Ep. 1103 - Black Cops Beat Black Man. Media Blames White Supremacy.
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5 Black Police Officers are under arrest after fatally beating a Black Man. Plus, the Paul Pelosi 911 call is finally revealed, which also reveals the real story in that whole bizarre situation. A trans figure skater accidentally gives us the funniest video of the year so far, and the pop star Sam Smith tries to become the white male Lizzo. The results are as tedious as they are revolting. All that and more today on The Matt Warshaw Show.
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, five black police officers are under arrest after fatally beating
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a black man. Everyone involved is black, yet that hasn't stopped the media from pinning the blame
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on white supremacy, of course. Also, police departments across the country have been
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lowering their standards in order to attract new and, quote, diverse recruits. Does that play into
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the incident in Memphis? Plus, the Paul Pelosi 911 call is finally revealed, which also reveals the
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real story in that whole bizarre situation. A trans figure skater accidentally gives us the
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funniest video of the year so far, hands down. And the pop star Sam Smith tries to become the
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On Friday evening, after several days of hype and buildup, video of the incident that led to murder
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charges for five Memphis police officers was finally released. The body camera footage is a
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couple different places where the footage is coming from, and the body camera is harder to interpret.
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We see Tyree Nichols fighting with the cops after having been apparently pulled over for reckless
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driving, but the footage is sort of blittery, blurry, and jittery, and difficult to discern.
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The story is really told by footage from security cameras mounted to street lamps, and there we can
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see the cops take turns beating and kicking Nichols while he's restrained. The five of them together
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should have been able to figure out a way to subdue one man without pummeling him to death,
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but these officers decided to use much more force than what the situation would seem to require. In
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fact, if you saw the video from the street lamp security cameras without any other context,
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you wouldn't think that it was an arrest at all, but rather like gang warfare. It looked like street
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violence, not officers of the law executing an arrest. And the end result is that Tyree Nichols died in the
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hospital a few days after the beating. Now, there's still much we don't know about this incident,
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and even though the video is quite brutal, it's still always worth keeping in mind that everyone
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is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. I wouldn't be surprised if more details emerge in
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the coming weeks and months that while probably not exculpatory for the officers, it's very hard to
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imagine what kind of context could possibly let them off the hook here. It might at least help to
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explain what exactly was going on. Did one or some of these cops have some sort of personal grudge
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against Nichols? Is there a history here that we haven't been told about, which might explain why
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the beating looks so personal? I have no idea. Hopefully we'll find out more as time goes on.
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What I do know though, is that this event, whatever precipitated it, whatever explains it,
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certainly had absolutely nothing to do with racism because this was a black man beaten by black cops
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who work for a department run by a black woman in a majority black city governed by a majority black
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city council. There are no white faces anywhere near this incident, which means that no honest and
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intelligent person could try to pin this one on whiteness or white supremacy. But unfortunately for
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all of us, honest and intelligent is a bar too high for many people, especially those in the media to
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meet. And so leftist activists and media propagandists immediately went to work trying to explain how
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the actions of five black men under the leadership of a black woman somehow represent an act of
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anti-black racism. Van Jones over on CNN got the race baiting kicked off on Friday night with an op-ed
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titled, quote, the police who killed Tyree Nichols were black, but they might still have been driven by
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anti-racism. Jones goes on to explain, one of the sad facts about anti-black racism is that black
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people ourselves are not immune to its pernicious effects. Society's message that black people are
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inferior, unworthy and dangerous is pervasive. Over many decades, numerous experiments have shown that
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these ideas can infiltrate black minds as well as white. Self-hatred is a real thing. At the end of
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the day, it is the race of the victim who is brutalized, not the race of the violent cop that is most
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relevant in determining whether racial bias is a factor in police violence, whether racial bias
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is a factor in police violence. It's hard to imagine five cops of any color beating a white person to
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death under similar circumstances. And it's almost impossible to imagine five black cops giving a
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white arrestee the kind of beatdown that Nichols allegedly received. There you have it. White people
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aren't to blame, even for things that white people don't do. Van Jones bases all of this on his own,
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essentially his own lack of imagination. Because he says that it's hard to imagine a white person
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treated this way by cops. Hard to imagine. And it might indeed be hard for him to imagine,
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because he works for a media organization that simply ignores every occasion where a white person
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is killed by police. It's not that Jones can't imagine a white person falling victim to police
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brutality. It's that he chooses not to acknowledge such cases when they happen. He chooses not to
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remember, for example, the worst police shooting ever caught on film, the one where Daniel Shaver,
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an unarmed white man, is executed in the middle of a hotel hallway while on his knees begging for his life.
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Shaver's skin color makes his story inconvenient. And so it's simply ignored, like so many other
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stories just like it. Jones got to this narrative early, and many soon followed, though. Over the
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past few days, Twitter has been full of tweets like this one from anti-racism educator, quote-unquote,
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Tim Wise, who says, anyone who says the killing of Tyree Nichols can't be about racism because the cops were
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also black, really doesn't understand how white supremacy or anti-blackness work. And then
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Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost says, doesn't matter what color those police officers are,
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the murder of Tyree Nichols is anti-black and the result of a system built on white supremacy.
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Political commentator Mondaire Jones tweeted, if you think the Memphis police officers had to be
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white in order to exhibit anti-blackness, you need to take that AP African American Studies course
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Ron DeSantis just banned. It is, of course, more accurate to say that if you think violence
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committed by five black men is somehow the fault of anti-black racism, then you've probably taken way
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too many African American Studies courses. In fact, that kind of insane, paranoid thinking is exactly
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why those sorts of courses shouldn't exist in public school in the first place. And you can find this
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kind of messaging, of course, elsewhere on social media, like on TikTok, where this white woman
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explains why every white person is directly guilty of carrying out this beating. You may think you
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have a good alibi, maybe because you were in bed asleep in your home 500 miles away while it was
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happening, but that doesn't mean you aren't culpable, she explains. I got a message today for some white
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people. If we have white people listening, paying attention, I wouldn't mind if you would do this with
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me. We rub our chests, we find our heartbeat, and we say, we did this. We did this.
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White supremacy did this. I'm talking about Tyree Nichols. Police didn't do this.
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The Memphis Police Department didn't do this. White supremacy did this.
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Well, I say we take her confession seriously. If she says she did this, then arrest and charge her,
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sentence her to life in a maximum security prison. After all, she says that she beat a black man to
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death. Worse, she apparently did it through some kind of mind control mechanism. The black cops were
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the ones doing the kicking and punching, but she says they didn't do this. She says it explicitly.
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They did not do this. This weird white woman with the GI Joe buzz cut says that she was the one really
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pulling the strings. I mean, she says us, we, but I mean, I had nothing to do with it. So if she's
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saying that she was, arrest her, interrogate her, find out who her accomplices were.
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If she doesn't give them up, then throw her in prison for the rest of her life.
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Drop the charges on the cops and throw her behind bars. I would, I would unironically support that.
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Just, she confessed. She said they didn't do it. Put her in jail then. Let's see how deep her white
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guilt really runs. But it's not just idiots on TikTok with this message. The idiot running the
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largest city in the United States was singing the same tune. Here's Mayor Eric Adams.
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Let me ask you, Chief C.J. Davis, in my interview with her, she said that all the officers being
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black, it takes race off the table. Do you agree with that?
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No, no, I don't. I think that I understand what the chief was saying. And I think she
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really handled this situation in a very professional way. She moved swiftly. She was sure that
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those officers were removed from the department. She took all the necessary steps. But I think
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race is still on the table. When a culture of policing historically has treated those from
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different groups differently, even when the individuals are from that same group, that
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culture can still exist. And we have to zero in on it, being honest about it, and making sure that
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we properly train police for the realities of the cities that they are policing in.
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Right. It's the system. It's the culture, racism, white supremacy.
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The left will blame everyone and everything except the guys who actually did it.
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And this is often the case, you may notice, not just in this situation. Whenever something bad
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happens, they point the finger in every direction other than the direction where the culprit is
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actually standing. These people would be very bad at the game of clue. I can't imagine. I mean,
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even if all the evidence suggests that the murder was carried out by, you know, Colonel Mustard with
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a candlestick in the dining room, they will still declare that it was ultimately systemic racism and
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economic inequality and a lack of common sense candlestick control that really killed the victim.
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They view everything through this lens, partly because it's, of course, more politically useful.
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Why is that? Well, because there isn't much political utility in actually blaming an
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individual for his own actions. Because an individual is small and limited and finite.
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There's only so much you can do to harvest an individual's actions for political purposes. Now,
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systems, on the other hand, systems, well, those are bountiful fields indeed, politically speaking.
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And then beyond the political, the left is also philosophically committed to a view of life
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that denies the individual free will and agency. They cannot accept that a person might make his own
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choices and choose to do an evil thing and actually be culpable for that choice because in the end,
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he has power over himself. If they accept such a proposition, then all kinds of scary boogeymen like
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personal responsibility and moral standards and good versus evil come rushing in. And they can't have
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that. But the concern, obviously, that arches over all of this is the racial narrative. And the
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narrative demands that every evil that befalls a black person must be explained in terms of white
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racism. And they are committed to this idea, too, and cannot abandon it either. Because if they were
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to admit, if they were to admit, I mean, think about it. If they were to admit that perhaps
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Nichols was beaten to death by five cops for some other reason, whatever the reason is, because the
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cops were poorly trained or they had a personal grudge or they just happened to be bad and violent
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people, et cetera, if they were to admit that, then they would be conceding that incidents of police
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brutality or alleged police brutality can be explained that way, which then raises the question about
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whether such alleged incidents carried out by white cops might also be explained that way.
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It doesn't make sense to say that black cops beat a black man because of racism, but it makes even
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less sense to say that every black man beaten by a white cop is the victim of racism, while the black
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on black incidents have a variety of other non-racial explanations. Because if they have non-racial
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explanations, then again, why couldn't the white on black incidents potentially have non-racial
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explanations as well? I mean, you have entered into consideration other possibilities that would
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now have to be thought about even when it's a white on black situation. Their narrative puts them in a bind
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and the only way out is through. Either everything can be explained by racism or they must face the
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possibility that lots of things are not explained by racism. The latter is untenable, so the former it is.
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explanation for the Tyree Nichols situation, there actually is a very plausible one, but it's just
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not one that the left wants to pursue or talk about. And even if you find a systemic, even if there
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are systemic elements to what happened, which I think there are, we'll talk about in a second,
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that still does not exonerate the individual from being responsible for their own actions.
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But as far as systems go, the New York Post has this report. At least two out of the five Memphis
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police officers charged with murder in the fatal beatdown of Tyree Nichols joined the force after
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the department relaxed its hiring requirements. Tadarius Bean and Demetrius Haley both joined the
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Memphis Police Department in August 2020, more than two years after the department dramatically
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loosened the education qualifications to become an officer. Recruits no longer need an associate's
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degree or 54 college credit hours to join the force and can get by with five years of work experience.
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Loosening the required qualifications, however, means that the department is ultimately getting
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less desirable job candidates. Mike Alcazar, an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal
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Justice and a retired NYPD detective, told the Post. He said, quote,
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they're desperate. They want police officers, Alcazar said. They're going through it. They
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check off some boxes saying, OK, they're good enough. Get them on. The department showed signs
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of struggle with recruiting new officers offering $15,000 signing bonuses 2021 and 2022, according to
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Fox 13. As of January 22nd, MPD was down roughly 500 officers, according to the news outlet. Last year,
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the department lowered its standards again for new recruits, nixing the timed physical ability test
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and cutting college education requirements from 54 credit hours to just 24. The department also
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revealed that was even it was even offering waivers for people who have been convicted on felony
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charges. So bringing the standards down and why this is happening in police departments all across
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the country, why is it happening? Partly it's because they want to diversify their ranks. And this is
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one of the solutions we were told after George Floyd, even though he died of a fentanyl overdose and
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they all blamed it on the police officer. But after that happened, they said, well, one of the
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solutions here is we need to we need we need the police departments to better reflect and look like
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the communities they're policing. So they want to diversify. And that's part of the reason they
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lowered the standards. The other reason is that they're just finding it difficult to find
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police officers who want to deal with any of this. As society becomes more and more anti-cop and as the
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media, you know, is looking to pounce on any police officer, well, not any, any police officer who's
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involved in a physical altercation with a black person. They're looking to pounce no matter the
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circumstances. And if you're, you also know, if you're a cop, that you're going to be tried
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in the court of public opinion, you're going to be tried in the media before you ever get
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a fair trial. And there's a good possibility that you never will get a fair trial, but because by the
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time you get to trial, the jury pool is already tainted by the fact that the media has called you,
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you know, a racist killer. And, and even your own department has, has labeled you that way.
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Like the president of the United States is saying it. So people are looking at all this and of
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course saying, I, I have no interest in this. Why would I want to put myself in this position?
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And so they're lowering the requirements. It could also be said that when you, when you, uh,
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cut off funding to police departments or you redirect, because remember they told us that when
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they said, well, we said defund the police, we didn't mean literally defund them. We just meant
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redirect the funds somewhere else. Well, they've been doing that in many cities as well. You
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redirect the funds somewhere else, then you don't have the funds to train, to properly equip and train
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police officers. You notice something that, um, when it comes to almost anything else, especially any
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other government agency program, government activity, the left will say that the solution is
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always more funding. This is especially the case in the education system. So if there's a problem with
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kids, not getting a good education, if there's a problem with, uh, with, uh, teachers not being
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good at their jobs, if there's any kind of problem, the education system whatsoever, the solution is
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always more funding for education. And the reason why this problem exists is always that, well, they
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don't have enough funding. So this is what they say in education, but with policing, somehow the solution
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is not to fund, not to give more funding, but to take funds away, which is very interesting.
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You know, there's good evidence that the police chief herself has benefited potentially from the
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same, um, lowering of standards and, you know, possibly for affirmative action type reasons. She's a
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black woman. And this was, you know, this is, again, this is, this was part of the solution we were told
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to the alleged problems in police departments is, uh, diversify them, get women in there, get, uh,
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just, just anything but white males is what you want. Well, the post-millennial has this story.
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Chief Sarah Lynn Davis of the Memphis Police Department, which is at the center of attention
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as protests of the fatal police beating of Tyree Nichols, sweep the nation, was previously fired
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by the Atlanta Police Department after being accused of attempting to cover up the sex crimes
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of a co-worker's husband. As the Hastings Tribune reports, Davis was terminated from a position
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as APD's internal affairs commander for her alleged involvement in a botched sex crimes investigation
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into the husband of an Atlanta police sergeant. According to the report, two detectives claimed
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Davis instructed them to not investigate the suspected predator who was, uh, named Terrell Marion Crane
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after police discovered sexually explicit images of him with minor girls. Crane was later indicted
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by federal grand jury on charges of producing child pornography to which he pleaded guilty
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to one count in January, 2009. The case required a federal indictment due to Atlanta police taking
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no action. According to the publication, an investigation conducted by the city later found
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that Davis was at fault for her inaction. Um, then chief Richard Pennington first demoted the
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longtime law enforcement official from major to lieutenant before deciding to fire her, though she was
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ultimately reinstated after challenging the decision with Atlanta civil service board. Okay. So she's
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implicated and, uh, in covering up sex crimes of a guy who ends up being convicted of child pornography
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and she's demoted and then fired from her position in Atlanta, but then ends up getting hired to run a police
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department. How exactly does that happen? I mean, how do you go from you're fired on suspicions of
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corruption? And then next thing you know, you're running the police department in Memphis.
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Was there potentially some lowering of standards that happened there as well?
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That seems pretty obvious, but what we know, which is even more obvious is that the left,
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they don't care at all about police reform or corruption. This is one of the biggest misconceptions
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in politics is that the left is their, their anti-cop, their anti-police. Uh, they are very deeply
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concerned about police reform, police, you know, they, they, they want to tamp down on, on corruption
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in policing and incompetence in policing. They don't care about any of that. They do not care at all
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about any of that. What they care about is the racial narrative, the political narrative
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and how these things can be exploited. That's all they care about.
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Which is also, by the way, you know, uh, the, uh, the other thing we didn't, we didn't talk about
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are the actual protests and rioting that happened after this video was released on Friday night.
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And remember they, they built it up. They talked about how horrible it was. They got all the
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protesters gathered in downtown Memphis and CNN was covering it. And they, they were saying as
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all the protesters gathered, they're waiting for the release of the, it's like, like I talked about
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last week, they're treating it like some sort of Hollywood premiere. Okay. This was not a Friday
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news dump. This was a premiere date. Hey, everyone gather in the city. Let's get all fired up and angry.
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And then we'll drop this video right into the middle of that. And it would seem like, I mean,
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if you wanted to encourage writing, there'd be no better way to do it. And then they dropped the
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video and it was a brutal and horrifying video. And, um, yeah, there were, there were protests
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across the country and there was some writing and there was some looting that happened, which is
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terrible, but it really has been not anywhere close to George Floyd 2020 levels. Even though
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everyone agrees, like I haven't heard anyone say otherwise, everyone agrees that the Tyree Nichols
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video is far worse than George Floyd. Okay. Um, now from my perspective, it's not hard for it to be
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worse than George Floyd considering he was in the middle of dying of a drug overdose, but, but all the
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same, everyone agrees with that. And I haven't heard anyone even defend the police officers. The most
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anyone has said is like they, which I said, they deserve their time in court in a sense of proven
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guilty, of course, but based on what we're seeing, it's, um, really a horrifying video. And yet it
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hasn't reached that level. The rioting has not reached anywhere close to that level. And that's
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because they don't have the racial angle. There are some other factors too. It's a little bit cold.
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The rioters, they, you know, the rioters and looters, um, they're, they're sensitive to weather
00:24:51.760
conditions. I think the history has proven that, but even more so it's just, they don't have the
00:24:57.060
racial angle and it takes the wind out of their sails. It takes the wind out of the sails of the
00:24:59.980
media too. They're trying to, they're, they're trying to find a racial angle in it, but it's not
00:25:05.860
going to stick and they know it, which is why I just checked, uh, checked CNN's website and the
00:25:11.740
Tyree Nichols story is already below the top headline, which has nothing to do with Tyree
00:25:17.260
Nichols. And it's even below on their, um, on the, if you go on mobile anyway, they've got their top
00:25:22.940
story and then a review of, uh, the last of us, the last episode of the last of us on HBO. And then
00:25:28.920
there's another story and there's a story about Ashley Judd. And then below that you have Tyree
00:25:34.140
Nichols compared to George Floyd, where he was like the top story for, I don't know, three months.
00:25:41.740
Without the racial angle, it just, uh, quickly goes away. And nowhere is that more evident than,
00:25:49.700
you know, in any case where a white person is killed by police.
00:25:58.160
So we know if it's white officers killing a black person, we know what they do with that.
00:26:02.820
If it's black officers killing a black person, they're going to try to find something in it that
00:26:07.960
they can talk about. But if it's a white person being killed by cops, that just never makes the
00:26:14.020
headlines ever. That is never a major headline story ever. There are, there are never mass protests
00:26:21.120
on that ever because they don't care. All right. Just as the show ended on Friday news broke, that,
00:26:31.180
um, would seem to be the epic conclusion of the bizarre Paul Pelosi saga. Uh, finally,
00:26:37.980
we got the body cam footage from the night when Pelosi was bludgeoned by a hammer wielding attacker.
00:26:43.080
The footage, that footage doesn't really answer any questions in and of itself. Actually,
00:26:47.080
it raises more questions than it answers. All we see is Pelosi answer the door for the cops
00:26:51.540
standing with, uh, the guy, David DePap is his name, I believe. And, um, they, but they both kind
00:26:57.540
of have their hands on, uh, on, on the hammer that, that DePay brought into the house and then DePay
00:27:04.660
hits him over the head with it. And that's what we see in the video. It's a very strange clip,
00:27:09.060
also brutal. But shortly after that, the 911 call was released. And this, I think sort of makes
00:27:17.020
everything pretty clear. Remember, there were many questions about how this guy ended up in the
00:27:20.820
house. Did Pelosi know him? Was this, as some speculated, some kind of like male escort hired
00:27:26.700
to come to the house and it was a lover's quarrel. That was the theory being bandied about on Twitter
00:27:31.460
quite a bit. Um, all of those speculations were rampant on the internet rampant because as always,
00:27:37.060
we weren't being given the whole story. They were being oddly secretive about it. So people speculate
00:27:43.100
when you're secretive, you don't tell people the story, they speculate. And that's what happens.
00:27:48.500
Now that we have this to go along with, um, security camera footage, which was the third
00:27:52.760
thing they released. Now, all of these things, they got body camera footage, 911 call security
00:27:56.880
camera footage. They kept all of this for months, didn't show anybody. And then all at once they
00:28:03.100
released all of it. And we also see security camera footage of DePay actually breaking into the
00:28:07.860
house, smashing the glass in the back, coming into the house. And then there's the call. And,
00:28:12.580
um, let's listen to, uh, a little bit of the call. Here it is.
00:28:24.300
This is San Francisco police. Do you need help?
00:28:28.900
Oh, what is a gentleman, uh, here just waiting for my wife to come back?
00:28:32.820
Nancy Pelosi. Uh, he's just, uh, waiting for her to come back because he's not going
00:28:39.020
to be here for a day. So I guess we'll have to wait.
00:28:44.520
Okay. Do you need, please fire a medical for anything?
00:28:54.100
Zero, two, twenty, three, and fifty-eight seconds.
00:28:58.360
Uh, the, there's the, uh, um, is the Capitol police around?
00:29:06.660
They usually protect my wife. They're usually here, they're usually here at the house.
00:29:17.580
Um, okay, well, uh, I don't know, what do you think?
00:29:28.360
Uh, he thinks everything's good. Uh, I've got a problem, but he thinks everything's good.
00:29:37.820
No, no, no, this, this gentleman just, uh, came into the house, uh, and he wants to wait
00:29:44.760
And so, uh, anyway, he told me he was going to.
00:29:54.760
Now we started to see why I think they didn't want to release the call, uh, is it's because
00:30:00.120
it, it makes the 911 operator look terrible. I mean, it looked, it makes the police response,
00:30:05.700
the emergency response look absolutely awful. And I understand that we have the benefit of
00:30:10.940
hindsight and we have more of the context than she had on the call, but this is also
00:30:14.100
what you do for a living. And, um, she just would not pick up the hint. Like it could not
00:30:20.220
have been more clear. First of all, he says from the beginning, my wife is Nancy Pelosi. So
00:30:23.980
you know, my wife's Nancy Pelosi, someone is here waiting for her. I'm calling 9-1-1 because
00:30:32.260
someone is waiting for my wife named Nancy Pelosi. Wink, wink. She wouldn't pick up on the hint.
00:30:38.660
Like clearly, uh, Paul Pelosi is trying to ask for help without actually saying it because the crazy
00:30:45.640
guy, the meth head who broke into the house is standing there with a hammer. And so he probably
00:30:50.720
gave, uh, the paper some excuse and said, Oh, you want my wife? Well, sure. I'll call the police and
00:30:56.280
they'll bring her right over. And, um, and then he's, he's standing there and, and Paul Pelosi is trying
00:31:02.440
to convey this to the 9-1-1 operator without saying it out loud. What, what I, what, what,
00:31:08.500
I can't get over the part where she, where she actually says, he says, Oh yeah, well, uh, the guy
00:31:14.520
who came into my house says there's not a problem. I think there is a problem, but he says they're not.
00:31:18.100
The 9-1-1, 9-1-1 operator says, okay, well give us a ring back if you need anything. Okay. Well,
00:31:24.380
sounds like everything's totally fine on your end. Talk to you later. Could not possibly be more
00:31:31.600
oblivious. So this to me is pretty clear what happened. This is a crazy homeless drug addled
00:31:41.280
freak who came into the house and is, uh, and Paul Pelosi probably woke up. He was a little bit
00:31:49.360
flustered, didn't know what's going on. He called police, tried to get them to come over. He was
00:31:52.800
trying to keep the guy calm and then everything proceeded from there. So pretty, pretty clear now.
00:31:57.860
So what's the real story here? Well, the real story, as I said, from the beginning
00:32:04.200
is that, and this is not me moving the goalposts. Now there were some people on the right who really
00:32:11.020
fully bought into the theory that this was like a lover's spat between Paul Pelosi and a gay male
00:32:17.640
escort. This was, this was, this was some people on the right that they assumed that and fully bought
00:32:22.800
into it and that's what they believed. Now, from my perspective, from the beginning, I said, well,
00:32:26.520
that's, that's one theory. That's, that's, that's a potentially plausible theory only because,
00:32:32.800
and the fact that they're being secretive and not giving us more information, like why couldn't you
00:32:36.240
have released a 911 call the next day? There's no reason why you couldn't have. In many other cases,
00:32:40.980
they do. So when they're secretive about something, you start to suspect, well, maybe there's a reason
00:32:47.420
why they're being secretive. What could those reasons be? That was only one theory. What I said
00:32:53.460
from the beginning is that the, the other potential explanation, which is that this is San Francisco
00:33:00.920
and a violent homeless drug addict broke into the house and was acting crazy. That is also
00:33:08.680
perfectly plausible given that it's San Francisco. I would assume that kind of thing happens in San
00:33:14.560
Francisco all the time. Maybe not breaking the house in the middle of the night, but encounters
00:33:20.420
with violent, crazy drug addicts in San Francisco are very common. And so there's nothing implausible
00:33:26.520
about it. The real story then is that they tried to make this local crime story in San Francisco into
00:33:35.540
an indictment on Republicans. They tried to make this David DePaype guy who was hopped up on drugs and a
00:33:43.000
lunatic. They tried to make him into a, some sort of conservative right-wing militant.
00:33:49.060
Like he lived outside of, he lived in a bus outside of a hippie commune with the BLM flags and all that,
00:33:54.000
all the rest of it. And they tried to make him into a right-wing militant, which he never was.
00:33:58.280
Is he a left-wing militant? No, he's just, he's a crazy guy is what he is.
00:34:03.740
But they tried to take up what is, what always seemed to me to be, and clearly now is, a local
00:34:12.660
crime story in San Francisco and make it an indictment on Republicans, which is just as absurd
00:34:16.800
as taking Tyree Nichols and making it an indictment of so-called white supremacy, just as absurd.
00:34:24.880
Really what, the lesson that we should take from this is that the crime in San Francisco,
00:34:30.600
where Nancy Pelosi lives and the area she represents, the crime is so bad there that it's now spilling
00:34:39.600
out into her own neighborhood. And she doesn't live in the inner city, which I'm sure is shocking
00:34:48.840
to learn. So it's now spilling out into the nice parts of San Francisco. And the Democrat officials
00:34:55.980
who have been in control, who've been in power, and have overseen San Francisco's slide into this
00:35:05.260
crime-ridden post-apocalyptic hellscape, they are now having to, you know, face the Frankenstein
00:35:15.220
monster that they created. That to me is the story. All right. I gotta, I gotta leave some time for this
00:35:24.180
because this is my favorite story of the year so far, uh, easily and potentially of the century.
00:35:31.480
I don't know, but it's a good one. So the ISU European figure skating championships at Espu Metro
00:35:38.240
Arena took place last week. Where is Espu Metro Arena? I have no idea. Somewhere in Europe, we can assume.
00:35:46.340
And it began with what was billed as a spectacular opening ceremony meant to celebrate equality and
00:35:53.420
diversity. That's what it was about. And for a little more on this ceremony, here's the write-up
00:35:57.280
on the Espu 2023 website. It says this. The ISU European figure skating championship at Espu Metro
00:36:04.220
Arena will begin on Wednesday, 25th, the 25th of January with a spectacular opening ceremony drawing
00:36:09.100
its inspiration from the event's theme, which is Just Be You. The Finnish figure skating association
00:36:14.900
promotes the importance of equality and diversity and develops skating according to its values.
00:36:20.300
The theme, Just Be You, will be visible part of the opening ceremony with performers from various
00:36:25.440
backgrounds. The half-hour opening ceremony was designed by synchronized skating coach Helena
00:36:30.320
Tainhara, together with choreographer and coach, uh, with a name that I'm not going to pronounce.
00:36:36.120
Quote, with a diverse group of performers, we want to show that the ice has space for everyone.
00:36:40.880
The opening ceremony will present skaters at various levels from non-professionals to top
00:36:45.300
athletes. On the ice, we will see single skaters, synchronized skaters, and pairs, including, um,
00:36:51.320
included among the performers are figure skater Mina Maria Antikainen, who defines herself as a
00:36:58.240
gender-neutral woman, and then other performers as well. Okay, so Mina Maria Antikainen,
00:37:05.840
about this fellow, and it is a fellow. First of all, this is a man. He's a Finnish dude in his 60s,
00:37:13.020
and has apparently always dreamed of being an ice princess, is what he has said. And he now identifies
00:37:18.360
as a woman, and as an ice princess. And so they put him out on the ice for the opening ceremony of this,
00:37:25.980
what I, what I think is like a major figure skating event. And, um,
00:37:32.040
he, we'll show you what that looks like. And, and, uh, well, first of all, before we show you the
00:37:39.480
video, I think we have a, uh, just a photograph of the guy himself. Can we put that up on the screen?
00:37:45.240
Do we have the photo of the actual ice skater? Okay, there he is. So looks a bit like maybe a, uh,
00:37:51.600
a cross-dressing Tommy Lee Jones, perhaps. You know, he actually looks like Stephen King
00:37:58.400
a little bit. He looks like a creepy, somehow a creepier Stephen King. If Stephen King was a
00:38:04.380
character in a Stephen King novel, then that's what that guy is. Um, in other words, a truly beautiful
00:38:12.820
woman. And if you don't think, I mean, look at this lovely lady, lady right here. If you don't
00:38:18.320
think that this is the most beautiful and gorgeous and graceful female athlete you have ever laid your
00:38:25.280
eyes on, then you are literally Hitler. That's the truth. If you do not applaud his, sorry,
00:38:34.820
her ice skating performance as the most impressive athletic display of all time, you are also Hitler,
00:38:42.840
which means that there are going to be a lot of Hitlers out there after we all watch this performance
00:38:47.260
together. So let's put this up. This, this was Maria, Mina Maria's performance on the ice. No,
00:38:53.940
not this one. That's, that's next. Yeah, here it is. Go ahead. Let's watch this together.
00:39:07.600
And this is actually impressive because this is the first time apparently he has ever been ice skating in
00:39:13.940
his life. I don't know what's more absurd that he identifies as a woman or identifies as an ice
00:39:23.600
skater. Oh, then he falls. He falls and can't get back up. Now I would, I normally wouldn't laugh
00:39:35.000
at an older man slipping on the ice. But what a performance remarkable, you know, and the audience
00:39:48.100
is just watching like, are we allowed to laugh at this? Are we supposed to laugh at this? The
00:39:52.700
audience has no idea. And this is in Europe. So they're, they're very afraid. Uh, they don't know
00:39:57.300
what they're supposed to do, but they're really looking at each other. Like, is this supposed to be
00:40:01.560
good? What are we supposed to do here? Well, you laugh at it. That's what you're supposed to do.
00:40:07.500
Um, that's what you're meant to do. Honestly, I took my kids. I think I mentioned this. I took my
00:40:11.720
kids ice skating a couple of weeks ago and, um, that it was my maybe third time ever putting on
00:40:19.920
ice skates. And the other two times were, I don't know, 20 years ago on like a date or something.
00:40:25.000
And I was more graceful than that. And I'm, I'm not even exaggerating. I was significantly better
00:40:31.100
than that. Compared to that guy, I'm practically, I can't name any famous figure skaters, so I can't
00:40:40.080
really finish the analogy, but whatever's the most famous one, I'm practically that person
00:40:44.180
compared to that guy. But it gets better, uh, because this guy also, this actually is not his
00:40:49.100
first time strapping on the skates. He also competed at an event in 2020 where he gave a performance
00:40:54.740
that was, uh, inspired by Japanese culture. Let's watch this one.
00:41:06.760
I mean, this, this in every sense, it looks like a scene from a Will Ferrell movie in 2003,
00:41:24.540
You know what's strange? He's actually gotten worse in the last two years because this is a
00:41:27.940
little bit better than what we just saw. He's regressing.
00:41:33.720
Oh, look at that. Okay. He's on one leg. I don't know. I don't know if I could do that. I didn't try.
00:41:46.900
Not a joke. Oh, it does a little twirly thing. Well, that's, how is it, how is that better? That
00:41:53.900
was, it was three years ago. How has it gotten worse since then?
00:41:56.800
I don't know if it's the, the, the hormones they have them on or what?
00:42:03.740
So this one is good because this is like an appropriation hat trick. He's appropriating
00:42:08.720
womanhood, appropriating Japanese culture and appropriating figure skating all at the same time.
00:42:15.680
But this is how the appropriation math works. It actually cancels. So you would think, well,
00:42:19.700
that's three times more offensive than, than other forms of appropriation. Um, no,
00:42:24.860
because it actually, it cancels, it all cancels each other out. And, um, because he's appropriating
00:42:31.340
womanhood at the same time as appropriating Japanese culture, it cancels out. And then it
00:42:36.860
actually becomes, uh, not only something that's okay and appropriate, but something that we should
00:42:41.380
celebrate. And I do celebrate it. And so I'd like to see more of, I want this guy in the Olympics.
00:42:47.020
Okay. I want him winning gold as a female figure skater in the Olympics. Let's just go all the way
00:42:52.580
and make everything into a total mockery because that's all it is. All right, let's get to the
00:43:09.060
Captain Morgan Kayla says, Matt, nothing would give me greater joy than to hear you comment on
00:43:14.620
Dylan Mulvaney's new face reveal on Monday's show. Um, every time I hear you mention his name,
00:43:20.400
I cackle because I know what's about to follow is pure gold. Well, I'm going to disappoint you,
00:43:24.200
Captain Morgan, because I have nothing funny to say about Buffalo Bill Mulvaney, um, who, who did
00:43:30.200
reveal his, his new face after having face feminization surgery, where they shaved down the
00:43:36.180
face, like they cut into it to make it more quote unquote feminine, which is, which is kind of funny
00:43:43.200
to me to begin with because this guy apparently thought that his face was too masculine before
00:43:50.020
this. Like that was his problem. That would be like if I went and got hair transplants for my beard
00:43:56.580
to make my beard thicker as if that of all my physical problems, as if that's the one that I
00:44:02.080
need to focus on. And of all of Mulvaney's problems, a masculine face and physique has never been one of
00:44:09.320
them though. He is still a man. Okay. Even if a non-masculine one, he can carve his face into
00:44:14.520
whatever shape he wants to carve it into. He could become like a, he could become like leather face
00:44:18.880
and start stitching other people's faces onto his own, not to give him any ideas here, but, uh,
00:44:25.600
even then he would still be himself. Anyway, like I said, I have nothing to say about Dylan Mulvaney.
00:44:33.320
No matter what he does, he still looks like a Crispin Glover and back to the future anyway. So it doesn't
00:44:37.860
matter. Diabolic Doug says, I love the pickle, the ADL, SPLC, uh, et cetera, are in by having to
00:44:45.800
choose between allowing Matt to go about life uninterrupted and unimpeded or choosing to focus
00:44:50.160
their attention, write a unique report on all the ways Matt's beliefs make steam come out of their
00:44:54.880
ears and present him with the honor of most dangerous to their grip on power. Congratulations.
00:44:59.740
Well, that's, that's any, any of us who speak up against the left. This is the bind that we put them
00:45:04.880
in is that, uh, is that if they complain about us and call us names, we just laugh about it.
00:45:14.320
And then the more dangerous they make us seem, the more flattering it is.
00:45:21.260
But then at the same time, if they ignore us, then we just, that's fine too, because then I can,
00:45:26.960
without being annoyed by all the yapping in my ears, then I can just go ahead and do what I'm going to do.
00:45:32.320
Um, so no matter what, they kind of lose. And that's the great thing.
00:45:37.080
Daniel Liza says, I wish Matt would address the issue of false incriminations, whether it happened
00:45:41.960
intentionally or by mistake when discussing capital punishment. Well, yeah, this is, uh,
00:45:47.800
maybe the most common argument against capital punishment is that what do you do if, uh, if someone
00:45:52.560
is falsely convicted and then they end up being executed. And then obviously it's, that's an
00:45:56.500
irreversible procedure, let's say. And then if it turns out that they were innocent, then you've
00:46:01.360
killed an innocent man. And the common refrain that we hear is that, well, it's better to let,
00:46:04.900
uh, a hundred guilty men go free than to execute one innocent man. And on that, that latter point,
00:46:11.580
I'm not actually sure that's the case. Like, I don't know that that's the ethically correct
00:46:17.620
way of looking at it, that it's better for a hundred guilty people to go free than to execute
00:46:22.240
an innocent man. Um, I mean, maybe I could be persuaded of that, but I think it's the kind of
00:46:27.500
thing you have to argue for. You can't just state it as if it's self-evidently correct.
00:46:33.040
I don't think it is self-evident. I mean, it's an interesting question, but because when you,
00:46:39.060
when you, yes, if you, uh, if you are accidentally, you know, executing an innocent man,
00:46:44.040
someone was falsely convicted, it's not known by the justice system that he was falsely convicted,
00:46:48.360
he ends up being executed. That's a horrific tragedy. There's no question about it.
00:46:52.560
And then you have lost an innocent life. However, if you let a hundred guilty men go free,
00:46:58.160
especially guilty men who otherwise would have been executed, then now how many innocent lives
00:47:02.920
will be killed because of that? More than one, we can assume. So how do you, how do you weigh
00:47:09.580
those things? It becomes an interesting ethical question, but just, it's a question that I think
00:47:13.800
has to be fleshed out. I don't think we can simply assume again that, uh, well, it's better,
00:47:18.300
let a million guilty men go free into society. If it means that we could save one innocent person
00:47:23.720
again, not so sure about that. But, um, to your actual question, I think that it is possible these
00:47:33.060
days to be nearly 100% certain that someone is guilty. Uh, now you could argue that you can never
00:47:40.180
be certain, but then in a sense, you can never be certain of anything. Like I, I'm as certain as can
00:47:46.720
be that I'm not going to see an elephant flying through the, uh, you know, I'm not gonna look out
00:47:52.980
my window here and see an elephant flying across over the trees, especially because, you know,
00:47:58.740
the trees are fake, but even if they weren't allegedly fake, like, I'm pretty sure I'll never
00:48:04.340
see a flying elephant. Okay. I'm nearly certain, but it is like technically a philosopher would say,
00:48:10.320
well, it's, it's, it's logically possible. It could, you can't say that it's totally impossible
00:48:15.000
that it would happen. Well, sure. I'm as certain as can be. And I think we could be just about that
00:48:20.300
certain when it comes to convicting, uh, people of, of capital crimes these days because of DNA
00:48:25.820
evidence, because of, uh, you know, everything, all the security footage evidence and phones and
00:48:31.520
the way things are tracked and credit card and like all these things together can lead you to
00:48:38.060
near 100% certainty. And also a lot of times you have confessions in many cases, you have people
00:48:42.380
admitting that they did it. So add all that together. I think you could be nearly a hundred
00:48:47.300
percent certain, um, enough, more than enough to morally justify, uh, the death penalty. Now,
00:48:54.520
what about in societies where they don't necessarily have the technology to be that certain of somebody's
00:49:01.680
guilt? Uh, well then you could justify the death penalty on different grounds because if they don't
00:49:07.840
have that kind of technology, if this is like a third world country or something, not as developed
00:49:11.680
country, then, then there's a whole other reason for the death penalty, which is that you're not
00:49:17.540
going to, you probably don't have the infrastructure and the ability to keep dangerous people in prison
00:49:22.820
indefinitely, you know, for life. You don't, you don't have that ability to do it. And then,
00:49:27.140
and then the death penalty becomes even more necessary, arguably for that reason alone. So,
00:49:31.860
uh, one way or another, I think it leads to the death penalty being justified.
00:49:37.020
Templar turd. All right. Says, um, before watching Matt, I would get very defensive when I would be
00:49:46.600
called a homophobe and transphobe, but now whenever I'm called these things, I tell them that I'm very
00:49:51.460
flattered and I'm thankful that they recognize me for who I am. Thank you, Matt Walsh. That's,
00:49:55.660
and that's a fine way of responding, just being totally dismissive and in a, you know, in a snide
00:50:00.560
and sarcastic way, embracing the label that they put on you. It's fine. It's fine to respond that way.
00:50:05.060
If you, as long as really any response to the labels is fine, as long as you are not responding
00:50:10.700
by trying to desperately defend yourself against the label, the moment you do that, you lose
00:50:16.620
and anything else, whether you're dismissing, whether you're joking about it, whatever else
00:50:20.920
you do is fine. As long as it is in the end, basically a dismissive response. That is the
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only, there are many forms of a dismissive response to that, but that is the only way to respond when
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someone thinks that they can defeat your argument simply by labeling you, oh, you're, well, you're a
00:50:35.480
homophobe and that's it. Um, I, an example of this, I was, uh, talking last week about bad art. You
00:50:43.200
know, we talked about that on, uh, whenever it was Wednesday or something and the proliferation of bad
00:50:48.260
art. And I mentioned this on Twitter and I was accused of racism. I was accused of racism for
00:50:54.780
criticizing bad art. And the reason I was racist is that it wasn't just one person, excuse me,
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it's like hundreds of people saying I was racist because some of the bad art that I cited was made
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by black artists. And so this became a racist dog whistle where really I was saying that I don't want
00:51:11.160
black people making art is what they claimed. And there was one guy in particular who responded to
00:51:15.800
me and this is a guy's name is Ahmed Baba says, care to elaborate on what you mean by they?
00:51:21.440
Because I wrote in the tweet, uh, they make bad art or whatever. And care to elaborate on what you
00:51:27.300
mean by they? Let's see how deep you can dig this hole you're in. And that, that really rubbed me the
00:51:34.220
wrong way. Uh, not only because you have the totally baseless racism claim, but also, oh, you're in a
00:51:39.140
hole now. Let's see you dig your way out of this hole. Who says I'm in a hole? I don't care if you think
00:51:44.940
I'm not in, I'm, I'm, I'm standing up here on level ground. I don't know what hole you think I'm in
00:51:48.420
that I have to dig out of. So I responded to Ahmed and said, hi Ahmed, you can interpret my
00:51:52.360
statements however you want in your own fevered imagination. I truly don't care. And I don't
00:51:56.140
feel the need to justify myself to you. Please take your tiresome race baiting routine to someone
00:52:00.240
who gives a, thanks and have a great evening. I think that's a fine way of responding as well,
00:52:04.560
but no matter what, the point is I'm not here to justify myself. I don't, well, I interpret what
00:52:10.540
you said is racist. Okay. Then you do. I don't, that's how you, that's how you have chosen to see it.
00:52:15.860
That that's in your own mind. You have invented this. I, that's not my, it's not my job to talk
00:52:21.140
you down from that. So go ahead and go off. You can go live the rest of your life thinking that
00:52:29.040
I'm a racist because I don't like bad sculptures. You can live the rest of your life thinking that
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doesn't mean anything to me. I don't care. Well, if you're a parent, then you know that the radical
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Growing up in the 90s, we saw many one-hit wonders come and go. They'd pop onto the music
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scene with a piece of melodic and lyrical brilliance like Macarena or Tub Thumping or Mambo
00:54:01.480
No. 5, and their songs would be inescapable for five and a half months, piping through every
00:54:06.440
speaker, ubiquitous, floating on the breeze, almost becoming a part of the atmosphere.
00:54:11.620
And then just as suddenly, both the song and the musical act that produced it would disappear. And
00:54:16.460
we would never hear from Lou Bega or Chumbawamba or whoever made the Macarena ever again. Maybe they'd
00:54:23.340
turn up again briefly years later in a VH1 Where Are They Now segment. But usually, they simply faded
00:54:28.500
from view entirely, leaving us to wonder whether they ever actually existed. That's not how things
00:54:35.960
work anymore. These days, nobody ever goes away. Nobody ever fades from view. We are not permitted to
00:54:42.420
forget about anyone, no matter how much we may want to, because we're all connected. We're caught on the
00:54:48.100
same web. And so everyone has their 15 minutes of fame, but the 15 minutes never ends. And this is true
00:54:54.300
on a personal level, and it's also true in pop culture, where most pop artists are at most capable
00:54:59.000
of producing one moderately listenable song, their one real hit, but then they linger on indefinitely,
00:55:05.440
clamoring for attention, usually in ways that have nothing to do with the music. And in recent years
00:55:10.720
especially, a marginal pop star who already released their one arguably decent or at least maybe not
00:55:16.660
completely terrible song will cling desperately to relevance by doing two things. One, becoming increasingly
00:55:22.680
vulgar and explicitly sexual. And two, coming out of the closet. And often they'll come out of
00:55:28.220
multiple closets. They'll come out of the closet multiple times, finding one closet after another
00:55:32.380
to emerge from. We may call this the Demi Lovato strategy, though she neither invented it, nor is she
00:55:37.500
the only pop star to utilize it. Some came before her, and many have came after her. And this is the case
00:55:44.800
certainly for the singer named Sam Smith. You may remember Sam Smith as the guy who made that one song
00:55:51.520
10 years ago, Stay With Me, is what it was called. And it enjoyed its five and a half months of cultural
00:55:56.560
ubiquity. And it was around this same time that Smith came out of his first closet, announcing to
00:56:02.120
the world that he was gay. And that revelation didn't do much to generate any extra interest or
00:56:07.640
fame for Sam Smith, as we all kind of assume at this point that every pop star is gay. So he said,
00:56:12.680
hey, I'm gay. And we all said, yeah, okay. We figured. Perhaps disappointed that he didn't get more
00:56:19.040
publicity mileage out of his sexual preferences, Smith began revealing deeper and deeper levels
00:56:24.460
to his gayness, like the gay equivalent of a Russian doll. And just like an actual Russian doll,
00:56:29.740
the smaller thing disguised inside the larger thing is just a smaller version of the larger thing. So it
00:56:35.760
just kind of repeats itself in this infinite regress. A few years later, Smith came out as gender queer,
00:56:42.500
explaining that he, quote, feels as much like a woman as a man. He was, of course, never asked to
00:56:47.840
explain what the hell that's supposed to mean, or how he knows what a woman feels like, or how he
00:56:53.060
delineates between man feelings and woman feelings. It's good for his sake that he wasn't asked these
00:56:58.480
questions because he wouldn't have been able to answer them because the term gender queer is
00:57:02.500
completely meaningless. But gender queer Sam Smith was about as interesting to the public as gay Sam
00:57:08.140
Smith. So he went back to the drawing board. And two years after that, he came out of his third closet.
00:57:13.200
He announced that he's actually not just gay, not just gender queer, but in fact, non-binary and will
00:57:19.460
now use they, them pronouns. How does being non-binary differ in any meaningful sense from
00:57:25.040
being gender queer? And what do any of these terms mean? And in what way is he not simply just a gay
00:57:31.440
guy with feminine mannerisms like a million other gay guys? Well, again, he was never asked those
00:57:37.520
questions and couldn't have answered them if he had been. Then another several years passed and Sam
00:57:43.660
Smith put out more music than nobody cared about. And he realized that simply being a gay gender queer
00:57:49.020
non-binary they, them wasn't going to cut it. And that's when he decided that his only path back to
00:57:54.200
something approaching cultural relevance was to become basically the white male Lizzo. So Smith packed
00:57:59.940
on 150 pounds, dressed up in an outfit that reveals far more of his body than any human on earth ever
00:58:05.440
wanted to see. And he put out a new X-rated album and music video. And he explained this, this new
00:58:12.180
artistic direction in a recent interview that, where he explains that he knows that it's a risky move to
00:58:18.920
do this, but he's bold enough to try it. Listen. The music industry is just not used to queer
00:58:25.620
artists. If there was a big risk you took with this album, what would you say it was for yourself?
00:58:32.240
I'd say the biggest risk on this album was the element of sex.
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Wow. The music industry isn't ready for queer artists, he says, which is a bit like claiming that
00:58:43.740
Zumba isn't ready for middle-aged white women. He also says that the biggest risk he's taking is
00:58:49.640
being sexual. I mean, that's a pretty big risk, we have to admit. I mean, it takes a lot of guts
00:58:54.380
to do the same thing that literally every other person in your profession is doing and has already
00:59:00.760
done and has been doing for decades. Following the easiest and safest trend. Now there's a risk.
00:59:06.200
I mean, that's boldness if I ever saw it. Next, he's going to tell me that he went out on a limb
00:59:11.620
and picked the Chiefs to go to the Super Bowl this year. I mean, this guy, I mean, sorry, this them,
00:59:17.820
he knows how to take risks, big risks. Granted, he might be the first pop star to go this direction
00:59:24.460
while looking like he plays right tackle on the Detroit Lions practice squad.
00:59:29.460
Though on second thought, I guess Lizzo has him beat there as well. So even on that point,
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he's not the first. So Smith's latest musical effort may not be risky, may not be bold,
00:59:39.880
may not be revolutionary, but it is at least, we will admit, totally repulsive and grotesque.
00:59:46.660
And this is normally the part where I would play a clip of his disgusting music video that has gone
00:59:50.700
viral entirely for being disgusting, but I'm actually not going to do that in this case. I'm not going to
00:59:56.940
force you to start your Monday that way. Suffice it to say that Smith's new music video for his song,
01:00:03.480
which is called I'm Not Here to Make Friends, shows the morbidly obese singer in women's underwear
01:00:08.380
dancing awkwardly with both men and women wearing something similar to assless chaps,
01:00:12.920
who then start humping the floor with their bare butts sticking up, at which point streams of pee
01:00:17.360
start spraying all over them, and it gets worse from there. But I'm realizing that describing it may
01:00:23.480
even be more objectionable than just watching it, so you get the gist anyway.
01:00:27.020
Anyway, now, it's probably no use pointing out how morally debased all of this is, just as it's no
01:00:36.140
use observing how our society day by day comes to not only resemble, but in every sense rival,
01:00:41.920
Sodom and Gomorrah. I mean, that all goes without saying at this point, and it's also exactly what
01:00:46.360
these attention-starved, ugly, degenerate morons want us to say. It is true that Sam Smith is a filthy,
01:00:52.940
hideous pervert. It's also true that he wants us to say that about him. After all, as we've learned
01:00:58.200
from all of the Sam Smiths that came before this Sam Smith, part of being a pervert is getting off on
01:01:03.880
other people noticing that you're a pervert. Like, the thrill he gets from hearing people
01:01:08.800
describing that way is part of why he's a pervert and what makes him a pervert to begin with.
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Which isn't to say that we shouldn't point it out, but rather that after we've delivered the moral
01:01:19.600
condemnation this kind of garbage calls for and deserves, we should also say the thing that is
01:01:24.420
just as true, and also the one thing that Sam Smith does not want us to say. The thing that those
01:01:30.360
of his ilk fear the most, because they know it is true, is that this routine, along with being
01:01:36.540
debased and disgusting and morally preyed, is also boring. It is dirty and stupid and gross and evil
01:01:43.460
and totally, utterly tiresome. Boring. Played out. We've seen it a million times already.
01:01:52.180
They cannot shock us anymore. As a culture, we are sadly far too jaded to be scandalized by anything.
01:01:59.100
You cannot scandalize us. You can't do it. Our eyes and minds have grown essentially calloused.
01:02:06.980
We've been swimming in this muck and filth for so long that another bucket may be demoralizing and
01:02:12.340
sad, but it can never shock us. It can never surprise us. To be intentionally ugly in a world
01:02:19.460
of ugliness only means that you blend in. You become part of the background. Now, you may be
01:02:25.000
noticed for a brief moment, but then you fade into the surroundings and you become merely part of the
01:02:29.660
fecal-flecked landscape. A decadent society is very generous to perverts in many ways, but the one
01:02:37.060
thing that the perverts are forced to give up, the one price that they must pay, is the element of
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surprise. You can't surprise us anymore. And most of all, they lose their status as revolutionaries.
01:02:50.980
They're not challenging the system, but rather acting as guardians and reinforcers of it.
01:02:55.440
Now, if Sam Smith really wanted to shock us, therefore, he would have created something
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good, something meaningful, something beautiful and true. Now, that would be something we're not
01:03:10.240
used to. Okay, you want to give the music industry something it's not used to? How about beauty and
01:03:15.820
truth? But that requires talent and moral clarity and an IQ somewhere above the freezing point,
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which puts it out of Sam Smith's reach. And that is why Sam Smith is today canceled.
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And I'll do it for this portion or so as we move over to the members block. If you're not a member
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Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.