Ep. 1227 - Howard Stern Enjoys Immunity While Russell Brand's Career Is Destroyed
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Summary
This week on The Matt Walsh Show, the UK government is now pushing big tech companies to demonetize Russell Brand, even though he hasn t been convicted or even charged for anything. Also, the media now admits that the Bud Light boycott was one of the most effective boycotts in all of US history. Plus, a new survey reveals that many Americans can t even name one branch of government, and yet somehow they're still allowed to vote. And a famous left-wing comedian has made a career out of his elaborate stories of victimhood. Turns out, it was mostly made up.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the UK government is now pushing big tech companies to demonetize
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Russell Brand, even though he hasn't been convicted or even charged with anything.
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But there's a stark contrast between Russell Brand's treatment and other famous celebrities
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Also, the media now admits that the Bud Light boycott was one of the most effective boycotts
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Plus, a new survey reveals that many Americans can't even name one branch of government,
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And a famous left-wing comedian has made a career out of his elaborate stories of victimhood.
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All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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If you decided to one day go on YouTube looking for old Howard Stern clips, you'd have a lot
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of edgy, politically incorrect content to choose from.
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Stern's many segments with an intellectually disabled dwarf comedian named Beetlejuice, for
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There's also a bunch of compilations of people fighting on Stern's set in the style of
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Jerry Springer, usually over money or adultery or whatever.
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There's enough degeneracy there to last you weeks if for some reason you were inclined
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But there's some recurring Howard Stern content that's not so easy to find, because by and
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large, it's been scrubbed from most major video sharing sites.
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The segments I'm talking about involve Stern speaking about his sexual attraction to children,
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Again and again, for several years, Stern described the Olsen twins as sexually attractive.
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Quote, they're so amazingly hot, Stern says in one of the segments, referring to the underage
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And in several cases, Stern brings up the girls unprompted, leading to awkward moments with
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Because it's not possible to truly eliminate any content from the internet, you can still
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A small handful of anonymous accounts have defied corporate censors and uploaded some of Stern's
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many disturbing comments about children that he finds sexually attractive.
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So here's just one example where Stern laments that the girls, in his estimation, aren't as
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attractive now as they were when they were 13 years old.
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To speak of them individually is when they turn 18, who do you want to bang first?
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I forget what magazine it is, but it's the Olsen twins hugging each other in a photo shoot,
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I don't really want to have sex with them anymore.
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They're not as hot as you thought they were going to be.
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Like, when they were 13 or 14, they were going to be supermodels.
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They kind of, yeah, they kind of, like, didn't grow or something.
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It's weird, and I was counting down on their 18th birthday so we could have sex with them,
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Someone told me she's really hairy, though.
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But the Olsen's would get that Hobbit-looking thing going, you know?
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Okay, so you see there, not only did he always talk about wanting to have sex with underage
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girls, but as he says there, it was in a magazine, presumably some sort of tabloid magazine.
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I mean, it was a, it was like a running joke in the entire media.
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Everyone in the media knew, oh, you know, that, that old man, Howard Stern, wants to
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Everybody knew it and just accepted it as some charming quirk of Howard Stern's.
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And there are many more clips like that that we could play.
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Some are even more disturbing than the one you just heard.
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This is a grown man in his 40s at the time, repeatedly sexualizing children who are barely
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Now, many people have had their lives destroyed, have been reduced to groveling apologies for
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saying things that are not, that are not even a 10th as bad as what Stern says there.
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And that wasn't even a 10th as bad as other things that Stern would frequently say.
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These clips were, though, nauseating and creepy when he made them, and they're nauseating and
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There was never a point in American history where it was acceptable to sexualize children
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But for years, Howard Stern continued doing just that right out in the open.
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He tracked the Olsen twins from puberty to adulthood, commenting on their sex appeal as
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But somewhere along the line, Howard Stern and his team decided that he had to stop talking
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And more than that, someone decided that all of Stern's past comments about the Olsen twins
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All the other degenerate segments, or most of them, could stay online.
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But the stuff where he lusts after young children, well, that had to go.
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And it was different from all the other smut.
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And so they went in and they tried to get rid of it.
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And with that evidence mostly expunged from the Internet, Stern has embraced pretty much
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He is now officially a woke hall monitor by his own admission.
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In fact, this week, Stern proudly identified as woke.
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If woke means I can't get behind Trump, which is what I think it means, or that I support people
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who want to be transgender, or I'm for the vaccine, dude, call me woke as you f***ing want.
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Now, as part of this new woke persona, Stern attacked Lauren Boebert for her inappropriate
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This is the guy who spent the first three decades of his career being a creepy, degenerate sex fiend.
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Now he's pretending to be scandalized by the sort of behavior that he would openly have on his show
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He's become a pathetic old washed up schoolmarm, but he's now shielded by his new woke identity.
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He's immune from accusations of hypocrisy, just like he's immune from accusations of being a
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It's a revealing transformation, if only because it shows how little daylight there is between
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woke hall monitors and depraved pedophilic scumbags.
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Depraved pedophilic scumbags and woke hall monitors, they're not two destinations on opposite
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At no point did he kind of make a pit stop and try out being a decent, normal person.
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That's because it's not a long journey to get from one to the other.
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They're in the same neighborhood and there's a lot of overlap.
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Which is why he's sensitive about all those clips of him salivating over 13-year-old girls.
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There are other old clips that are inconvenient for Stern too, of course.
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Clips that are especially relevant after what just happened to Alex Jones.
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Jones, as you recall, was just ordered to pay something like a billion dollars, a billion
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dollars to the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook mass shooting.
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Now, of course, Jones was wrong in what he said about Sandy Hook.
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But as far as we know, Howard Stern has never apologized for his decision to mock the victims
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In fact, Stern did not just mock these victims.
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He said that their killers should have raped them first before executing them.
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Oh, man, I lived like a mile and a half in the school, man.
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I had a couple friends that were there and I talked to them yesterday.
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They said that it was just a bunch of chaos shooting and...
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Boy, a bunch of good-looking girls go to that school.
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The guy who called in, he was a little too excited, but...
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There was, like, really good-looking girls running out of there with their hands over
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Yeah, I'd say the bomb teams are still working.
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Did those kids try to have sex with any of the good-looking girls?
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At least if you're going to go kill yourself and kill all the kids, like, why wouldn't
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Yeah, I would think that I would want some sex, by the way.
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Yeah, I mean, if I was going to kill some people, I'd take them out with some sex.
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I guess they were getting a rush from what they were telling me.
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They seemed like, these guys were really against the good-looking girls because the
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good-looking girls wouldn't pay attention to them.
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I don't think the good-looking girls would be begging them to live and they'd go, you
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don't have to beg because you're going to be dead in a minute.
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So that's pretty much the most vile thing a human being could possibly say.
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Now, I personally give people a lot of leeway for jokes, quote-unquote, made years ago in
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a different time when people weren't as sensitive and edgy humor wasn't as edgy back then.
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But this is way beyond the bounds of what would have been considered remotely acceptable
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This is, again, perhaps the worst thing I've ever heard anyone say ever.
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It's the kind of thing that, how could that even come to your mind?
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He's not only joking about a school shooting right after it happened.
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You have to understand something about Columbine when it happened.
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I mean, this was, of course, any school shooting is a terrible tragedy, very sad.
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But at the time, you know, this was, for Columbine, for those who lived through it, it was, it was,
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it was, like, similar to 9-11 before 9-11 happened.
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Just the, the kind of shell shock that most people were experiencing the next day and for,
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And here he is a day later, telling, quote-unquote, jokes about how the kids who were just killed
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Lusting after the survivors of the school shooting and saying the shooter should have
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Keep in mind, he said all this when he was a grown man in his mid-40s.
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But Howard Stern has never been banned from any social media platform for those comments.
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He wasn't ordered to pay a billion dollars to the, to the, how do you think the victim,
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the, the, the families, the parents of those children must have felt hearing that?
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Did he ever have to pay them a billion dollars in restitution?
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And that's because, fortunately for Stern, he mocked the Columbine victims prior to this
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new era of wokeness where free speech is illegal as long as it's sufficiently, you know, offensive.
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And now, just to cover his basis, Stern has completed his transition into the cult of wokeness
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soon enough to protect himself against cancellation.
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Now they're not going to come after him because he's on their team.
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Which is part of the strategy for Howard Stern.
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Of course, this was not a coincidence that he decided to, to make this transition into
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being fully woke, pro-trans, pro-vaccine, everything.
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Complaining about Donald Trump, I guess, every show.
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I don't listen to a show at all, but that's what it seems like.
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Now, meanwhile, Russell Brand is being demonetized based on accusations alone.
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Unlike Howard Stern, Russell Brand never publicly expressed his sexual attraction to 13-year-old
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He never said that school shooting victims should have been raped.
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But he has expressed skepticism about Big Pharma and the war in Ukraine.
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And for that reason, this week, a culture committee in the UK Parliament sent Rumble a letter
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I'm writing concerning the serious allegations regarding Russell Brand.
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We would like to know whether Rumble intends to join YouTube in suspending Mr. Brand's ability
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In the most passive-aggressive fashion imaginable, the UK Parliament also sent out a similar letter
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We would be grateful if you could confirm whether Mr. Brand is able to monetize his TikTok posts,
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including his videos relating to the serious accusations against him, and what the platform
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is doing to ensure the creators are not able to use the platform to undermine the welfare
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of victims of inappropriate and potentially illegal behavior.
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Now, let's take stock of what we're seeing here.
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This is the government of the UK effectively telling multiple social media platforms to
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demonetize one of the most influential commentators on the planet solely on the basis of unproven
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This is the government moving to have financial penalties imposed on someone without any criminal
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Not just no criminal conviction, no criminal charge has even been levied at this point.
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They're being pretty much as explicit as they can possibly be about it.
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Before the Twitter files came out, this would have been dismissed as a wild conspiracy theory.
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You weren't allowed to think that governments were colluding with big tech to censor unapproved
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voices, but now the government is just coming out and admitting that's exactly what they're
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So, this isn't just happening in the UK, the Biden administration does it too.
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Well, unlike its competitor, YouTube, Rumble emphatically rejected the request from the
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But YouTube is the far bigger platform, and their decision to instantaneously demonetize
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Russell Brand sets a very worrying precedent, and also a totally incoherent and inconsistent
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As Elijah Schaefer has pointed out, Cardi B is currently fully monetized on YouTube, and
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that, in spite of the fact that she, if you want to talk about what things people have
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done in their past, she openly admits to drugging and robbing men in her past.
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Cardi B is responding to a whole lot of backlash she is getting for an admission that she made
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Now, someone brought it back up, the internet likes to do that sort of thing, and Cardi
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was talking about her days when she was working as a stripper, and she admitted that she would
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take guys back to hotel rooms, drug them, and rob them.
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I mean, you can't understand what the hell she's saying, but just to translate for you,
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yes, she openly admits and brags about the fact that when she was a stripper, she would
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cozy up to guys, and she would get them back to the apartment, and then she would drug them,
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and then she would rob them, violent felonies that she's bragging about.
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Her history as a confessed date rapist has not precluded her from major corporate sponsorships
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You know, we call this a double standard, but double standard isn't really the right term
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And the standard is if you're useful to the left, if you're on their team, you can essentially
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That is the standard consistently applied, and nobody can really deny that anymore.
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This is not an arbitrary application of shifting sets of standards.
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Now, with that in mind, we might ask, what's the appropriate response?
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Because pointing out hypocrisy is not going to do anything.
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We've learned that much over the past few years.
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Rumble knows that Russell Brand might actually be guilty of what he's accused of doing.
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After all, he was an admitted sex-addicted degenerate back when these crimes supposedly
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It certainly is not outside the realm of possibility that he did treat the women the way that he's
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But the leadership of Rumble understands that it makes no sense to un-person Russell Brand
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based on mere allegations when we know for a fact that Brand's critics are entirely
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They want to mete out punishments only to the enemies of the regime while its allies and
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Kowtowing to these people is not a smart or sustainable strategy.
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In fact, all we can really do now is just ignore everything that the system says and assume
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for all intents and purposes that everyone they demonize is innocent.
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Now, if we're being honest, that's not always going to be true.
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Sometimes we'll be wrong and we'll end up defending people who are guilty.
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Sometimes the system will say, every once in a while, the system will say something true.
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Every once in a while, maybe the system villainizes someone who actually is a villain.
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But the problem is that they lie so often about so many things and they're so blatantly driven by
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ideology and by narrative and are so wildly dishonest.
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And their motives are so evil that we have to ignore them completely at this point.
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There's an article in The Guardian that I want to point out and begin with, and all we really
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The Guardian, panic and rash decision-making, ex-Budlight staff on one of the biggest boycotts
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The article goes on to elaborate, says, when Anheuser-Busch InBev, the multinational beer
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company, promoted Alyssa Heinerscheid to vice president of marketing for Bud Light in
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July 2022, she became the first female VP in the beer's 40-year history.
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It's just old white men, she says, one former employee of the company leadership.
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That's why we were excited to at least have Alyssa in that role.
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In a March 2023 interview with the lifestyle podcast Make Yourself at Home, Heinerscheid
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Alyssa Heinerscheid, that's the clip of the woke female Bud Light executive talking about
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how they want to change the branding of Bud Light so it's not just associated with white
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men and frat boys anymore, want to make it more diverse.
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This was before the Dylan Mulvaney promotion happened.
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Instead of ensuring a prosperous future for Bud Light, Heinerscheid's tenure was marked by
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a sharp decline in sales and one of the biggest boycotts of a brand in U.S. history after a
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minor social media partnership with Dylan Mulvaney was attacked by right-wing anti-trans groups.
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Over the past month, the Guardian has spoken with insiders at Bud Light and the agency
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the company contracted about what exactly happened and why the brand refused to back
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Former employees who wish to remain anonymous spoke of leadership incompetence and said
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that executives were operating from a place of fear and were now vetting public comments
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under the brand's Instagram post to remove any hint of negativity.
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Anheuser-Busch did not respond to multiple requests for comments for this story.
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It goes on from there, you know, we get the whole long story, we get the inside story from
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these various ex-Bud Light employees who are very upset that the company from their perspective
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caved to pressure from us right-wing bigots and it was just chaos and it was a disaster
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behind the scenes and Bud Light bungled everything, every step of the way they say, which of course
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But as I said, the most important aspect here can be seen just in the headline, one of the biggest
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boycotts in U.S. history, which first of all, there's a real, there are a lot of lessons here that
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can be learned, a lot of lessons that Bud Light learned the hard way.
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You know, don't promote transgenderism is one of them.
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Another one is, you know, as we hear, they were so excited.
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I'm pretty much admitting that they hired her purely for that, purely to sort of check off
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And her whole job is to promote the brand, is to market the brand.
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And then almost as soon as she, the first female in this position, almost as soon as she gets into
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that position, the company tanks, is destroyed.
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She is there to oversee and to engineer the worst drop in sales in the history of the company.
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So that's what you get for your diversity initiatives.
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But it's also interesting just to see the media finally acknowledging, you know, calling it one
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of the biggest boycotts in U.S. history, the media is finally acknowledging that.
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And you may remember that in the beginning, it was different.
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There was a lot of skepticism for a long time that the boycott was actually, you know,
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there was skepticism that it would accomplish anything, skepticism from people on the left
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and the right, saying that this isn't going to go anywhere.
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But now even the hostile left-wing press admits that the boycott was historic, truly historic.
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I mean, there are very few examples of a major brand suffering these kinds of losses due to an
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And I actually can't think of any other example, period.
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I mean, we always talked about the Bud Light boycott being so significant because it was one
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of the few examples of a conservative boycott being successful.
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But it's actually one of the few examples of any boycott against a major brand being actually
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The left generally has boycotted much more often, and they have the reputation of being
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And they are, you know, up until the Bud Light thing.
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They typically will have the more effective boycotts.
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But boycotting, whether you're on the left or the right, doesn't matter.
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It's not even really American anymore because it's not owned by an American company.
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But traditionally, you know, historically American brand, boycotting something like that, that
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And to actually make an impact is very, very difficult.
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To go as far as we were able to go with the Bud Light boycott and just destroy the company
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So I guess my point here is partly, partly it's, I told you so.
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I mean them, you know, the left, the media, even the skeptics on the right who said the Bud
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You know, and listen, people are allowed to be wrong about things.
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But the people on the right, the conservatives who were kind of making fun of the Bud Light
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boycott early on, this is going to do anything, this is stupid, this is a distraction, you're
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Those people, okay, and there are some prominent ones, trying to discourage it, saying this is
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Now, I know a few of them have come along afterwards and said, you know what, I got this
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But the ones who haven't acknowledged that, then I think you should keep that in mind
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because that is a major blow to their credibility.
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But this is, we want to talk about impacts on the culture.
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It's one of the most impactful things that the conservative movement has done in modern
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And if you're a conservative and you weren't on our team and helping with that, then that's
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If you were trying to dissuade us from doing it, that's even more unfortunate.
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And if you still haven't admitted that, hey, I got that wrong, you guys were right, next
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time I've learned my lesson, next time I'll be on board.
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You know what, I've learned that actually, you know, the culture really does matter, obviously.
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And being able to exercise power over a major American brand, you know, that's a big thing
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So if someone acknowledges that, then that's one thing.
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But what I said at the time is that this was, and it is, it's like, it's an incredibly
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It would actually, it will be in the history books.
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Again, a major iconic national brand brought to its knees, destroyed, not just by a boycott,
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but by a boycott from the side of the culture war that supposedly has no power and no purchase
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A side that crucially believed, it itself believed that it had no power, certainly didn't have
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And so what makes it so incredibly significant, it's really, it's two things.
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One, as I said all along, Bud Light, this is the, this is the, you know, the head on the
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And if you're, if you are already in a vowed left-wing brand, you know, and this, and this
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is what you do and people expect it and your, and your, your customers are mostly left-wingers
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You know, if you're Ben and Jerry's or whatever, you can get away with it.
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But if you're, if you're a mainstream brand, and especially if you're a brand that relies
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on, you know, average Americans, conservatives, you need our business, then you better be
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You know, you might think you, but you, you, you've, you've, what you've learned in the
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past is that, yeah, you can virtue signal a little bit.
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You can throw a bone to the left and try to win some, some social credit points.
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And it's not going to hurt you on this side because your customers, because we're not,
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you know, we'll, we'll, we'll be forgiving of that.
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So that was the first thing that made it significant.
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And, and we immediately saw the cascading kind of domino effect.
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Of course, this happened right before pride month.
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And then we get into pride month and then target happens and target gets a, it's kind of a,
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not full bud light, but like a mini bud light treatment.
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And a lot of other brands did become, it was not, you know, I think many people were expecting
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pride month in 2023 to be just a total historic explosion of rainbows everywhere.
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And it wasn't quite to the extent that many people were expecting.
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And there are a lot of articles written about how
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brands had a much more muted response this time around to pride month.
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Because they're afraid because they saw what happened to bud light.
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So that's the first thing that made it incredibly significant.
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The other thing is because it, you know, it's the message that's sent to corporate America.
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It's also the message that it sends to, to us, to the right.
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We can use that to our advantage, but we have to use it.
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Study Fine says the U.S. Constitution was a collaborative effort undertaken by many of
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James Madison played an especially crucial role in drafting the Supreme Law of the U.S.
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And as such, is often referred to as the father of the Constitution.
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One cannot but wonder what President Madison would think about the results of a new survey
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by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
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In short, the poll suggests a troubling number of Americans are incredibly uninformed
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when it comes to their own constitutional rights.
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Even worse, the 2023 Annenberg Constitution Day Civic Survey,
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an annual poll released every Constitution Day, which is September 17th,
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also found that a significant number of Americans can't even name the three branches of government.
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More specifically, while two-thirds of Americans, 66%, can name the three branches,
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And an astounding 17% cannot name a single branch of the U.S. government.
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These are people who have never heard of, like, the legislative branch of government.
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You can tell them about the legislative branch,
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and they're going to think you're talking about an actual type of tree.
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Meanwhile, when respondents were asked to name all of the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment
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to the Constitution, most Americans, 77%, could only name one, the freedom of speech.
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This latest version of the survey was put together during an especially turbulent year in America
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filled with high-profile events that brought the inner workings of the U.S. government
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into the news cycle on a daily basis, blah, blah, et cetera, et cetera.
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Besides freedom of speech, 77% being the most widely remembered right guaranteed by the First Amendment,
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another 40% of Americans were able to name freedom of religion.
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And a meager 9% recalled the right to petition the government.
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In total, just 5% of U.S. adults could correctly cite all five First Amendment rights.
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Just under half named one or two First Amendment rights.
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20% of Americans, according to this, could not name any of the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.
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The association between free speech and the First Amendment was unknown to 20% of Americans.
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If you are a vaguely informed person, then that sounds amazing.
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That there are people, like, if it's 20%, millions, adults that you could walk up to and say, you know,
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First Amendment rights, and they won't even know what you're referring to.
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Interestingly, over one in five Americans responded to that question by listing the right to bear arms.
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Which is a right granted under the Second Amendment, not the first.
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You know, we see these kinds of studies and surveys all the time.
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But I fear that because we're so accustomed to this, and we see the surveys, and, you know,
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Americans don't know anything about the history of their own country.
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They don't know anything about how their government works or is supposed to work.
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We see the dumb guy on the street interviews that are all over YouTube and the late night shows and everything.
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And we're so accustomed to it that although we realize this is the case,
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we don't really understand how significant it is and what a problem it is, you know,
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because we've grown so accustomed to it, we don't stop to think about it.
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We don't stop to think about the fact that this is a civilizational crisis that we are dealing with.
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When you've got a country filled with millions of adults who don't know anything, who are totally oblivious.
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And yet those same adults have the power to direct the future of our country.
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And when it comes to voting, they have the same power that you do.
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I mean, the first takeaway always with this kind of thing,
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the first takeaway is always, or it should be, that the education system in America is completely broken.
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And it's actually amazing to me that anytime this comes up, very often the education system gets let off the hook.
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And when we talk about problems in the education system, and yeah,
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conversations about the problems in the education system come up a lot.
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which is that the education system is just simply failing to educate people.
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Okay, when you can have millions of people who can go through
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really 13 years of formal grade school education from K through 12,
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and they're going into a building that is called a school where they're supposed to be educated.
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And they come out, and then many of them go to another four years
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And yet many of these people are coming out on the other end of that
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If anything, coming out more confused about everything than they were going in.
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And it's incredible that we can all be witnessing this happening,
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and we're not having any kind of serious conversation
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about the utter failure of the education system
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This is one of the, this is like a home that you look at.
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There are some homes you look at, you could say,
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you know, remodel the kitchen, maybe put an addition on.
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And that's where we are with the education system.
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And there's just, there's no getting around that at this point.
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So that's one conversation that we should be having.
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And the other conversation that we should be having,
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that these people should not be allowed to vote.
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I mean, you hear people say that in a half-joking way.
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Like, actually, they should not be able to vote.
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That there are a lot of people who are voting in this country
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Okay, it's not fundamental to your human nature
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It's not just that you shouldn't be able to vote.