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Summary
In this episode of the blend back program, Glenn walks you through two stories that tell you something about one of our major parties that will make you think twice before voting for them in 2020. First, we have a story about a Democratic presidential candidate who has a tattoo on his chest used by the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Also, a story on a Democratic primary candidate who Democrats are excusing a lot. And, a piece about Carmelo Anthony and the check Martin Luther King Jr. wrote.
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Has anybody ever said to you, can you imagine what would have happened if Kamala Harris would
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have won? You don't need to imagine. You can see it. And the House Oversight Committee dropped the
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hammer on Minnesota and Walsh in particular. He would have been our vice president. I take you
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down what we now know and why we are so lucky we dodged a bullet and we've got to clean this up.
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That's how we begin. Also, Graham Plattner, you are who you excuse. Democrats are excusing an awful lot. Also, Carmelo Anthony and black justice and the check that Martin Luther King wrote.
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you're listening to the best of the blend back program all right i want to walk you through
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two stories that ran this week uh side by side because together they'll tell you something about
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one of our you know major parties and you know let's be honest it actually tells us where any
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of us will end up if we decide that the cause is bigger than the principles. So let me tell you
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first the story about Graham Plattner, Democrat, frontrunner for the United States Senate in Maine,
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taking the seat of Susan Collins, and they're calling him Maine's Momdani. That's enough to
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throw me off the path, but if you like that kind of stuff and you're a Democrat, fine.
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He sells himself as a working-class oyster farmer. He is a regular guy, anti-establishment,
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But it turns out regular guy went to an $80,000 a year boarding school and comes from a family with a lawyer father and a world-famous architect grandfather.
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And the average guy, if the average guy is a communist, that says billionaires just shouldn't exist, he's talked about deadly violence against political opponents.
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he calls all police officers bastards and he has said rural white americans are actually racist
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racist and stupid oh and then there's a little thing about that tattoo he's got a tattoo on his
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chest used by the nazi ss it's inked on his body he says i didn't know what that was that's a
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everyone knows what that is now on top of that the new york times reported that several women
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who dated him described him as disturbing and intimidating with one of the ex-girlfriends
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saying he was rough with her the reaction inside the party well not a lot senior democrat aide
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has come out and said everyone's uh apoplectic about it but i haven't seen it his own supporters
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congressman roe connor said that his behavior is wrong and toxic there's a second story i want to
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talk to you about and it's the same story kind of this about a woman named uh geneve mcdonald
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now she is a former main uh state representative she's a democrat she was the political director
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of platner's own campaign she wrote an op-ed in the washington post blowing the whistle on the
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man she was hired to elect. Will anyone hear that whistle? She said when she asked him about the
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tattoo, he said, ah, it's a military thing, a little problematic, but nothing to worry about.
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She believed him. Then the call started coming from Washington. Have you read about his opposition
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file? Have you seen it? She hadn't. What she learned was that he absolutely understood exactly
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what the ss symbol meant then there were the old post where he downplayed sexual assault
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it disturbed her personally she was running it it disturbed her so deeply she quit
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and here's those who are desperate for power want you to skip past after she left she was offered
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$115,000 to sign a nondisclosure agreement to go quiet. She, thank God, turned the money down.
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And when she watched the giants of the progressive movement, Bernie Sanders among them,
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wave the whole thing away with a shrug and a line about, you know, nobody's a saint.
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She wrote one sentence that I think is the most honest sentence spoken in America politics this
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year we have learned to excuse what we should condemn and then enough is enough so those two
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stories who this guy says he is what she says he is hold these two stories in one hand okay at the
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same time now let me play a clip of what democratic voters are saying cut five well i think candidly
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The Democratic Party has come up short in a lot of ways in terms of, like, whitewashing our candidates and being so morally elitist and kind of entitled at times.
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We're talking about people that are felons and people that take bribes.
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I really kind of think that we all have skeletons in our closet and we've all made mistakes, especially when we're younger.
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and that was really a refrain we heard time and time again this kind of redemption arc
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we can you know have faith and forgiveness uh stop stop we can have faith and forgiveness
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let me ask this guy has not asked for forgiveness this guy has been denying all of these things
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okay to give forgiveness you have to have somebody who is looking for forgiveness he's not
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he's denying. Let me ask you this. How does the party that built its entire moral identity on
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three pillars, fairness, ending racism, and believe all women line up to nominate a man
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accused of frightening women, the women who loved him, a man who downplayed sexual assault,
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we should always listen to women when they come forward?
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those same people are looking at a nazi tattoo and credible accusations for women who loved him
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worked for him and were frightened by him and the response is well i don't know too many saints
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that's a problem and that that is a human problem this is not just a democratic problem
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And if you have to swallow a Nazi tattoo and look away from frightened women and offer a whistleblower hush money to do it,
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and that's just the cost of winning and it's the winning that matters,
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Well, I'm telling you, that's not how it works.
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That's never been how it works because the ends don't justify the means.
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The means make you into the very thing you set out to fight.
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and to keep their candidate they're now rationalizing an ss symbol that the guy put on his
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body they picked up a cause of believing women and to keep their candidate they're now explaining
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away the women did you see how the new york times treated these whistleblowers they pick up the
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banner of fairness and transparency democracy dies in the darkness they love to say that
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but to keep their candidate, somebody reaches for an envelope with $15,000 in it to buy somebody's
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silence. I don't know. That's not defeating darkness. That's becoming a franchise of darkness.
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Here's the problem. When you set out to slay a dragon, if you live your life one excuse at a
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time. Nobody's a saint. You will wake up before very long and notice, oh my gosh, I have scales.
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You're the dragon. That's the warning that everyone should hear and know for voting for
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somebody like this. And it's bigger than his communism, which is enough, isn't it? Isn't it?
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It's bigger than his communism, bigger than the math on Medicare for all, a plan that would cost
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the entire state budget. I mean, bigger than any single policy. It's bigger than that. The real
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danger is not what he can do to the state or to the country. It's what he does to you, your own
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moral immune system. Because the first time you train yourself to excuse in your guy what you
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would scream about in the other guy, you haven't just made one exception. You've reset the floor.
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I spoke out about all of the things about Donald Trump.
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I continue to speak out about the things that bother me about Donald Trump.
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i just don't buy the fact that you think he's such a horrible guy i don't buy it i know him
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personally you don't so i can excuse you i know him personally i know his children i know the way
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he treats people i know all of his co-workers they don't walk away they all they work for him
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forever. They don't walk away and say, the guy is doing this at night. The guy's got a Nazi tattoo.
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You've told yourself your principles are all important. You've told us you've got to live
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by these principles. You force people, but they were never principles at all. They were just
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weapons that you used when it was convenient. And you put those weapons down when it's not
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convenient that's not a principle that's a weapon and people who can't tell the difference between
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a principle and a weapon is a people who will follow anyone anywhere into anything let me ask
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you if if it's all if it's if he starts to say you know what we need to round people up he's got the
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nazi tattoo he's got we got to round people up we got to stop listening to israel or we have to stop
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listening to these MAGA people. We need re-education camps. Will you follow him there
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because the ends justify the means? What is your line? If you don't know what your line is,
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I won't vote for a Nazi. I won't do it. I won't do it. I know that sounds crazy that I have to
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say that, but for half the country, apparently you do have to say it. I won't vote for a Nazi.
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won't do it i wouldn't have voted for robert bird if you don't know who he was old timey days
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in the 1990s the democrats voted he was a grand wizard or grand dragon or whatever the hell they
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are in the clan i wouldn't have voted for him this is the oldest trap in human history
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that has turned into a monstrous movement or moment started out certain that they were the
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good guys the bolsheviks were there to free the worker the terror in france was going to perfect
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liberty everybody believed the cause was so righteous that the rules no longer applied to
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them. And the cause is exactly what gave them permission to become everything they claimed
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they hated. Show me a man who tells you the ends justify the means, and I will show you a man who
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is about to do something he would have called evil a year ago. I don't want to end with a villain
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here. I want to tell you a story of a hero, because there is a hero, and it's a Democrat,
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She had every worldly reason to take the money and stay quiet.
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She could have probably had a great, bright career with the Democratic Party.
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She could have held up her own side, her own career, her own team shot at power.
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And she looked at it and said, no, enough is enough.
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and she walked into the daylight and told the truth about her own people that is a democrat
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i love that is a democrat i celebrate that's what moral courage looks like that's the antidote
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not tribe over over truth but truth especially when it costs your tribe
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so anyone in maine anyone anywhere who is about to step into the booth and you're telling yourself
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that the cause is worth holding your nose on a guy with a nazi tattoo remember her
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remember that the ends never justify the means the means are the only thing you actually
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get to keep. You own them in the end. Your means, that's your character.
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They become your party. They become your country. Choose them like your soul depends on it.
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Because I have news for you. It does. This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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so a house oversight committee has just come out uh with a report and it's dropping the hammer on
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minnesota governor tim waltz and attorney general keith ellison this report now exposes they both
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knew about the taxpayer fraud uh programs the welfare programs as far back as spring of 2019
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that's nine billion dollars that's billion with a b lost to medicare fraud alone in one state
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since 2018 another 300 million dollars stolen from federal child nutrition programs meant for kids
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feeding our future and its cronies feasting while the system was looted now here is the worst part
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they didn't just fail to stop it they had the authority they had the clear authority
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to suspend payments investigate and shut it down but instead they chose political protection
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over people's treasure question is why they say fear of political retribution
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from certain activist communities fear of being called racist or islamophobic
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so instead of guarding the taxpayers money they guarded the fraud machine now i want you to hear
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this there is one thing about not catching it there's another thing to turning a blind eye
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and then it's an entirely different category when you when you take the whistleblowers the public
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servants with integrity trying to expose it and you retaliate against them and the retaliation
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was vicious private investigators were sicked on these people and and were told to dig into their
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lives photos of their cars and their homes monitoring of their phones and their computers
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questions about their school kids you know when i say questions about their the school and the kids
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it's like this you got a you got a kid going to uh uh roosevelt elementary don't you be ashamed
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something happened there huh that's the kind that's the kind of retaliation check-ins from the top
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threats of military style surveillance warnings to stop digging or be labeled bigots they had
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hotlines that were supposed to be anonymous and it would expose who was calling they blocked the tip
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lines they shamed and punished anyone who dared to speak the truth wow now that's a different
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category, isn't it? That's totally different than I didn't know what was going on. Totally
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different than, okay, I knew what was going on, but I didn't say anything. This is, I knew what
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was going on. Quote, I'm afraid. So I'm going to make others very afraid. And I'm going to use
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every tool in the toolbook that is that's crazy
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turning a blind eye to billions vanishing and then actively silencing those who are sworn to
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protect the system public officials elected appointed betraying their oaths betraying the
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people of minnesota and betraying you and me let me tell you if this is proven in a court of law
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because here in America, you are innocent until proven guilty.
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You swore an oath to protect the state, the Constitution,
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malfeasance obstructing justice by intimidating whistleblowers that's a crime against the
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republic that is that you should face the harshest penalty not the death penalty but the harshest
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the harshest penalty a public servant can ever face you should go to life in prison for what
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you've just done. Removal from office, not enough. Fines, not enough. But no one is above
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the law. Not governors, not attorney general, not their enablers. You know, and we don't do
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show trials. We don't do political revenge. We're not supposed to. I'm not advocating that. We do
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justice, blind, impartial justice, rooted in evidence and the rule of law. But make no mistake,
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accountability is not optional on this one if you are a leader and you loot the public purse
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and punish the righteous Americans need to demand that those politicians answer for it and I mean
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I mean demand it you have a right to assemble you have a right to petition
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if this one goes down and these guys walk away it's the end it's the end
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Glenn what do you think the republic would be like today if Kamala Harris would have won
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you tell me look at what this guy was doing look at what he was willing to do to protect himself
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first thing none of this would have seen the light of day all of this would have remained
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covered Tim Walsh would have been vice president sitting right there in the White House
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with all of the machinery of the federal government behind him.
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Imagine the same corruption, billions stolen, whistleblowers crushed,
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not at a state level, but scaled up to the entire country.
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Can you imagine the damage that they could have done at the federal level?
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Trillions potentially funneled away under the cover of equity or political fear.
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the house of cards just would have kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger the lies deeper the
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grip tighter imagine thank god the american people saw through this in 2024 thank god we had a chance
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to root this out let me let me say that again we have a chance to root this out chance and i believe
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we have one chance. The job isn't finished. If I read another one of these reports, they go
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absolutely nowhere. I'm going to lose my mind. We have a chance to root this out. This has got
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to stop. And this isn't just about Minnesota. This should be a warning to every politician.
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I don't care, Republican, Democrat, Independent. Every politician should be put on notice.
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idols of power idols of of political survivor survival over truth and stewardship
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this is bad and it happens in history empires they always fall from the inside not from the
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outside leaders who forgot that they were servants not masters i read a book once what did it say
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something like woe unto those who call evil good and good evil we're living it gang we're living it
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let me say something to the whistleblowers thank you thank you you should sue
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the state should pay you a buttload of money and you should sue not just the state you should sue
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waltz uh and the attorney general and anyone else that was involved they put you through hell you're
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the remnant you're the watchman stand firm thank you thank you for doing it and know
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that you are now an example that the truth always wins eventually the truth comes out and to every
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leader, fear justice. Fear God, not the mob. Honor your oath, or you will be exposed.
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To those who are going to try to take this and cover this up, again, fear God,
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not the mob fear god and justice because come hell or high water the american people are not
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going to take it much longer we're not going to have you steal from us while we're trying to feed
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our children you're stealing from us we're the ones working we pay your salary and you're stealing
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from us. I'm telling you, when the American people, when that really, truly connects and
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they stop playing stupid politics, you are in trouble, my friend. Stop playing this game.
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To the people, this is our republic. Reclaim your republic. Demand transparency. Support
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real oversight build a strong family build a strong community strong character feed hope
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every day reject all of the lies choose right right now choose who you are going to serve
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the god of truth or the failing gods of this age because only one of them is going to stand
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the gates of hell are raging right now they're not going to prevail because good always wins
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Because it is not just about one tragic day at a Texas track meet.
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It's about who we are as people and what we're allowing ourselves to become.
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I knew when I sobered up that I knew who I wanted to be.
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But all I was left with was who I allowed myself to become.
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And I became that man with a series of small compromises.
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maybe that's because life is trying to teach me something
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he's a kid with his whole life ahead of him and he was at a field event in frisco texas just outside
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of dallas last april this kid comes in wants to see wants to sit in this one area it is a team
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tent he was told you can't sit here blah blah words were exchanged the kid 19 years old his
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name is carmelo anthony he was asked by multiple witnesses 19 leave the tent it belongs to the
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opposing team. He refuses. He swears at them. He taunts them. He reaches into his backpack
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grabbing something apparently and repeatedly saying, you touch me and you just see what happens.
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At one point he pulls a knife out. Austin, by all accounts, stays calm, not looking for a fight.
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When Anthony pulls out a semi-serrated folding knife,
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he just turns around and he just drives it deep into Austin's chest.
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Pierce's bone punctures his heart, a gaping fatal wound.
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and some people gasped, one woman put her hand over her mouth.
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anthony the accused just looked down he didn't look at the photos that's what happened young
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life full of promise cut down in a moment of rage another kid full who had his whole life in front
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of him full of promise drives the knife into that kid now he's standing trial for murder
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his claim is self-defense but it's completely falling apart witnesses including some called
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by his own attorney have painted a very different picture. Anthony as the aggressor, the defiant
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one, the threatening one, the one who escalated everything. Again, even witnessed, yesterday was
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a witness called by his own attorney. It was like, that's not what happened. He was the aggressor.
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Okay, so that's just the way things happen in court, okay? And this is a story that men have
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been murdering men forever let me show you what happens to this story and what is old but also
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new that needs to be changed what happens when that story hits the wider world well there are
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people that don't want you to see um you know the truth they don't want they want you to see
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not the dead boy and the knife and even the testimony. They just want you to see color.
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They want you to see a black defendant and a white victim. That's it. Now, let me prove this
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out. I want to play two pieces of audio here that came out yesterday. The first one is not his
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mother, but a black mother. She says this about her standing at the courthouse watching this
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whole thing. Listen. If evidence does come out that Carmelo was not in fact fighting for his
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life when he stabbed and killed Austin Metcalf, do you think that the black community will accept
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that? If evidence shows that he did not, no, we're going to stand by ours regardless. They
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stand by theirs. We're going to stand by ours regardless. I'm a mother first. I'm a black
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mother. Let me put that on there. I'm an African-American mother. So I have to put away
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my color first and step into the motherhood. Nobody wants to see their child slain, so I do
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want to send prayers to Austin Metcalfe, their family. But at the end of the day, I got to think
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like, okay, what did you do to them or whatever to cause this to happen, the reaction? We got to
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start taking accountability for our kids. Because then again, if my kid, that's why I said Catch
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22, if my kid was Carmelo and I feel like his back was up against the wall, I'm going to tell
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straight up better mind than yours better mind than yours so either way go everybody loses a
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black boy allegedly ordered and i say allegedly heavy on the allegedly allegedly ordered somebody
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you see what i'm saying so yeah this is this this is about race
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i can't even make heads or tails of that okay if it was proven he was not defending himself but he
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was the aggressor she says yes because of race i will stand with them because they stand by theirs
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that's the worst thing you can do my mother would have said if everybody's jumping off a bridge would
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you jump off a bridge no it's wrong you don't do that then she brings in motherhood now this is
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what a mom should do to some degree in this way a mom or a dad i've told i've told my kids i don't
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care what you do in your life i don't care i will always love you what that means at the extreme
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example uh the extremes is um my daughter goes out and does what anthony carmelo is alleged to
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have done that means i sit at the table with her i go to the prison with her i don't defend her
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but i love her and i'm with her but you cannot expect society to change if you don't hold you
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know, she says, we got to stand by our kids. No, no. We stay by our kids' side just as God stays by
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our side when we screw up. He loves us. He's with us, but he requires a penalty, okay? And if you
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don't get it here on earth, you're going to get it with him. So we look to our heavenly father and
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say, how would he deal with it? Well, he would not abandon us. He would not disown us. He would love
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us he would counsel us he would see to the punishment but he would do it with love and he
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would always be there that's our responsibility as a parent now let me show you a minister and
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what he said listen to this cut seven i come out here every thursday and we pray for people going
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to court because this we know this is the final frontier of racism and it's legalized here it was
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announced yesterday that there's no black jurors that were chosen. What are your thoughts on that?
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That's why we need God. That's why we need God. And that's why he's going to show
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who's in control. And would you be open to giving us your personal insights
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into the Carmelo Anthony trial and what your thoughts are on it?
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I just want justice done. You know, we know. Okay, stop. Nope. Okay, stop. So he just wants
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but this is the this is where this is all about race he starts it there it's all about race
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now i believe he's got a good heart i just think he is misguided if i understand him correctly he's
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misguided here because people want you to believe that this is just an endless american morality
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play of systemic racism over and over again they want you to ignore that anthony was asked to leave
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15 times that he put his hand into the bag and dared them he said i'm not leaving f you all
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they want outrage they don't want evidence division not truth i i we have to love him
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carmelo we have to we as people and you know we it's easy for us be hard for the family
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but we as people have to forgive him but there must be justice and look at how the press just
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plays along no blacks on the jury as if as if justice requires a racial quota
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here's what they left out there are minorities on that jury it's not all white people
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there's just not black minorities okay and the one prospective juror who was black who got
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herself disqualified. How? Was it because the prosecution was racist? No. Can you be fair?
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Can you be blind as a juror? And she said, I don't think I could put another brother in jail
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if he's guilty. Well, then you can't be on the jury. She removed herself because she couldn't
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promise fairness that's not the system failing that is a human being in a moment of honesty
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admitting she couldn't live up to the blindfold and so the system worked and a jury of your peers
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doesn't mean people who look like you it never has it does mean this citizens who can set aside
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their bias racial political cultural and weigh the evidence with integrity this has been hard
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for whites to judge blacks and blacks to judge whites,
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but that's what it requires if you're on a jury.
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Now, perhaps we think that the juror needs to look like us
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because we don't think the people of other color
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And these voices here that I just played for you
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but that can't be fixed by putting more whites or blacks
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That's only fixed when we all understand and hold the same self-evident truths.
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We need jurors in every case who can see the defendant as a man and not a symbol.
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We are judging the individual, not the symbols, not culture, good, bad, guilty, or innocent.
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That is the American promise, and it is imperfectly kept.
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it's been betrayed but the north star we have always tried to steer toward and this is not
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steering toward you remember oj simpson oj simpson walked free not because the church the jury
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believed he was innocent they said that at the time but later in interviews years later they've
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all admitted it they wanted to send a message to the man to stick it to the system they played
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politics with a murder trial years later some of them express regrets because the blood on those
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gloves told its story and they knew it but they wanted to make a political point at the time and
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so they let a killer go free we always get in trouble when we turn a courtroom into a billboard
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for our grievances instead of a sanctuary for truth. I want fair trials. If the evidence shows
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that this is not the story that I just told you, then he should go free, but not because of
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something political or racial. Moral boundaries of our society are cracking, and they're cracking
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because we are prioritizing the narrative over reality.
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They're trying to destroy our story of who we actually are
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and replace it with a story of who we should never, ever become.
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When we teach young people that justice is about racial score settling
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when we allow race hustlers to poison the well, white or black,
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before a piece of evidence is even heard, that's not progress.
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to politics, to pressure, to wealth, or social status, or the mob, or headlines.
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And we've never achieved it. We've never fully achieved it. It's like a tide. That's why our
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founders said a more perfect nation. We are gathered to build a more perfect nation. It's a
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tide. It rolls in, and then it goes out. And right now, the tide is so far out, I can't even see the
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water anymore the rhetoric is so loud now the temptation send a strong message is so strong
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i'm not sending a strong this message that needs to be said is this kind of crime any kind of crime
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will not be tolerated that's the only message you're you get justice for the family of the
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person that was hurt or abused or killed you then try to teach this personal lesson that that is
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outside of polite society you have no place doing this in society so cool off think about it and try
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to reform yourself and then the third is a message to those who want to commit these crimes don't do
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it or you'll get the same the activists and the activists are there and they are desperate for
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another narrative to fuel the fire but it is our job yours and mine to push back to see past the
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race baiters and the selective outrage and demand that juries and judges and citizens
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look for the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Guilt or innocent based on evidence,
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not identity. That's not just the legal way. That's the American way, the way all men are
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created equal, the way of a republic that dares to say character and content matter more than the
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color of your skin. Austin didn't deserve to die in a seat in a tent. And Carmelo deserves a fair
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trial, truly fair, without the circus. And you and America deserve better than to let another
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generation be taught that justice is whatever serves the narrative. Stand firm, demand the truth,
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reject the easy tribalism. Because if we lose the blindfold, we lose everything worth preserving.