Episode 79 - Unhinged BLM Leader Demands Murder. Shocking News About COVID Deaths. Democrats Lie About Police Reform.
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A Trump supporter was shot and killed in Portland, Oregon, at the same time as violent clashes broke out between supporters of President Trump and counter-protesters in the streets of the city. Rep. Matt Gaetz has a hot take about this.
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Welcome to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz. Let's talk about the news. The news
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in Portland is death with apparently a Trump supporter dying in the violence and the riots
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there. Here's the latest. One person is dead from a shooting in downtown Portland last night.
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At the same time, we saw violent clashes around the city between supporters of President Trump
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and counter protesters. This was the scene at Southwest 3rd and Alder. Homicide detectives
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were there most of the night and they say the victim was shot in the chest. Here's my hot take.
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There are many places on the planet Earth where political violence is necessary, where people
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will not achieve freedom as the consequence of the United States sending our best, but
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will in fact need to summon their own best to fight and yes, even at times die for the chance
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to live free and for politics. America is not a place where people need to be dying because
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of their politics, because of riots, because of this type of just straight up destruction.
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And so whether that violence comes from the right or the left, I condemn it universally.
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America is the greatest country on Earth and we do not need to see our fellow Americans dying
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in the streets like this. But Portland isn't the only place seeing the incitement of violence.
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Listen to what a Black Lives Matter leader, a leader of this group, is saying to an organized
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group on the streets of Washington, D.C. Shocking stuff.
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I'm at the point where I'm going to put these police in the f***ing grave.
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I'm at the point where I want to burn the f***ing White House down.
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I want to take it to the senators. I want to take it to the Congress.
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I want to take the fight to them. And at the end of the day, if they ain't going to hear us,
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The same way I f***ing police up in New York, I f***ing cops up here in D.C.
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The same way I bust police in the head in New York, I bust police in the head in D.C.
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Now, it's a lot of people, and I'm going to be honest, it's a lot of people that's on this
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front line. And one of the things that I always say, don't get on this f***ing front line if
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you ain't going to f***ing fight. Don't get on this front line if you ain't going to take
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no hit. Don't get on this front line. When the police f***ing push up, you push back.
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If you're going to be on this front line and them racist, nasty ass, punk ass f***ing police
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Put cops in their graves. Burn down our country, our leaders. And here's what America needs to know.
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The big businesses in this country, the corporations, the left-wing billionaires who are funding the
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Black Lives Matter movement are funding this rhetoric on our streets. So in this machine
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that they have concocted, the inputs are the millions and millions and millions of donations
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that you have seen from corporate America, some of the biggest companies in our country.
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Then the process is what you hear in these chants and in these really left-wing calls for attacks
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against America, her leaders, her law enforcement, her people. And then the outcome is what you see in
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Portland. And frankly, we're seeing those outcomes in Kenosha as well, where Americans are in the streets
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in unsafe, uncertain interactions with one another. At times, those interactions are leading to murder
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and death. And this is not the consequence of, you know, Donald Trump's presidency. This is consequence
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of tolerance for this type of conduct in liberal Democrat-run cities and states. You know, if this
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were happening in the state of Florida, Governor DeSantis would shut it down. If this were happening in
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the state of Texas, Governor Abbott would shut it down. But it's happening in places where I think
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you've got some Democrat mayors and some Democrat governors who think it will help politically to turn
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America into a place of violence leading up to the election where Donald Trump will be on the ballot. They
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hope that that will inflame people in their politics. But it's not worth seeing our fellow Americans die.
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It's not worth this type of very dangerous rhetoric funded by left-wing billionaires in corporate
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America, like you heard on the streets of Washington, D.C. I condemn all of it. I think
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that we should unify as a country to solve problems, to beat the coronavirus, to rebuild our economy,
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to re-domesticate manufacturing, to become more resilient against China, and then to execute a foreign
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policy that ensures that we are able to invest our treasure and our best people in American
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greatness. That sounds a lot better than what you're hearing in Kenosha, in Portland, and on
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the streets of Washington, D.C. Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was on Meet the Press expressing the
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frustration that the Trump administration has with these local officials who, by consequence of their
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weakness, their bad decisions, their, I think, misunderstanding of the riots going on in their
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communities, are really making it hard to work together to create safety and law and order.
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We've had over 97 federal law enforcement arrests that were conducted in Portland, but largely the DA
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they're there in Portland, Chuck, you know, he says, even if you accost a police officer, we're not going
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to enforce that. It's just not what most Americans believe should be happening in our cities.
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Refusing to prosecute people who assault the police, refusing to enforce the law just because you've got
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some sympathy with the protesters, that is not an appropriate use of prosecutorial discretion.
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If someone attacks or assaults the police, they ought to face the consequences. That is how we
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ensure that we continue to have good people willing to engage in the profession of policing
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to make our neighborhoods and our communities and our country safe.
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Democrats are very concerned about the bump that Republicans seem to be getting as a consequence
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of not only our convention, but the Democrats' convention as well. And while I can't get into
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too much politics on our podcast, I can share that the greatest increases for the president have been
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among African-American men. That is where we have really seen a surge lately. I think that the commentary
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from Vernon Jones, from Herschel Walker, from Jack Brewer at the convention really cut through the normal
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back and forth of politics that we see at these things. And I think a lot of African-American men
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are wanting to, you know, get the benefit of the economic progress our country has seen under
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President Trump. I think that it speaks directly to a kitchen table issue when you're talking about
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people's job and their progress and their wages. And that is what I think was pretty effectively
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accomplished. So what does the Biden campaign do in response? They trot out Cedric Richmond,
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a national co-chair of the Biden campaign, a House Democrat, a leader in the Congressional Black
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Caucus. And he just straight up lies to the American people on Meet the Press. Listen to
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I think now black men see clearly what they have to lose. They can get killed and the president won't say
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a word, won't utter Jacob Blake's name, will not talk about police reform.
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Now listen to what he said there. The president won't talk about police reform. That is a lie.
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President Trump has signed multiple executive orders to try to enhance the best type of policing
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within our communities. And I just want to talk about one such change in policy the president talked
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about and the president led and it related to chokeholds. In a lot of these various grant proposals,
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that are submitted by local police departments, there is discretion for the agencies of the
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federal government to rank what grants to offer. And the Trump administration, I think very wisely,
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didn't do a national ban, didn't do something that would stifle innovation, would stop the research
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that's going on about different types of constraints. And we've talked about those on the podcast.
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But what he did was he said that if you are a local police department and you want to apply
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for one of these federal grants, you're going to get priority if you've done your homework,
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if you've implemented the research, if you've got policies that create de-escalation rather than
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the type of environment that would create a chokehold. Here's the president talking about this
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What's needed now is not more stoking of fear and division. We need to bring law enforcement
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and communities closer together, not to drive them apart. Under the executive order I'm signing
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today, we will prioritize federal grants from the Department of Justice to police departments
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that seek independent credentialing, certifying that they meet high standards. And in fact, in certain
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cases, the highest standard, that's where they do the best on the use of force and de-escalation
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training. As part of this new credentialing process, chokeholds will be banned, except if
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an officer's life is at risk. We will provide more resources for co-responders, such as social
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workers who can help officers manage these complex encounters. We will have reform without
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undermining our many great and extremely talented law enforcement officers.
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So there's the president talking about policing reform, working on policing reform. Senator Tim
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Scott working on policing reform. And Cedric Richmond realizing that the Biden campaign is
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sagging in support among African-American males willing to go out and meet the press and lie to the
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country. It's really shameful because you know what? There's a lot of stuff we agree on. We should not have
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no-knock warrants. Why won't Nancy Pelosi put a bill on the floor, put the Breonna Taylor Act
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on the floor to end no-knock warrants? I would vote for it. And by the way, you know who has the
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companion bill? Senator Rand Paul. So you've got Republicans willing to engage in reforms, but they
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don't want the police reform. They want the issue. And that's what's so insidious about Cedric
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Richmond's interview. If Democrats really wanted solutions, they would take these various provisions
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that have been workshopped in committee that have been worked on for years by Senator Tim Scott and
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put them up for a vote. Some will pass, some will fail. But I think a bunch of them will get signed
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into law and our country would be a better place. But they're willing to accept policing that isn't as
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good, policies that aren't as good, so that Cedric Richmond and others like him in the Biden camp are
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able to go out and lie to the American people on television. And you know what? The lies aren't
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working. The truth is cutting through. Herschel Walker, Vernon Jones, Jack Brewer, so many others. Tito
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Ortiz recently out there talking about the benefits of the Trump presidency to so many different groups
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of Americans. And I think that positivity will ultimately prevail. And then hopefully, we could
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actually work on some of the things that will improve policing for everyone.
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6%. That's the number that's been trending. The CDC releasing information that only 6% of the deaths
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from coronavirus were not linked with some other comorbidity. We've talked on the podcast before
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about how respiratory comorbidities are impactful to the acuity level of someone's health condition if
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they contract the coronavirus. But if you listen to every episode, you know that the number one
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comorbidity is obesity, right? And so 94% of the people who have died of coronavirus have had some
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comorbidity, whether it's asthma, obesity, diabetes, you know, some other autoimmune deficiency.
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And it is quite something for politicians to continue to exercise their power by seeking
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lockdowns and shut-ins and restrictions and making people's businesses illegal and not letting them go to
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church when, not the vast majority, when almost everyone who has died of coronavirus has had some
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comorbidity linked to that. And so we've been saying all along, a lot like the governor of Florida,
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if you're a little bit older, if you've got one of these comorbidities, you know, maybe you ought to
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self-isolate, take the social distancing a little more seriously, don't travel where you'll be
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necessarily tucked in with someone, don't go to any gathering of people that's particularly large,
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get yourself tested maybe a little more frequently. All of those things can be done without taking the
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other, you know, vast majority of Americans and subjecting them to these conditions of economic
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malaise, social discord, and other problems that have arisen from the coronavirus that we've documented
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from mental health challenges to drug abuse, all kinds of really negative impacts when you've got these
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pervasive wide-scale lockdowns. Now, this is not to say that, you know, coronavirus is not real or that
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it's not very worthy of our consideration. To the contrary, a lot of people do have comorbidities.
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You know, there are a lot of people who are obese, who have asthma, who have other concerns that ought to
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be in the front of their mind when considering their cleanliness, their interactions with others,
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and their strategy to confront the virus. But each and every person does not need to have the same
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strategy to confront the virus. And I think that if we look at this data, we'll be well informed. And I
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think we'll be, I think, in a better position to make policy decisions to spark the great American
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revival that we need to return to the economic activity, the production activity, the trade activity
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Guy Benson is a Fox News contributor, and a friend of his got a note from a neighbor. Now, Guy's friend
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had simply put out a Trump-Pence 2020 sign in their yard. And so for the grave offense of having a Trump
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sign in their yard, this is the note that they got from their neighbor. It is amazing.
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Dear neighbor, thank you for proudly and prominently displaying your signs of political support.
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These symbols make it impossible for us to ignore how you truly feel about us as your neighbors.
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They make abundantly clear to those of us who are women, people of color, immigrants, and those who
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may worship or love differently from you that you simply don't care about us at all. We know that in
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our times of need, if we are scared or hurting, we cannot turn to you for help because you hold no
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charity or grace in your heart for us. You make it clear by these signs that you neither respect us
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as humans nor believe we are entitled to equal protections and rights under the laws of this
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country. You do not believe that we deserve life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness, that we are
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not really Americans to you simply because we may not look like you or share your beliefs.
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So again, thank you for showing us the prejudice and hate that truly fills your heart and telling us
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so proudly that although we may be your neighbor, we are not equally yours. Sincerely, your neighbors who
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dare to be different. And then as if that were not enough, they have, P.S. If you believe yourself to be a
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Christian, which we also assume is likely, thank you for further proving that you do not hold true
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Christian values or follow the teachings of Christ, who preached love and acceptance for all neighbors.
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We sure hope you enjoy the heat. Condemned to hell by your neighbors who say that they are certain
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that you have hate in your heart and prejudice, that you don't care if they have life,
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that you wouldn't extend them grace in time of need merely because you are showing political support
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for the president and vice president of the United States. Give me a freaking break. Also,
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how in the hell is someone to presume to know your faith just because you have a Trump sign?
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And while it's true that there are a lot of Christians who support the president,
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I know plenty of people who are Jews, who hold no faith at all, who have a variety of different
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beliefs who also support the president. It's, I would say, pretty bigoted to just assume that
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because someone is a Trump supporter, they aren't necessarily, you know, hateful or unkind or ungracious
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or that they have any negative views to their neighbors. So it is just like the most passive
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aggressive snowflake thing in the world to castigate someone just because they have a political sign in
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their yard. And it tells us where we are in our politics today. You know, it used to be the case that
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the left claimed that they were like the great defenders of free speech and the exchange of
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ideas. Political speech is the most protected speech in our country. And it's not offensive
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to put up a yard sign for the president of the United States to your neighbors. And the fact that
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now the new like organizing mental doctrine of the left is that like if you happen to support Trump,
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if you happen to back his policies or his candidacy, then you are necessarily a bigot and a racist and
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a horrible person. That leads to this cancel culture that erodes our American values and ideals.
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And I sure hope that we can be a little more neighborly despite our politics and our imperfections.
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The peace deal and the normalizing of diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab
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Emirates is really creating some concrete result. It's not just an on paper deal. It's leading to
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better commerce, better trade. You've already seen the UAE team start to set up their footprint in
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Israel so that diplomatic relations can exist in real time and in person to the greatest extent
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possible. And BBC's got the story, the first flight from LL Airlines from Israel to the United Arab
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Emirates has landed. And it just is true throughout human history that societies that engage in trade,
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engage in commerce, travel to one another, work with one another, are less likely to go to war
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with one another. Less war in the Middle East is obviously good for America. It's good for our ally Israel.
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And it's great to see the historic deal between the UAE and Israel creating these results, creating this
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travel, and hopefully creating a safer and more peaceful world.
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Adele, the singer, is now a cultural appropriator. That's right, Breitbart has the story.
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Adele apparently wore a bikini with the Jamaican flag along with some sort of dreadlock, cornrow
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situation in her hair, and also a big Jamaican-looking feather plume over it. You'll have to check it out
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on the link on our social media. But if you don't know what a cultural appropriator is, that is someone
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who, I guess, wears the clothes, adopts the culture, engages in some sort of signal of the culture of
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someone without the Woketopians blessing you with a sufficient amount of credibility
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or understanding or background in that culture to be able to do so. So I think like the first time I
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learned of cultural appropriation, it was the story where a girl wore a beautiful Chinese dress to prom
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and posted pictures of that on social media and then was lamb blasted for Chinese cultural
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appropriation. I mean, I don't know. I went to Florida State University, a college where a white
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boy rides around in an Indian headdress and then throws a flaming spear into the 50-yard line to start
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football games. That was not cultural appropriation. It was something that, frankly, the Seminole Indian
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tribe took a great deal of pride in. They made the clothing and the wardrobe. They engage in commerce
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and partnership with the university on health care, on cultural preservation, on a variety of other
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things that I think enrich the connection with the Seminole Indian tribe and Florida State. But in this
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particular case, when it is a fellow Woketopian, like Adele, getting busted for cultural appropriation,
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it really raises this dynamic. You now have in the world of political correctness these witch hunters,
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right? They've got to go out and find people who are violating the unwritten rules of political
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correctness and they have to hunt them. And eventually, there are more witch hunters than
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there are witches, right? And so you've got to sort of drown people all the same because you've got an
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objective to demonstrate your wokeness by being critical of someone else's relative lack of
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wokeness. And so here, Adele, not a conservative, not a supporter of the president, but under fire
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from her fellow Woketopians because of the Jamaica bikini, the plume, and the cornrows.
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Be best, everyone. I guess that's my advice to Adele and all those criticizing her.
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