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00:00:00.000Political fallout continues after a mass shooting at a gay club in Colorado, railroad unions threaten economy crippling strike, and global redistribution is the new Biden climate change plan.
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00:02:39.000On the aftermath of this horrifying shooting at a Colorado gay nightclub called Club Q, The political ramifications continue to be felt.
00:02:49.000People on the left continue to blame anyone who opposes Drag Queen Story Hour or people who believe that same-sex marriage is not on the same moral par as traditional marriage for the shooting.
00:03:00.000The person who committed the shooting, we are still finding out, seems to be a person with significant mental illness.
00:03:06.000Again, this is always the common thread with these mass shooters.
00:03:09.000These are not sane and rational people, generally, who decide to pick up a gun because they heard somebody on the radio.
00:03:13.000Instead, it's generally people with a significant mental illness, people with a history of violence, who decide that they are going to commit an act of violence for God knows what reason.
00:03:23.000According to the Wall Street Journal, The suspect was arrested on murder and hate crime charges, according to police court records.
00:03:29.000Five people were killed and 19 injured when a gunman identified by the police opened fire inside the nightclub late on Saturday.
00:03:34.000We don't mention on this show or on the website, dailywire.com, we don't mention the names of mass shooters because they seek attention, they want attention.
00:03:41.000Would be better if the rest of the media followed suit, but since they won't, we will continue to say that we are not going to mention the names of mass shooters.
00:03:48.000Over a year ago, police confiscated firearms from the shooter after he held his family hostage at gunpoint, according to two law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation during that June 2020 incident.
00:03:58.000The shooter's mother told police her son was threatening to hurt her with a homemade bomb, weapons, and ammo, according to an El Paso County Sheriff's Office account of the incident at the time.
00:04:07.000The shooter was arrested on two counts of felony menacing and three counts of first-degree kidnapping.
00:04:11.000No explosives were found, the Sheriff's Office said at the time.
00:04:14.000The case never proceeded, and ultimately, the files were sealed.
00:04:22.000Guns were seized from the suspect pursuant to a search warrant, but authorities did not use the state's red flag law according to a law enforcement official.
00:04:30.000So, what is the purpose of red flag laws if you are not actually going to use red flag laws on people who hold their family at gunpoint and then threaten to blow up the house if police arrive?
00:04:39.000Under Colorado's Red Flag Law, a shooter could have been barred from possessing or buying guns for at least 364 days after the bomb threat incident.
00:04:45.000The law allows family members and police to ask a judge to bar an individual from possessing firearms if they pose a significant risk of harming others or themselves with a gun, and then judges have an option to extend the order or cut it short.
00:04:55.000According to a report from the Colorado Attorney General's Office, the law was used fewer than 125 times in 2020, the first year it was implemented.
00:05:01.000The report also said that more education was needed to ensure that the public knew how to use the law.
00:05:07.000Why didn't the police actually push for the removal of weapons from this obviously insane person?
00:05:12.000Democrat Steve Fenberg, the Colorado State Senate President, said he wants to know why the red flag law was not used, calling it a work in progress.
00:05:20.000This is fairly common across the country, unfortunately.
00:05:22.000There are red flags always, literally always, except for the Las Vegas shooter, there are red flags always around these mass shooters, and nobody does anything.
00:05:29.000And then everybody is shocked when people who are obviously a threat go and commit acts of evil.
00:05:35.000It also happens to be that this person actually changed his name.
00:05:37.000The shooter actually changed his name at the age of 15, apparently.
00:05:42.000According to the Washington Post, his parents separated when he was a toddler.
00:05:46.000When he was 12, his mother was arrested for suspected arson, according to court documents.
00:05:49.000She was later found guilty of a lesser offense in connection with the same incident.
00:05:52.000At age 15, according to the Washington Post, he became the target of a particularly vicious bout of online bullying, in which insulting accusations were posted to a website along with his name, photos, and online aliases, according to a review of the site by the Washington Post.
00:06:04.000At some point, a YouTube account was created under his name, featuring a crude, profanity-laden animation under the title, Asian Homosexual Gets Molested.
00:06:11.000So this guy seems like a really solid player in society.
00:06:16.000For unstated reasons, just before his 16th birthday, he petitioned a Texas court with two of his grandparents' names on the document to legally change his entire name.
00:06:24.000His mom's name did not appear on the petition.
00:06:28.000Whether the events of the shooter's childhood had any bearing on Saturday's horrific violence is unknown, but public records and databases had been silent about this person for the first couple decades of his life.
00:06:37.000One of the reasons is because apparently he changed his name.
00:06:41.000Now, supposedly, the alleged shooter was on the membership rolls of a local church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but he was not active at the church to the best of the church's knowledge.
00:06:52.000The mayor of Colorado Springs said the shooting had the trappings of a hate crime.
00:06:55.000Okay, so here is what we know about the shooter.
00:06:58.000Not much, except he appears to have an extraordinarily troubled family history.
00:07:02.000He seems like a nut, considering that he was literally threatening his family with a gun.
00:07:07.000And we know that he was bullied when he was a kid.
00:07:13.000By the way, we should take a moment to sound off on the heroism of Richard Fierro, who served 15 years in the military and who took down the shooter.
00:07:20.000This could have been, I mean, it was awful and horrible and five people are dead.
00:07:24.000It could have been significantly deadlier.
00:07:25.000According to the New York Times, Richard Fierro was at a table at Club Q with his wife, daughter and friends on Saturday, watching a drag show when the sudden flash of gunfire ripped across the nightclub and instincts forged during four combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan instantly kicked in.
00:07:37.000In an interview at his house on Monday, where his wife and daughter were still recovering from injuries, Fiero 45, who spent 15 years as an army officer and left as a major in 2013, described charging through the cast of the club, tackling the gunman, and beating him bloody with the gunman's own gun.
00:07:49.000He said, I don't know exactly what I did, I just went into combat mode.
00:07:51.000I just know I have to kill the guy before he kills us.
00:08:03.000He now relishes his role as a civilian and father, watching one of his daughter's old high school friends perform, apparently, in this drag show.
00:08:11.000This could have been a lot deadlier if it were not for this hero taking down this, uh, this evil monster.
00:08:16.000The media have decided that the real story here is not about failure to enforce a red flag law.
00:08:22.000The real story here is not about the inability of family to properly report violent mental illness.
00:08:29.000The real story here is that if you oppose same-sex marriage, That if you believe that Drag Queen Story Hour is bad, that if you believe that the politics of transgressivism and the philosophy of transgressivism is negative for the United States, the belief that subjective identity should not be the only moral yardstick that we use in order to measure how society makes its rules, if you believe any of those things, you are personally responsible for active evil.
00:08:52.000This is a game, again, the left loves to play.
00:08:56.000Almost every time there is some sort of mass shooting, generally by a person who is nuts, The immediate call is for suppression of speech that the left does not like.
00:09:07.000It does not matter what the shooting is about.
00:09:08.000The suppression of speech is the end goal of members of the media and on the left side of the political spectrum.
00:09:14.000This is how you end up with Brian Broom, a columnist for the Washington Post, writing a piece called, The Colorado Massacre Cannot Be Blamed on Mental Illness.
00:09:25.000Well, I mean, it is hatred presumably preyed on by mental illness.
00:09:31.000And again, the way that this person defines hate is if you oppose our agenda, if you refuse to celebrate all the things we wish you to celebrate, then you are a hater.
00:09:39.000It's not merely that you oppose the agenda and therefore we can have a debate about what society's rules should be.
00:09:46.000No, if you oppose the agenda, this means that you are a hateful person and you are responsible for a nutjob shooting up a gay club in Colorado.
00:09:54.000According to Brian Broome, after the shooting at the LGBTQ Club Q in Colorado Springs, Representative Lauren Boebert, gun rights advocate and representative for her state's third congressional district, tweeted the following, the news out of Colorado Springs is absolutely awful. This morning, the victims and their families are in my prayers. This lawless violence needs to end quickly. In her tweet, Boebert left out the news that a lone gunman entered an LGBTQ space and began shooting, killing five and injuring at least 25.
00:10:14.000I'm betting Boebert did not mention these specifics because that would ruin her brand.
00:10:18.000The gun-toting, queer-hating, God-loving outlaw whose job it is to own the liberals.
00:10:21.000If she had tweeted the specifics of the night and its tragic outcome, it might cause some of her followers to see LGBTQ people as human beings and she can't have that.
00:10:28.000Or, alternatively, she tweeted that a mass shooting was bad.
00:10:33.000And the murder of any American, any innocent American, is a horrific evil.
00:10:40.000And people should not murder other people at gay bars.
00:10:43.000I mean, like, I think everyone agrees on this.
00:10:46.000The notion that there's a wide spectrum of people on the right who disagree with this basic principle is a way of demonizing.
00:10:51.000It is a species of what philosophically we call emotivism, which is you attribute emotions to your enemies as opposed to arguments.
00:10:58.000It's not that you have solid, legitimate arguments in favor of societal rules regarding marriage.
00:11:02.000It's not that you have legitimate, logical arguments about why children should not attend drag shows.
00:11:10.000No, it's all just hatred and rage and fear.
00:12:56.000So again, if you say a boy is a boy and a girl is a girl, this means that you are actively attempting to get someone to murder people at an LGBTQ club.
00:13:04.000Quote, after ginning up hatred for a particular community through fear, lies, and conspiracies, all they have to do is sit back and wait for someone to do their work for them.
00:13:10.000So Lauren Boebert is responsible for this.
00:13:14.000Nothing in politics says Brian Broome is effective as fear, and conservatives such as Boebert know exactly how to weaponize it.
00:13:19.000A conservative mind is more concerned that a drag queen is entering a classroom to read a story to children than a gunman is entering a classroom to shoot them, and I will never understand that.
00:13:32.000I'm very concerned about gunmen entering classrooms to shoot them, which is why I've suggested that schools be protected like banks.
00:13:36.000It's why I insist that my children's school have extraordinary protection for the kids.
00:13:41.000Also, I am deeply concerned about the indoctrination of children into transgressive social values.
00:13:46.000I do not think it is good for the country or good for children.
00:13:50.000But again, this is the shtick, and it's not just Brian Broome.
00:13:53.000It's almost every column today from the mainstream media.
00:13:56.000It's Michelle Goldberg over at the New York Times, who has a piece titled, The Massacre at Club Q was only a matter of time.
00:14:02.000It was only a matter of time, you see.
00:14:03.000Because if you say Drag Queen Story Hour is bad, if you say that trans advocacy that claims that little boys and little girls should be taught they can be a member of the opposite sex, and that we all have to socially transition them at the age of five, if you say that's bad, that you're responsible for murder, that's Michelle Goldberg's case.
00:14:20.000She says the police are still investigating the motive behind the shooting, but we know the suspect is facing hate crime charges and that the attack took place in a climate of escalating anti-gay and anti-trans violence and threats of violence.
00:14:30.000We also know that in recent years, the right has become increasingly fixated on all ages drag shows, part of a growing moral panic about children being groomed into gender nonconformity.
00:14:39.000It's not a moral panic when you literally say that children should be taught at the youngest ages that gender nonconformity is a biological imperative and a morally necessary adjunct to childhood.
00:14:56.000Club Q hosted a drag show on Saturday night and had an all-ages drag brunch scheduled for Sunday.
00:15:00.000Perhaps we'll learn something in the coming days that will put these murders, which took place on the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance, into a new light.
00:15:05.000But right now, it seems hard to separate them from a nationwide campaign of anti-LGBTQ incitement.
00:15:10.000Okay, so we are just going to assume that this shooter decided to go and commit a shooting on Friday night and, uh, or Saturday night in order to prevent a drag brunch scheduled on Sunday or something.
00:15:27.000But I notice that you're jumping real fast to that conclusion because again, the goal here, and it really is, it really is quite nasty.
00:15:35.000The goal here is to lump together everyone who says it is bad to take a four-year-old to watch men dance around scantily clad in women's clothing with people who murder people at gay clubs.
00:15:48.000Michelle Goldberg says during the early years of Donald Trump's administration, conservatives downplayed the contempt for homosexuality and gender nonconformity that had once been central to their movement for grounding racial resentment instead.
00:15:57.000Oh, it wasn't that they got more more tolerant.
00:15:59.000It was that they actually decided on the racism instead of the homophobia because, you know, species of evil.
00:16:04.000Opposition to gay marriage had become a political loser.
00:16:06.000It was hard to pose as champions of wholesome family values while enthusiastically supporting a thrice-married libertine who'd made a cameo in softcore porn.
00:16:12.000But in recent years, as a growing number of kids started identifying as trans, the puritanical tendency on the right has come roaring back.
00:16:18.000It's puritanical, you see, to say that boys are boys and girls are girls and teaching them the opposite is evil.
00:16:29.000She blames Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire.
00:16:34.000She says, now that a mass shooting has drawn attention to the danger of the right's dehumanizing language, many of those who have demagogued about trans kids and drag queens are painting themselves as victims.
00:16:43.000And then she quotes me, tweeting yesterday, the quest by the Democratic leadership and media to link a horrifically evil shooting at a Colorado gay club to anyone who doesn't support a progressive social agenda is ongoing and terrible for the country.
00:16:53.000This, says Michelle Goldberg, was an attempt to frame any call for tolerance and responsibility as intellectual bullying.
00:16:58.000Well, I mean, you are claiming that people are responsible for activities they did not call for.
00:17:03.000I really look forward to the next time, God forbid, there is an attack on sitting Congress members at a baseball game, Michelle Goldberg writing a piece about how Bernie Sanders' rhetoric about healthcare is purely responsible for all of this.
00:17:15.000In an increasing climate of polarization and hate, Congress people are being murdered at baseball games.
00:17:23.000And the idea is you must mirror their priorities or you are responsible for murder.
00:17:28.000And part and parcel of this is downplaying the actual problem of indoctrinating children into radical gender theory and LGBT politics.
00:17:40.000You have to downplay it in order so you can pretend that it's a bunch of people out there who are making a mountain out of a molehill and that mountain is resulting in death.
00:17:48.000And you have, apparently, like half of the staff at NBC News dedicated to this.
00:17:52.000Dedicated to downplaying the problem of children being indoctrinated into radical gender ideology and exposed to sexualized adults cross-dressing.
00:18:17.000Face tattoo syndrome is you walk into a Starbucks, there's a dude with a giant face tattoo, and then you look at him because he has a face tattoo, and he's like, why are you looking at me, man?
00:18:24.000Because you have a face tattoo, that's why.
00:18:47.000You must pretend that it is an act of good.
00:18:49.000This is how you end up with senior NBC News reporter, Brandi Zadrosny, who is engaging in extraordinary levels of journalism here over on MSNBC, suggesting that libs of TikTok and other people who actually report on drag queen story hour or all ages drag shows targeting children for indoctrination into anti-traditional morality, that if you notice it, you're responsible for murder.
00:19:12.000Brandy, explain that, when you hear that, your reaction to it, and then kind of walk us through how rhetoric online, rhetoric from politicians, can ultimately trickle down into real life, and seeing examples of what happened over the weekend.
00:19:27.000I mean, it's a group of marginalized, vulnerable people who are disproportionately The victims of these sort of hate crimes who are just simply saying, please stop.
00:19:39.000Please stop making money and gaining political power on our backs and on violence against us.
00:20:40.000Stochastic terrorist is their favorite term for free speech that I don't like.
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00:22:44.000So again, this is a senior NBC News reporter suggesting, I mean, this is true expert journalism right here, that it does no damage to kids at all, psychologically, sexually, in any way, to take them to shows where men dressed as women gyrate in sexual fashion.
00:23:14.000Yeah, because they targeted drag shows a lot, and in part because Drag Time Story Hour, where a drag queen would come, it was ubiquitous in libraries all over the country, had a drag queen come read a story, it was fun, the kids loved it, and then also some sort of friendly, friendly drag shows.
00:23:31.000It would be on a Sunday brunch, you could bring the kids, they'd see a show, and the far-right conservatives left on this, and they The QAnon narrative?
00:24:18.000Again, just because kids like a thing.
00:24:20.000First of all, I highly doubt if you watch the video of Drag Queen Story Hour, kids seem completely indifferent or confused because this is what kids are when they are confronted by something that makes no sense.
00:24:31.000Such as being dragged by their politically radical parents to watch a man put on fake breasts and gyrate in front of them.
00:24:39.000It turns out this confuses children, which is the entire design.
00:24:42.000Again, the whole design from the left is confuse children, obliterate standards, and then pretend that you are freeing children from standards rather than creating a chaotic world for them that they are unable to navigate.
00:24:53.000It is a problem for children, but Randy Zadrosny says it's good for kids.
00:24:56.000Therefore, it's good for kids, obviously.
00:24:57.000Or maybe you have senior NBC reporter Ben Collins.
00:24:59.000I don't know what's in the water over at NBC, but excellent reporting over from Ben Collins.
00:25:04.000He says drag queen events with kids are fantastic.
00:25:17.000No, instead, they have to go all the way, all the way to, if you object to us sexualizing children, if you object to us sexually indoctrinating children, showing them imagery they shouldn't be shown, making them part of some weird fetishistic activity where men have to twerk in front of small children while dressed as women.
00:25:39.000And if you don't love that, you're responsible for murder.
00:25:42.000So here is Ben Collins, senior reporter, by the way, Ben Collins, I just have to point out, is an actual idiot. So Ben Collins tweeted out, he went after Nate Silver, who is the poll specialist over at FiveThirtyEight.
00:25:54.000And he's like, you know, Nate Silver specialized in being wrong about the polls.
00:25:57.000And then he tweeted out an image of the FiveThirtyEight aggregated sort of poll expectation for 2022 in which it said that Republicans had a 59% chance of taking the Senate and Democrats had a 41% chance of taking the Senate.
00:26:12.000This apparently was Nate Silver being wrong.
00:26:15.000OK, that's not Nate Silver being wrong.
00:26:16.000You just don't understand how percentages work.
00:26:18.000Steph Curry makes about 43% of his three-pointers.
00:26:21.000We're not supposed to be wildly surprised if he hits a three-pointer.
00:26:23.000Anyway, Ben Collins, who is a adult, here he is explaining that drag queen events with kids are wonderful and enlightening and just fully fulfilling.
00:26:35.000For example, the Proud Boys will go and protest any drag brunch, any drag story hour, anything that a child might go to meet a drag queen, just to show them that they're human beings and people.
00:26:47.000They go there and they read Dr. Seuss there.
00:26:50.000They read regular books, but it's read by a drag queen and they have breakfast.
00:26:56.000It is not some hyper-sexual event, but that's what it's viewed as on the far right.
00:27:14.000But again, our reportorial experts say that if you oppose drag queens reading to three-year-olds in libraries, Which, by the way, the whole point of Drag Queen Story Hour is, in fact, to usher children into a world of gender nonconformity.
00:27:38.000So, for example, the Colorado Attorney General, a man named Phil Weiser, he blamed hateful rhetoric.
00:27:43.000He did not characterize what the hateful rhetoric was, but apparently, again, if you just disagree with the left's social agenda, this constitutes hateful rhetoric.
00:27:50.000And using members of the LGBTQ plus community as sort of political pawns in politics.
00:28:03.000We are living in a time of rising hate and rising demonization.
00:28:08.000And all of us in leadership positions have to recognize that our words matter.
00:28:13.000We can and we must have a more inclusive we the people.
00:28:17.000That's a phrase that Justice Ginsburg used.
00:28:21.000Oh, okay, so it's just hateful rhetoric, but we won't define hateful rhetoric.
00:28:26.000It's you oppose our agenda that's hateful.
00:28:29.000Again, the idea here is not merely that you must treat people like human beings with decency.
00:28:35.000We all agree violence against other humans is wrong.
00:28:38.000We're all on the same page on that one.
00:28:40.000It's that you must cheer and you must celebrate.
00:28:42.000And by the way, all of the icons of your own belief system must be hijacked in order to celebrate, which is how you end up with Sonny Hostin.
00:28:50.000who is just a genius of the first order, explaining on The View that Jesus would be Grand Marshal at the Pride Parade.
00:28:57.000I may not be an expert on Christianity, but I'm going to go no on that one, that Jesus would be Grand Marshal at the Pride Parade.
00:29:06.000I have serious, serious doubts as to whether that is the case.
00:29:09.000Here is Sonny Hostin, who is apparently some sort of ordained minister.
00:29:16.000They were in a safe place when this happened.
00:29:18.000They were in a place that accepts them for who they were, and someone came to that place.
00:29:22.000And that's what is so sad, and I don't know that they hide behind religion, because I said this on this show once before, Jesus would be the Grand Marshal at the Pride Parade.
00:29:30.000I don't mean about gay people, I mean in every argument we have.
00:29:39.000Again, what is being required here is celebration.
00:29:43.000Not quote-unquote tolerance, not acceptance, celebration.
00:29:46.000If you refuse to celebrate and mirror the agenda, you are complicit in murder.
00:29:50.000So you have GLAAD, the CEO of GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, doing the same thing.
00:29:56.000She says that politicians' rhetoric is what leads to violence and hate.
00:30:00.000And this logic is never applied on the left side of the aisle.
00:30:02.000You have an entire side of the aisle, the Democratic side of the aisle, promotes lie that law enforcement is systemically racist for years and years and years. And then you get the single most violent spate of riots in American history in 2020. It's like, well, where did this come from? Who knows? It's a mystery wrapped in enigma. But if you say that you oppose same sex marriage, or if you say that small children should not be indoctrinated into the far left social agenda, this means that you're responsible for violence and hate.
00:30:27.000When I feel as though that space was taken over by hate, discrimination, and that is a direct response from the rhetoric from these politicians that we've been seeing. Rhetoric does lead to violence. And we're seeing a 12 year high in hate crimes.
00:31:04.000So the same woman who is saying that it's politicians rhetoric leading to violence and hate says that it's social media that's creating hate and polarization.
00:31:19.000We'll be able to discriminate against you in every area of your life, which is exactly what the left would like, by the way.
00:31:24.000If you are in favor of traditional marriage, if you're not in favor of the indoctrination of your children into a radical gender ideological cult, if you're not in favor of that sort of stuff, they would like to have total control over your life.
00:31:34.000They are cultural imperialists of the highest order.
00:31:36.000It's not about tolerance or acceptance for them.
00:31:38.000This is about cramming down their standard of social morality on you.
00:31:42.000But the only way they can do that is to make sure that you shut the hell up.
00:31:44.000And the only way to shut you up would be presumably to grab the controls of social media and use them against you, which is why they're so angry at Elon Musk for not doing that.
00:31:51.000So here's the GLAAD CEO saying that social media is creating hate and polarization.
00:32:37.000No, literally killing would be the guy who actually shot a bunch of gay people at a nightclub because he's apparently insane and tried to threaten his mom with a gun and threatened cops with a bomb.
00:32:45.000But they didn't do anything to take his guns away.
00:32:47.000That would be the person who did the actual killing.
00:32:49.000But the idea here is social media must crack down or there will be mass death.
00:32:53.000Now, the More unintelligent members of the Democratic caucus go even further than this.
00:32:59.000They don't just say it's on a specific topic, they say it's about everything.
00:33:01.000So for example, Maxine Waters, she of the very warm relationship with Sam Bankman Freed while sitting on the House Oversight Committee, the House Banking Subcommittee.
00:33:10.000Maxine Waters, she says on MSNBC that Elon Musk reallowing Donald Trump to go on Twitter Will lead to an upsurge in domestic terrorism.
00:33:19.000He will lead the domestic terrorists on Twitter, says Maxine Waters, who has suggested openly that people be confronted in public places if they disagree with her on politics.
00:33:29.000Congressman Waters, your reaction to Trump being back on Twitter?
00:33:33.000Well, I'm terribly disturbed about it because I know that he's going to try and use it to continue to organize his constituency.
00:33:43.000And it also gives him an opportunity to try and make people believe why he should be President of the United States.
00:33:52.000So he's going to politicize it, he's going to use it, and all of those domestic terrorists that he's leading will have a voice.
00:34:46.000You know, first of all, I think something we often forget as Americans is that billionaires exist as a class of people who have that much money at our collective pleasure.
00:34:57.000It is a policy choice to allow some people to accumulate that much money, hundreds of billions of dollars in the case of people in the United States, before everybody has the chance to live with dignity.
00:35:10.000Other countries make that choice very differently.
00:35:12.000We have chosen historically to heavily prioritize having billionaires over having dignity for all people.
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00:37:59.000She is suggesting that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is fomenting violence against her because he says that he is going to keep her off the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
00:38:07.000Now, of course, that's turnabout as fair play.
00:38:09.000You remember that Nancy Pelosi decided that she was going to boot a couple of Republicans off of committees.
00:38:13.000Now, I may not like those Republicans very much, but that ain't her job.
00:38:17.000Parties get to pick the members of the committees.
00:38:19.000When they are in the minority, you pick the members of your party who you wish to be on the committee.
00:38:22.000Nancy Pelosi broke those rules, and now Kevin McCarthy is going to do the same thing.
00:38:27.000So now, Ilhan Omar has put out a statement talking about what a victim she is.
00:38:32.000And people need to stop saying mean things about her because it's causing people to threaten her with violence.
00:38:38.000Don't threaten Ilhan Omar with violence.
00:38:40.000It's evil to threaten people with violence.
00:38:42.000Also, Ilhan Omar is a terrible person and a garbage congresswoman.
00:38:45.000Those two things can live comfortably in one's head.
00:38:49.000My favorite part of her statement is where she tries to attribute antisemitism to the Republican caucus.
00:38:53.000First of all, get the word antisemitism out of your mouth, Ilhan Omar.
00:38:58.000Ilhan Omar lecturing anyone about antisemitism is the equivalent of O.J.
00:39:01.000Simpson lecturing anybody about marital delicacy.
00:39:13.000She hobnobs with people who are warm toward terrorism.
00:39:16.000At the very, very least, she's engaged in antisemitism herself fairly clearly, repeatedly.
00:39:21.000And yet again, the idea is that if you point any of this out, then you're increasing the violence against her.
00:39:27.000She says, McCarthy's efforts to repeatedly single me out for scorn and hatred, including threatening to strip me from my committee, does nothing to address the issues our constituents deal with.
00:39:35.000It does nothing to address inflation, healthcare, or solve the climate crisis.
00:39:38.000What it does is gin up fear and hate against Somali Americans.
00:39:43.000Are you standing for all Somali Americans now?
00:39:45.000And anyone who shares my identity and further divide us up along racial and ethnic lines.
00:39:50.000Again, listening to this lady talk about divisions along racial and ethnic lines after engaging in the intersectionality lie is quite amazing.
00:39:57.000And then she says, I will not stop fighting for an America that does not single out people based on their race or religion.
00:40:02.000Actually, that's pretty much all she fights for is an America that judges people based on race and religion.
00:40:14.000And policies I don't like are a form of white supremacy.
00:40:17.000This is the point of a column over at the Los Angeles Times by a person named Gene Guerrero, claiming that if you oppose affirmative action, you also are a white supremacist, probably a violent white supremacist.
00:40:27.000So Gene Guerrero says the Republican activists leading a decades-long assault on affirmative action, which is poised to succeed in the Supreme Court claim, they want to eliminate racism and create a colorblind society.
00:40:36.000Their propaganda is so persuasive that 73% of Americans, including most people of color, believe race or ethnicity should not be a factor in college admissions.
00:40:45.000The white supremacists are so good at their job that even a majority of black people are like, we don't like affirmative action, apparently.
00:40:51.000That's how good the white supremacists are.
00:40:53.000She says those same activists who have stoked the flames of antagonism toward affirmative action have close ties to the architects of this country's metastasizing white nationalist movement.
00:41:02.000These links reveal the activists' ultimate agenda, which has nothing to do with ending racism.
00:41:07.000Among them is Ward Connerly, former University of California Regent.
00:41:18.000In 1996, he spearheaded the first state ban on considering race or gender in public education.
00:41:24.000Last month, Connerly, who has been formerly protested being labeled a black man, spoke outside the Supreme Court at a rally for his dear friend Edward Blum, who's leading the high-profile lawsuits against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina.
00:41:35.000And Connerly said, Dr. King had a dream.
00:41:47.000Larry Elder, another black man who is apparently white.
00:41:51.000Just solid stuff here from this LA Times columnist.
00:41:55.000The white supremacists are behind everything.
00:41:59.000Lower courts have consistently recognized universities have a legitimate interest in diversifying because it benefits all students and better prepares them for a multiracial world.
00:42:06.000And they've recognized that other mechanisms for achieving it aren't nearly as effective.
00:42:09.000But diversity has never been the goal of Affirmative Action's opponents.
00:42:12.000The long history of ties to racist groups shows what the movement's goals really are, to preserve white power and to cynically enlist us all in that project.
00:42:19.000Okay, first of all, if you want to preserve white power, then presumably you wouldn't make it like your chief goal to get Asians into college.
00:42:27.000Which is essentially what these lawsuits do.
00:42:29.000Because it's Asians who have been disproportionately harmed by affirmative action, not white Americans.
00:42:51.000Remember, the same people who are labeling things white supremacy will also then suggest that virtually every authority in American life, from the unofficial to the official, be used to quash said violence and evil.
00:43:04.000You cannot have a democratic republic on this basis.
00:43:07.000If your opponents are so outside the realm of reason that you cannot have discussions about their ideas, you have to blame them for acts of violence so that any indicator that they want the act of violence, like any indicator that they want the act of violence, then you can't have, you just cannot have a functional republic on this basis.
00:43:30.000Now it's the mainstream left increasingly, blaming its political opponents for every act of violence they can find under the sun as a predicate to cracking down on speech.
00:43:39.000That's truly dangerous stuff for the freedoms that Americans enjoy.
00:43:43.000Alrighty, guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.