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Ep. 1553 - Exposing The Coordinated Terror Campaign Against Elon Musk And Tesla
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, there is a coordinated campaign of terrorism against Elon Musk and Tesla. The media won’t tell you about it, so we’ll talk about it today. Also, Trump launches an attack on one of the most conservative members of Congress, Thomas Massie. Why? And is this a good political strategy? A speaker at a protest in D.C. tries to turn the “What Is a Woman” question back around on conservatives. It doesn’t work well for him. And a viral clip exposes a major problem for the left: along with all the other words they can’t define, they also can’t define America. Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/4bEQDy6 Ep.1553 - - - DailyWire+: We’re leading the charge again and launching a full-scale push for justice. Go to https://PardonDerek.com right now and sign the petition. Now is the time to join the fight. Watch the hit movies, documentaries, and series reshaping our culture. Go to https://dailywire.com/subscribe today. Get y...
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Matt Walsh
Today on Matt Walsh show there is a coordinated campaign of terrorism against Elon Musk and Tesla. The media won't tell you about it, so we will talk about it today. Also, Trump launches an attack on one of the most conservative members of Congress, Thomas Massie. Why is he doing this and is this a good political strategy? We'll talk about it. A speaker at a protest in D.C. tries to turn the what is a woman? Question back around on conservatives. It doesn't work well for him. And a viral clip exposes a major problem for the left. Along with all the other words they can't define. They also can't define America. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh you know what's really fascinating? When your metabolism is working properly, you feel the benefits in literally every aspect of your life. I've discovered an incredible tool that gives me insights to create a healthy metabolism for my body. It's called Lumen. Lumen is the world's first handheld metabolic coach. 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Thank you Lumen for sponsoring this episode. One of the hardest things to do, especially when you've got a million other things going on in your life, is to think about the political tactics of people that you don't agree with. If you're a conservative with a full time job, it's hard enough to keep track of what Republican politicians are saying and what policies they're implementing. It's even harder to track what's going on with the other side, especially since, if we're being honest, we usually don't want to think about it. But there's a significant change in tactics that's taken place recently on the left in this country that at this point cannot be ignored. We've known for a while that the left is now once again openly celebrating political violence that's been obvious since the BLM era and before. What's changing more recently is that the left is becoming far more targeted in its attacks. Instead of torching random car lots in Kenosha and shooting security guards in St. Louis to demonstrate their solidarity with George Floyd, leftists are now becoming more specific, if not necessarily discerning in their attacks. Like all terrorists, they're carefully choosing their victims to maximize political impact. They tried to assassinate Trump twice, as we all remember. But now that Trump as president has the full protection of the Secret Service, what good it did him the first time around. Still, they're unleashing targeted, violent attacks on people that they perceive to be, if not Trump himself, supporters of Trump or enemies of their ideology at least. And that started with the murder of the United Healthcare CEO. But as we predicted, it's not stopping there. We're entering a potentially long lasting phase of deliberate, targeted left wing terrorism in this country. Like the Weather Underground, but on steroids. This is a change that is not happening by accident. Obviously, in some cases it's coordinated and very well funded. But I wanna start by highlighting exactly what's happening, because for the most part, the national news media is not doing so. And what's happening is this. All across the country, Kamala Harris voters have made the conscious decision to attack anyone who owns a Tesla or who works at Tesla. And I'm not talking about one or two people here. We're not talking about just one or two incidents across the country. We're talking about mobs of Democrats who are assaulting people in public because of their perceived political views. And they're perceiving those political views just based on the fact that these people own a Tesla. You may have seen the footage of shootings, firebombings and riots that have taken place at Tesla stores all over the country. Now, I'll get to that in a second. But some of the most remarkable footage in this respect comes from New Orleans this past Mardi Gras weekend. And as part of the Orpheus Parade, five Tesla cybertrucks were carrying passengers through uptown New Orleans. And as the vehicles passed for several miles, onlookers pelted the trucks with objects they found on the street. Everything from beads to road barriers. And at one point, a man charged the trucks and began punching the glass, which he ultimately shattered. He also threw an object at one of the passengers after he gained access to the back of the vehicle. The footage from this convoy of cybertrucks. It's truly incredible to watch. It's like something out of a foreign country. Here are some of it as recorded by the camera on one of the trucks. Watch. What's that? Yeah, Is it on? You want to get off the. Yes, we need to get off. We're getting beat to by people throwing stuff, jumping on the car, kicking the.
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Co-host or Guest
Car, hitting the car.
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Matt Walsh
The other three cars in the convoy are off. The next leg right there. Oh, they keep playing us up. One more and one more. Lots of old medical emergency cars here. Now, police were stationed all along the parade route. They saw everything that happened, but apparently there were no arrests made. They sat by doing nothing as the mob inflicted thousands of dollars worth of property damage solely because of the politics of the CEO of the company that made those trucks. Which, again, does not even necessarily reflect the people that are driving the trucks. Obviously, you would think, as you might have seen at one point in the footage, a mother encouraged her young child to join in with the mob and pummel the truck. And here's what one of the vehicles looked like. Afterwards, I'm going to play some more footage from this parade, this time from the mob's perspective. And as you watch this, listen to the glee in their voices as they throw objects at people inside the cybertrucks. Then ask yourself, when was the last time a mob of right wing protesters decided to team up and attack somebody solely because that person had purchased a product they don't like? Has it ever happened in the history of the country? I mean, as critical as we were about, say, Bud Light, did any mob of conservatives ever chase somebody down and pummel them for ordering a Bud Light at a bar? I don't think so, but that's basically what happened in New Orleans just a few days ago. Watch.
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Protester
Why is Efraim doing it?
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Matt Walsh
Oh, yes. I love you. Got rid of your beads? I did.
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Protester
Wait.
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Matt Walsh
I love New Orleans. You see the cop standing right there? You got the female cop standing right there. I'm pretty sure throwing objects at a car is illegal. I don't think that. I think that's against the law. I think there are, like, several laws you're breaking when you do that. No arrests. No one even say, no. Cops even saying, hey, guys, knock it off. Now, I'm beginning with this footage not because it's the most extreme example of violence I could find. We'll get to that, but because it illustrates how widespread this mob like mentality has become on the left. It's not just a handful of left wing NGOs who are pushing this, although that's also certainly happening in reality. We're talking about hundreds if not thousands of people who are willing to make an American city feel like Fallujah for people who happen to be inside a truck they don't like. Not even a truck they don't like, but a truck that was made by someone they don't like. And of course this footage received thousands of positive upvotes on Reddit, which has become a central breeding ground for organizing and promoting left wing terrorism like this. You'll also find a lot of support on Reddit for the 41 year old man who allegedly just threw Molotov cocktails at a Tesla location in Oregon before returning shortly afterwards to open fire on the business with an assault rifle.
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News Reporter
Watch one year old Adam Lansky Tuesday, saying they've linked him to two separate incidents at the Salem Tesla dealership. The first happened on January 20th when authorities say someone threw Molotov cocktails at the dealership. Here you can see a suspect lighting an incendiary device in these new surveillance images, that explosion eventually causing all of this damage. Then a month later, on February 19, documents show someone shot at the building and a vehicle, leaving behind even more damage. Authorities say the Suspect used an AR15 style rifle with a suppressor. Investigators say Lansky is the suspect captured on surveillance video throwing the explosive devices in January, and his car could be seen parked near the dealership during the second attack in February, linking him to both incidents.
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Matt Walsh
Now, Andy Ngo has reported that Adam Lansky, the man accused of committing these attacks, is a Portland trans activist who uses the alias Allison Tesla in his activism and in his pornography career, unfortunately. Meanwhile, other trans activists Another trans activist, Justin Thomas Nelson, AKA Lucy Grace Nelson, is accused of repeatedly attacking another Tesla dealership in Loveland, Colorado. Justin Nelson allegedly spray painted the words Nazi cars on some of the vehicles and then returned days later with again Molotov cocktails before he was arrested. So he was booked and then let out on bond and then he attacked the same Tesla location again. Of course, local news reports refer to Justin as a woman because even when trans identifying males are allegedly committing acts of arson, we have to respect their false identities, apparently. Odds are if you get your news from the mainstream press, you probably were not aware of any or most of this. You didn't know that 2 trans identifying Antifa Activists are accused of attempting to firebomb Tesla dealerships in just the past month. And for that matter, you certainly weren't aware that a trans identifying suspect named Ryan Michael English, otherwise known as Riley English, was arrested just a month ago after arriving in D.C. with again, Molotov cocktails with the intention of assassinating members of Trump's cabinet. And that's according to court documents which state that Ryan has confessed to that crime. So this is not just leftists attacking people, but it's very often trans leftists. So that's an awful lot of violence that's coming from a small subset of the population in a very short period of time. It's enough to make you wonder if men who pretend to be women might not be the most mentally stable individuals. And as these are just the suspects we know about. Just a day after the FBI identified the suspect in the first attack on the Tesla store in Oregon, there was another shooting at a different Tesla location near Portland. Watch police tape bullet holes and shattered glass. Crews spent the day cleaning up the Tesla dealership after investigators say someone shot it up overnight Thursday, causing tens of thousands of dollars in damage.
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News Reporter
When employees showed up to work this morning, that's when they discovered the dam.
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Matt Walsh
Tigard police say someone fired at least seven shots, damaging three cars and shattering windows. Fortunately, it happened overnight when employees were gone.
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News Reporter
I think the concerning thing for the employees is that it happened at all and that one of those shots went into an office and into a computer monitor. Ultimately, we're just thankful that nobody was hurt.
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Matt Walsh
These attacks are not just happening on the West Coast. Of course. In Massachusetts, someone set fire to several Tesla Supercharger locations which Tesla owners use to charge their vehicles away from home. They're like gas stations for electric vehicles. Listen.
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News Reporter
Each charger charred in various shades of black, evidence of the fire that broke out in this Littleton parking lot last night. And the fire chief says these flames were no accident.
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Matt Walsh
At this point, it does appear that it was a set fire.
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News Reporter
Around 1am Firefighters were called to Constitution Ave. And found seven Tesla charging stations up in flames. They burned for nearly an hour until electricity was finally cut to the units, a challenge for firefighters.
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Matt Walsh
The electricity is one of our bigger issues that we're dealing with in making sure that not only the public but the firefighters are safe. So we kept our distance from the charged electrical equipment.
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News Reporter
And although investigators won't say what evidence was left behind, they do say it suggests arson.
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Matt Walsh
It's suspicious based on the evidence that was found on scene. Going back to the Bud Light Analogy. Can you imagine, can you imagine if during the Bud Light boycott, if even one Bud Light warehouse had been vandalized by just one incident? Or can you imagine even one person drinking a Bud Light had something thrown at them by an angry conservative? One incident like that, just one. And I mean, the FBI would have been knocking on my door as one of the people leading the boycott. Like, there would have been FBI investigations, mass media hysteria. Meanwhile, you have these Tesla locations across the country that are being set on fire. And it's. The local media will report it as isolated incidents, but there's nobody in corporate media saying, hey, this is a. Look what's going on here. There's a campaign underway here. So within about 48 hours, by the way, Tesla had that location that we just saw up and running again. So they were able to recover quickly from this particular act of vandalism, which every sane person would object to. But if you go on the Boston subreddit, you'll find that which is not a place for sane people, you'll find they don't object to this arson attack at all. Here's one post on the Boston subreddit, for example. As you can see, they're sarcastically saying that weather probably caused the blaze and that it's no big deal. Thousands of people are upvoting posts like this. There's similar enthusiasm in New York, where protesters were just removed after attempting to shut down a Tesla store there. And those are protests, according to Elon Musk, that involved, at least in part, organizations that have received substantial funding from George Soros nonprofits over the years. But regardless of Soros culpability, there's really no other way to interpret what's happening here. We are witnessing a campaign of terrorism by the left, which is openly being celebrated, if not coordinated by thousands of other leftists using platforms like Reddit. And it's leading everyday people to physically assault Tesla owners at every opportunity. So this is footage from New York, for example. We don't have sound for this one, so in case you can't see it, it's some guy running alongside a cybertruck, punching it repeatedly and giving the middle finger to the occupants. And then at the end of the footage, a police car appears in frame, and of course, the officer does absolutely nothing. These kinds of attacks are becoming so common now that it's impossible to keep up with all of them. Late Sunday, the reporter Jonathan Cho uploaded this footage of cybertrucks on fire in Seattle in yet another suspected arson attack. Oh, my gosh. A Tesla cybertruck is on fire. All right, there's a fleet of cybertrucks right now. Unbelievable. Seattle fire on the scene. Now, this probably goes without saying, but no matter how hard you look, you will not find a single Democrat Party politician who is willing to condemn any of this. Not a single one. Not one. Not a single one. The party of democracy is completely silent as left wing terrorists commit acts of political violence all over the country for the express purpose of intimidating Elon Musk and anyone who dared to vote for Donald Trump. And we all know why that is. Because they all endorse it. The Democrat Party and the media outlets they effectively control have no problem with destroying the property of anyone they believe is a conservative. We know that. We know they don't respect property rights or human rights in general. We saw how they reacted when entire city blocks were being burned down. So, you know, a Tesla dealership is nothing to them. They also don't mind destroying Tesla, one of the most important companies in the United States, which employs more than 100,000 people in the process of all this. And these are people who are not interested in progress or the advancement of human civilization. They are the enemies of both. And as if to prove that point, MSNBC anchors recently celebrated the explosion of SpaceX's Starship during a recent test launch. And this is a test launch that, in case you missed it, included the catch of the booster rocket, which is one of the most remarkable technological achievements of all time. Okay? Being able to catch these rockets out of the air is one of the most significant scientific advancements anyone has ever achieved in the entire history of humanity. But over at msnbc, they don't even mention the booster catch, of course. Instead, they burst out into song because the starship itself had exploded. Watch Elon Musk.
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MSNBC Anchor
On Thursday, a SpaceX Starship rocket exploded. Exploded. Just minutes into its test flight, the FAA temporarily stopped air traffic around Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm beach, and Orlando. It is the second consecutive starship test flight from Elon Musk's company to end with destruction.
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Matt Walsh
All I could think about was, I can't think.
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MSNBC Anchor
Oh, please don't. That's good. That's good. We got it. We understand how painful that was for y'all out there. My suggestion for Eli, his. His response to all of this was, rockets are hard. And Mr. Musk, if they're so hard, why don't you go back to your day job and work that out and leave those of us who do government to do government, because you can't do both. And clearly you're Failing right now at both. Your rockets are blowing up and the government's blowing up. So I suggest you concentrate on the one thing you think you know more about and do that and leave the rest to those of us who know a little bit of how to provide services to people who need them and make the government function.
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Did you guys see the tweet from Representative Jasmine Crockett about this?
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Matt Walsh
Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Please put it on the screen. Who is it?
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MSNBC Anchor
The guy that keeps blowing stuff up, literally and figuratively, is firing people, claiming that they are failures. We know his failures have nothing to do with DEI because he doesn't believe in it, but he'd possibly be succeeding right now if he did. You see, clearly there's a lot of unqualified people running this thing.
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Matt Walsh
Yeah, go back to your day job, Elon Musk. Go back to your day. Go back to your day job. You're clearly failing. You're building rockets that are to go to Mars and catching them out of the sky, which NASA never figured out how to do in decades. Just go back to your day job. You know, just speaking about the end of that clip there. We've done a lot of segments recently about how utterly dumb and inane Jasmine Crockett is, but really all we had to do is play that clip. If only Musk had more DEI hires, maybe Starship wouldn't have exploded. That's the logic they're going with in the Democrat Party and at msnbc, just how utterly shameless these people are. Because as we all know, when you need to achieve something that's never been achieved before in human history. You call in the DEI hires. After all, DEI hires are how NASA landed on the moon. Oh, wait, no. That's not how that worked, is it? It's exactly when they weren't doing dei, when all the astronauts were just white men, you know, that's when NASA was actually achieving things. But the exact opposite of that. The exact opposite. Anyway, of course, none of these people, even Jasmine Crockett, believe any of this nonsense. For all their demonization of billionaires and corporations, the truth is that the has this intense hatred for Elon because they see him as a class traitor. They know that the wealthy are supposed to be on their side. Elon, as not only an uber wealthy guy, but also a man of great scientific achievement, should be a devotee to their cause. That's what they. That's why they kind of reserve for him this special kind of hatred. The special kind of hatred that you have, not just for enemies, but for traitors. That's how they see him. Just think for a moment about the absurdity of the clip we just watched. Again, this man is building reusable rockets for the purpose of making space travel affordable enough that we can colonize Mars in the near future. The whole point of these test launches is to gather data so that the next launch, in just a few weeks can be a success. That's why no person was on board the starship. It's a test flight. And these test flights clearly work as Anyone familiar with SpaceX's history and its progress in just the past decade understands very well. But increasingly, few people on the left actually care about SpaceX or Tesla or Elon Musk or any of that. Instead, they care about political control, which they're obviously losing. So in some cases, they're resorting to terrorism instead. And on television, they're turning to juvenile, barely literate criticism of a space program they can't begin to comprehend. It's difficult not to be reminded of Roosevelt's. Teddy Roosevelt's famous speech on insufferable people like this from all the way back in 1910. It's not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. I won't recite the whole thing for you, but if you don't know it, you should Google it, because there's no better way to describe cable news hosts who laugh while a man builds rockets to Mars. Shut out of political relevance, leftists are turning to violence and terrorism, and they're only going to intensify their efforts in the coming weeks. But what we know is that with every arson attack and every insufferable segment on msnbc, they're only highlighting two things. First of all, they are irrelevant. And second, the men in the arena, the people who are actually committed to moving this country forward and achieving things, aren't going anywhere. Now, let's get to our five headlines. If you want a handgun, you know the dilemma. You either keep it locked away somewhere secure but tough to access, or you compromise on security for quick access. 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Massie, a hardline conservative, has pledged to vote against a Trump backed measure that would increase defense spending while decreasing most non defense spending below 2024 levels through the end of September. The bill, which cleared the House Rules Committee on Monday, has earned the support of the conservative House Freedom Caucus and would keep a government shutdown from taking place at midnight Friday if it passes the full House and Senate, Trump said. Thanks to the House Freedom Caucus for just delivering a big blow to the radical left. Sometimes it takes great courage to do the right thing. Congressman Thomas Massie of beautiful Kentucky is an automatic no vote on just about everything, despite the fact that he's always voted for continuing resolutions in the past. He should be primaried and I will lead the charge against him. He said that the Congressman is just another grandstander who's too much trouble, not worth the fight. He reminds me of Liz Cheney before her historic record breaking fall. The people of Kentucky won't stand for it. Just watch. Do I have any takers? Says Trump. Okay, this is wrong. Trump is wrong on this. Thomas Massie is one of our best congressmen by far and away. He's one of the most, if not the most conservative members of Congress. He's extremely principled and consistent. He doesn't want to vote for the CR because it increases spending, and he's against that. And so he's voting against it. And you can agree or disagree with him, but to call for him to be ousted from Congress and primaried is just wrong. It really is wrong. And that is, again, regardless of how you feel about the continuing resolution and the budget, and if you think that it's okay that they're going to increase defense spending or not regardless of that, that's it. It's. If Trump had just put out a tweet or a truth. What do they call it? A truth. If he put out a post on it on his platform and said, hey, we're trying to get this, this CR passed, Thomas Massie is not for it, I really disagree with him. You know, why don't you reach out to him and try to convince him? Whatever. I know that's not Trump's style to approach things that way, but if he had said that, I wouldn't be talking about this. I don't think it'd be a big deal. Okay, he disagrees with Thomas Massie, that's fine. You can criticize him harshly if you want to. That's fine, too. It's always okay to criticize politicians, but this is going way beyond that. You're trying to get him ousted from Congress, but you're throwing down the gauntlet that you personally will try to get him removed from Congress through a primary. And listen, I know that guys like Massie can be frustrating if you want him to go with the program because he's not a go with the program type. But you need guys like that in Congress. I don't care. Even if you find them annoying, sometimes you need them. Massie is very much in the Ron Paul kind of tradition. He's not gonna vote for increased spending. He's not gonna go along with stuff just to go along with it. Right when all the Republicans are saying, hey, come on, Tom, we're all doing it. Jump in, the water's fine. Thomas Massie's gonna be one of the few guys who's like, yep, I don't agree with it. I'm not doing it. Sorry. So you could call him a bit of a party pooper at times, but you need guys like that. You need guys like that. Those guys are not the problem. The Republican Party has plenty of problems. Thomas Massie is not one of them. And you know what? I'll Tell you, you know why you need guys like that? I'll tell you why. Because when something like Covid happens, you need your Thomas Massie's. Because they are going to be the only people who stand against the madness. Massie was one of the very, very few Republicans to stand up against the COVID madness. From the beginning, he was against the vaccine, the vaccine mandates, the lockdowns, the masking mandates, the stimulus checks that were handed out, which proved to be a quite disastrous decision. He was against all of that, and he was right. And that's why you need Massey there. You need him because you know that a guy like Massey is going to get those issues right. And when Republicans are banding together to do something dumb, you can guarantee that Massie will not be in that group. He's. He's one of those guys. And again, we need those guys. To be clear, you can feel however you want about the continuing resolution that to me, doesn't even matter that much. We go through this periodically. Every few months, it's another big panic. Oh, the government's gonna shut down. The government's gonna shut down. I don't know how many. Just in the time I've been doing this podcast for six or seven years, how many times have we had this news cycle where there's a big panic Cause the government's gonna shut down? 50 times. I mean, it's constant. It's a constant thing. And so I'm not even interested in talking about that. It bores me to death. Because it doesn't matter if you think Massie is right or wrong about this. The point is that trying to kick the guy out of Congress is foolish. Here's a fun challenge. Here's an activity. You should try this. If you think that Massie should be primaried. You clearly believe that he's one of the worst Republicans in Congress. If you want him to be primary, because I assume that you don't support primarying the best Republicans in Congress. I would hope you wouldn't support that. So here's the challenge. Try to come up with a list of 10 elected Republicans with a better voting record over the last 10 years than Thomas Massie. Go ahead. Can you give me 10 if you want the guy ousted? Right. You must have at least 10 guys in Congress who you think are better than Thomas Massie. You must be able to prove that he's not a top 10 Republican. I'll make it easier. Give me five. Give me five. Give me 5 elected Republicans with a better voting record than Thomas Massie. I'll wait. I mean, actually I won't wait because I'll be waiting forever because he can't do it. So this is a mistake by Trump. It's a mistake on the marriage. It's also a political mistake. This is a political miscalculation by Trump. Trump is usually very good at picking battles that he can win. He's very good at that. He's got a great instinct for it. But as I said, nobody bats a thousand. Nobody is right all the time. And in this case, his instincts failed him because this is not the politics of it. Put aside the merits, the politics of it are not good. Thomas Massie. A primary challenge against Thomas Massie in Kentucky will fail. He is very popular. He's very popular with the grassroots across the country. He's popular on social media, with people on the right. But most importantly. And all that stuff matters politically too. Like you just go on. And I'm not saying this is the be all and end all, but it does matter that if you go on X right now and you look at the conversation about Thomas Massie and Trump's attempts to sort of demonize him and turn him into public enemy number one, it is at best very divided on the right about this. And there's a lot of grassroots conservative support for Massie against Trump on this. And that doesn't happen often. So that alone shows you that this is probably not the fight that he wanted to pick. But all of that is, you know, that's secondary to the fact that what's most important is that Thomas Massie is very popular with his constituents. We know that we don't have to speculate. Cuz they keep reelecting him. They keep reelecting him easily. His constituents love him. And of course they love him because he does what he promises to do for his constituents. His constituents in Kentucky, in his district, vote him in there because they want him to vote against stuff like this. That's why they vote. You might not, you know, if you live somewhere else and you're not a Thomas Massie constituent, you might feel differently. You might wish that Thomas Massie did something else, but he's not actually there to represent you. Thomas Massie doesn't represent me. I live in Tennessee. He represents his constituents and he's doing what his constituents want him to do. That's his job. So a primary challenge is gonna fail and Trump is kind of throwing down the gauntlet. He's calling the shot, but it's not gonna work. Who's gonna primary Thomas Massie? Who's gonna step up to that? Who wants to be the guy? You're not gonna get a real conservative. You're not gonna get a real conservative with any kind of political future who wants to step up to the plate to be the guy to primary Thomas Massie and then lose. So you're not gonna get that. What you're gonna get, here's what's going to happen. I guarantee it. I guarantee it. You can, you know, come back and tell me I'm wrong later, clip this out. If I proved to be wrong, I won't be. If he gets primaried, if a primary challenge even gets off the ground, which is a big if, but if it does, it's going to be a challenge from the left. It's gonna be someone who's more liberal than Thomas Massie and more establishment. So this is going to be an establishment liberal challenge from the left against Thomas Massie. And Trump has already signed up to support whoever that person is. Right. Against a grassroots conservative, very popular Congressman. It's just not. It's not the right approach. Bad politics. Bad politics. All right, so there was a rally in D.C. i assume, as always, for International Women's Day over the weekend. A man got up there to lecture the crowd of women about what it means to be a woman. And he's kind of trying to flip. He's doing the UNO reverse and trying to flip the what is a woman? Question around on conservatives. And let's see how that worked out for CIS women.
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Protester
Bipoc women have to do it for white women. All women have to do it for men. And we are sick of was women teaching me that there is no definition that anyone can find to define what is a woman. That excludes me, that does not also exclude millions of cisgender women. Women born without a uterus, woman born with chromosomal incongruities, women with hormone imbalances, women with facial hair. According to the Boston Children's Hospital, one in every 5,000 women is born without a vagina. There is no way to say that trans women do not belong without also saying that all of them are not women either. And I dare you to say to their faces they are not.
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Matt Walsh
So there's the challenge. He says that we cannot come up with a definition of woman that does not exclude millions of quote unquote, CIS women. And by CIS women, of course, we mean biological women. And by biological women, we just mean women, you know, actual women. So. But to use his language, he's saying that we cannot come up with a Definition of woman that would exclude him as a trans identified male, but not also exclude millions of quote unquote CIS women. So that's the challenge. And I'd be a real hypocrite if somebody tried to flip the what is woman Challenge around on me and I failed to answer it. So I'll take that on, sir. I will take that on. Can I come up with an answer to what is a woman that does not exclude millions of actual women? I can. Here it is. Adult human female. Okay, there you go. Done. Next question. So that's the answer. That is the answer to the riddle. Adult human female covers all women. That's what's beautiful about the definition. That's what's beautiful about any definition of anything is. It's that it covers all the things that it's defining and none of the things that it's not. That's what it. That's what is necess. That's what makes it a definition. So women without uteruses and women who are infertile and women with physical deformities, women with facial hair, women with hormone imbalances. All of them are female. Okay? A woman could have a full on beard and no. And she could be completely infertile and she could have no uterus and she would still be a female. I mean, she could have no uterus, a beard, no arms, no legs, no eyes, no ears. I mean, yeah, she could lose every part of her body that would not kill her to lose. And she would still be a woman. She would still be entirely a woman. She would be as much a woman as any other woman walking around with all of their body parts intact. Okay, that's because that's the definition. Her species has not changed. So you take a woman and you start removing parts like a Mrs. Potato Head doll. It doesn't matter how many parts are gone, okay? Because the species, like there's no amount of parts of a person that you can take away that would change their species, you see, or their sex, you know, Just like you can't take away any part of a human and change their species to some other species. You can't take away parts of a man and change his sex, take away parts of a woman and change her sex species. Sex. These things are immutable characteristics. They're inherent traits. They cannot be changed. There's nothing you can add that will change a person, the species of a human being, or the sex of a human being. There's nothing you can take away that will change that. There are a lot of other traits that can be changed. There are descriptive traits, there are adjectives that can be changed by adding and taking away from a person. But adult human, female species, and sex included in the definition, those two things cannot change. And you know, it's amazing that we've been having this argument for years and we've responded to all of these inane counter arguments a million times, and yet they still come at us with stuff like this. They still think that infertility and female facial hair is some kind of decisive fact in their favor. They still think, apparently, that if you add facial hair to woman, you've changed her sex. They think it's some sort of trump card, which of course it's not. All right, one other clip from a protest which, you know, these daily occurrence, this is a, this latest protest is against Doge in the Capitol. And, you know, we didn't get what we all expected. At least what I expected, I'll say, which was one big mass protest after Trump's win. I thought that that would happen if it's what happened the first time he won. We got the big women's march in D.C. that they claimed a million people showed up to. I don't think it was actually a million, but it was hundreds of thousands of people. We didn't get that. Instead we're getting something distinctly more annoying, which is a never ending series of small, pitiful little protests, one after another after another after another, unendingly. And at this one, a masked federal worker, or hopefully former federal worker, showed up to talk about how frightened she was to receive an email asking her what she did last week. Watch this.
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Protester
When you wake up or when you're on your weekend and you get the fork in the road message or you get the subsequent five bullets, hey, what the hell did you do, you lazy federal worker, this week? How frightening is it that someone on X, the owner of X, speaks to you directly to say, what did you do last week at work? And if you don't answer, I am going to fire you. But even more egregious, the president comes out, the most powerful person in the land and endorses that message. How do you think that makes federal workers feel?
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Matt Walsh
You know, yesterday I talked about the lack of self awareness of these people and how much I envy it, frankly. And here we have yet another example. No self awareness. And as an extension of having no self awareness, they also have no awareness of how other people think. Right? This, this is the thing that's really hampering the left right now. It's not so much their lack of self awareness, it's their lack of other awareness, it's their lack of understanding of how other people think and feel. They can't get in our heads at all. They just don't understand it, which means they can't persuade us. In order to persuade someone, you have to be able to understand how they think. If you don't understand how they think and they're a total mystery to you, you're not going to be able to persuade them. In fact, you can't even effectively demean or attack somebody in an effective way if you don't understand how they think. You can't even hurt their feelings. Forget about persuading them. You can't hurt someone's feelings if you don't understand how they think. It requires some basic understanding of how your opposition thinks, which they don't have. So if I'm a federal worker and I really want to mobilize people against DOGE and against all the cuts to government, and I want to gain sympathy and support from the public, which, if you're one of these federal workers or ex federal workers showing up at a protest, you would think that that's what you want to do, that's why you're having a protest. So if I'm in that spot, here's what I would do. And it's not that I wanna give these people any hints, but they're not paying attention to what I'm saying anyway, so it's fine. So here's what I would do. I would get up there and I would say, you know, I got that email from Elon and I was happy he sent it. I sent back 15 things that I did last week. My only complaint is that he didn't ask us to give more things. I wanted to give a longer list. I want him to send more emails and ask, ask for longer lists. Because government is a thankless job. I'm slaving away at all hours, working hard at my desk job from 8:30am to 2:00pm every day. These are unbelievably hard hours. No one works like me in the federal government and no one ever thanks me. It's a thankless job. I relish the opportunity. I relish the opportunity to tell someone what I've done. It's about time they ask, you know what? I got that email and I thought, thank God. It's about time someone asks me what I'm doing all the time. I hope you sit down for a minute. I hope you have two hours. I'll Tell you all the things I did last week, I would say something like that because I would recognize that even if it's not actually true of federal workers, if you're trying to persuade someone, that's how you would frame it. Because I would recognize that, first of all, if I want people to be against cuts to federal jobs, I need to persuade people that federal workers are doing a lot every day. And for another, I would also recognize that the public is not gonna sympathize with me if I cry about having to answer a simple email. So I would not cry about it. If I wanted to cry about it, I would go home and I would cry in the privacy of my own home. I would cry into my pillow at night about the mean, scary email that I received. I would not do it in public because the whole point is to mobilize and persuade the public. And I'm not gonna do that by shouting, oh no, the email. The email frightened me. That scary email. These protesters don't realize any of this because they have no understanding of how other people's minds work. They don't understand. They don't understand their own minds or anyone else's. They're like automatons. They're like essentially AI, but not nearly as smart. Their AI without, without with a fraction of the computing power is basically what we're dealing with. Let's get to the comment section. If you're a man, it's required that you grow a beard. Hey, we're the Sweet Baby gang. My all new limited time scent, Spring Rain is here. You can light it up as a perfectly acceptable substitute for spring cleaning. I know your wife will definitely agree. Why clean the house when you just light a candle and make it smell nice? Get yours now@thecandleclub.com I went on a date with a girl once who was trying to defend Colin Kaepernick. I strongly disagree. The date was over in about 10 minutes. That's a good call. And look, it's possible that the girl could just be very, could be ignorant, not very thoughtful, sort of just adopting the approved point of view on a topic like Colin Kaepernick. And in that case, maybe you could convince her otherwise. Maybe you could convert her to be a full on conservative. Maybe, but it's not, probably not worth the effort, it's not worth the gamble. So cut your losses and move on. Especially if this is someone you don't even know. You've been on a date for 10 minutes, you have no emotional attachment to them. You don't really lose anything by just cutting it off. And so I think that was a smart move. I watched Love is Blind. Virginia also dumped Devin at the altar. She was outraged at him for being a black conservative. The crazy thing is both Sarah and Virginia likely found them attractive because of their conservative values, but felt pressured to reject them because it's not hip. So two men were dumped at the altar for being conservative in the same season? Or is this two different seasons? I don't know. Either way, the real point here is why are you watching Love is Blind? That's, it's, you know, it's not good for you. You know that. I mean, come on. I don't need to tell you that these reality shows, they're basically porn for women. And I don't mean because they're sexual. Well, they are. They are sexual often. But that's not even what I mean. I just mean that they're trashy, lowest common denominator stuff, and they appeal to the lowest, basest parts of you. Now, I don't understand the appeal. Like, I could not sit and watch one of these shows for an hour, much less a season, much less multiple seasons. I find them terribly, terribly dull and boring. But they're not for me. Right. They are basically for women. But they're not appealing to the better parts of your nature. Right. They're appealing to kind of the worst parts of you, which is what porn does. So for men, that's porn. For women, it's stuff like this. And so I recommend finding other things to do with your time. We need a special episode where Matt does an interview with his wife. I feel like that'd be hilarious. You know, I've actually thought about doing a 60 minute style, hard hitting interview with my wife where I interrogate her about all the many controvers controversies we've had over the years. I've thought about doing that, for example, just as an example of one of the things that I would take her task for. This is a recent thing. As you know, if you've listened to my show. My wife for years has been trying to coerce me into agreeing to buy goats for some reason. And I have remained steadfast against it. I have not relented. Her pressure campaign has failed. But then the other day, out of the blue, we're just in the kitchen. I think it's like it's first. Oh, no, it's first thing in the morning. Okay, first thing in the morning. All right. I'm stumbling out, half awake. My wife's like a morning person. She'll wake up, it's 6:05am and she's already singing. She's like Mary Poppins singing through the house. That's not me. So it's first thing in the morning, haven't even had a cup of coffee yet. And she says. She asks me if she can get two chickens. So I just wanna get two. Only two. Just two chickens. Of course. I say, well, what do we need chickens for? Why do you want chickens? Bobby goes, eggs are expensive. I know eggs are expensive, but chickens are expensive. You gotta feed them. You gotta do the whole thing. It's the whole thing. You gotta get the. Whatever, the chicken coop and you gotta. It's a whole thing. It's a whole thing is what it is. There's expense that goes into it. And also it's a whole thing. Which for me, you understand, that's my main argument against everything in the family context. My main argument against most things is just, yeah, it's a whole thing. If we do that. I don't need to describe what the thing is. It's a whole thing. I don't want to do a whole thing. But I agreed because that's the thing. She said two chickens. Okay, whatever. It was early, I wasn't thinking straight. And so I agreed, fine, get the two chickens, whatever. And then shortly after that, she starts talking about how this is great because the chickens are a stepping stone to the goats. So it was all about the goats all along. She's using these poor chickens. These poor chickens that we don't even have yet. They're just. She's not even. It's dehumanizing to the chickens who aren't human. It's de. Chickenizing to the chickens or something. She's just using them as a gateway drug to goats. So this is the kind of thing I have to deal with. And maybe I should interrogate my wife on camera about it. It'd be like a frost Nixon, except mainly focused on goats. I still can't stop laughing about Matt's reaction to his boots picture at the presidential address with the speaker of the House and Ben. Go back and watch it for a good laugh. I'm glad you think it's funny. The whole thing was a debacle for me. Actually, it was. The boots thing was only one of the wardrobe related crises to come out of my attendance at that speech. I think that's the only one we talked about. Just because, you know, it's. It's. I thought that was enough. That was enough. It was enough to talk about that, I didn't think we need to go into all the details, but I didn't even mention how people were also accusing me of having tied my tie too short. So that was also something. I've actually gotten multiple text messages from people, friends of mine, or so I thought. Criticize. Hey, I saw you on camera. Your tie was too short. Okay, thanks. Nothing I can do about that now. And I don't even think I mentioned this either. But speaking of controversies with my wife, I don't think I mentioned this, that she. She actually text me immediately after the speech was over and told me that my fly was down, that I was on camera four times and my fly was down. And I had a brief moment of pure panic because that's kind of like the end of your career. I think there's something. You can't survive certain things. There's certain images that are out there. You can't survive them. And, you know, that's how precarious this whole thing is. You have your fly down at the State of the Union one time. It only takes one. You don't get a redo, you don't get two times. Only one, and your career's over. So I had a moment of pure panic, but then I went back and looked at the clips and I discovered that, no, that's not the case. My fly was not down. This is my wife trolling me, I guess. And so this is a big joke. It's a big practical. It's a big prank, a big practical joke that instead of, you know, I was just. I was at the State of the Union. We had a joint session speech, like, kind of a big deal. So you'd think she would text and say, hey, what was it like meeting all the cabinet officials and congressmen? What was that? No, instead it was, hey, your fly was down. Lol. But I can't be mad because it's exactly what I would do in her position. That is precisely what I would do. This is the one thing about being a devoted troll, as I am, is that you're gonna get it dished back to you constantly. And you gotta. You can't. You have to respect the game. You just have to. And I do. But these are the things that I deal with. Mainstream media thinks you're too dumb to see through their lies. They twist the narrative, manipulate the headlines, and bury the truth. We know better at the Daily Wire. That's why we bring you the facts. No filter, no spin, no corporate leash. And then you can get in on the conversation, join the live chat during our daily shows. 100% uncensored, ad free, and packed with fans who actually think for themselves. Get the news the way it should be, honest, fearless, and without an agenda. Your voice matters. Be a part of it. Join now@dailywire.com subscribe now. Let's get to our daily cancellation. For our daily cancellation day, we have Sam Cedar. You probably recognize the name because this is sadly the second time I've mentioned it in a week. Last week it was because his. His co host was laughing hysterically at a female athlete who sustained a traumatic brain injury at the hands of a trans male. Now we have a story involving Sam himself. And as I mentioned last week, Sam has done literally dozens and dozens of segments about me on his show. He's been begging for my attention for years. He is one of my biggest fans. And now that I've mentioned his name twice in a week, Sam is no doubt on cloud nine. And that's fine. I'm glad that I can make the little guy feel good about himself. But in any event, Sam Seder recently did that thing where he sits in the middle of a crowd and faces off against more than a dozen people who disagree with him in rapid succession. It's a series you've probably seen called Surrounded. It's a kind of speed debate organized by Jubilee media. And one after another in this debate, Sam's amateur opponents completely demolished him. And there's one moment in particular that I want to focus on, and it's getting a lot of attention online. Here it is.
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Debater
What's the problem with xenophobic nationalism? Don't you think that's better for Americans? In generalism is better? We should have a coherent culture. Everyone should be a part of the same culture. We should have assimilation.
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Co-host or Guest
Which do you get to choose what the culture is?
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Debater
We already have a dominant culture based on European and Christian values and identity. That is the dominant culture rooted in European identity.
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Co-host or Guest
So your argument is that that has.
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Debater
Been the dominant culture, Just to be clear, and we're not letting people assimilate to that. We're saying you should keep your culture. And this is why our culture is so divided.
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Co-host or Guest
Your argument is that Trump is good for those who want a dominant white European culture.
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Debater
I mean, that is what America is. It's rooted in European identity and Christian values. That's what it has been. Would you really disagree with that? What is it then, if that's not the identity of America?
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Co-host or Guest
Well, I think the identity of America.
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Debater
For the majority of time, America's been a country you don't think that's been the identity?
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Co-host or Guest
Well, actually, no. I think actually the identity of America has been, for better or for worse, a melting pot.
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Matt Walsh
Before I play the rest of the conversation, notice what's already happened here. The woman, who, by the way, is named Sarah Stock, presents a clearly defined view of American identity. She handles herself very well during the whole exchange and deserves a lot of credit for it. Sarah says that America is rooted in Christianity and European values, which is obviously true. But even if you disagree with that, for some reason, you'd be wrong. But even if you do, at least she's presenting some sort of definition of what it means to be American. She's offering an affirmative explanation of American culture. On the other hand, Sam cannot provide a definition at all. Instead, he offers a cliche. He says America is a melting pot without explaining what that means exactly. He simply implies that we've always been a melting pot. And then, for good measure, he says that the woman is advocating for a dominant white culture, which is how Sam presumably wins all of his arguments with his leftist friends. Because anything white is automatically bad and bigoted and evil. So he could just say, oh, well, so you're advocating for something white. And with his friends in his world, that's enough. That's the end of the conversation. But he's in a world here with people where that's not the end of the conversation. Because in this context, where the word white doesn't inspire terror in everybody in the room, the tactic does not work. And so we're left with the substance of what he's saying, which falls completely flat. The main problem with Sam's argument, of course, is that America has not always been a melting pot, as that term is generally understood. This country was composed of white Western European Christians almost exclusively in its first years. This is the core of America. Those are the people who formed this country. And then afterwards, white Western European Christians were still the dominant demographic for much of our history. To the extent that there was a melting pot in the United States, it was among different kinds of European Christians, like Continental Protestants versus Irish or Italian Catholics. That was the melting pot. Now, as the conversation goes on, the woman presses Sam on this point, and again, he has no response to it. Watch.
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Debater
Yeah, maybe since, like, the 1960s. Even then, like, even we had this idea of a melting pot literally means assimilation, too. It means melting. It means you're assimilating to the dominant culture. Is that not what melting means? And now instead, we're saying there's something wrong with xenophobia.
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Co-host or Guest
Culture? No, I mean, look, I gotta be honest with you. Like, you and I have a fundamental disagreement. We will never see eye to eye on this. It's a choice. And people, I think what you're expressing, though, is really what the Trump movement at its heart is about, and I think that's problematic.
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Debater
I disagree. I don't think Trump's like anywhere close to being a Christian nationalist. That's ridiculous. Like, Trump's basically a Democrat from like 15 years ago when it comes to socialism.
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Co-host or Guest
So you don't think that he's conservative enough for you?
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Debater
Oh, definitely nowhere close.
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Matt Walsh
No.
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Co-host or Guest
He's not xenophobic enough for you?
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Debater
No. He's trying to pour a bunch of H1Bs. Are you kidding?
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Co-host or Guest
Right. Oh, so you want to get them out too? Yeah. No, I mean, I think you're making my argument for me.
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Matt Walsh
You know, we hear about this idea of a melting pot and there's some disagreement over the precise meaning of the term melting pot. In the clip we just played, the woman Sarah debating Sam says that the term melting pot implies assimilation. Sam apparently has a different idea in mind. He's probably thinking of a melting pot as a reduction to the lowest common denominator. Whichever definition you use in this part of the debate, the woman who's debating Cedar is correct that America certainly didn't become a melting pot by any definition of the term until relatively late in the country's history. We first saw major immigration surges in the late 19th century coming predominantly from Southern and Eastern Europe. And these surges, of course, have intensified in recent years. According to census data, the foreign born population in the United states doubled from 1970 to 1990, from around 10 million to 20 million. That's just the people we're tracking with census data, which of course excludes illegal aliens. But, you know, this melting pot stuff is almost beside the point anyway. Even if America is a melting pot, however you define melting pot, that does not answer the question of identity. Melting pot is not an identity. Let's just agree with Sam Cedar for a moment, just for the sake of argument. It's a melting pot. Fine. Melting into what and for what purpose? That's the question, Sam, what are we melting into? Why, imagine that. I told you. Let's say I told you about an exciting new organization that I just founded. I said, I just found an organization. You're gonna love it. And you ask me what is the organization? And I say, oh, it's an organization with a bunch of different kinds of people. It's a melting pot of People, do you see how you would still have absolutely no clue what the hell sort of organization it is? I would not have explained anything about what the organization actually is or why it exists or what its purpose is. Yes, it has lots of different kinds of people. Great. Why? What are they doing? What is the context? That's the question that Sam cannot answer. He's debating national identity, but he has no, absolutely no conception of what our identity actually is. That's why when Sarah asks him, well, what do you do you really not think it's that? What do you think it is? He can't answer. According to leftists like Sam Cedar, our country's identity has nothing to do with religion, ethnicity, race, tradition, or borders or laws. Right, because he would say that illegal aliens who come here are also just as much Americans as anybody else. So that means that borders and laws also don't define the country. If that's the case, what is our country exactly, Sam? What is it? What does it mean to be an American? What is our identity? Leftists like Sam Cedar can't answer that question. It's the what is a woman problem all over again. So they would rather launch ad hominem attacks or filibuster than give you a coherent answer. Because they can't and they know they can't. Guys like Sam, they can spit and sputter and tantrum all they want, but it won't change the facts here. And the fact is that again, America was founded by Christians of Western European descent. That is the culture that our country is rooted in. That's a fact. If the Chinese or the Arabs had colonized North America and founded a nation here, it would be a fundamentally different nation. This country, the usa, the country that we live in right now, could not have been formed by any group other than Christians of Western European descent. Now, other groups can form countries. Many groups have formed many countries, obviously, but they could not have formed this country. This country is distinctly Christian and European at its core. That is a fact. And guys like Sam have no response to that fact other than to cry about it. And that's why, in response to my posts on this subject, in which I simply ask him to define American identity, Cedar posted this inane message on X. He said, quote, I'm impressed how aggressively these guys from Daily Wire are owning white nationalism and theocracy. So that's the. Oh, he called, oh, white nationalism. That's scary. Don't you get it, Sam? We don't care. You can label it all you want. Oh, that's white nationalism. That's theocracy. That's Nazism. Whatever. It doesn't matter to us. Don't you see that your labels don't mean anything to us? They mean nothing. Not a single thing. See, the emotional blackmail only works if we give a damn what you think of us. And we don't at all. Not at all. So you're left with the question still that you can't answer. Once again, he refuses to articulate an actual response. Instead, he resorts to these dumb labels that win debates in his circle. But he's left flailing and flabbergasted when he finds himself surrounded by people who aren't afraid of the labels. We don't care what you call us. The word white is not a pejorative to us. So now what, Sam? What do you have to say now that tactics off the table. We don't care what about the issue? You have anything to say about that? And this was a theme of the whole episode of Surrounded. For what it's worth, it happened again and again in a separate conversation. For instance, Cedar was pressed about the foundations of his morality. And once again, he deflected. Watch.
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Co-host or Guest
I don't base my understanding of civil society on religion. And so we have a civil society, we have laws that we have decided as a society, democratic way. And for some people, it's okay for it to be informed by their religion. That's okay.
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Debater
Perfect. So if tomorrow society comes together and we say, hey, trans folks don't deserve rights, you would be okay with that?
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Co-host or Guest
No, I would be against it. But I mean, it would be.
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Debater
It would be morally right under your.
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Co-host or Guest
View, not morally right? No, no, no. I'm not talking about morals.
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Debater
Okay, so here's where I'm getting to, right? Religious foundations provide an ethical framework for one to live their life off.
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Co-host or Guest
I believe you can have an ethical framework without.
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Debater
And if we take the leftist view to its logical tail end, to its extreme view, you have low reproductive birth rates, you have a reproductive dead end, so two men together can't reproduce unless they have to take from a healthy straight couple. Religion provides this foundation where you do prioritize the nuclear family.
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Co-host or Guest
So do you have a problem with gay people being married?
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Matt Walsh
So all he has is deflection. That's his only available tactic. He's being pressed on the foundations for his belief system. If it's not religion, then what is it? If it's the will of the people, then how can you object to a popular law that offends trans folks? Quote, unquote. How can you Say that slavery or Jim Crow were ever wrong. They were the will of the people at one point. And then when he realizes he doesn't have any grounds for rational objections, Sam asks the guy whether he has a problem with gay people. So he resorts again to. To trying to shame the person asking the question. He's hoping that you won't notice that his own belief system is completely contingent on these precarious expedient factors. There's no deeper foundation whatsoever. They can't articulate why trans rights are supposedly important any more than they can tell you what it means to be American. Now, if you really press some leftists on this question of what does it mean to be American, what they will probably respond is that they think that America is an idea. But the problem with that is twofold. First of all, nations are tangible, physical things. They are not abstractions. Ideas don't have laws, they don't have presidents, they don't have passports. Ideas don't have militaries. And secondly, when you ask leftists about this, they won't go into any detail about what this idea actually is. Okay, so they say America's an idea. You say, okay, well, fine. Again, sake of argument, let's say America's an idea. What is the idea? Can you at least tell me that? They say America's an idea, but they seem to have no idea about what this idea is. And that's because the men who came up with the ideas that lie at the foundation of our government were all Christians. They were Christian ideas. Human rights is a Christian idea. It makes no sense. Actually, human rights make no sense outside of a Christian worldview. No sense at all. You can't make sense of them because human rights, that's why it's endowed by the Creator. That is the philosophical framework of human rights, that they are these. It's something that supersedes, that goes beyond, that is rooted in something that transcends, you know, governments and people and voting and everything else. They're not just these subjective social constructs. Because if human rights are social constructs, then they don't mean anything. They're not real. And that would mean that if everybody agrees that black people should be enslaved, well, then that's it. That's the end of the discussion. If you want to appeal beyond that to something outside of the government, something greater, something bigger than the government, well, what is that? So in other words, it turns out that the left also rejects the very ideas that they claim define our country. So America is not defined by ethnicity, not defined by race not defined by religion, not defined by borders, not defined by law, not defined by culture, not even defined, as it turns out, by ideas. So I ask again and Sam, I know you're watching. I'm asking you what is America? What defines it? What is our identity if it's not any of those things? Now, I'm not expecting that I'll get an answer because these are the contradictions and inconsistencies that emerge when you spend five minutes talking to any leftists about their beliefs, whether it's a random person off the street or a supposed intellectual like Sam Seder. No matter where you look, the foundations of leftist understanding collapse the moment you apply any scrutiny to them whatsoever. And that is why Sam Seder, who was just humiliated by random people who asked him the most basic questions imaginable, is today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.