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This Minnesotan Official Just Made One Of The Dumbest Statements Of The Year

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "This Minnesotan Official Just Made One Of The Dumbest Statements Of The Year", an episode of Matt Walsh published December 18, 2025 (19 min, about 3,258 words). It mentions 13 people, works and ideas, including High-trust society, Immigration restriction (cutting off immigration), The Trevor Noah Podcast, Attorney General of Minnesota, Kia Boys.

What this episode is about

A Minnesota official has sparked controversy with remarks suggesting that reducing immigration from certain countries is necessary to prevent societal decline, likening immigrant populations to the third-world status. Meanwhile, New York City's mayor defended free bus fares as a means to decrease assaults on drivers, arguing that eliminating fare collection minimizes conflict with aggressive passengers, a stance that has drawn criticism for oversimplifying the underlying issues of public safety and accountability.

Key takeaways

  • Cutting corner accountability: Minnesota sues carmakers over thefts—because blaming thieves would be too, well, logical.
  • Bus rides sans fare? Assaults plummet; who knew skipping fares could be more disarming than John Wick?
  • Let them ride: New York's no-fare buses cut attacks on drivers by 39%—fair play or fare play?
  • In Minnesota, it's the cars' fault for acting too desirable; popular kids of the auto world, it seems.
  • Forget Batman, free buses and anti-theft tech are the urban knights of safe commuting.

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 3:00: Attorney General of Minnesota, The Trevor Noah Podcast
  2. – 6:00: Engine immobilizer, Kia Boys
  3. – 12:00: Dre von Leenhov, High-trust society
  4. – 15:00: Canary in the coal mine, High-trust society
  5. – 18:00: High-trust society, Jeremy's Razors, Trans ideology

Notable quotes from "This Minnesotan Official Just Made One Of The Dumbest Statements Of The Year"

  • That transition starts much sooner than that. So, here's the communist mayor of New York on the Trevor Noah podcast defending again his idea to make the buses free in the city. Listen to this.
    about The Trevor Noah Podcast · at
  • But somehow not worse than this. same idea, but this is even worse from Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota.
    about Attorney General of Minnesota · at
  • In other car makes because nearly all other cars sold in America came equipped with something called an engine immobilizer.
    about Engine immobilizer · at
  • This time in a small countryside town of Hunul. These last semblance of high trust society are rapidly disappearing due to incessant shameless theft by hostile invaders. And you can see we'll we'll show you a few seconds of.
    about High-trust society · at
  • The farm stand is kind of like the canary in the coal mine. Like coal mine.
    about Canary in the coal mine · at
  • People to have in community. It's kind of it. The best deals of the year are still live right now at Jeremy's Razors and we're taking up to 50% off. Now's the time to stock up.…
    about Jeremy's Razors · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Dre von Leenhov — Person · 1 mention · first at
    That someone posted. This is a guy named the guy who posted anyway is named Dre von Leenhov and he posted this footage which is I think not from America. I think this might be…
  • Anna Walsh — Person · 1 mention

Companies & orgs

Products & tech

Concepts & topics

Places & events

  • Hunul — Place · 1 mention

Sponsors

Full transcript with timestamps

This is why we talk about cutting off immigration from the third world. It doesn't take much, you know, import the third world, become the third world. It's not like, well, you become the third world once there's 55% of people in the community who are third worlders. That transition starts much sooner than that. So, here's the communist mayor of New York on the Trevor Noah podcast defending again his idea to make the buses free in the city. Listen to this. We made five bus routes free in New York City. When we made those bus routes free, after a year, assaults on bus drivers dropped by 38.9%.

On the bus drivers, on the bus drivers, because unlike the train, the act of fair collection on the bus happens on the bus.

Yeah. It's their job. And bus drivers and and unions have shared anecdotally that about 50% of assaults happen around the fairbox. So when you eliminate the fair, you make for a safer

experience for the bus driver, for everyone on the bus. Yes. Perfect logic here. So what he's saying is that bus drivers get assaulted by drugged out vagrants when they try to collect bus fair. So the solution is to stop collecting bus fair. That's the solution that he's come up with. Uh is is uh you know scumbags are assaulting you when you try to make them pay and so just don't make them pay and they won't hit you anymore. I mean, this is like if your son was getting beat up for his lunch money on the way to school every morning and he came to you about it and you said, "Well, I guess I guess the only solution is for you to stop eating lunch.

I guess, son, we we we just have to stop giving you lunch money. Can't give you a can't give you a bagged lunch either because they'll take that, too." So, it's the only solution. Yeah. Really, this is your fault, honestly, son, for uh this is your fault for having lunch money that could be stolen. Now, you're not telling him to stand up for himself. You're not telling him to hit back. You're not even like going to the principal about it. Your solution is just to cower to the bullies. Although I I guess really the correct analogy would be if your son had that problem and so instead your solution was to give him uh a separate bag of uh you know or or or whatever of lunch or lunch money that he could give to the bullies basically like pay them off uh every morning or something like that.

Either way, it's pathetic. But somehow not worse than this. same idea, but this is even worse from Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota. And uh and here's what he has to say about the problem of u cars being stolen and who's to blame for that in Minnesota. Watch everybody. Keith Ellison here. Public safety isn't only about holding people accountable when they commit crimes. It's also about holding corporations accountable when their negligence puts motans at risk.

In 2021, the Kia Boys challenge, the Kia Boys challenge swept social media after a few teenagers posted videos on TikTok showing how Kia and Hyundai vehicles could easily be stolen. This wasn't true in other car makes because nearly all other cars sold in America came equipped with something called an engine immobilizer. That standard came in almost all cars, but not in Kia and in Hyundai's. Relatively few of them had the technology for the simple reason that these companies didn't make this common sense technology standard and installed them in their cars as they did do in Mexico and Canada.

Same car attorney general's office. We led a bipartisan investigation into the vulnerabilities and uncovered just how serious these problems were. Even after Hyundai and Kia had said that they had fixed the problem, they hadn't fixed the problem. We press these companies to do much more and we won. Under the settlement, Hyundai and Kia must provide free ignition cylinder protectors for every vulnerable vehicle. They must pay millions of restitution to people whose cars were stolen or damaged. And every car they sell from now on must include anti- theft technology. The same standard the rest of the industry has used for years. At the end of the day, friends, when corporations cut corners, people get hurt. I'm going to hold them accountable every time.

Okay? So, let's follow this. Track the logic. Teens in Minnesota, teens, teens in Minnesota, we're calling them, are stealing cars all over the place. Keith Ellison looks at this and says, "hm h these criminals are stealing cars. What can we do about that?" H And he thinks about it for a while and then he says to himself, "Oh, I know. I'll sue the car manufacturers for not making it harder to steal the cars." Yeah, the cars are the problem. We got all these cars being stolen. Who's at fault for that? Oh, well, I know the cars.

Maybe if the cars hadn't been dressed like that, this wouldn't have happened. I mean, if you're a car, you should know better than that. You can't you can't go dress you can't go around dressed like that. You're asking for it. You're asking for it when you when you when you you go around looking like that like as a car. So, this is even worse than the bus fair thing because there there are two obvious points about car theft. One is that if you want to prevent them, the way to do it is not to punish the people who make the thing that's being stolen. Okay? If somebody steals my watch, I'm not going to then go write an angry letter to the company that made the watch. Okay? If someone steals my wallet, I'm not going to call up the wallet company. I'm not going to call, you know, 1800 wallet and uh and start yelling at them because someone stole my wallet. That's not what I'm going to do.

No, what you do, Keith, is you severely punish the thieves. Have you even tried that? Have you even tried that? I mean, he mentions the the Kia challenge or whatever, uh which is just these uh these these quote unquote teens stealing cars. What happened to them? What what happened to the teens, Keith, that were stealing cars apparently on camera as a Tik Tok challenge? What happened to them? Did any of them go to jail at all? I'm betting that like none of them did any serious time in jail. So, they're stealing cars. You do nothing about it at all. You do not punish these people in the slightest bit. And then you're confused about why it's happening. And second, before you blame the companies making the cars, what about the people who are making the car thieves, right? What about rather than looking at the car manufacturers, what about the car thief manufacturers?

What blame do we put on them? You know, have you not have you noticed something about car theft? Uh it's in this just simple reality. Not a problem in white neighborhoods that put the cards on the table. Not a problem in white neighborhoods. Like the number one way to ensure that your car is not stolen is to park it in a predominantly white area. That's fact. This is true. That's a statist a statistical fact. So if you're trying to get to the bottom of it, why are all these cars being stolen? what's going on here? That's kind of a you got to deal with that. You you can't overlook that.

You know, as I've said before, I have lived I live now in in uh you know, various different small town rural uh places that are not diverse, very little diversity. And in those places, nobody's car is stolen like ever. I mean, you could leave your car, you could leave the key in your car and the car running and the door unlocked and nobody will steal it. So, this can't just be an issue of making sure cars aren't easy to steal. Because the weird thing is like depending on where you live, you could go to if you live in a place like this, if you live in one of these places where this is not an issue, you could go to the gas station, leave your keys in the car with the car running, get out of the car, announce loudly, "Hey everybody, I am going to leave my keys in this car right here and the door is going to be unlocked and I'm going to go into the door and I'm going to be in there for 10 minutes and I will not be

watching. And by the way, I'm parked in a place where there's no security camera. The security camera does not cover this area. So that's what's happening everybody. I'm going to go in right now. There will be 10 minutes with a key in this car and no one will know if you take it. Okay. See you. You could do that and nothing will happen. You come out 10 minutes 10 minutes later and the key the car will still be running. like it's more likely that somebody will have just like helpfully uh I don't know wiped off your windshields for you. That's more likely than then it will be stolen.

And yet if you go to the uh areas in the country where the quote unquote teens are doing quote unquote Tik Tok challenges like the one that Keith Ellson is talking about. If you go there, you could lock your door, take the keys, have every anti- theft system in place, park it in a well-lit area, security cameras all over the place, you're running in and out in 2 and 1/2 minutes, going as fast as you can, and it might still get stolen. Why is that? You know, that that's what Keith Ellison doesn't want to talk about.

Um, and it's just not possible for us to have any meaningful or uh productive conversation about crime unless we're going to acknowledge that fact. Why are there communities where if you left your keys in the car for 10 seconds, it is guaranteed to be stolen? And then there are other communities where you could just never lock your door or your car ever. and you could live there for 40 years and nothing will ever be stolen. Why is that the case? And that also reminds me of this clip that someone posted. This is a guy named uh the guy who posted anyway is named Dre von Leenhov and he posted this footage which is I think not not from America. I think this might be the Netherlands. I'm not sure. But here's the footage. Yet another local farm sand got plundered by migrants this morning.

This time in a small countryside town of Hunul. These last semblance of high trust society are rapidly disappearing due to incessant shameless theft by hostile invaders. And uh you can see we'll we'll show you a few seconds of the footage. There it is.

So this goes on for 5 minutes. These apparent migrants spend five minutes just clearing this place out, taking their time. They they go back, they they take a bunch of stuff, leave, and then they come back because, you know, it's too much. They're stealing too many things to fit. It's it's too many to too much to carry. So they go back several times and um steal everything. Now these farm stands are also very common in certain parts of America. Um I've I've lived in various places that have these farm stands. A couple years ago, we had one in our near to our neighborhood about 3 minutes away. And we'd go uh every Saturday morning and we would grab some fresh eggs and some produce at this farm stand and that was kind of our routine and it was nice and it was just a nice thing. It's like a very nice thing. It's a very nice thing to have in your in your community, right? It's not it doesn't it's not

going to make or break you, but it's like a really nice thing to have. You just go right down the street, you got the fresh eggs, you got fresh produce. You just hop in there and uh usually there's nobody there. Sometimes there is. Like maybe the guy who runs the farm stand is kind of milling about. He's out in his front yard. You say hi to him and a lot of times they're not there. And uh the stands are just unmanned. Like they're unmanned little shacks usually in someone's front yard. Uh and you take what you want. Prices are listed. You put money in a box or something. Sometimes there's um these days there's like a QR code. You can you can scan it. You can pay that way. And it's uh it's totally just the honor system. It's just the honor system is all it is. And this is what it's like to live in a high trust society. As the caption notes, it is possible to have this kind of trust in your neighbors. In

fact, this used to be the norm all across America. Is very possible. This is not some kind of utopian thing. There are still communities like this in America. And it's not just about the farm stand. The farm stand is kind of like the canary in the coal mine. Like coal mine. If I go to a community and I see that they have a farm stand. I can immediately make a number of significant assumptions about that place. If I was looking for a house and I was looking to move into a neighborhood and that's one of the things I want to look for.

Not that like if it doesn't have a farm stand, it's automatically a bad area, but that to me if I see that that tells me a lot. That tells me a lot about this place. It tells me that it's safe. Tells me it's low crime. It tells me people are basically friendly. It tells me there's a strong sense of community. It tells me that the people in this community are honest people, relatively speaking. And I can assume all of that from the presence of an unmanned farm stand. Now, on the other hand, if your neighborhood cannot have a farm stand, I don't I don't mean like if your neighborhood doesn't have one, I mean, there's plenty of neighborhoods that are nice and don't have them, but if your neighborhood just couldn't have one, if it would not be possible to have one, then that's the only indicator I need to tell me that I I don't want to live there. I don't want to live there. And here's the thing, to maintain this level

of high trust requires that basically everyone is on board. And somebody on X made this point. I think it was uh the account's name. The guy is Wayne is his name. And he he made the point that it really doesn't make touch doesn't take much to ruin this, right? It's not like it it is it is not as though and this is something that and this was his point Wayne's point that the crime statistics don't fully take this into account because you start looking at percentages and you can say well here's the the crime percentage and here's the and seems like a low percentage but it doesn't tell you the whole story because it doesn't take much.

Okay, a high trust society does not merely require that a majority of people are trustworthy. Okay, if you get over the 50% hump, you're not even you're not anywhere close to living in a high trust society. A high trust society where you, as the name implies, you can just basically trust everybody around you. Doesn't mean they're perfect. It just means that you can you can basically trust that they're not going to try to rob or kill you. Like that's kind of that's the lowest bare minimum for high trust is you can basically trust that the people around you in your community are not going to try to rob or kill you. They're helpful.

They're nice. They're polite and uh and and and they're just good people to have in community. It's kind of it. The best deals of the year are still live right now at Jeremy's Razors and we're taking up to 50% off. Now's the time to stock up. Not that I condone shaving, of course, but should someone hypothetically shave, they could get a full year of razors for $49.99. And if you're ordering over $100, free shipping. These are products built for men who don't back down. Guys who show up, work hard, refuse to cave to trans ideology nonsense. Head to jeremyrazers.com right now. Deal expires very soon. So don't wait. That's jeremyrazers.com.

And in order to have that kind of community, it's not good enough to well 51% of people are trustworthy or 60%. Like if if even 3% of the people in your community are dysfunctional, thieving, lowclass scumbags, it ruins the whole thing. 3% ruins the whole thing. 2% ruins it. 1% ruins it. If you have a high trust community, if you have a high trust neighborhood and some people move out, some people move in, and now 1% of the people in your community are these kinds of people, it ruins the whole thing. It drags, it destroys the entire thing. You go because of 1% from high trust to low trust because it only takes 1%.

That 1% means you can't have your farm stand. It means neighbor. It means uh you know maybe the neighborhood uh block parties and barbecues are maybe you can't do those anymore because of the kinds of people that show up to them. Halloween those sorts of things start looking a little bit different. Means you have to lock your doors, stop leaving your keys in the car. You you have to walk around every day constantly taking into account the kinds of dangers that you never even had to consider before. So it doesn't take much and that's the point and this and this relates that's the point about when we talk about migration is uh it doesn't this is why we talk about cutting off immigration from the third world.

It doesn't take much. We say we say you know import the third world become the third world. It's not like, well, you become the third world once there's 55% of people in the community who are third worlders. That that process starts, that transition starts much sooner than that. Hey YouTube, thanks for listening to the show. If you'd like access to my full show with no ads, you should go to dailywire.com and use promo code Walsh to get two months free on all annual plans. See you there.

Questions about this episode

What is "This Minnesotan Official Just Made One Of The Dumbest Statements Of The Year" about?

A Minnesota official has sparked controversy with remarks suggesting that reducing immigration from certain countries is necessary to prevent societal decline, likening immigrant populations to the third-world status. Meanwhile, New York City's mayor defended free bus fares as a means to decrease assaults on drivers, arguing that eliminating fare collection minimizes conflict with aggressive…

What is mentioned in this Matt Walsh episode?

13 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including High-trust society, Immigration restriction (cutting off immigration), The Trevor Noah Podcast, Attorney General of Minnesota, Kia Boys, Engine immobilizer. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "This Minnesotan Official Just Made One Of The Dumbest Statements Of The Year"?

The episode runs 19 min; the transcript is about 3,258 words in 27 timestamped sections.

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