The NYT's Biden border article could have been written by Steve Bannon. It is STUNNINGLY bad.
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
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Summary
We begin with a delightful amuse douche from the lawyer of Colorado election tamperer Tina Peters unconditionally demanding her release from state prison because Donald Trump said so before a deep dive into our main story: an absurdly bad take from the New York Times--in both a lengthy print story and an episode of The Daily podcast--on how Joe Biden’s unwillingness to be a border fascist got a border fascist elected. Matt breaks down the real causes of the uptick in asylum seekers to the U.S. during Biden’s term in office (and its many unreported benefits to the economy and the nation) and provides the full context for the domestic and international law which the Times is openly arguing that Biden should have broken.
You can also catch this episode on YouTube!
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“How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith on Immigration,” The New York Times, Christopher Flavelle (12/7/2025)
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“Biden Didn’t Cause the Border Crisis” (Part 1 of 4), David Bier, Cato Institute (1/16/2025)
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“Effects of the Immigration Surge on the Federal Budget and the Economy,” Congressional Budget Office (July 2024)
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“Job Openings: Total Nonfarm,” U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Oct. 2025)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is the Wednesday show. We're not sure what to call it. |
| 0:14.5 | It's not, it's wildcard Wednesday. I think we'll go back to that. Wildcard Wednesday. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Thomas. That over there is real life immigration attorney. Matt Cameron, how you doing? Oh, well, I'm happy to talk about my favorite subject, immigration policy, and how New York Times and the Federalists both got it wrong. Lots of to talk about it. Oh, boy. I can't start talking because I'll never stop shouting. So I'm going to say hello to Lydia. How are you doing? Hi, I'm doing okay. I have two sick children at home. Okay, so about this daily article. Two sick kids at home. So I'm hoping I make it to the end of this. But if I mysteriously drop out, then now you all know why. That's not Lydia announcing that we're not living together anymore. We are. I also have two six kids now. So really we have four when you think about it. The other the other pitch I had for this time slot was because it's WCW and I was like, oh, women crush Wednesday. And so that's going to be our Wednesday slot, I think, for O.A. What is that? Where you post your... Explain to people who are old like me. You're a woman crush every Wednesday. |
| 1:13.7 | Okay. Can you know, throwback? Yeah, you could just post me every Wednesday. That's fine. |
| 1:19.1 | Posting this video and podcast is my own crush Wednesday. |
| 1:22.2 | My woman crush is the gray lady, the New York Times. |
| 1:27.1 | So, yeah, I, this is unbelievable. |
| 1:30.6 | I know we always talked about The Daily, but this is not just about the Daily. |
| 1:35.6 | This is about, and we've been talking a lot about these things. |
| 1:39.1 | There's been an alternate version of history that's been written into the record books, |
| 1:43.6 | apparently, about many things. |
| 1:45.5 | And one of them is this is Biden's open border, uh, that he apparently just, just threw open the |
| 1:50.9 | border, let everybody in and, uh, et cetera. So there's, and there's varying degrees of that. I mean, |
| 1:56.6 | I, I think Republicans and I've heard Ben Shapiroiro, they just literally say that, like his open |
| 2:01.7 | border or whatever. |
| 2:02.7 | That he wanted this. |
| 2:03.6 | But I don't know if it's because it's working the refs, which is successful, or if it's other biases. |
| 2:10.2 | But the mainstream centrist Democrat version is not exactly like Biden had an open borders policy, |
| 2:17.3 | but it's that Biden failed |
| 2:19.1 | completely on the border. And there was a New York Times article and daily episode about that |
| 2:26.5 | it's blowing my mind. I listen to the daily episode, no joke, five times because I can't get |
| 2:32.0 | over. There's something that just is uniquely disturbing to me about the underlying assumptions |
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