Ep. 1293 - Corrupt Trump Prosecutor Plays The Most Absurd Race Card We’ve Ever Seen
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Summary
Fannie Willis, the DA in Fulton County, Georgia, is allegedly in a sexual relationship with the man that she hired to prosecute Trump. This would seem like a major scandal, but she says that if you have a problem with it, that s only because you re racist. Also, Donald Trump finally goes after Vivek Ramaswamy as the Iowa caucuses get underway. Nikki Haley gets a chance to answer the Can a Man Become a Woman question, and to no one s surprise, she flubs it. Plus, a woman secretly records herself getting fired.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Fannie Willis, the DA in Fulton County, Georgia, is allegedly in a
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sexual relationship with the man that she hired to prosecute Trump. This would seem like a major
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scandal, but she says that if you have a problem with it, that's only because you're racist. Also,
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Donald Trump finally goes after Vivek Ramaswamy as the Iowa caucuses get underway. Nikki Haley
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gets a chance to answer the can a man become a woman question, and to no one's surprise,
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she flubs it. Plus, a woman secretly records herself getting fired. The video has gone
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very viral. Most people are on the woman's side, but I have a different take.
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I'll explain all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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slash Walsh today. Welcome to the show from the home office today. We got four inches of snow here
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in Nashville. So once again, that's brought upon the apocalypse as it usually does. We won't be able
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to use these roads for probably three and a half months due to the light dusting we just experienced.
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But in any event, let's get into it. So three years ago, as BLM rioters torched businesses
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throughout her state, a little-known woman by the name of Fannie Willis was campaigning to become
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the district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia. Now, she was running against the incumbent,
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D.A. Paul Howard, who hadn't faced a serious challenger in more than two decades. Now, in normal times,
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this would have been a long-shot campaign. But Willis knew that the moral panic after George Floyd's
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overdose death made district attorneys unpopular all over the country. She was facing a once-in-a-lifetime
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opportunity to take out Howard. So she went for it. Willis' campaign strategy was pretty simple.
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She accused Paul Howard of corruption and painted herself as an alternative watch.
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Funny, Willis spent 17 years employed as a prosecutor by Fulton County District Attorney Paul
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Howard. Now she faces Howard in Tuesday's runoff. And she's not at all shy about clobbering her former
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boss when asked about the contest. I think it's a choice, actually, between integrity and corruption,
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good and bad. I think it's a classic fight. And I think that citizens will have to make a choice.
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We have a district attorney now that works for his own self-interest, seems to care about the
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things that benefit him and not the community. I think it's a choice, actually, between integrity
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and corruption, good and bad, says Fannie Willis. That's an argument that resonated in Fulton County,
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probably because Paul Howard was indeed corrupt. So later that year, Willis overwhelmingly defeated
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Howard and became Fulton County's district attorney. The problem for residents of Fulton County,
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Georgia, is that Willis' entire campaign turned out to be, as is so often the case in political
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campaigns, a textbook example of the psychological phenomenon known as projection. Fannie Willis,
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we're now learning, is in fact an order of magnitude more corrupt than Paul Howard. She's
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not simply accused of skimming a small amount of money from taxpayers or failing to disclose some
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conflicts of interest. To be clear, Fannie Willis is accused of both of those things, as I'll explain
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in a moment. But unlike Paul Howard, Fannie Willis is also now accused of something far more serious.
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She's accused of using taxpayer money to hire her lover, who's a suburban lawyer with zero experience
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prosecuting RICO cases, to prosecute the former president of the United States on the single most
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untested, strained application of RICO law that's ever been conceived. In other words, Fannie Willis is
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so interested in this guy that she's willing to engage in a little election interference for him,
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allegedly. And she's charging her constituents to do it. These accusations against Willis came
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in a court filing from Mike Roman, one of the Trump staffers who made the mistake of trying to
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seat an alternate slate of electors back in 2020. Not that, you know, the law and history matter anymore,
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but it is worth pointing out that attempting to seat an alternate slate of electors is something
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that's always been legal in this country. It was legal back in 1960 when John F. Kennedy's campaign
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did it for good reason. Creating an alternate slate of electors makes sense when a campaign suspects
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election fraud because they want to give Congress the opportunity to use their electors if the fraud is
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ultimately discovered. Nothing about the process is scandalous. Nothing about it is new and it's all
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completely logical. But the idea of alternate electors is apparently illegal now because the
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orange man is bad and so forth. So Faldon County is prosecuting Roman. And in response, Roman proceeded
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to blow Fannie Willis's love affair wide open. Watch. Explosive allegations tonight from one of
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former President Donald Trump's co-defendants right here in Georgia. He has some pretty bold claims
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about Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis. Atlanta News First anchor Tori Cooper has been
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digging through that court filing. So Tori, what are they actually claiming here? Well tonight, former Trump
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campaign staffer Michael Roman and his attorney Ashley Merchant are claiming District Attorney Fannie
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Willis had an inappropriate and romantic relationship with the top prosecutor in the case,
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Nathan Wade. In this new court filing obtained by Atlanta News First, Michael Roman and his attorneys
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are accusing the Fulton County DA Fannie Willis and Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade of having an
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inappropriate and romantic relationship and that the two benefited from it. The suit claims Willis and
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Wade took lavish vacations together and that he used part of his salary from the DA's office to travel
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with Willis. Roman's attorney claims they discovered that the two went on trips together quote outside of
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court filings. The suit goes on to claim their relationship began before Wade was appointed to
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the case. They claim Willis also failed to get county approval to appoint Wade as special prosecutor
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in the case. Roman's attorneys are now asking the court to disqualify both of them from prosecuting
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the RICO case and to drop all of Roman's charges. Roman's attorneys wouldn't comment any further
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tonight and Fannie Willis' office told us they will be responding to Roman's suit through proper court
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filings. Now the news people seem kind of surprised by this accusation, but they really shouldn't be.
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If they were keeping track, they'd remember that this is not the first time that Fannie Willis has
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gotten into trouble over a serious conflict of interest. A year ago, a judge in Georgia
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barred Willis from investigating one of Trump's alleged fraudulent electors, a state senator named
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Burt Jones. Why did she get barred from that? Well, because Fannie Willis hosted a fundraiser for a
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Democrat running against Jones for his seat. This is something that no serious prosecutor or anybody
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with an IQ above room temperature would have ever done. To reiterate, Fannie Willis literally raised
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money for someone who was running against the defendant she was trying to throw in prison.
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Now I played this clip last year, but it's worth revisiting because of how remarkable it is.
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Here's the judge who, by the way, judge is not exactly the picture of masculinity, but he's doing his
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best to dress down Fannie Willis in the most deferential way possible. But even this judge,
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who's clearly on her side and doesn't want to have to deal with this, even he still has something to
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say about how egregious this is. Watch. Using the title of your office and having on social media that
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you as this political office holder are holding a fundraiser for the opponent of someone that this
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political office is investigating. I don't know that it's an actual conflict, but I use that phrase,
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what were you thinking, where the prosecutor thought I could prosecute the co-defendant of someone I
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defended. It's a what are you thinking moment. The optics are horrific. If you are trying to
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have the public believe that this is a nonpartisan, driven by the facts,
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I'm not here to critique decisions. The decision was made, but if we are trying to maintain confidence
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that this investigation is pursuing facts in a nonpartisan sense, no matter who the district
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attorney is, we follow the evidence where it goes and ignore the fact that I hosted a fundraiser for the
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proponent of someone I've just named the target. That strikes me as problematic.
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So, like I said, the judge doesn't exactly lay the hammer down. He could have been
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a lot more forthright, shall we say. But in his own wishy-washy way, even he is shocked by her
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behavior. And this is the moment that Willis should have been disqualified from prosecuting any of these
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Trump criminal cases. Frankly, she should have been investigated by the state bar and maybe suspended
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from practicing law. It was that bad. But she wasn't. She got this milquetoast effeminate scolding
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and she was allowed to continue making a complete mockery of the judicial system. And that's exactly
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what she's done. To be clear, yes, Mike Roman's accusations against Fannie Willis are unproven as of
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now. But they were made public last week and Willis remained silent at the time. This is the kind of thing
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that you'd think a prosecutor would immediately deny. I mean, if it's not true, then there's no
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reason to not come out and say, that's not true. That's totally made up. You're insane.
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But she didn't say that. Instead, Willis waited until Sunday to address Roman's accusations. And
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she chose to deliver her remarks addressing this claim of a major scandal. She chose to address it
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not in front of the press, who could have asked her some follow-up questions. Not that the press
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necessarily would have even done that. But instead, she chose to address it in front of a sympathetic
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audience at a black church in Atlanta. At no point in her speech, which lasted more than 30 minutes,
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and we'll look at a few clips of it. At no point did Willis deny the accusations against her,
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which is effectively the same as admitting that they're true. Instead,
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she launched into maybe the single most brazen attempt to play the race card in the history of
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this country. I mean, this is one of the worst. I know that's saying something. This is somehow
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even worse than Claudine Gay saying you're racist if you care about plagiarism. It's even more
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preposterous than Marion Barry, the former DC mayor, implying that you hate black people if you're upset that
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he's on camera buying crack in hotel rooms. Somehow it's even more obnoxious and egregious than any of that.
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But dear God, are you listening? Why does Commissioner Thorne and so many others question my decision in
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a special counsel? Lord, your flawed, hard-headed, and imperfect child, I'm a little confused. I appointed
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three special counsel as is my right to do, paid them all the same hourly rate. They only attacked one.
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I hired one white woman, a good personal friend and great lawyer. A superstar, I tell you. I hired one
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white man, brilliant, my friend, and a great lawyer. And I hired one black man, another superstar, a great friend,
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and a great lawyer. Oh, Lord, they gonna be mad when I call them out on this nonsense. First thing they say,
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oh, she gonna play the race card now. But no, God, isn't it them who's playing the race card when they only question one?
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This is the kind of race card gambit that you very rarely see. This is like trying to shoot the moon.
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Here you have the person who's playing the race card trying to imply that you're playing the race card
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by noticing that she's playing the race card. So she's playing, to mix our card game analogy,
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she's playing kind of the reverse racism UNO card. It's astonishing to watch, mainly because it makes
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absolutely no sense whatsoever. The sheer incoherence is incredible to behold. Her argument appears to be
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that she hired three special prosecutors, and two of them are white, and everybody's upset about the black
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guy. So clearly, everybody is racist. But she's just not going to mention the accusation that she's
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having sex with the black guy. Like, that's the thing that makes the black guy notable over the
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white guys. She's not having sex with the white guys. She's having sex with the black guy. And she's
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the one who chose the black guy to have sex with me. If anyone's guilty of discrimination, it's like,
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she's the one who chose to have the affair with that guy, not the other guys. And that's the issue here.
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But, you know, all of that is completely immaterial, according to Fannie Willis.
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She's also not going to talk about, you know, how this job has made this special prosecutor
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hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money, money that he has reportedly used to take Fannie
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Willis on vacations to the Caribbean and Napa Valley. It's hard to believe, but somehow Willis has managed
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to, with this scandal and her response to it, she's managed to discredit a prosecution that nobody ever took
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seriously to begin with. She has managed to divide by zero. She has removed credibility from something that had
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none to begin with. I mean, nobody ever seriously believed that the brilliant legal scholars working in the
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government in Fulton County, Georgia, were going to be able to prosecute a RICO case against the presidential
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frontrunner for the crime of challenging election results. Everyone knew it would be a disaster. But even given those low
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expectations, Willis has managed to impressively tank her case even further. And by the end of this, you know,
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the prosecutors might be the ones going to jail, or they should be. But Willis appears to be too stupid
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to realize that, at least as of now. So she just kept on talking. Listen.
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You cannot expect black women to be perfect and save the world. The Lord is completing us. We are not perfect.
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We need your prayers. We need to be allowed to stumble. We need grace. With that kind of support, we will move
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mountains and do Jesus' will. Stumbling all the way.
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Now, put aside the implication that this is the, that it's the will of God to have Donald Trump
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arrested. She says, quote, you cannot expect black women to be perfect and save the world.
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But of course, nobody expects or is asking for either of those things. And what you hear here,
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this is one of the most bizarre fantasies on the left, which is that black women are somehow
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especially persecuted, while also being especially gifted and courageous and heroic.
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But the reality, of course, is that black women are not persecuted at all. In fact, you know,
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they're among the least persecuted and oppressed people in the world, in the history of the world.
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In fact, they're given preferential treatment in virtually every aspect of American life, in the media,
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corporate hiring, college admissions. The intersectional math, the victim hierarchy works
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wildly in their favor. Willis got, you know, a million positive profiles in the media simply for being
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a black woman who's prosecuting Donald Trump. And everybody knows this, which is why people like Willis
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constantly have to remind us that they're victims. So the whole speech went on like this. A few
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minutes later, after some more self-pity, Fannie Willis reiterated that God wants her to prosecute
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the presidential frontrunner. She kind of sneaks that in every now and then. And then she goes back
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I'm here to tell you something. And it may make some of y'all a little uncomfortable.
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God's using ordinary people to do extraordinary things. I come real regular. In fact, when I meet
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people, that's what they say. Real regular. You don't have no errors about yourself.
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And I say, well, how can I? I come from regular folk. I ain't got no pedigree. I'm not a member
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of any of those elite organizations. And one more thing. I'm as flawed as they come.
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But there is something special about me. It's my willingness to love people. I love people
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of every political party. Different viewpoints. Different races. Different sexuality. And one
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thing you will come to learn about me is I make sure everyone else is good. And sometimes I'm not.
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Fannie Willis is a great person, says Fannie Willis. She's also really humble and she's
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grounded. Oh, and she's carrying on God's plan to take out the political enemies of the Democratic
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Party. Any questions? Well, no. Of course there's no questions. She deliberately addressed this in a
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venue where there are no questions allowed. In fact, she went to a venue where people literally shout
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amen. That's where she decided to go to talk about this major scandal. Now, it's worth pausing for a
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moment just to emphasize that Willis is not an exception on the left. You know, she's not the
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only prominent leftist to make a mockery of Christianity like this. Remember, it was the
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governor of New York who went to a church and told Christian worshipers that, quote, God wants you to be
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vaccinated. And now we have Fannie Willis telling us that God wants to incarcerate the GOP presidential
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frontrunner. And the enemies of the faith always do this. They can't help themselves. They desperately
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want to use Christian beliefs to advance their cause, even as they hate Christians. And, you know,
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every time it comes off as hammy and laughable and incredibly cynical and transparent. They think
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that if they bastardize Christianity through politics, they can use the faith to control
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Christians. Fannie Willis knows she has no defense for what she's done. But instead of taking ownership
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for it, which is what Christians would tell you to do, yes, as Christians, we believe no human being
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is perfect. We believe in mercy. We believe in forgiveness. But we also know that there's no
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forgiveness without repentance. And we're not hearing any repentance from her. Far from it.
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And by the way, even if we do forgive someone as a Christian for doing something, let's say,
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engaging in a political scandal, even if you forgive them, which would require repentance,
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which would require an admission of guilt, repentance, that doesn't mean that you forget
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about it and then say, oh, yeah, they're still qualified to, you know, be a DA prosecuting a
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former president. Of course not. So she's trying to invoke Christianity while understanding nothing
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about it. I mean, it's doubtful she's ever opened a Bible in her entire life. Right? She doesn't
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know. She probably couldn't, like, list the gospel. She probably thinks that Pontius Pilate was,
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like, an airline captain. Okay? And for what it's worth, along with trying to invoke the Bible,
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she also invoked history that she doesn't understand as well. Towards the end of her
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speech, she, for good measure, compared herself to Martin Luther King Jr. Watch.
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See, Dr. King was an extremely special, brilliant, godly man. But he was just a man. And his journey
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was full of mistakes, pitfalls, pain, and ugliness. Despite all of that, he overcame those things,
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and he changed the entire world. See, I know we are at a time of history when they want to throw away
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books and not talk about history. Some of y'all may have forgotten when Dr. King was alive, he was
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attacked for his stance on the Vietnam War. Some of y'all might have forgotten that scandal the FBI
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tried to do on personal indiscretions they made. Some of y'all forgot that. But now that same FBI
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will take a day off to celebrate Dr. King, because my words said he will make him your footstool.
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Ah, yes. MLK made mistakes, just like Fannie Willis. Of course, MLK's quote-unquote mistakes
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included being a communist and adulterer and allegedly watching and laughing as a woman was
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raped. That's the mistakes that she's referring to. Maybe what Fannie Willis is trying to tell us
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something here. Maybe there are more shoes to drop. I don't know. Maybe the FBI is going to come after
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her too. Somehow that seems unlikely, given that in this comparison, it's Fannie Willis doing exactly
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what the FBI wants her to do by trying to take out Donald Trump. But it's not worth thinking too
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deeply about anything Fannie Willis said, because there's really no meaning in any of it. It's all
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just misdirection. So we're left with the substance of the accusations against Fannie Willis, which she
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effectively admitted are true in her remarks on Sunday. You know, when someone accuses you of
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something and you don't deny it, and instead you say, hey, nobody's perfect. Well, like, that's as close
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you can come to admitting it without admitting it. And what this means is that the Fulton County
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prosecution of Donald Trump isn't just politically motivated. It's not just completely meritless on
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the law. We knew that already. What's new is that this prosecution, which again is the prosecution of
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the leading candidate for the president of the United States, is also motivated by a corrupt prosecutor's
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desire to shower her boyfriend with vacations to the Caribbean and Napa Valley, and also shower herself
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with those things by extension. And that's what these people mean when they say that they're
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defending democracy. This is what they mean when they accuse you of racism, when they invoke MLK
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in the Bible. They don't understand or believe anything they're saying. And that's been obvious
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to anyone who's been paying attention for years. And now, thanks to yesterday's performance by
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Fannie Willis, it's hopefully obvious to everyone. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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underway today in the lead up to the big day. There was this. This is a report from media. Donald Trump
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turned his sights on his biggest supporter among the GOP primary challengers on Saturday, taking aim at
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Vivek Ramaswamy, telling supporters the Republican businessman is not MAGA in a post on Truth Social
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and his surrogates are unleashing hell too. Trump is on his way to Iowa for the caucus vote,
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which takes place in record cold temperatures. Trump said overnight that the weather might
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benefit his campaign in the state and apparently he also thinks shaving off any support for Ramaswamy
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would as well because he finally took a hard shot at the one primary challenger who is by far the least
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likely to fire back. Vivek, a lot of editorializing in this article, but forget about that. Vivek started
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his campaign as a great supporter. I'm quoting now Trump. Vivek started his campaign as a great
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supporter, the best president of generations, etc. Unfortunately, now all he does is disguise his
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support in the form of deceitful campaign tricks. Very sly, but a vote for Vivek is a vote for the
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other side. Don't get duped by this, said Trump. Vote for Trump. Don't waste your vote. Vivek is not
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MAGA. The Biden indictments against his political opponent will never be allowed in this country.
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They are already beginning to fall MAGA! And then a lot of Trump surrogates joined in,
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and so that was the attack launched on Vivek. Now, as you might expect, there's been a lot of
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discussion about this, a lot of consternation, a lot of controversy. And, you know, as for Trump
00:27:35.140
going after Vivek, I don't really care about that. It's politics. You know, I like Vivek. I agree with
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much of what he says and much of what he plans to do, as I've been clear about this whole time.
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But when I hear him getting attacked by a political opponent, does that offend me? No,
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this is politics. This is what you do in politics. You try to beat the other guy, you go after him.
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Now, Vivek has chosen a campaign, a campaign strategy where he just never criticizes Trump
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ever under any circumstance. And that's his strategy. He's obviously doing it because he
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thinks it'll be successful. We'll see if it plays out. I mean, I tend to be extremely skeptical of
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a strategy like that. And that doesn't mean that you have to obsessively attack Trump. It doesn't
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mean that you have to attack him on the left's terms, using the left's language, which obviously
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you shouldn't do. But if you're running against the guy, you got to criticize him. And you got to
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go at, you have to criticize him directly. Like, you have to explain, if you want to beat him,
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you have to explain why he shouldn't be the guy who wins and you should be.
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Again, it's politics. And if anyone's offended by that on either side, you're just, it's silly.
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Now, and if you thought that Trump would permanently remain on friendly terms with his political
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opponent, well, then I don't know what to say to you. I mean, naive is a word that is not strong
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enough to describe you in that case. But here's what I will say, though. You know, I noticed on social
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media, as many people noticed, that lots of previous fans of Vivek suddenly, in that moment,
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as soon as Trump gave his marching orders, turned on him. Like, lots of people who thought that Vivek
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was great suddenly decided that he's awful. And if you're one of those people, that says a lot more
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about you than it does about either of those guys. You know, if you're prepared to actually
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change your opinion about someone or something in a split second, switching on a dime because a
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politician told you to, then that's truly pathetic. Now, to be clear, I'm not saying that all Trump
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supporters made this switch. In fact, from what I can tell, just, you know, a casual look on social
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media, from what I could see, would show that most Trump supporters have been saying, hey, I still
00:30:00.680
like Vivek. I'm voting for Trump, but I still like Vivek. I've seen a lot of that. And that's, and that
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is a perfectly reasonable way of responding. But I have seen some who, I mean, literally in the span of
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like an hour, went from loving the guy to hating him. And there has also been that. That is a surrendering
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of your, of your critical thinking capacity. You know, that is like outsourcing it to someone else,
00:30:29.260
which is never a good idea, no matter who that other person is. So that doesn't mean that your
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opinion of Vivek can't change, right? Your opinion of any politician should actually change depending
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on circumstance. It depends on like what they're doing and saying. So you should be, you should be
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prepared to change your opinion of any politician. But a sudden switch from he's great to he's
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horrible. He's not one of us. He's a traitor. Like just like that is really impossible to defend.
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All right. Speaking of impossible to defend, Nikki Haley spoke at a virtual event in Iowa.
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She's not actually in Iowa, as far as I know, but she called into some kind of virtual town hall type
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of thing. And, um, uh, you know, she, she's going to lose anyway in Iowa. So it doesn't matter. Um,
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you know, lose Iowa and the primary, I mean, she's going to lose both. But in any case, there was one
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noteworthy moment. Someone asked Haley a question that she should have been prepared to answer. And
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she should have been prepared to answer because Trump was famously asked the same question,
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infamously asked the same question by Megan Kelly, not all that long ago. Also, it's a version of one
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of the most famous questions of this century, especially if you're on the right, which Nikki
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Haley supposedly is. So it's a question that you should at least have an answer for, um, for those
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reasons. And also because most importantly, because it's just, it's a really easy question. And it's like
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the easiest question in the world to answer. And the question is, can a man become a woman? Which of
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course is an offshoot of what is a woman? And let's hear how, uh, Haley handled that.
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Go to our last question. Uh, John, John, you're live from Dubuque.
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Hi, hi ambassador. Um, hi John. A lot of the stuff that Trump does,
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you know, and says really bothers me and I'm concerned about it. You know, one thing I saw him
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do was he said that, uh, you know, he had trouble answering the question, could a man become a
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woman? And I'm just wondering what, what your response to that question is. Now, can a man
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become a woman? There's been a lot that's been talked about when it comes to, um, all of these
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roles and all of these issues. I strongly believe that we should not allow any gender change surgeries
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to anyone before the age of 18 period. We kids now can't get a tattoo until they're 18. We shouldn't
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have them permanently change their body until they're 18. And that includes puberty blockers.
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That includes any sort of hormones that would do that after the age of 18.
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We want to make sure people can live any way they want to live. I don't think government needs to be
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in control of anybody's life. You go live the way you want to live. You should be free to live the way
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you want to live. And every, and government and everybody else should stay out of your way.
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But prior to 18, it is an important time, especially when you're going through your teenage years that
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can be confusing. I don't think we should ever in any way have any sort of permanent changes,
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but after 18, I'm not going to say anything. I think that, you know, you always have to believe
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in freedom and allowing people to live the life the way they want to live. And if that's how they
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choose, then, you know, I don't think government should have any say in that.
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Now I'll say the same thing, uh, on this, that I said, when Trump dropped the ball on this question,
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you know, when somebody asks, can a man become a woman? It's okay to give a long answer and elaborate,
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but the first word in your answer should be no. Now, if the first word is hell, because the second
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word is no, well, that's fine too. But the first thing you should be able to do is definitively and
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with no equivocation declare that a man is not a woman and can never become one. It's not a hard
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question. It's not a trick question. It's not a difficult or confusing question.
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And your ability to answer the question does matter a lot. If you cannot speak honestly about
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an issue as simple and clear as this, if you are so cowed and intimidated, um, that you will pretend
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not to understand basic biological realities. If you are this beholden to the radical LGBT lobby,
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that means you can't be trusted as a leader. I mean, I mean, like, like take two people, right?
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Just like two, two generic, you know, nothing about either of them. They're both running for
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political office. And one is asked if a man can become a woman and immediately, immediately answers
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no. The other is asked the same question, then goes off on a, on some lengthy tangent and doesn't
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answer the question at all. And now you have to decide which you will trust to be a clear,
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honest leader who acts with clarity and purpose, regardless of the political lens. And you only
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have that to go on. Who are you going to choose based on that performance? Certainly not Nikki Haley,
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you know, and it's no surprise that Nikki Haley fails this test and she fails it even though,
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you know, even while trying to present herself as a, uh, as this like no nonsense girl power,
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you know, she's going to go in there and break up the good old boys club and she's going to tell
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like it is and all that kind of stuff. That's how she presents herself. And yet she gets this basic,
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a basic question that by the way, as a woman, she should be particularly ready to answer. Not because
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only women can know the answer, but because she should be especially, um, eager to, you know,
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defend the, the, the dignity of womanhood, which as we know, the trans agenda is constantly,
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you know, waging an assault on. So she's a, nothing but a fraud, no big surprise there, I suppose.
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Moving on to this Fox news says the federal aviation administration is actively recruiting
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workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, and other mental and
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physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency's
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website. The FAA's website states targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the
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federal government as a matter of policy has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and
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hiring. They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis,
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epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism. The initiative is part
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of the FAA's diversity and inclusion hiring plan, which says diversity is integral to achieving FAA's
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mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond. The FAA's website shows the
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agency's guidelines on diversity hiring were last updated on March 23rd, 2022. So this is part of
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their diversity efforts is to get in people with disabilities. Now, in fairness, just so that we
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don't engage in any clickbait hyperbole here, this doesn't mean that United Airlines or Southwest is going
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to go and hire a blind, mentally disabled dwarf to be a commercial pilot. Now, I wouldn't be surprised if we
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get to that point, but that's not what this means, at least not yet. There are a lot of other jobs in the
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airline industry generally, a lot of other jobs in the FAA. And people who defend this policy or any DEI policy
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will argue that, you know, they still have the same hiring standards in place that they always have. So if they hire
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somebody with a physical disability or a psychiatric problem, that person is still going to have to pass
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all the same tests and demonstrate his fitness in the same way as anybody else, which means that if they
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get the job, then they're qualified. And that's the claim, right? That's the DEI defense. And in theory,
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that could be true in some cases. Like if there's a job filing paperwork or whatever at the FAA office,
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there's no reason why somebody who's hearing impaired couldn't be perfectly qualified to do
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that job. So in theory, someone who happens to fulfill a DEI quota doesn't need to be unqualified
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in theory. But if that's all that was happening, right, if they were just letting anybody apply and
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then hiring the best of that crop, then you wouldn't need DEI because that was already the case.
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Okay. But like, I'm pretty sure that prior to this DEI standard being put up on the website or
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updated in 2022, prior to that, you know, you could be a hearing impaired person and get a job filing
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paperwork at the FAA or whatever. I mean, that was already the case. So when you add in DEI,
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you're adding in something extra. And what are you adding in? Well, the moment you say,
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we need to get more of this sort of person into these positions, right? You're looking at a
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particular demographic, whether it's disabled, whether it's black people, whether it's women,
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and you're looking at demographics and saying, we need more of them specifically. You're not saying,
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we need more qualified people. You're saying, we need more of those people. And even if you're
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saying, we need the most qualified of those people into this position, even if that's what you're
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saying, which is, which, which even that is not actually like, that would be better. That would
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still be terrible. That would be better than what they're actually doing. Um, but the moment you do
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that, then you are going to end up lowering standards because with the current standards,
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right? Before DEI, whatever the standards were, you had however many people you had in whatever
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demographic, right? And if you want more of that demographic, the standards are going to get
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lowered. That, that, because, because with the standards up here, you had, you know, standards were
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up here. You had X number of people in your favorite demographic. So if you want to get even
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more, then that means the standards are going down here. And it's insane. It's insane on many levels.
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It's especially insane because, um, to begin with, if you're looking at the airline industry and you say,
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well, we don't, we have a minority of women, or we have a minority of black people, or we have a minority
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of disabled people. That's not a problem. Like, why is that a problem? If the ranks are full of people
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who are qualified and few of the qualified people happen to be female or black or whatever, who cares?
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It doesn't matter. It doesn't make a difference. It's not a problem that needs to be solved.
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As long as you're bringing in the most qualified people, whatever the demographic makeup happens to
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be at the end of that, doesn't matter. It's not a problem. Um, and so, so if, if, if, if no one is
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black that ends up in that, um, that, that, that, you know, ends up in that camp, not a problem.
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If you end up with, everyone is black, also not a problem. As long as race is not taken into account
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at all, and you're just hiring the best people. But again, that's not how it goes. And, uh, and here's
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the CEO of United making it clear how, uh, it really works. Listen. How is diversity and diversity
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targets working into the Aviate Academy? We have committed that 50% of the class of, of the classes
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will be women or people of color. Uh, today, only 19% of our pilots at United Airlines are women or
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people of color. And by the way, from all the data I've seen, that's the highest of any airline in the
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country. White males don't just dominate in the cockpits. Also in the C-suite at United Airlines.
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Well, look, at United, I'm proud of the diversity that we actually have in our, our C-suite. I think
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if you look around corporate America. Correct me if I'm saying, though, so I, this is just based
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off your website, the people you list as executives, but out of 11 people, three are women. I believe
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one is a person of color. Um, that's correct. Um, but, you know, in corporate America, I think,
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you know, that's a low bar. How do you raise your own bar? Well, a lot of this is, you know,
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focusing on it. We have, uh, programs to, one of the things we do is for every job when we're
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doing an interview or require women and people of color to be involved in the interview process,
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bringing people in early in their careers, um, as well, uh, and giving them those opportunities.
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Yeah. You know, you got to get those white males out of there, right? You know, the,
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the, the, the white males, you know, the, the people that, um, have made air travel into the
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safest form of travel that's ever existed. The form of travel where you're 35,000 feet in the air
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and going 400 miles an hour, and that's the safest. Um, so, and the people who predominantly
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who achieved that were white males. And so how do we thank them? Let's get them out of it. And when
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I say that the people who predominantly achieved that are white males, I, I'm not making that up.
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That's the proponents of DEI are the first to say that. Like they're the ones who are going to look
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at and say, well, historically it's been a white male dominated field. Okay. So you're, you're the
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one saying that. Okay. Well also historically, what has this field achieved? Those white males who
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were dominating the field, were they, were they doing poorly? Was there an issue? Was there a
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problem? Were they screwing up? No. The people who not only invented human flight to begin with,
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uh, were white males. And then the people who, even according to the DEI proponents who made it
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unbelievably safe, were also predominantly white males. So yeah, we got to get them out. Got to get
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those numbers down. This is what we're doing. We're looking at, we're saying, okay, here's, here's a,
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here's an industry that's doing fantastically well, uh, has achieved feats, uh, unknown to mankind.
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What's the demographic predominantly responsible for that? Let's single them out and then try to get
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rid of them. Um, and that's what they're doing now. It is, uh, it is suicide. Well, I was going to say
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it's suicidal, but it's not really because the CEO of United probably isn't even flying. Like he's
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probably flying private. You know, he's not back in coach on a United flight. Um, so it's not suicidal
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for him. I bet you, he wants to make sure that people fly in his planes that he's on are the most
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qualified. Uh, so no, it's not suicidal really, uh, as far as it's homicidal actually is what it is.
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All right. Finally, um, a few days ago, we talked about Lil Nas X and the blasphemous sacrilegious
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promo campaign for his upcoming new single called Jay Christ. And I pointed out how the images of him
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on a cross and, and, uh, images of him taking shots of communion wine, et cetera, are indeed sacrilegious
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and disgusting. But, you know, on top of that, the whole thing is stale and played out. Pop stars have
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been trying to get attention by blaspheming Christianity for decades. Um, there's nothing
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rebellious or interesting about it. And, um, and now the song is out and I just want to play a quick
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clip because the song that this is all supposed to promote, I think, I think it, uh, it kind of
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Bust down chain. That was 30 bits. Bust down wrist. That's my bust down 30 inch. Walk up
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in the club, popping like it was double mint. Looking for a 10. We only settle when the settlements.
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Uh, uh, uh, let them slide. Yeah. That wasn't quiet. Yeah. Now I'm, I'm a ride. Yeah. I'm
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gonna take it high. Yeah. Okay. Let them slide. Yeah. That wasn't quiet. Yeah. Tell them,
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I'm out. I'm out. I'm out. I'm brave. You know when I'm back. It's all for tape. You
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know that I'm ready for everything. You know I play. It's all for chaos.
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Okay. So that's about enough of that. And, uh, look again, sacrilegious, gross, uh, the
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guy's a degenerate creep. Uh, all of that is true, but the music itself, the music is, is
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so incredibly bland and empty and vacuous that you, you can't even really be offended
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by it. Even though it is objectively offensive, it's, you can't be offended because it's so,
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it's just nothing. Um, and you listen to the, to the lyrics, but bust down chain. That was
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30 bands, bust down wrist, match my bust down 30 inch, uh, walk up in the club, pop and like it
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was double mint looking for a 10. We only, we only settle when it's settlements. Now I'm on
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Mariah. I'm finna take a, take it higher. Okay. This is not, it's not anything. Like these are not,
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this, this, these are not even thoughts. Um, it doesn't mean anything. And the words don't have
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any relation to the images on screen. Like this guy's too stupid and too dead inside to actually
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write a song with a sacrilegious message. So he can communicate the sacrilegious stuff through the
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images in the music video. That's easy enough to do. And I'm sure if he, if he, if he could,
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he would love to write a song that is also sacrilegious, but he can't even do that because he's
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too stupid. He has the IQ of a grasshopper and he can't figure that out. So, um, you know what I
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always want to ask these people? Uh, here's my question. Like when you were writing this song
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and I know that Lil Nas X is such a moron that he, he, he couldn't even write this song himself.
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I'm sure it has 47 writers, but pretending that he wrote it all by himself, I would ask when you
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were writing it, what were you feeling, right? Like what emotion were you trying to convey?
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Okay. The most basic, most entry-level thing that a piece of art should be able to do is convey at
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least the emotion of the artist. Great art can do a whole lot more than just conveying an emotion, but,
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um, but at the very least I should be able to listen to your song or read your poem or look at
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your painting or, or whatever. And, and, and, and I should be able to tell that when you composed
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this piece of art, you were feeling sad or happy or forlorn or anxious, or, um, you were having
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feelings of, of awe, feelings of longing, feelings of love, feelings of hatred, maybe all of these things
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together. Art at a minimum should convey human emotion. It should at least be able to do that.
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But this crap, I mean, this stuff that passes for music, it doesn't even do that. There's no emotion
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in it. There's, there's no feeling, there's no thought. So often, I guess my point is that, uh,
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very often we'll look at this kind of music and we will point out, I will point out that it's
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incoherent. There's no message. There's no, uh, there's nothing. There's no, there's no kind of
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story being told. It's just a bunch of words. And that's true. But even below that, it's like,
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it's worse than that because on top of being intellectually incoherent, it's also emotionally
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incoherent. It would be possible. And in fact, um, this is something that, that, that even kind
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of crappy pop music used to be able to do. You go back to like the nineties when I was growing up
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and, uh, some of the bands and pop stars at the time. Yeah. If you went back and look at the lyrics,
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they're, they're kind of like incoherent or very, or, or not kind of, in some cases, very
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incoherent, but there's a, there's a, there's at least like a feeling that's that, that comes
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out of it. And so you feel a certain way and you can tell that the, the artist is trying to convey,
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trying to elicit that emotion. We don't even have that anymore. Now there's, there's, there's nothing
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in this stuff at all. There's nothing there emotionally, intellectually, there's no message.
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There's no feeling. There's no heart of any kind in any of it. It's, it's just totally empty,
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bland, vacuous. Um, it's not, which means it's not music. Actually, it really isn't like only on
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a very technical, on a very technical level, it's music. Uh, maybe in the same way that,
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you know, you could probably find my probably, I mean, there, there are plenty of AI is out there
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and, and chatbots and so on that could write a poem. Right. And, and really easy to find one
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that could do that. That's, that would be, um, because on a technical level, you know, you got
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stanzas, you got the structure of a poem. And so, yeah, an AI can compose one. Um, but it's not really
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poetry because there's no, it's not human. There's no, there's no poet there, right? You can't really,
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you can't have on a, on a technical level, you can, but you can't have real poetry without a,
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without a poet. And an AI is not a poet. Um, and I think it's the same thing here. So when we say
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this is not real music, it's always, and then you always have musicians that, well, no, you don't know
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anything about music. Technically you've got this and that and you've got the melody and the, yeah,
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I know all the components are there, but the components that that's missing is any kind of
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Another daily cancellation, another viral video that everyone has an opinion about,
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and most of the opinions are wrong, as usual. And this time, it's a young lady named Brittany
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Peach, who recently recorded, secretly recorded, and posted a video of herself getting fired from
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her sales job with a tech company called Cloudflare. Apparently, Brittany, like literally every other
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employee who's ever been fired from any position ever, disagrees with her termination and feels that
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she deserves to keep her job. Her employer feels otherwise. And as it usually goes in this sort of
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situation, her employer's opinion on the matter prevails. After all, when your boss fires you,
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the decision has already been made. They aren't asking you if you're okay with it, or how you feel
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about it, or they're not taking a poll on the subject. They're not bringing you in and sitting
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you down and saying, you know, if you're okay, we're going to let you, if you're okay with it,
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we're going to fire you. It doesn't go that way. They are informing you that you are fired,
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and that's it. There's almost certainly nothing you can say when you're getting that unfortunate
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talk. There's almost certainly nothing you can say to change their mind. The decision has already
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been made. And so the only thing you can do is decide how you'll handle it. Whether you'll handle
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it, first of all, with some dignity and class and not start groveling. And also, if you will respond
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in a way that will increase or decrease your chances of getting another job. This is, you know,
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it's actually, when you're getting fired, this is a big moment in your career. You know, it might be
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the end of this current job, but it's a pivotal moment in your career because whether or not you
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get a better job in the future will hinge in large part on how you respond in this moment,
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both in the moment and in the moments that come after. Well, unfortunately, Brittany has chosen to
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respond in a way that's going to hinder her chances of getting another job because she has decided to
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respond by secretly recording the meeting and posting it to TikTok for sympathy and clout,
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which will absolutely ensure that every potential employer in the future will be very wary about
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hiring her. And most will immediately toss her resume in the garbage five seconds after they Google
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her name, which they will all do. But even though Brittany has decided to implode her career on camera
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for all to see, she's still being cheered by the vast majority of the peanut gallery. They're very
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impressed with the video and her performance in it. So before we go any further, we should probably
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watch some of this video. First, here she is getting the bad news. Listen.
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We finished our evaluations of 2023 performance. This is where you have not met Cloudflare expectations
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for performance. We've decided to part ways with you.
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Yeah, I'm going to stop you right there. So I started August 25th. I've been on a three month
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ramp. And then it was three weeks of December, and then a week of Christmas. And then here we are.
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I have had the highest activity amongst my team. Since I've started, I have had three contracts out,
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done a really great job managing my deals up until the very end that decided not to close last minute.
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So I don't think that that makes a lot of sense for me in my Cloudflare journey here so far.
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Also, every single one-on-one I've had with my manager, every conversation I've had with him,
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he has been giving me nothing but I am doing a great job. I have had great activity. I have really
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great meetings. I'm picking up the products very quickly. And things have been going really,
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really well. I make really great relationships with my clients. So I disagree that my performance
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hasn't been. I haven't met performance expectations when I certainly have just because I haven't closed
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anything officially. Now we're going to revisit some of that in just a moment.
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But before we do, we're going to fast forward a few seconds until we get to her employer's
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explanation, such as it is, for her termination. So here's how they explain it. Listen.
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Let me carve out the two threads, a ladder of why I'm on this conversation. I'll put that one
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in the second half and Rosie might be better to explain the process of who is giving this
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information and the prior piece, which is your feedback and notes about your performance.
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So we add a little context to that. So just for clarification, you are not being singled out
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in this. Your peers are also being collectively assessed on performance. This is a collective
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calibration for Cloudflare. So I just want to clarify that piece. I won't be able to add any
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kind of specifics on numbers or... Wait, yeah, no. Can you explain for me why Brittany Peach is getting
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let go? I won't be able to go into specifics for numbers. Wait, why though? I just started. I've been
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working extremely hard just because I haven't closed anything that has nothing to do with
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my performance on a three-month ramp with just one month with two major holidays in the middle.
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I don't think that has anything to do with why I should be let go, if that makes sense. So I really
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need an answer and an explanation as to why Brittany Peach is getting let go, not why Cloudflare decided to
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hire too many people and are now actually realizing that they can't afford this many people and they're
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letting that go. If that's the real answer, I would rather just you tell me that instead of making up
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some bulls**t and telling me that right before I lose my job from someone that I've never met before.
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Okay, now as mentioned, this video has been viewed millions of times and most of the comments have
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been incredibly supportive of Brittany. It's also been picked up by several media outlets who also paint
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Brittany as the hero of the story. And for the most part, the peanut gallery has agreed that Brittany
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comported herself very well during this interaction. They say that she was reasonable and
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well-spoken. They're outraged that Brittany got fired, even though her performance has been great,
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according to her. They say that she was treated coldly and impersonally, like she was nothing but
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a faceless cog in the corporate machine. And that's the popular consensus. But again, as is often the
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case, the popular consensus misses the mark. Mostly misses it anyway. So let's go over a few points.
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One, yes, it is dehumanizing and demoralizing and depressing, a lot of other D words, to get fired
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over Zoom by some corporate boss you've never even met. And one who uses phrases like collective
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calibration. I mean, I got to admit, to hear that at all, but to hear that in the process of getting
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fired. But we're doing a collective calibration. That's like soul draining. Like you can feel your
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soul being drained out of your body when you hear stuff like that. And so if you watch this video and
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you say to yourself, man, I never want to work for a company like Cloudflare. Well, that makes two of us.
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Right? I'm totally with you. But here's the thing. Brittany did work for a company like Cloudflare.
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Yes, she's treated like a cog in the corporate machine, but she chose to get a job as a cog in
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the corporate machine. She was working remotely, apparently, for a tech company with thousands of
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employees. Like that's as impersonal as you can get. That's the very definition of being a cog in the
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corporate machine. Getting fired over Zoom by a company like that, it is dehumanizing. But working
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over Zoom for a company like that is also, one could argue, dehumanizing. It's understandable if
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you would rather be dehumanized by a paycheck than by a pink slip. But it does make your complaints
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about the latter a little bit less credible. Two, people are giving her credit for how she handled
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herself on the call. Well, personally, I found her to be smarmy and condescending, but that's beside the
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point. The point is that she shouldn't get credit because she was performing for a camera that the other
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party didn't know was there. Okay? I don't know why people struggle with this. Like, when someone
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records themselves doing something, it doesn't make sense to give them credit. Oh, they really handled that
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well. They're recording themselves. They're doing it for you, to impress you. Okay? Like, maybe that's
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how they would respond in a normal situation if the camera wasn't rolling. But we don't know that.
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You know, it's not a whole lot different from these TikTok videos you see of somebody like
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giving money to a homeless man or something and doing something nice for a homeless guy. You say,
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well, this is what humanity is all about. No, it's not. He's doing it for the camera.
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Okay? He's only doing it for the camera. It's not even about the charity at all.
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Do you really not understand that? So, in this case, she filmed it knowing that she would post
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it to TikTok afterwards. That means that nothing she says on the call can be taken as honest or
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genuine. Sure, the corporate drone managers firing her, they weren't being authentic or human,
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but neither was she. Like, they were following the corporate script and she was performing for a
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TikTok audience. The whole thing was an orgy of inauthenticity. And that decision on her part is
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one that, again, will haunt her for the rest of her professional life. No employer wants to hire
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someone who might secretly record them and then use the video to smear them on social media.
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Even if she was the greatest saleswoman in the world, it still would not be worth the trouble.
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Okay? But as a saleswoman who didn't make a sale in four months, it's definitely not even close to
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worth the trouble. Which brings us to point three. Three, the peanut gallery complains, just as Brittany
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herself complained, that she wasn't given a reason for her dismissal. That's not entirely true.
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They said it was performance related. She admits that she hasn't closed a sale since she got the
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job four months ago. She says that that's okay because she manages her meetings well, even though
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she doesn't convert those meetings into sales. But it's not much of a strain to speculate that her
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employer doesn't find that reasoning very compelling. Like, they don't give a damn if you're good in
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meetings or if you get along with your coworkers or even if you work hard. They care about results.
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And if you aren't getting results, you aren't doing your job. And that's most likely why she was
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fired. Is it harsh? Is it tough? Is it unkind? Sure, probably, I guess. But that's life. And life has
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not changed much in this regard. Okay? In pre-industrial times, the only result that mattered was whether you
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had a good harvest or whether you had a successful hunt. And if you didn't, you died. And that was that.
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And now the result that matters at your sales job is whether you make sales. If you don't, you die.
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Metaphorically, in a professional sense, which is at least preferable to the literal sense.
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But the principle is the same. Now, could the other people on the call have given her more specific
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information about why she was fired? Yeah, maybe they could have. But there's a reason why employers
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are vague in these situations. It's because in many cases, if they tell the truth, if they're totally
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frank, they'll get sued. Employers try to be as vague and general as possible to avoid liability.
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Hypothetically, so hypothetically, and I don't know anything about this woman. I don't know if this
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is true. Just hypothetically. If, yeah, she's lagging in sales, but maybe there's other people
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that are lagging in sales too, and they don't get fired, but they chose to fire her because on top of
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lagging in sales, she's also just obnoxious and unpleasant, and nobody wants to work with her.
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Like, hypothetically, if that was the case, well, that's a valid reason for her to be the one to get
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fired, but they can't say that. You know, especially in these corporate, they're not going to say, well,
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you're just an obnoxious, unpleasant person. Nobody wants to be around you, so we're getting
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rid of you. You're not worth the trouble. Like, you're not worth the trouble. They can't say that
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because then they'll get sued. And so what happened, like, yes, that would be the more human thing,
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also more helpful. It's a lot more helpful to tell somebody that so they maybe can have some chance
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of self-improvement. But, you know, the litigious society we live in means that just honesty goes
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out the window. Humanity goes out the window. And now, guess what? Now that they have to worry about
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having the conversation recorded and posted to TikTok, they're going to be even more vague and
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general. So if you thought that that meeting was cold and impersonal, wait until you see how cold and
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impersonal they will get when the possibility of TikTok infamy is hanging over every meeting of
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this type. So this hero has just guaranteed that the problem she's exposing will only get a million
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times worse because of her. Four, finally, you know, it's hard getting fired. Like, it's a hard thing to
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be fired. I understand that. I've been through it more than once. Humiliation, anger, anxiety,
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sadness, resentment. Like, a lot of very difficult emotions are balled up into one messy jumble when
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you get fired. It sucks. In a word, it sucks to get fired. But here's the part that might come as news
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to many of our Gen Z friends. Just because you're going through something difficult, just because you're
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feeling bad about something, just because you're suffering a setback, that doesn't mean that you
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need to make a national scandal out of it. That doesn't mean you need to broadcast it to the world
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and make yourself into history's most oppressed victim. You're dealing with something that millions
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of people have been through. Your version of it may be worse than some, but it's not nearly as bad as
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most. For instance, if you're single and you have no kids and you get fired, your experience is automatically
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not that bad compared to the many millions of people who've been fired when they have kids that depend on
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them, right? Now, that doesn't make your firing any less painful, but it does make it a whole lot less
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noteworthy, okay? And it does mean that sometimes in life, you just have to take your lumps and move on.
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You just do. And we can't, like, nobody wants to say that anymore. Like, no one wants to say
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anymore, yeah, that sucks that it happened. Okay. Like, we're all moving on now with our lives and
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you need to also. It's just, that's it. Yes, we have acknowledged, but it's hard. Okay, we all
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acknowledge that. We get it. But it's really hard. Yeah, okay. We all, we acknowledge it's a really hard
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thing, but it happens. And that's it. Like, deal with it. Do you want my pity? Okay, well, you have
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my pity. And take that and $1.50 and it'll get you a KitKat at a vending machine. Probably not even
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that with inflation. So anyway, stop looking for pity. Stop looking for victim points. Get a grip.
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But collect yourself. Move on with your life. It's your only choice. So you might as well
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take it. Or else, I must say that you, just like our friend Brittany, are today canceled.
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That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you