The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1558 - What We Learned From The JFK Files

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a trove of previously classified JFK files have been released.

00:00:04.240 What do they say and what does this release signify? We'll discuss. Also, the activist

00:00:07.960 judges are at it again. This time, a judge has decreed that Trump is not allowed to ban

00:00:12.320 trans people from the military. Have we reached a point where Trump has to go on an all-out war

00:00:17.780 against activist judges? Well, yes, we have, and we'll talk about it. And Elon Musk rescues two

00:00:22.800 stranded astronauts from the International Space Station. It's the kind of thing that in earlier

00:00:26.420 times would have made him a hero, but you'll be shocked to learn that the left is not treating

00:00:30.300 him that way. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:47.960 There are a lot of ways you could illustrate the unusual degree of responsiveness of the current

00:01:52.760 Trump administration, especially as compared to their predecessors. For example, you could point

00:01:57.280 to how the White House struck a deal with El Salvador to house illegal alien gang members and

00:02:02.380 then deported those gang members in a matter of days before a federal judge could stop them.

00:02:06.540 In a similar fashion, the White House ended Hunter Biden's Secret Service detail within about 24 hours

00:02:10.860 of discovering that he still had one. Donald Trump also announced that he was invalidating Joe Biden's

00:02:15.480 pardons just a couple of days after an investigation revealed that Biden's signature was being rubber

00:02:19.820 stamped with an auto pen on pretty much every document that he signed while in office. These

00:02:24.600 are the kinds of quick, decisive actions that, whether you agree with them or not, are not typical

00:02:29.860 of most administrations, especially recently. But maybe the clearest example of the level of

00:02:34.520 responsiveness that we're getting from the White House came last night when the administration

00:02:38.040 released more than a thousand of the so-called JFK files on the Internet, totally more than about

00:02:44.860 30,000 pages so far. These are declassified files relating to the assassination of President Kennedy

00:02:50.460 that had never been seen before and that should never have been classified in the first place,

00:02:56.280 as we'll see. On Monday, during a visit to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,

00:03:02.040 Trump announced that he would be disclosing these files within 24 hours. And he said that he was going

00:03:07.380 to make good on his promise, which he first outlined in an executive order in January,

00:03:11.340 to ensure the, quote, complete release of records relating to the assassination of President John

00:03:16.560 F. Kennedy. Watch. We're at the Kennedy Center. Needs a lot of work. We're going to fix it,

00:03:22.440 make it beautiful. It's a very big part of the fabric of D.C. and the Capitol. We're bringing back

00:03:27.620 the Capitol. We're bringing back our country. But while we're here, I thought it would be appropriate.

00:03:32.600 We are tomorrow announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files. So people have been waiting for

00:03:43.940 decades for this. And I've instructed my people that are responsible, lots of different people

00:03:52.740 put together by Tulsi Gabbard. And that's going to be released tomorrow.

00:03:59.400 Now, true to Trump's word, this is exactly what began to take place on Tuesday night. Attorneys

00:04:05.220 with the National Security Division of the DOJ pulled an all-nighter going through various

00:04:09.080 documents. They responded to Trump's directive immediately. And yesterday, many of those files

00:04:13.620 were released. And apparently more files are going to come today. And so then what we have is not the

00:04:19.280 final set of documents. There are a lot of documents. So more are coming. Even so, there is some new

00:04:26.220 information here that's worth talking about. And there's a lot more that just hasn't been seen

00:04:31.440 yet because, again, it's 30, you know, whatever it is, 30,000 pages. So no one's had a chance to go

00:04:36.380 through all of it yet. But the first thing you notice as you look through the materials is how

00:04:41.880 obscenely overbroad our classification system actually is. One of the previously classified

00:04:48.180 documents, just for example, is an article from the magazine Ramparts, which hasn't been published

00:04:54.000 since the 1970s. And this article states that, quote, the day after the assassination, CIA agent

00:04:59.540 Gary Underhill left Washington. A small clique within the CIA was responsible for the assassination.

00:05:05.320 He confided and he was afraid for his life and would probably have to leave the country. Less than

00:05:10.620 six months later, Underhill was found shot to death in his Washington apartment. The coroner ruled it a

00:05:15.180 suicide, close quote. Now, there's no independent verification in these JFK files that, at least that

00:05:21.280 I've seen at least, that corroborate any of this. It's just a copy paste from a publicly available

00:05:26.660 article in some magazine that no one's ever heard of. But it was marked secrets and CIA employees were

00:05:34.940 told not to copy it, even though, again, it was a magazine article. This is the kind of thing that

00:05:40.480 might seem trivial, but recall that the DOJ attempted to imprison Donald Trump for allegedly storing

00:05:46.500 classified information at Mar-a-Lago. If the intelligence agencies are going to abuse their

00:05:51.720 classification authority to such an extent that they're classifying magazine articles, then they

00:05:57.420 shouldn't be able to prosecute political candidates for storing materials that are supposedly classified.

00:06:02.480 And it seems like a pretty fair compromise going forward. But the ideal solution is to do what the

00:06:06.920 Trump administration is doing, which is to declassify everything that they possibly can.

00:06:11.400 Most of it, as we're finding out, isn't even that interesting. And it's certainly not worth

00:06:18.180 jailing people over. That said, as you dig through the JFK files, and again, this is all preliminary

00:06:23.300 because there's so much to go through. So no one has seen all of it yet. But as you go through what

00:06:29.960 we've seen, you do begin to find some interesting information. Some of this was already out there in

00:06:35.460 some capacity, but now we have a bunch of mostly unredacted documents in one place. For instance,

00:06:40.520 in mid-December of 1963, shortly after Kennedy's assassination, the CIA issued a telegram about

00:06:47.380 Castro's attitude towards the United States. It's two pages long. It reads, it begins by quoting a

00:06:54.340 high-level Cuban diplomat in Western Europe, quote-unquote, someone who the CIA has deemed highly

00:07:00.000 reliable, as saying that Castro was, quote, very upset about the fact that Kennedy had been replaced.

00:07:05.340 And that's because, quote, top Cuban leadership was sure President Kennedy would not invade Cuba.

00:07:11.460 And also because Cuba determined that Kennedy's economic blockade of Cuba would not overthrow

00:07:16.080 Castro's regime. Then the telegram concludes with this line, according to Cuban government leaders,

00:07:21.980 Castro wants to wait and see what President Johnson says and does about Cuba and give him an opportunity

00:07:26.760 to improve, if he feels so inclined, relations between the two countries. So in other words,

00:07:32.480 the perception of Cuba's government, even after the Bay of Pigs, was that Kennedy would never attempt

00:07:37.700 a full-scale invasion. At the same time, they weren't so sure that Kennedy's replacement or the CIA

00:07:43.400 would be so reluctant. And as you read further in the JFK files, that seems like a reasonable concern.

00:07:50.780 Some of the documents, for example, show that Cuban diplomats immediately concluded that the CIA

00:07:56.240 had killed Kennedy, quote, if the Yankees or CIA assassinated Kennedy to resume the assault on Cuba,

00:08:03.540 then a third world war would start. Then there are statements from an American official indicating that

00:08:10.200 assets connected to a CIA agent had spread misinformation about Cuba's involvement in the

00:08:17.320 assassination. So no one involved in the scenario believed the lone gunman theory at any point,

00:08:23.200 it would seem. Meanwhile, the CIA was drawing up various plans to attack Cuba, plans that presumably

00:08:28.980 had a better chance of being implemented with Kennedy out of the way. Take a look at this

00:08:33.700 previously classified file in which the CIA talks about their plans to destroy crops in Cuba.

00:08:39.360 It reads, quote, plans for inducing the failure of crops will be submitted by 15th of February.

00:08:45.240 These plans will envisage both the use of controlled assets who could be infiltrated and exfiltrated,

00:08:50.520 and the provision of encouragement and guidance to the resistance so that it will undertake acts

00:08:55.840 of sabotage, some of which are to be directed against crops, particularly rice.

00:09:01.440 Separately, the agency discussed efforts to sabotage Cuba's nickel supply using various methods,

00:09:07.620 including open attack. They also discussed the use of torpedoes and mines, as well as attacks on

00:09:12.780 primary and secondary sources of Cuban nickel. These attacks would apparently be carried out by

00:09:18.080 external assets. And additionally, the CIA wrote about efforts to deploy a large number of spies

00:09:24.320 to Cuba while pretending that they're students. Quote, an assessment of more than 100 persons to

00:09:30.020 determine their suitability for return to Cuba as agents in the guise of students is also being

00:09:35.420 conducted. Then there's this noteworthy passage in which the CIA admits that it staged mass

00:09:41.160 demonstrations all over the region. Quote, in support of states' efforts, CIA has conducted

00:09:46.380 propaganda operations, including a number of mass demonstrations in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,

00:09:51.780 Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

00:09:59.160 So they pretty much orchestrated mass demonstrations at will in nearly a dozen countries,

00:10:03.780 you know, according to these files. And reading that memo, it's not hard to conclude that the CIA

00:10:08.180 probably never stopped doing this. I mean, you're not crazy for concluding that anytime you see a mass

00:10:13.360 protest movement anywhere in the world, including here, there's a very good chance that our intelligence

00:10:20.040 agencies could have been involved. When you think about the so-called Orange Revolution in Ukraine that

00:10:24.940 led to conflict with Russia that, as we all know, has ended in open warfare. Now, moving on through the

00:10:30.840 files, there's also this previously classified memo from June of 1961. It was written by Arthur

00:10:35.560 Slushinger, as a close advisor of JFK. And this is a memo that that already has been discussed publicly in other

00:10:44.720 contexts. But the idea of the memo, which was written just a couple of years before Kennedy was murdered, was that the

00:10:51.220 CIA has essentially gone rogue. They're running their own foreign policy. And therefore, according to Slushinger, the

00:10:59.020 CIA should be split up. Again, you can maybe see why this was classified at the time. But the idea that it should

00:11:06.300 have been hidden for decades is obviously absurd. And there was never any reason to hide information like this from the

00:11:13.420 public for as long as it was hidden. And there are many more files that I haven't been able to review and that no one has

00:11:20.720 been able to review at this point. Again, it's too much information at the moment. And again, some of the

00:11:25.940 information is still incomplete. Summing up his findings on the this first batch of files, the writer

00:11:32.600 Gerald Posner wrote, quote, I don't see the tax files of Lee Harvey Oswald or Jack Ruby. Nothing yet on the some of the

00:11:41.520 grand jury proceedings from New Orleans District Attorney James Garrison's miscarriage of justice. Maybe I'm running on

00:11:47.040 empty and missing them, but they're not popping up. There are some files I've been looking forward to. One called

00:11:52.940 Special Intelligence Package. It includes 37 blank pages and might tell us more about Mexican intelligence

00:11:58.760 and what they sent to the CIA about Oswald after the assassination. I don't see that in today's release.

00:12:04.340 There are other CIA documents I was hoping to see. Maybe they'll be in tomorrow's release, close quote.

00:12:10.420 So we'll obviously be awaiting those documents and reviewing them when they become available.

00:12:14.060 Well, the same is true for the next release of the Epstein files that we have been promised. We haven't seen yet, but

00:12:20.280 already based on what's been released so far, it's it's clear that the Trump administration has truly been, as they

00:12:26.480 promised, extraordinarily transparent. In fact, you can make the case that Trump is possibly the single most radically

00:12:33.060 transparent politician in American history. I mean, even aside from these documents being released, you just look at the way that

00:12:41.780 he conducts himself and we kind of take it for granted for granted at this point. But I've already lost track of a number of

00:12:48.020 times he's taken questions from the press since being inaugurated. You don't get the sense that Trump cares to hide anything

00:12:54.620 from the public, really. So the contrast between him and Biden on this point could not be more stark. In fact, it's not just a

00:13:02.880 contrast with Biden. The reflex of every public official in my lifetime and any of our lifetimes has been to hide

00:13:10.140 things and to lie about everything, even when there's no obvious strategic benefits in doing that. On the other hand, Donald

00:13:19.480 Trump, without being prompted, will walk out to the press and announce a historic declassification document dump. And then the next day

00:13:26.880 he delivers it. Now, can we expect to learn from these documents with certainty? Who exactly killed JFK? Is there going to be a

00:13:35.700 document in there that that actually says this is the person who killed him and this is the group that killed him? Probably not. It's

00:13:42.540 simply been too long, if we're being honest about it. At the same time, at this point, there's no reason to believe the Trump

00:13:49.020 administration is responsible for hiding that information from the public. And that's significant for a lot of reasons. We have far

00:13:56.860 more insight into how our intelligence agencies operate than ever before. And as a result, we can assume

00:14:02.760 that these agencies are now probably a lot less likely to think about assassinating domestic political

00:14:07.940 targets. Because if they do that, they run a very high risk of exposure. They certainly run a higher risk of

00:14:13.860 exposure than they did under the Biden administration when assassins were taking posh shots at Trump and the

00:14:19.120 federal government didn't even pretend to care about it. This is the value of transparency. And less than three

00:14:25.780 months into his term, as much as it probably drives the CIA crazy, Donald Trump is delivering it.

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00:15:46.000 The Hill reports, a federal judge on Tuesday indefinitely blocked implementation of President

00:15:51.100 Trump's executive order, effectively barring transgender people from serving openly in the

00:15:55.320 military, a stark blow to the administration's efforts to curb transgender rights. U.S. District

00:16:00.840 Judge Anna Rice, an appointee of former President Biden, barred Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other

00:16:06.820 military officials from implementing Trump's order or otherwise putting new policy into place,

00:16:10.480 effectuating it. She also said the plaintiff's military statuses must remain unchanged until

00:16:16.060 further order of the court. The judge said her order intends to maintain the status quo of military

00:16:21.140 policy regarding transgender service that existed before Trump signed the order titled Prioritizing

00:16:25.640 Military Excellence and Readiness. She stayed her order until Friday to give the administration

00:16:30.140 time to appeal. Trump's order suggests that the transgender people cannot satisfy the rigorous

00:16:36.940 standards necessary for military service because they threaten the lethality of the armed forces

00:16:41.900 and undermine unit cohesion, an argument long used to keep marginalized communities from serving.

00:16:47.440 So a little bit more editorializing from the Hill within this, what is supposed to be a

00:16:51.400 supposed to be a news article. The executive order states a man's assertion that he's a woman and his

00:16:57.740 requirement that others honor this falsehood is not consistent with the humility and selflessness

00:17:02.460 required of a service member. The judge wrote in her opinion that the president has both the power

00:17:06.980 and obligation to ensure military readiness, but noted that leaders of the armed forces have long

00:17:11.540 used that justification to, quote, deny marginalized persons the privilege of serving.

00:17:18.300 Okay, so Trump, you know, the guy that, you know, who actually runs the country and runs the military,

00:17:23.980 that guy, the president of the United States, I think is the title that he uses.

00:17:29.120 Trump believes that it threatens unit cohesion and military readiness to have people in the military

00:17:34.600 who are totally disconnected from reality, people who are not living in the real world.

00:17:40.780 People who are in some fantasy land of their own mental construction. He thinks that having people like

00:17:46.020 that in the military is a threat to unit cohesion and the lethality of our forces. That's what Trump thinks.

00:17:52.240 This random federal judge happens to personally disagree. She personally feels that it's actually

00:18:00.420 a great idea to invite people in who are deeply confused about the basic facts of our physical

00:18:05.500 reality and to invite them into the military. That's how she feels. So the two of them feel

00:18:10.920 different, different ways about it. Now, obviously Trump is right. He's correct about this.

00:18:17.780 Clearly, yes, when you have a man in the military who is pretending to be a woman, 0.98

00:18:24.160 that does, among other things, threaten the cohesion of everyone else in his unit.

00:18:30.400 You know, we want everyone in the military to be focused solely on defending the country and

00:18:35.540 killing the enemy. That's what the military is for. That's their job. That should be their sole focus.

00:18:42.060 Anything that does not assist in that effort, anything that is not pointed at that objective,

00:18:50.700 anything that doesn't advance the mission is not good.

00:18:56.100 Their focus should then not be on affirming some guy's female self-identity. And for the trans

00:19:03.080 people themselves, we know that their top priority personally will never be defending the nation and

00:19:08.400 killing the bad guy. Their top priority will always be the affirmation and reinforcement of their false

00:19:12.920 identities. You know, if I showed up to the recruitment office to sign up for the army or the

00:19:19.560 Marines, and I was filling out the paperwork, and on the paperwork, I wrote that I'm a zebra,

00:19:26.380 I would not be accepted into the military. And nobody would expect that I would be.

00:19:30.540 Even if I said the fact that I'm a zebra is not a major focus of mine. Even if I said,

00:19:37.500 you know, I'm a zebra, but it's not a big deal. But, you know, it's just, I happen to be one.

00:19:41.040 I happen to be a zebra. I don't make a big thing of it. But just so you guys know, before I sign up,

00:19:45.500 I want you to know I am a zebra. Even if I'm a patriot, I want to fight for the country.

00:19:53.300 Even if that was the case. I say, don't worry, I won't make a big thing of it. I just happen to

00:20:00.360 be a zebra. None of that would matter. Having someone in the unit who thinks he's a zebra is

00:20:05.980 a completely unnecessary and totally egregious distraction. Not to mention that there are now

00:20:13.240 very serious questions about my own stability and my own mental clarity and resilience. How can

00:20:18.080 the United States government issue me a weapon as a man who thinks I'm a zebra?

00:20:23.300 And why would they do this? Yes, there might be some recruitment shortages and that situation is

00:20:30.140 getting better. But there are still plenty of potential recruits out there who don't think

00:20:35.640 that they're zebras. So we don't need to start recruiting from the zoo just yet. So that's why

00:20:42.000 Trump's order makes sense for that reason. But here's the thing. All of that is almost irrelevant,

00:20:52.240 really. The fact that Trump is right on the merits here is good that he's right. But when it comes to

00:21:02.940 what this judge is doing, it's almost irrelevant. Because the point is that Trump runs the military.

00:21:10.520 He's the commander in chief. He's allowed to determine these kinds of policies. You don't have

00:21:17.800 to agree with them. You don't have to agree with the way that he operates as commander in chief. But he is

00:21:24.460 the commander in chief. The fact that the judge personally disagrees with his policy is totally

00:21:31.300 irrelevant. Because she doesn't get to determine the policy for military recruitment. She is not the 1.00

00:21:38.320 president. These judges are not the president. So if you're on the left and you're listening to this,

00:21:44.340 try to understand, okay, try to understand this very basic point. These judges are not the president.

00:21:53.280 Which means there must be some powers that the president has that the judges don't. Because if

00:22:02.600 there's nothing, if the judges can just override anything Trump does with the stroke of a pen,

00:22:10.480 then the judges are all the president altogether. Each federal judge is the president.

00:22:16.260 The branches of government. Now, for all these leftists who are going on about constitutional

00:22:24.180 crisis. Like, what do you know about the constitution? And since when did you give a

00:22:27.940 damn about it anyway? But you know what the constitution says? The constitution says that

00:22:33.600 the branches of the government are co-equal, separate but equal. Have you heard about that

00:22:37.380 phrase? You know, it's very, very, hopefully you'll learn that in civics and grade school.

00:22:41.480 Which means that judges cannot supersede the president in every case. None of these people

00:22:51.320 were voted into office to set policy. None of these people were voted into office at all.

00:22:56.520 These are unelected judges trying to override not just the president, but the will of the people.

00:23:01.620 The people voted for Trump so that he would put policies like this in place. Yes, even the trans 0.99

00:23:08.840 ban in the military. Trump put that in place in his first term. People that voted for him knew that.

00:23:15.820 You know, when you vote for a guy who was already in office once, what you're saying,

00:23:19.480 what your message is, yeah, I'd like more of that. So I want him to continue doing what he was,

00:23:24.400 I might want him to do other things as well, but I approve of how he governed and I'd like to have

00:23:30.640 more of that, please. That's what the voters are saying.

00:23:34.240 So you have the president as the commander in chief, you have the voters who put him into play,

00:23:41.980 who elected him to set these policies. And then some unelected random federal judge can just come 0.99

00:23:52.340 along and say, nope, sorry, you can't do any of that. You know why you can't do it? Because I

00:23:57.180 personally don't like it. I'm a judge. I personally think that it's bad. And so you can't do it.

00:24:05.880 Now, these judges are illegitimate at this point. They're trying to upend the constitution and our

00:24:10.480 entire system of government. Trump should ignore them, ignore all of them. I mean, ignore this woman 1.00

00:24:18.500 and her does enforce the ban anyway. So you say to her, oh, you think we should not ban trans? Well, 1.00

00:24:24.540 okay. I'm glad. Thanks for sharing. Thanks for letting us know. Your opinion is very interesting,

00:24:33.320 but we're going to go ahead and do what we want to do anyway.

00:24:38.020 There needs to be an all out war at this point against activist judges. And what does that war 0.97

00:24:45.020 look like? Well, it begins with this by just ignoring them, drawing the line in the sand and

00:24:50.240 saying, okay, the judges, judges have certain powers, certain responsibilities, a certain

00:24:56.140 jurisdiction, but their powers and jurisdiction do not encompass everything.

00:25:05.800 Okay. If we're going to delineate what their powers are, it cannot be. The delineation is not,

00:25:11.700 oh, they can do everything. That's not it. And so you draw the line and you say, well, here's what,

00:25:17.100 here's what judges are allowed to do. Anything over that line, we are not going to listen to.

00:25:24.040 We are just going to ignore it. And, um, where does it go from there? What's the next,

00:25:31.820 what happens next? I don't know exactly. I mean, eventually it sends up at the Supreme court, but

00:25:35.140 Trump's hand is forced here. That's where this needs to end up. But, um, in the meantime,

00:25:45.580 I think you got to draw this line and, uh, and make it very clear. Okay. This is a fun. I don't,

00:25:51.620 I don't know. I don't know when this video was made. I, I happened to see it on X yesterday. This

00:25:55.560 is a video made by the outlet. Now this, and, um, it's about yours truly. It's about, it's about me.

00:26:03.140 And apparently now this is very troubled that I was invited to the joint session speech a couple

00:26:08.280 of weeks ago. And they, they made this video, uh, after the fact to expose my extremism. And, uh,

00:26:16.200 I don't know. I just happened to see this pop up on, on X and I thought it was pretty great. So

00:26:20.080 here it is. Watch. I am literally a theocratic fascist. I do indeed believe that my religious

00:26:27.460 beliefs should be forced on people by the government. Why did Speaker Mike Johnson invite

00:26:31.800 this far right influencer to attend Trump's speech to Congress? Matt Walsh describes himself as a

00:26:36.220 theocratic fascist, an ideology that combines ultra nationalism, authoritarian rule, and forcibly

00:26:41.100 imposing his Christian religious beliefs on the population. He's criticized the equal rights

00:26:45.120 amendment, which prohibits discrimination. He believes white men are under attack. He's extremely

00:26:49.300 anti-LGBTQI plus, and he has an obsession with violence and control. His ideas are heard by 0.96

00:26:54.160 millions as a commentator for the right-wing propaganda company, the daily wire, which

00:26:57.900 was co-founded by Ben Shapiro. Yeah. You need to get over slavery. You do. The only group of people

00:27:02.640 that in this country that are being erased in any, in any kind of meaningful way, historically are

00:27:08.400 white. Nearly every good thing you have in your life was given to you by a white man. We are not 0.65

00:27:13.700 going to rest until every child is protected, until trans ideology is entirely erased from

00:27:19.520 the earth. We should treat it as a hate symbol because that's what it is. They fly the flag 1.00

00:27:24.420 because they hate you. Two men should not be allowed to adopt babies because babies need mothers. They 1.00

00:27:30.180 also need fathers, which is why two women shouldn't be allowed either. And this is just the tip of the 1.00

00:27:33.800 iceberg. So why would a guy like this be invited to Trump's address to Congress? Well, he kind of fits in

00:27:38.300 perfectly. He just says the quiet part out loud. Now that Trump's in office and Republicans control

00:27:42.700 the House and Senate, they can be as brazen as they want with their actions. The mask is off. So

00:27:47.000 when conservatives wonder why anyone would feel like their rights are under attack, it's because

00:27:50.660 they clearly are. It's because people like this have a seat at the table and the power to influence

00:27:54.980 our laws. Okay. Very scary stuff there, as you can see. I'm, you know, I'm, I'm not usually a scary

00:28:01.360 guy, but when you put that creepy music in the background, suddenly I become Darth Vader or something. I'm

00:28:06.280 pretty terrifying. And I will say, um, well, first of all, I hope you all appreciate, I know you do just how

00:28:13.080 long, uh, I will stick with a troll. I think I can say without any ego that I am one of the most committed

00:28:20.760 trolls in the country. I feel I can say that and maybe you would all agree. So this, this theocratic fascist

00:28:27.680 thing, like somebody called me that on Twitter, like eight years ago or, or something around, around this, I think

00:28:34.680 it was seven or eight years ago. And I decided to troll him by putting it in my bio on Twitter at the

00:28:40.960 time. And I stuck with this troll ever since then. And I've gotten way more mileage out of it than I 0.91

00:28:48.720 ever should have been able to get. I mean, I got way more mileage out of it than I should have. So

00:28:53.540 it's been great. Um, but I'm kidding, of course, not, none of this is a troll. I say all that, but

00:29:00.420 really I'm joking. I mean, I'm totally serious about being a theocratic fascist. Uh, you're 0.68

00:29:04.920 right about that. Now, this, your rights are under attack, not by Trump. Trump has not done a single

00:29:13.060 thing to take away anyone's human rights at all. Trump has taken away zero rights from anyone ever.

00:29:21.880 But, um, but yeah, I want him to take rights away. You're correct that I have a seat at the table.

00:29:27.980 I'm at Trump's table every day in the Oval Office. I sit around the table. I'm in a meeting every day

00:29:35.320 with President Trump. And I say to him, Mr. President, when can we start taking the rights

00:29:40.660 away? When does that happen? That's supposed to be the whole, the whole fun part of having a seat

00:29:46.080 at the table is deciding whose rights we take away and which rights. I thought that was, that's the

00:29:50.380 whole reason I'm here is what I say when I'm sitting around. It's a table very much like this one,

00:29:53.700 but I'm sitting at right now. Um, and every day, you know, we kind of, the way it works

00:29:58.880 is, uh, every day we go around the table when, you know, when I'm in, and we're all there and

00:30:04.600 it's me and the president and J.D. Vance and whoever else. And that's the whole, it's the whole

00:30:09.500 cabinet. And we go around the table and Trump asks each of us what's on our agenda for that day.

00:30:15.400 And when he gets to me, I always say, well, I want to take away some human rights today.

00:30:21.300 Yeah. I've written a short list of the 35 rights that I would like to take away today,

00:30:25.800 Mr. President, but he never lets me do it. That's the ridiculous part. 0.53

00:30:30.020 So what I'm saying is this woman is half right. Her rights are under attack by me, 0.92

00:30:35.680 but not by Trump, sadly. In fact, I've proposed a few times now that the entire staff of now this

00:30:42.940 news should be sent to Alcatraz. And I know when I say that you're like, well, Alcatraz is a tourist

00:30:48.880 spot now. And, uh, I know that I'm saying we keep it a tourist spot, but my point is that it's a lot

00:30:54.360 more fun for the tourists if there are actual prisoners inside the prison. Right. So I suggested

00:30:59.360 we put now this news in there, uh, maybe a couple of the ladies from the view. Um, I think in my,

00:31:06.100 one of my proposals, Don Lemon was also going to Alcatraz. So I have a whole list of people I want to put

00:31:10.740 in prison and I've, I've, you know, I've kind of helpfully selected which prisons I'd like to

00:31:15.020 put them in. And some of them are, uh, are prisons that are currently open. Some of them are older

00:31:19.300 prisons. Um, so, uh, but we haven't been able to do any of it so far. So it's pretty frustrating,

00:31:25.360 but you know what? Maybe that's why I just need to run for president in 2028. And I like J.D. Vance.

00:31:30.380 I think is great, but we need someone who is going to get serious about ushering in a thousand

00:31:37.840 years of right-wing tyranny. And, uh, I just don't believe that J.D. Vance will actually do that.

00:31:43.260 I will. I'm the guy for that job. So now this news, they, uh, they have me dead to rights on that.

00:31:50.060 I can't deny it. Very good video there. Here's another one. This is, uh, Joy Reed, um, who, uh,

00:31:58.760 I also have her signed up for Alcatraz, by the way, talking about what her mother discovered when,

00:32:04.620 uh, when she emigrated to the United States. Uh, listen to this.

00:32:10.960 And I mean, and as somebody who's, you know, my, my parents, my, my father was from the Congo

00:32:15.920 and my mother was from Guyana. And so they were the immigrants who came here on purpose 1.00

00:32:19.960 and they got the rude awakening. My mother got the rude awakening, like, oh, it's racist. 1.00

00:32:22.960 That's weird. So it's, uh, it's a little hard to hear, but she says that her, her parents

00:32:40.660 who are from the Congo and Guyana, her mother's from Guyana, that she says that they came here

00:32:47.200 and they discovered that, that it's not a land of opportunity, that this is not a land

00:32:54.140 of opportunity for people like them. No, it's black people of color, as she would say, 0.96

00:32:59.860 is what she's referring to. And that's a really interesting thing for Joy Reed to say of all

00:33:04.160 people, because I know from Wikipedia, which I just checked two seconds ago that her, her

00:33:09.640 parents came here and individually, separately, and then they met each other in graduate school

00:33:15.120 in America. So they got off the boat from their respective impoverished African countries

00:33:21.040 and immediately made it into graduate school. So I would say this country proved itself to be a

00:33:27.380 land of opportunity right away for them. And then apparently her father became an engineer.

00:33:34.440 Uh, though Wikipedia tells me that unsurprisingly, this will shock you. Uh, her, her father was absent

00:33:39.000 from the family, but he did become an engineer. So I'd say there's a lot of opportunity there.

00:33:42.520 I don't know what her mother did for a job because Wikipedia didn't say, but I do know

00:33:45.860 that, uh, her mother's daughter, that would be Joy Reed herself, went on to become a famous TV 0.99

00:33:52.300 personality who, before she just got fired, was earning $3 million a year from MSNBC. 0.98

00:33:58.460 Now, just to compare the average annual income in the Congo is $450, 450 annually.

00:34:08.500 So Joy Reed was earning like 7,000 times the average income of her father's home country.

00:34:17.700 Uh, the average annual income in Guyana is, uh, oh, I've seen different estimates, but I think it's

00:34:22.160 like $7,000. So Joy was beating that by quite a margin. Her salary was, you know, 400 to 500 times 0.88

00:34:29.000 the average salary in her mother's home country. So, uh, land of opportunity. Well,

00:34:37.060 did this country prove to be a land of opportunity for Joy Reed and her family? She says no.

00:34:45.900 But what I see is that in one generation, her family has gone from living in the poorest and

00:34:51.460 most destitute parts of the world to financial prosperity. Her family went from Guyana to millions

00:34:59.520 of dollars. Let me ask you this. What if her parents had stayed in Africa? What, what if, uh,

00:35:05.320 if they'd stayed and they met somehow in Africa and they live now in Guyana or Congo, what are the

00:35:11.360 chances that Joy Reed would have a net worth of $4 million as she's estimated to have now? What are the

00:35:18.920 chances if they had not come here and yet they'd still gotten married? And so Joy Reed still, still

00:35:24.600 exists in this alternative universe? What are the chances that she's, uh, that she at any point

00:35:32.960 at this point in her life has made, has earned $3 million in a single year? What are the chances

00:35:37.620 that she's earned $3 million in her, in, in her, her lifespan? If she had been in Africa this whole time, 0.97

00:35:45.160 I'd say, you know, approximately 0% or so. So yet again, we see just the total lack of gratitude,

00:35:56.360 just this complete lack of gratitude, um, from, from the left, from so many of the people that

00:36:06.700 come to this country, a complete lack of gratitude that I find to be frankly, pretty obscene.

00:36:13.460 So let's get to the comment section.

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00:37:12.100 Talk. Wireless by Americans for Americans. Please show up at that board meeting, Matt. The way they

00:37:17.220 were staring that poor mother down while they were talking their nonsense was making my blood boil. 0.98

00:37:22.260 Please go, Matt. Please. Yeah, I had my team reach out to the mother. Uh, so we're gonna, we're gonna look 0.95

00:37:26.420 into this and, uh, see, see what we could do. But this is, um, this is a, uh, a case that should be

00:37:33.260 getting a lot more national attention than it is. I mean, the case of the mother who, if you didn't

00:37:41.620 watch the show yesterday, uh, at a school district in Illinois, she is alleging, and I certainly believe 1.00

00:37:47.120 her a hundred percent, but what she's saying is that her, uh, daughter and some of her daughter's

00:37:52.220 friends, uh, were, uh, not only forced to use a locker room with a boy, with a trans-identifying 0.88

00:38:02.100 boy, but that school officials stood there and made sure that they got undressed and got changed

00:38:08.420 for gym class or whatever it was, uh, while this boy was there. So this is a, a major, major scandal

00:38:18.440 and, uh, everybody involved in it, all the adults involved need to be fired at a minimum.

00:38:28.160 And so we got to do everything we can to make sure that happens. Uh, another comment says a child

00:38:32.220 being forced to undress in front of anybody, male or female is abused. This is so beyond disturbing,

00:38:36.000 right? This should not need to be said of all the things that don't need to be said. This

00:38:40.280 should need to be said the least. Uh, there is never, ever, ever, ever a situation where it would

00:38:47.940 be remotely appropriate for school officials to compel the children in their care to get undressed.

00:38:53.420 Um, it's to even say, to even articulate that thought, uh, is it's, it's just disturbing that it

00:39:03.860 needs to be articulated. But of course, apparently it does in this case, notice how aggressive and

00:39:10.300 vindictive they get when they feel they have the strength of force in the room. Talking about the

00:39:14.180 trans activists at the school board meeting. Yeah, you're right. When they have numbers, when they

00:39:18.200 have the power, these are the most vicious and cruel human beings on earth. They really are. 0.98

00:39:23.140 Uh, when you get trans activists, especially all together in a group and they feel empowered,

00:39:28.260 they feel safer, you know, um, I mean, classic bully mentality, obviously. Uh, but when they,

00:39:36.700 when they feel like there's nothing to lose and they've got this woman outnumbered, they can just 0.99

00:39:41.000 be totally vicious to her. Um, and that's how these people operate. Poor Emma Lazarus, her poem isn't 1.00

00:39:49.280 dumb. That French diplomat is dumb. America was built on immigrants. The poem aims to speak to a 1.00

00:39:54.340 different message. Not that America should inhale the world's worst populations. No, the Statue of

00:39:59.240 Liberty poem is dumb. Both are dumb. The diplomat and the poem are both dumb. No matter how you try 1.00

00:40:04.800 to spin it, the poem is declaring that America welcomes all of the refuse of the world, the 1.00

00:40:10.160 homeless and the wretched. And that's a nice sentiment if you don't think about it for more

00:40:14.560 than two seconds, but it's not a policy that any nation that wants to continue existing can actually

00:40:19.680 adopt. And as for America being built on immigrants, we've addressed this so many times, I'll address 0.83

00:40:25.960 it again. It's not true. I don't know how many times this needs to be corrected. America is not

00:40:32.240 a nation of immigrants. America was, is not a nation of immigrants. It's not a nation built

00:40:36.080 on immigrants. Uh, America was built on settlers. Okay. And that's an entirely different thing. 0.92

00:40:44.860 Our country was built on and by settlers. We were not a nation of immigrants, but rather a nation of 0.96

00:40:52.480 settlers. Settlers came to a country that had barely been formed or had not even been formed at

00:41:00.300 all, depending on when they came. And they came to a land that was mostly wild, untamed, unknown.

00:41:07.940 They came at a time when almost nobody lived west of the Mississippi. And if you know anything about

00:41:14.340 American, you know, the, the, the geography of the continental United States, west of the Mississippi

00:41:19.300 is most of the country and hardly anyone lived there. And yes, I'm including the Indians when I 0.92

00:41:25.680 say almost no one lived there because even factoring the Indians in still almost no one lived out there.

00:41:32.340 And the settlers had to strike out into that wilderness and tame it and settle it and, and

00:41:39.000 die for it and build it up and protect it. I mean, literally build it. They had to build it. They

00:41:47.080 had to build a civilization out of the wilderness. That is not what modern immigrants are doing. 1.00

00:41:55.540 They are not doing anything that resembles that. It is a completely different thing.

00:42:00.640 You have on the one hand, people who came here into a wilderness and built it into a civilization.

00:42:09.220 And on the other hand, you have people that are coming into a civilization that has already

00:42:12.780 been long since built and they are coming to take advantage of it and to profit from it

00:42:20.760 and to be taken care of by it. To not just different things, but opposite things.

00:42:32.280 The modern immigrants is in many ways, the opposite of an American settler 250, 300 years ago, 1.00

00:42:41.760 300 years ago, they would not have been American settlers, but, but, you know, a settler who came

00:42:49.960 to the Americas. We're talking about opposite opposites. Matt, I'm surprised you like your steak so

00:42:57.500 bland. I personally do salt, pepper, garlic powder, tallow, and fresh rosemary. It brings your steak to

00:43:02.900 life without polluting the steak flavor itself. Give it a try. It'll be life-changing. Well, it's not

00:43:07.540 bland. A steak is supposed to taste like steak and it's, it's the meat that you want to taste. So the

00:43:12.460 meat is not bland and please do not put garlic powder on your steak. Please do not do that. Garlic

00:43:17.360 powder burns. Okay. It, it, it, and you have to cook the steak at a very high heat in order to get the

00:43:23.740 right sear on it. And so if you put garlic powder, you're going to burn the garlic powder. And, um, and so,

00:43:29.820 and then you end up with a steak with the flavor of burned garlic. Why do you want that? So if you want

00:43:36.220 some garlic flavor in your steak, just throw some fresh garlic into the pan while you're cooking.

00:43:40.120 If you want to throw some fresh rosemary and you could do that too. Uh, but personally, I don't,

00:43:44.380 I don't need the notes of rosemary and garlic on my steak. I don't need that. I want the taste of the

00:43:49.060 steak, right? That's it. Matt Walsh just said two things. The whole job of customer service is to have

00:43:56.140 happy, positive energy. And then I worked customer service. These two things don't comport.

00:44:02.200 Yeah. Well, I never said I was good at customer service. I never, never made that claim. I wasn't,

00:44:08.860 I was terrible at it. Uh, I, uh, I was as bad at it as you would imagine that I would be. I also

00:44:15.160 hated it. I truly despised customer service at the deepest levels of my being. I really hate it. I

00:44:21.180 understand why people hate it. I understand why people in these jobs hate doing them. I've done the

00:44:25.160 jobs. I hated doing them. I hated it so much. I, I, I, I'm, I'm just not wired for customer service

00:44:33.940 work as you can tell, but that doesn't change anything that I said. The job is the job you're

00:44:38.880 paid. You are paid to be cheerful, friendly, and to make the customer feel valued. That's the whole

00:44:44.840 job. That's what the job is. And so you might hate it and you might hate your customers, but that's

00:44:51.340 not their problem or it shouldn't be. And also, by the way, the, the, and this is a point that

00:44:59.380 becomes increasingly relevant. The only thing you can do as a customer service representative in

00:45:06.120 pretty much any industry at this point, uh, but in particular, the food, you know, the fast food

00:45:10.860 industry and the food service industry, the, the only thing you can do in that position

00:45:17.740 that is not replaceable by a machine is this, right? Is to be cheerful, friendly, and make the

00:45:27.460 customer feel valued because machines can do everything. Machines can easily push buttons.

00:45:33.600 They can put an order into the system or whatever else, what they can't do, what they will never be

00:45:40.460 able to do. We can say with, with confidence is exhibit authentic cheerfulness and friendliness

00:45:47.740 and make the customer feel valued. Like, you know, a machine can do something quickly and efficiently.

00:45:55.940 And so the customer might be happy about that, but the customer cannot have a pleasant human

00:46:01.540 interaction with a customer, with a, with a machine where they leave that feeling valued,

00:46:06.240 feeling like they are, you know, concerns mattered. They can't, that, that can't happen from a machine.

00:46:14.100 Um, so when you look at the, at the collapse of customer service and you see all these people

00:46:21.720 in customer service positions that, as we talked about yesterday, just hate their customers and

00:46:26.440 don't try to hide it. Um, not only are they not doing the job they're supposed to be doing,

00:46:31.840 but they're, they're just, they're kind of, they're big. They are begging to be replaced by machines

00:46:36.040 because the one single thing you could be doing that would justify you doing the job rather than

00:46:42.960 a machine you aren't doing. And so if you're gonna, if you're doing a job that a machine can do and on

00:46:49.680 top of it, you have a terrible attitude and you're making the customers feel, uh, the opposite of

00:46:55.180 valued, you're making them feel guilty for even being there. Uh, well, well then the companies

00:47:02.300 are going to look at that and say, well, yeah, it was like, it's, it's obviously a step up to just

00:47:06.520 have a machine. So just a word of warning there. America is on the comeback, but the culture war

00:47:13.940 is not over. That's why tomorrow we're releasing episode two of our five-part series, the case for

00:47:17.840 Derek Chauvin, the incident. Uh, in episode one, we analyzed the criminal background of George Floyd

00:47:23.040 and the professional record of Derek Chauvin. But tomorrow we're going moment by moment through

00:47:27.120 the famous video of this fateful day. And if you want to be part of the movement, fighting for the

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00:47:53.040 When astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams went to space aboard Boeing Starliner capsule last

00:48:04.760 June, their mission was supposed to last just eight days, but because of catastrophic failures

00:48:08.880 with the design of Boeing's capsule, as well as the refusal of the Biden administration to bring

00:48:12.340 them back sooner, the two astronauts didn't return to earth until yesterday evening after roughly nine

00:48:17.260 months in space. SpaceX, which of course is run by Elon Musk, managed to do what Boeing, a much

00:48:22.780 larger and more established company could not do. Um, they guarantee the safe return of two

00:48:28.720 American astronauts who were stranded in space. No other company in this country or in the entire

00:48:32.620 world for that matter could have accomplished what SpaceX just did on this timeline. And then for

00:48:38.280 good measure, when the astronauts finally landed in the water, a bunch of dolphins, which is

00:48:42.280 apparently called a pot of dolphins began circling the capsule, almost like they're welcoming the

00:48:47.300 astronauts home. It was like something out of a Disney movie. So that's what Elon Musk has been up to

00:48:50.980 lately. He, if you sent him an email asking what he's accomplished in the last week, he could say

00:48:54.860 that he saved two astronauts lives, preserved all the data they've been collecting during their

00:48:58.980 experiments while they were in space and protected the reputation of America space program. And in the

00:49:03.920 process, he managed to entertain a pot of dolphins on top of it. In another era, these kinds of

00:49:10.120 achievements would unite the entire country. This would be, I think back to what happened when Gene

00:49:16.880 Kranz saved the crew of Apollo 13. They gave him the presidential medal of freedom. The state of

00:49:22.060 Ohio dedicated a day in August as Gene Kranz day. NASA handed him about 10 different awards. Ed

00:49:29.260 Harris played him in a movie with Tom Hanks. He told engineers to fit a square peg into a round hole.

00:49:35.600 He yelled failure is not an option. People, people loved it. He was a national hero among both Democrats

00:49:40.880 and Republicans. Half a century later, it's safe to assume that Elon Musk will not receive that kind of

00:49:45.820 treatment from Hollywood or anywhere else. And that's because we're no longer a country that

00:49:50.220 universally celebrates historic achievements for mankind. Instead, we're now split between two

00:49:54.620 distinct groups, people who celebrate human progress and people who resent it. This is a

00:49:59.420 distinction that's far more significant and far more destructive than any political disagreement

00:50:03.660 that's ever existed in the United States. It can't be resolved through logic or debate. It can't be

00:50:10.200 resolved on the battlefield either, at least not at the moment. That's because leftists have

00:50:15.300 resorted to acts of domestic terrorism to convey the extent of their hatred for Elon Musk and

00:50:20.920 presumably to offset their own crippling sense of inadequacy. They have embarked on a campaign of

00:50:26.560 arson, vandalism and terrorism in order to punish Elon Musk, not because they disagree with him

00:50:32.540 politically, but because he wants to advance the interests of the human race and they would rather

00:50:37.440 see the human race extinguish itself. To that end, since I last talked about the attacks on Tesla

00:50:42.640 stores and on Tesla vehicles, these incidents have only intensified. Here's just a handful of

00:50:48.300 these attacks in the past few days. Someone set fire to two cyber trucks late last night

00:50:53.700 at a Tesla dealership at 103rd and State Line. The FBI and ATF are assisting Kansas City,

00:50:59.140 Missouri police as they investigate this as arson. KMBC 9's Jarissa White shows us what happened.

00:51:04.640 Around 11 p.m., officers were called to a fire at a car lot.

00:51:13.300 A KCPD officer was close by when he noticed smoke coming from a Tesla cyber truck. The officer used

00:51:19.060 his fire extinguisher to try to put out the flames, but the fire continued to spread. KCFD was called

00:51:25.500 in to help. Our crews got on scene and the fire was in two cyber trucks.

00:51:30.300 Good morning. My name is Spencer Evans. I'm the special agent in charge of the FBI's Las Vegas

00:51:34.320 division. As you know, and as you heard this morning, the FBI has opened an investigation

00:51:38.640 into what was reported as initially as an arson at a Tesla facility that occurred at the Tesla

00:51:44.760 Collision Center in Las Vegas. As Assistant Sheriff Corrin noted, the FBI is working hand in glove with

00:51:51.760 our partners at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department to investigate this incident.

00:51:55.220 This is being investigated by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force.

00:51:59.440 We're seeing more reports of vandalized Teslas from all around the country.

00:52:03.260 The latest one happening in the Pacific Northwest. We want to warn you, some of the vandalism you see,

00:52:07.740 it's offensive. In suburban Seattle, police say six vehicles were tagged at a Tesla dealership.

00:52:13.240 One of them was a Cybertruck that was just at the dealership for maintenance.

00:52:16.940 It was spray painted and tagged. The truck's owners called the incident disheartening,

00:52:20.780 but says he doesn't feel personally attacked.

00:52:23.280 There are also now roughly a dozen documented instances of leftists keying Tesla vehicles

00:52:28.560 in parking lots or spray painting swastikas on them and so on. Of course, in the grand scheme

00:52:33.320 of things, this is a relatively small number of vehicles, but it's worth pointing out that 0.94

00:52:36.860 the people doing this are, of course, cowards who hide the moment they're caught. And a lot of them 0.88

00:52:42.680 are getting caught because Teslas have cameras that record suspicious activity at all times,

00:52:46.860 even when they're parked. One man who went viral for keying a Tesla in San Jose, for example,

00:52:51.460 denied that he had done so when somebody confronted him about it a few days later. Watch.

00:52:55.140 Did you just key a Tesla the other day?

00:52:58.700 You're what?

00:52:59.180 You're on video. Yeah. This is the guy. You just keyed a Tesla. You got a video online. I just saw it.

00:53:06.120 It's all over the face. You had the media.

00:53:09.600 You keyed a Tesla?

00:53:10.900 Yes, you did. You keyed a Tesla in a parking lot somewhere around here. What do you got to say

00:53:16.440 about that?

00:53:16.980 I didn't do that.

00:53:18.360 I didn't do that.

00:53:46.980 Well, you're on video. I said I plainly saw you doing it. You pulled up right next to it and

00:53:51.860 then you keyed it. You want to bet? I have to give the usual disclaimer that this man hasn't

00:53:58.180 been convicted yet. He's now been arrested and accused of felony vandalism by the San Jose

00:54:02.440 police. But assuming that this person is indeed guilty, which he appears to be since he looks like

00:54:07.500 the same person who keyed the car in the video and he was wearing the same clothes and driving the

00:54:11.020 same car. So, you know, all the pieces kind of add up. You have to admit that it's a pretty useful

00:54:16.460 demonstration of the sheer cowardice of Elon Musk's enemies. They think they're fighting

00:54:21.600 fascism by keying a random person's car and they won't even admit to it when they're on camera.

00:54:27.140 This is a pretty good sign that if Pam Bondi follows through in her promise to send all these

00:54:30.740 domestic terrorists to prison for at least five years, if she does that, this will stop very 1.00

00:54:35.240 quickly. We are dealing with deranged leftist thugs here. But if there's a silver lining, it's that 0.99

00:54:41.060 they happen to be very stupid and very cowardly. At the same time, we can't ignore the fact 1.00

00:54:46.420 that these thugs happen to have the endorsement of some of the most prominent figures in the

00:54:50.620 Democrat Party. The other day, for example, Tim Wall celebrated the decline of Tesla stock

00:54:55.280 as the result of domestic terrorism. This is the man who wanted to become the vice president 0.71

00:55:00.400 of the United States. Now he's jeering about the fact that an American company is being targeted

00:55:06.060 for political reasons. Watch.

00:55:08.060 Saying on my phone, I know some of you know this on the iPhone, they've got that little stock

00:55:11.640 gap. I added Tesla to it to give me a little boost during the day.

00:55:16.880 Two twenty five and dropping. So.

00:55:22.760 And if you own one, if you own one, we're not blaming you. You can you can take dental

00:55:30.100 floss and pull the Tesla thing off, you know, and take out just telling you.

00:55:33.640 So on the one hand, you have a guy making self catching rockets and saving astronauts and

00:55:39.920 creating self driving cars. On the other hand, you have Tim Walls. Tim Walls does not create

00:55:45.480 anything. He's incapable of doing that in any context. He's one of the dumber politicians

00:55:50.540 to ever seek high office, which is really saying something. So all he can do, like so many other 1.00

00:55:56.420 Democrats, is celebrate destruction. Is there any doubt whatsoever that people like Tim Walls

00:56:02.020 would have cheered if those astronauts had blown up?

00:56:06.560 How would they have reacted? Is there any doubt that these people, they wanted this rescue

00:56:11.460 mission to fail? They wanted the astronauts to die on the way down. They would have been

00:56:16.440 thrilled by that. They were rooting for it. They were they were praying. They were praying

00:56:22.620 to Satan. They were praying to their God, Satan, that that it would happen because they want

00:56:28.180 Elon Musk to fail. That's all they care about. Like the people keying the cars, they are stupid

00:56:33.840 and cowardly. And there's maybe no greater example, certainly of the stupid part than 1.00

00:56:39.260 Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, who just announced a great fanfare that's I mean, fanfare in his 0.99

00:56:44.300 own mind anyway, that he got rid of his Tesla vehicle in order to protest Elon Musk. And he's

00:56:49.920 replaced it with a Chevy SUV because apparently leftists aren't concerned about greenhouse gas

00:56:54.240 emissions anymore. That's gone, by the wayside. In a video, Kelly explained his reasoning for

00:56:58.760 ditching the Tesla such as it is. Here's the video. Hey, folks, Mark Kelly here in Washington,

00:57:05.140 driving to work for the last time in my Tesla. When I bought this thing, I didn't think it was

00:57:11.360 going to become a political issue. Every time I get in this car in the last 60 days or so,

00:57:20.940 it reminds me of just how much damage Elon Musk and Donald Trump is doing to our country.

00:57:27.800 Talking about slashing Social Security, cutting health care benefits for poor people, for seniors.

00:57:35.100 It's one bad thing after the next. He's firing veterans. I'm a veteran. So I have a really hard

00:57:41.780 time driving around in this thing. So I think it's time for an upgrade today. So this is going

00:57:46.720 to be my last, last trip in this car. There are some things I really liked about it. There are

00:57:52.840 things I didn't like about it, but that doesn't matter. What matters is, you know, doing the right

00:57:58.740 thing. I think it's time to get rid of it. You know, Elon Musk kind of turned out to be

00:58:02.960 and I don't want to be driving the car built and designed. So looking forward to my new ride.

00:58:13.640 Now, it's not really worth responding to any of the lies at the beginning of the video. Mark

00:58:17.860 Kelly appears to be saying that every veteran is entitled to permanent employment in the federal

00:58:21.900 government and that Elon Musk is somehow cutting health care benefits and Social Security,

00:58:26.680 which isn't happening. None of that really makes sense. But the really interesting part is at the

00:58:30.700 end when Kelly explains that he's selling his Tesla because he doesn't want to drive a car

00:58:35.520 that was designed and built by an a-hole, as he put it. So if somebody is an a-hole, 0.96

00:58:41.340 then apparently Mark Kelly has no interest in using their inventions. Any product associated

00:58:46.480 with a CEO or any person who's an a-hole must be shunned for all time. 0.87

00:58:54.520 Now, if you buy into all the slander about Elon Musk, it might seem like a compelling line of

00:59:00.580 argument, or at least it might seem compelling right up until the moment you realize that,

00:59:04.540 well, pretty much every useful invention in history was designed by an a-hole, as Mark Kelly would put

00:59:11.640 it. I mean, has Mark Kelly ever heard of Henry Ford? Okay. If Kelly looks into Henry Ford for about

00:59:18.640 five minutes, he'll find a lot of cancel-worthy material there. He was a bit of an eccentric,

00:59:23.360 to put it politely. Does that mean that nobody should ever drive Ford trucks anymore? We have to sell

00:59:29.080 our F-150s. And while we're at it, Alexander Graham Bell thought that deaf people shouldn't

00:59:35.240 have children. Never mind the fact that he married a deaf woman. His perspective was that deaf people

00:59:40.440 were terminally ill and that sign language should be abolished. Alexander Graham Bell became a villain

00:59:46.640 of the deaf community as a result. As one historian put it, in the deaf world, he's remembered with rage.

00:59:51.420 Does this mean that we can't use telephones anymore? We need to sell our iPhones because

00:59:57.400 Alexander Graham Bell was cruel to deaf people? I mean, he was kind of an a-hole. Actually, 0.92

01:00:02.720 we definitely need to sell our iPhones because everyone knows that Steve Jobs was extremely

01:00:06.600 demanding to work for. I mean, by pretty much all accounts, the guy was an a-hole. He often fired 0.85

01:00:10.880 people on the spot simply because they couldn't answer his questions. And as we know, today's Democrats

01:00:16.400 think that firing an employee for any reason, even if they can't list five things they did in the past

01:00:20.240 week is totally unconscionable. Everyone is entitled to lifetime employment with no accountability,

01:00:25.320 according to Democrats. Therefore, we can assume with confidence that Mark Kelly will never own

01:00:29.060 any Apple products of any kind. I could go on and on and on, but really, Mark Kelly and his fellow

01:00:34.520 Democrats have made my point for me. Elon Musk's companies are saving astronauts, catching rocket

01:00:40.040 boosters in midair, deploying self-driving cars, restoring free speech to the internet, implanting neural

01:00:44.920 chips to allow paralyzed people to use computers. Meanwhile, leftists are keying cars and setting

01:00:49.860 fire to Tesla dealerships. I mean, they have made their anti-human agenda abundantly clear.

01:00:55.200 And they've done it at the worst possible time. They've done it precisely when Musk is demonstrating

01:00:59.900 a productive pro-civilization alternative to their pathetic nihilism. And that is why Mark Kelly and

01:01:06.580 every other anti-human leftist who attacks Elon Musk, even as he saves astronauts stranded in outer space,

01:01:12.340 is today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

01:01:17.200 Have a great day. Talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - March 19, 2025

Ep. 1558 - What We Learned From The JFK Files

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