The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1686 - New Yorkers Hand Their City Over To A Third World Islamic Communist

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00:00:14.840 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Democrats pull off a clean sweep in Tuesday's elections,

00:00:18.880 putting a foreign communist in charge of New York City and voting for a man in Virginia who

00:00:23.140 fantasized about murdering his political opponents. What can we learn from this? What

00:00:27.380 should we be doing going forward? We'll talk about that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:57.520 Yesterday was the single most clarifying day in American politics since the election of Donald

00:02:03.820 Trump in 2016. Now, when I say clarifying, I don't mean that it was the most consequential day

00:02:08.560 or most important day in American politics. There have been plenty of days that were far more important

00:02:13.200 in terms of their raw impact on millions of people over the last decade or so. But no day has been

00:02:19.580 anywhere near as illuminating as this one in recent years. No one day has done a better job of showing

00:02:26.300 us where the battle lines are, what's important, and what's not. At a time when pretty much every

00:02:31.800 prominent commentator and politician on the right is picking a wildly different target. Less than two

00:02:37.840 months ago, one of the leading Republicans in the Senate, a man I respect, was going after the

00:02:41.800 president of the United States for not reading To Kill a Mockingbird. Hasn't the president heard of the

00:02:46.140 fictional character Atticus Finch, asked Senator Rand Paul, as the Pentagon sent drug traffickers to

00:02:51.520 the bottom of the ocean? Meanwhile, some conservatives, including some well-known ones,

00:02:56.100 have been obsessively attacking me, in some cases calling for my termination because I've called for

00:03:01.240 unity on the right in the face of our common enemies on the left. And of course, over the last few

00:03:06.000 weeks, most prominently, we've watched the right-wing commentariat rip each other to shreds over

00:03:12.960 offensive group chats and podcast guests and so on. Well, congratulations. While conservatives have

00:03:22.280 been arguing with one another and administering purity tests to determine who's a legitimate part

00:03:27.660 of the movement and who's not, a unified Democrat party just elected an attorney general who openly

00:03:33.000 fantasizes about murdering us, watching our children die in our arms. Less than two months after Charlie

00:03:40.460 Kirk was shot to death in front of the entire world, Democrat voters back to candidate who wants more

00:03:46.220 conservatives to die because of their political views. They also elected as governor a demented CIA

00:03:52.760 operative who grins when she's asked about her support for this attorney general, live on the debate stage.

00:03:59.200 Additionally, Democrats flip something like 10 seats in the Virginia House, ensuring that these

00:04:03.260 two sociopaths at the top of the ticket can do whatever they want once they take office.

00:04:09.760 And we know what Jay Jones wants to do. He's told us. In fact, every single county in the state of

00:04:15.720 Virginia, even the ones that ultimately went Republican, shifted heavily towards Democrats last night.

00:04:20.200 You can see those results on the screen right now. This was a total blowout in the state of Virginia,

00:04:24.420 which is home to more than a million immigrants concentrated in the North and hundreds of thousands of

00:04:29.420 government employees who are concentrated in the South. Those are people who are furious that their government

00:04:35.160 salaries, which are really a form of welfare in most cases, aren't being paid out due to the government

00:04:40.780 shutdown. And now they're making it clear that if conservatives don't want to pay them, then conservatives

00:04:45.880 deserve to die, basically. Meanwhile, as Republicans feuded relentlessly with one another, Democrats also 0.97

00:04:52.700 elected a Muslim socialist from Uganda for the explicit purpose of destroying the nerve center of American 1.00

00:04:59.000 capitalism. You'll get your government run grocery stores and your free buses open to every vagrant and 0.72

00:05:05.900 schizophrenic in the city, says Zoran Mamdani. But of course, you also have to pay for all of these free perks in

00:05:13.040 the form of higher taxes. And you won't find Mamdani riding on one of those buses or standing in any of the

00:05:18.220 bread lines without armed guards, because despite what his platform might suggest, he's not anywhere near as stupid as 1.00

00:05:24.860 he looks. So what happens when New York runs out of people to tax? What happens when they all flee to 0.99

00:05:32.140 Florida? What happens when free buses means that no one can ride the bus anymore? Because it's not safe.

00:05:40.200 Mamdani and everyone else in the Democrat Party, they know the answer to these questions.

00:05:45.840 The answer is that New York will transform into Uganda. 0.96

00:05:49.160 Now, ask any conservative, and they'll describe that outcome as a failure. But Democrats don't see it

00:05:58.000 that way, and neither do their voters. And here's why. Imagine for a moment that you live in Kenya, 0.96

00:06:06.060 and like most Kenyans, you make about $1,000 per year. Yes, $1,000 per year. And then imagine that,

00:06:13.160 like most Kenyans, you don't even have access to clean drinking water, much less reliable social

00:06:17.180 services. And that's what you're used to. And then imagine that one member of your family manages

00:06:22.160 to get to America. They fake an asylum claim and move into an apartment in New York where they don't 0.85

00:06:27.440 pay any rent thanks to some pro bono legal services offered by a nonprofit or a law firm.

00:06:32.560 What do you think their top priority is going to be? Well, obviously, they're going to look after

00:06:38.600 their family back home. And their home is Kenya. They're going to collect welfare from the U.S. 0.99

00:06:44.880 taxpayer, mail it to their relatives overseas. And they're going to support whatever candidate

00:06:50.680 will allow more of their family members to come to New York and partake in the city's vast array of

00:06:55.900 free services, which are not really free because they're paid for by Americans who actually have

00:07:00.640 jobs. Now, they don't care, not even for a second, that New York City will ultimately collapse as a

00:07:07.940 result of this. In their eyes, the worst case scenario is that New York will eventually resemble a country

00:07:12.120 like Kenya, a place they've already, they're familiar with, they're from there. That's their

00:07:17.420 baseline. And they're not afraid of it. And besides, they have no tie to New York or to the

00:07:23.260 country. They don't care about it. They don't love New York. They don't love America. They just got here.

00:07:31.020 So if that city falls apart, they can just move somewhere else. And when that new place is drained of

00:07:37.340 all of its resources and it collapses, well, they could just move on again. And so on and so on and

00:07:43.180 so on. Ask the people voting for these candidates in any state that held elections last night, and they

00:07:49.700 will admit all of this. I'm not speculating. They'll tell you this. Just ask them. So consider this

00:07:57.440 interview that aired on CNN yesterday featuring a woman from Kenya named Mariam Jurati. Now this woman

00:08:04.860 doesn't say that she supports Abigail Spanberger in Virginia because she likes her position on

00:08:09.660 corporate tax rates or something. Instead, she supports Abigail Spanberger because she, Abigail 1.00

00:08:17.500 Spanberger, is going to allow more foreigners from Kenya to enter the country. That's it. Watch. 0.95

00:08:24.860 I always vote since I became a citizen, and that was 20 years ago. And I migrated from Kenya originally.

00:08:33.020 My family is back home in Kenya. And how I see how things are going on, like with families being

00:08:42.860 separated as a human being, as a mother, separating families, especially children from their mothers or

00:08:51.420 fathers. I don't believe in that. So that made me come out and also come and vote.

00:08:58.220 So this woman has apparently lived in America for nearly two decades. She's still fixated on 0.97

00:09:05.340 immigration as her top issue. She still refers to Kenya as her home. She's voting based on the 0.70

00:09:14.520 interests, the best interests of Kenyans. Now that's all there is to it. I mean, it really is as simple

00:09:21.540 as that. Do you think she cares in any way about the fact that Abigail Spanberger embraced Jay Jones

00:09:28.100 after he joked about murdering the children of conservative politicians, a joke that was actually

00:09:32.980 not really a joke? Do you think she cares about that at all? Do you think she spent even one second

00:09:39.340 thinking about that? Do you think she'd flinch if Spanberger herself had literally murdered the child

00:09:44.680 of a conservative politician? Of course not. I mean, the object of this woman and anyone like her

00:09:49.780 is to advance their own national and ethnic interests. They don't pause to consider your 0.58

00:09:56.760 interests. They don't care about you. They don't care about your country. They live here, but they

00:10:01.500 don't care about it. Together with liberal women, foreigners now constitute the bulk of the Democrat 1.00

00:10:07.560 Party's voting base. And this is a voting bloc that's extraordinarily potent and destructive.

00:10:13.280 It's immune to any kind of negotiation. The foreigners are voting based on their own, 1.00

00:10:20.700 again, their own national and ethnic interests. And the liberal women are voting based on largely 0.99

00:10:27.860 appeals to emotion and vibes. They're basically getting their entire political philosophy from

00:10:34.420 those yard signs that say, you know, no person is illegal. And one of those voters just spoke to Fox.

00:10:40.680 Listen, I think what's really important and standing out for me right now is if we can take

00:10:45.660 ourselves like a high level, like not say immigration, not say economy, not say all the

00:10:51.180 hot talking points and just ask ourselves, how are we treating our neighbors? Like, how are we

00:10:55.820 treating one another? And is it OK that yesterday on Saturday, 42 million of our neighbors no longer

00:11:02.180 can feed themselves? It is OK. Is it OK that our neighbors are getting taken off the streets

00:11:07.240 by ICE? Is it OK that gender affirming care is being taken from young people who really needed

00:11:12.440 to survive? Is it OK that the Supreme Court has now justified racial profiling? That's not how I

00:11:18.180 want to treat my neighbor. Now, New York has been in a state of decline for many, many years. John

00:11:22.800 Rocker's infamous interview with Sports Illustrated, where he railed against all the foreigners making

00:11:27.400 the city impossible to live in, was more than 25 years ago. But until recently, liberal women didn't 1.00

00:11:32.700 have enough votes to sway elections based on vapid DNC-issued talking points and bumper sticker

00:11:37.720 slogans. But what's changed is that in 2025, yet another reliably Democrat demographic has moved

00:11:46.700 into New York. As of the most recent estimates from the mayor's office, one in five New Yorkers can't

00:11:53.080 even speak the English language. More than 60 percent of children in New York live in a household with at

00:11:57.820 least one foreign-born family member. Roughly 40 percent of New Yorkers were not born in this country.

00:12:02.120 Half of all New Yorkers speak a language other than English at home.

00:12:06.680 And these are all conservative estimates, by the way.

00:12:10.300 New York, as I've said before, is not an American city anymore. Nearly 50 percent of the population of

00:12:17.360 Queens was not born in this country. Watch. 1.00

00:12:20.820 I think Queens is so interesting, Sean. Look at this, just for our viewers at home. Like, no matter

00:12:27.480 where you're watching in America tonight, just stop and think about this for a moment. This is one of

00:12:31.840 five boroughs, OK, in Queens. It's not even the most populated. In this particular borough, maybe you fly in

00:12:38.300 the JFK, maybe you fly in LaGuardia. Population 2.4 million. Foreign-born, 48 percent. Languages spoken. And Queens alone, 160 different languages.

00:12:53.480 When you study New York City, you're studying a country. Sean, you can literally cross the street and you find people with

00:13:00.120 different ethnicity, different religion. They come from different parts of the world. And they certainly vote in very

00:13:05.660 different ways. And you do not have to go far in that neighborhood or on that street to find that. I'm just saying, very interesting to study.

00:13:12.860 Now, these numbers represent a drastic shift in more ways than one. And don't listen to anyone who tries to tell you, oh, it's

00:13:23.580 always been this way. New York has always had a significant immigrant population. It's been this way for many 0.98

00:13:30.420 generations. Well, yes, but not all immigration is the same. You know, these immigrants are now coming from very 1.00

00:13:40.580 different parts of the world, compared to where they were coming from 100 years ago. You know, this chart prepared by

00:13:48.700 V-Dare demonstrates this, as you can see here. And according to the U.S. Census, New York was 98 percent white in 1910.

00:13:57.780 98 percent. 90 percent in 1950. 77 percent white in 1970. Then it dropped to 52 percent in 1980. 44 percent by 1990.

00:14:08.820 By 2020, it was down to 32 percent. So from almost everybody is white to a small minority. 32 percent in the

00:14:22.300 span of about 100 years. Now, that is a demographic transformation that's inevitably going to result

00:14:32.920 in massive cultural changes. And those changes have not been positive.

00:14:39.520 That's just a fact.

00:14:42.180 So anyone who says, oh, you're doing identity politics, even people, even conservatives, well, this is identity politics.

00:14:48.340 We need to be past this. 0.99

00:14:50.520 Oh, shut up. 0.99

00:14:52.660 This is just the reality. It's a thing that's happening. 1.00

00:14:55.560 OK, we've got to talk about the things that are happening in the country.

00:15:05.660 Zoram Amdani is talking about it during his victory speech last night.

00:15:09.320 Zoram Amdani made made all this very explicit.

00:15:14.360 Watch.

00:15:15.000 We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.

00:15:34.420 Well, it's hard to think of a more un-American and delusional statement than that.

00:15:39.400 Right. You want to talk about cultural shifts.

00:15:43.320 It is hard to think of a less American idea than that.

00:15:49.900 There is no problem too small or too large for the government to solve.

00:16:00.620 Imagine hearing a line like that and applauding without any hint of irony.

00:16:05.420 Imagine taking a look at the employees of your local DMV and thinking to yourself, you know what, this is great.

00:16:11.340 I'd love to put these people in charge of every single aspect of my life, no matter how insignificant it may be.

00:16:17.940 I'd love to have slack-jawed government bureaucrats resolve every dispute I'll ever have with anyone. 0.90

00:16:24.320 I'd love to have government bureaucrats tell me when I'm allowed to go to the grocery store. 0.70

00:16:28.760 I'd love to have them run the grocery store and tell me when I'm allowed to go and what I can buy there.

00:16:35.420 Please, DMV lady, fix all my problems. 0.98

00:16:40.660 I see you sitting there and I think to myself, you are the person who can solve all my problems.

00:16:44.920 Please fix them. I put all of my trust in you.

00:16:49.060 Has there ever been a serious person in the history of this country who has genuinely believed

00:16:53.340 that the government could solve literally every problem, both big and small, as Mamdani just promised explicitly?

00:17:02.280 Well, the answer is no, of course.

00:17:03.960 But Mamdani was not elected by serious people.

00:17:08.300 At least he was not elected by Americans.

00:17:10.800 No American has ever felt that way.

00:17:15.180 You know, in that speech, Mamdani is invoking basically the inverse of Ronald Reagan's famous line,

00:17:20.220 which is that, you know, the nine most terrifying words in the English language are,

00:17:23.480 I'm from the government, I'm here to help.

00:17:24.960 Well, that's a very well-trod line.

00:17:30.120 It's a funny line.

00:17:30.800 At the time, it was a funny line because everybody immediately understood what Reagan was getting at.

00:17:36.240 Well, now we have a third world communist unironically playing the role of the guy from the government uttering the nine most terrifying words, 0.87

00:17:44.060 except he's now playing to a crowd that finds those words comforting rather than terrifying.

00:17:51.460 Well, there's a reason for that.

00:17:53.900 Again, think about who his voters are.

00:17:57.680 Liberal women and foreigners. 1.00

00:17:59.400 That's basically it.

00:18:00.680 I mean, that's pretty much the whole thing.

00:18:02.040 Well, liberal women desperately desire to be taken care of. 1.00

00:18:10.200 They want the government to come in and provide for them and hug them closely and whisper reassuring words.

00:18:16.800 These women have rejected the natural female impulse ingrained over millennia to go out and find a man who can do those things for them. 0.99

00:18:23.560 But the impulse remains.

00:18:26.360 And now they look to satisfy it with the government.

00:18:28.460 They are strong, independent women who don't need no man. 0.87

00:18:32.300 Instead, they need a vast, faceless, incompetent bureaucracy to solve all their problems instead.

00:18:38.860 And as for the foreigners, well, many of them are from the third world where the government does control everything or tries to 1.00

00:18:44.500 and where no alternative is really imaginable, right?

00:18:49.580 Where things like civil liberties, like nobody talks about that.

00:18:53.420 It's just not, it doesn't come up.

00:18:55.140 Now, Reagan's joke isn't a joke anymore.

00:18:58.940 People from many third world countries who are now living in the U.S. really believe it. 0.99

00:19:04.340 And during his speech, Mamdani made sure to mention many of those third world countries by name.

00:19:10.660 Watch.

00:19:11.040 I speak of Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas.

00:19:20.200 Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses.

00:19:26.400 Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties.

00:19:32.280 Yes, aunties.

00:19:33.740 Well, you know, you know, you know, he goes through the whole list and you notice he doesn't mention Americans.

00:19:42.800 That's that's that's that's the one group that doesn't even.

00:19:46.840 Doesn't even make the list.

00:19:49.160 Because he doesn't care about them.

00:19:51.620 New York is not an American city anymore.

00:19:55.000 And he's not playing to that crowd at all.

00:19:58.040 Even the liberal white women didn't get a mention there. 1.00

00:20:02.200 But I'm sure it's just an oversight.

00:20:03.700 I'm sure it's not an indication that Democrats are embracing ethnic nationalism for every racial group except white people because, you know, they openly despise white people. 0.99

00:20:13.040 That would just be ridiculous. 0.93

00:20:14.280 And even if they are, we don't want to talk about it or point it out because then we're playing identity politics.

00:20:23.600 And you wouldn't want to do that.

00:20:27.880 So, you know, that means that you just have to when the left does this this blatant anti-white routine.

00:20:33.300 That's just the polite thing is just to not say anything about it. 0.97

00:20:38.560 And if you do, you're just as bad as they are.

00:20:41.080 This is what I'm told anyway.

00:20:42.260 But, you know, as dire as the races in New York and Virginia were, it needs to be said that the problem for the GOP is much bigger than these two states.

00:20:50.220 Republican incumbents lost in both races in Georgia for public service commissioner for the first time in more than two decades.

00:20:55.880 The Supreme Court races in Pennsylvania were not encouraging for Democrats either with Democrats or for Republicans, rather, with Democrats overwhelmingly retaining all of their seats there.

00:21:06.240 Put simply, last night was a route for the conservative movement and for Americans more broadly.

00:21:10.780 I don't know the way to say it.

00:21:13.600 You know, we're no longer talking about hypotheticals anymore.

00:21:15.960 We're not discussing polls.

00:21:17.460 The enemies of this country have just seized a great deal of power.

00:21:21.780 Now, it doesn't mean we're doomed.

00:21:24.640 Right?

00:21:25.040 It doesn't mean all is lost.

00:21:28.080 I know there are plenty of people who say, well, don't listen to the doomsayers.

00:21:31.460 It's not such a big deal.

00:21:34.780 Yeah, it's not doom, but it is a serious situation.

00:21:37.880 I don't know what to tell you.

00:21:40.280 And don't listen to anyone claiming otherwise.

00:21:42.200 An Islamic third world communist taking over our largest and most important city. 1.00

00:21:46.720 That's a big deal.

00:21:48.920 It is.

00:21:50.280 As much as you might not want it to be, it is.

00:21:52.840 And many people will die as a result.

00:21:57.100 Many people's lives will become much worse and people will die.

00:22:00.520 Make no mistake about it.

00:22:02.300 Our economy will suffer in ways that we can't even begin to comprehend.

00:22:08.600 That's the other point for people who say, well, it's New York.

00:22:11.940 Like, let New York fall into, let it collapse into rubble.

00:22:16.840 That's New York's problem.

00:22:18.080 Well, I can't really go along with that.

00:22:21.160 Like, I can't get myself to not care because that is our city or it's supposed to be.

00:22:27.440 It's not an American city anymore, but it should be.

00:22:32.540 And also, again, this is the nerve center of our economy.

00:22:37.080 You have to understand that if New York collapses, that has an impact on everybody.

00:22:43.200 That's not the kind of thing where you can just say, oh, yeah, I live 100 miles away.

00:22:45.940 It has no effect on me.

00:22:48.080 I don't care if you live 2,000 miles away.

00:22:51.040 This stuff matters.

00:22:52.080 It affects all of our lives.

00:22:55.260 And the rule of law will continue to erode as even more violent criminals are unleashed on the public.

00:22:59.720 All of that will happen.

00:23:02.440 I'm not fear-mongering.

00:23:03.360 I'm just giving you the facts.

00:23:06.180 So what are we going to do about it?

00:23:09.220 Well, I'll tell you what we need to do.

00:23:11.180 And I'm sorry for being really simplistic here, but we need to win.

00:23:18.080 Okay, winning, it's not the only thing that matters, but it is the first thing that matters.

00:23:23.860 If you don't win, then all the other stuff that matters doesn't matter.

00:23:29.180 You have to win.

00:23:30.000 And right now, a lot of people are kind of drawing lines on the right, putting some of us on that side, some of us on this side.

00:23:39.440 These lines are drawn.

00:23:40.500 I get put on all different sides, depending on who's talking, which is a lot of fun.

00:23:46.480 But here's the line that we really need.

00:23:51.000 Okay, if I'm going to draw a line, here's where I'm drawing it.

00:23:55.300 Conservatives who have actually shown an ability to win and move the needle culturally and politically, on one side,

00:24:03.320 versus conservatives who have never contributed meaningfully to any victory at all.

00:24:07.940 Like, that's the line that I care about right now. 0.94

00:24:12.560 And the folks in the latter group, the losers, they're really loud. 0.82

00:24:19.480 Especially loud now, but it's always been unclear why we should ever listen to anything they say. 0.86

00:24:24.820 Anytime any conservative with a platform goes out and says, this is what we should do.

00:24:32.920 You should ask them.

00:24:33.840 You should say, okay, well, what's, show me your scoreboard.

00:24:37.460 What have you, what have you won?

00:24:39.720 Like, have you contributed at all to any win at all?

00:24:42.000 Have you done, have you succeeded in advancing the conservative cause in any form at all, ever?

00:24:49.140 Show me that.

00:24:51.420 And if you haven't, then it's like, well, I don't care what you say.

00:24:54.160 You don't know what you're talking about.

00:24:56.220 It's not, you know, this, this, this, nothing personal.

00:25:03.600 But it's the way it is.

00:25:06.280 And after last night's elections, it's clear that we should just not listen to those people ever again.

00:25:12.600 And again, it's nothing personal.

00:25:13.960 It's not a cheap shot or anything like that.

00:25:15.360 I'm not disavowing them or canceling anyone.

00:25:18.820 I don't want to expel anyone from the movement at all.

00:25:21.360 You know, they're still conservatives.

00:25:24.740 I even like some of them. 0.96

00:25:26.140 Some of our, some of our lovable losers who are constantly running their mouths, but have never like done anything. 0.88

00:25:32.340 I even like some of them.

00:25:34.800 All I'm saying is that when it comes to figuring out how to win, which again is, is always the first and most urgent priority.

00:25:42.220 They don't have much to offer.

00:25:43.700 They don't know how to win.

00:25:45.820 We've got a lot of people who are like talking a lot and saying a lot, but they don't know how to win.

00:25:51.220 They've never done it.

00:25:54.000 And never will.

00:25:55.360 They don't have the stomach for it. 0.68

00:25:56.720 They don't have the heart or the mind for it.

00:25:58.740 They're too squeamish. 0.99

00:25:59.700 They're too weak.

00:26:00.280 They're too desirous of approval from polite society.

00:26:02.360 And so last night, a fractured right was demolished by a unified left, a coalition of leftists, primarily college-educated women and foreigners, all of whom are happy to dance on the graves of dead conservatives. 0.94

00:26:17.220 These are people who heard Jay Jones wishing death on us and our children and then flocked to the polls to make him the top law enforcement officer of the state.

00:26:24.380 You know, they didn't subject Jones to any purity tests.

00:26:28.180 They didn't denounce and disavow him out of principle.

00:26:31.380 They ignored the complaints from conservatives.

00:26:33.460 They ignored complaints from people like me.

00:26:37.620 Right?

00:26:38.060 And they just went out and won.

00:26:40.180 They heard us demanding that they disavow Jones.

00:26:44.700 And again, I'm one of them.

00:26:47.980 Say, you should disavow him.

00:26:50.320 What he said was terrible.

00:26:52.580 And we were right.

00:26:54.020 Right?

00:26:54.160 What he said was terrible.

00:26:56.140 But the Democrats, they looked at us and said, what?

00:27:00.640 Disavow?

00:27:00.920 What?

00:27:01.160 And lose on purpose?

00:27:03.200 Throw the race?

00:27:05.020 Like, he's our guy?

00:27:06.160 You want us to just, what?

00:27:07.320 Give up?

00:27:08.240 Not win?

00:27:08.940 You want us to just lose on purpose?

00:27:11.680 Because what he said was bad?

00:27:15.900 No, they looked at us and they just laughed at us.

00:27:17.840 They said, I'm not going to do that.

00:27:19.220 No, we're going to win.

00:27:20.500 They didn't even think about it.

00:27:21.420 Let me tell you something.

00:27:22.160 On the left, not only do they not disavow Jay Jones, there was no conversation about it.

00:27:27.600 It wasn't even a debate.

00:27:31.280 Right?

00:27:31.680 It wasn't even like what would happen with conservatives where you spend seven weeks just torturing ourselves over it.

00:27:39.920 It was not even a conversation.

00:27:41.500 It's like, well, of course we're not going to.

00:27:43.460 We have to win that race.

00:27:46.520 I mean, we can't, we're not going to disavow him and let a Republican take the, take the, take the ball.

00:27:54.800 No, they just said, we're going to go out and win.

00:27:58.360 That's it.

00:27:59.560 Because you got to win.

00:28:00.520 And, and, and, and that's what happened.

00:28:04.060 And they won.

00:28:06.520 So I will repeat the call that made so many people angry at me.

00:28:11.000 And you could be angry at me all you want.

00:28:14.300 I don't really care.

00:28:15.280 In my view, the right must unite against the people who want us dead.

00:28:23.680 We just have to, um, our lives are at stake.

00:28:26.840 Our children's futures are at stake.

00:28:29.420 Our nation itself is at stake.

00:28:33.540 They are destroying the country.

00:28:36.100 Like we are losing the country.

00:28:38.080 We are losing it right now.

00:28:39.440 And, and, and if the, the more control they have, they will open up the floodgates even more and, and we will just lose it.

00:28:50.360 We won't have a country anymore.

00:28:53.800 So this is not the time for infighting and ankle biting.

00:28:56.980 I'm not saying that there will never be a time necessarily.

00:28:59.600 I'm saying that the time is not now.

00:29:05.140 Even if you can make an argument that, well, we got to have this fight.

00:29:09.440 Well, the time was not these last few weeks in the run-up to the election.

00:29:16.780 Like, even if I could buy your argument that, you know, this is a fight we have to have.

00:29:19.980 We had to have it now.

00:29:21.700 We had to have it right when the election is happening.

00:29:24.680 This was the time to do it.

00:29:26.300 Really?

00:29:30.260 No, you got to be smart.

00:29:31.780 You got to be strategic.

00:29:34.420 And if you can't see that now, then I don't know what else to say.

00:29:39.440 We have just been handed a wake-up call, the biggest wake-up call in the recent history of the conservative movement.

00:29:46.280 We should pay attention.

00:29:47.380 We should accelerate mass deportations.

00:29:50.880 We should suspend all migration from the third world along with all federal assistance to New York and Virginia. 0.97

00:29:55.980 As I outlined earlier this week, we should kick every single foreign national off of federal financial assistance completely, effective immediately. 1.00

00:30:03.420 Which would also have the effect of, you know, then you'd have mass self-deportations happening.

00:30:12.160 Because if they can't be here and live off of the taxpayer, then they're not going to want to be here anymore.

00:30:15.980 That's what conservatives need to accomplish if we want to continue existing as a viable political movement.

00:30:24.700 If we want to exist as a country.

00:30:27.660 We don't have to agree with each other.

00:30:29.060 We don't even have to like each other.

00:30:31.560 But we do have to recognize that our greatest threat, the greatest threat to civilization itself, just demolished our candidates last night.

00:30:39.040 These people putting foreign communists in charge of our city, the people lining up to vote for candidates who openly want to murder you, who want to watch your children die in your arms and have said so. 0.52

00:30:57.740 That is the greatest threat by far.

00:31:01.940 And it's not even close.

00:31:03.280 What the now sitting Attorney General of Virginia said is worse than anything any conservative, like, has ever said.

00:31:15.120 I mean, that alone.

00:31:19.420 I want to watch the children of my enemies die in their arms.

00:31:22.360 Can you find me a conservative, someone on the right, who said anything like that? 0.93

00:31:27.340 I want to watch their children die in their arms?

00:31:33.280 I'm not aware of even going to the fringiest fringe you can find.

00:31:39.440 I've never even seen anything like that.

00:31:45.520 And yet the guy that said it on the left is not fringe.

00:31:48.980 He is now the chief law enforcement officer of Virginia.

00:31:56.400 So you can try to make your moral equivalencies all you want.

00:31:58.640 I don't see an equivalence.

00:32:03.280 They want to destroy us.

00:32:06.000 And if we don't return the favor, and soon, then none of our disagreements will matter.

00:32:14.140 The foreigners who just voted for Zoran Mamdani and Abigail Spanberger and Omar Fateh, they don't care about the internal squabbling on the right. 0.57

00:32:21.920 Neither should we.

00:32:22.700 If we want to have any success in the midterms one year from now, like staying on message, staying focused, staying disciplined, being unified, this above all else is what will win.

00:32:37.160 And if there's any good news from last night, it's that everybody on the right, everyone who's paying even the slightest bit of attention, must now realize that.

00:32:46.340 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:35:57.120 Okay, let's check in on the fish cam. We haven't checked the fish cam.

00:36:03.420 Is the fish still there? It is there. Good. Still there.

00:36:08.300 We need a fish cam today. This is a fish cam emergency.

00:36:13.320 Maybe that's why we got wiped out in the election. Not enough time spent with the fish cam.

00:36:18.020 Really, this is on me. I'll take the fall on this one. I'll take the blame.

00:36:24.040 If only America had been able to spend more time with the fish cam.

00:36:26.880 That's what's going to unify us. This is what's going to heal us all.

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00:36:42.680 It's the fish.

00:36:43.460 Okay, enough of that.

00:36:46.460 So just one headline today.

00:36:48.160 We, you know, we already covered like four of the headlines in the opening monologue.

00:36:51.580 But I haven't had a chance to talk about this story yet.

00:36:54.100 I've had it for a few days.

00:36:55.620 And so I wanted to talk about a little bit.

00:36:58.380 I'll read the report now from the Postmillennial.

00:37:01.640 A gym in Los Angeles terminated the membership of a woman who complained about a man using the women's locker room.

00:37:07.520 Tish Hyman posted on X about the experience of having a man follow her into the women's room and call her a, 1.00

00:37:13.460 only to have her gym membership canceled. 0.97

00:37:17.140 On Sunday, Hyman posted, 0.96

00:37:18.480 Today, he saw me walk into the women's room, followed me, and called me a b****. 0.95

00:37:22.460 I ran into the locker room. 0.94

00:37:24.060 I ran out into the locker room crying and screaming.

00:37:26.680 This is why we can't be quiet because people need to know what's happening.

00:37:29.240 Thank you to the men who helped me today.

00:37:32.680 In a follow-up, Hyman wrote,

00:37:33.860 Gold's Gym terminated my membership after the man was escorted out by police.

00:37:37.640 So video was circulating, says the article showing Hyman angrily calling out the gym in the lobby.

00:37:47.560 We have that video.

00:37:48.640 Let's play it.

00:37:51.140 Gold's Gym!

00:37:53.120 Men!

00:37:54.240 Grown men! 1.00

00:37:55.860 With big b**** in the women's locker room! 1.00

00:37:59.500 And that's why I'm getting kicked out. 0.97

00:38:02.500 And I want to make sure the girls know! 0.99

00:38:05.720 The f****. 0.99

00:38:08.640 Everybody saw that man in the f**** locker room. 1.00

00:38:12.940 No one's saying f****. 0.99

00:38:15.520 And I'm f****. 0.98

00:38:16.960 Done with it. 0.99

00:38:18.680 It's f****. 1.00

00:38:19.500 It's stupid. 1.00

00:38:21.140 It's dangerous. 1.00

00:38:22.240 Me laying in front of a man without my permission.

00:38:27.820 But I ain't the one who can kick out the gym, y'all.

00:38:30.560 I'm terminated for not wanting men in the locker room.

00:38:34.860 Okay, so there she's there in the lobby, kind of making a scene, rightfully so. 1.00

00:38:41.120 That's exactly how she should have responded, which we'll discuss.

00:38:44.580 But I also want to play this.

00:38:46.660 She also posted another video talking about her experience and describing what happened.

00:38:50.600 Let's play that.

00:38:52.240 I just had the worst experience ever at the gym, at Gold's Gym.

00:38:56.800 And I think this is probably happening at gyms across America.

00:39:00.840 Where, like, trans women are going into the women's locker room and not really caring about how women feel about it. 0.98

00:39:11.140 And it's really hurtful, yo. 0.99

00:39:13.040 Like, how are you going to say you want to be a woman or that you are a woman but you don't give a f*** how women feel? 0.99

00:39:18.300 Today I was naked in the locker room. 0.99

00:39:20.940 I turned around and there's a man there in boy clothes, lip gloss, standing there looking at me. 0.87

00:39:28.580 I'm butt naked.

00:39:29.260 So the first thing I think is maybe there's a work doing here.

00:39:31.520 Maybe I missed a sign.

00:39:32.640 I say the word, sir, to say, sir, what are you doing in here? 0.99

00:39:35.860 He goes, don't f*** to me. 0.99

00:39:37.840 I'm a woman. 0.99

00:39:38.500 I have a right to be in here. 0.98

00:39:39.820 Immediately, I'm f***ing pissed because I'm butt naked. 0.97

00:39:42.760 I feel violated. 0.98

00:39:43.680 I feel, like, weird.

00:39:45.860 Like, I don't want to deal with this, right?

00:39:48.100 So the girls are walking in and they're seeing the commotion and they actually chime in and say, yo, I don't know why he's in here.

00:39:53.740 He's not supposed to be in here.

00:39:55.020 And then I talk to the people that work at Gold's Gym and they don't really have anything to do.

00:39:59.280 They're just like, oh, we can file a report about an incident report. 0.80

00:40:02.920 What the f*** is going on? 0.98

00:40:04.880 Like, listen, how can you say you're a woman or you want to be a woman and you don't care how women feel? 0.99

00:40:11.960 That's nothing more manly than not giving a f*** about how women feel, I'd like to think. 1.00

00:40:17.840 And I get it. 0.67

00:40:18.960 Like, everybody has their own things.

00:40:21.300 And I don't explain.

00:40:23.440 I don't want to say that I know everything about gay rights or trans rights.

00:40:27.260 I'm a lesbian.

00:40:28.120 I've been a lesbian my whole life.

00:40:29.680 I treat people I want to be treated regardless of whatever their sexual orientation is or whatever they decide.

00:40:35.880 So, all right, so her membership was terminated, even though obviously she's totally 1,000% in the right.

00:40:42.120 And I know it surprises you to hear me say that.

00:40:44.740 You were wondering where I'd stand on this.

00:40:46.780 I know you heard about this story and thought, man, I need Matt Walsh to weigh in so I can find out.

00:40:50.680 I can find out what he thinks about this.

00:40:53.540 It could go either way.

00:40:54.820 You never know. 0.96

00:40:56.680 Well, yes, I'm opposed to the man in the women's locker room waving his genitals around in front of a bunch of confused and alarmed women. 0.73

00:41:02.780 I'm very much opposed to that, as you probably did expect. 0.59

00:41:06.420 But I want to focus on two other points.

00:41:08.700 So, first of all, the response from this woman, Tish, is exactly correct. 0.96

00:41:12.540 The only part that she's wrong about is when she started clarifying that, you know, she's not transphobic and she's a lesbian and all that.

00:41:20.980 You didn't need to do that.

00:41:22.560 It's okay to be transphobic. 0.88

00:41:23.860 Look, they were in your locker room, right?

00:41:28.920 When the trans people are coming into your locker room, of course you were afraid. 1.00

00:41:34.720 Of course you were phobic.

00:41:36.920 You got a man in the locker room.

00:41:39.080 You're in a state of undress.

00:41:40.880 Yeah, to have a phobia of that, I think, is pretty rational.

00:41:48.500 So, that qualifier was not necessary.

00:41:50.920 But everything else was right in the money.

00:41:52.500 She reacting in a horrified, infuriated way, causing a scene, being angry, being offended. 0.58

00:41:58.200 Like, really personally offended.

00:41:59.800 Offended in a serious way. 0.91

00:42:01.000 Not in this kind of frivolous way where people are offended by dumb things.

00:42:03.320 But offended. 0.72

00:42:04.140 Like, this is offensive.

00:42:04.880 I'm personally offended.

00:42:07.280 That's how you should react.

00:42:08.560 That's how it should be done.

00:42:12.300 That's a natural, appropriate reaction.

00:42:14.560 And I'll tell you this.

00:42:15.560 If women had reacted this way from the beginning, then the trans movement would have died in the cradle. 1.00

00:42:24.620 And I'm not putting all of it on women. 0.94

00:42:28.920 Men were cowards on this issue in equal proportion, I would say.

00:42:32.200 But the fact is that if women back in 2013, 14, 15, had just reacted appropriately and naturally to men all of a sudden showing up in their locker rooms and sports teams, that would have been the end of it, really.

00:42:45.300 If men had reacted with the appropriate rage to men showing up in the locker rooms with their wives and daughters, that would have been the end of it.

00:42:54.460 If everyone had not been so worried about being polite and being nice and being accepting, that would have been the end of it.

00:43:00.740 And there is a lesson in that.

00:43:02.700 When the left tries to get you to accept something that you know is wrong, that you know is demented, that you know is unnatural and bizarre and evil, speak up.

00:43:11.880 Right away.

00:43:12.660 Don't just speak up.

00:43:14.340 Let loose.

00:43:14.900 Get angry.

00:43:17.560 Right?

00:43:18.060 Don't hold back.

00:43:19.060 Be enraged.

00:43:20.140 Be disgusted.

00:43:20.920 Be horrified.

00:43:21.520 In a peaceful way.

00:43:23.340 Be all of those things peacefully.

00:43:24.980 As peaceful as you can be.

00:43:28.320 Now, I mean, if ever a man tried to walk into the bathroom while my wife or daughter were in there, I would not allow it.

00:43:37.840 I would try to use my words to prevent it.

00:43:39.740 But if words fail, well, I'm just not going to allow it.

00:43:44.460 It can't happen.

00:43:45.660 I can't.

00:43:46.020 That's just not going to happen.

00:43:48.160 I would prevent it from happening and do what needs to be done to protect my family.

00:43:52.220 But, you know, we want things to be peaceful, and that's what we prefer.

00:43:55.820 So the point is that Tish had it right.

00:43:58.380 And that's just in that, like, from the very beginning, that should have been the first moment that a man walked into a women's locker room.

00:44:09.320 There should have been, every woman in the locker room should have been, like, screaming, what the hell are you doing in here? 1.00

00:44:14.100 Get out of here.

00:44:17.180 Because that's how everybody wants to react, but they held back because of this emotional blackmail and because people want to be polite.

00:44:25.000 You know, it's like using the sort of human instinct to be polite and non-confrontational, I think, was twisted against people very successfully by the trans activists for a time anyway. 0.75

00:44:43.240 And there's another point, too, and, you know, it's a point I made before.

00:44:47.100 The trans agenda is losing badly.

00:44:49.600 Now, this happened in California. 0.98

00:44:51.980 It still has a stranglehold in California because California is insane.

00:44:56.420 I mean, California is Canada, but warmer.

00:44:59.140 You know, it's Canada.

00:45:00.880 It's just a warmer version of Canada.

00:45:03.880 We know that.

00:45:05.360 But generally speaking, the trans agenda is losing.

00:45:08.100 And that's why Tish, if you notice, is not being really villainized in the mainstream media.

00:45:13.220 I'm sure she is a little bit.

00:45:14.220 I haven't checked.

00:45:14.560 But it's not in the way that she would have been if this exact same thing happened five years ago.

00:45:20.460 If it was 2020 or 2021, Tish would have been public enemy number one in the media.

00:45:25.320 Because she's a woman screaming at a trans-identified male trying to deprive him of his right to invade her space. 1.00

00:45:32.320 It's transphobic. 0.99

00:45:33.480 You're a villain. 0.98

00:45:33.940 And they would have been all over her for that. 0.89

00:45:37.780 And they're not really now. 0.97

00:45:39.200 They're mostly ignoring the story because it's a loser for them. 0.92

00:45:42.620 And they know that. 0.88

00:45:43.580 The trans agenda is losing.

00:45:45.820 And we should really think about why it's losing.

00:45:51.720 This didn't happen by accident.

00:45:55.280 The trans movement didn't just trip and fall off a cliff all by itself one day.

00:46:01.560 Now, this was the result of a deliberate effort of opposition of a coordinated and strategic counteroffensive from the anti-trans ideology side.

00:46:12.620 From team sanity, as I have called it.

00:46:16.960 We beat them.

00:46:18.620 Now, not completely.

00:46:19.620 Obviously, they still exist.

00:46:20.680 So the fight continues, I think, on a smaller scale.

00:46:24.720 But it still continues.

00:46:25.420 But we've won battle after battle, culminating in Trump using the trans issue to get elected in 2024.

00:46:32.160 That wasn't the only reason he got elected.

00:46:33.440 But as Charlie Kirk pointed out, this issue was one of the determining factors.

00:46:38.200 It really was.

00:46:40.340 And Charlie would know.

00:46:42.560 And, you know, he said it himself.

00:46:43.860 So in the exit polls and everything, bear that out.

00:46:46.800 So in a very real sense, we beat them.

00:46:48.640 How did we do it?

00:46:49.480 Conservatives should be looking at this, looking at one of the most significant and one of the only major cultural victories by the conservative movement in our lifetimes.

00:47:01.900 We have not had that many.

00:47:04.020 We have not had that many victories.

00:47:06.080 This is one of the only ones.

00:47:08.700 A clear, decisive cultural victory where the left tried to do something and we beat it back.

00:47:13.840 And now, yeah, again, they're not totally giving up.

00:47:16.560 They're not going to just wave the white flag and say, never mind about the trans stuff.

00:47:21.520 But we did beat them.

00:47:25.180 I mean, even look at this last election.

00:47:28.160 These candidates were not going around talking about trans rights.

00:47:31.220 Now, if you ask them about it, like Zoran Mamdani, did he ever talk about it?

00:47:34.900 I'm sure maybe he probably did.

00:47:36.640 It probably came up.

00:47:37.620 But he definitely wasn't running on it.

00:47:41.460 They were running away from it.

00:47:42.960 And Abigail Spanberger went almost the entire campaign and avoided ever even answering the question about whether men should be in the women's room until she finally sort of did because she was backed into a corner. 1.00

00:47:53.420 And even then, it was like a very roundabout way.

00:47:55.380 She was talking about it in a way to avoid being clipped, you know, to avoid giving anyone any sound bites.

00:48:01.220 So we should be looking at that and we should be saying, how did that happen?

00:48:08.820 What was the strategy?

00:48:10.320 And this is what kind of boggles my mind that there's very little of that on the right.

00:48:14.840 There's very little of this kind of post-mortem.

00:48:21.280 I mean, there's post-mortems all the time.

00:48:23.100 Like, every time we lose, there's a post-mortem.

00:48:25.540 And I mean, I just did want to start the show.

00:48:28.480 And that's important, too, because, like, when you lose, you got to look at it and see how did it happen.

00:48:31.160 But on the rare occasion we win, there's never, like, we don't go back and say, well, how did that?

00:48:35.440 Oh, that's interesting.

00:48:36.300 How did we pull that off?

00:48:39.720 Well, we should because that's, you can take lessons from that and take them into the next battle.

00:48:46.360 So what was the strategy?

00:48:49.180 Well, the strategy was essentially to do the exact opposite of everything that milquetoast moderate establishment conservatism told us to do.

00:48:58.500 Do exactly the opposite.

00:49:02.060 We ignored them at every turn and did precisely the opposite, and we won.

00:49:06.500 Now, of course, you know, moderate establishment conservative types have jumped on the anti-trans ideology bandwagon.

00:49:13.040 Now that it's safe, right, now that it's popular.

00:49:18.200 It's popular for a reason.

00:49:19.580 It's popular as a result of our efforts.

00:49:22.240 But now that it is, they're on board.

00:49:24.360 So it can be easy to forget that this was not a moderate establishment conservatism victory.

00:49:32.360 Now there's no risk.

00:49:33.300 Like, getting up and saying, get men out of women's sports. 1.00

00:49:36.900 There's nowhere risk in saying that.

00:49:38.560 It's a very popular position.

00:49:40.180 There's not a lot of pushback anymore.

00:49:41.660 There's a little bit.

00:49:42.300 But it's, again, the left is running away from it.

00:49:43.900 They really don't want to talk about it. 0.97

00:49:45.140 So it's, and so that, and it's like coast is clear, and this is what the kind of, the useless conservatives do. 0.57

00:49:54.600 They wait on the sidelines, and they let everybody, they let, you know, they let the rest of us fight it out and take all the, get bruised and bloodied and take all the hits.

00:50:04.520 And then when they, when it looks like, okay, you're winning, the score's 57 to three, then they say, okay, coach, put me in. 0.84

00:50:13.420 And they score like a useless garbage time touchdown.

00:50:16.220 And then they expect to be carried off the field like Rudy.

00:50:19.480 So that's kind of how it goes.

00:50:22.160 But, but still the question is, so how did this victory happen?

00:50:27.460 Well, to begin with, to begin with, we chose to fight on a cultural issue, a culture war issue.

00:50:34.760 Chose that fight.

00:50:35.700 The moderate mainstream said that we shouldn't.

00:50:38.300 I mean, I'm old enough to remember 10 years ago being lectured by many people on the right that the trans stuff is a losing issue.

00:50:44.900 Nobody cares.

00:50:45.940 It's already lost.

00:50:46.900 Move on.

00:50:47.480 You can't win it.

00:50:48.820 It's culture war.

00:50:49.720 Nobody cares.

00:50:50.440 No one wants to talk.

00:50:51.480 And this is what they always say about the culture issues, about so-called, quote, unquote, social issues.

00:50:55.860 And we ignored them.

00:50:57.460 And then what?

00:50:59.620 We were aggressive.

00:51:00.720 We were focused.

00:51:01.620 We were even sometimes kind of mean and mocking. 0.58

00:51:07.980 Because the thing that we're fighting, trans ideology, is evil and dangerous. 1.00

00:51:11.480 And evil must be mocked.

00:51:14.620 We didn't worry about tone policing.

00:51:17.640 The Milk Toast crew, they worried about it.

00:51:20.060 They were tone policing.

00:51:22.100 But we ignored that.

00:51:23.540 I mean, I remember a couple of years ago, I did a monologue about Dylan Mulvaney.

00:51:27.460 On the show.

00:51:28.460 And it's the main thing that got me demonetized on YouTube.

00:51:32.200 I got demonetized for a year after that.

00:51:34.720 And lost, you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars because of this one, mostly because of this one monologue.

00:51:40.220 Wouldn't change a thing, though.

00:51:41.340 But I was very blunt and direct in how I addressed him, Dylan Mulvaney.

00:51:48.400 You know, there were conservatives calling me out.

00:51:50.680 Didn't like the tone.

00:51:52.640 Didn't like how mean I was being.

00:51:55.380 Yeah, easy to forget about this stuff.

00:51:56.840 And some of the ones that were doing the tone policing now would be embarrassed by it.

00:52:00.560 They don't want to admit it.

00:52:01.240 But they were at the time.

00:52:02.720 They were coming out and saying, I don't really think.

00:52:04.800 This is, this is, this, we really shouldn't be using a tone like this.

00:52:10.240 This is going to, this is going to turn off the voters.

00:52:14.480 Well, if we're talking like this, we're going to lose in 2024.

00:52:17.660 And they also said that, you know, well, we shouldn't even talk about Dylan Mulvaney.

00:52:25.280 Why are we talking about him at all?

00:52:26.460 It doesn't matter.

00:52:29.040 Well, those of us in the fight, we knew better.

00:52:30.980 We knew that Dylan Mulvaney was an example.

00:52:33.840 He had offered himself up as a mascot for the trans movement.

00:52:38.960 And we looked at that strategically and we said, okay, great.

00:52:44.240 You want to be a mascot for this thing?

00:52:46.780 Okay.

00:52:48.220 Let's do that then.

00:52:50.100 And so we hung him around the necks of our opponents.

00:52:52.460 This weird guy who was like going out and whatever, a hundred days of girlhood or whatever it was and prancing around, pretending to be like a 12 year old girl.

00:53:04.020 And so we said, well, okay.

00:53:05.880 Yeah.

00:53:06.140 I mean, this guy wants to be like the mascot for this whole movement.

00:53:09.160 And I think he's a great mascot for it actually.

00:53:12.120 So let's.

00:53:13.360 And so while you had other conservatives saying, stop talking, you're making him more popular.

00:53:16.820 Stop talking about him.

00:53:17.960 But we knew strategic, like this is a good strategy.

00:53:22.160 Hung him around the neck of Bud Light.

00:53:25.160 But really they hung him around their own necks.

00:53:28.460 And we pointed, pointed out Bud Light lost billions of dollars.

00:53:31.300 That was another point where milquetoast moderate conservatives, you know, a lot of like the former liberal types, those guys, they said that focusing on Bud Light was a mistake. 0.98

00:53:40.700 It was dumb. 0.98

00:53:41.300 Cancel culture. 0.99

00:53:43.700 But we knew we could make an example out of Bud Light.

00:53:47.820 If we made them pay the price, all the other major corporations would see.

00:53:52.840 Was Bud Light like the worst offender of, when it comes to wokeness?

00:53:57.160 Not even close.

00:53:58.320 They weren't the worst offender.

00:54:00.360 But they were vulnerable.

00:54:02.280 They were susceptible.

00:54:03.260 They were, it's like we're not going after the fastest, strongest gazelle.

00:54:11.340 Here's one we can take down.

00:54:13.880 And we did.

00:54:16.340 They lost billions and billions of dollars.

00:54:18.360 And the fact that, you know, eventually they recovered, that doesn't matter.

00:54:23.420 You want other corporations to see what happened to them.

00:54:26.460 And if they see it, then they're going to back off all of their gay pride celebrations, or at least they're going to tone it down significantly.

00:54:34.760 And they did.

00:54:36.560 That's exactly what happened.

00:54:39.280 And we also changed laws.

00:54:40.960 We approached, you know, we approached the fight from every direction, socially, legally.

00:54:46.160 You got to change the laws to protect kids.

00:54:48.160 But you also, we also know that the law is a teacher.

00:54:51.300 The law provides a bully pulpit.

00:54:53.280 Laws help to change people's minds about things.

00:54:58.100 Law matters.

00:55:00.060 Left knows that.

00:55:02.320 It's not just about the practical effect of the law.

00:55:05.480 I mean, it is that.

00:55:07.020 But it's also the cultural, the social impact of the law itself.

00:55:15.500 And then you cover it from every angle.

00:55:17.820 The culture, corporate world, legislation.

00:55:19.540 And we knew we had to empower the public, empower people to stand up and speak up.

00:55:27.040 You know, that's the other point behind the tone, by the way.

00:55:32.080 There's actually a strategy behind the tone.

00:55:35.700 Like, it's not all just venting.

00:55:39.760 It's one of the reasons why I'm so strident and aggressive in my tone.

00:55:42.860 And I've been lectured for my tone for as long as I've had a platform, for a very long time.

00:55:47.660 Well, there's a reason why I am this way. 1.00

00:55:49.300 Now, part of it is that, yeah, I'm a stubborn, hard-headed asshole, for sure. 1.00

00:55:52.240 But I don't deny that. 0.99

00:55:54.020 But people like me, you know, we kind of serve a purpose.

00:55:57.500 We're kind of annoying sometimes.

00:55:58.740 I get it.

00:55:59.860 You're a little sick of us.

00:56:00.760 But, you know, using the trans stuff as an example, we knew that, well, if we speak out very aggressively, even kind of meanly sometimes, even kind of mocking sometimes, that provides cover for everybody else. 0.99

00:56:13.800 Because normal people can look at that and say, okay, well, this guy's got a big platform.

00:56:17.420 And look at how he's talking about this.

00:56:19.920 Look at what he's saying.

00:56:22.080 He's going way farther than I even would.

00:56:23.980 And then they feel a lot more comfortable speaking up in ways that are, you know, tend to be, like, much gentler and less aggressive.

00:56:34.920 So you go even farther, speak about it even more stridently.

00:56:39.820 Then everybody else who's a little bit closer to the middle, it gives them cover.

00:56:42.920 It gives them cover to come closer to you.

00:56:46.620 And if you have a platformer on the right, that's one of the primary services you can provide.

00:56:50.560 It's, like, one of the only services, really.

00:56:53.980 So the point here is not gloating or whatever.

00:56:57.340 I mean, now is certainly not the time for gloating, okay? 0.98

00:56:59.540 We just got our asses handed to us. 0.97

00:57:03.400 So, but that is the point. 0.99

00:57:05.380 The point is to learn the lessons.

00:57:09.780 And I still don't think we have.

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00:58:49.880 Now, this may be shocking for some people to hear, but at Daily Wire, we don't always agree.

00:58:53.320 Friendly Fire, you know, is the show where Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan, and myself,

00:58:58.760 we all get together to disagree live for the entire internet to see and comment on what could possibly go wrong.

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00:59:20.980 Now let's get to the daily cancellation.

00:59:23.200 A couple weeks ago, I did a fairly lengthy monologue that I had been working on for some time

00:59:32.380 about the death of the monoculture and how pop culture and, by extension, celebrity basically no longer exists.

00:59:39.340 Another, you know, a million celebrities with millions of followers,

00:59:42.100 and almost none of them have any influence on the culture at all.

00:59:45.080 There are now so many streaming services and social media platforms that it's entirely possible for a talented actor or singer to become very successful,

00:59:51.020 while also remaining unknown to the vast majority of the general public.

00:59:55.360 You know, there's no modern equivalent to the craze that surrounded shows like Seinfeld or Friends or the ubiquity of movies like Titanic,

01:00:01.400 and there probably never will be again.

01:00:04.720 Now the death of the monoculture is generally a bad thing in my view, as I've already outlined,

01:00:09.060 but there is at least one positive aspect of it.

01:00:13.360 Celebrities truly have no political influence anymore.

01:00:17.540 Now in the past, that was not the case.

01:00:19.060 The Rat Pack and Sinatra helped put JFK in the White House.

01:00:22.340 One study from the University of Maryland supposedly found that Oprah's endorsement all by itself resulted in a million votes for Barack Obama in the primaries back in 2008.

01:00:30.400 People got their copies of Oprah Magazine, saw the endorsement, and they went out to vote.

01:00:37.860 Now of course nobody reads Oprah Magazine anymore because it doesn't exist, nor does anyone read any magazines of any kind.

01:00:44.460 There are simply too many ways to access information and too many celebrities offering their takes for any particular person's opinion to really matter,

01:00:51.140 no matter how rich or powerful that person might be.

01:00:54.420 So this has been true for some time, but celebrities have pretended not to realize it,

01:00:58.540 probably because they want to keep selling their endorsements to dysfunctional Democrat Party campaigns.

01:01:03.680 After all, why admit that your endorsement is worthless when you can sell it to Kamala Harris for a million dollars?

01:01:10.020 But there is finally at least one Hollywood celebrity who's ready to admit what we've all known for a long time,

01:01:15.200 which is that celebrity endorsements are completely pointless and meaningless,

01:01:19.380 and we'd all be better off if these people would stop talking about politics entirely.

01:01:24.620 And surprisingly enough, this realization comes to us from the actress Jennifer Lawrence,

01:01:28.260 who until relatively recently has been one of the most hysterical leftists in Hollywood.

01:01:33.740 Here's what she and her co-stars were saying just 10 years ago, for example.

01:01:38.640 Talk about laying down the law. 1.00

01:01:40.880 Yep, Jennifer Lawrence, who knows a thing or two about dystopian societies, 1.00

01:01:44.720 said that if Donald Trump becomes the president, it'll be the end of the world.

01:01:48.600 That's right, the 25-year-old didn't hold anything back in a recent interview discussing the release of The Hunger Games,

01:01:54.440 Mockingjay Part 2, but American-born Josh Hutcherson also climbed on the anti-Trump ladder,

01:01:59.780 saying he believes the campaign is a publicity stunt and can't be real.

01:02:04.460 That's the kind of insightful political analysis that you can only get from Hollywood.

01:02:08.980 You know, the world will end if Donald Trump wins, but of course he won't win because his campaign isn't actually real.

01:02:14.380 Jennifer Lawrence was constantly repeating this kind of leftist drivel for years on end. 1.00

01:02:17.980 She also stated in response to Trump's first election win that, quote,

01:02:21.660 this country was founded on immigration, and today the only people that feel safe

01:02:24.800 that their rights are recognized and respected are white men.

01:02:28.280 Then she added, quote, if you're an immigrant, if you're a person of color,

01:02:31.040 if you're LGBTQ+, if you're a woman, don't be afraid, be loud.

01:02:35.840 So you get the idea.

01:02:36.600 She was a talking points machine.

01:02:38.900 But credit where it's due.

01:02:39.640 Jennifer Lawrence finally appears to be tired of this whole act, unlike every other leftist celebrity 0.99

01:02:44.140 and unlike all the fake climate change scientists.

01:02:46.400 Jennifer Lawrence is apparently capable of looking back on her past statements 0.99

01:02:49.800 and realizing, at the very least, how utterly dumb and pointless they were. 0.98

01:02:53.700 So this is from a recent interview with The New York Times. 0.99

01:02:56.300 Listen.

01:02:58.220 You have been politically outspoken in the past.

01:03:01.600 In the first Trump administration, you know, you had a lot to say.

01:03:05.640 I'm curious how you feel about talking out now.

01:03:14.140 I don't really know if I should.

01:03:16.460 I think, like, the first Trump administration was so wild.

01:03:23.180 And just how can we let this stand?

01:03:26.040 Like, I felt like I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off.

01:03:31.120 But as we've learned, election after election, celebrities do not make a difference whatsoever

01:03:40.840 on who people vote for.

01:03:43.600 And so then what am I doing?

01:03:45.680 I'm just sharing my opinion on something that's going to just add fuel to a fire that's ripping

01:03:53.420 the country apart.

01:03:54.460 I mean, we are so divided.

01:03:57.240 So she isn't willing to admit that she was wrong, which obviously requires some degree

01:04:01.960 of self-awareness and integrity.

01:04:03.700 She's not willing to reflect on why she stated that the world was going to end if Donald Trump

01:04:07.120 won or why she said that only white men are capable of feeling safe in America. 0.69

01:04:11.880 Lawrence does say that she was running around like a chicken with its head cut off, which 1.00

01:04:15.300 sounds like an admission that she was acting insane and unreasonable.

01:04:18.540 But beyond that, there's no reflection as to why she came to believe any of these talking

01:04:21.960 points or why she repeated them.

01:04:24.140 But at the same time, from a practical perspective, she is willing to acknowledge the futility of

01:04:29.000 everything that she was doing, namely talking about politics.

01:04:33.020 So now she's giving that up.

01:04:34.780 And in part, she says that she's motivated by desire to stop alienating half of her potential

01:04:39.260 audience.

01:04:40.100 Watch.

01:04:40.180 I think I'm in a complicated recalibration because I'm also an artist.

01:04:48.220 And I, with this temperature and the way that things can turn out, I don't want to start

01:04:57.620 turning people off to films and to art that could change consciousness or change the world

01:05:04.300 because they don't like my political opinions.

01:05:08.000 I want to protect my craft so that you can still get lost in what I'm doing, what I'm showing.

01:05:21.900 Um, and if I can't say something that's going to speak to some kind of peace or lowering the

01:05:31.340 temperature or some sort of solution, I just don't want, I don't, I don't want to be a part

01:05:39.260 of the problem.

01:05:39.800 I don't want to make the problem worse.

01:05:41.740 Well, you know, YouTube invented the playback speed option for interviews like this one,

01:05:45.920 where they're talking at half speed.

01:05:47.260 You have to double the playback speed on this one.

01:05:49.340 If you want it to sound remotely like a normal conversation, that's the only way I was able

01:05:52.960 to get through the, the part of this interview that I watched, which was only about three

01:05:56.960 minutes before I had to turn it off.

01:05:58.580 But, uh, I watched enough of this interview to know that, uh, Jennifer Lawrence isn't being

01:06:02.900 honest or she's not suddenly interested in attracting a conservative audience.

01:06:05.740 And even if she were interested in that, she knows that none of her political opinions

01:06:09.500 matter one way or another.

01:06:10.980 When it comes to attracting a conservative audience to her projects, uh, conservatives

01:06:15.220 understand, and we've understood for a long time that pretty much everybody in Hollywood

01:06:18.800 hates us.

01:06:19.600 That's built in.

01:06:21.140 We're capable of ignoring that fact when we watch movies and television shows, because

01:06:24.660 unlike leftists, we don't spend every waking hour dreaming of ways to punish people who

01:06:28.480 disagree with us.

01:06:29.500 We're capable of watching a Jennifer Lawrence movie, as long as, as long as they're good, 0.93

01:06:33.040 which one, one or two of them are, regardless of what dumb opinions happen. 0.67

01:06:37.920 You know, she happens to hold. 0.61

01:06:38.780 We, we've, uh, never took her opinion seriously to begin with.

01:06:42.020 And she's flattering herself if she thinks otherwise.

01:06:44.560 Uh, but as the interview went on for some reason, she kept offering more and more justifications

01:06:49.520 for why she isn't political anymore. 0.87

01:06:51.140 And somehow each justification made even less sense than the last one.

01:06:55.080 It feels, it feels, it feels, it feels different, you know, cause it's like, we all knew he said

01:07:05.600 what he was going to do.

01:07:07.080 We, we knew what he did for four years.

01:07:09.840 It was very clear.

01:07:12.380 And that's what we chose again.

01:07:17.140 And I think there's something that just feels different about the second, the second term.

01:07:25.120 Yes.

01:07:25.500 The second Trump term is different from the first term because this time around people

01:07:28.640 knew what Trump was going to do before they voted for him.

01:07:31.720 And that's like totally a major difference.

01:07:33.560 The first time around people were just voting for Trump as a joke, I guess.

01:07:36.760 They had no idea what his platform was.

01:07:39.660 Trump voters, according to Jennifer Lawrence, weren't actually interested in bringing back

01:07:42.840 manufacturing jobs or lowering taxes or ending foreign wars or putting an end to Hillary Clinton's,

01:07:47.800 Hillary Clinton's criminal enterprise or closing the border, reporting illegal aliens or any

01:07:53.100 of that.

01:07:54.240 They just voted for Trump because they liked the, the, the sound of his, uh, of his name,

01:07:58.640 I guess.

01:07:58.940 And then to their shock and horror, Trump started doing the exact same things that he said he

01:08:03.400 was going to do.

01:08:04.420 It's funny how that works.

01:08:05.420 Now at this point, you're probably starting to suspect that the reason she talks so slowly

01:08:09.500 is that her brain is like one of those old hard drives that sputters very loudly when

01:08:13.720 you turn the computer on.

01:08:15.080 We're not dealing with the fastest horse in the race, to put it mildly, to mix metaphors.

01:08:19.520 She doesn't seem capable of understanding that, that, uh, we all knew what Trump was going

01:08:22.960 to do back in 2016.

01:08:23.920 That's why 63 million people voted for him.

01:08:26.180 And honestly, I don't expect Jennifer Lawrence to ever come to any of those realizations,

01:08:30.780 nor do I care if she does.

01:08:32.060 The important thing is that she recognizes for one reason or another that celebrities should

01:08:36.560 stop sharing their opinions about any topic of significance whatsoever.

01:08:40.460 Now that she's conceded defeat on this point, there's hope that many other vapid celebrities 0.72

01:08:44.600 will soon follow.

01:08:46.040 There's hope that we can go 24 hours without hearing about a random actor's opinion about

01:08:50.560 open borders or, you know, a non-binary singer's hot take on the second amendment or whatever.

01:08:56.540 10 years ago, Jennifer Lawrence confidently predicted that the world would end if Trump won.

01:09:01.580 And we can safely say a decade later that, I mean, at least the world still exists, as

01:09:07.500 far as I can tell.

01:09:09.380 But the monoculture is indeed dead and buried.

01:09:11.860 And while I used to think that that was an unequivocally negative development, thanks

01:09:16.200 to Jennifer Lawrence, I can see at least one faint glimmer of an upside.

01:09:20.700 And that is why the era of celebrity influence over our politics is today, thankfully and belatedly,

01:09:27.580 canceled.

01:09:28.800 That'll do it for the show today.

01:09:29.480 Thanks for watching.

01:09:30.040 Thanks for listening.

01:09:30.620 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:09:31.740 Have a great day.

01:09:32.740 Godspeed.

01:09:59.480 Until then.

01:10:00.920 Bye.

01:10:04.740 Bye.

01:10:12.040 Bye.

01:10:12.640 Bye.

01:10:16.660 Bye.

01:10:25.960 Bye.

The Matt Walsh Show - November 05, 2025

Ep. 1686 - New Yorkers Hand Their City Over To A Third World Islamic Communist

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