The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1678 - Foreign Socialist Zohran Mamdani Doesn’t Want To Assimilate Into America. He Wants Us To Assimilate To Him

Episode Date: October 22, 2025

Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Zohran Mamdani and his comrades have come to remake American society in their image. He’s been very clear about that, even if the video where he says it explicitly is potentially fake. Also, failed MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hasan claims that Muslims built the United States, and that’s why they have the right to blast their call to prayer over loudspeakers at all hours of the day. Plus, Jeff Daniels serenades an MSNBC anchor live on air. And an iconic museum in France hired a female head of security for the first time in its centuries-long history. A year later, burglars stole priceless jewels in broad daylight. Are these two things potentially connected? Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/4bEQDy6 Ep.1678 - - - DailyWire+: Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now. Finally, Friendly Fire is here! No moderator, no safe words. Now available at https://www.dailywire.com/show/friendly-fire Get your Matt Walsh flannel here: https://bit.ly/3EbNwyj - - - Today's Sponsors: Ammo Squared - Stay prepared without the hassle. Head to https://AmmoSquared.com for a special offer. BAERSkin Tactical Supply Co. - Text MATT to 36912 and get 60% off BAERSkin today. Vandy Crisps / MASA - Go to https://vandycrisps.com/walsh and use code WALSH for 25% off your first order. Done With Debt - Start building the life you deserve! Visit https://donewithdebt.com or call 1 [phone] and talk with one of their strategists. It’s FREE! - - - Socials:  Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3Rv1VeF  Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3KZC3oA  Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3eBKjiA  Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RQp4rs - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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There's a video going viral, allegedly, of Zoran Mamdani. I have no idea if it's real or not. And as you watch the footage, you'll notice a few tells that are obviously suspicious. For one thing, it's a little on the nose. It's also very short, only a few seconds long. and these are cues in many circumstances that you might be watching AI-generated content. As best I can tell, the footage began circulating on Facebook over the summer, and since then, no mainstream outlet has picked it up or confirmed that it's legitimate,

which of course doesn't mean that it's not. But if this footage is fake or AI-generated, then it's convinced a lot of people, Joe Concha, who regularly appears on Fox News, reposted the footage, suggesting it was authentic. Elise Stefaniac, a high-ranking member of Congress from me. New York also posted the video, so have various other commentators. And as far as I know, nobody has come forward with any proof or even an official statement stating definitively that the footage is fake. As far as I know, at this point, Zohran Mamdani's camp has not denied it. So with that in mind, we'll roll the tape. This is a video that purports to show Zohran Mamdani,

the Muslim socialist running for mayor of New York at a private Antifa-style event wearing a mask and here's what he allegedly says. Watch. We came here to remake the state in the image of our people, presumably referring to people of Africa where Mamdani was born. And that's it. There's no other context in this footage, which is often the biggest reason to doubt that it's real. If it is AI, we can expect to see many, many more videos like this one over the next months and years. There will never be another major election in this country.

in which AI-generated video doesn't play some kind of role. The existence of AI won't simply introduce a lot of fake content into the discourse. It will also lead people to doubt the legitimacy of videos that are actually authentic, which maybe end up being the most harmful thing about it. But whether the video is real or not, we can say for absolute certainty that Zoran Mamdani does indeed want to remake the city and the country in his image and the image of his, quote, people. In fact, if you look into the data, you'll find that New York has already been remade in the image of foreigners like Zoran Mamdani.

So here's data from Patriot polling. This is some of the most extraordinary polling you'll ever see, although at the same time, especially if you've been in New York recently, it's exactly what you would expect. So as you can see, among New Yorkers who were born in America, Andrew Cuomo has a nine-point lead in the mayor's race over Zoran Mamdani. In total, Mamdani only has 31% of the vote when you exclude foreign-born voters. Curtis Sliwa has 25%. So if this election were held without mass demographic replacement in the New York City that existed, say, 30 years ago, it would be a blowout. I mean, Mamdani wouldn't have even made it through the primary. We wouldn't know his name.

We wouldn't be talking about him. But the numbers changed completely. when you look at a different demographic. New Yorkers who were not born in the U.S., and that includes illegal aliens as well as so-called naturalized citizens. And among that demographic, Mamdani is winning the vast majority of the vote. He has 62% compared to 24% for Cuomo and 12% for Sliwa. So given that Mamdani currently has something like a 90% chance of winning the election, you have to ask how many Americans actually live in New York at this point?

And based on these figures, it doesn't seem like a very high number. It looks like the nerve center of our economy has been taken over by foreigners, almost completely. And by the way, that's not surprising. Half of all global population growth now comes from Africa. You can see the trend line right there. Population growth all over the world has fallen off a cliff starting around the 1990s except in Africa. Meanwhile, Africa's population has surged. get this Nigeria by itself currently has more births than every country in Europe combined.

And then back in 1950, the opposite was true. Again, those numbers are on your screen. You can see, overall, Africa has more than six times as many births as Europe every year. Pakistan has roughly as many births as all of Europe combined. And keep in mind, at this point, many of the births that take place, in Europe are actually the children of foreigners, many of whom are so-called asylum seekers. So in other words, the reality is stark when you look at these numbers. It's even more stark than the numbers suggest. So if someone made that video of Mamdani with AI, they didn't need to do that.

They didn't need to make a fake video to establish this point. The point is that the rest of the world is indeed remaking the U.S. in their image as we speak. They're not assimilating. They're dismantling what we have and rebuilding it into what they want. Now, Mondani himself has actually openly admitted this. He stated on camera that it's an illusion that foreigners can become New Yorkers and assimilate into the city. So here's a video that everybody agrees is real, not AI. This is from 2019. And listen to what he says. There is still this illusion and it's partially a result of settler colonialism that all of us can become New Yorkers, that all of us can settle into this city. And yet there would be these moments where I would be reminded by someone whose intent was to tell me that you do not belong.

And one of those first moments was on 9-11, when before I knew what had happened, my teacher had pulled me and a Muslim classmate of mine out of the class and told us that something has happened. and you may be bullied. And I want you to tell me if that happens. And frankly, I was lucky because most Muslim students in the city were not given that kind of care from their teachers. And yet in that moment, I realized that I was not simply another classmate in a middle school.

I was distinct. Where a few months ago, I went with a client of mine to a bankruptcy court, and as we're going into the court, the security guard takes me aside and passes me down with additional care and asks me, multiple times if I have any weapons of mass destruction on me. Okay, so first of all, that didn't happen.

Okay, nobody took this guy aside and asked him multiple times if he was carrying weapons of mass destruction. Okay, that did not happen in the year 2019 in a bankruptcy court. Now, they might have asked him if he had any weapons, standard of procedure. There's precisely zero chance that a security guard was grilling Mom Dani about dirty bombs and suitcase case nukes on his way to a bankruptcy hearing. Now, the guards maybe should have done that, but we all know they didn't. They just didn't. So this guy's a total liar.

But more to the point, that video is remarkable because his own anecdote about his experience after 9-11 manages to disprove the point he's trying to make. If his anecdote is true, okay, it means that his teacher's very first priority after the planes hit the towers was to warn Muslim students that they might be bullied. So this shows both that suicidal empathy is a longstanding problem in our culture. The emotional health of Muslims should have been the last thing on this teacher's mind. And also that this country not only didn't persecute Muslims after 9-11, but actually went out of its way to protect and celebrate them. I mean, we allowed this guy to grow up in a luxury apartment building that's reserved for Columbia

faculty members. We allowed him to attend elite private schools, lived a very comfortable life here, and for all that effort, all we get are ungrateful brats still whining about settler colonialism. And he also tells us that assimilation is an illusion, which is the one thing that he's right about, so glad we could find some common ground. Mamdani is admitting that no amount of acceptance, no amount of welcoming intolerance will ever be enough for these people, for the invading hordes. Doesn't matter what you do. It doesn't matter how much you open your arms and welcome them. It's never enough. It is never enough. It's never good enough.

And to be clear, this is the official position on Mamdani's entire campaign, which is why Mamdani's closest allies are saying the exact same thing. So let's take, for example, Medi Hassan, the former MSNBC host. Now, Hassan doesn't have an actual audience. His show is typically pulling in fewer than 40,000 viewers in the key demographic, which is much, much less than I would get if I let the inanimate fish in the background host the show. Okay, if we just had the fish cam, if the only thing we had on the show was the fish cam, we would clear 40,000 views easily. There it is. So in lieu of attracting an audience, Medi Hassan has attempted to spend

his time attacking Americans and Christians on behalf of socialists like Zoran Mondani. And to that end, here's Medi Hassan's latest argument. Listen to this. I think that if you can play church you can pray the call to prayer. We are as American as anyone else and don't take any BS for any. You're as American as anyone else? Really? Medi? Really, Mr. Hassan? You're as American as anyone. You're a Muslim who was born in the UK, came to this country less than 10 years ago in your mid-30s to work for Al Jazeera. Is there anyone who seriously thinks that Medi Hassan is American at all, much less as American as anyone else? It's even harder to buy the idea that Medea Asan is an American if you actually listen to the things he says, which no one does.

So let's review. Before he got his MSNBC contract, Hassan started out as a propagandist for Iran who told his followers that non-Muslims were, quote, animals. Watch. In Islam, the ends do not justify the means. This idea is totally alien to Islam. In Islam, what is halal is halal. What is haram is al-we.

we do not bend our law, our morality for our short-term aims. Never. And we never lose the moral high ground. If we know anything as Shi'az of Muhammad, as Shi'ad al-Aid, as Shi'a al-Qa'ihan, as Shi'a al-Qa'uhaen, we know that keeping the moral high ground is key. Once we lose the moral high ground, we are no different from the rest of them are Muslims, from the rest of those human beings who live their lives as animals, bending any rule to fulfill any desire.

Once we do that, we are lost. If Yazid was not a kaffir, then at the very minimum, he was a fathic, a transgressor, a breaker of Islamic laws, a corrupt individual, a tyrant, a killer, a drunken, a dog lover, a music lover, a homosexual, a peter far, a sexual demon, someone who slept with his own mother, Astafur Allah. These are their views, of these olama, in their books, not my view. You know, this is just how much.

Americans talk, according to Hassan. He's just as American as anyone else. This is as American as apple pie. This is what down-home average blue-collar Americans say. Yeah, you hear it at any Fourth of July barbecue. People comparing Christians

to cattle, calling us animals, ranting about music lovers in the same breath as pedophiles and people who sleep with their own mothers. Now, all morally equivalent to the average American. Nothing more American than that. Apparently, it's also as American as apple pie to berate white people who, you know, are the

vast majority of Americans, including the people who founded this country. There was not anybody with the last name Hassan at the constitutional convention, okay? There were no Hassans dying on the battlefield in the Revolutionary War. Not a single one. There were only the kinds of people that Hassan despises, even as he tries to co-op the country that they created. Hassan, of course, made millions of dollars in this country disparaging white men and women. Most recently after the 2024 election, here's what he tweeted, good job white men and women, you know, blaming them for Kamala Harris's defeat. So he comes to a country founded by white people that's mostly made up still of white people. And then he attacks them invoking their skin color in the process

for not voting the way he wanted them to vote. He just got to this country five seconds ago and he's already saying, well, this should have gone the way I wanted. Who the hell are you, Medi? Who are you? Who cares what you want? Imagine if I went to Uganda or Nigeria and tried something like this. Imagine if I ran for office, lost, and then wrote on social media, nice going, black people.

You really got some internalized black supremacy going on, don't you? You know, I'm just as Nigerian as anybody else. Now, in that scenario, how long would I last before they stone me to death? Ten seconds, 20? In fact, what if I went to Hassan's actual home country, India, and ran for office lost and then said, great job, brown people. Yeah, you brown people. Really screwed up again.

You know, I'm just as Indian as any of you are. Yeah, I just got off the plane last Tuesday. I'm just as Indian as any of you. What if I did that? How long would Metti Hassan spend crying about that? Would he ever stop crying is the question? Of course, Hassan also used to appear on television every other day, warning of the supposedly grave threat posed by white supremacy.

He also celebrated a plane crash in Georgia, saying make American planes crash again. This is the person we're supposed to believe as American as any Christian who can trace his lineage in this country going back to the Revolutionary War, just as American. Just as American as any American who doesn't hate white people who actually wants our civilization, our system of government to succeed. This is the person who we're supposed to take seriously

when he compares church bells to the Muslim call to prayer, which happens many times a day, starting around 5 a.m. and sounds like this. So this is the lie that they want you to believe, including even some conservatives. We'll tell you this. They'll tell you that what you just heard there is just as American as a church bell. Just as the Muslim call to prayer at 5.30 in the morning, through the air, just as American as, you know, a good old American small town with the church bell going off at noon. That's what we're supposed to believe. And we all know that it's not true.

We all know that it's not true. And the thing is, even if the call to prayer wasn't so obnoxious and so obviously disruptive to the lives of everybody living nearby, in this case it's in Dearborn, still doesn't matter. And even if church bells also rang at 5 a.m., which they don't. It also would not matter because there's still a very good reason to say that in this country church bells are acceptable in every city while the Muslim call to prayer is not. And that reason is this, okay? Christianity built this country. Islam did not at all in even the slightest way. Islam has nothing to do with America. If Islam had ceased to exist 300 years ago, this country would not have lost a single thing.

There is not a single good thing about our country that we would not have if not for Islam. And if you doubt that, then go ahead and give me an example of the great gift that Islam has given to this country since its founding. Give me the example of the thing that if Islam had ceased to exist 300 years ago, we would not have in America. Go ahead. I dare you. Medea San, I dare you. Go ahead. Name one thing. Go ahead. You can't. And, you know, that's why we can have our church bells, Medi. We earn them. This is our country.

It is not yours, Mr. Hassan. Any actual American would understand that concept very well. If you want to hear the Arabic call to prayer five times a day in every neighborhood, you can go to one of the other 50 countries in the world that are into that. And by the way, if you want to hear church bells instead, most of those countries would not be nearly as accommodating. Now, when I made this point on X, Medea San responded with this. He said, quote, one in three of the slaves who built this country were Muslims. They were here long before the Walsh family arrived.

You know that if you studied history, but I know MAGA has an issue with studying. Oh, and I'm guessing you don't count slaves as people or Americans. So, and by the way, he followed that up with another tweet, claiming again that Muslims are more responsible for building America than the Irish. So, as you can easily have predicted, Hassan responded with just layer upon layer of lies, just absolute delusion, heaped on top of delusion. So for one thing, this country, just to be clear, was not built by slaves. It wasn't. Much less the handful of Muslim slaves owned by the 2% of Americans who ever had slaves to begin with.

The Industrial Revolution is what made this country wealthy, and it was spurred by the invention of technologies like the steam engine, the Coke Blast Furness, Not the cotton trade or the slave trade. In fact, cotton exports accounted for roughly 5% of the overall GDP of the United States prior to the Civil War. Five percent. So these people that say slavery built the country, five percent of the GDP built the country. Give me a break. There's a reason we became a much, much richer country once we abolished slavery. Not only did slavery not build the country.

It actually held the country back, if anything. And again, if the handful of Muslims picking cotton in the fields had never been here, It would have had no impact on the country at all. Okay? The vast majority of infrastructure and industry in this country was built by the labor of freemen. Okay, this country was built by freemen. Every Muslim country on the planet, on the other hand, had slavery for exponentially longer. They relied on it exponentially more than the United States ever did, which is why Western countries had to shut down the Arab

slave trade by force. Look up the Africa squadron sometime. We had a whole unit of the U.S. Navy from 1843 to 1843 to 1861 devoted to suppressing the slave trade along the coast of West Africa. The Arabs clung to slavery like a fat kid holding a donut. They refused to let it go. It was such an integral part of their culture and still is in some Arab countries. And by the way, the slave trade in Africa was extremely wide-ranging and global in nature. This is one of those stories that isn't taught in school, but it's absolutely true. 17th century, Barbary pirates from North Africa raided several towns in Iceland. Yes, Iceland. And they went into Ireland also. Thousands of people were captured, transported North Africa, and sold into slavery in places like Algiers.

Many of the slaves died. Actually, by some estimates, more than a million European Christians were enslaved by Barbary pirates and slave drivers from the 16th century to the 18th century. Here's why I bring that up. Number one, okay, if you're a Muslim, you got no room to be lecturing about slavery, none. Number two, Medea San, let me ask you this. Given that we'd a million white European Christians who were enslaved in the Muslim world for two to three hundred years, would you say that white Christian slaves built North Africa? Can we say that white Christians built the Middle East? Why not?

Answer that, Maddie. I want you to answer that. Did the one million white slaves build the Arab world? If a few Muslims in the cotton fields built America, what can we say about the one million whites enslaved by Muslims in their countries? What do you think, Medi? What do you think? Now, this is a rhetorical question.

Of course, Medea Asan is a British Muslim who came here less than 10 years ago, so I don't expect him to know anything about my country. And he doesn't. He is as vapid and clueless as he, as his non-existent audience would suggest, he has neither the integrity to tell the truth nor the intelligence to lie convincingly. He has come to this country

to live off of the fruits of the labor done by people he despises. He's as ungrateful as he is useless. He's exactly the kind of immigrant that we should not allow into this country, a spiteful lying, self-entitled brat with nothing to offer the country but demands and accusations.

He's a bad person, although not a bad American, because he's not an American at all. Now, Zeran Mamdani, by contrast, does have an audience. He has a very, very big audience. The mass of foreigners who have been imported into this country are his base, and they are rabidly loyal to him. These are people who are as American as he is, and very soon, they will control the nerve center of the entire U.S. economy. Barring some kind of miraculous event, foreigners who despise white people, who mock Christianity and who don't understand history, or pretend not to understand it, will assume full. control of New York City. And we all know what they'll do with that power. They will turn New York into yet another dysfunctional, unrecognizable ghetto, not unlike Somalia or Minneapolis or

Dearborn. And at that point, assuming any Americans are left in New York, they'll leave. Americans will be forced to flee, as they've been forced to flee from so many other centerpieces of diversity over the last few generations. The real question now, and it's the Trump administration's job to answer this question, is whether these Americans will have any anywhere to go. No priority is more urgent than this. Once the United States is no longer a sanctuary for Americans and for Christians, it ceases to exist. Medea San understands that. So does Zohram Amdani. Sometimes very soon, ideally before New Yorkers head to the polls in November, every American in this country needs to understand that as well. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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I'm anticipating levels of cringe never before. for witness by mankind. But so here it is after, now there was a, I guess they talked about the issues for a while. And Jeff Daniels was talking about how bad Trump is and why Trump is so terrible and all that sort of thing. And then he says, say, you know, I also brought along my guitar here. I forgot I had this old thing.

Well, since I have it, let me play a little song. And so let's listen. This is a song I wrote called Crazy. world, which is how I cope. Okay, let's hear it. I've seen a young girl smiling. It's something he just said. I watched him fall into her pretty green eyes.

His cheeks turned Valentine red. I've seen an old man walking with his wife by his side. I watched him reach down, take her hand. Damn, if I didn't cry. This crazy world's gone crazy. Who am I to judge? It's nice to know in a world full of hate. There's someone out there still making love.

I've seen a dog's tail wagon. I've seen a grandchild run. I've sung along to a day breaking dawn and a hundred thousand set in sons. The song isn't terrible. I hate that I have to say that. It's not my fault. I have to admit that. It's not like I don't, I wanted it to be bad. I thought it would be. I'm, you know, usually when these boomers start singing, it's like, it's a train wreck. It's a human rights catastrophe. But, you know, I mean, it's like, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, I mean, it's a good little folk song around a campfire. And I just, like, I like the little folks songs around campfire. So I like the little, you know, a guy picks up the, big. guitar and start singing about his troubles around the campfire. And yeah, I'm kind of like I'm into it. That's, that's, you know, he didn't break out the harmonica, but that was the one thing that was

missing. And so don't be mad at me about it, but it's just, I don't think it's like, it's not a terrible side. I know, because I saw all these conservatives were passing this along saying it's the worst song they've ever heard. And, you know, I think we're, I don't want to say credit words do, but it's just, it's, I, it's not as bad as I wish that it would have been, is all I'm going to say. So, man, all right, put the fish cam up. I got to collect myself. I need a second. I need a second to, oh, we have music with the fish cam now.

Okay, what kind of music is this? Why is this the fish cam music? Is that saving private, why is it the saving private Ryan theme song? Why is this the end of saving private Ryan with the, It's the fish cam. It should be like elevator music. Anyway, all right. Why do we have heroic?

It's like heroic music with the fish cam. Maybe that's appropriate anyway. So even if Daniels did kind of nail the song tragically, this is still incredibly embarrassing. I will say that because the thing is, if I was sitting around the campfire and some guy started playing that song, I would say, yeah, pretty good song.

Not bad. But they're not sitting around at campfire. They are on the news, right? They're doing a news show. And of course, the whole premise here is that Jeff Daniels had to write this soulful song to sing about his troubles because Trump's America is so terrible and traumatizing. This is how he copes with Trump's America. So the context is still incredibly embarrassing and cringy and very embarrassing for MSNBC. Because I would ask, in what way? So Trump's America is so terrible for you, Jeff Daniels. In what way has Trump made your life worse? Like, be specific. You can sing your answer if you want to. But can you answer how Trump has made your life worse specifically? Or anybody's life worse.

Now, sure, if you're an illegal immigrant who doesn't belong in this country in the first place, then your life is worse because now you have to go back to your country and your country sucks and that's why you came here. But for everybody else, for actual Americans, in what way has Trump made your life worse? There might be plenty of things you can complain about. Not if you're Jeff Daniels. I mean, he's got a pretty comfortable life, but a lot of other Americans can complain about a lot of things. But which of those things are Trump's fault is the question. And he can't answer that because it's just not true. All right. Karen Jean-Pair, the former Biden spokeswoman is making the rounds. Hopefully she's not singing. I would not put money on

her. I put even less money. Now, I wouldn't have put money on Jeff Daniels. I'd have, you know, singing a good song. I'd put less money on Karen Jean Pear. But I think she's hawking a book or something like that. And here she is. I think this is also MSNBC. So too many MSNBC clips on the show so far. I apologize for that. But here she is. Watch. For me, as a black woman, as a person who's also LGBTQ, I feel as if those communities that I am part of largely get taken for granted. And I see that today in groups that are being thrown under the bus for a short-term win. And it is not the big tent party that I loved and enjoyed and was part of and fought for. And so for me, I want to start a conversation with how do we fix this?

The system is indeed broken. The two-party system is not functioning in the way where our democracy is being protected right now. I feel as if the Democratic Party right now is too timid. They're not speaking up. We need to be, they need to have a strategy and be really clear about how they're moving forward in this moment. So Karen, Jean-Pair has the wig on. it's a less convinced that's a worse wig

than the one that I wore and am I racist? She looks more ridiculous in that than I looked with my man bun wig. But you know, for some reason it's cultural appropriation for a white woman to have dreads but not cultural appropriation for a black woman to pretend to have a white woman's hair.

Beyonce bleaches her skin and wears a blonde wig and a cowboy hat and somehow that is not cultural appropriation but dreadlocks, which were not even invented by black people somehow are. But anyway, so you notice how Karen says that the system is broken. She also says that black women are taken for granted by the Democrats. And she's actually right about that. So she's right.

That's true. Black women are taken for granted by Democrats. It is taken for granted among Democrats that black women will support them no matter what. And do you know why that is? Karen Jean-Pair, because it's true, because that's exactly what happens, because 95% of black women will vote for Democrats. No matter what, year after year, stretching back decades, no matter what happens, no matter who's on the ballot, no matter anything, it does not matter. Black women will just vote for the Democrat. There are a few exceptions.

Like Candace Owens is the only one, her and like four others. But other than that, black women are taken for granted because it's taken for granted that you as a black woman will vote for Democrats and support Democrats because you will. Because you just will. And they know it. Now, by showing even the slightest willingness to vote for anyone other than the Democrat, that is how you could stop being taken for granted. If you don't want to be taken for granted anymore, then just show that you're willing to use. discernment and vote for people based on their actual merits rather than their party affiliation. But you've never, as a group, black women have never demonstrated that. You know, black women are the most single-mindedly loyal voting block in existence. There's no other demographic that is like this. I mean, there are plenty of other demographics that vote overwhelmingly for one party or the other.

But for black women, it's like almost every black woman, for all intents and purposes, every black woman in the country will just vote for the Democrat no matter what. And there's like zero percent chance of anything else happening. And so that's why they get taken for granted. You know, Democrats, now Democrats do pander to black women all the time, but they actually don't need to. That's one of the reasons why it's so silly that they pander so often. You don't have to. Like this group of people, they are not ever again. going to vote for Republicans no matter what. And so, and that's, and that's not me guessing. That's just

what all of our experience has shown us. That's what all of the data shows. And then to the other point, Karen says that the system is broken. And just to be clear about what she means by that, she means that the Democrat Party, their system of rigging the vote and doing whatever they want, that is what is broken, according to her. She witnessed a complete breakdown of that system while she was in the White House. And, you know, first of all, the media turned on Biden and demanded that he be ousted, not because of integrity on their part or anything like that or because they were doing real journalism, but just because strategically they realized that Biden was about to get trounced. And so they threw a Hell Mary pass and decided to turn on him. But, you know, the media is supposed

to be the propaganda out for the Democrat party, for the Democrat administration. That's the system that she's talking about. And that system broke down. And that is why she is so mad about the system. That's why she's raging against the machine because she's in the White House and she's looking at the media. And they've been her good little lap dogs for three and a half years. And suddenly at the last minute, they're all turning on her. And she's saying, what are you guys doing? This isn't the system. This isn't how it's supposed to work. So that's the system that she's worried about. I also wanted to briefly changing gears here for a second. Switching gears. So a couple days ago, I closed the show with a monologue where I laid out my theory that pop culture,

this is not really a headline, but it is in my life it is. So I laid out my theory that pop culture peaked around 2007 and started collapsing rapidly and is now dead. That culture itself is dead. The monoculture, that is our shared cultural experience, is dead. And, you know, it was a long monologue and it was a non-political topic. I wasn't sure how much interest there would really be in the topic or if the like five hours I spent writing that would prove to be worth it. But fortunately, it seems like much of the audience was interested in the conversation and there's a lot of great feedback. And so I had, and so I've been thinking more about it reading some of the comments.

A lot of the comments were quite interesting and thoughtful. And I had just a couple of other thoughts on the topic as I've reflected more on it. And I wanted to sort of pass them along. And keep in mind, my main point, my most important point, is simply that the monoculture, our shared cultural experience, died after 2007. And now we live in what I would call, and others have called the fractured culture, which is really a non-culture. And that's my main point. So you don't have to agree with the idea that the culture peaked in 2007. then you don't have to agree with anything else I'm about to say in order to agree with that sort of overarching thesis.

And with that said, I've been thinking about this, which is why did the culture peak in 2007? Because it's not really necessary for the culture to have peaked in order for this fracturing to have happened. It's almost like these are two different theories that I haven't quite connected. I haven't quite married them. They're sort of related, but there's a one-like. last move that I didn't make to connect them. And I've seen that feedback in some of the comments saying, well, you didn't quite, it's like, yeah, I agree with you on that. I agree with you on that, but you didn't quite, but why are they, how would do they connect? And I think that that's, and I think

that those comments probably have a point. So I've thought more about it. And here's what I came up with. So the monoculture is really, is a relatively, and I could be wrong about a lot of this. I'm just sort of thinking through it. But the monoculture is a relatively new, phenomenon. The monoculture came into existence with the advent of mass media, you know, TV, movies, radio. And prior to that, there wasn't really a shared cultural experience on a national scale because people in different parts of the country were not connected in any way. I mean, they had some very basic and important things in common. They were Americans, you know, and most of them were Christians, more importantly. So in some ways, they had a

lot more in common than Americans would in more modern times, but there was not a shared cultural experience, really. And they had no way of communicating with each other. They had no way of knowing about each other. They were in their local communities. They were very much isolated from all the rest of the country in a way that we never have been. I mean, we can't even, it's hard to even conceptualize what that would be like, but that's what it was, especially prior to telephones becoming household items in whatever the 1910s and 1920s when they really became something that every house had. So before that, you know, a farmer in Wyoming in 1892 had no cultural connection to a lawyer in New York, right? They would never meet each other. They would never see each other. They would

never talk to each other. They would never have any kind of shared experience at all. And that's not to say that they had no culture back in those days. They definitely did. But it was a local culture. There was not a monoculture. There was a localized culture. People were very strongly tied to their local communities. And in that local community, there was a very vibrant, unique local culture. And then America as a whole was this collection of local cultures. American cultures. These were Americans, but they had their own local cultures. And then mass media started to change them. As people became more connected, local culture started to be subsumed by. by a national culture, by the monoculture, by the 1990s, you know, the guy in Wyoming and the guy in New York, and then certainly by the early 2000s, those two guys would have nearly as much shared experience with each other as they would with their neighbors.

And certainly by this time, most Americans would feel more patriotism, more pride, more connection to their country as a whole than they would to, you know, their state or their nation. neighborhood. And it definitely was not always like that, but that's what it became. So you have the formation of the monoculture in the early 1900s. As mass media technology improves and expands, the monoculture grows, eventually becomes dominant. And then you add computers and the internet into the mix. And by the time that happens, the monoculture has completely overridden localized culture. And then you get into the early 2000s and localized culture is basically gone. And what we have now is the monoculture. By the early 2000s, we've reached a point where people are more connected than they've ever been.

There's an unprecedented level of connectedness. And the monoculture is all there was. Now, at the same time, pop culture, movies, television, music, pop culture is also developing. I would argue that in particular with movies and television, and this will be kind of controversial. That's why I say, like, you can ignore everything I'm saying now. I don't think it does not affect the more important thesis about the collapse of the culture. But I would argue that movies and television, those art forms improved, became more sophisticated over time. There's a kind of linear improvement that you can track.

Now, there were a lot of really great films. I say this people will get upset because they'll say, what do you say? You're saying that everything made in the year, you know, in the year 2002 was better than what came out in 1972. I'm not saying that at all. There were a lot of really great films and even some good TV shows in the early days of the art form, obviously. Some of the greatest films of all time came out in those first few decades. But on balance, in general, I would argue that films improved over time, on average. Not in every case, but on average.

And TV certainly did. So the average movie in the 90s was much better than the average movie in the 50, 60s and 70s. And it's easy for us to forget that because we don't remember the bad ones from the 50s. and 60s and 70s because they were bad, so they're forgettable. We only remember the great ones. And so you think back to the 70s and films in the 70s. And, you know, if you know something about film, there are like 20 movies that immediately come to mind that were absolute masterpieces. But there were other movies that came out that were really quite bad. I mean, a lot of them were really quite bad. And that's what you would expect because this was a very new art form.

If you go back and watch movies from the 30s and 40s, there's a reason that they feel so different. And it's not just because it's black and white. It's because these are theater actors, right? These were basically stage productions transferred over onto the screen. And in the early days of making movies, that's kind of what they were doing. It's like they were doing plays, but they were filming it. And film had not come into its own, really, as its own distinct art form. By the second and third generation of filmmakers and actors, the art form had finally established itself as its own thing.

And that's why you start seeing in the 70s a very different kind of acting. It's more subtle, it's more realistic, it's more sophisticated. Now, I'm no film historian, I admit that, but I think that film historians would say that Marlon Brando, who of course was acting before the 70s, but he was one of the first real, like, movie actors, right? He was not a stage actor. He wasn't a stage actor doing movies. He was a movie actor, and he was a pioneer of that specific craft. And as the decades go on, now you have filmmakers and actors who have grown up.

steeped in films, studying the great filmmakers before them, studying, you know, Francis Ford Coppola and Marlon Brando. And so you expect to see the art form improve and become more sophisticated, and I think it does. And you see this even more so with television. I mean, there were good TV shows in the 60s, 70s and 80s, but then the Sopranos came along in 2000, whatever it was, 2001, I think. And it's just operating on a level that no show before it ever had. I mean, almost no show. show ever had. It is more sophisticated. It's much more sophisticated. It's just doing things as a show, as a TV show that no one had ever done with that art form. It is, it's just in its own league.

And people kind of recognize that. They saw that and said, like, this is something totally different. We'd never seen anything like this. And why is that? Well, everybody involved in the Sopranos had the benefit of growing up in an environment where they were steeped in TV and movies. So these things are happening simultaneously. The monoculture is growing, becoming dominant. These modern mass media art forms are becoming more sophisticated. By the 90s and early 2000s, we are connected more than we've ever been. And pop culture dominated by these art forms has reached a level of sophistication that we've never seen before.

Then you add in the advent of like modern special effects and you have movies like Jurassic Park in the mid-90s, a story told by a master storyteller with this state-of-the-art technology, these incredible, mind-blowing visuals. People don't realize what that was like back of the day as like a 12-year-old boy going to see Jurassic Park. It's like you're actually seeing a dinosaur in real life. I mean, that's what it felt like. And it's something that we could all experience together as a culture, right? So when people look back wistfully on this period, the 90s into the early 2000s, this is what they're remembering. This is what they're nostalgic for. It is a connected monoculture fueled by these art forms that had fully come into their own that are at the

peak of their sort of powers that are more advanced, more sophisticated than ever been. And then you get to 2007. By then you have MySpace and Facebook and social media had just sort of come into existence. Twitter was in its infancy. And now the level of connection had reached a point that people even 20 years before could not have imagined. And the reason why the 90s in particular, until the early 2000s feel like the golden years in a lot of ways feel like the peak is also that we had this mass media connectedness, but we hadn't yet lost the in-person, the real-world connection. Right. And that's largely because all this stuff was still at home. So you could go on social media in the early days. You could go on the

internet. But it was all in your computer at home. And then you would leave your home and you didn't have it with you anymore. And then you would also have that in-person connection. So when I was a kid in, say, 2001, I would watch the music videos on MTV and engage with the media and all that stuff. I had AOL and my buddy list on AOL. But then I would also ride my bike to my friend's house after school. We would stay out until dark playing basketball and playing tackle football. And people get their teeth knocked out and it's real rough and tumble. We had all that. Right? It's like you had kind of all of it. It's when it's when the old way of living where you're meeting people in person and you're getting grass stains on your jeans. That has not died yet. That still exists. But then we've got this new thing also that feels really exciting and different and new. And so everything just feels vibrant and there's so much possibility. And it was the time when both of these things existed at the same time. Right. That was kind of a sweet spot. Film and television shows had reached their best form also, I would argue. When I mentioned there will be blood, some people objected that the movie is boring or whatever. And I totally disagree. I think that was absorbing and fascinating. But regardless, right, that was one of the great film actors ever to exist, Daniel Day Lewis, in a film made by an artistic genius in his prime. I keep using the word sophisticated. I know it sounds like pretentious, but that's what it was. And I mean, that movie, the first 10 or 15 minutes, there's no dialogue at all.

And it's captivating. And you should not be able to do that. But it breaks every filmmaking rule, but these were geniuses at the top of their game. No country for old men. I mentioned that too. a movie by two filmmaking masterminds, written based on a book by one of the last great American novelist, Kormack McCarthy. They put out this movie, there's no soundtrack, there's no music. Again, you're not supposed to do that.

They do it. It completely messes with the form, with like the structure of filmmaking. They kill the protagonist in the second act of the movie off screen. And then you don't find out until the very end with, I think, a brilliant monologue from Tommy Lee Jones, the sheriff, talking about this dream that he had of his father. you find out at the end that he was really the protagonist the whole time. And you didn't know that. So they kind of hide the protagonist until the end of the movie. It breaks every single rule.

But these were virtuosos at the top of their game, masters of the craft, geniuses of the art form who had grew up, grown up studying this art form. And they were just like bursting at the seams with these ideas. And they put out these movies. And it's just like, again, it's a little bit like when they watch Sopranos. a few years before that. It's like no one has done this with a movie before. I didn't know you could do that. And so all these things are reaching a crescendo, monoculture, connectedness, movies, television, music too. As I said, I think music reached its peak, at least in terms of the different genres of music are all thriving in a way never seen before. All this stuff is happening and it's building, it's building all together and they're feeding off of each other.

And this is the culture that we're all living in and we're sharing it together and we're talking about it. And yeah, you're going to the movies, but you're also. And then it's not just that too. I mean, there's also, because of this connecting, it's, it's, there are things happening in the world that become like global events become for the first time. It's like we're all living through this event together in a way that we never did before. And, and then you introduce smartphones onto the scene. And social media proliferates and takes over and the internet is captured by algorithms.

And now you can, and now this thing that you, you would experience at your house and then, you would leave it and go out into the world and talk about it, now you bring it with you. Right? Now you never leave it. Now it just comes with you. And that's what changed everything. And that's where we reached this moment of maximum connectedness. And then it tipped over into isolation.

And now this thing that had connected. And this is an observation many people have made, I realize. But this thing that had connected us now is a source of our isolation. And we find ourselves increasingly in our own little worlds guided by algorithms tailored specifically to us as individuals. And mass media art, films and television and music give way to content. And now all of that is just content. And now the big stars, the big celebrities are not artists. I mean, there are a few of them left.

There are a few like true global stars left, Taylor Swift. still she's not anything like what Michael Jackson was 20 years before that but or 30 years but anyway for the most part artists are replaced by content creators and and there's something to that we call people content create like this is a label that's put on me I hate it because it's just like what do you mean you create content just it could be anything just content it's like you get you You hand somebody a glass and it doesn't matter even what's in the glass. Go ahead and drink it.

What is this? What am I drinking? Oh, just content. It's just the contents of the glass. It literally does not matter what's in it. Right? It could be water. It could be beer.

It could be urine. It doesn't just drink it. And that's kind of where we are. And but meanwhile, local culture. So we've killed the monoculture. Local culture was killed off a long time ago by the monoculture. And so then when the monoculture is killed, what's left, you know, only the individual, only the atomized individual, there's no shared experience, there's no shared culture. And that's what's left.

And that's why I said that if there's any hope of having a culture again, well, we're not going to have a monoculture. That's gone forever. I think the monoculture era lasted for, you know, 70, 80 years. I think it's gone forever and it will never be back. and there are those of us who experienced it and we know that our children will not. They'll just never know what that's like.

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I know that probably sounds difficult to believe, but it is true. People don't simply cancel themselves. I have to think to myself, how can I present this cancellation in a humorous or engaging way, given the facts on the ground? But today there's a notable exception to this general rule. In this case, I really don't have to do anything to highlight the absurdity of today's topic because all by itself, this is simply one of the most ludicrous on-the-nose stories in recent memory. I'm talking, of course, about the museum heist.

that took place on Sunday at the Louvre in Paris, France. And it's one of the most, of course, famous museums in the entire world. Every detail of the story from start to finish feels like a punchline. I mean, it feels like a comedy. It feels like a movie if they still made comedies. But it's not. You know, this is all real. So we'll start with the fact that this robbery took place in broad daylight while the museum was open during regular business hours.

Watch. Thieves burst into the Louvre in Paris stealing crown jewels and prompting the world's most visited museum to be evacuated. Here's how the heist happened and why French authorities are in a race against time to recover the jewels. The robbery took place in the Gallery de Apollion. At around 9.30 in the morning, four individuals drove motorcycles and a truck with a portable furniture elevator to the museum. They used the elevator to get up onto a balcony. They then cut through a window using what appeared to be angle grinders. Once inside the gallery, the thieves used the grinders to threaten guards and to cut into display cases,

containing Napoleonic and royal jewelry. The thieves tried but failed to set their truck on fire before fleeing on the motorcycles. They were in and out of the gallery in less than seven minutes. So yes, 30 minutes after the museum opened to visitors, the thieves drove up to the building in a furniture elevator called a Montembourg, I don't know, is that how you pronounce it, in France. And then they used a glass cutter to break the window, which set off alarms, as you might expect. So this is the point where the heist should have been over. I mean, really it should have been over as soon as a guard saw a random furniture elevator

full of mass construction workers pulling up to the museum. But we'll give them a pass on that for some reason. We'll cut him some slack. The moment the alarm goes off with the criminals still outside the building, that should have been game over for a heist like this. But it wasn't game over. As you heard, the thieves proceeded to threaten the guards

with their power tools. They wave their power tools around and, no, that's not a euphemism. I mean, like actual tools. And instantaneously, the French guards, the French guards surrendered. They just wave the white flag on the spot, as the French always do.

They actually left the premises, according to multiple reports. They saw a guy with a compact drill and like a screwdriver and measuring tape, and they just ran for the hills. And then the criminals were free to cut open the display cases with $1,300 cut quick saws as seen in this cell phone image, which you can see here. Now, admittedly, it's easy to mock this scenario, but, and we should. But to be fair, if you're a guard and your entire job, the reason for your paycheck is to defend priceless works of art from potential vandals, what are you going to do if you see something like this? Yeah, I mean, that's pretty scary stuff. I mean, obviously, there's no defense against an attack like that. What are you going to do?

Use a gun, shoot the guy? That would just be ridiculous. I mean, using a weapon to stop bad guys from breaking the law? Who's ever heard of that? I mean, they've long since moved on from that kind of barbarism in France. You know, the barbarism of like law and order and civilization.

Now, you can't interfere with him in any way or else you might put some holes in your drywall. Your only option is to just let them do whatever they want. Actually, there was one thing the guards apparently prevented. They supposedly stopped the thieves from setting fire to their furniture elevator on the way out the door, so, you know, that's something. that, there was no reason to have guards at all. I mean, they might as well. The museum might as well

have just been completely open to the public. No alarms, no security measures of any kind. And by the way, the criminals left the scene on scooters. Okay, they left on scooters. They might as well have just been riding away on big wheels. They might as well have been on rollerblades, just like casually skating down the street. How did the police not immediately chase them down? You're talking about a brazen robbery in one of the most famous locations in the entire country. It took several minutes. Alarm sounded. And not only did the guards fail to do anything, but the police also failed to do anything.

So the criminals left behind a bunch of evidence, including a blowtorch, a yellow vest, a saw, and an imperial crown with more than a thousand diamonds. So here is the saw, for instance, that they left behind, that they were lugging around. But still, there have been no arrests. So they've got video, a mountain of evidence, witnesses, and no one's been arrested. At the time, as you might imagine, at the moment, as you might imagine, there are a lot of theories about whether this heist was an inside job or some kind of long con. Apparently, the localized alarm system wasn't operational at the time, and only the general museum alarm sounded. Additionally, there are reports that the museum changed the structure of its glass cases recently. They supposedly went from armored cases, which would drop the jewels into a safe if they were disturbed, to more accessible cases.

Now, we'll put up those images on the screen so you can see the contrast. Now, you might ask, why would a museum intentionally make its treasures much easier to steal? Not to mention the original cases were beautiful. So why did you make them uglier? So you made it uglier and easier to steal. That seems kind of odd. I mean, the very last thing that you would want priceless artifacts to be is accessible, you would think. But as it turns out, it was all part of a plan to counter the museum's elitist image.

So this is from an article that was published five years ago. Okay, this is real, apparently. Quote, the Louvre, the world's most visited museum, is working on a major overall of how its vast collections are presented and explained. Jean-Luc Martinez, the president of the Louvre, told reporters, To counter its elitist image, the museum will strive for a cultural democratization to make its treasures more accessible with improved presentation, labeling, and curating. Matinez, who comes from a working class background, said he wanted to build on the outreach success of the Louvre's outpost museum in Lenz, a poor former mining town in northern France.

He said sometimes the former royal palace in the heart of Paris can intimidate certain demographics, and the museum needs to reassure people that its collections are also for them. Because this is always, like, when they want to make things more accessible to supposedly like working class people, they just make it uglier. Because, you know, why would working class people want something beautiful? We don't need to give beauty to them, those plebs. That's the attitude. And, you know, mission accomplished. The Louvre certainly became more accessible to more demographics.

Now any old working class Joe could just show up and steal whatever he wants. He doesn't even have to be an elite burglar like an Ocean's 11. Just anyone at all can apply for a job as a jewel thief. As it happens, the same principle applies to the museum's security team, apparently. So last year, this woman became the Louvre's first ever female director of security. You can see her there. Her name is Dominique Buffen, and she's 46 years old. And it really broke the glass ceiling here so that thieves could walk in off the street and literally break the glass on the jewelry cases.

Like I said, it's just like. too easy with this story. As it happens, Buffen was hired by another woman named Lawrence Descartes, who happens to be the museum's first female director. And she also looks exactly how you'd expect her to look. So yes, in 2021, Lawrence became the Lou's first female director in its 2228 year history. And then very quickly, she hired another woman to lead the security team and another historic breakthrough. This is not an accident. We see this all the time across a variety and positions, particularly the government and technology sector, certain demographics look out for each other. They hire each other, and then everything falls apart. Remember, it was Jill Biden

who recommended the nomination of Kimberly Cheatel, the Secret Service director, who nearly got Trump killed. Cheetah claimed that sloped roofs are just too dangerous for the Secret Service as an excuse for why the Secret Service allowed a sniper with an AR-15 to climb onto the roof of a warehouse just 450 feet away from Donald Trump with a clear line of sight to the stage. and then shoot him in the head. And once again, at the Louvre, we have yet another unambiguous triumph of feminism. Just one year after they picked a woman

to lead the security at this famous museum, thieves stole millions of dollars worth of jewelry in broad daylight while the museum was open as the guards ran away. Who would have imagined that this could ever be possible? Well, it certainly would not have been possible to, say, put armed guards around the building or inside the building, that would have just been unthinkable. As unthinkable as like putting an agent on a sloped roof.

To be clear, the media in France promoted this woman relentlessly prior to this heist, as you would expect. Quote, never before has a woman held this highly strategic position, wrote Le Monde, probably the most respected newspaper in the country. She has been responsible for security at the museum and its surrounding areas. The Olympic Games provided her with accelerated training. So she's responsible for security at the Louvre, as well as the surrounding areas, apparently. That's to make you feel comfortable if you're living nearby. It also probably reminds you of this story from a few months ago. Remember the Cincinnati Police Chief, a woman named Terry Thighi?

She was the first woman to lead Cincinnati's police department in its history. She's also grossly incompetent and malicious. After a mob beat up several white people on camera, she decided that it was a good opportunity to berate people for sharing the footage of the assault. Wasn't upset about the violence. She was upset that people noticed the violence. Watch. Social media and journalism and the role it plays in this incident. And yes, guys, that's you. That is you. Social media, the post that we've seen, does not depict the entire incident. That is one version of what occurred. Well, now we have a belated update to the story. The chief has effectively been fired.

This is from a local news station, quote. Cincinnati police chief Terry Thigy has been placed on paid administrative leave. City officials confirmed. Cincinnati city manager Cheryl Long states the move comes pending an internal investigation on the effectiveness of her leadership in the Cincinnati Police Department. The city continues to face serious public safety challenges to underscore the need for stability at the command level. Now the good news for Chief Terry is that there's probably going to be a job opening at the Louvre pretty soon. But for the rest of us, for people who prefer to have safe cities and secure museums, probably a good time to give up on the idea of promoting women on the basis of their gender.

Because in every case, it ends in disaster. You know, it doesn't take much. In Cincinnati, it took a few people with cell phones to cause the chief of police to melt down on camera. In Paris, it took a few thieves with power tools to clear out the most famous museum in the world. And in Butler, it took a slope roof. I mean, the truth is, you could put a Boy Scout troop in charge of security and public safety, and they would do a better job in all of these cases. And at the very least, I mean, they'd probably do something.

Although that's a very low bar. It's a bar that none of the women I've just mentioned has been able to clear. And that is why the first ever female director of security at the Louvre has many, many fewer jewels to guard today, which I guess just makes her job easier on the bright side. And it's also why, along with Cincinnati's first ever female police chief, she is today. Canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

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