Look, I kinda get it. I was raised as a good little neoconservative and used to believe all of this crap. Then I stopped being a brainwashed teenager, got out in the real world, partied hard, and realized that literally every scare story they told us about drugs was a complete and total lie. And, yes, like most of the big lies told by the government they came from academia.
In this case, Walsh started on how beautiful the airport in Singapore is (fine), and somehow stretched this into they're so prosperous because of their draconian drug laws and toughness on petty crime.
This is a classic case of correllation ≄ causation.
This is an easy one to knock down, because anohter country that had the death penalty for virtually all drug offenses while being extremely tough on petty crime was the former USSR.
Somehow the former USSR, despite their Matt Walsh-endorsed policies, failed to turn into a Singaporean economic paradise full of beautiful airports.
Singapore is a succcessful country (or city-state, if you must), because it consistently ranks highest in economic freedom. Economic freedom creates tons of wealth that lets you build fancy airports.
Please feel free to "ackshually" me with the list of economically-free countries that don't have nice things. The US is currently ranked #25, which is not exactly impressive.
Don’t worry!
His “very smart people” are totally right about things this time when it comes to trade.
There is zero - I repeat, zero - moral difference between the people who pushed for "experimenting" with lockdowns because "we have to do something!" and the people who push for "experimenting" with trade wars because "we have to do something!"
Musk is out.
Musk put himself in a corner where he can't rip into Trump and he has to play nice probably at least through the midterms, but just look at the guy's face and watch him refuse to give a straight answer here. He put a lot on the line with endorsing Trump and starting DOGE, and Trump absolutely stabbed him in the back. Trump's supporters will blame congress, but Trump has very openly and loudly endorsed all of the DOGE-defying moves that congress has made, and has viciously attacked the one congressman (Thomas Massie) who has stood against it.
The reason is simple: Trump cares about trophies. Cutting the budget is not a trophy. DOGE trying to take a chainsaw to government was a trophy, but as soon as DOGE became more of Musk's than Trump's trophy, Trump stopped caring about it because congress offered him a Big, Beautiful Bill as a trophy instead. Just like the FBI offered the opportunity to build a Big, Beautiful new headquarters building for them (Trump loves buildings!). ...
As comedy slowly slides into unfunny wokeness hell, the last comedian standing (assuming he doesn't drop dead first, I mean just look at the guy; he's a trainwreck) will be Doug Stanhope. He closed out his recent special "The Dying of the Last Breed" with this bit on how important it is that we be able to make fun of anything. Because making fun.
Language warning, duh.
Preliminary Q2 numbers for Argentina are in. This is still subject to adjustment but so far their preliminaries have been pretty accurate under the Milei administration.
Slashing spending works. Trump and Bessent are very optimistically projecting economic growth of 3% doing the opposite of what Milei is doing to deliver 7.6% - and climbing!