opposing America itself. To begin with, Europeans colonized and conquered the East Coast of what would become America from Maine to Georgia. And that's to say nothing of all the land that was claimed by Spans and France and other European powers. And so that's to begin with. Like as the left often points out with their dumb little land acknowledgments, we came as in European pioneers and settlers, explorers came to this land. And they colonized it and they conquered it. And yes, there were people living in some of the areas that they colonized and they got into fights with those people and they kicked them out. And they conquered the land. So to now sound so scandalized by the very idea of it. It's like, well, also the way the world has always worked. That's how this country would not exist without it. So and then after and it didn't stop there. Obviously, right? I mean, after the revolution, we immediately expanded like, hungerly. And as soon as this country was a country, we were hungry to expand. The Louisiana Purchase, double the size of the country in 1803. And then we acquire Florida and the annexation of Texas and the Oregon Treaty, the Mexican-American War, where we won California and Arizona and New Mexico and Nevada and Utah through blood, fought and killed for it. Purchase of Alaska in the 1860s, the annexation of Hawaii. We built a Panama Canal and controlled it for basically the entire 20th century. I mean, this is just a partial list. I mean, this is a partial list that brings us only to about 1914 with the opening of the Panama Canal. This is how America came to be. This is how America became a superpower. This is what America is and has always been and I'm proud of that. To me, I'm not ashamed of that. This is what we need, especially if you claim to be an America first patriot. Again, it doesn't mean you have to support every single thing the president does. It doesn't mean you can't make intelligent arguments against certain things. There might be an intelligent argument against acquiring Greenland. I don't know what it is. Again, I think very clearly we should acquire it if we can. For all the re... The benefits are very clear. But maybe this argument, I'm willing to listen to it. But we have to get to a point where we can say, you know what? This country was born through conquest, fighting, dying, yes, killing for the land that we have now. I'm proud of that. I'm proud to live here. I'm grateful for it, more importantly. It's not anything I did, but I'm grateful for all the effort that was taken. And now we have to ask, has history really ended? Now, all of that is in the past, like the rules have totally changed arbitrarily somehow in the 20th century at some point. The rules completely changed, and conquest and expansionism was the way of the world for thousands of years. And then at some point in the late 20th century, it just stopped. And now we're all of a sudden in a new reality where none of that counts anymore. And you can't do any of that anymore. Is that the case? When did we cross that magical threshold? When did we walk through that magical door? I don't remember it. I think we're still living in the world. I think we're still living on the globe, and the realities of the world still apply. And one of those realities is that, especially for America, especially like the American spirit, the American spirit is one of expanding, exploring, conquering, not being satisfied, not just looking at, well, this is our little plot of land here, and just leave it at that. That's never been the American spirit, ever, and it can't be. And so I support it, as I've said, on those grounds alone, truly. That's why I also am a big supporter of, I think we should be going in space. I think trying to make it to other planets, colonize other planets, a big supporter of that. Why? Because that's American. That's what Americans do. Now that we've started 2026, it's the perfect time to cross getting life insurance off your list. Kick off the year with real peace of mind. Making sure your family is taken care of is a big responsibility, and making sure everything is in place. If something happens, can feel like an even bigger one. That's where our sponsor, Policy Genius, comes in. It's an online marketplace where you can compare quotes from top insurers side by side, completely free. No jumping around between websites, no endless phone calls. Their license agents work for you, helping you figure out what you actually need, not what some company wants to sell you. 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But fortunately, the Democrats in Congress, they're keeping the fire alive, keeping the flame, stoking the flame. Literally, they did a candlelight vigil yesterday in recognition of the High Holy Day of January 6th. And here's what that looked like. So, you can see all the serious solemn faces. You can still see the trauma on their faces. You can see how deeply affected they are. Look at that. Look at Akeem Jeffery as they air, and he's just, he's still so affected. He's still so affected. They'll never be able to forget the day. They won't be able to forget the day that they were slightly inconvenienced for a few hours. The day when their work day was briefly interrupted. And I know you see that and you think, well, so they just stood there silently? They didn't even sing? I was hoping they would sing. I know you're thinking that. And then we cut to that clip and you were thinking, I was hoping for a song. If I know one thing about Democrats is when they come together to protest something, they're going to start singing. And fortunately, they did sing. So, let's hear that. God bless America, my home sweet home. God bless America, my home sweet home. Yes, God bless America, my home sweet home. Sing the people who don't believe in God, hate America and don't consider it to be their home. So, you know, other than that, this was definitely a sincere expression of their feelings. And a sincere assault on our eardrums. I mean, because if you're going to sing, at least put Schumer in the back. Can we do that? If you're going to sing, at least put, you've got Schumer right in front of the microphone. A few of those people might have decent singing voices. I don't know. But you've got Schumer right there in the front. And with that singing voice that resembles like a camel getting stabbed to death. And I say that as someone who has a very similar singing voice, by the way. But I have the decency to not actually ever sing in any context where anyone will be able to hear it. I won't, if I'm standing around and it's your birthday and everyone is singing, having a birthday, I won't even sing. I'll just, I'll just mouth the words. And not because I object to the celebration of birthdays, although I do a little bit, but also because really I don't want to desecrate somebody's birthday with my hideous off pitch warbling. So I stand there in shame. Just as Chuck Schumer should. That is our responsibility as members of the tone deaf community. I firmly believe this. If you're totally tone deaf and you can't sing, you should never sing where anyone has to hear it. It really doesn't make me mad. I was in church the other day. Standing behind someone in church recently and she was loudly singing all the hymns. But her singing voice sounded like a cat with laryngitis. It was, and there's this choir singing beautifully. And all I can hear is this woman belting, belting the hymns. Can I sing at all? And I'm just, I'm boiling with rage in church. I was, they're singing these beautiful hymns and I'm just like, because I'm an emotionally healthy person. And that's how emotionally healthy people respond. So anyway, but of course Chuck Schumer went up to the microphone and, and gave a speech. Let's listen to that. Let us remember the attack of January six is not over. It lives on in the threats to our election workers. It lives on through those who want to take away our right to vote, who want to legalize voter discrimination. We must never, never, never stop fighting for this beautiful democracy, which January six showed us is more fragile. I mainly want to play that because I want to, like he says the attack on January six continues, has not ended. And if you notice nothing ever ends for these people, you'll notice that is that's their game. That's their ploy. Every bad thing that's ever happened continues to happen. Nothing ends. Nothing is over. Nothing is in history. History is now forever. Jim Crow continues, slavery continues. The civil rights fight continues in the leftist mind. All of these things are happening always in forever. Women are still fighting for the right to vote. The civil war is still raging. Indians are still being displaced. Right. Columbus is still enslaving natives. All the things in history that they complain about, all of it is still happening. The legacy lives on. The thing itself lives on. And it's ironic because they call themselves progressives, but they flatly deny that any kind of progress has actually been made or ever can be made. I mean, they'll look you in the eye and they'll tell you that a black person in 2026 has it really no better than a black person in 1876, which is kind of ironic. Skip the life overhaul in 2026. Just swap your snacks for ones with real ingredients like our sponsor, Massa. 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And regardless, somebody coming into the United States and grabbing our leader in the middle of the night and killing people in this country, I'm sure everybody would be outraged at them doing it that way. I hate how proud of herself she always is when she says the dumbest thing. She says the dumbest thing and she's so proud of herself. You know what? Two plus two equals seven. Pause for applause. Applause break. But this one I've heard from a lot of people on both sides. If some other country did that to us, we'd be upset. It's the dumbest argument you could possibly make. So we successfully pulled off an operation against another country that benefits us. Right? So these are what you're saying. You're saying that we did this thing that benefited us and we're happy about it. But if a country pulled off something like that against us that benefited them but hurt us, we wouldn't like it. Wow. Wow. What an insight. Oh my gosh. How profound. Wow. Oh wow. That was what up. Finally someone said it. Yeah, you're right. Come to think of it. Actually, you're right. Like if rather than a good thing happening to us, a bad thing happened, we would be sad instead of happy. This thing happened that's to our benefit and we were happy. But if it was not to our benefit, we wouldn't be happy. Wow. Wow. I mean, make this woman president immediately. With that kind of insight, this is what we need in the Oval Office. This is what we need. Now look, there are some very significant differences between us capturing Maduro and some other country capturing our president. For one thing, our president is a president. He was elected. He's not a communist dictator. Despite what the left might say, he's not actually a dictator. He was elected. He's not a communist dictator. And that's the big thing. It is morally acceptable to take actions against a communist dictator that would not be morally acceptable against an actual democratically elected American president. Also, like I explained already, they are stealing from us. They used American infrastructure to access oil and then broke the deal and ripped us off and didn't compensate us and took the oil that we have a right to as well. So, you know, there are a lot of differences. But I want to focus on one other point. When people say, you know, we'd be upset if this happened to us, it's like what they're implying is that the only reason it doesn't happen to us is because the other countries of the world are more magnanimous and nicer than us. Yeah, when they say, well, we better really grateful that no one's doing that to us. What they're implying is that the other countries of the world would kidnap Trump, could kidnap Trump and take over our government, but they choose not to. Out of the kindness of their hearts. And so we're the big bad mean bullies that are doing this thing that everyone else has decided not to do. You know, and you hear this, that guy Sneak-O said something similar. He said that if a quote unquote brown country did this, we'd be upset. You know, if a brown country came in and kidnap the president, we wouldn't like that very much. So let me clue you in on a, all you guys in on a, anyone who has this view, let me clue you in on a fact of life. There are dozens of other countries on the planet that would love to do this to us. There are dozens of other countries on the planet that would in fact do this to us in a second if they could, but they can't. So the reason why those other countries aren't doing this is not because they've chosen not to. It's not because they are opposed to it morally. It's because they can't. It's because they can't do it. The reason why nobody treats America like we treated Venezuela is purely solely only because they can't. Not because they could, but they're too nice because they can't. They can't do it. We are much stronger and much smarter than them. And so they can't do this. Now it's true that lots of other countries, as others have pointed out, lots of other countries in fact have invaded ours. Latin American countries have invaded, African countries have invaded, Asian countries, but they invade through immigration because we stupidly allow them to do it. We don't have to allow it, but we do. And we saw how easy it was. Well, just what you get a president that now there's a lot that still needs to be done, mass deportations, that doesn't happen. But you can at least enforce the borders and just say, no, you're not allowed to come here anymore. And it just took a president who was willing to do it and he did and it was done. But what these other countries can't do is stage any kind of military takeover. And if they could, they would. If it were possible for our president to be kidnapped and our government to be overthrown violently by some hostile enemy force, it would happen. It would happen in a second. They would be lining up to do it. Have you noticed how, you know, these inferior countries on the planet, like this is how they treat each other all the time? I mean, they're constantly doing this to each other. They're constantly invading each other, killing each other, overthrowing each other. They don't do it to us because they can't. It's that simple. And this is how the world works. A lot of people apparently are living in fantasy land. They don't understand how the world works. This is how it works. If you aren't strong enough to defend yourself, you'll be taken over. If your country cannot hold itself in existence through force, through violence, your country will not exist anymore. Effectively, your country does not exist already. It'll get taken over or it'll become a vassal state, a shell, a servant of a superior country. I made this point months ago. I made this point on, when I was on Tucker's show, months ago. And some people are upset by it. But if you as a country cannot exist on your own two feet, if you cannot defend yourself, if you cannot assert and maintain your own existence, then you're not a real country. You're just not. You have, and that's the other thing we hear about, oh, this country, like no country has a right to exist. Again, the world doesn't work that way. What do you mean right to exist? Countries come and go. Like that's how it's always been. There's no right to exist. Who are you claiming that right against? Another country comes to evade you. You can't say, well, I have a right. I have a right to exist. You have to assert that. Right? You have to impose that. If you want your country to exist, it's not just saying to all the other countries, I have a right to be here. We have a right to this. And your country only came into existence in the first place through violence. So the only reason it's there, so that's why every country on the planet, if it's there, it's because you conquered someone and killed them and took their land. I mean, that's the only reason it's there. That's how every country is there in the first place. And so if some other country comes and does it to you, it doesn't do much good to say, I have a right. Now you have to assert. You have to impose. It's not like, well, you have no right to do this to me. It's like, we're not going to let you do this. You can't do this to us. You try to do this to us, we're going to kill you. And if you as a country, you're going to be in a state of violence, you're going to be in a state of violence. You're going to be in a state of violence. You're going to be in a state of violence. And if you as a country cannot do that, then you're not like a real country. If you rely on the patronage and support and defense of some other country, then you are a vassal of that country. And that's again, that's how it works. Every country on the planet, every country came into existence through violence, relies on violence to remain in existence. Countries exist through force and no other way. Period. This is the story of world history. This is the story of human civilization. So all that to say, okay, if some just to answer the question of some other country were able to waltz in and kidnap our president and take him to jail in their country and take our oil and all that. I wouldn't be happy about it. I'd be very sad. I would be very angry. But it would be our fault. And the main thing that I would feel as an American is shame. It would mean that the United States is over. It's not a real country. And it would mean that it hadn't been for a long time. It wouldn't be any sense in crying that it isn't fair. I'll put it this way. Here's maybe I summarize it after all the rambling. If any country can do that to us, then we deserve it. Then our existence as a country is a mirage. It's fake. If they could just come in here and impose their will completely taking no casualties for themselves, stealing the leader of our country in 88 minutes. Then I would argue that we deserve to be ruled by that country, whichever country it is. Sneak-o talks about a brown country. Okay, what do we define as a brown country? Nigeria. If Nigeria can do that, then they should rule over us. We deserve to be ruled by them. Then our whole country is a mirage. The only reason why it hasn't happened is because no one's tried it. It's just out of their own graciousness. We're relying on the graciousness and generosity of every other country to simply exist. Well, if that's the case, then that's not a real country. If any country can do that to us, and I suppose they're welcome to try, if they can do it, then we kind of deserve it. They should just rule over us. But they can't do it. They can't do it. They can't do it. 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I think of Cuba in particular, very, very high literacy rate, number one, number two, extremely strong commitment to public health. So that's one example that I can think of that would resonate with pretty much anybody in our state who cares about education or healthcare. Would you disagree with that? People flee on makeshift rafts and die in the ocean to flee Cuba for the United States. Yeah, and I think that that is something that absolutely we have to be sensitive to, but you asked me about institutions that are working really, really well. I asked you about places socialism is working and you chose a country that people will risk their lives to flee from to this country. There's a reason for that, Sean. There was a revolution in Cuba. That is correct. They still do it to this day. They show up on the beaches of Miami. Because they would rather be here and would risk their lives in shark infested water to flee the country that you just gave me an example of. And if the situation were reversed, the injuries and the ailments that they sustain as a result of migrating to a place where they believe that they're going to be better off, I believe that they could be treated in a much better way than American healthcare facilities are currently able to treat people. So that's one example that I can think of of socialism working very well in public health and in education. All right. So there it is. Very well done by the host there. His name is Brandy Cruz and yeah, name a place where socialism has worked. Oh, yeah, I know. I can name a place where socialism worked. It's the God forsaken hellhole whose citizens would rather get eaten by sharks than live there for another minute longer. The place where people are literally jumping into the sea, flinging themselves into the ocean to escape. The people were the place where people like they have to choose between staying there or dying of hunger and exposure on a raft in the ocean. And they choose the raft. And you notice that never happens here. I think he talks about, he says, if the situation was reversed and I'm not exactly sure what he means by that. But okay, try to imagine it. It's hard to even conceive of the situation being reversed. Imagine you're on vacation in the Outer Banks or you know, you're down at South Beach Miami or you're down in a Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. And you see some white American family pull up with a raft, with a raft made of wood tied together with paracord. And they've got all their belongings in a knapsack and they got a couple of oars made out of tree limbs. And you go up to them and you say, what are you doing? What's going on here? And they say, well, we need to get out of here. We need to go find a better life. And they shove off into the ocean on a raft, never to be seen again. Like, you can't even imagine that. You cannot imagine it. It would be the most absurd thing you'd ever seen in your entire life. And that's because nobody escapes this country. People leave sometimes, you can leave. And sometimes people do leave. Rarely, on rare occasions, somebody immigrates out of America. But nobody escapes. There's no escaping. You don't need to escape America. You could just leave if you want to. If somebody was on the boat and they said, we got to escape. It's like, are you a prisoner? Are you a fugitive on the run? No, no, we just need to leave this country. We got to escape. It's like, dude, you can just get on a plane. What are you doing? Get in your car. You don't need to do all this. But no one does that because, in fact, no one, you don't need to escape. And you can leave, but no one hardly ever does. They come here instead, and they don't leave, unlike a socialist country. There's never been a socialist country that thousands of people were not constantly trying to escape. I mean, I would put it this way. If you want to establish a socialist country, the first thing you got to do is build a wall, but not to keep people out, to keep them in. And that kind of sums it up. I don't think it could be explained any better than that. If you see a wall in a socialist country, it's to keep people in, not out. And as opposed to this country, where our walls on the border, and we should have more of them, they're about keeping all the people out or trying to flood in here. And it kind of sums it all up. So we will wrap it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed. I'm Arleigh. To be alone with God. Is that who you think I was alone with? Martin, I knew your father. I am yet convinced that he was not of this world. All men know of the great Taliesin. Who am I, father, that the God should war for my soul? Princess Gareth, savior of our people. I know what the Bull God offered you. I was offered the same. And? There is a new power at work in the world. 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