Matt Walsh: “The Whole Indian Reservation Thing Is Absurd”

After several controversial passages in South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s new memoir came to light, seven Native American tribes in SD banned Noem from their reservations. That prompted some serious foolishness from conservative commentator Matt Walsh.

This is our land. We conquered it fair and square. The Indian Wars lasted for 300 years and you lost. Get over it. These were violent, warfaring people who lived by the sword and died by it. Such is the way of the world. We have nothing to apologize for.

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) May 14, 2024

Via Media Matters:

“The very fact that they supposedly have the authority to ban the governor of South Dakota from entering wide swaths of South Dakota is just ridiculous. I mean, it’s just — it’s a farce. OK? The whole thing. The whole Indian reservation thing is absurd. Like, can we just be — can we be done with this? What are we doing? What are we doing, exactly?”

“These are largely miserable places full of crime and alcoholism and drugs and everything else. They can’t even stand on their own two feet without billions in federal funding, federal funding for, quote, unquote, their land. How’s it their land? Like, why do they get to keep the land? Because — I was talking about this earlier and someone said, well, they deserve their own land.”

“Really? Why do they deserve their land? Why do the losers of a war get to keep land that they couldn’t successfully defend? This is what everyone needs to get through their heads. OK?”

“The native tribes were — are the losers of a war. They lost. They lost the war. You lost. That’s it. Like, enough with the childish nonsense.”

If losers of wars aren’t allowed to keep their land, then do we need to clear the former Confederacy of Southerners and ship them off somewhere else? (h/t JoeMyGod)