Ep. 1158 - The Left Anoints The New George Floyd
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A mentally ill, violent vagrant named Jordan Neely died while being restrained by passengers on a New York City subway. Also, Nashville police have reversed course and decided not to release the manifesto of the trans school shooter. Plus, Barstool Sports abandons its alleged anti-cancel culture position by firing one of its employees for quoting rap lyrics. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Welch Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media has found its new George Floyd, a mentally ill,
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violent vagrant named Jordan Neely, died while being restrained by passengers on a New York
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City subway, passengers who he was harassing and threatening. We'll get into the details of this
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case and about the real motivations of the people who are exploiting it. Also, Nashville police have
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reversed course and decided not to release the manifesto of the trans school shooter. Plus,
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Barstool Sports abandons its alleged anti-cancel culture position by firing one of its employees
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for quoting rap lyrics. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Days for Life at 40daysforlife.com. Let's begin by talking about what happened, what actually happened
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as far as we know at this point. On Monday afternoon, a 30-year-old mentally ill vagrant named Jordan
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Neely, who also happens to be black, boarded a subway train in New York City and began harassing the
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passengers. Witnesses described Neely as hostile and erratic. He was apparently yelling and carrying
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on, screaming that he's, quote, ready to die and, quote, doesn't mind going to jail and, quote, will
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hurt anyone on this train. This was not Neely's first foray into this territory. He was a man with
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44 prior arrests with charges ranging from assault to drug-related offenses. He also had an open warrant
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for a felony assault dating back to 2021. That was an open warrant at the time that this all happened.
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Multiple people on social media have since reported that their own, you know, they've had their own
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alleged run-ins with Neely, who, according to these reports, was known to harass and threaten
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passengers. In other words, Neely was yet another violent repeat criminal who had been essentially
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granted free reign over the subway system, where crime has skyrocketed over the last few years as
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commuters are frequently accosted, mugged, assaulted, even raped and killed. This is not just the case
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in the New York City subway system, but in the city as a whole and in major cities all across the
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country, as we know. But on the F train on Monday afternoon, some of the passengers decided that they
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had enough. Rather than sitting there and waiting for Neely to lash out violently, waiting for him to
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make good on his explicit threats to hurt people, hoping that if he starts physically attacking
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people that, you know, maybe they'll be able to intervene before anyone is seriously hurt or
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killed. Instead of that, a few passengers stepped up to do what was necessary. At least three good
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Samaritans restrained Neely. One man, who's a white man and a former Marine, had Neely in a chokehold.
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Another, a black man, was holding down his arms. They held him down for several minutes because there
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was no law enforcement immediately on the scene. And they were in this enclosed, claustrophobic environment.
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And they weren't going to do that and then just let him go. So they held on to him. Eventually,
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Neely lost consciousness and died. Police took at least one of the passengers who restrained him,
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the white man, the Marine, into custody for questioning. They released him sometime later
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without pressing charges. Now, what you should know is that there were over 10 people, I think it's 11
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people in total, who were killed on the New York City subway just last year, along with many more
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accosted and assaulted. You don't know any of their names, do you? Many more fell victim to
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violent crime all over the city. Over 400 people were murdered just in 2022 alone, just in New York
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City. You probably don't know any of their names either. The problem for those victims is that in a
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great many of those cases, the perpetrators were black. But as we know, violence carried out by black
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people, no matter the race of the victim, is not useful to the media or the Democrat Party, which
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means that those victims must remain nameless and faceless. But in this case, the man who had
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Jordan Neely in a headlock was white. And that is the only detail the left needs. That's it. They
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don't need anything else because they can make up the rest or they can massage the facts a little bit
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to get them to the point where they want them. The only absolute fact that they need and that they
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usually can't lie about is the racial component. Hundreds of black people are killed every single
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year, year after year, a trail of violence and death and misery that is only getting worse over
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time, not better. Victim after victim, day after day after day. And the left says nothing,
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does nothing, does nothing, does not care, does not make martyrs or heroes out of any of these
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victims, does not demand that we say their names. They wait and they wait and they wait and they have
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to wait a while until eventually they come across the extremely rare occurrence where a black man dies
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allegedly at the hands of a white man. And that is when they leap into action, taking full advantage,
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which is what has happened here. So protesters in response to Jordan Neely's death swarmed the New
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York City subway system yesterday, demanding justice for Jordan Neely. The media went into full George
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Floyd mode, blatantly racializing the incident while in real time, and we could see this happening in real
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time. They started to reshape Jordan Neely himself into something other than the violent career
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criminal that he actually was. We could actually, if you were on social media yesterday, you could see
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this happening in real time as they began to sort of figure out who they want to make this guy into.
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And in this case, it appears that Neely sometimes dressed like Michael Jackson when he was on the subway,
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and he would perform unsolicited dance routines, you know, for hoping for tips from people. And
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this is a fact that as far as I'm concerned, if anything, makes him even less sympathetic, but
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which the media is using to paint him as some kind of struggling artist, a kind soul who wished only to
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bring people joy and happiness. And he just wanted to dance for people. He lived to dance. That's all.
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That's all it was. Many headlines have been published claiming that a white man killed a black
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Michael Jackson impersonator. That's how they're referring to him in the headlines, as if this is
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the most important detail about him. A Michael Jackson impersonator was killed. Not a career criminal,
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not a homeless vagrant, not a mentally ill psychopath. No, not that. A Michael Jackson impersonator.
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It's, you know, almost as if, right, they tackled him to the ground and choked him out
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for being a Michael Jackson impersonator. Like, the impression they want to give you from the
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headlines is that the passengers on the train got annoyed with him dancing around like Michael
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Jackson and then tackled him, which is not what happened at all. Democrat politicians have also been
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activated. AOC, Ayanna Pressley, the squad, you know, together have been leading the lynch mob as usual.
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Well, AOC has been making frantic public statements demanding an arrest and criminal charges,
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though, of course, she doesn't need to wait for any of those things, least of all a conviction
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to pass down her own verdict, which she has already done. The mayor of New York City has been,
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to this point, slightly more cautious in his public response. He hasn't come out
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and actually said that this was a racist murder. Not yet, anyway.
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And that's not good enough for AOC, who is now demanding that the mayor publicly accuse
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this Marine of murder. So to be clear, this is an elected official demanding that a citizen
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who hasn't been arrested or charged be pronounced guilty of murder without trial,
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without conviction, or again, without even a criminal charge. She, along with many others
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on the left, are openly calling for a public lynching of a man who has not been officially
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accused of committing any crime. Now, it remains to be seen whether they'll be able to fully repeat
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their George Floyd trick with Jordan Neely, which, you know, means riots, looting, another great racial
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awakening, quote unquote, an unjust and politically motivated trial and conviction, etc. But that is
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clearly their goal. And they are on their way towards it right now. But as these deeply evil forces
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set to work to make full use of this incident, and to make another white man into a sacrificial victim
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on the altar of racial justice, what is the actual truth? Right? What is the correct response? Who is
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really at fault? Well, the answer to that last question, I think, will give us the answer to the
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others. And to that, we can say that there are two parties responsible for the death of Jordan Neely.
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And the first party, we cannot forget, is Jordan Neely himself. Okay, so who is first and foremost
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to blame for the fact that Jordan Neely is dead today? Well, Jordan Neely is. He may have been
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mentally ill, but he's also the only person on the planet who can directly decide how he behaves.
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Okay, there's one person with direct control over that, and it's Jordan Neely. He's the one who
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harassed a train full of passengers who were just trying to get to and from work. He's the one who
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announced himself explicitly as a threat, threatened to hurt them. He's the one who's lived a life of
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crime for at least the past decade. It's his actions that precipitated the events that led to
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his death. If he had not chosen to announce himself as a threat to those around him, if he had not chosen
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to carry on the way that he did, he would still be alive today. He put the other passengers in a
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position of having to choose whether to gamble with their safety by allowing him to run around
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screaming, waiting for him to do something violent, or whether they should step in and subdue him.
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He put them in that position. But it wasn't just him who put them in that position. The other party
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responsible is the Democrat Party, the political leadership of the city, the justice system, DAs like
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Alvin Bragg in Manhattan, who have made the conscious decision to keep men like Jordan Neely
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on the streets, to continually release these people back into the public, no matter how many
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dozens of crimes they each commit, until the point that they are either killed or they kill someone else.
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That's the way the justice system now operates. Commit crime, commit crime, crime after crime,
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keep them on the street until a death occurs, either their death or somebody else's. And actually,
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in the latter case where they kill somebody else, they might still stay on the streets even after
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that. The only thing that will definitely get them on the street, off the street, is if they're killed.
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But that's a decision that the system has made. Jordan Neely belonged in prison or a mental asylum.
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He had long ago made it clear that he had no interest in being a, you know, a civilized member
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of society. He was a danger to his community and to himself. And this had been demonstrated time and
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time again. Jordan Neely could not have been clearer about this. If the system had done what it was
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supposed to do, if it had gotten him off the street, you know, and locked him away somewhere,
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he would be alive today. But the left does not want to prosecute crime because crime is committed
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in a racially disproportionate way. It is committed in a racially disproportionate way.
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Which means that prosecutions and convictions and incarcerations will naturally be disproportionate.
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But the left can't have that, so they would rather let criminals terrorize you and your family.
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In fact, it's kind of a win-win for them because if they refuse to prosecute criminals,
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they can enact their perverse idea of racial justice by keeping these black criminals on the
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street. And because it's only, when it comes to criminal justice reform, that's all they're
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really concerned about, obviously. And at the same time, they can put honest citizens in a position of
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having to make very difficult decisions with their lives potentially on the line. And then they can
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exploit those situations. They can send the mob after, you know, yet another scapegoat
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and use the chaos they've created to advance their racial narrative.
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Which is why the one man that I will not blame for this is the man who is getting all of the blame
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right now. Now, you can argue that it's not wise from a self-preservation standpoint for anyone,
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especially any white man, to intervene in these kinds of situations anymore. While the left has
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engineered a win-win for themselves, for you, it is a lose-lose. Now, if you decide to get involved,
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either you get hurt in your attempt to protect yourself or potentially killed in your attempt
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to protect yourself and others, or you prevail in the struggle and then you find yourself pursued
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by a crazed leftist mob calling for your head. And then if you're arrested and charged, you'll
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find yourself standing before a New York City jury or a big city jury somewhere else where your
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conviction will have already been decided before the jury was even selected. That's what AOC is up to
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right now. She wants to assume, she's assuming, probably rightly so, that this innocent man is going
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to be arrested and charged. And so she right now wants, she doesn't want to take any chances. She
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wants to decide the verdict right now. Pollute the jury pool, have this man labeled a murderer in every
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headline so that when the trial eventually comes, he's doomed. This makes it extremely dicey, to say the
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least, to play the good Samaritan role. But it also makes it all the more heroic.
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The Marine, who at this point, but likely for not much longer, remains nameless, is not only not at
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fault, not only in the right, but is in fact a hero. This was a heroic action he took. He did what the
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leaders of his city would not do, what the system refuses to do, what the police are not allowed to do
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anymore in a city like New York City. He was under no moral obligation, nor any legal obligation,
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to sit silently, obediently, while a psychotic criminal vagrant runs wild, threatening and
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harassing innocent people. He's not under that obligation. This is an obligation that the left
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wants to impose on us. They want us to believe that it is our responsibility to helplessly submit
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ourselves to the whims of every violent scumbag we come across. But it is not so. And so this man
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took action. He deserves a medal for his actions. In a healthy society, that's what he would get.
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Yet we don't live in a healthy society. We live in a depraved and confused one,
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which means, tragically, I'm afraid that his reward is likely to be quite different.
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You know, one other note about this, and you have to understand how insidious this agenda is
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and what they're really up to. Because, you know, not only is the left creating this lose-lose
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situation for everybody by continually releasing these violent criminals back into their communities,
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giving them permission. You know, every time a violent person commits a crime and then they're
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arrested and then the system just cycles them through and spits them back out, that is the
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system giving permission, almost explicit permission to that person. Oh, no, go continue doing more of
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that. Or worse. So it creates a lose-lose situation, but it also has a deeply demoralizing
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effect. And that is so much of the left's cultural agenda is to demoralize you, to break your spirits.
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Because think about, you know, the other option when you're in this position and let's say you're on,
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if you make the mistake. Now, look, the first thing is, if you can, you got to get out of these
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cities. You just have to get out of the cities. If you live in one of these cities, you got to get
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out of it because it's like a matter of time before you encounter, you're in a situation like
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this where you potentially fall victim to crime and then you're in that lose-lose situation. You
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know, whatever you do, you know, if God forbid you defend yourself, the entire system is going to be
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against you. So you got to get out. If you are there, I certainly wouldn't be riding the subway.
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I would choose anything over that. But, you know, if you are in that position and
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there's someone on the subway and they're harassing and they're threatening, or maybe
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they're actually committing assault. So in many videos like that, we have somebody like Jordan
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Neely, homeless, psychotic, vagrant type, committing physical assault against them.
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And usually in those videos, you can see the other people that are sitting there and not
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doing anything to intervene, which morally is the wrong choice. But they're also being pushed
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to make that choice because of what we just talked about. In their heads, they're running through the
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situation and they're saying, well, look, if I get involved here, then I can end up getting killed.
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But even if I don't, let's say I have to do this person now, now, now my whole life could be over
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and I've got my own family. And then I ended up going to prison. I mean, everyone's sitting there,
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they're, they're cycling through that in their heads. And so then many of them choose not to do
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anything, but then they have to live with that for the rest of their lives. You know, the experience
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of seeing something like this and not acting because for the sake of self-preservation, because you're
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afraid, um, and not acting, that becomes incredibly demoralizing. And as I said, spirit breaking.
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Um, so it is, it's a lose, lose across the board. You're on a subway, somebody like Jordan Neely
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boards it, you can't, there's, there's nothing good can come of it for you. That's exactly what they
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want. All right. Um, and one of the points too, is that we, we keep hearing how, uh, like he was
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homeless, you know, um, and we're going to hear a lot of emphasis on that. So the two things that
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you're going to hear about Jordan Neely, that he was a Michael Jackson impersonator and that he was
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homeless. Um, because those are the things that are supposed to make him, you know, the most
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sympathetic to us. And I've already, there's already people, many people on the left say he was killed
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for being homeless, which of course is, is not the case at all. They didn't say, Oh, he's, he's a
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homeless guy. Let's get him. That's not what happened. But you also see here that, that, um,
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in many cases, people who are homeless, like there's a, there's a reason why they're, they're homeless.
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Um, that these are not, um, law abiding, sober people who've fallen on hard times. That can
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happen. There are examples of that. It was rather extreme for the, for the most part though, these,
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you know, it's, it's situations like this. All right. Speaking of criminals, we know about that,
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uh, the trans terrorist here in Nashville and what happened, uh, last month. We've been waiting for
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this manifesto that we were told about to come out. So we were told about this immediately that
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there was a manifesto, uh, and there were indications by the police chief immediately in the, uh, in the
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initial press conferences that the manifesto indicates that the, uh, the, the shooter's trans
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identity played a role in the attack and somehow motivated it. It was all very vague and cryptic,
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but he was clearly indicating that. So we've been waiting to actually see the manifesto.
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Then last week we were told that the release of the manifesto is, um, is imminent. It's going to
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come out soon, but now here's the latest from the daily wire. Nashville police have backtracked on
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plans to release the so-called manifesto of the trans school shooter who last month killed six
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people, including three children, citing a pending lawsuit. The decision announced Wednesday
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comes amid substantial public pressure to release documents believed to lay out the motive of the
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28 year old shooter who was killed by police inside the covenant school to end the March 27th attack.
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Metro Nashville police department officials notify the public in a terse statement,
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quote, due to pending litigation filed this week, the metropolitan Nashville police department has been
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advised by counsel to hold the release of the, um, records related to the shooting at the covenant
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school pending orders of direction of the court. Several media outlets, including the
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Daily Wire, have filed freedom of information requests in an effort to win release, uh, of the
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documents. The requests were denied with authority, citing a provision that allows them to withhold
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records relating to an ongoing case. But late last month, police officials said they were preparing
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to make the papers public. And now, um, and now that situation, that decision has been
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for the time being reversed, which is not a, not a surprise at all. And now we're in a position where
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when this manifesto is eventually released. And I think, I think eventually a version of it
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will be released, but when it is, um, how can we even trust it? The fact that it was held for so long
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and there's been so much political pressure to not release it. And the FBI is involved in all of this
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and they were about to release it and that they decided not to. And eventually when they do, um,
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how can we trust what's in it? It'd be very difficult to trust because if they release a
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manifesto and, um, and we'll, would you look at that? There's nothing at all indicating anything
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trans related. Yeah, it was a trans, a terrorist happened to be trans school shooter happened to
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be trans. Yeah. The police chief did indicate rather explicitly early on that, uh, the motivation
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had something to do with the trans identity, but it's, it's not in there. It turns out if that happens
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and that's seeming increasingly likely to me, uh, how can we possibly trust that? There was, there was
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never any real reasonable argument for not releasing the manifesto. Yeah. Yeah. There it's a, it's a
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criminal case, but the, the culprit is dead first of all. So you're not going to be filing, you're not,
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no, no one's going to court here. At least the, uh, the shooter is not. She's dead in the ground.
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So that never made a lot of sense. And then we started hearing this, this narrative about how,
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well, the manifesto lays out, um, her plans, you know, and she wanted to do a lot more than,
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uh, the covenant shooting. She wanted to go beyond that. She had other targets. It was very,
00:25:32.940
all very detailed. And so we can't release that because then it becomes some sort of security
00:25:37.680
throw. Why, why is it a threat? And if, even if it is, well, that stuff you can, you could,
00:25:42.820
you could redact that part of it. Okay. The part where she is talk describing the exact
00:25:50.600
method she wanted to use. And if you want to argue, well, we don't want to put that in the
00:25:54.080
public to give somebody else, uh, uh, a blueprint for committing these crimes. If that's how detailed
00:25:59.000
it is, then you could redact that. The thing that, that people are interested to know and what we
00:26:06.120
deserve to know is, um, what exactly motivated this. And if the, uh, the rhetoric from trans activists
00:26:16.120
and from the media, but of course I repeat myself claiming trans genocide, you know, if you're,
00:26:22.200
if you're a misgendered quote unquote, then that's a threat to your very existence and all that.
00:26:28.420
Did, did this rhetoric, um, help to motivate the actions of the shooter?
00:26:37.500
The, the, the, that's the kind of information that we need and we have every right to know.
00:26:41.740
And there's no argument related to security for not showing us that, telling us that it's not going
00:26:48.960
to, I, I cannot see how it would impede any sort of criminal investigation into a criminal who again
00:26:54.720
is dead. Thankfully. All right. This is from the post-millennial Barstool Sports, the popular
00:27:00.760
sports and pop culture brand has fired one of its hosts, Ben Mintz, after he said the N word while
00:27:06.980
reciting rap lyrics on a live stream. Barstool Sports founder, Dave Portnoy made the announcement
00:27:12.640
on Wednesday and expressed his disappointment with the decision. However, the decision was made by
00:27:16.440
Barstool's parent company, Penn Entertainment, due to concerns that the incident could jeopardize
00:27:20.620
regulatory gambling licenses across the country. Mintz apologized for his actions, claiming that it
00:27:25.860
was an honest mistake and said that he meant no harm. The slur was uttered during his show,
00:27:30.420
Wake Up Mincy, where he was reading the lyrics to a first of the month by Bone Thugs in Harmony.
00:27:34.980
And he was, so he was reciting the lyrics or reading them. I don't know.
00:27:42.200
And that's a word that's in the lyrics, but, but you can't, you, you can't in no context,
00:27:48.660
of course, do we know you can, is it okay to utter that word depending on your skin pigmentation?
00:27:54.060
Because we know that this word, it's a, it's a magical incantation. It's like a curse that,
00:27:58.920
you know, you find in a, in an old dusty book in the attic and you, you, you dust off the book and
00:28:03.560
you open it and you, you recite, you say the words in the book and it has some kind of like,
00:28:07.640
just saying the words has some sort of magical effect. That's what this particular word is,
00:28:12.600
we're told. That's how it's presented. Where you cannot even utter the syllables
00:28:16.860
in any context, even while quoting someone, you can't say the act, you could say N-word,
00:28:24.200
which, which is still conveys the, it still communicates the word when you say N-word.
00:28:30.840
Well, everyone immediately knows what you mean. So what is the, the moral distinction between saying
00:28:37.280
N-word or actually uttering the symbols, syllables themselves while quoting someone? What's the
00:28:42.440
distinction? There isn't one. It's totally arbitrary. Um, but this is the arbitrary, completely
00:28:47.580
ridiculous rule that has been imposed. And, um, and so it was decided that this guy has to pay
00:28:54.140
the price for it. You got it. You got it. Well, Oh, you said the word technicality. You're out.
00:28:59.020
Yep. You lose your livelihood and your job, you know, and everything. No one, no one can morally
00:29:05.660
justify that, um, or justify it on any other grounds, but that's the way it's supposed to be.
00:29:14.020
Apparently, uh, going back to the Postmillennial says, despite apparent pushback from Portnoy,
00:29:18.480
uh, Barstool CEO, Erica Nardini and longtime talent, Dan Katz, Penn Entertainment made the call
00:29:23.760
to terminate Mince's employment. Penn Entertainment acquired 36% of Barstool Sports from the Churnin
00:29:29.660
Group for $163 million, $163 million in early 2020 and bought the remaining 64% for an additional
00:29:36.200
$388 million in February, 2021. Uh, Portnoy said that, uh, you know, this wasn't up to him. He doesn't
00:29:43.480
like it. He then posted a video later addressing fans who were calling him out as a sellout
00:29:49.400
and as someone who's participating in cancel culture. And he responded to that with another
00:29:55.480
So I get every Tom, Dick and Harry since this Missy thing, be like, Prez, you're sellout,
00:30:00.080
you're sellout. Hey, Prez, you sold out. Well, as the kids say, no toy, no toy. I sold out. You're
00:30:07.720
just figuring that out. I started a company and I sold it the out, made hundreds of millions,
00:30:12.700
made millions for everybody who grinded a million. Yeah. We sold the out. And that's what
00:30:17.320
you do when you're an entrepreneur, you start this little company. You dream one day you sell
00:30:21.860
the out. So no toy still means this decision sucks. I hate it. Makes me want to puke. But guess
00:30:28.280
what? When I sold out a couple of words, a couple of things, it's very clear. You say these things,
00:30:34.200
those decisions are no longer mine. I can't protect you. You know why? Because I sold out.
00:30:38.720
No toy. Uh, okay. Well, he's, he's announcing that he sold out. Now it's, it's, I've never been
00:30:46.340
in the position where someone's offered me, uh, you know, what was it in total, almost 400,
00:30:52.400
over $400 million in total. Um, no one's ever offered me that kind of money for anything that
00:30:57.460
I've done. And so, uh, I can imagine it's, you know, quite an incentive to take the offer.
00:31:02.420
Um, and I don't blame him for taking it. You know, I don't, I, that in and of itself,
00:31:07.860
I wouldn't call selling on a sale, but it does mean that if you consider barstool sports to be
00:31:13.920
some sort of, uh, you know, some, some, some, some sort of organization that stands at stands
00:31:20.920
against the cancel culture stands for any kind of values at all. If that's, if that's the notion
00:31:26.560
you had in your head, well, then that notion should be a long time ago, but especially now,
00:31:31.340
I think you should see it better. It's an entertainment company and that's fine. It
00:31:36.400
does entertainment. I'm not particularly a big, I don't really follow what they do, but it's,
00:31:40.660
you know, it's entertainment. Um, apparently they even, they took down their anti-cancel culture
00:31:47.740
merchandise from their store, sort of admitting that, well, they can't really, you know, they can't
00:31:53.040
claim to be against cancel culture anymore. And they can't because that is, yes, from a financial
00:31:58.800
and profit driven perspective, I can understand why you would take the money. Someone offers you
00:32:04.680
400 plus million dollars, you'd take it. I get that. But the moment that you do that,
00:32:10.060
well, now you are subject to the whims of this giant corporation that owns you.
00:32:14.680
Um, and you, you can't, you can't stand against cancel culture anymore. Um, you can't be relied
00:32:23.080
on to uphold any kind of value system whatsoever because you are owned by them. And the only thing
00:32:31.400
they, the only thing that the corporation cares about is the money. So that's what we learned
00:32:36.560
about barstool, but really something we should have already known. Um, and it is again, a decision
00:32:45.540
that nobody, no one can logically or morally defend. You know, the idea that there's a, that there is a
00:32:55.400
word that cannot be uttered under any circumstance is completely insane. And it is not something that,
00:33:05.720
there is no other word in the English language or any other language in existence that we
00:33:14.400
have those kinds of rules for any, there's, there's other words that are slurs. There are words that
00:33:21.580
are, that we would consider vulgarity and profanity, um, and all kinds of words that I don't say on this
00:33:27.640
show, uh, because we try not to use profanity and vulgarity on the show. Um, words that I don't think
00:33:34.300
you should use, words that you shouldn't use around kids and so on and all kinds of words like
00:33:37.660
this. Um, but there's no other word that we would say, well, under no circumstance at all,
00:33:44.240
can it even be uttered even in, in, in the context of quoting somebody.
00:33:49.860
And certainly there's no other word where we would say, well, judging on your skin pigment,
00:33:55.180
if it's this shade, you can't say it at all under any circumstance, but if it's a little bit of a
00:34:00.800
darker shade, then say it all the time and it's totally fine. So there's no context where it can
00:34:06.060
be said over here. There is no context where it can't be said over here. And we are going to decide
00:34:11.860
that based on how dark your skin is. Makes no sense. And I think we all are aware of that.
00:34:19.520
Um, this is a report from the daily wire. It says eighth graders had the lowest U S history scores on
00:34:26.300
record in 2022. And among the lowest civic scores, according to the department of education revealed
00:34:30.780
which they revealed this week, the education department on Wednesday released the first
00:34:34.500
federal history and civics testing data since before the COVID pandemic. The data shows that
00:34:40.320
the last few years have erased the progress made since the 1990s on eighth grade students,
00:34:44.720
knowledge of history and civics. Only about 13% of eighth graders met proficiency standards for U S
00:34:50.580
history last year. Um, 13%, 13% of eighth graders by these standards are proficient in history.
00:35:02.460
Proficient means students can explain major themes, periods, events, people, ideas, and turning points
00:35:07.540
in the nation history, nation's history. Only 1% of students who took the test were rated as advanced
00:35:13.120
in U S history. Only about one fifth of students were proficient or better in civics.
00:35:18.180
In addition, last year, more students also performed below basic levels in both U S history
00:35:23.320
and civics. The data shows four and 10 eighth graders scored below basic in history. All about
00:35:28.400
31% scored below basic in civics. Eighth graders got an average history score of 250 out of 500,
00:35:35.940
five points lower than 2018. They scored an average civic score of 150 out of 300, three points lower
00:35:42.260
than 2018. So everything is headed in exactly, um, the wrong direction. And that's why I always say
00:35:53.160
that we see these kind of dumb guy on the street, um, interviews that everybody does. Now you find
00:35:58.380
them all over YouTube where someone goes out, goes out to the boardwalk somewhere down on, on the street,
00:36:05.320
goes to a college campus and starts asking people basic questions, especially about U S history,
00:36:12.500
geography, civics, um, you know, things like, you know, uh, what, what, in what century was Abraham
00:36:23.140
Lincoln president? Just give me the century, that sort of thing. And we find in these videos that people,
00:36:28.800
uh, it's really easy to find people who know absolutely nothing. Apparently they, they have,
00:36:35.400
they have almost 0% knowledge about civics, history, any of these, uh, geography. And we want
00:36:41.600
to tell ourselves when we see those videos that it's kind of cherry picking. And yeah, I mean,
00:36:45.480
you could go out and you could interview a hundred people and maybe a talk to 95 who are basically
00:36:51.080
intelligent, pick out five who are stupid, string that together in a montage and you can present
00:36:56.240
things a certain way. Um, but I, I actually think tragically and, uh, in a quite terrifying way
00:37:04.460
that those videos offer a pretty accurate picture of American culture at this, at this point, you know,
00:37:13.320
there's a reason why it's so easy to do. It shouldn't be. We, our, our society is, we have on paper
00:37:24.440
anyway. This is by far the most educated, modern Western society, American culture. This is the
00:37:31.700
most educated society that's ever existed. But almost go, almost any 20 year old that you come
00:37:40.300
across, um, had at least 13 years of formal education. And then millions more went on for
00:37:50.080
advanced, what's supposed to be advanced higher education. Uh, it's quite unprecedented in history
00:37:57.760
to have a, to have a, a, a culture that is so educated on paper.
00:38:05.340
And that's why it should actually be very difficult to go out in public and find grown adults who know
00:38:12.600
nothing at all, but it's not, which tells us that the education system is an abysmal failure.
00:38:20.620
And it's been, it's been trending this way for a long time. We could talk about why it's a failure.
00:38:26.240
We've talked about that many times, but it is a failure. And that is actually, that's the first
00:38:32.980
problem with the education system, the woke, um, indoctrination, all the rest of it. It's a big
00:38:39.060
problem. It's a major problem. That's reason enough to not send your kid to public school.
00:38:44.780
But the first problem is that it's not actually succeeding in educating kids.
00:38:51.260
Something to think about before you send your kids into that system.
00:38:53.980
All right, before we get to the comment section, this is an important video. Uh,
00:38:58.060
another viral TikTok of someone, uh, giving us a demonstration of the plight of overweight
00:39:05.680
travelers, especially as we go into the summer, people are traveling, they're going
00:39:08.980
on vacation. Well, if you're overweight, um, it's a, it's a real struggle. And here it is.
00:39:14.700
Things plus size travelers hate part four struggling to find plus size,
00:39:19.980
friendly accommodation, the fat tax of having to pay more for everything,
00:39:24.040
having to do hours of research before travel, struggling to find plus size,
00:39:28.980
friendly rental cars, the lack of plus size, friendly seating at restaurants,
00:39:33.420
struggling to find cute plus size travel clothing, not knowing if the locals are rude to fat
00:39:38.740
people, having to share in Uber and being physically uncomfortable, inaccessible bathrooms
00:39:43.620
that aren't plus size, friendly, uncomfortable seating everywhere.
00:39:48.060
Hmm. Well, yeah, obviously that means if, if that's what you're, uh, encountering,
00:39:52.860
then that means that society, it's society's fault. It's everyone else's fault. And you're oppressed,
00:39:56.640
right? If you're going out and you're finding that you, you can't fit into cars,
00:40:03.140
that you need, you need special accommodations for automobiles because you cannot fit inside an
00:40:09.580
average automobile. You can't fit inside a bathroom stall. Uh, you can't, you can't sit
00:40:18.400
on most chairs. Well, if that's what you're finding, then, then obviously, uh, the problem
00:40:23.900
is not you, it's everybody else. And so we have to, yet again, if we have so many different victim
00:40:29.960
groups that are demanding that we restructure society, we restructure everything, tear everything
00:40:36.180
down and rebuild it with them specifically in mind. And this is a, yet another group change
00:40:43.400
everything so that they don't, we have to change everything so that they don't have to change
00:40:48.740
anything. That's a kind of victimhood one-on-one these days. Let's get to the comment section.
00:40:54.960
Ronnie says there's a lot to agree with here. Most of it, in fact, but saying that all that
00:41:08.620
could possibly be seen as porn, such as things as pure nudity and more should be taken away from
00:41:14.700
view. Doesn't seem realistic, realistic or even healthy. Well, we were talking yesterday about,
00:41:20.300
um, age restrictions. So to take it away from the view of children and, uh, that that's an
00:41:31.020
undertaking. It's an undertaking given the fact that this stuff is all over the internet and to,
00:41:35.760
to control and contain it. It's not an easy thing to do, but it can be done. So it's realistic in
00:41:41.000
that sense. Um, and I, and I get it. There are, there are always people who, uh, anytime we have this
00:41:47.140
conversation, they, they'll ask, well, what, how do you define pornography? How do we know what,
00:41:53.140
what, what porn is exactly? Well, you know, quoting the Supreme court justice years ago, it's, it's,
00:41:59.540
we know it when we see it. It's, it's actually not that confusing. It's only in an academic kind of
00:42:06.180
theoretical way that we could act as though the definition of porn is ambiguous. We all know what
00:42:16.280
it is. So can you, Ronnie, I would ask you, is there an example of, give me an example of something
00:42:22.360
that somebody might reasonably be described as pornography. And yet you would say is not.
00:42:31.100
So what exactly are we talking about? I guess we can't have this conversation until you start
00:42:34.540
giving me examples of things that, that you would say, or like kind of on the borderline or the gray
00:42:40.780
area. Um, so what are some examples of things that, that somebody might say, well, that's pornographic
00:42:47.140
and children shouldn't see it. And yet you would say, well, no, I think kids should be able to see
00:42:51.060
that. I think reasonable people can agree on this much more than, uh, we may, we may think. Uh,
00:42:59.500
Joshua says, if the road is for cars, the bike lane for bikes and the sidewalk for walking,
00:43:04.200
where is the Matt Walsh approved path for my wheelchair? And I, your words hurt Matt,
00:43:09.780
right in the disability. Uh, well the sidewalk, um, the sidewalk is where you can have wheelchairs.
00:43:15.840
And I actually, no, you're misunderstanding me. I never said the bike lane is for bikes. I'm saying
00:43:20.340
the bike lane is for cars. Okay. I'm saying the bike lane shouldn't exist. So let's get rid of the
00:43:24.500
bike lane. And you know what? We get rid of the bike lane. Then we could, uh, I'd be in favor of
00:43:28.740
splitting the difference. So get, get rid of the stupid bike lane. And then you can expand the road out
00:43:33.620
about, you know, into about half of what the bike lane was, expand the sidewalk out a little bit.
00:43:38.480
And then even more room for a wheelchairs and that counts as pedestrian, more room for cars,
00:43:45.960
more room for pedestrians, let the cyclists find somewhere else. It's not up. It's not up to me
00:43:52.180
to find their, it's not up to me to solve that problem for them. Uh, Michael says how quickly we
00:43:59.420
forget the repressed memories scam and how therapists quote unquote led kids to recall false
00:44:04.780
memories of child sexual abuse in order to prosecute people. These days, they lead kids
00:44:09.360
into falsely realizing they're the opposite sex kids who probably need counseling for depression
00:44:13.980
or who will, who will after, uh, who will after being butchered. Well, how quickly we forget so many
00:44:21.020
examples of these, um, of the, the psych psychological industry, you know, inventing mental illnesses,
00:44:33.940
giving people ideas, false ideas. Um, many examples of this, you know, there was a time when the multiple
00:44:44.960
personality disorder was all the rage and people were being diagnosed all over the place with having
00:44:51.120
multiple personalities. And then it kind of went away and nobody was being diagnosed with it anymore.
00:44:57.760
So there was a period when it's happening all the time. It was all the rage and then it stopped
00:45:02.700
happening and nobody's being diagnosed. And now, and now it's kind of, it's, uh, it's, it's ebbing up
00:45:06.440
again. Thanks to TikTok and a bunch of kids convincing themselves. They have multiple personalities
00:45:11.940
and most more than likely they could find a therapist. They can go to those. Oh yeah, that's
00:45:15.780
true. So lots of, uh, lots of fads and trends like this that the psychological industry is susceptible
00:45:22.560
to not just susceptible to, but they, they, they drive these trends. Greg says, why do you hate
00:45:28.000
amusement parks so much? Did you have a traumatic experience as a child or something? Did Mickey
00:45:31.980
mouse refuse to give you a hug? Uh, yes. Well, not Mickey mouse. It was not, I never went to Disney
00:45:38.540
world. Um, but I did have a traumatic experience. It was with a carnival ride. So maybe it's not
00:45:44.520
exactly fair to pin that. I don't know. Maybe I need to go to therapy and, uh, someone would,
00:45:49.360
would dig into this and find that maybe this is, uh, underpinning some of my anti theme park stance,
00:45:57.600
but I did have a traumatic experience with it, with a carnival ride as a child, which I think
00:46:02.660
everybody has had at least one as a child. We've all had at least one traumatic carnival ride
00:46:07.100
experience. And, uh, and again, it's not exactly fair to compare the two because at least at a theme
00:46:11.840
park, not a big theme park guy, as you know, but the rides are sturdy. They're stationary, like they're
00:46:18.240
built and they stay in one place and, uh, there we would hope well maintained carnival rides. You are
00:46:25.340
folded up and put in trucks and driven all around and they're unfolded and set up. It's amazing
00:46:33.760
actually that carnivals are still legal. You know, in this nanny state environment where plastic straws
00:46:39.860
are illegal, it's still somehow okay to have these traveling death traps that go all around the
00:46:46.900
country. So I was at a carnival, I was eight or nine years old and I got on this ride. I think it was,
00:46:50.560
it was called the, uh, kamikaze murder machine or whatever. And I got on it, it spins around and all
00:46:56.680
that. And it's designed to be a very unpleasant experience, but as a kid, for some reason you,
00:47:00.640
you find that exciting. So I got on this ride and I was tall enough to ride, but then I sat down and
00:47:05.160
the guy pushed us, one of these shoulder harness things and he pushed the harness down, but it didn't
00:47:09.900
go all the way down. It didn't click. And I tried to wave him down and I say, this harness is not
00:47:14.460
working. And he didn't hear me or he pretended not to. And he hit the button and the thing started
00:47:18.940
twirling around and the harness was going up and I'm clinging onto the harness about to fall out of
00:47:23.520
the ride. And I kept, I was yelling to the guy to turn the ride off and he just smiled and laughed
00:47:28.620
and kept it going. I think because he thought that I was just another kid afraid of the ride. And so
00:47:33.000
the carnies, they'll, they'll make it go faster because of that, cause they find it funny.
00:47:36.380
Or maybe he thought I was going to die and he didn't care. I don't know. But, uh, the ride
00:47:40.980
eventually ended and I survived. That was my traumatic experience on a carnival ride. It's kind of a,
00:47:46.740
but it's a bit of a coming of age experience that all kids have to have. We all need to have one
00:47:50.500
experience where we're almost killed by a carnival ride, but maybe that's what, uh, maybe you're onto
00:47:55.060
something. Maybe that's what this is all about. When leftists tell you that America is systemically
00:47:59.320
racist, they're lying. All evidence points to the contrary. And, uh, every attempt to fix this
00:48:04.260
non-existent problem in the name of equity is making the country and the situation worse. Heather
00:48:08.720
McDonald is shutting down that malignant ideology of anti-racism in her brand new book,
00:48:13.260
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00:48:17.920
threatens lives. McDonald is unafraid to break taboos about academic achievement and crime.
00:48:22.860
She provides the data and the life stories that show the damage being done to this country in real
00:48:27.140
time, all in the name of equity. The book is a must read for anyone who's concerned about the
00:48:31.180
present state of the country and also worried for our future. When Race Trumps Merit is available
00:48:35.340
on Amazon or wherever books are sold, go get it now. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:48:43.260
Today for our daily cancellation, we have a viral video from somebody on TikTok, which is being
00:48:47.960
shared primarily by people on the right who primarily find this person to be stupid and her
00:48:52.480
opinions worthless. And that's generally the way that it works with these TikTok videos, of course.
00:48:56.920
And very often the people are stupid and their opinions are effectively worthless. But in this case,
00:49:01.000
I think that there's, um, a little bit more to be said about it. So let's first watch the clip.
00:49:05.180
All I can ever think about is the fact that this is not the way that life is supposed to be.
00:49:10.340
The whole working your life away just to have a little bit of money, a little bit of free time
00:49:15.520
to do things that you actually enjoy. It's such a waste of life. And the older generation will be
00:49:21.300
the first to call my generation lazy for saying things like that, not realizing that they're just
00:49:25.920
a b**** to capitalism and they're f***ing brainwashed. I hate my stupid, racist, xenophobic
00:49:31.900
f***ing ancestors who set up this f***ing system that sucks for everyone, except for like the one
00:49:38.280
percent. This stupid capitalist society has made it to where no one can do things for themselves
00:49:45.880
anymore because we've been brought up to depend on everything. F***ing grocery stores, restaurants on
00:49:51.560
every corner, a f***ing convenience store on every f***ing corner because we can't do anything for
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ourselves and we have no community. All we rely on is people who are getting paid f***ed and overworked
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their whole lives to get things that we need. That's not community. It's all nothing but a
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capitalist hellscape that sucks the life out of everyone. Okay, well, she gets a few things wrong
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here, just a few, starting most importantly with the very common misconception that happiness means
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having a lot of free time to do what you want, as she says. Now, if that was true, then virtually no
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one who ever lived on earth up until the industrial age at least was happy because free time, as she
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conceives it, is an extremely modern phenomenon. I doubt that our ancestors even had a word for it
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because it didn't exist. People were not working nine to five jobs. They were not busy in the way
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that we think of busyness because we think of busyness as something that's loud and fast.
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Business, you know, it's busyness is work assigned to you by your job. It's text messages coming in and
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phone calls and driving around to different places. You know, when we talk about being busy, that's what
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we mean. And that kind of busy didn't exist for most people who've ever lived on the planet, but they
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did have work. They had to work to survive. Their lives were built on and around work. There would not
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have been a day that went by without work. We think of free time as time without any kind of work at all.
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Time dedicated to total and complete leisure. That's free time to us. Free time is sitting on the couch
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for hours, ordering food on DoorDash, relaxing in a very sedentary position. Some people will spend days
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at a time like this. If you don't have any kids, then they'll say your whole weekend could be like
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that. But historically, unless you were like a pharaoh or a Roman emperor or something, that kind of leisure,
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that kind of free time was not on the menu. Indeed, this kind of free time is an invention
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of our modern Western capitalist system. It's what has made it possible for people to spend hours and
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days at a time doing nothing in a state of complete leisure, avoiding nearly all forms of work, even the
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most menial kinds. She wants free time, but she hates the thing that gives her free time. And even
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though she already certainly has lots of free time, she's not happy, which tells us that having free
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time, that is the avoidance of work, is not in and of itself a recipe for happiness. If anything,
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being, you know, having too much free time and avoiding work too much, I think our modern experience
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would testify is a recipe for unhappiness. She's also wrong, of course, in her hatred of our ancestors.
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To hate your own ancestors, it's to be a branch that curses the roots of the tree that you're
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attached to. You would not have your existence at all without your ancestors. You would have neither
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the positives nor the negatives. You would have nothing and be nothing. And as it happens, in the
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case of this girl and all the rest of us, we can thank our ancestors for many more positives than
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negatives. As we already established, all the things that she has and supposedly likes and wants more
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of, free time, leisure, etc., she only has because of the work, innovation, and sacrifice of the
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ancestors whose graves she now spits on. And most of the things that she doesn't want and complains
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about, work, hardship, she would have that no matter what choices her ancestors made, given that these
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are fundamental realities of human existence. You know, there is no economic system that can get you
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off the hook on those things. But she's not wrong about everything. She makes the point, and it's a
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profound one, that many people in modern society are effectively helpless. They cannot do anything
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for themselves. They have no skills. They have no capacity to be self-sufficient. And even those who
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are most skilled and most self-sufficient still rely heavily on giant institutions and corporations
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to provide them with so many things. And while this is all happening, we've also become more
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isolated, less community-focused. We don't even, many of us know our neighbors who live next door.
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The social experience has migrated online into our phones behind the screen, where we can connect
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with people, but that connection is always limited by the technology that facilitates it, and nothing
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feels exactly real. She seems to have noticed all of this, and it's good that she's noticed it.
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But the next step for anyone who notices this problem is to do something about it.
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And doing something about it doesn't mean going on social media to rant about the evils of
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capitalism. It means changing this dynamic in your own life. Here's the thing. Modern society
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does not make it impossible to develop skills. It doesn't make it impossible to find community.
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It doesn't make it impossible to find meaning and purpose in life. Instead, what it does is that
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it makes it possible to not do those things, which is really what she's complaining about.
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Modern society gives us the option of doing next to nothing, developing no skills, remaining
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effectively isolated, coasting by, and yet still surviving. This was never an option historically,
00:55:14.860
because historically, if you had no skills, you would simply die. If you didn't find a community
00:55:20.360
in a support system, you'd probably just die. Life required certain things that it no longer
00:55:26.180
requires. The option to coast, to live a low-effort life has been opened to us. It is a door that we
00:55:34.300
can walk through, and many people do. I mean, think about this for a moment. We obviously don't need to
00:55:40.820
know how to kill, catch, or grow our own food. And that's work that most people on earth have had to do
00:55:47.360
through history. But most of us escape that burden completely. And it's been that way basically since
00:55:52.640
the industrial age kicked into full gear. But these days, we don't even need to know how to cook or
00:55:58.000
prepare our food. We can live without ever growing, killing, catching, or cooking our own food. And many
00:56:06.040
people do live this way. So you could live alone and survive for decades and decades to a ripe old age
00:56:12.600
without having the slightest clue how to do anything with the food that you have but chew it and swallow
00:56:20.660
it. That is the degree of removal, the depths of laziness that we can choose. But we don't have to.
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There are other ways to live. But you have to choose those ways. And you have to essentially make your life
00:56:39.100
more difficult on purpose. So if you want to have a more direct relationship with the food that you
00:56:45.120
eat, and you decide, you know what, I'm going to learn how to cook. I'm going to learn how to cook
00:56:49.580
from scratch. I'm going to have a garden. I'm going to grow my own vegetables and all that. You can do
00:56:54.920
all that. It's a great thing to do. But it's more difficult. And you don't need to. So anyone who's
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ever had a garden and gone through this and the hassle of it, you can have moments where you think,
00:57:06.120
why am I doing this? I could just go to Kroger down the street and get all this stuff.
00:57:11.540
But then if you do that and you live that way, then you end up like this girl talking about how,
00:57:15.860
well, it's like, no, I don't know how to do anything. And everything's being handed to me
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and it feels like there's no point. So yeah, you can go the other way, but you are making your,
00:57:24.700
you are creating work for yourself and you're creating hardship. And you have to be willing to do
00:57:32.640
that. And you have to be, have to be willing to live intentionally while having the discipline
00:57:38.120
to stay on that path, even as easier ones, or at least ones with less resistance are available to
00:57:45.720
you. You can develop skills. You can learn to care for yourself to a great extent. You can even form
00:57:53.460
families and communities. All of this is possible. Modern society offers a certain way to live,
00:57:59.160
a way that's easy, but empty. And we can take it up on that offer or not. You don't have to be
00:58:05.940
miserable or alone or helpless. It's not a requirement. It's an item on the menu. It may
00:58:12.860
be the most popular item. It may be the one that the restaurant is always pushing on us,
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but it's not the only one. The others just take discipline and effort, which is a price that many
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people, including this girl at this point, don't want to pay. And that is why she is still ultimately,
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