Ep. 1253 - Historic Monument Is Melted Down And Destroyed In Bizarre Humiliation Ritual
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Summary
For nearly a century, a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee stood in downtown Minneapolis. Last week, in a symbolic humiliation ritual, it was melted down and turned into an inclusive arts display. Also, a professional hockey player is tragically killed during a match. The media says it was an accident, but was it? And we re being told that we should forgive those who pushed lockdowns during COID. I ll explain why forgiveness isn t really an option. Plus, a trans-identified male films himself trying to get random waiters fired for misgendering him.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a beautiful historic monument torn down during the statue toppling frenzy a couple years ago was just melted down and they filmed it in some kind of bizarre humiliation ritual.
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They told us that these statues would go to museums, but that was never the plan.
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Also, a professional hockey player is tragically killed during a match.
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And we're once again being told that we should forgive those who push lockdowns during COVID.
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I'll explain why forgiveness isn't really an option.
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Plus, a trans-identified male films himself trying to get random waiters fired for quote-unquote misgendering him.
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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For nearly a century, a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee stood in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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In 1997, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, which meant that at the time, and this again was in the 90s, so not all that long ago, it was considered worthy of preservation for both its historical significance and its artistic value.
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A little over 20 years later, in the midst of public hysteria over the overdose death of a criminal drug addict in Minneapolis,
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that 100-year-old work of art, which was supposed to be preserved, was instead torn down.
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Well, last week, the museum, in a symbolic humiliation ritual, melted the statue down and destroyed it.
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It will now be repurposed as an inclusive arts display.
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This is how we treat our art and our historic monuments these days.
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It's especially how we treat historical figures like Robert E. Lee.
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Going back now to the early to mid-19th century, for more than three decades during that span,
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Robert E. Lee served as an officer in the U.S. military.
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He graduated from West Point, went on to play a key role in the Mexican-American War,
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which is a war that isn't talked about very much these days, even though it changed the country forever.
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And at the end of it, Mexico ceded a lot of territory, including California, Utah, Nevada,
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a lot of what we now call Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado.
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And Lee's role in that victory earned him a series of major promotions.
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He was eventually named the superintendent of West Point, which was the military academy he once attended.
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Just a few years after Lee left that post, the state of Virginia, where Lee was born,
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He could accept a post with the Union Army, leading the Union Army, in fact, which was offered to him by Lincoln.
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Or he could defend his home state, which, and if he decided to take the other option and to join the Union,
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then he would be marching against his state, his community, his family, even his own sons.
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It would mean taking up the sword against his own family.
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Now, even though Lee was no great fan of either slavery or the idea of secession,
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he chose to defend his state and his family instead.
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In the end, he felt a greater loyalty to his state and to his community and to his family than he did to the federal government.
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And back in those days, that's how a lot of people felt.
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He resigned from the U.S. military, joined the Confederacy,
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and won some of the most pivotal battles of the war, often when he was up against very long odds.
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and he worked to unify the North and South until his death.
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He was remembered across political lines for many, many decades,
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as both an ingenious tactician and a man of principle and faith.
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Churchill called him one of the best generals in history.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, the President of the United States
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and former commander of Allied forces in Europe during World War II,
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I think there are a good many of you people here,
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both photographers and representatives of the press,
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have been going into my office for the past four and a half years, occasionally.
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No doubt you've noticed that on the walls there are the prints of four men.
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Men that I consider in my book are about the four top Americans of the past.
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They are Franklin, Washington, Lincoln, and Lee.
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And anybody who ever tries to put me in any other relationship with respect to General Lee is mistaken.
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Now, a few years later, a dentist wrote to Eisenhower and wrote a letter
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demanding to know why he had that picture of Robert E. Lee in his office.
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Now, for the next few decades, most Americans agreed with that assessment.
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In the 90s, we had movies venerating Robert E. Lee, starring Martin Sheen.
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The Lee statue, and statues like it, stood in town squares all over the country,
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There were no angry mobs demanding their removal.
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Most people, including those who certainly cannot be described as Confederate sympathizers,
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recognized that the Civil War was fought at a different time, in a different era,
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That's how most people viewed it for decades and decades.
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But somewhere along the line, just the past few years, everything changed.
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Statues of Robert E. Lee and anyone like him had to come down, we were told.
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In fact, you weren't even allowed to express any of the viewpoints
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that nearly everyone held for 100 years before that.
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These statues were not a problem for 100 years.
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But in the last 100 seconds, they became a problem.
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And it was our duty to simply watch as they were all toppled and carried away.
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Now, already, if you're a perceptive and insightful person,
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you might ask yourself, was this a sign of progress?
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Like, was this a good sign when we started going around and had angry mobs
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tearing down all these statues that had been there for a century
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and nobody complained, and then all of a sudden we had to take them on?
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Was this a sign that things were heading in a good direction in our country?
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Were we a better country back when a man like Robert E. Lee was widely respected?
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Or were we a better country when we decided that we could not have any acknowledgement of him
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Which version of the country had greater racial harmony?
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Was it the one back in the 90s when Robert E. Lee's statues were being preserved
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the media did not elevate voices as articulate as Churchill or Eisenhower
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to make the case against the Robert E. Lee monuments.
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Instead, they thrust BLM activists like Zayana Bryant in our faces.
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This is from two years ago, talking about this same monument.
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Zayana, I know you've heard this argument before.
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I'm hoping that you could go ahead and tell critics who feel like removing the statue is whitewashing
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history and a section of our history that we should be engaging with.
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And by removing it, we're acting as though it didn't happen or we're trying to erase a section
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I would say actually erecting these monuments is whitewashing our history.
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At the time of emancipation, Charlottesville and the surrounding area was majority Black.
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And you don't see that narrative by having Confederate monuments standing in the center
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What you see is you see a romanticized version of the South.
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You see memorabilia that makes people feel good about the Civil War.
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But it doesn't tell the story of the South losing.
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It doesn't tell the story of the Confederacy falling.
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There are whole museums that teach people about those legacies and about the history of what
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But what I think we're doing with removing these statues is we're no longer offering a
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And I think that by de-platforming and de-centering those harmful narratives that perpetuate violence
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and that perpetuate oppression is one of the most powerful things that we can do.
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So, again, ask yourself, are we a better country when people like that, when their arguments
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are prevailing or when, you know, when we're listening to Dwight D. Eisenhower and Churchill
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She says the monument was supposed to make people feel good about the Civil War.
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Is that what you think monuments are meant to do?
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What have you ever heard that opinion expressed?
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Gay monuments don't exist to make us feel good about the wars that they are remembering.
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But they do exist to remember because these are events that we should remember.
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Now, first of all, if Zion O'Brien looks familiar and she does have a distinctive
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look, we must admit, that's because you've probably seen her before on this show.
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Bryant is the morbidly obese BLM activist who's officially sponsored by Dove, which is supposedly
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a brand that promotes personal health and beauty, but obviously doesn't anymore.
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Bryant became famous for destroying the life of a University of Virginia student with a false
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So that's the person that we're consulting on issues like this.
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But for a second, let's put aside what a horrible person Zion O'Brien is.
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Let's listen to the argument again that she was making two years ago on behalf of BLM.
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She's supposedly not objecting to the existence of the statue of Robert E. Lee, at least not
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Instead, she's saying that it doesn't belong in a prominent public place, that it shouldn't
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stand in the center of parks towering over whole communities.
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She insists that there are, quote, whole museums that people can go to if they want to see
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Maybe people can even Google pictures of the statue if they're so inclined.
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Now, whatever the case, the argument was that BLM isn't trying to erase history or denigrate
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this nation's heroes or mock white people for honoring one of the most brilliant generals
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They're just trying to put everything in its proper historical context.
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The Lee statue doesn't tell the story of the Confederacy failing, she complains, as if
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the role of a statue is to explain 19th century history in detail.
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There were a lot of black people in Virginia, she goes on to say, and Lee was not black.
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Therefore, this statue needs to come down and go to a museum where it belongs.
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Now, none of that made any sense at the time, unless, of course, the goal was never to move
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the statue of Robert E. Lee, but instead to destroy it entirely.
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If that was the intent, then everything just went according to plan.
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As I said at the top, activists and university faculty members, with the help of local legislators,
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just melted down the statue of Robert E. Lee in secret in an undisclosed location.
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After saying for years that they just wanted to move it to a museum, what they forgot to
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mention is that the museum they move it to is then going to take it and destroy it.
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Now, they won't even say what state this destruction occurred in, but the leftists who demolished
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Lee's statue made sure to release a video of it happening.
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Okay, so they not only removed the statue, they not only destroyed it, but they melted
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it and took a video of it and made sure to publish the video.
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They gave an inanimate statue of a Civil War general the Terminator treatment.
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In fact, just a few days ago, black male was murdered by another black male a short distance
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So it doesn't seem like the area is now suddenly safer.
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All those images of the statue being melted down were accompanied by a lot of gloating.
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The Washington Post, for example, spoke to the executive director of Charlottesville Black
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Well, they can't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
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That's according to Andrea Douglas, the museum's executive director, as she watched pieces of
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The Post went on to interview another UVA activist behind this destruction, who said, quote,
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Jelaine Schmidt, who, this is reading now from the article, Jelaine Schmidt, who directs the
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memory project at UVA's Karsh Institute of Democracy, said she felt like she was preparing
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Like if there's a rabid dog in the neighborhood that's been hurting people and it needs to
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We want to transform it into a piece of art that community can be proud of and gather around
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Yes, because, of course, when you euthanize a rabid dog, you put it in a furnace and everyone
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gathers around and celebrates it, they won't be intimidated anymore.
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Okay, what kind of dog euthanasia has this person been a part of?
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Turning the Lee statue into an inclusive art display, it's not a humiliation ritual at
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We're also supposed to believe that the statue was hurting people.
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Was it coming alive like night at the museum and assaulting innocent civilians in the middle
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And why didn't anyone ever notice this damage or mention it for the first eight or nine decades
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Why are people in the 2020s more hurt by Civil War memorials than people who lived closer to
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Okay, how did the wounds of the Civil War become fresher over time?
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How is some 20-something-year-old in the year 2023, how is it that for them, it's like too
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We can't have Civil War acknowledgment anywhere.
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And yet it wasn't in the 1930s or 40s or 50s or 60s or 70s or 80s or 90s.
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None of this makes any sense until you realize that the campaign to tear down Confederate
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statues was always, from the very beginning, a proxy in the overall war on American history.
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They just can't be honest about it because they're never honest about anything.
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And all the deception is necessary in this case because these activists have much bigger
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They never plan to stop with melting down the Robert E. Lee statue, and they haven't.
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Indeed, the Lee statue is far from the only statue that's been destroyed, of course, or
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According to an investigation from the Madrid newspaper El Pais, the city of Richmond maintains
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a secret open-air graveyard for statues that were toppled in 2020.
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And these statues are disassembled and thrown into storage.
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A lot of contractors apparently passed on these disassembly gigs for obvious reasons.
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But eventually, Democrats in the state landed on a guy named Devin Henry, who is willing to
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Quoting from the investigation, Henry estimates that he has dismantled 24 structures between Richmond
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The latter is home to the University of Virginia and is one of the cities that acknowledged
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historical pain and chose to melt down and reuse the materials.
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Now, they've destroyed pretty much every statue remotely associated with the Confederacy.
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That includes a monument to Stonewall Jackson, who likely was a hero of the Mexican-American
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War, widely regarded as one of the best military commanders in history.
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Devin Henry also dismantled a monument to the Confederate General A.P. Hill, who also distinguished
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As El Pais reports, the statue of Hill now has its head, quote, dishonorably stuck in
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a tire waiting to be wrapped up in white plastic.
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All this to say, they're not putting any of these statues in museums.
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The museum gambit was always a lie, something that only the most gullible among us could have
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And sadly, there are a lot of gullible people among us.
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The Jefferson Davis statue, post-BLM riots, was taken down and was displayed in the Valentine
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Toppled, desecrated, and covered in graffiti in the museum.
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There are many more examples, but you get the point.
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There was never any intention to memorialize history here.
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Leftists are doing something to leaders of the Confederacy that they won't even do to
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I mean, you could still walk into the World War II Museum and see Nazi artifacts if you
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want, posters, flags, weaponry, even Nazi games, board games.
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But they don't want you seeing any relics of the Confederacy under any circumstance, whether
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In fact, even if you agree with removing the Lee statue in Charlottesville, which I don't,
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but even if you do, you must at least acknowledge that it is a historic artifact.
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All of the controversy over it just makes it more historically significant.
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You are literally destroying history when you destroy it.
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And the destruction is a gratuitous act that can only be meant to send an ideological and
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That's why the mob quickly moved from the Confederacy to tearing down statues of pretty much any
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white person who happened to be born prior to the 20th century.
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What this tells us is that leftists are preoccupied, above all, with erasing the history and traditions
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It's about dominating and humiliating those that they identify as the enemy.
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We should remember that we're in this situation now because Republicans across the country,
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including in Washington, people calling themselves conservatives, that is the people who are supposed
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to be conserving things like history, let it happen.
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They were too afraid of being called racist to say anything about it.
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They were too weak to stand up to this cultural vandalism when it took root.
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And they're still too weak to stand up for it or to it.
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If Republicans had any moral fortitude whatsoever, they would respond to the destruction of the
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Lee statue by painting over every George Floyd mural and tearing down and destroying every
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single one of his grotesque, disgusting monuments.
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If Robert E. Lee doesn't deserve to be honored, then a violent drug addict who robbed women
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and ripped off convenience stores certainly doesn't pass muster.
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So throw his bus and golden coffins in the furnace as well.
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But that won't happen, of course, because we've come a very long way since Eisenhower.
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Unfortunately, we're heading in the wrong direction.
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And frankly, at this point, it probably won't be long until Eisenhower's memorial is melted
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down, too, especially after they see that video.
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They'll turn it into an inclusive art display, another display of inclusivity that excludes
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And if we keep electing politicians who are too afraid to say so, then ultimately they will
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Adam Johnson, a former NHL forward, has died after his neck was cut by another player's
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skate during a game Saturday in Sheffield, England.
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The fatal collision, which Johnson team has called a freak accident, occurred midway through
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the second period of an elite ice hockey league game between Johnson's Nottingham Panthers
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Video footage appeared to show an opposing player's skate strike Johnson in the neck.
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A terrifying scene that prompted officials to empty the arena as medical personnel rushed
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Now, we do have Matt Petgrave, by the way, is the player that kicked him.
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And it gets graphic at a certain point, but we'll play at least the first part of it so
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Now, we're told this is a freak accident, but I'm not sure if we call that an accident.
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And he was cut in the throat and he died, you know, basically on the hockey rink.
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Um, so I guess I can't say for sure that people don't generally get kicked in the throat while
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playing hockey, but I'm pretty sure that they don't.
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I could say with relative confidence that this is not the kind of thing that usually happens
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on a, you know, there are collisions and injuries that happen, um, on the, uh, out on
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I think that this is the kind of thing that just in a natural course of playing hockey,
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and I have talked to several people who do play hockey and are familiar with it.
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And they've all said that that doesn't, those kinds of, that's, that does not look
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So just using some common sense, it certainly is hard to see how a person could, could be
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accidentally slashed in the throat with an ice skate while they're standing.
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Now, it's one thing if Johnson had fallen onto the ice first.
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And when I first heard about this, that somebody was cut in the, in the neck and died, uh, while
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playing hockey, I figured that they, that they had fallen on the ice and then someone ran
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into them in there and, and, uh, and injured them that way.
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And then in that case, yeah, you would call that a freak accident.
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This does not look so accidental to me, uh, because he's upright and Petgrave flailed his
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Um, uh, even though the media has pretty much universally declared it as an accident and
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they're just saying, well, that's an accident, nothing to see here.
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Um, so for my vantage point, it seems that the death was accidental, but the kick was intentional.
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He was trying to kick him to impede his movements or knock him down or whatever.
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I'm, I'm, I think we can assume he didn't expect that it would end with Johnson bleeding
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And he needs to be charged and held accountable.
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You know, there's, there, there, there can't be, uh, a sports exception for what is at a
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And it's no different than any comparable situation outside of a sports context.
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It's like, you know, if you are in traffic and you get mad at somebody and it's a road
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And so you aggressively cut them off in a dangerous way and then they swerve and they get into
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Well, yeah, you, you, you probably didn't have that last part in mind.
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Maybe you weren't trying to kill them, but you did intentionally do something dangerous
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and reckless in a way that was targeted at that specific person who then died because
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And obviously in both cases, you have to be charged.
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Um, because someone died and you have to be held accountable.
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So it's a terrible tragedy, but, uh, uh, it's, it's kind of bizarre to me to see most
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of the media just immediately declaring, oh, it was an accident.
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Real-time host Bill Maher confronted former Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on
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the nursing home scandal that plagued his handling of COVID.
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While sexual harassment allegations led to Cuomo's ousting from office in August, 2021,
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there was a lingering controversy over his ill-fated policy in March, 2020, ordering nursing homes
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to accept COVID patients in order to prevent overwhelming New York's hospital system.
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That led to the deaths of over 4,100 nursing home residents during Friday's overtime segment
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on YouTube, Maher read a viewer question, uh, posed to Cuomo asking whether he would have
00:26:31.020
First, this is Monday morning quarterbacking by which I could make the New York Jets champion
00:26:36.100
When COVID started, it was all of the dis, all the disinformation was amazing.
00:26:44.240
So he's saying there was disinformation was coming from China and they didn't know any better.
00:26:47.980
Um, and so they did what they could with the information they had available.
00:26:53.920
Now, along these same lines, we also heard in the same episode from NYU professor Scott
00:26:58.660
Galloway, who was a big proponent of mandates and lockdowns and all the rest of it.
00:27:03.280
And, uh, here's what he had to say about, uh, the response from people like him to COVID.
00:27:10.320
Well, I was on the board of my kid's school during COVID.
00:27:17.060
The, the, the damage to kids of keeping them out of school longer was greater than the risks.
00:27:28.800
We were all operating with imperfect information and we were doing our best.
00:27:33.040
So it's, it's, it's, well, so let's, but let's learn from it.
00:27:43.740
Let's hold each other accountable, but let's bring a little bit of grace and forgiveness
00:27:52.080
So we hear again about the need for grace and forgiveness.
00:27:55.000
And, uh, as always this calling for grace and forgiveness coming from people who, uh,
00:28:00.780
would never extend it the other way to their own ideological opponents and never do.
00:28:06.620
Um, and this particular guy, I don't know anything about him.
00:28:11.440
Um, but very often with these people, you know, if, if they say that they should get grace
00:28:18.660
and forgiveness for doing things or, or, or for calling for actions that, I mean, that
00:28:26.860
In the case of, in the case of Cuomo, the case of Cuomo killed, directly killed thousands
00:28:34.720
And, um, the people that were pushing for lockdowns for so long, I mean, that killed people too.
00:28:42.040
And isolating, taking kids and isolating them in this way, the damage,
00:28:48.660
damage that was done to those children is, it's literally immeasurable.
00:28:58.000
Um, because it, it, it, they were damaged at such a deep level.
00:29:03.340
And so for that, they want grace and forgiveness.
00:29:05.720
But a lot of these people, if you were to ask them, you know, what about, um, what kind
00:29:09.560
of grace and forgiveness would you give to someone for, I don't know, quote unquote, misgendering
00:29:14.080
a trans person for that, destroy their lives, get them fired, destroy their lives.
00:29:18.660
But hey, if you're a governor and you did something that, uh, killed thousands of elderly
00:29:24.440
people, hey, it's, it's, uh, they, they were doing their best.
00:29:40.040
If we were in May of 2020 right now, or, or June of 2020 and someone who advocated for
00:29:46.220
lockdowns initially a few months beforehand, that would mean was coming out and changing
00:29:51.640
their mind in May or June or July of 2020 or something like that, a few months later,
00:30:02.320
Uh, there was a lot we didn't know initially you were scared, whatever.
00:30:13.900
And that's significant because a lot of these people who are asking for forgiveness and grace
00:30:18.700
now COVID amnesty or whatever, whatever you want to call it.
00:30:22.180
A lot of these people, maybe all of them were still advocating for lockdowns and mandates
00:30:29.080
I mean, they were pushing for it in June of 2021.
00:30:37.620
These people were pushing this for a year, a year and a half, two years, even longer.
00:30:44.680
You know, I remember I went to that Davidson County school board meeting in, um, that would
00:30:50.960
have been August of 2021, uh, to speak out against their mask mandate.
00:30:56.320
And I was accused of being a homicidal, uh, you know, COVID loving maniac at the time.
00:31:12.100
No one is saying that everyone had to have everything figured out from the very first moment.
00:31:17.960
I mean, nobody did, but when, when it, it first happened and COVID first made it here to the
00:31:24.420
United States, nobody knew everything about it immediately.
00:31:29.020
And no one is saying that you had to know everything about it immediately.
00:31:32.620
But these people were not just pushing this tyranny in the first moment.
00:31:38.960
They were pushing it in the first moment and then in every other moment after that for
00:31:43.800
years, not just weeks or months, but for years.
00:31:53.000
They were shouting down and trying to actively silence the people who were right and who the
00:32:02.140
Scott Galloways of the world now admit were right.
00:32:08.860
Like they're saying the things that we were saying before, but he's not saying, oh, those
00:32:12.720
other people were right because that's, that's maybe the most important detail in all this.
00:32:17.600
Before I could ever even consider forgiving one of these people or what, before I could ever
00:32:24.900
consider giving a vote for amnesty for someone like this, and I still wouldn't, but before
00:32:29.520
I could even consider it, what I would need to hear from them is not, oh, I didn't know.
00:32:43.260
I want to hear you didn't listen because that's what actually happened.
00:32:49.840
When it comes to, he was talking about shutting down schools.
00:32:52.420
From the very beginning, there were many people who were saying, don't do this.
00:33:06.960
One of the reasons is that COVID was, was not especially dangerous for children.
00:33:14.900
And that is one of the things we knew about COVID basically from the beginning.
00:33:18.920
There are other things we didn't know from the beginning.
00:33:20.340
We, one thing, one of the facts that we knew from the beginning and that, and that, you
00:33:24.720
know, was a fact that was established almost immediately and remained a fact the entire
00:33:30.040
time is that this is not especially dangerous for kids.
00:33:33.740
That the flu is more dangerous for kids than COVID.
00:33:45.300
Now, we knew, like we as in the universal, we, this was a known fact that was out there
00:33:54.160
It was a knowable fact, but you didn't listen to the people who were trying to tell you.
00:34:00.100
Not only did you not listen, but you went out of your way to shut them down.
00:34:09.500
But I don't think we've heard that yet, have we?
00:34:12.500
We've heard for the calls for forgiveness and grace, but the people that are calling
00:34:16.220
for this, they never say, hey, listen, I didn't listen to you guys.
00:34:23.220
I didn't listen to, in fact, not only did I not listen, but I tried to shut you down.
00:34:28.420
And I was wrong for doing that, and I'm sorry, and I'm not going to make that mistake again.
00:34:34.900
And in the future, when the other side is telling me things that I don't want to hear,
00:34:40.220
I will at least listen to them and let them speak.
00:34:45.160
I don't think we've heard that from a single one of these people, have we?
00:34:54.500
Nobody could have known these things that millions of people were actually saying from
00:35:03.420
So this is, you know, you can't really have, even if we wanted to talk about forgiveness,
00:35:10.260
even if we were interested in forgiveness, you can't actually have forgiveness without
00:35:26.860
So they're pretending that they are, but they actually aren't.
00:35:31.960
And the reason why someone like this is never going to come out and say, hey, I should have
00:35:38.640
He's not going to say that because then he knows that going forward on any other topic,
00:35:45.060
he's not going to be able to call for us all to be silenced on some other issue because
00:35:50.880
he'll already have admitted that, you know, there are times when instinctively he disagrees
00:35:57.020
with what we're saying, but then he turns out to be wrong.
00:36:02.060
You know, they can take their COVID amnesty and shove it as far as I'm concerned.
00:36:10.940
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday dropped his bid for the Republican presidential
00:36:15.040
nomination, ending his campaign for the White House after struggling to raise money and
00:36:21.140
Pence said at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual gathering in Las Vegas,
00:36:27.480
So after much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to suspend my campaign for president
00:36:33.280
Pence went on to tell the friendly audience, we always knew this would be an uphill battle,
00:36:37.640
The audience apparently reacted with audible surprise to the announcement and gave him multiple
00:36:43.740
If there's anything, it is somewhat, obviously it's not a surprise that his campaign was a
00:36:48.980
It's maybe somewhat surprising that he's dropped out so early.
00:36:52.440
Because for a lot of these guys who have no shot of winning, you just sort of assume,
00:36:58.080
right, those of us who are normal, we look at these, some of these people and we look
00:37:03.020
at this crowded GOP field and all these people that are in it that they're not going to,
00:37:07.580
there's no chance, you know, Asa Hutchinson is still in the race, I believe.
00:37:14.700
No one is quite sure, but he's still in the race.
00:37:17.060
And you look at someone like that and you think, well, they must be up to, they must have
00:37:22.460
There must be some other reason why they're running.
00:37:30.700
And in some cases that's, that's probably true.
00:37:35.960
He didn't, it appears he didn't have an ulterior motive.
00:37:41.400
Um, and probably he'll try to sell a book, but that wasn't really what it was about.
00:37:46.860
That's actually, that's the only thing surprising about it.
00:37:48.920
Maybe when you see him drop out so early, you realize, oh, okay.
00:37:55.400
And then the polls, and then he could only get 0.01% of the polls.
00:37:59.040
And then he eventually decided to drop out because he can't win.
00:38:01.220
So the only surprising thing is if someone like this thought he could win, but then what
00:38:06.960
you have to realize is that most of these people, like, it's not good if people are running
00:38:12.540
for president with an ulterior motive and it's all just a game and really they just want
00:38:19.120
But that at least is probably preferable to the alternative, which is that these people
00:38:26.360
And then you realize that this is what, these are the kinds of people that are attracted
00:38:33.140
These are the kinds of people that often run from, like, you have to be, to start with,
00:38:38.360
almost delusionally narcissistic to think that you even should be president to begin with.
00:38:45.860
And so it attracts a lot of people like that who are, who are deluded by their own narcissism.
00:38:53.060
But at least he listened to the, to the wake up call eventually.
00:39:00.240
One thing we talk about on the show sometimes are national anthem performances.
00:39:04.440
And you know, I take this very seriously as we all should, because it's the national anthem.
00:39:20.180
Fox has the report, rapper Flavor Flav drew mixed reactions from NBA fans after he sang
00:39:25.820
the national anthem ahead of Sunday night's game between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Atlanta Hawks.
00:39:31.220
The six-time Grammy Award nominated artist, he's been nominated for six Grammys, sported
00:39:36.860
a green Bucks jersey over a white sweatshirt and a matching white hat.
00:39:40.340
So Flava Flav performed, this is the guy that they enlisted to perform the national anthem.
00:39:49.620
It's like a, you're expecting like a Roseanne performance of the, that infamous performance
00:40:16.980
Who grows strife and bright stars through the perilous fight for the ramparts we watched.
00:40:43.980
You know, I gotta say, it's not as bad as I thought it would be.
00:41:10.440
It's like, it is a D minus performance of the national anthem, but it's,
00:41:18.200
It's probably better than I would do, which is the lowest possible bar that you could imagine.
00:41:31.200
So he's attempting to, to, to do the song, do justice to the song and sing it.
00:41:41.760
It's actually better than, although it's a D minus performance of the national anthem,
00:41:47.880
I would rank it ahead of many of the performances from actual gifted singers.
00:41:55.560
Like, you know, so, so that of the famous people, if we can call Flava Flav still famous,
00:42:02.460
that have performed the national anthem, he probably, it's a D minus performance,
00:42:05.880
but he's probably, you know, he's, he's, he's, he's probably in the top 20.
00:42:15.780
And usually when you get someone's performing the national anthem and they get some celebrity,
00:42:19.760
uh, cameo to perform, they're trying to show off their voice too much.
00:42:25.740
And this is what, especially the actual talented singers, this is the, this is the, the, the pitfall
00:42:32.120
for them is that they're trying to show, they're trying to showcase their own voices.
00:42:37.460
And that's not what the national anthem is for.
00:42:41.200
So instead he just went very workmanlike performance of the national anthem, which is what it should be.
00:42:45.800
And so it ends up being a bad performance, but still better, but still ranks like in the upper echelon.
00:43:00.500
Another quick, I've had this story for several days sitting here and I just want to mention it now.
00:43:04.860
Uh, New York times report says a few days after Beck Lawrence was profiled in a business newsletter
00:43:11.280
about the tarot card readings they offered at their shop in Hanover, Pennsylvania.
00:43:15.800
The police chief dropped by for a visit, but it was not to have his fortune told.
00:43:19.900
Instead, Chief Chad E. Martin informed Mix Lawrence, MX.Lawrence, at, at their witchcraft
00:43:28.660
theme store, the Serpent's Key Shop and Sanctuary on October 5th, that any complaints about the
00:43:34.000
readings would lead to an investigation citing an archaic state law that makes it illegal
00:43:41.580
Mix Lawrence, who uses they, them pronouns, said in a telephone interview on Friday,
00:43:46.260
he informed me basically that he is not here to arrest me or press charges.
00:43:49.160
However, if he ever gets a report from anyone, he will be back on my doorstep.
00:43:54.080
Mix Lawrence, who moved to Hanover in 2019 and opened the shop in January, offers a menu
00:43:59.900
of tarot card readings, which cost $10 to $100 either in person or over Zoom.
00:44:04.620
Signs are posted saying the services are for entertainment purposes only.
00:44:07.500
Candles, soaps, and other handmade merchandise are also sold there.
00:44:11.640
So that, it's actually a long report in the New York Times, they're very troubled by this,
00:44:15.760
that there is a law in, in Pennsylvania, at least, that makes it illegal to, you know,
00:44:25.840
I'm not sure if psychics would fall into this, but I'm assuming they probably would,
00:44:31.340
that technically it's illegal if somebody files a complaint, which I hope they do.
00:44:36.880
I hope they do, because I think this is a great law.
00:44:38.500
Now, first of all, the fact that she identifies as mix, you know, because this is someone who
00:44:44.180
identifies as non-binary, and so they can't, she can't go by miss, she has to go by mix.
00:44:49.860
Now, what does it mean to identify as a mix and MX?
00:44:53.980
Like, how do you, so she's decided that miss doesn't work for her, she doesn't identify as it,
00:45:01.040
but mix MX really speaks to her, that, that, that speaks to her inner identity in a certain way.
00:45:07.100
Like, how do you discover that you're really a mix deep inside?
00:45:12.400
In fact, the New York Times just drops that MX thing into it, and doesn't even,
00:45:18.400
this is where we're at now, they don't even bother to explain it.
00:45:21.060
At least when they first started doing this, referring to, quote unquote, non-binary people as MX.
00:45:28.740
Um, initially, if you saw it in something like a New York Times article, they would explain it,
00:45:33.800
and they would say, oh, mix Lawrence identifies as mix because of this.
00:45:38.220
Now they just accept, they expect you to just accept it, which we shouldn't.
00:45:43.340
As for the law, I think it's a great law, and it makes a lot of sense, um,
00:45:46.860
because here's the thing about psychics and tarot card readers and so on.
00:45:56.360
Either they're scam artists or they're not, and if they're not, then it's demonic.
00:46:03.040
So either it's a scam, which is the case almost always,
00:46:07.080
they're scamming people for money, and that should be legal.
00:46:09.600
Or if you really do have those powers, then these are not, uh, these are not godly powers
00:46:16.760
that were granted to you so that you could sell them as a party trick.
00:46:21.160
This is a demonic power that you have, apparently.
00:46:25.440
You're either possessed by a devil or you're, uh, or you're a scam artist.
00:46:43.340
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I actually forgot that it was Halloween until I saw someone here walking around dressed up like Winnie the Pooh,
00:47:51.940
which is a thing that just happened a few moments ago.
00:47:56.280
And what I'll say to everyone here at The Daily Wire who is dressing a cotton,
00:48:02.220
I don't know how many people are wearing the costumes today,
00:48:04.740
but they know they're lucky that I'm not in charge and that everyone in charge doesn't listen to me.
00:48:13.140
They're lucky on both counts because it's cause for immediate termination.
00:48:16.800
I've said this before, I think that if I owned a company or if I was a manager,
00:48:22.460
what I would do is I would say to my employees, sure, you can dress up for Halloween.
00:48:27.780
We're not going to have a Halloween party because we're adults and this is a place of employment.
00:48:33.000
But yeah, if you want to wear a costume on Halloween as an adult to work, go ahead.
00:48:43.120
So let them make their choice and then fire them for the choice they made.
00:48:53.220
In fact, even my own children are starting to grow out of it because the older ones anyway.
00:48:59.660
Like we took our kids to Boo at the Zoo a few days ago here in Nashville,
00:49:04.300
which is a great event if you, you know, a little plug for them.
00:49:07.600
It's like it's their Halloween thing they do at the zoo.
00:49:10.140
All the kids come and they're dressed up and they get candy.
00:49:12.100
And we're walking around and our 10-year-old twins were like not that into it.
00:49:18.220
And my wife is distraught about it because she's saying the whole time,
00:49:28.020
And this is how you know you're getting to the age.
00:49:32.060
At what age are you too old to go trick-or-treating?
00:49:38.620
I don't know if there's one simple cutoff, but when it gets to the point where the only
00:49:45.100
reason it's like when it gets to the point where the kids attitude to trick-or-treating,
00:49:50.380
it's like they're hitting the coal mines and it's just all they're doing.
00:49:54.300
They're just, they're just in it for the candy and nothing else.
00:49:57.160
Unless all of the real, all the kind of like joy and all that of Halloween's kind of gone
00:50:01.780
and all they care about is just going house to house and get as much candy as they possibly
00:50:07.640
But at that point, that's when, it's like when they take that kind of really practical
00:50:14.980
approach to Halloween, which is where my older kids are now, where they're already kind of
00:50:22.920
Again, totally understand, but that's when you're getting to the age where it's probably,
00:50:27.780
you're probably a little too old for trick-or-treating, in my opinion.
00:50:34.860
We led the show on Friday with a discussion about the link between psychiatric medicines
00:50:40.040
And so a lot of people think I was wrong about that.
00:50:43.740
Sky Gunn says, you're making a false correlation here.
00:50:46.860
That's like suggesting the people that drink whiskey and Coke, rum and Coke and Coke and vodka
00:50:51.040
and get drunk or getting drunk on Coke because Coke is the common denominator.
00:50:58.280
I'm not even sure what point you're trying to make here, but I will say that the drugs
00:51:07.920
In your argument, you're comparing the psychiatric drugs to the Coca-Cola, I assume, except the
00:51:19.180
psychiatric drugs, I mean, they're more comparable to Coke back when they used to put cocaine in it
00:51:24.220
because the psychiatric drugs are mind-altering substances.
00:51:30.540
And so it's just a fact that a lot of the people who go out and commit mass shootings
00:51:41.320
And it's worth asking the question about whether that mind-altering substance had something to do with it.
00:51:49.080
And if their mind was not altered in that way, would they have committed the crime?
00:51:52.660
I talk about the cultural factors all the time.
00:52:15.240
In any kind of mass shooting, you're also going to find very often broken homes.
00:52:20.260
You're going to find that the father was not present.
00:52:23.600
Either physically not present or was there, but wasn't doing much to raise their own kids.
00:52:39.320
That, okay, you have someone, you have a kid, let's just, a hypothetical scenario that we've seen play out
00:52:45.220
You have a kid who is very troubled and is becoming aggressive and hostile and violent and lashing out.
00:52:56.140
And then the kid goes in and gets put on a high dose of psychiatric medicine.
00:53:01.980
Except that, and then in some of those cases, the kid then goes on to commit a school shooting.
00:53:07.140
Well, to your point about the cultural factors and the family factors,
00:53:12.080
you can look and see what's going on in their lives many times,
00:53:15.540
and you can figure out why they were lashing out and getting aggressive and violent.
00:53:21.280
And a lot of times it has to do with a broken home, a divorce, all these kinds of things.
00:53:28.660
So the psychiatric medicine assumes that the person has some kind of mental sickness.
00:53:34.660
And I don't know how we can assume a mental sickness if we can look at what's going on in their life
00:53:39.900
and easily identify major factors that, major environmental type factors that are playing into this.
00:53:49.640
And so we should be addressing those factors rather than trying to do the band-aid approach
00:53:54.100
of putting them on a bunch of drugs to kind of numb them
00:53:57.440
so that they're no longer as affected by this thing that's happening in their life.
00:54:04.680
The elephant in the room is a lack of God with a heavy dose of violent video games,
00:54:09.900
time on the dark web, not practicing one's faith.
00:54:14.960
I have two kids on controlled meds, but that's only part of the treatment.
00:54:23.660
I don't think that when it comes to this that we should be narrowing it down to any one thing,
00:54:29.380
which is what which is why you'll find with me when it comes to mass shootings.
00:54:35.220
I've talked about psychiatric medicines, the lack, you know, the kind of spiritual hopelessness and despair
00:54:41.660
that's rife in our culture, broken homes, all these things, how they factor in.
00:54:47.140
And all of that should be part of the conversation.
00:54:50.000
But from what I've noticed, most of the things that you mentioned, Debbie, people do talk about.
00:54:54.840
The one thing that we tend to skip over are the drugs themselves.
00:55:01.280
And we have to stop doing that because, as we talked about on Friday,
00:55:06.840
the drug companies themselves admit that the drugs that they're putting these people on
00:55:13.460
can cause them to become aggressive, to become suicidal.
00:55:18.620
You know, which is really, I don't know, we're sort of numb to it in many ways.
00:55:26.400
You're giving a drug to someone that, according to the drug maker,
00:55:31.380
could put thoughts in their head that they wouldn't otherwise have.
00:55:38.480
You're giving them a substance that can cause them to think things that they wouldn't have otherwise thought.
00:55:44.100
I'm not saying we should, that there's never a place for those kinds of drugs.
00:55:50.360
But right now, the place for those kinds of drugs is basically, you know,
00:55:55.580
as soon as someone shows up at the psychiatrist's office and says,
00:55:58.620
I'm struggling with this or that, immediately the pen comes out and the prescription is written.
00:56:04.720
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Today for our daily cancellation, we have a classic.
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This is a new viral video, but it belongs to a trusty genre.
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Here we have a trans-identified male who apparently enjoys going out to restaurants alone
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so that he can film the waitstaff, quote unquote, misgendering him.
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He dangles himself out as bait, waits for some unsuspecting service worker to accurately
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identify him as man, captures it on video, and then posts it for likes and supportive
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Okay, let's pause it just for a moment to clarify something.
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The waiter in that first clip appears to be speaking directly into the camera and describing
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the dish that was just served to the trans-identified dude.
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And so these are the lengths that the dude is going to, all in an effort to bait people into,
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Because, so we can assume that like he asked the waiter to address whoever his audience is
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And he knew that the waiter would likely use third-person pronouns when talking about
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The waiter's just trying to do his job while this guy springs elaborate traps just so he
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I also, I did specifically ask ahead of time not to be called sir.
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I was wondering if there's a manager I could talk to about something that happened.
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I just want to tell you that the person who gave me this called me sir.
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It's just like, it kind of just hurts a lot to get called sir.
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It is a knife in the gut when I get called sir.
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It hurts more, though, and it's not intentional because it means, like, this is sir to him.
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I know when people clock me, it's fine, but, like, it does kind of hurt.
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The guy who dropped the food off, he called me sir twice in a row.
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Now, the thing that makes this video interesting and somewhat challenging is trying to decide
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what is the most reprehensible and disgusting thing about this man.
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Is it that he goes around trying to get random waiters fired for being polite?
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Is it that he dresses in crop tops that expose his flabby, disgusting stomach?
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Is it that he wears matching outfits with his dog that he also brings into restaurants with him?
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Is it just his general aura as an entitled, narcissistic, callous, manipulative jackass?
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Whichever you choose, the point is that this man couldn't be more viscerally unlikable if he tried.
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But we should be thankful for the service he's providing here.
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Because if there's anyone in America who still somehow was not clued in yet, maybe this will do the trick.
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Maybe this will finally prove the point that I have been trying to make all along,
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which is that trans ideology is not primarily a product of innocent confusion.
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Okay, a seven-year-old boy who identifies as a girl is confused because he's been made confused.
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Same for an adolescent girl who identifies as a boy.
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But a grown man like this, this kind of guy who represents the vast majority of trans activists, by the way, he is not really confused.
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It's doubtful that he actually thinks he's a woman.
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He likes to present himself as a woman, which is not the same, present himself badly as a woman, but that's how he presents himself.
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But that's not the same thing as thinking that he is one.
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But whether legitimately confused or not, he is a fetishist, and wearing women's clothing is really a secondary aspect of his fetish.
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The primary thrill for him is manipulating and controlling people.
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He enjoys wielding his emotions like a sledgehammer smacking anyone over the head who happens to briefly interact with him.
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He claims that it's a dagger in the heart when he is misgendered, quote-unquote.
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And yet he goes out of his way to film these moments and to put people in a situation where they might do the thing he claims he doesn't want them to do.
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And that's because his emotions are as fake and contrived as his womanhood.
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And yet he's been empowered, not just by the left, but even by many on the right,
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who for so many years refused to be honest about and to guys like this.
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You know, the correct response to this man, if he tries to lecture you for accurately gendering him,
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But you have none of the latter, and I have none of the former for you.
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Instead of sir, I'd be happy to call you dude or fella or chief.
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But what I won't call you is anything that denotes womanhood because you are not a woman, champ.
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So I will continue to call you whatever the hell I want to call you,
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and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.
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I'm not sorry if it offends you, and I care about your feelings about as much as you care about anyone else's,
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Now, that is both the most accurate and most moral way to respond to somebody like this,
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except that, you know, if the waiter at the restaurant says that or anything close to it,
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And it would be heroic and good if he said it anyway and sacrificed himself or at least his job for the sake of truth and justice,
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but that's not a choice that most people will make, and that's understandable.
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And bullies like the guy in the video, they know that,
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and so they specifically pick on people whose lives they think they can destroy.
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and it's almost always, have you noticed, in a customer service setting.
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Because these are people that they feel they have control over.
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They don't usually go up to random people on the street.
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I'm just waiting for me to get one of these TikTok videos.
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Oh, excuse me, you called me, you called me, sir.
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Because they're picking on people they think they can control.
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Which is why it's all the more important for those of us who are not as vulnerable as the waiter to speak up.
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And it's not enough to just meekly raise your trembling hand off at a distance and say,
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well, geez, I'm not trying to hurt anyone, and sorry if this offends you,
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but I guess I just, I feel like maybe it's okay sometimes if some people don't agree that men are women.
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That kind of soft and scared approach doesn't work in general.
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It especially doesn't work when you're up against ruthless sociopaths
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who will happily take someone's job for noticing that a man is a man.
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The only effective strategy is to be blunt and direct and utterly dismissive of their fake performative feelings.
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And maybe now the country is starting to figure that out.
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But in the meantime, this guy and his matching dog outfits are today canceled.