Ep. 1297 - UFC Fighter Delivers A Masterclass In How To Deal With The Media
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Summary
A UFC fighter gives conservatives and especially Republican politicians a masterclass in how to deal with the media and leftist false narratives. Also, a Democratic congresswoman claims that she was the victim of a racist incident at the Capitol. Plus, Democrats work on a new federal law to ensure the humane treatment of rodents. This is from the same party that supports the mass slaughter of human children. In our daily cancellation, a dispute at a drive-thru window has gone viral. We ll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, a UFC fighter gives conservatives and especially Republican
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politicians a masterclass in how to deal with the media and leftist false narratives. It's a class
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that a lot of them desperately need. Also, a Democratic congresswoman claims that she was
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the victim of a racist incident at the Capitol. Her story is a bit dubious, to put it mildly.
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Plus, Democrats work on a new federal law to ensure the humane treatment of rodents. This
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is from the same party that, of course, supports the mass slaughter of human children. In our
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daily cancellation, a dispute at a drive-thru window has gone viral. Everybody on all sides
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of this issue is wrong, as usual. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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So it was just a few days ago that a Republican lawmaker from South Carolina named Nancy Mace
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invoked the invented concept of white privilege in a congressional hearing. She was supposedly trying
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to put Hunter Biden in his place by saying that he's the beneficiary of white privilege because he
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could ignore subpoenas without suffering any consequences. But as I explained on the show at the
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time, all Nancy Mace achieved was to legitimize the left's framing, which is fundamentally anti-white
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and fraudulent. Hunter Biden does not benefit from his skin color. He benefits from the fact that he's
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the son of the president of the United States. And there's a lot of privilege that goes with that
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regardless of what your skin color happens to be. And everybody knows that. So all Nancy Mace
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accomplished was reinforcing a false narrative that demonizes millions of white people and accuses them
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of having unearned privilege simply because they were born with a certain skin color. She also managed to
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derail the entire hearing by allowing Democrats to harp on their own personal definitions of white
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privilege instead of discussing the subject at hand. And they were quite happy to not discuss
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the subject at hand. So Nancy Mace kind of threw them a lifeline so that they could change the
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subject. Now, as counterproductive and idiotic as Mace's stunt was, it wasn't surprising. Mace isn't
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exactly a staunch far-right conservative. She raises money for Liz Cheney. She came out in support of the
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so-called LGBTQ movement. She voted to hold former Trump advisor Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress.
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This is the track record of someone you might expect to adopt the left's narrative on white
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privilege because she's adopted so many of the left's other narratives. Now, the much bigger problem
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is that Nancy Mace is just one example of a far larger problem in the Republican Party. And this is
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one that affects politicians we're told are considerably smarter and more right of center than Nancy
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Mace. So take Matt Gaetz, for example. Gaetz obviously doesn't comply with the left's new
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speech code, usually. He publicly humiliated Mark Milley, who was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
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Staff at the time, for teaching soldiers about white rage. He also led the effort to oust House Speaker
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Kevin McCarthy because he wasn't sufficiently committed to the America First movement. Of course, McCarthy was
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replaced with a guy who also doesn't appear to be all that committed to the America First movement.
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But all the same, Gaetz is not someone you would normally expect to pull a Nancy Mace and start
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adopting the left's framing on identity politics. But this week, that's exactly what Matt Gaetz did.
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Appearing on Newsmax, Gaetz began talking about Donald Trump's big win in Iowa. And he said that based on his
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experience on the ground in Iowa, Trump is attracting more, quote unquote, diverse voters, meaning, you
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know, voters who are not white. And Gaetz presents this as a very, a very good thing. Not just that
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he's happy that there are minorities voting for Trump, but in fact, he's happy that according to him,
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the white voters are being replaced by non-white voters. Here's how he phrased it. Listen.
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What I could tell you is like, for every Karen we lose, there's a, there's a Julio and a Jamal ready
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to sign up for the MAGA movement. And that abodes well for our ability to be more diverse and to be
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more durable as we head into. So he says for every Karen we lose, there's a Julio and a Jamal
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ready to sign up for the MAGA movement. Now, if we decode the language there, Gaetz is saying that
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in the freezing tundra of Iowa, he apparently didn't see a lot of white women, but he did see tons of
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Hispanics and black people coming out for Donald Trump. You know, they were probably waving the
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MAGA flag around in the blizzard or whatever. Now, even if you pretend that's true, which it
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clearly isn't, the language Gaetz used in that clip tells you a lot. I mean, no Republican, Gaetz
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included, would ever dream of speaking the same way about black voters in the reverse. It would never
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happen. You would never hear Gaetz say of black voters who don't vote Republican, which is the
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vast majority of them, by the way. You never hear him say, oh, we don't need those Jamals. We've got
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plenty of white people that take their place. He would never say that. Never in a million years would
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he say that. He's only going to talk like that about white women or Karens, as he calls them.
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This is a level of contempt and disregard reserved only for white people. And even Republicans join in.
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So that's what I would like to ask Matt Gaetz. Well, you would never say the reverse. You would
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never say, we don't need the Jamals. We've got white people. Never in a million years would you
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say that. You feel perfectly fine saying that about white women. Why is that? Why is it?
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Like, in your mind, why is it okay to say it about the one group but not the other?
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Here's one Republican who is even considered to be far right in Matt Gaetz, who, in that snippet anyway,
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entirely adopted the left's anti-white rhetoric and racial double standards. That's how pervasive
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this stuff is. He's happy to attack Karens, but he'd never do the same in reverse because then he'd
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be called a racist. And, well, we can't have that. And the other remarkable thing about this clip
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is how it inverts all of the conservative arguments we've been hearing for the past several years.
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So we went from, you know, Democrats denying that the great replacement was happening to admitting
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it and saying that it's good to now Republicans also now agreeing that it's good, apparently, and
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advocating for a great replacement in their own party. But along with being objectionable on a number
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of levels, this is also politically suicidal. Okay, it actually isn't at all even close to true that every
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white female voter Republicans lose they're replacing with a black voter. That is not happening. That is
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not true. It's a fantasy. White women still support Republicans in far, far, far greater numbers than
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black males. It's not even close. In fact, as Ann Coulter has pointed out many times, the only group that
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Trump lost ground with in 2020 was white people, specifically white men. So they should be trying to win
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those voters back. But instead, their messaging is, well, screw them. We don't need them anyway.
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Which is just the dumbest, most politically delusional thing I've ever heard. Republicans
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have apparently decided that the key to victory is to pander for the minority vote while alienating
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explicitly their key constituency. Now, whatever explains this self-defeating embrace of identity
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politics among conservatives, it's definitely catching on. It's not just Nancy Mace or Matt
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Gaze doing it. In that same hearing where Nancy Mace talked about white privilege, Georgia Congresswoman
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, who's another one who, according to the media anyway, they certainly wouldn't say
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that she's a centrist or that she's a moderate Republican. They would say she's far right, according
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to them. So in that same hearing, she claimed that Hunter Biden was afraid of her because she's a
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strong, independent woman. Listen. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Excuse me, Hunter. Apparently,
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you're afraid of my words. I like to reclaim my time, Mr. Chairman.
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Wow, that's too bad. I think it's clear and obvious for everyone watching this hearing today
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that Hunter Biden is terrified of strong, conservative Republican women because he can't
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even face my words as I was about to speak to him. What a coward. Now, I mean, I can barely watch
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that clip without cringing to death. And Republican women, I plead with you to stop this. Just stop it.
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Don't go the girl boss routine, okay? It's embarrassing as hell when the left does it,
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but it's even worse when you do it. Okay, at least that kind of pandering sounds somewhat natural
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coming from them because they've been doing it for so long and they sort of own that kind of
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identity, but they own that. But it's still cringy. For you, it's like, what are you trying to achieve?
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Who do you think that this is appealing to? He's not afraid because he's a criminal. He's afraid
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because we're girl bosses, independent women. He doesn't want any part of us. It's hard to think of a
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better way to torpedo the case against Hunter Biden than to use lines like that. Like when you have a
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strong case against somebody, you don't say they're afraid because you're a woman. You say they're
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afraid because of the damning facts and evidence that you've assembled. This is the exact opposite
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of what Republicans should have done in this hearing, but one after another, they did it.
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They kept committing to these vapid displays of identity politics over and over again. By the way,
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Nancy Mace played the girl boss card too in that same exact hearing. So this is two Republican women
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in the same hearing playing the sexism card for no reason. It's like, you're on the right side here.
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The other side has nowhere to hide. Hunter Biden's a criminal. So that's all you need to say. You
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don't need, this is, this is, what's even the point? Just a humiliating performance all around.
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And it's not just confined to that one hearing or to that Matt Gaetz interview. By now, we're all
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familiar at this point with, with Nikki Haley's constant use of this kind of rhetoric. And in
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case you somehow missed it, here's just a, a, a mercifully short clip. And I'm using this because
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it's one of the shortest clips, uh, just to show you what I'm talking about. Listen to say is the
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fact that I think this is exactly why Margaret Thatcher said, if you want something said, ask a
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man, if you want something done, ask a woman. Now, of course, Nikki Haley says stuff like this
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constantly. Uh, just like the remarks from Nancy Mace or Marjorie Taylor Greene or Matt Gaetz,
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it's totally indistinguishable from something that AOC might say. It's the most cliched form
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of gender politics imaginable. It's not just stupid. It adopts the left's basic narrative.
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And, and what we're hearing over and over is, is left-wing identity politics, which is a narrative,
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uh, that has cost millions of people jobs and college admissions and contracting jobs and federal
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financial assistance and so on. It's been a disaster for this country and needs to stop. And instead of
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saying that Republicans more and more embrace it and reinforce it at every turn. Why is this
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happening? Well, at some level, this is of course, an attempt to win over voters. You know, it's a
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political thing, but on that level, it's, it's obviously a terrible idea. It doesn't work.
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Okay. You may remember, uh, that Donald Trump triumphantly pushed something called the first
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step act when he was a president, which Gates also promoted. And the Trump team even ran a Superbowl ad
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featuring a drug trafficker that Trump had let out of prison. The idea, according to Trump's inner
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circle was to improve the GOP's, uh, voting share among black Americans, uh, by, you know, uh, letting
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more criminals out of prison. So at a time when crime is rampant and getting worse, the idea was
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to let more criminals out of jail to win votes. Now, of course it didn't work. Black voters in 2020 did
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what they've done in every modern election, which is that they voted overwhelmingly for Democrats
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and Trump got basically the same percentage of the black vote that George W. Bush did back in
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2004. So the big win is supposed to be that he got more black votes than Romney or McCain, at least.
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Well, hooray. What a triumph. So if identity politics is a ploy for votes, it doesn't seem likely to work.
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It certainly doesn't work at the level you would need it to work to really shift, uh, things politically
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in this country. Um, because it just doesn't convince anyone. But if you take a few steps
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back, it's not hard to see that identity politics is just one part of a much larger problem among,
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among conservatives. Increasingly, uh, conservatives are embracing the narratives of the left wholesale.
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Identity, left-wing identity politics is just one of those narratives. But this is a problem that
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is much more far-reaching than that. Uh, you know, we saw when Nikki Haley mourned the death of George
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Floyd, she immediately bought the official narrative. And then she went on to say, as American cities were
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burning down, that George Floyd's death needed to be personal and painful for every American.
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We also saw this from Mitt Romney, who marched with BLM and chanted their slogans. And the guy who
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replaced Kevin McCarthy, Mike Johnson, did a media tour after George Floyd's overdose death,
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overdose death, calling it a heinous murder and repeating a bunch of BLM talking points about how
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racist our country is. In fact, when it comes to 2020 and BLM and George Floyd, it's very difficult
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to find a single elected Republican anywhere who did not immediately adopt the left's narrative about
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that incident. Um, so the Republican party is led by people who can't help but adopt the left's premise
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at every turn. And sometimes people you don't expect fall into this trap. So take this clip of
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Ron DeSantis at a CNN town hall a couple of days ago. And I want you to watch as CNN's Wolf Blitzer
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asks DeSantis a question that's premised on a completely false narrative. And then, and then
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notice, uh, how Ron DeSantis responds or, or, and, and how he doesn't respond. Listen.
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For the weekend, a woman and two children drowned near Eagle Pass, Texas, as they simply tried to cross
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the Rio Grande. After the drownings, federal authorities got a distress call about two
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more migrants in distress, but agents were physically barred by Texas authorities from
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entering the area. What obligation does the United States have to protect the lives of these migrants?
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Well, first of all, I think this is part of the problem with an open border because you're
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incentivizing some really perilous behavior. Um, there's people that are paying large amounts of
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money to coyotes and drug cartels to be brought into this country. There are people being abused
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sexually. There are people that are being trafficked. We're in the country. A U S is incentivizing this.
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It's madness. So stopping the, the, the migration and having a closed border is the humanitarian thing
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to do. Now I am going to empower the States to be able to enforce immigration law. I don't think that
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Texas should have to sit there and deal with all the consequences of the federal government
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neglecting, uh, their duties. And I think that's been a problem with the Biden administration
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saying we're not federal immigration laws just for the feds. You can't do it, but they're not doing it.
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So what we're just supposed to let this happen. So we're going to work together with the States
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and the local sheriffs. So you're not going to have these conflicts like that exist right now
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between Biden and Texas or between Biden and local sheriffs and places down in Texas.
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Now, as Mike Cernovich has pointed out on X, CNN is flat out lying about what happened. And in
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response, uh, and probably because nobody briefed him on this, which by the way, is inexcusable for
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his team to not have briefed him. But DeSantis just kind of accepts the premise and he pivots,
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he pivots from there and he's, but he accepts the premise, which originated from the Biden White House,
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even though it was completely wrong. What happened is that the White House originally claimed that,
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quote, a woman and two children drowned near Eagle Pass and Texas officials blocked U.S. Border Patrol
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from attempting to provide emergency assistance. That was a report that millions of people heard
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from CBS News, which broadcast the narrative first. But shortly afterwards, Joe Biden's DOJ
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contradicted that version of events entirely. As Fox's Bill Mulligan pointed out, the DOJ made it
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clear that, quote, the migrants had already drowned at 8 p.m. and the Border Patrol didn't inform Texas
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until an hour later at 9 p.m. The DOJ now confirms those migrants had been deceased for an hour
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before Texas was even alerted about it. So, you know, it's just like the false claims that the
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Border Patrol had whipped illegal immigrants. As Bill Mulligan pointed out, you know, this is another
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one. The narrative is a total lie, as the Biden administration has now implicitly admitted. But
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even after the DOJ admitted that, CNN asked DeSantis about it on the debate stage. And, you know,
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everybody proceeded to operate under the assumption that it was true. And DeSantis usually does a very
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good job of not accepting the left's premise, of not taking them at face value or adopting their
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narrative. But the point is that there are so many lies and there are so many false narratives that even
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someone like DeSantis can fall into them. And this can happen in even more subtle ways. Like, we live in a
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culture that is so totally dominated by leftism. Often, even the language we use, our vocabulary,
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has leftist assumptions embedded into it. So take a phrase like biological male, for example.
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You hear all the time from conservatives. I've used the term myself plenty of times. And obviously,
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when we use the term, our intention is not to suggest that there are any other kinds of males
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besides biological ones. I mean, usually we're arguing the exact opposite. But when you take a
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second to think about it, you realize that the phrase does imply that. I mean, if you're saying
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biological male and you're putting that qualifier on it, it would seem to imply that
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there are non-biological males, which there aren't. So if it requires this much care and precision to
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avoid implicitly accepting a leftist premise, and if even Republican politicians who are usually very
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good on that score can trip up in blatant ways, the situation is hopeless for most Republican
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politicians who are, by and large, not very good and who have not exhibited a capacity for anything
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close to that level of care and precision. They're too busy running around shouting girl power slogans,
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right? But every once in a while, we do get an example of somebody on the right totally refusing to go
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along with the left's narratives. And it's just that you usually have to look outside of Congress to find it.
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And I want to show you this because this is what it sounds like when you completely refuse
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to give these people even an inch to go along with their narrative even a little bit.
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So you can look this week to UFC fighter Sean Strickland for this example. Strickland is an
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American who just arrived in Toronto for the UFC fights this weekend. And he's talking to the press
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at a press conference, the Canadian press, and they tried to corner him and talk about some things
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that he's tweeted or things that he said in the past that they find to be homophobic or whatever.
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So dumb gotcha questions that also, by the way, have nothing to do with UFC, have nothing to do with him
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as an athlete. And we know how this normally goes when people are backed into a corner, they're given
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these gotcha questions. Know how it usually goes. But let's hear how it went this time.
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We've got a pretty supportive gay and lesbian community in this city. I did want to ask you
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about something you wrote a couple of years ago. You said, if I had a gay son, I would think I'd...
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Oh, look, another, another, each time saying, the swamp, you guys, the swamp.
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You become a champion, you become a star, and someone...
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Let me ask you something. Are you, are you, are you gay?
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I haven't had the chance to interact with a more diverse man.
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Well, no, I'm asking, I'm, this is a part of the, are you, are you a gay man?
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Okay. If you had a son and he was like, you know, you had a son, he was gay, you'd be like,
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Oh man, well, dude, you're a weak man, dude. You're like, you're part of the problem.
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You elected Justin Trudeau. Like, would you, when he sees the bank accounts, like you're just
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pathetic. And, and the fact that, the fact that you have no backbone and, and has he shut down
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your country and sees bank accounts? You asked me some stupid shit like that. Go yourself. Move
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I didn't answer the question, but I did want to ask also things you said about the trans community.
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You said, uh, this past October, when they announced the Bud Light sponsorship, that
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you'd go so hard on Bud Light in your next fight. They'll have to accept me or denounce me
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when, uh, when they know what, and we'll know what they stand for.
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Are you, this guy's like, this Canadian is not that Canadian.
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Are you still going to use your fight time to kind of speak on that?
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Here's the thing about Bud Light. Here's the thing about Bud Light.
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10 years ago to be trans was a, what? A mental illness. And now all of a sudden people like you
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have weaseled your way in the world. You are, you are an infection. You are the definition
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of weakness. Everything that is wrong with the world is because of you. And the best thing is,
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is the world's not buying it. The world's not buying your bullshit. You're fucking peddling.
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The world is not saying, you know what? You're right. Chicks have, the world's not saying that
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world say, no, there are two genders. I don't want my kids being taught about, you know, who they
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could in school. I don't want my kids being taught about, you know, their sexual preference. Like,
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this guy's the enemy. You want to look at the enemy to our world? It's that motherfucker right
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there. We have to ask how many conservative politicians could hold their ground in a
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situation like that and affirm in the face of an ally, quote unquote, of the LGBTQIAXYZ plus community
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that transgenderism is a mental illness. I mean, how many would do that? You'd probably count the
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number on one hand, if that. Most Republicans are faced with that same line of questioning.
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You know, they would say something like, well, I support and love all people, especially members
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of our LGBTQ plus community, who so often face persecution and intolerance and blah, blah, blah,
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et cetera. But notice how Strickland doesn't even remotely accept the premise of this hack's
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questions. He doesn't concede that he was wrong to speak his mind or to think unimproved thoughts.
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He treats this person with contempt and scorn and the person deserves it because he understands what
00:23:38.700
this person's trying to do. These are not innocent questions. This is not a normal interview where
00:23:42.780
he's, hey, gee, what do you think about the fight? It's not anything like that. Like, this guy's just
00:23:46.680
trying to destroy him. He's trying to embarrass him. This guy's trying to embarrass Sean Strickland.
00:23:51.420
He's got bad intentions. And so Strickland responds accordingly. You know, he immediately identifies
00:24:02.200
the reporter as a propagandist and laughs in his face. And he reaffirms what he said before because
00:24:08.200
it's what he believes is true. It's his view on the matter. He's not going to change it now just
00:24:13.860
because someone's upset about it. And then afterwards, at his second press conference in Toronto,
00:24:18.700
after there had been full, you know, media cycle about this and a lot of outrage, and it came up
00:24:23.320
again, here's how Sean Strickland responded the second time. He's told a lot of things about Canada,
00:24:30.020
but coming in here to that ovation, what does it feel like to be a hero to these people?
00:24:34.840
You know, man, no, let me, let me tell you, let me tell you, let me tell you guys something.
00:24:44.620
And this is what the media doesn't understand when it comes to me and you guys and Australian
00:24:51.400
fans. Let me tell you guys something. You guys don't care about me fighting. Yeah, me and
00:24:59.460
Dreykus, we're going to have a death match. Someone's going to get their hand raised. Someone's
00:25:05.280
going to get their hand raised. But when have you ever seen a UFC champion, George St. Pierre,
00:25:13.440
or anybody else, stick up for you guys. I do it. I do it. I am not chasing the Chinese checkmark
00:25:24.220
of Nike. I don't give a about that. I care about you guys. I care about you guys being free.
00:25:32.220
I care about you guys having freedom of speech. I give a about you guys. And I'll tell you what,
00:25:39.280
you guys are awesome. And I cannot wait to make this man go to war for you guys. Let's go.
00:25:49.520
Now you can hear the crowd loves it. I mean, at one point, a guy runs up to the stage to shake his
00:25:56.400
hand. So he doesn't back down. Everyone in the audience recognizes that, appreciates it.
00:26:01.800
He makes a mockery of the people who wanted him to cower and apologize. And there were a lot of them
00:26:06.600
in Canada, particularly in the media. He makes it clear that hate speech isn't real. It does not.
00:26:12.360
But, which is bold to say in Canada, where transphobia, quote unquote, can get you charged
00:26:16.920
with a crime. And so there you have a UFC fighter who's a more vocal supporter of freedom of speech
00:26:22.300
than pretty much any conservative politician in America. You're not going to find him talking
00:26:27.900
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00:26:33.120
Party wants to win elections, this is the path it needs to take. If they reject all of the ways
00:26:38.680
that the left wields skin color and gender and sexuality, reject that, rather than trying to
00:26:45.020
play that same game themselves, then voters will respond. You know, we don't need another first step
00:26:51.280
act or any pandering to quote unquote, Julio and Jamal, as Matt Gaetz would put it. We need politicians
00:26:58.520
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Okay, we were just talking about false narratives, which leads us quite smoothly into our top
00:28:37.440
headline, and this is a big headline because apparently, if you can believe it, a United
00:28:41.080
States Congresswoman was a victim of a racist incident inside the Capitol building. I mean,
00:28:47.620
you really can't go anywhere these days to escape from racism, can you? It's just, it's everywhere.
00:28:52.080
So here's Democratic Representative Barbara Lee last night. Listen.
00:28:57.040
These are not little kinks, first of all. Racism, institutional racism is in the DNA of this
00:29:04.580
country. When you look at what has taken place, look at our Native Americans, the genocide of Native
00:29:10.420
Americans. When you look at what has taken place as it relates to African Americans, 250 years plus of
00:29:16.120
enslaving African Americans. And then you look at the disparities now in our community in terms of
00:29:22.120
health care, unemployment, the wealth gap, housing. You can't tell me that systemic racism does not
00:29:28.820
exist. It's not just a little kink. I do want to cut that off just for a second. We haven't gotten
00:29:34.040
to her personal story of racist victimization yet, and it's quite a, it's a doozy. So we'll get there
00:29:40.260
in a second. But we have to note that the preamble she offers here about systemic racism is totally
00:29:48.180
false. Speaking again of leftist premises, you know, that are false, we hear this familiar trope
00:29:54.760
about the genocide of Native Americans. There was no genocide of Native Americans. We are the only
00:30:01.940
country in the world that would invent a genocide that we perpetrated. Okay? Like our modern fables
00:30:10.200
of American history are all centered around making us the bad guys. Our new sort of foundational myths
00:30:17.060
are all centered around making us the bad guys. And that's the exact opposite of how these myths and
00:30:22.520
fables usually work. But, you know, we're the most self-loathing society that's ever existed on
00:30:27.760
earth. It's a sickness. And that's where you get this Native American genocide thing. European settlers
00:30:34.320
and later Americans fought wars against the Indians. These wars lasted for many, many years. These were
00:30:41.000
wars with lots of hostility on both sides. It was a war. It was a battle. Many, many battles. Hundreds of
00:30:48.200
years, really. It was a series of battles. It was, it was, and that's it. You know, it wasn't, it wasn't like
00:30:54.800
one war. It wasn't a constant state of all-out war all over the country, all over the continent,
00:30:59.900
rather. But this land was conquered partly through a series of battles over many years. That's not a
00:31:06.500
genocide. That's how a land is conquered, fair and square. It's how the Native tribes conquered it
00:31:12.100
themselves. And then it's how they themselves were conquered. And, and also besides, you know,
00:31:16.940
more Indians died by disease than anything else. And that also is not a genocide. It's not,
00:31:21.380
these were not biological weapons. They weren't dropping bombs or whatever. They were, this is
00:31:26.380
not that they weren't, they weren't making viruses in a lab in Wuhan. A lot of this was happening
00:31:31.780
before the germ theory of disease had been fully devised anyway. So, so it's not a genocide. All
00:31:37.600
right. And speaking of things that didn't happen, but speaking of things that, that also didn't happen,
00:31:43.180
let's continue. Secondly, you have personal racism, which is hard to address, but I'll give you one
00:31:49.440
little story that shows you why we need to understand that I don't think she really understands
00:31:54.440
racism. I was walking from the house building on Capitol Hill to the Capitol and a man, a white guy
00:32:01.500
stopped me and told me I could not get into the members elevator. And you know, we have pens and I
00:32:06.580
was going to vote. And he blocked me from getting into the elevator and told me I was not a member of
00:32:11.740
Congress and it was for members only. I said, sir, I'm a member of Congress. And he, I showed him my pen
00:32:16.760
and he said, whose pen did you steal? Now, this is an example of what personal racism is and how
00:32:23.300
people of color constantly have to deal with this each and every day. But systemic racism is in the
00:32:29.200
policies of this country. And just look at what they're trying to do in terms of eliminating diversity,
00:32:34.180
equity, and inclusion. They're trying to not allow for an equal and level playing field. And so it's a
00:32:41.580
very dangerous position that she has. She's clueless. Well, that's a shame. And I'm sorry that you had
00:32:48.260
to deal with that, Congresswoman. Thank you for sharing that with us. Now, of course, Caitlin
00:32:52.640
Collins, the anchor, just sits there staring blankly and doesn't ask any follow-up questions at all.
00:32:58.480
It's almost like she knows the story is completely made up. So she doesn't want to pry. Because actually,
00:33:05.320
if you believed it, then you'd have a lot of questions. Like, who was this random white guy
00:33:12.380
blocking the elevator? Just a guy? Was that? Was it a security guard? And if it was a security guard,
00:33:19.840
did you report this incident to his superiors? Is the guy fired? And if he's a security guard that he,
00:33:27.600
when he works there, how could he not recognize you and know that you're a representative of,
00:33:32.820
and I mean, was this his first day on the job? And if it was, was he stopping every non-white member
00:33:40.800
of Congress who walked by? Like, did he not know? Is this a security guard working on Capitol Hill
00:33:47.540
who is not aware that non-white people are also representatives? Was this a security guard who came
00:33:53.700
here in a time portal from the year 1803 and just was unfamiliar with the concept of non-white
00:33:59.520
congressional representatives? I mean, we've had black people in Congress since like 1870. Okay.
00:34:05.780
So this guy would, I guess he came from before that. This is a, you know, he came in a time machine
00:34:14.480
from a, or maybe the guy's like 200 years old. He's a 200 year old rookie security guard who was looking
00:34:20.220
for a change of career later in life. And he got to Congress and he looked around. He said,
00:34:24.820
what's going on here? Maybe it wasn't a security guard. Was it a staffer? Did some white staffer
00:34:33.360
go up to a black Congresswoman and accuse her of stealing her pin? Is that it? So, so this is
00:34:41.820
someone who just decided randomly out of nowhere to completely nuke their own future political career.
00:34:47.080
Did some staffer decide to commit a suicide bombing of his own career?
00:34:51.020
That seems very strange. Or what, or was it another member of Congress? And if so, who? Are we
00:34:59.600
supposed to believe that Barbara Lee was accosted by some racist Congressman? And, and what through
00:35:04.440
her, through her abiding sense of mercy, she's decided to not tell us the guy's name? Really? Is that
00:35:10.880
what we're supposed to believe? So a white Republican racist Congressman accosted her and, but she's not
00:35:19.120
going to tell us who she's, you know, I don't want to get the guy in trouble. Right. Of course,
00:35:24.440
it's impossible to believe any of these scenarios. Um, uh, or at least, well, I'm not gonna say it's
00:35:30.500
impossible to believe because, uh, you know, it's, it is technically possible. Like anything's technically
00:35:37.480
possible. She could have told me that, um, she was walking through the halls of Congress and she saw
00:35:43.840
somebody, uh, levitating, you know, off the ground. It's like, I mean, it's, it's not, it's technically
00:35:52.380
possible in the sense that anything that's logically possible is, is therefore possible.
00:35:59.520
It's like, well, that's actually even more because that's, that, that would bring to mind
00:36:02.420
demonic possession or something. And I, so that, in fact, I would probably readily believe that.
00:36:07.500
So maybe that's not the best example to prove my point, but you get it. So anyway, uh, are any of
00:36:12.360
these scenarios, here's the real question. Are any of these scenarios remotely close to as likely
00:36:16.840
as the far more plausible scenario that Barbara Lee just made it up? You know, so you've got
00:36:22.940
all these, it could have been a Congress, it could have been a security guard from, uh, from,
00:36:27.900
from a time machine from the past. Could be like, I can't, it's, it's, it's positive. Time machines
00:36:33.100
could exist. Maybe, uh, could be a staffer who just decided like I'm going to ruin my entire career
00:36:38.420
for no reason. Um, could have been a Congressman whose identity she's protecting because she's just
00:36:44.600
so kind. Uh, or, or it could be that she just made this up. Um, and of course that's what,
00:36:54.660
what's happening that she made it up. Like none of this happened. She made it up. Uh, so what could
00:37:00.420
possibly, the more interesting question, the question of whether or not that happened is not
00:37:04.840
interesting because we all know that it just flat out didn't, um, I mean, I'll bet $10,000 right now
00:37:10.460
that it didn't happen. But the more interesting question is what could possibly possess her
00:37:16.440
to randomly invent this racist incident that definitely didn't happen? That to me is the
00:37:25.120
interesting question. And I think the answer is that it's a reflex at this point. Like on the left,
00:37:29.680
inventing stories of victimhood is, is instinct. It's reflexive. It's like, uh, it's, it's like a
00:37:36.260
hiccup. Okay. It's this almost involuntary physiological response. They blurred out race
00:37:41.820
hoaxes without even thinking about them. That's how severe the self-victimhood obsession has become.
00:37:47.060
It's how ingrained their desire for victimhood is. And that's why, that's why it must be great,
00:37:53.920
you know, to be a black person in a room full of libs. It's gotta be great. I'm a little bit
00:38:01.480
jealous. I have to admit, because the trolling opportunities are tremendous because if you're
00:38:06.860
a black person in a room full of libs, you can, you can make up any story that you want and they
00:38:12.940
will accept it at face value with no further questions, which is amazing. But you could walk
00:38:19.460
in and say, Hey guys, sorry, I'm late. Uh, I was, uh, I was, uh, I was just assaulted by a group of
00:38:25.460
five racist Nazi ninjas on the way in here. And, uh, fortunately I was able to fight them off with
00:38:32.460
my superior swordsmanship, uh, which I learned from my years studying, uh, martial arts in Japan. And,
00:38:38.480
and no matter what you say, they'll, they'll accept it. And without, without any follow-up questions at
00:38:46.140
level. And, um, and it's possible to do because this kind of victim is this self-victimization,
00:38:57.480
whether it's racial, whether it's race-based self-victimization, uh, it's gender-based,
00:39:03.680
sexual orientation-based, whatever it is, it's, it's just reflexive. Like I don't even,
00:39:08.560
it's interesting to, to, to think like, did, did Barbara Lee go into that interview having already
00:39:18.500
invented this fake story and planning on saying it? That's possible. But I also think it's quite
00:39:25.100
possible that she didn't even plan on making that up. She just did. She could hear herself making this
00:39:31.080
up while she was saying it. And then she said, okay, I guess this is what we're doing because it's
00:39:35.400
such a reflex for them. Um, pretty amazing. It's, it's also, you know, you, you look at,
00:39:41.140
you go on Twitter or, or, uh, in fact, Caitlin Collins tweeted out this, um, this video herself,
00:39:46.680
obviously in a non-skeptical way. And I mean, every single comment is from people saying,
00:39:54.260
oh, did they yell, uh, did he yell, this is MAGA country too? Barbara Smollett, like that's
00:40:00.240
every comment. Like nobody believes this stuff anymore. No one falls for it. Um,
00:40:06.600
and it also shows you how out of touch the media is that like Caitlin Collins,
00:40:10.980
if she had any kind of awareness, she would know that most people are not going to believe that
00:40:17.460
nonsense. And so she wouldn't tweet out the clip. She would rather just pretend it never happened
00:40:23.660
because it's embarrassing. But she, Caitlin Collins lives in a world where people still buy this
00:40:29.960
garbage. All right. Here's something, uh, important tweet from representative Ted Lieu.
00:40:36.680
Glue traps are among the cruelest ways to eliminate rodents. They're inhumane and can be dangerous to
00:40:42.180
humans and their pets. Pleased to introduce a bill today to place a national ban on glue traps.
00:40:50.240
Okay. So we've got members of Congress making up racism stories while others are working on a bill
00:40:55.660
banning glue traps. And it really tells you everything you need to know, doesn't it?
00:41:01.660
Americans are suffering. American humans are suffering. And Congress is busy working on
00:41:06.800
protecting the wellbeing and dignity of rats. Like, nevermind the fact that, that obviously this
00:41:13.420
does not fall under the purview of the federal government. Clearly the federal government shouldn't
00:41:17.940
be in the business of legislating what sort of methods we use to catch rodents. If anybody should be,
00:41:23.880
uh, policing that. And I'm not convinced that anyone should be, but it should be local and state
00:41:29.000
authorities if anyone, but, but that's not the important takeaway. The most important takeaway is
00:41:34.780
that Democrats are pushing this bill to protect rats and mice from inhumane treatment. And, and, uh,
00:41:43.060
and what does inhumane mean? It means like literally means non-human, unhuman. Um, and so we're
00:41:50.180
treating them in a, what it means like we're treating them like they're not humans, which they
00:41:54.040
aren't. And yet these are the same people who support the killing of human beings in the womb
00:42:01.160
at every stage of development. So in the mind of a Democrat, this, and this is, this is a fact,
00:42:06.800
this is not hyperbole. They really do believe that rats, actual rats have more rights, are entitled to
00:42:14.660
better treatment, more humane treatment than actual human beings in the womb. Now think about this,
00:42:21.960
even if you think that abortion should be legal, you're wrong if you think that, but, but if you do,
00:42:29.300
well, when's the last time you heard any of these people ever say that we need to have more humane
00:42:35.580
abortion practices for the babies themselves? So again, you go along for a second, for the sake of
00:42:42.400
argument, if you were to go along with their, um, position on abortion, um, wouldn't you at least
00:42:53.760
be concerned about the, about, uh, the humane, quote unquote, termination of human life, given that
00:43:05.440
you are when it comes to rats? But when have you ever heard any of them express one word of concern?
00:43:12.400
They care about that ever. They care about humanely killing convicted criminals. They care
00:43:19.000
about that. We got to be humane in the way we kill convicted criminals. They care about humanely
00:43:22.040
killing rats, but babies in the womb, well, they could be dismembered and tossed in a hazardous waste
00:43:27.640
dumpster, which is exactly what happens. Nobody on that side has, I've never heard any of them my whole,
00:43:34.200
and I've been, and I've been in the pro-life movement, uh, essentially my entire life.
00:43:38.700
And I've talked to a lot of people on the other side, and I've never heard any of them
00:43:43.340
even whisper a single word of concern about at least, um, preventing the babies in the womb from
00:43:53.020
feeling pain while they're being killed. And not that that would make it okay to do, obviously,
00:43:59.660
but my point is simply, it's like, you're not telling us not to kill rats, but you, but you're
00:44:05.460
saying we got to be humane in how we kill rats. And you care so much about it. We have to have a
00:44:08.100
national ban on glue traps. But so like, so you have that, at least that, that small amount of
00:44:15.720
concern that you have for rats, you don't, but you don't have that for humans, at least that much.
00:44:21.320
No, they don't. They, they really do put rodents above, because the way they look at it, the human
00:44:29.160
in the womb has zero rights, zero, uh, not just zero legal rights, legal rights, but also zero moral
00:44:35.780
rights. The human in the womb is not a moral entity. We don't have to take that individual into account
00:44:44.580
at all. And look, I know there are plenty of people on the right who, um, foolishly want to
00:44:52.360
move on from the abortion issue and, and, um, they don't want to talk about it. Uh, you're scared of
00:44:58.180
it. You're intimidated. You think it's a political loser. Um, I mean, talk about adopting the left's
00:45:03.660
narrative. There's a lot of people on the right who have done that with this issue, but you tell me,
00:45:08.120
how do we move on from this? How do we do it? Our leaders quite literally believe, and have put
00:45:16.440
into law, or trying to put into law, the idea that rats are entitled to more humane treatment
00:45:22.420
than human children. How, how do you move on from that? Like, how do you put that to the side?
00:45:30.620
How do you worry about anything else when we haven't at first established at a minimum
00:45:36.860
that human life is more precious than rodent life? If we can't, like, how do you, how do you say,
00:45:44.040
uh, is human life, we'll worry about that later. Let's move on. Any other issue that you claim to
00:45:50.780
care about is going to be premised on, or based on the assumption that human life is more valuable
00:45:59.280
than rodent life. Because everything else, whether you want to move on to, uh, taxes, you want to move
00:46:04.800
on to the border, you want to move on to, uh, the economy, you want to move on to gun rights,
00:46:09.760
you want to move on to anything else. Foreign policy. If human life is not more valuable
00:46:15.800
fundamentally from its inception than rodent life, then none of that other stuff matters.
00:46:19.820
Who cares about any of that? Oh, we got to protect the border. Why? Well, because it's hurting Americans.
00:46:24.780
What do Americans matter? It's like, fundamentally, you're no better than a rat. Who gives a, who gives a
00:46:29.320
about you? Who cares? Oh, we need gun rights. Why? I got to protect my family. What does your
00:46:34.080
family matter? Family doesn't matter. I mean, you, you, from birth, you, your children are no better
00:46:39.980
than rats, which means inherently they're no better than rats, right? That's, that's the assumption
00:46:46.340
we're working with. Um, and if that's not your assumption, which if you're on the right, I certainly
00:46:54.180
hope it isn't, then you can't just abandon that argument or surrender it or give it up or try to
00:47:01.500
table it for now. It's all, that's a battle that has to continue to be fought. The bad doesn't mean
00:47:10.920
it's the only thing we talk about. Okay. There's not, there's no risk of that. Okay. So there's no
00:47:15.720
risk of abortion being the only thing that conservatives talk about. Um, it's, it's, you know, it's increasingly
00:47:21.680
becoming the only thing we don't talk about, but it is a battle that has to continue to be fought,
00:47:28.000
um, protecting the intrinsic value because that's why abortion matters. And if you can't see that and
00:47:34.100
you're on the right, then I don't know, you're hopeless. You really are. If you can't see that
00:47:38.780
what it actually is about is it's a fight over the intrinsic value of human life. Um, and, and really
00:47:48.420
whether human life has any intrinsic value. And that, that, that is, that is, uh, a battleground
00:47:59.560
that we simply cannot surrender. You surrender that battleground, you've given up everything.
00:48:03.420
Everything falls if you give that up. Uh, okay. Briefly, a daily wire report, Star Trek actor
00:48:13.320
LeVar Burton was shocked to discover that one of his ancestors was a white Confederate soldier
00:48:18.020
soldier. The 66 year old star was told the surprising fact about his lineage during an
00:48:22.720
episode of the PBS series, Finding Your Roots. The former reading rainbow star, uh, told show host
00:48:28.500
Henry Louis Gates Jr. That he didn't know much about his family tree as he was estranged from his
00:48:32.700
father. Uh, but it turns out that, uh, he's got white in his background. He's got Confederate
00:48:36.940
background. Here's, uh, Burton getting the news. Wow. That's him. You are looking at your great,
00:48:44.000
great grandfather, James Henry Dixon. It's difficult to make out, but that's, that is your biological
00:48:52.160
great, great grandfather. Now, I'd have fought you five minutes ago if you told me that I had a white
00:49:02.700
great, great, great grandfather. You do. You can fight me, but it's the truth. And ain't nothing
00:49:08.940
you can do about it. What? Kunta. Kunta. Got white ancestry. That's right. What? Yeah. Come on now,
00:49:18.860
Skip. You know, you took two DNA tests. The two major commercial DNA tests almost never have tested
00:49:25.820
an African-American who was a hundred percent sub-Saharan African. Wow. We all have white
00:49:30.200
ancestors, but this is close. That's right. But this is close. And by name. So LeVar Burton is,
00:49:39.940
uh, just for the background on this, he's of course a big time leftist. He's a race grifter type. Uh,
00:49:45.540
he's a fan of quote, racial justice, as they put it. Um, he's, he's tweeted in the past that racism
00:49:51.420
and xenophobia, quote unquote, preside over every aspect of America. And that's where he's coming
00:49:58.260
from. And now he's found out that he's partially white and also, uh, Confederate at the same time,
00:50:03.860
which is hilarious. You know, I don't know why, like if you are a famous person or marginally, uh,
00:50:11.180
LeVar Burton, I don't know. Like if you're even marginally, you know, if you're a, uh, a, uh,
00:50:16.260
an F list celebrity, whatever it is, what, or even if you're not a celebrity, like why would you
00:50:23.360
want, what would, what would possess you to take part in this? Like why, I understand you want to
00:50:27.640
know your family lineage, but why do you want to find out the news on camera? You know, not only are
00:50:33.840
you giving these, this, uh, TV show, like you're giving them the, the, the, the, your blessing to go
00:50:42.180
through your family ancestry, but then you're going to, it's like, you know, let them tell you
00:50:46.980
about it and frame it however they want live on camera. It's like, I, I, I, for the life of me,
00:50:52.320
I cannot understand why you would want to do that. Uh, I don't know how much they're paying people to
00:50:59.000
appear. I guess LeVar Burton is probably pretty desperate these days. So they put themselves in
00:51:03.640
this, in this position. Uh, and there have been others. I forget, forget who it was, but there was
00:51:09.120
another, there have been a few incidents like this of someone kind of like LeVar Burton finding out
00:51:14.760
that if the, you know, their great, great grandfather was a slave owner, was a confederate
00:51:19.480
or whatever. Um, which is very funny, but, but then also the point that we take away from it is
00:51:25.100
I think pretty obvious. Uh, those are a few points, but, um, like one of the big ones is how this relates
00:51:31.680
to, uh, the, the reparations, you know, debate or, or really any, any debate, the white guilt in
00:51:39.600
general, all the things that, that grow from that route. Um, that, you know, if you were to start
00:51:47.940
assigning, uh, handing out money and, uh, compensating people for their quote, for their
00:51:54.940
supposed ancestral trauma, how does that even work? Like, what do you do with somebody like LeVar Burton?
00:52:01.220
What do you do with someone, whoever it was that, you know, the great, great grandfather was a slave
00:52:07.040
owner? Do they, do they get a pay, do they pay themselves? Do you like take money from them and
00:52:12.840
give it back to them? How does it work? Well, of course it doesn't work, which is why the only real
00:52:19.420
answer is, uh, to let the past stay in the past and to move on from it. Um, to, to, to learn lessons of
00:52:26.980
the past, which is an important thing to do, uh, to honor our ancestors. And it's also important for
00:52:33.960
you to know about your own ancestry and your own bloodline. All that is great.
00:52:38.800
But, uh, other than that, living in the present and certainly not trying to cash in on the suffering
00:52:44.600
and persecution of people in the past, suffering persecution that you yourself have never experienced.
00:52:48.720
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So our daily cancellation today on a Friday is all about a dispute at a drive-thru lane. And needless
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to say, this is a deeply important issue. And it's one that has evoked strong feelings from the public.
00:54:12.360
There's a lot to say about this random video of two people arguing in a drive-thru lane. And yet,
00:54:17.280
still, most people seem to be missing some of the nuances and complexities of this issue. So we'll
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go through them today. As the New York Post reports this week, a video has gone viral of a mom at a
00:54:28.940
Panera Bread drive-thru trying to order her meal, while the Panera Bread employee on the other end
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refuses to take the order because the woman's daughter is allegedly screaming. And I should tell
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you that, perhaps as you'd already expect, thousands of people have reacted to this clip. And the peanut
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gallery's verdict is almost unanimously on the Panera Bread employee's side. So everybody agrees
00:54:51.060
that the customer, who some have dubbed Panera Bread Karen, is in the wrong here. And let's
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watch the video and see if the internet got this one right, which of course they didn't, but let's
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watch it. So you are going to refuse to take my order because my child was screaming? Yes, I have the
00:55:07.660
right to do that. You're more than welcome to come inside or you can place an order online and we'll make
00:55:10.740
it for you. And what is really like, you're going to not take my order? Yes, ma'am. That is what I'm
00:55:16.900
saying. Okay. All right. Well, I do have this on video and I will be emailing corporate because
00:55:21.700
that's just like completely rude. I cannot come inside because my daughter does not have shoes on.
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Do you understand that? No, I understand, but you're also more than welcome to order through
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online as well. So you want me to take an extra 20 minutes and order online?
00:55:40.880
That's not convenient to me. It's your job to take orders and stuff and this is ridiculous.
00:55:58.880
Okay. I will be happy to take your order as long as your daughter doesn't scream, all right?
00:56:03.200
I think that's a pretty good decision on your part. Okay. I don't need this attitude.
00:56:08.320
Okay. Now let's walk through this. Three points of analysis. First of all, we can't even talk about
00:56:15.840
the dispute until we deal with the fact that this woman went to a Panera Bread drive-thru in the first
00:56:22.000
place. There's simply no good reason, there's no valid excuse to ever go to a Panera Bread drive-thru.
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Panera sells high school cafeteria caliber food at sit-down restaurant prices. I mean,
00:56:34.960
it's the worst of all worlds. You get the prices of a sit-down restaurant place
00:56:39.360
with sub-fast food quality meals. The sandwiches are bland. The baked goods are stale and depressing.
00:56:50.400
The soups are Campbell's tier at best. I mean, they taste like something that was in a can that's
00:56:55.520
been sitting in your pantry. The salads are salads. So it's a disaster all around. And Panera is awful for
00:57:01.600
every meal, but I think breakfast is the worst. Panera breakfast tastes like the continental breakfast that
00:57:07.040
you would get at like the Comfort Inn down the street. Except that the Comfort Inn, the breakfast is
00:57:12.240
complimentary at least. And also the Comfort Inn coffee would be far better than what they serve at Panera.
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Panera coffee is an abomination that cries out to God for vengeance. If I served you, and I think this is true,
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if I served you Panera coffee and I didn't tell you it was coffee, you wouldn't know what it was supposed to be.
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You would be flummoxed. You would have no idea what you're ingesting. It's this lukewarm, dull, weak,
00:57:36.160
uninspired, sort of vaguely caffeinated liquid substance. And again, Panera commits all of these
00:57:44.240
culinary sins while charging premium prices for them. So that's what makes it so bad. So Panera is
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terrible. That's the first thing. You shouldn't be there. Second, with that established, we move to
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the employee. Now, as mentioned, most people are on his side. And that's no surprise, given that most
00:58:06.640
people are stupid. And now the woman is not blameless here, which I'll explain in a moment.
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But neither is the employee. OK, we can't know for sure what was happening before the video began.
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We can't know how much screaming the child was doing. But I think it's fair to assume that it was on
00:58:22.800
par with what we heard in the video. And yes, we can hear a couple of outbursts from the child
00:58:29.360
in the background. And children do that sometimes. They're known to do that. But it's nowhere near
00:58:36.480
a level of noise that would make it impossible to take the woman's order.
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It's a little annoying and slightly distracting, but you can still do your job. You can still do the
00:58:46.240
thing you're paid to do. The only thing you're paid to do is to stand there and take the orders
00:58:50.720
of the customers. And the idea that you could have someone say, well, I'd rather not. I'd rather not
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with you. You displease me. You displease me. Please continue on. I'm displeased. I won't take your order.
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And the fact that everyone's on this guy's side, are you kidding me? Even if the screaming was a little
00:59:10.640
worse before the video started, that's also possible. Still, it seems unlikely that the
00:59:16.080
drive-through worker was literally unable to complete the order. All signs point to the fact
00:59:22.000
that the Panera employee simply found the child's whining irritating. And so he decided that he wasn't
00:59:26.320
going to do his job. And he says, I have the right to not take your order. No, you don't. But actually,
00:59:31.600
you don't have the right. It's Panera Bread decides. You work for them. They decide. And I'm pretty
00:59:36.160
sure Panera Bread, does Panera Bread have a policy that you don't have to take an order if there's a child
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crying in the background. Is that their policy really? I'm pretty sure it's not. So no,
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you don't have the right. Do your freaking job. That's just not how it works, or at least not how
00:59:49.280
it should work. But increasingly, it does work this way because the sense of entitlement in this
00:59:54.320
country is out of control. And it's particularly glaring in the service industry where, and nobody
00:59:59.040
wants to call this out or talk about it because you sound elitist or something, but we all know it.
01:00:03.200
So you go into these places that the workers are visibly and audibly angry. They're already angry
01:00:10.880
that you showed up in the first place to make them do their job. And everyone demands a tip for
01:00:16.160
everything, no matter how shoddy the performance is. And employees think nothing of openly complaining
01:00:21.360
about their customers and lecturing them, sometimes on social media. And so I see this incident as part of
01:00:27.760
that whole picture. Now, I'm more old school, as you know. I have a traditional mentality about
01:00:33.680
these things, which is to say I have the right mentality about these things. And my mentality is
01:00:38.800
this. Do your damn job. Just do your job. Yeah, it's difficult. The kid's crying. I don't care. Do
01:00:45.600
your job anyway. It's still your job. Just do it. You're annoyed. You're sad. You're upset. Your tummy
01:00:50.560
hurts. I don't care. Do your job. I say this as a general principle. It applies to everybody,
01:00:55.040
all industries. We have reached a crisis level of people not simply doing their damned jobs.
01:01:01.600
You know, but this is how I was raised. In fact, I can remember when I first started working as a
01:01:06.320
teenager and I would work these kind of service jobs. I did a lot of them. And I would come home
01:01:11.280
after my shift and I'd complain to my parents about all the annoying customers and the incompetent
01:01:16.640
managers and how unhappy I was in my job and I don't want to go. And my dad would look at me and say,
01:01:21.440
like, do you think the point of your job is to make you happy? Do you think that's why you're
01:01:26.000
there? No. The point of your job is to fulfill your responsibilities, to do what your boss asks
01:01:30.080
you to do and to earn a paycheck. So it doesn't matter whether it makes you happy or not. That's
01:01:35.200
what you're supposed to do. News for you is millions of people go to work every day and they're not happy
01:01:40.800
doing what they do, but they do it anyway because it's their responsibility. But you know,
01:01:45.680
this is what I would hear growing up. It's glaringly apparent that many people today do
01:01:51.600
not have dads at home who will give speeches like that. So instead, we end up in exactly the
01:01:57.440
situation we find ourselves in. You know, like that guy, I don't know who that guy was. It sounded like
01:02:03.840
a younger guy. Sounded like he's probably a teenager or something. I would hope that if he's got a dad at
01:02:09.840
home, like if that was my son and I heard that video, that kid's going to have problems when he
01:02:14.160
gets home with me. Okay. Because I would say, first of all, do your job. Second of all, don't speak
01:02:19.360
that disrespectfully to someone. This woman, do not disrespect her that way. Telling her to adjust
01:02:26.160
her attitude. Who the hell do you think you are? Like, this is the kind of thing, the kind of message
01:02:31.200
that kids need to hear and they don't. Third, with all that said,
01:02:36.080
I still cannot take this woman's side. My contrarianism can only take me so far on this
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one. Now, yes, I think she's right to expect that her order should be taken. Yes, I understand why
01:02:50.120
she doesn't want to go in in order because her kid doesn't have shoes. And I know there are some
01:02:54.400
people online who were saying, why does your kid have shoes? You know, because if you're a non-parent,
01:03:00.220
you might be judgmental about that. But parents understand that sometimes you need to leave the house.
01:03:04.320
Your kid has lost her shoes for the 97th time this week and you got to go and you're not going to be
01:03:09.520
going inside anywhere anyway. So you're like, forget it. Never mind. You don't need your shoes.
01:03:12.640
We've all been there. So I'm with this woman every shoeless step of the way, except for one point.
01:03:20.800
She recorded and posted it. You know, not every minor dispute with a stranger needs to become
01:03:27.320
content for public consumption. It is possible, believe it or not, to simply have a disagreement with
01:03:32.240
another person. One where they are wrong and have a contentious back and forth. And then it ends
01:03:40.720
and you move on with your life and that's it. It's like, it's possible to do that. And before the
01:03:48.220
internet, that's what everyone did all the time. Can you believe it? People would have, you get into
01:03:52.960
conflicts, you get into arguments, you would get, you know, someone would wrong you in some small way.
01:03:57.220
And it just happened and you experienced it and it kind of sucked. And then you kept a living and
01:04:05.460
that was it. And it was over. Not everything needs to live forever on the internet. Not everything needs
01:04:11.300
to be discussed. Not everything needs to be content. And recording it and posting, it's like the adult
01:04:16.260
version of being a tattletale. You know, oh yeah, I'm telling TikTok on you. So the moment you do that,
01:04:23.040
you automatically become the bad guy or at least one of the bad guys. So in this case, as far as I
01:04:28.980
can tell, they're both the bad guys. The employee is wrong for not taking the order. The woman is wrong
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for recording it and snitching to the internet. The internet is wrong for siding with the employee.
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Panera Bread sucks. Everyone is wrong. Everything is bad. Everyone involved is canceled.
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Happy Friday. And that'll do it for the show today. On that note and this week,
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hope you have a great weekend. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.