00:00:00I want to be clear that the culture of rape, sexual assault, and pedophilia is protected in elite institutions across the United States and including Cornell University in this instance.
00:00:39I mean, she's saying, I assume that every area of American life is filled with patriarchal rapiness because she's a liar.
00:00:52Okay, so the left has found its next cause.0.94
00:00:53They're accusing Cornell University of complicity in rape.
00:00:56And listen, far be it from me to somehow come to the defense of Cornell University, one of the worst colleges in America, a Bastion of wild left philosophy.
00:01:06But I do think that we should actually delve into the details of the case that is now exploding across the American political spectrum.
00:01:14The case we're talking about at Cornell University, no one has actually been prosecuted for rape.
00:01:19In fact, the woman in question filed a police report, and it turned out that the details of the police report did not amount to anything like rape.
00:01:26But here is the thing the left has no moral language when it comes to bad things happening with consent, they only have politics forever.
00:01:49She was 20 back in 2024 when all of this happened.
00:01:54And she was involved in sexual activity with a multiplicity of men on the night of October 19th, 2024, and into the morning of October 20th, 2024.
00:02:03Well, we'll get into the details of what allegedly happened on that night in just a second.
00:02:07Apparently, three weeks later, she went to the Cornell University PD.
00:02:34And then just a couple of days ago, on September 28th, the DA announced she was going to reopen a criminal investigation based on public pressure.
00:03:02But there's a difference between doing bad things consensually and rape.
00:03:07But we live in a society that doesn't have any words to condemn immoral action that is consensual in nature.
00:03:14And so we talk about rape when rape is actually not the thing that is in evidence.
00:03:18So, in this particular case, there's literally no evidence other than the revised testimony of this woman in a civil suit that the men did anything illegal under New York law.0.99
00:03:26There's lots of evidence that they're scumbags.0.96
00:03:27There is no evidence of actual rape other than what she is saying now, two years later.0.99
00:03:41Having sex with a highly intoxicated woman, not knowing her, not being in a relationship with her, not caring about her, treating her as an object.
00:03:48With multiple men participating, the word for that is evil.0.97
00:04:00It's a meaningful distinction because the left is now trying to claim that these men not being prosecuted is an indictment of the supposed American patriarchy that has somehow, as AOC says, insinuated itself into Cornell University.
00:04:13Okay, I want to start again with the timeline here so we know what we're talking about.
00:04:16So let's start with what she originally complained back in November of 2024 when she went to the PD.
00:04:23So the DA summarized that six page complaint at the time.
00:04:26Apparently, this Jane Doe went to a fraud house called Kai Phi on October 19th, 2024.
00:04:32To see a man she had been texting during the preceding week.
00:04:35In her complaint, she characterized herself as being about five out of 10 intoxicated when she arrived.
00:04:40And according to the DA, who again is describing her statement, she did not describe herself as incapacitated or unable to control her behavior at that point.
00:04:49So this guy who she'd been texting proposed a threesome.
00:04:51Now, again, at this point, you have a lot of scummy behavior, a lot of scummy behavior.0.95
00:05:06Okay, so that's where we are in the story.
00:05:07According to the statement, her friend asked whether she would be interested in having a threesome with another frat member, and then she said yes, which again, that's called consent.0.98
00:05:15And now, again, the guy's a scumbag, and she's engaging in some pretty bad behavior here, according to her own complaint, but that's not illegal.0.97
00:05:23The statement, by the way, reportedly described her as being, quote, pretty okay with having this threesome.0.98
00:05:29So the DA, because his job is to enforce the law to prosecute crime, characterized this as an affirmative indication of consent.
00:05:36Which, when you say you're pretty okay with a thing, that is affirmative indication of consent.
00:05:42Now, again, this is the problem for the left.
00:05:44I have no problem morally condemning everything that's happened so far in this story.
00:05:48I can say these men should not have asked for or participated in this consensual sexual encounter because they are violating something basic about manhood the protection and defense of women.1.00
00:06:33The statement, the original statement says that she remembered having taken ketamine earlier that night already.
00:06:39She couldn't remember exactly where or when.
00:06:41And then, when another man asked if she wanted to do more, according to her original complaint, she apparently thought, in substance, she'd already done ketamine.
00:07:19After the ketamine, she says that her self described intoxication level rose to eight out of 10.
00:07:24And at this point, she began having difficulty remembering portions of what happened.
00:07:28Now, the DA's statement acknowledges that the police statement contained memory gaps, but those memory gaps were not interpreted as proof, per se, that she was unconscious or physically helpless at the time, because if she has a memory gap and there's no memory of her being raped, While unconscious or physically helpless, you don't have proof of the thing that happened.
00:07:46That distinction is pretty important, legally speaking.
00:07:50Again, here's the thing when you're talking about legal matters, you have to put on your lawyer hat.
00:07:53And when you are talking about moral matters, you should put on your decent person hat.
00:07:57But the left has no decent person hat when it comes to this sort of stuff.
00:08:00So they can only put on the legal hat and then misinterpret things.
00:08:07She engaged in sexual activity with many of them.
00:08:09She did not describe in the complaint what happened as a gang rape.
00:08:13Furthermore, in the original complaint, she says that when she said no to things, they stopped.
00:08:19According to the DA's description of her original complaint, Jane Doe did refuse some sexual requests.
00:08:24So apparently, one man woke up and wanted to participate and asked about turning the encounter into a foursome, and she said, Hell no.
00:08:31And she did that because it would have, not to get graphic, it would have meant that she would have had to participate in forms of sex that she did not wish to participate in.
00:08:40And if you know basic human biology, you'll kind of understand what we're talking about here.
00:08:46And again, this matters because if the entire basis of a rape charge is violation of consent, this is an example of her saying no and the men involved not taking advantage of her after that.0.97
00:08:58There's another man who came in and she pushed him away.
00:08:59Again, more evidence that she had the ability to consent or not.
00:09:03According to the DA, according to the DA, there was no evidence in her statement that she clearly expressed she did not consent to sexual activity that occurred.
00:09:11And according to her own statement, when she asked sexual activity to stop, it stopped.
00:09:15She didn't say she was drugged against her will.
00:09:17She said she arrived and voluntarily took drugs and had taken drugs beforehand.
00:09:20So, again, in summary, according to the DA, this is the original statement back in November of 2024.
00:09:26Here are all the things that she didn't say that she was drugged secretly or given ketamine, that she didn't know what she was taking, that she was incapacitated in any way, that she was unconscious.
00:09:36So, you know, all the predicates to an actual legal charge.
00:09:40She had memory gaps, but memory gaps don't actually prove rape.
00:09:42Lots of people have memory gaps and they weren't raped during the memory gap.
00:09:46The encounter ended at 5 45 a.m., apparently.
00:09:48That's when she decided she was tired and wanted to go to bed.
00:09:51She was involved in sexual activity with two men at the same time, apparently.
00:09:54And when she said she was done, again, they stopped.
00:09:57There's no allegation of force anywhere in the original complaint.
00:10:01Now, there is an evocative piece of evidence a text thread from about 1 40 a.m. involving members of Ki Fi who basically started texting each other saying, There's a girl here and she's giving it away.
00:10:12Now, that text thread was not part of the original complaint because she didn't know about the text thread at the time.
00:10:17And the police didn't know about the text thread at the time.
00:10:20The question is whether this text thread is evidence of rape or whether it's just men being evil and taking advantage of a girl who's making terrible decisions.
00:10:29Okay, so here is what the text thread actually said.
00:11:19And then there are degree specific legal elements.
00:11:21First degree rape requires forcible compulsion, physical or direct violence or force, threats of death or physical harm, and physical helplessness.
00:11:29The victim is unconscious, asleep, or incapacitated to the point of unawareness.
00:11:32Okay, so this does not fulfill first degree.
00:11:37And that requires that you have to drug somebody without their consent.
00:11:39So if somebody took drugs and then consented, that does not fulfill second degree, which is what appears from the original complaints to have happened.
00:11:46Third degree requires compulsion without violence or physical force.
00:11:51So that would be like she says no, and then they ignore her no and keep going.
00:11:55Nothing in the original complaint fulfills any of these elements.
00:12:20It beggars the imagination that Cornell would ignore serious allegations.
00:12:25Of rape based on their own perspective on sort of Me Too issues.
00:12:29According to Cornell, they conducted a thorough Title IX investigation, which is separate from a criminal proceeding over the course of several months.
00:12:35During that investigation, temporary suspensions and other restrictive measures were used.
00:12:39After investigation and pursuant to federal law, the matter was sent to a hearing where a panel of trained faculty and staff heard evidence over multiple days.
00:12:46The complainant and respondents had the opportunity to testify and present evidence.
00:12:50At its conclusion, the hearing panel issued a range of sanctions, which included expulsions and suspensions from Cornell.
00:12:56None of the individuals charged were offered the opportunity to write essays as a sole consequence of their involvement.
00:13:01In addition, the involved fraternity chapter was closed in 2024 and remains barred from campus.
00:13:07And they deny that there are no consequential punishments for the people who are involved.
00:13:12Okay, so that's what happened back in 2024.
00:13:17And now she has filed a civil complaint, and her civil complaint rewrites the entire story.
00:13:22According to her civil complaint, again, this is the new one, she says, That she drank vodka at the Tri Delta sorority house before she went to a Tri Delta event at a bar.
00:13:33At the bar, the complaint says she was visibly intoxicated and had her hands marked with an X because she was under 21, but was served alcohol nevertheless.
00:13:42Apparently, at 10 30 to 11, according to the new complaint, she left the bar and then she stopped at another bar and then she went to the Kaifai house to see her friend.
00:13:52The complaint now describes her as stumbling and visibly intoxicated when she arrived.
00:13:55Now, again, that is different from the original complaint where she said she was five out of 10 intoxicated, but capable of.
00:14:48The bottom line is going to be very, very hard to evidence any of this at this point, which is why reopening an investigation on the basis of no new evidence is kind of insane.
00:14:57So now she says that she was already incapable of consenting again by like 11 30 p.m.
00:15:03And then she says that they pressured her into taking drugs and that they supplied her with marijuana and high proof liquor and that sexual activity began without her consent and she was groped and then she was the victim of sexual activity without her consent by multiple men.
00:15:26So the complaint alleges that the men gave her ketamine throughout the night and that all seven men who were involved were eventually present and participated in sexual misconduct.
00:15:38And again, her claim is now that she was gang raped all night long.
00:15:44Suffice it to say, these are two very separate fact patterns, two very, very different fact patterns.
00:15:50And there is going to be almost legitimately no way of determining which fact pattern is true.
00:15:56She did file a police report back in 2024, and nothing that she's saying now is kind of in the new police report.
00:16:02None of this is exculpatory for the behavior of the men, but just on a legal level, on what basis are you reopening this case?
00:16:09First of all, when you have DAs openly acknowledging they're reopening cases based on public pressure, that is a violation of due process of law.
00:16:16It should not be that if people scream outside your office long enough that you end up with a prosecution.
00:16:22So, the Tompkins County DA, Matthew Van Hooten, put out a press release.
00:16:26And here's what he said Jane Doe's sworn statement in November of 2024 did not allege that she was drugged against her will or gang raped.
00:16:32On the contrary, Jane Doe's statement described her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.
00:16:39My office obviously did not and could not have based our November 2024 decision on the allegations in a civil lawsuit that would not be filed until nearly two years later, right?
00:16:47He's saying, listen, I mean, she's making totally different allegations now.
00:16:50If this had been the allegation in 2024, things go very different.
00:16:54Furthermore, says the DA, I have never been contacted by Jane Doe's attorneys at all, not to inform me the original statement was inaccurate, not to ask me to reconsider our decision.
00:17:02Rather, I reached out to Jane Doe's attorneys after the lawsuit was filed to understand the discrepancy between the original statement and the lawsuit's allegations and the proper path forward.
00:17:10So, again, she's not attempting a new criminal charge.
00:17:13She's not going to the police now and saying, hey, I screwed it up the first time.
00:17:21She filed a civil suit that is totally 100% different than the original police complaint.
00:17:26And now the DA under public pressure is going to her to try to reinitiate an investigation based on public pressure.
00:17:32This is like a basic, basic violation of due process of law.
00:17:36As the DA says, there is no evidence in Jane Doe's statement indicating she clearly expressed that she did not consent to the act.
00:17:42According to the statement, each time Jane Doe asked to stop the sexual conduct, the sexual conduct stopped.
00:17:47Thus, with no evidence of a lack of consent, criminal charges simply could not be sustained.
00:17:51To instruct otherwise would have been to violate my prosecutorial obligations under New York state law.0.97
00:17:56While the behavior of certain chi fi frap members was without question disgusting and morally reprehensible, the foundation of the criminal justice system is that criminal prosecutions must be based upon evidence and not emotion.0.99
00:18:07And then he says, at the same time, I recognize the reality it can take years of therapy and healing for victims of sexual assault to fully process and understand what happened to them.0.99
00:18:15Seeking justice sometimes requires us to reconsider or reopen cases when we are provided with additional evidence.
00:18:21I've been asked by the community to revisit the decision, not by the alleged victim, by the community.
00:18:26No, This is not the way law and order works.
00:18:30I've been asked by the community to prosecute this thing that the victim does not even allege in criminal filings happened.
00:18:37I don't even know how you sustain a justice system on this basis.
00:18:39We'll get to more on that in just a moment.
00:18:41Okay, so you go normally when you are looking for cell phone coverage, you go to the store and they offer you 10 different plans.
00:19:41There's one thing in your individual life that you can do to game for the fact that all of us are mortal, and that is get the life insurance you need.
00:22:45So, in this particular case, when you look at those particular matrices, the one that comes into play is not care or harm or fairness or cheating or liberty or oppression.
00:22:57She participated in acts that are inherently degrading, that violate her soul, even if she consented.
00:23:03And the men degraded her and degraded themselves.
00:23:06They violated the sanctity of what it means to be involved in a sexual relationship.
00:23:11Now, the left does not have a sanctity matrix.0.51
00:23:14According to Height, for example, when asked a hypothetical moral question like, is there something morally wrong with having sex with a dead chicken?
00:23:24The right will go, absolutely, there's something morally wrong that is a violation of your sanctity as a human being.
00:23:29The left has no language to condemn it because it's dead.
00:23:38So the left has no language to condemn it.
00:23:39Like Haidt went and he did actual polls of his own college students.
00:23:42What he found is that left leaning college students had no way to say that necrophilia was morally wrong in any real way because the language of consent is not applicable.
00:23:51So, again, according to Jonathan Haidt, liberals only look at three matrices when it comes to morality care harm, liberty oppression, and fairness cheating.
00:24:12That liberty and oppression was violated because, again, her liberty to do what she wants with her body, their liberty to do what they want with their bodies.0.77
00:25:21Right now, according to our sponsors over at CalShee, AOC is clocking in at like a 14% shot at the 2028 presidential nomination, trailing slightly John Ossoff and leading slightly Gavin Newsom.
00:25:34I don't think any of those three people are going to win the nomination, but that's where she is right now.
00:25:39When you say over and over and over again to a group of young women that their problems in life are due to the patriarchy, what you end up with is polls like this one that just came out of young Democratic women.
00:25:51This is from the Civility and Morality Survey that finds that the percentage of women who say the challenges women face in American society are a great deal due to the behaviors or actions of men.
00:26:00Two thirds of Democratic women aged 18 to 29 believe that their problems in life are the fault of men, as opposed to 18% of Republican women 18 to 29.
00:26:12Because it has become part of a political program.
00:26:14The political program is any problem I experience in my life, whether I consented, it doesn't matter.
00:26:21The problems I experience in my life are due to a broader patriarchy.
00:26:23Now, again, there are some incidents where you can find evidence for that contention, but I don't buy this from a radical left that is perfectly happy with rape in particular circumstances, like up to rape in particular circumstances.
00:26:36But look at the way that people on the left talk about this case.
00:26:39So, Florence Pugh, who again is as left wing as it is possible to be, she is an actress and she repeats every left wing nostrum up to and including the free Palestine nonsense.0.81
00:26:49She's perfectly in favor of quote unquote freeing Palestine, a place in which Sex trafficking of underage women is a routine going on, according to the New York Times, which is ruled by a gigantic rape game called Hamas.0.88
00:27:01In any case, Florence Pugh put out a statement A drugged rape gang takes action in conversations.
00:27:08It immediately makes me wonder had it been in the works for a while?
00:27:10Was the damage of this poor woman's body thought about over and over before?
00:27:14Every single person who knew or heard about this happening should be looked at with serious concern.
00:27:18They are as evil as those planning it.0.99
00:27:20To know that a torture as violent as rape is about to happen upstairs and not do anything about it is sick, cowardly, and cold.0.96
00:27:25Now, again, The assumption here is that the civil complaint that is brought completely obviates the original complaint.
00:27:31So she's speaking in terms of there was no consent.0.99
00:27:34And listen, if there was no consent and these guys were actually just raping the girl, not only should they be put in prison, they should be castrated.0.99
00:27:42I think that the actual criminal penalty for rape should be castration or execution.0.99
00:27:50But again, she tries to blow this out into a full indictment of America generally.0.87
00:27:56We are not hard enough on those that want to damage human lives.
00:27:59I salute all those at the college that are fighting for that girl, exposing those boys, and making life unbearably impossible to find joy during their terms.
00:28:05They should not be allowed to walk freely like the rest of us who treasure and care for souls.
00:28:09Colleges, schools, universities repeatedly fail women around the world.0.99
00:28:13Now, at this point, we should point out that the majority of college students are women.1.00
00:28:17And the colleges are the most liberal places in American life.
00:28:21She says, You build men that get taught through time and time again.
00:28:23They can do extreme harm and they won't be harmed in return.
00:29:03But the idea is you have to indict the entire system instead of just saying, listen, if there is a legal rationale for a rape prosecution, that should happen.
00:29:11And if there is not, we can still condemn the men's behavior.
00:29:13They instead have to say that the entire system is creating rapiness.
00:29:18One of the people who's speaking out loudly and proudly on this particular case is Hassan Piker.
00:29:23So, Hassan Piker, legitimately one of the worst people in American public life, here he was suggesting that sexual violence rarely gets accountability on college campuses.
00:29:32In the absence of information, what we do know is the systemic problem persisting.
00:29:40And the systemic problem in college campuses, as well as many other institutions beyond college, too, in the workplace and whatnot, is that sexual violence rarely gets accountability.
00:30:02Yeah, I'm just going to point out at this point, Hassan Piker is also the same person who said, like a couple of years ago, that it's preferable that wealthy women get raped in college.0.83
00:30:11If you have these millionaire, billionaire, wasp fail sons, at least taking them out of other colleges so they can only do date rape to other billionaire, millionaire, fail daughters is like, in some respects, You know, from a utilitarian perspective, of course, a little bit better.
00:30:29Okay, that again is Hassan Piker, who's out there campaigning with Democrats.0.86
00:30:33Well, Piker goes off on this Cornell case.
00:30:35He says, well, the boys received less punishment for being rapists than they would have if they had participated in a pro Palestine encampment.
00:30:42There are people who are participating in pro Hamas encampments all over the United States who are not only not being punished, they're being rewarded for it.0.51
00:32:57They just said rich white boys, black stripper, must have been in balance of power, and then they went all in on it.
00:33:03It's why the Rolling Stone fake University of Virginia rape case.0.89
00:33:07Because as with everything, when it comes to the left, it's rape with supposed systemic power that's the problem, not Rape itself, or even basic immoral behavior.
00:33:18And all this speaks to why we need a better sexual ethos.
00:33:23It used to be that we all had language to condemn bad sexual behavior and evil sexual behavior, and then we lost that.
00:33:29And there has been no substitute for it.0.98
00:33:31And what you end up with is this miasma of stupidity, this miasma in which you have to recast the facts in order to somehow come up with an inexpressible way of making the inexpressible expressible to you.0.99
00:35:32Meanwhile, speaking of Title IX protections on college campuses, the Education Department announced on Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden era Title IX interpretation that gave sex based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
00:35:46So basically, they're saying that if you're a boy, you can't play in women's sports, and then say that you have to because of Title IX.1.00
00:36:26I'm sorry, I'm not going to take any advice on male female sexual relations. From people who cannot even identify what is male and what is female.0.91
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