Ep. 1580 - The Coordinated Hit Job On Pete Hegseth Must Be Exposed And Defeated

Today on the Matt Wall Show, the coordinated smear campaign against Pete Hegseth continues

and only proves why he's the right man for the job. Also, Pope Francis dies.
Will a conservative

pope be elected in his place? Well, there are a few problems with just the question itself.

We'll talk about it. And Canadian nationalism is on the rise, we're told.
But how can nationalism

exist in a country steeped in self-loathing and shame for its own existence? We'll talk about all

that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show. Being a husband, a father, and host of my own show means life never slows down.
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It wasn't billed as an interrogation at the time. They convinced Flynn that it was just an opportunity for a friendly chat.
But in retrospect, their goal could not have been any more clear. They wanted to manufacture a pretext to secure Flynn's termination.
And getting rid of Flynn would enable the FBI to continue to conduct a series of fraudulent investigations into the Trump administration. It would insulate the bureau from any kind of large-scale reform.
And it would help the FBI spread the narrative that the Trump administration was secretly working for Russia in some way. Therefore, the FBI asked Flynn a few questions in the White House.
Then they convinced Mike Pence that Flynn had lied to them, even though to this day, no one can explain what exactly Flynn said because the conversation wasn't recorded. But in any event, Pence took the FBI's word for it.
Michael Flynn was fired after less than a month. His tenure as national security advisor was the shortest in American history.
Now, what happened to Michael Flynn is worth recalling this week, especially because it was not a one-off.

This wasn't a random act of sabotage by some unelected shadowy officials.

It was, in fact, standard operating procedure.

It is the default response of a bureaucracy that feels threatened.

They will come up with a smear campaign, launder it through sympathetic media outlets, and ultimately pressure the decision makers to get rid of their target. Eight years ago, this is precisely how they got rid of Michael Flynn.
And right now, it's how they're trying to destroy Donald Trump's defense secretary, Pete Hegseth. Now, from the moment that Hegseth was nominated, there was a concerted effort, as you probably recall, to smear him as an alcoholic who was too inexperienced to do the job.
It was almost like the Brett Kavanaugh hearings all over again. Anonymous accusations began surfacing every other day.
We were even told, if you could believe it, that Pete Hegseth once celebrated St. Patrick's Day live on the air on Fox and Friends.
That was supposed to be profoundly scandalous for some reason. In reality, the point of that fake scandal was never to convince anyone of anything.
Instead, the point was to send a message to the incoming Trump administration. And the message was that the most powerful forces in Washington did not want Pete Hegseth to be confirmed.
They wanted Donald Trump to pull his nomination and select someone more conventional, someone who would be more responsive to the needs of defense contractors, for example.

But Trump didn't abandon Hegseth's nomination.

He decided after what happened in the first term to trust his own instincts and to stand by his selection.

And the result has been predictable.

Just a few months into Donald Trump's term, Hegseth's enemies have begun yet another smear campaign. And like the campaign to oust Michael Flynn, it's not meant to withstand any kind of scrutiny.
The point is to move quickly, create panic, and ultimately pressure the White House to fire Hegseth. It's not exactly a subtle operation.
Yesterday morning, NPR came out with this story, which directly states the outcome that they want to achieve, quote, exclusive. The White House is looking to replace Pete Hegseth as defense secretary.
And according to NPR, quote, the White House has begun the process of looking for a new leader at the Pentagon to replace Pete Hegseth, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.
This comes as Hegseth is again mired in controversy over sharing military operational details in a group chat. So here we have an unnamed source, just one person, who's described only as a U.S.
official, so could be anyone in any position, stating that the White House is planning to fire Pete Exeth. And based on this one nameless official, who supposedly serves somewhere in the United States government, could literally be anywhere, the narrative has been set.
Pretty much every outlet picked up this story. They're all trying to convey the perception that Hegseth removal is a foregone conclusion.
And meanwhile, there's a steady drip of new information that's supposedly even more damning than the last hit piece. You can tune into CNN and they'll tell you that Hegseth needs to be removed because of a new signal chat that's suddenly been uncovered.
Watch. Today, we are learning some new details following reports of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sharing some detailed military plans in a second signal group chat that included his wife, a lawyer, and his brother.
Multiple sources telling CNN Hegseth revealed strike plans against Houthi targets in Yemen, similar to what was shared in that other group chat, which came to light after the editor of The Atlantic was mistakenly added to it. We've also learned that Hegseth directly addressed the matter with President Trump during a phone call last night.
Earlier today, the president defended Hegseth. He's doing a great job.
It's just fake news. They just bring up stories.
I guess it sounds like disgruntled employees. He was put there to get rid of a lot of bad people, and that's what he's doing.
So you don't always have friends when you do that. Now, before we go into the specifics, I need to make it clear that I was know, I was a fan of the Hegseth pick when it was initially announced.

But after seeing this unrelenting smear campaign that started before he was even confirmed and hasn't let up since, I have to say I'm now an even bigger fan of the pick.

I mean, it's clear that the establishment sees this guy as a threat to their agenda.

He's in a position to do extraordinary damage to their interests.

And it seems like he's already doing a lot of damage, which is why he needs to stay in that position at all costs. And as you saw, Donald Trump doesn't really need to be told that.
He understands exactly what CNN and the rest of the corporate press are trying to do here. The coverage is breathless and fast moving because you're not supposed to stop and scrutinize any of it.
If you think about it for five seconds, you'll realize that, as was the case with Michael Flynn, the hysteria makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. So to recap, the case against Pete Hexeth is that the National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, mistakenly added Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of the Atlantic Magazine, to a classified group chat about a U.S.
military strike. And even if this is true, even if we pretend for a moment that a rabidly anti-Trump journalist with extensive ties to deep state was somehow accidentally added to a highly sensitive group chat, it's still not remotely clear why Pete Hegseth should be fired as a result.
I mean, he's not the one who made the mistake here. The next alleged scandal, as reported by the New York Times, concerns a signal chat that involved Hegseth and a dozen other people, including his lawyer, his wife, Jennifer, and his brother, Phil, who works at the Pentagon.
And the chat was called Defense Team Huddle, also reportedly included Dan Caldwell and Darren Selnick, two former Hegseth advisors who were just fired after a leak investigation. And supposedly during this chat, Hegseth again discussed war plans involving Yemen, although no one's sure exactly what was communicated.
And now, under the circumstances, it would be reasonable to wonder if Dan Caldwell or Darren Selnick might have had a role in placing this story in the New York Times. After all, they were just fired from the Pentagon for leaking.
They were both members of this group chat, and now they're publicly attacking Pete Hegseth's Defense Department and implying that the Pentagon wants to pursue a reckless war with Iran. Now, as it relates to unelected operatives in the Pentagon, you know, that might be true.
I'm not in a position to dispute that claim. Maybe there are some people in the Pentagon doing that.
But anyone who's paying attention to what Pete Hegseth is doing, both in public and in private, knows that he's going to do everything he can to prevent that outcome of a war with Iran. Here's what Hegseth told Fox News earlier this month.
Quote, Trump is dead serious that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. He said that for 20 years.
He's been consistent. That is clear.
He's dead serious that he wants it all done at the negotiating table. He wants it done peacefully.
And that's why he's going straight to these talks. He's set that deadline.
But he's also dead serious that if we can't figure this out at the negotiating table, then there are other options to include my department to ensure that Iran never has a nuclear bomb, close quote. So in other words, his primary objective is not to attack Iran.
It's a peaceful diplomatic resolution.

And a couple of days later, the New objective is not to attack Iran. It's a peaceful diplomatic resolution.

And a couple of days later, the New York Times confirmed that in private, Hegseth had personally helped avert a military strike on Iran that could have spiraled into World War III. Quote, Israel had planned to strike Iranian nuclear sites as soon as next month, but was waived off by President Trump in recent weeks in favor of negotiating a deal with Tehran to limit its nuclear program, according to administration officials and others briefed on the discussions.
Inside the Trump administration, some officials were becoming skeptical of the Israeli plan. In a meeting this month, one of several discussions about the Israeli plan, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, presented a new intelligence assessment that said the buildup of American weaponry could potentially spark a wider conflict with Iran that the United States did not want.
A range of officials echoed Ms. Gabbard's concerns in the meeting.
Susie Wiles, the White House Chief of Staff, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Vice President J.D. Vance all voiced doubts about the attack, close quote.
Now, that report was published, if you're keeping track at home, on April 16th. And it states very clearly that Hegseth had helped stop a military attack on Iran, which could have easily devolved into all-out war.
Four days later, on April 20th, the Times published a story outlining Hegseth's second signal chat, which is supposedly grounds for his termination. So in other words, we get a new scandal right after Hegseth enrages the defense contractors that would have made many millions of dollars, if not more, from an all-out conflict with Iran.
And then hot on the heels of the new scandal, we get an unverified, barely-sourced report about how the White House is supposedly looking to replace Hegseth. Now, at this point, I can only assume that that's another fake smear because, you know, it would be a disastrous mistake for Trump to cave to the pressure and offer up his defense secretary as a sacrifice.
It's the kind of mistake that could derail his entire presidency. And it would be a major victory for establishment Washington, which is becoming increasingly desperate by the day.
You can see the signs of the desperation everywhere, by the way. Here's one of them.
On Monday, four more Democrat lawmakers made a pilgrimage down to El Salvador to visit that MS-13 gangbanger following the visit by Senator Chris Van Hollen that we discussed last week. And the lawmakers were Robert Garcia of California, Maxwell Frost of Florida, Yasemin Ansari of Arizona, and Maxine Dexter of Oregon.
And these politicians, like the rest of the Washington establishment, are pulling out all the stops to defend their open borders globalist agenda. Making a martyr out of Abrego Garcia is one way of doing that.
Making a scapegoat out of Hegseth is also part of that plan. Now, to be clear, I see no indication that this is going to work.
It doesn't look like this MS-13 gangbanger is going to be returned to the United States any more than it looks like Pete Hegseth is about to be replaced by another Raytheon board member. The idea that the White House is planning to cave to the demands of establishment in Washington at the moment seems like yet another fabrication from the corporate press.
And for the sake of the world, which wouldn't exactly benefit from nuclear Armageddon, it should remain a fabrication and nothing more. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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I haven't had a chance to talk about the death of Pope Francis, so rest in peace to Pope Francis, of course. Now, Pope Francis died yesterday, as you no doubt heard.
This news does not come as a shock. He was very old and very sick, but it's still a major earth-shaking event.
And look, if you've been a fan of this show or followed my work for any length of time, then you probably know, or at least you won't be surprised to learn, that I was a critic of Pope Francis. I was not a fan of many of the decisions that he made or of the way that he chose to operate during his papacy.
However, with that said, as a Catholic and as a decent person, or at least someone who tries to be a decent person, I'm not going to use the occasion of his death to air my grievances. I've seen a number of Catholic pundits doing that.
And I think it's unseemly. I don't want to do that.
There'll be plenty of time for the autopsy of Pope Francis's reign. I don't think that right now is the time that needs to happen.
All that I will say, looking forward, is that I pray that the cardinals elect a new pope who will lead with courage and clarity and a deep respect for tradition. And you're going to hear a lot in the coming days, as you've already heard, no doubt, about the conservative Pope candidates versus the liberal Pope candidates.
So there's going to be, I've already seen tons of articles in corporate media about this. But just a word of caution, the problem with this language is that, well, there's a couple of problems.
First of all, this is not an election in the way that your local congressional candidate runs for election. This is an election guided by the Holy Spirit.
So all of the handicapping that goes on, the betting markets, you know, getting involved, the analysts predicting. As a Catholic, I find it kind of absurd.
And I will be the first to tell you, I truly have no idea who will be chosen. This is not the kind of thing where you can check the polls and get a good read on which Pope candidate is going to win out.
So that's the first thing to keep in mind. Also, the labels conservative and liberal cannot be so easily overlaid on top of this situation.
So, for example, I read an article, I can't remember where, that named one pope candidate, the one supposed pope candidate, as liberal. This is another one of those articles.
Here are the conservative candidates. Here are the liberal.
And this was a cardinal who they were describing as liberal because he preaches about helping the poor. And so he's one of the liberals now, according to the corporate media.
But, of course, there's nothing liberal about that. That's just called being a Christian.
That's called the gospel, right? Now, in the West, in the United States in particular, we read helping the poor as something that is left-wing coded, because in our country, when politicians talk about helping the poor, they usually mean entitlements, the welfare state, and all of that. And it's also true that when religious leaders talk about helping the poor, very often they might mean the same thing, unfortunately.
But there's not anything actually liberal about helping the poor. That's not a liberal position.
So I think these labels are not always the most helpful. And that's also why I'm not praying for a quote unquote conservative pope.
Because, you know, again, when you hear conservative, you think, oh, he's Republican. I'm praying for a pope who respects and loves Catholic tradition, who will lead with moral clarity.
Clarity is very important. There's a lot of confusion in the world today and moral courage.
And a pope will be unafraid to face down the true evils that we face in the world and the evils that are threatening human souls. Call that conservative if you want, whatever you want to call it.
But that's what the church needs and that's what the world needs right now. Let's move to something a whole lot less important.
I don't know. I've been flummoxed by this.
So Joe Biden released, maybe you've seen this, or his handlers released, a photo of Joe with his family on Easter. And we'll put the photo up on the screen so you can see it.
And there they are sitting on the front steps. You've got Jill there and some of the grandkids.
Hunter is there. Hunter's passed out in a motel somewhere, we can assume.
But then in the back, you see Joe, and you look at that photo, and you realize immediately that it is 100% Photoshopped. That is not real.
I mean, that mother effer is not real. They have Photoshopped Joe into this of his family for for certain.
I mean, for certain they did that. That's not a conspiracy theory.
It's like 100 percent. They photoshop Joe Biden into a photo of his with his family.
First of all, he's in a full suit while the rest of the family is dressed casually. He's not the president.
If he was still the president, that would make sense because the president just wears a suit all the time. But there's no way this dude is still walking around

in a suit every day at his own house. He's walking around in a suit at his own house.

Now, sure, it is possible that he still thinks he's president. It's possible that they've

told him that he's still president. So he dresses up every day for Oval Office meetings,

which are held in his foyer with his grandkids and a collection of large stuffed animals. That is possible, but still, it looks fake.
The position of his body doesn't make sense. His height doesn't make sense.
It looks like it's just his severed torso sitting on the top of the steps. Then you can see what I guess is supposed to be his hand on somebody's shoulder, but that doesn't look right, unless he has T-Rex arms now.
I mean, unless his arms shrank as a symptom of dementia. I'm not sure if that's a symptom or not.
So it's definitely Photoshop, but that raises the question of why. I mean, why the hell would you Photoshop him into a picture? What is the point of that? Can't you take an actual picture of him with his family? Does his family hate him that much that they won't even pose for a picture with him? Now, then again, I will say that getting a good Easter photo with the whole family is tough, I've learned.
So maybe you have to use Photoshop sometimes. We go through this every year in my family every year.
This is my wife's never ending quest is to get a good photo on Easter of the family, you know, the kids. But she's always foiled because she never gets the photo that she wants that lives up to her standards.
Because the thing is, when you have young kids and parents know this, when you have young kids and you get them dressed up in their sunday finest you have a very very small window of time where they will look presentable the top the clock is ticking as soon as you put them in all the you go through the whole laborious effort of getting them in the outfits it's like t minus 12 minutes and then the five-year-old's hair will look like you know she stuck her finger in electrical outlet the two-year-olds will have dirt and food stains, even though they didn't eat anything, and they weren't around any dirt, as far as you know. There's a whole mess.
So you've got a very short window of time to do this, and then you go and you set all the kids up, you take the picture, and then you've got one kid forgot how to open their eyes. Another one looking off in the distance, a kid crying, you know, the whole thing.
So it is tough. But that's what taking a picture with young kids is like.
That's not an excuse for Biden. So the mystery still remains here.
I don't get it, but it is the fact that they're still playing this game. You don't have to do this anymore.
He lost. Well, he didn't even he lost before the election even happened.
He's not in office anymore. And and we all know that he has dementia.
So the secret's out. All right.
We've heard from this guy before, Ellie Mistel, talking about why he thinks all laws before the 1960s don't count. And I guess he's written a book about it.
So he's just on this tour, you know, talking about this. Here he is again on the same subject.
Listen to this. I don't give a lot of constitutional weight or heft to laws passed before 1965, right? Because nobody asked me and nobody asked anybody to look like me.
So why should I care what some old white judge and some old white legislature and some old white president decided was right for me? Living under the laws of the people who kidnapped my people and held us in bondage, that's not something they do anywhere else in the world. It's not like South Africa said like oh that apartheid was bad but you know what we're just gonna like clean up some of these laws and okay now we have no they were like take your boar constitution and put it in the trash we will write another one this time including everybody so he says why should i care about laws that were passed a long time ago because Because nobody asked me or anyone who looks like me.
That's that's his argument. Well, there's a couple of things here.
First of all, as I've already explained, this would delegitimize a lot of laws that I assume this morbidly obese Q-tip still likes, such as the laws abolishing slavery. I assume he's a fan of those laws.
The First Amendment is another one that he enjoys for himself anyway. Maybe not he doesn't like that other people have it, but he enjoys it for himself.
The entire Constitution was established without consulting Elie Mistel or anyone who looks like him. So is that what you want, Elie? You want the Constitution to be abolished? Really? I mean, really? Should we do that now? Should we just go ahead and do that right now? You want, I mean, you want Trump to just go ahead and do that? Because, I mean, if Trump came out tomorrow and said that the Constitution is null and void, you couldn't object.
After all, it was passed by old white men, right? I mean, by your logic. But also more to the point, perhaps, this idea that the law doesn't count because nobody asked him.
Well, that's totally ludicrous because nobody asked him about any laws that exist, even the ones after 1965. Every law in the books has been written without Ellie's direct consent or input, unless it was a referendum or something.
But most laws are passed without asking Ellie Mistel or any of the rest of us, really. We elect people who write laws, but they don't actually ask us directly

before voting. And even if they did, does that mean that all laws have to be reset with every new generation of Americans? Every new generation is governed by laws that were written before they were born.
So should we reset every 25 years? Every 25 years, we throw out every law, every single one, and start over.

Maybe Ellie is dumb enough to want something like that, but it would be a recipe for a non-functioning society. It'd be a recipe for a failed state, a failed civilization.
And this is the problem, really, with the kind of social contract theory, this idea that we're all part of this contract that we sign up for and consent to and can withdraw our consent at any time. Well, no, that's not actually how it works.
It's never worked that way anywhere ever. It can't work that way.
So this is all nonsense. finally here's a here's a bit of a cringe fest for you somebody

sent me this here's a bit of a cringe fest for you. Somebody sent me this.
It's a, and a few days ago, we did a segment where I was responding to some of the TikTok and social media influencers who were angry at me for my take on the Austin Metcalf murder. And I guess we missed this guy.
He's a Christian influencer responding to my tweet about the Austin Metcalf killing, where I talk about how young black males are disproportionately violent. And this guy who goes by the handle Nerdy Christian and has a bit of a following, but he didn't like that very much.
And here's what he has to say. Listen.
All right, guys. Sometime tomorrow, I want to talk about why this is really problematic and racist.
But first, I want to get ahead of that just with exposing a misconception that I think a lot of us have about racism and what it is. So guys, racism is not by necessity limited to white supremacy, like literally thinking consciously that white people are or black people or any other race are supreme over others or superior to others.
And it's also not limited to intentional, objective discrimination. In fact, most racism that is experienced and acts of racism that are committed in our society, I would say, are not conscious.
They're not intentional even. Most racism is subconscious.
It's things like the fact that African-American sounding names are less likely to get a response on a resume, a job application, than white sounding names. That's just, that's racism.
But that's not that someone intentionally said, ah, I want to discriminate against black applicants today. That's just the way our subconscious internal biases work due to social conditioning.
And that's what people

mean when they talk about systemic racism and things like that is a lot. The majority of racism that we experience in our society, that we even propagate in our society is not intentional.
It's not so dark and nefarious. And that's why it's so important to recognize that any of us at any time by adopting biases like matt walsh's can potentially further racism guys be self-aware enough to address your own implicit biases inside yourself and attempt to counter them and intentional countering of the subconscious biases that you recognize within yourself is the only way for us to combat racism in our own lives.
I just cannot imagine at this point in time using the term problematic unironically as he does here. Yeah, that's problem.
Sorry, guys. That's a bit problematic.
That's problematic language. I've already tuned you out the moment you do that.
You've advertised yourself at the outset as a kind of limp-wristed, pretentious wimp. And I can't take you seriously.
And also, notice what he doesn't do. As we saw with the other influencers who were angry, as we always see in these situations, he doesn't dispute my point.
My point about the data, about the demographics and the data, who's committing the majority of violent crime and so on. That was my point.
He doesn't dispute it. He doesn't present any kind of counterargument.
He doesn't say, well, you know, Matt is wrong about this point. And here's the data to back me up.
He doesn't do that. None of them ever do.
All the people who get offended and they start blubbering about how it's problematic, they never, ever, ever even attempt to dispute the actual point because they can't. So, I mean, that's all that really needs to be said.
You don't offer a rebuttal. So there's no argument to refute here.
You didn't present one. But I will say just for the record that, and this is why this kind of thing from someone like that annoys me in particular, when you've got Christian in your handle and you're identifying yourself as a Christian.
I will say that you really do immeasurable harm to the faith when you pretend that the faith you pretend to hold when you go around representing Christianity this way, when you represent Christianity as a religion that makes you weak and scared and pathetic, a religion that forbids us from speaking uncomfortable truths, truths that, again, he does not actually dispute. He just doesn't want you to talk about it.
When you present Christianity that way, you make it seem totally unappealing and useless and pointless. I mean, why would anyone want to be a part of a religion like that? Why would anyone want to be Christian if it requires them to be scared, equivocating little weaklings? They don't.
They won't, which is why churches that appeal to this guy, churches that are like right down the center plate for this guy and what he wants, they're all dying. They're decaying and they're dying because of this.
Because in reality, that's not Christianity. Not only are we not prohibited from speaking uncomfortable truths as Christians, we're actually required to.
We are called to. Uncomfortable truth could be the subtitle of every gospel account.
Jesus was the ultimate preacher of uncomfortable truths. So every part of this is just false and wrong, pathetic and false and wrong and bad and harmful.
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When Justin Trudeau became the prime Minister of Canada in 2015, he made the following statement to the New York Times, one of the most remarkable statements ever uttered by a public official anywhere in any context. And here it is, word for word, quote, there's no core identity, no mainstream in Canada.
There are shared values, openness, respect, compassion, willingness to work hard, to be there for each other, to search for equality and justice. Those qualities are what make us the first post-national state.
Now, if you don't attend the World Economic Forum in Davos every year or hang out at places like the Aspen Security Forum, then this kind of statement might seem confusing or incomprehensible at first, but simply normal people don't talk like this. People with pride in their heritage and their country don't talk like this.
You will not find a single tribe in the poorest neighborhood in Zimbabwe that's willing to demean itself in front of the whole world as readily as Justin Trudeau will demean Canada. As explicitly as he possibly could, Trudeau was signaling to his globalist allies that with his election, they now owned Canada.
As a nation, Canada had ceased to exist. I mean, that's what he said.
They're a post-nation. Now, throughout Trudeau's tenure as prime minister, this was a theme that would be repeated time and time again.
At every opportunity, Trudeau portrayed Canada as a failed experiment, as an illegitimate genocidal hellhole that had brutally murdered so-called indigenous children and then buried them in mass graves. He even declared that church burnings were understandable in response to Canada's many sins.
Under Justice Trudeau, Canada Day, their equivalent to the 4th of July, became a time of mourning instead of a time of celebration. And the point of all this self-flagellation was to undermine and ultimately eliminate Canadians' pride in their own nation.
And it continued right up until the moment that Justin Trudeau left office. In fact, in one of his final acts as prime minister, Trudeau told CNN that Canadians' only way of defining themselves is that they're not American.
And we've played this clip before, but it's worth showing again, if only to underscore how overwhelmingly pathetic this guy was and is. Watch.
President-elect Trump has been needling you a bit, calling you Governor Trudeau, talking about making Canada the 51st state. Did you have any interaction with him today? No, not today.
But that's not going to happen. Canadians are incredibly proud of being Canadian.
One of the ways we define ourselves most easily is, well, we're not American. There is such a depth of pride that that's not actually an issue.
What I think is happening in this is President Trump, who's a very skillful negotiator, is getting people to be somewhat distracted by that conversation to take away from the conversation around 25% tariffs on oil and gas and electricity and steel and aluminum and lumber and concrete and everything the American consumers buy from Canada is suddenly going to get a lot more expensive if he moves forward on these tariffs. And that's something that I think we need to be focusing on a little bit more.
So this has been the dominant perspective in Canada for more than a decade. It's not just Trudeau who thinks like this.
Millions of Canadians do as well. Not all of them, but millions of them do.
And that's how Trudeau and his party held on to power for so long, even as Canadians became much poorer, even as third world aliens flooded into the country, and even as their health care system collapsed. Through it all, Canadians could unanimously, well, maybe not unanimously, but many of them could agree on just two things.
One, women should be able to murder their children up until the moment of birth for any reason whatsoever. And two, Canada's identity is that it's not the United States.
Other than that, they have no idea what they actually stand for, no pride in themselves whatsoever. You might think that when a country fully descends into a state of pure self-loathing like this, that there's no going back.
It's kind of a nihilistic death spiral and you can't escape from it. Once millions of people decide that their country has no real identity, has no reason to exist, and that the country is actually a genocidal white supremacist terrorist state, then it's game over.
I mean, at a minimum, you'd expect that it would take a few generations before things returned to normal. And Canadians were again waving their flags with pride and affirming that, contrary to what Justice Trudeau said for years, they actually have a meaningful identity as Canadians.
But it turns out that in Canada, it doesn't take a few generations to reverse course. In fact, it just takes a couple of weeks.
And all of a sudden, after more than a decade of Canadians telling us that their country is terrible and has no identity and no right to exist, Canadian nationalism is roaring back. At least that's what we're told.
Here's one headline in Canada's Globe and Mail, for example, quote, the new American threat to Canada's sovereignty requires a new cultural nationalism. Here's what it should look like.
Another Canadian outlet called The Walrus puts it this way, quote, Canadian nationalism is back. In his abrupt unraveling of the continent's longstanding trade consensus, Trump has stirred up something more visceral in the Canadian psyche.
For the first time since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the star-spangled banner is being booed before hockey games.
Canadians are boycotting American products and looking on with approval as Kentucky bourbon and Sam Adams are pulled from shelves. Opinion polls have identified a surge in national pride that cuts across traditional divides of age, language, and geography.
A more assertive Canadian nationalism than any we've seen this century has come roaring back, bringing with it not only a renewed patriotism, but also a spirit of nation building with no equivalent in recent memory. Close quote.
Yes, after spending the past few decades obsessively apologizing for its own existence and lamenting its history of settler colonialism with all the performative self-flagellation that entails, Canadians are now suddenly waving their flag and pretending to have national pride again. And they're doing it all because of a trade dispute with Donald Trump.
Now, you know, there are at least two aspects of this abrupt conversion that are remarkable. The first is that, of course, it's not a conversion at all.
Instead, it's an affirmation of what Justin Trudeau told CNN earlier this year and what he told the New York Times back in 2015. The only way that these Canadians achieve this sense of national unity is to lash out at the United States.
They can't rally around some extraordinary new achievement of their own because they don't have that many. There's no Canadian equivalent of SpaceX that's solving seemingly impossible physics problems for the benefit of all mankind.
There's not even really an equivalent of Broadway, which is mostly garbage, admittedly. Little of significance is produced.
So they're looking towards us, once again, to define themselves and define themselves in a negative way. But the more basic problem, the real problem is that, and this is something that we would do well to keep in mind in this country, is that you can't be a nationalist if you are fundamentally ashamed of your country and believe that it has no right to exist, which is why Canadian nationalism in the country where land acknowledgements are just a standard part of everyday life, that's why Canadian nationalism is an oxymoron.
Canadians have not renounced the idea in mass, have not certainly unanimously renounced the idea that they're a genocidal state. They haven't issued formal apologies for the mass graves hoax that demonized Christians.
no prominent figure in Canada has come out and stated that actually the country isn't a white supremacist, post-nationalist, globalist blob with no national identity whatsoever. They're trying to maintain all those beliefs while suddenly claiming to adopt a new tone of nationalism, which is just incoherent.
So we should point and laugh at this fake pivot, of course, but we should also

think about it strategically. Canada's alleged turn towards nationalism, as embarrassing as it is, is yet more evidence that we could easily win any trade war with Canada.
I mean, whatever you think of tariffs, that point is undeniable. We could obviously crush any resistance purely on economic terms.
But even beyond that, we can also win because after years of this incessant shame and humiliation and apology and land acknowledgement and everything else, Canada doesn't have the will or the heart to fight back. They just hate themselves too much.
Even when they're trying to pretend to be Canada first hardline

nationalists, they can't help but still admit it. And that is why Canada and its humiliating

attempt to discover the concept of national pride is today, unfortunately, cancelled.

That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching.
Thanks for listening. Talk to you

tomorrow. Have a great day.
Godspeed.