Matt Welch
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460 appearances
11 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
Matt Welch’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Oh, nice. Yeah. What, do you stand up there and grow a mustache? Actually, if you want to know, it's about my wife and I trying to make a baby. Hey, everybody. This dumbass right here has a special about his low sperm count, and it's on Netflix.
We were in a more innocent country back then. More innocent country. It's all like professional wrestling all the way down from now on.
See, I think what they have to do is bring the chicken coop cage after the comments yesterday from the Trump administration. Like, just get your own chickens in the backyard. That's not going to be a problem. Or maybe a sugar maple tap so that we can all have maple syrup now?
The Congress people have been bringing they usually have a one spot and they will do theatrical things. Thomas Massey brought someone last year. I forget who, but it was it was kind of on some point. I think the problem is that Democrats are just not as good at like troll culture.
as republicans and i don't say that necessarily as a compliment to republicans i kind of wish that we would go to a different place in our governing universe than trolling all the time uh but democrats i mean what did they do they all wore white a couple years ago or several times in the past i wouldn't be surprised to see some kind of handmaid's tale thing uh there was talk of like oh they're going to bring a fired government a federal employee to sit next to them and um
I might, you know, if I knew more federal employees, I might know someone that would be personally sad about. But, like, this is just not going to resonate with anyone, really? Like, oh, my God, they fired a federal employee. That's not really going to get the job done.
But also the idea that maybe Chuck Schumer will be naked. So just have that in your brain.
I mean, always remember when you're talking about city union addresses that 90 percent of it will be forgotten within a week and including many of the promises that are made about what's going to happen in the future. If you look back at 2017, Trump's first one, he had nice words to say about Justin Trudeau. It says, you know, we support NATO strongly.
And he bragged a lot about how the stock market had done since his election. So I don't think we're going to see either of those or any of those. uh, discussed in great detail. And they spend most of the time talking about how they're going to repeal Obamacare and replace it with something. And which didn't happen, not all at his hands.
Um, but it's, so we're going to hear things like that that don't really matter that much. And we're doing it on a day where we started a trade war. This is a much more consequential, a single day policy than almost anything he did last time around. Um, and, uh, I'm sure if Michael Moynihan is, uh, glancing down, uh, furiously at his desk. He's watching his stock portfolio continue to be massacred.
And also NATO, like— He's come up with six different rationales for Canada.
I think the answer is yes. And I would also point out that that White House press release, if you look at a map of where those border seizures happened, some of our states that border Canada have a lot of territory south of that border. And that's where some of those seizures took place wasn't necessarily like border introductions.
The reason that you mentioned fentanyl is that gives you the national security excuse. That's why. This is an emergency declaration. You need some reason for the emergency. So the emergency with Canada is fentanyl. The emergency in the southern border is for the cartels. I think it is appropriate to take it as BS, that it's just a fig leaf to do a thing that Trump wants to do.
And that's also illustrated by the fact that It's one of a half a dozen. You mentioned banks and there are U.S. banks that operate in Canada, including retail, but not in every single sector. And there is protectionism associated with that. But Trump has also mentioned the amount that Canada puts into NATO. There have been a number of different rationales for this.
I think the best way to understand what Trump wants to do with tariffs is that Trump wants to do tariffs. He modeled himself after William McKinley. He likes to call himself Tariff Man. All of these things. He truly believes that we can swap the federal income tax with the tariff system, as was indeed the case in America between 1870 and 1913. So let's do that all over again.
It can't happen because the president can do the tariffs, but cannot necessarily do the tax reform exactly the way that he wants to do it. That has to go through Congress. But he really, truly believes this. And so he's going to because precisely his second administration is a lot more lubricated. It's just going. It is getting things done in a way that the first administration is on.
You'll see the rhetoric associated with his first State of the Union much different than his first, as you rightly pointed out, Megan. But one of the things that he has wanted to do for a really long time is tariffs. And so that's why they are done. I don't think it's a negotiating tactic at this point. It is an expression of his ideology.
I think you need to show more emotion on this, Megan. Your pulse is lacking.
I went today and looked for the arguments of the people who voted no because I have a built-in skepticism of legislation in general and then also stuff that appears to be sort of chasing headlines. First, the text of the bill is pretty innocuous. It's just like, hey, look – People who are born girls should play girls sports. People who are born boys play boys sports.
And if you receive Title nine, if you receive federal funding, you won't get it anymore if you don't follow those rules. Pretty simple. I mean, Trump's executive order was followed and adopted by the NCAA in basically a heartbeat. So it's already the rule of the land. And I don't see a whole lot of upset associated with that. So went and looked at the asterisks on that.
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