Ep. 1312 - Biden's DOJ Declares Him Mentally Incompetent And Unfit For Office
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A disastrous day for Joe Biden. First, his DOJ essentially declared him mentally unfit for office. Then, he accidentally confirmed the charge by giving the most catastrophic press conference I've ever seen from a president. And this was all made worse by the contrast between Biden and the President of Russia. Also, the Democrat mayor of a small town scams her constituents out of thousands of dollars but says that they have no right to question her because she's a black woman. A Hollywood actor says that he had to seek therapy to deal with bad reviews. And the internet rallies around a homeless guy only to find out that he's actually a violent criminal.
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Day of the Matt Wall Show was a disastrous day for Joe Biden. First, his DOJ essentially declared
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him mentally unfit for office. Then he accidentally confirmed the charge by giving the most
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catastrophic press conference I've ever seen from a president. And this was all made worse
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by the contrast between Biden and the president of Russia, whose interview with Tucker Carlson
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was posted yesterday as well. Also, the Democrat mayor of a small town scams her constituents out
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of thousands of dollars, but says that they have no right to question her about it because she's
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a black woman. A Hollywood actor says that he had to seek therapy to deal with bad reviews.
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And the internet rallies around a homeless guy raises almost half a million dollars for him
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only to find out that he's actually a violent criminal shocker. All of that and more today
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that Joe Biden will not be the Democratic Party's nominee for president this year. And that doesn't mean
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that it definitely won't happen. Nobody can predict the future. But it does mean that nobody with any
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power in Washington wants Biden to run for office again. That much is very, very clear. The day began
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with a report prepared by Joe Biden's own DOJ that outlines Biden's mental decline in excruciating
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detail. And the top-line conclusion, as you've probably seen by now, is that the commander-in-chief
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is so far gone, so detached from reality, so unaware of his own surroundings, that he can't even be
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charged with a crime. He's not legally responsible for his own conduct at this point. In interviews
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with special counsel, Biden couldn't remember whether he was vice president in 2009. He couldn't
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pinpoint the date of his son Beau's death, even within a span of several years. Again, this is
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the conclusion of a special counsel working for Joe Biden's own Justice Department. Special counsel
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determined effectively that the president of the United States is too mentally incompetent to be held
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responsible for his own actions. So this is, to my knowledge anyway, the first time in American
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history when a president's own DOJ has declared him essentially unfit for office. And yet somehow
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that wasn't even the worst of the bad news for Joe Biden yesterday. You thought it couldn't,
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like it can't possibly get worse than that. It's like something historically awful happening,
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which is being declared incompetent by your own DOJ. How could it get worse in the same day? But it did.
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Because on about 10 minutes notice, the White House press office announced a press conference at 7.45
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p.m. Especially by Biden's standards, this is extremely unusual. It's rare enough for Biden to
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give a press conference at all. He doesn't often give them, much less an unscheduled one, much less
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one in the evening. Now we know that usually he's in bed by six o'clock. And on top of that, Biden's
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handlers apparently sent him out to the podium without a list of pre-approved journalists to call on,
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which again, almost never happens. So Grandpa Joe was left to fend entirely for himself. And
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naturally, the press conference went pretty much exactly as you would expect it would,
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or maybe somehow even worse. In fact, I don't think it's hyperbole to say that
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Biden delivered the single most catastrophic press conference I can remember from a president
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in my entire lifetime. At no point did he allay any of the concerns about his competence or fitness
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for office. When that was supposed to be the whole point of the press conference was that topic. The
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whole point of the press conference is the topic of his own mental fitness. And they sent him stumbling
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out there in the evening with no preparation. So instead of reassuring Americans about the president's
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mental fitness, it did the opposite. He made it abundantly clear that he needs to be removed from
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office immediately. And all of this is even more confounding when you consider that, again,
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given the time of day, the impromptu nature of the press conference, the topic that Biden was out
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there to discuss, and the fact that questions were not picked ahead of time, it was pretty much
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guaranteed to be a disaster. And it's a disaster that the White House walked right into, seemingly
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on purpose, which makes you ask a lot of questions, which we'll get to. But here's how the press
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conference began. Watch. In addition, I know there's some attention paid to some language in the report
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about my recollection of events. There's even reference that I don't remember when my son died.
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How in the hell dare he raise that? Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself,
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it wasn't any other damn business. Let me tell you something. Some of you have commented,
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I'm aware since the day he died, every single day, the rosary he got from Our Lady of
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Every Memorial Day, we hold a service, remembering him attending my friends and family and the people
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who loved him. I don't need anyone. I don't need anyone to remind me when he passed away,
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he passed away. So Biden does not deny that he couldn't remember when his son died,
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nor does he explain how this topic came up exactly. Of course, if you've listened to Biden
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talk at any point in the past few years, you can assume that he brought it up unprompted to
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garner sympathy with the special counsel, because that's his usual strategy. But Biden doesn't address
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any of that. Instead, he just lashes out angrily at the prosecutor. Then he mentions a rosary,
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but he can't complete the story because he doesn't remember where it's from.
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So not exactly a convincing performance, unless the point is to convince us that Biden is a
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vegetable, which it certainly succeeded in doing that. But it gets worse. Here's the first question
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Biden took from Fox's Peter Doocy. Watch. Thank you. And I'll take some questions.
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President Biden, something the special counsel said in his report is that one of the reasons you
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were not charged is because in his description, you are a well-meaning elderly man with a poor,
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memory. I'm well-meaning and I'm an elderly man and I know what the hell I'm doing. I've been
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president and I put this country back on its feet. I don't need his recommendation. It's totally
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out. How bad is your memory? And can you continue as president?
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That's, that's, that's. Do you know your memory has gotten worse, Mr. President?
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My memory has not gotten, my memory is fine. My memory, take a look at what I've done since I've
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become president. None of you thought I could pass any of the things I got passed. How'd that happen?
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You know, I guess I just forgot what was going on.
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Take a look at the things that, uh, tell me what I've done since I became president because I can't
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remember. Take a look at what I've done. Someone take a look and, and repeat to me because I have
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no idea. My memory is so bad, I let you speak, he says. That's the president of the United States
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saying that, uh, which you almost want to give him credit because that, that is, uh, like a pretty
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good comeback. Uh, it's, it's maybe like you want to give him credit for, that's maybe the wittiest
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thing we've ever heard Biden say, except that, except that this again is, is, is actually a
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symptom of senility that he has no filter. Like that's not something that you say out loud. You
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could tell after he, he doesn't even play it off like he meant to say it because he says, uh,
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your memory is so bad, I'll let you speak. And then he kind of pauses because it's clear he didn't
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mean to say that out loud. So even that one thing you want to give him credit for, you can't.
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He says, he's just a well-meaning elderly man who knows what the hell he's doing.
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And if you ask him about the fact that he can't remember when his son died or when he was vice
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president, he'll imply that, you know, you should be prevented from speaking. Now, nobody in the room
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was really laughing at this, including the journalists from left-wing outlets. So they,
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they have apparently received the all clear to ask Biden some hard questions for the first time ever
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because corporate media doesn't want him to run again. So that's another thing that made the
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press conference last night so jarring is that it was a, like a hostile environment from the press
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towards the Democrat president. We never see that. And that's because they were all given the go-ahead,
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uh, by their puppet masters to actually embarrass this guy because they want him out.
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So a CNN reporter named MJ Lee pressed him with a simple and straightforward question about his mental
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capacity. And instead of calmly answering the question, Joe Biden snapped again. Watch.
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Mr. President, for months, when you were asked about your age, you would respond with the words,
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watch me. Well, many American people have been watching and they have expressed concerns about
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your age. That is your judgment. That is your judgment. That is not the judgment of the press.
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They express concerns about your mental acuity. They say that you are too old.
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Mr. President, in December, you told me that you believe there are many other Democrats who could
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defeat Donald Trump. So why does it have to be you now? What, what is your answer to that question?
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I'm the most qualified person in this country to be president of the United States and finish the job
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I started. Most qualified person to be president. Well, if that's true, then we're just done. We're
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done as a country. So might as well just wrap it up, pack it in. If that, if that's true,
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thankfully it isn't a CNN reporter wants to know, of course, if Biden is mentally stable,
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Biden barks at her. And then the CNN reporter suggests that maybe he isn't the best person to be
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running for office. And, you know, he doesn't have a convincing answer to that question either.
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So we are witnessing the end of Biden's legitimacy to the extent that he ever had any to begin with.
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Whatever, whatever shreds of it he may have had are now just gone. They're, they're burned
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in a fiery flame. Even his once reliable allies in the corporate press have turned on him. And you
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can see why. At one point in this emergency press conference that was supposedly intended to
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reassure Americans that the president is mentally competent. Biden refers to the president of Egypt
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as the president of Mexico. The conduct of the response
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in Gaza, in the Gaza Strip has been over the top. I think that,
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as you know, initially, the president of Mexico, Sisi, did not want to open up the gate to allow
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humanitarian material to get in. I talked to him. I convinced him to open the gate.
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I talked to Bibi to open the gate on the Israeli side.
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Well, you know, Mexico, uh, over there bordering, uh, you know, it's over there in the, in the,
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in the midst of, uh, of all this is, is Mexico. So now the thing is like Biden does still have
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some people in the press that are trying to run cover for him. And, uh, so they, they tried to
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claim that it was a slip of the tongue or he's, it's a, he's just, you know, it's a, he's misspeaking,
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but that's not, that is not a normal mistake to make. Like why we're talking about Egypt.
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Why would Mexico come up? So that's not, it's not a slip of the tongue. That's just your brain
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is misfiring, uh, in a, in a sort of, uh, in a way that reveals some real brain damage that he is
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obviously suffering, which means that, you know, whoever arranged this press conference is either
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criminally incompetent or they were trying to sabotage Biden's candidacy. Those are really the
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only two options. This was entirely predictable. Biden essentially confirmed everything the special
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counsel said, even, even called himself an elderly man in the press conference, which of course isn't
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new. We know news. We know that he's elderly, but these are not the kinds of things that you should
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be saying in this situation. Why would you want to put a sound clip out there of you saying I am an
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elderly man? I mean, now, as I mentioned earlier, the special counsel investigating Biden's handling of
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classified documents found that quote, uh, in his interview with our office, Mr. Biden did not
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remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview, when his term
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ended and forgetting on the second day of the interview, when his term began, he did not remember
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even within several years when his son Bo died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the
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Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said
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he had, he had a real difference of opinion with general Carl Eikenberry, when in fact,
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Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to president
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Obama. The memo continues. We have also considered that at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present
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himself to a jury as he did during our interview with him as a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly
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man with a poor memory. Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is
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someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. Uh, it would be difficult to
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convince a jury that they should convict him by, uh, by then a former president will into well into his
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80s of a serious, uh, felony that requires a mental state of willfulness. Now, before I go any further,
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it needs to be mentioned that this, I mean, the reasoning is completely absurd. The only relevant
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information for the purposes of bringing a criminal prosecution is Biden's mental state when he committed
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the alleged crimes. And according to the special counsel, as far back as more than a decade ago,
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Joe Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified documents with classification markings on them.
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That includes classified documents from his time in the Senate several decades ago.
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The documents were in his quote, garage offices and basement den in both Virginia and Delaware.
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Again, Biden retained these documents many years ago. There's no suggestion that he had Alzheimer's or
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amnesia back then. So if that's a crime, he should be prosecuted for it. If he's not mentally competent
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to stand trial, that's a, that's a defense that his lawyers can raise after charges have been brought.
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It's not the special counsel's job to lay off on the charges because he's elderly now. It's not their job
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to say, well, probably the jury will find that we'll be sympathetic to him. So we're not going to bring
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charges. How often do you hear that from a prosecutor? We're not going to bring these charges because we
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figured ahead of time that the jury will find him sympathetic. What? Now, this is especially absurd
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given that the DOJ is going after Donald Trump for allegedly storing classified documents, even
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though Donald Trump as president had the authority to declassify whatever he wanted, not to mention
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if being elderly is a defense, well, then Trump is elderly too and is only a few years younger now.
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But at this point, no one is surprised by the fact that the DOJ is prosecuting Trump for a crime
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while giving Biden a pass for committing the exact same crime. That was always a given.
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What is surprising, again, is why Joe Biden's handlers let him take questions last night under
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these circumstances. It's almost like they were setting him up for disaster. That's especially
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true given the contrast. Like of all nights to do this, last night was the worst possible night.
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Not that there could be a good night because of the contrast between Biden's remarks and the
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interview last night between Tucker Carlson and Russian president Vladimir Putin. Now, Putin spoke with
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Tucker Carlson for two hours uninterrupted. In response to a question about why Russia invaded
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Ukraine, Putin recounted the history of his country in exacting, excruciating detail going back
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centuries. It was quite dry, but it was informative and it was dense. And Putin was clearly lucid and
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clear thinking. He was more than capable of sitting for a lengthy adversarial interview with a journalist
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from a foreign country. That's remarkable given the fact that, you know, for the past year,
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the media has told us that Putin is sick and frail and senile and like dying of cancer and he's in
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hiding. That's obviously not the case. But most of that is the case with our president. We're told that
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Biden isn't competent enough to be prosecuted, but is competent enough to have the most important job in
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the world for another five years. He's immune from committing crimes due to, due to his lack of
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mental capacity, but he can have nuclear codes apparently. I mean, it's laughable and everybody
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knows it. They know that Biden has lost his mind and now even the DOJ has confirmed it. It is a full
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blown constitutional crisis. If he stays in office, that's what we're facing. We're having a president
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that everybody knows now is senile. Now, of course, the double-edged sword is that it's much better
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politically for Trump if Biden stays in. Like swapping Biden out for somebody younger who can
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speak in coherent sentences would make things more challenging for Trump. But, you know, politics are
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really a secondary concern at this point. The truth is that we simply cannot have a president
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who is not only senile, but is known to the world and to our adversaries to be senile.
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You just can't have it. It's like it's a danger to everybody in this country.
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He needs to resign. And if he won't resign, he needs to be removed from office.
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He can be a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory who lives out the remainder of his days off in
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obscurity somewhere, far away from the levers of power. I mean, the rest of us, people who intend to
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live in this country long after Biden is gone, which one way or another, he'll be gone pretty soon.
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We simply cannot tolerate having somebody like this in the White House any longer.
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I thought Tucker did a great job in that interview, by the way, especially, and there was a lot of,
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obviously, before Tucker, before they released the interview and it was announced that Tucker was
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going to interview Putin, in the media, anyway, and on the left, there was this preemptive
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criticisms and assumptions about what the interview would be and that it would just be a propaganda
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effort by Tucker on Putin's behalf. But to me, that was obviously not the case. I knew that wouldn't
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be the case going into it. And then you watch the interview and that's not what happened.
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Um, and it's very impressive, especially when you consider how incredibly challenging this is.
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That's the other point here. It's very easy to Monday morning quarterback an interview like this,
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but when it comes to interviews, this is pretty much the highest difficulty setting. I don't think
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you, I don't think you can, as an interviewer, be in a more difficult setting and have a more
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difficult interviewee than this. You're interviewing a foreign leader of an adversarial country through a
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translator, which is difficult. Like even that part alone, take everything else out. I can't imagine,
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I would never do it. I wouldn't want to interview someone where I have to listen to a translator.
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That enough, that, that, that it would be distracting enough that I don't think I could do it. Um,
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so you're interviewing a foreign leader of an adversarial country through a translator on his home turf,
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you know, uh, knowing also that he has a history of imprisoning journalists.
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So, so again, extremely difficult to do. And Tucker did push back. He asked probing questions. He asked
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good questions, I thought. And, um, it was very impressive. And Putin, uh, even aside from all that
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is a formidable person to interview just because of his depth and breadth of knowledge and his ability
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to, uh, weave centuries of history into his answers, as many people have talked about the first 30
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minutes of the interview, when he's asked to justify Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he goes back
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centuries and centuries and has this long, like discursive, uh, uh, you know, lecture about Russian
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history. And, uh, I don't know that part of it has seems to be generally panned by people. They said,
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that's kind of boring. I thought it was interesting, but talking to someone who's able to do that is,
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you know, that, that, that notches the difficulty setting up even more. And I also think that when
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American audiences see something like this and you start to see why the American press didn't want this
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interview to happen, they didn't want people to see it because, uh, American audiences see this kind
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of thing and it's kind of, it's, it's confounding and it's sort of startling and strange for American
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audiences because we just don't have political leaders who are like that here. Uh, you know,
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which, which is, which is also why you have other people in the media and on social media
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lecturing everyone else that, you know, you shouldn't be impressed with Putin's performance.
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You're being pro Putin. You're a KGB agent. Nobody's pro Putin. Okay. Relax. Stop being hysterical.
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Okay. Stop being a hysterical child. It's just that American political leaders are almost entirely
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with rare exception, almost entirely intellectual lightweights. They just are. It wasn't always that
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way. It doesn't have to be that way, but, but it is that way right now. So you watch an interview
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like that and you, you, you first think to yourself, well, how many, certainly Biden. So the contrast
00:23:25.920
with Biden is just, is disastrous for him. Uh, Biden couldn't sit for two hours, uh, you know,
00:23:32.620
do a two hour interview with anybody under any circumstance, but how many, how many American
00:23:39.720
politicians could do that? Like how many American politicians would even be capable of sitting for
00:23:47.100
a two hour discussion on camera with anybody? And, um, and then, and then how many of them,
00:23:53.400
if you asked them, uh, to justify something that the United States is doing foreign policy wise,
00:23:59.660
how many of them would be able to get a, give a 30 minute answer that goes back hundreds of years
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into Western history. We have a few that could probably do that, but, but very few. And you,
00:24:14.340
you can't help but notice that contrast, which is, um, I guess, an argument to start electing people
00:24:20.740
that are, you know, capable of, I don't know, capable of at least expressing, you know, forming
00:24:26.340
thoughts and expressing them. Maybe we can, we can start with it. The bar's pretty low. So let's start
00:24:30.640
with that and work from there. Uh, daily wire has this, Americans are seeking, sinking deeper into
00:24:36.680
financial struggles with a whopping $1.1 trillion in credit card debt and a record number also cannot
00:24:42.500
afford their rent. Credit card debt jumped by $50 billion in just the last quarter of the year,
00:24:47.240
4.6% more than the previous quarter, according to the data released Tuesday by the Federal Reserve
00:24:51.740
Bank of New York. Credit card debt hit a first at a trillion dollars in August. Miss credit card
00:24:57.940
payments are also rising among all age groups, especially people in their thirties. The data
00:25:01.260
shows New York Federal Reserve researchers told reporters in the case of credit cards, it looks
00:25:05.740
like the things have reverted to a level that is worse than pre-pandemic inflation and spike inflation
00:25:10.780
and spiking rents are driving credit card debt. The total household debt also jumped $212 billion up to
00:25:16.400
$17.5 trillion in the last quarter of the year. Another factor of debt is rising car payments.
00:25:22.920
Used car, new cars are, uh, are much more expensive than before the pandemic.
00:25:27.140
Car loans rose by $12 billion in the last quarter of the year, hitting $1.6 trillion and delinquencies
00:25:34.100
on those loans also increased. It says a record number, 22.4 million renters were spending more
00:25:40.620
than 30% of their income on rent and utilities. So it's just, it's a bad, uh, it's a very, very bad
00:25:47.380
picture all around. And here we have, of course, the main reason why they will probably have to
00:25:52.980
replace Biden. And this is the point we don't want to gloss over that if Biden was falling apart
00:25:59.060
mentally, if he was in this, this state of deep and obvious decline, if he was rambling and forgetting
00:26:04.920
things and having Alzheimer's moments on camera five times a week, but the economy was in good shape
00:26:12.120
and people were doing reasonably well in their lives, then I think they would just run with it
00:26:16.420
and they'd keep him and they drag him to the finish line and they'd wait for him to die in office in
00:26:21.840
his second term, which if he, if God forbid he gets a second term is going to happen. You know,
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it would be another unprecedented moment in American history, not only because we're electing someone
00:26:32.540
into their eight, someone who's at that would be what, 82 years old at that point, but we'd also
00:26:37.060
be electing someone who everybody knows is, is not going to, uh, if he lives to the end of his term,
00:26:45.760
he's not even going to be physically, um, able to move around. I mean, if, if he makes it to the
00:26:52.800
end, he's going to be bedridden if he, if he even makes it. So, but if it wasn't for the economy piece
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of it, then I think that's probably what they would do. They'd say, let's just get through this,
00:27:03.420
uh, get him to the finish line. And then, you know, and then, and then, and then we'll worry
00:27:09.340
about it. And then when he dies in office or he becomes totally incapacitated, we can't even
00:27:12.500
pretend anymore. Uh, we'll figure it out then. And I think that that has been their plan basically
00:27:17.480
up until now, but it's not possible to do that anymore. And especially when on top of it all,
00:27:23.740
Americans are suffering financially to such a deep pervasive extent. Um, you know, it's not,
00:27:29.340
it's not that something like credit card debt is entirely Biden's fault, obviously,
00:27:33.420
but as everything gets more and more expensive and people have, uh, don't have jobs that keep up
00:27:38.080
with the cost of living, credit card debt piles up as well. And it all adds to this picture of
00:27:43.780
misery and decline so much that, you know, even if Biden was 50 years old, uh, he, he'd probably
00:27:50.200
still lose to Trump. And you add in the senility and it's likely an insurmountable thing for him
00:27:56.540
politically. One of the thing about credit card debt, this is to me, one of the many, many
00:28:02.620
arguments against student loan forgiveness. You know, it's never made any sense. Uh, well,
00:28:08.600
I understand politically, I understand the political ploy, but it makes no moral sense
00:28:12.800
to treat student loan debt as this special thing that must be forgiven and to treat college graduates
00:28:21.020
as special victims deserving of this quote unquote forgiveness. When meanwhile, you've got trillions of
00:28:26.720
dollars in other kinds of debt, credit card debt, car loans, mortgages, trillions and trillions of
00:28:33.180
dollars. Um, and, and, and that debt impacts a far, far larger number of people. Um, and credit cards
00:28:44.060
and mortgages and car loans, these are not extravagant. It's not like a college loan where you're signing up
00:28:50.680
to purchase this useless university education for a six figure sum, like going to college for many
00:28:57.760
people. Going to college is automatically a reckless, ridiculous, unjustifiable decision.
00:29:04.600
Not for everybody who goes to college, but for a large number of people who go to college, it's,
00:29:08.000
it is, it's, it's a reckless and stupid thing to do. Buying a home to live in and a car to drive
00:29:14.080
and taking out a credit card. These are not in that category. These are just normal things people have
00:29:18.460
to do to live their lives. Um, so why in God's name would we expect the people who, who, who
00:29:28.100
collectively have trillions of dollars of debt themselves? Why would we expect them to chip in
00:29:35.040
to pay off the debt of college graduates? It just doesn't, it's never made any sense at all.
00:29:40.940
All right. Here's a fun story out of Illinois. Uh, we know of course that Illinois is, is renowned for,
00:29:47.300
uh, electing the absolute worst political leaders this country has ever seen. Barack Obama,
00:29:53.460
obviously being a prime example. Um, but in general, we must say that the voters in this state,
00:29:59.440
well, Democrat voters specifically, which is most of them, um, the voters in that state, frankly,
00:30:04.880
no offense to them are some of the dumbest people in the country. Uh, when you look at who they
00:30:10.020
choose to lead them, it's, it's just, it's remarkable. Um, and I think in general, we should
00:30:15.720
be shaming voters much more for the horrifically stupid decisions that they make. And, uh, we can
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start here. So that brings us to this. Uh, this is, uh, a story about a mayor in a small town in the
00:30:30.140
state, um, who has herself in, found herself in some, some hot water in a, in a, in a scandal.
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Um, here's a report on that. Watch. Y'all should be shamed of y'all. Y'all black. Y'all are black
00:30:43.220
and y'all sitting up here beating and attacking on a black woman that's in power. Y'all should
00:30:49.380
be shamed of y'all selves. Dalton's difficulties got worse in recent weeks with water main breaks
00:30:54.320
and your blames on trustee budget cuts. Then four people were shot and injured last week,
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leaving nerves frayed and Henryard's opponents pointing out her sizable security detail.
00:31:05.700
It's unfortunate that politics are being played, but what has happened is a million dollars out of
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my budget has been cut because of politics. Y'all forget I am the leader. They want to hear from
00:31:18.300
the mayor. If y'all ain't learned that yet, the mayor, not the trustees that don't do nothing,
00:31:24.380
that only run their mouth. Y'all don't do no work, no work. Tiffany Henyard considers herself
00:31:30.100
something of a crusader, but one who's clearly annoyed by questions from a rebellious group of
00:31:35.460
Dalton trustees who are in a standoff with her overspending. At the end of the day,
00:31:40.600
vendors are not being paid. Board approved it. The vendors are not being paid. How about you be a
00:31:45.920
leader, bring our peace to the forefront. So not just us, but the residents and everybody else in
00:31:51.480
America know how the money is being spent. WGN investigates has catalogued tens of thousands
00:31:56.740
of taxpayer dollars spent on trips, meals and more by Tiffany Henyard and her allies in Dalton
00:32:02.900
and on the Thornton Township Board, where she's the supervisor. Township credit card records show
00:32:08.980
Henyard and other officials spent more than $67,000 on trips to Portland, Austin, Atlanta and New York
00:32:15.300
Many of the flights were first class. So were the accommodations. In Atlanta, Henyard and her team
00:32:21.540
stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel, costing taxpayers more than $9,000. In New York, the bill came to
00:32:28.060
$13,000. Henyard has refused to explain the specific purpose of the trips or why they travel in such
00:32:35.340
style. Okay, so this is the mayor of a very small town. She's, I don't know if they mentioned in the
00:32:40.400
report, but she's paying herself a $300,000 salary. She's using tax money for extravagant
00:32:47.380
vacations. She has an expensive security detail for some reason. And this is the, a woman is the
00:32:53.800
mayor of a town of like five people or something. Maybe it might be a few, but I think it's like
00:32:57.140
20,000. So a few more than five, still a very small town. And yet she's paying herself a higher
00:33:02.400
salary than, than they give Supreme court justices. Okay. Um, but now she raises a good point. She
00:33:10.900
says, Hey, I'm a black woman in power. That's her whole argument. Uh, Mrs. Mayor, you're, you're
00:33:17.880
scamming taxpayers out of millions of dollars. Yeah. Well, I'm a black woman. All right. Okay. Never
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mind. Well, if you mentioned that before, um, like I'm not going to harp on the point about the,
00:33:31.060
the dumb voters and you know, this is a very small town, so it's not that many voters,
00:33:35.160
but it's still very, it's quite symptomatic of, uh, the larger problem. It's like, why in God's name
00:33:43.200
would anyone vote for this person? How does that, even in a town of 20,000, how does that happen?
00:33:50.380
Openly corrupt. She has a, obviously a single digit IQ. It's like, it's not charismatic or
00:33:57.180
charming or something. And that's, and that's one of the things we're talking about are very
00:34:02.440
unimpressive leaders in this country. Um, it's one thing when you have a leader who's, uh, corrupt,
00:34:11.580
even incompetent, evil, you know, all, all that is bad, but if they're charismatic and intelligent
00:34:20.040
and, uh, and they're good at giving inspirational speeches and, and all that sort of thing,
00:34:25.320
then at least you understand how that sort of person, uh, manages to, to get into power.
00:34:32.760
Like you, you can understand historically that happens all the time. So it's not a mystery anyway.
00:34:37.620
You can look at that and you say, well, okay, yeah, that's how it happened. It shouldn't have
00:34:41.040
happened. I'm, I'm, uh, it's unfortunate that it did, but I understand intellectually. I can understand
00:34:45.520
that. Um, but for us, we just have these people who are, yeah, they're corrupt and evil. So they've
00:34:53.220
got, they check those boxes off and they're incompetent. Check that box, but they're on top
00:34:57.460
of it. They don't have anything else. There's no charisma. There's no, there's nothing empty.
00:35:02.760
These are just empty vessels. There's no way you could listen to these people speak for even two
00:35:09.260
minutes and be impressed. Like most of our politicians, you listen to them. No one's walking
00:35:13.700
away and say, well, that was impressive. I'm pretty impressed with that. No one, no one. And
00:35:17.820
they managed to assume power all over the country at every level. Um, and meanwhile, the, you know,
00:35:26.900
the mayor plays the race card absolutely brazenly. Of course, I did go check this based on what I found
00:35:32.140
on the census website, the city of Dalton is 92% black. So basically everybody in the whole town is
00:35:38.840
black. They've got like three white people in the entire town. And, uh, and yet the mayor still plays
00:35:43.680
the race card. Um, and I think it's because we don't fully grasp just the extent to which this
00:35:50.120
kind of thinking, this left-wing victim mentality, the, the victim pyramid that we've talked about and
00:35:55.140
gone through. I don't think we grasp the extent to which this is just fundamentally ingrained into the
00:36:00.540
minds of many people in this country. We treat it as a joke, but for someone like this mayor, it's,
00:36:06.720
it's not even a put on. She's, I don't think she's pretending. It's not an act. Her mind, her
00:36:12.480
consciousness is trained to perceive any pushback, any setback as automatically a product of racism.
00:36:21.340
Like, I don't even think she's capable of seeing it any other way. Um, for someone like her, racism
00:36:27.420
is as pervasive and as undeniable as gravity. It's just a force of nature that affects everything all
00:36:34.820
the time and you can't see it, but it's there. And that's how people have been trained to see the world.
00:36:40.560
All right. Um, the New York Post reports on a Hollywood actor who started counseling because
00:36:48.880
his movie got bad reviews. Here's what it says. He was eternally, he was eternally scarred eternally.
00:36:58.680
Okay. Well, it's a play on words. I see. Um, actor and comedian Kumail Nanjiani had to seek
00:37:05.480
professional help after reading all the negative reviews of his Marvel film, Eternals.
00:37:11.000
The reviews were bad and I was too aware of it. Nanjiani 45 said on an appearance on a podcast.
00:37:16.360
Uh, it was really, really hard because Marvel thought the movie was going to be really,
00:37:20.080
really, really well reviewed. So they lifted the embargo early and put it in some fancy movie
00:37:25.700
festivals. And they sent us on a big global tour to promote the movie right as the embargo lifted.
00:37:30.520
Uh, he continued. I think there was some weird soup in the atmosphere for why that movie got slammed so
00:37:36.440
much. And I think not much of it has to do with the actual quality of the movie. It was really hard.
00:37:41.360
And that was when I thought it was unfair to me and unfair to my wife, Emily. And, uh, I can't approach
00:37:46.680
my work this way anymore. Some S has to change. So I started counseling. I still talk to my therapist
00:37:53.320
about that. So I guess this is another, uh, you know, this is a brother. I told you so moment.
00:37:59.680
Um, this is exactly the problem with therapy as I've tried to argue. And it's not that therapy is
00:38:06.160
always a bad thing. Okay. It's not that everyone who's in counseling right now is wasting their time
00:38:11.880
or doing more harm to themselves than good. It's, that's not the case for everybody. There are
00:38:17.700
exceptions. There are exceptions to this problem with therapy that I have described, but in many
00:38:23.860
cases, this is therapy. Now it's usually not Hollywood actors, but it's, although I'm sure
00:38:29.200
every Hollywood actor is in therapy, which probably tells you everything you need to know. We would
00:38:32.260
just assume the number of Hollywood actors in therapy, it's probably like 98% or something or
00:38:36.260
more. Um, but very often it's someone who has experienced a relatively minor setback.
00:38:43.700
You got bad reviews on your movie. Okay. Like it sucks. It's hard, but it's not a big deal.
00:38:51.300
So you had someone who's dealing with a relatively minor setback, someone who's just dealing with
00:38:55.420
normal human things, criticism, rejection, failure, normal human things, and then goes to therapy and
00:39:01.440
dwells on it and wallows in self-pity, makes it into a much bigger deal than it really is.
00:39:07.400
And, um, all of a sudden you start with a stubbed toe and next thing, you know, you're in therapy,
00:39:14.180
digging back into your past and complaining that your mom didn't pay enough attention to you when
00:39:18.600
you were a child or whatever. So when Kumail goes to the therapist and cries because his crappy movie
00:39:28.040
got bad reviews, what does the therapist say? And I don't know the therapist. Maybe it's actually
00:39:35.080
good therapist. Maybe the therapist says the right thing, but I suspect probably not because here's
00:39:39.020
what the therapist should say in that circumstance. Uh, the therapist should say, well, Kumail, people
00:39:46.020
didn't like your movie because it was bad. Uh, you're a grown man. You need to be able to deal with
00:39:51.080
criticism, get over yourself, stop pounding like a little baby and move on with your life.
00:39:58.260
And I swear to you, if you come back to me again, crying about bad reviews, I will punch you in the
00:40:02.840
throat. That's what I will do. That's what the therapist should say. Like words to that effect.
00:40:08.540
Okay. Their own variation of it, maybe leaving out the violent threat, but everything else,
00:40:14.300
uh, you could take or leave that part of it. Everything else. That's what the therapist,
00:40:16.900
that's the correct thing to say. Um, it's not to say, well, let's sit down and talk. Oh,
00:40:22.960
well, let's work through that. Oh, you're sad. Cause people didn't like the move. Let's work through
00:40:26.820
it. Let's work through that together. No, let's not work through it. I'm not, I'm not gonna work
00:40:29.900
through that with you. Get out of here with that. That's, that's not, it does not rise to
00:40:33.140
the level of a therapy session. You're wasting my time. You are wasting my time. Get the hell out
00:40:36.840
of my office. But the point is that there's, there's, there's nothing a therapist can or should
00:40:44.040
try to do for somebody like that because you do just need to get over it. You need to grow the hell
00:40:49.620
up and stop sobbing. That's it. And any, any attempt to unpack it, you know, to go back into the past
00:40:55.860
and understand the roots of, of his anguish, blah, blah, whatever. Anything you do like that,
00:41:04.660
it legitimizes his immaturity and his bratty overreaction to a relatively minor setback.
00:41:13.020
So when someone says, I want to talk for an hour about why my feelings are hurt because I got bad
00:41:20.260
reviews on a Hollywood, on my Hollywood film, a film that did in fact suck. You know, when someone
00:41:28.020
says that the, the appropriate answer is no, like that. And, and that's the thing with, with therapies
00:41:34.140
that people, it gives people an opportunity to dwell on, on, because they can pay someone to listen to
00:41:40.960
them. And if it wasn't for the therapist, for a lot of these problems that people have, nobody would
00:41:45.880
listen. But that's my point. It's like, nobody should listen to that. You just should not be
00:41:50.720
complaining about that. You really shouldn't. Um, who, without therapy, Kamal, who could he go to
00:41:59.080
to cry that his movie got bad reviews? You know, he could complain about it to his friends. He wouldn't
00:42:04.880
be able to sit for an hour and complain about it because everybody else in his life would say, dude,
00:42:09.740
I got bigger problems than this. Really? You're a millionaire actor. You made this movie that like,
00:42:14.440
let's be honest, wasn't great. People didn't like it. You want to mention it for 30 seconds. Fine.
00:42:21.140
I'll pat you on the head, but I'm not going to sit for an hour and listen to this, this self-indulgent,
00:42:26.780
whiny, self-pitying nonsense. That's what anyone else in his life would say.
00:42:34.160
And, but that's why, but that's why therapy exists. You know, people go to, not always,
00:42:39.160
people often go to therapy because they have these whiny, self-indulgent complaints that they know
00:42:43.940
they can't say to anyone else. Cause if they do, those other people will be too honest with them
00:42:48.260
or won't be interested because they shouldn't be interested because it's not that interesting.
00:42:54.800
And the only thing you can really do with those complaints is just get over it. There is no other
00:42:59.280
answer to give you. That's it. That's all you can do. What can you do about the fact that you're sad
00:43:04.740
that people didn't like the movie? All you can do is just get over it. There's no answer. Just get over
00:43:08.600
it. That's it. And if you won't get over it, then okay, then be miserable for the rest of your life.
00:43:12.300
That's your choice. One other thing I wanted to mention. This is kind of a, okay, well,
00:43:19.540
so I want to talk about this. This is a, I've had this for a few days and it's a headline. This is
00:43:24.800
from the blaze. An article came out a few days ago and the headline is sure. The left has Taylor
00:43:31.300
Swift, but we have cat turd. Now let me just say right off the bat, I've got nothing against the
00:43:39.380
blaze. I love the blaze. I used to work there. They're great. I like everyone there. Uh, they
00:43:43.380
do fantastic work. And as for cat turd, you know, he's, he's a conservative Twitter account. If you
00:43:49.420
didn't know, and many people don't, which is part of the problem here. Uh, but I got nothing against
00:43:53.840
him. It's a fine account. I don't follow the account, but it gets retweeted in my feet all the
00:43:57.000
time and it's fine. I got no issues there at all. With all that said, I disagree stridently with this
00:44:02.460
article. And, um, in fact, I think it captures so much of what is wrong with modern conservatism
00:44:08.800
these days. So let me just read a little bit of this. It's a bit of this article that is not meant
00:44:15.860
to be self-deprecating in any way. This is not satire. At first I thought it was, but I read the
00:44:20.780
headline. Oh, we don't need Taylor Swift. We have cat turd. I honestly thought at first it was a, I just
00:44:26.520
glanced at it. I thought it was a pretty funny Babylon B headline. It's not, it's a hundred
00:44:31.340
percent serious. So, uh, so, you know, the article begins talking for a while about Taylor Swift and
00:44:37.640
the NFL and the whole Swift Kelsey NFL storyline that people have been so fascinated by. And it's
00:44:42.880
all culminating in the Superbowl this weekend. And then the writer, uh, Albin Sadar gets to this.
00:44:48.120
He says, yes, the NFL has gone woke and the upcoming Superbowl is appealing to many in that
00:44:52.440
peculiar camp camp. I, for one, will be tuning out, but I'm sure things will work out for the best.
00:44:57.900
It will at least be an exciting, close enough game. And the result will wrap up a wonderful
00:45:01.500
season long narrative. So where are the stories from those on the right? Why are we always playing
00:45:08.000
defense? Where is our offense? Okay. So far, so good. Those are good questions. Where are our stories?
00:45:15.120
People can complain about Taylor Swift and the NFL all they want, but the simple fact of the matter is
00:45:19.940
that these are stories and these are people that captivate the public. Public loves the NFL. A lot
00:45:27.160
of people in public love Taylor Swift. Um, I don't like Taylor. It doesn't matter. People are interested
00:45:32.640
in this. So we can complain about that on and on and on. But what do we have? Like we could say to
00:45:40.640
the public, Oh, don't pay attention to that. That's stupid. That don't pay. But what else are we giving
00:45:44.940
them to pay attention to instead? What are we saying? Oh no, that's dumb. Here's something great.
00:45:49.940
Right. You don't need that for entertainment. You don't need to pay. We got this. This is so much
00:45:53.600
better. So where is that? And that's the, um, question that, that the writers ask. It's a good
00:46:00.680
question. The problem is that he settles on cat turd, the Twitter account. Um, we have a Twitter
00:46:07.260
account named after feline fecal matter that trolls the left and it's so much better than Taylor Swift.
00:46:12.920
Uh, so he continues. Recently, I watched Tucker Carlson interview the internet sensation on X who
00:46:19.240
goes by the moniker cat turd. Cat turd, of course, is not his real name like William or Mike or Carl
00:46:23.660
cat turd. Nonetheless, he has an interesting story about how he went from being a drug using tie dye
00:46:28.020
wearing honest to goodness hippie to championing the common sense viewpoint on the right.
00:46:33.060
What happened? While working construction, cat turd and his builder buddies would listen to Rush
00:46:37.180
Limbaugh on the radio because he overwhelmingly agreed with Rush and his arguments against left
00:46:40.960
cat turd soon became, became, uh, came to realize that he himself was a conservative.
00:46:45.380
Cat turd decided to start tweeting his own opinions and before long found himself internet famous.
00:46:50.160
His tweets even got under the skin of the high and mighty, such as former U S representative Adam
00:46:54.340
Kinzinger. Uh, now why would a relatively small player in the culture wars be used here as an example
00:46:59.740
of pushback against the Taylor Swift's of the world? Yes. Why? Well, he says,
00:47:04.320
I think it comes down to what's going on behind the scenes. The left controls all the big messaging
00:47:07.800
outlets known as the mainstream media, but the right seems to have a whole army of rabble rousers
00:47:11.520
behind the scenes in social media. In political days of your Nixon in the 1970s, the term silent
00:47:16.400
majority referred to the folks who were a strong, powerful, motivating force in the culture,
00:47:20.760
but did not have a media megaphone. Something very similar is stirring today. Bold, outspoken champions
00:47:26.140
on the right may have been shoved to the sidelines, but add to their continued influence rising stars
00:47:31.200
like Charlie Kirk and Glenn Beck and Eric Metaxas. Let's just say that America's personal 2024 Super
00:47:37.360
Bowl, this year's presidential election is far from played out. Be encouraged. Our movement is
00:47:40.760
grassroots and we can build on the conservative clawing and scratching of a guy named Cat Turd.
00:47:47.120
Anything is possible. Okay. So just a few problems here. First to state the obvious, comparing Cat
00:47:54.800
Turd's influence on the culture to Taylor Swift is like comparing the light emitted by a desk lamp
00:48:00.540
to the sun. I mean, these are two things that exist on such a vastly, on such vastly different
00:48:07.600
planes. Okay. These are such vastly different planes of existence that the comparison is incoherent. I
00:48:13.680
mean, it's like saying, it's like going into a cave with a, with a dying flashlight and saying,
00:48:19.200
we don't need the sun. We got this thing. Who needs the sun when you got this?
00:48:24.920
And this is obviously the case, no matter how you feel about Taylor Swift.
00:48:27.640
But there's the other thing we have to be able to do as conservatives. We have to be able to like
00:48:31.020
analyze these things, even when they involve people we don't like. Um, you don't have to like it. I
00:48:37.620
don't care if you like it or not. It's just an objective question about cultural power and influence.
00:48:42.940
And as far as that goes, Taylor Swift is selling out stadiums worldwide and Cat Turd, uh, would,
00:48:49.080
you know, I would be surprised if he could fill a conference room, you know, at the Cincinnati
00:48:57.720
Marriott, um, which is not a knock against him. It's not as a right wing Twitter fame is,
00:49:03.660
is a very narrow, narrow lane to be in. Um, and what this all sort of papers over is that we have a
00:49:11.760
real problem on the right. Our problem is that, is that we don't have a Taylor Swift. Um, we don't
00:49:18.180
have anyone close to her. Like our Taylor Swift is not Cat Turd. Okay. It's not anybody. All of the
00:49:24.560
cultural figures who are closest to Taylor Swift in terms of relevance and impact on the culture
00:49:29.460
are all also on the left. And most of them are even further to the left than she is.
00:49:34.480
And these are the people who are making culture. So on the right, for the most part, historically,
00:49:40.660
we've been the cultural commentators. So the left makes the culture and then we comment on it.
00:49:48.200
We are commenting on the things that they are making and doing, but commenting on culture will
00:49:52.520
never move people and never influence people and never inspire and drive people the way that the
00:49:59.120
culture itself will obviously. Now this is something that we want to, as you know, change at the daily
00:50:06.000
wire. Uh, and we are, we are working on that. Uh, it's, it's hard. It's extremely hard. You know,
00:50:14.620
it's a very hard thing to do. You got everything stacked against you. If you want to go, when you've
00:50:20.260
had this dynamic for so many decades of the left makes culture, we comment on it to then say, you know
00:50:25.200
what? We want to get in the culture making business. It's a very hard thing to do. And
00:50:29.100
and, uh, it's a long haul, you know, and it's difficult. And we are very, very far away from
00:50:36.360
Taylor Swift at this point. That's just the reality of the situation. You have to be honest about it,
00:50:40.700
deluding ourselves about it, telling ourselves that we don't need to make culture and we don't
00:50:45.420
need to tell interesting stories and we don't need to be truly influential because we have
00:50:50.520
conservative Twitter accounts is just an insane level of self-delusion. And these stories, you know,
00:50:57.660
he says, well, this is a fascinating story. It's a story about how a construction worker decided to
00:51:03.780
start a Twitter account and complain about Biden. It's like, that's not a fascinating, that's not a
00:51:08.680
fascinating story. I'm sorry. It's just not, that's not, that's not a story that's going to grab people
00:51:13.940
by their hearts and, and, and speak to them at a deep visceral level. And, and, and, and they're
00:51:20.540
going to find fascinating. It's just not. And, uh, 95% of the time when those stories are being told,
00:51:27.820
it's, it's being told by the left that again, it's just the reality. There's nothing wrong with
00:51:33.220
commentary. It's what I do for a living. Uh, it's what I'm doing at this very moment. I'm making
00:51:38.380
commentary about commentary. I understand the, uh, I understand the, the, the inception levels of
00:51:44.140
that we're dealing with here, but, uh, I just want to be start with, uh, with honesty and we can't lie
00:51:50.280
to ourselves and tell ourselves that cultural commentary is a sufficient replacement for
00:51:54.900
cultural creation. And, and, you know, honestly, even the commentary, you know, not all cultural
00:52:01.520
commentary is made equal. Uh, commentary can be important. I certainly hope so. I wouldn't do it
00:52:07.100
for a living if it wasn't, but even a lot of the commentary on the right barely rises to the level
00:52:12.560
of actual commentary because to do commentary is to offer insight analysis. It's to have a unique
00:52:18.300
perspective saying interesting things about what's happening that that's commentary. And then again,
00:52:23.740
it has, it has a place. It has value, but a lot of what we call commentary on the right is really
00:52:30.420
just sort of this banal, bland regurgitation. It's this stuff that's carefully calibrated to repeat
00:52:37.660
back to the audience, what it already thinks. And, uh, there's really no attempt to say anything
00:52:43.540
interesting at all, or to take any chances at all. Another problem that conservatives have,
00:52:48.440
it's some of that is just ingrained, you know, we're conservative. That's why we call ourselves
00:52:51.500
conservative. So taking risks, you know, to, to, to actually make interesting art. You know,
00:52:56.120
if you want to get into the culture making business, you got to take risks. It requires,
00:52:59.400
it requires a willingness to take risks. Conservatives historically are not the best at that.
00:53:05.980
And then you find that even with the commentary, so much of the conservative commentary, it's like,
00:53:10.640
it's like, it's the, so it's as safe as could be. It's like, this is the lane you're supposed to be
00:53:14.900
in. These are the topics you're supposed to talk about. These are the things you're supposed to say.
00:53:19.040
And for a large number, though, not all of the conservative commentators, they just stay right
00:53:23.940
in that lane, you know, uh, never venturing outside of it because that's a risk. So those are all
00:53:29.720
things we need to be honest about and we need to, and we need to change. Uh, so that maybe one day
00:53:34.920
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Well, as we know, a lot of stupidity and filth goes viral on TikTok every day, but every once
00:55:33.140
in a while, something wholesome and inspirational manages to climb its way out of the muck and gain
00:55:38.020
some traction on the platform. Only problem is that much of the time, even the wholesome stuff
00:55:42.860
ends up being much darker than it seems. So case in point, last week, a TikTok influencer recorded
00:55:48.200
herself helping a homeless man who stopped her and asked for some tea. So she gave him a little
00:55:54.000
lot more than tea. She took him for medicine. She'd get him some food. She eventually paid for a
00:55:58.720
hotel room that he could stay in. And this video has been viewed millions of times now. People are
00:56:02.840
very, uh, very, uh, very inspired by it. Here's a snippet of it.
00:56:16.800
I'm walking to Trey Joe's. You want to walk with me?
00:56:24.000
All right. So we about to go to CVS real quick. So we in here. He's about to, uh, show me where
00:56:32.120
he gotta go. Cause he said he's in pain. So he just got insurance yesterday, but it takes
00:56:39.480
45 days for his insurance to be active. So I told him, like, I'm just gonna pay for it.
00:56:45.700
So he got his medication. Do you recognize this one? I think this is the one you're supposed
00:56:51.880
to have. I'm gonna ask him. So we have Starbucks now. Um, what size do you want? Do you want
00:56:58.600
like a, a small one? Okay. Can I get a grande green tea, please? Okay. Here's your green tea.
00:57:10.600
So the CVS we were just at only had one of the medications, but the one he really needs,
00:57:17.020
they don't have it. And he's in pain. He really cannot walk with me. So I told him, like,
00:57:21.500
stay here. I'm gonna walk to the other CVS and I'm gonna see if they got it.
00:57:26.140
So I made it to the other CVS and the guy was so nice. He gave us a heavy discount. He was like,
00:57:32.540
I applied a good discount. And then I'm waiting for his prescription to get revealed. So I gotta
00:57:38.280
sit here and wait. Guys, I'm so happy they had his medicine.
00:57:42.280
Okay. So she gets the medicine, brings it to him, uh, rents him a hotel room, all very nice,
00:57:45.940
very generous. Um, now of course I always have to be that guy. So I do feel compelled to point out
00:57:52.940
that the purest and most meaningful kind of charity is the kind that you just do for somebody
00:57:57.380
without extensively documenting your generosity and posting it on social media. Right.
00:58:03.160
And you think about the process that goes into making a video like this,
00:58:05.560
you have to, you have to video, you have to film every step of the way and then sit down
00:58:10.740
and edit it and everything. Um, so my ability to be inspired by charitable actions that go viral
00:58:16.360
on the internet is always somewhat hampered by the fact that they usually go viral because the
00:58:20.200
person who did the charitable thing has made sure to alert the world to the fact. Like when you go to
00:58:24.780
the world and say, Hey world, check out this great thing I did for this person. Check it out. Look at
00:58:28.720
this. So maybe this woman would have done all that, even if she didn't have a TikTok account and
00:58:32.740
wasn't filming it, but unfortunately we know that wholesome content is a lucrative category of
00:58:37.880
content on TikTok and elsewhere. And for a lot of people who post that kind of content, it is only
00:58:42.440
content. They're doing it because it is content. Now, I don't know if that's the case for this woman.
00:58:46.740
Let's give her the benefit of the doubt and assume optimistically that it isn't. Let's assume that
00:58:50.780
the content was a secondary concern and she was really just primarily concerned with helping her
00:58:54.380
fellow man. Let's assume that she does this all the time for people and she just happened to
00:58:57.860
film it this one time. Maybe that's true. Let's just assume that it is. Well, sadly, even with
00:59:04.760
that assumption, this story does not have a happy ending. A GoFundMe was started for the homeless guy
00:59:09.920
who we now know is named Alonzo Douglas Hebron and it raised over $400,000 in the span of a few days.
00:59:18.060
So this man was well on his way to becoming a millionaire, but then the other shoe, as it so often
00:59:24.240
does, dropped. Watch. New questions tonight about a GoFundMe page that has raised hundreds of
00:59:30.980
thousands of dollars for a man who's experiencing homelessness in D.C. The main question, what
00:59:36.440
happens to all that money if it's determined that he is a danger to the community? Fox 5's Bob
00:59:41.260
Barnard live in Northwest now to try and help us sort this all out. Hi, Bob.
00:59:46.980
Hey there, Marina. D.C. police say Alonzo, the homeless man seen in that TikTok video,
00:59:51.820
is the same man who attacked a woman four years ago outside this church here. D.C. police say Alonzo
00:59:57.960
Hebron walked up to that woman sleeping outside the church, both of them homeless, put a scarf over
01:00:03.180
her head and, you see, repeatedly punched her. He was charged in the case. As far as we know,
01:00:08.380
most recently was in a halfway house last summer. He escaped, was brought back by U.S. Marshals.
01:00:14.180
He's now obviously back out on the streets. Here now the victim of that attack and people reacting
01:00:19.740
to the dilemma, what now to do about all that money? I'm speechless. I do not understand how
01:00:25.760
a human being can act like this. He's a sociopath. He does not have a sense of remorse.
01:00:34.000
So this poor homeless man who just wanted some tea only four years ago, apparently,
01:00:38.220
barbarically assaulted a random woman while she was sleeping. And for those listening to the audio
01:00:42.600
podcast, you should know this was a vicious, brutal assault. It's on video, you can see it. And
01:00:47.740
he pummels this defenseless woman over and over again in the head. And this was just his most
01:00:52.200
recent assault. A few years before that, he stabbed somebody in the neck with a screwdriver
01:00:55.680
and he has multiple other assaults and violent crimes on his rap sheet. So he should not have
01:01:00.260
been on the streets at all, clearly. He should have been drinking his tea behind bars. You know,
01:01:03.560
he needs a jail cell, not a hotel room. He's a danger to the community. Certainly the last thing he
01:01:09.400
needs is $400,000 from GoFundMe. So it's a good thing that they didn't release the money and I hope that
01:01:13.920
they don't. But, you know, this is very often what GoFundMe is all about. Of course, these
01:01:18.680
crowdfunding sites are used for worthy causes all the time, but they're also places where a bunch
01:01:22.880
of strangers can get swept up in the emotions of the latest viral charity case. It's a way for people
01:01:28.160
to make themselves feel good, you know, feel like philanthropists for donating a few dollars to
01:01:32.800
someone who for all they know is not remotely deserving of the money and who for all they know
01:01:37.820
may be more hurt by it than helped. Yes, it may be well-meaning. Yes, you're trying to help.
01:01:45.460
Yes, there are certainly worse ways you could waste your $15 GoFundMe contribution, but there are
01:01:50.540
people around you in your actual life, your family, friends, community members who could use that help.
01:01:56.320
So just tossing money at some stranger you know absolutely nothing about with no clue how the
01:02:02.440
money will be spent is foolish. It's especially foolish when the random person is homeless, okay?
01:02:08.240
This is the part that people struggle with the most. Every time that I get a little real about
01:02:14.680
the homeless problem and about the types of people who generally end up homeless, I'm accused of being
01:02:19.060
cruel and uncaring and mean and everything else. But unfortunately, my point is proven time and time
01:02:24.520
again. Now, sure, there are decent, sane, normal, good, hardworking people who fall in hard times,
01:02:30.140
end up in desperate situations, and wind up on the street. That does happen. But it is rare.
01:02:35.720
It is very rare. Most of the time, in most cases, people are homeless for a reason. There's a reason
01:02:44.280
why they are homeless. And the reason is that they are some combination of utterly dysfunctional,
01:02:49.700
self-destructive, insane, and drug-addicted. And many who fall into that category also happen to be
01:02:54.680
dangerous criminals. In fact, watching that video, when you go, the original TikTok video,
01:03:00.380
you see this woman in the hotel room with the guy setting him up in the hotel room that she rented
01:03:06.760
for him. And even though I know that it worked out because the video was posted, I'm still cringing
01:03:12.120
watching that. Like, this is incredibly dangerous. You went in with this man, this homeless man,
01:03:18.400
into a hotel room? I mean, this is an incredibly dangerous thing to do. She is lucky that she's still
01:03:23.480
alive. And if you have any concept of what homelessness is and who most of these people
01:03:30.920
are, you would never do that. So if you're giving $400,000 to a random homeless guy, the chances that
01:03:38.260
you're throwing money at a crazy, violent drifter is pretty high. And even if he isn't crazy and or
01:03:45.340
isn't violent, it's still going to be a disastrously bad idea in nearly every case to give large sums of
01:03:51.700
money to a homeless person. As I've tried to explain many times, most of these people aren't
01:03:55.420
homeless simply because they have no money and they have no home. And anytime I say that,
01:04:00.400
there's always the idiots who laugh. What do you mean? What do you mean? They're not homeless
01:04:04.580
because they don't have a home. That's the definition of homeless. No, you morons. Give
01:04:08.540
them money and a home and they'll be homeless again 15 minutes later. Do you understand that?
01:04:13.480
So that clearly shows that the problem is not simply they don't have money. Give them money.
01:04:17.260
Most of these people on the street have been given lots of money. Depending on where they are,
01:04:22.920
panhandling is lucrative. Many of them make more money than people that work minimum wage and have
01:04:28.060
been living in apartments. You can make hundreds of dollars a day doing that. Where does the money go?
01:04:34.760
Where does it go? Does it the magical money fairy come and take it? No, they spend it on drugs is what
01:04:39.720
they do. That's why they're still homeless. They're not stashing it away and hanging on to it.
01:04:47.080
Of all the homeless people, how many of them have a stash somewhere of money that they're keeping and
01:04:51.900
they're saving so they can start a bank account or they can get a hotel room at least? How many do
01:04:59.700
you think? Almost none. And even the most rudimentary understanding of human nature makes
01:05:05.720
all of this obvious. But many people today, despite being humans and having a nature,
01:05:10.700
still somehow have little understanding of human nature. They don't get it. I don't understand how
01:05:14.700
you could not get it. They've been indoctrinated into a deluded cartoonish view of the human
01:05:19.900
condition. It's a view that lacks the basic intuitiveness that you would expect any member
01:05:25.360
of the human species to have about their own species. But this is what modern society has become,
01:05:31.220
which is why all those GoFundMe donors are somehow surprised to learn that the guy who was living on
01:05:37.640
the streets and who they tried to suddenly put into the top 5% of all income earners is actually a
01:05:43.680
dangerous predator. That should not be a surprise twist ending. That should not surprise you.
01:05:49.900
But it does. And that's why everybody involved in this ill-fated fundraiser is today canceled.
01:05:59.820
That'll do it for the show today and this week. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.
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