Ep. 1100 - The Internet Is Very Mad That I Want To Punish Criminals
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The internet is mad at me because I suggested that criminals should actually be punished for their crimes. Also, Mike Pence is the latest former government official to have classified documents in his home, which makes the media s narrative about Trump s documents all the more absurd, and an MSNBC host is deemed racist for coming out against the new African-American studies curriculum in public schools. In our daily cancellation, we will learn why the word aloha is potentially insensitive, bigoted, and even physically harmful.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the internet is very mad at me because I suggested that
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criminals should actually be punished for their crimes, if you can imagine it.
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Also, Mike Pence is the latest former government official to have classified documents in his
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Apparently, we all have classified documents in our homes, which makes the media's narrative
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And an MSNBC host contracts COVID and laments that he didn't get his fourth booster shot
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DeSantis is deemed racist for coming out against the new African-American studies
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In our daily cancellation, we will learn why the word aloha is potentially insensitive,
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All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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This is not the sort of thing you expect to hear.
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You may find it shocking and certainly upsetting.
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They're calling me things like fascist and bigot.
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This is all, of course, making me feel quite bad about myself as someone who is so accustomed
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to receiving unanimous acclaim and adulation and agreement all the time everywhere I go.
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Let's back up for a moment so you can understand the context.
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A few days ago, a leftist Twitter user, and I inferred his political leanings from the pride
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flag in his bio, posted a video expressing his awe over the airport in Singapore.
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As you can see, it's a rather impressive sight.
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It looks like the futuristic utopia in every sci-fi movie right before the robots start killing
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Though, in fairness, I have seen similar sights at LAX.
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It's just that those waterfalls were overflowing toilets.
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Our airports in America are generally a different kind of experience from what you just saw there.
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Airports in the United States, they qualify as really nice if they have a food court with
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a Chipotle and more than three electrical outlets in each terminal.
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Admiring Singapore, though, has become something of a trend online.
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Every so often, somebody, usually somebody on the left, will post a video like the one
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you just saw or like this one, extolling Singapore, the city, for its clean, green, eco-friendly
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This place creates gardens and parks in the middle of its buildings.
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That's because in parts of Singapore, you're required to replace the land that you're building
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So the greenery that is lost on the ground is replaced in the sky.
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Each building must have greenery that's equivalent to at least 100% of the land that it was built
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This building has over 200% greenery for the land that it replaced.
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This is Park Royal, and it's absolutely crazy how they managed to include greenery throughout
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But all of this is not just done for a more beautiful look.
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See, buildings with more greenery end up using less electricity, produce less waste, and in
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You also improve the air quality and keep the temperatures cooler.
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This rooftop is over 50 stories high, and it's pretty much entirely a garden.
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And the crazy part is that it's completely open to the public.
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Now, your mileage may vary a bit with the Jumanji aesthetic, where forests are growing inside
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The real point is that the city looks bright and clean and safe and not at all like a post-apocalyptic
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zombie-infested hellscape, which sets it apart from our cities, which in so many cases look
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like some sort of horrifying mashup of The Walking Dead and The Wire.
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But it could be a random street in nearly any major American city.
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There's a reason we don't have, you know, very many carefully manicured public parks located
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on the tops of our buildings, because if we did, there'd be almost immediately, you know,
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a drug addict passed out on every bench and a homeless guy taking a dump in every bush.
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The people who look with envious, lustful eyes at Singapore's cleanliness and general
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lack of fentanyl zombies and random street thugs assaulting pedestrians have every reason
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to be so covetous when you consider what our cities look like.
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But there's also a reason why Singapore looks like Singapore and Philadelphia looks like
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There are many reasons, actually, and not all of them can or should be emulated.
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But in the tweet that got me into trouble, I mentioned one major factor that, to my mind,
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Singapore is able to have nice things in part because they execute drug dealers by hanging
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and they arrest even petty vandals and thieves and beat them with a cane until they bleed.
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We don't have nice things because we aren't willing to do what is required to maintain them.
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Now, that tweet has been viewed like 14 million times and 13.9 million of those views apparently
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came from people who were deeply offended by it on the right and left.
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But offended as they may be, the fact is that Singapore isn't plagued by property crime and
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violent crime nearly to the extent that our country is.
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In fact, their crime rates are among the lowest in the world because, in part, in large part,
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As mentioned in the tweet, thieves, robbers, vandals, similar malcontents are subject to
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Drug offenders can be given the same treatment.
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And it's meted out to more serious criminals like rapists and people convicted of kidnapping.
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Often the corporal punishment will be paired with a prison sentence, which, depending on the
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We've heard a little bit, actually, about this punishment in Singapore and the methods
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that are used from Westerners who have made the mistake of committing the crimes in Singapore
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that everyone knows you aren't supposed to commit in Singapore.
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For instance, a couple of years ago, the British media reported with great alarm about the story
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of a British national who got caught dealing drugs in Singapore, which, again, everybody,
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even people who don't live in Singapore knows that Singapore is the last place where you
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And he received 20 years in prison to go along with a caning that was so severe that he couldn't
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He had trouble controlling his bowels because of how badly he was beaten.
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He reported that the fear that he felt in having to wait in line while listening to the screams
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of other inmates as they received their punishments.
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He's in one room waiting, this is the way he described it, and they bring people in one
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by one, and they beat them with the cane, and you can hear them screaming in agony, and
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Not one that I would ever want to experience myself.
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But he got off easy compared to other drug offenders, because if in Singapore you're caught
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with drugs over a certain amount, and it doesn't have to be all that much, 15 grams of heroin,
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30 grams of cocaine, for example, you are automatically charged with trafficking, drug
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It's automatically assumed that you have that because you want to traffic drugs.
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And in Singapore, they simply do not tolerate drug trafficking at all.
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So if you're convicted of drug trafficking, you are automatically executed.
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And they will dole out this most severe of punishments for a number of crimes, not just
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Of course, murder, terrorism, kidnapping can also warrant that, and other serious crimes
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And the executions are carried out usually swiftly.
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Death row inmates are given four days' notice, not four decades, four days' notice, before they're
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taken out, usually at dawn, and they are dispatched by hanging.
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Now, it's often said that studies prove that death penalty and other harsh punishments are
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That's what we hear all the time in this country.
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Oh, it doesn't, studies have proven, studies have proven it doesn't deter anything.
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Well, it seems to be working pretty well in Singapore, which in Singapore, they can make
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Okay, in fact, dozens of days in a year without any reported crimes at all.
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As a CNBC report marveled over a few years ago, Singapore is so safe that many stores
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They don't lock their doors at night, and sometimes they don't even have doors or locks to begin
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If capital punishment lacks a deterrent element in our country, it's obviously because we
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It's not capital punishment itself that doesn't deter crime.
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It is the way that we go about it that lessens its deterrence factor.
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There have only been something like 1,500 total executions in our entire country since the
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It's like a small handful of people across the entire country are executed in any given
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And on the extremely rare occasion that anybody is executed, it happens decades after the crime
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they committed, out of sight, out of mind for the public, and after hundreds of appeals.
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What this means is that criminals, they aren't deterred by it because they know they almost
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They know it won't happen to them, no matter what they do.
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It's not that they aren't scared of the death penalty itself.
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It's that they don't believe the court system will have the gumption to actually impose
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Now, when the death penalty or other harsh penalties are immediate and all but certain,
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it does have, unsurprisingly, a way of dissuading potential criminals.
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As it turns out, people do respond to incentives and disincentives.
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This is one of the basic realities of human psychology, is that every single person on the
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planet responds to incentives and disincentives.
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And the prospect of dangling at the end of a rope until you die is a rather powerful disincentive.
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Okay, there are people who will risk it, but most people won't.
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For the pettier criminals, the idea of being stripped naked and beaten so hard with a cane
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that the guy doing the beating has to take breaks to let his arm rest throughout your
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Now, our system of dealing with thieves and vandals and those of that ilk is laughably
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ineffective because in these cases, too, the criminals aren't convinced that there will
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And if they do wind up with a short stint in prison, the experience is likely to only increase
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their street cred and give them an opportunity to spend time with and be influenced by criminals
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But an added element of extremely painful corporal punishment creates a profound disincentive
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so that even those unbothered by prison would be bothered by this.
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Caning is also, and it is meant to be, humiliating, degrading, emasculating, which means that the
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experience isn't going to enhance anybody's street cred.
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Okay, you're not going to get out of prison bragging about getting caned.
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Put another way, it's not the kind of thing that you can imagine a rapper boasting about
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And that's precisely why it's an effective form of punishment.
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In fact, maybe this is like the easiest way to think about this.
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When you're thinking about what sort of penalties should we have for criminals, think about it.
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If it's the kind of penalty you can imagine a rapper bragging about in a song that becomes
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a big hit and is streamed 100 million times on Spotify, if it's that kind of penalty, then
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Let's imagine penalties that they would be too embarrassed and too ashamed to brag about.
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Now, am I actually suggesting that we should adopt these Singapore-like draconian forms of
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Corporal punishment for convicted criminals, that shouldn't even be controversial.
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Okay, that's actually obviously the correct thing to do.
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Those who cause damage to another person's body or livelihood or property should be made
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to experience the sort of physical suffering that might help them appreciate the seriousness
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Our current system is not impressing anyone with the seriousness of their crimes.
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We have it in our heads that, well, all forms of physical punishment are automatically cruel
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I've heard this over and over again in response to this argument.
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You can't simply assert that it's cruel and unusual to impose the death penalty or corporal
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I mean, these punishments certainly aren't unusual.
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On the contrary, they are probably the most usual sort of punishment imaginable from a historical
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And they aren't cruel because the person that they are inflicted on has chosen to act in
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It is not cruel to assign undesirable consequences to undesirable behavior.
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It is, on the contrary, the only way to maintain a civilized society.
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Criminals and lawbreakers must be made to suffer.
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If they aren't suffering, then it is not really a punishment.
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And so if we have a system where the criminals are not suffering, then they're not being punished.
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And we are trying a system where we just actually don't punish people for committing crimes.
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Now, as for the death penalty for drug traffickers, this again, to me, seems obvious.
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They sell poison for profit, taking advantage of the most helpless and miserable among us,
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turning people and entire communities into zombified husks, slowly dying while these parasitic scumbags reap the rewards.
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They deserve to die for what they're doing to people, to our cities, to our country.
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Okay, the people that are, those zombies that you saw in the clip of Philadelphia that are walking around hunched over.
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The people trafficking those drugs into our communities, they deserve to die.
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I can't understand the argument to the country.
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You're actually telling me they don't deserve to die for doing that to people?
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In what ways would we be harmed as a society if the people that are doing that, if we are deprived of their presence?
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No, our nation would be a better, more hopeful, safer, and more livable place without them.
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Now, I'm not arguing that our country should emulate Singapore in every respect.
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There are certainly things about the country I don't like.
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And I'm not claiming that beating criminals and hanging drug traffickers would, on its own, solve all of our problems.
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I acknowledge that Singapore has other advantages.
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They have a smaller, much more homogenous population, for one.
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And that helps it to build and maintain communities that aren't littered with used heroin needles and reeking constantly of weed and human urine, like our cities.
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But even so, there is a lesson we can learn here.
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The lesson is that civilization comes at a cost.
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If we have decided that nobody should have to pay that price, well then, we will no longer have civilization.
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And so we imagine that everything is and should be comfortable and gentle all the way down.
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What we don't realize is that this freedom and comfort and gentleness has been maintained by tough men who are willing to do hard and sometimes ugly things.
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If we insist now that those things must not be done anymore because they interfere with our comfortable illusions,
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then pretty soon we will no longer have the comfort or the freedom.
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We are surrendering our society to its worst and most predatory factions because we're too squeamish to stand up to them,
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to impose our will over them, and to force them to live like civilized human beings,
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which is what you're supposed to do with criminals.
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It's not putting them in jail for, let's hope they reform, let's hope they see the error in their ways
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and that they choose of their own free will to be better people.
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Now, we don't sit around waiting for that while, you know, our children are getting murdered in the street.
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And if your crimes are bad enough, we're not going to worry about reforming you because you're done.
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In other words, these days we wish to have a civilization without justice
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because justice is too harsh a thing for us to stomach.
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We say no to justice, which means we say no to civilization,
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which means that rather than forcing the lawless dregs of humanity to pay the price,
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Some of you have noticed that episode 1097 of this show,
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where I discuss the gender surgeons who want to implant uteruses in men,
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And that's because, as we found out last night, YouTube deleted the episode,
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having decided that comments I made during that discussion were in violation of their hate speech policies.
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And I'd say to begin with, in a sense, they're right.
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I do hate what is being done by these Frankenstein surgeons and these new age Nazi scientists
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who are conducting horrifying human experiments.
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It was a speech expressing hatred of those practices,
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which, of course, I also don't even remotely come close to apologizing for, needless to say.
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But YouTube took it down, which means that if you want to watch the full episode
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and hear all of my hateful thoughts, then you need to go to dailywire.com.
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Former Vice President Mike Pence informed Congress on Tuesday that he discovered documents
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bearing classified markings from his time as vice president in his home in Indiana on January 16th.
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Following the revelations, the classified documents from President Joe Biden's tenure
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as vice president were found at the Penn-Biden Center think tank and Wilmington, Delaware, Pence,
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Pence's team conducted searches of Pence's Indiana home
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and the office of his political advocacy group, Advancing American Freedom.
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According to his team, Pence informed the National Archives on January 18th
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that a small number of potential classified documents were found in two small boxes.
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Another two boxes contained copies of vice presidential papers.
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The National Archives then informed the FBI per standard procedure.
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So, I mean, at this point, like, I feel like I need to go home
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and make sure that I don't have classified documents.
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And if I do have them, I would immediately return them.
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Unless Putin offers a high price for them, obviously, then that would change things.
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This does just go to show, I mean, at this point, it's a farce now.
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I'm quite certain that if they were to do a check of Obama's residence,
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which they would never do, they'd find plenty of classified documents as well.
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I didn't know that, but evidently, it's what happens.
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And it goes to show, of course, that the Trump classified document story was always ridiculous.
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This thing we have to remember about the fake news media is that, yeah, sometimes they invent stories out of whole cloth,
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But usually that's not how the fake news works.
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Usually the fake news, it's in the details they're ignoring.
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It's like what they're saying might be sort of accurate, but it's meant to give a misleading impression because of the details they leave out
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or because of the things that they choose to emphasize or because they take a story and try to blow it up and make it a huge deal,
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It's like that's slightly more subtle in how the fake news operates.
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In this case, was it true that Trump had classified documents in his home?
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What's not true is that it's some sort of earth-shattering, enormous deal that we all need to be really worried about
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and that it indicates that Trump was up to something deeply nefarious and that he was trying to sell the documents to Putin or whatever.
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That's the part that was obviously, from the beginning, absurd.
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And there's no excuse to be misled on this sort of thing anymore.
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Your BS detector should be refined enough to pick up on this stuff.
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As I said, I had no idea that, I'm not terribly shocked by it, but I didn't know that this is something that presidents and vice presidents apparently do,
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where they end up with classified documents in their home.
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I didn't know that until this thing happened with Trump.
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But as soon as I found out about it, even though I just found out about it,
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it still was apparent to me that, well, this doesn't seem like a big deal.
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The only way that this is a big deal is if he did have some sort of intention to sell the classified information on the black market.
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And now that's all become, I think, hopefully obvious to everyone.
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And the left, they can't deny it either, because now they know.
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And they also know that if they were to dig deeper, which they're not going to do,
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that they're going to find classified documents in everybody's home.
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Everyone in D.C., apparently, they just, they take a, it's like a parting gift.
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I don't know, when you leave, you take, they give you a little goodie bag.
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They give you some classified documents you can bring home with your keepsakes.
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All right, Joe Scarborough on MSNBC contracted COVID.
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And when he came back to work, this was yesterday,
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he expressed regret that he hadn't gotten his fourth booster shot to prevent the COVID infection.
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He was disappointed in himself that he didn't get his fourth shot.
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Which prompted Joe Scarborough, when he came back,
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You know, yesterday when I was talking about getting COVID,
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A lot of these freaks go, oh, fourth booster shot, robot.
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Oh, my God, you want me to have a 50th flu shot?
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And if you want to be healthy, I don't care if you don't.
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My concern here, though, and let me bring in Reverend Sharpen
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My concern, Rev, is that there's a disinformation out there
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where people are saying, oh, well, it doesn't work
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because you've got to keep getting booster shots.
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The thing is you're always trying to build up your immunity
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Well, for the people who are dying of COVID, yeah, it's a crisis.
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But as the doctor explained to me when I didn't want to get flu shots,
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I'm going to cut this off before the Reverend Al Sharpton shows up.
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Why are we bringing Al Sharpton in to talk about it?
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To begin with, he says everyone gets a flu shot every year.
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I've never gotten a flu shot because I've never gotten a flu shot in my life.
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I mean, I've never gotten the flu shot and I've had the flu,
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I was pretty sick for about three or four days.
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So I've never gotten a flu shot and I've gotten the flu twice.
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Well, they also fully admit that even if you get the flu shot, you can still get the flu.
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So what would my batting average be if I had been getting a flu shot every single year?
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I mean, they would admit that even if you get the flu shot every year for 36 years,
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you'll probably still get the flu a couple of times.
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Well, I don't get it and I get the flu a couple of times.
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But also, this is the game that they're playing now.
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Where now we hear from people like Joe Scarborough.
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Which even that, does anyone get the flu shot every six months?
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It's a difference of like double the number of shots.
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I think most people, if they get the flu shot on a regular basis, they get it every year.
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So now they're saying, yeah, you just get it every six months.
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Part of the big deal here, which you hope that we forget,
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It was more like forcing it into people's arms.
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Which is the other part of this because he also says, it's your choice if you want to live an unhealthy life.
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That's what those of us who don't believe in forcing chemicals in people's bodies if they don't want it.
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We were saying, however you feel about the vaccine, it should be your choice.
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So if you're a pro-vaccine person and you think that it's really unhealthy to not get the vaccine,
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So your answer should be, well, if you want to live an unhealthy life, then that's your choice.
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And they certainly were not saying, yeah, this will be just like the flu shot.
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Or actually, even less effective than the flu shot.
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Because this one you have to get every six months for your entire life.
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So if you live 60 more years, you're going to get the COVID quote-unquote vaccine 120 times.
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And hoping we don't remember what they actually said.
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I want you to hear this exchange between a reporter and a Karen Jean pair.
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And this is a wonderful clip because between the two of them, they may be setting the record for, I don't know, lowest collective IQ.
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We have spoke between me and some friends that in this country, and I'm making this point because we need to remind people that America is the only country on earth that people die by gun without even being in war.
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Because I'm giving this example because in Africa, there are countries in war, but people don't even have access to gun.
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It's very hard because the government and everybody is very conscient that the guns can cause a lot of destruction.
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But in this country, it's very normal for everybody to have access to gun, and this needs to be controlled.
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But what can people like me, common people, can also, what can we do to help control guns?
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Pause it one second before we get to Karen Jean.
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I want to hear her answer because she's a very eloquent and articulate person.
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She always has insightful things to say, so I really want to give her a chance to answer that.
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But here's what her answer should be to what you just heard.
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Her answer should be, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life.
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She actually claims, the reporter there is not from this country, claims that America is the only country in the world where people die by gun violence when it's not in the context of a war.
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But it's not true anywhere on God's green earth.
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Well, look, what I can speak to, there are many ways that people can get involved in dealing with the gun violence that we're seeing here.
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I'm not going to make any suggestions, but there are ways that folks can go out there and participate in a way that's healthy, in a way that actually helps deal with a real issue.
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What I can speak to is what the president has done.
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What I can speak to is what the president believes.
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What I can speak to is the president's record on this, which is you can see for yourself as a senator this last two years as president and the executive actions that he's taken.
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He signed a bipartisan piece of legislation, as I just mentioned moments ago.
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And I know, and I don't blame her for the fact that she can't answer any of the questions.
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There's a talent involved in being a really good BS artist and being asked a question and giving something that sounds like an answer but isn't.
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It is so obvious when she is, we can't even say she's dancing around it.
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Because dancing gives the impression of someone who's artful and graceful, which she is not.
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Well, what I can speak to is what the president has said.
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She keeps listing what she can speak to and then she doesn't speak to it.
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In fairness, it was a really, really dumb question.
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Dumb question not only because the person claimed that gun violence only happens in the United States.
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And dumb not only because the person making that claim is from Africa, where there is certainly plenty of violence of all kinds, but also dumb because it all led to the question of what can we do in our individually in our communities to stop gun violence?
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One thing we could all do is maybe that part of the question isn't so dumb because actually there is something that we can do in our communities.
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If you don't want crimes with guns to be committed, one thing is don't commit those crimes yourself.
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So the more people who commit to that, the less crime there will be.
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And then the second thing is to have the ability to defend yourself and to refuse to be a victim.
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I don't know why we're going to spend any time on this at all, but Variety has this report.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once, a twisty sci-fi adventure, led the nominations for the 95th Academy Awards on Tuesday morning, picking up 11 nods.
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It was followed closely by All Quiet on the Western Front, a World War I epic, and The Banshees of Inishirin, I think, a darkly comic look at friendship that unfolds against the backdrop of the Irish Civil War, both of which scored nine nominations.
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All three films will fly for Best Picture in what is shaping up to be a much more commercially successful collection of honorees than recent years.
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The Best Picture race contains the two highest-grossing films of the year, Avatar, The Way of Water, and Top Gun Maverick, along with Elvis,
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a musical biopic that scored with audiences last summer.
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Other contenders include Steven Spielberg's The Fablemans, Tar, a drama about an abusive conductor, Women Talking, a look at the residents of a repressive religious community, and Triangle of Sadness, a send-up of the 1% that unfolds partly on a mega yacht.
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So they opened up the Best Picture nominations a few years ago, so that now they're nominating, I think they doubled the number of films that can be nominated.
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You end up with some of these blockbuster films that were not good.
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I mean, Avatar, it was very good at earning a lot of money.
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Although it's arguable how good it was at that, considering it had hundreds of millions behind it in marketing.
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So really, it had to make over a billion dollars, or it would have been a loss.
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So on one hand, you have these films that, like, they're only there because they made a lot of money.
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And then you have films that no one has ever heard of or seen.
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Films that were, like, legitimately successful, and, you know, people actually saw and have heard of.
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What I can tell you, though, just to give the official answer on this.
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The Best Movies of the Year, without a doubt, there's no dispute, there's no debate on this.
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Best Movies of the Year, All Quiet on the Western Front, that was one of the best movies.
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And then The Northman was the other best movie of the year.
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But The Northman wasn't nominated for anything.
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And All Quiet on the Western Front will almost certainly not win anything.
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And the reason on both counts is because those films are basically all white.
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It's, like, the worst of all worlds for Hollywood.
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These are films about white people, and even white people acting heroically.
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And then also almost entirely men in both films.
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They're both among the whitest and most masculine movies we've seen in a while.
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The College Board announced on Tuesday that the curriculum for AP African American Studies
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would be publicly released on February 1st, citing the start of Black History Month.
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The curriculum has garnered backlash among conservatives following reports of the program,
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which is currently undergoing pilots at five dozen high schools across the nation,
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is centered upon leftist activism rather than a study of black history.
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The Florida Department of Education recently informed the College Board that the course's content
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is inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value,
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adding that the state would reconsider the course should the organization make the material lawful
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The College Board referenced the beginning of Black History Month in a statement provided to Daily Wire
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announcing the course's structures public release, saying, quote,
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this framework under development since March 2022 replaces the preliminary pilot course framework
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We're grateful for the—okay, who cares about that?
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Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, who signed legislation last year preventing the state government schools
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from teaching discrimination on the basis of race, color, or sex,
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has emerged as a leading skeptic of the new AP African American Studies course.
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He noted that it submits policies such as prison abolition for student consideration,
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even though such suggestions are primarily supported by left-wing activists.
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Here he is, by the way, we have a clip of Ron DeSantis talking about this new Black History Month
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or African American Studies AP course and the problems with it, and here it is.
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This course on black history, what's one of the lessons about?
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Now, who would say that an important part of black history is queer theory?
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That is somebody pushing an agenda on our kids.
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And so when you look to see they have stuff about intersectionality, abolishing prisons,
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And so we're on—that's the wrong side of the line for Florida's standards.
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We believe in teaching kids facts and how to think,
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but we don't believe they should have an agenda imposed on them.
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When you try to use black history to shoehorn in queer theory,
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you are clearly trying to use that for political purposes.
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And there's just no chance that in the modern age, in the government school system,
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they can have any course related to something like African American studies
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that will not be highly political, ideologically charged.
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Because that's—that is going to be—that's going to be shoehorned into anything.
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Anything where the left is involved, it's always going to come down to LGBT indoctrination.
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I mean, look at BLM before they changed their website,
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when they listed their—what their mission statement is,
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What does that have to do with Black Lives Matter?
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Well, it's because that's a cover for just a far-left agenda,
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Though, I'll also say that I'm not in favor of—
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well, we've got to reform—we need to reform this program,
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we need to take a look at it, we need to audit it and figure out a way to—
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Okay, this is not an appropriate or relevant thing.
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Any kind of African American history or studies,
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or presented in grade school, in public schools.
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Because what we should be teaching kids is American history.
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The courses should be focused on American history,
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it is, again, going to automatically become political and ideological.
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But it's also not appropriate for a public school environment.
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And that will include the story of everyone who has been an American.
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Who makes a Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage?
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the reporters tried to contact the 17-year-old girl at her workplace.
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Yeah, they're trying to do a lot more than that.
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The 17-year-old girl who stood up to the male who entered the locker room at the YMCA
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And the media, not just calling it a workplace,
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but they're trying to publicly shame her for the crime of not wanting to be exposed
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I'd say there were about five or six opportunities.
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Can't believe Matt didn't laugh at the obesity expert being named Fatima.
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Walsh's ignorance of actual science on psychiatry and psychology is shocking.
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he is also right that such a claim can also be applied to many who challenge him.
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What did I say about psychiatry and psychology that is,
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Especially in the context of the show yesterday,
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but correct criticism that what the psychiatric industry has been doing for the last several decades,
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is to categorize and catalog every aspect of the human condition,
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and every single time they add more things to it,
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every year you just discover new mental illnesses
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but they take things out in response to political pressure.
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they very rarely can give any kind of scientific reason
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They just took it out because people were upset.
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because there was a lot of pressure from gay activists
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saying that they were deeply disturbed and offended
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of one of the greatest moments in Daily Wire history.
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This mandate would have set a dangerous precedent
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And we are so proud to have led the charge in this fight,