The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1860 - These Liberal Morons Totally Regret Leaving Trump's America

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00:00:30.000 Hot on the heels of the Boston Globe's viral expose on the lesbian bar in Massachusetts that descended into chaos over a COVID mask mandate in the year 2026,

00:00:40.280 an outlet called Wired Magazine had just published its own contender for most entertaining news article of the year.

00:00:46.560 I didn't think we'd get two contenders for that title, but we do.

00:00:49.620 This is a genre that is really heating up lately, even though the formula is actually pretty simple.

00:00:54.060 All you got to do is document the day-to-day activities of leftists who are attempting to do difficult things like live on planet Earth, and then hilarity inevitably ensues.

00:01:05.960 For reasons that are not entirely clear, left-wing outlets like the Boston Globe and Wired Magazine are the ones publishing these stories, probably because their desperation for clicks outweighs somehow even their political considerations.

00:01:18.760 You know, it's a brutal industry. So if you have to make fun of your own side, I guess that's a step that they're willing to take.

00:01:25.660 Whatever the case, here's the headline that Wired Magazine has graced us with.

00:01:29.860 Behold, what could be maybe the best news headline of the year, or again, it's in contention.

00:01:36.340 It reads, quote, they fled Trump's America. Now they regret it.

00:01:40.620 The Internet told them Europe was a social paradise.

00:01:43.340 Turns out the trains are awful. The health care isn't free and people can be really mean.

00:01:50.920 Yes, you heard that correctly. People actually fled the United States because Donald Trump was

00:01:55.240 elected president. So it wasn't just a handful of celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres or whoever who

00:02:01.640 bought timeshares in Greece or something. This was not a fake TikTok phenomenon, at least not

00:02:07.260 entirely, real Americans actually left the United States when Kamala Harris lost the election.

00:02:14.180 By one estimate, in the first quarter of 2025, when Trump took office for his second term,

00:02:18.940 the number of U.S. migrants increased by 100% year over year. The U.K. saw more residency

00:02:26.120 applications from the U.S. in early 2025 than they'd ever recorded since they first started

00:02:32.000 keeping track of it in 2004. So there was a real, if statistically insignificant, exodus here

00:02:38.280 totaling thousands of people. Some Democrats actually went through with this. It wasn't

00:02:45.280 just an empty threat. They really did it. Of course, our only regret is that a lot more of

00:02:52.240 them did not do it. And now, sort of like a child who realizes that Candyland is actually a pretty

00:02:57.980 horrible place, you know, because a candy-only diet would kill you faster than eating nothing

00:03:02.720 at all. For reasons that are beyond the scope of this podcast, we'll get into it some other time.

00:03:07.400 These leftists are melting down in large numbers. They haven't been gone for very long, but they're

00:03:12.380 already making their way back to the United States with their tails between their legs. 0.73

00:03:18.260 Of course, we shouldn't let these people come back. They effectively renounced their citizenship, 0.99

00:03:22.440 and we should act accordingly, but according to Wired Magazine, as of right now, many of these

00:03:28.960 leftists are planning a return to the United States, and I guess they'll be allowed to come.

00:03:33.220 We should pull the drawbridge up. Too late, sorry, but apparently we're not. So here's how

00:03:40.200 the article begins. Quote, in the autumn of 2024, Annie was ready for something new. She was living

00:03:47.560 in the southern United States when her husband received an unexpected job offer that would

00:03:52.420 move them to a town just outside London. They were in their 20s with no kids. We wanted to take a

00:03:58.040 risk, she says, while researching their new destination on Reddit, TikTok, and Instagram.

00:04:03.780 Great places to go to research where you're going to live. Annie found Americans eager to explain

00:04:09.120 how enchanting life in the British suburbs could be, all the benefits of a small town,

00:04:13.980 just a short train ride away from one of the biggest cities in the world. The more she read,

00:04:18.300 the sunnier her expectations about the UK's healthcare system, social culture, and European

00:04:23.100 transportation system became. They moved before the end of the year, but the reality of life in

00:04:28.200 the UK was dramatically different to what she imagined. There are huge misconceptions about

00:04:32.840 access to quality healthcare standard of living. The quality of life is significantly lower than

00:04:37.760 in the US, she said, citing the challenges she experienced with the National Health Service's

00:04:42.300 maternity care, having moved while pregnant with her first child, as well as the lack of disposable

00:04:47.460 income in Britain, thanks to lower salaries. Things in the UK that are considered luxury

00:04:51.920 items are very common in America, like a dishwasher and dryer, she adds. Annie says

00:04:56.740 she experienced a high amount of anti-American sentiment straight away. I found it particularly

00:05:01.520 surprising how people feel so comfortable mocking my accent and culture, even in a workplace

00:05:06.300 environment. She says the UK is very much a place of it is what it is. But as Americans,

00:05:11.400 we're taught to always improve and strive for better things. Annie and her husband now have an

00:05:16.100 exit plan for summer next year. So shocking. We're trying to decide on something as life-changing

00:05:24.520 as moving to a new country, and they researched it on TikTok and Instagram. She mentions that

00:05:30.800 a dishwasher and dryer are considered luxury items in the UK, which is true. As shocking as

00:05:36.540 it might be for we Americans to consider, only around half of British households have a tumble

00:05:42.320 dryer, while roughly two thirds have a dishwasher. And they mostly go unused because the owners

00:05:48.680 can't afford the electricity to run them very often. But the bigger luxury by far is air

00:05:55.100 conditioning or air con, as they call it in the UK. And I had to look up the statistics on this

00:05:59.780 and double check them because it's truly hard to believe, especially as such an avid fan of air

00:06:04.760 conditioning myself. It's my, as I said before, it's my favorite invention of all time. If I could,

00:06:09.860 If I could only keep one invention of the last 5,000 years, it would be that.

00:06:15.520 But in the UK, according to most surveys, only around 2% to 8% of homes have some form of air conditioning.

00:06:21.980 Yes, 2% to 8%.

00:06:23.780 And you can see the figures there, which are from a paper that was published by researchers at University College London earlier this year.

00:06:31.180 So this data is up to date.

00:06:33.360 This is not data from like 1947, which then it could be excused.

00:06:39.860 Now, this is from like now. They cite seven different surveys and all of them show AC

00:06:45.080 ownership between two and eight percent with one outlier at 19 percent, which is still shockingly

00:06:51.260 low. This is despite the fact that this past summer, half of all homes in Europe were exposed

00:06:56.020 to extremely high temperatures. And by some estimates, more than a third of typical homes

00:07:00.400 in the UK are prone to overheating. This is from an article published in Politico earlier this year,

00:07:05.680 Quote, cash-strapped Europeans are struggling to keep their homes cool as the continent's summers get hotter, a major new survey has found.

00:07:12.880 More than 38% of the 27,000 respondents to a continent-wide poll published Wednesday said they couldn't afford to keep their house cool in the summer.

00:07:21.140 While nearly 40% of well-off households invested in AC or fans, just over 20% of cash-strapped Europeans did the same.

00:07:26.900 Nearly half of renters said they were unable to afford to keep their homes cool compared to 29% of homeowners.

00:07:31.840 As a result, some 60% of tenants said they had felt too hot at home at least once over the past five years versus just over 40% of owners.

00:07:44.180 So leaving aside the global warming propaganda, the fact still remains that these people are in sweltering conditions and don't have air conditioning.

00:07:55.840 That's a type of discomfort.

00:07:57.560 And I'm an American.

00:07:58.160 So I, you know, these are, these are the, apparently the privileges that we have as Americans that I can say that I, that's one type of physical discomfort I will not tolerate. I'm not going to be hot inside a building. As an American, I can't even conceive of that. You're hot inside a building? How is that even possible?

00:08:16.760 turn the ac on you know this should be a problem we've eradicated like polio but but not in not in

00:08:24.480 the europe this is a level of poverty that is truly foreign to most americans and if you listen

00:08:29.840 to how they talk about air conditioning on the bbc which is the british state broadcaster it's

00:08:34.340 like stepping into another dimension there's a lot of denial there's a lot of commiserating

00:08:39.540 they're sweltering hot they're dying of heat they're sweating they're gross and they're trying

00:08:45.740 to convince themselves that they're okay with it. And it gets very bizarre. Watch this.

00:08:53.180 How did air conditioning become part of the culture wars? When you walk anywhere in the

00:08:59.960 United States in the heat of the summer, pretty much any shop or building is chilly, freezing even.

00:09:07.240 In the United States, air conditioning has become expected, not just in shops or workplaces,

00:09:13.280 but also in homes. Nearly 90% of US homes have AC. But it's far less common in Europe,

00:09:20.500 which has been experiencing record-breaking temperatures this summer, especially in France,

00:09:28.100 where the question over whether to have air conditioning or not have air conditioning

00:09:31.660 has sparked a pretty fierce political debate, which has reached boiling point.

00:09:36.280 You sleep with your windows open because you most likely don't have air conditioning.

00:09:39.620 And the feeling of being in Paris in the summer is the feeling of listening and hearing all of your neighbours and all the things that they're doing as you try to go to sleep.

00:09:49.700 So sometimes they're cooking, sometimes they're arguing, sometimes they're snoring.

00:09:53.820 A lot of the time they're having sex.

00:09:55.000 It's kind of charming.

00:09:56.000 Yeah, well, yes and no.

00:09:58.140 It's charming for a very short period of time and then it gets a bit much.

00:10:01.280 And for the first time, the leader of the Green Party in France is a woman called Marine Tandelier.

00:10:06.640 she has started saying that the situation is so serious that air conditioning needs to be

00:10:14.360 part of the solution which is not something you would have expected uh just a few years ago and

00:10:20.640 it's been a kind of whole political ding-dong ever since then really i wonder tristan what

00:10:24.440 do people in france then think of the u.s and how americans are addicted to really cold indoor

00:10:31.120 spaces in the summer. Yes, we Americans are addicted to really cold indoor spaces in the

00:10:38.900 summer. That's an actual sentence that was uttered on the British state broadcast. Or for whatever

00:10:43.520 reason, Americans have this bizarre obsession with not sweating profusely or suffering heat

00:10:49.720 strokes when we're sitting on our couch in the summer. Really hard to explain, but that's just

00:10:55.440 the way we are. Other things Americans are addicted to include running water, having

00:11:01.240 money in our bank accounts, being able to see the doctor without waiting 50 months for

00:11:05.880 an appointment. Maybe one day we'll break the habit of becoming just like Europe, where 1.00

00:11:10.840 everyone's too poor to be addicted to anything except, I guess, alcohol and perpetual resentment. 0.95

00:11:15.640 I personally will wear the label. I am addicted to air conditioning. I'm addicted to cold

00:11:22.140 indoor spaces in the summer. I demand that any space I go into, if it's indoors, must always be

00:11:30.080 68 degrees all the time. I will not endure a temperature above 68 degrees, especially in the

00:11:36.860 summer. I won't endure it. I won't have it. And anyone who says, oh, you're going to kill the

00:11:42.060 planet. Well, I don't believe that. But even if I am, okay, that is a sacrifice I'm willing to

00:11:47.560 make. That is a, you know, there are trade-offs in life. And if I have to sacrifice the health

00:11:53.120 of the entire planet so that I can be comfortable in my living room, I will do it. Okay. I don't

00:11:57.540 think it's that selfish. By the way, the other amusing thing about the clip is that it's filmed

00:12:02.600 inside an air conditioned studio. So, you know, they're sitting there and telling everyone that

00:12:06.060 we're, you know, we're addicted to air conditioning as a way of making these 1.00

00:12:11.080 poor Europeans feel better about their lot in life. They want to make air conditioning seem 1.00

00:12:15.840 like there's some, you know, some kind of like bizarre luxury that serves no purpose. They want

00:12:19.960 to make air conditioning seem like, you know, it's like having your own private jet. Why would you

00:12:24.560 need that? Even though that also, like if I could have one of those, I totally would. And meanwhile,

00:12:30.860 the BBC is definitely paying to cool that studio in the summer. So you see, if you're wealthy or

00:12:36.480 you work for the government, you get AC. But if you're poor, you're told that if you want AC,

00:12:40.520 then you probably suffer some kind of mental illness. Actually, towards the end of this segment, 0.92

00:12:45.840 which went on for around 20 minutes for some reason,

00:12:49.080 some reality did begin to creep in 0.99

00:12:51.540 when they realized how utterly pathetic 1.00

00:12:53.360 their status quo really is. 1.00

00:12:55.860 Watch.

00:12:57.100 If you look back over the last couple of decades,

00:13:01.520 one statistic I saw from the UN

00:13:04.240 was something like 489,000 people have died

00:13:07.900 as a result of heat-related deaths.

00:13:09.980 I found that figure shocking.

00:13:11.920 489,000 people.

00:13:13.060 That's nearly half a million people dying

00:13:15.800 from heat every single year. That is every single year. That's huge. And I was, I was so shocked to

00:13:22.260 read that. You know, of all those heat related deaths, believe it or not, Europe accounts for

00:13:28.500 a significant percentage of the total, more than 175,000 people. The United Nations report that

00:13:35.340 a staggering 175,000 people die from heat related causes every year in Europe. So a huge number of

00:13:42.060 people are dying in Europe every year because of heat-related causes, far more than the United

00:13:47.820 States, which barely has any of those kinds of deaths. These people are lecturing us about

00:13:52.620 being addicted to being cold. I mean, it's impossible to parody. To put this in context,

00:13:59.160 vastly more Europeans die from heat-related causes in a typical year than Americans die

00:14:04.860 from all gun-related causes put together. Less than 50,000 Americans die because of guns every

00:14:11.260 year. And meanwhile, Europe is losing $175,000 just to heat. They're losing it to something

00:14:18.240 that they could solve with an air conditioning unit. So for all their pontificating about gun

00:14:22.640 violence and school shootings, they're losing far more people to warm weather. I mean, it's

00:14:28.200 staggering. These are not abstract figures. The stories coming out of Europe are truly

00:14:32.440 disturbing. On Monday, we talked about how France is rioting because no one can afford

00:14:36.180 anything, and because of all the migrant hordes they've allowed in, but if anything, I undersold 1.00

00:14:42.620 how terrible the living conditions are. This is from an article in The Guardian this summer,

00:14:46.880 quote, living in a sweltering seventh floor flat on a concrete housing estate south of Paris,

00:14:52.240 Samira said she was feeling desperate as France experienced its highest temperatures on record

00:14:56.460 this week. Yesterday, I sat down and cried. I thought I'm going to die, said the 35-year-old

00:15:01.500 single parent and former building caretaker. Her flat is, like millions of apartments in France,

00:15:07.100 poorly insulated and lacking in outside window shutters. And of course, her apartment is lacking

00:15:12.980 in air conditioning as well. This is just how these people live. Day after day. It's not a 1.00

00:15:19.080 choice. All of them would prefer to have air conditioning, but they can't afford it.

00:15:22.740 There are very few jobs, and the jobs that do exist simply don't pay anywhere near what they

00:15:27.120 do in the U.S. To give just one example, the national median pay for a nurse in the United

00:15:32.180 States is $97,000 gross. In France, it converts to around $40,000. So you take a massive pay cut

00:15:40.520 in terms of your salary. Meanwhile, their residential electricity costs are much higher

00:15:44.200 in France, 65% higher than low-cost states like Texas or Louisiana. Gas prices are much higher

00:15:51.320 too, around double what you'd pay at the pump in the U.S. A lot of reasons for this discrepancy,

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00:18:15.720 slash Walsh. This is what life is like in Europe to the horror of people who spoke to Wired

00:18:21.500 magazine for this article. But let's keep going with this piece because it does continue to get

00:18:27.960 better. Quote, Sarah Wood Gonzalez, a journalist and consultant, recently returned to New York

00:18:34.820 after three years in Spain and Edinburgh. She says she had few expectations of her life in Scotland

00:18:40.520 and wasn't glossy-eyed about Europe, but was surprised and delighted by how educated and

00:18:45.540 intellectually curious everyone was. However, when it came to work, she found the slowness to be a

00:18:50.600 drawback. Something I've taken for granted is the American outgoingness and default to action,

00:18:55.920 where the question is, how can we collaborate, she explains. Generally speaking, I also found

00:19:00.180 that the American work style, for better or worse, moves much faster and can get to a yes or no in

00:19:05.360 less time. This was similar reality for Josh, another American immigrant, who asked to remain

00:19:11.260 completely anonymous, citing concerns about backlash. He moved to Berlin in 2023, in part

00:19:16.560 anticipating what might happen at the 2024 election. He had even lived in Germany before,

00:19:21.660 spoke German, and had friends in Berlin. But his expectations, particularly when it came to his

00:19:26.280 career, didn't align with reality. Finding work was so hard, and the endless bureaucracy had

00:19:31.680 grown worse since I'd left, he tells Wired. I miss the friendlier people, freedom of speech,

00:19:36.060 and ease of daily life in the U.S. I thought that British politeness existed as it does in movies,

00:19:41.980 Annie says. But unfortunately, the reality is that present-day British culture is very

00:19:45.820 individualistic, as well as without the sense of charity and helpfulness that many parts of

00:19:50.440 American culture value. She says she had negative experiences with the NHS maternal care compared

00:19:55.500 to the smooth experience of her private health insurance in the U.S. and didn't expect it to

00:19:59.160 cost anything. I pay huge amounts of taxes and an immigration surcharge to access the NHS services,

00:20:04.640 so no, the healthcare is not free healthcare. She also expected train travel to be low cost

00:20:10.140 based on what she'd read about Europe, despite the extortionate train prices and terrible service

00:20:15.840 quality being one of the biggest political conversations in the UK. What's especially

00:20:21.640 funny about this passage is that in all likelihood, this woman was reading about Europe's cool

00:20:26.300 magazines in Wired, rather reading about their cool trains in Wired magazine itself. Back in

00:20:34.140 2020, Wired published an article claiming that, quote, Europe is ushering in a new golden era of

00:20:39.820 train travel. The article claimed that 2020 will be the year that we fall in love with train travel

00:20:45.280 again and stated that train fever is gripping the country of Sweden. The article said that the train

00:20:52.020 craze would soon spread across Europe and that it would be increasingly easy to book rail tickets

00:20:56.680 across borders, a key barrier for many travelers. And Wired concluded by comparing train travel to

00:21:02.580 flying on a plane and declared that train travel is a clear winner. Fast forward six years and now

00:21:11.600 Wired is publishing articles about these left-wing Americans who got the idea that train travel would

00:21:16.360 be viable in Europe. Where could they have possibly gotten that idea? It's a mystery. We'll never know

00:21:21.920 the answer. Meanwhile, all of these poor saps who were conned into moving to Europe by outlets like 0.92

00:21:27.580 Wired are desperately trying to undo their mistake. They're realizing why in European

00:21:33.720 countries, it takes something like 13 months to approve construction on every new factory.

00:21:39.400 And to be clear, that's not construction time. That's just time to approve construction.

00:21:45.000 And meanwhile, in the United States, it takes around 80 days. We are simply a, which is still

00:21:48.960 too long, but we're simply a much better run, more motivated, more competent country.

00:21:55.700 And there's no country in Europe that can compare at all. And this is why whenever you go online

00:22:03.300 and try to say any of this, you get dogpiled by unemployed Europeans who spend all day on Reddit 0.99

00:22:08.860 and are in a really bad mood because they don't have air conditioning. 0.80

00:22:12.100 they're just like typing furiously on their keyboard and sweating and it's gross uh this

00:22:18.820 again from the wired article quote on subreddits dedicated to these kinds of discussions like uh

00:22:24.040 expats going to spain american expats uk and amer exit you can now find a number of stories

00:22:30.360 about difficulties building a new community trouble finding work icier cultural norms

00:22:34.220 compared to the open friendliest of america it's sometimes a higher than expected european cost of

00:22:38.320 living. Many posts now feature people asking for a new kind of advice. Is it okay for me to miss

00:22:43.180 or even want to move back home? These posts are usually met with a huge amount of backlash.

00:22:47.800 Commenters are quick to imply that the poster might be right-wing and privileged.

00:22:54.140 Ironically, many times they parrot the right-wing notion that they probably aren't trying

00:22:57.820 hard enough to assimilate into their new country. When one person recently said they badly missed

00:23:02.960 their community of friends in a blue city and a blue state, considering moving back, the majority

00:23:07.240 if top comments agreed, the user was insane. Insane. I went looking for this thread on Reddit 0.78

00:23:15.540 and sure enough, it's exactly the cesspool that Wired described. Here's a sampling of the replies

00:23:22.440 this guy received simply for asking if he should move back to the United States. He's simply

00:23:27.480 wondering, he's simply saying, oh, the United States is a more pleasant place to live and more

00:23:34.080 affordable in every single possible way. So should I consider that maybe I should move back? And

00:23:42.080 here's what people said. Sadly, it really depends on how well you score on the family guy color

00:23:47.960 chart card test. Honestly, right now with Trump and everything, yes, that is insane. Yes, you are

00:23:54.480 insane. Yes, that is insane to move willingly into a budding fascist dictatorship. You know, 1.00

00:24:02.940 there's a handful of people who tried to offer a more nuanced take, but in general, this is what

00:24:08.260 you get on Reddit. People are looking for ways to rationalize their disastrous decisions to live in

00:24:12.640 Europe. So they'll berate anyone who even suggests moving to the United States. Misery loves company

00:24:19.320 and all that kind of thing. You also see tons of posts where these Europeans will say something 1.00

00:24:23.120 like salary isn't everything as a way of arguing that they're allegedly free healthcare and other 0.95

00:24:28.300 perks make up for it. But the thing is, the salaries in Europe are so low and the taxes are

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00:26:33.420 not authorized by any candidate or candidates committing. The deal when you move to Europe is

00:26:38.740 that you're going to make a lot less money and pay more in taxes. I cannot think of a less

00:26:44.240 appealing trade-off than that. It's the worst deal imaginable. Hey, you know, the bad news is

00:26:52.300 you're going to make less money, but look, here's the good news. When it comes to taxes,

00:26:56.340 they're also higher. So yeah. You know, there's actually a statistic called a household net

00:27:02.340 adjusted disposable income that measures this. It looks at your household income after taxes

00:27:06.540 adjusted for cost of living and adds in the value of things like free healthcare. And even under

00:27:11.860 this metric with the UK getting full cash credit for their healthcare, the typical American citizen

00:27:17.480 has around 50% more purchasing power than someone living in Britain. And that's why if the UK were

00:27:22.840 a state, it would rank dead last in the country in terms of living standards. And by the way,

00:27:28.600 the healthcare in the UK is obviously much worse than our healthcare in the United States. It's

00:27:32.900 slower. The doctors are less competent. There's fewer doctors and diagnostic machines, et cetera.

00:27:39.680 So they're paying more, much more for less.

00:27:42.960 And the healthcare system in the United States needs to be better also.

00:27:46.300 There's plenty of problems here.

00:27:47.220 But the thing is, the healthcare system in the U.S. gets worse exactly to the degree that it begins more and more to resemble Europe.

00:27:59.380 So no matter how you slice it, Europe is a catastrophe of a continent.

00:28:03.620 So you have to ask, what kind of person would delude himself into thinking otherwise?

00:28:07.080 is. Well, the Wired article concludes on this note with an anecdote about a guy named Nick,

00:28:11.880 and this paragraph belongs in a museum. It says, quote, what's happening in the U.S. is also

00:28:17.160 happening everywhere now, to the point I'm even a little hesitant in what I say to you or anywhere

00:28:22.540 online, says Nick, an art director from New York are relocated to Poland, in part because of right

00:28:27.820 wing populism in the U.S. He moved with his Polish wife to Krakow, where they have a young child,

00:28:33.540 But despite these personal ties, he found it difficult to adjust to the culture and bureaucracy.

00:28:37.740 Now Nick feels trapped in Europe, where he says the politics aren't much better,

00:28:41.140 conceding that Poland, both politically and culturally, has strong right-wing popularity.

00:28:45.740 As of a few months ago, Josh is back living in the U.S., where he says he feels happier and finally accepted and at home.

00:28:52.020 In retrospect, he wonders if he got caught up in the frenzy of discourse when he chose to leave in the first place.

00:28:58.820 Once I was in Germany and had some distance from the situation in the U.S., he says,

00:29:02.020 I felt perhaps I had overreacted. Okay, so the art director is trying to escape right-wing

00:29:08.640 politics, and he ends up in Poland. You know, it's like if you don't like the rain,

00:29:17.380 so you decide to move to Seattle. Did he get put on the wrong plane somehow? Like,

00:29:22.860 is this like the kid from Home Alone? How does that happen? Unfortunately, the article doesn't

00:29:27.600 explain, and that's too bad because we really need a feature-length documentary about this

00:29:31.040 guy's life. We need to study his decision-making process in great detail so that future generations

00:29:36.580 can learn how to do the exact opposite of everything he's ever done. We'll probably

00:29:41.460 never get this documentary because as of right now, he's trapped in Poland, presumably without

00:29:45.920 air conditioning or electricity or running water or email or the mail. He's sending notes back to

00:29:54.860 Wire magazine through Morse code or something or telegraph. Carrier pigeon. I don't know. I don't

00:30:00.820 know how they communicate, but at least Nick and Josh, the other guy they mentioned appear to have

00:30:05.040 realized that they overreacted by uprooting their lives and their families to flee to a foreign

00:30:09.640 country simply because Donald Trump was elected president. Which by the way, even if I were to

00:30:15.900 agree with the premise that Donald Trump's presidency would be this catastrophe for the

00:30:18.860 country, which I don't, but like there's going to be another election in four years.

00:30:25.580 Even if you think it's a fascist dictatorship, we have elections here. So, you know, this is like

00:30:30.500 kind of a permanent solution for a, or rather a serious long-term solution for a problem that

00:30:37.420 even if you see it as a problem is only going to be four years. And indeed, that's the message

00:30:44.460 that Wired is clearly sending with this article. They're doing something that almost no left-wing

00:30:47.740 outlet ever does, which is to expose the hysteria and paranoia on the left and the ridiculous results

00:30:54.060 that this paranoia often causes. As you'd expect, Wired subscribers who actually pay money for this

00:30:59.920 content were not happy with the article. They were frothing at the mouth, sort of like New York

00:31:05.020 Times readers, whatever James Rosen publishes an op-ed exposing the truth about Watergate.

00:31:09.740 But here's a top comment on the Wired article to give you an idea. It's from an American living

00:31:13.460 in Italy who wanted to provide a counterexample to demonstrate that things are actually going

00:31:16.960 great over there. And here's what he says. Again, this is the most upvoted comment on the article

00:31:21.300 from Wired's left-wing audience. It says, quote, two years plus in Italy here from Southern

00:31:27.840 California. Best decision ever. I rarely find Americans wanting to return to the U.S. This

00:31:32.540 article seems to focus on jobs and work. Jobs are hard to come by in Italy, so I can imagine it would 0.90

00:31:37.640 be hard if you were moving here and looking for work. I do not fall into that category.

00:31:44.940 It really is great. This is art. Everything's great here as long as you don't focus on jobs

00:31:52.780 and work, which I don't have to do because I got wealthy in America before I even came here.

00:31:57.840 Like, as long as you don't need to make a living, as long as you don't need to survive, it's great here.

00:32:07.100 As long as you're not worried about one of the basic necessities of living, this is fantastic.

00:32:14.260 What a riveting endorsement of life in Europe.

00:32:16.760 They have, you know, no jobs or air conditioning, but if you're an American who's independently wealthy,

00:32:22.900 well, you can have a lot of fun living like a full-time tourist.

00:32:25.740 and isn't that what matters i mean never mind the fact that if you're a wealthy person

00:32:31.860 you can enjoy yourself anywhere i mean well almost anywhere i wouldn't go to somalia but

00:32:37.620 if you're a wealthy person most places on earth that are at least above third world level and

00:32:46.120 even some that are below it if you're wealthy you know you might be able to have a good time

00:32:51.760 You just gotta be very selective

00:32:52.700 about where you go in those places.

00:32:55.420 So that doesn't really tell you much about Italy

00:32:57.260 is the point.

00:32:58.040 And I saw a conversation along these lines

00:32:59.820 that I'll close with from a lawyer named Alison Soman.

00:33:03.500 And here's what she wrote, quote,

00:33:05.280 I worry that tourism and travel serves people ill here.

00:33:08.960 Yes, it's good to go to Paris or London

00:33:10.660 and see civilizational masterpieces. 0.72

00:33:13.100 On the other hand, Americans staying in Europe

00:33:14.500 often stay in the most beautiful

00:33:15.760 and richest sections of a city,

00:33:17.540 eating in lovely restaurants and living a life

00:33:19.340 that's not at all representative 0.97

00:33:20.400 of how even relatively well-off Europeans actually live. Seeing how actual middle-class people live

00:33:26.020 abroad was eye-opening for me. This is an important point because it's extremely easy 1.00

00:33:31.420 for Americans to fall into this trap. They might go on a vacation or study abroad or whatever and

00:33:35.720 never see what the reality of life in these European hellholes is really like. 0.66

00:33:42.440 A professor named Tim Hamilton responded with this and said, quote, yes, that's like visiting

00:33:48.420 my wife's family in Romania. Her dad's an engineer and they live in an apartment with a tiny portable

00:33:52.320 washing machine that has to be hooked up to the sink. No AC, no dryer, although they're in a dry

00:33:57.380 climate, so a drying room works. Soman then recounted her experience in Europe more than two

00:34:02.900 decades ago, said, quote, did a Dartmouth study abroad program in France in spring 2002. My host

00:34:09.640 family's father had a good job in something involving computer engineering. Mom stayed at

00:34:13.440 home with their then three young kids. The washing machine and dryer they had was shockingly

00:34:18.200 primitive such that I wound up basically hanging up most of my clothes to dry. They also had

00:34:22.460 difficulty affording proteins like fresh meats or fish such that I dropped from five feet about

00:34:27.840 100 pounds to about 85 by the end of the semester. Very different standard of living than what I was

00:34:33.380 expecting. This is an overwhelmingly common sentiment for Americans who have actually

00:34:39.160 spent a significant amount of time in Europe. The upshot is that you could probably change the

00:34:44.460 political views of millions of Americans if you expose them to the living standards that these

00:34:48.840 people are dealing with overseas. Right now in America, there's a major political party that

00:34:54.040 campaigns on the idea that more government spending is the solution to our problems.

00:34:59.280 And then all over Europe, countries that spend all of their money on social services,

00:35:03.260 countries like France, are falling apart. They're descending into riots. They have the highest

00:35:07.660 amount of government spending on social services of any country in the world, and it's still not

00:35:11.460 enough for them, even if you're not a political person and even if you despise the Republican

00:35:17.180 Party, you have a moral obligation to vote against this ideology in two weeks. It simply

00:35:24.220 cannot spread any further. The world needs a lot, needs at least one country where people 1.00

00:35:29.660 can still afford to eat their homes and turn on the dryer every now and then and the air

00:35:34.340 conditioning. And as everyone knows, even the editors of Wired Magazine, a vote for the party

00:35:40.480 of Abdul Al-Sayed and Ilhan Omar is a vote to bring America down to Europe's level.

00:35:49.400 And then below that to Africa's level. You know, it's a vote to turn everyday essentials, 0.88

00:35:54.680 the things we all take for granted, into luxuries. And if there's a cause for optimism

00:36:00.380 in all of this,

00:36:02.380 it's that no matter

00:36:03.040 how much you support

00:36:04.160 the Democrat Party,

00:36:05.600 the moment you spend

00:36:07.060 any real amount of time

00:36:08.180 in Europe,

00:36:08.840 or even do any amount

00:36:10.200 of research

00:36:10.720 into what's going on there,

00:36:12.680 you'll agree with

00:36:13.940 everything that

00:36:15.060 we're saying right now.

00:36:17.520 You know,

00:36:17.740 the entire continent

00:36:18.400 is a shining example

00:36:19.480 of what not to do.

00:36:21.640 All we have to do,

00:36:22.700 regardless of our politics,

00:36:24.280 is pay attention to it.

00:36:27.020 That'll do it for today.

00:36:27.900 Thanks for watching.

00:36:28.380 Thanks for listening.

00:36:28.900 Talk to you tomorrow.

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The Matt Walsh Show - October 21, 2026

Ep. 1860 - These Liberal Morons Totally Regret Leaving Trump's America

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