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00:03:24.840 i'm sorry i just got a joke to a place of places riddled with add oh my gosh how would you say

00:03:30.480 riddled with add and i've got a lot to cover today i'm going to come back to america's 250

00:03:34.760 because i have a few things to say to people like martina mcbride and i love you martina i love you

00:03:39.180 do but pony up with some evidence here uh i'd like to know what you're talking about we'll get

00:03:45.980 into that a little later um uh but also i i i've got to stop here there's two stories one comes

00:03:52.340 from the supreme court and the other one comes from the huffington post huffington post is very

00:03:56.220 angry right now because the word retard is making a comeback uh what a surprise um it you know 0.97

00:04:03.820 they're saying oh this is this is an ugly descriptor that you're retarded okay it's making 1.00

00:04:11.840 an unfortunate comeback yeah yeah it is it is you know you notice you don't say that about imbecile 1.00

00:04:17.800 or moron, but that's why the word retarded came in, because retarded is a progressive 1.00

00:04:26.680 clinical term, okay? Because scientists said, if you have severe intellectual disability, 1.00

00:04:36.380 if you're severely retarded, is what we would have said, you're an idiot. That's what the 1.00

00:04:41.940 medical term was you're an idiot if you're moderately retarded you're an imbecile if you 1.00

00:04:49.420 have mild intellectual retardation you're a moron okay so it was idiot imbecile and moron and 1.00

00:04:57.040 everybody started calling people you're a moron you're an idiot you're an imbecile and the people 1.00

00:05:00.240 oh no no that's not what that means that's so offensive and nobody was hurt by being called 1.00

00:05:08.020 a moron okay uh you got over it um and so then retard and so everybody's like i mean i i grew 0.98

00:05:17.460 up in a world where retard everything was either gay or retarded and it didn't mean gay or retarded 0.99

00:05:22.340 okay uh and and everybody was wringing their hand clutching their pro we can't use that word 1.00

00:05:27.880 so they replaced it they replaced idiot imbecile and moron with retardation or retarded okay because 1.00

00:05:37.620 it was humane and scientific. Then the same thing happened because you didn't change people and you 1.00

00:05:44.520 didn't change the meaning, you know? And so you started saying, well, these are intellectually

00:05:48.340 disabled people. They're developmentally disabled. They're people of special needs. And you know

00:05:53.340 what? Guess what? Guess what? People of special needs is now not welcome in professional settings.

00:06:02.460 it's an insult now wait i thought that was to replace the insult of retarded 0.85

00:06:08.740 you can't just replace words okay you just you can't because if society doesn't change then the 0.79

00:06:18.560 new word just means what the old word meant and then you're going to have to constantly 0.98

00:06:22.460 it's lather rinse repeat lather you know what it is it's it's retardation it shows retardation 0.99

00:06:31.340 you're slow you're slow okay so i couldn't i couldn't take it anymore and i am so tired of 0.99

00:06:40.840 the word police and when huffington post came out and they were like oh you know what we're so very

00:06:46.280 upset about the word i decided i'm gonna write an open letter to the word police okay

00:06:54.940 and i took some time crafting this because i feel it deeply 0.82

00:07:03.220 so here it is dear retarded language enforcers professional offense takers and euphemism 0.82

00:07:12.980 evangelists oh how i've missed you but there you are melting down in perfectly choreography 0.94

00:07:21.440 uh choreographed uh outrage because the word retarded is making a comeback and not just any 0.96

00:07:27.980 comeback but a glorious unapologetic full speed ahead retardation of your carefully constructed 0.94

00:07:34.440 news speak empire oh the sheer panic on your face i mean it is a chef's kiss really it's like 0.98

00:07:43.700 watching somebody try to put toothpaste back into the tube while the tube itself is retarded 0.88

00:07:49.040 But let me be clear. Since clarity seems to be a retarded concept in your circle, words are not violence. They are syllables with baggage. And retarded has been carrying its suitcase through the English language for decades now, describing everything from developmental delays to your entire approach to public discourse. 0.94

00:08:16.020 Now, you've spent years trying to retire it. 1.00

00:08:20.500 You have replaced it with increasingly retarded alternatives. 1.00

00:08:25.500 Intellectually disabled, differently abled, cognitively divergent. 1.00

00:08:31.360 A person with lived experience of slower neural pathways. 1.00

00:08:35.600 Good heavens, man. 1.00

00:08:37.120 Each one of these is more retarded than the last one. 1.00

00:08:39.700 It's honestly, it's like you're a thesaurus having a stroke. 1.00

00:08:42.480 the retardation of your project is however truly impressive i mean you didn't just want to retire 0.99

00:08:50.920 the word you wanted to retard the natural evolution of language itself you wanted all of us walking 0.94

00:08:58.040 on eggshells retarded in our speech self-censoring like good little hall monitors sticks and stones 0.88

00:09:06.620 may break my bones, but words will literally kill me and require a safe space with an emotional 0.84

00:09:13.460 support animal in it. How retarded is that? Extremely, clinically, textbook retarded. 0.99

00:09:24.840 Now here's the funny part, you magnificent retard, you. The more you clutched your pearls 1.00

00:09:31.640 and screamed ableist the more the word gained power why i know you can't figure it out but

00:09:40.820 you're a little slow forbidden fruit always tastes sweeter so now it's back and not as a cruel slur

00:09:48.360 aimed at the genuinely disabled who by the way have bigger problems than vocabulary 0.99

00:09:53.300 but as a perfect descriptor for your entire retarded worldview. Climate policies that 0.99

00:10:02.080 retard economic growth. It's retarded. Higher education that produces graduates who cannot 1.00

00:10:10.600 define a woman. Peak retardation. Cancel culture that treats retarded as worse than actual policy 1.00

00:10:21.360 failures. That's not just retarded. That's meta retarded. Retardation so advanced that it loops 1.00

00:10:28.900 back around, back into performance art. So you wanted to police language. You wanted to police

00:10:37.800 language so hard that you retarded social progress. Remember when we could call bad ideas 1.00

00:10:46.180 stupid without triggering a un resolution those were the days when they are coming back but now 0.63

00:10:53.260 every mildly edgy observation requires a dissertation on harm and impact your your 1.00

00:11:00.300 retardation of humor art and honest conversation has produced a culture so fragile that it makes 0.95

00:11:08.080 victorian ladies look like stand-up comedians so keep seething word warriors keep writing your 1.00

00:11:15.740 think pieces about how retarded is punching down. And we'll be over here using it creatively. 1.00

00:11:23.680 That DEI training, that was retarded. Your pronoun obsession is retarded. This open letter 1.00

00:11:31.940 might even be a little retarded in its enthusiasm, but at least it's honest. 0.98

00:11:37.660 you should know the linguistic pendulum is swinging back and it's retarded in all of the 0.91

00:11:46.620 right ways slowing down your march toward total semantic control so in conclusion i leave you with 0.97

00:11:55.460 this word retarded is not going anywhere it's been retarded from retirement it's your word 0.85

00:12:05.700 your progressive word you brought it into the culture so deal with it or don't i don't i mean 0.96

00:12:12.280 honestly your meltdowns are half the entertainment for me signed with zero regards and maximum 0.93

00:12:19.780 linguistic freedom a recovering compliant speaker who's done being retarded blend back 0.78

00:12:28.200 that's for you the huffington post now i want to talk to you about the supreme court 0.92

00:12:34.660 because Ketanji Jackson-Brown, and that is her name, is retarded. 0.89

00:12:46.780 Now, so you know, I'm not going to demean the office of the Supreme Court 0.95

00:12:53.360 any more than Justice Ketanji Jackson-Brown, intentionally, has demeaned it already.

00:13:01.860 okay um she came out she was the only even the liberal judges are like oh can you just shut up 1.00

00:13:09.660 you're so stupid please just shut up she was all alone she wrote the lone dissent and what what 1.00

00:13:17.360 this case was about was um can a judge who sees an injustice have broad power to fix it okay um 1.00

00:13:28.540 And all the other the other judges, all eight of them, they were like, no, it's not in the Constitution.

00:13:33.780 They they they have powers and you got to they got to be controlled.

00:13:37.280 OK, and she's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:13:41.940 Let me let me give you an analogy of what they were discussing.

00:13:48.180 Let's say there's a lock on a front gate, OK, and the front gate is the official process for claiming you were wrongly convicted.

00:13:54.600 it's difficult it takes time there are forms there are deadlines there are legal standards

00:13:59.400 you got to hire an attorney you got to go back it's called an appeal process okay

00:14:02.940 but there is a side door that gets you out now it's a different it's a different purpose

00:14:08.680 maybe the prisoner is terminally ill and the judge can say you know what i think we should

00:14:13.740 let them out maybe they're 90 years old and they're terminally ill you know or there's

00:14:18.120 extraordinary humanitarian reasons. Okay. This, this case was, well, the judge should be able

00:14:26.560 to use that door. Why do we have to go through? Cause this judge knows that I'm innocent. Well,

00:14:31.480 wait, no, that that's not the system. You were judged by a jury. You got to go back through the

00:14:37.980 jury system and you got to be judged again. And you can be found that this was wrong and we can

00:14:42.460 overturn that, but there's a system. So Jackson was saying, if a judge discovers somebody may

00:14:48.340 be innocent, why should they force everyone through that front gate when the side door

00:14:52.080 is right there? I mean, and Amy Coney Barrett, who wrote the majority opinion, eight to one,

00:15:01.020 said, because the side door wasn't made for that, if you use that door for this,

00:15:09.160 then no one will know what the doors are for people just use the doors and the windows and

00:15:13.860 whatever and you empower the judges i mean it's it's like it's like saying you know the referee

00:15:19.760 let's say the referee noticed that a player had cheated earlier in the game her position is the

00:15:27.760 referee should have the flexibility to make things right barrett's like no no no the referee's job is

00:15:35.380 to enforce the rule book not rewrite you know the rules or write injustices during the game

00:15:45.300 that already is passed we've moved on you got to follow the rule book she just believes that

00:15:51.400 referees judges in this case got to do what they feel is right no you're making them into dictators

00:15:58.300 they'd have ultimate power that that's how 0.92

00:16:02.780 retarded she is and i mean that in the clinical sense she is a slow thinker okay she's she's not 1.00

00:16:14.520 the sharpest knife in the drawer uh and uh and even her even on her own side i i she's embarrassing 0.97

00:16:23.160 she really is embarrassing um and i i hate to say that because i don't i don't it's not good i mean

00:16:32.720 you know i never thought i never thought you could come to a place i kind of said this though when

00:16:38.780 she was there i hated her policies but ginsburg was you know she was at least honest she could 0.89

00:16:46.920 make an intellectual case i think she was wrong many times but she could make the intellectual 0.99

00:16:50.680 case. And she wasn't, you know, she wasn't filled with hate. I mean, she was good friends with

00:16:58.980 Scalia. They were good friends. They couldn't disagree more. Jackson Brown, the non-singing

00:17:06.420 one, maybe should try singing because, I mean, she does, there's no intellectual firepower there.

00:17:14.900 It shows that she just does not understand the Constitution or rules at all.

00:17:22.080 When you can just say, oh, you know what? 0.99

00:17:24.460 This judge needs to have the power just to go, you know, I think that person's innocent.

00:17:29.640 Where do you find that in the Constitution?

00:17:33.060 Where do you find that in the rule of law?

00:17:35.440 That goes against everything our laws say.

00:17:39.720 But again, they don't care.

00:17:41.780 they'll just you know and if they don't get their way they'll just kick the other can you imagine

00:17:47.240 having eight other judges like that oh we would be living in a fun house we would it would be a

00:17:55.760 house of mirrors we'd constantly be walking into a miracle i didn't realize that was there you'd

00:18:01.980 never know what was real you'd never know where where to go i mean one of the reasons why we

00:18:06.920 lasted 250 years. One of the reasons why we've been so successful monetarily is because our laws

00:18:13.040 made sense and they were consistent. People knew they weren't going to swing wildly. You could put

00:18:22.100 your money here, you could build a business, and you knew 10 years down the road, it's still going

00:18:26.100 to be safe. It'll generally be like this. In Ketanji Jackson Brown's world, it's a madhouse.

00:18:33.680 I mean, everything collapses in that kind of world.

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00:19:50.580 taryn what an honor it is to have you on the phone and on the show thank you for joining

00:19:58.360 thank you for having me uh it must be a little surreal to be on the program because if you had

00:20:08.100 your viewpoint uh and you knew anything about me the last place you would want to be is on a show

00:20:15.580 like mine uh so again congratulations uh for having even the bravery to do this can you can

00:20:23.520 you explain who you were before your change how deeply into this were you yeah so i think it

00:20:32.500 starts before october 7th that i used to be a black lives matter activist like when i'm 16 years

00:20:39.260 old this was like during quarantine um 2020 right after george floyd got killed and i remember seeing

00:20:46.340 like Palestinian flags, like at our Black Lives Matter protests. And so when I saw this, I would 0.90

00:20:54.840 ask our leaders, like, you know, why, you know, why are Palestinian flags here? And they would say

00:21:00.340 that, you know, for us to be free, Palestine has to be free. And, and they would utilize the same 0.99

00:21:07.120 words. Even now we're seeing the same language of apartheid, dispossession, colonization. And it

00:21:14.000 It, like, kind of struck me as, like, a Black woman, and I think more so just because of identity politics and kind of, like, I, like, mistook that familiarity for understanding this conflict and had some intellectual shortcuts when it comes to, like, understanding this, like, very complex and nuanced history and just, like, compressing it into, like, an oppressor versus oppressed, you know, narrative.

00:21:40.180 so you went from leading some of these rallies at Stanford being part of the Stanford encampment

00:21:49.080 etc etc and then you had a change of heart and it started if I'm not mistaken it started because

00:21:54.580 you were actually looking to disprove something correct tell me about this experience what

00:22:02.300 happened yeah and so then um i would want to say like give context on what had happened on

00:22:10.060 stanford's campus because like i think that led me to pull away from the movement itself

00:22:14.100 was specifically after october 7th um by october 20th stanford already put up its encampment

00:22:22.500 a sentence to stop the genocide um this is before the finish the families had even finished

00:22:28.680 identifying it's dead it's this is a week before um a single soldier had even crossed into gaza

00:22:37.080 and so we were already labeling it a genocide and so we knew how the story was going to end

00:22:42.760 and we were already protesting and there was no time that was spent to even grieve those that

00:22:51.040 lost their lives and if you did grieve and mourn publicly you were immediately outcasted and you

00:22:58.220 lost your social belonging and so i was very like i i felt like i wanted a two-state solution

00:23:05.720 but i was just very like i never wanted to talk about it with anyone because everyone was anti-zionist

00:23:11.340 and it felt that you had to like the safest position was the most radical one and so at one

00:23:19.240 of our protests at one of our protests uh in june of 2024 they broke into the stanford university's

00:23:26.000 president's office and cost seven hundred thousand dollars in damages 12 students received felonies

00:23:31.000 and they spray painted like disgusting things such as death to israel death to america kill cops 0.89

00:23:37.220 pigs taste best when dead and this is i was just confused on like where is gaza in any of that you 0.98

00:23:47.860 know and um i we completely lost sight of like who we were claiming to be fighting for and at

00:23:55.080 At some point, our pro-Palestine movement became more of an anti-Israel, anti-American one, and I no longer could recognize what we were doing anymore.

00:24:04.340 And I think so once students got felonies, I like took a step back from the movement and and it allowed me to receive an invitation to the Nova Music Festival exhibit that's right now being hosted in London. 0.99

00:24:19.680 um yeah and I went going in wanting to investigate because I I thought I would find like Zionist 0.63

00:24:28.260 propaganda and Zionist lies and I wanted to reaffirm my pro-Palestine position more than

00:24:34.120 anything um but that wasn't what I came across I found instead you know half written I love you's

00:24:43.920 and last messages sent to parents and loved ones.

00:24:50.340 And I'm just, it was a tragedy.

00:24:54.080 And then these are kids my age going to a music festival

00:24:56.920 that I would have went to.

00:24:58.560 And it was just not political.

00:25:01.440 Like Nova Music Festival was not a political thing.

00:25:04.660 And yet we had like compressed them

00:25:08.960 and flattened them into this political narrative. 0.87

00:25:11.900 And in doing so, we killed them a second time.

00:25:13.920 And it's, and I just like, I think it was just very tragic for me to realize that.

00:25:20.000 And I think one of the audio recordings that we had heard was a terrorist calling his dad, saying that he had killed 10 Jews with his own bare hands and celebrating.

00:25:33.100 And I thought I was going to hear horror.

00:25:35.300 And instead, the dad congratulated his son.

00:25:38.380 Put mom on the phone, if I'm not mistaken.

00:25:40.940 Yes. And the mom was on the phone saying, I wish I was there with you. And so I was, so this is our resistance. This was who we were calling our martyrs, that they were explicitly saying that they wanted to kill Jews with their own hands. And I'm just, I, again, I always call myself an anti-Zionist, but not anti-Semitic. And that completely deconstructed that.

00:26:03.020 let's just stop for a second i i really want to meet you i hope i get to meet you someday

00:26:12.600 i just have so much respect for you i just want to give you a hug thank you for being honest

00:26:16.680 thank you was was there was there a moment um because i after after this happened it was what

00:26:27.600 six months after i called um people in israel and asked to see the evidence and they brought it from

00:26:36.340 israel um and um i sat in my office with a couple of people ricky was one weren't you in it or did

00:26:44.180 you not i actually declined declined yeah um and uh i sat in with a couple of people and we saw all

00:26:51.180 of the video we saw 90 minutes of the videos and it was it was horrific it was horrific um

00:26:59.400 was there a moment inside this because I don't know exactly if they showed you everything that

00:27:04.960 we saw was was there one moment that made you go I I am on the wrong side was it that phone call

00:27:11.780 i i i want to say like you know i i'm i admire that you had went out to find it like to look

00:27:22.240 for the evidence six months after because it took me a year to finally attend this funeral and um

00:27:30.480 i i i feel when i was watching and reading their stories it's just more so that like

00:27:40.240 that could have been anyone like that could have been your kids that could have been my friends

00:27:44.900 and like the fact that their faces just look so ordinary just smiling um and the stuff that they

00:27:52.280 left behind from like baby bottles to strollers to like uh a calculator I just like I I was like

00:28:01.500 of course like you know a Stanford student would bring a calculator to like a music festival and

00:28:06.420 And it's just, like, that's why I really hope that more people can attend that Nova Music Festival exhibit if it comes to your area.

00:28:13.980 Because it, like, it takes you out of social media and, like, just, you know, reading about it, hearing about it.

00:28:22.360 And you get to visually see and, like, feel and pick up with your own hands the artifacts of that day.

00:28:27.320 And it's just, yeah, it's just not the same at all.

00:28:29.760 I just like, like I said, like you take 20 minutes to go through this exhibit and you come out a different person and you just know that in your heart that.

00:28:41.740 That's true.

00:28:43.700 Yeah, go ahead. Sorry.

00:28:45.940 So, so you, you left, I assume you went back into a meeting with your friends. And did you express this? Did you say, Hey, I can't be a part of this? Or do you try to convince them? And, and what happened to you?

00:29:01.520 right so right after visiting the exhibit i i i plan i had planned to talk to my friends about

00:29:09.920 this i i immediately i didn't talk to my friends i knew that yeah i didn't because i knew that like

00:29:20.800 expressing any hesitancy or like doubts or questions was to like risk my social belonging

00:29:27.880 and like risk my friend group and I was genuinely scared you know um yeah yeah it's just

00:29:36.300 oftentimes it that pressure to feel like you're one of the good ones and the that you want to be

00:29:46.180 like like I feel like nothing recruits more than wanting to be on the right side of history like

00:29:50.440 what you're what you were mentioning mentioning about David Horowitz and so I just like yeah sorry

00:29:57.540 um so it's it's my friends like i knew that they were going to see this as like a moral

00:30:05.180 a moral failure rather than like a me expanding my empathy beyond having a selective empathy of

00:30:13.740 like which certain deaths matter versus which don't and i that was the way that we were operating

00:30:18.600 within the encampment and so now i have like a greater empathy and to mourn that publicly i was

00:30:25.680 genuinely scared. And so I decided to like withhold my beliefs and like what I was thinking

00:30:30.700 and my doubts to myself. And, um, the people that had, had went to that exhibit, uh, were invited

00:30:38.640 by Hillel, uh, to go to Israel. And I decided to go and to see for myself, like what's reality

00:30:45.980 like on the ground. And I think like, once I went to Israel, it made me realize I need to

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00:31:01.920 who do you want to be when you grow up who do you want to be when you grow up who do you hope in the

00:31:08.000 time of trouble you are i i think i just met somebody i'd like to be more like taryn thomas

00:31:17.520 she is going to do more good than she can even possibly imagine. If she keeps her head on her

00:31:25.740 shoulders, she's happy. She's bright. She's intelligent. She's honest and, and not unafraid.

00:31:34.980 She's like every hero that I've ever read about. Heroes are afraid. They are, they're afraid.

00:31:41.000 they just know something bigger is more important than their fear than their life their friends their

00:31:49.340 job their death whatever they know this is more important um and that's who she is and you know

00:31:57.880 i want to i i want to pick up where i left off last hour about this um freedom 250 concert that's

00:32:05.340 going on you know the the great american state fair thing is going on at the national mall in

00:32:10.880 washington this summer and freedom 250 announced uh the lineup for the great american state fair

00:32:18.160 is here and it's bringing the hits martina mcbride young mc cnc music factory vanilla ice millie

00:32:23.960 who knew they really that's holy cow i'll tell that story some other day uh the commodores

00:32:32.180 morris day in the time florida brett michaels and many more okay so now here's here's what was

00:32:40.840 trending uh last night and today and that is all these people are pulling out and they're saying

00:32:45.300 we didn't know we did we had no idea we didn't know have any idea that this was so divisive

00:32:50.140 brett michaels said um he was worried because of the death threats wait death threats coming from

00:32:57.240 whom? From the people that were going to go to that or the people who don't want you to go to

00:33:03.900 that? That's who you're afraid of. You're not afraid of the people who are for this. You're

00:33:08.720 afraid of the people who are against this. That should tell you something. Here's what bothers me

00:33:13.860 on all of this news about this concert. I looked at the criticism. I searched it out.

00:33:22.600 Okay. I've watched all the performers pull out. I've watched the headlines scream that these events are somehow dangerous or divisive, but I have not found any specifics. What exactly are you objecting to? What did they ask you to do that was so partisan or divisive? I mean, if there is something truly objectionable, then tell us, tell us, show us the evidence. Let us judge for ourself.

00:33:50.560 because as i said earlier you know this doesn't belong to donald trump and the republicans it

00:33:58.680 doesn't belong to it doesn't belong to barack obama or joe biden or the democrat this is an

00:34:05.380 american thing and if the entire argument the entire argument boils down to one of these things

00:34:14.140 it says a lot

00:34:16.640 is it boiled down that

00:34:21.440 you'll never work again if you show up

00:34:24.560 are you being threatened by your own colleagues

00:34:26.720 you will never work again

00:34:29.120 nobody will ever trust you again

00:34:31.360 if you go and perform on that stage

00:34:33.160 you'll never do anything again

00:34:34.480 is that what it is

00:34:35.460 or Michaels

00:34:38.620 is it

00:34:39.200 really is it

00:34:41.500 the death threats

00:34:43.180 i mean if it's the death threat shame on you really shame on you you know we have

00:34:50.900 we as a country survived because patriots risked their lives while in actual danger

00:34:58.900 and you know what honestly some of us actually live in real danger

00:35:02.800 some of us live with death threats every single day wherever we are

00:35:07.760 but america historically has survived because there were a few people who stood when no one

00:35:17.960 else would because they were all afraid it's in the declaration of independence our lives

00:35:24.320 our fortunes and our sacred honor are you not willing to risk that because that's what we're

00:35:31.680 supposed to be celebrating. Is it just because if it's divisive because of Donald Trump?

00:35:39.480 This isn't Donald Trump. America is bigger than Donald Trump. America was here before him. America

00:35:46.400 will be here after him. George Washington is bigger than Donald Trump. Abraham Lincoln is

00:35:51.540 bigger than Donald Trump. The American people, bigger than Donald Trump. The Declaration of

00:35:55.680 Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, bigger than Donald Trump. He just happens to be

00:36:00.980 the president of the United States now. The millions of Americans who built this country,

00:36:07.560 defended this country, farmed this country, invented in this country, sacrificed for this

00:36:13.260 country, died for this country, that's all bigger than Donald Trump. And they're bigger than Joe

00:36:19.280 Biden. They're bigger than Barack Obama. Is that what's so divisive? Because that's the problem.

00:36:28.460 now we see everything as political everything the flag is political the anthem is political

00:36:36.820 the founders political the constitution now our birthday party is political

00:36:42.020 i'm i'm just i guess i'm just getting too old i was a kid in 1976 i was 12 years old

00:36:52.980 and i was probably in the most patriotic family ever we were trying to save our little town

00:37:00.320 little town of mount vernon washington and it was dying because the mall came in

00:37:07.020 and we thought my parents did mount vernon washington why don't why don't we make it

00:37:15.280 into like a little colonial town not like mount vernon you know and salute george washington

00:37:21.460 and maybe build a little miniature Mount Vernon

00:37:23.560 because the bend of the river, the Skagit River,

00:37:25.480 was right there.

00:37:26.220 It looked exactly the same.

00:37:27.900 And we'll make our town into something

00:37:29.760 instead of just losing to the mall.

00:37:31.980 And so all through for like three years prior

00:37:35.480 to the Bicentennial and during it,

00:37:38.040 I mean, we dressed up as, you know,

00:37:40.020 I was a little drummer boy and we marched in parades

00:37:42.480 and all of that stuff.

00:37:44.220 But the one thing I remember about the Bicentennial

00:37:47.180 is all Americans celebrated the Bicentennial.

00:37:49.880 Everybody.

00:37:50.200 We were all in that one together.

00:37:51.820 It was everywhere.

00:37:53.420 And nobody asked if you're a Republican or a Democrat.

00:37:59.340 I remember people hated the president, President Nixon, hated him, hated Ford.

00:38:08.040 They still showed up, hated Carter.

00:38:12.980 They still showed up.

00:38:14.520 People who love the president showed up.

00:38:16.460 people who hated the president showed up because the celebration wasn't about the president it was

00:38:21.160 about the country how have we lost that are we really that small of a nation that we can only

00:38:29.600 see ourselves through the lens of whoever is sitting in the oval office wow that is a dangerous

00:38:34.860 way to think you want to talk about fascism that's the beginning of it a nation that can't celebrate

00:38:41.500 itself forgets itself. A people who only remember the failures eventually lose confidence in the

00:38:51.280 future. We're almost there, gang, if we're not already. Confidence matters. And despite all of

00:38:59.360 our mistakes, despite all of our sins, despite all of our shortcomings, and there is a long list,

00:39:04.640 believe me, I have a museum. I can outdo the worst people. Oh, let me tell you how bad the

00:39:10.860 united states says you're a rookie let me show you the actual documents

00:39:14.960 still with all of that i know the united states has done extraordinary things for humanity

00:39:23.700 yeah we had slavery we also ended slavery we fought for it we're the only country that

00:39:32.220 fought our own people you know how many people died yeah vietnam so horrible went on for 10

00:39:38.080 years. What was it? 60,000, 66,000 people died in Vietnam. Nearly 700,000 people died in the

00:39:47.260 Civil War back when the population was a lot smaller. And when we fought in other wars,

00:39:54.440 we go in and we rebuild our enemies. We feed starving nations. We pioneer modern medicine,

00:40:01.900 and then we volunteer and share it with them. We've created technologies that changed the world.

00:40:07.340 We defended freedom across continents.

00:40:09.920 We send missionaries and charities and doctors and inventors and entrepreneurs and dreamers

00:40:15.080 into every corner of the globe.

00:40:19.520 Now, is that the whole story?

00:40:21.220 Of course not.

00:40:24.180 Of course not.

00:40:26.080 But that's an important part of the story. 0.97

00:40:28.700 And after we have been beating ourselves up for the last 25, 30, damn, almost 50 years 0.52

00:40:34.580 Now, maybe we could take a summer to remember some of the good stuff. 0.65

00:40:41.180 So, Martina McBride, I love you.

00:40:45.120 My wife loves you.

00:40:46.460 I love you.

00:40:47.160 I have nothing against you.

00:40:48.820 I just want to know your evidence.

00:40:50.580 I want to know what they asked you to do so I can help you spread the word that that was wrong. 0.92

00:40:58.020 But I'll be damned. 0.97

00:40:59.420 I don't think you have a damn thing. 0.99

00:41:01.260 I don't. 0.98

00:41:01.840 i think you have a lack of courage and i don't say i like you i don't mean i don't say that to 0.96

00:41:09.600 be mean to you but damn it it is time people have courage and stand up and say this isn't 0.97

00:41:15.380 about the president and i don't care what you do to my career i don't care anymore my country is 0.97

00:41:23.800 more important so if you want to boycott america's 250 it's your right if you want to criticize the

00:41:30.140 event, that's your right. Just be honest about it. Tell us exactly what you oppose. Tell us exactly

00:41:37.500 what is divisive. Don't hide behind the slogans. Don't hide behind the headlines. Make the case

00:41:44.760 and let the American people decide. Because if the only reason you can't celebrate America's

00:41:52.360 birthday is that it's a president that you dislike might show up somewhere, might be nearby you,

00:41:58.800 and maybe that that's your problem then that your problem is not the celebration

00:42:04.100 the problem is is you've made one man larger than the country and no president deserves that power

00:42:12.660 not donald trump no one deserves america is bigger than all of the presidents

00:42:19.820 help me help you tell me what was so divisive i want to know

00:42:30.140 and if i don't hear

00:42:37.280 others can judge you any way they want and i'm not going to judge you but i am going to chalk it up

00:42:46.080 to cowardice.

00:42:49.220 You're afraid of what people will say about you,

00:42:52.780 what will happen to your sales,

00:42:55.760 what will happen to your career.

00:42:58.380 Will I get a job? Will I be hated?

00:43:01.260 Grow up.

00:43:05.840 If your friends and your co-workers

00:43:07.960 demand that of you, they were never your friends.

00:43:12.640 And you shouldn't want to work with them anyway.

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