Ep. 1159 - The Left Demands That We Surrender Our Families And Communities To Violent Criminals
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Activists call for the end of armed security after a Black Trans person was shot and killed while trying to rob a Walgreens. Leftists believe that defending yourself and especially your property is the greatest sin of all. Also, a famous musician comes out against child gender transitions. But guess how long it took him to back down and apologize? A number of Trump supporters on social media are now arguing that we should stop focusing so much on the culture war. I ll explain why they re extremely wrong about that in our daily cancellation.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, activists call for the end of armed security after a black
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trans person was shot and killed while trying to rob a Walgreens, just as we saw with the
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Jordan Neely case. Leftists believe that defending yourself and especially your property is the
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greatest sin of all. Also, a famous musician comes out against child gender transitions,
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but guess how long it took him to back down and apologize. A number of Trump supporters
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on social media are now arguing that we should stop focusing so much on the culture war. I'll
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explain why they're extremely wrong about that. In our daily cancellation, the word
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homeless is no longer woke enough, apparently. A new term has been invented to take its place.
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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American history. George Washington's first inaugural address, Patrick Henry's give me liberty or give me
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death speech. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Ronald Reagan in Berlin, Theodore Roosevelt's man in the
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arena. These were all triumphant, stirring, profound. They moved the hearts of men. They spurred citizens
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to action. They shaped history. And yet, of all those speeches, they all pale in comparison to this.
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I hate this! I hate what you've done to us! I hate what you're doing to us! I hate you,
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Board of Supervisors! I hate you, London Breed! I hate you, Jenkins!
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Hold D.A. Jenkins accountable! Hold him a s***! Hey, man! F***ing f***ing get you accountable!
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Cowards! He needs to suffer in solitary confinement with that security guard. Y'all have these armed
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guards. She's walking free! She makes a good point, you have to admit. On second thought,
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I may have slightly overstated the case. At least I'll say that was more coherent than a Joe Biden
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speech. We can say that much, if nothing else. Now, that clip went viral yesterday without any
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real context. Millions of people saw this woman screeching incoherently and had no clue what she
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was screeching about or why. And usually, I would say it's probably better that way. These people are
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always screaming about something. The precise details really aren't relevant. But in this case,
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it might be worth taking some of the background into account. That was an activist named Leah McGiever.
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She was addressing the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. If we can refer to that
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as addressing the board. That's how she was addressing it. McGiever was joined by a number
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of other LGBT activists who descended upon the meeting to protest the death of somebody named
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Banco Brown. Last week, Banco Brown, who's a trans-identified female, allegedly tried to shoplift
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from a Walgreens in the city. She was confronted by an armed security guard. Now, the San Francisco
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DA, Brooke Jenkins, says that the shoplifting at this point, when the security guard confronted her,
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quote, escalated into a robbery, which means that Brown used force or the threat of force,
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because that's what a robbery is, legally speaking. The security guard responded by firing one shot at
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Brown, which killed her. Security guard was then taken into custody. The incident was investigated.
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And authorities ultimately decided not to press charges, concluding that it was self-defense.
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Now, given that this is San Francisco, okay, this is San Francisco, and the person who was killed
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was a black trans female. Given all of that, we can be certain that they really would have liked
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to charge the security guard, and they would have charged him if they could find the slightest
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pretense. Okay, we can assume that they were sifting through this thing, looking for anything,
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looking for the smallest little hook to hang charges on, and they couldn't find it. The fact that even
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the San Francisco DA would call this self-defense is a pretty strong indication that it was likely not
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only self-defense, but an extremely clear-cut case of self-defense. As we know, the official legal bar
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for self-defense is set at a certain height, but the unofficial bar for self-defense against someone
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who belongs to three different victim classes is set significantly higher. And this security guard
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apparently cleared both the official bar and the unofficial bar, which is all we really need to know about
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the case. But that's not good enough for the leftist activists, because nothing ever is. And
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they've spent the last week protesting both the killing and the city's decision to not press charges.
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The activists have made it extremely clear. If the security guard feared for his life,
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if his life was actually in danger, if he had reasonable fear for his life, which authorities have
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decided that he did, well, the activists say, well, then it was his responsibility to simply die.
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That's it. His life is less important than the life of a trans person. Just as the lives of
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everybody on the subway train with Jordan Neely a few days ago in New York, all of their lives were
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less important than Jordan Neely himself. If he was threatening to hurt them, and he was, according to
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witness reports, it was their responsibility to sit there passively and allow themselves to be harassed
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and accosted and assaulted, potentially killed. One of the greatest sins, according to the left
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and the leftist religion, is the sin of defending yourself. An even greater sin, though, is the sin of
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defending your property. So in the leftist worldview, you can't even defend yourself, your own body, your own
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life against someone who belongs to a privileged victim class. Well, how much more outrageous is it
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to them in that case if you defend not just not your life, but physical property or merchandise?
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That's why activists in San Francisco are now calling for the abolition of security guards in
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response to this incident. Reading from a Fox report, quote, protesters held a rally Monday to
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demonstrate against the DA's decision. They called on Walgreens to eliminate armed guards, saying
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nothing in the store was worth Brown's life. Quote, it's insane that Walgreens has armed security.
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There's nothing in that store worth a human life, and Walgreens is not taking care of our community.
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According to Jessica Nowlin from the Young Women's Freedom Center, talking to Fox San Francisco,
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we demand an end to armed security. Now, I agree that stealing isn't worth the
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cost of a human life. So don't steal. You know, it's not worth your life. The leftist always responds
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to an incident involving two people, which in this case is the robber and the security guard,
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by putting all of the onus onto one of the parties involved and none at all on the other. And the party
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that shares zero percent of the blame is the party that instigated the incident and committed a crime
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and was both legally and morally in the wrong every step of the way. They're the ones who are not
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responsible. But there's a reason why activists respond to these kinds of situations by siding
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with the people who are clearly and totally at fault. Partly, it's their rigidly hierarchical
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worldview, which places the life of a trans shoplifter over a male security guard, places the life of a
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black criminal over a white police officer, and so on. That's the hierarchy on the left.
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But it's also a reflection of their own dependence and immaturity. They insist that it's never worth
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someone's life to defend property or products, ignoring that in this case, the security guard
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fired in self-defense, not in defense of Walgreens merchandise. That's why he was let off and they
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didn't put any charges on him because they said it was self-defense. But even putting that aside,
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in fact, it is justified and worth it to use force to protect property. Our lives depend on our
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property. It's how we provide for ourselves and our families. If property is not safe,
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then people are not safe. If we cannot preserve property, we cannot preserve human life.
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The left claims that people need to steal from Walgreens to survive, and they're ignoring the
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fact that the thieves, they almost never steal the essential items that are needed to survive.
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They say that these are people who are starving and hungry and all of that, and they just need the
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essentials. But yet it's a funny thing because if you go into any store in the city and you look at
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the items that they have to keep behind locked glass, because those are the high, the merchandise
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that have the highest rate of being stolen, it's never like first aid kits and whole wheat bread
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and, I don't know, eggs that they have to lock up. It's always makeup and expensive headphones and
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that sort of thing. Regardless, if theft is allowed to go on unfettered, the stores will close. They won't
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be able to keep their businesses open, and then nobody will be able to access any of those items.
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If people need, quote unquote, to steal from Walgreens because they need the stuff that Walgreens
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has, then they also need to shop at Walgreens and they need Walgreens to be open, which means that
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Walgreens has to stay in business, which means that they have to stop people from stealing.
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By the left's own logic, Walgreens is protecting human life by using lethal force to protect its
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merchandise. Because by their logic, people depend on that merchandise to survive. And so if it shuts
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down because they can't stay open, because they can't sell the merchandise because everyone's
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stealing it, then that puts people's lives in jeopardy. But the problem is that people who
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contribute nothing to society and who have no children or families to support and who have the
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luxury to live in whatever delusional utopia they've invented in their heads, they aren't able to
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understand this. They own nothing and they do nothing and they provide for no one, least of all
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themselves. They don't understand the seriousness of property rights and how our lives depend on those
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rights because they are unserious people. And these are the people we are handing our country over to.
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those who truly believe that hysterically screaming counts as an argument. I am very upset and therefore
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I'm right. My emotional state trumps everything. This is the kind of logic that they use. It's the
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kind of logic that my three-year-old daughter finds persuasive. It's also the logic of a whole
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generation of grown adults. And the future of our country really depends on rescuing it from
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these people. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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Latest on Bud Light here, Anheuser-Busch CEO Michael Dorkaris addressed the Bud Light
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controversy on an earnings call with investors Thursday, downplaying the brand's partnership
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with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney that prompted a boycott for conservatives.
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Dalkaris told investors there is misinformation spreading on social media about the company's
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team up with Mulvaney. We need to clarify the facts that this was one can, one influencer,
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one post and not a campaign. The CEO said that Anheuser-Busch is providing direct financial support
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to the frontline workers impacted by the boycott, naming delivery drivers, sale representatives,
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wholesalers, bar owners, and servers. Well, they're impacted by not really the boycott so much as Bud
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Light and Anheuser-Busch's own marketing decisions. So this is what, this is where the impact originates,
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by the way. Dalkaris said the brewing giant will triple media spending on advertising for Bud Light
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over the summer, confirming reports that the company is planning a major marketing push to recover its brand.
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So they're still scrambling here as sales continue to drop significantly across the country. But
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probably the most significant sign of Bud Light's troubles that we've seen so far is this video that
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somebody posted, I think, to TikTok. And this is from a Red Sox game this week. And you can see how
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busy or not so busy the Bud Light concession stand is compared to all the other concession stands.
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Let's see that. Guys, this is so funny and bizarre. Look at that. That is the Bud Light. That is every
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single Bud Light stand here in Bentley Park. Right? We're at the Red Sox game. That's what the Bud Light
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stands is. Well, I guess it's not a bad thing if you're working the Bud Light stand. It gives you some
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time to take a nap and scroll your phone. That is rough. I mean, nobody drinking Bud Light at a
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baseball game. People are choosing to wait in longer lines than drink Bud Light. At any stadium I've
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been to, football stadium or baseball stadium, I've never seen that. I've never seen a massively long
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line at one stand and then nobody at another. So that shows you. And it's especially terrible at a
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stadium because as much as I hate Bud Light, and I hated it before it was cool to hate it because
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it's terrible. If there's one place where I would drink Bud Light up until now, it would be at a
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stadium because your options are limited at a stadium. And anyway, all beer tastes better at a
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stadium. At least maybe I tell myself that to justify paying $27 for an eight ounce pour.
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But either way, this is how bad things are for the company. And it's also why I think we should
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probably stop referring to it as a boycott because it's not even a boycott anymore. It's actually bigger
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than that and deeper than that for Bud Light and a much bigger problem. So it's way worse than a
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boycott for Bud Light. It is really a rebrand. Okay. And not a rebrand that Bud Light wanted.
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It is, we have branded Bud Light this way. Based on their own choices, we have branded it this way.
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People aren't drinking it now, not because they're necessarily consciously trying to send a statement.
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I think all those people in line who aren't going over to the Bud Light stand, I'm sure some of them
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are thinking of this as a boycott and they're sending a political statement. But I think much
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more, it's just like Bud Light is lame now. It's lame. It's not cool. And your buddies will make fun
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of you if they see you drinking Bud Light. So you're not going to drink it. It has become cemented,
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I think. And I don't know how they recover from that. I'm not sure how they recover.
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It's one thing to have a boycott. It's another thing to be branded and they are branded now. This
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is their brand now. And I'm not sure how you get out of that. The only way to do it
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would be, again, to explicitly apologize and completely backtrack. Now, they've already
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tried to backtrack and they've tried to say, they've issued statements that do everything
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but apologize. The only way to maybe shake this branding off of you, shake the stink,
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the stench off of you, is to directly apologize and to start branding yourself as the opposite
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of that. But they're not going to do that because then they're worried about the reverse backlash
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and they don't want to do that. And they figure that's going to make it even worse for them.
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Because then it's like, well, if the customers were trying to win back, if they still aren't
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satisfied, well, it's like, now we've, we still have, we don't have them, but now we're losing.
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Now we have the left coming after us. And so they've probably figured that they can't do that.
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There's really nothing they can do. This is, this is how they've been branded by their own,
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by their own choices. They've been branded this way. And it's, I keep saying this is, this is the,
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I can't think of another example where conservatives have been able to achieve something like this in
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the fight against corporate wokeism. It simply is one of the most significant victories in the fight
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against corporate wokeism. I can't, maybe there have been one, maybe there have been, maybe there's
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some competition for the most significant, but I'm not even sure what's competing with it at this
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point. Which, which maybe tells you as much about the Bud Light thing as it does about the,
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the, the, the parade of failures by, by conservatives up, up until now to land any blows at all against
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corporate wokeism. But this is a major blow. And I'll tell you something else. It is going to make
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brands in the future think long and hard before, you know, promoting transgenderism.
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There's, there'll still be brands that do it. There can be brands that have a heavily left-wing
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customer base. They're not worried about it. There can be brands that figure, well, they're just,
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they're, they're way too big and powerful, uh, to, to, to worry about it. So they can do whatever
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they want. Um, I think Bud Light assumed that about itself. It assumed wrong. There may be some
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brands where that actually is true, where they could basically do whatever they want.
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Um, you know, if you're Google or something, you pretty much do whatever you want. Um,
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but there are a lot of other brands that, you know, they, they would be susceptible to something
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like this. They have a heavily conservative or, you're not even conservative, just like an,
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a customer base of average middle income, you know, normal Americans. And they are going to be
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very, very hesitant now, which is a good thing. All right. Much was made of this a few days ago.
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Paul Stanley, who's the guitarist for the, uh, the band Kiss, which I guess they're still
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out there making music. He came out against gender transitions for minors. And here was the Daily
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Wire report, quote, Kiss singer and guitarist, guitarist Paul Stanley called normalizing gender
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reassignment surgery on children, a sad and dangerous fad on Sunday, sparking both backlash and praise
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first comments as the nation battles many States, um, uh, crafting legislation surrounding so-called
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gender affirming care. Stanley is 71 years old, uh, posted a statement to Twitter where he shared
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thoughts about the controversial topic. Um, he said, um, there's a big difference between teaching
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acceptance and normalizing and even encouraging participation in a lifestyle that confuses young
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children into questioning their sexual identification as though some sort of game and then parents in some
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cases allow it. He wrote in a statement under the title, my thoughts on what I'm seeing.
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He continued, there are individuals who as adults may decide reassignment as their needed choice,
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but turning this into a game or parents normalizing it as some sort of natural alternative or believing
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that because of little boy likes to play dress up in his sister's clothes or a girl and her brothers,
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we should lead them steps further, um, down a path that's far from the innocence of what they're doing
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with many children who have no real sense of sexuality or sexual experiences cut up in the fun
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of using pronouns and saying what they identify as some adults mistakenly confused teaching acceptance
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with normalizing and encouraging a situation that has been a struggle for those truly affected and have
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turned it into a sad and dangerous fat. Okay. So that's what he wrote. And he was, he's mostly right
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about this. I say mostly because he also had that endorsement of adult gender transitions,
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which was unnecessary for him to add that caveat and also wrong, but it was good that he said it.
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The rest of it was true. Um, but I didn't line up like a lot of conservatives did to cheer him on.
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And the reason that I wasn't going to cheer him on is that I saw this next part coming from a mile
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away. A couple of days later, here's the update. Kiss singer and guitarist, Paul Stanley reversed
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course Thursday on a statement that he made at the start of the week in which he called out those
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attempting to push transgender ideology on children. He wrote yesterday on Twitter while my thoughts
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were clear, my words clearly were not most importantly, and above all else, I support those
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struggling with their sexual identity while enduring constant hostility and those whose path
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leads them to reassignment surgery. It's hard to fathom the kind of conviction that one must feel
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to take those steps. A paragraph or two will remain far too short to fully convey my thoughts or point
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of you. So I will leave that for another time and place. You absolute coward. I, I, I have more
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respect for a full on trans activist. Okay. I have more respect for a trans activist working at media
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matters or in Antifa or something than I do for somebody like this much. Then I don't, I don't have
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hardly, I, I, my respect for the former category is pretty much at zero. So I guess we're in the
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negatives with someone like Paul Stanley because you know better. You clearly have demonstrated
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that you're not confused about this. You know better. You said the right thing. Well, mostly the right
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thing. And you had to know, like you knew that it was a controversial subject, even if it shouldn't be.
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And so you had to know that there was going to be pushback and you said it anyway, and then you get
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the pushback and almost immediately you give up. Absolute cowardice. And especially for someone,
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okay, you're, you're 71 years old. I assume you're, you're pretty wealthy.
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Um, you got a lot of residual checks coming in from all the, you know, from the, I don't think
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Kiss has made a, any new music that anyone cared about in a long time, but I assume he's doing
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pretty well for himself. So you're rich, you're 71 years old. You're a former rock star. Like,
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what do you have to lose? What do you want? So you, you said something that's true. You upset people
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on Twitter. So what, what, what in the world could happen to you as an aging rock star worth millions
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of dollars? Why would you care what anyone on Twitter says? Why would you be susceptible or
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vulnerable to that? You're not, you're in a position where you could say, okay, you're upset. I don't
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care. And especially as a, as a former rock star, right? That's, that's supposed to be your attitude.
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Um, that, that's, that's, that was your brand for many years. So what being a rock star is all about,
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right? You don't care if people are upset. You're going to express yourself. You're going to say what
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you think. You're going to be bold. You're going to be counter-cultural. Well, maybe 30, you know,
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40 years ago when Kiss was dressing up, doing the glam rock thing and dressing up and, and, you know,
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whatever drag is like, that was counter-cultural. Well, now counter-cultural is exactly what he said.
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Coming against, coming out against gender mutilation of kids, counter-cultural.
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And yet he still caves. We are, we are surrounded by utter cowards who know better. They know better,
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but they don't, they don't have the spine to withstand even the slightest pushback.
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Um, all right. Planned Parenthood put out a PSA a few days ago, trying to alleviate the stigma
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of executing your own child in cold blood. This is something Andrea Yates, somebody like that,
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would really appreciate. Let's, uh, watch that.
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And after my abortion, I just started living my life.
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It took me a really long time to say I had an abortion, even as a doctor.
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I was told this was going to be something horrible, but it felt like,
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It was an easy decision for me, because the alternative wasn't an option.
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I will tell any and everybody about my abortion.
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My story is just one story in the tapestry of abortion stories.
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And I think that if a lot more people will be open and listen.
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That's how we can break down those walls and have these conversations.
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And I can stand up straight because who's going to tell me that my personal experience is wrong or
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invalid, even though it scared, can I say crap? Even though it scared the crap out of me.
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Saying the word abortion, it heals me a little bit too.
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Who's going to tell you that your, uh, your, your experiences are wrong?
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Who's going to invalidate your experiences? Well, I will.
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I'll tell you they were wrong. I'll invalidate them.
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Um, uh, the experience of killing your child was, was, was wrong. It was deeply evil.
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Uh, it's, uh, most likely the worst thing you've ever done in your life.
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Um, as I hope is the worst thing. I don't know.
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It's, it's, it's hard to get worse than killing your own child.
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I think in fact, yeah, it's really, it's impossible.
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Um, so yeah, that's, uh, and your experience of doing that was wrong.
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And now your experience of trying to convince yourself that it was not only, not only, uh,
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a solemn sort of somber necessity, which is how abortion was portrayed 20 years ago.
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That was the argument for abortion, safe, legal, and rare. They said,
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but we want it to be rare. You know, it's a, it's a bad thing. We don't nobody. Well,
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it's at least it's a sad thing. They used to say, nobody wants to get an abortion. No one's happy
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about it. We're not worried about rare abortions anymore. They're quite happy to have as many
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abortions as possible. Abortion now is something to celebrate, but she's trying to convince herself
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of that. And I will, I will invalidate that delusion because she also knows it's not true.
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In fact, early on in the video, we saw someone saying how happy they were while crying. And these
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were not, these were not tears of joy. This is a, this is a, it's a, a mantra. It's this kind of
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self-hypnosis that many post-abortive women who are on the left, um, engage in constantly. And
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they're going to be doomed to this for the rest of their lives. Sadly,
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waking up every single morning, going to bed every single night, telling themselves,
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I'm happy. I'm happy. I'm happy. Because they're, they are
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trying to numb themselves to the realization of, uh, of what they did and ignore the, the emptiness,
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this great, uh, hole in their lives. That the child that, you know, you should have a child.
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Doing everything they can to ignore that. Um, it's kind of related here. A strange shift has
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happened seemingly overnight. A bunch of pro-Trump accounts on Twitter have decided that the quote,
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unquote culture wars don't matter. And there have been, uh, there've been many tweets from relatively
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obscure Trump boosting accounts. I think many of them probably paid accounts. I don't know how many
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of them, um, tweets like this one from an account called MAGA originalist. And, uh, this just gives
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you a, a sense of what, of what they're saying. This one says the culture war is a huge grift and
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grifters are mad. It's getting called out. Yes, cultural issues are serious, but when they're
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given way more attention than way more important issues like the economy and foreign policy that,
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um, then it is done for the purpose of clicks or publicity. Pundits like Matt Walsh have political
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opinions and mediocre politicians like DeSantis have records. So they resort to focusing on easy,
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no men and women's sports talking points to cover up their weaknesses. Otherwise they would be
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irrelevant. They went too far to the, to the point where they're now calling this culture war matters
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more than world war three, LOL. So a lot of that sort of thing, but not just from obscure accounts.
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There also been prominent, um, Trump supporters like Carrie Lake, for example, who tweeted this from
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her official campaign account. It says, no one is saying not to fight the culture war, but it simply
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is not the most critical issue heading into 2024. The GOP must show, uh, show the country how it plans to
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turn the economy around and prevent world war three. We need to take this country back from Joe Biden
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before we can take our culture back from his friends. Take the country back before taking the
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culture back. That makes no sense. And, but we'll talk about that in a second from a, from a political
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perspective. It's obvious what's happening here. Now it's very transparent because like I said, this was
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like overnight, the talking points went out, you know, a bunch of Trump accounts saying, oh, culture
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war doesn't matter. Forget about the culture war. Um, a decision has been made clearly on Trump's team
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to downplay the culture war because DeSantis is better on that. And he's, he's known as a culture
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warrior. And so in an effort to, to undermine DeSantis, they've decided to surrender the culture,
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grasping for political power to the point of, um, we're going to give up on the culture if that's
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what it takes. It's a political play and it's a really terrible one. Unlike every level, it's terrible
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also politically is it's a politically bad political play because Trump became a political sensation
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largely because he wasn't afraid to engage in the culture war and to talk about the culture. He wasn't
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afraid of these cultural issues that the Republicans up till he came along had for the most part been,
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been, uh, had been terrified of and wouldn't acknowledge. Um, the people saying the culture
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war doesn't matter. These were the same ones who were cheering Trump on in his, uh, if we remember
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his rather relentless fight against NFL players, kneeling for the anthem. Trump went on and on about
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this for years. It was a major issue for him. And it was an important fight actually. You know,
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having our athletes disrespecting our flag. So that's a problem. Trump saw that 100% a culture
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war issue. And it's the kind of thing that Trump was known for. You know, we have this idea that,
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um, even a lot of Trump critics will say that Trump, it's a, it's, it's all a personality cult
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for Trump. And there is an element of personality cult for any prominent popular politician. There's
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going to be an element of a, you know, a certain personality cult element. AOC has a personality
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cult. Um, but coming onto the scene, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's not his personality that people
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were attracted to. It's not what made him a sensation. It was the issues. Yeah. His main,
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his primary issue, of course, what he was most known for known for was immigration, build the wall
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immigration, not at all an issue that we can divorce from the culture war. It is also a cultural
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issue. When we talk about defending America, um, and we talk about the threat that, that unfettered
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illegal immigration poses, we are also talking about the threat it poses to the culture.
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So that was his issue, but not just that it was cultural issues. It was what we call
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social issues, quote unquote. To abandon that now is a really bad move. It is a bad idea to start
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echoing the GOP establishment and David French. Okay. Understand this. If you are doing this whole
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focus on the economy, not the culture war thing, you are repeating the same talking point that the
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GOP establishment has used for 40 years. You are David French. This is David French's position
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to a T like you, you have adopted the establishment Frenchian point of view,
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which you can do, but don't call yourself anti-establishment when you're saying exactly
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what those losers were saying for 40 years. And it's a position that was a loser 40 years ago and
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10 years ago and is now too. That's how we got into this position in the first place is because
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it's because the Republican party were supposed to be ostensibly the leaders of the conservative
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movement for decades now. They've been saying, oh, the culture doesn't matter. All that matters is
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the economy and foreign policy. Let's worry about that. And so they surrendered the culture to the
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left. And now here we are. It also doesn't make sense. So a couple of points on that. First of all,
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this mantra now, well, it's more important to avoid World War III. I agree that avoiding World War III
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is very important. But this is not a choice we have to make. We don't have to decide between
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defending the culture, defending our children from people who want to castrate and mutilate them
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and avoiding World War III. Now, in fact, for the average citizen, there's nothing we can do
00:35:32.080
to avoid World War III. Like, what do you want me to do right now? That guy, whoever that guy was that
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called me out in the tweet, what do you want me to do to avoid World War III? Do you want me to go over
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and broker a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia? We can talk about it. We can be critical
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of any attempts to escalate, which I have done many times. I was very early on the Ukraine issue.
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From the very beginning, I was against any American involvement in it. So yeah, we can talk about it.
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Sure. And we should, but we can't. There's almost nothing that the average citizen can do
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to affect geopolitical, the geopolitical situation. All we can do is vote, vote for the right people.
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And we should do that. But in the meantime, we have the culture. And to draw this distinction
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is incoherent. What is the culture? The culture of a nation is its institutions, its values,
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its customs, its traditions, its art, its beliefs, its priorities. That's everything, in other words.
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Okay? The culture, America's culture is everything. The culture is the entire substance of the country.
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It's everything that makes a country a country. You have the borders, which are very important
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physical barriers, or should be a physical barrier, that defines what the country is physically.
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But all the stuff that makes up the country, that's the culture. And when we talk about defending
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the country, we are talking about defending the culture. The culture is what the country is made
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of. It's what we live in. It's what we are subject to. It's what our children are raised in.
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It's what helps determine the value systems that people hold. It's what defines, it doesn't just define,
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your culture doesn't just define the country. It defines the people.
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people. And so if you have a perverse, depraved, degenerate culture, you will end up with a bunch
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of perverse, depraved, degenerate people. How can anything be more important than that?
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How can you draw this ridiculous choice? But well, we can either worry about everything that comprises
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the country or World War III. You think the economy is more important than the culture?
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Okay, so let's say we turn the economy around and we have a relatively prosperous country, but our
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culture lays in ruins. So if we have a bunch of children that have been abused and sexualized,
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a bunch of mutilated and castrated, a generation of mutilated and castrated kids, that's okay as long
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as we have low taxes and inflation comes down a bit. Is that what you're saying? You know, external
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threats are important. And that's what we're talking about with something like World War III,
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which is a theoretical thing that we're trying to avoid, as opposed to the threats against our
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children posed by the culture, which are real and happening right now.
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But those are external threats. Internal threats are always going to be more serious
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and should be our first priority always. Okay, if you're in your house and there's a tornado warning,
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that's a big problem. You know, tornado hitting your house from the outside is a big problem.
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Could destroy your house. But if your house is on fire, okay, if there's a raging fire inside your
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house, your first priority needs to be to put the fire out. Like before you go down to the storm
00:39:32.280
shelter, you got to put the fire out in the house. Because even if the tornado passes you by and you
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let the fire rage, well, the house isn't worth anything anymore. It is a burned out shell.
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So, fortunately, the tornado passes you by, keeps the structure, the external threat is gone.
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The structure is still in place. What's inside? A burned out shell. Nothing.
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In fact, if you let the fire destroy your house,
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then who cares if a tornado hits it or doesn't? It's not even worth defending.
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If we give up on the culture, if we say, ah, it doesn't matter. The country's not worth defending
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anymore. Who gives a damn about the country if we give up on it? If we're going to give up and say,
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well, this is what our country is. It's a country that does this to children. It's a country that is,
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again, degenerate, depraved, perverse, that utterly has succumbed to these demonic left-wing
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ideas. Well, if that's what it is, and we have resigned ourselves to that, then who cares anymore?
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Why is it even worth defending? It's important to make, to defend your country against threats from
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the outside. It's more important to make sure your country is worth defending. And that's what the
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culture war is. And it really frustrates me that 40 years on, this still has to be explained. And the
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fact that it has to be explained to people who pretend to be anti-establishment is even more
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frustrating. All right, let's get to the comment section.
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Don't Mind Me says, Kamikaze Murder Machine needs to be the name of a heavy metal band like yesterday.
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Yeah, it's a good name for a carnival ride, also a good name for a heavy metal band. There's an
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interesting crossover there that I never really thought about, but you raise a good point.
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Rita says, patiently waiting for the cute missing a front tooth picture of Jordan Neely from
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elementary school photos. Yeah, that's usually the game that they play. I think in this case,
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they've settled on the MJ impersonator thing. So we haven't got, as far as I've seen yet,
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we haven't gotten the elementary school photo. Maybe eventually we will, but instead they're going
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with the MJ impersonator. In spite of the fact that from what I've read, including one report that I
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read yesterday, a lot of people on social media and on Reddit have been posting, talking about their
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experiences, people that ride the New York City subway system, talking about their experiences with
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this particular guy. So this guy evidently was known to commuters on the subway, and not in a good way.
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They knew him as the crazy guy who goes around assaulting and harassing and yelling at people.
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And one of those people wrote something saying that, yeah, he was an MJ impersonator 10 years ago,
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and then he started getting pretty weird. And then he dropped the MJ impersonator thing altogether and
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just became a psychotic vagrant screaming at people and harassing and, according to some reports,
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assaulting people physically. So if that's true, then they're calling him an MJ impersonator
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when he was doing that a decade ago. And he spent the last decade dedicated to
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Devin says, I get having a word that no one can say in any context. I get having a word where I'm the
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only one that calls my brother that, quote unquote. I don't get the combination, the weird combination of
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it that we try to maintain, talking about the N-word. Well, I think you're being a little bit too
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generous. You're right that combining those two things, combining like, this is wrong in every
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context, and I'm the only one who's allowed to say it. The combination of those two claims that we get
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with the N-word is especially absurd. But each claim individually doesn't make any sense.
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There can't be any word that can't be said in any context. You cannot completely remove context and
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intention from words. That's what you can't do. That is always going to be ludicrous.
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Because you can't judge. You cannot judge anyone's words until you've taken into account the context
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and you've taken into account their intention behind those words. Now, a person can use words,
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certain words, and then they can get a reaction and it's a bad reaction and they regret it. And then
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they can lie about what their intention is. They can say something and it hurts someone's feelings and
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they can say, oh, I didn't mean it that way, even though they did mean it that way. Right? So that
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can happen. And so those are, there are times when figuring out the intention behind someone's
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words is a little bit more complicated. But when it comes to the N-word, what we've been told is that
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intention doesn't matter at all. And even in a case where everyone agrees that the intention was
00:45:00.880
totally innocent, somebody was simply quoting someone else, everyone agrees it was the intention was,
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there was, there was no ill intent. Everyone agrees that the context was, oh, they were quoting
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someone. And yet we say, well, on a technicality, because you uttered those particular syllables
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in that particular order, um, well, your life is over anyway. That's what we're doing here,
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dude. You know, I keep saying it makes no sense, but it really, it does make sense when you,
00:45:32.220
when you understand the point. The point is, uh, this is, uh, a narcissistic kind of power grab.
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It's an attempt to control people, control their language, um, and, you know, intimidate,
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manipulate people. So that's, that's the point. Um, Ahmed says, okay, the story told to me by my
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younger sister was completely false. She just said that a homeless guy had a mental breakdown,
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shouted that he wanted to die. And a random white guy killed him because of that. And I keep telling
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her to stop using Twitter to get her news. Yeah. This, as they say, what do they say about a lie
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makes it half halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on. And, uh, uh, but it's not
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just Twitter, unfortunately. Yeah. Maybe not a good idea to get your news from Twitter. Well,
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these days you're almost better off, especially with Elon Musk in charge, you're better off getting it
00:46:24.160
from Twitter than from CNN. There are not many places where you can get your news reliably.
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And once the narrative settles in to people's minds, it's very, very hard. Once it cements,
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it's very hard to do anything about it. And your, your sister's impression of this event is probably
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one shared by millions of people and they will go to their graves thinking it that Jordan Neely was
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killed simply because people were annoyed with him or because he was actually doing the moonwalk as a
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Michael Jackson impersonator. And somebody was annoyed and they kill people will go to their
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graves thinking that just like there are people who still today, still today think that Michael Brown
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dropped to his knees and puts his hands up, put his hands up and yelled, uh, hands up, don't shoot
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total invention never happened, but the media said it, the media said it in those first few hours.
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so damned creepy, but also so effective is their ability to rapidly adopt new lingo, replacing one
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word with some other nonsensical new speak term all at the same time. You know, all together they're
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able to do this virtually overnight. A word that we all had been using without issue suddenly becomes
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offensive. And some other term that was invented by leftist activists 19 seconds ago is put in its
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place. This process can happen so quickly that a word you said openly during breakfast might be a
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slur by the time you're sitting down for dinner. Meanwhile, a term that you never heard when you
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were eating breakfast might be ubiquitous by dinnertime. Ubiquitous, at least in the media,
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pop culture, even if not among normal human beings. And think about how quickly gibberish like a Latinx
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showed up on the scene and was adopted by our institutions. Or consider how the term person
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of color entered the vernacular and supplanted the previous PC favorite African American. So we've
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seen this process play out many times and now we have a chance to witness it once again.
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While discussing and reporting on and very often lying about the death of psychotic violent drifter
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Jordan Neely, the left has collectively embraced a new label to describe Neely's living conditions or
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former living conditions to be precise. There was a time, a far less sensitive time, when he would
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have been described as a vagrant or a transient or a bum or a tramp. You know, all these words have
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been used. All these descriptions, though, have long since been tossed on the linguistic ash heap.
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And we've settled eventually on homeless, which we all seem to agree sufficiently sort of captures
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the essence of the people who are living in this condition without being judgmental or insulting.
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You know, a homeless person is a person without a home. Why don't they have a home? Is it their own
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fault that they're in this situation? Or are they victims of circumstance? Or is it some combination
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of the two? Well, the term homeless passes down no verdict on those questions and isn't intended to
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pass a verdict on that. The word is neutral on why and only seeks to describe the what. It's a fine
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word. It's a word that worked perfectly fine. We didn't need a new one. But now we have one
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anyway. See if you can spot the language shift as we run through a few media reports. So this is from
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Axios. Jordan Neely, an unhoused man, died after being placed in a chokehold by another New York
00:50:47.780
subway train passenger during an apparent mental health episode. The Guardian. According to new
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accounts, Neely, who was unhoused and a known Michael Jackson impersonator, boarded a northbound F train
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and began screaming about his distress. Philadelphia Inquirer, Jordan Neely's death was ruled a homicide
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after an ex-marine held him in chokehold on the subway. Now it's sparking discussions on mental
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health care for the unhoused. The Intercept says the NYPD's treatment of a white man who strangled
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Jordan Neely, an unhoused black man on the subway, is now is not how things usually go down. USA Today,
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Neely had been arrested 42 times since 2013, including charges of assault and transit fraud,
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but that many were for minor violations like having an open container of alcohol. Authority says it
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appears Neely was unhoused. So you probably picked up on it. It's not exactly subtle. And Democratic
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politicians have adopted this terminology as well. Here's Representative Jamal Bowman on CNN last night.
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Listen. As a black man watching the video, and I have to force myself to watch these videos because
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each time there's a new video, there's more trauma that I feel. Eric Gardner was choked to death.
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George Floyd had a knee on his neck. Philando Castile wasn't choked, but he was shot to death
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on video. And now, uh, Mr. Neely. And, you know, I've, I'm born and raised in New York. I, I, I rode
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the trains my entire life as a child. Uh, you often see people who are unhoused have episodes.
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Yes. Remember that the next time you make the mistake of boarding a New York city subway train,
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when you see a drug addled homeless guy randomly assaulting and mugging a commuter,
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nothing to be concerned about. It's just a person who is unhoused having an episode.
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Unhoused, right? The memo has gone out. Uh, unhoused is the new, uh, Latinx. It's the hot new
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PC lingo on the market. And you want to get in on the action before it changes again, because
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yesterday the word was homeless. Today it's unhoused. Tomorrow it might be, uh, I don't know,
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de-housed. Then it will be person of an unhoused persuasion. Then eventually habitation challenged.
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And they'll realize that all this sounds far too negative still. And they'll want a term that
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sends the message that homeless people aren't really homeless at all. It's just that they don't
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have one single home in a fixed location, right? Their home is everywhere. It changes. And they'll
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start using terms like house fluid and dwelling expensive. That's where this leads. But for now,
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unhoused is the new trendy thing. Um, why is unhoused preferable to homeless? Well, the website
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unhoused.org makes the case this way. It explains, quote, the label of homeless has derogatory
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connotations. It implies that one is less than, and it undermines self-esteem and progressive change.
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The use of the term unhoused instead has a profound personal impact upon those in insecure
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housing situations. It implies that there is a moral and social assumption that everyone should
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be housed in the first place. Well, how in God's name does the word unhoused come with moral and
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social assumptions that don't also apply to homeless, which literally means exactly the same thing.
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An article in Architectural Digest tries to flesh that out a little bit.
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It explains, quote, in Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti and some members of the city council
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have embraced unhoused. In Seattle, the city government uses the phrase person experiencing
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homelessness. The word homeless has become inseparable from a toxic narrative that blames
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and demonizes people who are unhoused. According to Eve Garrow, homelessness policy analyst and advocate
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for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. Wait a second.
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Is homeless, the word homeless is dehumanizing, says the homelessness policy analyst. All right.
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The term is increasingly used in a way where it implies someone is dangerous or deviant or devious,
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she said, or deviant. As a result, a less charged term is more apt. At the same time,
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a related term to homelessness, the homeless, has begun to be seen as othering. In May 2020,
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the Associated Press updated its style book to focus on person-first language. It said not to use
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the homeless, calling it a dehumanizing term, and instead use terms like homeless people or people
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without housing. Ah, you see, homeless is offensive, offensive enough, but if you put the word
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the in front of it, suddenly becomes even more offensive. You know, that word the, very offensive word.
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Why is that exactly? And how can you change the narrative around a certain concept by simply
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swapping out one term for a synonymous term? And if attaching the word less to a person,
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homeless, has the effect of diminishing them somehow, then wouldn't it have the same effect
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to attach the prefix un? I mean, in what way is unhoused substantially or definitionally different
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from homeless? The answer, of course, is that it isn't different. The change is entirely arbitrary
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and meaningless, and that is exactly the point. If there is any real meaning behind the terminology
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swap, it's in the fact that unhoused sounds slightly more passive, I guess, than homeless.
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It sounds perhaps even, it sounds even more like something that would happen to a person
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without their involvement, really. As if they walked outside one day and turned around to shut
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the door and their house vanished. I've become unhoused. What happened to my house?
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The left seeks to remove the elements of personal agency and free will from all societal problems,
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especially homelessness or unhousedness. They don't want us to notice or acknowledge the fact that
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many homeless people are mentally ill. Yes, and many of them are mentally ill because their brains
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have been destroyed by drugs and their brains were destroyed by drugs because they made the
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decision at some point in the past to start using drugs. Now, I'm sure that a large percentage of
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the homeless suffered misfortunes in their lives outside of their control. We all have. But personal
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choice has also played a heavy role in many of these cases. A person who makes good choices will almost
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certainly not end up homeless, except in very rare circumstances. The left constantly calls for
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nuanced conversations, but this is the actual nuance in the homeless conversation and they refuse to
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acknowledge it. Okay, the un-nuanced view of homelessness is that they're all victims and that's
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it. That's the mainstream view. That's the acceptable view. That's the view without nuance. Well,
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they're all victims. The nuance is to realize that, well, that's not always the case.
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We're not allowed to see the homeless as anything but pure helpless victims through and through,
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though. There is no nuance to the picture that they paint. And that is partly what this un-housed
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stuff is all about, but that's all kind of secondary. Because even if un-housed has a slightly more
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passive, more helpless tone to it, the distinction is still mostly arbitrary. And the arbitrariness
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is the point most of all. As always, we find ourselves unwillingly in this giant game of cultural
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Simon Says, where they come up with new rules, new concepts, new language, and we're meant to follow
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along out of pure obedience. Now, I think I've used the analogy before of the prison warden in the movie
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Cool Hand Luke, who demands that Luke dig a giant hole and then fill it back in again. There's no point
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to the hole except to dig it. There's no point to digging it except to break Luke's spirit and get
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him accustomed to following orders. The fact that the order was arbitrary, that there was no reason
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to dig the hole, that the task assigned was so pointless, that's what made it an effective form
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of conditioning. It's one thing to use arguments to persuade someone to adjust their language or their
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behavior. It's another thing if you compel them to adjust their language and behavior, even if they
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haven't been persuaded. Okay, when you can get people to speak a certain way, even when they don't
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see any reason why they should be. Like, why can't I say this word? Why is this word better? It doesn't
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matter, just say it. Get people to go along with that, and there's a lot more power in that. And that
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is the truly sinister agenda behind this language policing that on the surface always seems so laughable
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and ridiculous. Which isn't to say that it isn't laughable and ridiculous, of course. And that is
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why, ultimately, the term unhoused is today canceled. That'll do it for this portion of shows. Move over
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