Ep. 1558 - What We Learned From The JFK Files

Today on the Matt Wall Show, a trove of previously classified JFK files have been released. What do they say and what does this release signify? We'll discuss.
Also, the activist judges are at it again. This time a judge has decreed that Trump is not allowed to ban trans people from the military.
Have we reached a point where Trump has to go on an all-out war against activist judges? Well, yes, we have and we'll talk about it. And Elon Musk rescues two stranded astronauts from the International Space Station.

It's the kind of thing that in earlier times would have made him a hero,

but you'll be shocked to learn to the left is not treating him that way.

We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Wall Show. You wish you could have invested in the stock market last year when investors scored the highest profits in decades, but between your mountain of bills and credit card debt, you had nothing left over.
It's time to stop letting debt hold you back. Let me tell you how Done With Debt can help.
They have a brilliant new strategy designed to tackle your debt and put cash back in your pocket so you can save, invest, and build the life you've been wanting. Done With Debt negotiates directly with credit card and loan companies.
Their team of negotiators and legal experts work to significantly reduce your bills, eliminate interest, and erase penalties. This frees up cash to invest while the stock market is strong.
Done With Debt helps transform financial burden into opportunity. But since these strategies are time-sensitive, don't delay.
Start building the life you deserve. Visit donewithdebt.com and talk with one of their strategists today.
It's free to do. All you got to do is go to DoneWithDebt.com.
That's DoneWithDebt.com. There are a lot of ways you could illustrate the unusual degree of responsiveness of the current Trump administration, especially as compared to their predecessors.
For example, you could point to how the White House struck a deal with El Salvador to house illegal alien gang members and then deported those gang members in a matter of days before a federal judge could stop them. In a similar fashion, the White House ended Hunter Biden's Secret Service detail within about 24 hours of discovering that he still had one.
Donald Trump also announced that he was invalidating Joe Biden's pardons just a couple of days after an investigation revealed that Biden's signature was being rubber stamped with an auto pen on pretty much every document that he signed while in office. These are the kinds of quick, decisive actions that, whether you agree with them or not, are not typical of most administrations, especially recently.
But maybe the clearest example of the level of responsiveness that we're getting from the White House came last night when the administration released more than 1,000 of the so-called JFK files on the Internet, totally more than about 30,000 pages so far. These are declassified files relating to the assassination of President Kennedy that had never been seen before and that should never have been classified in the first place, as we'll see.
On Monday, during a visit to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Trump announced that he would be disclosing these files within 24 hours.
And he said that he was going to make good on his promise, which he first outlined in an executive order in January, to ensure the, quote, complete release of records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Watch. We're at the Kennedy Center.
Needs a lot of work. We're going to fix it, make it beautiful.
It's a very big part of the fabric of D.C. and the Capitol.
We're bringing back the Capitol. We're bringing back our country.
But while we're here, I thought it would be appropriate. We are tomorrow announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files.
So people have been waiting for decades for this. And I've instructed my people that are responsible, lots of different people put together by Tulsi Gabbard, and that's going to be released tomorrow.
Now, true to Trump's word, this is exactly what began to take place on Tuesday night. Attorneys with the National Security Division of the DOJ pulled an all-nighter going through various documents.
They responded to Trump's directive immediately. And yesterday, many of those files were released.
And apparently more files are going to come today. And so then what we have is not the final set of documents.
There are a lot of documents. So more are coming.
Even so, there is some new information here that's worth talking about, and there's a lot more that just hasn't been seen yet, because again, it's 30,000 pages, so no one's had a chance to go through all of it yet. But the first thing you notice as you look through the materials is how obscenely overbroad our classification system actually is.
One of the previously classified documents, just for example, is an article from the magazine Ramparts, which hasn't been published since the 1970s. And this article states that, quote, the day after the assassination, CIA agent Gary Underhill left Washington.
A small click within the CIA was responsible for the assassination. He confided, and he was afraid for his life and would probably have to leave the country.
Less than six months later, Underhill was found shot to death in his Washington apartment. The coroner ruled it a suicide, close quote.
Now, there's no independent verification in these JFK files that, at least that I've seen at least, that corroborate any of this. It's just a copy-paste from a publicly available article in some magazine that no one's ever heard of.
But it was marked secrets, and CIA employees were told not to copy it, even though, again, it was a magazine article. This is the kind of thing that might seem trivial, but recall that the DOJ attempted to imprison Donald Trump for allegedly storing classified information at Mar-a-Lago.
If the intelligence agencies are going to abuse their classification authority to such an extent that they're classifying magazine articles, then they shouldn't be able to prosecute political candidates for storing materials that are supposedly classified. It seems like a pretty fair compromise going forward, but the ideal solution is to do what the Trump administration is doing, which is to declassify everything that they possibly can.
Most of it, as we're finding out, isn't even that interesting. And it's certainly not worth jailing people over.
That said, as you dig through the JFK files, and again, this is all preliminary because there's so much to go through.

So no one has seen all of it yet.

But as you go through what we've seen, you do begin to find some interesting information. Some of this was already out there in some capacity, but now we have a bunch of mostly unredacted documents in one place.
For instance, in mid-December of 1963, shortly after Kennedy's assassination, the CIA issued a telegram about Castro's attitude towards the United States. It's two pages long.
It reads, it begins by quoting a high-level Cuban diplomat in Western Europe, quote-unquote, someone who the CIA has deemed highly reliable, as saying that Castro was, quote, very upset about the fact that Kennedy had been replaced. And that's because, quote, top Cuban leadership was sure President Kennedy would not invade Cuba.
And also because Cuba determined that Kennedy's economic blockade of Cuba would not overthrow Castro's regime. Then the telegram concludes with this line, according to Cuban government leaders, Castro wants to wait and see what President Johnson says and does about Cuba and give him an opportunity to improve, if he feels so inclined, relations between the two countries.
So in other words, the perception of Cuba's government, even after the Bay of Pigs, was that Kennedy would never attempt a full-scale invasion. At the same time, they weren't so sure that Kennedy's replacement or the CIA would be so reluctant.
And as you read further in the JFK files, that seems like a reasonable concern. Some of the documents, for example, show that Cuban diplomats immediately concluded that the CIA had killed Kennedy.
Quote, if the Yankees or CIA assassinated Kennedy to resume the assault on Cuba, then a Third world war would start. Then there are statements from an American official indicating that assets connected to a CIA agent had spread misinformation about Cuba's involvement in the assassination.
So no one involved in the scenario believed the lone gunman theory at any point, it would seem. Meanwhile, the CIA was drawing up various plans to attack Cuba, plans that presumably had a better chance of being implemented with Kennedy out of the way.
Take a look at this previously classified file in which the CIA talks about their plans to destroy crops in Cuba. It reads, quote, plans for inducing the failure of crops will be submitted by 15th of February.
These plans will envisage both the use of controlled assets who could be infiltrated and exfiltrated, and the provision of encouragement and guidance to the resistance so that it will undertake acts of sabotage, some of which are to be directed against crops, particularly rice. Separately, the agency discussed efforts to sabotage Cuba's nickel supply using various methods, including open attack.
They also discussed the use of torpedoes and mines, as well as attacks on primary and secondary sources of Cuban nickel. These attacks would apparently be carried out by external assets.
And additionally, the CIA wrote about efforts to deploy a large number of spies to Cuba while pretending that they're students.

Quote, an assessment of more than 100 persons to determine their suitability for return to Cuba as agents in the guise of students is also being conducted. Then there's this noteworthy passage in which the CIA admits that it staged mass demonstrations all over the region.
quote, in support of states' efforts, CIA has conducted propaganda operations,

including a number of mass demonstrations all over the region. Quote, in support of states' efforts, CIA has conducted propaganda operations, including a number of mass demonstrations in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
So they pretty much orchestrated mass demonstrations at will in nearly a dozen countries, you know, according to these files. And reading that memo, it's not hard to conclude that the CIA probably never stopped doing this.
I mean, you're not crazy for concluding that anytime you see a mass protest movement anywhere in the world, including here, there's a very good chance that our intelligence agencies could have been involved. I mean, think about the so-called Orange Revolution in Ukraine that led to conflict with Russia that, as we all know, has ended in open warfare.
Now, moving on through the files, there's also this previously classified memo from June of 1961. It was written by Arthur Slechinger as a close advisor of JFK.
And this is a memo that already has been discussed publicly in other contexts. But the idea of the memo, which was written just a couple of years before Kennedy was murdered, was that the CIA has essentially gone rogue.

They're running their own foreign policy. And therefore, according to Sledginger, the CIA should be split up again.

You can maybe see why this was classified at the time. But the idea that it should have been hidden for decades is obviously absurd.
And there was never any reason to hide information like this from the public for as long as it was hidden. And there are many more files that I haven't been able to review and that no one has been able to review at this point.
Again, it's too much information at the moment. And again, some of the information is still incomplete.
Summing up his findings on this first batch of files, the writer Gerald Posner wrote, quote, I don't see the tax files of Lee Harvey Oswald or Jack Ruby. Nothing yet on some of the grand jury proceedings from New Orleans District Attorney James Garrison's miscarriage of justice.
Maybe I'm running on empty and missing them, but they're not popping up.

There are some files I've been looking forward to, one called Special Intelligence Package. It

includes 37 blank pages and might tell us more about Mexican intelligence and what they sent

to the CIA about Oswald after the assassination. I don't see that in today's release.
There are

other CIA documents I was hoping to see. Maybe they'll be in tomorrow's release, close quote.
So we'll obviously be awaiting those documents and reviewing them when they become available. The same is true for the next release of the Epstein files that we have been promised, we haven't seen yet.
But already, based on what's been released so far, it's clear that the Trump administration has truly been, as they promised, extraordinarily transparent. In fact, you can make the case that Trump is possibly the single most radically transparent politician in American history, even aside from these documents being released.
You just look at the way that he conducts himself, and we kind of take it for granted at this point.

But I've already lost track of the number of times he's taken questions from the press since being inaugurated. You don't get the sense that Trump cares to hide anything from the public, really.
So the contrast between him and Biden on this point could not be more stark. In fact, it's not just a contrast with Biden.
The reflex of every public

official in my lifetime, in any of our lifetimes, has been to hide things and to lie about everything, even when there's no obvious strategic benefit in doing that. On the other hand, Donald Trump, without being prompted, will walk out to the press and announce a historic declassification document dump.
And then the next day, he delivers it. Now, can we expect to learn from these documents with certainty? Who exactly killed JFK? Is there going to be a document in there that actually says this is the person who killed them and this is the group that killed them? Probably not.
It's simply been too long, if we're being honest about it. At the same time, at this point, there's no reason to believe the Trump administration is responsible for hiding that information from the public.
And that's significant for a lot of reasons. We have far more insight into how our intelligence agencies operate than ever before.
And as a result, we can assume that these agencies are now probably a lot less likely to think about assassinating domestic political targets. Because if they do that,

they run a very high risk of exposure. They certainly run a higher risk of exposure than

they did under the Biden administration when assassins were taking pot shots at Trump and

the federal government didn't even pretend to care about it. This is the value of transparency.

And less than three months into his term, as much as it probably drives the CIA crazy, Donald Trump is delivering it. Now let's get to our five headlines.
Success is not built on resolutions. Those are made to break.
As we know, it's built on taking action and building unstoppable momentum. When it comes to optimizing your health span, living better and longer, certain things are non-negotiable.
Quality sits at the top of that list. And in the world of performance-focused supplements, Momentus stands alone.
Their commitment to NSF certification means every batch undergoes rigorous testing for heavy metals, harmful additives, and label accuracy. That's why they've earned the trust of all 32 NFL teams and leading collegiate sports dietitians nationwide.
While the brands chase trends and flood the market with endless options, Momentus takes a different approach. They rely on research and expert guidance to focus on what truly matters, mastering the fundamentals with unwavering consistency, then tailoring supplementation to your specific goals.
Speaking of fundamentals, protein and creatine form the cornerstone. Momentus sources the highest grade creatine monohydrate available, an essential supplement for both men and women seeking peak physical and cognitive performance.
Ready to start living on purpose? Visit LiveMomentus.com and use code WALS for 20% off your order today. The Hill reports, a federal judge on Tuesday indefinitely blocked implementation of President Trump's executive order effectively barring transgender people from serving openly in the military, a stark blow to the administration's efforts to curb transgender rights.
U.S. District Judge Anna Rice, an appointee of former President Biden, barred Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other military officials from implementing Trump's order or otherwise putting new policy into place, effectuating it.
She also said the plaintiff's military statuses must remain unchanged until further order of the court. The judge said her order intends to maintain the status quo of military policy regarding transgender service that existed before Trump signed the order titled Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness.
She stayed her order until Friday to give the administration time to appeal. Trump's order suggests that transgender people cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service because they threaten the lethality of the armed forces and undermine unit cohesion, an argument long used to keep marginalized communities from serving.
So a little bit more editorializing from the Hill in what is supposed to be a news article. The executive order states, A man's assertion that he's a woman and his requirement that others honor this falsehood is not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member.
The judge wrote in her opinion that the president has both the power and obligation to ensure military readiness, but noted that leaders of the armed forces have long used that justification to, quote, deny marginalized persons the privilege of serving. OK, so Trump, you know, the guy that, you know, who actually runs the country and runs the military, that guy, the president of the United States, I think is the title that he uses.
Trump believes that it threatens unit cohesion and military readiness to have people in the military who are totally disconnected from reality, people who are not living in the real world. People who are in some fantasy land of their own mental construction.
He thinks that having people like that in the military is a threat to unit cohesion

and the lethality of our forces.

That's what Trump thinks.

This random federal judge happens to personally disagree.

She personally feels that it's actually a great idea to invite people in

who are deeply confused about the basic facts of our physical reality and to invite them into the military. That's how she feels.

So the two of them feel different ways about it. Now, obviously, Trump is right.
He's correct

about this. Clearly, yes, when you have a man in the military who is pretending to be a woman,

that does, among other things, threaten the cohesion of everyone else in his unit. You know, we want everyone in the military to be focused solely on defending the country and killing the enemy.
That's what the military is for. That's their job.
That should be their sole focus. anything that does not assist in that effort, anything that is not pointed at that objective, anything that doesn't advance the mission is not good.

their focus should then not be on affirming some guy's female self-identity.

And for the trans people themselves, we know that their top priority, personally,

will never be defending the nation and killing the bad guy.

Their top priority will always be the affirmation and reinforcement of their false identities. You know, if I showed up to the recruitment office to sign up for the army or the Marines, and I was filling out the paperwork and on the paperwork, I wrote that I'm a zebra, I would not be accepted into the military and nobody would expect that I would be.
Even if I said the fact that I'm a zebra is not a major focus of mine. Even if I said, you know, I'm a zebra, but it's not a big deal.
But, you know, it's just I happen to be one. I happen to be a zebra.
I don't make a big thing of it. But just so you guys know, before I sign up, I want you to know I am a zebra.
Even if I'm a patriot, I want to fight for the country. Even if that was the case, I say, don't worry, I won't make a big thing of it.
I just happen to be a zebra. None of that would matter.
Having someone in the unit who thinks he's a zebra is a completely unnecessary and totally egregious distraction. Not to mention that there are now very serious questions about my own stability and my own mental clarity and resilience.
How can the United States government issue me a weapon as a man who thinks I'm a zebra? And why would they do this? Yes, there might be some recruitment shortages, and that situation is getting better. But there are still plenty of potential recruits out there who don't think that they're zebras.
So we don't need to start recruiting from the zoo just yet. So that's why Trump's order makes sense, for that reason.
But here's the thing. All of that is almost irrelevant, really.
The fact that Trump is right on the merits here, it's good that he's right. But when it comes to what this judge is doing, it's almost irrelevant.
Because the point is that Trump runs the military. He's the commander-in-chief.
He's allowed to determine these kinds of policies. You don't have to agree with them.
You don't have to agree with the way that he operates as commander-in-chief, but he is the commander-in-chief.

The fact that the judge personally disagrees with his policy is totally irrelevant.

Because she doesn't get to determine the policy for military recruitment.

She is not the president.

These judges are not the president.

So if you're on the left and you're listening to this, try to understand this very basic point. These judges are not the president, which means there must be some powers that the president has that the judges don't.
because if there's nothing, if the judges can just override anything Trump does with the stroke of a pen,

then the judges are all the president altogether.

Each federal judge is the president.

The branches of government, for all these leftists who are going on about constitutional crisis,

like what do you know about the Constitution? And since when did you give a

damn about it anyway?

You know what

the Constitution says? The Constitution says that the branches

of the government are co-equal.

Separate but equal. Have you heard about that phrase?

Hopefully you'll learn that

in civics and grade school.

Which

means that judges cannot supersede the president in every case. None of these people were voted into office to set policy.
None of these people were voted into office at all. These are unelected judges trying to override not just the president, but the will of the people.
The people voted for Trump so that he would put policies like this in place yes even the trans ban in the military trump put that in place in his first term people that voted for him knew that you know when you vote for a guy who was already in office once what you're saying with your messages yeah i'd like more of that so i i want i want him to continue doing what he was i might might want him to do other things as well, but I approve of how he governed and I'd like to have more of that, please. That's what the voters are saying.

So you have the president as the commander in chief. You have the voters who put him into play, who elected him to set these policies.
And then some unelected random federal judge can just come along and say, nope, sorry, you can't do any of that. You know why you can't do it? Because I personally don't like it.
I'm a judge. I personally think that it's bad.
And so you can't do it. Now, these judges are illegitimate at this point.
They're trying to upend the Constitution and our entire system of government. Trump should ignore them.
Ignore all of them. I mean, ignore this woman and enforce the ban anyway.
So you say to her, oh, you think we should not ban transport? Well, okay. I'm glad.
Thanks for sharing. Thanks for letting us know.
Your opinion is very interesting, but we're going to go ahead and do what we want to do anyway. There needs to be an all-out war at this point against activist judges.
And what does that war look like? Well, it begins with this, by just ignoring them. Drawing the line in the sand and saying, okay, the judges have certain powers, certain responsibilities, a certain jurisdiction, but their powers and jurisdiction do not encompass everything.
If we're going to delineate what their powers are, it cannot be. The delineation is not, oh, they can do everything.
That's not it. And so you draw the line and you say, well, here's what judges are allowed to do.
Anything over that line, we are not going to listen to. We are just going to ignore it.

And where does it go from there?

What's the next?

What happens next?

I don't know exactly.

I mean, eventually it sends up at the Supreme Court, but which is so Trump's hand is forced here.

That's where this needs to end up. But in the meantime, I think you got to draw this line and make it very clear.

Thank you. that's where this needs to end up.
But, um, in the meantime, I think you got to draw this line and, uh, and make it very clear. Okay.
This is a fun. I don't know.
I don't know when this video was made. I, I happened to see it on X yesterday.
This is a video made by the outlet. Now this, and, um, it's about yours truly.
It's about, it's about me. And apparently now this is very troubled that I was invited to the joint session speech a couple of weeks ago.
They made this video after the fact to expose my extremism. And I don't know, I just happened to see this pop up on X and I thought it was pretty great.
So here it is. Watch.
I am literally a theocratic fascist. I do indeed believe that my religious beliefs should be forced on people by the government.
Why did Speaker Mike Johnson invite this far-right influencer to attend Trump's speech to Congress? Matt Walsh describes himself as a theocratic fascist, an ideology that combines ultra-nationalism, authoritarian rule, and forcibly imposing his Christian religious beliefs on the population. He's criticized the Equal Rights Amendment, which prohibits discrimination.
He believes white men are under attack. He's extremely anti-LGBTQI plus.
And he has an obsession with violence and control. His ideas are heard by millions as a commentator for the right-wing propaganda company, The Daily Wire, which was co-founded by Ben Shapiro.
Yeah, you need to get over slavery. You do.
The only group of people in this country that are being erased in any kind of meaningful way, historically, are white.

Nearly every good thing you have in your life was given to you by a white man.

We are not going to rest until every child is protected, until trans ideology is entirely erased from the earth.

We should treat it as a hate symbol because that's what it is.

They fly the flag because they hate you. Two men should not be allowed to adopt babies because babies need mothers.
They also need fathers, which is why two women shouldn't be allowed either. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
So why would a guy like this be invited to Trump's address to Congress? Well, he kind of fits in perfectly. He just says the quiet part out loud.
Now that Trump's in office and Republicans control the House and Senate, they can be as brazen as they want with their actions. The mask is off.
So when conservatives wonder why anyone would feel like their rights are under attack, it's because they clearly are. It's because people like this have a seat at the table and the power to influence our laws.
Okay, very scary stuff there, as you can see. I'm, you know, I'm not usually a scary guy, but when you put that creepy music in the background, suddenly I become Darth Vader or something.
I'm pretty terrifying. And I will say, well, first of all, I hope you all appreciate, I know you do, just how long I will stick with a troll.
I think I can say without any ego That I am one of the most committed trolls In the country

I feel I can say that

And maybe you would all agree

So this theocratic fascist thing

Like somebody called me that on Twitter, like eight years ago or something around, around this, I think it was seven or eight years ago. And I decided to troll him by putting it in my bio on Twitter at the time.
And I stuck with this troll ever since then. And I've gotten way more mileage out of it than I ever should have been able to get.
I mean, I got way more mileage out of it than I should have. So it's been great.
But I'm kidding, of course, none of this is a troll. I say all that, but really I'm joking.
I mean, I'm totally serious about being a theocratic fascist. You're right about that.
Now this, your rights are under attack. Not by Trump.
Trump has not

done a single thing to take away anyone's human rights at all. Trump has taken away zero rights

from anyone ever. But yeah, I want him to take rights away.
You're correct at that. I have a seat at the table.
I'm at Trump's table every day in the Oval Office. I sit around the table.
I'm in a meeting every day with President Trump. And I say to him, Mr.
President, when can we start taking the rights away? When does that happen? That's supposed to be the whole fun part of having a seat at the table is deciding whose rights we take away and which rights. I thought that was, that's the whole reason I'm here is what I say when I'm sitting around.
It's a table very much like this one, but I'm sitting at right now. Um, and every day, you know, we kind of, the way it works is, uh, every day we go around the table when, you know, when I'm in, and we're all there and it's me and the president and J.D.
Vance and whoever else,

and it's the whole cabinet.

And we go around the table, and Trump asks each of us what's on our agenda for that day.

And when he gets to me, I always say, well, I want to take away some human rights today.

Yeah, I've written a short list of the 35 rights that I would like to take away today, Mr. President, but he never lets me do it.
That's the ridiculous part. So what I'm saying is this woman is half right.
Her rights are under attack by me, but not by Trump, sadly. In fact, I've proposed a few times now that the entire staff of Now This News should be sent to Alcatraz.
And I know when I say that, you're like, well, Alcatraz is a tourist spot now. And I know that I'm saying we keep it a tourist spot.
But my point is that it's a lot more fun for the tourists if there are actual prisoners inside the prison. Right.
So I suggest that we put NowThis News in there. Maybe a couple of the ladies from The View.
I think in one of my proposals, Don Lemon was also going to Alcatraz. So I have a whole list of people I want to put in prison, and I've kind of helpfully selected which prisons I'd like to put them in.
And some of them are prisons that are currently open. Some of them are older prisons.
But we haven't been able to do any of it so far, so it's pretty frustrating. but you know what? Maybe that's why I just need to run for president in 2028.
And I like JD Vance. I think he's great, but we need someone who is going to get serious about ushering in a thousand years of right-wing tyranny.
And, uh, I just don't believe that JD Vance will actually do that. I will.
I'm the guy for that job.

So now this news, they have me dead to rights on that.

I can't deny it.

Very good video there.

Here's another one.

This is Joy Reid, who I also have her signed up for Alcatraz, by the way,

talking about what her mother discovered when she emigrated to the united states uh listen to this and i mean and as somebody who's you know my parents my father was from the congo and my mother was from guyana and so they were the immigrants who came here on purpose and they got the rude awakening my mother got the rude awakening like oh it's racist that's racist, Terry. That's weird.
For some reason, she was talking to me. Why don't you tell me? Yeah, she's like, tell me this is the land of opportunity, but not for me.
It's weird. So it's a little hard to hear, but she says that her parents, who are from the Congo and Guyana, her mother's from Guyana, that she says that they came here and they discovered that it's not a land of opportunity, that this is not a land of opportunity for people like them.
No, it's black people of color, as she would say, is what she's referring to. And that's a really interesting thing for Joy Reid to say of all people, because I know from Wikipedia, which I just checked two seconds ago, that her parents came here and individually, separately, and then they met each other in graduate school in America.
So they got off the boat from their respective impoverished African countries and immediately made it into graduate school. So I would say this country proved itself to be a land of opportunity right away for them.
And then apparently her father became an engineer, though Wikipedia tells me that unsurprisingly, this will shock you, her father was absent from the family, but he did become an engineer. So I'd say there's a lot of opportunity there.
I don't know what her mother did for a job because Wikipedia didn't say, but I do know that her mother's daughter, that would be Joy Reid herself, went on to become a famous TV personality who, before she just got fired, was earning $3 million a year from MSNBC. Now, just to compare, the average annual income in the Congo is $450.
$450 annually. So Joy Reid was earning like 7,000 times the average income of her father's home country.
The average annual income in Guyana is, oh, I've seen different estimates, but I think it's like $7,000. So Joy was beating that by quite a margin.

Her salary was 400 or 500 times the average salary in her mother's home country. So land of opportunity.
Well, did this country prove to be a land of opportunity for Joy Reid and her family? She says no. But what I see is that in one generation, her family has gone from living in the poorest and most destitute parts of the world to financial prosperity.
Her family went from Guyana to millions of dollars. Let me ask you this.
What if her parents had stayed in Africa? What if they'd stayed and they met somehow in Africa And they live now in Guyana or Congo What are the chances That Joy Reid would have a net worth of $4 million As she's estimated to have now? What are the chances? If they had not come here And yet they'd still gotten married and so joy reed still still exists in this alternative universe what are the chances that she's uh that she at any point at this point in her life has made has earned three million dollars in a single year what are the chances that she's earned three million dollars in her in in her her lifespan if she had been in africa of this. I'd say approximately 0% or so.
So yet again, we see just the total lack of gratitude, just this complete lack of gratitude from the left, from so many of the people that come to this country, a complete lack of gratitude that I find to be, frankly, pretty obscene. 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.
Only two things in life are certain, death and taxes. Well, now there's a third certainty.
If you're with Verizon, AT&T, or T-Mobile, you can be saving a fortune every month by switching to Pure Talk. That's right, Pure Talk.
My cell phone company is cutting the fat from the wireless industry. For just $35 a month, you can get unlimited talk, text, and 15 gigs of data with Hotspot on America's most dependable 5G network.
The average family of four saves over $1,000 a year when they switch to PureTalk. That's real money being put back into your pocket.
Plus, it's back when you switch to PureTalk's super low $35 plan this month. You'll get one year of Daily Wire Plus for free.
But the only way you can get it is by going to puretalk.com. Switch to PureTalk at puretalk.com.
slash Walsh, you get a year of Daily Wire Plus for free. The only way you can get it is by going to puretalk.com slash Walsh.
Switch to Pure Talk at puretalk.com slash Walsh. You get a year of Daily Wire Plus for free with qualifying plan.
Pure Talk, wireless by Americans for Americans. Please show up at that board meeting, Matt.
The way they were staring that poor mother down while they were talking their nonsense was making my blood boil. Please go, Matt, please.
Yeah, I had my team reach out to the mother. So we're going to look into this and see what we could do.
But this is a case that should be getting a lot more national attention than it is. I mean, the case of the mother who, if you didn't watch the show yesterday, at a school district in Illinois, she is alleging, and I certainly believe her 100%, but what she's saying is that her daughter and some of her daughter's friends were not only forced to use a locker room with a boy, with a trans-identifying boy, but that school officials stood there and made sure that they got undressed and got changed for gym class or whatever it was while this boy was there.
So this is a major, major scandal and everybody involved in it, all the adults involved need to be fired at a minimum. And so we got to do everything we can to make sure that happens.
Another comment says a child being forced to undress in front of anybody, male or female, is abused. This is so beyond disturbing.
Right. This should not need to be said.
Of all the things that don't need to be said, this should need to be said the least. there is never ever ever, ever, ever a situation where it would be remotely appropriate for school officials to compel the children in their care to get undressed.
To even articulate that thought, it's just disturbing that it needs to be articulated. But, of course, apparently it does in this case.
Notice how aggressive and vindictive they get when they feel they have the strength of force in the room. Talking about the trans activists at the school board meeting.
Yeah, you're right. When they have numbers, when they have the power, these are the most vicious and cruel human beings on earth.
They really are. When you get trans activists, especially all together in a group,

and they feel empowered, they feel safer.

I mean, classic bully mentality, obviously.

But when they feel like there's nothing to lose

and they've got this woman outnumbered,

they can just be totally vicious to her.

And that's how these people operate. Poor Emma Lazarus.
Her poem isn't dumb. That French diplomat is dumb.
America was built on immigrants. The poem aims to speak to a different message, not that America should inhale the world's worst populations.
No, the Statue of Liberty poem is dumb. Both are dumb.
The diplomat and the poem are both dumb. No matter how you try to spin it, the poem is declaring that America welcomes all of the refuse of the world, the homeless and the wretched.
And that's a nice sentiment if you don't think about it for more than two seconds, but it's not a policy that any nation that wants to continue existing can actually adopt. And as for America being built on immigrants, we've addressed this so many times.
I'll address it again. It's not true.
I don't know how many times this needs to be corrected. America is not a nation of immigrants.
America is not a nation of immigrants. It's not a nation built on immigrants.
America was built on settlers. Okay, and that's an entirely different thing.
Our country was built on and by settlers. We were not a nation of immigrants, but rather a nation of settlers.
Settlers came to a country that had barely been formed or had not even been formed at all, depending on when they came. And they came to a land that was mostly wild, untamed, unknown.
They came at a time when almost nobody lived west of the Mississippi. And if you know anything about American, you know, the geography of the continental United States, west of the Mississippi is most of the country and hardly anyone lived there.
And yes, I'm including the Indians when I say almost no one lived there, because even factoring the Indians in, still almost no one lived out there. And the settlers had to strike out into that wilderness and tame it and settle it and die for it and build it up and protect it.
Literally build it. They had to build it.
They had to build a civilization out of the wilderness. That is not what modern immigrants are doing.
They are not doing anything that resembles that. It is a completely different thing.
You have, on the one hand, people who came here into a wilderness and built it into a civilization. And on the other hand, you have people that are coming into a civilization that has already been long since built.
And they are coming to take advantage of it. And to profit from it.
And to be taken care of by it.

Not just different things, but opposite things. The modern immigrants is in many ways the opposite of an American settler 250, 300 years ago.
300 years ago, there would not have been American settlers, but a settler who came to the Americas. We're talking about opposites.
Matt, I'm surprised you like your steak so bland. I personally do salt, pepper, garlic powder, tallow, and fresh rosemary.
It brings your steak to life without polluting the steak flavor itself. Give it a try.
It'll be life-changing. Well, it's not bland.
A steak is supposed to taste like steak and it's the meat that you want to taste. So the meat is not bland.
And please do not put garlic powder on your steak. Please do not do that.
Garlic powder burns. And you have to cook the steak at a very high heat in order to get the right sear on it.
And so if you put garlic powder, you're going to burn the garlic powder. And then you end up with a steak with the flavor of burned garlic.
Why do you want that? So if you want some garlic flavor in your steak, just throw some fresh garlic into the pan while you're cooking it. If you want to throw some fresh rosemary in, you could do that too.
But personally, I don't need the notes of rosemary and garlic on my steak.

I don't need that.

I want the taste of the steak, right?

That's it.

Matt Walsh just said two things.

The whole job of customer service is to have happy, positive energy.

And then I worked customer service.

These two things don't comport.

Yeah, well, I never said I was good at customer service. I never made that claim.
I wasn't. I was terrible at it.
I was as bad at it as you would imagine that I would be. I also hated it.
I truly despised customer service at the deepest levels of my being. I really hate it.
I understand why people hate it. I understand why people in these jobs hate doing them.
I've done the jobs. I hated doing them.
I hated it so much. I'm just not wired

for customer service work, as you can tell. But that doesn't change anything that I said.
The job

is the job. You're paid.
You are paid to be cheerful, friendly, and to make the customer

feel valued. That's the whole job.
That's what the job is. And so you might hate it,

Thank you. to be cheerful, friendly, and to make the customer feel valued.
That's the whole job. That's what the job is.
And so you might hate it and you might hate your customers, but that's not their problem or it shouldn't be. And also, by the way, and this is a point that becomes increasingly relevant, the only thing you can do as a customer service representative in pretty much any industry at this point, but in particular, the food, you know, the fast food industry and the food service

industry, the only thing you can do in that position that is not replaceable by a machine

is this, right, is to be cheerful, friendly, and make the customer feel valued. Because machines can do everything.
Machines can easily push buttons. They can put an order into the system or whatever else.
What they can't do, what they will never be able to do, we can say with confidence, is exhibit authentic cheerfulness and friendliness and make the customer feel valued. A machine can do something quickly and efficiently, and so the customer might be happy about that, but the customer cannot have a pleasant human interaction with a machine where they leave that feeling valued, feeling like their concerns mattered.
That can't happen from a machine. So when you look at the collapse of customer service and you see all these people in customer service positions that, as we talked about yesterday, just hate their customers and don't try to hide it.
Not only are they not doing the job they're supposed to be doing, but they're just they're kind of they're big. They are begging to be replaced by machines.
because the one single thing you could be doing that would justify you doing the job rather than

a machine you aren't doing and so if you're gonna if you're doing a job that a machine can do and on

top of it, you have a terrible attitude and you're making the customers feel the opposite of valued, you're making them feel guilty for even being there. Well, then the companies are going to look at that and say, well, yeah, it's obviously a step up to just have a machine.
So just a word of warning there. America is on the comeback, but the culture war is not over.
That's why tomorrow we're releasing episode two of our five-part series, The Case for Derek Chauvin, The Incident. In episode one, we analyzed the criminal background of George Floyd and the professional record of Derek Chauvin.
But tomorrow, we're going moment by moment through the famous video of this fateful day. And if you want to be part of the movement, fighting for the truth and fighting for reason, then it's time to become a Daily Wire Plus member.
Stream my show ad-free with exclusive content you won't see anywhere else. Get unlimited access to premium entertainment.
Connect with a community of thinkers, not followers. Watch anywhere, anytime on desktop and the Daily Wire Plus app for mobile and TV.
Join the fight at dailywire.com slash subscribe. Now let's get to our daily.
Have you checked lately to see if your home's title is still in your name? With one forged document, scammers can steal your home's title and its equity. But now you can protect yourself from this crime.
Home title locks, million dollar triple lock gives 24-7 title monitoring, urgent alerts to any changes, and if fraud does happen,

they'll spend up to a million dollars to fix fraud and restore your title. Get a free title

history report and access your personal title expert, a $250 value, when you sign up at

hometitlelock.com and use promo code DAILYWIRE. That's hometitlelock.com, promo code DAILYWIRE.

Cancellation. When astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams went to space aboard Boeing's Starliner capsule last June, their mission was supposed to last just eight days.
But because of catastrophic failures with the design of Boeing's capsule, as well as the refusal of the Biden administration to bring them back sooner, the two astronauts didn't return to Earth until yesterday evening after roughly nine months in space. SpaceX, which of course is run by Elon Musk, managed to do what Boeing, a much larger and more established company, could not do.
They guaranteed the safe return of two American astronauts who were stranded in space. No other company in this country or in the entire world, for that matter, could have accomplished what SpaceX just did on this timeline.
And then for good measure, when the astronauts finally landed in the water, a bunch of dolphins, which is apparently called a pot of dolphins, began circling the capsule, almost like they're welcoming the astronauts home. It was like something out of a Disney movie.
So that's what Elon Musk has been up to lately. If you sent him an email asking what he's accomplished in the last week, he could say that he saved two astronauts' lives, preserved all the data they've been collecting during their experiments while they were in space, and protected the reputation of America's space program.
And in the process, he managed to entertain a pot of dolphins on top of it. In another era, these kinds of achievements would unite the entire country.
Think back to what happened when Gene Kranz saved the crew of Apollo 13. They gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The state of Ohio dedicated a day in August as Gene Kranz Day. NASA handed him about 10 different awards.
Ed Harris played him in a movie with Tom Hanks. He told engineers to fit a square peg into a round hole.
He yelled, failure is not an option. People loved it.
He was a national hero among both Democrats and Republicans. Half a century later, it's safe to assume that Elon Musk will not receive that kind of treatment from Hollywood or anywhere else.
That's because we're no longer a country that universally celebrates historic achievements for mankind. Instead, we're now split between two distinct groups, people who celebrate human progress and people who resent it.
This is a distinction that's far more significant and far more destructive than any political disagreement that's ever existed in the United States. It can't be resolved through logic or debate.
It can't be resolved on the battlefield either, at least not at the moment. That's because leftists have resorted to acts of domestic terrorism to convey the extent of their hatred for Elon Musk and presumably to offset their own crippling sense of inadequacy.
They have embarked on a campaign of arson, vandalism and terrorism in order to punish Elon Musk, not because they disagree with him politically, but because he wants to advance the interests of the human race and they would rather see the human race extinguish itself. To that end, since I last talked about the attacks on Tesla stores and on Tesla vehicles, these incidents have only intensified.
Here's just a handful of these attacks in the past few days. Someone set fire to two cyber trucks late last night at a Tesla dealership at 103rd and State Line.
The FBI and ATF are assisting Kansas City, Missouri police as they investigate this as arson. KMBC 9's Jarissa White shows us what happened.
Around 11 p.m., officers were called to a fire at a car line. A car fire at that Tesla dealership in the parking lot.
A KCPD officer was close by when he noticed smoke coming from a Tesla Cybertruck. The officer used his fire extinguisher to try to put out the flames, but the fire continued to spread.
KCFD was called in to help. Our crews got on scene and the fire was in two Cybertrucks.
Good morning, my name is Spencer Evans. I'm the special agent in charge of the FBI's Las Vegas division.
As you know and as you heard this morning, the FBI has opened an investigation into what was reported initially as an arson at a Tesla facility that occurred at the Tesla Collision Center in Las Vegas. As Assistant Sheriff Corrin noted, the FBI is working hand in glove with our partners at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department to investigate this incident.

This is being investigated by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force.

We're seeing more reports of vandalized Teslas from all around the country.

The latest one happening in the Pacific Northwest.

We want to warn you, some of the vandalism you see, it's offensive.

In suburban Seattle, police say six vehicles were tagged at a Tesla dealership. One of them was a Cybertruck that was just at the dealership for maintenance.
It was spray painted and tagged. The truck's owners called the incident disheartening, but says he doesn't feel personally attacked.
There are also now roughly a dozen documented instances of leftists keying Tesla vehicles in parking lots or spray painting swastikas on them and so on. Of course, in the grand scheme of things, this is a relatively small number of vehicles, but it's worth pointing out that the people doing this are, of course, cowards who hide the moment they're caught.
And a lot of them are getting caught because Teslas have cameras that record suspicious activity at all times, even when they're parked. One man who went viral for keying a Tesla in San Jose, for example, denied that he had done so when somebody confronted him about it a few days later.
Watch. Did you just key a Tesla the other day? You're on video.
Yeah. This is the guy.
You just keyed a Tesla. You got a video online.
I just saw it. It's all over the face.
You had the media. Yes, you did.
You keyed a Tesla in a parking lot somewhere around here. What do you got to say about that? Well, you're on video.
I said, I plainly saw you doing it. You pulled up right next to it and then you keyed it.
You want to bet? I have to give the usual disclaimer that this man hasn't been convicted yet. He's now been arrested and accused of felony vandalism by the San Jose police.
But assuming that this person is indeed guilty, which he appears to be since he looks like the same person who keyed the car in the video and he was wearing the same clothes and driving the same car. So, you know, all the pieces kind of add up.
You have to admit that it's a pretty useful demonstration of the sheer cowardice of Elon Musk's enemies. They think they're fighting fascism by keying a random person's car, and they won't even admit to it when they're on camera.
This is a pretty good sign that if Pam Bondi follows through in her promise to send all these domestic terrorists to prison for at least five years, if she does that, this will stop very quickly. We are dealing with deranged leftist thugs here, but if there's a silver lining, it's that they happen to be very stupid and very cowardly.
At the same time, we can't ignore the fact that these thugs happen to have the endorsement of some of the most prominent figures in the Democrat Party.

The other day, for example, Tim Walls celebrated the decline of Tesla stock as the result of domestic terrorism. This is the man who wanted to become the vice president of the United States.

Now he's jeering about the fact that an American company is being targeted for political reasons.

Watch. Saying on my phone, I know some of you know this on the iPhone,

they've got that little stock app. I added Tesla to it to give me a little boost during the day.
225 and dropping. So, and if you own one, if you own one, we're not blaming you.
You can, you can take dental floss and pull the Tesla thing off, you know, and take out just telling you. So on the one hand, you have a guy making self-catching rockets and saving astronauts and creating self-driving cars.
On the other hand, you have Tim Walz. Tim Walz does not create anything.
He's incapable of doing that in any context. He's one of the dumber politicians to ever seek high office, which is really saying something.
So all he can do, like so many other Democrats, is celebrate destruction. Is there any doubt whatsoever that people like Tim Walz would have cheered if those astronauts had blown up? I mean, how would they have reacted? Is there any doubt that these people, they wanted this rescue mission to fail? They wanted the astronauts to die on the way down.
They would have been thrilled by that. They were rooting for it.
They were praying. They were praying to Satan.
They were praying to their God, Satan, that it would happen. Because they want Elon Musk to fail.
That's all they care about. Like the people keying the cars, they are stupid and cowardly.
And there's maybe no greater example, certainly of the stupid part, than Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, who just announced a great fanfare that's, I mean, fanfare in his own mind anyway, that he got rid of his Tesla vehicle in order to protest Elon Musk. And he's replaced it with a Chevy SUV because apparently leftists aren't concerned about greenhouse gas emissions anymore.
That's gone by the wayside. In a video, Kelly explained his reasoning for ditching the Tesla such as it is.
Here's the video. Hey, folks, Mark Kelly here in Washington, driving to work for the last time in my Tesla.
When I bought this thing, I didn't think it was going to become a political issue. Every time I get in this car in the last 60 days or so, it reminds me of just how much damage Elon Musk and Donald Trump is doing to our country.
Talking about slashing Social Security, cutting health care benefits for poor people, for seniors. It's one bad thing after the next.
He's firing veterans. I'm a veteran.
So I have a really hard time driving around in this thing. So I think it's time for an upgrade today.
So this is going to be my last, last trip in this car. There are some things I really liked about it.
There are things I didn't like about it, but that doesn't matter. What matters is, um, you know, doing the right thing.
I think it's time to get rid of it. You know, Elon Musk kind of turned out to be, and, uh, I don't want to be driving the car built and designed by, so, uh, looking forward to my new ride Now, it's not really worth responding to any of the lies at the beginning of the video.
Mark Kelly appears to be saying that every veteran is entitled to permanent employment in the federal government and that Elon Musk is somehow cutting healthcare benefits and social security, which isn't happening. None of that really makes sense.
But the really interesting part is at the end, when Kelly explains that he's selling his Tesla because he doesn't want to drive a car that was designed and built by an a-hole, as he put it. So if somebody is an a-hole, then apparently Mark Kelly has no interest in using their inventions.
Any product associated with a CEO or any person who's an a-hole must be shunned for all time. Now, if you buy into all the slander about Elon Musk, it might seem like a compelling line of argument, or at least it might seem compelling right up until the moment you realize that, well, pretty much every useful invention in history was designed by an a-hole, as Mark Kelly would put it?

I mean, has Mark Kelly ever heard of Henry Ford?

Okay, if Kelly looks into Henry Ford for about five minutes, he'll find a lot of cancel-worthy material there. He was a bit of an eccentric, to put it politely.

Does that mean that nobody should ever drive Ford trucks anymore? We have to sell our F-150s?

And while we're at it, Alexander Graham Bell thought that deaf people shouldn't have children. Never mind the fact that he married a deaf woman.
His perspective was that deaf people were terminally ill and that sign language should be abolished. Alexander Graham Bell became a villain of the deaf community as a result.
As one historian put it, in the deaf world, he's remembered with rage. Does this mean that we can't use telephones anymore? We need to sell our iPhones because Alexander Graham Bell was cruel to deaf people? I mean, he was kind of an a-hole.
Actually, we definitely need to sell our iPhones because everyone knows that Steve Jobs was extremely demanding to work for. I mean, by pretty much all accounts, the guy was an a-hole.
He often fired people on the spot simply because they couldn't answer his questions. And as we know, today's Democrats think that firing an employee for any reason, even if they can't list five things they did in the past week, is totally unconscionable.
Everyone is entitled to lifetime employment with no accountability, according to Democrats. Therefore, we can assume with confidence that Mark Kelly will never own any Apple products of any kind.
I could go on and on and on, but really, Mark Kelly and his fellow Democrats have made my point for me. Elon Musk's companies are saving astronauts, catching rocket boosters in midair, deploying self-driving cars, restoring free speech to the internet, implanting neural chips to allow paralyzed people to use computers.
Meanwhile, leftists are keying cars and setting fire to Tesla dealerships. I mean, they have made their anti-human agenda abundantly clear.
And they've done it at the worst possible time. They've done it precisely when Musk is demonstrating a productive pro-civilization alternative to their pathetic nihilism.
And that is why Mark Kelly and every other anti-human leftist who attacks Elon Musk, even as he saves astronauts stranded in outer space, is today canceled. That'll do it for the show today.
Thanks for watching. Thanks for

listening. Have a great day.
Talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.