The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1646 - Why Millions Want This Deadly Trucker Back On American Roads

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, millions of people rally around a foreign truck driver who killed

00:00:03.680 three Americans. Tribalism is a fundamental fact of human nature. It's time that our

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00:02:15.020 36912. Other than the September 11th attacks, the single most deadly act of aviation terrorism in

00:02:21.700 world history is one you've probably never heard of. And there's a very clear reason for that,

00:02:26.120 although you're not supposed to talk about it. In June of 1985, Air India Flight 182 from Toronto to

00:02:33.560 Bombay blew up in midair over the coast of Ireland. A total of 329 people, including

00:02:39.400 268 Canadian citizens and 10 American citizens, were killed by a bomb that had been checked onto

00:02:46.000 the flight. Now, there was no doubt that the attack was directly related to the surge of

00:02:50.620 Sikh immigration to Canada in the late 1960s. Although only one person was convicted for his

00:02:56.700 role in the attack, one Inderjeet Singh Rayat, several Indian separatists were implicated.

00:03:04.140 It's a complicated backstory, but put simply, many Sikhs wanted a separate territory of

00:03:09.280 their own, as they still do. And they were becoming militant, which made politics in India

00:03:14.340 extremely volatile and dangerous. Therefore, because Canada was importing a lot of people

00:03:18.800 from the same region where this was all happening, Canadian life was also becoming volatile and

00:03:24.540 dangerous. But despite the large number of Canadian casualties on board Air India Flight

00:03:29.680 182, and despite the obvious implications for Canada's immigration policy, Canadians did not

00:03:35.500 think of this attack as we think of September 11th. In fact, they didn't give the attack much thought

00:03:40.160 at all. For decades, Canadians were dismissive of the idea that this bombing had any real significance

00:03:44.980 to them whatsoever. They mostly ignored it, as did most Americans. During a public inquiry into the

00:03:51.780 attack, one expert witness put it this way,

00:03:54.560 The government of Canada didn't commemorate the lives of the victims for roughly 20 years after

00:04:10.860 the attack. It wasn't until 2010, many decades later, that Canada's Prime Minister belatedly announced

00:04:17.120 that, quote, Canadians now understand that this atrocity was conceived in Canada, executed in Canada, 0.54

00:04:22.080 by Canadian citizens, and its victims were themselves mostly citizens of Canada.

00:04:28.140 Now, this sudden reversal was not the result of any new evidence or investigation that took place

00:04:33.340 after the attack in 1985. Instead, it was the result of the fact that Canada's Indian population 0.98

00:04:40.060 has continued to surge since the 1960s, to the point that every Canadian politician now has to cater

00:04:46.820 to this particular demographic. So does Canada's state broadcaster, which just ran a whole special

00:04:52.260 about this bombing a few months ago, more than 40 years after the fact. Watch.

00:04:58.080 Disappointing and hurtful that no one knows about this, and they still think of this as a

00:05:01.500 foreign tragedy, but this is really a Canadian tragedy. My sisters were on that flight. They were

00:05:06.580 both Canadian citizens. There were 268 Canadians on that flight.

00:05:10.060 Canada's largest and most savage mass murder case. This was Canada's 9-11.

00:05:16.120 I think in our own Canadian psyche that has not adequately internalized the tragedy of that bombing,

00:05:27.220 this was a homegrown terrorist act. Canada lost its innocence. We thought of ourselves as a nice

00:05:36.200 country. And we kept thinking of ourselves as a very nice country after the bombing because we

00:05:43.260 didn't really pay attention because we didn't really think of them as Canadians, to be blunt

00:05:47.400 about it. You know, they're Indian Canadians. They're hyphenated Canadians. They're somehow not us. 1.00

00:05:52.980 It didn't really happen to us. It happened far away.

00:05:56.640 So Canada is suddenly rediscovering this attack decades later. They've concluded that in the past,

00:06:02.280 Canadians ignored the midair bombing because of systemic racism against Indians. And now in the

00:06:08.740 name of equity, they're going to make things right. Meanwhile, over in India, it didn't take 40 years

00:06:14.380 to figure out how they felt about this bombing. Instead, they grasped the concept that certain

00:06:18.300 groups of people will commit mass murder in the name of ethnic nationalism, because in the end, 0.64

00:06:23.700 tribalism is a basic fact of human nature. Whether you accept that fact or not, or whether you believe

00:06:30.420 it's racist or politically incorrect or not, doesn't matter. Tribal violence is inevitable.

00:06:37.460 Although no history book will admit it, the bombing of Air India Flight 182 established

00:06:42.780 that Western governments, including both Canada and the U.S., are intent, have been intent for a long

00:06:49.180 time, on denying this basic truth. That's the real reason no one's ever heard of the bombing,

00:06:56.300 even though it's the second deadliest terrorist attack on a passenger plane in history.

00:07:01.220 It was an extremely inconvenient incident when you're trying to push the narrative that

00:07:05.380 multiculturalism leads to utopia. So it's better to just ignore the whole midair plane explosion, 1.00

00:07:12.660 Western leaders decided. Just don't think about all the foreign conflicts we're importing onto our 0.99

00:07:17.340 soil and the ramifications those conflicts might have. Don't think about the innocent people who are

00:07:22.580 dying. Just pretend that it's not happening. The result of this approach, predictably enough,

00:07:28.460 has been the continued inflow of large numbers of foreign nationals into the United States and

00:07:33.680 Canada. And through it all, Western nations have consistently remained passive and disinterested.

00:07:39.600 Our leaders have gone out of their way to ignore the extent to which foreign cultures are driven by

00:07:44.580 tribalism rather than abstract principles, you know, like justice or the rule of law.

00:07:49.380 And that attitude needs to change. And the case of Harjinder Singh, the truck driver who killed

00:07:56.060 three people on the Florida turnpike by making an illegal U-turn a couple of weeks ago,

00:08:00.420 is a prime example of why it needs to change. Now, we're all familiar with the details of the

00:08:08.160 case at this point. We've talked about it a few times in the show. And indeed, even after the crash,

00:08:13.120 Singh continued to implicate himself. One day after he blocked all of the freeway lanes on the Florida

00:08:18.880 turnpike, forcing a passenger van to impact his trailer, Singh and his passenger, Harneet Singh,

00:08:25.120 was the passenger, reportedly fled from Florida to Sacramento. Investigators were concerned they'd

00:08:30.660 leave the country for obvious reasons. At no point did Harjinder Singh demonstrate any remorse for what

00:08:36.140 he had done. In the videos of the crash and its aftermath, he looks mildly annoyed, if anything.

00:08:42.820 So if you're a rational person, you probably think that Harjinder Singh should face the maximum

00:08:47.360 possible punishment for what he did. That's the only way to prevent him from wiping out more

00:08:52.040 American families. But in his home country, they apparently don't see things that way.

00:08:59.260 Instead, they're presenting Harjinder Singh as a victim of circumstances who deserves a

00:09:03.680 very lenient sentence, if any. This is a video that was just uploaded by Indian MP

00:09:09.380 Harjinder Singh, Harjinder Singh is her name. We're not going to play the audio because she's not

00:09:15.600 speaking English, so it won't do you much good. But she did upload this statement in English along

00:09:21.400 with the footage. And the statement says, quote, I appeal to the External Affairs Minister to take up

00:09:27.660 Sikh truck driver Harjinder Singh's case with the United States government to ensure his rights,

00:09:33.280 including that to wear a Dastar, are protected, and he is not persecuted as a murderer. Harjinder

00:09:41.180 committed a grave mistake, which led to a fatal crash, but he is not a murderer and should not

00:09:45.800 be treated as such. Also, more than 1.5, so 150,000 Punjabi truck drivers in the U.S. should not

00:09:58.780 be discriminated against due to Harjinder's mistake, and their livelihood should not be snatched from

00:10:04.200 them by denying them work visas, making it more difficult for them to drive trucks by bringing

00:10:10.220 in new language proficiency rules. So that's the whole statement. So anyway, she's calling for the

00:10:16.300 Indian government to intervene in some way so that more drivers like Harjinder Singh can remain on our

00:10:22.920 freeways. Now let's think about this for a second. This is a case that should have zero relevance to

00:10:32.160 India or the government of India. The crash took place within the U.S. borders. The driver had been

00:10:38.260 living in the U.S. for several years beforehand. All of the Punjabi drivers that she's talking about,

00:10:45.080 by the same token, decided to leave India and come to the U.S. They're not under the jurisdiction of

00:10:51.680 India's government in any way. And yet, this MP believes that it's her responsibility to get

00:10:57.360 involved and tell the U.S. government how to enforce its laws and ensure that the roadways are safe.

00:11:03.460 She's saying it's no big deal if Indians can't read the road signs or if they, you know, kill 1.00

00:11:08.960 Americans in their cars. And many of her countrymen agree with that, apparently. Fox reports that, 0.70

00:11:16.960 quote, a petition urging Florida officials to show leniency toward Harjinder Singh, an illegal immigrant

00:11:21.980 truck driver accused of causing a crash that killed three people, has garnered nearly 2.5 million

00:11:27.740 signatures as of Sunday afternoon. The petition posted on the website change.org and addressed

00:11:33.540 to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, calls for both DeSantis and the Florida Board of Executive

00:11:38.460 Clemency to re-examine the case against the 28-year-old. Singh faces three counts of vicarious homicide and

00:11:44.600 three counts of manslaughter in connection with the deadly August 12th crash. Now, the petition,

00:11:51.080 which again has 2.5 million signatures, says, quote, we, the undersigned, respectively petition for

00:11:58.320 clemency or sentence reduction on behalf of 28-year-old Punjabi man who, in a tragic and

00:12:04.420 unintentional incident, caused a truck accident that resulted in the loss of three lives. Consider

00:12:09.320 alternative sentencing options such as restorative justice measures, counseling, or community service

00:12:14.660 aligning with both accountability and compassion. Yes, they want Harjinder Singh to go to a couple of

00:12:21.320 counseling sessions. That's the ideal punishment after he killed three people on the freeway.

00:12:28.260 Really, he just needs to, you know, talk about his feelings. When he looked back and saw the van

00:12:34.360 crumple like a Coke can, what emotions came over him? None, none at all? He just sat there with no

00:12:42.120 expression whatsoever, like he had just blown a tire? Well, maybe Harjinder Singh needs to work on

00:12:47.780 that. He needs to do a better job of expressing his emotions. That's all. Help him get in touch with

00:12:53.680 his feelings and then get him back on the roads immediately after, say, you know, two therapy

00:12:58.320 sessions. We'll make it three therapy sessions. Now, some supporters of Harjinder Singh also uploaded

00:13:03.460 videos, many of which sounded oddly similar to one another, like they're passing around some sort of

00:13:09.400 script, but watch. Here it is. I'm in support of Harjinder Singh. I know it was a, it was an accident.

00:13:16.960 He made a terrible mistake, not a deliberate choice to harm anyone. He was working hard to support his

00:13:24.660 family, like so many of us, and one wrong decision changed everything. A 45-year prison sentence is not

00:13:33.940 justice. It was an accident. He made a terrible mistake. It was an accident. He made a terrible

00:13:53.080 mistake, not a deliberate choice to harm anyone. It was an accident. He made a terrible mistake, not a deliberate

00:14:02.040 choice to harm anyone. He was working hard to support his family, like so many of us. It was an accident.

00:14:11.700 He was working hard to support his family. I would like to support this petition because I don't think this is a fair

00:14:18.900 sentencing. There was no motive behind this U-turn, illegal U-turn and killing those three people.

00:14:27.100 Did somebody took the black box of bullet data of the other vehicle that whether the other person tried

00:14:33.940 to stop the vehicle or not? Where was his? He was in care and control of his vehicle. I'm in insurance

00:14:39.140 industry and I know if you are in care and control. I'm supporting this person because it was an accident,

00:14:45.100 not a crime of intent, not a crime of intent. And one mistake should not raise an entire future

00:14:50.400 of 45 years in prison. It's not a justice, it's a reality.

00:14:55.920 Hi, my name is Rakira Singh. I am in support of Ajandar Singh. He made a mistake, but he didn't intend to murder.

00:15:03.560 It was an accident. 45 years is not a justice. Make a fair decision. So, please attend the...

00:15:12.560 Really sad for the victims, but can this case be taken with more compassion? He made a U-turn

00:15:21.180 by mistake, but license was issued by the state and several other factors beyond his control are at play

00:15:28.460 here. They're harping on the idea that these three homicides weren't intentional. It was an accident,

00:15:34.380 a terrible mistake, they say again and again and again. As far as we know, that's true that 0.99

00:15:39.300 Harjinder Singh didn't commit murder, you know, in the sense that he didn't do this in order to kill people,

00:15:45.780 as far as we know. But at the same time, it's fairly apparent that his actions, as depicted in the footage

00:15:52.180 from his cab, led to the deaths of three people. I mean, that's unmistakable. And also that his actions

00:16:00.520 were insanely reckless, making a U-turn on the highway from the right lane is the kind of thing

00:16:10.520 that's basically guaranteed to kill people. And if you want to have an ordered functioning society,

00:16:16.440 then people who engage in extremely reckless behavior like this, to the point that they wipe

00:16:20.820 out entire families, belong in prison for as long as possible. If you value the lives of American 0.80

00:16:28.580 citizens, that wouldn't be a controversial statement. But apparently it's controversial

00:16:34.060 in this case. Now, for their part, a group called United Seeks, which says it's affiliated with the

00:16:40.480 United Nations, posted this message, quote, we are saddened by the loss of life and the tragic

00:16:45.560 accident that occurred in Florida on August 12th. We grieve with the families impacted and offer our

00:16:50.500 condolences. We're also in touch with the family of the accused. Harjinder Singh are advocating for

00:16:56.000 equity and that the law must be appropriately and uniformly applied. And those threatening and

00:17:00.720 spewing discriminatory rhetoric and disinformation must be held to account. We call on everyone to

00:17:05.960 come together in times of tragedy, rather than exploit them for political grandstanding and

00:17:10.660 furthering personal agendas. So the United Seeks are calling for equity. And they say that if you're

00:17:19.140 saying mean words online about Harjinder Singh, then you're the one who needs to be held to account.

00:17:26.660 They don't say that Harjinder Singh should be held to account for killing three people.

00:17:31.100 Instead, you need to suffer because of your speech. The problem isn't that he killed three people. It's

00:17:36.260 that you are upset about that and saying mean things about him in response to it. That is the

00:17:44.260 overwhelming response from this community at the moment. That's what they're saying in their

00:17:49.440 statements, the videos, petitions. It's worth mentioning that there is a counter petition on

00:17:55.320 change.org entitled, Deport Supporters of Harjinder Singh's Commutation. So I want to say that if you're a

00:18:06.200 foreign national and you think it's okay for foreign nationals to kill Americans on the roadway, 0.97

00:18:10.440 then you should be deported, which I totally agree with. And that one only has around 16,000 supporters,

00:18:17.040 so we got to get those numbers up. In any event, what you also may have noticed about this petition

00:18:22.760 and these videos is that they bear a very strong resemblance to the Carmelo Anthony fundraiser on

00:18:29.700 Give, Send, Go. For stabbing a white athlete at a track meet, Carmelo Anthony has now raised more

00:18:35.160 than half a million dollars. And as we previously discussed, many of the comments were explicitly

00:18:40.800 anti-white in nature. Here's just a quick refresher of the comments on Carmelo's Give, Send, Go.

00:18:46.620 Quote, these white people can die mad like their ancestors did. Another quote says, these crackers 0.92

00:18:53.480 need to understand that we are not our ancestors and they will reap what they sow. I hope the knife 1.00

00:18:59.980 made a full recovery. Another one said, quote, white people have put so much evil in the earth, 0.97

00:19:06.280 you have the right to protect yourself, Carmelo. Quote, I love when we stand up for each other. 0.82

00:19:13.020 And on and on and on. We've seen similar levels of tribalism with the outpouring of support in the

00:19:19.900 Somali community for Kalinal Ibrahim Dairi. As we previously discussed, the Somali Community Center

00:19:26.540 wrote a letter of support for Dairi, even after he was convicted for abducting and sexually assaulting

00:19:31.980 a child. And then on top of that, prosecutors reported that Somalis were threatening to kill

00:19:36.980 the mother of the victim. Now, they're not doing any of this because they think Dairi is a good person

00:19:42.180 or because he was wrongfully convicted or any of that. They're doing that because he's Somali.

00:19:48.760 And so are they. And that's what matters to them. Now, the people in the video about Harjinder Singh

00:19:57.680 that we played earlier, to give them some credit, weren't quite this explicit. But the thrust of

00:20:03.980 their argument was the same, which is we stand up for our own. That's why there's a petition with

00:20:11.060 millions of signatures and dozens of impassioned on-camera pleas on behalf of a truck driver

00:20:16.780 who just killed three Americans. Now, they're not worried about the specifics of U.S. sentencing

00:20:23.300 law or how this case will turn out or road safety. They don't care about the possibility that other

00:20:30.380 foreign truck drivers will kill more Americans in the future. They don't value American lives the same 1.00

00:20:34.980 way they value the lives of their own people. That's very clear. And therefore, whatever punishment

00:20:39.460 is imposed on Harjinder Singh, in their view, is too severe. Now, the only conclusion we can draw

00:20:46.940 from the cases of Carmelo Anthony and Harjinder Singh and dozens like it is that, again, tribalism is a

00:20:55.780 basic fact of human nature. What American leaders call bigotry and white supremacy is practiced all

00:21:02.460 over the world, all the time, in service of other ethnicities and national identities.

00:21:09.380 And more importantly, it's practiced by tens of millions of people who we've allowed into this

00:21:13.560 country. Our immigration system for decades has denied the basic fundamental reality of tribalism.

00:21:21.940 But the truth is simply undeniable at this point. People who want to survive, who value their own

00:21:29.140 culture and civilization, will defend and prioritize their own, often to the detriment of everybody

00:21:35.080 else. They will be unapologetic and relentless in their defense of their own interests, period.

00:21:43.480 They will prioritize their own. And as a general rule, I don't blame them for it. Now, I don't think

00:21:50.060 you should defend murderers and people who kill the innocent, but the general idea of prioritizing

00:21:56.180 your own people and defending their interests, that makes sense. That's what you should do.

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00:24:38.560 City, showed up at an event called Men's Day and decided to show off his bench pressing skills at

00:24:47.580 this event. So that'll be interesting. Let's watch that. Here it is.

00:24:52.340 This is how you move up in the polls. Yeah! This is how you move up in the polls. Yeah!

00:25:01.360 Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go! Yeah! Let me get one more! Let me get three! Let me get three! Let me get three! Yeah!

00:25:31.340 So you saw there Mamdani needs assistance to get the bar up. He's only able to do two reps with

00:25:37.760 assistance the whole time. It appears there are two 45s on the bar, two 45-pound plates, so that would

00:25:44.480 mean he was bench pressing 135 pounds. And for those who aren't familiar, just so you know, 135 pounds for

00:25:51.860 a bench press is a very small amount of weight. I mean, it'd be one thing if you're doing it for reps,

00:25:56.660 if you're doing it to warm up or something like that. But maxing out at 135 and you need help

00:26:01.820 from two spotters is a very sad state of affairs. It's weak for a grown man. Now, a lot of people are

00:26:11.960 focusing on the fact that Mamdani is such a puny, weak, pathetic, sad little man. They're saying that 1.00

00:26:19.120 any man who maxes out at 135 should be legally barred from running for office.

00:26:23.500 And I agree with all that, of course. I mean, that's true. I mean, arguably, you shouldn't be

00:26:29.000 allowed to vote as a man if you can't bench press more than 135 pounds. I've said before that voting

00:26:35.780 should require like a quick test in civics, and there should be other requirements as well.

00:26:42.040 You know, you're a taxpaying citizen. You're not on any entitlements. You know, all those things.

00:26:47.400 But maybe you should have a bench press there just outside the voting booth. But I think the greater

00:26:58.040 point here is, again, how out of touch the Democrat Party is. And you really couldn't think of a better

00:27:08.140 way to encapsulate and illustrate the party's problem with men than the video that I just

00:27:15.840 played. And it's because here, it's not just that Mamdani has the physical fitness of a toothpick.

00:27:23.080 That's not just it. It's not just that he would he would lose an arm wrestling match against my five

00:27:28.280 year old daughter. That's not that's not the point. I mean, that's part of the point. That's not the

00:27:32.600 whole point. It's that this video exists at all. I mean, if you can't put up real weight, if you can't,

00:27:43.160 if you, you know, if you if you're not very, if you don't have a lot of upper body strength,

00:27:48.280 and so you can't bench press very much. Well, okay, why would you do this on camera? Why would

00:27:56.380 you the only reason to bench press on camera, especially as a politician is if you're trying

00:28:02.200 to impress the voters, particularly men? That's the only reason to do it. There's no other reason

00:28:07.240 to do it. But if you can't throw up real weight, then then why do it? It would be like if you just

00:28:16.600 decided randomly to take a geography quiz on camera. And then it turns out that you can't even point to

00:28:23.480 North America on a map. What? Why? You could just not do that. And nobody would know why highlight

00:28:30.160 that fact about yourself. Doesn't make any sense. And the answer is that Democrats are so out of

00:28:36.540 touch with men that they don't even know that this qualified, they don't know what qualifies as an

00:28:44.380 impressive bench press. Like they're so out of touch with men that they don't, they're so clueless

00:28:50.100 about the culture of young men that they think 135 pounds will impress them. So it's kind of the,

00:28:58.240 you know, it's the equivalent of we've played before the, the photos and videos of politicians,

00:29:04.760 usually Democrat politicians. I think some Republicans have done this where they're,

00:29:09.080 they're trying to appeal to male voters. So they take a picture of themselves standing over a grill.

00:29:16.460 Except you can tell the grill isn't even turned on. I think there was that one who was a Chuck

00:29:20.620 Schumer, I think, who had a raw beef patties on a, on a grill that was not turned on and there was

00:29:28.480 cheese already on them. So he's making a cheeseburger with raw patties again. So out of touch with men

00:29:36.080 that they, they don't even know how to fake it. That's what's so amazing about it. Like I would

00:29:43.560 have had more, I think I would have had more respect for mom Donnie if he staged a photo of himself

00:29:49.300 benching what looked like 225 pounds, but it turned out that the, the, the weight plates were,

00:29:57.160 were fake. You know, that there was, it was like, there's helium. They were, they were balloons.

00:30:02.300 Um, I think I'd have more respect for that because at least it would show that you're in touch

00:30:06.340 with men enough to know what would impress them. So it at least shows that much. It's like if Chuck

00:30:14.680 Schumer had staged a photo where he's standing over a grill with what looks like perfectly grilled

00:30:21.840 chicken breast. And maybe it's, it's fake. Cause maybe it's someone else did it, but he took credit

00:30:27.940 of it. If I didn't know it was fake, I'd be impressed because chicken breast is one of the hardest

00:30:32.680 meats to grill. It's very finicky. It's like very easy to overdo it. And you end up with dried out

00:30:36.840 chicken. Uh, so it's a, it's a really hard thing to do well. And even if I found out that the picture

00:30:42.760 was fake, I would at least know that Chuck Schumer or his team, I would at least know that even if he

00:30:48.700 doesn't, doesn't have the grill skills, that there's a certain level of awareness, at least

00:30:55.940 that's commendable as opposed to these pictures of guys grilling like frozen hamburger

00:31:02.360 patties, which is, it's almost impossible to screw that up. They still find a way to screw

00:31:07.880 it up, but frozen hamburger patties on a grill. That's, that's the 135 pound bench press of the

00:31:14.700 outdoor grilling world. So that's the point here. Um, these people are totally out of touch.

00:31:21.360 They're, they're so clueless about men, about masculinity and male culture that they don't even 0.99

00:31:28.160 know how to pander to men successfully. And, uh, so that's the, that's the entire problem that men,

00:31:36.880 that, uh, Democrats have with men sort of encapsulated right there. All right, moving on

00:31:41.520 to another story related to this same guy. Unfortunately, uh, the New York post reports

00:31:46.720 democratic mayoral front runner Zoran Mamdani and his comrades at the democratic socialists of America

00:31:53.180 want to wipe out the enforcement of all misdemeanor offenses. The post has learned in its most recent

00:31:59.980 platform. The group blast policing and attention as instruments of class war designed to guarantee

00:32:06.020 the domination of the working class and demands an end to what it calls the criminalization of

00:32:11.500 working class survival. Um, according to the national party's latest platform for all the working

00:32:18.260 class to achieve collective liberation, we must constrain, diminish, and abolish the carceral

00:32:24.040 forces of the state from prisons and, uh, police themselves to their manifestations in all forms

00:32:29.440 throughout society. On the campaign trail, Mamdani has repeatedly called for the police to stop focusing

00:32:35.680 on what he refers to as non-serious crimes. He said in a campaign video posted to X on Wednesday

00:32:42.920 that police have a critical role to play, but right now we're relying on them to deal with the failures

00:32:46.920 of our social safety net, which is preventing them from doing their actual jobs.

00:32:53.920 Now, obviously it's insane to end the enforcement of misdemeanors. Um, I don't think I need to explain

00:33:03.240 why that's a problem and keep in mind when we talk about misdemeanors, we're not talking about

00:33:08.220 jaywalking. Okay. Even though I think the laws against jaywalking also should be enforced,

00:33:13.440 but we're talking about things like theft, uh, shoplifting, assault. These are, these are all,

00:33:20.600 these all can be, and very often are misdemeanors, uh, disorderly conduct, you know, disturbing the

00:33:27.180 peace harassment. Again, these are often misdemeanors. So in other words, most of the uncivilized

00:33:37.160 criminal behavior that makes living in a big city these days, so miserable are misdemeanors.

00:33:45.580 Most of the bad behavior that can negatively impact your daily life, especially if you live in one of

00:33:49.820 these places are, are misdemeanors. So if you end enforcement of those crimes, you get even more

00:33:57.440 of that and your daily life becomes all the more miserable because the idea is, well, they're just

00:34:03.380 misdemeanors. I mean, they're not really affecting people's lives that much. No, again, if you're

00:34:09.620 living in one of these places, most of the stuff that makes your life miserable, that's misdemeanors.

00:34:14.940 It's just, it's a whole bunch of it. It's a whole lot of people doing this stuff all the time.

00:34:22.540 Um, so if anything, it should go the other way. I mean, if it were up to me, I would make,

00:34:27.260 I would make all shoplifting a felony. I would make all drunk and disorderly conduct a felony.

00:34:35.400 Um, I would make it a felony every time some drugged out vagrant starts disturbing or threatening

00:34:41.760 normal people on the subway or on the sidewalk. I'd make all that stuff felonies if it was up to me.

00:34:50.600 So in a way, I guess I'd also end the enforcement of misdemeanors, but only because I'd be turning all

00:34:55.080 them into felonies. But Mamdani wants to go the other way, which as we've established is completely

00:34:59.640 insane. But what I really want to focus on, um, is this part reading again. It says in its

00:35:08.040 platform, the group blast policing and attention as instruments of class warfare designed to

00:35:14.520 guarantee the domination of the working class, uh, the criminalization of working class survival 0.96

00:35:21.040 for all the working class to achieve collective liberation, we must constrain, diminish, and 1.00

00:35:25.960 abolish the carceral forces of the state from prisons and police themselves to their manifestations

00:35:30.340 in all forms throughout society. So, uh, working class, right? That's the, that's the refrain,

00:35:35.460 the, the refrain that this is being done for the working class. And that's the most ridiculous 0.98

00:35:40.540 part about it because they want to have less law and order, no law and order. And they frame 0.92

00:35:50.520 it as a pro working class position. It's for the sake of the working class. And when you

00:35:56.980 enforce the law, in particular, when you enforce these, uh, supposedly non-serious, the laws against

00:36:02.480 these supposedly non-serious crimes, which are often quite serious, that, uh, this is a criminalization

00:36:09.820 of the working class. That's the, that's the claim, but exactly the opposite is true. The left's

00:36:20.380 pro-crime policies are not, uh, are not enacted for the sake of the working class. They are an attack

00:36:27.580 on the working class because the working class are the ones who, who suffer the most.

00:36:33.060 They, they do, they're the ones who take the brunt of these kinds of crimes. Because when we say,

00:36:41.600 and this is an important point, when we say working class, what do we mean? Well, what we should mean,

00:36:47.580 uh, when we say that we should be referring to people who work. Now, when politicians use the, the,

00:36:54.440 the, uh, term working class, they usually mean anyone who earns under a certain arbitrary income

00:37:03.540 threshold. So whatever that income threshold is, everybody under that qualifies as working

00:37:09.580 class and everybody above it is not working class. But, um, but that, that, uh, is not true,

00:37:18.880 or at least that distinction makes no sense. Because not everybody under that income threshold

00:37:27.960 actually works. And so when we say working class, we should be talking again, if you work for a living,

00:37:36.740 you're working class by definition. You're, you're, you're in the class of people where you have to 1.00

00:37:42.900 work a job in order to survive. You go out every day and you work a job and, uh, and you do this

00:37:49.600 right. So if you're so rich that you don't have to work at all, then you're not working class.

00:37:54.860 But on the other end of it, right, if you're a welfare queen and you don't have a job, you're

00:37:59.320 not working class. If you rely on EBT to feed you, you're not working class. The, the cracked out 1.00

00:38:04.720 vagrant on the subway is not working class. This is someone who does not work. How could you be 1.00

00:38:09.760 working class if you don't work? Um, so the people who are committing most of these crimes in the city 1.00

00:38:21.180 are not working class. They don't work. They don't have jobs. 1.00

00:38:28.260 The people who just walk in and casually shoplift from Walgreens, the people who have made it so that

00:38:35.000 the shampoo at Walmart has to be locked behind glass. That's not working class. People have done 1.00

00:38:40.460 it. Working class people have jobs. Okay. So they'll go in and buy their own damn shampoo 1.00

00:38:44.780 because you have a job and you can afford to buy shampoo. And also you're not going to risk 0.99

00:38:50.380 your livelihood because you're a, you're a, an adult with a job. You probably have a family.

00:38:56.900 You're not going to risk that for the sake of buying shampoo. The people, the, the people that are,

00:39:01.380 that are doing that, but they're stealing shampoo. These are not working class people. These are 0.94

00:39:04.420 people that don't have jobs. Um, so the, the, the victims of these crimes are the working class.

00:39:19.300 And once again, when I say working class, I mean it, you're a normal person. You work for a living 1.00

00:39:26.460 that in my mind, that makes you work. I don't know how else, I don't know how else to define the term

00:39:31.860 if that doesn't make you working. By definition, you're in the class of people where you work for

00:39:35.740 a living. You're working class. Um, working class people are not shoplifting. Okay. They're not

00:39:43.460 randomly stealing like a bike that was like, they're not doing that. They're not getting drunk

00:39:49.060 and stumbling down the street and shouting at random people. They're not doing that. Um, they're not

00:39:56.460 doing the shoplifting. They do work at, and, and also own the stores where the shoplifting is

00:40:04.380 happening. Um, working class people are not harassing commuters on the train. They are the commuters on

00:40:12.420 the train. Working class people are not mugging random pedestrians. They are the pedestrians.

00:40:19.380 Working class people don't steal cars. They get their cars stolen and, and so on and so on.

00:40:28.200 So strictly enforcing the law, restoring law and order, those are pro working class positions.

00:40:35.420 That's what you do. If you care about the working class

00:40:38.140 and, um, you, you do things that make their lives better and safer and easier.

00:40:45.760 All right. Let's, one of the things I want to mention, this is pretty funny on Friday, uh, ESPN

00:40:55.040 tweeted a little collage that they had made. They were very proud of this collage. Um, at least they

00:41:03.620 were proud of it at first and, uh, I'll put it up on the screen. You can see it there. The caption

00:41:09.300 says all the icons, all the moments, all of ESPN, all in one place. And then you see the little

00:41:16.180 collage, little illustrations of all the sports icons that you can find if you watch ESPN.

00:41:22.540 And many people notice something strange about these sports icons that they put up on, on the,

00:41:27.000 uh, in their collage. Namely, there are a lot of women on this poster. 1.00

00:41:31.460 There are three women right, right there, front and center in the poster. And then many more, 0.96

00:41:38.440 which is strange because with maybe one or two exceptions, every sports icon in the country

00:41:44.700 is a man. Almost all the sports icons in history have been men. Most people can't even name more

00:41:52.120 than like one or two female athletes. And yet it seems like half of this poster is comprised of women.

00:41:57.500 There were some other commentators that saw this, this, uh, tweet from ESPN and they actually did

00:42:04.200 the counting. And apparently there are 11 WNBA players on ESPN's sports icon poster, 11 of them.

00:42:15.280 Guess how many NFL players? 10. So according to ESPN, the WNBA is more iconic and has more iconic

00:42:25.880 players than the NFL. The NFL, by far the most popular league in the country, somehow has fewer

00:42:33.120 icons than the WNBA, even though like a casual sports fan could probably name 15 NFL players that

00:42:40.200 are currently playing pretty easily. If not more, how many WNBA players could a casual sports fan name?

00:42:48.640 One, Caitlin Clark. And that's pretty much it. Um, and by the way, just to drive the point home,

00:42:55.360 the NFL averages about 18 million viewers per game, the WNBA, on the other hand, right now getting 0.99

00:43:03.620 record ratings record for the WNBA, uh, gets about 600,000. So that's 18 million to 600,000.

00:43:14.140 The WNBA, even in the, in the playoffs, they get about, and this again is a record, but they had 0.95

00:43:19.360 1.2, 1.3 million NFL playoffs get 40 million. The Superbowl gets 130 million. And yet you'd never know

00:43:29.740 that based on this, um, ESPN ad. And that's just the NFL, by the way, they also left off a bunch of

00:43:36.240 other iconic male athletes. Scotty Scheffler, the most dominant golfer in the last 20 or 30 years.

00:43:41.620 I don't follow golf, but I know that at least he didn't make the cut. Couldn't find room for him

00:43:46.940 in between all the WNBA players. They even put female sportscasters on this poster. Um, 0.74

00:43:53.080 an ESPN personality named Monica McNutt made the, uh, which yes, is a funny name, 1.00

00:43:59.740 but she made the poster. And in, in, in fairness, I will say, and I didn't even see this. So people

00:44:05.400 were passing it around in reaction to this. I didn't, this was from last football season

00:44:09.520 or I don't know, back in the summer, but, uh, so I didn't see this when it happened, but, uh, she,

00:44:17.580 she did have an iconic moment. This sportscaster did last year or several months ago. Uh, here it

00:44:24.660 is. Watch this.

00:44:25.660 Yes. That was a, a woman who talks about sports for a living. 1.00

00:44:55.640 Who thought that a Barry Sanders Jersey was a Shador Sanders Jersey. This is a sports journalist

00:45:04.680 who apparently has never heard of Barry Sanders. Okay. That's, I'm trying to think of a, if you're

00:45:13.420 not a football fan, I'm trying to think of a way to, uh, uh, a frame of reference. It'd be like if

00:45:20.720 your heart surgeon couldn't tell the difference between a heart and your liver, it's, it's, it's

00:45:26.560 like that. And the consequences aren't quite as dire, but still it's like that. Uh, Barry Sanders,

00:45:33.020 one of the top five or 10 players of all time. And, uh, in the NFL and this woman who works in sports

00:45:39.040 could not identify his Jersey yet. She's an icon. She's an icon of sports, a legendary figure,

00:45:48.080 more legendary than Barry Sanders himself. Apparently now, hilariously enough, ESPN did

00:45:54.980 end up deleting this post just simply because they got bullied for it, which is always fun.

00:46:00.400 But the fact that it was ever made at all, the fact that it ever existed only goes to show how

00:46:07.320 absolutely determined these people are to feminize everything. You know, so this is another example. 0.87

00:46:16.200 Anyone who says that wokeness is dead, um, it's not, I wish it was, but it's not. And it can never be

00:46:23.320 as long as leftism exists, wokeness will exist because they're one in the same.

00:46:30.400 And this also explains why like ESPN is probably the wokest company in all of media and entertainment.

00:46:42.560 Uber, uber woke and, and not becoming any less. So, okay. They have not like if, if wokeness died,

00:46:49.580 ESPN did not get the memo now because they're still leaning into this stuff. Absolutely.

00:46:54.680 And why are they so woke? It's because they're trying to, to, they're in the sports world. And so

00:47:03.040 they're trying to counteract the aggressive, unrelenting maleness of sports. Sports are a, a, 0.75

00:47:13.400 an inherently masculine thing. And so that's what they're up against. Now it's easy enough to

00:47:20.520 feminize, you know, action films and superhero movies and so on. Those movies don't do well, 1.00

00:47:26.760 but you can, you can make a movie with a female action hero who can beat up, uh, you know, a bunch 1.00

00:47:34.700 of male bad guys and all that kind of stuff. You can, you can do that because it's all fake,

00:47:38.160 but in sports it's different. And so like, no matter what they do, no matter how much they insist,

00:47:48.360 we're just never going to live in a world where females are the more, the more, the more, 1.00

00:47:56.880 are more dominant athletes or more iconic athletes where people are more interested in female sports

00:48:02.000 than male sports. We're never going to live in that world. We can't live in it because this is 0.87

00:48:07.740 just a biological reality. And, uh, and that's the thing that ESPN is bumping up against.

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00:50:58.020 Our daily cancellation today begins with a terrifying moment at the University of South

00:51:08.160 Carolina last night. Reports of an active shooter. I'll read some of the reporting from MSN.com.

00:51:13.600 Quote, students at the University of South Carolina were thrown into chaos on Sunday evening. Sirens

00:51:19.920 blared. Emergency alerts lit up phones. Terrified undergraduates barricaded themselves inside

00:51:25.140 classrooms and dorms as armed police stormed the Thomas Cooper Library. For more than 90 minutes,

00:51:30.920 fear gripped the campus. At about 6.30 p.m. local time, the university issued a Carolina

00:51:35.180 alert warning of an active shooter suspected to be near the campus library. The alert described the

00:51:40.720 suspect as a white male, approximately six feet tall, wearing black trousers. Students and staff

00:51:45.700 were told to evacuate if safe to do so or to barricade themselves inside classrooms and dormitories.

00:51:50.100 Panic spread quickly across the Columbia campus as police arrived and began a floor-by-floor search

00:51:54.940 of the library. Now, while this was all going on, videos were widely circulating on social media of a

00:52:00.840 guy walking casually around campus carrying an alleged rifle. I'm going to put some of those videos up on

00:52:06.160 the screen right now. You can see them right now. This terrifying footage went viral on X, thanks in

00:52:11.940 large part to the efforts of Representative Nancy Mace, who wants to be the governor of South Carolina. 0.63

00:52:18.140 And she was all over this thing. She was tweeting frantically about it. She repeatedly identified

00:52:23.440 this guy as the suspected shooter. She posted a video of this kid along with this caption.

00:52:32.280 Here's the alleged school shooter at USC Bolo, white male, black shorts, gray t-shirt, backpack.

00:52:38.920 And then again, she tweeted, active shooter, University of South Carolina, Columbia campus,

00:52:42.540 school library, white male, six feet tall, black shorts, gray shirt. So like I said, she was all over 1.00

00:52:47.940 this. And that makes sense. You know, it's important to get the word out, get the word out about a guy

00:52:53.480 carrying a rifle on campus, a rifle that looks weirdly skinny and pointy. It appears that this

00:53:02.080 rifle has a handle at the bottom and then kind of a flares out a little bit and then comes to a point.

00:53:08.140 Actually, the rifle looks almost exactly like an umbrella. Actually, it turns out the rifle is an

00:53:14.580 umbrella. The guy identified by Nancy Mace as the alleged shooter was carrying an umbrella.

00:53:20.720 So it appears, and I don't think there's been official confirmation on this.

00:53:24.940 The police looked into it. There was no, there was no shooter. So it was all a false alarm.

00:53:28.980 And, and Nancy Mace and others on social media were identifying this guy as the shooter.

00:53:32.840 It, it appears that the, the panic, the lockdown, the major police response, that all of that was

00:53:39.460 actually a reaction to a guy holding an umbrella. Now here's that same kid later in the night showing

00:53:46.400 off his umbrella. You can see it there. Sure enough, that's no rifle. Now I know you might be

00:53:53.240 thinking, well, this was a whole lot of chaos over an umbrella. And also you're probably thinking

00:53:58.300 a lawmaker who wants to be governor, just falsely accused a private citizen of being a mass shooter

00:54:04.560 because he was carrying an umbrella. I mean, shouldn't there be some kind of accountability

00:54:08.600 for that? Shouldn't she at least apologize for that, which she has not done? Well, to the latter

00:54:14.660 point, I'll only say that yes, Nancy Mace, uh, her actions were, were reckless, irrational, uh,

00:54:21.860 could have gotten somebody killed, but at least she managed to send multiple tweets in a row 1.00

00:54:27.400 without posting a selfie. So look at the bright side. I mean, I would have expected all of Nancy's

00:54:32.820 tweets about the alleged shooting to be accompanied by a picture of herself looking sad while showing

00:54:38.480 off her cleavage. Uh, instead she went the entire night without posting a single selfie. As far as I

00:54:43.340 know, so that's a personal record for Nancy and we should congratulate her for it. Second, I think this

00:54:48.240 whole story, uh, just to get serious for a moment, provides us with a crucial opportunity to have a

00:54:54.880 real conversation about common sense umbrella control. You know, the type of umbrella this

00:55:00.160 kid was carrying around simply should not be permitted. That was a fully automatic assault

00:55:06.300 umbrella. Now, how do we differentiate assault umbrellas from regular umbrellas? Well, obviously

00:55:10.820 assault umbrellas are the ones that look super scary. If people are scared of an umbrella, that

00:55:15.600 means it's an assault umbrella. Even if the umbrella isn't used to physically assault anyone,

00:55:21.060 it still assaults our feelings, our sense of, uh, security, our peace of mind. And this is why, as I've,

00:55:27.920 um, as I've argued for years, every umbrella should have an old fashioned curved handle. It should look

00:55:35.320 like the kind of umbrella that people might've used in the 18th century. I mean, after all, when our

00:55:40.460 founding fathers gave us the right to carry umbrellas, they never imagined a world where these new

00:55:45.140 fangled modern, scary, all black umbrellas would exist. If an umbrella doesn't look like the kind

00:55:51.440 of umbrella that Benjamin Franklin might've used, it doesn't belong on the street. Only trained

00:55:55.780 professionals, people who use umbrellas as part of their job should be allowed to use the kind of

00:56:01.100 umbrella that the university of South Carolina student was carrying around. That kind of umbrella

00:56:05.540 should be reserved for umbrella specialists, you know, like crossing guards, golf caddies, that sort of

00:56:10.520 thing. Now you can make the argument that no one should have an umbrella. Really? Why do you need

00:56:16.900 one anyway? If it's raining, wear a raincoat, grab a poncho, but just stay inside. I mean, frankly,

00:56:22.300 I'm suspicious of anyone who feels the need to own an umbrella. I mean, you have a roof on your house.

00:56:28.280 Why do you need to carry a little roof around with you? And it's, it's, it's bizarre.

00:56:33.180 If nobody owned an umbrella, we could avoid tens of thousands of umbrella related injuries annually.

00:56:37.880 And according to some estimates, more than 89,000 people suffer severe facial lacerations and eye

00:56:42.480 injuries every year because of umbrellas. That's not even counting the dozens of people who are

00:56:46.100 comically blown away by the wind, like cartoon characters, because they were carrying umbrellas

00:56:50.200 and then it gets windy. And I know these statistics sound made up and they are, but that's beside the

00:56:56.260 point. What if they weren't made up? What if it were true that umbrellas kill more people every year

00:57:03.900 than cancer and heart disease combined? That's a scary thought. And if we don't get our umbrella

00:57:10.200 problem under control and enact some common sense regulations, that nightmare could soon become a

00:57:16.200 reality. And that's why ultimately I'm grateful for the work Nancy Mace has done to raise awareness

00:57:21.700 about the threat of unregulated umbrellas. She never led the charge against gender ideology like she

00:57:28.240 claims all the time. But on this issue, she is unquestionably the leader. And that is why

00:57:33.600 in honor of Nancy Mace, we must say that umbrellas are today canceled. That'll do it for the show 0.88

00:57:41.520 today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.

00:57:45.940 Hey there. I'm Daily Wire executive editor, John Bickley. And I'm Georgia Howe. And we're the hosts

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The Matt Walsh Show - August 25, 2025

Ep. 1646 - Why Millions Want This Deadly Trucker Back On American Roads

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