The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1751 - The INSANE Left Wing Law That Is Causing Another Mass Exodus. What Happens Next?
17 Mar 2026
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Chapter 1: Why are left-wing billionaires fleeing blue states for red states?
Today on The Matt Wall Show, there's a mass exodus of left-wing billionaires from blue states to red states. They pushed the policies that destroyed their home states, and now they're fleeing like locusts, searching for new places to destroy. We'll discuss also the Senate takes up the SAVE Act. Mamdani unveils a new government office for LGBT affairs.
And a billionaire Silicon Valley guy says that if you want to achieve anything in life, you should not engage in any introspection at all. Is he right? We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.
So they didn't get much attention for obvious reasons, but believe it or not, a handful of white people actually managed to win major civil rights lawsuits during the BLM revolution as the largest companies on the planet began discriminating against white employees, denying them promotions, firing them, putting their CVs at the bottom of the pile and so on.
A small number of white people decided to invoke their constitutional rights. They went to court and they came away with tens of millions of dollars.
Chapter 2: What is the SAVE Act and why is it significant?
And we should talk more about these stories, especially since they could inspire more victims of anti-white discrimination to take their case to court. And one of the most egregious examples involved Starbucks, which was run by CEO Howard Schultz at the time.
Now, you may remember this sordid episode in American history when a couple of black guys walked into a Starbucks and sat down without placing an order.
Chapter 3: What new government office was unveiled for LGBT affairs?
The store wouldn't let them loiter or use the bathroom without making a purchase, which makes sense since it's a private business and they don't want the property to become a crack house. But the two black guys decided that this was their Rosa Parks moment. And they refused to leave to the point that they were arrested for trespassing.
In response, instead of demonstrating a semblance of integrity or courage in the face of a mob, Schultz shut down every Starbucks store for racial bias training, issued a payout to the black customers, attacked his own employees, and then, of course, groveled on CNN Watch.
Chapter 4: What controversial claim did a Silicon Valley billionaire make about introspection?
Welcome back. I'm Poppy Harlow in New York. And this afternoon, 8,000 Starbucks stores across the country will close to train employees on racial bias. This all stems from an incident last month that sparked nationwide uproar. Two black men, Dante Robinson and Rashawn Nelson, were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks.
The store manager called the police after the men said they were in the store just two minutes without placing an order. They were there to meet a friend. The backlash was swift. It sparked Many to talk of a Starbucks boycott. I've gone through the training myself, as has the entire leadership team of the company last week. And we did that so that we could experience it firsthand.
It's interactive. It's been co-authored by Bryan Stevenson, Sherilyn Ifill, Heather McGee. And I think we wanted to try and really get professional people to help us understand and walk in the shoes of people of color and understand that racial bias does exist. You are Starbucks. Starbucks is you in many ways. So can you just tell me your gut?
What did you feel when you realized this happened to these two men because of their rights? I was personally horrified by it. When you think about the values of Starbucks, providing health insurance, free college tuition, the things we've done for Opportunity Youth, veterans, refugees, all of these things, for this to happen is such an anathema. Horrified by it. He was horrified.
He was he was it was like a genocide that the emotional experience he had knowing that two black men were simply required to follow the same rules as every other customer in the store. The emotional experience was it was the like the experience he has witnessing a genocide. It was that evil.
So Howard Schultz went on national television and, of course, threw his employees under the bus, accepted the premise of CNN's question, which is that these black guys were only thrown out of the store because they were black, even though there was precisely zero evidence of that. And this store served black people all the time without any problem at all.
It was only these particular black guys where it was an issue. which should tell you that it was them, not the store, that was the problem. And what happened next is that amid all this hysteria, Starbucks fired a white manager who had nothing to do with the incident whatsoever. They couldn't fire the black manager who actually oversaw operations in this particular store.
So Starbucks told a white regional manager named Shannon Phillips to terminate a white manager at a nearby district who didn't do anything as a way of demonstrating that Starbucks was serious about racial equity. And when Phillips refused, they fired her instead.
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Chapter 5: How did Starbucks respond to the racial bias incident involving two black men?
So then she sued and she won more than $25 million. Watch. The next year, Starbucks was in hot water again, hit with a lawsuit from the regional manager who oversaw that store in approximately 100 other locations. Shannon Phillips, who is white, claims she was fired after the incident because of her race.
In the lawsuit, she says she was not involved in the arrests in any way and that Starbucks did not take any action against the black district manager who oversaw that store and had promoted the person who was responsible for making the call to police. On Monday, a federal jury in New Jersey sided with Phillips, awarding her $25.6 million in damages.
What was ultimately determined by the jury was the kind of... went after people that were not involved with that situation at all, making those decisions based on appearance and the race of the people that they disciplined, who were associated with the Philadelphia store, but not with the events that occurred.
Now, you'd be hard pressed to find a better illustration of how self-described progressives like Howard Schultz operate. He makes a big show of major reform in the name of equity. He says that he'll make Starbucks lobbies and bathrooms open to everybody, whether they make a purchase or not. So he'll turn them into, you know, basically like refugee camps.
And he goes on national television to berate his employees for being white supremacists. And then just a few years later, he's gone from the company. Starbucks has started opening offices in Tennessee for up to 2,000 employees to escape the mayhem of Seattle. The bathroom policy returned because vagrants were treating Starbucks like a crack house.
And Starbucks has to pay tens of millions of dollars because, in fact, there were no white supremacists working at Starbucks. But Starbucks did have an awful lot of executives who despised the white working class. But Starbucks isn't the only thing that Howard Schultz has left in ruins without any sense of shame or reflection or self-awareness.
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Chapter 6: What legal actions were taken by white employees against discrimination?
After decades of relentlessly promoting left-wing politics, which have destroyed his hometown of Seattle, Schultz has now fled to Florida just in time to avoid a massive new wealth tax that Washington state is implementing. Watch. Starbucks founder Howard Schultz announced he and his family have moved to Florida just one day after the millionaire's tax passed the House.
Schultz says the move is part of his retirement, but some Republicans argue this timing is no coincidence. It's called capital flight. We spent 24 hours talking about why you shouldn't do things like pass income taxes when you don't need them. He is just an harbinger of things to come.
Now, notice that Schultz, even as he's abandoning the city where he lived for decades, still can't bring himself to condemn any aspect of the left-wing politics that have destroyed Seattle. He can't condemn the fact that leftists have turned downtown into a drug den. He can't condemn the anti-white racism that just cost his company tens of millions of dollars.
Can't even condemn the fact that leftists are attempting to confiscate 10% of all household income over $1 million, even though the Constitution of Washington State makes it illegal to tax income. Something like 30,000 residents will be directly affected, although, of course, the actual effect is going to be much larger than that.
When businesses close and rich people leave, the result is fewer jobs and less tax revenue. It's pretty simple. It's important to understand that Howard Schultz is not the exception. There's now an epidemic of rich leftists fleeing from Democrat-controlled jurisdictions. These people supported Democrat policies and helped to get those policies passed.
In fact, now they're running away from the natural consequences of those policies. Jeff Bezos moved from Seattle to Florida in 2023. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin moved from California, which is also planning a massive wealth tax to Florida in the past year. Ken Griffin, the co-founder and CEO of the hedge fund Citadel,
who donated to both Obama and Biden, just moved from Chicago, where Citadel employees were getting robbed all the time, to Miami. Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber, moved from California to Austin. Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg, who spent half a billion dollars to help elect Democrats in 2020, just announced the purchase of a mansion in Miami. So he's apparently leaving California as well. Watch.
Mark Zuckerberg could be the latest California billionaire to land in Florida. The Wall Street Journal reporting the Meta CEO bought a waterfront mansion in the Sunshine State and plans to move by April. Zuckerberg is among the latest of the ultra wealthy fleeing California as state lawmakers threaten a massive wealth tax.
And Florida real estate agents are telling the Journal they've been working nonstop showing properties to Californians since the new tax was proposed. And on and on it goes. We're witnessing a mass exodus of billionaires from states that have been destroyed by their politics.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of the new Office of LGBTQIA Plus Affairs?
Watch. What I can tell the oligarchs is that the American people are sick and tired of their greed. They are sick and tired of billionaires paying a lower tax rate than the average American worker. They are sick and tired of large corporations like Tesla and SpaceX
and many other large corporations making billions of dollars in profit a year and paying nothing, zero zilch, in federal income taxes. They are sick and tired of people like Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, who is spending $20 million to defeat this tax on billionaires. Mr. Brin, you are worth $245 billion. Since Trump was elected, you have become over $100 billion richer.
Listen to the needs of working people. Stop threatening the people of California. Start paying your fair share of taxes. Well, this is all just slop. It sounds good if you're stupid, but there's a couple of problems here, starting with the assumption that billionaires have all their money just like sitting in a bank account. They don't.
If you want a billionaire to pay a massive new tax, he's going to have to offload a lot of company stock. And when all the rich people are forced to sell their stock, the market will tank and everyone's 401k will plummet. That's the first issue. The second issue is that there's a reason that most major corporations aren't paying much income tax.
In many cases, they've lost a lot of money when they were starting up. So they're offsetting their current profits with their previous losses. And in other cases, they're issuing stock grants or investing in new factories, which they're allowed to write off because we want businesses to invest in infrastructure.
It's much better for the American economy if companies like SpaceX or Tesla invest in their own growth instead of Bernie Sanders taking the money and redistributing it to some left wing NGO. Because that's what he wants. That's the option he wants. He wants to take this money so he can give it to NGOs and nonprofits on the left.
But what we want as Americans, we want we want rockets and robots, not more Somali daycares and leering centers. But I'm not really sure about that. It depends on what the robots are doing. Certainly, I want more rockets. But even if you don't buy any of those arguments, the fact remains that no tax, no matter how big, would actually be sustainable.
If Bernie Sanders rounded up every billionaire in the country and forced them to liquidate all of their assets and immediately surrender every dime to the US Treasury, the resulting money would fund the US federal government for roughly 10 months. 10 months, that's it. That's if you take all of their money, leave them all broke and poor, and unhoused, as we say, you get 10 months out of that.
That's it. In exchange for crashing the stock market and bankrupting every billionaire and destroying the economy and sending a clear signal that no one should ever build a new company in the United States ever again, in exchange for all that, we get 10 months of funding the government. What do you do after that? All the billionaires are broke. Who are you taxing then, Bernie?
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Chapter 8: How do wealth taxes impact rich individuals and state economies?
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The city of New York under Mayor Mamdani has unveiled a brand new agency, very important. It does very important work. It's called the Office of LGBTQIA Plus Affairs. Just unveiled this yesterday. So this is what he's focused on. Really, really crucial stuff. Watch.
What we are doing is to create a central office solely focused on the well-being of queer New Yorkers so that their needs may be better met by every city agency across our administration.
The queer community as well as intersecting communities and adjacent communities are under extreme attack in this country from all angles it seems, from the highest levels of government to society in general and to even sometimes people that we consider friendly fire, unfortunately.
And so now more than ever in this moment, it is so critical, I think, to have trans leadership because New York City is where the LGBTQ civil rights movement started. The so-called queer community is under attack, he says. In what way exactly? Well, he can't say. I mean, can anyone list even one way in which the quote unquote queer community is under attack? Well, of course they can't.
But here's what I want to say about this. You know, you look at this. You listen to that guy talking, you hear this guy in a dress, and it feels like a relic from an ancient world. It feels like the ancient world of 2021. And that's because the left seems to have mostly moved on from, or at least tried to minimize, tried to marginalize its LGBT extremism. You don't hear about it as much anymore.
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