Ep. 1240 - BLM Endorses Terrorism, To The Surprise Of No One
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Summary
It s been clear since its inception that BLM is a terrorist organization, but now they ve left no doubt after they endorsed the murder of civilians under the guise of, "decolonization." Also, the Biden administration declares that even with war raging in the Middle East, our greatest concern is still climate change, and we re finally hearing from the other passengers on the train with Daniel Penny and Jordan Neely. Their testimony makes it clear that Penny was totally justified in his actions. And feminists are grappling with a difficult question: How can they be empowered and independent women while still expecting men to pay the dinner bill? We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, it's been clear since its inception that BLM is a terrorist
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organization, but now they've left no doubt after they endorsed the murder of civilians
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Also, the Biden administration declares that even with war raging in the Middle East, our
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And we're finally hearing from the other passengers on the train with Daniel Penny and Jordan
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Their testimony makes it clear that Penny was totally justified in his actions.
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And feminists are grappling with a difficult question.
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How can they be empowered and independent women while still expecting men to pay the
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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If you haven't been on a college campus recently, it can be easy to underestimate how completely
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They're not even using the English language to educate students anymore.
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Instead, academics believe that their job is to constantly come up with new, overwrought
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They're inventing terms like environmental racism and racialized communities and housing
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justice and lived experience and minoritized peoples and so on.
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And then academics will often string all of those nonsense terms together, creating this
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kind of disfigured Lovecraftian patchwork of wokeness.
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They'll say things like, minoritized people and racialized communities seeking housing
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justice must wrestle with their lived experience of environmental racism.
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And then everybody just sort of nods like they heard something profound.
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It's kind of like this glorified game of Mad Libs.
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It's not hard to mock these professors and point out what a scam all this is.
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And often on this show, I've done exactly that.
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But at the same time, we shouldn't ignore everything that's going on in academia because the truth
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is that some of these terms, which might seem meaningless to the same population, actually
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So take the idea that we've talked about this week of decolonization, which became a very
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popular topic in universities starting in about the 1960s or so.
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This is a word that on its own without context could mean pretty much anything.
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I mean, what does it mean to decolonize the United States, for example?
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Does it mean we need to recite land acknowledgments all the time?
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Does it mean we have to physically leave our homes and surrender them to Indian reserves?
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Does it mean we need to be more mindful of our microaggressions and how we're treating
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Reasonable people can disagree on what exactly the word decolonization means.
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But all along, leftists have known exactly what they mean by the term decolonization.
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The faculty members who have taught students about the importance of decolonization for the
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past few decades have understood the word perfectly.
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Decolonization means, for them, dismantling Western civilization through violence.
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Anytime they use the term, that's what they're referring to.
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It means killing any race, creed, or political opponent who stands in their way.
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In 1961, the Marxist political philosopher Franz Fanon was pretty explicit about this.
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He said, quote, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.
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Decolonization is quite simply the replacing of a certain species of men by another species
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Now, this is not some fringe understanding of decolonization.
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Leftists have been taught that this process and all the violence it entails is necessary.
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It's appropriate, given the supposed evils of colonization.
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Students at most major universities have been told this for decades.
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And now those students are in positions of power in various industries and disciplines.
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And they also are in power in these universities.
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A couple of years ago, a researcher writing in The Lancet, which is supposedly a medical journal,
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published a paper called Navigating the Violent Process of Decolonization in Global Health Research.
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Here's what the researcher named Munira A. Rashid wrote, quote,
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Historically, decolonization has always been a violent process and global health might experience
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Disrupting and calling out neocolonial practices requires courage to bear the cost that comes
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Now, as of this week, predictably, this same researcher is using her social media feed to
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explain that the violence in Israel is an example of decolonization.
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We showed you many examples of this the other day.
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After Hamas massacred men, women, and children in Israel this weekend, the right was, for the
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most part, shocked and horrified, as any normal person would be.
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But many on the left were not very surprised at all.
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I mean, they saw the attack as an example of decolonization.
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And they were either apathetic about it or outwardly supportive in many cases.
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Many university student groups have come out with statements making this very clear.
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The president of the Student Bar Association at NYU Law School sent a school-wide email saying
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that Israel bears, quote, full responsibility for the massacre because of its role in perpetuating,
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This is someone the students at NYU Law elected to serve as their representative.
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And by the way, this person uses they, them pronouns, identifies as non-binary, and changed
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So you have to wonder, how long would that student last if you dumped her in Gaza?
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But irony doesn't register with fundamentalists, and all they care about is their ideology.
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And that's why at the University of Virginia, a student group described the murder of Jews
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as a, quote, step toward a free Palestine and a win for, quote, colonized people everywhere.
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And everywhere you look on social media, you can find leftists using the same language about
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decolonization and colonizers, all to justify all manner of atrocities.
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So here, for example, was the reaction of one leftist who couldn't understand why more people
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on the right weren't aware of the meaning of decolonization and why people are so upset
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I mean, it's just the massacre of women and children.
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I can't stop thinking about the way that colonization is in its reckoning period.
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Across so much of West Africa and Central Africa, we're seeing coups and we're seeing uprisings.
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And, you know, I'm not an expert on the politics of Israel and Palestine.
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But it is also deeply unsurprising to me seeing what's happening in Palestine because everyone
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is acting like some people are acting confused.
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And the instinct here, given the complexity, is to see things in terms of this is horrific,
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But when you all examined colonization and decolonizing, what did you actually think that would look
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It is so interesting watching people comment on this.
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Now, when you listen to someone like that, you know, it's oftentimes like, again, speaking
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a different language from every sane person in the United States.
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Oh, you didn't know that decolonization meant killing children?
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You didn't know that it meant mowing down teenage girls at a rave and shooting elderly women
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in their homes and shooting people on bus stops?
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It's so, oh, it's so interesting that you were so stupid you didn't know that this is
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Now, this is what the, this is, this is what a bunch of women with dyed hair and nose
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rings sitting in their homes pontificating about the complexities of murdering innocent
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Well, you know, there are complexities and nuances to this you couldn't possibly understand.
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This is how really most young people think in this country, believe it or not.
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YouGov just published an incredible survey on this.
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They found that as of October 9th, more than 76% of U.S. adults believe that Hamas is deliberately
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Now, that's obviously really a low percentage since a couple of days before that survey was
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Hamas committed the mass murder of Israeli civilians on camera.
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But it's still an overwhelming majority of people, especially if you narrow it down to
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But if you go to U.S. adults between the ages of 18 to 29, though, only 32% of those adults
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believe that Hamas is targeting Israeli civilian areas.
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And just 44% of Americans aged 45 to 65 think that that's happening.
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Now, some of that may be ignorance of what's happening.
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But it's hard not to conclude that a lot of these younger people in particular believe that
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Israeli targets are not civilian areas by definition.
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They've bought into the decolonization theory, which states that colonizers are effectively
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This is yet more evidence that we are witnessing once again an esoteric academic theory, which
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when you listen to it sounds just nonsensical and ridiculous, and it is.
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But then it trickles down throughout society after beginning in the university system.
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It starts there, and then it goes through the pipeline, and it makes its way into society.
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And pretty soon, it's used to justify actual, real-world brutality.
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We saw this with BLM a few years ago, and now they're back at it.
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They're using the theory-driven language of modern academia in order to support mass slaughter.
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BLM Grassroots, for example, just posted that, quote,
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As black people continue to fight to end militarism and mass incarceration in our own communities,
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let us understand the resistance in Palestine as an attempt to tear down the gates of the world's
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We see clear parallels between black and Palestinian people.
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We, too, dream of a world where our people may live freely on decolonized land.
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So they want Hamas-style terrorist attacks in this country.
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Rather explicitly, they'd love to see colonizers raped and murdered in their homes.
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You and your entire family, you are colonizing just by living in the United States,
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And just in case there was any doubt about that, BLM Chicago just uploaded a photo of a paraglider
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with the Palestinian flag along with the words, I stand with Palestine.
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And this, of course, is a direct reference to the Hamas terrorists who just parachuted into the
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rave in Israel and began executing hundreds of people.
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They have made that into their mascot, their kind of rallying cry.
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Now, for a lot of people on the right, that post was a shock.
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It was hard for many people to grasp that the notion that decolonization could possibly
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For years, the left has portrayed BLM as essentially a decolonizing force.
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As BLM rioters torched stores and police stations and murdered innocent people,
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the media characterized this violence as a way to decolonize the West.
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The New York Times, for example, published an op-ed proudly reporting that, quote,
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partly riding the global surge of Black Lives Matter mobilizations, calls for decolonization
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have swept Europe's former imperial metropoles.
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This is why BLM, from the beginning, called Israel a genocidal state.
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It's why they put abolishing the nuclear family in their official platform.
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And it's why the entire corporate media embraced them.
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In reality, BLM had nothing to do with improving the lives of Black people, of course.
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A lot more Black people died after the George Floyd riots than were dying before it.
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The point of BLM was to act as foot soldiers for decolonization.
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That means, when it comes to what's happening overseas, it means eliminating Israel.
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It means eliminating, in this country, white people.
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Most people on the left understood that at the time.
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But a lot of people on the right, including high-ranking politicians, somehow didn't see any of this,
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were blindsided by it, which is an oversight, to put it mildly, and rather an unforgivable one.
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It didn't happen simply because leaders on the right neglected to listen in on college lectures.
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It didn't happen simply because they failed to go back and research the origins of decolonization theory.
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It happened because, at the outset, many on the right immediately accepted the false premise
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And this is also, this is the way things usually work.
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And the right will object to how that theory manifests itself
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and to how the left responds to this theory they've come up with.
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But as they object, they will still often accept the underlying premise itself.
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And you still see this with a lot of people on the right.
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When they hear about decolonization, now they might object by saying,
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Of course, colonizing is a terrible thing, but it's not true.
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And of course, we aren't colonizers just because we happen to live in the United States.
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But also, we never should have accepted the premise
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that colonization is some sort of inherently bad, evil thing.
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No matter what leftists meant when they say that they want to decolonize the West,
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That's because colonization, historically, has been a force for good throughout the world.
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It was the process of introducing the rule of law, public health, human dignity
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to certainly this entire hemisphere that we're currently living on.
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As we've talked about earlier in the week, before colonization,
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the natives were ripping the hearts out of children as offerings to their sun gods.
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And of course, when I say natives, I say that term, but the tribes that lived on this continent
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when the conquistadors arrived were themselves not native to this continent.
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They came here and killed whoever was there first.
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But in any event, conquering them was the right decision for all of humanity.
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And it's just beyond dispute that we are all living much better lives now because of it.
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That's what colonization means in practical terms.
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It means you're doing a lot better now than you would have if colonization had never occurred.
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And after the massacres in Israel this week and the shameful and brazen response from many corners of the left,
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no serious person could dispute what decolonization means either.
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It refers to a genocidal ideology that we have let fester for far too long.
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Everybody promoting decolonization wants to murder civilians,
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not just in Israel, but in every civilized country on the planet.
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Understand that they are your enemy and the enemy of all civilized people.
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And that's why when they call you a colonizer, you should tell them you're welcome.
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White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby refused to say this week
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that nuclear war is more dangerous to humanity than climate change.
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Kirby made the remarks, or lack thereof, during an interview on Fox News with Martha McCallum
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as war rages in Europe between Russia and Ukraine and has exploded in the Middle East
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as Iranian-backed Islamic terrorist groups launched an unprecedented terrorist attack against Israel.
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McCallum asked Kirby about recent remarks from President Joe Biden on the topic.
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Given that the United States is now involved in wars that are taking place in Europe and also in the Middle East,
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I want to play this soundbite for you that is just last month in Vietnam
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and ask you if this still holds for the president.
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The only existential threat humanity faces, even more frightening than a nuclear war,
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is global warming going above 1.5 degrees in the next 10 years.
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Given all the nuclear players in these two areas where we are now engaged on,
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It actually threatens and is capable of wiping out all human life on Earth over time.
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I mean, I don't know how more existential you can get to that.
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But that doesn't mean that we walk away from our obligations,
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our national security interests in very dangerous parts of the world.
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But John, he said it was more frightening than a nuclear war.
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Is that it's more frightening than a nuclear war in this moment?
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The president believes wholeheartedly that climate change is an existential threat
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But it doesn't mean that we turn our back on the other challenges
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facing this country and our allies and partners around the world.
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We've got broad national security commitments literally globally,
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and we've got to mind all of them at the same time.
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Obviously, Israel right now, certainly Ukraine over the last almost two years now.
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We are a big enough and powerful enough and effective enough nation
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to be able to look after all these disparate national security threats.
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So, first of all, I'm not a fan of Fox, as you know,
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but I think that this is a good line of questioning.
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It's a great idea when we're in the middle of some real-world crisis
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to call a leftist in and ask them questions like this.
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Like, hey, you were just saying that climate change and white supremacy
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And, of course, they're going to say yes because they have to say yes,
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but it's a fantastic way to expose the shallowness and absurdity of their worldview
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But the bad news, of course, is that these people happen to be in charge of the country.
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And we are seeing again why leftists can't govern.
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I mean, there's a reason why every city under their control is a crime-ridden wasteland.
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And it's because they don't deal in or with practical realities.
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You know, conservatives are always going to be, by and large, better leaders,
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better governors, better managers in businesses
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because conservatives operate in reality and with reality.
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And even if someone, a conservative, makes a wrong decision or does the wrong thing,
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at least there's a reasoning and there's motives that are decipherable.
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There's always a chance that he'll learn from his mistakes and do better in the future.
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And they simply can't cross the threshold back into reality, even if they want to.
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And it brings us actually quickly to the next story.
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there was a large Free Palestine rally in Dearborn, Michigan yesterday.
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Well, here's the first clip before we get to the one, the funny one.
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They said, the American government said what happened last Saturday was unprovoked.
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But when you have 75 years of ethnic cleansing,
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56 years of occupation, 15 years of a blockade,
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So adopting, of course, the slogans and mantras of Black Lives Matter.
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And we know from experience with BLM that no justice, no peace is an explicit endorsement of violence.
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And it's a pledge to continue violence, particularly against innocent people.
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They're saying they don't want peace until all their demands are met.
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And that's what peace means, is do exactly what I want.
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But we're just talking about leftists disconnected from reality.
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And there's no better example than, I think, this next clip from the same speaker.
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When you go to a Black Lives Matter rally, you see Palestinian flags.
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When you go to a white supremacy rally, you see Israeli flags.
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When Zionists march down the street, they say death to Arabs.
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When we march down the street, we say free, free Palestine.
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Okay, now, I'll admit, first of all, I don't know exactly what white supremacy rally he's talking about precisely.
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I haven't seen any rally that could even vaguely be described as a white supremacist rally recently.
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But if I did, you know, if I did stumble across something that you could actually call a white supremacist rally, whatever that would be, I'm pretty certain there wouldn't be any Israeli flags there.
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You know, the white supremacists, those famous fans of the Jews, that's the one thing.
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That's the one thing that ties all white supremacists together is how much they love Jewish people.
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If there's anything that defines a white supremacist, it is his unbiting love for the Jews.
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You know, it's a great, and the white supremacists, that's the thing.
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I mean, you hear from the white supremacists all the time, and they're always going on and on and on about how we need to protect Israel.
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It's the most important thing to them, is we've got to protect Israel.
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And I kind of wish I could hear the rest of this guy's speech, just to hear what other super relatable scenarios he describes.
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You know what I love about going to vegan rallies?
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Is they always give out Outback Steakhouse coupons.
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Just no part of that makes any sense at all, until you realize, of course, that it doesn't appear to make sense.
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Because if you're someone who lives in reality, and you're a sane and reasonable person, and you hear that there are Israeli flags at a white supremacist rally, you know, that doesn't make any sense to you.
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But then you realize that when he talks about white supremacists, what he means is just any white person who doesn't agree with him is a white supremacist.
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Which is also the leftist definition of the term.
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So he's talking about any rally that's politically conservative is white supremacist, and that's where you see the Israeli flags.
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You know, I've been to, I've never been to a white supremacist rally.
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I've been to plenty of conservative rallies and demonstrations.
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I don't know if I've ever seen somebody flying an Israeli flag at any demonstration I've been to in my life.
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All right, now before we move on from this topic, I want to play a quick clip that Lindsey Graham posted to Twitter.
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So, now usually with a seven second clip, you would think it might be taken out of context.
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But this is the clip that he chose of himself and put it to, put it on Twitter.
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Do whatever the hell you have to do to defend yourself.
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And this is what makes me very concerned and very worried, is you have people like Lindsey Graham.
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This is a sitting U.S. senator who, for whatever reason, has been in that position for a very long time.
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Like, we can't look at where we are in America right now and pinpoint any sort of positive thing that we can partially thank Lindsey Graham for.
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And here he is just casually declaring that we're in a religious war.
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And, you know, I posted about this earlier and took issue with it.
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And they responded by saying, well, this is a religious war.
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The religious part is not the word that I object to in that sentence.
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Yes, it is, in large part, you might call it a religious war.
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So, this is a sitting U.S. senator who has casually declared that the United States is at war.
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As far as I know, we have not declared war, but Lindsey Graham has.
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And not only that, but he's declared that we are in a holy war.
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Now, I know that the defense that I've already heard of Lindsey Graham is that, well, no, when he says we, he's talking about Israel.
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Well, right, but we, but Israel and the United States of America are two separate countries.
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I know that Nikki Haley, when this first happened, said that an attack on Israel is an attack on America.
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What happened is a terrible, savage, evil thing, as I have said many times.
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Like, it's not a difficult thing when you've got elderly people getting gunned down on bus stops and music festivals being attacked and massacred.
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It's not difficult to say that it's a brutal, barbaric, terrible, evil thing.
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And also, there's no but here, and also, that was an attack on Israel.
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An attack on Israel is not an attack on America.
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If that attack was waged in, you know, in New York or something, then that would be an attack on America.
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And those two, and that's, but an attack in Israel is not the same thing as an attack on America.
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And I think that that is, it's hard to call that semantics.
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Because the semantic difference here is a difference of countries.
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It's saying that because this is happening there, we are automatically at war as well.
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And I know we're used to this now from our political leaders.
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And now, I mean, there was a time when it would be, like, a huge scandal.
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There was a time when it would be a huge scandal for a political representative to stand up and declare war on his own.
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It's just on his own, saying, yeah, we're at war.
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There was a time when that would be a big scandal.
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But it should be shocking, and it should be considered a scandal because it is.
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And to have people this reckless who are in charge right now, it does.
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And maybe when I call them reckless, maybe I'm doing them a favor.
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Because the reality is that, you know, reckless means that you're just, you're emotional.
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But at least, at some level, understandable, I suppose.
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Because the truth is that there are people in our government who are itching for World War III.
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You know, for them, the people in power, the people in power means more power and money if we're at war.
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I think Israel has shown that it is more than capable of defending itself and handling this situation.
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I think the best thing we can do is get out of the way.
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And our most immediate response to what's happening should be to fortify our own borders.
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Because what happened is not an attack on America, but it might be.
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So we should start getting to work to prevent that from happening in our country.
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New court documents in the Daniel Penny case reveal the harrowing testimony of fellow subway riders who say
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they hid and prayed to escape the subway train due to Jordan Neely's threats and, quote, satanic behavior.
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Penny, a 24-year-old U.S. Marine veteran, is facing up to 19 years behind bars for the death of Neely, whom Penny restrained on the subway train and what prosecution argues was a deadly chokehold.
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According to Fox News, recently disclosed court documents reveal that a mother and her son hid behind a stroller and a high school student prayed as Jordan Neely yelled, someone's going to die today.
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Another woman reportedly described Neely's behavior as sickening and satanic and said she believed that she was going to die as Neely approached her, an experience that she called absolutely traumatizing.
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One woman recalled Neely yelling on the subway, I want to hurt people, I want to go to Rikers, I want to go to prison.
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The woman was with her son and the pair, she says, hid behind his stroller as Neely allegedly charged at passengers.
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One high school student says that she heard Neely yell, someone's going to die today.
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The girl recalled grabbing her classmates and praying that the subway doors would open.
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One retiree, who's used the subway for over 30 years, said, nothing has put fear into me like the experience with Neely.
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Penny has been charged with second degree manslaughter and negligent homicide in Neely's death.
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Now, we already knew this even before this update when we're hearing from the passengers.
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We already knew that Daniel Penny being charged in this case, I mean, it's one of the worst injustices we've seen in this country in recent years.
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And of course, that is really saying something.
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To have a man who stepped up in this moment to protect the people around him.
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But it's pretty clear that Daniel Penny was not the one most at risk.
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If Jordan Neely really did start lashing out, there are a lot of other people on the subway that would probably be hurt before Daniel Penny would get hurt.
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So he's really doing this primarily for the other people on the subway, who we now know were, some of them were crouched, you know, behind strollers and praying for their safety.
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They were trembling in fear and just hoping the doors would open so they could get out in time.
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That's how most people responded, because that's how most people respond in these situations.
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And Daniel Penny said, no, I'm not just going to sit here and wait and hope.
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Okay, I'm not going to roll the dice with my life and everybody else's life, so I'm going to do something about it, defend us.
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And the fact that he's been charged with a crime, they're trying to throw him in prison for 20 years, we already knew this is just a grotesque injustice.
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But then you actually hear the testimony from the passengers, and this is all testimony that obviously law enforcement, the police, they would have interviewed all the passengers.
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The prosecutors, they obviously knew all of this before charging Daniel Penny.
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They would have interviewed everyone on the train, and so they heard all of these people on the train saying, yeah, he was threatening to kill us, we were terrified, we all thought that we might be hurt or killed.
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And they heard that, and they charged him anyway.
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Because as we know, it was a foregone conclusion.
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They were always going to charge him, because it's not really about him, and it's not about this particular incident.
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He's a sacrifice on the altar of racial justice.
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Because they're charging him, they're charging him not because of what he did, or any facts about the case.
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They're charging him because he's white, nearly he's black, and that's what the charge is about.
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But the injustice comes into clearer focus now, now that we're actually hearing more from the passengers on the train.
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And this is not surprising either, because it was always conspicuous from the very beginning.
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You know, I made note of this, that while the media is claiming that Daniel Penny is some sort of crazed murderer who just went up to this homeless guy who was, what are they describing?
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He was just having a mental health crisis, that's all.
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Describing it in the most sanitized, medicalized terminology they can.
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But while they claim this, it was very conspicuous that the media reports didn't include hardly any statements from the other people on the train.
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Which is interesting, because if Daniel Penny had just randomly walked up to some poor homeless guy and choked him to death intentionally and for no reason,
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then you'd think there'd be other people on the train that would be eager to talk about that experience and to talk about the horrible thing they witnessed Daniel Penny do.
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But they didn't include any of that testimony because the media also knew that pretty much the entire train is on Daniel Penny's side.
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All right, one other quick thing, we've talked about colonization, so I think this is worth mentioning, kind of puts a cap on that conversation.
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This is a report from CNN, a profile really about a musical artist, a decolonization rapper.
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And you already know this is right up my alley because it brings all the things I love together, decolonization, rapping, etc.
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When Frank Wallen raps on stage, he's dripping head to toe in his culture.
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His long braided hair frames his face and Lakota jewelry, gifted by relatives and fans, hangs from his ears,
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usually porcupine quills or buffalo bones, as hand-woven bracelets wrap around both wrists.
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A beaded medallion beats against his chest as he sings, his voice reverberating with pain and anger,
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every lyric sizzling with the fury of unavenged injustice.
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The Lakota rapper, born and raised on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota,
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tours the world, merging hip-hop and indigenous music into distinctive, soul-stirring songs.
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I grew up in a place that used to be a literal death camp where they marched my tribe to die.
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I was raised by survivors who could never talk about their trauma because they're still in survival mode.
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Surrounded by survivors of the atrocities of colonial violence,
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the award-winning rapper says he has always carried with him centuries of their heartache.
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Through music, he says, he found healing and the opportunity to take back the freedom American colonizers had stolen from his people.
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And it goes on, this is a long, this is CNN, okay, and this is a long profile on this guy.
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Claiming that he's award-winning, he's touring the world.
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Brilliant, poetic artist, speaking out against colonial injustice,
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bravely speaking out against alleged injustices that happened 200 years ago.
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But let's listen to a little bit from this guy.
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Of course, this is what this is all leading to, and this is what you all want to hear.
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So here is, I believe this song is called Concentration Camp Blues.
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These settlers rigged the game when they made the rules
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With nights banging out beats on that laptop screen
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With nothing but your heart telling you you're right
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By the way, that song has 12,000 views on YouTube in two years.
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And so this is the guy that CNN gave a whole lengthy profile to
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Allegedly a world-touring, revered, award-winning artist
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For one reason only, which is that you don't often hear a recorder in a rap song
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And I don't think I've ever heard one in a rap song before
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And after hearing it in a song, I guess I realize why
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And, I mean, I can at least play Hot Cross Buns
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I can play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on the recorder
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But this is who CNN gives a whole profile to on their site
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Even though the music is, I mean, obviously, objectively terrible
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But this is part of this process that I talk about
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They used to dominate music, films, art in general
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But I think that that domination is going to start to wane
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Music industry and film industry for so long had done
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Putting stuff out, it's like you like the message
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Which I think ultimately is probably a good thing for the culture
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Without actually taking any kind of stand whatsoever